CA mainframe install software

2009-12-08 Thread Mark H. Young
This is an old school question. Back in the day when CA (Computer Associates) would send you some of their mainframe software, they also included their own homegrown installation software to use. Anyone remember the name of it? As I recall, it was really bad and almost no one ever used it.

Re: CA mainframe install software

2009-12-08 Thread Mark H. Young
Thank you all for the CA-Activator (Aggrivator) responses. I'm wondering if Activator was the basis for CA-Mainframe 2.0 ?? Just heard about CA-Mainframe 2.0 from my boss, so I know nothing at this point so far. TTFN, Mark

DATA1 -- 5771-ADA Print Product ???

2008-03-05 Thread Mark H. Young
Does anyone still have laying around somewhere the DATA1 print product, originally announced by IBM in 1984, and I think still available from IBM marketing? I am specifically looking for the FONT *d224*; if that's in your FONTLIB, and what the complete member name is? THANX and TTFN, Mark

Re: Need TSO ISPF short cut commands

2008-02-15 Thread Mark H. Young
On Fri, 15 Feb 2008 22:52:26 +0800, Sivakumar, Manikandan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I would appreciate if you provide me some shortcut commands for TSO amp; ISPF and its tips. Thanks in advance. J Regards, Mani Ahem...could you be a teensie-weensie little more specific, ay?! What would

Re: SYSLOG/OPERLOG Time Stamps

2008-02-15 Thread Mark H. Young
On Fri, 15 Feb 2008 11:39:03 -0500, Lizette Koehler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a fairly active system. Stuff going on all the time. But when I look in my SYSLOG/OPERLOG I notice that I do not see a time stamp for several minutes. If this system was not active, I could understand the

Re: Need Urgent Help...Sorry for this post.

2008-02-15 Thread Mark H. Young
On Fri, 15 Feb 2008 14:15:39 -0500, Richards, Robert B. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Put your resume on Monster and definitely checkout SPCI (www.spci.net) for starters. Good Luck! I was where you are 4 months ago. Bob YES, definitely check out and call or email the folks at SPCI. I can recommend

FONT of unknown origin ?

2008-02-14 Thread Mark H. Young
I read thru the discussion of FONTs from January and looked at some of the referenced websites without any success in answering my NEXT question. Does this FONT look familiar to anyone?? A0556C I've looked in all my fontlibs on the mainframe, internet, PSF etc. doc, to NO avail. Anybody

Re: FONT of unknown origin ?

2008-02-14 Thread Mark H. Young
On Thu, 14 Feb 2008 10:33:40 -0600, Mark H. Young [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I read thru the discussion of FONTs from January and looked at some of the referenced websites without any success in answering my NEXT question. Does this FONT look familiar to anyone?? A0556C I've looked in all my

Re: FONT of unknown origin ?

2008-02-14 Thread Mark H. Young
On Thu, 14 Feb 2008 15:19:42 -0500, Brian Fitzgibbon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mark, Might it be a Point 6 Times New Roman for PDF - Mark H. Young wrote: I read thru the discussion of FONTs from January and looked at some of the referenced websites without any success in answering my NEXT

Re: Job ad for z/OS systems programmer trainee

2008-01-31 Thread Mark H. Young
On Wed, 30 Jan 2008 14:06:23 -0500, Don Leahy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 30, 2008 11:51 AM, Mark H. Young [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've read ALL the responses on this topic. In reading the job posting, the first thing that struck me was the VERY FIRST line: The purpose of the Z/OS

Re: SPAM: How to suppress some informational VTAM messages ?

2008-01-30 Thread Mark H. Young
On Tue, 29 Jan 2008 22:17:09 -0600, Rick Fochtman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --snip-- I'm looking for the best way to suppress some informational VTAM messages in syslog. Is there anybody want to share this to me ? unsnip-- Check

Re: Job ad for z/OS systems programmer trainee

2008-01-30 Thread Mark H. Young
On Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:55:40 -0500, Don Leahy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Something interesting appeared in my Inbox yesterday. It's from the Royal Bank of Canada https://careers.peopleclick.com/careerscp/client_rbc/external/en- us/gateway.do?

Re: Re-hosting IMB-MAIN (was RE: z890 2086-160 w/ 2 IFLs on eBay)

2008-01-18 Thread Mark H. Young
On Fri, 18 Jan 2008 14:53:10 -0600, tony babonas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Continuing to blaspheme, my theory is that zOS should be able to host such an application, labor being provided by a collective of experienced sysprogs. We would self-moderate(after all it's our DASD), self-fund,

Re: New Mainframes coming in February

2008-01-18 Thread Mark H. Young
On Fri, 18 Jan 2008 13:56:33 -0500, Ken Porowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From IBM's 4Q 2007 Earnings announcement http://www.ibm.com/investor/4q07/presentation/4q07prepared.pdf Mark Loughridge, IBM's Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Now, this marks the tenth quarter of a

Re: IEFACTRT exit

2008-01-18 Thread Mark H. Young
On Fri, 18 Jan 2008 10:44:55 -0500, O'Connor, Ruth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello We have an intermittent problem with IEFACTRT and are wondering if anyone else has ever seen this phenomenon. We're running z/OS 1.7 with Top Secret 9.0 but the problem goes back at least several years and

Re: PSF Advanced Function Printer

2008-01-17 Thread Mark H. Young
On Thu, 10 Jan 2008 15:13:26 -0600, Michael Saraco [EMAIL PROTECTED] CONSULTING.COM wrote: Michael, THANX for the JCL. I sent you a private e-mail from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] asking for some of your source code defs from PROD.PRINT.LIB. I sent that on Tue 1/15. Hope you got it. So, can I get

PSF Advanced Function Printer

2008-01-10 Thread Mark H. Young
Being the old gray beard dinosaur that I am.old school was to code up an FCB in assembler with a CSECT and several DC's and assemble link it to IMAGELIB. Now with an AFP using PSF, it's different. Is there a similar process with PSF to code up the printer / page / document / form defs

RACF Training ??

2008-01-03 Thread Mark H. Young
Can anyone recommend a training class for IBM's RACF ?! I'm an old salt SysProg with an ACF2 background that hasn't been utilized in over a dozen or more years. Having most recently come from a shop with Top Secret, but never having been involved with THAT security myself. THANX in advance.

Re: For the History buff's an IBM 5150 pc

2008-01-03 Thread Mark H. Young
On Wed, 2 Jan 2008 11:56:39 -0800, Schwarz, Barry A [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My guess here is that the *term* PC (personal computer) is generally attributed to IBM's first in 1981. The old PC vs. Apple comparison, right?! So the website and author may be splitting hairs to a degree. But in

Re: For the History buff's an IBM 5150 pc

2008-01-03 Thread Mark H. Young
On Thu, 3 Jan 2008 12:12:51 EST, Ed Finnell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 1/3/2008 11:02:47 A.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: But it was a copy of the STAR from PARC??? Well,XEROX but not PARC! _http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xerox_Star_

PL/S ??

2007-10-31 Thread Mark H. Young
Does a copy of PL/S from IBM exist anywhere in the public domain? Or would there be somewhere on a z/OS mainframe system I could find a sample of the code? This is what I found on Wikipedia: PL/S, short for Programming Language/Systems, is a machine-oriented programming language based on

SYSLOGx1 Task Name in z/OS 1.7

2007-10-17 Thread Mark H. Young
Re: Subject: Re: RACF quirk. From: Chase, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2007 11:25:47 -0500 The above thread is similar to my problem. Whereby at IPL z/OS starts S SYSLOGP (P = name of LPAR), and that task starts, but

Re: Tape Question

2007-09-20 Thread Mark H. Young
On Thu, 20 Sep 2007 09:58:46 EDT, Ed Finnell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 9/20/2007 8:48:46 A.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: treating it as an unlabeled (external) tape. He is trying to restore the tape and we keep getting 813-04 errors. We're open to

Re: JES2 converter via /*JOBPARM SYSAFF=xxxx

2007-08-29 Thread Mark H. Young
On Tue, 28 Aug 2007 13:23:43 -0700, Edward Jaffe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mark H. Young wrote: OK, then how do I submit a batch job on system with z/OS 1.4 and have it execute on system with z/OS 1.7 in that MAS, and have the job resolve the dataset names correctly

Re: JES2 converter via /*JOBPARM SYSAFF=xxxx

2007-08-29 Thread Mark H. Young
On Wed, 29 Aug 2007 15:02:27 +, Ted MacNEIL [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (Not that I agree with IBM's design choice here.) This has been discussed many times. IBM's design choice is based on a simple premise: When do you convert the system symbols? On the submitting system? On the converting

JES2 converter via /*JOBPARM SYSAFF=xxxx

2007-08-28 Thread Mark H. Young
In a JES2 MAS (Multi Access SPOOL) environ with two different levels of z/OS running, if you submit a batch job on system , but want it to go thru conversion on system (for correct system symbol resolution), AND for execution on system , you would code a: /*JOBPARM SYSAFF=

Re: JES2 converter via /*JOBPARM SYSAFF=xxxx

2007-08-28 Thread Mark H. Young
On Tue, 28 Aug 2007 20:01:37 +, Ted MacNEIL [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: want it to go thru conversion on system (for correct system symbol resolution), AND for execution on system , you would code a: /*JOBPARM SYSAFF= correct? No. Symbol resolution is not supported for batch JCL.

Re: [OT] Not exactly the best Friday off topic post

2007-08-24 Thread Mark H. Young
On Fri, 24 Aug 2007 15:11:13 -0400, Richards.Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [Posted with Darren's permission. Thank you, Sir!] I just wanted to let my IBM-Main friends know that I will be a free agent again soon. I got caught in a Reduction in Force (RIF) here. Oh well, door closes, window opens.

Re: 4331 weight

2007-08-22 Thread Mark H. Young
On Sat, 18 Aug 2007 23:35:11 -0500, Brian Westerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have several machines now, a 9672 a 4381, a 4341, a 4321, a NAS AS700 a 3081D and a System/3 and a 370/145. I also have a string of 3330's, 3340's, 3350's and 3380's and a 2305 with several replacement parts and

Re: Compuware FileAid vs File Manager, more...

2007-08-22 Thread Mark H. Young
On Fri, 17 Aug 2007 14:13:13 -0500, Katie Thorpe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello! We are considering the viability of switching our Compuware products (Fileaid, Abendaid/XLS, Abendaid/CICS) to IBM replacements. We are a very straightforward mainframe installation with no database involved.

Re: z/OS job market (I could just scream!)

2007-07-26 Thread Mark H. Young
On Thu, 26 Jul 2007 10:54:11 -0600, Jeffrey D. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Original Message- With 1-3 years experience ALREADY on a Help Desk, and the profieciency in MVS etal they are also looking for.sounds like an entry level SysProg job?! But don't the TSA Homeland

Re: XMIT loses the AC(1) attribute

2007-07-26 Thread Mark H. Young
On Thu, 26 Jul 2007 12:12:07 -0400, Pinnacle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just XMITted a load module and it lost the AC(1) attribute. Anybody know if that's a bug or a feature? Regards, Tom Conley You *ARE* using IBM's XMIT (Transmit), right?! The 3270 emulation software you are using to

Re: sysprog demand

2007-07-26 Thread Mark H. Young
On Thu, 26 Jul 2007 10:18:57 +1000, Stephen Mednick ibm- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't know where you are situated at the moment but there always seems ? to be a demand in some of the Asia/Pacific areas, Singapore, Hong Kong etc. Maybe you should learn Chinese. Stephen Mednick Computer

Re: Secure clist

2007-07-26 Thread Mark H. Young
On Wed, 25 Jul 2007 14:17:55 -0500, Anthony Saul Babonas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ummm, so what if someone copies it into their own clist lib, modifies the id check code, then runs it? Been there..had to be there actually. we had an oldie where the original developer went off to other

SDSF z/OS 1.7 Quirk

2007-07-25 Thread Mark H. Young
We just IPL'd our sand box with z/OS 1.7 and are muddling thru. One thing I've noticed though, is in SDSF from the: HQX7720 - SDSF PRIMARY OPTION MENU -- At the bottom of the screen, we have: COMMAND INPUT ===

Re: SDSF z/OS 1.7 Quirk

2007-07-25 Thread Mark H. Young
On Wed, 25 Jul 2007 11:33:53 -0400, Earnie Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mark ... that ISPF quirk ... If you have a ISPF Primary Option of '0', you should be able to correct that. 0 Settings Terminal and user parameters Earnie Allen Senior Systems Programmer MVS Systems Software

Re: SDSF z/OS 1.7 Quirk

2007-07-25 Thread Mark H. Young
On Wed, 25 Jul 2007 10:33:49 -0500, Mark Steely [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From the SDSF command line type in SETTINGS. Then remove the / from the command line at bottom. Thank You YES, that worked just fine. I am a hater of bottom of the page command lines. So the *menu* from the toolbar

Re: SDSF z/OS 1.7 Quirk

2007-07-25 Thread Mark H. Young
On Wed, 25 Jul 2007 11:38:33 -0400, Earnie Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For just such times as that (rare cases where for some reason the command line shows up other than where I expect) .. I have a couple of clists that I store in a system SYSPROC library. If my command line is at the BOTTOM

Re: SDSF z/OS 1.7 Quirk

2007-07-25 Thread Mark H. Young
On Wed, 25 Jul 2007 12:36:04 -0400, Earnie Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yeah.. noticed that ... later. We didn't experience that when we went to 1.7 .. or when going to 1.8 a couple of weeks or so ago. Earnie Allen Senior Systems Programmer MVS Systems Software What I've got to figure out

Re: Secure clist

2007-07-25 Thread Mark H. Young
On Tue, 24 Jul 2007 08:40:09 -0400, Carroll, William [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there any way to secure certain clist from unauthorized use? For example if I don't want applications to get into the wlm, Application, how would I do it? If it can be done. Thanks In Advance. Bill Carroll

Re: Finally get to go from os390 2.10 to zOS 1.8

2007-06-27 Thread Mark H. Young
On Wed, 27 Jun 2007 07:35:00 -0500, Kelman, Tom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Boy, those going from OS/390 V2R10 to z/OS V1R8 are making a pretty big leap. We went from z/OS 1.4 to 1.7 and we're told we couldn't go directly to 1.8. How are you able to skip so many releases? Tom Kelman Commerce

Re: What do you call something like QMF?

2007-06-27 Thread Mark H. Young
On Wed, 27 Jun 2007 14:18:40 +0200, Lindy Mayfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I also ran across something called a CP... So I would have to write all the 3270 stuff myself, or I would use PUTLINE? Lindy A *CP* would be a TSO Command Processor (program), right?! And YES, it might do full-screen

Re: Dynamically Disabling ISV Products

2007-06-27 Thread Mark H. Young
On Wed, 27 Jun 2007 12:30:39 -0500, Rick Fochtman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Might I make so bold as to suggest this: that the list of disabling DD statements be forwarded to Sam and Sam, for inclusion on the CBTTAPE web site? That seems to me to be a good place for general reference, as well as a

Re: IBM PROMOTING the Teaching of COBOL/ZOS in the Colleges (saving frame)

2007-06-26 Thread Mark H. Young
On Tue, 26 Jun 2007 11:39:18 -0400, Robert Pelletier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks Tim and all. As of this morning we will be going from V2R10 to ZOS 1.8 if the proposal is signed. Bob Pelletier Connecticut Student Loan Foundation Rocky Hill, Ct. How soon after signing do you get z/OS 1.8

Re: Testing System Programmer Capabilities

2007-06-25 Thread Mark H. Young
On Mon, 25 Jun 2007 03:29:44 -0500, Eric Sun [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: HI, all Our company recently had been given a task by our client to test the responsiveness and capabilities of their systems programmer in their test environment. Our tasks assigned include to hack their system to

Re: Testing System Programmer Capabilities

2007-06-25 Thread Mark H. Young
On Mon, 25 Jun 2007 15:06:57 -0400, Doug Fuerst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What, pray tell, is the point of this exercise? At 02:30 PM 6/25/2007, you wrote: On Mon, 25 Jun 2007 03:29:44 -0500, Eric Sun [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: HI, all Our company recently had been given a task by our client

Re: Mainframe Datacenter Migration

2007-06-21 Thread Mark H. Young
On Thu, 21 Jun 2007 00:22:32 +0530, Jacky Bright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I was just looking for some document by IBM or any other third party for Mainframe Datacenter Migration. Is there any published document related to this ? What all things to be taken care/steps involved during

Virtual Tape ???

2007-06-20 Thread Mark H. Young
Hiya fellow list servers. I've got a STUMPER for the resident braintrust. Is there something I don't understand about Virtual Tape that I should, or am I just missing it and very DENSE?! A Virtual Tape should (does?) conform to the normal file-format standards as would a *REAL* physical tape,

Re: Virtual Tape ???

2007-06-20 Thread Mark H. Young
On Wed, 20 Jun 2007 07:10:32 -0700, Walter Marguccio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Original Message From: Mark H. Young [EMAIL PROTECTED] So if I had several DFDSS dumps on Virtual Tape (3490) and was copying each of them off to just *ONE* real tape (3590), and stacking each as its

Re: Virtual Tape ???

2007-06-20 Thread Mark H. Young
On Wed, 20 Jun 2007 10:23:28 -0400, John Eells [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mark H. Young wrote: snip So if I had several DFDSS dumps on Virtual Tape (3490) and was copying each of them off to just *ONE* real tape (3590), and stacking each as its own LABEL=(#,SL) etc., using IEBGENER, it should

Re: Time calculation

2007-06-18 Thread Mark H. Young
On Mon, 18 Jun 2007 10:35:59 -0500, Rich Smrcina [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, thanks, John. I'm glad I'm not the only one... :) McKown, John wrote: Uh? What is a TSX? What OS are you running on? z/OS, z/VSE, z/Linux, z/TPF??? -- Well, we can be pretty sure TSX isn't: Toronto Stock

When SMP/E First Introduced?????

2007-06-18 Thread Mark H. Young
OK all you folks on this here LIST. Please put your thinkin' and rememberin' hats on. When did IBM first introduce SMP/E to replace SMP4? SMP/E GA? And when was SMP4 dropped completely (support wise, that is)? Any other history on this topic would be appreciated. Yeah, I'm in reminisce mode

Re: When SMP/E First Introduced?????

2007-06-18 Thread Mark H. Young
On Mon, 18 Jun 2007 14:23:29 EDT, Ed Finnell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 6/18/2007 10:59:51 A.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: to MVS/XA from MVS/370 without a full sysgen required SMP/E for the CSECT delete function. SMP/4 didn't have that capability. I

Re: SMP/E, IEBUPDTE, and SuperC (was: CA-1 install - user exits?)

2007-06-15 Thread Mark H. Young
On Thu, 14 Jun 2007 17:18:04 -0500, Kenneth E Tomiak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 14 Jun 2007 12:55:38 -0500, Ed Gould [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As I heard it, Corporate Executives, not system programmers, told IBM they needed the software installation simplified. ServerPac is the answer. It

Re: SHARE: JES2 Songbook

2007-06-07 Thread Mark H. Young
On Thu, 7 Jun 2007 07:27:19 -0500, Dave Butts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm sure most people here know this answer already, but I am curious. What is the JES2 songbook? Thanks, Dave You lead a sheltered life Dave. Sorry, couldn't resist. For us greybeards or silvertones, etc. it's the

Re: SHARE: JES2 Songbook

2007-06-07 Thread Mark H. Young
On Thu, 7 Jun 2007 07:38:52 -0500, Mark H. Young [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 7 Jun 2007 07:27:19 -0500, Dave Butts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm sure most people here know this answer already, but I am curious. What is the JES2 songbook? Thanks, Dave You lead a sheltered life Dave

Re: Principles of Operation in pop American English?

2007-06-01 Thread Mark H. Young
On Fri, 1 Jun 2007 08:09:37 EDT, IBM Mainframe Discussion List [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A lighten-up topic for Friday which was, like, inspired by conversations with, like, my 8- and 11-year-old grandsons who are currently, like, visiting with us. What if the dry, sometimes boring Principles

Re: What is 'Program Logical Manuals'?

2007-05-31 Thread Mark H. Young
On Thu, 31 May 2007 22:46:54 +0800, Johnny Luo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Last year I got one book titled 'MVS Control Blocks' but haven't studied it yet because it's behind Carmine Cannatello's book on my book-reading schedule... Hope it'll help. ( It's really old.) Johnny YES, you ARE a young

Re: zOS 1.8 and One Byte Console ID

2007-05-29 Thread Mark H. Young
On Tue, 29 May 2007 14:51:48 -0400, Mark Jacobs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We have a vendor product, no longer under support, that issues operator commands when it starts up. When we have a zOS 1.8 system in the sysplex the start commands fail with this message; IEE345I START AUTHORITY INVALID,

Re: ikjefln2

2007-05-25 Thread Mark H. Young
On Thu, 24 May 2007 14:59:52 -0500, Nelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The IKJEFLN2 user exit provided in CBT tape 183 is free shareware; but does anyone know if IBM provides ongoing support of this user exit? I thought IBM doesn't support user exit code. The reason for asking is that we (the

Looking for Synthetic Job Stream JCL, etc.

2007-05-25 Thread Mark H. Young
Back when I was working at the Marriott Corp in the 1980s, a colleague had a set of JCL called the Synthetic Job Stream COPYRIGHT @ 1976,1977 TRUST COMPANY OF GEORGIA. It was a collection of assembler code et al (which got assembled, linked, and executed), along with other IBM utilities

Re: [META] Is WaveMind spamming entire IBM-MAIN readership?

2007-05-24 Thread Mark H. Young
On Wed, 23 May 2007 16:18:48 -0300, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just received two e-mails from WaveMind with the subject Need help on your IBM Mainframe project?, one addressed to an address that I use only for IBM-MAIN. Nothing in the message suggests that it is in

Re: z/OS 1.8 upgrade

2007-05-24 Thread Mark H. Young
On Thu, 24 May 2007 09:56:47 -0400, Fletcher, Kevin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good morning, We upgraded to z/OS 1.8 and have had a few bumps on the way. We have had allocation problems, numerous JES2 issues, and other miscellanous problems. If anyone has upgraded to 1.8 and had problems could

Re: z/OS 1.8 upgrade

2007-05-24 Thread Mark H. Young
On Thu, 24 May 2007 10:06:56 -0500, Mark H. Young [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 24 May 2007 09:56:47 -0400, Fletcher, Kevin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good morning, We upgraded to z/OS 1.8 and have had a few bumps on the way. We have had allocation problems, numerous JES2 issues, and other

Re: Mainframe Empty datasets

2007-05-18 Thread Mark H. Young
On Fri, 18 May 2007 09:37:00 -0600, Howard Brazee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 18 May 2007 06:25:41 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How can I code an assembler program to look at a dataset and determine if it is an empty dataset? The dataset maybe allocated but not open or closed. Why not just

Re: Is there a way to Remove BOOK from PF6 in SDSF?

2007-05-17 Thread Mark H. Young
On Thu, 17 May 2007 13:14:18 -0400, Lizette Koehler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to find a way that is simple and will go from one upgrade to another with little effort. As PF6 is defaulted to BOOK in SDSF, we are a shop that does not have Bookmgr. So I will like to globally replace

Re: Date Time in JCL

2007-05-17 Thread Mark H. Young
On Thu, 17 May 2007 12:30:52 -0500, Mark Steely [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I believe the answer is no and that's what I told the customer, but I will ask any way. Is there a way to dynamically add the current date and time to a dataset through JCL ? We are z/OS V1R7. This *topic* was just

Re: Date Time in JCL

2007-05-17 Thread Mark H. Young
On Thu, 17 May 2007 12:56:13 -0500, McKown, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Steely Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2007 12:31 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Date Time in JCL The answer

Re: RES: Is there a way to Remove BOOK from PF6 in SDSF?

2007-05-17 Thread Mark H. Young
On Thu, 17 May 2007 16:12:48 -0300, ITURIEL DO NASCIMENTO NETO [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The utility is ISPCCONF, but I don't think you could do such change using it. ISPCCONF is a REXX Exec in ISP.SISPEXEC. [DESCRIPTIVE_NAME:= Configuration table main driver] [FUNCTION = Main driver exec

Re: REXX Question

2007-05-16 Thread Mark H. Young
On Wed, 16 May 2007 01:15:08 +0530, Varun Manocha [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, that worked. Thanks! It was driving me crazy... Can you please send me a copy (offline) of your working REXX code? THANX. mhyI -- For

Re: Data Areas Manuals to be dropped

2007-05-15 Thread Mark H. Young
On Tue, 15 May 2007 22:28:49 +1000, Greg Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thompson, Steve wrote: Folks: Just in case some of you weren't around in the mid-80s doing development and the like, IBM decided to go OCO (we will drop the cause of this decision) and the CEO (Ackers - if I remember

Re: Where did the term clip come from?

2007-05-11 Thread Mark H. Young
On Fri, 11 May 2007 07:59:26 -0400, Phil Smith III [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rick Fochtman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was taught theat CLIP meant CHANGE LABEL IN PLACE. IN PLACE as opposed to what? Unmounting the 2314 and using a Sharpie? Whoever taught you that made it up and hadn't thought

Re: Question on DFP

2007-05-11 Thread Mark H. Young
On Fri, 11 May 2007 10:35:13 -0400, John Eells [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How can I tell which version of DFP is on out installation, 1.3 or 1.4 ? We run zOS 1.6, will be running zOA 1.8 The sysprogrammers don't know. snip DFSMSdfp in z/OS R6 is...well...the z/OS R6

Re: Where did the term clip come from?

2007-05-11 Thread Mark H. Young
On Thu, 10 May 2007 10:42:18 -0400, John Eells [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The IBM Jargon Dictionary confirms my recollection that it came from Change Label Information Program. http://www.comlay.net/ibmjarg.pdf -- John Eells z/OS Technical Marketing IBM Poughkeepsie [EMAIL PROTECTED] That IBM

Re: Where did the term clip come from?

2007-05-11 Thread Mark H. Young
On Fri, 11 May 2007 11:50:27 EDT, IBM Mainframe Discussion List [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Then there was DITTO - DOS Inter-file something-or-other Transfer Operations (I think). Bill Fairchild Plainfield, IL Data Interfile Transfer, Testing, and Operations. ?? Sound about right?! ...mhyI

Re: Where did the term clip come from?

2007-05-11 Thread Mark H. Young
On Thu, 10 May 2007 15:30:29 -0500, Rick Fochtman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -snip-- IBM Jargon Dictionary notwithstanding, I recall the title of the program as Change/Create Label Information Program.

Re: Systems Programmer job posting

2007-05-04 Thread Mark H. Young
On Fri, 4 May 2007 07:29:39 -0500, Eric Bielefeld [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have followed this discussion with great interest, as I am still looking for a job. Also, unless a contract is signed that says if they let you go early, that they will pay you for the rest of the contract, there

Re: MVS as a guest OS at D/R

2007-05-04 Thread Mark H. Young
On Fri, 4 May 2007 10:20:28 -0500, Lizette Koehler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am working on setting up our DR constructs and am interested in having one IEASYSM member for both DR and normal. When you say must be duplicate, does that mean that you have the VMUSERID be the same as the LPARNAME?

Re: MVS as a guest OS at D/R

2007-05-04 Thread Mark H. Young
On Fri, 4 May 2007 15:00:06 -0400, Lizette Koehler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes I did get an answer. Too many hands have updated our IEASYM over the years. I need to correct some coding issue for the SYSDEF and SYMDEF statements. But I now feel I have a handle on it, thanks to Tom Chicklon

MVS as a guest OS at D/R

2007-05-02 Thread Mark H. Young
prevented that from happening. Anyone ever experience such a situation? Or can anybody speak to the possible root cause, off the top of your head? THANX, Mark H. Young Sr. MVS SysProg Fairfax County Gov't of Virginia -- For IBM

Re: MVS as a guest OS at D/R

2007-05-02 Thread Mark H. Young
On Wed, 2 May 2007 11:15:46 -0400, Jack Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: we've had periodic problems with this but went to ibm's recommendations, If you are using LPARNAME in parmlib, any reference should also have a reference to VMUSERID. These VMUSERID statements can and must be before

Re: MVS as a guest OS at D/R

2007-05-02 Thread Mark H. Young
On Wed, 2 May 2007 13:16:06 -0400, Jack Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip OK, one question about the above def? Can I have this defined in my PROD system PARMLIB (VMUSERID) stuff, w/o VM and/or running as an MVS guest? Just so I won't have to make a change at the DR?? If not, I can add the

Re: Best practices for software delivery

2007-05-01 Thread Mark H. Young
On Thu, 26 Apr 2007 11:30:30 -0500, McKown, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Wayne Driscoll Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2007 11:21 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Best practices for

Re: Best practices for software delivery

2007-05-01 Thread Mark H. Young
On Tue, 1 May 2007 13:21:51 -0500, McKown, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark H. Young Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2007 1:19 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Best practices for software

Re: Better way to count records

2007-04-26 Thread Mark H. Young
On Thu, 26 Apr 2007 08:36:15 -0400, Lizette Koehler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have about a billion ways - well not quite - to count records in a data set. I am looking for advice as to what would be the most efficient way to run either under TSO or BATCH. We do have FILEAID and a couple of

Re: Latest Principles of Operation

2007-04-26 Thread Mark H. Young
to consider what we placed where so it didn't cause performance problems. THANX, Mark H. Young -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search

Re: Tapecopy of two (2) z/OS 1.7 install tapes???

2007-04-19 Thread Mark H. Young
offer free 30-day trials. Even if this is a one time job, get a trial and you may want to keep it gr -- Bruce A. Black THANX Bruce. I got File Manager to work for me, but I have FATAR and FATS and will check out the website. Is FATSCOPY a seperate extra added cost item? TTFN, Mark H. Young

Re: SP230?

2007-04-19 Thread Mark H. Young
On Wed, 18 Apr 2007 10:03:52 -0600, Lester, Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, Can anyone point me towards a method to monitor sp230? I've got a product that's puking on a getmain to sp230, and I'm trying to determine if it's self-inflicted or someone else is monopolizing that subpool.

Re: SP230?

2007-04-19 Thread Mark H. Young
On Thu, 19 Apr 2007 11:07:35 -0600, Lester, Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Mark, Yes, I do have OMEGAMON for MVS. I can't seem to find that particular subpool. All the others, but not 230. Thanks! *BobL* Do you have a real-time monitor like: OMEGAMON, TMON, etc.??? No one else has

Re: SP230?

2007-04-19 Thread Mark H. Young
On Thu, 19 Apr 2007 13:01:28 -0600, Lester, Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Mark, GoTo (action bar) Omegamon Commands (10) Storage (S) CSA SQA (J) Thanks! *BobL* Thank you very much kind sir. Whew?! I knew it be there. Take a cold 12-pack out of petty cash on me. THANX, Mark

Tapecopy of two (2) z/OS 1.7 install tapes???

2007-04-13 Thread Mark H. Young
OK boys and girls.er.um..ladies and gents, et al. Anyhowseways. .I have two, count 'em two z/OS 1.7 installation tapes from IBM. I would like to first make of copy of both before I do anything with them. I've dumped them and they are SL tapes, with lots of multi files. 29

Re: Tapecopy of two (2) z/OS 1.7 install tapes???

2007-04-13 Thread Mark H. Young
On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 09:46:12 -0400, Jousma, David [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I forgot to ask, out of curiosity, why make copies? You don't say it, but do you have IBM's File Manager? That is really DITTO under the covers, and will do the copy easily.

Re: Tapecopy of two (2) z/OS 1.7 install tapes???

2007-04-13 Thread Mark H. Young
On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 11:55:59 -0400, Gregory, Gary G [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are you wanting to make a one-for-one copy of the tapes? If so, I can give you an example using DITTO (assuming you want to use DITTO). Gary Garland Gregory, MS CA Senior Software Engineer YES. Someone gave me a

Re: Tapecopy of two (2) z/OS 1.7 install tapes???

2007-04-13 Thread Mark H. Young
On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 11:43:32 -0500, Chase, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Mark H. Young On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 11:55:59 -0400, Gregory, Gary G wrote: Are you wanting to make a one-for-one copy of the tapes? If so, I

Re: Tapecopy of two (2) z/OS 1.7 install tapes???

2007-04-13 Thread Mark H. Young
On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 15:27:06 +0100, Jim McAlpine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 4/13/07, Mark H. Young [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 09:46:12 -0400, Jousma, David [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: YES, I have IBM's File Manager, but I don't think I've ever used it before. I've used

Re: Control-O replacement

2007-04-09 Thread Mark H. Young
On Tue, 3 Apr 2007 10:22:25 -0700, Bill Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: List, We are looking at replacing Control-O. (BMC) We don't have any other Control software. What software packages provide similar functionality to Control-O? Which package is the most widely used? TIA, Bill Johnson

Re: Idiot needs help - Subsystem initialization failed

2007-04-09 Thread Mark H. Young
On Mon, 9 Apr 2007 10:11:40 -0500, Mark Zelden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: IEFJ004I SUBSYSTEM ORST NOT INITIALIZED - ORASSINI NOT FOUND If the subsystem initialization routine supports dynamic SSI, then you can add it now without IPL-ing. However, you would have to use a different subsystem name

Re: MVS Experience

2007-03-16 Thread Mark H. Young
On Thu, 15 Mar 2007 14:54:57 -0500, Patrick O'Keefe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 15 Mar 2007 12:49:45 -0500, Mark H. Young [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ...... It can ONLY be a zero-sum gain advantage for employers and their bean counters

Re: MVS Experience

2007-03-16 Thread Mark H. Young
On Thu, 15 Mar 2007 23:41:14 -0400, Wayne Driscoll [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Chris, Like that was ever in doubt? gdr Wayne -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Craddock, Chris Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2007 10:34 PM To:

Re: MVS Experience

2007-03-16 Thread Mark H. Young
On Fri, 16 Mar 2007 06:28:17 -0500, Doc Farmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: MVS Experience When will this be a ride at Disneyland? No sure, but it WILL no doubt be an E-ticket ride, and I don't mean Electronic!! -- For IBM-MAIN

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