Re: Ancient military disks

2007-03-05 Thread Barry Schwarz
It was never used on AWACS. -Original Message- From: William Donzelli [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 02, 2007 5:45 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Ancient military disks I recently purchased a number of unused disk packs for the RD-281/ drive. These contain 11 14

Re: Reading Variable record with bad BDW/RDW?

2006-05-02 Thread Barry Schwarz
I don't know if any of the previous responses satisfied your need. Another approach would be to create a second DCB (PS, BSAM, RECFM=U, and BLKSIZE=32760). Open the DCB, read the first block, and close the DCB. Examine the data for whatever attributes you like (such as correct BDW and one

Re: IBM Patents

2006-04-17 Thread Barry Schwarz
But the vast majority of IBM references are by other applicants to IBM publications and to non-IBM publications that happen to have IBM in the title. The vast majority of bathroom references are in the explanatory sections in phrases like ...the system is idle when the trader is away from

Re: Run CLIST/Edit marco without SYSEXEC

2006-04-13 Thread Barry Schwarz
Paul - Unfortunately, while that works for a normal clist/rexx, it won't work for an edit macro. Jeff - My edit macro reference says that a clist macro MUST be in one of the usual concatenations. If you don't like ALLOCATE, you can use ALTLIB.; Paul Gilmartin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

Re: TAPEMAP Problem

2006-04-13 Thread Barry Schwarz
Your job requests tape 00. You mounted tape 01862A. It looks like your tape management software (CA-1?) recognized the mismount and dropped the tape. The JCL looks like it is asking for BLP but the mount message specifies SL. On my system, a BLP mount does not have the SL following

Re: Run CLIST/Edit marco without SYSEXEC

2006-04-12 Thread Barry Schwarz
CLISTs belong in SYSPROC, not SYSEXEC. (REXX's can go in either.) You can change the SYSEXEC/SYSPROC allocation after logon with the ALLOCATE command. This will allow your macro to be in any library you like. You can also use the ALTLIB command to set up a temporary library that

Re: Migrate ML1 Volume - DFHSM

2006-04-10 Thread Barry Schwarz
Recalling or restoring data sets should have no affect on ML1. Everything recalled or restored goes to primary packs (sometimes called ML0). ML1 packs are managed by HSM, not SMS. If it is ML0 that is filling up, then a yardstick across the user's knuckles can be very effective (though

Visual Age PL/1

2006-04-05 Thread Barry Schwarz
Does anyone know where I can get information about an IBM product that used to be called Visual Age PL/1 or anything equivalent to it? - Yahoo! Messenger with Voice. PC-to-Phone calls for ridiculously low rates.

Re: C on z/OS questions

2006-03-23 Thread Barry Schwarz
The bracket problem is due to the ASCII/EBCDIC translation table used during the conversion, probably by ftp. If you can find (or create) a good table, you could retransmit the source properly. To call a C module from an assembler routine, you have to establish the proper environment.

Re: Data Set Name Hiding

2006-02-28 Thread Barry Schwarz
When I went through altitude chamber training, the instructor expalined that as external pressure decrease, gases in the body would try to expand. As internal pressure grew, they would exit the body any way they could. If you could smell the gases, it meant your oxygen mask was not on

Re: IBM-supported method to empty PDS in Batch

2006-02-22 Thread Barry Schwarz
Won;t IEBGENER do it if you code DSORG=PS on SYSUT2? Gilbert Saint-Flour [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 22 February 2006 12:39, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You could write 255 bytes of hex FF to the first directory block. That in essence will make all the members inaccessible. Can you

Re: DASD allocation guidelines

2006-02-15 Thread Barry Schwarz
If you really want to maximize the FB blocksize (in the hopes of improving performance without regard to impact on size), then specify the blocksize in the JCL DD statement or DCB macro with a value computed as (32767/LRECL)*LRECL using integer arithmetic. If you are willing to compromise a

Re: DASD allocation guidelines

2006-02-14 Thread Barry Schwarz
Certain pathalogical LRECLs for FB data sets can store an odd number of records if unblocked but one less if blocked close to half track. In the case of 7000, 7 unblocked records will fit on a track Blocking at 14000 will allow 3 blocks (6 records) and blocking at 21000 will allow 2 blocks

Re: Deleting an IODF Work Dataset

2006-02-13 Thread Barry Schwarz
Part of the problem may be that the IODF name used by HCD is not the cluster name but the data component name. I expect this is due to the fact that NUC routines must read the IODF before catalog services are available and the data component is what is in the VTOC/VVDS and HCD was designed to

Re: manipulating catalogs

2006-02-13 Thread Barry Schwarz
But don't you have to delete and redefine to do that? Jim McAlpine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To remove the IMBED attribute. Jim McAlpine On 2/10/06, Barry Schwarz wrote: The Managing Catalogs manual describes this sequence with a DELETE and a DEFINE between the export and import, so

Re: Removing obsolete catalog references from VVDS

2006-02-10 Thread Barry Schwarz
As expected - IDC3016I CATALOG IS NOT AVAILABLE In something other than a data set entry, the VVDS has a reference to a no longer existing catalog. There is no catalog to clean up. Mark Thomen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Schwarz, Barry A wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... I ran

Re: manipulating catalogs

2006-02-10 Thread Barry Schwarz
The Managing Catalogs manual describes this sequence with a DELETE and a DEFINE between the export and import, so the import is into an empty catalog. In this case, jobs referencing the catalog would probably get upset. Why do you wnat to do this if you are not going to empty the catalog

Re: SMP/E SE37 Retry and ++ZAP

2006-02-01 Thread Barry Schwarz
Which can often be resolved with an intervening RESTORE. Paul Gilmartin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:In a recent note, Mark Zelden said: Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2006 09:01:27 -0600 Why not? Why is changing a line or 2 of code and creating object code to be linked in a sysmod any better than zapping

Re: [Rexx on z/Os]Point to particular member of PDS

2006-01-18 Thread Barry Schwarz
You can allocate the appropriate DD names and call IEHLIST. Then you can parse the member names Marco Gianfranco Indaco [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Brendan, thanks for your reply but: neither LISTDS or OUTTRAP are internal function of Rexx(or MVS). LISTDS is a tso command OUTTRAP is an

Re: SMS Dataclsss

2006-01-13 Thread Barry Schwarz
Unless there is a difference betrween the DC003 members in the two data sets, it doesn't matter. If there is a difference, you need to run ISMF against the current SCDS by name (not 'ACTIVE'). Compile and validate (and test) the member you want. Then activate the SCDS. Howard Rifkind [EMAIL

Console Manual

2006-01-08 Thread Barry Schwarz
Does anyone know where I can get a copy (preferably electronic) of the User's Guide for the IBM InfoWindow II 3482? (I think the number is GA18-7095.) Our procurement people bought this to replace our very old master and alternate consoles but I need to confiure it for multiple sessions.

Re: SMS Dataclsss

2006-01-08 Thread Barry Schwarz
Do you mean there is a member named DC003? In this case, you can use ISMF option 7, then option 5 with a CDS name of 'ACTIVE' (including the tics) to determine if this is in fact the active data class ACS routine. If it is, then searching on the assignment statements to the variable

Re: FTP userid propagation

2006-01-06 Thread Barry Schwarz
I don't think anyone suggested generic IDs. The NETRC data set should be specific to each user authorized to do this, the same way each user has an ISPPROF if they are authorized to use ISPF. Charles Mills [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not a security guy. I have no idea what the exposures

Re: Adding a Volume to an SMS group

2005-12-22 Thread Barry Schwarz
Neither ACS nor SMS in general need to be involved. 1 -Create a new hfs. (I tend to use ISPF 3.2 but almost any allocation technique should work.) It can go on an existing volume or new one. The volume can be SMS but as of at least OS/390 2.10 it need not be. a - If

Re: Why does LMPUT(ISPF Library service)?

2005-12-14 Thread Barry Schwarz
Thinki about how you do it in assembler. You WRITE, then you STOW. Johnny Luo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Recently I've been trying to write a REXX which can be invoked directly in ISPF to add a new member to an existing PDS. My plan is:Invoke the REXX--It asks you for the existing PDS name

Re: TSS PRIVPGM in RACF

2005-12-12 Thread Barry Schwarz
I don't know what TSS option 14 and PRIVPGM are but the following may help. RACF enforces program control via two mechanisms: One mechanism is data set access. In order to execute a program, the user must have at least execute access to the library that the program resides in.

Re: SYS1.UADS - when is it read?

2005-11-22 Thread Barry Schwarz
As long as you don't grow the wrong UADS into a brand new extent (since MSTJCL has already built a DEB), you could copy entries from the good UADS to the bad one let TSO users logon until it is convenient for you to IPL Patrick Lyon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the response Keith. This

Re: Access to Syslog in SDSF

2005-11-14 Thread Barry Schwarz
Give your user READ access to the LOG command as described in the SDSF Customization and Security Manual. Jeegan Roy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Lister's, I want to give access to Syslog(Log in SDSF) to a person.How to give access.I know Giving access to OPER profile in TSOAUTH class will

Re: SMS add volume to storage group

2005-09-22 Thread Barry Schwarz
If your storage admin plans for growth or changing requirements, your storage groups probably have extra volumes defined in them. You can confirm this by issuing the command D SMS,SG(group_name),LISTVOL The ones that do not have addresses in the display are spare. Pick one,

Re: SUPERC Insights

2005-09-21 Thread Barry Schwarz
Columns 999:1005 is length of seven, not the six you specify. When I use Compare Type = File, I only get a hash difference, never any indication of where the differences are. I think you want Compare Type = Record. I'm sorry but I don't understand your description of the records and

Re: PDSE - PDS

2005-09-09 Thread Barry Schwarz
Unless the catalog has a PDSE indicator and you use the same catalog for both IPL's, how would anyone know of this inconsistency? Chase, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Hi, All, I'm getting ready to SMP/E-install a new version of a product, and this new version delivers the load library in a PDSE

Re: How Was Share?

2005-08-30 Thread Barry Schwarz
? On Mon, 29 Aug 2005 22:34:36 +0200, R.S. wrote: Barry Schwarz wrote: How about a few hints. I found the presentation (2821) but no instructions regarding dumps. There was a second file some 3x larger than the presentation but I have no idea which application processes a .prz file. .prz

Re: RACF question

2005-08-24 Thread Barry Schwarz
Why do you want to delete the group? What is the real issue? jason lowe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:If, you have dataset profile belonging to GROUP, RACF will not allow you to delete the group. I would like to be able to remove some group, but keep the dataset profile around. It's seem that the

Re: Acquiring TSO Userid in Logon Proc

2005-08-12 Thread Barry Schwarz
The common approach I've seen is to have the proc specify an init CLIST and do the allocation in the CLIST. If you manipulations don't affect the SYSPROC and SYSEXEC allocations, it could be a REXX. Earnie Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a way to pick up the TSO userid [sysuid] during

Re: ALIAS for a LMOD

2005-08-11 Thread Barry Schwarz
Have you performed an LLA refresh since you recreated the alias? I don't know if the STEPLIB DD card will bypass LLA processing or not. Walter Marguccio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:--- Rob Wunderlich wrote: On Mon, 8 Aug 2005 12:37:51 -0700, Barry Schwarz wrote: The stolen status means

Re: ALIAS for a LMOD

2005-08-08 Thread Barry Schwarz
The stolen status means the alias used to belong to a different load module. Any chance that could be part of the problem? Walter Marguccio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:--- Barry Schwarz wrote: It doesn't seem like it should have had any impact. Can you show us how you created the alias

Re: Copying ALL tape files to disk

2005-08-04 Thread Barry Schwarz
Why not write a short REXX to read the labels and generate a job full of IEBGENER steps? Mautalen Juan Guillermo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks Radoslaw, I want the datasets created on disk to have the same name they have on tape (as is stored in the tape label). I know what these names are,

Re: ALIAS for a LMOD

2005-08-04 Thread Barry Schwarz
It doesn't seem like it should have had any impact. Can you show us how you created the alias (preferably the Binder listing) and a current ISPF member list for the library. Walter Marguccio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Dear list, I created an ALIAS for an lmod_a in a load library using the BINDER.

Re: 3490-F11

2005-08-02 Thread Barry Schwarz
I'm not a hardware expert but my understanding is that a 3490 will read 18 track (3480) with no problem. It will not ever write 18 track, only 36 track. Sylvia Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Hi all, Does anyone out there know how to gen a 3490-F11 on an OS/390 R10 system so that it will read

Re: Good News For a Change

2005-07-27 Thread Barry Schwarz
IBM still supports a lot of the old hardware, even if the price for doing so increases each year. There are other sources of support. Unsupported is not the right adjective and is just a way to increase fud. If I spend a couple of million on a capital project, I have every right to expect it

Re: CA-1: blocked TMC / Audit?

2005-07-25 Thread Barry Schwarz
I run some SAS and ICETOOL scripts against the TMC and blocking helped performance significantly. Bielskie, Stephen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:I am about to do the same. However, don't expect too much of a performance improvement, just a reduction in the amount of space needed for each record.

Re: CA-1: blocked TMC / Audit?

2005-07-25 Thread Barry Schwarz
I converted to blocked in 5.2 over a year ago without any problems. The change to R11 was also pretty transparent. Tim Hare [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:I'm getting around to the CA-1 5.2 = 11 migration. We've always run with the TMC unblocked (worked for us, ain't broke don't fix it, etc.) but

Re: Reformatting an SMP/E Listing

2005-06-30 Thread Barry Schwarz
For anyone interested, and for the archives, here is how Frank solved my problem: //S1 EXEC PGM=ICETOOL //TOOLMSG DD SYSOUT=* //DFSMSG DD SYSOUT=* //IN DD DSN=... input file //T1 DD DSN=T1,UNIT=SYSDA,SPACE=(CYL,(5,5)),DISP=(,PASS) //OUT DD SYSOUT=* //TOOLIN DD * COPY FROM(IN) TO(T1)

Re: Couple of questions on JES2 output handling

2005-06-30 Thread Barry Schwarz
I don't know of any standard interface that will control access to output classes. I had a similar issue with job classes and eventually added profiles of the form JOBCLASS.X to the JESJOBS class and issued RACROUTE authorization requests in IEFUJV. For output classes I would recommend

Re: SDSF Question - Selection of members to be displayed in the diffe rent panels

2005-06-30 Thread Barry Schwarz
In the SDSF panel of interest, issue SET DISPLAY ON. This will show you all the parameters limiting the selection of jobs. From there you should be able to figure out which one is suppressing the data you want. Stocker, Herman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:HI, In SDSF I have set as: PREFIX=*

Re: HSM statistics

2005-06-29 Thread Barry Schwarz
If the step executed, how could the steplib not be opened? Mark Zelden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:snip Invovling the RACF people to make a rule just to find out who is recalling a data set is easier said than done. Much easier to look at a log (that's what they're for). Had to do this here recently

Re: GUI Install Procedure for ISV Mainframe Software

2005-06-24 Thread Barry Schwarz
As of the 2004 tape I received from them, the answer is emphatically NO! Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:The details are different, but there have been discussions before on the lack of SMP competence at specific vendors. Has CA[1] finally cleaned up its act? [1] Not that

Re: How to know the z/OS version by TSO login.

2005-06-22 Thread Barry Schwarz
In ISPF 6, issue the command ISPVCALL STATUS Bo Xie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Hi, Someone told me to type in D IPLINFO in master console to know the z/OS version. But I can not touch the master console and get the following errors by TSO login: - READY D IPLINFO IKJ56500I COMMAND D

Re: NO DATA SETS AUTHORIZED in SDSF?

2005-06-17 Thread Barry Schwarz
I believe I have seen this message when there is no output in the sysout, especially if the job is still running. Charles Mills [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:What is NO DATA SETS AUTHORIZED in the upper right hand corner of SDSF likely to be caused by? I've got a job that runs with MSGCLASS=H where

Re: SMS, Changing the ACDS SCDS Datasets.

2005-05-23 Thread Barry Schwarz
You do all the work in the SCDS. The system handles the ACDS when you activate the SCDS. At my site, we use the following steps Use IDCAMS to allocate a new test SCDS and copy the current production SCDS into it. Use ISMF to make updates to this new SCDS. Use ISMF to test