AW: Re: SFTP issue

>The customer is uploading via a webpage . I may have missed something, but I understand, firstly the data does not even arrive completely on the Linux, and secondly this is probably HTTP/HTTPS data transfer since you mention "via webpage". It seems to me FTP is not yet involved, but a

AW: Re: SFTP issue

> Do you have the option to go directly to the Mainframe? Maybe the z/Unix > side and grab it from there? What is "z/UNIX side"? Did you meant zLinux or z/OS Unix? If the former what would be the difference to the current situation, which is Linux under some "VM" (not specfied)? If the

Re: Job hold on jes2 input queue

Hi, yes, those are all WLM managed initiators. i have changed them from mode=wlm to jes but it didn't work :(. Any other way to skip this? .Also, I noted if I submit the wrong(error) jcl it starts executing automatically but the same jcl is on hold on input queue after the fix. Note: we are

Re: z/OS 2.2 PDF Download Collection - index working now

On Thu, 6 Apr 2017 12:47:45 -0500, Paul Gilmartin wrote: >On Thu, 6 Apr 2017 05:23:45 -0500, Dyck, Lionel B. (TRA) wrote: > >>Last night I downloaded the collection one more time and this time it unzip'd >>and the index worked perfectly. >> >Well, I downloaded again from

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: z/OS 2.2 PDF Download Collection - index working now

Thanks much for checking again and reporting, Lionel (and for double-checking and reporting, Paul). While that stinks that you initially had trouble, I'm glad that it ended up an isolated, temporary incident. Yours truly, Sue Shumway On 04/06/17 2:00 PM, Dyck, Lionel B. , TRA wrote: The

Re: Opinion: Using C "standard library" routines in COBOL.

John, The S0C1 is because SYS1.SCEELKED isn’t available for the dynamic call. When I put SCEELKED in a STEPLIB I can dynamically call cuserid() using your code sample without any problem except that the RETURN-CODE value gets corrupted by the return pointer, so you also have to zero the

Re: COBOL Declaratives Use for Debugging On

And that should have been "CEEOPTS" (plural) and not just "CEEOPT". Brain f*rt, apologies. When I run your code from a V4.2 compile and supplying the LE DEBUG option, I get as output: TRACE FOR PROCEDURE-NAME : SOME-ROUTINE 1 TRACE FOR PROCEDURE-NAME :

Re: COBOL Declaratives Use for Debugging On

Richard, You need to activate the object time switch. Add the following DD statement to your JCL and you will see the debugging stats //GO.CEEOPTS DD * DEBUG Thanks, Kolusu IBM Mainframe Discussion List wrote on 04/06/2017 03:35:45 PM: > From: Richard

Re: Opinion: Using C "standard library" routines in COBOL.

On Thu, 6 Apr 2017 22:33:07 +, Frank Swarbrick wrote: >Perhaps there is a way to use another codepage. It's been a while since I >wrote the program and did my testing. Specifying codepage(1047) makes it work >and I haven't looked any further. > It would seem that if there is an option to

Re: COBOL Declaratives Use for Debugging On

I haven't got full use of our Ent. COBOL V5.2 compiler yet (SDLC procedures are still being upgraded to support it), but I have done identical debugging code in Ent. COBOL V4.2 using "ALL PROCEDURES" instead of "Some-Routine" and it worked like a charm. Almost the equivalent of the old READY

Re: Do you use CA-ACF2 and CICS or IMS? Be aware your CICS/IMS developers have security admin priviledges and can do whatever they want to the ACF2 database.

Command-level Assembler Resource Rule Example A command-level Assembler resource rule example follows: FUNCT CLI TYPE,C'A' TEST RECALCULATE FUNCTION BNE OTHER IF NOT, BYPASS * THE FOLLOWING ROUTINE WILL RECALCULATE PAYROLL AMOUNTS. * CALL CA ACF2 TO

COBOL Declaratives Use for Debugging On

Enterprise COBOL supposedly supports a paragraph-tracing capability, by using the SOURCE-COMPUTER . . . WITH DEBUGGING MODE statement along with Declaratives section / USE FOR DEBUGGING in the Procedure Division. The COBOL-provided system variable Debug-Name is supposed to provide the

Re: Opinion: Using C "standard library" routines in COBOL.

Perhaps there is a way to use another codepage. It's been a while since I wrote the program and did my testing. Specifying codepage(1047) makes it work and I haven't looked any further. From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf

Re: Opinion: Using C "standard library" routines in COBOL.

On Thu, 6 Apr 2017 18:29:31 +, Frank Swarbrick wrote: >I have been successful in invoking the following "regular expression" >functions from the z/OS XL C/C++ Runtime Library: regcomp(), regexec and >regfree(). > > >Just to see if I could do it. Not to actually use for anything useful. > >

Re: Opinion: Using C "standard library" routines in COBOL.

On Thu, Apr 6, 2017 at 3:53 PM, Farley, Peter x23353 < peter.far...@broadridge.com> wrote: > John, > > Not "nutso" at all, just very cool. > > I notice you are using "static" calls (quoted literal program names) in > upper case. Does that mean that you statically link the C subroutines with >

Re: Opinion: Using C "standard library" routines in COBOL.

John, Not "nutso" at all, just very cool. I notice you are using "static" calls (quoted literal program names) in upper case. Does that mean that you statically link the C subroutines with your program? Does it require using any non-default compiler options? Assuming you are using COBOL

Re: Do you use CA-ACF2 and CICS or IMS? Be aware your CICS/IMS developers have security admin priviledges and can do whatever they want to the ACF2 database.

The issue with MUSASS (apparently an ACF2 term but applicable to any security product) is that the task itself has a SAF userid that is used for task-level accesses, but each logged in userid must be presented for user-level accesses. Unless this distinction is preserved meticulously, taskid

Re: RLS for catalogs

One might question why a single system was configured as parallel sysplex. Answer was that for historical business reasons, no one wanted this system merged into another sysplex. We are DB2 data sharing all around the Enterprise, and no one wanted to configure DB2 differently just for this one

Re: Do you use CA-ACF2 and CICS or IMS? Be aware your CICS/IMS developers have security admin priviledges and can do whatever they want to the ACF2 database.

Multiple Users in a Single Address Space. (MUSASS) In the CICS program there is a HLL interface to ACF2. Very easy to setup and use Steve -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Peter Hunkeler Sent: Thursday, April 6,

Re: Do you use CA-ACF2 and CICS or IMS? Be aware your CICS/IMS developers have security admin priviledges and can do whatever they want to the ACF2 database.

> Peter - What are you attempting to do? > > Steve Me? Its not my thread, I just followed it with interest. I did not understand the term MUSASS. That's all. -- Peter Hunkeler -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive

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Re: What are mainframes

rpin...@firsttennessee.com (PINION, RICHARD W.) writes: > I hacked my phone, installed Hercules, installed MVS 3.8, and > now my phone is controlled by MVS. > > But, I'm sure the Wheeler's would suggest I use VM/370 instead. re: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017d.html#40 What are mainframes

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Re: Opinion: Using C "standard library" routines in COBOL.

If anyone cares, here are the working-storage fields used in my example below: working-storage section. 01 regex display pic x(364). 01 redefines regex. 05 re_nsub comp-5pic s9(8). 05 re_comp pointer. 05 re_cflags comp-5pic s9(8).

Re: Opinion: Using C "standard library" routines in COBOL.

The COBOL 20xx standard(s) do have some better support for COBOL calling to C, but it's still not too hard with the current Enterprise COBOL. For example: call 'regcomp' using regex content z"^a[[:alnum:]]" value 0 returning reti if reti is not

Re: Opinion: Using C "standard library" routines in COBOL.

I have been successful in invoking the following "regular expression" functions from the z/OS XL C/C++ Runtime Library: regcomp(), regexec and regfree(). Just to see if I could do it. Not to actually use for anything useful. One thing it does require is the use of codepage(1047), because of

Re: OAM message CBR3006I with an MTL

Thank you Bobby for confirming your parms/features. And thanks to Mark for the detailed explanations of them. Like Bobby, we defined the drives in groups of 16 with different LIBPORT-IDs for each set. I think 16 is the maximum for MTL drives on a single control unit. For the record, the DLm

Re: Opinion: Using C "standard library" routines in COBOL.

Very cool! printf() and its variants would bring a lot of power to COBOL. USS file manipulation. Math functions beyond what is available in native COBOL. strftime(). Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of John

Re: Opinion: Using C "standard library" routines in COBOL.

Topic drift: This is somehow easy from PL/1, for some reasons: a) parameters to external functions can be defined in PL/1 to be passed using NODESCRIPTOR and BYVALUE, so that the mechanisms perfectly match the C mechanisms b) PL/1 has a datatype CHAR (x) VARYINGZ (no typo), which means:

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: z/OS 2.2 PDF Download Collection - index working now

The file I have from before is 04/01/2017 11:11 PM 867,963,245 SC27843005.zip I'm now suspecting I have a bad unzip tool as it can't see the folders within. -- Lionel B. Dyck Mainframe Systems Programmer - TRA

Opinion: Using C "standard library" routines in COBOL.

This is just a curiosity poll on my part. I'm wondering if anyone out there has ever really used any C standard library routines (versus user written code) in a COBOL program. I know that many may wonder "Why? What do I get out of it." IMO, there are some useful routines in the standard C library

Re: z/OS 2.2 PDF Download Collection - index working now

On Thu, 6 Apr 2017 05:23:45 -0500, Dyck, Lionel B. (TRA) wrote: >Last night I downloaded the collection one more time and this time it unzip'd >and the index worked perfectly. > Well, I downloaded again from http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/zoslib/pdf/SC27843005.zip and the content seems

Re: What are mainframes

mike.a.sch...@gmail.com (Mike Schwab) writes: > Android Phones and Pads are derived from Linux, biggest seller in both > categories. Apple iPhones and iPads are derived from Darwin (BSD), 2nd > biggest seller in both categories. re: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017d.html#40 What are mainframes

Re: What are mainframes

I hacked my phone, installed Hercules, installed MVS 3.8, and now my phone is controlled by MVS. But, I'm sure the Wheeler's would suggest I use VM/370 instead. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Mike Schwab Sent:

Re: What are mainframes

Android Phones and Pads are derived from Linux, biggest seller in both categories. Apple iPhones and iPads are derived from Darwin (BSD), 2nd biggest seller in both categories. On Thu, Apr 6, 2017 at 11:24 AM, Anne & Lynn Wheeler wrote: > patrick.mul...@gwl.ca (Mullen, Patrick)

Re: RLS for catalogs

On Thu, 6 Apr 2017 15:56:29 +, Jesse 1 Robinson wrote: >This goes back several years when CF and memory resources were more expensive >and less flexible than today. Think standalone CF where a memory >upgrade was >a huge PITA. We had one single-system parallel

Re: What are mainframes

patrick.mul...@gwl.ca (Mullen, Patrick) writes: > We had an IBMer give a presentation a couple weeks back, an update on > all things z. He mentioned that one of the biggest users of zLinux on > the planet was ADP, who of course use it for...payroll. from a recent IBM discussion on OS2 A

Re: RLS for catalogs

This goes back several years when CF and memory resources were more expensive and less flexible than today. Think standalone CF where a memory upgrade was a huge PITA. We had one single-system parallel sysplex that I had refrained from turning over to GRS star. It was only one system, after

Re: OAM message CBR3006I with an MTL

On Thu, 6 Apr 2017 13:53:49 +, Herring, Bobby wrote: >I was the one that responded. Here are our definitions: > >FeatureValue >OFFLINEYes >DYNAMICYes >LOCANY Yes >LIBRARYNo >AUTOSWITCH Yes >LIBRARY-ID 1 >LIBPORT-ID 01 >MTLYes

Re: What are mainframes

Tangentially related... Patrick Mullen wrote: > We had an IBMer give a presentation a couple weeks back, an update on all > things z. He mentioned that one of the biggest users of zLinux on the planet > was ADP, who of course use it for...payroll. Tangentially related: in 2000, I was at a user

Re: Anyone Using Classic Data Capture for VSAM?

Thanks Massimo, but we are committed to moving forward with IIDR. On Thu, Apr 6, 2017 at 10:14 AM, Massimo Biancucci wrote: > Cameron, > > if of interest, there're other products that do the same (same product > replicating VSAM, DB2, DLI and so on). > > Regards. > Massimo >

Re: Unexplained delays in WLM managed jobclasses

On Thu, 6 Apr 2017 12:08:25 +, Vernooij, Kees (ITOPT1) - KLM wrote: >Hello, > >We sometimes experience long delays in job initiation, which I cannot explain. >It concerns a WLM managed jobclass, which is filled by Control-M. Every now >and then, we see e.g. 4 jobs

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Re: RLS for catalogs

On Wed, 5 Apr 2017 18:23:29 +, Jesse 1 Robinson wrote: >I’m curious about using CA MIM Resource Sharing within a sysplex. Historically >I used > it in the days before sysplex, before PDS/E, before other newfangled > contraptions > that depend on XCF for

Re: Unexplained delays in WLM managed jobclasses

On Thu, 6 Apr 2017 12:08:25 +, Vernooij, Kees wrote: >So the number of running job is fully determined by WLM and I am trying to >find out why WLM does not start more initiators. Not quite. It can also be limited by JOBCLASS XEQCount and XEQMEMBER -- Tom Marchant

Re: What are mainframes

We had an IBMer give a presentation a couple weeks back, an update on all things z. He mentioned that one of the biggest users of zLinux on the planet was ADP, who of course use it for...payroll. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU]

Re: Anyone Using Classic Data Capture for VSAM?

Cameron, if of interest, there're other products that do the same (same product replicating VSAM, DB2, DLI and so on). Regards. Massimo 2017-04-06 15:11 GMT+02:00 Cameron Conacher : > Hello everyone, > We are looking to leverage Classic Data Capture for VSAM (IIDR for VSAM)

Re: Unexplained delays in WLM managed jobclasses

Not at that moment, I found that later. I automated $DSRVCLASS,LONG command every 15 minutes now, to have this info in syslog when needed. Kees. > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On > Behalf Of Feller, Paul > Sent: 06 April,

Re: OAM message CBR3006I with an MTL

I was the one that responded. Here are our definitions: FeatureValue OFFLINEYes DYNAMICYes LOCANY Yes LIBRARYNo AUTOSWITCH Yes LIBRARY-ID 1 LIBPORT-ID 01 MTLYes SHARABLE Yes COMPACTYes But, we do have compact set to yes. And our devices are defined as 3490.

Re: Unexplained delays in WLM managed jobclasses

No, up to dozens of jobs often run at the same time. Kees. > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On > Behalf Of Mackenzie, Bruce > Sent: 06 April, 2017 14:59 > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: Unexplained delays in WLM

Re: Unexplained delays in WLM managed jobclasses

Thanks, I did a couple of things, including $SJ-ing a number of jobs and things seemed to start moving again. Kees. > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On > Behalf Of Allan Staller > Sent: 06 April, 2017 14:55 > To:

Re: Do you use CA-ACF2 and CICS or IMS? Be aware your CICS/IMS developers have security admin priviledges and can do whatever they want to the ACF2 database.

Peter - What are you attempting to do? Steve -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Mullen, Patrick Sent: Thursday, April 6, 2017 8:34 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Do you use CA-ACF2 and CICS or IMS? Be

Re: Do you use CA-ACF2 and CICS or IMS? Be aware your CICS/IMS developers have security admin priviledges and can do whatever they want to the ACF2 database.

ACF2 speak for multi-user address space, eg CICS, IMS, DB2, as opposed to a single user address space like TSO, batch job. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Peter Hunkeler Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2017 12:16 AM To:

Re: Unexplained delays in WLM managed jobclasses

Need to ask. Did you go to the JC screen in SDSF to see if the JCLim column is an * or is it set to 4 for the jobclass in question? Thanks.. Paul Feller AGT Mainframe Technical Support -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On

Re: What are mainframes

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Anyone Using Classic Data Capture for VSAM?

Hello everyone, We are looking to leverage Classic Data Capture for VSAM (IIDR for VSAM) to replicate our VSAM file changes to a distributed tier for caching servicing data. My first question is if anyone has gone down this path already, and if so were there any surprises along the way? My

Re: AW: Re: Do you use CA-ACF2 and CICS or IMS? Be aware your CICS/IMS developers have security admin priviledges and can do whatever they want to the ACF2 database.

Multiple User Address Space or MUSASS for short. MUSASS is a LOGONID attribute that is assigned via ACF command. It is assigned to an address space where multiple users are "active" in the address space. Examples of a MUSASS address space are CICS and IMS. There are others. On 4/6/2017

Re: Unexplained delays in WLM managed jobclasses

Silly question, but do you see more than four in this job class at other times. It may be limited to four. Bruce MacKenzie | IT Manager | Hardware Services | TD Bank -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Vernooij, Kees

Re: Unexplained delays in WLM managed jobclasses

Look for the "happy system" syndrome. I.e. the system is meeting it's SLA targets, so WLM feels no need to start additional initiators. This will most likely require near real-time IEHIBALL activity. Adjusting the Service Class Goals may help. Also turn on SMF 99's and ask IBM for their

Unexplained delays in WLM managed jobclasses

Hello, We sometimes experience long delays in job initiation, which I cannot explain. It concerns a WLM managed jobclass, which is filled by Control-M. Every now and then, we see e.g. 4 jobs running and an accumulating number of jobs in the input queue, up to more than 100, waiting for one or

Re: What are mainframes

On 6/04/2017 7:30 PM, Bill Woodger wrote: On 6/04/2017 6:35 PM, Bill Woodger wrote: Just to note, the UK Weather Centre (The Meteorological Office, or Met Office) uses a big-boy LinuxONE and they were an early user of that. Do you know what they use if for? Probably not for weather

Re: What are mainframes

On Thu, 6 Apr 2017 19:02:23 +0800, David Crayford wrote: >On 6/04/2017 6:35 PM, Bill Woodger wrote: >> Just to note, the UK Weather Centre (The Meteorological Office, or Met >> Office) uses a big-boy LinuxONE and they were an early user of that. > >Do you know what they use

Re: Cobol and decimal overflow overhead (was: Data/hiperspaces)

On Wed, 5 Apr 2017 13:09:53 +0200, Peter Hunkeler wrote: >>Firstly, Peter, I know you didn't write the code or come up with the idea of >>the definition of Fraction. Secondly, looks like you have some progress with >>your related topics from over the last few months. > > >Yes, we

Re: What are mainframes

On 6/04/2017 6:35 PM, Bill Woodger wrote: Just to note, the UK Weather Centre (The Meteorological Office, or Met Office) uses a big-boy LinuxONE and they were an early user of that. Do you know what they use if for? Probably not for weather forecasting algorithms.

Re: What are mainframes

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z/OS 2.2 PDF Download Collection - index working now

Last night I downloaded the collection one more time and this time it unzip'd and the index worked perfectly. -- Lionel B. Dyck Mainframe Systems Programmer - TRA Enterprise Operations (Station 200) (005OP6.3.10) Information

Re: z/OS revives again

On Thu, Apr 6, 2017 at 2:25 AM, Elardus Engelbrecht < elardus.engelbre...@sita.co.za> wrote: > John McKown wrote: > > >The company today told us that our outsourcing contract has been > terminated. > > Excellent! I am very very glad for your part! Good luck! > > > >The main reason given is the

Re: What are mainframes

Connor, Thanks for taking the baton! It makes us old farts hopeful that our "legacy" will continue until a *true* better mousetrap comes alongnot just wannabes. Bob -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Connor

Re: RLS for catalogs

> -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On > Behalf Of R.S. > Sent: 06 April, 2017 10:04 > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: RLS for catalogs > > W dniu 2017-04-05 o 20:23, Jesse 1 Robinson pisze: > > I’m curious about using

Re: RLS for catalogs

W dniu 2017-04-05 o 20:23, Jesse 1 Robinson pisze: I’m curious about using CA MIM Resource Sharing within a sysplex. Historically I used it in the days before sysplex, before PDS/E, before other newfangled contraptions that depend on XCF for serialization. We still use MIA for tape allocation

Re: Do you use CA-ACF2 and CICS or IMS? Be aware your CICS/IMS developers have security admin priviledges and can do whatever they want to the ACF2 database.

Muilti-User Single Address Space System. Pretty much what it says. It's an ACF2 term that refers to things like CICS. Ant. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Peter Hunkeler Sent: Thursday, 6 April 2017 2:46 PM To:

Re: z/OS revives again

John McKown wrote: >The company today told us that our outsourcing contract has been terminated. Excellent! I am very very glad for your part! Good luck! >The main reason given is the drastic change in the business environment and >needs. This is where z/OS coming in. It can handle