Re: Short description of system address spaces

2016-07-04 Thread Boris Lenz
See "ABCs of IBM z/OS System Programming Volume 1", page 307 (323) http://ibm.co/29l4I7T Regards, Boris On Mon, July 4, 2016 07:33, Peter Hunkeler wrote: > > The z/OS Basics redbook that Mike pointed to is indeed a known good > starting point. But it does not have a list of these adrdress

Re: Question on IMS and dr volume backups

2015-11-10 Thread Boris Lenz
On Sat, November 7, 2015 19:01, Tony Thigpen wrote: > I am wondering if there is something else we should be doing. Shut IMS down with /CHE FREEZE so you can restart it normally with NRE/AUTO=Y. That also saves you the DBR DB ALL. http://ibm.co/1HEJ4Ts Or reinitialize the RECON on the "dr" site.

Re: Problem with FTP into a PDS

2015-08-05 Thread Boris Lenz
} //my.pds(${i%.BIN});unlink ${i};done #move members to PDS Regards, Boris Lenz -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: CANCEL TSO Logon?

2015-01-05 Thread Boris Lenz
On Sun, January 4, 2015 17:56, Paul Gilmartin wrote: (why?) and must reconnect. Is there any way to get directly back to IKJ56700A? PA1. You won't get back to IKJ56700A but you can enter LOGON userid there without a reconnect. Regards, Boris

Re: CANCEL TSO Logon?

2015-01-05 Thread Boris Lenz
On Mon, January 5, 2015 16:29, Charles Mills wrote: I see no console message at all (absent some SLIP trap) for simply testing a userid (as opposed to a userid and password). Did I miss it? But you can probe for a valid userid on the logon panel. No message to the syslog. If you don't get

Re: Need some marketing data

2014-11-12 Thread Boris Lenz
Mainframes process roughly 30 billion business transactions per day, IMS alone claims to process more than 50 billion transactions per day. Even if these include test environments, it clearly contradicts the 30 billion. http://ibm.co/14dJfI5 Regards, Boris On Wed, November 12, 2014 17:55, Sri

Re: RMF Spreadsheet Reporter

2014-07-16 Thread Boris Lenz
Any special characters like $ @ # in the userid? Regards, Boris On Tue, July 15, 2014 21:02, Christian Birr wrote: I'll do that tomorrow; I'm on CET and on duty since 5:00, need some sleep. My hope was that someone of RMF/Böblingen would chime in. Thanks Christian

Re: Some questions related to VSAM SHAREOPTIONS

2014-07-07 Thread Boris Lenz
On Fri, July 4, 2014 13:04, Peter Hunkeler wrote: - Similarly, what is the default if only the cross-region option is specified but not the cross-system? 3. - Using a lower level than what the application supports, may negatively influence application parallelism. Using a higher level however

Re: regex that never matches?

2013-07-09 Thread Boris Lenz
does /(?!)/ work for you? Regards, Boris On Tue, July 9, 2013 09:31, Paul Gilmartin wrote: Kind of a programming challenge, in view of all the PCRE chatter hereabouts lately: A vendor once supplied an interface where one of the required arguments was a regex to exclude from processing

Setting effective UID in z/OS UNIX in multi-user environments correctly

2013-07-09 Thread Boris Lenz
Hi, how can we force the effective userid in z/OS Unix to be set to the real end user's userid, instead of that of the STC, in multi-user address spaces (such as IMS MPR or CICS)? Say user FOOBAR starts an IMS transaction. The IMS MPR runs under user IMSMPP. If the transaction uses any Unix

Re: regex that never matches?

2013-07-09 Thread Boris Lenz
Gilmartin wrote: On Tue, 9 Jul 2013 11:34:55 +0200, Boris Lenz wrote: does /(?!)/ work for you? Thanks! I never woulda thoughta that. Seems to work for sed and grep; nearly an exhaustive sample. Now I need to try to understand it: It matches any string which is not (!) matched by 0 or 1

Re: A product that supports issuing DB2 calls against IMS databases?

2013-05-16 Thread Boris Lenz
EXEC SQL or SQL? For Java applications, IMS supports querying IMS databases with SQL calls through its JDBC implementation. Regards, Boris On Thu, May 16, 2013 12:27, Binyamin Dissen wrote: Is there such a product, where the application does EXEC SQL and it is converted into an

Re: A product that supports issuing DB2 calls against IMS databases?

2013-05-16 Thread Boris Lenz
On Thu, May 16, 2013 16:14, Binyamin Dissen wrote: I means real DB2 - I am seeing a dump where there is an SSOB X'29' call which is pointing at an FRB for a standard SQL. In that case I can't help you. I thought you wanted to access an IMS DB with SQL. But for everyone else, it might help if

Re: connect to IMS in C

2013-04-18 Thread Boris Lenz
Etienne, Actually, I am not. I really don't care which interface, ODBA, ODBM, DBCTL, whatever, as long as I can call it from C to connect to IMS and do DLI calls. Preferably without requiring other stuff to be configured. AERTDLI() happens to be the only API that seems to actually do

Re: DIFFERENTIATION OF VSAM DSNS

2013-01-25 Thread Boris Lenz
On Thu, January 24, 2013 19:39, willie bunter wrote: I tried the LISTCAT of the .DATA component and since there was no cluster the LISTCAT was unsuccessful.  In this case, how would I be able to tell what type of VSAM dsn it is? I think you can't really restore that VSAM data set unless you

Re: DIFFERENTIATION OF VSAM DSNS

2013-01-25 Thread Boris Lenz
Willie, Here are some very basic sample DEFINE statements. You can run them in your environment and then look at the listcats. This may be more helpful than listcats from other installations. DEFINE CLUSTER(NAME(TEST.VSAM.KSDS)- INDEXED - KEYS(7 0) -

Re: DIFFERENTIATION OF VSAM DSNS

2013-01-24 Thread Boris Lenz
On Thu, January 24, 2013 18:25, willie bunter wrote: I checked the LISTCAT however I didn't see anything.  Any suggestions? Examine the output of LISTCAT ENT(/) ALL. KSDS: - has DATA+INDEX ASSOCIATIONS in the CLUSTER section. - has an INDEXED ATTRIBUTE in the DATA section. VRRDS: - has

Re: FTP z/OS to z/OS 501 Invalid data set name - codepage issue?

2013-01-21 Thread Boris Lenz
On Sat, January 19, 2013 16:22, Paul Gilmartin wrote: On Sat, 19 Jan 2013 12:24:27 +1100, Andrew Rowley wrote: A quick look at the documentation suggests that CTRLCONN might be the equivalent for the control connection. SITECTRLConn=FTP_STANDARD_TABLE LOCSITE

Re: SMS COMMAND VIA BATCH

2013-01-21 Thread Boris Lenz
On Mon, January 21, 2013 12:53, af dc wrote: H Boris, I'm not understanding why I'm getting the following error: # of MVS commands to issue: 1 Issuing command #1... DISPLAY SMS 11.50.35 IGD029I ERROR FOR DISPLAY SMS COMM 137 11.50.35 ERROR IS EMBEDDED BLANKS BETWEEN

FTP z/OS to z/OS 501 Invalid data set name - codepage issue?

2013-01-18 Thread Boris Lenz
I can't get an FTP PUT to work with dataset names that contain a dollar sign (x'5B', which is the pound sign on the target system). Source system is z/OS, codepage IBM-500 Target system is z/OS, codepage IBM-285 FTP commands: TYPE E SITE ISPFSTATS PUT 'USERA.TSO.EXEC($TEST)' QUIT The output is:

Re: FTP z/OS to z/OS 501 Invalid data set name - codepage issue?

2013-01-18 Thread Boris Lenz
On Fri, January 18, 2013 15:08, Staller, Allan wrote: The # is invalid in a dataset name. Sorry about the ambiguity, I meant the English pound sign for the English currency (£). That's x'5B' in the UK codepage IBM-285. There is an FTP command (SBDataconn) to tell FTP to perform a specific

Re: FTP z/OS to z/OS 501 Invalid data set name - codepage issue?

2013-01-18 Thread Boris Lenz
On Fri, January 18, 2013 15:37, Walt Farrell wrote: You could, of course, specify a second name on your PUT command to rename the data set or member to something different that will work on the remote site (i.e., that does not use the problematic national characters). Yes, I could. But what

Re: FTP z/OS to z/OS 501 Invalid data set name - codepage issue?

2013-01-18 Thread Boris Lenz
On Fri, January 18, 2013 16:20, Paul Gilmartin wrote: Did you specify the same conversion at both ends? E.g.: quote site sbdataconn=(IBM-1047,ISO8859-1) locsitesbdataconn=(IBM-1047,ISO8859-1) I tried a lot. 'quote' is not necessary I think, when talking to a z/OS host. Frankly,

Re: FTP z/OS to z/OS 501 Invalid data set name - codepage issue?

2013-01-18 Thread Boris Lenz
On Fri, January 18, 2013 18:11, Paul Gilmartin wrote: But have you tried both SITE and LOCSITE, with identical arguments, in the same transaction? Yes. Me, too. But have you tried EBCDIC; MODE B? Yes. -- For IBM-MAIN

Re: ADRDSSU + FTP

2013-01-15 Thread Boris Lenz
Been said many times, so I remember the ftp commands: EBCDIC MODE B PUT or GET as needed. I think that's all. As noted, this fails on the empty record problem. How do you create empty records with ADRDSSU DUMP? As others have said, it should be easy to transfer an ADRDSSU DUMP dataset

Re: IMS users liast

2012-12-21 Thread Boris Lenz
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Re: SMP/E GIM37904E vs. GIM24504E

2012-12-07 Thread Boris Lenz
I assume your SYSMOD had a RESTORE entry, that's why I asked if you could post it (LIST SYSMOD().) What I would have tried is something like this: SET BOUNDARY(TARGET). UCLIN. DEL SYSMOD(xx) RESTORE RESDATE() RESTIME(). ADD SYSMOD(xx) INSDATE(12343)

Re: How many subscribers?

2012-09-11 Thread Boris Lenz
There are 6785 subscribers on IBM-MAIN and 1723 on CICS-L. You can find these numbers on the listserv website. Boris -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with