Re: shopz UJ01255

2020-09-25 Thread David Purdy
Share.org has a wealth of SMP/E presentations. Davod -Original Message- From: Jousma, David <01a0403c5dc1-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Sent: Fri, Sep 25, 2020 6:22 am Subject: Re: shopz UJ01255 Instead of ordering "Recommended", order everything, and

Re: DFSort to pull the latest record date

2020-09-25 Thread Chris Hoelscher
Just a wild guess? Sort it in reverse and take the first record as oldest date?? Chris Hoelscher Lead Sys DBA IBM Global Technical Services on assignmemt to Humana Inc. T 502.476.2538 or 502.407.7266 -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Lizette Koehler

Re: DFSort to pull the latest record date

2020-09-25 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Fri, 25 Sep 2020 10:25:13 -0700, Sri h Kolusu wrote: > >... The control statements for DFSORT >are not obscure and they are on the same level as following the >coding/syntax rules for a programming language. For example COBOL, you >would follow all the rules governing it. So why not do the

Re: DFSort to pull the latest record date

2020-09-25 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Fri, 25 Sep 2020 14:08:30 -0300, Clark Morris wrote: > >Given the obscurity of the control statements (quick tell me what >field is 1,4,CH) why not write the thing in a language that has access >to the descriptions of the fields being used? We are not in the era >of 22K DOS360 partitions, 100K

Re: DFSort to pull the latest record date

2020-09-25 Thread Martin Packer
Excel is awful to use. I would recommend doing as much as possible elsewhere before loading into Excel. (Including what some of my code does: Creating the CSV files in DFSORT.) Cheers, Martin Martin Packer Systems Investigator & Performance Troubleshooter, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email:

Re: DFSort to pull the latest record date

2020-09-25 Thread Lizette Koehler
Totally agree Just trying to provide alternatives that might make sense. I know I love SAS and I tend to do everything in SAS. But my co workers do not use it. So then I either have to super document the process so they can support it Or find alternatives to do the work that they would be

Re: DFSort to pull the latest record date

2020-09-25 Thread Ron Thomas
Thanks a lot Kolusu for the help.. it worked like a charm!! -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: DFSort to pull the latest record date

2020-09-25 Thread Sri h Kolusu
>>If you can load to EXCEL - use its functions Not all functions on the mainframe can do everything. You should look at what makes sense. And if the tool you are comfortable in using, does not have the function, I would say to find one that does. Lizette, EXCEL is limited to 1 million

Re: Caution: "Hacked" email caused the distribution of a potentially harmful attachment

2020-09-25 Thread zMan
Wayne Bickerdike wrote: >My "spoof" email was apparently genuine. The >person who sent it has no idea >how much he got wrong with the request. Eh? Can you elaborate? First sentence makes no sense. It was spoofed or it wasn't?! -- zMan -- "I've got a mainframe and I'm not afraid to use it"

Re: DFSort to pull the latest record date

2020-09-25 Thread Sri h Kolusu
> Given the obscurity of the control statements (quick tell me what > field is 1,4,CH) why not write the thing in a language Clark, I have to respectfully disagree with you. The control statements for DFSORT are not obscure and they are on the same level as following the coding/syntax rules for

Re: DFSort to pull the latest record date

2020-09-25 Thread Lizette Koehler
Why not load the data into a DB and use SQL or similar language? If you have SAS - Max Min - functions If you can load to EXCEL - use its functions Not all functions on the mainframe can do everything. You should look at what makes sense. And if the tool you are comfortable in using, does

Re: DFSort to pull the latest record date

2020-09-25 Thread Sri h Kolusu
> Here we need to pull the 2'nd record to the Output as this is the > latest date . Ron, Use the following DFSORT/ICETOOL JCL which will give you the desired results //STEP0100 EXEC PGM=ICETOOL //TOOLMSG DD SYSOUT=* //DFSMSG DD SYSOUT=* //IN DD *

Re: Default logon procedure

2020-09-25 Thread R.S.
W dniu 25.09.2020 o 02:59, Neale Ferguson pisze: How do I set the default logon procedure for a TSO user? Currently on the login screen the Procedure field is empty and I’d like to set it to ISPFPROC. Using search on the IBM Knowledge site results in a heap of stuff and I am having trouble

Re: DFSort to pull the latest record date

2020-09-25 Thread Clark Morris
[Default] On 25 Sep 2020 09:54:45 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main ron5...@gmail.com (Ron Thomas) wrote: >Hello > >We are using DFSORT utility to extract the latest record for a store/item/po >and below is the sample file > >item_nbr| Store_nbr|Po_nbr|item_date|mode|

Re: shopz UJ01255

2020-09-25 Thread R.S.
This is not state of the art solution, but... You can prepare another order and explicitly request all the missing PTFs in this order. Finally you will have two (three..) orders which you can RECEIVE into CSI. While it is convenient to have all needed PTF within single order it is not required.

DFSort to pull the latest record date

2020-09-25 Thread Ron Thomas
Hello We are using DFSORT utility to extract the latest record for a store/item/po and below is the sample file item_nbr| Store_nbr|Po_nbr|item_date|mode| 00604|9137|1100276393|2017-12-26|7|DSD | 00604|9137|1100278550|2018-01-09|6|DSD | Here we need to pull the 2'nd record

Re: shopz UJ01255

2020-09-25 Thread Styles, Andy (ITS zPlatform Services)
Classification: Limited I went through a similar discussion last year (? this year? Time flies..), and I now do RECEIVE ALL - just means you have all available fixes, whether you then go on to APPLY them of course, is entirely up to you, but I found it was better to have them than now. It's

Re: shopz UJ01255

2020-09-25 Thread Jousma, David
Instead of ordering "Recommended", order everything, and then only apply the Recommended. CONTENT (ALL) Its entirely possible the PTF you are interested in, never made it to "recommended".