Re: Licence to kill -9

2011-11-29 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In ofb5042316.3ea33d63-on87257956.007d303a-86257956.007f1...@us.ibm.com, on 11/28/2011 at 05:08 PM, Steve Thompson sthomp...@us.ibm.com said: There is a group that does something called the Certified Data Processor (CDP). I hold a CDP[1]. I don't bother to list it on my résumé. Were I hiring,

Re: Licence to kill -9

2011-11-29 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 45fcfbbb8bc8eb4a9dfedc6fa2cc7fdf0b0...@sdkmbx03.emea.sas.com, on 11/28/2011 at 09:03 PM, Lindy Mayfield lindy.mayfi...@sas.com said: What are your thoughts about having some sort of certification for working with computers? The Devil is in the details. If you're talking about a bank of

Re: OMVS file Access

2011-11-29 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Tue, 29 Nov 2011 12:30:35 +0530, saurabh khandelwal wrote: Hello, I want to move some of the user files from one path to another path. but before that I want to make sure that user is not editing any files currently, so that I can move this files safely. Is it possible to do

Re: OMVS file Access

2011-11-29 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Tue, 29 Nov 2011 12:30:35 +0530, saurabh khandelwal sourabhkhandelwal...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I want to move some of the user files from one path to another path. but before that I want to make sure that user is not editing any files currently, so that I can move this files

OMVS file Access

2011-11-29 Thread saurabh khandelwal
Hello, I want to move some of the user files from one path to another path. but before that I want to make sure that user is not editing any files currently, so that I can move this files safely. Is it possible to do this. Using 1) OMVS,ASID=ALL* --- it shows me that the user

Re: RSU Unzip

2011-11-29 Thread saurabh khandelwal
Hello All, Unzip problem has got resolved. To resolve this issue I created the muti volume dataset initially in RSU006 and RSU007 volume and then used replace option in Unzip program. I also removed SYSUT1 DDDEF entry from my Unzip program, which was actually overriding the DDDEF

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Re: Licence to kill -9

2011-11-29 Thread Lindy Mayfield
I've worked as a DB2 DBA for a couple of years at DC Government. During Y2K. And I have no doubt that I could do DBA work again if necessary. I'd have a bit of learning to do to catch up on the new stuff. On the other hand, some years later I tried a practice DBA certification on a computer

Re: Licence to kill -9

2011-11-29 Thread Lindy Mayfield
My experiences all too often is to meet a new person only to find out that they just BS'd their way into the job. And some are good enough to BS their way while doing the job. After a while, and I'm sure most agree, I realize that a person is BS after about 30 seconds talking. It is nice

Re: Licence to kill -9

2011-11-29 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Lindy Mayfield Sent: Monday, November 28, 2011 4:37 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Licence to kill -9 I have a lot of respect for you. And your opinions. I agree that

Re: Licence to kill -9

2011-11-29 Thread Don Imbriale
As a systems programmer, I don't need to know everything, I just need to know where to get answers. During the past few years we see more and more posts from those who seemingly are new to systems programming. Most of what follows is for the benefit of those new sysprogs; those of us who have

Re: SETTING CONDITION CODE

2011-11-29 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of John Gilmore Sent: Monday, November 28, 2011 4:39 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: SETTING CONDITION CODE Jack Schudel has made the crucial point. With the availability of

Re: RSU Unzip

2011-11-29 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Tue, 29 Nov 2011 15:08:44 +0530, saurabh khandelwal wrote: Hello All, Unzip problem has got resolved. To resolve this issue I created the muti volume dataset initially in RSU006 and RSU007 volume and then used replace option in Unzip program. I also removed SYSUT1 DDDEF entry

Re: SETTING CONDITION CODE

2011-11-29 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 1099851805226441.wa.paulgboulderaim@bama.ua.edu, on 11/28/2011 at 09:01 PM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com said: What!? You find Ted more irritating than me? He's not the only one. I must not be trying hard enough. That's the problem; you try while he is trying. --

Re: SETTING CONDITION CODE

2011-11-29 Thread Frank Swarbrick
Sounds good to me.  Are you going to propose it? From: Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Sent: Monday, November 28, 2011 6:48 PM Subject: Re: SETTING CONDITION CODE On Mon, 28 Nov 2011 17:17:13 -0800, Frank Swarbrick

Re: SETTING CONDITION CODE

2011-11-29 Thread Mark Zelden
On Tue, 29 Nov 2011 10:53:20 -0600, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com wrote: I took such a view lately. In an ISPF edit macro I enabled tracing of all errors. But I needed to determine the size of the file being edited, even though it might be empty. I could find no way to detect that the

Re: Tona.Adkins.chh4

2011-11-29 Thread Ed Gould
Done and reported. Ed -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html

Alternative to REPRO for VSAM RLS KSDS Merge

2011-11-29 Thread Phil Sidler
Since IDCAMS REPRO does not support VSAM datasets in RLS mode (and neither does SORT), is there another utility that could be coaxed to perform the same function? I'd like to be able to copy/merge one KSDS to another replacing the records in the target dataset that have the same keys as the

Re: SETTING CONDITION CODE

2011-11-29 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Mon, 28 Nov 2011 21:34:31 -0500, John Gilmore wrote: My first post does not reflect disapproval of the JOBRC= facility as such. It has entirely legitimate uses. My intent was only to note that it will, inevitably, be misused and, inter alia, to express disapproval of the OP's notion of how

Re: SETTING CONDITION CODE

2011-11-29 Thread Robert Prins
On Mon, 28 Nov 2011 21:34:31 -0500, John Gilmore wrote: I took such a view lately. In an ISPF edit macro I enabled tracing of all errors. But I needed to determine the size of the file being edited, even though it might be empty. I could find no way to detect that the file was empty

Re: SETTING CONDITION CODE

2011-11-29 Thread John Gilmore
Robert Prins writes On Mon, 28 Nov 2011 21:34:31 -0500, John Gilmore wrote: I took such a view lately. In an ISPF edit macro I enabled tracing of all errors. But I needed to determine the size of the file being edited, even though it might be empty. I could find no way to detect that the

Re: SETTING CONDITION CODE

2011-11-29 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Tue, 29 Nov 2011 13:40:31 -0600, Robert Prins wrote: If you rally insist on RC=0 throughout, you can use this snippet: /* REXX edit macro isredit macro (parm) l = '-' isredit line_after 0 = (L) say rc isredit (N) = linenum .zl say rc if n = 1 then do isredit del .zl .zl nx /* I assume

1979 SHARE LSRAD Report

2011-11-29 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
I finally got approval from SHARE for making scanned copy of 1970 SHARE LSRAD Report on bitsaver ... aka http://bitsavers.org/pdf/ibm/share/ I've forwarded scanned copy along with permission, hopefully it will be showing up shortly. Old reference with intro/ack ... post from when I first

Re: SETTING CONDITION CODE

2011-11-29 Thread John Gilmore
That prospect is disheartening. Separate, neither of us is likely to be confused with the other; but a merged monstrosity might well have his and my disagreeable characteristics combined disagreeably. --jg On 11/29/11, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com wrote: On Tue, 29 Nov 2011 13:40:31

Re: SETTING CONDITION CODE

2011-11-29 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Tue, 29 Nov 2011 15:43:46 -0500, John Gilmore wrote: That prospect is disheartening. Separate, neither of us is likely to be confused with the other; but a merged monstrosity might well have his and my disagreeable characteristics combined disagreeably. This appears to be a followup to a

Re: Alternative to REPRO for VSAM RLS KSDS Merge

2011-11-29 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
At 11:31 -0600 on 11/29/2011, Phil Sidler wrote about Alternative to REPRO for VSAM RLS KSDS Merge: Since IDCAMS REPRO does not support VSAM datasets in RLS mode (and neither does SORT), is there another utility that could be coaxed to perform the same function? I'd like to be able to

Re: Alternative to REPRO for VSAM RLS KSDS Merge

2011-11-29 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Robert A. Rosenberg At 11:31 -0600 on 11/29/2011, Phil Sidler wrote about Alternative to REPRO for VSAM RLS KSDS Merge: Since IDCAMS REPRO does not support VSAM datasets in RLS mode (and neither does SORT), is

Re: Licence to kill -9

2011-11-29 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 45fcfbbb8bc8eb4a9dfedc6fa2cc7fdf0b1...@sdkmbx03.emea.sas.com, on 11/29/2011 at 12:47 PM, Lindy Mayfield lindy.mayfi...@sas.com said: There is just too much information to remember it all. The problem isn't the information that you can't remember but know how to look up. The problem is the

Re: Alternative to REPRO for VSAM RLS KSDS Merge

2011-11-29 Thread Phil Sidler
Yes, that's right, John. It is the destination dataset that is being shared. Besides, if the source dataset were the problem, EXPORT would be no better than REPRO as far as RLS goes: Access method services do not use RLS when performing an IDCAMS EXPORT, IMPORT, PRINT, or REPRO command. If

Re: Alternative to REPRO for VSAM RLS KSDS Merge

2011-11-29 Thread Ed Gould
Phil, Have you looked at something like fileaId or other like utility? Ed -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the

Re: CFRM Policy Number

2011-11-29 Thread Skip Robinson
Yes, you can create a new CFRM couple data set with a larger capacity to hold more policies. I don't know of a technical maximum limit, but practically speaking, how many do you want to keep 'at the ready' at any one time? You can dynamically switch among defined policies via the SETXCF

SMF Records

2011-11-29 Thread Ravi Gaur
Does anybody give me idea how can i copy only the smf records from given dataset which does contain a particular string(dataset name) ..well while dumping using ifasmfdp i used (0:255) now need to figure out the dataset name I am looking is associated with which smf records..since as i thought

CFRM Policy Nmuber

2011-11-29 Thread saurabh khandelwal
Hello, We have a requirement to add new policy and structure in current CFRM couple dataset. I have extracted the current CFRM report from administrative utility. Which says, /* XCF Format Utility Control Cards: */ DATA TYPE(CFRM) * ITEM NAME(POLICY) NUMBER(3)* ITEM

Re: CFRM Policy Number

2011-11-29 Thread saurabh khandelwal
Hello, Thanks for reply. I dont see any dataset having CFRM policy detail. Is there any sysplex command, which can give me idea about policy residing dataset. Regards Saurabh On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 10:39 AM, Skip Robinson jo.skip.robin...@sce.comwrote: Yes, you can

Re: Licence to kill -9

2011-11-29 Thread Gerhard Postpischil
On 11/29/2011 9:16 AM, Don Imbriale wrote: The manuals should be the first place to go. Google can be useful, but should be used only after using the manuals. The message or other symptoms, when used as a search argument, may not reveal anything. This is not an indication that you have

Re: SMF Records

2011-11-29 Thread Lizette Koehler
Does anybody give me idea how can i copy only the smf records from given dataset which does contain a particular string(dataset name) ..well while dumping using ifasmfdp i used (0:255) now need to figure out the dataset name I am looking is associated with which smf records..since as i

Re: CFRM Policy Nmuber

2011-11-29 Thread Ayhan Yalkut
Hi, you can create a new CFRM Couple Dataset specifying ITEM NAME(POLICY) NUMBER(10). And then you can add this dataset issuing setxcf couple,... command. So with this process you have a CFRM couple dataset that can accomdate more than 3 policy. And you don't need to delete

Re: CFRM Policy Nmuber

2011-11-29 Thread saurabh khandelwal
Thanks for reply. The option you suggest, I wil have to create new couple dataset. Primary as well as alternate couple dataset and then add this Policy defination . ITEM NAME(POLICY) NUMBER(10) This will be more rework... Is it possible by not creating new CFRM couple dataset and modifying

Re: SMF Records

2011-11-29 Thread Michael Klaeschen
Of course you can filter with DFSORT regarding that particular string. But I think it is better to first make up mind which SMF records are expected. Some examples: 14/15 sounds good, may be 17 and the range around 60? Would you expect the data set name to appear in records of type 100 and

Re: CFRM Policy Nmuber

2011-11-29 Thread Ted MacNEIL
This will be more rework... Is it possible by not creating new CFRM couple dataset and modifying existing CFRM couple datset, TANSTAAFL! Do you want more policies, or not? It isn't that much work. And, it only has to be done once. - Ted MacNEIL eamacn...@yahoo.ca Twitter: @TedMacNEIL