AUTO: Randy Barnett is out of the office. (returning 07/19/2010)

2010-07-10 Thread Randy Barnett
I am out of the office until 07/19/2010. Vacation. A time of rest and recreation and hopefully, rejuvenation. In my absence contact Reena Patel - Email is rmas...@us.ibm.com or by phone at 1-904-928-4692 Note: This is an automated response to your message "IBM-MAIN Digest - 9 Jul 2010 to 10 Jul

JES2 Exit 53 problem

2010-07-10 Thread Mark Yuhas
Maybe another set of eyes can show me the error of my ways. I have written JES2 Exit #53 to validate the accounting field of the JOB statement. The exit performs as designed except for a nagging problem. I want to pass an error message to be added to the JCL data set. According to the JES2 Exit

Re: dumb question on defining alias

2010-07-10 Thread john gilmore
Shane Ginnane writes: As usual, my attitude is "give me the data, give me some sensible generic doco, let me worry about how my shop is structured". This is the crucial point. Skeletal documentation that is to be specialized to be locally appropriate in detail must be processed by a knowle

Re: Dumb question on DEFINE ALIAS

2010-07-10 Thread Shane Ginnane
Haven't heard of any. Nearest might be IBMs "Installing your order" which is tailored at order manufacture per customer. Doesn't go to that level of detail, just products. How would you see this being used ?. The manual can't be (finally) rendered until (all) the dsnames are entered - the unfortun

Re: Dumb question on DEFINE ALIAS

2010-07-10 Thread Rick Fochtman
Sure do miss JOBCAT and STEPCAT capability; was a wonderful way to never know exactly what... John Donnelly National Semiconductor Corporation 2900 Semiconductor Drive Santa Clara, CA 95051 408-721-5640 408-721-8364 Ce

Re: Backup/Restore products at z/OS sites

2010-07-10 Thread Rick Fochtman
- Everyone has rules and many of them don't seem reaonable to the people who didin't have a hand in making them or solving the problems that occurred before the rules were created. At your previous work site, they could read a thum

Re: Dumb question on DEFINE ALIAS

2010-07-10 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Sat, 10 Jul 2010 13:00:39 -0500, Rick Fochtman wrote: >- >Would people agree with the following? > >If a vendor were shipping a product that resided in two datasets, >FOO.THIS and FOO.THAT, best practice would be to recommend t

Re: Dumb question on DEFINE ALIAS

2010-07-10 Thread Rick Fochtman
- Would people agree with the following? If a vendor were shipping a product that resided in two datasets, FOO.THIS and FOO.THAT, best practice would be to recommend that the installer either create a user catalog named FOO or

Re: DSLIST sort-by-CREATED

2010-07-10 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Fri, 9 Jul 2010 23:59:39 -0700, Ron Hawkins wrote: > >I just tried this with DSLIST from option 3.4 and the DATA and INDEX of a >KSDS created last year sorted in creation date order exactly where it should >be along with all the other datasets. The cluster sorts as a blank field >because it does

Re: Mainframe Executive - MAY/JUNE issue

2010-07-10 Thread Eric Bielefeld
It's a magazine. If it didn't have a lot of advertising, it wouldn't be published. Eric Bielefeld Sr. Systems Programmer IBM Global Services Division Dubuque, Iowa 414-477-7259 - Original Message - From: "Pommier, Rex R." http://www.mainframezone.com/me-issues/digital.JUL-AUG10.f

Re: IBM FLASHCOPY interface ( is there a no cost solution)

2010-07-10 Thread R.S.
W dniu 2010-07-09 20:29, Clark, Kevin pisze: All, We have migrated our DASD and our new vendor utilized FLASHCOPY. We have CA-DISK& DFDSS only. I've been using TSO =6 and even Batch TSO. Is there any ISPF panels or REXX freebies available ? No. There is a set of TSO commands (FCn)

Re: COBOL COPY Problem

2010-07-10 Thread João Carlos dos Reis Baptista
Hi, Sergio. Classic mistake. JCL card's order. They have to be put just like they appear in PROC member. SYSLIB for COBOL step first (for COPY books). SYSLIB for LKED step, afterwards (for modules CALLed by your program). It's like Balance-Line (data matching), right ? Good luck, good night :)

Re: DSLIST sort-by-CREATED

2010-07-10 Thread Ron Hawkins
Paul, I just tried this with DSLIST from option 3.4 and the DATA and INDEX of a KSDS created last year sorted in creation date order exactly where it should be along with all the other datasets. The cluster sorts as a blank field because it doesn't have a VTOC entry with a record of the creatio