> -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] > On Behalf Of Bonno, Tuco > Sent: Wednesday, April 03, 2013 6:57 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: 2 smp/e questions. > > environment here is z/os 1.13 > > (1) In the smp/e “cross-zone query” screen (panelid GIMQU2PO), if > you leave BOTH the “Entry Type” and “Entry Name” fields blank, and > hit enter, you get a long (757 long) laundry list of Entry Types. > Where can one go, what book/source consult to find out what these > things are? A lot are obvious and I know already: ASSEM, SRC, MAC, > MOD, LMOD, SRC ; other, I can guess: BOOK, FONT, etc. and I’ve > figured out on my own that a lot of the last 3 or 4 letters in many > entries are refrences to a language: ENU for english, FRA for french, > FIN for finnish etc etc. But what is/are (e.g.) BSIND? AIX1? OS23? > What is USER* and how does USER2 differ from USER5? what is/are UNIX1 > thru UNIX5 and how do they differ from HFS? I have RTFM-ed the smp/e > user guide, reference, and commands book, to no avail.
A description of the intended use of the different data elements is contained in chapter 2 of the SMPE Reference document (SA22-7772-13 for my z/OS 1.11 system). The generic elements are described in a chart that stats on page 10. The elements that have special meaning to SMPE have their own sections that discuss the corresponding MCS. Be aware, the manual describes only the intended use. Vendors and customers are free to abuse the types as they want. One vendor product delivers options/parameters, macros, procs, etc all as MAC. > Related to the foregoing, and > (2) Again, in the smp/e dialog “query” context, How does one access > the info for some of those critters you find in Unix System Services? > E.g., in the /bin directory, there’s an executable called “zcat” . > when I try to do the cross-zone query using an entry type of “HFS” > for an “entry name = zcat”, I get no hit. same-same for UNIX1 UNIX2 > UNIX3 UNIX4 UNIX5, (the other ‘entities’ that struck me as possibly > being relevant, given that they are called ‘unix*’ …. ). > How is one supposed to know what entity type to use for Unix system > Services stuff? (java stuff shows up in entry type HFS, but routine > executables, DLLs don’t seem to) . I can hardly ever tell whether a data element is in the common element type (such as PNL) or the corresponding language specific element type (PNLENU). To eliminate wasted queries, I save the listing from the LIST ALLZONES command so I can search for what I am looking for without having to guess where to query. Once you do this, you will know where, or if, zcat is located in your CSI. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
