Re: Looking for a manual on IRLM services

2022-01-03 Thread Farley, Peter x23353
That appears to be a malformed url. Below link worked for me, but beware that my employer's email nanny filter may add extra qualifiers, actual text should be: https colon slash slash www dot redbooks dot ibm dot com slash redbooks slash pdfs slash sg246928 dot pdf https://www.redbooks.ibm.co

Re: Looking for a manual on IRLM services

2022-01-03 Thread Michael Watkins
#metoo -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of esst...@juno.com Sent: Monday, January 3, 2022 3:56 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Looking for a manual on IRLM services CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the Texas Comptroller's email

Re: Top 8 Reasons for using Python instead of REXX for z/OS

2022-01-03 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Tue, 21 Dec 2021 07:41:08 -0600, Bill Schoen wrote: >Yes, this implies open() and all other file related APIs. > Hmmm... I imagine: o mkdir within a PDS(E) directory? o Hard link to a PDSE member version? o open( , O_TRUNC) a PDSE member seek() to the middle of it write() data with a shor

Re: Looking for a manual on IRLM services

2022-01-03 Thread esst...@juno.com
ANyone else find this URL link NOT FOUND -- Original Message -- From: Rahim Azizarab <03f036d88eeb-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Looking for a manual on IRLM services Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2022 17:13:09 + http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/r

Re: ICSF and Z EOD (and Pervasive Encryption)

2022-01-03 Thread Dave Jousma
On Mon, 3 Jan 2022 16:10:48 -0400, Eric D Rossman wrote: > >That's a really good question (and a complicated one). While the >recommendation is to terminate ICSF to allow for a clean shutdown of >tasks, I think a STOP ICSF can be (mostly) safely avoided. > >There are a few asynchronous tasks th

Re: ICSF and Z EOD (and Pervasive Encryption)

2022-01-03 Thread Eric D Rossman
Dave Jousma wrote on 01/03/2022 at 02:43 PM: > On Sat, 1 Jan 2022 21:01:06 -0400, Eric D Rossman wrote: > > >I think you have the right idea. > > > >You want ICSF started as early as possible and ended as late as possible. > > > >You likely want to use early ICSF which will run ICSF under the

Re: ICSF and Z EOD (and Pervasive Encryption)

2022-01-03 Thread Radoslaw Skorupka
Yes, it is documented. However the only expected record is ICSF shutdown or so. :-) -- Radoslaw Skorupka Lodz, Poland W dniu 03.01.2022 o 20:54, Lennie Dymoke-Bradshaw pisze: Presumably any SMF records written by ICSF after the Z EOD would be lost? Lennie Dymoke-Bradshaw https://rsclweb.com

Re: ICSF and Z EOD (and Pervasive Encryption)

2022-01-03 Thread Lennie Dymoke-Bradshaw
Presumably any SMF records written by ICSF after the Z EOD would be lost? Lennie Dymoke-Bradshaw https://rsclweb.com ‘Dance like no one is watching. Encrypt like everyone is.’ -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Bonnie Ordonez Sent: 03 January 2022 15:35

Re: ICSF and Z EOD (and Pervasive Encryption)

2022-01-03 Thread Dave Jousma
On Sat, 1 Jan 2022 21:01:06 -0400, Eric D Rossman wrote: >I think you have the right idea. > >You want ICSF started as early as possible and ended as late as possible. > >You likely want to use early ICSF which will run ICSF under the MASTER >address space instead of JES (either via the ICSFPROC

Re: ICSF and Z EOD (and Pervasive Encryption)

2022-01-03 Thread Radoslaw Skorupka
Thank you Bonnie, thank you Eric. Just to clarify, you wrote 'compress' - did you mean 'encrypt' ? -- Radoslaw Skorupka Lodz, Poland W dniu 03.01.2022 o 16:35, Bonnie Ordonez pisze: If it is configured to do so, SMF will continue to compress data as long as ICSF is active, so if you want e

Re: ... Re: Top 8 Reasons for using Python instead of REXX for z/OS

2022-01-03 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Mon, 3 Jan 2022 11:35:57 -0500, Bob Bridges wrote: > ... I could see no way I could use it for my client's work. My job has a > lot to do with extracting data for my clients, but I also write tools for > their people to use to get the same data time after time, and really I ought > to

zOSMF install of z/OS 2.5

2022-01-03 Thread Rich Smrcina
I’m just starting to work on my install of z/OS 2.5 with zOSMF. When configuring the deployment, on the ‘Volumes and Storage Classes’ page is it possible to format volumes as the destination for the catalogs and datasets? In the volumes section, I see ‘Modify’ but it’s greyed out as there are

Re: Looking for a manual on IRLM services

2022-01-03 Thread Rahim Azizarab
http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redbooks/pdfs/sg246908.pdfhttp://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redbooks/pdfs/sg246928.pdfhttp://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redbooks/pdfs/sg246928.pdf You did not say if you are using it for DB2 or IMS. Rahim       On Monday, January 3, 2022, 12:58:38 AM CST, Binyamin D

Re: ... Re: Top 8 Reasons for using Python instead of REXX for z/OS

2022-01-03 Thread Bob Bridges
I've mentioned before on this forum that once I got the hang of object-oriented programming (in VBA, that was) and heard about ooREXX, I lusted after it, but resisted the temptation because I could see no way I could use it for my client's work. My job has a lot to do with extracting data for m

Re: ICSF and Z EOD (and Pervasive Encryption)

2022-01-03 Thread Bonnie Ordonez
If it is configured to do so, SMF will continue to compress data as long as ICSF is active, so if you want end-to-end SMF data compression, shutting down ICSF after Z EOD is the way to go. Regards, Bonnie Ordonez, SMF L3, IBM

... Re: Top 8 Reasons for using Python instead of REXX for z/OS

2022-01-03 Thread Rony G. Flatscher
My name is Rony G. Flatscher and I have been working as an IS professor at a European Business university (WU Vienna) who has acquired quite a bit of experience in teaching BA students programming for the past 35 years. Over the course of the years I taught e.g. COBOL, BASIC, Pascal, Open Access

... Re: Top 8 Reasons for using Python instead of REXX for z/OS

2022-01-03 Thread Rony G. Flatscher
My name is Rony G. Flatscher and I have been working as an IS professor at a European Business university (WU Vienna) who has acquired quite a bit of experience in teaching BA students programming for the past 35 years. Over the course of the years I taught e.g. COBOL, BASIC, Pascal, Open Access

Re: RMF III hourly snap shot

2022-01-03 Thread Mike Shorkend
If it is RMF III data you are looking for then I keep about a week of data online. The VSAM files get backed up daily and kept for another month. They can be restored and added to the RMF III collector (aka RMFGAT) for viewing . As reflectors mentioned, you can use the ISPF dialog to view the dat

Re: SMF119 - Subtype 20 and Subtype 21. REXX.

2022-01-03 Thread Massimo Biancucci
Thanks to Paul for the clarification. I've been told somebody got CC=16 from SORT. Sorry, I developed the script at a non-DFSort site. Please modify these two lines: 460,160,SQZ=(VL,MID=C' '),C';', 520,160,SQZ=(VL,MID=C' '),C';', with: 460,160,SQZ=(SHIFT=LEFT,MID=C' '),C';', 520,160,SQZ=(SHIFT=