JES2 Job Separator

2010-02-23 Thread Paul Ip
Hi all, Can anyone give me an advice if there is a JCL parameter to supress JES2 Job Seperator (JES2 local host Printer, SEP=YES/NO) being printed only for output that created from a particular batch job? That is, I don't want to change the SEP= parameter under a printer manually (by

Re: JES2 Job Separator

2010-02-23 Thread Paul Ip
-Original Message- From: Paul Ip paul...@boci.com.hk Sent: Feb 23, 2010 10:20 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: JES2 Job Separator Hi all, Can anyone give me an advice if there is a JCL parameter to supress JES2 Job Seperator (JES2 local host Printer, SEP=YES/NO) being printed only

Re: Question on VVDS creation (implicltly)

2009-10-13 Thread Paul Ip
find that it is defined in multiple catalogs, and you should find the cluster entry in one of them. Paul Ip paul...@boci.com.hk 10/12/2009 10:55 AM Thanks! OK, I can see the VVDS is now under MCAT. so I am confused why I can't see the *VSAM* Cluster Entry (just has the Data Component entry

Re: Question on VVDS creation (implicltly)

2009-10-13 Thread Paul Ip
Well... you're right as the VVDS works fine now. However, I was wondering how would the VVDS can be referred without the Cluster Entry Record? Or it doesn't really need to have cluster record in fact? When a SMS dataset or NON-SMS VSAM is being referred via the related UCAT, system can just

Question on VVDS creation (implicltly)

2009-10-12 Thread Paul Ip
Hi all, I know VVDS can be created Implicltly when a NON-SMS VSAM or a SMS VSAM/nonVSAM is created under a 'NEW' volume. However, It seems to me that the VVDS (an ESDS itself) is not required to be cataloged (meanwhile, some of VVDS are under catalog [MCAT] since we've run a IDCAMS DEFINE

Re: Question on VVDS creation (implicltly)

2009-10-12 Thread Paul Ip
On Mon, 12 Oct 2009 08:18:15 -0500, Tom Marchant m42tom- ibmm...@yahoo.com wrote: On Mon, 12 Oct 2009 06:40:42 -0500, Paul Ip wrote: I know VVDS can be created Implicltly when a NON-SMS VSAM or a SMS VSAM/nonVSAM is created under a 'NEW' volume. However, It seems to me that the VVDS (an ESDS itself

Re: Question on VVDS creation (implicltly)

2009-10-12 Thread Paul Ip
Thanks! OK, I can see the VVDS is now under MCAT. so I am confused why I can't see the *VSAM* Cluster Entry (just has the Data Component entry)? and I can only locate the VVDS under DSLIST with 'full name' search... Paul On Mon, 12 Oct 2009 10:26:45 -0400, Scott Rowe

Re: Question on VVDS creation (implicltly)

2009-10-12 Thread Paul Ip
Thanks! According to the reply from you and Scott, I could locate the *VSAM* entry (or multiple entries as the VVDS may under 1 UCAT and/or MCAT) under DSLIST via 'S*.VVDS.Vxx' .but I still found one of the VVDS (I'm not sure if it is a normal case or not, anyway the datasets under

Re: Question if COND code / IF THEN struct

2009-06-30 Thread Paul Ip
It works! Thanks for your example... It seems to me that IF (STEP0001.PRCSTEP3.RC = 0) (STEP0002.PRCSTEP3.RC = 0) THEN before STEP0003 is simply the same as IF STEP0002.PRCSTEP3.RC = 0 THEN So in case I need to execute the PROC1 many times, say STEP EXEC PROC1, all I need to do is to use

Re: Question if COND code / IF THEN struct

2009-06-29 Thread Paul Ip
---snip--- As a circumventive measure, one, less desirable choice, is to resort to either coding multiple PROC instances with specific check conditions or use JCL INCLUDE statements to externalize your individual PROC rqmt conditions and enclose the IF/THEN/ENDIF statements as needed for the first

Question if COND code / IF THEN struct

2009-06-28 Thread Paul Ip
Hi all, If I have an JCL with an instream PROC: PROC1 PROC PRCSTEP1 EXEC PGM=XXX INPUT DD DSN=FILE PRCSTEP2 EXEC PGM=YYY INPUT DD DSN=FILE PRCSTEP3 EXEC PGM=ZZZ INPUT DD DSN=FILE PEND STEP0001 EXEC PROC1,FILE=A1 STEP0002 EXEC PROC1,FILE=A2 STEP0003 EXEC

Re: question on REXX stem

2009-03-15 Thread Paul Ip
Thanks! I've got your point: 1. drop a stem directly drop temp. then I don't need to worry about temp.1. / temp.1.x , temp.2. / temp.2.x and so on 2. to store mulitple variables (temp1. temp2 seperated by space) into a variable (list) and then just drop that variable can do so Maybe I

question on REXX stem

2009-03-14 Thread Paul Ip
Hi all, It's should be an elementry question but I just can't figure it out: I want to use DROP command to clear 3 stems: drop temp1. drop temp2. drop temp3. and then I want to to this via a loop: do i = 1 to 3 drop temp||i||. end but it returned an error and I am wonder if it is unable to

lpr command from z/OS to network printer

2009-02-17 Thread Paul Ip
Hi all, I want to use lpr command to send a z/OS file (FB 80) to a TCPIP network printer. I suppose the conversion from EBCDIC to ASCII should be default. However, it didn't work (up to now, I can only to convert the file into ASCII first then using 'binary' option and send to network

Re: lpr command from z/OS to network printer

2009-02-17 Thread Paul Ip
On Tue, 17 Feb 2009 10:52:05 -0500, Lizette Koehler stars...@mindspring.com wrote: I would think that the printer definition using LPRSET would only last the duration of the TSO session. That you probably have to reissue the command should you log off and then back on. Lizette Oh? When I

z/OS 1.7 FTP RDW option for VB files

2008-09-12 Thread Paul Ip
Hi all, When using RDW option, it adds 4 bytes at the beginning of each record indicating the 'length' of current record. For example, if the current record has a LRECL=12, then the 4 bytes RDW contains 12+4 = 16 (i.e. x'0F') so the length field in RDW actually includes the length of RDW

Re: z/OS 1.7 FTP RDW option for VB files (fwd)

2008-09-12 Thread Paul Ip
Wow...Thanks for the reply. Oh, it is correct that a windows program will process the VB files from z/OS. It expects the Prefix contain only the length of Data part and the format is indeed BBLL (the length is at the 3rd and 4th byte). In addition, it returns the same file format (BBLL as

Re: z/OS 1.7 FTP RDW option for VB files

2008-09-12 Thread Paul Ip
How can I undo it? What can I say in LOCSITE so that: LOCSITE ??? GET remote.file COPY.OF.VARIABLE.FORMAT.DATA.SET reconstructs the record structure of the original data set? You can try this way from z/OS to PC: STRU R BIN PUT host.vbs.file remote.file then from PC back to z/OS:

Re: z/OS 1.7 FTP RDW option for VB files

2008-09-12 Thread Paul Ip
What happens if x'FF01' exists in the original RECFM=V[B] data? will my single record containing that pattern be split at that point? .I suppose the answer is yes. maybe this method assume the Data onlt contain displayable byte characters.

Re: z/OS 1.7 FTP RDW option for VB files (fwd)

2008-09-12 Thread Paul Ip
For SAS/Windows processing, frequently I send z/OS SMF data (RECFM=VBS/VB) to Windows using a binary-format PUT and overriding the input DD with RECFM=U; the PUT command is used with the //DD:your_jcl_ddname which handles the external local file specification. Then, with SAS, a specific

Re: EXCP access methos

2008-06-12 Thread Paul Ip
Oh, I missed your reply since I used the full subject search... Now, I've used Strobe to perform some testings and it matches what you've said: 1. ADRDSSU DUMP uses EXCP so I can only use DSNTYPE=LARGE 2. ICEGENER (DFSORT) uses (auto detects) EXCP for non-EF datasets and BSAM for EF datasets 3.

Re: EXCP access methos

2008-06-12 Thread Paul Ip
On Thu, 12 Jun 2008 01:14:26 -0700, Ron Hawkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Paul, Mou man tai. My spellchecker changed the heading in my earlier post. Ron Mou man tai ---You know Cantonese??! (thanks for your reply) --

Re: EXCP access methos

2008-06-12 Thread Paul Ip
On Thu, 12 Jun 2008 01:14:26 -0700, Ron Hawkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Paul, Mou man tai. My spellchecker changed the heading in my earlier post. Ron Mou man tai - You know Cantonese??! (Thanks for your reply) --

EXCP access methos

2008-06-11 Thread Paul Ip
Hi, Today, I was trying to have a DSORG=PS DASD dataset (output from ADRDSSU DUMP) with Extended Format, it failed with IEC143I 213-B8, where B8 means An OPEN was attempted against an extended-format data set with a DCB that specified EXCP. EXCP is not supported for extended-format data sets

Re: EXCP access methos

2008-06-11 Thread Paul Ip
Thanks for the reply! In fact, my target is to overome the 65536 tracks limit on a volume for SMS Datasets, so there are two approaches for me: 1. Extended Format 2. DSNTYPE=LARGE At the beginning, I tried to apply Extended Format for all SMS datasets, if the dataset is an output of COBOL

Re: EXCP access methos

2008-06-11 Thread Paul Ip
Hi all, Can anyone give me another hint on this?? I am confused with what makes an output of ADRDSSU DUMP can't be Extended Format? On Wed, 11 Jun 2008 08:51:26 -0500, Paul Ip [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the reply! In fact, my target is to overome the 65536 tracks limit on a volume

how to show the Allocated cylinders of a mulit-volume QSAM in batch

2007-02-06 Thread Paul Ip
hi all, suppose I have a QSAM file (across 6 vols) like this: ISRUAIES Data Set Information Command === Data Set Name . .

FTP with encoding=mbcs and preserve SI/SO at PC

2006-11-15 Thread Paul Ip
Hi all, I have a FTP job to put DBCS data (Simplified Chinese) from Host (z/Os 1.4) to Windows platform: locsite encoding=mbcs locsite mbdataconn=(ibm-1388,ibm-5488) put 'mvs.file' file.txt However, I want to keep the SI / SO pair and have them to be converted to ASCII

z/OS V1R4 SEND command to operator console

2006-05-24 Thread Paul Ip
Hi all, I'd like to use MVS SEND command to send 'highlighted' messages to operator console with message level = 'I' [Immediate action messages (descriptor codes 1 and 2) are to appear] to alert operators at the last step of a batch job (probably use PGM=IKJEFT01) I've checked command manual

how to check if a module was executed via batch?

2005-06-17 Thread Paul Ip
Hi all, Can anyone help me out how to check when a module was last executed (with date/time, jobname...) via batch (or even CICS)? It is because I want to ensure all modules within that loadlib were run (tested). we're using OS/390 V2R9 (will upgrade to z/OS 1.4). Thanks Paul