AW: Re: DFSMSdss dump fix after binary transfer

>IMHO it is problem with IBM. Are you deaf? Sometimes it is; sometimes they are. However, not this time. >People really NEED the functionality to simply make single dataset archive, transmit it to PC *with no tricks and black magic* and then upload it to a z/OS and unpack. Know your job.

AW: Re: AW: Re: Where do I find a list of world timezones in z/OS USS notation?

>I totally agree, but we can't even get this country, USA to agree on a BAN on >DST, should have saved this discussion for Friday :) Politicians and managers in Europe seem to begin to accept the uselessness of DST, and the discussion about getting rid of it has started in the EU. It will

AW: Re: AW: Re: Where do I find a list of world timezones in z/OS USS notation?

>>... and whether or not there is a text string *after* that numeric part. It >>is the trigger to activate the automatic daylight saving time handling. No >>string, no DST handling. >Do you refer to the [[startdate[/starttime],enddate[/endtime]] optional >portion of the TZ specification at

Re: AW: Re: AW: Re: Where do I find a list of world timezones in z/OS USS notation?

On Wed, 25 Apr 2018 08:35:31 +0200, Peter Hunkeler wrote: >... > >No, I was referring to below listed statement found in the description of TZ >in the z/OS UNIX Command Reference: >... > > >I will send an RCF, because the description in the named book does not mention >what happens when

Re: AW: Re: Where do I find a list of world timezones in z/OS USS notation?

On Wed, 25 Apr 2018 02:21:35 -0500, Norbert Friemel wrote: >On Tue, 24 Apr 2018 03:31:15 -0500, Giliad Wilf wrote: > >> >>Here, IDT started Friday, March 23rd, 2am and will end Sunday, October 28th, >>2am, so, if I specify... >> >>IST-2IDT,M3.4.5,M10.5.0 >> > >M3.5.5 in 2019

Re: OA53355 - USERKEY COMMON MIGRATION SUPPORT

David, If there us an MXG program to run through this, then it will be in the product SOURCLIB. I don't think anyone can share MXG with you if you don't have it licensed already. I'm not trying to be a dick about it, and you may have just meant to say SAS. It just seemed like an odd request.

Re: Where do I find a list of world timezones in z/OS USS notation?

On Mon, 23 Apr 2018 07:21:09 -0500, John McKown wrote: > >​I also have the timezone in the LE parameters member of PARMLIB. I.e. >CEEPRM00. LE has the concept of "environment variables" which is similar to >UNIX. So I set the TZ variable for LE as well. I'm not sure if this is >required or not.

Re: AW: Re: Where do I find a list of world timezones in z/OS USS notation?

On Tue, 24 Apr 2018 03:31:15 -0500, Giliad Wilf wrote: > >Here, IDT started Friday, March 23rd, 2am and will end Sunday, October 28th, >2am, so, if I specify... > >IST-2IDT,M3.4.5,M10.5.0 > M3.5.5 in 2019 (and 2024, 2030, ...) (5th Friday) Norbert Friemel

Re: Mass submit jcl

The poster is at the beginning of the process of reinvention the wheel. He needs batch scheduler. Dot. End of story. Of course some homegrown prothesis can satisfy some basic needs, but other needs are waiting to be satisfied also. The answer is batch scheduler. -- Radoslaw Skorupka Lodz,

Re: DFSMSdss dump fix after binary transfer

IMHO it is problem with IBM. Are you deaf? The problem is know for years, decades. People really NEED the functionality to simply make single dataset archive, transmit it to PC *with no tricks and black magic* and then upload it to a z/OS and unpack. What would be wrong with "DUMP DS()

Re: How far out of date are my skills

And then, of course, there is zOSMF to contend with... -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: OA53355 - USERKEY COMMON MIGRATION SUPPORT

Ron we have both. Don't think there are any native MXG programs out there, I could be wrong. Just the widely used add-on for SAS to map everything SMF is all. _ Dave Jousma Manager Mainframe Engineering, Assistant Vice President

Re: Mass submit jcl

Radoslaw Skorupka wrote: >The poster is at the beginning of the process of reinvention the wheel. ... and will become a fifth wheel. >He needs batch scheduler. Dot. End of story. >Of course some homegrown prothesis can satisfy some basic needs, but other >needs are waiting to be satisfied

Re: OA53355 - USERKEY COMMON MIGRATION SUPPORT

if you are licensed for SAS/MXG it's easy to get PDB created as below : //STEP1 EXEC MXGSAS,WORK='1600,1600' //LIBRARY DD DISP=SHR,DSN=X.MXG.FORMATS //SMF DD DISP=SHR,DSN=X //PDB DD

Re: OA53355 - USERKEY COMMON MIGRATION SUPPORT

Thanks Ravi for the starting point! And yes, that’s the point I want to get too. But I know I have at least one long running task using userkeycsa that needs to be retired. _ Dave Jousma Manager Mainframe Engineering,

Re: OAM and Object Tape Support with an MTL

On Tue, Apr 24, 2018 at 11:14 PM, Brian Westerman < brian_wester...@syzygyinc.com> wrote: > I'm not really sure if software delivery on physical tape is a benefit or > not. Personally I don't think so, but I also don't think it costs IBM > anything to provide it if someone (anyone) might need

Re: OA53355 - USERKEY COMMON MIGRATION SUPPORT

here's some MSG code I used to report on storage used by a task OPTIONS NOSOURCE NOFMTERR SORT=90; %INCLUDE SOURCLIB(VMACSMF,VMAC30); DATA _VAR30 _SMF _CDE30 RUN; DATA TEMPA; SET TYPE30_V; IF TYPETASK= 'JOB'; IF JOB =:'D10YPF02'; DATE = DATEPART(READTIME); TIME = TIMEPART(READTIME);

DST (was ... Where do I find a list of world timezones in z/OS USS notation?)

Carrmen Vitullo wrote: >I totally agree, but we can't even get this country, USA to agree on a BAN on >DST, should have saved this discussion for Friday :) Today is Friday, sorry, two days early, but it can't hurt. Anyways, Carmen, please move over to United States Virgin Islands which does

Re: OA53355 - USERKEY COMMON MIGRATION SUPPORT

I've never had an issue, or Barry has never had an issue with me sharing code, David would indeed need to have SAS or WPS and MXG to make my samples work. Carmen Vitullo - Original Message - From: "Ron hawkins" To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Sent:

Re: AW: Re: Where do I find a list of world timezones in z/OS USS notation?

What there should be is a world-wide ban on the lunacy of "daylight savings time". Yeah, I went there... knowing that this dead horse has been beaten to a puree, I should apologize for mentioning it. On Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at 4:33 AM, Giliad Wilf < 00d50942efa9-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu>

Re: AW: Re: Where do I find a list of world timezones in z/OS USS notation?

I totally agree, but we can't even get this country, USA to agree on a BAN on DST, should have saved this discussion for Friday :) Carmen Vitullo - Original Message - From: "Steve Smith" To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2018 8:02:10 AM

Re: Tapeless delivery

John, I was in the middle of replying to you last email and it just disappeared. To all of your first paragraph (If I remember it all) the issue you site are essentially the same (IMO) whether it is CDROM or TAPE. ——NOW——— I both agree with you and disagree. I will not try and put

Re: OA53355 - USERKEY COMMON MIGRATION SUPPORT

Thanks Carmen. I'll take a look at this. _ Dave Jousma Manager Mainframe Engineering, Assistant Vice President david.jou...@53.com 1830 East Paris, Grand Rapids, MI  49546 MD RSCB2H p 616.653.8429 f 616.653.2717 -Original

TSO fullscreen logon

Hi, This may be a silly question, but the saying is that the only silly question is the one you don't ask. I have been RTFM, but cannot find how to activate fullscreen logon via TSO. Can someone provide a pointer? Thanks, Lou

Re: DST (was ... Where do I find a list of world timezones in z/OS USS notation?)

I'd totally move the US VI - and move with no baggage - well, maybe one horse :) Carmen Vitullo - Original Message - From: "Elardus Engelbrecht" To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2018 8:23:21 AM Subject: DST (was ... Where

Re: OA53355 - USERKEY COMMON MIGRATION SUPPORT

Carmen, Indeed, David would have to have a copy of MXG to use the SAS code that you shared. That was my point: you didn't share MXG code. Ron -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Carmen Vitullo Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2018

Re: TSO fullscreen logon

Lou Losee wrote: >This may be a silly question, but the saying is that the only silly question >is the one you don't ask. This one question is not silly. I also got burned by that, but this was because the Linklist and the Proclib and Clist were not setup correctly [ in harmony ] ... >I

Re: OAM and Object Tape Support with an MTL

John McKown wrote: I would argue about his, except that most electronic manuals are in PDF format and PDF does _not_ allow updating the PDF file itself to contain highlighting & notes. Or, if it does, I don't have any software which can do this. Adobe Acrobat DC offers the ability to comment

Re: OAM and Object Tape Support with an MTL

On Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at 9:18 AM, John Eells wrote: > John McKown wrote: > > >> I would argue about his, except that most electronic manuals >> are in PDF format and PDF does _not_ allow updating the PDF file itself to >> contain highlighting & notes. Or, if it does, I don't

Re: OA53355 - USERKEY COMMON MIGRATION SUPPORT

ah ! blonde moment strikes again! Carmen Vitullo - Original Message - From: "Ron hawkins" To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2018 8:51:53 AM Subject: Re: OA53355 - USERKEY COMMON MIGRATION SUPPORT Carmen, Indeed, David would

Re: OAM and Object Tape Support with an MTL

John McKown wrote: On Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at 9:18 AM, John Eells wrote: John McKown wrote: I would argue about his, except that most electronic manuals are in PDF format and PDF does _not_ allow updating the PDF file itself to contain highlighting & notes. Or, if it does, I

Re: OAM and Object Tape Support with an MTL

It seems that some other conversations have merged into this one. There was a question out there about software delivery on tape, which IBM is getting away from. This question was specifically about OAM and using object tape support. Even more specifically if we should consider using the

Re: Where do I find a list of world timezones in z/OS USS notation?

On Wed, 25 Apr 2018 09:02:10 -0400, Steve Smith wrote: >What there should be is a world-wide ban on the lunacy of "daylight savings >time". > I think my energy would be more productively spent working for a world-wide ban on the lunacy of nuclear weapons, or toward finding a cure for cancer.

Re: z/OSMF, was How far out of date are my skills

You can configure zosmf to NOT come up. There will just be some new functions that wont work without it. I'm guessing that over time that list will get longer. NOTIFY=your.email.address is just one of those new thing. _ Dave

Re: RECFM (was: IRS - 60-Year-Old IT System Failed ... )

On Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at 1:00 PM, Paul Gilmartin < 000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > On Sun, 22 Apr 2018 18:29:38 -0400, Hobart Spitz wrote: > > > >*With the *nix/C record and string models, there are these issues:* > > > > 1. Errant/unexpected/unintended pieces of binary

z/OSMF, was How far out of date are my skills

I am running z/OS 2.1. Until the end of last December, I was running on a z9 capped at 16MSU with no zIIP. I am now running in a capped Lpar group on a z12 at a MFaaS site. We still have no access to zIIP. Management negotiated for equal capacity. So, the JAVA based z/OSMF is still going to

Re: z/OSMF, was How far out of date are my skills

> -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] > On Behalf Of John Eells > Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2018 12:49 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: z/OSMF, was How far out of date are my skills > > Jousma, David wrote: > > You

Re: z/OSMF, was How far out of date are my skills

> -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] > On Behalf Of John Eells > Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2018 1:37 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: z/OSMF, was How far out of date are my skills > > Gibney, Dave wrote: > > > > >

Job Opportunity for Mainframe storage architect

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Re: z/OSMF, was How far out of date are my skills

Gibney, Dave wrote: -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of John Eells Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2018 12:49 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: z/OSMF, was How far out of date are my skills Jousma, David wrote:

Re: TSO fullscreen logon

Hi Lou, I am assuming that you mean the full screen TSO panel that prompts you for your credentials, accounting information and other logon options. If that IS the case, that is the default TSO logon environment unless you have an exit (IKJEFLD1) or other modification to

RECFM (was: IRS - 60-Year-Old IT System Failed ... )

On Sun, 22 Apr 2018 18:29:38 -0400, Hobart Spitz wrote: > >*With the *nix/C record and string models, there are these issues:* > > 1. Errant/unexpected/unintended pieces of binary data in a text > file/string can break something. > 2. Separate functions/methods/techniques must be used to

Re: AW: Re: Where do I find a list of world timezones in z/OS USS notation?

Hawaii and most of Arizona don't do DST (Summer Time). Florida is attempting to implement EDT / AST for the entire year. Of course the patchwork is due to politicians selecting which time zone and time changes. On Wed, Apr 25, 2018 at 8:05 AM, Carmen Vitullo wrote: > I

Re: Where do I find a list of world timezones in z/OS USS notation?

On Wed, 25 Apr 2018 13:13:57 -0500, Mike Schwab wrote: >Hawaii and most of Arizona don't do DST (Summer Time). >Florida is attempting to implement EDT / AST for the entire year. >Of course the patchwork is due to politicians selecting which time >zone and time changes. > And if they do I'm

Re: z/OSMF, was How far out of date are my skills

Jousma, David wrote: You can configure zosmf to NOT come up. There will just be some new functions that wont work without it. I'm guessing that over time that list will get longer. NOTIFY=your.email.address is just one of those new thing. One of those new functions that won't work

Re: z/OSMF, was How far out of date are my skills

On Wed, 25 Apr 2018 20:47:40 +, Gibney, Dave wrote: >I don't want to sound like some otherucurmudgeons. :) Careful >I am now reminded that converting to ihis newer Webserver is also somewhere in >my ample pushdown stack of things I need to do. > >It's not easy being eesentially the

Re: z/OSMF, was How far out of date are my skills

My attempted reply to Shane privately bounced due to security setting at his end, so here goes Thanks. And there you go trying to pour water on my fantasy of retiring and then earning a little on the side as a consultant with this talk of insurance :) It's looking like Mainframe at my site