, Farley, Peter wrote:
>
>I have recently done some experiments with Rexx scripts stored in the z/OS
>Unix file system encoded in ASCII and they will execute without a problem so
>long as the starting script file is properly ...
>
FSVO "properly". What does
Practically speaking however, starting a Rexx script under one of the z/OS Unix
shell programs is pretty much the only way to get it done. Although if you use
the BPXWUNIX() function from a TSO Rexx script to start another Rexx script
stored in the z/OS Unix file system it might work. I will
documentation
for the program name.
No need to reply further to this thread, thanks for reading anyway.
Peter
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I am looking to find out if there is any standardized (i.e., not entirely
compiler-version dependent) way to access these values. Yes, for a minimum of
Enterprise COBOL V5.x one can use the LE Vendor Interfaces manual documentation
of the PPA control blocks to extract at least some of this
For the ISPF case, I think the document writers think that they have covered
everything about the accepted regular expression syntax by stating up front on
that page:
“ISPF uses the IBM® C regcomp() — Compile regular expression and regexec() —
Execute compiled regular expression functions to
+1 for the oleinfo utilities Rony points to here. They were a great help to me
in crafting and debugging a VBS script I was writing to help automate creation
of an Excel report spreadsheet.
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Re: “When typing Hebrew or Arabic text on a 3270, does tne cursor move
right-to-left?”, I can testify that yes it does. Quite remarkable when you
first see it, but then for numeric fields it moves left to right, just like
non-Arabic/Hebrew screens. And while typing non-numeric characters, the
Willy,
You don’t actually need the textlenp variable for the call to the subroutine,
you can just pass the ADDRESS of textlen directly with this syntax:
retcode = rxhlicpl (hlicmd, name, namelen, text, );
Unless of course you also need that pointer for some other process later.
Peter
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I do not know what criteria the sysprogs here set things up. But we are
successfully using zEDC here especially for our huge VSAM and GDG production
files.
I wish I could tell you more, but the sysprogs here are outsourced and getting
answers from them requires official paperwork and
IMHO the learning curve for Java and all the libraries you have to know and
understand to make it at all useful far outweighs its presumptive establishment
in the z/OS ecosystem.
Again IMHO Python is intended to be a scripting language and as such it shares
much design philosophy with Rexx
+1 from me on continuing to learn the tools of our profession. I use STRING
and UNSTRING where they make sense, and I am still learning new things about
their use every now and then. Life-long learning is the only path to happiness
and success.
I got the same ridiculous pushback from a
Not everyone has access to DCOLLECT data (we are not all sysprogs with
privileged access rights). IGGCSI00 can be used by most folks to query catalog
data.
Understanding that the DSNTYPE isn’t available in the catalog data, perhaps
IEHLIST could be used (clumsily I admit) to “print” the VTOC
Level
Languages manual.
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Unzip on z/OS ?]
An of
In this case the OP stated that they are PAYING for CPU cycles on a mostly idle
machine, so to me the implication is that they wish to reduce their CPU cost by
reducing idle CPU cycles.
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I suspect that to know that level of detail you would have to be authorized to
read the occasionally hinted-at “Red Book” version of the PoOPS that IBM never
releases to anyone outside of a VERY small circle of IBM employees.
I am content with the statement of monotonicity, given the
JUIX? What is that?
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>
>Have I missed something or is it not
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to another symbol.
From https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/2.5.0?topic=routines-planning-link-edit-run
This "crazy side deck" files are for DLLs, so you don't need it here.
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mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU>> o
Good point Jon about maintaining a consistent counter value for a meld to be
feasible and correct. That would argue for an “independent” counter like the
monotonically increasing real-time clock to be the “tie breaker” value. It may
also depend on the circumstances that require a meld; for
se those are handled by the enrty-name and entry-interface clauses of the
function prototype definition.
Have fun!
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On Tue, 20 Feb 2024 15:39:21 +, Farley, Peter wrote:
>Thank you very much Frank. I will try this out on my system.
>
>Would that such clear examples were available from IBM.
>
.
end program 'cgettime_test'.
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I usually use Jim Elliot’s blog to find PoOPS PDF versions, but I see that even
his z16 link is for an IBM.COM page that requires signin.
https://jlelliotton.blogspot.com/p/cmos-processor-table.html
Peter
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Sent: Monday, February 19,
My initial purpose is actually part of implementing COBOL-compatible min-heap
priority queue functions that return equal-priority nodes in FIFO insert order
when popped. A timestamp or some other monotonically increasing integer
tie-breaker provided with the input priority value is necessary
Thanks for the careful notes Peter. My initial interest here is for
single-threaded batch applications. But the extension to multi-threaded ones
obviously raises the issues you described.
Peter
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Thanks David, I missed that entirely since it was not present in the last V2.5
documentation that I downloaded. I will have to download the whole doc package
again and review it. Did they also provide a callable Unix Services function
that implements the function?
One issue of course is the
Frankly I have no use for nor desire to use any “functional” languages
whatsoever. Let those with the interest and need make their case, but my
current wish does not include such languages, nor many other extant or historic
languages.
Peter
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Yes.
$ python -VV
Python 3.11.0 (heads/pyz_dev-3.11:2b6da3c0f0, Dec 2 2022, 05:55:59) [Clang
14.0.0 ]
This is on z/OS V2.5. Why do you ask?
Peter
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I am constantly amazed at how much this whole “zero trust” meme is violating
the concept of sharing everything among application developers. I for one have
no qualms about any other application programmer at my shop seeing any coding I
am doing (though I might be occasionally embarrassed by my
otypes
http://www.ibm.com
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n.
Do you happen to have a link to the APAR description? I presume there is a
coordinated documentation update as well.
Peter
On Fri, Feb 2, 2024 at 3:41 PM Farley, Peter <
031df298a9da-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote:
> Thank you for that information. On the syste
Thank you for that information. On the system where I have access to V6.4 it
looks like we only have as far as the June 2023 refresh:
PP 5655-EC6 IBM Enterprise COBOL for z/OS 6.4.0 P230615
I will wait for the latest level to be applied and try again then.
Do you happen to have a link to the
Sad news indeed. His many and insightful contributions here will be missed.
Prayers for his family on their loss.
Peter
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Scott
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It is with great
Timothy,
You forgot to mention the other alternative for using CPACF facilities - direct
application-level HLASM coding. I did that once a long while ago, in the era
before protected clear keys, for encryption of a single field in a huge
business record, security provided by "hiding" the
On z/OS isn't that the ICSF CKDS VSAM file?
Peter
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This is not may area of expertise, and I can't find a YOUTUBE or
riginal Message-
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P.S. - COBOL compiler is Enterprise COBOL V6.4.
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Subject: Questions about COBOL debugging lines in subroutines
I have a little mystery concerning debugging lines
I have a little mystery concerning debugging lines ("D" in column 7) in COBOL
subroutines compiled in the same input file as the main program. Sample output
and code are pasted below.
The execution JCL for this sample program includes a CEEOPTS DD with the LE
"DEBUG" option set so debugging
Unless the bean-counters in the organization consider ALL z/OS DASD “expensive”
regardless of “relative” cost and insist on “cheap” VTS HSM migrate for
“unused” datasets. Production issue resolution time can go through the roof
when very, very large datasets have to be recalled to diagnose the
Does your current location have any ISV alternative like CA/Brightcom
FileMaster or other competitors? Or even the IBM FileMaster (which is probably
search via SuperC under the covers anyway)?
Peter
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Sent: Friday, December 15, 2023
Is FAMS-level I/O publicly documented, or only for NDA+$?
Peter
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Like Mike said, run your own CCW's with EXCP or similar.
Not all actors are paid that way every time, and I would venture to say only a
very few make millions up front. Even some usually highly-paid actors
sometimes take a much smaller salary during filming in order to get larger
royalties on the “back end” if they think the film will be a really
Agreed, very low. I asked for and received $125/hr back in 1999 for a complex
assembler consulting job (BTAM/BDAM/multitasking/etc.). With inflation and
time passing the starting rate for that kind of work has to go over $200/hr at
the very least to attract anyone with the talent and
AFAIK, there is not a separate set of IBM documentation for the python language
as you normally expect for an IBM language product (i.e., no "Language
Reference" or "Programmer's Guide" manuals). You can however use the normal
web-based python language documentation you would use for any other
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Subject: Re: UNIX REXX LINKMVS TASKLIB?
On Thu, 23 Nov 2023 04:18:05 +0000, Farley, Peter wrote:
>
>Performance was admirable and acceptable but
I have actually used the referenced $STEPLIB technique from a z/OS Unix shell
environment as part of one of the previous Zxplore yearly contest challenges
(level z/OS 2.4).
STEPLIB=my.pgmlib1:my.pgmlib2:$STEPLIB my-rexx-script “my rexx arguments”
I used different lists of libraries as needed
2023 21:26:18 +, Farley, Peter
mailto:peter.far...@broadridge.com>> wrote:
>OK, I sort of understand the “personal preference” about not using inline
>assembler (it is kludgey, I agree) and somewhat understand the concern about
>the “unsupported” aspect of retrieving re
some closed source code. I think it
may be ok to open source it but I'll have to check with the PTB.
On Thu, Nov 16, 2023 at 1:45 PM Farley, Peter <
031df298a9da-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote:
> David,
>
> I see at your RTK github you are only providi
David,
I see at your RTK github you are only providing load modules. Is there any
chance you can you provide corresponding source for others to use as a model
for other applications (like Eric’s EZNOSQL)? The basic RTK setup really
sounds like a good fit for a CBT submission, if there are no
On the z/OS V2.x systems that I can access, the PDS (not PDSE) with the
IBM-supplied C headers is .SIEAHDR.H where is whatever your
z/OS install process set up. Many IRXx headers are already done for you by
IBM.
HTH
Peter
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David
FWIW, I pass R0 in the EVALBLOCK data area, a totally "safe" spot that does not
require a GETMAIN.
Charles
On Wed, 15 Nov 2023 17:54:44 +, Farley, Peter
wrote:
>Isn’t there is some C library function (maybe unique to XLC/C++) that lets you
>get the value o
Isn’t there is some C library function (maybe unique to XLC/C++) that lets you
get the value of R13 (current DSA pointer)? With that pointer value in hand,
couldn’t one chain up the DSA stack to get to the saved registers at entry, or
is that not possible?
At worst, an inline ASM routine to
Looks to me like that google group is just a mirror of the regular email list,
at least the most recent messages there are all reflected in my ISPF-L email
folder.
But you are correct that there is not much activity on that list.
Peter
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Paul
Apologies, 1403N1, not 1401
From: Farley, Peter
Sent: Wednesday, November 8, 2023 10:59 AM
To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List
Subject: RE: Kinda fun
1401N1 printer (the big beast) raised its hood automatically when it ran out of
paper, no way to turn off that behavior. NEVER put your coffee
1401N1 printer (the big beast) raised its hood automatically when it ran out of
paper, no way to turn off that behavior. NEVER put your coffee cup on top of
that printer!!
Peter
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Bridges
Sent: Wednesday, November 8, 2023 10:52 AM
To:
Yeah, that was a fun stroll down various memory lanes. I actually keypunched
for a living at one very early point in my checkered career – had to know how
to operate 026’s, 029’s, and 129’s, and how to program the drum card for faster
data entry. Mod 10/11 check punches were SO much fun
Mr. Google turns up this as the first result:
https://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/9854/Washington-Systems-Center-Technical-Bulletin-Services-Required-for-an-Event-Driven-Program/
And on that page there is a small box with this text:
This manual has been scanned as part of our collection and
Question: Does the “Tapetools” product provide an alternative IEBCOPY
implementation that defaults to using the “real” IEBCOPY when it can’t handle
the input commands? Maybe the issue then is in the alternative implementation
code?
But I agree, please show the error messages from the original
System-wide named tokens will survive between batch steps, but may require
authorized code to create and delete them.
Retrieving them in batch steps subsequent to the “set” or “create” step
requires no authorization.
Peter
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Sent:
Tom,
For the “relative” idea, maybe fill in the “Start In” value in the *.lnk file
with the “current” (pwd) directory name? Not sure if that would make any
difference, but it may be worth a try.
Peter
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Brennan
Sent: Wednesday, October 18,
I concur, they have updated the contents of the 1Gb+ zip file to include the
missing TOC file(s) without changing the external file name, but all the files
inside are now dated 2023-10-09 instead of 2023-09-29, including the new TOC
files.
I DL’d that same file on Friday 10/2 and it did NOT
for installs?]
On Sat, 7 Oct 2023 09:41:56 -0700, Ed Jaffe wrote:
>On 9/20/2023 8:23 AM, Farley, Peter wrote:
>> ... JCL symbols as part of the definition of other JCL symbols works
>> flawlessly every time.
>
Is this true alike for substitution both
It is still “a thing” because IDCAMS PRINT was programmed to print the
character side of the record ”DUMP” option using the most restrictive printed
character set available at that time on actual printer devices (likely based on
the 1403N1 48-character print chain most used for the fastest
000, Farley, Peter
> wrote:
>
> >Why does any programmer need to care where the environment
> variables are stored?
>
>Normally, I would agree but XDC is a very special case with very
>broad requirements. As a full z/OS system debugger, Dave Cole has
>many requirement
, October 4, 2023 2:27 PM
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Subject: Re: Assembler access to USS functions
On Wed, 4 Oct 2023 16:06:38 +, Farley, Peter wrote:
>Perform setenv(). Adds, changes, or deletes an environment variable in the
>environment list.
>
>OK, it says “set” env n
functions
On Tue, 3 Oct 2023 16:35:25 +, Farley, Peter wrote:
>I found something one can use from assembler to access environment variables
>in the LE Vendor Interfaces manual:
>
>https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/3.1.0?topic=clearenv-ceebenv
>
>Seems right on
I found something one can use from assembler to access environment variables in
the LE Vendor Interfaces manual:
https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/3.1.0?topic=clearenv-ceebenv
Seems right on target with Dave’s original request.
Peter
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Farley
Unfortunately none of those callable services provides access to the POSIX
environment variables table. The only references I can find to access to those
values are in the getenv() / putenv() C function descriptions.
To Dave C.,
I guess you could put in a call to IBM C/C++ support to ask them
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> Sent: Friday, September 29, 2023 4:26 PM
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>
> On Fri, 29 Sep 2023 16:01:52 -0400, David Spiegel wrote:
>
> >Hi Peter,
> >There is another solution ... make PL/ available
I believe that statement in the JCL Reference is in error and needs to be
deleted or at the very least completely rewritten. My quite substantial
experience using this technique over the last 10-15 years is that using JCL
symbols as part of the definition of other JCL symbols works flawlessly
Isn’t that pretty much what BPXMTEXT does? Is it VM/CMS that allows you to
enter a “command” of just a question mark “?” after an error condition to get a
more complete explanation of an error? Could the shell program support such a
“command” to automatically invoke BPXMTEXT for the most
+1
I have always admired the product but I have really a hard time using the
manual effectively. It leaves MUCH to be desired.
Peter
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Schmitt, Michael
Sent: Monday, September 18, 2023 10:52 AM
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Subject: Re: Generate
Mike, it seems to me that BUILDING an SMPE package (no matter how simple) and
INSTALLING an SMPE package that someone else built are two different skill
levels. I think Tom was asking to practice the latter, the INSTALL skills, not
the BUILD skills.
Peter
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Apologies Joseph, you are correct. I just re-checked the ASMIDF manuals and
they do not directly say that it supports debugging authorized code. The Fine
Manuals actually don’t say one way or another whether authorized debugging is
supported, but since it is not specifically documented as
od idea that is usually reserved for
>> moving using non standard code into production as other problems will pop up
>>
>> All I want is to debug a program that was preloaded under a different TCB
>> after I get the kinks out I’ll have LOADTOGLOBAL=YES
>>
>
I agree with other posters that your suggested solution is not a good idea.
If you have the HLASM Toolkit product licensed on your system you can use the
ASMIDF debugger to remotely debug batch jobs from a VTAM session, but using
ASMIDF requires that pre-established VTAM APPL’s and LU’s are
RRDS is like BDAM – when you use fixed-size blocks, you can only “delete” a
record by somehow marking it deleted (first byte = X’FF’ was the old standard
for a deleted record) and re-writing in place (though RRDS may permit an actual
record delete, I don’t remember for sure). AFAIR, once added
At a guess, people from other parts of the world than the USA. They still
actively teach and use “old languages” in some places out there, so there is a
larger quantity of talent (though I could not say at what experience level).
TAANSTAAFL. You get what you pay for.
Peter
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FWIW, there ARE a few of us still out here in application programming land who
are still supporting and updating assembler application code. Sometimes it is
a conversion to COBOL, to be sure, but many parts are stubbornly stuck where
they are in assembler and need to be updated as such for
I’ve had Office 365 for years now, I find it useful to keep paying the yearly
fee because they upgrade the individual components without me needing to
concern myself with which version is current today and I can share it with my
family for no extra charge.
In prior times when I consulted for a
_And So It Goes_ */
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mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU>> On Behalf Of
Farley, Peter
Sent: Monday, August 14, 2023 11:19
ATM's (and other IOT's like cash register subsystems, etc.) aren't "logged
on" per se, AFA
ATM's (and other IOT's like cash register subsystems, etc.) aren't "logged on"
per se, AFAIK. I believe that those are transactional accesses, one to check
user PIN/Password/authorization of the card, another for each money
withdrawal/deposit/transfer/etc. I don't believe they are actively
At a guess, in the IBM and Unisys patent files that have expired at the US
Patent Office. Not sure if USPO requires any payment to view/print patent
files, but they are supposed to be “public record” so should be available.
For Lempel-Ziv-Welch compression, Wikipedia article here:
Won’t that syntax generate DSN=MYNAME (where MYNAME is your userid, or at least
the value of the USER= parameter of the JOB card), not a “temporary” name?
AFAIK doubling the ampersands won’t keep the value of “”, it will just
make the temporary name have the actual value “SYSUID” in it.
I
Re: “It's absurd that on a multi-million $ computer, a user expects to allocate
a 100GB file that is for their private use. It would be different if multiple
users were accessing that file. This file would be far cheaper on a $5,000
computer and provide the same functionality.”
Not absurd
Thanks Robert, that looks useful for the rest of us as well.
There are ISV products (we use JCLCHECK) that also perform this function as
part of preparing JCL for production install, but freely shared code is good
too.
However, even the best “checker” software can’t tell you if
PMFJI here, but when I heard some years ago that z/OS dropped support for 3215
keyboard/printer consoles it occurred to me to ask what the users of z/OS under
z/VM were supposed to do to easily automate console logging/monitoring and
automated IPL/shutdown external to z/OS? Maybe more recent
In the CSVDYNL source I see these lines:
*02* GUPI: BASE
*
*02* NONE: FIELDS
* CMDINFO
* LINKAGE
* REQUEST=ACTIVATE
* REQUEST=INTERNAL
* REQUEST=ACTIVATE is not part of the intended
* interface.
* REQUEST=INTERNAL
*
Thank you Peter, I will check installation LE options and set up new ones
including TRAP(OFF,NOSPIE) before running the script again if needed.
Peter
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Peter Relson
Sent: Monday, July 17, 2023 2:14 PM
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Subject: Re: How
, July 17, 2023 1:54 AM
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Subject: Re: How to set a SLIP to catch S0C4 in OMVS separate AS
> On 17 Jul 2023, at 12:44 pm, Farley, Peter
> <031df298a9da-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu<mailto:031df298a9da-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu>>
&g
that the Zxplore Python is badly broken and has major issues
with codepage translation. we’ve seen this before when you opened an issue for
pyzfile. I’m going to update the ticket to that effect so the maintainers
don’t waste time chasing shadows.
> On 17 Jul 2023, at 3:57 am, Farley, Pe
The Zxplore admin just advised me that the definitions they had set up to
provide DASD space for an SVCDUMP may have expired at the last IPL they did a
week ago. I will report back when he finds an answer to that question.
Peter
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Farley, Peter
to try to use the DEBUG option of the SLIP SET command:
Mike Shaw
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On Sun, Jul 16, 2023 at 3:48 PM Farley, Peter <
031df298a9da-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote:
> This is the latest SLIP setup from today which did
Peter,
A CEEDUMP was in fact supplied to the ibmdb team on github in the initial error
report that I filed there. I generate a CEEDUMP in my $HOME directory every
time I execute the example python script.
I don't think any of the ibmdb team has reviewed the dump that I submitted as
of yet,
This is the latest SLIP setup from today which did not catch the abend when the
python script is executed from an ssh login to z/OS on the Zxplore system:
SLIP
SET,ID=PJF1,JOBNAME=Z02446*,COMP=0C4,ACTION=SVCD,AL=(H,P,S),SDATA=(ALLNUC,PSA,RGN,LPA,CSA,SQA,TRT,GRSQ,SUM),END
Peter
From: IBM
the actual address changes).
Peter
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Farley, Peter
Sent: Saturday, July 15, 2023 2:18 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: How to set a SLIP to catch S0C4 in OMVS separate AS
Thanks for trying to help Jon, but “IBM” hasn’t *officially* looked
PM PDT, Farley, Peter
<mailto:031df298a9da-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote:
Hi All,
I am trying to help the python ibmdb team help me solve an S0C4 abend issue
with (we think maybe) their code on the IBM Zxplore LPAR by generating an
SVCDUMP that the ibmdb team could a
Hi All,
I am trying to help the python ibmdb team help me solve an S0C4 abend issue
with (we think maybe) their code on the IBM Zxplore LPAR by generating an
SVCDUMP that the ibmdb team could analyze. The admins at Zxplore have tried a
couple of times to set a SLIP to catch the S0C4 abend
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