Re: Breaking text file at position 72?

2018-12-11 Thread John Eells
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Thanks For All the Fish

2018-12-12 Thread John Eells
my work phone number, because they arrive as e-mail attachments. Hanging out here has been quite instructive and usually fun (smile), so: Thanks, folks. All the best, everyone. -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com (for a c

Re: GSE UK - Large Systems - Free To Attend

2017-03-15 Thread John Eells
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Re: Can SMPPTS datasets be consolidated?

2017-03-20 Thread John Eells
t the sysmod from IBM, I would be very interested in knowing when it was and what product it was for (if you have that information handy) so I can "educate" the perpetr--um, that is, packager. Other limits, internal ones aside, are imposed by tape, DVD, and commonly-deployed DASD volume s

Re: SMP/E Tutorial

2017-03-27 Thread John Eells
f products, I know that fixes were packaged and shipped as MODs so SMP/E would re-link the load modules on site as part of the maintenance apply process. Can you still use PROGRAM elements for LE based modules ? Whether you know exactly what will be pulled in largely depends on your packaging.

Re: SMP/E Tutorial

2017-03-27 Thread John Eells
ntify something that ought to be on that list, but is missing, please let me know. * Of course, make sure your Legal Department concurs! -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff /

Re: SMP/E Tutorial

2017-03-27 Thread John Eells
newsgroup. The footer of every post sent to the list appears at the bottom, and can get you started. If you BUILDMCS your current HBB FMID, you will doubtless find examples like this one: ++PROGRAM(IWMAM431) SYSLIB(SIEALNKE) ALIAS(LARM431) DISTLIB(AIEALNKE) RELFILE(9) . -- John

Re: 64 bit execution above the bar

2017-03-28 Thread John Eells
Tony Harminc wrote: On 27 March 2017 at 20:15, Mike Schwab wrote: ...it's the ability to IPL and run in ESA/390 architecture that's going. Exactly right. -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- Fo

Re: SMP/E Tutorial

2017-03-28 Thread John Eells
thod you might consider. Feel free to send me a note if you have any interest. It is a lot easier but might not be suitable for your particular product. -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN s

z/OS Processor Requirements (was Re: SMP/E Tutorial)

2017-03-29 Thread John Eells
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Re: z/OS Processor Requirements (was Re: SMP/E Tutorial)

2017-03-29 Thread John Eells
John Eells wrote: R.S. wrote: Off-topic note: the document mention z/OS 2.2 can be ran on z9 machine, which is untrue. You are, of course, correct. The book has been updated but not the link to the new level of it. Here is the new level of the book: http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/epubs/pdf

Re: Ordering IBM service without software excel

2017-04-07 Thread John Eells
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Re: Mischaracterized HOLDDATA

2017-05-19 Thread John Eells
as you choose. I brought this one to the developer's attention yesterday. The current thought is that we will PE it and SUP it with a PTF that correctly specifies REASON(ACTION). Guys, when you find stuff like this...please open a PMR! -- John Eells IBM Poug

Re: SDB (system determined Blksize)

2017-05-22 Thread John Eells
Ron Hawkins wrote: I would not recommend going to 32K as a blocking factor. Except, of course, for load libraries, the significant exception to this rule. -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN

Re: Component IDs?

2017-05-31 Thread John Eells
it appears that this is not a problem. And, yes, names like WTO and SYS1.LINKLIB, and many others, are "grandfathered" exceptions to the naming standard we use today. -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com --

Re: John's spare time ... Job Scheduler Programmer Architect?

2017-06-06 Thread John Eells
e on other OSes (crontab ...). Is it just IBM's practice of not competing with ISVs? I expect to be informed of deficiencies of crontab, but at least it's there. Why do you think crontab is "not there" in z/OS? -- John Eell

Re: "New" Java-less Operating System Messages blips like crazy

2017-06-06 Thread John Eells
s at least 10x/sec. Anybody else's HMC console behave this way? If so, what was IBM thinking? We had to submit RFE's to get them to remove Java, do we have to submit more requirements to make it usable? Regards, Tom Conley

Re: John's spare time ... Job Scheduler Programmer Architect?

2017-06-06 Thread John Eells
Kirk Wolf wrote: On Tue, Jun 6, 2017 at 5:44 AM, John Eells wrote: Why do you think crontab is "not there" in z/OS? Oh but it is: https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSLTBW_1.13.0/com.ibm.zos.r13.bpxa500/crondmon.htm Precisely my point! -- John Eells IBM Pough

Re: curious: Anybody still use ADDRSPC=REAL ?

2017-06-09 Thread John Eells
plan to try it out, though (grin). -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: APF authorization and AC(00)

2017-06-12 Thread John Eells
implemented. A quick search indicates the latter was new in the 3090 announcement. REFR was implemented quite some time before that. -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive

Re: EREP Symptom and/or Software Records

2017-06-14 Thread John Eells
and the net ill effect is "noise" in EREP reports. I will observe, though, that the system programmer action for ABEND13E could use some updates... -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subs

Re: EREP Symptom and/or Software Records

2017-06-14 Thread John Eells
(RTM, in particular, was or is often a victim.) Anyway, that's my opinion. -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Odd request of the day

2017-06-14 Thread John Eells
d...you can use GENERATE to rebuild an entire zone's worth of stuff, a library, or a single modle (as above), but only if you set ACCJCLIN! HTH, -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / sign

Re: Logstreams

2017-06-30 Thread John Eells
, OPERLOG, and RRS. -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: EAV volumes and SYSRES

2017-07-10 Thread John Eells
ine, since they are processed by system utilities that understand how to address data in the EAS. The same goes for SMP/E CSI data sets and volume-specific user catalogs, which can live on the volumes they represent. -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie e

Re: EAV volumes and SYSRES

2017-07-10 Thread John Eells
rection, with z/OSMF Software Management as our installer in a few years, I hope. -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: EAV volumes and SYSRES

2017-07-10 Thread John Eells
R.S. wrote: W dniu 2017-07-10 o 16:13, John Eells pisze: [...] 4. What about ServerPac Installation Dialog? Does it support EAV yet? It does not. It likely will never do so. We are moving in a different direction, with z/OSMF Software Management as our installer in a few years, I hope

Re: EAV volumes and SYSRES

2017-07-11 Thread John Eells
ation process, just as many do for ServerPac today; here, I'll add that I particularly expect that early on. You might happen to fall into that group. Lizette Koehler wrote: @John Eells We would not consider using z/OSMF for creating SYSRES volumes or rolling out fixes. It does not all

Re: EAV volumes and SYSRES

2017-07-11 Thread John Eells
s resource when you model after previous deployments (as many likely do in ServerPac, too, by "merging with" a saved configuration). -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff

z/OSMF-Based Installation (WasL Re: AW: Re: EAV volumes and SYSRES)

2017-07-11 Thread John Eells
catch up on the discussion thus far. More on the SHARE website, here: https://share.confex.com/data/handout/share/128/Session_20728_handout_10028_0.pdf -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe

Re: z/OSMF-Based Installation (WasL Re: AW: Re: EAV volumes and SYSRES)

2017-07-12 Thread John Eells
st thought it was a neat graphic that helped illustrate the modernization of a 25+ year old installation process. -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instruc

Re: z/OSMF-Based Installation (WasL Re: AW: Re: EAV volumes and SYSRES)

2017-07-12 Thread John Eells
or someone who wants the trouble of installing and configuring Liberty et al (and I've heard the cursing all the way from Austin and Phoenix), but ISPF apps ought to continue as supported options for those who prefer them.

Re: Identify EAV volume

2017-07-19 Thread John Eells
SCB option, including DS4DSCYL. -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: How to see if a dataset is defined with CONTIG ?

2017-07-20 Thread John Eells
You can run a LISTVTOC and look for the DS1CONTG field in the F1 or F8 DSCB for the data set. (Sorry, not sure what authorizations are needed for that but I'd hope we document it.) -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ib

Re: What to do with PTF dogies?

2017-07-20 Thread John Eells
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Re: RSU APPLY

2015-11-16 Thread John Eells
U* . For example Currently in our z/OS system we RSU1403 and now we planning to apply RSU1509 then in this case, in SOURCEID parameter what we should be specifying SOURCEID(RSU1509) or SOURCEID(RSU*) . -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com ---

Re: Deleting all members of a pds

2015-11-20 Thread John Eells
V1.12, so everybody running on a supported release can use it. -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the

Re: IBM Automatic (COBOL) Binary Optimizer Now Availabile

2015-11-30 Thread John Eells
), but as I understand it, it will not yield the same performance gains a V5 recompile can gain. -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to

Re: IBM Automatic (COBOL) Binary Optimizer Now Availabile

2015-11-30 Thread John Eells
John Eells wrote: Charles Mills wrote: If you are running *programs compiled with V3 or V4* (and are not in the mood to recompile them on V5). It is essentially an alternative to V5 (although I suspect IBM would not be happy with that statement). It is of course an alternative to V5 (as is

Re: Straightforward way to determine hardware architecture level?

2015-12-01 Thread John Eells
ion time change, The SU Bit String had been frozen for quite a while when I came along and caused IHASUBIT and its associated macros to be removed from the (then) MVS/ESA SP Version 4 product after System Generation was finally withdrawn in all its flavors. --

Re: RLS implementation for CDS's in DFHSM

2015-12-08 Thread John Eells
obtain an index-wide lock in z/OS V2.2. -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Memory for z/OS 2.1

2015-12-11 Thread John Eells
t for z/OS 2.1 to run on a z10 box ? -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: DFdss does not release space

2015-12-15 Thread John Eells
tive to suggest that DFSMSdss could optionally use DS1CREDT to determine whether a data set with DS1LSTAR set to zero should have its space released. Or, that an "unknown" flag be added to the F9DSCB. Or... -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com ---

Re: D M=STOR causes disaster

2016-01-04 Thread John Eells
), and though I did not check on the rules, a spot check seems to bear this out. -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: D M=STOR causes disaster

2016-01-04 Thread John Eells
longer minor and it would be equally appropriate that its status should be re-visited and changed to a Defect APAR worthy of some resolution. I won't disagree. But, as someone already suggested, R.S. should open a PMR if he would like us to consider it. -- John Eells IBM Poughkeeps

Re: Migration from z196 to z13 encryption aspect

2016-01-06 Thread John Eells
tall a z13. -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: z13 PSP for z/OS 2.1

2016-01-08 Thread John Eells
First, download the latest Enhanced Holddata, which contains all of the Fixcat information that REPORT MISSINGFIX uses.> -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access in

Re: RESTORE JOB on z/OS 2.1 Serverpac failing

2016-01-12 Thread John Eells
Would some kind soul please open a PMR? An FMID is one type of SYSMOD. SYSMODs include APARS, PTFS, FUNCTIONS (FMIDs), and USERMODs. Lizette Koehler wrote: Sharon, Is HQX7790 a SYSMOD? I might have thought it is an FMID. -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com

Re: SMP/E error in my z/OS 2.1 Serverpac OS212016.

2016-01-13 Thread John Eells
neration error. As a workaround, you can RESTART the job from step UCLIN, removing all updates which were already done the previous run and also removing all occurences of statement DEL SYSMOD(HQX7790) CIFREQ( (UK96644,UK96643)). -- John Eells IBM Poughkeep

Re: SMP/E error in my z/OS 2.1 Serverpac OS212016.

2016-01-13 Thread John Eells
I checked with someone in ServerPac design, and this is indeed what's up. They will look at the alternatives for solving this, including the one below. John Eells wrote: So...I infer, perhaps incorrectly, that the RESTORE job is also doing a ZONEMERGE for the SDSF zone. If that'

Re: Cloning a Sysres and ZFS

2016-01-18 Thread John Eells
ses, so I don't see any reason why you would need your zFS in Master for your 1.13 systems. -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Cloning a Sysres and ZFS

2016-01-18 Thread John Eells
Tom Marchant wrote: On Mon, 18 Jan 2016 09:04:53 -0500, John Eells wrote: - You can use SYMBOLICRELATE on DEFINE ALIAS to point to the catalog thusly named in the master catalog on the production system. There used to be a requirement that the alias and the data set name be in the same

Re: ShopZ

2016-01-25 Thread John Eells
s) I found it quite straightforward. The hardest part was finding out what the right IBM internal customer number was and getting authorized to use it. YMMV, and you know who I work for...but I think the Shopz team has done a fairly nice job of it. -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie e

Re: COBOL v5

2016-01-26 Thread John Eells
turn out to have more value than the originally intended purpose. It happens. -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

LinuxONE Press Release

2016-01-26 Thread John Eells
For those running Linux on z Systems: http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/48827.wss -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to

Re: COBOL v5

2016-02-01 Thread John Eells
Appendix E., Using ISAM Programs with VSAM Data Sets, in the Using Data Sets book. -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@lists

UADS (was Re: [Bulk] Re: COBOL v5)

2016-02-01 Thread John Eells
gment, it's a data mining operation. This difference alone has inhibited conversion in some shops. -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send em

Re: z/OS 2.2 compatibility check for IBM Products

2016-02-01 Thread John Eells
://service.software.ibm.com/holdata/390holddata.html That page says what I'd remembered, which is that: "The new FIXCAT statements are available only in the full.txt and full.bin files." Those are the 730-day files. Also, I don't find FIXCATs in the "Year" file. -- John Eells IBM

Re: Stand-Alone DSS RESTORE with 3584 Library - How??

2016-02-05 Thread John Eells
Bob beat me to it! But I'll add this: ...when you specify NOVERIFY (or NVFY) on the RESTORE command. Robert Haimowitz wrote: You no longer need an ICKDSF IPL tape with the current DFDSS. Bob -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ib

Re: BookManagerBUILD and DGW HTTP Server under z/OS V2.2

2016-02-09 Thread John Eells
l the service you want to have installed on those FMIDs before running BUILDMCS. Unless they have to be installed in the same zones as z/OS, consider installing them in their own libraries and zones so that you don't have to do this again. -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@

Re: SMPE: Un-ACCEPTing USERMOD

2016-02-12 Thread John Eells
iple of Least Effort solution. This could provide the safety net the OP (or a later poster) was looking for. -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access ins

Re: SMPE: Un-ACCEPTing USERMOD

2016-02-12 Thread John Eells
n a function SYSMOD. Or am I misunderstanding what is written? I read it as saying that you can't use it for ++USERMODs. No, I'm sure it's right. I hadn't looked it up. So it has to be a ++FUNCTION, then.

Re: SMPE: Un-ACCEPTing USERMOD

2016-02-12 Thread John Eells
Paul Gilmartin wrote: So, PRE a FUNCTION which is APPLYed only in the Target zone which NPREs another function which is ACCEPTed in the DLIB zone. Not what I suggested. -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com

Re: [Bulk] Re: [Bulk] UADS (was Re: [Bulk] Re: COBOL v5)

2016-02-15 Thread John Eells
always reply 'Y' to each of those prompts (except for the first few IIRC). -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listser

Re: Apply PTF on DB2 10 (z/os 1.12)

2016-02-25 Thread John Eells
tp://bama.ua.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0110&L=ibm-main-archives&P=R58709 -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.ed

Archive (was Re: Apply PTF on DB2 10 (z/os 1.12))

2016-02-25 Thread John Eells
Tom Marchant wrote: On Thu, 25 Feb 2016 10:25:56 -0500, John Eells wrote: Anyone know why I get this trying to follow the link? "Sorry, you are not authorized to search the archives of the IBM-MAIN-ARCHIVES list from the email address (ee...@us.ibm.com) you entered on the login s

Re: Problem applying UA71619 anyone ?

2016-03-02 Thread John Eells
ice and HOLDDATA and use GROUPEXTEND to pull in the fixes. -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: z/OS Security Level 3 woes

2016-03-08 Thread John Eells
rote: By the silence, I guess everyone thinks this will work, or are too polite to tell me I'm crazy and aiming at my foot. -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive a

Re: Problem applying UA71619 anyone ?

2016-03-08 Thread John Eells
ORRSUM) on as one long parameter instead of 9, so obviously the resulting LA instruction gets an error. If we are the only ones having this problem, we must be doing something very weird ... Regards, Jonathan -Message d'origine- De : John Eells [mailto:ee...@us.ibm.com] Envoyé : m

Re: z/OS Security Level 3 woes

2016-03-08 Thread John Eells
ataset(s)(patterned after what IBM sent you), and add a DDDEF entry for it. As John Eells mentioned you could still have some issues with modules at differing levels of maintenance. But lets get your buildmcs done, received, and an applycheck run and see where to go next... SMP/E APP

Re: Problem applying UA71619 anyone ?

2016-03-09 Thread John Eells
So, just to close the loop...do we correctly document the required options? ESHEL Jonathan wrote: Thank you John. The problem was found thanks to Tony H. as a wrong HLASM compile option used by us - COMPAT(SYSLIST). Regards, Jonathan On Tue, 8 Mar 2016 12:29:48 -0500, John Eells wrote: In

Re: IBM secure z/OS software delivery: Don't get locked out!

2016-03-09 Thread John Eells
com/software/support/BlueDiamondRegistration.html -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Freeing up space in a VSAM file

2016-03-15 Thread John Eells
have heard of only one pathological application so far. Of course, it was one of ours here at IBM. (You can't make this stuff up.) -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / arch

Re: z890 in my basement

2016-03-24 Thread John Eells
Neale Ferguson wrote: > For those who saw Connor at SHARE or Hillgang. He spoke at POK today: > > https://twitter.com/rossmauri/status/712740819376193536 > And, it was a lot of fun to hear the story again! -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee..

Re: EXTERNAL: Re: IBM z/OS Product Documentation 2016

2016-03-25 Thread John Eells
ris's survey...there's a write-in box you can use for the page forward and back function you want. Here's the link again: https://www.surveygizmo.com/s3/2626267/IBM-z-OS-Product-Documentation-Survey-2016 -- John Eells IBM Poughkeep

Re: IMS V14 Installation

2016-03-28 Thread John Eells
f these pack files on Order and content directory separately. 4) Or do we have any other way of making this process. -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: What is SMC-D?

2016-03-30 Thread John Eells
://www-01.ibm.com/software/network/commserver/SMCR/ -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO

Fwd: Re: IMS V14 Installation

2016-03-31 Thread John Eells
ks.ibm.com/Redbooks.nsf/RedpieceAbstracts/sg248329.html?Open Forwarded Message Subject: Re: IMS V14 Installation Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2016 15:42:17 -0400 From: John Eells To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List As you are the one who would select the z/OS UNIX file system path, and only

Re: ISPF library Full

2016-04-01 Thread John Eells
new, larger library. This library will need to have another name. - Change your logon procedure to use the new library. If we try the above method, there might be impact to the users who are logged in. yes, its in sysplex and it is allocated in non-sms volume -- John Eells IBM Poughkeep

Re: Fixcat vs Hardware PSP Buckets

2016-04-07 Thread John Eells
ration book. But we have tried to structure them to make it easy to find what you need and to provide the FIXCATs needed to streamline checking for the PTFs you need. -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM

Re: Fixcat vs Hardware PSP Buckets

2016-04-13 Thread John Eells
z12BC FIXCATs). Following the directions in the PSP should pull those in as needed. On the other hand, if you followed the directions in the PSP to specify all the FIXCATs we say you should use, and you were still missing PTFs needed for your z13s, we need to fix that! -- John Eells IBM

Re: CFSIZER no longer available?

2018-06-08 Thread John Eells
behavior. Has this tool been withdrawn? Not intentionally! People are looking into this now. -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to

Re: CFSIZER no longer available?

2018-06-11 Thread John Eells
I am told the redirects have been fixed to make CFSIZER available again. -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu

Re: AW: Re: CFSIZER no longer available?

2018-06-11 Thread John Eells
eggs. In some cases, I know who to engage (notes and IMs are cheap), and in some I have no idea who to ask (finding the right person can take days). -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe

Re: Would SHARE kindly kick IBM in the ass for what the've done with their web content?

2018-06-14 Thread John Eells
tuation. Regards, Tom Conley -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com ---

Re: Would SHARE kindly kick IBM in the ass for what the've done with their web content?

2018-06-14 Thread John Eells
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Re: z/OS 2.2 - how to order ?

2018-06-20 Thread John Eells
or fairly short periods of overlap, we have *always* withdrawn the prior operating system release when we make the new release available, going back as far as I can recall. -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Deleting all members of a PDS

2018-07-11 Thread John Eells
appreciate knowing what I just deleted !! Still like the enhanced functionality permitting various DSN-mask specifications, similar to TSO/ISPF DSLIST (option 3.4). -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-M

Re: Z114 to z14 experience any ?

2018-07-12 Thread John Eells
zed Offerings Driver, its level of z/OS does have the needed support for the z14 models. I believe z/VM's list is similar: - z/VM - z/VM Standalone Dump - Standalone DDR - ICKDSF (yup, the same one) -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com --

Re: Using JCL Symbld and TYPRUN=SCAN

2018-07-12 Thread John Eells
e! Even 1BFF07FE is harder to read and code than its 2-instruction assembler counterpart. (OK, so I could not resist. Back into my hole now.) -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / sign

Re: Ported tool for zOS download

2018-07-16 Thread John Eells
-145/index.html&lang=en&request_locale=en Version to be withdrawn April 10, 2017: Product nameVersion Product number IBM Ported Tools for z/OS 1.3.0 5655-M23 (I know this is probably not the answer you'd hoped for.) -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee.

Re: (OT) Good bye everyone

2018-07-16 Thread John Eells
So sorry to hear this, Ed. Best of luck to you; I hope you find something else that keeps you going! Edward Gould wrote: Approximately 2 months I had a life altering incident. I can no longer function as a sysprog. I resigned my no pay job at the place I used to donate my time. -- John

Re: RACF DATASET protection WHEN(SYSID)

2018-07-23 Thread John Eells
a licence=z/OS system is beyond me - RACF certainly doesn't have the appropriate instrumentation for it that I can see. -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive acces

Re: OA55889 for TSO/E in z/OS 2.3

2018-07-23 Thread John Eells
O userids to seven characters. After 22 years, that restriction was finally lifted in 2017 with z/OS 2.3 TSO/E. -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions

Re: RACF DATASET protection WHEN(SYSID) - Compilers

2018-07-23 Thread John Eells
Barbara Nitz wrote: On Mon, 23 Jul 2018 06:05:43 -0400, John Eells wrote: Over the past few years, COBOL and PL/I have added support for Product Registration Services, and can be disabled using IFAPRFxx entries. XL C/C++ is a feature of z/OS and can similarly be enabled or disabled with

Re: Adding a patch area

2018-07-24 Thread John Eells
OUT=* //SYSLMOD DD DSNAME=PROJECT.PROGLIB,DISP=OLD //SYSLIN DD DSNAME=&&LOADSET,DISP=(OLD,PASS) // DD * EXPAND CSECT1(250) EXPAND COM1(400) NAME MOD1(R) /* (Note the caution in the book about addressability.) -- John Eells IBM Poughk

Re: Processor model not listed in IODF

2018-08-02 Thread John Eells
ssume you are running on the copy of z/OS you updated with the ZR1 PTFs and handled all the necessary HOLDDATA correctly.) I should also mention that at some future point, I intend to stop putting PTF lists in the PSP. -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ib

Re: Processor model not listed in IODF

2018-08-02 Thread John Eells
urate, but the manual process involved in checking the requirements that way is error-prone), or PUT levels, or RSU levels to provide hardware or functional support. -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com -- Fo

Re: Another url change for SHOPZ

2018-08-13 Thread John Eells
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Re: "Library Server" Access Now "Forbidden"?

2018-08-15 Thread John Eells
erver was going away? -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- John Eells IBM Poughkeepsie ee...@us.ibm.com --

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