Re: REXEC error

You did not get an error message so far. Everything seems fine from z/OS point of view. You need to wait until the remote task will finish...everything else is up to the remote system admin responsible for the shell script. Cheers Michael Von:Ron Thomas ron5...@gmail.com An:

Re: JZOS unexpected type

In my environment, your program compiles fine. Well, I changed the square brackets in main definition and added the catches for IOException and FilenotfoundExceptionAh, and I change the negation sign to !. Are you sure about CCSID (including tagging) of files, locale and emulation? Cheers

Re: USS File Integrity

I do not agree to Paul's answer. flockfile() only relates to file descriptors. Opening another file descriptor for the same file will not be in scope of that particular lock. Instead you might consider BPX1FCT with the BPXYBRLK mapping structure. However, as found in the important note of

Re: Nicht_von_TrustMail - issuing console command via CONSOLE+GETMSG without occurring in the syslog

Stephen, you wrote syslog, -- I write SYSLOG in majuscel as seen in IBM manuals as abbrevation for system log. You did not ask for OPERLOG, hardcopy log, operator console, master console etc (I am not sure about permutation of minuscel and majuscel). Then, SYSLOG as described in MVS Planning:

Re: If somebody knows this:SysBinLog ?

sysbinlog was an SQL table created by StuxNET worm/virus/malicious code. Part of the virus code was stored in that table. There is an IBM document from 2010 available: An inside look at Stuxnet. Cheers Michael Von:Miklos Szigetvari miklos.szigetv...@isis-papyrus.com An:

Re: Any way to get the XLC compiler to list all #define symbols?

for me, options PPONLY and SHOWM worked: //COMPILE EXEC PGM=CCNDRVR, //PARM=('/CXX OPTFILE(DD:CCOPT) PPONLY SHOWM') output is written to DD SYSUT10 see 4.107 of XL C/C++ Users Guide. Cheers Michael Von:Charles Mills charl...@mcn.org An: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Datum:

Re: XML

So far, I did not see answers. So I try to add my 2 cents. what are the systems that use XML? ... Well, I don't know for sure. But I would say the common suspects: Windows, Linux, AIX as well as smart phones and other manager tamagoccies. The one I know is z/OS. But not only since V1R11: I was

Re: TCPIP question

I think yes, the answer is simple by changing some parameters in the TCPIP options file. To be precise: your objective of limiting access to IP addresses or ports can be achieved with NETACCESS statements. Just name the inbound and outbound networks, ports etc. and then set up proper SERVAUTH

Re: SMF Records

Of course you can filter with DFSORT regarding that particular string. But I think it is better to first make up mind which SMF records are expected. Some examples: 14/15 sounds good, may be 17 and the range around 60? Would you expect the data set name to appear in records of type 100 and

Re: Which RACF/SAF profiles affect OMVS tape mounting via SVC99 with S99NOMNT=0 ?

A good starting point should be ALLOCxx member of SYS1.PARMLIB. There you might find a parameter like VOLUME_MNT POLICY(WTOR). Then ask your operating staff about how they deal with message IEF455D -- each and every tape mount is requested by this message and has to be approved by operator. I

Re: CONSPROF command

I need these prerequisites to use eMCS console from REXX - RACF defined user has (meaningfull) OPERPARM and TSO segments. UADS instead of TSO segment does not work for me. - READ to CONSOLE profile in class TSOAUTH - READ to MVS.MCSOPER.CONSOLE-NAME profile in class OPERCMDS - and of course

Re: OT to my collegues

As far as I can judge: yes, you are getting older all day long -- and I hope you will continue for a very long time. Come along for a stay, then we can get older together for a couple of days. One day I had a really big problem. Of course, it was my fault, I had forget some details and been

Re: Upgrade java 1.5 to java 1.6 - Clarification

path information to be updated neither My ID has any .profile with the java path updated. Can anyone suggest from where these paths are getting reflected when I do : echo $PATH. Regards, Jags On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 10:46 AM, Michael Klaeschen michael.klaesc...@deutscherring.de wrote: From my

Re: README file and GIMUNZIP - Unreadable Format.

...in my personal opinion all and every system programmer should ponder one cold night on the subtle differences between NL, CR and LF. There are countless ways of combining these, mixing up with unwarily choosen CCSID translation tables (especially regarding DBCS / SBCS issues) and mangling

Re: Upgrade java 1.5 to java 1.6 - Clarification

From my experience, you can install more than one Java at a time. I always did with SMP/E - no hassle. Differentiation is through mount points in HFS beneath '/usr/lpp/java'. For example, you can have J1.4 , J5.0 , J5.0_64 , J6.0 and J6.0_64 in '/usr/lpp/java'. Starting with Java 5, there was

Re: RACF server disabled During IPL

You write about ESS battery and power drip. Therefore I would not expect problems with IOCDS or CPC setup. Instead there seems to be a problem with the RACF data base volumes. Description for IRR418I reads two more possible causes next to RACF product not enabled. You might want to review ESS

Re: Cryptography Processor

Hi, with code signing, you can apply a signature to your programs. Compare chapter 10 of RACF Security Admin Guide. The signature is invalidated by any kind of modification to the program (e.g. by a virus). A program is rejected from being loaded in case an invalid signature is found.

Antwort: FTP Question

David, - Compressed text is clear text compared to encrypted text. And encryption software should be ubiquitary; z/OS comes with ftp encryption more or less out of the box, AT-TLS. - Success of compression depends on structure of source. Plain text files like PARMLIB members should give very

Re: Not able to login to TSO

are you able to connect to your TN3270 service (I do not see in D A,L output, but may be you have different STC name? Or are you doing VTAM routing to other MVS -- how is your infrastructure set up?) and just cannot log on to TSO? Then, I would assume, your TCPIP is set up correct and I

Re: How to obtain a file bigger than 80 chars from two inputs file

You did not tell about RECFM. One example with two input files of PO/FB/80 and PS/VB/210, result is written to PS/FB/210. Cheers Michael //STEP0EXEC PGM=IEFBR14 //SORTOUT DD DSN=HLQ.TEST.OUTPUT.FB210, //DISP=(NEW,CATLG,DELETE), //

Antwort: /etc and /var mounted as DIR not SYML

According to chapter 7.5.2 of Unix Planning Guide, you have to IPL with new sysplex root -- take care of your mount statements in BPXPRM member. You can try to manually re-create the symlink links and unmount/mount the file systems accordingly, of course. But even if this works (which I do not

Re: Run Time and Compiler Libs.

Hi, did you try WHEN(SYSID(Your MVS)) in RACF PERMIT on program control? Cheers Michael Von:Azim Syed azimsi...@gmail.com An: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Datum: 2011-06-27 08:16 Betreff:Run Time and Compiler Libs. Gesendet von: IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu

Re: HOWTO invoke Web Services from a batch program?

Jan, the interesting part is, what protocol the jboss application is offering. As a starting point I recommend some books on distributed computing, for instance Andrew Tanenbaum is sort of well known. Also a good source of information should be z/OS V1R12.0 Comm Svr: IP Sockets Application

Antwort: Sysplex Enabled z/OS Unix File System Question

One point is, that all access to the physical file system has to be coordinated by the owning system. So when the task is executing on the owning system then no problem. But when it execs on another system, then there will be some overhead in communicating (literature reads about function

Antwort: TEMPDSN Activated

Fuddin, I would say, the data set was allocated before TEMPDSN was activated. Recommendation is to IPL after activation, did you? I can imagine problems together with rolling IPL along the Sysplex in a HA environment. So check whether you need to restart certain applications independent from

Antwort: Differences between REGION=0K and REGION=0M

See chapter 16.13.2 of MVS JCL Reference. IBM's explanation there does not differ between 0K and 0M. However, I think you can intercept with a JES exit and may be even IEALIMIT/IEFUSI. Cheers Michael Von:Alvaro Guirao Lopez alvarogui...@gmail.com An: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Datum:

Antwort: ALTROOT statement has no TYPE parameter / how is the type determined?

Stephen, see chapter 5 of the Unix Planning Guide. HFS and zFS still need to be stated within MOUNT parameter. But basically they are ignored. I assume, for the newer functions like ALTROOT, IBM just omitted this TYPE-option. Cheers Michael Von:Dr. Stephen Fedtke

Antwort: Encrypting offsite data ...

...should work if you have not too old 3592 units. They can use an encryption key manager EKM for the cipher phrase. This is an STC in z/OS. Try GA76-0418 as a starting point. Cheers Michael Stephen Y Odo stephenyodo.li...@gmail.com Gesendet von: IBM Mainframe Discussion List

Re: SDSF API - REXX or Java?

my two cents: (a) is the SDSF API available in Java or is it just JNI around some C or even REXX functions? - no words, eh - (b) what has to be done? # computing like numerical maths (in addition one could differ, e.g. between integer and floating point) -- Java has neat facilities dealing

EDC4052

Hello, today I tried linking a successfully compiled C++ program but got message EDC4052 from cataloged procedure SYS1.PROCLIB(CBCL) in PLKED.SYSPRINT DD. Searching IBM Bookmanager for this message did not show even one result. Searching google gave a hint to PQ68700. But when following this

Re: assembler batch calling unix daemon

Monika, To me your assembler program looks very similar like REXX code. Whatever, there are two things to consider, but both deal with the vast overhead of creating the ASID as you mentioned and are independent of actual implementation: (a) Daemon vs. server: A daemon uses fork() callable

Antwort: Job execution time

...expect the unexpected, may be the user jobs are just needing that duration (WAD=works as designed). For instance, are they doing sophisticated maths, like crash test simulation, climate forecasts or live insurance modelling? I think, also waiting for tape mounts is shown as EXECUTION in

Re: OMVS S213-FC

IEC143I with system completion code 213, return code FC is clearly explained in MVS System Messages, Vol7: Open for HFS file which is not existing. Further reading: For return code FC, change the file name or create the file. But how comes, your file gets lost on the way? You allocated the

Antwort: ISPF error

It's about dynamic allocation. DAIR return code 12 is explained in TSO/E Programming Services: An error occurred in dynamic allocation; the dynamic allocation error code is stored in the DARC field of the DAIR parameter block. DARC 970C indicates an SMS reason code (97xx) and is described in

moving extends for allocated VSAM linear data set

Hi, we have a VSAM linear data set which is allocated read/write to an ASID. Now, the extents have to be moved to another VolSer without affecting the ASID. How to do? IDCAMS ALTER ADD/REMOVEVOLUMES or REPRO do not seem to work for VolSers with allocated extents that are opened. Thank you,

Re: moving extends for allocated VSAM linear data set

Ravi, thanks for your reply. I was told a Softek product may provide this function as part of data migration support. But no, we just have z/OS and a couple of Redbooks, Whitepapers and the ringing sound of IBM sales representatives that z means zero downtime. Now we have to move the

Antwort: Problems invoking xlc under USS

You are calling XL C compiler. This one has a configuration file, typically '/bin/../usr/lpp/cbclib/xlc/etc/xlc.cfg'. Have a look. There, you'll find the steplib XL C compiler option which is set to NONE by default. It's your choice: put CCNDRVR into LPA or LNKLST or overwrite XL C compiler

ITDS and ARM

Hello, how to set up ITDS (GLDSRV, aka LDAP-Server) to *not* register with Automatic Restart Manager ARM? There is an ITDS configuration entry armName which may be used to change the default ARM element name. Removing armName from PARMLIB results in registering with ARM under default setting

Antwort: REXX question: if a string is printable

/* REXX */ VAR.0=2 VAR.1='SOME VALID CHARACTERS' VAR.2='CONTAINS !§$%/ WHICH ARE NOT VALID.' /* VALID CHARACTERS: A-Z AND 0-9 AND BLANK */ REFERENCE=XRANGE('A','I')!!XRANGE('J','R')!!XRANGE('S','Z') REFERENCE=REFERENCE!!XRANGE('0','9') REFERENCE=REFERENCE!!' ' SAY 'REFERENCE IS

Antwort: JES dataset close exit?

Hi, may be Exit 33 (SSI Data Set Close, Taken for SYSIN, SYSOUT, or internal reader Close processing) will suit your needs. Cheers Michael Miklos Szigetvari miklos.szigetv...@isis-papyrus.com Gesendet von: IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu 14.01.2011 12:08 Bitte

Antwort: Re: tar limitation preventing SAS install

Yes correct, z/OS Unix implements extended USTAR format without limitation of links whose targets exceed 100 characters or files with names longer than 255 characters (along with other goodies not widely found in hobby computing). However, this is z/OS specific to /bin/pax and might not work

Antwort: ShopzSeries

Edward, where do you store the SMP/E client certificate, RACF key ring or ICSF token? In the latter case, how do you use it? Thanks, cheers Michael Edward Jaffe edja...@phoenixsoftware.com Gesendet von: IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu 10.11.2010 07:32 Bitte antworten an

certificates for SMPE

Hello, SMP/E receive via ftp works fine with the shop zseries certificate when using a RACF keyring. Now I would like to use an ICSF tokens instead of the keyring. For example: keyring=*TOKEN*/tokenname certificate=SMPE Client Certificate in the ORDERSERVER - tag results in message

Antwort: HTTP TO HTTPS CONVERSION

Bill, It is client or user decision which protocol type to use, e.g. http, https, ftp, telnet or whatever. So from my knowledge only way to force https protocol type is to disable all other services, especially http on server side. We achieved this by statements (amongst other) 'NormalMode

Antwort: TSO region size

Erik, The z/OS V1R10.0 TSO/E Customization reads in chapter 3.2.2 about limiting TSO user's region size: 1) Logon pre-prompt exit 2) SIZE operand of LOGON command 3) default region size defined to user (RACF TSO segment as I assume) and two other. Point 3) seems to be relevant here. The z/OS

CSFM122I

Hello, at startup of ICSF message CSFM122I informs that PKA services were not enabled. From my understanding PKA settings cannot be changed when no cryptographic coprocessor is available, e.g. when solely CPACF is active. So, the message is expected. However, I did not expect it to be

Antwort: very strange ISHELL behaviour

Jim, have you checked REGION size in RACF TSO segment for IBMUSER? The HFS file to be edited must fit completely into IBMUSER's TSO ASID. Cheers Michael Jim McAlpine jim.mcalp...@gmail.com Gesendet von: IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu 21.05.2010 10:30 Bitte antworten

Antwort: Re: very strange ISHELL behaviour

Jim, you do not see any messages on the screen, ok. And I agree, you should see some messages indicating what's missing. Did you look in the JES-spool for the TSO procedure? I mean check SDSF, e.g. JESMSGLG DD. Cheers Michael Jim McAlpine jim.mcalp...@gmail.com Gesendet von: IBM Mainframe

Antwort: any known issues with EIM?

Hi Martin, EIM works fine in our installation. We have DB2 as backend. No problems at all; smooth setup as described in the manuals. Cheers Michael Martin Underwood mar...@sysprog.co.uk Gesendet von: IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu 25.03.2010 13:07 Bitte antworten an IBM

Antwort: USS Batch

Mark, my example below provides the Unix process within the job's address space. Please note that there are a couple of limitations to BPXBATSL to spawn successfully into the same ASID, e.g. you'll need eUID=0 for SH parameter instead of PGM. The Unix Command Reference reads a lot about this

Antwort: compare HFS

Federica, for text files, i.e. more or less human readable, /bin/diff can be used. This program results in a description on what to change in the one file in order to get same content as in the other file and vice versa. For arbitrary files, especially with binary contents like load libraries

Antwort: How to access FIELDS in a RECORD using Java? (was:RE: How do __you__ read non-DB non-XML files in Java?)

John, may be you'll get happy with pattern matching. Have you checked the java.util.regex package already? Try URL http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/; for example. The classes for pattern matching, also known as regular expressions, are ready to use. Well, from my experiences regular

Antwort: [MVS-OE] Java problem

Steve, assuming this is a codepage dilemma... I found that certain objects like the InputStreamReader may be created with explicit character set parameters. If these are not set, the value of the JVM symbol file.encoding is used as a default. I have good experiences always setting the desired

Antwort: Deeper java problem

. And that was my first thought, too, since I had been experimenting with various code pages in my emulator. However, with codepages matching in both the old and the new system, I cut and pasted from the old to the new and reran the compile. Same result. Michael Klaeschen suggested I check

Antwort: passing parameter data in BPXBATCH

Sven, have you tried to open the file with another syntax, like fopen(DD:TESTLIB,r)? Cheers Michael Sven Siebert extern.sven.sieb...@volkswagen.de Gesendet von: IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU 17.09.2009 09:20 Bitte antworten an IBM Mainframe Discussion List

Antwort: Java Batch und JCL (DSN Disposition)

Daniel, from my reading of the MVS JCL Reference, there is no abend-disposition available, neither for the DISP nor for the PATHDISP parameter. Instead, one may code an abnormal termination disposition. But as the introduction to the DISP parameter reads, the behaviour in case of an abend

Antwort: Re: MAXASSIZE restriction

Hi, the field in the RACF OMVS segment is ASSIZEMAX. It has to be seen together with the BPXPRMxx symbol MAXASSIZE. Check the Unix System Services Planning Guide, chapter 3.6.3.3 for details. These max-values are among others which I call hard limits. In addition, Unix processes may obtain

Antwort: Sysplex timeout problems.

Hi Ken, I remember a lecture about TCPIP issues in a parallel sysplex which was held at zSeries Technical Conference in Salzburg some years ago. It was about distributed source VIPA and WLM. In very short words: one can set up WLM and Communication Server so that the TCPIP related address

Antwort: Command program from the cbt

Hi Kenneth, abend 913 is from OPEN macro, not from RACF. Its explanation reads to check message IEC150I. Insufficient authorization is one of several possible reasons. The reason code will give detailed explanation. Let's assume, it is a SAF authorization problem and not I/O, JCL, APF etc.

Antwort: IF-Statement in JCL

Hi Michael, the IF THEN ELSE construct is useful to check step condition codes. You can for example decide weather a step should run after a previous one depending on its result. This is similar to the COND parameter in the EXEC cards. From my experiences you cannot evaluate JCL symbols. To

Antwort: Re: Mainframe TSM Linux Node Backups

Dave, when you are sure to back up _all_ files (including directories, mount points, device nodes, symlink links etc.) from the Linux HFS then you have most parts for a successful restore at hand. From my experiences a good practice is to carefully review the TSM client's include/exclude

Antwort: question on REXX stem

Hi Paul, did you try the INTERPRET instruction already? DO I=1 TO 3 BY 1 INTERPRET DROP STEM||I||. END Cheers Michael Paul Ip paul...@boci.com.hk Gesendet von: IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU 14.03.2009 10:21 Bitte antworten an IBM Mainframe Discussion List

Antwort: UNIX and System time in z/OS

Hi Lizette, of course there is a kind of macro to obtain the time stamp with java. But I am not sure, if this is what you are looking for. Speaking about the TZ shell symbol, you do not need to update this parameter manually. For example Appendix I of z/OS V1R8.0 UNIX System Services Command

Antwort: How to calculate size of a PS dataset

Hi Parin, the data set has 5 records in each block of 7.630 bytes. A track of 56.664 bytes (assuming 3390 DASD) can contain 7 of your blocks. That are 53.410 bytes per track. The data set has allocated 297.141 tracks, each 53.410 bytes of data. That are 15.870.300.810 bytes (which fit in an

Antwort: TSM

Hi Bruce, one approach is to set up a started task running the TSM client. This one will connect to communication server TCPIP stack, establishes a connection to the TSM server and waits for incoming requests. The authority for submitting requests must be granted within the Server, no RACF

Antwort: IF/THEN/ELSE checking in JCL

Hi Fred, have you already tried with COND cards for your step EXECs? Another way I would prefer for long and therefor confusing jobs might be to define each step as a job in OPC and form an application of those jobs that will keep track of the return codes. Cheers Michael Fred Schmidt