Re: IEATDUMP is failing

2012-06-07 Thread Bob Rutledge
Binyamin Dissen wrote: IEA820I TRANSACTION DUMP REQUESTED BUT NOT TAKEN DUMP INDEX DSNAME NOT VALID I specify DSN=DUMPDSN DUMPDSN DCAL1(L'DUMPDSN_TEXT) DUMPDSN_TEXT DC C'HLQ.SLQ.DYYMMDD..THHMMSS.' Which seems to match the example of

Re: IBMLink Outage May 4-7

2012-05-03 Thread Bob Rutledge
Edward Jaffe wrote: On 5/2/2012 7:27 PM, John Gilmore wrote: IBM should explain what it expects to accomplish during this--on the face of it--absurdly long interval. Absurd indeed! When was the last time one of IBM's mainframe customers enjoyed a 54-hour maintenance/upgrade outage window?

Re: Have you ever done this using FTP?

2012-04-27 Thread Bob Rutledge
Paul Gilmartin wrote: On Thu, 26 Apr 2012 18:09:27 -0400, Rob Schramm wrote: Yep. lcd 'local pdsname' cd 'foreign pdsname' MPUT * will do it just fine. The tricky part may be allocating the receiving PDS. Notice that the statement of the problem said it had to be done using FTP. It's

Re: Have you ever done this using FTP?

2012-04-27 Thread Bob Rutledge
Bob Shannon wrote: lcd 'local pdsname' cd 'foreign pdsname' MPUT * This works for text. It also works, as documented, for load libraries. I regularly use: mkdir loadlib (like loadlib lcd loadlib cd loadlib mput * to copy a loadlib to another LPAR. I typically either use TRSMAIN, TSO

Re: Inexpensive estimate of uncompressed size of PS-E dataset

2012-04-13 Thread Bob Rutledge
Kirk Wolf wrote: I'm trying to understand how to use the catalog fields: COMUDSIZ UDATASIZ COMPIND VVRNFLGS ... in order to get an estimate of the uncompressed size of a compressed, extended-format DSORG=PS dataset. The documentation in Managing Catalogs is a little thin. - is UDATASIZ the

Re: Malicious Software Protection

2012-03-29 Thread Bob Rutledge
Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: Nonsense. OS/360 was a swiss cheese. 07F0 0A0C BCR 15,0? Was serialization required? Bob -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to

Re: DASD Mod9/Mod54

2012-03-19 Thread Bob Rutledge
Lester, Bob wrote: Hi Folks, With todays' modern disk arrays, is there any reason (z/OS based or other) that response time for my Mod54s is consistently higher than for my Mod9s? Assume identical workload against each, single array with multiple LCUs. RMF says the LCUs are pretty

Re: JES2 STCCLASS and TSUCLASS - documented

2012-03-04 Thread Bob Rutledge
Andrew Metcalfe wrote: Folks Anyone know in which manual can I find the STCCLASS and TSUCLASS initialisation parameters documented please? Not in 1.12 JES2 Init Tuning. I suspect that they are synonymous with JOBCLASS(STC) and JOBCLASS(TSU). I have inherited support for a JES2 system that

Re: JES2 STCCLASS and TSUCLASS - documented

2012-03-04 Thread Bob Rutledge
Bob Rutledge wrote: Andrew Metcalfe wrote: Folks Anyone know in which manual can I find the STCCLASS and TSUCLASS initialisation parameters documented please? Not in 1.12 JES2 Init Tuning. I suspect that they are synonymous with JOBCLASS(STC) and JOBCLASS(TSU). I have inherited support

Re: IKT100I USERID CANCELED immediately after TN3270 connection fail

2012-03-03 Thread Bob Rutledge
chen lucky wrote: YES, this is one option. But some user have the habit that do a lot of edition in view mode, then create a new member on behalf of it. So if the user can reconnect to the remain session after connection failure, this should be the best choice. thanks. 2012/3/3

Re: Why _TZ put times 7 minutes off?

2012-03-02 Thread Bob Rutledge
Charles Mills wrote: Sorry if people feel that times have been beaten to death. Environment is started task. In accordance with an earlier thread I am setting _TZ to 'EST5EDT' rather than the configured null so that strftime(%z) works as expected. I just discovered that that is throwing my

Re: TCBTQE

2012-02-26 Thread Bob Rutledge
Edward Jaffe wrote: On 2/26/2012 1:08 PM, Micheal Butz wrote: Are these created by Z/OS or by the user or both I can't think of any z/OS services right now that will implicitly issue STIMER[M]. That doesn't mean there aren't any. The only one I ever knew about was BTAM OPEN which issued

Re: Eight-character TSO Userid Support

2011-12-30 Thread Bob Rutledge
R.S. wrote: W dniu 2011-12-30 22:12, Edward Jaffe pisze: On 12/27/2011 12:29 PM, McKown, John wrote: A RACF id can be 8 characters. But, in that case, they cannot have a TSO segment. USER=LONGUSER NAME=LONG USERID OWNER=SYS1 CREATED=11.364 [...] TSO INFORMATION [...] Did you try to logon

Re: Eight-character TSO Userid Support

2011-12-30 Thread Bob Rutledge
Paul Gilmartin wrote: On Fri, 30 Dec 2011 16:41:21 -0500, Bob Rutledge wrote: R.S. wrote: W dniu 2011-12-30 22:12, Edward Jaffe pisze: On 12/27/2011 12:29 PM, McKown, John wrote: A RACF id can be 8 characters. But, in that case, they cannot have a TSO segment. USER=LONGUSER NAME=LONG

Re: SDSF ISFPRM00

2011-12-28 Thread Bob Rutledge
System Programmer wrote: SDSF security using ISFPRM00 is not working as I expect. My userid is ending up in the DEFAULT group which is where I would expect it to be classsified. SDSF WHO displays GRPINDEX=17,GRPNAME=DEFAULT GROUP NAME(DEFAULT) AUPDT(0), TSOAUTH(JCL), ACTION(NONE),

Re: $HASP165 Inconsistent Formatting

2011-11-03 Thread Bob Rutledge
Edward Jaffe wrote: Lol! Never noticed before. $HASP165 has inconsistent formatting for the same return code (zero) from one job to the next. :-D 11.25.31 J0110283 $HASP165 EJES$SAL ENDED AT PHXHQ2 MAXCC=0 CN(INTERNAL) 11.25.34 J0110285 $HASP165 EJES$DAL ENDED AT PHXHQ2 MAXCC=

Re: Pipeline question - whick is better?

2011-08-18 Thread Bob Rutledge
Edward Jaffe wrote: On 8/17/2011 1:47 PM, Binyamin Dissen wrote: (2) has more storage references, while (1) has more opcodes. Some time ago we rewrote some code that did SPKA/MVC/SPKA to use MVCSK for integrity reasons. That code was accessing caller's parameters. We reasoned it was safer

Re: Pipeline question - whick is better?

2011-08-18 Thread Bob Rutledge
Binyamin Dissen wrote: On Wed, 17 Aug 2011 17:34:14 -0400 Bob Rutledge deerh...@ix.netcom.com wrote: :Binyamin Dissen wrote: : R2-R13 must be preserved. R13 points to a standard save area. : 1. : LRR0,R2 : IPK , : SPKA spec_key : L R15

Re: Pipeline question - whick is better?

2011-08-17 Thread Bob Rutledge
Binyamin Dissen wrote: R2-R13 must be preserved. R13 points to a standard save area. 1. LRR0,R2 IPK , SPKA spec_key L R15,data SPKA 0(R2) LRR2,R0 2. LAR0,4-1 LAR1,spec_key

Re: Pipeline question - whick is better?

2011-08-17 Thread Bob Rutledge
-294-1014(res) j...@thethomasresidence.us (Email) -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Bob Rutledge Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2011 4:34 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Pipeline question - whick is better

Re: Allocation Conflict with Job

2011-08-08 Thread Bob Rutledge
Nigel Wolfendale wrote: I have a job with four steps: Step 1 IEFBR14 - allocate a specific dataset = (MOD,DELETE) - to make sure it is not there Step 2 allocate it (NW,CATALOG,DELETE) - this step does not open the dataset Step 3 Use Connect Direct to write to this dataset from the LAN - the

Re: Suffix of 64 bit instructions

2011-08-06 Thread Bob Rutledge
Tom Marchant wrote: On Fri, 5 Aug 2011 18:52:41 -0400, Farley, Peter wrote: LY instruction format from the Principles of Operations looks like: 'E3' R1 X2 B2 DL2 DH2 '58' You misread the chart. the above is LG, not LY STY instruction format from the Principles of Operations looks like:

Re: Suffix of long-displacement instructions

2011-08-06 Thread Bob Rutledge
Farley, Peter x23353 wrote: Bob, Thank you for your supporting voice and verification. I didn't see your reply until I had already replied to Tom. You're welcome. If the OP's question is restated with the right instructions, it might be of interest to peruse the instruction lists to see

Re: S/A Dump issue

2011-08-03 Thread Bob Rutledge
John Norgauer wrote: After issuing VERBX SADMPMS, I see the message: THE,DUMP BEING PROCESSED IS NOT A STAND-ALONE DUMP, Yet, I know that a S/A dump was taken. It wrote out to my output SADMP dataset and i see in that dataset the following: in the first record of SADMP:

Re: disclosing business information on the internet

2011-07-28 Thread Bob Rutledge
Steve Comstock wrote: On 7/28/2011 12:47 PM, Hal Merritt wrote: IMNSHO, the risk is real. There are some reports that very carefully crafted personalized attacks are growing in number and are enjoying some success. H. Maybe so. Can you give an example of what personalized attack would be?

Re: SMPE accept command

2011-07-22 Thread Bob Rutledge
Edward Jaffe wrote: On 7/22/2011 9:20 AM, Starr, Alan wrote: I believe the following would be a good beginning: ACCEPT PTFS FUNCTIONS APARS GROUPEXTEND BYPASS(ID) CHECK . APARS? BYPASS(ID)? Are these standard parameters used in customer environments? No! Bob

Re: Can z/OS 1.11 run on a z9

2011-07-17 Thread Bob Rutledge
גדי בן אבי wrote: Hi, Can z/OS 1.11 run on a z9? Specifically a 2096-J01. We're running it on a -V03. It's documented in http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/E0Z2B1A1/CCONTENTS We currently run a z10BC-I04, and this computer will be our DR system. Bob

Re: Overriding client FTP . DATA

2011-07-12 Thread Bob Rutledge
Johnston, Robert E wrote: We started out years ago with CA's TCP/IP and FTP and it has remained the standard FTP in Production since then. A new project came up involving lots of new batch FTP jobs to a Windows machine and I suggested they use IBM FTP. It has gone well for the most part and

Re: DS8XXX Syslog Mirroring Question

2011-07-08 Thread Bob Rutledge
Ward, Mike S wrote: We are mirroring our DISK and tape to a remote location for DR purposes. About 3 weeks ago we did an exercise and brought the system up at the remote location. It went great, except for one thing. Since we don't mirror our page and spool we do a cold start on JES and we don't

Re: Excessive CPU usage in SDSF

2011-05-29 Thread Bob Rutledge
גדי בן אבי wrote: Hi, One of our operators is using excessive CPU. Most of his time is spent running the printer, and he is usually looking at the output queue in SDSF. There are a few filters specified in SDSF and the information is sorted in a special way. He keeps rising to the top of

Re: Running a SYSPLEX - what's needed

2011-05-19 Thread Bob Rutledge
JT wrote: Thanks for all the responses here and offline. Here are some answers to questions about our environment: - The 2096-T01 is our only processor. We are running z/OS 1.11. - We do not currently use sub-capacity processing. We do not submit monthly SCRT reports. - The T01 runs at

Re: Running a SYSPLEX - what's needed

2011-05-18 Thread Bob Rutledge
John Thinnes wrote: In order to save on IMS MLC charges (uses about 3%), we are investigating adding a second 'IMS LPAR' to our configuration (on same CEC). Currently we are running a 2096-T01. We run a production LPAR and occasionally a TECH sandbox LPAR. In 2012 we may be looking at

Re: USS vs USS

2011-05-04 Thread Bob Rutledge
Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: John Eels said otherwise, and he's in a position to know. Eells. Bob -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET

Re: Anyone Still Using OLTEP?

2011-04-25 Thread Bob Rutledge
John Eells wrote: Is anyone still using OLTEP...and if so...what for? Note 1: If you haven't been a sysprog for 20 years or more, my guess is that you probably don't know what it is--and will probably never need to, so don't worry. Note 2: Don't panic just yet. We're just askin'. You

Re: scope=common data space

2011-04-24 Thread Bob Rutledge
Linda Mooney wrote: Greetings! I there any place to find out what the default number for MAXCADS is for each z/OS release? The health check on my current system tells me that I am above 80% (21 of 25) in use of MAXCADS. I could increase this by coding a value in IEASYS00, but I will

Re: WLM TCB value change

2011-04-08 Thread Bob Rutledge
jagadishan perumal wrote: Hi, When I view the Started task DSN1WLM I see that the NUMTCB value is set to 8 but i want to change it to 1. I browsed the SYS1.PROCLIB(DSN1WLM), but I could find the first two lines. 1 //DSN1WLM JOB MSGLEVEL=1 2 //STARTING EXEC

Re: SMP/E BYPASS( HOLDSYS( reason-list ) )

2011-04-05 Thread Bob Rutledge
Paul Gilmartin wrote: On Tue, 5 Apr 2011 12:10:53 -0700, Bill Johnson wrote: The real apply when doing a bypass holdsys does not get a zero return code but a 4. I thought that lately there was an option to cause RC=0 in this case. But I can't find it in the manuals. Actually, these days

Re: Weird Reply Fragments (Was: Re: Mainframe Fresher)

2011-04-05 Thread Bob Rutledge
Edward Jaffe wrote: On 4/4/2011 2:21 PM, Scott Ford wrote: I totally agree. This situation has been shaping up for a long Steve: I totally agree. This situation has been shaping up for a long time. Apparently, the work 'plan' is a 4 letter word Scott J Ford Scott, Something strange

Re: HYPERPAVs

2011-02-18 Thread Bob Rutledge
Dave Kopischke wrote: On Fri, 18 Feb 2011 15:26:40 -0600, Horne, Patti patti.ho...@fisglobal.com wrote: You need to go into Storage Navigator on your USP-V and do the initial pairing of the aliases to the bases for each LCU. Then when you to the D M=DEV it will tell you how many aliases you

Re: Is there a way to have SMPE indicate if an LMOD is changed?

2011-02-13 Thread Bob Rutledge
Could your REXX step read either the SMPOUT report from the SMP/E step with SDSF or read the SMP/E log? Bob Skip Robinson wrote: We have VPS but not DRS. Let me describe the problem I'd like to solve. GDPS is not currently orderable in ServerPac, so we install it in its own CSI. I need a

Re: TIMEUSED versus TCBTTIME

2011-02-04 Thread Bob Rutledge
Edward Jaffe wrote: On 2/4/2011 8:13 AM, Chris Craddock wrote: All true and good sensible stuff too. For a quick and dirty (and fairly light weight) way to coerce the system into updating it there's always this old trick... WAIT ECB=PHONY (do stuff)

Re: Cataloged procedure misunderstanding

2011-01-23 Thread Bob Rutledge
Charles Mills wrote: I've got a cataloged procedure in the SYS1.PROCLIB concatenation. It has the following PROC statement //MYPROC PROC PARMS=CZAPARMS,MODE=PROD,INSTALL=,VERBOSE= And the following PARMS= parameter PARM=('VERBOSE,CZAPARMS(PARMS),MODE(MODE INSTALL)') I can override any of the

Re: Cataloged procedure misunderstanding

2011-01-23 Thread Bob Rutledge
Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Bob Rutledge Sent: Sunday, January 23, 2011 10:28 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Cataloged procedure misunderstanding Charles Mills wrote: I've got a cataloged procedure in the SYS1.PROCLIB concatenation. It has

Re: List spam

2011-01-14 Thread Bob Rutledge
Shane Ginnane wrote: Any/every-one else getting spammed by recoveryknowledge ?. Yes, but I found it mildly amusing... Hello Deer Recovery Knowledge an IBM Business Partner is offering an unbelievable (No License Charge) discount on all our DB2 Automated Tools to IX Netcom. Bob

Re: can I dynamically increase tso size

2011-01-09 Thread Bob Rutledge
Robert A. Rosenberg wrote: At 08:22 -0500 on 01/08/2011, Bob Rutledge wrote about Re: can I dynamically increase tso size: Robert A. Rosenberg wrote: At 15:13 -0500 on 01/07/2011, Bob Rutledge wrote about Re: can I dynamically increase tso size: Krishnan wrote: Hi All I am having

Re: can I dynamically increase tso size

2011-01-08 Thread Bob Rutledge
Robert A. Rosenberg wrote: At 15:13 -0500 on 01/07/2011, Bob Rutledge wrote about Re: can I dynamically increase tso size: Krishnan wrote: Hi All I am having a similar problem. I am unable to edit a dataset and instead am getting the 'browse substituted message' The ISPF edit

Re: can I dynamically increase tso size

2011-01-07 Thread Bob Rutledge
Krishnan wrote: Hi All I am having a similar problem. I am unable to edit a dataset and instead am getting the 'browse substituted message' The ISPF edit was attempted for a dataset with following characteristics - RECFM=VB, LRECL=5000. - DSORG=PS - BLOCKSIZE=27998 - It's total size is

Re: CEEROPT

2010-12-31 Thread Bob Rutledge
Frank Swarbrick wrote: Is CEEROPT supposed to be able to affect a regular batch job, or is it just for CICS and IMS? CICS/IMS. I assembled a CEEROPT in to a private load library and then put it in my JOBLIB concatenation but it doesn't appear to have any effect. Works fine for a CICS

Re: ASCBINTS

2010-11-09 Thread Bob Rutledge
Both ASCBINTS and systrace timestamps are TOD (STCK) values. Bob Veilleux, Jon L wrote: It looks just like the time stamp in a system trace. Number of milliseconds since 1/1/1970 -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Ray

Re: SAS 9.2 ABEND S0C4 in z/OS 1/4?

2010-10-08 Thread Bob Rutledge
Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: I'm getting ready for a z/OS upgrade from 1.4 to 1.10, and as part of that we[1] will be going from SAS 8 to SAS 9.2. SAS 9.2 works fine on z/OS 1/10, but we get an 0C4 trying to use it on our 1.4 system. I did notice that the 1.4 system is still ARCLVL=1 (ESA/390

Re: Nullify Effect of $EJ command

2010-09-30 Thread Bob Rutledge
Dave Kopischke wrote: On Thu, 30 Sep 2010 15:15:00 -0700, Ulrich Krueger wrote: How about restricting the use of the E command in that operator's SDSF profile? It's also used to change service classes. E does no such thing. Bob

Re: Nullify Effect of $EJ command

2010-09-30 Thread Bob Rutledge
Ted MacNEIL wrote: It's also used to change service classes. E does no such thing. Are we talking about E or $E? We are talking about SDSF action characters. Bob -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: SDSF module ISFVTBL2 missing

2010-09-28 Thread Bob Rutledge
John Norgauer wrote: Executing SDSF for the first time on a newly installed z/OS 1.11 system, I get a 806-4 for module ISFVTBL2 Has anyone experienced this problem? ISFVTBL2 is in ISF.SISFMOD1 which needs to be in your linklist. Bob

Re: undocumented system abend code question (at least we can't find it)

2010-09-22 Thread Bob Rutledge
Pommier, Rex R. wrote: Hi List, We're in the middle of a system recovery exercise and our production IDMS region won't come up. It gets almost up then comes crashing down with a SEE7 abend in the PRODDCV program. Any idea where to look for this? There are a half dozen notes dealing with

Re: PoPs

2010-08-22 Thread Bob Rutledge
Rick Fochtman wrote: Could one of you fine ladies or gentlemen kindly download the PF of the latest Principles of Operations and E-Mail it to me as an attachment? (I'd also accept BookManager format, but I'm told that it's not available.) I am having no end of difficulty in getting any sort

Re: GA22-7820 z/OS and z/OS.e DOC APAR and PTF ++HOLD Documentation ?

2010-08-14 Thread Bob Rutledge
Jan Vanbrabant wrote: Hi, Where can the 3 (or more) volumes of *GA22-7820-xx z/OS and z/OS.e DOC APAR and PTF ++HOLD Documentation* nowadays been found? http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/Shelves/ZDOCAPAR Bob

Re: GA22-7820 z/OS and z/OS.e DOC APAR and PTF ++HOLD Documentation ?

2010-08-14 Thread Bob Rutledge
Jan Vanbrabant wrote: *Re. * *Where can the 3 (or more) volumes of *GA22-7820-xx z/OS and z/OS.e DOC APAR and PTF ++HOLD Documentation* nowadays been found? *

Re: Migration to z/os 1.11 causes Paging in DB2 DBM1 address space

2010-08-05 Thread Bob Rutledge
Mike Shorkend wrote: I work with the OP. We are migrating from z/OS 1.9 and it is indeed a z9, so HSA is still part of the customer's central storage. We have found an OPEN APAR OA33307 which describes our problem. Hopefully there will be a PTF soon as the End-of-Service date is approaching.

Re: IBM Is Hiring

2010-07-28 Thread Bob Rutledge
I believe that Columbia is the one in Missouri. Bob Eric Bielefeld wrote: I know IBM is hiring in Dubuque Iowa. I believe they are also setting up a center like Dubuque in Columbia, Ohio. I don't remember when that is opening though. Most of the jobs at both places are not for MVS, but

Re: SMS and z/OS 1.11

2010-07-24 Thread Bob Rutledge
Gibney, Dave wrote: So, I'm in doing my final conversion from z/OS 1.9 to z/OS 1.11. Testing in the sandbox(es) worked fine for a good nine months, and in my Development LPAR for a good six weeks. Everything looked good except I get this error sometimes!: IEF344I GIBNEYX S5D BACKUP -

Re: AXR04 on z/OS 1.11

2010-07-21 Thread Bob Rutledge
Edward Jaffe wrote: Clark Morris wrote: On 21 Jul 2010 14:48:39 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: Clark Morris wrote: ... If I understand other postings and from what I recall from 20 years ago when I was an active systems programmer, FORCE ARM was a last resort...

Re: Z/OS 31bit or 64bit

2010-07-13 Thread Bob Rutledge
Tom Marchant wrote: On Tue, 13 Jul 2010 19:36:56 +, Ted MacNEIL wrote: 1.6 supported bi-modal, IIRC. Bi-modal? You mean like MVS/XA? Or do you mean that you could run it in ESA mode? There was the z/OS V1R2/3/4 Bimodal Migration Accommodation described in:

Re: System 04E abend bringing up DB2 CONTROL ADDRESS SPACE

2010-07-12 Thread Bob Rutledge
Micheal Butz wrote: This was my first message DSN1MSTR DSN1MSTR - ABEND=S04E U REASON= 754 After which I changed the region to 0M seemed like it needed to acess more virtual storage DSN1MSTR DSN1MSTR - ABEND=S04E U REASON= 800 The Z/OS messages and codes

Re: searchdatacenter.com article

2010-06-30 Thread Bob Rutledge
Stephen Mednick wrote: I was taken back today with this article that appeared: An http://searchdatacenter.techtarget.com/tip/0,289483,sid80_gci1515891,00.htm l?track=NL-576ad=772576asrc=EM_NLN_11912703uid=628605 introduction to mainframe backup utilities Could someone please tell me

Re: No SDWA - TEA

2010-05-29 Thread Bob Rutledge
Mike wrote: I'm shooting a wild branch S0C1 dump - result of a SLIP SET,C=0C1 no SDWA - so no SDWABEA ip summ reg for;f rtm2wa;f bea Bob -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to

Re: REFDD

2010-05-24 Thread Bob Rutledge
Frank Swarbrick wrote: Am I misreading the manual? It says Use the REFDD parameter to specify attributes for a new data set by copying attributes of a data set defined on an earlier DD statement in the same job. The following attributes are copied to the new data set from (1) the attributes

Re: Amazing article.

2010-05-07 Thread Bob Rutledge
Frank Swarbrick wrote: It is useful to be able to receive the second generation before processing the first. It is less useful that if this happens you have to make a JCL change to be able to process the older generation once a newer generation has been created. Are there standard ways of

Re: Heads Up: APAR IO11698 - New SAF FACILITY class definition required for any SMP/E use

2010-04-02 Thread Bob Rutledge
Wayne Driscoll wrote: Thankfully, APF authorization and system resource access security are 2 separate things. When the OPEN SVC gets invoked, it will perform a RACROUTE REQUEST=AUTH call for the dataset being opened, regardless of the value in JSCBAUTH. The only way that security checks

Re: ISPF command line (was: Mainframe emulator ...)

2010-03-26 Thread Bob Rutledge
Paul Gilmartin wrote: On Fri, 26 Mar 2010 12:57:27 -0400, Paul Strauss wrote: In reply the the section about the short SDSF command below And for some commands, such as ALLOCATE, many (most?) ISPF command lines are too short (particularly SDSF's), even when I abbreviate to the minimum allowed.

Re: RC=4093 from TSO ALLOC in compiled REXX

2010-03-21 Thread Bob Rutledge
Try PGM=IKJEFT01,PARM=compiled program Bob Staffan Tylen wrote: Thanks for the tip but I run both in batch using the same JCL except for the EXEC statement, which either points to IKJEFT01 or to the compiled program. Wrong! SYSPROC is of course changed to STEPLIB also. And the ALLOC is for a

Re: SMP/E SMPPTFIN Audit Trail?

2010-03-13 Thread Bob Rutledge
Paul Gilmartin wrote: We have a problem attempting to track which version(s) of SMPPTFIN files, each containing multiple PTFs, have been RECEIVEd. Is there a way to embed a sort of command in SMPPTFIN that will create an entry in SMPLOG (or elsewhere) unambiguously recording that that SMPPTFIN

Re: ipcs print output

2010-02-27 Thread Bob Rutledge
Paul Schuster wrote: Hello: Is there a way to -not- have a 'TITLE' page separator appear in the IPCSPRNT output? For example, I do a SYSTRACE and there is no page separator, but when I do OPEN PRINT(TITLE('')); SYSTRACE PRINT NOTERMINAL; CLOSE PRINT; I get a line break. I am looking for

Re: SWTL and 522

2010-02-19 Thread Bob Rutledge
Andy Wood wrote: . . . most 360s didn't actually decrement the low-order bit of the location timer ... most were at the 3.3mills than 13+ microseconds. 360/67 had high resolution timer feature that did decrement the low-order bit (this is somewhat analogous to 370 timer defining the referenced

Re: TcpIP resolver on z/os 1.10

2010-02-16 Thread Bob Rutledge
Your original PROC had two EXEC statements and the SETUP DD was after the second, which didn't run. Could it be that you deleted one of those EXEC statements along with the comments? Bob מתן כהן wrote: Hi Chris, 1.i do mean comments. 2. as i already said before . i did all the

Re: End of service for 3490-A20 and 3490-B40

2010-02-11 Thread Bob Rutledge
Nigel Salway wrote: Dear Friends, I have been looking for the end of service dates for the 3490-A20 and 3490-B40 in the announcment archive at http://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/ I haven't found any reference to these devices in the announcment letters which suggests to me there has been

Re: Strange JCL error

2010-02-04 Thread Bob Rutledge
Mark Zelden wrote: On Thu, 4 Feb 2010 13:18:28 -0600, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com wrote: On Thu, 4 Feb 2010 10:19:24 -0600, Mark Zelden wrote: You may want to update your ISPF configuration table with values similar to these: ISPCTL0_BLOCK_SIZE = 27920

Re: GSE IBM System z Technical Conference

2010-01-22 Thread Bob Rutledge
Lindy Mayfield wrote: I was trying to find out where and when the GSE IBM system z Technical Conference is. I've not had any luck. I attended one a year or so back in Dresden, Germany. Did the name or something change? Is this it?

Re: SMF SYNCVAL

2009-09-22 Thread Bob Rutledge
Jeffery Swagger wrote: I'm having the same problem as the OP and the solution of SYNCVAL(59) is not working for me. In SMFPRMxx I have: INTVAL(10) SYNCVAL(59) == Was 00 STATUS(SMF,SYNC) In ERBRMF00 I have SYNC(SMF) This only applies to the SMF type 23 records. You need INTERVAL(SMF,SYNC) to

Re: SYSLOG message suppression

2009-09-18 Thread Bob Rutledge
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

Re: Started Task Abends S522

2009-09-17 Thread Bob Rutledge
Chase, John wrote: -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [On Behalf Of Mark Jacobs Chase, John wrote: Hi, All, This is a new one on me: A started task abends S522 after our JWT interval. This task is basically a TCPIP Sockets listener (part of an IBM product), and

Re: Question about MPFLSTXX

2009-09-16 Thread Bob Rutledge
Yes, it has to have a message ID, the definition of which is in the InitTuning Ref. Essentially, it's the first ten non-blank characters. I've got one that reads DATA/INDEX,SUP(YES),RETAIN(YES) Bob John Norgauer wrote: Can the MPFLSTXX member be used to suppress any display on the

Re: SETSSI and Pitfalls

2009-08-13 Thread Bob Rutledge
By default, a started task matching a subsystem name starts under the master scheduler. http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/IEA2B680/7.3.1?SHELF=EZ2ZBK0GDT=20080604022956 Bob Lizette Koehler wrote: I recently added a subsystem using SETSSI. I did not realize when I

Re: SDSF PREFIX Enhancement (UK44477)

2009-07-31 Thread Bob Rutledge
Richards, Robert B. wrote: This SDSF enhancement automatically adds an asterisk to the PREFIX command where the prefix is less than eight characters. Untrue. This APAR adds it to the operand of H or ST commands. I applied this PTF, assembled/linked the sample ISFUSER into ISF.SISFLOAD,

Re: SDSF PREFIX Enhancement (UK44477)

2009-07-31 Thread Bob Rutledge
Mark Zelden wrote: If you really want the generic search character added to the PREFIX command, yes. You need to turn on UPRO1GPF. I have SY00090 00654130 * SY00090

Re: SDSF PREFIX Enhancement (UK44477)

2009-07-31 Thread Bob Rutledge
Mark Zelden wrote: On Fri, 31 Jul 2009 16:11:43 -0400, Bob Rutledge deerh...@ix.netcom.com wrote: Mark Zelden wrote: If you really want the generic search character added to the PREFIX command, yes. You need to turn on UPRO1GPF. I have

Re: FTP to Unix directory with spaces

2009-07-29 Thread Bob Rutledge
Have you tried single quotes? I don't have a RedHat server to try but here's an example talking to a Filezilla server... ProductID: Unicenter TCPaccess Communications Server Rel 6.0.0 (C) Copyright 1987-2003 Computer Associates International, Inc. Component: Client FTP, A6007420 UFTP2 Enter

Re: Of link lists and application programs

2009-07-29 Thread Bob Rutledge
Yes. You have it right. Bob Frank Swarbrick wrote: I want to thank everyone who has chimed in on this. It sounds like we need to use LNKAUTH=APFTAB instead of the default of LNKAUTH=LNKLST so that our APPL libraries will not be APF authorized when accessed via the LNKLST concatentation (or

Re: Of link lists and application programs

2009-07-24 Thread Bob Rutledge
Frank Swarbrick wrote: snip Systems is concerned about system integrity. Rightly so. LNKLST has historically been for systems libraries only. But since there is no similar facility for business applications libraries this seems to be the only way I can get what I want. In any case, does

Re: Of link lists and application programs

2009-07-24 Thread Bob Rutledge
LNKAUTH=LNKLST only _treats_ unauthorized libraries as authorized when programs in them are accessed via the link list. Otherwise, they are not authorized (not known to APF) and so don't show up in the displays. The integrity issue that concerns your systems folks remains. Bob Frank

Re: Any gotchas going from 1.4 to 1.9?

2009-07-21 Thread Bob Rutledge
If that JES is JES2, you'll want to review the material at http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/z/os/zos/installation/zos17_jes2_migration.html Bob Bruce McKnight wrote: Greetings all, (I posted this on Google groups a while ago but would like to reach a larger audience.) I've got a 1.4 system

Re: ALLOCATION OF USERCAT MYSTERY - URGENT

2009-07-20 Thread Bob Rutledge
If you do not specify space for DATA and INDEX, the system takes the 25 cyls and allocates an INDEX as part of the 25 cyls you specified after the DEFINE. If you want the DATA to contain 25 cyls, then you should specify SPACE for DATA and INDEX. How much space was allocated to the INDEX?

Re: Any product to undelete file?

2009-07-10 Thread Bob Rutledge
Vernooij, CP - SPLXM wrote: Yeah, sure, with a chainsaw etc... I was talking about normal users that normally allocate a dataset and normally try to read it. With SMS-datasets they will encounter an empty file, with non-SMS they will read what is stil on the tracks from the previous dataset.

Re: question about searching datasets for ip addresses

2009-06-25 Thread Bob Rutledge
Schlueter, Edward wrote: but, is there an easy way to find, for example, 100.020.002.020 and 100.20.2.20 (which is really the same IP address) You could be in for a surprise later in life... c:\brping 100.020.002.020 Pinging 100.16.2.16 with 32 bytes of data: 0nn means octal nn. Bob

Re: question about searching datasets for ip addresses

2009-06-25 Thread Bob Rutledge
Patrick O'Keefe wrote: On Thu, 25 Jun 2009 15:19:58 -0400, Bob Rutledge deerh...@ix.netcom.com wrote: ... You could be in for a surprise later in life... c:\brping 100.020.002.020 Pinging 100.16.2.16 with 32 bytes of data: 0nn means octal nn. ... On z/OS (and I assume other IBM

Re: question about searching datasets for ip addresses

2009-06-25 Thread Bob Rutledge
Patrick O'Keefe wrote: On Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:36:28 -0400, Bob Rutledge deerh...@ix.netcom.com wrote: Patrick O'Keefe wrote: ... On z/OS (and I assume other IBM mainframe operating systems) a leading zero signifies a leading zero, not a switch to octal. We include leading zeroes in some IP

Re: SYSLOG-Routing codes

2009-06-01 Thread Bob Rutledge
They are described in the introduction part of any volume of System Messages under Messages sent to hardcopy...: First 28 route codes. Bob Ron Wells wrote: Guess I was too quick... The beginning of the SYSLOG has NR000 XA91 09152 15:10:44.93 STC06632 0080 IST097I VARY

Re: IBM Optim question...

2009-05-21 Thread Bob Rutledge
(Asking in complete ignorance of data masking...) One each of whatever every 3.6 microseconds? Bob Dave Jones wrote: On Thu, 21 May 2009 14:56:27 -0500, Dave Jones d...@vsoft-software.com wrote: A client of mine is considering IBM Optim (formerly Princeton Softech Optim) for a large data

Re: IBM Optim question...

2009-05-21 Thread Bob Rutledge
Kirk Wolf wrote: Or this :-) http://lmgtfy.com/?q=data+masking On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 6:24 PM, P S zosw...@gmail.com wrote: Ah, if only there was some sort of way to search a global database for such things. Hey, wait: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_masking Ummm, guys, I kind of

Re: SIMETRID in CLOCKDR

2009-04-30 Thread Bob Rutledge
I didn't trust my memory either, so I looked. Both LPARs in our basic sysplex have TIMEZONE W.04.00.00 SIMETRID 01 Bob Richards, Robert B. wrote: Seeing that it has been 10 years since I last specified SIMETRID, am I correct in remembering that it is the only statement necessary in the

Re: RECEIVE ORDER ERROR

2009-04-28 Thread Bob Rutledge
Ed, If you start at http://www-03.ibm.com/servers/eserver/zseries/zos/servicetst/ and sniff around and about, you'll eventually find most of the answers you're looking for. Bob Edward Jaffe wrote: Richard Peurifoy wrote: If you want to apply all RSU maintenance, you can specify RSU* on

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