Re: PDSE

2012-01-24 Thread Barbara Nitz
and it would appear that Barbara may even have understated the dimensions of this problem. Me? Everybody tells me I always exaggerate. :-) But I can list more grievances for this topic Still, it is happening; and since forbidding the use of LINKLST to anyone is now an unenforceable

change job classes for ones submitted via intrdr

2012-01-24 Thread Tim Brown
Is there a way to control job classes that get submitted via intrdr If a job comes through say CLASS=A , have it changed to different class say CLASS=R Thanks, Tim Brown Systems Specialist - Project Leader Central Hudson Gas Electric 284 South Ave Poughkeepsie, NY 12601 Email:

Re: change job classes for ones submitted via intrdr

2012-01-24 Thread Binyamin Dissen
Get the to JES2 Installation Exits On Tue, 24 Jan 2012 07:21:23 -0500 Tim Brown tbr...@cenhud.com wrote: :Is there a way to control job classes that get submitted via intrdr : :If a job comes through say CLASS=A , have it changed to different class say CLASS=R : : : :Thanks, : : : :Tim

Re: change job classes for ones submitted via intrdr

2012-01-24 Thread Lizette Koehler
Is there a way to control job classes that get submitted via intrdr If a job comes through say CLASS=A , have it changed to different class say CLASS=R What version of z/OS? Which JES? JES2 or JES3? This information will help to determine a more focused response. But basically - YES,

Re: change job classes for ones submitted via intrdr

2012-01-24 Thread amit
if i get your question correctly, you do have options via the INTDR program to change classes on a Job in JES Queue. need to pass sysin JES commands. the SUbmitter ID/user shld have JES write access. On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 5:51 PM, Tim Brown tbr...@cenhud.com wrote: Is there a way to control

Re: change job classes for ones submitted via intrdr

2012-01-24 Thread Staller, Allan
You can provide a default job class for the INTRDR, however, JCL will override any JES2 specified defaults. If the submitter codes CLASS= on the job card, that is what will be used. JES2 Exit 6. Possibly JES2 Exit 2 or 44 can be used to modify the submitted JCL. I do not believe there is a

Re: DFSORT - How to split detailed record based on master record

2012-01-24 Thread McKown, John
I don't see JOINKEYS in z/OS 1.10's version of the DFSORT manual, so I'd say No, you can't do this in z/OS 1.10. I can't think of a way to do it, off hand, using DFSORT without JOINKEYS. If I were doing it myself, I'd likely use REXX. It should be fairly easy since you said that the files were

Re: Ikjeft01

2012-01-24 Thread Walt Farrell
On Mon, 23 Jan 2012 15:44:39 -0500, Scott Ford scott_j_f...@yahoo.com wrote: Thanks to all, there is one thing that forced us as a vendor to use external resources outside our STC it is the 4096 line limitation to IRRSEQ00. I hope IBM will resolve this. We have one customer with 350,000 RACF

Re: Going from mod-3 to mod9

2012-01-24 Thread Dennis McCarthy
Hi Joel, We do NOT have any PAV's. We are a pretty small shop. One production LPAR and one test (sandbox for me). The VSAM file in question is open to a single CICS region. Give that additional information, can I expect a negative impact on response time going to the MOD-9's? Dennis

Re: change job classes for ones submitted via intrdr

2012-01-24 Thread Walt Farrell
On Tue, 24 Jan 2012 07:21:23 -0500, Tim Brown tbr...@cenhud.com wrote: Is there a way to control job classes that get submitted via intrdr If a job comes through say CLASS=A , have it changed to different class say CLASS=R That question seems a bit odd to me. Have you considered that almost

mainframe server

2012-01-24 Thread Mohd Rizwan
I am Mohammed , I have emulator software TN3270 in my PC, can antbody provide me the dummy Mainframe Server link , so i can practice from my home, as i am new to this technology -- *Mohd Rizwan 9538451750* -- For IBM-MAIN

Re: Set Clock Command

2012-01-24 Thread Mark Zelden
On Mon, 23 Jan 2012 15:35:27 -0600, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com wrote: Remember, the sysplex timer doesn't change times, just the offset gets changed automatically twice a year. I don't think the HMC setting is an offset of the offset. It doesn't change times, but it certainly steers

RES: mainframe server

2012-01-24 Thread ITURIEL DO NASCIMENTO NETO
If i understood you correctly, you want to practice TN3270 ? In linkedin I've seen a topic about a free mainframe system to play, in India. Take a look at http://www.vintage-computer.com/vcforum/archive/index.php/t-834.html Atenciosamente / Regards / Saludos Ituriel do Nascimento Neto BANCO

IBM announces 6% price increase for z/OS

2012-01-24 Thread Roger Bowler
For some reason, this announcement doesn't seem to have made it into the IBM press release page at http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/index.wss: Announcement Letter Number ZA11-1053 (Europe Middle East and Africa): Effective April 1, 2012 the price of IBM z/OS Version 1 will increase. Prices

Re: mainframe server

2012-01-24 Thread Itschak Mugzach
;-) On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 4:26 PM, Mohd Rizwan rizwaan.pa...@gmail.comwrote: I am Mohammed , I have emulator software TN3270 in my PC, can antbody provide me the dummy Mainframe Server link , so i can practice from my home, as i am new to this technology -- *Mohd Rizwan 9538451750*

Re: IBM announces 6% price increase for z/OS

2012-01-24 Thread McKown, John
Yea. My manager got that. But he said it was slightly different. We got hit __immediately__ with no prior warning. Blew the software budget for 2012. Helped us lose more people, too. Luckily, at the same time as this price increase, we decreased our MSUs and so our hit is not as bad as it could

Re: PDSE

2012-01-24 Thread Art Gutowski
On Mon, 23 Jan 2012 22:11:49 -0500, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) shmuel+ibm-m...@patriot.net wrote: In 0474239580859420.wa.arthur.gutowskicompuware@bama.ua.edu, on 01/23/2012 at 04:14 PM, Art Gutowski arthur.gutow...@compuware.com said: On Mon, 23 Jan 2012 07:54:52 -0600, Tom Marchant

Re: Going from mod-3 to mod9

2012-01-24 Thread Joel C. Ewing
On 01/24/2012 07:28 AM, Dennis McCarthy wrote: Hi Joel, We do NOT have any PAV's. We are a pretty small shop. One production LPAR and one test (sandbox for me). The VSAM file in question is open to a single CICS region. Give that additional information, can I expect a negative impact on

Re: IBM announces 6% price increase for z/OS

2012-01-24 Thread Ken Porowski
Probably not on the US pages because it does not affect the US? -- This email message and any accompanying materials may contain proprietary, privileged and confidential information of CIT Group Inc. or its subsidiaries

Re: IBM announces 6% price increase for z/OS

2012-01-24 Thread John Gilmore
Indeed. EMEA prices are in general different from American prices. --jg On 1/24/12, Ken Porowski ken.porow...@cit.com wrote: Probably not on the US pages because it does not affect the US? -- This email message and any

Re: change job classes for ones submitted via intrdr

2012-01-24 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 7792164355560880.wa.wfarrellus.ibm@bama.ua.edu, on 01/24/2012 at 07:37 AM, Walt Farrell wfarr...@us.ibm.com said: Or STCs that are really started jobs rather than started tasks because they have a JOB statement in them. AFAIK the processing is the same whether there is a default JOB

Re: IBM announces 6% price increase for z/OS

2012-01-24 Thread Pommier, Rex R.
I'm pretty sure it affects the US. I have the letter in front of me. It doesn't have an announcement letter number on it, and it is labeled notice to IBM customers and it has the normal verbiage about state and local governments. At least I THINK South Dakota is still part of the US. :-)

Re: IBM announces 6% price increase for z/OS

2012-01-24 Thread Pommier, Rex R.
Just found it. Announcement letter 312-001. http://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/cgi-bin/ssialias?infotype=ANsubtype=CAhtmlfid=897/ENUS312-001appname=USN Rex -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Ken Porowski Sent: Tuesday,

Re: change job classes for ones submitted via intrdr

2012-01-24 Thread Walt Farrell
On Tue, 24 Jan 2012 11:13:36 -0500, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) shmuel+ibm-m...@patriot.net wrote: In 7792164355560880.wa.wfarrellus.ibm@bama.ua.edu, on 01/24/2012 at 07:37 AM, Walt Farrell wfarr...@us.ibm.com said: Or STCs that are really started jobs rather than started tasks because they

Re: DFSORT - How to split detailed record based on master record

2012-01-24 Thread Frank Yaeger
Minoru Massaki at IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu wrote on 01/23/2012 10:26:47 PM: Yaeger-san and McKown-san, Thank you very much for your kind help. It is exactly what I want to do. By the way, one of our customer is still using z/OS V1.10. Does DFSORT for z/OS V1R10

Perhaps someone can help me with an excel question

2012-01-24 Thread Binyamin Dissen
I have a spreadsheet with Date Name Otherstuff columns. The spreadsheet is in DATEorder (if that is relevant). There are multiple identical NAME entries. What function will give me the latest/highest DATE value for a given NAME value in a cell? -- Binyamin Dissen

Re: IBM announces 6% price increase for z/OS

2012-01-24 Thread Al Sherkow
Here is some of what I wrote to clients and licensees on January 8th: -- IBM announced price increases for many features of z/OS including the Base feature on January 2nd, 2012. In the US the announcement letter number is 312-001. (In Europe, Middle East, and Africa the announcement was

Re: PDSE

2012-01-24 Thread Schumacher, Otto
I recommend that you use the real dataset name not the alias name in the LINKLIST and use the symbolic alias to isolate the required JCL changes if the dataset is required in any JCL. Since the dataset is in the LINKLIST then you should not need to specify the dataset in any JCL. Regards

Re: Perhaps someone can help me with an excel question

2012-01-24 Thread Mike Schwab
Sort by name, date descending. First cell for a name will be the latest info. Use a pivot table to display 1 entry per DSN. http://chandoo.org/wp/2010/09/27/remove-duplicates-using-pivot-tables/ On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 10:49 AM, Binyamin Dissen bdis...@dissensoftware.com wrote: I have a

Re: DFSORT - How to split detailed record based on master record

2012-01-24 Thread Minoru Massaki
Hi Yaeger-san, I'll ask the customer to test JOINKEYS on their z/OS V1.10 system. McKown-san, I agree with you. I already have such assembler programs and REXX EXECs. It might be required slight modification. ;-) Again, thank you very much your kind help! I really appreciate it. Minoru

Re: IBM announces 6% price increase for z/OS

2012-01-24 Thread R.S.
W dniu 2012-01-24 17:10, John Gilmore pisze: Indeed. EMEA prices are in general different from American prices. Yes, EMEA prices are higher. Have always been higher. CICS (made in UK), or U.S. made software - doesn't matter. And yes, I don't like it. BTW: Have you ever seen about discounts

Re: DFSORT - How to split detailed record based on master record

2012-01-24 Thread Frank Yaeger
John McKown at IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu wrote on 01/24/2012 05:16:56 AM: I don't see JOINKEYS in z/OS 1.10's version of the DFSORT manual, so I'd say No, you can't do this in z/OS 1.10. ... John, Because some functions of DFSORT/ICETOOL are implemented as PTFs, you

Re: Perhaps someone can help me with an excel question

2012-01-24 Thread Binyamin Dissen
I want it to be dynamic and not require playing with the data. If a new Date/Name is added with a later Date for Name, I want the latest date field to be automatically updated. On Tue, 24 Jan 2012 11:28:09 -0600 Mike Schwab mike.a.sch...@gmail.com wrote: :Sort by name, date descending. First

Re: IBM announces 6% price increase for z/OS

2012-01-24 Thread John Gilmore
Radoslaw Skorupka's point that EMEA prices are higher than American and British ones is true in general, although there are some few of exceptions. They are said to reflect real differences in the costs of doing business in different regions. They are fixed locally by local managements, who do

Re: Perhaps someone can help me with an excel question

2012-01-24 Thread Binyamin Dissen
Thanks for pointing to the site. I found =SUMPRODUCT(MAX(($B$2:$B$401=L10)*($A$2:$A$401))) On Tue, 24 Jan 2012 11:28:09 -0600 Mike Schwab mike.a.sch...@gmail.com wrote: :Sort by name, date descending. First cell for a name will be the latest info. : :Use a pivot table to display 1 entry per

Re: change job classes for ones submitted via intrdr

2012-01-24 Thread Cris Hernandez #9
my sysprogs use WLM to wreck all kinds of havoc on my JCL parameters and the otherwise normal (default) OS functionality. --- On Tue, 1/24/12, Tim Brown tbr...@cenhud.com wrote: From: Tim Brown tbr...@cenhud.com Subject: change job classes for ones submitted via intrdr To:

Re: change job classes for ones submitted via intrdr

2012-01-24 Thread Greg Shirey
Really? We use SMS at my shop to override some JCL, but I'm not sure I'd know how to use WLM in the manner you describe. Could you elaborate? Thanks, Greg Shirey Ben E. Keith Co. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of

How can I display whether the sendmail daemon is running ?

2012-01-24 Thread Glen Gasior
* How can I display whether the sendmail daemon is running ? * I have not been able to discover how to do this today. * T.I.A. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu

Re: How can I display whether the sendmail daemon is running ?

2012-01-24 Thread Scott Ford
Glen, In z/os... D A,SMTP. Or whatever you called the STC In unix Ps -ef Regards, Sent from my iPad Scott Ford Senior Systems Engineer www.identityforge.com On Jan 24, 2012, at 2:40 PM, Glen Gasior glen.manages@gmail.com wrote: * How can I display whether the sendmail daemon

Re: change job classes for ones submitted via intrdr

2012-01-24 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 1907516522791856.wa.wfarrellus.ibm@bama.ua.edu, on 01/24/2012 at 10:47 AM, Walt Farrell wfarr...@us.ibm.com said: I'm not sure that's really relevant, though. They still are not submitted via intrdr. Yes, but that doesn't depend on whether they are started jobs. BTW, commands like

Re: How can I display whether the sendmail daemon is running ?

2012-01-24 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 4084293471755347.wa.glen.manages.mvsgmail@bama.ua.edu, on 01/24/2012 at 01:40 PM, Glen Gasior glen.manages@gmail.com said: How can I display whether the sendmail daemon is running ? Does the test have to be real time? If so, telnet to it. If not, send a message with TO: foo.invalid

Re: PDSE

2012-01-24 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 6841965402587229.wa.arthur.gutowskicompuware@bama.ua.edu, on 01/24/2012 at 09:37 AM, Art Gutowski arthur.gutow...@compuware.com said: Just out of idle curiosity, I looked and found no documented restriction for aliases in LPALSTxx...do I take that to mean dataset aliases are supported?

Re: change job classes for ones submitted via intrdr

2012-01-24 Thread Lizette Koehler
Is there a way to control job classes that get submitted via intrdr If a job comes through say CLASS=A , have it changed to different class say CLASS=R What version of z/OS? Which JES? JES2 or JES3? This information will help to determine a more focused response. But basically -

Re: How can I display whether the sendmail daemon is running ?

2012-01-24 Thread Conlin, Pete
Perhaps: NETSTAT (CLIENT SMTP* /or NETSTAT (PORT 25 NETSTAT (PORT 1026 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: change job classes for ones submitted via intrdr

2012-01-24 Thread Ed Gould
Yes indeed this question has popped up on often. You have the easiest answer and probably the best. In a JES2 exit it is reasonably easy but then it depends on why you are changing it. I went at it at a two pronged attack. I did the exit and then I figured out that that it was easy to get

Re: How can I display whether the sendmail daemon is running ?

2012-01-24 Thread Ed Finnell
SMSG SMTP HElp|QUeue|STats In a message dated 1/24/2012 2:56:26 P.M. Central Standard Time, pete_con...@ibi.com writes: NETSTAT (PORT 1026 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to

Re: IBM announces 6% price increase for z/OS

2012-01-24 Thread Aled Hughes
Well stated John. As the Brits are not party to the Euro, their prices are different to the rest of Europe (and not being physically attached to 'Europe', why should the Brits adopt European ways anyway - we could discuss that issue for days!). I recall back in the 70s being able to buy 3330

Re: change job classes for ones submitted via intrdr

2012-01-24 Thread Tom Marchant
On Tue, 24 Jan 2012 10:47:37 -0600, Walt Farrell wrote: They're jobs, but they enter the system via stcinrdr not intrdr. Are you saying that a started job is more like a job than like a started task? If so, it surprises me. I would have thought that once it is running it looks about the same

Re: Going from mod-3 to mod9

2012-01-24 Thread Cosby, Bob - OCFO
Ask the EMC vendor if the Subsystem has dynamic Parallel Access Volumes (PAV's) turned on assuming the EMC Subsystem supports it. This creates multiple volumes for one. Puts the water where the fire is. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List

Re: IBM announces 6% price increase for z/OS

2012-01-24 Thread Dave Kopischke
I'm pretty sure it affects the US. I have the letter in front of me. It doesn't have an announcement letter number on it, and it is labeled notice to IBM customers and it has the normal verbiage about state and local governments. We got warned about a price increase last year which went

The Trainer's Friend announces - no price increase

2012-01-24 Thread Steve Comstock
We are using the same pricing we used in 2002. :-) Your software just got more expensive, while training costs remain low. Train your people to get the most from your software: maybe the improved effectiveness in using the software will offset the increased cost, even after allowing for the cost

COBOL Upgrade

2012-01-24 Thread Linda Mooney
Greetings! We are (finally) looking at the possibilities of moving up on COBOL from OS/VS with Report Writer and from  COBOL II to the new COBOL 4.2 with Report Writer.  I would like to hear from folks who have already made that journey, especially about any specific things that went well -

Re: How can I display whether the sendmail daemon is running ?

2012-01-24 Thread Chris Mason
Glen If you want the best forum for answering questions related to programming supporting IP-based protocols running on System z operating systems z/OS and z/VM, you should use the following list: For IBMTCP-L subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to

Re: Going from mod-3 to mod9

2012-01-24 Thread Mike Schwab
Is this FICON or ESCON? On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 5:06 PM, Cosby, Bob - OCFO bob.co...@nfc.usda.gov wrote: Ask the EMC vendor if the Subsystem has dynamic Parallel Access Volumes (PAV's) turned on assuming the EMC Subsystem supports it.  This creates multiple volumes for one. Puts the water

COBOL execs Dummy Question

2012-01-24 Thread Jake anderson
Hello All, Apology in advance for posting a very basic or a stupid question but I am curious to know about the COBOL compiler Programes : IGYWCL and IGYCRCTL. I very well know that IGY stands for the language Prefix but Would like know what WCL or CRCTL stands for ? I tried Google to find some

Re: DFSORT - How to split detailed record based on master record

2012-01-24 Thread Minoru Massaki
Hello, The customer could use JOINKYES function successfully on their z/OS V1.10 system, even though DFSORT SYSOUT header show DFSORT release was V1R10. I beleave that PTF UK51707 had been installed in their z/OS V1.10. Thank you. Minoru Massaki (M*M) 2012/1/25 Frank Yaeger yae...@us.ibm.com:

Re: COBOL execs Dummy Question

2012-01-24 Thread Mike Schwab
http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/IEA2V281/1.1.1?DT=20080122043331#HDRBPFIND Prefixes / names and their product IGY Cobol compiler prefix. CR - ? CTL often used as an abbreviation for control. On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 9:48 PM, Jake anderson justmainfra...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: COBOL execs Dummy Question

2012-01-24 Thread Linda Mooney
Hi Jake, You might try this for of search on Google, and on www.dogpile.com IGYCRCTL site:ibm.com HTH, Linda - Original Message - From: Jake anderson justmainfra...@gmail.com To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2012 7:48:36 PM Subject: COBOL execs

Re: IBM announces 6% price increase for z/OS

2012-01-24 Thread Timothy Sipples
Prices for just about *everything* in Europe are higher than in the U.S. One factor is VAT (Value Added Tax), but it's not the only factor. The U.K. has a 20% VAT rate, for example, and that's certainly not the highest in Europe. Sales tax rates in the U.S. range from 0% in a few states to around

Re: IBM announces 6% price increase for z/OS

2012-01-24 Thread J. Cassidy
Next we will hear that today is Wednesday. = Prices for just about *everything* in Europe are higher than in the U.S. = One factor is VAT (Value Added Tax), but it's not the only factor. The = U.K. = has a 20% VAT rate, for example, and that's certainly not the highest in = Europe. Sales tax

Re: The Trainer's Friend announces - no price increase

2012-01-24 Thread Timothy Sipples
Steve Comstock writes: We are using the same pricing we used in 2002. :-) We aren't, thank goodness. We slashed z/OS prices repeatedly then increased some of them this year, once, a bit, far less than we slashed them. Although I do like your training services and think they're fairly priced.