Re: EBCDIC-ASCII converter and other tools

2020-12-30 Thread Nick Jones
There is a Microsoft Windows version of the z/OS OEM batch utility, SELCOPY. SELCOPY for Microsoft Windows can be invoked as a line command in a Windows shell or from a shell script (BAT or VBS). It is capable of record based data manipulation (including ASCII<->EBCDIC) and also supports

Re: Programmatic way to create unrecoverable ABEND?

2019-04-11 Thread Nick Jones
For authorized code, you can use the CALLRTM service. This can kill the current task or any task you want. You could have a test program that abends a task in your main program. It also has options to disable retry. Nick Jones

Re: PDSE MAXGENS API

2018-05-03 Thread Nick Jones
Many thanks, Cieri. However, this method obtains the system wide maximum as defined by MAXGENS_LIMIT in parmlib member IGDSMSxx, not the MAXGENS value defined to an individual PDSE V2 library. Nick -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe /

Re: PDSE MAXGENS API

2018-05-02 Thread Nick Jones
Hi Gord, Thanks for the heads-up on FAMS. Yes, I think this is going to hurt! Nick -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: PDSE MAXGENS API

2018-05-02 Thread Nick Jones
Thanks for the confirmation, Steve. I did consider the possible hacks you mentioned but unfortunately, neither the IEBPDSE utility nor TSO/E LISTDS (nor indeed the TSO/E REXX function, LISTDSI) have been updated to output the MAXGENS value of a PDSE V2 library. Even if these facilities get

PDSE MAXGENS API

2018-05-01 Thread Nick Jones
Is there an API that will allow my program to establish the maximum number of member generations defined to a PDSE version 2 data set (via MAXGENS)? I have found a SHARE presentation that states this information is stored in the PDSE itself. The ISITMGD macro will get the PDSE version and also

Re: IPCS error help

2015-02-11 Thread Nick Jones
This solution is assuming that Jake is on the z13 ESP and has part of OA43495 ++APARs or PTFs applied. If this is not the case then, please open a PMR and we'll investigate the problem. Nick Jones z/OS Service Aids On Wed, 11 Feb 2015 08:28:23 -0600, Nick Jones nrjo...@us.ibm.com wrote

Re: IPCS error help

2015-02-11 Thread Nick Jones
This should be corrected by making sure your miglib has the updated IOSVFMTC in it, or making sure you are on the latest ++APAR build. -- Nick Jones z/OS Service Aids -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions

Re: Logger Space

2015-01-17 Thread Nick Jones
data and log data sets. The section on Deleting log data give you various options depending on what application using the log streams. Using tso to delete the log data sets can cause a lot of trouble for system logger. -Nick Jones, z/OS Development

Re: IPCS BLSQMFLD NAME=

2014-05-06 Thread Nick Jones
Hi Dan, I just opened up APAR OA45131 to update BLSQMFLD. Were planning on adding a LABEL attribute to the macro. This will allow NAME to specify length and offset, while LABEL will be up to 8 characters displayed that are displayed. -Nick Jones nrjo...@us.ibm.com z/OS Service Aids

Re: Copy a SVC Dump

2014-04-23 Thread Nick Jones
the IPCS dialog 3.2 -Nick Jones z/OS Service Aids/IPCS -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: IXGBRWSE - SMF Logstream

2013-11-18 Thread Nick Jones
not supported by IBM. In some cases the data returned by the log stream browse has to be manipulated by SMF before the user sees it, such as if zEDC compression is turned on in z/OS V2R1. -Nick Jones z/OS Development

Re: Need to move some DASD volumes that have system logger datasets on them

2013-06-23 Thread Nick Jones
From a logger perspective there is no clear answer, but there are a number of tools to get off the data set. Logger data sets are of the form HLQ.lsname.suffix and there are staging data sets and offload data sets. To get off of staging data sets you can change the duplex method for the log

Re: IXGBRWSE (LogStream Browse)

2013-02-25 Thread Nick Jones
Hi John, Nothing directly will tell you that more data is in the log stream. You can do one of these to simulate this. 1) If you own the writing and reading applications you can signal yourself to read some more 2) Your program can wake up once in a while and browse again. Another EndReached