Re: UserKEY CSA/Dataspace scope=common Remdiation

So: '2.4' is not equal to 'the next release after 2.3'? Come on, when will you reveal the name of the new baby? (I just became grandpa, I love babies again). Grtn, Kees. > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On > Behalf Of Jousma,

Re: UserKEY CSA/Dataspace scope=common Remdiation

Post z/OS 2.3, only programs in system keys (0-7) will be able to store into common dataspaces (and CSA). Non-fetch protected system key SCOPE=COMMON data spaces (and non-fetch protected system key CSA) continue to be supported. Jim Mulder z/OS Diagnosis, Design, Development, Test IBM Corp.

RFE - ISPF 3.17 UID Fix

Please comment and if you agree please vote: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe_ID=120120 Description:ISPF 3.17 currently will leave the UID set to whatever the user set it to when the dialog exits. If the user has changed the UID while in ISPF 3.17 then it should

Re: DAF (CBT 094) - Unknown Datatype x01BB

As for DAF issue, if there is a more complete message it might be helpful to show complete text. Second, if there is an author email address, have you tried to send an email? If you create a second thread on the PROC Expansion it will be helpful. Many might not see it do to DAF discussion

Re: trying to reload a pdse after it has been unloaded and ftp'd

For this I have always used ADRDSSU and then Terse'd the results before doing a binary FTP transfer - all while retaining the Terse DCB. Then unterse and ADRDSSU restore and it has worked. Hope this helps -- Lionel B. Dyck

Where is ISPF listserv server?

Apparently the ISPF List was moved some time ago with little notification. Does anyone who understands List servers better, know how we can engage another ListServer to take over the ISPF-L and save the archives? I am only trying to see if it can be done, and if it can, what steps would need

trying to reload a pdse after it has been unloaded and ftp'd

I am trying to reload an unloaded pdse after it has been ftp'd to a target lpar. there is a known problem with this using IEBCOPY UNLOAD/RELOAD described on IBMLINK and none of the work-around overrides to ftp work. TRSMAIN/TERSE does not support PDSE. So I switched over to ADRDSSU. I dump a

Re: trying to reload a pdse after it has been unloaded and ftp'd

You can FTP an XMIT unload. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of Barkow, Eileen Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2018 11:57 AM To:

Re: Netview Submit JCL

I'll repeat the previous response for this problem, but change 'END OF' to ' USR54LST' You need to use placeholders described here to allow 'USR54LST' to be found anywhere in the message: https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSZJDU_6.2.1/ com.ibm.itnetviewforzos.doc_6.2.1/dqa_ata_place.htm

Re: UserKEY CSA/Dataspace scope=common Remdiation

Thanks -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Jousma, David Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2018 8:23 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: UserKEY CSA/Dataspace scope=common Remdiation Pretty much as I posted, but here it

Re: UserKEY CSA/Dataspace scope=common Remdiation

Pretty much as I posted, but here it is verbatim: "If you know the owning address space(s) of the data space(s) in question, and can get an SVC dump (a console dump will do) that includes those address spaces, RASP (ASID 3), and RASP's data spaces, then you can use the RSMDATA DSPACE

Re: Using system symbols in JCL IF statement

I constantly use a numeric "switch" like this. For example, if I want to compile a program, I have one switch that is set to 1 for Panvalet source, and 2 for PDS source. // SET SOURCE=1 1=Panvalet, 2=PDS . . . //TESTSRC IF =1 THEN . . . Extract Panvalet member to

Re: UserKEY CSA/Dataspace scope=common Remdiation

Walt, and all... I was misreading/misunderstanding, relearning as I go As Walt correctly points out, when KEY is not specified on the DSPSERV CREATE, it does default to CALLERKEY. The program in question starts in KEY(8), and since we didn’t set a KEY on the MODE=SUP statement either, it

Re: UserKEY CSA/Dataspace scope=common Remdiation

Can you post the instructions for all of us to use? -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Jousma, David Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2018 7:14 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: UserKEY CSA/Dataspace scope=common

Re: Using system symbols in JCL IF statement

On Tue, 15 May 2018 08:37:36 -0500, Paul Gilmartin wrote: >I believe the only comparisons supported by IF are to a result, such as a >return >code, of a previous step. All examples given do indeed lead one to believe that, but the actual documentation does not specify

Re: UserKEY CSA/Dataspace scope=common Remdiation

So post z/OS 2.3 only programs in system keys (0-7) will be able to access common dataspaces? What happens if you specify FPROT=NO on DSPSERV? Thanks Robin > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On > Behalf Of Jousma, David > Sent: 15

Re: Using system symbols in JCL IF statement

On Wed, 16 May 2018 05:43:39 -0500, Jantje. wrote: >On Tue, 15 May 2018 08:37:36 -0500, Paul Gilmartin wrote: > >>I believe the only comparisons supported by IF are to a result, such as a >>return >>code, of a previous step. > >All examples given do indeed lead one to believe that, but the

Re: Netview Submit JCL

Hello Steve, I understood the meaning of placeholder and will use it to over come this issue But I couldn't understand how to solve issue in rexx code also believe you will not get the expected results in FDIREXXO when (re)assigning: MTXT = DSET Can you please explain this once. I am really

Re: trying to reload a pdse after it has been unloaded and ftp'd

I was going to try XMIT as a last resort but the TERSE/UNTERSE steps added to the ADRDSSU jobs worked. I think that XMIT needs a USERID to send to and there are different userids involved in each lpar. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List

Re: trying to reload a pdse after it has been unloaded and ftp'd

You can easily use TSO Transmit (XMIT) to a dataset thus: XMIT x.y DS(input) ODS(xxx.xmit) Where x.y is node.userid but that can be anything as it is just going to a dataset -- Lionel B. Dyck (Contractor) < Mainframe

Re: Netview Submit JCL

Actually, there will probably not be any issues after all. I believe I was hung up from the earlier IEF878I message. PARSE VAR is deconstructing the variable named MTXT into two items: MSGID and DSET. In this case, MSGID will be assigned value 'IEF403I' and DSET will be assigned value 'USR54LST -

Re: Heretic alert: I really detest TSO REXX (the language)

> Read what I wrote. I did. You wrote " And if BAR || '2' is an assigned variable" in response to " x =value('foo.'bar'2')", and the question has no relevance to that code, which has no variable called BAR or BAR2. The point at issue was the behavior of the value() BIF, which you kept

Re: Netview Submit JCL

In order to trap the message properly: 1. Make sure IEF403I does not have AUTO(NO) in MPFLSTxx 2. The condition below will never be satisfied because TEXT is the COMPLETE message, not only part of it IF MSGID = 'IEF403I' & TEXT = 'USR54LST' & TEXT = MTXT THEN EXEC(CMD('FDIREXXO' MTXT))

Re: trying to reload a pdse after it has been unloaded and ftp'd

We DSS dump and FTP hundreds of PDSs and PDSEs every day (don't ask), both text and loadlibs. From z/OS to z/OS you don't need to worry about tersing for portability. You just need 'type e' and 'mode b' in your FTP control cards. First Tennessee Bank Mainframe Technical Support

Re: Problem with $BUFFER control block

Thanks to replies from friends on this list, I have the exit cleanly assembled, but too early to actually test it. I always hear that there are various ways to skin a cat--ouch--but I took what seemed to be the path of least astonishment. Incorporated $BUFFER in $MODULE thus: COPY

Re: Heretic alert: I really detest TSO REXX (the language)

> The unfortunate thing about REXX is that it hasn't improved over the years. What is ANSI Rexx, chopped liver? TSO/E has not kept up with developments in the REXX world, which says more about TSO/E than about REXX. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3

Re: trying to reload a pdse after it has been unloaded and ftp'd

You don't really need to worry about the XMIT userid - just specify anything at all, ABCD.DEFGHIJK will do. The basic idea is that you are using XMIT to set up a transportable copy of the PDSE and that you will be using FTP to send the file, not actually XMITting it. HTH Peter -Original

Re: trying to reload a pdse after it has been unloaded and ftp'd

Forgot to include the link: https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSLTBW_2.2.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r2.halu001/mvsputsubcmd.htm On Wed, May 16, 2018 at 12:55 PM, Steve Horein wrote: > Although I haven't used it much, it would seem ftp's MVSPUT 'XCICS.FA.HIST' >

Re: trying to reload a pdse after it has been unloaded and ftp'd

Although I haven't used it much, it would seem ftp's MVSPUT 'XCICS.FA.HIST' 'XCICS.FA.HIST.RESTORED' (REALLOC could eliminate some steps? On Wed, May 16, 2018 at 10:57 AM, Barkow, Eileen wrote: > I am trying to reload an unloaded pdse after it has been ftp'd to a target

Re: trying to reload a pdse after it has been unloaded and ftp'd

There is a 'mput' ftp command to ftp all the members but it takes a long time. I am not sure about the MVSPUT option. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Steve Horein Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2018 1:56 PM To:

Re: Allocating an SMS managed dataset in TSO with space in bytes

When AVGREC/AVGVAL came about in the early SMS era, I thought, given our generally records-based view on things in the z/OS world, it would be 'nice' if logical space allocations could be done effectively requesting numbers of records (as an alternative to having to explicitly request bytes).

Re: Should be easy with SORT :) I thought (:

Thank you for your help to date. It has been most welcome. I appreciate that Syncsort is a competitor. I did specify that I was using Syncsort with my original request. > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] > On Behalf Of Sri h

DAF (CBT 094) - Unknown Datatype x01BB

Has anyone seen on z/OS2.2 I see DAF is reporting "Unknown Datatype x01BB" and while downloading and assemble/linkedit latest CBT 094 gives me 0255 for various undefined symbol though I have checked the maclib . anyone the point is has anyone recent ran DAF against SMF data for 14/15 for

Re: Allocating an SMS managed dataset in TSO with space in bytes

AVGREC=M,SPACE=(1,(1,1)) allocates one MB with a 1MB secondary extension in JCL. AVGREC(M) AVBLOCK(1) SPACE(1,1) will do the same thing in TSO. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to

Re: Should be easy with SORT :) I thought (:

Dave, Your WERxxx messages that you are using Syncsort which is a competitor for DFSORT and unfortunately I cannot fix the problem. So may be you need to talk to their support. For the record IFTHEN=(WHEN=GROUP,KEYBEGIN=(9,1),PUSH=(31:ID=8,SEQ=1)) statements works fine with DFSORT. Thanks,

Re: CICS and DB2

I believe there is a DB2 JDBC driver. How, exactly, you get it installed and running under CICS should be documented by IBM. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to

Re: Netview Submit JCL

Ooops! Very right, first variable passed to the REXX is the MSGID... So, my fixed suggestion for the REXX would be the same as Steve's => parse arg mtxt . mtxt Sorry for the confusion here. I think SEND without the commas works (at least is has worked for me for at least a year now), but

Re: Should be easy with SORT :) I thought (:

Thanks, this did work. But, the reall group is signaled by a change in the first char of the disk volume. I tried IFTHEN=(WHEN=GROUP,KEYBEGIN=(9,1),PUSH=(31:ID=8,SEQ=1)), And I get WER486A ERROR IN JNF1 PROCESSING WER482I JNF1 STATISTICS WER268A INREC STATEMENT :

Re: trying to reload a pdse after it has been unloaded and ftp'd

On Wed, 16 May 2018 16:50:43 +, Barkow, Eileen wrote: >THANK YOU Lionel! >The TERSE/UNTERSE worked. >Although I think that these utilities should be able to work on their own. > +1 Archivers such as IEBCOPY, ADRDSSU, TRSMAIN, ... should generate portable archives which can be transmitted

Re: IBMVSM,ZOSMIGV2R3_NEXT_VSM_USERKEYCOMM

I'm catching up late here, but in connection with the original poster's statement, couldn't the health check "go hunting" and report the offenders? -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to

Re: trying to reload a pdse after it has been unloaded and ftp'd

I used mode b type e and ADRSSSU is not recognizing the INPUT file ADR389E (001)-TDDS (07), INVALID INPUT ON DDNAME IN, INPUT DATA SET NOT PRODUCED //RESTFAEXEC PGM=ADRDSSU,COND=(0,NE) //SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=* //IN DD

Re: trying to reload a pdse after it has been unloaded and ftp'd

That looks like the DCB for a tersed dataset. DSS would be creating RECFM=U and BLKSIZE=27998 on disk. Try this instead: LOCSITE VARrecfm LRECL=27998 RECFM=U BLKSIZE=27998 First Tennessee Bank Mainframe Technical Support -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List

Re: trying to reload a pdse after it has been unloaded and ftp'd

I forgot to change the DCB info for the untersed datatset. It is working now - Thanks Bob -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Jackson, Rob Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2018 4:17 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re:

Re: trying to reload a pdse after it has been unloaded and ftp'd

Also, you should consider using a FTP PUT as the second step of the dump-creating job, if the FTP server is running on your target system. The FTP client does a good job of setting the SITE command appropriately for you. Then you just have to worry about setting size on the target, if the

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: IBMVSM,ZOSMIGV2R3_NEXT_VSM_USERKEYCOMM

On any currently supported release of z/OS, in DIAGxx, you can specify ALLOWUSERKEYCADS(NO) This will cause a 01D-xx0015xx abend when an attempt is made to obtain a user key (8-15) SCOPE=COMMON data space. On z/OS 2.3 (but not on lower releases), in DIAGxx, you can specify NUCLABEL

Re: trying to reload a pdse after it has been unloaded and ftp'd

Thanks a lot for type e and mode b - I remember using them for something or other in the past. Getting rid of the terse will help. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Jackson, Rob Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2018 2:09 PM To:

Re: DAF (CBT 094) - Unknown Datatype x01BB

I downloaded the latest DAF from the CBT site and assembled it, without any serious problems. I turned off most options (_ SETC C'000', also _DFSMS07 SETC 'NO ' to get it to assemble, as noted in the DAF comments). I did not get an "Unknown Datatype x'011b'" if I provided DAF with only SMF

Syncsort to DFSort Migration

Hello All, We are planning to migrate Syncsort to IBM DFSort, May you share your thoughts on it, some might have done this on their shops, please share your experience Thanks, Samat -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive