Re: Disquieting comment in a Wall Street Journal article.

Irving Wladawsky-Berger quoted an article in The Economist, and The Economist wrote this: "Costs should tumble as branches are shut, creaking mainframe systems retired and bureaucracy culled." I don't think it's reasonable to assume that the author agrees with every nuance in what he's quoting fr

Re: Personal Communications Printer Session

I agree with Tim Hare's suggestion. If you can arrange for z/OS to drive the printers directly, that'd be best. I'll list out some of these direct options first, in no particular order, plus another potentially attractive option using Linux on Z in partnership with z/OS: 1. The base z/OS operating

Re: XL/C compiler no listing

I *think* just plain CDATA means a UNIX file named CDATA in the current directory. Did you mean a DD named CDATA? Try DD:CDATA.. I think it uses the rules for C file names, which are obscurely documented here: https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSLTBW_2.3.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r3.cb cpx01/posixo

XL/C compiler no listing

Hi I took one the sample programs and tried to compile it got all return code 0 but no listing Here are the compiler options PGM=CCNDRVR,PARM=('/SSCOM,LIST(CDATA),LONGNAME,RENT,DLL'),COND=(8,LT) I have a file allocated CDATA as lrecl 121 recfm FBM Thanks --

Re: getting a list of FMIDS and the product description

Try native SMP/E in batch TSO JCL, instead of using ISPF panels. For a start, try something like "LIST FMID[s]" or similar against your CSI - and proceed from there.    Apologies for my 'lack of precision' in this, but it's from memory and I retired from mainframe sysprogging many years ago.   Chee

Re: Endianness and bit numbering Was RE: STORAGE OBTAIN doc inconsistency?

You are right of course: programs that used FLOGR would have to be recoded. I suspect that is the only spot where the hardware uses bit numbers but there might be one or two others. Still, nowhere near as fundamental as endianness, and totally unrelated. IBM could decide to "fix" FLOGR and they

Re: Endianness and bit numbering Was RE: STORAGE OBTAIN doc inconsistency?

On Tue, 2 Jul 2019 at 17:33, Charles Mills wrote: > > I disagree 100%. > > Endianness is a fundamental aspect of the hardware. The Z hardware IS > big-endian. Absent a total re-engineering of > the hardware, that will never change on a Z box. And if it somehow magically > did change, every bit o

Re: GIM40101E PTF already applied

I meant what I said quite literally. I include BYPASS(HOLDSYS) at APPLY CHECK time. SMPE reports all the HOLDs very clearly. Just because they are 'bypassed' in APPLY CHECK does not mean they become invisible. Besides, many HOLD ACTIONs must be done *after* APPLY anyway, so bypassing them betwee

Re: Endianness and bit numbering Was RE: STORAGE OBTAIN doc inconsistency?

Well, English is a left-to-right language, and numbers are written with the most significant digit on the left. We refer to digits by their ordinal numbers from the left. Further, if you're converting between bit numbers and octet numbers, the calculation is much clearer if they are numbered co

Endianness and bit numbering Was RE: STORAGE OBTAIN doc inconsistency?

I disagree 100%. Endianness is a fundamental aspect of the hardware. The Z hardware IS big-endian. Absent a total re-engineering of the hardware, that will never change on a Z box. And if it somehow magically did change, every bit of Z software would have to be examined and tested and in many c

Re: Best way to alert customer to pending license expiration?

Yes, and IMHO that would be a standardization effort, not an anti-trust issue. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of Paul Gilmartin <000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> Sent

Re: [External] Re: zOSMF software validation looking for *.F files

To clarify, RECEIVE copies RELFILEs to TLIBs, APPLY uses the TLIBs and inline elements and ACCEPT uses the TLIBs and inline elements. Don't purge the TLIBs until you dne the last ACCEPT. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM

Re: GIM40101E PTF already applied

If you bypass actin holds after taking the required actions, then the APPLY will not be identical to the APPLY CHECK. that's normal. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of Jesse 1 Robin

Re: Disquieting comment in a Wall Street Journal article.

Branches closing? Not according to the WSJ.  https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-bank-branch-is-dyingjust-not-at-these-banks-1529055000   Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone On Tuesday, July 2, 2019, 4:39 PM, Clark F. Morris wrote: An opinion piece by Irving Wladawsky-Berger, a contributor to the Wal

Disquieting comment in a Wall Street Journal article.

An opinion piece by Irving Wladawsky-Berger, a contributor to the Wall Street Journal's CIO Journal has the following paragraph. "The shake-up of banking should be great for customers, according to the Economist. “The benefits of technological change are likely to be vast. Costs should tumble as b

Ulli Theimann

For those that may have known Ulli Thiemann from IBM Health Checker and JES3 (and a number of SHARE presentations), he passed unexpectedly this past Friday morning (June 28). Obituary and other information can be found here: https://www.ranfranzandvinefh.com/obituary/319012/Ulrich-Thiemann/ To

Re: Tape Mount delay notification

On Tue, Jul 2, 2019 at 2:06 PM Tim Hare wrote: > Can you, if you automate the message, in that automation code issue > something that gets invoked after on a timer basis? If so you can issue a > message 'n' minutes after the mount message. I know AF/Oper from > IBM/Candle has that capability b

Re: Tape Mount delay notification

Can you, if you automate the message, in that automation code issue something that gets invoked after on a timer basis? If so you can issue a message 'n' minutes after the mount message. I know AF/Oper from IBM/Candle has that capability but I don't know much about OPS/MVS. -

Re: Personal Communications Printer Session

I don't know of a list to discuss PComm but if these printers support IP printing (either direct socket or LPD protocol) - and most do these days - you can define the IP address or host/domain name in something like VPS or Infoprint and eliminate the need for the 3270 printer emulation session

Programmatically retrieving ISPF clipboard names

Does anyone know if there is a(n undocumented) method of retrieving the names of the ISPF clipboards in use? I'm not fussed about going through a series of control blocks within an edit macro. -- Robert AH Prins robert.ah.prins(a)gmail.com --

Re: SFTP SSH Client Issues

In this case the SSH-Client is you. (You are initiating the connection). The remote site is the server. I was just trying to give you a starting point for the search. Rereading the OP, another thing to look at is the MTU size. (see the TCPIP books). There is a parameter PATHMTUDISCOVERY(?) that m

Re: SFTP SSH Client Issues

Thanks Allan, I learned that there actually several sftp servers behind 1 or more load balancers. So maybe there is something going on with the connection that the open ssh client cannot handle? Do you or any else know of any other sftp client software either free or commercial we can look at?

Re: STORAGE OBTAIN doc inconsistency?

On Mon, 1 Jul 2019 at 15:06, Charles Mills wrote: > > You're right, of course. Not to start a religious war, but even on a > big-endian machine, it seems to me to make sense to number > the bits from LSB to MSB. Bit n then represents 2^n -- in an 8-, 16-, 32-, > 64- or 128-bit integer. What coul

Re: listcat with only dsn

Or just use the edit macro I put in the thread earlier and now on my web site and CBT file which can use ISPF 3.4 masking. TSO %DSLISTSV L(some.dsn.filter.*) Output is in userid.SAVE.DATASETS and has the DSN and volser only. Because the exec has "STATS(NO)" for LMDLIST it runs very quickly even

Re: listcat with only dsn

Hi Sri, I saw the SKIPREC, but, at the bottom of the output, there is this: ---+1+2+3+4+5+6+7- NONVSAM TTSDS.Z23A.SYSLOG    A3SYS1 CATALOG CATALOG.Z23A.MASTER ALIAS TTSDS READY END The Mask I used is T

Re: listcat with only dsn

>>because there are lines other than these > that are unwanted (e.g. CATALOG in 1 and ALIAS in 10). David, Did you miss the SKIPREC ? The CATALOG info was on the 4th line and I was using SKIPREC to eliminate the first 5 records. >>> I tried the JCL (and changed &&C to &&L). Sorry about that.

Re: listcat with only dsn

Hi Sri, I tried the JCL (and changed &&C to &&L). I've written code like this before (using Rexx exclusively), and "INCLUDEd" only lines containing NONVSAM/CLUSTER/INDEX in Column 10 (rather than OMIT READY/END, because there are lines other than these that are unwanted (e.g. CATALOG in 1 and AL

Re: listcat with only dsn

> Where does one download REMDUP? David, You can try it from here http://dmcritchie.mvps.org/rexx02tso/remdups.txt Also other goodies http://dmcritchie.mvps.org/rexx/nclist.htm Thanks, Kolusu -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / sig

Re: USS script : how to test that a MVS Dataset exists ?

On Tue, 2 Jul 2019 14:38:07 +, Laurent Grisel wrote: >Lionel, many thanks to have tried to help me. >If nobody has an idea, I will need to open an RFE to IBM to extend the "if >test -e" command to MVS datasets. :-( > NVFL. What does BPXWDYN do if you try to allocate a HFS? A zFS? (You'd n

Re: listcat with only dsn

> OK, but, what if you want to use masking characters in the DSNAME (a la > 3.4)? David, If Listcat on LEVEL does not meet your needs then you can run the catalog search interface (CSI) from TSO and strip off the unwanted content. Something like this //*

Re: USS script : how to test that a MVS Dataset exists ?

Hello Kirk ! there are a lot of informations in your update. Thanks. First, about the suggestion to use the mount command and parse the output:the problem is that an error message is issued at Syslog/Console at the same time. I would like to avoid that. I wish to test if the FS Dataset exists, b

Re: listcat with only dsn

Hi Wayne, Where does one download REMDUP? Thanks and regards, David On 2019-07-02 02:17, Wayne Bickerdike wrote: > Option 3.4 using save to list gives a dataset that could be used after some > judicious EDIT macros. > > A bit clunky but this works: > > SORT (the ISPF EDIT command) > REMDUP (a g

Re: USS script : how to test that a MVS Dataset exists ?

Lionel, many thanks to have tried to help me. If nobody has an idea, I will need to open an RFE to IBM to extend the "if test -e" command to MVS datasets. :-( Le mardi 2 juillet 2019 à 16:25:54 UTC+2, Lionel B Dyck a écrit : Laurent - you've exhausted what I know - hopefully someone

Personal Communications Printer Session

We have an old Windows server running an old version of Rumba. It is only used to emulate two printers connected via IP. The new version is apparently very cost prohibitive so I thought we could use Personal Communications to replace it. We use it for our console sessions and I have no problem d

Re: USS script : how to test that a MVS Dataset exists ?

Laurent - you've exhausted what I know - hopefully someone else can provide you with the info that you need. Lionel B. Dyck < Website: http://www.lbdsoftware.com "Worry more about your character than your reputation. Character is what you are, reputation merely what others think you are." - J

Re: USS script : how to test that a MVS Dataset exists ?

I only tried it with an existing z/OS data set that was sequential and thus would work with cat. It wouldn't work with a non-sequential data set and I should have mentioned that. Lionel B. Dyck < Website: http://www.lbdsoftware.com "Worry more about your character than your reputation. Chara

Re: USS script : how to test that a MVS Dataset exists ?

Hello Lionel !I tried with an actual HFS, and I get this from the command: > cat //\'SYS2.IMS04.HFS.ROOTIMS.V14\'cat: //'SYS2.IMS04.HFS.ROOTIMS.V14': > EDC5092I An I/O abend was trapped. Ok, but I get also this message in syslog:IEC143I 213-8C,IFG0194D,WSYGRIS,STEP1,SYS8,E61E,ZPS10G,SYS2.IM

Re: USS script : how to test that a MVS Dataset exists ?

Hi Lionel, Did you try this with an existing zFS cluster? I get the same error: > cat //'dovetail.usrloc.zfs' cat: //dovetail.usrloc.zfs: EDC5049I The specified file name could not be located. FWIW, you can use the Co:Z "catsearch" shell command, which is a shell command interface to IGGCSI00

Re: USS script : how to test that a MVS Dataset exists ?

You could use the cat "//'zos.dsname'" and it will either work on you will get a error message: /u/user/cat "//'USER.TEST'" cat: //'USER.TEST': EDC5049I The specified file name could not be located. Lionel B. Dyck < Website: http://www.lbdsoftware.com "Worry more about your character tha

USS script : how to test that a MVS Dataset exists ?

Hello,I would like to "test" if a MVS Dataset exist (is catalogued) during the /etc/rc script. As far as I know, since /etc/rc script run during USS initialisation, TSO services are not yet available. So I cannot use the "tso" Unix command to issue a LISTCAT. Actualy my need is to perform a mou

Re: getting a list of FMIDS and the product description

On Tue, 2 Jul 2019 04:14:00 -0500, Bill Giannelli wrote: >I am trying to get a list of the FMIDS and the associated product name or >description I have in my CSI. You can do that with the SMP/E ISPF dialogs. You want the Migration Assistant. I don't remember how to use it, but I'm sure you can f

Re: getting a list of FMIDS and the product description

when I try to view Products, Features, and FMIDs action from zOSMF it is blank. could this be due to the fact I had not accepted the base? thanks Bill -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email

Tape Mount delay notification

I don't remember ever seeing anything about this. We have an old IBM virtual tape system -- TS3500. I think this is a 3494-B10 and a 3584 ATL. Anyway, there are times when the system seems to go on a "smoke break" and stops mounting virtual tapes. Looking at the "Command Queue" the virtual volumes

Re: getting a list of FMIDS and the product description

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Re: getting a list of FMIDS and the product description

On 7/2/2019 5:14 AM, Bill Giannelli wrote: I am trying to get a list of the FMIDS and the associated product name or description I have in my CSI. Online doc shows an ISPF panel from SMP panels I believe listing this from the order panel. But my panel is blank with no orders listed. First, why do

Re: SFTP SSH Client Issues

Check the service your SSH client is receiving. If I understand the reported symptoms, you can get this behavior if z/OS does not dispatch the SSH Client. Many of the same items vis-à-vis (network and FTP) also apply to SSH. Routing? Class of Service? What is happening at time of observed issues

Re: zOSMF software validation looking for *.F files

On 7/1/2019 11:21 AM, Pommier, Rex wrote: Presuming your DB2 12 install will be going into its own SMP/E environment and new target/distribution libraries, as soon as you have a successful base APPLY, you should be able to accept them. As a new install of a new release, what reason would you

Re: getting a list of FMIDS and the product description

LIST SYSMOD FUNCTION on the target zone. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Bill Giannelli Sent: Tuesday, July 2, 2019 4:14 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: getting a list of FMIDS and the product description I am trying to get a list of the FM

SFTP SSH Client Issues

We are running zos 2.2 with cozbatch 5.5.0 to initiate ssh sftp client session to a linux server over the internet. We get the error 'Received disconnect from xxx.0.xx.xxx: 11: Sending of channel data timed out' at peak times on the server through the day, this is not our server. I have run a tc

Re: Best Training Institute for Db2 and CICS training on z/OS

Saurabh, Check out my former company, Themis, Inc.  The web site is www.themisinc.com. They offer these courses (not IBM material) and have very excellent instructors. -- Regards, Thomas Dunlap Independent Consu

Re: LOAD/LINK exit

it would be nice to have a non-supervisor-state thingy that did this - similar to what is available via PTRACE. I think (but I am not sure) that PTRACE would fall into the category of "returning to the user in their state". That is very different than an exit, not particularly different than r

Best Training Institute for Db2 and CICS training on z/OS

Hello Group, I am looking for below class training course for Db2 and CICS on z/OS . Can you please help in provide best training institute available.. Currently I am only person will be attending these courses . 1. CICS v5.3 System Administration Code: WM816G 2. Db2 12 for zOS Advanced Da

getting a list of FMIDS and the product description

I am trying to get a list of the FMIDS and the associated product name or description I have in my CSI. Online doc shows an ISPF panel from SMP panels I believe listing this from the order panel. But my panel is blank with no orders listed. First, why do I have no orders listed? And second, how c