Re: SYNCSORT - Save a data item for use in OUTREC output

Use an E15 exit to read the input file, store the value you need to preserve and on each successive record just overwrite with the saved value and pass the record to sort. I have a few examples of E15 exit code but the SYNCSORT manual should have some examples of exit code. Wayne Bickerdike

Re: JCL Source Library Name Available During Execution?

If it came from a card reader? How about EXEC CICS SPOOL? Not every job is submitted from TSO and or has its origin in a PDS :) On Sun, Sep 30, 2012 at 11:59 PM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) shmuel+...@patriot.net wrote: In 2086667416745713.wa.paulgboulderaim@listserv.ua.edu, on 09/28/2012

Re: COBOL Compiler Question

Great information Frank. Excellent, thanks. On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 11:11 AM, Frank Swarbrick frank.swarbr...@yahoo.com wrote: What is CTRCOBMOD? If you do a COBOL static call, or even a COBOL dynamic call, you are for the most part not using CICS services to invoke your routine. For static

Re: But will it be available 24/365 was Re: New Designed Service Portal Coming to IBM

We knew that. Now put the toys back in the pram and talk about HA. The wobbly chuck was epic! On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 2:59 AM, John Gilmore jwgli...@gmail.com wrote: My word you really do spit the dummy old chap has made my day. It is a delightful example of a perhaps not quite current

Re: zIIP simulation

Since it doesn't appear to have been mentioned, IBMs zCP3000 tool is useful for analyzing if a benefit would derive from using a ZIIP engine. I ran one for a customer and for a DB2 z/OS workload,the benefit was apparent on a cost benefit basis. I believe that CA-Datacom will utilise a zIIP if

Re: APF in JCL step

Isn't the answer link edit AC=1? He asked about a module,not a library.The subject of SYSLMOD must be APF authorised...Do we care? On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 12:55 PM, CM Poncelet ponce...@bcs.org.uk wrote: The question was about how to APF-authorize a program in a single JCL jobstream. The

Re: JCL - What is it and what could it be ?

COND=ONLY On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 4:44 AM, John McDowell jmcd...@gmail.com wrote: Dan, You got me there :-) I should have been more careful setting my constraints, let me try again :-) How do you suppress the execution of the 1st step in a job using existing JCL facilities without

Re: Has anyone measured CPU savings using external SORT's vs internal (COBOL) SORT's?

Syncsort whilst performing optimally, does not work well with transparency products. Many moons ago I discovered this fact and was forced to go the E15 way. A couple of examples that Syncsort did not work with: CA-Datacom VSAM transparency and IBM - VSAM transparency. CA-Sort worked as did

Re: Catalog system for Unix Was: Re: z/OS is antique WAS: Aging Sysprogs = Aging Farmers

Literal translation would be that goes, ca va is a shortened comment ca va, ie how goes it(that)?. OK would be ca va bien. Without bien it's meaningless in the context. Bien would be the OK piece, ie fine On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 11:31 AM, Scott Ford scott_j_f...@yahoo.com wrote: Hey zMan,

Re: Catalog system for Unix Was: Re: z/OS is antique WAS: Aging Sysprogs = Aging Farmers

*d'accord* On Sat, Dec 7, 2013 at 12:55 AM, John Gilmore jwgli...@gmail.com wrote: Google aside, 'ça' has two meanings: o It is an abbreviation of 'cela', a demonstrative pronoun, as in 'C'est ça!', That's right! . o It is also an adverb, 'here' or 'hither', as in 'ça et la', here and

Re: z/OS and Metasploit

Almost certainly a bootleg z/OS 1.10 running on Hercules. ADCD distribution. The ADCD build has a documented IBMUSER/password combination. The IP address used is a clue too. Very amateurish Someone put an ADCD z/OS 1.10 on a torrent a few years ago so it's probably a copy of that. On Tue,

Re: z/OS and Metasploit

Just looked a bit closer. The user ID is ADCDMST. If it's a legit system, the ADCDMST user id has SYS1, RACF special and could be the supplied default password was in use. Strongly suspect it's a bootleg system. On Tue, Dec 10, 2013 at 6:05 AM, Wayne Bickerdike wayn...@gmail.com wrote: Almost

Re: z/OS and Metasploit

-12-09 20:08, Wayne Bickerdike pisze: Just looked a bit closer. The user ID is ADCDMST. If it's a legit system, the ADCDMST user id has SYS1, RACF special and could be the supplied default password was in use. Strongly suspect it's a bootleg system. So what? Bootleg system is less secure

Re: z/OS and Metasploit

To Peter Vander Woude: Did you watch the video? If so you missed the display at 2:24 which clearly shows ADCDMST and SYS1 group access. In this case, I would wager with you that this is an ADCD system and the video maker set it all up. Yes I agree with your ramble but I'm glad you aren't an eye

Re: SMF DUMP SB37 - what am I doing wrong?

Did you take off MOD and RLSE? You already have the answer... On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 6:00 AM, Charles Mills charl...@mcn.org wrote: Replies in-line. Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of retired mainframer

Re: SMF DUMP SB37 - what am I doing wrong?

What? You release the space that you need? Use a GDG for each run and concatenate all GDG's to get entire collection. You can use RLSE in that situation. SMFOUT DD DSN=SMFGDG(+1) On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 6:02 AM, Charles Mills charl...@mcn.org wrote: Yes, that is intentional. I am trying

Re: Innovating an old IMS 3270-based application

Take a look at IMS connect which enables API for Java or C code. You will need a good understanding of your IMS database structures On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 8:56 AM, Sanya Off sanya...@gmail.com wrote: Folks, I wonder if some of you may share the experience and opinions with regards to

Re: How *not* to SLEEP in REXX

I finally caved and stopped using the CPU hungry wait techniques. The ADDRESS SYSCALL SLEEP works fine for whole seconds. We had a requirement to wait quite a bit less, so I developed a called assembler program that does a STIMER WAIT,DINTVL=DECTIME where DECTIME is CL8 '0500' for a 5 second

Re: BSAM POINT on TAPE files

You should look here: Data Management Macro Instructions z/OS V1R10.0-V1R11.0 DFSMS Introduction SC26-7397-03 On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 9:56 AM, David Speake david.spe...@bcbssc.comwrote: Can anyone tell me how the BSAM POINT macro works for tape. Is there a device command that will just

Re: Compile COBOL/CICS pgms on z/OS problem

I don't use a procedure but this is how I specify size and it works OK, no size warning message: //*/ //* STEP 1: COMPILE */ //*/ //ENTCOB EXEC

Re: B37 för FTINCL in ISPF for userid.ISPnnnnn.SPFTEMPn.WORK datasets

Thomas, If you can describe the problem you can program for it. In your case, make an educated guess, if that fails, get some more education. On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 4:47 AM, Thomas Berg thomas.b...@swedbank.se wrote: -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List

Re: CICS Transaction 'QKVA' is not recognized

Install GROUP1 (CEDA INSTALL GROUP(GROUP1). Check that the transaction is now available. No need to bounce CICS. On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 2:54 AM, Miklos Szigetvari miklos.szigetv...@isis-papyrus.com wrote: Hi Have you installed the GROUP1 ? CEDA INST G(GROUP1) If you had you can see with

Re: DFHUTILB and DFHUPROC

is bad news. cheers and thanks, Graham -- On 28/05/2013 12:03 AM, Wayne Bickerdike wrote: Graham, On most Dallas setups you will have a DBPROCAG for a DBA TSO logon proc. Once logged on you should have the DB2 Admin tool and SPUFI. Most of what you have been doing can be done without

Re: Choosing a tape library

Check out MFNETDISK. www.mfnetdisk.com Shai Hess (the developer) lives in Israel. Features: MFNetDisk supports disks and tapes emulation and real 3390 disk replication and one second snapshot 3390 disks backup and restore. MFNETDISK introduces two modes – Replication and emulation for

Re: Why does IBM keep saying things like this:

Betul, la! On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 10:07 PM, Robin Atwood abend...@gmail.com wrote: If second definition actionable irritates you, please don't visit Singapore. You would suffer from the linguistic equivalent of anaphylactic shock. :-) OK, la! -Robin

Re: IBM commitment to academia

IBM already provide access to z/OS to Universities teaching z/OS / z/VM in the IBM Academic Initiative via the Dallas RDP systems. I taught several units at Canberra university here in Australia. The class sizes varied between 8 and 20 students. Units were offered as part of a Masters IT degree,

Re: IBM commitment to academia

The break up of IBM was going full tilt when I worked there in 1978. Back then it was being discussed in response to all the antitrust legislation but had dragged on through the judicial process for years. I was part of General Business Group back then and we were quite excited at the thought of

Re: Dice article on IBM layoffs

IBM speak always had me baffled. Back in the days of yore at IBM I received a memo on my desk in an envelope marked secret and confidential. I opened said letter and it started with... There is a possibility of an IBM separation, do not discuss this with anyone I thought this was the way

Re: Dice article on IBM layoffs

LOL (Not an IBMism)... It's an ongoing situation, as we used to say. On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 6:24 PM, Shane Ginnane ibm-m...@tpg.com.au wrote: On Mon, 24 Jun 2013 15:57:17 +0930, Wayne Bickerdike wrote: IBM speak always had me baffled. :-) And *he* worked for them ... Couple of weeks ago I

Re: SDSF display omits stepname.

Missing exit. Can't remember the name but someone will. IBM provide sample which a lot of shops use or modify. On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 11:34 AM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com wrote: z/OS 1.13. SDSF shows me: SDSF JOB DATA SET DISPLAY - JOB GIMZIP (JOB06889)LINE 1-13 (13)

Re: Great quote on http://slashdot.org (changes frequently)

Oh noes, not another language! http://hammerprinciple.com/therighttool/items/forth/lua Go Forth and multiply comes to mind. On Sat, Jun 29, 2013 at 12:02 PM, David Crayford dcrayf...@gmail.com wrote: On 29/06/2013, at 10:00 AM, Shane Ginnane ibm-m...@tpg.com.au wrote: On Sat, 29 Jun 2013

Re: EXECIO - Was: Great quote on http://slashdot.org (changes frequently)

David, Seems awful slow box you are on. Is this a z Box? Why have a DO UNTIL when EXECIO 5000 DISKR INPUT ( STEM REC. FINIS is all that's needed? Your REXX code was 1-2 elapsed seconds on my box. No need for the second EXECIO Cowlishaw BENCH: - REXXCPS 2.1 -- MEASURING REXX

Re: EXECIO - Was: Great quote on http://slashdot.org (changes frequently)

David, My bad, you must have a huge file here, reading 5000 at a time. Hmm, slow as... On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 2:51 PM, David Crayford dcrayf...@gmail.com wrote: On 1/07/2013 1:25 AM, Thomas Conley wrote: On 6/30/2013 12:17 PM, Shmuel Metz , Seymour J. wrote: In

Re: What programmer's fear (not IBM specific)

Mark IV had a ruler too... On Thu, Jul 4, 2013 at 1:19 PM, Anthony Babonas tonybabo...@icloud.com wrote: Rising to the defense of RPG, what other language had its own ruler? Talk about ease of coding! Ah the nostalgia.sigh. Sent from Tony's iPhone. On Jul 3, 2013, at 9:50 PM, John

Re: Announcing PCRE 8.33 for native z/OS

Is a grammer an unprofessional programmer? Or someone against grammar? On Sat, Jul 6, 2013 at 8:27 AM, Farley, Peter x23353 peter.far...@broadridge.com wrote: No, actually we do not. I deliberately used the IBM supplied PROC to ensure the widest possible audience. -Original Message-

Re: The amazing disappearing mainframe.

Only in India. Ashes cricket is a sell out for every single game. I won't comment on the damage that India has done to cricket in general, viz T20. The mob rules On Sun, Jul 14, 2013 at 2:16 AM, Govind Chettiar rasha...@gmail.com wrote: Not really one of the greatest rivalries

Re: Greenbar

One sided... On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 9:47 AM, efinnell15 efinnel...@aol.com wrote: Long ago and far away our Director got several hundred boxes of 'Greenbar' at GSA in Anniston for like 10 cents a box. Nice paper easy to load and fold. After a few days the security officer issued a cease and

Re: PRINTOFF TSO command from File 325

Disconnect! On Sat, Aug 3, 2013 at 6:28 AM, Ted MacNEIL eamacn...@yahoo.ca wrote: What does this have to do with anything? - Ted MacNEIL eamacn...@yahoo.ca Twitter: @TedMacNEIL -Original Message- From: Micheal Butz michealb...@optonline.net Sender: IBM Mainframe

Re: COBOL ? - emulating recursive PERFORM statement

Aww, it was getting interesting. Not been the same since the days of Ali and Frazier. Personally, I wish C had never seen the light of day and PL/I had the place of COBOL. On Sat, Aug 3, 2013 at 4:06 AM, John Gilmore jwgli...@gmail.com wrote: I don't think you are really interested in how a

Re: COBOL ? - emulating recursive PERFORM statement

at 10:45 AM, David Crayford dcrayf...@gmail.com wrote: Make up your mind Wayne. It's was only a couple of weeks ago you sent me email praising COBOL! On 03/08/2013, at 8:17 AM, Wayne Bickerdike wayn...@gmail.com wrote: Aww, it was getting interesting. Not been the same since the days of Ali

Re: COBOL ? - emulating recursive PERFORM statement

LOL, Didn't say it was my hands! Have you heard me play the violin? Been playing 50 years and still awful. However, PL/I is my fiddle... On Sat, Aug 3, 2013 at 5:46 PM, David Crayford dcrayf...@gmail.com wrote: On 3/08/2013 3:21 PM, Wayne Bickerdike wrote: If I ever praised COBOL, I must have

Re: Below the Line Storage Allocation

Ran this utility extensively on our system, 3000+ load modules. Had REGION=128M coded. On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 9:29 AM, Shane Ginnane ibm-m...@tpg.com.au wrote: Some find ploughing through dumps intimidating - a little Diagnosis 101 first might shed some light: - has this task run

Re: IBM assembler copybook

If you have IBM File Manager you can read the file using FM and give it the copy book as a template. Otherwise, you will need to perform an IDCAMS PRINT DUMP command and work out the contents from the copy book lay out and the dump format content. //DUMP EXEC PGM=IDCAMS //SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=*

Re: DFSort support for REXX E15?

I did this in REXX a different way. In my case, I wanted to produce multiple SORTOUTS but the same could apply for multiple input files. I used a SYSINnn DD statement and a SYSPARMnn DD. DO I = 1 to files CALL SYSIN(I) CALL SYSPARMI(I) CALL SPOOL(I) CALL SYSPOOL(I) CALL ALLOCA(I) ADDRESS

Re: DFSort support for REXX E15?

, Wayne Bickerdike wayn...@gmail.com wrote: I did this in REXX a different way. In my case, I wanted to produce multiple SORTOUTS but the same could apply for multiple input files. I used a SYSINnn DD statement and a SYSPARMnn DD. DO I = 1 to files CALL SYSIN(I) CALL SYSPARMI(I) CALL SPOOL(I

Re: IBM assembler copybook

). On Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 4:58 PM, Wayne Bickerdike wayn...@gmail.com wrote: If you have IBM File Manager you can read the file using FM and give it the copy book as a template. Otherwise, you will need to perform an IDCAMS PRINT DUMP command and work out the contents from the copy

Re: IBM assembler copybook

ASM to PL/I should be quite simple. PL3 becomes FIXED DEC(3,0) etc. CL6 becomes CHAR(6), BL1 becomes BIT(8) (I think) On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 12:35 PM, Ron Thomas ron5...@gmail.com wrote: We have fileaid and i belive it only supports cobol and PL/1. Can this copybook be converted to

Re: IBM assembler copybook

: In cahtjz9lpe6q2ades818nb0a1pd1v3o2a27_7ktkptr3ctdo...@mail.gmail.com, on 02/24/2014 at 06:15 PM, Wayne Bickerdike wayn...@gmail.com said: ASM to PL/I should be quite simple. PL3 becomes FIXED DEC(3,0) etc. WTF? PL3 is 24 bits; that's 5 digits and a sign. Why would it not be DEC(5)? -- Shmuel

Re: IBM assembler copybook

File Aid purports to support PL/I copy books, I tried a quick test: DCL 1 RECORD, 2 BIT_FIELD1 BIT(8), 2 BIT_FIELD2 BIT(8), 2 BIT_FIELD3 BIT(8), 2 BIT_FIELD4 BIT(8); File Aid treats each field as PIC X(1). Subsequent to this, a HEX byte is not formatted bit by

Re: Prepare System for Discontinuance

Sounds like the Big Red self-destruct button. Every thriller needs one. Davros had one on his chair. Usually there is a countdown associated with this and the hero escapes just in time :) Years ago I asked an operator what the Emergency Stop button on our 370 was. His reply: It shuts down the

Re: Now IEBGENER, Was Help with IEBCOPY?

Wow, so much batch! How about ISPF EDIT sequential file CUT A CUT B Edit PDS(A) PASTE A EDIT PDS(B) PASTE B Sri gave the solution I would have used, ie IEBUPDTE since the subject of a RECEIVE can be anything you decide, two RECEIVES with OUTDSN(PDS(A)) OUTDSN(PDS(B)) would be another non-batch

Re: Now IEBGENER, Was Help with IEBCOPY?

It's better than IDCAMS REPRO because no control statements are required. Just JCL. On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 11:31 PM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) shmuel+ibm-m...@patriot.net wrote: In CAHtJz9+xhKyr=hjs+hzudcs6b-g3wend-hrh71mzuy1632i...@mail.gmail.com, on 03/20/2014 at 01:03 PM, Wayne

Re: Real programmers eat foo

English fish and chips. Two lots for lunch, once for dinner and on the way home from the pub was my record on one notable day. In London, the doner kebab and pints of London Pride were the favoured food of the early 80s. On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 4:20 AM, Ed Finnell efinnel...@aol.com wrote:

Re: Vendor Source Code

Just to add to Mitch's comments. I was one of the developers of the said software that was given to our competitor. We held the software in Escrow with Iron Mountain, The software was mainly z/OS assembler source/macros with the SMPE build code, SMPE APAR/PTF code. We would also package the

Re: Customizing ISPF panel

Use the MODEL command in ISPF EDIT. It provides templates for most common panel types. In your invoking REXX use the MODEL command for other templates for LIBDEF, ISPEXEC DISPLAY PANEL etc. On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 3:27 AM, Steve Comstock st...@trainersfriend.comwrote: On 5/17/2014 8:17 AM,

Re: TSO EDIT COMMAND - BOUNDS

SPF needed terminals. I was at IBM in 1978 and SPF didn't seem all that old. Terminals were in short supply so punch using TYPRUN=COPY was the go... On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 4:17 AM, J R jayare...@hotmail.com wrote: It was at an IBM internal site. It may have been before SPF's official

Re: TSO EDIT COMMAND - BOUNDS

Structured Programming Facility was how we named it back in 1978. I was thrilled to think that IBM had a product for Structured Programming. Having cut my teeth on the excellent Jackson Structured programming techniques, alas it wasn't that at all but merely a code indenter to line up block

Re: Unload data

Bracket the potential dates in the SELECT and eliminate the ones you don't want using DFSORT in a later step. So if you are using CURRENT_DATE in the SELECT use = CURRENT_DATE for the situation where the job clicks over to next date. 125 million rows is not a lot for DFSORT to filter later. On

Re: Does someone know about DeZhi ?

I have an account and have logged on only occasionally. It was an older version of z/OS (1.8 from memory). Worth a try though. On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 11:45 PM, Eric Loriaux ibm-m...@loriaux-services.be wrote: Does someone know about DeZhi ? http://www.efglobe.com/cgi-bin/mainframe/mainuser

Re: Accessing VSAM Data from non-zOS platform

Not wishing to denigrate CA-Datacom or VSAMT but the original request was to retrieve data from VSAM. Your proposal would require CA-Datacom, VSAMT, CICS Service Facility. You are proposing a million dollar solution together with the requirement to install and maintain a database with a shrinking

Re: Setting a proper CICS MXT Value

1. The number of concurrent long-running tasks You have this estimate 2. Each terminal running conversational tasks This may not be a large number if your transaction design is pseudo-conversational. EXEC CICS CONVERSE would cause a transaction to be conversational. With the large amount of

Re: del alias command

Check your TSO PROFILE PREFIX variable. Always safer to fully qualify and surround with quotes. If your PREFIX is NULL, it would have worked without quotes. On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 5:37 AM, Mark Steely mark.ste...@wnco.com wrote: We are z/OS v1r13. I have a confusing issue. We have a dataset

Re: Is it possible to issue F CICSXXXX,CEMT I DA in MVS consoles

You will need a CONSOLE entry TYPTERM=DFHCONS and assuming you have RACF the appropriate command access to issue those commands via the console to a CICS region. So basically create a unique terminal ID associated with your RACF user ID, TYPETERM=DFHCONS. TYPETERM - DFHCONS NEtname- (4

Re: memories

Much bigger than bees knees too... On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 12:43 PM, Shane Ginnane ibm-m...@tpg.com.au wrote: On Thu, 20 Nov 2014 17:53:46 -0500, Tony Harminc wrote: ... a TSO under VS/1 product that we were looking at. Did you get the opportunity to try it ?. I thought it was the ducks

Re: activate new applid w/o IPLing

Yes you can: 1) VTAM support. Update ATCCON00 and add the new APPLID to .VTAMLST (Check your VTAM STC for the appropriate dataset.) 2) Activate VTAM interface “V NET,ACT,ID=APPLID” On Tue, Dec 30, 2014 at 2:52 AM, Judy Ellis jel...@amig.com wrote: Hello, Is it possible to

Re: accounting packages

CA-Masterpiece is a full blown z/OS accounting package. Dun Bradstreet also had the Millennium software. Not sure if still available. SAP also cover off financials. Mincom (now Ventyx) also have an offering (Ellipse). On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 4:08 PM, Timothy Sipples sipp...@sg.ibm.com wrote:

Re: CA-Datacom

for a table. I have some REXX code that extracts the information from a CXX report and builds all the copybooks using DDUTILTY in batch... On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 8:33 PM, Wayne Bickerdike wayn...@gmail.com wrote: Ron, For an overview you can run a CXX report from the DBUTLTY utility. A TYPE

Re: CA-Datacom

Ron, For an overview you can run a CXX report from the DBUTLTY utility. A TYPE=A report will give you all databases and all areas. A CXX report (REPORT AREA=CXX) will give everything. The report is based on the physical layout of tables/areas/keys/elements. For each table it will list the

Re: O/T What ‘The Imitation Game’ didn’t tell you about Turing’s greatest triumph - The Washington Post

The link works fine in my Gmail client. Almost all of Pauls OMVS email postings end up in my spam folder. Google have been supplied with many examples for their (non) spam filter. Any one else find this happens? On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 1:56 AM, Paul Gilmartin

Re: O/T What ‘The Imitation Game’ didn’t tell you about Turing’s greatest triumph - The Washington Post

of obsolete hardware to set the standard for data representation on other media. VM/CMS (optionally) communicates with the SMTP server via a virtual card punch. On 02/23/2015 02:22 AM, Wayne Bickerdike wrote: The link works fine in my Gmail client. Almost all of Pauls OMVS email postings

Re: Fault Analyzer experts?

Hi Thomas, I have installed and used the product. What questions do you have? On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 7:06 PM, Thomas Berg thomas.b...@swedbank.se wrote: I'm wondering if there are any Fault Analyzer experts/experienced maintainers here at IBM-MAIN? I have some problems and questions

Re: Optimus - COBOL binary optimizer

...@listserv.ua.edu wrote: On Sat, 1 Aug 2015 09:59:29 +1000, Wayne Bickerdike wrote: Does it produce an ASM cross-reference listing, similar to COBOL? Now we're on a Z13, there's an awful lot of code that was compiled on Z10 or even earlier hardware using older compilers. Could be less risky than

Re: Optimus - COBOL binary optimizer

Does it produce an ASM cross-reference listing, similar to COBOL? Now we're on a Z13, there's an awful lot of code that was compiled on Z10 or even earlier hardware using older compilers. Could be less risky than recompiling. Also wonder why it would care what compiler produced the module. On

Re: Cleaning Out a PDS (Was Re: Library out of space issue while APPLY RSU)

I still use IEHPROGM to delete members of a PDS. Because I can... On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 7:49 AM, Paul Gilmartin 000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu wrote: On 2015-07-22 14:46, John Eells wrote: The syntax is pretty clearly documented in Access Method Services... It is. I

Re: Advanced Assembler Language and MVS Interfaces

I have an early copy too. Arrived by mail smelling of tobacco. Original owner must have smoked his way through some deep dark code... On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 7:58 PM, Shane Ginnane wrote: > On Fri, 11 Dec 2015 13:43:42 +, Bob Shannon wrote: > > >I have a copy of

Re: Dumb TSO Rexx question

I would use CALL. Implies that you want to return to the caller. Works in all environments. Most of my REXX code can then be ported to REXX/CICS without major rewrites. Another plus of CALL is that the called routine can be internal or external to the mainline code. On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at

Re: Why sort (was Microprocessor Optimization Primer)

; On 7/04/2016 6:59 PM, Wayne Bickerdike wrote: > >> I'm slightly gobsmacked that this discussion is needed. I guess the forest >> is lost in the trees. >> >> I can recommend "Principles of Program Design" by Michael Jackson c. 1975. >> >> Of greater con

Re: Interesting article on why sustained maintenance is better than the latest thing...

Very interesting. Our state-based regional rail provider had an "innovative" solution to something as simple as laying some new track. The lead engineer took a short cut and save some money which involved installing a curve on entry to the major rail hub. The curve caused massive wheel wear,

Re: Why sort (was Microprocessor Optimization Primer)

I'm slightly gobsmacked that this discussion is needed. I guess the forest is lost in the trees. I can recommend "Principles of Program Design" by Michael Jackson c. 1975. Of greater concern is the implication that Oracle on AIX outperforms DB2 on z/OS at our shop. Surely not :( On Thu, Apr 7,

Re: TSO receive on MultiVolume PS error

Don't preallocate the target dataset. The RECEIVE will allocate the correct attributes. However, I don't think that is your problem. The XMIT dataset should be FB 80 3120. Just RECEIVE INDSN('MY.XMIT') DATASET('NEW.DATASET'). If you get the same error, reallocate your XMIT dataset to 3120 LRECL

Re: Mainframe Testing

Does anyone on the list use Workload Simulator for testing, load testing, regression testing? I've been asked to possibly run a course and develop coursework on WSIM. Since IBM outsourced all their training, it appears that this one isn't covered. Was there ever a formal training course for

Re: Mainframe Testing

ayf...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 13/07/2016 1:29 PM, Wayne Bickerdike wrote: > >> Does anyone on the list use Workload Simulator for testing, load testing, >> regression testing? >> > > Wayne, > > You might want to ping your old landlord Alan offline. He's our expert

Re: IBM's Australian cloud is in deep dodo

I think it was a big ask to expect an online census system to cope with the potential volumes. The ABS made people believe that the census had to be completed on the evening of the 9th August. Given that 90% of the population live within a 30 minute time zone difference, most people would have

Re: Fujitsu Mainframe Vs IBM mainframe

SPF was Structured Programming Facility. The Structured bit came from the *amazing* ability to indent code using the > margin commands. :) IBM later renamed it ISPF (Iteractive System Productivity Facility). On Fri, Feb 24, 2017 at 12:29 AM, Edward Gould wrote: > > On

Re: Dummy question on ISPF command

or use SCLM to manage your files. Never met more than a handful of sysprogs who wanted "controls" On Tue, Dec 6, 2016 at 11:27 PM, Richards, Robert B. < robert.richa...@opm.gov> wrote: > > I would still prefer a seamlessly sequential approach where ISPF itself > would roll over 01/99 to 02/00. >

Re: Bypassing s322

*Where did you throw it? Or did you mean "throughout". Lulz..* *"Threw out this whole thread I have not seen a "snippet" of the offending code. But there had been a lot of theoretical discussion."* *On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 9:26 PM, Steve > wrote:*

Re: PDS/E Cobol

Won't FTP GET work? Just direct into the PDSE. On Sat, Sep 17, 2016 at 7:27 AM, Paul Gilmartin < 000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > On Fri, 16 Sep 2016 08:18:14 -0500, Tom Marchant > wrote: > > >On Fri, 16 Sep 2016 02:39:15 +, Jesse 1 Robinson

Re: How do you say "z/OS"?

Spent some time in Phoenix teaching some REXX to colleagues. I'm an English guy who moved to OZ in 1986 and had 5 years in California. After about an hour one of the guys put his hand up and said, "excuse me, what's ZED?" On Sun, Sep 18, 2016 at 3:52 AM, Jesse 1 Robinson

Re: How do you say "z/OS"?

By the time I got to Phoenix, she had left. (Apologies to Glenn Campbell). On Tue, Sep 20, 2016 at 5:55 AM, zMan <zedgarhoo...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hah, yes, I have... > > On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 3:08 PM, Wayne Bickerdike <wayn...@

Re: How do you say "z/OS"?

ue, Sep 20, 2016 at 4:52 AM, zMan <zedgarhoo...@gmail.com> wrote: > And you replied, "You need to get out more", I assume! Sheesh. It might > sound odd to the American ear, but it's not exactly that obscure. > > On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 1:18 AM, Wayne Bickerdike <way

Re: STC as batch

For CICS, yes it can run as a started job. CA-Datacom can run as a job too. Whatever you want to do, try itWrap a job card around the STC or use an instream proc with a job card and see what happens. On Sat, Nov 26, 2016 at 4:59 AM, Peter Hunkeler wrote: > >Is it possible

Re: TSO/E LOGON recovery?

It's not protected on my logon panel. IKJ56420I Userid B not authorized to use TSO Enter LOGON parameters below: *Userid===> B Password ===> Procedure ===> Acct Nmbr ===> Size ===> Perform ===> Command ===> Enter an 'S'

Re: Alias to Datacom

Do you mean an alias to point to a Datacom area? The area is the formatted physical file that holds tables in Datacom. There are other parts that make the whole database, such as the CXX (directory). The database is a logical construct, not a physical construct. You probably can use a dataset

Re: Rexx/CICS format file pool - return code -4

You need security enabled for REXX/CICS to be functional. In addition to what Sri pointed to, when you enter REXX/CICS after the filepool is formatted, each user will have their individual RACF user associated with their library members in the RFS file system. So if you are not signed on, it's

Re: Problem with "RECEIVE" of z/OS 2.2 upgrade

Check your path statement in the GIMUNZIP step. Better still, can you cut and paste the JCL and the USS directory that you downloaded into? On Fri, Dec 23, 2016 at 10:05 AM, McCabe, Ron wrote: > Hello List, > > I know that everyone is either off or about to be

Re: Problem with "RECEIVE" of z/OS 2.2 upgrade

When the UNZIPJCL is executed, it goes to the GIMPAF.XML file within the same subdirectory, and uses the description there to try to resolve the file name to the actual file within the subdirectory. The error message indicates that no such file exists within the install subdirectory. This is

Re: A not very Christmassy PL/I tale

What terrible consequences? PL/I is still going strong and IBM were one of the biggest users internally when I worked for them. ICI in the UK were big PL/I users too. Apart from a lack of available programmers, I would prefer to program in PL/I than COBOL. On Mon, Dec 26, 2016 at 7:17 AM,

Re: Rexx/CICS format file pool - return code -4

The out of the box ADCD CICS does not have external security configured. Therefore the CESN transaction has no effect. Enable security in the startup options with SEC=YES then come back with more questions. :) On Thu, Dec 22, 2016 at 4:36 PM, Bruce Hewson wrote: >

Re: "embedded" ISPF panels/message/etc

I use the embedded skeletons technique designed by Frank Clarke. See http://www.rexxla.org/freerepo/REXX/ Works for MLIB, SLIB, TLIB entries. No more chasing around looking for the source. It's all in one program. On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 5:02 AM, Mark Zelden wrote: > Some I

Re: Job hold on jes2 input queue

Check that the JES queue for the class(es) of jobs isn't held. To release try $T JOBCLASS(n),QHOLD=NO (where n is jobclass 0-Z or whatever). On Tue, Apr 4, 2017 at 4:14 AM, Ambrose Jr wrote: > Hi Team, > > > We recently migrated test lpar from mainframe to RDT. All

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