Re: ESOTERIC decomissioning

2005-11-17 Thread Big Iron
005 7:09 AM >To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU >Subject: Re: ESOTERIC decomissioning > >On Wed, 16 Nov 2005 17:16:58 -0600, Big Iron ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >wrote: > >> >>The problem with esoterics in the catalog is that there is a sequence >>number included in the de

Re: ESOTERIC decomissioning

2005-11-17 Thread Gabe Torres
ECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Zelden Sent: Thursday, November 17, 2005 7:09 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: ESOTERIC decomissioning On Wed, 16 Nov 2005 17:16:58 -0600, Big Iron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >The problem with esoterics in the catalog is that there is a sequence >nu

Re: ESOTERIC decomissioning

2005-11-17 Thread Mark Zelden
On Wed, 16 Nov 2005 17:16:58 -0600, Big Iron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >The problem with esoterics in the catalog is that there is a >sequence number >included in the device type entry, so if you remove one, all the other ones >with larger sequence numbers will change; so if there are esoterics

Re: ESOTERIC decomissioning

2005-11-16 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
At 17:16 -0600 on 11/16/2005, Big Iron wrote about ESOTERIC decomissioning: The problem with esoterics in the catalog is that there is a sequence number included in the device type entry, so if you remove one, all the other ones with larger sequence numbers will change; so if there are

Re: ESOTERIC decomissioning

2005-11-16 Thread Gabe Torres
There is the utility IEFESO in SAMPLIB, in conjunction with the member IEFESOJL. You can modify the asm code to your liking. We did some very basic changes to it to get what we wanted. I ended up with a report like this: Data set FAC.CB.CH.CIMSDISK.BKPOCT03 was found to be cata

ESOTERIC decomissioning

2005-11-16 Thread Big Iron
You can find entries in a catalog that specify an esoteric. They look like x'8000' (tape) or x'2000' (disk) where is a binary sequence number. Other than say JES2 EXIT 6 or something similar, it would be harder to identify jobs that specify an esoteric. A batch job will JCL error if i