DB2 / DFSort question

2020-04-16 Thread Tim Hare
Before I start chiseling a piece of stone into a wheel :-) - I've been thinking about ICETOOL and DB2. Is there already in existence something that would provide a SELECT (similar to what is used in DSNTIAUL or DSNTIAD) to select DB2 data as an E15 exit for DFSORT? My ideal would be

Re: DB2 / DFSort question

2020-04-17 Thread Tim Hare
I was not aware that the UNLOAD utility invoked DFSORT, I figured DSNTIAUL did. I was wondering it that was as efficient as invoking an SQL query in E15, but with the other responses I think it's probably not worth coding another one to find out. As for creating the symbols - I can

Re: tape drice or tape cart???

2020-05-06 Thread Tim Hare
However you are specifying a device, or your task is selecting the device, the device is either already allocated to something else, or it is boxed and has no I/O paths.I'm not a big VM guy, but is it possible you have a device defined to multiple guests, and you have it online to more

Re: Mainframe user ID length

2020-05-06 Thread Tim Hare
As many have stated you are limited to 8 upper case characters, 7 if you still use UADS; however if the MQ user is off-platform, perhaps one of the various tools for mapping other IDs to a RACF ID could be used? These are all part of RACF (not sure about ACF2 or Top Secret) but as I see it

Re: IDCAMS not freeing file

2020-05-12 Thread Tim Hare
Questions: 1. Is this the same VSAM file shared between the two partitions? 2. Is the VSAM file referenced in JCL anywhere, or just in the commands in IDCAMS? -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions,

ISPF 3.4 DSLIST questions

2020-07-07 Thread Tim Hare
I have some questions about the ISPF 3.4 utility. 1. Why does 'Referred' show on the "total" display for datasets, but if you print the dataset list, you don't get it? 2. Are there ways to extend what is displayed? For one example: I would like to have column for 'Your Access' that would

Re: CL/ / Supersession

2020-07-07 Thread Tim Hare
The password might be sent in the clear - but that is an SNA SLU (the TN3270 LU for the terminal session) to PLU (CL/Supersession) session and as such would require looking into methods for encrypting SNA sessions in the Comm Server manuals. I'm pretty sure it's not flowing over IP if

Re: CL/ / Supersession

2020-06-20 Thread Tim Hare
TN3270 supports secure sockets. Just make your TN3270 terminals "auto logon" to CL/Supersession and you're good. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the

Re: dfdss equivalent to fdr map

2020-06-20 Thread Tim Hare
Question: does it really matter with a volume that's a virtual thing implemented on a RAID array? -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO

Re: z/OS use of "legacy" programming languages

2020-07-22 Thread Tim Hare
I know there's still a VS FORTRAN compiler on a machine I work on - is it still supported, or does it just "work". Haven't seen updates for it in forever; we are running down what was compiled with it that may still be running. All the important stuff moved to a FORTRAN supplied by another

Possible new function for DFSORT?

2020-07-22 Thread Tim Hare
I don't think this function exists, and I'm thinking about writing up a SHARE requirement for it (which I guess these days becomes an RFE but I'm a member of SHARE so I think I'll go that way). I thought I'd ask whether it would be used enough to justify going through that process. What I'm

Re: Possible new function for DFSORT?

2020-07-22 Thread Tim Hare
I could try to do that but I was hoping to use just the tools I have. The nslookup command on z/OS (TSO and "TSO in batch" returns more than one line, which means writing a Rexx exec to parse it into something to match to the output of the other stuff

Re: Using PCOMM with SSL ?

2020-11-18 Thread Tim Hare
If you can export the cert in z/OS then you ought to be able to use one of the RACF certificate displays to determine who signed it. I _think_ you can export this in Base64 format, move it to Windows as text, and import it into the Windows certificate store.

Re: Finding JES2 node name

2020-11-18 Thread Tim Hare
I guess I'm asking if IEFSSREQ is somehow better than AMASYMBF for retrieving the node value. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO

Re: Finding JES2 node name

2020-11-17 Thread Tim Hare
The program is already in Assembler - so I'm guessing I would use the AMASYMBM or AMASYMBF service to resolve SYSNODE -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu

Finding JES2 node name

2020-11-17 Thread Tim Hare
I have some code that follows a control block chain to the HCCT to get the JES2 node name, but that requires going to key zero (or so the source says, it's been years ). Is there a way to retrieve the JES2 node name in a program running in batch, without being APF-authorized? We'd like to

Re: Microsoft using IBM was Re: IBM splitting into two companies

2020-11-17 Thread Tim Hare
The Mono project ran .NET stuff on Linux, and I have seen it running on z/Linux -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Finding JES2 node name

2020-11-17 Thread Tim Hare
The code is not just to _find_ the node, but we want to use the node name for other purposes in this program. So SDSF isn't going to help here. As for other methods of using IEFSSREQ and/or control block chain chaining why are they better than the ASASYMBM/F program interface?

Re: Inspecting and extracting from /OS transportable files on other platforms?

2021-01-29 Thread Tim Hare
The best tool to transform XML is XSLT. It's a little funky to learn, because it's a "functional programming language" but it's designed for XML. I used it this way ] > The stylesheet does all the work. You'll find information about XSLT around the 'net. I don't claim to be good at

Re: Starting a started task from a started task

2021-01-29 Thread Tim Hare
this _may_ work: Include a dummy dataset with DISP=OLD in the JCL for both started tasks. Start them one after the other in the order you want them to run or if you have an automated operations tool, start them a second apart or more - whatever you are comfortable with. The DISP=OLD will

Re: TWS replacements

2021-01-29 Thread Tim Hare
ASG Workload Scheduler (formerly Beta42, formerly from Pecan) has "agents" for Windows and *nix and z/OS; I would assume their Zeke schedule would have those capabilities too. The shop I retired from used the z/OS agents to coordinate scheduling of data gathering for MXG and chargeback so

DFSORT and SMF date selection

2021-06-14 Thread Tim Hare
The brain is just not working today I guess. I want to use DFSORT to select some SMF records for a week; I'm getting myself confused in the DFSORT application programming guide Do I want to use INCLUDE COND=(11,4,PD,GE,) or INCLUDE COND=(11,4,Y4U,GE,) or have I missed something

Re: DFSORT and SMF date selection

2021-06-14 Thread Tim Hare
Thanks for the solution. I am wondering, though: since I am not interested in dates in the 20th century, could I use COND=(12,3,Y2U,GE,) ? The rightmost 3 bytes of the SMF date would seem to satisfy Y2U and as long as my offset of -7 doesn't take me to a previous century I should be OK,

Re: DFSORT and SMF date selection

2021-06-14 Thread Tim Hare
I am not using IFASMFDP I am doing other things in the DFSORT application. I'm trying not to do all of the I/O to select the records with IFASMFDP, then read the selected records a second time into DFSORT to process them. --

Re: DFSORT and SMF date selection

2021-06-14 Thread Tim Hare
Thank you, I think this is a better solution for me right now. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

ldapsrch/ldapsearch and netrc

2021-05-19 Thread Tim Hare
I have been unsuccessful so far in finding out the answer to this in the IBM documentation on the LDAP client utilities. Maybe my search-fu is lacking today, but here's the question: When running the ldapsrch utility in z/OS (IKJEFT01 in batch or in TSO) can a NETRC file be used instead

Re: report writer alternatives

2021-07-14 Thread Tim Hare
Is this for users, "power users", or programmer/developers? For some of those groups, SyncSort (not sure of the new names yet) or DFSORT provide pretty good reporting capabilities and great performance. -- For IBM-MAIN

Re: Batch job elapsed time baseline and alerts

2022-02-16 Thread Tim Hare
With "several hundreds if not thousands jobs running at any give time" you must be using an automated job scheduler of some sort. Does your scheduler maintain 'average run time' in its database? Does the scheduler itself, allow notification if that average time is exceeded? If not - you can

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