Re: MFNetDisk news

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Fwd: MFNetDisk news

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Re: USS File Integrity

On 19/04/2012 10:50 PM, Michael Klaeschen wrote: I do not agree to Paul's answer. flockfile() only relates to file descriptors. Opening another file descriptor for the same file will not be in scope of that particular lock. Instead you might consider BPX1FCT with the BPXYBRLK mapping structure. H

Re: ZOS 1.13 SMPTABL Mystery

On 04/19/2012 08:16 AM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: In<4f8eb53d.9000...@us.ibm.com>, on 04/18/2012 at 08:36 AM, Kurt Quackenbush said: http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/gimusr51/3.6.3?SHELF=gim2bk90&DT=20110811181158 The only explanation given for "installati

Re: DB2 Fetch Behind the Scenes

On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 5:23 PM, George, William@FTB wrote: > Note: I did attempt to send this to the DB2 group but it bounced back at > me so I'll send it here to IBM-MAIN and attempt to figure out what went > wrong with my DB2 auth. > > DB2 internals type of question. > > ISSUE > > We have a pro

Re: DB2 Fetch Behind the Scenes

Short answer - LIKE %and% might use an index but just starts scanning at the front of the index and continues until it finds the first row that matches. So your timeout will depend on how many rows have to be bypassed not on the number of rows you fetch. All this processing occurs in DB2 for the fi

DESERV for HFS Folders?

I need to be able to process for input all members of a PDS, PDSE, or HFS folder. I need to process them individually - the order does not matter - and not as one big concatenated file. DESERV GET_ALL will get me the names if it's a PDS or PDSE (and I can take it from there) but what about a US

Re: DFSORT, no records for SORTOUT

If there are new records I don't want to retain the old records in the output file.  But if there are no new records I want the output file to retain the old records. > > From: Walt Farrell >To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu >Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2012 4:30 PM >Su

Re: DFSORT, no records for SORTOUT

On Thu, 19 Apr 2012 10:22:56 -0700, Frank Swarbrick wrote: >I know of the NULLOUT and NULLOFL options to specify return code setting if >there are no records to be written to the output file.  I'm >wondering if there is any option I can specify so that the SORTOUT file will >not even be opene

Re: DB2 Fetch Behind the Scenes

Wow, sorry about all the white space spacing... odd -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of George, William@FTB Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2012 3:23 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: DB2 Fetch Behind the Scenes Note: I did attemp

DB2 Fetch Behind the Scenes

Note: I did attempt to send this to the DB2 group but it bounced back at me so I'll send it here to IBM-MAIN and attempt to figure out what went wrong with my DB2 auth. DB2 internals type of question. ISSUE We have a process that returns table rows matching on a masked name. The "LIKE"

Re: Execute certain steps based on input parm

For anyone who would care to have source code for my little TESTPARM JCL aid, it is reproduced below. For the code critics: I know it could be better with UNSTRING, and it would be trivial in PL/I or C. But as it is, it works. Improvements are for the young. Us old-timers have only so many m

Re: ZOS 1.13 SMPTABL Mystery

In <4f8eb53d.9000...@us.ibm.com>, on 04/18/2012 at 08:36 AM, Kurt Quackenbush said: >http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/gimusr51/3.6.3?SHELF=gim2bk90&DT=20110811181158 The only explanation given for "installation-wide" is "SMP/E uses this table data set to save process

Re: IEHLIST LISTVTOC inconsistency

In , on 04/18/2012 at 08:04 PM, Tony Harminc said: >For IEHLIST you're probably right. IEHMOVE did its own allocation Don't confuse DASDM allocation with Job Management allocation. SVC 32 only creates an entry in the VTOC; it doesn't add an entry to the VTOC or catalog the data set. IEHMOVE[1

Re: GO TO "cobol"

In <1334839226.16701.yahoomai...@web180901.mail.ne1.yahoo.com>, on 04/19/2012 at 05:40 AM, Lloyd Fuller said: >Actually, the 1004 and the 1005 versions. The 1004 was programmed with a plugboard. The 1005 started life as a special plugboard for the 1004. There were two versions of the 1005; a

Re: PL/I with variable PLISTs (was: LE C calling HLASM)

In <4f8e7be4.5000...@t-online.de>, on 04/18/2012 at 10:31 AM, Bernd Oppolzer said: >Why? I don't understand this comment, because JCL parm is always >only one parm; The phrase "invoked from JCL: is not equivalent to "invoked exclusively from JCL." >I dont know if the system sets the high or

Re: PL/I with variable PLISTs (was: LE C calling HLASM)

In , on 04/18/2012 at 07:36 AM, "McKown, John" said: >What about the ASMA90 program? That's why I wrote "intended to be invoked from JCL" rather than "intended to be invoked exclusively from JCL." -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO position; see

Re: DFSORT, no records for SORTOUT

Frank, that is a pretty slick trick! Simple and yet still elegant! Billy On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 2:43 PM, Frank Swarbrick wrote: > My very own local sysprog came up with the ideal solution. > > //TC33COPY JOB NOTIFY=&SYSUID > //CONDCOPY EXEC PGM=IDCAMS > //SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=* > //SYSINDD * >

Re: DFSORT, no records for SORTOUT

My very own local sysprog came up with the ideal solution. //TC33COPY JOB NOTIFY=&SYSUID    //CONDCOPY EXEC PGM=IDCAMS   //SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=*   //SYSIN    DD *   PRINT

Re: DFSORT, no records for SORTOUT

That works.  Thanks!  I've not used ICETOOL before. One minor thing.  I wish I could skip steps (or conditionally execute them) rather than having the job set RC12.  Something like how IDCAMS works:  COUNT FROM(TC33IN) EMPTY RC4  IF LASTCC = 0    THEN COPY FROM(TC33IN) TO(TC33OUT)   ELSE  

Re: DFSORT, no records for SORTOUT

Frank Swarbrick at IBM Mainframe Discussion List wrote on 04/19/2012 10:22:56 AM: > I know of the NULLOUT and NULLOFL options to specify return code > setting if there are no records to be written to the output file. > I'm wondering if there is any option I can specify so that the > SORTOUT file w

DFSORT, no records for SORTOUT

I know of the NULLOUT and NULLOFL options to specify return code setting if there are no records to be written to the output file.  I'm wondering if there is any option I can specify so that the SORTOUT file will not even be opened if there are no records to be written to it.  Basically, I want

University of Redlands Needs z/OS Teachers in Southern California

Greetings, The University of Redlands is launching a Certificate Program entitled The New Mainframe: IBM System z. Here is the URL for the details. www.redlands.edu/IBMcertificate The University of Redlands, School of Continuing Studies seeks part-time adjunct faculty to teach in its new IBM

Re: Jes job log unavailable in STC

On Thu, 19 Apr 2012 10:46:08 -0500, Jorge Garcia wrote: >Mark, It works fine. Thanks. > >We changed the OUTDISP parm in our JES2PARM last morning. We included >OUTDISP=(HOLD,HOLD) from OUTDISP=(PURGE,HOLD). We ipled the system and we >supposed that the parameter was active, but we were wrong.

Re: USS File Integrity

On Thu, 19 Apr 2012 16:50:44 +0200, Michael Klaeschen wrote: > >locking mechanisms are just convention for well-behaving processes and do >not guarantee exclusive use. > >IMHO, POSIX and common Unix implementations just don't offer exclusive >control as found in MVS (i.e. GRS). May be you can use

Re: USS File Integrity

How are you updating the UNIX (not USS, for I live in terror of Chris Mason's rants) file? Via JCL? JCL does not do any ENQ on a DD when it allocates via a PATH. You could single thread by allocating a dataset which is vaguely related to the UNIX file. What I might do would be something like: /

Re: Jes job log unavailable in STC

This is a common problem ever since JES2 provided dynamic ($command) update for many parameters that used to require warm start, all-systems warm start, or even cold start. 'You would think' that IPL would do the trick as well as a command. For many parameters, it does not. That's why, when con

Re: Jes job log unavailable in STC

Mark, It works fine. Thanks. We changed the OUTDISP parm in our JES2PARM last morning. We included OUTDISP=(HOLD,HOLD) from OUTDISP=(PURGE,HOLD). We ipled the system and we supposed that the parameter was active, but we were wrong. We've executed the $DJOBCLASS(STC),LONG command and it showed

Re: Execute certain steps based on input parm

Moose and Squirrel? Natasha, after them quickly before they spread! -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Roberts, John J Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2012 10:32 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Execute certain steps based o

Re: Jes job log unavailable in STC

Elardus, you are right, but we've coded this job card for include MSGLEVEL and MSGCLASS again. We don't know if the STC started with the JES2PARM parameters. We attached the expanded JCL: 1 //SMFDUMP JOB MSGLEVEL=(1,1),MSGCLASS=K 2 // JCLLIB ORDER=SYS1.PROC

Re: Jes job log unavailable in STC

On Thu, 19 Apr 2012 09:55:10 -0500, Mark Zelden wrote: > > >Does a $DJOBCLASS(STC) display match the parms you cut/pasted above? > Actually, since z/OS 1.11 (or z/OS 1.10?) you need the "LONG" operand added: $DJOBCLASS(STC),LONG Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390

Re: Trying to capture JES2 Job Log

AH, but you didn't include that in your list of parms. The default is YES. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Schwartz, Alan Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2012 10:16 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Trying to capture JES2

Re: Jes job log unavailable in STC

On Thu, 19 Apr 2012 08:02:54 -0400, Veilleux, Jon L wrote: > >I don't know about the JES settings, but you can code a jobcard in >SYS1.STCJOBS for your STCs which will keep the job log in the hold queue. And even without doing that you can override parms on the startup for a test or in your no

Re: Jes job log unavailable in STC

$DOUTCLASS(K) $HASP842 OUTCLASS(K) 764 $HASP842 OUTCLASS(K) OUTPUT=PRINT,BLNKTRNC=YES, $HASP842 OUTDISP=(HOLD,HOLD),TRKCELL=YES -- F

Re: Jes job log unavailable in STC

On Thu, 19 Apr 2012 06:47:13 -0500, Jorge Garcia wrote: >Hello: > > We can't view the STC jes job log when our started tasks ended. When they are > executing we can view the jes job log, but after they ended we can view only > the SYSPRINT. We've reviewed all the JES2PARM parameters and we don'

Re: USS File Integrity

I do not agree to Paul's answer. flockfile() only relates to file descriptors. Opening another file descriptor for the same file will not be in scope of that particular lock. Instead you might consider BPX1FCT with the BPXYBRLK mapping structure. However, as found in the "important note" of v_

Re: Execute certain steps based on input parm

>>John Roberts has resolved your problem. You need a reusable zero-th >>step that sets the return code. Something I have done before is create a little program that accepts as PARM a list of comma separated values, like: //S000 EXEC PGM=TESTPARM,PARM='&SYM,CAT,DOG,COW,MOOSE,SQUIRREL' T

Re: Trying to capture JES2 Job Log

>From Jorge's original post(which also answers my previous question regarding the output of $DOUTCLASS(K)): Hello: We can't view the STC jes job log when our started tasks ended. When they are executing we can view the jes job log, but after they ended we can view only the SYSPRINT. We've revie

Re: End of Support for Encryption Key Manager (EKM)

Same experience here Dave. We licensed SKLM 5698-B35 SKLM for z/OS & 5698-B42 SKLM for Storage to replace EKM and the migration is trivial. I have not seen any communication from IBM on EOS for EKM. The lack of clear communication providing an EOS date or a statement of direction has been confo

Re: Jes job log unavailable in STC

Jorge Garcia wrote: >Jon, we've include a job card in IEFJOBS library in MSTJCLxx and it doesn't >work. The job card include MSGLEVEL and MSGCLASS. >//SMFDUMP JOB MSGLEVEL=(1,1),MSGCLASS=K >// JCLLIB ORDER=SYS1.PROCLIB >//SMFDUMP EXEC SMFDUMP That is a JOB, despite subject refering

Re: Jes job log unavailable in STC

What does $DOUTCLASS(K) show? Jon, we've include a job card in IEFJOBS library in MSTJCLxx and it doesn't work. The job card include MSGLEVEL and MSGCLASS. //SMFDUMP JOB MSGLEVEL=(1,1),MSGCLASS=K // JCLLIB ORDER=SYS1.PROCLIB //SMFDUMP EXEC SMFDUMP

Re: Trying to capture JES2 Job Log

To all who replied to this earlier and to Jorge Garcia who just started a similarly named question I found my problem. For some reason our JOBCLASS(STC) has LOG=NO coded. This prevents the stc from being assigned an output group and dest (and possibly some other attributes). Changing LOG to YES

Re: USS File Integrity

Donald Likens wrote: >I just ran two STCs that updated the same z/OS USS file at the same time. How >do I stop multiple processes from updating the same z/OS USS file at the same >time? Paul gave you a very good answer, but I wonder how was that USS file allocated in the first place? Dynamic A

Re: Jes job log unavailable in STC

Jon, we've include a job card in IEFJOBS library in MSTJCLxx and it doesn't work. The job card include MSGLEVEL and MSGCLASS. //SMFDUMP JOB MSGLEVEL=(1,1),MSGCLASS=K // JCLLIB ORDER=SYS1.PROCLIB //SMFDUMP EXEC SMFDUMP Regards --

Re: USS File Integrity

On Thu, 19 Apr 2012 08:39:12 -0500, Donald Likens wrote: >I just ran two STCs that updated the same z/OS USS file at the same time. How >do I stop multiple processes from updating the same z/OS USS file at the same >time? > flockfile()? http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/B

Re: USS File Integrity

On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 9:39 AM, Donald Likens wrote: > I just ran two STCs that updated the same z/OS USS file at the same time. > How do I stop multiple processes from updating the same z/OS USS file at > the same time? I think my father served on that vessel in WWII! -- zMan -- "I've got a

USS File Integrity

I just ran two STCs that updated the same z/OS USS file at the same time. How do I stop multiple processes from updating the same z/OS USS file at the same time? -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions,

Re: IEHLIST LISTVTOC inconsistency

Tony Harminc wrote: Or ask your local, friendly IBMer if any of the IEH... source contains the strings "DYNALLOC" or "SVC 99". Not that it really matters, of course. Your friendly local IBMer won't have access to the current source. I'm not local, and reports vary on whether I'm friendly, a

Re: Fwd: Secret Computer Code Threatens Science: Scientific American

In <4f8a548c.8070...@gabegold.com>, on 04/15/2012 at 12:54 AM, Gabe Goldberg said: >http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=secret-computer-code-threatens-science How about a compromise; make code review part of the peer review process but also attempt to reproduce the results of the

Re: GO TO "cobol"

Actually, the 1004 and the 1005 versions. I could not remember the names. The only place that I ever saw them was at the school. The only thing that I really remember about them is that you had to know which panel(s) to kick to get the machine to boot. The interlocks were very worn and did n

Re: ISPF Panel date validation

Munif, I was also thinking about this...if you request the dates in YY/M/DD format, you can make your verification much easier with this: Ver(&RVK,NB,IDATE,MSG=invalid date) This would automatically take into account the different days in a month (for example, your sample would allow me to enter A

Re: GO TO "cobol"

On 4/18/2012 11:06 PM, Dale Miller wrote: Years ago, I learned my first programming language (FORTRAN) from an excellent book by Daniel McCracken who was justly famous for his excellent programming books. He was also known, (but not quite as well) for a mid-life crisis which involved completing a

SV: ISPF Panel date validation

An important note is that the rexx code is indentation sensitive, it must obey the same indentation rules as the other panel code. Otherwise a S0C4 abend is nearly sure. Regards, Thomas Berg __ Thomas Berg Specialist AM/DQS SWEDBANK A

Re: Jes job log unavailable in STC

I don't know about the JES settings, but you can code a jobcard in SYS1.STCJOBS for your STCs which will keep the job log in the hold queue. This e-mail may contain confidential or privileged information. If you think you have received this e-mail in error, please advise the sender by reply e-mai

Re: ISPF Panel date validation

Of course the REXX test on line 16 needs to have & instead of "and"...sorry about that! Billy On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 7:57 AM, Bill Ashton wrote: > Munif, you may get other answers from the ISPF group if you join there, > but here is my untested quick stab at it... > > 13 *REXX (STRT RVK RES

Re: ISPF Panel date validation

Munif, you may get other answers from the ISPF group if you join there, but here is my untested quick stab at it... 13 *REXX (STRT RVK RES) 14date1 = Date("B",strt,"U"); 15date2 = Date("B",rvk,"U"); 16If (date2 - date1 <= 90) and (date2 > date1) Then 17 res =

Jes job log unavailable in STC

Hello: We can't view the STC jes job log when our started tasks ended. When they are executing we can view the jes job log, but after they ended we can view only the SYSPRINT. We've reviewed all the JES2PARM parameters and we don't see anything wrong: JOBCLASS(STC) TIME=(1440,00), CO

Re: ISPF Panel date validation

Hi Munif, Re: "I have been requested to modify a panel to verify that user input a valid date (MM/DD/YY) and the input date is no more then 3 months away (roughly speaking)." REXX may provide better validation capability in this instance, but you do not need to exit the panel, to use REXX as it

Re: ISPF Panel date validation

You may wish to join the ISPF Newsgroup. ISPF discussion list Lizette > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of > Munif Sadek > Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2012 4:06 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu > Subject: ISPF Panel date vali

ISPF Panel date validation

Dear Listers I have been requested to modify a panel to verify that user input a valid date (MM/DD/YY) and the input date is no more then 3 months away (roughly speaking). Body section of my panel is + START DATE %===>_STRT + REVOKE DATE %===>_RVK + and in the PROC, for Date valid