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MP Server / Re: downgrade from 10.5 to 10.1 win-ondemand

« on: April 25, 2022, 10:38:40 AM »

Hi, revert back i assume meaning changing the executable instance(service) back to previous path 10.1 in registry(regedit)

I'm a z guy.  How to effect switching levels of CMOD in Windows I'll have to leave to someone else.

Ed

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MP Server / Re: downgrade from 10.5 to 10.1 win-ondemand

« on: April 22, 2022, 09:58:57 AM »

Can't answer your question but want to say that information is no longer accurate for the latest versions of CMOD.

10.1 and 10.5 can both operate on the same underlying CMOD tables interchangeably.

What that means is say you upgrade from 10.1 to 10.5 and you have a problem, no need to uninstall anything, just revert back to pointing to the 10.1 executable code.

Ed.

78

z/OS Server / Got any old HFS files that haven't been converted to zFS yet?

« on: April 21, 2022, 08:10:53 AM »

In Marna Walle's 2.5 migration presentation she stated that 2.4 is the last level to support HFS. 

Here's the text accompanying the slide deck of her presentation.

z/OS 2.4 is the last release of the operating system to support the HFS (Hierarchical File System) data structure used by the z/OS UNIX environment.
 
IBM has provided equivalent if not superior functionality with the z/OS File System (zFS).

Customers should migrate from HFS to zFS using the utilities provided in the operating system to convert their entire file system hierarchy.

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z/OS Server / Standalone arsjesd available

« on: April 20, 2022, 06:58:05 AM »

Level 2 has a  tar file with the arsjesd from CMOD MP 10.5.0.1 that anyone can use.

Extract the file using the command:

tar -xvf arsjesd.aix.10501.tar

The arsjesd module is standalone and will work with either CMOD MP 10.5.0.3 or CMOD MP 10.5.0.4.

Just open a problem ticket and make a request.

Ed

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MP Server / Re: arsjesd broken in 10.5.0.4

« on: April 18, 2022, 11:43:05 AM »

Here’s all I know:
 
The title of APAR is PH45173 arsjesd crashes when receiving pseudo-random data

Details won't be filled in until the APAR closes.

Ed

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MP Server / Re: ARSJESD Issue in 10.5.0.4

« on: April 18, 2022, 07:39:22 AM »

*sigh* --- I just made a separate post on this.

Yup, arsjesd is broken at 10.5.0.4.

Ed

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MP Server / arsjesd broken in 10.5.0.4

« on: April 18, 2022, 07:38:14 AM »

arsjesd was broken by a change in 10.5.0.2 and is still broken in 10.5.0.4.

The fix for arsjesd will be shipped in the 10.5.0.5 fix pack level for CMOD. I do not yet have a date for that and am not expecting it to be before late 3Q22.

Until then use arsjesd from 10.5.0.0 or 10.5.0.1.

Ed

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z/OS Server / arsjesd broken in 10.5.0.4

« on: April 18, 2022, 07:37:48 AM »

arsjesd was broken by a change in 10.5.0.2 and is still broken in 10.5.0.4.

The fix for arsjesd will be shipped in the 10.5.0.5 fix pack level for CMOD. I do not yet have a date for that and am not expecting it to be before late 3Q22.

Until then use arsjesd from 10.5.0.0 or 10.5.0.1.

Ed

84

Tips and Tricks / ARSXML - Some tips and info

« on: April 05, 2022, 10:32:15 AM »

Had a question recently,

We need to change the userIDs of many users.  Can this be done in bulk?

Yes and ARSXML to the rescue.

In default location C:\Program Files\IBM\OnDemand\V10.5\xml\samples are dozens of xml samples.

For this case there is this xml file, updateusers.xml:

<!--   Change the user name -->

  <user

    name="SampleUser3"

    newName="SampleUser3New">

  </user>

If I want to see all of the possible attributes that can be changed via ARSXML I can take a look at C:\Program Files\IBM\OnDemand\V10.5\xml\ondemand.xsd.

In there I see:

<xs:element name="user">
   <xs:complexType>
      <xs:choice maxOccurs="unbounded">
         <xs:element name="permission" minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="unbounded">
             <xs:complexType>
                 <xs:attribute name="task"           type="taskString"      use="optional"/>
                 <xs:attribute name="user"           type="stringLen1-128"  use="optional"/>
                 <xs:attribute name="group"          type="stringLen1-128"  use="optional"/>
                 <xs:attribute name="adminAuthority" type="yesnoString"     use="optional"/>
             </xs:complexType>
          </xs:element>
      </xs:choice>

      <xs:attribute name="name"                type="stringLen1-128"  use="required"/>
      <xs:attribute name="newName"             type="stringLen1-128"  use="optional"/>
      <xs:attribute name="uid"                 type="uidValue"        use="optional"/>
      <xs:attribute name="updateDate"          type="xs:string"       use="optional"/>


etc etc

Also, one can do an export and then look at the resultant xml. 

That will give a basic example of how one might structure xml when wanting to do adds or updates.

Ed

85

z/OS Server / Re: Recommended DB2 on z/OS Service, V12

« on: March 30, 2022, 11:29:25 AM »

I'm still maintaining this.  Noting that there's been nothing new since my last update.

Ed

86

Report Indexing / Re: Bad Character in data file

« on: March 14, 2022, 09:17:10 AM »

Echoing what others have already said ---

We have seen this usually with a German "sharp S" ---- let me see if I can cut and paste one in here: 

What is sharp S in German?
Image result for german sharp s
In German orthography, the letter ß, called Eszett (IPA: [ɛsˈtsɛt] ess-TSET) or scharfes S (IPA: [ˌʃaʁfəs ˈʔɛs], lit. "sharp S"),

When loading it'll often get converted to "ss" or one extra character.  If the field is defined as length 10, and the sharp s makes it go to 11, then boom!

Ed

87

z/OS Server / ODF Users

« on: March 08, 2022, 10:42:47 AM »

10.5.0.4 did not pick up PH37343/UI76042:

S0C4 IN ARSRPRNB                                               
PROBLEM SUMMARY:                                               
****************************************************************
* USERS AFFECTED: All ODF 10.1 and above users using           *
*                 submitted job processing.                    *
****************************************************************
* PROBLEM DESCRIPTION: ODF is encountering an ABEND0C4 in      *
*                      ARSRPRNB+01D8 when ARSRPSUB starts up.  *
****************************************************************
ODF is using the wrong length to clear memory.                 
PROBLEM CONCLUSION:                                             
ODF is modified to use the correct length                       

Ed

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MP Server / Re: ARSJESD Issue in 10.5.0.4

« on: March 03, 2022, 02:34:41 PM »

Hello JeanineJ --- I don't have an answer for your issue but want to add some background info.

arsjesd is the only piece of code that starts with "ARS" that doesn't come CMOD development. 

It's a part of PSF - the Print Services Facility product.  I asked the CMOD Chief Architect about that many moons ago and his answer was "historical reasons." 

Anyway - just checking, is this the started task with PGM=APFKAFPD ?

Make sure you have all of the service for whatever it is that is the PGM=.

Ed Arnold

89

z/OS Server / Re: z/OS V2.5 Release Notes

« on: March 02, 2022, 08:19:36 AM »

Content Manager OnDemand exposed the following issue:


After upgrading z/OS from 2.3 to 2.5 loading OnDemand AFP report in batch results in a loop along with looping ARSSOCK and ARSODF address spaces.

After cancelling the AFP load job that ran for 12 min instead of 1-2 seconds, ARS* address spaces continued to loop and had to be cancelled.

Attempted run of OAM cycle and OAM looped and would not finish processing the cycle and had to be cancelled (OSMC STOP command would not work).


Resolution:  APAR PH44548  in Query Monitor product

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z/OS Server / Re: z/OS V2.5 Release Notes

« on: February 17, 2022, 08:41:45 AM »

LE for COBOL issue.

Symptom is arsload started task can't be brought down with a normal STOP, has to be cancelled to terminate.

PH43756: Loop during thread termination starting with IGZETHT and involving repeated invocation of IGZXWAIT

During COBOL runtime thread termination in a multithreaded environment, IGZXWAIT is repeatedly driven waiting on a state that never arrives.