Re: Really dumb IPL question

2010-09-29 Thread Peter Nuttall
Indeed ... This was the case in the example I gave I raised a problem with the Development team and . No idea what happened eventually, because I moved on C'est la vie ... I guess, in their defence they never intended/suggested for the IP listeners to work as Started Tasks, th

Re: Shutdown and dependencies

2010-09-29 Thread Peter Nuttall
A Brave man !! ... :-) ... "Vernooij, CP - SPLXM" Sent by: "IBM Mainframe Discussion List" 29/09/2010 03:53 PM Please respond to "IBM Mainframe Discussion List" To IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu cc Subject Re: Shutdown and dependencies Barbara, I disagree on some points in this part o

Re: Really dumb IPL question

2010-09-28 Thread Peter Nuttall
Hmm ... I worked for a software company as a consultant in a previous life ... Client-server app builder ... They used an IP listener to manage the upload/download of the application software ... Setting this up as a started task and then explaining to Ops/Automation that the only way to stop i

Re: symbolic date parameter (EZACFSM1)

2010-09-21 Thread Peter Nuttall
We use it here to transfer files (reports) to the server on a weekly basis as follows : //STEPRPL EXEC PGM=EZACFSM1 //SYSOUTDD DSN=&&FILEN,DISP=(NEW,PASS),SPACE=(TRK,(1,1)), // LRECL=80,RECFM=FB,DSORG=PS //SYSIN DD * &WINDSN=\'PFILE002\\ADSHARE\\10.METHO

Re: REXX : how to determine the member name of a DD card

2010-09-10 Thread Peter Nuttall
In the second part of Itschak's reply he tells you how to extract the member name from the returned sysdsname ... "CUNY Yann" Sent by: "IBM Mainframe Discussion List" 10/09/2010 04:05 PM Please respond to "IBM Mainframe Discussion List" To IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu cc Subject Re: REXX :

Re: Code names for zSeries

2010-09-07 Thread Peter Nuttall
Only for people of a certain age ... :-) However, it would probably include most on this list ... "Ray Pearce" Sent by: "IBM Mainframe Discussion List" 06/09/2010 07:20 PM Please respond to "IBM Mainframe Discussion List" To IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu cc Subject Re: Code names for zS

Re: Virginia DOT outage

2010-09-03 Thread Peter Nuttall
Indeed ... Personal favourite : Stationery - Office equipment Stationary - Not in motion "Rick Fochtman" Sent by: "IBM Mainframe Discussion List" 03/09/2010 01:28 AM Please respond to "IBM Mainframe Discussion List" To IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu cc Subject Re: Virginia DOT outage -

Re: Virginia DOT outage

2010-09-03 Thread Peter Nuttall
ROTFLMAO ... Quality ... Reminds me of my first piece of work as a DB2 DBA newbie (early 90s) trialing BMC and Platinum's Fast utilities suite ... Trial, done wrote a document recommending BMC. Document got shelved as the company did not have the money to spend. Had to move to using inc

Re: 123 extents and VTOC fmt 3

2010-09-02 Thread Peter Nuttall
Yep As I'm sure others have done, have hit that limit on a CICS DFHRPL DD ... Not nice "Bill Fairchild" Sent by: "IBM Mainframe Discussion List" 01/09/2010 04:48 PM Please respond to "IBM Mainframe Discussion List" To IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu cc Subject Re: 123 extents and VTO

Re: 3270 Emulator Software

2010-08-24 Thread Peter Nuttall
HI Lizette, You might want to check if any of your apps are using EHLLAPI (Screen scraping) or HLLAPI , so you can make sure the new emulator software supports that (I suspect most do, but you never know ). Extra is in use here, deployed over citrix Kind regards, Peter "Lizett

Re: utility type program

2010-08-18 Thread Peter Nuttall
Love it :-) ... "William H. Blair" Sent by: "IBM Mainframe Discussion List" 17/08/2010 09:32 PM Please respond to "IBM Mainframe Discussion List" To IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu cc Subject Re: utility type program > What was the design objective of IEBGENER, anyway? Design obje

Re: "Data set not found" in ISPF 3.4

2010-08-17 Thread Peter Nuttall
Won't a simple U against the dataset in 3.4 get rid of the entry ? (it has for me in the past ... ) "O'Brien, David W. (NIH/CIT) [C]" Sent by: "IBM Mainframe Discussion List" 17/08/2010 03:57 PM Please respond to "IBM Mainframe Discussion List" To IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu cc Subject Re:

Re: auditor request question

2010-08-12 Thread Peter Nuttall
> >> <>This has been an interesting thread. It seems we all really > >> ENJOY auditors... Can someone say prostate exam? > >> > >> Isn't that essentially a different kind of audit ??? > > - >--- Yes it is, but I'm not sure which o

Re: Please remove my name from the mailing list

2010-07-27 Thread Peter Nuttall
Mathew, You obviously didn't read John M's previous note The clue is to read the bottom of every post on this list and it tells you what to do ... As John said 'Youth of today eh ?' Enjoy ... "- Tibish Mathew" Sent by: "IBM Mainframe Discussion List" 26/07/2010 06:37 PM Plea

Re: COBOL HLPI JCL sample needed

2010-07-27 Thread Peter Nuttall
DL/I means basically IMS ... However I've not heard of HLPI :-( ... So can't help sorry ... "Elardus Engelbrecht" Sent by: "IBM Mainframe Discussion List" 27/07/2010 08:41 AM Please respond to "IBM Mainframe Discussion List" To IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu cc Subject Re: COBOL HLPI JCL

Re: CICS -> KICKS (Re: PROP instead of POPS, PoO, et al.)

2010-07-26 Thread Peter Nuttall
My German might be a bit rusty, but isn't Burg - Castle and Berg - Mountain ? "R.S." Sent by: "IBM Mainframe Discussion List" 26/07/2010 05:23 PM Please respond to "IBM Mainframe Discussion List" To IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu cc Subject Re: CICS -> KICKS (Re: PROP instead of POPS, PoO, et a

Re: CICS -> KICKS (Re: PROP instead of POPS, PoO, et al.)

2010-07-26 Thread Peter Nuttall
Reminds me of a conversation I had regarding the words used to make people smile when having their photograph taken. In the UK, we say "Cheese", however, in Spain they say potatoes ("Patatas"), and in France they say "Fromage" ... ? .. :-) "Bill Fairchild" Sent by: "IBM Mainframe Discu

Re: Best practices for SMF exit routines

2010-07-19 Thread Peter Nuttall
The answer lies at the bottom of every message "- Tibish Mathew" Sent by: "IBM Mainframe Discussion List" 19/07/2010 05:36 PM Please respond to "IBM Mainframe Discussion List" To IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu cc Subject Re: Best practices for SMF exit routines Can someone remove

Re: IBM System z - A New Dimension in Computing webcast

2010-07-14 Thread Peter Nuttall
Ahhh ... That would be it ... Vielen Dank ... :-) ... I think YGIAGAM meens: Your guess is as good as mine Alexander -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu

Re: IBM System z - A New Dimension in Computing webcast

2010-07-14 Thread Peter Nuttall
OK ... I give up ... I'm English ... But I have no idea what this means YMMV ... I get ROTFLMAO ... I also get But this one defeats me ? Shouldn't that be "YGIAGAM"? Sorry, John. :-) -- For IBM-MAIN sub

Re: UAT Best Practices

2010-06-15 Thread Peter Nuttall
To answer the question simply User Acceptance testing should be done in a separate QA environment, by the user team who will be signing off the change. The developers integration testing is purely a place where the developer finds out if his program plays nicely with everyone else, and nor

Re: File 120 now has 2 new articles

2010-06-08 Thread Peter Nuttall
Or, presumably, xmit manager will work against this file ? "Mark Jacobs" Sent by: "IBM Mainframe Discussion List" 08/06/2010 04:02 PM Please respond to "IBM Mainframe Discussion List" To IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu cc Subject Re: File 120 now has 2 new articles On 06/08/10 09:57, Pom

Re: CICS DFHLD0203 issues

2010-06-02 Thread Peter Nuttall
BM Mainframe Discussion List" To IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu cc Subject Re: CICS DFHLD0203 issues > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Peter Nuttall > > Hi John, > > That's correct, but I believe for it to work correctly,

Re: CICS DFHLD0203 issues

2010-06-02 Thread Peter Nuttall
Hi John, That's correct, but I believe for it to work correctly, if you specify separate, then the sysdebug DD needs to point to a file Kind regards, Peter "Chase, John" Sent by: "IBM Mainframe Discussion List" 02/06/2010 01:33 PM Please respond to "IBM Mainframe Discussion List"

Re: Time Parameter

2010-05-18 Thread Peter Nuttall
To my knowledge there are two ways in rexx to "sleep" : /* REXX */ /* How to make rexx wait for 5 seconds ILBOWAT0 is an LE supplied program */ X=5 PARM=D2C(X,4) ADDRESS LINKPGM "ILBOWAT0 PARM" /* Alternatively you can use a USS program as follows */ bpxbatch "pgm /bin/slee

Re: 25 reasons why hardware is still hot at IBM

2010-04-23 Thread Peter Nuttall
Well, I don't work for IBM and I agree with you :-) I fear Anton has some other Axe to grind Anton, don't you think you are unfair ? Just a little ? Do you honestly think System z technology compared to other is like comparing F-22 to Ford Model T ? Or did you even mean all IBM server

Re: COBOL - no longer being taught - is a problem

2010-04-21 Thread Peter Nuttall
Who cares whether the universities are requiring COBOL or not? There are plenty of places and ways to learn it, and any Programmer worth employing should be able to pick it up relatively easy. They may not be as good as a seasoned programmer, but you can't expect a college graduate to perfor

Re: IEBCOPY losing APF authorisation in middle of JOB.

2010-04-20 Thread Peter Nuttall
>All the other steps worked ... The rerun of the job from the failing step worked successfully Lets see. Rerun works. Without ANY changes at all? >Anyone got any ideas ? After reviewing all replies up to now, I'm thinking something changed the APF list just before step 8. Check you

Re: IEBCOPY losing APF authorisation in middle of JOB - etc

2010-04-19 Thread Peter Nuttall
Yes to all of that Puzzled me too ... Never seen it before I am aware of the concatenation restriction on APF authorised load libraries (and the integrity reasoning behind it), but there are no steplibs in the job and the Joblib is, obviously, the same for all steps. I will chase it u

Re: IEBCOPY losing APF authorisation in middle of JOB.

2010-04-16 Thread Peter Nuttall
ddle of JOB. I will be interested to know what the final resolve will be. Please post when you have that answer. Lizette > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On > Behalf Of Peter Nuttall > Sent: Friday, April 16

Re: IEBCOPY losing APF authorisation in middle of JOB.

2010-04-16 Thread Peter Nuttall
Thanks Lizette, Think I'll leave it with the sysprogs for now ... I did check the Parms though, and FASTCOPY=N is currently set ... Thanks for the help, Peter "Lizette Koehler" Sent by: "IBM Mainframe Discussion List" 16/04/2010 03:16 PM Please respond to "IBM Mainframe Discussion Li

Re: IEBCOPY losing APF authorisation in middle of JOB.

2010-04-16 Thread Peter Nuttall
Lizette, PDSMAN stc has not been shutdown since last weekend. However in the joblog of the started task I see the following : 10.59.17 STC32844 FRIDAY,16 APR 2010 10.59.17 STC32844 PDSMOPR-00 Input -> NEWRULES 10.59.52 STC32844 PDSM00-34 PDSMAN RELEASE 7.60 The job steps at

Re: IEBCOPY losing APF authorisation in middle of JOB.

2010-04-16 Thread Peter Nuttall
in the authorization list. Lizette > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On > Behalf Of Peter Nuttall > Sent: Friday, April 16, 2010 7:25 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu > Subject: Re: IEBCOPY losing APF authorisation in middle of

Re: IEBCOPY losing APF authorisation in middle of JOB.

2010-04-16 Thread Peter Nuttall
Lol Not SMP Just copying members from one library to another ... This is part of a change management install (using Changeman (Serena)), but the batch job is only using IEBCOPY to copy members from and to non-APF authorised PDS libraries I have been told that PDSMAN does somehow

IEBCOPY losing APF authorisation in middle of JOB.

2010-04-16 Thread Peter Nuttall
Hi All, Just wondered if anybody else has come across this phenomenon. We are z/OS 01.09.00. Have a job running a set of IEBCOPY steps and the 8th step failed with : IEB1099E *** IEBCOPY IS NOT APF AUTHORIZED *** All the other steps worked ... The rerun of the job from the failing step wor

Re: Rexx to submit job

2010-04-09 Thread Peter Nuttall
The question is a little vague and Ted has answered in the simplest form ... Here's a snippet using File tailoring (Skeletons) : address 'ISPEXEC' "FTOPEN TEMP" if rc<>0 then call ExitWithError 'Could not start file tailoring' "FTINCL AMBSKL" if rc<>0 then, call ExitWithError 'Coul

Re: JCL QUESTION

2010-04-07 Thread Peter Nuttall
Are you using IDCAMS to do the predelete in the first step ? ... If so you can set the maxcc (SET MAXCC=0) ... Or if using IEFBR14 to do the delete, set the disp to (MOD,DELETE) ... "esmie moo" Sent by: "IBM Mainframe Discussion List" 07/04/2010 03:50 PM Please respond to "IBM Mainfram

Re: Mainframe Executive article on the death of tape

2010-03-30 Thread Peter Nuttall
"This is the sort of pedantry up with which I will not put." - Winston Churchill . Sorry ... Is it Friday/Thursday yet ? "Vernooij, CP - SPLXM" Sent by: "IBM Mainframe Discussion List" 30/03/2010 11:05 AM Please respond to "IBM Mainframe Discussion List" To IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu

Re: How to find loadlib in a dump?

2010-03-29 Thread Peter Nuttall
Hmmm ... I guess the library must be being libdef-ed in at some point then "Lindy Mayfield" Sent by: "IBM Mainframe Discussion List" 29/03/2010 05:03 PM Please respond to "IBM Mainframe Discussion List" To IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu cc Subject Re: How to find loadlib in a dump?

Re: How to find loadlib in a dump?

2010-03-29 Thread Peter Nuttall
As Visconde suggested, have you tried ISRDDN or DDLIST in ISPF and then "Mem module_name" in the command line ? "Lindy Mayfield" Sent by: "IBM Mainframe Discussion List" 29/03/2010 05:00 PM Please respond to "IBM Mainframe Discussion List" To IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu cc Subject Re: How t

Re: Comparing - ISPF (3.12 and 3.13) with Comparex

2010-03-23 Thread Peter Nuttall
Ermm ... Isn't Simone a girl's name ? Sorry, but have seen a couple of references to 'he' and 'him' Am being a bit pedantic perhaps, and I know that our industry is overrun by 'hairy' males (unfortunately ... :-)). But she might be more likely to offer a reply if her gender is addres

Re: Any tools for managing z/OS system software products inventory?

2010-03-19 Thread Peter Nuttall
Don't IBM also market Rational Asset Analyser (I think that's the name ..) Which seems like it would fit the solution Had a demo of the product, but not used it in anger ... "Arthur Gutowski" Sent by: "IBM Mainframe Discussion List" 19/03/2010 02:29 PM Please respond to "IBM Main

Re: Comparing - ISPF (3.12 and 3.13) with Comparex

2010-03-12 Thread Peter Nuttall
Simone obviously feels strongly about File-Aid. Rightly so, as it has been a market leader and best of breed. I appreciate passion in this industry. We need more of it. :-) Hear Hear It's just a shame there aren't more decision making managers with the same passion Or am I being cyn

Re: More calumny: "Secret Service Uses 1980s Mainframe"

2010-03-02 Thread Peter Nuttall
Slightly OT, but I was in Rome a few weekends ago (to watch England vs Italy Rugby match) and we tried to get train tickets from the airport to the City ... The automatic machine we were using froze and then gave us the Blue Screen of Death It then rebooted itself and up came OS2 Warp V3 (

Re: What was old is new again (water chilled)

2010-02-18 Thread Peter Nuttall
I remember working as an operator on shift at a site in London (mid 80's). Think we had a 3081/3084. The water cooling was done by a bank of radiators out in the car park. The site was set on a roundabout and during the summer months the radiators would get so clogged up with the heat/congest

Re: Netiquette Guidelines (Was: Preview: z/OS V1.12)

2010-02-17 Thread Peter Nuttall
I blame Lotus Notes !! :-) "Steve Comstock" Sent by: "IBM Mainframe Discussion List" 16/02/2010 05:03 PM Please respond to "IBM Mainframe Discussion List" To IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu cc Subject Re: Netiquette Guidelines (Was: Preview: z/OS V1.12) Long lines are problematic

Re: IBM countersues Neon over zPrime accelerator

2010-02-05 Thread Peter Nuttall
Evolution ? ... I thought he was talking about management ? Sorry ... It is Friday !! > > The term "then-management" seems self-explanatory: They are not the > "now-management". :-) > > -jc- 'Because of' or just by natural evolution? Kees. -

COBOL compiler option TRUNC(BIN) performance degradation.

2007-04-24 Thread Peter Nuttall
Hi IBM-Main, I read somewhere that there have been some major performance improvements to the use of the TRUNC(BIN) compiler option. ENTERPRISE COBOL FOR Z/OS 3.3.1 and ENTERPRISE COBOL FOR Z/OS 3.4.0 Does anyone have any information on this ? ... The background on this is we are undergoin