Yahoo Groups has been reduced to email only, and is going away Dec 15, 2020.
On Sun, Oct 18, 2020 at 2:34 PM Lizette Koehler wrote:
>
> If you have not done so, there are several groups you may be interested in
>
> Other Mainframe groups (Hercules-390,hercules-os380,H390-MVS, VM, VSE) went
> to Groups.io which has a free basic service; but you would have to pay for
> the premium service.
>
> Some are on Yahoo Groups, some Listserver, etc
>
> Hope this helps.
>
>
> -Original Message-
> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of
> raheel nomani
> Sent: Sunday, October 18, 2020 11:13 AM
> To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
> Subject: Re: getting XCFAS down
>
> Hello there,
>
> i am a CS graduate. in the year 1995. and i have never worked on any computer
> other than IBM. Recently (a few weeks ago) I downloaded an emulator, called
> as hercules. for s/390 and s/370 and z/architecture type of IBM mainframe
> machines. till here with me. Now, the problem begins. what the documents i
> downloaded along with the hercules emulator and the TN3270 client. I can not
> make head and tail out of it. There are certain commands that I understand
> and can replicate on the hercules. but others. like i think i need to
> allocate storage to make any other headway. But, what to do, zilch. HLAS kind
> of thing is not running but a certain kind of scripts specialty that r 204
> kind of command works. but, they are like core dumps.
> what to do with them. hahahaha. I am not on a deadline. so, you can relax.
> but, do help. I kind of think that I can understand any device. I can send
> some info. But what kind of info are you looking for? i can not understand
> that
>
> On Sun, Oct 18, 2020 at 9:05 PM Peter Relson wrote:
>
> > Fortunately, as the responses showed, the subject request was NOT what
> > was appropriate to do.
> > If XCFAS is down, then that z/OS is down, a wait state.
> >
> > Renaming a data set that is in the LNKLST is inappropriate in all cases.
> > LNKLST UNALLOCATE...LNKLST ALLOCATE
> > is intended for a case where you need to deal with an uncataloged data
> > set with the same name as a data set in the LNKLST.
> >
> > If you instead use that approach to mess with LNKLST data sets, you
> > are in unsupported territory and anything that goes wrong is your fault.
> >
> > It is expected that LNKLST data sets are cataloged.
> >
> > Peter Relson
> > z/OS Core Technology Design
> >
> >
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