Joseph Reichman wrote:
>I'm assuming based in your post that ieavpse2 Is valid in a type 2 SVC
Please do not make that assumption about SVC 2. (I never got around using
IEAVPSE2 so far, but with other macros, exits and SVCs over the years.)
I have just asked for more details. With more details
>The "shorter" case intrigues me. Does it shuffle the remaining records in
>the block and write a shorter block? Is this done by the Rexx function
>library or by QSAM? And how does it fill in the longer inter-block gap
>without either overwriting the next block or leaving residual data? Does
>
> I am reviewing the system VTOCs and I see a lot of IMS log files that
> contain a date/timestamp in their names. I know they are created by
> the IMS system using the skeleton proc member ARCHJCL. What I am
> seeing is that the file was created with a retention period of 45 days.
>
> //DFSSLOGP
> On Jan 17, 2017, at 10:09 AM, Michael O'Byrne wrote:
>
> In 1972 I was the second shift manager of the IBM Customer Data Center in
> Chicago. We had a paper tape reader/punch attached to a System/7. We
> could attach the System/7 to System/360 but generally it was stand alone.
> At the tim
IMS itself does not take any action automatically. Since the logs are
as close to a complete audit trail for any user interaction with the IMS
system, they might need special handling from a retention stand point.
From a database recovery perspective, if the DBRC RECON data set for
the IMS n
Gil:
That is for a PRINTER not a teletype machine. Two completely different animals.
That being said yes system 7 did have a teletype reader that is NOT a 360/370
machine.
Ed
> On Jan 17, 2017, at 9:06 AM, Paul Gilmartin
> <000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 16
I changed the domain on the change network settings screen to syzygyinc.com,
and clicked OK, after which the HMC rebooted and when it came back up the
setting was changed, but the email still went out the same.
the From is still P64HMC1_EventMonitor@P64HMC1.HMC1 I had expected it to have
syzyg
Phil:
Hard to say. As mentioned earlier, my last contact with paper tape
(other than 1403 printer control tape) was in1962 on my return to the
lower 48 and my next USAF assignment at SAC HQ in Omaha, NB, where I
remained in the USAF for another 2 years and stayed active in encrypted
teletype
Great line from great (at least as I remember it) scifi book
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adolescence_of_P-1 -- after a gunfight
in computer room, during which a certain device took a bullet, "That
1052 had it coming".
Bill Godfrey mentioned:
> IBM reference
> https://www-03.ibm.com/ibm
On 2017-01-17 18:45, Phil Smith wrote:
> Tom Marchant wrote:
>> Well into the 1970's almost every mainframe shop used paper tape.
>
> Huh. We had a keypunch in the house in 1965, and I started hanging out in the
> computer room at UofW in 1971. I've never seen paper tape in use, only at the
> Co
On Tue, 17 Jan 2017 19:50:29 -0600, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
>
>o It's OK for the replacing string to be the same length as the replaced
> string, or shorter.
>
>The "shorter" case intrigues me. Does it shuffle the remaining records in
>the block and write a shorter block? Is this done by the Rexx
This is more general than Rexx, so, IBM-MAIN:
I've submitted an RCF on this, but I'm still curious:
In: z/OS 2.2.0
z/OS TSO/E
z/OS TSO/E REXX Reference
TSO/E REXX commands
EXECIO
14. Example of reading a member of a RECFM=U file and changing the first
occurrence
of the word '
Tom Marchant wrote:
>Well into the 1970's almost every mainframe shop used paper tape.
Huh. We had a keypunch in the house in 1965, and I started hanging out in the
computer room at UofW in 1971. I've never seen paper tape in use, only at the
Computer History Museum. Maybe I was just lucky?
...
First question. Is this in an SMS managed pool? Or NON SMS Managed?
Does DFHSM do anything with the dasd these datasets reside on.
If the RETPD=45 is met, then there may be a batch DFDSS clean up job, or an SMS
Management class
It would be helpful to see if the dataset has a management class
Can someone point me in the right direction?
I am reviewing the system VTOCs and I see a lot of IMS log files that
contain a date/timestamp in their names. I know they are created by the
IMS system using the skeleton proc member ARCHJCL. What I am seeing is
that the file was created with a ret
Can the standard z/OS FTP with SSL be used instead of either scp or sftp? I
don't think we have any ssh server running at all.
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On Tue, 17 Jan 2017 13:21:16 -0800, Charles Mills wrote:
>Yep. I was going to ask that as a Friday riddle: "what was special about
>channel 12?" Yes, a program could check it so that it knew when to quit
>printing detail lines, print subtotals, and eject to a new page. Holy cow! Can
>you imagin
On Tue, 17 Jan 2017 13:21:16 -0800, Charles Mills wrote:
>Can you imagine a program running directly connected to a printer, not spooled?
Back in the '70's we had a couple of programs that directly connected to a
printer. They were check writing programs, and the check numbers were
pre-printed
Yep. I was going to ask that as a Friday riddle: "what was special about
channel 12?" Yes, a program could check it so that it knew when to quit
printing detail lines, print subtotals, and eject to a new page. Holy cow! Can
you imagine a program running directly connected to a printer, not spool
And also wasn't a channel 12 punch used as end of form indicator that could be
checked programatically, so the program could skip to channel 1 when needed?
Now that's been a while...
Dana
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Hi,
IFAMQRY works after a full day. WTF I try to use the call macro for hours
without success as the doc imply the call macro. However the LINKX works
pretty well. Now setting up the SMFPRM and RACF
Roland
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Scott,
Right, this is how we use it, except with C/C++/Java/Assembler and no
Cobol.
If you are familiar with make, you might also try invoking make via ant-ssh
in the same connection, which is how we do it.
The z/OS "cob2" shell command can be used to run the Cobol compier.
Kirk Wolf
Dovetailed T
Carriage control tapes rode on one free spinning wheel and one sprocket
wheel. The free spinning wheel was adjustable and was used to apply
slight pressure to the tape. They were at the upper right of the print
mechanism. The wheels were 1-1/2 to 2 inches in diameter. The tapes were
punched
Yep, as you know I've just gone thru something similar with adding / joining 2
systems into a JES2MAS, I used the Init and Tuning as a base, they made my best
educated guess as for size, for me, both checkpoints are in a CF, so I based my
sizes for 2 systems using the SDSF RM status from each sy
posts
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017.html#21 History of Mainframe Cloud
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017.html#22 History of Mainframe Cloud
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017.html#27 History of Mainframe Cloud
and recent article from Google Cloud
Google Infrastructure Security Design Overview
htt
Ours was a stack of reel-2-reel tapes on top of the printer.
Al Nims
Systems Admin/Programmer 3
UFIT
University of Florida
(352) 273-1298
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It is easy to forget how many radically, software-incompatible different
"mainframe" lines IBM sold. Others have cataloged the various numbers better
than I could. It seems foreign now, not being able to run General Ledger and
some scientific calculation on the same mainframe.
The 360 was of cours
> Extra points could be earned by raising the lid when printing was actually
> taking place
The cover (as you noted) raised on its own for paper jams and IIRC a paper out
condition. Double extra points for causing the lid to raise when something -- a
tray of cards, a verboten cup of coffee, the
Yes, exactly. There are entries in the JES2 manuals. But, and big but,
everything depends on
How Many
JOEs - if you currently have 10,000 and want to go to 100,000
BERTs - if you have 10,000 and want to support 80,000 jobs - do you have
enough?
JQEs - If you currently have 10,000 and want
charl...@mcn.org (Charles Mills) writes:
> And 1443 (?). I had a client that had a 1403 variant that was a little
> slower but included a 16-or-so column card reader. You could print
> invoices on pre-punched cards and read the punching to make sure you
> were printing on the right card (no spool,
"...There is just zero doubt in my mind that the 1403 printer used a
"special" (not TTY-like) paper tape, solely for carriage control, not
"data."..."
That's my memory, too.
Ours was a 1403-N1 aka '1403-Nancy' - with a lid that was raised on
motor-driven screws when the paper either jammed or ran
On 2017-01-17, at 09:11, Jesse 1 Robinson wrote:
> As I pointed out in my earlier post, system symbols have long (always?) been
> honored for STC and TSO proc JCL. The change in 2.1 is to extend this support
> to batch JCL on a job class by class basis. If someone wants a preview of
> what to e
In 1972 I was the second shift manager of the IBM Customer Data Center in
Chicago. We had a paper tape reader/punch attached to a System/7. We
could attach the System/7 to System/360 but generally it was stand alone.
At the time, an energy company was testing an application that would
graphic
Doea any of the zPDT users hited by the linux update caused lose of license
server.
I can't get an estimate when it will be fixed. The problem is know dor
almost a month. We was hited last friday.
ITschak
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The Init and Tuning Guide has a formula for DASD sizing , reading a bit...they
want you to define the checkpoint for a secondary JES subsystem and start it up
and 'see' if its the right size. :(
but there is a formula in the guide
Specifying the storage of checkpoints on DASD
When you have
CFSIZER requires the person to enter how many 4K blocks they are going to need.
So unless you know how large it needs to be CFSIZER is not much help.
I could always "guess" I need this many blocks - but how good would that be?
The tool I am building would provide the number of 4k blocks then you
As I pointed out in my earlier post, system symbols have long (always?) been
honored for STC and TSO proc JCL. The change in 2.1 is to extend this support
to batch JCL on a job class by class basis. If someone wants a preview of what
to expect in batch with having to turn on the option for an en
[Default] On 17 Jan 2017 07:42:04 -0800, in bit.listserv.ibm-main
charl...@mcn.org (Charles Mills) wrote:
>1403, not 1401.
>
>And 1443 (?). I had a client that had a 1403 variant that was a little slower
>but included a 16-or-so column card reader. You could print invoices on
>pre-punched cards
On Mon, 16 Jan 2017 19:29:19 -0800, Anne & Lynn Wheeler wrote:
>edgould1948 (Edward Gould) writes:
>> That is not how I remember it at all. The Carriage tape on a
>> 1403/3211(?) was just for that machine. i.e. skip to channel x As I
>> have said before I do not ever remember seeing any IBM device
How about CFSIZER and translate the storage requirements into space
requirements?
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On 2017-01-17, at 08:25, Vernooij, Kees (ITOPT1) - KLM wrote:
> -Original Message-
> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On
> Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin
> Sent: 17 January, 2017 16:12
> To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
> Subject: Re: System Symbols (SYSSYM)
>
Cross posting to TSO REXX and IBMMAIN
Long ago IBM Created an APAR OY44087 which provided some guidance and formula on
how to calculate space for the JES2 Ckpt and Spool space.
I am looking to create a REXX/ISPF function or Excel to mimic this process.
However it is lacking on how some of the new
1403, not 1401.
And 1443 (?). I had a client that had a 1403 variant that was a little slower
but included a 16-or-so column card reader. You could print invoices on
pre-punched cards and read the punching to make sure you were printing on the
right card (no spool, obviously). It printed on "16
This is on my Zpdt machine
I'm assuming based in your post that ieavpse2
Is valid in a type 2 SVC
I'm at work doing Application Assembler
I'll re-post with detail later
Thanks
> On Jan 17, 2017, at 10:26 AM, Elardus Engelbrecht
> wrote:
>
> Joe Reichman wrote:
>
>> Sorry I was clea
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Subject: Re: System Symbols (SYSSYM)
On Tue, 17 Jan 2017 08:55:34 +, Mike Shorkend wrote:
>There is one case
Joe Reichman wrote:
>Sorry I was clear I meant can I use IEAVPSE2 service in a type 2 SVC the
>service never returned (which would be normal as it is suspended) However I
>did get an abend and I am thinking it is due to not being able to use IEAVPSE2
Please post the Abend Code and all messag
Gil:
That is not how I remember it at all. The Carriage tape on a 1403/3211(?) was
just for that machine. i.e. skip to channel x
As I have said before I do not ever remember seeing any IBM device or computer
that had a paper tape reader/writer.
This goes back to the 360’s . I just got off the ph
On Tue, 17 Jan 2017 08:55:34 +, Mike Shorkend wrote:
>There is one case in which there might be problems. Looking at:
>
>//MYFILE DD DSN=&SYSNAME,DISP=(,PASS),UNIT=SYSDA
>
>WIth SYSSYM set to DISALLOW, this will create a valid temporary dataset(JCL
>reference says that you should use a double
On Mon, 16 Jan 2017 20:12:02 -0600, Edward Gould wrote:
>> On Jan 16, 2017, at 10:52 AM, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, 16 Jan 2017 07:00:27 -0600, Tom Marchant wrote:
>>>
>>> Yep. That's what I was thinking of. I didn't say that it was used for I/O.
>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carria
> On Jan 16, 2017, at 11:07 PM, retired mainframer
> wrote:
>
> While an individual's experience may be typical, it is seldom exhaustive.
>
> We had a paper tape punch on our system well past 1977. I first used it in
> 1973 on a 370/155 but I know it was transferred from an older system and
Peter,
Sorry I was clear I meant can I use IEAVPSE2 service in a type 2 SVC the
service never returned (which would be normal as it is suspended) However I
did get an abend and I am thinking it is due to not being able to use
IEAVPSE2 In a type 2 SVC thing is for those SVC which it says cannot s
> There is one case in which there might be problems. Looking at:
> //MYFILE DD DSN=&SYSNAME,DISP=(,PASS),UNIT=SYSDA
When using System Symbols in batch jobs was introduced with z/OS 2.1, I was
always wondering what prompted IBM to define that SYSSYM= switch in the
JOBCLASS definition. I knew
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Subject: Re: IEAVPSE2 in type 2 SVC
>For type 2 says can not suspend their caller
This sounds wrong. And w
I see no problem enabling SYSSYM.
You have to take additional actions (JCL CHANGES) for it to have any impact.
> Can anyone see a reason for not enabling System Symbols for all job
> classes (i.e SYSSYM=ALLOW ) ?
>
::DISCLAIMER::
>For type 2 says can not suspend their caller
This sounds wrong. And while it might be true that a type 1 SVC can
suspend its caller (the table indicates that it is), it would have to be
the case that when it did, the SVC in effect terminated so that the
"resume" did not occur within the SVC. Su
No meaning I can't use the service
> On Jan 17, 2017, at 7:11 AM, Steve Smith wrote:
>
> No, unfortunately, IBM provides no manuals or documentation, and there's no
> way to search the web.
>
> sas
>
> On Mon, Jan 16, 2017 at 9:38 PM, Joseph Reichman
> wrote:
>
>> Hi
>>
>> I was looking i
Brian,
The "FROM:" email address for System Events comes from the "Console Name" and
"Domain Name" entered onto the Customize Network Settings for this HMC. If you
don't specify a domain name (blank), then the default domain name is "IBM1".
So, assuming your Console Name is P64HMC1 and the Do
No, unfortunately, IBM provides no manuals or documentation, and there's no
way to search the web.
sas
On Mon, Jan 16, 2017 at 9:38 PM, Joseph Reichman
wrote:
> Hi
>
> I was looking in the notes on user SVC's
>
> For type 2 says can not suspend their caller
>
> That means suspend macro
>
> Woul
There is one case in which there might be problems. Looking at:
//MYFILE DD DSN=&SYSNAME,DISP=(,PASS),UNIT=SYSDA
WIth SYSSYM set to DISALLOW, this will create a valid temporary dataset(JCL
reference says that you should use a double ampersand but a singe works
fine).
WIth SYSSYM set to ALLOW, th
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Hi,
We have a new z13s and this is driving me nuts because I can't figure out where
to change the domain name of the system events email sender.
The HMC is called P64HMC1
The FROM: on the email that system events generates has
P64HMC1_EventsMonitor@HMC1.HMC1, this causes a problem for some of
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