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Mark, in ISMF, option R, then 3 (adminsitrator), then 1 (volume), then 8 (confirm) and CH in front of the volume(s) you want to preserve should do the trick Christian -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] Im Auftrag von Mark Pace

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: Mittwoch, 6. Mai 2015 17:30 An: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Betreff: Re: Stop RELEASE of a tape Thank you, that did indeed fix it. Seems counter-intuitive to me since it was already to not expire. On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 11:17 AM, Christian Birr christian.b...@birrconsulting.de wrote: Set

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Sorry, and don't forget to change the expiration date, faulty brain, I'm on the road right now -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] Im Auftrag von Mark Pace Gesendet: Mittwoch, 6. Mai 2015 16:38 An: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU

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entry summary list. On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 10:53 AM, Christian Birr christian.b...@birrconsulting.de wrote: Mark, in ISMF, option R, then 3 (adminsitrator), then 1 (volume), then 8 (confirm) and CH in front of the volume(s) you want to preserve should do the trick Christian

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Betreff: Re: Stop RELEASE of a tape Thanks, Christian - but entering CH takes me to the Change Volume panel - and I don't see what it is I change to stop the release. The expiration date is set to 1999/365. The tape did not expire. On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 11:00 AM, Christian Birr christian.b

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Hi, What about f omvs,newroot=x,cond=? Look in MVS system commands. Christian -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] Im Auftrag von Jake Anderson Gesendet: Donnerstag, 16. April 2015 13:05 An: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU

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Jake, IIRC trace is off by default at startup. Additionally, in my GPMSERVE proc SYSPRINT and SYSOUT are set to dummy and GPMSRV00 I set DEBUG_LEVEL(0). Christian -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] Im Auftrag von Jake Anderson

AW: Retrieve unallocated space numbers?

Charles, You might want to look at RXSMS in the GSF utilities... Christian -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] Im Auftrag von Charles Mills Gesendet: Dienstag, 24. März 2015 22:44 An: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Betreff: Retrieve

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Hi, snip -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] Im Auftrag von Nims,Alva John (Al) Gesendet: Donnerstag, 12. Februar 2015 22:01 An: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Betreff: Re: XREF Members of JCL libs and their datasets There is also FILE

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Works, but unsupported. ;-) Christian -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] Im Auftrag von John Norgauer Gesendet: Donnerstag, 22. Januar 2015 19:38 An: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Betreff: CICS 3.2 under z/OS 2.1? Any installation

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Barbara, did you (or someone else) modify/activate the TSO/E submit exit (IKJEFF10), or the JES2 exits (HASPX02, HASPX20) ? TSO will try to generate a JCL card, when no valid JOB card is found. Described in TSO/E customization guide. Christian -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: IBM

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Just reread the whole thread, forget my comments. Even though somewhere in this area your problem is hidden. Christian -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] Im Auftrag von Christian Birr Gesendet: Freitag, 26. Dezember 2014 16:16

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. Sometimes I have to wait 2 days to see the posts in the INBOX. I asked DARREN to authorise me to access the IBM-MAIN ARCHIVE however I am still waiting for a reply. On Mon, 12/8/14, Christian Birr christian.b...@birrconsulting.de wrote: Subject: AW

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Hi Radoslaw, I'm ready to learn, but coding //DASDIN DD UNIT=515,DISP=OLD will result in a JCL error. Coding //DASDIN DD UNIT=515,DISP=OLD,DSN=NULLFILE or //DASDIN DD DUMMY,UNIT=515 will get ADRDSSU complaining about INPUT DEVICE TYPE IS INVALID or similar. Can't test right now, I'm on the road.

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Sorry, meant to answer to retired mainframer... -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] Im Auftrag von Christian Birr Gesendet: Montag, 8. Dezember 2014 10:56 An: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Betreff: AW: EXAMPLE OF BACKUPING UP A VOLUME

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Hi Lizette, the OP wasn't very specific to what he wants to achieve and didn't react on any of the replies he did receive already. It was me who brought z/VM into the game, telling him that DDR would be his friend. Under z/OS, there's no native tool that I know of to dump a volume specifying

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That was me, sorry by suggesting DDR, IF z/VM was available. Sorry Christian -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] Im Auftrag von Walt Farrell Gesendet: Montag, 8. Dezember 2014 15:39 An: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Betreff: Re:

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When using INDD or LOGINDD, the specified DD statement will cause MVS to moan with IEF244I and IEF877E, if the corresponding device is not mounted and online. For INDYNAM and LOGINDYNAM the manual states that the devices have to be mounted and online. So, no offline dump with DFDSS Christian

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Should have added DFDSS backup as well... -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] Im Auftrag von Christian Birr Gesendet: Montag, 8. Dezember 2014 16:25 An: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Betreff: AW: EXAMPLE OF BACKUPING UP A VOLUME USING

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Not that I know of natively under z/OS. If you have z/VM available, DDR is your friend; or write your own using EXCP based on a few utilities Sam Golob and other have written already. Christian -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: IBM Mainframe Discussion List

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Chuck, in the SMP/E dialog select the global zone, under UTILITY select ASMA90 (or what else you might use), specify a print DD name and use this in your JCL and review the PARM statements. Christian -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: IBM Mainframe Discussion List

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, is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please inform the sender and delete all copies. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Christian Birr Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2014 8:27 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU

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for delivering the message to the intended recipient, is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please inform the sender and delete all copies. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Christian Birr Sent: Tuesday

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should have mentioned that the SELECTMULTI(ANY) worked. I was just wanted to know about the input list. On Fri, 17/10/14, Christian Birr christian.b...@birrconsulting.de wrote: Subject: AW: DFDSS QUESTION - LOOKING FOR EXAMPLE. To: IBM-MAIN

AW: DFDSS QUESTION - LOOKING FOR EXAMPLE.

John, try SELECTMULTI(ANY) and exclude LOGINDDNAME, and then post the results plse Christian -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] Im Auftrag von John Dawes Gesendet: Freitag, 17. Oktober 2014 19:17 An: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU

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John, have been to fast... Identify the volumes with a corrupted VTOC INDEX and then using ICKDFS: Convert them to OSVTOC by BUILDIX DDNAME(VOLDD) OSVTOC where VOLDD is pointing to the corrupted volume and then REFORMAT DDNAME(VOLDD) VERIFY(XX) REFVTOC which will rebuild the VTOC index

AW: Converting vse to z/OS

Gadi, have a look at redbook SG24-2043-00 (VSE to OS/390 Migration workbook), it helped me a lot in earlier days Christian -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] Im Auftrag von ??? ?? ??? Gesendet: Mittwoch, 1. Oktober 2014 13:25

AW: Retireiving DCB information for migrated datasets

. This is a z/OS2.1 link to the fields, but i am sure you have access to your own appropriate docs. http://www-01.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSLTBW_2.1.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r1.idai200/dgt3i294.htm On 30 July 2014 16:50, Christian Birr christian.b...@birrconsulting.de wrote: Hi Greg, I remembered you

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@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Betreff: Re: AW: Retireiving DCB information for migrated datasets On 31/07/2014 1:51 AM, Christian Birr wrote: It came back with an RC of 4, contact your system support, which is mainly me and myself. I haven't the time to inspect the code more deeply, but could

AW: Retireiving DCB information for migrated datasets

Hi, do a listdsi (REXX by Gilbert Saint-Flour) against the migrated dataset in ispf 3.4, that should give you all the information needed. Christian -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] Im Auftrag von ??? ?? ??? Gesendet:

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Hi, apologies, I was wrong, listdsi does racall the dataset, sorry Christian -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] Im Auftrag von Christian Birr Gesendet: Mittwoch, 30. Juli 2014 13:37 An: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Betreff: AW

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Hi Greg, I remembered you piece of code this afternoon, too. Due to some 'important' meetings I just came to assemble it, put in the TSO command table and tried it in one of my sandboxes. It came back with an RC of 4, contact your system support, which is mainly me and myself. I haven't the

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.LISTING' Regards, --Roger On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 11:51 AM, Christian Birr christian.b...@birrconsulting.de wrote: Miklos, I can't tell you, the FTP process is build internally and I suspect that the process is generated before the job has finished, there is no possibility on RMF PP side

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Of Christian Birr Sent: Friday, July 18, 2014 2:40 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: AW: AW: RMF Spreadsheet Reporter Thanks Roger, I'd love to but the FTP dialog is generated internally by RMF PP. The workaround is retrieving the reports manually. Still don't understand why the RMF

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- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Christian Birr Sent: Friday, July 18, 2014 3:34 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: AW: AW: RMF Spreadsheet Reporter I did indeed, Lizette. Either the mail got lost or the group had no time yet

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2014 11:49 An: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Betreff: Re: RMF Spreadsheet Reporter Any special characters like $ @ # in the userid? Regards, Boris On Tue, July 15, 2014 21:02, Christian Birr wrote: I'll do that tomorrow; I'm on CET and on duty since 5:00, need some sleep. My hope was that someone

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in the time of the FTP. Is it possible to set some delay before the FTP get ? 3)You can switch on the FTP trace 4)Any console message about this FTP GET ? On 16.07.2014 13:09, Christian Birr wrote: No, not at all. And I don't agree with Shane, report selection and JCL run fine and after

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Hi list, I do have difficulties to FTP resulting output dataset from z/OS back to my workstation. The postprocessor und reports are just running fine and the listing dataset is created. But when trying to retrieve the dataset back to my workstation, I get 505 RETR 'userid.D.T.LISTING',

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An: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Betreff: Re: RMF Spreadsheet Reporter There should be an FTP Log on the Java app. Did you check that? Lizette -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Christian Birr Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2014 8

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: Dienstag, 15. Juli 2014 20:13 An: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Betreff: Re: RMF Spreadsheet Reporter Try sending a request to this email address r...@de.ibm.com Lizette -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Christian Birr

AW: ISMF usage (STGR but not in an SG) (UNCLASSIFIED)

Hi Alan, not that I know of, but might be one could write a query to get the information, in multiple steps. Why not use RXSMS by Gilbert Saint-Flour, it would certainly deliver would you're looking for, simple REXX. I use it heavily when it comes to special queries in SMS. It's 22:00 CET now,

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@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] Im Auftrag von Dave Cole Gesendet: Sonntag, 4. Mai 2014 20:59 An: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Betreff: Re: AW: AW: RAS Guidelines perfect, Chris! Thank you. Dave At 5/2/2014 11:20 AM, Christian Birr wrote: Sure, here you go: http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/power/hardware

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@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Betreff: Re: AW: RAS Guidelines Yeah, thanks Chris. I'll download it for bedtime reading. Still, I'm wondering if there is anything else. Thanks, Dave At 5/2/2014 10:02 AM, Christian Birr wrote: David, there is a good paper at http://www.google.de/url?sa=trct=jq=esrc=ssource=webcd

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Marc, DRLEINIT is a REXX, so I would code T,'CMD(%DRLEINIT)' And don't forget to allocate DRL170.SDRLEXEC, EOY.SEOYCLIB (if using Bookmanager) and HLQ.LOCAL.EXEC to SYSEXEC or SYSPROC in your ISPF profile Greetings from lower bavaria Christian -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: IBM Mainframe

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this command in the panel T,'CMD(%DRLEINIT)' The TDSz admin manual doesn't mention adding any panel libraries to the proc - But it makes sense they should be there. I'll try to add those as well. On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 9:54 AM, Christian Birr christian.b...@birrconsulting.de wrote: Marc

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working from, but I think the last part is what I was missing when modifying the ISPF proc. On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 10:19 AM, Christian Birr christian.b...@birrconsulting.de wrote: Marc For reference only: http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/tividd/td/TDS390/SH19-6816-09/en_US/HTML/DRLA9MST54.htm

AW: Emulator Screen Size with Attachmate Extra X-treme 9.3

Bill, you are aware of the possibility to launch Vista TN3270 (my favourite as well) off an USB stick, no installation needed? Greetings from lower Bavaria Christian -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] Im Auftrag von George,

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Vista TN3270 from Tom Brennan will be your friend, it's great. I use it for ages now. Support is perfect, and after all, it is not expensive and does more, then one would expect. Just try it. Christian -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: IBM Mainframe Discussion List

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if needing a few examples. Christian -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] Im Auftrag von Christian Birr Gesendet: Donnerstag, 20. März 2014 22:01 An: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Betreff: AW: AW: DSNTYPE? Well, I think they do, what I

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Hi Earl, have look at DS1DSORG at http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/zos/v1r12/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.ibm.zos.r12.idas300%2Fdscbft.htm you have to scroll down a bit Cheers, Chistian -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] Im Auftrag

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it more consistently). I'm working on a REXX function that doesn't have the TSO dependency that LISTDSI has. Earl On 3/20/14, 12:02 PM, Christian Birr wrote: Hi Earl, have look at DS1DSORG at http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/zos/v1r12/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.ibm.zos.r12.idas300%2Fdscbft.htm you

AW: adding a type 4 SVC

Hi Jim Gilbert Saint-Flour wrote a similar routine to do the job and even more. With a bit of modifications it might be helpful for you. Have a look here http://gsf-soft.com/Freeware/SVCUPDTE.html Christian -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: IBM Mainframe Discussion List