Re: SDSF - ISPF questions (wishes?)

Try adding the following lines to your test exec after the ISFCALLS statement : Rc=ISFQUERY("INIT") Say "Prefix="isfprefix " Owner="isfowner " Dest="isfdest " JES="isfjesname This will show you the contents of the special variables that are active. Prefix, Dest and Owner settings being different

Re: z/OSMF Portable Software Instance - Deployment Question

Bob, are you sure you really want to create a new master catalog? Or, do you really want to use your existing master catalog and existing user catalogs, or perhaps create some new user catalogs connected to your existing master catalog? The point is, if you use your existing master catalog the

Coping the content of a single member into other members

. I should be able to accomplish this, but I seem to be having a brain freeze. . I have about 30 Members in a PDS that contain different values (CLEAR, GET, START, RESUME, etc.) At times I want to replace the contents of all 30 Members with the value of INIT. . Essentially I want to copy the CON

Re: Coping the content of a single member into other members

≫ I want to replace the value in each member with the same contents of INIT. Paul, You can use IBM FILEMANAGER to update the contents of members in a PDS. You can hard code the contents or dynamically generate the change commands using DFSORT. //STEP0100 EXEC PGM=FILEMGR //SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=*

Re: Coping the content of a single member into other members

On Wed, 4 May 2022 15:12:34 GMT, essteam wrote: >... >I want to replace the value in each member with the same contents of INIT. > Why? Would it suffice to create 30 aliases of INIT? I believe TSO RENAME can do that, one-by-one. Or ISPF LMCOPY the members, one-by-one. IEBGENER can create al

Re: Coping the content of a single member into other members

What's wrong with using IEBCOPY or an ISPF script using LMCOPY? Others have suggested alias. Is there an issue with that? -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of

Re: z/OSMF Portable Software Instance - Deployment Question

Kurt, Our Shop standard dictates that a new master catalog is created with every z/OS upgrade. An additional standard clones new master catalogs from the new z/OS master catalog so that every lpar has its own new master catalog as the implementation rolls across the board. So, yes, I really wan

Re: [EXTERNAL] I knew Cobol 6.3 takes more resources to compile than 4.2 but should I be concerned about how much?

Hi list, I have an update on this issue. I opened a ticket with IBM and I'm thinking they are thinking there may be an issue with the compiler because they're still looking at it to see if the CPU time can be improved. As I said earlier, we have multiple programs and at this point only 1 of t

SAF without an ESM

On https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos-basic-skills?topic=zos-what-is-saf , IBM says: > System authorization facility or SAF is an interface defined by MVS™ that > enables programs to use system authorization services to control access to > resources, such as data sets and MVS commands. SAF either pro

Re: SDSF - ISPF questions (wishes?)

Rob Scott wrote: >Try adding the following lines to your test exec after the ISFCALLS statement : >Rc=ISFQUERY("INIT") >Say "Prefix="isfprefix " Owner="isfowner " Dest="isfdest " JES="isfjesname But when I do so, those variables do not get set: /* REXX */ arg j rc = isfcalls('ON') rc

Re: SAF without an ESM

My impression is that it does whatever you want it to do! That is, it either permits everything, or you get to write your own rules; write your own ESM, essentially. You need to write the part that SAF calls, and of course you also need to come up with some sort of administration, some way to co

Re: SDSF - ISPF questions (wishes?)

I see the "local workaround" in that APAR says this: As a work-around, the SDSF special DD ISFMIGRL can be allocated to avoid this problem. Maybe that's the solution? Peter -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Phil Smith III Sent: Wednesday, May 4, 2022

Re: SDSF - ISPF questions (wishes?)

Peter Farley wrote: >I see the "local workaround" in that APAR says this: >>As a work-around, the SDSF special DD ISFMIGRL can be >>allocated to avoid this problem. >Maybe that's the solution? Maybe; I missed it because it's meaningless as written. Just define a dummy DD*? Or what? Googling "is

Re: SDSF - ISPF questions (wishes?)

Isfquery has a couple of uses. It can be used inside a rexx exec invoked from NP to extract the environment variables. When invoked outside of SDSF, as your example shows, it returns a non-zero return code to indicate that it is not been invoked from SDSF NP %. The reason for this is that use

Re: SDSF - ISPF questions (wishes?)

Oops, when I said it was a Googlewhack I meant to add that the lone hit *is* this APAR. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: z/OSMF Portable Software Instance - Deployment Question

Still trying to understand your desired outcome. You do want to create a new master catalog, OK, but are you also trying to create new user catalogs connected to the new master, or are you trying to connect existing user catalogs to the new master? z/OSMF currently supports the former but not

Re: SAF without an ESM

Check out CBT file 165 (www.cbttape.org). Craig Yasuna wrote a functional ESM that shows you how to handle the SAF calls and returns. Regards, Michael Joseph Sr. Systems Engineer Blue Hill Data Services | Fully Managed Data Center Hosting Solutions  -Original Message- From: IBM Mainfram

Re: SDSF - ISPF questions (wishes?)

On Wed, 4 May 2022 13:51:03 -0400, Phil Smith III wrote: >... >Maybe; I missed it because it's meaningless as written. Just define a dummy >DD*? > It's somewhat common for utilities to condition their behavior on the mere existence of a DD. >... Or what? Googling "isfmigrl" is a Googlewh

Re: Python order question

Another approach is to resubmit via ShopZ but include a comment about not wanting S&S. There's a detailed set of instructions written on how to do that for Node.js, but you can follow the same for Python: https://community.ibm.com/community/user/ibmz-and-linuxone/blogs/blog-entry1/2019/07/15/o

Re: SDSF - ISPF questions (wishes?)

Rob Scott wrote, in part: > If this does not help you solve the problems, please open a case with IBM and our support will help debug. OK, thanks. I can't open a case as we don't have that kind of access as an IBM Dallas customer. That APAR really shouldn't be suggesting ISFMIGRL when it ap

Re: SDSF - ISPF questions (wishes?)

On Wed, 4 May 2022 14:41:17 -0400, Phil Smith III wrote: >... >That APAR really shouldn't be suggesting ISFMIGRL when it appears not to be >a thing, of course. > Yes. >If this were CMS, you could issue: >address command 'SUBCOM SDSF' >to test whether the SDSF subcommand environment was availa

Re: SDSF - ISPF questions (wishes?)

? >From z/OS 2.5 TSO/E REXX Reference, SA32-0972-50: "You can use the SUBCOM command in REXX execs that run in any address space, TSO/E or non-TSO/E. That is, SUBCOM is available from the TSO and MVS host command environments." -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3

Re: SDSF - ISPF questions (wishes?)

On Wed, 4 May 2022 19:11:46 +, Seymour J Metz wrote: >? > >From z/OS 2.5 TSO/E REXX Reference, SA32-0972-50: > >"You can use the SUBCOM command in REXX execs that run in any address space, >TSO/E or non-TSO/E. >That is, SUBCOM is available from the TSO and MVS host command environments." > I

Re: SDSF - ISPF questions (wishes?)

ISFMIGRL DD can be allocated to DUMMY provide relief for the original reported problem which occurred for a REXX exec invoked from SDSF NP with a % character. The issue you are describing seems to be for SDSF rexx called from TSO . Did specifying ISFPREFIX and ISFOWNER resolve the issue? If no

Re: Checksum of "legacy" load module?

I should close the loop on this. I never actually did this, having determined that the checksum test would be negative (different) in any event. It appears that depending on the order that PTFs were applied, the CSECTs are in a different order in the load module, and so two programs that are utter

Re: Checksum of "legacy" load module?

Why not checksum (or otherwise securely hash) the memory images of the module after each one to be compared is LOADed to the same starting storage address so that address resolution doesn't cause irrelevant differences? Wouldn't that be simpler? Of course, then you would have to somehow deal w

Re: Checksum of "legacy" load module?

On Wed, 4 May 2022 13:28:29 -0700, Charles Mills wrote: >. ... >It appears that depending on the order that PTFs were applied, the CSECTs >are in a different order in the load module, and so two programs that are >utterly functionally equivalent would have different checksums. > I had one co-work

Re: Coping the content of a single member into other members

Use IEBCOPY with the rename option: //SYSIN DD * COPY INDD=((SYSUT1,R)),OUTDD=SYSUT2 S MEMBER=((INIT,NEWNAME1)) COPY INDD=((SYSUT1,R)),OUTDD=SYSUT2 S MEMBER=((INIT,NEWNAME2)) Keep repeating the COPY and S MEMBER statements until you have replaced every member that you desire too. You have t

Re: SAF without an ESM

Many years back I IPLed my onepak system with RACF disabled to see what happened.Every access of a resource sent a reply prompt to the console for YES/NO.It took a while but I eventually got enough of MVS up that I could logon to TSO/E.I considered writing my own RACF exit that returned OK for e

Re: Checksum of "legacy" load module?

I don't think LOAD would obviate the CSECT order issue. I also think separate checksums by CSECT would be nice as a way to pinpoint any differences. I think one could defer overlay support until Version 2. I have certainly not thought the utility through thoroughly. I have experience dealing wit

What is SUBCOM?

On Wed, 4 May 2022 19:11:46 +, Seymour J Metz wrote: > >From z/OS 2.5 TSO/E REXX Reference, SA32-0972-50: > >"You can use the SUBCOM command in REXX execs that run in any address space, >TSO/E or non-TSO/E. >That is, SUBCOM is available from the TSO and MVS host command environments." > OK. I

Re: What is SUBCOM?

Search google ibm term subcom -- good definitions -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Wednesday, May 4, 2022 6:12 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: What is SUBCOM? ** EXTERNAL EMAIL - USE CAUTION ** On Wed, 4 May 2022 19:11:4

Re: What is SUBCOM?

>> Unclearly documented in >> . If it's a TSO command, why is it not documented in the TSO command Ref? Where are the commands supported in the MVS command environment listed? Gil, The link you posted is a part of " TSO/E REXX comma

Re: SDSF - ISPF questions (wishes?)

Shmuel wrote: >From z/OS 2.5 TSO/E REXX Reference, SA32-0972-50: >"You can use the SUBCOM command in REXX execs that run in any address space, TSO/E or non-TSO/E. >That is, SUBCOM is available from the TSO and MVS host command environments." Oh. Well, Rob had written: >When invoked outsid

Re: SDSF - ISPF questions (wishes?)

On Wed, 4 May 2022 20:12:11 -0400, Phil Smith III \ wrote: >Shmuel wrote: >. ... >>That is, SUBCOM is available from the TSO and MVS host command >environments." > >Oh. Well, Rob had written: >>When invoked outside of SDSF, as your example shows, it returns a non-zero >return code to indicate th

Re: What is SUBCOM?

On Wed, 4 May 2022 23:19:07 +, Ronald Wells wrote: >Search google ibm term subcom -- good definitions > I've looked at several of those, to no avail. Where can I find the answer to my question below? >-Original Message- >From: Paul Gilmartin >Sent: Wednesday, May 4, 2022 6:12 PM >

Re: What is SUBCOM?

On Wed, 4 May 2022 20:15:54 -0500, Paul Gilmartin wrote: >On Wed, 4 May 2022 23:19:07 +, Ronald Wells wrote: > >>Search google ibm term subcom -- good definitions >> >I've looked at several of those, to no avail. Where can I find the >answer to my question below? > Ah! found it:

zOSMF

Does anyone have/implemented a test process for zOSMF, something that will check access to all the services and validate security is working and all parts up and available. Thanks, BM -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / arch