The Business Case for Pipes in the z/OS Base (was: Re: REXX - Interpret or Value - Which is better?)

2021-09-22 Thread Timothy Sipples
I misplaced the original post, but somewhere in this thread someone commented that checkpointing is less important. I think I disagree, so just a quick comment from me. Yes, absolutely, there's much more computing power and much better I/O. There are also lots of efficiency gains -- much

Re: The Business Case for Pipes in the z/OS Base (was: Re: REXX - Interpret or Value - Which is better?)

2021-09-22 Thread Hobart Spitz
Paul said: > I'm guessing the atypical case is a stage such as FANOUT which necessarily copies the data. Not sure what you mean by atypical. FANOUT is typical in the respect that it doesn't create an actual copy of the input record. It just looks like it. FANOUT, and non-record-changing

Re: clist substring command

2021-09-22 Thread Skip Robinson
Before switching to Rexx long ago, I wrote prolifically in Clist. I got used to always writing '()' because the command processor would otherwise relentlessly substitute for anything that looked like a variable, often producing puzzling results. The original question referred to 'system

Re: IPL's POR's frequency

2021-09-22 Thread Clark Morris
If Brian's sites only IPL once a year or less frequently, how are fixes to LPA modules applied? other fixes requiring an IPL? I was impressed with maintenance on the Tandem system (now HPE non-stop) where maintenance was just a simple operator procedure. Clark Morris

Re: clist substring command

2021-09-22 Thread Bill Giannelli
I am an idiot..because the code has a little comment at the top.REXX! -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Control-M

2021-09-22 Thread Pew, Curtis G
On Sep 22, 2021, at 3:07 PM, Mitch Mccluhan <005d889cebf0-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > > I would suggest IWS from IBM. It is a true enterprise wide solution. I have > been in the scheduler, production control, operations, etc areas for many > decades and it is, in my opinion,

Re: clist substring command

2021-09-22 Thread Carmen Vitullo
SET =(1:1,)  NEWCHAR=(ABC) should work based on some working examples I have. I'd need to xfer from my work PC to home to send to you if you like Carmen On 9/22/2021 3:12 PM, Bill Giannelli wrote: it is not liking the syntax of that first command."invalid expression"

Re: clist substring command

2021-09-22 Thread Bill Giannelli
it is not liking the syntax of that first command."invalid expression" -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Control-M

2021-09-22 Thread Mitch Mccluhan
I would suggest IWS from IBM.  It is a true enterprise wide solution.  I have been in the scheduler, production control, operations, etc areas for many decades and it is, in my opinion, a better option. And in openness, I am with IBM, but this is my personal opinion. Regards, Mitch McCluhan

Re: clist substring command

2021-09-22 Thread Carmen Vitullo
you can use substr like set =(1:1),) to get the first char of that symbol and concatenate them together newchar=(ABC) I think that would work Carmen On 9/22/2021 2:51 PM, Bill Giannelli wrote: In a clist, how would I strip the first character from a system symbolic and create a

clist substring command

2021-09-22 Thread Bill Giannelli
In a clist, how would I strip the first character from a system symbolic and create a variable ending in that character? For example, "ABC" -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to

Re: Control-M

2021-09-22 Thread Bill Johnson
At last shop we had Control-O. Excellent product. All control products require IOA. Or did. It’s been a few years.Nice having a respected president at the UN. Not one who got laughed at. Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone On Wednesday, September 22, 2021, 3:06 PM, Ward, Mike S wrote:

Re: Control-M

2021-09-22 Thread Carmen Vitullo
the last pace I worked had the entire CONTROL- suite of tools, so I cannot comment on using just control-m. in our installation from what I recall, the tool uses an ISPF dialog to install / maintain and configure the tool. I had the occasion to modify some CONTROL-O and CONTROL-T options and

Control-M

2021-09-22 Thread Ward, Mike S
Anyone on here ever used Control-M from BMC? Any comments on the Installation/Maintenance/Performance ...ET AL? Any additional products that had to be purchased because Control-M didn't have everything it needed to run successfully? == This email, and any files

Re: Has anyone used VSAM repro with encipher?

2021-09-22 Thread Carmen Vitullo
I have, been over 20 years but I still have some examples of using IDCAMS, we used a transport key that we provided our partner and they provided their key, stored in the PKCS IIRC let me know if you what some examples I can send you off-list Carmen On 9/22/2021 12:47 PM, Colin Paice

Has anyone used VSAM repro with encipher?

2021-09-22 Thread Colin Paice
As part of looking into copying encrypted data sets from one system to another, I tried using the VSAM REPRO ENCIPHER facility, and could not get it working. I suspect it hasnt been used for years (grin) Has anyone got any JCL which worked, and information about the keys. For example do the keys

Re: DB2 rerunning install clist when applying maintenance

2021-09-22 Thread william giannelli
yes I posted to DB2-L also. It actually seems to depend on which jobs you will need to regenerate. Some fewer jobs are generated with "install", Many more are generated with "migrate". Bill On Wed, Sep 22, 2021 at 12:22 PM Doug wrote: > Have you cross posted to the Db2 list? Am facing the same

Re: DB2 rerunning install clist when applying maintenance

2021-09-22 Thread Doug
Have you cross posted to the Db2 list? Am facing the same thing you are and was hoping you would get the answer. 1000+ hold actions for me, going through them one by one is painful and far to time consuming. Best Regards, Doug . On Sep 22, 2021, at 12:10, william giannelli wrote: No update

Re: DB2 rerunning install clist when applying maintenance

2021-09-22 Thread william giannelli
No update is for zparm updates and only generates the dsntijua and dsntijuz jobs On Wed, Sep 22, 2021 at 11:19 AM Salva Carrasco wrote: > UPDATE! > > -- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send

Re: DB2 rerunning install clist when applying maintenance

2021-09-22 Thread Salva Carrasco
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Re: SMPE Help

2021-09-22 Thread Kurt Quackenbush
On 9/21/2021 11:39 PM, Mohd Shahrifuddin Ahmad Masri wrote: I have another problem. DATE 09/22/21 TIME 11:31:01 SMP/E 36.109 UNIX COMMAND OUTPUT /bin/pax -zvrf /u/ssa/cics/SMPPTFIN/2021250221822812757.1of35

Re: The Business Case for Pipes in the z/OS Base (was: Re: REXX - Interpret or Value - Which is better?)

2021-09-22 Thread Martin Packer
Conversely a pipe as input is not necessarily a good input medium for a sort. 10 years ago I contributed to a Batch Modernization Redbook on this, emphasising the need for BatchPipes input to DFSORT to be accompanied by a FILSZ / AVGRLEN estimate pair. Bringing it back to pipes, I wonder if