Re: How to find a PDS member

2012-01-04 Thread Lizette Koehler
Graham Hobbs gho...@cdpwise.net wrote in message news:5e97g75eqo2bi4cfbrhqcm9phcacji9...@4ax.com... Hello, Just returned to z/OS mainframe after 10 years, working alone, nobody to talk to:-(. My first elementary question: - there are many PDS's in the environment I now have access to

Re: Copying a PDS to a similiar PDS (backup)

2012-01-04 Thread Lizette Koehler
Graham Hobbs gho...@cdpwise.net wrote in message news:jbb7g7p5l51mvm9oooc549bv1tmh1hc...@4ax.com... Hello, Just returned to z/OS mainframe after 10 years, working alone, nobody to talk to:-(. My next elementary question: - I need to backup my 80 byte source library PDS's - have read

Re: Re-Linkling a load module with AC(1)

2012-01-04 Thread Binyamin Dissen
A blast from the past. On Tue, 3 Jan 2012 14:42:27 -0800 Schwarz, Barry A barry.a.schw...@boeing.com wrote: :Try eliminating the second include. Also verify that PCOPY actually has text. : : -Original Message- : From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On :

Re: z/OS version of NetCat or native JCL support

2012-01-04 Thread Mike Wood
Gerard, RMM has no way to push information out to places that want it, other than conventional mvs based options; writing to files/sysout, cmd line output Others mentioned FTP, XMIT/NJE, email, even zFS/HFS DFSMS includes NFS support and provides transparent access to mvs programs

Re: A design question

2012-01-04 Thread Jan MOEYERSONS
On Wed, 4 Jan 2012 14:24:51 +0930, Anthony Thompson anthony.thomp...@nt.gov.au wrote: What I want to do is write a BCPii interface that is Windoze driven (i.e. Java that calls C++?). Any pointers in this direction would be appreciated. JNI is the word for you. Java can call C++ and

Re: How to find a PDS member

2012-01-04 Thread Lindy Mayfield
Hello Graham, Welcome back. :-) You can make TSO Rexx to list datasets based on wild cards, and so on, by making a simple hack to this XDELETE Rexx exec by Gilbert Saint-flour which uses the catalog search to do the cool stuff. Here is his page, and you can find his stuff on FILE183 on the

Re: IBM manual formats

2012-01-04 Thread Jan MOEYERSONS
On Tue, 3 Jan 2012 08:44:07 -0500, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) shmuel+ibm-m...@patriot.net wrote: What if you don't run windoze? Then you cannot use the Library Reader for Windows... (IMHO it still is better than the Java stuff they replaced it with) But less portable. True. But I am more

Re: A design question

2012-01-04 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Tony Harminc Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2012 5:38 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: A design question On 3 January 2012 14:28, McKown, John john.mck...@healthmarkets.com

Re: How to find a PDS member

2012-01-04 Thread Steve Comstock
On 1/4/2012 12:50 AM, Lizette Koehler wrote: Graham Hobbsgho...@cdpwise.net wrote in message news:5e97g75eqo2bi4cfbrhqcm9phcacji9...@4ax.com... Hello, Just returned to z/OS mainframe after 10 years, working alone, nobody to talk to:-(. My first elementary question: - there are many PDS's in

Re: JES2 $DEBUPD macro

2012-01-04 Thread Steve Mann
Have you found out anything more regarding the $DEBUPD macro? We are just starting our z/OS 1.13 upgrade and have a 3rd party software exit that also uses $DEBUPD (still waiting to hear back from the vendor). -- For IBM-MAIN

Re: How to find a PDS member

2012-01-04 Thread Lizette Koehler
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Steve Comstock Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2012 8:06 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: How to find a PDS member On 1/4/2012 12:50 AM, Lizette Koehler wrote: Graham

Re: How to find a PDS member

2012-01-04 Thread Lizette Koehler
Graham Hobbsgho...@cdpwise.net wrote in message news:5e97g75eqo2bi4cfbrhqcm9phcacji9...@4ax.com... Hello, Just returned to z/OS mainframe after 10 years, working alone, nobody to talk to:-(. My first elementary question: - there are many PDS's in the environment I now have access to

Could use a sysplex aware version of IAZXJSAB

2012-01-04 Thread McKown, John
IAZXJSAB has some nice output for executing address spaces. But it only returns data from address spaces in the system it is running on. I was wondering if there is any way to get some equivalent information from address spaces running on other systems in the same sysplex. In particular, I

Re: z/OS version of NetCat or native JCL support

2012-01-04 Thread Scott Ford
Mike, This is excellent. I know in batch you can copy a file from mvs to hfs or zfs and probably nfs Of the course , the other options you mentioned, the API is nice, never knew that existed. Regards, Scott Sent from my iPad On Jan 4, 2012, at 5:15 AM, Mike Wood mikeww...@hotmail.com wrote:

Re: Clarification on Sysres Volumes(RMF)

2012-01-04 Thread Ford Prefect
Jags, If you have an active HASCKPT dataset on your RES volume, then move it. Once that is done you can see if there are other problems. There is no question of whether a HASCKPT will cause performance problems, if JES2 is using it then it will cause problems. It does not belong there and needs

Re: IBM manual formats

2012-01-04 Thread Martin Packer
Are you sure it doesn't run under WINE on Linux? Anyone? Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, Mainframe Performance Consultant, zChampion Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter / Facebook IDs: MartinPacker Blog:

Re: Question on adding an SVC routine dynamically to a running system

2012-01-04 Thread Dave Day
Tony, As I said in an earlier post, everything is a tradeoff, isn't it. If the profiler code is actually running inside the target address space, and it prevents the target from running while it gathers its data, it has the ability to run data chains and such without a lot of

Re: Re-Linkling a load module with AC(1)

2012-01-04 Thread Schwarz, Barry A
I hardly ever look at the dates. I wonder how my company's email system managed to hold it for two months and then deliver it. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Binyamin Dissen Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2012 2:08 AM

deleting jes2 printers

2012-01-04 Thread Tim Brown
Is there a $del to delete jes2 printers Thanks, Tim Brown Systems Specialist - Project Leader Central Hudson Gas Electric 284 South Ave Poughkeepsie, NY 12601 Email: tbr...@cenhud.com mailto:tbr...@cenhud.com Phone: 845-486-5643 Fax: 845-486-5921 Cell: 845-235-4255 This message contains

Re: deleting jes2 printers

2012-01-04 Thread David Andrews
On Wed, 2012-01-04 at 11:39 -0500, Tim Brown wrote: Is there a $del to delete jes2 printers http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/epubs/pdf/has2a2a0.pdf -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to

Re: Could use a sysplex aware version of IAZXJSAB

2012-01-04 Thread Edward Jaffe
On 1/4/2012 6:10 AM, McKown, John wrote: IAZXJSAB has some nice output for executing address spaces. But it only returns data from address spaces in the system it is running on. I was wondering if there is any way to get some equivalent information from address spaces running on other systems

Re: A design question

2012-01-04 Thread Don Poitras
In SAS/C, we implemented this functionality (handling START/STOP/MODIFY) using a signal. It seemed a natural fit for C. http://support.sas.com/documentation/onlinedoc/sasc/doc750/html/75chgs/z2474017.htm McKown, John wrote: -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List

Re: A design question

2012-01-04 Thread Scott Ford
Don,   Wrote a lot of SAS up until V6 or so. Been awhile, loved it ...very useful to me and my customers I had.. and 'yes' i thin C is natural fit for operator interface, as long as the threads are not being locked. My issue now is that everything is single thread( i didnt write it) , so we are

21st Century Migrates Mainframe with Clerity

2012-01-04 Thread Kopischke, David G.
Greetings, Here's one I came across a few minutes ago. Not much information as to the size of the installation, but it's apparently a successful re-hosting. And it only took a year ???

Re: 21st Century Migrates Mainframe with Clerity

2012-01-04 Thread Staller, Allan
Last I heard, they were a relatively small Prop/Casualty insurer Certainly not a State Farm, Prudential, Farmers, Allstate,. snip Subject: 21st Century Migrates Mainframe with Clerity Greetings, Here's one I came across a few minutes ago. Not much information as to the size of the

Re: IBM manual formats

2012-01-04 Thread Tony Harminc
On 3 January 2012 08:44, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) shmuel+ibm-m...@patriot.net wrote: In 4953978233034455.wa.jan.moeyersonsadelior...@bama.ua.edu, on 01/03/2012   at 05:39 AM, Jan MOEYERSONS jan.moeyers...@adelior.be said: I think you can. Just install the old, but still faithfull Library Reader

Re: 21st Century Migrates Mainframe with Clerity

2012-01-04 Thread Roberts, John J
Subject: Re: 21st Century Migrates Mainframe with Clerity Last I heard, they were a relatively small Prop/Casualty insurer Certainly not a State Farm, Prudential, Farmers, Allstate,. Just the same, Clerity has had a few high profile successes doing migrations. The NYSE used the

Re: JES2 $DEBUPD macro

2012-01-04 Thread Bill Planer
No, I never learned why it is no longer needed. I'd be interested if your vendor has some insight. I examined each place it was used in 1.11 code and the same place in 1.13 code. In each case, the macro call was simply removed with no other changes. So I did the same in my code. I have

Calling all experts on SMFPRMxx SUBSYS

2012-01-04 Thread Charles Mills
I assume this august group is filled with people who have forgotten more about SMFPRMxx than I will ever know. I am trying to determine the exact relationship between various SUBSYS( specifications and the writing of specific SMF record types. (And yes, I know there are OTHER variables involved,

Re: IBM manual formats

2012-01-04 Thread Kirk Wolf
FWIW, we use Linux on our desktops and have found that the following process works fantastic for IBM manuals. Something similar might be possible on Windoze (or OSX) with a similar tool or under cygwin, but I haven't tried it. 1) Use the DownLoadThemAll FireFox plugin to download all of the PDFs

Re: 21st Century Migrates Mainframe with Clerity

2012-01-04 Thread Tom Marchant
On Wed, 4 Jan 2012 21:16:49 +, Kopischke, David G. wrote: Here's one I came across a few minutes ago. Not much information as to the size of the installation, but it's apparently a successful re-hosting. And it only took a year ???

Re: z/OS version of NetCat or native JCL support

2012-01-04 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In CAJTOO5-ZWSyX4_m41A5d5aKkvm8rU4F+Rdv=1ez4zqqh4xx...@mail.gmail.com, on 01/03/2012 at 05:23 PM, Mike Schwab mike.a.sch...@gmail.com said: There is an SMTP function within JES on z/OS, No; both the old and the new e-mail client are independent started tasks, with no JES dependencies. --

Re: z/OS version of NetCat or native JCL support

2012-01-04 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 02471e7eef1b47c4f856cd74dde2d...@mail.gmail.com, on 01/03/2012 at 03:59 PM, Gerard Nicol gerard.ni...@tapetrack.com said: So you are sending to an SMTP server via JES2? It doesn't matter whether you are using JES2 or JES3. Does this only work for z/Linux or could you also send to an intel

Re: IBM manual formats

2012-01-04 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 5899163949644116.wa.jan.moeyersonsadelior...@bama.ua.edu, on 01/04/2012 at 05:42 AM, Jan MOEYERSONS jan.moeyers...@adelior.be said: But I am more worried about functionnality. If the Softcopy Reader were to offer the same ease of use as the Library Reader, then I would probably not mind

Re: Re-Linkling a load module with AC(1)

2012-01-04 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In b282be35b5a4494894d4ecfba2bf78471813666...@xch-nw-17v.nw.nos.boeing.com, on 01/04/2012 at 08:16 AM, Schwarz, Barry A barry.a.schw...@boeing.com said: I hardly ever look at the dates. I wonder how my company's email system managed to hold it for two months and then deliver it. Two months

Re: z/OS version of NetCat or native JCL support

2012-01-04 Thread Mike Schwab
On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 4:37 PM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) shmuel+ibm-m...@patriot.net wrote: In CAJTOO5-ZWSyX4_m41A5d5aKkvm8rU4F+Rdv=1ez4zqqh4xx...@mail.gmail.com, on 01/03/2012   at 05:23 PM, Mike Schwab mike.a.sch...@gmail.com said: There is an SMTP function within JES on z/OS, No; both

Re: z/OS version of NetCat or native JCL support

2012-01-04 Thread Scott Ford
Guys, Shades of 3770 and 3780s , man.. In VM we used to write our own line drivers for RSCS... Sent from my iPad On Jan 4, 2012, at 6:05 PM, Mike Schwab mike.a.sch...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 4:37 PM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) shmuel+ibm-m...@patriot.net wrote: In

Re: IBM manual formats

2012-01-04 Thread Scott Ford
Kirk, I also like Linux but I run win7 x64 and was running virtual-box running Redhat,Fedora and Solaris to name a few. Up side of software deveLopment, we also use VMWare.. Regards, Scott Sent from my iPad On Jan 4, 2012, at 5:00 PM, Kirk Wolf k...@dovetail.com wrote: FWIW, we use Linux

Re: Calling all experts on SMFPRMxx SUBSYS

2012-01-04 Thread Lizette Koehler
I assume this august group is filled with people who have forgotten more about SMFPRMxx than I will ever know. I am trying to determine the exact relationship between various SUBSYS( specifications and the writing of specific SMF record types. (And yes, I know there are OTHER variables

Re: A design question

2012-01-04 Thread Anthony Thompson
Cheers and thanks for link. Ant. Northern Territory Government of Australia -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Jan MOEYERSONS Sent: Wednesday, 4 January 2012 9:29 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: A design question

Re: z/OS version of NetCat or native JCL support

2012-01-04 Thread Tony Harminc
On 3 January 2012 19:35, Gerard Nicol gerard.ni...@tapetrack.com wrote: I can't believe that IBM didn't provide a APPC connection to their TCP address space, if they did you could just IEBEGENER data to a remote SMTP server (or other service) from JCL without having to spool the data or

Re: Calling all experts on SMFPRMxx SUBSYS

2012-01-04 Thread Charles Mills
Shoot. I thought I was super clear. (I mean I really hoped I was clear; I don't mean you are criticizing me unjustly.) I understand I think the basics of what is in the IT Reference under Parameters for SMFPRMxx. I understand the basic concept of SYS controlling things as a whole and being

Re: z/OS version of NetCat or native JCL support

2012-01-04 Thread Kirk Wolf
I agree with Tony - there is more to it than just raw socket I/O. You could port netcat to z/OS and combine it with something that handles the rest. Like this: // EXEC PGM=MYPGM //OUTPUT DD DSN=TEMP,DISP=(NEW,PASS),... //* // EXEC PGM=COZBATCH an improved BPXBATCH //INPUTDD

Re: z/OS version of NetCat or native JCL support

2012-01-04 Thread Gerard Nicol
Kirk, I didn't mean to trivialize it, but it's not rocket science either. So what's the deal with Co:Z Launcher? Did someone say it's free as in beer? Gerard -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Kirk Wolf Sent: Wednesday,

Re: Copying a PDS to a similiar PDS (backup)

2012-01-04 Thread Graham Hobbs
Lizette/Kees, I looked up the Share document and it said nothing about JCL changes, plus what you explained about 'Authorize' (which I quite misunderstood), so reasoned that my JCL had to be wrong .. what else:-(. Found another JCL example and notes in another doc .. glaring errors in

Re: Copying a PDS to a similiar PDS (backup)

2012-01-04 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Wed, 4 Jan 2012 20:01:54 -0500, Graham Hobbs wrote: Found another JCL example and notes in another doc .. glaring errors in SYSUT2! SYSUT2 has to have exactly the same attributes as SYSUT1 i.e. RECFM, LRECL, BLKSIZE, allocated CYLS, EXTENTS and BLOCKS, don't use RLSE and it works. //STEP1

Re: How to find a PDS member

2012-01-04 Thread Graham Harris
May not really be what you want, but there are vendor products out there that create an index of all members from all (online) PDSs in your system/sysplex. I had the pleasure of using this one at a site I worked at for a while, and it was a very convenient tool to have at one's disposal (has a

Re: How to find a PDS member

2012-01-04 Thread Graham Hobbs
OK, thanks, 'member' is the ticket! Downside is that Dsname Level is mandatory implying some knowledge of the high level qualifier. I happened to know that IGYCOP* is what I wanted so found my members. In the real world am not sure this is a downside? Specifically, was looking for member

Re: Calling all experts on SMFPRMxx SUBSYS

2012-01-04 Thread Barbara Nitz
Charles, What I don't understand is the exact mapping of SUBSYS names to record-level functionality. If *I* understand you right, then you're confusing SUBSYS as indicated in SMFPRM and a subsystem defined to the SSI. The SMF SUBSYS types *I* am aware of are JESx, STC, TSO, OMVS, ASCH. That's

Re: Calling all experts on SMFPRMxx SUBSYS

2012-01-04 Thread Hunkeler Peter (KIUP 4)
The SMF SUBSYS types *I* am aware of are JESx, STC, TSO, OMVS, ASCH. That's it. There are three, let's say kinds of address spaces: STC, TSO, and Initiator address spaces. The latter type comprises JESx initiators, APPC initiators, and z/OS UNIX initiators, which all run the MVS initiator module