Jim Mulder wrote:
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It checks to see
if you specified WLM PAV when you defined the device in HCD. Since
WLM doesn't need to manage PAVs when the control unit has been told
to use HyperPAV mode, our intention was that the specification of
WLM PAV in HCD would be irrelevant for HyperPAV
Gil,
While we're on editor techniques, can I do with ISPF
something I've found useful in XEDIT: momentarily and
reversibly display excluded lines. For example, after doing
the analogue of EXCLUDE ALL and a few FINDs, I can do
DISPLAY 0
... which displays only the remaining
Sam,
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Where did you see that? Is this something you ran into using
SA/390 or some other product that exploits an interface to the HMC?
snip
For last few years we have used exclusively GDPS Standard actions to manage
all our z/OS systems/lpars (IPL, stop, reset,...).
An SA/390 command
Sam,
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Has anyone else migrated to the z9 microcode level DRIVER 67? We are
planning on moving to DRIVER67L this weekend. This is concurrent as we have
all the requisites installed for it to be but seems to be a fairly large
bundle so I curious if anyone has had any problems.
snip
we
Radoslaw,
Regarding document mentioned by Brian (thank you BTW): this document is
*very* interesting, but it describes technical details of IPL, but not how
can I have it enabled, or why I don't have it.
Redbook Linux for zSeries: Fibre Channel Protocol Implementation Guide
^URL:
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Usually they mean binary kilo and mega, although it is not proper in
aspect of IS standard. However this is different story: for example
every RAM manufacturer use MB and GB instead of correct MiB and GiB.
Probably because the i qualifier is relatively recent? I do remember
Seagate
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You may be right. Someone elses post(after mine) said a search with 1 space
yielded the same results as 2 spaces, so it appears the blanks may be
getting eliminated.
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Not only mainframes have documentation - there is a help for each input
field and it is just a click away:
Help for
Gil,
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And, ironically, from a z/OS client:
EZA1701I SITE filetype=jes
502 SITE command not implemented.
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I have never seen this (it has worked on MVS, OS/390,and works on z/OS 1.8):
site filetype=jes
SITE filetype=jes
200 SITE command was accepted
Isn't the message you get
Apparently z/OS treats SITE as quote SITE.
According to RFC959 (4.1.3) SITE is an FTP service command. So only
clients not having SITE command implemented have to use 'quote SITE'
form. You have to use the quote command to forward the whole command
string to server.
Compare the replies to
Paul
It's now a bit of a puzzle how you got your copy and paste from the z/OS
client.
Solaris (or some other Unix) FTP server, saying that filetype=jes command
is not implemented or not allowed there?
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I just tried to print a data set list from ISRUDLP Data Set List Utility.
I got:
.---
--.
| The listing of data sets was placed in the ISPF list data set. Lines have
|
| been wrapped because the logical record length is
Paul,
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The JCL fragment:
//STEP EXEC PGM=IEFBR14
//*
//SYSUT1DD DSN=user.FOO.BAR.SMPLOG,DISP=(MOD,KEEP),
// VOL=SER=TSO026,
//UNIT=SYSALLDA
where 'user.FOO.BAR.SMPLOG' does not pre-exist on the volume produces
allocation messages:
IEF236I ALLOC.
Victor,
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Yesterday we tried to synchronize our Sysplex Timers with an ETS, but we
couldn't get it. My problem is I didn't find any manuals with help. It shows
an error window, but I don't know where to look for information about it.
Could you tell me where can I look for?
snip
have you seen
snip
I'm pretty sure the AO folks use it if there is a buffer shortage.
They parse the output to see what console has the shortage and change
it to roll mode or perhaps even VARY it OFFLINE.
If any console gets more that 200 messages, automation does a K
Q,L=consid to remove them.
Won't the
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But the configuration data (NED et al.) is stored in a control block that
has not been publicly documented. I believe that it, too, can be displayed
by an operator command. If an in-storage NED is hosed, a vary online or
reIPL may be necessary. Also a PTF may need to be applied.
snip
As I
snip
Thanks. They are __supposed__ to be ISO9660 filesystems that can be
burned. I say __supposed__ to be because they are somehow corrupt.
That's why my software (k3b to be exact) didn't like them.
snip
Have you tried to mount them as loop devices, something like
mount -t iso9660 -o loop
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in 1.7 with pdf3.4, the dsn list does have the reference date. the problem
may be the spflist lrecl going to 121 and truncating the last few fields.
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Look in ISPF Services Guide for
LMDLIST ... STATS(YES) ... === variable ZDLRDATE
or TSO/E REXX Reference
LISTDSI ...
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Once you're in gzip you can decompress it on a PC I'm sure.
Oh - you might have to pipe it through iconv to get it into ASCII /
Unicode before zipping it.
Thanks for the idea. It may be easier than trying to reverse engineer
TRSMAIN. Assuming that I had the talent to do so
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Of course most TSO users now have keyboards with SysRq, Scroll Lock,
and Pause/Break keys wasting space on their PCs.
Do they get used at all?
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We use Pause/Break key as Clear key.
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If I have a windows directory containing hundreds of files that all have the
same file extension eg filname.DEF, how can I drop the file extension and
get them into a pds on the mainframe.
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What about:
1. step
DOS command:
rename *.DEF *.
2. step
ftp with
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We want to share a few DASD among our four Lpars and have SMS
doing allocation. Each Lpar runs z/OS as a monoplex seperate
from the others. Two are 1.4 and two are 1.7 right now.
We do not have any kind of sysplex. Nor do we have an SMSplex,
whatever that is.
We would update SMS
Jan,
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Site-2 the recovery site with the PPRC-ed disks with the controlling K-sys
(The advantage of this is that the Controlling system will continue to be
available even if a disaster takes down the whole production site.).
snip
I would say you also need alternate couple datasets to be in
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Re. Paolo Cacciari saying:
Obviously, I assume that your Data Centers are not involved in a Dispersed
Parallel Sysplex.
It *IS* about a GDPS config, Paolo,
with the K-sys controlling system in the C/R site.
snip
What kind of D/R you want to have?
What do you plan for the case that you
skip
The STDENV dataset (which has to be a RECFM=VB and possibly LRECL=256). I
support a number of systems which are country specific but share the same
configuration files so I decided to use an MVS symbol for TZ. The symbols
correspond to the military/aviation timezone codes for Central
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You answered yourself. PREFLIST.
In case of further investigation: you can have multiple CFRM policies
with different PREFLISTs.
snip
Assuming it is a GRS star:
if he loses site1 with a CFRM policy without a site2 CF, he loses the
controlling system, too. That is surely a disadvantage.
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Are you sure that a single volume can't be known by two different
names? Consider: surely it's possible to rename a volume (the
verb clip comes to mind). Can one system dismount and rename
a volume while it remains mounted on another system, then
remount it by the new name while
Some time ago I made some changes in a rexx I found on the CBT tape (I'm
sorry not to know the author's name). It searches for a given string in all
datasets that match a given dataset name pattern and/or allocated on volumes
that match a given volser pattern. I use this JCL:
//T1AI$RCG JOB
A few years ago we conseidered implementing a message-flooding prevention
table. We have never used it, but maybe it could be interesting for you.
z/OS V1R7.0 Comm Svr: SNA Resource Definition Reference
URL:
http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/F1A1B650/5.7?DT=2
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//STEP0010 EXEC PGM=FTP,
// PARM='( EXIT TRACE TRANS PECTAPP.BLVTOBSP.TCPXLBIN'
EZA1451E Cannot load translate table specified by
TRANSLATE parameter PECTAPP.BLVTOBSP.TCPXLBIN
CX0278 main: Exit with error: 14
File DOES exist, it is in the correct format. I
works with other
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C:\FTP 12.34.56.78 [or whatever your mainframe's IP address or URL is]
Host name, not URL. FTP will not be able to parse a URL.
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I am not sure if I have tried FTP with URL instead of host name, but linux
FTP clients (ftp, lftp, ncftp), default Windows 2000
Shmuel,
That's nice, but 192.168.243.49 is not a URL.
Sorry and thank you for correcting me.
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C:\FTP 12.34.56.78 [or whatever your mainframe's IP address or URL is]
userid
password
lcd whatever Windows folder you want to put the members in
cd my.PDS.name
mget *
[hit enter for every prompt - alternatively use the prompt command first to
turn off prompting]
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I don't understand two things:
1. Who needs hundreds of linux servers on a single IFL, even if it is
possible?
2. Inactive partitions allocate no physical memory, but if I want to
activate them I must have memory available to accomodate their needs. That
means I must have the capacity although
No, until they need the memory, you can give it to other LPARs.
We haven't reconfigured the storage element offline in an active lpar for a
long time, but years ago we had a need once and it did not work, because
that was a CICS allocated storage and stopping it was the same as IPL.
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In the initial setup we defined in HCD base (3390B) and alias
(3390A) volumes with wlmpav=yes (for the aliases).
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Do you have WLMPAV=YES for the base volumes, too?
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I'm with Jim on this. I was a contractor in the mid to late '90's and came
across the early TCPIP stack, written in PASCAL and ported from VM. As I
recall it performed OK, and had some quite advanced features like VIPA
which was the subject of another recent thread.
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So I had them redo the request and I made sure to FTP it back to z/OS in
ascii mode. I still get the same error.
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What is the gain or the advantage of using ECS.
From an old redbook (Enhanced Catalog Sharing and Management, SG24-5594-00,
July 1999):
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When CAS opens an eligible catalog and the system is in catalog sharing
mode, as described in Activating ECS on page 18, the integrity VVR is
copied into
Darren wrote:
That problem has been rectified.
Thank you, Darren.
Sam wrote:
You can also search them through the Google Groups Archive
http://groups.google.com/groups?oi=djqas_ugroup=bit.listserv.ibm-main
Thank you, Sam. Using the mailing list exclusively, I just forget the
possibility
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I have a full test this weekend, so hopefully will have some of this ironed
out. I am going with a newly formatted CFRM dataset and retaining all the
other COUPLE datasets.
If I use a new CFRM dataset, where is the CF policy information stored? I
was thinking it was stored in the
Last few days I used Info-ZIP quite a lot (z/OS 1.6 and 1.7). The problem I
have is that the blocksize of zipped files equals 80, so the zipped files
need a lot of space. E.g.
adding: 'N500223/D#060301/CHAN#IOQ/RMF#BC01.TXT' (in=5893937)
(out=523379) (deflated 91%)
total bytes=5893937,
Read the trailer inserted by the list serve!
I have problems when searching the archives today.
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We were early users of XRC circa 1998. In our first few tests, we had
lingering problems because, with mirrored CFRM data set, the newly IPLed
systems could never get over the loss of the two CFs left back in the
smoking hole. They were convinced that some magic would bring the
Ron,
Are you using the BCM (Business Continuity Manager) Host software, or the
archaic PPRC commands?
As a GDPS PPRC site I believe we are stuck to PPRC commands.
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when I issue the console command DS QDASD,5B00 I receive the following
output:
RESPONSE=MJR0
IEE459I 14.41.05 DEVSERV QDASD 452
UNIT VOLSER SCUTYPE DEVTYPE CYL SSID SCU-SERIAL DEV-SERIAL EF-CHK
5B00 $X5B00 2107921 2107900 3339 A014 0175-BNCZ1 0175-BNCZ1 RDFEAT?
This thread has begun with a PPRCopy question. I am not sure if this two
parts of Bruce' mails (not to cite John and Ron) talk about PPRC (Truecopy)
or Flashcopy (Shadowimage). I wasn't able to see any of these features in
our z/OS 1.7 PPRC environment using HDS 9980.
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You don't
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as I wrote, you actually CAN mantain your CFRM couple datasets, with your
policy, provided that your policy comprises both primary and DR CF; what you
need to have for DR purposes only, is an empty and initialized XCF COUPLE
dataset (easy to do once and to forget) and a
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these datasets will be PPRC mirrored
One of the two sets of datasets IBM recommends to not mirror is the CDS set.
The other is PAGE.
I have another set that I never mirror'd: SCRATCH.
The overhead of synchronous mirroring kills the first two, for sure.
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The
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I was told that in order to do this the secondary volume labels' must be
clipped before I can bring them online but by clipping them I also loose the
primary-secondary volume relationships. Besides using another lpar or other
3rd party utilities to run the backups, how does one
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I thought that Hiperswap was a software only feature ( after all it only
swaps UCB's ) . So i am curious .. why would hardware matter ?
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I would not say that Hyperswap (GDPS) only swaps UCB's. It must communicate
the hardware to change the mirroring direction at
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We've got a problem with clist. The character [ and ] (left and right
square brackets) are stored ok in the dataset (x'AD' and x'BD') but when
clist displays them at terminal they appear as : (colon). This is true even
if the clist displays any dataset with [ or ].
/snip
Non-displayable
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Example:
IEASYM (00,Z0,L)
NUCLST Z0
PARMLIB SYS1.LPLEX.PARMLIB
PARMLIB SYS1.PARMLIB
PARMLIB SYS1.IBM.PARMLIB
SYSCAT CATL00133CCATALOG.LPLEX.MASTER
SYSPARM (Z0)
*-*
* SL20 SPECIFIC VALUES
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NUCLST Z0
PARMLIB SYS1.LPLEX.PARMLIB
PARMLIB SYS1.PARMLIB
PARMLIB SYS1.IBM.PARMLIB
SYSCAT CATL00133CCATALOG.LPLEX.MASTER
*-*
* SL20 SPECIFIC VALUES*
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Different local offsets in the CLOCKxx member. Or somebody does a weird
T CLOCK= command. The TOD clocks must be in sync. But the local times
may differ.
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Well, I know that. We don't use it, but I think I have no problems
understanding it.
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You normally don't see this, but this still does not mean it cannot occur.
Were the devices really offline?
I do not believe they were offline in the system (another thing to check
during the test!), but they were offline in the real world.
The UCB Online, Alloc, Busy etc. indicators are
Kees,
are you testing disaster situations
We are a GDPS site, 3 production parallel sysplexes, 2 - 3 sites, PPRC and
Hyperswap, with unplanned Hyperswap in test parallel sysplexes (two of
them). A smaller part of production volumes is not mirrored (customer's
decision).
Because of GPDS we do
A few times I had to check the system datasets (or sysres volumes) for a
specific string occurence. I found it very expensive (CPU and elapsed time)
to search a PDS dataset using rexx (allocating every single member as a
sequential dataset). To reduce the number of allocations I called program
Walt,
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Unfortunately, since different systems in a sysplex (or sharing the
spool) could have very different times and dates, they could get very
unexpected results if we let those symbols be used in batch job JCL.
Suppose the job converted on a system where the date is today,
John,
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I've lost track here! You're running GDPS (I assume with PPRC and
Hyperswap), and you lost power to your secondary site. I assume that those
devices were also the secondary Duplex devices.
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Yes, GDPS with PPRC and Hyperswap. But, we have simplex (i.e.
Hello!
Scenario:
A power loss for an storage subsystem.
Situation:
The applications having allocated volumes on that subsystem hang.
Neither system nor applications know that these volumes are no more
accessible.
There are no messages in syslog / operlog / application logs about any
problems
Kees,
thank you for the reply.
I wonder if the I/O does not time out and recovery procedures will be
driven.
In that case the timeouts must be extremly long (more than a couple of
hours) g.
You could try the V ,OFFLINE,FORCE to Box devices. This will terminate
all outstanding I/O's with
Hello Peter,
What does a D IOS,MIH,DEV=/cuaa for one of the hanging devices tell
you?
00:45.
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So, missing interupt messages should pop up after 45 seconds. Don't you
see any IOS messages in the syslog?
Yes,
IOS002A NO PATH AVAILABLE ...
at the moment the electricity was gone.
By the time we tried to fix the problems in DB2, we found that the status of
alloc for those devices somehow
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We have 2 LPARs in a sysplex, running on 2 different machines in 2 different
sites.
What happened was we lost connectivity between our 2 sites for a few
seconds.
As a result, MVSB (running in site B) lost its connectivity to the
primary SYSPELX couple data set residing on dasd in
Bill,
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The existence of signalling
connectivity created a race condition, in which MVSA and MVSB were
competing to detect and report the loss of access to the CDS at their
respective sites. MVSB won the race, detecting and signalling the loss of
the primary CDS before MVSA
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//*
//STEP1EXEC PGM=IEFBR14
//TEMP DD DISP=(,PASS),SPACE=(TRK,0),UNIT=SYSDA
//*
//STEP2EXEC PGM=IEFBR14
//TEMP2 DD DISP=(OLD,PASS),DSN=*.STEP1.TEMP
//*
I get the following allocation messages for STEP2:
I'm experiencing some problem on finding the books. A serach in the
redbook site shows no results for ABCs V3/4/6/7/8. Any idea ?
Searching for abcs of z/os I get 9 hits. Volume 3 is there too:
4. ABCs of z/OS System Programming Volume 3, SG24-6983-01
Redbook, published 7 November 2005,
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Not to mention with a wait stated system, since you cannot 'attach a zillion
page packs'. You are limited to 253x4GB page space, about one TB.
snip
Having so many page space makes one want to use dynamic PAV volumes, it
means 253x2 device devices addresses, and it means maximum 128 base
snip
The differing datasets are
temporary, allocated dynamically by processes running on your system,
and you're listing a volume that's designated in your temp pool.
Between the time your rexx reads that dataset list, and then reads it
again, these easily could have changed. You're not scanning
Sorry.
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- second part: only the dataset name
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should be:
- second part: only the last dataset name
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Is it now?
No.
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It depends on what you call CF mirroring: System Managed Coupling Facility
Structure Duplexing is supported now. This requires direct links between the
CF's and these links seem to be limited to 5 km to prevent unacceptable
delays.
According to System-Managed CF Structure Duplexing, page 32
We have two ESS800 in two locations with PPRC v2. We plan to power-off
ESS_A (primary) for realocation (1-2 hours). For this period of time
system and application will be stopped.
During this time we don’t plan to start system in secondary location, so
there will be no update on ESS_B
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To all who have helped with our research into GDPS with SRDF/A,
THANKS!
What we've found is that virtually no one is running a GDPS with syncronous
data replication, and we fould only one instance of active data sharing
across sites.
We did find a handful of people running dual sites
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XMIT nwic.myuhas dsname('ij.source') outdsname('ij.xmit')
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Have you checked the content of 'ij.xmit'?
In my test I've got the same messages and there was no reference of the
outdsname:
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They are functionally equivalent.
If I try IFIND in SDSF under SE or SJ, the cursor jumps to the first
(non-blank?) character in the next line, not to the next occurrence of the
string. if I try IFIND under SB nothing happens (the cursor does not move).
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Also there's the concept that with copy commands the file already existed on
the source (and target) environment; with FTP, by nature it's a 'foreign'
file which didn't previously exist on teh target system. It's therefore a
new creation at the time it was sent.
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To me it looks like
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It's easy to suspect that at some point in time IBM resolved all such
problems by adopting a tactic of converting DSN=NULLFILE to DUMMY early in
the JCL conversion process, and that the few (only?)
contributor[s] to this thread that maintain (without presenting evidence)
that the behaviors
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PDFs, IMO, are wonderful to print from. They are nice for serial reading
(oh, how do I bookmark so that I come back to where I left off?).
/snip
I have Acrobat Reader 6.0.2 in german language, so there will be some
problems with vocabulary:
- Ctrl-K (go to General settings or something
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Depending on how the .PDF was generated, you might not even be able to do
that. I was reading one a couple of days ago and needed to go to section
2-4 or some such, according to the index. With some PDFs, you can type
2-4 into the page number field and jump directly there. Not so with
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