On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 7:18 AM, Elardus Engelbrecht < elardus.engelbre...@sita.co.za> wrote:
> To all > > Many thanks to all who replied on IBM-MAIN and more off-list! > > Wow, I can't believe there are so many friendly IBM-MAIN persons there! > > Ok, for archive purposes - there are many tools available: > > DFSORT - Yes, I'm familiar with that, but to create jobs with all the > record selections will take me a while and I'm pressed to get solution > quickly. Scanning with SDSF could help, but that is tedious. > > DAF - Hmmm, that is news to me that it can handle 92 too. Ok, I'm going to > download that and play with it. > > MXG? Sorry, we don't have SAS in the first place. > > Omegamon - still in installation phase in our sandbox despite my RACF > homework being completed. Not useful at this stage. > > EasySMF and Spectrum SMF Writer. 30 days trail. > > I believe there are gazillion more. (I think, with z/OS v2.1 the RMF > spreadsheet reporter could help with it?) > > > Ok, I tried out to download all of them. Due to network issues on our > side, I could only use EasySMF for now because of time constraints and I > found the reason: > > The reason why that symbolics disappeared during IPL (great!) was with the > use of comment in the one line in a batch job: > > BPXBATCH SH rm /tmp/ /* Edit TSO UserId */ > I completely understand why <whomever> did this. It is just regular a TSO and/or REXX comment. Unfortunately, UNIX comments are a totally different syntax. BPXBATCH is a UNIX command process, so the mind needs to be in "UNIX mode". Which can be difficult. This is one reason why I prefer to do my UNIX work from a true (SSH / Telnet) UNIX shell prompt. It is easier to keep my mind in "UNIX mode". I have, on rare occasion, done some UNIX work from ISPF option 6 using the OSHELL command. There is a brain cramp! Using a TSO command process (in REXX) to issue UNIX commands. Uh, which comment form do I use? Hint: testing shows that is needs to be the UNIX form: "OSHELL echo x #x" will echo "x", whereas "OSHELL echo x /* comment */" which echo "x", the file names in root, "comment", and some file names in my personal "UNIX home" directory. Not what a TSO user would expect. The proper way is: BPXBATCH SH rm /tmp/ # Edit TSO UserId The # starts the comment, which always goes to end of line. > Can you believe it? The '/*' before the 'Edit' was interpreted as 'delete > the whole planet earth, below and down...' > Just as any UNIX user, without the "confusion" of a TSO background, would expect. Someone, like me, might even be confused for a bit. I'd likely never write such a thing. But looking at it, I might easily say "looks OK to me". > > Never again will that comment be allowed there. ;-) > > Many thanks to all who helped me out. > > Groete / Greetings > Elardus Engelbrecht > > -- "Irrigation of the land with seawater desalinated by fusion power is ancient. It's called 'rain'." -- Michael McClary, in alt.fusion Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
