Re: BDW length vs. Physical Length

2014-12-25 Thread Binyamin Dissen
On Wed, 24 Dec 2014 19:18:44 -0500 Robert A. Rosenberg hal9...@panix.com wrote: :At 22:59 + on 12/23/2014, Blaicher, Christopher Y. wrote about :Re: BDW length vs. Physical Length: :I can't remember, but BSAM may, and I stress may, check the block :length is a multiple of the LRECL. :This

Re: I want to add data of 30 VSAM files to one PS flat file.

2014-12-25 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In caarmm9spihcfyncf90+zehetejvq1ciyvwucc6k_ijvk6oj...@mail.gmail.com, on 12/18/2014 at 10:00 PM, Tony Harminc t...@harminc.net said: PL/I supported QTAM and later TCAM message queues as what a C or Java person might call first class objects. Looked at another way, such a teleprocessing

Re: Help please with symbols in a lower-case SET operand

2014-12-25 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 8d1e58fb6d10ea2-1864-43...@webmail-vd012.sysops.aol.com, on 12/14/2014 at 03:33 AM, Mitch 005d889cebf0-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu said: I am trying to follow what you are asking, but am unsure Are you saying there is something in a JCL environment that should be reported as an

Re: //STARTING JOB ... was: Re: JCLLIB in started proc?

2014-12-25 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 20141221173446.fd8ed08264703ad3452c5...@gmx.net, on 12/21/2014 at 05:34 PM, ibmmain nitz-...@gmx.net said: Nice summary, Peter. Do you happen to know who puts in //STARTING JOB ... when MEMBER is only contained in the JES2 proclib concatenation and not in MSTJCL? Presumably IEEVSTAR for

Re: Setting a lonnnnng SLIP trap

2014-12-25 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In of6354b600.7395d730-on85257dae.0050c584-85257dae.00512...@us.ibm.com, on 12/14/2014 at 09:46 AM, Peter Relson rel...@us.ibm.com said: What comes to mind (but I might be mis-thinking a bit) is that the intent is that the OPER TSO command really should not be used; that has been true for

Re: JCLLIB in started proc?

2014-12-25 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 06d401d01a5e$a7a0b6c0$f6e22440$@mcn.org, on 12/17/2014 at 05:05 PM, Charles Mills charl...@mcn.org said: I just added a JCLLIB statement to a cataloged procedure that I start with a Start command. I am getting IEFC019I MISPLACED JCLLIB STATEMENT. Should I infer that JCLLIB is not allowed

Re: I want to add data of 30 VSAM files to one PS flat file.

2014-12-25 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In CAAJSdjjtjcYJvNeBgz7ZVZgt1p=4cSK42bM8o9B71WNyQ5=7...@mail.gmail.com, on 12/18/2014 at 08:35 AM, John McKown john.archie.mck...@gmail.com said: I agree. But I will also mention that just using the word file can now be confusing due to the addition of UNIX into z/OS. Well, due to IBM's

Re: JCLLIB in started proc?

2014-12-25 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 0de6a9840123e547b061ac5b6765c0261753e...@exmb-05.ad.wsu.edu, on 12/18/2014 at 03:48 PM, Gibney, Dave gib...@wsu.edu said: While I agree that IEFJOBS makes it clearer and works better, you can place started job JCL in the MSTJCL PROCLIB. Yes, you can place a job in IEFPDSI, but the Devil

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2014-12-25 Thread Scott Ford
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Re: RECFM=VBS,LRECL=32767?

2014-12-25 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 20141216105556.66da404ee6d280833b79b...@gmx.net, on 12/16/2014 at 10:55 AM, nitz-...@gmx.net nitz-...@gmx.net said: These two make up the 6 byte BDW+RDW is 8 bytes. without exceeding geometry. I've seen geometry used to refer to the number of tracks per cylinder, but never for the length

Re: RECFM=VBS,LRECL=32767?

2014-12-25 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 002901d01953$e00d4390$a027cab0$@q.com, on 12/16/2014 at 09:15 AM, retired mainframer retired-mainfra...@q.com said: Isn't the RDW already included in the LRECL (VBA print files are 137 which leaves 133 for data which includes carriage control)? Isn't the BDW always excluded from the LRECL

Re: Utility to replace occurrences of string in PDS?

2014-12-25 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 00b301d018c4$5b2655c0$11730140$@mcn.org, on 12/15/2014 at 04:08 PM, Charles Mills charl...@mcn.org said: I'm looking for a reasonable way to replace all occurrences of a given string in a dataset. Can you live with equal length replacements? it has to be easier than writing a Rexx

Re: publibz-infocenter-knowledgecenter

2014-12-25 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 549ab499026d0017d...@prv-mh.provo.novell.com, on 12/24/2014 at 10:42 AM, Mark Post mp...@suse.com said: A quick Google search turned up this: http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/3-pdf-document-management-tools-organizing-research/ How many of those tools will extract the document title and

Re: ftp rdw

2014-12-25 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 5727780323951226.wa.paulgboulderaim@listserv.ua.edu, on 12/15/2014 at 07:35 AM, Paul Gilmartin 000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu said: Are you using TRANSMIT or AMATERSE on MVS/380? I had thought they were relatively new, probably licensed program products, and not

Re: Regular Expressions in ISREDIT z/OS 2.01

2014-12-25 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Sun, 21 Dec 2014 09:24:38 -0500, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: on 12/14/2014 at 09:09 AM, Alan Watthey said: The change command is still missing one capability I would love to see. The ability to set variables in the first parameter. If you're going to ask for captures, why not go whole

Re: BDW length vs. Physical Length

2014-12-25 Thread Blaicher, Christopher Y.
I have to question the accuracy of Mr. Altmark's comment. First let's take the last question from Paul Gilmartin. ECKD, which is what all modern DASD is, stands for Extended Count Key Data. The 'Extended' refers to the channel commands you can issue, not the devices capabilities. All

Re: BDW length vs. Physical Length

2014-12-25 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
cblaic...@syncsort.com (Blaicher, Christopher Y.) writes: ECKD, which is what all modern DASD is, stands for Extended Count Key Data. The 'Extended' refers to the channel commands you can issue, not the devices capabilities. All blocks written to a ECKD device consist of a Count field, an

Re: BDW length vs. Physical Length

2014-12-25 Thread Blaicher, Christopher Y.
Lynn, Of course you are correct as far as the physical disk is concerned, but z/OS only talks to ECKD controllers which emulate ECKD on FBA devices. The discussion was on how BSAM and other I/O routines read and write data on DASD. Chris Blaicher Principal Software Engineer, Software