Binder SETSSI statement: what is it good for?

I read the manual. Why is this used? What are the pitfalls of relinking a load module and dropping this value? TIA! -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with

Re: Binder SETSSI statement: what is it good for?

Thanks for your replies. Clearer now. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Need to find the DSN from where load module was loaded

Hello Eileen, Thank you for sending me the code. I haven't looked at it yet but I'll narrow down what I'm talking about: 1. Environment is batch or ISPF. Check is during execution. Code is Assembler. 2. Looking for origin DSN of program module which was loaded via LOAD macro. 3. Loadlib can be

Re: Need to find the DSN from where load module was loaded

Hello Leondardo, In this case, we can exclude the LINKLST. Since this is also applicable to a batch job environment and we're talking about during actually execution time, TSO ISRDDN is not applicable. Looking at the CSVQUERY macro documentation, am I correct in assuming this will NOT give me

Re: Need to find the DSN from where load module was loaded

Walt, Yes, I own the code which loads the programs and creates the environment, so to speak. I would like to thank everyone for their assistance, including those who emailed me privately. Due to the relative complexity of accomplishing this with the multiple potential variables within the

Need to find the DSN from where load module was loaded

I tried searching archives. for this. Environment might be batch or ISPF, if it makes a difference. Need to know control block hop sequence and what MACRO calls are needed. Thanks, Jerry -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff /

Australia's Commonwealth Bank says records of nearly 20 mln accounts lost

Article's title is slightly misleading. Two tape reels (archive/backup, I assume) with 20 million records went missing 2 years ago. The bank waited until now to fess up. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: Coding the equivalent of a Binder EXPAND

Thanks, Binyamin. Back to the drawing board! -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Batch FTP suddenly broken - could it be due to the new server certificate

Hi all, We have a hosted domain which includes an FTP server. In the past, z/OS' batch FTP client's GETs and PUTs to our server worked just fine. Today, I started FileZilla client on Windows and when I logged in, got suddenly prompted by FileZilla client regarding an "UNKNOWN CERTIFICATE".

Re: Reason for 2 digit years was Re: Instruction speeds

2 digit years I recall a shop who throughout the 70's implemented 1 digit year dates across their files because of the precious cost and availability of DASD space. In 1979, someone there took are hard look at what the future held in store. So they did a full conversion project and changed

Re: Editing HLASM source with Visual Studio - columns 73-80

Thanks. Your JSON code passed with flying colors and I saved it but no ruler showed. I even tried this: { "editor.wordWrapColumn": 120, "[HLASM]": { "editorRuler.foreground": "#ff4081", "editor.rulers": [ 71,

Re: Editing HLASM source with Visual Studio - columns 73-80

Oren, כל הכבוד! My error was that "HLASM" should have been in lower case in the JSON code. All set (for the time being). Thanks, everyone! -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to

Editing HLASM source with Visual Studio - columns 73-80

Hi all, Totally new to Visual Studio Editor. Installed it, plus Dan Kelosky's IBM-Assembler extension. Intention is to edit source when offline from z/OS. With VS, is there a way to insert text on an existing source line without the line sequence number in columns 73-80 being shifted to the

Re: Editing HLASM source with Visual Studio - columns 73-80

Hi Peter, Thanks for your reply. >> Maybe press the "Insert" key on your PC keyboard to overtype instead of >> inserting characters? >> Or a combination of insert-on and insert-off typing? Yes, I know that. My question was in hope that there might be some editor setting which keeps anything

Re: Editing HLASM source with Visual Studio - columns 73-80

Thank you all for your responses. I suppose UNNUM it is! One last Visual Studio question: is there a way to display a delimiter/margin line after column 72, so that it's easy to visual discern when I've "crossed over the line"?

Re: Editing HLASM source with Visual Studio - columns 73-80

Thanks. Not working. Do I have a syntax boo-boo here? { "editor.wordWrapColumn": 120 }, "[HLASM]": { "editor.rulers": [ 71, 72, 80 ], } -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: Editing HLASM source with Visual Studio - columns 73-80

Charles, I just experimented with a very basic code and text editor called TextPad. I installed it, as well as a IBM Z-series Assembly Language syntax addon available from their site. I then went into >Configure>Preferences>Document Classes>Z/OS HLASM (the name I gave to files with an ASM

Re: Editing HLASM source with Visual Studio - columns 73-80

Hi Dan, Thanks so much. That worked just fine for the INSERT key. Is there any way in VS to have some sort of a vertical column line or similar between columns 72 and 73? -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: z/OS Cross-memory server code walkthrough

Hi Rob, I see that the code is up on GITHUB: https://github.com/rscott-rocket/mxe I am brand new to GITHUB. Is there a link which tells me what format the files contained in the downloaded ZIP file are in and/or what to use to transfer them to z/OS? Thanks for your contribution and your

Re: z/OS Cross-memory server code walkthrough

OK, let me rephrase my question: I see that the files are most likely in EBCDIC and just need a binary transfer to z/OS. Is that correct? If so, I notice all the files have extension names on them, after the member name. Is there an easy way to transfer these to a PDS or do the extension names

Re: z/OS Cross-memory server code walkthrough

Thanks, Dave and Rob! -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: z/OS Cross-memory server code walkthrough

Hi Rob, Thank you very much for this contribution. Would it be possible to create a simple ZIP file consisting of the original files in their ASCII or EBCDIC source text? -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: ZOWE Open Editor - baby's first steps questions

Hi Steve, Yes, I have since been told and indeed it works. My problem was not knowing that initially, plus basing myself on the online documentation example, which indeed shows both download and upload icons next to the member name in the ZOWE explorer window. So, all's working. Thanks.

ZOWE Open Editor - baby's first steps questions

Hi All, Playing with ZOWE extension for MS VS Code editor. 1. How the heck do you save your edited changes back to the z/OS side for the PDS member which you edited? 2. What is the difference between the menu commands "Pull from mainframe" versus "Copy dataset"? 3. Since file type on the PC

Re: ZOWE Open Editor - baby's first steps questions

Gil, Thanks but I think management is going to respond "not gonna happen" when suggesting that they move all of their PDSs to UNIX. Besides, that would only resolve the file type name issue, right? -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe /

Re: ZOWE Open Editor - baby's first steps questions

OK, I have an error somewhere. I asked how I can save a PDS member back to z/OS. Went here: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=Zowe.vscode-extension-for-zowe#data-sets The GIF under section "Download, edit, and upload existing PDS members" shows an example of pulling MEMBER1

Re: ISPF input panel - table or dynamic area?

I think I can answer my own question. I should go with tables, because the fields have fixed attributes and lengths and the fields do not need to be defined at execution time. Is that about right? -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe /

ISPF input panel - table or dynamic area?

Coding an assembler program, whose overall logic is to accept input of from 1 to several hundred 8-character values, before being saved by the user. Each row would contain around 8 such input fields. The values in each field have to be validated by the program logic. If an invalid value is

Any z/OS sandbox available for a university student I know?

Hi all, I was approached by a university student who wants self study z/OS architecture and Assembler - including 64 bit programming - as an extra-ciricular activity. The guy is on a shoestring budget. Is there anything out there for such an aspiring mainframer? Thanks.

Re: Any z/OS sandbox available for a university student I know?

Thanks to everyone who responded. In summary, I have passed the following links along to the student: https://www.ibm.com/it-infrastructure/z/education https://www.ibm.com/it-infrastructure/z/education/master-the-mainframe https://www.coursera.org/professional-certificates/ibm-z-mainframe?

Re: Any z/OS sandbox available for a university student I know?

Sonny, Thank you very much! I have forwarded your email to the student. Here's hoping good things will come from this. Have a great weekend! -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to

Re: Any z/OS sandbox available for a university student I know?

Lionel, thanks, but EFGLOBE.COM does not work in any which-way. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Asking for a friend - reported NPM/node.js vulnerabilities

I know very little about the technical side of anything Java. Those of you who are wiser, could be please look at these 2 articles and help the rest of us to understand how and where - if at all - this poses risks on the z/OS machine side, as well as on the platforms connected to z/OS and to

Re: Asking for a friend - reported NPM/node.js vulnerabilities

Correct. We installed node.js on our PCs in as part of the ZOWE CLI installation. That is what we are concerned about. We do not understand whether the reports I linked to may negatively affect us or not. -- For IBM-MAIN

Re: Moron of the day -- me!

Just read your post and all of a sudden I hear inside my head Chicago singing "If you leave me now, you'll take away the biggest part of me." -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to

Re: Asking for a friend - reported NPM/node.js vulnerabilities

Thanks for the update. I've now also come across this, though I haven't a clue whether this might affect ZOWE users: Popular 'coa' NPM library hijacked to steal user passwords https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/popular-coa-npm-library-hijacked-to-steal-user-passwords/

Re: FMID to Program Number

For z/OS 2.4, I found the documentation at this link: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zdt/13.2.0?topic=reference-adcd-zos-v2r4-december-edition-2020#z/os -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email

Re: New Java vulnerability

As Yogi Berra said, "It ain't over till it's over." https://www.lunasec.io/docs/blog/log4j-zero-day-update-on-cve-2021-45046/ -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to

Re: TSO RECEIVE prompt for output temporary dataset

It seems to despise the double ampersand temp DSNAME to begin with: PROF NOPROMPT READY RECEIVE INDA('my.pds(memname)')

Re: TSO RECEIVE prompt for output temporary dataset

Hi Seymour, Do you mean to imply it can't currently be done? Thanks. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: TSO RECEIVE prompt for output temporary dataset

The problem isn't the input dataset. It's the output dataset that's temporary. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

TSO RECEIVE prompt for output temporary dataset

I'm having a personal memory blackout. I have a simple RECEIVE command in a batch job's TSO step. I want to specify that the RECEIVE's output goes to a temporary dataset named &TEMP, created in a prior job step. How do you specify the temp file's name in the DATASET parameter? Nothing seems

Re: TSO RECEIVE prompt for output temporary dataset

> Does thee OP need to pass that temp data set to another job step? Yes. Next step inputs the temp dataset to distribute the RECEIVEd members into several libraries. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: TSO RECEIVE prompt for output temporary dataset

Thanks, Paul. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: TSO RECEIVE prompt for output temporary dataset

Thanks, Seymour. End of my exercise in futility (for today). -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

IEE342I MODIFY REJECTED-TASK BUSY - yet modify command is immediately processed

I don't recall this happening until relatively recent z/OS versions. Not sure when it began. Program code, Assembler, has not been modified for ages. Happens even when a single MODIFY command is issued even way after the program initialized and is waiting for commands. In any case, the modify

Re: IBM-MAIN Posting Guidelines

Hi Darren, If possible, may I suggest that your simple 1-2 sentence guidelines be included at the top of the main IBM-MAIN archive web page as well as at the top of every digest email sent out? Thanks for all of your efforts here over the years. This list and group of professionals has always

Re: IEE342I MODIFY REJECTED-TASK BUSY - yet modify command is immediately processed

No z/OS Unix Services used. Good ol' fashioned MVS assembler program. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: IEE342I MODIFY REJECTED-TASK BUSY - yet modify command is immediately processed

Rob, WOW! >> When the modify command comes in, the CSCB chain is run and ANY match on the >> PROCNAME or ID (CHPROCSN and CHKEY for STC) triggers the logic to attempt to >> add the CIB to that address space queue PROC has same name as an active TSO user. When I rename the PROC, the problem

Re: IEE342I MODIFY REJECTED-TASK BUSY - yet modify command is immediately processed

Yeh. I was waiting for someone else to give it a try. >> From: Lennie Dymoke-Bradshaw >> >> Great analysis. >> Just tried F,INIT,XYZ and I got 10 messages. Guess how many INITs I am >> running? -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe /

Re: IEE342I MODIFY REJECTED-TASK BUSY - yet modify command is immediately processed

Hi Rob, Q1 : Is the jobname unique on the system? A1 : Yes. BTW, STC, not JOB. Q2 : What happens when you start the address space using "S PROCNAME.MYID" and then issue "F MYID,command" ? A2 : with MYID, all's normal - no message IEE342I issued. Shut it down, restarted without ID and the

Kathleen Booth, computer pioneer who made a major breakthrough in programming – obituary

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/kathleen-booth-computer-pioneer-who-made-a-major-breakthrough-in-programming-obituary/ar-AA13lXJ9 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to

Fred P. Brooks passed away

As of this posting, Wikipedia is still not updated. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Brooks Twitter: https://twitter.com/SteveBellovin/status/1593414068634734592 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access

STP timer information under z/OS?

Is there a way for a z/OS assembler program to obtain the same data as shown for the Linux lsstp command? TIA. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the

Re: STP timer information under z/OS?

Hi Paul, I did not understand your comment about "snipping". Can you please explain? -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: STP timer information under z/OS?

Hi Peter, >> I'd say that z/OS has no concept of DST offset or switching to/from DST. >> Changing to accommodate DST is left as an exercise for the customer. My point was that if this DST data is set on the STP to be automatically adjusted in z/OS by the STP itself (no human interaction on the

Re: STP timer information under z/OS?

Big help! You mentioned BCPII. I found this: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/2.1.0?topic=d-parameters-13 Search for the word 'timer' on the page. Who knew! -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions,

Re: STP timer information under z/OS?

Hi Attila, >> For leap seconds z/OS provides the value in field CVTLSO. That I know. But what we can't seem to get under z/OS is some other juicy info which the Linux lsstp command returns. Here's the example from the lsstp doc: # lsstp STP online:yes CTN ID:STPM46

Re: STP timer information under z/OS?

Regarding PARMLIB member CLOCKXX, my point was not everything is in there when time zone and DST data is defined on the STP and the STP data is used to automatically adjust the system time between ST and DST. -- For IBM-MAIN

Re: Sam Golob articles are now directly online

Thanks, Sam. But it's 2023. Can't the "articles" folder (also) contain a single ZIP file, so that all the contents can be downloaded in one file? Thanks. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send

Re: Migrating Loadlibs from PDSE to PDS?

Hi Steve, Just curious: why are you interested in reverting load libraries from PDSE to PDS? Thanks. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: