Re: Are there any mainframe sites out there that don't use JCLCHECK/JCLPREP or equivalent?

2005-10-07 Thread R.S.
Hal Merritt wrote: We don't run such, but we are quite small. In an earlier life, we were with a much larger shop that did not permit programmers to run final tests using live data. The promoted job stream was, therefore, always untested. Of course, JCL errors were common. IMHO live data are

Re: Geoplex performance considerations

2005-10-07 Thread R.S.
John (IBM-MAIN) wrote: --- snip --- To all who have helped with our research into GDPS with SRDF/A, THANKS! What we've found is that virtually no one is running a GDPS with syncronous data replication, and we fould only one instance of active data sharing across sites. -- snip -- Since

Re: PCI audit compliance

2005-10-07 Thread Perryman, Brian
A valid and good point. However I suspect that they will just point out that their policy clearly states that passwords should not be written down, and shift the blame to the user. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Shmuel Metz

STAT Transaction Error in CICS

2005-10-07 Thread Jerry Ragland
Hi, Iam trying to get the statistics details of the CICS region using the CICS supplied STAT transaction which is present in the group DFH$STAT. The installation of the group was successful but when I try to issue the STAT transaction in the region I get the following error - A CICS spool open

Betr.: [IBM-MAIN] STAT Transaction Error in CICS

2005-10-07 Thread N. Blekemolen
Did you define SPOOL=YES in your SIT or SIT SYSIN override ? Jerry Ragland [EMAIL PROTECTED] Verzonden door: IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU 07-10-2005 14:09 Antwoord a.u.b. aan IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Aan IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Cc Onderwerp

Re: STAT Transaction Error in CICS

2005-10-07 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Jerry Ragland Hi, Iam trying to get the statistics details of the CICS region using the CICS supplied STAT transaction which is present in the group DFH$STAT. The installation of the group was successful

Re: PCI audit compliance

2005-10-07 Thread Knutson, Sam
One type of tool that can help with password rage is a password manager. I suggest you use a password manager which is open source, uses a well vetted encryption algorithm, and has an active developer. I favor and use the original Password Safe developed by Bruce Schneier it works on Windows

Re: Geoplex performance considerations

2005-10-07 Thread TISLER Zaromil
---snip--- To all who have helped with our research into GDPS with SRDF/A, THANKS! What we've found is that virtually no one is running a GDPS with syncronous data replication, and we fould only one instance of active data sharing across sites. We did find a handful of people running dual sites

Re: GDG allocation

2005-10-07 Thread Bruce Black
We are z/OS v1r4. We have a started task which creates a GDG file. This started task stays ups unless it abends or an IPL happens. This GDG is SMS controlled. There are several files which will not migrate because the GDG index is enqueued. Is there a way to get around this so the files will be

TSo TIMEOUT

2005-10-07 Thread Andy White
Does anyone know typically what controls the inactivity time out (logoff) in TSO? I asked the RACF people here but they say we don't do it there... Thanks Andy S White Internet: Mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] The information contained in this message may be CONFIDENTIAL and is for the intended

Re: TSo TIMEOUT

2005-10-07 Thread Mark Jacobs
On Friday 07 October 2005 12:14 pm, Andy White wrote: Does anyone know typically what controls the inactivity time out (logoff) in TSO? I asked the RACF people here but they say we don't do it there... Thanks Andy S White Internet: Mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] JWT in SMFPRMxx. SMF exit

Re: TSo TIMEOUT

2005-10-07 Thread ibm-main
From: Andy White Does anyone know typically what controls the inactivity time out (logoff) in TSO? I asked the RACF people here but they say we don't do it there... Thanks That dull roar you maybe can hear in the background is probably a (small) stampede of vendors about to suggest their

Tool to find GDG's in rolled-off status

2005-10-07 Thread Rugen, Len
Before I look into building one, is there a tool somewhere to find GDG's in rolled-out status? When we move some datasets to SMS/TMM, the very OLDest GDG's were defined with NOSCRATCH, now I need to clean up after myself. Len Rugen IT Systems Support - University of Missouri System 615

Re: Summarize length of all variable length records in a file?

2005-10-07 Thread Barry Merrill
You said ... for those that are trying to get the SAS to work without prior knowledge of the language, the nigglers'll point out that RETAIN DATA DATARDW; and RETAIN BDW; are missing (actual location is irrelevant) from the respective DATA steps. It's only a minor thing and doesn't affect the

Re: GDG allocation

2005-10-07 Thread Lance Kopplin
- Original Message - From: Mark Steely [EMAIL PROTECTED] Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Sent: Thursday, October 06, 2005 2:05 PM Subject: GDG allocation We are z/OS v1r4. We have a started task which creates a GDG file. This started task stays ups unless it abends or an IPL

Re: TSo TIMEOUT

2005-10-07 Thread Mark Zelden
You can also... snip ... you can also check the archives as this has been discussed about a bazillion times. Sorry if this seems a little harsh for a Friday. :-) It took all of .34 seconds for a google groups search for ibm-main and tso timeout (168 hits). Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software

Re: TSo TIMEOUT

2005-10-07 Thread Andy White
Mark Thanks! Andy S White Internet: Mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Mark Jacobs [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU 10/07/2005 12:17 PM Please respond to IBM Mainframe Discussion List To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU cc: Subject:

Re: GDG allocation

2005-10-07 Thread Tom Schmidt
On Fri, 7 Oct 2005 11:24:38 -0600, Lance Kopplin wrote: - Original Message - From: Mark Steely [EMAIL PROTECTED] We are z/OS v1r4. We have a started task which creates a GDG file. This started task stays ups unless it abends or an IPL happens. This GDG is SMS controlled. There are

Re: Network Time Protocol (NTP) and MVS

2005-10-07 Thread John Eells
Neal Eckhardt wrote: As far as I know, NTP has not been supported by z/OS. Is this still the case? I can think of a dozen reasons why it would not be supported (especially for SYSPLEXs), but I am doing my due diligence by asking the question. NTP is not supported for setting the system clock

Re: Summarize length of all variable length records in a file?

2005-10-07 Thread Neil Duffee
At October 7, 2005 12:14, concerning RE: Summarize length of all variable length recor, Barry Merrill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote (to Neil Duffee): [snip] However, it is not necessary to use an explicit RETAIN statement, when you, instead, use the SUM Statement syntax, which has an implied

ECS Sharing and MCAT

2005-10-07 Thread ITURIEL DO NASCIMENTO NETO
Hi all, Does any of you use ECS Sharing facility with Master Catalogs ? If they are allocated in devices defined as shared and has shareoptions(3 4), theoretically there is no impeditive in doing this, even if they are not shared among systems. Any comments ? Atenciosamente / Regards /

Re: PCI audit compliance

2005-10-07 Thread Hal Merritt
Putting the onus of strong passwords on the user did not work, so why should any other policy? Overly restrictive password rules do not add strength. My $0.02. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Perryman, Brian Sent: Friday,

Assembler question

2005-10-07 Thread Scott McFall
My colleague Bob Stark asked me to float a problem he's currently experiencing at a client site out to some of the listservers for MVS and Assember to see if anyone can help us debug this problem. If you post back, can you please also copy your response to Bob at [EMAIL PROTECTED] as he's in

Re: Assembler question

2005-10-07 Thread Farley, Peter x23353
Scott and Bob, What you need to do is break out the length of each GRPUSERS(I) string and then loop for the quotient of that length over 256, something like this: LCLA GLEN,GCNT,K,L GLEN SETA K'GRPUSERS(I) GCNT SETA GLEN/256 K SETA 1 GRPUSRI

Temp PDSE in VIO

2005-10-07 Thread Frank Allan Rasmussen
Hi Is it possible to create a temp PDSE in VIO in JCL something like: //VIOPDSE DD DSN=TMPPDSE, // dsntype=library, // space=(cyl,(100,59,25)), // unit=vio, // dcb=(lrecl=32000,blksize=32760,recfm=vb) Mvh

Re: Assembler question

2005-10-07 Thread Charles Mills
You're on the right track and I'm too lazy to actually do the coding. OTOH, why not consider changing you macro syntax to something like USERS=(T045022,T046726,T047542,T056131,... And then is should be fairly trivial to separate out the sub-operands of USERS (USERS(SUB) as I recall) and loop

Re: Temp PDSE in VIO

2005-10-07 Thread Mark Zelden
On Fri, 7 Oct 2005 22:38:03 +0200, Frank Allan Rasmussen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Is it possible to create a temp PDSE in VIO in JCL something like: //VIOPDSE DD DSN=TMPPDSE, // dsntype=library, // space=(cyl,(100,59,25)), //

Re: Assembler question

2005-10-07 Thread Kirk Talman
Personally I would use: DCAL2(LISTEND-*-2) DCC'T045022' DCC'T047542' ... LISTEND EQU * Charles Mills [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/07/2005 05:19 PM SNIP You're on exactly the right track for generating your length halfword, something like DC

Re: Assembler question

2005-10-07 Thread Charles Mills
And you'd be right :-) 20 000E 12 DCAL2(LISTEND-*-2) 22 E3F0F4F5F0F2F213 DCC'T045022' 29 E3F0F4F7F5F4F214 DCC'T047542' 00030 15 LISTEND EQU *

Re: Assembler question

2005-10-07 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
At 16:59 -0400 on 10/07/2005, Farley, Peter x23353 wrote about Re: Assembler question: I don't know if that takes care of leading/trailing quotes in the GRPUSER(I) values, but it's a start. What leading and trailing quotes? Unless you go User='''UID1 UID2 ... UIDX''', the value that the is