Brian Westerman wrote:
>The ABC's of systems programming series are actually fairly good for something
>like refreshing your memory and showing how to now do things which may have
>changed in the past 10 years.
Agreed. Those bookies were good and I kept them somewhere in a folder to avoid
futu
If you change it to RECFM=U first, and restore the DCB attributes after restore.
Works with SMF data, so you aren't stripping the length descriptors.
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Brian Westerman
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OAM is pretty fast for SMS managed tape. For example, we have a client that
uses literally thousands of really small tapes per day (it's a long sordid
story as to why) with 512 virtual tape transports and an average of 156 in
constant use, averaging 3 to 5 mounts per second, there is less than
>I also have the timezone in the LE parameters member of PARMLIB. I.e.
CEEPRM00. LE has the concept of "environment variables" which is similar to
UNIX. So I set the TZ variable for LE as well. I'm not sure if this is
required or not.
Is it required? No. Is it useful? Absolutely! Without i
>What is important is the numeric part.
... and whether or not there is a text string *after* that numeric part. It is
the trigger to activate the automatic daylight saving time handling. No string,
no DST handling.
--
Peter Hunkeler
That sequence won't work, when you upload it the the PC the blocks will be
messed up. DFDSS (and FDR) both use special blocking that gets broken if you
don't handle it correctly.
If you need to go to the PC, then you should terse it or use AWStape as
previously offered. If you can go direct
On 23/04/2018 9:29 PM, Seymour J Metz wrote:
Isn't a class with no methods essentially a record type? Although that still
leaves the issue of reading and writing them.
Nope. There's no such thing as a Java class with no methods because all
classes are sub-classes of the Object root class [1]
On 23/04/2018 9:23 PM, Jerry Callen wrote:
C and C++ do NOT have garbage collection; memory management is controlled by
the programmer, with C++ providing a lot of assistance in the form of
constructors and destructors.
String manipulation can be done in a variety of ways; C++, in particular,
On 23/04/2018 10:05 PM, Charles Mills wrote:
The z114 has a new facility to help implement pauseless garbage collection.
Note "pause less" garbage collection -- less pausing than previous implementations. Not
pauseless as in "no pausing."
Indeed. Thanks for the correction!
Charles
-Or
ADRDSSU backup to dasd then FTP the backup to PC and restore to Hercules.
On Mon, Apr 23, 2018 at 3:05 PM, John McKown
wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 23, 2018 at 2:45 PM, Brian Westerman <
> brian_wester...@syzygyinc.com> wrote:
>
>> z/pdt and Hercules both run z/OS on PC's. That's the platform combinatio
On Mon, Apr 23, 2018 at 2:45 PM, Brian Westerman <
brian_wester...@syzygyinc.com> wrote:
> z/pdt and Hercules both run z/OS on PC's. That's the platform combination
> I meant. Getting your volumes to your PC based z/OS is what I thought the
> purpose was for this op.
>
I would think, in that c
The ABC's of systems programming series are actually fairly good for something
like refreshing your memory and showing how to now do things which may have
changed in the past 10 years.
Honestly though, if you were fairly good 10 years ago, you will be able to
maintain a site now as it's far sim
z/pdt and Hercules both run z/OS on PC's. That's the platform combination I
meant. Getting your volumes to your PC based z/OS is what I thought the
purpose was for this op.
Since the op wanted to transmit their Volume to their PC, my assumption was
that they "probably" wanted to use it there
I would suspect some accounting program going through every account
and calculating late charges on accounts not paid by the 10th of the
month. Look for a job that only runs on the 10th. Or a batch job
step that takes almost no time except on the 10th. Or a batch job
step that is considerably ra
There is also a lpinfo.txt file on http://www.mzelden.com/mvsutil.html
This rexx specifically deals with APF, LPA and Linklist datasets.
Additionally, there are some rexx exec in file 221 of the CBT tape that
might be of interest!!!
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Thank you for the replies. Yes we have implemented SMS tape with our MTL and
since the libraries have to be defined to SMS it is our understanding that OAM
would have to be used for allocation purposes. I attended an OAM session at
Share this year and was trying to investigate if there is any
On Mon, Apr 23, 2018 at 1:08 PM, Jack J. Woehr wrote:
> On 4/23/2018 10:03 AM, John McKown wrote:
>
>> especially
>> with respect to doing development off-platform.
>>
>
> Just mount them via NFS to your Linux development machine and use them in
> NetBeans that way.
>
I guess that I can try tha
On 4/23/2018 10:03 AM, John McKown wrote:
especially
with respect to doing development off-platform.
Just mount them via NFS to your Linux development machine and use them
in NetBeans that way.
I'm a NetBeans user since the 1990's myself :)
--
Jack J. Woehr # Science is more than a body
Excellent, when in doubt upgrade :-)
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Mainframe Systems Programmer - RavenTek Solution Partners
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Thanks Lionel. We were indeed running old version of the freebie PDS. I had
downloaded 8.6.16.1 and everything was fine.
_
Dave Jousma
Manager Mainframe Engineering, Assistant Vice President
david.jou...@53.com
1830 East Paris, Gr
LPD search code in PDSMAIN was failing for link pack modules because of a LPD
entry size increase (40 to 48) in z/OS 2.3. Not being a programming interface,
LPD search code was replaced with a LOAD macro.
You must be executing a pre-8.6.16.0 version of PDS. Tell him to do a LOCATE
command (i
On Mon, Apr 23, 2018 at 12:07 PM, Kirk Wolf wrote:
> If you want an official answer, then ask IBM.
>
> If you want an unauthorized, unofficial opinion, then do what everyone else
> does and just download the jar and use it in your IDE.
>
I most likely will. IBM really seems to be a bit more rea
If you want an official answer, then ask IBM.
If you want an unauthorized, unofficial opinion, then do what everyone else
does and just download the jar and use it in your IDE.
Kirk Wolf
Dovetailed Technologies
http://dovetail.com
On Mon, Apr 23, 2018 at 11:57 AM, John McKown
wrote:
> On Mon,
MXG is a good product and has always provided excellent support as to what
the SMF records mean. They have an option where you can run it with SAS
(or WPS I believe) on a PC or server.
Black Hill Software also has some SMF reporting tools which look pretty
nice.
We recently tested Pacific Syste
On Mon, Apr 23, 2018 at 11:50 AM, Kirk Wolf wrote:
> More likely you just want to cause trouble :-)
>
Most likely. May as well, seeing as how I'm stuck at work anyway. {grin}
>
> Kirk Wolf
> Dovetailed Technologies
> http://dovetail.com
>
> On Mon, Apr 23, 2018 at 11:03 AM, John McKown <
>
More likely you just want to cause trouble :-)
Kirk Wolf
Dovetailed Technologies
http://dovetail.com
On Mon, Apr 23, 2018 at 11:03 AM, John McKown
wrote:
> I probably shouldn't ask this and just "innocently" do it. But I'm not that
> smart. So I'll ask. I use the NetBeans IDE for Java (and C/C+
To clarify:
Co:Z is available under either our free Community License or under a
commercial license which includes support.
For info, see our support page: https://dovetail.com/support.html
Kirk Wolf
Dovetailed Technologies
http://dovetail.com
On Mon, Apr 23, 2018 at 11:13 AM, Sasso, Len wrote
Venkat,
There have been some recommendations to MXG with SAS to do the analysis, and I
think that is the best way to go.
However, from the framing of your question, I think there would be a large
learning curve if you were to start doing this from scratch. Not just learning
SAS (MXG is easy),
Coz is great and it is free.
Thank You!
Len Sasso
System Administrator
General Dynamics Information Technology
327 Columbia TPKE
Rensselaer, NY 12144
Phone: (518) 257-4209
Cell: (518) 894-0879
Fax: (518) 257-4300
len.sa...@csra.com
URL: www.gdit.com
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Huh.. I thought Co:Z was paid software.
I'll check out what it can do (good for knowledge), but will probably stick
with the default ported tools version of SFTP.
Looking to transfer binary data so SCP is out and SFTP is my solution now.
Thanks again Rob.
– Vignesh
Mainframe Infrastructure
Hi Rob,
Although I appreciate the sentiment, 'need' is a pretty strong word 😊
Always looking for the poor man's solution 'cause it's good to make the best
ouf of what ya got.
– Vignesh
Mainframe Infrastructure
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I probably shouldn't ask this and just "innocently" do it. But I'm not that
smart. So I'll ask. I use the NetBeans IDE for Java (and C/C++) development
on Linux/Intel. This is not about using NetBeans vs any other IDE, so lets
please not go there, OK?
If I am using just "plain ole" java and using
On Mon, Apr 23, 2018 at 9:34 AM, Giliad Wilf <
00d50942efa9-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote:
> Thank you John,
>
> I thought there must exist a list with 'standard' timezone names, and that
> "IST" by itself meant UTC+2 to z/OS USS, as I've never fiddled with this
> parameter before.
>
Thank you John,
I thought there must exist a list with 'standard' timezone names, and that
"IST" by itself meant UTC+2 to z/OS USS, as I've never fiddled with this
parameter before.
I consider entering 'IST-2IDT' into CEEPRMxx's ENVAR parameters too.
Thanks again
This doesn't help for something done already. But, if you do this again in the
future, first process the ADRDSSU dump data set with either IBM's TRSMAIN or
TSO's XMIT. Both of these methods convert the squirely RECFM=U records/blocks
into fixed length records, 1024 or 80 byte records respectiv
>A colleague has made a logical data set DUMP of important data and downloaded
>to his PC in binary (by mistake, without additional steps). As expected, after
>uploading from PC to z/OS, the format is broken, and ADRDSSU doesn't recognize
>the DUMP (uploaded as blksize=27998, lrecl=0, recfm=u).
> The z114 has a new facility to help implement pauseless garbage collection.
Note "pause less" garbage collection -- less pausing than previous
implementations. Not pauseless as in "no pausing."
Charles
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If they let you go, well ... you were out of work when you came in.
Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
Charles
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On Mon, Apr 23, 2018 at 8:23 AM, Jerry Callen wrote:
>
> I've programmed in assembler, PL/I, COBOL and C/C++. If you are dealing
> with COBOL records that make extensive use of OCCURS DEPENDING ON, it
> probably make sense to stick with COBOL. Otherwise, it's quite easy to
> write robust, efficie
Ignore this request. A coworker explained that it was coming from a test
sysplex that is looking for a standalone tape device that it cannot find.
I missed noting the CSS #1 on the message. That would have given me a clue that
it was not on the prod sysplex.
Bob
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Yeah, before I discovered Co:Z, I wrote some REXX USS programs to copy-to-USS
and copy-to-MVS. They worked, and you're welcome to them (might save you some
time figuring out the copy options, etc.), but Co:Z is so much better.
First Tennessee Bank
Mainframe Technical Support
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Isn't a class with no methods essentially a record type? Although that still
leaves the issue of reading and writing them.
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On Sun, 22 Apr 2018 18:29:38 -0400, Hobart Spitz wrote:
>That's said, I can answer the question, for C/C++, as follows. (I pose the
>question for Java, below.)
>
>*With the *nix/C record and string models, there are these issues:*
>
> 1. Errant/unexpected/unintended pieces of binary data in a
Try setting:
TZ= IST2IDT
export $TZ
in a Unix shell and see what happens.
HTH,
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Of Giliad Wilf
Sent: Monday, April 23, 2018 3:42 AM
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Subject: Where do I find a
The last release I installed before I was laid off was 1.7, going to 1.9, 1.7 I
believe was one of the biggest changes due to JES2 EXITS and INITRDR re design.
I was able to eventually find a job in the field but a different supporting
role, it was not until recently, 2011 :) I was installing, a
On Mon, Apr 23, 2018 at 7:24 AM, Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh <
vignesh.v.sankaranaraya...@marks-and-spencer.com> wrote:
> Hello All
>
> A quick question... is it possible to SCP an MVS dataset on to a target?
> I'm able to successfully send USS files but I get 'FOTS1744
> No such file or directory.
Does it have to be SCP? I would hope the server to which you're sending would
support SFTP too. Either way, you need Co:Z SFTP, here:
https://dovetail.com/products/sftp.html. It is a lifesaver.
First Tennessee Bank
Mainframe Technical Support
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His may help https://www.timeanddate.com/time/current-number-time-zones.html
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Has anyone seen the following message and can explain it to me?
"A device or control unit that is not configured in the current IOCDS attempted
a request-in sequence"
UNIT xx
Channel Path yyy
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Hello All
A quick question... is it possible to SCP an MVS dataset on to a target?
I'm able to successfully send USS files but I get 'FOTS1744 No
such file or directory. (errno2=0x05620062)' when trying a dataset.
- Vignesh
Mainframe Infrastructure
MARKSANDSPENCER.COM
On Mon, Apr 23, 2018 at 3:42 AM, Giliad Wilf <
00d50942efa9-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I'm configuring a new system in Israel and wish to pick the correct
> timezone for our location, in terms of z/OS USS.
>
Basically, here is the source for the answer:
https://ww
My young whippersnapper self (I'm 31 now, but I started my career as a
mainframe developer at 23) remembers listening to the seasoned professionals
talk about Y2K. They told me that they weren't all that concerned with Y2K on
mainframe insurance administration and claims systems since they used
C++ doesn't have garbage collection. Resource finalization is
deterministic and performed by a destructor. Also, C++ has POD structs
that map data in the same way as assembler, C, COBOL, PL/1 and access
record based data sources in exactly the same way.
Java doesn't have records and does not s
Hi All,
I'm configuring a new system in Israel and wish to pick the correct timezone
for our location, in terms of z/OS USS.
Our system has been built abroad using CST6CDT, and shipped to us in the form
of some 32 dumped 3390-9 volume images.
Now I wonder whether or not will IST2IDT be acce
On Sun, 22 Apr 2018 19:27:29 +, Rugen, Len wrote:
>I left the Z/OS world at the version 1.6 after nearly many years of mainframe
>OS and CICS work . I see adds for telecommute Z/OS support, how far out of
>date are my skills? What should I read up on to stay current?
Hmmm - things may be
http://www.mzelden.com/mvsutil.html
In a message dated 4/23/2018 2:38:30 AM Central Standard Time,
imugz...@gmail.com writes:
have a look at IPLINFO rexx exec from mark Zelden.
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have a look at IPLINFO rexx exec from mark Zelden.
ITschak
On Mon, Apr 23, 2018 at 10:16 AM, Alan(GMAIL)Watthey
wrote:
> Thanks for all the replies. I guess the consensus is that I build the
> list myself. I did suspect this but I wanted to make sure I was not
> missing something obvious.
>
>
Thanks for all the replies. I guess the consensus is that I build the list
myself. I did suspect this but I wanted to make sure I was not missing
something obvious.
I do know about the various Rexx procedures already in existence and have
written some before to check LNK and LPA dataset names
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