Re: VSAM file as GDS

2017-06-21 Thread Wayne Bickerdike
Just take off the LIKE parameter. The GDG should have a model DSCB. Why make things so hard? On Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 12:03 PM, Steve Beaver wrote: > Was it done in the same job? > > Steve > > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List

Re: VSAM file as GDS

2017-06-21 Thread Steve Beaver
Was it done in the same job? Steve -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Frank Swarbrick Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2017 4:11 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: VSAM file as GDS Developer did more testing and

Re: CSSMTP user exit and external email

2017-06-21 Thread Andrew Rowley
On 21/06/2017 10:52 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: Nice. I see: final String username = "smtp-username"; final String password = "smtp-password"; Rather than hard-coding, could these be extracted from RACF (or other?) database? Or kept in suitably protected user-specific files?

Re: EXTERNAL: Re: PDSE dataset rename issue

2017-06-21 Thread Jerry Whitteridge
We have a LNKPDSE0 member we execute in IEACMD00 that adds a new linklist name, adds the PDSE libraries to the linklist and activates the new name. All other tasks key through automation off of the success of that linklist name before starting additional tasks. (There are some IBM required

Re: PDSE dataset rename issue

2017-06-21 Thread Jesse 1 Robinson
I must have snoozed through this thread in 2005 because I have no recollection. I trust that no linklist PDSE is desperately required before the first 'add' command can be executed. Where do you put them and what do they look like? . . J.O.Skip Robinson Southern California Edison Company

Re: VSAM file as GDS

2017-06-21 Thread Frank Swarbrick
Developer did more testing and found that even though it successfully created generation 1 when an attempt was made to create an additional generation it failed. :-( IEF344I TESTREP STEP01 FILEOUT - ALLOCATION FAILED DUE TO DATA FACILITY SYSTEM ERROR IGD17101I DATA SET

Re: Store Clock Fast really can give duplicates

2017-06-21 Thread Gord Tomlin
On 2017-06-21 15:50, Tony Harminc wrote: Muphry's law? ^ Murphy's Law in action. Not this time, at least not yet. Muphry's is rather more specific than Murphy's. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muphry's_law [typing very carefully] Interesting...thanks! -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action

VSAM file as GDS

2017-06-21 Thread Frank Swarbrick
Learn something new every day. Another developer created a GDG (PROD.CONNDEF.PATM.BKP) and then a job step that has the following: //STEP02 EXEC PGM=IDCAMS,COND=(4,LT) //FILEIN DD DSN=PROD.ONLINE.CONNDEF.PATM, //DISP=SHR //FILEOUT DD DSN=PROD.CONNDEF.PATM.BKP(+1), //

Re: PL/I and C (was Re: Simple (?) C question)

2017-06-21 Thread Bernd Oppolzer
See below ... Am 21.06.2017 um 22:13 schrieb Frank Swarbrick: Interesting! Is this (1 and 2) actually addressed anywhere official that discusses PL/I and C ILC? One would hope so... I imagine that PL/I could simply call the C free() function itself, in any case. in fact, I don't know if

Re: PL/I and C (was Re: Simple (?) C question)

2017-06-21 Thread Frank Swarbrick
Interesting! Is this (1 and 2) actually addressed anywhere official that discusses PL/I and C ILC? One would hope so... I imagine that PL/I could simply call the C free() function itself, in any case. I'm not looking to make anything in particular work in PL/I, but rather thinking about how

Re: PL/I and C (was Re: Simple (?) C question)

2017-06-21 Thread Bernd Oppolzer
Hi Frank, 1.) yes, the C area acquired by malloc must be freed by someone 2.) unfortunately, the PL/1 FREE statement cannot do it, because, as I recently observed while checking some PL/1 modules for storage leaks, PL/1 stores its heap areas (allocated by PL/1 ALLOC / FREE) in the LE ANYWHERE

Re: Store Clock Fast really can give duplicates

2017-06-21 Thread Tony Harminc
On 21 June 2017 at 14:10, Gord Tomlin wrote: > On 2017-06-21 11:58, Tony Harminc wrote: >> >> Muphry's law? > > ^ Murphy's Law in action. Not this time, at least not yet. Muphry's is rather more specific than Murphy's. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muphry's_law

Re: EXTERNAL: Re: PDSE dataset rename issue

2017-06-21 Thread Jerry Whitteridge
This reminded me of why we do NOT allow PDSE in the IPL Linklist and add them dynamically after IPL Please look at https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/bit.listserv.ibm-main/zY1MefkB9po Where you will see mentioned: Until yesterday I didn't realize a PDSE LNKLST'd at IPL could not be

PL/I and C (was Re: Simple (?) C question)

2017-06-21 Thread Frank Swarbrick
I know we have some PL/I experts here, and I can't seem to subscribe to the PL/I listserv, so I'll ask here. I am not a PL/I programmer, but I've studied it to some degree. I believe the following is a valid PL/I program that would invoke the C language get_static_string() function (as well

Re: extract syslog data

2017-06-21 Thread Jesse 1 Robinson
I've used FILTER for years for panels like job display. I had no idea it worked for operlog. The entire mainframe staff here is blown away. Thanks! . . J.O.Skip Robinson Southern California Edison Company Electric Dragon Team Paddler SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager 323-715-0595 Mobile 626-543-6132

Re: Store Clock Fast really can give duplicates

2017-06-21 Thread PINION, RICHARD W.
No Muphry's was Murphy's younger brother, along with Darrel and his other brother Darrel. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Gord Tomlin Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2017 2:11 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re:

Re: Store Clock Fast really can give duplicates

2017-06-21 Thread Gord Tomlin
On 2017-06-21 11:58, Tony Harminc wrote: Muphry's law? ^ Murphy's Law in action. -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation) Tel: (905) 470-7113, Fax: (905) 470-6507 --

Re: ERBSCAN problem

2017-06-21 Thread J R
Its just that it was a temporary dataset allocated to SYSPRINT that got the B37 abend. > On Jun 21, 2017, at 12:05, Mark Pace wrote: > > I'm not sure how I would that, or how to point ERBSCAN to use that dataset. > >> On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 11:26 AM, J R

Re: Store Clock Fast really can give duplicates

2017-06-21 Thread Phil Smith
Tony Harminc wrote: >Or "trying to test STCKF and compare it to STCK"? Sigh, yes. ONE OF THOSE! (Thanks for catching that. Must be a Monday.) "220, 221, whatever it takes..." -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: ERBSCAN problem

2017-06-21 Thread Mark Pace
I used DDLIST and member to search for ERBSCAN and found it was a REXX exec and I was able to modify the temp file allocations. It works fine now. On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 12:05 PM, Mark Pace wrote: > I'm not sure how I would that, or how to point ERBSCAN to use that

Re: ERBSCAN problem

2017-06-21 Thread Mark Pace
I'm not sure how I would that, or how to point ERBSCAN to use that dataset. On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 11:26 AM, J R wrote: > Have you tried preallocating a large SYSPRINT dataset? > > > > > On Jun 21, 2017, at 11:05, Mark Pace wrote: > > > > I'm

Re: Store Clock Fast really can give duplicates

2017-06-21 Thread Tony Harminc
On 21 June 2017 at 11:20, Phil Smith wrote: > Of course I meant "trying to test STCKE and compare it to STCK". Or "trying to test STCKF and compare it to STCK"? Muphry's law? (No, I did *not* mean...) Tony H.

Orphan control blocks

2017-06-21 Thread John Ganci
Resend: My original reply had subject line "Re: Orphan control blocks". Resending with original subject line. Sorry about that. This *may* be the classical problem described in Principles of Operation, SA22-7832-10. Look at the description of COMPARE AND SWAP and COMPARE DOUBLE AND SWAP

Re: ERBSCAN problem

2017-06-21 Thread J R
Have you tried preallocating a large SYSPRINT dataset? > On Jun 21, 2017, at 11:05, Mark Pace wrote: > > I'm trying to run an ERBSCAN against a really large SMF file. > > Please Wait... Copying to temporary VSAM dataset... > > Then after a minute. > > IEC030I

Re: Orphan control blocks

2017-06-21 Thread John Ganci
This *may* be the classical problem described in Principles of Operation, SA22-7832-10. Look at the description of COMPARE AND SWAP and COMPARE DOUBLE AND SWAP beginning on page 7-127. In particular, Note 4 in the Programming Notes on page 7-128 -- 7-129. Finally, Appendix A has sample code

Re: Store Clock Fast really can give duplicates

2017-06-21 Thread Phil Smith
Of course I meant "trying to test STCKE and compare it to STCK". -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

ERBSCAN problem

2017-06-21 Thread Mark Pace
I'm trying to run an ERBSCAN against a really large SMF file. Please Wait... Copying to temporary VSAM dataset... Then after a minute. IEC030I B37-04,IFG0554A,MARPACE,IKJACCNT,SYSPRINT,B420,TMPL05, SYS17172.T110243.RA000.MARPACE.R0116499 *** So my impression is that the Temporary dataset was

Re: extract syslog data

2017-06-21 Thread william janulin
Lizette, It is in JES2. I was able to print the selected time period using the PRINT to dataset option which allowed me to then FTP the log to IBM support. Thank you for responding. regards, Bill J. On Wednesday, June 21, 2017 10:19 AM, Lizette Koehler wrote:

Re: extract syslog data

2017-06-21 Thread Lizette Koehler
One other option. In SDSF is the FILTER function on the top menu. If you have specific messages or jobs or other you want rather than all lines in a particular time frame, you can use that to cut down on the amount of data. All is detailed in the TOC for SDSF. I find that when I am in a

Re: extract syslog data

2017-06-21 Thread Lizette Koehler
Where is your syslog located? If still in JES2 Spool, and you have SDSF, then the PRINT command in SDSF will work. This can print to a file or you can print to your TSO Session, the use XDC to print to a dataset of your choice If it is in an external dataset, you have the following options

Re: extract syslog data

2017-06-21 Thread william janulin
Thank you for the response. Yes, the SDSF print function works very nice. It prvides a panel where you can enter a date and time rangeperfect! Regards, Bill J. On Wednesday, June 21, 2017 10:03 AM, Elardus Engelbrecht wrote: william janulin wrote:

extract syslog data com169.856.612

2017-06-21 Thread Bavo Devogeleer
Dear, you can use idcams to extract some lines from syslog file //DUMPS1 EXEC PGM=IDCAMS,REGION=4000K //SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=X //IND DD DISP=SHR, // DSN= YOUR INPUT

Re: extract syslog data

2017-06-21 Thread Elardus Engelbrecht
william janulin wrote: >  Does anyone know of a utility that can be used to extract zOS syslog data >for a specific date and time period or which manual I cold find the info? If your SYSLOG for a specific date/time is still kept in JES SPOOL, you can use SDSF Print function. > I am hoping I

extract syslog data

2017-06-21 Thread william janulin
To list;   Does anyone know of a utility that can be used to extract zOS syslog data for a specificdate and time period or which manual I cold find the info? I am hoping I will not have to use cut & paste to get the informationneeded for a PMR I have open. Thank you in advance, Bill J.

Re: IBM customer anchor

2017-06-21 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Wed, 21 Jun 2017 08:36:17 -0400, Peter Relson wrote: >>one problem we kept running into was that not everyone >>registered their use with IBM and apparently we had some >>people's favorite offset number, so occasionally we >>would have people step on us. > >If you have any detailed

Re: CSSMTP user exit and external email

2017-06-21 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Wed, 21 Jun 2017 21:50:47 +1000, Andrew Rowley wrote: > >I have written up a sample Java program to send email from z/OS via >Gmail here: >https://www.blackhillsoftware.com/news/2017/06/21/sending-email-from-zos-using-java/ > >Java on z/OS is a giant leap forward in ease of doing things - when

Re: Estae and the Linkage Stack

2017-06-21 Thread Peter Relson
ESTAE is not associated with the "task"; it is more granular than that. It is associated with an RB and a linkage stack level. When the RB ends, any ESTAE associated with the RB is removed by the system. When the linkage stack level with which the ESTAE is associated "goes away", any ESTAE

Re: IBM customer anchor

2017-06-21 Thread Peter Relson
>one problem we kept running into was that not everyone >registered their use with IBM and apparently we had some >people's favorite offset number, so occasionally we >would have people step on us. If you have any detailed information on this (such as anything that might identify the

Re: CSSMTP user exit and external email

2017-06-21 Thread Jousma, David
Andrew, thank-you very much for taking the time to put up the sample. Dave _ Dave Jousma Manager Mainframe Engineering, Assistant Vice President david.jou...@53.com 1830 East Paris, Grand Rapids, MI  49546 MD RSCB2H p

Re: CSSMTP user exit and external email

2017-06-21 Thread Andrew Rowley
On 20/06/2017 09:30 PM, Jousma, David wrote: Sounds interesting. Where would I learn more about this? I have written up a sample Java program to send email from z/OS via Gmail here: https://www.blackhillsoftware.com/news/2017/06/21/sending-email-from-zos-using-java/ Java on z/OS is a giant

Does VCs still invest in legacy technology?

2017-06-21 Thread ITschak Mugzach
I wonder if this industry still attract venture capital (or private equity) and whether there are vcs expertise in legacy texhnology inveatments. ITachak -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send