Re: Rexx Execio to PDS

2013-08-27 Thread Karl-Heinz Doppelfeld
Hello George, your code is right except your inititialyze for 'outstem.=0'. This initialyze the complete stem 'outstem.' with '0' and than the execio tries to write many (I do not know how much) lines to your output file. When you initialyze only 'outstem.0=0' for computing your stem counter

Re: Enterprise COBOL execution POSIX(ON) LE parm.

2013-08-27 Thread Elardus Engelbrecht
Tom Ross wrote: COBOL does really suppport multithreading, but you need to use the THREAD compiler option to get that support. And lose ability to use some elements (example: SORT statement). :-( Groete / Greetings Elardus Engelbrecht

XDC-CDF cannot access profile

2013-08-27 Thread Robin Atwood
I have noticed that when using option 3 of the XDC main panel (XDC-CDF) I cannot then access the XDC ISPF profile and PK keys, etc, are not restored. When I issue the PROFILE SAVE command I get a message DBC770E saying XDCPROF and ISPPROF cannot be found. I assume this is caused by the

Re: Funny problem report

2013-08-27 Thread R.S.
W dniu 2013-08-27 01:35, Phil Smith III pisze: A customer report came in through our answering service: Jobs are blowing OC poor events. After the predictable Huh?, we asked the customer, who said That's 'throwing 0C4 ABENDs'. Doh. Well, I heard about job ended with 4 - which should mean job

Re: OS/390 1.3 Support Element hangs system

2013-08-27 Thread Timothy Sipples
The Multiprise 2000 offered optional internal disk storage, but I don't think the internal disk used the SE for normal operations. I think the SE could configure internal disk settings, notably the amount of system memory allocated to the internal disk cache area. (Do we really mean HMC, by the

Re: OS/390 1.3 Support Element hangs system

2013-08-27 Thread Elardus Engelbrecht
Timothy Sipples wrote: It might be interesting to disconnect the tape devices to see if the problem persists. That might help isolate the root cause. I would obviously exercise extreme caution, and there are no guarantees. This is a very good debugging trick. This is how we isolated faulty

Re: Enterprise COBOL execution POSIX(ON) LE parm.

2013-08-27 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Tue, 27 Aug 2013 02:07:08 -0500, Elardus Engelbrecht elardus.engelbre...@sita.co.za wrote: Tom Ross wrote: COBOL does really suppport multithreading, but you need to use the THREAD compiler option to get that support. And lose ability to use some elements (example: SORT statement). :-(

Re: Rexx Execio to PDS

2013-08-27 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Tue, 27 Aug 2013 01:51:54 -0500, Karl-Heinz Doppelfeld wrote: your code is right except your inititialyze for 'outstem.=0'. This initialyze the complete stem 'outstem.' with '0' and than the execio tries to write many (I do not know how much) lines to your output file. When you initialyze

REXX and CLISTs to generate code to delete empty GDG bases

2013-08-27 Thread Rob JACKSON
I have received a request for expertise coding REXX and CLISTs to generate code to delete empty GDG bases. Thanks, Rob Jackson rwjackso...@msn.com Cell: (615) 689-1435 Home: (615) 697-2047

Re: Enterprise COBOL execution POSIX(ON) LE parm.

2013-08-27 Thread John McKown
Thanks for that heads up about THREAD option. I have an example COBOL program which is using the library already. But I am not trying to multithread. I will put some information in my README should anybody be silly enough to want to do multithreading in COBOL. On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 12:13 AM,

Re: SCRT question

2013-08-27 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 4473679277803350.wa.paulgboulderaim@listserv.ua.edu, on 08/25/2013 at 01:39 PM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com said: Small wonder old-timers resent the advent of PDSE. Some do. Some believe that IBM didn't go far enough. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT

Re: Rexx Execio to PDS

2013-08-27 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In cad60d68b445b3b511af79a64d84a...@shedlock.org, on 08/26/2013 at 02:21 PM, George Shedlock geo...@shedlock.org said:   EXECIO * DISKW Pdsout (STEM outstem. FINIS   The * is not equivalent to outstem.0 and the description of FINIS suggest that you may want it in a separate EXECIO invocation.

Re: Rexx Execio to PDS

2013-08-27 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Mon, 26 Aug 2013 17:14:58 -0400, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: ... the description of FINIS suggest that you may want it in a separate EXECIO invocation. Can you explain? I've never had a problem with it. -- gil -- For

Re: Funny problem report

2013-08-27 Thread Schwartz, Alan
I heard the IBM support center received a problem call for product 'Jazz Tube'. Turns out it was for JES2. Alan -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Phil Smith III Sent: Monday, August 26, 2013 6:36 PM To:

Re: Rexx Execio to PDS

2013-08-27 Thread Gross, Randall [PRI-1PP]
Try initializing the stem to null (outstem. = ). A null entry will terminate the EXECIO. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of George Shedlock Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2013 8:45 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject:

Re: Rexx Execio to PDS

2013-08-27 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 4868602893006577.wa.paulgboulderaim@listserv.ua.edu, on 08/26/2013 at 04:47 PM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com said: It should probably be stressed that EXECIO, unlike most Rexx utilities does not [substitute] the values of any simple symbols in the tail as described in 2.4.3,

Re: Rexx Execio to PDS

2013-08-27 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Tue, 27 Aug 2013 08:45:22 -0400, George Shedlock wrote: Paul:    You have noted one of the subtle differences in the way that Execio works in the CMS vs TSO environments. It seems that in CMS, the EXECIO * stops after the stem runs out. In TSO, it continues on forever resulting in my out of

Re: CEEPIPI assistance requested

2013-08-27 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In CAFMxNWKJXbzsB5OrtaZgREk-bK=kgb_i-kh0tjzuzukbtgg...@mail.gmail.com, on 08/26/2013 at 10:03 PM, Sam Siegel s...@pscsi.net said: Below is the module and offset. Did you search for IEAVTESP+0B3A? Create a PMR? Where is 04D3DA8A? Did you check the save area chain? -- Shmuel (Seymour J.)

Re: CEEPIPI assistance requested

2013-08-27 Thread Sam Siegel
See other email. Problem resolved. Thanks. On Aug 27, 2013 6:16 AM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) shmuel+...@patriot.net wrote: In CAFMxNWKJXbzsB5OrtaZgREk-bK=kgb_i-kh0tjzuzukbtgg...@mail.gmail.com, on 08/26/2013 at 10:03 PM, Sam Siegel s...@pscsi.net said: Below is the module and offset.

Re: Rexx Execio to PDS

2013-08-27 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 8482246969138410.wa.karlheinz.doppelfeldfi...@listserv.ua.edu, on 08/27/2013 at 01:51 AM, Karl-Heinz Doppelfeld karl-heinz.doppelf...@f-i.de said: your code is right except your inititialyze for 'outstem.=0'. This initialyze the complete stem 'outstem.' with '0' That's only an issue due

Re: REXX and CLISTs to generate code to delete empty GDG bases

2013-08-27 Thread Lizette Koehler
What level of z/OS are you running? The DEL command can use MASK at z/OS V1.11 and above (also check for additional maintanence) In z/OS V1R11, DFSMS access method services (IDCAMS) adds a new MASK option to the DELETE command. This option lets you specify many variations of a data set name on

Re: Rexx Execio to PDS

2013-08-27 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Tue, 27 Aug 2013 09:02:03 -0400, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: on 08/26/2013 at 04:47 PM, Paul Gilmartin said: It should probably be stressed that EXECIO, unlike most Rexx utilities does not [substitute] the values of any simple symbols in the tail as described in 2.4.3, Unlike? How

Re: REXX and CLISTs to generate code to delete empty GDG bases

2013-08-27 Thread Klan, Rob (RET-DAY)
The answer LISTCAT LEVEL('hlq') GDG NAME does supply GDG names However question was for empty GDG which I assume to mean no generations. Changing to LISTCAT LEVEL('hlq'') VOLUME' will return the associations or NULL if no generations exists. Such as GDG BASE -- MY.GDG.BASE.A

Re: REXX and CLISTs to generate code to delete empty GDG bases

2013-08-27 Thread Elardus Engelbrecht
Klan, Rob (RET-DAY) wrote: Changing to LISTCAT LEVEL('hlq'') VOLUME' will return the associations or NULL if no generations exists. Such as GDG BASE -- MY.GDG.BASE.A ASSOCIATIONS(NULL) Hmmm, I have a look at CSI to see what CSI will give, but I find nothing or I have

Re: REXX and CLISTs to generate code to delete empty GDG bases

2013-08-27 Thread Elardus Engelbrecht
CSI - Catalog Search Facility, not that Crime thing. ;-) Aw cr*p, I commited a crime in word checking! :-( Replace word 'Facility' with 'Interface' ... :-D Groete / Greetings Elardus Engelbrecht -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe /

Re: REXX and CLISTs to generate code to delete empty GDG bases

2013-08-27 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In bay170-w14141a07d63910d508a6a4b0...@phx.gbl, on 08/27/2013 at 08:14 AM, Rob JACKSON rwjackso...@msn.com said: I have received a request for expertise coding REXX and CLISTs to generate code to delete empty GDG bases. What's the issue, and why consider clist at this late date? --

Re: REXX and CLISTs to generate code to delete empty GDG bases

2013-08-27 Thread Lizette Koehler
Rob, If you could provide more detail on what you are trying to accomplish, we can probably provide several solutions. Lizette -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Klan, Rob (RET-DAY) Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2013 6:30

Re: REXX and CLISTs to generate code to delete empty GDG bases

2013-08-27 Thread R.S.
W dniu 2013-08-27 15:29, Klan, Rob (RET-DAY) pisze: The answer LISTCAT LEVEL('hlq') GDG NAME does supply GDG names However question was for empty GDG which I assume to mean no generations. Changing to LISTCAT LEVEL('hlq'') VOLUME' will return the associations or NULL if no generations

Re: SCRT question

2013-08-27 Thread Gerhard Postpischil
On 8/27/2013 8:43 AM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: And PDSE might have been a good place to introduce (optional) FBA support. PDSE is really just FBA simulated on CKD simulated on FBA. If you defined CKD as devices accepting count-field oriented commands, then you are correct. However, all disks

Re: Rexx Execio to PDS

2013-08-27 Thread Joel C. Ewing
George, The first Parse in the original loop is a useful technique. No complaints there, only about the 2nd parse that changes t, outstem.t and outstem.0 in one statement. The original ... do forever parse var MyArg thisword ';' MyArg if thisword='' then leave thisword =

Re: OS/390 1.3 Support Element hangs system

2013-08-27 Thread retired mainframer
Our official IBM MP2003 documentation of the time always called it the Support Element. It consisted of a desktop PC with a CRT style monitor and a second internal floppy drive for an optical disk. I don't recall if it had a CD reader. It ran OS/2 and booted directly into the SE application. It

Re: SCRT question

2013-08-27 Thread Gerhard Postpischil
On 8/27/2013 8:26 AM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: Small wonder old-timers resent the advent of PDSE. Some do. Some believe that IBM didn't go far enough. What I miss most is the inability to recover erroneously scratched members. More than once I have recovered a member that was too new

Re: XDC-CDF cannot access profile

2013-08-27 Thread Dave Cole
Hi Robin, When debugging via CDF, XDC is actually running in the batch job, not in the TSO session. Consequently, you need to add a JCL card to the batch job pointing to your profile library. The ddname can be either //XDCPROF or //ISPPROF. (It doesn't matter which.) The library pointed to

SMS Notices from Jes2

2013-08-27 Thread Rouse, Willie
Hello All, I would like to send messages to application owners when critical jobs fail/abend. I don't know if there is a way to send an SMS messages from Jes2. Respectfully, Willie C. Rouse Senior Mainframe Consultant Prince George's County, Maryland Office of Information Technology 9201 Basil

Re: SMS Notices from Jes2

2013-08-27 Thread Lizette Koehler
I would think an automation tool would work for this requirement or a scheduling package. Do you have TIVOLI, OPS/MVS, AFOPER, CONTROL-?? And so forther/ Do you have a scheduling software like CA-ESP (Workload Automation) or Other? Do you have any MFP exits in place? Lizette -Original

Re: SMS Notices from Jes2

2013-08-27 Thread Lizette Koehler
Did you have a final step in the JOB stream that would execute a TSO Batch step to do SENDNOTE or Queue up (using rexx or clist) an email that used a SYSOUT=(B,INTRDR) to send to SMTP? That would probably work in a lot of cases, but a JCL flush or similar may not allow that last step to run.

Re: SMS Notices from Jes2

2013-08-27 Thread Rouse, Willie
Anthony, Could give me more info since I am not very SMTP literate. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Sambataro, Anthony (NIH/NBS) [E] Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2013 11:30 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re:

Re: SMS Notices from Jes2

2013-08-27 Thread David Andrews
On Tue, 2013-08-27 at 10:16 -0400, Rouse, Willie wrote: I would like to send messages to application owners when critical jobs fail/abend. I don't know if there is a way to send an SMS messages from Jes2. If you have the ability to send email, here is a list of email-to-sms gateways for a

Re: SMS Notices from Jes2

2013-08-27 Thread Martin Packer
Maybe rhetorical question: Is sending notices from JES2 via SMS as secure as you need? Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter / Facebook IDs: MartinPacker

Re: SMS Notices from Jes2

2013-08-27 Thread Wissink, Brad [ITSYS]
We use the SMF exit and MPF message exits to start a batch job that sends email. The exit just passes information about which job abended or had a JCL error to the batch job. The batch job does all the work. It determines if an email is sent, who gets the email and if more serious

zHPF

2013-08-27 Thread gsg
Is there a way to benchmark zHPF? Are there reports you can run that would show management a nice before and after picture? Can anyone explain exactly what zHPF is in simple terms? -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff /

Re: zHPF

2013-08-27 Thread Lizette Koehler
Searching in www.ibm.com http://www-03.ibm.com/support/techdocs/atsmastr.nsf/WebIndex/FQ127122 http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/zos/v1r11/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.zos.r11.ieag100/d3ioszhpf.htm http://www-03.ibm.com/support/techdocs/atsmastr.nsf/WebIndex/WP101789 And I know of no

Re: SMS Notices from Jes2

2013-08-27 Thread Sambataro, Anthony (NIH/NBS) [E]
Batch example using an exec written by one of our sysprogs: //jobcard /*ROUTE PRINT HOLD //* //MAILEXEC PGM=IKJEFT01,DYNAMNBR=150,REGION=4M

Re: SMS Notices from Jes2

2013-08-27 Thread Tony Harminc
On 27 August 2013 11:29, Sambataro, Anthony (NIH/NBS) [E] anthony.sambat...@nih.gov wrote: I've done it via the SMTP server/address space with the TO: address being the service provider's convention. For example ATT's convention is x...@txt.att.net where xxx is the 10 digit phone number.

Re: zHPF

2013-08-27 Thread John Eells
gsg wrote: Is there a way to benchmark zHPF? Are there reports you can run that would show management a nice before and after picture? Can anyone explain exactly what zHPF is in simple terms? For what it is, see the presentation by Lou Ricci from SHARE 116: High Performance Ficon

Re: SMS Notices from Jes2

2013-08-27 Thread Sambataro, Anthony (NIH/NBS) [E]
The sendmail exec appears to use the TRANSMIT command to actually interface with SMTP TRANSMIT jesnode.SMTP FILE(MAILOUT) OUTDD(SMTPOUT) , NOEPILOG NOLOG NOPROLOG Reference:

RES: Creation Date

2013-08-27 Thread ITURIEL DO NASCIMENTO NETO
Mr Wood, We do have a tape management product named AFM, from a brazilian company (GFS). This product does not actually has a data base, using only Catalog Information to retain volumes. That's why it's important to keep the original creation date. GFS has a utility that can do that, but we

Re: SMS Notices from Jes2

2013-08-27 Thread Rouse, Willie
Thanks everyone for your input. It has been very rewarding -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Tony Harminc Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2013 12:26 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: SMS Notices from Jes2 On 27

HLASM LE subroutine - LE condition handling / signaling

2013-08-27 Thread John McKown
I am still writing my HLASM LE enabled shim routine which allows COBOL program to, relatively, easily invoke the C language based sqlite SQL database engine. One requirement, due to sqlite's use of mutex semaphores is that the LE enclave be running with POSIX(ON). Instead of getting the S0C6 which

Re: SMS Notices from Jes2

2013-08-27 Thread Mark Regan
You can use XMITIP for this purpose. It's free and was written by a fellow IBM-MAIN system programmer, Lionel Dyck. You can find it at his web site http://www.lbdsoftware.com/   Thanks, Mark Regan From: Rouse, Willie wro...@co.pg.md.us To:

Re: SMS Notices from Jes2

2013-08-27 Thread John McKown
We use CA-OPS/MVS to monitor messages to send SNMP traps to the SolarWinds Orion server. It then does whatever, including sending email to a SMS gateway. We use CAGTS to write CA-7 browse log message to the z/OS SYSLOG, which is how CA-OPS/MVS picks up production job status information. It works

Re: SMS Notices from Jes2

2013-08-27 Thread Miklos Szigetvari
With my phone account and SMTP settings the following is working: (i.e X-PRIORITY was necessary to get SMS in my mobile ) //ESAEMAIL JOB ,ESA,NOTIFY=ESA, //CLASS=A,MSGCLASS=X,MSGLEVEL=(1,1) //OUTPUTOUTPUT DEST=JES2P390.SMTP //ISDICLEM EXEC PGM=IEBGENER //SYSIN DD DUMMY

Re: HLASM LE subroutine - LE condition handling / signaling

2013-08-27 Thread John Gilmore
If you want to be punitive you can of course ABEND the offender. The notion of 'throwing an exception', raising a condition, is a much better one, but only if it is substantive and not just formal; and it is not obvious to me that you caller can recover from a translation-time error at execution

Re: SCRT question

2013-08-27 Thread R.S.
W dniu 2013-08-27 15:41, Gerhard Postpischil pisze: On 8/27/2013 8:43 AM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: And PDSE might have been a good place to introduce (optional) FBA support. PDSE is really just FBA simulated on CKD simulated on FBA. If you defined CKD as devices accepting count-field oriented

Re: HLASM LE subroutine - LE condition handling / signaling

2013-08-27 Thread John McKown
Well, they might be able to do some sort of back out. My main question is basically is it better to throw an exception, which can be handled if appropriate, but not easily ignored. Or it is better to give a return code which _might_ be ignored due to poor programming practice, but is easier to

Re: HLASM LE subroutine - LE condition handling / signaling

2013-08-27 Thread John Gilmore
You can probably have it both ways. If a condition handler is present, let it try to repair things. If not, ABEND. John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send

Re: SCRT question

2013-08-27 Thread John Eells
R.S. wrote: snip Well, don't take those names literally. In the very old days CKD became ECKD, but the name CKD remain as simple distintcion from FBA disks. snip It's sometimes useful to differentiate between CKD the track format (Count, Key, and Data), and the original set of CKD disk

Re: SCRT question

2013-08-27 Thread R.S.
W dniu 2013-08-27 21:30, John Eells pisze: R.S. wrote: snip Well, don't take those names literally. In the very old days CKD became ECKD, but the name CKD remain as simple distintcion from FBA disks. snip It's sometimes useful to differentiate between CKD the track format (Count, Key, and

Maximizing (IBM) shareholder value: The goal that changed corporate America

2013-08-27 Thread Gabe Goldberg
ENDICOTT, N.Y. --- This town in the hills of Upstate New York is best known as the birthplace of IBM, one of the country's most iconic companies. But there remain only hints of that storied past. The main street, once swarming with International Business Machines employees in their signature

Re: Rexx Execio to PDS

2013-08-27 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 8027846442974110.wa.paulgboulderaim@listserv.ua.edu, on 08/27/2013 at 07:36 AM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com said: Can you explain? Never mind; the text that I was looking at only applies if the line count is 0. Sorry for the mistake. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg

Re: SCRT question

2013-08-27 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 2436150148124474.wa.paulgboulderaim@listserv.ua.edu, on 08/27/2013 at 07:43 AM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com said: Would you be thinking of multi-volume? I was thinking of an equivalent to QPAM in TSS, but using an ACB interface and an RCI for PDS. And PDSE might have been a

Re: Rexx Execio to PDS

2013-08-27 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 9390988258167395.wa.paulgboulderaim@listserv.ua.edu, on 08/27/2013 at 08:33 AM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com said: I'm most familiar with address SYSCALL. Address is a keyword statement, not a REXX utility. That's one. No. That's one. But, right back at you: how many

Re: SCRT question

2013-08-27 Thread Gerhard Postpischil
On 8/27/2013 3:37 PM, R.S. wrote: Not to mention that K of CKD almost became extinct, since it lives only as part of VTOC or PDS directory (did I miss something?), so the track format is usually C-D. ;-) You mean nobody uses BDAM or ISAM any more? g And I almost miss the Search Key and Data

Re: SMS Notices from Jes2

2013-08-27 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In f9bda1112828604888c2c399471141b204628b8...@pgexchis03.co.pg.md.us, on 08/27/2013 at 10:16 AM, Rouse, Willie wro...@co.pg.md.us said: I would like to send messages to application owners when critical jobs fail/abend. I don't know if there is a way to send an SMS messages from Jes2. Why not

Re: HLASM LE subroutine - LE condition handling / signaling

2013-08-27 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In caajsdjg5av6yb9rjqg1kachxzapvcwcz9gzt65srhkyegyf...@mail.gmail.com, on 08/27/2013 at 12:51 PM, John McKown john.archie.mck...@gmail.com said: So I thought it might be a good idea to use the CEESGL function to throw an exception instead of just returning a return code which could be ignored.

Re: SCRT question

2013-08-27 Thread Gerhard Postpischil
On 8/27/2013 2:39 PM, R.S. wrote: At the time... PDSE is approx 20 years old. It's quite enough time to create new filesystem from scratch or enhance some features of existing operating system. I remember DOS+Windows 3.1 and see what could be done those years. Not to mention Linux (apperance),

Re: HLASM LE subroutine - LE condition handling / signaling

2013-08-27 Thread John McKown
I may, optionally, do both. I will be distributing this via the CBTTape. So source will be included. I can make the CEESGL usage dependent on a SYSPARM value. Another possibility is to use LE environment variables in order to specify the use of CEESGL or not at run-time. The best of both worlds. I

Re: Task to subtask communications

2013-08-27 Thread Blaicher, Christopher Y.
Scott, There are lots of ways to do this. Some of the questions you have to first ask are: 1) Are the tasks asynchronous to each other? 2) Can there be more than one slave task? 3) What are you attempting to accomplish with sub tasks? Generally, you want a sub task to do something while the

Questions about ESTAE(X)

2013-08-27 Thread Charles Mills
Question 1: Just want to confirm that I am reading the documentation correctly On ESTAE(X), TERM=YES basically says Yes, I want my recovery routine driven for operator cancel and things like that and TERM=NO says only drive the recovery routine for 'normal' ABENDs. Is that basically correct?

Re: Questions about ESTAE(X)

2013-08-27 Thread Ed Jaffe
On 8/27/2013 4:52 PM, Charles Mills wrote: Question 1: Just want to confirm that I am reading the documentation correctly On ESTAE(X), TERM=YES basically says Yes, I want my recovery routine driven for operator cancel and things like that and TERM=NO says only drive the recovery routine for

Re: Questions about ESTAE(X)

2013-08-27 Thread Shriver, Gregory A
SDWACLUP is a one way communication from RTM to the recovery routines. It notifies them that this is an abend from which no retry is possible. This behavior is documented fairly well as others have indicated. Another possible resource that helped me was to sit down with a cup o joe and

Re: Questions about ESTAE(X)

2013-08-27 Thread Charles Mills
I found the following in the Authorized Service Guide: When the system gives control to the recovery routines defined with the TERM=YES parameter as a result of the above errors [operator cancel, etc.], the system takes the following actions: - Sets the SDWACLUP bit - Gives control to all such

Re: Task to subtask communications

2013-08-27 Thread Scott Ford
All, Thanks for all the great pointers. I haven't had to write multitasking code s, This is a new adventure an seems I have a bunch of reading to do...never a dull moment Best Regards, Scott ford www.identityforge.com from my IPAD 'Infinite wisdom through infinite means' On Aug 27,

Re: REXX and CLISTs to generate code to delete empty GDG bases

2013-08-27 Thread Ravi Gaur
Do you mean which are not having any associated GDS? or mean they not using any Space ? or they have status of Rolled off? if rolled off I did code CSI interface which work on filter and give you list of datasets which in that status pretty fast and nice way of working with catalogs..let me