Re: Chargeback reporting

2008-06-05 Thread Timothy Sipples
Thomas Kern writes: I would use CPU seconds rather than Service Units. Managers can understand that there are only 86400 CPU seconds per engine per day. If you can get the price paid for your z9, take 1/4 of that and divide by 365*86400 to get a price per CPU second. This would recover the cost of

Re: Rational Developer for System z

2008-06-05 Thread Timothy Sipples
John Chase writes: That's how I _had_ RDz running, but after 60 days it refused to start unless I provided a product key for it. Our shop purchased only enough keys for our applications folks to use it. Just to clarify, when you order the CICS Service Flow Feature you should be receiving one

Re: Webcast next week: Migrating to z/OS V1.9

2008-06-05 Thread Timothy Sipples
Steve Conway writes: John: my vote is that this is NOT an advertisement and is welcome. I'm all for free presentations, from IBM or any other vendor. It's also perhaps worth noting that, if you have z/OS, there's no additional charge for z/OS 1.9. In fact, there's some potential cost reduction:

Re: PL/1 performance degradation when moving to LE

2008-06-05 Thread Hunkeler Peter (KIUK 3)
We're currently looking into migrating a very old PL/1 application set (running on OS PL/1 2.3 ) to LE (3.6/3.7). I assume you mean migrating from OS PL/1 V2.3 to Enterprise PL/1 V3.6/V3.7. There are two aspects in this mirgation: One going from non-LE to LE and a second migrating from OS PL/1

Re: The ABCs of z/OS Maintenance.

2008-06-05 Thread Hunkeler Peter (KIUK 3)
Just go get the first volume of the ABCs of Systems Programming. It's chapter 6 of the book. And the book does not function as a contact gatherer like this link does. I did not yet fill out the registration for just that reason. Thanks for the chapter hint. -- Peter Hunkeler Credit Suisse

Re: Webcast next week: Migrating to z/OS V1.9

2008-06-05 Thread Elardus Engelbrecht
Timothy Sipples wrote: I don't get any commissions on anything, sadly. For once I will drop my neutrality. Timothy, John Eells, Walter Farrell, Frank Yaeger, etc. are all more than welcome to post whatever they want. I read all and every posts of them. More importantly, they post when they

Re: ESP Schedular and the SCRT job

2008-06-05 Thread Big Iron
Would inserting a //*ESPSYMBOL @ (or some other character) in the JCL to change the ESP symbol substitution character address that? Bill On Wed, 4 Jun 2008 17:16:13 -0500, Hal Merritt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is anyone besides us using the ESP scheduler and doing sub capacity billing? The

Re: The ABCs of z/OS Maintenance.

2008-06-05 Thread R.S.
Hunkeler Peter (KIUK 3) wrote: Just go get the first volume of the ABCs of Systems Programming. It's chapter 6 of the book. And the book does not function as a contact gatherer like this link does. I did not yet fill out the registration for just that reason. Thanks for the chapter hint.

Re: Enhanced JCL processor? (and maybe a few other thoughts)

2008-06-05 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin On Wed, 4 Jun 2008 13:25:53 -0500, McKown, John wrote: ... I would prefer that JCL be VB. There would be no sequence numbering at all. Bravo! Bye, bye IEBUPDTE?

Re: Advertising on IBM-MAIN (Was: IBM PR: PCI Security Compliance Workshop in Maryland)

2008-06-05 Thread Richards, Robert B.
Ed, I was about to reply to the points you made and realized we have a fundamental disagreement about the nature and tone of Timothy's posts. I have *never* thought that his posts contained border line material. Not even close. Like Jim and Peter (and dozens of others from IBM), I believe

Re: Webcast next week: Migrating to z/OS V1.9

2008-06-05 Thread Richards, Robert B.
Timothy, If somebody thinks I have failed in meeting these standards, or if someone has suggestions for better standards, please let me know. I'm quite open to that. I, for one, think you are doing just fine. Keep up the good work! Bob

zFS and z/OS V1.9 The first IPL

2008-06-05 Thread Lizette Koehler
I want to thank Mark Jacobs and Mark Zelden and everyone else for their help both on and off list while I got my hands around the zFS functions in z/OS I was able to successfully IPL my z/OS V1.9 Serverpac yesterday with all zFS files for USS.  So I went from all HFS to all zFS without issue so

Re: Rational Developer for System z

2008-06-05 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Timothy Sipples John Chase writes: That's how I _had_ RDz running, but after 60 days it refused to start unless I provided a product key for it. Our shop purchased only enough keys for our applications folks

Re: Webcast next week: Migrating to z/OS V1.9

2008-06-05 Thread John Eells
David Andrews wrote: On Wed, 2008-06-04 at 14:37 -0400, John Eells wrote: z/OS webcast on June 12th What is the client requirement? The registration page doesn't say. What I'm told is: Once you register, all minimum requirements and a test URL are provided. Here is what I have: HW and

Re: Enhanced JCL processor? (and maybe a few other thoughts)

2008-06-05 Thread Staller, Allan
Allow mixed case outside of quoted strings. e.g. SPace=.. snip Subject: Enhanced JCL processor? (and maybe a few other thoughts) This is a blue sky idea for discussion. It is not a request to IBM. But it derives from an earlier thread on the short comings of the current JCL. So, I was just

Re: Can ISRDDN show the complete minor name of an ENQ'd resource?

2008-06-05 Thread Don Leahy
On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 10:21 AM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 05/28/2008 at 04:02 PM, David Eisenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I'm an application programmer. We are on z/OS 1.7. If I wish to see the system ENQ status of all ENQs for a given major

Re: Enhanced JCL processor? (and maybe a few other thoughts)

2008-06-05 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chase, John Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2008 6:40 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Enhanced JCL processor? (and maybe a few other thoughts) -Original Message- From: IBM

Re: Webcast next week: Migrating to z/OS V1.9

2008-06-05 Thread Lizette Koehler
This is a good webcast and fast. I attended it in March 2008 and it covered everything at lightning speed. But it is very through. The handout is a definite plus to download before the presentation. It really helped me prepare for my z/OS V1.9 upgrade. Lizette David Andrews wrote: On Wed,

Re: Another pathetic job offer

2008-06-05 Thread Staller, Allan
This might be a life saving event to someone on currently on unemployment! (or worse, whose unemployment has run out!) snip This interested me. Not because I want the position, but because I couldn't believe someone was trying to hire an MVS Systems Programmer at such a low salary. Remainder

Re: Webcast next week: Migrating to z/OS V1.9

2008-06-05 Thread Bonno, Tuco
I do NOT object -- *this* is exactly the kind of info I seek to find on this discusstion list. thank you Note: Given some recent discussion here, I hope this isn't construed as an advertisement. (z/OS R9 doesn't cost any more--or any less, for that matter--than other z/OS releases. ;-)

Re: zFS and z/OS V1.9 The first IPL

2008-06-05 Thread Mark Zelden
On Thu, 5 Jun 2008 08:17:23 -0400, Lizette Koehler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I want to thank Mark Jacobs and Mark Zelden and everyone else for their help both on and off list while I got my hands around the zFS functions in z/OS You're welcome. I was able to successfully IPL my z/OS V1.9

Re: Monitor use of Load-Library as JOBLIB/STEPLIB

2008-06-05 Thread Staller, Allan
Having read all of the posts in this thread, I am unsure if the objective is: a) to determine if a particular module is loaded from a particular dataset or b) to determine if a JOBLIB/STEPLIB is being used to access this dataset. The responses to this thread I have read so far, all seem to be

Re: Chargeback reporting

2008-06-05 Thread Thomas Kern
There is a difference between the 'Intro to Chargeback' reports that lowly sysprogs might give to management as their first look at computer accounting and the high-powered What-If modeling done by capacity planning scientists trying to show the outcome of buying a zIIP this month and a zAAP next

SIGNOFF IBM-MAIN

2008-06-05 Thread Leonard Sasso
SIGNOFF IBM-MAIN -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html

Re: $PJES2 and Parallel Sysplex

2008-06-05 Thread Arthur Gutowski
Sorry, my bad. We too skipped 1.7. We have a bad habit of 'discovering' new stuff that's actually been around for a while. Apologies for misleading those on z/OS 1.7. Regards, Art Gutowski Ford Motor Company -- For IBM-MAIN

Re: Enhanced JCL processor? (and maybe a few other thoughts)

2008-06-05 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Thu, 5 Jun 2008 07:54:53 -0500, Staller, Allan wrote: Allow mixed case outside of quoted strings. e.g. SPace=.. Yes. But I advocate case sensitivity except for keywords. Examples: //Stepexec Pgm=FOOBAR //File DD * // Dd Dummy //FILE Dd

Re: Enhanced JCL processor? (and maybe a few other thoughts)

2008-06-05 Thread Hillock, Timothy
Ok,I think that I know what the errors are. You spelt SYMBOL2 as SYSBOL2 in the parm statement. You can only use up to 71 characters on a line for JCL. To Continue the parm use a x in col 72 such as my sample below. +1+2+3+4+5+6+7--

Re: Enhanced JCL processor? (and maybe a few other thoughts)

2008-06-05 Thread Steve Comstock
Paul Gilmartin wrote: On Thu, 5 Jun 2008 07:54:53 -0500, Staller, Allan wrote: Allow mixed case outside of quoted strings. e.g. SPace=.. Yes. But I advocate case sensitivity except for keywords. Examples: //Stepexec Pgm=FOOBAR //File DD * // Dd Dummy

Re: Enhanced JCL processor? (and maybe a few other thoughts)

2008-06-05 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Thu, 5 Jun 2008 08:30:26 -0600, Steve Comstock wrote: STEP, Step, FILE, File, FOOBAR, and FooBar are taken as-is and refer to different entities. No, no, no! Case sensitivity is a nightmare! Allow mixed case, sure, but not case sensitivity. No! No! Will you, nill you, case sensitivity is

z/OS 1.9 Installation -- SIGYROOT filesystem?

2008-06-05 Thread Chase, John
Hi, All, We're doing post-install aceivities for z/OS 1.9, and I noticed there is a SIGYROOT filesystem included in our ServerPac. I don't find any mention of its release or service level in the Program Directory or Installing Your Order document, but from its name it appears to be

Re: Enhanced JCL processor? (and maybe a few other thoughts)

2008-06-05 Thread Steve Comstock
Paul Gilmartin wrote: On Thu, 5 Jun 2008 08:30:26 -0600, Steve Comstock wrote: STEP, Step, FILE, File, FOOBAR, and FooBar are taken as-is and refer to different entities. No, no, no! Case sensitivity is a nightmare! Allow mixed case, sure, but not case sensitivity. No! No! Will you, nill

Re: IBM Sysplex Calculator program

2008-06-05 Thread Arthur Gutowski
We use plexcalc for PSA pricing. All our SMF data is by LPAR, so we combine up to the CPC level, and run PLEXCALC against each CPC's data (easier for me to build charts), so we did not see this anomaly. Looking at the JCL, I see no way to assign CPCx to a particular serial number. I ran a

Re: z/OS 1.9 Installation -- SIGYROOT filesystem?

2008-06-05 Thread Jack Kelly
snip for z/OS 1.9, and I noticed there is a SIGYROOT filesystem included in our ServerPac snip I have it on a 1.7 system and it looks like some COBOL -- Java mapping. It came mapped to /usr/lpp/cobol in 1.7 Jack Kelly 202-502-2390 (Office)

Re: Chargeback reporting

2008-06-05 Thread Dave Barry
Different places adopt different philosophies. Having been the MVS chargeback administrator in the past, I can say that no method is perfect. My suggestion is to familiarize yourself with the research of those who have gone down this road before. A good place to start would be the Web site

Re: z/OS 1.9 Installation -- SIGYROOT filesystem?

2008-06-05 Thread Mark Zelden
On Thu, 5 Jun 2008 09:54:23 -0500, Chase, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, All, We're doing post-install aceivities for z/OS 1.9, and I noticed there is a SIGYROOT filesystem included in our ServerPac. I don't find any mention of its release or service level in the Program Directory or

Re: Monitor use of Load-Library as JOBLIB/STEPLIB

2008-06-05 Thread Mark Yuhas
Peter, When are these statistics/events recorded? I executed the display command against one of our LLA managed library and received information about a subset of fetched modules in the library, but not all fetched modules were reported. This library contains JES2 Exits, Command Exit, SMF

Re: Advertising on IBM-MAIN (Was: IBM PR: PCI Security Compliance Workshop in...

2008-06-05 Thread Ed Finnell
In a message dated 6/5/2008 7:01:18 A.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am in favor of the free exchange of information. The vendors who post here learn, very quickly, what the majority deem acceptable. Even in Darren's absence, the list does occasionally police itself.

IEC614I on RENAME or SCRATCH etc.

2008-06-05 Thread Talbert Malone
I am at Z/OS 1.9 and have had trouble applying service to ISF.SISFLOAD. I got a D37 abend in SMP/E . I copied the dataset and enlarged but can't rename to replace the old one. It seems I have been here before but I can't recall what trick I used to get around it. I am in an LPAR environmemt(not

Re: IEC614I on RENAME or SCRATCH etc.

2008-06-05 Thread Jerry Fuchs
I had same problem. CBT file 183 contained BYPASSNQ program to allow renames/scratches of enqued files. User beware! Jerry Talbert Malone [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU 06/05/2008 11:34 AM Please respond to IBM Mainframe Discussion List

Re: IEC614I on RENAME or SCRATCH etc.

2008-06-05 Thread Tribble, Robert
This note goes way back but still applies just find new manual: Inuse system dataset Rename/Delete etc. Assuming that you are at the right level of ISPF and have the right RACF authority: the new facility you might be thinking of is the RACF FACILITY profile STGADMIN.DPDSRN.olddsname. See

Re: Advertising on IBM-MAIN

2008-06-05 Thread Edward Jaffe
Richards, Robert B. wrote: I was about to reply to the points you made and realized we have a fundamental disagreement about the nature and tone of Timothy's posts. I have *never* thought that his posts contained border line material. Not even close. Bob, you're missing my point entirely...

Re: SMP/E Error - Resolved

2008-06-05 Thread Miller, Pat
You're going to love this. Got this error? GIM69208S ** RECEIVE PROCESSING HAS FAILED BECAUSE THE LEVEL OF PROGRAM GIMJVCLT (34.09) IS NOT COMPATIBLE WITH THE LEVEL OF THE SMP/E CALLING PROGRAM GIMSMP (34.13). (GIMVCLT is in the following path: /usr/lpp/smp/classes/com/ibm/smp/) In the same

Re: Another pathetic job offer

2008-06-05 Thread Rick Fochtman
---snip From the 'Company Overview' in the posting Committing to hire the best and brightest, pay them more than fairly, give them the environment they need to excel, provide the management systems that allow them to self manage, and then

Re: IEC614I on RENAME or SCRATCH etc.

2008-06-05 Thread Traylor, Terry
Excerpt for Rename of duplicate dataset name. 1. Invoke the Data Set Utility (Option 3.2) 2. Type R in the option field, specify the data set name you want to rename and the volume serial number where it resides, and then press the Enter key. 3. If a data set is cataloged, a

Re: Advertising on IBM-MAIN

2008-06-05 Thread Ed Finnell
In a message dated 6/5/2008 11:09:51 A.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've looked. But, I can't find where Darren ever communicated his list of rules to the IBM-MAIN participants. Has anyone ever seen these rules? What sorts of things to they cover? Back in the

Re: Advertising on IBM-MAIN

2008-06-05 Thread Richards, Robert B.
Ed, Aha! I see the light! :-) And, obviously, I cannot answer your questions with any authority. And I will let Darren speak for himself, if he catches this post. Sorry for the confusion on my part. Can I claim a bit of mental deficiency due to brain rot while my heart was on the bypass

Re: Enhanced JCL processor? (and maybe a few other thoughts)

2008-06-05 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Thu, 5 Jun 2008 08:59:12 -0600, Steve Comstock wrote: I have no issue with mixed case; and I support case sensitivity _in quotes_; but I feel when you start saying pgm=Foobar and pgm=FooBar identify two different programs then I say stop. Debugging those kinds of JCL errors is not productive.

Re: SMP/E Error - Resolved

2008-06-05 Thread Mark Zelden
On Thu, 5 Jun 2008 11:14:54 -0500, Miller, Pat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You're going to love this. Got this error? GIM69208S ** RECEIVE PROCESSING HAS FAILED BECAUSE THE LEVEL OF PROGRAM GIMJVCLT (34.09) IS NOT COMPATIBLE WITH THE LEVEL OF THE SMP/E CALLING PROGRAM GIMSMP (34.13). (GIMVCLT is

Re: Enhanced JCL processor? (and maybe a few other thoughts)

2008-06-05 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Wed, 4 Jun 2008 15:06:59 -0500, McKown, John wrote: ISPF EDIT (which is what SJ used) allocates a temporary FB/80 dataset and copies the data from the edit buffer to it (truncating or padding with no messages), then does a TSO SUBMIT command against that temporary dataset. With the advent of

Re: Advertising on IBM-MAIN

2008-06-05 Thread Rick Fochtman
---snip- Aha! I see the light! :-) And, obviously, I cannot answer your questions with any authority. And I will let Darren speak for himself, if he catches this post. Sorry for the confusion on my part. Can I claim a bit of mental deficiency

Re: Enhanced JCL processor? (and maybe a few other thoughts)

2008-06-05 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2008 11:46 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Enhanced JCL processor? (and maybe a few other thoughts) On Thu, 5 Jun 2008 08:59:12 -0600,

Re: SMP/E Error - Resolved

2008-06-05 Thread Miller, Pat
The last modified date on GIMJVCLT corresponds to the last service that touched it, which was on as shipped with the serverpac. I've gone back and looked at the original serverpac output. The last changed date corresponds to the date the HFS was loaded during serverpac install. To answer

Re: z/OS 1.9 Installation -- SIGYROOT filesystem?

2008-06-05 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Mark Zelden On Thu, 5 Jun 2008 09:54:23 -0500, Chase, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, All, We're doing post-install aceivities for z/OS 1.9, and I noticed there is a SIGYROOT filesystem included in our

Z/OS UNIX Security

2008-06-05 Thread Carlson, Steven
We are just starting to get heavenly involved in the OMVS environment. We are using CA-ACF2 for our security package. We are also starting to get involved in the CICS WEB access environment. My questions are: 1) Is there another way to protect the OMVS environment instead of using HFS

Re: Free replacement for DASD INVENTORY?

2008-06-05 Thread Ray, Gail E
Thanks for the suggestions of DCOLLECT and DFSORT! I found the manual and it looks like it will give me what we need. Gail Ray -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gary Green Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2008 1:00 PM To:

Re: SMP/E Error - Resolved

2008-06-05 Thread Mark Zelden
On Thu, 5 Jun 2008 12:01:08 -0500, Miller, Pat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The last modified date on GIMJVCLT corresponds to the last service that touched it, which was on as shipped with the serverpac. I've gone back and looked at the original serverpac output. The last changed date corresponds

Re: z/OS 1.9 Installation -- SIGYROOT filesystem?

2008-06-05 Thread Mark Zelden
On Thu, 5 Jun 2008 12:03:26 -0500, Chase, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Mark Zelden On Thu, 5 Jun 2008 09:54:23 -0500, Chase, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, All, We're doing post-install aceivities for z/OS

Re: Another pathetic job offer

2008-06-05 Thread Hal Merritt
Where is it written that they are looking for a domestic candidate? Committing to run a no overhead operation with self discipline.. scares me. Some 80% of security issues are from internal users. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On

Re: z/OS 1.9 Installation -- SIGYROOT filesystem?

2008-06-05 Thread Lizette Koehler
John, Look for word ROOT rather than SIGYROOT Enterprise COBOL, you must decide where to install the product. You can install into either the root file system or a new HFS. If required, you also have the option of running more than one releas of COBOL concurrently.

Redndant TCP/IP Networks

2008-06-05 Thread Hal Merritt
Anyone had any success configuring redundant OSA TCP/IP networks? We currently have two separate networks connected to two different OSA ports, both of which are mission critical. We have two more OSA ports we'd like to somehow exploit. A fully redundant, load sharing configuration would

Re: SMP/E Error - Resolved

2008-06-05 Thread Miller, Pat
Like I say, I was skeptical. But I see no service in the CSI that hits it that has been applied since the serverpac install. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Zelden Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2008 12:20 PM To:

Re: Enhanced JCL processor? (and maybe a few other thoughts)

2008-06-05 Thread William H. Blair
Paul Gilmartin wrote: //STEP EXEC PGM='FooBar' IEFC629I INCORRECT USE OF APOSTROPHE IN THE PGM FIELD Why? Because the code does not support, and therefore does not expect, a quoted string as the value of the PGM= operand on an EXEC statement. But I suspect you already knew that. IBM

Re: SMP/E Error - Resolved

2008-06-05 Thread Mark Zelden
On Thu, 5 Jun 2008 13:57:52 -0500, Miller, Pat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Like I say, I was skeptical. But I see no service in the CSI that hits it that has been applied since the serverpac install. What is the RMID of GIMLEVEL? Is that PTF still in your SMPPTS? Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr.

Re: Z/OS UNIX Security

2008-06-05 Thread Steve Comstock
Carlson, Steven wrote: We are just starting to get heavenly involved in the OMVS environment. Ahh. Divine intervention .. We are using CA-ACF2 for our security package. We are also starting to get involved in the CICS WEB access environment. My questions are: 1) Is there

Re: Vtam Generic VS Cross Domain

2008-06-05 Thread Chris Mason
Magen So it would seem in pragmatic terms that what you want to do works - clients were able to connect using generic resource name (MYCICS) - but that you have an untidy situation in having some resources in POLIOU status. Can any client wanting to create a session using the generic resource

Re: Enhanced JCL processor? (and maybe a few other thoughts)

2008-06-05 Thread Thompson, Steve
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of William H. Blair Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2008 2:05 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Enhanced JCL processor? (and maybe a few other thoughts) SNIP Quotes are supposed to mean as-is. I

Re: Redndant TCP/IP Networks

2008-06-05 Thread Chris Mason
Hal As the slogan says Just do it! An installation with which I am assisting from time to time these days has quite a demanding configuration and - thankfully - whatever the theory suggests should work does work. If you need some encouragement over attaching say two OSA feature ports to a

Re: SMP/E Error - Resolved

2008-06-05 Thread Miller, Pat
UO00335. Not in the PTS. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Zelden Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2008 2:22 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject:Re: SMP/E Error - Resolved On Thu, 5 Jun 2008 13:57:52 -0500,

Sort Multiple Files in One Step

2008-06-05 Thread George, William (DHCS-ITSD)
I have 10 files with the same layout and all must be sorted using the same sort criteria. Each file must be sorted into its own separate output file. Is it possible to put this SORT into one step instead of creating 10 separate steps? On a glance through some sort documentation I was THINKIN

Re: Release 6.1 of IBMLink - AST

2008-06-05 Thread Mark Zelden
On Wed, 4 Jun 2008 11:57:33 -0500, Mark Zelden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I will open a PMR. I just received an update from my feedback: Mark, we are aware of this problem and it is being looked into by development. At this time, I don't

Re: Sort Multiple Files in One Step

2008-06-05 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of George, William (DHCS-ITSD) Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2008 3:26 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Sort Multiple Files in One Step I have 10 files with the same layout and all must be

Re: Enhanced JCL processor? (and maybe a few other thoughts)

2008-06-05 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Thu, 5 Jun 2008 14:04:47 -0500, William H. Blair wrote: And why are terminal data sets (DSN(*)) converted to upper case, no matter what I do? I will need a better explanation for that one. Exactly which part of what is converted to upper case? An *? For example: READY allocate

Re: Sort Multiple Files in One Step

2008-06-05 Thread George, William (DHCS-ITSD)
Thanks, I'll give it a try! -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of McKown, John Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2008 1:35 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Sort Multiple Files in One Step -Original Message- From: IBM

Re: Sort Multiple Files in One Step

2008-06-05 Thread Frank Yaeger
John McKown wrote on 06/05/2008 01:34:30 PM: Use ICETOOL. //MULTSORT EXEC PGM=ICETOOL //SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=* //SYSOUT DD SYSOUT=* //TOOLMSG DD SYSOUT=* //DFSMSG DD SYSOUT=* //TOOLIN DD * SORT FROM(I1) TO(O1) USING(SORT) SORT FROM(I2) TO(O2) USING(SORT) SORT FROM(I3) TO(O3)

Re: Enhanced JCL processor? (and maybe a few other thoughts)

2008-06-05 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2008 3:39 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Enhanced JCL processor? (and maybe a few other thoughts) On Thu, 5 Jun 2008 14:04:47 -0500,

Re: Sort Multiple Files in One Step

2008-06-05 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Frank Yaeger Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2008 3:41 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Sort Multiple Files in One Step [snip] You beat me to it, John. The only thing I would add is

Re: SMP/E Error - Resolved

2008-06-05 Thread Mark Zelden
That is level 34.09. So it isn't your HFS that is back leveled, it is your loadlib that is forward leveled. Again... some sort of maintenance screw up, or a manual copy of a higher level into your loadlib that GIMSMP is being picked up from. Which brings up a point... Since you say there

Re: Sort Multiple Files in One Step

2008-06-05 Thread George, William (DHCS-ITSD)
It worked like a charm sir! Thanks -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of McKown, John Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2008 1:35 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Sort Multiple Files in One Step -Original Message- From:

Re: Enhanced JCL processor? (and maybe a few other thoughts)

2008-06-05 Thread William H. Blair
Paul Gilmartin asked: And why are terminal data sets (DSN(*)) converted to upper case, no matter what I do? and then provided an example of _data_ contained in a terminal data set being folded to upper case. Well, WHY is for the same reason I previously stated: because TSO was written, in

Re: Enhanced JCL processor? (and maybe a few other thoughts)

2008-06-05 Thread Farley, Peter x23353
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of William H. Blair Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2008 5:24 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Enhanced JCL processor? (and maybe a few other thoughts) Paul Gilmartin asked: And why are

Re: Enhanced JCL processor? (and maybe a few other thoughts)

2008-06-05 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Thu, 5 Jun 2008 16:24:18 -0500, William H. Blair wrote: Why was it written that way? ... (paraphrasing) They broke the software to match badly designed hardware. Well, yeah, character generator ROMs were expensive. But the instant dual case appeared, it should have induced a requirement on

XPLINK Performance Gains

2008-06-05 Thread Schwartz, Alan
We have an application written in C that has begun to run long. The application support team feels some LE storage tuning could help (it improved their CICS response time when done last year). We're also going to look at XPLINK and I was asked how much improvement that could expect. They

Re: USSTAB color question

2008-06-05 Thread Chris Mason
Pat USS functions can be described in the following terms: - Inbound: the analysis and conversion of text into a formatted request - Outbound: the selection of messages explaining where the analysis failed or substitution of the response to the formatted request with text[but see 1] In the

Re: Enhanced JCL processor? (and maybe a few other thoughts)

2008-06-05 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Thu, 5 Jun 2008 16:05:30 -0400, Thompson, Steve wrote: And I also agree that 'djflajfasljkdf' should be ASIS, so that IF I have to allocate a DOS DSN on a shared volume, I CAN from within a TSO session. But I am instead forced to use JCL and do it there as DSN='PAYROLL run for

Re: Enhanced JCL processor? (and maybe a few other thoughts)

2008-06-05 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Thu, 5 Jun 2008 10:05:22 -0400, Hillock, Timothy wrote: Ok,I think that I know what the errors are. You spelt SYMBOL2 as SYSBOL2 in the parm statement. Good catch. The IBM support person also missed it. But no matter; even absent the typo, JCL fails to perform the substitution. However,

Re: Enhanced JCL processor? (and maybe a few other thoughts)

2008-06-05 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Thu, 5 Jun 2008 18:12:24 -0400, Farley, Peter x23353 wrote: And all of that could easily be solved with a new ASIS parameter for the TSO ALLOC ... DA(*) command, although I agree with you that the chances of such a change being made are slim and none, and slim went out to lunch. I'd be