Re: Co-posted: Rexx performance measures

2018-09-11 Thread Jackson, Rob
Works for me just fine. Looping ten million times and incrementing a counter by one resulted in this: Bgn CPU: 68.66 Bgn SRV: 2447864 End CPU: 76.36 End SRV: 2721588 First Tennessee Bank Mainframe Technical Support -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List

Re: 0,clpa

2018-08-24 Thread Jackson, Rob
No one needs clap, Allan. No one. Happy Friday, all. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Allan Staller Sent: Friday, August 24, 2018 5:04 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: 0,clpa [External Email] 1) as one other poster inidicated, add clap

Re: Weirdest. Acquisition. Ever. Broadcom buys CA Technologies • The Register

2018-07-13 Thread Jackson, Rob
Both of my former lives we went through the same thing with CA; in the end the will was never there. Here in my third life we went through the same inflexibility and insanity with them, and we made the same threats, but this time we followed through on it. We have been CA-free since March of 2

Re: [External] Re: remove bad GDG entry from GDG base

2018-07-05 Thread Jackson, Rob
That's because if the original attempt was tape, there's definitely no NVR. Sorry, when I mentioned IEHPROGM earlier, I was actually thinking of the CATLG command, as in CATLG DSNAME=dataset,VOL=3390=whocares (disk doesn't matter, because you just want an entry you can actually delete). I thoug

Re: [External] Re: remove bad GDG entry from GDG base

2018-07-05 Thread Jackson, Rob
Did you try IEHPROGM? What happens if you create a different dataset and rename it to the messed up GDS? First Tennessee Bank Mainframe Technical Support -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Wissink, Brad Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2018 10:51 AM To: IBM-MA

Re: trying to reload a pdse after it has been unloaded and ftp'd

2018-05-16 Thread Jackson, Rob
defaults are not acceptable. First Tennessee Bank Mainframe Technical Support -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Jackson, Rob Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2018 4:17 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: [Originated Externally]Re: trying to reload a pdse

Re: trying to reload a pdse after it has been unloaded and ftp'd

2018-05-16 Thread Jackson, Rob
mand: EZA1736I LOCSITE LRECL=1024 BLKSIZE=27648 RECFM=FB EZA1460I Command: EZA1736I GET 'XCICS.FA.HIST.DUMPED' 'PBCDOFP.FA.HIST.DUMPED' (REPLACE EZA1701I >>> PASV -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU]

Re: trying to reload a pdse after it has been unloaded and ftp'd

2018-05-16 Thread Jackson, Rob
We DSS dump and FTP hundreds of PDSs and PDSEs every day (don't ask), both text and loadlibs. From z/OS to z/OS you don't need to worry about tersing for portability. You just need 'type e' and 'mode b' in your FTP control cards. First Tennessee Bank Mainframe Technical Support -Original

Re: GETMAIN LOC=32

2018-05-10 Thread Jackson, Rob
Hear hear. I wholeheartedly agree. This started off bewildering; then it became entertaining; now it's just irritating. I'm adding a filter to dump "GETMAIN LOC=32" in deleted. This has turned from a flight of fantasy into a waste of resources. First Tennessee Bank Mainframe Technical Suppo

Re: WLM?

2018-05-03 Thread Jackson, Rob
On our tiny mainframe 800 SUs is still only .03 CPU seconds, which is not insignificant, but is really not that much CPU time. 800 SUs is just not that much CPU. First Tennessee Bank Mainframe Technical Support -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Adams

Re: RECFM (was: IRS - 60-Year-Old IT System Failed ... )

2018-04-26 Thread Jackson, Rob
When I was in JHS we learned BASIC (and Pascal) with IBM BASICA on PS/2s (80286s with 20 MB HDDs). The assignments required LET. First Tennessee Bank Mainframe Technical Support -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Thursday, April 2

Re: SCP an MVS dataset

2018-04-23 Thread Jackson, Rob
Yeah, before I discovered Co:Z, I wrote some REXX USS programs to copy-to-USS and copy-to-MVS. They worked, and you're welcome to them (might save you some time figuring out the copy options, etc.), but Co:Z is so much better. First Tennessee Bank Mainframe Technical Support -Original Mess

Re: SCP an MVS dataset

2018-04-23 Thread Jackson, Rob
Does it have to be SCP? I would hope the server to which you're sending would support SFTP too. Either way, you need Co:Z SFTP, here: https://dovetail.com/products/sftp.html. It is a lifesaver. First Tennessee Bank Mainframe Technical Support -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe

Re: JCL "diagramming"?

2018-03-29 Thread Jackson, Rob
We have SmartIS from Segus that does a really nice job of this. It parses JCL, PROCs, and sysins and generates very nice flow charts. It also reads SMF data and generates data/run flows from that. And it generates job plans, etc., from several scheduling systems, in our case, Zeke. Very slic

Re: So long and thanks for all the fish

2018-02-07 Thread Jackson, Rob
That is a crying, damn shame. Inherently foolish and willfully ignorant, and I imagine subject to the supposition that they cannot find resources to support it in the future. Good luck to you, Mark. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.ED

Re: Off topic - FTP client/server for android that supports the android SD card

2017-12-29 Thread Jackson, Rob
I use the FtpCafe client, which supports it just fine for uploads and downloads. After connecting, on the LOCAL tab, you navigate to /sdcard (which maps to /storage/emulated/0 on my phone) and take it from there. I don't run a server on it. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Disc

Re: LRS VPS Printer Replacment

2017-12-15 Thread Jackson, Rob
Not sure whom you were asking, but I can answer for our formerly-VPS, now-NPF shop. We have 65 active physical printers, covered by 174 definitions. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Jesse 1 Robinson Sent: Friday, Dec

Re: LRS VPS Printer Replacment

2017-12-14 Thread Jackson, Rob
We successfully replaced VPS with NPF, which is included in CommServer. It's not quite as robust as VPS, but considering the price, it works beautifully. https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSLTBW_2.2.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r2.halp001/toc.htm -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe

Re: STC @ IPL - how to wait for OMVS to be initialized with no automation product.

2017-12-04 Thread Jackson, Rob
Won't it just wait on its own? We've never done anything special, and we've never had any issues with things requiring OMVS. Every time we IPL we get message BPXP022E . . . . First Tennessee Bank Mainframe Technical Support 1638 Robert C Jackson Dr Maryville, TN 37801 O: 865-977-5343 C: 334-

Re: Consolidate Consoles

2017-11-27 Thread Jackson, Rob
We have BMC's MainView CM, a very nice product that provides console consolidation, LDAP-controlled operator logons, command auditing, and automation (it interfaces with the HMC, as well). We run it on RHEL on x86, though I believe you could run it on any Linux. First Tennessee Bank Mainframe

Re: TDMF or FDRPAS or how to migrate data

2017-11-06 Thread Jackson, Rob
When we insourced our data center six years ago, we used TDMF to migrate more than 3300 volumes of various sizes approximately a thousand kilometers using a "spare" DS3 line. It required seven master sessions and corresponding agents on each source LPAR, and we ensured time-consistency between

Re: SMF Dump Exit - IEFU29

2017-11-01 Thread Jackson, Rob
My solution for the past ten years for all SMF dataset woes is the System Logger. It has a number of benefits and no negatives that I have seen. No more IEFU29, no more SMFDUMP, no more lost records because the daily dataset filled up. One simple job every day to dump all records from the pre

Re: SoftwareXcel Discontinued

2017-09-09 Thread Jackson, Rob
I am told, perhaps by a VAR, or not, that you can go ahead and sign a contract for five years or so on your current SoftwareXcel level--and grandfather yourself in. That is what we are trying to do. Perhaps if everyone does the same, IBM will forget about the whole thing. I really doubt any o

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