Re: Weird thought on misuse of a GDG.

if you are creating these fast enough to need more than 255. Thank you and have a Terrific day! Jonathan Goossen, DTM ACT Mainframe Storage Group Personal: 651-361-4541 Department Support Line: 651-361- For help with communication and leadership skills checkout Woodwinds Toastmasters. IBM

Re: Weird thought on misuse of a GDG.

. That was the explanation I received when I questioned the programmer when I saw the V01 on the tapes that I was responsible for. Thank you and have a Terrific day! Jonathan Goossen, DTM ACT Mainframe Storage Group Personal: 651-361-4541 Department Support Line: 651-361- For help

Re: JCL PROBLEM

I agree. Your names are confusing. PROC001 is the step name. STEP01 is the proc step name. (The name of the step in the proc.) Thank you and have a Terrific day! Jonathan Goossen, DTM ACT Mainframe Storage Group Personal: 651-361-4541 Department Support Line: 651-361- For help

Re: D SMF,O -- what do DEFAULT, PARMLIB and SYS mean?

Charles, They specify the origin of the keyword parameter. Excerpt The origin of the keyword parameter, which is one of the following: CHANGED DEFAULT PARMLIB REPLY SYSIN NOT IN USE Thank you and have a Terrific day! Jonathan Goossen, DTM ACT Mainframe Storage

Re: Execute certian steps based on input parm

a Terrific day! Jonathan Goossen, DTM ACT Mainframe Storage Group Personal: 651-361-4541 Department Support Line: 651-361- For help with communication and leadership skills checkout Woodwinds Toastmasters IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu wrote on 04/18/2012 08:02:20 AM: From

Re: z/OS every two years (Official announcment)

available as PDFs. With only one form on my PC I no longer need to install and extra piece of software. IMO it is a matter of what we get use to. Thank you and have a Terrific day! Jonathan Goossen, DTM ACT Mainframe Storage Group Personal: 651-361-4541 Department Support Line: 651-361-

Re: catalogued datasets in tapes and expiration dates

. If a cataloged tape file has a Julian expiration, then uncataloging the file will not affect expiration. But scratching the tape will uncatalog the file. Thank you and have a Terrific day! Jonathan Goossen, DTM ACT Mainframe Storage Group Personal: 651-361-4541 Department Support Line: 651-361

Re: catalogued datasets in tapes and expiration dates

Unless you are running with the real time scratch option. It won't expire until TMSCATALOG is run and won't go scratch until TMSCLEAN is run. Thank you and have a Terrific day! Jonathan Goossen, DTM ACT Mainframe Storage Group Personal: 651-361-4541 Department Support Line: 651-361-

Re: Trying to capture JES2 Job Log

a Terrific day! Jonathan Goossen, DTM ACT Mainframe Storage Group Personal: 651-361-4541 Department Support Line: 651-361- For help with communication and leadership skills checkout Woodwinds Toastmasters IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu wrote on 03/29/2012 04:02:13 PM

Re: rexx cpu intensive

From: Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Date: 03/21/2012 05:29 PM Subject: Re: rexx cpu intensive Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu On Wed, 21 Mar 2012 16:40:12 -0500, Jonathan Goossen wrote: A way to simulate this is to accumulate

Re: rexx cpu intensive

to put the data in the order that I needed to process the data. The job then finished in 5 minutes. This redesign isn't always possible, but for me, it is possible more often then not. Thank you and have a Terrific day! Jonathan Goossen, DTM ACT Mainframe Storage Group Personal: 651-361-4541

Re: rexx cpu intensive

A way to simulate this is to accumulate the stem elements to a string and then iterate through them. If jobs is a string of job names... n = words(jobs) do i = 1 to n job = word(jobs, i) if stem_var.job = ?. Other_stem.job = 'foo' etc. Thank you and have a Terrific day! Jonathan Goossen

Re: Dual IBM 3584 ATLs

is valid if it is not in DELETE status and the BAD flag is not set. RMM might handle things differently. Hope this helps. Thank you and have a Terrific day! Jonathan Goossen, ACG, CL Tape Specialist ACT Mainframe Storage Group Personal: 651-361-4541 Department Support Line: 651-361- For help

Re: ITIL Mainframe Terminology

are real close to what I learned in ITIL class, but not an exact match. Thank you and have a Terrific day! Jonathan Goossen, ACG, CL Tape Specialist ACT Mainframe Storage Group Personal: 651-361-4541 Department Support Line: 651-361- For help with communication and leadership skills checkout

Re: Audting PDS Datasets and comparing to find most current member

check sum. Another would be successive Super Compares. Whichever way you go, it doesn't look simple to me using standard mainframe utilities. Using only REXX looks like it would use a lot of CPU. Have fun Lizette. Thank you and have a Terrific day! Jonathan Goossen, ACG, CL Tape Specialist

Re: ITIL Mainframe Terminology

a company's IT. It deals with processes and is equipment independent. ITIL doesn't have terminology for mainframes. Thank you and have a Terrific day! Jonathan Goossen, ACG, CL Tape Specialist ACT Mainframe Storage Group Personal: 651-361-4541 Department Support Line: 651-361- For help

Re: Cancel STC

Started tasks are canceled by their step name. Thank you and have a Terrific day! Jonathan Goossen, ACG, CL Tape Specialist ACT Mainframe Storage Group Personal: 651-361-4541 Department Support Line: 651-361- For help with communication and leadership skills checkout Woodwinds Toastmasters

Re: IDC3309I ** RECORD X'2BC5E7D7F2' NOT WRITTEN. LENGTH INVALID during DFHSM BCDS REPRO

Shouldn't the block size be 26176. The current block size is 4*LRECL instead of 4*(LRECL+4) as VB requires. Thank you and have a Terrific day! Jonathan Goossen, ACG, CL Tape Specialist ACT Mainframe Storage Group Personal: 651-361-4541 Department Support Line: 651-361- For help

Re: Tapeless Solutions

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Re: Tapeless Solutions

a Terrific day! Jonathan Goossen, ACG, CL Tape Specialist ACT Mainframe Storage Group Personal: 651-361-4541 Department Support Line: 651-361- For help with communication and leadership skills checkout Woodwinds Toastmasters IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu wrote on 12/19

Re: Imagine dealing with THIS in production

And what about the pour people who will loose a birthday? Thank you and have a Terrific day! Jonathan Goossen, ACG, CL For help with communication and leadership skills checkout Woodwinds Toastmasters IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu wrote on 12/15/2011 03:04:48 PM: From

Re: Simple record extraction from a sequential file

a Terrific day! Jonathan Goossen, ACG, CL Tape Specialist ACT Mainframe Storage Group Personal: 651-361-4541 Department Support Line: 651-361- For help with communication and leadership skills checkout Woodwinds Toastmasters IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu wrote on 11/21

Re: Help on Rexx Code.

! Jonathan Goossen, ACG, CL Tape Specialist ACT Mainframe Storage Group Personal: 651-361-4541 Department Support Line: 651-361- For help with communication and leadership skills checkout Woodwinds Toastmasters IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu wrote on 11/18/2011 01:08:19

Re: Inline Rexx in JCL?

the code into a defaulted member of the library attached to the SYSEXEC. It would take one member of a library, but the code executed could be changed with each run. Thank you and have a Terrific day! Jonathan Goossen, ACG, CL Tape Specialist ACT Mainframe Storage Group Personal: 651-361-4541

Re: Naviquest help

you and have a Terrific day! Jonathan Goossen, ACG, CL Tape Specialist ACT Mainframe Storage Group Personal: 651-361-4541 Department Support Line: 651-361- For help with communication and leadership skills checkout Woodwinds Toastmasters IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu

Re: Bustech Virtual Tape Appliance

During installation the vendor helped find the things we missed. After going though our notes I have responded with the information offline. Thank you and have a Terrific day! Jonathan Goossen, ACG, CL Tape Specialist ACT Mainframe Storage Group Personal: 651-361-4541 Department Support Line

Re: Bustech Virtual Tape Appliance

We implemented what you want to do. Our scratch synonym for our DR vault is DRVAULT. What is your tape management system? Thank you and have a Terrific day! Jonathan Goossen, ACG, CL Tape Specialist ACT Mainframe Storage Group Personal: 651-361-4541 Department Support Line: 651-361-

Re: GDG

and then populated it with starting values for the items being tracked. Your solution will depend on what is needed in the end result. Thank you and have a Terrific day! Jonathan Goossen, ACG, CL Tape Specialist ACT Mainframe Storage Group Personal: 651-361-4541 Department Support Line: 651-361-

Re: CRLF in Unix being translated on Mainframe to x'25'

80. So the only difference is the LRECL. Thank you and have a Terrific day! Jonathan Goossen, ACG, CL Tape Specialist ACT Mainframe Storage Group Personal: 651-361-4541 Department Support Line: 651-361- For help with communication and leadership skills checkout Woodwinds Toastmasters IBM

Re: REXX fails accessing SDSF console

You should also end with: @ISFRC = ISFCALLS(OFF) Thank you and have a Terrific day! Jonathan Goossen, ACG, CL Tape Specialist ACT Mainframe Storage Group Personal: 651-361-4541 Department Support Line: 651-361- For help with communication and leadership skills checkout Woodwinds

Re: degaussed tapes

. The most cost effective method to ensure security that we have found is to have a truck come on site, we watch the tapes get ground up, and then they are taken to an incinerator. Thank you and have a Terrific day! Jonathan Goossen, ACG, CL Tape Specialist ACT Mainframe Storage Group Personal

Re: TS1120 Drives: will they support 10/20 GB J tapes ?

TS1120 drives use 3592 tapes only (JA and JB). 3590 tapes only work in 3590 drives. We have both in our shop. 3590 has a leader block. 3592 has a leader pin. They are not interchangeable. Thank you and have a Terrific day! Jonathan Goossen, ACG, CL Tape Specialist ACT Mainframe Storage Group

Re: TS1120 Drives: will they support 10/20 GB J tapes ?

The controller isn't the issue. The physical tape attributes are. 3590 uses a leader block and the TS1120 (3592) uses a leader pin. Thank you and have a Terrific day! Jonathan Goossen, ACG, CL Tape Specialist ACT Mainframe Storage Group Personal: 651-361-4541 Department Support Line: 651-361

Re: SMS QUESTION - TAPE

Changing the status in ISMF has no effect on CA1. To change it in CA1, use the CA1 panels to update the EXPDT to a future date. Thank you and have a Terrific day! Jonathan Goossen, ACS, CL Tape Specialist ACT Mainframe Storage Group Personal: 651-361-4541 Department Support Line: 651-361-

Re: SMS QUESTION - TAPE

and have a Terrific day! Jonathan Goossen, ACS, CL Tape Specialist ACT Mainframe Storage Group Personal: 651-361-4541 Department Support Line: 651-361- IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu wrote on 07/19/2011 09:06:05 AM: From: Vernooij, CP - SPLXM kees.verno...@klm.com

Re: SMS QUESTION - TAPE

it to the CA1 status. For a manual library it works just fine as the operators move tape to and from the scratch pool. It has so far worked with each of the three IBM library types that I have worked with. Thank you and have a Terrific day! Jonathan Goossen, ACS, CL Tape Specialist ACT Mainframe Storage

Re: SMS QUESTION - TAPE

. Thank you and have a Terrific day! Jonathan Goossen, ACS, CL Tape Specialist ACT Mainframe Storage Group Personal: 651-361-4541 Department Support Line: 651-361- IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu wrote on 07/19/2011 10:52:48 AM: From: R.S. r.skoru...@bremultibank.com.pl

Re: CA-1 TMS QUESTION - IEFTMS9 TMC BACKUP REQUIRED

. But if it is from normal growth, then you will start seeing the message more often, in which case you will either need to run TMSCOPY more frequently, or expand your audit file. Thank you and have a Terrific day! Jonathan Goossen, ACS, CL Tape Specialist ACT Mainframe Storage Group Personal

Re: DFHSM QUESTION - PRIMARY SPACE MANAGEMENT

Could it have been renamed? Thank you and have a Terrific day! Jonathan Goossen, ACS, CL Tape Specialist ACT Mainframe Storage Group Personal: 651-361-4541 Department Support Line: 651-361- IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu wrote on 07/13/2011 10:23:31 AM: From: willie

Re: JCL Question

Job Control Language Thank you and have a Terrific day! Jonathan Goossen, ACS, CL Tape Specialist ACT Mainframe Storage Group 651-361-4541 IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu wrote on 07/12/2011 02:08:22 PM: From: Cris Hernandez #9 hernandez...@yahoo.com To: IBM-MAIN

Re: REXX INCLUDE ?

place but then used in multiple programs. Thank you and have a Terrific day! Jonathan Goossen, ACS, CL Tape Specialist ACT Mainframe Storage Group 651-361-4541 IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu wrote on 04/07/2011 07:34:09 PM: From: Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com To: IBM

Re: Quoting Text (Was DATACLASS)

. And after 49 years, I don't expect that to change. Computer languagers are much more fun. Thank you and have a Terrific day! Jonathan Goossen, ACS, CL Tape Specialist ACT Mainframe Storage Group 651-361-4541 IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu wrote on 04/04/2011 12:22:05 PM: From

Re: Purging and Cancelling own jobs

0.00 0.03 0.00 700 0.00 FF DW JOB13379 -- I hope one of these will help. Thank you and have a Terrific day! Jonathan Goossen, ACS, CL Tape Specialist ACT Mainframe Storage Group 651-361-4541 IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu wrote

Re: rejected messages from verizon account

that default to blocking some things to protect their subscribers. If that is your case, then they can tell you how to unblock it. Thank you and have a Terrific day! Jonathan Goossen, ACS, CL Tape Specialist ACT Mainframe Storage Group 651-361-4541 From: Kirk Wolf k...@dovetail.com

Re: Unicomp

about the company when talking to other participants that showed up at a class that was canceled just before it was to start. Good luck and have a Terrific day! Jonathan Goossen, ACS, CL Tape Specialist ACT Mainframe Storage Group 651-361-4541 IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu

Re: Ends an ISPF session.

The Return command (PF4) does the same thing. I used that for many years until I found the Bye command that does the same thing as Return plus it will log out of TSO. Return is an ISPF command. Bye looks like it was setup in house, but I'm not sure. Thank you and have a Terrific day! Jonathan

Re: digitize old hardcopy manuals

and have a Terrific day! Jonathan Goossen Tape Specialist ACT Mainframe Storage Group 651-361-4541 From: Tom Marchant m42tom-ibmm...@yahoo.com To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Date: 01/26/2011 08:04 AM Subject:Re: digitize old hardcopy manuals Sent by:IBM Mainframe Discussion List

Re: digitize old hardcopy manuals

, the hard drive encryption would protect the copy from being used. Thank you and have a Terrific day! Jonathan Goossen Tape Specialist ACT Mainframe Storage Group 651-361-4541 IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu wrote on 01/26/2011 11:13:40 AM: From: Tom Marchant m42tom-ibmm

Re: List administrator?

We had this issue when three of us wanted to join. Our security had to white-list the address during the join process. After we joined, they removed it from the white-list as the site had some type of security issue. Thank you and have a Terrific day! Jonathan Goossen Tape Specialist ACT

Re: If Else JCL question

We force an ABEND by calling a program that always ABENDs //STEP1 ... //IF (STEP1.RC EQ 0) then //STEP2 ... //ELSE //SAEXEC PGM=BLOWUP //ENDIF . IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu wrote on 01/19/2011 07:57:49 AM: From: Mark Pace pacemainl...@gmail.com To:

Re: If Else JCL question

Our QuickRef states that the nesting level is 15. IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu wrote on 01/19/2011 08:19:08 AM: From: Mark Pace pacemainl...@gmail.com To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Date: 01/19/2011 08:19 AM Subject: Re: If Else JCL question Sent by: IBM Mainframe

Re: If Else JCL question

...@aim.com To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Date: 01/19/2011 12:08 PM Subject: Re: If Else JCL question Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu On Wed, 19 Jan 2011 09:50:56 -0600, Jonathan Goossen wrote: We force an ABEND by calling a program that always ABENDs //STEP1

Re: GDG Question

If you only have one generation anyway, why not set the limit to 1. Then when you create the new file the old one just goes away. Thank you and have a Terrific day! Jonathan Goossen Tape Specialist ACT Mainframe Storage Group 651-361-4541 From: Fred Kaptein fred.kapt...@hp.com To: IBM

Re: can I dynamically increase tso size

2. The temporary file that edit uses until you save your edits may be too small. I may be wrong, but I always thought that ISPF EDIT used memory only, except when submitting jobs. Of course, it's also been over 20 years since I directly supported ISPF. Does anybody know? Per the ISPF Edit help