Re: FB to VB PDS

2015-02-14 Thread Tony's Basement Computer
Quoting my dearly departed mother, Is this the biggest problem in your life today? -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Bill Godfrey Sent: Saturday, February 14, 2015 1:46 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: FB

Re: FB to VB PDS

2015-02-13 Thread Tony's Basement Computer
Not being sure if the original post required individual members, the output of IEBPTPCH could be modified. from :MEMBER NAME to ./ ADDetc etc so as to provide input to IEBUPDTE. I'm not sure of how trailing blanks will be treated. I did something like this years ago, but in

Re: XREF Members of JCL libs and their datasets

2015-02-13 Thread Tony's Basement Computer
No no, John is correct. Page 1 of the installation guide states: My, you are handsome! -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Mitch Sent: Friday, February 13, 2015 12:09 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re:

Re: FB to VB PDS

2015-02-13 Thread Tony's Basement Computer
Or in my case, EE, forever is July 1. (he he he) -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Elardus Engelbrecht Sent: Friday, February 13, 2015 12:11 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: FB to VB PDS Tony's Basement

Re: What exactly does SHRD tell me in the IEF032I step end message?

2015-01-26 Thread Tony's Basement Computer
Geez Jim, you been hangin' around Metz too long. :-) -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Jim Mulder Sent: Monday, January 26, 2015 1:16 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: What exactly does SHRD tell me in the

Another df/sort objective.

2015-01-23 Thread Tony's Basement Computer
Guys, I have a classic case of WHEN=GROUP processing.I have an input file FB/80: Header1..data-I-need-in-column 1 Detail1.data-I-need-in-column 10 Detail2.data-I-need-in-column 20 Detail3..data-I-need-in-column 30 Header2... data-I-need-in_column 1etc

Re: Another df/sort objective.

2015-01-23 Thread Tony's Basement Computer
: Tony's Basement Computer tbabo...@comcast.net To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Date: 01/23/2015 09:41 AM Subject: Another df/sort objective. Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Guys, I have a classic case of WHEN=GROUP processing.I have an input file FB/80

Re: Boston - what a place

2015-01-13 Thread Tony's Basement Computer
The entry for Congerville, IL is incorrect. A farmer called it in using the C scale. I drove right by that morning and laughed at the radio. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Tuesday, January

Re: Enumerating User IDs (was: CANCEL TSO Logon?)

2015-01-05 Thread Tony's Basement Computer
DVDU NOT RACF-DEFINED The above was generated using the CICS CESN signon transaction. From: Tony's Basement Computer tbabo...@comcast.net To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Sent: Monday, January 5, 2015 9:57 AM Subject: Re: Enumerating User IDs (was: CANCEL TSO Logon?) Back years ago I

Re: CANCEL TSO Logon?

2015-01-05 Thread Tony's Basement Computer
Being old enough to remember the pre-Protected days, when this feature appeared we implemented it into every user profile we could find that satisfied the criteria. Zero pain, more uninterrupted sleep. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List

Re: CANCEL TSO Logon?

2015-01-05 Thread Tony's Basement Computer
I once suggested to management that we secure our z/OS user profiles. At the time they were used as EMAIL addresses as well. I explained the scenario of rotating IDs as Mike suggested it could lead to a DoS exploitation. Naturally the EMAIL people prevailed.sigh. -Original

Re: CANCEL TSO Logon?

2015-01-05 Thread Tony's Basement Computer
.a user without a TSO segment ? -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Boris Lenz Sent: Monday, January 05, 2015 9:44 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: CANCEL TSO Logon? On Mon, January 5, 2015 16:29, Charles

Re: CANCEL TSO Logon?

2015-01-05 Thread Tony's Basement Computer
DoS, revoke all the non-Special and non-Protected users. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Vernooij, CP (ITOPT1) - KLM Sent: Monday, January 05, 2015 9:46 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: CANCEL TSO Logon?

Re: article that may be of interest to some of us

2014-12-22 Thread Tony's Basement Computer
Agreed, and I even convinced my 2 buddies, the 71 year old heart surgeon and the 70 year old pilot. I figured I'd change careers eventually, maybe I'll drive the courtesy van at my local Cadillac dealer. ;-) -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List

Re: Utility to replace occurrences of string in PDS?

2014-12-16 Thread Tony's Basement Computer
This thread brings back a memory from back in the day when they actually paid me to be a SYSPROG. IPOUPDTE was all we had so we added a step to load the sacred member, do the changes, delete the member in a following step. Annoying, like my new Keurig coffee machine. -Original

Re: ibm 3278 talking terminal

2014-11-10 Thread Tony's Basement Computer
Thanks for links, John. I'll check them both. There is another aspect to vision impairment that most web based apps introduce their own deficiency, i.e. contrast. We have some folks whose vision doesn't need enlargement or magnification because that's not their challenge. Contrast is the

Re: Any standard IBM tool to set ISPF statistics in a batch step?

2014-09-30 Thread Tony's Basement Computer
Years ago, I'm guessing maybe 10, I wanted to do exactly that, create a PDS or PDSE, by writing a bunch of members, then in the next job step reset all the stats, just to get record counts. Being too lazy to go 3.5 or S * G, I posted this request to the list. Some kind REXXer sent in a reply,

Another DF/SORT quest. (splice?)

2014-09-15 Thread Tony's Basement Computer
I'm trying to develop a seemingly simple SPLICE operation where all the input comes from a single dataset. I want to combine several records types into 1 record containing the fields from each input record type. For example I have an input file where various types can appear in a

Re: GDG Job issue

2014-09-08 Thread Tony's Basement Computer
Since all the DCB stuff is there why even specify a model? I haven't for decades. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Clark, David Sent: Monday, September 08, 2014 12:11 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: GDG

Re: IEFUJI problem, preventing TSO logon

2014-06-26 Thread Tony's Basement Computer
Likewise, I have shot myself in a lower extremity when creating/modifying a logon proc. A once old timer advised while still in edit, submit it. JCL errors will occur then as opposed to later. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU]

Re: Mainframe on NCIS

2014-06-22 Thread Tony's Basement Computer
Years ago at our county fair I asked one of the 083 fortune tellers are you sure that's 9 edge, face down? Blank stare was his reply. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Robert A. Rosenberg Sent: Sunday, June 22, 2014

df/sort parameter error. fixlen with leading zero

2014-06-20 Thread Tony's Basement Computer
I have a minor DF/SORT application that works on one LPAR and fails on another. The leading zero appears to be the culprit. PARSE=(%01=(ABSPOS=31,ENDBEFR=C'.',FIXLEN=8)), works cc=0, but if I specify 08 (zero-eight) for FIXLEN

Catalog manipulation (was RE: DFDSS QUESTION - SEMI URGENT - EXPLANATION)

2014-06-16 Thread Tony's Basement Computer
This brings back memories of a small zOS shop I worked at in the late 90s. They routinely built user catalogs whose entire name was 8 characters or less, and intentionally happened to match a high level qualifier(s). Their reasoning for this practice was that they did not have to define aliases.

Re: Demonstrating Moore's law

2014-06-10 Thread Tony's Basement Computer
Holy Granola Ed, I had to do a double take. This post looked like a Wheeler-mania. :-) -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Ed Finnell Sent: Tuesday, June 10, 2014 2:21 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re:

Re: XR vs SR

2014-06-04 Thread Tony's Basement Computer
Gilmore, did Dale Carnegie ever punch you in the nose? -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of John Gilmore Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2014 8:49 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: XR vs SR Shane, How is it that I