Hi,
Is it possible to allocate a single PDS dataset in Multi-volume ? Can anyone
please direct me
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Is it possible to allocate a single PDS dataset in Multi-volume ?
No. See http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/epubs/pdf/dgt2d480.pdf,
Processing a Partitioned Data Set, for more details.
Walter Marguccio
z/OS Systems Programmer
Jags
Thanks to Walter Marguccio for the general reference.
Here's an URL you can use which avoids having to download a whole manual:
http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-
bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/DGT2D490/3.7.3
quote
3.7.3 Allocating Space for a PDS
...
A PDS cannot occupy more than 65 535
Not only unused baggage, but ballast. It surely must be tested regularly
for each release, CPU and device and we pay for those tests. Green the
IT, reduce ballast.
Kees.
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Dear Mark
Coulf you send me the examples of sandbox.parmlib(SHUTSYSNAME.) and
sandbox.parmlib(SHUTSYSCLONE.REIPL.) ?
I wonder why SHUTSYSNAME. and SHUTSYSCLONE.REIPL are needed.For STARTSYS
PROC,there is only one member (sandbox.parmlib(STRTSYSNAME.))
Thanks a lot!
Best Regards,
Dear Radoslaw
Thanks for your help! it is very clear
I am sorry! I have other questions:
Below is our allocxx
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CATLG_ERR FAILJOB(YES) /*FAIL THE JOB*/
ERRORMSG(YES)
Shmuel,
I remember spending some time playing with CPU affinity trying to
keep the CPU bound jobs away from the AP
Why?
[Ron Hawkins] Nice catch. I meant to say IO Bound Jobs.
Ron
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The occurrence fields are 1 byte hex fields, and their offsets change
based on what they are set to as I outlined before.
The original reason we wanted to use DFSORT is the ability to change the
data by passing it through a translate table (ALTSEQ). The reason we are
doing this is to obfuscate
So far as I am concerned, if the auditor is not qualified to do the
job of a Systems Programmer, they are not qualified to audit the work
of one. IOW: If you are not capable of doing my job, you are not
qualified to critique my performance or methods of working.
That's why the audit process
Neither PDS nor PDSE can be multi-volume.
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Hi,
In our Job queue(SDSF=ST) some of the user submitted jobs are in Execution
state for long time(almost more than 20 minutes). I have checked the
initiators too but they are inactive and non of jobs seem to be using those
available initiators. I dont see any weird messages in console too.
Any
...expect the unexpected, may be the user jobs are just needing that
duration (WAD=works as designed). For instance, are they doing
sophisticated maths, like crash test simulation, climate forecasts or live
insurance modelling? I think, also waiting for tape mounts is shown as
EXECUTION in
I thought, but this might be a senior moment, that OLTEP had had its
day when the new tape drives (3480) that imitated DASD at the command
level come out.
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Is it possible to change the value LOGCLS without an IPL?
TIA
Gadi
לשימת לבך, בהתאם לנהלי החברה וזכויות החתימה בה, כל הצעה, התחייבות או מצג מטעם
החברה, מחייבים מסמך נפרד וחתום על ידי מורשי החתימה של החברה, הנושא את לוגו
החברה או שמה המודפס ובצירוף חותמת
That's always been an issue since virtual storage limits far outpace the
ability of real and auxiliary storage to back all potential pages. One 64 bit
address space could kill a system. Does ANYONE have 16exabytes of aux storage?
No!
When we first went to ESA one slick application programmer
On Mon, 25 Apr 2011 14:43:45 -0400, John Eells ee...@us.ibm.com wrote:
Is anyone still using OLTEP...and if so...what for?
I have not used it since we did away with impact printers and 3420 style
tape drives.
Steve
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Curious: Does anyone use SVC screening for its documented intended
purpose: to define those SVCs that a particular task is allowed to issue
(and conversely those that it is not allowed to issue)?
I intentionally phrased the question the way I did, although no one
answered it in that spirit.
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Subject: Re: PDS multi-volume
Neither PDS nor PDSE can be multi-volume.
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Very true.
We still have some 3490 tape drives and I do remember using it sometime over
the last 10 years for a tape drive issue with the 3490's - per the CE request.
This is probably a good product to sunset and let users use it at their own
risk. I definitely would not spend any dollars testing and
On Tue, 26 Apr 2011 07:59:27 -0400 Peter Relson rel...@us.ibm.com wrote:
:Curious: Does anyone use SVC screening for its documented intended
:purpose: to define those SVCs that a particular task is allowed to issue
:(and conversely those that it is not allowed to issue)?
:I intentionally
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Hi,
In our Job queue(SDSF=ST) some of the user submitted jobs
are
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Recursive performs are certainly not forbidden, but are rare.
I
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Couple questions
What do you mean that a recursive
This is from my spool:
IGD103I SMS ALLOCATED TO DDNAME FTPOUT
IGD104I HFS FILE WAS RETAINED, DDNAME IS (FTPOUT )
FILENAME IS (/tmp/jobssh/test.ftp)
IGD103I SMS ALLOCATED TO DDNAME FTPOUT
IEC104I 0009,TEST,XCOMPROC,FTPOUT -000,BPX1STA
,0081,053B006C,
/tmp/jobssh/test.ftp
IEC143I
FC The OPE
SYSTEM COMPLETION CODE=213 REASON CODE=00FC
FC The OPEN function for BSAM or QSAM access to a UNIX file found
that the file does not exist.
How did you code the PATHDISP for /tmp/jobssh/test.ftp ?
Walter Marguccio
z/OS Systems
Coulf you send me the examples of sandbox.parmlib(SHUTSYSNAME.) and
sandbox.parmlib(SHUTSYSCLONE.REIPL.) ?
I wonder why SHUTSYSNAME. and SHUTSYSCLONE.REIPL are needed.For
STARTSYS PROC,there is only one member (sandbox.parmlib(STRTSYSNAME.))
I thought I explained that, but perhaps not
PATHDISP are KEEP,KEEP
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On Tue, 26 Apr 2011 13:38:28 +0300, #1490;#1491;#1497; amp;#1489;#1503;
#1488;#1489;#1497; gad...@malam.com wrote:
Hi,
Is it possible to change the value LOGCLS without an IPL?
TIA
Gadi
There is no supported way. IIRC, I think Sam Knutson posted how to zap
the control block and do it. Or
Peter,
Since it appears that the majority of the usage of SVC screening is other
than intended... has anyone ever submitted requirements to formalize the way
it really gets used? Thereby securing against future changes that might
break the unsupported feature?
Rob Schramm
On Tue, Apr 26, 2011
I'm sorry, PATHDISP doesn't help us fur
PATHDISP are KEEP,KEEP
I'm sorry, PATHDISP doesn't help us further.
What did you code as PATHOPTS ?
Walter Marguccio
z/OS Systems Programmer
BELENUS LOB Informatic GmbH
Munich - Germany
Perhaps this is a bit off topic, but I have yet to encounter an IT auditor I
could trust.
At my very first job I was in a small shop running DOS on a 360/40. The
company was scheduled for its annual outside audit. The IT auditors typically
wanted to completely take over the machine for the
I agree. My first job was straight from college to a trainee sysprog on OS/VS1
(I knew MVT JCL and assembler). We had a contractor as the main OS/VS1 sysprog.
He left instructions to me on how to install the new COBOL compiler. I followed
them. They failed. While I was trying to fix the
jeff.ho...@fiserv.com (Jeff Holst) writes:
I think that when I was later in an MVS shop, our auditors used that same
playbook, but I also think that they read slowly, as they seemed to find one
new thing in the book each year.
when corporate came in for audit of SJR datacenter in the early
happened that our payroll process occurred during the period
of the audit. Our
operations manager informed the auditors that payroll
processing would take
priority over the audit if they came on those days, on any
other days they
could have the machine. Guess which days they came. We
On Mon, 25 Apr 2011 14:49:29 -0500, McKown, John wrote:
It is possible to enter a paragraph in either way: You can PERFORM
a section, paragraph, or series of paragraphs (A THRU B). It is
possible, but unlikely to have:
A.
...code
PERFORM B THRU D.
PERFORM C.
...
GOBACK.
B. code
...
Hi all,
I would like to control a date format in a dataset with REXX. I
know it is possible to convert ... but I just want to make a control.
Thanks in advance.
Yann
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Hi all,
I would like to control a date format in a dataset
I have a dataset with a lot of date, in YYMMDD Format.
I just want to verify that the dates indicated in the dataset are real :
120229 = OK
100229 = KO
101328 = KO
Etc.
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McKown, John
Ok, those are values for allocation.
PathOPTS(OWRONLY,OCREAT)
PathMode(SIRWXU,SIRWXG,SIRWXO)
PathDisp(KEEP,KEEP)
This problem does not happen everytime
At the moment I've bypassed the problem using echo instead of execio.
Regards
On Tue, 26 Apr 2011 17:31:04 +0200, CUNY Yann wrote:
I have a dataset with a lot of date, in YYMMDD Format.
I just want to verify that the dates indicated in the dataset are real :
120229 = OK
100229 = KO
101328 = KO
The Rexx DATE(,,) function has the ability to convert date
formats. Perhaps
You can try to convert date (i.e.) from ordered filling / to anyotherformat
and menage specific syntax error using signal on syntax.
Refer to Rexx Reference - Built-in function - Date
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I won't say this is the best, but it may help you get what you want. I make
1960 a cut off point for no particular reason. That means that 00-59 are
considered 2000-2059 and 60-99 are considered 1960-1999. You'd call the
verdate routine
CALL VERDATE date-to-verify
verdate: proc
parse arg
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I have a Rexx date function that I got years ago from the TSO-REXX
listserv. It has an edit option. Contact me off-list if you want it.
Regards,
John K
snip
Option 9:
Edits the supplied date. Returns '1' if date supplied in parm1 is
valid; returns 'ERROR' if date is invalid.
parm1 =
HI,
Talking about my product in forum in Russia.
http://s390soft.org.ru/news/2011-04-03-85
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It's a language thing, specifically false friends!
Je voudrais contrôler la date avec REXX.
I would like to *verify* the date with REXX.
Chris Mason
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I wrote a recursive perform tired to create a new one when change only a row
if the structure is the same(I coded different WHEN clause within). Of
course I make a set and a reset of variable when I'm calling and returning
but what really means Unpredictable is really obscure... I suppose that a
On Tue, 26 Apr 2011 07:11:50 -0500, McKown, John wrote:
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Neither PDS nor PDSE can be multi-volume.
Very true. However, I wonder how acceptable it might be to use BPAM's PDS
emulation to store what would
Google publishes 2 ways to remove your own usenet posts from their
archives. When it was deja news, this was known as nuking, so you
might search on that term for more info. I've not used it, so cannot
attest to it's effectiveness, but it at least says it's still possible.
No offense Ted, but saying it doesn't make it so. I don't think I have ever
worked with a truly competent mainframe auditor in the corporate world. I
have seen far better in some (but certainly not all) government
organizations.
I remember one government auditor who said he was going to remove
On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 11:28 AM, Hylton Tom P tom.p.hyl...@irs.gov wrote:
deleted
As for making sure it doesn't get archived in the first place, Deja
News created a header field called X-No-Archive to deal with that,
and Google still says they honor it.
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wrote on 04/26/2011 02:25:05 AM:
The occurrence fields are 1 byte hex fields, and their offsets change
based on what they are set to as I outlined before.
I noticed that Elardaus in a previous response had said you can save
On Tue, 26 Apr 2011 09:58:56 -0600, John P Kalinich jkali...@csc.com wrote:
I have a Rexx date function that I got years ago from the TSO-REXX
listserv. It has an edit option. Contact me off-list if you want it.
There is also RDATE / RDATEF on my web site / CBT file 434. I used them to
On Tue, 26 Apr 2011 14:37:31 +, Ted MacNEIL eamacn...@yahoo.ca
wrote:
And, management should have backed the ops manager.
I failed to mention that management did in fact back up the actions of the ops
manager. As I mentioned, the change in assignments from ops manager to 3rd
shift
I am reminded of something I encountered early in may career. The COBOL
reference at the time (and this may still be true) stated that if the target of
a
MOVE statement overlaps the source, the results are unpredicable. (my
paraphrse.)
Back in the days of the 360, the COBOL compiler would
/* REXX */
TestDate1 = '090229' /* 2009 IS NOT A LEAP YEAR */
say TestDate1 CheckDate(TestDate1)
TestDate2 = '10021'/* month s/b nn not n */
say TestDate2 CheckDate(TestDate2)
TestDate3 = '080229' /* this should work */
say TestDate3 CheckDate(TestDate3)
exit 0
CheckDate: procedure
On 4/25/2011 11:32 PM, Ted MacNEIL wrote:
However, I've used the OLTEP bit in the UCB for a long
time. At each installation I worked at, we found it
advantageous to generate extra devices; that allowed just
hooking up new equipment
Didn't that go away a long time ago with dynamic IOCDS? - Ted
Frank Yaeger and Brian Westerman wrote:
Elardaus
G! A new variation of my name! ;-D
My name is Elardus! Please SORT it out! ;-D
Nevermind, I've forgiven you. ;-D
Frank Yaeger wrote:
Well, I'd like to think I'm pretty good with DFSORT and
DFSORT's ICETOOL. :-)
Wow! I learned
W dniu 2011-04-26 18:18, Paul Gilmartin pisze:
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Neither PDS nor PDSE can be multi-volume.
Very true. However, I wonder how acceptable it might be to use
OLTEP. I recognize the name, but I had to check the manual to know
what's under the acronym. It seems to be related to hardware control
units. I have never used it, I have never had an idea to use it.
Well, I can say that I don't need OLTEP.
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On Tue, 26 Apr 2011 22:04:13 +0200, R.S. wrote:
Well... Probably I did not understand all the discussion above, but IMHO
there are no size limitations for PDS *or* PDSE. That means, both
flavors of dataset-with-members-inside can be single volume only, but
PDSE is limited only by the size of the
The traditional limitation to 2^16-1 = 65535 tracks is one more instance of
control-block overflow, here that of in an unsigned halfword field.
PDS support is 'functionally stabilized', i.e., frozen. For this and other
reasons it is thus---with the well-known exceptions of system data sets
BTW: I strongly believe there are MRs (customer Marekting Request)
submitted to IBM to make PDS(E) multi-volume. I would like to know
justification to refuse to such request.
I would guess directory complexity.
And, performance.
PKZIP solved it by putting the directory on the last disk.
But,
The crazy idea this inspires in me is to use it to make a Linux ABI capture
in order to run Linux applications under z/OS. In that case, the code could
run in normal, non-priviliged mode. The only obvious issue is that Linux
apps are ASCII based.
On Apr 26, 2011 6:59 AM, Peter Relson
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The traditional limitation to 2^16-1 = 65535 tracks is one more instance of control-block overflow, here that of in an unsigned halfword field.
PDS support is 'functionally stabilized', i.e., frozen. For this and other
On 4/26/2011 4:12 PM, Rick Fochtman wrote:
--snip-
The traditional limitation to 2^16-1 = 65535 tracks is one more instance of
control-block overflow, here that of in an unsigned halfword field.
PDS support is 'functionally
On Tue, 26 Apr 2011 16:22:44 -0700, Edward Jaffe wrote:
Not to mention the vast numbr of OEM programs that would be broken by a
change in the format of the answer from a NOTE request.
IBM extended the size of the information returned by NOTE some time ago from
three-byte TTRs to four-byte
IEC143I with system completion code 213, return code FC is clearly
explained in MVS System Messages, Vol7: Open for HFS file which is not
existing. Further reading: For return code FC, change the file name or
create the file.
But how comes, your file gets lost on the way? You allocated the
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