Re: Auto Reply on SDSF Console

2020-12-11 Thread Brian Westerman
Using SyzMPF/z you would only need to code 3 lines in the script for message IEF455D: IF WORD 02 = SP5145 | SP5146 | SP5147 | SP5149 Reply ,NO ENDIF We count the words of a message starting with zero as the messageid and (in this case) the message itself is: IEF455D MOUNT ser ON dev FOR

Re: CA Broadcom Replacement Software

2020-12-11 Thread Brian Westerman
You would need to talk to someone on that side of the place. Probably Henry Dee. If you send an offline email I can give you his address. Brian -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to l

Re: CA Broadcom Replacement Software

2020-12-11 Thread kekronbekron
Oh how I wish WebAuthn, password vault/manager, and MFA became commonplace. Would tie in great with the new HashiCorp Boundary - https://www.boundaryproject.io/ Maybe I'm just mish-mashing things in my head that don't actually fit together in the real world... - KB ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐

Re: CA Broadcom Replacement Software

2020-12-11 Thread kekronbekron
Thanks Mitch, just personal curiosity. I love independent mainframe shops, a job at one is the dream! - KB ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Friday, December 11, 2020 8:01 PM, Mitch Mccluhan wrote: > KB, > > The company is RES, out of Italy. They work independently or with IBM to > replace w

Re: CA Broadcom Replacement Software

2020-12-11 Thread kekronbekron
Hi Brian, By any chance, is Syzygy Inc hiring, for 'facilities management' roles? - KB ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Friday, December 11, 2020 11:22 AM, Brian Westerman wrote: > I hate this to be a marketing email, but I wanted to point out that the > Syzygy Automation package from Sy

Re: JCL EXEC name field?

2020-12-11 Thread Charles Mills
I saw that just today and was astounded! Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Friday, December 11, 2020 4:11 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: JCL EXEC name field? In the JCL Ref.: Ch

JCL EXEC name field?

2020-12-11 Thread Paul Gilmartin
In the JCL Ref.: Chapter 16. EXEC statement ... Name field ... • The stepname may be preceded by up to 8 alphanumeric or national characters and then separated by a period. If the stepname is coded in this way, the characters up to and including the period are ignored.

Re: How test correct procstep RC with JCL IF?

2020-12-11 Thread Charles Mills
>> What is "might be unpredictable"? How is that different from "are >> unpredictable"? > That just means that it's unpredictable whether it's unpredictable; I think we need an RCF to clarify whether it is unpredictable or not. Hey, it's Friday. Charles -Original Message- From: IBM M

Re: How test correct procstep RC with JCL IF?

2020-12-11 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Fri, 11 Dec 2020 12:32:10 -0800, Charles Mills wrote: >"Note that if stepnames are >not unique within the job, such as when the same procedure is executed multiple >times, results might be unpredictable; but in most cases, references to >non-unique >stepnames will resolve to the first occurren

Re: How test correct procstep RC with JCL IF?

2020-12-11 Thread Steve Smith
Well, it should be easy enough to test. I get your point about depnding on undocumented bahavior. It's something of a judgement call as to how likely you think the behavior to be stable. For this particular case, I'd presume that if it works now, it always will. It *should* be consistent with DS

Re: How test correct procstep RC with JCL IF?

2020-12-11 Thread Charles Mills
"Note that if stepnames are not unique within the job, such as when the same procedure is executed multiple times, results might be unpredictable; but in most cases, references to non-unique stepnames will resolve to the first occurrence of that stepname." Does not give me a warm and fuzzy feelin

Re: How test correct procstep RC with JCL IF?

2020-12-11 Thread Charles Mills
QED! Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Jeremy Nicoll Sent: Friday, December 11, 2020 12:11 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: How test correct procstep RC with JCL IF? On Fri, 11 Dec 2020, at 20:01, Ch

Re: How test correct procstep RC with JCL IF?

2020-12-11 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
On Fri, 11 Dec 2020, at 20:01, Charles Mills wrote: > //FOO EXEC MYPROC,PRM1=A,PRM2=B,LBL=FOO > //FOO EXEC MYPROC,PRM1=C,PRM2=D,LBL=BAR > > It's an invitation to errors. So I see. Shouldn't the last line have been //BAR EXEC MYPROC,PRM1=C,PRM2=D,LBL=BAR -- Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are

Re: How test correct procstep RC with JCL IF?

2020-12-11 Thread Charles Mills
I wondered about that, but how do I test that? It is not documented. If it seems to work once, is that a good enough test? Twice? Five times? How do I know whether it will work if other things in the PROC or JOB change? "Hopefully" is not a great testing philosophy. Charles -Original Mes

Re: How test correct procstep RC with JCL IF?

2020-12-11 Thread Charles Mills
Well, I solved it //MYPROC PROC PRM1=,PRM2=,LBL= //STEP1 EXEC PGM= etc. // IF (&LBL..STEP1.RC = 4) THEN //STEP2 EXEC PGM= etc. // ENDIF //FOO EXEC MYPROC,PRM1=A,PRM2=B,LBL=FOO //FOO EXEC MYPROC,PRM1=C,PRM2=D,LBL=BAR It's an invitation to errors. You have to code the label twice: once as the labe

Re: CA Broadcom Replacement Software

2020-12-11 Thread Jesse 1 Robinson
I don't mean to sound like a salesman, there are a few pluses for TPX that I have not seen mentioned. -- Sometimes a person has a unique userid or password on one app. For example, I have a userid and password on a CICS region that is different from my TSO credentials. TPX can map *your* creden

Re: How test correct procstep RC with JCL IF?

2020-12-11 Thread Steve Smith
You may be over-thinking it. I know refer-backs to a stepname stay inside a particular PROC invocation, so hopefully, the same rule applies to IF. sas -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email

Re: How test correct procstep RC with JCL IF?

2020-12-11 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Fri, 11 Dec 2020 11:13:31 -0800, Charles Mills wrote: >Oh for gosh sakes! > >I had the bright idea of passing a unique label for IF to test so the PROC >becomes > >//MYPROC PROC PRM1=,PRM2=,LBL= >//&LBL EXEC PGM= etc. >// IF (&LBL..RC = 4) THEN >//STEP2 EXEC PGM= etc. >// ENDIF > >//X EXEC MYPR

Re: How test correct procstep RC with JCL IF?

2020-12-11 Thread Farley, Peter x23353
Nope, not permitted. Assembler supports that syntax but not JCL. Peter (Queue Gil's expected response: I HATE JCL!) -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Charles Mills Sent: Friday, December 11, 2020 2:14 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: How t

Re: How test correct procstep RC with JCL IF?

2020-12-11 Thread Charles Mills
Oh for gosh sakes! I had the bright idea of passing a unique label for IF to test so the PROC becomes //MYPROC PROC PRM1=,PRM2=,LBL= //&LBL EXEC PGM= etc. // IF (&LBL..RC = 4) THEN //STEP2 EXEC PGM= etc. // ENDIF //X EXEC MYPROC,PRM1=A,PRM2=B,LBL=FOO //Y EXEC MYPROC,PRM1=C,PRM2=D,LBL=BAR But no

Re: DFSORT Header + Detail count match

2020-12-11 Thread Sri h Kolusu
> I coded the below DFSORT job , but it is not working . Could some > one please let me know where the issue is ? There are couple of issues with your job. 1. COUNT-n field is limited to 15 digits and you are creating a 17 byte field which would have 2 spaces to the left of the count making the

Re: Determining required z/series hardware level - REVISED

2020-12-11 Thread Charles Mills
Here is how to do an "earliest support for each opcode" document if anyone wants to pick up where I left off. - IIRC the assembler will generate a list of valid opcodes for the specified ZS- level. (If I am mistaken then stop reading now.) You want to generate such a list for each ZS-level you

Re: Z15 zedc compression and CONNECT DIRECT, MFT compression

2020-12-11 Thread Charles Mills
In my SMF experience ... If the triplet offset or count field is zero then the segment does not exist. End of story. If the triplet length field is zero then - For most SMF record types that means the segment does not exist. - For Db2, and perhaps a few other types, it means each segment contains

DFSORT Header + Detail count match

2020-12-11 Thread Ron Thomas
Hi, We are getting 1 3rd part file with the layout as follows. Here in header 1-17 bytes is the count followed by Pipe & Date. The Rest of the lines is the detail lines . The process should not proceed if the count in header is not matching with the detail line count. 7|2020-

Re: Z15 zedc compression and CONNECT DIRECT, MFT compression

2020-12-11 Thread Barry Merrill
Duh, Go to OFFSET and INPUT the LENGTH field. Barry -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Barry Merrill Sent: Friday, December 11, 2020 11:02 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Z15 zedc compression and CONNECT DIRECT, MFT compression It is very co

Re: Z15 zedc compression and CONNECT DIRECT, MFT compression

2020-12-11 Thread Barry Merrill
It is very common for SMF "Triplets" of Offset, Length, and Count to populate the OFFSET, but to not populate the Count for segments that do not exist in the record. And there can be more than one triplets with that same OFFSET populated but with Counts zero. It is also common to see segments th

Re: Determining required z/series hardware level - REVISED

2020-12-11 Thread Charles Mills
Tachyon Web page says last updated 05/29/2010 11:06:28 Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Tony Harminc Sent: Wednesday, December 9, 2020 4:05 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Determining required z/s

How test correct procstep RC with JCL IF?

2020-12-11 Thread Charles Mills
I want to have a PROC //MYPROC PROC PRM1=,PRM2= //STEP1 EXEC PGM= etc. // IF (STEP1.RC = 4) THEN //STEP2 EXEC PGM= etc. // ENDIF And then in a job execute the PROC several times: //X EXEC MYPROC,PRM1=A,PRM2=B //Y EXEC MYPROC,PRM1=C,PRM2=D Question: Will the IF in the proc test the RC for the ST

Re: Security and z/OS open source tools

2020-12-11 Thread R.S.
W dniu 09.12.2020 o 22:58, Frank Swarbrick pisze: I have downloaded and installed in my personal z/OS Unix directory curl and a few other z/OpenSource tools from Rocket Software. I have asked my z/OS security guy if we can go ahead and have our systems group (outsourced to IBM zCloud) "officia

Re: Security and z/OS open source tools

2020-12-11 Thread Tony IBM-MAIN
On 09/12/2020 22:25, Paul Gilmartin wrote: On Wed, 9 Dec 2020 21:58:34 +, Frank Swarbrick wrote: I have downloaded and installed in my personal z/OS Unix directory curl and a few other z/OpenSource tools from Rocket Software. I have asked my z/OS security guy if we can go ahead and have

Re: does anyone recall any details about MVS/XA?

2020-12-11 Thread R.S.
W dniu 09.12.2020 o 20:02, Paul Gilmartin pisze: On Wed, 9 Dec 2020 19:31:34 +0100, R.S. wrote: ... I perceived aversion to RECEIVE FROMNTS as UNIXphobia. Our product was not so large that DASD space was a concern. Can't please everyone. Gil, Don't kill messenger ;-) Was that statement hos