Re: help in taking certification

2005-12-05 Thread Mahaboob Basha
thanx for your help, but i have exam in our companyitself if u have sample quetions of TechChek for COBOL DB2 plz...provide me.. On 12/4/05, Kenny Fogarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'll sit the test for you if you like? On 03/12/05, Mahaboob Basha [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi,

Re: help in taking certification

2005-12-05 Thread Mahaboob Basha
i am taking COBOL DB2 from TechChek JCL from Brainbench... -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the

Re: STK9840A/B tape data restored from 9840C tape drives

2005-12-05 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Resent: The enclosed message, sent to the IBM-MAIN discussion list, has been rejected because it contains an excessive amount of quoted material from previous posts. Below are the error messages I got each time I swapped the tape to a different 9840C drive. I finally gave up. I am

Re: STK9840A/B tape data restored from 9840C tape drives

2005-12-05 Thread Michael W. Moss
Hi Bob, Thanks for the update and something more to look at…. Hmmm, we have an IOE (I/O Error) and Read Error Detected which I suppose is not that surprising and the possible scenarios would seem to be listed here: http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi- bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/IEA2M960/SPTM012917

Purging spool output

2005-12-05 Thread Perryman, Brian
Hi folks Which is the 'best' JES2 command to purge spool output? I seem to have £P JOBQ,Q=x,DAYSn or £O JQ,Q=x,DAn,CAN Just wondering which is the better method way, if there are any subtle differences, etc etc? Thanks Brian - This e-mail message is for the sole use of the intended

Re: Purging spool output

2005-12-05 Thread willie bunter
$p will purge the output. $o will release output. Perryman, Brian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks Which is the 'best' JES2 command to purge spool output? I seem to have £P JOBQ,Q=x,DAYSn or £O JQ,Q=x,DAn,CAN Just wondering which is the better method way, if there are any

Re: Purging spool output

2005-12-05 Thread willie bunter
$p will purge the output. $o will release output. Perryman, Brian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks Which is the 'best' JES2 command to purge spool output? I seem to have £P JOBQ,Q=x,DAYSn or £O JQ,Q=x,DAn,CAN Just wondering which is the better method way, if there are any

z890 question - dynamic activate

2005-12-05 Thread McKown, John
I don't think it was here mentioned here (could be wrong), but I have a vague memory of somebody telling me that there is a possibility of an outage if a hardware ACTIVATE is done on a z890. Something about a bug in a specific LIC level? Does anybody else remember such a thing? -- John McKown

IBM Press Release: Hannaford Brothers Is Live on System z9

2005-12-05 Thread Timothy Sipples
I think this is the first publicly announced System z9 total go-live shop. (Anybody else want to make an announcement? :-)) Congratulations to Hannaford Brothers. Details in this IBM press release: http://biz.yahoo.com/iw/051205/0103015.html?printer=1 Sorry, don't have an ibm.com

Allocate VSAM LIKE - REUSE dropped on z/OS 1.6

2005-12-05 Thread Gilbert Saint-Flour
Hello: I clone a VSAM ESDS defined with REUSE using the ALLOCATE command with the LIKE attribute. ALLOC DS(ESDS1B) LIKE(ESDS1) NEW CATALOG On my z/OS 1.5 system, both the original and the new data sets have the REUSE attribute. On one of my customer's z/OS 1.6 system, the model also has

data conversion with cobol

2005-12-05 Thread Daniel Cremieux
Dear all, I am converting a rexx program to cobol and having this problem . The data is , for example x'0123' and after conversion , it must have the value 123 (decimal) In rexx , the statement is : decvalue = x2d(c2x(value)) I don't know how to achieve it in Cobol. CAn you please help ?

Re: Purging spool output

2005-12-05 Thread Mark Zelden
I usually do something like this: $OJOBQ,Q=X,CANCEL,A5 $OJOBQ,ALL,CANCEL,A15 $POJOBQ,ALL,A15,PROTECTED Note the use of PROTECTED in the $POJOBQ command. Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead Zurich North America and Farmers Insurance Group mailto: [EMAIL

Re: Purging spool output

2005-12-05 Thread Perryman, Brian
Yikes! Now I'm REALLY confused.. My head hurts..! Brian -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Mark Zelden Sent: 05 December 2005 14:40 To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Purging spool output I usually do something like this:

Re: Purging spool output

2005-12-05 Thread Ed Finnell
In a message dated 12/5/2005 9:12:28 A.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Yikes! Now I'm REALLY confused.. $O Q,ALL,A=7,CANCEL,PROTECTED -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: data conversion with cobol

2005-12-05 Thread Kirk Talman
05 in-put pic xx value x'0123'. 05 x-o pic s9(5) comp-3 value zero. 10 x-i pic xx. 10 pic x. . . . move in-put to x-i move x-o to wherever IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU wrote on 12/05/2005 09:49:10 AM: Dear all, I am converting a rexx program to cobol and having this

Re: z890 question - dynamic activate

2005-12-05 Thread Bielskie, Stephen
John, See Hiper Fixes document 081904/111204A on the IBM Service Link website. There are specific conditions when the error may occur that are described in these two documents. Regards, Steve Service Link website:

Re: data conversion with cobol

2005-12-05 Thread Bernd Oppolzer
I would put a X'0c' behind the data, and then access the whole thing as a decimal packed value with one digit after the decimal point (the zero). I didn't work with COBOL for 10 years or so, but I guess, the definitions will be something like 01 decval pic 'v9' usage comp-3. 01 charval

Re: STRNO in DB2 catalog

2005-12-05 Thread Mike Bell
Let me extend my answer. Under normal DB2 operations, the DB2 tabelspace and indexspace datasets open and close as activity against those datasets comes and goes. Normal numbers would be 10's to 100's datasets open and close per hour. Any catalog setting can handle that level of activity. DB2

Re: Oracle question

2005-12-05 Thread Ross Biddulph
We run Oracle on z/OS here but i haven't come across a VSAM Transparency option. i had a quick look in Oracle Metalink and someone had asked a similar question and the answer was Oracle's SQL*Loader will load MVS VSAM data directly into Oracle tables. However we do not offer a VSAM

Kick off a job on a different LPAR.

2005-12-05 Thread Howard Rifkind
Because I only have SFTP (via Ported Tools) on a test LPAR my users can't use it. I would like to be able to allow usesr on the Production LPAR to submit a job containing SFTP commands and some how have it run on the Test LPAR and return the results of the SFTP run (which ran on the Test

Re: Kick off a job on a different LPAR.

2005-12-05 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Howard Rifkind Sent: Monday, December 05, 2005 10:20 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Kick off a job on a different LPAR. Because I only have SFTP (via Ported Tools) on a test LPAR

IEASYM override in LOADXX

2005-12-05 Thread Casey Rhodes
I have to change 1 system symbol for 1 sysres volume for 1 system in a 6 system sysplex. In my LOADXX member is it possible to override the IEASYM specification with an override at the system specfice level. Example: IEASYM (00,Z0,L) NUCLST Z0 PARMLIB SYS1.LPLEX.PARMLIB PARMLIB

Re: Wrong structure name

2005-12-05 Thread R.S.
Nobody answered, so I did a test. I tried to use by mistake RACF structure as NEWCKPT1. Here are the results. IXL013I IXLCONN REQUEST FOR STRUCTURE IRRXCF00_P001 FAILED. JOBNAME: JES2 ASID: 0018 CONNECTOR NAME: JES2_BROT IXLCONN RETURN CODE: 0008, REASON CODE: 02010820 0820 mean:

Using 3590 in two plataforms

2005-12-05 Thread Carlos A Bodra
Hi, Anyone using IBM 3590 Tape drives to backup files in OS/390 or z/OS and in Windowns plataform to save open system files? Carlos Alberto Bodra Sao Paulo - SP - Brasil -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: STK9840A/B tape data restored from 9840C tape drives

2005-12-05 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Best I can guess is that the 9840C is not driving the required hardware commands for processing this media, which from your commentary seems to require 3590 emulation mode. Do you have mixed use of native, 9840B, 3590 and 3490E for the 9840C and so sometimes you swap to a compatible drive, but

Re: Kick off a job on a different LPAR.

2005-12-05 Thread Ed Finnell
In a message dated 12/5/2005 10:20:24 A.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Can anyone suggest how this can be done without have operation or user intervention on the TEST LPAR? If you have connectivity JECL can do this: 2.2.6 Execution at Remote Node (non-APPC)

Re: IEASYM override in LOADXX

2005-12-05 Thread Schiradin,Roland HG-Dir itb-db/dc
In the IEASYM you could use SYSDEF SYMDEF(LPARNUM='01') SYMDEF(LPTYP='X') SYSDEF SYSNAME(AL10) SYMDEF(LPARNUM='03') SYMDEF(LPTYP='P') Only on SYSNAME(AL10) the LPARNUM will be '03' and LPTYP = 'P' Roland

HEX TO DECIMAL with COBOL

2005-12-05 Thread Daniel Cremieux
Dear all How can we achive this in Cobol ? I don't see any function which can do it Thank you -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN

Re: HEX TO DECIMAL with COBOL

2005-12-05 Thread Rugen, Len
Google says see http://search390.techtarget.com/tip/1,289483,sid10_gci757615,00.html -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Daniel Cremieux Sent: Monday, December 05, 2005 11:03 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: HEX TO

Re: Kick off a job on a different LPAR.

2005-12-05 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of McKown, John -Original Message- I would like to be able to allow usesr on the Production LPAR to submit a job containing SFTP commands and some how have it run on the Test LPAR and return the

Re: Broken VVDS catalog entries

2005-12-05 Thread Mark Thomen
ibm-main [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... Anyone got a link to a tool that'll delete a broken VVDS catalog entry ???. We've had two (yep *2*) sysplex-wide outages to move the MCAT onto a dedicated CSV. The REPRO fails due to shonky cat entries. My attempts to get

Re: HEX TO DECIMAL with COBOL

2005-12-05 Thread Mike Bell
There isn't a direct function but long string from couple of weeks ago about going from character to hex will work with the logic reversed. Unless you just want to convert half word or full word to Decimal in which case 77 number-half pic s9(4) comp. -- this is cobol definition for asm of DS

BCTC vs SCTC

2005-12-05 Thread Steve Arnett
Folks, I wrote a program to communicate between two LPARs using a CTC connection. I was having a problem with occasional I/O errors. I originally had the program on an SCTC connection and swicthed it over to a BCTC connection. Since moving it, I have had no problems with the program.

Re: HEX TO DECIMAL with COBOL

2005-12-05 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Daniel Cremieux Dear all How can we achive this in Cobol ? I don't see any function which can do it 77 HEX-FIELD PIC S9(9) COMP. 77 DECIMAL-FIELD PIC S9(9) COMP-3. ... MOVE HEX-FIELD TO DECIMAL-FIELD.

Re: Kick off a job on a different LPAR.

2005-12-05 Thread John P Kalinich
Add these to your JCL. /*ROUTE XEQ testnode /*ROUTE PRINT prodnode Howard Rifkind

Re: Kick off a job on a different LPAR.

2005-12-05 Thread tony babonas
We do this sort of thing all the time, using XCOM, a CA product that does FTP-like things. Here's the sequence of events: 1. JOB-A on LPAR-A runs and does: a. iefbr14 to delete a dataset-a that will receive output from LPAR-B. b. sends JOB-B to LPAR-B. 2. JOB-B runs on LPAR-B and does:

Re: BCTC vs SCTC

2005-12-05 Thread R.S.
IMHO you should get rid of BCTC. It is obsolete. As I read somewhere, BCTC was on S/360 machines, and SCTC requires S/370 mode. BTW: CTC can be on BusTag (both BCTC and SCTC), can be on ESCON. It also can be on FICON, but only as FCTC, which is AFAIK almost the same as SCTC (at least for VTAM

Re: BCTC vs SCTC

2005-12-05 Thread Mark Jacobs
On Monday 05 December 2005 01:20 pm, R.S. wrote: IMHO you should get rid of BCTC. It is obsolete. As I read somewhere, BCTC was on S/360 machines, and SCTC requires S/370 mode. BTW: CTC can be on BusTag (both BCTC and SCTC), can be on ESCON. It also can be on FICON, but only as FCTC, which is

Re: STK9840A/B tape data restored from 9840C tape drives

2005-12-05 Thread Ed Finnell
In a message dated 12/5/2005 11:23:08 A.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: to access regular 3490 tape or virtual 3490 tape we use the esoteric UNIT=TAPEP and let SMS drive the allocation. Real tape gen'ed as UNIT TYPE STATUS 03A0 3490 O-NRD Vitural tape UNIT TYPE

Re: BCTC vs SCTC

2005-12-05 Thread R.S.
Mark Jacobs wrote: On Monday 05 December 2005 01:20 pm, R.S. wrote: IMHO you should get rid of BCTC. It is obsolete. As I read somewhere, BCTC was on S/360 machines, and SCTC requires S/370 mode. BTW: CTC can be on BusTag (both BCTC and SCTC), can be on ESCON. It also can be on FICON, but

Re: BCTC vs SCTC

2005-12-05 Thread Steve Arnett
I am getting a lot of responses stating that BCTC is required for GRS. This, I know. I do appreciate the attempts to be helpful. There are many refences on the board regarding the requirement for GRS to use BCTC. I have GRS using BCTC and I am neither questioning its use of BCTC or its

Re: SDSF and TRC

2005-12-05 Thread Joseph Lenz
On Sun, 4 Dec 2005 06:09:08 -0600, Big Iron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I didn't see this option listed in the User's Guide in the list of columns for the Output Descriptor panel. On some panels, entering a ? will show different columns. I didn't see the TRC option either. I can add the PAGEDEF

Fw: HEX TO DECIMAL with COBOL

2005-12-05 Thread Bill Klein
Just to clarify (and explain different answers already given), to answer this question we need to know what you mean by HEX input and DECIMAL output. If you want to convert binary stored data (often displayed by its hex values) to packed-decimal output, then the approach listed below is the

Re: BCTC vs SCTC

2005-12-05 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Arnett Sent: Monday, December 05, 2005 12:53 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: BCTC vs SCTC I am getting a lot of responses stating that BCTC is required for GRS.

Re: SDSF and TRC

2005-12-05 Thread Ed Finnell
In a message dated 12/5/2005 1:09:38 P.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: to select the font defined in my PAGEDEF. It appears that the TRC option can't be added to an output after it is generated. What kind of printer? What MODE is it in?

Re: ftp.emea.ibm.com replaces testcase?

2005-12-05 Thread Patrick O'Keefe
On Sat, 3 Dec 2005 10:54:18 -0700, Paul Gilmartin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... A suitably specialized FTP server would recognize the naming convention violation and, rather than quietly failing, reject the transfer before it really begins... Is EMEA's server similarly smart, or does it leave it

z/OS 1.5 EOS

2005-12-05 Thread Dennis Trojak
Has anybody seen any updates to the 3/31/2007 date for End-of-Service on z/OS 1.5? The IBM web site still has an * next to it indicating it has not been officially announced yet. Is there any offering available from IBM that will still get you z/OS 1.5 for those of us still stuck on G5 hardware?

Re: BCTC vs SCTC

2005-12-05 Thread Bruno Sugliani
On Mon, 5 Dec 2005 12:52:34 -0600, Steve Arnett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What I am asking for is some help finding the differences between the two. As a software developer how can I go to SCTC or even FCTC if I cannot find documentation on either the protocaols in use or the differences between

SHOWzOS 7.12 (CBT-File492)

2005-12-05 Thread Schiradin,Roland HG-Dir itb-db/dc
Hi, as of today I just deliver SHOWzOS V7.12 to Sam Golob to make it available for all via CBTTAPE (FILE#492). I believe he need some times to make it available and provide the preloaded version (FILE#614). Version 7.12 contains the following changes *$712

Re: BCTC vs SCTC

2005-12-05 Thread Steve Arnett
Thanks to everyone that responded. Bruno Sugliani wrote: have a look around page 3.3 could be helpfull Watch the wrap http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg29fafd2510f68d17285256ced0051213eaid=1 Bruno Bruno(dot)sugliani(at)groupemornay(dot)asso(dot)fr

Re: VVDS and catalog names

2005-12-05 Thread Mark Thomen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:1133810346.149768.199330 @z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com... Greetings and happy holidays! I copied a full volume to tape using ADRDSSU from SYSTEM-V and restored to an empty volume on SYSTEM-C, again with ADRDSSU. The copy went fine. I manually

Problem regarding IMS-DC

2005-12-05 Thread sudhanshu Kumar
Hi all, I am having a problem in my IMS-DC code. I want to know what's the difference between the below two statements CALL 'CBLTDLI' USING IMS-INSERT IOPCB MOD-AREA MODNAME. (MODNAME

Re: Problem regarding IMS-DC

2005-12-05 Thread Fenner, Jim
Sudhanshu, Is that a compilation error problem? Look in 'CBLTDLI' source and it should either expect two or three parameters. That's 'exclusive OR', one or the other but not both. Jim -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of

Re: Problem regarding IMS-DC

2005-12-05 Thread Rich Tabor
The second ISRT call without the modname means that the modname IMS will use may be the previously specified modname on the previous ISRT call. On 12/6/05, sudhanshu Kumar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I am having a problem in my IMS-DC code. I want to know what's the difference between the