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

Hi Charles, I believe the answer to your question was provided by Jonathan Goossen in his reply of 18th May. The System Commands manual indicates that the output from the command is displayed as message IEE967I. This manual states that orig The origin of the keyword parameter, which is one

Re: ISPF Panel date validation

Hi Munif, Re: I have been requested to modify a panel to verify that user input a valid date (MM/DD/YY) and the input date is no more then 3 months away (roughly speaking). REXX may provide better validation capability in this instance, but you do not need to exit the panel, to use REXX as it

Re: Anybody use the cob2 command on a UNIX shell to compile COBOL?

Hi Tom, In respect of your recent post on the issue of the title, and your last paragraph: It clearly says only directories and paths, but I suppose a confirmation that datasets are not supported would be nice. I will try to get that into the next version of the Programming Guide. If anyone

Re: Calling Authorized Assembler from REXX

Hi Betsy, I'm beginning to think it can't. I think Rob Scott is correct - I should write a stub using IKJEFTSR. I found the following from Walt Farrell in a different list: Therefore, since Rexx itself is not running authorized, your Rexx exec cannot simply call another program and have that

Re: Authorised functions (related to bpxwdyn rc = 4294967263)

Hi Scott, From experience I have found that BPXWDYN is not the easiest beast to control. Whilst I do program in Assembler, it has to be acknowledged that not everybody does and hence more prolific languages with calls to existing functionality should be favoured. I personally think that BPXWDYN

Re: Change of Ownership for a Job

Hi Jags, snippet Recently we have installed a IMS system. We have a requirement of changing all the started task userid for which I was able to do it easily, but there are some Jobs which generates automatically when the IMS region starts up for which the OWNER for the JOB is IBMUSER. Is it

Re: z/OS compiling COBOL/CICS pgms

Hi Graham, I do not recognize the procedure COBMCIC4 as being an IBM supplied procedure as CICS ones generally begin DFH, and DB2 ones usually begin DSN. As use are using the Dallas service I would assume it to be at the same level as the zPDT ADCD offering, in which case you can exploit the

Re: DSN NOT RELEASING OVER ALLOCATED SPACE

Hi Willie, I believe that RLSE is only actioned if the data set has been opened for output. If the data sets are showing empty it may just be that the data sets were not opened at all. Kind Regards - Terry Director KMS-IT Limited 228 Abbeydale Road South Dore Sheffield S17 3LA UK Reg :

Re: Problems calling IDCAMS

Hi Joe, As I understand your problem, you have progressed beyond the S0C4 when invoking IDCAMS dynamically, but are now faced with the situation that SYSPRINT does not flow elegantly as you would expect. If this is the case it may be nothing to do with the calling rogram, but a problem with the

Re: WTO Sample Program

Hi Sergio, I am not totally convinced that I understand what the requirement is despite having reviewed the many posts which seem to focus on an Assembler solution. Whilst I would probably do it in Assembler, if the need is for an 'easy to maintain' solution, then from a COBOL perspective

Re: Web version of mainframes

Hi, Re the attached: SNIPPET Just wanted to know whether a web version of mainframe can be implemented. One of our user is trying to access from a remote location using a wireless internet in which the IP changes everytime. /SNIPPET There are at least two things to think about here, but let's

Re: Decentralized Install Work

Hi Stan, In respect to you question about decentralized install work, I can safely say that I have worked in such an environment albeit in a management role rather than a System Programmer role. Between 1985 and 1998 I worked in an organization that had 80 production images, and 20+ development

Re: Not able to Ftp

Hi, With regard to: I have few files in my desktop to FTP it to mainframe. When i type FTP XXX from the dos i get a message as C:\Documents and Settings\255209\JCLftp 10.237.5.102 Connected to 10.237.5.102. 220-FTPD1 IBM FTP CS V1R6 at xxx2800, 09:42:34 on 2011-05-05 220 Connection will

Re: ADMIN failure using DUMP command in pgm ADRDSSU

Hi Greg, In respect of your query: RUNNING CA'S TOP SECRET 5.0 I'm trying to dump all my disk to tape for a DR test and I believe I need to use the ADMIN keyword. Error when using the ADMIN keyword on the Dump command of pgm ADRDSSU. PAGE 0001 5695-DF175 DFSMSDSS V1R3.0 DATA SET SERVICES

MPF List usage to auto-reply to messages

Hi, I am looking for advice on what additional steps I might need to take to complete an automation task. I am attempting to use the message exit facility within the MPF List to provide an automatic response to a specific WTOR. Taking a conservative approach, IEACWAIT from SYS1.SAMPLIB has been

Re: MPF List usage to auto-reply to messages

Hi, In respect of my earlier posting, the automation issue via the MPF list is resolved. There were two problems; 1) A misunderstanding of the AUTO parameter within MPF message handling 2) The test hardness routine was ending before the message had been processed. Old lesson relearned, namely

Re: S5C6 Abend when run MQ Panels in ISPF - resolved

Hi Patrick, Many thanks for your comprehensive response which proved useful, as it gave some indications of where to start. The actual problem was two libraries missing from the TSO STEPLIB i.e. thlqual.SCSQANLE thlqual.SCSQAUTH in our case thlqual is CSQ700 Kind Regards - Terry Director

S5C6 Abend when run MQ Panels in ISPF

Hi, This may be the wrong list, but the mix of knowledge has helped in the past so here goes. I recently upgrade to z/OS 1.11 with WAS7. When using the Command Option (8) in the MQ Panels which drive CSQOREXX the result is an S5C6 abend which drops the user out of ISPF. Not being that familiar

Re: curiousity question: in-house doc

Hi John, In connection with your query about what installations may use for documentation have you considered the mainframe's WEB Server capability? The choices are direct HTTP Server, or the use of CICS to delivery static content. The latter offer scope for HTML documents to be stored in either

Re: Why are TSO IDs limited to 7 characters

Hi, In response to Robert's question The limitation of 7 characters for TSO IDs has caused us extra work in the past (we use IDs of 3-8 characters across the institution, but the mainframe can't use the institutional IDs in part because of this limitation) This is not a mainframe limitation,

Re: JES2 vs. JES3

Hi, I think the question Which is better JES2 or JES3? is one for the bigots, and is akin to Which is better z/OS, z/VM or z/VSE? Many of the more senior members of the list will know that the two Job Entry Systems existed prior to MVS but were developed independently for different purposes.

Re: Assembler Entry and Exit module

Hi To supplement Charles Mills response to your question on why Entry and Exit conventions are used in Assembler I will add the following. Think single processor for a moment, as that was or starting point for System/360. The Operating System was designed to sustain multiple operations based on

Re: QUERY IN ASSEMBLER

Hi Ram, You have had two other responses to your query in respect of COND CODE 3552 after running your assembler program. Both allude to Register 15 and both are correct in that Register 15, or more precisely the low order two bytes are used to pass the return code for a program, which becomes

Re: COBOL HLPI JCL sample needed

HI, In response to the earlier posts: Can someone help me by providing a sample batch JCL member to compile COBOL programs using HLPI for DL/I? Perhaps, if you could tell us what is HLPI and DL/I. Historically DL/I was, and probably still is, the VSE equivalent of IMS DB on z/OS. I suspect

Re: gif,doc,html - LRECL's

Hi Joseph, With regard to your desire to move gifs, docs, and HTML around. Like Paul, I would query the need for the z/OS Sequential file at all. Instead of IND$FILE, FTP is more useful here. I have used both the Windows supplied FTP, and GlobalSCAPE's CuteFTP to perform this function

Re: Time Parameter

Hi Matan, With regard to your post on this subject which included: SNIPPET RC = TIME(R) SECS = 1800 /* 1800 second you want them to pass */ DO FOREVER N = TIME(E)/*get the time in second which was pass */ IF N = SECS THEN LEAVE END /SNIPPET As Dustin Hoffman said in Hook, bad

Re: Time Parameter

Hi Ravi, Could it be that the TIME Parameter is CPU time, not wall clock time. It is unlikely that your REXX code would use 1 second of CPU, but if we assume it did, then the elapse time for the job would be in the order of 30 x 7, or 3mins 30 seconds. SNIPPET I am running a Rexx exec in batch

Re: Emptiness (was: IEBCOPY ignoring SYSIN override?)

Hi, In thinking about the following Post, they may be similar in our eyes but are surely not the same: SNIPPET What is (coded in the JCL): //SYSIN DD * /* It is similar to: //SYSIN DD DUMMY But, what does IEBCOPY think? /SNIPPET It was always my understanding that they would not be the

Re: REPLY DEVICE NAME OR 'CANCEL' for FTP to mainframe and SMS ACS routines

Hi Fred, It might be a sledge hammer approach, but is the ALLOCnn member of PARMLIB any use. It can contain a statement ALLC_OFFLN POLICY(CANCEL) but be aware that this will affect all device allocation attempts. Kind Regards - Terry Director KMS-IT Limited 228 Abbeydale Road South Dore

Re: Overlap Error

Hi Ravi, With regard to the use of DISP=MOD and partitioned data sets. In my experience, and I can only speak from that perspective, I believe the recommendation in the manual is incorrect. It also seems to conflict with the DFSMS Utilities manual, where PARM=MOD is used on IEBUPDTE to indicate

Re: Overlap Error

Hi Lizette, With regard to you comment on Ravi's problem: For instance, does this program wait for stow to complete before moving onto the next DD? Judging by the JCL sample he that was supplied with the original query, the Program is not performing a STOW it is relying on the operating system

Overlap Error

Hi Ravi, In respect of your query with regard to overlap situations in PDS data sets. I would make two assumptions here: 1) This is a traditional PDS not a PDSE 2) It is a source library rather than a Program Load Library. Assuming my assumptions are correct it is worth remembering

Re: GSE IBM System z Technical Conference

Hi Lindy, I think details of the GSE Conference to which you refer can be found at http://www.gse.org.uk/upcoming.html Kind regards - Terry Terry Sambrooks Director KMS-IT Limited 228 Abbeydale Road South Dore, Sheffield, S17 3LA, UK Tel: +44 (0)114 262 0933 WEB: www.kmsitltd.co.uk Company

Re: Does // terminate JCL?

reader either from a batch program or CICS transaction then the last statement on each JCL set is a /*EOF to ensure the reader is closed. I hope this is of some value. Kind regards - Terry Terry Sambrooks Director KMS-IT Limited 228 Abbeydale Road South Dore, Sheffield, S17 3LA, UK Tel: +44 (0

Re Edit Attributes in SDSF SJ

members, although they end up as RECFM=FM,LRECL=81. Kind regards - Terry Terry Sambrooks Director KMS-IT Limited 228 Abbeydale Road South Dore, Sheffield, S17 3LA, UK Tel: +44 (0)114 262 0933 WEB: www.legac-e.co.uk Company Reg: 3767263 at the above address All outgoing E-mail is scanned

USER/OWNER/SYSUID (was Multiple jobs/same name

LOCAL 94 CSD3REFR JOB02115 SPACEMAN 144 X HOLD LOCAL 89 When using RACF SURROGATE only USER= is required on the JOB statement. Kind regards - Terry Terry Sambrooks Director KMS-IT Limited 228 Abbeydale Road South Dore, Sheffield, S17 3LA, UK Tel

Re: Long parms ... again (was: Reading DD card information)

. Terry Sambrooks Director KMS-IT Limited 228 Abbeydale Road South Dore, Sheffield, S17 3LA, UK Tel: +44 (0)114 262 0933 WEB: www.legac-e.co.uk Company Reg: 3767263 at the above address All outgoing E-mail is scanned, but it remains the recipient's responsibility to ensure their system is protected

Pass DB2 PLAN names to IMS Programs (was Reading DD card information)

, and the User Program (COBOL) ewas invoked as normal. It called the second routine holding the 'parm information' via a dynamic link. I still have all the code. Kind regards - Terry Terry Sambrooks Director KMS-IT Limited 228 Abbeydale Road South Dore, Sheffield, S17 3LA, UK Tel: +44 (0)114 262

Re: Trigger CICS transaction from Batch Job

are not set up to support the feature. For instance I can issue the Modify (F) command from SDSF but not from a batch job. If you have not already done so I would suggested posting your query at CICS-L which is a dedicated CICS Group. Kind regards - Terry Terry Sambrooks Director KMS-IT Limited 228

BPXWDYN and the Internal Reader (INTRDR)

(2) DA('. 03 FT-JOB-DSN PIC X(45) VALUE SPACES. 01 ALLOC-JES-JOB. 03 FILLER PIC X(38) VALUE 'ALLOC FI(JOBOUT) WRITER(INTRDR) MSG(2)'. Kind regards - Terry Terry Sambrooks Director

Phil Payne (was OS/390)

band of Google accredited technicians in that field. Kind regards - Terry Terry Sambrooks Director KMS-IT Limited 228 Abbeydale Road South Dore, Sheffield, S17 3LA, UK Tel: +44 (0)114 262 0933 WEB: www.legac-e.co.uk Company Reg: 3767263 at the above address All outgoing E-mail is scanned

Re: BPXWDYN and the Internal Reader (INTRDR)

prefix containing the length. I somehow seemed to have bounced over that information when perusing the manual. Thanks again - Terry Terry Sambrooks Director KMS-IT Limited 228 Abbeydale Road South Dore, Sheffield, S17 3LA, UK Tel: +44 (0)114 262 0933 WEB: www.legac-e.co.uk Company Reg: 3767263

Merging DSORG (was: Sequential D/S to PO D/S Member)

. Kind regards - Terry Terry Sambrooks Director KMS-IT Limited 228 Abbeydale Road South Dore, Sheffield, S17 3LA, UK Tel: +44 (0)114 262 0933 WEB: www.legac-e.co.uk Company Reg: 3767263 at the above address All outgoing E-mail is scanned, but it remains the recipient's responsibility to ensure

Re: Merging DSORG (was: Sequential D/S to PO D/S Member)

and VSAM exit list would not work. Given the comment about OPEN in the earlier post I had assumed the second method may have been used. Kind regards - Terry Terry Sambrooks Director KMS-IT Limited 228 Abbeydale Road South Dore, Sheffield, S17 3LA, UK Tel: +44 (0)114 262 0933 WEB: www.legac-e.co.uk

Re: Help on IEBEDIT Utility

this helps - Terry Terry Sambrooks Director KMS-IT Limited 228 Abbeydale Road South Dore, Sheffield, S17 3LA, UK Tel: +44 (0)114 262 0933 WEB: www.legac-e.co.uk Company Reg: 3767263 at the above address All outgoing E-mail is scanned, but it remains the recipient's responsibility to ensure their system

Re: Help on IEBEDIT Utility

as a marker. This means the bulk of the functionality is still provided by IEBEDIT reducing the development effort required to resolve the issue. Kin regards - Terry Terry Sambrooks Director KMS-IT Limited 228 Abbeydale Road South Dore, Sheffield, S17 3LA, UK Tel: +44 (0)114 262 0933 WEB

Re: Help on IEBEDIT Utility

. As somebody else suggested a PMR to IBM might be worthwhile but it would not be a quick process. Kind regards - Terry Terry Sambrooks Director KMS-IT Limited 228 Abbeydale Road South Dore, Sheffield, S17 3LA, UK Tel: +44 (0)114 262 0933 WEB: www.legac-e.co.uk Company Reg: 3767263 at the above

Re: Help on IEBEDIT Utility

. These method of operation looks like a feature of IEBEDIT. Kind regards - Terry Terry Sambrooks Director KMS-IT Limited 228 Abbeydale Road South Dore, Sheffield, S17 3LA, UK Tel: +44 (0)114 262 0933 WEB: www.legac-e.co.uk Company Reg: 3767263 at the above address All outgoing E-mail is scanned

Re: Secondary space allocation

1 cylinder extents on a fragmented pack. Without additional volumes indicated this could lead to an unexpected B37. Kind regards - Terry Terry Sambrooks Director KMS-IT Limited 228 Abbeydale Road South Dore, Sheffield, S17 3LA, UK Tel: +44 (0)114 262 0933 WEB: www.legac-e.co.uk Company Reg

Re: Optimal Tape Blocksize

be relevant if the program has allowed the option which has Ted mentioned is discussed in the JCL manual. Kind regards - Terry Terry Sambrooks Director KMS-IT Limited 228 Abbeydale Road South Dore, Sheffield, S17 3LA, UK Tel: +44 (0)114 262 0933 WEB: www.legac-e.co.uk Company Reg: 3767263 at the above

Re: Pass Parameter containing spaces to Rexx in BATCH

' But within the REXX itself, rather than use Parse Arg, I would be inclined to use the ARG Built in function, i.e. P1 = ARG(1) P2 = ARG(2) P2 = ARG(3) Kind regards - Terry Terry Sambrooks Director KMS-IT Limited 228 Abbeydale Road South Dore, Sheffield, S17 3LA, UK Tel: +44 (0)114 262 0933 WEB

Re: Multi-dimensional arrays in REXX

and produce a demonstration routine. Thanks again - Terry Terry Sambrooks Director KMS-IT Limited 228 Abbeydale Road South Dore, Sheffield, S17 3LA, UK Tel: +44 (0)114 262 0933 WEB: www.legac-e.co.uk Company Reg: 3767263 at the above address All outgoing E-mail is scanned, but it remains

Multi-dimensional arrays in REXX

or correct any erroneous view I may have formed. Kind regards - Terry Terry Sambrooks Director KMS-IT Limited 228 Abbeydale Road South Dore, Sheffield, S17 3LA, UK Tel: +44 (0)114 262 0933 WEB: www.legac-e.co.uk Company Reg: 3767263 at the above address All outgoing E-mail is scanned

Re: JCL Logics involving TAPE and Normal File

research with the initial post, it does lead people to the conclusion that some form of training exercise is being undertaken via a short cut. Hopefully with access to the correct manuals you will be able to accomplish your task. Kind regards - Terry Terry Sambrooks Director KMS-IT Limited 228

Re: concatenations, again

in the procedure, NOT THE OVERRIDE. I hope this helps. Kind regards - Terry Terry Sambrooks Director KMS-IT Limited 228 Abbeydale Road South Dore, Sheffield, S17 3LA, UK Tel: +44 (0)114 262 0933 WEB: www.legac-e.co.uk Company Reg: 3767263 at the above address All outgoing E-mail is scanned

Re: GDG QUESTION

to concatenated DD statements for each generation. Kind regards - Terry Terry Sambrooks Director KMS-IT Limited 228 Abbeydale Road South Dore, Sheffield, S17 3LA, UK Tel: +44 (0)114 262 0933 WEB: www.legac-e.co.uk Company Reg: 3767263 at the above address All outgoing E-mail is scanned, but it remains

Re: Favorite Way(s) for COBOL as HTTP Client?

CICS Regions. The Client requested information from a file owned by the Server region. I'm sorry if this sounds like blowing my own trumpet, but the serious aim is to demonstrate how easy it should be for anybody with more experience of CICS and COBOL than me. Kind regards - Terry Terry Sambrooks

Re: HMC Management Best Practices

if a particular individual is the culprit in a number of incidents then it does merit a review of whether they are appropriately employed. Kind regards - Terry Terry Sambrooks Director KMS-IT Limited 228 Abbeydale Road South Dore, Sheffield, S17 3LA, UK Tel: +44 (0)114 262 0933 WEB: www.legac-e.co.uk

Re: DCB parameter in COBOL and JCL

information may well be incomplete in the File Label, and may well produce an S001. I hope this is of some assistance. Kind regards - Terry Terry Sambrooks Director KMS-IT Limited 228 Abbeydale Road South Dore, Sheffield, S17 3LA, UK Tel: +44 (0)114 262 0933 WEB: www.legac-e.co.uk Company Reg

Re: COBOL program

the title of the posting may not help with suggestions it also is somewhat vague, giving no clue as to what is actually required. Kind regards - Terry Terry Sambrooks Director KMS-IT Limited 228 Abbeydale Road South Dore, Sheffield, S17 3LA, UK Tel: +44 (0)114 262 0933 WEB: www.legac-e.co.uk Company

Re: Linkage editor different ways to bind

although they are in the SYSLIB. Is NCAL set in the Linkage Edit Parm parameter. If it is it inhibits the automatic search of SYSLIB. Try removing it if present. Kind regards - Terry Terry Sambrooks Director KMS-IT Limited 228 Abbeydale Road South Dore, Sheffield, S17 3LA, UK Tel: +44 (0)114 262

Re: Linkage editor different ways to bind

* include anydd(mypgm) Kind regards - Terry Terry Sambrooks Director KMS-IT Limited 228 Abbeydale Road South Dore, Sheffield, S17 3LA, UK Tel: +44 (0)114 262 0933 WEB: www.legac-e.co.uk Company Reg: 3767263 at the above address All outgoing E-mail is scanned, but it remains the recipient's

Re: Scratching Expired Datasets

from the system with the aid of a batch REXX routine which invokes DB2 Services and executes appropriate SQL statements to DROP the tables. Both of these techniques help to avoid volume pollution on my system. I hope this is of use. Kind regards - Terry Terry Sambrooks Director KMS-IT Limited 228

Re: JCL statements not in JCL manual?

workings within the JCL manual. (The CNTL example uses PRINTDEV and refers to the appropriate PSF manual.) Kind regards - Terry Terry Sambrooks Director KMS-IT Limited 228 Abbeydale Road South Dore, Sheffield, S17 3LA, UK Tel: +44 (0)114 262 0933 WEB: www.legac-e.co.uk Company Reg: 3767263

Re: JCL statements not in JCL manual?

in the appropriate place, but I guess one thing that might throw any Parsing exercise are sub-system control statements which appear between // CNTL and // ENDCNTL pairs. I have only investigated this area once and that was in respect of an early implementation of IP Printway. Kind regards - Terry Terry

Re: Trivial CICS Query

regards - Terry Terry Sambrooks Director KMS-IT Limited 228 Abbeydale Road South Dore, Sheffield, S17 3LA, UK Tel: +44 (0)114 262 0933 WEB: www.legac-e.co.uk Company Reg: 3767263 at the above address All outgoing E-mail is scanned, but it remains the recipient's responsibility to ensure

Re: JCL Parm= Question

statement with a REXX routine, which PARSEs the JCL PARM, and uses LINKPGM or some such to invoke the original program. Kind regards - Terry Terry Sambrooks Director KMS-IT Limited 228 Abbeydale Road South Dore, Sheffield, S17 3LA, UK Tel: +44 (0)114 262 0933 WEB: www.legac-e.co.uk Company Reg

Re: wildcard utilities

be as simple as code the DSN on the input DD statement to that of the GDG base entry name. This would then read all generations automatically. If using a standard naming convention is ruled out then John's suggestion is I think the best so far. Kind regards - Terry Terry Sambrooks Director KMS

Re: Question On Space Allocation

the request in up to 5 extents. If the requested space is valid for the likely number of records, then perhaps the percentage free space rules of the pool, or re-direction to a different storage pool might be a better approach. Terry Sambrooks Director KMS-IT Limited 228 Abbeydale Road South Dore, Sheffield

RACF, Cloning Userids ADCD

and revert to raw ISPF commands, held in a PDS member and executed via batch TSO. This provides both a visible record of what has been done, and the capability to reproduce the same if required. Kind regards - Terry Terry Sambrooks Director KMS-IT Limited 228 Abbeydale Road South Dore, Sheffield

Re: Forcing a userid and password prompt on session connect

as they successful entered the solicitor but failed to get the USSTAB. Kind regards - Terry Terry Sambrooks Director KMS-IT Limited 228 Abbeydale Road South Dore, Sheffield, S17 3LA, UK Tel: +44 (0)114 262 0933 WEB: www.legac-e.co.uk Company Reg: 3767263 at the above address All outgoing E

Open z/Architecture or Not

, as a consolidated market, to a new role with the mainframe being utilised for other things, which may well be virtualisation with or without Linux. My perspective in mainframe terms is The King is dead, long live the King, with apologies to all republicans. Kind regards - Terry Terry Sambrooks Director KMS

Default number of Buffers

or data sets /EXTRACT My guess is that many traditional disk data sets fall into the latter category of 5 buffers however. Kind regards - Terry Terry Sambrooks Director KMS-IT Limited 228 Abbeydale Road South Dore, Sheffield, S17 3LA, UK Tel: +44 (0)114 262 0933 WEB: www.legac-e.co.uk Company

Re: Ways to update PS files?

regards - Terry Terry Sambrooks Director KMS-IT Limited 228 Abbeydale Road South Dore, Sheffield, S17 3LA, UK Tel: +44 (0)114 262 0933 WEB: www.legac-e.co.uk Company Reg: 3767263 at the above address All outgoing E-mail is scanned, but it remains the recipients responsibility to ensure their system

Re: [subject added] Override a proc step

to override something within a nested procedure, I would assume this is rhetorical as it has been discussed in the forum many times, and the override construct does not facilitate nested overrides, as it only penetrates to the first level stepname within the procedure. Kind regards - Terry Terry

Re: Compare two disk files

it still does. The SUPER-C Panel in ISPF gives the option to run in foreground or background so it should make JCL production easier, although I may have only done it once. Yes I know the title says disks and the text talks about tape, but that mimics the original post. Terry Sambrooks Director KMS

Re: Simple (???) VSAM ESDS question

regards - Terry Terry Sambrooks Director KMS-IT Limited 228 Abbeydale Road South Dore, Sheffield, S17 3LA, UK Tel: +44 (0)114 262 0933 WEB: www.legac-e.co.uk Company Reg: 3767263 at the above address All outgoing E-mail is scanned, but it remains the recipients responsibility to ensure their system

Re: RRS and IXG256I

) STG_SIZE(160) LS_SIZE(160) DASDONLY(YES) Hope this helps, Paul Dineen /SNIPPET Terry Sambrooks Director KMS-IT Limited 228 Abbeydale Road South Dore, Sheffield, S17 3LA, UK Tel: +44 (0)114 262 0933 WEB

RRS and IXG256I

set up that members of the list can offer. I am attempting to fix the RRS problem, as apparently it is a requirement for WAS. Thanks in anticipation - Terry Terry Sambrooks Director KMS-IT Limited 228 Abbeydale Road South Dore, Sheffield, S17 3LA, UK Tel: +44 (0)114 262 0933 WEB: www.legac-e.co.uk

Re: PDS caused JCL error - WHY

//INDD DSN=AC,DISP=(OLD,DELETE) //MODEL DD DSN=PDS(HTML),DISP=(SHR,PASS) //SYSTSIN DD * GENHTML /* Kind regards - Terry Terry Sambrooks Director KMS-IT Limited 228 Abbeydale Road South Dore

Re: Default DISP for tape input dataset?

John Chase wrote: SNIP For the IEBGENER utility, a vendor-supplied job omitted the DISP= parameter on the //SYSUT1 DD statement, which specified a tape dataset. The job ran to normal completion, and data were copied to DASD from the tape. Now, the JCL Reference manual states only that the

IEFC603I PROCLIB DEVICE I/O ERROR READING FOR JOB

, other than sometime issuing a start command or typrun=scan job to perform the read which I think may cause the error so that next time it works just fine. Kind regards - Terry Terry Sambrooks Director KMS-IT Limited 228 Abbeydale Road South Dore Sheffield S17 3LA UK Tel: +44 (0)114 262 0933 WEB

Re: Another article on the Flex/IBM issue

of course. Regard - Terry Terry Sambrooks Director KMS-IT Limited 228 Abbeydale Road South Dore Sheffield S17 3LA UK Tel: +44 (0)114 262 0933 WEB: www.legac-e.co.uk www.kmsitltd.co.uk Reg: England Wales 3767263 at the above address All outgoing E-mails are scanned but it remains

Re: DB2 DDF Hello World setup for dummies

a hardware router there may also be some work in respect of Port Redirection and Firewall issues to contend with. I just viewed it as a non-trivial exercise. Kind Regards - Terry Terry Sambrooks Director KMS-IT Limited 228 Abbeydale Road South Dore Sheffield S17 3LA UK Tel: +44 (0)114 262

Re: Problem resolving JCL SET symbol

A=X //STEPA EXEC PGM=IEFBR14,PARM='A' //STEPB EXEC PGM=IEFBR14,PARM='A=X' Kind regards - Terry Terry Sambrooks Director KMS-IT Limited 228 Abbeydale Road South Dore Sheffield S17 3LA UK Tel: +44 (0)114 262 0933 WEB: www.legac-e.co.uk www.kmsitltd.co.uk Reg

Re: COBOL compiler options JCL PARM.

as discussed in the Programmig Guide. Kind regards - Terry Terry Sambrooks Director KMS-IT Limited 228 Abbeydale Road South Dore Sheffield S17 3LA UK Tel: +44 (0)114 262 0933 WEB: www.legac-e.co.uk www.kmsitltd.co.uk Reg: England Wales 3767263 at the above address All outgoing E

Re: Starting DB2

are DB. Either of these options should bring up all the changes, and automatically start the DB2 sub-system STCs. Hopefully you did not change any existing members but produced your own copies, to ensure that the supplied options still work. Kind regards - Terry Terry Sambrooks Director KMS

A Fresh Look at the Mainframe

such facilities it becomes a more interesting ball game. It was not a day for techies, but worth while for keeping abreast of what is happening. Kind regards - Terry Terry Sambrooks Director KMS-IT Limited 228 Abbeydale Road South Dore Sheffield S17 3LA UK Tel: +44 (0)114 262 0933 WEB: www.legac

Re: S237-04 and tapes

interpretation. Kind regards - Terry Terry Sambrooks Director KMS-IT Limited 228 Abbeydale Road South Dore Sheffield S17 3LA UK Tel: +44 (0)114 262 0933 WEB: www.legac-e.co.uk Reg: England Wales 3767263 at the above address All outgoing E-mails are scanned but it remains the recipients

Re: VSAM file query

LIMITDO PIC X(8). Procedure Division statement EXEC CICS READNEXT FILE('ACCTIX') INTO(ACIXREC) LENGTH(ACIX-LNG) RIDFLD(BRKEY) RESP(RESPONSE) END-EXEC. Kind regards - Terry Terry Sambrooks Director KMS-IT Limited 228 Abbeydale Road South Dore Sheffield

Abuse of A Letter To The FLEX-ES Community

adds little value. Kind regards - Terry Terry Sambrooks Director KMS-IT Limited 228 Abbeydale Road South Dore Sheffield S17 3LA UK Tel: +44 (0)114 262 0933 WEB: www.legac-e.co.uk Reg: England Wales 3767263 at the above address All outgoing E-mails are scanned but it remains the recipients

Re: Default System BLKSIZE for PDSE

with performance as it is used to set buffer sizes. (At least that was my interpretation.) On this basis 32760, being closer to 32K than 27920, may well be better although I have not done any measurement to prove it. Kind regards - Terry Terry Sambrooks Director KMS-IT Limited 228 Abbeydale Road South

Re: COBOL Compiler APF

- Terry Terry Sambrooks Director KMS-IT Limited 228 Abbeydale Road South Dore Sheffield S17 3LA UK Tel: +44 (0)114 262 0933 WEB: www.legac-e.co.uk Reg: England Wales 3767263 at the above address All outgoing E-mails are scanned but it remains the recipients responsibility to ensure

Re: IEHLIST LISTPDS in an SMS environment

, then the routine will allocate the correct device for IEHLIST and build the approripate control ststement. Kind regards - Terry Terry Sambrooks Director KMS-IT Limited 228 Abbeydale Road South Dore Sheffield S17 3LA UK Tel: +44 (0)114 262 0933 WEB: www.legac-e.co.uk Reg: England Wales 3767263

Re: Jcl

Whilst Itschak's response is valid, I would urge the use of a scheduling package such as OPC (TWS), Control-M, or CA-7 especially if this is a regular requirement. These products were designed to address this specific requirement whereas JCL is NOT. Kind regards - Terry Terry Sambrooks Director

IEC070I 211(8,17107)-221

but is trying to functions which require ALTER access. The Security (RACF) administrator needs to be involved here I believe to ensure that correct access is grantted via the generic profile PVOFNF.** Kind regards - Terry Terry Sambrooks Director KMS-IT Limited 228 Abbeydale Road South Dore

Re: VSAM CLOSE failure problem

it returns? It would seem that this is the most obvious difference between all the ACBs. Kind Regards - Terry Terry Sambrooks Director KMS-IT Limited 228 Abbeydale Road South Dore Sheffield S17 3LA UK Tel: +44 (0)114 262 0933 WEB: www.legac-e.co.uk Reg: England Wales 3767263 at the above

USS Mount Authority RACF

Terry Sambrooks Director KMS-IT Limited 228 Abbeydale Road South Dore Sheffield S17 3LA UK Tel: +44 (0)114 262 0933 WEB: www.legac-e.co.uk Reg: England Wales 3767263 at the above address All outgoing E-mails are scanned but it remains the recipients responsibility to ensure that their system

Re: USS Mount Authority RACF - Resolved

works. I must admit that I thought that an IPL would also induce the effect of SETR REFRESH, but as an IPL is performed weekly I can only conclude that despite the appearance on the active class list, UNIXPRIV was inactive. In any event the issue has been resolved. Many thanks - Terry Terry

Re: EXCP with a DEB

contains an article and sample on doing this. (http://www.kmsitltd.co.uk/docs/bpamdir.pdf) Kind regards - Terry Terry Sambrooks Director KMS-IT Limited 228 Abbeydale Road South Dore Sheffield S17 3LA UK Tel: +44 (0)114 262 0933 WEB: www.legac-e.co.uk Reg: England Wales 3767263 at the above address

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