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Unemployment checks are being held up by a coding language almost nobody knows - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2020/4/14/21219561/coronavirus-pandemic-unemployment-systems-cobol-legacy-software-infrastructure -- gil

JESSPOOL problem accessing SYSLOG

I posted this to RACF-L earlier, but have not received a response to help solve the problem so I have decided to cross-post here. I have a problem accessing the SYSLOG from SDSF on one LPAR. The problem appears to be caused by the second qualifier in the RACHECK request being *BYPASS* when it

Re: JESSPOOL problem accessing SYSLOG

I also see that a userid of *BYPASS* is supported in some circumstances. There are some notes under this in the RACROUTE manual under REQUEST=VERIFY. Lennie Dymoke-Bradshaw | Security Lead | RSM Partners Ltd   Web:  www.rsmpartners.com ‘Dance like no one is watching. Encrypt like

Re: Print/copy one record of each type/subtype

> Somewhere in our (my team's not Sri Hari's) code base is a DFSORT job that > counts the number of each subtype by minute - for SMF 30 and 7X. Martin, You mean by the minute within each Hour/Day? > Note: "Subtype" should be at a fixed offset/position in the SMF record > header. I'd consider

Re: Print/copy one record of each type/subtype

Actually I throw away the seconds and hours and days and just keep the minutes. That way I see if there's something odd about the timing of record cutting - as I get 60 x axis values. Current customer data looks like this (chopping off all but the first 16 minutes): PROD "MINUTE","SMF

Re: FTP documentation whines

Correction: the lack of documentation for the source of "FTP.DATA" in batch is here: https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSLTBW_2.4.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r4.ha lu001/chgsite.htm Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf

Re: The Computer Scientist Who Can’t Stop Telling Stories

These days the gold standard is Leslie Lamport's LaTeX, a package of TeX macros. Not terribly intuitive, and the error messages can be unhelpful, but very powerful. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe

Re: Memory-Lane Monday: System Zzzzz | Computerworld Shark Tank

I can attest to answering late nigh support and not remembering the answer I gave, only to sit in the morning production meeting and silently breathe a sigh of relief when it turned out I gave the correct answer. Joe On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 11:47 AM Bob Bridges wrote: > Boy, not me. I didn't

DFSORT? Rexx? Re: Print/copy one record of each type/subtype

On Mon, 20 Apr 2020 15:43:44 +, kekronbekron wrote: > >When working with VBS files, I reckon it's easiest to get 1 of each (SMF >record type & subtype) using DFSORT. >Are there easier ways? >Can y'all please help with a sample for picking such unique RTY_STY using >DFSORT > >Thanks in

FTP documentation whines

Am I off-base here? Am I missing something? I intend to submit some RFC's unless you folks tell me I am missing something. https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSLTBW_2.4.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r4.ha lu001/entrftpenv.htm Under the -f switch, gives the search order for "FTP.DATA" under UNIX and

Re: Memory-Lane Monday: System Zzzzz | Computerworld Shark Tank

I worked as a contractor at a shop where the DP Manager made a point of *never* answering her phone at oh-dark-thirty. Was afraid she would give some direction that she would seriously regret later. Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List

Re: FTP documentation whines

RCF. I am so annoyed I can't type. Heck, the implementation is one thing! Don't get started. But I would just like to *know* what they implemented. Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent:

Re: DFSORT? Rexx? Re: Print/copy one record of each type/subtype

Since z/OS 2.1. I've been using it since then. I have some code I intend to open source that relies on REXX against VBS (SMF). Cheers, Martin Martin Packer zChampion, Systems Investigator & Performance Troubleshooter, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter / Facebook

Re: Print/copy one record of each type/subtype

Somewhere in our (my team's not Sri Hari's) code base is a DFSORT job that counts the number of each subtype by minute - for SMF 30 and 7X. I've not done that much with it in practice - but it's a nice extension to Sri Hari's idea. Note: "Subtype" should be at a fixed offset/position in the

Re: DFSORT? Rexx? Re: Print/copy one record of each type/subtype

Wait, what? Since when? --- Bob Bridges, robhbrid...@gmail.com, cell 336 382-7313 /* Great good nature, without prudence, is a great misfortune. -Poor Richard */ -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent:

Re: DFSORT? Rexx? Re: Print/copy one record of each type/subtype

On Mon, 20 Apr 2020 12:38:05 -0400, Bob Bridges wrote: >Wait, what? Since when? > Now in: z/OS Version 2 Release 4 TSO/E REXX Reference IBM SA32-0972-40 https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSLTBW_2.1.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r1.ikja300/dup0037.htm I don't know the boundary. Bitsavers?

Re: [External] Re: Memory-Lane Monday: System Zzzzz | Computerworld Shark Tank

Opposite account here. Brand new baby in the house and brand new MVS install at work. Phone on my side of the bed. I'd hear the phone and pick up first ring. Answer the question/problem and go back to sleep a couple times a night. My wife would hear the baby and get up to take care of her

Re: Memory-Lane Monday: System Zzzzz | Computerworld Shark Tank

Boy, not me. I didn't mind being awakened in the middle of the night, and going in to the office to solve a problem at two in the morning usually inspired me to put in an extra hour or two to work on something that I'd had trouble figuring out during the day. But the poor operator usually had

Re: Print/copy one record of each type/subtype

Kekron, Are you looking for a summary of subtypes for every smf record? I wrote an ICETOOL job for Cheryl Watson's newsletter under "User Experiences and Tips" which lists the count how many records it found of each type and subtype and produce a little report saying something like: TYPE

Re: [External] Re: IPCS LIST command to display storage when pointer is in a different address space

Seymour, So you answered Binyamin's direct yes/no question, your response didn't help him a bit. A better response (which I don't know the answer to so I refrained from answering) would have been to actually show Binyamin what he's looking for. Rex -Original Message- From: IBM

Re: FTP documentation whines

On Mon, 20 Apr 2020 09:43:06 -0700, Charles Mills wrote: >Am I off-base here? Am I missing something? I intend to submit some RFC's >unless you folks tell me I am missing something. > As in updating RFC 959? Probably not.

Re: JESSPOOL problem accessing SYSLOG

Interesting. Seems to raise 2 questions. 1. Why is the 2nd qualifier "*BYPASS*"? 2. Why can you not find a profile that will match it? When I look at all the output on my system (z/OS 2.3) by setting no prefix and using the O SDF primary command, I see that the SYSLOG task is using a userid of

Re: JESSPOOL problem accessing SYSLOG

Lennie, The problem is occurring on a system running with a RACF database. This is the second LPAR that is bing converted from Top Secret. The first did not show this problem nor have any other systems we have converted. It really makes me wonder what the SECURITY.SYSLOG.USESAFRECVR SDSF property

Re: Print/copy one record of each type/subtype

I use the IFASMFDP program to select records and output them to a disk file. Matthew On Mon, 20 Apr 2020 15:43:44 +, kekronbekron wrote: >Hello! > >When working with VBS files, I reckon it's easiest to get 1 of each (SMF >record type & subtype) using DFSORT. >Are there easier ways? >Can

Re: IPCS LIST command to display storage when pointer is in a different address space

Are you saying that you get output from List X+n asid(Y) length(4) or List X+n length(4) What address space is X in? -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of

Re: JESSPOOL problem accessing SYSLOG

From what you are saying it appears you have a system that uses different security software at different times. I know somewhere between nothing and zero about TSS, but is it possible that TSS creates SYSLOG with an owner of *BYPASS* and that SDSF was attempting to access that SYSLOG spool

Re: IPCS LIST command to display storage when pointer is in a different address space

Full dump, including both address spaces. I can type the address directly and display it. I cannot seem to follow the pointer to another address space. On Mon, 20 Apr 2020 20:45:11 + Seymour J Metz wrote: :>What are X and n? Are you working with a full dump of Z or a oartial dump. The

Re: IPCS LIST command to display storage when pointer is in a different address space

What are X and n? Are you working with a full dump of Z or a oartial dump. The message indicates that the pointer is not within the dump. It might be helpful to show how you got the pointer, especially if you're relying on storage that could have been freed before the dump or that was excluded

Re: IPCS LIST command to display storage when pointer is in a different address space

Well, I get BLS18075I Indirect address could not be resolved Not sure what I am doing wrong. Current AS = Z. X is within Z. List X+n? asid(Y) length(128) On Sun, 19 Apr 2020 21:35:21 + "Christopher Y. Blaicher" wrote: :>That is basically the right syntax. IPCS L address LEN(length)

Re: JESSPOOL problem accessing SYSLOG

I can't answer this right now, as we have re-IPL'd the system with TSS. The problem occurred during a test IPL with a RACF DB converted from TSS. The other LPAR we converted has SYSLOG using a user id of +MASTER+. I have to assume that when we had the problem SYSLOG was running with a user id of

Re: JESSPOOL problem accessing SYSLOG

My understanding of *BYPASS* is that it is used when there is no available ACEE for passing into RACF. The MVS/Planning Operations manual when discussing LOGON(OPTIONAL) for consoles states: Note: If an operator has not logged on to the console, commands are passed to the security product

Qustion ABout an MVS Resnagers and Name Token Pairs

Hi,. I was reading Peter Relsons "Sample z/OS synchronous cross memory server" code, and it made me think about a Resource Manager and System Level Name Token Pairs. . Are System Level Name Token Pairs (NTP) available to a Resource Manager when a Started Task has abended ?. Have the system

Re: IPCS LIST command to display storage when pointer is in a different address space

As far as I know, the ASID for any address expression in IPCS applies to all storage references in that expression. There isn't any way to specify different address spaces for different storage references in an indirect reference. Jim Mulder z/OS Diagnosis, Design, Development, Test IBM

Re: Here we go again

"A survey by The Verge found that at least 12 states still use COBOL in some capacity in their unemployment systems." Sounds to me like they contacted exactly 12 states, then. And I think I mentioned this before, and maybe someone pointed out I'd misunderstood but I don't remember: The

Re: Print/copy one record of each type/subtype

Hi Kolusu, We are all forever grateful for your DFSORT help, thank you :) I'm looking to get 1 record for each type-subtype combination. That is, 1 rec of 30_1, 1 of 30_2, and so on. A bit disappointed that I can read VB/VBS with RECFM=U in the DD, in a JCL (in order to read BDW/RDW), but that

Re: Print/copy one record of each type/subtype

Yep. Hourly DFHSM migration at :00 minutes after the hour. On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 7:49 PM Martin Packer wrote: > > Actually I throw away the seconds and hours and days and just keep the > minutes. That way I see if there's something odd about the timing of > record cutting - as I get 60 x axis

Re: Here we go again

I would have thought that if you understand record i/o, possibly SQL (although if it's such an ancient system, it will be flat files). All you need after that is the ability to use the COMPUTE statement. Although it seems that the good old fashioned systems analyst who understood payroll has gone

Re: Here we go again

He lost me when he jumped on the Harley Davidson. The COBOL of motorcycles. For reliability and performance, you would pick Yamaha, followed by Honda. Flame on, yankees. On Tue, Apr 21, 2020 at 5:17 AM Paul Gilmartin < 000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > Unemployment

Re: Here we go again

Say the least they didn’t mention cheap companies outsource to make a buck or the pi...poor managers who don’t have a clue about design or implementation or performance. On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 10:11 PM Wayne Bickerdike wrote: > He lost me when he jumped on the Harley Davidson. The COBOL of

Re: IPCS LIST command to display storage when pointer is in a different address space

PKB. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Christopher Y. Blaicher [cblaic...@syncsort.com] Sent: Monday, April 20, 2020 10:18 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU

Re: IPCS LIST command to display storage when pointer is in a different address space

Hi R'Shmuel, PKB ... Do you mean "Pot calling the kettle black "? Regards, David On 2020-04-20 11:12, Seymour J Metz wrote: PKB. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz

Re: IPCS LIST command to display storage when pointer is in a different address space

Yes. There's a lot of alphabet soup here, some of which I recognize and use, some of which I need to look up. Some, but not all, is in the jargon file. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List

Re: [External] Re: JES2 parm change - how make sure it's right?

Yes, usually. But if JES2 is already drained then a simple $PJES2 should work, followed by the START. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Pommier, Rex

Print/copy one record of each type/subtype

Hello! When working with VBS files, I reckon it's easiest to get 1 of each (SMF record type & subtype) using DFSORT. Are there easier ways? Can y'all please help with a sample for picking such unique RTY_STY using DFSORT Thanks in advance, I'm a complete DFSORT n00b. Kekron

Re: Opinions/experience on sharing catalogs outside plex

W dniu 09.04.2020 o 02:11, Rob Schramm pisze: I am considering sharing some usercats outside of a sysplex. What I can find is that sysiggv2 must be kept as a reserve to do so. Looking for others that have had to do this. One question I had was, what happens on a ispf 3.4 when the data set is

Memory-Lane Monday: System Zzzzz | Computerworld Shark Tank

https://www.computerworld.com/article/3536588/memory-lane-monday-system-z.html or *https://tinyurl.com/ybgnlf7x* Regards, *Mark T. Regan, K8MTR* CTO1 USNR-Retired, 1969-1991 Nationwide Insurance, Retired, 1986-2017

Re: Memory-Lane Monday: System Zzzzz | Computerworld Shark Tank

Not a big story. I used to a have a sysprog in my team, that every time he got a phone call at night, his wife was answering: perform an ipl. and you know what? she had no ide bout mainframes and it always worked! ITschak ITschak Mugzach *|** IronSphere Platform* *|* *Information Security

Re: Opinions/experience on sharing catalogs outside plex

Yes, it can be done. I reiterate, IMO, this is most likely not a good idea. In order to accomplish this safely, you also need to regress GRS to pre-GRS functionality. Everything affecting this catalog must be handled w/Reserve/Release, and not normal processing VSAM Sharoptions for the

Re: Opinions/experience on sharing catalogs outside plex

The OP did not mention CA-MIM. That will handle the issue. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Vernooij, Kees (ITOP NM) - KLM Sent: Monday, April 20, 2020 7:57 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Opinions/experience on sharing catalogs outside

Re: Opinions/experience on sharing catalogs outside plex

2 notes: You need not regress to pre-GRS, you need to regress to pre-Hyperswap, which required the elimination of Reserves by converting them to global enqueus with GRS. CA-MIM provided (when we used it) GRS functionality across Sysplexes. Kees. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe

Re: Opinions/experience on sharing catalogs outside plex

Well, it is not good idea, but sometimes even such idea is better than nothing. What's important the risk covers THIS catalog only, not whole world. And yes, this catalog and shared datasets should be shared without "sysplex features" like changes is serialization. RESERVE should be used here

Re: [External] Re: JES2 parm change - how make sure it's right?

Lizette, Wasn't it a $PJES2,ABEND command, then reply to the WTOR to shut it down w/o cleanup then S JES2 to bring it up hot again? That's how my old brain remembers it. The start of JES2 would do a syntax check of JES2PARM even though the hot start would preclude actually picking up

Re: IPCS LIST command to display storage when pointer is in a different address space

Seymour, Why do you have to be such a putz? The person asked a simple question. There is no reason to denigrate him, or anyone else. I have wanted to say this for a long time about your posts. Think before you hit send. Is your comment adding to the content of the thread? If not, hit

Re: IPCS LIST command to display storage when pointer is in a different address space

That's been there from the beginning. What's new is the ability to specify 31-bit pointers and the ability to specify 64-bit pointers. Even the latter is pretty long in the tooth, and there are readers of this list younger than the former. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz