A few weeks ago I informed you about a VSE/POWER new function APAR: "VSE/POWER commands with positional operand *JOBN can now address jobs with matching end of jobname "JOBN"", see here . Please do not yet install the corresponding PWRSPL PTFs, because a problem showed up. We will provide a PTF shortly, that will correct this problem. Below are the new APAR/PTF numbers.   VSE/POWER z/VSE 6.1 APAR DY47712 (PTF UD54229-61G): AFTER INSTALL OF DY47704, POWER SAS APPLICATION GENERATED WITH NEW PWRSPL WILL RECEIVE... [More]

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A few days ago there was a discussion about that subject on VSE-L. Today I have a more detailed information about VSE/POWER message 1QAAI. Thanks for the details, Martin.   Message 1QAAI is shown when VSE/POWER prints output to z/VM via a LST task started with option VM, e.g. PSTART LST,00E,ABC,,VM The output is intersected by a call to VM/CP which passes the target user ID. If this userid is not defined in z/VM, the RC from z/VM is translated into message 1QAAI . The most common causes are: the LST task is started for the wrong class(es)... [More]

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About three weeks ago I informed you about a new function - enhanced wild card support - available as VSE/POWER PTF - see here . The PTF was for z/VSE 5.2. In between this function is also available for z/VSE 6.1.   VSE/POWER APARs z/VSE 5.2 APAR DY47700 (PTF UD54218 / UD54219): VSE/POWER COMMANDS WITH POSITIONAL OPERAND *JOBN DON'T ADDRESS JOBS WITH MATCHING END OF JOBNAME "JOBN" z/VSE 6.1 APAR DY47704 (PTF UD54218 / UD54219): VSE/POWER COMMANDS WITH POSITIONAL OPERAND *JOBN DON'T ADDRESS JOBS WITH MATCHING END OF... [More]

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Some weeks ago there was a discussion on VSE-L about the position of the wild card in VSE/POWER commands. We took that as a requirement and will enhance the VSE/POWER wild card support in an APAR.   Today: When you specify e.g. the PALTER LST,*SYSA,CLASS=0 command, it addresses the same LST outputs as PALTER LST,SYSA*,CLASS=0 which lists all LST outputs starting with SYSA. The position of wild card is not considered due to historical reasons.     With the z/VSE 5.2 APAR DY47700 you can search job names ended with the specified... [More]

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Today I wanted to understand the CPU usage of a specific job. That is I had to reset the CPU counters before application start and wanted to see the CPU utilization at the end. I could enter the console commands SYSDEF TD,RESETCNT (to reset counters at start) and QUERY TD (to show results at the end) on the z/VSE console.  I had to rerun that sequence multiple times. In such a case it is easier to use the DTRIATTN Utility. With DTRIATTN  you can include console commands into the VSE/POWER job itself. The (Attention Routine / console)... [More]

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The last weeks I got new requirements in the Request for Enhancement (RFE) tool. May be you want to vote on those requirements. RFE 98529 : A new POWER exit routine Create a new exit routine to be called before writing account record to the account file. The routine will be able prevent the record from being written or (and this is only optional) change fields in the record. RFE 99132 : Enhancement in resource locking by some VSE tools Some VSE system tools, like INFOANA and MSHP, seem to lock resources external even though those... [More]

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