Re: "Trapping" messages written to JESYSMSG?

2019-05-21 Thread Brian Westerman
Our SyzMPF/z also allows it, so I don't see why CA can't handle it as well, after all they cost more than 10 times more. Brian -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to

Re: Sort - File split

2019-05-21 Thread Ron Thomas
Ron, I don't need a single record per P.O, what i need is pull 100 P.O in the output file . A P.O will contain multiple records for e.g if each PO has 5 rows then the ouput will be 500. I put something like the below but this is not working SORT FIELDS=COPY INREC

Re: IPL process - understanding IEFSSNxx

2019-05-21 Thread Tony Thigpen
Some sandbox testing shows that IEFSSN00 *seems to be* starting all subsystems that: 1) Contain the INITRTN() verb, and, 2) Have a proc in SYS1.PROCLIB with the same name as the SUBNAME() verb. So, on the system containing the IEFSSN00 shown below, SMS, JES2, RACF and IXFP are started. DFRM is

Re: "Trapping" messages written to JESYSMSG?

2019-05-21 Thread Steve Horein
I second that. We use SA's ProcOps functionality, and I was curious if OPS/MVS had an equivalent. I found OPSHMC does indeed provide similar functionality. Maybe OPS/MVS also has similar functionality for Job Log Monitoring (which I have not yet leveraged in our SA environment). On Tue, May 21,

PCRE2 (Perl Compatible Regular Expressions) for z/OS 10.33 is available

2019-05-21 Thread Ze'ev Atlas
I've just published version 10.33 of PCRE2 (Perl Compatible Regular Expressions)  for z/OS.The distribution is available on file939 of the CBTTAPE.org (currently, in the 'UPDATE' page)  http://cbttape.org/ftp/updates/CBT939.zip and eventually will move to the main page

Re: IPL process - understanding IEFSSNxx

2019-05-21 Thread Steve Horein
Sigh... This reminded me of a "recent" topic that touched on early address space creation. I found it in my inbox with the title "How is CAMASTER started?" Very interesting, with mentions of IKJEFXSR and ICHALTSP. I sigh because that topic was from June 18th, 2015! I could have sworn it was only a

Re: Sort - File split

2019-05-21 Thread Ron Hawkins
Ron, I read your OP that you wanted a single record per PO. As your sample shows each PO as a duplicate, SUM FIELDS=NONE would give you just one record per PO, and you can use INCLUDE to filter that to any 100 records you want. Based on my reading of the requirement SUM FIELDS=NONE would work.

Re: problem with FTP from Windows 10 to z/OS

2019-05-21 Thread retired mainframer
> -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On > Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin > Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2019 4:14 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: problem with FTP from Windows 10 to z/OS > > On Tue, 21 May 2019 17:40:13 -0500, Kevin Merkley wrote: > > > >In the

Re: Sort - File split

2019-05-21 Thread retired mainframer
Do you need to pull 100 specified numbers, 100 random numbers, or the first 100 numbers? If the first 100: Sort on key with EQUALS specified. Add a sequence number to the output record and use the WHEN=GROUP function to increment the sequence number only when the key changes. Stop when the

Re: IPL process - understanding IEFSSNxx

2019-05-21 Thread Tom Brennan
Thanks! That helps explain an IPL last year of a newly-created LPAR where we removed every startup parm we could think of for the first IPL. ACF2 messages still showed up on the console, so I figured there must be a hook somewhere. We had copied the res-pack from an already running system.

Re: problem with FTP from Windows 10 to z/OS

2019-05-21 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Tue, 21 May 2019 17:40:13 -0500, Kevin Merkley wrote: > >In the instructions for customers, I added a part on how to use the script, >especially for those that are doing the FTP from Windows 10. It actually seems >to be a "cleaner", more user-friendly way for them to perform this task. >

Re: Sort - File split

2019-05-21 Thread Ron Thomas
Ron . what i need is copy 100 PO numbers details to a new file . One P.O has multiple rows . I don't think that will work Thanks Ron T -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to

Re: IPL process - understanding IEFSSNxx

2019-05-21 Thread Jesse 1 Robinson
As someone noted, the RACF STC was originally optional. That's not RACF Lord and Protector but RACF the Operator Command Utility. SMPE-managed [SYS1.IBM.]PROCLIB now supplies this element in z/OS 2.3: //**// //* RACF:

Re: Sort - File split

2019-05-21 Thread Ron Hawkins
Sort it first with the SUM FIELDS=NONE option. RON HAWKINS Director, Ipsicsopt Pty Ltd (ACN: 627 705 971) m+61 400029610| t: +1 4085625415 | f: +1 4087912585 -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Ron Thomas Sent: Wednesday, 22 May 2019 08:26 To:

Re: problem with FTP from Windows 10 to z/OS

2019-05-21 Thread Kevin Merkley
I realized that I never posted my solution. I ended up writing a Windows PowerShell script. It does some verification of data in a file that contains upload information such as destination IP address and userid, etc. Then it displays a window prompting for any required items not specified in

Sort - File split

2019-05-21 Thread Ron Thomas
Hi . i have FB file with lrecl 5000 and here below is layout. key is first 11 bytes PO number 102016| 31859949 || 1613QTTR| 1 102016| 31859949 || 1613QTTR| 1 102016| 31859949 || 1613QTTR| 1 102016

Problem in IPCS using REXX exec as control block formatter

2019-05-21 Thread Kevin Merkley
I have done various searches and have not found anything that helps. The problem happens in IPCS dialog mode in Option 1 - Browse. I want to use a REXX exec (I call it SYSBXCBX) to format control blocks. SYSBXCBX is in a PDSE in the concatenation of DDname SYSEXEC. I have tested with interpreted

Re: PL/I TSO Interrupt - Attention handling - SLIP trap X33E / X13E

2019-05-21 Thread Seymour J Metz
As with the auth/unauth case, ISPF does not allow the subtasks for different splits to be ready concurrently. I've used WSA to get around that, but, alas, IBM is killing it off. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM

Re: PL/I TSO Interrupt - Attention handling - SLIP trap X33E / X13E

2019-05-21 Thread Seymour J Metz
You're missing the point; the TMP does not allow two command subtasks to be ready concurrently. That's very different from how applications normally manage their subtasks. TSO's rules about authorized and unauthorized commands are clearly relevant because one of those rules ensures that there

Re: PL/I TSO Interrupt - Attention handling - SLIP trap X33E / X13E

2019-05-21 Thread Seymour J Metz
There is a queue for each task, but more than one task can issue STAX. The exit for a subtask get control before the exit for the parent task. Are you thinking of CLSTATTN (sp?) and TOPLEVEL? -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3

Re: IPL process - understanding IEFSSNxx

2019-05-21 Thread Mark Zelden
On Tue, 21 May 2019 10:27:20 -0400, Tony Thigpen wrote: >I am looking at my ipl process and am trying to understand why some of >the start by themselves. > >I am in a sandbox so I can play all I want. > >My current IEFSSN00 is: >01 SUBSYS SUBNAME(SMS) >02INITRTN(IGDSSIIN) >03

Re: PL/I TSO Interrupt - Attention handling - SLIP trap X33E / X13E

2019-05-21 Thread Seymour J Metz
What happens if you hit enter after the READY prompt? Was the keyboard unlocked when you hit PA1? -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of Mike Stramba Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2019 2:11

Re: PL/I TSO Interrupt - Attention handling - SLIP trap X33E / X13E

2019-05-21 Thread Bill Godfrey
After it goes back to TSO READY, what happens if you enter 'TEST'. Does it go into TEST mode, and if so, what happens if you then enter the 'RUN' subcommand of TEST? Does the program resume from where it was interrupted? Bill On Tue, 21 May 2019 14:11:09 -0400, Mike Stramba wrote: >Also tried

Re: IPL process - understanding IEFSSNxx

2019-05-21 Thread Carmen Vitullo
hit send before I was done :( https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSLTBW_2.1.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r1.icha200/racfss.htm + IEFSSN00 SUBSYS SUBNAME(RACF) /* RACF */ INITRTN(IRRSSI00) /* COMMAND PREFIX '@' */ INITPARM('@') /* */ Carmen Vitullo - Original Message -

Re: IPL process - understanding IEFSSNxx

2019-05-21 Thread Carmen Vitullo
there are specific steps to take if you are a RACF shop to initialize RACF https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSLTBW_2.1.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r1.icha200/racfss.htm Carmen Vitullo - Original Message - From: "Dave Gibney" To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Sent: Tuesday,

Re: IPL process - understanding IEFSSNxx

2019-05-21 Thread Gibney, Dave
I don't think anyone has mentioned IEACMDxx as another source of Starts, etc. IBM discourages user modification, probably part of why COMMDSxx exists. And, not this isn't where the RACF address space is started. > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On > Behalf Of

Re: Replying on IBMMAIN with Samsung Mail client

2019-05-21 Thread Phil Smith III
Charles Mills wrote: > @Phil has suggested a different e-mail client but I am hoping to make a > smaller change than that. FTR, I didn't make that suggestion as "You should do this"; I meant it as "If you can't find a real solution, I suppose that would solve it". So yeah, a smaller change

Re: IPL process - understanding IEFSSNxx

2019-05-21 Thread Wayne Driscoll
The RACF subsystem gets started out if ICHSEC00, which is invoked out of IPL. If I recall correctly, both ACF2 and Top Secret provide a replacement for ICHSEC00 (probably the same code for both products). Wayne Driscoll Rocket Software Note - All opinions are strictly my own. -Original

Re: IPL process - understanding IEFSSNxx

2019-05-21 Thread Tony Harminc
On Tue, 21 May 2019 at 12:11, Tony Thigpen wrote: > > One of the questions I am trying to answer is "who is starting RACF > during IPL". It's not in COMMNDxx. > Just in passing (and I realize this isn't what you're asking, but is maybe a terminology/concepts issue), the RACF subsystem is not

Re: "Trapping" messages written to JESYSMSG?

2019-05-21 Thread Mark Jacobs
Maybe check with CA then. Ya never know. Mark Jacobs Sent from ProtonMail, Swiss-based encrypted email. GPG Public Key - https://api.protonmail.ch/pks/lookup?op=get=markjac...@protonmail.com ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Tuesday, May 21, 2019 1:11 PM, John McKown wrote: > On Tue,

Re: PL/I TSO Interrupt - Attention handling - SLIP trap X33E / X13E

2019-05-21 Thread Lennie Dymoke-Bradshaw
Yes I did mean at the READY prompt. I think that STAX acts at the TCB level. The CLIST will be running on different TCB from any program that it invokes, as each command is invoked using an ATTACH macro. I have seen situations where the CLIST flushes the stack after the interrupt and so the

Re: PL/I TSO Interrupt - Attention handling - SLIP trap X33E / X13E

2019-05-21 Thread Mike Stramba
Also tried these variants : CALL 'MYLOGIN.LOAD(PLINT)' 'TRAP(ON)/123456789012' CALL 'MYLOGIN.LOAD(PLITSO)' 'TRAP(ON)/123456789012' CALL 'MYLOGIN.LOAD(PLIMVS)' 'TRAP(ON)/123456789012' Same results ( ATTENTION kills program back to TSO READY, PA1 no effect) Mike On 5/21/19, Mike Stramba

Re: PL/I TSO Interrupt - Attention handling - SLIP trap X33E / X13E

2019-05-21 Thread Mike Stramba
Ok I have tried running the program from the TSO ready prompt. CALL (LOAD(PLIxxx) I have compiled three versions : Enterprise PL/I for z/OS V5.R2.M4 (Built:20190424) z/OS 02.03.00 1) SYSTEM(TSO) option(+ INTERRUPT 2) SYSTEM(MVS)option (+ INTERRUPT 3) no "SYSTEM(XXX)

Re: IPL process - understanding IEFSSNxx

2019-05-21 Thread Lizette Koehler
So no matter if you have RACF,TSS,ACF2 - RACF is always started - similar to early code for DB2. Then once the system gets up far enough, you can start RACF,TSS,ACF2 So what are you seeing where you have a question about "who is starting RACF" So two separate phases for RACF. And yes, I did

Re: "Trapping" messages written to JESYSMSG?

2019-05-21 Thread John McKown
On Tue, May 21, 2019 at 12:02 PM Cieri, Anthony wrote: > > This won't help unless you are running IBM System Automation (SA). > I believe that IBM SA can be configured to "trap" messages written to > JESSYSMSG. > Thanks. We don't run that. We run CA-OPS/MVS. We are heavy into CA

Re: "Trapping" messages written to JESYSMSG?

2019-05-21 Thread Cieri, Anthony
This won't help unless you are running IBM System Automation (SA). I believe that IBM SA can be configured to "trap" messages written to JESSYSMSG. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of John McKown Sent: Tuesday,

Re: IPL process - understanding IEFSSNxx

2019-05-21 Thread John McKown
On Tue, May 21, 2019 at 11:11 AM Tony Thigpen wrote: > Thanks. That helped a lot. > > One of the questions I am trying to answer is "who is starting RACF > during IPL". It's not in COMMNDxx. > I looked back in my SYSLOG information from our last IPL. I saw the following: 19069 15:58:24.57

Re: Replying on IBMMAIN with Samsung Mail client

2019-05-21 Thread Gord Tomlin
On 2019-05-21 12:14, Charles Mills wrote: @Phil has suggested a different e-mail client but I am hoping to make a smaller change than that. I'm with Phil on this. Personally, I use and like https://www.typeapp.com/ . If you're like me and need to check several email accounts, it's dead easy

Re: PL/I TSO Interrupt - Attention handling - SLIP trap X33E / X13E

2019-05-21 Thread Seymour J Metz
By "native TSO" do you mean the READY prompt? The CLIST processor uses STAX; the override rules are the same as for any other user of STAX. REXX doesn't support attention handling code, but the REXX interpreter does do a STAX and writes a prompt for attention. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz

Replying on IBMMAIN with Samsung Mail client

2019-05-21 Thread Charles Mills
Not a mainframe question but a mainframe LIST question. Whenever I reply to an IBMMAIN thread with my Samsung Android mail client (phone or tablet) the lines of both my reply and the quoted post all run together as shown below. It does not happen when I reply to any other kind of e-mail (that

Re: IPL process - understanding IEFSSNxx

2019-05-21 Thread Tony Thigpen
Thanks. That helped a lot. One of the questions I am trying to answer is "who is starting RACF during IPL". It's not in COMMNDxx. Tony Thigpen John McKown wrote on 5/21/19 10:56 AM: On Tue, May 21, 2019 at 9:47 AM John McKown wrote: On Tue, May 21, 2019 at 9:27 AM Tony Thigpen wrote:

Re: PL/I TSO Interrupt - Attention handling - SLIP trap X33E / X13E

2019-05-21 Thread Lennie Dymoke-Bradshaw
You may get different results when running the program in a CLIST as opposed to running it from native TSO. I don't know what other mysteries REXX brings to the table. CLIST processing has ATTN handling, which (from memory) overrides the use of STAX (assembler TSO interrupt handling macro)

Re: z/OS Container Extensions

2019-05-21 Thread Anthony Giorgio
When you provision a zCX instance, you need to specify the configuration details. One of these is the IP address that will be assigned to the Linux guest. When the guest starts up, by default it will listen on a network port for ssh connections. You can then use your favorite ssh client to

Re: IPL process - understanding IEFSSNxx

2019-05-21 Thread John McKown
On Tue, May 21, 2019 at 9:47 AM John McKown wrote: > On Tue, May 21, 2019 at 9:27 AM Tony Thigpen wrote: > >> I am looking at my ipl process and am trying to understand why some of >> the start by themselves. >> >> I am in a sandbox so I can play all I want. >> >> My current IEFSSN00 is: >>

Re: z/OS Container Extensions

2019-05-21 Thread Anthony Giorgio
Let me step back a bit. zCX is essentially a hypervisor, which runs Linux as a guest operating system. That guest is running Docker as a process, and exposes it to the network. You can instruct Docker to run s390x container(s) of your choosing. They will be run in the context of the Linux

Re: IPL process - understanding IEFSSNxx

2019-05-21 Thread John McKown
On Tue, May 21, 2019 at 9:27 AM Tony Thigpen wrote: > I am looking at my ipl process and am trying to understand why some of > the start by themselves. > > I am in a sandbox so I can play all I want. > > My current IEFSSN00 is: > 01 SUBSYS SUBNAME(SMS) > 02INITRTN(IGDSSIIN) > 03

Re: z/OS Container Extensions

2019-05-21 Thread Don Poitras
>From the IBM page: https://www.ibm.com/support/z-content-solutions/container-extensions/ look at the video and see that it works just like any other Linux box, i.e. docker exec -it /bin/bash I don't think the network stuff is going to work any different than z/Linux running under VM or LPAR.

IPL process - understanding IEFSSNxx

2019-05-21 Thread Tony Thigpen
I am looking at my ipl process and am trying to understand why some of the start by themselves. I am in a sandbox so I can play all I want. My current IEFSSN00 is: 01 SUBSYS SUBNAME(SMS) 02INITRTN(IGDSSIIN) 03INITPARM('ID=00,PROMPT=DISPLAY') 04 SUBSYS SUBNAME(JES2) /*

Re: z/OS Container Extensions

2019-05-21 Thread R.S.
Maybe I missed something: Does it mean, the docker container *under z/OS* may contain some zLinux workload? Linux (in container) under z/OS? If yes - can it be offloaded to IFL or it has to run on CP/zIIP/zAAP? Regards -- Radoslaw Skorupka Lodz, Poland

"Trapping" messages written to JESYSMSG?

2019-05-21 Thread John McKown
This question was sparked by the thread on tracking PROC usage. I don't see any way to "trap" messages written to JESYSMSG. I know that I can process them using the SAPI, https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSLTBW_2.1.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r1.ieaf200/sapi.htm, or the SDSF API or a number of

Re: How to Identify PROC name in SMF

2019-05-21 Thread John McKown
On Mon, May 20, 2019 at 7:04 PM Lizette Koehler wrote: > Is this possible? > > If so, what SMF record can I use to find the following > > JOBNAME/PROC Used/Date/Time/LPAR > > > Note: No SAS /no MXG > > Only IFASMFDP or DAF > > > Thanks > > Lizette > > I think this has been asked before and

Re: PL/I TSO Interrupt - Attention handling - SLIP trap X33E / X13E

2019-05-21 Thread Mike Stramba
On 5/21/19, Joe Monk wrote: > With the INTERRUPT option and TRAP(ON), the compiler should generate a STAX > macro for TSO/E attention processing. Thanks for the suggestion. Adding 'TRAP(ON)' to the PARM for IBMZPLI throws a "not recognized option error" Instead, running the program with CALL

Re: How to Identify PROC name in SMF

2019-05-21 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
On Tue, 21 May 2019, at 12:56, Clark Morris wrote: > [Default] On 21 May 2019 02:05:02 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main > bdis...@dissensoftware.com (Binyamin Dissen) wrote: > > >How would you use this information? All it does is give instructions on how > >to > >run programs. > > While I can't

Re: How to Identify PROC name in SMF

2019-05-21 Thread Clark Morris
[Default] On 21 May 2019 02:05:02 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main bdis...@dissensoftware.com (Binyamin Dissen) wrote: >How would you use this information? All it does is give instructions on how to >run programs. While I can't speak for the original poster, I used the information to help

Re: z/OS Container Extensions

2019-05-21 Thread David Crayford
To be more specific - how can I connect via SSH to a docker container running under zCX? Also, how does networking work? If I provision a zCX container running an nginx web server it still uses the host network stack so won't be able to take advantage of Linux APIs like epoll etc. I guess the

Re: z/OS Container Extensions

2019-05-21 Thread David Crayford
Dumb question: How to we shell into a docker container running on z/OS? On 21/05/2019 6:25 pm, Anthony Giorgio wrote: If you would like to build your own s390x Docker container, the recommended paths are to either use a zCX instance on z/OS, or a Linux on Z environment. As for your specific

Re: z/OS Container Extensions

2019-05-21 Thread Anthony Giorgio
If you would like to build your own s390x Docker container, the recommended paths are to either use a zCX instance on z/OS, or a Linux on Z environment. As for your specific question - I did some digging, and it looks like Docker isn't really designed for cross-compiling containers.

Re: PL/I TSO Interrupt - Attention handling - SLIP trap X33E / X13E

2019-05-21 Thread Joe Monk
With the INTERRUPT option and TRAP(ON), the compiler should generate a STAX macro for TSO/E attention processing. Joe On Mon, May 20, 2019 at 4:13 PM Mike Stramba wrote: > No, it's not a "good call". > > I do have the INTERRUPT option enabled. > > At least that's what the compiler listing

Re: PL/I TSO Interrupt - Attention handling - SLIP trap X33E / X13E

2019-05-21 Thread Joe Monk
Mike, Maybe a dumb question, but do you have TRAP(ON) set in your runtime options? Joe On Mon, May 20, 2019 at 4:13 PM Mike Stramba wrote: > No, it's not a "good call". > > I do have the INTERRUPT option enabled. > > At least that's what the compiler listing says. > > What code does the

Re: How to Identify PROC name in SMF

2019-05-21 Thread Binyamin Dissen
How would you use this information? All it does is give instructions on how to run programs. You would also need to know the library the proc came from And PROC's change. On Mon, 20 May 2019 17:04:24 -0700 Lizette Koehler wrote: :>Is this possible? :>If so, what SMF record can I use to