Re: RMF monitor III panel restriction

Hi again, Ed explained one of the reasons why we wanted to let only the relavant screens to certain groups, like giving crypto coprocessor activity to only security group etc. Groups other than MVS could interpret the same metrics differently, and sometimes this might cause confliction between

Re: Convert a Parm into a control card

But not z/OS 1.12. On Wed, Feb 3, 2016 at 12:22 AM, Bruce Hewson wrote: > pretty simple at z/OS 2.1 > > //* > //* > // EXPORT SYMLIST=(PFILE,TXTYP,ACCT,RUN) > //* > // SET PFILE=MY.DATASET.NAME > // SET TXTYP=1 > // SET ACCT=001455 > // SET RUN=TRIAL >

Re: XML: Optimized Schema Representation (OSR) file generation

/u/appl/xsd is simply a user folder for user xsd files. xsdosrg binary is in /bin The OUTFILE and INFILE were obviously not needed either. They were used for additional STDIN input commands for co:z hybrid batch processing which I did not list. -- Donald J. dona...@4email.net >>...

Re: Lower ibm-main

In general, e-mail servers are case insensitive. -teD   Original Message   From: Ed Finnell Sent: Wednesday, February 3, 2016 02:47 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Reply To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List Subject: Lower ibm-main Hopefully it doesn't matter and either case will be routed to the

Re: RMF monitor III panel restriction

The RMF Distributed Data Portal emits XML. So you can write your own app to issue requests to it and interpret the results--perhaps building friendlier html pages from a subset of values that are of interest to the target audience. You could either do that all in the browser (relatively easy)

Re: Anyone seen Mr. Gilmore?

If he was / is living in Israel then he left his job and was looking for another and posted in here to see if anyone knew of any vacs. That was a few months back. Vince On 03/02/16 20:36, Elardus Engelbrecht wrote: > Mike Schwab wrote: > >>

Re: Convert a Parm into a control card

On Wed, 3 Feb 2016 13:04:31 -0600, Bill Woodger wrote: > >Have you read the DFSORT Getting Started guide? Written in English, worked >examples. >... >Investing a bit of time can pay big dividends. > And on one of these lists lately, I advocated regular expressions and precipitated an

Re: Anyone seen Mr. Gilmore?

On 2/3/2016 12:05 PM, Ed Jaffe wrote: One and the same... At least, that's my assumption based on what I know about his age and where he lived. I suppose there could be two John Gilmores, roughly the same age, both with sysprog backgrounds, living in that area... -- Edward E Jaffe Phoenix

Re: Manipulating system symbols

On Sun, 31 Jan 2016 08:50:43 -0800, Skip Robinson wrote: >We run several CA products, which means CA90S (name?) early in IPL. I don't >know CAMASTER, but on a running system I can find no evidence of the symbols >you name. I'm not sure that the point of CA

Re: Anyone seen Mr. Gilmore?

His email address indicates that his middle name starts with W, not T. In article <4ee2851a2279b94cb70cd69b174106090149688...@s1flokydce2kx01.dm0001.info53.com> you wrote: > Oddly, Google says his last post was May 11th, 2015. However, whether May or > November, both are after he was

Re: Anyone seen Mr. Gilmore?

Mike Schwab wrote: >http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/bostonglobe/obituary.aspx?pid=173966106 Probably the same person, but John W Gilmore last post on IBM-MAIN was on 11 May 2015 (a few months after that obituary) and is from Ashland MA. However the career description is looking the same as we

Re: Lower ibm-main

On 02/03/2016 06:43 AM, Ted MacNEIL wrote: > In general, e-mail servers are case insensitive. > > -teD > Original Message > From: Ed Finnell > Sent: Wednesday, February 3, 2016 02:47 > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Reply To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > Subject: Lower ibm-main > >

Re: Anybody using SDSFAUX and new functions yet?

Hi Cliff, seems that APAR PI54862 is not closed yet (at least IBM-APAR DB told it just to me ...). ciao Lutz -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with

Re: Anybody using SDSFAUX and new functions yet?

Marna, Where can I get the fix for apar PI54862? I tried ordering it from SHOPZ but it told me a fix wasn't available. I'm not sure how to order an apar. Can you advise me? -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Marna

Re: Convert a Parm into a control card

On Wed, 3 Feb 2016 08:59:31 -0600, Victor Gil wrote: >If Cobol code is an acceptable option the below program should do what you >want. (snip) >003500 DISPLAY OUTPUT-FILE-RECORD UPON CONSOLE. Really? Do people still use DISPLAY ... UPON CONSOLE in 2016? Even in 1970

Re: List server changed?

At my age 5 years ago IS recent Chris Hoelscher Technology Architect, Database Infrastructure Services Technology Solution Services : humana.com 123 East Main Street Louisville, KY 40202 Humana.com (502) 714-8615, (502) 476-2538 > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List

Re: The Linklist

>By system command as well as well... >SETPROG LNKLST,TEST,NAME=,MODNAME= Or the CSVDYNL REQUEST=TEST macro. I would guess that the ISR stuff only works against the current LNKLST set. Peter Relson z/OS Core Technology Design

Re: Convert a Parm into a control card

Thanks for the input, everyone - this is great! Peter, I appreciate the Syncsort checkout...we will have to keep that in mind in case any of our users have that instead of DFSORT at their location. The BPX option also seems safe - can we assume that this is now a "standard" program? I will

Re: Need to find the DSN from where load module was loaded

There is no intended interface for answering this question after the module was loaded. If you want to answer "where would it be found if I did the load now with these parameters", then the search sequence is well defined. Peter Relson z/OS Core Technology Design

Re: Convert a Parm into a control card

If Cobol code is an acceptable option the below program should do what you want. It's rather easy to enhance it to split the input parm into multiple lines, say, using the "JPx" delimiters, just like in the SORT sample. HTH, -Victor- 000100 IDENTIFICATION DIVISION.

Re: Need to find the DSN from where load module was loaded

Included in "these parameters" should be the eventual DCB that was or was not specified at the time of LOAD. So again, you miss information from the original LOAD to be accurate. Kees. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf

Re: Anybody using SDSFAUX and new functions yet?

Paul, I've been told that the SDSFAUX information will make the quarterly update to the KnowledgeCenter books on March 2016, for both z/OS V2.1 and V2.2. In the meantime, it seems that you've found the book elsewhere. I have the information in my copies of SDSF Operation and Customization,

Re: Anyone seen Mr. Gilmore?

On 2016-02-03 16:33, Lindy Mayfield wrote: > Some of it sounds like him, writing the first computer program, but I know > him best for his linguistic skills which I was sure would have been > mentioned. How many languages did he speak? We used to email about > languages and linguistics and

Re: Anyone seen Mr. Gilmore?

Well just for the heck of it I searched _www.obituaries.com_ (http://www.obituaries.com) for John Gilmore MA for past year and Jack is only one that showed up. My suspicion would be incapacitated either by illness or accident. In a message dated 2/3/2016 5:46:15 P.M. Central Standard

Re: Convert a Parm into a control card

On Feb 3, 2016, at 9:19 AM, Tom Marchant wrote: On Wed, 3 Feb 2016 08:59:31 -0600, Victor Gil wrote: If Cobol code is an acceptable option the below program should do what you want. (snip) 003500 DISPLAY OUTPUT-FILE-RECORD UPON CONSOLE. Really? Do people still use DISPLAY ... UPON

Re: Anyone seen Mr. Gilmore?

John mentioned his wife's name in a post exactly 3 years ago. It's not the same as the name of the wife in the obit. Bill On Wed, 3 Feb 2016 15:02:42 -0800, Charles Mills wrote: >How could an obit of "our" John Gilmore not mention the IBM mainframe or PL/I? > >I met (interviewed with,

Re: Anyone seen Mr. Gilmore?

How could an obit of "our" John Gilmore not mention the IBM mainframe or PL/I? I met (interviewed with, actually) "our" John (then going by "Jack") Gilmore in 1968 or 1969. At that point he was living in NY (or possibly NJ) and heading a software firm called John Gilmore or perhaps John W.

Re: Anyone seen Mr. Gilmore?

Some of it sounds like him, writing the first computer program, but I know him best for his linguistic skills which I was sure would have been mentioned. How many languages did he speak? We used to email about languages and linguistics and music (he was an extremely accomplished cellist as he

Re: SIS outage

On 2016-02-03 19:34, Field, Alan wrote: > In replying to Frank's question about IBMlink I noticed this: > > "Service Information Search (SIS) application is going to be unavailable next > Friday, January 05th, starting at 21:00 Eastern Time through Saturday, ending > at 02:00 AM Eastern Time."

Re: IBMLINK DOWN

No I am in panel to download to your workstation and get: Our apologies We are sorry. We are unable to process your request at this time. Please try again later. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Field, Alan Sent:

Re: SIS outage

Woops :) Alan Field Systems Engineer Principal Blue Cross Blue Shield of MN 651.662.3546 -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Wednesday, February 03, 2016 8:36 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU

Re: SIS outage

On 2016-02-03 19:37, Field, Alan wrote: > Woops :) > > On 2016-02-03 19:34, Field, Alan wrote: >> >> ... next Friday, January 05th, ... > I think it's their error. Submit an SR. -- gil -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff /

Re: Manipulating system symbols

Please note that with z/OS 2.2 the length of system symbols names has increased from 8 to 16, and may include the underscore character. Ant. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Thursday, 4 February

Re: Manipulating system symbols

Sweet. Did not pick up on that. All the more reason to prefix symbols with a unique string. . . . J.O.Skip Robinson Southern California Edison Company Electric Dragon Team Paddler SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager 323-715-0595 Mobile jo.skip.robin...@att.net > -Original Message- > From:

Re: Manipulating system symbols

On 2016-02-03 19:27, Skip Robinson wrote: > This is why I strongly recommend that installation-defined symbols be > prefixed with a unique string, which I also recommend be the SHARE > installation code. It reduces the number of meaningful character to 5 or 6 > but pretty much rules out

Re: IBMLINK DOWN

Not for me at 20:30 CST. I am in the SRD page waiting to enter a ptf number. Is that where you are trying to get to? Alan Field Systems Engineer Principal Blue Cross Blue Shield of MN 651.662.3546 -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU]

Re: SIS outage

Found it: ShopzSeries ShopzSeries is temporarily unavailable for maintenance. ShopzSeries is scheduled to resume normal operations by Thursday Feb.4 at 12:00 AM MST / Thursday, Feb.4 at 7:00 AM GMT. -frank -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List

IBMLINK DOWN

Can anyone get into IBM link.. I need to get a ptf before my POR tonight. -frank This e-mail message (including any attachments) is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. If the reader of this

SIS outage

In replying to Frank's question about IBMlink I noticed this: "Service Information Search (SIS) application is going to be unavailable next Friday, January 05th, starting at 21:00 Eastern Time through Saturday, ending at 02:00 AM Eastern Time." Alan Field Systems Engineer Principal Blue Cross

Re: Manipulating system symbols

This is why I strongly recommend that installation-defined symbols be prefixed with a unique string, which I also recommend be the SHARE installation code. It reduces the number of meaningful character to 5 or 6 but pretty much rules out stepping on toes. Debugging problems caused by symbol

Re: Convert a Parm into a control card

Tom, This particular DISPLAY is not really needed for the program to function, it's merely a leftover from the initial testing, but "yes", we do have such DISPLAYs in the batch jobs and I have never heard of any rules to limit its usage. We may run _thousands_ jobs at a time, so I guess we

Re: memory leak doing gsk_environment_open()

Janet, I *think* there may be a misunderstanding here. Here is my simplified *guess* of how C memory management works. Credit where credit is due: I am expanding on a point made by Peter Farley. When your C program starts up, the runtime uses STORAGE OBTAIN to allocate a heap (several heaps,

Re: Anyone seen Mr. Gilmore?

All his emails ended something like John Gilmore Ashton, MA (then a zip code) I sent a postcard from Rouen once there and I don't think he got it. But nothing in the obit mentions Ashton. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf

Re: Anyone seen Mr. Gilmore?

On 3 February 2016 at 15:02, Pommier, Rex wrote: > Is this the same John Gilmore? The obituary you listed is from January of > 2015, and I found a note from Elardus from November stating that John hadn't > posted anything since November 5, 2015. Though John Thomas

Re: Anyone seen Mr. Gilmore?

That's right. He always mentioned his wife by name, not "my wife". And that name in the obit wasn't familiar. It was Kate or something like that IIRC. I don't like seeing people from mainframe groups that I follow disappear. It reminds me of my mainframe career mortality. -Original

Re: Manipulating system symbols

On Wed, 3 Feb 2016 19:53:48 -0800, Skip Robinson wrote: >Sweet. Did not pick up on that. All the more reason to prefix symbols with a >unique string. > Will they be accessible in JCL? Expanding the name space is apt to break existing art. >> -Original Message- >> From: Anthony

Re: DFSORT - SMF Records - GMT To EST

I have a Java API for SMF that converts the date/time fields to Java times. You can then apply a Java time zone which is daylight savings etc. aware Details are at: https://www.blackhillsoftware.com/javasmf/ Javadoc: http://www.blackhillsoftware.com/docs/javasmf/ I am happy to help if you

Re: DFSORT - SMF Records - GMT To EST

Thanks Kolusu, So here's the situation we have 5 way sysplex where 3 lpar's running with the GMT timezone however 2 are running with separate asia time ...one is GMT -7 or 8 based on daylight saving and another is GMT +7 or 8 ... Now requirement is to convert monthly collected the SMF Time

Re: DFSORT - SMF Records - GMT To EST

On Tue, 2 Feb 2016 08:46:16 -0700, Sri h Kolusu wrote: >Ravi, > >Conversion of GMT time to EST is quite simple. You just need to subtract 5 >hours (18,000 seconds) from the time field. But remember when you subtract >you need to subtract 1 ... > And Ravi has clarified that he wants the

Re: RMF monitor III panel restriction

Scott, If we cannot find another solution through TSO and RMF itself doesn't support such an option, RMF DDS could be a viable option to present selective RMF performance data. Actually we were using RMF DDS some of our web based customized reports and I think we could consider it again.

Re: Anybody using SDSFAUX and new functions yet?

On Wed, 3 Feb 2016 08:17:20 -0600, Marna WALLE wrote: >Paul, >I've been told that the SDSFAUX information will make the quarterly update to >the KnowledgeCenter books on March 2016, for both z/OS V2.1 and V2.2. > Thanks. I had been unaware of quarterly updates. An effective replacement for

Re: Convert a Parm into a control card

On Wed, 3 Feb 2016 10:35:13 -0500, Bill Ashton wrote: > >Peter, I appreciate the Syncsort checkout...we will have to keep that in >mind in case any of our users have that instead of DFSORT at their location. > >The BPX option also seems safe - can we assume that this is now a >"standard" program?

Anyone seen Mr. Gilmore?

I often corresponded with him by email now and then, but it stopped and I've seen no posts by him here or on the assembler list in a while. Has anyone seen him around? Kind regards, Lindy -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff /

Breeze for SCLM withdrawn from service

We went with ISPW (Benchmark Technologies) almost seven years ago and are way beyond satisfied. A beautifully engineered product that includes a full function IDE, an ISPF customizable presentation layer, an optional Eclipse based GUI interface and full support for distributed platforms.

Re: Partition usage

I never saw a reply to this question. I'm intrigued as well but do not have an answer. . . . J.O.Skip Robinson Southern California Edison Company Electric Dragon Team Paddler SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager 323-715-0595 Mobile jo.skip.robin...@att.net > -Original Message- > From: IBM

Re: Lower ibm-main

On 2016-02-03, at 05:43, Ted MacNEIL wrote: > In general, e-mail servers are case insensitive. > But originating MUAs and MTAs must not assume that. By Internet standard, domain names are case-insensitive, however, from RFC822: 6.2.4. DOMAIN-DEPENDENT LOCAL STRING The local-part

Re: CITRIX

Because he retired, Bruce never had the opportunity to work with a really great emulator like, say, Vista3270. With Vista, the mouse quickly becomes your new bestie. Vista was written by a certain mainframe veteran who understood the platform and coded myriad little productivity aids that allow

Re: CITRIX

I agree with skip.I have used the Vista3270 emulator fro Tom Brennan software for years (when I was working) and, for the price, it's great. Added benefit of it is the FTP functionality. Bill J. On Wednesday, February 3, 2016 12:27 PM, Skip Robinson wrote:

Re: The Linklist

On Wed, 3 Feb 2016 09:08:35 -0500, Peter Relson wrote: >I would guess that the ISR stuff only works against the current LNKLST >set. By current, it's the set that was active when you logged on, not necessarily the currently active set. Side comment: PARMLIB and APF are

Re: Anyone seen Mr. Gilmore?

http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/bostonglobe/obituary.aspx?pid=173966106 On Wed, Feb 3, 2016 at 12:10 PM, Lindy Mayfield wrote: > I often corresponded with him by email now and then, but it stopped and I've > seen no posts by him here or on the assembler list in a

Sort Job

Yes, if you have any leading digits in any of those three fields which are other than zero, you'll catastrophically lose them. You need one T for each digit you want. You can add one T to each EDIT, bearing in mind that it will change the location of all subsequent fields. On Wednesday, 3

Convert a Parm into a control card

> I believe I'll recommend Rexx. Perhaps because DFSORT is Klingon to me. > > -- gil > Have you read the DFSORT Getting Started guide? Written in English, worked examples. There are a couple of things to get used to: no looping constructs*; nowhere to store data but on a record*. Investing

Sort Job

Hi. We have a input file which has a LRECl of 636 and here at byte 207 the definition is provided as S9(3)V9(2) and 212 also has the same definition as S9(3)V9(2). At 528 byte position the definition as S9(5)V9(2). I needed to format and send as text file to UNIX server. The below is the

Re: Convert a Parm into a control card

Well, I think that Rexx is the way to go...I made a simple program that will allow me to use the Unix format "\\n" newline separator to stack command lines, and don't have to worry about DFSORT vs SYNCSORT, or any other craziness. Thanks for all your help and direction. Once we get all systems up

Re: Anyone seen Mr. Gilmore?

Is this the same John Gilmore? The obituary you listed is from January of 2015, and I found a note from Elardus from November stating that John hadn't posted anything since November 5, 2015. Rex -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU]

Re: Anyone seen Mr. Gilmore?

One and the same... On 2/3/2016 12:02 PM, Pommier, Rex wrote: Is this the same John Gilmore? The obituary you listed is from January of 2015, and I found a note from Elardus from November stating that John hadn't posted anything since November 5, 2015. Rex -Original Message- From:

Re: Lower ibm-main

I said "in general" -teD   Original Message   From: Paul Gilmartin Sent: Wednesday, February 3, 2016 13:33 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Reply To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List Subject: Re: Lower ibm-main On 2016-02-03, at 05:43, Ted MacNEIL wrote: > In general, e-mail servers are case

Re: Cloning a Sysres and ZFS

On Tue, 19 Jan 2016 08:33:55 -0600, Bruce Hewson wrote: >You do not need to use /Service to perform mainmtenance. > >You can mount your maintenance target HFS/ZFS files at ANY mountpoint, just so >long as your DDDEF PATH statements match. > >You could even create mount

Re: Anyone seen Mr. Gilmore?

I don't think so. CharlesSent from a mobile; please excuse the brevity Original message From: "Pommier, Rex" Date: 02/03/2016 12:02 PM (GMT-08:00) To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Anyone seen Mr. Gilmore? Is this the same John

Re: Anyone seen Mr. Gilmore?

Oddly, Google says his last post was May 11th, 2015. However, whether May or November, both are after he was deceased. User John Gilmore Email Recent Posts (bit.listserv.ibm-main - 1115 posts) Re: z/OS Platform Software Products on ... Tape? bit.listserv.ibm-main 5/11/15 Re: IEFBR14