Re: IEFUJI or IEFUJV sample %%%$$%#????

2014-10-06 Thread R.S.
W dniu 2014-10-06 o 06:49, Brian Westerman pisze: I got two completely different (and dumb) emails, I can post them here if you want, but under no circumstances do I want you to send me any more email off-list. So, why don't you consider it's a hoax? Elardus clearly claimed he didn't sent

Re: IEFUJI or IEFUJV sample %%%$$%#????

2014-10-06 Thread Richards, Robert B.
Also uses Abe Korneels and lists various email ids @abcconsulting -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Ed Jaffe Sent: Monday, October 06, 2014 1:41 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: IEFUJI or IEFUJV sample

Re: IEFUJI or IEFUJV sample %%%$$%#????

2014-10-06 Thread Thomas Berg
As Elardus says I did e-mail to you ONE reply and that was also on the list and that he is a longtime partaker in this list I think he is worth at least the benefit of a doubt. With that I mean it would be good for this list, Elardus and you if you would supply the off list mails - including

Re: IEFUJI or IEFUJV sample %%%$$%#????

2014-10-06 Thread Elardus Engelbrecht
Thomas Berg wrote: With that I mean it would be good for this list, Elardus and you if you would supply the off list mails - including the email headers - to this list. Then we can make a more fair judgment. Ok. I'm going to jump in and then go hiding. That insulter CC me when he replied

Interested in BASH becoming part of z/OS UNIX? Vote for requirement 60048

2014-10-06 Thread Peter Hunkeler
Cross-Posted to IBM-MAIN and MVS-OE People at our installation have got used to use BASH. I think it would be about time BASH becomes an integral part of z/OS UNIX Sevices. I have opened a requirement for this. Title: Provide officially supported version of BASH shell for z/OS UNIX Link:

Re: Interested in BASH becoming part of z/OS UNIX? Vote for requirement 60048

2014-10-06 Thread Bob Shannon
Title: Provide officially supported version of BASH shell for z/OS UNIX Just my opinion, but since BASH is a port of open source software, I don't think it can ever be incorporated into USS. Bob Shannon Rocket Software Rocket Software, Inc. and subsidiaries ■

Re: Interested in BASH becoming part of z/OS UNIX? Vote for requirement 60048

2014-10-06 Thread Elardus Engelbrecht
Peter Hunkeler wrote: People at our installation have got used to use BASH. I think it would be about time BASH becomes an integral part of z/OS UNIX Sevices. I have opened a requirement for this. Thats a cool idea! I believe many will benefit from it. Link:

Re: z/OS datasets that must be in the MCAT (UNCLASSIFIED)

2014-10-06 Thread John Eells
Basically, if I recall correctly*, the ServerPac dialog MCAT=Y flag means one of more of: - The data set absolutely must be in the master catalog or something won't work. What something might be is left as an excercise to the Alert Sysprog, but it ranges from the system won't IPL to things

Re: Interested in BASH becoming part of z/OS UNIX? Vote for requirement 60048

2014-10-06 Thread Lindy Mayfield
Some years ago, back when it was Tools Toys there was bash and I installed it and used it. I really liked it (compared to sh) but it was just too buggy so I removed it. If it is still around, and it's updated, then perhaps I'll give it a go again. Lindy -Original Message- From: IBM

Re: Interested in BASH becoming part of z/OS UNIX? Vote for requirement 60048

2014-10-06 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Mon, 6 Oct 2014 14:59:29 +0200, Peter Hunkeler wrote: People at our installation have got used to use BASH. I think it would be about time BASH becomes an integral part of z/OS UNIX Sevices. I have opened a requirement for this. Title: Provide officially supported version of BASH shell for

Linklist load during IPL message

2014-10-06 Thread Jake anderson
Hi Group, We had a situation where a DB2 program DSN3INI was not found due to which the DB2 start up command showed invalid command. I checked up the SYSLOG and I do not see any evidence where LINKLIST libraries are loaded. Then Removed the DB2 subsystem dynamically from the IEFSSNxx and readded

Re: Linklist load during IPL message

2014-10-06 Thread Scott Ford
Jake: I would think you could search thru the Linklist and find if the module was missing … I think ISRDDN can do it Regards, Scott From: Jake anderson Sent: ‎Monday‎, ‎October‎ ‎6‎, ‎2014 ‎11‎:‎20‎ ‎AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Hi Group, We had a situation where a DB2

Re: Interested in BASH becoming part of z/OS UNIX? Vote for requirement 60048

2014-10-06 Thread John McKown
On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 7:59 AM, Peter Hunkeler p...@gmx.ch wrote: Cross-Posted to IBM-MAIN and MVS-OE People at our installation have got used to use BASH. I think it would be about time BASH becomes an integral part of z/OS UNIX Sevices. I have opened a requirement for this. Title:

Re: Linklist load during IPL message

2014-10-06 Thread John McKown
As mentioned using DDLIST and doing a LINKLIST is helpful. An alternative is the z/OS operator command: d prog,lnklst On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 10:20 AM, Jake anderson justmainfra...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Group, We had a situation where a DB2 program DSN3INI was not found due to which the DB2

Re: Interested in BASH becoming part of z/OS UNIX? Vote for requirement 60048

2014-10-06 Thread John McKown
On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 8:40 AM, Bob Shannon bshan...@rocketsoftware.com wrote: Title: Provide officially supported version of BASH shell for z/OS UNIX Just my opinion, but since BASH is a port of open source software, I don't think it can ever be incorporated into USS. Bob Shannon Rocket

Re: Linklist load during IPL message

2014-10-06 Thread Lizette Koehler
Jake, Check your IEASYSxx member. Ensure the PROGxx members contain the library you are looking for. Check your SYSLOG at IPL time. See if there is an error message indicating a library was not found. If you have Mark Zelden's IPLINFO REXX, that can help you isolate what is or is not being

Re: Linklist load during IPL message

2014-10-06 Thread Jake anderson
I did D PROG,LNKLST and ISRDDN and i see the SDSNLINK (after IPL) which has DSN3INI module in it. I am not sure why i received the below message during IPL IEE252I MEMBER IEFSSN00 FOUND IN SYS1.PARMLIB CSR002I BATCH LSR SUBSYSTEM BLSR INITIALIZATION COMPLETE. IEFJ004I SUBSYSTEM xxx NOT

Re: Linklist load during IPL message

2014-10-06 Thread Ron Graham
Data sets can be added to the LINKLIST after the initial IPL. I do this using a PROGxx member in PARMLIB and then issuing the T PROG=xx command: LNKLST DEFINE NAME(LNKLST11) COPYFROM(LNKLST00) LNKLST ADD NAME(LNKLST11) DSN(data.set.to.add)

Re: Linklist load during IPL message

2014-10-06 Thread Jake anderson
I did Mark Zeldens utility TSO IPLINFO ALL and i see the required DB2 linklist is loaded. The LNKLST00 has not changed after IPL. Is it possible SDSNLINK was added to the LINKLIST after the IEFSSN00 was processed? Not sure. On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 9:38 PM, Ron Graham

Re: z/OS datasets that must be in the MCAT (UNCLASSIFIED)

2014-10-06 Thread Storr, Lon A CTR USARMY HRC (US)
Classification: UNCLASSIFIED Caveats: NONE Thanks again John for taking quite a bit of your time to answer so thoroughly. One of my clients wishes to adhere, as much as possible, to their naming and system-design standards: 1) SYS1 is SMP/E target 2) SYS2 contains read-only configuration items

Re: Linklist load during IPL message

2014-10-06 Thread Lucas Rosalen
Jake, Is SDSNLINK with 1 ext only? Also, is in cataloged in MCAT? *Lucas Rosalen* 2014-10-06 13:12 GMT-03:00 Jake anderson justmainfra...@gmail.com: I did Mark Zeldens utility TSO IPLINFO ALL and i see the required DB2 linklist is loaded. The LNKLST00 has not changed after IPL. Is it

Re: Linklist load during IPL message

2014-10-06 Thread Jake anderson
Lucas Its on single extent. The sdsnlink is catalogued to a usercat. On 6 Oct 2014 22:42, Lucas Rosalen rosalen.lu...@gmail.com wrote: Jake, Is SDSNLINK with 1 ext only? Also, is in cataloged in MCAT? *Lucas Rosalen* 2014-10-06 13:12 GMT-03:00 Jake anderson justmainfra...@gmail.com: I

Re: Interested in BASH becoming part of z/OS UNIX? Vote for requirement 60048

2014-10-06 Thread Mark Post
On 10/6/2014 at 11:52 AM, John McKown john.archie.mck...@gmail.com wrote: ​It is integrated into almost every Linux distribution in existence, even the ones such as RHEL which require licensing fees.​ And now for a meta-quibble. Red Hat doesn't charge licensing fees. Like SUSE, they charge

Re: z/OS datasets that must be in the MCAT (UNCLASSIFIED)

2014-10-06 Thread Elardus Engelbrecht
Storr, Lon A wrote: 1) SYS1 is SMP/E target All of IBM's products? Or just some of them? For example, my SYS1.HRF* are in MCAT and CEE.*, IGY.* and similar also. thanks Elardus for your confirmation regarding SMS. It was my big pleasure. I'm very humbled that I could be of service to you.

Re: IEFUJI or IEFUJV sample %%%$$%#????

2014-10-06 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In a6c06.44fceb67.4162e...@aol.com, on 10/05/2014 at 02:47 PM, Ed Finnell 000248cce9f3-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu said: What's the term-'fomenters of dissent'. My first use of auto-delete filter. Or if you understand how to analyze the headers, complain about the forgery to his

Re: IEFUJI or IEFUJV sample %%%$$%#????

2014-10-06 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 8449860500681215.wa.elardus.engelbrechtsita.co...@listserv.ua.edu, on 10/05/2014 at 09:09 AM, Elardus Engelbrecht elardus.engelbre...@sita.co.za said: My only reply was also on-list where I offered you to contact me off-list. I'm not surprised; there are a bunch of sociopaths that consider

Re: Linklist load during IPL message

2014-10-06 Thread Jousma, David
Is the DB2 loadlibrary in the PROGxx member as part of the IPL linklist concatenation, or is being added dynamically to linklist? If being added dynamically, you could have a timing issue of when those commands execute in relation to the processing of the IEFSSNxx member.

RES: Linklist load during IPL message

2014-10-06 Thread ITURIEL DO NASCIMENTO NETO
Hi, In the past we had a problem in IPL when initializing DB2 subsystem. The cause was that DB2 subsystem were been initialized before SMS subsystem, causing an error. We changed SMS to be the first subsystem (as it should) and everything initialized successfully. Atenciosamente / Regards /

Re: z/OS datasets that must be in the MCAT (UNCLASSIFIED)

2014-10-06 Thread John Eells
lon.a.storr@mail.mil (Storr, Lon A CTR USARMY HRC , US) wrote: snip I intend to build a test z/OS image to test my beliefs. If system-initialization functions as per my current beliefs, I don't see any reason why this site can't move forward. They would need to understand that certain

Re: RES: Linklist load during IPL message

2014-10-06 Thread Jake anderson
Hi Yes the db2 linklist are in sms managed volume but i suspect if SMS was initialized after db2 subsystem initialization. Let me review the log again but it was never a problem in previous IPLs. Thanks for a valuable point. On 6 Oct 2014 23:10, ITURIEL DO NASCIMENTO NETO

Re: Linklist load during IPL message

2014-10-06 Thread Pommier, Rex
Jake, You mentioned that SDSNLINK is in a USERCAT. Do you have VOLUME(xx) defined in PROGxx for your SDSNLINK or are you relying on the catalog to find it? It is documented (at least at z/OS 1.13) that it must either be cataloged in the master catalog or have a VOLUME parameter to be

Re: Linklist load during IPL message

2014-10-06 Thread Staller, Allan
I do not believe that the CAS is available at the initial LNKLST build time. Thus, datasets in LNKLST *MUST* be in LNKLST at IPL time. They can be added later, which describes the symptoms in your OP. I believe if you peruse the system log, you will find a message SDSNLINK NOT FOUND HTH, snip

Re: Linklist load during IPL message

2014-10-06 Thread Lucas Rosalen
No IEA716I messages during the IPL? 2014-10-06 15:15 GMT-03:00 Staller, Allan allan.stal...@kbmg.com: I do not believe that the CAS is available at the initial LNKLST build time. Thus, datasets in LNKLST *MUST* be in LNKLST at IPL time. They can be added later, which describes the symptoms in

Re: PSF OGL PPFA ACIF alternatives?

2014-10-06 Thread Ken Porowski
Objective is saving $$$ I only have about 10-20 forms in use and maybe a few more pagedefs. Printing with forms or special pagedef is on the light side maybe 10K per month. I've got a few workgroup printers with IPDS cards in them as well as 2 large Infoprint printers. Cost just for the

Re: PSF OGL PPFA ACIF alternatives?

2014-10-06 Thread Gibney, Dave
We dropped PSF many years ago in favor of VPS (and DRS) from Levi, Ray and Shoup. We still keep OGL, PPFA and DCF around for making changes to the letters. I can't promise $$$ savings as LRS isn't all that cheap. I understand MacKinney is also a possibility. I don't know ACIF :)

Re: z/OS datasets that must be in the MCAT (UNCLASSIFIED)

2014-10-06 Thread Storr, Lon A CTR USARMY HRC (US)
Classification: UNCLASSIFIED Caveats: NONE John: I would agree that CPP does a reasonable job regarding the configuration options which are supported. I don't believe that there is anything marked MCAT=Y that shouldn't be; CPP must accommodate all enterprises and users of all skill levels.

Re: IEFUJI or IEFUJV sample %%%$$%#????

2014-10-06 Thread Ed Jaffe
On 10/6/2014 3:37 AM, Elardus Engelbrecht wrote: That insulter CC me when he replied twice to the OP. I think this is because I replied on-list on IBM-MAIN to the OP. I'm absolutely disgusted about those comments and I don't blame the OP for his rants. I think we have a pretty good idea who

Extensions (was: Interested in BASH ... )

2014-10-06 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On 2014-10-06 06:59, Peter Hunkeler wrote: Cross-Posted to IBM-MAIN and MVS-OE People at our installation have got used to use BASH. I think it would be about time BASH becomes an integral part of z/OS UNIX Sevices. I have opened a requirement for this. Title: Provide officially

Re: IEFUJI or IEFUJV sample %%%$$%#????

2014-10-06 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 8570813056801406.wa.brianwestermansyzygyinc@listserv.ua.edu, on 10/05/2014 at 11:49 PM, Brian Westerman brian_wester...@syzygyinc.com said: I got two completely different (and dumb) emails, I'm sure that you did, but what makes you believe that they are from him? -- Shmuel

Re: Any standard IBM tool to set ISPF statistics in a batch step?

2014-10-06 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In ofb21d8206.2b6c4d45-on85257d69.000dc2ef-85257d69.000dc...@us.ibm.com, on 10/05/2014 at 10:30 PM, Peter Relson rel...@us.ibm.com said: On a marginally related subject, JCL supports a hyphen within a data set name It used to allow a hyphen within a member name; the hyphen was convenient as

Re: IEFUJI or IEFUJV sample %%%$$%#????

2014-10-06 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 7417043919789655.wa.elardus.engelbrechtsita.co...@listserv.ua.edu, on 10/06/2014 at 05:37 AM, Elardus Engelbrecht elardus.engelbre...@sita.co.za said: I will leave it to the OP to publish the two mails+headers to IBM-MAIN. How do you expect him to post e-mails that he never sent and that

Re: Interested in BASH becoming part of z/OS UNIX? Vote for requirement 60048

2014-10-06 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In ff20166754dd42f88d14b7ec818d3...@wal-vm-mbx1.rocketsoftware.com, on 10/06/2014 at 01:40 PM, Bob Shannon bshan...@rocketsoftware.com said: Just my opinion, but since BASH is a port of open source software, I don't think it can ever be incorporated into USS. No, but it can be incorporated

Re: Accessing VSAM Data from non-zOS platform

2014-10-06 Thread Lizette Koehler
How will you be using the data? LUW, Oracle, other? Do you use NFS or other accesses? You can offload the VSAM with REPRO but then the receiving system would need to be able to read the data. If you could explain the process you will be using the VSAM data in, it will help. Also, what

Re: HCD Question

2014-10-06 Thread Cobe Xu
Hi all, The config is okay when done in 2 steps, 1. Delete target CHP. + hw/sw IODF activate 2. Add new CHP+ hw/sw IODF activate On Fri, Oct 3, 2014 at 8:15 PM, John D Levine jdlev...@us.ibm.com wrote: After the CF command, did you vary the path online? John L. From: Cobe Xu

Re: Accessing VSAM Data from non-zOS platform

2014-10-06 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Mon, 6 Oct 2014 18:42:47 -0700, Lizette Koehler wrote: How will you be using the data? LUW, Oracle, other? Do you use NFS or other accesses? You can offload the VSAM with REPRO but then the receiving system would need to be able to read the data. If you could explain the process you will

Re: Alias relating to Non-VSAM datasets

2014-10-06 Thread Mainframe Sysprog
The reason for trying to do this was some user's request who were trying to clone some production application for testing and needed some datasets cloned under a different HLQ and then pointing it to another dataset (with a different HLQ). After experimenting a bit with the define alias and

AW: Re: Interested in BASH becoming part of z/OS UNIX? Vote for requirement 60048

2014-10-06 Thread Peter Hunkeler
I will point out a textual error in the request. The fourth paragraph ... Thanks, John. I don't seem to be able to edit the text, but I have just added a comment to clarify this. --Peter Hunkeler -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe /

AW: Re: Interested in BASH becoming part of z/OS UNIX? Vote for requirement 60048

2014-10-06 Thread Peter Hunkeler
Just my opinion, but since BASH is a port of open source software, I don't think it can ever be incorporated into USS. I thought IBM has been delivering BASH as part of AIX for over a decade now, don't they? --Peter Hunkeler