Re: Weird error with class DATASET

Hi Peter, Thank you for your input. It is a bit strange reading your statement " To be picky, RACF never "interferes". RACF only answers a question asked of it. " as I so frequently said something akin to that so many times over the years. Should RACF be called on what would be a second extent

Re: Weird error with class DATASET

< 0471ebeac275-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > W dniu 30.04.2024 o 12:45, Jack Zukt pisze: > > Hi all, > > > > I am cross-posting this to IBM-Main and RACF-L > > A strange situation was related to me yesterday. > > An ICETOOL job was executing using a

Weird error with class DATASET

Hi all, I am cross-posting this to IBM-Main and RACF-L A strange situation was related to me yesterday. An ICETOOL job was executing using a tape file for work space as the input files are quite large. As one tape was not enough, a mount for a second one was issued. When that happened, RACF

Re: SMS & GDG SCRATCH option

Hi All, I am going to investigate the possibility of using the IGGCATxx member options. Thank you all for your helpful answers and pointing me towards a possible solution. Regards Jack On Thu, 18 Apr 2024 at 16:02, Steve Pryor wrote: > Yes, that's correct. The ACS routines get control for new

SMS & GDG SCRATCH option

Hi all, Where, if possible, on the ASC routines of a SMS managed environment, can I force the SCRATCH option for a GDG base entry at definition time? Regards Jack -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: DFSORT and IPL Date

Hi Kolusu, Beautiful, elegant and delivers the intended result. Many thanks Best wishes Jack On Wed, 20 Mar 2024 at 16:59, Sri Hari Kolusu wrote: > >> What I am trying to achieve is simple. I want to select, using DCOLLECT > TYPE D records, files that have been created after the last IPL and

Re: DFSORT and IPL Date

Hi Kolusu, What I am trying to achieve is simple. I want to select, using DCOLLECT TYPE D records, files that have been created after the last IPL and ten days before today: INCLUDE COND=(DCURCTYP,EQ,DCUDATAT,AND, * Type = Data type DCDCREDT,LT,DATE3P-10,&, * Created < curr date

Re: DFSORT and IPL Date

The use of a JP variable is an interesting possibility. It does not solve the problem but it will provide an interim solution that can be easily maintained. Thank you Regards Jack On Wed, 20 Mar 2024 at 14:42, Scott Barry wrote: > One option is to harvest the /D IPLINFO information at IPL-time

Re: DFSORT and IPL Date

Hi Scott, Thank you for the suggestion. I am trying to build the JCL using only DFSORT capabilities. I was just wondering if maybe that particular capability would be available, as DFSORT as a wide range of date processing. An may be that if not yet, it would become available in the near future

DFSORT and IPL Date

Hi, Is there a way to make SORT date comparisons referencing the IPL date? I have not been able to find anything on the manual. Regards Jack -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to

Re: RACF, external password management

Hi, If what you need is to prevent users from using easy to guess passwords, RACF already has the tools that you need, from implementing mixed case, passphrases, and special characters, or/and using the password or passphrase exit, which is very easy to implement, to validate password complexity

Re: DFSORT JOINKEYS problem

Hi Massimo & Kolusu, Thank you both for your answers. As Massimo noticed, the first SKIP was wrong. There is no space between the RDW and the record subtype; there are only spaces between columns. My bad. Kolusu, thank you for the improved JCL. And I will take you on your offer. I am really

DFSORT JOINKEYS problem

Hi all, I have two files created using IRRDBU00. One has type 220 records, TSO segments, the other one has type 200 records, base userid information. For the userids on the 220 type records, I want to get from the 200 type records the userid, user name; last logon date; default group left four

Re: Insecure security - was SDSF PS Command column

Hi Bill, I can relate to your suspicions about password managers. Not to long ago Lastpass found out that they have been hacked, which must have been a big problem for its end users (which, fortunately I am not). On the other hand, I have way too many passwords to be manageable without a password

Re: Insecure security - was SDSF PS Command column

Hello all, That is an interesting point. However how many of you are still able to manage your passwords withiut using a password manager? I gave up many years ago. Regards Jack On Wed, Feb 14, 2024, 15:13 Pommier, Rex wrote: > Steve, > > You make a good point about making security so onerous

Re: DSS dump and migrated datasets

Hi, You coul use HSM ABARs. It will recall any migrated dataset that matches your filter. Best wishes Jack On Thu, Nov 23, 2023, 16:58 Radoslaw Skorupka < 0471ebeac275-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > I need to dump a lot of small dataset with HLQ=user_to_be_deleted. > Since the user

Re: The JES2 NJE node that cannot die.

Hi, You could try using RACF to prevent the node being used. >From the RACF Administrator's Guide: You can use profiles in the NODES class to control how RACF® validates inbound work on an NJE network. As with other RACF profiles, a NODES profile consists of a profile name, a profile class, a

Re: RACF, the FACILITY class, and z/XDC

Hi, Rver since IBM gave us CDT, user defined classes migration stopped being a problem. You no longer need the assembler macros to define user classes. Everything is in the RACF database. Best wishes Jack On Mon, Nov 13, 2023, 08:42 Rob Scott wrote: > Although setting up your own SAF class is

Re: Cloud Storage

Thank you all for your input. It has been quite helpful, Best regards Jack On Wed, 1 Nov 2023 at 02:56, David Crayford wrote: > > On 1 Nov 2023, at 10:34 am, Jon Perryman wrote: > > > > On Wed, 1 Nov 2023 08:48:03 +0800, David Crayford > wrote: > > > >> Sorry, OMEGAMON is a Rocket product. I

Cloud Storage

Hello all, Is there anyone out there using cloud storage for backup or dataset migration, using IBM Cloud Tape Connector for z/OS or Model9? A few months ago one of our clients asked Model9 for a POC and that has been one of those projects that seems to be going nowhere fast and I am curious

Re: ICETOOL built repor

Hi all, After researching a bit more, I used the ICETOOL operator RESIZE and managed to get the result that I needed. Regards Jack On Thu, 26 Oct 2023 at 10:46, Jack Zukt wrote: > Hi all, > > I need to print a record that has two fields, Volume serial, with six > positions, and d

ICETOOL built repor

Hi all, I need to print a record that has two fields, Volume serial, with six positions, and device number with four positions. Using ICETOOL I can print it with nice titles and columns headers but I would like to print it with three column pairs instead of just one, so it would print in just one

Re: Small problem with JNFxCNTL and VTOF

Hello Kolusu, Thank you for your input. I dropped the RECFM=FB approach and insrted a RDW at the beggining of the work record and it worked fine. Best regards, JAck On Wed, 11 Oct 2023 at 20:06, Sri h Kolusu wrote: > >> I was trying to use JNF1CNTL and JNF2CNTL to build the input files for >

Small problem with JNFxCNTL and VTOF

Hi, I am using DFSORT JOINKEYS to compare two files and to create two output files with the unpaired records from each one of those files. My problem is that one of the input files has a VB format while the other one has a FB format. I was trying to use JNF1CNTL and JNF2CNTL to build the input

Re: SORT INCLUDE problem

Hello Kolusu, Thank you very much for your help. I was not quite happy with the solution that I had come up with, as I was reading the input file twice and that bothered me because that is not an efficient solution. You latest solution is much simpler and efficient. And much more elegant as well.

Re: SORT INCLUDE problem

Hi Kolusu I tried the JCL that you have sent. It works, as expected, but maybe I was not quite clear in my last question. Is there a way to get all the dataset profiles that have two different groups with the same access using SORT or ICETOOL but without using JOINKEYS, so that the input file

Re: SORT INCLUDE problem

Hi Kolusu, Thank you very much for your input. The input file already is a subset of 0404 records, and the SUM FIELDS=NONE was the culprit. Once again the trouble come from copying a previously used JCL and not cleaning it properly. Now, if you will not mind, I have another question regarding

Re: SORT INCLUDE problem

Ok, I found the problem (I think) It was probably due to the "SUM FIELDS=NONE" statement Best wishes Jack On Fri, 15 Sept 2023 at 10:42, Jack Zukt wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to find a RACF dataset profile for which two different groups > have ALTER access. > I am usi

SORT INCLUDE problem

Hi, I am trying to find a RACF dataset profile for which two different groups have ALTER access. I am using for the INPUT a subset of a type 0404 records from a IRRDBU00 output file. In the first step I am crating two files with the dataset profiles in which the groups have ALTER authority:

Re: Help on DFSORT SUM FIELDS

Hi Kolusu, UBFLAG4 and UMFLAG4 are not recognized as valid names. As far as I can tell, the DCOLLECT record descriptors that I am using are the most recent ones on the IBM site, even if they are for z/OS 2.1. Any suggestions? Best wishes Jack On Thu, 7 Sept 2023 at 17:15, Sri h Kolusu wrote: >

Re: Help on DFSORT SUM FIELDS

Kolusu, You are so right about that. I was waiting for having this right before I would attempt that step. DFSORT is a magnificent product but I still am in an very early user stage. I have to do this in small steps. Thank you once again for your help Best wishes Jack On Thu, 7 Sept 2023 at

Re: Help on DFSORT SUM FIELDS

Kolusu, Of course it was that. That is what happens when you copy something so it you will not have to write everything from scratch. I forgot to change that 12 to 8, as I did on the other places. Thank you so much for your help. That is one of those errors that was staring me on the face and yet

Re: Help on DFSORT SUM FIELDS

0 KB830 KB 0 KB ASCLI 16.988 KB 0 KB 0 KB ASCLI 0 KB 0 KB 17.817 KB And I still cannot understand why. Best wishes Jack On Thu, 7 Sept 2023 at 15:11, Jack Zukt wrote: > Hi Kol

Re: Help on DFSORT SUM FIELDS

Hi Kolusu, Thank you for you help. I used one HLQ that has few files, (10 DASD; 1 Migrated; 11 HSM Backup; 22 DCOLLECT records). On my first try it gave me three output records: ASCLI 0 KB830 KB 0 KB ASCLI 16.988 KB 0 KB

Re: Help on DFSORT SUM FIELDS

Hi Kolusu, I knew it must be something simple,I just could not figure it out. Thank you so much for your help and for the explanation. Now, I hope that you do not mind if I ask you for one more thing. I wanted to have one line with the high level qualifier and all the three values but instead I

Help on DFSORT SUM FIELDS

Hi all, I am trying to process DCOLLECT type "D"; "B"; "M"; records in order to get one record by HLQ with the allocated space by active files, migrated files and backup files, and I am doing something wrong because I am getting one output record for each input record, instead of the few hundreds

Re: With regrets, after many years I will no longer be following IBM-MAIN

I have been a part of this list (and RACF) for decades. I have found valuable insights here, and even more valuable help for specific situations. I am deeply grateful for the help you all have been giving me along theses years and I hope to be around here for a few more years. There are a very few

Re: Help for US Talent

Been there, got a lot of t-shirts Jack On Tue, 15 Aug 2023 at 21:59, Seymour J Metz wrote: > Sometimes you have to do something boring that is not your responsibility > because you're the only one they trust to do it right and they can't afford > for it to be done wrong. > > That said, there's

Re: How can a REXX data stack pass information from a program?

It has been a long many years since I wrote my last cobol program. I was wondering if it would be possible to use a card punch to write to the stack. Best wishes Jack On Tue, Aug 15, 2023, 20:13 Paul Gilmartin < 042bfe9c879d-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > On Tue, 15 Aug 2023

Re: How can a REXX data stack pass information from a program?

dering what > that actually means. Is it just that a program could write something to > SYSTSIN? > > > > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf > Of Jack Zukt > Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2023 1:05 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU >

Re: How can a REXX data stack pass information from a program?

You need to pass eight bytes from a Cobol program to the invoking REXX. Why not use a disk file with a DD name? You can allocate it in the REXX, call the Cobol program, this can write it to the disk file, and you can read it in the calling REXX. Why does it have to be through the stack? Best

Re: DD SYSOUT=(,),DSN=?

What is it that you are trying to acomplish? Best wishes Jack On Tue, Aug 8, 2023, 20:49 Paul Gilmartin < 042bfe9c879d-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > How should the user code > DD SYSOUT=(,),DSN= > > in order that the last qualifier of the system-generated name for the > sysout

Re: Automount (was USS Features)

As someone pointed out, it is only one more user file and I suppose that you no not manage your space by restricting the number of user files. As it has also been noticed, it can, and will be HSM migrated. And when you delete a RACF userid the zfs file goes with all the others, there is no USS

Re: Separation of Duties RACF Security Admins/Systems Programmers - Sarbanes-Oxley

Role based security is the only kind that is manageable. Any other kind and you are playing at security, you are not managing it. Sysprogs and Secadmins really should be different persons. It is a very different role. It is a different mindset. I have worked both roles, sometimes both at the same

Re: Mainframe Makers.... WAS: Ars Technica: The IBM mainframe: How it runs and why it survives

I have been using ISPF workplace extensively for years now but, for some reason, I cannot convince anyone else to use it. It is very useful when you have to work with different systems that use different conventions for the same type of files, like SMF, SMPE, DCOLLECT reports, SYSLOG, to name a

SETROPTS ERASE(ALL)

Hello, Cross posted to RACF and MVS I am pretty sure that this topic has already been discussed on both RACF and MVS lists but I was not able to find anything on my searches. We were asked by a client about the impact that its system might suffer if they accepted their auditors recommendation of

Re: Userid schemes

First position for the company first letter and six digits with the employee number. For external people, "EX" and five digits for a sequence number. "Y" for service userids with up to seven letters taken from the product name (as these do not logon to TSO, eight positions could be used) Regards

Re: DFSORT - adding up on a field

Thank you very much Kolusu. That did the trick Best wishes Jack On Thu, 13 Jul 2023 at 17:40, Sri h Kolusu wrote: > Jack, > > If your intention is to count the number of Storage group and DASD Model, > then you can init with a counter of 1 and then sum it up. > > Here are the updated control

DFSORT - adding up on a field

Hi, I am processing DCOLLECT volume records in order to get the total space allocated by Storage group and DASD model. What I am trying to achieve is this: SCPHSMLG 0001 0002 3390-27 27.192.079 111.778 SCPHSMLG 0002 0001 3390-09 41.572.505

Re: z/OSMF

A long time ago, when the only computers available were mainframes, IBM and ISV pricing strategy may have made a lot of sense. When I first started working on IT, four decades ago, around here there were a few dozen of places running IBM MVS, VSE and VM. Today, after bank and insurance

Re: PDS/PDSE Member information

Hello all, Thank you all again for your help. I have been tinkering with REXX and ISPF for more than thirty years and I never had used ISPF library management services. I knew they existed but I did not even know where to begin looking, nor what could be done with them. So, thank you for pointing

Re: PDS/PDSE Member information

.” - - - John Wooden > > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf > Of Jack Zukt > Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2023 11:15 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: PDS/PDSE Member information > > That would be a nice way to do it but, u

Re: PDS/PDSE Member information

.com/lbdyck > > “Worry more about your character than your reputation. Character is what > you are, reputation merely what others think you are.” - - - John Wooden > > -----Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf > Of Jack Zukt > Sent: Thursday, Jun

Re: PDS/PDSE Member information

Thank Kolusu, Unfortunately this has to be run in batch. Best wishes, Jack On Thu, 15 Jun 2023 at 16:58, Sri h Kolusu wrote: > >> Is there a way to get the PDS/PDSE member information, namely, > member/userid/last change date in batch? I have not been able to get to it > using rexx. > > Jack, >

Re: PDS/PDSE Member information

your character than your reputation. Character is what > you are, reputation merely what others think you are.” - - - John Wooden > > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf > Of David Spiegel > Sent: Thursday, June 15, 2023 10:33 AM >

PDS/PDSE Member information

Hi all, Is there a way to get the PDS/PDSE member information, namely, member/userid/last change date in batch? I have not been able to get to it using rexx. Regards, Jack -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: z/OSMF

Hate? Hell, no. Just contempt for a poorly developed product that IBM forces us to use. It is true that IBM as an history of user unfriendly interfaces for using its products. This one, on top of that, is also poorly designed which results, as it is been said, on a ghastly performance. Jack On

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: zOSMF

. But Windows and android are not stable and reliable systems. At least, not the ones I have running on my devices. Jack On Fri, May 26, 2023, 17:38 Phil Smith III wrote: > Jack Zukt wrote, in part: > >The real problem, as I see it, is that drag and drop interfaces move you > >away from t

Re: zOSMF

The real problem, as I see it, is that drag and drop interfaces move you away from the need to know what you are doing. A long time ago, the first MVS install that I did on my own, took me a few months to do it. I was doing it under VM/XA and I did a few complete back to square one at the time, as

Re: Are Banks Breaking Up With Mainframes? | Forbes

Whatever the agenda of the writer, it still is something that is happening, mostly, I think, because of IBM's SW pricing strategy. Regards Jack On Fri, May 19, 2023, 20:14 Mark Regan wrote: > >

Re: XEDUT vs. ISPF (was: Typo ...)

Hi, That made for some interesting reading. I was quite proficient with REXX and XEDIT before moving to MVS and ISPF. The first MVS I worked with did not yet have REXX. It was helish doing the transition to ISPF and CLIST. I still find VM help much better than MVS's. One of the first things that I

Re: REXX parse parens

gards Jack On Tue, 2 May 2023 at 10:46, Lars Höglund wrote: > Why do You have "blank" before and after "()"? > > -----Ursprungligt meddelande- > Från: IBM Mainframe Discussion List För Jack > Zukt > Skickat: den 2 maj 2023 09:02 > Till: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.

Re: REXX parse parens

Hi This should work Parse arg opt Parse value opt with "(" opt") " If pos(" (", opt) >0 then Parse value opt with opt" ("member")" Do End Regards Jack On Tue, May 2, 2023, 00:31 Frank Swarbrick wrote: > The following is a simplified version of some code from IBM's CEEBLDTX, > placed in

Re: Sort INCLUDE problem

HLQ that should be present on both files is present only in one, the one referenced by the first OUTFIL. Best wishes Jack On Fri, 28 Apr 2023 at 16:20, Jack Zukt wrote: > Hello Kolusu, > > Thank you for your quick answer. > As you have guessed, my problem is on the two first step

Re: Sort INCLUDE problem

Hello Kolusu, Thank you for your quick answer. As you have guessed, my problem is on the two first steps, which you have consolidated in one. The management class is only relevant for spiting the information into two files; what I need is to summarize the size by high level qualifier for the

Sort INCLUDE problem

Hi I have this file in which each record has a tape dataset name, the creation date, the last ref date, size and management class. I need to summarize the size by high level qualifier and to create a file with all the record that have one specific management class, and do the same for the records

Re: CyberSecurity Risk

&* auditors). > > Peter > > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf > Of Jack Zukt > Sent: Monday, April 17, 2023 9:53 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: CyberSecurity Risk > > EXTERNAL EMAIL > > Hi all, > Print s

Re: CyberSecurity Risk

Thank you Gil, I was in need of a good laugh, Best wishes Jack On Mon, 17 Apr 2023 at 16:11, Paul Gilmartin < 042bfe9c879d-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > On Mon, 17 Apr 2023 14:52:32 +0100, Jack Zukt wrote: > > > >Print screens can still be done but,as it

Re: CyberSecurity Risk

-17 14:21, Michael Babcock escribió: > > We also use Citrix and ours has been disabled for quite some time now. > > Yep, same here. We can paste to Citrix but not the other way around. > > > > On Mon, Apr 17, 2023 at 5:54 AM Jack Zukt wrote: > > > >> Hi all, &

CyberSecurity Risk

Hi all, This is way off topic, sorry, but I am curious, so please be patient In one of the clients for which I have to work the Auditors found out that the Copy/Paste between the client Citrix session and our PCs is a risk and the client disabled the function. Has anyone else ever has such an

Re: DFSORT and date YYYY/MM/DD

Hi Kolosu, So simple, and I was not seeing it. Thank you very much for you help Best wishes JAck On Fri, 14 Apr 2023 at 17:33, Sri h Kolusu wrote: > >> Using this file as input, I need to create one with only the records > for which the LRDATE are is equal to today's date less one year. > >

Re: eliminate use of id(0)

Hi, Using the UNIXPRIV class and the BPX profiles in the FACILITY class has enabled me to avoid giving a lot of must have UID(0) over the years. It may take a little longer that giving UID(0), as you will have to work through a few (or a lot) of ICH408I, but it is doable. Regards, Jack On Tue, 11

DFSORT and date YYYY/MM/DD

Hi, I have file produced by FDREPORT with this format: 1FDR400FDRABR CUSTOM REPORTS - FDREPORT VER 5.4/90P INNOVATION DATA PROCESSINGDATE - 0 DATA SET NAMEVOLSER CREATJOB CRDATE LRDATE FILE SIZE -

Re: determine job that created dataset?

Hi, Just a few days ago I have had to produce something like that for someone that wanted to know where some files were being created. For some time now that I try to use SORT to solve this kind of requests. This is what I used to get the desired results (just for the 02/09/2023 SMF records),

Re: Question on use of LPARNAME, SYSNAME and SMFID

Hi, We use different lpar names for our base systems and recovery system. And we use that variable to choose the IPL sequence for each situation. As for smfid and sysname, yes, they usually tend to be the same. Regards Jack On Fri, Feb 10, 2023, 16:16 Matt Hogstrom wrote: > I’m doing some

Re: SORT SUM Problem

Thank you Sri. It was as simple as that. Many thanks Jack On Tue, 31 Jan 2023 at 12:46, Sri h Kolusu wrote: > Jack, > > The issue is you have NOT converted the UFF value to Binary before > performing the SUM > > Here is the change you need (Untested) > > //SYSINDD * > INREC

SORT SUM Problem

Hi all, I should probably say "my problem with SORT SUM", as the real problem is not with SORT. So, I have an input file with a 100 byte record that has a dataset name on the first 44 bytes and a numeric value (UFF) on the last ten. I need to sum up those 10 last bytes by High Level Qualifier. My

Re: REXX Question

Hi, A long, long time ago, in another century, I asked a colleague of mine to write an assembler program to do just that. It resides on a LINKLIB PDS, and it is not APF authorized. I have been using it ever since, without recompiling, since OS/390 1.1 up to z/OS 4.2. (I Have not tried it on a

Re: Re; Rexx function STORAGE with weird behavior on Netview

wrote: > On Tue, 20 Dec 2022 10:31:37 +0000, Jack Zukt wrote: > > > >The glitch was the NETVIEW REXXSTRF value thas was set to the default > >DISABLE. While we wait for an IPL, the OVERRIDE solves the issue. > > > Please describe OVERRIDE. Is that a parameter to NETVIEW?

Re: Re; Rexx function STORAGE with weird behavior on Netview

Hello all, The glitch was the NETVIEW REXXSTRF value thas was set to the default DISABLE. While we wait for an IPL, the OVERRIDE solves the issue. And as Kulosu noted, it is Mark Zelden's IPLINFO rexx that we are using, not an IBM supplied one. Thank you all for your time and valuable

Re: Rexx function STORAGE with weird behavior on Netview

Thank you all for your comments May be I was not clear before. This is (I think) an IBM supplied REXX. I am not sure on its origin, but it works fine as is, except on one system AND when executed by a NETVIEW address space. If executed as a TSO command it works just fine. It even works under

Rexx function STORAGE with weird behavior on Netview

Hi, My colleagues come to me with a weird situation for which I cannot find an explanation. You are probably familiar with the IPLINFO REXX. It works just fine but there is one system on which, when invoked by NETVIEW, the CVT = C2d(Storage(10,4))/* point to CVT */

Re: Problem with DFSORT SUM FIELDS

Hi Kolusu, Forget it, please. I was missing a "," at the end of the line. Now it ran just fine. Regards, Jack On Thu, 15 Dec 2022 at 16:58, Sri h Kolusu wrote: > >> It is giving an error that is baffling me: > > Jack, > > Did you define the symbols correctly ? I changed the SYMNAMES to add the

Re: Problem with DFSORT SUM FIELDS

Sorry Kolusu, I should have sent all the JCL and SORT control cards: //SYMNAMES DD DISP=SHR,DSN=(HEADER) // DD DISP=SHR,DSN=(TYPED) // DD DISP=SHR,DSN=(TYPEV) // DD * TMP-DCVVLCAP,*,8,BI TMP-DCVVLCAP1,=,4,BI TMP-DCVVLCAP2,*,4,BI TMP-DCVALLOC,*,8,BI

Re: Problem with DFSORT SUM FIELDS

Hi Kolusu, Thank you for your quick answer. As it would be expected I had the ICE152I 0 OVERFLOW DURING SUMMATION - RC=0 message. I did not think of looking for error messages due to the final RC(0). I ran the SORT with your suggested improvements. It is giving an error that is baffling me:

Problem with DFSORT SUM FIELDS

Hi, I am trying to use DFSORT to summarize the space on a few STORAGE GROUPS. The INPUT is a file with all the DCOLLECT TYPE "V" records. I am sorting it by the storage group name, and using for SUM FIELDS the "TOTAL CAPACITY OF VOL" and "ALLOCATED SPACE ON VOL": //SYMNAMES DD

Re: DFSORT: Building one record from two and ignore the rest

HI Kolusu, Many thanks for your help. If there is not a OHSM record for each DSNAME, I will have a bigger problem to solve. Best wishes, Jack On Thu, 24 Nov 2022 at 15:30, Sri h Kolusu wrote: > >>. So, what I need is to get the dataset name from the record that has > "DSNAME =", the volser

Re: DFSORT: Building one record from two and ignore the rest

Hi Kolusu, I must not have explained myself right. The dataset name starts on position 11 of the record with "DSNAME =" beginning on position 2 (the file has a recfm FBA); the volser starts on position 47 of the record with "OHSM." beginning on position 2; all the other records are irrelevant.

DFSORT: Building one record from two and ignore the rest

Hi, I have a file that was built by a HSM command and that has a few thousand groups of records such as this: +1+2+3+4+5+6+7+8+9+0+1+2- 1- DFSMSHSM CONTROL DATASET - BACKUP DATASET-- LISTING - AT

Re: Using JCL variables with DFSORT

Best regards. > Max > > > Il giorno gio 3 nov 2022 alle ore 18:23 Jack Zukt ha > scritto: > > > Hi, > > I am trying to improve a SORT by using a variable to specify a Include > > variable. > > I defined the variable by means of a > > //SET#EXTN SET EXT

Using JCL variables with DFSORT

Hi, I am trying to improve a SORT by using a variable to specify a Include variable. I defined the variable by means of a //SET#EXTN SET EXTNUM=200 and then I used //STEP0100 EXEC PGM=SORT,PARM='JP1""' and INCLUDE=(INP_EXTNTS,GT,JP1), The problem, I think, is that the "200" is then used as

Re: DFSORT: Get part of a file between to records

Hi Mike, I did not know about that. I will look into it. Thank you for the info. Regards, Jack On Mon, 10 Oct 2022 at 18:35, Mike Schwab wrote: > IEBGENER RECORD statement? > https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/2.1.0?topic=statements-record-statement > > On Mon, Oct 10, 2022 at 10:17

Re: DFSORT: Get part of a file between to records

Thanks Kolusu, It worked just as needed Best regards Jack On Tue, 11 Oct 2022 at 05:25, Sri h Kolusu wrote: > >> I am trying to use DFSORT to get part of a dataset. > > Jack, > > Please use the following untested JCL which will give you the desired > results > > //STEP0100 EXEC PGM=SORT >

DFSORT: Get part of a file between to records

Hi, I am trying to use DFSORT to get part of a dataset. We are directing the output of an ABAR job to a dataset and I would like to get the log for a specified date. Every LOG begins and ends with specific strings, and I would like to get those records and all the records in the middle, ignoring

Re: Using DFSORT over DCOLLECT to get dataset extent number

Thank you Kolusu, I am going to try it, Best Regards, Jack On Wed, 28 Sept 2022 at 14:20, Sri h Kolusu wrote: > >> I am using OUTREC IFTHEN=(WHEN=( I have been reading the DFSORT > Application Programming Guide but I have not been finding what I need. As > far as I can tell, as soon as one of

Re: Using DFSORT over DCOLLECT to get dataset extent number

d types to do this. > > On Fri, Sep 23, 2022 at 2:59 AM Jack Zukt wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > > > I have a rexx that reads a DCOLLECT output, processes the type "D" > records > > and creates a file with a list of datasets that have over 200 extents

Using DFSORT over DCOLLECT to get dataset extent number

Hi all, I have a rexx that reads a DCOLLECT output, processes the type "D" records and creates a file with a list of datasets that have over 200 extents. As I am using a SORT between the DCOLLECT and the rexx in order to have only the type "D" records, I was wondering if it would be possible to

Re: IDC3009I & IDC1566I with a weird dsn

H BLANKS > > For some reason it took me a long time to figure out the DSN format for > the DELBCSR command. > > Warning: Use at you own risk > > Thanks > > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf > Of Jack Zukt > Sent: Wednesday

Re: IDC3009I & IDC1566I with a weird dsn

the garbage is in the usercat, FIXVVDS tools aren't likely helpful. > > You other possibility would be to define a new usercat and REPRO MERGECAT > all the good entries to the new usercat. > > > -Original Message- > > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On > &g

Re: IDC3009I & IDC1566I with a weird dsn

ocket has the > Mainstar product. Dinosoft has one. > > > -Original Message- > > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On > > Behalf Of Jack Zukt > > Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2022 3:42 AM > > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > > Subject: Re: IDC3009I

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