Re: Delaying response to a message

that was responsible for clearing trades and we were on serious deadlines. Ed > On Jun 3, 2016, at 11:24 PM, Edward Gould <edgould1...@comcast.net> wrote: > >> On Jun 2, 2016, at 1:53 PM, Zahir Hemini <zhem...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> We had jobs with an outstanding

Re: Enhancement RFE for TSO DELETE xxx MASK Function

> On Jun 9, 2016, at 7:08 PM, Paul Gilmartin > <000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > > On 2016-06-09 17:20, Lizette Koehler wrote: >> Cross posting to IBM Main and TSO-REXX >> >> I have just created this RFE, so you may or may not be able to vote on it. >> But >> when

Re: Delaying response to a message

> On Jun 2, 2016, at 1:53 PM, Zahir Hemini wrote: > >> We had jobs with an outstanding WTOR that would last for 2 or so weeks. >> Never an issue. >> >> Ed > > Did you allow them to stack up on the console? or did you K E,? them? and if > so how did you keep track of which

Video that might give you a chuckle

There is a rebooks (?!) at http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redpapers/abstracts/redp5358.html?Open Watch the video and you might get a chuckle (IBM didn’t catch it???) The voice says parmlib not parmLIB . Its interesting and should have been done ages ago with all the new suds enhancements. IBM you

Re: Delaying response to a message

> On May 30, 2016, at 12:49 PM, Charles Mills wrote: > > To answer the question that you actually asked, I think I have seen products > that successfully leave a WTOR pending for days. > > Moving on to the question you did not ask, I know you're dealing with the > responses,

Re: jedit (Was "Windows based editor / reformatter for DOS/VSE JCL?")

Charles: In one installation some one sometime bought a program that pretties up the output from IDCAMS. One day it got a s0C4 and I called up the vendor and got the run around. I deleted the product and told the user to get use to IDCAMS. Ed > On Jun 22, 2016, at 8:28 AM, Charles Mills

Re: RFE on TIOT Exceeded

Jake: While I sympathize with your issue. I think a lot of vendor code might break at 64K. I vaguely remember discussing this with a vendor after setting it. Although I suspect the real “user” is DB2 and anyone with DB2 and some vendor code would have run into this ages ago. Ed > On Jun 21,

OT: Blogs : Thought Leadership: Ivan Gelb Shares What It's Like to Be a CICS Mercenary

> http://www.share.org/ > > Thought Leadership: Ivan Gelb Shares What It's Like to Be a CICS Mercenary > > Ivan Gelb is known as a frequent presenter at SHARE, Computer Measurement > Group (CMG) and most of the major IBM technical conferences. He is the > president of

They are Catching up....

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/06/15/datacore_drops_spc1_bombshell/ DataCore drops SPC-1 bombshell Benchmark blows record to hell and gone The Fort Lauderdale boys have struck again, with a record-breaking run of 5 million IOPS, and maybe killed off every other SPC-1 benchmark contender's

Who was the first?

* Boffins decipher manual for 2,000-year-old Ancient Greek computer Antikythera Mechanism inscriptions suggest eclipse, weather prediction and... RTFM http://go.reg.cx/tdml/48a2/578aca7f/139c06f8/2msv (bet it didn’t

OT/IBM Refused to Layoff its people

http://www.businessinsider.com/ibm-corporate-america-history-2016-6 The American corporation has been transformed by globalization and new technology. But equally powerful is the belief that on Wall Street and in boardrooms the sole responsibility of a corporation is to maximize profits for

Re: Read a PDS (all members) like PS dataset

> On Jun 15, 2016, at 1:30 AM, Bill Woodger wrote: > > Perhaps SAS calls IEBPTPCH "under the covers"? > > Don't "buy" SAS just to do this... > > - But it hurts when I do that:) Ed -- For IBM-MAIN

Re: IBM plans for the future - an imaginary tale

Ed: I thought I had read that NIU was dropping out of the MF ed. I could be wrong. Ed > On Jun 14, 2016, at 7:28 PM, Edward Finnell > <000248cce9f3-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > > Dr Robert Rainy and the virtual paddles matriculated from UT Knoxville to > NIU several years

Re: IEBPTPCH (was: Read a PDS ...)

Paul: There are many peculiarities with IEBPTPCH. Like it doesn’t output in member sequence (I vaguely remember that it is TTR sequence (but could be wrong). The control card format is anything but intuitive I am iffy here but IIRC you must specify maxflds (why I have no clue) I hated the damn

Re: Datasets usage question

Yikes, I would *NEVER* consider using alias’s. Two things come to mind there is on CBTTAPE.ORG a find replace editor (or use the one that IBM use to give out on the CBPDO, that even might be on CBTAPE its been a while since I went through it. The smart way is to use DAF (on CBTTAPE and find who

Re: Read a PDS (all members) like PS dataset

Peter: No sure if this is what you want but again try the CBTTAPE. There is a utility to unload a PDS to PS (with and without IEBUPDTE cards. It still works after 20+ years and it still works on PDSE’s. Ed > On Jun 14, 2016, at 12:30 PM, Peter Ten Eyck > wrote:

Re: Suggestion for conditioning step on symbols

> On May 16, 2016, at 7:23 AM, Elardus Engelbrecht > wrote: > > John McKown wrote: > >>> You can always write a 3rd SORT system with a build in programming >>> language. Hopefully that system is sort of free... > >> ​Oh, yeah. Perhaps based on Guile (big grin)

Re: What was a 3314? (was: Whither VIO)

Chales, 2321 was a data cell (magnetic strip) hardly could be called DASD) I don’t recall a 3314 . The removable 3340 (not sure the number anyone?) Ed > On May 16, 2016, at 7:47 PM, Charles Mills wrote: > > > > 2301, 2321. > CharlesSent from a mobile; please excuse the

Re: Product name by module

> On May 18, 2016, at 12:12 AM, Ed Jaffe wrote: > > On 5/17/2016 9:56 PM, Peter wrote: >> Is it always possible to identify the product name by looking through the >> load modules. > > No. > >> Here in our shop there are some DATASET lying where we do not >> have

Re: What was a 3314? (was: Whither VIO)

nk anyone recalls a 3314. I think the OP said it was a typo, 2314 > mis-remembered as 3000-series DASD. > > Charles > > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On > Behalf Of Edward Gould > Sent: Wednesday, May

Re: Ancient software (Re: Product name by module)

We had a CICS “application” that we were paying big bucks for . We did a similar thing but inserted code into the “application” that did a WTO . we scanned the syslogs daily and not once in 6 months was this “application” used. We took the empty logs to the user and said see you aren’t using

Re: Product name by module

> On May 18, 2016, at 3:00 AM, Peter wrote: > > Hi, > > One of the module shows me the below copyright but I do not see the product > name. > > EIRFUCB2V1R1M0 5706-110 (C) COPYRIGHT IBM CORP. 1990 19945706-110 (C) The old Program product number is 5706-110 Try a google

Re: SMP/E Feature?

> On May 10, 2016, at 10:15 AM, Mark Zelden wrote: > > I never responded / commented on Andrew's post, but since you brought the > subject up > again I will. > > I always use DDDEFs unless some products install / maintenance procedures > don't include > adding DDDEFs and

Re: SMP/E Feature?

> On May 13, 2016, at 10:15 AM, Tom Marchant > <000a2a8c2020-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > > On Thu, 12 May 2016 23:16:43 -0500, Edward Gould wrote: > >> When I do JCL I have 1 PROC (total) for Receive, Apply and Accept. >> The symbolics in

Re: SMP/E Feature?

I will take a contrary due here. I never did trust SMPE with DDDEFS I always coded the JCL and I always know what libraries were being used/updated. Its too easy to make mistakes with DDEF’s (IMO). JCL is easy and straight forward in my opinion. Especially when you have too many fingers in the

Re: Kind of COND in a CLIST

Indeed there are many ways to skin a cat. With ISPF edit there are many ways to insert clist commands to imbed them into the list almost automatically. IOW there is no best way to do this. Use your imagination and have a got at it. Ed

Re: Resource Group Limits as a cost containment method?

> On Jul 21, 2016, at 12:25 PM, Elardus Engelbrecht > wrote: > > Tim Hare wrote: > >> Because of scheduling dumbness (another story) they have several gaps in >> their batch window where nothing runs, giving some leeway for jobs to >> increase their elapsed

Re: Upcoming Share Conference events in 2017

> On Jul 24, 2016, at 5:42 PM, retired mainframer > wrote: > >> -Original Message- >> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On >> Behalf Of Charles Mills >> Sent: Sunday, July 24, 2016 1:08 PM >> To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU >>

Re: 737 ( was RE: Upcoming Share Conference events in 2017)

> On Jul 25, 2016, at 9:08 AM, Charles Mills wrote: > > Winair? Saba? > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiVM0w9YquQ > > Charles This was a top a lava rock that seemed to jut out of the ocean for a good 800 (or more) feet. Ed

Re: 737 ( was RE: Upcoming Share Conference events in 2017)

> On Jul 24, 2016, at 7:19 PM, Edward Finnell > <000248cce9f3-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > > Better avionics, higher altitude. One of my roughest rides was into Denver > from Houston on a Delta DC-8. > The thunder cloud tops were so high we couldn't fly over so the pilot flew

Blue Screen Of Death, mainframe-style

>

Re: EXTERNAL: Re: Specifying JES2 initialization parameters

> On Aug 11, 2016, at 2:31 PM, Jerry Whitteridge > wrote: > > We do something a little similar using: > > //JES2PROC MEMBER=JES2,NJEMBR=JES2NJE,ALTMEM=JES2EXPR, > > > and > > > //HASPPARM DD DSN=SYS1.PARMLIB(),DISP=SHR > // DD

IBM's Australian cloud is in deep dodo

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/08/09/australian_census_slips_in_the_ibm_cloud/ -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: COBOL Unbounded Loops: A Diatribe On Their Omission From the COBOL Standard (and a Plea for Understanding)

> On Aug 12, 2016, at 4:15 PM, Bill Woodger wrote: > > Perhaps you can suggest a use for it beyond a file-processing loop. > > It may be an "across the Pond" type of thing, FILE STATUS is de rigueur (I > think that means they use it in France as well)? With FILE STATUS

Re: RFE to add new sizes to AVGREC and IDCAMS Define

Skip: I thought when it came out it was a GREAT thing. I incorporated it in several presentations to programmers. The comments that I came back with: Its too complicated and I never know how many records so I allocate the max (i.e. CYL ) and don’t worry about it. Those were typical responses,

Re: issue WTOR if surrogat ID submits a job

Do you really want the operators involved in this? They have enough work to do. Consider cancelling the job period. Ed > On Jul 11, 2016, at 11:41 PM, Munif Sadek wrote: > > Hi > > > We are JES2, z/OS 2.1 and would like batch to issues a WTOR (Confirm Y/N ?) > if a

Re: Considering Enterprise COBOL 5.2 "exit" enhancements

> —SNIP > ALTER is bad because its not obvious when you look at a piece of code where > it might actually branch to. > Alter has *ALWAYS* been bad. Ed -- For IBM-MAIN

Re: DFsort and zIIP

A place (long ago and far away) used both. For cost savings we decided on DFSORT (long story omitted). What we found was that for *some small percent* the control cards weren’t compatible. This was long before zIIP and once we got the control card issue resolved we were happy with DFSORT. The

Re: Confessions on use of ALTER was Re: Considering Enterprise COBOL 5.2 "exit" enhancements

—SNIP- > > PS. Is there anyone on this list who had the misfortune of inheriting > some of my payroll and marketing programs that used ALTER? >> —SNIP— No… but I have “inherited” other peoples

Re: Already logged on message - Wrong System ID

Isn’t there a operator command that can route commands do different LPARS ? Seems to me submitting a batch job to a different LPAR is a PITA when it can simply be done with a oper command. No? Ed > On Jul 15, 2016, at 9:28 PM, CM Poncelet wrote: > > The IEBGENER reads

Re: Considering Enterprise COBOL 5.2 "exit" enhancements

> On Jul 15, 2016, at 1:07 AM, Bill Woodger wrote: > > That's just side-stepping the question(s) Ed :-) > > I don't know of anywhere where ALTER is allowed (except I know of one guy who > "uses it all the time" and likens it to the way he does his shopping in the >

O/T IBM scraps loyal staffer gifts in favour of... a congratulatory social page • The Channel

> http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2016/07/11/ibm_scraps_loyal_employee_rewards_for_congratulatory_web_pages/ > > > > IBM scraps loyal staffer gifts in favour of... a congratulatory

Re: Considering Enterprise COBOL 5.2 "exit" enhancements

ot;I got a clean compile > but somehow my program doesn't work". > > Of course, anyone can say anything bad they like about ALTER, and get away > with it, as it is hated. Same with COBOL. As well as "external myth" there's > self-generated internal myth (like S0C1

Slightly OT: 'Leap Second' to Be Added on New Year's Eve This Year

> http://www.livescience.com/55312-leap-second-2016-atomic-clocks.html?utm_source=listrak_medium=email_campaign=20160708-lst > > > > 'Leap Second' to Be Added on New

Re: Command to display Enqueue

I don’t know either. We wrote one 40++ years ago. I think GUIDE/SHARE tape has had one for a LONG time. Ed > On Jul 8, 2016, at 11:57 AM, Mike Schwab wrote: > > Not sure where the QCB comes from: > xxx.CLIST(WHOHAS) > PROC 1 D > CONTROL PROMPT NOSYMLIST NOLIST

Re: Command to display Enqueue

I have a slight issue with letting users run this type of “job” (or tso command). I have spent countless hours in meeting discussing this type of command. BTW the arguement always comes down trying to explain time of incident to ongoing. The users tend to think themselves “experts” and trying to

Re: Minimum Volume Sizes in the Wild

I keep it standard to a MOD 3. NO DR issues and its quicker to define the environment. Ed > On Jul 7, 2016, at 4:58 PM, Edward Finnell > <000248cce9f3-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > > My concern is in a mixed CP Environment that you through stuff away. We > kept a defined string

IBM Redbooks | Everything You Always Wanted to Know about IDCAMS But Were Afraid to Ask

I am afraid to ask even after reading > > http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redpieces/abstracts/redp5389.html?Open > -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive

Behold the Fascinating Nightmare of Debugging a Computer from the 1950s

Behold the Fascinating Nightmare of Debugging a Computer from the 1950s It takes a lot more than some typing. http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/a21586/debugging-1959-vacuum-tape-drive/?mag=pop=nl_pnl_news=nl=063016

Re: IBM Knowledge Centre

> On Jul 2, 2016, at 10:56 PM, Jack J. Woehr wrote: > > Charles Mills wrote: > >>At a company apparently so into customer satisfaction. >> Whoa wait a second, the last time IBM asked for a survey on here I was unable to take it and they couldn’t/wouldn’t give a reason.

Re: TSO TEST and SYSOUTTRAP/SYSOUTLINE

From what little I remember going over the code I suspect that a lot of TEST uses TPUT which I belive is not capturable . I *THINK* TSO Session manager does its part of TSO and its free so why not use the great product? Ed > On Jul 3, 2016, at 7:22 PM, Paul Gilmartin >

Re: BSAM vs QSAM

> On Feb 3, 2017, at 6:27 PM, David W Noon > <013a910fd252-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > > On Fri, 3 Feb 2017 16:54:57 -0600, Paul Gilmartin > (000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu) wrote about "Re: BSAM > vs QSAM" (in

Re: HSM followup question

Liz: This is going back many years but when GUIDE last asked IBM to do this they said it wasn’t possible. Has IBM reversed their position? Ed > On Feb 3, 2017, at 5:56 PM, Lizette Koehler wrote: > > You can do an ALTER name MGMTCLAS(x). > > Once the MGMTClass of your

Re: Documentation in non-English languages?

> On Feb 7, 2017, at 6:56 AM, R.S. wrote: > > W dniu 2017-02-06 o 20:16, Paul Gilmartin pisze: >> On 2017-02-06, at 06:27, R.S. wrote: >> >>> W dniu 2017-02-06 o 14:03, Sean Gleann pisze: Ok, I've only done a cursory search, but can anyone tell me if IBM

Re: IBM Netview Session Manager replacement

> On Feb 7, 2017, at 8:16 AM, Dana Mitchell wrote: > > I think Tubes was acquired by IBM and became IBM Session Manager in the early > 2000's. We converted several systems TPX, Cl/SuperSession etc to it at the > time as part of the push to convert from ISV products to IBM

Re: zOS SYSPROG jobs

> On Feb 8, 2017, at 9:14 AM, R.S. wrote: > > W dniu 2017-02-07 o 17:58, Bobbie Justice pisze: >> I've seen several for NYC and places close to NYC (no thank you). >> >> There are companies that don't like U.S. employees doing remote work for >> whatever bogus

Re: Eight-character TSO Userid Support

Patrick: Thanks, I wonder how much IBM and user code is going to have to change to allow this? Ed > On Feb 6, 2017, at 6:57 AM, Patrick Loftus wrote: > > Looks like 8 character TSO userid support in z/OS v2r3 >

Re: BSAM vs QSAM

>> > Is this still, as Ed recalls, part of a separately-priced SAMe feature? No it was integrated into the base (with XA?? its been a LONG time). > > Thanks, > gil > > -- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: SFTP on z/OS

> On Jan 30, 2017, at 6:29 AM, David Crayford wrote: > > On 30/01/2017 4:31 PM, Rob Schramm wrote: >> Coz toolkit for z/OS makes setting up batch SFTP easy. Even if you choose >> not to use Coz toolkit in production. > > IMO, any site serious about running SFTP in

Re: HMC mail domain

David: This could be a big deal with some companies. A company 6that I used to work for battled every request this and it took months t6o get it done. I vote the KISS methodology. If there is a security issue it MUST be hi lighted as well. If you opt for your way there should be a big bullet

IBM's Watson-Based Machine Learning Designed for Data Scientists

> > http://www.eweek.com/ > > IBM Puts Watson-Based Machine Learning to Work on z System Mainframes > Posted 2017-02-16 > IBM announced Feb. 15 that it’s bringing some of Watson’s artificial > intelligence to the private cloud with a new cognitive computing platform >

Re: Fujitsu Mainframe Vs IBM mainframe

> On Feb 23, 2017, at 4:07 AM, Mike Cairns wrote: > > The first ten years of my mainframe career I never saw a true IBM > installation. First I worked with a Fujistu and MSP, then I moved to a shop > that had Amdahl kit, and after that a shop that was Hitachi. At least

Re: Incredible SHARE discount if you're under 35

> On Feb 21, 2017, at 11:29 AM, Bill Johnson > <0047540adefe-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > > blockquote, div.yahoo_quoted { margin-left: 0 !important; border-left:1px > #715FFA solid !important; padding-left:1ex !important; background-color:white > !important; } It figures, when

Re: zOS SYSPROG jobs

> On Feb 9, 2017, at 7:18 AM, R.S. <r.skoru...@bremultibank.com.pl> wrote: > > W dniu 2017-02-08 o 19:57, Edward Gould pisze: >>> On Feb 8, 2017, at 9:14 AM, R.S. <r.skoru...@bremultibank.com.pl> wrote: >>> >>> W dniu 2017-02-07 o 17:58, Bobb

Re: Subject : DCB NECESSSARY?

> On Feb 9, 2017, at 8:00 AM, Elardus Engelbrecht > wrote: > > Lizette Koehler wrote: > >> This is documented in the SAMPLIB (I am not at work so I think this is where >> it is) for HSM. ARC member name prefix name. > > Ah, this is it! I found it in ARCSTRST

Re: COUPLExx syntax question

> On Feb 13, 2017, at 4:44 AM, Vernooij, Kees (ITOPT1) - KLM > wrote: > > Peter, > > I agree that I wished I can rely on the fact that when a (enforced, > syntactical) limit is not documented, means there is no limit. > Apparently I can expect this from IBM. The

Re: IBM LinuxONE Rockhopper

Timothy: IBM can’t seem to get their act together on internet issues (just look at all the issues brought up here and don’t forget the hundreds of thousands of the non mainframe public who are frustrated. HINT the internet is not anywhere as complicated as the MF. The other sort of non public

Re: Loyalty

> On Feb 12, 2017, at 1:09 PM, George McHenry wrote: > > The game has always been to play along and let the company THINK you are > loyal while actually being loyal to yourself and your family. I never give > loyalty to an entity who would lay you off to save a few bucks

Re: Paper tape (was Re: Hidden Figures)

; > On Mon, 16 Jan 2017 20:12:02 -0600, Edward Gould wrote: > >>> On Jan 16, 2017, at 10:52 AM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: >>> >>> On Mon, 16 Jan 2017 07:00:27 -0600, Tom Marchant wrote: >>>> >>>> Yep. That's what I was thinking of. I

Re: Paper Tape

> On Jan 17, 2017, at 10:09 AM, Michael O'Byrne wrote: > > In 1972 I was the second shift manager of the IBM Customer Data Center in > Chicago. We had a paper tape reader/punch attached to a System/7. We > could attach the System/7 to System/360 but generally it was

Re: Paper tape (was Re: Hidden Figures)

gt; >> -Original Message- >> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On >> Behalf Of Edward Gould >> Sent: Monday, January 16, 2017 6:12 PM >> To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU >> Subject: Re: Paper tape (was Re: Hidden Figures) >

Re: Paper tape (was Re: Hidden Figures)

> On Jan 16, 2017, at 10:52 AM, Paul Gilmartin > <000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > > On Mon, 16 Jan 2017 07:00:27 -0600, Tom Marchant wrote: > >> On Sat, 14 Jan 2017 00:15:38 +, Vince Coen wrote: >> >>> If no where else it was on the printers for channel control. >>

Re: Paper tape

> On Jan 19, 2017, at 10:51 AM, John Mattson wrote: > > GTE Data Services in Marina del Rey, CA was still getting paper tape > out put from telephone local offices in 1982. Basically the system worked > fine, and while they were scheduled for replacement, they

Re: Delta Outage

No offense but I remember you differently from a SHARE conference 20??? years ago in Chicago. You look younger, and I guess thats good. Ed > On Aug 17, 2016, at 11:53 PM, Ed Jaffe <edja...@phoenixsoftware.com> wrote: > > On 8/17/2016 9:04 PM, Edward Gould wrote: >> Is

Re: included text from every other reply in a email chain..

> On Aug 19, 2016, at 11:49 AM, Tony Thigpen wrote: > > Unfortunately, my company REQUIRES that any replies include everything in the > past. Too many people were taking things out of context and replying to them > and CC'ing others. Then the others would then get involved

Re: Software vendor trying to force MSU based contract

> —SNIP- > I was at a client a number of years back where the vendor up and qudrupled > their license charges, with no increase in features or functionality. The > client had no choice, as the vendor product was critical, but I let that > vendor know that we

IBM will move stored stuff onto its new flashy boxen for free • The Register

> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/08/24/ibm_new_flash_storwize_gear/ > > > IBM will move stored stuff onto its new flashy boxen for free > > Strong bait for new customers. Not good news for Dell or EMC > > IBM has

Re: HFS - ZFS

> On Aug 29, 2016, at 10:18 AM, Paul Gilmartin > <000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > > On Mon, 29 Aug 2016 14:25:48 +, Rob Schramm wrote: > >> I can't comment in those. I have always used an dataset to write the >> archive. >> > o Should be equivalent; pax is one of

Re: Dump in 64 bit mode "Storage around GPR2 is invalid."

> On Aug 29, 2016, at 9:51 AM, Charles Mills wrote: > > Hmmm. To me, that strategy seems appropriate for a report program ("this > field is not relevant to this type of transaction so print blanks or > asterisks") but not for a dump program. Isn't a dump -- consider the name --

Re: Elementary dataset alias question

> On Aug 29, 2016, at 6:14 PM, Steve Beaver wrote: > > Charles -- As an aside for you and maybe others. > > Most SYSPROGS will install a product that contains the VERSION/RELEASE > level mostly to know what we have. > Once we are done testing and over a weekend we will

Re: Elementary dataset alias question

> On Aug 30, 2016, at 10:40 AM, Charles Mills wrote: > >> Why do you want to do this? > > The JCL for a zillion jobs is essentially fixed and unchangeable without > disrupting other things. > > Charles Charles, A long time ago I had a problem like this, JES2 (and or the

Re: Remember MCNVTCAT?

Sam: Thanks for the heads up and all the work that put in to replace the much needed utilities . Ed > On Sep 8, 2016, at 8:10 AM, Sam Golob wrote: > > Hi Folks, > >When you're making a new system or new catalogs, isn't it nice to generate > DEFINE statements for

Re: System Automation Question

> On Sep 10, 2016, at 12:12 PM, Scott Ford wrote: > > All: > > We have multiple z/OS images running in AWS ( Amazon ) and I have a > question. We have a set of CI (Continuous Integration) z/OS machines > and a set of QA z/OS machines. We develop on our sandbox and then

Re: S99ERROR = 21C For & UNIT=VIO

the Asssembly list > > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On > Behalf Of Edward Gould > Sent: Monday, September 26, 2016 4:44 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: S99ERROR = 21C For & UNIT=VIO >

Re: S99ERROR = 21C For & UNIT=VIO

What options did you pass to the assembler? Ed > On Sep 25, 2016, at 7:00 AM, Joseph Reichman wrote: > > Well > > I was able to allocate the datasets run > Or BASSM to the assembler > > But I cann't find the sysprint dataset > > I had disp=(new,catlg) > > Thanks

Re: remote system support (i.e. the data center is 2 states away from you).

> On Sep 28, 2016, at 12:28 AM, Brian Westerman > wrote: > > Hi John, > > Our company (Syzygy Incorporated) fully supports more than 70 sites remotely, > all over the world. On top of that we provide partial support for another 60 > to 70 sites. Some are

Re: Installation Improvements (was Re: Links to IBM announcements for today appear to be broken)

> On Oct 4, 2016, at 10:19 AM, Jousma, David wrote: > > Yea, I've been watching the software installation feature of z/OSMF grow. I > am not yet a believer, honestly, for the same reasons I am not a believer in > CA's MSM either.In the grand scheme of things, the

Re: 2FA in the Real World

> On Sep 13, 2016, at 12:23 PM, Vince Coen wrote: > > For me the problem is that it is a Dell product. > > Previous experience with them just leave a bitter taste in the mouth and > one I have no intention of repeating. > > Vincent > Vincent: AGREED. Ed > > On 13/09/16

Re: Bypassing s322

> On Sep 15, 2016, at 2:43 PM, Gibney, Dave wrote: > > The Cobol of 1981 is not the Cobol of today. Absolute statements regarding > behavior 35 years ago are almost unprovable. Except maybe some Herculean > effort :) SNIP—— But I will bet that a

Re: SYSZMCS Hang

> On Sep 22, 2016, at 2:23 AM, Elardus Engelbrecht > wrote: > > Edward Finnell wrote: > >> EREP show anything on the offending LPAR? > > What type of EREP records will be written if there are such events? EOD? OBR? > SFT? or other type? > > Or should I just

Re: Delta Outage

Ed, Is that you in the black leather jacket? Ed > On Aug 17, 2016, at 6:35 PM, Ed Jaffe wrote: > > On 8/17/2016 4:25 PM, Clark Morris wrote: >> From one of the papers I skimmed, the outage may have been caused by a >> failure in the backup power system or the

Re: Comments in SYS1.PARMLIB

Cheryl: > On Aug 23, 2016, at 2:51 PM, Cheryl Watson wrote: > > Hi Ed, > > Regarding "Letting IBM off with variations is nonsense.", I choose to think > of it as being pragmatic. I can complain all day about how IBM's reduction > of staff is hurting the mainframe,

Re: Comments in SYS1.PARMLIB

Cheryl: Thanks for all your work on this. However it occurs to me that IBM is still not living up to the spirit of the request. I would suggest that the “/*" and the “*/” standard (since day one mind you) IS the gold standard. Letting IBM off with variations is nonsense. The first “GROUP” who

Re: remote system support (i.e. the data center is 2 states away from you).

> On Sep 28, 2016, at 11:49 PM, Brian Westerman > wrote: > > Now that most mainframes (at least for the past several years) have > OSA-ICC's, there is no reason to worry about not having a console connection > remotely. We routinely define 16 consoles and 16

Re: remote system support (i.e. the data center is 2 states away from you).

> On Sep 28, 2016, at 11:51 AM, Gates, Guy wrote: > > Hi Ed, > > Do you have access to login to the HMC? I had a similar situation and > couldn't logon to TSO or even CA-SYSVIEW or another product we have named > BimEdit (From CSI Inc.), which both have authority to

Re: EXTERNAL: Re: remote system support (i.e. the data center is 2 states away from you).

> On Sep 28, 2016, at 12:49 PM, Jerry Whitteridge > wrote: > > Let me expand on that previous comment. > > If your Datacenter was/is designed for attended operations then console > access is often restricted to physical access and so remote support becomes > an

Re: EXTERNAL: Re: remote system support (i.e. the data center is 2 states away from you).

> On Sep 29, 2016, at 10:16 AM, Jerry Whitteridge > wrote: > > I take some umbrage if you are implying my sites are not "true production" - > My outages are as costly to our business as any could be. > The fact your sites have trust issues as well as training

Re: remote system support (i.e. the data center is 2 states away from you).

> On Sep 29, 2016, at 11:12 AM, John Mattson wrote: > >Fascinating subject for most of us, just look at all the replies. > Makes me sorry that I am close to retirement when things keep getting more > interesting. >Many years ago that I started doing all of the

Re: remote system support (i.e. the data center is 2 states away from you).

> On Sep 29, 2016, at 11:32 AM, Tony Thigpen wrote: > > Times have changed. > > Just ask the auditors if they have VPN access to their files so that they can > work from home. If they say yes, then you should be able to have VPN consoles > too. > > Or, just set it up and

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