I'm just curious whether anybody out there has MVS Quick Reference from
Chicago Soft installed.
At my former assignment we had it and used it extensively. MVSQR is much
more powerful than Lookat and it provides a comfortable UI.
Note: I'm not affiliated with that company, just a user.
Arthur
We do a flash drive, but probably not enough capacity for all the
manuals you want.
On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 11:30 PM, Elardus Engelbrecht
wrote:
> Mike Schwab wrote:
>
>>Maybe a copy on an external disk drive?
>
> Good idea, now I have pondering on it, I'll have a nice discussion with my
> DRP t
Mike Schwab wrote:
>Maybe a copy on an external disk drive?
Good idea, now I have pondering on it, I'll have a nice discussion with my DRP
team so we can replace DVDs with external hard drives.
Just with the envelopes containing details of the special ids, I could arrange
that instead of CD /
A few questions.
1) When did you last successfully use this process?
2) Have you downloaded a new version of the CPP functions and libraries?
3) Did you change anything in ISPF that you use to execute this process?
4) Did you see that the CPPE628M talks about the load library? Where do
you ha
Hi gil.
> Making gcc a prerequisite might be onerous.
I think "any C compiler, including the freely available
one - gccmvs, is a prerequisite" is not onerous.
> And to my knowledge all z/OS ports of gcc are biased
> toward legacy data sets and against UNIX files, which
> I regard as a flaw.
I
I would be talking with IBM ...
Scott ford
www.identityforge.com
from my IPAD
'Infinite wisdom through infinite means'
> On Dec 11, 2013, at 10:39 PM, venkat kulkarni
> wrote:
>
> I did it and in message book I found
> CPPCSAMP is not able to find the library where the LMODs are located. But
Hi ZA.
This concept of "C is not available in many many shops"
is the exact reason I spent a large chunk of my life
porting GCC to MVS (gccmvs). I considered the lack of
a universal language for computers to be a serious
flaw in the computer industry. With the advent of
GCCMVS, C is now either bun
I did it and in message book I found
CPPCSAMP is not able to find the library where the LMODs are located. But
not sure why . I have not changed anything in this setup.
On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 8:39 AM, Scott Ford wrote:
> I guess you didn't Google it ...I did and found it ..
>
> z/os CPPE628M
>
I guess you didn't Google it ...I did and found it ..
z/os CPPE628M
There is a message book with the message ...
Scott ford
www.identityforge.com
from my IPAD
'Infinite wisdom through infinite means'
> On Dec 11, 2013, at 10:01 PM, venkat kulkarni
> wrote:
>
> Any Other clue on this issue.
Any Other clue on this issue.
On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 9:55 PM, venkat kulkarni wrote:
> SCPPCENU dataset allocated to SYSPROC DD in ISPF.
>
>
>
> On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 8:12 PM, Dennis Trojak <
> dennis.tro...@radioshack.com> wrote:
>
>> Are the SCPP* datasets allocated to your ISPF session?
On 11 Dec 2013 17:27:51 -0800, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote:
>On 13Dec11:1831-0500, Scott Ford wrote:
>
>> Amen on that one David. I am in that swamp right
>> now with a single thread legacy beast in Cobol..
>
>Imagine you're watching The Big Bang Theory or The IT
>Crowd and during a commerc
On Tue, 10 Dec 2013 09:34:47 +0800, Ricky wrote:
>
>I tried to use
>
>quote site encoding=m
>quote site mbdataconn=(IBM-936,UTF-8)
>
>but got error msg that error occured while DBCS converting.
>
>How to solve this problem? Also failed from IBM-936 to IBM-1388. But
>they all OK if I use iconv in US
On 13Dec11:1831-0500, Scott Ford wrote:
> Amen on that one David. I am in that swamp right
> now with a single thread legacy beast in Cobol..
Imagine you're watching The Big Bang Theory or The IT
Crowd and during a commercial you're not really paying
attention to you hear, "Is writing a COBOL pro
Sorry. Not sure of the timing of the various changes and tests. JCL may have
been changed to 100,100 before the dump below. SB37 was due to 16 extents I
think. Thanks for your input. The problem seems to be possibly solved.
Charles
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I got this error:
451-File transfer failed. Multi-byte data conversion error occurred
451 Transfer aborted due to file error. File is catalogued.
File encoding is IBM-936
What error message(s) is/are you getting, specifically?
Mitch McCluhan
-Original Message-
From: rickywu1...@gmai
Your DSCB is inconsistent with the job you provided. The first extent is
for 93 tracks. The second is for 31 and the third is for 30. The secondary
quantity in the DSCB is 100 tracks. This was not created by JCL specifying
TRK,(10,10). Who/what really built the dataset?
Are there 100 contiguo
Charles,
Glad you got it solved..R.S. I am the middle of a z/OS C learning curve
Scott ford
www.identityforge.com
from my IPAD
'Infinite wisdom through infinite means'
> On Dec 11, 2013, at 5:11 PM, "R.S." wrote:
>
> W dniu 2013-12-11 22:11, Charles Mills pisze:
>> Okay, we may be on the rig
Amen on that one David. I am in that swamp right now with a single thread
legacy beast in Cobol..
Scott ford
www.identityforge.com
from my IPAD
'Infinite wisdom through infinite means'
> On Dec 11, 2013, at 4:06 PM, "David L. Craig" wrote:
>
>> On 13Dec11:1225-0800, Ed Jaffe wrote:
>>
>> Wh
W dniu 2013-12-11 22:11, Charles Mills pisze:
Okay, we may be on the right track here. After one SMF switch we have a 100
track extent, 1% used.
FWIW IFASMFDP has forced the DCB to RECFM=VBS,LRECL=32767,BLKSIZE=27998.
12 records, all but the first and last Type 89. I think we may have this
solv
Okay, we may be on the right track here. After one SMF switch we have a 100
track extent, 1% used.
FWIW IFASMFDP has forced the DCB to RECFM=VBS,LRECL=32767,BLKSIZE=27998.
12 records, all but the first and last Type 89. I think we may have this
solved.
Thank you all for your help. As I said, sor
On 13Dec11:1225-0800, Ed Jaffe wrote:
> Why would *anyone* want to run traditional CICS COBOL in the
> restricted environment of an SRB? The TCB environment is so much
> more robust!
>
> If the SRB is an Enclave SRB enabled for redirection to zIIP, then
> IMHO such use of the "zIIP enablement AP
I have to agree with Ed, why would anyone want to run COBOL under an SRB?
First of all, I don't see how using an SRB solves anything having to do with
program sharing.
Secondly, the risks. An SRB gets control in key zero and supervisor state and,
unless you wrap the COBOL in an assembler l
On 12/1/2013 2:20 PM, esst...@juno.com wrote:
I recently had a dispute with Management reagrding the uses of sceduling COBOL
BATCH under an SRB.
Thats Right a Batch COBOL Prpogram runing Under an SRB, moreover under CICS
Transaction Server. A Software Vendor
believes they can solve a program sh
>Wayne Bickerdike wrote
>To Peter Vander Woude
>Did you watch the video? If so you missed the display at 2:24 which clearly
>shows ADCDMST and SYS1 group access.
>In this case, I would wager with you that this is an ADCD system and the
>video maker set it all up.
>Yes I agree with your ramble b
I don't claim to know everything. That is why I asked.
I am hoping that a GDG is overkill. This is not production archives. This is
developer test data.
Charles
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On
Behalf Of Wayne Bickerdike
Sent: We
What? You release the space that you need?
Use a GDG for each run and concatenate all GDG's to get entire collection.
You can use RLSE in that situation.
SMFOUT DD DSN=SMFGDG(+1)
On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 6:02 AM, Charles Mills wrote:
> Yes, that is intentional. I am trying to build several
Thanks for all the suggestions. Deleting the current dataset and going with
//DUMP1 EXEC PGM=IFASMFDP,REGION=1M
//INDD1DD DSN=&MAN,DISP=SHR
//DUMPOUT DD DSN=xx.SMFDATA,DISP=(MOD,CATLG),
// SPACE=(TRK,(100,100)),
Did you take off MOD and RLSE?
You already have the answer...
On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 6:00 AM, Charles Mills wrote:
> Replies in-line.
>
> Charles
>
> -Original Message-
> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On
> Behalf Of retired mainframer
> Sent: W
Yes, that is intentional. I am trying to build several days or weeks' worth
of 89's.
Charles
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On
Behalf Of Ed Gould
Sent: Tuesday, December 10, 2013 9:33 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: SM
To Peter Vander Woude:
Did you watch the video? If so you missed the display at 2:24 which clearly
shows ADCDMST and SYS1 group access.
In this case, I would wager with you that this is an ADCD system and the
video maker set it all up.
Yes I agree with your ramble but I'm glad you aren't an eye
Replies in-line.
Charles
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Behalf Of retired mainframer
Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2013 8:04 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: SMF DUMP SB37 - what am I doing wrong?
Since your extent
I've never used Lookat as I've always found it very fast and easy to access
BookManager on the mainframe using the SimpList interface. For example, let's
say I'm in the middle of writing a DB2/COBOL program and I want to know the
syntax for INSPECT. In this case I'd type the following on the com
Interesting... we had an in house product called DADS 40++ years ago.
Wonder if they stole that.
Ed
On Dec 11, 2013, at 10:45 AM, Mingee, David wrote:
Has anyone heard that CA is dropping support or sales for CA
Product DADS Plus for CICS?
I called CA to inquire and have not received a res
John:
This discussion has been interesting...
WAY back in the 70's we did the opposite that is to increase the
number of devices that could could be varied on/off at one time. Our
SE did it within a STC called $DC.
Our ops were OK but were changed when in came to # of devices.
We had 2 syst
We use automation to intercept the vary command and do some sanity checks -
doesn't help if you fat finger inside of those checks though.
Jerry Whitteridge
Lead Systems Programmer
Safeway Inc.
925 951 4184
If you feel in control
you just aren't going fast enough.
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Fro
Has anyone heard that CA is dropping support or sales for CA Product DADS Plus
for CICS?
I called CA to inquire and have not received a response.
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Maybe a copy on an external disk drive?
On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 8:46 AM, Elardus Engelbrecht
wrote:
> Hunkeler, Peter wrote:
>
>>There is the strong yet wrong believe the internet has become so fast that
>>instead of returning the tiny bit I'm looking for, it's an added value to
>>throw everyth
SCPPCENU dataset allocated to SYSPROC DD in ISPF.
On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 8:12 PM, Dennis Trojak wrote:
> Are the SCPP* datasets allocated to your ISPF session? CPPE628M resides in
> the SCPPCENU dataset.
>
> -Original Message-
> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LI
Since your extent count/total tracks are inconsistent your JCL, maybe you
should dump the DSCB and see what is really going on with your dataset. The
TSO LISTDS command with the LABEL option is one universally available
method.
What is the return code associated with the B37? It should be availa
I'm not sure where everyone saw the ADCDMST userid being used. When I viewed
the video, I saw the userid used, for the ftp, to be bt0, and that is set at
around the 30 second mark into the video.
I agree with many, who have participated in this discussion, that RACF can be
configured to reduce
On 12/11/2013 4:48 AM, Jim McAlpine wrote:
Is there any way to define an alias for a VTAM APPL definition. I would
like to be able to define a second name and point it to an existing
ACBNAME. I can't see anything in the FM, but I'm just double checking,
just in case I've missed something.
I d
Thanks but I am ordering it separately not with Z/OS. So I can install the tool
in the Z/OS SMPE ZONES.
Regards,
Chokalingam
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf
Of craig.p...@fotlinc.com
Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2013
It can be installed in the z/OS SMPE and if you order the Ported Tools
when ordering z/OS, it comes that way as well.
Thanks,
Craig
From: Chokalingam Thangavelu
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU,
Date: 12/11/2013 08:38
Subject:Re: Open SSH (SFTP)
Sent by:IBM Mainfram
Hunkeler, Peter wrote:
>There is the strong yet wrong believe the internet has become so fast that
>instead of returning the tiny bit I'm looking for, it's an added value to
>throw everything at me. Shudder! With the old BookMaster interface, it took me
>a few clicks returning few information e
Are the SCPP* datasets allocated to your ISPF session? CPPE628M resides in the
SCPPCENU dataset.
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf
Of venkat kulkarni
Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2013 6:34 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
S
Thanks for your reply.
I have another question.
Can OPEN SSH be installed into Z/OS SMPE Zones? Or need to setup separate SMPE
ZONE for this software?
Regards,
Chokalingam
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf
Of craig.p...@
Documentation on this one is very straight forward and walk you through
everything to do, including setting us your public and private keys. If
you are looking to perform SFTP transfers from z/OS Data sets and not just
Unix Systems Services, then I would also recommend that you look at Co:Z
fr
>
>love it
>
>sounds like another example of what in German is called a Schlimmbesserung:
>an improvement which makes things worse.
>welcome to the modern world: new, and certainly NOT "improved". why the hell
>can't "they" just leave things alone?
There is the strong yet wrong believe the int
Too much of this lately! Reference the IBMLINK outages.
love it
sounds like another example of what in German is called a Schlimmbesserung: an
improvement which makes things worse.
welcome to the modern world: new, and certainly NOT "improved". why the hell
can't "they" just leave things
I do not think I have ever set up and submitted a RECEIVE ORDER or if I have,
it was a while ago. Hence my lack of understanding.
This explains my confusion (other than a senior moment... Smile).
As usual, Kurt, thank you very much!
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There must be a program directory and post installation steps... You could
just follow up..
On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 7:06 PM, Chokalingam Thangavelu <
thangavelu.chokalin...@wipro.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We need SFTP to be installed and configured on mainframe. I have ordered
> the OPEN SSH from IB
Do you consider a RECEIVE FROMNETWORK the same as a RECEIVE ORDER?
I know something about why John is asking the question, so nope, not the
same thing. RECEIVE FROMNETWORK implies you used ShopzSeries to submit
the order, and then are using SMP/E RECEIVE FROMNETWORK to download it.
SMP/E RE
Hi,
We need SFTP to be installed and configured on mainframe. I have ordered the
OPEN SSH from IBM shopz series site.
Please help me with installation and configuration procedures if anyone
installed OPEN SSH (SFTP) on mainframe.
Regards,
Chokalingam
The information contained in this electron
Consider using the "Messages and Codes" bookshelf on the zOS Library page
until KC comes along. I've
tried to address its similarities to part some of what was in LookAt.
Sincerely,
Kevin Minerley
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Ah, notice I did *not* say InfoCenter, I said "shelf". We still build XKS
(eXtended) shelves
and since we use the BookManager Advanced Linguistic Search (ALS) to index the
PDFS on
those shelves, indeed, the search is "BookManager-like" as it has a related
BKIndex.
Sincerely,
Kevin Minerle
You guys got it.
SYSLIB on IEWL does not grasp member names. My guess is for EDCPRLK either.
So I did include on the primary input on both prelinker and linker. Cards SYSIN
for EDCPRLK and SYSLIN for IEWL. Also I dug this JCL way of concatenating DD
names. See JCL below:
//SSTP001N JOB DISIP,T
On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 12:03 AM, Pinnacle wrote:
> I fat fingered a VARY OFFLINE command and took out half our DASD farm. I
> thought z/OS had a switch or a throttle to limit the damage, but darned if
> I can find it. Any help gets you a beer at SCIDS.
>
> Regards,
> Tom Conley
>
We had somet
In article <6500226670897076.wa.henriqueseganfredo@listserv.ua.edu> you
wrote:
> Thanks for the feedback,
> I realized that my current z/OS (1.13) the prelinker has no SYSN2 card, but
> then I tried using the SYSLIB (secondary input) in this following ways:
> //SYSLIB DD DSNAME=SSOP.TZ13.
W dniu 2013-12-11 02:09, Charles Mills pisze:
This has to be less than sysprog 101 but I am obviously less than a sysprog.
Here is my SMF Dump proc:
//SMFDUMPS PROC MAN='SYS1.S0W1.MAN1'
//DUMP1 EXEC PGM=IFASMFDP,REGION=1M
//INDD1DD DSN=&MAN,DISP=SHR
//DUMPOUT DD DSN=xx.SMFDATA,DISP
Hello,
I am not able to access Serverpac panel and getting below error while
executing CPPCSAMP CLIST .
IKJ56584I CPPE628M NOT FOUND. REQUIRED DDNAME SYS00017 IS NOT ALLOCATED.
and then below error
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
. .
-
On Tue, 10 Dec 2013 13:26:08 -0600, Kevin Minerley wrote:
>We still keep the "Messages and Codes" extended shelf with ALS indexed PDFS
>current at the zOS Library site (at least until Knowledge Center comes along),
>so you can get a near BookManager-like search on the message books from the
>P
On Tue, 10 Dec 2013 15:00:24 -0600, Henrique Seganfredo
wrote:
>Yes, the message I posted is from the prelinker.
>
Then you need to tell the pre-linker how it can resolve these symbols. For
that, you need the corresponding IMPORT member. Add an INCLUDE statement for
that member to your input d
love it
sounds like another example of what in German is called a Schlimmbesserung: an
improvement which makes things worse.
welcome to the modern world: new, and certainly NOT "improved". why the hell
can't "they" just leave things alone?
/s/ tuco bonno;
Graduate, College of Conflict Manag
The oficial wording:
*LookAt is being sunset with the announcement of the new version of zOS.
You can continue to access older releases of messages at the website AS-IS.
Neither the site nor the content will continue to be updated. The
Information Centers are the current IBM tactical means to se
It certainly does.
thanks Juergen.
On 11 December 2013 10:12, Juergen Keller <
juergen.kel...@deutsche-boerse.com> wrote:
> Hello Jim,
> maybe Vtam USERVAR helps you:
> F NET,USERVAR,ID=alias,VALUE=appl
> regards
> Juergen
>
>
Hello Jim,
maybe Vtam USERVAR helps you:
F NET,USERVAR,ID=alias,VALUE=appl
regards
Juergen
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For the older releases, my extra! macro still works, and a little vbs script
like this will get there for z/OS 1.12. I suspect I will continue to look at
the back-level messages as long as I can
Option Explicit
Dim Result
result = InputBox("Message id", "", "")
Dim IE
Set IE = createobject("Inte
Is there any way to define an alias for a VTAM APPL definition. I would
like to be able to define a second name and point it to an existing
ACBNAME. I can't see anything in the FM, but I'm just double checking,
just in case I've missed something.
Jim McAlpine
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On 11/12/2013 1:45 PM, Ed Gould wrote:
David:
I am somewhat suspicious of a PDS library that is "normally looked" at
and specifying a member name for SYSLIB. ex:
DD DSNAME=SSOP.TZ13.GLD.SGLDEXPC(GLDCLDPX),DISP=SHR
Just does not sit with me right. It may be valid in a prelinker
situa
On Wed, 11 Dec 2013 01:03:29 -0500, Pinnacle wrote:
>I fat fingered a VARY OFFLINE command and took out half our DASD farm.
>I thought z/OS had a switch or a throttle to limit the damage, but
>darned if I can find it. Any help gets you a beer at SCIDS.
Mate, when we first went with 4 digit devic
The solutions to this that I have heard of are all varieties of automation
intercept/sanity check.
A quick reverse will save a interruption, but at least on my system, just
switching offline to online will result in more volumes online than I want.
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