Re: Looking for an appropriate system exit

2018-11-26 Thread Steff Gladstone
Thank you one and all for your excellent advice. בתאריך יום ב׳, 26 בנוב׳ 2018, 21:36, מאת Seymour J Metz : > The only documented way that I know of is with WTO; why the FM specifies > ROUTCDE=14 rather than 11 I don't understand. There's an undocumented ACB > interface. but I don't recall the

Re: Compute the maximum return code of all steps (so far)

2018-11-26 Thread Seymour J Metz
There's the legal issue of copyright but there's also the ethical issue of attribution. It's best to always cite the provenance of sample code. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of

Re: Compute the maximum return code of all steps (so far)

2018-11-26 Thread Bernd Oppolzer
Sorry, this did not come to my mind, because the code appeared in a public forum ... this is the link where I found it: https://www.developpez.net/forums/d1477375/systemes/autres-systemes/z-os/jcl-sort/recuperation-code-retour-d-job-rexx/ If I find a snippet of code THAT OPEN on the internet,

Re: Compute the maximum return code of all steps (so far)

2018-11-26 Thread Arthur
On 26 Nov 2018 13:03:55 -0800, in bit.listserv.ibm-main (Message-ID:) bernd.oppol...@t-online.de (Bernd Oppolzer) wrote: using this as keyword and a well known search engine, I found a REXX (from a french site), which I will try tomorrow. This could be of interest to others, so here is the

Re: Compute the maximum return code of all steps (so far)

2018-11-26 Thread Seymour J Metz
"Note: The EVENTLOG data set is only available to JES2 users." -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of Kirk Wolf Sent: Monday, November 26, 2018 4:02 PM To: IBM-MAIN@listserv.ua.edu

Re: Compute the maximum return code of all steps (so far)

2018-11-26 Thread Bernd Oppolzer
Many thanks for the pointer to the SCT; using this as keyword and a well known search engine, I found a REXX (from a french site), which I will try tomorrow. This could be of interest to others, so here is the REXX (unedited, no warranty), including some original french comments: /* REXX -

Re: Compute the maximum return code of all steps (so far)

2018-11-26 Thread Kirk Wolf
You can use Spool Dataset Browse to dynamically allocate the EVENTLOG STEPDATA dataset which has this information (and it is IBM blessed): https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSLTBW_2.3.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r3.hasc300/accevnt.htm Also, the z/OSMF REST JOBs api can give this back to you in

Re: Compute the maximum return code of all steps (so far)

2018-11-26 Thread Seymour J Metz
It is relatively easy to retrieve the Step Control Table (SCT) for each step and check the return code, but I don't know how to do it in a way that IBM will bless; AFAIK the relevant control blocks are not GUPI. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3

Compute the maximum return code of all steps (so far)

2018-11-26 Thread Bernd Oppolzer
Hello list, I have the need to compute (in a C, PL/1 or ASSEMBLER module) the maximum return code of all prior steps of the running job so far. This is intended to be the last step of the job and to write the MAXRC into a DB2 table, which shows the requester the outcome of this special job (in

Re: So much for THAT excuse | Computerworld SHARK TANK

2018-11-26 Thread Seymour J Metz
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Re: Looking for an appropriate system exit

2018-11-26 Thread Seymour J Metz
The only documented way that I know of is with WTO; why the FM specifies ROUTCDE=14 rather than 11 I don't understand. There's an undocumented ACB interface. but I don't recall the setup details. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3

Re: Looking for an appropriate system exit

2018-11-26 Thread Seymour J Metz
One supported way is with WTP (although the FM mentions ROUTCDE=14). I've also seen code using an ACB interface, but don't recall the setup. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of

Re: Region size for OMVS tasks

2018-11-26 Thread Seymour J Metz
1. A different set of eyes is always an asset 2. Sometimes when I explain a problem to a different set of eyes I see the solution myself; there seems to be a psychological difference between explaining something and analyzing it 3. If you can reproduce the problem, that helps; if you

Re: SMS ALLOCATION OF VSAM DSN [EXTERNAL]

2018-11-26 Thread Feller, Paul
John, basically you are limited to 4 gig (HI-A-RBA) for the size of a non-extended VSAM dataset. So depending on your VSAM define option you will get somewhere in the neighborhood of 6,000 cyls. In my quick test I got around 5,800 cyls. Thanks.. Paul Feller AGT Mainframe Technical Support

SMS ALLOCATION OF VSAM DSN

2018-11-26 Thread John Dawes
G'Day, Could somebody please tell me what is the maximum number of cylinders that could be allocated for a SMS managed VSAM dsn (not VSAM EXTENDED ADDRESSABILITY).   I have been able to allocate a dsn with 6,000 cylinders.  However, due to a lack of disk space I couldn't continue with a higher

Re: DFSMSHSM, RMM - Setup

2018-11-26 Thread Glenn Wilcock
Hi Jake, Redbooks are always a great place to start to learn the basics. Both DFSMShsm and rmm have primers. Refer to the PROCLIB and PARMLIB members of each to understand how they are each currently configured. Glenn Wilcock DFSMShsm Architect

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Checksum or hashing

2018-11-26 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Wed, 21 Nov 2018 19:42:33 +, Dyck, Lionel B. (RavenTek) wrote: >Here is more information on the CBTTape.Org file 900 which may provide more >information for the OP and others: > >//***FILE 900 is a set of programs which run under either old MVS > > I thought I saw in another version,

Re: Checksum or hashing

2018-11-26 Thread John Eells
As others have written, I think the use of SHA-1 within an enterprise as a data integrity check is fine, so long as it meets a client's own security standards. To go further, I think our (IBM's) use of SHA-1 for the same purpose for software downloads is likewise just fine. (One must now

Re: NetView session manager - Session Clone

2018-11-26 Thread Stone, Marshall
Yes - Under USER ADMIN - copy profile function Marshall -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Peter Sent: Monday, November 26, 2018 2:59 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: [EXT] NetView session manager - Session Clone

Re: Checksum or hashing

2018-11-26 Thread Jantje.
On Wed, 21 Nov 2018 04:21:10 -0600, Jantje. wrote: >Attached is a little Java program I did years ago for exactly that purpose. It >uses the excellent jzos for reading just about any type of dataset or file. > So far for attachments... Here is the code: package com.tme.mainframemove; import

Re: Region size for OMVS tasks

2018-11-26 Thread Elardus Engelbrecht
Sean Gleann wrote: >Hello Peter >Problem solved! Excellent. Thanks to Peter Hunkeler. >Your idea(s) regarding the SMF30 record analysis eventually led me to >reproducing the test environment used by the developer so that I could run the >tests myself. This is what IBM (and other vendors)

Re: Region size for OMVS tasks

2018-11-26 Thread Sean Gleann
Hello Peter Problem solved! Your idea(s) regarding the SMF30 record analysis eventually led me to reproducing the test environment used by the developer so that I could run the tests myself. One look at the command being used showed what the problem was - there was a parametrised upper limit of

Re: Storage question

2018-11-26 Thread John Eells
If you are thinking about recataloging them in the right order using DEFINE NONVSAM, it has been a while since you had to figure this out on your own. In every supported release of z/OS, IDCAMS DEFINE with RECATALOG will figure out the order of multivolume data set entries for you. I had to

Re: end-to-end visibility of mainframe performance

2018-11-26 Thread Timothy Sipples
Munif Sadek wrote: >I am looking for MVP (minimum Viable Product) to provide End-to-End >visibility of Business Applications where back-end is Mainframe - >CICS (Inbound services via CICS Listener, Liberty, Outbound via CICS >Web Services) MQ (CICS - MQ, DB2 - MQ, FTE etc) DB2 (CICS-DB2, JDBC,

Re: Another IBM tape not for z/OS

2018-11-26 Thread Timothy Sipples
Radoslaw Skorupka wrote: >IBM released new tape drive TS1160. >20TB/60TB capacity, up to 400/900MB/s data >transfer, dual 16Gbps interface. >You can attach it to your Windows server, or >Linux (x64), but mainframe >is excluded, no FICON attachment. I think you might have missed the last 10+