Re: EXTERNAL: Re: Programs that work right the first time.

Dead wrong. Typical trumpette. Back to school. On Sun, Aug 22, 2021, 7:27 PM Savor, Thomas < 0330b7631be3-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > "In April 2020, a voter fraud study covering 20 years by the Massachusetts > Institute of Technology found the level of mail-in ballot fraud >

Re: COBOL Question

in the early 2000's. I think I fixed over 200 small issues conveyed by programmers at 2 or 3 in the morning just to get the batch back up and working again. Miss those days John Clifford (had to retire) On Tue, Jun 9, 2020 at 4:28 PM Joe Monk wrote: > "Easytrieve plus"

Re: Tape Migration

use disp=old,label=(50,blp) 3 parts to a std lbl so 16 files is 48 actual skips and 49 is the 17 std lbl so 50 should get you right into the data of the 17th file. John C On Wed, Sep 19, 2018 at 4:53 AM, venkat kulkarni wrote: > Hello Group, > > > Is there any way to bypass label written

Re: z/OS JCl vs. VSE JCL: VSAM files

Z/os VSAM is always accessed as DISP=SHR. On Tue, Jul 10, 2018 at 3:52 PM, Wayne Bickerdike wrote: > *How can it infer the difference between KEEP and DELETE? (Or is thatthe > "mostly" part?)-- gil* > > > *On Wed, Jul 11, 2018 at 4:48 AM, Paul Gilmartin >

Re: DFSMSdss Question

run a restore of the tape with no run option ( I forget the spelling). it will list what it would have restored and just end On Mon, May 7, 2018 at 3:21 PM, Porowski, Kenneth wrote: > Is there any way to get a listing of datasets on a dss dump tape? > > > >

Re: OT-retirement

When you can't find any jobs locally after looking for over a year. Forget it and retire(d). John C On Sat, Aug 19, 2017 at 9:11 AM, scott Ford wrote: > How does a techie of 40 yrs know when it's time to retire? Bearing in mind > I understand you have to have enough money,

Re: Mainframe operating systems?

the good old days !!! John Clifford On Sat, Apr 15, 2017 at 11:57 PM, Jack J. Woehr <j...@well.com> wrote: > Anthony Fletcher wrote: > >> I was the SYSPROG in its later stages >> > > Did anyone in the audience shout PICK yet? > > -- > Jack J. Woehr # S

Re: zOS SYSPROG jobs

have since sort of retired but if something ever comes up I would attempt it again. Sorry to hear I am not the only one. John Clifford Z/OS systems programmer (semi-retired) On Mon, Feb 6, 2017 at 11:00 PM, Steve Beaver <st...@stevebeaver.com> wrote: > I am getting at least one call a

Re: More information if you want to file more complaints

PROVE it On Mon, Dec 26, 2016 at 10:26 AM, Adam M. Dobrin wrote: > People like you all give humanity a bad name. Disgusting, really. > > here, why don't you spam spamcop some more, because of conversation. > http://MIDAS.lamc.la > > You are in the presence of

Re: I/O error substituting symbols in sysin

I was always under the impression that any DD * implied lrecl=80 only. Adding a lrecl=222 should cause the i/o error. No John Clifford On Mon, Dec 12, 2016 at 8:40 PM, Anthony Thompson < anthony.thomp...@nt.gov.au> wrote: > Pardon for getting the input wrong. New JCL: > //

Re: [OT] S/370 Archive Footage

very exciting back then. I recently gave up looking for work in Florida after 6 months so I decided to retire, but I do miss the game. Thanks again. John Clifford Old DOS, OS/VS, VS1, MFT, MVS, OS/390, Z/OS guy On Sun, Dec 11, 2016 at 10:43 AM, Neale Ferguson <ne...@sinenomine.net>

Re: SMS Volume Status

QuiKref from Chicago-soft also has an option to list all dasd by various columns, one being STATUS. Great product and not very expensive. John Clifford On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 9:09 AM, Chuck Kreiter <kreiter_ibm-m...@twc.com> wrote: > I'm looking for a way to identify volumes

Re: Can Someone Check Redbooks?

Susan. Still can't getbthere. This site can’t be reached *www.redbooks.ibm.com <http://www.redbooks.ibm.com>* took too long to respond. John Clifford On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 12:04 PM, Susan Shumway <chale...@us.ibm.com> wrote: > The link works for me, so perhaps it's a s

Re: Link to the September 16 refresh of the z/OS 2.2 manuals?

Lizette, Very weird. I had to 'copy link address' from the .htm list into the IE address bar but it did open as a PDF. I wonder what Chrome was trying to do ?? I will play around with it some more and also try Mozilla. Thanks for the tip, John Clifford On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 11:43 AM, John

Re: Link to the September 16 refresh of the z/OS 2.2 manuals?

gt; From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On > > Behalf Of John Clifford > > Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2016 8:26 AM > > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > > Subject: Re: Link to the September 16 refresh of the z/OS 2.2 manuals? > > > >

Re: Link to the September 16 refresh of the z/OS 2.2 manuals?

Lizette, I did finally find that file, but when I double-click on it, it opens a new window with just ' about:blank at the top and a blank window. Did I miss something to do prior to this ?? Thanks, John Clifford MF contractor On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 10:55 AM, Lizette Koehler <st

Re: How force dataset non-SMS?

I you got it out of SMS, and not enough data gets loaded so a 2nd or third vol is needed, it will only show a single vol-ser. If you run a listcat of the dataset does it show an '*" for the 2 volumes not used yet ?? (Candidate volumes)??? John Clifford On Tue, Apr 5, 2016 at 1:16 PM, Ch

Re: How force dataset non-SMS?

Ed Jaffe's answer is the way we did it and it worked perfectly. John Clifford On Tue, Apr 5, 2016 at 10:45 AM, Charles Mills <charl...@mcn.org> wrote: > For a test of something relatively unrelated, I want to bypass SMS when > allocating a dataset with DD. Is there an easy way to

Re: ISPF library Full

PDS 8.x from the cbttape software can increase a lib while enqueued. Download, install, execute, John Clifford Systems programmer On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 11:19 AM, zos reader <zos.rea...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi All, > > We have a specific ISPF library defined in the LOGON

Re: Anyone using Rocket Software Performance Essential

hour 10 minutes to 18 hours. Actual time. There was no way I could possibly sit down and figure all the jcl changes to tune the VSAM file access to get this kind of benefit. I haven't touched it since 2012 but I would assume it still helps alot with VSAM and Qsam. John Clifford z/OS consultant

Re: IBM Mainframe

Bingo !! John Clifford Sr z/OS Systems programmer On Fri, Nov 27, 2015 at 10:16 AM, Bobbie Justice < 0013e2d84072-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > There's not really a shortage of IBM mainframe talent. > > There is a shortage of talent that is willing to work for pean

Re: (External):Re: Fwd: Bank’s severance deal indebts laid off IT workers to be ‘on call’ for 2 years of tech support — without pay

No, they are taxed the same. Federally anyway. Tampa, FL has no state income tax. I got let go after 43 years in same company and they gave a lump-sum of 6 weeks severance !!! . This was with perfect annual reviews each year. What a joke. John Clifford On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 6:25 PM, J O Skip

Re: How to limit tiny SMS-managed VSAM KSDS to one volume?

Most shops have a STORCLAS(NONSMS) defined which allows sys-progs to bypass all SMS allocations and use vol-ser for placement. If you have that defined then create a KSDS with STORCLAS(NONSMS) VOLUME(xx) trk(1 0). John Clifford On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 12:24 PM, Farley, Peter x23353

Re: IBM Site Time Outs

Looks OK at the moment. John Clifford On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 10:57 AM, Richards, Robert B. < robert.richa...@opm.gov> wrote: > Anyone else having trouble getting to IBM's FTP sites: > > ping service.boulder.ibm.com > ping public.dhe.ibm.com

Re: IBM Site Time Outs

Microsoft Windows [Version 6.0.6002] Copyright (c) 2006 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved. C:\Users\John>ping service.boulder.ibm.com Pinging service.boulder.ibm.com [170.225.15.26] with 32 bytes of data: Reply from 170.225.15.26: bytes=32 time=63ms TTL=244 Reply from 170.225.15.26:

Re: Forbes: IT Professionals Don't Have What The Tech Industry Wants

many hardly trained foreign workers to take US jobs. No one seems to be accountable to prove they needed off shore workers due to lack of talent in USA. B.S. Just venting a bit. John Clifford Consultant On Fri, Jul 3, 2015 at 11:16 PM, Ed Gould edgould1...@comcast.net wrote: Timothy: You

Re: HSM Recalls and MASKING

tapes so I broke the recall into 8 batch recall jobs, one per ML2 tape, and they ran pretty fast. Hope this helps. John Clifford GTSG consultant On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 4:54 PM, Lizette Koehler stars...@mindspring.com wrote: I was using Knowledge Center for the DFSMShsm Stg Admin manual

Re: OT: Friday joke :-)

WHO Cares ??? Score 45 - 7. If the balls had spikes the Colts would get slaughtered. It didn't affect the games a bit. It was pouring most of the day and all the balls were wet and slick. Same for both teams. When there is no real news, just invent some. If this was the Seahawks, no one would

Re: Force DISP=(NEW,CATLG)?

it and then it gets deleted normally in the second step. Then normal batch allocations should work correctly . I hope this makes sense. John Clifford GTSG (IBM consultant) On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 3:07 PM, Paul Gilmartin 000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu wrote: Non-SMS. I ran last week's JCL

Re: FDR tape dataset Reading

FDR provides a utility called FDRMAP FDRMAPT. First one maps a disk. Second one maps a tape providing similar looking report as the disk one. John Clifford Consultant (looking for work) On Thu, Aug 14, 2014 at 6:32 AM, mf db dbajava...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I am looking for a sample JCL

Re: IEFUJI problem, preventing TSO logon

This message: IKJ56457I LOGON FAILED JCL ERROR IN LOGON PROCEDURE denotes that a dataset on a DD stmt in the LOGON proc could not be allocated.. Check all allocation names and spelling. John Clifford On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 9:42 AM, Jackson, Robin rjacks...@bmi.com wrote: I have

Re: IEFUJI problem, preventing TSO logon

If the exit isn't the issue can you alter the logon proc to IKJACCNT. I think it is the starter proc and ispf usually shows that first screen unless the error is happening prior to you getting the ispf panel. John C On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 11:29 AM, Jackson, Robin rjacks...@bmi.com wrote: The

Re: setprog command RACF issue

Try: //send exec pgm=iebgener //sysprint dd sysout=* //sysin dd dummy //sysut2 dd sysout=(a,intrdr) //sysut1 dd data,dlm=qq $vs,setprog blah,blah,blah qq John Clifford IBM consultant in OKC On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 10:55 AM, zMan zedgarhoo...@gmail.com wrote: So revealing

Re: setprog command RACF issue

any sense to me. Anyone know what it means? On Wed, Jun 25, 2014 at 12:34 PM, John Clifford johnrcl...@gmail.com wrote: Try: //send exec pgm=iebgener //sysprint dd sysout=* //sysin dd dummy //sysut2 dd sysout=(a,intrdr) //sysut1 dd data,dlm=qq $vs,setprog blah

Re: CSV019I Clarification

When we did add a non-apf authorized lib to our CICS concatenation, the CICS startup abends immediately. Once we authorized it, CICS comes up OK. I realize this is just one application but it is where you tend to get a lot of libs concatenated (DB2 procs also). We did not try to execute anything

Re: Restoration of IAM datasets

If any IAM dataset owners have FDR in their shop, It backs up and restores IAM files perfectly as both products are from Innovation DP. John C On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 9:15 AM, Steve Dover steve.do...@ccbcc.com wrote: Rajesh, After the restore, make sure the dataset-owner got set properly.

Re: CSV019I Clarification

Doesn't this come under the rule (at least in CICS) where in a multilib concatenation, if one lib is APF all the libs must be APF authorized, period. John Clifford On Sun, May 25, 2014 at 5:43 PM, MichealButz michealb...@comcast.netwrote: Hi I have an APF authorized module running of out

Re: Can ALIAS names be GDG entries?

One possible reason that the listcat doesnt show the GDS's as part of the GDG is that they were not created using +1 and so may need to have an IDCAMS (Alter xx ROLLIN) done against all 3 GDS's John Clifford On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 12:10 PM, CM Poncelet ponce...@bcs.org.uk wrote

Re: VSAM question/problem

field, there has to have been a bunch more records. See if this mini reorg fixes it. John Clifford IBM consultant On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 2:17 PM, Pommier, Rex rpomm...@sfgmembers.comwrote: Hi List, We have a VSAM KSDS with 1 record in it that is causing us some heartburn. I was able to create

Re: VSAM question/problem

product after I left to resolve these type of issues. Best Regards, John Clifford On Tue, May 20, 2014 at 3:57 PM, Pommier, Rex rpomm...@sfgmembers.comwrote: John, I'm gonna chalk it up to application error. I (after the fact) just found out this is actually defined to CICS. CICS puts

Re: FINDING CLUSTER NAME

John, If you issue a listcat on the DATA or INDEX it should show the CLUSTER---x name unless the cluster was 'deleted noscratch' which removes the name from the catalog and leaves the data/index files on dasd. Is this what you are encountering ??? John Clifford IBM Consultant

Re: 3590 tape drives

. Thanks in advance, John Clifford johnrcl...@gmail.com IBM contractor On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 1:55 PM, Greg Shirey wgshi...@benekeith.com wrote: We use Fujitsu to support our 3590's and many other mainframe peripherals. They have always been very responsive and responsible. Regards

Re: Slow vary commands processing

//SYSPROC DD DISP=SHR,DSN=YOUR.SYSEXEC.LIB //SYSTSPRT DD SYSOUT=* //SYSOUT DD SYSOUT=* //SYSTSIN DD * SLEEP 12 === Maybe it will help. It won't explain what is causing your command completion delay. We found it using TMON for MVS. John Clifford IBM