Re: Security vulnerability in IBM HTTP Server for z/OS Version 5.3 (PM79239)
On Thu, 3 Jan 2013 21:35:07 +, Staller, Allan wrote: Since IBM reps are specifically taking the time to contact customers, I would consider this a serious exploit. IF you ARE running the described version of HTTP server, I would install immediately (at least as fast as you change control will allow). IF you ARE NOT running the described version of HTTP server, I would not make any special efforts. Hmmm - my concern when I heard about the sooper seekrit phone call, was how do we get this major (???) hole plugged ?. Who in this neigbourhood has a weekly patch window in production like the VMWare/MickeyMouse admins do ?. And how do you explain the reluctance to apply the fix immediately to a Security Auditor brought up on zero day exploits in the afore-mentioned world ?. Shane ... -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: RACF on an ADCD system
I'm puzzled. I haven't installed an ADCD for a while, but the layout used to be explicitly designed for z/OS migration, with a clear split between the volumes that would be expected to be replaced in a migration, and those that wouldn't. I disagree. It is set up so that you can customize it properly (by dividing your customization from what the system does), provided you know how to do that. When I got my hands on the 1.10 system, I first had to clean it up severely (get all of our datasets out of the master catalog into a user catalog) and then hope and pray that I have found all places someone (using IBMUSER) had changed the SMPE-maintained libraries instead of copying to USER.* libraries (before my time). It takes some knowledge about migration to be able to customize correctly. When switching to the new system, we lost the RACF database and the master catalog and were forced onto the new ones. I had to make sure that I had all of our own RACF definitions copied to the new system. Someone had in the past activated SMS to contain more than the minimum config ADCD comes with. Unfortunately (never having been a space admin before), I didn't know that I also had to copy over the SMS CDSs. That caused all kinds of problems. Maybe it is just our provider (who had apparently done something to the bare ADCD system), but we were not given the chance to 'just replace' the system volumes (as one would do in a 'normal' migration to a new release). Instead, we were thrown into a new, vanilla ADCD system (and no documentation to speak of) and forced to copy over all of our user data. The (old) volumes could get attached under VM to the new z/OS system, so that removed the necessity of ADRDSSU dumping, FTPing and restoring everything. Never mind that FTP apparently was broken. An ADRDSSU dump taken in the 1.10 system and FTP'd (in my case via IND$FILE) to 1.13 resulted in ADRDSSU in 1.13 telling me that this was not an ADRDSSU dump. When we ftp'd the transport copy of our user catalog, something else broke and I was unable to import connect the user catalog. When we ADRDSSU dumped the old usercat and restored it, we got abend0C4 in some catalog module or other. Eventually I first amatersed any catalog or ADRDSSU dump on the old system, ftp'd the amatersed copy to 1.13, and untersed it. *Then* it was recognized as a valid copy. I did not debug what went wrong, my assumption was lack of toleration maintenance for the new release. The other thing an ADCD system is not set up for is applying maintenance (never mind that we cannot order any via ShopZ because our provider has the ADCD licence. No customer number, no ShopZ). There is no extra set of system residences that can be used for SMPE, so everything would go directly into the live system. With all the problems like linklist libraries going into extents that would entail. So even installing toleration maintenance would be a pain. I was told by my predecessor that in the past they *always* had to ADRDSSU dump their own data, ftp them somehow to the new ADCD system and restore there. They went through P/390, FLEX/ES, with a stint of Hercules to ADCD at our current provider. Barbara -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: Grant permission for TSO Account command
Joel, that's exactly the case and thanks for your help too. Thanks 2013/1/3 Joel C. Ewing jcew...@acm.org On 01/03/2013 05:06 PM, Lizette Koehler wrote: Make sure your IKJTSOxx member contains the correct AUTHPGM and AUTHCMD entries. Lizette -Original Message- From: Angel Tamayo a.tamay...@gmail.com Sent: Jan 3, 2013 4:04 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Grant permission for TSO Account command Hi List, I'm migrating to zOS 1.11 from an unsupported zOS level, I defined a new SYS1.BRODCAST and now I'm trying to format and synchronize but I got COMMAND NOT AUTHORIZED FOR userid. I have been looking in manuals, google, IBM and my notes and I couldn't find(remember) how to get access to the command. I know that it can be granted in RACF but I don't have the command to do it. Someone of you could be so kindly and tell me how can I do it? Thanks. ... You weren't specific about the messages seen, but suspect you would have encountered IKJ58618I SYNC TERMINATED. USER UNAUTHORIZED TO ISSUE SYNC COMMAND. + IKJ58618I USER MUST HAVE ACCOUNT AUTHORITY TO ISSUE THE SYNC COMMAND. The userid in question must have at least READ access to a profile ACCT in class TSOAUTH in order to issue either the old TSO ACCOUNT command (made obsolete in a RACF environment by user profile TSO segments and the TSOAUTH class) or the TSO SYNC command.If TSOAUTH ACCT doesn't already exist, it should be created with UACC(NONE) and explicit READ access only given to those who should be allowed access to ACCOUNT/SYNC commands. -- Joel C. Ewing,Bentonville, AR jcew...@acm.org --**--**-- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: DFSMRCL0 usermod - was: I broke it
The ADCD owners confirm that they do now have plans to run IBM HealthChecker for z/OS against the ADCD (at least for the newer releases of z/OS that they support). Whether that was a direct result of this thread or not, I am not sure. It remains to be seen how much they take advantage of the exceptions that initially are reported. Once that is underway, I expect, at least, that the DFSMRCL0 usermod will not be applied when a z/OS 1.13 ADCD system is subsequently built. I mention 1.13 only because that is the release where the HC of IEAVTRML is introduced and thus that is the release where the presence of DFSMRCL0 usermod would be flagged. Quite possibly they will be able to apply that knowledge to earlier releases that have IMS V9 or later (that being the release where the need for DFSMRCL0 went away, and knowing that earlier IMS versions are no longer supported). If any of you care to contribute by running HC yourself on the ADCD system and reporting things that both are flagged as exceptions and that in all likelihood would help just about the entire ADCD community to have changed, feel free to send me a note (but not that IEAVTRML one, please!). I mention the entire ADCD community only because I can imagine some exception situations being left alone in order to accommodate a subset of users who might need the flagged behavior. I have no specific examples of such things with respect to ADCD. I do also have hope that some information would accompany the distribution, setting the expectation for what exceptions one might see if running HC. Peter Relson z/OS Core Technology Design -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: What size memory object backs an IARCP64
There is an parm that sets the number of memory large pages at IPL time. True, but not relevant to the question, in general. The specific answer is 1M memory object. This is why the cellsize is limited to 520192. And of course you cannot get a memory object smaller than 1M. There is nothing particularly special about IARCP64. It invokes IARV64 under the covers when it needs to expand. The rules for objects obtained by IARV64 (such as application of MEMLIMIT) apply to IARCP64. Peter Relson z/OS Core Technology Design -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: RACF on an ADCD system
On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 2:44 AM, ibmmain nitz-...@gmx.net wrote: deleted Never mind that FTP apparently was broken. An ADRDSSU dump taken in the 1.10 system and FTP'd (in my case via IND$FILE) to 1.13 resulted in ADRDSSU in 1.13 telling me that this was not an ADRDSSU dump. When we ftp'd the transport copy of our user catalog, something else broke and I was unable to import connect the user catalog. When we ADRDSSU dumped the old usercat and restored it, we got abend0C4 in some catalog module or other. Eventually I first amatersed any catalog or ADRDSSU dump on the old system, ftp'd the amatersed copy to 1.13, and untersed it. *Then* it was recognized as a valid copy. I did not debug what went wrong, my assumption was lack of toleration maintenance for the new release. deleted Barbara ADRDSSU uses large block sizes that FTP can't handle. Terse / unterse took care of that. -- Mike A Schwab, Springfield IL USA Where do Forest Rangers go to get away from it all? -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: Syntax checker jes
I believe that New Era software has a product to analyze JES2 parms in addition to many other items. It's called IPLCHECK, and I believe that it's free. Maybe someone from New Era would comment on this? Best regards, Cheryl == Cheryl Watson Watson Walker, Inc. www.watsonwalker.com cell text: 941-266-6609 == On Jan 1, 2013, at 12:08 PM, Jake anderson wrote: Hello, Do we have a syntax checker for jes2parm ? Are there any in built facility within z/os ? Any suggestions are highly appreciated. Jake -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: Syntax checker jes
http://www.ibmsystemsmag.com/buyersguide/NewEra-Software,-Inc-/IPL-Check/ http://www.newera.com/IPLCheck/product_description.pdf Integrates into IBM Health Checker. Free, but they must have your model / serial number to create a download specific to your system. On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 10:11 AM, Cheryl Watson cwwalke...@gmail.com wrote: I believe that New Era software has a product to analyze JES2 parms in addition to many other items. It's called IPLCHECK, and I believe that it's free. Maybe someone from New Era would comment on this? Best regards, Cheryl == Cheryl Watson -- Mike A Schwab, Springfield IL USA Where do Forest Rangers go to get away from it all? -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Service Unit rate and HiperDispatch
Hi, As indicated in the LSPR manual, SRM constants at the LPAR level can deviate substantially from the actual capacity of the LPAR due to their sensitivity to the number of logical engines. Each time that you manually vary a CP offline (or online), The SRM constant is changed. When an LP is added to an LPAR, the SRM constant is recalculated to reflect the new configuration. However, this recalculation does NOT (!) occur when IRD (Intelligent Resource Director) adds or removes the LP. Is this true too with HiperDispatch (HD) ? *(When HD is turned on, IRD is de-activated of course.)* But there IS a difference between IRD and HD in the way these mechanisms work. IRD varies CPUs 'online/offline'. While HD adjusts the number of 'active' CPUs to achieve the minimum required to run the work of the partition. It 'parks' unused processors, 'parking' meaning - in simple terms - placing a CPU in kind of a long-term wait until it is again needed to run work. (Parked CPUs get no share distribution.) So what about the service unit rate in respect with HD? Is the SU rate changed or unchanged when CPs are parked or unparked? If unchanged when CPs are parked/unparked and if you use service units as the basis of charge-back, this will skew the results because fewer service units will be produced than if you manually configure the logical processors. Please shed some light. Jan -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: Security vulnerability in IBM HTTP Server for z/OS Version 5.3 (PM79239)
It is somewhat alarming that several posted that they are not signed up for the security portal. Someone also posted that they are signed up for red alerts and asked why it was not sent that way. As I understand it, a red alert was sent out (perhaps this past July) stating that the method for sending and alerting about security and integrity PTFs is via the security portal. Simply, the security portal is the red alert process for security and integrity PTFs. Perhaps I am oversimplifying, but it seems that every customer should make sure that they -- are signed up for red alerts -- pay attention to those red alerts -- sign up for the security portal. This should not be new news. It should be well understood that z/OS provides few if any details on integrity APARs. The PTFs were available via the security portal on December 20. I have no information about why they were not found the day after Christmas when someone looked at www.ibm.com/support. But I'm glad to hear they are there now. Peter Relson z/OS Core Technology Design -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Formatting a Number with comma's
I ran across this code from Doug Nadel several years ago and hope that
y'all will find it useful.
/* - */
/* number format code thanks to Doug Nadel */
/* - */
str=strip(translate('0,123,456,789,abc,def', ,
right(bytes,16,','), ,
'0123456789abcdef'),'L',',')
bytes = strip(str)
Here are two examples from oorexx under windows (this works well under
z/OS and z/VM)
C:\t\newtest.rex 12345678
Bytes: 12,345,678
C:\t\newtest.rex 12345678.12
Bytes: 12,345,678,.12
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Re: FTP ERRORS [was: RACF on an ADCD system]
If you want a simple tool to FTP files between z/OS LPARs and also between other platforms check out my ISPF dialog FTPBATCH ( http://www.lbdsoftware.com/ftpb223.zip) which will: prompt for from/to dataset if a PDS you can send the entire PDS or just selected members optionally invoke DFDSS to unload the dataset at the from and restore at the target runs either in batch or interactively optionally generates batch JCL so you can repeat the process without using the ISPF dialog Hope this helps Lionel B. Dyck z Client Architect IBM Corporation - West IMT Mobile Phone: 1-925-207-4518 E-mail: lionel.d...@us.ibm.com System z: www-03.ibm.com/systems/z/ Linux on z: http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/z/os/linux/ Destination z: http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/z/destinationz/index.html/ Think Inside the z Box -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: FTP ERRORS [was: RACF on an ADCD system]
On Fri, 4 Jan 2013 18:19:05 +, Jerry Whitteridge jerry.whitteri...@safeway.com wrote: Long ago I found the following details and sent it to my team. You may find the extra details useful: Use the following to FTP a DFDSS Dump. First, issue the QUOTE SITE command as follows, which will assure the receiving file will have the proper DCB attributes... QUOTE SITE BLKSIZE=27998 LRECL=0 RECFM=U PRI=xxx SEC=xxx TRACK Of course you much change the space parameters as necessary. Then, prior to issuing the actual PUT command, issue these commands. MODE B EBCDIC Mode B tells FTP to use block mode transfers. The result is a file DFDSS likes! Sounds like a dump to disk, not tape. I recall trying tape with default blocksize and it didn't work. Even with LRECL=X - even though that works for me for VB SMF data with BLKSIZE 32760.If I need to FTP a full volume dump from tape, I just use FDR with FORMAT=SPLIT to force a max blksize of 32K. But like you wrote, MODE B and TYPE E (or EBCDIC) is required regardless. -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS mailto:m...@mzelden.com Mark's MVS Utilities: http://www.mzelden.com/mvsutil.html Systems Programming expert at http://expertanswercenter.techtarget.com/ -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: Formatting a Number with comma's
On Fri, 4 Jan 2013 10:43:18 -0800, Lionel Dyck lionel.d...@us.ibm.com wrote:
I ran across this code from Doug Nadel several years ago and hope that
y'all will find it useful.
/* - */
/* number format code thanks to Doug Nadel */
/* - */
str=strip(translate('0,123,456,789,abc,def', ,
right(bytes,16,','), ,
'0123456789abcdef'),'L',',')
bytes = strip(str)
Here are two examples from oorexx under windows (this works well under
z/OS and z/VM)
C:\t\newtest.rex 12345678
Bytes: 12,345,678
C:\t\newtest.rex 12345678.12
Bytes: 12,345,678,.12
May need a tweak (or cut/paste does). What's that extra comma before
the decimal point in the 2nd example?
There was a recent thread on the TSO-REXX list that had some
nice examples - probably including this one (I don't follow TSO-REXX
too closely).
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Re: FTP ERRORS [was: RACF on an ADCD system]
Yes - that was dump to disk. As you say it was the Mode B and Type E that was significant Jerry Whitteridge Lead Systems Programmer Safeway Inc. 925 951 4184 If you feel in control you just aren't going fast enough. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Mark Zelden Sounds like a dump to disk, not tape. I recall trying tape with default blocksize and it didn't work. Even with LRECL=X - even though that works for me for VB SMF data with BLKSIZE 32760.If I need to FTP a full volume dump from tape, I just use FDR with FORMAT=SPLIT to force a max blksize of 32K. But like you wrote, MODE B and TYPE E (or EBCDIC) is required regardless. Email Firewall made the following annotations. -- Warning: All e-mail sent to this address will be received by the corporate e-mail system, and is subject to archival and review by someone other than the recipient. This e-mail may contain proprietary information and is intended only for the use of the intended recipient(s). If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient(s), you are notified that you have received this message in error and that any review, dissemination, distribution or copying of this message is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately. == -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: Service Unit rate and HiperDispatch
The SRM Constants are not changed with HiperDispatch parking and unparking engines. Just as the Announced Software MSUs do not change on a physical machine regardless of it's LPAR configuration. Chargeback is getting harder, as the user whose see variability in their charges (if based on HW or SW Service Units) does not really have any control over the Service Units. That is controlled by whomever sets up WLM and how WLM, z/OS, and PR/SM manage each machine. Al Sherkow, I/S Management Strategies, Ltd. Consulting Expertise on IBM Workload License Charges (WLC), LPARs and LCS Software Seminars on IBM Mainframe Software Pricing +1 414 332-3062 www.sherkow.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
FCTC and MPC definitions
Hoping someone can provide some guidance. Dynmaically activated FICON CTCs. DEvices are defined correctly and online to all systems. However, we cannot allocate mpc+ connections. Here are the sequence of events: for an activate vary devices online - TRL - LCL *when activating the TRL on one system it remains active for a minute (or appears) then drops when activated on the other system reverse for inactivate inact lcl - devices offline - dealloc Your assistance is appreciated. Regards, Don -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Promote specific modules from service root
Normally, I apply maintenance to a copy mounted at /Service (or sometimes /Zervice :) and deploy by making a copy of the new root ZFS file (and the SYSRES :) and IPL from them. Let's say, I want to apply a limited set of fixes to a few executable modules and update a specific product without IPL. In the normal loadlib world, I would COPYMOD the modules, carefully refresh LLA if needed and restart the appropriate tasks. What would be the appropriate tool to accomplish this in the ZFS (or HFS) world? Some pax incantation? Dave Gibney Information Technology Services Washington State University -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: Promote specific modules from service root
In a real UNIX, I'd use rsync with the -av switches. Given that such
do not exist on z/OS UNIX, I'd put the names of the files to be copied
into another file, without the leading /Service or /Zervice. I'd then
do something like:
su - #switch to root
for i in file.containing.list.of.files;do cmp -s $i /Service/$i || {
mv -v $i $i.bak;cp -v -a /Service/$i $i };done #copy changed files
exit #from the root shell
What this does is for each file in the list, compare the old ($i) and
new (/Service/$i) version. If they are different, then rename the
current version, $i, to a backup name $i.bak, then verbosely (-v) copy
(cp) the new to the old, keeping the attributes of the new (dates,
owners, etc) (-a).
You may then want restart those processes which it would not be too
disruptive to restart.
On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 1:26 PM, Gibney, Dave gib...@wsu.edu wrote:
Normally, I apply maintenance to a copy mounted at /Service (or sometimes
/Zervice :) and deploy by making a copy of the new root ZFS file (and the
SYSRES :) and IPL from them.
Let's say, I want to apply a limited set of fixes to a few executable modules
and update a specific product without IPL.
In the normal loadlib world, I would COPYMOD the modules, carefully refresh
LLA if needed and restart the appropriate tasks.
What would be the appropriate tool to accomplish this in the ZFS (or HFS)
world? Some pax incantation?
Dave Gibney
Information Technology Services
Washington State University
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Re: Formatting a Number with comma's
sure
nocommas=strip(input,b,,)
http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/IKJ4A390/4.3.55
On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 1:44 PM, Bill Ashton bill00ash...@gmail.com wrote:
Now, on a related note...is there a simple way to remove commas from a
number that is input as a string?
For example, if a variable has 2,143,628 in it, how can I easily strip
the commas to wind up with 2143628?
Billy
On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 1:58 PM, Lionel Dyck lionel.d...@us.ibm.com wrote:
The 'extra' comman before the .12 on the second example as just that the
code does not handle numbers with decimal but works well with pure numbers
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From: Mark Zelden m...@mzelden.com
To: IBM-MAIN@listserv.ua.edu,
Date: 01/04/2013 10:54 AM
Subject:Re: Formatting a Number with comma's
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On Fri, 4 Jan 2013 10:43:18 -0800, Lionel Dyck lionel.d...@us.ibm.com
wrote:
I ran across this code from Doug Nadel several years ago and hope that
y'all will find it useful.
/* - */
/* number format code thanks to Doug Nadel */
/* - */
str=strip(translate('0,123,456,789,abc,def', ,
right(bytes,16,','), ,
'0123456789abcdef'),'L',',')
bytes = strip(str)
Here are two examples from oorexx under windows (this works well under
z/OS and z/VM)
C:\t\newtest.rex 12345678
Bytes: 12,345,678
C:\t\newtest.rex 12345678.12
Bytes: 12,345,678,.12
May need a tweak (or cut/paste does). What's that extra comma before
the decimal point in the 2nd example?
There was a recent thread on the TSO-REXX list that had some
nice examples - probably including this one (I don't follow TSO-REXX
too closely).
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Re: Formatting a Number with comma's
On Fri, 4 Jan 2013 10:58:57 -0800, Lionel Dyck lionel.d...@us.ibm.com wrote: The 'extra' comman before the .12 on the second example as just that the code does not handle numbers with decimal but works well with pure numbers Okay, then if someone needs it to handle decimals also, I suggest looking on TSO-REXX. :-) Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS mailto:m...@mzelden.com Mark's MVS Utilities: http://www.mzelden.com/mvsutil.html Systems Programming expert at http://expertanswercenter.techtarget.com/ -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Formatting a Number with comma's
That's commas, btw. John McKown wrote: nocommas=strip(input,b,,) You meant: nocommas = space(translate(input, ' ', ','), 0) That is: 1) Translate commas to spaces 2) Remove all spaces from the number ...phsiii -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: Formatting a Number with comma's
For ADDING commas, this works pretty reliably, if a tad obscurely: /* Call: AddCommas(12345,',') */ AddCommas: procedure parse arg a '.' +0 d, comma a = right(a, ((length(a)+2)%3)*3) do i = 1 to (length(a)%3)-1 a = insert(comma, a, (4*i)-1) end return strip(a) || d -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: Formatting a Number with comma's
/* rexx */
num = '123,456,789'
num = space(translate(num,'',','),0)
say num
123456789
On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 3:48 PM, John McKown john.archie.mck...@gmail.comwrote:
sure
nocommas=strip(input,b,,)
http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/IKJ4A390/4.3.55
On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 1:44 PM, Bill Ashton bill00ash...@gmail.com
wrote:
Now, on a related note...is there a simple way to remove commas from a
number that is input as a string?
For example, if a variable has 2,143,628 in it, how can I easily strip
the commas to wind up with 2143628?
Billy
On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 1:58 PM, Lionel Dyck lionel.d...@us.ibm.com
wrote:
The 'extra' comman before the .12 on the second example as just that the
code does not handle numbers with decimal but works well with pure
numbers
Lionel B. Dyck
z Client Architect
IBM Corporation - West IMT
Mobile Phone: 1-925-207-4518
E-mail: lionel.d...@us.ibm.com
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From: Mark Zelden m...@mzelden.com
To: IBM-MAIN@listserv.ua.edu,
Date: 01/04/2013 10:54 AM
Subject:Re: Formatting a Number with comma's
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On Fri, 4 Jan 2013 10:43:18 -0800, Lionel Dyck lionel.d...@us.ibm.com
wrote:
I ran across this code from Doug Nadel several years ago and hope that
y'all will find it useful.
/* - */
/* number format code thanks to Doug Nadel */
/* - */
str=strip(translate('0,123,456,789,abc,def', ,
right(bytes,16,','), ,
'0123456789abcdef'),'L',',')
bytes = strip(str)
Here are two examples from oorexx under windows (this works well under
z/OS and z/VM)
C:\t\newtest.rex 12345678
Bytes: 12,345,678
C:\t\newtest.rex 12345678.12
Bytes: 12,345,678,.12
May need a tweak (or cut/paste does). What's that extra comma before
the decimal point in the 2nd example?
There was a recent thread on the TSO-REXX list that had some
nice examples - probably including this one (I don't follow TSO-REXX
too closely).
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Re: Formatting a Number with comma's
Will take numbers with decimal point or not.
/* rexx */
bytes = 1234567.89
parse var bytes num '.' dec
num=strip(translate('0,123,456,789,abc,def', ,
right(num,16,','), ,
'0123456789abcdef'),'L',',')
bytes = strip(strip(num)||'.'||dec,'T','.')
say bytes
On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 4:02 PM, Roberto Halais roberto.hal...@gmail.comwrote:
/* rexx */
num = '123,456,789'
num = space(translate(num,'',','),0)
say num
123456789
On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 3:48 PM, John McKown
john.archie.mck...@gmail.comwrote:
sure
nocommas=strip(input,b,,)
http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/IKJ4A390/4.3.55
On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 1:44 PM, Bill Ashton bill00ash...@gmail.com
wrote:
Now, on a related note...is there a simple way to remove commas from a
number that is input as a string?
For example, if a variable has 2,143,628 in it, how can I easily strip
the commas to wind up with 2143628?
Billy
On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 1:58 PM, Lionel Dyck lionel.d...@us.ibm.com
wrote:
The 'extra' comman before the .12 on the second example as just that
the
code does not handle numbers with decimal but works well with pure
numbers
Lionel B. Dyck
z Client Architect
IBM Corporation - West IMT
Mobile Phone: 1-925-207-4518
E-mail: lionel.d...@us.ibm.com
System z: www-03.ibm.com/systems/z/
Linux on z: http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/z/os/linux/
Destination z:
http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/z/destinationz/index.html/
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From: Mark Zelden m...@mzelden.com
To: IBM-MAIN@listserv.ua.edu,
Date: 01/04/2013 10:54 AM
Subject:Re: Formatting a Number with comma's
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On Fri, 4 Jan 2013 10:43:18 -0800, Lionel Dyck lionel.d...@us.ibm.com
wrote:
I ran across this code from Doug Nadel several years ago and hope that
y'all will find it useful.
/* - */
/* number format code thanks to Doug Nadel */
/* - */
str=strip(translate('0,123,456,789,abc,def', ,
right(bytes,16,','), ,
'0123456789abcdef'),'L',',')
bytes = strip(str)
Here are two examples from oorexx under windows (this works well under
z/OS and z/VM)
C:\t\newtest.rex 12345678
Bytes: 12,345,678
C:\t\newtest.rex 12345678.12
Bytes: 12,345,678,.12
May need a tweak (or cut/paste does). What's that extra comma before
the decimal point in the 2nd example?
There was a recent thread on the TSO-REXX list that had some
nice examples - probably including this one (I don't follow TSO-REXX
too closely).
--
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Re: Promote specific modules from service root
Thanks John,
Instead of a list in a file, how would I say do this for each file in a
directory? I get the potentially changed directories from the SMP/E report. I
don't want to risk missing a file by trying to extract the specific changed
files from the SMP/E report.
Dave Gibney
Information Technology Services
Washington State University
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Subject: Re: Promote specific modules from service root
In a real UNIX, I'd use rsync with the -av switches. Given that such
do not exist on z/OS UNIX, I'd put the names of the files to be copied
into another file, without the leading /Service or /Zervice. I'd then
do something like:
su - #switch to root
for i in file.containing.list.of.files;do cmp -s $i /Service/$i || {
mv -v $i $i.bak;cp -v -a /Service/$i $i };done #copy changed files
exit #from the root shell
What this does is for each file in the list, compare the old ($i) and
new (/Service/$i) version. If they are different, then rename the
current version, $i, to a backup name $i.bak, then verbosely (-v) copy
(cp) the new to the old, keeping the attributes of the new (dates,
owners, etc) (-a).
You may then want restart those processes which it would not be too
disruptive to restart.
On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 1:26 PM, Gibney, Dave gib...@wsu.edu wrote:
Normally, I apply maintenance to a copy mounted at /Service (or sometimes
/Zervice :) and deploy by making a copy of the new root ZFS file (and the
SYSRES :) and IPL from them.
Let's say, I want to apply a limited set of fixes to a few executable
modules
and update a specific product without IPL.
In the normal loadlib world, I would COPYMOD the modules, carefully
refresh LLA if needed and restart the appropriate tasks.
What would be the appropriate tool to accomplish this in the ZFS (or HFS)
world? Some pax incantation?
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Re: Formatting a Number with comma's
Nice simple addition
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IBM Corporation - West IMT
Mobile Phone: 1-925-207-4518
E-mail: lionel.d...@us.ibm.com
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From: Roberto Halais roberto.hal...@gmail.com
To: IBM-MAIN@listserv.ua.edu,
Date: 01/04/2013 12:13 PM
Subject:Re: Formatting a Number with comma's
Sent by:IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@listserv.ua.edu
Will take numbers with decimal point or not.
/* rexx */
bytes = 1234567.89
parse var bytes num '.' dec
num=strip(translate('0,123,456,789,abc,def', ,
right(num,16,','), ,
'0123456789abcdef'),'L',',')
bytes = strip(strip(num)||'.'||dec,'T','.')
say bytes
On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 4:02 PM, Roberto Halais
roberto.hal...@gmail.comwrote:
/* rexx */
num = '123,456,789'
num = space(translate(num,'',','),0)
say num
123456789
On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 3:48 PM, John McKown
john.archie.mck...@gmail.comwrote:
sure
nocommas=strip(input,b,,)
http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/IKJ4A390/4.3.55
On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 1:44 PM, Bill Ashton bill00ash...@gmail.com
wrote:
Now, on a related note...is there a simple way to remove commas from
a
number that is input as a string?
For example, if a variable has 2,143,628 in it, how can I easily
strip
the commas to wind up with 2143628?
Billy
On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 1:58 PM, Lionel Dyck lionel.d...@us.ibm.com
wrote:
The 'extra' comman before the .12 on the second example as just that
the
code does not handle numbers with decimal but works well with pure
numbers
Lionel B. Dyck
z Client Architect
IBM Corporation - West IMT
Mobile Phone: 1-925-207-4518
E-mail: lionel.d...@us.ibm.com
System z: www-03.ibm.com/systems/z/
Linux on z: http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/z/os/linux/
Destination z:
http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/z/destinationz/index.html/
Think Inside the z Box
From: Mark Zelden m...@mzelden.com
To: IBM-MAIN@listserv.ua.edu,
Date: 01/04/2013 10:54 AM
Subject:Re: Formatting a Number with comma's
Sent by:IBM Mainframe Discussion List
IBM-MAIN@listserv.ua.edu
On Fri, 4 Jan 2013 10:43:18 -0800, Lionel Dyck
lionel.d...@us.ibm.com
wrote:
I ran across this code from Doug Nadel several years ago and hope
that
y'all will find it useful.
/* -
*/
/* number format code thanks to Doug Nadel */
/* -
*/
str=strip(translate('0,123,456,789,abc,def', ,
right(bytes,16,','), ,
'0123456789abcdef'),'L',',')
bytes = strip(str)
Here are two examples from oorexx under windows (this works well
under
z/OS and z/VM)
C:\t\newtest.rex 12345678
Bytes: 12,345,678
C:\t\newtest.rex 12345678.12
Bytes: 12,345,678,.12
May need a tweak (or cut/paste does). What's that extra comma
before
the decimal point in the 2nd example?
There was a recent thread on the TSO-REXX list that had some
nice examples - probably including this one (I don't follow TSO-REXX
too closely).
--
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Mark's MVS Utilities: http://www.mzelden.com/mvsutil.html
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Re: IbmLink vs. https [was: Security vulnerability in IBM HTTP...]
On 4 January 2013 12:37, Neil Duffee nduf...@uottawa.ca wrote: Caveat: I get the daily digest so this has likely been discussed to death already. Tony: try the unsecure version ie. http://www.ibmlink.ibm.com, and you'll get re-directed to a secure, sign-on location : https://www-304.ibm.com/usrsrvc/account/userservices/jsp/login [snip] I know that both my FireFox bookmarks from 2011 are like that: http://www.ibm.com/ibmlink http://www.ibm.com/support/servicerequest/. Both will re-direct you to the sign-on page before passing you through to the secure page(s). Thanks. The problem is that it's a current IBM page that contains the offending link - not some old bookmark of mine. This is the page that I get from clicking on a PTF number in the APAR text, that gives me the choice of ShopzSeries or IBMLINK. The IBMLINK link is the https://www.ibmlink.ibm.com one that has a bad cert. I have great trouble understanding why a company like IBM allows this kind of thing to happen repeatedly. As Firefox says, Don't add an exception unless you know there's a good reason why this site doesn't use trusted identification. Legitimate banks, stores, and other public sites will not ask you to do this. Tony H. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: FCTC and MPC definitions
ISTR FCTC are not out of the box. Z/OS maint is required pre z/OS 1.13 , not sure about 1.13 itself.. (note I did not go back through the announcements) HTH, snip Dynmaically activated FICON CTCs. DEvices are defined correctly and online to all systems. However, we cannot allocate mpc+ connections. Here are the sequence of events: for an activate vary devices online - TRL - LCL *when activating the TRL on one system it remains active for a minute (or appears) then drops when activated on the other system reverse for inactivate inact lcl - devices offline - dealloc /snip -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: FCTC and MPC definitions
Mystery solved... SYSP P2M1TRL VBUILD TYPE=TRL P2M1TRLE TRLE LNCTL=MPC, MAXBFRU=16, READ=(0E75,0F75), WRITE=(0E74,0F74) SYSM M2P1TRL VBUILD TYPE=TRL M2P1TRLE TRLE LNCTL=MPC, MAXBFRU=16, READ=(0E84,0F84), WRITE=(0E85,0F85) The failures described in the initial post occurred when the specifying 0Ex4,0Fx4 as the reads on both systems. Read from one system needs to align with the write to the other. (see SYSP and SYSM TRL examples) -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: Formatting a Number with comma's
The Tweak :-)
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On Fri, 4 Jan 2013 16:12:11 -0400, Roberto Halais roberto.hal...@gmail.com
wrote:
Will take numbers with decimal point or not.
/* rexx */
bytes = 1234567.89
parse var bytes num '.' dec
num=strip(translate('0,123,456,789,abc,def', ,
right(num,16,','), ,
'0123456789abcdef'),'L',',')
bytes = strip(strip(num)||'.'||dec,'T','.')
say bytes
On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 4:02 PM, Roberto Halais roberto.hal...@gmail.comwrote:
/* rexx */
num = '123,456,789'
num = space(translate(num,'',','),0)
say num
123456789
On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 3:48 PM, John McKown
john.archie.mck...@gmail.comwrote:
sure
nocommas=strip(input,b,,)
http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/IKJ4A390/4.3.55
On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 1:44 PM, Bill Ashton bill00ash...@gmail.com
wrote:
Now, on a related note...is there a simple way to remove commas from a
number that is input as a string?
For example, if a variable has 2,143,628 in it, how can I easily strip
the commas to wind up with 2143628?
Billy
On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 1:58 PM, Lionel Dyck lionel.d...@us.ibm.com
wrote:
The 'extra' comman before the .12 on the second example as just that
the
code does not handle numbers with decimal but works well with pure
numbers
Lionel B. Dyck
z Client Architect
IBM Corporation - West IMT
Mobile Phone: 1-925-207-4518
E-mail: lionel.d...@us.ibm.com
System z: www-03.ibm.com/systems/z/
Linux on z: http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/z/os/linux/
Destination z:
http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/z/destinationz/index.html/
Think Inside the z Box
From: Mark Zelden m...@mzelden.com
To: IBM-MAIN@listserv.ua.edu,
Date: 01/04/2013 10:54 AM
Subject:Re: Formatting a Number with comma's
Sent by:IBM Mainframe Discussion List
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On Fri, 4 Jan 2013 10:43:18 -0800, Lionel Dyck lionel.d...@us.ibm.com
wrote:
I ran across this code from Doug Nadel several years ago and hope that
y'all will find it useful.
/* - */
/* number format code thanks to Doug Nadel */
/* - */
str=strip(translate('0,123,456,789,abc,def', ,
right(bytes,16,','), ,
'0123456789abcdef'),'L',',')
bytes = strip(str)
Here are two examples from oorexx under windows (this works well under
z/OS and z/VM)
C:\t\newtest.rex 12345678
Bytes: 12,345,678
C:\t\newtest.rex 12345678.12
Bytes: 12,345,678,.12
May need a tweak (or cut/paste does). What's that extra comma before
the decimal point in the 2nd example?
There was a recent thread on the TSO-REXX list that had some
nice examples - probably including this one (I don't follow TSO-REXX
too closely).
--
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mailto:m...@mzelden.com
Mark's MVS Utilities: http://www.mzelden.com/mvsutil.html
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Re: Security vulnerability in IBM HTTP Server for z/OS Version 5.3 (PM79239)
On 1/4/2013 1:35 PM, Peter Relson wrote: It is somewhat alarming that several posted that they are not signed up for the security portal. Someone also posted that they are signed up for red alerts and asked why it was not sent that way. As I understand it, a red alert was sent out (perhaps this past July) stating that the method for sending and alerting about security and integrity PTFs is via the security portal. Simply, the security portal is the red alert process for security and integrity PTFs. Perhaps I am oversimplifying, but it seems that every customer should make sure that they -- are signed up for red alerts -- pay attention to those red alerts -- sign up for the security portal. This should not be new news. To many, the security portal is news. It should be well understood that z/OS provides few if any details on integrity APARs. No problem with few to no details. Problem with signing up to security portal which is unknown to many. Still think IBM should mark these HIPER. The PTFs were available via the security portal on December 20. I have no information about why they were not found the day after Christmas when someone looked at www.ibm.com/support. But I'm glad to hear they are there now. Peter, I'm working for one of the largest banks in the world right now, and they were unaware of the security portal. We ran headlong into an integrity APAR recently with no notice. To say I disagree with IBM's handling of integrity APARs would be an understatement. Regards, Tom Conley -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: Security vulnerability in IBM HTTP Server for z/OS Version 5.3 (PM79239)
Peter: Maybe this should be brought up as a hot item at Share ? Ed On Jan 4, 2013, at 12:35 PM, Peter Relson wrote: It is somewhat alarming that several posted that they are not signed up for the security portal. Someone also posted that they are signed up for red alerts and asked why it was not sent that way. As I understand it, a red alert was sent out (perhaps this past July) stating that the method for sending and alerting about security and integrity PTFs is via the security portal. Simply, the security portal is the red alert process for security and integrity PTFs. Perhaps I am oversimplifying, but it seems that every customer should make sure that they -- are signed up for red alerts -- pay attention to those red alerts -- sign up for the security portal. This should not be new news. It should be well understood that z/OS provides few if any details on integrity APARs. The PTFs were available via the security portal on December 20. I have no information about why they were not found the day after Christmas when someone looked at www.ibm.com/support. But I'm glad to hear they are there now. Peter Relson z/OS Core Technology Design -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: Security vulnerability in IBM HTTP Server for z/OS Version 5.3 (PM79239)
We applied these fixes the weekend before Christmas to 15 lpars. We used the following: To Backup pax -wzvpe -x os390 -f /Service1/gskssl.IBM /usr/lpp/gskssl/* pax -wzvpe -x os390 -f /Service1/internet.bin.IBM /usr/lpp/internet/bin/* pax -wzvpe -x os390 -f /Service1/internet.sbin.IBM /usr/lpp/internet/sbin/* to Restore cd /usr/lpp/gskssl pax -pe -rvf /Service1/gskssl.IBM Repeat for the other directories.. As for the other question how you could replace specific modules/directories within a ZFS, you can use this.. Thanks Ms. Terri E. Shaffer terri.e.shaf...@jpmchase.com z/OS Engineer J.P.Morgan Chase Co. GTI ECS Enterprise Software Engineering (ESE) or Extreme Software Engineering Office: # 614-213-3467 Cell: # 412-519-2592 -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Arthur T. Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2013 6:47 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Security vulnerability in IBM HTTP Server for z/OS Version 5.3 (PM79239) On 3 Jan 2013 13:29:55 -0800, in bit.listserv.ibm-main (Message-ID:of7b5d33fe.a7936193-on86257ae8.0075bd35-86257ae8.00761...@fruit.com) craig.p...@fotlinc.com wrote: These are IBM Security Alerts and do not come through as HYPER or RED ALERT, they only come in as Security Alerts. IBM sends them discreetly in this manner to try and prevent anyone from saying Oh, there is a whole..let me use it. If not registered, you will never know unless you get a call from your IBM Rep or Business Partner. Well then, it's a good thing that the IBM reps carefully explained all of this to all of their customers. Otherwise, a link to the problem might be posted to a publicly-available newsgroup. /snark -- I cannot receive mail at the address this was sent from. To reply directly, send to ar23hur at pobox dot com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN This communication is for informational purposes only. It is not intended as an offer or solicitation for the purchase or sale of any financial instrument or as an official confirmation of any transaction. All market prices, data and other information are not warranted as to completeness or accuracy and are subject to change without notice. Any comments or statements made herein do not necessarily reflect those of JPMorgan Chase Co., its subsidiaries and affiliates. This transmission may contain information that is privileged, confidential, legally privileged, and/or exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, distribution, or use of the information contained herein (including any reliance thereon) is STRICTLY PROHIBITED. Although this transmission and any attachments are believed to be free of any virus or other defect that might affect any computer system into which it is received and opened, it is the responsibility of the recipient to ensure that it is virus free and no responsibility is accepted by JPMorgan Chase Co., its subsidiaries and affiliates, as applicable, for any loss or damage arising in any way from its use. If you received this transmission in error, please immediately contact the sender and destroy the material in its entirety, whether in electronic or hard copy format. Thank you. Please refer to http://www.jpmorgan.com/pages/disclosures for disclosures relating to European legal entities. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: Promote specific modules from service root
I just looked and I think Ms. Shaffer gave you a better solution using
pax. It addresses the problems I mention at the end of my post.
But on the off chance you're interesting, just as a curiosity, you
could do something like:
su - #switch to root
cd /Service/sub/directory #change to subdirectory
oldDir=${PWD#/Service} #strip leading /Service from name of current
subdirectory
for i in *;do
$j=${oldDir}/$i #name of file to possible replace
cmp $i $j || {mv -v $j $j.bak; cp -av $i $j; }
done
exit #out of root shell
Now, this only does files in the specific directory, not in
subdirectories in that directory. If you want files in subdirectories
of the directory, you need to change it slightly
su - #switch to root
cd /Service/sub/directory #change to subdirectory containing updated files
oldDir=${PWD#/Service} #strip leading /Service from name of current
subdirectory
find . -type f |\
while read i;do
j=${oldDir}/$i #file to possible replace
cmp $i $j || { mv -v $j $j.bak; cp -av $i $j; } #compare and possibly copy
end
The find command will find all regular files in the directory and its
subdirectories, and list them out to stdout, which is piped into the
while read i;do loop.
And just in case you're wondering, if there is a brand spanking new
file created by some PTF, the cmp will fail because there is no old
file to compare to. This also causes so the second part to run. Now,
in this case the mv will fail, but the cp will still run and so new
files are copied.
Hum, some possible problems could be if a PTF created a new
subdirectory and files, or created a new file which is not a regular
file. This would be something like a named FIFO or a special device
file (mknod command.)
On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 2:13 PM, Gibney, Dave gib...@wsu.edu wrote:
Thanks John,
Instead of a list in a file, how would I say do this for each file in a
directory? I get the potentially changed directories from the SMP/E report.
I don't want to risk missing a file by trying to extract the specific changed
files from the SMP/E report.
Dave Gibney
Information Technology Services
Washington State University
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Maranatha!
John McKown
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Re: Formatting a Number with comma's
Perhaps another point of view will be of some interest. The schemes presented in this thread seem to me to be examples of radically misplaced ingenuity. If I did not know better I should be forced to conclude from them that knowledge of HLASM programming had been lost to this list. Chapter 8 (Decimal Instructions) of the current PrOp contains full discussions of the EDIT and EDIT AND MARK machine instructions, which perform these operations elegantly, efficiently, and compactly. John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: Automation for IGD17272I
Antonio, are you really on z/OS V1.2 If you were on a supported release you would have some of the newer SG related capabilities in DFSMS to help - such as overflow and extend storage groups. You would not need to automate - simply define the available volumes that you would add, and tell DFSMS how you want them used/added. Start here ... www.redbooks.ibm.com/redbooks/pdfs/sg246979.pdf Mike Wood -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: Automation for IGD17272I
Perhaps he could have a reserve of volumes in each storage group which are DISNEW. When he got the message, he could do a VARY VOL(vv),ENABLE . Of course, there is now the problem of finding a volume in the appropriate SG which is in DISALL or DISNEW status. I would look at the DISPLAY SMS,SG(storgrup),LISTVOL output personally. But this is a MLWTO and might be difficult to capture and parse. On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 3:19 PM, Mike Wood mww...@ntlworld.com wrote: Antonio, are you really on z/OS V1.2 If you were on a supported release you would have some of the newer SG related capabilities in DFSMS to help - such as overflow and extend storage groups. You would not need to automate - simply define the available volumes that you would add, and tell DFSMS how you want them used/added. Start here ... www.redbooks.ibm.com/redbooks/pdfs/sg246979.pdf Mike Wood -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- Maranatha! John McKown -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: Formatting a Number with comma's
On Fri, 4 Jan 2013 16:02:58 -0500, John Gilmore wrote: Perhaps another point of view will be of some interest. What the hell, here's another ... redacted ... too early in the year for language flames-wars ... ;-) Shane ... -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: Automation for IGD17272I
We setup a rule in CA Vantage to tell us when a storage group passes a threshold that we set. When any storage group passes the threshold set for it, Vantage sends us an email. We check for the emails when we are working and when one arrives, we take a look at the pool and take what ever action is appropriate for it. It works great for us. We also use CA Vantage for a lot of other automation and gathering data. Thank you and have a Terrific day! Jonathan Goossen, DTM ACT Mainframe Storage Group Personal: 651-361-4541 Department Support Line: 651-361- For help with communication and leadership skills checkout Woodwinds Toastmasters. IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU wrote on 01/04/2013 11:44:29 AM: From: af dc acbi...@gmail.com To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Date: 01/04/2013 11:44 AM Subject: Automation for IGD17272I Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Hello, does anyone have some kind of automation to handle out-of-space SGs that doesn't mind of sharing ?? Everyday before going home I check all dasd SGs for any abnormal occupancy and to prepare SGs to batch run without probls. But sometimes, after hours I've to add some dasd volumes to a SG that has no space available. My question is to know from your experience in your shops if you have some kind of process using NETVIEW, or any any other automation product that capture IGD17272I and add dasd volumes to a SG automatically, for example, or a product to monitor SGs space well I welcome any idea. I'm at z/os V.1.2 Many thx,Antonio Cecilio. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN This e-mail message and all attachments transmitted with it may contain legally privileged and/or confidential information intended solely for the use of the addressee(s). If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any reading, dissemination, distribution, copying, forwarding or other use of this message or its attachments is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete this message and all copies and backups thereof. Thank you. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: Security vulnerability in IBM HTTP Server for z/OS Version 5.3 (PM79239)
On 1/4/2013 3:32 PM, Thomas Conley wrote: On 1/4/2013 1:35 PM, Peter Relson wrote: It is somewhat alarming that several posted that they are not signed up for the security portal. Someone also posted that they are signed up for red alerts and asked why it was not sent that way. As I understand it, a red alert was sent out (perhaps this past July) stating that the method for sending and alerting about security and integrity PTFs is via the security portal. Simply, the security portal is the red alert process for security and integrity PTFs. Peter, Sorry, I missed this earlier. There is a red alert from April of 2011 documenting the security portal: https://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/set2/sas/f/redAlerts/20110409.html I'd still like to see integrity APARs marked HIPER, but you are right that this has been documented via the Red Alert process. Regards, Tom Conley -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: Formatting a Number with comma's
On 1/4/2013 4:02 PM, John Gilmore wrote: Chapter 8 (Decimal Instructions) of the current PrOp contains full discussions of the EDIT and EDIT AND MARK machine instructions, which perform these operations elegantly, efficiently, and compactly. The OP asked for a way to remove commas from an EBCDIC numeric string; I see no way of using ED or EDMK to do this. The second question raised, of inserting commas, may have a model dependent answer. It's not clear whether packing a variable length number, then editing that would be faster than a translate after moving to a work area with pre- or post-fixed blank and comma. Gerhard Postpischil Bradford, Vermont -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
Re: Automation for IGD17272I
Not to push our automation product, but SyzMPF/z does allow automation of the IGD17272I message and will allow you to interrogate which volsers (or units) are available and add as necessary. We also allow for parsing of MLWTO messages up to 256 words of the message (words are separated by spaces for the purpose of our parsing). We are also less than 10% of both IBM and CA's automation product cost. Brian Westerman www.SyzygyInc.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
