On Thu, 27 Jul 2006 19:09:37 -0500 Paul Schuster [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
:I have a AMODE 31 RMODE ANY program that dynamically allocates an existing
:PDS with DISP=SHR and NDISP=KEEP.
:I create a DCB in 24bit storage, and issue OPEN like this:
:OPEN ((R3),INPUT),MODE=31
:The OPEN completes
German people names:
- Mäxchen Möchtegerngroß
(= little Max and would-like-to-be-big)
German company names:
- Bärendienst Betrügerei GmbH
(= disservice swindle GmbH)
French people names:
- François Noël
(= Francis Christmas)
French company names:
- Ci-et-Ça Gâteaux, Cadeaux
There's a great deal of attention now paid to helping new mainframe
customers and new mainframe professionals begin learning. Toward that end
here's a great starting point, Introduction to the New Mainframe: z/OS
Basics. I would recommend passing this book along to anyone you know who
is new to
If you still want to run pax via IKJEFT01, simply add a - sign
at the end of the oshell line to tell TSO the command is
continued on the next line.
Have a deeper look at the SYSTSPRT output of the failing job
and you will recognize TSO treats each line as a separate command
(there's a READY
Rob, do you run this directly from TSO.
Jim McAlpine
On 7/25/06, Rob Wunderlich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, 25 Jul 2006 16:25:00 +0100, Jim McAlpine [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Are ther any CVS clients available that allow source to be brought into
PDS
datasets as opposed to HFS file
We've got some discussion here about DSN ENQueueing and DEQueueing
in batch jobs.
Is is my understanding and experience that the initiator will ENQ
on all data sets referenced in the JCL (all steps) at job initiation
time. The job will not start even the first step before all ENQs
have been
I was told that IBM recommends for p/Series platform software mirroring
over hardware based remote copy (like PPRC).
Q1. Is it true ?
Q2. What are the advanages of using OS features over remote copy
solutions provided by DASD hardware ?
I was told, that OS mechanisms provide 'seamless' failover
We had a user trying to delete a cluster. He dropped the period between
the HLQ and second node. Rather than ignoring the request as malformed,
the HLQ got deleted!
That, IMHO, is a major faux pas!
Daniel McLaughlin
ZOS Systems Programmer
Crawford Company
PH: 770 621 3256
*
Everything
a program can determine which hardware features are guaranteed to be
available by testing the level of the operating system in the CVT.
And a program can determine which hardware features happen to be
available by
checking bits in the facilities list (FLCFACL in IHAPSA,
FlceFacilitiesList
Hunkeler Peter (KIUB 34) wrote:
German people names:
- Mäxchen Möchtegerngroß
(= little Max and would-like-to-be-big)
German company names:
- Bärendienst Betrügerei GmbH
(= disservice swindle GmbH)
French people names:
- François Noël
(= Francis Christmas)
French company
Timothy Sipples wrote:
There's a great deal of attention now paid to helping new mainframe
customers and new mainframe professionals begin learning.
Is there? Funny, I haven't noticed that.
-Steve Comstock
Toward that end
here's a great starting point, Introduction to the New Mainframe:
I've downloaded this and am looking through it. Kind of interesting!
Daniel McLaughlin
ZOS Systems Programmer
Crawford Company
PH: 770 621 3256
*
Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.
? Thomas A. Edison
There's a great deal of attention now paid to helping new mainframe
customers and new mainframe professionals begin learning.
Is there? Funny, I haven't noticed that.
Most everyone else has.
Bob Shannon
Rocket Software
--
I noticed that when I perform a FTP function from Mainframe (I am using FTP to
retrieve jcls) to my pc I notice that sequence numbers appear on the file.
How can I prevent these annoying sequence numbers from appearing on the
output?
Thanks
Send instant messages to your online
On 7/28/06, Timothy Sipples [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
There's a great deal of attention now paid to helping new mainframe
customers and new mainframe professionals begin learning.
Mairst college is offereing some new z/OS certification courses (non-credit)
through IDCP (Institute for Data
John Dawes wrote:
I noticed that when I perform a FTP function from Mainframe (I am using FTP to retrieve jcls) to my pc I notice that sequence numbers appear on the file.
How can I prevent these annoying sequence numbers from appearing on the output?
It is a problem with ftp or file
You can delete them in your JCL file.
On the command line enter 'NUM OFF'.
Then enter c p'=' ' ' all 72 80
This will delete your sequence numbers.
Jon L. Veilleux
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(860) 636-2683
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Do the UNUM and store the FTP commands as a PDS member is how we do it.
Daniel McLaughlin
ZOS Systems Programmer
Crawford Company
PH: 770 621 3256
*
Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.
? Thomas A. Edison
You don't need to edit them out, the UNNUM command does it for you.
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Behalf Of Veilleux, Jon L
Sent: 28 July 2006 13:20
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: SEQUENCE NUMBERS
You can delete them in your JCL
Radoslaw
Q1 - it depends -- also on the answer for Q2
Q2 - if the software knows here is a copy your application may just switch
to the copy.
In case of PPRC only the HW know and the application does not know it gets
errors and
may try to recover / restart or just fails .
So in this sense i
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Dawes
Sent: Friday, July 28, 2006 7:12 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: SEQUENCE NUMBERS
I noticed that when I perform a FTP function from Mainframe
(I am using FTP to
Thanks, I'm just an old guy who learned how to delete them a long time
ago. Does UNNUM also set NUM OFF?
Jon L. Veilleux
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(860) 636-2683
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Perryman, Brian
Sent: Friday, July
Yep!
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Behalf Of Veilleux, Jon L
Sent: 28 July 2006 13:52
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: SEQUENCE NUMBERS
Thanks, I'm just an old guy who learned how to delete them a long time
ago. Does UNNUM also
On Friday 28 July 2006 04:42, Hunkeler Peter, KIUB 34 wrote:
... he once was told by an ISV that in a JES2 environment two jobs
can be serialized on a certain step by coding a DISP=OLD/MOD DD
for a data set in the step to be serialized. The jobs would then
execute in parallel until they come
On Fri, 28 Jul 2006 10:42:03 +0200, Hunkeler Peter (KIUB 34)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
snip
My colleague claimes that he once was told by an ISV that in a JES2
environment two jobs can be serialized on a certain step by
coding a DISP=OLD/MOD DD for a data set in the step to be seriallzed.
The jobs
I've worked on MFT, MVT, and VS1, MVS, OS/390, and Z/OS and it seems like
it's been that way since the planet cooled.
Of course, old age and time have caused some data to be lost due to
decaying storage media...
Daniel McLaughlin
ZOS Systems Programmer
Crawford Company
PH: 770 621 3256
*
Who is most everyone. I certainly haven't.
Jim McAlpine
On 7/28/06, Bob Shannon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
There's a great deal of attention now paid to helping new mainframe
customers and new mainframe professionals begin learning.
Is there? Funny, I haven't noticed that.
Most everyone
Yes, I have a utility that uses the output of IXCMIAPU LIST LOGSTREAM and
generates delete/define cards from the list. I wrote it for use at
a disaster recovery site to quickly re-define all the logstreams
since there was not a single (reliable) place where the source definitions
could be
-Original Message-
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Hunkeler Peter (KIUB 34)
[ snip ]
French product names:
- pâte à gâteau
(= cake mixture)
There once was a product called Betty Crocker's Bake Mix, which one radio
announcer transposed to Betty Baker's
Who is most everyone. I certainly haven't.
Have you been active in this forum? Have you attended SHARE or the zExpo
in the last two years? Have you referenced IBM's website? Do you care
about newbies? If the answer to these questions is no, then I believe
you. Otherwise I find your comment hard
Chase, John wrote:
-Original Message-
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Hunkeler Peter (KIUB 34)
[ snip ]
French product names:
- pâte à gâteau
(= cake mixture)
There once was a product called Betty Crocker's Bake Mix, which one radio announcer transposed to
Betty
Spoonerisms.
my 2/100 of a US Dollar not adjusted for inflation or rising gas prices
Daniel McLaughlin
ZOS Systems Programmer
Crawford Company
PH: 770 621 3256
*
Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits.
? Thomas A. Edison
The only one of those questions to which I would answer no is the one about
SHARE/Expo because I work in the UK. I have been a member of this forum
since January 2001 and would say I was a fairly active member but you might
disagree. I do know that we now have a mainframe customer list which is
Thanks to all who replied. I tried Jon's suggestion it worked. I also tried
the UNNUM but I received the message :Not in Number mode.
For the future, Do I have to keep doing the NUM OFF command? Is there a way
of putting it in my ispf profile?
Veilleux, Jon L [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I do know that we now have a mainframe customer list which is 10% the
size it was 10-15 years ago.
This is not a discussion about the future of the mainframe, whether the
mainframe is a viable platform, or whether there are more windoze
licenses than z/OS licenses. It started with this quote
Hi -
I deleted the first mails of this thread before I remembered this way of
doing it (you would put from MF would'nt you?):
type e
cd 'myuser'
lcd 'myuser'
sendsite
site LRECL=72 RECFM=FB BLKSIZE=7200
put ispf.cntl(acftap) testtrun.a
quit
Venlig hilsen
Tonni Ottosen
CSC Danmark A/S
I believe that IBM is looking for other companies to work with their
Academic Initiatives program. They need companies willing to accept
interns and possibly offer full time jobs to the students involved in
the colleges that are offering mainframe training. Also they are looking
for people willing
At 7/28/2006 09:25 AM, you wrote:
Thanks to all who replied. I tried Jon's suggestion it worked. I
also tried the UNNUM but I received the message :Not in Number mode.
use ren;unnum. This will blank out cols. 73-80 regardless of what's there.
Dave Cole REPLY TO: [EMAIL
Hit 'HELP' on the edit main menu and read the section on 'EDIT PROFILES'
it will tell you how to get this set up the way you want it to work,
including saving the NUMBER OFF setting.
Jon L. Veilleux
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(860) 636-2683
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion
John Dawes wrote:
Thanks to all who replied. I tried Jon's suggestion it worked. I also tried the
UNNUM but I received the message :Not in Number mode.
If you are not in num mode, you can issue this sequence of commands:
num on std
unnum
num off
For the future, Do I have to keep
Sorry, I obviously didn't pay enough attention to the original post and I'm
glad to hear of some young blood coming in to the profession. I just hope
that the platform is around long enough for your new recruit to continue
working in it.
BTW did you see the picture of the sysprog in the
I'm currently using PCOMM 5.8 but this problem has already occurred on
older releases.
In all of my host sessions, I'm always using a fixed font: IBM3270 12X16
pixels. However, it happens again and again that PCOMM resets the font
to Automatic sizing with an ugly font in a size far too small
Look for a file called pcswin.ini on your local PC. This is the file
that stores the fonts, window settings, etc. I'd guess it's read only
preventing from saving your settings or it is being refreshed on your PC
by your PFCSK's.
Chuck Kreiter
Lead Systems Programmer
State Auto Insurance
For DR type of restore you have to get the streaming right - probably what
you allude to when you mention getting the JCL right.
ExHPDM has code to try and optimize the tape usage. For example, if you
open one client file (one backup) and ExHPDM starts reading the stream
file (actual tape),
Is is my understanding and experience that the initiator will ENQ
on all data sets referenced in the JCL (all steps) at job initiation
time. The job will not start even the first step before all ENQs
have been granted. So a job might be WAITING FOR DATASETS even
if the one not yet available is
snip
My colleague claimes that he once was told by an ISV that in a JES2
environment two jobs can be serialized on a certain step by
coding a DISP=OLD/MOD DD for a data set in the step to be seriallzed.
The jobs would then execute in parallel until they come to that
specific step. They also
We had a usermod that changed all shared ENQs to exclusive when a
dataset was opened for update. It might even have been on the CBT mods
tape.
Jon L. Veilleux
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(860) 636-2683
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf
I don't think there is much fear about the platform going away (at some
companies perhaps but not on a wide scale). I don't think that from an IBM
perspective that the mainframe has lost 85% of its customers in the last 15
years. The mainframe is clearly struggling to attract new workloads
On Fri, 28 Jul 2006 09:51:48 -0400 Veilleux, Jon L said:
I believe that IBM is looking for other companies to work with their
Academic Initiatives program. They need companies willing to accept
interns and possibly offer full time jobs to the students involved in
the colleges that are offering
On Fri, 28 Jul 2006 09:39:15 -0500, Staller, Allan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
This is indeed true. However, it is not the initiatior that does the
enqueues it is allocation.
Right. Recently verified this in the longest PMR (amount of written
text, traces, etc.) I ever was invovled in. Also the
I was invovled in the first teacher the teachers last year along with
one of my collegues here at Aetna. The professors were very interested
in expanding their mainframe courses and learning the details of the OS.
Jon L. Veilleux
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(860) 636-2683
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Ulrich Boche wrote:
I've recorded a macro in PCOMM 5.8 for ELF (Express Logon Feature)
purposes. The macro and the whole ELF stuff are working fine; however
the macro always fails on the first connection attempt after starting
the PCOMM window. If I disconnect and connect again, the macro is
If we want to reach out to the younger set, aside from college, is there
any way to work through user groups and have Info days?
The market seems (my opinion) to be flooded with new A+ and CNA types
because high schools are cranking them out. Maybe we could lure some of
them from the Dark Side
In a message dated 7/28/2006 9:41:40 A.M. Central Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I am not familiar enough w/JES3 to make a useful comment
JES3 introduced /*NET many moons ago that will serialize jobs in the NET.
Seems like they fixed it about the same time they broke SMB(speed
There's a great deal of attention now paid to helping new mainframe. IMO,
anyone who disputes this hasn't been paying attention.
There's a difference between 'attention now paid' and 'action being taken'!
I see more sizzle than steak.
When in doubt.
PANIC!!
Hal,
I just went thru this 2 weeks ago.
Can you get your hands on FDRPAS? Worth every cent you pay for it.
We used it in prime time on an MP300/H-50, which is much slower then the box
you have.
I did it in prime time and it was a piece of cake, no one even know I was
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 07/27/2006
at 01:21 PM, Ginnie Nuckles [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
we have something called dptech .. I have been able to mark it
unowned by SMS and redefine the dsorg as AM. After doing this I
created a racf id and did an import connect of it
Why? You're making
I just installed a new program and one of the instructions states to run the
code in a particular library as APF authorized.
I'm sort of confused about this.
Is it o.k. to just add this library to the PROG00 member and then use some
sort of SETSYS command to refresh PROG00?
A
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Howard Rifkind
Sent: Friday, July 28, 2006 10:39 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: APF Authorized Code/Libraries.
I just installed a new program and one of the instructions
states
-Original Message-
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of McKown, John
Sent: Friday, July 28, 2006 10:50 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: APF Authorized Code/Libraries.
There are two ways:
OK, I can't count!
1) update your
==
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From: Howard Rifkind [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 7/28/2006 9:38 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: APF Authorized Code/Libraries.
I just installed a new program and one of the instructions states
Some more ligatures and accents...
From France,
Cæsar Cœuresseulé (Caesar Lonelyheart)
From Brasil or Portugal,
Joãoinho São João (Johnny St. John)
From the Czech Republic, although this is probably grammatically incorrect, as
I know only one Czech word:
Praha sušenky (Prague Cookies)
From
Thanks Sam, That's pretty much what I was looking for.
[:)]
Dave
At 7/27/2006 04:25 PM, you wrote:
Hi Dave,
Look at SYS1.MACLIB(IEEQEMCS).
Best Regards,
Sam Knutson, GEICO
Performance and Availability Management
mailto:[EMAIL
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Howard Rifkind
I just installed a new program and one of the instructions
states to run the code in a particular library as APF authorized.
I'm sort of confused about this.
Is it o.k. to just add
During the zNextGen monthly call yesterday, someone mentioned that the
number of z/OS sysprog jobs on Dice has grown a lot in the past few months.
Ray
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
Of Bob Shannon
Sent: Friday July 28 2006 06:45
Ray Mullins wrote:
Some more ligatures and accents...
From France,
Cæsar Cœuresseulé (Caesar Lonelyheart)
From Brasil or Portugal,
Joãoinho São João (Johnny St. John)
From the Czech Republic, although this is probably grammatically incorrect, as
I know only one Czech word:
Praha
In a message dated 7/28/2006 11:01:37 A.M. Central Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Dice has grown a lot in the past few months
Umm, which way? Employers/positions or employees/seekers?
--
For IBM-MAIN subscribe
Are you maximizing and restoring? PCOMM has some (IMHO) strange behavior in
this area. It won't allow you to set the font if you're maximized. I set
the font using a TrueType font (I use IBM3270) with the window not maximized
and select Automatic Sizing (select IBM3270 in the list below the
Staller, Allan wrote:
I am not familiar enough w/JES3 to make a useful comment.
The initiator (IEFIIC) is not a JES program! It does what it does
without regard to the type of job entry subsystem in use.
As stated previously by others, the data set ENQs are acquired at job
initiation
(off-list)
Hi Steve,
Change that last one to Ñoñosrodéanme. The first one means I surround by
idiots, which isn't right any way you look at it.
Later,
Ray
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Steve Comstock
Sent: Friday July
It wasn't said, but I interpreted it to mean positions.
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
Of Ed Finnell
Sent: Friday July 28 2006 09:05
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: IBM Redbook: Introduction to the New Mainframe: z/OS
I'm happy you're hiring new grads to work on host systems. The knowledge we
(university students) have isn't useless, it just has to be adapted to
mainframes. Since universities have long since left that teaching arena, you
have two choices left: learn on the job or go through a technical
When I first got into IBM mainframes, having come off Honeywell and
Burroughs, I had a mentor in my new boss. He coached me at every turn,
gave me tasks that built up knowledge, and let me go to Share. Later, as
we added in VM, I got some formal training.
I've been banging around these things
If someone wants to interest new people to the platform, let them offer
ACCESS to the platform. Reading material is surely required but is no
subtitute for a system one can try things on. Easy availability is a big
part of the reasons of flooding in other platforms. With all the talk ( and
Hello, z/OS 1.4, DB2 7.1 here, with a simple low-priority Friday question!
I want to write the output of a DB2 PM report to disk so I can do some
post-processing on it. If I leave the BLKSIZE off, or code
DCB=BLKSIZE=0, I get a BLKSIZE of 6251 on the LRECL 133 dataset. Since
this is going
Ray Mullins wrote:
(off-list)
Hi Steve,
Change that last one to Ñoñosrodéanme. The first one means I surround by
idiots, which isn't right any way you look at it.
OK. Got it.
-Steve
Later,
Ray
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 7/28/06, Mohammad Khan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If someone wants to interest new people to the platform, let them offer
ACCESS to the platform. Reading material is surely required but is no
subtitute for a system one can try things on. Easy availability is a big
part of the reasons of
IBM has run a mainframe contest (and will be running it again, I
believe) where they gave access to a mainframe systems to the student
participants. The response was overwhelming and the students were able
to accomplish all of the tasks, some of them very complex.
You are right that it is a matter
Authorized programs should be reentrant (I'd like to know the
reasons for a non-reentrant authorized programs -- eek!).
Why do you think so? Authorization has no relation to reentrancy.
--
Bruce A. Black
Senior Software Developer for FDR
Innovation Data Processing 973-890-7300
personal:
On Fri, 28 Jul 2006 06:04:50 -0600, Steve Comstock
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Timothy Sipples wrote:
There's a great deal of attention now paid to helping new mainframe
customers and new mainframe professionals begin learning.
Is there? Funny, I haven't noticed that.
...
Well, you are in a
I want to write the output of a DB2 PM report to disk so I can do some
post-processing on it. If I leave the BLKSIZE off, or code
DCB=BLKSIZE=0, I get a BLKSIZE of 6251 on the LRECL 133 dataset. Since
this is going to a 3390, (yes we even still hard-code our vol-sers)
wouldn't I better
I am currently running two LPARs (with zOS 1.4 as OSes)
on a IBM 2086 model A04(220), and would like to know
if it is possible to create an IOCDS that will support
an LPAR with VM as the OS, and another LPAR with
zOS as the OS...???
And if so, does anyone have examples...
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 07/28/2006
at 07:57 AM, Mark Zelden [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
The first MVS I worked on was SP 1.3 + JES2 and it worked the way it
does now. Perhaps an older-timer can tell you how it was before
that.
The Initiator has waited for the dataset ENQ all the way back to
What I did was simply define the LPAR partition for VM on the Processor
List screen using the P line command. When VM IPLs, it automatically
discovers everything it has access to, so unless you have some unusual
device VM cannot automatically identify, it's not necessary to create an OS
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Marc Holiwell
Sent: Friday, July 28, 2006 12:13 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: IOCDS with VM and zOS LPARS
I am currently running two LPARs (with zOS 1.4 as OSes)
on a IBM 2086
There are two ways:
OK, I can't count!
To paraphrase: There are 11 kinds of people in the world, those who
understand base 3, and those who don't
Happy Friday
Tim Hare
Senior Systems Programmer
Florida Department of Transportation
(850) 414-4209
On Jul 28, 2006, at 9:47 AM, Bryan Turriff wrote:
I don't think there is much fear about the platform going away (at
some companies perhaps but not on a wide scale). I don't think
that from an IBM perspective that the mainframe has lost 85% of its
customers in the last 15 years. The
Was the HLQ an alias pointing to a real user catalog? If so,
recreating the alias should help.
Aliases exist in the master catalog. Why did the user have update to
it?
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From: Daniel A. McLaughlin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, July 28, 2006 4:07 AM
To:
-Original Message-
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Tim Hare
There are two ways:
OK, I can't count!
To paraphrase: There are 11 kinds of people in the world,
those who understand base 3, and those who don't
http://www.whysanity.net/monos/victor_borge.html
Hi John,
When creating new members from scratch, you can setup your edit
profile with the following command:
PROF UNLOCK;NUM OFF;PROF LOCK
Then any time you create a member under the control of this profile,
it will be created without sequence numbers.
ISPF EDIT supports named profiles.
DCB=(RECFM=FB,LRECL=133,BLKSIZE=0) rendered 6251 also.
Then it may be hard coded in the DB2 utility
--
Bruce A. Black
Senior Software Developer for FDR
Innovation Data Processing 973-890-7300
personal: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
sales info: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
tech support: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
web:
Hi Bruce!
DCB=(RECFM=FB,LRECL=133,BLKSIZE=0) rendered 6251 also.
It's no biggie. I'm hardcoding the BLKSIZE now. I wanted to run it by
the list just to see if I was crazy or something.
Thanks.
Stg
Bruce Black [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Schools are like businesses - they will offer products and services that
their customers want. The customers in this case are students, not
necessarily businesses. Students need to be aware that jobs are available
which require the requisite skills and then these students need to pressure
One more trick to try.
DCB=(RECFM=FB,LRECL=133,BLKSIZE=0,DSORG=PS)
If the above trick does not work, this means that the application overrides
JCL DCB attributes based upon logic which is not compatable with System
Determined Blocksize (SDB).
Brian
On Fri, 28 Jul 2006 13:22:51 -0500, Steve
Can someone point me to a manual that explains how to display the
timezone setting (CST, EST, etc) in USS.
I changed the TZ parm in /etc/profile/ /etc/init.options to reflect
CST0CDT0 to reflect no offset since our zos time is set the same for
both LOCAL GMT and recycled SMTP but the sent time
I still think that if businesses inform schools that they need help in a
particular area, the schools will respond by adjusting their curriculum.
Maybe the real issue is that we in the large scale community have to put
pressure on the trade magazines to stop writing about how the mainframe
is
Steve Grimes wrote:
DCB=(RECFM=FB,LRECL=133,BLKSIZE=0) rendered 6251 also.
Just an aside: For many years now, the DCB= keyword in the above
specification has been gratuitous. Just code:
RECFM=FB,LRECL=133,BLKSIZE=0
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Edward E Jaffe
Phoenix Software International, Inc
5200 W Century
Ah -- that last tricked (adding DSORG=PS) worked.
Thanks!
Stg
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Subject: Displaying USS timezone for 1.4
Can someone point me to a manual that explains how to display the
Here's why - from 3.2.3.1.2 System-Determined Block Size in DFSMS Using
Data Sets:
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DASD Data Sets: When you create (allocate space for) a new DASD data set,
the system derives the optimum block size and saves it in the data set
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