Re: Broadcom´s COPYCAT equivalent

2022-09-21 Thread Brian Westerman
I think there is a file on the CBTtape that allows you to do this, but why do you want to keep the same VOLSERs, wouldn't it be better (and easier) to use another VOLSER group, and copy from/to using any number of utilities? I have converted several sites from EMC to IBM to Luminex to Optica

Re: CRTIME Field on $DJ(xxxxx),LONG command output

2022-09-21 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Wed, 21 Sep 2022 19:17:22 -0500, Michael Oujesky wrote: >Careful, In a SYSPLEX with multiple local time zones, use of local >time zone in a message can be confusing. > For that reason, z/OS should accept explicit timezones, not LOCAL but MST7MDT. >At 04:22 PM 9/21/2022, Paul Gilmartin

Re: IPCS VERBX 64bit storage

2022-09-21 Thread Mike Schwab
https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/2.2.0?topic=dialog-examining-64-bit-dump-data-sets On Wed, Sep 21, 2022 at 3:59 PM David Janicek wrote: > > Hi all. I am new to this list but I have searched the archives for an answer > to my question already without any luck. > > I am responsible for

Re: IPCS VERBX 64bit storage

2022-09-21 Thread Jim Mulder
https://listserv.ua.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind2111=IBM-MAIN=R28794=O14039FAB4B2233B763=d10jhm1%40us.ibm.com Jim Mulder z/OS Diagnosis, Design, Development, Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie NY -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of David Janicek Sent: Wednesday,

Re: CRTIME Field on $DJ(xxxxx),LONG command output

2022-09-21 Thread Michael Oujesky
Careful, In a SYSPLEX with multiple local time zones, use of local time zone in a message can be confusing. Michael At 04:22 PM 9/21/2022, Paul Gilmartin wrote: On Wed, 21 Sep 2022 19:40:01 +, Seymour J Metz wrote: >Why not a settable option to use local, UTC or both? > Of course!

Re: z/OSMF PSWI

2022-09-21 Thread Joe Monk
>From Marna Walle, back on July 20, 2022: "As for the sizes, for z/OSMF ServerPac we have increased the shipped free space to 40% per data set, and with linklst data sets have zero secondary. This is an increase over the prior free space size we used to provide, in hopes that will help for the

Re: Racf userid - CICS started as a job

2022-09-21 Thread McIntosh, Richard
Or if you don't want the users to have surrogate. Create a STC for the CICS that then submits the CICS job. Then only the STC needs to have surrogate access to the CICS userid, or if the same id, just let it inherit it. The users only need authority to issue the S cicsname. Richard McIntosh

Re: z/OSMF PSWI

2022-09-21 Thread David Elliot
HOW DARE YOU question the wisdom of the great and all powerful zOSMF. ? On Wed, Sep 21, 2022, 3:29 PM Michael Babcock wrote: > We are installing z/OS 2.5 via z/OSMF and are using the Modify Deployment > screens. We can easily change the volumes, HLQs, etc, but wanted to modify > the Primary

Re: CRTIME Field on $DJ(xxxxx),LONG command output

2022-09-21 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Wed, 21 Sep 2022 19:40:01 +, Seymour J Metz wrote: >Why not a settable option to use local, UTC or both? > Of course! That covers every timezone on earth! From: John McKown Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2022 7:27 AM Just as a guess on my part,

IPCS VERBX 64bit storage

2022-09-21 Thread David Janicek
Hi all. I am new to this list but I have searched the archives for an answer to my question already without any luck. I am responsible for maintaining an IBM IPCS VERBX (verb exit) that analyzes our application dumps and points out any inconsistencies in it. We are in the process of moving

z/OSMF PSWI

2022-09-21 Thread Michael Babcock
We are installing z/OS 2.5 via z/OSMF and are using the Modify Deployment screens. We can easily change the volumes, HLQs, etc, but wanted to modify the Primary and/or secondary allocation and don’t see a way to do that. We have a case opened with IBM and have been told there is no way to do

Re: PSP for Crypto Express 8s

2022-09-21 Thread Lennie Dymoke-Bradshaw
Thanks. I've learnt about those fix categories for the future. The report for system didn't contain much for my system though. I wonder if it would have found the maintenance I needed. I feel disinclined to restore it all just to find out. Lennie Dymoke-Bradshaw https://rsclweb.com ‘Dance

Re: CRTIME Field on $DJ(xxxxx),LONG command output

2022-09-21 Thread Seymour J Metz
Why not a settable option to use local, UTC or both? From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of John McKown Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2022 7:27 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: CRTIME Field on $DJ(x),LONG command output On

Re: PSP for Crypto Express 8s

2022-09-21 Thread Michael Babcock
I use this as input: REPORT MISSINGFIX ZONES(MVST100) FIXCAT(IBM.*) . And it will report something like this (edited for length): MISSING FIXCAT SYSMOD REPORT FOR ZONE MVST100 HOLD MISSING HELD RESOLVING SYSMOD_ FIX CATEGORY FMID

Re: PSP for Crypto Express 8s

2022-09-21 Thread Lennie Dymoke-Bradshaw
I may have been able to do that. My SMPE skills are a little old and I don't recall that. Yes, I think HOLDDATA is available freely from IBM. https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/enhanced-holddata-zos So if you need new device support (for example) how does the MISSINGFIX work? What does the

Re: CRTIME Field on $DJ(xxxxx),LONG command output

2022-09-21 Thread Mike Schwab
Illinois does use one time zone. Indiana has always used multiple time zones. Some counties have chosen not to use daylight savings time until 2006 mandatory use.. Various counties have chosen to switch time zones, daylight savings use. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_in_Indiana Various

Re: PSP for Crypto Express 8s

2022-09-21 Thread Michael Babcock
I don’t use PSP buckets anymore. I download the latest holddata and run SMPE MISSINGFIX. Do you have access to download the holddata? On Wed, Sep 21, 2022 at 6:26 AM Eric D Rossman wrote: > That's unfortunate (that you don't get any access to the IBM support > center). That sounds like a

Re: Clist question - edit macro

2022-09-21 Thread Shaffer, Terri
Thanks. But I didn’t want to re-event the process wheel. After many internet searches, I found an example to do it. ISREDIT (ROW,COL) = CURSOR ISREDIT (DDATA) = LINE SET CUSER = (+9:+17,()) ISREDIT CHANGE <> FIRST Ms Terri E Shaffer Senior Systems Engineer, z/OS Support: ACIWorldwide –

Re: Clist question - edit macro

2022-09-21 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Wed, 21 Sep 2022 13:04:37 +, Shaffer, Terri wrote: > > So I need to change an edit macro to add a function, and most I have figured > reading the RTFM, except for this one, if its possible. > >If this was REXX, and not in a MACRO, I have done this 100 times, >however. >

Clist question - edit macro

2022-09-21 Thread Shaffer, Terri
Hi, So I need to change an edit macro to add a function, and most I have figured reading the RTFM, except for this one, if its possible. If this was REXX, and not in a MACRO, I have done this 100 times, however. So I am doing this to find the string, which it does, add I do adds

Re: dfsort - microseconds (STCK/TOD)

2022-09-21 Thread Stefan Lezzi
Hi Kolusu, Now everything looks perfect and I share the relevant part of your solution happily: ... C'"TRNSTCK":"', 393,8,DC1,EDIT=(-TT-TT), C'T',

Re: Assembler courses

2022-09-21 Thread Paul Gorlinsky
https://www.cbttape.org/ftp/asmbook/alnv200.pdf - Assembler Language Programming for IBM System z Servers By John R Ehrman. https://www.amazon.com/Simplified-Approach-Assembly-Language-Programming/dp/0138101191 - I still have my copy https://www.cbttape.org - has lots of examples Take

Re: Assembler courses

2022-09-21 Thread Paul Gorlinsky
The LE runtime libraries are designed to be called by Assembler programs as well as all currently support compilers. As a developer, you can pick which language is best for the particular task and have that routine be callable by other programs. The book, z/OS Language Environment Writing

Re: SDSF Presentations now available on IBM Git Hub

2022-09-21 Thread Lionel B. Dyck
Rob - THANK YOU very much. You, and your team, have done a terrific job with SDSF. Lionel B. Dyck <>< Website: https://www.lbdsoftware.com Github: https://github.com/lbdyck “Worry more about your character than your reputation. Character is what you are, reputation merely what others think you

Re: Broadcom´s COPYCAT equivalent

2022-09-21 Thread Paul Gorlinsky
There are several products that are good for copying a single tape. However, if the intent is to migrate entire tape libraries from one technology to another, then there are a couple of vendors, including my company, that license products to automate the process. What makes us different is that

SDSF Presentations now available on IBM Git Hub

2022-09-21 Thread Rob Scott
Just a quick FYI, we have now published past SDSF presentations from GSE and Share conferences on the IBM Git Hub. Link for git hub : https://github.com/IBM/IBM-Z-zOS The presentations can be found in the "zOS-Education" folder. For the 2.5 release we have : (o) SDSF Security - How does it

Re: CRTIME Field on $DJ(xxxxx),LONG command output

2022-09-21 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Wed, 21 Sep 2022 06:27:56 -0500, John McKown wrote: >On Wed, Sep 21, 2022 at 6:02 AM Mark Jacobs wrote: >> Just curious why JES2 displays the value as a UTC timestamp and not local >> time. >... >I guess the date could be rendered in the local time of the datacenter. But >that could

Re: CRTIME Field on $DJ(xxxxx),LONG command output

2022-09-21 Thread John McKown
On Wed, Sep 21, 2022 at 6:02 AM Mark Jacobs < 0224d287a4b1-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > Just curious why JES2 displays the value as a UTC timestamp and not local > time. > Just as a guess on my part, it might be because there are a number of multinational companies with a mega

Re: PSP for Crypto Express 8s

2022-09-21 Thread Eric D Rossman
That's unfortunate (that you don't get any access to the IBM support center). That sounds like a hole in our zPDT support to me. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Lennie Dymoke-Bradshaw Sent: Monday, September 19, 2022 6:42 PM To:

Re: CRTIME Field on $DJ(xxxxx),LONG command output

2022-09-21 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Wed, 21 Sep 2022 11:01:53 +, Mark Jacobs wrote: >Just curious why JES2 displays the value as a UTC timestamp and not local time. > Is it UTC or STCKCONV( TOD ), which would be TAI-10 seconds? -- gil -- For IBM-MAIN

CRTIME Field on $DJ(xxxxx),LONG command output

2022-09-21 Thread Mark Jacobs
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Re: Assembler courses

2022-09-21 Thread Steve Smith
imho, using the LE framework is an excellent idea for beginning assembler programming. You can actually do "Hello World!" in just a few more lines than C. And it lets you defer the gritty details of linkage and DCBs and such until after some visible results are obtained. It's almost as easy as

Re: Broadcom´s COPYCAT equivalent

2022-09-21 Thread John McKown
I think you mean Tape/Copy. I found this on the web: https://www.g2.com/products/rocket-tape-copy/competitors/alternatives On Tue, Sep 20, 2022 at 2:19 PM Bodra - Pessoal < 02eda2bc565a-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > Hello, > > > > Can anyone give me options to Broadcom´s software

Re: Assembler courses

2022-09-21 Thread John McKown
On Tue, Sep 20, 2022 at 4:32 PM Tom Brennan wrote: > Spitting out messages with formatted values was always a hassle for me > in assembler. So years ago I wrote some code to somewhat mimic printf, > and never looked back. Invoked by macros something like this: > > #PRINTF SYSPRINT,'THIS IS