Speed up SDSF REXX

2012-01-17 Thread Miklos Szigetvari
Any idea to speed up the SDSF REXX interface ? Til now: - we put the ISFLINK to LPA - using compiled REXX -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message:

FTP Recall HSM instead of DMS

2012-01-17 Thread Marco Gianfranco Indaco
Hi to all. We have a problem in a batch FTP that try to recall a locally migrated dataset(ftp is a GET (REPLACE ) and fail because it try to use HSM(ADSMI002 error) instead of DMS. We are in a sysplex and the same FTP works fine in 3/4 of SYS. Using other method(IEFBR14 and so on) recall works

Re: IBMLink FEEDBACK loop.

2012-01-17 Thread Mary Anne Matyaz
Gil, did you try going in to 'View ETR Record' and putting in the pmr number and branch? https://www-304.ibm.com/ibmlink/etr/etrViewSubmit.wss I did, and I am not authorized to view that record, but it *is* there. MA --

Re: FTP Recall HSM instead of DMS

2012-01-17 Thread Martin, Larry D
Make sure that you have executed a properly configured FDRSTART on the LPAR in question. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Marco Gianfranco Indaco Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2012 6:35 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject:

Re: FTP Recall HSM instead of DMS

2012-01-17 Thread Lizette Koehler
Hi to all. We have a problem in a batch FTP that try to recall a locally migrated dataset(ftp is a GET (REPLACE ) and fail because it try to use HSM(ADSMI002 error) instead of DMS. We are in a sysplex and the same FTP works fine in 3/4 of SYS. Using other method(IEFBR14 and so on) recall

Re: FTP Recall HSM instead of DMS

2012-01-17 Thread Marco Gianfranco Indaco
Ops, I pasted the wrong msg, sorry the error is ARC0050A Current version is CA DISK r12.5 Apologize. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO

Re: How can I know the owner of a PDS?

2012-01-17 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 853280809359.wa.paulgboulderaim@bama.ua.edu, on 01/16/2012 at 12:20 PM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com said: Indeed. I regard that as multiprocessing, Multiprogramming. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO position; see

Re: FTP Recall HSM instead of DMS

2012-01-17 Thread Marco Gianfranco Indaco
z/OS 1.12 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: IBM researchers make 12-atom magnetic memory bit

2012-01-17 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 8457a39f-5e00-40d7-9f52-3128d654d...@yahoo.com, on 01/16/2012 at 09:30 PM, Scott Ford scott_j_f...@yahoo.com said: Knew a guy 15 yrs a go made a lot of money still writing auto coder I might believe AUTOCODER. Would that be 1401, 1410, 7070[1] or 7080 AUTOCODER? [1] By far the most

Re: REXX Calling SDSF abend 878-10

2012-01-17 Thread Walt Farrell
On Mon, 16 Jan 2012 15:34:48 -0600, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com wrote: On Mon, 16 Jan 2012 13:14:04 -0800, Cris Hernandez #9 wrote: when I want to know what a job did, I read it's output using REXX, whether it's the util/pgm output to a file or the JES output pulled off the output

Re: FTP Recall HSM instead of DMS

2012-01-17 Thread Vernooij, CP - SPLXM
Marco Gianfranco Indaco mgind...@gmail.com wrote in message news:CAPbaEcFbkRaNqzq=f-_sH=eht+f5_44mxyts+lb+5v2ieyq...@mail.gmail.com ... Ops, I pasted the wrong msg, sorry the error is ARC0050A Current version is CA DISK r12.5 Apologize. IIRC, DMS intercepts the Catalog Request and checks if

Help: Delete LPAR definition from z9BC

2012-01-17 Thread McKown, John
I just don't seem to be able to find a way to delete an obsolete LPAR definition from our z9BC system. It was originally on our z890, and ran an ICF LPAR. We no longer have the ICF engine. And the dim wits in IBM billing are constantly dunning my manager about what is that and why does it show

Re: FTP Recall HSM instead of DMS

2012-01-17 Thread Marco Gianfranco Indaco
Tks, for the suggest, I've not verified but it works using IEFBR14 and other utility. The problem affect ftp only both if client or server -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to

Re: FTP Recall HSM instead of DMS

2012-01-17 Thread Vernooij, CP - SPLXM
Marco Gianfranco Indaco mgind...@gmail.com wrote in message news:capbaeceagpufhhjjhje7qwwd0ahhwb415dgb9b7ypk4ybbx...@mail.gmail.com ... Tks, for the suggest, I've not verified but it works using IEFBR14 and other utility. The problem affect ftp only both if client or server OK, probably FTP

Re: REXX Calling SDSF abend 878-10

2012-01-17 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Tue, 17 Jan 2012 07:32:00 -0600, Walt Farrell wrote: On Mon, 16 Jan 2012 15:34:48 -0600, Paul Gilmartin wrote: On Mon, 16 Jan 2012 13:14:04 -0800, Cris Hernandez #9 wrote: when I want to know what a job did, I read it's output using REXX, whether it's the util/pgm output to a file or the

Re: IBMLink FEEDBACK loop.

2012-01-17 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Tue, 17 Jan 2012 05:48:43 -0600, Mary Anne Matyaz wrote: Gil, did you try going in to 'View ETR Record' and putting in the pmr number and branch? https://www-304.ibm.com/ibmlink/etr/etrViewSubmit.wss I did, and I am not authorized to view that record, but it *is* there. Indeed. Works.

Fileviewer Version 13

2012-01-17 Thread Knutson, Sam
Hi, Charles Prineas has updated his dirt cheap ($20 USD) and highly useful utility V File Viewer. This is one of the tools I use almost every day. The latest release includes several very nice enhancements for mainframer's. http://www.fileviewer.com/index.html Best Regards, Sam Knutson V

Re: Help: Delete LPAR definition from z9BC

2012-01-17 Thread R.S.
W dniu 2012-01-17 15:39, McKown, John pisze: I just don't seem to be able to find a way to delete an obsolete LPAR definition from our z9BC system. It was originally on our z890, and ran an ICF LPAR. We no longer have the ICF engine. And the dim wits in IBM billing are constantly dunning my

Re: Help: Delete LPAR definition from z9BC

2012-01-17 Thread McKown, John
IBM whines at my manager about it every month. And wants to increase our software bill for it because we have no SMF from it showing its usage. That's because it is __idle__. I just DEACTIVATED the LPAR. Maybe that will shut the money grubbers at IBM up. Yes, I'm upset. It's hard enough to keep

Re: Underscore character

2012-01-17 Thread Alan Altmark
On Sun, 15 Jan 2012 18:44:28 -0500, John Gilmore johnwgilmore0...@gmail.com wrote: The character '_' does not have this function. It cannot indeed be used in this way. To call it an underscore is thus at once incorrect and rather silly. It is of a piece with Mr Gainford's misuse of the word

Re: Help: Delete LPAR definition from z9BC

2012-01-17 Thread R.S.
W dniu 2012-01-17 18:54, McKown, John pisze: IBM whines at my manager about it every month. And wants to increase our software bill for it because we have no SMF from it showing its usage. Reason is ? You can have active non-z/OS LPARS (CFCC and zLinux are not subject to pay). You can have

Re: Help: Delete LPAR definition from z9BC

2012-01-17 Thread Matthew Stitt
Could you change the name of the LPAR to an asterisk * ? This would allow you to mark it as a dynamic LPAR and gives the ability to re-use the LPAR in the future. --- IBM whines at my manager about it every month. And

Re: Underscore character

2012-01-17 Thread Greg Shirey
And I can't figure out what started it... Completely confused, Greg Shirey Ben E. Keith Co. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Alan Altmark Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2012 12:11 PM This entire conversation is rather

Re: Underscore character

2012-01-17 Thread John Gilmore
Alan Altmark writes: /begin snippet This entire conversation is rather silly, but I feel compelled to point out that 'underscore' and 'low line' are the official names for that symbol [which are not regulated by the OED or other dictionary, btw]. There is a spacing underscore and a combining

Re: Help: Delete LPAR definition from z9BC

2012-01-17 Thread McKown, John
I'm just going to eliminate it. Our z is a slowly dying system. The probability of me needing another LPAR beyond the 3 we currently use is about as likely the U.S. Federal Government eliminating income tax. Maybe even less likely. -- John McKown Systems Engineer IV IT Administrative Services

OT Wiki Out of service Weds.

2012-01-17 Thread Ed Finnell
To protest 'Piracy Laws' Wiki is shutting itself off Wed 17 Jan. Evidently Google is participating but only by changing it's banner page. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to

Re: Help: Delete LPAR definition from z9BC

2012-01-17 Thread R.S.
W dniu 2012-01-17 20:43, McKown, John pisze: I'm just going to eliminate it. Our z is a slowly dying system. The probability of me needing another LPAR beyond the 3 we currently use is about as likely the U.S. Federal Government eliminating income tax. Maybe even less likely. So, probably

AutoCoder

2012-01-17 Thread Barry Merrill
State Farm, in 1973, was completely dependent on AUTOCODER which was then running on 360/30s and 360/40s in the 25 regional offices, while the new Real Time replacement application was still being created (in PL/1). When the Real Time system ultimately failed, the next iteration was called DELTA

Re: AutoCoder

2012-01-17 Thread Scott Ford
Barry, My experience with PL/1 wasnt so good. In the 70's and 80's it was pretty CPU intensive, i was on a 370/158 OS/VS2/HASP ...then later VSE on a 4381 , PL/1 probably is much better with the faster machines. Sent from my iPad Scott Ford Senior Systems Engineer www.identityforge.com On

Re: Help: Delete LPAR definition from z9BC

2012-01-17 Thread Al Sherkow
John -- Another option that IBM could have pointed out Your situation is very common, and IBM did modify SCRT to help sites with this issue. SCRT's PARMS DD statement provides a technique to hard code this information one time, so you don't need to do it month after month. In the PARMS DD

Re: Help: Delete LPAR definition from z9BC

2012-01-17 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Al Sherkow Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2012 2:55 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Help: Delete LPAR definition from z9BC John -- Another option that IBM could have pointed

Re: OT Wiki Out of service Weds.

2012-01-17 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Ed Finnell To protest 'Piracy Laws' Wiki is shutting itself off Wed 17 Jan. Evidently Google is participating but only by changing it's banner page. Wow! Six years' advance notice! (The next Wednesday, Jan. 17

Re: IBM researchers make 12-atom magnetic memory bit

2012-01-17 Thread Rick Fochtman
Later ones did. I was on one of the first. Available with 4K or8K words of storage. Rick On 1/16/2012 4:21 PM, Tom Harper wrote: 1620s came with either 20, 40, or 60K. Tom -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion

printer Character Set references

2012-01-17 Thread Paul Peplinski
I think I have my terminology correct. I have a user who wants to print the brackets, braces, carat, back slash, tilde and veticle bar? Where can I find what resources contain those elements and what character set contains them? Paul P

Re: IBM researchers make 12-atom magnetic memory bit

2012-01-17 Thread Rick Fochtman
Anyone remember the 96-column cards? I'd like to find a box of them. Rick On 1/16/2012 10:13 PM, Mohd Rizwan wrote: Quite interesting On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 8:49 PM, Scott Fordscott_j_f...@yahoo.com wrote: Linda, This development is simply

Re: IBM researchers make 12-atom magnetic memory bit

2012-01-17 Thread William Donzelli
Anyone remember the 96-column cards? I'd like to find a box of them. Sure. Send your address offlist and I will send a few. Sorry, they are punched already! -- Will -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: OT Wiki Out of service Weds.

2012-01-17 Thread Ed Finnell
Well, got ahead or behind depending on where you're located. It's tomorrow! In a message dated 1/17/2012 4:29:59 P.M. Central Standard Time, jch...@ussco.com writes: Wow! Six years' advance notice! -- For IBM-MAIN

Re: IBM researchers make 12-atom magnetic memory bit

2012-01-17 Thread Tom Harper
Rick, I believe you are thinking of a different machine. The 1620 did not have any words. It had individually addressable digits. Tom -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Rick Fochtman Sent: Tuesday, January 17, 2012 4:00

Re: MSM 4.1 Upgrade Issues

2012-01-17 Thread Mark Zelden
On Wed, 14 Dec 2011 15:28:18 -0500, Lizette Koehler stars...@mindspring.com wrote: We just completed the upgrade to CA MSM 4.1. So far not bad. However, we no longer have our SMP/E output because that was in TEMP files in MSM. So the task history is empty and any information I had from the

Re: printer Character Set references

2012-01-17 Thread Roger Bolan
Assuming you might be referring to AFP fonts, try looking at this link: http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/printer/info/afpdb/codepage.htm If you're working with a terminal emulator like Personal Communications, try this:

Re: AutoCoder

2012-01-17 Thread Barry Merrill
Well, the runs counter to the many sites that moved their applications to PL/1, including State Farm (who trained 1,500 non-programmers to use PL/1 in a 9 week course - those with musical ability, mathematical degrees, or knowledge of two or more languages accounted for 90% of the folks who were

Re: AutoCoder

2012-01-17 Thread Roberts, John J
Well, the runs counter to the many sites that moved their applications to PL/1, including State Farm (who trained 1,500 non-programmers to use PL/1 in a 9 week course - those with musical ability, mathematical degrees, or knowledge of two or more languages accounted for 90% of the folks who were

Re: AutoCoder

2012-01-17 Thread Gerhard Postpischil
On 1/17/2012 6:22 PM, Roberts, John J wrote: Also, is it PL/1 or PL/I? My mainframe IBM manuals use PL/I. The early version(s) of the S/360 compilers were inefficient by not using available hardware instructions, e.g., bit fiddling doable with OI and NI was implemented as subroutine calls.

Re: AutoCoder

2012-01-17 Thread Scott Ford
Barry, I can understand that, hence the catch on of COBOL vs ASM. I worked a lot of SAS back in the v5 and v6 days. To me it was pretty straight forward no Problem, but then again I was a sysprog. Sent from my iPad Scott Ford Senior Systems Engineer www.identityforge.com On Jan 17, 2012, at

Re: AutoCoder

2012-01-17 Thread Scott Ford
Yep Gerhard exactly, the machines/microcode have improved significantly Over the S/360 and370 days and with the advent of MVSand above the 16m line , things really took off. But I ask myself, how popular was PL/1 ? I wrote in it a bit on OS/VS2, loved it. Sent from my iPad Scott Ford Senior

Re: AutoCoder

2012-01-17 Thread Bernd Oppolzer
We are a big insurance company in Germany, and we do PL/1 until today. We also do ASM and C, but no COBOL - never. I heard some years ago that only about 5 % of the mainframe programs are PL/1, compared to 80 % COBOL. Don't know, if the numbers are correct. Most PL/1 users are in southern

I thought it would be easy (IEBDG)

2012-01-17 Thread Donald Russell
I thought I could use IEBDG (Data Generator) to create a small file with a single binary data record in it. Let's take a simplified example. I want to create a file with a 2 byte record with x'a1b2' as the contents. I use FD to define two fields, each one byte long: FD

Re: AutoCoder

2012-01-17 Thread Bernd Oppolzer
Sorry, I forgot: many PL/1 users in Switzerland, too. Kind regards Bernd Am 18.01.2012 00:53, schrieb Bernd Oppolzer: We are a big insurance company in Germany, and we do PL/1 until today. We also do ASM and C, but no COBOL - never. I heard some years ago that only about 5 % of the

Re: IBM researchers make 12-atom magnetic memory bit

2012-01-17 Thread Scott Ford
Linda, A good question, I think he liked the 1100. He was completely self - taught, no college, came straight out of WW2 and sent to work for then Remington Rand. He working on typewriters and adding machines before computers made a big splash. It was an interesting time. He was that school

Re: Underscore character

2012-01-17 Thread Gainsford, Allen
John Gilmore writes: Mr Altmark is again only marginally correct about the term 'underscore', as the OED quotations for it make clear, it is a slightly antique term used literally. The OED defines underscore, among other meanings, as: a key on a computer or typewriter keyboard which produces a

Re: IBM researchers make 12-atom magnetic memory bit

2012-01-17 Thread Scott Ford
Yes, and univacs 90 col cards Sent from my iPad Scott Ford Senior Systems Engineer www.identityforge.com On Jan 17, 2012, at 5:14 PM, William Donzelli wdonze...@gmail.com wrote: Anyone remember the 96-column cards? I'd like to find a box of them. Sure. Send your address offlist and I will

Re: IBM researchers make 12-atom magnetic memory bit

2012-01-17 Thread Scott Ford
Omg, I initially skimmed your note. That was some experience. I have heard of ppl looking under raised flooring to see water running over the top of the bug and tag cables...that was a tad scary. But to drop a machine, tap it and have it keep going amazing ...lol Sent from my iPad Scott Ford

Re: printer Character Set references

2012-01-17 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Tue, 17 Jan 2012 15:55:30 -0600, Paul Peplinski wrote: I think I have my terminology correct. I have a user who wants to print the brackets, braces, carat, back slash, tilde and veticle bar? Where can I find what resources contain those elements and what character set contains them?

Re: AutoCoder

2012-01-17 Thread Scott Ford
Bernd, Didn't know of the PL/1 popularity in Europe, interesting. Sent from my iPad Scott Ford Senior Systems Engineer www.identityforge.com On Jan 17, 2012, at 6:53 PM, Bernd Oppolzer bernd.oppol...@t-online.de wrote: We are a big insurance company in Germany, and we do PL/1 until today.

Re: I thought it would be easy (IEBDG)

2012-01-17 Thread Frank Yaeger
Donald Russell at IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu wrote on 01/17/2012 04:01:47 PM: ... The hex data is constant, I just want it written to a new data set when a job runs... Is there another utility that can do this easily? In a nutshell: //S1 EXEC PGM=... //SYSUT1 DD *

Re: Underscore character

2012-01-17 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In CAPD5F5oLMHY776o-PRL-PiFn19=zvKuhEm9cei=t-kwy9qj...@mail.gmail.com, on 01/17/2012 at 02:43 PM, John Gilmore johnwgilmore0...@gmail.com said: That said, Mr Altmark's rude comments PKB. are unhelpful. Au contraire, his comments were helpful and yours were unhelpful. -- Shmuel

Re: AutoCoder

2012-01-17 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 93891f43642f3c419a7d75acc2b1db6f3c2a3fa...@exchangemb2.dhs.state.ia.us, on 01/17/2012 at 05:22 PM, Roberts, John J jrobe...@dhs.state.ia.us said: No doubt once they got past the F compiler and onto the many Optimizing Compilers things must have improved. In general, but the way they

Re: IBM researchers make 12-atom magnetic memory bit

2012-01-17 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 4f15effc.1050...@ync.net, on 01/17/2012 at 04:02 PM, Rick Fochtman rfocht...@ync.net said: Anyone remember the 96-column cards? You mean the business cards? -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO position; see http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html We don't

Re: printer Character Set references

2012-01-17 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 8119439416092473.wa.paul.peplinskiwpsic@bama.ua.edu, on 01/17/2012 at 03:55 PM, Paul Peplinski paul.peplin...@wpsic.com said: I think I have my terminology correct. c/veticle/vertical/ I have a user who wants to print the brackets, braces, carat, back slash, tilde and veticle bar?

Re: Internal text

2012-01-17 Thread Clark Morris
On 8 Jan 2012 14:11:36 -0800, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: Clark, Am new to all this, CBT, etc, so more than curious. Your CBT 175 points to JOB and DD parsing but there are a whole slew of members therein - might I ask which one in particular - or am I misunderstanding something:-(?

Re: AutoCoder

2012-01-17 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 01b001ccd555$37c90880$a75b1980$@mxg.com, on 01/17/2012 at 02:18 PM, Barry Merrill ba...@mxg.com said: State Farm, in 1973, was completely dependent on AUTOCODER which was then running on 360/30s and 360/40s in the 25 regional offices, I assume that was 1401 AUTOCODER. Be glad it wasn't

Re: I thought it would be easy (IEBDG)

2012-01-17 Thread Gainsford, Allen
Let's take a simplified example. I want to create a file with a 2 byte record with x'a1b2' as the contents. I use FD to define two fields, each one byte long: FD NAME=BYTE1,LENGTH=1,STARTLOC=1,PICTURE=161 FD NAME=BYTE2,LENGTH=1,STARTLOC=2,PICTURE=178 IEBDG definitely isn't an easy way to do

Re: printer Character Set references

2012-01-17 Thread Scott Ford
CECP if memory serves me correctly Sent from my iPad Scott Ford Senior Systems Engineer www.identityforge.com On Jan 17, 2012, at 7:36 PM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) shmuel+ibm-m...@patriot.net wrote: In 8119439416092473.wa.paul.peplinskiwpsic@bama.ua.edu, on 01/17/2012 at 03:55 PM,

OMVS query

2012-01-17 Thread jagadishan perumal
Hi, In of our Webservice a user is not able to Invoke JVM, below are the following error messages : java version 1.6.0 Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build pmz3160_26sr1-2014_01(SR1)) IBM J9 VM (build 2.6, JRE 1.6.0 z/OS s390-31 2013_94967 (JIT enabled, AOT en J9VM -

RACF command prefix

2012-01-17 Thread dong dong Wang
Hi folks, In SDSF, normally we enter # as a prefix for RACF command. During system shutdown process, we may use #STOP or %STOP to stop RACF. Why the RACF command prefix is not displayed via system command /D OPDATA? Where can I define/modify this command prefix? looking forward to hearing from

Re: OMVS query

2012-01-17 Thread jagadishan perumal
Hi, Adding to the below when the user is given the SECLABEL with SYSHIGH then the JVM invocation is successful but providing a SECLABEL of SYSHIGH to a normal user wont be right choice so I am just trying to understand the correct level of SECLABEL that needs to be given to the user. IBM manual

Re: RACF command prefix

2012-01-17 Thread גדי בן אבי
The command prefix is set in the Subsystem definition. Look for IRRSSI00 in IEFSSNxx. Gadi -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of dong dong Wang Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2012 9:00 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: RACF