New and Updated tools

Thanks to a friend who provided access to a z/OS system I've a few updates and a few new tools for y'all to enjoy. Note there is zero warranty, guarantee, or recourse with these so if you try them on your system do so in a sandbox first All can be found at http://www.lbdsoftware.com Update

Copy pdse v2 generations

Does anyone know if PDSFAST supports copying generations? IEBCOPY currently does not. Thanks Lionel B Dyck <>< Sent from my iPad Air 2 Website: www.lbdsoftware.com "Worry more about your character than your reputation. Character is what you are, reputation merely what ot

CA-Disk and PDSE V2 Member Generations Warning

starting with z/OS 2.1. -- Lionel B. Dyck <>< Website: http://www.lbdsoftware.com "Worry more about your character than your reputation. Character is what you are, reputation merely what others think you are." - John Wooden ---

PDSEGEN Update - V4.0

a product that supports them) then this application will make accessing and using them easier. -- Lionel B. Dyck <>< Website: http://www.lbdsoftware.com "Worry more about your character than your reputation. Character is what you are, reputation merely what others think you are.&

PDSEGEN 4.1.2 Available

and the parm is used the PDSE could be corrupted In the distribution PDS is a new member, $APARS, which documents several of the APARs that I've found related to PDSE member generations. Comment/suggestions/bug-reports/etc. welcome and appreciated. Lionel B Dyck <>< Sent from my iPad Air

z/OS SMTP Question

you Lionel B. Dyck < Website: <http://www.lbdsoftware.com/> http://www.lbdsoftware.com "Worry more about your character than your reputation. Character is what you are, reputation merely what others think you are.&

Re: z/OS SMTP Question - solved

in 2001 for a site that requested it and never thought about using for this purpose. Lionel B. Dyck < Website: http://www.lbdsoftware.com "Worry more about your character than your reputation. Character is what you are, reputation merely what others think you are." - John Wooden

Re: z/OS SMTP Question

SMTP is treating the file as an 80 byte LRECL. Suggestions? Lionel B. Dyck < Website: http://www.lbdsoftware.com "Worry more about your character than your reputation.  Character is what you are, reputation merely what others think you are." - John Wooden -Original Message--

Re: z/OS SMTP Question

of XMITIP. I'm sure someone(s) out there have a similar configuration. Lionel B. Dyck < Website: http://www.lbdsoftware.com "Worry more about your character than your reputation.  Character is what you are, reputation merely what others think you are." - John Wooden -Original Mess

Re: z/OS SMTP Question

The data may be part of the message or part of a mime attachment Lionel B. Dyck < Website: http://www.lbdsoftware.com "Worry more about your character than your reputation.  Character is what you are, reputation merely what others think you are." - John Wooden -Original Mess

Re: iplinfo (Mark Zelden CBT434) - how to save edit

Why not when using TSO %IPLINFO EDIT, from the ISPF Edit command line, enter CREATE and specify C9 on the 1st line. Then follow the prompts as to where to put the data, or create a new data set using the prompts. Lionel B. Dyck < Website: http://www.lbdsoftware.com "Worry more ab

Re: iplinfo (Mark Zelden CBT434) - how to save edit

Using Create and then specifying option 2 you can enter the dcb and space that you want and the data will be stored in the newly created data set. Or you can specify a target data set that already exists, either sequential or a PDS member. Lionel B. Dyck < Website: http://www.lbdsoftware.

Re: z/OS SMTP Question - solved

XMITIP does have NLS support thanks to several individuals outside the US who provided it. The info is in the distributed PDS and while it may not be ideal doc it is a start. Lionel B. Dyck < Website: http://www.lbdsoftware.com "Worry more about your character than your reputation. C

ISPF development tips and tricks

, then please do so - see the section on contributing on how to do that. Go to www.lbdsoftware.com and you can download it. Enjoy Lionel B Dyck < Sent from my iPad Pro 10.5 Website: www.lbdsoftware.com "Worry more about your character than your reputation. Character is what you are, re

Re: how can we do it?

If you don't have an automation package then check out www.cbttape.org flie 974 for TSSO (there are other files but this looks the most up to date) Lionel B. Dyck < Website: http://www.lbdsoftware.com "Worry more about your character than your reputation. Character is

Re: Findproc CBTTAPE ?

Look in File 312 for member LSTPROC which will dynamically get the proclibs that are defined to JES2 - it doesn't support dynamic proclibs but it should get you the static ones. If you use JES3 then check out LSTPROC3. Lionel B. Dyck < Website: http://www.lbdsoftware.com "Worry mo

Re: Findproc CBTTAPE ?

KEEP > SYS1.PROCLIB SYVOL0 SHR,KEEP > USER.PROCLIB SYVOLB SHR,KEEP > TSO.PROCLIB -- End of Allocation List ------

Re: USS script : how to test that a MVS Dataset exists ?

You could use the cat "//'zos.dsname'" and it will either work on you will get a error message: /u/user/cat "//'USER.TEST'" cat: //'USER.TEST': EDC5049I The specified file name could not be located. Lionel B. Dyck < Website: http://www.lbdsoftware.com "Wor

Re: USS script : how to test that a MVS Dataset exists ?

Laurent - you've exhausted what I know - hopefully someone else can provide you with the info that you need. Lionel B. Dyck < Website: http://www.lbdsoftware.com "Worry more about your character than your reputation. Character is what you are, reputation merely what others t

Re: Best way to alert customer to pending license expiration?

ere the licenses get renewed on time - my experience is that 99% (perhaps higher) do expire and fall into either a grace period or the Sysprog scrambles to get a temporary extension from the vendor. My $0.01 on the topic Lionel B. Dyck < Website: http://www.lbdsoftware.com "Worry more

Re: Best way to alert customer to pending license expiration?

Steve - that is a great reply. Carl's suggestion for the sales rep to call and/or visit is spot on. Lionel B. Dyck < Website: http://www.lbdsoftware.com "Worry more about your character than your reputation. Character is what you are, reputation merely what others think you are.

Load Module lookup ?

but do not report an 806. The only thing that actually works without the hardcoded DD is to call 'loadlib(lmod)' which I'm very reluctant to do but it's the only thing I can for now. I have a feeling this is something trivial that I'm just overlooking. Advice please. Lionel B. Dyck

Re: Load Module lookup ? (resolved)

The issue was the program I was calling itself called another using a process that precluded it being in a LIBDEF ISPLLIB ☹ Thanks to all for your suggestions Lionel B. Dyck < Website: http://www.lbdsoftware.com "Worry more about your character than your reputation. Character is

Re: Verifying a PDS

./iebpdse.zip Lionel B. Dyck < Website: http://www.lbdsoftware.com "Worry more about your character than your reputation. Character is what you are, reputation merely what others think you are." - John Wooden -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Be

Re: USS script : how to test that a MVS Dataset exists ?

I only tried it with an existing z/OS data set that was sequential and thus would work with cat. It wouldn't work with a non-sequential data set and I should have mentioned that. Lionel B. Dyck < Website: http://www.lbdsoftware.com "Worry more about your character than your re

System Logger - access to staging data?

Is there a utility that will copy/print the staging data for a logstream? thanks Lionel B. Dyck < Website: <http://www.lbdsoftware.com/> http://www.lbdsoftware.com "Worry more about your character than your reputation. Character is what you are, reputation merely wha

logstream read/copy utility

Is there a generic utility anywhere to read a logstream and write it to a data set or report? Lionel B. Dyck < Website: <http://www.lbdsoftware.com/> http://www.lbdsoftware.com "Worry more about your character than your reputation. Character is what you are, reputation mere

Re: logstream read/copy utility

Thank you - this is perfect. Lionel B. Dyck < Website: http://www.lbdsoftware.com "Worry more about your character than your reputation.  Character is what you are, reputation merely what others think you are." - John Wooden -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Di

Re: Text to excel

I have a txt2csv that can help - not perfect but it may be adequate for your needs (or a good starting point) http://lbdsoftware.com/txt2csv_v10.zip - or cbttape file 313. Lionel B. Dyck < Website: http://www.lbdsoftware.com "Worry more about your character than your reputation. C

Re: ISPF DISPLAY Service

the FIND command 3. when you're done needing to process FIND in your code reset myfind to null hth Lionel B. Dyck < Website: http://www.lbdsoftware.com "Worry more about your character than your reputation.  Character is what you are, reputation merely what others think you are."

Hyperlinked Table of Contents in IBM Program Directory PDF doc ?

? This capability is extremely useful for those who don't print the publication but read them electronically. (missing Book Manager more every day) Lionel B. Dyck < Website: <http://www.lbdsoftware.com/> http://www.lbdsoftware.com "Worry more about your character than y

ALLOC or BPXWDYN ?

Which is the most efficient in terms of processor resources? TSO ALLOC or BPXWDYN? Thx Lionel B. Dyck < Website: <http://www.lbdsoftware.com/> http://www.lbdsoftware.com "Worry more about your character than your reputation. Character is what you are, reputati

Re: ALLOC or BPXWDYN ?

Think the TSO logon process where the allocations are in a REXX exec and not in static DD's in the logon proc. Lionel B. Dyck < Website: http://www.lbdsoftware.com "Worry more about your character than your reputation.  Character is what you are, reputation merely what others t

Using Google Chrome to open IBM z/OS 2.4 Library Index ???

When using Google Chrome with a bookmark to the .pdx for the z/OS library, the pdx opens as a text file. It opens in Adobe Reader just fine using Edge when bookmarked. Any suggestions on how to 'fix' Chrome? tia Lionel B. Dyck < Website: <http://www.lbdsoftware.com/

Re: Using Google Chrome to open IBM z/OS 2.4 Library Index ???

Works fine in IE and in Edge - just Chrome. Already have the file association in Windows set. Lionel B. Dyck < Website: http://www.lbdsoftware.com "Worry more about your character than your reputation.  Character is what you are, reputation merely what others think you are."

Re: Shopz product orders will NOT be available between August 16, 2019 and August 22, 2019 inclusively

Michael - thank you for the clarification. Lionel B. Dyck < Website: http://www.lbdsoftware.com "Worry more about your character than your reputation. Character is what you are, reputation merely what others think you are." - John Wooden -Original Message- From:

Re: Shopz product orders will NOT be available between August 16, 2019 and August 22, 2019 inclusively

t property for sale, great ocean view and plenty of sand, just outside of Las Vegas. Lionel B. Dyck < Website: http://www.lbdsoftware.com "Worry more about your character than your reputation. Character is what you are, reputation merely what others think you are." - John Wooden

Re: Using Google Chrome to open IBM z/OS 2.4 Library Index ???

Thanks - did that - but since they claim they get so many issues that one should not expect a response. Thus posting here to see if anyone has any solution. Lionel B. Dyck < Website: http://www.lbdsoftware.com "Worry more about your character than your reputation. Character is

Re: Using Google Chrome to open IBM z/OS 2.4 Library Index ???

Correct - it will open the html file with no problem - but that isn't the searchable index which does open in Edge. Lionel B. Dyck < Website: http://www.lbdsoftware.com "Worry more about your character than your reputation. Character is what you are, reputation merely what others t

Re: Using Google Chrome to open IBM z/OS 2.4 Library Index ???

I'm using Firefox 68.0.1 on Windows 10 if that helps. Lionel B. Dyck < Website: http://www.lbdsoftware.com "Worry more about your character than your reputation. Character is what you are, reputation merely what others think you are." - John Wooden -Original Message--

Re: Using Google Chrome to open IBM z/OS 2.4 Library Index ???

with Windows, on how to handle the .pdx and that worked great. Would be nice if there was a way in Chrome to do that. Lionel B. Dyck < Website: http://www.lbdsoftware.com "Worry more about your character than your reputation. Character is what you are, reputation merely what others t

Re: Using Google Chrome to open IBM z/OS 2.4 Library Index ???

The pdx is a true index to the collection whereas the index.html is really a list of pubs. Lionel B. Dyck < Website: http://www.lbdsoftware.com "Worry more about your character than your reputation. Character is what you are, reputation merely what others think you are."

Re: TSO REXX -- find absolute generation # from relative?

Lionel B. Dyck < Website: http://www.lbdsoftware.com "Worry more about your character than your reputation. Character is what you are, reputation merely what others think you are." - John Wooden -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of ITschak Mugzach

ISPF Development Tips and Tricks version 1.2 - just uploaded

Added a chapter on Other Tools 16. Added section on Stem Sorting from John Kalinich. Lionel B. Dyck < Website: <http://www.lbdsoftware.com/> http://www.lbdsoftware.com "Worry more about your character than your reputation. Character is what you are, reputation merely w

Re: TSO REXX -- find absolute generation # from relative?

to updating LISTDSI and if the code is open why not do multiple RFE's  Lionel B. Dyck < Website: http://www.lbdsoftware.com "Worry more about your character than your reputation. Character is what you are, reputation merely what others think you are." - John Wooden -Original Mess

Re: TSO REXX -- find absolute generation # from relative?

Sounds like another good RFE - go for it. I think getting the current LISTDSI updated/enhanced will probably be easier than that major enhancement but I could be wrong. Lionel B. Dyck < Website: http://www.lbdsoftware.com "Worry more about your character than your reputation. C

z/OS 2.4 September update collection

zips by default to /. . /zosv2r4pdfkit-Sep-12-2019/ Just a small issue but it prevents easy access to the contents. Btw. It would be nice if this file were named index.html  Lionel B. Dyck < Website: <http://www.lbdsoftware.com/> http://www.lbdsoftware.com "Worry more

IBM SSI Function Codes 16 and 17

to where I can find out more about how to use these function codes in my subsystem? Thank you Lionel B. Dyck < Website: <http://www.lbdsoftware.com/> http://www.lbdsoftware.com "Worry more about your character than your reputation. Character is what you are, reputati

Re: Rexx calls versus branching

say 'one' one 'two' two return Lionel B. Dyck < Website: http://www.lbdsoftware.com "Worry more about your character than your reputation. Character is what you are, reputation merely what others think you are." - John Wooden -Original Message--

Re: Improving the performance of an ISPF app using OMVS services (bpxwunix)

The biggest gain was using the environmental stem for bpxwunix that I implemented this morning after some testing. I will check out that bpx_shareas shortly as it sounds interesting. Thank you Lionel B. Dyck < Website: http://www.lbdsoftware.com "Worry more about your character t

Re: git with it

On Thursday the git repository will change from private to public and you'll be able to git a copy for yourself  Lionel B. Dyck < Website: http://www.lbdsoftware.com "Worry more about your character than your reputation. Character is what you are, reputation merely what others t

git with it

review. #git #ispf #zos #zdevops #awesome #epic #gseconf Lionel B. Dyck < Website: <http://www.lbdsoftware.com/> http://www.lbdsoftware.com "Worry more about your character than your reputation. Character is what you are, reputation merely what others think you

BPXWUNIX Improvements

I want to thank David Crayford - your suggestions on the bpxwunix environment variables to speed up git was the right direction. The calls when from 10-15 seconds (we have a slow lpar) to 1-3 seconds. Lionel B. Dyck < Website: <http://www.lbdsoftware.com/> http://www.lbdsof

zigi Release v1r1 - Announcement

zigi V1R1 is now available. Below is a short list of updates. Get it here: https://github.com/wizardofzos/zigi Version 1 Release 1 Repository: wizardofzos/zigi · Tag: v1r1

Re: Mainframe DEVOPS

If it needs linux and if you want to keep it under z/OS why not a container. Lionel B. Dyck < Website: http://www.lbdsoftware.com "Worry more about your character than your reputation. Character is what you are, reputation merely what others think you are." - John Wooden

Re: COPYING PDS TO PDS ...

I'm not aware standard services allow mixed case member names - but as far as I know PDS only works with IBM standard and I was not able, using PDS to create a member name with lower case. Get it and try it - it's free. So kick the tires and see if it does what you want. Lionel B. Dyck

PDS member names and the PDS command

There was a LOT of discussion about PDS member names and also about the PDS command (open source, not from IBM, and it just works). Here is a snip from one of its tutorial pages that may help. z/OS is *not* unix and has its own standards that we have to learn and live within. It is also

Re: COPYING PDS TO PDS ...

The pds command is case insensitive in this area - dataset names and member names are all converted to upper case as is standard for z/OS. The commands as well are case insensitive. Try it - you'll love it. Lionel B. Dyck < Website: http://www.lbdsoftware.com "Worry more about your c

Merge Tool for git for z/OS?

What is available to be used for the mergetool for git on z/OS? Thanks I've looked using google/bing without success. Lionel B. Dyck < Website: <http://www.lbdsoftware.com/> http://www.lbdsoftware.com "Worry more about your character than your reputation. Charact

Re: Misuse of the word hexadecimnal (Was RE: COPYING PDS TO PDS ...)

It's all 1's and 0's when it comes down to it. They key is which translator are you using at the moment. Lionel B. Dyck < Website: http://www.lbdsoftware.com "Worry more about your character than your reputation. Character is what you are, reputation merely what others think you are.

Re: COPYING PDS TO PDS ...

IT, if not long gone from this planet. Lionel B. Dyck < Website: http://www.lbdsoftware.com "Worry more about your character than your reputation. Character is what you are, reputation merely what others think you are." - John Wooden -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Di

zigi - was RE: zgit (was: COPYING PDS ...)

zigi only supports source code files which are z/OS PS or PDS or an OMVS file. It doesn't support binary (at this time). The repository is in your OMVS environment so it is probably (hopefully) in a zfs. Hope this helps. Lionel B. Dyck < Website: http://www.lbdsoftware.com "Wo

Re: GIT z/OS - ftp to mainframe - record length issue

If not please provide more information on the git package and what you're trying to do. Lionel B. Dyck < Website: http://www.lbdsoftware.com "Worry more about your character than your reputation.  Character is what you are, reputation merely what others think you are." - John Wooden

Re: readdir ?

I did some more testing - thanks to STEMEDIT - and found that the stat's stem.0 does not have a value but stem.n.0 does Lionel B. Dyck < Website: http://www.lbdsoftware.com "Worry more about your character than your reputation. Character is what you are, reputation merely what othe

Re: readdir ?

Thank you Paul - just figured that out by more digging  Lionel B. Dyck < Website: http://www.lbdsoftware.com "Worry more about your character than your reputation. Character is what you are, reputation merely what others think you are." - John Wooden -Original Message--

readdir ?

'd. s.' say d.0 s.0 Thanks in advance Lionel B. Dyck < Website: <http://www.lbdsoftware.com/> http://www.lbdsoftware.com "Worry more about your character than your reputation. Character is what you are, reputation merely what others think yo

Re: Fw: Re: GIT z/OS - ftp to mainframe - record length issue

You may need to convert the file from unix (LF ending) to windows (CRLF ending) format before you upload. Notepad++ has that option Or >From windows command line this may work (found via google): more /P output_file Lionel B. Dyck < Website: http://www.lbdsoftware.com "Worry more

Re: Interchange best practice? (was: GIT ... length issue)

that it be uploaded to z/OS. The Rocket port of git, bash, etc. needs to be uploaded as well but most of it is in binary. Using OGETX might solve the issue (haven't tried) for the various partitioned dataset files.. Lionel B. Dyck < Website: http://www.lbdsoftware.com "Worry more ab

Re: Interchange best practice? (was: GIT ... length issue)

The Rocket git port has these pre-reqs: bash, gzip and perl Lionel B. Dyck < Website: http://www.lbdsoftware.com "Worry more about your character than your reputation. Character is what you are, reputation merely what others think you are." - John Wooden -Original Message--

Re: GIT z/OS - ftp to mainframe - record length issue

Andrew - excellent catch and suggestion. Btw. You'll love the enhancements planned for the next drop  Lionel B. Dyck < Website: http://www.lbdsoftware.com "Worry more about your character than your reputation. Character is what you are, reputation merely what others think you are.

Re: Max Size of ISPF table?

really want to have. VSAM would definitely be a better option for you if that is something that will work for you. Lionel B. Dyck < Website: http://www.lbdsoftware.com "Worry more about your character than your reputation. Character is what you are, reputation merely what others t

Re: OMVS Tuning ?

and 0.5 seconds. Still not subsecond so I suspect there is something in the z/VM setup which I'm not sure how to diagnose but am looking. Thanks Lionel B. Dyck < Website: http://www.lbdsoftware.com "Worry more about your character than your reputation. Character is what you are, re

OMVS Tuning ?

includes STEPLIB=none but my guess is that the ISPLLIB may be the culprit when under ISPF - I just can't prove that (yet). Thanks for any guidance. Lionel B. Dyck < Website: <http://www.lbdsoftware.com/> http://www.lbdsoftware.com "Worry more about your character than y

Re: OMVS Tuning ?

Found one major issue - the systems where the issue is are z/OS 2.1 and the STEPLIB=none variable looks to have been new in 2.2. Reducing the STEPLIB and ISPLLIB solved things. Lionel B. Dyck < Website: http://www.lbdsoftware.com "Worry more about your character than your re

z/OS ISPF git Interface (zigi) Version 1.3 released

ember, OMVS file * Fully removes from git management * Improved, more comprehensive ISPF tutorial Lionel B. Dyck < Website: <http://www.lbdsoftware.com/> http://www.lbdsoftware.com "Worry more about your character than your reputation. Character is what y

Re: Looking for a utility to create a master listing of all PDS members on a system

Except that LISTDSI does not list the member names - LISTDS however will using the Members keyword. Would need to use one of the many vtoc commands on the cbttape, or even iehlist, process the results to find the pds dsnames and then do the LISTDS for each. Lionel B. Dyck < Website: h

Re: Seeking doc on TSOENTER and TSOLEAVE macros

TSOENTER/TSOLEAVE were found in CBT Files 300, 119, and 136. Perhaps others but I haven't looked further. Thanks Lionel B. Dyck < Website: http://www.lbdsoftware.com "Worry more about your character than your reputation. Character is what you are, reputation merely what others t

Seeking doc on TSOENTER and TSOLEAVE macros

I found these macros used in several TSO commands on the CBTTape but there is no documentation on them that I can find. Can anyone point me to any doc? Thanks Lionel B. Dyck < Website: <http://www.lbdsoftware.com/> http://www.lbdsoftware.com "Worry more about your chara

Re: Seeking doc on TSOENTER and TSOLEAVE macros

maintenance of the code. Thanks Lionel B. Dyck < Website: http://www.lbdsoftware.com "Worry more about your character than your reputation. Character is what you are, reputation merely what others think you are." - John Wooden -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Di

Re: Seeking doc on TSOENTER and TSOLEAVE macros

Thank you on both counts. Lionel B. Dyck < Website: http://www.lbdsoftware.com "Worry more about your character than your reputation. Character is what you are, reputation merely what others think you are." - John Wooden -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Di

Re: JES3 to JES2 migration experience

of the migration, funds that be better used elsewhere in the company (such as year end bonuses to the systems staff) while eliminating the risks of a migration. Disclaimer: I know several of the team at Phoenix but I do not work for them or have stock in them. Lionel B. Dyck < Website: h

Re: JES3 to JES2 migration experience

Lionel B. Dyck < Website: http://www.lbdsoftware.com "Worry more about your character than your reputation. Character is what you are, reputation merely what others think you are." - John Wooden -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Main

Re: COPYING PDS TO PDS ...

with it. Lionel B. Dyck < Website: http://www.lbdsoftware.com "Worry more about your character than your reputation. Character is what you are, reputation merely what others think you are." - John Wooden -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of

Re: Improving the performance of an ISPF app using OMVS services (bpxwunix)

Thanks for the education. Guess I need to find a faster system  Lionel B. Dyck < Website: http://www.lbdsoftware.com "Worry more about your character than your reputation. Character is what you are, reputation merely what others think you are." - John Wooden -Original Mess

Improving the performance of an ISPF app using OMVS services (bpxwunix)

) and the IBM pubs are not speaking to me as nothing jumps out. Lionel B. Dyck < Website: <http://www.lbdsoftware.com/> http://www.lbdsoftware.com "Worry more about your character than your reputation. Character is what you are, reputation merely what others think you are.&

Re: Improving the performance of an ISPF app using OMVS services (bpxwunix)

That was my fear  I did find these which I implemented in my .profile and I'm not seeing any visual improvements: export _BPX_SHAREAS=YES export _BPX_SPAWN_SCRIPT=YES Lionel B. Dyck < Website: http://www.lbdsoftware.com "Worry more about your character than your re

Re: Improving the performance of an ISPF app using OMVS services (bpxwunix)

But when rexx, under ispf, invokes bpxwunix won't the sharedas help to prevent the fork? Lionel B. Dyck < Website: http://www.lbdsoftware.com "Worry more about your character than your reputation. Character is what you are, reputation merely what others think you are."

Re: Mainframe DEVOPS

Git Interface Lionel B. Dyck < Website: http://www.lbdsoftware.com "Worry more about your character than your reputation. Character is what you are, reputation merely what others think you are." - John Wooden -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Beh

Re: z/OS V2R4 library updated for z15!

-Jul-19 making the reference invalid and preventing opening the pdf as it can't be found (unless you didn't delete the July directory). Lionel B. Dyck < Website: http://www.lbdsoftware.com "Worry more about your character than your reputation. Character is what you are, reputation mer

Re: Saving job output

occurrence of the job SMTP in the spool with the output going to preallocated DD REPORT. Lionel B. Dyck < Website: http://www.lbdsoftware.com "Worry more about your character than your reputation.  Character is what you are, reputation merely what others t

Re: Saving job output

referenced by a DD statement in the batch terminal monitor program. %sdsfext jobname ddname outdd jobnum (options Lionel B. Dyck < Website: http://www.lbdsoftware.com "Worry more about your character t

Re: IBM SSI Function Codes 16 and 17

Thanks - found out that they are subsystem data sets and not 'real' data sets. Now to find another rabbit trail to go down. Lionel B. Dyck < Website: http://www.lbdsoftware.com "Worry more about your character than your reputation. Character is what you are, reputation merely wha

Re: IBM SSI Function Codes 16 and 17

Thank you but subsystem datasets are not what I was looking for - my goal is to capture the date/time a data set is opened and the date/time a data set is closed. SMF will give the close time but I've found nothing that will give me the open time. Lionel B. Dyck < Website: h

Re: PDSE as GDG for archival

, ISPF services, IEBCOPY, . . . and the list goes on. If you want to experiment with, and actually use, PDSE member generations try my PDSEGEN tool from www.lbdsoftware.com. Feel free to email me direct and we can talk if you'd like. Lionel B. Dyck < Website: http://www.lbdsoftware.com &qu

Re: PDSE as GDG for archival

There are many RFE's for PDSE member generation support and IBM has accepted most of them. Lionel B. Dyck < Website: http://www.lbdsoftware.com "Worry more about your character than your reputation. Character is what you are, reputation merely what others think you are."

zigi 2.0. The z/OS ISPF Git Interface released

rd to your experiences with this version. If you've (public) repos managed with zigi, please drop us a line, we want to feature these on https://zigi.rocks — This release has 2 assets: Source code (zip) Source code (tar.gz) Visit the release page to download them. Lionel B Dyck < Sent from my

Re: zigi 2.0. The z/OS ISPF Git Interface released

Check out zigi.rocks - scroll down to the bottom right for a list of git repos created with zigi to get you started. Lionel B. Dyck < Website: www.lbdsoftware.com Sent from my iPhone 8+ Worry more about your character than your reputation. Character is what you are, reputation merely w

Re: Downsizing? - OPS?

and as usual ymmv. Good luck Lionel B. Dyck < Website: http://www.lbdsoftware.com "Worry more about your character than your reputation.  Character is what you are, reputation merely what others think you are." - John Wooden -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion Li

ISPF Developer Tips & Techniques 1.6 available

sitory is available for cloning and installation (best to clone using the zigi tool - the z/OS ISPF Git Interface - see zigi.rocks). Lionel B. Dyck < Website: <http://www.lbdsoftware.com/> http://www.lbdsoftware.com "Worry more about your character than your reputation. C

Convert a Metal C control block mapping to Assembler DSECT ?

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