Re: IBM BLSR subsystem

2022-05-19 Thread PINION, RICHARD W.
) required datasets that could not be extended format? I don't mean to make a project for you, but any light you could shed would be appreciated. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of PINION, RICHARD W. Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2022 10:04 AM To: IBM-MAIN

Re: IBM BLSR subsystem

2022-05-19 Thread PINION, RICHARD W.
We did something similar in our QA LPAR. We changed our ACS routines to assign everything to extended format and extended addressing. During the mock production run, we were able to identify, and exclude the datasets that could not be extended/extended. The list is quite small. -Original

VTAM USSTAB

2022-05-17 Thread PINION, RICHARD W.
Does anybody know of a way to reverse assemble USSTAB load modules? Award-winning service Confidentiality notice: This e-mail message, including any attachments, may contain legally privileged and/or confidential information. If you are not

Re: TSO BRODCAST

2022-05-13 Thread PINION, RICHARD W.
Yes, that's it, thank you! -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Steve Smith Sent: Friday, May 13, 2022 5:06 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: TSO BRODCAST [External Email. Exercise caution when clicking links or opening attachments.] SAVE will

TSO BRODCAST

2022-05-13 Thread PINION, RICHARD W.
I can't remember how to retain a message in SYS1.BRODCAST, that appears every time you logon. I haven't done this in years. I'm working on a, hold your breath, OS/390 2.9 system. I need to clone what that system has. Award-winning service

Re: The Story of Mainframe Passwords

2022-05-12 Thread PINION, RICHARD W.
Non-relative track address BDAM used it to, right? -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Farley, Peter x23353 Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2022 3:45 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: The Story of Mainframe Passwords [External Email. Exercise caution

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Potential Resource Savings Techniques

2022-05-12 Thread PINION, RICHARD W.
make up that 100% Bob -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of PINION, RICHARD W. Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2022 10:12 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Potential Resource Savings Techniques Woohoo, I finally said something on IBM

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Potential Resource Savings Techniques

2022-05-12 Thread PINION, RICHARD W.
Woohoo, I finally said something on IBM that is of benefit to someone else. I think I will take the rest of the day off. I'm batting 100%, and I don't want to screw that up. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Pommier, Rex Sent: Thursday, May 12,

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Potential Resource Savings Techniques

2022-05-11 Thread PINION, RICHARD W.
Even better yet, code SPACE=(CYL,(0,500),RLSE) -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Pommier, Rex Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2022 5:20 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Potential Resource Savings Techniques [External Email. Exercise

Re: Potential Resource Savings Techniques

2022-05-11 Thread PINION, RICHARD W.
Using you favorite DASD management software, DF/HSM or FDRABR, you can release free space at will. We cobbled together a program that releases space, without updating the last use date. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Sent: Wednesday, May 11,

REPRO MERGECAT

2022-05-06 Thread PINION, RICHARD W.
If I do a REPRO MERGECAT, and if there are duplicate entries, i.e. SYS1.LINKLIB, will the REPRO MERGECAT overlay the entry in the target catalog? Confidentiality notice: This e-mail message, including any attachments, may contain legally privileged and/or confidential information. If you are

Re: Use of zCX

2022-04-21 Thread PINION, RICHARD W.
Does anybody hear remember a software product from a Russian company that allowed one to run Linux as an address space under OS/390? If memory serves me correctly, I think this was in the 1990's, possible early 2000's. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf

Re: HS student with question about small mainframe DASD

2022-04-15 Thread PINION, RICHARD W.
I do not want to dissuade you from this endeavor. But, if you are only interested in learning about z/OS, you might consider the path outlined in the link below. Specifically, the Personal Edition. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zdt/12.0.5?topic=overview This is the official IBM mainframe

Don't shoot the messenger

2022-04-11 Thread PINION, RICHARD W.
Will OS/390 2.9 run under z/VM on a z114 processor? I think it won't. But, someone else says it will. Confidentiality notice: This e-mail message, including any attachments, may contain legally privileged and/or confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient(s), or the

Re: IBM ServiceLink

2022-04-05 Thread PINION, RICHARD W.
I thought it was just me! -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Robert Dott Sent: Tuesday, April 5, 2022 1:14 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: IBM ServiceLink [External Email. Exercise caution when clicking links or opening attachments.] Anyone

Re: Semi-OT: S/370 Channel Emulator/A cables needed

2022-04-01 Thread PINION, RICHARD W.
Obi Wan FRU, that's a name I've not heard in a long, long time. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Joe Monk Sent: Friday, April 1, 2022 9:35 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Semi-OT: S/370 Channel Emulator/A cables needed [External Email.

Re: PL/I

2022-03-30 Thread PINION, RICHARD W.
I know the COBOL team/manuals published numbers for things like this, with the option turned on and with the option turned off. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Jay Maynard Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2022 12:06 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject:

Re: looking for 'how to' developing Rexx host command

2022-03-21 Thread PINION, RICHARD W.
So Tron is alive! -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Jay Maynard Sent: Sunday, March 20, 2022 11:37 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: looking for 'how to' developing Rexx host command [External Email. Exercise caution when clicking links or

Re: DFSORT PTFS for ZSORT

2022-03-07 Thread PINION, RICHARD W.
APAR PH33868 is resolved by UI77613. UI77613 specifically addresses the abend we received. Please see the screen shots below of the SMP/E Global Zone Inquiries for UI77613 and UI76949. Below the screen shots are the output from the APPLY. Entry Type: SYSMOD

Re: DFSORT PTFS for ZSORT

2022-03-07 Thread PINION, RICHARD W.
.] On Mon, 7 Mar 2022 at 15:41, PINION, RICHARD W. wrote: > > We are running z/OS 2.4 on an IBM Z15. We encountered the following > error when running with ZSORT=YES. > > ICE269A WITH ICEMTST ERROR 4013E000 0008 0100 > > We retrieved the fixing PTF's of UI77613 and UI7694

DFSORT PTFS for ZSORT

2022-03-07 Thread PINION, RICHARD W.
We are running z/OS 2.4 on an IBM Z15. We encountered the following error when running with ZSORT=YES. ICE269A WITH ICEMTST ERROR 4013E000 0008 0100 We retrieved the fixing PTF's of UI77613 and UI76949. UI76949 is a PRE of UI77613. UI76949 has a HOLDERROR of CH42336, which I think

Re: Meet Zorow, An Open Mainframe Project For z/OS Systems - Open Mainframe Project

2022-03-03 Thread PINION, RICHARD W.
> Open Mainframe Project > > Take a cue from Charles Manson ... Zezozose Zadfrack > > On 2022-03-01 20:01, PINION, RICHARD W. wrote: > > No wait, Zoltar, from a MST3000 episode. > > > > -Original Message- > > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On

Re: Meet Zorow, An Open Mainframe Project For z/OS Systems - Open Mainframe Project

2022-03-01 Thread PINION, RICHARD W.
No wait, Zoltar, from a MST3000 episode. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Charles Mills Sent: Tuesday, March 1, 2022 7:49 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Meet Zorow, An Open Mainframe Project For z/OS Systems - Open Mainframe Project

Re: Meet Zorow, An Open Mainframe Project For z/OS Systems - Open Mainframe Project

2022-03-01 Thread PINION, RICHARD W.
Zoltron, master of the universe! -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Charles Mills Sent: Tuesday, March 1, 2022 7:49 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Meet Zorow, An Open Mainframe Project For z/OS Systems - Open Mainframe Project [External

Re: z/OS ISPF Panel to include System Name

2022-02-24 Thread PINION, RICHARD W.
Ditto on that, I don't want to be on a production system when I start shutting stuff down. I use titles, border titles, and colosr to differentiate my TN3270 sessions. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Tony Harminc Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2022

Re: z/OS ISPF Panel to include System Name

2022-02-24 Thread PINION, RICHARD W.
l Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of PINION, RICHARD W. Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2022 02:18 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: z/OS ISPF Panel to include System Name You can edit the source of the panel. You need to figure out where the panel is co

Re: z/OS ISPF Panel to include System Name

2022-02-24 Thread PINION, RICHARD W.
You can edit the source of the panel. You need to figure out where the panel is coming from, in regards to your ISPF allocations (CLIST/REXX, logon proc) -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Jasi Grewal Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2022 3:13 PM To:

Re: BPXBATCH Environment Variable concatenation - STDENV

2022-02-24 Thread PINION, RICHARD W.
Would AOPBATCH help? //STEP010 EXEC PGM=AOPBATCH,PARM='sh' //STDIN DD * "cp \"//'sys1.maclib(splevel)'\" /dev/fd/1" | gzip >foosplevel.gz //STDERR DD SYSOUT=* //STDOUT DD SYSOUT=*

Re: More z/OS and LinuxONE on IBM Cloud, Including On-Demand z/OS

2022-02-15 Thread PINION, RICHARD W.
Probably the Dino-babies are responsible for this. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Mohammad Khan Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2022 1:59 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: More z/OS and LinuxONE on IBM Cloud, Including On-Demand z/OS

Re: Definition of z/OS SYSRES volume

2022-02-14 Thread PINION, RICHARD W.
, February 14, 2022 5:24 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Definition of z/OS SYSRES volume [External Email. Exercise caution when clicking links or opening attachments.] C drive ? / directory ? ICKDSF ? On 2/14/2022 1:19 PM, PINION, RICHARD W. wrote: > I did a little online searc

Definition of z/OS SYSRES volume

2022-02-14 Thread PINION, RICHARD W.
I did a little online searching. But, I didn't see anything that helped. How would you define the "SYSRES volume"? I want to give a good definition to new system programmers. Confidentiality notice: This e-mail message, including any attachments, may contain legally privileged and/or

Re: Batch job elapsed time baseline and alerts

2022-02-11 Thread PINION, RICHARD W.
I think some automated schedulers will provide this kind of notification. We use Zeke, and our operators are notified when a job has not started, or is running too long. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Rob Scott Sent: Friday, February 11, 2022 11:41

Re: MVS PURGE command

2022-02-04 Thread PINION, RICHARD W.
That's why my 3850 stopped working :) -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Peter Fatzinger Sent: Friday, February 4, 2022 9:12 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: MVS PURGE command [External Email. Exercise caution when clicking links or opening

Re: Systems Programming / Operations support services in USA/Canada

2022-02-01 Thread PINION, RICHARD W.
Baer Consulting -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Bill Johnson Sent: Tuesday, February 1, 2022 2:04 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Systems Programming / Operations support services in USA/Canada [External Email. Exercise caution when

Re: migrate from DS8884 to DS8910F

2022-01-20 Thread PINION, RICHARD W.
Not sure if this is the correct answer for you. But, we recently moved all of our data from a Hitachi Data Systems G1500 box to a Hitachi Data Systems 5100 (some say 5100 others say 5500) box. We used TDMF. BMC has a similar products call FDRPAS and FDR Plug and Swap, that do the same

Re: What not to do on a z/OS system...

2022-01-18 Thread PINION, RICHARD W.
Late night operations staff pushing each other across the raised floor on wheeled office chairs. Until one night, someone ran into the side of the IBM mainframe. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Roger Bolan Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2022 7:43 PM To:

Re: More of LOG4J

2022-01-18 Thread PINION, RICHARD W.
Would one consider the CBT Tape to be open source? I've used CBT programs in many places I've worked at. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Farley, Peter x23353 Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2022 12:07 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: More of

Re: zEDC Justification documents or links

2022-01-13 Thread PINION, RICHARD W.
Sequential datasets that they are updated in place cannot be compressed. That would apply to zEDC or SMS compression. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Scott Barry Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2022 4:10 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re:

Re: Can I use a NAS attached to z/OS

2022-01-11 Thread PINION, RICHARD W.
Let's not forget Shai Hess's MFNetDisk. I don't think it's available anymore. But, I used it extensively from 2010 to 2016. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Radoslaw Skorupka Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2022 5:32 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU

Re: Ad programming features (Re: ... Re: Top 8 Reasons for using Python instead of REXX for z/OS

2022-01-08 Thread PINION, RICHARD W.
I've not followed this thread. But, one thing I saw in your latest reply, about z/OS USS/Open Edition and Linux. USS/Open Edition is/was a port of UNIX. I remember the IBM marketing presentation about OE/USS, the local IBM rep stated "more UNIX than UNIX". -Original Message- From:

Re: ... Re: Top 8 Reasons for using Python instead of REXX for z/OS

2022-01-06 Thread PINION, RICHARD W.
And, if memory serves me right, those were on Betamax tapes. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of PINION, RICHARD W. Sent: Thursday, January 6, 2022 4:28 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: ... Re: Top 8 Reasons for using Python instead of REXX

Re: ... Re: Top 8 Reasons for using Python instead of REXX for z/OS

2022-01-06 Thread PINION, RICHARD W.
Deltak, now that's a name, I've not heard in a long time. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Bob Bridges Sent: Thursday, January 6, 2022 4:17 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: ... Re: Top 8 Reasons for using Python instead of REXX for z/OS

Re: Link between datasets

2021-12-28 Thread PINION, RICHARD W.
n clicking links or opening attachments.] Use your JCL. Run a step to check the existence of a, if a not found use conditional exec to delete b,c and d. On Tue, Dec 28, 2021, 2:51 PM Paul Gilmartin < 000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > On Tue, 28 Dec 2021 21:10:32 +00

Link between datasets

2021-12-28 Thread PINION, RICHARD W.
I'm going to ask what many of you may consider a foolish question. Please be kind in your criticism. Let's say I have 4 datasets, a.a, b.b, c.c, and d.d. Is there any way to define a relationship between a.a to b.b, a.a to c.c , and a.a to d.d? What I would like to happen, if a.a is

Re: Zfs recatalog error

2021-12-23 Thread PINION, RICHARD W.
You can always ZAP the VVR in the VVDS :) -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Steve Horein Sent: Thursday, December 23, 2021 9:08 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Zfs recatalog error [External Email. Exercise caution when clicking links or

Re: ISPF Allocation CLIST that does WRITE messages

2021-12-12 Thread PINION, RICHARD W.
CONTROL MAIN NOMSG NOLIST NOSYMLIST NOCONLIST -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Lizette Koehler Sent: Sunday, December 12, 2021 5:07 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: ISPF Allocation CLIST that does WRITE messages [External Email. Exercise

Re: Volume allocated to *MASTER*

2021-11-04 Thread PINION, RICHARD W.
Thank you, that's what I needed to know! -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Peter Relson Sent: Thursday, November 4, 2021 9:45 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Volume allocated to *MASTER* [External Email. Exercise caution when clicking

Re: Volume allocated to *MASTER*

2021-11-03 Thread PINION, RICHARD W.
We use PROGxx for APF, SYSLIB, and link list. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Seymour J Metz Sent: Wednesday, November 3, 2021 2:20 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Volume allocated to *MASTER* [External Email. Exercise caution when

Re: Volume allocated to *MASTER*

2021-11-03 Thread PINION, RICHARD W.
Or RES volume naming conventions are S1RS0x, where x is a number between 1 and 3. We are IPL'ed on S1RS03, and the volume that is allocated is S1RS02. We catalog all RES volume datasets to '**'. However, there were two datasets, that were part of link list, cataloged to S1RS02. We

Re: Volume allocated to *MASTER*

2021-11-03 Thread PINION, RICHARD W.
me...@gmu.edu >wrote: > > > Run the TIOT in the Master address and see what is allocated/ > > > > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU on > > behalf of PINION, RICHARD W. rpin...@firsthorizon.com > > > > Sent: Tuesday, November 2, 2

Re: Volume allocated to *MASTER*

2021-11-02 Thread PINION, RICHARD W.
> > > On Tuesday, November 2nd, 2021 at 8:02 PM, Seymour J Metz > sme...@gmu.edu wrote: > > > > > Run the TIOT in the Master address and see what is allocated/ > > > > > > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU on > behal

Re: Volume allocated to *MASTER*

2021-11-02 Thread PINION, RICHARD W.
@protonmail.com__;!!HnnddUIWDII9UQ!E2gIeHNsu3Tw0cV8It8sNFZ_fSXki-eFkGbvm5FjII5Kn0Qlfrwb1h2l7Mnc6HO1cT0$ ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Tuesday, November 2nd, 2021 at 10:21 AM, PINION, RICHARD W. wrote: > We are running z/OS 2.2. We have a volume that is allocated > > to MASTER. O

Volume allocated to *MASTER*

2021-11-02 Thread PINION, RICHARD W.
We are running z/OS 2.2. We have a volume that is allocated to *MASTER*. Originally, the volume was allocated to XCFAS LLA, and *MASTER*. We got XCFAS and LLA to release their allocations by updating the link list. However, we cannot determine what *MASTER* is holding. I've used SDSF's JD

Re: Jes2 to Server

2021-10-27 Thread PINION, RICHARD W.
Take a look at McKinney Systems JRB product. It's a chargeable. But, in our opinion, it wasn't that expensive. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Roberto Halais Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2021 4:29 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Jes2 to

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: IBM ZDNT Learner's Edition - beware

2021-10-26 Thread PINION, RICHARD W.
Yeah, remember what happened when one of the original Hercules group requested the tapes for MVS/370, DOS, and VM/370. Nobody at IBM checked to determine if that was OK, and the tapes were sent. Afterwards, the hammer came down. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List

z/OS 2.4 IPL WSC 040

2021-10-19 Thread PINION, RICHARD W.
I recently applied maintenance to our 2.4 system, and got the following attempting to IPL. Central processor (CP) 0 is in a nonrestartable stopped state due to a System Control Program (SCP) initiated reset of the I/O interface for partition BASE. The disabled wait program status word (PSW) is

Re: Mainframe ransomware solution

2021-10-10 Thread PINION, RICHARD W.
The only thing I ever put on a system, similar to that, was a TSO program which produced a crude picture of the one finger salute. You could put whatever message you wanted on the hand. Silly me, I had the program executing at TSO logon. Management was not amused. -Original

Re: IPL's POR's frequency

2021-09-14 Thread PINION, RICHARD W.
General reply, the last time the backup generator ran out of fuel! Don't laugh, it happens. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of McCabe, Ron Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 2021 1:03 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: IPL's POR's frequency

IBM Copy Services Manager 6.3

2021-09-08 Thread PINION, RICHARD W.
I am installing IBM CSM 6.3 on a z/OS 2.2 system. The previous install used /usr/lpp/IBM/CSM and /opt/IBM/CSM as the directories. Using the CSM 6.3 install job SYS1.SAMPLIB(IWNDDDE2), the directories have been changed to /usr/lpp/IBM/CSMDSCLI and /opt/IBM/CSMDSCLI. After running the SMP/E

Re: LISCAT with space allocations

2021-09-03 Thread PINION, RICHARD W.
If you have FDREPORT from IDP/Compuware/BMC, that's a good tool. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Sri h Kolusu Sent: Friday, September 3, 2021 11:20 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: LISCAT with space allocations [External Email. Exercise

Re: IEBCOPY & PARM='WORK=xxMB'

2021-09-01 Thread PINION, RICHARD W.
o two COPY > operations (which can be in the same step, in case that's not obvious). > > REGION=32M, really? This isn't 1990. How about 1000M? > > sas > > > On Wed, Sep 1, 2021 at 10:54 AM PINION, RICHARD W. > > wrote: > > > We are running z/OS 2.2 on z15.

Re: IEBCOPY & PARM='WORK=xxMB'

2021-09-01 Thread PINION, RICHARD W.
ttps://rsclweb.com__;!!HnnddUIWDII9UQ!BoyjGzxrM4lde-pxf-y3TmqAQ1Q6v2YBIANM33UknReh8LQGYtyA5jcHAH2sM0X-whU$ 'Dance like no one is watching. Encrypt like everyone is.' -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of PINION, RICHARD W. Sent: 01 September 2021 15:54 To:

IEBCOPY & PARM='WORK=xxMB'

2021-09-01 Thread PINION, RICHARD W.
We are running z/OS 2.2 on z15. I am having a problem selectively unloading a very large PDS/E, over 2,000,000 tracks, and with several thousand members. The SYSIN to IEBCOPY has 174,000 SELECT statements. We are getting IEB1011E AVAILABLE STORAGE (4K) IS TOO SMALL. ADD 7779K MORE BYTES TO

Re: Neat/3 [was: RE: [External] Programs that work right the first time.]

2021-08-24 Thread PINION, RICHARD W.
While I didn't take the Neat/3 class in college, it was offered. The university I attended at the time used a NCR Century 151. I "think" they were running the B3 Executive. One partition for running a batch job read in from a card reader, a SPOOL'ing partition, and the other partition was

Printing of the ISPF Tutorial

2021-08-02 Thread PINION, RICHARD W.
Is it possible to get a hardcopy of the ISPF Tutorial? Confidentiality notice: This e-mail message, including any attachments, may contain legally privileged and/or confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient(s), or the employee or agent responsible for delivery of this

Re: zEDC compression on z13 and z15

2021-07-22 Thread PINION, RICHARD W.
Of PINION, RICHARD W. Sent: Thursday, July 22, 2021 4:55 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: zEDC compression on z13 and z15 [External Email. Exercise caution when clicking links or opening attachments.] OK, I've created another dataset that is single volume, same size. General Data

Re: zEDC compression on z13 and z15

2021-07-22 Thread PINION, RICHARD W.
Discussion List On Behalf Of Ed Jaffe Sent: Thursday, July 22, 2021 4:47 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: zEDC compression on z13 and z15 [External Email. Exercise caution when clicking links or opening attachments.] The z15 data set is multi-volume? On 7/22/2021 1:40 PM, PINION, RICHARD W

Re: zEDC compression on z13 and z15

2021-07-22 Thread PINION, RICHARD W.
] On Behalf Of PINION, RICHARD W. Sent: Thursday, July 22, 2021 3:55 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: zEDC compression on z13 and z15 We migrated from a z13 to a z15 this past weekend. We are running z/OS 2.2, z/OS 2.2 on the z13, and the same z/OS 2.2 on the z15. z15 maintenance was applied

Re: zEDC compression on z13 and z15

2021-07-22 Thread PINION, RICHARD W.
aset DCB attributes. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of PINION, RICHARD W. Sent: Thursday, July 22, 2021 3:55 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: zEDC compression on z13 and z15 We migrated from a z13 to a z15 this past

zEDC compression on z13 and z15

2021-07-22 Thread PINION, RICHARD W.
We migrated from a z13 to a z15 this past weekend. We are running z/OS 2.2, z/OS 2.2 on the z13, and the same z/OS 2.2 on the z15. z15 maintenance was applied to z/OS 2.2, and activated a couple of months ago. We are using the same SMS configuration on the z15 as the z13, and that includes the

Re: Report on total tape usage?

2021-07-09 Thread PINION, RICHARD W.
Do you have FDREPORT from BMC? -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Longnecker, Dennis Sent: Friday, July 9, 2021 11:21 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Report on total tape usage? [External Email. Exercise caution when clicking links or opening

Re: SDSF TMP

2021-06-30 Thread PINION, RICHARD W.
ent: Wednesday, June 30, 2021 1:38 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: SDSF TMP [External Email. Exercise caution when clicking links or opening attachments.] On Wed, 30 Jun 2021 17:02:52 +0000, PINION, RICHARD W. wrote: >Yes I did it on a z/OS 2.4 system today, and it worked. >

Re: SDSF TMP

2021-06-30 Thread PINION, RICHARD W.
or opening attachments.] On Wed, 30 Jun 2021 16:19:26 +, PINION, RICHARD W. wrote: >Perhaps my wording is incorrect. But, you can use PGM=SDSF in a logon proc. >I remembered that's how it was done. I tried it, and it does work. > Present tense ("does")? Do you mean

Re: SDSF TMP

2021-06-30 Thread PINION, RICHARD W.
!!HnnddUIWDII9UQ!ELaFSQJID_qGZRmuTK4B-jrsSqEQ9r3OdZ7KN_YLtH3KGNiWsi_He9pAWh_xLoVhIEs$ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of PINION, RICHARD W. [rpin...@firsthorizon.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 2021 10:07 AM To: IBM-MAIN

SDSF TMP

2021-06-30 Thread PINION, RICHARD W.
Am I only dreaming, but couldn't one execute SDSF as the TSO TMP. This might have been from the 80's or 90's timeframe. Confidentiality notice: This e-mail message, including any attachments, may contain legally privileged and/or confidential information. If you are not the intended

CBT Tape

2021-06-29 Thread PINION, RICHARD W.
Does anybody remember an application on the CBT Tape, named Dirt Cheap "something or other"? Confidentiality notice: This e-mail message, including any attachments, may contain legally privileged and/or confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient(s), or the employee or

Re: [External] Re: access to 9-track reel tape drive

2021-06-08 Thread PINION, RICHARD W.
Doesn't FDR's FATS and FATR have the ability to read tapes, and skip unreadable blocks? Some data is better than no data at all. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Tony Thigpen Sent: Tuesday, June 8, 2021 4:21 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject:

Re: [External] Re: JCL COND vs IF/THEN - Best catch up resources for MVS / ZOS Technologies

2021-05-20 Thread PINION, RICHARD W.
DR-DOS, now that's a name I've not heard in a long time (Obi Wan Kenobe). -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Pommier, Rex Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2021 10:38 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: [External] Re: JCL COND vs IF/THEN - Best catch up

Re: Mainframe t-shirt store

2021-05-13 Thread PINION, RICHARD W.
.] ...it gets to the point to checkout/pay, and it freezes. Must not be running on a mainframe!! Mitch -Original Message- From: PINION, RICHARD W. To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Sent: Thu, May 13, 2021 12:58 pm Subject: Mainframe t-shirt store If you haven't seen this, then check

Re: Mainframe t-shirt store

2021-05-13 Thread PINION, RICHARD W.
: Mainframe t-shirt store [External Email. Exercise caution when clicking links or opening attachments.] On Thu, 13 May 2021 17:58:55 +, PINION, RICHARD W. wrote: >If you haven't seen this, then check it out. > >https://urldefense.com/v3/__http://www.mainframestore.com__;!!HnnddUI

Mainframe t-shirt store

2021-05-13 Thread PINION, RICHARD W.
If you haven't seen this, then check it out. www.mainframestore.com Confidentiality notice: This e-mail message, including any attachments, may contain legally privileged and/or confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient(s), or the employee or agent responsible for

Re: 3270 emulator / telnet with encryption

2021-05-07 Thread PINION, RICHARD W.
M-I-C-K-E-Y M-O-U-S-E. Who remembers that song? -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Radoslaw Skorupka Sent: Friday, May 7, 2021 4:16 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: 3270 emulator / telnet with encryption [External Email. Exercise caution

Re: Program invoked SORT, SMS managed //SORTOUT DD DSN=& [EXTERNAL]

2021-04-30 Thread PINION, RICHARD W.
List On Behalf Of PINION, RICHARD W. Sent: Friday, April 30, 2021 1:30 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Program invoked SORT, SMS managed //SORTOUT DD DSN=& [EXTERNAL] I have what is probably an elementary question. I had a program invoked SORT ABEND with a SE37-08 on a SMS managed t

Re: Program invoked SORT, SMS managed //SORTOUT DD DSN=&

2021-04-30 Thread PINION, RICHARD W.
new job) Lodz, Poland W dniu 30.04.2021 o 20:30, PINION, RICHARD W. pisze: > I have what is probably an elementary question. I had a program > invoked SORT ABEND with a SE37-08 on a SMS managed temporary SORTOUT > dataset. Here's the error stream. > > 11.48.03 JOB16510 IGD17273I

Program invoked SORT, SMS managed //SORTOUT DD DSN=&

2021-04-30 Thread PINION, RICHARD W.
I have what is probably an elementary question. I had a program invoked SORT ABEND with a SE37-08 on a SMS managed temporary SORTOUT dataset. Here's the error stream. 11.48.03 JOB16510 IGD17273I ALLOCATION HAS FAILED FOR ALL VOLUMES SELECTED FOR DATA SET 056 056

Re: Diagram of MVS Control Blocks

2021-04-25 Thread PINION, RICHARD W.
-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Diagram of MVS Control Blocks [External Email. Exercise caution when clicking links or opening attachments.] On 4/23/2021 3:43 PM, PINION, RICHARD W. wrote: > Many years ago, 1982, I took my first MVS class, MVS Structure and > Logic. One of the first ha

Re: Diagram of MVS Control Blocks

2021-04-23 Thread PINION, RICHARD W.
PINION, RICHARD W., wrote: > Many years ago, 1982, I took my first MVS class, MVS Structure and Logic. > One of > the first handouts our class was given was a spaghetti diagram of MVS > control blocks. > Unfortunately, I threw mine away in 2016, when I thought my system > programm

Diagram of MVS Control Blocks

2021-04-23 Thread PINION, RICHARD W.
Many years ago, 1982, I took my first MVS class, MVS Structure and Logic. One of the first handouts our class was given was a spaghetti diagram of MVS control blocks. Unfortunately, I threw mine away in 2016, when I thought my system programming days were over. Would anyone happen to have that

Re: Is there a vertical split in ISPF?

2021-04-19 Thread PINION, RICHARD W.
I wonder if it would be possible for Tom Brennen to add support for a 3290 device? I wonder if ISPF SPLITV, 3290, and TN3270E are even a possibility, as the 3290/3x74 combination was a SNA thing??? I have no idea, as I can't even spell VTAM, SNA, or TN3270E. -Original Message- From:

Re: Machine-readable flag for "development-only z/OS'

2021-04-05 Thread PINION, RICHARD W.
zPDT shows a CPU model number of 1090. Perhaps you could use that? -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Charles Mills Sent: Monday, April 5, 2021 1:38 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Machine-readable flag for "development-only z/OS' [External

Re: jes2 spool

2021-03-31 Thread PINION, RICHARD W.
Have a look at JRB from McKinney Systems. We are using it to suck up reports from the spool, FTP to a server (not sure about the compression part), and then it respools the report for another application to process the report. JRBE085 ** DELIVERY STARTED:#2 "A " FTP for xxx yyy

Re: Load module

2021-03-30 Thread PINION, RICHARD W.
One way to insure usability, is to use IBM's terse utilities against the load library. Then use binary for ALL transfers. However, I don't know anything about load library attributes on VM. Is a z/OS load library compatible on VM??? -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion

Re: Any One Looking for new gig?

2021-03-29 Thread PINION, RICHARD W.
What ever happened to digital nomads? -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Steve Beaver Sent: Monday, March 29, 2021 9:27 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Any One Looking for new gig? [External Email. Exercise caution when clicking links or

Re: Dataset contention

2021-03-26 Thread PINION, RICHARD W.
You are welcome Joe! -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Joseph Reichman Sent: Friday, March 26, 2021 12:00 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Dataset contention [External Email. Exercise caution when clicking links or opening attachments.]

Re: Dataset contention

2021-03-26 Thread PINION, RICHARD W.
Do you know if the dataset is being held by something other than your batch jobs, with DISP=OLD? You should be able to use the ISPF DDLIST command to find out who is holding the enqueue. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Joseph Reichman Sent: Friday,

Re: Upgrade from z/os 2.3 to 2.4 decrease PVT storage

2021-03-22 Thread PINION, RICHARD W.
Doesn't the CICS DFHHPSVC have something to do with the "VTAM High Performance" Option? Is that still a big deal? -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Radoslaw Skorupka Sent: Monday, March 22, 2021 1:43 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Upgrade

Re: Any z/OS sandbox available for a university student I know?

2021-03-16 Thread PINION, RICHARD W.
There's always Hercules, and the free and legal MVS 3.8J. I believe there is a version of both VM and DOS. I found this by Googling for MVS Turnkey (Turkey). http://wotho.ethz.ch/tk4-/ -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Matt Hogstrom Sent: Tuesday,

Re: RES: Tape solutions for mainframe

2021-03-05 Thread PINION, RICHARD W.
Also, not as snazzy, it's a MTL, zVT. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of kekronbekron Sent: Friday, March 5, 2021 9:21 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: RES: Tape solutions for mainframe [External Email. Exercise caution when clicking links

Re: Serverpac installs January 2022 and beyond

2021-03-04 Thread PINION, RICHARD W.
Can't we wait another four years before getting rid of Serverpac? That's when I plan to retire. If not, then I'll have to look into early retirement :) -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Kurt Quackenbush Sent: Thursday, March 4, 2021 9:17 AM To:

Re: Any way to anticipate failure messages

2021-02-04 Thread PINION, RICHARD W.
Didn't the HAL 9000 have predictive failure analysis? Of course that was in 2001 :) -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Lizette Koehler Sent: Thursday, February 4, 2021 3:40 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Any way to anticipate failure messages

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