How to delete members of a PDS that have no data

2008-05-04 Thread Stocker, Herman
G'day, I have some members in a PDS that I have not been able to delete. They are Endevor backup members (first character of the name is 'FE'x). I have tried to use LMDELETE, TSO and IDCAMS delete. All have failed. Are there any utilities that will delete the members? Thank you. Regards,

Re: How to delete members of a PDS that have no data

2008-05-04 Thread Scott Barry
Hello, Appears this same question back on Jan 10 2006. The reply thread is pasted below. Scott Barry SBBWorks, Inc. __ *** *** Subject: Does any have a program that can delete non-standard member names from a PDS From:

Re: How to delete members of a PDS that have no data

2008-05-04 Thread Stocker, Herman
Thank you Scott, This time the procedure does not work, I'm getting an RC 8 from the LMDELETE (8 - Member not found). When I copied the data set the members give the error message: IEB189I DIRECTORY ENTRY §YB4I2QK IN BLOCK READ FROM DDNAME INVOL1 IS OUT OF SEQUENCE OR DUPLICATE AT TTR

Re: How to delete members of a PDS that have no data

2008-05-04 Thread Stocker, Herman
Update: PDS command does not show them in the member list. In a 3.4, Member list it is show as: .YB4I2QK *No Data Regards, Herman Stocker The sender believes that this E-mail and any attachments were free of any virus, worm, Trojan horse, and/or malicious code when sent. This message and

(Mainframe has competition was fwd) Re: COBOL Compiler for Windows

2008-05-04 Thread Clark F Morris
The following discussion on comp.lang.cobol may prove interesting. I would be curious to read if any of the major claims such as American Airlines Sabre moving totally to Unix are wrong. Clark Morris On Wed, 30 Apr 2008 22:38:36 -0500, in comp.lang.cobol Robert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed,

Re: How to delete members of a PDS that have no data

2008-05-04 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Sun, 4 May 2008 05:04:36 -0400, Stocker, Herman wrote: Thank you Scott, This time the procedure does not work, I'm getting an RC 8 from the LMDELETE (8 - Member not found). When I copied the data set the members give the error message: IEB189I DIRECTORY ENTRY §YB4I2QK IN BLOCK READ FROM

Re: SVC99

2008-05-04 Thread Rick Fochtman
--snip--- Is it proper, then, to make the assumption that if two authorized programs fall into a deadlock with each other, and fail to detect or recover, a developer didn't know what he was doing, and at least one of the programs should be APARable?

Re: SVC99

2008-05-04 Thread Rick Fochtman
snip--- May I have a go at it, too? Someone just helped me figure this out. I haven't learned how to set a trap for something like this yet to get a dump, but I imagine it isn't hard. But from an SVC dump you find the abending TCB. Then from there look at

Re: Shop zSeries Ordering Issues

2008-05-04 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Schwarz, Barry A Yes it's great if you are allowed to connect your system to the internet. For the rest (few?) of us who cannot, we still need maintenance. And while we are on the subject, why does an internet

Re: Shop zSeries Ordering Issues

2008-05-04 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Fri, 2 May 2008 15:13:43 -0700, Schwarz, Barry A wrote: Yes it's great if you are allowed to connect your system to the internet. For the rest (few?) of us who cannot, we still need maintenance. Get a laptop running Solaris, OS X, Linux, or Windows. Step A: - Connect the laptop to the

Re: SVC99

2008-05-04 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Sun, 4 May 2008 09:53:18 -0500, Rick Fochtman wrote: --snip--- Is it proper, then, to make the assumption that if two authorized programs fall into a deadlock with each other, and fail to detect or recover, a developer didn't know what he was doing, and at

Re: (Mainframe has competition was fwd) Re: COBOL Compiler for Windows

2008-05-04 Thread Scott Ford
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Re: How to delete members of a PDS that have no data

2008-05-04 Thread Gerhard Postpischil
Paul Gilmartin wrote: it if it exists regardless of syntax rules). If the designers intended to support mixed case names, as STOW and BLDL do, TSO, ISPF, and other utilities should not overrule their design by forcing input to upper case, particularly if the member name You're imputing too

Re: How to delete members of a PDS that have no data

2008-05-04 Thread Binyamin Dissen
On Sun, 4 May 2008 14:53:08 -0400 Gerhard Postpischil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: :Paul Gilmartin wrote: : it if it exists regardless of syntax rules). If the designers : intended to support mixed case names, as STOW and BLDL do, TSO, : ISPF, and other utilities should not overrule their design by

Re: How to delete members of a PDS that have no data

2008-05-04 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Sun, 4 May 2008 14:53:08 -0400, Gerhard Postpischil wrote: Paul Gilmartin wrote: it if it exists regardless of syntax rules). If the designers intended to support mixed case names, as STOW and BLDL do, TSO, ISPF, and other utilities should not overrule their design by forcing input to

Re: SVC99

2008-05-04 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
At 16:23 -0500 on 05/03/2008, Tom Schmidt wrote about Re: SVC99: I suspect that the problem your program is having has less to do with the SYSDSN enqueue that S99WTDSN was designed to cope with, and more to do with the SYSVSAM enqueue that Catalog management and VSAM use for proper

Re: How to delete members of a PDS that have no data

2008-05-04 Thread Gerhard Postpischil
Paul Gilmartin wrote: May I not conclude from the fact that STOW accepts percent signs and other funny characters that the designers intended them to be legal? (But I haven't tried lately; does STOW nowadays place such restrictions on member name syntax?) I haven't tried lately, either; I'm

Re: SVC99

2008-05-04 Thread Tom Schmidt
On Sun, 4 May 2008 15:39:47 -0400, Robert A. Rosenberg wrote: At 16:23 -0500 on 05/03/2008, Tom Schmidt wrote about Re: SVC99: I suspect that the problem your program is having has less to do with the SYSDSN enqueue that S99WTDSN was designed to cope with, and more to do with the SYSVSAM enqueue

allowuserkeycsa

2008-05-04 Thread Tom Eden
I would like to know how many are specifying allowuserkeycsa=yes in a z/OS 1.9 environment and if there have been any issues? -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: (Mainframe has competition was fwd) Re: COBOL Compiler for Windows

2008-05-04 Thread Wayne Driscoll
Clark, I don't know the particulars of SABRE at this time, but I do find the price quotes interesting, the reference the price of a z900, without memory. First of all a z900 is obsolete hardware, given that the z990, z9 and z10 have all been made GA. Second, while it is true that Disk isn't part

Re: SVC99

2008-05-04 Thread Saravanan J
To reconfirm again, the load module is authorised (AC=1) and we did not break the authorisation by coding STEPLIB. I found few interesting things related to wait on SVC 99 today, The program XYZ uses SVC 99 in two different places (both using the same allocation request block allocation

Re: SVC99

2008-05-04 Thread Saravanan J
I think Tom Schmidt has already given the reason for SVC 99 wait failure due to SYSVSAM. And my previous message proves the fact that SVC 99 wait works fine with SYSDSN only. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access