Re: Problem with SMP/E RECEIVE ORDER

2012-06-14 Thread Jürgen Kehr
Hi, thanks to all, who answered to my note. The CSI I'm talking about is a z/OS CSI. You suggested to reduce the size of the package, for example to use CONTENT(CRITICAL). I have already done so, but as soon, as I'm using RECOMMENDED I get the error message. AFAIK using parameters like

Problem with SMP/E RECEIVE ORDER

2012-06-13 Thread Jürgen Kehr
Hi, today I get a problem with SMPE RECEIVE ORDER. With several tries I always get the following message: GIM69212S ** RECEIVE PROCESSING HAS FAILED FOR ORDER ORD2. A PACKAGE FOR ORDER ORD2 WITH ORDERID H73315968 CANNOT BE CREATED BECAUSE THE PACKAGE SIZE

Preventive z/OS maintenance, was: EPSPT vs. FIXCAT

2012-05-17 Thread Jürgen Kehr
Hi Radoslaw, in your note you mentioned the idea to apply all (installable) PTFs. This idea leads me to the reason for opening this topic. I'm involved in an IBM project for preventive maintenance packages named CPMz. One major idea behind this project is to apply as few PTFs as possible, but

Re: EPSPT vs. FIXCAT

2012-05-16 Thread Jürgen Kehr
Hi Ant, in theory that's possible, but it would be very uncomfortable to process more than a few PSP bucket files in such way. I'm looking for a solution where I can automate this process, for example to identify any update change in the PSP bucket files. Am 16.05.2012 08:48, schrieb

Re: EPSPT vs. FIXCAT

2012-05-16 Thread Jürgen Kehr
Hi Mark, so please tell me which category is used for CICS? When I look through the catalog at http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/z/os/zos/smpe/fixcategory.html I could not find any CICS category, there are some for z/OS, for DB2, for IMS etc. but where are the CICS categories? Am 16.05.2012

Re: EPSPT vs. FIXCAT

2012-05-16 Thread Jürgen Kehr
Hi Kurt, thanks, that is the information I wasn't aware of, the fact that for CICS there isn't a special category like for IMS or DB2 and that these PTFs are all together in this generic category. So all PTFs from the former PSP extract files are now in any category either in a specific or

EPSPT vs. FIXCAT

2012-05-15 Thread Jürgen Kehr
Hello, from some IBM information I find out that sevral years ago a tool named EPSPT (Enhanced Preventive Service Planning Tool) existed, which used extracted PSP bucket data to report missing PTFs for several products in a z/OS environment. Therefore it used data from the FTP server at

Re: EPSPT vs. FIXCAT

2012-05-15 Thread Jürgen Kehr
Hi Linda, thanks for your very fast answer. Unfortunately it does not match what I'm looking for. I already know how to work with FIXCATs, as well as with the old ePSPt. The fact that I mentioned CICS was only to give an example. I'll try to describe my problem in more detail: If you look

Re: smp/e ? - copy FMID data from one target zone to another

2011-03-04 Thread Jürgen Kehr
Hi John, I would try a ZONEMERGE for the FMIDS from the z/OS 1.8 system. This would handle the CSI entries, if there are common libraries with the z/OS 1.12 system you should copy them together manually. Am 04.03.2011 17:51, schrieb McKown, John: I'm installing z/OS 1.12. On my z/OS 1.8

Re: SMP/E CSI record layout

2011-03-03 Thread Jürgen Kehr
Hello Ravi, you're absolutely right, until yesterday I've only seen 010300 but then I got a CSI from another installation, where 070300 occurs, what leads to my question. BTW: the reason why I'm looking into this data is fairly hard to explain and a much longer story, perhaps I'll find the

SMP/E CSI record layout

2011-03-02 Thread Jürgen Kehr
Hello, does anybody out there have an idea where I can get a description of the SMP/E record layout within a CSI dataset. Especially I'm looking for a unique identifier which describes the TZONE entry records within a targetzone. Up to now I thought, that all these records have hex 010300 on

Question regarding enhanced holddata

2011-01-27 Thread Jürgen Kehr
We used to download enhanced holddata from IBM's server several times a day for different environments. In the past we haven't had any problems with this method. Since a few days we get more and more timeout errors during download. So we are thinking about changing our process. The data

Re: HIPER PTFs/APARs

2011-01-24 Thread Jürgen Kehr
Hello, thanks for your response. First of all: Everything you said I totally agree with, but unfortunately that does not solve the problem I have. Let's just remember: In one of my last orders I got PTFs UK63710 (which addresses HIPER (DATALOSS) APAR PK88044) and UK63686 (which addresses

HIPER PTFs/APARs

2011-01-22 Thread Jürgen Kehr
Hello, today I have a question regarding HIPER PTFs or APARs. Until now I thought that a HIPER PTF is a PTF which addresses a HIPER APAR. You may get a list of all HIPER PTFs, if you download the file /s390/assigns/hiper_prp.txt from service.boulder.ibm.com. There you got ++ASSIGN statements

Re: Removing Fortran frm LPAR

2008-11-12 Thread Jürgen Kehr
Hi, additionaly you should remove the FORTRAN libraries from your SMP/E environment by installing a ++DELETE - function, if you have a separate SMP/E environment for this LPAR. Otherwise you may get service for this product in future. Jacky Bright schrieb: Hi, I guess slowdown started

Re: Concatenating TERSEd data?

2008-10-17 Thread Jürgen Kehr
Hi, couldn't you put the sequential datasets into one large PO dataset and terse this one ? On the other side you unterse it to a PO file again and unload it with IEBGENER. Tim Hare schrieb: We need to TERSE a fairly large (for us) amount of data. This data is in multiple separate datasets

Re: How to insert records using EXECIO

2008-10-16 Thread Jürgen Kehr
Hi, ... and after 15 records added this way you'll get an x37 error, because your dataset have more than 16 extents. [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: I wonder - Why is it not possible to add records to the beginning of a data set? Wouldn't it be possible for a sufficiently clever program to

Re: FIXCAT HOLDDATA

2008-10-10 Thread Jürgen Kehr
Hi, I sent a similar question to Kurt Quackenbush (SMP/E development), the FIXCAT HOLDs should be available starting October 8th. Perhaps, we'll get an answer here. Chase, John schrieb: Hi, All, Has anybody encountered the new FIXCAT HOLDDATA yet? As of today's download from

Re: FIXCAT HOLDDATA

2008-10-10 Thread Jürgen Kehr
Hi, AFAIK your problem is not a missing UPGRADE of your SMP/E CSIs or something else in your environment. You have to pick up the FIXCAT HOLDs from somewhere and to receive it. One place to pick them up should be the FTP server at ftp://service.boulder.ibm.com/s390/holddata/ Andy White

Re: REXX question

2008-10-04 Thread Jürgen Kehr
Hello, AFAIK pull is the short form for parse upper pull, so it shouldn't make any difference to your version. What makes me nervous instead is the single quote in the do until clause ... : N' Lizette Koehler schrieb: Rexx is case sensitive. Use PARSE Pull UPPER Answer

Re: REXX question

2008-10-04 Thread Jürgen Kehr
Hi, I looked up the TSO REXX reference, it says: PULL reads a string from the head of the external data queue. It is just a short form of the instruction:  PARSE UPPER PULL template_list ; if you do not need the uppercase translation you should code parse pull. Lizette Koehler schrieb: I

Re: Squashing VB records into FB

2008-09-26 Thread Jürgen Kehr
Hello, you may have a look for the following program, which is a part of SMP/E (and therefore available on any system): GIMDTS: Data transformation service routine it transforms VB files (and some other) to FB=80 files. The only problem might be the retransformation, which normally is done

Logic in FTP procedure

2008-09-22 Thread Jürgen Kehr
Hello, I have a small problem with the following job: a FTP batch jobs runs on a daily base and it should pick up some data, which has the month and year of the preceding month in its name, for example in july 08 it may pick up the dataset XXX0608. This dataset is available around the 8th of

Re: Data conversion EBCDIC to ASCII

2008-09-20 Thread Jürgen Kehr
Hello, you may use the following REXX to do this job. AFAIK this program uses the german code table, but this may easily changed. /** REXX */ /*---*/ /*! FA#ASCII

Re: can the ENTER key be simulated in an ISPF panel

2008-09-19 Thread Jürgen Kehr
Hello, I'm not sure what you are planning to do: if you want to display some kind of in-process messages, then DISPLAY LOCK is correct : the usage of PF keys doesn't make sense, because your REXX is running, it has the control at that time. Only ATTN key makes sense to interrupt the running

Re: APAR Names for IMS

2008-09-15 Thread Jürgen Kehr
more detailled infomation to this topic ? Mark Zelden schrieb: On Sat, 13 Sep 2008 00:06:23 +0200, Jürgen Kehr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This subject comes up now and then and I still don't know of any cross reference list between the SYSMOD APAR

Re: Another SMP Question...

2008-09-14 Thread Jürgen Kehr
Hello, what kind of errors do you expect from the APPLY ? If after the APPLY a SYSMOD stays in ERROR status, an APPLY without REDO of the same SYSMOD is sufficient. If you have to change your job for the already installed error-free SYSMODs, depends of what you have used: if you listed all

Identify ZFS files in REXX

2008-09-12 Thread Jürgen Kehr
Hello, I'm not sure, if this topic was diskussed before, but I think I'll get some help here. How can I identify a zFS File in a REXX procedure and separate it from other VSAM LDS ? Thanks in advance for any help. -- ___

Re: Identify ZFS files in REXX

2008-09-12 Thread Jürgen Kehr
information (like how much freespace is in the filesystem). Cheers Wolfgang - Original Message - From: Jürgen Kehr [EMAIL PROTECTED] Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Sent: Friday, September 12, 2008 10:09 AM Subject: Identify ZFS files in REXX Hello, I'm not sure

Re: Identify ZFS files in REXX

2008-09-12 Thread Jürgen Kehr
- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jürgen Kehr Sent: 12. syyskuuta 2008 11:09 To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Identify ZFS files in REXX Hello, I'm not sure, if this topic was diskussed before, but I think I'll get some help here. How can I identify

Re: Identify ZFS files in REXX

2008-09-12 Thread Jürgen Kehr
Hi all, thanks to all who answered to my question. I finally decide to use LISTCAT to determine the dataset type. Here 's my result; /* REXX */ arg dsn err_ret = ERROR dsn =

Re: SMP Error During a Receive Operator

2008-09-12 Thread Jürgen Kehr
Hello, I think you need to enlarge the directory block value in the DSSPACE entry in the used OPTIONS. AFAIK no other actions have to be taken. Howard Rifkind schrieb: During an SMP receive operator I got the following error: IEB1013I COPYING FROM PDSU INDD=SMPPTFIN VOL=MP3021

Re: SMP CAUSER Question

2008-09-12 Thread Jürgen Kehr
Hi, AFAIK the prefix AK... was never used for PTFs instead is was used for (physical) APARs, which means a possibly installed temporary fix. This AK.. correspond to the (descriptive) APAR PK..., to which you'll find some information in IBMLINK. There it's better you use PK... instead of

APAR Names for IMS (was: SMP CAUSER Question)

2008-09-12 Thread Jürgen Kehr
JMK8802 PK... leads to GK... for FMID JMK8803 PK... leads to WK... for FMID JMK8804 PK... leads to XK... for FMID HMK8805 PK... leads to JK... for FMID HMK8806 Does anybody know, where to get this table for IMS V9 ? Jürgen Kehr schrieb: Hi, AFAIK the prefix AK... was never used for PTFs instead

Re: APAR Names for IMS

2008-09-12 Thread Jürgen Kehr
XQx JMK9906 JQx where Q represents the second character of the APAR prefix, x represents the APAR number Jürgen Kehr schrieb: Hi, in connection to this topic another question comes to my mind: for IMS there was a connection between the names

Re: ALTLIB doesn't work as expected

2008-09-08 Thread Jürgen Kehr
Hi, your situation is a it-works-as-designed problem. The description of the REXX CALL statement (TSO/E REXX Reference) says: The following list describes the steps used to search for a REXX exec for a function or subroutine call: a. Search the ddname from which the exec that is calling the

Re: Need some SMP help.

2008-09-05 Thread Jürgen Kehr
Hello, the FMID HXML190 has to be applied (not only received) to install this PTF. Howard Rifkind schrieb: The XML Toolkit has been received but I can't do an Apply/Check against some of the sysmods. -- ___ Freundliche

Re: IBM Softcopy Reader

2008-09-03 Thread Jürgen Kehr
Hi, you may try: http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?doc=4001220org=SWrs=4 http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?doc=4001220org=SWrs=4 Good luck. Yukus, Mary J CIV USMEPCOM schrieb: Does anyone know where I can download the IBM Softcopy Reader from on IBM's site? I have been

TSO/REXX IRXEXCOM interface

2008-09-01 Thread Jürgen Kehr
Hi, I'm looking for some sample C/370 code which uses the IRXEXCOM interface to fetch and set REXX variables. Thanks in advance for any help. -- ___ Freundliche Gruesse / Kind regards Dipl.Math. Juergen Kehr, IT Schulung

Re: TSO/REXX IRXEXCOM interface

2008-09-01 Thread Jürgen Kehr
Hi, thanks for the link, but unfortunately this is an example for setting a variable from the C program, what I'm looking for is just the other way around: to fetch some REXX variables to use them in the C program. Norbert Friemel schrieb: On Mon, 1 Sep 2008 12:10:49 +0200, Jürgen Kehr

Re: REXX GIMAPI Interface / CBT778

2008-08-29 Thread Jürgen Kehr
Hi, today I get the updated version of this REXX GIMAPI interface program. At the first look it seemed to run fine now, the subentry values are not only displayed for the first entry, it shows now all matching values. But then I found another problem: when you start the sample REXX from the

Re: REXX GIMAPI Interface / CBT778

2008-08-27 Thread Jürgen Kehr
Hi, I think I have to clarify, what in detail my problem with the prgram from CBT file 778 is: I modified the sample REXX to point to my CSI dataset: /* REXX */ GIMCSI='SPSOS.P0802.GLOBAL.CSI' GIMZONE='OST'

REXX GIMAPI Interface / CBT778

2008-08-26 Thread Jürgen Kehr
Hello, when I tried to use the REXX GIMAPI interface (CBT778) I get the same problem which is described in an older maillist entry: The issue that I have is that it only honors the GIMSENTRY specification for the first item that matches the filter. All further matches only list the default