Re: [EXTERNAL MESSAGE] Passing along a job opportunity

It's a very wide net being casted. I've gotten three email and one voice mail. The voicemail dude is out of NJ and he has called my cell four times. If you're not in my contact list I don't answer. ;-D an -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Phil

Re: [EXTERNAL MESSAGE] Re: COPYING PDS AND PDSE

from ProtonMail, Swiss-based encrypted email. GPG Public Key - https://api.protonmail.ch/pks/lookup?op=get=markjac...@protonmail.com ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Tuesday, May 7, 2019 11:50 AM, Blake, Daniel J [CTR] <00f1be92566d-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > Shmuel

Re: [EXTERNAL MESSAGE] Re: COPYING PDS AND PDSE

Shmuel, I'm not sure what you mean by your statement > There are no load modules in a PDSE. < Data Set Information Command ===> Data Set Name . . . : TCPIP.SEZALOAD General DataCurrent Allocation Management class . . :

Re: Confusing hardware withdrawal announcement

Just these eight products have been withdrawn. I wonder if we will see a better written announcement from IBM. Mouse 0152 HMC Tower Keyboard 0153 TKE Tower Keyboard

Re: SDSF Edit Function Key disappointment

I bit the bullet. ;-D an Blake -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Lionel Dyck Sent: Thursday, March 28, 2019 7:40 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: SDSF Edit Function Key disappointment I've not used SDSF for a number of years but now I am

Re: ICKDSF QUESTION

I thought it uses TGTVOL and SRCVOL, not SEDVN/TDEVN, but I could be wrong. ;-D an -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of esmie moo Sent: Friday, February 01, 2019 7:11 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: ICKDSF QUESTION Gentle Readers, I am trying to

Re: article about Grace Hopper, developer of COBOL

, so it had to be short. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Blake, Daniel J [CTR] Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2019 9:04 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: article about Grace Hopper, developer of COBOL Wow, so much

Re: article about Grace Hopper, developer of COBOL

Wow, so much more can be said about her contributions that I found the article lacking. "The only phrase I've ever disliked is, 'Why, we've always done it that way.' I always tell young people, 'Go ahead and do it. You can always apologize later.'" ~ Grace Hopper And one of the most used even

Re: Implementign Web Services Security in CICS v5.4

To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Implementign Web Services Security in CICS v5.4 I ran the command against the z/OS CSI. No PTFs are missing. Gadi -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Blake, Daniel J [CTR] Sent: Thursday, January 3, 2019 1:55 PM

Re: Implementign Web Services Security in CICS v5.4

Gadi, Run a SMPE report using either FIXCAT(IBM.TargetSystem-RequiredService.CICS.V5R4) or if you like some extra reading FIXCAT(*). ;-D an -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Gadi Ben-Avi Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2019 3:30 AM To:

Re: CA VIew Reports

It looks like CA is merging CA View and CA Deliver. We just installed R14 and they share a common load library. https://www.slideshare.net/CAinc/ca-view-and-ca-deliver-product-overview ;-D an Dan Blake -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Allan

Re: Thanks For All the Fish

John, Thank you for your support and assistance. You will be missed. ;-D an Dan Blake -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of John Eells Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2018 8:41 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Thanks For All the Fish Friday, 14

Re: Breaking text file at position 72?

One TFnn works for any/all lines between blanks lines. So if you have a line followed by a blank line, text line, blank line, yes each line will require a TFnn line command. Two or more lines without separating blank(s) require only one TFnn line command. Dan -Original Message-

Re: CTC conventions

Not sure if this is it, https://www.ibm.com/search?q=SG24-5666=mhsrch=18=utf=en=us ;-D an -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Allan Staller Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2018 1:50 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU

Re: S106 abends after copying into LINKLIST

When building a new system or adding maintenance I go back through all LNK, LPA and APF libraries making sure they all have at least 20% free space. If for no other reason getting setup for the next maintenance cycle. When I'm bored, which is almost never, I'll check every data set on the RES

Re: S106 abends after copying into LINKLIST

te: The dataset allocation stayed the same. It was the emptying out of members and compressing that caused the problem. Thanks for the response. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Blake, Daniel J [CTR] Sent: Monday, Oct

Re: S106 abends after copying into LINKLIST

Very interesting conversation. Kind of related, like a third cousin is what I found: ,SDSF OUTPUT DISPLAY CSV_LNKLST_SPACE LINE 0 COLUMNS ,COMMAND INPUT ===>, ,SCROLL == * TOP OF DATA

Re: SMP/E Fixcat Categories in batch?

The FIXCAT(*) will list the fix categories for APARs relevant to your environment based on installed FMIDs in that zone in this format. FIX,CATEGORY,FMID CLASSAPAR SYSMOD NAME STATUS RECEIVED ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ ___ __

Re: SMP/E Fixcat Categories in batch?

Oh-No second. The fastest recordable time that passes after pressing sent and realizing you shouldn't have. ;-D an -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Richards, Robert B. Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2018 7:40 AM To:

Re: Ken Tomiak's recent work

No real timeframe and things can always be added. I'll add those two. Thanks Dan Dan Blake Mainframe Engineering – Steady State CSRA, a GDIT Company dbl...@fdic.gov Office: (703) 516-5497 Mobile: (703) 314-0501 OOO: Remote work – 09/17/2018 to 09/21/2018 -Original Message- From: IBM

Re: Import Connect

Is CATALOG.S0M0PLEX.ZOS.SYSTEM23 a mastercat? ;-D an -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Buckton, T. (Theo) Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2018 5:44 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Import Connect Hi There, Please

General RACF question for Walt

Walt, Years ago I was called to assist two different customers who both screwed up the only Special userid. In both cases I was able to switch to the IBM supplied RACF data bases that came with a ServerPac. Logged in with IBMUSER, switched back and reset the SPECIAL userid. This was many

Re: How to move to zFS V5 - painlessly

I used the IOEFSUTL to convert in our sand box. Worked well and the largest zFS only took 33 seconds of batch runtime. Next up is a system covered under SLAs and I don't want it down for an extended period of time while I run the batch jobs for 200+ aggregates. Did you see an extended IPL

Re: KC - z/OS 2.1 manuals no longer available

This one just worked for me https://www-304.ibm.com/servers/resourcelink/svc00100.nsf/pages/zosv2r1-pdf-download?OpenDocument ;-D an   -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Vince Getgood Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2018

Re: JES2 JOE curiosity

Try $JDDETAILS(RESOURCE) and it's brother $JDDETAILS(HISTORY) ;-D an   -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Jesse 1 Robinson Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2018 5:17 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: JES2 JOE

Re: [EXTERNAL] CBT Tape Version 495 has been cut

-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of R.S. Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2018 3:08 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: [EXTERNAL] CBT Tape Version 495 has been cut W dniu 2018-01-17 o 17:33, Edward Finnell pisze: >>

Re: catalog doubt

Ya know, I almost replied but read the whole post and realized it was a tongue in cheek statement. ;-D an On: 06 January 2018 12:43, "Beverly Caldwell" wrote: OK OK OK Take a joke can you? Or is that not allowed on this board? I was

Re: Check out Massive Amazon cloud service outage disrupts sites

http://www.pcmag.com/news/352160/a-typo-took-amazon-s3-offline Dan -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Vernooij, Kees (ITOPT1) - KLM Sent: Friday, March 03, 2017 9:41 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Check

Re: And the future is...

Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Blake, Daniel J [CTR] Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2017 12:07 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: And the future is... Check out http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1OA12282 Make sure you scroll down to Users

Re: And the future is...

To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: And the future is... On 17Jan19:1706+, Blake, Daniel J [CTR] wrote: > > > Check out http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1OA12282 > > Make sure you scroll down to Users Affected section. Is that a Statement of Direction? ;-) -

Re: And the future is...

Check out http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1OA12282 Make sure you scroll down to Users Affected section. Dan -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Sean Gleann Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2017 8:33 AM To:

Re: Rename in-process catalog issue

If a simple del cluster doesn't work I head over to my trusty ISMF panels. It has never failed me in cleaning up broken VSAM clusters or VSAM catalog entries with no physical file. ;-D an -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On

Re: SMF RECORD TYPE : HELP

as an input file? On Thu, 3/11/16, Blake, Daniel J [CTR] <00f1be92566d-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: Subject: Re: SMF RECORD TYPE : HELP To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Received: Thursday, 3 November, 2016, 9:20 AM OK, add an SDS

Re: SMF RECORD TYPE : HELP

tried that. However, when I issued the command it was too late (3 minutes after the job abend). This is why I thought by reading SMF records would have some info on the volume. On Thu, 3/11/16, Blake, Daniel J [CTR] <00f1be92566d-dmarc-r

Re: SMF RECORD TYPE : HELP

Have you tried the alloc command from the console or SDSF? D U,,ALLOC,devaddr,1 Thank You ;-D an -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of John Dawes Sent: Thursday, November 03, 2016 7:53 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU

Re: Shopz issues?

My weekly job ran successfully at 0600 today. ;-D an -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Richards, Robert B. Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2016 8:55 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Shopz issues? Let me ask my

Re: VVDS points to non-existent catalog

-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Sean Gleann Sent: Monday, October 17, 2016 3:48 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: VVDS points to non-existent catalog Dan - yes, I tried that. I get " '(filename)' was not found in catalog. " John On 17 October 2016 at 20:37, Blake, Dan

Re: VVDS points to non-existent catalog

Did you press PF1 to see more information as to why the rename did not work? Thank You Dan Blake – Team Leader   dbl...@fdic.gov FDIC ISC-3 O Service Delivery | Room B4072 O: (703) 516-5497 | BB: (703) 314-0501 | M: (703) 946-2967 Advanced Out of Office Notice: Telecommute: October 24-28,

Re: VVDS points to non-existent catalog

>If I use ISPF 3.4 to look at all the files on the disk involved, I can see >that the file does in fact exist.< >The problem is that the flat file I created has a name that was aliased to the >catalog I've just deleted and redefined. (foot...gun...BANG)> OK, you know where the file is and the

Re: Reloading a member of ELPA

Have you tried Health Checker. These are the ones that I see: VSM_CSA_CHANGE VSM_CSA_LARGEST_FREE VSM_CSA_LIMIT VSM_CSA_THRESHOLD VSM_PVT_LIMIT VSM_SQA_LIMIT VSM_SQA_THRESHOLD Each one has some form of ECSA listed. Some are near the top, others you will need to scroll down to see. Some even

Remote TSO using the HMC

Just wondering if anyone has successfully logged into TSO using the HMC while being at a remote location? Let's say the Mainframe is in New York City and the HMC is sitting right next to it. I'm sitting on the beach in Miami, using the HMC's IP address I connect to it. From there is there a

Re: SMP/E Feature?

I too use DDDEFs. I always run APPLY CHECK and ACCEPT CHECK and verify volsers and PATHs. F 'DATA SET OR PATH' eliminates any embedded volser/path from the REASON REPORT section. That way if I'm out of the office for an extended period of time and some SMP/E work needs to be done people

Re: Z/OS ATOPCEED

Without seeing the messages your users are getting I'd say you have a LNKLSTed library in extents. Thank You ;-D an Blake   -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Shashi Kumar Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2016 2:40 PM To:

Re: Unix

I've had great luck growing a zFS using: //* //** Grow a zFS. **

Re: zEC12

of Office Notice: Telecommute March 14-18, 2016. -Original Message- From: Blake, Daniel J [CTR] Sent: Tuesday, February 09, 2016 2:34 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: RE: zEC12 It doesn't appear to be on the radar for end of marketing yet. And IBM won't give us an advance warning

Re: zEC12

It doesn't appear to be on the radar for end of marketing yet. And IBM won't give us an advance warning until they announce it.

Re: I am looking for a new contract/job

Very few companies or agencies allow for remote system programmers, so don't fault SPCI. Mainline is one company that has, in the past, used remote talent, http://mainline.com/ Best of luck. Dan -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List

Re: I am looking for a new contract/job

@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: I am looking for a new contract/job In <6b5390a154fb8647880fea69552ef485a36...@vaswexc001bp.prod.fdic.gov>, on 10/28/2015 at 11:26 AM, "Blake, Daniel J [CTR]" <dbl...@fdic.gov> said: >Mainline is one company that has, in the past, used remote tale

Re: I am looking for a new contract/job

.) Sent: Wednesday, October 28, 2015 12:45 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: I am looking for a new contract/job In <6b5390a154fb8647880fea69552ef485a37...@vaswexc001bp.prod.fdic.gov>, on 10/28/2015 at 03:09 PM, "Blake, Daniel J [CTR]" <dbl...@fdic.gov> sai

Re: I am looking for a new contract/job

] On Behalf Of Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) Sent: Wednesday, October 28, 2015 12:58 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: I am looking for a new contract/job In <6b5390a154fb8647880fea69552ef485a38...@vaswexc001bp.prod.fdic.gov>, on 10/28/2015 at 03:44 PM, "Blake, Daniel J [CTR]"

Re: RE-IPL for the Daylight to Standard time conversion?

My two-cents. I've worked in many sites with different takes on this. Some only IPL twice a year, for the time change. They recognized it wasn't a requirement for the IPL, but continued to schedule it for 'clean-up' purposes. The time change gave them an excuse for the IPL. I've also

SAS question

LMK if there is a better place to ask. We need to validate who/what is using our SAS IP connections? Specifically looking for: * Input or output * Protocol - IP or UPD * Target host name Thank You Dan Blake

Re: SAS question

MXG to do this search. Mxg.com Lizette > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] > On Behalf Of Blake, Daniel J [CTR] > Sent: Tuesday, October 20, 2015 11:39 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: SAS

Re: Having the mainframe on YouTube

I bought my MacBook Air Mid 2011. It came with OS X Lion. Since then I've upgraded to: Mountain Lion Mavericks Yosemite And soon to Ei Capitan, all for free. I wish I could say the same about MS. One of the bigger reasons why I bailed on MS. Dan -Original Message- From: IBM

Re: Parmlib syntax check macro

There is a parmlib checker for CEEPRMxx. // //** THIS JOB IS A SYNTAX CHECKER FOR CHANGES TO THE //** SYS1.PARMLIB(CEEPRMXX) MEMBER. CHANGE THE 'CEE=(00)' TO //** POINT TO THE MEMBER OF PARMLIB YOU WANT TO CHECK.

Re: RSU or maintenance level on a system

So give your auditors want they want using your IEASYMxx member. Add "SYMDEF(='.RSU1nnn')" to it and when they ask for your RSU issue the "D SYMBOLS" command. Just make sure nnn is your current RSU number. ;-D an -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List

Re: RSU or maintenance level on a system

o:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Blake, Daniel J [CTR] Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 2015 9:00 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: RSU or maintenance level on a system So give your auditors want they want using your IEASYMxx member. Add "SYMDEF(='.RSU1nnn')" to it and when t

Re: RSU or maintenance level on a system

@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Blake, Daniel J [CTR] Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 2015 8:00 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: RSU or maintenance level on a system So give your auditors want they want using your IEASYMxx member. Add "SYMDEF(='.RSU1nnn')" to it and when they ask fo

Re: z/OS Upgrade 1.13 to 2.2

Make sure you follow the very good instructions on this page: http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/z/os/zos/features/smpe/fix-category.html Dan -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of zos reader Sent: Tuesday, September 08,

Re: Catalog entry not visible

For starters I'd run this job and publish the results here: Jobcard... //STEP1 EXEC PGM=IDCAMS,REGION=0M //SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=* //SYSINDD * LISTC ENT(QWS.SEC.RULES) ALL /* I'd also consider changing the DISP=OLD to DISP=SHR as I'm wondering if something running has the file allocated.

Re: VMware is looking to buy-out it parent company - EMC

Capital Cities Communications purchased the much larger American Broadcasting Company in 1985. Thank You Dan Blake dbl...@fdic.gov FDIC ISC-3 CSC OM Service Delivery | Room B4072 O: (703) 516-5497 | BB: (703) 314-0501 | M: (703) 946-2967 -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe

Re: Library out of space issue while APPLY RSU

Been there, done that. Yes the system has a reserve on the dataset names. However if you have the proper authority you can: 1. Rename the files using IDCAMS or ISPF 3.4. Make sure you rename, not delete them. 2. Then allocate new, larger ones using *.NEW or something that fits your

Re: Library out of space issue while APPLY RSU

by another user, try later or enter HELP for ³ ³ a list of jobs and users allocated to 'SYS1.SASMMOD1'. ³ Regards Venkat On Wed, Jul 22, 2015 at 7:31 PM, Blake, Daniel J [CTR] dbl...@fdic.gov wrote: Been there, done that. Yes the system has a reserve on the dataset names. However if you have

Re: Deleting data sets in use

Walt's method works, but I have had great success using ISPF Option 3.4 and renaming the data set. I get a confirmation screen telling me that the file is in use but I have the authority to bypass it if I wish. Once renamed I can delete it. Dan -Original Message- From: IBM

Re: VSAM question

to specify Extended Addressability do the same thing? On Tuesday, July 21, 2015 9:32 AM, Blake, Daniel J [CTR] dbl...@fdic.gov wrote: I believe the key is using SMS and setting up a DATACLASS that supports extended addressability (because the total size is greater than 4 GB). Dan

Re: VSAM question

I believe the key is using SMS and setting up a DATACLASS that supports extended addressability (because the total size is greater than 4 GB). Dan -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of william janulin Sent: Tuesday,