for a client of us we are searching mvs to unix migration tools. For
the huge amount of batch jobs we need an easy way for JCL to script
conversion. The best would be a JCL interpreter for UNIX.
Does anybody
know of such a tool?
I seem to have heard that Contro-M could do this. You'll
All,
I can confirm that the meeting being held on the 8th June 2006 will be at IBM
Bedfont Lakes.
Directions can be found at http://www-5.ibm.com/uk/locations/bedfont.html
The Agenda for the day has been updated and can be found at:
http://www.gse.org.uk/wg/racf/racfinvite.htm
If you wish
Hi,
We have a problem with Attachmate Extra's ability to handle spaces, but
the problem only happens when cutting and pasting text in the CA problem
management tool called SOLVE.
Here is what happens:-
I'll copy some text (from inside SOLVE), and then paste it, and all of the
spaces
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on
04/27/2006
at 02:15 PM, Hal Merritt [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
CSS? What's that?
Channel subsystem?
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ISO position; see http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're
Need some help with ICETOOL. Is it possible to do a 1:1
copy of a data set and at the same pass through the input
count the number of record which match a certain criterion?
RC=12 shall be set if a certain number is exceeded.
Here is what I've tried:
//TOOLIN DD *
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 04/28/2006
at 04:25 AM, Mike Baker [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
All suggestions appreciated.
Run a TPUT or VTAM buffer trace and see what SOLVE is actually writing
to the terminal. It sounds as if it's sending nulls when it should be
sending spaces, or it's putting words
In a message dated 4/28/2006 5:15:29 A.M. Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
...filling the output data set requires a much different
number of EXCPs in the two cases (using the same data set
instance in both runs):...
Q3: Again, how can the big difference be explained?
I
On Fri, 28 Apr 2006 06:28:49 -0300 Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
:In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 04/28/2006
: at 04:25 AM, Mike Baker [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
:All suggestions appreciated.
:Run a TPUT or VTAM buffer trace and see what SOLVE is actually writing
:to the terminal.
Shmuel,
Thanks for your suggestions. I'll follow up with our VTAM guy next week,
and ask for his help.
As for CA's response, the admin person in our company who looks after CA-
Solve, tells me, I have approached CA several times and they do not have
this problem because they use a different
Binyamin,
When we cut from CA-Solve, then paste into Notepad, and then cut and paste
back into CA-Solve, then there is no problem. It works fine. Thanks.
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Bill,
you missed the parantheses. In a first run I used unique
output data sets. Then I thought some physical differences
could be the reason for the difference, so I decided to
rerun both version using the very same preallocated output
data set. It must be something else.
Peter Hunkeler
CREDIT
Shmuel and Mike,
Whenever the advice is given to run a VTAM buffer trace, I try to jump in
and suggest using the NetView Session Monitor trace with option CPIU
(complete PIU). This is so, so much easier that messing about with GTF.
Of course, I have to supply the proviso that it only works when
Jan MOEYERSONS wrote:
for a client of us we are searching mvs to unix migration tools. For
the huge amount of batch jobs we need an easy way for JCL to script
conversion. The best would be a JCL interpreter for UNIX.
Does anybody
know of such a tool?
I
Don't forget that Extra! has its own traces you can turn on, with a trace
viewer... as do most emulators. This may be sufficient to show you what is
being sent to the emulator by the CA product.
Tim Hare
Senior Systems Programmer
Florida Department of Transportation
(850) 414-4209
Hi Mike,
Are the spaces missing right when you paste or after you hit an AID key
to send the pasted data to the host and the host has rewritten the
screen? Pasting into an emulator is a local function that does not show
up on a trace until the screen is updated by the host.
A trace of the data
Pronounced ficking.
Which is the German equivalent of our word, and so Darren's inbox will be
swamped by netnanny
nastygrams in German.
Germans pronounce V as F - so Vick Pharmaceuticals is known as Wick Pharma in
Germany.
I've finally managed to remember the z8 thread and the comment of
What is this world coming to ...
http://www.netcobol.com/products/windows/neobatch.htm
Ken Porowski
AVP Systems Software
CIT Group
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OK, I've been adequately chastised on this subject so now it is time to
put my original comments more into context.
First a couple caveats:
1. The filter my net-nannies have on aren't blasting Darren, it is set
to just drop the offending e-mail (whether or not it is actually
offensive), and
2.
In
[EMAIL PROTECTED],
on 04/27/2006
at 11:03 AM, Chase, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
And then there's H%ll, Kansas.
There's one of those in Michigan. And I'm pretty sure that the West is
full of towns with politically incorrect names.
There are also towns with names that, while not actually
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 04/27/2006
at 02:57 PM, Patrick O'Keefe [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Actually, I think it never held up. As far as I know a node has
always been hardware and a PU has always bee a program
In such boxen there was no node type or PU type independent of the
software.
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In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 04/28/2006
at 01:44 PM, Chris Mason [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Whenever the advice is given to run a VTAM buffer trace, I try to
jump in and suggest using the NetView Session Monitor trace with
option CPIU (complete PIU). This is so, so much easier that messing
about with
z9 BC R07 - 53 Performance levels
z9 BC S07- 20 Performance levels
z9 EC nnn - 24 Performance levels
I think that pretty much states right out loud just how really effective
sub-capacity pricing
isn't.
--
Phil Payne
http://www.isham-research.co.uk
+44 7833 654 800
Now you can get JCL errors AND viruses right on the same machine.
Charles
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
Of Robert Justice
Sent: Friday, April 28, 2006 6:37 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: Batch JCL on Windows/.NET ???
Now you can get JCL errors AND viruses right on the same machine.
You always could - ex: the Christmas Tree Virus which was probably more
of a worm on VM/Profs which I'm sure affected some machines with MVS
guests (and it's old enough that it was called MVS then I believe,
possibly MVS/XA or
It is located in Michigan's Upper peninsula.
I fondly remember a TV weather reporter in Detroit (before they were
meteorologists), referring sometime each winter to 'H%ll having frozen
over' and during each summer (when weather conditions were suitable)
referring to 'Paradise being hotter than
If you have the pds command (www.cbttape.org) you can use the following:
Pds 'my.loadlib'
If : module(csect)
This will produce a list of members that contain that csect.
Hope this helps,
Wayne Driscoll
Product Developer
JME Software LLC
NOTE: All opinions are strictly my own.
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Thanks Mark. What about dataset aliases? Is there a requirement that
the real dataset and the alias have to be in the same catalog?
Check Managing Catalogs - it discusses the use of MLA. And yes - aliases
HAVE to be
I think that pretty much states right out loud just how really effective
sub-capacity pricing
isn't.
It's only as effective as your negotiators.
We've actually gotten a couple of good deals on sub-capacity licensing.
-
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O-KAY! BLUE! JAYS!
Let's PLAY! BALL!
Don't this year's run a bit better than twice as fast as last years?
Of course that just means they are harder to upgrade to with ISV
software costs and re-hosing fees.
Dave Gibney [EMAIL PROTECTED]
System Programmer(509) 335-7359
Howard Brazee wrote:
I am reading in a text document and want to create a sorted table.
The document has a key in two places, based on SSN (with a suffix)
looking like 123-45-6789-01 (columns 59-72 92-105).The other
number for the table is in 123-45-6789 format in columns 34-44 in
columns
Ted MacNEIL wrote:
I think that pretty much states right out loud just how really effective
sub-capacity pricing
isn't.
It's only as effective as your negotiators.
We've actually gotten a couple of good deals on sub-capacity licensing.
Agreed.
I would complement, that sub-capacity
Thank you all for your help. When researching what was mentioned as being
on the CBT tape, I also found file 237 which is a program that lists all
csects within each member of a library and also produces a listing of all
members which reference each csect. This second listing is exactly the info
Actually, Paradise is the town located in the U.P. H%ll is located
close to Ann Arbor - which, as a Michigan State grad, I find appropriate
:-)! I have bicycled thru both - and I much preferred the weather in
H%ll.
jj
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Peter Hunkeler wrote on 04/28/2006 03:14:45 AM:
It's hard to tell what's going on based on just the information you've
given below, but I'll take some guesses.
Need some help with ICETOOL. Is it possible to do a 1:1
copy of a data set and at the same pass through the input
count the number of
Howard Brazee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 04/28/2006 10:22:34 AM:
Attached is an extract of the input file.
Output file will start with:
101800195176
201801201036
Howard,
Based on the information you sent me offline, I believe this DFSORT job
will do what you asked for:
On Fri, 28 Apr 2006 09:34:17 -0300, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote:
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 04/27/2006
at 02:57 PM, Patrick O'Keefe said:
Actually, I think it never held up. As far as I know a node has
always been hardware and a PU has always bee a program
In such boxen there was no node
What steps do I need to do to make a OPS command. I used EASY RULES to
make a command event rule, It worked except I got a MVS error message
of: IEE305I TSTIT COMMAND INVALID
What do I need to do to setup to have the command recognized.
We are z/OS V1R4.
Thank You
It will not be long before Darren jumps on us all again ..
However - nothing triggers a Michegonian more than holding up your right palm,
pointing to it
with your left index finger, and asking where they live.
I like Ann Arbor. The farmer's market is fun. No solicitors means something
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Sent: Friday, April 28, 2006 2:19 PM
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What steps do I need to do to make a OPS command. I used EASY RULES to
make a
Ed,
It was ever thus - or at least as long as I have been contributing to fora
such as the IBM-MAIN list/group.
As far as Thomas is concerned I know I am - and I suspect Pat at least is -
twiddling my/his thumbs until Thomas comes back to us with sufficient
details for us to be able to work on
Pat,
It's interesting that the independent study material I dug out of my
basement, dating from 1977, keeps using descriptions such as PU.Tx node,
where x is 1, 2, 4 or 5. This seems to show that back in the early days of
SNA there was a tight association between the PU type and the node type
Phil,
Great post, and since it's Friday, its only slightly off topic. You really
cracked me up.
Well - Me and PH are now history. I'm home and bothering my wife now. She
is so worried that she'll have to rearrange everything to fit my schedule.
Monday morning, I can start searching job
Pat,
Well, you have a point regarding the baggage that the ACTPU[1] may carry. So
you're right that you should check any proposed candidate in order to be
sure it isn't just a fix for the benefit of external DLUR, for example,
managing the adjacent link station.
[1] I think the DACTPU - hitherto
Thank You that did the job.
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Good luck
Bob Lawrence
DBA
Boscov's Dept Stores LLc
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Phil,
Great
Which is the German equivalent of our word, and so Darren's inbox will be
swamped by netnanny
nastygrams in German.
My understanding from a german friend, is that they don't use it as a curse
word.
It comes closer to meaning copulating, rather than an obscenity.
-
-teD
O-KAY! BLUE! JAYS!
On Fri, 28 Apr 2006 09:34:17 -0300, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) shmuel+ibm-
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
...
Actually, I think it never held up. As far as I know a node has
always been hardware and a PU has always bee a program
In such boxen there was no node type or PU type independent of the
I have several PDS datasets where there is plenty of room in the dataset but
the directories have run out of space. These are really big datasets like over
3,000 cylinders. I used FDRReorg to get some additional space but not all that
I need...only does the job if a compress is done. Close
Good afternoon, IBM-MAIN
I am trying to dump several areas that are supposedly passed to a subsystem
open routine. Basically, following the GPSAM logic:
DUMP$IT A=SSOB,L=SSOBHSIZ
L R2,SSOBINDV
USING SSOBEXT,R2
DUMP$IT
Use the PDS tool from the CBT Tape.
It's very easy to add directory blocks, provided space is available.
Tom Savor
Fidelity National Information Services
3905 Brookside Parkway
Alpharetta, GA 30022
Phone: 770-576-1167
cell: 404-660-6898
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Three options:
1 - Allocate a dataset with more directory blocks. Copy from the old one
to the new one, delete and rename.
2 - If you have PDSFAST from SEA it has an expand directory blocks
control statement.
3 - Check at www.cbttape.org for a progam named EXPDIR which does the same
thing.
PDS from CBT or StarTool FDM from Serena : FIXPDS EXPANDDIR(n)
PDSMAN FastCopy : ALTERDIR
Don Imbriale
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Where in storage is the ACB? Below or above the line.
Is your program AMODE 31?
Good afternoon, IBM-MAIN
I am trying to dump several areas that are supposedly passed to a
subsystem
open routine. Basically, following the GPSAM logic:
DUMP$IT A=SSOB,L=SSOBHSIZ
L R2,SSOBINDV
Yes, my program is AMODE=31. Are you saying DEBDCBAD is AMODE=24 pointer
with garbage in the hi byte?
On Fri, 28 Apr 2006 15:30:53 -0500, Alan C. Field
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Where in storage is the ACB? Below or above the line.
Is your program AMODE 31?
On Fri, 28 Apr 2006 15:23:06 -0500, Victor Gil wrote:
I am trying to dump several areas that are supposedly passed to a subsystem
open routine. Basically, following the GPSAM logic:
DUMP$IT A=SSOB,L=SSOBHSIZ
L R2,SSOBINDV
USING SSOBEXT,R2
DUMP$IT A=SSOBEXT,L=SSALSIZE
1. What would be the best approach to extending the directory blocks.
It requires re-allocation.
Step 1: create a new PDS with a much larger directory.
Step 2: copy the old PDS into the new one.
Step 3: rename old PDS to something like old.pds.old
Step 4: rename the new PDS to the old name
Thanks for the help on and off the list. We're almost there.
After the TSS admins reloaded certificates and did whatever else they did,
I finally got to a point
where I got this message:
GIM69198S ** CERTIFICATE SMPCERT WAS NOT FOUND CONNECTED TO KEY RING
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Patrick O'Keefe) writes:
Actually, I think it never held up. As far as I know a node has
always been hardware and a PU has always bee a program (as described
in a FAP and probably originally desiged using FAPL). The PU never
had to match the node type (although each
Alan C. Field wrote:
GIM69207S ** THE CONNECTION WITH THE SERVER FAILES.
FAILES? How embarrassing! Looks like it's time IBM implemented spell
checking for message text!
(I assume it's meant to be FAILED.)
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Howard Brazee wrote:
That will get rid of the dashes, but it won't sort the two columns of
key data and two columns of non-key data into a table.
Howard,
The INCLUDE keeps only the records with the dashes. You can use a SORT
statement to sort on the fields in their original places.
Don't this year's run a bit better than twice as fast as last years?
Well, what's interesting is the suggested dramatic drop in hardware acquisition
costs. If it
permeates, adding an underutilized z900 to an active Sysplex as online
resilience may make
more sense than before. There are
Thanks all for you prompt reply and suggestions.
Management won't go for the purchase so I'll just have hunt around for a
spare volume to create the larger dectories then do a copy of the members over
to the new volume. Thanks again.
Imbriale, Donald (Exchange) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
No I didn't cut and paste - I had to type that one in.
I can spell, I just can't type too well
Edward Jaffe [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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But PDS from CBT is FREE, as in no-charge, nada, zilch! For those shops
with limited/tight budgets, free tools like PDS are indispensable. Run
as fast as you can to CBT and get PDS. And while you're there, check
out the many other useful tools that can help make your shop hum along
with the
Thanks, Tom, that was it!
Now, I expected to see the DD-name [ACBDDNM] at offset X'28'???
--- DUMP$IT(009C1160,009C11AB) LENG=00076 AREA=ACB off DEB
009C1160 A04C 5400 *...*
009C1170 4808 **
On Fri, 28 Apr 2006 16:19:55 -0500, Victor Gil wrote:
Now, I expected to see the DD-name [ACBDDNM] at offset X'28'???
--- DUMP$IT(009C1160,009C11AB) LENG=00076 AREA=ACB off DEB
009C1160 A04C 5400 *...*
009C1170 4808
I need an example of doing a TOD rule which will execute Monday-Friday
and execute an MVS command every hour from 08:00 am to 05:00 pm. Any
help would be appreciated.
Thank You
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Thanks again, Tom, I've got the DDname through JBCB [just like in GPSAM]
And yes, I am filling in my Get/Put pointer [after moving its stub below
the line for Amode=24 callers]
On Fri, 28 Apr 2006 16:38:48 -0500, Tom Schmidt
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, 28 Apr 2006 16:19:55 -0500, Victor
From: Howard Rifkind [EMAIL PROTECTED]
1. What would be the best approach to extending the directory blocks.
2. I'm not that good with DFDSS so if I would have to use this program
how would I set it up.
Take a look at the following web page, where it shows an image of a data set
being
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From: Howard Rifkind [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main
Sent: Friday, April 28, 2006 4:18 PM
Subject: PDS Directory Question
I have several PDS datasets where there is plenty of room in the dataset
but the directories have run out of space. These
The KISS method is write it in Easyrule to run 8 to 5 every day. Then
create antther rule to ENABLE this rule at 0750 Monday and another rule to
disable it at 0505 Friday.
There may be a more elegant solution
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From: Mark Steely [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Newsgroups:
Hi Mark,
This should work though I have not tested it. EASYRULE probably can't
quite do this but I could come close for one day. EASYRULE is a good
starter for getting a shell that does what you want and then you can
customize it. Think of EASYRULE as a custom example builder.
)TOD MONDAY
Mark,
I found the following Rule in our OPS/MVS TOD PDS dataset:
)TOD MONDAY 05:00:00,00:15:00,MONDAY 19:15:00,
TUESDAY 05:00:00,00:15:00,TUESDAY 19:15:00,
WEDNESDAY 05:00:00,00:15:00,WEDNESDAY 19:15:00,
THURSDAY 05:00:00,00:15:00,THURSDAY 19:15:00,
FRIDAY
I think you are up to scratch and re-allocate. Dump with IEBCOPY or DFDSS
(IEBCOPY is safe and reliable). Then scratch and reallocate (and I don't
know the max directory blocks allowed) then reload. I feel very safe with
IEBCOPY. That is not to say DFDSS is not safe, IEBCOPY has been around
Then scratch and reallocate (and I don'tknow the max directory blocks allowed)
then reload.
There are 44 per track.
I used to allocate 20-50 cylinders of directory space.
Then, I rarely had problems.
I never hit a practical limit.
I have seen 500 cylinder directories (IIRC).
But, the type of
On Apr 28, 2006, at 7:59 PM, Rob Weiss wrote:
I think you are up to scratch and re-allocate. Dump with IEBCOPY or
DFDSS
(IEBCOPY is safe and reliable). Then scratch and reallocate (and I
don't
know the max directory blocks allowed) then reload. I feel very
safe with
IEBCOPY. That is not
Rashmi Nijaguni Mogali([EMAIL PROTECTED])@Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 03:39:07PM +0530:
The job looks something like this:
//S2C9011 JOB (S2C9,XX,TI),'',
// MSGCLASS=T,
// NOTIFY=SYSUID,
//*
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