Syncsort to DFSort Migration

2018-05-16 Thread zos reader
Hello All, We are planning to migrate Syncsort to IBM DFSort, May you share your thoughts on it, some might have done this on their shops, please share your experience Thanks, Samat -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive

Re: DAF (CBT 094) - Unknown Datatype x01BB

2018-05-16 Thread Anthony Thompson
I downloaded the latest DAF from the CBT site and assembled it, without any serious problems. I turned off most options (&RT_ SETC C'000', also &ST_DFSMS07 SETC 'NO ' to get it to assemble, as noted in the DAF comments). I did not get an "Unknown Datatype x'011b'" if I provided DAF with only SMF

Re: Should be easy with SORT :) I thought (:

2018-05-16 Thread Gibney, Dave
Thank you for your help to date. It has been most welcome. I appreciate that Syncsort is a competitor. I did specify that I was using Syncsort with my original request. > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] > On Behalf Of Sri h Kolus

Re: Allocating an SMS managed dataset in TSO with space in bytes

2018-05-16 Thread Graham Harris
When AVGREC/AVGVAL came about in the early SMS era, I thought, given our generally records-based view on things in the z/OS world, it would be 'nice' if logical space allocations could be done effectively requesting numbers of records (as an alternative to having to explicitly request bytes). Thus

Re: Should be easy with SORT :) I thought (:

2018-05-16 Thread Sri h Kolusu
Dave, Your WERxxx messages that you are using Syncsort which is a competitor for DFSORT and unfortunately I cannot fix the problem. So may be you need to talk to their support. For the record IFTHEN=(WHEN=GROUP,KEYBEGIN=(9,1),PUSH=(31:ID=8,SEQ=1)) statements works fine with DFSORT. Thanks, Kolus

Re: CICS and DB2

2018-05-16 Thread Tim Hare
I believe there is a DB2 JDBC driver. How, exactly, you get it installed and running under CICS should be documented by IBM. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.e

Re: Allocating an SMS managed dataset in TSO with space in bytes

2018-05-16 Thread Tim Hare
AVGREC=M,SPACE=(1,(1,1)) allocates one MB with a 1MB secondary extension in JCL. AVGREC(M) AVBLOCK(1) SPACE(1,1) will do the same thing in TSO. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to l

Re: Should be easy with SORT :) I thought (:

2018-05-16 Thread Gibney, Dave
Thanks, this did work. But, the reall group is signaled by a change in the first char of the disk volume. I tried IFTHEN=(WHEN=GROUP,KEYBEGIN=(9,1),PUSH=(31:ID=8,SEQ=1)), And I get WER486A ERROR IN JNF1 PROCESSING WER482I JNF1 STATISTICS WER268A INREC STATEMENT : S

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: IBMVSM,ZOSMIGV2R3_NEXT_VSM_USERKEYCOMM

2018-05-16 Thread Jim Mulder
On any currently supported release of z/OS, in DIAGxx, you can specify ALLOWUSERKEYCADS(NO) This will cause a 01D-xx0015xx abend when an attempt is made to obtain a user key (8-15) SCOPE=COMMON data space. On z/OS 2.3 (but not on lower releases), in DIAGxx, you can specify NUCLABEL ENABL

Re: trying to reload a pdse after it has been unloaded and ftp'd

2018-05-16 Thread Barkow, Eileen
I forgot to change the DCB info for the untersed datatset. It is working now - Thanks Bob -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Jackson, Rob Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2018 4:17 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: t

Re: trying to reload a pdse after it has been unloaded and ftp'd

2018-05-16 Thread Jackson, Rob
Also, you should consider using a FTP PUT as the second step of the dump-creating job, if the FTP server is running on your target system. The FTP client does a good job of setting the SITE command appropriately for you. Then you just have to worry about setting size on the target, if the defa

Re: trying to reload a pdse after it has been unloaded and ftp'd

2018-05-16 Thread Jackson, Rob
That looks like the DCB for a tersed dataset. DSS would be creating RECFM=U and BLKSIZE=27998 on disk. Try this instead: LOCSITE VARrecfm LRECL=27998 RECFM=U BLKSIZE=27998 First Tennessee Bank Mainframe Technical Support -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behal

Re: Netview Submit JCL

2018-05-16 Thread Lucas Rosalen
Ooops! Very right, first variable passed to the REXX is the MSGID... So, my fixed suggestion for the REXX would be the same as Steve's => parse arg mtxt . mtxt Sorry for the confusion here. I think SEND without the commas works (at least is has worked for me for at least a year now), but followin

Re: trying to reload a pdse after it has been unloaded and ftp'd

2018-05-16 Thread Barkow, Eileen
I used mode b type e and ADRSSSU is not recognizing the INPUT file ADR389E (001)-TDDS (07), INVALID INPUT ON DDNAME IN, INPUT DATA SET NOT PRODUCED //RESTFAEXEC PGM=ADRDSSU,COND=(0,NE) //SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=* //IN DD DSN=PBCDOFP.FA.HIST.DUMPED,DISP

Re: IBMVSM,ZOSMIGV2R3_NEXT_VSM_USERKEYCOMM

2018-05-16 Thread Tim Hare
I'm catching up late here, but in connection with the original poster's statement, couldn't the health check "go hunting" and report the offenders? -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to

Re: trying to reload a pdse after it has been unloaded and ftp'd

2018-05-16 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Wed, 16 May 2018 16:50:43 +, Barkow, Eileen wrote: >THANK YOU Lionel! >The TERSE/UNTERSE worked. >Although I think that these utilities should be able to work on their own. > +1 Archivers such as IEBCOPY, ADRDSSU, TRSMAIN, ... should generate portable archives which can be transmitted vi

Re: trying to reload a pdse after it has been unloaded and ftp'd

2018-05-16 Thread Barkow, Eileen
Thanks a lot for type e and mode b - I remember using them for something or other in the past. Getting rid of the terse will help. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Jackson, Rob Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2018 2:09 PM To: I

Re: Problem with $BUFFER control block

2018-05-16 Thread Jesse 1 Robinson
Thanks to replies from friends on this list, I have the exit cleanly assembled, but too early to actually test it. I always hear that there are various ways to skin a cat--ouch--but I took what seemed to be the path of least astonishment. Incorporated $BUFFER in $MODULE thus: COPY $

Re: trying to reload a pdse after it has been unloaded and ftp'd

2018-05-16 Thread Jackson, Rob
We DSS dump and FTP hundreds of PDSs and PDSEs every day (don't ask), both text and loadlibs. From z/OS to z/OS you don't need to worry about tersing for portability. You just need 'type e' and 'mode b' in your FTP control cards. First Tennessee Bank Mainframe Technical Support -Original

Re: trying to reload a pdse after it has been unloaded and ftp'd

2018-05-16 Thread Barkow, Eileen
There is a 'mput' ftp command to ftp all the members but it takes a long time. I am not sure about the MVSPUT option. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Steve Horein Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2018 1:56 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTS

Re: trying to reload a pdse after it has been unloaded and ftp'd

2018-05-16 Thread Steve Horein
Forgot to include the link: https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSLTBW_2.2.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r2.halu001/mvsputsubcmd.htm On Wed, May 16, 2018 at 12:55 PM, Steve Horein wrote: > Although I haven't used it much, it would seem ftp's MVSPUT 'XCICS.FA.HIST' > 'XCICS.FA.HIST.RESTORED' (REALLOC

Re: trying to reload a pdse after it has been unloaded and ftp'd

2018-05-16 Thread Steve Horein
Although I haven't used it much, it would seem ftp's MVSPUT 'XCICS.FA.HIST' 'XCICS.FA.HIST.RESTORED' (REALLOC could eliminate some steps? On Wed, May 16, 2018 at 10:57 AM, Barkow, Eileen wrote: > I am trying to reload an unloaded pdse after it has been ftp'd to a target > lpar. > there is a kno

Re: Netview Submit JCL

2018-05-16 Thread Steve Horein
Actually, there will probably not be any issues after all. I believe I was hung up from the earlier IEF878I message. PARSE VAR is deconstructing the variable named MTXT into two items: MSGID and DSET. In this case, MSGID will be assigned value 'IEF403I' and DSET will be assigned value 'USR54LST -

Re: Netview Submit JCL

2018-05-16 Thread Lucas Rosalen
In order to trap the message properly: 1. Make sure IEF403I does not have AUTO(NO) in MPFLSTxx 2. The condition below will never be satisfied because TEXT is the COMPLETE message, not only part of it IF MSGID = 'IEF403I' & TEXT = 'USR54LST' & TEXT = MTXT THEN EXEC(CMD('FDIREXXO' MTXT)) NETLOG(Y

Re: trying to reload a pdse after it has been unloaded and ftp'd

2018-05-16 Thread Farley, Peter x23353
You don't really need to worry about the XMIT userid - just specify anything at all, ABCD.DEFGHIJK will do. The basic idea is that you are using XMIT to set up a transportable copy of the PDSE and that you will be using FTP to send the file, not actually XMITting it. HTH Peter -Original

Re: trying to reload a pdse after it has been unloaded and ftp'd

2018-05-16 Thread Dyck, Lionel B. (RavenTek)
You can easily use TSO Transmit (XMIT) to a dataset thus: XMIT x.y DS(input) ODS(xxx.xmit) Where x.y is node.userid but that can be anything as it is just going to a dataset -- Lionel B. Dyck (Contractor) < Mainframe Syste

Re: trying to reload a pdse after it has been unloaded and ftp'd

2018-05-16 Thread Barkow, Eileen
I was going to try XMIT as a last resort but the TERSE/UNTERSE steps added to the ADRDSSU jobs worked. I think that XMIT needs a USERID to send to and there are different userids involved in each lpar. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.E

Re: trying to reload a pdse after it has been unloaded and ftp'd

2018-05-16 Thread Barkow, Eileen
THANK YOU Lionel! The TERSE/UNTERSE worked. Although I think that these utilities should be able to work on their own. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Dyck, Lionel B. (RavenTek) Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2018 12:02 PM

Re: Netview Submit JCL

2018-05-16 Thread saurabh khandelwal
Hello Steve, I understood the meaning of placeholder and will use it to over come this issue But I couldn't understand how to solve issue in rexx code also believe you will not get the expected results in FDIREXXO when (re)assigning: MTXT = DSET Can you please explain this once. I am really so

Re: Heretic alert: I really detest TSO REXX (the language)

2018-05-16 Thread Seymour J Metz
> Read what I wrote. I did. You wrote " And if BAR || '2' is an assigned variable" in response to " x =value('foo.'bar'2')", and the question has no relevance to that code, which has no variable called BAR or BAR2. The point at issue was the behavior of the value() BIF, which you kept ignorin

Re: Heretic alert: I really detest TSO REXX (the language)

2018-05-16 Thread Seymour J Metz
> The unfortunate thing about REXX is that it hasn't improved over the years. What is ANSI Rexx, chopped liver? TSO/E has not kept up with developments in the REXX world, which says more about TSO/E than about REXX. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ___

Re: trying to reload a pdse after it has been unloaded and ftp'd

2018-05-16 Thread Seymour J Metz
You can FTP an XMIT unload. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of Barkow, Eileen Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2018 11:57 AM To: IBM-MAIN@listserv.ua.edu Subject: trying to reload a pdse af

Re: trying to reload a pdse after it has been unloaded and ftp'd

2018-05-16 Thread Dyck, Lionel B. (RavenTek)
For this I have always used ADRDSSU and then Terse'd the results before doing a binary FTP transfer - all while retaining the Terse DCB. Then unterse and ADRDSSU restore and it has worked. Hope this helps -- Lionel B. Dyck

trying to reload a pdse after it has been unloaded and ftp'd

2018-05-16 Thread Barkow, Eileen
I am trying to reload an unloaded pdse after it has been ftp'd to a target lpar. there is a known problem with this using IEBCOPY UNLOAD/RELOAD described on IBMLINK and none of the work-around overrides to ftp work. TRSMAIN/TERSE does not support PDSE. So I switched over to ADRDSSU. I dump a dat

Re: Should be easy with SORT :) I thought (:

2018-05-16 Thread Sri h Kolusu
Dave, If your input record count is NOT a multiple of 4, then you may want to see the unpaired records too. My earlier job will only consider the paired records. So in order to account for the unpaired records , change the main task SYSIN to the following //SYSINDD * OPTION COPY JOINKEYS

Re: UserKEY CSA/Dataspace scope=common Remdiation

2018-05-16 Thread Jim Mulder
Post z/OS 2.3, only programs in system keys (0-7) will be able to store into common dataspaces (and CSA). Non-fetch protected system key SCOPE=COMMON data spaces (and non-fetch protected system key CSA) continue to be supported. Jim Mulder z/OS Diagnosis, Design, Development, Test IBM Corp.

RFE - ISPF 3.17 UID Fix

2018-05-16 Thread Dyck, Lionel B. (RavenTek)
Please comment and if you agree please vote: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=120120 Description:ISPF 3.17 currently will leave the UID set to whatever the user set it to when the dialog exits. If the user has changed the UID while in ISPF 3.17 then it shou

Where is ISPF listserv server?

2018-05-16 Thread Lizette Koehler
Apparently the ISPF List was moved some time ago with little notification. Does anyone who understands List servers better, know how we can engage another ListServer to take over the ISPF-L and save the archives? I am only trying to see if it can be done, and if it can, what steps would need t

Re: DAF (CBT 094) - Unknown Datatype x01BB

2018-05-16 Thread Lizette Koehler
As for DAF issue, if there is a more complete message it might be helpful to show complete text. Second, if there is an author email address, have you tried to send an email? If you create a second thread on the PROC Expansion it will be helpful. Many might not see it do to DAF discussion L

Re: UserKEY CSA/Dataspace scope=common Remdiation

2018-05-16 Thread Allan Staller
Thanks -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Jousma, David Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2018 8:23 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: UserKEY CSA/Dataspace scope=common Remdiation Pretty much as I posted, but here it i

Re: Netview Submit JCL

2018-05-16 Thread Steve Horein
I'll repeat the previous response for this problem, but change 'END OF' to ' USR54LST' You need to use placeholders described here to allow 'USR54LST' to be found anywhere in the message: https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSZJDU_6.2.1/ com.ibm.itnetviewforzos.doc_6.2.1/dqa_ata_place.htm

Re: Using system symbols in JCL IF statement

2018-05-16 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Wed, 16 May 2018 05:43:39 -0500, Jantje. wrote: >On Tue, 15 May 2018 08:37:36 -0500, Paul Gilmartin wrote: > >>I believe the only comparisons supported by IF are to a result, such as a >>return >>code, of a previous step. > >All examples given do indeed lead one to believe that, but the actua

Re: UserKEY CSA/Dataspace scope=common Remdiation

2018-05-16 Thread Jousma, David
Pretty much as I posted, but here it is verbatim: "If you know the owning address space(s) of the data space(s) in question, and can get an SVC dump (a console dump will do) that includes those address spaces, RASP (ASID 3), and RASP's data spaces, then you can use the RSMDATA DSPACE A

Re: UserKEY CSA/Dataspace scope=common Remdiation

2018-05-16 Thread Allan Staller
Can you post the instructions for all of us to use? -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Jousma, David Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2018 7:14 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: UserKEY CSA/Dataspace scope=common Remdia

Re: UserKEY CSA/Dataspace scope=common Remdiation

2018-05-16 Thread Jousma, David
Walt, and all... I was misreading/misunderstanding, relearning as I go As Walt correctly points out, when KEY is not specified on the DSPSERV CREATE, it does default to CALLERKEY. The program in question starts in KEY(8), and since we didn’t set a KEY on the MODE=SUP statement either, it

Re: Using system symbols in JCL IF statement

2018-05-16 Thread Bill Ashton
I constantly use a numeric "switch" like this. For example, if I want to compile a program, I have one switch that is set to 1 for Panvalet source, and 2 for PDS source. // SET SOURCE=1 1=Panvalet, 2=PDS . . . //TESTSRC IF &SOURCE=1 THEN . . . Extract Panvalet member t

Re: UserKEY CSA/Dataspace scope=common Remdiation

2018-05-16 Thread Robin Atwood
So post z/OS 2.3 only programs in system keys (0-7) will be able to access common dataspaces? What happens if you specify FPROT=NO on DSPSERV? Thanks Robin > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On > Behalf Of Jousma, David > Sent: 15

Re: Using system symbols in JCL IF statement

2018-05-16 Thread Jantje.
On Tue, 15 May 2018 08:37:36 -0500, Paul Gilmartin wrote: >I believe the only comparisons supported by IF are to a result, such as a >return >code, of a previous step. All examples given do indeed lead one to believe that, but the actual documentation does not specify such a requirement. It do