Re: CSSMTP attachment as PDF

[Nims,Alva John (Al)]

Actually, for the PDF creation option, you need to download both XMITIP AND 
TXT2PDF, the XMITIP package no longer contains the TXT2PDF package, so I would 
recommend this webpage, also Lionel's web page, but just a little higher up:

http://www.lbdsoftware.com/index.htm

Note: Lionel is going to hate me for this, but there appears to be a little bug 
when you attempt to use the option: "FORMAT (PDF/DS: ...)"  [Specifying a Data 
Set that contains the PDF configuration file, I had to put the configuration in 
a DD and then use, "FORMAT (PDF/DD: ...)".

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-Original Message-
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List  On Behalf Of 
Gadi Ben-Avi
Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2019 6:18 AM
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Subject: Re: CSSMTP attachment as PDF

There is a utility called XMITIP that send email with attachments.
https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.lbdsoftware.com_xmitip.html=DwIGaQ=sJ6xIWYx-zLMB3EPkvcnVg=O7pcwLlWwta39a92GW-AQQ=C_ltFaF8c-SxZT_QxD9S8MS8XBI2PWMbQe7lheKhBR4=zQoWrPQfLMOT0gQi77s3STK5VdRTTLvxWyDhr0y6wCc=
Gadi

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Peter
Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2019 12:14 PM
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Subject: CSSMTP attachment as PDF

Hi

Cross posted

Does anyone have sample JCL to send mainframe dataset using CSSMTP PDS member 
with PDF extension ?

Peter

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Re: TSO OMVS Command area

[Nims,Alva John (Al)]

Use the "\" (backslash) character, from the "UNIX System Services User's Guide"

"Entering a long shell command
If you are typing a long command that will not fit on the command line, you can 
use the \ (backslash) continuation character at the end of the first line. When 
you then press , the command line is cleared so that you can continue 
typing. The line you typed prior to the backslash is displayed in the output 
area, and beneath it the shell prompt changes to > to indicate that you are 
continuing a command."

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-Original Message-
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Klein, Kevin
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Subject: TSO OMVS Command area

I've been looking for an answer to this for the better part of 2 days.

When I enter TSO OMVS on my ISPF screen, is there a way to make the command 
area larger than 2 lines.

I have a long command I want to enter that doesn't fit on the two lines I 
currently have.

Apologies is this is a basic ?; I don't spend a lot of time on the USS side of 
z/OS.

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Re: Serverpac error CHKVERSN

[Nims,Alva John (Al)]

#1. Logoff your TECH ID
#2. Preallocate the ISPFLOG & ISPFLIST DDs
//ISPLIST DD SYSOUT=A,
// DCB=(LRECL=121,BLKSIZE=1210,RECFM=FBA)
//ISPLOG DD SYSOUT=A,
// DCB=(LRECL=125,BLKSIZE=129,RECFM=VA)
** From IBM's " ISPF Planning and Customizing" manual.

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-Original Message-
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Peter
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Subject: Serverpac error CHKVERSN

Hi

I am building a zOS using serverpac and one of the step CHKVERSN fails with the 
below message

READY
PROFILE PREFIX (TECH)
READY
ISPSTART CMD(CPPECHKV)

ISPF Dataset allocation error - press enter to continue LOG file allocation 
error - ISPF will operate without log file TECH.X.SPFLOG1.LIST in use

I understand this is coming because my ID is logged in

Any clue on how to proceed further with the above ?

Peter

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Re: z/OS 2.4

[Nims,Alva John (Al)]

My $0.02:
Global zone can have it all, but my opinion would be, to use separate 
Target/DLib zones.  Use ZONEINDEX to tie it all together.

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> Not SREL

?
How are you going to put, e.g., MVS and CICS, in the same zone?

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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List  on behalf of 
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Not SREL. Various compenents were installed in their own SMP environments 
(SMPE/Target/Dlib).

-Original Message-
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How are you going to consolidate zones with different SREL?


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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List  on behalf of 
Allan Staller 
Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2019 9:01 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: z/OS 2.4

For historical reasons, I have several SMP/E zones associated w/zOS and other 
ServerPac available items.
I am going to consolidate all of the separate zones associated into a single 
zone to simplify the maintenance process.

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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List  On Behalf Of 
Timothy Sipples
Sent: Thursday, February 21, 2019 1:42 AM
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Subject: Re: z/OS 2.4

Allan Staller wrote:
>If so, I need to get my 2.3 order in before I can no longer do so.

Why not order it now? I can't think of any downside as long as you're already 
licensed.


Timothy Sipples
IT Architect Executive, Industry Solutions, IBM Z & LinuxONE


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Re: JES2 SCHEDULE statement

[Nims,Alva John (Al)]

In my z/OS 2.02 version of MVS JCL Reference, there is NO "AFTER=" option on 
the SCHEDULE statement.

There is an "AFTER" JCL statement:
"AFTER statement
Purpose: Use the AFTER JCL statement, along with GJOB and JOBSET 
statements, to define jobs and sets of jobs that must execute in a particular 
sequence. AFTER and BEFORE statements have the same syntax and define the 
dependencies either as a dependent/parent or parent/dependent. Internally, all 
relationships are managed as parent/dependent."

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-Original Message-
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List  On Behalf Of 
Carmen Vitullo
Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2019 10:52 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: JES2 SCHEDULE statement

I'm running z/OS 2.2 @ RSU1805 level and one of my users is trying to use the 
JES2 schedule statement; from all the doc I found the AFTER=jobname should be 
valid @ 2.2 but they are getting a JCL error during testing, my test had the 
same results;

   3 // SCHEDULE HOLDUNTL=('09:50','02/05/2019'),AFTER=joba
   4 //A EXEC PGM=IEFBR14
STMT NO. MESSAGE
   3 IEFC630I UNIDENTIFIED KEYWORD AFTER
  
checking the KC looks like this should be valid, am I missing something?
thanks
Carmen 

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Re: Red Hat (was Re: how many OSes run on IBMz)

[Nims,Alva John (Al)]

Oh, oh, I forgot to add, it goes from a Fedora to a Bowler?  :)  (Attempts a my 
Friday night humor) 

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-Original Message-
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Nims,Alva John (Al)
Sent: Friday, January 25, 2019 4:08 PM
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It goes from Red to Blue?  :)

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-Original Message-
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List  On Behalf Of Tom 
Marchant
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Subject: Red Hat (was Re: how many OSes run on IBMz)

On Fri, 25 Jan 2019 15:44:57 +0800, Timothy Sipples wrote:

>IBM doesn't distribute Linux yet. If IBM's pending acquisition of Red 
>Hat completes, that'll change.

This prompts me to wonder what happens to Fedora when IBM buys Red Hat.

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Re: Red Hat (was Re: how many OSes run on IBMz)

[Nims,Alva John (Al)]

It goes from Red to Blue?  :)

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-Original Message-
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List  On Behalf Of Tom 
Marchant
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Subject: Red Hat (was Re: how many OSes run on IBMz)

On Fri, 25 Jan 2019 15:44:57 +0800, Timothy Sipples wrote:

>IBM doesn't distribute Linux yet. If IBM's pending acquisition of Red 
>Hat completes, that'll change.

This prompts me to wonder what happens to Fedora when IBM buys Red Hat.

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Re: The WHY of the POR

[Nims,Alva John (Al)]

From his original message dated January 16th: "... I have gotten along for 
years, but now I am faced to explaining it to management ..."

I, for one, am quite happy to allow that reason for asking the question.

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-Original Message-
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List  On Behalf Of 
Jesse 1 Robinson
Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2019 4:38 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: The WHY of the POR

I don't recall seeing OP's motivation for asking this question. I'm guessing 
it's to satisfy someone's hypothetical musing. As others have said, most of the 
once-conventional reasons are gone. Installation or upgrade or repair is likely 
to require at least one POR, but the odds of needing to interrupt production on 
a random weekend are now very low.

-- An OSA needs to be loaded with updated microcode. Either offline/online 
bounce or POR. Our console OSAs are well defined with symmetrical redundancy. 
It takes a while to work through the procedure, but it's very doable. The 
non-console OSAs are a menagerie of who knows what. It's easier to POR to catch 
them all at once. 

-- If you have two of them, cryptos can be managed like console OSAs. 
Offline/online, rinse, repeat.

-- Error conditions. These are rare and impossible classify. A while back we 
had an MCL upgrade go south. Primary and alternate SEs got out of sync. Support 
Center said we had to POR to resync. Ouch. Then the same thing happened again! 
So we PORed again. Eventually got thru it. You get to explain these cases to 
the boss one by one. 

.
.
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-Original Message-
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf 
Of Tom Brennan
Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2019 8:07 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: (External):Re: The WHY of the POR

Last year I was watching the install of a new z14-ZR1 and the CE couldn't get 
the ICC consoles to work until he did a POR *after* the IP/LU settings were in 
place.  I thought this was rather odd.  Most likely there were dynamic ways 
around the problem, but when there's nothing running on a machine yet, the 
easiest is to try a POR.

On 1/17/2019 12:20 AM, Vernooij, Kees (ITOP NM) - KLM wrote:
> Sometimes it helps solve unexplainably unsolvable problems. We had this with 
> an unwilling PCHID.
> 
> Kees,
> 
> 
>> -Original Message-
>> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] 
>> On Behalf Of Gibney, Dave
>> Sent: 17 January, 2019 0:14
>> To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
>> Subject: Re: The WHY of the POR
>>
>> Required is rare. Our last was for OSA related MCL. Before that, it 
>> was a scheduled power outage to upgrade the UPS.
>>   Otherwise, what Ed says. Each instance can be different. For us, it 
>> was also the only way to set the hardware clock.
>>
>>
>>> -Original Message-
>>> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List 
>>> [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Edward Finnell
>>> Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2019 2:46 PM
>>> To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
>>> Subject: Re: The WHY of the POR
>>>
>>> Murphy, squirrels, DR, hardware upgrades, terrorists, weather 
>>> events-
>> pretty
>>> much Risk assessment for your environment and your locale.
>>>
>>> In a message dated 1/16/2019 4:18:42 PM Central Standard Time, 
>>> johnmattson...@gmail.com writes:
>>> I have a simple two lpar z9running zOS 1.13.  I have searched 
>>> online,
>> send me
>>> to the manual if youhave a good ref. Thanks


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Re: The WHY of the POR

[Nims,Alva John (Al)]

For I/O Configuration changes that might require a POR, check the "HCD User's 
Guide" and/or "HCD Planning" and it may take generating an IODF for it to tell 
you that a POR is needed.

As a person who has worked on machines from the 360/40 to a z114 (current), the 
reasons for a REQUIRED POR are becoming fewer and fewer.

POR's could be categorized into; required (some I/O configuration changes) and 
un-intentional (in my shop's incident, mislabeled power cables when shifting to 
a new PDU).

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-Original Message-
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List  On Behalf Of 
John McKown
Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2019 9:06 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: The WHY of the POR

On Thu, Jan 17, 2019 at 8:01 AM R.S.  wrote:

> Personally I can't remember when I *had* to perform POR.
> Yes, sometimes OSA or Crypto card need to be offlined/onlined which 
> also can be done vie POR, but this is not a requirement, since can be 
> done without it (even without IPL).
>
> --
> Radoslaw Skorupka
> Lodz, Poland
>
>
We don't have any sort of external times. So our TOD clock drifts around.
If it gets too far away, we look at doing a POR so that we can set it.


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Re: FW: Where's the fire? | Computerworld Shark Tank

[Nims,Alva John (Al)]

To avoid having the URL translated by the University's "Proof Point" system, I 
am going to try this:

/article/601/data-center/wheres-the-fire.html

Put in your browser first: www.computerworld.com
And then paste the above to the end.

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-Original Message-
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List  On Behalf Of 
Paul Gilmartin
Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2019 10:42 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: FW: Where's the fire? | Computerworld Shark Tank

On Wed, 16 Jan 2019 07:43:36 -0500, Mark Regan wrote:

>https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.computerworld.
>com_article_601_data-2Dcenter_wheres-2Dthe-2Dfire.ht=DwIFaQ=pZJ
>PUDQ3SB9JplYbifm4nt2lEVG5pWx2KikqINpWlZM=0Ef64GJS77DVfhr5GGKZeQ=RQD
>to86gQIJYmz2lqCJRUKKYUhM74h0sz17zHi85yqU=2g54N6pBjPi6lHc_WfPv76-tRlHa
>9eZwUrb4eSlR-I4=
>ml
> 
Broken URL.  Fix your mailer.  Or throw it away and get one that works.

Or post via the web interface.

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Re: FW: Where's the fire? | Computerworld Shark Tank

[Nims,Alva John (Al)]

My story is back in my College days, I worked for a Political Science Professor 
who also doubled at the manager for the Business Computing Center.  He smoked a 
pipe and your description about your boss is very much like mine, so his ash 
tray was filled with spent match sticks, not much ash, because he always tapped 
out his ashes with the heel of his boot, drove everyone CRAZY, but he was easy 
to track!  His desk was also always pilled with papers.

One day I walked into the office, just after he left to go to class, but to 
talk to his assistant and noticed stronger burning smell than usual.  His 
assistant and I both looked into his office to notice his ash tray on fire as 
well as some his papers starting to burn around the edges, so a quick grab of 
the fire extinguisher and I put the fire out.  His assistant gave him a long 
and stern talking too, he did clean up his act after that and everyone that 
worked in the area got some fire extinguisher training by the local Fire 
Department!

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-Original Message-
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List  On Behalf Of 
Elardus Engelbrecht
Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2019 8:56 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: FW: Where's the fire? | Computerworld Shark Tank

Mark Regan wrote:

I have corrected the URL by joining the 2 lines into 1.

>https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.computerworld.
>com_article_601_data-2Dcenter_wheres-2Dthe-2Dfire.html=DwIFaQ=p
>ZJPUDQ3SB9JplYbifm4nt2lEVG5pWx2KikqINpWlZM=0Ef64GJS77DVfhr5GGKZeQ=8
>-1AIH7ny9wykE2QX3I3hS5bKY4-Ke0eApy78s--s_8=1eyyGc21cnJCa9lTlwa9AZBsaa
>O7NcNAPYOSBnpAkDo=

Ouch, ouch, ouch, what a nasty fired up event. So, you get fired because there 
were no fire? ;-)

About smoke - One of my previous bosses (during 1990) was a heavy smoker who 
smoked cigars, pipe and cigaretes. So about 20 - 40+ cigs per day. His ashtray 
was always full with smoked debris lying around the ashtray and smoke particles 
everywher on the table, floor, chair, his clothes, etc

I hated everytime I had to go to his table, but he was my direct boss ...

He was sitting in a corner in a large (about 25 by 25 meters) open plan office 
with aircondit. Anyways, I just look over to the corner, if there is smoke, 
then he is in office. No smoke, he is ill at home.  Seriously.

At that time there was a small fire in our building, but luckily one of the 
patrolling guards grabbed an extinguisher and smoked out the fire. It was a 
dustbin fire where someone threw away a still burning cigarette stump.

Today, if you want to smoke - you do that outside.

Groete / Greetings
Elardus Engelbrecht

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Re: CA VIew Reports

[Nims,Alva John (Al)]

I use TXT2PDF & XMITIP from CBT Tape File 314 from Lionel Dyck.  If you run the 
XMITIP from the JOB that created the output, then XMITIP will include the 
JOBName:

* -- 10.10 --- *
* E-Mail originated from:  *
* Jobname:   WEBHTMLJobID: JOB28992*
* Userid:AJNIMS2User Name: - *
* System:NER1   Node:  NER *
* Date:  December 11, 2018 13:16:55 (-0500)  (Tuesday) *
*  *

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Of venkat kulkarni
Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2018 6:00 AM
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Subject: CA VIew Reports

Hello Group,

Is there any way to offload reports  from CA View (SAR) to windows desktop in 
pdf format and also keeping report information like when it was originally 
created, Job name , Job ID etc.

Any suggestions on this please.

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Re: Breaking text file at position 72?

[Nims,Alva John (Al)]

TextFX appears to be no longer maintained and does not appear to be available 
for new installations:
http://docs.notepad-plus-plus.org/index.php?title=Plugin_Central#T

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Of Ray Pearce
Sent: Monday, December 10, 2018 12:48 PM
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Subject: Re: Breaking text file at position 72?

There is a very handy plugin for Notepad++ called TextFX

Once this is installed using the Plugin Manager, just open your file, select 
all of the text (Ctrl-A) and from the menu select

TextFX/TextFX Edit/ReWrap text to (Clipboard or 72) width

It already defaults to wrapping at column 72 for you.

Ray Pearce



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Of Charles Mills
Sent: 10 December 2018 16:37
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Subject: Breaking text file at position 72?

This is not truly a mainframe question but I am sure everyone can see the 
mainframe relevance and why it is a mainframe problem for me. Some of you 
mainframers may have encountered the same problem.

I have a text file on Windows with CR-LF only at paragraph boundaries. Some of 
the lines are several thousand characters long.

I would like to break the lines (intelligently -- at an English word
boundary) no later than column 72. 

Can anyone suggest a good method? This is a one-time chore so I don't want to 
buy a product or install something off the CBT. I have all of normal SDSF of 
course plus Notepad++ on Windows.

Thanks!

Charles 

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Re: how to get the address and size(cylinders) for each volume [EXTERNAL]

[Nims,Alva John (Al)]

My $0.02: CBTTAPE file 296, DVOL

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Of Feller, Paul
Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2018 11:36 AM
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Subject: Re: how to get the address and size(cylinders) for each volume 
[EXTERNAL]

The answer depends on what software you have installed and how you plan on 
using the information.

To name just a few:
IBM File Manager
IBM DCOLLECT - you would have to create some code to read the DCOLLECT output 
Chicago-Soft MVS/QuickRef Compuware File-Aid


Depending on how much DASD you have there is the z/OS command DS QDASD command.


Thanks..

Paul Feller
AGT Mainframe Technical Support

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Hi all

  Is there a utility to get the address  and  size(cylinders) for each volume?

Thanks a lot!



Best Regards,
Jason Cai



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Re: Ask the experts about running things

[Nims,Alva John (Al)]

Try this:

https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/zosbasics/com.ibm.zglossary.doc/zglossary.pdf?origURL=api/redirect/zos/basics/topic/com.ibm.zglossary.doc/zglossary.pdf
 

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-Original Message-
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf 
Of Peter Ten Eyck
Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2018 1:59 PM
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Subject: Ask the experts about running things

For an inquisitive programmer... what is a good definition for each of the 
following? How do they relate to each other?

Address space
Data space
Subsystem
Started task
Job
TSU (TSO)
Process
Enclave

Note: My explanation will fall short of what IBM-Main can come up with.

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Re: Speaking of time change...

[Nims,Alva John (Al)]

Here is my $0.02 on Time Change:

https://www.gocomics.com/nonsequitur/2017/03/12

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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf 
Of Phil Smith III
Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2018 10:27 AM
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Subject: Re: Speaking of time change...

Re moving the DST dates: we have a "smart" clock that does DST automatically, 
to save you the hassle. However, there's no way to disable that, so since they 
moved the dates, it means we now get to reset it *four* times a year. Lovely. I 
assume they didn't sell it in AZ and parts of IN :)


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Re: Running ISPF's 3.5 utility from a clist

[Nims,Alva John (Al)]

I do not know of a way to run the ISPF utility, but I have a couple options:
#1. CBTTAPE "**FILE 703" Has a utilty to convert one stat format to ISPF stats, 
so it might be a starting point to do what you want.

#2. There is a product available called, "REXXTOOLS/MVS" from "Open Software 
Technologies, Inc."
www.open-softech.com
Within this package is the BPAM interface that provides, "Direct support for 
creation, retrieval, and update of ISPF statistics."

It does work, I have used it.

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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf 
Of David Cole
Sent: Friday, September 14, 2018 11:49 AM
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Subject: Running ISPF's 3.5 utility from a clist

I would like to generate ISPF statistics for members of a PDS whose members I 
am creating outside of any ISPF tool. I would like to find a way to generate 
ISPF stats for such members.

It occurs to me that one way might be to somehow run the ISPF 3.5 utility from 
within a CLIST or from the TSO READY prompt. Is that even possible?

Alternatively, is there some other utility that would do this?

Thanks,

Dave Cole
ColeSoft Marketing
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Tools:   
z/XDC
 for Assembler debugging
  
c/XDC
for C debugging  

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Re: Search for utility

[Nims,Alva John (Al)]

How about a combination of ISPF Edit macro programs.
Start with EDMACALL from Mark's MVS Utilities: http://mzelden.com/mvsutil.html
EDMACALL: This is a REXX exec that can be used to run an edit macro against all 
members of a PDS.
You would need to modify this exec to exclude the members that you don't want 
or have them passed as part of the arguments to the routine

Then write a simple edit macro to issue the find command.

I would also recommend checking out the CBT Tape (www.cbttape.org) for 
variations of the above. 

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Of McCabe, Ron
Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2018 2:53 PM
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Subject: Search for utility

Hello,

Question from our developers...is there an easy way to search for a string in 
all COBOL programs except for 1 or 2?  So what they would like to do is search 
for a string in all but 1 or 2 of the COBOL programs in a PDS and they don't 
want to have to "select" the programs from the list since there are over 400 
programs in the PDS.

Thanks,
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Re: Question about Luminex VTS solutions

[Nims,Alva John (Al)]

We have been running with 2 units directly connected to our Mainframe with a 
remote unit as backup for about a year now.

At this time, we have not any real complaints with the units at this time.

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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf 
Of Todd Burrell
Sent: Friday, September 07, 2018 2:54 PM
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Subject: Question about Luminex VTS solutions

Does anyone have any experience with Luminex virtual tape solutions?  We saw a 
presentation today that was fairly impressive, but we would like to be sure 
that they actually work as well as they say.  

Please email me directly.  
Todd Burrell
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Re: 0,clpa

[Nims,Alva John (Al)]

Hmm, it should not prompt then, because "M" is what we use also and we do not 
get prompts.

Have you checked your SYSLOG during the IPL to see if it is complaining about 
an error in your IEASYSxx or other referenced members from SYS1.PARMLIB?
Look for message ID: IEA371I
That, I believe is a good place to start.
Messages: IEA247I & IEE252I indicate which IEASYSxx member is being used and 
which data set it was found in.

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Of Tony Thigpen
Sent: Friday, August 24, 2018 4:59 PM
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Subject: Re: 0,clpa

the value is "M".

Tony Thigpen

Nims,Alva John (Al) wrote on 08/24/2018 04:53 PM:
> Have you checked your HMC's Load parameter value?
> 
>>From the "z/OS V2R2 MVS System Commands" Page 4 & 5 for the 
>>"Explanation of the A=INITIALIZE SYSTEM CONTROL PROGRAM,
> A2 Field"
> 
> 1. The first four characters (characters 1 through 4 of the LOAD parameter) 
> specify the hexadecimal device number for the device that contains the I/O 
> definition file (IODF) VSAM data set.
> 
> 2. The next two characters (characters 5 and 6 of the LOAD parameter) specify 
> the suffix of the LOADxx parmlib member that the system is to use.
> 
> 3. The next character (character 7 of the LOAD parameter) specifies the 
> prompting and message suppression characteristics that the system is to use 
> at IPL.
> 
> #3 above is what I am referring to and you do need a copy of the manual to 
> understand that character.  There are 8 different characters used and each 
> one sets 3 different options uniquely:
>   Display  Info   Prompt for Master   Prompt for System
> Character MessagesCatalog Parameters
>   --  
> ---
> Period or
>No  No  No
> A Yes Yes Yes
> C No  Yes No
> D Yes Yes No
> M Yes No  No
> P No  Yes Yes
> S No  No  Yes
> T Yes No  Yes
> 
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> -Original Message-
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> On Behalf Of Tony Thigpen
> Sent: Friday, August 24, 2018 4:01 PM
> To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
> Subject: 0,clpa
> 
> Every time one specific z/os system IPLs, I have to enter:
> 0,clpa
> on the console to get it to continue. I have other machines that do not 
> prompt. What can I set to avoid having to enter this response during ipl?
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Re: 0,clpa

[Nims,Alva John (Al)]

Have you checked your HMC's Load parameter value?

>From the "z/OS V2R2 MVS System Commands" Page 4 & 5 for the "Explanation of 
>the A=INITIALIZE SYSTEM CONTROL PROGRAM,
A2 Field"

1. The first four characters (characters 1 through 4 of the LOAD parameter) 
specify the hexadecimal device number for the device that contains the I/O 
definition file (IODF) VSAM data set.

2. The next two characters (characters 5 and 6 of the LOAD parameter) specify 
the suffix of the LOADxx parmlib member that the system is to use. 

3. The next character (character 7 of the LOAD parameter) specifies the 
prompting and message suppression characteristics that the system is to use at 
IPL.

#3 above is what I am referring to and you do need a copy of the manual to 
understand that character.  There are 8 different characters used and each one 
sets 3 different options uniquely:
Display  Info   Prompt for Master   Prompt for System
Character   MessagesCatalog Parameters
--  
---
Period or 
 No  No  No
A   Yes Yes Yes
C   No  Yes No
D   Yes Yes No
M   Yes No  No
P   No  Yes Yes
S   No  No  Yes
T   Yes No  Yes

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Of Tony Thigpen
Sent: Friday, August 24, 2018 4:01 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: 0,clpa

Every time one specific z/os system IPLs, I have to enter:
0,clpa
on the console to get it to continue. I have other machines that do not prompt. 
What can I set to avoid having to enter this response during ipl?
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Re: SMF type 119 (FTP) subtypes 70 and 72

[Nims,Alva John (Al)]

#1. I would check your SMFPRMxx member, look for anything like, TYPE(119(1:7)) 
or NOTYPE(119(70:72))
Those would allow your 1-7 records, but deny the 70-72.  If your SMFPRMxx does 
not allow for the subtypes to be recorded, then all of the following is moot.

#2. In the TCPPROF member or what you point to with the //PROFILE DD statement 
in your TCPIP procedure, do you have in the "SMFCONFIG"  section. Do you have 
"TYPE119" with "FTPCLIENT" coded somewhere after that?  Mine looks like this:
 TYPE119 NODVIPA
   FTPCLIENT
   IFStatistics
 NOIPSECURITY
 NOPORTStatistics
   PROFILE
 NOTCPINIT
   TCPIPStatistics
   TCPSTACK
 NOTCPTERM
 NOTN3270CLIENT
   UDPTerm

#3. Now in addition to #2, in the data set/file that is used for your default 
sourced for FTP.DATA do you have "SMF TYPE119" and since we have some that use 
the JES2 access, we also have, "SMFJES TYPE119".  There is a third option, " 
SMFSQLTYPE119".

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Of Pierre Fichaud
Sent: Friday, August 10, 2018 4:19 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: SMF type 119 (FTP) subtypes 70 and 72

I am trying to generate these on my system at Dallas. I'm reading the doc on 
them and trying stuff but no luck. Can someone suggest something ? I can get 
sub-types 1,2,3,5,6 and 7. According to IBM, I should get them all for type 119 
but ...
Thanks in advance, Pierre.

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Re: how to calculate previous day using REXX

[Nims,Alva John (Al)]

Please take this with ALL it's implied humor: "OMG!  Do you normally program in 
APL?" :-)

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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf 
Of Steve Horein
Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2018 8:52 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: how to calculate previous day using REXX

I know it boils down to preference or requirements, but something I have a hard 
time grasping: why declare so many variables?
Don't I come up with the same result using this?

SAY DATE('N',DATE('B')-1,'B')

And understandably, the likely event is you'll want to reference the value 
elsewhere, so why not cut to the chase:

DATEX = DATE('N',DATE('B')-1,'B')

On Thu, Aug 2, 2018 at 5:56 AM Burrell, Todd  wrote:

> This code should work for you in any circumstance:
>
> DATEB=DATE('B')
> DATEB=DATEB-1
> DATEX=DATE('N',DATEB,'B')
> SAY DATEX
>
>
>
> -Original Message-
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> On Behalf Of ITschak Mugzach
> Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2018 4:44 AM
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> Subject: Re: how to calculate previous day using REXX
>
> Try this logic:
>
>- Get the Julian date of today (YYXXX)
>- Deduct 1 from Julian date (xxx)
>- Last 3 digits zero? (xxx)
>- Deduct one from first two chars (year) (YY)
>- Decide the Julian date (365 or 366 based on year/4) (xxx)
>
> ITschak
>
>
> On Thu, Aug 2, 2018 at 10:38 AM saurabh khandelwal < 
> sourabhkhandelwal...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hello Group,
> >
> > In REXX , we have Date function to calculate today's date but do we 
> > have any separate function to calculate yesterday's date.
> >
> > currently, we used
> >
> > TODAY= DATE('S')
> > YESTERDAY  = TODAY - 1
> >
> > this code work whole month but, starting of the month where we have 
> > date
> >
> > ex :
> >
> > TODAY - '20180801'
> >
> > then yesterday will be calculated like
> >
> > TODAY -1 , So yesterday value will be YESTERDAY = '20180800'  , 
> > which is wrong.
> >
> > Can you please help to overcome this issue.
> >
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Re: MVS send command in REXX

[Nims,Alva John (Al)]

Does the contents of "mtxt" happen to have a parentheses ["(" or ")"]?  Several 
years ago, I worked at a shop that we maintained the broadcast messages, this 
was a multiple send situation, but might be applicable, but if one line had a 
"(" in it and with the closing ")" on the next line, it would totally mess up 
and we had to rework the message so that both "(" and ")" were on the same send 
command to work.

Don't know if that is your problem, but thought I would put that out there.

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-Original Message-
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf 
Of saurabh khandelwal
Sent: Saturday, June 09, 2018 12:27 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: MVS send command in REXX

Hello,

Thanks for reply.

below command doesn't work. After changing

mvs "send 'AG54LST JOB "mtxt"' user(AG54) now"

to

mvs "send 'AG54LST JOB "mtxt"',user(AG54),now"

I stopped getting any notification as i was getting on any system.

Is there any other syntax for this command .


here mtxt is notthing but a tapped message from syslog , we tried to capture 
using netview and we should like to display it to particular tso user when even 
triger.

but instead , it was displaying it to all users. I am unable to find correct 
way to isolate this issue.

On Fri, Jun 8, 2018 at 1:52 PM, Elardus Engelbrecht < 
elardus.engelbre...@sita.co.za> wrote:

> saurabh khandelwal wrote:
>
> >000120 parse arg mtxt . mtxt
>
> How long is that mtxt? If it is too long, the rest of the message 
> command will be trimmed off.
>
>
> >000500 mvs "send 'AG54LST JOB "mtxt"' user(AG54) now"
>
> Change above to this (replacing two spaces with two commas):
>
>  mvs "send 'AG54LST JOB "mtxt"',user(AG54),now"
>
> Look up SEND for specific message  receivers in
>
>
> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.ibm.com_suppo
> rt_knowledgecenter_SSLTBW-5F2.2.0_=DwIBaQ=pZJPUDQ3SB9JplYbifm4nt2l
> EVG5pWx2KikqINpWlZM=0Ef64GJS77DVfhr5GGKZeQ=ChEpTjtAfIGIeIguFdpbIOZ
> 9it2jm0UHEzW4CP3CBJc=MRuaj8EZbz1UR_mOmI804GVPybeqMi6oXDIJ1JYv1z4=
> com.ibm.zos.v2r2.ieag100/s1mess1.htm
>
>
> Disclaimer - I am not a NETVIEW expert anymore...
>
> So, you, not me, need to double check all those ' and " are properly 
> balanced.
>
> Groete / Greetings
> Elardus Engelbrecht
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Re: CFSIZER no longer available?

[Nims,Alva John (Al)]

Here?  http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg3T1027062

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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf 
Of Allan Staller
Sent: Friday, June 08, 2018 9:07 AM
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Subject: Re: CFSIZER no longer available?

Check the archives. ISTR a few weeks ago it had been moved somewhere else. See 
the thread about "where is the WLM Website".

BTW, If you can find CFSIZER, please post the URL back to the list.

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Of Kenneth J. Kripke
Sent: Friday, June 8, 2018 1:00 AM
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Subject: CFSIZER no longer available?

Hello;

 I wanted to use the IBM WEB BASED tool CFSIZER at 
https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__apac01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com_-3Furl-3Dhttp-253A-252F-252Fwww.ibm.com-252Fsystems-252Fsupport-252Fz-252Fcfsizer-252F-26data-3D02-257C01-257Callan.staller-2540HCL.COM-257Cb3274524282849ffda6108d5cd052006-257C189de737c93a4f5a8b686f4ca9941912-257C0-257C0-257C636640344285545016-26sdata-3Dtc-252Bg-252BofHWXUgOQ9AaBjPLUzmI6NX0Ysj2hcCRwCSnEk-253D-26reserved-3D0=DwIFAg=pZJPUDQ3SB9JplYbifm4nt2lEVG5pWx2KikqINpWlZM=0Ef64GJS77DVfhr5GGKZeQ=zkLG9uVsg3adpIjpzekzLVfJMY6RH2AagI_UsU7ABWE=gqLzw8BwZ13p_HEJoguDrhvj9F2z1zQkyDKYNOVjNig=
 and specifying SMF.

After filling in the criteria and depressing the SUBMIT I am directed to 
https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__apac01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com_-3Furl-3Dhttps-253A-252F-252Fwww.ibm.com-252Fit-2Dinfrastructure-252Fz-26data-3D02-257C01-257Callan.staller-2540HCL.COM-257Cb3274524282849ffda6108d5cd052006-257C189de737c93a4f5a8b686f4ca9941912-257C0-257C0-257C636640344285545016-26sdata-3DxMDlmywBgGjE16MptnNbhMIF33waUU57EE4VLD3I7-252Fo-253D-26reserved-3D0=DwIFAg=pZJPUDQ3SB9JplYbifm4nt2lEVG5pWx2KikqINpWlZM=0Ef64GJS77DVfhr5GGKZeQ=zkLG9uVsg3adpIjpzekzLVfJMY6RH2AagI_UsU7ABWE=vzvlxxcwExGXBgjZxq2p_VrL6oojPETbyLqBN9rU9tc=

This is a recent change in behavior.  Has this tool been withdrawn?



Sincerely;



Kenneth J. Kripke

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Re: GDPR and ShopzSeries

[Nims,Alva John (Al)]

Bob,

Okay, then I don't have a good answer then.  I guess by the nature of GDPR, you 
have to make sure everyone involved has received a copy of the GDPR notice.  I 
noticed the Phil Smith responded, with not those words, but almost the same.

The thing with this GDPR, I am no expert and really talking "out of my hat" 
here, but does that imply that EVERY USER of the system has to be notified 
about/with GDPR?

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Of Richards, Robert B.
Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2018 11:42 AM
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Subject: Re: GDPR and ShopzSeries

Al,

Yes, the radio buttons were just added at the bottom. However, the review or 
approval was not on that web page, if I remember correctly. It showed up when 
the order was validated?? (Not sure of this at the moment and I have nothing to 
order today that would provide the ability to verify this assumption)

Bob

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Subject: Re: GDPR and ShopzSeries

If these links are where I believe they are in the ordering process then, I 
believe the GDPR entries have been added to the same links that have always 
been there.

Now when I was putting the order for z/OS 2.02 together, I used the first link 
to have my IBM sales/software rep review the order as in, did not forget 
something that we need/paying for or did not order anything that we were not 
paying for/planned to pay for.

The second link I used when ordering an updated version of a component, I think 
the last time I used it was to order a newer JAVA.

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Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2018 6:51 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: GDPR and ShopzSeries

On the subject of GDPR and Shopz, what would be the reason for selecting the 
first radio button? (the * in this email denotes the radio button)



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* I am placing this order for others, please send the GDPR notification email 
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Re: GDPR and ShopzSeries

[Nims,Alva John (Al)]

If these links are where I believe they are in the ordering process then, I 
believe the GDPR entries have been added to the same links that have always 
been there.

Now when I was putting the order for z/OS 2.02 together, I used the first link 
to have my IBM sales/software rep review the order as in, did not forget 
something that we need/paying for or did not order anything that we were not 
paying for/planned to pay for.

The second link I used when ordering an updated version of a component, I think 
the last time I used it was to order a newer JAVA.

Al Nims
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Of Richards, Robert B.
Sent: Thursday, June 07, 2018 6:51 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: GDPR and ShopzSeries

On the subject of GDPR and Shopz, what would be the reason for selecting the 
first radio button? (the * in this email denotes the radio button)



Notify email



The General Data Protection Regulation requires that you, as the controller of 
the data, be made aware of our Data Privacy Addendum and the relevant Data 
Privacy Exhibit for this transaction. Hence, a notification email needs to be 
sentto the end user for this order due to GDPR requirement. Please provide 
the email address to receive this notification. *



* I am placing this order for others, please send the GDPR notification email 
to:



* I am placing this order for myself. The GDPR notification will be contained 
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Re: ASAP profile setup

[Nims,Alva John (Al)]

Oops, can I send it to you tomorrow afternoon, I just realized that I use some 
programs that are not generally available and just had to "tweak the code" to 
get around using them.

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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf 
Of Jesse 1 Robinson
Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2018 5:03 PM
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Subject: ASAP profile setup

I’ve used IBM ServiceLink ASAP for years to get early heads-up on support 
concerns. My goal is to monitor most components in our z/OS environment. The 
only way I know to set up a profile is to add each ‘significant’ FMID. Some 
issues:

-- I've settled on 'significant' as those installed FMIDs that are not 
obviously dependents of some other FMID. For example, the FMID for COBOL 4.2 is 
HADB420. COBOL Japanese support is JADB422. SMPE indicates this relationship 
when listing JADB422 with 'FMID:HADB420'. For ASAP, JADB422 does not need 
to be monitored separately from HADB420, so there's no point in adding it to my 
profile. 

-- New FMIDs need to be added to my profile.

-- Some FMIDs change or disappear from release to release. At some point it 
pays to delete FMIDs that no longer run in the shop.

Is there a simple(r) way to manage a profile than listing out SMPE sysmods and 
rummaging through the pile for gems? My profile currently has around 100 FMIDs 
for z/OS 2.1. I need to update it for 2.3, keeping 2.1 for the time being. 

.
.
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Re: ASAP profile setup

[Nims,Alva John (Al)]

If you do not mind, I would like to send you an email with some JCL and a REXX 
routine or two that reads the output from a SMPe "LIST SYSMOD FUNCTION" and 
"LIST FEATURE" commands and produces a simple list of text.
Something like this for FMIDs:
EDU1H01   IZOBB220  ICKDSF - Device Support Facilities, Base
EER3500   IZOBB220  Environmental Record Editing and Printing
EMI2220   IZOBB220  MICR/OCR
ETI1106   IZOBB220  TIOC
FDU1H07   IZOBB220  ICKDSF - Device Support Facilities, ISMF/MODS
FDU1H08   IZOBB220  ICKDSF - Device Support Facilities, ISMF/ENU
HADB420   IECBA420  IBM ENTERPRISE COBOL FOR Z/OS BASE

And the feature output is like this:
DZOBB220  5650-ZOS  02.02.00  Z/OS V2 BASE OPT. Features Installed with Base
IA2UB112  5771-ADB  01.01.02  APL2 UBOX
ID1PE112  5771-ADA  01.01.02  DATA1 UBOX
IECBA420  5655-S71  04.02.00  Ent COBOL z/OS/390 V4
IISZB710  5655-W44  07.01.00  IBM 64-bit SDK for z/OS V7
IISZB800  5655-DGH  08.00.00  IBM 64-bit SDK for z/OS V8
IJTEA710  5655-W43  07.01.00  IBM 31-bit SDK for z/OS V7
IJTEA800  5655-DGG  08.00.00  IBM 31-bit SDK for z/OS V8

Would this do?

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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf 
Of Jesse 1 Robinson
Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2018 5:03 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: ASAP profile setup

I’ve used IBM ServiceLink ASAP for years to get early heads-up on support 
concerns. My goal is to monitor most components in our z/OS environment. The 
only way I know to set up a profile is to add each ‘significant’ FMID. Some 
issues:

-- I've settled on 'significant' as those installed FMIDs that are not 
obviously dependents of some other FMID. For example, the FMID for COBOL 4.2 is 
HADB420. COBOL Japanese support is JADB422. SMPE indicates this relationship 
when listing JADB422 with 'FMID:HADB420'. For ASAP, JADB422 does not need 
to be monitored separately from HADB420, so there's no point in adding it to my 
profile. 

-- New FMIDs need to be added to my profile.

-- Some FMIDs change or disappear from release to release. At some point it 
pays to delete FMIDs that no longer run in the shop.

Is there a simple(r) way to manage a profile than listing out SMPE sysmods and 
rummaging through the pile for gems? My profile currently has around 100 FMIDs 
for z/OS 2.1. I need to update it for 2.3, keeping 2.1 for the time being. 

.
.
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Re: [External] Old School Maintenance Philosophy -- Never ACCEPT?

[Nims,Alva John (Al)]

Yes, that was my mistake, I should have said the predecessor to the CSI was the 
CDS, a PDS data set with that funny character in the member name.

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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf 
Of Paul Gilmartin
Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2018 2:40 PM
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On Wed, 23 May 2018 11:05:29 -0700, Gerhard Adam wrote:

>I think the reference may have been to the older SMP CDS which played 
>the role of the current CSI
> 
The rumor I heard (I wasn't there) is that, prior to VSAM, SMP used a PDS 
directory as a makeshift data base.  Names of members (which needn't actually 
exist) were limited to 7 bytes in order that the eighth could be used for flags.

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Re: [External] Old School Maintenance Philosophy -- Never ACCEPT?

[Nims,Alva John (Al)]

" I learned to use SMP back on MVT (am I the only one still here that can 
truthfully make that statement?)" Answer: No, yes I remember SMP back before 
the "e" was added on, the CSI was a PDS! And not a PDSe!

I do not follow the 'Never ACCEPT" process.

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Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2018 10:09 AM
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Subject: Re: [External] Old School Maintenance Philosophy -- Never ACCEPT?

On 18May23:1247+, Pommier, Rex wrote:
> 
> Not sure how long ago eons was, but I started in the mid-80s on MVS/SP 
> and at my first SMP/E (and I believe
> only) class, I was taught the APPLY / run for a while / ACCEPT usage - 
> except for USERMODs or APARs that hadn't had a published PTF yet.

I learned to use SMP back on MVT (am I the only one still here that can 
truthfully make that statement?) and while it's been a while since I last used 
SMP/E, I do not recall ever encountering a no ACCEPT policy for any IBM MRM.
But people aren't mentioning policy for archiving snapshots of target and DLIB 
volumes and restoring therefrom--much faster than reAPPLYing LOTS of 
maintenance.  That also requires tracking the target/DLIB volume snapshot 
associations, which are not necessarily based upon the dates of the snapshots.
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May the LORD God bless you exceedingly abundantly!

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 You'd better rearrange your beliefs, then.
 Because you certainly can't rearrange the universe."
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Re: CLIP?

[Nims,Alva John (Al)]

Took me a moment to remember what CLIP was, but I do not know if it stood for 
anything.
Maybe: "Change Label in Perpetuity?"  :)  [It's Friday, lighten up!]

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Subject: CLIP?

I used the term CLIP (reformat label) today with a colleague who clearly did 
not understand. Isn't it an acronym? I can't find any hits.

.
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Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: IZUGUTSE ?

[Nims,Alva John (Al)]

Yes, Node.js is a charge item, you can get a "Free 90-day trial" of the product 
though.
https://www.ibm.com/us-en/marketplace/sdk-nodejs-compiler-zos

The charge for the product is: "One-time charge price metric based on Value 
Units"
I have always attempted to AVOID having to deal with billing from IBM, because 
just when I think I understand it, well they change all the questions!  So, I 
have no clue what that means.

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Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2018 9:59 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: IZUGUTSE ?

On Mon, May 7, 2018 at 2:30 PM, Allan Staller  wrote:

> Lots of people use XML. It is handy for translating X to Y in a 
> platform independent manner.
> That being said, I would only use XML if forced to by 
> business/applications constraints.


​Yeah. I like XML because Java supports it "natively". But I think that JSON is 
"better" mainly because it can do the same thing with fewer characters. And, 
similar to XML/Java, JSON is native to JavaScript. I just noticed that NodeJS 
is on ShopzSeries. I can't tell, but it seems to be a cost item, unlike Java. 
This is unfortunate for me because the nodejs implementations on Linux and 
Windows are cost-free. So, once again, IBM makes those platforms more 
attractive to our bottom-line management. But then, we don't run nodejs because 
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Re: Finding a member in a DD concatenation

[Nims,Alva John (Al)]

You are correct that the input data sets cannot be concatenated, but I might 
give an update to the solution in that you can specify multiple input DD's on 
the copy statement.
From the examples for merging 4 data sets into one single one, but with an 
addition of the select statement:
  //SYSPRINT DD  SYSOUT=A
  //IN1  DD  DSNAME=DATASET1,UNIT=disk,VOL=SER=12,
  // DISP=SHR
  //IN5  DD  DSNAME=DATASET5,UNIT=disk,VOL=SER=14,
  // DISP=OLD
  //OUT2 DD  DSNAME=DATASET2,UNIT=disk,VOL=SER=15,
  // DISP=(OLD,KEEP)
  //IN6  DD  DSNAME=DATASET6,UNIT=disk,VOL=SER=17,
  // DISP=(OLD,DELETE)
  //SYSUT3   DD  UNIT=SYSDA,SPACE=(TRK,(1))
  //SYSINDD  *
  COPYOPER   COPY  OUTDD=OUT2
   INDD=IN1
   INDD=IN6
   INDD=IN5
  SELECT MEMBER=(ABC)
  /*

This way the first data set that the member is found it is used and no error 
will be generated.

Also the COPY statement will support use of "INDD=(IN1,IN6,IN5)" it just 
depends on your taste in formatting.

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Sent: Friday, April 06, 2018 5:06 PM
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Subject: Re: Finding a member in a DD concatenation

On Fri, 6 Apr 2018 13:13:45 -0500, John McKown wrote:

>On Fri, Apr 6, 2018 at 12:50 PM, Frank Swarbrick < 
>frank.swarbr...@outlook.com> wrote:
>
>> Is there some way I could specify a DD concatenation where the system 
>> would search the DD's in order until it found a named member?
>>
>
>//COPYMEM EXEC PGM=IEBCOPY
>//SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=*
>//SYSIN DD *
> COPY I=INDD,O=OUTDD
> S M=MEMBER
>/*
>//INDD DD DISP=SHR,DSN=dsn1
>// DD DISP=SHR,DSN=dsn2
>//OUTDD DD DSN=&TEMPDS,DISP=(NEW,PASS), // 
>LIKE=dsn1,SPACE=(CYL,(10,10,100))
>//*
>//MYSTEP EXEC PGM=MYPGM
>//MYDD DD DISP=SHR,DSN=&TEMPDS(member)
>​//* OTHER PARTS OF THE JOB

I like this solution, but the doc for IEBCOPY says that the input data sets 
cannot be concatenated. So you could do something like this:

//E1 EXPORT SYMLIST=MEMBER
//S1 SET MEMBER=ABC
...
//COPYMEM EXEC PGM=IEBCOPY
//SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=*
//SYSIN DD *,SYMBOLS=JCLONLY
 COPY I=INDD2,O=OUTDD
 S M=
 COPY I=INDD1,O=OUTDD
 S M=(,,R)
/*
//INDD1 DD DISP=SHR,DSN=dsn1
//INDD2 DD DISP=SHR,DSN=dsn2
//OUTDD DD DSN=&TEMPDS,DISP=(NEW,PASS), // LIKE=dsn1,SPACE=(TRK,(10,10,1))
//*
//MYSTEP EXEC PGM=MYPGM
//MYDD DD DISP=SHR,DSN=&TEMPDS()
​//* OTHER PARTS OF THE JOB

The COPY statements copy the member in reverse order, from the bottom of the 
logical concatenation to the top, specifying REPLACE. Also, you can use symbols 
in the IEBCOPY SYSIN, provided you are at the right level. I think that's z/OS 
2.1.

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Re: Mini recovery system build

[Nims,Alva John (Al)]

Try again, it just worked for me.

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Subject: Re: Mini recovery system build

Does anybody have a copy of Mark Zelden's "twopakzd.txt" file? The link is 
broken on his web page.

I did email Mark yesterday, but I have not heard back so he may be busy.

Tony Thigpen

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>> I have been tasked with bringing our mini recovery system to a more 
>> current level. It's 'way back there', it's actually pre-z/OS.
>>
>> Our current production system is z/OS 1.13.
>>
>> Can anybody point me to a power-point or other document that I can 
>> use as a guide for this process?
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Re: Ignoring TIME= specification in JCL

[Nims,Alva John (Al)]

>From the "z/OS JES2 Installation Exits - Version 2 Release 2" manual:

"Exit 6 only gets control when the converter is called in the JES2 address 
space. If conversion is being run with the interpreter in the JES2CI address 
space, use exit 60 to perform the equivalent exit 6 function."

Also from the same manual, "For more information about C/I text, see z/OS MVS 
Installation Exits."
[Note: C/I text is "Converter/Interpreter text"]

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Subject: Re: Ignoring TIME= specification in JCL

I think this exit only captures the submitted JCL. Expanded procs and included 
JCL will be added by the convertor and will be available in Exit 6.

Grtn,
Kees.


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> I've got the requirement to limit who is allowed to specify TIME= on 
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> 
> 
> There is JES2 exit 4 to scan and modify the JCL statements. Is there 
> an alternative?
> 
> 
> Would TWS (aka IWS) be able to do this for jobs it submits?
> 
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Re: In-Stream Symbols and The Length

[Nims,Alva John (Al)]

Yep, that explains it and is reasonable since that is how IBM has pretty much 
used symbols before.  I should have remembered that.

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Of Steve Horein
Sent: Monday, March 26, 2018 6:30 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: In-Stream Symbols and The Length

Per
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:

"The syntax rules for using symbols in in-stream data include those described 
previously for using symbols in JCL. One important difference is the handling 
of blanks in the input data. When symbols are substituted in JCL statements, 
there is no special treatment of blanks—as symbols are substituted, the 
resulting string expands or contracts depending on whether the symbol value is 
longer or shorter than the symbol expression (symbol name with a leading 
ampersand character and optional period at the end of the symbol name). When 
symbols are substituted in in-stream data, the system attempts to maintain the 
position of non-blank characters. This is achieved by adding or removing blanks 
between non-blank character sequences. At least one blank is always preserved 
to maintain syntactical validity of the data. The resulting string never 
contracts and only expands if there are not enough blanks to remove to maintain 
data positioning.
Refer to Defining and nullifying JCL symbols 
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for
additional information."

So I'm reading that as "for best results, define your symbol name no longer 
than the expected symbol value."

On Mon, Mar 26, 2018 at 10:52 AM, Nims,Alva John (Al) <ajn...@ufl.edu>
wrote:

> Recently we upgraded from z/OS 1.13 to z/OS 2.02 so that is why I am 
> asking this question so late in the game.
>
>
>
> I have been working with using In-Stream Symbol substitution, I have 
> been waiting over 30 years for this!!!, but I digress, and I noticed a 
> minor annoyance/problem when some of my symbols get substituted and 
> maybe I can get some light shed on it.
>
>
>
> I have a set of 4 symbols that I EXPORT:
>
> //*    -> 4 digit Year.
>
> // SET=2018
>
> //* MM -> 2 digit Month
>
> //MM   SET  MM='03'
>
> //* M3Name -> 3 Charachter Month, 'JAN', 'FEB', 'MAR', 
>
> //M3NAME   SET  M3NAME='MAR'
>
> //* MNAME  -> Full Month Name.
>
> //MNAMESET   MNAME='March'
>
> One use is in an invocation of IKJEFT01 & SYSTSIN DD:
> //SYSTSIN  DD   *,SYMBOLS=JCLONLY
> BPXBATCH  SH rm '/u/ajnims/FTP Client '
> Which substitutes the way I expect and want no blank spaces after 2018 
> &
> 03:
> BPXBATCH  SH rm '/u/ajnims/FTP Client 2018-03.xls'
>
> Now comes the fun part, in an invocation of SAS, it being SAS has 
> nothing to do with it, just that it is the tool I am using for this 
> particular activity and will explain the syntax.
> Within the SAS program I use the ,  and  Symbols.
> First use of a symbol:
> WHERE=(MnthN = )
> Which translates into:
> WHERE=(MnthN = 03)
> No spaces again.
>
> Here is where I have a problem:
> Sheet_Name='Client  '
> I get:
> Sheet_Name='Client MAR  2018'
> See all those spaces between "MAR" and "2018"?  It looks like the 
> length is defined by the symbol name plus the "&." Characters, but why 
> did I not get that with the  And ?
>
> I also have:
> Title "FTP Client Connections for the Month of  "; Which 
> gives me:
> Title "FTP Client Connections for the Month of March   2018";
>
> Maybe the fix is to make  be just  Or something like 
> that, 3 characters for the symbol name, but going to have a problem 
> with the full month name.
>
> Al Nims
> Systems Admin/Programmer III
> UF Information Technology
> East Campus
> P.O. Box 112050
> Gainesville, FL. 32611
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>
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Re: In-Stream Symbols and The Length

[Nims,Alva John (Al)]

Thank you for the suggestions, but instead of trying to make it easy by 
complicating things, I am just going to do:
//SHRTMN SETSHRTMN='SEP 2018'
//*
//LONGMN SETLONGMN='September 2018'

The above works just fine for me.

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Of Paul Gilmartin
Sent: Monday, March 26, 2018 2:10 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: In-Stream Symbols and The Length

On Mon, 26 Mar 2018 17:35:45 +, Nims,Alva John (Al) wrote:

>Not really.
>I have been using IEBGENER to create a simple way of testing.
>
>Here is what happened when I did the SET statement as you suggested.
>
>I inserted the following after adding M5NAME to the EXPORT list and there is a 
>black space between   and :
>//M5NAME  SET   M5NAME=' '

The argument to SET is not documented as one of the few places in which symbol 
substitution is performed between apostrophes.  However, I have found something 
like this works.  I can find no documentation to support this:

//   SET Q=
//   SET B=' '
//M5NAME  SET   M5NAME=
(I don't believe the dots are necessary.)

The order of operations in parsing JCL is poorly documented.  There should be 
an RCF for this.

There should be an RFE to support symbol substitution in a quoted argument to 
SET.  (But compatibility?)

>In the JCL Output the above becomes:
>//M5NAME  SET   M5NAME=' '
>//M5NAME   EXPORT EXPSET=  GENERATED STATEMENT
>...
>I am sure that there is a simple little explanation buried somewhere, but I 
>have not found it.
>I also just realized that with another symbol, I am going to have a problem 
>with "September" and other long named months.
>I am going to have to do some additional testing.
> 
I get a runtime I/O error when I do that sort of thing, even when I specify an 
ample LRECL on the SYSUT1 DD.  The coded LRECL appears to be effective wnen 
attributes are merged at OPEN, but not when symbols are substituted.  I 
consider this an implementation defect which should be subject to APAR.

I hate JCL!

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Re: In-Stream Symbols and The Length

[Nims,Alva John (Al)]

Not really.
I have been using IEBGENER to create a simple way of testing.

Here is what happened when I did the SET statement as you suggested.

I inserted the following after adding M5NAME to the EXPORT list and there is a 
black space between   and :
//M5NAME  SET   M5NAME=' '
In the JCL Output the above becomes:
//M5NAME  SET   M5NAME=' '
//M5NAME   EXPORT EXPSET=  GENERATED STATEMENT

In the SYSUT2 DD I had the following:
+1+2+3

Here is what I got as output.
+1+2+3
 

I am sure that there is a simple little explanation buried somewhere, but I 
have not found it.
I also just realized that with another symbol, I am going to have a problem 
with "September" and other long named months.
I am going to have to do some additional testing.

Al Nims
Systems Admin/Programmer III
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf 
Of Charles Mills
Sent: Monday, March 26, 2018 12:05 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: In-Stream Symbols and The Length

I am no expert but does

// SET M3 = ''
...
Sheet_Name='Client '

Solve anything?

Charles


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Of Nims,Alva John (Al)
Sent: Monday, March 26, 2018 8:53 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: In-Stream Symbols and The Length

Recently we upgraded from z/OS 1.13 to z/OS 2.02 so that is why I am asking 
this question so late in the game.



I have been working with using In-Stream Symbol substitution, I have been 
waiting over 30 years for this!!!, but I digress, and I noticed a minor 
annoyance/problem when some of my symbols get substituted and maybe I can get 
some light shed on it.



I have a set of 4 symbols that I EXPORT:

//*    -> 4 digit Year.

// SET=2018

//* MM -> 2 digit Month

//MM   SET  MM='03'

//* M3Name -> 3 Charachter Month, 'JAN', 'FEB', 'MAR', 

//M3NAME   SET  M3NAME='MAR'

//* MNAME  -> Full Month Name.

//MNAMESET   MNAME='March'

One use is in an invocation of IKJEFT01 & SYSTSIN DD:
//SYSTSIN  DD   *,SYMBOLS=JCLONLY
BPXBATCH  SH rm '/u/ajnims/FTP Client '
Which substitutes the way I expect and want no blank spaces after 2018 & 03:
BPXBATCH  SH rm '/u/ajnims/FTP Client 2018-03.xls'

Now comes the fun part, in an invocation of SAS, it being SAS has nothing to do 
with it, just that it is the tool I am using for this particular activity and 
will explain the syntax.
Within the SAS program I use the ,  and  Symbols.
First use of a symbol:
WHERE=(MnthN = )
Which translates into:
WHERE=(MnthN = 03)
No spaces again.

Here is where I have a problem:
Sheet_Name='Client  '
I get:
Sheet_Name='Client MAR  2018'
See all those spaces between "MAR" and "2018"?  It looks like the length is 
defined by the symbol name plus the "&." Characters, but why did I not get that 
with the  And ?

I also have:
Title "FTP Client Connections for the Month of  "; Which gives
me:
Title "FTP Client Connections for the Month of March   2018";

Maybe the fix is to make  be just  Or something like that, 3 
characters for the symbol name, but going to have a problem with the full month 
name.

Al Nims
Systems Admin/Programmer III
UF Information Technology
East Campus
P.O. Box 112050
Gainesville, FL. 32611
(e) ajn...@ufl.edu<mailto:ajn...@ufl.edu>
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In-Stream Symbols and The Length

[Nims,Alva John (Al)]

Recently we upgraded from z/OS 1.13 to z/OS 2.02 so that is why I am asking 
this question so late in the game.



I have been working with using In-Stream Symbol substitution, I have been 
waiting over 30 years for this!!!, but I digress, and I noticed a minor 
annoyance/problem when some of my symbols get substituted and maybe I can get 
some light shed on it.



I have a set of 4 symbols that I EXPORT:

//*    -> 4 digit Year.

// SET=2018

//* MM -> 2 digit Month

//MM   SET  MM='03'

//* M3Name -> 3 Charachter Month, 'JAN', 'FEB', 'MAR', 

//M3NAME   SET  M3NAME='MAR'

//* MNAME  -> Full Month Name.

//MNAMESET   MNAME='March'

One use is in an invocation of IKJEFT01 & SYSTSIN DD:
//SYSTSIN  DD   *,SYMBOLS=JCLONLY
BPXBATCH  SH rm '/u/ajnims/FTP Client '
Which substitutes the way I expect and want no blank spaces after 2018 & 03:
BPXBATCH  SH rm '/u/ajnims/FTP Client 2018-03.xls'

Now comes the fun part, in an invocation of SAS, it being SAS has nothing to do 
with it, just that it is the tool I am using for this particular activity and 
will explain the syntax.
Within the SAS program I use the ,  and  Symbols.
First use of a symbol:
WHERE=(MnthN = )
Which translates into:
WHERE=(MnthN = 03)
No spaces again.

Here is where I have a problem:
Sheet_Name='Client  '
I get:
Sheet_Name='Client MAR  2018'
See all those spaces between "MAR" and "2018"?  It looks like the length is 
defined by the symbol name plus the "&." Characters, but why did I not get that 
with the  And ?

I also have:
Title "FTP Client Connections for the Month of  ";
Which gives me:
Title "FTP Client Connections for the Month of March   2018";

Maybe the fix is to make  be just  Or something like that, 3 
characters for the symbol name, but going to have a problem with the full month 
name.

Al Nims
Systems Admin/Programmer III
UF Information Technology
East Campus
P.O. Box 112050
Gainesville, FL. 32611
(e) ajn...@ufl.edu
(p) (352) 273-1298


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Re: VTOC reporting

[Nims,Alva John (Al)]

CBT Tape is a good option, either File 112, which is a VTOC TSO command, File 
343 VTOCLIST, for batch.  They should be easy to try and see if one format is 
better than the other for what you want.

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-Original Message-
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf 
Of Tony Thigpen
Sent: Monday, March 19, 2018 11:06 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: VTOC reporting

We are in the process of upgrading an older OS/390 system. During a review, it 
was identified that we are using IBM DITTO for just one job and management has 
asked me to eliminate it if possible.

It is the process which lists the VTOC for all volumes and stores the report 
off-site.

The DITTO output is better formatted and lest voluminous than is given by 
IEHLIST output when using the FORMAT option. The non-FORMAT option of IEHLIST 
does not have some of the stuff that we think would be helpful in a DR 
situation.

I am looking for any suggestions that don't involve additional costs. 
Either off the CBT tape or elsewhere. Or, maybe another IBM utility that I 
don't know about.

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Re: Delete dataset catch-22

[Nims,Alva John (Al)]

Review IBM APAR, II11661

http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1II11661

It has the same RC & Diagnostic string.

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Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2018 2:58 PM
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Subject: Re: Delete dataset catch-22

Doing the define NONVSAM - got me a little closer - the dataset is now 
cataloged.  But when I use D to delete the datset -

IEC614I SCRATCH FAILED - RC 008, DIAGNOSTIC INFORMATION IS (04060020), 
IKJACCNT,STDL09,MARPACE.GODADDY.CERT

04060020 -  Verification of SMS flags failed; caller indicates data set is not 
SMS-managed, but FMT4 DSCB indicates that it is an SMS volume. This error might 
be caused by a damaged catalog entry. Issuing the recatalog command might clear 
this error.

Do I will try the recatalog command.

On Thu, Feb 8, 2018 at 2:44 PM, Burrell, Todd  wrote:

> What do you get if you try this in IDCAMS:
>
>   DEFINE NONVSAM(NAME(MARPACE.GODADDY.CERT) -
>  DEVT(3390) VOLUME(STDL09))
>
>
> -Original Message-
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> On Behalf Of Mark Pace
> Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2018 2:38 PM
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> Subject: Delete dataset catch-22
>
> I'm trying to delete a dataset that is not cataloged any longer.  I'm 
> not sure why it is not in a catalog, but it is not.  I've tried to 
> re-catalog the dataset, but it doesn't catalog.
>
> So I have tried to every combination of IDCAMS DELETE I can think of.
> NONVSAM
> NVR
> etc..
>
> All return
> ** VSAM CATALOG RETURN CODE IS 8 - REASON CODE IS IGG0CLEG-42  - 
> Dataset not found.
>
> So I tried IEHPROGM
>   SCRATCH DSNAME=MARPACE.GODADDY.CERT,VOL=3390=STDL09,PURGE
>
> IEC614I SCRATCH FAILED - RC 008, DIAGNOSTIC INFORMATION IS (0406001E), 
> STEP010,STDL09,MARPACE.GODADDY.CERT
>
> 0406001E -  Verification of SMS flags failed; caller indicates the 
> data set is not cataloged, but the *FMT1 DSCB indicates the data set 
> is
> cataloged*
>
> So I have no idea how to remove this dataset, IDCAMS won't do it 
> because it's not in a catalog, and IEHPROGM won't do it because it 
> thinks it is in a catalog.
>
> Anyone have a suggestion?
>
> Thank you.
>
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Re: Update: Server Certificates Expiring - Sooner!

[Nims,Alva John (Al)]

Since I use FireFox too, I had the same problem, so I went to 
http://www.digicert.com and did a search for "DigiCertGlobalRootCA" and got to 
this page: https://www.digicert.com/digicert-root-certificates.htm
Then do a web page find with a portion of the serial number, note: every two 
characters insert a colon (":"), "08:3B:30:56".
That got me to the line with " DigiCert Global Root CA", there to the right is 
a "Download" link, I right clicked and did a "Save As" to a directory and file 
name of my choosing.  I resumed with step "II." Of the instructions and 
everything worked for me, at least.

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Sent: Monday, January 22, 2018 2:45 PM
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Subject: Re: Update: Server Certificates Expiring - Sooner!

On Mon, 22 Jan 2018 13:36:48 -0600, Mark Zelden wrote:
>
>What didn't work:
>
>If I click on the URL in Firefox (my default browers), win-doze just says "the 
>certificate is already installed".
>
>If I put the URL in a IE window (or make IE my default), the URL brings up the 
>certificate.  
>I do "Save as", select text file.
>I upload the z/OS as binary, LRECL=256,RECFM=VB,BLKSIZE=0   
>
>I turn the data set over to the RACF admin and they issue the RACDCERT command
>exactly as in the flash, substituting the data set name I supplied.   
>
>The RACF admin gets the following error:
>IRRD104I The input data set does not contain a valid certificate.   
>
>I tried using different encodings with "SAVE AS", like Unicode, Unicode 
>UTF-8 etc, but
>  none of them worked with RACDCERT or with windows.  
>
>=
>
>What does work! ...  
>
>Put the URL in an IE window.  SAVE as "Webpage, HTML only".
>Then upload the z/OS as binary, LRECL=256,RECFM=VB, BLKSIZE=n   
>issue RACDCERT command with the uploaded data set.
>
>=
Sigh.  They could have made it a resource with MIME type 
application/octet-stream.  If they cared.

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Re: Accessing 65536 devices

[Nims,Alva John (Al)]

Ah, UCB's are HEX, so x'' = 65535, correct?

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So this would involve 5-digit UCBs? We could probably manage that as long as 
all devices are concurrently accessible. Aren't commands like VARY limited to 
four digits?

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 By using the CSSID/SS*  in the  IODF you can get way more than the  basic 
number

 Example from a z13

   CSS Devices in SS0Devices in SS1Devices in SS2Devices
 in SS3
 / ID  Maximum + Actual  Maximum + Actual  Maximum + Actual  Maximum  + Actual
 _ 0   65280 12384   65535 0   65535 0   65535   0
 _ 1   65280 0   65535 0   65535 0   65535   0
 _ 2   65280 0   65535 0   65535 0   65535   0
 _ 3   65280 0   65535 0   65535 0   65535   0
 _ 4   65280 0   65535 0   65535 0   65535   0
 _ 5   65280 0   65535 0   65535 0   65535   0


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Re: Can anyone remember "drum" storage?

[Nims,Alva John (Al)]

I remember, but not connected to an IBM mainframe, but rather a CDC mainframe.

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Drifting slightly, ever see the IBM 3850 Mass Store device, or see it in action?



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[External Email]



"pseudo-drum" - STK4305. I remember it well 



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I don't think so.  Says each R/W head accesses same disk blocks, and there 
would be zilch improvement in speed if they were simply seen by OS as two 
independent disks.  By electronically selecting which of the two heads to use 
to read the track based on which sees the start of the desired block first, you 
cut the rotational latency time in half.  With a single R/W head the only way 
to get the same reduction in latency delay would be to double the rotational 
speed of the platter, which might cause greater problems.

J C Ewing



On 12/20/2017 07:18 AM, Tony Thigpen wrote:

> From reading the description, it really just appears to the OS as two 

> drives in one housing.

>

> Tony Thigpen

>

> John McKown wrote on 12/20/2017 08:08 AM:

>> It's not really a drum, but it is getting closer. Of course, for true 

>> speed, one should go SSD.

>>

>> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__apac01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com_-3Furl-3Dhttp-253A-252F-252Fwww=DwIGaQ=pZJPUDQ3SB9JplYbifm4nt2lEVG5pWx2KikqINpWlZM=0Ef64GJS77DVfhr5GGKZeQ=jm7yikUc615Sl3mChd43tSXNNMrAOcrEMf4cq_lt34c=1dbmT71BsuhSNkqNtMxjyarf1t4LnvXyzXvurETix08=
>>  

>> .theregister.co.uk%2F2017%2F12%2F19%2Fseagate_disk_drive_multi_actuat

>> or%2F=02%7C01%7Callan.staller%40HCL.COM%7C1e585afeeaf14753335808

>> d547b42536%7C189de737c93a4f5a8b686f4ca9941912%7C0%7C0%7C6364937614319

>> 95373=7BNHk4Ci%2Fq8zLD%2BgBDHrtFQOcgyBXiT1kUg1nK3fD6I%3D

>> ed=0

>>

>>

>> [quote]

>>

>> Seagate is increasing IO performance in disk drives by separating 

>> read-write heads into two separate sets which can operate 

>> independently and in parallel.

>>

>> The heads are positioned at one end of actuator arms which rotate 

>> around a post at their other end to move the heads across the platter 

>> surfaces.

>> Thus, with an eight-platter drive, each read-write head is positioned 

>> above the same cylindrical track on each platter and reads or writes 

>> to and from the same disk blocks on each platter's surface.

>>

>> [\quote]

>>

>>

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Re: [External Sender] LRS VPS Printer Replacment

[Nims,Alva John (Al)]

Ditto on JQP here at the University of Flordia.

Al Nims
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On Dec 14, 2017, at 8:49 AM, Porowski, Kenneth  wrote:
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> Another vote for MacKinney's JQP.

We’ve been happy with it too.

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Re: IBM HTTP Server powered by Apache - very erratic responding to modify and stop commands

[Nims,Alva John (Al)]

I too am in the middle of switching servers and I believe IBM says you have to 
use the "apachectl -k stop", because more than one instance of the WebServer is 
started, so the "apachectl -k stop" shuts all of them down.

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Subject: IBM HTTP Server powered by Apache - very erratic responding to modify 
and stop commands

Dear Listers,

I am migrating from Domino Go to IBM HTTP Server powered by Apache. So, I set 
up an STC and can start that very well. I did include the

LoadModule zos_cmds_module modules/mod_zos_cmds.so

directive (well, it was there already in the sample httpd.conf) in order to 
enable the MODIFY and STOP commands.

Now, I find the server to be very erratic in responding to modify and stop 
commands. It is already an automation challenge to find out to what process one 
has to send the commands, but that is not what I am complaining about. Indeed, 
even when I am 100% sure to have addressed the command to the correct process, 
only halve of the time it actually reacts to it. And even then, it does not 
always stop. I've seen cases where it responds with:

2017339  13:55:39.45-P HTTPD1,A=005A
2017339  13:55:40.64  STC12796   BPXM023I (WEBADM) IHS is stopping
2017339  13:55:40.65  STC12796   BPXM023I (WEBADM) CRIHS0002I IHS TMMETEST is 
stopping.

but then just continues to run. In that case, the only way to bring the server 
down is to use the apachectl -k stop from a Unix shell...

Has anyone on the list seen similar behaviour? 
Were you able to fix it?
How?
Am I entitled to a PMR?

Thanks and very best regards,

Jantje.


P.S. I tried my friend Google, with various combinations of the words stop, 
erratic, modify, not stopping, etc. and of course "IBM HTTP Server powerd by 
Apache". All to no avail. A search in the archives of this esteemed list did 
not yield an answer to my questions either.

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Re: STC @ IPL - how to wait for OMVS to be initialized with no automation product.

[Nims,Alva John (Al)]

Can you add a MPFLSTxx entry for BPXI004I?  On the CBTTAPE there are a couple 
of MPF Exit routines, one of them might be modified to issue a START command 
(File 597?).

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Subject: STC @ IPL - how to wait for OMVS to be initialized with no automation 
product.

This is for another system, not my employer's, which I sometime help to 
customize. I need to run a task at IPL time. The simplest way is to use the 
COMMNDxx member of PARMLIB to do a START command. But the program I'm running 
requires UNIX to be completely initialized. If I had automation, I'd do the 
START when the BPXI004I message is issused. But I don't have automation. I 
don't see any BPX1* callable UNIX service which says "wait for UNIX to become 
ready and then return". I do see an ENFREQ request which can receive the "UNIX 
initiation complete" message, but an ENFREQ REQUEST=LISTEN is a PITA in my 
opinion. Or maybe I'm just really lazy.

Any ideas?

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Re: Finally joined Linkedin

[Nims,Alva John (Al)]

Yes, typical SysProg excuse, "That's a Hardware problem, I only do Software!" :)

PS: My fingers have been know to miss a key or two, even the entire keyboard! :)

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Blame the keyboard; I'm not dyslexic. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.


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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@listserv.ua.edu> on behalf of 
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Here I am in a short week of work and trying to get z/OS 2.02 ready to go in on 
one of my LPARS a week from today and with a couple of regular problems being 
thrown my way, "Loopy" does not half describe my state, so take the following 
with solid grins, please:

Do we have a new work in the English language, "oined"?  :)  (Yes, I know 
someone forgot to hit the "j", but like I said, I am LOOPY today!)

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I've been inactive since my Internet provider folded up with no advance notice. 
A lot has happened since then, most of which is off topic, but it seems 
reasonable to post here that I've finally oined LinkedIn from e-mail address 
sme...@gmu.edu. For those of you who are on LinkedIn and know me, feel free to 
connect.


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Re: Finally joined Linkedin

[Nims,Alva John (Al)]

Here I am in a short week of work and trying to get z/OS 2.02 ready to go in on 
one of my LPARS a week from today and with a couple of regular problems being 
thrown my way, "Loopy" does not half describe my state, so take the following 
with solid grins, please:

Do we have a new work in the English language, "oined"?  :)  (Yes, I know 
someone forgot to hit the "j", but like I said, I am LOOPY today!)

Al Nims
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I've been inactive since my Internet provider folded up with no advance notice. 
A lot has happened since then, most of which is off topic, but it seems 
reasonable to post here that I've finally oined LinkedIn from e-mail address 
sme...@gmu.edu. For those of you who are on LinkedIn and know me, feel free to 
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Re: [TSO-REXX] Fwd: Pipelines in the z/OS base.

[Nims,Alva John (Al)]

Thank you for "PIPing" up on this! :)

One thing to note, the PIPE command is part of the Base NetView product,  you 
do not have to add SA to get it.

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Not sure where this fits in to the discussion, but Netview System Automation 
has a built-in pipes function. So we see messages like these:

AOF570I 00:39:48 : ISSUED "PIPE SAFE AOFMSAFE | EDIT /AFTER
 00:00:03,MVS $A/ N JOBNUM N /;S/ N JOBNUM N |  NETVIEW" FOR  
 MVSESA MVSESA - MSGTYPE IS $HASP100

AOF570I 01:04:11 : ISSUED "PIPE SAFE AOFMSAFE | EDIT FWDLINE 1 
 PARSE /,/ SKIPTO /DSNAME=/ W1 SUBSTR 8.* WL | EDIT /MVS S 
 DB2ALOG,ALOG=/ N W1 N | LOGTO NETLOG | NETV" FOR SUBSYSTEM
 DA20MSTR - MSGTYPE IS DSNJ003I

I'm not an SA guy, so I can't comment on the function in any detail. Just 
pointing out that it's included with the product on z/OS.   


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Subject: (External):Re: [TSO-REXX] Fwd: Pipelines in the z/OS base.

On 2017-11-16, at 06:48:09, Hobart Spitz wrote:

Cross posted to IBM-MAIN:
> 
> The early versions of UNIX were written on small machines (32K?!), 
> with slow/small disk drives.  Writing temporary results out to disk 
> was too slow and inefficient, so they came up a pipe  operator ( | ), 
> which connected the input of one command to the output of the previous 
> one, thus avoiding physical I/O..  E.g. *ls | wc*.  The data passed 
> thru an in-memory buffer with both commands running, and UNIX 
> dispatching each as needed.  It also allowed intermediate results to 
> be very much larger than the available disk space, since those intermediate 
> results didn't have to be written to disk.
>  
Sometimes.  Otherwise, in those early days, real memory was often the 
constraining factor so the piped implementation had performance inferior to 
using a temporary file because of paging overhead.

> ...  The original questioner thought
> I was pulling his leg (since one could do that with a single character 
> in
> UNIX) and he had left before I was done.
>  
Yup.  Pipelines is not quite so terse.
 UNIX: foo file2
Pipelines: PIPE < file1 | foo | bar | > file2

> If you have any doubt about the usefulness of Pipes, take a poll of 
> your z/VM friends.  They would tell you that they couldn't live 
> without Pipes, not because z/VM otherwise lacks anything, but because 
> Pipes is so powerful and efficient.
>  
Not entirely true.  CMS is grievously deficient in any support for concurrency.
In consequence, any CMS command stage suspends the entire remainder of the 
pipeline while the CMS stage runs.  So, Piplines reinvented many of the classic 
CMS wheels (it often did better).  I hope pipelines on z/OS can employ ATTACH 
to avoid such redundancy.

CMS pipelines is not well integrated with classic CMS commands.  While the 
output of a CMS command can be connected to a Pipeline stage, a Pipeline stage 
can not be connected to the input of a CMS command.

A question I have often asked, and usually been misunderstood is, "Can a 
Pipeline be connected to a DDNAME of a classic z/OS utility?"
"Sure, Pipelines has a DD driver." answers a different question.  That assumes 
that DD has been ALLOCATEd to a data set.  But how can I connect a Pipeline to 
SYSUT1 or SYSUT2 of a classic command?  I imagine the recherché approach:

SYSCALL pipe
connect a Pipeline to the input descriptor of the pipe.
BPXWDYN ALLOC SYSUT1 to the output descriptor of the pipe
SYSCALL pipe
BPXWDYN ALLOC SYSUT2 to the input descriptor of that pipe
connect a pipeline to the output descriptor of that pipe
somehow invoke a utility.

I suppose that could all be encapsulated in a Rexx stage.  OS/360 had a design 
integrity with I/O abstraction better than that of CMS.
I hope Pipelines for z/OS doesn't ignore that.

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Re: TSSO vs. System REXX for a "new user who is poor".

[Nims,Alva John (Al)]

We use CBTTAPE.org's File 019's COMMAND program for both start up and shutdown. 
 COMMAND can respond to outstanding replies, test to see if a task is up or 
down and several more, it a very simple system. 

Al Nims
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Subject: TSSO vs. System REXX for a "new user who is poor".

I don't really know if that is a good subject line or not. And it, for once, 
does not apply to my company, we use CA-OPS/MVS and like it.

There is an MPFLST program out there, MPF2REXX, which can be used with the 
MPFLST (natch!) to run System REXX for automation purposes. There is also the 
venerable TSSO system which can be used for this (and maybe more?).
Now, "venerable" is a _good_ word.  I gather that TSSO has a number of users. 
It has been around for a fairly long time, and has kept up with the newer 
releases of z/OS. So it is most likely well debugged. On the other hand, it has 
some "crufty" code. One example is a "hard coded" allocation of SYS1.PARMLIB 
for its configuration member (TSSOPARM). Now, when a friend of mine told me 
about this latter, I decided that it might be "fun" to see if I could fix it. I 
am working on that, using IEFPRMLB.

While doing the above, I did notice the aforementioned venerable, but crufty, 
code. So I got to wondering if it would be worth the time and effort to "spruce 
up" TSSO's internals. This means having it basically do the same thing, 
externally, but with (what I consider) more current internals. An example would 
be for the TSSO initialization to dynamically add it's subsystem if it were not 
in the IEFSSNnn member at IPL time. I would also, due to OCD, would likely 
convert code like "  L R1,0(R2) " to "
L R1,0(,R2)" I.e. move the register from the index register position to the 
base register position. "Just because".

Or would it basically just be a waste of time in which I could be doing "other 
important work". Such as napping.

Just curious about people's opinions.

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Re: VTOC extended

[Nims,Alva John (Al)]

IEHLIST of the VTOC?

One of the DISKMAP programs at CBTTAPE.ORG?

Al Nims
Systems Admin/Programmer 3
UFIT
University of Florida
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Subject: VTOC extended

Hi all 

 The size of VTOC is smaller,we want to extend VTOC using the following JCL .

// EXEC PGM=ICKDSF
//DD1 DD DISP=SHR,UNIT=3390,VOL=SER=xx //SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=A //SYSIN DD * 
REFORMAT DDNAME(DD1) VERIFY(xx) EXTVTOC(30) EXTINDEX(15) 

  Run REFORMAT EXTVTOC(n) where 'n' is the total size of the  new VTOC in 
tracks. There must be free space available to   allow for contiguous expansion 
of the VTOC.  If there isn'tfree space available following the current 
location of the  VTOC, 
an error message will be issued. 'n' must be greater  than the old VTOC size. 

   Before running REFORMAT EXTVTOC(n),is there any utility or REXX t which 
could tell whether there is any free space available following the current 
location of the  VTOC?

Thanks a lot! 

Best Regards,

Jason Cai





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Re: Odd HCD/IODF issue with "space"

[Nims,Alva John (Al)]

Did you check the DASD volume that SYS0.IODF60.WORK is on?  Maybe the DASD 
volume is out of space.

Al Nims
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Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2017 6:20 PM
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Subject: Odd HCD/IODF issue with "space"

I have not run across this issue before when using HCD.  This is a z/OS 2.2 
system.  The IODF has two z13 boxes and a z13s (CF) box.  There are 27 lpars 
across the three boxes, that's counting the CFs.  I would say we are an average 
size shop when it comes to the number of IO devices and channels.  We don't try 
to be to creative when it comes to the IODF.

I was correcting some issues with esoterics that are missing some DASD devices 
when I ran across this error.  The first time I did increase the size of the 
work file from 1024 to 2048 blocks.  I had then cleaned up some esoterics that 
had devices defined that didn't need them.  When I got the error a second time 
I was surprised.  I saved what I was doing and got out of HCD.  I went back in 
and was able to make more changes until I got the error a third time.  I 
repeated the save/exit/enter process.  Again I was able to make more changes.  
I think I had to do this save/exit/enter process maybe two more times.  The 
whole time the "size/usage" of the work file did not change.

So back to my question, has anyone run across this type of issue?  Did you have 
to do the same type of "process" to get things done?  Here is an odd question.  
Is there a way to reorg (reclaim space) an IODF file?


CBDA563I Space exhausted in work IODF SYS0.IODF60.WORK.

Explanation:
 A definition record is being added to the work IODF, but there is  no space 
left to complete the function.

 This condition may not only occur during Add and Connect actions  but also 
during Update, Disconnect and Delete actions when device  groups of a version 5 
IODF must be temporarily split to perform the  operation.

System Action:
 In Dialog mode, system waits for user action. In Migration mode,  processing 
terminates. The IODF is not updated.

User Response:
 Extend the IODF (for example with the COPY IODF function) and rerun  the 
action.
- end -


IODF name  . . . . . . : 'SYS0.IODF60.WORK'
IODF type  . . . . . . : Work
IODF version . . . . . : 5

Creation date  . . . . : 2017-10-31
Last update  . . . . . : 2017-10-31  13:52

Volume serial number . : OSS001
Allocated space  . . . : 2048(Number of 4K blocks)
Used space . . . . . . : 2048(Number of 4K blocks)
   thereof utilized (%)  33
Activity logging . . . : Yes
Multi-user access  . . : No
Backup IODF name . . . :

Description  . . . . . : All DASD and some other devices have 31 bit
 UCBs -- IODF Version 5 format --



Processor ID . . . : SYSB IBM 2964-N30 (508)

  CSS Devices in SS0Devices in SS1Devices in SS2Devices in SS3
/ ID  Maximum + Actual  Maximum + Actual  Maximum + Actual  Maximum + Actual
_ 0   65280 23158   65535 453665535 0   65535 0

Processor ID . . . : SYSC IBM 2964-N30 (608)

  CSS Devices in SS0Devices in SS1Devices in SS2Devices in SS3
/ ID  Maximum + Actual  Maximum + Actual  Maximum + Actual  Maximum + Actual
_ 0   65280 23110   65535 453665535 0   65535 0



Thanks..

Paul Feller
AGT Mainframe Technical Support



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Re: Setting up sshd on z/OS

[Nims,Alva John (Al)]

We are currently not using sshd, but if you are looking at using sftp (ftp 
using sshd), then I might recommend you looking at Dovetail's CO:z product.
https://dovetail.com/products/sftp.html

I believe it is free, but you pay for support.

That is not a complete solution for your sshd question, but a possible answer  
to help you with one component.

Al Nims
UFIT
University of Florida
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Subject: Setting up sshd on z/OS

We don't currently have sshd setup.  I'm a developer looking to perhaps trial 
something that requires it.  How much effort is it to set up for the first 
time?  I want to know if its worth pushing our Systems group to do, or if I 
should not bother because I don't yet have a "business case" for it.

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Re: z/OS Symbols Question

[Nims,Alva John (Al)]

I might be offering information that may mean anything, but have you looked at 
Mark Zelden's IPLINFO REXX code, he lists the system symbols (find "symbols:" 
in the code).

Al Nims
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>we need to query these symbolic names from an exit.

really? care to share why? It is quite unusual to have to "query" a system 
symbol.

The case I usually think of is "I have a string, I support symbolics, I call 
the symbol substitution service to do whatever it, according to its 
documentation, chooses to do".
And if the customer used a symbol that they had failed to define, then they get 
what they get, which is usually something that has bad syntax because "" is 
not usually what a parser would be looking for.

Peter Relson
z/OS Core Technology Design


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Re: SMF30 EXCP count confusion

[Nims,Alva John (Al)]

This is off the top-of-my-head (not much left anymore), but I believe 1 EXCP 
can do multiple blocks, as in the number of "Buffers" defined for the I/O so if 
multiple blocks have been queued into a single buffer, the buffer would be 
written by one EXCP, maybe, I think.

Al Nims
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Subject: SMF30 EXCP count confusion

SMF manual, Chapter 10 "EXCP Count" seems to clearly state that EXCP counts are 
indeed the number of EXCPs executed. Fields SMF30TEP and SMF30TEX are described 
as "Total blocks transferred (accumulated EXCP counts).


I would assume that these fields still contain the number of EXCPs executed and 
not the number of blocks transferred. IMHO, the number of blocks is greater or 
equal to number of EXCPs. 


So, the number of EXCPs is only a relative measure of the I/O done when 
comparing multiple runs of the same program using the same I/O attributes 
(blocksize, bufno, etc. etc). It is not a direct measure of the abount of data 
really transferred.


Am I right, or what am I missing?




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Re: Dynamic Steplib and z/OS 2.3?

[Nims,Alva John (Al)]

Yes, if I remember my timelines from when I was a contractor to the z/PET 
group, the BETA testers for z/OS would have had z/OS 2.3 for a couple of months 
by now and if the vendor signed up as a BETA tester, yes they would have z/OS 
2.3 before GA.

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Daniel S. Dalby wrote:

>I can tell you that the CBT Steplib (file 452) works flawlessly on zOS 2.3.
>I happen to work for a vendor and we have an early release and we use it daily 
>since we installed 2.3.

Before z/OS v2.3 is GA on 2017-09-29?

Groete / Greetings
Elardus Engelbrecht

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Re: Unable to resolve server name function= GETADDRINFO

[Nims,Alva John (Al)]

I do not believe that this is set at the product level (PARMLIB), but is for 
the API(?) call.

My reasoning and sorry for the "Round About" way I am getting to it.

Let's take an example of a TCP/IP commands that accept both a Host Name and a 
IP Address.

I think this because NSLOOKUP which accepts either Host Name or IP Address 
without specifying anything to distinguish it, although you used to a LONG LONG 
time ago.  NSLOOKUP is depreciated, so may go away at some point.

NSLOOKUP's replacement is called DIG (dig under USS)
When you invoke DIG, you have to tell it if you are sending a Host Name (no 
parm): dig www.ufl.edu 
Or if you are using an IP address: dig -x 128.227.9.98
If you did the above without the "-x" you will not get an answer.

Al Nims
Systems Admin/Programmer 3
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Hi

Is the 'AI_NUMERICHOST' flag set from the product perspective which is trying 
to use SMTP ?

Sorry being ignorant as I haven't seen this being set in TCPIP service



On 18-Sep-2017 9:06 PM, "Nims,Alva John (Al)" <ajn...@ufl.edu> wrote:

> Do you have, AI_NUMERICHOST, flag set?
>
> For, GETADDRINFO, from: "z/OS Communications Server: IP Sockets 
> Application Programming Interface Guide and Reference"
> SC27-3660-00
>
> " node  The host name or IP address. If the value of the node
> parameter is an IP address, you also must issue the AI_NUMERICHOST flag.
> The value of the node parameter can be up to 255 bytes in length."
>
> I am thinking if that flag is set, then if you put in a host name, it 
> would be rejected because a numeric was expected.
>
> Al Nims
> Systems Admin/Programmer 3
> UFIT
> University of Florida
> (352) 273-1298
>
> -Original Message-
> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] 
> On Behalf Of Jake Anderson
> Sent: Monday, September 18, 2017 1:37 AM
> To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
> Subject: Re: Unable to resolve server name function= GETADDRINFO
>
> Hi
>
>
> We share the same resolver TCPDATA dataset between two LPAR and 
> IPNODES are specified. We get a correct response for NSLOOKUP HOSTNAME as 
> well.
>
> Why is it only IP address of SMTP server is honored whereas the Domain 
> name is not ? Could anyone please explain me on this so that i can 
> research further on this.
>
> Also, Can we have Just one SMTP address for a PLEX(in a 
> MAS(Multiaccess spool)). So that the products running running in any 
> of the LPAR within the SYSPLEX can use the SMTP service ?
>
> On 18-Sep-2017 10:48 AM, "Salva Carrasco" <scarra...@unicaja.es> wrote:
>
> > Alloc a SYSTCPT sysout to see the resolver trace.
> >
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Re: Unable to resolve server name function= GETADDRINFO

[Nims,Alva John (Al)]

Do you have, AI_NUMERICHOST, flag set?

For, GETADDRINFO, from: "z/OS Communications Server: IP Sockets Application 
Programming Interface Guide and Reference"
SC27-3660-00

" node  The host name or IP address. If the value of the node parameter 
is an IP address, you also must issue the AI_NUMERICHOST flag. The value of the 
node parameter can be up to 255 bytes in length."

I am thinking if that flag is set, then if you put in a host name, it would be 
rejected because a numeric was expected.

Al Nims
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Hi


We share the same resolver TCPDATA dataset between two LPAR and IPNODES are 
specified. We get a correct response for NSLOOKUP HOSTNAME as well.

Why is it only IP address of SMTP server is honored whereas the Domain name is 
not ? Could anyone please explain me on this so that i can research further on 
this.

Also, Can we have Just one SMTP address for a PLEX(in a MAS(Multiaccess 
spool)). So that the products running running in any of the LPAR within the 
SYSPLEX can use the SMTP service ?

On 18-Sep-2017 10:48 AM, "Salva Carrasco"  wrote:

> Alloc a SYSTCPT sysout to see the resolver trace.
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Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: dynamic rexx function package

[Nims,Alva John (Al)]

Yep, that is it in generic form, RXSUBCOM is just a specific name someone gave 
it.

Thank you, John.

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On Wed, Sep 13, 2017 at 12:58 PM, Nims,Alva John (Al) <ajn...@ufl.edu>
wrote:

> Hint: RXSUBCOM
>
> Caveat: A version is available with DB2 or there is the version 
> available
> from: Open Software Technologies product REXXTOOLS/MVS
>
> "RXSUBCOM: a function for dynamically maintaining host command 
> environments. As with RXFUNC, RXSUBCOM pre-loads the load module 
> associated with a function to enhance performance."  [this is from the 
> REXXTOOLS/MVS Documentation, but I also believe it applies to the DB2 
> version]
>
> Now the BAD (or "My Bad!"):  Sorry, but I do not how to get a copy of 
> RXSUBCOM or source, to you and second, I do not know how to write a 
> package for RXSUBCOM.  Maybe I should have said "Tease" instead of 
> "Hint" above. :-)
>
> Basically what I am trying to say is that, YES, what I think you want 
> is available, but how to get there ?  I HAVE NO CLUE!
>
> Maybe you will have better luck to find something out there about 
> RXSUBCOM and its ability to update the "host command table?"
>
> Al Nims
> Systems Admin/Programmer 3
> UFIT
> University of Florida
> (352) 273-1298
>
>
​I'm not certain, but I think this may be what is wanted:
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You can write your own external functions and subroutines, which allow you to 
extend the capabilities of the REXX language. You can write external functions 
or subroutines that supplement the built-in functions or TSO/E external 
functions that are provided. You can also write a function to replace one of 
the functions that is provided. For example, if you want a new substring 
function that performs differently from the SUBSTR built-in function, you can 
write your own substring function and name it STRING.
Users at your installation can then use the STRING function in their execs.

[/quote]​


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Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: dynamic rexx function package

[Nims,Alva John (Al)]

Hint: RXSUBCOM

Caveat: A version is available with DB2 or there is the version available from: 
Open Software Technologies product REXXTOOLS/MVS

"RXSUBCOM: a function for dynamically maintaining host command environments. As 
with RXFUNC, RXSUBCOM pre-loads the load module associated with a function to 
enhance performance."  [this is from the REXXTOOLS/MVS Documentation, but I 
also believe it applies to the DB2 version]

Now the BAD (or "My Bad!"):  Sorry, but I do not how to get a copy of RXSUBCOM 
or source, to you and second, I do not know how to write a package for 
RXSUBCOM.  Maybe I should have said "Tease" instead of "Hint" above. :-)

Basically what I am trying to say is that, YES, what I think you want is 
available, but how to get there ?  I HAVE NO CLUE!

Maybe you will have better luck to find something out there about RXSUBCOM and 
its ability to update the "host command table?"

Al Nims
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf 
Of Dyck, Lionel B. (TRA)
Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2017 1:07 PM
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Subject: Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: dynamic rexx function package

My thought was to avoid creating a function package and all that goes with it 
and hoping there was a dynamic way to do it.

Or at least to dynamically load a rexx function module at the start of an exec 
so that it would be referenced in storage rather than being loaded/deleted when 
used, and then to unload it when done.

I may be off base but it seems like a nice thing to do to improve the 
performance when using modules for rexx functions and not having to create a 
function package.

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Of ITschak Mugzach
Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2017 12:00 PM
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Lionel.

Don;t know what exactly the need, but TSO (Rexx) supplies environment 
initialization & termination exits.

ITschak

On Wed, Sep 13, 2017 at 4:05 PM, Dyck, Lionel B. (TRA) 
wrote:

> Has anyone developed a dynamic rexx function package tool that can be 
> called when a rexx exec starts and then be easily removed when it ends
> - kinda like dynamic steplib?
>
> (cross posted to ibm-main, tso-rexx, and ispf-l)
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Re: Looking for mainframe shops Lexington/Cincinnati

[Nims,Alva John (Al)]

I've done the re-apply for my job, but it was NOT posted outside of the company.

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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf 
Of Donald J
Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2017 3:52 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: Looking for mainframe shops Lexington/Cincinnati

>I have also heard that there is an old system at University of Kentucky 
>Medical Center
I had a phone interview with them about 6 years ago.
They were making all there IT employees "re-apply" for their current positions 
and compete with outsiders for their positions.   I have never heard of that 
type of process being done anywhere else.
 

Sent: Thursday, August 31, 2017 at 7:57 AM
From: "Bill Bishop (TMNA)" 
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: Looking for mainframe shops Lexington/Cincinnati Joel;

Lexington is going to be very tough.

The only zOS shops in the area are the State of Kentucky in Frankfort, Toyota 
in Georgetown, Ashland Oil and Lexmark, both in Lexington itself.

I have also heard that there is an old system at University of Kentucky Medical 
Center.

Toyota is supported out of Plano, Texas now. Lexmark is all outsourced to IBM.

There are several sites in Louisville. Besides those mentioned already, there 
is Kentucky Farm Bureau and Yum Brands that I know of. There may be more.

Pickings are slim in Lexington. That is why I took the move from Georgetown to 
Plano. I was not ready to retire yet.

Thanks

Bill Bishop
Consultant, Mainframe Engineer
Mainframe and Scheduling | Infrastructure Technology Services Toyota Motor 
North America bill.bis...@toyota.com
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Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2017 10:09 PM
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Subject: Re: Looking for mainframe shops Lexington/Cincinnati

Thank you to all. Several good leads for me. I appreciate it. I'm looking hard 
at the Fort Knox opp, but also hoping to find something there in the Lexington 
area.

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Re: How to require all secure FTP except to one subnet?

[Nims,Alva John (Al)]

First, I am going to be the one to tell you to go over to the IBM-TCPIP list:
"For IBMTCP-L subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to 
lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO IBMTCP-L"

That said:
SECURE_FTP is as simple as it says, "ALLOWED" basically states that clients can 
log in using a security mechanism, but it is NOT REQUIRED.  If you code 
"REQUIRED" then the client MUST log in using a security mechanism, if the 
client is another z/OS system then " SECURE_MECHANISM TLS" would be the option 
to look at, other software, well start digging.

I personally do not know if access via subnet can be controlled at the z/OS 
TCP/IP level, but that is mostly because we turned that kind of control over to 
our network personnel.

Al Nims
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf 
Of SUBSCRIBE IBM-MAIN Mary Vollmer
Sent: Monday, August 28, 2017 12:50 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: How to require all secure FTP except to one subnet?

I am implementing TLS 1.2 via AT-TLS and have a requirement to secure all FTPs 
using this protocol except for the exchanges occurring via the hipersocket.

I am manually coding the policy since I don't have zOSMF configured.  In my 
policy I have a rule for my unsecure connections, coding both LocalAddr and 
RemoteAddr with that of our hipersocket subnet.  It has a priority of 100 and 
is first in the policy.  I also have a rule for secure connections with no 
LocalAddr or RemoteAddr with a priority of 10.

In my FTPDATA:
   When I specify SECURE_FTP REQUIRED, all unsecure attempts (inbound and 
outbound) fail - including those via the hipersocket.


   When I specify SECURE_FTP ALLOWED, all unsecure attempts (inbound and 
outbound) are successful - even those NOT using the hipersocket.  

I turned on tracing and see the rules selected are as I would have expected but 
it appears the SECURE_FTP parm in FTP data rules, regardless of what's in the 
policy.  

Does anyone know if it's possible to do what I am trying do to with one TCPIP 
stack?

Thanks,
Mary Vollmer 
 

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Re: GIM69209S ** RECEIVE PROCESSING HAS FAILED BECAUSE PROGRAM GIMJVCLT COULD NOT BE Started.

[Nims,Alva John (Al)]

For those that know of any JAVA debug options to use, there is a way to specify 
them in the CLNTINFO DD using "javadebugoptions=" in the 
  

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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf 
Of Carmen Vitullo
Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2017 10:33 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: GIM69209S ** RECEIVE PROCESSING HAS FAILED BECAUSE PROGRAM 
GIMJVCLT COULD NOT BE Started.

My receive JCL is 'almost' identical except I have Java 6.7 and 8 to support 
multiple applications , and for the receive I use Java 6 31 bit 


also I noticed a subtle difference in the CLIENTINFO 


mine, I don't specify the classpath that's done in the SMPCPATH DD and I have 
to authenticate to my Proxy, I use a REGION=0M and no MEMLIMIT 




  
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From: "גדי בן אבי" 
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2017 4:40:07 AM
Subject: GIM69209S ** RECEIVE PROCESSING HAS FAILED BECAUSE PROGRAM GIMJVCLT 
COULD NOT BE Started. 

Hi, 

I am setting up a brand new system, running z/OS v2.2 

I ordered a product from shopzseries, and I am trying to download it using the 
RFNJOBH downloaded from shopzseries. 

I am getting the message
GIM69209S ** RECEIVE PROCESSING HAS FAILED BECAUSE PROGRAM GIMJVCLT COULD NOT 
BE Started. 

I’ve looked at everything mentioned in the message manual, and it all seems ok. 

Here is the job I am using: 
//V110GA37 JOB (00),' ',CLASS=X,MSGCLASS=X,PRTY=9, // NOTIFY=
//SMPER1 EXEC PGM=GIMSMP,REGION=0M,MEMLIMIT=4G, // PARM='PROCESS=WAIT' 
//SMPCSI DD DISP=SHR,DSN=SYSG.SMPE.GLOBAL.CSI <=== NOTE 1 //SMPNTS DD 
PATHDISP=KEEP, // PATH='/u/smpe/smpnts/' <=== NOTE 2 //SMPWKDIR DD 
PATHDISP=KEEP, // PATH='/u/smpe/workdir/' <=== NOTE 3 //SMPCPATH DD 
PATH='/usr/lpp/smp/classes/' <=== NOTE 4 //SMPOUT DD SYSOUT=* //SMPRPT DD 
SYSOUT=* //SMPLIST DD SYSOUT=* //SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=* //SMPCNTL DD * SET 
BOUNDARY (GLOBAL) . 
RECEIVE
FROMNETWORK(
SERVER(SERVINFO)
/* TRANSFERONLY <=== NOTE 5 */
CLIENT(CLNTINFO)
)
. 
/*
//SERVINFO DD *
 
 


/*
//*
//CLNTINFO DD *


/* 

Gadi
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Re: OMVS Command in JCL

[Nims,Alva John (Al)]

Gil,

Will this still work if the file does not exist when the IEFBR14 step is run?

Al Nims
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf 
Of Paul Gilmartin
Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2017 11:08 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: OMVS Command in JCL

On Tue, 15 Aug 2017 08:32:34 +0300, venkat kulkarni wrote:
>
>OSHELL
>   {
>  echo '!rm -r /u/venkat/test_01.txt' ; +
>  echo '!rm -r /u/venkat/test_01.txt'   ; }
>
>Please suggest, if any changes in this JCL is required to make this 
>full process work.
> 
I'd suggest as an easier alternative:
//STEP  EXEC  PGM=IEFB14
//FILE   DD   PATHOPTS=ORDWR,PATHDISP=DELETE,
//  PATH='/u/venkat/test_01.txt'

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Re: Any SMF statistics available for LOAD of a program?

[Nims,Alva John (Al)]

SoftAudit is now "IBM Tivoli License Compliance Manager for z/OS" after IBM 
acquired it.

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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf 
Of Charles Mills
Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2017 4:35 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: Any SMF statistics available for LOAD of a program?

> Softaudit says it can do it, they would have to front end the SVC.
I believe they do or did. 



CharlesSent from a mobile; please excuse the brevity.
 Original message From: Edward Gould  
Date: 8/9/17  4:22 PM  (GMT-05:00) To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: 
Any SMF statistics available for LOAD of a program? 
> On Aug 9, 2017, at 12:06 PM, retired mainframer  
> wrote:
> 
> If the problem you are trying to solve is important to the 
> organization, ask the people who can run DAF for what you need and let 
> them sanitize the output for you.
> 
> Alternately, if the number of libraries containing the modules in 
> question is not too large and you can convince the security admins to 
> help, you could create dataset profiles for the libraries in WARNING mode 
> with access NONE.
> Every load would then generate a message in the system log.  It 
> wouldn't tell you which module was loaded but it would tell you which 
> library was being accessed by which job step.
> 
> For a brute force method, if you have a test system you can use, 
> recreate the libraries without the members.  As each LOAD fails, add that 
> member.
> When the jobs finally run successfully, any members not added are 
> likely unused.


I would like to hear from our RACF retired person on this.
I looked at this many years ago and the answer I got back from IBM was NO it 
will not show dynamically loaded programs.
I certainly would like this to be yes, but I can’t see how RACF could do it. I 
understand how they get the pgm=scan to be logged, but after that any 
dynamically load program is beyond (AFAIK) RACF capability.
Softaudit says it can do it, they would have to front end the SVC. 


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Re: How to find the Global zone names in SMP/E via REXX

[Nims,Alva John (Al)]

You will not get any argument from me about GIMAPI being "REXX Hostile," but 
that is why I mentioned the CBTTAPE, I believe more than one person has created 
the interface between REXX and GIMAPI, to let REXX work with it.

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Of Paul Gilmartin
Sent: Tuesday, August 08, 2017 3:07 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: How to find the Global zone names in SMP/E via REXX

On 2017-08-08, at 11:01, Nims,Alva John (Al) wrote:

> It is documented in "SA23-2276-02 SMP/E for z/OS Reference" look for GIMAPI, 
> on the CBTTAPE are some routines that provide an interface between REXX and 
> GIMAPI.
>  
I don't consider GIMAPI a Rexx API; it's Rexx-hostile.  It requires that the 
caller supply pointers in argument blocks, and pointers are not a capability of 
Rexx.  So an interface to the interface is necessary.

ICSF did far better with its API -- its arguments are Rexx-friendly without 
being Rexx-peculiar.  It's a pity that the designers of GIMAPI lacked such 
foresight.

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Re: How to find the Global zone names in SMP/E via REXX

[Nims,Alva John (Al)]

It is documented in "SA23-2276-02 SMP/E for z/OS Reference" look for GIMAPI, on 
the CBTTAPE are some routines that provide an interface between REXX and GIMAPI.


"Overview of GIMAPI

GIMAPI is a program (load module) provided with IBM SMP/E for z/OS, V3R6 that 
can be called by a user-written application program to query the contents of 
the CSI.

GIMAPI uses data structures both to receive the query parameters from the 
caller and to return the query output to the caller. To request a query, you 
must set up the data structure containing the appropriate query parameters and 
call GIMAPI.
The general form of the GIMAPI call is:

GIMAPI(apicmd,parmptr,outptr,language,rc,cc,msgbuff)
where apicmd specifies the API command that GIMAPI is to process (either QUERY, 
FREE or VERSION). See QUERY command, FREE command and VERSION command for 
descriptions of these commands and a detailed description of how the remaining 
parameters parmptr, outptr, language, rc, cc, and msgbuff) are used on those 
commands.
Parent topic: SMP/E CSI application programming interface"


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Of Paul Gilmartin
Sent: Tuesday, August 08, 2017 11:24 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: How to find the Global zone names in SMP/E via REXX

On Tue, 8 Aug 2017 13:44:03 +0000, Nims,Alva John (Al) wrote:

>Does any of the CBT Tape REXX programs that access the SMP/e API do the job?
> 
I see no mention of an API for Rexx in the SMP/E User's Guide, Reference, or 
Commands.
Where is an API for Rexx documented?

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Re: How to find the Global zone names in SMP/E via REXX

[Nims,Alva John (Al)]

Does any of the CBT Tape REXX programs that access the SMP/e API do the job?

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Of Lizette Koehler
Sent: Monday, August 07, 2017 7:13 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: How to find the Global zone names in SMP/E via REXX

I have a requirement to create a process that is dependent on knowing the 
TLIB/DLIB zone names from the Global CSI.

At this time, I do not see any type of ADDRESS SMPEXEC or other API process to 
do the extract.

So I am guessing I will need to run an SMPE Process to do a listzone then parse 
the output for the names I need.

Unless someone has an easier way to do this, this is the process I will take.

This process will eventually do a copyzone or mergezone.  Just trying to 
automate the process so the user does not need to tell the REXX that much 
information other than the GLOBAL CSI.

Any thoughts or suggestions are appreciated.


Lizette Koehler
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Re: z14 and z/OS 2.3 Blog Post

[Nims,Alva John (Al)]

It has been long time since I looked at this, but doesn't Samba have a z/OS 
server?  I could be very wrong and could be a terrible implementation.

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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf 
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Sent: Friday, July 28, 2017 4:04 AM
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Subject: Re: z14 and z/OS 2.3 Blog Post

Paul Gilmartin asked:
>Does Windows support NFS client?

David Crayford replied:
>Yes, NFS client is built in to Windows 10 but you have to jump through 
>some hoops https://graspingtech.com/mount-nfs-share-windows-10/.

All supported desktop and server releases of Microsoft Windows include NFS 
support. See here for the Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 instructions, 
for example:

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc732891(v=ws.11).aspx

macOS, IBM i, Linux, and all UNIX variants that I can think of also include NFS 
support. It's quite a popular protocol, more popular than SMB/CIFS.
There's even a free NFS client for PC-DOS/MS-DOS/FreeDOS/DR-DOS operating 
systems (would you believe):

http://freedos.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/NFS

It's probably past time to phase out the SMB protocol given recent 
vulnerabilities and attacks such as WannaCry and ExPetr that affected Windows 
systems. And if you decide to use file sharing of any sort, please adopt and 
maintain security best practices if you haven't already.

Going forward, if you absolutely must have SMB protocol connectivity, then 
"leapfrogging" is technically possible, I believe. The best leapfrogging 
approach would be to configure Linux on Z such that z/OS connects via NFS to 
Linux, thence Linux (using Samba) connects via SMB. In other words, Linux on Z 
acts as a file/directory resharing gateway. I don't recommend leapfrogging, but 
technically it should work. Variations are possible with zdsfs instead of NFS 
for certain use cases.

>Does NFS seamlessly connect z/OS to z/OS Classic data sets (e.g. PDSE 
>to ISPF LM services)?

Yes, if I understand your "e.g." correctly. Here's the z/OS 2.2 NFS Guide and 
Reference (direct link, subject to change) if you'd like the full
details:

http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/epubs/pdf/cpn2co11.pdf

To future readers: if this link is broken or not applicable (because you're 
running a newer z/OS release for example), try searching for IBM Publication 
SC23-6883 (latest revision), or check the z/OS part of the IBM Knowledge Center.


Timothy Sipples
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Re: Eliminating the systems programmer was Re: IBM cuts contractor billing by 15 percent (our else)

[Nims,Alva John (Al)]

Gee, I think that has been floating around for as long as, "Mainframes Are 
Dead!"

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Some time ago an idea floated through my field of vision that IBM would 
eliminate even software distribution by supplying the entire OS on a chip. I 
must have missed the GA announcement...

.
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contractor billing by 15 percent (our else)

On Fri, 23 Jun 2017 09:15:21 -0400, Mark Pace wrote:

>I am afraid this new "Continuous Update" may lead to the same thing.
>
>On Fri, Jun 23, 2017 at 6:41 AM, Bill Wilkie wrote:
>
>> As I  am reading this, all I can think of is Windows 10 and Automatic 
>> updates. Since accidentally going to Windows 10, I have crashed my 
>> laptop at least 10 times and spent many days and a lot of money trying to 
>> recover.
>> Be careful what you wish for.
>> 
I've had remarkably little difficulty, none that I recall, with updates to 
Linux systems, Intel and ARM.  I do these electively, not automatically, but I 
don't age them; I risk being an early adopter.

But my personal Linux systems can't be considered enterprise-critical.

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Re: Sorting a REXX STEM variable

[Nims,Alva John (Al)]

BPXWUNIX is available to z/OS 1.13 too, so this should work under z/OS 1.13.  I 
am using BPXWUNIX to invoke USS dig command get info from the DNS server.

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Subject: Re: Sorting a REXX STEM variable

Under zOS REXX does have a STEM Sort (via BPXWUNIX). If you have an OMVS 
Segment on your USERID (and as of zOS 2.1+ you should), try this:
z
/*
 Do a Binary Sort (use -tn for Text)
 Using 2nd Word in each StemIn. Record as primary sort key
 Using 1st Word in each StemIn. Record as secondary sort key
 More doc on Unix Sort at 
http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/epubs/pdf/bpx1cd10.pdf
*/
x = BPXWUNIX("/bin/sort -bn -k2,2 -k1,1","StemIn.","StemOut.")

Also available via the USS side of zOS is Regex support:

/*
Get the JESMSGLG output from a JOB, e.g. via SDSF or (E)JES and put in the 
STEM JesMsgLg.
Use the USS grep in, Extended mode, to search for all STEPS with an RC=12, 
16, or 20
Return only those steps to the BadSteps. STEM variable ...

Add a step using this at the very END of a JOB to determine if something 
did not go as expected, and then
possibly correct it!
*/
x = BPXWUNIX("/bin/grep -E -e'¬.{30}(.{10}  (12|16|20)'", 
"JesMsgLg.","BadSteps.")

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Re: AW: Rexx SORT (was: ... Job Scheduler ... )

[Nims,Alva John (Al)]

No, z/OS REXX does not have a SORTSTEM function built-in.  I currently have a 
STEMSORT function, but it is from a 3rd party vendor.

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Could you point me to the REXX list?

Also, we have had a SORTSTEM function in VSE REXX for a LONG time. Does z/OS 
not have SORTSTEM?

Tony Thigpen

Nims,Alva John (Al) wrote on 06/07/2017 01:27 PM:
> This is getting to be like a discussion that was had on the REXX list 
> recently, as in it would be nice if there was an available PIPE type of 
> command available, oh wait there is:
>
> The product where IBM has made a PIPE command available:
> http://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/cgi-bin/ssialias?infotype=dd=
> sm=897/ENUS5655-D45
>
> Sorting is very simple there:
>   PIPE stem xy. | sort 1 5 | stem yx.
> OrPIPE < indsn | sort 1 5 | > outdsn
>
> These are simple examples and not everything that can be done, but when I was 
> using it (my previous job) it was reasonably quick in execution.  Now I have 
> to do the allocation of SORTIN, SORTOUT and SYSIN (control cards) then invoke 
> SORT, very cumbersome compared to the simple PIPE command version.
>
> Al Nims
> UFIT
> University of Florida
> (352) 273-1298
> @Home
>
> -Original Message-
> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] 
> On Behalf Of Elardus Engelbrecht
> Sent: Wednesday, June 07, 2017 1:14 PM
> To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
> Subject: Re: AW: Rexx SORT (was: ... Job Scheduler ... )
>
> Paul Gilmartin wrote:
>
>> Bernd.Oppolzer wrote:
>>> http://bernd-oppolzer.de/blog_20150115_151000.htm
>>> this Contains a REXX Procedure to sort a stem variable. See 
>>> quicksort_nonrec
>> o Of course.  But why should it be necessary to reinvent the wheel when 
>> DFSORT has vast capabilities not practical to duplicate in Rexx?
>
> Could you please be kind to tell us what function(s) you have in mind?
>
> On one side, REXX has this nice PARSE function. hard to duplicate that in 
> DFSORT, but do-able.
> On other side, DFSORT handles SMF records and their weird timestamps 
> better. (Yes, I know REXX can handle VBS records these days.)
>
>
>>>> I could envision adapting [the ANSI Rexx form] in TSO Rexx something like:
>>>> address LINKMVS 'ICEMAN' with ,
>>>> DD:SORTIN stem F1. ,
>>>> DD:SORTOUT stem F2.
>
> You can do the same with REXX statements like this:
>
> "ALLOC F(SORTIN) blah "
> "EXECIO * DISKR SORTIN (STEM F1. FINIS"
> "FREE F(SORTIN)"
> ... and then call DFSORT and sort out your magic
>
> In fact, I have some RYO REXX progs which call DFSORT to sort something out...
>
>
>> o And while I chose SORT as an example, I intended to consider a more 
>> general solution.  Imagine a facility that could invoke not only SORT, but:
>>   - IEBUPDTE witn SYSIN, SYSUT1, and SYSUT2 assigned to stems.
>>   - ISRSUPC with OLD, NEW, and DELTA assigned to stems.
>>   - Etc.  Much like ANSI Rexx.
>
> You can invoke anything with REXX including SDSF, IEBGENER, IEBCOPY, etc. as 
> long you pass/receive parameters and DD correctly.
>
> In fact, zSecure ISPF panels are mostly driven by REXX.
>
> But, I agree with you, something standardised so you can do what you desire 
> would really be useful.
>
> Something like "ALLOC F(SYSIN)  ..."
>
> Also FREE(FSYSIN) which -optionally- drops those Stems. (I said 
> optionally, because, you may need to free up SYSIN immediately, but 
> continue to handle those stems.)
>
> Just some little idle ideas, ya ;-)
>
> Groete / Greetings
> Elardus Engelbrecht
>
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Re: AW: Rexx SORT (was: ... Job Scheduler ... )

[Nims,Alva John (Al)]

Thank you Lionel, that is the piece I forgot to find and add.

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Please see this RFE:  
https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe_ID=47699


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This is getting to be like a discussion that was had on the REXX list recently, 
as in it would be nice if there was an available PIPE type of command 
available, oh wait there is:

The product where IBM has made a PIPE command available:
http://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/cgi-bin/ssialias?infotype=dd=sm=897/ENUS5655-D45

Sorting is very simple there:
PIPE stem xy. | sort 1 5 | stem yx.
Or  PIPE < indsn | sort 1 5 | > outdsn

These are simple examples and not everything that can be done, but when I was 
using it (my previous job) it was reasonably quick in execution.  Now I have to 
do the allocation of SORTIN, SORTOUT and SYSIN (control cards) then invoke 
SORT, very cumbersome compared to the simple PIPE command version.

Al Nims
UFIT
University of Florida
(352) 273-1298
@Home

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Paul Gilmartin wrote:

>Bernd.Oppolzer wrote:
>>http://bernd-oppolzer.de/blog_20150115_151000.htm
>>this Contains a REXX Procedure to sort a stem variable. See 
>>quicksort_nonrec
>o Of course.  But why should it be necessary to reinvent the wheel when DFSORT 
>has vast capabilities not practical to duplicate in Rexx?

Could you please be kind to tell us what function(s) you have in mind?

On one side, REXX has this nice PARSE function. hard to duplicate that in 
DFSORT, but do-able.
On other side, DFSORT handles SMF records and their weird timestamps better. 
(Yes, I know REXX can handle VBS records these days.)


>>>I could envision adapting [the ANSI Rexx form] in TSO Rexx something like:
>>>address LINKMVS 'ICEMAN' with ,
>>>DD:SORTIN stem F1. ,
>>>DD:SORTOUT stem F2.

You can do the same with REXX statements like this:

"ALLOC F(SORTIN) blah  "
"EXECIO * DISKR SORTIN (STEM F1. FINIS"
"FREE F(SORTIN)" 
... and then call DFSORT and sort out your magic

In fact, I have some RYO REXX progs which call DFSORT to sort something out...


>o And while I chose SORT as an example, I intended to consider a more general 
>solution.  Imagine a facility that could invoke not only SORT, but:
>  - IEBUPDTE witn SYSIN, SYSUT1, and SYSUT2 assigned to stems.
>  - ISRSUPC with OLD, NEW, and DELTA assigned to stems.
>  - Etc.  Much like ANSI Rexx.

You can invoke anything with REXX including SDSF, IEBGENER, IEBCOPY, etc. as 
long you pass/receive parameters and DD correctly.

In fact, zSecure ISPF panels are mostly driven by REXX.

But, I agree with you, something standardised so you can do what you desire 
would really be useful.

Something like "ALLOC F(SYSIN)  ..."

Also FREE(FSYSIN) which -optionally- drops those Stems. (I said optionally, 
because, you may need to free up SYSIN immediately, but continue to handle 
those stems.)

Just some little idle ideas, ya ;-)

Groete / Greetings
Elardus Engelbrecht

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Re: AW: Rexx SORT (was: ... Job Scheduler ... )

[Nims,Alva John (Al)]

This is getting to be like a discussion that was had on the REXX list recently, 
as in it would be nice if there was an available PIPE type of command 
available, oh wait there is:

The product where IBM has made a PIPE command available:
http://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/cgi-bin/ssialias?infotype=dd=sm=897/ENUS5655-D45

Sorting is very simple there:
PIPE stem xy. | sort 1 5 | stem yx.
Or  PIPE < indsn | sort 1 5 | > outdsn

These are simple examples and not everything that can be done, but when I was 
using it (my previous job) it was reasonably quick in execution.  Now I have to 
do the allocation of SORTIN, SORTOUT and SYSIN (control cards) then invoke 
SORT, very cumbersome compared to the simple PIPE command version.

Al Nims
UFIT
University of Florida
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@Home

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Paul Gilmartin wrote:

>Bernd.Oppolzer wrote:
>>http://bernd-oppolzer.de/blog_20150115_151000.htm
>>this Contains a REXX Procedure to sort a stem variable. See 
>>quicksort_nonrec
>o Of course.  But why should it be necessary to reinvent the wheel when DFSORT 
>has vast capabilities not practical to duplicate in Rexx?

Could you please be kind to tell us what function(s) you have in mind?

On one side, REXX has this nice PARSE function. hard to duplicate that in 
DFSORT, but do-able.
On other side, DFSORT handles SMF records and their weird timestamps better. 
(Yes, I know REXX can handle VBS records these days.)


>>>I could envision adapting [the ANSI Rexx form] in TSO Rexx something like:
>>>address LINKMVS 'ICEMAN' with ,
>>>DD:SORTIN stem F1. ,
>>>DD:SORTOUT stem F2.

You can do the same with REXX statements like this:

"ALLOC F(SORTIN) blah  "
"EXECIO * DISKR SORTIN (STEM F1. FINIS"
"FREE F(SORTIN)" 
... and then call DFSORT and sort out your magic

In fact, I have some RYO REXX progs which call DFSORT to sort something out...


>o And while I chose SORT as an example, I intended to consider a more general 
>solution.  Imagine a facility that could invoke not only SORT, but:
>  - IEBUPDTE witn SYSIN, SYSUT1, and SYSUT2 assigned to stems.
>  - ISRSUPC with OLD, NEW, and DELTA assigned to stems.
>  - Etc.  Much like ANSI Rexx.

You can invoke anything with REXX including SDSF, IEBGENER, IEBCOPY, etc. as 
long you pass/receive parameters and DD correctly.

In fact, zSecure ISPF panels are mostly driven by REXX.

But, I agree with you, something standardised so you can do what you desire 
would really be useful.

Something like "ALLOC F(SYSIN)  ..."

Also FREE(FSYSIN) which -optionally- drops those Stems. (I said optionally, 
because, you may need to free up SYSIN immediately, but continue to handle 
those stems.)

Just some little idle ideas, ya ;-)

Groete / Greetings
Elardus Engelbrecht

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Re: John's spare time ... Job Scheduler Programmer Architect?

[Nims,Alva John (Al)]

The link references the Unix command, cron, that runs under Unix System 
services, so you can schedule Unix commands, which could issue JES2/STC/TSO... 
commands from there.

Personally I recommend SCHEDRUN from the CBT Tape, which uses JES2 auto 
commands to issue MVS commands.

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Time for me to hit the JES2 manual to see what's there.  Are there any 
presentations on it?

Rob

On Tue, Jun 6, 2017, 11:59 AM Kirk Wolf  wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 6, 2017 at 5:44 AM, John Eells  wrote:
>
> >
> > Why do you think crontab is "not there" in z/OS?
> >
> > Oh but it is:
>
> https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSLTBW_1.13.0/com.ibm.zos.
> r13.bpxa500/crondmon.htm
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Re: Mischaracterized HOLDDATA

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I just received a notification of a couple fixes for this problem.


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For those of you who always laughed when I said read your HOLD(DOC) for buried 
HOLD(ACTION) items.  Here it is kids, so for those of you who still ignore 
HOLD(DOC), keep telling yourselves that you're saving time and I'm crazy for 
looking at HOLD(DOC).

++HOLD(UI43841) SYSTEM FMID(HSMA21A) REASON(DOC) DATE(17011)
   COMMENT(
   Perform the following RACF security steps,
   or equivalent steps using your SAF product.
   The SAMPLIB sample job, IZUCASEC contains these commented-out
   RACF commands and is provided as an aid to perform these steps
   if you choose to use it.

   RDEFINE OPERCMDS MVS.MCSOPER.* UACC(NONE)

   PERMIT MVS.MCSOPER.* CLASS(OPERCMDS) ID(IZUSVR) ACCESS(READ)

   RDEFINE OPERCMDS (MVS.VARY.TCPIP.OBEYFILE) UACC(NONE)

   PERMIT MVS.VARY.TCPIP.OBEYFILE ACCESS(CONTROL) CLASS(OPERCMDS)
 ID(IZUSVR)

   RDEFINE OPERCMDS (MVS.DISPLAY.*) UACC(NONE)

   PERMIT MVS.DISPLAY.* CLASS(OPERCMDS) ID(IZUSVR) ACCESS(READ)

   RDEFINE SERVAUTH EZB.NETSTAT...VIPADCFG
 UACC(NONE)

   PERMIT EZB.NETSTAT...VIPADCFG
 CLASS(SERVAUTH) ID(IZUSVR) ACCESS(READ)

   RDEFINE SERVAUTH EZB.NETWORKUTILS.CLOUD. UACC(NONE)

   PERMIT EZB.NETWORKUTILS.CLOUD. CLASS(SERVAUTH)
 ID(IZUSVR) ACCESS(READ)

   Grant ALTER access to IZUSVR for the stack include and stack
   dynamic update datasets if your system protects data sets with
   SAF profiles.  These are data sets you will create manually and
   then reference in Configuration Assistant when you configure a
   TCP/IP stack from the Systems tab in the Cloud perspective.

   If the z/OS ROUTE command is protected by SAF, IZUSVR must have
   READ access to the MVS.ROUTE.CMD. SAF profile in the
   OPERCMDS class.
   **NOTE:  is the target MVS system name where
   IBM Cloud Provisioning and Management for z/OS will provision
   resources. e.g.

   PERMIT MVS.ROUTE.CMD. CLASS(OPERCMDS)
 ID(IZUSVR) ACCESS(READ)

   SETROPTS RACLIST(OPERCMDS,SERVAUTH) REFRESH
   ).



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Re: SMF Records

[Nims,Alva John (Al)]

You might want to consider that the OpenSSH SMF records are part of the Type 
119 record and use subtype 94, 95, 96, 97, and 98
Subtype 96 is the "Server" transfer complete record and 97 is the "Client" 
equivalent. These records would give you who, what and where someone accessed a 
file, including the SFTP command executed against the file.

I gathered the above information from: "z/OS IBM Ported Tools for z/OS: OpenSSH 
User's Guide Version 1 Release 3" (SA23-2246-03), the details for the subtypes 
94 through 98 are in this manual and not in the "z/OS Communications Server: IP 
Programmer's Guide and Reference" which will have the other SMF 119 record 
subtype descriptions.

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I think DAF off CBT will answer all the questions.
 
 
In a message dated 5/16/2017 5:16:17 P.M. Central Daylight Time, 
stars...@mindspring.com writes:

Basically SMF always writes a record, it does not check if that  file name was 
done that way or  not.


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[Nims,Alva John (Al)]

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Re: Storage Monitor

[Nims,Alva John (Al)]

FILE 409  MXI (MVS eXtended Information)

Might be the one or at least a place to start.

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All:

Is there a Storage subpool monitor on the cbttapes ? If there is can someone 
point me to the file. I downloaded  'TASID' and its ok , but i need more info 
of subpool usages and free..


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Re: JCL System symbols

[Nims,Alva John (Al)]

I am still running z/OS 1.13 and the MVS "DISPLAY SYMBOLS" will only display 
"Static" system symbols, it does not show what dynamic symbols are available

Same with TASID & SHOWZOS, they only show the "Static" symbols.  FYI: IPLINFO 
from Mark Zelden, only shows Static.

Don't know MXI.

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Sent: Friday, May 05, 2017 10:28 AM
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Subject: Re: JCL System symbols

TASID, MXI, SHOWZOS

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Of Farley, Peter x23353
Sent: Friday, May 05, 2017 10:25 AM
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Subject: Re: JCL System symbols

Just out of curiosity, is there a way for those of us without console authority 
to get the current list of symbols on the system?

I tried the SDSF SYM command suggested earlier, but SDSFAUX is not running on 
our system so it fails.

If it matters, we are z/OS 2.1 here.

Peter

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Of Carmen Vitullo
Sent: Friday, May 05, 2017 9:55 AM
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Subject: Re: JCL System symbols

just now reading the rest of you response, sorry A.D.D. kicking in I think I 
found what I needed searching for using symbols in JCL and brought me to the 
KB, to see what system symbols are available on your system MVS command 'D 
SYMBOLS' 

Carmen 

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From: "Bill Ashton" 
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Sent: Friday, May 5, 2017 8:50:17 AM
Subject: Re: JCL System symbols 

Carmen, that's just what I need - thanks so much! 

On a related note, is there a way to find out all the system symbols, so I 
don't have to keep asking one-off questions here? 

Thanks! 
B 

On Fri, May 5, 2017 at 9:43 AM, Carmen Vitullo  wrote: 

> Bill I have a proc that starts @ IPL time to copy parmlib datasets to 
> a backup using date time
> 
> 
> i use this
 
> - Original Message -
> 
> From: "Bill Ashton" 
> To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
> Sent: Friday, May 5, 2017 8:38:50 AM
> Subject: JCL System symbols
> 
> Hi again...I have searched, and must be looking for the wrong thing, 
> so I hope you can help me.
> 
> Is there a system symbol I can use in my DSN that has the current date 
> in it? I understand the implications of cross-date boundaries, etc., 
> and am looking to try something using the date in my dataset name.
> 
> Also, do I need to export the symbol if it is a system symbol, or can 
> I use it in JCL and control cards without the export?
> 
> Thanks again, and have a great, sunny weekend! 
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Re: Manual Naming for Local use [WAS: Issue with SK4T-4949-13 - IBM Online Library....]

[Nims,Alva John (Al)]

For my $0.02, yes I too would like to see the file names match the manual 
title, BUT there is a little flaw in doing this.  Sometimes within a manual 
there will be a link referencing another manual and that link should you click 
on it, will be using the file name that IBM assigns.  I do not run across it 
often and it does now fall within the "it would be nice if ," but it is 
easy enough for me to go and find the manual and open it esternally.

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Online Library]

On Sun, 30 Apr 2017 10:32:50 -0400, Steve Thompson wrote:
>...
>Example: iea2b6a0.pdf might become iea2b6a0_JCL_REF.pdf
>...
>Now, on a Linux system I can create a link to that particular manual so 
>that it becomes JCL_REF.pdf, but this takes a while to do for each 
>manual that I'm interested in. But that's me, how many are you 
>interested in?
> 
A script could process the index.html file to generate all the links.

>And if one is a Windows user, can one easily do a link?
>
Lately, Windows has a "mklink" command:
o Requires admin authority.  WTF!?
o Must specify whether the link is to a document or to a folder.  WTF!?
... or just use Cygwin and a file manager such as Thunar.

I just use the index.html file in a browser.

>Notice, I have these manuals in sub directories by O/S release (yes, I 
>also do this for VM as well) so that I can find something that I know 
>is specific to a certain version/release.
>
I've done this, not for manuals but for listings.  Two directory hierarchies:
./name/version -> document
./version/name -> document

... works pretty well browsing with ISPF 3.17.

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Re: VARY command in a batch job

[Nims,Alva John (Al)]

I would take a look at CBTTAPE.org FILE 1 (the index to what is available) to 
find a program that will do that, I am sure there is at least one out there.

Al Nims
University of Florida

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Of Steve Beaver
Sent: Friday, April 28, 2017 10:02 AM
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Subject: Re: VARY command in a batch job

Do you have a PGM that does a MGCRE command?


Steve   

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Subject: VARY command in a batch job

To list;
  Is there a way to issue a VARY cuu,offline command in a batch job. I need to 
do some full volume copies, including the volser,  and then vary the receiving 
offline. 

Thank you in advance, Bill J.

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Re: FTP Failing with space issues

[Nims,Alva John (Al)]

You are correct!

Al Nims
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Subject: Re: FTP Failing with space issues

On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 1:20 PM, Nims,Alva John (Al) <ajn...@ufl.edu> wrote:

> I agree with Walt, you are using sftp, which is a different beast that 
> ftp and as far as I know, yes I have not worked with sftp, just had to 
> do a cursory look at it recently, but have not gone down the road, 
> sftp does NOT support MVS data sets directly, it only works with zFS 
> (USS), so you have to write to zFS first and then you can do a "!cp 
> / //'CH2ICST.X.Y.R1'" (without the double quotes) to get it to MVS.
>

​NO!

You can NOT do a "!cp ..." to copy the file on the _server_ to a dataset on the 
_server_. That is because the "!..." sftp command runs the given command _ON 
THE CLIENT_ (i.e. your machine). Otherwise, some clever person could possibly 
do untold damage by running some arbitrary command that they just ftp'd to the 
server on the server. The thought makes me shudder.​



>
> Al Nims
> University of Florida
>
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Re: FTP Failing with space issues

[Nims,Alva John (Al)]

I agree with Walt, you are using sftp, which is a different beast that ftp and 
as far as I know, yes I have not worked with sftp, just had to do a cursory 
look at it recently, but have not gone down the road, sftp does NOT support MVS 
data sets directly, it only works with zFS (USS), so you have to write to zFS 
first and then you can do a "!cp / //'CH2ICST.X.Y.R1'" (without the 
double quotes) to get it to MVS.

Al Nims
University of Florida

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Of Walt Farrell
Sent: Monday, April 24, 2017 10:45 AM
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Subject: Re: FTP Failing with space issues

On Mon, 24 Apr 2017 08:17:55 -0500, Ron Thomas  wrote:

>i executed the below script from Linux VM  and the below is what it says. 
>Looks like site command is not supported . So any idea on how this could be 
>resolved or is there any work around ?
>
>Script
>---
>sftp to1c...@cray.cps.se.com
><< EOF
>site blocksize=0 lrecl=3000 recfm=fb prim=25 sec=25 cyl put 
>/sap/co2ekh/backup/global_chgback_escoa_2017-01-22:22:00:10.txt 
>//'CH2ICST.X.Y.R1'
>quit
>EOF
>
>Log Message
>
>sftp> site blocksize=0 lrecl=3000 recfm=fb prim=25 sec=25 cyl
>Invalid command.
>sftp> put /sas/co2ekh/backup/global_chgback_escoa_2017-01-22:22:00:10.txt 
>//'CH2ICST.X.Y.R1'
>Uploading /sas/comtekh/backup/global_chgback_escoa_2017-01-22:22:00:10.txt to 
>//CH2ICST.X.Y.R1
>/sap/co2ekh/backup/global_chgback_escoa_2017-01-22:22:00:10.txt
>   68% 2208KB   1.8MB/s   
>00:00 ETA
>Couldn't write to remote file "//CH2ICST.X.Y.R1": Failure

You're not using ftp. You're using sftp, which is entirely different and not 
related to ftp at all.

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Re: FTP Failing with space issues

[Nims,Alva John (Al)]

If the mainframe side has a file system setup for you, then instead of
put linux_file.txt //'HLQ.MAINFRAME.FILE'
It would be something like this:
Put linux_file.txt /u/xyz/mainframe.file
The single "/" will trigger the mainframe FTP server to treat it as another 
UNIX file, a file to be accessed via Unix Systems Services(USS).
The "/u/xyz/" is just something I made up, it would be whatever is setup for 
you.

Al Nims
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Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2017 3:07 PM
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Subject: Re: FTP Failing with space issues

No i haven't thought about that as i am not sure how to do that .  Thanks!

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Re: FTP Failing with space issues

[Nims,Alva John (Al)]

The closest you can get even in 2.02 is to use; BLKsize=### and BLocks .

Al Nims
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Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2017 1:22 PM
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Subject: Re: FTP Failing with space issues

On 2017-04-20, at 09:08, Nims,Alva John (Al) wrote:

> You could include one of the following commands in the FTP command stream on 
> the remote system.
>  
"remote"?  It appears to be the OP's local system.  (Point of view; I 
understand.)

> QUOTE SITE PRIM=## SEC=## TRacks
> Or
> QUOTE SITE PRIM=## SEC=## CYlinders
>  
"TRacks" or "CYlinders", but not "BYTES"?  (I RTFM.)  Bad design for the needs 
of the OP who probably knows the size of the source file only in bytes.  And 
may not be familiar with the geometries of various IBM storage subsystems.

Doesn't IBM nowadays recommend allocation in bytes rather than tracks?

Simply, FTP should support:
QUOTE SITE PRIM=## SEC=## BYTES

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Re: FTP Failing with space issues

[Nims,Alva John (Al)]

You could include one of the following commands in the FTP command stream on 
the remote system.

QUOTE SITE PRIM=## SEC=## TRacks
Or
QUOTE SITE PRIM=## SEC=## CYlinders

PRIM is the Primary allocation space using the "TRacks, CYlinders, or BLocks"
SEC is the Secondary allocation space using ...

"SITE" is a command to the z/OS FTP server and "QUOTE" is usually the local 
command that "Sends an uninterpreted string of data" to the remote server.

Al Nims
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Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2017 10:51 AM
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Subject: FTP Failing with space issues

Hello . Some of the files that is FTP'ed to mainframe from a Linux VM machine 
failed with space issues . Is there any way we can provide a work around logic. 

Regards
Ron T

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Re: Error message lookup help

[Nims,Alva John (Al)]

Not sure, just love convoluted "Reason Codes," but is there an outstanding 
"Write to Operator" awaiting a reply?  The "00B6" in RSN implies this, but I am 
not sure that is the real problem.  Won't hurt to check, now will it?

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Subject: Error message lookup help

Hi

Cross posted

For some reason the IBM sites are not opening

Can someone please help me out with the below error explanation

EZZ6011I TELNET1 BPX1SOC FAILED, RC = 0070 RSN = 12CA00B6


Nathan

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Re: Error message lookup help

[Nims,Alva John (Al)]

First, is the port that your TELNET1 service is trying to use reserved for it?  
Maybe something else has the port it is attempting to use.

Found in "z/OS Communications Server: IP Messages Volume 4 (EZZ, SNM)"

EZZ6011I   jobname requested_service FAILED, RC = rc RSN = rsn

Explanation

z/OS® UNIX System Services callable service was unable to complete successfully.

jobname is the name of the procedure that is used to start the TN3270 server or 
the job name identifier of the procedure that is used to start the TN3270 
server. If you start the TN3270.TNSRV1 server, the jobname value TNSRV1. If you 
start the TN3270 server, the jobname value is TN3270.

requested_service is the name of the requested service to perform.

rc is the return code of the requested service.

rsn is the reason code of the requested service. For REGISTER and DEREGISTER 
services, the last half of the reported Reason Code is the z/OS UNIX System 
Services reason code.
System action

None.
Operator response

Contact the system programmer to diagnose the problem.
System programmer response

See the z/OS UNIX System Services Messages and Codes for an explanation of the 
rc and the rsn.
Module

EZAZMTNS
Procedure name

TCP/IP

Al Nims
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Hi

Cross posted

For some reason the IBM sites are not opening

Can someone please help me out with the below error explanation

EZZ6011I TELNET1 BPX1SOC FAILED, RC = 0070 RSN = 12CA00B6


Nathan

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Re: IEFUTL Woes

[Nims,Alva John (Al)]

A slightly different answer might be found at CBTTAPE.ORG, file 248.  It does 
not lock the screen, but disconnects and then cancels if not reconnected within 
a follow-on time period.  File 325 from Wells Fargo does something similar.

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Of Andrew Metcalfe
Sent: Friday, April 14, 2017 1:05 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: IEFUTL Woes

For reasons best left unspoken, I need to cause a TSO user’s screen to “lock” 
after the SMF TWT time has expired. The user then has to re-authenticate by 
supplying their RACF password. If they haven’t unlocked their screen after 
another TWT interval I need the user to be terminated S522. 

The key driver is obviously the IEFUTL exit. However, I can’t “pause” the 
process and have IEFUTL wait for the response, because I also want to grant an 
extension to the already consumed wait time and then have the user cancelled at 
the end of the extension period. This means running IEFUTL to conclusion in 
order to grant the extension.
I have tried various approaches without complete success:

-   Attaching IKJEFT01 as a subtask of the program named in the logon 
procedure and waiting on ECB posted by IEFUTL. Still pursuing this, just in a 
mess with the protect key of the ECB which I can overcome.
-   Multiple IEFUTL exits – 1st one to set the extension and 2nd one to 
lock the screen. My testing implies that all the exits at SYSTSO.IEFUTL must 
complete before the extension is honoured.

Now considering the use of an SRB scheduled out of IEFUTL so that the IEFUTL 
path completes and grants the extension. However it’s been a while since I 
messed with SRB and I’m not sure I have the correct environment. More reading 
required, but the SRB is another unit of work and therefore won’t have access 
to SYSTSPRT and probably can’t issue TPUT/TGET anyway – I’ve not checked.

I’ve read all I can find in the archives but nothing helps.

Any pointers gratefully received.

Thanks

Andrew

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Re: 360 announce day

[Nims,Alva John (Al)]

Especially now that his namesake is being used for Tax preparation!  I don't 
know if to think that is the dumbest use of the Watson, or that are Tax 
Preparation gotten so complicated that it requires a super computer to do so? 
(I lean towards the later :) )

Al Nims
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UFIT
University of Florida
(352) 273-1298

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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf 
Of Doug Fuerst
Sent: Friday, April 07, 2017 2:18 PM
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Subject: Re: 360 announce day

And now he's spinning in his grave


Doug Fuerst
d...@bkassociates.net



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Subject: Re: 360 announce day

>On Fri, 7 Apr 2017 09:15:49 -0700, Anne & Lynn Wheeler wrote:
>
>>360 announce day
>>http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/mainframe/mainframe_PR360.h
>>tml
>
>"IBM Board Chairman Thomas J. Watson Jr. called the event the most 
>important product announcement in the company's history."
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Re: Pipes

[Nims,Alva John (Al)]

I have dug up "Plumbers Who Dump CVTs and the Control Blocks that Love Them:
MVS/TSO Pipelines for Systems Programmers", SHARE February 1999, Session 2875, 
Hobart Spitz, Paine Webber

For Lionel and will send it to him off-list and now starting the search for the 
CD/DVD that has it, but it is not looking good, I may not have any 2001 discs.

Al Nims
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UFIT
University of Florida
(352) 273-1298

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Of Dyck, Lionel B. (TRA)
Sent: Friday, April 07, 2017 9:07 AM
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Subject: Pipes

Does anyone have a SHARE proceedings CD with these two presentations that you 
would be willing to share:

"Plumbers Who Dump CVTs and the Control Blocks that Love Them:MVS/TSO 
Pipelines for Systems Programmers", SHARE February 1999, Session 2875, Hobart 
Spitz, Paine Webber

"Two Dimensional Pipes:How CMS Pipelines Differs from UNIX Pipes", SHARE 
97, Summer 2001, Session 9109, Marty Zimelis, Computer Associates


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Enterprise Operations (Station 200) (005OP6.3.10) Information and Technology, 
IT Operations and Services


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Re: Copy / Save screen text function in all TN3270 emulators?

[Nims,Alva John (Al)]

Open Text HostExplorer
1. Can Copy/Paste
2. Save screen to disk
3. Print screen or Print multiple screens.

Al Nims
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UFIT
University of Florida
(352) 273-1298

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Of Kirk Wolf
Sent: Wednesday, April 05, 2017 10:57 AM
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Subject: Copy / Save screen text function in all TN3270 emulators?

I'm begging your indulgence to help with a little poll to understand which
TN3270 emulators have these two capabilities:

For example, here is mine:

Product:  x3270
- Can select screen text and copy to clipboard:  yes  (  /  )
- Has function to save screen as a text file:  yes  (File / Save screen text in 
file )

Your responses would be appreciated.

Kirk Wolf
Dovetailed Technologies
http://dovetail.com

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Re: Happy π Day!

[Nims,Alva John (Al)]

I will "See your Bean Counters" and raise you Network Security persons!!

Al Nims
University of Florida.

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Of Farley, Peter x23353
Sent: Tuesday, March 14, 2017 6:56 PM
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Subject: Re: Happy π Day!

We're all too busy coding up one-off scripts to answer the latest bean counter 
questions for which no one (usually including the bean counters) understands 
the reasoning.

Peter

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Subject: Happy π Day!

Where'd TSO-REXX go?  No action in about a month.



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Re: FTP Client for Mac OS

[Nims,Alva John (Al)]

I will verify that FileZilla is mainframe-friendly, because we use it here at 
UFL.

Al Nims
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf 
Of Dan Little
Sent: Friday, March 10, 2017 7:13 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: FTP Client for Mac OS

I am told that FileZilla is mainframe-friendly.  I don't have first hand 
experience.

Dan


On Fri, Mar 10, 2017 at 05:19 Martin Packer 
wrote:

> Some of you must be using Macs to access z/OS data sets.
>
> I'm looking for a good Mac OS FTP client that can handle PDS members - 
> including ASCII/EBCDIC translation.
>
> Eventually I might need the ability to get zFS files but not yet.
>
> Automation a bonus.
>
> Any recommendations? I'll accept chargeable ones as well as free ones.
>
> Thanks, Martin
>
> Martin Packer,
> zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Cloud & Systems 
> Performance, IBM
>
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Re: z/OS 2.3 preview announcement

[Nims,Alva John (Al)]

Okay, "Close enough for Government Work!" :)

Still, trying to continue that string..

Al Nims
Systems Admin/Programmer 3
UFIT
University of Florida
(352) 273-1298

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[Default] On 8 Mar 2017 07:17:56 -0800, in bit.listserv.ibm-main ajn...@ufl.edu 
(Nims,Alva John  , Al) wrote:

>My lousy $0.02 on this:
>1. 71? Column 71 is the old "Continuation" column in JCL.
>2. How would you code a 71 character DLM='-71 Char' when you already 
>have to code "//name DD DATA,DLM='..." in the JCL, I HATE having to continue 
>quoted strings, I never get it right!

I think 72 is the continuation column because 73 - 80 are the sequence number 
columns.  

Clark Morris
>
>
>Al Nims
>Systems Admin/Programmer 3
>UFIT
>University of Florida
>(352) 273-1298
>
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>Subject: Re: z/OS 2.3 preview announcement
>
>On Tue, 21 Feb 2017 15:13:32 -0600, Tom Marchant wrote:
>
>>Did anyone notice the z/OS 2.3 preview announcement today?
>>http://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/ShowDoc.wss?docURL=/common/ssi/rep_ca
>>/ 5/897/ENUS217-085/index.html_locale=en
>>
>>I found this interesting:
>>
>>
>>New support is planned to be added to allow TSO/E user IDs to be eight 
>>characters long.
>>
>>
>And I read:
>For JES2 in z/OS V2.3, JCL, ...  The DLM keyword on SYSIN is extended from
>2 characters to 18 characters to provide more granularity.
>
>"granularity"?
>
>Underreaching.  It should be as big as possible to provide the programmer 
>maximum confidence of no accidental match within the data.  I'd suggest 71, 
>probably the longest value in a SYSIN line.
>
>Why not JES3, also?
>
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Re: z/OS 2.3 preview announcement

[Nims,Alva John (Al)]

My lousy $0.02 on this:
1. 71? Column 71 is the old "Continuation" column in JCL.
2. How would you code a 71 character DLM='-71 Char' when you already 
have to code "//name DD DATA,DLM='..." in the JCL, I HATE having to continue 
quoted strings, I never get it right!


Al Nims
Systems Admin/Programmer 3
UFIT
University of Florida
(352) 273-1298

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Sent: Tuesday, March 07, 2017 7:16 PM
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On Tue, 21 Feb 2017 15:13:32 -0600, Tom Marchant wrote:

>Did anyone notice the z/OS 2.3 preview announcement today?
>http://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/ShowDoc.wss?docURL=/common/ssi/rep_ca/
>5/897/ENUS217-085/index.html_locale=en
>
>I found this interesting:
>
>
>New support is planned to be added to allow TSO/E user IDs to be eight 
>characters long.
>
>
And I read:
For JES2 in z/OS V2.3, JCL, ...  The DLM keyword on SYSIN is extended from
2 characters to 18 characters to provide more granularity.

"granularity"?

Underreaching.  It should be as big as possible to provide the programmer 
maximum confidence of no accidental match within the data.  I'd suggest 71, 
probably the longest value in a SYSIN line.

Why not JES3, also?

-- gil

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Re: OMVS Automount Processing

[Nims,Alva John (Al)]

Interjecting some useless information.

Yes, MVS data set names are case insensitive, e.g. Upper Case, so the "File 
System to Mount" is Upper case, so the name of the MVS data set containing the 
USS files is Upper Case, but the name of the USS directory name to mount it to 
IS case insensitive.  So /u/whatchamacallit is NOT the same as 
/U/whatchamacallit or /u/Whatchamacallit or /u/WhatChaMaCallIt .

Al Nims
Systems Admin/Programmer 3
UFIT
University of Florida
(352) 273-1298

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On Thu, 2 Mar 2017 13:39:15 +, Roach, Dennis wrote:

>The MVS DSN is
>  TEST1.ZFS.PROD
>test1.ZFS.PROD
>Since MVS DSNs are not case sensitive, yet, they result is the same.

Are you sure? As far as I know, MVS data set names always had to be upper case. 
From the z/OS Unix System Services Command Reference,


filesystem
The name of the file system to mount. This argument is case-sensitive. 
For the HFS file system, this argument must be specified in uppercase.


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