At 15:01 -0600 on 05/21/2008, Howard Brazee wrote about Re: Practical
jokes for mainframe systems programmers:
Those rectangular chads could hurt someone when they get into one's
eyes.
They can also affect national elections if not fully detached from
the punched card.
At 13:06 -0400 on 05/21/2008, Richards, Robert B. wrote about Re:
Practical jokes for mainframe systems programmers:
Ask the person that was the object of the joke if they thought it was
funny. Hey, I like a good joke as much as the next person, but these did
not hit my funny bone for some reas
Robert Wright wrote:
PROC 0
EVALSYM X CLIST(POSITION(P) LENGTH(L) HEXADECIMAL)
CBFORMAT X+&P POSITION(0) LENGTH(&L.) MODEL()
Of course the CLIST would work better if the CBFORMAT subcommand took
into account that the length in variable L had been formatted using
hexadecimal digits:
Gord Tomlin wrote:
Apparently I'm a bit thick today, but I cannot seem to get the results I
want from the IPCS RUNARRAY subcommand when combined with the CBFORMAT
command.
I have an array of control blocks in a dump, and I want to use a format
model to display each element of the array. In a
>I think some of the things on the list are conceptual jokes but not practical,
>sort of like the stuff that happens to Wiley Coyote. These are funny to think
>about, or see in a cartoon, but not funny if they really happened to someone.
>I think the guideline for "jokes" has to be harmlessnes
>I wouldn't make DELETE or CANCEL a single keystroke command, but I feel
>"D" gives me sufficient opportunity to reconsider, and I shouldn't need
>to type "/" to bypass confirmation every time I enter DSLIST.
There is a way in DSLIST, or ISPF EDIT.
Make the single CANCEL Key (EDIT) the followin
I think some of the things on the list are conceptual jokes but not
practical, sort of like the stuff that happens to Wiley Coyote. These are
funny to think about, or see in a cartoon, but not funny if they really
happened to someone. I think the guideline for "jokes" has to be
harmlessness.
On Wed, 21 May 2008 23:39:44 +, Ted MacNEIL wrote:
>
>It IS NOT stupidity to customise keys!
>If a user wants a SAVE or CANCEL key, and knows where it is, what is the
>problem?
>
I envy your dexterity.
OTOH, I recall bitter opposition (though not unanimous) in
these pages when I expressed a w
On Wed, 21 May 2008 13:35:43 -0500, McKown, John wrote:
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>>
>> I use " (replace " at the end of the put command to overwrite
>> the file.
>>
>When going to the "open system" servers (Windows, Linux, AIX), we never
>do that. Actual
On Wed, 21 May 2008 15:31:16 -0400, David Andrews wrote:
>
>That was well over 20 years ago, back when we worked 16 hour days for
>the joy of it. These days the auditors and security officers would go
>berzerk; but at the time *we* were in charge of security, and EDP
>auditors hadn't yet arrived o
>There's a simple ROT here. Do NOT assign PF keys to CANCEL (or SAVE, which as
>your experience demonstrates, is similarly destructive when
unintended.) It's users' foolishness in so doing which impels vendors to
presume to save them from their own stupidity by adding PITA confirmation
dialogs
On Wed, 21 May 2008 15:43:02 -0400, Don Leahy wrote:
>
>The PL had PFK10 set up as CANCEL. This screwed me up because my own
>userid had PFK10 set up as SAVE. After losing several rounds of
>changes by hitting CANCEL when I meant SAVE, I changed the PL's PFK10
>setting to match the one I was accu
I'm surprised at how many people missed the point of this blog post.
The blogger was correct.
We have lost our sense of humour.
Did anybody read the disclaimer?
[Update: For those of you who missed the tongue in cheek nature of this post,
it is in fact, a joke. Please don’t try this at work. —
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'card chads'?
Showing your age!
Whish I had thought of that back when we had them!
Those rectangular chads could hurt someone when they get into one's
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12:06:26 AM:
> Hello: xPLPA pages are eligible for page out (right?) So if a PGSER
FREE is
> issued (preceded by a PGSER FIX) against a xPLPA page, would it make it
any
> more easier for it to be paged out?
>
> Trying to determine the reason
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>It is supported with basic sysplex.
Then why didn't you say so?
>Doesn't my statement - "Basic vs. Parallel sysplex isn't the issue"
>already imply that clearly enough?
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>> Of what value is that to an auditor?
>Who knows? It is likely on some check list somewhere. Many auditors, the poor
>kind, love those don't-have-to-think-about-it check lists!
I disagree.
Auditors do not set standards, nor do they enforce them.
Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) set standard
Tom Harper wrote:
I can see Trever Eddolls point of view, that there isn't all that much
out there yet. My analogy is that it's something like HDTV. You see it,
you like it, you want more. But it takes time to develop, test, and
implement, as writing code in Enclave SRB mode is not easy, as I'm s
Hello:
Pages of xPLPA are considered eligible for page-out (right?) So would doing
a PGSER FREE on a xPLPA page (after a PGSER FIX was previously done) make
this page any more subject to being stolen and paged out?
Trying to resolve a problem where this PGSER FREE is being considered the
culpri
How about an operator command we wrote as follows:
$TSYS=HI
$HASP000 OK
$HASP999 System now in high speed
Adam
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On 21 May 2008 12:57:59 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jerry Fuchs)
wrote:
>'card chads'?
>
>Showing your age!
>
>Whish I had thought of that back when we had them!
Those rectangular chads could hurt someone when they get into one's
eyes.
On 21 May 2008 12:43:34 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Don Leahy) wrote:
>The PL had PFK10 set up as CANCEL. This screwed me up because my own
>userid had PFK10 set up as SAVE. After losing several rounds of
>changes by hitting CANCEL when I meant SAVE, I changed the PL's PFK10
>setting to match the
On Wed, 21 May 2008 15:02:52 -0500 Paul Schuster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
:>Has anyone encountered this problem when issuing this IPCS command:
:>RSMDATA VIRTPAGE RA(address) COMMON
:>results in:
:>System ABEND 01D, reason code 6B000B10
:>PSW 070
In school, *someone* wrote a program called "FUN" that simulated the
"command prompt" of the interactive system we used. FUN was a simple
program that waited for some input from the user, wrote an exact
replica of the message that would appear when an u
On Wed, 21 May 2008 13:53:43 -0400, Daniel McLaughlin wrote:
>In your PARMLIB create:
>
> BROWSESYS1.TEST.ZOS17.PARMLIB(PROGDM) - 01.01Line
Col
>001 080
> Command ===> Scroll ===>
>CSR
>* Top of Data
On Wed, 21 May 2008 13:18:09 -0400, Richards, Robert B.
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>I smiled when I read them, but then the adult inside me kicked in his
>two cents and decided that to actually do these jokes would not be
>funny.
>...
I very seldomly find practical jokes funny. But I could see
Like when the HMC throws up a red flag at zero dark thirty because the
daily phone home to check on MCL's failed?
Didn't IBM have a 'Service Director' that could do this? IIRC you would
upload LOGREC data to it each day as well as it getting the important
stuff real time and it would 'phone home
I just wanted to let everyone know of an issue I had with the Serverpac
Install. First, YES - I did not read the PSP. So it is not a surprise I made
a small miscalculation.
In Dec 2007 there was a fix that was release for GIMUNZIP. It has to do with
SB37 abends on SYSUT1 during the Unzip of
Has anyone encountered this problem when issuing this IPCS command:
RSMDATA VIRTPAGE RA(address) COMMON
results in:
System ABEND 01D, reason code 6B000B10
PSW 070C5000 816E7FD8, module IEANUC01, CSECT IAXDS, offset 0A10
Instruction are
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> 'card chads'?
>
> Showing your age!
>
Lizette,
I'll need to add support for Ed's point of view...I just completed a
webinar about zIIP processing this morning and we had four times as many
attendees as we have ever had before (well over a hundred). The interest
from customers and potential customers was intense and lots of questions
w
'card chads'?
Showing your age!
Whish I had thought of that back when we had them!
Jerry
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Ok, these are old and don't involve any modern technology.
1. Take all the drawers out of someone's desk, turn the desk upside down and
re-insert the drawers so that they were right-side up in the upside down
desk. The guy comes in, turns his desk back right-side up and when he opens
a drawer
> (BTW creative misuse of the TSO "TERMINAL" and "PROFILE" commands was
> always good for laughs if you found someone's line-mode TSO session
> unguarded. Sort of like remapping someone's 3270 emulator today.)
>
Speaking of remapping, when I was a junior programmer I was loaned out
to another proj
I've seen the variation where a CLIST was set up to display a message
when a user would log on that his logon authority was temporarily
suspended pending an investigation by the security department - great
fun when you were just getting back from a nice, relaxing vacation.
Also, about 20 years
On Wed, 21 May 2008 10:11:54 -0400, Daniel McLaughlin
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>Of what value is that to an auditor?
>...
>> Our auditors are asking us if there is any way we can receive
automatic
>> email alerts when the gear phones home. ...
I suspect hearing about the "phone home" capabili
On Tue, 20 May 2008 15:39:01 -0400, Dean Montevago wrote:
>If it's marked shipped in SRD, click on it and there will be FTP
>instructions to download it to your workstation. Do you have the rest of
>the steps to upload and unwind it ?
>
Never having done this, I'm curious: Neither your followup
Chris,
Thank you for extracting this for me. I have to digest this. I will be
back with another post.
Dean
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On 21 May 2008 12:21:27 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (McKown,
John) wrote:
>> That's not what I observed - I will try again.
>
>Strange. That has always worked for me. If it doesn't work, please post
>the error message. I'm curious.
Hmmm. What I had observed was that the FTP appeared to work, but
t
On Wed, 2008-05-21 at 13:16 -0400, Rob Scott wrote:
> I worked at a site once (many) years ago where some bright spark once
> wrote a program called "IJKEFT01"
Dave Phillips, Tom Rusnak and I once engaged in that sort of "wheel war"
about a million years ago.
An example of the sort of thing we'd
Dean
If you want to know when a particular function was withdrawn, you can do
worse than scanning the IBM publications pages starting here:
http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/z/os/zos/bkserv/
That is what I have just done on your behalf and I (re)confirmed that the
AnyNet functions were removed in
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> On 21 May 2008 11:10:12 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (McKown,
> John) wrote:
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>
I once worked with a guy that wrote a VTAM app that would acquire someone's
terminal (easy in the "dumb" terminal days) and display a screen that would
look just like the USS MSG10 screen. When the person attempted to logon, it
would respond with idiotic messages, after clearing all data out of th
On 21 May 2008 11:10:12 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (McKown,
John) wrote:
>Don't bother with the "delete". The "put" will replace it if it exists
>or create it if it does not already exist.
That's not what I observed - I will try again.
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On Wed, 21 May 2008 14:29:03 +0800, Tommy Tsui
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>hi,
>
>any shop have migration plan on APPC application ? or use FTP
instead of
>APPC?
>...
We are still on 1.8 so I can't validate what I'm about to say, but
from the clarifications I've heard, IBM is NOT dropping supp
>
> Was "someone's" initials E. E. J. ?
>
Another 'someone' once wrote a clist that displayed an exact replica
of the TSO logon screen that was in use at the time.
The clist was named after a commonly used local function, so when the
poor victim used it, he would think that he'd been booted off t
On Tue, 20 May 2008 12:40:24 -0700, Edward Jaffe
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>...
>Modern (emulated) 3270 devices generally tell the PLU that they can
>handle extended color orders via the response to Read-Partition
Query.
>That tells the PLU such orders will not be rejected by the SLU.
>
>I do n
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Very strange. From where I sit, it seems like
my preference, is to do testing with steplib/joblib first. If everything looks
go, then I empty teh LNKLST'd data set, load it with the new code, then LLA
Refresh or LLA UPDATE, depending.
I do not like adding libraries to the Lnklst. It can add to confusion if
someone else works on a problem
I have used TMON to delete and add a library to the link list.
As we run PDSMAN must stop PDSMAN, refresh LLA, and start PDSMAN.
Jerry
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> On Wed May 21 11:00 , Edward Jaffe sent:
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> >Rob Scott wrote:
> >> I worked at a site once (many) years ago where some bright
> spark once wrote a program called "IJKEFT01" whose sole
> purpose in life was to just ATTACH IKJEFT01 *unless* it was
> the "target" u
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> I use " (replace " at the end of the put command to overwrite
> the file.
>
Apparently I'm a bit thick today, but I cannot seem to get the results I
want from the IPCS RUNARRAY subcommand when combined with the CBFORMAT
command.
I have an array of control blocks in a dump, and I want to use a format
model to display each element of the array. In a simple example, each
I use " (replace " at the end of the put command to overwrite the file.
On Wed, 21 May 2008 13:09:48 -0500, McKown, John
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Replacing a library in the LNKLSTxx is more complicated than just adding one.
TMON replaces the library at the bottom of the list which may explain your 0C4s.
To remove/add a library you do the following (IIRC)
1) Create a new LNKLSTxx from the currently active one
2) Using the z/OS Commands u
Ah..., "someone", huh...? ;-)
On Wed May 21 11:00 , Edward Jaffe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sent:
>Rob Scott wrote:
>> I worked at a site once (many) years ago where some bright spark once wrote
>> a program called "IJKEFT01" whose sole purpose in life was to just ATTACH
>> IKJEFT01 *unless* it was
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> I have the following commands in my FTP:
>
> cd /ftp/SISR/RECREG
On Tue, 20 May 2008 16:45:07 -0400, Rob Schramm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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>I am guessing that it is in a control block done at IPL time at least for
>z9 and below or one of the instructions that are ICSF/Crypto specific that
>are not documented for the public domain.
>
My guess was a diagnose i
I have the following commands in my FTP:
cd /ftp/SISR/RECREG
delete person
put 'UMSDEV.CONV.QA04.NPRSMED' person
If "person" does not exist, the FTP aborts, but the new file is out
there anyway.
I'm running IKJEFT01 from within a standard p
Rob Scott wrote:
I worked at a site once (many) years ago where some bright spark once wrote a program called
"IJKEFT01" whose sole purpose in life was to just ATTACH IKJEFT01 *unless* it was the
"target" userid in which case it also ATTACHed an extra TCB that randomly generated
strange abends
In your PARMLIB create:
BROWSESYS1.TEST.ZOS17.PARMLIB(PROGDM) - 01.01Line Col
001 080
Command ===> Scroll ===>
CSR
* Top of Data
*
LNKLST DEFINE NAME(LNKLSTAA)
Hello,
I am upgrading EZTRIEVE and am trying to add a PDSE to LNKLST00:
We went into TMON and added the new PDSE and removed the old PDS. We
refreshed LLA. If jobs use a STEPLIB/JCLLIB pointing to new library(PDSE)
all works well, if we let it find modules through LNKLST then jobs abend
with a
Now THAT is funny...
On Wed May 21 13:16 , Rob Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sent:
>I worked at a site once (many) years ago where some bright spark once wrote a
>program called "IJKEFT01" whose sole purpose in life was to just ATTACH
>IKJEFT01 *unless* it was the "target" userid in which case it
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>
> As someone already commented on Tech Target website, these
> practical jokes are neither practical nor a joke.
Indeed. Remapping somebody's keyboard might be harmless enough, but
from there t
I had to ask myself it they were a potential CLM. (career limiting move)
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When I (inadvertently) deleted every copy of every *.IMAGELIB in a data center,
the system programmer that had to get them restored before the next IPL was not
amused. Fortunately it was one of that data centers special tools that let me
do it.
Gary
> Ask the person that was the object of the
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Tell us the entire profile name and the name you're checking it against.
Do you have Enhanced Generics turned on? Why are you requesting
FASTAUTH? More detail is necessary. Also, have you checked this with the
RACF-List folks?
One com
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> One of my favorite requests was for a vendor doing a
> conversion. He wanted all the passwords for user accounts in
> RACF. After being told
On Wed, 21 May 2008 13:06:04 -0400 "Richards, Robert B."
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
:>Ask the person that was the object of the joke if they thought it was
:>funny. Hey, I like a good joke as much as the next person, but these did
:>not hit my funny bone for some reason.
He should have password p
I smiled when I read them, but then the adult inside me kicked in his
two cents and decided that to actually do these jokes would not be
funny.
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Well, other than the 3270 remapping, the rest can result in severe
problems and possible termination. The last, reinitializing a DBMS
volume actually happened to me. Well, it was a DB2 system (not data)
volume which somehow got the CA-1 TMC allocated on it. The DBA backed up
the volume, made some c
I worked at a site once (many) years ago where some bright spark once wrote a
program called "IJKEFT01" whose sole purpose in life was to just ATTACH
IKJEFT01 *unless* it was the "target" userid in which case it also ATTACHed an
extra TCB that randomly generated strange abends at random interval
John,
Thank you very much as it worked great. My nemesis grows weaker..
Regards,
Claude
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On Wed, 21 May 2008 10:55:11 -0500, Rick Fochtman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Tell us the entire profile name and the name you're checking it against.
>Do you have Enhanced Generics turned on? Why are you requesting
>FASTAUTH? More detail is necessary. Also, have you checked this with the
>RACF-Li
Mainframe specialty processors: Do they really save money?
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or tinyurl
http://tinyurl.com/5epy38
was a little more interesting than
Ask the person that was the object of the joke if they thought it was
funny. Hey, I like a good joke as much as the next person, but these did
not hit my funny bone for some reason.
Bob
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Richards, Robert B. wrote:
As someone already commented on Tech Target website, these practical
jokes are neither practical nor a joke.
Jokes or not, I was ROTFLMAO! And, based on the first comment posted, I
guess that means I should be locked up! :-D
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>As someone already commented on Tech Target website, these practical
>jokes are neither practical nor a joke.
>
What, you don't see the humor in trying to delete SYS1.LINKLIB (don't worry,
the ENQ will protect you
As someone already commented on Tech Target website, these practical
jokes are neither practical nor a joke.
Bob
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In a message dated 5/21/2008 10:13:15 A.M. Central Daylight Time,
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followup mentions RECEIVE ORDER / RECEIVE FROMNETWORK. Wouldn't
that be the technique with the fewest steps to receive maintenance
electronically from IBM?
>>
Probably, but that wasn't the questio
I do like the idea of the alert when there is a failure. Our carbon based
life form interactive units tend to miss these things and call when it's
too late. Case in point - POR and IPL this past weekend. Operator IPL'd
three times, and who knows why, before calling for help at 4:30 AM.
I also u
Hello: xPLPA pages are eligible for page out (right?) So if a PGSER FREE
is issued (preceded by a PGSER FIX) against a xPLPA page, would it make
it any more easier for it to be paged out?
Trying to determine the reason for a problem whic
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> One of my favor
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One of my favorite requests was for a vendor doing a conversion. He
wanted all the passwords for user accounts in RACF. After being told
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> The key is "on other systems". iSCSI is not supported on z/OS.
> So, on z/OS it is still impossible. However - in general - it is
Our instructions were to give them EXACTLY what they ask for or nothing. If
he had asked in a more general way for a listing of user definitions, I
would have prepared a sanitized USER DIRECT, but he was explicit and
insistent on getting /etc/passwd. That was what was on his unix checklist.
/Tom K
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I would like to be able to add profiles to the Facility class within racf such
that the profile will be made up of three qualifiers. The 1st two qualifiers
will always be the same, and the 3rd will change. I have created a profile
that con
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> My favorite was an auditor that wanted a printo
My favorite was an auditor that wanted a printout of our /etc/passwd. This
was a VM/SP system. When we stopped laughing at him and told him we didn't
have such security holes, he went away.
/Tom Kern
On Wed, 21 May 2008 10:32:27 -0400, Daniel McLaughlin
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>One of my fav
I read about FDRSEL and expect to use it. The main shortcoming
compared with HSM is not direct interface with tape management. Looks
like I'll need to parse the output and generate TMSUPDTE statements.
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Please clarify:
"This presupposes that, since - tragically - the AnyNet Sockets over SNA
component was withdrawn a couple of releases ago, the transport
available
between the AFTP client and AFTP server simultaneously needs to be
converted from SNA to IP, a rather more challenging conversion I
John
I imagine the OP must have the Communications Server SNA component (aka
VTAM) APPC Application Suite in mind. Sometimes the list habit of condensing
thoughts into one or two words can go too far!
Chris Mason
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> Good morning all,
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> The system is z/OS 1.9 a
thanks, I'm going crazy..this should not be this hard
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Good morning all,
The system is z/OS 1.9 and my old nemesis SMP/E.
I am trying to build a new TARGET zone. What I want to do is copy ALL
the DDDEF information from one TARGET zone to another new TARGET zone.
At this point all I want is the DDDEF information, including the volser.
I have tried thi
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> This is an internal auditor and high availability is a high
> priority to
Isn't a prereq a prereq and required not matter what ?
To order a few fixes I like the SRD approach, I haven't had any problems
with it. Yes, I did have to go back and order additional fixes that were
missing but it really doesn't bother me. We upload our CSI's
preiodically so when we order mainte
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