Re: dynamic STEPLIB

2011-07-31 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 1311706524.70206.yahoomai...@web161425.mail.bf1.yahoo.com, on 07/26/2011 at 11:55 AM, Ed Gould ps2...@yahoo.com said: I used to work on requirements for the storage products and when we would either revue all the outstanding requirements or get notification from IBM that they thought one

Re: disclosing business information on the internet

2011-07-31 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 1311897956.32913.yahoomailclas...@web31808.mail.mud.yahoo.com, on 07/28/2011 at 05:05 PM, Cris Hernandez #9 hernandez...@yahoo.com said: well, I use my personal email address and not my work email (I seriously don't understand how anyone can deal with 50-100 blog emails at work daily),

Re: RESEND - RE: Write directly to the JESLOG for a job

2011-07-31 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In of2a11698e.2ded6ad0-on882578d9.00126955-882578d9.00128...@sce.com, on 07/25/2011 at 08:22 PM, Skip Robinson jo.skip.robin...@sce.com said: You call routine IEFYS In IEFACTRT, yes, but during the runing of the job? -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO position; see

Re: Eight Position TSO Logonid

2011-07-31 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 1311811383.22529.12.ca...@mckown5.johnmckown.net, on 07/27/2011 at 07:03 PM, John McKown joa...@swbell.net said: Now, this is only true if the person wants to LOGON to TSO interactively. No; it's also true if you need for the prefix to be the userid. I would bet that if they wanted to,

Re: running Assembler I/O macro code as AMODE 31, RMODE ANY

2011-07-31 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In p06240800ca5351a3efa5@[192.168.1.11], on 07/25/2011 at 01:18 PM, Robert A. Rosenberg hal9...@panix.com said: It was the use of the description (and misleading descriptions of the effects and usage) to convince people to sign petitions to ban its use that makes it part of a hoax Relying

Re: Esoteric SDSF CMD

2011-07-31 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 7220652097473558.wa.mitchdanagmail@bama.ua.edu, on 07/26/2011 at 10:58 AM, Dana Mitchell mitchd...@gmail.com said: Since all the JES datasets are still around until every last trace of a job is purged No. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO position; see

Re: z/os SSH questions

2011-07-31 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 701728a732d7324294b9ef836edbb7700aa38d0...@msmail02.luv.ad.swacorp.com, on 07/27/2011 at 10:56 AM, Mark Steely mark.ste...@wnco.com said: Is this the place to ask questions about this subject or is there another Listserv. This is a place; MVS-OE is another; IBMTCP-L is probably less

Re: REXX code on JES2

2011-07-31 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In canhhcyttnkanfjs1i+x6jpefvcin5fvqkugto0jhp+-tslz...@mail.gmail.com, on 07/28/2011 at 04:49 PM, jagadishan perumal jagadish...@gmail.com said: Subject: REXX code on JES2 No. There is no JES2 environment for Rexx. but I am getting an error as RC-3( On what statement? ADDRESS CONSOLE ?

Re: HMC definition for z/VM IFLs on a z196

2011-07-31 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 2d14e7856646224aacdda13ab1d3555715e5b9b...@wdcv7exvs2.opm.gov, on 07/26/2011 at 09:13 AM, Richards, Robert B. robert.richa...@opm.gov said: I have a friend overseas who is trying to bring up z/VM on an IFL What version? That should work if you're current and correctly configured. I'm not

Re: musings on listing a catalog

2011-07-31 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In a6b9336cdb62bb46b9f8708e686a7ea00afc0ed...@nrhmms8p02.uicnrh.dom, on 07/26/2011 at 08:50 AM, McKown, John john.mck...@healthmarkets.com said: Subject: musings on listing a catalog Read up on the Catalog Search Interface. 4) Better diagnostics when I do a DEFINE or DELETE in REXX. Yes!

Re: 3490 MSG: LIBRARY INTERFACE IS OFFLINE

2011-07-31 Thread Minoru Massaki
As far as I know, 3490-C2A is for 3494 Tape Library. (3490-C22 is for stand-alone.) So, 3490-C2A has interface to 3494 Library Manger (I think that the interface is RS-232C or LAN). So if you use 3490-C2A as stand-alone device, you have to remove the library interface feature(?). If my memory is

Re: running Assembler I/O macro code as AMODE 31, RMODE ANY

2011-07-31 Thread Gerhard Postpischil
On 7/31/2011 9:37 AM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: My opponent has publicly matriculated and his father was a thespian. Not the way I heard it: he was seen to masticate in public, and his sister was a thespian. There was also a third one I can't recall. Gerhard Postpischil Bradford,

Re: CORRUPT PDS - I/O ERROR

2011-07-31 Thread CM Poncelet
Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: In 4e2f48fa.8010...@bcs.org.uk, on 07/27/2011 at 12:08 AM, CM Poncelet ponce...@bcs.org.uk said: But the exit points 'count' as program DCBs they 'count' as program DCBs is short-speak for 'they are executable code' (as opposed to JCL and DASD)

Re: CORRUPT PDS - I/O ERROR

2011-07-31 Thread Binyamin Dissen
On Sun, 31 Jul 2011 15:43:15 +0100 CM Poncelet ponce...@bcs.org.uk wrote: :I know that; but on input they do not override the DCB from DASD - and :that is regardless of their order What do you mean by that statement? Do you mean that they do not change the physical data already recorded?

Re: CORRUPT PDS - I/O ERROR

2011-07-31 Thread CM Poncelet
Binyamin Dissen wrote: On Sun, 31 Jul 2011 15:43:15 +0100 CM Poncelet ponce...@bcs.org.uk wrote: :I know that; but on input they do not override the DCB from DASD - and :that is regardless of their order What do you mean by that statement? Before the DCB on DASD can be accessed, the

Re: CORRUPT PDS - I/O ERROR

2011-07-31 Thread Schwarz, Barry A
If you use IDCAMS to print a VB dataset in dump format with no DD overrides, you will get a dump of the data portion of the records and never see the BDW or RDW. If you run the same commands but specify RECFM=U and BLKSIZE=32760, your dump will be organized by blocks, not records, and you will

Re: CORRUPT PDS - I/O ERROR

2011-07-31 Thread Gerhard Postpischil
On 7/31/2011 12:35 PM, CM Poncelet wrote: The program's DCB attributes take priority over (i.e. 'override') the DCB attributes on DASD for OUTPUT, and the DCB attributes on DASD take priority over (i.e. 'override') the program's DCB for INPUT. If a program 'disagrees' with that and tries to

Re: CORRUPT PDS - I/O ERROR

2011-07-31 Thread Binyamin Dissen
On Sun, 31 Jul 2011 18:19:11 -0400 Gerhard Postpischil gerh...@valley.net wrote: :On 7/31/2011 12:35 PM, CM Poncelet wrote: : The program's DCB attributes take priority over (i.e. : 'override') the DCB attributes on DASD for OUTPUT, and the DCB : attributes on DASD take priority over (i.e.

STAX and ISPF

2011-07-31 Thread Binyamin Dissen
It has been a while for me. I am writing an ISPF application which has a GO command to cause a periodic refresh of the screen (via CONTROL DISPLAY LOCK). I wish that the user can hit PA1 to go back to normal mode. I have created a STAX STAX

Re: CORRUPT PDS - I/O ERROR

2011-07-31 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 4e34784d.2020...@bcs.org.uk, on 07/30/2011 at 10:31 PM, CM Poncelet ponce...@bcs.org.uk said: What I am saying is that, on INPUT, a dataset's physical DCB attributes from its DSCB on DASD cannot be overriden by a JCL or program DCB. Yes, and what you are saying is wrong. According to

Re: CORRUPT PDS - I/O ERROR

2011-07-31 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 4e349468.4060...@bcs.org.uk, on 07/31/2011 at 12:31 AM, CM Poncelet ponce...@bcs.org.uk said: I'm afraid I disagree. Because you are confusing the DSCB with the blocks written in the dataset. What it proves is not that the DCB on DASD was overwritten by the one in the JCL, but that the

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2011-07-31 Thread Syed Hamdani
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Re: CORRUPT PDS - I/O ERROR

2011-07-31 Thread CM Poncelet
The 'acid test' is whether the same program DCB (ignoring the MACRF= and EODAD=) can be used *both* for OUTPUT and for INPUT (with a change in MACFR= and adding EODAD= when opening for INPUT), when the dataset's physical DCB attributes on DASD are *different* from those specified in the

Re: CORRUPT PDS - I/O ERROR

2011-07-31 Thread CM Poncelet
Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: In 4e349468.4060...@bcs.org.uk, on 07/31/2011 at 12:31 AM, CM Poncelet ponce...@bcs.org.uk said: I'm afraid I disagree. Because you are confusing the DSCB with the blocks written in the dataset. We are arguing semantics ... What it proves is

Re: running Assembler I/O macro code as AMODE 31, RMODE ANY

2011-07-31 Thread Rick Fochtman
---snip- My opponent has publicly matriculated and his father was a thespian. Not the way I heard it: he was seen to masticate in public, and his sister was a thespian. There was also a third one I can't recall.

Re: CORRUPT PDS - I/O ERROR

2011-07-31 Thread Rick Fochtman
snip-- The program's DCB attributes take priority over (i.e. 'override') the DCB attributes on DASD for OUTPUT, and the DCB attributes on DASD take priority over (i.e. 'override') the program's DCB for INPUT. If a program

Re: CORRUPT PDS - I/O ERROR

2011-07-31 Thread Rick Fochtman
-snip I'm afraid I disagree. Because you are confusing the DSCB with the blocks written in the dataset. What it proves is not that the DCB on DASD was overwritten by the one in the JCL, but that the DCB in the JCL

Re: CORRUPT PDS - I/O ERROR

2011-07-31 Thread Rick Fochtman
--snip-- I'm afraid I disagree. Because you are confusing the DSCB with the blocks written in the dataset. We are arguing semantics ... --unsnip NOT

Re: CORRUPT PDS - I/O ERROR

2011-07-31 Thread CM Poncelet
Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: In 4e34784d.2020...@bcs.org.uk, on 07/30/2011 at 10:31 PM, CM Poncelet ponce...@bcs.org.uk said: What I am saying is that, on INPUT, a dataset's physical DCB attributes from its DSCB on DASD cannot be overriden by a JCL or program DCB. Yes, and

Re: CORRUPT PDS - I/O ERROR

2011-07-31 Thread CM Poncelet
Rick Fochtman wrote: --snip-- I'm afraid I disagree. Because you are confusing the DSCB with the blocks written in the dataset. We are arguing semantics ...

Re: CORRUPT PDS - I/O ERROR

2011-07-31 Thread Clement Clarke
The DCB coded in the program over-rides everything. If a data set has VB 133, 1330 and the program has FB 80,800 and opens it for either input or output, the DSCB will be changed to that coded in the program. It's always been that way. (Except the Fujitsu equivalent MSP Operating system put

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2011-07-31 Thread Ed Gould
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Re: dynamic STEPLIB

2011-07-31 Thread Ed Gould
Shmuel: I caught a whiff of that in conversation with the JES2/MVS group I have never seen IBM dig their heals in so deeply but maybe one other time. Its been ages so I have forgotten the details but at least in our group the IBMer was semi group friendly and he would (sometimes) tell us we

Re: CORRUPT PDS - I/O ERROR

2011-07-31 Thread Tom Marchant
On Mon, 1 Aug 2011 13:50:09 +1000, Clement Clarke wrote: If a data set has VB 133, 1330 and the program has FB 80,800 and opens it for either input or output, the DSCB will be changed to that coded in the program. Not quite. If the data set is opened for input, the program will attempt to read

Re: CORRUPT PDS - I/O ERROR

2011-07-31 Thread Tom Marchant
On Sat, 30 Jul 2011 04:27:44 -0700, Dale Miller wrote: In my previous note I said: one can TEMPORARILY override the dataset attributes with a DD card if the OPEN is for INPUT Mr. Marchant said NO, and referred to the JCL Reference Manual section Completing the data control block. Please read

Re: CORRUPT PDS - I/O ERROR

2011-07-31 Thread Tom Marchant
On Sun, 31 Jul 2011 17:35:25 +0100, CM Poncelet wrote: Before the DCB on DASD can be accessed, the program's own 'completed' DCB (including any missing DCB parms filled-in from a RDJFCB of the JCL's DD and/or from an exit, if present) must be opened. The DCB is completed during the open process

FTP from IBM's book server

2011-07-31 Thread Ed Gould
John had said he was able to FTP and download books from IBM's book server. I tried it and basicallly got nowhere after signing in with anonymoouse and my email address. Has anyone else been able to get the books via FTP and can they share how they did it, please? Ed

Re: CORRUPT PDS - I/O ERROR

2011-07-31 Thread Tom Marchant
On Mon, 1 Aug 2011 01:44:03 +0100, CM Poncelet wrote: If the same DCB is opened for INPUT (MACRF=GM|L,EODAD=etc.), then the program's DCB attributes do *not* override those on DASD Right. No one said that they do. and, as the program's DCB attributes are inconsistent with those of the dataset