Re: rename a dataset in acs routine?

2020-09-21 Thread David Mingee
The following idea/method will probably not work, but what the hell. Consider listing the needed tape files with a TMS report to disk. 1. create a PDSE to load these files into. 2. change create fiche jcl to create a new member e.g. (d092120) 3 create job to load old tape files as member names.

Re: Change TOD from local timezone to GMT

2020-09-21 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Mon, 21 Sep 2020 20:36:00 -0500, Mike Schwab wrote: >Long term, we seem to need to add about 1 second per year every 150 >years, and after about 55,000 years every day will be 24 hours and 1 >second long. > The citation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/∆T (That curve is supposed to be a

Re: Caution: "Hacked" email caused the distribution of a potentially harmful attachment

2020-09-21 Thread CM Poncelet
FWIW   (a) Begin by assuming that *all* received emails are spam/scam (and define this as the bottom line catch-all message filter) *unless* a higher up message filter recognizes both the sender(s)'s and the 'to' recipient's addresses as valid. (b) The sender's original email address can be found

Re: Thread id using BPX1GTH

2020-09-21 Thread Tony Harminc
On Mon, 21 Sep 2020 at 16:23, Pierre Fichaud wrote: > Tonu=y, > Yup,I got that from a friend of mine. > How about the process id ? > It seems that ASSBOASB points to an OCO area. > The OMVS address space block contains the thread id. > But I can't find a

Re: Change TOD from local timezone to GMT

2020-09-21 Thread Mike Schwab
Long term, we seem to need to add about 1 second per year every 150 years, and after about 55,000 years every day will be 24 hours and 1 second long. On Mon, Sep 21, 2020 at 8:14 PM Paul Gilmartin <000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > > On Mon, 21 Sep 2020 18:44:27 -0500, Mike

Re: Change TOD from local timezone to GMT

2020-09-21 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Mon, 21 Sep 2020 18:44:27 -0500, Mike Schwab wrote: >My idea for doing the fall back would be change the fall back time to >0100. Leap forward from 005959 to 02, no problem. But for fall >back, 235959 continues to 24 to 245959 then the next day at >00, resulting in no

Re: Change TOD from local timezone to GMT

2020-09-21 Thread Mike Schwab
My idea for doing the fall back would be change the fall back time to 0100. Leap forward from 005959 to 02, no problem. But for fall back, 235959 continues to 24 to 245959 then the next day at 00, resulting in no overlapping times. On Mon, Sep 21, 2020 at 6:13 PM Mark Jacobs

Re: rename a dataset in acs routine?

2020-09-21 Thread Mike Schwab
The place that process our (not his) microfiche (later CD-ROMS) wanted the same DSN name so they only had to type in the volser, and they would pick up the date and time from the data. So HLQ.Jobname8.Dyymmdd.Thhmm.FIXED.LAST.NAME17 they would see as the same. On Mon, Sep 21, 2020 at 5:43 PM

Re: Change TOD from local timezone to GMT

2020-09-21 Thread Mark Jacobs
We had the time steering function using sysplex timers. I believe that the maximum time that could be steered was one minute, which took days/weeks to accomplish. If you needed more than a minute, you had to start the process again. STP raised the limit that could be set, but didn't speed it up

Re: Caution: "Hacked" email caused the distribution of a potentially harmful attachment

2020-09-21 Thread Bob Bridges
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Jesse 1 Robinson Sent: Monday, September 21, 2020 17:08 JR> The idea of deliberately dumbing down language in spam is preposterous. First of all I don't understand the purported logic

Re: Change TOD from local timezone to GMT

2020-09-21 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Tue, 22 Sep 2020 07:35:44 +1000, Matthew Donald wrote: > >A few years ago (z14 announcement??), IBM announced a new PR/SM feature >which would decrement the TOD clock 1 second at a time, while >simultaneously incrementing the timezone offset. Can anyone shine any >light on this feature? I've

Re: rename a dataset in acs routine?

2020-09-21 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Sun, 20 Sep 2020 00:06:01 -0500, Brian Westerman wrote: >They are mifrofiche tapes, and they are not sent out for processing any more. >They exist only on the off chance that "someday" they might be needed to >recreate something. When they are needed, they use the DSN=,VOL= to use them. >

Re: Caution: "Hacked" email caused the distribution of a potentially harmful attachment

2020-09-21 Thread Tomasz Rola
On Mon, Sep 21, 2020 at 09:08:22PM +, Jesse 1 Robinson wrote: > The idea of deliberately dumbing down language in spam is > preposterous. First of all I don't understand the purported logic of > it. More important, while English is an official language in > Nigeria, it is no one's mother

Re: rename a dataset in acs routine?

2020-09-21 Thread Seymour J Metz
If you are not allowed to fix the JCL, JES2 exit 6 certainly sounds like a reasonable way to go, as long as it isn't the camel's nose under the tent. Good luck. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion

Re: rename a dataset in acs routine?

2020-09-21 Thread Brian Westerman
Jes Exit 6 seems to be the best place to do this. There is only a max of one dataset per job and it's never re-read in that same job (or any other) and we already know what the dataset(s) are called, so it's pretty simple to scan for the DSN= text object and if the supplied DSN matches one of

Change TOD from local timezone to GMT

2020-09-21 Thread Matthew Donald
As most people would know, changing the TOD clock on a mainframe is fraught with difficulties. z/OS uses TOD timestamps all over the place to manage change and consistency, not the least being LRSN's for DB2 and IMS logging. Changing the TOD clock forward in time can cause problems, changing it

Re: Caution: "Hacked" email caused the distribution of a potentially harmful attachment

2020-09-21 Thread Jesse 1 Robinson
The idea of deliberately dumbing down language in spam is preposterous. First of all I don't understand the purported logic of it. More important, while English is an official language in Nigeria, it is no one's mother tongue. It's learned, mostly in school, to whatever proficiency the learner

Re: Thread id using BPX1GTH

2020-09-21 Thread Pierre Fichaud
Tonu=y, Yup,I got that from a friend of mine. How about the process id ? It seems that ASSBOASB points to an OCO area. The OMVS address space block contains the thread id. But I can't find a mapping of it. Regards, Pierre.

Re: Thread id using BPX1GTH

2020-09-21 Thread Tony Harminc
On Thu, 17 Sep 2020 at 10:21, Pierre Fichaud wrote: > For the current TCB, I want to extract the thread id. > I'm using BPX1GTH. > I don't know about BPX1GTH, but it's trivially easy to go from a TCB address to a thread ID yourself. If you want the current TCB, its address is in PSATOLD. Or

Re: SMPE ALIAS for a TEXT/PANEL Usermod

2020-09-21 Thread Seymour J Metz
Use the ALIAS keyword on the ++TEXTxxx or ++PNLxxx MCS. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of Kenneth J. Kripke Sent: Monday, September 21, 2020 3:47 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU

SMPE ALIAS for a TEXT/PANEL Usermod

2020-09-21 Thread Kenneth J. Kripke
How can I specify an alias to be associated with a usermod entry in SMPE when replacing a text, source entry ? The USERMOD is a full replacement of the distributed panel, but, I want to make sure that the alias entry also gets carried forward correctly. Kenneth J. Kripke

Re: STIMERM SVCE

2020-09-21 Thread Binyamin Dissen
On Mon, 21 Sep 2020 14:56:21 -0400 Pierre Fichaud wrote: :>Yes, that address points after 0A2F. Is it your code? :>I've pasted more of the trace table but it has wrapped. Not enough to just use it. I presume you have a dump. Is the linkage stack as you expect it to be? Are the registers as

Re: STIMERM SVCE

2020-09-21 Thread Joseph Reichman
Don’t know if this is related I most recently got an abend 138 GRS ENQ Running my program under TESTAUTH This only happens when I make a breakpoint one the STIMERM routine no where in my code do I do an ENQ in my Estae I only get SDWARBAD no program name the first SVRB points to abend

Re: STIMERM SVCE

2020-09-21 Thread Pierre Fichaud
Yes, that address points after 0A2F. I've pasted more of the trace table but it has wrapped. Regards, Pierre. 0001 0043 007CE938 PC ... 600_01736592 0131F closedir/close 0001 0043 007CE938 PC ... 000_1CE632C8 03504 0001 0043 007CE938

Re: STIMERM SVCE

2020-09-21 Thread Binyamin Dissen
SETFRR does not show up in the trace table. I would not expect the ECT1005 to be immediately followed by an SVC 2F. What is around 1AAFC3AE? Your code? You have removed too much of the trace. On Mon, 21 Sep 2020 10:11:05 -0500 Pierre Fichaud wrote: :>I have a sub-task that issues TCPIP calls

Re: STIMERM SVCE

2020-09-21 Thread Seymour J Metz
Report it to IBM. Be prepared to run tests at their request to collect additional diagnostic data. AFAIK you should never hit a timer exit with an FRR active except for DIE. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe

Re: Caution: "Hacked" email caused the distribution of a potentially harmful attachment

2020-09-21 Thread Tomasz Rola
On Mon, Sep 21, 2020 at 04:00:04PM +0200, R.S. wrote: [...] > But seriously: > 1. Anyone can put any name in the "sender" field. There are even > free web services for kiddies who want to be "hackers". However > hacked (hijacked) email account means access to address database. I > do not expect

Re: Caution: "Hacked" email caused the distribution of a potentially harmful attachment

2020-09-21 Thread Bob Bridges
Interesting hypothesis. I always supposed that they were badly written either because a) scammers don't care (which is perhaps another way of saying they're illiterate, or b) these Nigerian-oil-minister scams actually are written by foreigners whose English is bad - not, perhaps, by actual

STIMERM SVCE

2020-09-21 Thread Pierre Fichaud
I have a sub-task that issues TCPIP calls using EZASMI (connect,send,etc) I set an ESTAE. Then in a STIMERM loop, I issue a connect. The STIMERM popped once and then I tried to send() unsuccessfully. I go back to do the STIMERM and blow up. I get an abend SVCE stating that I tried issuing the

Re: BPXP018I message when STC cancelled

2020-09-21 Thread Brian Chapman
Pierre, I'd love to hear if you find a resolution. I have a process with similar behavior and I receive the same message for each sub-task when it terminates within the ESTAE. Thank you, Brian Chapman On Sun, Sep 20, 2020 at 9:49 AM Charles Mills wrote: > I have always seen that message

Re: Caution: "Hacked" email caused the distribution of a potentially harmful attachment

2020-09-21 Thread R.S.
W dniu 20.09.2020 o 17:00, Tony Brown pisze: Please be advised: My email account was hacked while I was on vacation last week. Generated from my email address were two variations of emails with subjects of "Proof of Payment" or "Receipt of Payment" each containing an "html" attachment. If

Re: [External] Re: Searching MLPA module

2020-09-21 Thread Pommier, Rex
Ok, now it's coming back. They don’t get paged out, if the system needs the storage, it just throws the pages away because it can just reload them if needed later. So PLPA modules are subject to paging, just not paging out. I was mixing up page stealing and page out. Rex -Original

Re: Searching MLPA module

2020-09-21 Thread Joe Monk
"All modules in the PLPA are treated as refreshable, and are not paged-out. This action reduces the overall paging rate compared with modules in other libraries." https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSLTBW_2.1.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r1.ieae100/plpae.htm Joe On Mon, Sep 21, 2020 at 7:57 AM

Re: rename a dataset in acs routine?

2020-09-21 Thread Seymour J Metz
What's the down side? -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of Lizette Koehler Sent: Sunday, September 20, 2020 11:06 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: rename a dataset in

Re: Is there a word for that?

2020-09-21 Thread Seymour J Metz
How about make a copy, change it to match the $T, test it and then copy it to the new JESPARMS? -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of Lizette Koehler Sent: Sunday, September 20,

Re: Searching MLPA module

2020-09-21 Thread Seymour J Metz
PLPA pages ar paged out once, during CLPA. After that, pages can be stolen but are not written back; any modifications are lost. It's documented in Initialization and Tuna. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe

Re: Searching MLPA module

2020-09-21 Thread Pommier, Rex
Unlike PLPA, it is subject to page out. Are you saying that PLPA pages are fixed and can't be paged out? Isn't that what the first P in PLPA means - pageable? The FLPA modules are page fixed and not subject to page-outs. Rex -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion

Re: rename a dataset in acs routine?

2020-09-21 Thread Allan Staller
Classification: HCL Internal Don't forget to expire the old tapes after successful copy. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Brian Westerman Sent: Friday, September 18, 2020 11:07 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: rename a dataset in acs

Re: Is there a word for that?

2020-09-21 Thread Styles, Andy (ITS zPlatform Services)
Classification: Limited My trouble with JES2 is that different subparameters of the same statement can only be changed by different methods. Take things like NJEDEF; I've seen places where it looks like the original installing lazy sysprog decided that rather than go through the trouble of