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2022-12-28 Thread Greg Shirey
Thanks for all the fish! -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: I knew Cobol 6.3 takes more resources to compile than 4.2 but should I be concerned about how much?

2022-04-20 Thread Greg Shirey
. But they eventually reviewed the program and issued a fix. Regards, Greg Shirey Ben E. Keith Co. -Original Message- From: Jantje. Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2022 4:19 AM On Mon, 18 Apr 2022 20:18:18 +, Pommier, Rex wrote: >Hi list, > >Should I be concerned about the

Re: Adding an Archive volume to the pool

2018-03-30 Thread Greg Shirey
t generate the same message as you received, so I'm not sure that's your issue. More information here: https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSLTBW_2.1.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r1.idai200/da6i2056.htm Regards, Greg Shirey Ben E. Keith Company -Original Message- From: IBM Mainf

Re: Adding an Archive volume to the pool

2018-03-29 Thread Greg Shirey
ic to FDR, which I know nothing about... ) Regards, Greg Shirey Ben E. Keith Company -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Watkins, Philip S. Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2018 2:11 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Adding an Archive volume to the pool

Re: FDRMOVE sample jcl

2018-03-06 Thread Greg Shirey
Actually, DFSMSdss appears as a line item on my monthly IBM invoice. I believe it is DFSMSdfp that is the base part - the "free product" as it were. Regards, Greg Shirey Ben E. Keith Company -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTS

Re: SMS STORGRP question

2017-04-25 Thread Greg Shirey
storage group or volume then the quiesced volumes are preferred over quiesced overflow volumes. Regards, Greg Shirey Ben E. Keith Company From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Schroeder, Wayne Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2017 9:33 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LIST

Re: Loyalty

2017-02-13 Thread Greg Shirey
With apologies to Firesign Theater, but that's an insane question to ask, man, how can we know what you read? Greg Shirey Ben E. Keith Company -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of John McKown Sent: Monday, Februa

Re: HSM followup question

2017-02-06 Thread Greg Shirey
or SC values. Regards, Greg Shirey Ben E. Keith Company -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of retired mainframer Sent: Sunday, February 05, 2017 1:41 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: HSM followup question

Re: BPXP018I THREAD ENDED WITHOUT BEING UNDUBBED WITH COMPLETION CODE 0033E000 , AND REASON CODE 00000000

2017-01-19 Thread Greg Shirey
. Sounds like CICS is doing a DETACH for a task that hasn't had time to shut down cleanly. Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT Reference: https://listserv.ua.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0608&L=IBM-MAIN&P=R45915&I Regards, Greg Shirey Ben E. Keith Company -Origi

Re: TSS or RACF case sensitive

2016-12-23 Thread Greg Shirey
ORD, HELLO IKJ56703A REENTER THIS OPERAND - user(*) Hello DPC088 *** Regards, Greg Shirey Ben E. Kei

Re: IEBGENER SYSIN Comments?

2016-12-20 Thread Greg Shirey
Yes, it was a serious question. Sorry for bothering you with my unimaginative inquiry. We can't all be as smart as you... Regards, Greg Shirey Ben E. Keith Company -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of

Re: IEBGENER SYSIN Comments?

2016-12-20 Thread Greg Shirey
I hesitate to ask, but how are you using IEBGENER without JCL? Regards, Greg Shirey Ben E. Keith Company -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Tuesday, December 20, 2016 9:53 AM On Mon, 19 Dec 2016

Re: A true discussion in today's world (at least here)

2016-11-25 Thread Greg Shirey
mostly relies on public transportation, then modify the analogy to the subway system or the busses, or point to the Alaska Airlines wiki article to show the dangers of delaying maintenance. My 2 cents, Greg Shirey Ben E. Keith Company From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN

Re: Randomly disappearing IGD101I messages.

2016-10-20 Thread Greg Shirey
ass Selection (ACS) routines are not to be invoked to determine the target data set's storage class or management class names. To specify BYPASSACS, RACF(r) authorization might be required. I posted an example earlier in this thread. Regards, Greg Shirey Ben E. Keith Company -Original

Re: Randomly disappearing IGD101I messages.

2016-10-20 Thread Greg Shirey
Kees, Yes, running the same job, but removing the BYPASSACS parm results in the SMS-managed data set being created, but there is still no IGD101I message. That's interesting. Greg -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf

Re: Randomly disappearing IGD101I messages.

2016-10-20 Thread Greg Shirey
DPC088.DISK.PTF') - RENAMEU((DPC088.DISK.PTF,SYT.DPC088.DISK.PTF)) - STORCLAS(TSOSC) - DELETE PURGE CATALOG PROCESS(SYS1) ALLDATA(*) Regards, Greg Shirey Ben E. Keith Company -

Re: Randomly disappearing IGD101I messages.

2016-10-18 Thread Greg Shirey
I would suggest asking CA about the DMS step not generating the IGD101I message. (DMS has a "hook" in SMS, doesn't it?) Regards, Greg Shirey Ben E. Keith Company -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Lizet

Re: Randomly disappearing IGD101I messages.

2016-10-18 Thread Greg Shirey
Kees, How are you verifying the data set was created? Regards, Greg Shirey Ben E. Keith Company -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Vernooij, Kees (ITOPT1) - KLM Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2016 6:40 AM To: IBM-MAIN

Re: SMS Volume Status

2016-10-12 Thread Greg Shirey
ce. D SMS,STORGRP(sgname),LISTVOL Regards, Greg Shirey Ben E. Keith Company -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Chuck Kreiter Sent: Wednesday, October 12, 2016 8:09 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: SMS Volume Sta

Re: RACF LISTDSD oddity

2016-10-12 Thread Greg Shirey
er 323-715-0595 Mobile 626-302-7535 Office robin...@sce.com -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Greg Shirey Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2016 3:30 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: (External):Re: RACF LISTDSD oddity S

Re: RACF LISTDSD oddity

2016-10-11 Thread Greg Shirey
Skip, I'm suggesting that he's entering the wrong command - LISTDS instead of LISTDSD. Regards, Greg Shirey Ben E. Keith Company -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Jesse 1 Robinson Sent: Tuesday, Octobe

Re: RACF LISTDSD oddity

2016-10-11 Thread Greg Shirey
That's the message you get if you issue [tso] LISTDS PREFIX(ABC). At least that's what I got. LISTDSD works as intended Regards, Greg Shirey Ben E. Keith Company -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf

Re: VSAM CA reclaim for RMM

2016-10-07 Thread Greg Shirey
for years. I spent a lot of time trying to determine a method of proving any benefit or detriment but never could. Sorry to be late joining the thread, been out for a few days... Regards, Greg Shirey Ben E. Keith Company -Original Message- From: Jesse 1 Robinson [mailto:je

Re: System Automation Question

2016-09-12 Thread Greg Shirey
John, Wouldn't you have to reverse step 2 and step 1 of your job? I don't think you could rename SOME.PDS.LOADLIB if the STC were still running. (Data set in use) Regards, Greg Shirey Ben E. Keith Company -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailt

Re: CEMT SET operations records

2016-09-01 Thread Greg Shirey
opics/dfha8_spi_audit.html HTH, Greg Shirey Ben E. Keith Company -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Carlos Cordero Sent: Thursday, September 01, 2016 1:01 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: CEMT SET operations re

Re: Change RC in compilation step

2016-08-26 Thread Greg Shirey
Jorge, I believe the V4R2 version of the message was IGYOP3091W, which is also a warning message and would have also generated an RC=04. The compiler may be incorrectly indicating code has been discarded - see APAR PI63119, for instance. HTH, Greg Shirey Ben E. Keith Company

Re: DFHSM CDS backup versions

2016-07-07 Thread Greg Shirey
DGTVEXT. A benefit of this interaction is that DFSMSrmm can prevent DFSMShsm from overwriting its own control data set backup, automatic dump, ABARS, and copies of backup or migration tapes. Although DFSMShsm checks its own migration and its own backup tapes, DFSMSrmm checks them as well. HTH, G

Re: DFHSM QUESTION - RECOVER DSN FROM ML2 VOLUME

2016-06-20 Thread Greg Shirey
Willie has already posted that there is no backup. The data set along with the catalog entry has been deleted - as long as the ML2 tape has not been recycled, it can be retrieved from there. There is a documented procedure for doing this in the HSM administration manual. Regards, Greg

Re: DFHSM QUESTION - RECOVER DSN FROM ML2 VOLUME

2016-06-20 Thread Greg Shirey
quot; Regards, Greg Shirey Ben E. Keith Company -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Lizette Koehler Sent: Monday, June 20, 2016 1:48 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: DFHSM QUESTION - RECOVER DSN FROM ML2 VOL

Re: Where is format of Job ID documented?

2016-06-16 Thread Greg Shirey
will cause the JOBID format to change from CCCN to C0NN where CCC is either JOB, STC, or TSU, and C is J, S, or T. N or NN is a number. https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSLTBW_2.1.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r1.hasa400/has2u600110.htm Greg Shirey Ben E. Keith Company -Orig

Re: Determine the PDS a job was submitted from?

2016-06-07 Thread Greg Shirey
this discussion. Regards, Greg Shirey Ben E. Keith Company -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of retired mainframer Sent: Monday, June 06, 2016 5:06 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Determine the PDS a job was submitted

Re: Survey PDSE MAXGENS_LIMIT

2016-06-06 Thread Greg Shirey
We set ours to 4, but we haven't gotten around to experimenting with PDSE generations yet, so that was a SWAG for us, too. Regards, Greg Shirey Ben E. Keith Company -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Richards, R

Re: JCL "COMMAND" statements

2016-05-17 Thread Greg Shirey
No, not me... My main contributions to the CBT are found in your stuff -- FILE452. But thanks for the thought. Greg Shirey Ben E. Keith Company -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Dan D Sent: Tuesday, May 17, 2016

Re: Questions about EZAZSSI

2016-05-16 Thread Greg Shirey
I'm confused - you found a start command for EZAZSSI in COMMND00 or you didn't? Greg Shirey Ben E. Keith Company -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Mark Yuhas Sent: Monday, May 16, 2016 3:41 PM To

Re: Another WLM question

2016-05-13 Thread Greg Shirey
load management will attempt to provide the defined minimum amount of CPU resource to that resource group. Minimum and maximum capacity has a system scope, that is, WLM ensures that the limits are met on each system within the sysplex. HTH, Greg Shirey Ben E. Keith Company -Original Message-

Re: QUESTION ABOUT CA-VIEWDIRECT

2016-04-20 Thread Greg Shirey
//DBLIST.INCARD1 DD * ##TABLES 01 VERSION This will produce report RIN6002. Depending on how many archives you have, it can be a very large report... HTH, Greg Shirey Ben E. Keith Company -Original Message- From: willie bunter [mailto:williebun...@yahoo.com] Sent: Friday,

Re: How force dataset non-SMS?

2016-04-06 Thread Greg Shirey
100,545 tracks allocated across two volumes - utilization 0%. SMS may be getting in your way, but it would appear to be your local implementation. Looks like you'll need to talk to those guys.... Regards, Greg Shirey Ben E. Keith Company -Original Message- From: IBM

Re: How force dataset non-SMS?

2016-04-05 Thread Greg Shirey
You can only bypass SMS if the ACS routines allow you to bypass SMS. You might be able to add two candidate volumes after allocation: ALTER data.set.name ADDVOLUMES(* *) Regards, Greg Shirey Ben E. Keith Company -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN

Re: Enterprise COBOL V6 documentation available

2016-03-23 Thread Greg Shirey
a COBOL M&C manual produced in the last ten years, someone other than you on this fine list would be able to confirm it. Regards, Greg Shirey Ben E. Keith Company -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Ed Gould S

Re: Enterprise COBOL V6 documentation available

2016-03-22 Thread Greg Shirey
anual over the years, Bill Klein reported back in 2005 that he had started an "annotated" list of COBOL error messages. It was incomplete, and I guess will remain so. It's probably not real important, but there doesn't seem to be any evidence to support your claim that IB

Re: Cannot allocate Steplib?

2016-03-12 Thread Greg Shirey
error. (dsname allocation, ddname allocation, unallocation, concatenation, deconcatenation) Application Programmer Action: Use a different ddname, or consult your system programmer for the proper ddname to use. HTH, Greg Shirey Ben E. Keith

Re: VSAM file not extending to new volume

2016-02-26 Thread Greg Shirey
or data sets extending to another volume -- until yesterday. Greg Shirey Ben E. Keith Company -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Vernooij, CP (ITOPT1) - KLM Sent: Friday, February 26, 2016 1:04 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV

Re: VSAM file not extending to new volume

2016-02-25 Thread Greg Shirey
Hmm, thanks for that. It looks like the EA value was NO instead of YES. I'll have to figure out how that happened. Greg -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Lizette Koehler Sent: Thursday, February 25, 2016 11:21 AM To:

VSAM file not extending to new volume

2016-02-25 Thread Greg Shirey
reporting anything like this. Any suggestions? Thanks, Greg Shirey Ben E. Keith Company -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: GIM35912I_Error on Apply check

2016-02-04 Thread Greg Shirey
Call Compuware - they will be happy to guide you in fixing the issue.Unlike IBM, Compuware provides how-to assistance as part of their product support. Regards, Greg Shirey Ben E. Keith Company -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU

Re: Binder (was: COBOL v5)

2016-01-28 Thread Greg Shirey
Hmm, the page displays a "Supper-scale Mainframe System" and a "Large-scale Mainframe System." If someone asked me if I'd rather have supper or large, I guess my answer would depend on how hungry I was.... Regards, Greg Shirey Ben E. Keith Company -Origin

Re: A useful(?) RFE: Enhance the S, F and L line commands to work with hidden lines

2016-01-19 Thread Greg Shirey
Interesting.It worked fine for me... Regards, Greg Shirey Ben E. Keith Company -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Robert AH Prins Sent: Monday, January 18, 2016 11:58 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: A

Re: Why doesn't "="option work in SMP/E panels?

2016-01-13 Thread Greg Shirey
There may not be an "X" displayed on the menu, but it is a valid selection on the GIM@PRIM panel: VER(&CHK,LIST,0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,D,T,W,X MSG=GIMIS007) Regards, Greg Shirey Ben E. Keith Company -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@L

Re: ZEKE and Console dialog

2015-12-23 Thread Greg Shirey
You asked this same question yesterday and received several replies. If they weren't satisfactory, perhaps you need to rephrase the question. Regards, Greg Shirey Ben E. Keith Company -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On B

Re: JES2 - originating jcl

2015-12-16 Thread Greg Shirey
It happens so rarely - normally the answer is "It depends." :-) Greg Shirey Ben E. Keith Company -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Vernooij, CP (ITOPT1) - KLM Sent: Wednesday, December 16, 2015 3:40 AM To

Re: Anyone using Rocket Software Performance Essential

2015-12-16 Thread Greg Shirey
Sorry, I don't think I'm understanding you. What product is it that you are saying is free and easiest to use? Thanks, Greg Shirey Ben E. Keith Company -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of David Mingee Sen

Re: IEFSSREQ SSOBUSER Validate A JES2 Destid

2015-12-01 Thread Greg Shirey
Could you be more specific? Regards, Greg Shirey Ben E. Keith Company -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of SUBSCRIBE IBM-MAIN Harold Gray Sent: Tuesday, December 01, 2015 3:48 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re

Re: Fastest way to read OLDEST GDG entry

2015-11-17 Thread Greg Shirey
Why does the process need to delete the oldest GDG after it reads it? Won't the oldest one be deleted when the next +1 GDG is created? Regards, Greg Shirey Ben E. Keith Company -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behal

Re: RMM byte usage

2015-11-02 Thread Greg Shirey
DATEFORM(A)' //SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=* //MESSAGE DD DSN=SYS2.DFRMM.MESSAGE.FILE,DISP=SHR //XREPTEXT DD DSN=SYS2.DFRMM.REPORT.EXTRACT.FILE,DISP=SHR Hope this helps, Greg Shirey Ben E. Keith Company -Original Me

Re: RMM byte usage

2015-10-29 Thread Greg Shirey
See SYS1.SEDGEXE1, member EDGRRPTE: REPORT05 Inventory of Data Set Names include used kilobytes Regards, Greg Shirey Ben E. Keith Company -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Elaine Beal Sent: Thursday, October 29, 2015

Re: 4-hour MSU rolling average

2015-10-26 Thread Greg Shirey
IF RCTLACS = RCTIMGWU & RCTIMGWU <> RCTCECWU THEN , say ' ** LPAR may currently be "soft capped". **' IF RCTLACS > RCTIMGWU & RCTIMGWU <> RCTCECWU THEN , say ' ** L

Re: COBOL V5.x and CSP descendants was Re: New and improved IBM migration recommendations for COBOL V5

2015-10-21 Thread Greg Shirey
) and the results I reported were mixed. I'd love to hear from others... (I'm optimistic too - but cautiously) Regards, Greg Shirey Ben E. Keith Company -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Timothy Sipples Sent:

Re: COBOL V5.x and CSP descendants was Re: New and improved IBM migration recommendations for COBOL V5

2015-10-20 Thread Greg Shirey
ware billing, so I could have added more qualifications to my statement, but that still would not have turned it into a complaint. It is what it is, as they say. And, by the way, it's "Shirey". As the great Leslie Nielsen used to say "Don't call me Shi

Re: COBOL V5.x and CSP descendants was Re: New and improved IBM migration recommendations for COBOL V5

2015-10-19 Thread Greg Shirey
needed to be tested - we just ran out of time. We'll try again with 5.2 sometime next year. Regards, Greg Shirey Ben E. Keith Company -Original Message- From: Timothy Sipples [mailto:sipp...@sg.ibm.com] Sent: Friday, October 16, 2015 3:03 AM Subject: Re: COBOL V5.x and CSP descen

Re: Dataset enqueue, how to find the culprit.

2015-09-18 Thread Greg Shirey
According to Merriam-Webster online dictionary, one definition of "culprit" is "the source or cause of a problem." I suppose now there needs to be a discussion about whether the OP's situation could be defined as a problem... Regards, Greg Shirey Ben E. Keith Co

Re: IDCAMS DELETE MASK and Recalls

2015-08-20 Thread Greg Shirey
DELETED IDC0896I MIGRATED ENTRY VTT.FSA.VT557.REPORT DELETED IDC0896I MIGRATED ENTRY VTT.FSA.VT557.TEXTT DELETED IDC0001I FUNCTION COMPLETED, HIGHEST CONDITION CODE WAS 0 CA-Disk r12.5; z/OS 1.13. Regards, Greg Shirey Ben E. Keith Company

Re: Mainframes open to internet attacks?

2015-08-19 Thread Greg Shirey
g language called COBOL." Any ideas how COBOL facilitated a hack on sensitive data? Regards, Greg Shirey Ben E. Keith Company -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Meir Zohar Sent: Tuesday, August 18, 2015 11:08

Re: RES: VSAM question

2015-07-22 Thread Greg Shirey
what happens on the allocation. That can provide a clue as to what issue really needs to be resolved. HTH, Greg Shirey Ben E. Keith Company -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of william janulin Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 2

Re: HISTORIC RETURN CODE IS 196 DIAGNOSTIC INFORMATION IS 0C060090

2015-07-17 Thread Greg Shirey
When I run your JCL, I get: IEFC620I UNIDENTIFIABLE CHARACTER ; ON THE DD STATEMENT Greg Shirey Ben E. Keith Company -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Roland Kinsman Sent: Friday, July 17, 2015 4:42 PM To: IBM-MAIN

Re: SMS ACS ROUTINE VARIABLES

2015-07-02 Thread Greg Shirey
&USER is the User ID associated with the batch job. If you have a FILTLIST of the User IDs called, say, "NOPDSES", then you can code: WHEN (&USER EQ &NOPDSES AND &DSNTYPE EQ 'LIB') THEN DO WRITE 'NOT ALLOWED FOR PDSE' EX

Re: HSM Recalls and MASKING

2015-05-29 Thread Greg Shirey
If you issue the command TSO HELP HRECALL, example 3 is the example Tom provided. HTH, Greg Shirey Ben E. Keith Company -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Andy Gilman Sent: Friday, May 29, 2015 9:45 AM To: IBM-MAIN

Re: Slow storage creep in SYSTEM.SYSSTC

2015-05-27 Thread Greg Shirey
AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Slow storage creep in SYSTEM.SYSSTC Greg Shirey wrote: >We put the systems programmers' TSO sessions there, for instance. TSO sessions not at TSOHOT, TSOHI, TSOMD, TSOLOW, etc.? Hmmm? Just curious, if you don&

Re: Slow storage creep in SYSTEM.SYSSTC

2015-05-27 Thread Greg Shirey
Just a note - perhaps you haven't at your shop, but you can add to the SYSSTC service class. We put the systems programmers' TSO sessions there, for instance. Greg Shirey Ben E. Keith Company -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTS

Re: SMS primary vsam space allocation

2015-05-22 Thread Greg Shirey
combined into one extent beginning on cylinder 6, track 0, and ending on cylinder 12, track 14. Instead of two extents, there is only one extent. Because VSAM combines the two extents, it does not increment the extent count, which reduces the amount of extents. HTH, Greg Shirey Ben E. Keith

Re: Did I really need a CLIST???

2015-05-22 Thread Greg Shirey
Not even remotely? Okay, I'll bite. What point were you trying to make by your comment "PUSH is one letter shorter." Thanks, Greg Shirey Ben E. Keith Company -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Shmuel

Re: IEFBR14 question

2015-05-05 Thread Greg Shirey
We often use it to allow our programmers to make a job "non-executing" but still satisfy the scheduler. (Yes, our scheduler has an "NX" designation, but we don't allow programmers to update the scheduler) Greg -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LIST

Re: IEFBR14 question

2015-05-05 Thread Greg Shirey
Yeah, and shame on us for not discussing ways to achieve peace in the Middle East, too. What's the point of a technical forum anyway if we can't solve the big problems in the world?? Greg -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On B

Re: IEFBR14 question

2015-05-05 Thread Greg Shirey
e more JCL - which if I remember correctly, you hate... Regards, Greg Shirey Ben E. Keith Company -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2015 11:25 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU S

Re: IDCAMS QUESTION

2015-05-05 Thread Greg Shirey
e - something that only needs to be done once - so why the fuss? Just get it done... Greg Shirey Ben E. Keith Company -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Lizette Koehler Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2015 12:07 PM To: I

Re: IEFBR14 question

2015-05-05 Thread Greg Shirey
The O/S may never "use" the data set after the step runs, but perhaps "using" the data set wasn't the point of running the step. I'd prefer the O/S not make that assumption for me. My 2 cents, Greg Shirey Ben E. Keith Company -Original Message- From:

Re: migrating compiler versions

2015-04-06 Thread Greg Shirey
aging poor programming techniques Regards, Greg Shirey Ben E. Keith Company -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Frank Swarbrick Sent: Friday, April 03, 2015 6:24 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: migratin

Re: migrating compiler versions

2015-04-03 Thread Greg Shirey
behavior" End-If Close file2. Goback. HTH, Greg Shirey Ben E. Keith Company -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Frank Swarbrick Sent: Friday, April 03, 2015 1:50 PM To:

Re: migrating compiler versions

2015-04-01 Thread Greg Shirey
of IBM COBOL (Enterprise COBOL V4 and V3 and earlier). HTH, Greg Shirey Ben E. Keith Company -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Ken MacKenzie Sent: Wednesday, April 01, 2015 4:00 AM

Re: COBOL Compiller options in IGYCDOPT

2015-03-24 Thread Greg Shirey
than process the data in the buffer. This use might affect the processing of both input files and output files. HTH, Greg Shirey Ben E. Keith Company -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM- m...@listserv.ua.edu] On Behalf Of David Speake Sent: Monday, Mar

Re: SMS ACS and TEMP DSN Parsing

2015-03-17 Thread Greg Shirey
I don't think there's anything wrong with the logic, but you know that most attributes of a DATACLAS can be overridden. Greg Shirey Ben E. Keith Company -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Lizette Koehler Se

Re: SHARE Video

2015-03-10 Thread Greg Shirey
Really? All your "co-workers" are spending the day watching videos on You Tube and the only thing the "boss" complains about (to you directly) is what he perceives the cost of the video to be? That sounds odd. Regards, Greg Shirey Ben E. Keith Company -Origin

Re: CA/Reclaim Question

2015-02-12 Thread Greg Shirey
Run an IDCAMS EXAMINE on the data set and see if you get message IDC01718I Found empty control areas that have not been reclaimed. HTH, Greg Shirey Ben E. Keith Company -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Mark

Re: XMLPARSE(COMPAT) for COBOL V5?

2015-02-04 Thread Greg Shirey
Yes. See APAR PI22094. Also, see APAR PI30156. HTH, Greg -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Farley, Peter x23353 Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2015 12:28 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: XMLPARSE(COMPAT) for

Re: Health Checker and SMF

2015-01-27 Thread Greg Shirey
We use DASD-only logging and do not have any CF at all. (We have but one production LPAR) The migration of SMF recording from VSAM files to logstreams was a great move for us. We now only dump SMF data to tape once a day and have never had an issue with losing records. Regards, Greg

Re: TESTING SMS ACS ROUTINE OPTIONS VIA ISMF

2015-01-23 Thread Greg Shirey
Test for DSNTYPE=LIB. Greg -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of John Dawes Sent: Friday, January 23, 2015 7:20 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: TESTING SMS ACS ROUTINE OPTIONS VIA ISMF G'Day, I have to test my ch

Re: DFHSM BCDS Z/OS 1.13

2014-12-12 Thread Greg Shirey
It is not mentioned in SYS1.HELP(ALTER) on my z/OS 1.13 system Is it in z/OS 2.1?? Greg -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Staller, Allan Sent: Friday, December 12, 2014 9:33 AM Thanks for the update I was no

Re: Changing Job Output class in ST screen in SDSF

2014-12-04 Thread Greg Shirey
IMO this is WAD. HTH, Greg Shirey Ben E. Keith Company -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Elardus Engelbrecht Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2014 6:49 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Changing Job Output class in ST

Re: SOC1 and SYSUDUMP and CEEDUMP

2014-11-25 Thread Greg Shirey
It is still an option in COBOL 5.1.1. The default is NOSSRANGE. Regards, Greg Shirey Ben E. Keith Company -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Farley, Peter x23353 Sent: Monday, November 24, 2014 4:27 PM To: IBM-MAIN

Re: curious: message rate to z/OS SYSLOG/OPERLOG on a _large_ system?

2014-11-24 Thread Greg Shirey
I'm surprised, but it looks like on an "average" day the SYSLOG generates 1.3 million lines. Regards, Greg Shirey Ben E. Keith Company -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of John McKown Sent: Monday, Novem

Re: Adding volumes from one storage group to other

2014-11-10 Thread Greg Shirey
you need to define the volume to the storage group and then activate the updated configuration. Greg Shirey Ben E. Keith Company -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Meenakshi, Vinoth - CW Sent: Monday, November 10, 2014

Re: Enterprise COBOL v5.1 Implemented?

2014-11-03 Thread Greg Shirey
000104IF END-OF-FILE 000105 1MOVE "YES" TO END-OF-BUILD 000106 1GO TO 300-EXIT 000107END-IF. IBM support was

Re: Enterprise COBOL v5.1 Implemented?

2014-10-14 Thread Greg Shirey
246K .3M 13.7M SS604 0:04.18 000:00:50104,250 88K .3M 14.1M SS604 0:05.00 000:00:46105,714 101K .3M 13.3M So, this is not "application" code, but it is what we have measured so far. HTH, Greg Shirey Ben E. Keith Company --

Re: Enterprise COBOL v5.1 Implemented?

2014-10-03 Thread Greg Shirey
the programmers use it. Regards, Greg Shirey Ben E. Keith Company -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of John Gilmore Sent: Friday, October 03, 2014 5:05 AM So far, we do not appear to be dealing with defective optim

Re: object/load module sizes - was RE: Enterprise COBOL v5.1 Implemented?

2014-10-02 Thread Greg Shirey
To be clear, though, about the examples I posted - they were all program objects (whether compiled COBOL 4 or 5) and stored in the same PDSE. Greg -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of John Gilmore Sent: Thursday, Octobe

Re: object/load module sizes - was RE: Enterprise COBOL v5.1 Implemented?

2014-10-02 Thread Greg Shirey
;zOMG The Next COBOL Compiler has Arrived!") Greg Shirey Ben E. Keith Company -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Pommier, Rex Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2014 1:51 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: object/l

Re: Enterprise COBOL v5.1 Implemented?

2014-10-02 Thread Greg Shirey
rame Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Elardus Engelbrecht Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2014 10:53 AM Greg Shirey wrote: >Inside the paragraph that never gets executed, I added the following >statement: >MOVE "BUBBA" to WS-DESC. What are the conditi

Re: Enterprise COBOL v5.1 Implemented?

2014-10-02 Thread Greg Shirey
Hmm, remove the code but not the literal? That seems more trouble than it's worth and to what end? I could probably look at the pseudo assembler listing, but that's not my strong suit. What does it hurt? Well, if I wrote a COBOL program and the compiler reported that a huge chunk of it wa

Re: Enterprise COBOL v5.1 Implemented?

2014-10-02 Thread Greg Shirey
-DESC. After recompiling with OPT(2), I browsed the program object and was able to find "BUBBA" which leads me to believe that the optimizer is no longer removing code that cannot be executed. (At least in this case.) Is that a bug? I'll ask IBM and report back. R

Re: Enterprise COBOL v5.1 Implemented?

2014-10-01 Thread Greg Shirey
hat the code that can never be executed is not being discarded as it was in COBOL 4.2. So, there's no message about it because the compiler is no longer doing what it used to do. We intend to open a PMR in the morning and see what response that yields. Regards, Greg Shirey Ben E. Keith Compa

COBOL 5.1 optimizer messages

2014-09-30 Thread Greg Shirey
imenting with COBOL 5.1 - have you seen any of the optimizer messages? Has anyone already opened a PMR for this issue? (I searched but didn't find one) Thanks, Greg Shirey Ben E. Keith Company -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe

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