That's correct: the z/OS Client Web Enablement Toolkit is a standard,
included feature of the base z/OS operating system.
The z/OS Client Web Enablement Toolkit is available as far back as z/OS
2.1, although on that particular release a PTF installation is required to
get it. Reference APARs OA465
Many years ago when Converting a DDA system from Burroughs to IBM, Burroughs
packed fields had the annoying habit of putting the sign at the beginning of
the fieldinstead of the end of the field like IBM.
Made for pages and pages of "Move with Offsets" in the Assembler
programsCobol didn
Yes you cann use ftp with filetype Jes.
Am 20.03.2019 um 01:53 schrieb Roger Sawtell:
We are seeking a way to submit jobs to Z/OSv2.2 from a web browser on our
intra-net and to get the response(s) back to the browser.
From the reading we have done, we believe that this should be possible using
I did write code for Jol to create VSE JCL. I never got to test it though.
The original idea of Jol was to have a Universal Command Language
running on MVS and VSE, and other systems. It does run on Windows,
Linux and even OS/2, as well as Z/OS.
You can read more at:
http://start.oscar-jol.
On 3/19/2019 6:23 PM, Gibney, Dave wrote:
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=ibm1MIGR-5081748
Dave Gibney
Information Technology Services
Washington State University
Yes, and Yes.
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We would like to use Javascript and a RESTful interface on the client side.
That's what led us to looking at Z/OSMF
We just don't have enough experience/knowledge in this area to know how to do
it.
What you suggest might be a good option. We are not familiar with Co:Z.
ITschak:
Submit is not
Submit is not an issue. Just add a dd card for internal reader. Osmf indeed
can read job output but you need to know your jobname and may be number.
However, never tried that, but i think you can use rexx cgi to access the
spool.
ITschak
בתאריך יום ד׳, 20 במרץ 2019, 3:04, מאת Roger Sawtell <
rog
On Wed, 20 Mar 2019 00:53:57 +, Roger Sawtell wrote:
>We are seeking a way to submit jobs to Z/OSv2.2 from a web browser on our
>intra-net and to get the response(s) back to the browser.
Might Javascript or simply HTML forms on the client side plus
either Co:Z or a CGI program on the z/OS si
I gave it one star. No one else has rated it.
Charles
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Jeez, what more
We are seeking a way to submit jobs to Z/OSv2.2 from a web browser on our
intra-net and to get the response(s) back to the browser.
>From the reading we have done, we believe that this should be possible using
>Z/OSMF, but are struggling somewhat to find out exactly how.
It has also been suggeste
On Wed, 13 Mar 2019 11:39:30 -0700, Lizette Koehler
wrote:
>Dear List -
>
>I am trying to run a batch REXX that issues CONSPROF or CONSOLE commands.
>
>I have set up everything in IKJTSO00 for CONSOLE, I have updated the RACF
>TSOAUTH for the ID issuing the commands
>
>The process will VARY OFFL
Well, yes. Specifically z/OS availability and EOS/EOL 😊
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> Jeez, what more do you want? It T
Jeez, what more do you want? It TELLS you that any z/OS marketing and
service announce, availability, and withdrawal dates are applicable
worldwide. You didn't want actual dates, did you?
On Tue, Mar 19, 2019 at 6:23 PM Gibney, Dave wrote:
> http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=ibm1MIGR
Any recommendations on IFL engines?
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My recommendation is to leave SMT turne
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Well as a message code... actually if you look through that manual, there are
a few uses that seem a bit 'footloose and fancy free.' But still nothing
directly indicating USS = Unix Systems Services. May as well take the leap
and equate the two.
Example 1: Export USS /u/user* or MVS A.B in
On Tue, 19 Mar 2019 20:49:14 +, Seymour J Metz wrote:
>> Unix System Services is not in an IBM manual
>
>WTF?
>https://www-01.ibm.com/servers/resourcelink/svc00100.nsf/pages/zOSV2R3UnixSystemServicesPublications?OpenDocument
> lists a bunch of manuals with Unix System Services in the title:
>
I should have clarified USS with the abbreviated meaning of Unix System
Services does not appear in an IBM manual. Or as an abbreviation for z/OS
UNIX System Services.
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Last week I talked with some people at IBM about this,
and no one of them mentioned additional costs; AFAIK, this is part of
basic z/OS
if you have release 2.2 or higher and should come at no cost (with 2.1,
it can
be installed using PTF or APAR, IIRC).
This is NOT z/OS Connect EE, which may h
Our enterprise ROT is to share everything in a plex that can be shared. With
help from symbolics and variables. One MCAT per plex regardless of number of
systems. UCATs shared only within a plex. And unlike some shops, we reuse all
catalogs indefinitely across z/OS upgrades and reconfigurations.
> Unix System Services is not in an IBM manual
WTF?
https://www-01.ibm.com/servers/resourcelink/svc00100.nsf/pages/zOSV2R3UnixSystemServicesPublications?OpenDocument
lists a bunch of manuals with Unix System Services in the title:
z/OS UNIX System Services Command Reference, SA23-2280-30
z
United States Ship?
I had never thought USS was not Unix System Services. I did VTAM work for
many years, so I was familiar with USS as Unformatted System Services, (which
you can find in an IBM manual).
Unix System Services is not in an IBM manual, which I disbelieved and had to do
some bul
On Tue, 19 Mar 2019 19:15:37 +, Seymour J Metz wrote:
>What translation of ASCII C-A through C-Z does PDOS/390 assume?
>
These are (mostly) consistently defined in ASCII<->EBCDIC translations.
The notable exceptions are Ctl-J and NL/NEL.
>
>From: Paul
On Tue, 19 Mar 2019 19:13:42 +, Seymour J Metz wrote:
>The only word from an IBM employee was that USS had never been an official
>acronym for Unix System Services. This was in the context of my complaint
>about IBM overloading acronyms.
>
Was it ever an "official" (despite not appearing i
On Tue, 19 Mar 2019 19:15:37 +, Seymour J Metz wrote:
>What translation of ASCII C-A through C-Z does PDOS/390 assume?
PDOS/390 just passes that through to the
application, but the applications are
expecting this:
static unsigned char atoe[256] = {
"\x00\x01\x02\x03\x37\x2D\x2E\x2F\x16\x05\
What translation of ASCII C-A through C-Z does PDOS/390 assume?
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The only word from an IBM employee was that USS had never been an official
acronym for Unix System Services. This was in the context of my complaint about
IBM overloading acronyms.
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> I believe these date back to the 1970s.
Yes, USS dates to the original SNA support, when there were formatted logons
from some devices and other devices that only sent character strings for logon.
USS was the component that parsed character strings and extracted BIND data
equivalent to those
Liz,
I have a Rexx program/exec that does MVS commands in batch ..
Scott
On Wed, Mar 13, 2019 at 4:01 PM Carmen Vitullo wrote:
> got ya, our CA-OPS uses console services, I've never looked but I wonder
> if the ID need to have a TSO SEGMENT to use console services ?
>
>
>
>
>
> Carmen Vitullo
>
Bernd,
Is my assumption correct a customer must pay for this feature ? We run
z/PDT and I was just wondering if we could use it.
Regards,
Scott
IDMWORKS
z/OS Dev lead
On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 7:40 PM Bernd Oppolzer
wrote:
> Thank you all for your valuable answers.
>
> I found this presentation
Mike,
Exactly me too for a long time I did VTAM/NCP work ...
Scott
On Mon, Mar 18, 2019 at 7:08 PM Mike Schwab wrote:
> Well, I did find VTAM USS (Unformatted System Services) TABLES. I
> believe these date back to the 1970s.
>
>
> https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSLTBW_2.3.0/c
On Tue, 19 Mar 2019 11:56:27 -0500, Michael Babcock wrote:
>We are at AIM stage 3 so don’t need the UNIXMAP CLASS active. Also we do
>have VLF active with the usual IRR* entries.
>
>Oddly enough it takes a good 10 seconds for ISHELL to start as well. We do
>not see these delays on any other LPAR
We are at AIM stage 3 so don’t need the UNIXMAP CLASS active. Also we do
have VLF active with the usual IRR* entries.
Oddly enough it takes a good 10 seconds for ISHELL to start as well. We do
not see these delays on any other LPAR.
On Tue, Mar 19, 2019 at 11:03 AM Tom Conley
wrote:
> On 3/19
Thanks for the help. I was looking in their newer system and I guess this
product hasn't been converted yet.
Dean Nai
On 3/19/19, 11:59 AM, "IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of Tom Marchant"
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>On Tue, 19 Mar 2019 14:31:03 +, Nai, Dean wrote:
>
>> I never open
All together now: “Yeah, and what of it?” :-)
Cheers, Martin
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> On 19 Mar 2019, at 14:16, Mark Regan wrote:
>
>
https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.theregister.co.uk_2019_03_19_gartner-5Fserver-5Fmarket-5Fq4_&d=DwICAg&c=jf_iaSHvJObTbx-siA1ZOg&r=BsPGKdq7-Vl
I'm testing out the TSO support of 8 character userids, and am running into the
scenario where when that user, submits a job with it's userid as the jobname,
I'm getting TSO messages, that say "jobname truncated" and "Userid plus jobname
characters cannot exceed maximum jobname length of 8".
Ac
See if you are using VLF and the UNIXMAP class:
https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSLTBW_2.1.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r1.icha700/vlfu.htm
otherwise, the cost of looking up user/group id mapping in RACF can be very
slow in certain situations where the program doesn't cache them itelf
(like in t
On 3/19/2019 6:51 AM, Michael Babcock wrote:
Does anyone else see this behavior or could help me determine what’s wrong?
When using ISPF 3.4 and putting in a directory (doesn’t matter which one)
it can take up to 10 seconds to display. When typing 3.17 on the command
line and hitting enter i
On Tue, 19 Mar 2019 14:31:03 +, Nai, Dean wrote:
> I never open any networking related tickets with IBM and can't find a
> bucket for Communication Server. We are running Z/OS 2.3. Anyone know what
> the product name is that supports TCPIP?
PSP bucket?
Have you considered downloading the
We have 1 MCAT per Sysplex with an Alt MCAT also defined.
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> From: "Lopez, Sharon"
> To: IBM-
If you search on z/OS, expand the version you are on, then there is a separate
item for IP and VTAM
Communications Server for z/OS IP Services
Communications Server for z/OS SNA Services (VTAM)
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Hi,
I never open any networking related tickets with IBM and can't find a bucket
for Communication Server. We are running Z/OS 2.3. Anyone know what the product
name is that supports TCPIP?
Dean Nai
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I'll try some commands. Thanks for the help.
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One per environment, so a total of 3 MC's. In essence they are all the
same(or should be). Almost everything in them is indirectly cataloged and in a
pinch could be used for recovery purposes.
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For my part, I meant one per environment. I have three and, for a short time
during a z/OS upgrade, four. Once the upgrade gets to production, the old
production mastercat goes the way of the dodo bird.
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Do you mean: 1 MC per environment or 1 MC per LPAR.
We have 1 MC per LPAR.
Kees.
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On Mon, 18 Mar 2019 14:03:10 +, Nai, Dean wrote:
>Anyone ever run into a problem where the NETSTAT command hangs? We use it in
>some scripts to check if things are up or not but to stopped working last
>Friday. When we issue it using TSO NETSTAT or issue it from OMVS it just
>hangs. Any th
I've been at shops that share and some that do not, I've never had a problem
sharing the master catalog in a 6 LPAR PLEX, indirect catalog sysres datasets.
currently I'm in the process of moving to a shared master catalog for the
production systems in my PLEX.
Carmen Vitullo
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We have 3 LPARs in our plex and all three have separate MCs.We use
indirect cataloging as much as possible. We converted our SYSRES to a
single mod 27 so &SYSR2 and &SYSR3 both point back to &SYSR1.
On Tue, Mar 19, 2019 at 6:25 AM Lopez, Sharon
wrote:
> Just a general question wondering how
Hi Brian,
We are running 2.3 and nothings changed in TCPIP for months. Thanks for your
reply:)
Dean Nai
On 3/19/19, 12:58 AM, "IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of Brian
Westerman" wrote:
>You didn't mention the release, but there are some problems with Netstat
>
I concur with Dave. With all usercats being shared with each mastercat, then
those mastercats are, for the most part, also alternate mastercats, effectively
eliminating SPOF. The only caveat would be if the mastercats having different
datasets cataloged directly into them. Also, go with indirect
In my opinion, I would share the master catalog as much as possible, and setup
the alternate master catalog as a backup to eliminate single point of failure.
https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSLTBW_2.1.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r1.idac100/usealt.htm
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We have TECH, DEV and PROD lpars in the same sysplex. Each environment has its
own MC. All systems share the same UC's.
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Just a general question wondering how others share the master catalog in a
SYSPLEX. Do most of you guys share a master catalog in the sysplex or do you
have a master catalog for each lpar in the sysplex? Just thinking about single
point of failures.
Thank you.
Sharon Lopez
Software Systems Pr
Does anyone else see this behavior or could help me determine what’s wrong?
When using ISPF 3.4 and putting in a directory (doesn’t matter which one)
it can take up to 10 seconds to display. When typing 3.17 on the command
line and hitting enter it takes up to 10 seconds for the ISPF screen to
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