Re: PSW question

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Re: copy VSAM files

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Re: Outsourcing your Computer Center to IBM ?

On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 9:30 PM, Clark Morris wrote: > If the crew schedules and maintenance information was on that system, > they couldn't move until it was back up (hours of service and other > interesting regulatory issues).  If the contract was written properly, > IBM might have big problems.

Re: Outsourcing your Computer Center to IBM ?

On 12 Oct 2009 17:10:22 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: >Well, I agree completely with PS. I felt that there was just a hint >of "look the other way while I cover my arse" in the tone of the >complaint by the Air NZ chief. Somewhere in there he knows that >ultimately he, and his bo

Re: Question on VVDS creation (implicltly)

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 th

Re: U.S. house decommissions its last mainframe, saves $730,000

On 12 Oct 2009 12:35:33 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: > >If Congress is getting rid of their last mainframe, this only proves the >VALUE of a mainframe. Lord knows they get everything ELSE wrong up there... >

Re: Outsourcing your Computer Center to IBM ?

Well, I agree completely with PS. I felt that there was just a hint of "look the other way while I cover my arse" in the tone of the complaint by the Air NZ chief. Somewhere in there he knows that ultimately he, and his board, are responsible for keeping their airline running.. and pointing t

Re: COBOL is an obvious cash cow to be milked to death was Re: Does Ent. COBOL 4.1 generate 64-bit binary arithmetic instructions?

A COBOL compiler that runs on Linux (including Linux for System z) does produce intermediate C code, before running it through GCC. It is not technically considered a GCC based COBOL, though. Take a look at OpenCOBOL, http://www.opencobol.org. There was some work done some years ago on GCC C

Re: U.S. house decommissions its last mainframe, saves $730,000

is this one of those "great savings" from someplace that hadn't upgraded their mainframe system in 20 years? and I love this part: The last mainframe was an IBM model in place since 1997 1997, let's see, so we're talking either the 9021 family or the early generation cmos. yea, okay, I jus

Re: Job name standards (Was: multiple jobs / same name)

In , on 10/10/2009 at 01:41 PM, Paul Gilmartin said: >The OUTPUT JCL statement, Then you're talking about a length restriction of OUTPUT, not of SJF. >The vendor appears to be IBM, Not even close; you gave the right answer to a question that nobody asked. It should have been clear from cont

Re: multiple jobs / same name

In , on 10/02/2009 at 01:54 PM, "McKown, John" said: >I'm not an expert on this. But, as I understand it, HASP was an "add on" >to OS/MVT My recollection is that it supported MFT before it supported MVT. >And this was in the days before there were such things as job numbers Correct; OS/36

Re: How to concatenate

In , on 10/11/2009 at 11:10 PM, Dave Salt said: >Once ISPF libraries have been allocated (ISPMLIB, ISPPLIB etc) you can't >change what's allocated to those DDNAMEs. You can if you first exit ISPF. However, LIBDEF is usually the superior approach. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg a

Re: How to concatenate

In <9c3df50c0910111923p1e03ae26j8c94e76d68048...@mail.gmail.com>, on 10/12/2009 at 10:23 AM, bububut said: >So I just want to add a data set into the ISPPLIB concatenation while >giving no influence on any other data sets already there. If the logon procedure isn't written to call a user clis

Re: multiple jobs / same name

In <000d01ca43b2$7ddc9c10$7995d4...@net>, on 10/02/2009 at 03:48 PM, Ulrich Krueger said: >The tradition of using your TSO userid for batch job names dates back to >the invention of TSO and has been a default (or should I say, de-facto >standard) ever since then. If you wanted STATUS to retur

Re: Multiple jobs/same name

In <575253278-1254703734-cardhu_decombobulator_blackberry.rim.net-3855232...@bda488.bisx.prod.on.blackberry>, on 10/05/2009 at 12:48 AM, Ted MacNEIL said: >Why OWNER? Because it's USERID. >Userid is the common control for production (independent of job-name). They're synonymous. --

Re: Multiple jobs/same name

In <565251895-1254708894-cardhu_decombobulator_blackberry.rim.net-20340310...@bda488.bisx.prod.on.blackberry>, on 10/05/2009 at 02:14 AM, Ted MacNEIL said: >>How can the programmer control these independently? >USER= & PASSWORD= are valid JOB CARD parms. K3wl, but it has nothing to do with t

Re: Multiple jobs/same name

In , on 10/05/2009 at 12:05 AM, Paul Gilmartin said: >Until someone shows me documentation or an example to the >contrary, I'll believe that OWNER is a synonym for userid. It is. But RACF also uses GROUP to control access. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO positio

Re: multiple jobs / same name

In , on 10/02/2009 at 05:49 PM, Paul Gilmartin said: >The Old Timers will shout, Why don't you speak for yourself, John? This old timer says that it was a convention that never made sense and should have been buried long since. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO p

Re: Multiple jobs/same name

In <4aca49e5.2070...@ync.net>, on 10/05/2009 at 02:32 PM, Rick Fochtman said: >But you still need to prevent testers from submitting jobs with a >production USERID. We used a TSO exit to remove USER/PASSWORD parms from >the JOB statement. Got a better idea? Sure; don't have passwords for pr

Re: Outsourcing your Computer Center to IBM ?

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Re: Outsourcing your Computer Center to IBM ?

In a message dated 10/12/2009 3:28:55 P.M. Central Daylight Time, zosw...@gmail.com writes: can't make "Linux" make sense in context here. Are you implying that the fact that this was Linux made it worse? >> Without knowing the topology and configuration it'd be hard to say. Just quoting

Re: U.S. house decommissions its last mainframe, saves $730,000

On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 4:14 PM, McKown, John wrote: >> -Original Message- >> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List >> [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of P S >> Sent: Monday, October 12, 2009 3:07 PM >> To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu >> Subject: Re: U.S. house decommissions its last mainfr

Re: Outsourcing your Computer Center to IBM ?

On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 2:03 PM, Ed Finnell wrote: > Be interesting to see the back and forth memos about DR and  failover on > their Linux  Mainframes. I can't make "Linux" make sense in context here. Are you implying that the fact that this was Linux made it worse?

Re: Outsourcing your Computer Center to IBM ?

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Re: ISPF DDLIST COMPRESS DISP=SHR ENQ

Not sure, but LMCOMP is also an option to compress a PDS. But according to the manual it call IEBCOPY. ITschak On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 9:44 PM, Scott Rowe wrote: > IIRC, SPFCOPY got control un-authorized, but it made itself authorized > prior to calling IEBCOPY, but that was very long ago. > >

Re: U.S. house decommissions its last mainframe, saves $730,000

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Re: Experience with NPF

Yes, using the Input Exit and the Block Letter routine. > Has anyone gotten NPF to produce banner pages? The JES2 printer has > SEP=YES set but it's unclear if that really takes affect with FSS printers. > > Dana > > -- > For

Re: Outsourcing your Computer Center to IBM ?

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Re: Outsourcing your Computer Center to IBM ?

Ed Finnell wrote: In a message dated 10/12/2009 12:59:23 P.M. Central Daylight Time, rjv1...@gmail.com writes: Sounds like it was at an IBM facility... "IBM responded by saying it had launched an independent investigation into the power outage which appeared to have been caused by a fail

Re: U.S. house decommissions its last mainframe, saves $730,000

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Re: Outsourcing your Computer Center to IBM ?

---: I think that before we go ahead and lay blame - unlike the manager of the airline who is blaming IBM - we had best wait and get more information. "Amateur" IBM apparently has control over the power grid in Australia, since it

Re: How to concatenate

-- At the TSO READY prompt, can I not FREE and reallocate? Sure, if you get all the datasets in the correct order. :-) I prefer to invoke ISPF v

Re: Question on VVDS creation (implicltly)

- Yeah, I also expect a VVDS should have been cataloged under either MCAT or UCAT. However, there is a VVDS, it cannot be shown when I input 'SYS1.VVDS' under DSLIST, but it can be found if I input 'SYS1.VVDS.Vxx' (full

Re: Experience with NPF

Has anyone gotten NPF to produce banner pages? The JES2 printer has SEP=YES set but it's unclear if that really takes affect with FSS printers. Dana -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email

Re: ISPF DDLIST COMPRESS DISP=SHR ENQ

IIRC, SPFCOPY got control un-authorized, but it made itself authorized prior to calling IEBCOPY, but that was very long ago. >>> Ted MacNEIL 10/12/2009 3:35 PM >>> >Compress doesn't need IEBCOPY to be authorised ? Are you sure ? Not 100% But, I've compressed without it. Again, SPFCOPY compres

Re: ISPF DDLIST COMPRESS DISP=SHR ENQ

>Compress doesn't need IEBCOPY to be authorised ? Are you sure ? Not 100% But, I've compressed without it. Again, SPFCOPY compresses without APF. - Too busy driving to stop for gas! -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archiv

Re: U.S. house decommissions its last mainframe, saves $730,000

If Congress is getting rid of their last mainframe, this only proves the VALUE of a mainframe. Lord knows they get everything ELSE wrong up there... -- Have you EVER heard of anyone in Co

Re: COBOL is an obvious cash cow to be milked to death was Re: Does Ent. COBOL 4.1 generate 64-bit binary arithmetic instructions?

http://www-01.ibm.com/software/awdtools/xlcpp/aix/ From IBM's website: "C and C++ compilers, available for many IBM platforms, share a common code base that simplifies porting applications between platforms." On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 8:19 PM, Sa

Re: COBOL is an obvious cash cow to be milked to death was Re: Does Ent. COBOL 4.1 generate 64-bit binary arithmetic instructions?

I think they are tightly related. Looking at the compiler suite from the outside it would seem that parsing, options, run-time-libraries, STL support, Inter-procedures analysis, etc. would be very common across platforms because much of this is standards based. The code generation would be machin

Re: COBOL is an obvious cash cow to be milked to death was Re: Does Ent. COBOL 4.1 generate 64-bit binary arithmetic instructions?

> -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On > Behalf Of Sam Siegel > Sent: Monday, October 12, 2009 3:00 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu > Subject: Re: COBOL is an obvious cash cow to be milked to death was Re: > Does Ent. COBOL 4.1 generate 64-

Re: COBOL is an obvious cash cow to be milked to death was Re: Does Ent. COBOL 4.1 generate 64-bit binary arithmetic

instructions? >BUT the resulting reduction in customer CPU utilization would >cannibalize the additional hardware sales that would have been made when >customer work volume increases, making the hardware side of the house >*very* unhappy... > >Reducing customer CPU utilization likely loses IBM mor

Re: COBOL is an obvious cash cow to be milked to death was Re: Does Ent. COBOL 4.1 generate 64-bit binary arithmetic instructions?

IBM needs to keep optimizing the c/c++ compiler to support *nix/windows server consolidation onto zLinux. On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 7:47 PM, Clark Morris wrote: > On 12 Oct 2009 10:37:56 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main Kirk Talman > wrote: > > >Why can't Cobol use the C code generator? > > IBM coul

Re: ISPF DDLIST COMPRESS DISP=SHR ENQ

Ted MacNEIL wrote: >>As far as I know all ISPF compress operations are done using IEBCOPY > ISPF 3.4 uses SPFCOPY - non-APF. > Unless it's changed in the lasr 10 year. IIRC, it was changed over 20 years ago, since TSO/E introduced its Service Routine, which is called IKJEFTSR. > IEBCOPY has to

Re: ISPF DDLIST COMPRESS DISP=SHR ENQ

Itschak Mugzach wrote: > As far as I know all ISPF compress operations are done using IEBCOPY, > If so, IEBCOPY enques on IEWxxx and staw to protect the directory from > being manipulated. .. Are you sure "IEBCOPY enques on IEWxxx" ? How do you know that ? Is it written somewhere ? My e

Re: COBOL is an obvious cash cow to be milked to death was Re: Does Ent. COBOL 4.1 generate 64-bit binary arithmetic instructions?

On 12 Oct 2009 10:37:56 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main Kirk Talman wrote: >Why can't Cobol use the C code generator? IBM could write a parser to generate optimal C/C++ code from COBOL but that would be a large investment and might not produce as good results as the current compiler parser genera

Re: Receive file size limit

Thanks, Peter, and others. I did a preallocate of a 5000 cylinder dataset with a Dataclass containing the Extend attribute. Worked like a charm. On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 12:22 PM, Farley, Peter x23353 < peter.far...@broadridge.com> wrote: > > -Original Message- > > From: IBM Mainframe Disc

Re: ISPF DDLIST COMPRESS DISP=SHR ENQ

>As far as I know all ISPF compress operations are done using IEBCOPY ISPF 3.4 uses SPFCOPY - non-APF. Unless it's changed in the lasr 10 year. IEBCOPY has to be APF, and compress doesn't need that. - Too busy driving to stop for gas! -

Re: Outsourcing your Computer Center to IBM ?

Notwithstanding where it was and whose fault it was or wasn't, the fact that there are no backup procedures to speak of for keeping the business running is worth noting (and for which management should be excoriated). I've seen both extremes in fast food restaurants: at a Taco Bell once, a power f

Re: ISPF DDLIST COMPRESS DISP=SHR ENQ

As far as I know all ISPF compress operations are done using IEBCOPY, If so, IEBCOPY enques on IEWxxx and staw to protect the directory from being manipulated. It does not protect the directory from read, so if CICS or any other program that has in storage copy of the PDS directory, can be effected

Re: Outsourcing your Computer Center to IBM ?

In a message dated 10/12/2009 12:59:23 P.M. Central Daylight Time, rjv1...@gmail.com writes: Sounds like it was at an IBM facility... "IBM responded by saying it had launched an independent investigation into the power outage which appeared to have been caused by a failed oil pressure sens

Re: Outsourcing your Computer Center to IBM ?

Sounds like it was at an IBM facility... "IBM responded by saying it had launched an independent investigation into the power outage which appeared to have been caused by a failed oil pressure sensor on a back-up generator." ALSO: "Bank of New Zealand was also affected by the outage. BNZ spoke

Re: Outsourcing your Computer Center to IBM ?

> -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Pommier, Rex R. > Sent: Monday, October 12, 2009 12:43 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu > Subject: Re: Outsourcing your Computer Center to IBM ? > > I think that before we go ahead and lay

Re: Outsourcing your Computer Center to IBM ?

I think that before we go ahead and lay blame - unlike the manager of the airline who is blaming IBM - we had best wait and get more information. "Amateur" IBM apparently has control over the power grid in Australia, since it was a power problem that originally caused the outage. Yes, they say th

Re: COBOL is an obvious cash cow to be milked to death was Re: Does Ent. COBOL 4.1 generate 64-bit binary arithmetic instructions?

Why can't Cobol use the C code generator? IBM Mainframe Discussion List wrote on 10/09/2009 04:55:20 PM: > Meanwhile, IBM spends considerable effort in optimizing its C/C++ > compilers. Customers with C and C++ applications have more alternatives > to Big Iron. -

Re: Outsourcing your Computer Center to IBM ?

> -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Doug Fuerst > Sent: Monday, October 12, 2009 12:17 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu > Subject: Re: Outsourcing your Computer Center to IBM ? > > I doubt that any manager in a position to d

Re: Outsourcing your Computer Center to IBM ?

I doubt that any manager in a position to decide about outsourcing will learn anything from this. I remain convinced that outsourcing is a bad idea if you are dedicated to providing your customers with the best service. Doug Fuerst Anton Britz wrote: 'Amateur' IBM brings down Air New Zealand

Outsourcing your Computer Center to IBM ?

'Amateur' IBM brings down Air New Zealand By Joe Fay • Get more from this author The boss of Air New Zealand has launched an astonishing attack on IBM after a catastrophic system crash crippled the airline and left passengers stranded. The massive IBM letdown could see the vendor turfed out of

Re: Receive file size limit

Mark > I'm trying to receive a really large file. The transmit file is 2,876 cylinders, when I try to receive the file I always abend with receive indsname('MKARLSB.BJC.SMFRAW09') INMR901I Dataset TS58260.BJC.SMF from TS58260 on BASLMO INMR906A Enter restore parameters or 'DELETE' or 'END' + s

Re: Receive file size limit

Mark, What's the size of the original dataset, how many cylinders did it occupy? Or might it have come from tape? Have you tried to allocate the output file as multi-volume? e.g. space(4369,500) cylinders dsname('fred.BJC.SMFRAW03') volume(msmpe2, xx) <=== Failing all that, have you tried

Re: How to concatenate

Paul Gilmartin wrote: On Mon, 12 Oct 2009 11:28:23 -0400, Hardee, Charles H wrote: In fact, we use a generic logon REXX that looks to see if the user has a logon exit CLIST or REXX available and run it after the standard allocations are performed. In the exit CLIST or REXX one can use the CONCAT

Re: How to concatenate

On Mon, 12 Oct 2009 11:28:23 -0400, Hardee, Charles H wrote: > >In fact, we use a generic logon REXX that looks to see if the user has a >logon exit CLIST or REXX available and run it after the standard >allocations are performed. In the exit CLIST or REXX one can use the >CONCAT utility mentioned

Re: Receive file size limit

> -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On > Behalf Of Mark Pace > Sent: Monday, October 12, 2009 11:56 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu > Subject: Receive file size limit > > I'm trying to receive a really large file. The transmit file is 2,8

Re: Receive file size limit

>The volume I'm writing to is an empty 3390-9, so there is plenty of space. It would appear that receive will not create a dataset larger than 4369 cylinders (65535 tracks). >Can someone confirm that this is a RECEIVE command limitation, or am I just >doing something wrong? It's an OS limitation

Re: Receive file size limit

On Mon, 12 Oct 2009 11:56:17 -0400, Mark Pace wrote: > > INMR906A Enter restore parameters or 'DELETE' or 'END' >+ >space(4369,500) cylinders dsname('fred.BJC.SMFRAW03') >volume(msmpe2) > IEC030I >B37-04,IFG0554A,MARPACE,IKJACCNT,SYS00133,B222,MSMPE2,04210010,FRED.BJC.SMFRAW03 > Have you tried prea

Receive file size limit

I'm trying to receive a really large file. The transmit file is 2,876 cylinders, when I try to receive the file I always abend with receive indsname('MKARLSB.BJC.SMFRAW09') INMR901I Dataset TS58260.BJC.SMF from TS58260 on BASLMO INMR906A Enter restore parameters or 'DELETE' or 'END' + space(43

The bleak future of COBOL

The cri de coeur of Clark Morris presents a view, articulated more sympathetically than is usual, that I for one do sympathize with. Moreover, he has identified the key issue, which is that of interoperability/data transfer and thus data-type compatibility in a mixed-language environment. D

Re: How to concatenate

Yes, you can. In fact, we use a generic logon REXX that looks to see if the user has a logon exit CLIST or REXX available and run it after the standard allocations are performed. In the exit CLIST or REXX one can use the CONCAT utility mentioned earlier to add other PDS files to any DD they want t

Re: Question on VVDS creation (implicltly)

I'm pretty sure that the Cluster Entry is only created when the VVDS is defined, and would therefor only exist in the catalog where the VVDS was initially defined, while there will a data component entry in every catalog that contains (or ever contained) a dataset that had an entry in that VVDS.

Re: Question on VVDS creation (implicltly)

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 wrote: >If you ena

Re: Question on VVDS creation (implicltly)

If you enable 'Display Catalog Name' on DSLIST, it should tell you which catalog it found it in. >>> Paul Ip 10/12/2009 10:06 AM >>> Yeah, I also expect a VVDS should have been cataloged under either MCAT or UCAT. However, there is a VVDS, it cannot be shown when I input 'SYS1.VVDS' under DSLI

Re: How to concatenate

On Sun, 11 Oct 2009 23:10:03 -0400, Dave Salt wrote: > >Once ISPF libraries have been allocated (ISPMLIB=2C ISPPLIB etc) you can't = >change what's allocated to those DDNAMEs. However=2C you can add libraries = >that are searched ahead of those libraries by doing something like this: > At the TSO R

Re: Question on VVDS creation (implicltly)

Yeah, I also expect a VVDS should have been cataloged under either MCAT or UCAT. However, there is a VVDS, it cannot be shown when I input 'SYS1.VVDS' under DSLIST, but it can be found if I input 'SYS1.VVDS.Vxx' (full name) under DSLIST. Even the VVDS can be seen under DSLIST with full name

Re: copy VSAM files

>>Sorry I didn't read the entire question REPRO will not do it. Yes, in combination with JCL, IDCAMS REPRO can do it: //JS0040 EXEC PGM=IDCAMS //SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=* //IN1 DD DISP=(SHR,KEEP,KEEP), // DSN=SMS.SCDS01.SCDS //OUT1 DD DSN=DK85359.SCDS01.SCDS, // DISP=

Re: U.S. house decommissions its last mainframe, saves $730,000

If Congress is getting rid of their last mainframe, this only proves the VALUE of a mainframe. Lord knows they get everything ELSE wrong up there... -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email

Re: U.S. house decommissions its last mainframe, saves $730,000

On Sun, 11 Oct 2009 17:06:06 -0700, Gerhard Adam wrote: >Since when does the U.S. House of Representatives mean all of Washington, D.C.? More importantly, since when is $730,000 much of a data center? > >From the article: "But it was time for a change, with the House spending $30,000 a year

Re: Question on VVDS creation (implicltly)

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) is not required to be >cataloged (meanwhile, some of VVDS are under catalog

Re: copy VSAM files

Sorry I didnt read the entire question REPRO will not do it. ARDDSSU can be used to copy (backup) the original source VSAM datasets and the Restore with the RENAMEU parameter. Friends This should sound as simple, but .. How do I copy a VSAM KSDS dataset to another VSAM dataset

Re: copy VSAM files

> This should sound as simple, but .. > > > > How do I copy a VSAM KSDS dataset to another VSAM dataset with the same > attribute as the 'copying from' dataset, without going thru the process > of Define? > > > > An example of either a REXX code or a JCL will be of help //JS0040 EXEC

Re: Question on VVDS creation (implicltly)

Paul Ip pisze: 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 ID

Re: Experience with NPF

On Fri, 9 Oct 2009 18:06:20 EDT, Ed Finnell wrote: >NPF menus are built in but you have to do some initial >customization to get it fired up. > We got it working fine and it will probably be more than adequate for our needs. I certainly wouldn't want to maintain it if we had to drive 1000's

Re: copy VSAM files

You could begin by using the REPRO command of IDCAMS -- Original Message -- From: Umamaheshwar Iyer To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: copy VSAM files Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 18:11:46 +0530 Friends This should sound as simple, but .. How do I copy a VSAM KSDS dataset t

Re: copy VSAM files

"Umamaheshwar Iyer" wrote in message news:<4ae6c9b1f53e7f4c86bc78bc282e62560160e...@sinpunex001.techmahindra. com>... > Friends > > > > This should sound as simple, but .. > > > > How do I copy a VSAM KSDS dataset to another VSAM dataset with the same > attribute as the 'copying fro

Re: copy VSAM files

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