Re: Command to display Enqueue

Are you looking for D GRS,RES=(SYSDSN,YOUR.DATASET.NAME.HERE) On Thu, Jul 7, 2016 at 10:51 AM, FRISBIE, JIM wrote: > Is there a system command that will show if a specific file is enqueued? > And even better, who holds the enqueue? We have a nightly batch job that >

Re: IBM Knowledge Centre

It's not visible - if I mouse over the place I know it to be, a tool tip pops up to tell me that it expands/hides the TOC. Andy Styles z/Series Systems Programmer     -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Sue Shumway

Re: Looking for an answer to an SVC question

Google will answer anything. I found a tablet hat does not have a description for MVS, but for CMS (DOS ON) it says: LIOCS DIAG. Another article https://www.mail-archive.com/ibm-main@bama.ua.edu/msg92290.html calls it the NOP SVC in S/360. Intersting stuff. Kees. -Original Message-

Re: Looking for an answer to an SVC question

On Thu, Jul 7, 2016 at 8:21 AM, Norbert Friemel wrote: > On Thu, 7 Jul 2016 08:54:29 -0400, Steve Thompson wrote: > > >I am looking for an old Field Engineers Handbook entry on SVCs. > > > >SVC 50 used to be documented there (and as I recall, it doesn't > >say much, but what

Re: DFHSM CDS backup versions

And if you still do not have a solution, I would open an SR with IBM RMM to get clarification. Lizette > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On > Behalf Of Greg Shirey > Sent: Thursday, July 07, 2016 6:18 AM > To:

Re: Looking for an answer to an SVC question

Yes quite interesting. I had forgotten all the particulars, and there in the list you pointed to was an an answer I gave to the subject... Meanwhile, Google is sometimes my enemy. With the Linux system I am running, certain links will not function correctly, particularly when they point

Re: AW: Re: IBM Knowledge Centre

I'm in the other camp with a smartphone but no tablet, and I hate trying to zoom and pan my way around what is basically an image on my small screen. I'm probably in the minority these days without a tablet, but there's no reason to not plan for small smartphone screens anyway. Just out of

Re: AW: Re: IBM Knowledge Centre

Sue Shumway wrote: Just out of curiosity, if ePubs of z/OS books provided all the same functionalities as PDFs (same technical content, same methods for obtaining/saving, etc.), plus had added benefits such as visual scaling and accessibility, would you still be so adamant about keeping PDFs?

Re: ISPF and Dataset alias usage

Technical detail: Does not OPEN (and therefore CLOSE, etc.) do everything with the real DSN? The resulting ENQ is on the real DSN. Sent from my iPhone > On Jul 7, 2016, at 05:38, Vernooij, CP (ITOPT1) - KLM > wrote: > > Technical detail: ISPF does not write SMF14,

Re: Command to display Enqueue

D GRS,RES=(*,filename) Jay Campbell IBM OS Support Section -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@listserv.ua.edu] On Behalf Of FRISBIE, JIM Sent: Thursday, July 07, 2016 10:52 AM To: IBM-MAIN@listserv.ua.edu Subject: Command to display Enqueue Is there

Re: Looking for an answer to an SVC question

On Thu, 7 Jul 2016 08:54:29 -0400, Steve Thompson wrote: >I am looking for an old Field Engineers Handbook entry on SVCs. > >SVC 50 used to be documented there (and as I recall, it doesn't >say much, but what it does say is important). > >I'd like to know what is found in one of those books. I

Re: DFHSM CDS backup versions

Pending release is GOOD! This means that RMM has decided to expire the tape. It will be "finally" scratched on the next housekeeping cycle. This is just the way RMM works. Try changing the "count" in the VRS to a "more reasonable (FSVO reasonable) value. e.g. 10 and see if the tapes

Re: Looking for an answer to an SVC question

I have a OS/VS2 Debugging Handbook, Second Edition, 1978 and it says RESERVED. Maybe at some point between then and now it was documented. On my system SVC 50 points to a IEFBR14 sequence. If somehow you could get to +4, it does a few instructions and issues an SVC 13. I think it is best to

Re: AW: Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: IBM Knowledge Centre

Peter Hunkeler wrote: What I absoultely dislike is the fact that it does not seem to work well with IE I view that as a plus :) And if IE is mandated at work, it's time to sling the rez ... :) -- Jack J. Woehr # Science is more than a body of knowledge. It's a way of www.well.com/~jax #

Re: ISPF and Dataset alias usage

Paul Gilmartin wrote: >>Technical detail: ISPF does not write SMF14, CLOSE does. To have CLOSE record >>the aliasname, ISPF should be enhanced to OPEN the aliasname directly, i.s.o. >>discover and OPEN the real name. I suppose the ISPF technicians will >>recognize this. >Oh my! A few months

Re: IBM Knowledge Centre

Are you saying that the icon isn't visible at all on IE, or just as easy to miss as on any other browser? I opened http://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSLTBW_2.2.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r2/en/homepage.html in both FF and IE, and they look technically the same on both, though I certainly realize

Re: Command to display Enqueue

On Thu, 7 Jul 2016 10:55:35 -0400, Keith Smith wrote: >Are you looking for > >D GRS,RES=(SYSDSN,YOUR.DATASET.NAME.HERE) > This leaves a TOCTTOU exposure. But it will surely mitigate the frequency of the phone calls. >On Thu, Jul 7, 2016 at 10:51 AM, FRISBIE, JIM wrote: > >> Is there a system

Re: Looking for an answer to an SVC question

Thank you. I had looked but somehow did not see this manual there. And it took a bit of effort, but I finally found the SVC Table and there it was, NOP. Regards, Steve Thompson On 07/07/2016 09:28 AM, John McKown wrote: On Thu, Jul 7, 2016 at 8:21 AM, Norbert Friemel

Re: DFHSM CDS backup versions

As far as HSM and RMM "talking" to each other, there is this, from the RMM Implementation and Customization Guide, I think for version 1.13: You can use the TVEXTPURGE parmlib option in the DFSMSrmm EDGRMMxx parmlib member to control the action DFSMSrmm takes when DFSMShsm calls EDGTVEXT. A

Re: ISPF and Dataset alias usage

On Thu, 7 Jul 2016 09:37:37 +, Vernooij, CP (ITOPT1) - KLM wrote: >Technical detail: ISPF does not write SMF14, CLOSE does. To have CLOSE record >the aliasname, ISPF should be enhanced to OPEN the aliasname directly, i.s.o. >discover and OPEN the real name. I suppose the ISPF technicians

Command to display Enqueue

Is there a system command that will show if a specific file is enqueued? And even better, who holds the enqueue? We have a nightly batch job that backs up a file on System-A and then restores it on System-B. About once a month a TSO user (almost always the same Operator) will have that file

Re: Command to display Enqueue

On Thu, Jul 7, 2016 at 9:51 AM, FRISBIE, JIM wrote: > Is there a system command that will show if a specific file is enqueued? > And even better, who holds the enqueue? We have a nightly batch job that > backs up a file on System-A and then restores it on System-B. About

Re: Command to display Enqueue

On Thu, 7 Jul 2016 10:05:12 -0500, John McKown wrote: >On Thu, Jul 7, 2016 at 9:51 AM, FRISBIE, JIM wrote: > >> ..., DFDSS can't get an exclusive enqueue and issues RC=8. ... > >​I cheat. I put an IEFBR14 step at the end of the job with: > >//ENQUEUE EXEC PGM=IEFBR14 >//STOPIT DD

Re: DFHSM CDS backup versions

Thanks all, Greg, We have TVEXTPURGE(RELEASE) coded. Allan, I've re-run RMM housekeeping a few times. It would seem that RMM isn't releasing ANY scratch tapes now... Lizette, Unfortunately I'm restricted to how many PMR's I can open in a year (4 - the company I work for are a software

Re: ISPF Profile basic question

@John and @JR, thanks, that helps. The edit manual Primary Commands, Hilite is a good starting point. It looks to me like it is not user or vendor extensible. IBM ships support for 17 languages and that's it. Does anyone know any different? Charles -Original Message- From: IBM

Re: ISPF Profile basic question

SC19-3621 ISPF Edit and Edit Macros ? On Jul 7, 2016, at 11:41, Charles Mills > wrote: I know this is an incredibly basic question and I am sure the answer is RTFM -- I just cannot figure out which FM to R -- and not from lack of trying. In ISPF Edit

Re: ISPF Profile basic question

Isn't the "profile" information (all of it, not just the HILITE type) kept in members of the ISPPROF dataset, typically named 'tsouser.ISPPROF'? Which FM documents the format of the contents of members of ISPPROF I do not know. HTH Peter -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe

Re: ISPF Profile basic question

On Thu, 7 Jul 2016 12:16:16 -0400, John Eells wrote: >I believe edit profiles are kept in the ISREDIT member of your ISPPROF >data set. I'm not sure the format is documented anywhere, but there are >services to retrieve and change the settings. > >Basically, if you define PROFILE FOO (which is

Re: ISPF and Dataset alias usage

On Thu, 7 Jul 2016 10:14:21 -0500, Elardus Engelbrecht wrote: > >>Oh my! A few months ago I encountered a problem such that an attempted >>DSLIST INFO on an alias of a migrated data set failed. IBM repaired it with >>APAR. > >Interesting. On what migration level and device type did the failure

Re: AW: Re: IBM Knowledge Centre

On 7 July 2016 at 11:01, Sue Shumway wrote: > Just out of curiosity, if ePubs of z/OS books provided all the same > functionalities as PDFs (same technical content, same methods for > obtaining/saving, etc.), plus had added benefits such as visual scaling and >

Re: ISPF Profile basic question

I believe edit profiles are kept in the ISREDIT member of your ISPPROF data set. I'm not sure the format is documented anywhere, but there are services to retrieve and change the settings. Basically, if you define PROFILE FOO (which is as simple as using it on the Edit or View entry panel),

ISPF Profile basic question

I know this is an incredibly basic question and I am sure the answer is RTFM -- I just cannot figure out which FM to R -- and not from lack of trying. In ISPF Edit or View you can of course say "PROFILE REXX" or "PROFILE CNTL". Where are the "attributes" of REXX or CNTL defined to ISPF? What is

Re: ISPF and Dataset alias usage

Paul Gilmartin wrote: >>Interesting. On what migration level and device type did the failure happened? >I believe we migrate directly to 2 on our nice VSM. Thanks. I was just wondering because I *think* the handling of the dataset depends on ML0 / 1 / 2. >>Could you be kind to tell us what

Re: Has anyone had additional issues with LOGON to IBMLINK or IBM.COM?

I was on Shopz earlier and had no issues and only 1 login page. Thanks, Ron McCabe Mutual of Enumclaw -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Lizette Koehler Sent: Thursday, July 07, 2016 10:59 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU

Re: IBM Knowledge Centre

Thanks, Andy. To reiterate for mass consumption what I said in my email to you, I'm sure that the Knowledge Center team is already aware of this problem and is working on it. Regardless, I forwarded your comment to them to point out a specific instance.

Re: Looking for an answer to an SVC question

>>> On 7/7/2016 at 09:37 AM, Steve Thompson wrote: > Meanwhile, Google is sometimes my enemy. With the Linux system I > am running, certain links will not function correctly, > particularly when they point directly to a .pdf (thank you Adobe > for abandoning Linux). When I

AW: Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: IBM Knowledge Centre

I've been disliking the *old* KC so much that I almost always discarded any search result that pointed to the KC. I must admit that I do quite like the new KC. It is much faster than the old KC; I'd say very well usable. It provides good navigation posibilities *once* you get uses to open the

AW: Re: Symlinks with $SYSNAME variable

>And for the sake of additional, but unasked for documentation. If you want to >use any system symbol you happen to have defined you would use the following >syntax: >ln -s '$SYSSYMA//xxx'xxx > is a special keyword for a symbolic absolute pathname > is a special keyword for a symbolic

Re: IBM Knowledge Centre

From my point of view, that icon to open the TOC is not visible - I am forced to use IE at work without exception, so having something that doesn't work with it is a real pain. (IBM are not the only vendor that has trouble supporting IE!) I like the idea of ePubs or any ereader format. I can’t

Re: Real purpose of hipersocket

In addition to the previous comments, there are some potential advantages to HiperSockets when considering workload portability. You may be able to ignore some OSA-Express physical and logical configuration considerations for inter-LPAR communications on, for example, a DR machine. That could

AW: Re: IBM Knowledge Centre

>Yes, PDFs can be rough on a mobile. What do you think of ePubs instead? I'm reading PDFs on my iPad all the time. Works great, provided you're using a good app (Apples builtin apps are not my first choice). For PDFs I used to use FileApp and have no swithed to Readdle's "Document 5". Great

ISPF and Dataset alias usage

Hi All, You may recall that I asked some questions about identifying data alias usage; I was pointed at SMF14ALIAS, which came in with z/OS 2.1. z/OS 2.1 does indeed record alias usage, where the dataset in question is accessed via the alias. However, ISPF does NOT access the dataset via the

Re: DFHSM CDS backup versions

Allan, Try changing the "count" in the VRS to a "more reasonable (FSVO reasonable) value. e.g. 10 and see if the tapes release. I've done that, and verified the VRS's, and re run RMM "housekeeping". Now some tapes have a status of PENDING RELEASE. The only ACTION PENDING I can see is

Re: IPCS error help

>Do I need to >make sure OA43495 (or its 2.1 PTF) is applied on a 2.1 system, and >only then recopy MIGLIB? Or is there a way I can apply the maintenance >directly to the 2.1 MIGLIB on the 2.2 system? Surely the necessary thing is to install the APAR (into the 2.1 miglib) and then use that

CP variables (z/OS 2.2 ServerPac)

ServerPac z/OS 2.2 In the Installation Variables I found a section which is new for me: CP VARIABLES CP DOMAIN NAME D DOMAIN1 QUERY SECURITYGRPD CPOQUERY CTRL SECURITY GRPD CPOCTRL CP GROUP1 GIDD CP GROUP2 GIDD CP USER NAME D cposrv CP USER GROUP

Re: ISPF and Dataset alias usage

Technical detail: ISPF does not write SMF14, CLOSE does. To have CLOSE record the aliasname, ISPF should be enhanced to OPEN the aliasname directly, i.s.o. discover and OPEN the real name. I suppose the ISPF technicians will recognize this. Kees. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe

RFE for colored file list in UDLIST

Hi all if you think it's a good idea to have the same colored file list in UDLIST as in ISHELL please vote here: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe_ID=91076 thanks and kind regards Daniel Vonrueti

Re: DFHSM CDS backup versions

All, Thanks for the hep so far. Please bear in mind that I "inherited" this site from another contractor, and have no documentation about what was done or why. He set this up. I also have no prior experience with RMM. Try changing the "count" in the VRS to a "more reasonable (FSVO

Re: Minimum Volume Sizes in the Wild

On Tue, 28 Jun 2016 12:19:28 -0400, John Eells wrote: >What is the *smallest* volume size everyone sees in general use? > >For example, will we create any problems if we assume that "everyone" >has or can define at least a 3390-9 size volume these days? What if we >chose

Re: Minimum Volume Sizes in the Wild

There was no big rush (smile). We're not thinking of volume size related changes in ServerPac that I know about. We are thinking about a larger volume size for the Customized Offerings Driver (COD) system, though, as it's getting tough to keep it on 3390-3 size volumes. I like to (try to)

Re: Minimum Volume Sizes in the Wild

My concern is in a mixed CP Environment that you through stuff away. We kept a defined string of 3380's for VMer's and they we happy. In the SSD can still define 3380 mod2's for CKD. In a message dated 7/7/2016 4:10:10 P.M. Central Daylight Time, ee...@us.ibm.com writes: I like to

Re: ISPF Profile basic question

I had envisioned updating SISPSAMP(ISRPXASM) to better suit the NetView Message Automation Table "language", replacing ISRPXPLX (PL/X-370) keywords with my own. The intention when working within a MAT, using my updated values by issuing HILITE PLX. I never got around to it though, so I don't know

Re: Minimum Volume Sizes in the Wild

I keep it standard to a MOD 3. NO DR issues and its quicker to define the environment. Ed > On Jul 7, 2016, at 4:58 PM, Edward Finnell > <000248cce9f3-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > > My concern is in a mixed CP Environment that you through stuff away. We > kept a defined string

Re: Character data returned from

So let me post the code SET = 2 SET LINE = (&) SET = 16 SET LINE1 = () SET KEYWORD = (50:54,) IF = OPEN/* HERE IS WHERE THE ERROR OCCURS IF KEYWORD IS '*' */ . . -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of CM Poncelet

Re: Character data returned from

On 7/7/2016 8:14 AM, Joe Reichman wrote: So let me post the code SET = 2 SET LINE = (&) SET = 16 SET LINE1 = () SET KEYWORD = (50:54,) IF = OPEN/* HERE IS WHERE THE ERROR OCCURS IF KEYWORD IS '*' */ IF () = OPEN Regards, Tom Conley

Re: Character data returned from

Thanks worked > On Jul 7, 2016, at 8:23 AM, Tom Conley wrote: > >> On 7/7/2016 8:14 AM, Joe Reichman wrote: >> So let me post the code >> >> SET = 2 >> SET LINE = (&) >> SET = 16 >> SET LINE1 = () >> SET KEYWORD = (50:54,) >> IF = OPEN/* HERE IS WHERE THE

Looking for an answer to an SVC question

I am looking for an old Field Engineers Handbook entry on SVCs. SVC 50 used to be documented there (and as I recall, it doesn't say much, but what it does say is important). I'd like to know what is found in one of those books. I don't have, available to me now, anything prior to z/OS 1.1.

Master Console Connection disconnected

Hi X posted We are trying to access our sandbox LPAR from our desktop 3270 client. I have fetched the IP address, Port Address and LU name from the HMC. When I try to connect first it says connected and later it gets disconnected. I am able to ping the IP address but when I do a telnet test

Has anyone had additional issues with LOGON to IBMLINK or IBM.COM?

Just checking. I was wondering if there are any other issues about logging onto to IBM I noticed that I seem to have a two webpage process now to logon. One page for the id and one for the password. Anyone else notice that? Lizette Koehler statistics: A precise and logical method