Re: Forgotten HSM LIST command..

Doh! Yes, that's the one - (although it's VOLUME(vv) rather than VOLSER(vv) Thanks Barry. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Schwarz, Barry A Sent: 03 November 2008 19:39 To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Forgotten H

Re: Cobol ACCEPT-DATE

Normally it runs later in the morning but due to some file transfers and resultant processing coming from external sites we moved it forward. It produces some kind of report (it's not my program, I just got lumped with investigating the issue for the apps support people). The report header has t

Cobol ACCEPT-DATE

Hi folks Is ACCEPT-DATE supposed to return GMT time, or local time? We have some issues with a program which was recently rescheduled to run just after midnight (British Summer Time) - but the date is a day out.. I'm wondering if it's because it's an old program getting the date in the wrong

Re: Refresh ARCCMD00 Questin...

Howard If the parameter you're changing is in a SETSYS command in the ARCCMD00 member (most are) then just issue that same SETSYS command from either your TSO session (TSO HSEND SETSYS x) or on the console (F HSM,SETSYS x) -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List

Re: SMS QUESTION :ALLOCATION HAS FAILED URGENT

Do the VTOCs have enough remaining free space? This e-mail message is for the sole use of the intended recipient (s) and may contain confidential and privileged information of Transaction Network Services. Any unauthorised review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not th

Re: Tape copy

Fantastic! Many thanks! Brian -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of ITURIEL DO NASCIMENTO NETO Sent: 06 August 2007 12:53 To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: RES: Tape copy Brian, You cannot copy a DFDSS DUMP with IEBGENER/ICEGENER be

Tape copy

Hi folks Going round in circles on this.. I need to do a stand-alone restore on a remote machine that currently has no bootable o/s and only has a 3490 tape drive. I can create the disk dump on my local machine on virtual tape and send it electronically to another remote machine at the same

Re: HSM tapes

you have any tapes show up on your BVOL output as AVAIL? These might have to be Delvol'd. Have you re-tried the recycle since changing Recycleoutput? ____ From: Perryman, Brian [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thu 7/5/2007 7:37 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subj

Re: HSM tapes

We've got RMM. It's running on a VTS. I manually ADDVOL'd a single DASD backup volume to experiment with, it shows up correctly when I do a LIST BVOL. SETSYS TAPEDELETION is set to SCRATCHTAPE I changed a couple of other SETSYS values though: BACKUP(DASD) RECYCLEOUTPUT(BACKUP(DASD)) Don't know

Re: HSM tapes

Thanks for that David. However I tried that recycle on a small range of backup tapes, but the darned thing infuriatingly keeps picking tape volumes instead of my DASD ones.. Any ideas where I might be going wrong? Brian -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EM

HSM tapes

Hi folks I want to change my HSM backup media from tape to DASD. I also want to dispense with ML2 and just keep everything on ML1 (not yet convinced of the benefits of DASD ML2). Does anyone know how I can move my existing 1Tb or so of tape backups onto DASD, and also how I can move all my M

Re: TSO signon panel

Hi Binyamin I do set these with RACF now, but when the TSO signon panel comes up, they are displayed in these fields and can be overtyped. That's what I'm trying to avoid. Brian -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Binyamin Dissen Se

TSO signon panel

Hi folks Is there a way I can stop (selected) users from changing certain fields on the (RACF) TSO signon panel? On our one, all fields are unprotected and can be overtyped/changed. I only want the password and new password fields to be open, the other ones like logon procedure name, account

Re: Merging datasets wtih different DCBs

Yep I was somewhat gobsmacked, I just expected that ICEGENER would read the lot. Anyway, I've managed to cobble together the following, which works. Probably over-engineered but, what the heck, it works.. //COPYEXEC PGM=SORT //SYSOUT DD SYSOUT=*

Merging datasets wtih different DCBs

Hi folks An ex-colleague (who doesn't have access to this list) emailed me to say that he wants to merge three datasets into one larger one. All are PS files with character data in, but two are FB (don't know LRECL) and one is VB (again, I don't know the LRECL but it's the longest of the three)

Re: HSM LIST TTOC for backup volumes

Not to worry folks, I've kind of cobbled together a solution in the end, by running ICETOOL over the BCDS: SORT FROM(HSMBCDS) TO(EXTRACT) USING(HSMD) DISPLAY - FROM(EXTRACT) -

Re: HSM LIST TTOC for backup volumes

Nope, I don't have duplicate copies of the volumes. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of O'Brien, David W. (NIH/CIT) [C] Sent: 04 August 2006 14:51 To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: HSM LIST TTOC for backup volumes Brian, Are you

HSM LIST TTOC for backup volumes

Hi folks We've lost a load of tapes from our HSM backup set and I want to find out what datasets were on them, so I can make repairs where possible (for example by backing them up again if they're still on primary or recall-backup-remigrate if they're on ML2). LIST TTOC(volser) for it lists

Re: Finger trouble brings down NHS

Nothing in my posting suggested that I got from the original posting the information about the NHS not using mainframes. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Clark Morris Sent: 02 August 2006 15:35 To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: R

Re: Finger trouble brings down NHS

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-2203396,00.html - This e-mail message is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s)and may contain confidential and privileged information of Transaction NetworkServices. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution isprohibited. If yo

Re: Finger trouble brings down NHS

I can't believe the cost of that system either - I think I saw on BBC News at some point that it will end up having cost over 20 BILLION. That's UK Pounds.. so more than that in USD. Gimme a mainframe and some decent programmers and I'll do it for a tenth of that.. ;-) This e-mail message is fo

Re: SEQUENCE NUMBERS

Yep! -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Veilleux, Jon L Sent: 28 July 2006 13:52 To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: SEQUENCE NUMBERS Thanks, I'm just an old guy who learned how to delete them a long time ago. Does UNNUM also set

Re: SEQUENCE NUMBERS

You don't need to edit them out, the UNNUM command does it for you. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Veilleux, Jon L Sent: 28 July 2006 13:20 To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: SEQUENCE NUMBERS You can delete them in your JCL f

Re: DFHSM Shutdown & Restart

I would just do a F HSM,STOP and then start it again afterwards but you can change nearly all the parameters dynamically without needing a restart; this not only allows you to 'suck it and see' first but also increases your uptime. You don't say what the parameter was but you can do F HSM,SETSYS

Remove redundant ATL volumes from RMM

Hi folks I still have around 100 or so volumes in my RMM database from when we used to have an ATL. Since we no longer have one, all definitions pertaining to ATLs are no longer in our system, so no tape catalog, no SMS library definition etc. RMM won't let me delete these volume definition

Re: Spinning off a JOBLOG

In z/OS (don't know the lowest release but it's definitely in 1.4 onwards) you can put the JESLOG keyword on the JOBCLASS(x) JESPARM definition, or over-ride it with a $T JOBCLASS(x) command. I do this for all my STCs ("JOBCLASS(STC)" in JESPARM), spinning off the JESMSGLG and JESYSMSG at midni

Re: Softcopy Reader

Hi Mark Yes, I think I actually prefer the Java one now to the old Windows one, I've been using it now for about 6 months I guess. It's slow to start up, and it sometimes does some quirky things with printing (doesn't seem to know about page breaks, but that could be something in my Windows or

Softcopy Reader

Anyone using the (Java) Softcopy Reader with PDF files from Extended Bookshelves? When I try and open a PDF file, I just get a Windows DOS command prompt window which drops me into C:\PROGRA~1\IBM\SCR\sys and just sits there. The documentation for the Softcopy Reader, under the section "Openi

Re: HSM CDS question

Doing audits as we speak.. There are lots of errors being flagged, I'll go through them and try and figure out when they occurred and what the reasons were. I get the impression that doing HSM audits on some sort of regular basis is a fairly good idea - which worries me somewhat. This thing is

HSM CDS question

Hi folks I have some datasets (a couple of hundred) that get included in a DCOLLECT BACKUPDATA output, but when I do an HSM LIST command for them, HSM denies all knowledge.. How can that happen? Thanks Brian This e-mail message is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s)and may cont

Re: 'Rogue' HLQs

I like the look of that acsenvir test - I'll play with that and see what the options are. It wouldn't, as has already been pointed out, be particularly useful for testing to see if the target or source HLQ is one in a production list, but it would be useful if it could be used to see if the HLQ

Re: 'Rogue' HLQs

Thanks all, for the answers and suggestions. I've checked back on the datasets now and it appears I misled you all (and myself) about the catalog issue. I'm sure when I looked at it, that they had stayed in the wrong catalog.. I must have misread something somewhere. We split production, test a

'Rogue' HLQs

Hi folks Some people in our apps support department create test files under their own TSO userid HLQ, which get SMS-placed onto the 'user' storage pool, but then later they manually rename these files to have a production dataset prefix, I have no idea why - so they can test some production jo

Re: Happy Birthday IBM-Main!

No. They made a movie about him. A year later he went on to set up ibm-main.. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088979/ ;-) -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Richards.Bob Sent: 06 June 2006 16:15 To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re:

Re: Valid TSO Users

Dave Have you looked at the RACFICE downloads on the IBM RACF support website? (Just stick RACFICE into Google if you can't find it) Brian - This e-mail message is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s)and may contain confidential and privileged information of Transaction NetworkService

Re: File encryption

Hi Timothy Yes, it's curently VSAM and QSAM, we don't have any databases. But the PCI-S standard to which we're having to comply (see the relevant VISA web sites for more details) specifies that ANY data file stored permanently on disk must have cardholder information encrypted so, basically, a

Re: File encryption

:-) -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jim McAlpine Sent: 09 February 2006 15:28 To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: File encryption Brian, I presume you're putting the bookshop in Devon on hold then. Jim McAlpine This e-mail m

Re: File encryption

Nope, it's a 7060-H30, we definitely don't have a crypto on it. We're going to z890 late this year/early next and we'll be specifying crypto options on that. It sounds like I might be in for a disappointment with MegaCryption then.. I was getting the impression from their brochure that it would

Re: File encryption

Indeed. Well, I think so anyway..(!) We've not done anything with CSF at the moment (nor do we have a crypto-coprocessor) so this is all new to us. We're after something that is as transparent as possible and involves the least amount of program re-engineering, though.. Brian - This e-mail m

File encryption

Hi folks To meet certain credit-card industry governing body requirements, I've been told we have to encrypt credit card numbers in any file that is permanently stored on disk or tape. It doesn't have to be the whole file (and I've argued that would be wasteful anyway), but the fields holding

Re: RMF Spreadsheet Reporter

You know what, this is exactly why I love all you guys.. (and gals!) You've all given me loads of avenues to explore there that I hadn't thought of (because I just automatically assumed that I was at fault) in particular I like the McAfee policy update suggestion, because on Monday I had proble

Re: RMF Spreadsheet Reporter

..one thing that might be relevant, the (first four) numbers in the PORT statement below do not match my target FTP server.. How do I interpret that line in the log please? SENT: PORT 192,168,2,1,6,190 200 Port request OK. Cheers Brian - This e-mail message is for the sole use of the intende

RMF Spreadsheet Reporter

Hi folks I tried using RMF Spreadsheet Reporter today after having not used it for a month or two, and it's hanging on the FTP connection. This used to work before, so I can't understand what's going on. I have four LPARs I can connect to, all with exactly the same results. I know that at least

Re: Key code for licensed material

Hi Miklos It should be on your Memo to Users that you got with your order - it's just a couple of pages long. I seem to remember my key code being on the first page somewhere. Brian - This e-mail message is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s)and may contain confidential and privile

Re: Purging spool output

Yikes! Now I'm REALLY confused.. My head hurts..! Brian -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Mark Zelden Sent: 05 December 2005 14:40 To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Purging spool output I usually do something like this: $OJO

Purging spool output

Hi folks Which is the 'best' JES2 command to purge spool output? I seem to have £P JOBQ,Q=x,DAYS>n or £O JQ,Q=x,DA>n,CAN Just wondering which is the better method way, if there are any subtle differences, etc etc? Thanks Brian - This e-mail message is for the sole use of the intended

Re: Batch performance

All WLM managed. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Joel Wolpert Sent: 30 November 2005 13:33 To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Batch performance Are you using JES or WLM inits? - This e-mail message is for the sole use of the

Re: Batch performance

Thanks Martin, I'll check that out. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Martin Kline Sent: 30 November 2005 13:30 To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Batch performance WLM has occasionally had problems starting work. One, possibly

Batch performance

Hi folks. We upgraded from OS/390 to z/OS 1.4 at the beginning of the month. The ops have been making slight noises that some of the production batch is 'slow' - in the absence of any detailed information from them, I just assumed it was a one-off thing and ignored it. But last night they took

Re: Secure z/OS 1.4 FTP server - quite urgent

Thanks Sam That's more or less what we were saying but the customer is quite adamant that they have no command-line switches on their FTP process (we haven't seen it, so have no idea). It also, as our third-party software's vendor pointed out, does not explain why we didn't see this command/be

Secure z/OS 1.4 FTP server - quite urgent

Hi folks We upgraded from OS/390 to z/OS 1.4 at the weekend. Since then, ONE of our 1100 FTP clients cannot get in. We have a third-party product that sits in front of our FTP server, providing additional RACF and other functionality. This product is failing the user's signon because they send

Re: Systems Programmer Position

I feel a Perry Como song coming on.. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Richards.Bob Sent: 14 October 2005 13:55 To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Systems Programmer Position Still, I bet he gets quite a few inquiries due to the

Re: PCI audit compliance

A valid and good point. However I suspect that they will just point out that their policy clearly states that passwords should not be written down, and shift the blame to the user. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Shmuel Metz (Se

Re: More "fun" with z/OS FTP

You can't specify (REPLACE on a PUT, only on a GET -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Chase, John Sent: 05 October 2005 14:56 To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: More "fun" with z/OS FTP Hi, All, At the risk of "wearing out my welcom

Re: z/OS 1.5 FTP using "Protected" User ID

FTP requires a Login, and protected userids can't be used in any login operation, so I'd be surprised if you could do it. Why would you want to though John? Sounds like a massive security exposure?? Brian - This e-mail message is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s)and may contain con

SMS ACS filter list selection

Hi folks I have a GDG, let's call it A.B.C for now. I have a Storclass ACS routine with FILTLIST DSN_GDG INCLUDE(A.B.C) If I migrate and recall dataset A.B.C.G0001V00, it matches the filter list DSN_GDG (I know that it does because that is used to subsequently place it on a volume). If I cha

Re: PCI audit compliance

Sorry, yes. I should have said this is RACF, and z/OS 1.4. I've seen the built-in RACF password rules but they aren't flexible enough for this, as they are concerned with actual character positions within the password rather than counts of character occurrences etc. I would be very grateful for

PCI audit compliance

Hi folks Like many card-processing organisations worldwide, we're going through the audit for PCI-S at the moment. I'm being constantly harrased by our risk team to provide some means of control over user passwords - at first they were demanding that all passwords contained at least 10 charact

Re: RMF PM Java Edition

+0100, Perryman, Brian wrote: > >Anyone know where I can download the latest version of this, (which I believe has been updated during 2005 - I know it's in the RMF libs, but I want the latest version). > >I can't get the web link to work, I get page not found. Is it on an FTP se

RMF PM Java Edition

Hi folks Anyone know where I can download the latest version of this, (which I believe has been updated during 2005 - I know it's in the RMF libs, but I want the latest version). I can't get the web link to work, I get page not found. Is it on an FTP server somewhere? Cheers Brian This e-mai

Re: RACF audit records

Hi Radoslaw Thanks for that, that clears it up. I thought the audit record and an exception violation record were two different things. Thanks! Brian -- This e-mail message is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s)and may contain confidential and privileged information of Transaction

RACF audit records

Hi folks I've noticed that our system (z/OS 1.4) seems to set dataset profiles to AUDIT FAILURES(READ) by default. I'm wondering what the value of this is, since we also get a violation record written whenever an access failure occurs, so this seems to be a bit of overkill, if not wasteful o

Re: OPC setup (TWS 8.2 for z/OS)

Thanks Craig But, ouch - I have to come up with a meaningful naming convention that identifies the product (OPC/TWS) the LPAR/system that it's running on, its environment (Prod or Test) and its component (Controller, Tracker, Data Store) and only four characters to play with..??!!! This e-mail

OPC setup (TWS 8.2 for z/OS)

Hi folks I'm trying to 'improve' our current OPC setup (which has been pretty much the same since the early 1990s). I have some questions, which I can't seem to answer from the standard manual set, nor find in any Redbooks, so I'm hoping some of you kind souls out there could offer some advi

'throwaway' JES output

Hi folks Which is the better method for defining a 'throwaway' output class on an JESPARM OUTCLASS statement? OUTDISP=(PURGE,PURGE) or OUTPUT=DUMMY?? Or doesn't it matter? Thanks Brian - This e-mail message is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s)and may contain confidential

Re: Access to catalogs

Walt Looking deeper, it's starting to look like some of the users involved (not sure yet if it's all of them) may have the OPERATIONS attribute. Does that reinforce what you're saying about the catalog processing checks? Thanks Brian - This e-mail message is for the sole use of the intended

Re: Access to catalogs

"Erk" from me too - just noticed I typed 'your' instead of 'our'.. Oh well, it's Monday, and I better stop talking cricket before the mods tell me off.. This e-mail message is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s)and may contain confidential and privileged information of Transaction Net

Re: Access to catalogs

Hi Shane Sure though an un-aliased HLQ would result in just an UPDATE to the MCAT, not an ALTER? Yikes - your boy Peterson just hit two sixes straight into the stands, according to what I just heard here on the radio.. :-( Enjoy your night, but not too much I hope! -Original Message

Access to catalogs

Hi folks I have some RACF reports that show some users requesting ALTER access to some dataset catalogs, in some cases, even to the master catalog. What circumstances would cause this? The highest level I would expect on a user catalog would be UPDATE, and on the master catalog I wouldn't exp

Re: When was an alias [been] defined ?

Nah.. Not convinced..! RACF profiles? ACF/2 rules? Oh and erm, CHANGE CONTROL documentation..!!!?? From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of Gray, Larry - Larry A Sent: Tue 6/9/05 17:41 To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: When was an alias [been] defin

Re: When was an alias [been] defined ?

I'm struggling to think of a reason that it would be important/interesting to know when a dataset alias was created? This e-mail message is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s)and may contain confidential and privileged information of Transaction NetworkServices. Any unauthorized revi

Re: OPC configuration

Thanks for the advice, Alex. That looks like a good way to go. One thing that does concern me though is disaster recovery, we may not have all the production JCL libraries restored yet, but the system and support libraries would be there. We'd want to start running housekeeping stuff quite earl

OPC configuration

Hi folks We run a single OPC address space at the moment (controller and tracker in the same one) for all our batch work. The more I look at it, the more it looks like I should split out the production work from the housekeeping/daily operations work, so I'm thinking of having one OPC for pr

Re: NetView message automation

Aha! That all makes sense now. Thanks Barbara! Brian - This e-mail message is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s)and may contain confidential and privileged information of Transaction NetworkServices. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution isprohibited. If you

NetView message automation

Hi folks I'm trying to run a Rexx on a message from a vendor product that issues a series of messages on an event, typically about four lines, and they all have the same message id. My Rexx only seems to be getting fired once per message set however, so I think this vendor product is issuing

HSM backup copy retention

Hi folks I have a legacy application which uses truckloads of non-SMS managed GDGs everywhere. They get backed up by HSM, however it seems to be keeping them forever, and the BCDS is starting to become cumbersome. I want to expire all copies of these GDG generations that are older than, say,

Re: FW: Can You Master This Japanese IQ Test??????

Darn, beat me to it, I was going to pitch in with Toronto. I seem to remember reading that somewhere.. I wish "culturally diverse" was synonymous with "culturally tolerant". In fact, I wish the word "culture" didn't exist, and that we didn't even see a skin colour, a religion, a belief, but ju

Re: TN3270 Setup Question

Definitely. Just code a separate BEGINVTAM section for each port, with different values in the DEFAULTLUS statements. - -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Laine, Rogers Sent: 11 July 2005 15:00 To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: TN

Re: Couple of questions on JES2 output handling

Failing them with exit code should be ok, I don't want to be clever and substitute the class to another one. There won't be any politics involved either, it's just basic law enforcement. Not even politicians are above the law. Are they. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discuss

Proper 'legacy' code

I've just been exploring some of the more dustier and cob-webbed 'corridors' (well, disk volumes, to be precise) in the great mansion that is my mainframe, and opened some PDS source libraries that have obviously been lying around a while. Just found some members in there that have 'created' d

Re: Couple of questions on JES2 output handling

Ok thanks for that Steven, I'll poke around a bit and see how this system is set up. It's probably a bit late in the day to start playing with it now (literally - it's 4:30 here in the UK) as it's only got a few weeks before it's upgraded to z/OS, perhaps this is something I can configure into t

Re: Couple of questions on JES2 output handling

..not for me.. :-( Unless I'm coding it wrong. Also, I'm trying to do this on a OS/390 2.9 system.. Can't find it documented anywhere either.. But I don't want to start another "not documented" thread..!! And what's IEFJOBS? Brian -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion Lis

Re: Couple of questions on JES2 output handling

+0100, Perryman, Brian wrote: > I want some types of STC to have their output immediately purged [...] > But for other STCs [...] all kept for a while, regardless of whether > they completed successfully or not. [...] can this be done You can insert a job card in your started t

Couple of questions on JES2 output handling

Hi folks I want some types of STC to have their output immediately purged, assuming they complete successfully - repetitive tasks like BPXAS, SMF archiving, things like that. I can see how to do that using JES init statements or commands. But for other STCs like HSM, RMM, CICS etc I want the

Re: Gates on outsourcing

>SNIP< Malaria, AIDS, vaccines and improved health around the world have little to do with what computer OS the people who have no computers use. >SNIP< But when those people's countries have moved on from the basic hand-to-mouth survival issues they'll develop and have computers one day. When

Re: rexx , formatting question

n = LENGTH(a); if n>3 then do i=n-3 to 1 by -3; a=INSERT('.',a,i); end Brian From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of Daniel Cremieux Sent: Wed 29/6/05 17:05 To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: rexx , formatting question dear gurus, a=15.53666222 Ho

Re: rexx , formatting question

Daniel Take a look a the FORMAT built-in function. In your case I think a = FORMAT(a,,2) should do what you want. Brian -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Daniel Cremieux Sent: 29 June 2005 17:05 To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: r

Re: HSM statistics

Thanks Bob. Ah, the reason I want to know is that there is an obsolete (ex-test) application load library that I want to get rid of (for another whole bunch of reasons) so late yesterday evening I migrated it first, rather than delete it. This morning it was back on disk. The likelihood is tha

Re: HSM statistics

Thanks Bob I've got HOLD LOG and ARCLOGX and Y set to DUMMY at the moment, with everything going to SMF instead. I didn't want the extra hassle of setting up an archiving procedure for them when one was already in place for SMF. Was that a bad move? Is it better to use the logs? Cheers Brian

Re: HSM statistics

Ah yes, forgot about those HSM records going to SMF! Thanks! Brian - This e-mail message is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s)and may contain confidential and privileged information of Transaction NetworkServices. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution isprohibit

HSM statistics

Hi folks Is here a quick and easy way to ask HSM who caused a dataset to be recalled? I thought REPORT FUNCTION(RECALL) might do it but it just gives a load of totals and counts. There doesn't seem to be anything particularly specific to this in SMF 14 or 15 either. TIA Brian This e-ma

Re: Oxygenated morons

That's ok. I thought Love Canal was a song by The B52s. From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of John Mattson Sent: Tue 28/6/05 19:11 To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Oxygenated morons I thought an oxymoron was an idiot who worked for Armand Hamm

Re: Newsgroups (Was Another OS/390 to z/OS 1.4 migration

Instead of http:// use news:// -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Tuco Bonno Sent: 28 June 2005 13:55 To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Newsgroups (Was Another OS/390 to z/OS 1.4 migration would you care to elaborate a little

Re: HSM tape daily backup volumes

Ok will do. Thanks Jim From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of James Kornmeyer Sent: Fri 24/6/05 19:05 To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: HSM tape daily backup volumes Brian: Take a look at OW42097. It is old, but it may apply. Jim Kornmeye

HSM tape daily backup volumes

Hi folks Is there some sort of limit or restriction on the number of volumes that can be in a daily tape set? I just started getting ARC0702I BACKUP OF VOLUME vv TERMINATED, NO DAILY ARC0702I (CONT.) BACKUP VOLUME AVAILABLE today. I don't pre-define tape backup volumes,

Re: Another OS/390 to z/OS 1.4 migration question (COBOL)

>SNIP< -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Clark Morris While someone should have caught the change in options (something I was normally paranoid about when going to a new release) >UNSNIP< I feel that I'm being judged here, and in

Re: Another OS/390 to z/OS 1.4 migration question (COBOL)

>SNIP< -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Bill Klein Sent: 23 June 2005 13:45 To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Fw: Another OS/390 to z/OS 1.4 migration question (COBOL) If messages start appearing after a migration of compilers, then

Re: Another OS/390 to z/OS 1.4 migration question (COBOL)

>SNIP< > > I will go for it hey its almost Friday. > > If you can't figure out what the message is saying open a PMR with > the COBOL people tell them for the up teenth time that these > messages are NOT self describing. > > Ed >> IGYPS0157-E A shift-out was found in column 50 without a >>

Re: Another OS/390 to z/OS 1.4 migration question (COBOL)

In many cases it's not a description of the message that's needed, it's what caused it and what your subsequent options for fixing it are that's needed. I can see that most of the messages from a compiler would indeed be self-documenting and quite rightly so, particularly since the reader is pr

Re: Another OS/390 to z/OS 1.4 migration question (COBOL)

Thanks Dave, I'll probably try that too! - This e-mail message is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s)and may contain confidential and privileged information of Transaction NetworkServices. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution isprohibited. If you are not the int

  1   2   >