Re: configure zos explorer

2019-10-10 Thread Wayne Bickerdike
In z/OS Explorer go to Window > Manage Connections. You should see CICS System Management with Cicsplex and CMCI Under that is z/OS There will be Ftp z/OS Remote System z/OSMF Click on z/OS Remote System and hit the Add button In that popup are the Remote Host IP address and Port. On Mon,

IBM Z Development and Test Environment (zD)

2019-10-10 Thread Frank Swarbrick
Starting a new thread...just because. So does anyone have an experience actually using this? Do you have Enterprise Edition? Does each developer have a zD "instance"? Do you build an "image" from an existing mainframe z/OS environment and then have the developers deploy that image to their

Re: Mainframe environment on AWS

2019-10-10 Thread scott Ford
There are a couple other z/OS emulators out there. We have z/PDT and have had for some time since we are a IDM ISV.. Scott On Thu, Oct 10, 2019 at 4:53 PM Mike Schwab wrote: > Instruction and called function emulation. Written by the guy that > did z390 and zcobol. > > On Thu, Oct 10, 2019 at

Re: Mainframe environment on AWS

2019-10-10 Thread Mike Schwab
Instruction and called function emulation. Written by the guy that did z390 and zcobol. On Thu, Oct 10, 2019 at 1:40 PM Peter wrote: > > Out of curiosity, How is lzlab hosting the mainframe on cloud ?(x86). > Moreover recently they have published about moving one of the Swiss company >

Re: Mainframe environment on AWS

2019-10-10 Thread Laurence Chiu
That wouldn't be an impediment to us if it could help make our developers more productive or encourage more people from the other side of the development shop to start looking at mainframe development. On Wed, Oct 9, 2019, 5:27 AM John McKown > $5,070 per user per year. OUCH! And you supply the

Re: Mainframe environment on AWS

2019-10-10 Thread Laurence Chiu
That's very interesting. Looks like the personal edition might be a good tool to get new developers familiar with the environment. And then maybe Enterprise edition if we want to offload some development work from the host. However is not clear to me how you would do applications development on

Documentation on PTATSCHEDPARAM in BPXYPTAT?

2019-10-10 Thread Thomas David Rivers
I see this field in the BPXYPTAT macro: PTATSCHEDPARAM DSF Pthread GetSchedParam/SetSchedParam value But - I can find no BPX function that retrieves or sets that value (seems like z/OS would have to be informed if it changed.) And, I can't seem to find any documentation on that

Re: Mainframe environment on AWS

2019-10-10 Thread Peter
Out of curiosity, How is lzlab hosting the mainframe on cloud ?(x86). Moreover recently they have published about moving one of the Swiss company mainframe to cloud(their production workload) On Thu, 10 Oct, 2019, 9:58 PM Sebastian Welton, wrote: > Yes there is for both: > > zPDT -

Re: SMF exit IEFU086 work area size

2019-10-10 Thread Charles Mills
I had the same question on the CNZ_WTOMDBEXIT work area. There they say you cannot store information from one invocation to another, but not to leave anything sensitive behind. IIRC. I assumed (yes, I know) that it was effectively "private" to the invoked exit instance (either serialized or a

Re: Mainframe environment on AWS

2019-10-10 Thread Michel Beaulieu
Try z1090 forum in Yahoo Groups. z1...@yahoogroups.com Not a Listserv. So registration follows Yahoo process. Michel Beaulieu IBM Services (Canada) |*| From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of Lennie Dymoke-Bradshaw Sent: October 10, 2019 1:37 PM To:

Re: Mainframe environment on AWS

2019-10-10 Thread Sebastian Welton
Yes there is for both: zPDT - https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/z1090/info ZD - https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/forums/html/forum?id=----2283 Sebastian On Thu, 10 Oct 2019 17:37:25 +, Lennie Dymoke-Bradshaw wrote: >Bill, > >Is there a support

Re: Saving job output

2019-10-10 Thread Mike Stramba
On 10/10/19, Rob Scott wrote: > The most recent link : https://www.share.org/d/do/17301 > > You *might* need a Share login. > Got it, thank, no login req ;) >Depending on the level of z/OS you are at, in SDSF there is a REXX Tutorial. Thanks Lizette. Mike

Re: Mainframe environment on AWS

2019-10-10 Thread Lennie Dymoke-Bradshaw
Bill, Is there a support forum for zPDT and/or zD? Lennie Dymoke-Bradshaw | Security Lead | RSM Partners Ltd   Web:  www.rsmpartners.com 'Dance like no one is watching. Encrypt like everyone is.' -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Bill

Re: Add space to OMVS filesystem?

2019-10-10 Thread Charles Mills
Thanks. Looks good. I'm all organized now and hopefully do not have to re-organize. Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Brown, Duncan Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2019 6:21 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU

Re: Saving job output

2019-10-10 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Thu, 10 Oct 2019 11:12:33 +, Rob Scott wrote: > >You can accomplish what you want very easily using the SDSF REXX interface, >you even have two options of how : > >(1) Use ISFACT and the "SA" action to allocate a DDName to each different >spool dataset and then use EXECIO to put the

Re: Saving job output

2019-10-10 Thread McCabe, Ron
You should take a look at MacKinney Systems JSF product...just be sure to go after the most current version. Thanks, Ron McCabe Manager of Mainframe/Midrange Systems Mutual of Enumclaw -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of John McKown Sent: Thursday,

Re: Saving job output

2019-10-10 Thread John McKown
On Thu, Oct 10, 2019 at 5:56 AM Gadi Ben-Avi wrote: > Hi, > Every now and again, I have to send the output from a job or started task > to support. > Saving all of the output is simple using SDSF's XDC command, but that > saves all of the output to one file. > It's much easier to deal with the

Re: Saving job output

2019-10-10 Thread Lizette Koehler
Depending on the level of z/OS you are at, in SDSF there is a REXX Tutorial. In SDSF - enter PF1 (HELP) On this panel you would select TOC Then on that panel you should see REXX Tutorial entry. If you go through those pages, there are examples, explanations and other cool functions using SDSF

Re: Mainframe environment on AWS

2019-10-10 Thread Bill Ogden
> I'm new to z/OS in X86. What's the difference between zPDT and ZD? The > documentation I could find is not clear. > Looks like something that might be useful in the shop where I'm currently See IBM publication SG24-8205-04 for a detailed discussion. In short, the terms and conditions (and

Re: Add space to OMVS filesystem?

2019-10-10 Thread Brown, Duncan
Charles, I use this tool to increase the size of a OMVS file. http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redpapers/pdfs/redp4769.pdf Works great. Duncan Brown -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Charles Mills Sent: Tuesday,

Re: Saving job output

2019-10-10 Thread Rob Scott
The most recent link : https://www.share.org/d/do/17301 You *might* need a Share login. If you have trouble downloading, let me know and I can send you the pdf privately. Rob Scott Rocket Software -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Mike Stramba

Re: Saving job output

2019-10-10 Thread Gadi Ben-Avi
That's almost what I am looking for. I would like each DD to be in a separate output file. Gadi -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Lionel B Dyck Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2019 3:37 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Saving job output More

Re: Saving job output

2019-10-10 Thread Lionel B Dyck
More info on SDSFEXT: Syntax:%sdsfext jobname ddname outdd jobnum (options Where: jobname is

Re: unpack ispf table for ISPT037 error

2019-10-10 Thread Rupert Reynolds
I searched and found "ISPT037 Library format error - Invalid record: Table= TTRN= Offset=." So if you still have the message, you could perhaps estimate where the error is in the member. Packed? Back in the day, when I was a sysprog, we didn't pack tables. I have no idea

Re: Saving job output

2019-10-10 Thread Gadi Ben-Avi
Thanks Lionel. Can the jobname include wildcards? What happens if there is more than one job with the same jobname? Gadi -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Lionel B Dyck Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2019 2:56 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re:

Re: SMF exit IEFU086 work area size

2019-10-10 Thread John McKown
On Thu, Oct 10, 2019 at 7:04 AM Peter Relson wrote: > > I can't find any documentation in KC on how to customize the size of the > workarea in SMPRMxx or what the minimum size of the area is. > > > The size is not customizable. 1024 is the size. The commentary on > SMXP_WORKAREA_LENGTH ought

Re: Saving job output

2019-10-10 Thread Mike Stramba
Rob, On 10/10/19, Rob Scott wrote: > See Share session 24671 "Learn to use SDSF Rexx" that I gave in Phoenix Do you have a link ? google is not finding anything. Mike -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: SMF exit IEFU086 work area size

2019-10-10 Thread Peter Relson
I can't find any documentation in KC on how to customize the size of the workarea in SMPRMxx or what the minimum size of the area is. The size is not customizable. 1024 is the size. The commentary on SMXP_WORKAREA_LENGTH ought to say so (but doesn't, currently -- it will in the future). If

Re: Saving job output

2019-10-10 Thread Lionel B Dyck
See my generalized routine SDSFEXT at http://lbdsoftware.com/sdsfext120.zip or in file 313 at cbttape.org: A generalized SDSF extraction process that will extract a specific ddname for all matching jobs that are in the JES2 SPOOL. The extraction is performed to a preallocated data set

Re: Saving job output

2019-10-10 Thread Rob Scott
Not much heavy lifting required - here is some sample ISFACT code that just performs a "say" operation for a specified "unique job" , but the basic framework is there. Lastrc = isfcalls('ON') ISFPREFIX=“ROBUNIQ1” address SDSF “ISFEXEC ST” address SDSF “ISFACT ST TOKEN(‘”token.1”’) PARM(NP SA)”

Re: Saving job output

2019-10-10 Thread Steve Smith
Yeah, I wasn't sure that was what you needed, but I thought it should be mentioned. I use it quite a bit. sas On Thu, Oct 10, 2019 at 7:43 AM Gadi Ben-Avi wrote: > I know that, > But if you have a job with many output files, or you want the output of > many jobs, this becomes tedious. You can

Re: Saving job output

2019-10-10 Thread Gadi Ben-Avi
I know that, But if you have a job with many output files, or you want the output of many jobs, this becomes tedious. You can also make mistakes. Gadi -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Steve Smith Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2019 2:41 PM To:

Re: Saving job output

2019-10-10 Thread Steve Smith
You can XDC each individual spool file. Just use the ? line command to view them. sas -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Saving job output

2019-10-10 Thread Gadi Ben-Avi
Thanks Rob, I was asking if someone had already done the heavy lifting. Gadi -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Rob Scott Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2019 2:13 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Saving job output Gadi, You can accomplish what

Re: Saving job output

2019-10-10 Thread Rob Scott
Gadi, You can accomplish what you want very easily using the SDSF REXX interface, you even have two options of how : (1) Use ISFACT and the "SA" action to allocate a DDName to each different spool dataset and then use EXECIO to put the records wherever you want (2) Use ISFBROWSE to process

Saving job output

2019-10-10 Thread Gadi Ben-Avi
Hi, Every now and again, I have to send the output from a job or started task to support. Saving all of the output is simple using SDSF's XDC command, but that saves all of the output to one file. It's much easier to deal with the individual spool files. Does anyone have a utility that can

unpack ispf table for ISPT037 error

2019-10-10 Thread Bill Giannelli
I am getting an ISPT037 error. A search on this error says to "unpack the ISPF table" with ISPF copy/move. I copied the member involved (ISPSPROF) and moved it back. But I still get the same error. How do I get around this error? thanks Bill

Re: Mainframe environment on AWS

2019-10-10 Thread Sebastian Welton
They are pretty much the same product, ZD uses zPDT as the underlying emulator but depending upon which version you use, has many enhancements to provide a DevOps experience. As already pointed out, zPDT is only for ISVs and ZD is available to commercial entities but you are bound by the usage