Just for the archive and perhaps for some offline reader.
[snip]
So this leaves at least two choices
1. Switch to mode hex and enter x'E0' as a backslash (x'EC' is for
cp273)
2. use iconv -t IBM-1047 -f IBM-273 ! /bin/sh (the '!' vary from
codepage
to coderpage) at first statement in your
Also, there are two dataset disposition fields -- normal and abnormal.
The one that you specified is normal. If you want to specify what
happens in an abend scenario, you need to code a second one.
e.g. DISP=(MOD,KEEP,DELETE)
And abend does mean abend (= abnormal end) as opposed to a mere
On Fri, 26 Jan 2007 08:30:00 -0600, Dave Cartwright
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On Fri, 26 Jan 2007 08:27:14 -0600, Dave Cartwright
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Why would QSAM ignore DCBIBLKSI and write the block at 65520?
Typo. DCBEBLKSI
Doh! SMOP
If the system ignores the control block you
Some additional notes:
If you want to manually look at the SVCTABLE, do the following:
Bring up IPCS with a SOURCE setting as ACTIVE.
Make sure you issue an IP DROPD to drop any previous analysis from a browse
ACTIVE storage session.
Go into browse...Option 1
Issue the following:
L
The reason you would use DISP=(MOD,DELETE) is when rerunning JCL that would
fail if the dataset created in the previous time you ran it were still there,
the job would fail with a jcl error. The first step is usually an IEFBR14. If
the dataset exists, it is deleted. If it doesn't exist, it
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 01/25/2007
at 01:49 PM, Rick Fochtman [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
IIRC, the 360 Interval Timer also created a External Interrupt.
Both the External Interrupt button and the Interval Timer generated an
external interrupt, but the interrupt code was different.
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at 06:06 PM, George D Dranes [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
I'm currently in the process of trying to tune CSA, ECSA and Common
Page Size and was looking for some recommendations.
Unless you are close to the edge for private storage above the line, I
would
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at 01:30 PM, R.S. [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Everytime I read software manual, i.e. MVS Diagnosis, and the manual
decribes some actions on hardware side, I find completely unclear
and usually obsolete explanations.
Then submit an RCF.
--
Shmuel
InfoPrint Server prints directly to printers which have an IP address
assigned to them.
It appears you are trying to use the SNA printer interface feature, which is
designed to direct print to older coaxial cable connected printers.
The example provided by Roberto is used for NetSpool, a part of
Hello,
I am looking for a way to prevent users calling certain load modules
directly. Instead I would like my module to get control. This module can
then perform certain tasks before passing control to the user requested
processing module.
Here as a simple flow:
- User calls module A
- My
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[ snip ]
If you are on z/OS 1.7 or higher, you can tell if the system
was quiesced for a particular dump using IPCS:
VERBX IEAVTSFS
System reset dispatchable 09/17/2042 23:53:47.370496
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Sent: Monday, January 29, 2007 7:23 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: Getting control
Hello,
I am looking for a way to prevent users calling certain load modules
We are attempting to get SAE R12 - and FDR-SAR 54.50 as well - to 'find'
the console attached to a Visara 25S console/communications controller.
Both work fine using a 3174-1L and dumb terminal, IPLing from either
tape or CD.
It seems like the CHPID just won't come alive. This is an EMIF
In a recent note, Hunkeler Peter (KIUK 3) said:
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 09:18:06 +0100
3. The LE runtime runs in the C locale with CP1047 by default.
You can tell it to do otherwiese with:
//STEP1EXEC PGM=AOPBATCH,
// PARM='ENVAR(LC_ALL=De_DE.IBM-273)/sh'
Then
John,
a relink is not an option as I would like to enable/disable my function
dynamically (at least from IPL to IPL) and some of the load modules are
third party software - ie. I do not want to change these!
Regards
Jon
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[ snip ]
If you are on z/OS 1.7 or higher, you can tell if the system
was quiesced for a particular dump using
Jim Mulder wrote:
[snip]
No matter how many times I proofread before posting, I still
can't seem to find all the typos.
When we teach a class, we tell the students we will pay
a nickel a typo, dime for technical errors. It's a
harmless bit of fun, but I'm continually amazed at the
little
I'm convinced you never get rid of the last typo.
Just like one never gets rid of the last bug.
Amen!
--
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Senior Software Developer for FDR
Innovation Data Processing 973-890-7300
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Jim Mulder wrote:
[snip]
No matter how many times I proofread before posting, I still can't
seem to find all the typos.
When we teach a class, we tell the students we will pay a
nickel
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IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU wrote on
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[ snip ]
If
On 29 Jan 2007 02:59:56 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (J R) wrote:
Also, there are two dataset disposition fields -- normal and abnormal.
The one that you specified is normal. If you want to specify what happens
in an abend scenario, you need to code a second one.
e.g. DISP=(MOD,KEEP,DELETE)
Or
We are attempting to get SAE R12 - and FDR-SAR 54.50 as well - to
'find' the console attached to a Visara 25S console/communications
controller.
Both work fine using a 3174-1L and dumb terminal, IPLing from either
tape or CD.
It seems like the CHPID just won't come alive. This is an EMIF
On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 15:40:20 +0100 Jon Renton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
:a relink is not an option as I would like to enable/disable my function
:dynamically (at least from IPL to IPL) and some of the load modules are
:third party software - ie. I do not want to change these!
You can use some CSA
Hello:
I am looking for a way to tell DFSORT to stop reading the SORTIN data set when
it reaches a record with X'' in pos 1-2. I looked at the latest DFSORT
doc but didn't see anything that could help me, other than an E15 exit, which
is precisely what I'm trying to stay clear of. Any
The archive search and I aren't getting along this morning.
Are there any recommendations for a MIH value for FICON CTCs?
We haven't got anything specified in IECIOSxx but are having some
difficulty getting VARY commands to them to complete.
We're wondering if there is a
We have just started down the road of trying to invoke java classes from
batch COBOL but have hit a problem with the 100 character PARM field length
because we need to specify several runtime options such as ENVAR=,
POSIX(ON) AND XPLINK(ON) on top of our own parameters. Is there a way to
Thanks, Roberto.
What you gave me is the APPL definition for the printer and I need another
APPL for the FSS Infoprint uses.
After that, it works.
On 1/29/07, Roberto Halais [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
For my printers I use:
NETSPRT1 APPL EAS=1,SESSLIM=YES,DLOGMOD=SCS,LOSTERM=IMMED
The following solution will work with SyncSort and should work with
DFSORT also. It requires 2 passes of the data but if the data volume is
not large than this should not present a problem. In English, the
approach taken is to have STEP1 build the SORT control card to be used
by STEP2 (the step
Thanks Shane and Roland for the advice. I think I understand about
/etc/profile and $PATH:$JAVA_HOME/bin. We are a pretty simple monoplex but I
want to set things up the best way that I can. As I mentioned in a previous
post for help, this is my first full base serverpac (with IBM's tcpip). And
we
How about some sort of scheme in which you alias your program as A, and
re-name program A to $A? So when the user runs A, s/he gets your program,
which then links to the old A?
In this approach or the one suggested by John, you could turn the function
on and off with a system variable or a parm
Jim McAlpine wrote:
We have just started down the road of trying to invoke java classes from
batch COBOL but have hit a problem with the 100 character PARM field length
because we need to specify several runtime options such as ENVAR=,
POSIX(ON) AND XPLINK(ON) on top of our own parameters.
Yes thanks, I'm aware of that but I'm also thinking that we may need to
switch the runtime options back again after return from the Java program.
This is a long running batch job which sits and waits for work and could be
running all day running mostly non-java work, but occasionally having to
I am looking for a way to prevent users calling certain load modules
directly. Instead I would like my module to get control.
As John McKown says, this is hard to make foolproof. But you can cover
at least one vector pretty easily: if your users are executing the load
module directly via JCL,
Yes, I've seen an example of using putenv but I also need to change LE
runtime options also.
Unfortunately we are still at z/OS 1.4 for the moment.
Jim McAlpine
On 1/29/07, Steve Comstock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Well, you can certainly change environment variables
dynamically. You can
I am looking for a way to prevent users calling certain load modules
directly. Instead I would like my module to get control. This module
can
then perform certain tasks before passing control to the user
requested
processing module.
Ah the hook. This question is as old as the operating system
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Sent: Monday, January 29, 2007 10:14 AM
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Subject: setting LE runtime options programatically.
We have just started down the road of trying to
Charles,
only problem with this approach is that the user can call the original
module ($A) directly and avoid my code. This would be a major loophole!
Regards
Jon
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I have been assigned the task to research debug tool for our shop. We are
mostly an LE COBOL shop and do batch and CICS processing equaly. I
reviewed IBM debug tool, xpediter, Ca-Intertest,ASG-SmartTest; they appear
to all be somewhat equal in functionalities. So now I am trying,
Circumnavigation could be a problem - especially in areas such as SOX
compliance. Certain actions must be logged without exception. This is where
I need to go! That means calls from JCL, Programs, REXX, Clists, ...
must all be captured. One risk can of course never be fully controlled - a
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Yes thanks, I'm aware of that but I'm also thinking that we
may need to switch the runtime options back again after
return from the Java program.
This is a long running batch job which sits and
There are no good, i.e., both usually effective and not easily circumvented,
solutions of this problem, however important you may judge it to be.
Shakespeare had the final word, long ago:
Diseases desperate grown,
Are by desperate remedies reliev'd,
Or not at all.
John Gilmore
Ashland, MA
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I have been assigned the task to research debug tool for our
shop. We are mostly an LE COBOL shop and do batch and CICS
processing equaly. I reviewed IBM debug tool, xpediter,
I guess for any of these approaches, the question becomes how tight does
this have to be/how clever (or malicious) are your users? I think there is
probably a tradeoff between how hard it is to do and maintain versus how
well it addresses the question in this paragraph.
We have not even mentioned
I honestly haven't a clue. From what little I have been able to glean (and
there isn't much info available) we need to run with POSIX(ON) and
XPLINK(ON) for any program that invokes Java.
I'm presuming also that we should have these options switched off when
running non-Java programs.
Jim
I guess that since this has to be foolproof, then the only way to
address the problem is to exclude the, um, fools.
Protect the program libraries in question, then allow only a closely
audited user to execute the programs -- and then only via your shim.
--
David Andrews
A. Duda and Sons, Inc.
I didn't see anything in this thread about WHY you want to do this, but
you seem to have ruled out the simpler, safer techniques. I hate to say
it, but if you have to ask for a more sophisticated approach, you probably
should not even try it.
We ran a superbly (RYO) written load module trace
In z/OS V1.4 the only option I know of is the CEEUOPT that is linked into the
program. This does not allow you to change anything at run time. However, if
you have some static parms, then you may be able put those into the CEEUOPT and
then just add the ones you need on the Execution statement
Gilbert Saint-Flour wrote on 01/29/2007 07:25:01 AM:
I am looking for a way to tell DFSORT to stop reading the SORTIN
data set when
it reaches a record with X'' in pos 1-2. I looked at the latest
DFSORT
doc but didn't see anything that could help me, other than an E15 exit,
which
is
On 29 Jan 2007 09:03:38 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chase, John)
wrote:
AFAIK they're all SMP/E-installed, so in that regard all are equally
easy to install and maintain. As to ease of use, the one with which
you have the most experience will be easiest to use.
Very true. The hardest part of
My experience with MIH in general has been that it is a throwback to the
days when an I/O got lost and everything just hung. For those old enough to
remember the 3330, you could pop the plug on the disk to force an interrupt
to wake it up. IBM added the MIH to say basically, that if I haven't
Johnny:
Sorry.
I don't know of any other appl. I'running OS/290 2.10
My FSS:
--
FSS(PRINTWAY) PROC=ANFWPROC,
HASPFSSM=HASPFSSM,
AUTOSTOP=YES
My JES2 printers are defined as:
PRT(97) CLASS=T,
FSS=PRINTWAY,
MODE=FSS,
On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 09:26:23 -0800, Skip Robinson wrote:
I didn't see anything in this thread about WHY you want to do this, but
you seem to have ruled out the simpler, safer techniques. I hate to say
it, but if you have to ask for a more sophisticated approach, you probably
should not even try
On 29 Jan 2007 09:44:00 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Frank Yaeger)
wrote:
Could you explain what you're doing here?
//S1 EXEC PGM=ICETOOL
//TOOLMSG DD SYSOUT=*
//DFSMSG DD SYSOUT=*
//IN DD DSN=... input file (FB/80)
//CTL2CNTL DD DSN=T1,UNIT=SYSDA,SPACE=(TRK,(1,1)),DISP=(,PASS)
//OUT DD DSN=...
To me, front ending a user's program without their knowledge sounds like
an auditor's nightmare. I remember someone writing a VM exec that
mimicked a VM logon screen and then would link to a user's A drive. He
used it to get prople's userid and password.
Front ending a user's program could be
On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 13:44:33 -0500 Veilleux, Jon L [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
:To me, front ending a user's program without their knowledge sounds like
:an auditor's nightmare. I remember someone writing a VM exec that
:mimicked a VM logon screen and then would link to a user's A drive. He
:used it
On 29 Jan 2007 08:14:32 -0800, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote:
We have just started down the road of trying to invoke java classes from
batch COBOL but have hit a problem with the 100 character PARM field length
because we need to specify several runtime options such as ENVAR=,
POSIX(ON)
Hi,
I had the same problem. This could be easily solved, by using a CEEUOPT
Module. But that means that the LE Runtime Options that should be used by the
module, have to be defined as being overridable by an CEEUOPT module. An
example is appended. In addition, this scenario is supported
Howard Brazee wrote on 01/29/2007 10:34:41 AM:
Could you explain what you're doing here?
//S1 EXEC PGM=ICETOOL
//TOOLMSG DD SYSOUT=*
//DFSMSG DD SYSOUT=*
//IN DD DSN=... input file (FB/80)
//CTL2CNTL DD DSN=T1,UNIT=SYSDA,SPACE=(TRK,(1,1)),DISP=(,PASS)
//OUT DD DSN=... output file (FB/80)
On Sun, 28 Jan 2007 19:59:54 -0500, Jim Mulder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
...
I think SLIP does not specify QUIESCE=YES on its SDUMPX macro. So a
SLIP dump will get the SDUMP/X default of QUIESCE=YES, unless
Q=NO was specified on CHNGDUMP.
...
Jim,
Thanks for digging into this. Apparently this
Hi;
I have a couple of orphaned PS files kicking arround
my Z/OS system. I have tried to get rid of them with
DELETE VVR No Luck
IEHPROGM SCRATCH No Luck
All ideas appreciated
The fish are biting.
IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU wrote on 01/29/2007
03:52:41 PM:
Hi;
I have a couple of orphaned PS files kicking arround
my Z/OS system. I have tried to get rid of them with
DELETE VVR No Luck
IEHPROGM SCRATCH No Luck
All ideas appreciated
Carl,
You should
Are these PS data sets on the volume or in the catalog?
If it's PS, try DELETE NVR instead of VVR or DEL NSCR if it's in the
catalog and not on the volume.
Don Imbriale
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Behalf Of Carl Edwards
Sent:
If they are SMS manged try DELETE NVR.
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Behalf Of Carl Edwards
Sent: Monday, January 29, 2007 3:53 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: Scratch orphaned PS files
Hi;
I have a couple of orphaned PS files
John;
Thanks
Amazing how easy it is once you know how
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IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
wrote on 01/29/2007
03:52:41 PM:
Hi;
I have a couple of orphaned PS files kicking
arround
my Z/OS system. I have tried to get rid of them
We make pretty extensive use of FICON CTCs, including 'channel extension'
over DWDM. Our IECIOS00 has no entries at all for CTCs, so we're taking
defaults. No one has reported any related problems.
.
.
JO.Skip Robinson
Southern California Edison Company
SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager
626-302-7535
Pat said...
This doesn't sound like a well though out plan to me.
Amen. But then they seldom are.
CC
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On Mon, 2007-01-29 at 13:05 -0800, Carl Edwards wrote:
Amazing how easy it is once you know how
Here's another easy solution - just recat them and delete them as
normal.
Can all be done from ISPF unless there are already catalog entries for
the same.
Shane ...
snip--
I have been assigned the task to research debug tool for our shop. We
are mostly an LE COBOL shop and do batch and CICS processing equaly. I
reviewed IBM debug tool, xpediter, Ca-Intertest,ASG-SmartTest; they
appear to all be
On Mon, 2007-01-29 at 13:54 -0500, Binyamin Dissen wrote:
Be very very afraid of running anything on MVS.
Various interrupt handlers seize control away from the abused little program
and do what they wish.
Not to mention damn near every ISV product you have silently
front-ending catalog,
I'm presuming also that we should have these options switched off when running
non-Java programs.
I'm not 100% sure; I thought they were the type of options you could just turn
on, and forget it.
Maybe a little more CPU (or memory); surely not enough to worry about?
There are other options
In a recent note, Charles Mills said:
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 12:04:17 -0800
Cool idea. Other characters may also be possible. I got into this when I had
my company with its PC-mainframe file transfer, and was dealing with how to
handle making members out of PC file names. As I
On Monday 29 January 2007 15:38, Robert Jones wrote:
Not answering your question directly, but it would be nice if one
could use DLM=X'xx' on the DD statement
... or something more generic, for example STOPWHEN=(1,2,BI,EQ,X'')
on the OPTION statement.
Thank you to John Reda and Frank
The hardest part of such an installation will be getting the programmers to
use the tool
We did it in the most expedient (and draconian way).
We disabled all the other comparable tools. (8-{}
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Too busy driving to stop for gas!
Most disk vendors now are probably recommending at least 5 minutes or larger
15-30, the last time I checked with a vendor.
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Another way would be to insist the 3rd party enhance the product to
include a logging feature.
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Be very very afraid of running anything on MVS.
Scary. Very scary!
The last thing you should do is trust your SYSPROG.
Lock everything down!
Make the change process so onerous that only business critical gets fixed.
And, only if the important jobs abend at least twice a day.
That way everything
The home grown application I alluded to in my previous post was written
simply to track what we were running. It was motivated originally by Y2K
and the need to get a handle on what programs actually executed; not just
what we had installed or written over the years.
I can answer your
I brought up my sandbox LPAR in my basic sysplex for testing of z/OS 1.7.
The other systems are z/OS 1.4. We use WLM managed JES2 initiators where
the work is assigned to one of four services classes with varying velocity
goals. When running batch jobs on my 1.7 system, jobs for two of my 4
On 29 Jan 2007 13:48:49 -0800, in bit.listserv.ibm-main
(Message-ID:[EMAIL PROTECTED])
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jon Renton) wrote:
- Why? We want to trap calls to certain 3rd party
products and log these.
That probably would have been a better question to
ask, then.
Have you
Does this work with PDS? Only PDSE? Only HFS?
I did not mention it but one surprising result of my experimentation was
finding that a STOW of a member name that began with a digit completed
without error, but afterwards the member simply did not exist. Yes, probably
reportable as a defect, but I
On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 22:48:34 +0100, Jon Renton wrote:
- Why? We want to trap calls to certain 3rd party products and log these.
This is a standard auditing requirement and is not illegal. The use of this
information must of course be closely controlled to avoid any misuse. No
one worries above
http://www.softek.com/
http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/20976.wss
Best Regards,
Sam Knutson, GEICO
Performance and Availability Management
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(office) 301.986.3574
IBM: I've Been
So - take some IP from the old Amdahl days, get a start-up going, and
wait for IBM to throw (presumably) large buckets of money at you to
acquire the company.
Maybe there's hope for the PSI folks yet ... :0)
Shane ...
(no Ed, them other ones)
snip--
My experience here is limited; I've only installed the IBM Debug Tool.
But the install was a cakewalk and maintenance is straightforward SMP/E
processing.
--unsnip--
As a Intertest and
Shane,
I like the way you think, but this one actually makes a lot of sense. I
can see Global Services licking their chops at the prospect of doing
storage vendor migrations, whether it is to or from IBM DASD.
On the other hand, IBM could produce a PSI equivalent without needing to
acquire IP
We need to migrate offloaded TN3270 server sessions from ESCON connected
Cisco CPA (Channel Port Adapter) devices. I am not aware of an IBM option
for this since the 3172 went away. From the research I have done, it
looks like Visara has a good option with their 1174 comm. server line.
The
Does anyone know of other options or have any recommendations?
I guess I really don't under the question.
We are converting from SNA (Microsoft SNA Server) to 'straight' TCP/IP through
VIPA/OSA.
Seriously, what more do you need?
-
Too busy driving to stop for gas!
Robert Mattingly wrote:
We need to migrate offloaded TN3270 server sessions from ESCON connected
Cisco CPA (Channel Port Adapter) devices. I am not aware of an IBM
option
for this since the 3172 went away. From the research I have done, it
looks like Visara has a good option with their
If you have an OSA adapter, or some other TCP/IP
network interface, you can run the TN3270 server that comes with TCP/IP
The last stat I heard was a single OSA was good for 13,000 sessions.
With VIPA, multiple images, the sky is the limit.
(Can you say: We will only ever need to use 640?)
All
I had this seemingly exact same problem on my tech LPAR back in November
2006 - z/OS 1.7.
The problem went away after an IPL.
I suggest opening a PMR with IBM. I queued my PMR to component 5752SC1CX
since my problem seemed similar to OA16905. In my case, the dumps taken
during the problem
If you are only interested in auditing the use of a program, have you
considered implementing RACF PROGRAM protection (or the equivalent in your
security system) for the program. Set the audit options of the PROGRAM
profile to audit successful accesses. Then you can determine use by
processing
Just checking. Good, bad, indifferent? Think I'll wait for the next CPU
upgrade.
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There have been lots of answers, but as you have explicitly said that you
are NOT on z/OS 1.8, let me give you a summary of my understanding:
1) PL/I has plixopt (as I recall and COBOL has a share requirement, but
currently there is NO way to set LE run-time options at the time of a COBOL
-- snip --
We haven't got anything specified in IECIOSxx but are having some
difficulty getting VARY commands to them to complete.
-- snip --
We make pretty extensive use of FICON CTCs, including 'channel extension'
over DWDM. Our IECIOS00 has no entries at all for CTCs, so we're taking
defaults.
The update is way too expensive. Too many versions (Home
Basic, Home blabla, etc, etc). Can't tell about functionality.
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I like the way you think, but this one actually makes a lot of sense. I
can see Global Services licking their chops at the prospect of doing
storage vendor migrations, whether it is to or from IBM DASD.
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Here in Germany, FDRPAS is offered by IBM to aid in data migration when
Hello Folks,
we start to use FICON native devices.
we have one FICON DASD box now direct connected to 2 CECs.
we have plan to buy some FICON directors, FICON DASD and FICON virtual/real
tape systems in two separate sites.
At this smallish number of devices I wanted to initially connect DASD
Jim McAlpine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
We have just started down the road of trying
to invoke java classes from batch COBOL but
have hit a problem with the 100 character PARM
field length because we need to specify several
runtime options such as ENVAR=, POSIX(ON)
AND XPLINK(ON) on top of our
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