Re: SVC Screening (was Mixing Auth and Non-Auth Modules)

2011-04-26 Thread John McKown
The crazy idea this inspires in me is to use it to make a Linux ABI capture in order to run Linux applications under z/OS. In that case, the code could run in normal, non-priviliged mode. The only obvious issue is that Linux apps are ASCII based. On Apr 26, 2011 6:59 AM, "Peter Relson" wrote: >>Cu

Re: Mixing Auth and Non-Auth Modules

2011-04-24 Thread John McKown
w and more complicated. -- John McKown Maranatha! <>< On Apr 24, 2011 8:14 PM, "john gilmore" wrote: > I agree with Edward Jaffe---He put the matter more politely---that botching an SVC does not usually have the disastrous systemic consequences that botching a PC-PR construc

Re: Mixing Auth and Non-Auth Modules

2011-04-22 Thread John McKown
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Re: Mixing Auth and Non-Auth Modules

2011-04-22 Thread John McKown
C (which is defined not in the instruction itself, but in the table) and a PSW to use. It sets up the environment and goes to the specified code (which may be in the current address space, the LPA, or could even cause execution of code residing in an entirely different address space

Re: Mixing Auth and Non-Auth Modules

2011-04-22 Thread John McKown
That is a very bad idea. It would be better to make the RACF functions in the SVC itself. Perhaps doing a validation before by checking a FACILITY profile. On Apr 22, 2011 11:28 AM, "Emily A. Rambo" wrote: > If there's no way to get what you need without using the functions that IBM > requires be

Re: CPU utilization/forecasting

2011-04-16 Thread John McKown
orbid they should need to learn something new. Or do something other than what the Microsoft rep tells them to do. Hum, reminds me of the "glory days" of the past when IBM ruled and management obeyed. "The more things change. The more they stay the same." -- John McKown Marana

Re: Submit a series of jobs in order after the previous has completed

2011-04-14 Thread John McKown
Have the last step of a job submit the next one. Similar to: //SUBMIT EXEC PGM=IEBGENER,COND=... //SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=* //SYSIN DD DUMMY //SYSUT2 DD SYSOUT=(*,INTRDR) //SYSUT1 DD ...dsn with next job's JCL On Apr 14, 2011 7:30 PM, "Patrick Welsh" wrote: > Hi Mainframe Gurus, > > Perhaps you can h

Re: moving extends for allocated VSAM linear data set

2011-04-12 Thread John McKown
on (reboot, IPL, whatever you call it.) The closest that I'm personally aware of is Linux. With the new ksplice, it is even possible to patch a running kernel. -- John McKown Maranatha! <>< -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe

Re: COBOL abend debug question with AbendAid/CICS dump

2011-04-08 Thread John McKown
Correct. All I can do is help by assisting the programmers with diagnostics such as a trace back. On Apr 8, 2011 9:08 PM, "Ted MacNEIL" wrote: >>without a lot of >> political pull that I >> don't have. > > In other words: even if you know how to fix it, you may not? > Sent wirelessly from my Black

Re: Processing CICS SMF type 110 records

2011-03-27 Thread John McKown
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Re: EDC5111I Permission denied

2011-03-26 Thread John McKown
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Re: COBOL calling C functions, run program under ispf and z/OS UNIX

2011-03-21 Thread John McKown
#x27;/dev/fd/1' The do your method with the chmod 1755 to a filename in the current directory which is the same as the program name in the PDS and export the name of the PDS in STEPLIB. But this wouldn't work in general, like for HLASM programs. -- John McKown ---

Re: my father passed away

2011-03-19 Thread John McKown
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Re: fopen and CICS

2011-03-19 Thread John McKown
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Re: creating mainframe bookmanager from pdf documents???

2011-03-18 Thread John McKown
pdftohtml did a decent job of creating a Web page from a PDF file. -- 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 ht

Re: BLKSIZE=10

2011-03-01 Thread John McKown
What DATACLAS is being assigned? Is it the same DATACLAS name as in the past? Has the DATACLAS definition been changed to include BLKSIZE=10? -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists..

Re: HFS file questions

2011-02-12 Thread John McKown
his one and the Marist VM list - > through Share and zNextGen. Are you suggesting that I leave this list and go > there? > > > > Linda -- John McKown Maranatha! <>< -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / s

Re: HFS file questions

2011-02-12 Thread John McKown
ur kids, take a walk, or stare at your > screen saver for a while. You'll live longer. > > Have a nice weekend everyone. > > -- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to li

Re: STCK vs TIMUSED

2011-02-02 Thread John McKown
. TIMEUSED has > been > counting only since your unit of work started. > -- John McKown Maranatha! <>< -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu

Re: Ñ(X'69') character and SYSLOG display

2011-02-01 Thread John McKown
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Re: Second Reference to Temporary Data Set Fails

2011-01-28 Thread John McKown
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Re: TapeCopy IBM

2011-01-13 Thread John McKown
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Re: speculation: z/OS "enhancments"

2011-01-12 Thread John McKown
dless of COND or IF. > > -- gil > > -- > 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.u

Re: CA-OPS/MVS question: OPSCAWTO

2011-01-06 Thread John McKown
On Thu, 6 Jan 2011 15:12:01 +0200, גדי בן אבי wrote: >Hi, > >We implemented OPSCAWTO a while back. >There is a started task named ENFSNPM that gets the parameters from OPSCAWTO and sends it out to the network. >The started task uses (by default) a member in the CA-CCS PPOPTION library call

Re: REXX, the new Cobol ?

2011-01-06 Thread John McKown
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Re: Reading IBM Manuals on the Kindle DX (eBook)

2011-01-05 Thread John McKown
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Re: How to display main storage map ?

2010-12-31 Thread John McKown
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Re: sequential dataset

2010-12-29 Thread John McKown
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Re: Programmer Charged with thieft (maybe off topic)

2010-12-28 Thread John McKown
minutes then process > trades for 15 minutes around the clock. > > Also, I would like to see that you can't buy a commodity without > taking delivery. They drove the crude prices up to $100 a barrel in > 2008 despite oil tankers unable to load due to the storage tanks being &

Re: Retricting jobs that use a certain DDNAME, certain DSNAME to a groups of classes

2010-12-28 Thread John McKown
t (or a scanned version > thereof), affixed with the company's seal. > > -- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO >

Re: tar limitation preventing SAS install

2010-12-26 Thread John McKown
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Re: BBQs - I wish

2010-12-26 Thread John McKown
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Re: Programmer Charged with thieft (maybe off topic)

2010-12-26 Thread John McKown
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Re: curiousity question: in-house doc

2010-12-22 Thread John McKown
i-virus software is up to date. > > > > > -- > 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 h

Re: curiousity question: in-house doc

2010-12-22 Thread John McKown
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curiousity question: in-house doc

2010-12-21 Thread John McKown
e. But DocBook supposed to be usable to create UNIX "man" pages, HTML pages, XHTML pages, PDF files and other outputs. I just can't figure it out. And talk about very weird error messages! -- John McKown Maranatha! <>< --

ftp'ing SYSOUT - binary data?

2010-12-13 Thread John McKown
n't know if a UI of something that basic is really copyright-able. I guess I should ask them for permission. But what if they say "No"? -- John McKown Maranatha! <>< -- 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

Re: Product Announcement Policy

2010-12-12 Thread John McKown
unprofessional. > > But not as inappropriate and unprofessional as posting the ad with the > comment 'CA Mainframe Chorus. Yes this is "an ad" so please delete if > you are not interested,' w

Re: Help with S237-04 on Tape

2010-12-12 Thread John McKown
ks for any input. > > Lizette > > -- > 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.e

Re: [AD] CA Technologies Delivers Ground-Breaking CA Mainframe Chorus

2010-12-08 Thread John McKown
Just for "fun", I looked at this exchange very carefully. The impolite reply was sent __PRIVATELY__ to the OP. She then replied PUBLICLY, including his private insults. In my opinion, not a proper thing to do either. -- J

Re: logrec !!!

2010-12-07 Thread John McKown
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Re: Philosophy: curiousity question

2010-12-06 Thread John McKown
d have hopefully gotten the point across. > > -- > 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://bam

Re: Philosophy: curiousity question

2010-12-04 Thread John McKown
in a DR scenario. There would also have > to be some support to take a collection of separate related articles and > assemble them into a hard copy manual, such as might be required by > Operations to restart the computer center after a complete power down > when no servers are

Philosophy: curiousity question

2010-12-04 Thread John McKown
x application. And nobody else likes or uses a Linux desktop. Yes, I will have some cheese with that whine. -- John McKown Maranatha! <>< -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email

Re: "FOTS1346 Permission denied, please try again"

2010-11-30 Thread John McKown
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Re: A New Threat for password hacking

2010-11-29 Thread John McKown
ckily, we were able to kill most of this stuff with HIPAA requirements. And the "dangling of multi-million dollar penalities" should this be used to crack our system. -- John McKown Maranatha! <>< -- For IBM-MAIN

Re: Naspa - Technical Support magazine

2010-11-29 Thread John McKown
red in June last > year. Looking at the Naspa web-site it doesn't mention it as one of the > membership benefits. I always thought it was a pretty good magazine so I > thought it a pity that it stopped. > > Bye for now, > J

Re: A New Threat for password hacking

2010-11-28 Thread John McKown
encryption? > > It would be peculiarly pointless to store fewer bits of the encrypted > password than are used in the encrypting key. > > -- gil > > -- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instruct

discussion idea: IEFDB401 dynalloc exit

2010-11-26 Thread John McKown
tion of a sequential dataset to a UNIX file. Maybe I'd like do to the same for INPUT as well as output? But then I have problems with LRECL, RECFM, and other DCB parameters. Which could also bite me with an OUTPUT dataset too, I guess. Well, fe

Re: Regular Expressions (was: REXX "address" environments)

2010-11-25 Thread John McKown
sible to write one myself in REXX (no C compiler here), but I really want it integrated with the FIND, CHANGE, RFIND, and RCHANGE commands. -- John McKown Maranatha! <>< -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive acce

My lost Cobol years: Integrating legacy management • The Register

2010-11-25 Thread John McKown
OK, it's a holiday here in the States. But this was a fairly nice, short, reasonable take on reality. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/11/24/legacy_management/ -- John McKown Maranatha! <>< -- For IBM-

Re: IBM Link has been corrected for COMMENT INVALID issue

2010-11-24 Thread John McKown
In a UNIX based system, a badly coded system could be subject to an injection attack if a $ is not properly escaped. You could possibly reference an environment variable. -- John McKown Maranatha! <>< Sent from my Vibrant Android phone. On Nov 24, 2010 10:44 AM, "Chase, John&quo

Re: REXX "address" environments

2010-11-20 Thread John McKown
ot;Add", "FIND" instead of > "LOCATE", and the like. It's always surprised me that XEDIT and SPF > EDIT were so similar yet had so many of these (ultimately) trivial > differences. > > Of course, in XEDIT you can put

Re: reusing a TCB?

2010-11-20 Thread John McKown
here has to be a way, as CICS uses pooled TCBs all the time. > > Ken Moore > > -- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INF

Re: REXX "address" environments

2010-11-20 Thread John McKown
; > > >> > > -- > 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/ib

Re: REXX "address" environments

2010-11-19 Thread John McKown
ing akin to: put somefile if ftprc <> 250 then do; transfer failed exit 16 done /* or od or fi or ??? */ -- John McKown Maranatha! <>< -- 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

Re: REXX "address" environments

2010-11-18 Thread John McKown
Gil, Thanks for the URL. And for letting me down easy. That API looks complete to me. Perhaps now quite as simple as I was envisioning, but complete enough to use as-is without me messing it up. -- John McKown -- For IBM-MAIN

Re: download 1.12 from internet

2010-11-18 Thread John McKown
structions, > > 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 > > > > -- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive acce

Re: Multistep external writer

2010-11-15 Thread John McKown
ird enough to be interesting to me. Too bad there is not a way to assign a form to SYSLOG. -- John McKown Maranatha! <>< -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.

Re: Unknown program interrupt

2010-11-13 Thread John McKown
--- > 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 -- John McKown Maranatha! <>< ---

Re: Loop detection by program

2010-11-12 Thread John McKown
I think I resemble that remark. In a perfect world, I'd work on GPL'ed software. -- John McKown Maranatha! <>< Sent from my Vibrant Android phone. On Nov 12, 2010 5:55 PM, "Kirk Wolf" wrote: On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 3:09 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: > In

Re: Loop detection by program

2010-11-12 Thread John McKown
t; Kirk Wolf Hey! I resemble that remark! Actually, if I were younger and not in need of the medical support, I'd love to have a lower paying job doing work with GPL'ed software. Anyway, if __I__ make a virus, it would "infect" Windows PC with Lin

Re: Assembler Comments

2010-11-12 Thread John McKown
Likely buried in the depths of history . In cases where I want to "comment out" a large macro call, I use AGO to "branch around" the macro or other statements. -- John McKown Maranatha! <>< -- For IB

Re: Need to copy files from etc to etc

2010-11-12 Thread John McKown
m. It saves a lot of work and is a lot less error > prone. > I've been thinking of doing this. Say to /usr/local/ssh . /usr/local is used a lot on Linux, so it is my first thought for z/OS UNIX as well. -- John McKown Maranatha! <>< -

Re: Need to copy files from etc to etc

2010-11-11 Thread John McKown
On Thu, 2010-11-11 at 21:24 -0600, Roger Lowe wrote: > On Thu, 11 Nov 2010 06:29:04 -0600, John McKown wrote: > > >On Wed, 2010-11-10 at 21:59 -0600, Roger Lowe wrote: > >> John, > >>You could also try 'copytree' > >> > >> Roge

Re: File Permissions Question

2010-11-11 Thread John McKown
es scripting so that it can do things after it successfully receives/sends a file. On Linux, you could use inotify or ProFTPD to do something similar. -- John McKown Maranatha! <>< -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff /

Re: Need to copy files from etc to etc

2010-11-11 Thread John McKown
? I, personally, prefer to use "pax". It is a bit more complicated, but it is "standard". Each to his own, of course. -- John McKown Maranatha! <>< -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access i

Re: Need to copy files from etc to etc

2010-11-10 Thread John McKown
." copy and press ENTER. This brings up another ISPF dialog box where the destination is the same as the source. Remove the leading "/oldroot" so that you'd see something like: /etc/ssh/the.name.of.the.file.to.copy Press ENTER. Rinse, repeat as necess

Re: Need to copy files from etc to etc

2010-11-10 Thread John McKown
On Wed, 2010-11-10 at 17:51 -0600, John McKown wrote: > On Wed, 2010-11-10 at 15:44 -0800, John Norgauer wrote: > > I need to copy some files from my 1.9 z/os etc/ssh to another etc/ssh in > > my 1.11 z/os. > > > > Does anyone have a sample for doing this? > >

Re: Need to copy files from etc to etc

2010-11-10 Thread John McKown
x -rvw ~/ssh19.pax ssh exit telnet zos111 ftp zos19 bin get ssh19.pax quit pax rw ssh19.pax cd ssh #use cp to copy the files I need cd /etc/ssh #use chmod and chow to change the mode and owner of the files I copied. cd ~/ssh rm -rf *

Re: Can anyone recommend a replacement for SAR or CA-View Spool?

2010-11-09 Thread John McKown
which works using the SDSF REXX interface. It's worth what you pay for it! > -- John McKown Maranatha! <>< -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu wi

Re: Message BPXF135E RETURN CODE 00000079, REASON CODE 055B005C

2010-11-09 Thread John McKown
the root. > > Which is documented here: http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/BPXZA8B0/2.0 where everybody should "just know" to look, right? . 0079 is EINVAL. Which mea

Re: 8 character dataset nodes

2010-11-09 Thread John McKown
Only ICF catalogs are still supported. They are basically a KSDS. And they don't use the node structure at all. But many other things, such as RACF and parsers have that 8 character assumption built in to them. -- John McKown Maranatha! <>< Sent from my Vibrant Android phone. On No

Re: Why are TSO IDs limited to 7 characters

2010-11-08 Thread John McKown
7;s constructed as consecutive numbers: #123456. > > And automatically substitute with the when needed (jobnames etc.). > > I am not a number! I am a free man! > Or at least reasonably priced. -- John McKown Maranatha! <>< -

Re: SV: Why are TSO IDs limited to 7 characters

2010-11-08 Thread John McKown
would also be very expense and disruptive. -- John McKown Maranatha! <>< Sent from my Vibrant Android phone. On Nov 8, 2010 8:19 AM, "Thomas Berg" wrote: > -Ursprungligt meddelande- > Från: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] För > Clark

Re: Fast way of changing time - CBT File 639

2010-11-07 Thread John McKown
On Sun, 2010-11-07 at 15:12 -0600, Paul Gilmartin wrote: > On Sun, 7 Nov 2010 14:16:45 -0600, John McKown wrote: > > > Not like any other UNIX system. z/OS converts timestamps incorrectly > for a few weeks in each year prior to 2006 (in the US); other UNIX > systems get it r

Re: Fast way of changing time - CBT File 639

2010-11-07 Thread John McKown
money in terms of development and support. And z/OS UNIX does implement it via the TZ environment variable, just like any other UNIX system. So only legacy is left out in the cold. Or to be implemented via a high cost solution: STP or ETR timers. -- John

Re: Rexx question - Dynamic generation of variables?

2010-11-07 Thread John McKown
haunting me, 35 years later. Wish I could afford Dignus C & ASM or Tachyon Workbench (ASM only). I just can't. 'Nuff said or I'd say too much. -- John McKown Maranatha! <>< -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / sign

Re: Rexx question - Dynamic generation of variables?

2010-11-06 Thread John McKown
On Sat, 2010-11-06 at 18:26 -0500, Paul Gilmartin wrote: > On Sat, 6 Nov 2010 16:58:47 -0500, John McKown wrote: > > > >I think of a REXX stem variable the same way that I do an Perl hash. Or > >more like a value associated with a "key" where the key is an arbitrary

Re: Rexx question - Dynamic generation of variables?

2010-11-06 Thread John McKown
ble the same way that I do an Perl hash. Or more like a value associated with a "key" where the key is an arbitrary value. And a stem.var1.var2 is like a hash of a hash in Perl. -- John McKown Maranatha! <>< -- For I

Re: Why are TSO IDs limited to 7 characters

2010-11-05 Thread John McKown
On Fri, 2010-11-05 at 21:00 -0400, Cheryl Walker wrote: > For anybody who is interested, there has been a SHARE requirement to > increase TSO Ids to 8 characters for 20 years. Because IBM responded > and assigned it to 'Long Range Consideration', it's been sitting there > neglected. The SHARE MVS

Re: Why are TSO IDs limited to 7 characters

2010-11-05 Thread John McKown
2260 data streams to be sent to and from 3720s. Weird. I loved the shutdown command: F OLTP,SAY GOODNIGHT, DICK! > -- John McKown Maranatha! <>< -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send

Re: QDIO question

2010-11-04 Thread John McKown
If you look at the Linux source code for z, you'd find that SIGA is an undocumented z instruction. -- John McKown Maranatha! <>< Sent from my Vibrant Android phone. On Nov 4, 2010 4:04 PM, "John Blythe Reid" wrote: Thanks a lot, Bill. That was the implication o

COBOL TGT problem

2010-11-04 Thread John McKown
e MSSCTIO called from Easytrieve vs. the call from LISAUDP. This seems wrong to me. The Easytrieve has PARM ENVIRONMENT COBOL in it, which I thought would make the MSSCTIO have a single TGT. Any ideas? -- John McKown Maranatha! <>< Sent from my Vib

Re: LDAP

2010-11-01 Thread John McKown
Does the data need to be real-time? If not, have you considered using IRRDBU00 to unload the RACF database to a sequential file? -- John McKown Maranatha! <>< Sent from my Vibrant Android phone. On Nov 1, 2010 7:44 AM, "Ron Wells" wrote: Looking for install help on LDAP(

Re: PDSE versus PDS

2010-10-25 Thread John McKown
t; > Clark Morris Clark, I think you'd love parts of how the "i" (aka AS/400) works. It is truly fascinating! All of disk is basically just one big page space. Everything is an object of some sort. -- John McKown Maranatha! <>< ---

Re: PDSE versus PDS

2010-10-25 Thread John McKown
> > > OK, I'll bite. What code of *yours* needs to run at IPL-time, let > > alone also needs to be in a PDSE? > ... > -- John McKown Maranatha! <>< -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive

Re: Design question for a UNIX facility similar to TSO SEND command

2010-10-25 Thread John McKown
I guess that there is little interest in this. I got something working. I use CA-OPS/MVS to trap the SEND command. I use that to issue a new command, SENDUNIX. The SENDUNIX command is also implemented as a CA-OPS/MVS command rule. It sends the entire command string to a UNIX shell script, written i

Design question for a UNIX facility similar to TSO SEND command

2010-10-24 Thread John McKown
code for free. I don't mind people charging to support my code. I do mind people taking my code, for free, and not giving back. But other good people can and do disagree with me. Thank you for your thoughts. Even to the people who will say "You're a nut!" -- John McKown Maran

Re: DFDSS VSAM logical restore?

2010-10-24 Thread John McKown
owered up and attached (I could be wrong on this but I do not think so. > Ed > Ah. Good point. In our case, for this function, the tape is virtual tape. For off-site storage, we use OpenTech's VDR to copy the vir

Re: When will MVS be able to use cheap dasd

2010-10-23 Thread John McKown
ave" generation. -- John McKown Maranatha! <>< Sent from my Vibrant Android phone. On Oct 23, 2010 12:35 PM, "Clark Morris" wrote: On 23 Oct 2010 05:42:47 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: >gerh...@valley.net (Gerhard Pos... Thus my familiar rant about customer

Re: How do I determine Enterprise COBOL for z/OS release level from outside COBOL or LE environment?

2010-10-23 Thread John McKown
Mike, I know that we have 2 releases of COBOL installed. Do you want the one on the LNKLST? What if it is not on the LNKLST at all? -- John McKown Maranatha! <>< Sent from my Vibrant Android phone. On Oct 23, 2010 11:27 AM, "Mike Shaw" wrote: On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 7:43 PM,

Re: PDSE versus PDS

2010-10-22 Thread John McKown
wner, why would there be a problem? I will say that I, personally, would prefer to separate the directories too. But that would be for manageability, not security. -- John McKown Maranatha! <>< -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe /

Re: SPAM-LOW: Re: CA-OPS/MVS to IBM's System Automation?

2010-10-22 Thread John McKown
The reason to convert would be money. We would be forced to do the conversion in house, or not at all. -- John McKown Maranatha! <>< Sent from my Vibrant Android phone. On Oct 22, 2010 6:24 AM, "Marc Heimlich" wrote: SFI (www.streamfoundry.com) has done 3 TSA migrations in

Re: DFDSS VSAM logical restore?

2010-10-21 Thread John McKown
us. My boss has been trying hard to drive our costs down because that helps save jobs. -- John McKown Maranatha! <>< -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu

Re: DFDSS VSAM logical restore?

2010-10-21 Thread John McKown
But not as easy due to the required DELETE / DEFINE. It __must__ be easy! -- John McKown Maranatha! <>< Sent from my Vibrant Android phone. On Oct 21, 2010 1:08 PM, "Clark Morris" wrote: On 21 Oct 2010 03:51:00 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: >On Thu, 2

Re: DFDSS VSAM logical restore?

2010-10-21 Thread John McKown
gt; anything... > > > > Just a thought > > > > MKB Unfortunately, I need a reorg which does a dump / restore because for some files, we don't have enough DASD for two simultaneous cop

Re: DFDSS VSAM logical restore?

2010-10-20 Thread John McKown
ng CA-FAVER to reduce software cost. One doesn't save money by replacing a Ford with a Lexus! -- John McKown Maranatha! <>< -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...

Re: DFDSS VSAM logical restore?

2010-10-20 Thread John McKown
on-call cell phone and get my own. I did. I went wild and got the "everything you can eat" plan with an Android. -- John McKown Maranatha! <>< -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, se

Re: DFDSS VSAM logical restore?

2010-10-20 Thread John McKown
Thanks, Alan. How about IDCAMS EXPORT / IMPORT? We are looking at what it would take to replace CA-FAVER. It is a good product, but we are looking at possible alternatives. IDCAMS is __slow__! -- John McKown Maranatha! <>< Sent from my Vibrant Android phone. On Oct 20, 2010 2:59 PM, &qu

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