Re: Volume is offline after IPL (ADCD beginner question)

2015-08-03 Thread John Eells
michael.kni...@set.de (Michael Knigge) wrote: All, I’m currently installing and customizing an z/OS 2.1 ADCD. Until now, nearly everything I’ve needed to customize is working pretty well, but there is just one thing I really don’t get. I don’t understand the way how z/OS brings volumes

Volume is offline after IPL (ADCD beginner question)

2015-08-03 Thread Michael Knigge
All, I’m currently installing and customizing an z/OS 2.1 ADCD. Until now, nearly everything I’ve needed to customize is working pretty well, but there is just one thing I really don’t get. I don’t understand the way how z/OS brings volumes online on IPL. The ADCD comes with several volumes

Re: Where are Internet Lists for Mainframe

2015-08-03 Thread Ed Finnell
Only if it's listserv. All are not; i.e. DB2. Did Marist ever come back online? Haven't been watching. In a message dated 8/3/2015 3:00:16 P.M. Central Daylight Time, stars...@mindspring.com writes: If you use this URL, you can find any list http://www.lsoft.com/lists/list_q.html

Re: replacement CRTs for 3278s

2015-08-03 Thread Mike Schwab
https://www.facebook.com/LivingComputerMuseum/photos/a.371316979619198.90550.239463436137887/865911480159743/?type=1 Repaired IBM 3278 terminal. On Mon, Aug 3, 2015 at 3:05 AM, glen herrmannsfeldt g...@ugcs.caltech.edu wrote: Shmuel Metz , Seymour J. shmuel+ibm-m...@patriot.net wrote: In

Re: Where are Internet Lists for Mainframe

2015-08-03 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
stars...@mindspring.com (Lizette Koehler) writes: For those of you going to share in Orlando, I would like to let you know that at Share Tom Conley will be giving a share presentation on Thursday 3:15p called Effective Use of the Internet for Mainframe Problem Solving This session will show

Re: SORT one input to 3 output files - different orders

2015-08-03 Thread Sri h Kolusu
Bill, The trick is to concatenate the master file 3 times but have a header file to distinguish the file and put the key values to be sorted at a common place. (usually at the end) So the largest sort key is from file 2 which has 9 + 8 = 17 bytes and the smallest sort key is from file3 which

Re: Heads up: ISMF error using the EOF key.

2015-08-03 Thread Elardus Engelbrecht
Kees Vernooij wrote: Final update: PTF UA77758 is now available and solves the problem. My oh my! That is a cool and fast (3 months) fix! Congratulations on having the big blue listen to you. Next PTF? ;-) Groete / Greetings Elardus Engelbrecht

replacement CRTs for 3278s

2015-08-03 Thread glen herrmannsfeldt
Shmuel Metz , Seymour J. shmuel+ibm-m...@patriot.net wrote: In 20150730231354.cffa74874...@lara.ugcs.caltech.edu, on 07/30/2015 at 04:13 PM, glen herrmannsfeldt g...@ugcs.caltech.edu said: Does anyone know where to get replacement, either new or with lots of life left, CRTs for 3729

Re: Heads up: ISMF error using the EOF key.

2015-08-03 Thread Kees Vernooij
Final update: PTF UA77758 is now available and solves the problem. Kees. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Volume is offline after IPL (ADCD beginner question)

2015-08-03 Thread Pfister, Nathan
Within the IODF for the system, you can specify whether a device comes up online or offline to a system. This is where those ADCD volumes would be specified as online. This website is a pretty good outline of how to change an IODF (albeit a little hard to follow):

Re: Volume is offline after IPL (ADCD beginner question)

2015-08-03 Thread Elardus Engelbrecht
Michael Knigge wrote: Now I’ve added an own volume, assigned an address in the devmap file and did an IPL. Now… the volume is always offline after IPL. I can bring it online with “V 0af1,online” but I don’t know what I have to do that z/OS will bring it online automatically… (BTW, the address

Re: Volume is offline after IPL (ADCD beginner question)

2015-08-03 Thread Elardus Engelbrecht
Pfister, Nathan wrote: Within the IODF for the system, ... Yes, thanks for mentioning the IODF. It surely is one of the places to check your volsers. Groete / Greetings Elardus Engelbrecht -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff

Re: (fwd) Problem with 'DB2-REXX via JCL'.

2015-08-03 Thread Lizette Koehler
I would also recommend you join, if you have not done so, the TSO-REXX and DB2 Lists. They are awesome when it comes to helping with these topics. Since you are using DSNREXX I would go to DB2 List first. to join either list, use the following DB2 List IDUG.ORG For TSO-REXX

Re: COBOL V5.2

2015-08-03 Thread Lizette Koehler
I agree with David. Please specify your issues. If you have not read the migration guides, there are a lot of changes for COBOL compile and Running Cobol in batch/onlines And if you think it is a bug, definitely open a case with IBM. Especially if it is a documentation issue. Lizette

Re: Exporting Excel to Dataset

2015-08-03 Thread Roach, Dennis
You can use a VBS macro to save each sheet as a .cvs and then ftp the .cvs file(s) Sub export_cvs(sheet_to_export,export_file_name) Sheets(sheet_to_export).Select ' select the sheet to export Application.DisplayAlerts = False'suppress error prompts ActiveWorkbook.SaveAs _

COBOL V5.2

2015-08-03 Thread Gary Snider
Hi, We are testing out COBOL V5.2 and have found several problems. Just wondering how many of you are running COBOL V5.2 and if you are having a similar experience. Thanks, Gary -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive

Re: COBOL V5.2

2015-08-03 Thread Jousma, David
It's a pretty major conversion for a lot of shops, just to get to all PDSE loadlibs for one, and if using mixed levels of older load modules. Care to share with us the problems you are having? Tom Ross from IBM frequents the list, and has provided a link to his Share presentation with lots of

Re: Exporting Excel to Dataset

2015-08-03 Thread Roberts, John J
We have a requirement that looks for exporting an Excel template with data in a tabular format from an FTP folder location to a mainframe PDS which later needs to be accessed via COBOL for some business processing logic. We know that this works fine if the input Excel file is in .CSV format.

IBM contract types

2015-08-03 Thread Peter
Hi All Can someone provide me information on the different types of IBM contracts ? This is Just for my knowledge purpose and nothing much in specific. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send

Re: IBM contract types

2015-08-03 Thread Porowski, Ken
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Re: (fwd) Problem with 'DB2-REXX via JCL'.

2015-08-03 Thread Itschak Mugzach
Is DSNLOAD in your steplib or linklist? ITschak ITschak Mugzach Z/OS, ISV Products and Application Security Risk Assessments Professional On Mon, Aug 3, 2015 at 8:37 PM, Don Poitras poit...@pobox.com wrote: More people can see your question if you post to the listserv rather than the

Exporting Excel to Dataset

2015-08-03 Thread Ron Thomas
We have a requirement that looks for exporting an Excel template with data in a tabular format from an FTP folder location to a mainframe PDS which later needs to be accessed via COBOL for some business processing logic. We know that this works fine if the input Excel file is in .CSV format.

Re: Exporting Excel to Dataset

2015-08-03 Thread Farley, Peter x23353
I think that the open document format for spreadsheet files (*.ods) is an XML file in reality, you might want to investigate converting the Excel template to that format first. Excel since the 2007 version can save files in that format, using SaveAs. HTH Peter -Original Message-

(fwd) Problem with 'DB2-REXX via JCL'.

2015-08-03 Thread Don Poitras
More people can see your question if you post to the listserv rather than the newsgroup. I'd first look at your JCL STEPLIB. Is the library with RXSUBCOM present? -- forwarded message -- Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2015 06:32:49 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Problem with 'DB2-REXX

Re: Exporting Excel to Dataset

2015-08-03 Thread Sam Siegel
Several years ago, I developed an API which allows COBOL, ASM, etc. to read and write native excel files. To read, the unmodified Excel files is binary uploaded to sequential file or PDS member. JCL allocates sequential file or PDS member via JCL. COBOL program accesses sequential file or PDS

Re: Exporting Excel to Dataset

2015-08-03 Thread John McKown
On Mon, Aug 3, 2015 at 12:19 PM, Ron Thomas ron5...@gmail.com wrote: We have a requirement that looks for exporting an Excel template with data in a tabular format from an FTP folder location to a mainframe PDS which later needs to be accessed via COBOL for some business processing logic. We

Re: Volume is offline after IPL (ADCD beginner question)

2015-08-03 Thread Terry Sambrooks
Hi Michael, Having added several volumes to various pre-z/OS 2.1 release of the ADCD without hitting the problem you have mentioned it might be worth posting you devmap entry from what would logically be zos21.prof (z/OS 1.13 has zos113s.prof which is how I derived the name.) It may be something

Re: Where are Internet Lists for Mainframe

2015-08-03 Thread David Evans
For those of us not going to SHARE, can we have a list of Mainframe specific Lists? David Evans From: Lizette Koehler stars...@mindspring.com To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Date: 07/28/2015 11:01 AM Subject:Where are Internet Lists for Mainframe Sent by:IBM Mainframe

Writing the Definitive Systems Programmer Resume

2015-08-03 Thread Joe Gallaher
I would like to invite anyone attending the upcoming SHARE conference in Orlando to come to my session entitled Writing the Definitive Systems Programmer Resume (session 17779, Wednesday, August 12, 2015: 4:30 PM-5:30 PM). It is the 10th time I have given this presentation at SHARE and it

Re: Writing the Definitive Systems Programmer Resume

2015-08-03 Thread Thomas Conley
On 8/3/2015 9:23 AM, Joe Gallaher wrote: I would like to invite anyone attending the upcoming SHARE conference in Orlando to come to my session entitled Writing the Definitive Systems Programmer Resume (session 17779, Wednesday, August 12, 2015: 4:30 PM-5:30 PM). It is the 10th time I have

Re: Where are Internet Lists for Mainframe

2015-08-03 Thread Mark Zelden
I'm sure some (or more) of it is obsolete, but on the left hand side of the CBT tape home page there is a link to Mail and Newsgroups: http://www.cbttape.org/ http://www.cbttape.org/internet.phtml Best Regards, Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS ITIL v3

Re: SORT one input to 3 output files - different orders

2015-08-03 Thread Sri h Kolusu
Bill, Are all Input files of the same LRECL and RECFM? If so we can accomplish the task in a Single pass of the data and sort the accordingly. There is a trick to get it done. Let me know the attributes of all the input file and desired output file attributes and I will show you a way to do

Re: SORT one input to 3 output files - different orders

2015-08-03 Thread Bill Ashton
Hi Kolusu...yes, all the master files and the trans files are 90 bytes FB. Each record has multiple pieces of data, with the three master files being sorted on their respective key. I did make one little error earlier, by forgetting that two of the files have compound keys... so here is the sort

FW: Where are Internet Lists for Mainframe

2015-08-03 Thread August Carideo/RYE/US
VSE Discussion List vs...@lists.lehigh.edu -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Frank Swarbrick Sent: Monday, August 03, 2015 4:39 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Where are Internet Lists for Mainframe No love

Re: Where are Internet Lists for Mainframe

2015-08-03 Thread Lizette Koehler
So the following lists is what I have to date If you use this URL, you can find any list http://www.lsoft.com/lists/list_q.html CICShttp://www.listserv.uga.edu/archives/cics-l.html DB2 http://www.idug.org/ General MVS IBM-Mainhttps://listserv.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html IBM

Re: Where are Internet Lists for Mainframe

2015-08-03 Thread Frank Swarbrick
No love for VSE? VSE http://www.lehigh.edu/~wsm0/vse-l/ Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2015 13:00:03 -0700 From: stars...@mindspring.com Subject: Re: Where are Internet Lists for Mainframe To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU So the following lists is what I have to date If you use this URL, you can find

SORT one input to 3 output files - different orders

2015-08-03 Thread Bill Ashton
Good afternoon, friends! I thought this should be easy, but I can't get started with this. I have one transaction file that I need to add to 3 different master files. The master files are in 3 different sequences, so I can't just sort the trans file and MOD it to the end. Also, because I don't

AW: Volume is offline after IPL (ADCD beginner question)

2015-08-03 Thread Michael Knigge
Thank you all for your replies I guess I've got it ;) Well when I stared adding my own volumes my intention was to use device addresses that are far away from the addresses of the IBM supplied volume (so my volumes will probably never conflict/use addresses that will be used by IBM

Re: SORT one input to 3 output files - different orders

2015-08-03 Thread Binyamin Dissen
ICETOOL (as well as the other vendors products) support multiple sorts and merges in a single jobstep. On Mon, 3 Aug 2015 15:33:46 -0400 Bill Ashton bill00ash...@gmail.com wrote: :Good afternoon, friends! I thought this should be easy, but I can't get :started with this. :I have one transaction

Re: Where are Internet Lists for Mainframe

2015-08-03 Thread David Evans
Thanks! David Evans From: Mark Zelden m...@mzelden.com To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Date: 08/03/2015 02:42 PM Subject:Re: Where are Internet Lists for Mainframe Sent by:IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU I'm sure some (or more) of it is