The short answer is yes, that you should nowadays implement in Unicode if
possible. It does make the internationalization process a fair amount
simpler.
Have you looked at any of the DB2 and z/OS-related internationalization
documentation yet? (That's the word to look for: internationalization.)
| You might want to try our free COZBATCH utility, which is an alternative to
| BPXBATCH.
| See: http://dovetail.com/products/cozbatch.html
| Some features that apply to your question:
| - It runs in the same address space, so you C program will be able to read
| DDs. Unlike BPXBATSL, you can
This is occuring on z/OS 1.10. Is there specific maintenance required?
What type of entry will I see when the anomaly is addressed?
Thanks
Steve
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On Thu, 17 Sep 2009 10:10:47 -0400, Rob Schramm rob.schr...@siriuscom.com
wrote:
Now granted in the promise land of all things java, programmers are
supposed to be programming logic and leaving plumbing up to those that
know how to do it (too many acronyms to list.. BPL comes to mind) But
Anyone out there use the DRCLEAR from the cbt-tape website for clearing
DASD after a disaster recovery exercise?
I have downloaded it and followed the directions only to come up with
errors that I have no idea how to fix...
I ran the ICKOFF member against 3 mod 3's and 3 mod 9's and then tried
Timothy Sipples wrote:
The short answer is yes, that you should nowadays implement in Unicode if
possible. It does make the internationalization process a fair amount
simpler.
Have you looked at any of the DB2 and z/OS-related internationalization
documentation yet? (That's the word to look
On 18 Sep 2009 04:50:16 -0700, jan.moeyers...@adelior.be (Jan
MOEYERSONS) wrote:
LOL Never in my life I have seen code that is soo much low-level
tinkering as when I look at the Java code that is floating around here...
Vivan COBOL/CICS! At least there I do not have to worry about getting a
In 67954f200909151257l342a9afao13d169df75d09...@mail.gmail.com, on
09/15/2009
at 12:57 PM, P S zosw...@gmail.com said:
http://www.ciozone.com/index.php/Server-Technology-Zone/The-Mainframe-The-Dinosaur-That-Wouldn-t-Die.html
So, e.g., the 701, 702, 704, 705, 7030, 7070, 7080, 7090, weren't
On Thu, 17 Sep 2009 19:01:54 -0500, Rick Fochtman wrote:
There are a number of RYO utilities that will take values from the PARM
field to update SYSIN-type datasets. Even have one myself, if you'd like
a copy.
I see:
3.5.2 z/OS V1R10 DFSMS Using Data Sets
Have you looked at ICKDSF?
TRKFMT command--CKD
The TRKFMT command performs track-related functions on a subset of a
volume.
This I can't do, sorry. But here's a pointer to the doc on DB2's Call
Attachment Facility [CAF] that has all the required information [watch the
wrap!]:
http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/dsnapj15/6.7?
SHELF=DSNSHJA8.bksDT=20080201235049
You may get a better answer
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Frank Swarbrick wrote:
On 9/17/2009 at 2:13 PM, Kirk Wolfk...@dovetail.com wrote:
Not to drudge up old threads, but wouldn't it be nice if JCL PROC and
SET variables were not thrown away by the converter/interpreter and
instead placed in an ASASYMB-style symbol table by the initiator?
This
On Fri, 18 Sep 2009 08:51:54 -0500, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com
wrote:
On Thu, 17 Sep 2009 19:01:54 -0500, Rick Fochtman wrote:
There are a number of RYO utilities that will take values from the PARM
field to update SYSIN-type datasets. Even have one myself, if you'd like
a copy.
I
I've never created the working set directly from the SMF data. I create the
overview records first and then create the working set from that. e.g.:
1) Select SMF data set
2) Create overview records (submits batch job)
3) Retrieve the overview file from mainframe
4) Select the overview file and
On Fri, 18 Sep 2009 09:52:30 -0500, David Waldman wrote:
For personal use, I keep any JCL that needs such systematic modification
as a here-document in a shell script which edits it and submits it,
This CLIST may be of some use:
***Start Paste***
PROC 0 PRMDBG(DEBUG)
/* CHECK FOR DEBUG MODE
On Fri, 18 Sep 2009 16:37:19 +0200, Gilbert Saint-Flour wrote:
Frank Swarbrick wrote:
On 9/17/2009 at 2:13 PM, Kirk Wolf wrote:
Not to drudge up old threads, but wouldn't it be nice if JCL PROC and
SET variables were not thrown away by the converter/interpreter and
instead placed in an
We are trying to use COBDFSYM to convert COBOL copybooks to SYMPARMS input
for ICETOOL
COBDFSYM is in the dfsort tricks pdf at
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg3T794
The copybook is compiled and the output analysed by COBDFSYM to create
SYMPARMS input
With COBOL 410 input
An MPF exit can be used to recognize and respond to any message, whether it
has spaces or not in the area normally considered to be a message ID. I know
this because we use an automation product called AutoMan from Exspans that
allows us to define message IDs and by placing the text in quotes,
I agree with Paul, why do you call this a problem.
As Paul indicates, the substituted values would be those in effect when
the step (EXEC as Paul said) is reached.
If you have a SET for a variable name prior to step 1 and then a SET for
the same variable name prior to step 2, isn't the intention
Wasn't Mister MPFLSTXX a supervillain in Superman comics?
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Andy,
We have COBOL 4.1 here and have used the same COBDFSYM REXX since
December 2005,
and it works for us.
There is a restriction that the copybook member must have an 01 level to
work
properly, but I don't recall what error that causes.
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Andy Robertson wrote on 09/18/2009 08:50:56 AM:
We are trying to use COBDFSYM to convert COBOL copybooks to SYMNAMES
input
for ICETOOL
COBDFSYM is in the dfsort tricks pdf at
http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=114uid=isg3T794
The copybook is compiled and the output analysed by
An interesting discussion about COBDFSYM, particularly as I plug it in the
Batch Modernization Redbook that's currently in review.
Martin
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I have noticed a number of SVCR 0 entries (with no corresponding SVC 0) in
SYSTRACE, but not just after an ATTACH. I see them in connection with
traces of a problem with a TCB that has an active SVC table (TCBSVCA2).
The PSW NSI is the address of the routine for redriving the intercepted SVC.
The working ladies group in San Francisco used COYOTE as an
acronym for their motto: Call Off Your Old Tired Ethics.
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Hi,
Have noticed a few of HSM duplexed tapes becoming orphan. These have a
permanent retention to them. So, they are neither being controlled by HSM to
DELVOL and get the tape returned to CA-1 control...neither CA-1 is getting the
control as it has the EDMID ON to point to HSM and FLAG3 to 20
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I've just started some investigative reading but thought I'd toss the
question out to the knowledge bearers in case someone's already
contemplated/discarded the idea. Directions for better (finer? *grin*)
manuals to start at are also helpful.
I've been storage managing all DB2 regions except
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Hi,
Have noticed a few of HSM duplexed tapes becoming orphan. These have a
permanent retention to them. So, they are neither being controlled by HSM to
DELVOL and get the tape returned to
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Just curious. Is anyone using the SEPARATION PROFILE DATASET in DFSMS? I am
not sure what benefit it might be.
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Being as small shop you probably have one disk subsystem and one drive
type for your production environment, so the drives will all perform the
same no matter what storage class attributes are assigned. However,
dataset striping can help, but you have to be selective about what
datasets you
When we were a less dynamic shop, we used it to separate the SMS ACSD,
SCDS, and COMMDS; and also the HSM CDSs.
Terry Traylor
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On Thu, 17 Sep 2009 19:01:54 -0500, Rick Fochtman wrote:
... If the 100-character
limit were lifted for the standard PARM field, that might be a lot
easier, especially within HLL compilers/libraries. Would you settle for
a 255-character limit?
Not
USER BEWARE
I have NOT tried it, but the thing that I expect WILL impact COBDFSYM is the
fact that Enterprise COBOL V4R2 (not V4R1) *DOES* allow for underscores in
user-defined words - even as the last character of the user-defined word.
Consider (in particular) a (valid in Enterprise COBOL
In
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on 09/17/2009
at 04:40 PM, Ted MacNEIL eamacn...@yahoo.ca said:
SPACE has no default.
Yes it does, just not a useful one.
If you open a disk file with no SPACE for output,
What do you
In listserv%200909171011054643.0...@bama.ua.edu, on 09/17/2009
at 10:11 AM, Victor Gil victor@broadridge.com said:
//SET PLAN=PLANNAME
//DB2PLAN DD DISP=(,PASS),SPACE=(0,0),DSN=amp;PLAN
the above DSN will be formatted by JES
No; the processing of
In 4ab0aa18.6f0f.008...@efirstbank.com, on 09/16/2009
at 09:04 AM, Frank Swarbrick frank.swarbr...@efirstbank.com said:
What does MYPGM need to do in order to retrieve the DSN value of the DD
named DUMMME?
As others have told you, DUMMY and DSNAME= are mutually exclusive
parameters. If you
In b2b367b60909171313g30eef2e0y4dd61782fdcf5...@mail.gmail.com, on
09/17/2009
at 03:13 PM, Kirk Wolf k...@dovetail.com said:
Not to drudge up old threads, but wouldn't it be nice if JCL PROC and SET
variables were not thrown away by the converter/interpreter and instead
placed in an
On 2009.09.18 at 15h01, concerning DFSMS and Separation Profiles,
Lizette Koehler star...@min..spr...com wrote to IBM-Main :
Is anyone using the SEPARATION PROFILE DATASET in DFSMS? I am not sure
what benefit it might be.
Lizette: automagic separation of DB2 log, bootstrap, etc datasets.
John Norgauer wrote:
What is needed in the MPFLSTXX parm to suppress messages going to SYSLOG?
You can omit some of the routing codes that go to the hardcopy set and
assign those route codes to messages you want suppressed. For example:
|HARDCOPY DEVNUM(SYSLOG)
|
Andy Robertson wrote on 09/18/2009 03:30:01 PM:
Could you maybe send me a copy offlist (as a .txt file will do?)
I suspect I've copied the exec from the pdf wrong somehow . . . though I
can
not see how.
You can download cobdfsym.txt from the DFSORT FTP site at:
Turn on the no hardcopy bit in the message flagbytes 2
OICTXTRFB2,CTXTRNHC FORCE NO HARDCOPY
This will display it on the console but not on syslog
or
OICTXTRFB2,CTXTRDTMDELETE THE MESSAGE
This will not display on the console or on syslog
On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 8:06
On Fri, 18 Sep 2009 11:32:12 -0500, Greg Shirey
wgshi...@benekeith.com wrote:
Andy,
We have COBOL 4.1 here and have used the same COBDFSYM REXX since
December 2005,
and it works for us.
There is a restriction that the copybook member must have an 01 level to
work
properly, but I don't recall
I have coded an MPFLSTXX to suppress messages. I was hoping to suppress
the messages to SYSLOG but this did not happen.
What is needed in the MPFLSTXX parm to suppress messages going to SYSLOG?
Thank.
John Norgauer
Senior Systems Programmer
Mainframe Technical Support Services
University of
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Subject: Re: DRCLEAR
--snip---
Anyone out
--snip---
Anyone out there use the DRCLEAR from the cbt-tape website for clearing
DASD after a disaster recovery exercise?
I have downloaded it and followed the directions only to come up with
errors that I have no idea how to fix...
I
On 2009.09.18 at 15h32, concerning Re: [SMS] DB2 Table/IndexSpace
managed placement vs. StorClas MSR attributes, Terry Traylor
ter...tra...@schw...com wrote to IBM-Main :
Being as small shop you probably have one disk subsystem and one drive
type for your production environment, so the
John Norgauer wrote:
...
What is needed in the MPFLSTXX parm to suppress messages going to SYSLOG?
...
I do not recommend this on anything but a standalone sandbox system; it falls
under the category of tampering with evidence and an auditor would frown loudly.
That said, the literal answer
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At the recent Red Hat Summit in Chicago, Red Hat Senior Solutions
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Well yes, but
Active Logs can be striped.
DB2 9 allows disk based archive datasets to be striped.
Worth considering for Utility Work files, Imagecopies etc.
REORG TABLESPACE Utility Recommendation:
Where appropriate parameters are not specified to eliminate I/O
altogether, or are inappropriate,
Rather than posting the same thing to the CICS, IMS and DB2 lists I'm
just posting here.
After doing some research today I'd like to make the following
assertions:
DSNELI in SDSNLOAD
● This is the TSO attach module
● DSNHLI is an alias for this module
DFHD2LI in SDFHLOAD
●
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Do you mean it's possible to reach in somehow and modify the data
following DD * or DD DATA?
There are a number of such utilities around, as you say. Their
prevalence is testament to the need for a more regular
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