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Assuming the following JCL:
//DD1 DD DSN=dsname1,disp=shr
// DD DSN=dsname2,disp=shr
// DD DSN=dsname3,disp=shr
Where DD1 is opened for input.
All files are on DASD.
How can I tell when dsname1 has
Hi,
Does any one have idea about the paper published related to Best Practices
for Mainframe Console Operations ?
or in any mainframe operations ?
Do send me link related to that ..
I came across a document named LPAR Best Practices.. However, not able to
find anything like Best Practices
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So I was unnecessarily beating my head, by reading the 1.8 manuals and
maclibs?
The information about LX reuse has been in the manuals for some time.
Jim was referring to information about ASN reuse, which is not in the 1.8
manuals.
Peter Relson
z/OS Core Technology Designs
On Wed, 2 May 2007 11:49:04 -0400, John Kington wrote:
Thanks for the replies. It looks like the least painful way is to
copy the data from mvs dataset(s) to hfs file(s) so that the
OpenSSH port client can read them. I was just hoping there
were no walls between Unix System Services and z/OS.
Norbert,
Have a look at http://www.dovetail.com/products/dspipes.html and
http://www.dovetail.com/docs/dspipes/cookbook.html#3_13
Thanks for the pointer. I gave in for now and we will duplicate
the data to hfs.
Regards,
John
On Wed, 2 May 2007 14:34:07 +0200, R.S. wrote:
I have defined two stand-alone drives 3590 model E.
When I display the drives using D U,,,ccuu command I get '359S' as device
type. The 'S' mean cartridge stack loader. (BTW: 'L' would mean library drive).
However my drives don't have the loader. I
I received this from a head hunter and thought there might be listservers
interested?
TOM GUGGER
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RECRUITER
Sherman, set the wayback machine to 1990
Yes. Mr. Peabody
$34 per hour? You've got to be kidding. Boeing paid me that amount 17
yrs ago as a PERMANENT employee.
Have contract rates really dropped that far below 2001 levels? I had
better go suck up to my boss some more. Boss, need a cup of
On Thu, 3 May 2007 07:17:29 -0400 Peter Relson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
:So I was unnecessarily beating my head, by reading the 1.8 manuals and
:maclibs?
:The information about LX reuse has been in the manuals for some time.
:Jim was referring to information about ASN reuse, which is not in the
Pay peanuts, get monkeys.
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From: Richards.Bob [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2007 8:34 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: Systems Programmer job posting
Sherman, set the wayback machine to 1990
Yes. Mr. Peabody
$34 per hour? You've got to be
... is there any partiicular advantage to supplying
LEPARM on every ++MOD, rather than once-and-for-all in a UTILITY entry?
Sure, the advantage of LEPARM on ++MOD is that your MCS that you supply
as the developer defines the module attributes. The UTILITY entry on
the other hand is
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Pay peanuts, get monkeys.
.
.
.
Sherman, set the wayback machine to 1990
Yes. Mr. Peabody
$34 per hour? You've got to be kidding. Boeing paid me that amount 17
yrs ago as a PERMANENT employee.
Have contract rates really dropped that far below 2001 levels? I had
better go suck up to my
The position can be salary or W2, NO telecommute or 1099. The salary is
63K with full
benefits, plus overtime. One may choose W2 at $34hr plus overtime.
I hope this is a joke, try doubling that compensation and you might actually
get some responses
Allan,
You have a very valid point about unemployment. I hope I have not
offended anyone. I certainly did not mean to.
Bob Richards
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Staller, Allan
Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2007 8:48 AM
To:
Bob,
No offense taken.
Having been in the situation and spending almost 2 years looking for a
permanent (or semi-permanent) position,
I was merely pointing out the the multitudes on this list that almost
any paying position is better than
unemployment or Wal-mart, etc.
Many of us have
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Richards.Bob
Sherman, set the wayback machine to 1990
Yes. Mr. Peabody
$34 per hour? You've got to be kidding. Boeing paid me that
amount 17 yrs ago as a PERMANENT employee.
Well, that works out to
In my estimation, however, something doesn't add up here.
Let's assume 40 hours a week and 50 weeks a year. No overtime, no 2
weeks paid vacation:
$34 X 40 X 50 = $68,000 $63k
But the listing said a 44 hour week:
$34 X 44 X 50 = $74,800 $63k
But if the extra 4 hours are at 1 1/2 time:
$34
Allan,
I agree with all the points you made.
Prior to 9/11 and the 2002 recession, contract rates ranged from
$85-$125 per hour in the major metropolitan areas and $60-$80 elsewhere.
Are they still depressed or have they rebounded?
Bob Richards
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From: IBM
The aspects of W-2 and how it would work depend upon whether you are union
or not typically and since this is military I would assume that union is not
present. That being said, it would seem that they would have to give at
least the same benefits to a W-2 that they give to a contractor. You
I'm doing an article for Bob Thomas' z/Journal
http://www.zjournal.com/ about next-generation mainframers, industry
and educational outreach initiatives for students and young
professionals, opportunities and obstacles for people exploring this
career area, etc. www.ibm.com/university/systemz
I have no current information. My last contract was short term (2004) in
a small market.
ISTR about $40/hr. It was still far more than unemployment.
This was at a remote location from my primary residence. I rented an
apt (written off)
$40/day in meals (written off). Travel to/from my primary
I was amazed at the hourly rate also and responded to the head hunter that he'd
be lucky to find someone at that rate. Then I remembered there were some on the
listserv who were unemployed and that $34 was better than unemployment.
Bill Johnson
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In a message dated 5/3/2007 9:16:44 A.M. Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I'll appreciate all comments/feedback -- and please reply directly to me
as well as to the lists where you see this; since I get list digests
it's a pain extracting nuggets from the daily mailings.
It has now finally happened; our mainframe jobs have all been converted to PCs.
Only a few miscellaneous jobs will be run in the next 30 days. At the same
time, a company has acquired us and is interested in only our block of
business. All employees have been given their 90 days notice with a
In
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Assuming the following JCL:
//DD1 DD DSN=dsname1,disp=shr
// DD DSN=dsname2,disp=shr
// DD DSN=dsname3,disp=shr
Allan, was this W2 or 1099?
Gary Garland Gregory, MS
CA
Senior Software Engineer
Tel: +1-214-473-1863
Fax: +1-214-473-1050
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Behalf Of Staller, Allan
Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2007 9:17
Bill,
Search the latest archives for Eric Bielfield. If anyone has that list,
he does.
Bob Richards
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Pfeifer, William wrote:
It has now finally happened; our mainframe jobs have all been converted to PCs.
Only a few miscellaneous jobs will be run in the next 30 days. At the same
time, a company has acquired us and is interested in only our block of
business. All employees have been given
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Assuming the following JCL:
//DD1 DD DSN=dsname1,disp=shr
// DD DSN=dsname2,disp=shr
// DD DSN=dsname3,disp=shr
Where DD1 is opened for input.
All files are on DASD.
How can I tell when dsname1
Our mainframe will be replaced within the next 4 years. Lots of my
peers are retiring and working part time with the old system, which
will help tremendously with the rest wanting to be retrained. We
already have Oracle DBAs, so our non-retired IDMS DBA will just move
over (He has retired IDMS
One area that we had a lot of debate on at PH Mining was how to access
tapes that were saved. They saved a lot of 3490 carts, but had no way of
reading them. They thought of buying a 3490 drive and software to convert
the data to ASCII, but as far as I know, they didn't buy anything. I think
Bill,
First of all, congratulation and best wishes on your retirement. In your
case just some simple due diligence should suffice.
1. Get those letters out to the vendors (software /hardware) to cancel
the flow of monies outbound.
2. If all data has been converted to PC readable formant,
Out of curiosity: what is
- W2
- 1099
- SSA (see Gary's mail)
- IRS
BTW: What is avg (yearly) salary in U.S.A. ?
BTW2: IMHO every job is better than no job.
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Lodz, Poland
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www.brebank.pl
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I'm curious. How difficult would it be a a zOS sysprog to become proficient
in a like type position on
a Windows or UNIX based system? I have heard these jobs being referred to
as Network Administrators and I've
always taken that to mean sysprog in newspeak.
About 10 years ago I took a couple
On Thu, 3 May 2007 07:49:29 -0400, John Kington [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Thanks for the pointer. I gave in for now and we will duplicate
the data to hfs.
Another option is to use regular ftp over an encrypted ssh tunnel.
for example,
ssh -S -fo -L ftp/2221:127.0.0.1:21 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Neubert, Kevin (DIS) wrote:
This is not anything I have ever seen in HCD.
I am not familiar with a true 3590, but it sounds more like the setup of the drives themselves to me. For example I know an STK 9840 drive can be setup to emulate a 3490E, 3590, etc.
Does the DEVSERV QTAPE command
W2 - A wage earnings statement we send to the government when we file our taxes
1099 - A form filled out by either an employer or a self-employed individual to
let the government know how much was earned.
SSA - Social Security Administration SSN - Social Security Number
IRS - Internal
On 3 May 2007 10:17:34 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (R.S.) wrote:
BTW: What is avg (yearly) salary in U.S.A. ?
Average salary for a country doesn't effect the logic someone uses
to determine his value. Otherwise Hollywood or the NBA or a
company's board of directors could offer twice the average
They are all US centric, tax related items. Briefly:
W2 - Document that shows what an employer paid an employee, as well as how
much in taxes were already withheld from the employees paycheck. See also
IRS and SSA...
1099 - Document that shows (in this context) what a company paid a person
who
-Original Message-
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Chicklon, Tom
They are all US centric, tax related items. Briefly:
[ snip ]
IRS - Internal Revenue Service, a government entity that
collects taxes on behalf of the US government.
... Sometimes colloquially
BTW: What is avg (yearly) salary in U.S.A.?
Not the best question.
It depends on:
Position
Region
Competition
Experience
And, without comparing it to the cost of living, taxes, etc., you don't know
what it means.
A friend of mine moved from Toronto to Denver.
He got a higher salary, but there
I'm curious. How difficult would it be a a zOS sysprog to become
proficient in a like type position on
a Windows or UNIX based system? I have heard these jobs being
referred to
as Network Administrators and I've always taken that to mean sysprog
in newspeak.
About 10 years ago I took a
On Thu, 2007-05-03 at 12:12 -0500, Anthony Saul Babonas wrote:
I'm curious. How difficult would it be a a zOS sysprog to become
proficient in a like type position on a Windows or UNIX based system?
I don't know of a like type position in the MS-Windows world, where
programmers aren't typically
As of May 3, APAR OA20907 was opened by IBM to provide a temporary fix
to the DFSMSdss RESTORE problem in the form of ADRDSSU patch byte that
can be set by an installation or on a specific invocation of ADRDSSU to
inhibit the reset of the DS1DSCHA bit on RESTORE FULL or RESTORE
TRACKS. When
Ted MacNEIL wrote:
BTW: What is avg (yearly) salary in U.S.A.?
Not the best question.
It depends on:
Position
Region
Competition
Experience
And, without comparing it to the cost of living, taxes, etc., you don't know
what it means.
Such a number has better meaning than no clue. Of course
On May 3, 2007, at 12:17 PM, R.S. wrote:
Out of curiosity: what is
- W2
- 1099
- SSA (see Gary's mail)
- IRS
BTW: What is avg (yearly) salary in U.S.A. ?
BTW2: IMHO every job is better than no job.
--
Radoslaw Skorupka
Lodz, Poland
Sigh... Radoslaw, I guess I will disagree with you
I've got a PDSE that has it's NVR in one catalog and it's catalog entry in a
different one. And, of course, the dataset is SMS managed. Argh. Please
don't ask how it happened, I do not know. I have been trying in vain to clean
this up as ADRDSSU will not dump the dataset which is causing
Yet another approach...
cat //'MVS.DATA.SET' | ssh -T [EMAIL PROTECTED] /bin/cat '' unixfile
or
cp //'MVS.DATA.SET' /dev/fd1 | ssh -T [EMAIL PROTECTED] /bin/cat '' unixfile
probably there is some variant that will work to Windows.
I went through this exact route. I was a sysprog for a number of years
than transitioned over to software development on the mainframe. I moved
over to development on OS/2 and than windows. The tools and debuggers
made it quite a bit easier but I still had to learn/understand platform
specific
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Phil Sidler
Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2007 2:04 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: SFTP Client for z/OS
Yet another approach...
cat //'MVS.DATA.SET' | ssh -T [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 3 May 2007 13:57:09 -0500, Betsy Jeffery [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've got a PDSE that has it's NVR in one catalog and it's catalog entry in a
different one. And, of course, the dataset is SMS managed. Argh. Please
don't ask how it happened, I do not know. I have been trying in vain to
On 3 May 2007 12:12:44 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark Levy) wrote:
I went through this exact route. I was a sysprog for a number of years
than transitioned over to software development on the mainframe. I moved
over to development on OS/2 and than windows. The tools and debuggers
made it quite a
On Thu, 3 May 2007 13:57:09 -0500, Betsy Jeffery wrote:
I've got a PDSE that has it's NVR in one catalog and it's catalog entry in a
different one.
...
I have a new PDSE with the contents of the corrupt dataset
ready to go but I have yet to find a way to get rid of the bad one.
Then
Yea - find them a real job somewhere else.
We don't have any 'console operators'. But, then, we built the shop from
shrink wrap and made sure not one console task slipped through. We do
have 'operators', but they don't touch the consoles much.
Try searching on 'lights out' operations.
My
WELL, OF COURSE, you eliminate the 3270 i/f. It IS the REAL source of the
problem, after all... without that no one would KNOW that LINK was really
working.
We'll eliminate your disease, but not the symptoms. Rocky Horror Picture
Show
---snip---
Many of us have decried jobs being exported overseas. Here is one in the
US that pays a decent wage. I agree this position is paying lower than
the norm for our profession, but is is still a decent wage. Many in this
country would
I see things like customization overwritten by service (IE no equivalent of
PARMLIB concat). JCL will look easy after the various parms for the system
services. Some Unix systems are still archaic without add-on products.
Solaris 8 can only have 8 slices (sic) per hard disk but some are
--snip--
-Original Message-
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Chicklon, Tom
They are all US centric, tax related items. Briefly:
[ snip ]
IRS - Internal Revenue Service, a government entity that
collects taxes on behalf of
They can't understand when I say my last system outage was in 2003...
There was an old DILBERT strip:
DOGBERT'S Technical Support:
DOGBERT answers the phone:
My PC is...
Shut up and re-boot
Hey! That worked!
Shut up and hang up!
..My call time is improving.
Unfortunately, the PFCSK's, with
snip-
I see things like customization overwritten by service (IE no equivalent of
PARMLIB concat). JCL will look easy after the various parms for the system
services. Some Unix systems are still archaic without add-on products.
Solaris 8 can only
Did you look at all of the error messages? On my test:
//*
//PROC1 PROC
//PROC2 PROC
//STEP1 EXEC PGM=IEFBR14
//DD1DD *
THIS IS JUST WRONG
/*
//PROC2 PEND
//PROC1 PEND
//*
Finally management gives the OK to go from os390 2.10 to z/OS 1.8;
Doc I have found so far seems to say you can't get there without going
thru 1.4. Management says they do not want to go thru applications testing
twice. Any help in finding conversion doc, or other references, or
Finally management gives the OK to go from os390 2.10 to z/OS 1.8;
Doc I have found so far seems to say you can't get there without going thru
1.4.
It's worse than that!
You can't get to 1.8 from 1.4.
-
Too busy driving to stop for gas!
On May 3, 2007, at 5:39 PM, Rick Fochtman wrote:
---snip---
Many of us have decried jobs being exported overseas. Here is one
in the US that pays a decent wage. I agree this position is paying
lower than the norm for our profession, but is
You either have 2 NVR entries for this data set in the VVDS, or this
data set is cataloged in 2 different catalogs. List the VVDS to see
what catalog the NVR points to and whether there are 2 NVR's. Then run
a LISTCAT ENT(dsn) CATALOG(catname) ALL using the catname from the
NVR to see if the
That's not really true although it IS the IBM supported method BS. No
one, including IBM, is going to say that you can't get to z/OS 1.8 from
OS/390, just that it isn't supported. It isn't covered in the migration
guide, but that doesn't mean it isn't possible.
There is absolutely no reason
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