If you are not sure anymore what IPL text was written in the past to which volumes, there is: REFORMAT REMOVEIPLTXT to clear this.
This way you are sure you will not accidently IPL something old and disastrous. Kees. > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Jesse 1 Robinson > Sent: 07 September, 2018 23:07 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Report volumes with IPLText > > IIRC, every volume initialized by ICKDSF--is there any other way?--will > contain code in the IPLTEXT area that loads a wait state 00F, which says > that no IPL text exists, unless that area has been rewritten with true > IPL text. So you might write a program that looks for the 00F wait state > code and infer that otherwise it has actual IPL text. You work for the > guvment, right? > > . > . > J.O.Skip Robinson > Southern California Edison Company > Electric Dragon Team Paddler > SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager > 323-715-0595 Mobile > 626-543-6132 Office ⇐=== NEW > [email protected] > > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Steve Smith > Sent: Friday, September 07, 2018 1:49 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: (External):Re: Report volumes with IPLText > > ICKDSF claims it knows how to tell if IPL text exists. Ref: > https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSLTBW_2.3.0/com.ibm.zos. > v2r3.e0zm100/aa3iplt.htm > > I used to know more about where IPL text was. Likely it would take an > authorized program using EXCP to poke at it. Regardless, I've never > heard of any utility that did. So, if you think there's a market, go > ahead and write it! > > sas > > > On 9/7/2018 16:34, Seymour J Metz wrote: > > I doubt it; what signature would it look for? > > > > It would be easy to write a program that looked for a specific version > of IPLTEXT, but I don't see how to do anything more general than that. > > > > > > -- > > Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz > > http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 > > > > ________________________________________ > > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> on > > behalf of Dyck, Lionel B. (RavenTek) > > <[email protected]> > > Sent: Friday, September 7, 2018 1:35 PM > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: Report volumes with IPLText > > > > Is there a utility that will display all mounted volumes that have IPL > Text installed? > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > ---- > > Lionel B. Dyck (Contractor) <sdg>< > > Mainframe Systems Programmer - RavenTek Solution Partners > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ******************************************************** For information, services and offers, please visit our web site: http://www.klm.com. This e-mail and any attachment may contain confidential and privileged material intended for the addressee only. If you are not the addressee, you are notified that no part of the e-mail or any attachment may be disclosed, copied or distributed, and that any other action related to this e-mail or attachment is strictly prohibited, and may be unlawful. If you have received this e-mail by error, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail, and delete this message. Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij NV (KLM), its subsidiaries and/or its employees shall not be liable for the incorrect or incomplete transmission of this e-mail or any attachments, nor responsible for any delay in receipt. Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij N.V. (also known as KLM Royal Dutch Airlines) is registered in Amstelveen, The Netherlands, with registered number 33014286 ******************************************************** ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
