A few years ago, inspired by a beverage wager, I allocated a large PDSE,
FB-256, and started using it to store output listings. Every day it would
accumulate about 300 output files.
After I accumulated about 2K members I decided to make it interesting. I
wrote up a sort job that read a test fi
Intriguing! Edit the JCL in hex, look for oddities in column 72.
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On Thu, 4 Feb
A long time ago I set up Quickref to contain several "user defined
databases" to contain miscellaneous documentation. The users liked it
because QW on a cursor position was a decent keyword search. We various
techies maintained doc on a variety of topics, MVS, CICS, RACF, OEM
products, good lunch
1972 Chevrolet Vega, 4 cylinder, aluminum block. At 50K miles a quart of
oil per tank of gas (250 miles). At 60,000 miles blue smoke. At 75,000
miles I rebuilt it with iron sleeves. That rebuild lasted 100K miles till
the rust issue made my feet cold.
My brand new 1966 Mustang had factory stan
Sorry I lost track of most of the interim suggestions toward this thread.
Did anyone suggest using a PDSE as the target library? Years ago I cobbled
together a poor man's scheduling system that used a single PDSE as a
repository of members that each nightly batch job would add, as they
completed w
does to my
machine (a small uni) when I run MXG, what is the overhead of using SAS to
e-mail out a bunch of 1-3 page reports?
Thanks.
Rex
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To
Do you have SAS ?
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Hi all,
Sorry in advance for the probability
Isn't this why parallel sysplex was invented ?
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Sent: Tuesday, October 06, 2009 3:10 PM
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Subject: IBMLink Scheduled Outages
*FYI* From IBMLink News.
The whole idea of "production" user profiles is that they have no passwords,
thus limiting the access to them to surrogat profiles. The RACF surrogat
class, in the form "userid.submit", as others have cited, can provide the
ability for USERA to submit a job with USER=USERB, with no password opera
If I knew the password I'd simply log on myself and submit..
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Sent: Monday, October 05, 2009 2:47 PM
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> -
Length schmength, it depends what's in it. I use any PDS as a clist
repository and allocate it whenever I need it.
Most of the time I like whatever fits on my screen but I keep a 300 lrecl
around in case I have a slew of really wide RACF commands, like a full width
alter of installation data.
Agreed. I'll repeat my tiresome mantra that anyone with a list of all RACF
users can mechanically revoke almost all of them as fast as initiators are
available.
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say name
return
Eric Spencer
Product Author
Neon Enterprise Software
espen...@neon.com
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Years ago in a small shop with no RACF add on tools were faced with the same
challenge. Various support groups knew the user profile but wanted to look
up the name. No doubt many various apps were developed over the years to
read the RACF type 0200 record, or some derivation of it.
Being the l
There have been quite a few helpful suggestions in response to the quest of
a "utility." I wish to suggest a simpler and cheaper method. Simply
IEBCOPY the PDS or PDSE to a GDG dataset of nnn depth on a daily (or more
often) basis. We've been doing this for years to protect a departmental
based
Hmmm, technical training. Isn't this what Comstock does for a living. :-D
Sorry Steve, I couldn't resist.
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Sent: Tuesday, July 28, 2009 1:42
Umm, uh, yes I know, uh uh, a friend told me. Yea that's it. A friend told
me.
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Sent: Thursday, July 23, 2009 3:33 PM
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that Mainframe any
Performance issue ?
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> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Tony B.
>
> Is anyone else out there concerned that it's a RACF db being sent
down the
> pipe? I'll speculate the RACF-L folks do.
If they're
Is anyone else out there concerned that it's a RACF db being sent down the
pipe? I'll speculate the RACF-L folks do.
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Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 2009 9:13 AM
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If you have a current output file from IRRDBU00 handy, select the type 0404
records. The profile name is column 10, the auth-id in column 62.
Remember it's VB for allow 4 bytes.
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Do you recall the details of the DOS ?
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Sent: Monday, July 20, 2009 10:47 AM
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P S wrote:
>Does anyone here recall any pu
Back in the old days diesel fuel was sold to farmers, bulk delivered to a
home tank, for tractor use only, cheaper and exempt from road use tax. It
was color dyed for obvious reasons. Occasionally a pickup truck would be
seen in town with a splash of reddish purple around the gas cap.
Likewise your favorite SORT product.
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Sent: Thursday, July 16, 2009 7:07 PM
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Subject: Re: Submit a JCL from within another JCL
On Thu, 16 Jul 2009 18:06
Oh yuk, you've just unleashed a storm of Survey Spam. You should have
asked for private replies. We might be interested in the summary but not
the ongoing tabulation.
updating my subject line filter. :-(((
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We have many examples of copying SD files into a PDS (PDSE preferred) using
DF/SORT. The output DD looks like
//sortout dd dsn=your.pds(newmemb1),disp=shr
or if you need multiples:
//sortout1 dd dsn=your.pdse(newmemb1),disp=shr
//sortout2 dd dsn=your.pdse(newmemb2),disp=shr
.
At the risk of missing the obvious, why aren't IBM, CA, BMC, et al, having
the same concerns? Copyrights are copyrights.
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Of shai hess
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Not true. I have many working examples of "include" statements that precede
steps. The functionality depends on what the "include" contains.
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Gives new meaning to the term "laptop."
.groans
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Of Elardus Engelbrecht
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Tony B. wrote:
> Protecting ADRDSSSU is nonsense.
Why?
There are two ways to protect ADRDSSU in RACF:
1. PROGRAM CLASS
2. FACILITY
No and no. Protecting ADRDSSSU is nonsense.
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On Mon, 27 Apr 2009 23:56:34
Thoroughly understandable. Hmm, they sold DASD back then didn't they ?
;-)
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Allocate a PDSE and write a series of members. Some may come up empty which
you can delete by counting records and setting a condition code. Then FTP
the surviving members.
A couple of years ago I won a beer bet by allocating a PDSE and reading an
input file and writing out 10,000 output members
g
How do any of these "considerations" differ between an exit and the key
applications the business depends on and without which they wouldn't need a
computer system at all (or even be in business)?
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From: Tony B.
Sent: Friday, March 06, 2009 10:55 AM
Exits are a good alternative when: 1. The skillful author never retires,
finds a better job, gets laid off, is transferred, gets fired, wins the
lottery, or ages. 2. The company never is merged, acquired, downsizes, asks
for a government bailout, acquires another RACF company. 3. The source is
ne
DF/SORT and/or ICETOOL are my first 2 choices. Examples abound. Take a
look at Frank Y.'s examples in the IBM web site first. I wrote several
DF/SORT based SMF jobs years ago before we purchased a product that does a
much better job.
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Where's Shai Hess when we need him ?
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Bruce McKnight writes:
> This is kind of an o
I'm proud of that boy Yaeger, I trained him well.;-D
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David Lover wrote on 1
I can, even without looking at the output. Had you posted the output you
would have seen it as well, thus saving you having to post...
mobius loop?
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For those who have another lpar in the same jes plex, the user can simply
log on there and cancel themselves. We've been doing this for years.
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One idea - can you
If the OP's issue is "I hear we're losing SAS and I really want it to help
with RACF reporting" there are alternatives that are without incremental
cost.
It's possible to develop a complete reporting system based on IRRDBU00
output using DF/SORT, ICE, etc. It's not difficult programming (since I,
Having had a couple of years of experience in our hybrid RACF/TSS sysplex I
can sum up the compatibility matrix.
Most things work, some things don't. The ones that don't, quit doing them.
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As a sidebar comment we recently completed a large TSS to RACF conversion,
during which time various lpars withing out sysplex operated under one of
the 2 products while we phased in the conversion. While we did not hear of
any negative recommendations to this effect (IBM helped with the conversio
You should re-title your project
"I read everything from IBM-MAIN, RACF-L, and CICS-L and actually understood
all that was said."
That would impress anyone. :-)
Here's wishing you the best for your future career.
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As another response suggested simply appending MGMTCLASS(NOMIG) each line
would work.
PARM MARGINS(01 80) would help if you're about to fill a line.
Oddly I tried another experiment with a PDS with LRECL. PARM MARGINS(01
133) is accepted but the parameters can't use columns after 80.
HTH.
As it is here. No external email is accessible. It is possible to
subscribe to an ISP that auto-forwards
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Supposedly they develop mainframe/open systems related products.
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Having suggested ISAM, tongue in cheek, I should submit a serious proposal.
Depending on the needs of your resulting application (maybe it's all batch
??) , any sequential disk file can have "keys" in a logical sense if you can
exploit the features of DF/SORT and its SPLICE capability.
Is there a
ISAM.
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Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2008 10:27 AM
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Subject: Datasets with KEYs
Hi,
I need to create and populate a NON-VSAM Dataset that contains KEYS.
Is
"introduced in 1959 and popularized in the 60s and 70s."
As was the interstate highway system and who would wager which would outlive
the other?
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I too, after being absent since San Francisco in '99 will be making the
trip. Looking forward to seeing one and all.
tb
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Sent: Monday, July 28, 2008 11:19 AM
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Can you customize Control-M to create datasets with a certain naming
convention? For example the output files would be called:
SPECHLQ.CONTROLM.COPIED.SYSOUT.whatever-the-job-name-is
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For the examples below:
TSS ADD( any-dept-acid ) IBMFAC(IRRDPIOO)
TSS PERMIT(jeg) IBMFAC(IRRDPIOO) ACCESS(READ)
If further information is needed regarding this "translation" is needed, let
me know.
There is a Top Secret related list server in YAHOO.
"John Eells" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote i
I bet Shai Hess knows...
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The xenophobia disappears quickly enough. Once we had some experience with
a number of offshore contractors (UK, Eastern Europe, India, China) we
discovered that the talent level is the same bell curve we have here. A few
truly talented folks, a few really unskilled folks and the large bell in
be
Sure we can:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGRCn0vwK3c
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I wouldn't be so hasty to turn this down. It's been a long time since I was
unemployed but I clearly remember the concept of what numbers are greater
than zero. If I had to, I'd take this job, treat it as temporary, just as I
have treated every job I ever had. What they are offering is certainly
Nice to hear from you again, Mr. Hess. I found your software to be
interesting and hope you keep up the good work.
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Subject: Re: Identify matching records
Thanks, I did go looking for examples in the DFHSORT web site but couldn't
locate them. What is this link?
Thanks
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
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Sent: Friday, April 25, 2008 12:04
>From various examples in the DF/SORT web site.
//STEP1EXEC PGM=ICETOOL
//TOOLMSG DD SYSOUT=*
//DFSMSGDD SYSOUT=*
//I DD DISP=SHR,DSN=INPUT1
// DD DISP=SHR,DSN=INPUT2
//MATCH DD SYSOUT=*
//NONMATCH DD SYSOUT=*
//TOOLINDD *
SELECT FROM(I) TO(MATCH)
addtionally these world class instructions have been packaged into a PF key
setting:
x all ; find all
which allows the user to simply key in:
pfkey -string-
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agree 100%. I was especially insulted by a post a few weeks ago where the
subject line
contained verbiage similar to what our tech support group sees, "Emergency,
High Priority
Application Failure! " Like we drop what we're doing to help them
out...
We should quit being baby sitters for th
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