Thank you Martin and Timothy, I'll look into your suggestions.
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Hello all, we are in the process of moving one application from a content
management server to an in house written application and we will be needing to
send Xerox mainframe reports to this new application.
I am looking for any suggestions for a low cost, easy to use z/OS or windows
converter
Sorry, I was in too much of a rush to catch the van pool and did not get my
point across clearly.
The setting I was trying to point out is the : Alloc/Migr Threshold
Track_Managed...
It would be so much easier if I could add a screen print but I haven't figure
out how to do that in this
Can someone please clarify something for me. Apparently, there were some
parameters that were introduced to SMS/ISMF and these parameters were not
present in the 1.9 release but are there now in the 1.11 release.
In particular I am talking about the Pool Storage Group Define or Alter
If you used the Rexx/SDSF api, you could possibly use the SYSLOG prefix and
allocate the DD and then do an execio using LIFO.
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I had a similar requirement a few months back because for some reason, they
have NJE locked up real tight around here.
I created a rexx routine that basically ftps the spool file to the intended
lpar
by ip address.
I initiate the process by performing an SE on the spool entry and then typing
Willie, you should be able to at least look for some of the datasets that were
moved successfully by using the :
LIST LEVEL (YOUR.DSN.HLQ) MCDS SYSOUT(X)
This might give you enough peace to know that they were moved.
HTH,
Gil.
On Wed, 18 Aug 2010 10:49:20 -0700, willie bunter
What is the proper procedure for moving a VTOC Copy Data Set Entry
for a Volume from an ML1? Freevol and migrate do not appear to work.
We are migrating from a Shark to a DS8700 and I need to migrate all
the ML1 datasets to the new units.
I've seen the question asked in a previous post but
Does anyone know if performing an LPR from multiple mainframe hosts
to a single lpr host queue definition would cause contention issues?
I have 3 VPS mainframe printers that are lpr'ing to the same remote
host queue and there appears to be some contention going on.
If lpr'ing from multiple
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Does anyone know if performing
Thanks Linda and Jim, I have asked the VPS admin to take a look at
exit08. We are on VPS V2 R10 and I also saw a note in the manual
that stated:
The printer keyword ERTABMEM and corresponding error table can replace
similar functions performed by VPS User Exit 08.
So he is going to check
I have the need to monitor the status of an lpr printer running on a
windows server from the mainframe.
We use VPS to route print from the mainframe to the windows server
and when the server goes down for maintenance etc, the vps printer
goes into an error status cause it can't communicate
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On Tue, 2009-11-24 at 11:09 -0500, Gilbert Cardenas wrote:
We use VPS to route print from the mainframe to the windows server
and when the server goes down for maintenance etc, the vps printer
goes into an error status cause it can't communicate with the
printer.
I can't rely
You could also use IGGCSIRX in SYS1.SAMPLIB and the option H or B to
extract all gds/gdgs. I think it is documented in DFSMS Managing
Catalogs.
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I was asked if I could expand the allocation of a Partition Sequential
dataset and I said sure no problem but then I was given the caveat of
only using DFDSS.
Has something to do with DB2 which I know nothing about so I said I
would look into it.
If I use the COPY dataset option, I can't
Hello all, I recently switched the CDS backups from tape to disk and all
had been running smooth until this morning when I got the following
error message:
ARC0744E MCDS COULD NOT BE BACKED UP, RC=0020, 132
ARC0744E (CONT.) REAS=0016. MIGRATION, BACKUP, FRBACKUP,
DUMP, AND
That was my original thought as well but that wasn't the problem.
When I first converted the CDS to disk, I wondered if I had to make the
pre-allocated datasets large enough to hold the maximum size they
would get but it appears that when the new disk backup is created, the
allocation is
Thanks, I did check the HSM backup logs and the syslogs and could not
find either the ARC0500I or ARC0503I messages anywhere so I don't
think this was the issue.
On Fri, 16 Oct 2009 08:21:29 -0500, Staller, Allan
allan.stal...@kbm1.com wrote:
From
http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-
Hi Willie, I usually use the following format and it brings back only the
datasets that match the HLQ :
HSEND LIST LEVEL(MYHLQ) MCDS ODS(MYUSERID.DATASETS)
Regards,
Gil.
On Wed, 7 Oct 2009 09:07:26 -0700, willie bunter
williebun...@yahoo.com wrote:
Good Day To All,
Could anybody tell me
On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 11:38:07 -0700, John Dawes
jhn_da...@yahoo.com.au wrote:
I have a problem trying to compile a list of ROLLED-OFF gdg
dsns which were created over the past 3 years. We noticed that the
dsns were not being deleted because of a NOSCRATCH option used
when the gdg base was
Hello all, I am trying to move the CDS backups currently from tape
using HSM as the datamover and noparallel to disk using DSS and
parallel.
The manual states that I have to preallocate the new dasd backup
datasets but thats all, so do I use the same dcb characteristics as the
current tape
Contractor
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Hello all, I am trying to move
Hello all, we are on z/OS 1.9 using CA/TLMS and I want to turn on ML2
duplexing to reduce the amount of time and effort needed to recover an
ML2 volume (not really for offsite backups).
I have read most of the HSM duplex posts and the manuals to try to
formulate how this function works and
That's great news. That means that my scratch pool will only double
for the extra duplex copy.
Thanks,
Gil.
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Hi Willie, I believe I believe this is covered in Chapter 2 of the Admin
guide.
The MIGRATEPREFIX parameter of the SETSYS command specifies the
prefix (high-level qualifier) of the generated name. If you do not specify
a migrate prefix, DFSMShsm uses the UID that you specified in the
startup
On Tue, 11 Aug 2009 08:04:13 -0500, Staller, Allan
allan.stal...@kbm1.com wrote:
Question 1 (Is this correct?)
If you specify MIGRATION(REUSE) an ML2 tape is not selected for
duplexing. If you want an ML2 to be duplexed, you need to either
specify SETSYS PARTIALTAPE(MIGRATION(MARKFULL)) or
We have recently split out TN3270 from TCPIP in preparation for the z/OS 1.9
upgrade.
We are noticing what appear to be additional FTP messages in the system
log. At first I thought it was because some ftps use the debug parameter and
this was causing the additional messages but after several
Please retract this question. Apparently I didn't perform my due diligence and
search the archives first. I found several posts with information on the
message BPXF024I so I will investigage the findings.
Thanks and sorry for the fast fingers,
Gil.
On Fri, 10 Oct 2008 07:58:47 -0500, Gilbert
Hi Linda, how do you drill down to a volume's vtoc from QW s=vol* ?
All I get are the volumes stats/summary but I see no way of drilling
down into the detail. We are on version 6.9.
Regards,
Gil.
On Tue, 30 Sep 2008 19:54:49 +, Linda Mooney
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I love that feature
Bingo, your memory serves you well Liz. Thanks for the clarification.
Gil.
On Wed, 1 Oct 2008 08:41:49 -0400, Lizette Koehler
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If you are using QuickRef 6.6 and above (iirc)
Then you need to physically move the cursor to the volser and hit
enter. It
will pop up.
On Mon, 22 Sep 2008 16:39:52 -0500, Eric Bielefeld eric-
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Is there a way to scratch expired datasets without DFHSM or some
other storage manager? We create SMS datasets in DB2 that have an
expiration date automatically set. When the datasets expire, we want
to scratch
On Wed, 24 Sep 2008 15:37:56 -0500, Ward, Mike S [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Hello all, I tried searching the archives for VOLID starting with ##,
and volume id ##, but didn't get any hits. We have from time to time had
cataloged datasets that have the volid as ## Where the ## are really
##'s
The operators have an HSM tape that has gone missing. I want to mark the
tape full so nothing new gets added to it because HSM is still calling for the
tape to probably add to it.
I found the following notes in the HSM reference :
Marking a Migration Level 2 Tape Volume Full Example: In this
Thanks for the confirmation Len and Allen. Worked like a charm.
Best regards,
Gil.
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On Wed, 24 Sep 2008 12:02:55 -0400, O'Brien, David W. (NIH/CIT) [C]
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Delvol Markfull will only mark the tape full so that HSM stops appending to
it.
(I know this has already been answered. I include only for completeness.)
Now to the rest of your problem - Are your
On Wed, 3 Sep 2008 02:25:10 -0700, Ron Hawkins
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Kees, Ted, et al,
As far back as I can remember IMS and DB2 logs have been hand
placed to
reduce the chance of contention between the Logging process (mainly
write)
and the Archive process (read). The most common practice
I know there has been some recent discussions on the usage of Mod 27s
and my question is somewhat related so I'm looking for some insight.
Background:
We recently added more storage to our Shark and we initialized all of
the new volumes as Mod 27s.
I migrated several storage pool volumes to the
On Tue, 2 Sep 2008 09:50:43 -0500, Wayne Driscoll
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Gilbert,
What type of dataset? PS or VSAM? If the primary and secondary
quantity of
the dataset was defined such that (primary + (n*secondary) * 3 or
higher) is
required for the dataset, (where n = 16 for PS and 121
On Tue, 2 Sep 2008 16:50:04 +0200, Vernooy, C.P. - SPLXM
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A possible cause here could be that the total storage required was
based
on the space parameter in the JCL *and* the volume count of 5. E.g.
SPACE=(CYL,100),UNIT=(3390,5) and the datset requires 400
cylinders. If
On Tue, 2 Sep 2008 11:30:23 -0500, Greg Shirey
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I definitely see a pattern forming here which worries me that there
will have to be a lot of jcl revisions to accomodate the mod 27s i.e.
adjusting
Hello all, I am trying to FTP an LCDS type file from a windows server to a z/OS
1.7 mainframe and then submit jcl to print that dataset using iebgener
however, I keep getting the following error :
451
Error error closing the data set. File is catalogued.
Explanation:
The MVS data set did not
error is caused by quote mode b.
Is block mode supported between windows and z/OS ?
Earl
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On Mon, 26 May 2008 11:24:27 -0500, Paul Gilmartin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is it possible that this worked for you because you also had
CNVTNUM=1?
As far as I'm aware, we have been using CNVTNUM=2 for the longest time:
$DPCEDEF
$HASP849 PCEDEF
On Fri, 23 May 2008 04:25:10 -0400, David Cole [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Hi,
I have a process that submits up to a couple of hundred jobs for
execution. I require that these jobs execute in the same order in
which they were submitted.
For decades I have accomplished this by assigning all of the
On Mon, 28 Apr 2008 11:25:31 -0700, willie bunter
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Hallo Everybody,
I am trying to track down why some dsns with the HLQ of TEST.** are
being directed to a non-SMS volume. I noticed that a majority of the dsns are
being allocated correctly by SMS. I ran a check on
Hello everyone, I have an unknown that I have not been able to figure out or
at least I don't know where to look.
I have a user who is trying to define a vsam file using IDCAMS as follows:
DEFINE CLUSTER -
( NAME(BLAH.BLAH.BLAH) -
LINEAR -
:28:13 -0500, Gilbert Cardenas
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Hello everyone, I have an unknown that I have not been able to figure out or
at least I don't know where to look.
I have a user who is trying to define a vsam file using IDCAMS as follows:
DEFINE CLUSTER -
( NAME(BLAH.BLAH.BLAH
On Wed, 16 Apr 2008 13:52:52 -0400, O'Brien, David W. (NIH/CIT) [C]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
snip
Where in the manual did it tell you not to use Cyls? I've been using Cyls or
Tracks for years with no problem.
I was looking at the Access Method Services for Catalogs Chapter 14 page
142.
On Wed, 16 Apr 2008 13:57:05 -0400, David Betten [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
I'd also ask if when you see the dataset using 3 times what the user
requested, are you looking immediately after it's been defined or after
data has been loaded into it? It might be extending once it's populated.
Have a
On Wed, 16 Apr 2008 14:02:33 -0400, O'Brien, David W. (NIH/CIT) [C]
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And when was the last time you used non-3390 geometry?
The device independence was important back in the early days of VSAM,
circa 1975 when you had 3330s, 3350, 3340s on the floor, which were then
On Wed, 16 Apr 2008 14:27:07 -0400, O'Brien, David W. (NIH/CIT) [C]
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Gil,
Is it only the one file that you have this problem with?
Actually, I don't disagree either. We have always used tracks/cylinders for
allocation and have not
We also resolved large allocations requests from DB2 as well as TMM tape
requests which can get fairly high by filtering those datasets and assigning
them a special dataclass as David suggested.
As a sidebar, does anyone use anything higher than a mod 9 volume to allow
for these higher
I also remember some issues with the consoles. We use BMC's Control-O to
perform system commands and retrieve messages but because of the console
changes, the software would not work properly.
I believe we had to tweak the settings in the application's parms in order to
get it to work.
On Fri, 4 Apr 2008 12:03:16 -0400, Lizette Koehler
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
DCOLLECT runs once per day. The time frame for this error is anytime
between 11pm and 3am. No specific time, just around Midnight.
I have a file from last night that ran during the event. That is why I was
thinking
On Fri, 4 Apr 2008 11:48:04 -0700, Raymond Noal [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Lionel,
Have you tried -
SITE JESLrecl=xxx where xxx can be 1 - 254. This specifically sets the
LRECL for the JES internal reader.
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On Fri, 4 Apr 2008 12:52:31 -0700, Lionel B Dyck [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Raymond wrote:
Lionel,
Have you tried -
SITE JESLrecl=xxx where xxx can be 1 - 254. This specifically sets the
LRECL for the JES internal reader.
I didn't know that option existed but it does and it WORKS ! ! ! !
Hello everyone, I'm looking for some feedback for some problems were having
with the operating system either locking up (ipl locked up) or slowing down to
a crawl for a period of around 30 minutes.
There are always changes going in but the most recent and suspect is that
1.9 tolerations ptfs
On Wed, 2 Apr 2008 11:20:23 -0500, Mark Zelden
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On Wed, 2 Apr 2008 12:13:31 -0400, Daniel McLaughlin
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Might this be related to the splitout of the TN3270 stack?
I am just starting my 1.9 build and haven't got the coexistence stuff in
on 1.7 yet.
On Wed, 2 Apr 2008 13:56:23 -0500, Mark Zelden
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Additional info :
The VTAM/TCPIP/TSO are all running at the SYSSTC level. The TSO stc
does
not come down but only the users are kicked off.
What about TN3270?
Mark
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On Wed, 2 Apr 2008 14:38:59 -0500, Patrick O'Keefe
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I access IBM-Mail only through the archives web site.
A few minutes ago something was posted to IBM-Main that radically
changed the way this month's archives are displayed on my browser.
Scott Rowe posted something with
On Wed, 2 Apr 2008 17:18:42 -0400, Jon Brock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
But he's still on 1.7, isn't he? I don't think TN3270 was required to
be split out until 1.8, was it? Or was it 1.7?
Jon
snip
I don't know what you are calling it, but you must be if you are using
TN3270. It is required
On Wed, 2 Apr 2008 16:27:51 -0500, Matthew Stitt
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I would go looking into the network side of the house. Since it appears to
be happening at a certain time, for a certain duration, that points to the
network.
And the TN3270 server is not required at 1.8. I'll find out
On Mon, 31 Mar 2008 06:30:19 -0700, willie bunter
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Is there a way of finding out the DEVTYP of indirectly-cataloged datasets?
Could the good folks at SUN/STORAGETEK provide an answer if possible?
Chase, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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When a dataset has multiple volumes allocated for example :
Command - Enter / to select action Message Volume
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TAPEX.SMFCICS.DATA ??
On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 11:37:04 -0400, Cochran, Bill
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It's just showing that you have 2 additional candidate volumes
allocated. They have not yet been assigned.
Thanks,
Bill Cochran
AIT Mainframe Storage
502-560-3025
That's kind of what I was thinking but I thought it
On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 16:14:21 -0500, Mark Zelden
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On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 21:38:09 +, Ted MacNEIL
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It's just showing that you have 2 additional candidate volumes allocated.
They have not yet been assigned.
It's a control block thing.
It doesn't
On Fri, 21 Mar 2008 10:25:01 -0500, Rugen, Len [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
I'm doing some planning for a end-of-life for the mainframe conversion
project, as in the 9th year of our 5 year plan to get off this system.
We have View Direct / Mobius report viewer. It has 100,000's of HSM
On Tue, 18 Mar 2008 15:34:21 -0400, Jack Kelly
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I tried to send this issue to IBM but they think that it's a question
rather than a problem, so I'll try here.
Trying to use DCOLLECT to ensure that all ML2 data has a backup. In
general the UMLBKDT field (DCOLLECT ML2
On Tue, 11 Mar 2008 10:02:28 -0400, Farley, Peter x23353
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Asked and answered. The OP's local sysprogs don't like NJE for some
reason, have not implemented it, and (according to the OP) will not do
so. Politics was suggested as the underlying reason.
The reason I think
On Tue, 11 Mar 2008 16:40:26 -0700, Ulrich Krueger [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Gil,
Now that you explained why you would like to use NJE, have you thought
about
alternatives?
For example:
Do you have TCP/IP-attached laser printers in the office, HP laser printers
or high-speed copiers with
On Sat, 8 Mar 2008 09:21:53 -0800, Edward Jaffe
The OP indicates that he already has TCP/IP connectivity between all
LPARs and FTP servers running on each. Therefore, the JES FTP interface
should be available without any additional configuration. (Though I
would highly recommend specifying
On Sat, 8 Mar 2008 12:45:28 EST, Ed Finnell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Guess if all you got is PFCSKs DEST='IP:ipaddr' might suffice w/o NJE
quote JCL Reference
DEST=destination
The destination subparameter for JES2 is one of the following:
LOCAL|ANYLOCAL
'IP:ipaddr'
name
| Nn
|
Hello all, I am looking for ideas on ways to transfer reports/sysouts from one
JES2 spool on one lpar to another lpar.
The current method I am using is to use a JES offload dataset to offload the
report(s) and then reload them on the other lpar. This works okay but I'm
looking for an
Sorry, forgot to mention that I have been trying to get the system progs to
setup NJE but for some reason, they are reluctant to do so and shared spool
is definitely out of the question.
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Sorry, forgot to mention that I have been trying to get the system progs to
setup NJE but for some reason, they are reluctant to do so
Why?
and shared spool is definitely out of the question.
And, why?
If you have a true
On Fri, 7 Mar 2008 15:00:07 -0600, McKown, John
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It definitely would take administrator intervention. There are JES2
changes and maybe even VTAM changes.
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On Fri, 7 Mar 2008 13:37:30 -0800, Jon Nolting
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If you have all LPARs on the network and have FTP servers on each, would it
be possible to use the FTP JES interface to GET/PUT the JES content over
that interface?
Jon Nolting
EPG Compete - CATM
Enterprise Technology
Willie, I throw this out just as another option but what if you defined a
FILTLIST called TMMTAPE in your dataclas acs member:
FILTLIST TAPE_UNITS INCLUDE('TMMTAPE')
Then you could refer to that esoteric name in any jcl or started task etc.
//SYSUT2 DD DSN=TAPE.BLAH(+1),
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Is there an easy way to tell if a DASD volume is SMS managed or not?
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Good morning all, for some time now, I have been running the following
command:
LIST TTOC SELECT(BOTH FAILEDRECYCLE) DSI
and I have recently been getting several tapes that are listed as failed
recycle.
When I manually recycle them, I get most of the datasets off of the tape
except for a few
I was reviewing some of the changes in the ARCCMD00 parmlib member and I
do remember making a change several weeks back because there were too
many tapes showing up in the excessivevoluimes list and after reviewing some
IBM documentation in the HSM storage admin reference chapter 36 that said:
Rick, this does sound very much like what we are experiencing. The apar is
only listed for 1.8 and 1.9 and we are on 1.7 so I will call IBM to see if this
might apply to our situation as well.
Thanks for the info,
Gil.
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Since there's a buzz going on with ICETOOL, I am using ICETOOL to create a
report from the SMF30 records and I am using the total= parameter to provide
sections totals.
I don't have a problem totaling individual fields such as SMF30CPT or
SMF30CPS, however, I am deriving the duration of a job
Thanks for pointing me in the right direction Mark. I could only work on it
part
time and I'm no REXX expert so it took me a while to modify the REXX routine
to accept the dstype I was looking for and only report on those entries .
The only problem I have now is that when I invoke it from TSO
I have created a jcl to list all the GDG datasets that are in a deferred
status.
Unfortunately, the jcl is lengthy and runs quite a while because I had to
perform the following steps to filter out only the datasets I wanted :
STEP1. Perform an IDCAMS LISTCAT UCAT ALL to a dataset to identify
85 matches
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