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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Walt Farrell
Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2008 7:58 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: z/OS 1.10 announcement -DASD size
On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 17:51:57 -0500, Farley, Peter x23353
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of McKown, John
Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2008 9:50 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: z/OS 1.10 announcement -DASD size
From the web page that I previously posted about z/OS 1.10
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Walt Farrell
Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2008 5:40 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: z/OS 1.10 announcement -DASD size
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What the announcement actually says:
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So, as
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of David Eisenberg
Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2008 8:54 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: Newbie RACROUTE question: how to *test* authorization?
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The violations are occurring
Confirmed, including the difference between HILITE REXX and HILITE AUTO.
Everything following the % character that is not inside quotes is
changed to blue, inside quotes stays bright white as in normal hilite
mode.
Looks to me like the HILITE AUTO scan mode doesn't account for the
8-digit line
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Martin Packer
Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2008 6:30 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: Javascript disabled in Firefox
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Interestingly almost everyone in my social circle is
at 05:23 PM, Farley, Peter x23353 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
said:
Based on this thread, the JES-reported TCB and SRB usage
1. They are not JES reported
They appear in JESMSGLG, therefore they are JES reported. I don't
particularly give a feghoot what program actually generated the message
because
This most interesting discussion of the variability of CPU consumed by
the same unit of work requires me to ask the following question:
How is the normal application programmer who is tasked with reducing the
CPU consumed by an application process (let's say a complex batch
process for the sake
Tom,
Your answer, though, betrays a system programmer (or perhaps just ISV)
point of view. The first thing is, application programmers are not
always permitted to gather SMF records, even assuming they know what
they are and know how to find and use the tools needed to report on and
interpret
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Ted MacNEIL
Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2008 5:30 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: CPU time differences for the same job
Please correct me if I am wrong, but much of this
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Tom Harper
Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2008 5:46 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: CPU time differences for the same job
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Another valid question you ask is how to validate
Your response presupposes the change is transferred to Production use.
That transfer doesn't happen unless performance improvement has been
demonstrated in the test environment. How to measure the improvement in
a repeatable way in a non-optimal test environment is the question at
hand.
If
Radoslaw,
In your JCL PARM specify the LE runtime option MSGFILE(yourdd), for COBOL like
this:
//STEP01 EXEC PGM=yourcobolprogram,PARM='yourpgmparms/MSGFILE(NEWOUTDD)'
//NEWOUTDD DD SYSOUT=*
I don't believe there is a way for different COBOL programs in the same LE
enclave to use different
I stand corrected. OUTDD and MSGFILE are not related at all, and indeed
there seems to be no prohibition nor error in specifying different OUTDD
ddnames for different COBOL programs in the same enclave. I just tested
a simple main program and subprogram with different OUTDD values at
compile
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Craddock, Chris
Sent: Tuesday, January 22, 2008 1:29 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: How does ATTACH pass address of ECB to child? (1
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In anything but the most trivial case
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Art Celestini
Sent: Friday, December 14, 2007 9:49 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: Mainframe Assembler Coding Contest
Much of what I was talking about is described here:
ftpquote site TRAIL
Here is what quote help site says:
214-TRAILingblanks Returns trailing blanks for fixed
214-format data sets that are retrieved.
214-NOTRAILingblanks Removes trailing blanks for fixed
214-format data sets that are retrieved.
HTH
Clem,
Good start, but I have another idea that might also help. IBM's actual pool
of customers has, I think we would all agree, been shrinking. Yes they have
been selling more MIPS and lots of physical machines, but to an increasingly
limited set of customers.
The biggest bang for the buck IBM
-Original Message-
From: Ernest Nachtigall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, December 03, 2007 4:38 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: Is CPACF enough to successfully run sample ICSF COBOL program
?
On Mon, 3 Dec 2007 16:19:28 -0500, Farley, Peter x23353
[EMAIL
Hi all,
We have a question being sent to IBM concerning this, but I thought I'd try
to get a leg up and see if anyone else here has been down this road before
me.
There are sample programs in several languages using ICSF callable functions
in the ICSF Appl. Pgmr's Guide (Appendix D). I have
-Original Message-
From: Mark Zelden [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, December 03, 2007 11:57 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: Crypto Related Posts
(in my best Seinfeld voice)...
What's up with all these crypto related posts? :-) Seriously... any
reason why
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From: R.S. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, December 03, 2007 11:57 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: Is CPACF enough to successfully run sample ICSF COBOL
program?
Peter,
Make sure that functions you called are really available on CPACF. Some
-Original Message-
From: Ernest Nachtigall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, December 03, 2007 3:56 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: Is CPACF enough to successfully run sample ICSF COBOL
program?
CPACF is only accessible via ASM programs. The samples in the ICSF
-Original Message-
From: Tommy Tsui [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2007 1:05 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: REFM=VB Binary upload problem
Actually, I have problem when I re-uploading the same file to HOST, The
record format is VB and is not one by
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From: Paul Peplinski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2007 2:49 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: SV: COBOL COPY statement w REPLACING...
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I do not know exactly what you need to do, but one possible solution -
assuming an 01
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From: Mark L. Wheeler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, November 10, 2007 9:29 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: Running REXX program in a batch job
Greetings all,
I'm trying to port a REXX utility program from z/VM to z/OS. It will do
I/O (reading
-Original Message-
From: Ray Mullins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, November 11, 2007 1:14 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: OT - FW: [Fwd: [ClassicMainframes] multics source is now open]
Way off-topic for IBM-MAIN, but based on prior threads some of y'all might
be
-Original Message-
From: Alex Tough [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, November 12, 2007 7:33 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: Performance comparison: Hiperbatch, BLSR, SMB?
Peter
Apologies if this has already been answered, but the way for a job to opt
out of using
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From: ITURIEL DO NASCIMENTO NETO [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, November 12, 2007 1:52 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: RES: Performance comparison: Hiperbatch, BLSR, SMB?
Peter,
Try using COFDMON programs that can show you who is currently using
-Original Message-
From: Bill Klein [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2007 11:15 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: COBOL COPY statement w REPLACING...
The documented (and functional) way to do partial replacement in current
COBOL is documented at:
Ed Gould
Skickat: den 12 november 2007 20:41
Till: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Ämne: Re: COBOL COPY statement w REPLACING...
On Nov 12, 2007, at 1:24 PM, Farley, Peter x23353 wrote:
I want to be able to use REPLACING for such a copybook WITHOUT
modifying the copybook (because I don't
Hi all,
We have a highly used randomly accessed read-only VSAM KSDS that is managed
by Hiperbatch during the Production batch window. Unfortunately, some of
the jobs that use it are still seeing unacceptably high I/O counts and long
elapsed times.
I have been asked to improve the performance of
-Original Message-
From: ITURIEL DO NASCIMENTO NETO [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, November 09, 2007 2:17 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: RES: Performance comparison: Hiperbatch, BLSR, SMB?
Hiperbatch works only with sequential data.
If you use it random it will
-Original Message-
From: Gerhard Adam [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, November 09, 2007 1:57 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: Performance comparison: Hiperbatch, BLSR, SMB?
Unfortuanately I haven't looked up this stuff in a long time, so I might
be wrong. But
-Original Message-
From: Bill Klein [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2007 10:25 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: Fw: COBOL COPY statement w REPLACING...
I assume (but could be mistaken) that you are trying to replace a part of
a string rather than a
-Original Message-
From: Phil Payne [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2007 4:54 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: Even got the capitalization right!!!
YES!!
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.isham-
research.co.uk/mainframe_2008.html
Check out
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From: Edward Jaffe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2007 3:13 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: OPTABLE option of Disassembler
David Cole wrote:
Because sometimes opcodes change meanings? Correct me if I'm wrong,
but it seems to
-Original Message-
From: Kirk Wolf [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2007 10:15 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: zAAP question
Snipped
IBM does not disclose the technical bits about what makes a JNI library
zAAP eligible, for obvious reasons.
Um-m-m,
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From: Chase, John [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2007 10:29 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: zAAP question
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Farley, Peter x23353
-Original
I did not know Bruce personally or professionally, only via this list, but
in all of his postings he was always professional and competent. He will be
missed.
Thank you Russ for letting us know about this sad event.
Peter
This message and any attachments are intended only for the use of the
-Original Message-
From: Mark H. Young [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2007 10:18 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: PL/S ??
Does a copy of PL/S from IBM exist anywhere in the public domain?
Or would there be somewhere on a z/OS mainframe system I could
May the road rise to meet you.
May the wind be always at your back.
May the sun shine warm upon your face.
And rains fall soft upon your fields.
And until we meet again,
May God hold you in the hollow of His hand.
And thank you for your dedication and hard work with this bunch of ... well,
let me
-Original Message-
From: Peter Relson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, October 29, 2007 9:38 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: Healthcheck (IBMCSV,CSV_APF_EXISTS)
Snipped
Should HSM allow you to migrate a non-SMS-managed data set with an APF
entry for the specific
-Original Message-
From: Jim Mulder [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2007 9:04 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: z/OS 1.8 Conditional Storage Obtain/Getmain Return Code
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We certainly did not (and would not) attempt to find and update the
multitude
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From: Skip Robinson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, October 26, 2007 12:54 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: z/OS 1.8 Conditional Storage Obtain/Getmain Return Code
One consequence might be shooting oneself in the foot. Or one's customers.
Check
-Original Message-
From: Tom Schmidt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, October 26, 2007 1:38 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: z/OS 1.8 Conditional Storage Obtain/Getmain Return Code
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That's a really good idea but how about if we FIRST let IBM finish
cleaning up
-Original Message-
From: Wayne Driscoll [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, October 26, 2007 5:35 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: z/OS 1.8 Conditional Storage Obtain/Getmain Return Code
Peter,
While you have a somewhat valid point, I think that IBM did a much
better
-Original Message-
From: Eric Bielefeld [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2007 12:43 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: multiple z/OS sharing considerations.
Snipped
That brings up a question I had on the part of the post I quoted below.
If you have 2 Lpars
-Original Message-
From: Farley, Peter x23353
Sent: Tuesday, October 23, 2007 1:38 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: multiple z/OS sharing considerations.
Snipped
Check out ARM (Automated Restart Management) in the manual:
z/OS V1R8.0 MVS Sysplex Services Guide
Chapter
is there for the CICS during normal operation? Also,
I gather that any transactions being processed within a CICS are lost if
an Lpar fails, and that batch jobs, if restarted on another system start
over from the beginning again.
- Original Message -
From: Farley, Peter x23353 [EMAIL
-Original Message-
From: Jacky Bright [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, October 19, 2007 4:12 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: CICS DFHCOMMAREA changes
nope the value for progs are less than 31000. How can I do that ?
You'd probably be better off asking this over
-Original Message-
From: Jacky Bright [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, October 19, 2007 3:41 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: CICS DFHCOMMAREA changes
Hi,
How can I change the DFHCOMMAREA size in the CICS Regions ? Is it possible
to define DFHCOMMAREA for diff.
-Original Message-
From: Peter Ten Eyck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, October 15, 2007 2:34 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: COBOL move statement issue
Enterprise COBOL 3.4.1 on z/OS 1.7
The following does not abend:
.
.
.
01 FIELD-1 PIC 9(3).
01 FIELD-2 PIC
-Original Message-
From: Mautalen Juan Guillermo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2007 10:03 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: Find a character string in a PDS - batch mode
Hi,
What is the best option to find a character string in PDS libraries in a
-Original Message-
From: Hunkeler Peter (KIUK 3) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, October 04, 2007 5:00 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: GETMAIN/FREEMAIN and virtual storage backing up
Does the 2 week internal course still exist?
The course basically still
-Original Message-
From: William Donzelli [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2007 3:33 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: Writing 23FDs
What do ou run on it? MVS/SP 2.2 perhaps?
OK, found it. DOS/VSE.
IIRC 4331's were introduced along with a
-Original Message-
From: Matthew Stitt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2007 4:10 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: Writing 23FDs
Ohthe memories.my head hurts. :-)
The full screen interface was DOS/VSEs attempt at ISPF. But it was
-Original Message-
From: Rick Fochtman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, September 26, 2007 4:55 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: Writing 23FDs
snip
How long has it been since the last APAR against IEFBR14? :-)
Bob,
The DATA and DLM parameters are your friend:
//SYSIN DD DATA,DLM=
./ ADD NAME=ASMJCL
// JOB ...
Etc., then at the end:
Every record between the DATA and (or whatever 4 chars you specify for
the DLM parameter) is read as data and not as JCL.
It might help
-Original Message-
From: Robert Pelletier [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2007 11:51 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: CBT Tape Help
Thanks all. I am trying to install DITTO (CBT471.FILE171).
Bob,
In the $$$DOC member of that CBT file the last
-Original Message-
From: Yogesh Mahajan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, September 07, 2007 5:52 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: COMMAND SHELL PROGRAMMING.
This could be done by REXX/ CList.
But if you wish to do write FTP script on client receiving the file, you
-Original Message-
From: Michael Bradley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2007 5:37 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: SUPERC Option UPDPDEL failing w/ msg: ISRS062E UPDATE
FILE/DATA SET, DELDD ...
Snipped
So, IBM has missed an opportunity to document
-Original Message-
From: Bob Rutledge [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, August 31, 2007 5:58 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: Password expiration message at every SUBMIT at z/OS 1.8?
-Original Message-
From: Bob Rutledge [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent:
Hi all,
We are transitioning to z/OS 1.8, and a change in behavior has become a
little annoying. Does anyone here know if this is normal behavior or if
an exit needs reassembly/changes for 1.8?
z/OS 1.6 behavior - TSS7003W password expiration message appeared only ONCE
per login, at login
-Original Message-
From: Mark Jacobs [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2007 10:38 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: Password expiration message at every SUBMIT at z/OS 1.8?
Farley, Peter x23353 wrote:
Hi all,
We are transitioning to z/OS 1.8
-Original Message-
From: Walt Farrell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2007 11:16 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: Password expiration message at every SUBMIT at z/OS 1.8?
Prior to z/OS R8, the RACROUTE REQUEST=VERIFYX that JES issues to
authenticate
-Original Message-
From: Bob Rutledge [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2007 12:48 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: Password expiration message at every SUBMIT at z/OS 1.8?
Peter,
This fixed that problem for us at z/OS 1.7:
MSG(7003,SBATCH)
-Original Message-
From: Kelman, Tom [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, August 13, 2007 9:26 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: Age Poll Results: 49.47
There is a risk of training new talent.
Snipped
However, we had put a lot of financial and time resources into
-Original Message-
From: Michael Bradley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, August 13, 2007 12:10 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: SUPERC Option UPDPDEL failing w/ msg: ISRS062E UPDATE FILE/DATA
SET, DELDD ...
This is cross-posted to ISPF-L IBM-MAIN because SUPERC is a
-Original Message-
From: Ed Finnell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2007 11:42 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: VSAM REUSE with alternate index
In a message dated 8/8/2007 10:28:14 A.M. Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Apparently
-Original Message-
From: Ed Finnell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2007 11:59 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: VSAM REUSE with alternate index
Well what I tried was Delete the CLUSTER(all AIX's go away). Reload with
BLSR then rebuild the AIX's.
-Original Message-
From: Howard Brazee [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2007 3:21 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: Override a proc step
Is there an easy way to override a proc step so that it does not run?
//STEPONE EXEC PROCNAME,COND.PROCSTEPNAME=(0,LE)
-Original Message-
From: McKown, John [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2007 3:25 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: Override a proc step
The only way that I have really heard of is to use a very weird COND
//STEP EXEC PROC=MYPROC,COND.STEP=(4093,NE)
-Original Message-
From: Bill Klein [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, August 03, 2007 6:54 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: Fw: COBOL Group moves
Farley, Peter x23353 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
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snip
-Original Message-
From: Ian [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2007 8:53 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: How old are you?
Hi List,
We have created a new poll to determine the average age of mainframe IT
people.
If you are interested and willing to
-Original Message-
From: Lizette Koehler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2007 12:41 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: COBOL Group moves
I have one question on the following code snippet.
If you code a VALUE on an 05 level, do you still have to
-Original Message-
From: Brian Peterson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2007 11:43 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: HMC - Load type SCSI
I thought the following was simply fascinating
http://www.research.ibm.com/journal/rd/483/banzhaf.html
Wow,
-Original Message-
From: McKown, John [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2007 12:07 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: VSAM in extents
I'm curious about this one. A person here has stated that when a VSAM
KSDS file is in multiple extents, it performs more poorly
-Original Message-
From: Timothy Sipples [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2007 1:00 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: Tools for Validating COBOL Source
The oft-mentioned IBM WebSphere Developer for System z (WDz) performs
excellent COBOL syntax validation
-Original Message-
From: David Andrews [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2007 4:30 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: Is Parallel Programming Just Too Hard?
On Wed, 2007-07-25 at 16:15 -0400, Warner Mach wrote:
Intel is going to open-source a C++ compiler
-Original Message-
From: Chris Steffens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2007 11:18 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: Compare two disk files
Does anyone know of a slick (accurate) way to compare two files which
reside on two seperate tapes?
Chris, there are
I haven't received a single message today (until this one and 5 others
@5:30PM EDT). I know there has been activity, I checked the archive, but
even google wasn't getting stuff.
Now it looks like it's all coming in at once (I'm now up to 20 new messages
in my IBM-MAIN folder).
Maybe Darren had
This is a followup to my series of questions about BLSR/SMB/LSR statistics
back in May of this year. My capacity and performance gurus queried IBM at
my request and came back to me to say that there ARE no VSAM LSR statistics
sent to SMF.
Can anyone here confirm or deny this statement? My CP
-Original Message-
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Timothy Sipples
Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2007 11:24 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: SV: PCOM questions
Snipped
Everybody is going to be different as to what their favorite new
:30 PM, Farley, Peter x23353 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
said:
I suppose you're right, but that doesn't mean I have to like it. One
of the greater distinctions between the *ix world and ours is that
our world has always had this big set of differences between online
and batch capabilities
-Original Message-
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of David Cole
Sent: Monday, June 25, 2007 2:45 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: Finding the last IPL time
Hi All,
Is there a way (an API or a cblock field) by which a program an find
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Behalf Of Phil Knight
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Subject: Re: how to list LE options
Dittoever have users cruise your parmlib and then tell you how to
tune
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Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2007 10:44 AM
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Subject: Re: how to list LE options
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There are pros and cons like everything else. If you want or need
rant
The message this morning titled Re: CLASSPATH in .profile not used
reminded me that I have never seen an adequate answer to the subject
question.
IOW, why are z/OS Unix Services so badly integrated into the z/OS world?
Why isn't the following JCL valid, assuming I have a RACF OMVS segment
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If you are at zOS 1.7 or above this command seems to work;
D
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That's like asking why we need IKJEFT01 to run TSO commands
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Subject: Re: Patents, Copyrights, Profits, Flex and Hercules
No!
It is far from correct to conclude that, and
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On Tue, 12 Jun 2007 12:51:12 -0700, Dean Kent
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If PWD doesn't provide you with what you
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From: Dave Kopischke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2007 4:33 PM
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Subject: Re: How do i install Linux on S/390 Machine
On Thu, 7 Jun 2007 16:04:58 -0400, Bob Shannon wrote:
The presentations from the most recent
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From: Dave Salt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Paul Gilmartin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
And what do you recommend for a
Actually, SPACE=(0,0) will work just as well, if you can get it past your
SDLC (software development life cycle) software (ours requires
SPACE=(CYL,0), all space allocations must be CYL by fiat).
But you're right, it surely shows you for the creature of habit that you
are... :) Welcome to the
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From: Paul Gilmartin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2007 5:32 PM
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Subject: Re: DISP=(MOD,DELETE)
On Wed, 23 May 2007 17:11:58 -0400, Farley, Peter x23353 wrote:
Actually, SPACE=(0,0) will work just as well, if you
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From: Stocker, Herman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2007 7:57 AM
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Subject: HLASM calling E/Cobol Response time problem
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We added PREINIT to the JCL this brought the checkpoint time down to 5
minutes.
What does
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From: Vernooy, C.P. - SPLXM [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, May 18, 2007 3:51 AM
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Subject: Re: Date Time in JCL
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Naive idea: why not provide
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