text: IBM MAINFRAME: Tools to eliminate JCL Portal | Manuals | References | Downloads | Info | Programs | JCLs | Master the Mainframes Tools to eliminate JCL IBMMAINFRAMES.com Support Forums -> All Other Mainframe Topics IBM ManualsQuick References View previous topic :: :: View next topic Author Message sakthisigaWarnings : 1New UserJoined: 11 Jun 2009Posts: 60Location: Chennai Posted: Mon Jul 13, 2009 3:23 pm Post subject: Tools to eliminate JCL Hi everyone, Can anyone please tell me the tools that eliminate the JCL and used to post the jobs directly into MVS. Back to top enrico-sorichettiGlobal ModeratorJoined: 14 Mar 2007Posts: 10292Location: italy Posted: Mon Jul 13, 2009 3:25 pm Post subject: Reply to: Tools to eliminate JCL <HOLY> <DEITY> where did You get such idea Back to top Anuj DhawanSenior MemberJoined: 22 Apr 2006Posts: 6258Location: Mumbai, India Posted: Mon Jul 13, 2009 5:28 pm Post subject: Quote: post the jobs directly into MVS If JCL is not an option, how those jobs are created at first place? Back to top dick scherrerSite DirectorJoined: 23 Nov 2006Posts: 19270Location: Inside the Matrix Posted: Tue Jul 14, 2009 12:24 am Post subject: Hello, Quote: Can anyone please tell me the tools that eliminate the JCL and used to post the jobs directly into MVS. Never execute a batch job of any kind. . . If you explain whatever kind of business requirement prompted such a question, someone may have a more usable reply. . . Back to top expatGlobal ModeratorJoined: 14 Mar 2007Posts: 8593Location: Back in jolly old England Posted: Tue Jul 14, 2009 12:49 am Post subject: Please explain the possibility of how the operating system will execute a batch job without JCL. WOW, I echo Enrico's astoundment. Or was a colleague playing a joke on you ??? Back to top mtaylorActive UserJoined: 20 Feb 2009Posts: 108Location: Kansas City Posted: Tue Jul 14, 2009 8:54 am Post subject: Isn't there a TSO 'run' command that will execute a load module? That could conceivably qualify for what the op is asking if it exists.... Although 'job' indicates there's more than one program involved. From some online tso tutorial. I've never used these maybe someone else has: call load and execute the specified load module. loadgo load and execute program. run compile, load, and execute program. Back to top expatGlobal ModeratorJoined: 14 Mar 2007Posts: 8593Location: Back in jolly old England Posted: Tue Jul 14, 2009 2:01 pm Post subject: Yes, that may be one way to answer the OP, but it does rather limit any other use of the terminal session. Back to top dick scherrerSite DirectorJoined: 23 Nov 2006Posts: 19270Location: Inside the Matrix Posted: Tue Jul 14, 2009 7:56 pm Post subject: Hello, If Sakthivel were to present better info about some specifics rather than only mentioning a general desire to "eliminate the JCL", someone might be able to provide a more usable reply. . . Back to top MarsoREXX ModeratorJoined: 13 Mar 2006Posts: 1235Location: Israel Posted: Tue Jul 14, 2009 8:23 pm Post subject: With REXX you can execute programs without using jcls, that could be what Sakthivel means. or it could be REXX again, where the jcl is "hidden" as a skeleton and a job can be submitted without you seeing a single line of jcl. More info definitely needed... Back to top sakthisigaWarnings : 1New UserJoined: 11 Jun 2009Posts: 60Location: Chennai Posted: Mon Jul 20, 2009 3:53 pm Post subject: Thank you all for your kindly reply.. Back to top Anuj DhawanSenior MemberJoined: 22 Apr 2006Posts: 6258Location: Mumbai, India Posted: Mon Jul 20, 2009 5:26 pm Post subject: You're welcome. But what's the final choice you "pick" from here? Back to top Alex BruzzoneNew UserJoined: 18 Aug 2010Posts: 4Location: Ottawa Posted: Sat Oct 02, 2010 6:50 pm Post subject: I work for a large Canadian Government Agency and I have implemented JCL generators for the maintenance of DB2 and IDMS databases. There is always the choice for an organization to purchase a tool that will "hide" the real processes (JCL) behind some fancy window full of buttons you can click on. Instead, I develop generators of JCL, that way database administrators can look at and review the JCL. When the generator is put to work nothing really changes other than the elimination of the tediousness of the repetitive work. For instance, my JCL generator for IDMS reads the PUNCHed Segment definitions and DB table to create the JCL. That way nothing is ever missed. A few years back we had a big crash with our IDMS databases. At the time all the JCL was being done by hand. Errors were made in the JCL and of course that delayed the recovery which took 9 days. Now JCL for any IDMS maintenance can be done in seconds. For DB2 I have implemented a JCL generator for moving data from one database to another using DSN1COPY. Anyone who has used DSN1COPY would know how tedious it is to build this JCL. Special DBIDs and OBIDs need to be collected and placed in the JCL. The problem is that if the numbers are wrong, you don't discover it until you try to access the data in the target DB. For all the JCL (and COBOL) generators I use a tool that I also developed which uses sparse dynamic arrays to pass the data to populate skeletons. It works very well and I have successfully used it for all my projects. It's all done using COBOL. There is merit in developing in-house tools. Usually tools that are purchased require a change in the way the organization operates. In-house tools can be made very easy to use. The following JCL creates all the DSN1COPY JCL for a MSTR DB2 database which will move the data from Production to its testing environment using a backup (COPY) from September 19, 2010: Code: //MSTR EXEC PGM=DB1DS1CP,PARM=(PMSTR#1,TMSTR#3) //INPUT DD * !USE BACKUP DATE 2010-09-19 !GENERATE BY TABLESPACE //SKEL DD DISP=SHR,DSN=ALEX.BRUZZONE.DSN1COPY(#SKEL) //SYSIBM DD SYSOUT=* //SYSOUT DD SYSOUT=* //SRCSPUFI DD SYSOUT=* //TARSPUFI DD SYSOUT=* //RUNJCL DD SYSOUT=* SYSOUT will contain all the instructions on how to continue. Back to top mtaylorActive UserJoined: 20 Feb 2009Posts: 108Location: Kansas City Posted: Sun Oct 03, 2010 8:53 pm Post subject: JOL was intended to be a JCL replacement, it never gained wide spread adoption. The developer made a new release some time ago: http://newsgroups.derkeiler.com/Archive/Comp/bit.listserv.ibm-main/2010-03/msg01010.html I think the chances of any organization with non trivial, 40+ year old mainframe applications migrating off of JCL are essentially zero. JCL is ugly and difficult for beginners, but it's well understood and entrenched. Really it's pretty good at what it does. Back to top Pete WilsonActive UserJoined: 31 Dec 2009Posts: 440Location: London Posted: Tue Oct 12, 2010 7:33 pm Post subject: VSAM was supposed to replace JCl and we all know how far that got. Back to top Anuj DhawanSenior MemberJoined: 22 Apr 2006Posts: 6258Location: Mumbai, India Posted: Tue Oct 12, 2010 7:58 pm Post subject: Okay, pardon my ignorance and my little experience - but I read the similar statement on other board too. I'm confused, how VSAM could replace JCL - one is access method and other is "control language"! Back to top Sys EdwinNew UserJoined: 18 Oct 2010Posts: 7Location: Canada Posted: Mon Oct 18, 2010 10:18 pm Post subject: Re: Tools to eliminate JCL sakthisiga wrote: Hi everyone, Can anyone please tell me the tools that eliminate the JCL and used to post the jobs directly into MVS. This requires dynamic allocation of datasets and invocation of the program. This can be done inside the address space of a worker program or a new address space can be created. We use an event automation/job scheduling program called AutoMan. It has a command language called GAL in it when events occur or scheduled activity is needed you can code a command to invoke an external program. It comes with a TSO program called AutoMate which runs an external compiler. This compiler is normally run by JCL but can also be dispatched without JCL. Take a look at this and if it does what you think you want, I can describe for you the process by which the job is run without JCL. Back to top View previous topic :: :: View next topic IBMMAINFRAMES.com Support Forums -> All Other Mainframe Topics All times are GMT + 6 Hours Page 1 of 1 Search our Forum: Similar Topics Topic Author Forum Replies Posted SSHD - Ported tools vasanthz All Other Mainframe Topics 5 Tue Jul 11, 2017 6:17 am how to eliminate records from operati... PUMA DFSORT/ICETOOL 5 Tue Dec 23, 2014 4:42 pm How to eliminate duplicate records - ... 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Ampio Pharmaceuticals ( AMPE) has touted the pain-relief efficacy of its osteoarthritis drug Ampion in three press releases since August but is so far refusing to provide clinical data sufficient to support its claims. The Ampion data is missing from Ampio's "Spring" study, which compared two doses of Ampion to matching placebo in 329 patients with osteoarthritis of the knee. The knee of each patient in the study was injected once with either Ampion or saline. The study's primary endpoint was reduction in knee pain at 12 weeks compared to baseline. Knee pain was assessed using the WOMAC A scale, which awards 0 points for no pain up to 4 points for extreme pain based on patient reporting. Ampio needs two positive phase III studies in order to seek FDA approval of Ampion for osteoarthritis of the knee. The company is counting the "Spring" study as the first positive study. Ampio met with the FDA last month to discuss the "Spring" study results and requirements for a second phase III study of Ampion. The company hasn't commented publicly on the outcome of the FDA meeting but has previously guided to beginning the confirmatory Ampion study before the end of the year. Investors who wish to evaluate Ampion's safety and efficacy are out of luck because Ampio had so far refused to disclose publicly relevant "Spring" study data, despite issuing three press releases touting positive results. "As part of our market development plan for Ampion, we are planning to release all of the data, including important sub-population analyses and 20 week data in upcoming journals, medical conference presentations, and the public via press releases," said Ampio spokesman Rick Giles. On Aug. 14, Ampio issued a press release announcing the Ampion study achieved its primary endpoint
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• 3 tablespoons olive oil
• 1 teaspoon minced garlic
• 1 cup roasted red peppers (blotted dry if canned)
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• 1 tablespoon capers, well drained
• Salt and ground black pepper to taste
• 2 hard-boiled eggs, finely chopped
• 2 tablespoons finely chopped fresh parsley
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Hunter S. Thompson famously wrote that the Kentucky Derby is decadent and depraved.
That was in 1970. Yet the mayhem, from the heaving infield to the sight of Playboy bunnies, hasn't abated, according to those who have recently attended Churchill Downs.
Royal Ascot is about pomp, ceremony and pageantry. And the Queen, who is said to adore her racing as much as the desperates at the Bondi Junction TAB on Wednesdays.
The Hong Kong International carnival isn't about celebrities and fashion, but world-class racing and enormous betting turnover from obsessive Asian punters.
The Melbourne Cup carnival is all things to all men, women and children, and it shoehorns enormous crowds into an enormous track, becoming a blur of Home and Away stars, fake tans of varying quality, men in cheap suits, white shoes with matching belts, and inappropriate activity in the carpark, which people will gladly pay to enter even if they never see a race.
On the eve of the most important two Saturdays in Sydney racing in recent memory, the great unknown is what type of personality and character The Championships at Royal Randwick will have.
Given the $18.2 million in prizemoney on offer - with about $13 million coming directly from the NSW government - the expectation is that it should be a raging success regardless of whether it is for the serious punter or the professional clotheshorse.
On Monday, decadent trophies for the "grand final of racing" were unveiled: a unique design from luxury Australian jeweller Nicola Cerrone featuring a horse made of "emeralds, with pink Argyle diamond eyes and black diamonds on its mane and hooves".
"Hold it like it's an Academy Award, or a Logie," enthused The Championships chief executive Ian Mackay.
Offered Racing NSW chairman John Messara, the driving influence of the two-day carnival: "They're very Sydney."
In many respects, this is what the next two Saturdays need to be: very Sydney.
Melbourne can have the quantity. Sydney's point of difference needs to be the quality.
There is no hope in hell - or the Sydney equivalent of Parramatta Road for those who braved Saturday traffic to get to Rosehill for the Golden Slipper - that Sin City can replicate Victoria's Spring Carnival.
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This Saturday, punters will watch the Doncaster, the TJ Smith, the Australian Derby and the Ingis Sires, having watched the best sprinters, milers and three-year-olds in the land contest $8.5 million in prizemoney, and there is every chance they will be left thinking: What just happened?
The following Saturday, there are six group 1s, with the Queen Elizabeth Stakes worth $4 million the centrepiece.
Of course, the stunning fillies and the colts who desire them in the marquees and new-ish grandstand couldn't really care less about the millions on offer on the track, let alone the fact that two quality international gallopers in Hana's Goal and Gordon Lord Byron will be on display.
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Randwick - or Alison Road for that matter - cannot accommodate crowds of more than 80,0000, which Flemington easily attracts during its Cup carnival.
The number being thrown around thus far is 30,000 a day, for the next two Saturday meetings.
Last year, Randwick hastily opened its incomplete $154 million grandstand and attracted a crowd of 25,000 to watch Black Caviar, in what turned out to be her last race.
Some doubt the new grandstand, and the Theatre of the Horse. Surely, they would boo Santa Claus, as Jack Gibson said of Queensland crowds during Origin matches.
If you're not fortunate enough to jag a seat in the Chairman's Lounge, or a suite on the fourth floor, there are general admission areas that are the equal if not better of the members' areas at other metropolitan courses.
Much will come down to the weather - if showers are forecast for Saturday - but the doubters should hold their judgment on the success of the carnival, no matter what the outcome over the next fortnight.
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Brian Colon shot video of the incident after fellow passenger Michael Kerr allegedly assaulted a flight attendant during a trip from Lexington, Kentucky to Charlotte, North Carolina.
"He was like, 'let me out, let me out, I'll break your jaw,' to the captain," Colon told Inside Edition.
The situation occurred after the plane landed in Charlotte on July 21. The incident is now coming to light as Kerr will head to federal court Wednesday.
Kerr allegedly downed three glasses of Jack Daniels on the flight, but it's unknown whether he had drinks prior to takeoff.
He apparently wanted to get off right away after the plane landed following the one-hour flight before the mobile staircase could reach the plane and allow everyone off. He was told to sit back down.
He got into a fiery confrontation with the flight attendant who has asked him to take a seat. Kerr has been accused of getting physical with the attendant.
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According to an FBI affidavit obtained by The Charlotte Observer, Kerr kicked one attendant in the leg and shoved another to the floor of the plane
The pilot and co-pilot then ended the outburst in impressive fashion by pinning the man to the ground. They even used a seatbelt to fasten his legs.
Colon said: "It was very well executed."
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Mr. Gutierrez, 38, fled Juarez after he confronted the army on civil-rights abuses and began receiving death threats. The Chihuahua Attorney-General's office advised him to go into hiding because it couldn't protect him, he said.
He said he came to Canada with his family after men with guns appeared outside his home, one of them pointedly asking his wife about the couple's children.
Mr. Gutierrez is one of several Mexicans in Toronto and elsewhere in Canada who say they have received death threats from either drug cartels or the army or police, and whose refugee claims have been rejected. Like Mr. Gutierrez, they are appealing the IRB decisions.
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Mexico has been described as a country on the cusp of being a failed state, with pandemic police corruption, increasing allegations of human-rights abuses by the army and open warfare between the drug cartels and state and federal governments.
In 2008, more than 1,300 people - including 40 police officers - were murdered in the drug battles in Ciudad Juarez, a city of 1.3 million that sits on the drug-trade route into neighbouring El Paso, Texas, and is Mexico's most violent city. Its police chief, Roberto Orduna Cruz, resigned after posters warned that a police officer would be killed every 48 hours unless the chief stepped down. A hit list of names was left at a monument in the city for police officers killed in the line of duty.
"I was lucky," Mr. Gutierrez said in an interview yesterday. "Some of my friends, they don't receive any warning."
Although he is careful to say the death threats he received could have come from one of several sources, his troubles began after Mexican President Felipe Calderon ordered thousands of soldiers into Juarez - the city now looks like it's under military occupation - to confront the drug gangs and root out police corruption.
Almost immediately the army was accused of human-rights abuses.
In April, 2008, Mr. Gutierrez advised female police officers who were stripped in front of troops and others who were beaten by soldiers on how to lay formal civil-rights complaints. He acted to protect police officers he knew were clean from being detained by the military.
"If I'd let them take those guys to Mexico City," he said, "everything I'd worked for would have fallen to the floor."
In May, soldiers began stopping his police vehicle and searching it. They would check whether the revolver and machine gun he carried matched the licences he had for them. Or they'd stop his car 150 metres from his office and demand to know who he was speaking to on the phone.
Then he received a text message sent to his private cellphone that told him he was sticking his nose in the wrong places and to be careful. A second text message arrived a day or so later telling him not to be so cocky. "You're close to being a statistic," it said. The third message said simply: "You're next."
After consultation with the state Attorney-General's officials, Mr. Gutierrez spent that night in his office protected by four trusted police colleagues. Then in the morning they took him to the airport and he flew into hiding.
Lawyer Gustavo de la Rosa Hickerson, in charge of the Juarez office of the Chiahuahua State Human Rights Commission since April, 2008, repeatedly has spoken out on the increasing number of complaints made against the army of human rights violations, including torture and extrajudicial executions.
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In five to ten years, we will look back with awe on the storage-media transition from spinning, rust-coated platters and electro-mechanical recording arms to solid-state, silicon-based media. We will look back upon the magnetic hard disk era of data storage with glee and relief. Archeologists will unearth these things and ponder how they ever worked in the first place.
Make no mistake about where we are in history right now. The magnetic hard disk is being replaced by solid-state storage, or flash. It is really just a matter of time until the last hard disk is given a ceremonial "so long and thanks for all the IO's."
How will we look back on this transition? How will the flash storage story pan out?
They say the best way to look into the future is actually to look at the past. So let's take some time out from the storytelling to understand where this flash era will take us. If anyone has doubts that the end of the spinning disk is on the horizon, then just ask yourself one question: When was the last time you met anyone running their workloads from magnetic tape? I would imagine around 35 to 45 years ago is the correct answer.
There will be three distinct phases to the flash storage story. I'm going to label these phases as Vertical, Horizontal, and Tardis.
The Vertical Phase
For what it's worth, this phase ended one or two years ago, by my reckoning. Flash started its three-phase journey by accelerating niche and individual workloads. Flash was expensive, but no one cared. These workloads, mostly database and online transaction processing (OLTP), just needed to go fast at any cost. Spending money on hardware to accelerate via all-flash was a better option than spending millions on hard disks.
We typically saw direct-connect flash appliances providing all-flash storage to one or maybe two servers to accelerate mission critical applications. Think financial services, stock trading, high-volume online auctions, and so on. Application managers were prepared to trade off data service richness and simplicity for the performance gains.
The flash technology was "SLC media," packaged in some proprietary manner, and the big topic of discussion was endurance and wear-out. How many page erases? How many writes, and so on? Those in charge of performance-critical applications didn't really care because flash took the monkey off their backs and bought them time.
This vertical era of single (or few) flash-workload acceleration is over. It was, however, a very important time for learning about and readiness for what came next.
The Horizontal Phase
Flash has gone mainstream and the all-flash datacenter for primary workloads is no longer just a possibility, it has happened. The NAND media technology has evolved from SLC to MLC to TLC, and most commonly now 3D-TLC, commonly called 3D-NAND. The economics and mainstream availability of flash in mature and proven array solutions has combined to form the perfect storm against the hard disk. Start preparing for that ceremonial "so long and thanks for all the IO's" farewell event!
The horizontal phase, mainstreaming, began around 2014-2015. We had already seen flash shipments surpass 15K RPM HDD shipments. The tipping point here was probably the culmination of data-reduction services, higher capacity and lower cost 3D NAND, and platforms offering the trifecta of requirements in an all-flash datacenter platform. More on that trifecta later.
Within the horizontal phase, concerns over flash endurance and wear out have all but ceased. Every popular platform from mainstream vendors has this issue well under control now. Typical ROI periods for a migration from a legacy HDD array to an all-flash array are typically less than 18 months. As all those HDD arrays reach the end of their lives, customers are skipping the hybrid approach and moving directly to all-flash. This just simplifies life for the storage admins and returns free floor tiles back to the datacenter manager.
Upon replacement of the all-HDD array with an all-flash array, the storage admin becomes an instant hero. Application managers wonder why they waited so long, and we can see the "what if" discussions commence. Enter phase three.
The Tardis Phase
Once the benefits of the migration to all-flash were absorbed and understood, clever people who experienced the sheer performance capability of the technology started to think and ponder. They realized that flash has much more to offer. They realized that flash truly removed the data processing bottlenecks and constraints which ultimately limited application capability.
Software vendors and application innovators combined to create a new breed of app. I'll call them "flash apps." These are apps which couldn't possibly run on traditional infrastructure. They fully leverage flash (or other solid-state storage) technology and deliver a new breed of application that is dependent on near-instantaneous, high-volume data processing.
The first of these "flash apps" was the combination of data warehouses and their associated transaction-processing workloads into one stack. These were originally separated because storage couldn't cope with multiple workloads referencing the same dataset. Soon we will witness an avalanche of data-analytics apps that bring the notion of real-time Big Data to the stage. One only has to couple what's happening at present with flash storage and compute interconnects with the Moore's Law continuum of compute capacity and it is easy to see that the "flash apps" era is just around the corner. What will soon be possible is simply unimaginable from where we are now.
Back to the Trifecta
In the Horizontal phase, the single biggest use-case is the replacement of shared all-HDD arrays with shared all-flash arrays. Storage bottlenecks disappear overnight, and ROI is just 18 months away. It's a quick win.
However, there is no need to compromise on what will turn that "quick win" into a "long-term win." The long-term success of the all-flash datacenter, and the innovation offered by the Tardis Phase, will be governed by a no-compromise migration from HDD to all-flash.
This no-compromise migration will require attention to three key evaluation dimensions for all-flash storage solutions:
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Many vendors often focus their discussions and messaging on just one of these dimensions, but be wary. This is often a ploy used to emphasize a single-strength and avoid discussing weaknesses. What will determine long-term success is achieving balance across all three of these dimensions.
Actually, there will be four phases
I just spent a thousand words explaining the three phases that will define the flash story, but there could actually be four. The all-flash datacenter for primary workloads is an absolute given, as mentioned earlier. What is less clear is the obsolescence of the low-performance, bulk-capacity HDD's, the 7200K RPM units. I believe the fourth phase, what I will call "Bye-Bye HDD," will be driven by the next flash technology evolution, 3D-QLC (quad level cells). These will be high-capacity, high-density, 4-bits per cell flash. 3D-QLC has the potential to be that replacement technology for archive-grade HDD storage. Watch this space!
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Deemed as prototypical rather than a masterpiece, Stratovarius' debut efficiently introduced a new concept which was polished in further albums. Its dark sound, which is reminiscent of everything that sounds like 80's traditional metal, provides a scary atmosphere perfectly described by the cover of the album. Moreover, the technical abilities of Timo Tolkki make this album enjoyable, since the listener has a good variety of progressive and speed metal stuff in which its possible to find guitar soloing techniques and shredding inspired by Randy Rhoads and Yngwie Malmsteen, and neoclassical metal riffs mainly used by Scandinavian bands, such as Silver Mountain.
The album shows an amateurish band that started a long search for a definitive sound, but their technical skills offset said amateurism, and their elaborated compositions made of this album a very promising debut. Rather than being plainly a progressive metal album, the album also features some neoclassical power metal stuff which was carefully alternated so that the listener is not castigated by an unstoppable charge of slow and mid-paced songs. As a way of example, the album opens with the fast, aggressive and catchy "Future Shock", which in some way recalls the tempos and riffs of the Motörhead song "Ace of Spades". Then, the tricky proggy number "False Messiah" insanely shifts its frenetic neoclassical intro into a more peaceful song whose memorable chorus is somehow similar to the one featured in the Sweet Cheater song "The Curse". Thereafter, the album follows a similar pattern which is broken by the instrumental prelude "Fire Dance" (that heralded the speedish "Witch Hunt") and the nice acoustic outro "Goodbye" which sounds like a slower version of Black Sabbath's instrumental "Orchid".
Even though Tolkki is not exactly the greatest vocalist, his vocals match the epic atmosphere of the album. It is incredible the way in which he evokes in the listener feelings of stress, insanity and power. All these virtues compensate his lack of talent, and fortunately they did not affect the quality of the songs when all is said and done. Regardless of the lack of a decent production work, the album overcame the demanding requirements of a subgenre that experimented a boom in Europe during the second half of the 80's. Given the fact that many fanatics of the band started to listen the mid 90's stuff, they would not find the magic inside this album. Therefore, is highly recommended for those who love the 80's power metal stuff.
Perhaps Stratovarius's debut album comes as something of a surprise, particularly since I don't envisage this being very popular when it was released back in 1989, most people finding it by backwards searching rather than original knowledge. For all that 90s Stratovarius tended to push fast and complex power metal, 'Fright Night' is on some levels a mile away from that sound and knocking on its door at other moments. The way I understand this album is that it's a bit like a demo for a band that was still waiting to happen, because there's no way in hell that Timo Tolkki was supposed to be the singer for this kind of project, whatever he may have thought of his own abilities. It comes close to Candlemass's 'Ancient Dreams' demo, which also laid down some fantastic ideas and included Leif Edling's rudimentary vocals as markers for a future performance. That demo similarly left a gap between the band's ambition and their current state, so 'Fright Night' is a "warm-up album" in my mind.
The first thought that usually comes to mind with demos is the production quality and 'Fright Night' does contend with this problem. The issue with the production and mixing quality is that, like with some other older cheaply recorded albums, the different instruments don't totally gel together and leave a lot of gaps in the sound, so that we're dealing with a lack of power for much of the album. The drums are a bit quiet and weak, the bass is easily audible yet definitely percussive, while the rhythm guitar stays thin unless it's joined by melodies or leads, which is thankfully often. There are also some dated-sounding effects, especially from the keyboards, that don't quite get away with their own cheesiness and tackiness; the title track, for example, attempts the same kind of midnight atmospherics as Mercyful Fate's 'The Oath' and it appears that the band had neither the budget nor the necessary sense of drama to pull it off. The sound effect at the end of 'Future Shock', however, gains a point for being amusing: I think it's supposed to be a nuclear or atomic explosion, but it sounds more like a handgun misfiring.
That said, there are plenty of things to get excited about on their own merits, even if the recording is showing its age nowadays. The main attraction must be Tolkki's guitar playing, which is an odd mixture of the virtuoso and the imitator. His leads and melodies are top-drawer for the most part, showing his ability to shred in full-on adrenaline mode in the opening of 'Black Night', to create catchy hooks in 'Witch-Hunt', and to gently elevate the chorus of 'Future Shock' with a light melodic weave. The solos are almost all delicious and toe the fine line between technical skill and aural satisfaction, meaning that there are no massive Dream Theater instrumental breaks or guitar project indulgence, just pure heavy metal thunder and lightning. However, Tolkki's riff work leaves a little to be desired, borrowing heavily from Helloween's original template and thinking of little in songs like 'Night Screamer' that builds on the work of any number of bands influenced by Iron Maiden and wishing to play faster. The other curious thing about his guitar work on 'Fright Night' is the surprisingly solid rhythm tone that he uses. It's wide and heavy, in the sense that it struggles to make the palm-muted riffs really take off and fly at faster speeds, although that drawback is tempered by many slower and deliberately forceful riffs, such as the flatter hard rock/Judas Priest style of the main riff in 'Darkness'. These simpler riffs are sometimes effective, but probably need a tone and production close to what Savatage had in the mid-80s, since the effect aimed for is somewhat close.
The other instrumentalists are arguably there for very different reasons and have less individual moments, though are not limited to merely supporting roles. The drums are useful tools for providing Tolkki with platforms for licks and trade-offs, while the opening of 'False Messiah' has a short solo spot for guitar, bass, and drums. Keyboards are also present at times and fill the sound a little more, yet don't do much for the songs, as the levels are a bit messed up. Tolkki's vocals, while clearly not the final product, can still carry a tune and sometimes are pretty fun when he's ranting through 'Witch-Hunt' or crooning softly at the back of 'Darkness'.
As far as the songs go, it's the fun ones that fare better, with the explosive and catchy 'Black Night' and 'Witch-Hunt' my personal picks. Oddly enough, these are the ones that remind of other bands: 'Black Night' has a certain 'Highway Star' feel to it in the after chorus section, then 'Witch-Hunt' comes weirdly close to Overkill's 'Feel the Fire' in its snappy delivery, plus there's a riff that reminds me of 'Hammerhead'. 'Future Shock' is perhaps the most solidly-written song on here, while the title track and 'Darkness' have their moments, though both are overlong. The mid-paced likes of 'False Messiah' and 'Night Screamer' really need more character and stronger performances to carry them through, which makes me wonder (somewhat fruitlessly, since I know it won't happen) what the modern Stratovarius line-up could do with these songs. Really, for most Stratovarius fans this is going to be a curiosity more than a necessary listen, since it doesn't bear much resemblance to the later work of the band and is a weaker attempt at the classic 90s style. Nevertheless, there's some fun to be had and the solos are wicked.
This first and not very well known album by Stratovarius has not yet the diversity, uniqueness and catchiness of the second and third effort and sounds especially quite different from what one might now from the actual works of what has become one of the most important and well known European power metal bands.
Many songs on this first record are quite straight and have not always something to do with power metal. "Black night" for example reminds a lot of Iron Maiden's "Aces high", it has almost the same main riff and only has a less catchy chorus and a more dynamical drumming and a chaotic ending. "Witch hunt" goes in the same direction and reminds rather of Iron Maiden or Judas Priest in their early years than of power metal bands that were popular at the time of the release. This song is not that original, but it sounds different from the usual stuff of the band and is enjoyable.
Most of the songs have this heavier approach but remind a lot of what would come from this band on the next albums because of slightly progressive keyboard passages and high speed guitar solo passages. The well thought and diversified "False messiah" as well as "Night screamer" would have fit on the following record for example and surprise with catchy bass tones, a tight drumming and the typical playful guitar riffs by Timo Tolkki. I must admit that I am missing that kind of straight forward energy in the shorter songs of the band nowadays that is present in the opener "Future shock" for example. This raw energy is underlined by the production that doesn't really deserve its name and let this album sound like a demo recording if you don't get your hands on a re-mastered edition. But this makes somewhat the charm of this later on quite polished band.
It's only in the second half that the band sounds like an actual power metal band. The brilliant epic title track reminds of a mixture of Helloween and Dio with an opening sequence inspired by Alice Cooper. The song is much diversified and the raw and very audible bass gives a unique heaviness to the track that is in contrast with the atmospheric and somewhat smooth chorus. "Darkness" focuses even more on the atmosphere and has a very dreamy and floating approach where Timo Tolkki shows what a great and underrated singer he is.
The band finally shows its big potential on this first strike that is a charming and convincing record because it is heavier, edgier and straighter than what you might expect from the band. The power metal vibes are only present in the two epic and promising longer tracks; the other songs have rather a heavy or speed metal approach and make this record an interesting experience. It's sure that the band hasn't yet found its very own style and the song writing is not yet as brilliant as on the following outputs, but this record is truly energizing and different from the other stuff of the band. Those who find the band too cheesy, commercial or predictable nowadays should check out the first three albums of this group and may be surprised while the usual fans of the band won't be disappointed with that album anyway.
It took me some time before this album eventually grew on me but when it finally grew, it did it hugely and I really like the first steps of the band. It's surely not yet a masterpiece of an album, it is eventually quite short and some songs might not be better than good fillers, but it is a different experience compared to the later works and worth a few tries.
Everyone has to have a beginning-one of the biggest names in power metal made theirs with this humble little debut. Despite the general simplicity of "Fright night," it's a solid album, though it would probably only be enjoyed by Stratovarius fans ad those interested in early power metal.
At this time, Stratovarius only consisted of three and a half members (the half was the sometimes-used keyboardist, Antti Ikoenen). Tuomo Lassila (drums), Jykri Lentonen (bass) and Timo Tolkki (vocals and guitar) made up the rather thing, though still rockin' sound. I have a feeling that the somewhat muted sound was due to production as opposed to the performance, as all the guys definitely weren't without merit. Tolkki's awesome riffs and solos still reigned, while his vocals, for the most part, were surprisingly strong (despite an occasionally strained sound and a couple of cracks here and there). There are a lot of cleverly written drum lines, though percussion wasn't so prominent at that time. Keyboards existed merely in the background, as at this time Stratovarius wasn't so progressive.
Lyrically, "Fright Night" is uncomplicated, in some places not entirely making sense-though thankfully, it's easy to understand what was trying to be communicated. The ideas are good, some of which recur throughout the band's ensuing albums. However, there are references to witches for instance, and other things which do not appear in other work. The dark feeling is not only musically, but lyrically-there are countless references to darkness and night, which is the thing that unites all the songs.
The music is, as I said, darker and more power. There are many time and melody changes, as well as more musical interludes and longer introductions. Anyone who complains about Strato-anthems should pick up this album: there aren't any.
Starting off the album is "Future Shock," a great song discussing the vision of a nuclear holocaust. Stratovarius still plays around themes of this sort, though it's been expanded. Track two, "False Messiah," is one of my favorites. Like the previous song, the topic is still carried through in later works. With a 1:25-long intro, "False Messiah" contains some nice time changes and a unique chorus... there's something oddly delicate about it. "Black Night" is fast and heavy with some notable guitar work from Tolkki, and again, a great chorus. "Night Screamer" and the title track also contribute to making the album worth owning. "Fright Night" contains two totally opposite instrumentals-the heavy "Fire Dance" and "Goodbye." The latter showcases Tolkki's talent, proving he's capable of more than just heavy riffing.
"Fright Night," though a bit understated, is a solid and very diverse album. I don't feel enough attention is paid to Stratovarius' early work, so here I am, spreading the word.
It's too bad that these songs aren't on Stratovarius's setlist anymore, because some of these songs would absolutely SLAY live, especially with Kotipelto's vocals.
By Stratovarius's obscenely high standards, of course, these songs aren't that great. As an actual album, however, this is good stuff. The best part is the guitar work, as even in the early days we still had Mr. Timo Tolkki to be the heart and soul of the band. Tolkki's influences are as easy to read as a picture book in this first album--a Black Sabbath foundation with Megadeth-style riffage and Iron Maiden melodies and soloing (and the occasional Yngwie-trademark fast-as-fuck solos), with a little bit of Judas Priest sprinkled on top. In other words, he has taken the best parts of the best bands in metal and mixed them together into one ass-kicking guitar player. There are a few wrinkles in the overall guitar sound, and it takes another album or two before Timo irons it out and creates a style that is 100% original and completely his own. In the meantime, however, the riffage is strong and furious, with extremely fast solos and opening chord progressions that simply kick the shit out of you before the actual song even begins.
The other instruments are pretty good, too, although they need some work before they become key parts of the band. The bass work is very solid, although it can barely be heard at times and often stays too close to the drum, preventing it from emerging as a seperate instrument. The drum is furious, and Tuomo is obviously very talented; however, you can tell even here that his style conflicts with the guitars and the songs as a whole. Tuomo's drumming is very aggressive and thrash-oriented, with him often mirroring the rhythm patters of the guitars and therefore drowning the other instruments out. Not only that, but he gets a lot of short little solos--a lot more than are neccessary, or even ideal, for the songs. And yes, the vocals are terrible. Timo is not a vocalist by any stretch of the imagination, and Stratovarius's vocal parts are some of the most difficult of any band I have ever heard--definitely something that should be left to someone who knows what they're doing (Kotipelto).
Overall, though, the sound is a rudimentary version of perfection, and that's not bad at all for a debut album. If you bought some of the later Stratovarius material made during the era of the Fab Five, then don't expect the same thing in their first three albums. It's still worth a purchase, though, if only for Timo's excellent guitar work.


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- A friend on another List posted the following story about a tree in Athens,
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I am reaching back many years in memory so the details have escaped me, but
here goes: Many decades ago, the tree, a very stately oak, was in the front
yard of a large home and prized by the owner, who was concerned about what
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