Re: GDPS test case

On Thu, 3 Apr 2025 18:19:16 +, Allan Staller wrote: >OSPF has nothing to do with GDPS per se. > >A GDPS Hyperswap will bring up the cecondary site images, exactly as they >looked in the primary site. Hyperswap does not bring up a secondary image. Hyperswap diverts all the DASD I/O to a se

Re: DOGE wants to modernize Social Security’s legacy tech — what could possibly go wrong? – Computerworld

I’m popping my popcorn now, waiting for Bill Johnson or whatever his current handle is to pipe up. Dave Jousma Vice President | Director, Technology Engineering On Fri, 4 Apr 2025 at 18:03, Mark Regan < 058035dd6b20-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > This might wrap for some o

Re: DOGE wants to modernize Social Security’s legacy tech — what could possibly go w rong? – Computerworld

> when they run both systems both systems in parallel for > 6 months, and try to find the cause of the two systems giving different > results I see issues there--the Horizon scandal in UK suggests a different possibility, where they either don't run the 2 systems in parallel and simply throw the s

Re: Open XL C dramaticallly slower thant z/OS XL C compiler - expected?

As you are aware that the Open XL C/C++ is based off Clang/LLVM infrastructure. Clang/LLVM libc++ has added more header files to support the recent C++ language standards. C++17 std is the default for Open XL C/C++ 2.1. C++98 is the default for XL C/C++. Possible solutions include lowering the

Re: IMS MQ question - don't know of a better list

Why wait? use ims trigger monitor to reschedule the transaction. As for the IMS group, I haven't gotten an email from them for a long time. ITschak Mugzach *|** IronSphere Platform* *|* *Information Security Continuous Monitoring for z/OS, x/Linux & IBM I **| z/VM coming soon * nbsp; *|* O

Re: Links for ESS manuals

DuckDuckGo has the same annoying behaviour. Cheers, Martin From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of Tom Brennan Date: Monday, 17 March 2025 at 14:58 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: Links for ESS manuals IBM should remove the version number from the URL's for the l

Subject: IBM z16 VTAM TRLE definition

Hi, Can anybody just post their working copy of their TRLE definitions ? It’s Vtam definitions you need for a ‘Channel to Channel” connection via the OSA card on a LPAR but you need more than just the TRLE definition ex. XCA definition, the PU definition etc. etc. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en

Re: DOGE wants to modernize Social Security’s legacy tech — what could possibly go wrong? – Computerworld

Learning JAVA is not the problem. When an executabile blows how do you find the problem and fix the code. In COBOL we do IF NOT NUMERIC or IF NUMERIC -- There is not equivalent In JAVA -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf

Migrating Storage pools to EAV

So, we are finally biting the bullet and making 1TB EAV volumes our standard for UCB relief, etc.One “habit” my Storage team over the years had done to mask poor dataset allocations was to make the mainly used DATACLAS multi-volume, with a max of 59 volumes.It was before my time, but I’m

Re: Migrating Storage pools to EAV

Didn't the transition to Super PAVs (HYPERPAV=XPAV) eliminate the need for UCB relief (I/Os quing in the z/OS I/O subsystem)? Even so, if your new storage group does not have 59 volumes, only ARCxxxI (infomational messages should be generated; the allocation should still proceed, no? -Orig

Re: Migrating Storage pools to EAV

One idea might be to change the DATACLAS as follows: set column 14 'VOLUME COUNT' to '1' and then set column 16 'DYNVOL COUNT' to '58'. This prevents the catalog record from containing unused fields for DASD volumes never allocated since only the volumes actually used will be contained in the c

Re: Migrating Storage pools to EAV

W dniu 04.04.2025 o 16:20, Jousma, David pisze: So, we are finally biting the bullet and making 1TB EAV volumes our standard for UCB relief, etc.One “habit” my Storage team over the years had done to mask poor dataset allocations was to make the mainly used DATACLAS multi-volume, with a ma

Re: Migrating Storage pools to EAV

Classification: Confidential The datasets will still expand to multiple volumes if required, there just won't be as many to expand to. You might want to consider reducing the max DVC to something more appropriate to the new EAV's. This will (eventually) save some catalog space as datasets are d

Re: Migrating Storage pools to EAV

Since the JCL overrides the DATACLAS, if the JCL has ',UNIT=(SYSDA,59)' coded, that must be changed. But VOLUME COUNT=1 and DYNVOL COUNT=58 relieves the programmer from having to specify numbers; they just code UNIT-SYSDA. No matter whether the target storage pool is comprosed of EAVs or MOD-54

Re: Migrating Storage pools to EAV

UNIT=SYSDA is so non-SMS style... This is real "mainframe modernization" - to start using SMS ACS routines and EAV. ;-) -- Radoslaw Skorupka Lodz, Poland W dniu 04.04.2025 o 17:03, Michael Watkins pisze: Since the JCL overrides the DATACLAS, if the JCL has ',UNIT=(SYSDA,59)' coded, that mu

OPS/MVS Question

I need to locate in all my OPS rules/Rexx all the occurrences of where OPS Sends out an ALERT Email. Basically what do I need to look for TIA, Steve Beaver -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access ins

Fwd: DOGE wants to modernize Social Security’s legacy tech — what could possibly go wrong? – Computerworld

This might wrap for some of you. https://www.computerworld.com/article/3953741/doge-wants-to-modernize-social-securitys-legacy-tech-what-could-possibly-go-wrong.html Regards, Mark Regan -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / arc

Re: DOGE wants to modernize Social Security’s legacy tech — what could possibly go wrong? – Computerworld

They may be able to automate changing the code to a fancier language - that's the "easy bit" I can see the problems occurring when they run both systems in parallel for 6 months, and try to find the cause of the two systems giving different results - this is the hard bit. I remember having problem

Re: DOGE wants to modernize Social Security’s legacy tech — what could possibly go wrong? – Computerworld

'I can see the problems occurring when they run both systems in parallel for 6 months...' Why assume they will run both systems in parallel for 6 months? -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Colin Paice Sent: Friday, April 4, 2025 12:15 PM To: IBM-MAIN@L

Re: DOGE wants to modernize Social Security’s legacy tech — what could possibly go wrong? – Computerworld

Two things to remember: 1. The map is not the territory. Just because somebody uses the word efficiency doesn't mean that they concerned with efficiency. 2. The application of a language is not the language. Just because somebody encodes unknown as 150 when writing in COBOL doesn't

Re: Migrating Storage pools to EAV

Yep been there done that with setting DVC to 59 causing a banking application, PEP+, to exhaust the TIOT. The TIOT was set to the maximum value. "Confidentially doc, I am the wabbit." Bugs Bunny Sent with Proton Mail secure email. On Friday, April 4th, 2025 at 10:51 AM, Michael Watkins <00

Re: DOGE wants to modernize Social Security’s legacy tech — what could possibly go wrong? – Computerworld

JAVA is not magical - It's actually a POS It is slow and cumbersome. Its 12 times slower Than COBOL and difficult to debug This electronic mail (including any attachments) may contain information that is privi

Re: Migrating Storage pools to EAV

Agree. Setting DVC to 59 causes each data set to use 59 slots in the TIOT. When processing large numbers of data sets this causes failures. Once allocated with DVC=59 the only way to change them, I think, is to reallocate and copy. I had problems processing large amounts of historical data (in m

Re: DOGE wants to modernize Social Security’s legacy tech — what could possibly go wrong? – Computerworld

And here all this time I thought it was me. Between coding issues and an IDE and its way of doing things No wonder my learning Java is much slower than it was for SAS, COBOL, RPG, REXX (CMS), REXX(TSO), etc. On 4/4/2025 2:02 PM, Steve Beaver wrote: JAVA is not magical - It's actually a PO

Re: Debug tool conditional statement in assembler

AKA zos debugger think is V16 Thanks Get Outlook for iOS From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of Gord Tomlin Sent: Tuesday, April 1, 2025 9:41:46 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Debug tool conditional statement in a

Updating DNS on the fly

Hi Guys, A site wants to update the list of Windows DNS servers in use by z/OS. It's a fairly standard setup with an STC of RESOLVER getting the list from a SYS1.TCPPARMS(TCPDATA) member. (Technically, it's a unique dataset with identical info on each LPAR's assigned volume, but that should only

Re: DOGE wants to modernize Social Security’s legacy tech — what could possibly go wrong? – Computerworld

Right!  If you think DOGE folks have any concept of acceptable change management practices, or that they care about what they break from ignorance or lack of understanding, you haven't been paying attention. These dodgy guys are convinced they are geniuses who can understand and improve the SS

Re: IBM Z Day: April 8, 2025

IBM has posted more agenda-related details about IBM Z Day: https://community.ibm.com/zsystems/events/ibm-z-day-2025-se/ — Timothy Sipples Senior Architect Digital Assets, Industry Solutions, and Cybersecurity IBM Z/LinuxONE, Asia-Pacific sipp...@sg.ibm.com -

Re: Curiosity question on batch job management

Classification: Confidential Not that I am a big fan of the product, but Thruput Manager could possibly help here. You might want to investigate Workload Manager Application Environments. Jes allows a max number of jobs to execute in a single job class (INTDEF XEQCOUNT) Netview or other AO prod

Current TCB when running under TEST

Hi I am sure this situaton that has happened to lots of people When one is running inder TEST and you entered TEST 'MY.USER.LOADLIB(MYPROG)' After hitting you are at location +0 Then you do L 21C.? pointing to the current TCB address that TCB is not the program being debugged TCB that is TES

Re: IBM Z Development and Test Environment - ADCD

That page talks about a zPDT -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of John Blythe Reid Sent: Friday, March 21, 2025 8:27 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: IBM Z Development and Test Environment - ADCD Hello, I'd hear

Re: CL Supersession

I suspect a problem with your virtual terminal assignment and this has nothing to do with storage. Going by the log provided, you're using VIRTPASS as your virtual terminal pool. Out of the box, this is not the suggested pool configuration that should be used for TSO sessions. There should be

Re: Migrating Storage pools to EAV

If you're dynamically allocating and coding in assembler, use XTIOT. --  Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 עַם יִשְׂרָאֵל חַי נֵ֣צַח יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל לֹ֥א יְשַׁקֵּ֖ר From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of Lennie Bradshaw Sent: Fr

Re: TSO OPER in Background TSO?

On Tue, 1 Apr 2025 at 15:51, Seymour J Metz wrote: > My guess is that it uses TPUT directly instead of using PUTLINE. > Yes, because when it was written (MVT days), there was no mechanism to capture console output and get it back to the issuing address space. So the TPUT was (probably still is)

Re: DOGE wants to modernize Social Security’s legacy tech — what could possibly go wrong? – Computerworld

On 5/04/2025 5:02 am, Steve Beaver wrote: JAVA is not magical - It's actually a POS It is slow and cumbersome. Its 12 times slower Than COBOL and difficult to debug I'm not defending what DOGE is planning, but that statement about Java is wrong. Maybe Java automatically generated from COBOL

Re: EXTERNAL Email: Re: Curiosity question on batch job management

Yes - Lionel is very accurate (one of the reasons we went from maintaining our own exits to OS/EM (previously known as Exitman). Jerry Whitteridge Sr Manager Managed Services Tech Operations & Innovation jerry.whitteri...@albertsons.com 480 578 7889 -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe

Re: DOGE wants to modernize Social Security’s legacy tech — what could possibly go wrong? – Computerworld

We put them in office and deserve what we are getting in return. At 01:55 PM 4/4/2025, Joel Ewing wrote: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Right! If you think DOGE folks have any concept of acceptable change management practices, or that they care about what they break from ignorance or lack