Re: 3590 tape drives

SMS has worked well. They were quick to respond and very helpful. Thank you and have a Terrific day! Jonathan Goossen, DTM ACT Capacity Management Personal: 651-361-4541 For help with verbal communication and leadership skills checkout Woodwinds Toastmasters. IBM Mainframe Discussion List

Re: Sorry state of IT education?

grammar errors slow me down even more. I NEED correct grammar and spelling if you want me to get the point. Thank you and have a Terrific day! Jonathan Goossen, DTM ACT Capacity Management Personal: 651-361-4541 For help with verbal communication and leadership skills checkout Woodwinds

Re: HSM and changed or archive bit

You can see the state of the changed flag in ISMF option 1. It is column 24. Thank you and have a Terrific day! Jonathan Goossen, DTM ACT Mainframe Storage Group Personal: 651-361-4541 Department Support Line: 651-361- For help with verbal communication and leadership skills checkout

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All of the ones I have looked at only handle plastic. The printer itself has electronics. It may make a replica, but I don't think it will be a working replica. Thank you and have a Terrific day! Jonathan Goossen, DTM ACT Mainframe Storage Group Personal: 651-361-4541 Department Support

Re: B37 för FTINCL in ISPF for userid.ISPnnnnn.SPFTEMPn.WORK datasets

as a user of storage services before I transferred to administering the services. I really wish I could administer my PC files as well I can the mainframe files. Thank you and have a Terrific day! Jonathan Goossen, DTM ACT Mainframe Storage Group Personal: 651-361-4541 Department Support Lin

Re: B37 för FTINCL in ISPF for userid.ISPnnnnn.SPFTEMPn.WORK datasets

use thought out defaults and tools like StopX to help users. Then we help them better specify or fine tune when the defaults and tools are unable to assist. In the end we get better performance where needed and ease of use in the majority of cases. Thank you and have a Terrific day! Jonathan

Re: How to list all tape volumes the shows UNKNOWN on the D SMS,VOL cmd ??

8 to locate bad or missing values. If you don't have direct access to the panels, Naviquest in batch can get a full list of volumes that can then be filtered/processed with another tool. Thank you and have a Terrific day! Jonathan Goossen, DTM ACT Mainframe Storage Group Personal: 65

Re: Easy way to check whether a job is still running (without using TSO)

Why not issue the JES command in CONSOL? That will avoid the overhead of batch SDSF. Thank you and have a Terrific day! Jonathan Goossen, DTM ACT Mainframe Storage Group Personal: 651-361-4541 Department Support Line: 651-361- For help with verbal communication and leadership skills

Re: Fwd: 3494 Utilization

day! Jonathan Goossen, DTM ACT Mainframe Storage Group Personal: 651-361-4541 Department Support Line: 651-361- For help with verbal communication and leadership skills checkout Woodwinds Toastmasters. IBM Mainframe Discussion List wrote on 04/15/2013 09:43:19 AM: > From: Lizette Koeh

Re: Flash Cards on MVS

cells to hold the data. Thank you and have a Terrific day! Jonathan Goossen, DTM ACT Mainframe Storage Group Personal: 651-361-4541 Department Support Line: 651-361- For help with communication and leadership skills checkout Woodwinds Toastmasters. IBM Mainframe Discussion List wrote on

Re: blksize for ML2 migrated dataset via HSM

2048 bytes. To allow a block size greater than 2048, use installation exit routine IFG0193G. Version 4 labels do not have this restriction but is 2,760 for DASD, ISO/ANSI Version 4 tape labels, and other data sets. Thank you and have a Terrific day! Jonathan Goossen, DTM ACT Mainframe

Re: blksize for ML2 migrated dataset via HSM

>From "CA 1®Tape Management Systems Programmer Guide r11.5 SP5" BLKSIZE TMBLKSI 96(60) BIN 4 MAXIMUM BLOCK SIZE JFCB JFCBLKSI 4 bytes are used to store the block size. Thank you and have a Terrific day! Jonathan Goossen, DTM ACT Mainframe Storage Group Personal: 651-361-4541 Depar

Re: blksize for ML2 migrated dataset via HSM

I found this in our TMC: BLKSIZE= 229376 I vaguely remember seeing this increase a few versions back along with some other field sizes. Thank you and have a Terrific day! Jonathan Goossen, DTM ACT Mainframe Storage Group Personal: 651-361-4541 Department Support Line: 651-361- For help

Re: SMS COMMAND VIA BATCH

Or you can have something like OPSMVS intercept the WTOR and reply No. Thank you and have a Terrific day! Jonathan Goossen, DTM ACT Mainframe Storage Group Personal: 651-361-4541 Department Support Line: 651-361- For help with communication and leadership skills checkout Woodwinds

Re: FREEVOL=EOV on R1.13

c day! Jonathan Goossen, DTM ACT Mainframe Storage Group Personal: 651-361-4541 Department Support Line: 651-361- For help with communication and leadership skills checkout Woodwinds Toastmasters. IBM Mainframe Discussion List wrote on 01/08/2013 11:48:25 AM: > From: Mary Anne Matyaz > T

Re: Automation for IGD17272I

is appropriate for it. It works great for us. We also use CA Vantage for a lot of other automation and gathering data. Thank you and have a Terrific day! Jonathan Goossen, DTM ACT Mainframe Storage Group Personal: 651-361-4541 Department Support Line: 651-361- For help with communication

Re: OT - Huge Maple Syrup heist solved.

or green for the clean data center power path that they are on. We also have specially trained cleaners who are given access to the rooms when. They are the only cleaners allowed to clean. Thank you and have a Terrific day! Jonathan Goossen, DTM ACT Mainframe Storage Group Personal: 651-361

Re: RedBook EPUBs - How can you read them?

Maybe an option set somewhere?) Have a Terrific day! Jonathan Goossen, DTM ACT Mainframe Storage Group Personal: 651-361-4541 Department Support Line: 651-361- For help with communication and leadership skills checkout Woodwinds Toastmasters. IBM Mainframe Discussion List wrote on 11/02/2

Re: How to get a tape's DSCB

back side of tape). I was never able to write data after that point. If data is to be recovered from a VTS tape that was overwritten, it needs to be done on the back-end system before the disk space or stacker tape gets overwritten. Thank you and have a Terrific day! Jonathan Goossen, DTM ACT

Re: How to get a tape's DSCB

have a Terrific day! Jonathan Goossen, DTM ACT Mainframe Storage Group For help with communication and leadership skills checkout Woodwinds Toastmasters. This e-mail message and all attachments transmitted with it may contain legally privileged and/or confidential information intended solely for

Re: Can I use IGGCSI00 to Access an Entire Catalog Without Specifying a Filter ?

Chapter 11 of "DFSMS Managing Catalogs" page 211 explains 'CSIFILTK, Generic Filter Key' very well. Finding this chapter helped me a lot in understanding the examples that I found elsewhere and in using it. Thank you and have a Terrific day! Jonathan Goossen, DTM ACT Mai

Re: Syncronize between CA-1 and IBM ATL and VTS

have a Terrific day! Jonathan Goossen, DTM ACT Mainframe Storage Group Personal: 651-361-4541 Department Support Line: 651-361- For help with communication and leadership skills checkout Woodwinds Toastmasters. IBM Mainframe Discussion List wrote on 09/20/2012 07:30:07 AM: > From: גד

Re: HAS ANYBODY NOTICED....

nal issue where emails sent in my name to me were not getting through. It was a network block 'to avoid unnecessary traffic'. Why would I need to get something that I had sent? It was simple to get cleared. Thank you and have a Terrific day! Jonathan Goossen, DTM ACT Mainframe Storag

Re: How to report catalogued dsns on tape ? ICF Catalogs

You can get the ICF data using the Catalog Search Interface program IGGCSI00, The field for device type is DEVTYP. Thank you and have a Terrific day! Jonathan Goossen, DTM ACT Mainframe Storage Group Personal: 651-361-4541 Department Support Line: 651-361- For help with communication and

Re: Who's blacklisting IBM-MAIN

When I click the first link, it gets translated to https and works fine. Thank you and have a Terrific day! Jonathan Goossen, DTM ACT Mainframe Storage Group Personal: 651-361-4541 Department Support Line: 651-361- For help with communication and leadership skills checkout Woodwinds

Re: IGGCSI to retrieve tape volume serial

X'78048083' which is 3590-1. Tape types virtual simulating 3590 and 3592. Thank you and have a Terrific day! Jonathan Goossen, DTM ACT Mainframe Storage Group Personal: 651-361-4541 Department Support Line: 651-361- For help with communication and leadership skills checkout

Re: IGGCSI to retrieve tape volume serial

lists the entry type and the first 3 volsers for each DSN found that matches the DNS pattern provided. Thank you and have a Terrific day! Jonathan Goossen, DTM ACT Mainframe Storage Group Personal: 651-361-4541 Department Support Line: 651-361- For help with communication and leadership s

Re: VTS problem

, i.e. see what the hardware has on the drive or unload the drive. With HDS we can send queries and commends from MVS via a started task. How you do it will depend on your hardware. Have a Terrific day! Jonathan Goossen, DTM ACT Mainframe Storage Group Personal: 651-361-4541 Department Support

Re: List Creation information for tape dsn

R = STRIP(SUBSTR(@LINE.7,26,6),L,'-') @RECOUT = 'NONVSAM '@CREATION' '@VOLSER @RECOUT = INSERT(@DSN,@RECOUT,28,44) RETURN @RECOUT Thank you and have a Terrific day! Jonathan Goossen, DTM ACT Mainframe Storage Group Personal: 651-361-4541 Department Support

Re: Catalog Device Type Conversion

CA-1 doesn't care about the MVS catalog in this regard. We moved from 3480 (18 track) to 3490E (36 track). Thank you and have a Terrific day! Jonathan Goossen, DTM ACT Mainframe Storage Group Personal: 651-361-4541 Department Support Line: 651-361- For help with communication and leaders

Re: SAVING OUTPUT WHEN IN $AVRS

Using the ISPF panels to put it the output to disk will generate JCL. Look at the JCL generated to find the libraries needed. Thank you and have a Terrific day! Jonathan Goossen, DTM ACT Mainframe Storage Group Personal: 651-361-4541 Department Support Line: 651-361- For help with