TriTune

2008-09-26 Thread gsg
Is anyone out there familiar with a product called Tritune? We may be looking into trialing this product and I wanted to get some feedback on it. Experiences with it, liked it, didn't like it, it's a piece of @#$%. TIA --

Re: Data conversion EBCDIC to ASCII

2008-09-26 Thread Hunkeler Peter (KIUK 3)
Knowing that, then here's the series of commands I recommend you issue, starting at ISPF 6: == oput 'BRASIL.ZOS.CONTEST.JCL(DATA1)' '/data1' binary == omvs(you are put into UNIX) == iconv -f ibm-1047 -t iso8859-1 data1 data2 == exit (you

Re: Trsmain Unpack

2008-09-26 Thread Miklos Szigetvari
Hi I have asked about this a while ago, the TMPSPACE DD has solved my problem with the tempdataset allocation Alan Schwartz wrote: I'm testing the process to upload a PSP bucket of ptf's using an uploaded CSI to only get the ptf's I need. Everything seems to be working and I've got the

Re: Segmentation Offload - Need to Disable Again

2008-09-26 Thread Maarten Slegtenhorst
We haven't enabled it yet! I don't like being woken in the middle of the night because every lpar that's using specific osa-ports is unreachable. Once was enough! -- Maarten -Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Namens Mark Zelden

Re: SRB Wait JWT

2008-09-26 Thread (IBM Mainframe Discussion List)
In a message dated 9/25/2008 10:53:46 A.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Though an SRB cannot issue a WAIT macro, Because an SRB cannot execute an SVC, which the WAIT macro does. it can go into a wait. In particular, the manual states that the SRB can use SUSPEND to

Re: Data conversion EBCDIC to ASCII

2008-09-26 Thread Steve Comstock
Hunkeler Peter (KIUK 3) wrote: Knowing that, then here's the series of commands I recommend you issue, starting at ISPF 6: == oput 'BRASIL.ZOS.CONTEST.JCL(DATA1)' '/data1' binary == omvs(you are put into UNIX) == iconv -f ibm-1047 -t iso8859-1 data1 data2

Re: Used Shark Available

2008-09-26 Thread Eric Bielefeld
Shheese. You guys hijacked my thread. And in St Louis, they have the Blues, who from what little I've read in the paper, are probably going to be singing the blues throughout the season. Well - I can help them at that. I play guitar in a blues jam occasionally. So far I don't have any

Re: Data conversion EBCDIC to ASCII

2008-09-26 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Fri, 26 Sep 2008 07:59:40 +0200, Hunkeler Peter (KIUK 3) wrote: I'd suggest: 1) OMVS to start a UNIX shell. Or, if available, better use telnet, rlogin, SSH to log into UNIX. 2) cp //'BRASIL.ZOS.CONTEST.JCL(DATA1)' data1 3) iconv -f ibm-1047 -t iso8859-1 data1 data2 don't forget output

Re: Trsmain Unpack

2008-09-26 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Fri, 26 Sep 2008 00:00:43 -0700, Kayhan Tanriverir wrote: You have to determined where the TRSMAIN program's executed load module in the JCL as  STEPLIB.   //TRSMAIN  EXEC PGM=TRSMAIN,PARM=UNPACK //STEPLIB DD DSN=..,DISP=SHR   Whereas AMATERSE will likely be in LINKLIST. -- gil

Re: Data conversion EBCDIC to ASCII

2008-09-26 Thread John McKown
On Fri, 26 Sep 2008 07:59:40 +0200, Hunkeler Peter (KIUK 3) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip I'd suggest: 1) OMVS to start a UNIX shell. Or, if available, better use telnet, rlogin, SSH to log into UNIX. 2) cp //'BRASIL.ZOS.CONTEST.JCL(DATA1)' data1 3) iconv -f ibm-1047 -t iso8859-1 data1 data2

Re: COBOL program

2008-09-26 Thread Terry Sambrooks
Hi Hélio In respect of your query: I'm in need of a COBOL program that makes the reading of a member in a partitioned data set. Can anyone help me. I think you may need to provide a little more information about what you are trying to do. At face value, any COBOl program which can read a

Re: Data conversion EBCDIC to ASCII

2008-09-26 Thread Hunkeler Peter (KIUK 3)
(It's best not to overwrite the original input file because you might need to try once more.) In case of iconv, I seem to remeber that it even doesn't support using the same file as input and as output. -- Peter Hunkeler Credit Suisse

PASSIVEPORTS!? Help, please.

2008-09-26 Thread Miguel Villar
Because of Security Rules and Policy Agent I have used a certain portrange on FTP's going thru de Policy Agent Security Rules. I have tried many things with none of them working. I have setup FTP to use PASSIVEDATAPORTS (11000 11049). I have setup TCPIP to have: PORTRANGE 11000 50 TCP

Re: Trsmain Unpack

2008-09-26 Thread Kayhan Tanriverir
You have to determined where the TRSMAIN program's executed Hi Alan You have to determined where the TRSMAIN program's executed load module in the JCL as  STEPLIB.   //TRSMAIN  EXEC PGM=TRSMAIN,PARM=UNPACK //STEPLIB DD DSN=..,DISP=SHR //SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=* //INFILE DD

COBOL program

2008-09-26 Thread HELIO
Hello, I'm in need of a COBOL program that makes the reading of a member in a partitioned data set. Can anyone help me. Thanks -- Hélio José da Silva Depto. Software Básico -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive

Visara's FEP-4600 Communications Controller and Emulation Program (EP) Support

2008-09-26 Thread Mark T. Regan, K8MTR
My site is looking to replace our last remaining 3745, but we also have a process that is still dependent on Emulation Program (EP) support. To continue to provide that support, we are looking at Visara's FEP-4600 Communications Controller product. Does anyone know if there are any other 3745

Re: Used Shark Available

2008-09-26 Thread Chase, John
Blackhawks. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Cebell, David Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2008 3:19 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Used Shark Available From Dallas We may need to check the STARS for the

Re: Can I intercept Cancel event in LE-based application?

2008-09-26 Thread Hunkeler Peter (KIUK 3)
To give control to application code, LE needs to trap the error (with anESTAE in case of ABENDs) and then tell the system it wants to retry. The LE code can then pass control to the application's error handler. By definition, an operator CANCEL leads to a non-retryable abend. So, I guess LE's

Re: COBOL program

2008-09-26 Thread Steve Comstock
HELIO wrote: Hello, I'm in need of a COBOL program that makes the reading of a member in a partitioned data set. Can anyone help me. Thanks If your JCL can point to datasetname(membername), then the file is just an 80-byte fixed length sequential file. If you need to dynamically allocate

Friday O-T/playing the blues: (was: Used Shark Available)

2008-09-26 Thread Joe Aulph
Eric, This ought to get your issue back on track. As far as your Blues are concerned I can't help you, can anyone? Cheers, Joe, Eric Bielefeld

Re: COBOL program

2008-09-26 Thread Field, Alan C.
Have you got a COBOL program that can read any file? If you do, it can read a PDS member by specifying pdsname(member) in the JCL, e.g //MYDD DD DISP=SHR,DSN=MYPDS(MYMEMBER) -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of HELIO Sent: Friday,

Re: Data conversion EBCDIC to ASCII

2008-09-26 Thread Steve Comstock
John McKown wrote: On Fri, 26 Sep 2008 07:59:40 +0200, Hunkeler Peter (KIUK 3) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip I'd suggest: 1) OMVS to start a UNIX shell. Or, if available, better use telnet, rlogin, SSH to log into UNIX. 2) cp //'BRASIL.ZOS.CONTEST.JCL(DATA1)' data1 3) iconv -f ibm-1047 -t

Re: 3480/3490 tape devices

2008-09-26 Thread R.S.
Mike Baldwin wrote: [...] They already have to keep old 3490-compatible drives, doesn't matter what brand. Why? Because they already need to get tapes from IBM. If not, then they don't need any IBM tape drives now and in the future as well. So, they have to deal with old equipment.

Bruce Williamson is out of the office.

2008-09-26 Thread Bruce Williamson
I will be out of the office starting 26/09/2008 and will not return until 06/10/2008. I will respond to your message when I return. For any urgent issues please contact Quenten Jensen. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff /

Re: Data conversion EBCDIC to ASCII

2008-09-26 Thread Steve Comstock
Steve Comstock wrote: John McKown wrote: On Fri, 26 Sep 2008 07:59:40 +0200, Hunkeler Peter (KIUK 3) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip I'd suggest: 1) OMVS to start a UNIX shell. Or, if available, better use telnet, rlogin, SSH to log into UNIX. 2) cp //'BRASIL.ZOS.CONTEST.JCL(DATA1)' data1 3)

Re: Used Shark Available

2008-09-26 Thread J R
Fools! Everybody knows it's the Toronto Make Believes' year ... Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2008 07:20:18 -0500 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Used Shark Available To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Blackhawks. _ Get more out

Squashing VB records into FB

2008-09-26 Thread Sproull, George CTR DISA GS4B14
Hi, Is there a native z/OS utility that would take in a file of the following VB format (for example): First VB record = |rdw1|record1-40 bytes| Next VB record = |rdw2|record2-200 bytes| Last VB record = |rdw3|record3-10 bytes| and output a file in the following FB LRECL=80

ReDigital Certificate Implementation TN3270

2008-09-26 Thread Steve Bireley
Hi Melissa, Your emulator may have some options for certificate handling that prompt the users if the certificate is not trusted, allowing them to trust it so they will not be prompted in the future. Or, it may also have an option to always trust invalid certificates, preventing the message

Re: Used Shark Available

2008-09-26 Thread Howard Brazee
On 26 Sep 2008 07:44:17 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric Bielefeld) wrote: Shheese. You guys hijacked my thread. And in St Louis, they have the Blues, who from what little I've read in the paper, are probably going to be singing the blues throughout the season. Well - I can help them at that.

Re: Trsmain Unpack

2008-09-26 Thread John Eells
Cebell, David wrote: AMATERSE is not in our LINKLST. z/os 1.6 ( S806 Not found) Anyone know where this program resides? snip In z/OS R6, and in z/OS R7-R8 without the PTF for APAR OA19194, it resides wherever you choose to put it when you downloaded. If you put the PTF on z/OS R7 or R8,

Re: Trsmain Unpack

2008-09-26 Thread Cebell, David
AMATERSE is not in our LINKLST. z/os 1.6 ( S806 Not found) Anyone know where this program resides? -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Friday, September 26, 2008 8:50 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re:

Re: PASSIVEPORTS!? Help, please.

2008-09-26 Thread Bri P
It's late in the day here and I'm typing this in a rush, however.. The PASSIVEDATAPORTS directive is for the FTP server. It will then entertain a passive mode data exchange if the client requests it. Your batch job below is a client, so unless it is connecting to the server you setup for

Re: COBOL program

2008-09-26 Thread Schneiderwent, Craig
If you need to dynamically allocate the input from your COBOL program, you can do that to (assuming you're running Enterprise COBOL). And there are a number of examples on the CICS Wiki. http://cicswiki.org/cicswiki1/index.php?title=How_do_I_allocate_a_file_dynam ically_using_COBOL%3F

Re: Trsmain Unpack

2008-09-26 Thread Cebell, David
Thank You David Elliot reports that on z/os 1.8, the program is in sys1.miglib. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Field, Alan C. Sent: Friday, September 26, 2008 10:35 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Trsmain Unpack

OT: Used Shark Available

2008-09-26 Thread Howard Brazee
On 26 Sep 2008 08:00:50 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chase, John) wrote: Blackhawks. When Colorado got a team again, I figured the Blackhawks would be our rival - but they never quite were good enough. Hopefully that will change. I liked the Sharks because of players such as Deadmarsh and

Re: Data conversion EBCDIC to ASCII

2008-09-26 Thread Mark Zelden
On Fri, 26 Sep 2008 08:59:06 -0500, Paul Gilmartin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 26 Sep 2008 07:59:40 +0200, Hunkeler Peter (KIUK 3) wrote: I'd suggest: 1) OMVS to start a UNIX shell. Or, if available, better use telnet, rlogin, SSH to log into UNIX. 2) cp

Re: COBOL program

2008-09-26 Thread John McKown
On Fri, 26 Sep 2008 09:59:39 -0500, Field, Alan C. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have you got a COBOL program that can read any file? If you do, it can read a PDS member by specifying pdsname(member) in the JCL, e.g //MYDD DD DISP=SHR,DSN=MYPDS(MYMEMBER) My guess is that the OP needs to be able to

Re: Trsmain Unpack

2008-09-26 Thread Field, Alan C.
It's in OA24147. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Cebell, David Sent: Friday, September 26, 2008 10:30 To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Trsmain Unpack AMATERSE is not in our LINKLST. z/os 1.6 ( S806 Not found) Anyone

Microsoft Windows Vista vs. z/OS

2008-09-26 Thread Pinnacle
rant I just got a new ThinkPad with Microsoft Windows Vista installed. The culture shock has been enough that I felt compelled to post this. One of Conley's Corollaries is that No PC software upgrade is complete until the user interface has been entirely rewritten. Never was that corollary

Re: Used Shark Available

2008-09-26 Thread Weidt, James
Lets not get too WILD! Thanks, Jim Weidt Senior Systems Engineer Jostens Inc. Office: 952-838-7555 Cell: 612-419-3738 [EMAIL PROTECTED] CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: The information contained in this e-mail communication and any attached documentation may be privileged, confidential or

Re: Data conversion EBCDIC to ASCII

2008-09-26 Thread John McKown
On Fri, 26 Sep 2008 16:50:24 +0200, Hunkeler Peter (KIUK 3) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (It's best not to overwrite the original input file because you might need to try once more.) In case of iconv, I seem to remeber that it even doesn't support using the same file as input and as output. --

Re: Trsmain Unpack

2008-09-26 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Cebell, David AMATERSE is not in our LINKLST. z/os 1.6 ( S806 Not found) Anyone know where this program resides? SYS1.MIGLIB on 1.9. I'd guess it would be the same on 1.6 if you applied the PTF that retro-fitted

Re: Used Shark Available

2008-09-26 Thread Ted MacNEIL
Shheese. You guys hijacked my thread. Welcome to the new IBM-Main! Some seem to go out of their way to go OT. Unfortunately, it's gotten worse since the Big D retired. I know I'm sometimes a culprit, but it's usually due to me responding to the list, when I intend to respond to the poster. -

Re: Microsoft Windows Vista vs. z/OS

2008-09-26 Thread Dave Salt
Tom, What menu bar are you talking about? There are icons on the desktop, and a task bar down at the bottom to show which applications are running. But there's never been a menu bar for Windows itself (not that I'm aware of). Or are you talking about a menu bar within one of the applications?

Re: Microsoft Windows Vista vs. z/OS

2008-09-26 Thread Howard Brazee
On 26 Sep 2008 09:22:19 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Pinnacle) wrote: I just got a new ThinkPad with Microsoft Windows Vista installed. The culture shock has been enough that I felt compelled to post this. One of Conley's Corollaries is that No PC software upgrade is complete until the user

Re: Microsoft Windows Vista vs. z/OS

2008-09-26 Thread Norris Jackson
Do not let anyone tell you that you cannot load MS Office 2003 on Vista. They told a very good friend of mine that and he ended up selling a brand new copy of Office 2003 cheap and buying Office 2007. I purchased a PC with Vista and it accepted Office 2003 w/o problems. Microsoft renamed many

Re: PASSIVEPORTS!? Help, please.

2008-09-26 Thread Patrick O'Keefe
On Fri, 26 Sep 2008 15:06:48 +0200, Miguel Villar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Because of Security Rules and Policy Agent I have used a certain portrange on FTP's going thru de Policy Agent Security Rules. I have tried many things with none of them working. I have setup FTP to use

Re: Data conversion EBCDIC to ASCII

2008-09-26 Thread John McKown
On Fri, 26 Sep 2008 08:59:06 -0500, Paul Gilmartin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Or, if the OP has insufficient z/OS Unix temporary file space (or none at all), which seems to have been a problem: cp //'BRASIL.ZOS.CONTEST.JCL(EBCDIC)' /dev/fd/1 | iconv -f ibm-1047 -t iso8859-1

Re: Data conversion EBCDIC to ASCII

2008-09-26 Thread John McKown
On Fri, 26 Sep 2008 10:09:21 -0500, Mark Zelden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip What was wrong with this suggestion 5 days ago? z/OS UNIX wasn't required at all nor the considerations that go along with (OMVS segments, intermediate storage etc.).

Re: Microsoft Windows Vista vs. z/OS

2008-09-26 Thread John McKown
Ah, the smug smiles on the faces of all Linux users. Not that the UI on the various X Window managers hasn't changed over time. And then there's the KDE vs. GNOME vs. Xfce vs. ... wars as well. But if I decide that I like the KDE 3.5 UI and don't like the new 4.1, then I just keep KDE 3.5! Nobody

Re: Microsoft Windows Vista vs. z/OS

2008-09-26 Thread Pinnacle
- Original Message - From: Dave Salt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Sent: Friday, September 26, 2008 1:15 PM Subject: Re: Microsoft Windows Vista vs. z/OS Tom, What menu bar are you talking about? There are icons on the desktop, and a task bar down at the bottom

Re: COBOL program

2008-09-26 Thread Tom Marchant
On Fri, 26 Sep 2008 09:02:14 -0600, Steve Comstock wrote: If your JCL can point to datasetname(membername), then the file is just an 80-byte fixed length sequential file. It is a sequential file. Whether it's FB 80 depends upon the attributes of the PDS. -- Tom Marchant

Re: Trsmain Unpack

2008-09-26 Thread John Eells
John Eells wrote: snip In z/OS R6, and in z/OS R7-R8 without the PTF for APAR OA19194, it resides wherever you choose to put it when you downloaded. If you put the PTF on z/OS R7 or R8, or have z/OS R9, it lives in LINKLIB. snip That should, of course, say MIGLIB (not LINKLIB). -- John

Re: STC JCL Question

2008-09-26 Thread Ted MacNEIL
You would think it would have failed for a JCL error but it did not. But it brings to question what happens in this case? Did it invailidate that line and not use it? Inquiring minds want to know. One blank after JCL statements, and all the text afterwards is a comment (JCL101). - Too

Re: Squashing VB records into FB

2008-09-26 Thread John McKown
On Fri, 26 Sep 2008 11:22:45 -0400, Sproull, George CTR DISA GS4B14 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Is there a native z/OS utility that would take in a file of the following VB format (for example): First VB record = |rdw1|record1-40 bytes| Next VB record = |rdw2|record2-200 bytes| Last VB

Re: Squashing VB records into FB

2008-09-26 Thread John McKown
On Fri, 26 Sep 2008, Sproull, George CTR DISA GS4B14 wrote: Hi, Is there a native z/OS utility that would take in a file of the following VB format (for example): First VB record = |rdw1|record1-40 bytes| Next VB record = |rdw2|record2-200 bytes| Last VB record = |rdw3|record3-10

Re: Trsmain Unpack

2008-09-26 Thread Big Iron
I don't think that AMATERSE is available for z/OS 1.6, only for 1.7 and up. You can get TRSMAIN from http://techsupport.services.ibm.com/390/trsmain.html Bill On Fri, 26 Sep 2008 10:29:36 -0500, Cebell, David [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: AMATERSE is not in our LINKLST. z/os 1.6 ( S806 Not found)

Re: Trsmain Unpack

2008-09-26 Thread Mark Zelden
No, it's OA19194. And it's only for 1.7 and 1.8 (base in 1.9). The OP must download and use TRSMAIN for 1.6 still. Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead Zurich North America / Farmers Insurance Group - ZFUS G-ITO mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] z/OS Systems

Re: Data conversion EBCDIC to ASCII

2008-09-26 Thread John McKown
On Fri, 26 Sep 2008 09:05:43 -0600, Steve Comstock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip I'd really suggest installation of Dovetailed Technologies Co:Z free product. Why? It will do the above in a single step! fromdsn -s IBM-1047 -t ISO8859-1 'BRASIL.ZOS.CONTEST.JCL(DATA1)' /data1 reverse it?

Re: Squashing VB records into FB

2008-09-26 Thread Tom Marchant
On Fri, 26 Sep 2008 11:22:45 -0400, Sproull, George wrote: Is there a native z/OS utility that would take in a file of the following VB format (for example): First VB record = |rdw1|record1-40 bytes| Next VB record = |rdw2|record2-200 bytes| Last VB record = |rdw3|record3-10 bytes|

SMFPRMxx questions

2008-09-26 Thread Tim Hare
Somewhere in our migration to z/OS 1.9 (pretty sure it wasn't this way on 1.7), our IEFUJV exit started getting invoked for OMVS address spaces. Since this exit tries to enforce TIME= and account numbers on job cards, it fails our OMVS address spaces. We coded, in SMFPRM, SUBSYS(OMVS,NOEXITS)

STC JCL Question

2008-09-26 Thread Patrick Lyon
Greetings List - We just came across an issue that I would like to address with the group to determine why this happened. In testing of going to release 3.2 of CICS we had an issue with only one of the regions having a S0C4 abend in the TMON program at PLT startup. This did not happen in any

Re: Microsoft Windows Vista vs. z/OS

2008-09-26 Thread Howard Brazee
On 26 Sep 2008 11:45:11 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Pinnacle) wrote: Someone sent me a list of links offline to tell you how to enable the menu bars in Explorer, IE, etc. Either someone was nice enough to do that for you, or you did it and forgot? My Vista out of the box doesn't do that. I'm

Omegamon II MVS V520 on z/OS 1.9

2008-09-26 Thread Marc Holiwell
Is anyone running Omegamon II V520 on z/OS 1.9...??? If so, were there PTF's that needed to be applied before Omegamon could recognize z/OS 1.9...??? If anyone tried this and failed, what were the issues you encountered...???

Re: COBOL program

2008-09-26 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Fri, 26 Sep 2008 09:02:14 -0600, Steve Comstock wrote: If your JCL can point to datasetname(membername), then the file is just an 80-byte fixed length sequential file. What makes you assume it's 80-byte fixed? (Other than a dinosaur mindset, perhaps.) -- gil

Re: COBOL program

2008-09-26 Thread Steve Comstock
Paul Gilmartin wrote: On Fri, 26 Sep 2008 09:02:14 -0600, Steve Comstock wrote: If your JCL can point to datasetname(membername), then the file is just an 80-byte fixed length sequential file. What makes you assume it's 80-byte fixed? (Other than a dinosaur mindset, perhaps.) -- gil You

Re: Squashing VB records into FB

2008-09-26 Thread Schwarz, Barry A
Does the following come close? Use IEBGENER to unblock the data. Now each record has a BDW and RDW. FTP the unblocked data in binary to a unix or windows system that will treat the data as a stream. Override the DCB so that it is treated as RECFM=U (so that the BDW and RDW

Re: Trsmain Unpack

2008-09-26 Thread Robert Wright
Field, Alan C. wrote: It's in OA24147. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Cebell, David Sent: Friday, September 26, 2008 10:30 To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Trsmain Unpack AMATERSE is not in our LINKLST. z/os 1.6 (

Re: STC JCL Question

2008-09-26 Thread Tom Marchant
See the section on continuing comments in the JCL reference. http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/IEA2B670/3.4.1.3?SHELF=IEA2BK81DT=20070427231644CASE= I think your next statement would have been treated as a comment if 72 was not blank. -- Tom Marchant

Omegamon II MVS V520 on z/OS 1.9

2008-09-26 Thread Marc Holiwell
Is anyone out there running Omegamon II MVS V520 on z/OS 1.9... If so, were there any PTF's needed to get Omegamon to recognize the z/OS 1.9 environment...??? If anyone tried this and failed, what were the issues that were encountered...???

Re: STC JCL Question

2008-09-26 Thread Lizette Koehler
If you have a valid DD statement (not a comment) and a non blank character in col. 72 then I would have expected a JCL error on the Continuation not being valid IEFC621I EXPECTED CONTINUATION NOT RECEIVED Lizette Greetings List - We just came across an issue that I would like to address

Re: STC JCL Question

2008-09-26 Thread Patrick Lyon
On Fri, 26 Sep 2008 18:47:52 +, Ted MacNEIL [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You would think it would have failed for a JCL error but it did not. But it brings to question what happens in this case? Did it invailidate that line and not use it? Inquiring minds want to know. One blank after JCL

Re: STC JCL Question

2008-09-26 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Fri, 26 Sep 2008 18:47:52 +, Ted MacNEIL wrote: One blank after JCL statements, and all the text afterwards is a comment (JCL101). But a nonblank in column 72 sometimes indicates a continuation. The rules are too complicated for me to grasp. -- gil

Re: Microsoft Windows Vista vs. z/OS

2008-09-26 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Fri, 26 Sep 2008 11:21:32 -0600, Howard Brazee wrote: But I'm not figuring out what you mean by taking the menu bar. I see ... my applications' menu bars (which I prefer to the single menu bar for multiple Macintosh applications). Ah, but the diachronic rationale. Before

Re: STC JCL Question

2008-09-26 Thread Ted MacNEIL
But a nonblank in column 72 sometimes indicates a continuation. Always. But, I missed that because of the way my BlackBerry formats text. But, from what I saw, that should have caused a JCL error. - Too busy driving to stop for gas!

Re: STC JCL Question

2008-09-26 Thread Ted MacNEIL
I forgot to mention and was hoping that my cut and paste would illustrate it, but the numbers that were moved were from columns 68-75. Did that leave anything in column 72? I couldn't tell because of the way my BlackBerry formats messages. - Too busy driving to stop for gas!

Re: Data conversion EBCDIC to ASCII

2008-09-26 Thread Kirk Wolf
todsn and fromdsn were designed to be swiss-army-knife tools for converting pipes to/from datasets, so codepage and line termination are only a couple of the many options. For complete man pages, see: http://dovetail.com/docs/coz/dsp-ref.html In the interest of full disclosure, we should

Re: STC JCL Question

2008-09-26 Thread Mark Zelden
On Fri, 26 Sep 2008 11:31:38 -0500, Patrick Lyon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What we found was in the STEPLIB statement, on the line where we had the SDFHLPA, the numbers that should be in columns 72-80 were pulled to the left, probably an oversight when the dataset name was changed. The JCL is

HSM reusing backup tapes

2008-09-26 Thread Michael Wickman
We are evaluating HSM as a replacement for another vender's product and have not figured out what causes the daily backup tapes that are partially used to be reused for another backup cycle. We have tried both a 1 day and 7 day cycle, but always get a scratch mount when the auto backup cycle

Living without User Key CSA

2008-09-26 Thread Patrick Roehl
I'm an application programmer who is trying to reengineer a piece of our infrastructure that uses subpool 241 (CSA/ECSA). My management wants to be compatible with AllowUserKeyCSA(no) so I'm seeking advice on how this can be done. The current design has been working well for many years. It uses

Re: Squashing VB records into FB

2008-09-26 Thread Kirk Wolf
John, Hey, you missed your opportunity to mention Co:Z todsn and fromdsn :-) // EXEC DTLSPAWN //INDD DSN=HLQ.VB.DSN,DISP=SHR //OUT DD DSN=HLQ.FB.DSN,DISP=(NEW,CATLG), // DCB=(LRECL=80,RECFM=FB), .. //STDIN DD * fromdsn //DD:IN -b -l ibmrdw | todsn //DD:OUT -b -l none

Re: HSM reusing backup tapes

2008-09-26 Thread O'Brien, David W. (NIH/CIT) [C]
Mike, Try this: SETSYS - PARTIALTAPE(BACKUP(REUSE) - MIGRATION(REUSE)) You may have Markfull specified. From: Michael Wickman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 26, 2008 3:30 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: HSM reusing backup tapes We

Re: Living without User Key CSA

2008-09-26 Thread Dave Day
One suggestion. Have your server create a PC routine. The PC routine does all the stuff that requires authorization. Client code gets the PC number from the ECA code. Pretty straight forward. --Dave - Original Message - From: Patrick Roehl [EMAIL PROTECTED] Newsgroups:

Re: STC JCL Question

2008-09-26 Thread Mark Zelden
On Fri, 26 Sep 2008 18:47:52 +, Ted MacNEIL [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You would think it would have failed for a JCL error but it did not. But it brings to question what happens in this case? Did it invailidate that line and not use it? Inquiring minds want to know. One blank after JCL

Re: Digital Certificate Implementation TN3270

2008-09-26 Thread Rob Schramm
Of course you can always centralize your internal certificate process using the PKIServ. Which will help you remember via notification before a certificate is going to be revoked. Rob Schramm Sirius Computer Solutions -- For

Re: Living without User Key CSA

2008-09-26 Thread Edward Jaffe
Patrick Roehl wrote: ... The client program must be able to access and update the anchor table storage. You might want to review the and update part of the above sentence. If the common area must be updated by the client, and you intend to acquire it a key 0-7, you will need a PC-ss

Re: Living without User Key CSA

2008-09-26 Thread Tom Harper
Patrick, Why don't you write a stacking PC to be used by your non-authorized client to accomplish the function? Tom Harper IMS Utilities Development Team Neon Enterprise Software, Inc. Sugar Land, TX -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On

Omegamon II MVS V520 on z/OS 1.9

2008-09-26 Thread Marc Holiwell
Is anyone out there running Omegamon II MVS V520 on z/OS version 1.9...??? If so, were any PTF's needed to allow Omegamon the ability to recognize V1.9 of z/OS...??? If anyone attempted this and failed, what were the issues you encountered...???

Re: Living without User Key CSA

2008-09-26 Thread Dave Day
Let me try this again. Hopefully without doing 2 things at once. You can have your server create a PC routine that does the authorized functions. The PC number is placed in the ECSA block of storage. The client code picks up the PC number, and calls the authorized functions by executing

Re: STC JCL Question

2008-09-26 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Mark Zelden One blank after JCL statements, and all the text afterwards is a comment (JCL101). (JCL102) Col 72 must be non-blank or it is treated as a continuation. ITYM must be blank. -jc-

Re: Digital Certificate Implementation TN3270

2008-09-26 Thread Pinnacle
- Original Message - From: Melissa Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Sent: Thursday, September 25, 2008 10:38 AM Subject: Digital Certificate Implementation TN3270 I am looking for the best way to handle digital certificates and TN3270 emulation. I am in the

Re: STC JCL Question

2008-09-26 Thread Patrick Lyon
On Fri, 26 Sep 2008 19:19:53 +, Ted MacNEIL [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I forgot to mention and was hoping that my cut and paste would illustrate it, but the numbers that were moved were from columns 68-75. Did that leave anything in column 72? I couldn't tell because of the way my BlackBerry

Re: STC JCL Question

2008-09-26 Thread Mark Zelden
On Fri, 26 Sep 2008 13:54:15 -0500, Patrick Lyon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 26 Sep 2008 18:47:52 +, Ted MacNEIL [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You would think it would have failed for a JCL error but it did not. But it brings to question what happens in this case? Did it invailidate that

Re: SMFPRMxx questions

2008-09-26 Thread Mark Zelden
On Fri, 26 Sep 2008 11:47:36 -0500, Tim Hare [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Somewhere in our migration to z/OS 1.9 (pretty sure it wasn't this way on 1.7), our IEFUJV exit started getting invoked for OMVS address spaces. Since this exit tries to enforce TIME= and account numbers on job cards, it fails

Re: STC JCL Question

2008-09-26 Thread Tom Marchant
On Fri, 26 Sep 2008 13:56:34 -0500, Mark Zelden wrote: If you had non-blank data in col. 72 it should have been a JCL error. Not if the next record starts with // in column 1-2 followed by a space. Then it should be treated as the continuation of a comment. Here it is again:

Re: Living without User Key CSA

2008-09-26 Thread Tom Marchant
On Fri, 26 Sep 2008 15:33:21 -0400, Patrick Roehl wrote: The client program is not authorized. It accesses the anchor table in CSA via a name/token pair. It then uses the attributes found in the anchor table to gain access to the dataspace. The client program must be able to access and update

Re: Squashing VB records into FB

2008-09-26 Thread John McKown
On Fri, 26 Sep 2008 14:37:56 -0500, Kirk Wolf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John, Hey, you missed your opportunity to mention Co:Z todsn and fromdsn :-) // EXEC DTLSPAWN //INDD DSN=HLQ.VB.DSN,DISP=SHR //OUT DD DSN=HLQ.FB.DSN,DISP=(NEW,CATLG), // DCB=(LRECL=80,RECFM=FB), ..

Re: STC JCL Question

2008-09-26 Thread Mark Zelden
On Fri, 26 Sep 2008 14:49:08 -0500, Chase, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Mark Zelden One blank after JCL statements, and all the text afterwards is a comment (JCL101). (JCL102) Col 72 must be non-blank or it

Re: STC JCL Question

2008-09-26 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Fri, 26 Sep 2008 13:56:34 -0500, Mark Zelden wrote: You would think it would have failed for a JCL error but it did not. If you had non-blank data in col. 72 it should have been a JCL error. Open a PMR with IBM. I just tested this on z/OS 1.8 and got a JCL error. On z/OS 1.9 I didn't. It

Re: Living without User Key CSA

2008-09-26 Thread David Logan
You don't need to put anything in ECSA. Your name/token pair can return all of the pertinent information for PC call. The PC call can then extract everything else from the secondary address space. I think the three things that need to be in the name/token pair are the ALET, PC # (which I think can

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