Re: z/OS FTP JCL LOCSITE

2014-08-27 Thread Charles Mills
I think there is a tendency for folks to use the term JCL (yes, incorrectly of course) to mean some sort of batch control statements, hence FTP JCL, IDCAMS JCL, etc. I assumed that was the OP's usage. Yes, the longer LRECL may imply getting the FTP control statements (sub-commands IIRC) out of

Rename dataset and recatalog

2014-08-27 Thread גדי בן אבי
Hi, How do I rename a dataset in batch if it will need to be cataloged in a different catalog? For example, I would like to rename SYS1.FOOBAR to SYSV.FOOBAR. Datasets with an HLQ of SYSV are cataloged in a different catalog the datasets with an HLQ of SYS1. This is very simple in ISPF, but

Re: Rename dataset and recatalog

2014-08-27 Thread retired mainframer
If the dataset is non-VSAM and the target catalog is the one that the new DSN belongs in under normal catalog search rules, then renaming the dataset using the TSO rename command handles the catalog details with no other action required. If you want the new DSN in a non-normal catalog and the

Re: Rename dataset and recatalog

2014-08-27 Thread Elardus Engelbrecht
Gadi wrote: How do I rename a dataset in batch if it will need to be cataloged in a different catalog? For example, I would like to rename SYS1.FOOBAR to SYSV.FOOBAR. Datasets with an HLQ of SYSV are cataloged in a different catalog the datasets with an HLQ of SYS1. This is very simple in ISPF,

Re: Recovery routines

2014-08-27 Thread Rob Scott
This is where you need to do some elimination of certain factors : (1) Does your ESTAE actually work? Test it by doing a link to a dummy program and forcing that dummy program to abend (2) Is it related to the TSO command environment? Test this by using TSO dummy and re-test using the dummy

Re: Recovery routines

2014-08-27 Thread Micheal Butz
It is declared as authorized in IKJTSOxx what is the significance of that I'll research it thanks Sent from my iPhone On Aug 27, 2014, at 5:25 AM, Rob Scott rsc...@rocketsoftware.com wrote: This is where you need to do some elimination of certain factors : (1) Does your ESTAE actually

Re: Recovery routines

2014-08-27 Thread Rob Scott
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Re: Recovery routines

2014-08-27 Thread Micheal Butz
Thanks Sent from my iPhone On Aug 27, 2014, at 5:50 AM, Rob Scott rsc...@rocketsoftware.com wrote: Hint : parallel TMP Rob Scott Lead Developer Rocket Software 77 Fourth Avenue . Suite 100 . Waltham . MA 02451-1468 . USA Tel: +1.781.684.2305 Email: rsc...@rs.com Web:

Re: Rename dataset and recatalog

2014-08-27 Thread Lizette Koehler
Are the datasets all NON VSAM that you want to rename? Are then on SMS or NONSMS volumes? Could you explain more of what this rename is for? Why you need to do this? If it is because of version changes in software, look at SYMBOLICRELATE function. I use this a lot for datasets that I ship out

Re: Rename dataset and recatalog

2014-08-27 Thread גדי בן אבי
Actually, the TSO Rename commands works just fine, so does the rename command in FTP. Gadi -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Lizette Koehler Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2014 2:50 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU

YASI: QSAM via URL.

2014-08-27 Thread John McKown
YASI - Yet Another Strange Idea. This idea is the illegitimate offspring from learning the R language and thinking about z/OS UNIX. And, like many others from this source, may well be really stupid. But I don't know the meaning of the word fear! And many other words too for that matter. A legacy

Re: z/OS FTP JCL LOCSITE

2014-08-27 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Wed, 27 Aug 2014 08:55:07 +0200, Charles Mills wrote: Yes, the longer LRECL may imply getting the FTP control statements (sub-commands IIRC) out of //INPUT DD * and into //INPUT DD DSN= It does not imply that; one may use a longer LRECL in //INPUT DD *. -- gil

Re: Rename dataset and recatalog

2014-08-27 Thread John McKown
On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 6:54 AM, גדי בן אבי gad...@malam.com wrote: Actually, the TSO Rename commands works just fine, so does the rename command in FTP. Gadi as does the ALTER ... NEWNAME(...) command in IDCAMS. Using ISPF has crippled the OP. Much like using Windows. -- There is

Re: YASI: QSAM via URL.

2014-08-27 Thread Charles Mills
Certainly sounds theoretically useful. FTP struck me as the more useful initially, but any of the forms might be useful. You would need the ability to specify FTP options like binary and RDW -- and space SITE options for output. Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe

Re: z/OS FTP JCL LOCSITE

2014-08-27 Thread Charles Mills
So my submitted dataset would be (for example) LRECL=1024 with embedded DD * FTP subcommands. JCL would process columns 1-72 and ignore 73 to 1023. FTP would process columns 1 to 1023. Is that right? Would I even have to specify DD *,LRECL=1024 or would QSAM pick it up from the fact that the

Re: YASI: QSAM via URL.

2014-08-27 Thread Elardus Engelbrecht
John McKown wrote: YASI - Yet Another Strange Idea. Ah, YASA (Yet Another Strange Acronym!) ;-D A legacy program can read or write a z/OS UNIX file via QSAM via a normal DD statement by using the PATH= instead of DSN=. Define 'legacy'. That is a dirty word for me. I don't really like it

Re: Rename dataset and recatalog

2014-08-27 Thread Bill Johnson
You could use HSM. Do a hbackds and then a hrecover with newname. If your SMS routines are set up properly the SYSV (rename) would go into the catalog you want. On Wed, 8/27/14, גדי בן אבי gad...@malam.com wrote: Subject: Rename dataset and

Re: Compare SMP/E DDDEFs and actual libraries

2014-08-27 Thread Kurt Quackenbush
Is there an SMP/E utility that will compare the DDDEFs to the actual libararies and make sure that they all exist? z/OSMF's software management application will cross-check DDDEFs, data set residency on volumes, and catalog entries for you. In the z/OSMF Software Management task, its called

Re: z/OS FTP JCL LOCSITE

2014-08-27 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Wed, 27 Aug 2014 14:23:04 +0200, Charles Mills wrote: So my submitted dataset would be (for example) LRECL=1024 with embedded DD * FTP subcommands. JCL would process columns 1-72 and ignore 73 to 1023. FTP would process columns 1 to 1023. Is that right? Would I even have to specify DD

Re: Recovery routines

2014-08-27 Thread DASDBILL2
To Rob Scott's (as usual) wise response, I will add this:  Is your ESTAE(X) routine even getting control?  Put a WTO at the very beginning of your recovery routine to tell you that your routine got control.  And beware that WTO may alter some registers that your recovery routine may need, such

Re: z/OS FTP JCL LOCSITE

2014-08-27 Thread Charles Mills
Thanks. Mostly idle curiosity on my part. Yeah, I know submit LRECL is a bugaboo of yours. Can't say I disagree. Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2014 3:40 PM To:

Re: Happy New Year

2014-08-27 Thread Cheryl Walker
Hi Shane, I for one would be interested in hearing what Timothy had to say, and now I'm afraid that I won't. If you want our take on the pricing announcement, you can find it here in item #4 - http://www.watsonwalker.com/clist177.html. Best regards, Cheryl == Cheryl Watson

Re: SMF Usage - Request to z/OS ISVs

2014-08-27 Thread Cheryl Walker
Hi all, I'd like to thank everyone who responded to our request below. We've expanded and uploaded our SMF Reference Summary that shows the record types that we know about. You can see our announcement in item #8 - http://www.watsonwalker.com/clist177.html. I'm still working on the second

SUBSYS interface

2014-08-27 Thread SUBSCRIBE IBM-MAIN Harold Gray
I have a working SUBSYS interface. My code processes a few of the interfaces (OPEN, ALLOC,... etc.) and previously resided below the line. I am trying to move the code above the line. Everything works fine except one item. In my OPEN routine, I put my input/output routine's address into the

JES3 zOS 2.1

2014-08-27 Thread Mil Hashoul
Hi, I am working on zos 2.1 JES3. can any one will summarize what is new on JES3 on zOS2.1? does any one tell me about JES exits, if it is effected by these changes? Is the converter\interpreter process had been changed? is there any blocks that have been transfered or changed for the converter

good article: The Grumpy Programmer on Unicode

2014-08-27 Thread John McKown
http://www.thegrumpyprogrammer.com/2014/08/oh-unicode-why-are-you-so-frustrating.html I found it quite interesting. And explains some of the decisions about why Unicode is so complicated. Basically, it tried to be compatible will all existing encodings, in some way or another. -- There is

Re: YASI: QSAM via URL.

2014-08-27 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Wed, 27 Aug 2014 07:27:49 -0500, Elardus Engelbrecht wrote: John McKown wrote: A legacy program can read or write a z/OS UNIX file via QSAM via a normal DD statement by using the PATH= instead of DSN=. Define 'legacy'. That is a dirty word for me. I don't really like it 'they' say

Re: Recovery routines

2014-08-27 Thread MichealButz
Yes it is I had a 306 abend in that the concatenation wasn't authorized my esatex intercepted it and gave the use a chance to enter a valid dsn which I do a SVC 99. Later on however one of the progs goes XMEM via AR sac 256 and its in that prog that I get a S0C4 Its all under the same TCB/RB

Re: JES3 zOS 2.1

2014-08-27 Thread Lizette Koehler
If you have not done so, I would review the z/OS Migration Guide that Marna Walle puts out. It has a lot of that information in it http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/epubs/pdf/e0z3m100.pdf There is a section called: JES3 migration actions Second, if you have not done so, you might want to join

Re: YASI: QSAM via URL.

2014-08-27 Thread Tony Harminc
On 27 August 2014 09:52, John McKown john.archie.mck...@gmail.com wrote: Define 'legacy'. That is a dirty word for me. I don't really like it 'they' say mainframe is 'legacy'. :-[ What is a good word for like we did it on OS/360. I.e. something which is designed to run in z/OS batch using

Re: YASI: QSAM via URL.

2014-08-27 Thread Tony Harminc
On 27 August 2014 08:01, John McKown john.archie.mck...@gmail.com wrote: I really wonder if this would be of any use in a z/OS environment. //INPUT DD URL='file:///etc/resolv.conf' or //INPUT DD URL='http://some.web.site/download/filedata.txt' or //INPUT DD

Re: Recovery routines

2014-08-27 Thread MichealButz
Very vanilla TSO command processor executed from within ISPF -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Ron Graham Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2014 10:48 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Recovery routines After you

testcase.boulder.ibm.com

2014-08-27 Thread Mark Jacobs
Did something change or is it broken for anonymous FTP access to testcase? It's asking me for a userid and password. Neither FTP nor anonymous as the userid seems to work. -- Mark Jacobs Time Customer Service Tampa, FL The standard you walk past is the standard you accept. Lt. Gen. David

Re: SUBSYS interface

2014-08-27 Thread Tony Harminc
On 27 August 2014 10:30, SUBSCRIBE IBM-MAIN Harold Gray harold.g...@mantissa.com wrote: I have a working SUBSYS interface. My code processes a few of the interfaces (OPEN, ALLOC,... etc.) and previously resided below the line. I am trying to move the code above the line. Everything works

Re: SMF Usage - Request to z/OS ISVs

2014-08-27 Thread Richards, Robert B.
Thank you, Cheryl, from all of us! Bob -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Cheryl Walker Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2014 10:25 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: SMF Usage - Request to z/OS ISVs Hi all, I'd

Re: good article: The Grumpy Programmer on Unicode

2014-08-27 Thread Farley, Peter x23353
Thanks for the interesting link. He and I share a lot of grumps about Unicode. And unfortunately, it does make a lot of sense when you do the research and reading, and like him I doubt that I could have done any better. Did I imagine that I heard (or read somewhere?) that the Perl developers

Re: testcase.boulder.ibm.com

2014-08-27 Thread Skip Robinson
I did several FTPs to testcase yesterday using PUTDOC. Site accepted user anonymous with password representing my full email address. Same process I've used for years. Haven't tried today. . . J.O.Skip Robinson Southern California Edison Company Electric Dragon Team Paddler SHARE MVS Program

Re: testcase.boulder.ibm.com

2014-08-27 Thread Mark Jacobs
And now it's working. Must have been a glitch. On 08/27/14 11:42, Skip Robinson wrote: I did several FTPs to testcase yesterday using PUTDOC. Site accepted user anonymous with password representing my full email address. Same process I've used for years. Haven't tried today. . . J.O.Skip

Re: SUBSYS interface

2014-08-27 Thread John McKown
On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 9:30 AM, SUBSCRIBE IBM-MAIN Harold Gray harold.g...@mantissa.com wrote: I have a working SUBSYS interface. My code processes a few of the interfaces (OPEN, ALLOC,... etc.) and previously resided below the line. I am trying to move the code above the line. Everything

Re: SUBSYS interface

2014-08-27 Thread Jon Perryman
Does the ACBINRTN address have the high order bit on? Sometimes, IBM will use it to determine an exits AMODE.  If that doesn't work, then binder allows MODE RMODE(SPLIT) so that you still only need a single load module. You create a small module that is RMODE(24) that simply changes to amode

Re: SUBSYS interface

2014-08-27 Thread SUBSCRIBE IBM-MAIN Harold Gray
Thanks, Tony and John. I have considered the stub idea and didn't like it as all my code is loaded at the subsystem initialization and I didn't want to have a new user selectable program to keep up with. But, looking at John's solution, I can do my initialization and then generate the stub

Re: [Bulk] Re: [IBM-MAIN] [Bulk] Re: [IBM-MAIN] General question on moving DFHSM work from mix TAPE/DASD to More DASD

2014-08-27 Thread Glenn Wilcock
Hi Ron, I agree with everything that you say about cu tiering, except for the fact that a migration tier is no longer necessary. CU tiering is an exciting new storage opportunity for ILM. I'd like to discuss this topic with you the next time that you attend SHARE or the Technical University.

Re: SUBSYS interface

2014-08-27 Thread SUBSCRIBE IBM-MAIN Harold Gray
Yes, Jon, the high order bit was set to 1 in the address. This is how I got the SUBSYS interface to work with my other exits (OPEN, CLOSE etc). I am looking at the SPLIT option now. Thanks, Harold -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe /

Re: MQ Setup

2014-08-27 Thread Lizette Koehler
If you have not done so, you could join the MQ LIST for a more focused forum. If you Google. IBM MQ lisrserver. It should pop up Lizette -Original Message- From: adarsh khanna 003cb6e11258-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu Sent: Aug 27, 2014 9:48 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject:

Re: SUBSYS interface

2014-08-27 Thread Jim Mulder
I have a working SUBSYS interface. My code processes a few of the interfaces (OPEN, ALLOC,... etc.) and previously resided below the line. I am trying to move the code above the line. Everything works fine except one item. In my OPEN routine, I put my input/output routine's address into

zAAP vs x64 performance comparison

2014-08-27 Thread R.S.
I need to get some benchmark describing performance of JAVA code, in comparison to Intel/AMD processors. Any clue? Some URLs? -- Radoslaw Skorupka Lodz, Poland --- Treść tej wiadomości może zawierać informacje prawnie chronione Banku przeznaczone wyłącznie do użytku służbowego adresata.

Re: Recovery routines

2014-08-27 Thread Micheal Butz
Rob I have question I understand that an authorized command run under a different tmp Is that always meaning the same program while in problem state runs Under one tmp and when I switch to Supervisor under another If so I established my estae(x) In Problems state and I abended in supervisor

Re: Recovery routines

2014-08-27 Thread DASDBILL2
I remember your concatenation issue.  Just because a piece of code works under one condition does not mean it is guaranteed to run under all other possible conditions. Bill Fairchild - Original Message - From: MichealButz michealb...@comcast.net To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Sent:

Re: Recovery routines

2014-08-27 Thread Tony Harminc
On 27 August 2014 16:48, Micheal Butz michealb...@comcast.net wrote: I have question I understand that an authorized command run under a different tmp Well, a different task structure. Is that always meaning the same program while in problem state runs Under one tmp and when I switch to

Re: Recovery routines

2014-08-27 Thread Micheal Butz
I was in problem state at the time Going back to the original question Do I run under different TMP's in problem and supervisor state Sent from my iPhone On Aug 27, 2014, at 5:52 PM, DASDBILL2 dasdbi...@comcast.net wrote: I remember your concatenation issue. Just because a piece of code

Re: Recovery routines

2014-08-27 Thread Micheal Butz
I want to accomplish to have complete coverage for my program By that I mean anytime I get an abend in any state I want my recovery routine to get control Sent from my iPhone On Aug 27, 2014, at 5:56 PM, Tony Harminc t...@harminc.net wrote: On 27 August 2014 16:48, Micheal Butz

Re: Happy New Year

2014-08-27 Thread Shane Ginnane
On Wed, 27 Aug 2014 10:12:41 -0400, Cheryl Walker wrote: Hi Shane, I for one would be interested in hearing what Timothy had to say, and now I'm afraid that I won't. If you want our take on the pricing announcement, you can find it here in item #4 - http://www.watsonwalker.com/clist177.html.

Re: [Bulk] Re: [IBM-MAIN] [Bulk] Re: [IBM-MAIN] General question on moving DFHSM work from mix TAPE/DASD to More DASD

2014-08-27 Thread Clark Morris
On 27 Aug 2014 09:30:27 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: Hi Ron, I agree with everything that you say about cu tiering, except for the fact that a migration tier is no longer necessary. CU tiering is an exciting new storage opportunity for ILM. I'd like to discuss this topic with

Re: MQ Setup

2014-08-27 Thread adarsh khanna
Thanks Lizette. I have subscribed to the listserv and have posted my query to the forum. On Thursday, 28 August 2014 12:06 AM, Lizette Koehler stars...@mindspring.com wrote: If you have not done so, you could join the MQ LIST for a more focused forum. If you Google.  IBM MQ lisrserver. It

Re: Recovery routines

2014-08-27 Thread Jon Perryman
TSO CMDPGM is how your program was invoked from the ISPF display. How did your program call the next program? Was it thru ISPEXEC SELECT PGM or assembler LINK or ??? If it was ISPEXEC, then your problem is that ISPF is setting an ESTAE. If it's thru LINK then maybe ISPF is intercepting the SVC.