Re: Shocking Bug in Latest PCOMM Release

>It seems that IBM's testing of this product has become shoddy at best. The developers are PC developers and not 3270 users. Clearly they don't "eat" their own "cooking." Silly man: assuming that there's anybody left at IBM to test anything any more! Don't be daft. With fewer than 25K domestic

Re: Finally joined Linkedin

​welcome back! ITschak ​ On Tue, Nov 21, 2017 at 9:23 PM, Seymour J Metz wrote: > 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

Re: Useful little utility?

A quick FYI, SDSF has the "PARM" (2.1+) and "PROC" (2.2+) commands that display the PARMLIB and JES2 PROCLIB concatenations. You can search for a member name mask in the displayed list and then use NP actions to access the matching members. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe

Re: Useful little utility?

DDLIST (ISRDDN) has this capability out of the box Just type PARMLIB to add the logical parmlib concatenation to your display. You can then issue O(nly) PARMLIB command followed by M(ember) xxx. Andrew -- For IBM-MAIN

Re: ECVTDUCU & "trap" condition in z/OS

There is no additional documentation and there are no other references because there is no particular need for there to be. If you are using the trap instructions then you know (or need to know) about the trap control block and that the trap instructions architecture requires you to provide

Re: Useful little utility?

Rob, I've been playing with that too. ENQC is nice, shows plex-wide enq contention, ENQ not so much, kludgy IMO. By default ENQ is single system, and to enable all systems, you have to also specify major name. So ENQ SYSDSN * to get all systems in the plex. No way to pass any kind of

Re: Useful little utility?

Well, there is that... :) _ Dave Jousma Manager Mainframe Engineering, Assistant Vice President david.jou...@53.com 1830 East Paris, Grand Rapids, MI  49546 MD RSCB2H p 616.653.8429 f 616.653.2717 -Original Message- From:

Re: Useful little utility?

Even ardent GRS star advocates had a hard time buying this story some years ago. We had a single non-sharing system where a catalog management job ran many times longer than on any other system--even the feeble sysprog sandbox. In comparing systems, the only visible difference I could see was

Re: Useful little utility?

Dave, SDSF primary command syntax is a bit clunky as it has to support "the way it has always worked" and every parameter is positional rather than a more modern "keyword(value)" or "keyword=value" format. I have the ear of the current SDSF development team and perhaps they can provide

Re: IEBUPDTE question

In addition to IEBUPDTE-like utilities, StarTool (and I would hope its CBT predecessor) has a REPLACE function that can scan an entire PDS(E) and replace one string with another as long the result does not exceed line length. It allows such filters as WORD, PREFIX, and SUFFIX. You can make a

Re: ECVTDUCU & "trap" condition in z/OS

Peter, Thanks for the reply. But there is still the second question I asked - Can you say if there is any (near?) future possibility of a PC or SVC interface that would permit application-level code (problem state, non-zero-key) to use the TRAP facility? Such a facility would make many

Small SMP utility for USS (was "Include FMID, PTFID and APARID as eye catcher in each LMOD")

I've written a little Unix command that uses the SMP/E query API to dig information out of the CSI. The output is not especially human-friendly; it's intended for processing by scripts. You can get it from github: https://github.com/zorts/smpapi

Re: Useful little utility?

My wish for ISRDDN would be to be able to toggle on/off sysplex-wide ENQ data for STAR mode GRS configuration. ISRDDN ENQ pulls up a TASID-like panel, but there is no way to make it display global enqueues that I can see. All I get is a LIMITED ENQ DATA in the upper right corner, and

Re: Useful little utility?

John, I wonder how many of us missed that little improvement. I use ISRDDN enough times per day that I created a command table entry for it so that I only have to type DDN from anywhere. I just checked the new PARM command in SDSF. If you are using SYSNAME *, it will search for a member

Re: Useful little utility?

Check out the new "ENQ" command in SDSF (2.1+) as it supports sysplex-wide ENQ information display. Note that you can also do an "N" action in the "NP" column on the DA panel to show enqueues for the ASID only. Rob Scott -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List

Re: Useful little utility?

For this, MXI ENQ is your friend. Thanks Rob! -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Jousma, David Sent: Tuesday, November 21, 2017 9:03 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Useful little utility? My wish for ISRDDN

Re: ECVTDUCU & "trap" condition in z/OS

On Tue, Nov 21, 2017 at 6:55 AM, Peter Relson wrote: > There is no additional documentation and there are no other references > because there is no particular need for there to be. > > If you are using the trap instructions then you know (or need to know) > about the trap

Re: Useful little utility?

"Scotty, I need more power!" :-) On my zEC12 system with three logical CPs, observably less than a second. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Jousma, David Sent: Tuesday, November 21, 2017 9:47 AM To:

Re: IEBUPDTE question

On Mon, 20 Nov 2017 23:15:14 -0600, Edward Gould wrote: > >> I suspect 1-8 was an intended accommodation to VB. And in another apparent >> accommodation, ISPF Edit until recently would not create an 8-character >> record >> but always padded it with an additional blank. > >I don’t think so as

Re: IEBUPDTE question

On Tue, 21 Nov 2017 15:32:37 +1100, Wayne Bickerdike wrote: >Assuming the cards with a ./ don't have the correct syntax, why not do an >EXCLUDE ALL, FIND ALL ./. > >EXCLUDE all the correct ./ cards and then do a DEL ALL NX > I asumed he wanted them preserved as data records, not deleted. -- gil

Re: Useful little utility?

Thanks for the feedback Rob. I doubt its lack of horsepower. I'll have to dig into this further. _ Dave Jousma Manager Mainframe Engineering, Assistant Vice President david.jou...@53.com 1830 East Paris, Grand Rapids, MI  49546

Shocking Bug in Latest PCOMM Release

Just installed PCOMM 13.0. It was released November 9, 2017. The DEL key just beeps. Doesn't delete *any* characters! IBM's PCOMM developers must not have actual 3270 users participating in the their early testing. I hereby volunteer... -- Phoenix Software International Edward E. Jaffe 831

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

Martin wrote: > A DFSORT stage would/could/should allow all the myriad* DFSORT control statements. And be for heavy lifting. Those are the two reasons I suggested it. I was going to do some details research (my DFSORT knowledge is probably out of date, for which I take responsibility), but time

Re: Finally joined Linkedin

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

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

Hi, Here is a sample DFSORT job that reads a pipe and does a sort while modifying the data using inrec(before sorting) Outrec(after sorting) and Outfil //PIPEDEMA JOB (DA26,001,098,J69),'KOLUSU', // CLASS=A, // MSGCLASS=H, // MSGLEVEL=(1,1), //

Re: Finally joined Linkedin

Blame the keyboard; I'm not dyslexic. That's my story and I'm sticking to it. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of Nims,Alva John (Al) Sent:

Re: Finally joined Linkedin

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! :) Al Nims Systems Admin/Programmer 3 UFIT University of Florida (352) 273-1298 -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe

Finally joined Linkedin

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,

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

I have never worked with pipes in a production batch environment. In a classic batch job, if a problem occurs somewhere in the middle, it's common to restart the job at some recoverable point after fixing the downstream problem. I cannot visualize how to restart a pipes job in such a case.

Re: Finally joined Linkedin

Glad to see you are back. Missed your great comments. I remember an old friend who was a dyslexic, insomniac and an atheist. He stayed awake most of the night Wondering if there really was a DOG. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On

Re: Shocking Bug in Latest PCOMM Release

On 11/21/2017 4:28 PM, Ed Jaffe wrote: Just installed PCOMM 13.0. It was released November 9, 2017. The DEL key just beeps. Doesn't delete *any* characters! IBM's PCOMM developers must not have actual 3270 users participating in the their early testing. I hereby volunteer... LOL that you

CF REPORT

Hi all Below is our three CF reports at the same time. Report 1. CFSYS from RMF MONIII The Coupling Facility Systems (CF Systems) report (CFSYS) gives you information about the distribution of coupling facility requests among the systems and about the activities in the subchannels and

Re: Shocking Bug in Latest PCOMM Release

On 11/21/2017 6:57 PM, Tom Conley wrote: LOL that you expect a reasonable default keyboard.  WAKE UP, MAN! This problem is not caused by a messed up keyboard map. Incredibly, the DEL key simply does not work any more! Believe it or not, as inconvenient as it is, it's actually a *less*

Re: Shocking Bug in Latest PCOMM Release

Tom Brennan Vista? Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Ed Jaffe Sent: Tuesday, November 21, 2017 7:37 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Shocking Bug in Latest PCOMM Release On 11/21/2017 6:57 PM, Tom

Re: Shocking Bug in Latest PCOMM Release

Two words. Vista TN3270. . . J.O.Skip Robinson Southern California Edison Company Electric Dragon Team Paddler SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager 323-715-0595 Mobile 626-543-6132 Office ⇐=== NEW robin...@sce.com -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List

Re: Shocking Bug in Latest PCOMM Release

On 11/21/2017 7:43 PM, Charles Mills wrote: Tom Brennan Vista? We use that too (an excellent product). We use most of the most well-known emulators: PCOMM, Extra!, BlueZone, Hummingbird, QWS3270, etc. even x3270 I know Tom "eats" his own "cooking," probably with a fork, knife, and

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

Jesse, If one end of the pipe fails for any reason, then both ends would have to be rerun. The redbook "Batch Modernization on 
z/OS" chapter 16 explains the use of Batch pipes. Martin Packer is one of the co-author. http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg247779.html Thanks, Kolusu

Re: Finally joined Linkedin

Welcome back! Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Seymour J Metz Sent: Tuesday, November 21, 2017 1:54 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Finally joined Linkedin Blame the keyboard; I'm not dyslexic.

Re: Finally joined Linkedin

Hear, hear! I was beginning to fear the worst. > On Nov 21, 2017, at 18:35, Charles Mills wrote: > > Welcome back! > > Charles > > --- > > > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On > Behalf Of Seymour J Metz

Re: Useful little utility?

On Tue, Nov 21, 2017 at 5:41 AM, Andrew Metcalfe < 0149a256c9e8-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > DDLIST (ISRDDN) has this capability out of the box > Just type PARMLIB to add the logical parmlib concatenation to your display. > You can then issue O(nly) PARMLIB command followed by

Re: Useful little utility?

I like MXI, but in my shop shareware is not to be used outside of our own group. Same with TASID. _ Dave Jousma Manager Mainframe Engineering, Assistant Vice President david.jou...@53.com 1830 East Paris, Grand Rapids, MI  49546

Re: Useful little utility?

I am sure Rob would be willing to sell you the non-shareware version marketed by Rocket Software. :-) -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Jousma, David Sent: Tuesday, November 21, 2017 9:49 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU

Re: IEBUPDTE question

On Tue, 21 Nov 2017 19:14:30 -0600, Edward Gould wrote: >> In days of yore panel definitions for SPF (now known as ISPF) were VB. Abruptly they changed to FB. Disruptively -- it broke all my customized panels. Cognoscenti surmised this was an accommodation to SMP(/E)

Re: Finally joined Linkedin

Glad to see you back! On Tue, Nov 21, 2017 at 3:23 PM, Seymour J Metz wrote: > 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

Re: IEBUPDTE question

> On Nov 21, 2017, at 10:24 AM, Jesse 1 Robinson > wrote: > > In addition to IEBUPDTE-like utilities, StarTool (and I would hope its CBT > predecessor) has a REPLACE function that can scan an entire PDS(E) and > replace one string with another as long the result does

Re: Finally joined Linkedin

> On Nov 21, 2017, at 3:23 PM, Seymour J Metz wrote: > > 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

Re: IEBUPDTE question

> On Nov 21, 2017, at 12:27 PM, Paul Gilmartin > <000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > > Have you a more plausible conjecture? If not, I'm sticking with mine. And > the chronology you assume fits with my explanation. > >>> In days of yore panel definitions for SPF (now

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

On Tue, 21 Nov 2017 15:37:57 -0700, Sri h Kolusu wrote: > >If one end of the pipe fails for any reason, then both ends would have to >be rerun. The redbook "Batch Modernization on 
z/OS" chapter 16 >explains the use of Batch pipes. Martin Packer is one of the co-author. >

Re: Shocking Bug in Latest PCOMM Release

I eat the same cooking. Have not used any other emulator since Tom moseyed by my desk one day eons ago and said, I'd like you to try this out. I was hooked. But I understand the need to keep one's feet wet in different emulators. Even Tom did that for several reasons. Ha! I was more of purist

Re: Shocking Bug in Latest PCOMM Release

On 22/11/2017 11:36 AM, Ed Jaffe wrote: LOL that you expect a reasonable default keyboard.  WAKE UP, MAN! This problem is not caused by a messed up keyboard map. Incredibly, the DEL key simply does not work any more! Believe it or not, as inconvenient as it is, it's actually a *less*

Re: Shocking Bug in Latest PCOMM Release

On 11/21/2017 8:44 PM, Jesse 1 Robinson wrote: Two words. Vista TN3270. One word: x3270 -- Jack J. Woehr # Science is more than a body of knowledge. It's a way of www.well.com/~jax # thinking, a way of skeptically interrogating the universe www.softwoehr.com # with a fine understanding

Re: doubt on catalog

is it possible to copy master catalog of sys A to SYST ? On Mon, Nov 20, 2017 at 6:33 PM, johnnydeep san wrote: > on RDZ ,SYSA lpar we mentioned script like this" 0A91 3390 > C:\**\***\ " , is non-sms volume i installed product > using smpe and