Re: Releasing Orphan Storage without IPL

2015-10-30 Thread Gross, Randall [PRI-1PP]
I did the same thing my first month as a sysprog. Thank goodness for shared DASD and a second system. Since it's Friday: On a similar note, we were running a very early release of MVS on an Amdahl V6 (serial #19). We had been told that a couple of other

Re: U0493 abends

2015-10-29 Thread Gross, Randall [PRI-1PP]
How about the default or current logon group for the id? Does it have an OMVS segment? -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Tim Brown Sent: Thursday, October 29, 2015 2:21 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re:

Re: REXX Exec Abend S106

2015-09-11 Thread Gross, Randall [PRI-1PP]
Depending on how (and how much) output is produced by the second program, this might helpl (especially if you are outtrapping): VARSTORAGE(HIGH), - SPECIFIES THAT CLIST VARIABLES, AND REXX OUTTRAP VARIABLES RETURNED WHEN REXX INVOKES AN AUTHORIZED COMMAND, ARE

Re: Current market share breakdown for EACH of the three z/OS ESM products: RACF, CA-ACF2 and CA-Top Secret

2015-09-09 Thread Gross, Randall [PRI-1PP]
I know of two extremely large US banks that use it. Both have RACF & T/S; at least one is (or was) in the throes of converting RACF to T/S. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Charles Mills Sent: Wednesday, September 09,

Re: GRS Control Unit ( Was IBM mainframe operations in the 80s)

2015-06-12 Thread Gross, Randall [PRI-1PP]
IBM 3088 CTC Global Resource Serialization -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Mark Jacobs - Listserv Sent: Friday, June 12, 2015 10:02 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: GRS Control Unit ( Was IBM mainframe

Re: ISPF Workstation Setup ( Was: IND$FILE Resource Log Monitoring)

2015-06-12 Thread Gross, Randall [PRI-1PP]
John, are you Win7 Pro or Home? Pro has the old XP support Home doesn't... -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of John McKown Sent: Friday, June 12, 2015 10:49 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: ISPF

Re: ISPF Workstation Setup ( Was: IND$FILE Resource Log Monitoring)

2015-06-12 Thread Gross, Randall [PRI-1PP]
( Was: IND$FILE Resource Log Monitoring) On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 10:01 AM, Gross, Randall [PRI-1PP] randy.gr...@primerica.com wrote: John, are you Win7 Pro or Home? Pro has the old XP support Home doesn't... ​Window 7 Professional Service Pack 1, 64 bit. This is my computer at work. I am

Re: GENERATED STATEMENT!?

2015-05-27 Thread Gross, Randall [PRI-1PP]
If it makes you feel any better, I can reproduce your exact error on my 2.1 system -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Wednesday, May 27, 2015 2:37 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re:

Re: GENERATED STATEMENT!?

2015-05-27 Thread Gross, Randall [PRI-1PP]
From APAR OA45005: Exported symbolic parameters must be set to a value in the job stream after the EXPORT statement. Exported symbol values are resolved to the last value set prior to or within the current job step. JCL Converter processing generates EXPORT EXPSET statements to

Re: Basic question on TSO commands and other executables

2015-05-13 Thread Gross, Randall [PRI-1PP]
Personal Communications 5.9.0Product DocumentationBooksEmulator User's ReferenceTransferring Files -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Ed Gould Sent: Wednesday, May 13, 2015 12:10 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject:

Re: Where can a running TSO program get its terminal name

2015-05-12 Thread Gross, Randall [PRI-1PP]
Don't you mean sysvar(systermid)? I don't think he's looking for the number of lines in the screen -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Roger Suhr (gmail) Sent: Tuesday, May 12, 2015 3:01 PM To:

Re: Dataset space release

2015-03-24 Thread Gross, Randall [PRI-1PP]
The ALLOCATE command has a RELEASE parameter 1 -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Tim Brown Sent: Tuesday, March 24, 2015 2:53 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Dataset space release Can space

Re: MVS

2014-09-16 Thread Gross, Randall [PRI-1PP]
looking for the like button. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Steve Conway Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2014 10:42 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: MVS Freaking pedants. You all know the base is

Re: Catalog Search Interface - Guide to decode

2014-08-08 Thread Gross, Randall [PRI-1PP]
Google CATSRCHI -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Ravi Gaur Sent: Friday, August 08, 2014 10:56 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Catalog Search Interface - Guide to decode Could somebody help me understanding

Re: DFHSM QUESTION - FIXCDS - PARSE ERROR

2014-07-23 Thread Gross, Randall [PRI-1PP]
Maybe + instead of - for continuation? -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of willie bunter Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2014 1:50 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: DFHSM QUESTION - FIXCDS - PARSE ERROR Hallo To All I

Re: international cuisine; was Re: OT: Re: Freebie software; was Feebie software

2014-07-08 Thread Gross, Randall [PRI-1PP]
Don't forget chitlin's grits -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Ken Porowski Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2014 1:44 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: international cuisine; was Re: OT: Re: Freebie software;

Re: DASD backup solutions

2014-01-22 Thread Gross, Randall [PRI-1PP]
We also use DBS and are very happy with it. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of John McKown Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2014 9:09 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: DASD backup solutions On Wed, Jan 22, 2014

Re: Quote on Slashdot.org

2013-10-02 Thread Gross, Randall [PRI-1PP]
In college, I used the PL/1 F compiler on a 360/40 running PCP, circa 1971. It was horribly buggy. Of course, I have no idea if the college kept maintenance up to date. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of M Baker Sent:

Re: Work long hours (Was Re: Pissing contest(s))

2013-09-30 Thread Gross, Randall [PRI-1PP]
I am a full-time mainframe (RACF) security engineer (I hate that term...) and have been for almost nine years. Prior to that, I was a zOS (MFT, SVS, MVS, OS390, XA, ESA, etc.) systems programmer for approximately 30 years (for two very large companies that each have a 3-letter name). IHMO, I

Re: Work long hours (Was Re: Pissing contest(s))

2013-09-30 Thread Gross, Randall [PRI-1PP]
John, Actually, I do agree with you, and no offense was taken. \ Interestingly enough, when I was interviewing here, it was for a sysprog opening. After being interviewd by the sysprog manager and the VP of operations, I had a final interview with the CIO.

Re: Quote on Slashdot.org

2013-09-30 Thread Gross, Randall [PRI-1PP]
ALGOL was the first high-level language I learned, on a Burroughs B5500. I liked it a lot, except that it was special character happy, using the full 64-character set found on the model 029 129 keypunches. The college only had four 029's (that students could use) but they had a bunch of

Re: Rexx Execio to PDS

2013-08-27 Thread Gross, Randall [PRI-1PP]
Try initializing the stem to null (outstem. = ). A null entry will terminate the EXECIO. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of George Shedlock Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2013 8:45 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject:

Re: COBOL ? - emulating recursive PERFORM statement

2013-08-01 Thread Gross, Randall [PRI-1PP]
In 1972, as a new hire, I was given the task of maintaining an entire COBOL application that was written with altered gotos and not a single perform. When I asked why, I was told that their standard was to use altered gotos instead of performs, because they were more efficient. This ruling was

Re: Query for Destination z article -- mainframes back to the future

2013-03-18 Thread Gross, Randall [PRI-1PP]
We used to call this the any idiot theory of debugging: After working a trans-finite amount of time trying to debug a program, any idiot will walk up and immediately point out your error. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On