retired mainframer wrote:
:: As far as I know RACF provides sufficient granularity to define access
controlled resources for these purposes, so I think it'd work well.
:: Via access using program modules, yes.
The last time it was discussed on RACF-L, there was no RACF processing at the
member
I have attempted to set a storage alteration PER trap. I was interested in
several 4 byte areas distributed across maybe 2 pages. My intention was to
disable SA monitoring for everything except those 4 byte areas, similar to the
way it is described for IF traps:
SL
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:: Behalf Of Micheal Butz
:: Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2014 6:50 PM
:: To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
:: Subject: Allocating file in Rex exec
::
:: Hi
::
:: I am allocating a dataset in a Rex
W dniu 2014-03-26 04:54, Ed Gould pisze:
On Mar 25, 2014, at 5:55 PM, Joel C. Ewing wrote:
On 03/25/2014 04:50 PM, R.S. wrote:
W dniu 2014-03-25 21:41, Ed Gould pisze:
I have friends who bought a new PC and it came with windows 8. They
went out and bought a license for XP and installed XP.
On Wed, 26 Mar 2014 00:30:31 -0700, retired mainframer wrote:
::
:: I am allocating a dataset in a Rex exec using the following syntax
::
:: Alloc fi(myddnam) da('my.pds.name(member)') shr
::
:: I get an error routine not found
Does your exec issue the ADDRESS TSO instruction?
Hmmm...
o If
On Wed, 26 Mar 2014 13:22:39 +0800, David Crayford wrote:
Oops! I did a Shmuel; I followed up without reading ahead to see that
I was largely repeating your answer.
Shame on you :^)
Damn I love this list sometimes.
Shane ...
Interesting: JFCB appears in its entirety in SMF 14 and 15: I extract
things like member name from it in my code.
I'm wondering how to get the LBI Blksize from SMF 14 / 15. Maybe I can't.
If I figure it out I'll try to write it up (or point to any existing write
up).
Cheers, Martin
Martin
Micheal Butz wrote:
I am allocating a dataset in a Rex exec using the following syntax
Rex, uhhmmm, sorry, Michael, it is REXX, not Rex. :-)
Alloc fi(myddnam) da('my.pds.name(member)') shr
Is thus litteraly so (copy/paste intact) or did you redacted the actual dataset
and member name?
I
Hi Martin,
SMF14LBS has the LBI BLKSIZE in SMF14/15.
Best Regards,
Yifat Oren
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Behalf Of Martin Packer
Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2014 10:19 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: JFCB LBI
Radoslaw Skorupka wrote:
And the relationship to the IBM-MAIN topic is ?
and
Relationship to mainframes?
My opinion: Some z/OS systems are blocked to access IBM sites for PTFs, etc.
WinXP placed between outside internet and z/OS can then be used to do transfers
or browsing IBM websites
W dniu 2014-03-26 10:01, Elardus Engelbrecht pisze:
Radoslaw Skorupka wrote:
And the relationship to the IBM-MAIN topic is ?
and
Relationship to mainframes?
My opinion: Some z/OS systems are blocked to access IBM sites for PTFs, etc.
WinXP placed between outside internet and z/OS can then
Thanks Yifat! That should be particularly easy to extract.
Cheers, Martin
Martin Packer,
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Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM
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email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com
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Blog:
Radoslaw Skorupka wrote:
I know people (including my humble person) using Win 9x far after it was out
of support. Some of them used the PC to connect to mainframe. So? I just
dropped my 3174's - they had no support contract for 10+ years. I have/had
some equipment or software which doesn't
Barbara Nitz wrote:
I have attempted to set a storage alteration PER trap. I was interested in
several 4 byte areas distributed across maybe 2 pages. My intention was to
disable SA monitoring for everything except those 4 byte areas, similar to the
way it is described for IF traps:
On what
In 9607598388776077.wa.paulgboulderaim@listserv.ua.edu, on
03/25/2014
at 11:46 AM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com said:
A single TCP/IP stack can communicate with itself.
You're still evading the question, although I'm not sure what you mean
by communicate in this context[1], or why
In s4p2j9dgh6f8nhqc0vdjfhc2biva2rk...@4ax.com, on 03/25/2014
at 01:13 PM, Binyamin Dissen bdis...@dissensoftware.com said:
Did not realize he was close to O100 years old
I thought that retirement age was '41'x years old.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position;
Goodby WinXT, hello Linux!
Too bad IBM dumped OS/2.
Gary
Gary L. Shiminsky
Senior zVM/zVSE Systems Programmer
Mainframe Technical Support Group
Department of Information Technology
State of New Hampshire
27 Hazen Drive
Concord, NH 03301
603-271-1509 Fax 603-271-1516
Statement of
How much cross-platform C code do you do? With Metal C, it is possible to use
cross-platform code in z/OS environments that do not allow LE.
In my opinion Metal C is VERY useful.
Lloyd
From: Gord Tomlin gt.ibm.li...@actionsoftware.com
To:
Since the SMF Type 42 record was enhanced to include PDS member info, maybe
that might be helpful?
Or maybe a product like SOFTAUDT (or whatever it is called today) might help.
I am a little fuzzy on fonts and whether or not the member is actually
touched to generate either a TYPE42 or other
On Tue, 25 Mar 2014 18:39:55 -0400, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote:
In 9607598388776077.wa.paulgboulderaim@listserv.ua.edu, on
03/25/2014
at 11:46 AM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com said:
A single TCP/IP stack can communicate with itself.
You're still evading the question, although
On what z/OS version?
1.13.
As documented in MVS System Commands (v1.12):
RANGE is not valid for error event traps. RANGE cannot be specified on an
ACTION=IGNORE storage alteration PER trap.
I believe this could be the reason for IEE739I.
Since this was a PER trap, not an error event trap,
Barbara Nitz wrote:
Since this was a PER trap, not an error event trap, I didn't worry. I have
overlooked the second part, though. So what I wanted to do (only monitoring
certain words in a 2 page area) is really not supported. Pity.
Pity, yes.
Thanks for finding the reference, though. I had
I don't have access to VPS documentation, so I don't know if VPS offers
a suitable exit.
With PSF, I'd try with a Ressource Management exit (exit 7) which can
ask to receive control when fonts are loaded. The exit would then write
information about fonts being used to a data set which can be
On Tue, 25 Mar 2014 07:25:35 -0400, Richards, Robert B.
robert.richa...@opm.gov wrote:
Hank,
Thanks for the heads up about Doug. I still use his tools on a daily basis.
Tools such as ISRFIND, ISRDDN, and TASID to name a few.
Thank you, Doug, for your contribution to ISPF's usefulness and my
Paul Gilmartin said:
Someone else suggested that with a /*ROUTE command it could
be done. But:
o Regardless how simple, this is modifying the JCL, probably
making it ineligible to run on other systems until it's changed
back
o Does this work by routing the job to an (arbitrarily chosen)
On Tue, 2014-03-25 at 19:51 -0300, Clark Morris wrote:
Is there a follow-on software [to the DS6800 SMC] or a version
supported on Linux? If not, I suspect that there should be customer
requirement that the software needed for use of the DS6800s must run
on supported operating systems.
Since
Micheal:
As I have mentioned and others , please provide us the actual source structure
of rexx. Its hard to help just seeing a line.
Plus your syntax is wrong …
Regards,
Scott Ford
www.identityforge.com
www.idmworks.com
From: Micheal Butz
Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2014
This is because you used the dsname as a variable. Remove the qoutes around
the dsname and live the single ones.
It should read ad alloc f(X) DA('DSNAME') ... not '
Itschak
בתאריך 26 במרץ 2014 03:50, Micheal Butz michealb...@optonline.net כתב:
Hi
I am allocating a dataset in a Rex exec using
On Mar 26, 2014, at 2:32 AM, R.S. wrote:
Now you are rude type.
Oh, what was your point about WIn XP?
What was the value added for the group?
Relationship to mainframes?
rhetorical Are you able to explain it?
About as much as your entry does.
Ed
--
Radoslaw Skorupka
Lodz, Poland
Rex,
I am running mine on a virtual server running Server 2008 Standard SP2. The
one time I opened a software call on this, IBM immediately told me I was
running an unsupported configuration. They helped me with my problem, but
griped the entire time.
I would not look for IBM to update the
It is common in the PC world for software to be offered for a 30-day trial
that works automatically. You download the software, install it, and it
somehow knows when it was installed and quits 30 days later unless
purchased. Typically, it knows by hiding some magic file or registry entry
somewhere
I just happen to be installing a SAS upgrade as I am writing.
A (90 day) temp key is provided (with the distribution - no request needed) to
support the installation (SAS used to install SAS).
On/before the end of that period a regular perm key must be installed.
snip
Has anyone ever seen
I highly recommend editing/viewing a Rexx with Hilite On 1 (Automatic) or
14 (Rexx). In this mode, literals are one color (in my case white) and
variables a different color (in my case green). I had a very similar
problem yesterday making a pesky update to a Rexx. Coloring showed me the
error
Charles Mills wrote:
It is common in the PC world for software to be offered for a 30-day trial
that works automatically. You download the software, install it, and it
somehow knows when it was installed and quits 30 days later unless
purchased. Typically, it knows by hiding some magic file or
The CICS Betas released over the last few releases (I believe betas
were/are available for 4.2, 5.1 5.2) have built in expiry dates. IBM
states that the betas Contain a disabling device that will prevent it
from being used after the test period ends.
David,
I agree - this would be GREAT. I've asked IBM about this and I think that
at the time they said that it was a known requirement. Will be asking
again next week. In the meantime, I would suggest that all interested
submit your requirements.
What we do (a lot) is to write XPLINK
On 14Mar26:1105-0500, Dan Skomsky wrote:
A little OS/2 experience with IBM Marketing... Back in '94-'95 we spent
over $500K to port a major Public Safety system from CICS MVS to CICS OS/2.
The port was very successful. But, when we went into a major presentation
to demonstrate our offering,
I was at SHARE a long time ago when Pat Artis slide into a chair next to me and
said I just went to the Windows vs OS/2 Shootout. It was a bloodbath.
Expecting the worst I asked what happened. Pat said Microsoft brought eight
people to the demo and IBM brought one. OS/2 blew the doors off
Right. Good input. Thanks. I have shipped software with a hard-coded
expiration date. What I am looking for is a floating expiration date that
would be 30 days after installation, whether installed today or a year from
today.
Charles
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On 26 March 2014 12:20, Charles Mills charl...@mcn.org wrote:
Right. Good input. Thanks. I have shipped software with a hard-coded
expiration date. What I am looking for is a floating expiration date that
would be 30 days after installation, whether installed today or a year from
today.
It
On Tue, 25 Mar 2014 19:02:04 -0500, Bill Godfrey wrote:
You did see that it is in the Z/OS 2.1 PDF that I mentioned, right? 380th
page, page 354.
http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/download/DGT3D500.pdf
I found a nice example, more suited to my need, in Using Data Sets:
Many developers who had used OS/2 offered to rewrite any non-IBM code that
was in OS/2 so IBM could at least release it as open source.
IBM declined.
As we all know IBM has been very good at shooting itself in the foot over
the years (multiple times).
There is one vendor that still sells OS/2
While the DS6800 has been withdrawn from marketing, it has not reached end
of support. Consequently, I am pretty confident IBM will continue to
respond to support issues for the entire system, including the SMC, as long
as it is their installation. If you install a non-IBM disk drive, I don't
URL recently showed up in (ibm employee) linkedin group
http://www.ibm.com/annualreport/2013/strategy.html
The IBM Strategy: Waer remaining a new future for our clients, our
industry and our company. This is how.
01: We are making markets by transforming indusries and professions with
data
02:
On 14Mar26:1700+, Shiminsky, Gary wrote:
Many developers who had used OS/2 offered to rewrite any non-IBM code that
was in OS/2 so IBM could at least release it as open source.
IBM declined.
Without knowledge of the Ts and Cs in the pertinent contracts
between Microsoft and IBM
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU]
On Behalf Of Steve Conway
Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2014 6:06 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: Reflexivity (was: NJE Clarifications)
Paul Gilmartin said:
Someone else suggested
quote
any site that has the SMC connected to an external network
might want to reevaluate that
/quote
Therein lies the rub. At my site, the dictate has come down from on high (and
not completely without merit) that any PC on the network needs to be supported.
The SMC needs to be on the
IBM has a strategy? Wow, that's a huge leap forward from what we've seen in
recent years!
(Yes, I'm being snide/unfair/whatever, no need to point that out)
On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 1:29 PM, Anne Lynn Wheeler l...@garlic.comwrote:
URL recently showed up in (ibm employee) linkedin group
-Original Message-
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Skip Robinson
RIP Betamax. Turns out that Ralph Waldo Emerson (had to look that up) was
wrong about mousetraps and
the power of innovation. Or, as I often quote Leonard Woren, if you build a
better mouse trap,
A job can routed for execution to another NJE node by JES command. If
there happens to a SYSAFF card, the job might not run until the SYSAFF
name is changed or nullified, but JES commands allow a job or its output
to be sent anywhere in the network by operator command.
.
.
J.O.Skip Robinson
On Wed, 26 Mar 2014 11:42:42 -0500, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
On Tue, 25 Mar 2014 19:02:04 -0500, Bill Godfrey wrote:
You did see that it is in the Z/OS 2.1 PDF that I mentioned, right? 380th
page, page 354.
http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/download/DGT3D500.pdf
I found a
That is true, but it is still a second action required after the JCL is
submitted. Issuing the command requires use of a different interface (SDSF or
(E)JES).
I probably should have known better than to interject in a Shmuel/Gil
discussion. :)
-Original Message-
From: IBM Mainframe
PSF reports all resource usage for a job with the AFPSTATS report, including
number of references, member and library name, but, of course, only for files
that PSF processes.
If VPS is processing AFP print files (produced by DCF or files using a PAGEDEF
or FORMDEF) and driving AFP (IPDS)
David Crayford wrote:
On 26/03/2014 4:32 AM, Tony Harminc wrote:
On 25 March 2014 16:16, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com wrote:
Wouldn't it be nice if all the header files were trilingual?
Assembler/PLS/Metal C? It'll take a while.
Ugh, please. :-( There's nothing wrong with Metal C
Haven't seen anything. Possibilities would be a date in the program
and if past that date the program stops. Site would need to keep
updating the download to reflect a later date. Or detect the create
date of the library the program is installed in, or save the install
date into a member,
Skip Robinson is of course quite right. A job can be sent to any NJE
node for execution by operator command, and operator commands can of
course be generated.
There are, however, simpler solutions. JCL that differs
parametrically from one instance to another of its use is easy, very
easy, to
W dniu 2014-03-26 19:04, Pommier, Rex pisze:
quote
any site that has the SMC connected to an external network
might want to reevaluate that
/quote
Therein lies the rub. At my site, the dictate has come down from on high (and not
completely without merit) that any PC on the network needs to be
W dniu 2014-03-26 16:36, Charles Mills pisze:
[...]
Has anyone ever seen mainframe software that automatically expired 30 days
after installation? If so, any rough idea how that worked? (Presumably, not
a magic hidden file LOL.)
Yes. How does it work? It depends, I've seen various methods. One
IBM: We make mistakes so you don't have too!
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From: zMan
Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2014 14:58
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Reply To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List
Subject: Re: The IBM Strategy
IBM has a strategy? Wow, that's a huge leap forward from what we've seen
thats reminds me the tails about the M(onk)frammer who sold his
f(errari)acility... He should have done that years ago.
On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 10:22 PM, Ted MacNEIL eamacn...@yahoo.ca wrote:
IBM: We make mistakes so you don't have too!
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Original Message
From: zMan
Sent:
I guess I should have made myself more clear. I am running a job and in that
job I want to get the block size for the dataset associated with one of the DDs
in the step that is currently running. I 'stole' COBOL a program which
PSA--TCB--TIOT. It then searches for my DD establishes
I once did this with a VSE software product. However, when I created the
z/OS version of that product I decided the advantage of the automatic trial
period was just not worth the risk in an MVS environment.
There are easy enough ways to determine when something has been installed
for a period of
On Mar 26, 2014, at 10:36 AM, Charles Mills wrote:
Has anyone ever seen mainframe software that automatically
expired 30 days
after installation? If so, any rough idea how that worked?
(Presumably, not
a magic hidden file LOL.)
Charles:
I have. Its *USUALLY* hidden in the key . Its
Meaningless nonsense buzzwords.
From: Anne Lynn Wheeler l...@garlic.com
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2014 11:29 AM
Subject: The IBM Strategy
URL recently showed up in (ibm employee) linkedin group
On 27/03/2014 2:36, Charles Mills wrote:
On the mainframe side, I don't think I've ever seen an automatic 30-day
trial, largely because magic hidden files are of course greatly frowned
upon in this space. Mainframe 30-day trials in my experience require vendor
administration to generate some
The Sterling Software division I worked for did this, on VM, not MVS. The CPUID
file was very robust, had in it:
- Soft expiration (start warning)
- Expiration (warn loudly)
- Hard expiration (stop working)
The file could contain keys for multiple CPUs, so you
I configure 4 IBM ESS F20 from a Win NT SP6 isolated PC.
On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 3:03 PM, R.S. r.skoru...@bremultibank.com.pl wrote:
W dniu 2014-03-26 19:04, Pommier, Rex pisze:
quote
any site that has the SMC connected to an external network
might want to reevaluate that
/quote
Therein
Frank Swarbrick wrote:
| Meaningless nonsense buzzwords.
and it is easy to sympathize with his reaction; but he is wrong, dead
wrong. IBM has, for example, made a large substantive and financial
commitment to the cloud.
Rhetorical conventions differ from one context to another, and in the
In 4657009561737029.wa.paulgboulderaim@listserv.ua.edu, on
03/26/2014
at 07:00 AM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com said:
OK. An FTP server can't communicate with itself. I never said it
could. I don't know why you're asking.
Because that's the TCP/IP analog to NJE talking to itself.
In 3653742774909972.wa.paulgboulderaim@listserv.ua.edu, on
03/25/2014
at 06:03 PM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com said:
Actually, I can. That's an implementation technique. Suppose a
Requirement for trilingual macros were to be submitted to IBM.
They'd reject it.
It's my
In 219796.7982...@smtp110.mail.ne1.yahoo.com, on 03/26/2014
at 02:09 PM, Scott Ford scott_j_f...@yahoo.com said:
Alloc fi(myddnam) da('my.pds.name(member)') shr
I get an error routine not found
That a sjorthand equivalent to
Alloc fi(myddnam) da(' || my.pds.name(member) || ') shr
The
In
3253568952062076.wa.elardus.engelbrechtsita.co...@listserv.ua.edu,
on 03/26/2014
at 10:55 AM, Elardus Engelbrecht elardus.engelbre...@sita.co.za
said:
They're also called 'nagware'. They're nagging constantly,
Those are the ones that I decide not to buy.
interrupting your work,
The
In 0de6a9840123e547b061ac5b6765c026dda...@exmb-05.ad.wsu.edu, on
03/26/2014
at 06:03 PM, Gibney, Dave gib...@wsu.edu said:
I think that some of this is a real difference between the way the
two protocols work.
Not that I can see.
I think that some of this is a real difference between the way
On Mar 26, 2014, at 6:44 PM, Andrew Rowley wrote:
On 27/03/2014 2:36, Charles Mills wrote:
On the mainframe side, I don't think I've ever seen an automatic
30-day
trial, largely because magic hidden files are of course greatly
frowned
upon in this space. Mainframe 30-day trials in my
On 27/03/2014 12:20 AM, Kirk Wolf wrote:
David,
I agree - this would be GREAT. I've asked IBM about this and I think that
at the time they said that it was a known requirement. Will be asking
again next week. In the meantime, I would suggest that all interested
submit your requirements.
On 27/03/2014 14:40, Ed Gould wrote:
This is not quite the same but something remotely similar.
A LONG time ago (GT 40) years a vendor who thought he as clever needed
to store a jobname in low memory.
That's why I specified using standard, documented interfaces. It might
be as simple as
On 3/26/2014 9:20 AM, Charles Mills wrote:
Right. Good input. Thanks. I have shipped software with a hard-coded
expiration date. What I am looking for is a floating expiration date that
would be 30 days after installation, whether installed today or a year from
today.
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