Re: z/OS V2R5 Will be the Last Release to Include JES3

[Roach, Dennis]

I missed the following 2.4.

What are they doing about exit compatibility?

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Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2019 9:54 AM
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Subject: Re: z/OS V2R5 Will be the Last Release to Include JES3

On 2/27/2019 6:44 AM, Roach, Dennis wrote:
> Is the last release planned to be 2.3 or 2.5?

z/OS 2.5 (or whatever it will be called) aka "the release following z/OS 
V2R4" will be the last one to include the JES3 feature.

That means a) IBM has until September 2023 to fully bring JES2 up to 
JES3 standard and b) barring any new, special support program that might 
be invented in a hypothetical future, JES3 has 10 1/2 more years until 
it's fully unsupported.


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Re: z/OS V2R5 Will be the Last Release to Include JES3

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Is the last release planned to be 2.3 or 2.5?

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Of Ed Jaffe
Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2019 12:05 PM
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Subject: z/OS V2R5 Will be the Last Release to Include JES3

z/OS V2R5 (or whatever it will be called) will be the last release to
include the JES3 feature. IBM justifies that decision in this way:

"JES2 has added functionality, including dependent job control, deadline
scheduling, 8-character job classes, and interpreting JES3 JECL control
statements. For z/OS V2.4, additional function to aid in migrations is
planned, including Disk Reader capability and enhanced JES3 JECL support
in JES2 (ROUTE XEQ). Today, as a result of our strategic investment and
ongoing commitment to JES2, as well as continuing to enhance JES3 to
JES2 migration aids, IBM is announcing that the release following z/OS
V2.4 is planned to be the last release of z/OS that will include JES3 as
a feature."

There is still much more to do to bring JES2 up to JES3 standard, but
apparently IBM believes they can get it all done by September 2021...

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Re: How to tell what allocated a dataset never opened

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If you use something like RACF you can look at the product logs or SMF and see 
who created it if the log option for the covering profile.
I have used RACF to create a full generic profile with no the same access as 
the current controlling profile and audit(all(read)).

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Of Jim Beck
Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2018 2:44 PM
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Subject: How to tell what allocated a dataset never opened

All,
We've retired an application and are in the process of cleanup.  Does anyone 
know of a way to identify what is allocating a given dataset if it's never 
opened?  SMF cuts 14 & 15 records only if the dataset is open.  Other than 
scratch, rename, and other VTOC changes, I haven't found an SMF record that 
contains the dataset name, just the DD name or unit address.  The MONITOR 
option in CONSOLExx can track the deallocation in SYSLOG/OPERLOG, but for TSO 
sessions you can't tie that back to a CLIST or command.  For batch jobs, you 
can eventually tie it back to the step.  The only other way I've seen is the 
hit-or-miss enqueue check and contact the TSO session owner.

Jim

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Re: Does anyone have a sample program to list in storage RACLISTED profiles.

[Roach, Dennis]

Clarification 
Member/grouping profiles for things like CICS are merged at RACLIST time.
I need to be able to see what the final profile looks like once the merger is 
done. 
Since this is in storage, CSA if GLOBAL or a data space if not global, I 
figured that would be the quickest place to look.




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Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2018 1:43 PM
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Subject: Re: Does anyone have a sample program to list in storage RACLISTED 
profiles.

SETR LIST will produce the data you want.  You will need to extract the one 
section of data you want from the complete list of settings it produces.

> -Original Message-
> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On 
> Behalf Of Roach, Dennis
> Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2018 10:14 AM
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> Subject: FW: Does anyone have a sample program to list in storage
RACLISTED profiles.
> 
> I am looking for something to list the in storage RACLISTED profiles.
> What I am trying to do is get a final merged version of a member/group
profile.
> 
> Dennis Roach, CISSP

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FW: Does anyone have a sample program to list in storage RACLISTED profiles.

[Roach, Dennis]

I am looking for something to list the in storage RACLISTED profiles.
What I am trying to do is get a final merged version of a member/group profile.

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Re: Looking for a Suggestion

[Roach, Dennis]

Since the majority of us use a PC with TN3270 to access the mainframe, I think 
this is relevant.

I assume you are talking about a USB mouse that you have to move.
I use a Logitech K800 with an M570. The M570 is a trackball type mouse with 4 
buttons and a wheel/button.
With both being Logitech, only 1 dongle is required to support both. 
The buttons are programmable down to application level with Logitech software.

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Of John McKown
Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2018 12:54 PM
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Subject: Re: Looking for a Sugestion

On Thu, Mar 8, 2018 at 12:46 PM, Steve Beaver  wrote:

> I have systems on my desk and 3 Flat screens.  I uses  Logitech K850 
> that is wireless.
>
> I like the 3 Flat screens but I hate moving the USB.  Any suggestions 
> since I am only concerned about the Keyboard and mouse
>
> And not the Flat screens
>

​I guess I'm in puzzlement over how this device relates in any way to IBMz 
mainframes. ​

​This forums IS NOT for discussing "tinker toy" hardware (aka "Intel" or "ARM" 
machines, not even "IBMp" or IBMi machines)​


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RACF SMF 80 OPERATIONS and SPECIAL logging records.

[Roach, Dennis]

The RACD SMF  type 80 records contains flags to indicate when a record was 
logged due to SPRCIAL of OPERATIONS.
I know the flags are set when the access is at the system level authority.
Are they set when the access is at the group level?
If they are set at the group level:
How does one differentiate system and group level?
How does one identify the group ID responsible for the access?

This has been cross posted to RACF-L and IBM-Main.

Thanks


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Re: TSO temp dataset [USAA Confidential]

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If you have it in a data set you do not have to go to ready.

If it is a member bring up the member list and enter sub in the command column.
If it is not a member, go to 3.4 and enter sub in the command column.

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-Original Message-
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Of Usher, Darrold
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Subject: Re: TSO temp dataset [USAA Confidential]

A workaround is go to TSO READY and use the submit command. SUBMIT 
'dataset(member)' as an example

USAA Confidential

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Subject: EXTERNAL: TSO temp dataset

When you submit a job through TSO your temp dataset gets created. I'm trying to 
submit a big job and my temp dataset keeps on running out of space. Any way of 
increasing the size of itthanks


Dean Nai
Senior z/OS Systems Programmer  
Mainframe Technical Support Group   




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Re: TCBFSA field in the TCB DSECT

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Using R13 can be an issue if the linkage stack is used instead of the save area.

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Subject: Re: TCBFSA field in the TCB DSECT

On 13 February 2018 at 13:02, Bernd Oppolzer 
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> IMO, the first save area should always be below the line.
> It is provided by the operating system so that the main program of the 
> called application (EXEC PGM=...) can store the registers on call there.
> And the first program may be AMODE 24 :-)
>
> On the other hand, I would never use TCBFSA to do anything with it.
> Because, for example, you would try to walk the save area chain from 
> there, you are stuck, because the forward pointers are not set 
> correctly by LE and others.
> What you should do instead: fetch register 13 and walk back, by using 
> the backward pointers, which are much more reliable in the general 
> case. When doing this, you could check for the value in TCBFSA to see, 
> if you arrived at the first save area. But you could also check for 
> NULL in the backward pointer.
>
> HTH, kind regards
>
> Bernd
>
>
>
> Am 13.02.2018 um 10:07 schrieb Steff Gladstone:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am in the process of converting several routines to AMODE=31 RMODE=ANY.
>> One of them references the address of the first problem program save 
>> area found in the TCB.
>>
>> The field is defined as follows:
>>
>> TCBFSA   DS0A -ADDRESS OF THE FIRST PROBLEM PROGRAM SAVE AREA
>>
>>  DSFL1 -   FIRST BYTE OF TCBFSA
>> @G381P9A
>>
>> TCBFSAB  DSAL3 -   ADDRESS OF THE FIRST PROBLEM PROGRAM SAVE AREA
>>
>> My question:  what is the status of the first byte?  It does not seem 
>> to contain flag bits as is often the case.  On the other hand, 
>> defining the field TCBFSAB seems to imply that the address is a 
>> 24-bit address.  So in
>> AMODE=31 can the first problem program save area (which is provided 
>> by the system to the top-level program) be above the line?  Should I 
>> relate to all four bytes as the address of the FSA?  Or could the 
>> first byte contain garbage?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Steff
>>
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Re: DR Question across time zones?

[Roach, Dennis]

I have always kept the production system clock settings so the users see no 
difference. If the user sets a TZ value, it would be off due to the clock 
change. Job schedulers would also be off as far as the users and operations 
view.

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Subject: DR Question across time zones?

A question came up this morning - when doing a DR where the DR environment is 
in a different time zone from the production environment, should the CLOCK00 
TIMEZONE be updated for the physical location of the DR environment?

I can see valid reasoning for doing either - what is your approach (and why)?


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Re: Help with a Unix process

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My favorite is to use IRRHFSU to produce a file of everything currently 
mounted. Process the file with OBROWSE or OEDIT an use the find command.

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Subject: Re: Help with a Unix process

On Wed, 1 Nov 2017 19:44:35 +, Pew, Curtis G wrote:
>On Nov 1, 2017, at 12:34 PM, Lizette Koehler wrote:
>> 
>> So I am not very good with Unix, and now I need to find any file in a 
>> large number of directories one directory has 130 directories with 
>> the tail .new (yep clean up time)  ...
>
>I would be surprised if anything you put together like this would 
>perform any better than `find’. Searching large Unix directories is 
>typically pretty slow no matter how you go about it. (If you’re still 
>using HFS that’s probably particularly true; I understand that zFS 
>directory searches are faster.)
>
I agree.  But has anyone ported the GNU "locate" command to z/OS?
http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/locate.1.html

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Re: RACF Parmlib Support - OA52650

[Roach, Dennis]

Love it.
Cross posted to RACF-L

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Yay! I have wanted this since Old Man Noah cornered the market on gopher wood!

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display crypto status

[Roach, Dennis]

We are running a z13 with ICSF HCR77B1.

Is there a way to programmatically display the status?
What I need is:
   From ICSF main menu the Crypto Domain
   From ICSF option 1, COPROCESSOR MGMT, all data.

I am attempting to set up an automated way to get the status without manually 
going into ICSF.

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Re: IBM TS7720 Secure Data Erase

[Roach, Dennis]

Check with your vendor or CE. Most vendors have the ability for the CE to do a 
secure erase that meets most requirements.
I had to excess a virtual tape system that did not support the erase. We wound 
up pulling the drives and send them to be shredded. 

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Subject: IBM TS7720 Secure Data Erase

One of my clients is retiring an old TS7720 and wants to guarantee the residual 
data is completely erased before it leaves the premises.

Can someone out there tell me if the "Secure Data Erase" feature works with 
internal hard drives as the physical media, as well as with take cartridges?

Thanks in advance,

Tom Sims

(Speaking only for myself...).

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Re: CA7 with service now

[Roach, Dennis]

Did you ever get a workable solution? 
I have to do the same thing.

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Re: Possible RFE for new DISP JCL parameter options

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I would vote for it

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Subject: Possible RFE for new DISP JCL parameter options

One MVS behavior that has annoyed me since we migrated to z/OS from VSE is the 
fact that MVS has no DISP option that will both create a data set if it does 
not already exist and simply allow its use if it does already exist.  One has 
to "emulate" this behavior using a two step process, where step 1 specifies 
DISP=(MOD,DELETE) and step two specifies DISP=NEW.

Since this use case exists so often (in my environment, anyway!), shouldn't 
there be direct JCL support, probably a new DISP option, to perform this 
behavior without the need for an additional step to first delete the file (if 
it exists) so that the DISP=NEW in the later step will always succeed?

MVS *does* have such a feature for Unix system files.  The following assume the 
default PATHDISP=(KEEP,DELETE).

PATHOPTS=(ORDWR,OCREAT,OEXCL)
This creates the Unix file if it does not already exist, and gives a JCL error 
if the file does already exist.
This behavior is similar to DISP=(NEW,CATLG) for an MVS data set.

PATHOPTS=(ORDWR,OCREAT)
This creates the Unix file if it does not already exist, and allows the program 
to use the existing file when it already exists.
There currently is no equivalent behavior for an MVS data set.

PATHOPTS=(ORDWR,OCREAT,OTRUNC)
This creates the Unix file if it does not already exist, and allows the program 
to use the existing file when it already exists.  Additionally, when the 
program opens the file its file length is truncated to zero.
There currently is no equivalent behavior for an MVS data set.

PATHOPTS=(ORDWR,OCREAT,OAPPEND)
This creates the Unix file if it does not already exist, and allows the program 
to use the existing file when it already exists.  Additionally, the file offset 
is set to the end of the file after earch write, so that data is written at the 
end of the file.
This behavior is similar to DISP=(MOD,CATLG) for an MVS data set.

I would like to see two new PATH options that behave in a manner similar to the 
two options above that are not currently supported for MVS data sets.  I 
suggest the following:

DISP=CREAT: Similar in behavior to PATHOPTS=(ORDWR,OCREAT).
DISP=TRUNC: Similar in behavior to PATHOPTS=(ORDWR,OCREAT,OTRUNC)

If I make an RFE for this will you vote for it?

Thanks,
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Re: common storage usage question

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Things to consider
SQA can expand into CSA but not the other way around.
You need enough SQA to get up and running.
I would have no issue with trying half of the existing SQA

CSA has become pretty stable, with most of the growth in ECSA.
With this in mind, I would feel comfortable reducing CSA by as much as 25% to 
start.

Have you moved UCBs above the line?
Look at other MVS areas that are optionally movable.

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Subject: common storage usage question

Hi all,

Curiosity question.  Due to some storage issues we've had recently with old 24 
bit programs, I am revisiting our common storage configuration - CSA and SQA.  
Taking fragmentation into account, it appears that I'm using about 38% of my 
allocated SQA and about 46% of my allocated CSA.  So I'm wondering if anybody 
has a good feel as to what a "good" percentage of used versus allocated space 
for these areas is.  How low can I safely go in free space in these areas if we 
decide we want to try to eke out an additional MB of below-the-line private?  
Our current private size is 11MB.  

TIA,

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CSFSERV recommendations

[Roach, Dennis]

Does anyone know of a paper of recommendations or best practices for CSFSERV?
I can see two cases:

1.   Allow all users to use but not administer the feature.

2.   Restrict access to only those products/users we want to use the 
feature.

Questions:

1.   What profiles control the admin functions?

2.   What are the risks of allowing all users to use it?



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Re: SFTP From Linux to z/OS

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This makes no sense. 
ls lists the directory at the remote end. 
The ls command you provided looks like it should be a site command, providing 
lrecl, recfm, and space information.
The // in the put command directs the output to an MVS file instead of USS.


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Subject: SFTP From Linux to z/OS

Hi . One of my colleagues told me from Linux script ,we can do SFTP using the 
below file allocation . Just wanted to know whether this possible ? As per my 
understanding this has no significance ? Also, whether from virtual machine we 
can put to a tape GDG file ? 

ls /+mode=text,lrecl=3000,recfm=vb,space=cyl.100.100
put /pas/input/rtb/one.txt //'PCICST.FXIN.MAXRTCRO.OT(+1)'

Thanks
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USS ACL presentation

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Does anyone know of a good USS ACL presentation?

We have outgrown the USS permission bits due to limitations.

What is the minimum required to give read/write/exec to users/groups for a 
particular directory? ie /public and everything below it.

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Re: ISPF edit macro

[Roach, Dennis]

In the macro that issues the save issue 
"ISREDIT AUTOSAVE ON" 

See ISPF Edit and EDIT Macros for full syntax

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I have an edit macro for issuing another macro against all member is a given 
library.
It works OK, but in "attended" mode - every change has to be confirmed by 
issuing PF3 (or PF12 if you don't want changes in a given member).

I'm looking for something more automated - a macro, which issues another edit 
macro against all the members, but running unattended. I'm pretty sure someone 
already invented this wheel.

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Re: OMVS Automount Processing

[Roach, Dennis]

They may have changed it, but it used to make no difference. I have not tried 
in a long time.

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Subject: Re: OMVS Automount Processing

On Thu, 2 Mar 2017 13:39:15 +0000, Roach, Dennis wrote:

>The MVS DSN is
>  TEST1.ZFS.PROD
>test1.ZFS.PROD
>Since MVS DSNs are not case sensitive, yet, they result is the same.

Are you sure? As far as I know, MVS data set names always had to be upper case. 
From the z/OS Unix System Services Command Reference,


filesystem
The name of the file system to mount. This argument is case-sensitive. 
For the HFS file system, this argument must be specified in uppercase.


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Re: OMVS Automount Processing

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The directory name keeps the case as referenced.
/home/test1 or /home/TEST1

The MVS DSN is
   TEST1.ZFS.PROD
 test1.ZFS.PROD
Since MVS DSNs are not case sensitive, yet, they result is the same.

In addition, if user test123 uses test1 and user test456 uses TEST1 at the same 
time, the mount will fail because the same file system cannot be mounted rdwr 
on different mount points.
I am not sure if the restriction applies if it is mounted read.


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On Thu, 2 Mar 2017 07:07:59 -0600, Tom Marchant  wrote:

>On Wed, 1 Mar 2017 20:21:27 -0500, John P. Baker wrote:
>
>>In other words, do "uc_name" and "asis_name" refer to the directory 
>>qualifier immediately subordinate to the directory specified in 
>>"/etc/auto.master" which is being referenced by the userid?
>
>No,  is needed so that the DSNAME of the filesystem will be upper 
>case.

After reading John's reply, I see that I may have misunderstood your question.

 does refer to the directory that you described. However, that 
directory name in the mount point is not uppercased, only the directory name in 
the filesystem name.

Sorry for any confusion.

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Re: OMVS Mass Reassign of File Owner

[Roach, Dennis]

Do you know who the vendor is or have a link?

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Subject: Re: OMVS Mass Reassign of File Owner

Hi John,

Glad that worked for you.

I thought I'd add that there is a product.  It's called Superuser for z/OS, and 
is mostly an ISPF application, although you can choose to run the generated 
commands in batch.
From the "Reports" menu, you would choose the "Free Search" option.
On the "Search Files" entry panel, you enter a Start Directory (that directory 
and all of its subdirectories are searched), an owner (UID) and/or group (GID), 
and/or any optional attributes such as filename mask.
The "Query Result" panel displays the found directories and filenames.
You can choose "Global Change", and specify a new user (UID) and/or group (GID) 
(permissions can also be changed).
The generated commands are presented, and you can choose to run them either in 
batch, or 'online'.

Regards,
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Re: BLDL-0 link-list only

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Look at the CVT. CVTLINK points to the DCB for link list.

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Subject: BLDL-0 link-list only

A "BLDL 0" macro searches for the specified program in task libraries, JOBLIB, 
STEPLIB and finally link-list libraries.  Is there a way to exclude everything 
and jump right to the link-list search?  I don't want to know if the program is 
in my STEPLIB.

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Re: New to Perl

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I use "Perl by Example" by Ellie Quigley. It is easy to follow and has lots of 
examples.
https://www.amazon.com/Perl-Example-5th-Ellie-Quigley/dp/0133760812/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8=1482331141=8-1=perl+by+example
 

I have the third edition and use it often. The third edition came with a CD of 
samples.

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Sent: Monday, December 19, 2016 10:09 AM
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Subject: Re: New to Perl

Or if you happen to be a member of ACM (http://www.acm.org/ ), you can read 
this book (on line access only) as one of many such books legally available to 
active members at the ACM Learning Center as one of the membership benefits.
JC Ewing

On 12/18/2016 02:48 AM, Edward Finnell wrote:
> Amazon lists paper back and Kindle  7th editions for around $20  USD.
>  
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> 482050
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>  
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Re: LRECL=255 vs LRECL=259

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I have only seen fb80 and vb255. Never saw vb259.

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Subject: LRECL=255 vs LRECL=259

My whole life I have seen variable length CLIST/EXEC libraries allocated as 
RECFM=VB w/LRECL=259. Clearly, the intent was to allow up to 255-character 
source lines.

At PSI, we provide the option for customers to allocate our CLIST/EXEC 
libraries either RECFM=FB w/LRECL=80 or RECFM=VB w/LRECL=259. One customer 
claims the industry-standard for RECFM=VB CLIST/EXEC libraries is LRECL=255 
rather than LRECL=259. LRECL=255 would allow for only 251-character source 
lines, which seems rather strange to me.

Of course, my personal observations and experiences provide nothing more than 
anecdotal evidence. Like a man with two watches being unsure of the time, I am 
now unsure if LRECL=259 is widespread practice or if I was observing only 
outliers.

Any insight would be appreciated...

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Re: Documentation for TSO DELETE MASK operand?

[Roach, Dennis]

It is defined in the IDCMS manual (DFSMS Access Method Services Commands). 
I would say no quotes on a masked data set.

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Check the IDCAMS manuals. This is actually a DFSMS command, not a native TSO 
command.

Rex

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z/OS 2.1 here.  In trying the following example DELETE with a MASK operand from 
a TSO READY prompt, I get the same error no matter whether I use asterisk or 
double-asterisk as the MASK value.

I have not found any documentation of the MASK keyword in the online TSO/E 
Commands Reference for either z/OS V2.1 or z/OS V2.2, but TSO HELP DELETE 
yields the description that follows the example below, indicating that MASK is 
a valid keyword.

Where can I RTFM about the MASK operand please?

Peter

Example DELETE with MASK operand and TSO HELP DELETE:

READY
  DELETE('TSOUSER.TEST.DATA.*')  PURGE MASK
IDC3239I INVALID DELETE MASK KEY - '('TSOUSER.TEST.DATA.*') IDC0014I LASTCC=12 
READY
  TSO HELP DELETE

Function -
  The DELETE command is used to delete either VSAM objects or NONVSAM
  data sets from a VSAM or ICF catalog and to free space occupied by
  the objects or data sets. Also the free space of VSAM data components
  can be overwritten with zeros. The DELETE command also deletes
  GDG bases and VSAM USERCATALOGS.

Syntax -
 DELETE('entryname/password' ...)
   CATALOG('catname/password')
   FILE('dname')
   PURGE | NOPURGE
   ERASE | NOERASE
   SCRATCH | NOSCRATCH
   FORCE | NOFORCE
   RECOVERY | NORECOVERY
   MASK | NOMASK
   CLUSTER | SPACE | USERCATALOG |
   ALIAS | GENERATIONDATAGROUP | PAGESPACE |
   NONVSAM | PATH | ALTERNATEINDEX | TRUENAME |
   NVR | VVR | VOLUMEENTRY | LIBRARYENTRY . . .
   MASK - The entryname is a MASK filter used to select a range
  of catalog entries to be deleted.

NOMASK   - the entryname is the name of a catalog entry to be
   deleted.
. . .

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Re: How do I see the end date for a certificate or key on z/OS 1.13 Tectia 6.4?

[Roach, Dennis]

Thanks for the replies. 
Unfortunately, the product was installed to use USS hostkeys files, with the 
user keys under the user's home directory, not RACF.
Since the product was ported from the UNIX/Linex/Windows environment, I have 
seen no documentation of it being able to use RACF.

For my certificates under RACF, I already have a report.

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Tectia 6.4?

Reposting after some RTFM about Tectia and ssh-certview ;-)

That is an interesting product, not too bad. (www.ssh.com)

Roach, Dennis wrote:

>>We need to verify that our certificates are not about to expire. I tried 
>>ssh-certview and get the following messages:
>>1.   ssh2/id_rsa_2048_a.pub: Failed to open `.ssh2/id_rsa_2048_a.pub': 
>>Character set conversions not initialized: cannot convert from 'IBM-1047' to 
>>'ISO8859-1'.
>>2.   ssh-certview: Failed to autodetect the object type.
>>3.   Trying to decode the public key file - failed.
>>Anyone have an idea?

Can you perhaps post just the first two or three lines of that file? Perhaps 
the encoding scheme is not correct or you need some parameter to correctly read 
 that file.

You can place that file in a dataset and then try out RACF to check that file's 
content.

RACDCERT CHECKCERT()

Alternatively, can you contact the vendor about this?

Groete / Greetings
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How do I see the end date for a certificate or key on z/OS 1.13 Tectia 6.4?

[Roach, Dennis]

We need to verify that our certificates are not about to expire. I tried 
ssh-certview and get the following messages:
1.   ssh2/id_rsa_2048_a.pub: Failed to open `.ssh2/id_rsa_2048_a.pub': 
Character set conversions not initialized: cannot convert from 'IBM-1047' to 
'ISO8859-1'.
2.   ssh-certview: Failed to autodetect the object type.
3.   Trying to decode the public key file - failed.
Anyone have an idea?


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Re: IDCAMs DEF AIX authorization

[Roach, Dennis]

Since it can, and did, cause a production outage, I voted for it.

I would think that a production outage would rate higher than a medium priority.

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-Original Message-
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf 
Of Jousma, David
Sent: Tuesday, September 13, 2016 9:09 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: IDCAMs DEF AIX authorization

I did open an RFE for this, if anyone wishes to vote on it, here is the info.

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ID:94515
Headline:Add SAF check on DEF AIX for 
RELATE Cluster
Submitted on:13 Sep 2016, 10:06 AM Eastern Time (ET)
Brand:  Servers and Systems Software
Product:  z/OS

Link:
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe_ID=94515

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Of Jousma, David
Sent: Tuesday, September 13, 2016 9:49 AM
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Subject: Re: IDCAMs DEF AIX authorization

Steve,  

That’s what I am seeing, and IBM just confirmed it.   I guess all we can do is 
give the contractor a slap on the hands, and move on.


IBM comments:

Basically, authorization checking is done against the AIX being defined (ALTER 
access to the AIX cluster name as shown in the table above) not the VSAM 
dataset the AIX relates to.  Checking against the related VSAM cluster will be 
done when accessed by BLDINDEX. 

So, this is working as intended and documented.  If you wish, you could open an 
'enhancement request' to have this behavior changed.  



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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf 
Of Steve
Sent: Tuesday, September 13, 2016 9:33 AM
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Subject: Re: IDCAMs DEF AIX authorization

AS I remember, DEF AIX and PATH only operate in the CAT.  The BLX would to the 
extract to the AIX 

-Original Message-
From: "Jousma, David" 
Sent: Tuesday, September 13, 2016 9:19am
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: IDCAMs DEF AIX authorization

All,

I've got a PMR open with IBM asking the question, but thought I'd also pass 
this by the brain trust on this list.   We recently had an off-shore contractor 
do a DEFINE AIX for a TEST dataset name, but RELATEd it to a PROD dataset name. 
  The process was allowed surprisingly.   Contractor only had read access to 
prod dataset.   The subsequent BLDINDEX did fail with security violation as 
expected.   Nightly processing of that prod file failed however due to the 
empty AIX.   Seems like DEF AIX should have been disallowed if the user didn't 
have the appropriate access for what it was related too?

Dave

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automount allocuser aggregates

[Roach, Dennis]

In the USS Command Reference under automoune, options allocuser and allocany, 
it states "Do not use this option with HFS-compatible zFS file systems if file 
system aggregates are mounted with the same automount policy because unused 
data sets is likely to be created."

We use aggregate and compat to when we format our user zFS data sets. 

Does anyone know what the risk is and have any advice on what we should change?

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Re: Resource Group Limits as a cost containment method?

[Roach, Dennis]

RCTLACS contains the current running average for the LPAR.
Assuming a single LAPR, it is possible to monitor and adjust the cap by 
changing the WLM policy (V WLM,policyname).
This requires at least 2 policies. 1 with no caps and 1 without caps. You may 
need another with tighter caps in order to force the value down.

If this is a multiple LPAR CEC you need to look at the value for all LPARS. I 
have use CA/OPS to do this.

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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf 
Of Tim Hare
Sent: Thursday, July 21, 2016 9:59 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: Resource Group Limits as a cost containment method?

There's a system where their 4-hour rolling average maximum is always during 
their batch window, when they routinely reach their defined capacity limit,  
which in turn affects what they pay in a chargeback system.

Because of scheduling dumbness (another story) they have several gaps in their 
batch window where nothing runs, giving some leeway for jobs to increase their 
elapsed time - not the usual thing you want to do, but bear with us.

Would it be worth investigating setting a resource group limit for the batch 
service class(es) to hold the total 4HRA down as a cost-saving measure, or are 
resource group limits going to cause more trouble than they are worth?

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Re: RDW corruption

[Roach, Dennis]

Use RECFM=U to see the BDW and RDW.

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-Original Message-
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf 
Of Mike Schwab
Sent: Monday, July 18, 2016 2:35 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: RDW corruption

Try a IDCAMS PRINT DUMP of the offending record.  Especially examine the BDW 
and RDW at the start of the block.

On Mon, Jul 18, 2016 at 2:21 PM, Campbell Jay  wrote:
> Have a current SR open with IBM...   57827 082 000
> Our output is VB  LRECL=31996  BLKSIZE=32000.
> Using BUFL=32600 fixes our problem.
> SR was opened to find out why that works.
>
> Jay Campbell
> IBM OS Support Section
>
> -Original Message-
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> On Behalf Of Joe Reichman
> Sent: Monday, July 18, 2016 3:17 PM
> To: IBM-MAIN@listserv.ua.edu
> Subject: RDW corruption
>
> Hi,
>
>
>
> I have a program that generates a corrupted RDW The file is a VB file. 
> I coded a synad exit but it didn't take (it was never given control)
>
>
>
> When I go into ISPF and I do a max down I can see where ISPF can't read the 
> next record as I get "* * * I/O error detected, i/o terminated * * *"
>
>
>
> As there anything/exit I can do to capture this the program seems to 
> go to EOJ
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Re: SMF type 89 records reporting RMF usage

[Roach, Dennis]

What makes you think it is part of RMF? 
Did you look at the SMF manual?

It is product usage for capacity level billing.


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Subject: SMF type 89 records reporting RMF usage

Can anyone think of how a SMF type 89 record reporting RMF usage would be 
generated without running the RMF STC?

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Re: IRRXUTIL not authorized, but it is.

[Roach, Dennis]

I suggest that you read Robert Henderson's paper on FACILITY class profiles.

http://www.rshconsulting.com/RSHpres/RSH_Consulting__FACILITY_Class__October_2015.pdf
 

He has a lot of good papers at http://www.rshconsulting.com/racfres.htm#RSHpres 



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Of Scott Ford
Sent: Monday, June 20, 2016 5:27 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: IRRXUTIL not authorized, but it is.

You need more than 'irr.radmin.listuser', it's performing and extract not 
listuser..
We use it in our product

Scott

On Monday, June 20, 2016, Itschak Mugzach <imugz...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Yes i did. Somehow, the "EXTRACT" permission was not covered by the 
> generic profile. may be it is a non-generic check? Other users was 
> able to use the service, but not the protected one.
>
> ITschak
>
>
> ITschak Mugzach
> Z/OS, ISV Products and Application Security & Risk Assessments 
> Professional
>
> On Mon, Jun 20, 2016 at 3:29 PM, Roach, Dennis <dennis.ro...@aig.com 
> <javascript:;>> wrote:
>
> > FACILITY is RACLISTd. Did you refresh?
> >
> > Dennis Roach, CISSP, PMP
> > AIG
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> >
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> > Behalf Of Itschak Mugzach
> > Sent: Monday, June 20, 2016 1:44 PM
> > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU <javascript:;>
> > Subject: IRRXUTIL not authorized, but it is.
> >
> > co-posted to ibm-main and racf-l (which said to be sleepy lately ;-) 
> > I have a rexx exec running a protected user with AUDITOR attribute 
> > that has read access to IRR.RADMIN.LISTUSER. on call x =
> IRRXUTIL("extract","user",
> > muki","mystem","r_") I get 12 12 8 8 24 which means the user is not 
> > authorized to the service. Am I missing something?
> >
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Re: IRRXUTIL not authorized, but it is.

[Roach, Dennis]

FACILITY is RACLISTd. Did you refresh?

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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf 
Of Itschak Mugzach
Sent: Monday, June 20, 2016 1:44 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: IRRXUTIL not authorized, but it is.

co-posted to ibm-main and racf-l (which said to be sleepy lately ;-) I have a 
rexx exec running a protected user with AUDITOR attribute that has read access 
to IRR.RADMIN.LISTUSER. on call x = IRRXUTIL("extract","user",
muki","mystem","r_") I get 12 12 8 8 24 which means the user is not authorized 
to the service. Am I missing something?

ITschak

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Re: What was a 3314? (was: Whither VIO)

[Roach, Dennis]

Since almost all "3390" DASD resides on FBA arrayed disks, the software exists 
and is running in the control units to convert ECKD to FBA requests.

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[Default] On 18 May 2016 19:31:34 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main 
ste...@copper.net (Steve Thompson) wrote:

>> snip
>Makes one very glad to have things like thumb drives that we have 
>today. Now if I could just get one big enough to IPL z/OS...

Would 128 gigabytes be enough.  I think I have seen 256 GB.
The software to emulate ECKD would be interesting.

Clark Morris

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Re: ADRDSSU-errormessage ADR472E with code 72

[Roach, Dennis]

I would think it very possible. Forcing the storage group, as defined in the 
response, could be a valid option. Non SMS managed storage could also be valid.

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Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2016 8:06 AM
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Subject: Re: ADRDSSU-errormessage ADR472E with code 72

Oops, thx, you are right.

I only read the explanation, but not the 'prgrammess response'.

Could it be, that customer' prefix NEW ( in reality it is another one) somehow 
is not correctly defined in SMS ?

Leo

On 10.05.2016 14:55, Roach, Dennis wrote:
> You need to read the entire message. There is an application programmer 
> response section that says
>   If you expect the target data set to be SMS-managed, ensure the ACS
>   routine assigns a storage class or use the BYPASS ACS and STORCLAS
>   keywords to force the data set to be SMS-managed.
> I would assume that the volume for outdd is not in the SMS storage class of 
> the data set based on the ACS routines.
>
> Dennis Roach, CISSP, PMP
> IAM Access Administration – Consumer – Senior Analyst
> 2929 Allen Parkway, America Building, 3rd Floor, Houston, TX 77019
> Work:  713-831-8799
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>
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> any person, company, or thing, living or dead, on or near this or any other 
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> since the beginning of time.
>
> -Original Message-
> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] 
> On Behalf Of Leopold Strauss
> Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2016 7:36 AM
> To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
> Subject: ADRDSSU-errormessage ADR472E with code 72
>
> Hi, all,
>
> A customer from my company gets following error-message during restore of a 
> ADRDSSU-dump-dataset:
>
> *ADR472E (001)-NEWDS(06), UNABLE TO SELECT A TARGET VOLUME FOR DATA 
> SET xx.yy.zz, *72*).*
>
> The explanation for 72 is:
>
> *During a non-SMS allocation, no target volumes were available and at 
> least one output volume was not selected because it was SMS-managed.*
>
> The used JCL-output-dd-statement:
>
> //OUTDDDD UNIT=SYSALLDA,DISP=(,CATLG,CATLG),SPACE=(TRK,(2000,900))
>
> The used commands( I changed datasetnames):
>
> RESTORE -
>DATASET (INCLUDE(   -
> aa.bb.** -
> aa.cc.** -
> aa.yy.** -
> aa..**   -
> aa.zz.**  -
>)   -
>)   -
>INDDNAME(INDD)  -
>OUTDDNAME(OUTDD)-
>RENAMEUNCONDITIONAL( -
>   (aa.bb.  -
>NEW.bb. ) -
>   (aa.bb.2-
>NEW.bb.2) -
>   (aa.cc.3   -
>NEW.cc.3   ) -
>   (aa.bb.4  -
> 
>
> NEW is a sysnonym for customer's prefix.
>
> Syntax of statements is OK.
>
>
> *During a non-SMS allocation, no target volumes were available and at 
> least one output volume was not selected because it was SMS-managed.*
>
> But what does that explanation really mean in detail?
>
> What can I suggest to customer?
>
> thx in advance
>
>
> Leo
>
>
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Re: ADRDSSU-errormessage ADR472E with code 72

[Roach, Dennis]

You need to read the entire message. There is an application programmer 
response section that says
If you expect the target data set to be SMS-managed, ensure the ACS  
routine assigns a storage class or use the BYPASS ACS and STORCLAS   
keywords to force the data set to be SMS-managed.
I would assume that the volume for outdd is not in the SMS storage class of the 
data set based on the ACS routines.

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-Original Message-
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf 
Of Leopold Strauss
Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2016 7:36 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: ADRDSSU-errormessage ADR472E with code 72

Hi, all,

A customer from my company gets following error-message during restore of a 
ADRDSSU-dump-dataset:

*ADR472E (001)-NEWDS(06), UNABLE TO SELECT A TARGET VOLUME FOR DATA SET 
xx.yy.zz, *72*).*

The explanation for 72 is:

*During a non-SMS allocation, no target volumes were available and at least one 
output volume was not selected because it was SMS-managed.*

The used JCL-output-dd-statement:

//OUTDDDD UNIT=SYSALLDA,DISP=(,CATLG,CATLG),SPACE=(TRK,(2000,900))

The used commands( I changed datasetnames):

RESTORE -
  DATASET (INCLUDE(   -
   aa.bb.** -
   aa.cc.** -
   aa.yy.** -
   aa..**   -
   aa.zz.**  -
  )   -
  )   -
  INDDNAME(INDD)  -
  OUTDDNAME(OUTDD)-
  RENAMEUNCONDITIONAL( -
 (aa.bb.  -
  NEW.bb. ) -
 (aa.bb.2-
  NEW.bb.2) -
 (aa.cc.3   -
  NEW.cc.3   ) -
 (aa.bb.4  -


NEW is a sysnonym for customer's prefix.

Syntax of statements is OK.


*During a non-SMS allocation, no target volumes were available and at least one 
output volume was not selected because it was SMS-managed.*

But what does that explanation really mean in detail?

What can I suggest to customer?

thx in advance


Leo




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Re: CSA Shrank in DR

[Roach, Dennis]

We would need to see the entire map: Nucleus, SQA, xLPA, and CSA along with the 
size specifications for SQA and CSA and the IPL syslog to see if there were any 
overflow messages for both production and DR to begin to determine where the 
storage went. 

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Of phil yogendran
Sent: Thursday, May 05, 2016 3:12 PM
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Subject: Re: CSA Shrank in DR

I did think it was a bigger IODF but in my case SQA in DR has gone down 
implying a smaller IODF. However, CSA has also gone down. Here's some inform 
from DR and Prod;

DR:  SQA  988KCSA 3.43M

Prod:   SQA 1.11MCSA 4.28M



On Thu, May 5, 2016 at 3:25 PM, Bob Rutledge  wrote:

> On 5/5/2016 3:07 PM, phil yogendran wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> We recently performed a DR exercise and on one of the LPAR's, the CSA 
>> was smaller by about 800k. Parmlib specification in DR and production 
>> were identical. The LPAR affected is our designated 'network' box so 
>> there are no apps or subsystems like CICS or IMS running on it.
>>
>> Any thoughts on what could make CSA shrink at IPL,  particularly when 
>> parmlib was not changed? The IODF in DR would have been different but 
>> I can't see that affecting CSA.
>>
>
> If your production CSA size is considerably larger than the 
> specification in parmlib, the DR IODF could be scarfing more SQA which 
> would affect the size of CSA.
>
> Bob
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Re: ADR309E Message during Restore

[Roach, Dennis]

You cannot do a full volume restore, so stated in the messages manual.

What you can safely do is a selective data set restore.

If you want to live dangerously, you could restore by track address.

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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf 
Of Warren, Cliff
Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2016 12:54 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: ADR309E Message during Restore

It appears you are trying to restore a 3390 mod 9 to a 3390 mod 3. The 2721 you 
have listed below is hex for 10,017 which is the number of cylinders in a mod 
9. In order to do a full volume restore your target volume will also need to be 
a 3390 mod 9

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Of Carlos Bodra
Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2016 1:41 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: ADR309E Message during Restore

Hello

I´m trying to restore a full volume backed up with ADRDSSU utility and during 
restore I´m getting following message:

SOURCE AND TARGET DEVICE CAPACITIES DO NOT MATCH. CYLINDER CAPACITY OF SOURCE 
VOLUME 2721, TARGET VOLUME 0D0B.

This tells me that source volume has 2721 cylinders and target volume has 3339 
cylinders (0d0b).

My question is how to bypass this condition checking and restore from tape 
source volume in a new target volume.

Thanks

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Re: Helpful tip for z/OS consultants

[Roach, Dennis]

What I have generally found on transition projects is that people can be on any 
point of the spectrum. Enter one of these projects with your eyes open.

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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf 
Of Pinnacle
Sent: Monday, May 02, 2016 9:42 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: Helpful tip for z/OS consultants

On 5/2/2016 10:28 AM, Roach, Dennis wrote:
> It can go both ways. I did a decommission gig where my job was to keep an 
> unsupported z/OS 1.7 system up and running, assist with transition, and 
> provide reporting of what was still running. The main reason I was brought in 
> was to allow the existing staff to transition to new positions within the 
> company. There was no animosity.
>
> Dennis Roach, CISSP, PMP
> IAM Access Administration – Consumer – Senior Analyst
> 2929 Allen Parkway, America Building, 3rd Floor, Houston, TX 77019
> Work:  713-831-8799
> Cell:  713-591-1059
> Email:  dennis.ro...@aig.com
>
> All opinions expressed by me are mine and may not agree with my employer or 
> any person, company, or thing, living or dead, on or near this or any other 
> planet, moon, asteroid, or other spatial object, natural or manufactured, 
> since the beginning of time.
>

Dennis,

I'm glad it worked out for you.  The key there is that no one was losing their 
job.  In my case, dozens of people were leaving, relocating, or hanging on for 
dear life.  I was the enemy from the day I walked in the door.

Regards,
Tom Conley

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Re: Helpful tip for z/OS consultants

[Roach, Dennis]

It can go both ways. I did a decommission gig where my job was to keep an 
unsupported z/OS 1.7 system up and running, assist with transition, and provide 
reporting of what was still running. The main reason I was brought in was to 
allow the existing staff to transition to new positions within the company. 
There was no animosity. 

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IAM Access Administration – Consumer – Senior Analyst 
2929 Allen Parkway, America Building, 3rd Floor, Houston, TX 77019
Work:  713-831-8799
Cell:  713-591-1059
Email:  dennis.ro...@aig.com 

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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf 
Of Pinnacle
Sent: Monday, May 02, 2016 9:20 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: Helpful tip for z/OS consultants

FYI,

I got the following job description in my Email today (heavily edited to 
protect the guilty):

Description

Looking for z/OS Sysprog to assist in Mainframe decommission The Sysprog will 
work with management, applications, and systems areas to complete decommission


This is a contract you should avoid at all costs.  I once worked a 
datacenter migration in the "from" city. The people there hated my guts 
and it was the worst contract I ever worked.  Don't ever take a contract 
where people are losing jobs and you're seen as someone facilitating it.

Regards,
Tom Conley

  


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Re: But not on Windows 10 Re: Passable April Foll's joke

[Roach, Dennis]

Worked on mine

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Of Clark Morris
Sent: Friday, April 01, 2016 12:36 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: But not on Windows 10 Re: Passable April Foll's joke

[Default] On 1 Apr 2016 07:03:56 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main 
cliff.war...@mckesson.com (Warren, Cliff) wrote:

>I learned about this last summer when my dog stepped on my laptop. His 
>paw happen to hit CNTL-ALT-RightArrow which made the screen face right. 
>I had do some quick googling to get back to a normal screen

The control-alt arrow sequences do nothing on my Windows 10 machine.

Clark Morris
>
>-Original Message-
>From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] 
>On Behalf Of Charles Mills
>Sent: Friday, April 01, 2016 9:48 AM
>To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
>Subject: Re: Passable April Foll's joke
>
>I did it to myself in a two screen environment and (spoiler alert!) 
>Ctrl-Alt-UpArrow made them both right. Windows 7 Pro 64-bit.
>
>Charles
>
>-Original Message-
>From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] 
>On Behalf Of Nims,Alva John (Al)
>Sent: Friday, April 01, 2016 6:35 AM
>To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
>Subject: Re: Passable April Foll's joke
>
>I DO NOT recommend doing so on a Multi-Screen system or Multi-Screen Windows 
>7, because at the moment, one screen is back to being right side up, but the 
>other is still UPSIDE DOWN!
>Yes, I did it to myself, before I attempt to do it to someone else, 
>guess what I WON'T be doing today!  :-)
>
>Al Nims
>Systems Admin/Programmer 3
>UFIT
>University of Florida
>(352) 273-1298
>
>-Original Message-
>From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] 
>On Behalf Of Scott Ford
>Sent: Friday, April 01, 2016 8:41 AM
>To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
>Subject: Re: Passable April Foll's joke
>
>Brian,
>
>
>Very very funny my friend...
>
>Throws people for a serious curve 
>
>Scott
>
>On Friday, April 1, 2016, Brian Westerman 
>
>wrote:
>
>> This is one I do every year to as many people as I can.  I think it 
>> works on all windows PCs.
>>
>> I wait till they are not looking and press the combination of
>> CTRL+ALT+downarrow  It inverts their screen.
>>
>> Try to walk away as quickly as possible without drawing attention to 
>> yourself.  A lot of people don't realize what happened and they can't 
>> coordinate working upside down to do a web search to see how to set 
>> it back to right-side up.
>>
>> It helps if you know how to reset it back in case you can't get away 
>> fast enough.
>>
>> Brian
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Re: OT but hopefully amusing - FBI, iPhone and water

[Roach, Dennis]

Has anyone verified this? The scuttlebutt was that they were going to remove 
the chip, copy it to a backup, clone several, and brute force them. If so, they 
should still have the backup and be able to do it again.

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Of Charles Mills
Sent: Tuesday, March 29, 2016 10:32 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: OT but hopefully amusing - FBI, iPhone and water

http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/unlocked-iphone-worthless-aft
er-f-b-i-spills-glass-of-water-on-it  

Charles 

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Re: IPCS

[Roach, Dennis]

As long as they stay with their applications there should be no issue. 
A standalone dump can contain passwords.
A multi-session manager, like CA/TPX, can also contain passwords.
SVC, SLIP, etc. can contain passwords.

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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf 
Of Lizette Koehler
Sent: Wednesday, February 24, 2016 3:05 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: IPCS

The only risk I have found in the past is - Understanding how IPCS works What 
it is in IPCS that they need?

Otherwise, I have allowed programmers to use it.  Saved me from extracting data 
from dumps for them.

Lizette


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> On Behalf Of Lopez, Sharon
> Sent: Wednesday, February 24, 2016 1:47 PM
> To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
> Subject: IPCS
> 
> Do others use IPCS instead of systems programmers?  I always thought 
> of it as a system's programmers tool but now we have application 
> developers that want access to it.  What are the risks of giving access to 
> developers?
> 
> Thanks in advance.
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Re: Even after all the Y2K work....

[Roach, Dennis]

If you try the 28th it says it is on Sunday. March 1st it says is on Tuesday. 
Both are correct. Monday just doesn't exist.


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Sent: Wednesday, February 10, 2016 9:54 AM
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Subject: OT: Even after all the Y2K work

You would think coders would understand leap days.
http://www.calculatorcat.com/free_calculators/day_of_week.phtml
Enter Feb 29, 2016 (or any other valid leap year) and you get:

"The date February 29, 2016 is invalid.
Check it again."


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Re: JES3 to JES2 Migration (was JES2 to JES3 Migration)

[Roach, Dennis]

As someone already mentioned, the JECL is different. It shouldn't be hard to 
write code to translate. 

The other issue is the class structure. JES2 uses an one character class on the 
JOB card. JES3 used the  class on the JOB card or an eight character class on 
the //*MAIN JECL statement. 

Ed Jaffe has done some papers on it.
ftp://phoenixsoftware.com/pub/demo/JES3_to_JES2_User_Experience.pdf
ftp://phoenixsoftware.com/pub/demo/JES3_White_Paper.pdf 


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Email:  dennis.ro...@aig.com 
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf 
Of Cheryl Watson
Sent: Thursday, January 14, 2016 8:14 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: JES3 to JES2 Migration (was JES2 to JES3 Migration)

Yes, Lizette - I meant to say JES3 to JES2.  Thanks!

Has anyone who has done this have an estimate of the amount of time it might 
take, and the effort?

Cheryl

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Of Lizette Koehler
Sent: Thursday, January 14, 2016 9:08 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: JES2 to JES3 Migration

Cheryl,

I am guessing you meant the subject to say JES3 to JES2 migration???

The one challenge I see is the JCL is different between the two environments.  
JES2 use /* (eg. /*ROUTE) and JES3 uses //* (eg //*MAIN)   

JES2 has no master JES system, JES3 has a Master.  So in JES2 jobs can either 
run where the JCL is converted or anywhere in the JESMAS.


There is also the concept in JES3 that until all resources available, the job 
will not run.  JES2 it can run and wind up waiting on resources.

Those are about the differences I can think of off the top of my head.

Lizette


> -Original Message-
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> On Behalf Of Cheryl Watson
> Sent: Thursday, January 14, 2016 7:01 PM
> To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
> Subject: JES2 to JES3 Migration
> 
> A customer asked us for suggestions for performing a JES3 to JES2 migration.
> Are there products that will help in this, or do you know any 
> companies who perform this migration?  You can reply off-list if you prefer.
> 
> Thanks so much,
> Cheryl
> cheryl at watsonwalker.com

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Re: Reflection FTP Client - Secure

[Roach, Dennis]

And the answer is RTFM. It is setup in the Tectia config file which has both a 
system and user level.

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-Original Message-
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf 
Of Ed Finnell
Sent: Tuesday, January 12, 2016 3:04 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: Reflection FTP Client - Secure

Not Reflection. Use ws_ftp from _www.ipswitch.com_
(http://www.ipswitch.com)  and it has a pulldown for to  and from side for OS 
type with a default parm of Autodetect. Get's it right most  of the time.
 
 
In a message dated 1/12/2016 2:52:29 P.M. Central Standard Time,  
dennis.ro...@aig.com writes:

It works  great for binary transfers, but I cannot get it to translate 
EBCDIC/ASCII. Has  anyone been successful with this?  


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Reflection FTP Client - Secure

[Roach, Dennis]

We currently use Reflection FTP Client for standard, non-secure, ftp. We 
installed Tectia secure shell ftp. I can get Reflection to sign-on to Tectia 
using certificates. It works great for binary transfers, but I cannot get it to 
translate EBCDIC/ASCII. Has anyone been successful with this? 
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Re: 4-hour MSU rolling average

[Roach, Dennis]

There is no API that I am aware of. It is not hard to find.
CVTOPCTP points to the RMCT
RMCTRCT points to the RCT
The RCT contains a lot of interesting stuff
RCTCECWMCDC capacity 
RCTIMGWULPAR defined capacity
RCTLACS 4 hour average

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Of Steve Austin
Sent: Tuesday, October 20, 2015 7:17 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: 4-hour MSU rolling average

Hi,

Is there an API to return this value(s). I'd expected a WLM call, but I've not 
found it yet.

Thanks

Steve

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Re: Abend jobs not showing on Console

[Roach, Dennis]

Check your console route codes. 

Also check any automation, message processing products, or MPF exits to make 
sure they are not suppressing the messages.

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Of Chandramohan, Harish - CW
Sent: Monday, August 31, 2015 12:47 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: Abend jobs not showing on Console

Am not sure why I don't see any of the abended jobs on my console all of a 
sudden.

Thanks!

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Re: Smaller Private Area in DR

[Roach, Dennis]

How different was the I/O configuration? Adding devices can reduce private. 
Different devices can take different storage amounts for UCB and drivers.

Different hardware can have different recovery modules loaded, changing private 
size. 

We recently dynamically added DASD. O problem, even over an IPL. Updated 
IOCP/IOCDS to make them permanent, power-on reset, and IPL. Lost 1 meg from 
private and had to adjust CSA/SQA.

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Of phil yogendran
Sent: Thursday, August 27, 2015 2:43 PM
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Subject: Re: Smaller Private Area in DR

Thanks all for the responses. I'm referring to private below the line.
Unfortunately, there's no dump or map of storage to do any meaningful 
debugging. The obvious reason is that something was added somewhere for private 
to drop 1M. I'm aware it changes in 1M chunks. However, 'nothing changed' is 
what I'm told.

Mark, can you elaborate please? Would that be in the IODF that was picked up in 
DR?

Thanks

On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 3:01 PM, Ed Finnell  
000248cce9f3-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu wrote:

 Have to examine all the parts. CSA, ECSA, etc that take away from  private.
 Something like Mark's IPLINFO is a starter or the PRIVAT mapper in IVP 
 lib is another choice.


 In a message dated 8/27/2015 1:47:44 P.M. Central Daylight Time, 
 mark.jac...@custserv.com writes:

 Might be  related to the number of devices defined to the environment.
 Are you  talking about above or below  private?


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Re: Limit number of frames of real storage per job

[Roach, Dennis]

V=R won't help anyway since every virtual page is backed by a real page, hence 
no paging.

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Sent: Tuesday, August 04, 2015 12:01 PM
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eamacn...@yahoo.ca (Ted MacNEIL) wrote:
 1. IiRC, V=R is no longer supported. I could be wrong -- it happens sometimes.
snip

V=R remains supported.


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Re: Exporting Excel to Dataset

[Roach, Dennis]

You can use a VBS macro to save each sheet as a .cvs and then ftp the .cvs 
file(s)

Sub export_cvs(sheet_to_export,export_file_name)
   Sheets(sheet_to_export).Select   ' select the sheet to export
   Application.DisplayAlerts = False'suppress error prompts
   ActiveWorkbook.SaveAs _
  Filename:=C:\export\path  export_file_name, _ 'drive and export path 
could also be parms
  FileFormat:=xlCSV, _  'as .cvs
  CreateBackup:=False
   Application.DisplayAlerts = True 'turn error prompts back on
   Sheets(export_file_name).Name = sheet_to_export  'SaveAs renames the 
sheet and the work book
   End Sub

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Sent: Monday, August 03, 2015 1:03 PM
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Subject: Re: Exporting Excel to Dataset

On Mon, Aug 3, 2015 at 12:19 PM, Ron Thomas ron5...@gmail.com wrote:

 We have a requirement that looks for exporting an Excel template with 
 data in a tabular format from an FTP folder location to a mainframe 
 PDS which later needs to be accessed via COBOL for some business processing 
 logic.

 We know that this works fine if the input Excel file is in .CSV format.
 What we are looking for is, if anyone is aware of any such 
 functionalities where we can accept and export the Excel template as 
 such to a PDS that is readable by COBOL without being converted to a .CSV 
 file?

 Thanks
 Ron T


​I'm a bit unclear about what you mean by ... without being converted to a 
.CSV file. Do you mean that you want to directly transfer the actual .xlsx (or 
.xls) file into a member of a PDS without​

​any intermediate file on the sending side? I don't know of an FTP client which 
can do that.

Disclaimer: I am not knowledgeable about either option. And I'm a Linux person, 
not a Windows person. ​

My first thought is, assuming this is on Windows, is to write a PowerShell 
which runs a program, say in .NET, to access the data in the Excel spreadsheet, 
have it create a CVS export, then ftp that.


Now, depending on what you can do on the sending side, there are Python 
libraries which can read an Excel spreadsheet, http://www.python-excel.org/.
Or you can set you the Excel spreadsheet to be an ODBC source and read it in 
Python using https://wiki.python.org/moin/ODBC .
Also, there is an ftp package for Python as well ( 
https://docs.python.org/2/library/ftplib.html and 
https://docs.python.org/3/library/ftplib.html). This ​ solution​ would require 
a bit of glue logic in Python to do. Likewise, there are similar libraries in 
the R language. But R is a bit more specialized and so would, IMO, take a 
person who does not have any knowledge of either language to learn R rather 
than Python. Also, there are more examples on the Web in Python to use as a 
starting point.

I am assuming that you are on Windows. You can get Python for Windows here:
https://www.python.org/downloads/windows/ There is also a version of Python for 
Mac and one for Linux.

The R language for Windows can be gotten here:
https://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/base/
You'll also need the openxlsx (or XLConnect) and RCurl packages from:
https://cran.r-project.org/. Or, like with Python, you could use ODBC in R 
using RODBC from the above site.

Curiosity: Why no .CSV file? I am guessing that you have an end user updating 
some Excel spreadsheet and you don't want them to have to save it as CSV. In 
which case, perhaps the PowerShell approach is best. If you really don't have 
the disk space for the CSV, then I guess the Python or R solution would be, at 
least, decent.

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Re: RACF List User access

[Roach, Dennis]

Take a look at 
http://www.rshconsulting.com/RSHpres/RSH_Consulting__FACILITY_Class__June_2012.pdf
 
Do a find for IRR.LISTUSER. It has some restrictions.
Robert has many handy papers on RACF.


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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf 
Of Lizette Koehler
Sent: Friday, July 17, 2015 8:19 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: RACF List User access

If you have not done so, you may want to join the RACF list for questions like 
this.

They are more focused on all things RACF and Security.

To join, use this URL
RACFhttp://www.listserv.uga.edu/archives/racf-l.html

Lizette


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 Sent: Friday, July 17, 2015 4:07 AM
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 Hello Group,
One of my customer want to have access for list user 
 command for one particular id.Is it possible to give him this selective 
 access.
 
 Please suggest
 

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