Re: COBOL floating-point revisited

2006-02-23 Thread Jan MOEYERSONS
> >It was not possible to avoid the use of HLASM interfacing/transmitter >routines, which are not maintainable by COBOL or Java programmers, in order >to do so. > I have interfaced COBOL with Java and vice-versa using JNI. There is some C coding involved to do so and one has to be very careful abo

REXX and APF

2006-02-23 Thread Miklos Szigetvari
Hi I would like to call a REXX exec from a non TSO environment, (HTTP server) and the exec would call an APf authorized program (SAPI interface) I read the archive about this, maybe a new solution in 2006 ? -- Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Best regards Miklos Szigetvari ISIS Information Systems

Re: Mount DASD as read-only

2006-02-23 Thread R.S.
Mark Zelden wrote: On Wed, 22 Feb 2006 21:49:47 +0100, R.S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: BTW: Why to bother on R/O volume at all ? Lots of reasons I'm sure. A couple I can think of (and one #1 I used): 1) Keep uneducated people (even fellow sysprogs) from allocating junk on the sysres

Re: Mount DASD as read-only

2006-02-23 Thread Rob Scott
I am with Mark on both of these points - and I have to say that #1 was very effective at protecting the sysprogs from themselves. It was quite surprising how may 'uneducated' sysprogs there were - and some people were 'uneducated' on more than one occasion. Rob Scott Rocket Software http://www.

COBOL floating-point revisited

2006-02-23 Thread Don Higgins
John If you need a way to support all the IBM HFP and BFP formats including short, long, and extended formats using just COBOL and Java, then you may find the open source z390 Portable Mainframe Assembler and emulator tool useful. It is written entirely in J2SE Java and supports all the problem s

Re: Mount DASD as read-only

2006-02-23 Thread Ambat Ravi Nair
my current site is terribly averse to cloning, partly because the security team (ACF2) do not know how to set the rules, and thus do not want these additional tasks ... - ravi. R.S. wrote: [snipped] 2) Share a volume between environments not protected via a integrity manager like GRS or M

Re: Mount DASD as read-only

2006-02-23 Thread Yera Fachal, Ignacio
We have read only dasd volumes. We have a EMC's Symmetrix DASD cabinet with SRDF's remote copy. What we have online as read only is the destination volume of the remote copy witch is read-only for MVS. So, if we dont want to allow a partition to be able to write to a specific volume, we vary onlin

Re: STP and Time Synchronization

2006-02-23 Thread Mika, Christian SZ/HZA-ITDS1
Hello Hal, thanks for your response. I feared, there were no more Information available at the moment and I had to wait. Christian -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hal Merritt Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2006 10:13 PM To: I

Data Set Name "Hiding"

2006-02-23 Thread Jim Marshall
My Security folks are eager to have us implement something called "Dataset Name Hiding". This will hide dataset names from a user's view if they do not have the necessary security authority for these files. I am not sure of all the details as to what RACF permissions are needed "to see" a file. Ha

Getting error message: "Error - Invalid Index File"

2006-02-23 Thread Rafa Pereira
Hello: I am getting the following message when accessing to messages with subject "Guidelines for Sizing Local Page Datasets" (messages 209871, 209874, 209875, 209875, 209877 and 209878): "Error - Invalid Index File The format of the index file is invalid. Please try again in about 30 seconds, a

Re: COBOL floating-point revisited

2006-02-23 Thread john gilmore
I am of course aware that the use of 'printable', engineering-notation representations of floating-point values [and indeed of other data types too] makes communication between Java and COBOL easy, at least for most 'reasonable', frequently encountered engineering-notation values. What is inv

Re: Data Set Name "Hiding"

2006-02-23 Thread Binyamin Dissen
On Thu, 23 Feb 2006 05:59:26 -0600 Jim Marshall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: :>My Security folks are eager to have us implement something called "Dataset :>Name Hiding". This will hide dataset names from a user's view if they do :>not have the necessary security authority for these files. I am not s

Re: Military Time?

2006-02-23 Thread Tomas J Fott
On Wed, 22 Feb 2006 23:22:34 -0500, jaya relim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >And I wasn't implying that I would say that. However, given that some >people do say 12:00PM, I was merely suggesting how those of us that know >better could/should interpret it. > Usage of AM, PM in REXX: 12:00am = midni

Regular expression to define valid MVS dataset

2006-02-23 Thread Steve Flynn
Listers, -- Steve Despair - It's always darkest just before it goes pitch black... -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the

Re: Mount DASD as read-only

2006-02-23 Thread Walt Farrell
On 2/22/2006 3:50 PM, R.S. wrote: In fact, RACF will never give you 100% confidence. Started tasks with PROTECTED or TRUSTED attribute don't care about RACF profiles, there is PPT, authorized code, etc. Hardware feature is the only effective way. FYI, you meant "PRIVILEGED" not "PROTECTED" ab

Regular expression to define valid MVS dataset

2006-02-23 Thread Steve Flynn
I'll try again, without hitting SEND immediately! I was after a regular expression to define a valid MVS dataset name. Does anyone have something to hand? I can't find anything in the archives... -- Steve Despair - It's always darkest just before it goes pitch black... --

Re: CAZ????? modules (resolution coming)

2006-02-23 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 02/20/2006 at 03:39 PM, Mark Zelden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >Excuse me, but when did reading all IBM-MAIN posts past and present >become required for vendors? The same day that it became their only source of data. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JO

Re: Don't fully understand IBM terminal

2006-02-23 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 02/22/2006 at 03:11 AM, Jan MOEYERSONS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >Cut the guy some slack, people.. We have been - but we can't read his mind. There's a limit to what you can explain without a good problem description. Also, I find it a bit strange to see "Cut the guy

Re: Disk vs Tape scenario

2006-02-23 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 02/21/2006 at 01:01 PM, Ed Finnell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >Right. I was stuck in the COBOL/Binder thread. Politics gets in the >way of good sense and in this instance they had placed the back-up >right across the street to 'save money, improve efficiency'. >Cur

Re: TCP/IP over Cisco router CIP

2006-02-23 Thread Chris Mason
Hal, I'm pretty sure you are using VIPA as I would expect but a couple of clarifications might help. I think you may have missed a word out in your sentence "So, you assign as many VIPA addresses as you need to each application." Perhaps this should be "So, you assign as many VIPA addresses as yo

Re: Regular expression to define valid MVS dataset

2006-02-23 Thread Binyamin Dissen
On Thu, 23 Feb 2006 13:12:44 + Steve Flynn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: :>I was after a regular expression to define a valid MVS dataset name. :>Does anyone have something to hand? I can't find anything in the :>archives... Don't know RE's but. Maximum length 44 Structure is FOO followed

OT who is/was Joshka Fischer? was Re: Disk vs Tape scenario

2006-02-23 Thread Phil Payne
Please excuse my impertinence one last time, Darren - but is it just possible the original question was about Josh KRISCHER - who is an IBM specialist analyst at Gartner Group and a friend and ex-colleague of mine? A search on Google's Big Daddy - http://64.233.179.104/search?hl=en&lr=&q=josh+k

Health Checker for z/OS

2006-02-23 Thread Knutson, Sam
Hi, Something you could easily do yourself but if you haven't yet you might have use for this. The default check output from RACF_SENSITIVE_RESOURCES buried the errors in a very large list of libraries and I didn't see a way to request only errors in the check output. I will try to find time to p

Re: TCP/IP over Cisco router CIP

2006-02-23 Thread Patrick Lyon
On Thu, 23 Feb 2006 14:45:29 +0100, Chris Mason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >There was an issue with VIPAs and OMPROUTE OSPF dynamic routing. Ideally it >should be possible to advertise a VIPA using a "host", single (the VIPA >itself) address rather than a subnet range. When I examined setting this

Re: Regular expression to define valid MVS dataset

2006-02-23 Thread David Cole
In addition, a dash (aka hyphen, minus sign) can be used anywhere a digit can (i.e. 2nd through 8th character within any qualifier). Dave Cole REPLY TO: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cole Software WEB PAGE: http://www.xdc.com 736 Fox Hollow RoadVOICE:540-456-8536 Afton, VA 2292

Re: Data Set Name "Hiding"

2006-02-23 Thread Walt Farrell
On 2/23/2006 6:59 AM, Jim Marshall wrote: My Security folks are eager to have us implement something called "Dataset Name Hiding". This will hide dataset names from a user's view if they do not have the necessary security authority for these files. I am not sure of all the details as to what RACF

Re: Mount DASD as read-only

2006-02-23 Thread Ron and Jenny Hawkins
Nacho, EMC made this kinda work by providing a utility that would allow the microcode to change the contents of your volumes - specifically to update the last reference date. This is redundant now as MVS will tolerate the error when last ref date cannot be updated. I used this facility with SRDF

Re: Regular expression to define valid MVS dataset

2006-02-23 Thread Steve Flynn
On 23/02/06, Binyamin Dissen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 23 Feb 2006 13:12:44 + Steve Flynn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > :>I was after a regular expression to define a valid MVS dataset name. > :>Does anyone have something to hand? I can't find anything in the > :>archives... > > D

Re: Regular expression to define valid MVS dataset

2006-02-23 Thread Steve Flynn
On 23/02/06, David Cole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In addition, a dash (aka hyphen, minus sign) can be used anywhere a > digit can (i.e. 2nd through 8th character within any qualifier). Bugger. Forgot about that too! -- Steve Despair - It's always darkest just before it goes pitch black... ---

Re: Regular expression to define valid MVS dataset

2006-02-23 Thread Paul Gilmartin
In a recent note, Binyamin Dissen said: > Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 15:56:49 +0200 > > Can this be described as an RE? > Since the language is finite, it's trivially possible to describe it as an RE. A better question is whether it's practical. -- gil -- StorageTek INFORMATION made POWER

Re: TCP/IP over Cisco router CIP

2006-02-23 Thread Chris Mason
Patrick, Thank you for your response. I'm not sure you completely understood. I asked about dynamic VIPA and your example is for a static VIPA. The problem I had was with OMPROUTE OSPF statements and not the PROFILE statements. My use of the word "advertise" - rather than "define" perhaps - is su

Re: TCP/IP over Cisco router CIP

2006-02-23 Thread Patrick Lyon
On Thu, 23 Feb 2006 15:34:22 +0100, Chris Mason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Patrick, > >Thank you for your response. > >I'm not sure you completely understood. I asked about dynamic VIPA and your >example is for a static VIPA. Ah yes, you hit the nail on the head, I didn't compeletely understand

Re: Regular expression to define valid MVS dataset

2006-02-23 Thread Rob Scott
Remember also that single level dataset names are possible (depending on settings in your RACF-U-like product) Rob Scott Rocket Software http://www.rs.com/portfolio/mxi/ -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instru

Re: Regular expression to define valid MVS dataset

2006-02-23 Thread Paul Gilmartin
In a recent note, Steve Flynn said: > > FOO = "[EMAIL PROTECTED]@$]{1,8}?\." > Are minuscule alphabetics allowed in data set names? And it depends on whether your site has disabled ICF catalog DSN validity checking, discussed here recently. And it depends on what language or interface to the O

Re: Another z9 HMC problem

2006-02-23 Thread R.S.
Rafa Pereira wrote: On Wed, 22 Feb 2006 21:34:08 +0100, R.S. wrote: Two questions: 1. Did you do it on Linux-based HMC 2.9 or earlier (OS/2-based) version ? 2. Is the CLIENT_IP optional ? Did you define console sessions also ? 1. On Linux-based HMC 2.9 version. 2. According to the HELP i

Re: Data Set Name "Hiding"

2006-02-23 Thread Edward E. Jaffe
Jim Marshall wrote: My Security folks are eager to have us implement something called "Dataset Name Hiding". This will hide dataset names from a user's view if they do not have the necessary security authority for these files. I am not sure of all the details as to what RACF permissions are neede

Re: Mount DASD as read-only

2006-02-23 Thread Mark Zelden
On Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:46:26 +0100, R.S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> 1) Keep uneducated people (even fellow sysprogs) from allocating junk on >>the sysres (set). It gets "lost" when cloning (not cataloged to >>the IPL volume) Well.. not really lost until we re-clone over >>the volu

Re: Data Set Name "Hiding"

2006-02-23 Thread Porowski, Ken
Not that I want to add overhead but does anyone know if Top Secret has the same facility? -Original Message- Jim Marshall wrote: > My Security folks are eager to have us implement something called > "Dataset Name Hiding". This will hide dataset names from a user's view > if they do not

Re: Regular expression to define valid MVS dataset

2006-02-23 Thread Steve Flynn
On 23/02/06, Paul Gilmartin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In a recent note, Steve Flynn said: > > > > > FOO = "[EMAIL PROTECTED]@$]{1,8}?\." > > > Are minuscule alphabetics allowed in data set names? They are in my specific case. > And it depends on whether your site has disabled ICF > catalog DSN

Issuing commands from program - MGCRE > 126 bytes?

2006-02-23 Thread Andy Robertson
Like a lot of places, we use the MGCR macro to issue commands in batch. We use a controlled (RACF restricted) program. Use of this facility is far less than it was but it is still occasionally useful to issue commands when we are making system changes and so forth MGCR and MGCRE seem restricte

Re: Data Set Name "Hiding"

2006-02-23 Thread Hal Merritt
My $0.02: I am told that the most common potential intruder is one with a valid ID and password. I have no idea what tiny bit of information may help this intruder penetrate deeper. Therefore, my thought is to deny the potential intruder as much information as reasonably practical. HTH ---

Re: Data Set Name "Hiding"

2006-02-23 Thread John P Kalinich
Ken wrote: >Not that I want to add overhead but does anyone know if Top Secret has >the same facility? I believe that it is DFSMS making the RACROUTE AUTH calls, so Top Secret or ACF2 should be able to process them. Regards, John Kalinich Computer Sciences Corp --

Re: Data Set Name "Hiding"

2006-02-23 Thread Mark Thomen
"Jim Marshall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... > My Security folks are eager to have us implement something called "Dataset > Name Hiding". This will hide dataset names from a user's view if they do > not have the necessary security authority for these files. I am n

Re: CAZ????? modules (resolution coming)

2006-02-23 Thread Ed Finnell
In a message dated 2/23/2006 7:45:37 A.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The same day that it became their only source of data. >> Always been a source of amusement that IBM has been so glacially slow to come up to speed in the information age. This list was started in '

Re: IBM-supported method to empty PDS in Batch

2006-02-23 Thread Mark Thomen
"DeFabritus, Peter [NCSUS Non-J&J]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... > As I mentioned before, you really should look at APAR OA13224: > > "COMMENTS: > The requirement to serialize either PDS or PDSE with DISP > processing prior to issuing STOW INITIALIZE, is remo

Re: Data Set Name "Hiding"

2006-02-23 Thread Walt Farrell
On 2/23/2006 10:24 AM, Edward E. Jaffe wrote: Just curious. How much of an exposure exists if a user knows the name of a data set [s]he can't open? In the context for which we developed that support (some of the highly-classified government installations) the exposure is considered signific

Re: Data Set Name "Hiding"

2006-02-23 Thread Walt Farrell
On 2/23/2006 10:53 AM, John P Kalinich wrote: Ken wrote: Not that I want to add overhead but does anyone know if Top Secret has the same facility? I believe that it is DFSMS making the RACROUTE AUTH calls, so Top Secret or ACF2 should be able to process them. Top Secret or ACF2 should be ab

Re: Mount DASD as read-only

2006-02-23 Thread Bruce Black
We have read only dasd volumes. We have a EMC's Symmetrix DASD cabinet with SRDF's remote copy. What we have online as read only is the destination volume of the remote copy witch is read-only for MVS. So, if we dont want to allow a partition to be able to write to a specific volume, we vary onl

need to generate asm instructions in COBOL

2006-02-23 Thread John Norgauer
I am trying to compile an Enterprise COBOL program with the assemler output but am not successful. I am passing the following parms to the compiler: PARM=('LIB,APOST,NODYNAM,RES,RENT,VBREF,XREF,LANG(UE),MAP,LIST') Any care to figure out the error of my ways. Thanks John Norgauer University o

Happy 20th, IBM-Main (was RE: CAZ?????...)

2006-02-23 Thread Tom Sims
And I for one of many thank you all for the stumbling. You have made life (rather, "work") not only easier, but at times even possible. Perhaps an extra bowl of 20-year-old pretzels at the IBM-Main table in Seattle is in order, in lieu of any other celebration...? Tom Sims Trident Services

Re: Happy 20th, IBM-Main (was RE: CAZ?????...)

2006-02-23 Thread Ed Finnell
In a message dated 2/23/2006 10:36:19 A.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: And I for one of many thank you all for the stumbling. You have made life (rather, "work") not only easier, but at times even possible. Perhaps an extra bowl of 20-year-old pretzels at the IBM-Mai

Re: TCP/IP over Cisco router CIP

2006-02-23 Thread Hal Merritt
See imbedded. Note: I make the statement 'we have never had an LPAR failure' which is not completely true. We have had a machine failure, and we have had catastrophic failures of our most loved online application. In each case we simply IPL'ed and we were back on the air in much less time that it

Re: Happy 20th, IBM-Main (was RE: CAZ?????...)

2006-02-23 Thread Bob Shannon
>As a former SHARE badge holder guess the 'room service rate' for SCIDS >pretzels and chips was beyond my comprehension. Something like $16 per bowl >in '91. Maybe there's a better price for convention rates, but seemed like >'room service robbery'. Glad I don't have to deal with it. It's m

Re: Data Set Name "Hiding"

2006-02-23 Thread Richard Tsujimoto
Sounds like a conspiracy to slow the MF down ;- ) Mark Thomen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List 02/23/2006 11:19 AM Please respond to IBM Mainframe Discussion List To IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU cc Subject Re: Data Set Name "Hiding" "Jim Marshall" <[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Data Set Name "Hiding"

2006-02-23 Thread McKown, John
> -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Thomen > Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2006 10:20 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: Data Set Name "Hiding" > > > > If you don't give someone RACF access to a file, then th

Re: need to generate asm instructions in COBOL

2006-02-23 Thread Alan C. Field
Your PARMS work for me. Are you sure they are being applied to the COMPILE step? PP 5655-G53 IBM ENTERPRISE COBOL FOR Z/OS 3.4.0 XXX DATE 02 00 XX DS0H PROGRAM:XX USING *,15 00 47F0 F028

Re: Data Set Name "Hiding" - why?

2006-02-23 Thread Gilbert Saint-Flour
On Thursday 23 February 2006 10:24, Edward E. Jaffe wrote: > Just curious. How much of an exposure exists if a user knows > the name of a data set [s]he can't open? In certain environments, it may just be "security through obscurity". In other cases, it may be a real confidentiality concern. F

Re: REXX and APF

2006-02-23 Thread Richard Tsujimoto
I know you can go the other way, e.g. MF->non-MF using rexec, but don't know if you can go the other way. Never tried it. You could try posting to the TCPIP listserver for help. Miklos Szigetvari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List 02/23/2006 04:35 AM Please respond

IBM-MAIN's 20th Birthday

2006-02-23 Thread Darren Evans-Young
The first post to IBM-MAIN was sent on Friday June 6, 1986. Darren -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http

Re: CFW and DFSORT

2006-02-23 Thread John (IBM-MAIN)
> Hi all > because of GDPS Hyperswap-Tests we want to disable Cache Fast Write. We > were wondering which jobs would be affected by this change and we found > out that DFSORT has an option CFW=Y, which is our default. > 1. how will DFSORT react if option CFW=Y is used and on the HW it is > disabled

Re: REXX and APF

2006-02-23 Thread McKown, John
> -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Miklos Szigetvari > Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2006 3:36 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU > Subject: REXX and APF > > > Hi > > I would like to call a REXX exec from a non TSO environment,

Re: need to generate asm instructions in COBOL

2006-02-23 Thread Gary DiPillo
>From my copy of the Programming Guide: "The output is generated if: "You specify the COMPILE option (or the NOCOMPILE(x) option is in effect and an error level x or higher does not occur). "You do not specify the OFFSET option. "If you want to limit the assembler listing output, use *CONTROL

Re: need to generate asm instructions in COBOL

2006-02-23 Thread Kenny Fogarty
The LIST option is the one that will give you the Assembler expansion of your COBOL source code. Can you put up the top of your COBOL compiler output which shows the invocation parameters and options in effect? On 23/02/06, John Norgauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am trying to compile an Ent

PROTECTION EXCEPTION 0C4 - Job Doesn't Work When &&Dataset Used

2006-02-23 Thread Robert Pelletier
Hi All. Once again I look to the group for help. I am at a total loss and have test extensively. This is the issue: If I use the following && JCL the job fails consistently with an 0C4: //WORK01 DD DISP=NEW,UNIT=SYSDA,SPACE=(CYL,(4300,5)), //LRECL=8192,BLKSIZE=0,RECFM=VB,DSN=&&WO

Re: CFW and DFSORT

2006-02-23 Thread Ron and Jenny Hawkins
John, Cache Fast Write reduces cache utilisation in HDS and IBM controllers. In HDS a normal write has a second copy in Global cache until it is destaged to disk. With Cache Fast write there is only one copy in cache so cache usage is halved for those writes waiting to be destaged to disk. For I

Re: need to generate asm instructions in COBOL

2006-02-23 Thread John Norgauer
The programmer gave me a program to compile that had errors galore and that's why the asm output was not created. Thanls Listers John Norgauer University of California Davis Medical Center 2315 Stockton Blvd ASB 1300 Sacramento, Ca 95817 916-734-0536 SYSTEMS PROGRAMMING.. Guilty, until pr

Re: Data Set Name "Hiding" - why?

2006-02-23 Thread R.S.
Gilbert Saint-Flour wrote: On Thursday 23 February 2006 10:24, Edward E. Jaffe wrote: Just curious. How much of an exposure exists if a user knows the name of a data set [s]he can't open? In certain environments, it may just be "security through obscurity". In other cases, it may be a re

Re: PROTECTION EXCEPTION 0C4 - Job Doesn't Work When &&Dataset Used

2006-02-23 Thread Richard Tsujimoto
By any chance do you create &&WORKxx in prior steps in the same job? Robert Pelletier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List 02/23/2006 12:26 PM Please respond to IBM Mainframe Discussion List To IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU cc Subject PROTECTION EXCEPTION 0C4 - Job Doesn't Wo

Update: PROTECTION EXCEPTION 0C4 - Job Doesn't Work When &&Dataset Used

2006-02-23 Thread Robert Pelletier
The job just worked using &&work files. It failed all morning with &&work. Any ideas? Does an LE program require a lot of storage? It looks like our PUBLIC volumes have plenty of space. Thanks all. Think Spring !!! Bob Pelletier Connecticut Student Loan Foundation Rocky Hill, Connec

Re: IBM-supported method to empty PDS in Batch

2006-02-23 Thread
I just wrote a quick program to do the STOW with the initialize option. We have the APAR on our z/OS 1.4 system. Guess what, Mark - it only works for a PDSE, not a PDS. The return code for a PDS is x'1C', which states that only PDSEs are supported. Please start beating. On Thu, 23 Feb 2006 08:

Re: PROTECTION EXCEPTION 0C4 - Job Doesn't Work When &&Dataset Used

2006-02-23 Thread Charles Mills
If the job works with a space allocation of CYL,(5,5) then why do you specify much larger quantities in the && situation? Are you using a smaller input file or otherwise a smaller test case in the "good" situation? Is it possible that the S0C4 is related not to DSN=&& but rather to data volumes, o

Re: PROTECTION EXCEPTION 0C4 - Job Doesn't Work When &&Dataset Used

2006-02-23 Thread Robert Pelletier
No first step is a IEFBR14 to delete some files. Think Spring !!! Bob Pelletier Connecticut Student Loan Foundation Rocky Hill, Connecticut - -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send

Re: PROTECTION EXCEPTION 0C4 - Job Doesn't Work When &&Dataset Used

2006-02-23 Thread Hal Merritt
Most application programs are not aware of any file details. About the only thing that springs to mind is some sort of allocation failure/denial that caused OPEN to fail, and the program failed to test the OPEN completion code. Supporting that SWAG is that many shops direct allocation differently

Re: Data Set Name "Hiding" - why?

2006-02-23 Thread Edward E. Jaffe
Gilbert Saint-Flour wrote: On Thursday 23 February 2006 10:24, Edward E. Jaffe wrote: Just curious. How much of an exposure exists if a user knows the name of a data set [s]he can't open? In certain environments, it may just be "security through obscurity". In other cases, it may be

Re: Mount DASD as read-only

2006-02-23 Thread R.S.
Mark Zelden wrote: On Thu, 23 Feb 2006 11:46:26 +0100, R.S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 1) Keep uneducated people (even fellow sysprogs) from allocating junk on the sysres (set). It gets "lost" when cloning (not cataloged to the IPL volume) Well.. not really lost until we re-clone over

Re: IBM-MAIN's 20th Birthday

2006-02-23 Thread Jousma, David
Can you repost it, just for the sake of what was going on 20 years ago? Dave Dave Jousma Principal Systems Programmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] 616.653.8429 -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

Something to show the PFK's

2006-02-23 Thread Ray Mullins
IBM marketing has created a very nice poster that your graphic arts department can blow up so you can hang it on the wall... http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/zoslib/pdf/history_of_the_mainframe_poster.pd f And for those of you who work at universities, this is perfect for your office door/bulletin

Re: Data Set Name "Hiding" - why?

2006-02-23 Thread Jon Brock
One fellow who worked here many moons ago had a file named something along the lines of "SYSXXX.AUDITORS.PLEASE.DONT.LOOK." I think it was just a backup of something else he was working with, but it was still amusing. Jon Fortunately, naming MVS datasets is so ugly, that very little inform

Re: PROTECTION EXCEPTION 0C4 - Job Doesn't Work When &&Dataset Used

2006-02-23 Thread Robert Pelletier
This is all I found: IEF450I TRAM1SFA STEP02 - ABEND=S0C4 U REASON=0004 CEE3204S The system detected a protection exception (System Completion Code=0C4) From entry point EAFile::readNextLine() at compile unit offset +008 CEE3DMP V2 R10.0: Condition processing resulted in the un

Re: PROTECTION EXCEPTION 0C4 - Job Doesn't Work When &&Dataset Used

2006-02-23 Thread Robert Pelletier
Hi. We thought it was a space issue initially so we made the &&work large. For a while it seemed to get the job to run by upping the && allocation. Looks like a coincidence. We have run it with the same input and with different inputs and it fails sporadically. Today we used different input file

Re: IBM-supported method to empty PDS in Batch

2006-02-23 Thread Alan C. Field
"I just wrote a quick program to do the STOW with the initialize option. We have the APAR on our z/OS 1.4 system. Guess what, Mark - it only works for a PDSE, not a PDS. The return code for a PDS is x'1C', which states that only PDSEs are supported. Please start beating." I ran a similar prog

Re: IBM-MAIN's 20th Birthday

2006-02-23 Thread Rob Scott
> Can you repost it, just for the sake of what was going on 20 years ago? Surely it was either : (a) Test - please ignore (b) Someone reminiscing about how they could move the chains in different directions on a Turing Machine 2290 Rob Scott Rocket Software http://www.rs.com/portfolio/mxi/

FW: PROTECTION EXCEPTION 0C4 - Job Doesn't Work When &&Dataset Us ed

2006-02-23 Thread Dan Ponta
Replace all the statements SPACE=(CYL,(900,5)), and SPACE=(CYL,(4300,5)), With SPACE=(CYL,(5,5)), And let see if is working Also, I have a question for you: is this JCL with 0C4 ever work before? Dan Ponta System Engineer --

Re: CFW and DFSORT

2006-02-23 Thread David Betten
You should not have a problem with DFSORT if you disable cache fast write in your contoller. Even if the DFSORT default is CFW, the controller will simply ignore the CFW flag and treat it as a normal write. Generally, I have not seen a significant perfomrance impact to DFSORT when CFW is turned o

Re: IBM-MAIN's 20th Birthday

2006-02-23 Thread John P Kalinich
> Can you repost it, just for the sake of what was going on 20 years ago? IIRC, MVS/XA was the OS du Jour. Regards, John Kalinich Computer Sciences Corp -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send ema

Re: PROTECTION EXCEPTION 0C4 - Job Doesn't Work When &&Dataset Us ed

2006-02-23 Thread Robert Pelletier
Hi Don. Ok. Yes the JCL has been in production for 2 years at least and it fails when it feels like it with the 0C4. Do you want us to use the &&files? Think Spring !!! Bob Pelletier Connecticut Student Loan Foundation Rocky Hill, Connecticut Replace all the statements SPACE=(CYL,(9

Re: PROTECTION EXCEPTION 0C4 - Job Doesn't Work When &&Dataset Used

2006-02-23 Thread Rugen, Len
Maybe you need to see if you can identify the module containing the failing instruction, then look at the logic in that area if it is your app code. I'll bet on table overflow OR reading from a file after it's closed. Some of my apps people provide good examples of abends from time to time --

Re: PROTECTION EXCEPTION 0C4 - Job Doesn't Work When &&Dataset Used

2006-02-23 Thread Hal Merritt
>From this and the other postings, I would have to say the failure is data related, not JCL. That is, you are going to have to approach this as a program bug. When the results are unpredictable, that includes test that appear to be successful. Not knowing anything about the program, the messages

Re: PROTECTION EXCEPTION 0C4 - Job Doesn't Work When &&Dataset Us ed

2006-02-23 Thread Dan Ponta
Hi Bob, Yes you can use the &&files but change the space as I suggest you and put them on VOL=SER=BACK09. Let see if that is working.. ( The problem you have is looks like to be an intermittent and this abend is created by the program. If you have the source check to see what is doing at that offs

3494 ATL

2006-02-23 Thread Hal Merritt
Anyone have a suggestion as to a quick start guide? The native IBM manuals are, well, just a little confusing. Thanks!! -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] w

TASID Command

2006-02-23 Thread Howard Rifkind
I've searched around and can't seem to find the library where the TASID is located. Can anyone direct me there. Thanks. - What are the most popular cars? Find out at Yahoo! Autos

Re: PROTECTION EXCEPTION 0C4 - Job Doesn't Work When &&Dataset Us ed

2006-02-23 Thread Dan Ponta
If I use this JCL which uses permanent datasets the job works everytime: //WORK01 DD DISP=(NEW,CATLG),UNIT=SYSDA,SPACE=(CYL,(5,5)), . This is telling me the program can or is expecting to work only on a specific file definition...or a specific VOL=SER... Dan Ponta System Engineer -Orig

Re: TASID Command

2006-02-23 Thread Chase, John
> -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Howard Rifkind > > I've searched around and can't seem to find the library where > the TASID is located. > > Can anyone direct me there. Unfortunately, without knowing where you installed TASID, nobody can dire

Re: TASID Command

2006-02-23 Thread Eatherly, John D [IT]
To download try here: http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=17&context=SSBLLD&dc=D400&ui d=swg24009131&loc=en_US&cs=UTF-8&lang=en I've searched around and can't seem to find the library where the TASID is located. Can anyone direct me there.

PROTECTION EXCEPTION 0C4 - Job Doesn't Work When &&Dataset Used

2006-02-23 Thread Debbie Mitchell
Could the problem be related to the && dsns being the same as the ddnames? Debbie Mitchell Utica National Insurance Group /snip Hi All. Once again I look to the group for help. I am at a total loss and have test extensively. This is the issue: If I use the following && JCL the job fails co

Generic delete

2006-02-23 Thread Mark Pace
Is there a way to do a generic delete of datasets? Say I want to remove a user from my systems and I want to delete all of his/her datasets. Is there a way to do that in a JCL or REXX rather than manually? example joesmith.** Mark D Pace Senior Systems Engineer Mainline Information Systems 170

Re: TASID Command

2006-02-23 Thread Fletcher, Kevin
Howard, IIRC the IBM-MAIN archives would probably have the answer. This question was answered within the last month or so. You know you are in the right spot if you get TASID 5.11. Thanks, Fletch -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On B

Re: Generic delete

2006-02-23 Thread Mendelson, Eric
Use Xdelete rexx from file 183 of the CBT Tape Project Leader - MVS HIP 32 Old Slip New York N.Y. 10005 212-806-4054 -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Pace Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2006 2:47 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU

Re: 3494 ATL

2006-02-23 Thread Mark Pace
What sort of information are you looking for? Mark D Pace Senior Systems Engineer Mainline Information Systems 1700 Summit Lake Drive Tallahassee, FL. 32317 Office: 850.219.5184 Fax: 888.221.9862 http://www.mainline.com This e-mail and files transmitted with it are confidential, and are intend

Re: Generic delete

2006-02-23 Thread Knutson, Sam
Hi Mark, You and everyone else would find it useful to have Gilbert's excellent XDELETE REXX exec handy. The XDELETE command scans the catalog for data set names that match a filter (such as USERID.*.C%K*.**) then issues a DELETE command for each disk data set or a DELETE NOSCRATCH for each tape

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