I use SRCHFOR in 3.4 on z/OS 1.11 frequently with no problem like you describe.
If your GDG has only 6 generations, why are you searching 3435 datasets?
Can you provide a more specific pattern to 3.4 so that only a few datasets,
including the one you know contains the desired text, are in the
For the archives: Apparently SDSF only obtains the command character when it
first starts up after an IPL.
-Original Message-
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of
Schwarz, Barry A
Sent: Monday, February 07, 2011 5:53 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
For reasons lost in antiquity, we use the / instead of the $ as the JES command
character. We are now installing z/OS 1.11 on a brand new system. I have
changed the CONCHAR and RDRCHAR operands on the CONDEF statement in the JES2
parms and in the $T CONDEF command but SDSF still insists on
The = only means that the command should be processed at the first primary
panel up the chain.
The x is just a common command to exit from a panel menu. It is not hard-coded
in ISPF but must appear in the zsel=trans logic in the panel.
The ; simply simulates the ENTER key.
If you have nested
You can also use the SDSF XDC line command at least as far back as OS/390 2.10
to get the data into a dataset.
-Original Message-
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of
Larry Macioce
Sent: Friday, February 04, 2011 5:59 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
It was explained to me a long time ago by someone who used to read the
microfiche that when a dataset is found in the Pass Queue, it is removed from
the queue. The work around (from foggy memory) was to add a VOL=REF=*.xx
(SYSUT1 in your example) to any subsequent DD statements.
-Original
Could you tell me where this is documented. I could not find it any of the
likely Comm Server manuals.
-Original Message-
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of
Don Poitras
Sent: Monday, January 17, 2011 11:59 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Subject:
But there are a lot less ads than this apparently interminable discussion about
an email that many of us never saw but get to relive vicariously through many
people's need to vent on this list.
What happened to the common and effective advice - If you receive spam, hit
delete and move on.
Actually, I don't care what you write in. Sometimes I understand your posts,
sometimes I don't. I have to see some evidence of payoff before I research
bombastic vocabulary. But as for English:
I'm pretty sure en petit is French and Mirriam-Webster doesn't show it. I
thought jejune was
Apparently a camouflaged attempt to instigate a denial of service attack
against several of the more popular on line dictionaries and possibly search
engines also.
Declining to participate, I cannot tell if astonishres is a typo or just
another example of my limited vocabulary.
I also wonder
A more pressing questions seems to be why are they delivering defective object
modules in the first place?
-Original Message-
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of
Lizette Koehler
Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2011 1:19 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
I have had good luck with
Temporarily define the catalog
Import connect it to the master catalog
Run IDCAMS delete vvds-dsn catalog(temp-cat-dsn) noscr file(dd-name).
The DD statement points to the volume with the VVDS.
Delete the catalog.
The error is due to
limitation preventing SAS install
At 14:37 -0800 on 12/29/2010, Schwarz, Barry A wrote about Re: tar
limitation preventing SAS install:
That is exactly what I did. Unfortunately, when the path includes
multiple directories with more than dozens of characters per
directory name, it doesn't take
I used the Windows version of the gnu tar-1.13-1 which was the best-looking one
that my first Google search turned up. It built the tar file with long paths
names just fine. Just not in ustar format. I am going to experiment with
their libarchive-2.4.12-1 which claims ustar capability since I
Unfortunately, the only other system available is Sun Solaris (with which I am
barely competent to log in) and I can't use that system for several months.
-Original Message-
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of
Paul Gilmartin
Sent: Monday,
Actually, you have to use their installation application to produce a 9GB tree
which you then must transfer to OMVS.
What PC utility did you use to ftp the entire tree and preserve its structure
and long path names? We don't use NFS which is apparently the recommendation
from SAS.
No, the product is delivered on three DVDs which must be processed by their
installation tool to produce a 9GB tree. That was the easy part.
-Original Message-
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of
Paul Gilmartin
Sent: Monday, December 27, 2010
That is exactly what I did. Unfortunately, when the path includes multiple
directories with more than dozens of characters per directory name, it doesn't
take long to exceed 100 characters.
-Original Message-
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf
Is it a 3590 (no drive) cartridge or a 3592 (usable) cartridge? Admittedly my
communications are filtered through my procurement group but SAS never
mentioned a tape distribution.
-Original Message-
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of
Paul
I tried with pax also and received the exact same error messages.
-Original Message-
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of
John McKown
Sent: Sunday, December 26, 2010 6:05 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Subject: Re: tar limitation preventing SAS
If anyone has installed SAS 9.2 using a PC to read the DVDs followed by using
tar to prepare the depot for ftp to the mainframe, would you please tell me
how to get around the z/OS 1.11 tar limitation of 100 characters in a path
name. I have tried both -O and -X to no avail.
And in 2011 it starts on a Monday evening while in 2008 it started on a
Saturday evening.
-Original Message-
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of
Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
Sent: Friday, December 24, 2010 6:29 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Subject:
Between System Messages and DFP Diagnosis, the error says you were trying to
delete a VTOC index dataset. At least you are on the right path.
I think you need NONVSAM, not NVR.
Access Method Services says if the dataset is not catalogued you should use
IEHPROGM. I don't remember doing that
An IDCAMS batch job (not TSO) with the command
LISTCAT USERCATALOG
will give you the name of all the catalogs connected to your master catalog.
You can then issue multiple commands (also in batch)
LISTCAT ALL CATALOG(dsn)
to list all the datasets, aliases, etc that are in each.
Only in conjunction with another DSN qualifier that is not just a ** or *.
-Original Message-
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of
Don Imbriale
Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2010 3:42 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Subject: Re: best method to
Could the answer be this partial quote from Chapter 10 of the Implementation
and Customization manual:
Initial and Subsequent Selection of Dump Tapes
Because dump processing always selects an empty tape
-Original Message-
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu]
What makes you think the backup options have anything to do with migration
destinations?
What is the exact migration command you issued?
What are the migration attributes of the management class?
-Original Message-
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On
If you are using HSM, then hmig / ml2.
-Original Message-
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of
Burch, Larry M.
Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 2010 1:45 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Subject: ISPF 3.4: Migrate to Level 2?
Using ISPF's option 3.4 Data
We have customers till using OS/390 1.3 on MP2003 systems. And we continue to
support them.
-Original Message-
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of
Edward Jaffe
Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 2010 1:16 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Subject: Re:
[mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On
Behalf Of Schwarz, Barry A
Sent: Thursday, November 18, 2010 2:09 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Subject: Re: Anyone running z/OS 1.7 on a z10 box ?
We have customers till using OS/390 1.3 on MP2003 systems. And we
continue to support them.
-Original
You need to check chapter 50 of the HSM Administration manual (SC35-0421-10).
It appears that DAYS is incompatible with DSN. There are also differences
between SMS and non-SMS datasets as well as storage group requirements.
-Original Message-
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List
I give up. Why does a request to process a SYS2 dataset produce an error
message referencing and ES1 dataset?
-Original Message-
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of
willie bunter
Sent: Friday, October 29, 2010 5:35 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Look at the description of the type 4, 30, and 34 SMF records.
-Original Message-
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of
Tsai Laurence
Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 2010 3:35 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Subject: How to know the usage frequency of my
The COD manual, GI11-2843-04, lists the device addresses and types that it can
support right out of the box. Your initial IOCDS needs only to be
compatible/consistent with, not identical to, the COD IODF. Once the COD is
running, you can use HCD to build a matching IODF/IOCDS set with your
Be aware that some PDS cannot be PDSE (for example, SYS1.NUCLEUS). Look in the
archives (see footnote for url) for discussions of problems with sharing PDSEs.
-Original Message-
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of
Fran Hernandez
Sent:
According to the OSA-Express3 Definitions pdf from IBM (no document number but
copyrighted 2008 and dated 11 December 2009), all the ports associated with a
single CHPID must be the same type.
-Original Message-
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf
You said the DSN was SYS1.IODF9E. Your token says the name should be
SYS1.IODFA1. The message is telling you they don't match.
Instead of copying your IODF, use HCD to create a working copy from your
production one, make any change you like (even if it is to a comment field
like description)
I assume you meant 01000B1 since 100B1 is not documented. The manual says wait
state 0b1, reason 01 is data set not found. At the top it references the
LOADxx member of parmlib, the IODF, or a device.
We are also using COD 1.9 (on a z10BC). We IPL from D48 (D9ESY1) and our load
parm is
With an 8 KiB blocksize, only 6 records can fit on a track. The track will
hold only 48 KiB, not the 55+ KiB it theoretically could.
806,868 blocks of 8 KiB each is 6.16 GiB. But they occupy only 134,478 tracks,
leaving you 15,642 tracks (almost 10.5%)available for growth in the current
Look up FINDREP in your DFSORT reference.
-Original Message-
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of
Ganesh Rao
Sent: Friday, September 24, 2010 1:08 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Subject: Re: DFSORT create CSV
Frank, We do have some what similar
Just a small nit. ** in option 3.4 produces a list of only the cataloged
datasets. That should be adequate unless users have uncataloged datasets, in
which case the OP will need to go volume by volume..
-Original Message-
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List
Your TSO region size does not affect whether the system will edit a dataset.
If the dataset is too large, you will abend when you run out of virtual memory.
What causes edit to switch to browse is the DCB attributes of the dataset. For
me, it is usually RECFM. What are the attributes of the
One has to wonder how you are managing to hose your VTOC index datasets often
enough for you to raise the issue here.
On the other had, since indexing is a requirement for an SMS volume, how is it
that SMS is even considering an index-disabled volume for a new allocation?
-Original
Modify FOO to translate the parm by replacing a designated character (such as
\) with a quote. You can then code the proc invocation as
//MYSTEP EXEC BAR,STRING='The value is \3.14\'
and code the jobstep as
//STEP1 EXEC PGM=FOO,PARM='STRING'
Your translate table is simply
TBL
).
Testing has confirmed that all volumes are accessible from any CHPID.
-Original Message-
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of
Schwarz, Barry A
Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2010 8:05 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Subject: Synchronizing the IOCDS and the DS6800
I administer four sites running MP2003s (three running OS/390 1.3 and one
OS/390 2.10). I have a couple of other customers who are probably running on
hardware at least as old as the z990 (we don't administer those sites so they
don't tell us if and when they upgrade). At least one of the
Does the DD statement that specifies MOD also specify RLSE? When the dataset
runs out of space, is it because of 16 extents or no more usable room on the
pack? What is the secondary extent type (blocks, tracks, cylinders, other)?
Does your shop run a space recovery utility periodically to
The DD RLSE operand (as distinguished from the SMS Partial Release parameter)
is a feature of the current DD statement that takes effect during close (and
then only if the dataset was opened for something other than input). It is an
attribute of the current allocation and not of the dataset
Children are spawned when the currently executing code invokes the spawn() or
fork() functions. There probably are standard times when the system code
provided by IBM does so but an application has complete control over if and
when it does so.
From:
For future reference, you do not need to empty a pack to expand the VTOC. You
only need to identify a contiguous block of tracks large enough to hold the new
size.
If you are able to obtain a list of the datasets that affected by this action,
such as by the LIST command already suggested,
Years ago, Dr Merrill stated that MXG probably processed more different date
and time formats than any other software package. If you have access to it, it
may provide a good starting point.
-Original Message-
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf
Have you tried the
HLIST DSNAME(dsn) BACKUP
command? The output is described in Figure 111 of DFSMShsm Storage
Administration (SC34-0421-10) and seems to provide what you ask. I don't think
you can distinguish between manual backups, full volume dumps, and automatic
backups.
When posting to the list, you could CC yourself. Since it is not internet mail
but internal, the filter should ignore it.
-Original Message-
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of
Hunkeler Peter (KIUP 4)
Sent: Monday, August 02, 2010 4:32 AM
To:
If you mean manipulate only the catalog while the dataset remains untouched,
then the answer is yes in many cases. Datasets accessed via LNKLST are
allocated and the DEB built at IPL time and will not have a problem. LPA
datasets are similarly unaffected. Many other datasets, like
We are installing a new z10 with a minimal DS6800 in a very small data center
(to replace our venerable MP2003). Using the SMC, we have configured the
DS6800 with RAID 5 to give us 250GB of usable storage set up as eleven 3390-3s
and the rest as 3390-9s. (We wanted to use RAID 10 but the
Surely no one should pay $50 for an IBM Redbook available for free from IBM.
-Original Message-
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of
Kelman, Tom
Sent: Monday, July 26, 2010 7:25 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Subject: Re: Mainframe books
There are
When posting to the list, you could CC yourself. Since it is not internet mail
but internal, the filter should ignore it.
-Original Message-
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of
Hunkeler Peter (KIUP 4)
Sent: Friday, July 23, 2010 5:01 AM
To:
We are in the planning phase for installing z/OS 1.11 on a new z10. Management
wants to modernize our password rules by requiring mixed case (along with the
already required alphanumerics) and 12 characters.
I think I have a handle on meeting this for TSO logons but I can't find
anything that
There does not appear to be any reason to connect T99CTM to MPRO02.
-Original Message-
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of
Jorge Garcia
Sent: Friday, July 16, 2010 2:54 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Subject: Re: Access to RACF entries dataset.
There are no entries in the access list to deny your OPERATIONS user access.
-Original Message-
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of
Jorge Garcia
Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2010 2:15 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Subject: Re: Access to RACF entries
In an IDCAMS batch job, not TSO, issue the command
LISTCAT CAT(dsn) ALIAS ALL
-Original Message-
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of
Roy Reynolds
Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 2010 10:54 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Subject: Dataset Aliases - How
user catalogs. Depending on your system this can be a
lengthy output.
If you remove the ALL parm you will get a list of all aliases only,
which might be better as a start.
-Original Message-
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On
Behalf Of Schwarz, Barry
Everyone has rules and many of them don't seem reaonable to the people who
didin't have a hand in making them or solving the problems that occurred before
the rules were created. At your previous work site, they could read a thumb
drive I broutht in but but security rules would not let them
Having a set of customers for whom the latest pronouncements from IBM have no
meaning, we have always insured our deliveries could be uploaded to a plain
vainilla MVS system. That means IEBCOPY for PDS, IEBGENER for sequentioal, and
the rare IDCAMS for VSAM, with datasets sized to fit on a
How large is your BCDS that the command (which only lists the affected
datasets) is still running after posting a query and waiting for a response?
-Original Message-
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of
John Dawes
Sent: Monday, June 21, 2010
Doesn't anyone exercise the DR plan anymore? If so, without reading the
backups?
-Original Message-
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of
R.S.
Sent: Tuesday, June 22, 2010 12:41 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Subject: Re: Disk replacing Tape?
W
Just out of curiosity, why the LM? The STM might show that the exit was called
if the process abended prior to a subsequent subroutine call but since no
registers are changed in this code the LM should just be an expensive NOP.
-Original Message-
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List
The xmit manager has eliminated that technical roadblock for the PFCSKs, at
least as far as text is concerned. I expect that inertia will continue to
provide the desired segregation.
On the other hand, I wonder how different things would be if they, or their
managers, could easily understand
During daylight saving time, EDT is only 4 hours behind UTC.
Barry Schwarz
OS/390 System Programmer
M/S 80-JE
Phone: 253-657-5262
Fax: 253-657-8574
-Original Message-
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of
Lizette Koehler
Sent: Monday, June 07,
Try the DAF utility from the CBT tape (www.cbttape.org).
-Original Message-
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of
Arturo
Sent: Friday, May 28, 2010 9:22 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Subject: DFHSM: BCDS DELETED
is there report that I can generate
In the BUILD operand of the INREC statement, you can use the SEQNUM field
specification to create sequence numbers (e.g., in columns 15-20) and the MOD
operator of the arexp field specification to create a grouping value (e.g., in
columns 22-23) that loops between 0 and 3. (If you really want
Page 9 of
http://www-947.ibm.com/systems/support/storage/software/sort/mvs/tricks/pdf/sorttrck.pdf
has a sample of how to do this.
-Original Message-
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of
George.William
Sent: Friday, May 21, 2010 10:48 AM
To:
Not if the root directory is mounted read only.
Since he is a superuser, change his home directory to one that is write enabled
and see if that solves the problem.
-Original Message-
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of
Jim McAlpine
Sent:
Consider using DBSYNC from the RACF download page.
-Original Message-
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of
Aayush Tiwari
Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2010 9:05 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Subject: Migration of RACF database
Hi there,
I am
I clean them up just to eliminate the possibility of a significant Diagnose
error being lost in the clutter.
-Original Message-
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of
McKown, John
Sent: Friday, May 07, 2010 11:42 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Unfortunately, this situation is not that unusual for CA utilities. As we
discover them, we add something (an additional job step, an MPF exit, etc) to
force a non-scrollable message to the operator console (or in some cases to
suppress a non-scrollable message which has no significance).
Isn't it even a bigger problem? The only purpose of having the authority is to
issue the commands that require the authority. What prevents such an
authorized user from issuing commands that make other users privileged? Or
create a new user account with privileges that is not so restricted
The console for the DS6800 is IBM part number 425242J that you should order at
the same time.
You also need to order Windows Server (2008R2 according to my last IBM notice)
to run the console and its application.
-Original Message-
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List
Are you aware that IBM has announced that the DS6000 line will be withdrawn
from marketing this summer?
-Original Message-
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of
Nigel Salway
Sent: Thursday, April 01, 2010 9:07 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Subject:
Does SDSF show the task actually doing anything (SIO or CPU%)? On one occasion
I managed to get two HSM tasks locked in a deadly embrace on different
enqueues. Task 1 had resource A and wanted B. Task 2 had B and wanted A.
-Original Message-
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List
According to MVS System Messages Vol 2 (ARC0269I), the QUERY command will
display PARTIALTAPE=SETSYS if HSM will take the action specified on a SETSYS
command. It looks as if your SETSYS command failed or was overridden for some
reason.
-Original Message-
From: IBM Mainframe
My approach is use the SOURCEID operand of the RECEIVE command. Each SMPPTFIN
dataset is associated with a unique source identifier, usually as a qualifier
in the DSN. If the source identifier exists, the SMPPTFIN dataset has been
received.
-Original Message-
From: IBM Mainframe
If your RESTORE/REJECT will be immediately followed by a new RECEIVE/APPLY or
even just a stand-alone APPLY REDO, you should not need to do anything to the
GENASM entries.
If you are removing TST2JOBC, then you probably should create the corresponding
UCLIN statements to DEL the GENASM entries
If the only purpose of the ASM step is to force a reassembly when one of the
used macros is updated by SMPE, I would recommend using the ASSEM operand on
the ADD MAC statement processed by the UCLIN command. It would probably take
only a very minor modification to your REXX.
As it stands,
Do you have a sample of how either of those functions accomplish this? I would
expect them to do it on the ++MAC input which is not a convenient option for
you.
By virtue of the source included inline, SMPE is building an ASSEM entry for
that code. As documented, the GENASM fields being
When you performed the POR, did you select the correct IOCSDS?
-Original Message-
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of
Anson Ye
Sent: Saturday, February 27, 2010 6:02 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Subject: LOAD Problem after POR
I got a strange
Try IBM Page Printer Formatting Aid: User's Guide, S544-5284-08 (z/OS 1.11)
-Original Message-
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of
George.William
Sent: Monday, March 01, 2010 1:16 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Subject: PAGEDEF Coding
What is the
The oldest at my customer's site was installed in Sept 1997.
-Original Message-
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of
Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
Sent: Tuesday, February 16, 2010 6:01 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Subject: Re: IOACMD in BATCH
In
.
-Original Message-
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of
R.S.
Sent: Saturday, February 13, 2010 10:22 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Subject: Re: End of service for 3490-A20 and 3490-B40
W dniu 2010-02-12 21:12, Schwarz, Barry A pisze:
Maybe
I can only offer moral support. I have three customer sites with the same
configuration. Fortunately, they have no external connectivity so I get to
work on-site when needed.
-Original Message-
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of
Michael
Maybe it doesn't happen in your industry but some of us sell products whose
life span is measured in decades. Abandoning one in the middle will not get
you much repeat business. It is also pretty much guaranteed to scare away any
new customers. (How many Apple II customers ever bought a
JES2 or JES3?
Does the jobclass have the appropriate authority via the COMMAND= operand?
-Original Message-
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of
??? ???
Sent: Sunday, February 07, 2010 12:23 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Subject:
hi,
I'm running
Put all the remaining steps inside a set of IF/ENDIF brackets and test for
condition code LT 0, which will never be true. If you ever decide to run the
remaining steps, change the comparison to GE, which will always be true.
-Original Message-
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List
When did they come up with non-SMS storage groups?
-Original Message-
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of
Hal Merritt
Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2010 9:19 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Subject: Re: The Incredible Shrinking PDSE
Thanks all for the
In the TAPEUTILIZATION operand of the SETSYS command, you can specify more than
100% (apparently designed for situations just like this).
-Original Message-
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of
Adams, Tracy
Sent: Wednesday, January 13, 2010 1:00
Does that mean you never use self service gasoline pumps?
-Original Message-
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of
Hardee, Charles H
Sent: Monday, January 11, 2010 7:21 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Subject: Re: Korean bank Moves back to Mainframes
On a z9 BC running z/OS 1.8, there is a noticeable (~2 minutes) pause in the
IPL sequence while zFS initializes, accompanied by a non-scrollable message
on the log that eventually does clear. We don't IPL that often so it is not a
big deal for us.
Since zFS is VSAM, we had to adjust our pack
The Catalog Search Interface should provide enough information to convert from
relative GDG to absolute DSN which the C rename function should handle.
-Original Message-
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of
Kirk Wolf
Sent: Tuesday, December 22,
I assume you meant the size of the VTOCIX dataset and not the size of the VIR
in the dataset.
The job matches what I use (except I don't include the VTOCIX DSN in the first
step).
But what makes you think the VTOCIX is undersized? The CVAFDSM macro will tell
you how many VIRs are still
Was the absence of chairs in the conference room deliberate to keep meetings
from running to long? (Since most executives seem to prefer chairs with
wheels, I expect the obvious adjustment.)
I am surprised there is no sign or other identification. Most companies seem
to want there name in
101 - 200 of 587 matches
Mail list logo
