Re: SMP/E Fixcat Categories in batch?

2018-09-18 Thread Anthony Thompson
Probably not what you want, but LIST HOLDDATA HOLDFIXCAT? Ant. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Roger Lowe Sent: Wednesday, 19 September 2018 2:34 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: SMP/E Fixcat Categories in batc

Re: OMVS file type Char

2018-09-18 Thread Jake Anderson
Thank you so much. Looks like it gets created on fly On Wed 19 Sep, 2018, 9:24 AM Anthony Thompson, wrote: > From the USS User Guide, Ch. 14 (SA23-2279-30). > > A character special file defines one of the following: > – A terminal (/dev/ptyp and /dev/ttyp). > – The default controlling te

Re: OMVS file type Char

2018-09-18 Thread Anthony Thompson
From the USS User Guide, Ch. 14 (SA23-2279-30). A character special file defines one of the following: – A terminal (/dev/ptyp and /dev/ttyp). – The default controlling terminal for a process (/dev/tty). – A null file (/dev/null). Data written to this file is discarded; hence, it is known

SMP/E Fixcat Categories in batch?

2018-09-18 Thread Roger Lowe
Hi, Is there anyway of listing out all of the SMP/E FIXCATs via batch.? Thanks, Roger -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

OMVS file type Char

2018-09-18 Thread Jake Anderson
Hi I have got a dummy query I was going through /var/dpi_socket and see it's a Character special type of file I am going through the USS guide but I found any hit about this type of file. Also I can't select or copy this files . Can someone please explain what are Character special type file ?

Re: In this case, I wish the US would follow the EU (no more DST)

2018-09-18 Thread Steve Smith
Until you're 40 or so, you never want to go to bed on time. By definition, no boomer has seen 40 in quite a while, but tastes do vary. :-) Personally, I've always thought a 26 hour day would suit me better. sas On Tue, Sep 18, 2018 at 3:42 PM Farley, Peter x23353 < peter.far...@broadridge.com> w

Re: Kind of lame SMP/E question

2018-09-18 Thread Chris Hoelscher
The SMP/E libraries may be gone - but are the dataset/members to create/populate them still present ?? Chris Hoelscher Technology Architect, Database Infrastructure Services Technology Solution Services Humana Inc. 123 East Main Street Louisville, KY 40202 Humana.com (502) 476-2538 or 407-7266

Re: Kind of lame SMP/E question

2018-09-18 Thread Lizette Koehler
For any product install, the SMPE Libraries are critical. I do not think you can just build an SMP/E environment without them So you are saying all of the SMP/e environment for this product is gone. Then the client may be in a bad place. As stated, see if a friendly IBM Account manager can help.

Re: Kind of lame SMP/E question

2018-09-18 Thread Jackson, Rob
"Readily" and "relatively easy" will probably not apply here, so the answers are not likely and nope. You could dummy up a function/functions and receive the PTFs against it/them, but that won't buy you much other than metadata. Even in IBM, things are packaged differently, but I would expect

Kind of lame SMP/E question

2018-09-18 Thread Charles Mills
I have a client who is licensed for and has installed a particular IBM software product on z/OS. The product is out of marketing but still in service. They have all the actual product libraries but managed apparently to delete the SMP/E datasets some time ago. They now need to apply a set of PTFs b

Re: In this case, I wish the US would follow the EU (no more DST)

2018-09-18 Thread Farley, Peter x23353
PMFJI here, but let's not rag on the "millennials". Some of us "boomers" prefer to get up at noon too . . . :) Peter -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Tony Thigpen Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2018 3:01 PM To: IBM-MAIN

Re: In this case, I wish the US would follow the EU (no more DST)

2018-09-18 Thread Tony Thigpen
I don't think it's really going to matter in a few years. These millennials can't seem to get out of bed before noon anyways. :-) Tony Thigpen Paul Gilmartin wrote on 09/18/2018 02:54 PM: On Tue, 18 Sep 2018 18:38:02 +, Seymour J Metz wrote: Having a single time zone doesn't force peopl

Re: In this case, I wish the US would follow the EU (no more DST)

2018-09-18 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Tue, 18 Sep 2018 18:38:02 +, Seymour J Metz wrote: >Having a single time zone doesn't force people to get up in the middle of the >night. There's no reason that shifts need to start at the same time throughout >a time zone. > Republic of Ireland is weird. Think of saving morning daylig

Re: Spam alert: Model9

2018-09-18 Thread Seymour J Metz
If the header field that you quoted came from your provider then the IP address is trustworthy but that field doesn't have the sending e-mail address. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf

Re: In this case, I wish the US would follow the EU (no more DST)

2018-09-18 Thread Seymour J Metz
Having a single time zone doesn't force people to get up in the middle of the night. There's no reason that shifts need to start at the same time throughout a time zone. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discus

Re: In this case, I wish the US would follow the EU (no more DST)

2018-09-18 Thread Gibney, Dave
I do not wish to end Daylight (Summer) time. I wish to never return to Standard time > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] > On Behalf Of Steve Smith > Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2018 11:20 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subjec

Re: In this case, I wish the US would follow the EU (no more DST)

2018-09-18 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Tue, 18 Sep 2018 13:08:05 -0400, Tony Thigpen wrote: >Paul Gilmartin wrote > > Prime time shows are announced as beginning at (e.g.) 8PM Eastern, 7PM > > Central. But they're delayed one hour (not two!) so they begin at 7PM > > Mountain. Don't know about Pacific. > >Not exactly. Prime time s

Re: In this case, I wish the US would follow the EU (no more DST)

2018-09-18 Thread Steve Smith
Yeah, sorry for busting on you. I've had a private exchange with someone that I confused. It seems to me that time issues are inherently difficult to write about clearly. sas On Tue, Sep 18, 2018 at 1:40 PM Tony Thigpen wrote: > Mis-read as delayed one hour for central. > > Tony Thigpen

Re: Help With PENDING OFFLINE Devices

2018-09-18 Thread Mike Schwab
Then issue the TRKFMT command. CYCLE(1) writes X'00' full track records, then X'FF' records, then B'01010101' records for 3 overwrites. On Tue, Sep 18, 2018 at 11:46 AM Neubert, Kevin wrote: > > You are 100% done with the system(s)? Overwriting data/secure erase of disk > not a concern at this

Re: Help With PENDING OFFLINE Devices

2018-09-18 Thread George Rodriguez
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Re: C macro processor - supply exteranl values - emulating CMake

2018-09-18 Thread Kirk Wolf
On Mon, Sep 17, 2018 at 10:52 PM Ze'ev Atlas < 004b34e7c98a-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > Gil, I do NOT use make! I use JCL for this particular port, as it is > designed to be used without Unix Services. > > The fact that your product is designed to work without z/OS Unix is irrelev

Re: In this case, I wish the US would follow the EU (no more DST)

2018-09-18 Thread Tony Thigpen
Mis-read as delayed one hour for central. Tony Thigpen Steve Smith wrote on 09/18/2018 01:31 PM: Your statement exactly agrees with Gil's, so why do you think you're disagreeing with him? sas On Tue, Sep 18, 2018 at 1:08 PM Tony Thigpen wrote: Paul Gilmartin wrote > Prime time shows are

Re: In this case, I wish the US would follow the EU (no more DST)

2018-09-18 Thread Steve Smith
Your statement exactly agrees with Gil's, so why do you think you're disagreeing with him? sas On Tue, Sep 18, 2018 at 1:08 PM Tony Thigpen wrote: > Paul Gilmartin wrote > > Prime time shows are announced as beginning at (e.g.) 8PM Eastern, 7PM > > Central. But they're delayed one hour (not

Re: In this case, I wish the US would follow the EU (no more DST)

2018-09-18 Thread Jesse 1 Robinson
Traffic accidents were a major public issue in the movement to implement Daylight Saving Time in the winter of 1973 against the backdrop of the oil embargo crisis. It was tried and then abandoned amid widespread outcry. The fear of kids waiting for school rides in the pitch dark could not be ove

Re: In this case, I wish the US would follow the EU (no more DST)

2018-09-18 Thread John McKown
On Tue, Sep 18, 2018 at 12:08 PM Tony Thigpen wrote: > Paul Gilmartin wrote > > Prime time shows are announced as beginning at (e.g.) 8PM Eastern, 7PM > > Central. But they're delayed one hour (not two!) so they begin at 7PM > > Mountain. Don't know about Pacific. > > Not exactly. Prime time

Re: In this case, I wish the US would follow the EU (no more DST)

2018-09-18 Thread Tony Thigpen
Paul Gilmartin wrote > Prime time shows are announced as beginning at (e.g.) 8PM Eastern, 7PM > Central. But they're delayed one hour (not two!) so they begin at 7PM > Mountain. Don't know about Pacific. Not exactly. Prime time shows are *not* delayed for Central time. It's just that 8pm Easte

Re: Help With PENDING OFFLINE Devices

2018-09-18 Thread Neubert, Kevin
You are 100% done with the system(s)? Overwriting data/secure erase of disk not a concern at this level? All you want to do is initialize disk? Still have tape available? ICKDSF Stand-Alone IPL tape might be a quick option. https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSLTBW_2.1.0/com.ibm.

Re: In this case, I wish the US would follow the EU (no more DST)

2018-09-18 Thread Steve Smith
It think that's the key point.  Standard time is great for communication and coordination, but it shouldn't control our lives.  I hope the people in western China aren't forced to get up in the middle of the night for work, and try to get to sleep an hour before sunset just because Beijing dict

Re: In this case, I wish the US would follow the EU (no more DST)

2018-09-18 Thread Farley, Peter x23353
Except for those of us empty-nesters who are nightowls and would much prefer 12Noon to 9PM. Not everyone is an earlybird or cares about daylight after work. Peter -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Tony Thigpen Sent: Tu

Re: In this case, I wish the US would follow the EU (no more DST)

2018-09-18 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Tue, 18 Sep 2018 10:19:37 -0500, Mike Schwab wrote: >Well, there are problems in China since they use Bejing time across >the country and have a 3 hour difference at the Afghanistan border. > And I understand that in westen China some clocks are (unofficially) set back. And there's ego. In 20

Re: In this case, I wish the US would follow the EU (no more DST)

2018-09-18 Thread Tony Thigpen
The problem is not as much the times zones, as it is the way we work. Time zones are (mostly) tied to Solar Time, which is another way to say "the sun is directly overhead at noon". While our jobs revolve around noon, our lives do not. For example, then '8 to 5' job has 4 hours before noon and

Re: In this case, I wish the US would follow the EU (no more DST)

2018-09-18 Thread Mike Schwab
Well, there are problems in China since they use Bejing time across the country and have a 3 hour difference at the Afghanistan border. But essentially, the U.S. Eastern, Central, and Mountain times are one time zone as far as TVs are concerned. On Tue, Sep 18, 2018 at 9:43 AM Paul Gilmartin <0

Re: In this case, I wish the US would follow the EU (no more DST)

2018-09-18 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Tue, 18 Sep 2018 08:48:17 -0400, Steve Smith wrote: > >One thing blew my mind: "The plan also raises the prospect of neighboring >countries ending up an hour apart". Really? Did someone seriously say >that out loud? > >> https://www.dw.com/en/eu-to-stop-changing-the-clocks-in-2019/a-45495680

Re: Compiled REXX performance

2018-09-18 Thread scott Ford
Yep I saw the Rex clist uncompiled run 2 cpu seconds on z/PDT z/os 2.3 in TSO foreground On Wed, Sep 12, 2018 at 11:06 AM Charles Mills wrote: > Are you sure you are running compiled in both instances? Compiled Rexx > will silently fall back to interpreted if the right library is not > allocated

Re: In this case, I wish the US would follow the EU (no more DST)

2018-09-18 Thread Mike Schwab
France was an hour later than Germany until 1940. Didn't go back in after 1945. But France / Spain going to winter time and the rest to summer time makes sense. Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg should decide based on where they have the most border traffic. On Tue, Sep 18, 2018 at 7:48 AM Steve S

Re: Spam alert: Model9

2018-09-18 Thread CM Poncelet
Thanks for the clarification; but I do check all the header fields.   E.g.  Received: from latepayw.info (167.99.188.80) by ekottar122.adidassuperstar.biz for   CP   On 17/09/2018 22:35, Seymour J Metz wrote: > Alas, the header does not include any e-mail address that cannot be spoofed. > OTOH,

Re: Help With PENDING OFFLINE Devices

2018-09-18 Thread Mike Schwab
If the datasets are all gone, delete the aliases, then delete the catalogs. Requires access to master catalog. Of if you can take down LPAR, IPL from your rescue IPL volume. On Tue, Sep 18, 2018 at 7:07 AM George Rodriguez <016eebd7289b-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > > I'm initializi

Re: In this case, I wish the US would follow the EU (no more DST)

2018-09-18 Thread Steve Smith
At first I thought it was amazing that the EU parliament would give up control of anything, no matter how tiny. Then I realized they did not. According the the article, "Summer Time" is banned, and the only choice is what a country's permanent time zone should be. We'll see if Spain gets rational

Re: Yet Another Mainframe z10 Bites the Dust!

2018-09-18 Thread Elardus Engelbrecht
John McKown wrote: >> >>> Thanks for the warning on degaussing Timothy! *George Rodriguez* >> Does Timothy *need* degaussing??? >Only if he has a magnetic personality. Should work, he has an iron fist... ;-) Apology to Timothy, just a little word play since this is not Friday today. Timoth

Re: Yet Another Mainframe z10 Bites the Dust!

2018-09-18 Thread John McKown
On Mon, Sep 17, 2018 at 12:00 PM Chris Hoelscher wrote: > > >>> Thanks for the warning on degaussing Timothy! *George Rodriguez* > > Does Timothy *need* degaussing??? > Only if he has a magnetic personality. > > > Chris Hoelscher > Technology Architect, Database Infrastructure Services > Tech

In this case, I wish the US would follow the EU (no more DST)

2018-09-18 Thread John McKown
https://www.dw.com/en/eu-to-stop-changing-the-clocks-in-2019/a-45495680 -- People who frustrate us will be around for as long as we need them. Maranatha! <>< John McKown -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access ins

Re: Help With PENDING OFFLINE Devices

2018-09-18 Thread George Rodriguez
I'm initializing the disk. The Mainframe is going away the end of month. *George Rodriguez* *Specialist II - IT Security* *PX - 47652* *(561) 357-7652 (office)* *(954) 415-7586 (mobile)* *School District of Palm Beach County* *3348 Forest Hill Blvd.* *Room B-332* *West Palm Beach, FL. 33406-5869*

Re: ASCRE and ACEE inheritance

2018-09-18 Thread Robin Atwood
Peter, thanks for the response. My concern is that in the exit I issue a RACROUTE VERIFY for a user's id and stash the resulting ACEE in ASXBSENV. When the allocations do eventually get done the temporary data sets (at least) seem to be governed by the original STC's ACEE and the dynamically alloca

Re: ASCRE and ACEE inheritance

2018-09-18 Thread Peter Relson
- Is the INIT routine run under the region control task, or under the started task control task (I suspect the latter)? Why do you care under which task the routine runs? You should probably not be doing anything that cares. FWIW, it does not run under the RCT task. And it does not run under

Re: Help With PENDING OFFLINE Devices

2018-09-18 Thread Mike Shorkend
What I meant was, what was the original reason for varying the devices offline? On Tue, 18 Sep 2018 at 11:32, Mike Schwab wrote: > The volumes are empty except for catalogs, and he varied them offline. > So he needs to delete empty catalogs, move catalogs with data to new > volumes or move the v

Re: Help With PENDING OFFLINE Devices

2018-09-18 Thread Mike Schwab
The volumes are empty except for catalogs, and he varied them offline. So he needs to delete empty catalogs, move catalogs with data to new volumes or move the volumes to a new UCB. On Tue, Sep 18, 2018 at 2:42 AM Mike Shorkend wrote: > > George, > Maybe you should tell us what you are trying achi

Re: Help With PENDING OFFLINE Devices

2018-09-18 Thread Mike Shorkend
George, Maybe you should tell us what you are trying achieve? There might be easier ways On Tue, 18 Sep 2018 at 00:16, Gibney, Dave wrote: > Really unsure what your goal is here, and it's looking dangerous. But, > IDCAMS > > EXPORT catalog name DISCONNECT will remove each catalog from the C