Re: How to delete and allocate files in bpxbatch

2019-05-28 Thread Billy Ashton
parameters (data class, storage class) on that allocate when I run in batch JCL mode? Thanks! B On Tue, May 28, 2019 at 2:46 PM John McKown wrote: > On Tue, May 28, 2019 at 12:44 PM Billy Ashton > wrote: > > > Does anyone have a sample of Bpxbatch commands to delete a z

Re: How to delete and allocate files in bpxbatch

2019-05-31 Thread Billy Ashton
Hi John, I am getting ready to go away for a few days, and when I get back I will give you a mockup of my workflow so you can see what's what. Thanks for helping! Billy On Wed, May 29, 2019 at 10:58 AM John McKown wrote: > On Wed, May 29, 2019 at 8:38 AM Billy Ashton > wrote: >

Re: How to delete and allocate files in bpxbatch

2019-05-29 Thread Billy Ashton
. If not, however, then so be it. Thanks again! Billy On Tue, May 28, 2019 at 3:07 PM John McKown wrote: > On Tue, May 28, 2019 at 1:55 PM Billy Ashton > wrote: > > > Hi John, yes (sorry), I should have mentioned this is in a shell script. > A > > couple more questions,

How to delete and allocate files in bpxbatch

2019-05-28 Thread Billy Ashton
Does anyone have a sample of Bpxbatch commands to delete a z/OS flat file, and then to allocate it anew? I am trying to work out some processing, and this would be in the middle of a set of commands. I would hate to break this up into three job steps, just to insert the delete/allocate in the

Re: Generating random values

2019-04-26 Thread Billy Ashton
Hi Kolusu, this is a pretty neat feature, and I can see a use for it in other areas I support. If I understand what this is doing, though, it sounds like it creates a single linear date file from beginning to end date. What I was looking for is a randomizer that will arbitrarily add dates in my

Generating random values

2019-04-26 Thread Billy Ashton
Hi all! I am trying to generate some data records using DFSORT based on a previous discussion here, and want to generate random date fields in MMDD format. I have specific years that need to be in the data (2015 and 2016), but there can also be other years as well. I think I can do this by

Re: Displaying raw disk data

2019-07-17 Thread Billy Ashton
on.gmu.edu/~smetz3 > > > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf > of Billy Ashton > Sent: Wednesday, July 17, 2019 1:01 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Displaying raw disk data > > Hi everyone, I have an unusual problem. Somehow, one of my

Displaying raw disk data

2019-07-17 Thread Billy Ashton
Hi everyone, I have an unusual problem. Somehow, one of my disk datasets seems to have been corrupted, as it does not contain the data that it should have. Is there a way that I can examine the disk, using a chhh address and look at the raw data for the dataset and just before it, to see if I

Trying to put three reports together with SORT

2019-09-24 Thread Billy Ashton
Hey everyone (and especially Kolusu): I have three different SQL reports that I am trying to use to create a consolidated report (it is not possible to do this in a single SQL pass for various processing and ownership reasons). I have been straining my brain trying to figure out how to PUSH the

Max Size of ISPF table?

2019-12-17 Thread Billy Ashton
Hello, I am working with an application team, and they are creating an ISPF application. One of the options is to use an ISPF table for the data in one component, but they will have between 50,000 and 80,000 rows in the table. What are your experiences with large ISPF tables, and is a table of

COBOL call to Curl function and XML handler

2019-12-06 Thread Billy Ashton
Hello friends, I have a new project to handle, and I am way out of my league. There are two questions here: 1. Does anyone have a COBOL program that makes a call to the Curl function to pass in a website URL, and receive back the html data? If so, would you be good enough to share the particulars

Re: Trying to put three reports together with SORT

2019-09-25 Thread Billy Ashton
Hope this helps. > > Regards. > Max > > Il giorno mer 25 set 2019 alle ore 00:24 Mike Schwab < > mike.a.sch...@gmail.com> ha scritto: > > > I would assume the DEPARTMENT and LOCATION tables are fairly static. > > How about creating a table of each for your

Re: Trying to put three reports together with SORT

2019-09-25 Thread Billy Ashton
! Billy On Wed, Sep 25, 2019 at 10:51 AM Billy Ashton wrote: > Thank you for this, Max; with a couple tweaks on the key length, it works > just as I need it! > > Have a great day! > Billy > > On Wed, Sep 25, 2019 at 4:42 AM Massimo Biancucci > wrote: > >> Hi

Re: Rexx parse using period as placeholder

2020-02-28 Thread Billy Ashton
How to do this maintaining the quotes? That's needed for allocating the data set. I would work internally with the absolute DSN - if it is a file without the user's HLQ, I would add it, if it is a filename specified with the quotes, I would strip it off in the program. This allows me to

Re: New Rexx Question

2020-02-27 Thread Billy Ashton
Dave, you are correct that stem.0 is resolved at the start. If you think about it, if it were dynamic, then your code would be a never-ending loop. The key here is to know how many items you want to add, and where in the stem list you want to add them. Give us a little more detail, and we can

Re: How tell what verion of COBOL compiler produced load module?

2020-04-15 Thread Billy Ashton
duced load module? Did you get the newer V1.52 from the CBT UPDATES page or the older version from the main DL page? Peter -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Billy Ashton Sent: Wednesday, April 15, 2020 2:43 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: How

Re: How tell what verion of COBOL compiler produced load module?

2020-04-15 Thread Billy Ashton
I just tried to assemble and run the COBANALZ program, but got S206-04 on multiple libraries...not sure what to do with that, as I haven't got time to troubleshoot this. Billy -- Original Message -- From: "Farley, Peter x23353" To: IBM-MAIN@listserv.ua.edu Sent: 4/15/2020 2:30:10 PM

Re: Here we go again;

2020-04-22 Thread Billy Ashton
I also remember some years ago that Prudential had their own version of COBOL that allowed them to pack character (maybe just alpha?) fields, so they could probably add an alpha to the SSN numbering scheme without issue. I don't know if they still use it, and really hurt my brain trying to

Re: IGGCSI00 and REXX

2020-03-17 Thread Billy Ashton
Now, I have not done anything with batch Java here; do you have a more complete example of how to use it? Billy -- Original Message -- From: "Andrew Rowley" To: IBM-MAIN@listserv.ua.edu Sent: 3/17/2020 6:18:08 PM Subject: Re: IGGCSI00 and REXX Does it have to be Rexx? There is a

Re: PF key - one PF key - not responding

2020-08-24 Thread Billy Ashton
It really sounds like your Shift F9 key is mapped to something other than PF21 in the emulator. I don't remember the commands in Extra! to see the keyboard mapping, but I would start there. Be sure you are looking at Shift F9, not just base F9. Billy -- Original Message -- From: "Bob

Re: DFSORT confusion.

2020-08-20 Thread Billy Ashton
John, is it possible that some of the duplicate records have a different value in 187/191 - sometimes it has 'M', and sometimes something else? Can you compare the two different output files to see what is different (other than the 231 additional records)? Do you know which output set is

Re: BOF on COBOL and the systems programmer at SHARE

2020-09-23 Thread Billy Ashton
And in that "special" US format, I am surprised at how many people think 12:00 AM is noon instead of midnight...I can see how that is much clearer! B . . . I was forced to change it to the "US standard" of mm/dd/yy hh:ms:ss xM (x==A or P) because nobody understood that format and it was too

Sort extracting values in PDS members

2020-05-27 Thread Billy Ashton
Hi again! This group has been so helpful - especially Kolusu - and I have one more question as I learn how to use SORT more creatively. I have a bunch of PDS files where I have to read through each member and create some control cards based on the content in the member (due to the nature of

Re: How to get last node in DFSORT

2020-05-26 Thread Billy Ashton
Kolusu, thank you so much for this. I hadn't thought about testing for each node and length like that - I will hold onto this email for some other things that are similar! Thanks again! Billy -- Original Message -- From: "Sri h Kolusu" To: IBM-MAIN@listserv.ua.edu Sent: 5/22/2020

How to get last node in DFSORT

2020-05-22 Thread Billy Ashton
Hi folks! This should be easy, but it escapes me... I have an 80-byte LRECL list of filenames (starting in col 1, varying lengths), and I need to capture just the last node of the file, and store it as a separate word on the record, in col 51. For example, if the file has

Re: How to create two output files in DFSORT

2020-06-03 Thread Billy Ashton
to have bothered all y'all! Billy -- Original Message -- From: "Billy Ashton" To: "IBM Mainframe Discussion List" Sent: 6/3/2020 12:12:33 PM Subject: How to create two output files in DFSORT Hi folks! Today's SORT challenge: I am reading a temporary fil

How to create two output files in DFSORT

2020-06-03 Thread Billy Ashton
Hi folks! Today's SORT challenge: I am reading a temporary file for input, created in an earlier jobstep. I am using OPTION COPY INCLUDE COND=. INREC IFTHEN= OUTREC ..., IFTHEN=... This keeps only the records I want to reformat, and creates a nice output file of commands. However,

Re: Sort extracting values in PDS members

2020-06-03 Thread Billy Ashton
Hi Kolusu, I was finally able to get to this, and it works great for what I need! Thanks! Billy -- Original Message -- From: "Sri h Kolusu" To: IBM-MAIN@listserv.ua.edu Sent: 5/27/2020 7:30:48 PM Subject: Re: Sort extracting values in PDS members Billy, On second thoughts, We can

Using symbolic DD names

2020-12-30 Thread Billy Ashton
Hey folks! I have a vendor product program that looks for different DDnames depending on the control statements passed into the program. Is there any way to define a dynamic DD statement using JCL symbols? For example, I would love to have //TB to correspond to TB01DAT, TB14DAT, or TB67DAT if

Re: Using symbolic DD names

2020-12-30 Thread Billy Ashton
Scheduling products can supply symbolics where native z/OS might now. Could you provide an example where your program when it executes would use a random DD name in JCL? Lizette -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Billy Ashton Sent: Wednesday, December 3

Re: ISPF startup processing

2021-06-09 Thread Billy Ashton
reen, what is written in the command field? This is part of the racf Tao segment and loaded at logon time. Maybe it is isotope;split;split;split ITschak בתאריך יום ד׳, 9 ביוני 2021 ב-17:59 מאת Billy Ashton : Hello all...I don't know if there is an ISPF list, but hope you can help me here. I h

Re: ISPF startup processing

2021-06-09 Thread Billy Ashton
Kolusu and Raphael, we checked 7.3, and issued L ZSTART, and in fact, scrolled through all 900 variables, and did not see anything for ZSTART or any variable with a Split or Swap command. Next thoughts? This is really a strange puzzle... Billy -- Original Message -- From: "Sri h

Re: ISPF startup processing

2021-06-09 Thread Billy Ashton
PF startup processing I still think there's a possibility its the session manager, most SM's can execute logon scripts, or macro's during signin, what SM do you use? the macro's or scripts can be user or group specific Carmen On 6/9/2021 10:30 AM, Billy Ashton wrote: Kolusu and Raphael, we c

Re: ISPF startup processing

2021-06-09 Thread Billy Ashton
Well, Kolusu has hit on the edge of the bullseye! I searched the ISPPROF file, and found the split and swap command string in the ISPPROF member. It took a little magic from an old Rexx I had from who knows when (called ProfRead) that showed there is a ZSTART variable in ISPPROF. Closer look

ISPF startup processing

2021-06-09 Thread Billy Ashton
Hello all...I don't know if there is an ISPF list, but hope you can help me here. I have a user that is having some strange things happening when he logs into TSO and goes into ISPF. For example, while everyone else starts ISPF and has one window open, this user has 5 split screens defined

Re: ISPF startup processing

2021-06-09 Thread Billy Ashton
X thought it was a great idea to start a script that puts your session in split screen, one screen SDSF, one ISPF edit Carmen On 6/9/2021 9:58 AM, Billy Ashton wrote: Hello all...I don't know if there is an ISPF list, but hope you can help me here. I have a user that is having some stra

Re: Allocate DB2 LDS with JCL?

2021-06-17 Thread Billy Ashton
Kolusu, thanks once again! I will give this a try. I assume the Blksize of 4K will set the CISize to 4K... And do I need to do anything special with ShareOpts? -- Original Message -- From: "Sri h Kolusu" To: IBM-MAIN@listserv.ua.edu Sent: 6/17/2021 11:59:13 AM Subject: Re: Allocate

Allocate DB2 LDS with JCL?

2021-06-17 Thread Billy Ashton
Hey everyone, here is a quick question. I am looking at some of our utilities and production control tools, and wanted to know if anyone has samples to allocate a DB2 VSAM LDS (1) using JCL parameters only - not with IDCAMS, or (2) with Rexx? If so, I would appreciate it - I have not found

Re: ISPF startup processing

2021-06-09 Thread Billy Ashton
r J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Billy Ashton [bill00ash...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 9, 2021 11:13 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: ISPF startup

And the survey says...

2021-04-29 Thread Billy Ashton
Does Vista have the ability to only use one taskbar icon, and stack all the sessions as tabs within that one instance? I often have a number of sessions open, and would rather have one icon than bunches (especially since I can use a toolbar button to swap sessions). Here's hopin'! Billy

Re: And the survey says...

2021-04-28 Thread Billy Ashton
Does Vista have the ability to only use one taskbar icon, and stack all the sessions as tabs within that one instance? I often have a number of sessions open, and would rather have one icon than bunches (especially since I can use a toolbar button to swap sessions). Here's hopin'! Billy

Re: Datacentre Rack power clarification

2021-05-05 Thread Billy Ashton
You also might need to consider if you have redundant power supplies or redundant/diverse power sources. There will not be a single definition of power consumption based on the number of units or even the number of devices. A 12U rack used as a patch panel will have no consumption, but a 12u

Re: 3270 emulator / telnet with encryption

2021-05-05 Thread Billy Ashton
I know that QWS (Jolly Giant software) has a QWS 3270 Secure product. -- Original Message -- From: "Bill Giannelli" To: IBM-MAIN@listserv.ua.edu Sent: 5/5/2021 6:14:43 AM Subject: 3270 emulator / telnet with encryption Our network security group (with no mainframe knowledge) is

FTP multiple docs to IBM

2021-03-18 Thread Billy Ashton
Hi everyone...I am looking at how we upload our files for vendor support tickets, and it seems that every vendor does things differently. I had read somewhere that there is a program that IBM uses that allows customers to upload multiple files at once, including PDS or PDSE files, and it

Anyone have SFTP JCL to share?

2021-04-14 Thread Billy Ashton
Hi everyone! I was just moved to support a CA product (I guess that's Broadcom now), and have to send in a sensitive file to one of my support cases. The file is pretty large, and the support tech said I have to copy it to OMVS to use SFTP for uploading it. I am not sure I have that space

Re: Anyway to save ISRDDN output?

2021-02-17 Thread Billy Ashton
Is there a way to fire off ISRDDN in ISPF batch mode? Billy -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Spool entire job to a file?

2021-08-18 Thread Billy Ashton
Actually, we have the CA product Sysview. I am looking to see if there is an easy way to do this in there. James Crudele wrote: No SDSF? On Aug 18, 2021, at 09:56, Mike Shorkend wrote: Spool Offload? -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Billy

Re: Spool entire job to a file?

2021-08-18 Thread Billy Ashton
Thanks, Lizette! I will give this a try. Billy Lizette Koehler wrote: Go to the internet and look for John McKown's JES2DISK in a GIT Hub It will do what you want and it is free Lizette -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Billy Ashton Sent

Re: Spool entire job to a file?

2021-08-18 Thread Billy Ashton
I found a way to call the Sysview batch processing program from my JCL, and I can save the whole job as I wanted. Thanks to everyone for your suggestions--I really like the way this group thinks out of the box! Billy Billy Ashton wrote on 8/18/2021 13:56: Thanks, Lizette! I will give

Spool entire job to a file?

2021-08-18 Thread Billy Ashton
Hi all...I have a need to run a bunch of jobs to do some changes to files, and we want to preserve the output of all these jobs for auditors. Is there a way to use an OUTPUT statement or something in the job itself that can redirect the entire job output to a PDS member? We don't have a

Re: Spool entire job to a file?

2021-08-19 Thread Billy Ashton
Sure...I will try to copy it out tomorrow for you... kekronbekron wrote on 8/18/2021 23:15: If you don't mind, can you show us how. - KB ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Thursday, August 19th, 2021 at 5:33 AM, Billy Ashton wrote: I found a way to call the Sysview batch processing

Identifying PDS/E or PDS in IEBCOPY Unload

2021-07-29 Thread Billy Ashton
Hey everyone, here is an odd question for y'all. Is there any way I can tell from an IEBCOPY unload file (that I received from a vendor) whether it is an unload of a PDS or an unload of a PDS/E? Since IEBCOPY is pretty particular about only loading full libraries back to the same source type,

Re: Identifying PDS/E or PDS in IEBCOPY Unload

2021-07-29 Thread Billy Ashton
such corruption, interception, tampering, amendment or viruses or any consequence thereof. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Billy Ashton Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2021 2:37 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU

Re: Identifying PDS/E or PDS in IEBCOPY Unload

2021-07-29 Thread Billy Ashton
rong. sas On Thu, Jul 29, 2021 at 6:07 PM Billy Ashton wrote: These are solution files that the vendor sends to us, so we have no control of what to do. They tell us that the target is a PDS or PDSE, but I was just looking for a backup method to try and ensure that what they say matches the file. A

Re: Passing user/pw in to BPXBATCH SFTP

2021-10-09 Thread Billy Ashton
Well, when you are working in JCL, the line is 72/80 bytes for most libraries. So then the question is, how do you continue the command to a second or third line in these standard JCL libraries? Billy What Line limit are you dealing with? 72 or larger? With BPXBATCH STDPARM, the limit is

How to stack large instream data inside BPXBATCH

2021-10-18 Thread Billy Ashton
Hi again...is there a way to run a single BPXBATCH JCL member that copies some instream data into temp files and then run a command that uses those files? For example, I tried this, but got no output: //SFTP      EXEC PGM=BPXBATCH //STDOUT    DD SYSOUT=* //STDERR    DD SYSOUT=* //SYSOUT    DD

Re: How to stack large instream data inside BPXBATCH

2021-10-19 Thread Billy Ashton
Paul Gilmartin wrote on 10/19/2021 09:09: On Tue, 19 Oct 2021 02:57:22 -0500, Jantje. wrote: On Mon, 18 Oct 2021 15:17:22 -0400, Billy Ashton wrote: Hi again...is there a way to run a single BPXBATCH JCL member that Can I suggest you move to COZBATCH? So much simpler to use and far better

Passing user/pw in to BPXBATCH SFTP

2021-10-08 Thread Billy Ashton
Hi all! I see we have been talking some about FTPS, so now I want to spin the letters around for SFTP with an easy question-I hope! Does anyone have a batch job/JCL that they use for SFTP that hides a user/password? I have looked for some hours at Google, and everything I see has the user and

Re: How to use dfsort to filter keywords that aren't fixed position

2021-12-22 Thread Billy Ashton
Thanks, Kolusu...this works like a charm, and I can understand what it is doing. I will let you get back on track with Jason's part of the request now. Have a Merry Christmas and happy holiday season! Billy Sri h Kolusu wrote on 12/21/2021 15:38: 1. Look for any job ABCDE123 having message

Re: How to use dfsort to filter keywords that aren't fixed position

2021-12-21 Thread Billy Ashton
Kolusu, this leads to some intriguing things, and there are a lot of possibilities here. I would like to ask one extension to this, if you please. I would like to be able to further screen the syslog by Jobname, but knowing that there could be multiple job numbers, I would need a way to

Re: How to use dfsort to filter keywords that aren't fixed position

2021-12-21 Thread Billy Ashton
Kolusu, thanks for the sample, it does work great for what you said, and I can use this. I'm afraid I did not ask this correctly, and it will explain why I think two steps, unless you think otherwise. Let me restate the logic using your sample below. 1. Look for any job ABCDE123 having message

Re: Using HTTPS from JCL for file download?

2021-11-19 Thread Billy Ashton
are different, I've been as site that do not require me to use the proxy , both options work well. Carmen On 11/19/2021 2:00 PM, Billy Ashton wrote: Hi all, I am back! After successfully getting my FTPS and SFTP JCL set up and working right here, some manager got a bee in his bonnet to say that he

Using HTTPS from JCL for file download?

2021-11-19 Thread Billy Ashton
Hi all, I am back! After successfully getting my FTPS and SFTP JCL set up and working right here, some manager got a bee in his bonnet to say that he wanted to use HTTPS protocol from his JCL, because he read that HTTPS was the best way to go. I tried to explain that HTTPS was meant for

Re: conditional JCL - Reinvent the wheel?

2021-11-10 Thread Billy Ashton
Here is a neat little trick I learned from a guy at CA, using SET and IF. I use this a lot now, and other than needing a dummy step if I am testing the first step in a job, it works great. I have been able to nest my IF statements sometimes 3 deep when I have complex processing that I want to

Re: Interesting behavior - instream variable sub

2021-07-20 Thread Billy Ashton
Try adding an output report DD statement to your SYSIN, like this: //SYSUT1 DD *,SYMBOLS=(EXECSYS,SYMRPT) And then add a DD for SYMRPT //SYMRPT DD SYSOUT=G This report will show the before and after substitution, and may give you a clue. Billy Ed Jaffe wrote on 7/20/2021 18:30: On

Re: Ad message paradigm (Re: Ad NetRexx (Re: Ad programming features (Re: ... Re: Top 8 Reasons for using Python instead of REXX for z/OS

2022-01-13 Thread Billy Ashton
All of this sounds interesting, so if I wanted to try out some Python scripts to see how they stack up to Rexx, where might I find some Python source members along with JCL members to run them? Thanks! Billy -- Original Message -- From "Farley, Peter x23353"

Coding IF statement in BPXBATCH shell

2022-02-11 Thread Billy Ashton
XBATCH script to do a simple string compare? Thank you and best regards, Billy Ashton -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

how to do Unix copy command with temp file

2022-02-03 Thread Billy Ashton
Thank you and best regards, Billy Ashton -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: how to do Unix copy command with temp file

2022-02-08 Thread Billy Ashton
=(DELETE,DELETE) and that file does not exist, I get a JCL error. Ideally, I should not need this, but want to ensure that this file is not there when I start my processing. Thank you and best regards, Billy Ashton -- For IBM

Re: how to do Unix copy command with temp file

2022-02-08 Thread Billy Ashton
, Billy Ashton -- Original Message -- From "Paul Gilmartin" <000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> To IBM-MAIN@listserv.ua.edu Date 2/8/2022 9:11:38 AM Subject Re: how to do Unix copy command with temp file On Tue, 8 Feb 2022 13:01:14 +0000, Billy Ashton wrote:

Re: how to do Unix copy command with temp file

2022-02-08 Thread Billy Ashton
you and best regards, Billy Ashton -- Original Message -- From "Paul Gilmartin" <000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> To IBM-MAIN@listserv.ua.edu Date 2/8/2022 8:59:34 AM Subject Re: how to do Unix copy command with temp file On Tue, 8 Feb 2022 13:01:14 +00

Re: how to do Unix copy command with temp file

2022-02-08 Thread Billy Ashton
Hi Carmen, I am going to give gil's method a try first, as it is simple enough to keep inside a BR14, and failing that, I will go with the shell command. Thanks for the suggestion! Thank you and best regards, Billy Ashton -- Original Message -- From "Carmen Vitullo" T

Re: how to do Unix copy command with temp file

2022-02-08 Thread Billy Ashton
active environment. So here, !cp is running a shell Copy command to copy the MVS file to Unix (still trying to work that out with return code testing). Thank you and best regards, Billy Ashton -- Original Message -- From "Paul Gilmartin" <000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@li

Re: how to do Unix copy command with temp file

2022-02-08 Thread Billy Ashton
/tempfile.txt) Thanks again for your great suggestion! B Thank you and best regards, Billy Ashton -- Original Message -- From "Paul Gilmartin" <000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> To IBM-MAIN@listserv.ua.edu Date 2/8/2022 8:59:34 AM Subject Re: how to do Unix copy c

Re: how to do Unix copy command with temp file

2022-02-08 Thread Billy Ashton
a very good shell programmer. Thank you and best regards, Billy Ashton -- Original Message -- From "Paul Gilmartin" <000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> To IBM-MAIN@listserv.ua.edu Date 2/8/2022 12:04:56 PM Subject Re: how to do Unix copy command with temp

Re: What not to do on a z/OS system...

2022-01-19 Thread Billy Ashton
My career in IT started as an overnight burster and decollator operator... Billy -- Original Message -- From "Carmen Vitullo" To IBM-MAIN@listserv.ua.edu Date 1/19/2022 3:07:12 PM Subject Re: What not to do on a z/OS system... yup, Print, burst, trim, console, microfiche, all

Re: Is SMP/E needed for installs?

2023-08-31 Thread Billy Ashton
Thank you and best regards, Billy Ashton -- Original Message -- From "Phil Smith III" To IBM-MAIN@listserv.ua.edu Date 8/31/2023 11:58:23 AM Subject Re: Is SMP/E needed for installs? Thanks to many people politely telling me, "Hey dummy, use SYMBOLS=", I have go

Scan a VSAM LDS?

2023-09-12 Thread Billy Ashton
RECORD TYPE=V INCLUDE COND=(5,24576,SS,EQ,C'MBC$23005X') (I don't know if I need special statements for VSAM LDS...I couldn't find any indication in the docs.) Thank you and best regards, Billy Ashton -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe

Re: Scan a VSAM LDS?

2023-09-12 Thread Billy Ashton
This looks interesting at first glance...do you know where I might find some examples to see it in action? Thank you and best regards, Billy Ashton -- Original Message -- From "Seymour J Metz" To IBM-MAIN@listserv.ua.edu Date 9/12/2023 12:39:47 PM Subject Re: Scan a VSAM

Re: Using SORT to generate sequential Dates

2022-06-30 Thread Billy Ashton
Kolusu, the key data is that I have the previous month start and end date (for today, it would be May 1 and 31), with some range of dates before that. I also need at least the end of the current month (June 30, today). For running it tomorrow, I need at least June 1 - 30 (with some dates in

Using SORT to generate sequential Dates

2022-06-30 Thread Billy Ashton
number, but have trouble with incremental dates or getting the start date. Can Kolusu or someone else help with this? I am sure it is simple with a repeat, but I can't come up with anything. Thank you and best regards, Billy Ashton

Re: Using SORT to generate sequential Dates

2022-07-06 Thread Billy Ashton
! Thank you and best regards, Billy Ashton -- Original Message -- From "Sri h Kolusu" To IBM-MAIN@listserv.ua.edu Date 6/30/2022 6:14:04 PM Subject Re: Using SORT to generate sequential Dates Billy, If I understand your requirement correctly, you need current month begin to end

Re: FTP Software for Mainframe to PC

2022-06-10 Thread Billy Ashton
WinSCP(winscp.net) Thank you and best regards, Billy Ashton -- Original Message -- From "Lizette Koehler" To IBM-MAIN@listserv.ua.edu Date 6/10/2022 8:48:55 AM Subject FTP Software for Mainframe to PC Just looking to create a list of software that does FTP from the

Re: [EXTERNAL] Do they still make greenbar paper these days?

2022-06-08 Thread Billy Ashton
I still remember my first computer-oriented job as a burster and decollator operator. My biggest nemesis was the 5-part carbon form with parts 4&5 edge glued (for an insurance company, of course). Ahh, those halcyon days... Thank you and best regards, Billy Ashton -- Original Mes

Variable Sort Parsing

2022-10-19 Thread Billy Ashton
elp with the Inrec definition? Thank you and best regards, Billy Ashton -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Variable Sort Parsing

2022-10-19 Thread Billy Ashton
Msgkey - "Program Parm" type date , runtype() location numeric-code 2. The input is a FB file of 150, and these records are just space padded. The other log records in the file are of all different lengths, with some using the whole 150. Thank you and best regards, Bi

Re: Variable Sort Parsing

2022-10-22 Thread Billy Ashton
Kolusu, this worked great! I went with the Version 2 selection, and replaced the pipe delimiter with just a simple space. Thanks again - one day, I hope to be able to do these simple things myself! Thank you and best regards, Billy Ashton -- Original Message -- From "Sri h K

Is there such a thing as JCL to transfer files using https?

2022-10-01 Thread Billy Ashton
haven't found anything useful (I guess this should be a clue). Thank you and best regards, Billy Ashton -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO

Re: REXX Testing a bit?

2022-08-02 Thread Billy Ashton
the setting of bit 6 of the flag1 variable Translate to the values I pass in (N, Y) from the bit value of 0, 1 Another simple way you could do it is to build your test mask (bit 6 on), and use this: If C2X(Bitand(flag1,'0100'b)) > 0 Then say "got it" Thank you and best regards, Bill

Re: REXX Testing a bit?

2022-08-02 Thread Billy Ashton
ot;,15) Then Say "It is on"---> RC (1): It is on If BitOn("ABC",26) Then Say "It is on" ---> RC (9): null If BitOn("A",4) Then Say "It is on"---> RC (0): null Thank you and best regards, Billy Ashton -- Original Message -- From &q

Re: DFSORT maximum input records

2023-01-12 Thread Billy Ashton
process to either segment the sorts into two pieces based on the high order part of the sort key, or if you could split, sort, and merge files outside of your program. It sounds to me that it is a special program that has to touch 4.3billion records in its run. Thank you and best regards, Billy

How to SORT Variable records with OVERLAY

2022-12-12 Thread Billy Ashton
) INCLUDE COND=...,OR, ... INREC with multiple IFTHEN and PUSH and OVERLAYs OUTFIL VTOF, INCLUDE,BUILD There must be something simple I am missing (and there will be another question tomorrow if I get this fixed). Thank you and best regards, Billy Ashton

Re: Rexx function STORAGE with weird behavior on Netview

2022-12-19 Thread Billy Ashton
VT= C2D(Storage(10,4)) Call Trace("O") /* though you won't get here if it fails...*/ Thank you and best regards, Billy Ashton -- Original Message -- From "Jack Zukt" To IBM-MAIN@listserv.ua.edu Date 12/19/2022 8:20:10 AM Subject Rexx function STORAGE with weird

Re: Rexx function STORAGE with weird behavior on Netview

2022-12-19 Thread Billy Ashton
Paul, the Storage command works on Hex values by default, so Storage(10,4) is dealing with the address x'0010'. Thank you and best regards, Billy Ashton -- Original Message -- From "Paul Gorlinsky" To IBM-MAIN@listserv.ua.edu Date 12/19/2022 8:52:02 AM Subject Re: Rex

Re: How to SORT Variable records with OVERLAY

2022-12-13 Thread Billy Ashton
rite a program to do this two-file match, but I am trying to open eyes to the possibility of a faster-running SORT process. Thank you and best regards, Billy Ashton -- Original Message -- From "Sri h Kolusu" To IBM-MAIN@listserv.ua.edu Date 12/12/2022 5:02:55 PM Subject Re

Re: Using JCL variables with DFSORT

2022-11-03 Thread Billy Ashton
it, look at the SYMOUT DD statement to see the before and after image of the statement. Let us know what you see for the symbol. Thank you and best regards, Billy Ashton -- Original Message -- From "Jack Zukt" To IBM-MAIN@listserv.ua.edu Date 11/3/2022 2:08:46 PM Subject Re:

Re: location of JCL for started task

2023-03-18 Thread Billy Ashton
Bill, does this help at all: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/2.2.0?topic=language-setting-up-started-tasks-master-jcl Thank you and best regards, Billy Ashton -- Original Message -- From "Bill Giannelli" To IBM-MAIN@listserv.ua.edu Date 3/18/2023 1:42:45 PM Subject Re

Edit commands without a macro?

2023-04-21 Thread Billy Ashton
regards, Billy Ashton -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: DFSORT to count and sum subsets of data

2023-03-28 Thread Billy Ashton
ith the 0 Articles and 0 Items. Is this possible? Thank you and best regards, Billy Ashton -- Original Message -- From "Sri h Kolusu" To IBM-MAIN@listserv.ua.edu Date 3/28/2023 12:09:14 PM Subject Re: DFSORT to count and sum subsets of data Kolusu, this works great, and t

Re: DFSORT to count and sum subsets of data

2023-03-28 Thread Billy Ashton
Kolusu, this works great, and the end user is happy with the detail. Now, he wants one additional tweak. The top of the file (within the first two rows) has this: PROD.A31XAD.IDARTA00 ARTICLE LISTING BY DEPARTMENT (This starts in Col 2)

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