Re: Deleting multiple data sets

2014-02-21 Thread Sebastian Welton
On Fri, 21 Feb 2014 03:16:19 -0600, Elardus Engelbrecht elardus.engelbre...@sita.co.za wrote: Thanks for writing this. I couldn't find it anywhere although I knew it existed...It now exists in my list of notes of things not to forget, ever! Why? Use //D before first DSN and // at last one in

Re: Executing a remote TSO command or CLIST with FTP?

2014-04-04 Thread Sebastian Welton
I do something similar but do have to use a batch job on the remote system and although not XMIT I'm creating a sequential dataset from a PDS and then transferring that over and then moving it back to a PDS along with allocating new GDGs. I run a REXX in batch on one system which dynamically

Re: How can I find out ITM version in z/OS.

2014-06-05 Thread Sebastian Welton
I tend to look in the RKLVLOG of the CMS and the first message should be KLVST045, a bit like the following: BASIC SERVICES DRIVER: tms_ctbs623fp4:d3203a which tells me it is version 6.2.3 with fixpack 4 and the driver level. Also doing a search for 'Component: kds' in the RKLVLOG will point

Re: Nigel's utility issue

2013-01-09 Thread Sebastian Welton
It may be: C:\Program Files\ Quite a few programs don't like the space in a directory name. Try it in another directory, i.e. C:\racf Sebastian On Wed, 9 Jan 2013 13:17:40 +0530, saurabh khandelwal sourabhkhandelwal...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I am trying to setup Nigel�s RACF tool

SDSF REXX and stem variables

2013-02-26 Thread Sebastian Welton
I have a need to get how many lines are on the output queue for a certain class and couldn't find a JES2 or other command to provide me with this information so looked at other avenues. One way is to use SDSF with REXX and the ISFTLINE variable will give me this information: OUTPUT CLS V

Re: SDSF REXX and stem variables

2013-02-26 Thread Sebastian Welton
here. Are you sure the stem is correct before the loop ? On 26.02.2013 12:57, Sebastian Welton wrote: I have a need to get how many lines are on the output queue for a certain class and couldn't find a JES2 or other command to provide me with this information so looked at other avenues. One

Re: SDSF REXX and stem variables

2013-02-26 Thread Sebastian Welton
A bit embarressed but after a couple of days fiddling with it, ithe problem is now resolved. Changing the oclass.n stem variable name to o_class.n did the trick. Its probably because oclass, although not a special SDSF/REXX variable as such, is in fact a column name in SDSF which you would use

Re: Question on WRITE statements in ACS and Automation

2014-10-22 Thread Sebastian Welton
I suspect that this it is possible to trap these messages with System Automation 3.4 which has a new function: Joblog Monitoring - Messages produced by an application and written to the Joblog or a spooled data set but not WTO'ed to syslog can be made available for automation. We use this to

Re: IBM ZD

2018-01-14 Thread Sebastian Welton
zD (previously RD) is basically just zPDT under the covers with a few more additions. zPDT is primarily for ISVs whereas zD is more for your corporate world but no production work, just development and testing and even that is subject to some quite strict specifications. zD comes in basically 2

Re: DASD Utilization Trigger

2018-07-30 Thread Sebastian Welton
Have a look in SYS1.SACBCNTL: https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSLTBW_2.1.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r1.idas200/job.htm - Create a DASD volume list with the data you require using ACBQBAI4 - Sort the list with ACBQVAR1 - As last step create a REXX to parse the data and output a console

Re: Search for utility

2018-09-13 Thread Sebastian Welton
On Wed, 12 Sep 2018 18:52:30 +, McCabe, Ron wrote: >Hello, > >Question from our developers...is there an easy way to search for a string in >all COBOL programs except for 1 or 2? So what they would like to do is search >for a string in all but 1 or 2 of the COBOL programs in a PDS and

Re: MPF Exit calling System REXX - S0C4 abend

2019-09-05 Thread Sebastian Welton
Definitely, see below (formatting is probably stuffed I'm afraid), compiled using the standard ASMAC found in PROCLIB (no overriding ASMAOPT or other parameters) and link with RENT, INCLUDE(ASMAOBJ) and SETCODE AC(0). I have now found out where the original came from and am doing further

Re: MPF Exit calling System REXX - S0C4 abend

2019-09-05 Thread Sebastian Welton
Thanks Tom, I agree with all of that which is why he is doing it on what could be termed a 'sandbox' system. As I said, I have found the original code by searching Google for keywords and it seems to have come from a Redbook: http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/redp4590.html?Open which was

Re: MPF Exit calling System REXX - S0C4 abend

2019-09-06 Thread Sebastian Welton
Thanks to everyone who responded and although he tried out all the options provided, nothing actually worked however it looks like it is working now. The first step was to implement the original it was based upon from the Redbook and that worked fine out of the box. I then looked at what

Re: MPF Exit calling System REXX - S0C4 abend

2019-09-06 Thread Sebastian Welton
For some reason, the message being trapped was also defined in EDGRMM with the MNTMSG command which if I understand the manual correctly, updates the message so presumably it must be intercepting the message at some point to make the changes. Seb.

MPF Exit calling System REXX - S0C4 abend

2019-09-05 Thread Sebastian Welton
A colleague of mine has been developing an MPF exit which calls System REXX but this seems to have thrown up a weird type of error. The program compiles fine, is placed in LNKLST, MPFLST is updated and so on however upon the first two invocations of the exit a S0C4 with reason code 11 abend

Re: [External] Re: Strange FTP issue

2019-07-22 Thread Sebastian Welton
Well you're not going to get any prompts for members to download because you've entered 'prompt off'...After you've done the 'cd' command, do a 'dir' to actually see that you're in the correct PDS and there are in fact members there to download Sebastian On Thu, 11 Jul 2019 18:58:32

Re: CBPs (processors) - what is it?

2019-11-08 Thread Sebastian Welton
This is actually documented in the SA4.1 documentation: OA55159 – Additional IBM z14 Exploitation Support (November 2018) OA55159 provides additional new function support for IBM z14. The following hardware automation commands are enhanced to support new special purpose processor type Container

Re: Mainframe environment on AWS

2019-10-10 Thread Sebastian Welton
They are pretty much the same product, ZD uses zPDT as the underlying emulator but depending upon which version you use, has many enhancements to provide a DevOps experience. As already pointed out, zPDT is only for ISVs and ZD is available to commercial entities but you are bound by the usage

Re: Mainframe environment on AWS

2019-10-10 Thread Sebastian Welton
Yes there is for both: zPDT - https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/z1090/info ZD - https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/forums/html/forum?id=----2283 Sebastian On Thu, 10 Oct 2019 17:37:25 +, Lennie Dymoke-Bradshaw wrote: >Bill, > >Is there a support

Re: Mainframe environment on AWS

2019-10-11 Thread Sebastian Welton
//www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSTQBD_12.0.4/com.ibm.zsys.rdt.guide.adcd.doc/topics/c_node_zvm_adcd.html Once again, for a 3rd party product, you would just need to talk to the supplier about licensing. There are a lot of resources on the web from IBM about ZD Sebastian > >On Thu, Oct 10, 2019, 9:44 PM

Re: Mainframe environment on AWS

2019-10-09 Thread Sebastian Welton
I've run both zPDT and ZD succcessfully in both AWS and Azure. In fact ZD, if not PE (Personal Edition) only works with a remote license server although all versions of zPDT and ZD will also work with a remote license server. ZD EE (Enterprise Edition) does not allow for the use of a hardware

Re: OT: Mandatory Work From Home at my company

2020-03-25 Thread Sebastian Welton
I have one of these which I connect to a Windows 10 and an Ubuntu laptop and so far it works a dream. Has made my life so much easier. Sebastian On Mon, 23 Mar 2020 07:44:08 -0500, Steve Beaver wrote: >It will arrive here in a couple of days so I will let everyone know how well >it does or

Re: REXX assistance

2020-05-24 Thread Sebastian Welton
I run some IDCAMS processing under NetView for collecting certain data and have never seen such a problem. The following are some old examples of the code and this runs a LISTCAT and puts everything into a stem: Do i = 1 To dsn.0

Re: How to compare parameters in one z/Os with parameters in another z/OS

2021-06-15 Thread Sebastian Welton
Although not exactly what the OP wants, it could be used as as a basis for a new tool to do some of this work or as the tool to run manual checks. I've always found the SPP tool provided in SYS1.SAMPLIB to be very helpful in checking the various PARMLIB members on various systems. Sebastian

Re: How can I tell the zFS files being used by my application

2021-05-18 Thread Sebastian Welton
On Fri, 14 May 2021 13:03:17 -0400, Matt Hogstrom wrote: >It takes z/OSMF about an hour to fully initialize on my ZD … same behavior >(lots of SIOs and CPU) IBM says its fixing this but its been quite a while. >Its Java related. > >Matt Hogstrom >m...@hogstrom.org Wow, that's a long time. I

Re: zPDT question

2021-06-03 Thread Sebastian Welton
Not quite true. ZD only supports RHEL and Ubuntu as that is what the installer checks for. If you look at the current Redbook for zPDT you will see that the installer contains: The Red Hat (RHEL, Fedora) version of zPDT. The Novell (SLES, openSUSE) version of zPDT The Ubuntu version of zPDT.

Re: Asking for a friend - reported NPM/node.js vulnerabilities

2021-10-25 Thread Sebastian Welton
On Sun, 24 Oct 2021 05:40:29 -0500, Support, DUNNIT SYSTEMS LTD. wrote: The only area where this could possibly be used under z/OS is with node.js and I don't know if the version which runs on z/OS uses this version or is one just for z/OS. You would be running node.js if you run ZOWE and

Re: z/OS 2.5 install with z/OSMF

2021-11-29 Thread Sebastian Welton
On Mon, 29 Nov 2021 12:03:01 +0800, David Crayford wrote: >Didn't CA create the Chorus Software Manager that was generally very >well received by the community. I haven't used it but I heard that >installing mainframe software using SMP/E was as easy as installing a >browser add-on using the

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: IBM ZDNT Learner's Edition - beware

2021-10-30 Thread Sebastian Welton
On Sat, 30 Oct 2021 16:15:06 +1300, Laurence Chiu wrote: > >I get a response and since I am not in the US I have to wait until the end >of the year; It would be cool to spin up an Ubuntu VM in the cloud >somewhere and load ZD and then play around from anywhere :-) > There is nothing stopping

Re: IBM ZDNT Learner's Edition - beware

2021-10-26 Thread Sebastian Welton
Although the product is called ZD - Z Development and Testing, this version has the suffix 'Learners Edition' and it quite categorically states the following on the various websites: ZD for Learners Edition is for personal, individual learning use only. It is not for the test and development

Re: Asking for a friend - reported NPM/node.js vulnerabilities

2021-11-06 Thread Sebastian Welton
On Mon, 25 Oct 2021 05:29:53 -0500, Support, DUNNIT SYSTEMS LTD. wrote: >Correct. We installed node.js on our PCs in as part of the ZOWE CLI >installation. That is what we are concerned about. We do not understand >whether the reports I linked to may negatively affect us or not. > From the

Re: RSS feed from SYSLOG - RACF messages

2021-12-08 Thread Sebastian Welton
I've done similar with AF/Operator but many, many years ago. I wonder if this is the future of doing this: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/z-chatops/1.1.0?topic=overview Sebastian On Mon, 6 Dec 2021 10:15:58 -0500, IBM user wrote: >Has anyone implemented a feed from Syslog using RSS and AF/OPER?

Re: AWS is down.

2021-12-09 Thread Sebastian Welton
I do this occasionally (and in Azure): https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/apn/deploying-ibm-mainframe-z-os-on-aws-with-ibm-zd-and-t/ Sebastian -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to

Re: MVS in the CLOUD

2022-02-19 Thread Sebastian Welton
>Hi there, > >I have seen one can create a DB2 env in the cloud, but can one get a basic >MVS system up there, or is that a bit much to ask? > >Tia > >James Yes you can however it depends upon what you want to do with it. Production is basically a 'no no' but development and testing are fine and

Re: z/PDT

2022-03-25 Thread Sebastian Welton
Dallas - ISV which means zPDT and tends to get the ADCD a bit quicker Passport Advantage - means ZD systems and this ADCD is packaged slightly differently. In fact an ISV wouldn't be able to use it and vice-versa Sebastian >Just opened a ticket was told will get a response by tommorow >

Re: More of LOG4J

2022-01-27 Thread Sebastian Welton
Or something similar to this: https://www.theverge.com/2022/1/9/22874949/developer-corrupts-open-source-libraries-projects-affected Sebastian On Wed, 26 Jan 2022 12:35:59 -0800, Tom Brennan wrote: >Those are things we don't like to talk about :) And even less talked >about: What's to stop a

Re: how to IPL z/OS by JCL

2022-04-07 Thread Sebastian Welton
This maybe what you're looking for: https://www.ibm.com/docs/pt/z-system-automation/4.2.0?topic=guide-sa-bcpii-use-cases Sebastian. On Tue, 5 Apr 2022 20:38:03 -0500, Jason Cai wrote: >HI all > In our shop, there are many z/OS members with GDPS and SA. > we need to logon HMC to IPL

Re: HS student with question about small mainframe DASD

2022-04-16 Thread Sebastian Welton
I would have thought that if you're serious about learning z/OS, in the USA and qualify then surely this is much cheaper than anything else out there: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zdt/13.3.x?topic=learners-edition On Sat, 16 Apr 2022 00:35:04 +, Enzo D'Amato wrote: >Nothing in

Re: Does z/VM have a product/tool which can send backup to the Cloud ?

2023-10-27 Thread Sebastian Welton
On Fri, 27 Oct 2023 05:13:38 +, Timothy Sipples wrote: >I wrote: >> IBM Cloud Tape Connector for z/OS > >David Crayford wrote: >>That�s one of our products. Our team was only talking about >>it this week. One of the team had just returned from customer >>visits in SE Asia and quite a few

Re: Strange results for the PS1 prompt with z/OS Unix

2023-08-19 Thread Sebastian Welton
On Fri, 18 Aug 2023 19:33:03 +0800, David Crayford wrote: >I'm feeling a bit puzzled here! Bash doesn't come pre-installed with >z/OS; rather, it's a tool ported by Rocket, so there shouldn't be any >compatibility problems, right? If IBM decides to include zsh, which is >considered superior to

Re: Own your own Z13 and Z16

2022-07-02 Thread Sebastian Welton
On Fri, 1 Jul 2022 09:05:57 -0600, Grant Taylor wrote: > >Does using a Lenovo Z13 / Z16 to host IBM's zD or zPDT count? > I do actually do do that, on a Lenovo W520 and W530 and both have the original z13 model labels (big plastic stuck on things, like on a car) on them...Need to get some

Re: Finding uncatalogued datasets

2022-07-26 Thread Sebastian Welton
I'm just wondering if NaviQuest might help here: DFSMS NaviQuest is a data and storage management tool for implementing, testing, and verifying the SMS environment. NaviQuest is installed under the Interactive Storage Management Facility (ISMF) Primary Option Menu and uses the standard

Re: Rexx function STORAGE with weird behavior on Netview

2022-12-19 Thread Sebastian Welton
Also ensure that it is not being called as a DATA REXX as described here, this has hit me previously: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/z-netview/6.2.0?topic=overview-netview-restrictions-rexx-functions Sebastian >This is exactly what I was going to point to: >REXXSTRF: ENABLE >

Re: TNZ 3270 Emulator: Any Experiences?

2022-11-18 Thread Sebastian Welton
>And now through consolidation, There's really only two TN3270 vendors left: >Micro Focus and IBM! > I think people have mentioned that there are quite a few TN3270 clients still out there, on my (Windows) system I have the following installed as each has something I require on it or can only

Re: Mainframe REXX (Re: Badmouthing Rexx and ooRexx - again (Re: zOSMF and zOWE for non-mainframers

2023-03-03 Thread Sebastian Welton
On Thu, 2 Mar 2023 06:57:01 -0600, Jay Maynard wrote: >I haven't tried to write anything in Rexx, let alone a TCP server. I'd >probably be inclined to use Go for that, though. > Start here and it is reasonably simple: - TCPIP.SEZAINST(RSSERVER) - TCPIP.SEZAINST(R6SERVER) Sebastian

Re: Mainframe Makers.... WAS: Ars Technica: The IBM mainframe: How it runs and why it survives

2023-08-01 Thread Sebastian Welton
https://www.fujitsu.com/de/products/computing/servers/mainframe/bs2000/ Sebastian -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Mainframe Makers.... WAS: Ars Technica: The IBM mainframe: How it runs and why it survives

2023-08-02 Thread Sebastian Welton
On Tue, 1 Aug 2023 23:09:15 +0200, Radoslaw Skorupka wrote: >This is former Siemens product, very similar to IBM mainframe. >I saw such machine around 2001 in National Bank of Austria. >Connected to Symmetrix CKD DASD using ESCON channels. >There was at least one installation in Poland.

Re: Mainframe Makers.... WAS: Ars Technica: The IBM mainframe: How it runs and why it survives

2023-08-02 Thread Sebastian Welton
On Tue, 1 Aug 2023 15:53:57 -0400, Steve Thompson wrote: >How about we change from Mainframe to zFrame? > >Yeah, I know, then when IBM comes up with a new Architecture... >How long will it take to need > 64bit addressing? > > Here you go: http://hammocktree.us/flexes/zFrameOV.pdf

Re: Mainframe Makers.... WAS: Ars Technica: The IBM mainframe: How it runs and why it survives

2023-08-02 Thread Sebastian Welton
On Wed, 2 Aug 2023 01:18:53 -0500, Sebastian Welton wrote: >On Tue, 1 Aug 2023 15:53:57 -0400, Steve Thompson wrote: > >>How about we change from Mainframe to zFrame? >> >>Yeah, I know, then when IBM comes up with a new Architecture... >>How long will it t

Re: Is there a USS-file compatible equivalent to the SUPERC OVSUM compare yet?

2023-06-29 Thread Sebastian Welton
On Wed, 28 Jun 2023 16:39:26 +, Collinson, Shannon wrote: >I think there was a USS tools thing (fscp?) that'd compare the contents >of two filesystems that I used to run when converting those from HFS to ZFS >years ago, but the tools page is gone now so I can't grab that to check.