Re: General question on moving DFHSM work from mix TAPE/DASD to More DASD

2014-08-23 Thread TonyIcloud-OPERA
Yes, 1988. We had abundant spinning DASD since that's the only kind that existed. It was a small MVS shop that IBM provided ($$) generously. Usual questions: 1. Do you have enough disk? No guessing allowed. 2. Is the tape mount scenario driving this plan? 2. Will it complicate your DR? 3.

Re: Ada's fate

2014-08-23 Thread TonyIcloud-OPERA
But other than that it's obsolete, right? Snicker snicker. On Sat, 23 Aug 2014 10:27:30 -0500, Anne Lynn Wheeler l...@garlic.com wrote: rto...@ceti.com.pl (Tomasz Rola) writes: So, now the 5-6 years old anecdote about one contractor stating that Ada is obsolete makes much more sense,

Re: DF/SORT question (challenge?)

2014-08-21 Thread TonyIcloud-OPERA
=(1,44),PUSH=(101:ID=4)) $$ // DD DSN=C,DISP=(OLD,PASS) //* Further if you have any questions please let me know Thanks, Kolusu DFSORT Development IBM Corporation IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU wrote on 08/20/2014 07:34:48 AM: From: TonyIcloud-OPERA tonybabo

Re: DF/SORT question (challenge?)

2014-08-21 Thread TonyIcloud-OPERA
] On Behalf Of TonyIcloud-OPERA Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2014 12:19 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: DF/SORT question (challenge?) Before I tried the solution cited below (TYVM BTW), I set up a test manually with some interesting results. The input file is not sorted, and I'm only

Re: DF/SORT question (challenge?)

2014-08-21 Thread TonyIcloud-OPERA
: TonyIcloud-OPERA tonybabo...@icloud.com To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Date: 08/21/2014 09:25 AM Subject: Re: DF/SORT question (challenge?) Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Before I tried the solution cited below (TYVM BTW), I set up a test manually with some

DF/SORT question (challenge?)

2014-08-20 Thread TonyIcloud-OPERA
I have a dataset that contains records with a field, by which I need to create a separate dataset that would contain all occurrences of that field. For example the file, FB100, looks like value1 other data. value1 other data. value1 other data. value2 other data. value2 other

Re: DF/SORT question (challenge?)

2014-08-20 Thread TonyIcloud-OPERA
our bureaucracy. On Wed, 20 Aug 2014 09:58:13 -0500, John McKown john.archie.mck...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 9:34 AM, TonyIcloud-OPERA tonybabo...@icloud.com wrote: I have a dataset that contains records with a field, by which I need to create a separate dataset

Re: DF/SORT question (challenge?)

2014-08-20 Thread TonyIcloud-OPERA
I once allocated a PDSE, and using DF/SORT, wrote 1,000 members to it in one pass of data. I was tempted to try 10K output members but my beverage wager was already won. When I get a bit of time, since I already have devised a technique to generate N number of DD statements and OUTFIL

Re: TSO Logon region size increase

2014-08-07 Thread TonyIcloud-OPERA
Hello Vinoth, here is a method that I have used in the past to change this value for all users that currently have a TSO segment. 1. Obtain a list of all user ACIDs that have a TSO segment. The TS database unload can be used to create this list. If you need further advice on this task

Re: TSO Logon region size increase

2014-08-07 Thread TonyIcloud-OPERA
...@bestbuy.com wrote: Hi All, Thanks all for valuable inputs, it worked. Thank you..!! Vinoth M -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of TonyIcloud-OPERA Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2014 7:59 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU

Re: to use wildcard characters in JCl

2014-07-26 Thread TonyIcloud-OPERA
Rajesh, there are various methods to create JCL (and parameters therein) using various programming languages, REXX being one of several possible methods. Various members of this list have favorite methods, again REXX being quite popular. How proficient are you in coding REXX? Are you

TSO Test does not support 64-bit debugging WAS (Re: CMS Editors was TSO Test does not support 65-bit debugging? )

2014-07-07 Thread TonyIcloud-OPERA
Couldn't resist the subject update. It's having removed a pebble from in my shoe. Interesting thread though. On Mon, 07 Jul 2014 12:01:53 -0500, Webster, Chris chris_webs...@bmc.com wrote: I remember using full screen editors named EDGAR and FUSE prior to XEDIT. Don't remember which

Re: Dynamic Allocation Subroutine

2014-03-24 Thread TonyICLOUD
Imagine how Dr. Alzheimer felt when a disease was named after him. On 3/24/2014 4:16 PM, DASDBILL2 wrote: I was toying with the idea of giving him a Shmuel-type answer: either this: Yes. or this: SVC 99 - Original Message - From: Mike La Martina

Re: Reflexivity

2014-03-21 Thread TonyICLOUD
In the bad old days this was called a Suicide Sort. Sadly, it was often necessitated by lack of disk space, or horror of horrors, lack of scratch tapes. I remember a time, with a spendthrift company, that I routinely re-initialized old version vendor installation tapes to use for output. CA

Re: curious: volsers 6 non-blank chars non-numeric tape

2014-03-14 Thread TonyICLOUD
ISTR that CA used to (since the 80s) distribute their installation tapes with alpha plus numeric volsers. I recall that the volser reflected the version/mod level of the product. On 3/14/2014 1:22 PM, Elardus Engelbrecht wrote: John McKown wrote: 1) Has anybody ever had a VOLSER which

Re: assembler

2014-02-19 Thread TonyICLOUD
..want to trade On 2/19/2014 7:49 AM, Elardus Engelbrecht wrote: John McKown wrote: So why not a test bit instruction, instead of needing to generate a bit mask from the bit number, then do something like an EX of an NI or some such (as I'm sure many have seen and done). This

DF/SORT, joinkeys or splice ?

2014-02-11 Thread TonyICLOUD
I'm trying to match-merge 2 input files based on a key. I want to create an output file with a record for every key from input1 plus all records with a match key from input2. I haven't found a specific example in the books so I'm asking for help. What I have: //input1 dd * key1 blah key2