On Jun 17, 2012, at 2:06 AM, Tom Ross wrote:
I know there is no reaching cranky Ed, but for others I can help:
The only reason I am cranky is I have been on the receiving end of
*SO* many irate calls to the systems group complaining about the bad
manuals. AFter 50 you give up.
Somewhere
that. The other small issue are
samples , some god and some bad, like any other language
Scott ford
www.identityforge.com
On Jun 15, 2012, at 4:22 PM, Ed Gould edgould1...@comcast.net wrote:
Scott:
Manual reading has always been an issue. For year we have been
asking IBM to write clear and useful
Richard:
There is also a utility on the CBT Tape that will create a IEBUPDTE
stream. Very handy (at least for me) .
Ed
On Jun 18, 2012, at 2:10 PM, Richard Peurifoy wrote:
On 6/18/2012 1:47 PM, John P Kalinich wrote:
You can use the OFFLOAD program from CBT file 093 (http://
mainframe system? It's CA-7! If they think
that's
complicated they probably can't work a Mr. Coffee.
Thomas Ambros
Operating Systems and Connectivity Engineering
518-436-6433
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Date: 06/27/2012 00:44
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This is what SMF can be used for easy and straightforward.
Ed
On Jun 28, 2012, at 12:46 PM, Lizette Koehler wrote:
Hi everyone,
We are looking for a software product that can scan our JCL
libraries and produce a list of ALL input files. Does anyone know
of such a product.
We use to
Tony:
This would have been a good Item for Walt to talk about. Is there
someone else from RACF that would like to pipe up?
Ed
On Jun 28, 2012, at 1:34 PM, Tony Harminc wrote:
On 28 June 2012 06:44, Donald Likens dlik...@infosecinc.com wrote:
I've been looking through the books but have
On Jun 28, 2012, at 4:00 PM, Anne Lynn Wheeler wrote:
ibm services has been outsourcing such processing for some number of
financial institutions ... there is folklore about trade-off between
having processing to always be under the limit where fine is applied
... versus cost savings on not
not only DB2, but also
provides all the detailed info about the usage of any kind of
resource by any specific program.
If anyone wants more information, please let me know.
With Regards,
Mitch McCluhan,
Legacy Modernization Consultant
-Original Message-
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that.
Ed
On Jul 1, 2012, at 9:04 AM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote:
In 047067a6-a5c0-4f92-8963-1bd539013...@comcast.net, on 06/26/2012
at 11:37 PM, Ed Gould edgould1...@comcast.net said:
Subject: 'Inexperienced' RBS tech operative's blunder led to banking
meltdown
An *operator* was upgrading CA
The issue is being widely attributed to the leap second, the one-
second time adjustment for atomic clocks so they can synchronize with
clocks based on the Earth's rotation.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/07/02/qantas_network_down/
Mark:
I spoke to the individuals that I have interviewed.
Ed
On Jul 2, 2012, at 7:54 AM, Mark Zelden wrote:
On Sun, 1 Jul 2012 09:33:05 -0500, Ed Gould
edgould1...@comcast.net wrote:
Shmuel:
Well if it was outsourced I wouldn't be surprised to much.
I suspect that these people sell
John:
Indeed...
There is one of those el cheapo (cards in a sales deck distributed
en masse) products that does this exactly . I ran into this once and
got zippo support from the vendor.
I inquired as to why we were running it in the first place as no one
looked at the output. I got them
On Jul 4, 2012, at 5:59 PM, Ron Hawkins wrote:
---
SNIP---
TMP: truly temporary datasets, and not transitory datasets passed
from job to job
DBS: any dataset allocated by a DBMS (IMS, DB2, IDMS, etc) or an
OLTP (CICS, etc).
sigh I know...
That I didn't tell you was they created (not through dynamic but
through some other path (old TSO I'd guess) so their naming
standards was their own which was not a type situation) it
looked like one but they never fully converted to the new temp
naming stards that
Paul:
According to one item I read, YES.
Ed
On Jul 12, 2012, at 2:53 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
On Thu, 12 Jul 2012 11:58:17 -0700, Lizette Koehler wrote:
http://www.cnn.com/2012/07/12/tech/web/yahoo-users-hacked/
index.html?hpt=hp_t2
(CNN) -- Hackers posted online what they say is
http://www.informationweek.com/news/security/attacks/240003692?
cid=nl_IW_daily_2012-07-13_htmlelq=ce8b95a547134f1eb898ba0413ba0b0c
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their actions.
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On Jul 15, 2012, at 12:18 AM, Ed Gould edgould1...@comcast.net
wrote:
http://www.informationweek.com/news/security/attacks/240003692?
cid=nl_IW_daily_2012-07-13_htmlelq=ce8b95a547134f1eb898ba0413ba0b0c
I think the problem is that in z/OS there is no one way of
notification (I know you are asking for one).
There are at least 2 (3 if you count z) commands to stop an
application, P and ,technically F I know F is usually modify
but it is also used as stop.
All the applications would have to
Paul:
WHOH there... SMF is an issue but the MVS control blocks (especially
the TSOe ones) are frozen in stone. While I would not want to talk on
IBM's behalf the proverbial hell would have to freeze over before any
TSO/e control block would/could be changed.
Ed
On Jul 24, 2012, at 10:45
Hi:
I got an update from Ricks' brother and I thought I would send it on.
Ed
-
My name is Jerry Fochtman and I am a brother to Rick Fochtman. I am
sorry to
have to
On Aug 2, 2012, at 2:11 PM, zOSdude wrote:
Our auditors (Feds) say we need to apply all new PTF's within 30
days of availability. I'm speechless. Does anyone have the patience
to form a cogent argument without laughing, crying, or tying one on?
I told my boss that if I did that, we'd be
Indeed... the Martians would be tired of getting our space junk and
turn them on and run (gasp) vs1 (sigh).
On Aug 3, 2012, at 9:40 AM, Elardus Engelbrecht wrote:
Art Gutowski wrote:
McKown, John wrote:
What is the most secure computer? The one that is powered off and
locked in a
Gerhard:
I know this is not current and it may be applicable to this.
30 or so years ago IBM brought out a new COBOL compiler and of course
along with it came a manual for it.
Everyone wanted a copy and my management didn't want to buy 200+ copies.
We had to get special permission from IBM to
On Aug 6, 2012, at 9:30 AM, Elardus Engelbrecht wrote:
Ed Gould wrote:
Just be aware that when you are bleeding edge you will find
other issues that will cause you to put on other fix(s). It can be
an unending running mill. If you decide to go that way hire extra
staff and get some extra
Hal:
A long time ago (when MVS first came out) a programmer got an S0C7
and brought it to us as it was a system abend for it was our
problem. I pointed out while picking up the phone to his boss's boss
and telling them both to read the FM and to get the F out of there.
His boss had a few
On Aug 8, 2012, at 1:56 PM, George, William@FTB wrote:
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On Aug 7, 2012, at 7:12 PM, Scott Ford wrote:
I love it .I had a COBOL programmer bet me that our DOS/VSE
system on our 4381 was causing her abend. She bet me a dinner, well
I collected, brought her in and did a instruction trace pointed
right to her code
Scott ford
George:
Find who hired them and let them have a free reign and fire them.
Ed
On Aug 8, 2012, at 4:28 PM, George, William@FTB wrote:
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On Aug 13, 2012, at 4:31 AM, mf db wrote:
Hi All,
In one of Sandbox system has throwing an error like *IEA061E
REPLACEMENT
ASID SHORTAGE HAS BEEN DETECTED. The IBM manual Provides a
recommendation
like :
*System* *Programmer* *Response:* Determine if the shortage is due to
RSVNONR being
At one time (haven't checked currently) there are several disk
utilities (CA-DISK and DMS (or what ever the name is now) used to do
this nicely.
We used this (as well) to make changes in the DSCB's for trk/cyl
changes etc etc.. check to see you may have a product that already
does it.
Berry:
We had an STC that processed sysouts (some off the wall product that
may not be around now). If we didn't suppress the type 30's (I think
its been a while). Whenever we would bring it down it would literally
cause the SMF address space to run at 100 per cent cpu for hours
writing
On Aug 17, 2012, at 10:04 AM, John Gilmore wrote:
Auditing is not 'boot camp'. All professional firms do, however, make
quasi-exploitative use of their junior, recent-graduate employees.
Everything depends upon how in detail this scheme is used. IBM's law
firm, Cravath, Swaine Moore,
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/08/17/data_migration_11_tapes/
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Well now IBM's position on reports (dasd usage) was to do just that.
To back that up at GUIDE we had repeatedly put in request
(requirements) for reports on DASD usage and they were continually
rejected. After at least 3 attempts the verbiage came back to run
ISMF in batch (which did not
On Aug 26, 2012, at 6:06 AM, Arthur Fichtl wrote:
SNIP-
OTOH, if you look at the global big new companies (e.g. Google,
Amazon, Facebook), nobody of them is running MF systems because
these companies are not captivated by legacy systems.
LiZette:
I think you can get a freeware product called IEHLIST w/cc
LISTVTOC vol=3380=volser,format (or dump)
ED
On Aug 27, 2012, at 6:26 PM, Lizette Koehler wrote:
Gil,
What kind of space are you looking for?
LISTC name ALL will provide space info on VSAM but not NON VSAM
If you want
Unless the rules have changed
The only time IEHPROGM needs to be APF authorized is for SCRATCH
VTOC. This could be a bug in IEHPROGM as well..
Ed
On Sep 5, 2012, at 12:25 AM, Kenneth J. Kripke wrote:
DATA AT PSW 0001CE48 - 58101000 0A6B5023
Data shows a MODESET SVC which does
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/09/05/ibm_z12_mainframe_engine/
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Scott:
I think IBM seriously suggested that this was not to be used as it is
not a programming interface.
One off the wall vendor does/did that and every few years it breaks
as IDCAMS output changes.
Ed
On Sep 8, 2012, at 9:43 AM, Scott Ford wrote:
Jurgen,
You could also call idcams,
understand, but what alternative has
been provided and samples with the alternative.
Scott ford
www.identityforge.com
On Sep 8, 2012, at 7:06 PM, Ed Gould edgould1...@comcast.net wrote:
Scott:
I think IBM seriously suggested that this was not to be used as it
is not a programming interface.
One
On Sep 6, 2012, at 10:31 PM, Skip Robinson wrote:
SNIP--
If you are deeply disturbed by RC 8, either take a (physician
prescribed)
pill, or spend some of your vast spare time researching each
*IF* you can identify by jobname which JCLLIB order you should be
able (not tried) to do it in on of the JES exits.
Ed
On Sep 12, 2012, at 10:10 PM, Munif Sadek wrote:
Hello Listers
Jobs are submitted using WLM initiators form Production and
Development systems in our shared JES2 MAS.
Walter:
One question that sort of bothers me on this given your request what
program runs on Z/os that can read (and create the graphs) that the
XLS file contains?
It would seem to me that a simple .csv file could be created quite
easily on Z/os and then sent to the appropriate platform
John:
Over the years auditors at my company have come up with a similar
question. While I give it to the auditors I do no give it out to say
the average person.
1. I have seen passwords on the syslog.
2. I have also seen arguments that have come up in meetings over how
operators replied
request) BTW I did have input into their priority waiting and
it didn't help a lot.
Ed
On Sep 18, 2012, at 9:21 AM, Elardus Engelbrecht wrote:
Ed Gould wrote:
1. I have seen passwords on the syslog.
Can you show any example(s) of such messages? Of course you can
mask out the passwords
John,
Wouldn't a safe assumption be that when using HLASM that if you use a
op code that HLASM does not know anything about it would be flagged
as an error (and thus not to be used).
I am with Chris B... this is an execution issue and before using
any new instructions it is in the best
Scott:
I have been through this issue with YAHOO and GMAIL.
AFter talking with their support people it appears to be their issue.
Although they deny it.
The issue is that the (listserv) mail server (rightly or wrongly
depending on your POV) configure the email headers with the sender as
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9231499/
Ohio_mainframe_exodus_wraps_up_in_84_500_hours?taxonomyId=68
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On Sep 26, 2012, at 1:09 PM, R.S. wrote:
W dniu 2012-09-26 16:01, Ed Gould pisze:
ELARDUS:
I am NOT a UNISYS person.
But from reading a little I think they can simulate CICS (supposedly
programs run unchanged).
Can you provide any reference
The FREE UTILITY on CBT tape does this and more and no need to buy
anything.
Ed
On Sep 26, 2012, at 9:13 AM, Galambos, Robert wrote:
If you have File-AID MVS you can contact our support desk and they
can send you a CREF with most of the SMF records defined.
Robert Galambos CIPP/C
John:
Your points are good. However you *MUST* order (and pay for) LE as
other components TCP and others need it (LE).
Ed
On Sep 28, 2012, at 9:02 AM, McKown, John wrote:
Since it's Friday and I am not doing much today, I'll jump in. When
one buys (actually licenses) a version of what is
Indeed what about NJE...?
Ed
On Oct 2, 2012, at 6:16 PM, Wayne Bickerdike wrote:
If it came from a card reader?
How about EXEC CICS SPOOL?
Not every job is submitted from TSO and or has its origin in a PDS :)
On Sun, Sep 30, 2012 at 11:59 PM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/10/01/bmc_seventh_mainframe_survey/
The annual mainframe survey has never been restricted to BMC shops,
and the company uses a variety of ways out there on the web to reach
the 1,264 customers who took the survey in 2012. About 60 per cent of
those polled
Look it up in your friendly MC:)
Ed
On Oct 4, 2012, at 7:45 PM, Edward Jaffe wrote:
On 10/4/2012 7:46 AM, Miklos Szigetvari wrote:
If it is so complicated, no wonder if Another Light goes out
At least you can eventually figure out what happened. Try
understanding this, especially without
David:
It is a little more complicated than that.
You have to start tuning the VSAM data set for proper CI size and a
few other parameters.
I believe there is a red book out there called something like
Demystifying VSAM or something close maybe others can come up with
the proper name.
It
Ed:
I am not sure I agree.
I swear by the return codes in SMPe Simple rule is anything above a 4
(four) needs attention.
That is as simple as you can get. I never applied maintenance on a
live running system, it was always on a sysres or DLIB(s) on a set of
disks that were mounted as
On Oct 6, 2012, at 12:07 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
SNIP---
For the ultimate irony, did the FORTRAN compiler source code
input with RECFM=VBS?
-- gil
Gil:
The G1 compiler needed FB (80) I never got to tinker with the WatIV
as the project never needed the
Chris:
When I worked at a major publishing company (40 years ago+) we
acquired SYNCSORT and at least weekly we sorted our master file (not
sure I can tell you why either) and during the sort we used to sort 25
+ million customer records (lots of other big sorts as well) we saved
quite a
I am surprised Rogers has survived (actually good for him) After they
fiasco at the system center picnic I though he would have ended up in
podunk iowa selling card punches.
Ed
On Oct 15, 2012, at 4:29 PM, Edward Jaffe wrote:
On 10/14/2012 9:29 PM, Mark Nelson wrote:
The next meeting of
On Oct 30, 2012, at 10:32 AM, Rob Schramm wrote:
Plus, the CBT is not really searchable. It would be really nice if
all the
code and examples were searchable.
Wading through the CBT is tedious.
Rob Schramm
Senior Systems Consultant
Imperium Group
On Oct 31, 2012, at 9:48 AM, Jousma, David wrote:
All,
Looking for some feedback - publications, real world experience,
etc on managing the z/OS environment to support JAVA application
development in our shop. Up until now, JAVA has been a service
provider for systems level(and
On Oct 31, 2012, at 2:30 PM, Farley, Peter x23353 wrote:
But the CO's still have backup generators, usually well supplied
and regularly tested, at least in my experience. I have *never*
lost land-line service even in the area-wide blackouts of the past
4 decades here in the northeast US.
I get the requested document is unavailable.
No contact or anything.
Ed
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Jim,
I do not think that allows for multivolume dataset(s) and I think for
that you need to copy the entire dataset.
Ed
On Sep 25, 2013, at 7:35 AM, Jim McAlpine wrote:
yes, something like this.
COPYDS(INC(**)) -
DELETE -
RECAT(*) -
ALLDATA(*) -
Mark:
Having a layout of the record helps, BUT it does no good unless you
have a description of the fields. Say you dump the record there is a
date field . Unless you know specifically what date they are
talking about (could be assembly date, date SMF record was created
and another
http://money.cnn.com/2013/09/19/technology/ibm-watson.pr.fortune/
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Yes I know the video is 54 minutes long but in my opinion its worth it.
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allegations it posted discriminatory online job openings, allegedly
stating a preference for H-1B and foreign student visa holders for
its software and apps developer positions. The job openings were for
IT positions that would
I got this email in and was wondering if anyone had an insight what
it might be about...
Every day, we create 2.5 quintillion bytes of data—so much that 90%
of the data in the world today has been created in the last two years
alone. This data comes from everywhere: sensors are used to
Charles,
I would not rush to judgement on this.
*IF* it can script a response to a 3270 screen, say enter part number
and it send the part number to the host and what ever is returned
from the host should be readable and then the script could do its thing.
I have a difficult time with this
On Oct 2, 2013, at 10:36 AM, Elardus Engelbrecht wrote:
There is delete pds(member), but that requires exclusive access.
That is an IDCAMS command, not TSO.
Way back when we ran into this issue with IDCAMS.
The way we got around it was to have a DD statement with the dsn and
a disp=shr
John,
We had a standard that nothing went into production that couldn't be
completely supported by the programmer.
Having said that we did have IBM utilities in production and of
course some vendor utilities in production.
How we handled it if it was a IBM utility I (or someone in the
Let's not forget IBM did so as well.
CE's (and others) used to carry reel tapes along with them. These
tapes carries some nice surprises. They were (I think written by
IBMers ) and got wide distribution to customers.
There were of course the FDP's IBM even had a manual with those
listed. I
Lizette:
Well it could be a sys1 (with multiple mastercats) (technically they
are cataloged correctly on each system)
Ed
On Oct 4, 2013, at 5:16 PM, Lizette Koehler wrote:
I guess I would ask what are you trying to do?
That would mean having many UNCATALOGED files. Is that what you
https://www-304.ibm.com/connections/blogs/systemz/entry/
announcing_the_2013_master_the_mainframe_contest?
lang=en_usamp;cmp=101ASamp;ct=101AS12Wamp;cr=stgsocialamp;csr=system
zamp;cm=hamp;ccy=usamp;cpb=stgamp;S_TACT=101AS12Wamp;sf17942538=1a
Probably anyone that is using shareware in production:)
Ed
On Oct 5, 2013, at 10:53 PM, David Crayford wrote:
On 6/10/2013 9:31 AM, Ed Gould wrote:
While gaining real-world skills, students will be introduced to
the vital role that the mainframe plays in mobile, cloud, and
analytics
http://nypost.com/2013/10/05/ibm-now-employs-more-workers-in-india-
than-us/
This reminds me of the comic strip Pogo: I have seen the enemy and
he is us (or word to that effect).
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My memory is iffy here but a LONG time ago IBM said in order to
assign a new management class the ACS routines must be redriven.
Ed
On Oct 9, 2013, at 11:54 AM, David G. Schlecht wrote:
Actually did try that and got the same result. There must be some
way to do this because it's too
Paul,
While I am NOT a fan of PDSE's, I believe that there are entries in
the PDSE directory (ie entries GT 9 bytes) that cannot be contained
in a normal PDS directory. Or there are items that cannot be
contained in a PDS directory. Such items as an entry point in c++ (or
any other
Well everyone is right (or something close anyway).
The s0C4 could be something like trying to write a logrec record
(possibly an error occurred during the format of the new record or...
it could just about be anything without basic info its hard to say).
Ed
On Oct 17, 2013, at 10:58 PM,
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/oracle-passes-ibm-become-
world-113725929.html
Oracle (ORCL) CEO Larry Ellison will use just about any excuse he can
to brag about the company he founded. He discovered a new path, as
Oracle used IBM's (IBM) earnings release to claim that the century
old
On Oct 21, 2013, at 11:24 AM, Skip Robinson wrote:
--SNIP
In order to subject all PARMLIB members to a single set of syntactic
rules, all participating development cats would have to be herded
into a
one big room with no windows
Just one word. Education ... IBM cut their own throats (has been
discussed on here before) when they stopped the education discount.
Ed
On Oct 22, 2013, at 7:38 AM, Gerhard Adam wrote:
That's a strange conclusion to draw from that article. Why would
you think
that users were more
I am not quite sure I agree with you about every manual costing $$.
My limited memory says at one time GC manuals were free and the SC
manual cost $$.
*WAY* back when (1970's) we wanted to order 300 copies of the new
COBOL Compiler manuals (for our programmers). We were told that each
Tony:
Chuckle I don't think that will help as most vehicles on the showroom
floor do not have power (battery has been disconnected).
Having said that I recently bought a car and did not like the stereo
the car came with. I went to a place that sold different models and
was not allowed to
John:
In all the installations I have worked in most are COBOL.
None of the COBOL installations use dynam and so all(most all) the
cobol subroutines are loaded at the initial step initiation time.
From my not so all encompassing experience I would say JOBLIB is the
way to go. If on the other
library. Granted QCM is no longer sold but we did use it to its full
use when it was available.
Ed
On Oct 26, 2013, at 2:04 PM, John Gilmore wrote:
Ed [Gould],
The COBOL shops---chiefly in insurance, banking, and
communications---that I know well instead do use DYNAM heavily, often
when
Paul,
A LONG LONG time ago we had bumped in to the maxsuba of 255.
IBM almost simultaneously came out with a outrageously expensive add
on (memory was $5000 a month) to get rid of it.
My management said NFW to the cost and told me to live with it. We
had to start turning away customers and
Clem:
In the early 80's we had looked at JOL and came away with mixed
feelings about it.
I see it has been kept up to date (and thats good).
Maybe in a few years we will look at it again when our plate is not
to full.
Thanks.
Ed
On Nov 13, 2013, at 9:57 PM, Clem Clarke wrote:
There has
I am guessing Darren is no longer with us, so who do find out who
unsubscibed me from IBM-MAIN?
Or is ownership a who cares?
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However the let me say this about SMPE.
The author did not go into detail about how their USERMOD's are
designed.
When I do a usermod it is for a stated level of a mod ie ++pre
().
If I go to apply and find out there is conflict I just restore the
Peter:
This story spans 2 decades of stories and hist and OS/s (and sorts).
In the 70's we were gasping for CPU and looked at practically
everything.
We tried doing things to economize on CPU resources.
We tore apart programs and tried to quantify items.
We even had the assembler people
Other system seems to handle I/O better than Z/os.
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Dave:
I remember distinctly that UID's were limited to 7 characters.
One of the reasons was that UADS had a directory of 8 characters and
the 8th character was reserved for UID's needing more space in UADS
so a character was reserved (shaky here but the 8th character was
either 0, 1 2 etc)
John,
This goes back to the 1970's and one of our vendors (Kommand
accounting if memory serves me) did this and it took me a better part
of a day to figure it out, what a PITA. I found it and kicked myself
for not finding it sooner.
Ed
On Dec 2, 2013, at 9:19 AM, John McKown wrote:
On
:15:04 -0600, Ed Gould wrote:
I remember distinctly that UID's were limited to 7 characters.
One of the reasons was that UADS had a directory of 8 characters and
the 8th character was reserved for UID's needing more space in UADS
so a character was reserved (shaky here but the 8th character
SDB
As always a default may or may not be what is best for the allocation
type. ISPF tends to need all the information in small blocks ie 10
records of 80 bytes (or somewhere there abouts) now the fair question
to ask why doesn't ISPH create records with more info in them and
that
Jon:
Way back in the 1970's one of people decided to use in in an COBOL
application. The problem was he didn't read the fine print and at the
time COBOL (sorry don't remember the product number) didn't support
VBS and we had to back out his simple change and rerun the entire
(sorry I
Wayne:
I have never worked on a ACDC system.
However there are are other IBM (MVS VM) where they come with
*KNOWN* passwords (for installation) and that is clearly documented.
The point they (I am guessing here) that having the passwords is
dangerous in insecure and yes it is.
The point
Charles,
I noticed that you have disp=mod on the dd statement each time you
run the dump I think you keep adding on to the problem.
Ed
On Dec 10, 2013, at 10:23 PM, Charles Mills wrote:
6 extents times 10 tracks is only 60 tracks but you say it's 157
tracks.
Not me! ISPF 3.4 says it's
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