Re: IBM Solutions for leveraging cloud object storage on z/OS

2022-12-15 Thread Tom Brennan
Perfect - much easier to read. On 12/15/2022 1:47 PM, Glenn Wilcock wrote: Hi Tom, you're not alone! I've added an attachment of the pdf at the same link. Viewing the pdf in full-screen mode gives you the same navigation, but removes all of the animation so that you can go at your own speed.

Re: Transmitting SMF records

2022-12-15 Thread Andrew Rowley
On 16/12/2022 1:43 am, Gary Weinhold wrote: As an alternative, it wouldn't seem very difficult to create a utility to read the FTPed data (received as a sequential file with an arbitrary record length) and reformat the data to write a VB(S) file. It is not difficult. The biggest problem is th

Re: IBM Solutions for leveraging cloud object storage on z/OS

2022-12-15 Thread Glenn Wilcock
Hi Tom, you're not alone! I've added an attachment of the pdf at the same link. Viewing the pdf in full-screen mode gives you the same navigation, but removes all of the animation so that you can go at your own speed... -- For

Re: DB2 V12 DB2 connect v9.5 problem

2022-12-15 Thread Attila Fogarasi
A good explanation is in apar PH08482 https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/apar/PH08482 On Thu, Dec 15, 2022 at 8:39 PM Binyamin Dissen wrote: > Perhaps I am missing something, but the V12R1M500 is the BIND APPLCOMPAT on > the mainframe. The client doesn't need any V12 services (or V9, for that > m

Re: IBM Solutions for leveraging cloud object storage on z/OS

2022-12-15 Thread Tom Brennan
Thanks, I downloaded with no problems. But when I run it here, the text appears slowly on the screen. I'm kind of impatient :) so I stopped reading after the second screen. Is there a button I can push that will show me all the text on a screen without waiting? On 12/15/2022 11:26 AM, Glenn

Re: IBM Solutions for leveraging cloud object storage on z/OS

2022-12-15 Thread Carmen Vitullo
Thank you Greg, Happy Holidays to you Carmen On 12/15/2022 1:26 PM, Glenn Wilcock wrote: I often get asked what solutions are available to leverage cloud object storage solutions on z/OS. I'm working on a slideshow introduction to the solutions that IBM offers. I plan to add a voice-over an

IBM Solutions for leveraging cloud object storage on z/OS

2022-12-15 Thread Glenn Wilcock
I often get asked what solutions are available to leverage cloud object storage solutions on z/OS. I'm working on a slideshow introduction to the solutions that IBM offers. I plan to add a voice-over and some navigational enhancements, but wanted to share what I have so far. Please feel free

Re: Transmitting SMF records

2022-12-15 Thread Paul Gilmartin
>From Barry Merrill : >... >But if the destination is for ASCII and SAS, you can use IEBGENER to create a >copy of >the data, on z/OS, but using RECFM=U, which ftp can't muck-up, and SAS on >ASCII processes that data using RECFM=S370VBS, since the file has the BDW and >RDW, so the downloaded

Re: Transmitting SMF records

2022-12-15 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Thu, 15 Dec 2022 15:31:31 +, Seymour J Metz wrote: >There are several facilities for encoding variable-length recrds into FB, >e.g., XMIT. A bit kludgy, but it works. > Alas, one needs to operate at both the sending and receiving ends because z/OS sort lacks anything such as a QUOTE SITE

Re: Problem with DFSORT SUM FIELDS

2022-12-15 Thread Jack Zukt
Hi Kolusu, Forget it, please. I was missing a "," at the end of the line. Now it ran just fine. Regards, Jack On Thu, 15 Dec 2022 at 16:58, Sri h Kolusu wrote: > >> It is giving an error that is baffling me: > > Jack, > > Did you define the symbols correctly ? I changed the SYMNAMES to add the

Re: Problem with DFSORT SUM FIELDS

2022-12-15 Thread Jack Zukt
Sorry Kolusu, I should have sent all the JCL and SORT control cards: //SYMNAMES DD DISP=SHR,DSN=&SORTINPT(HEADER) // DD DISP=SHR,DSN=&SORTINPT(TYPED) // DD DISP=SHR,DSN=&SORTINPT(TYPEV) // DD * TMP-DCVVLCAP,*,8,BI TMP-DCVVLCAP1,=,4,BI TMP-DCVVLCAP2,*,4,BI TMP-DCVALLOC,

Re: Problem with DFSORT SUM FIELDS

2022-12-15 Thread Sri h Kolusu
>> It is giving an error that is baffling me: Jack, Did you define the symbols correctly ? I changed the SYMNAMES to add the temp fields. // DD * SKIP,2 TMP-DCVVLCAP,*,8,BI TMP-DCVVLCAP1,=,4,BI TMP-DCVVLCAP2,*,4,BI TMP-DCVALLOC,*,8,BI TMP-DCVALLOC1,=,4,BI TMP-DCVALLOC2,*,4,BI Than

Re: Problem with DFSORT SUM FIELDS

2022-12-15 Thread Jack Zukt
Hi Kolusu, Thank you for your quick answer. As it would be expected I had the ICE152I 0 OVERFLOW DURING SUMMATION - RC=0 message. I did not think of looking for error messages due to the final RC(0). I ran the SORT with your suggested improvements. It is giving an error that is baffling me: IC

Re: Problem with DFSORT SUM FIELDS

2022-12-15 Thread Sri h Kolusu
>> As you can see, I have multiple records for storage group SGDBPR and >> SGPBBA01. Any ideas as what may be causing this? Jack, You need to check your joblog to see if you received ICE152I message which indicates that there is an OVERFLOW of the summation fields. ICE152I 0 OVERFLOW DURING S

Re: Transmitting SMF records

2022-12-15 Thread Boesel Guillaume
From Barry Merrill : My mxg.com email server company, RACKSPACE, took a Ransomeware attack and I'm unable to originate mail from ba...@mxg.com, although I am receiving forwards. Can you post this to the IBM-MAIN track for me. The problem with moving SMF records with ftp is that whenever ftp see

Re: Transmitting SMF records

2022-12-15 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Thu, 15 Dec 2022 15:24:04 +, Pommier, Rex wrote: >What I remember from a discussion long ago was that the reason a VBS dataset >can't be put back together again is that when the VBS dataset is sent to a >Windows intermediary, some of the binary metadata defining the records and >blocks

Re: Transmitting SMF records

2022-12-15 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Thu, 15 Dec 2022 14:43:48 +, Gary Weinhold wrote: >I'm glad there was a solution. > >But the underlying problem seems to be that z/OS FTP appears to be limited to >processing a binary (image) transfer as a stream of bytes unless the transfer >is between a z/OS client and z/OS server. ...

Problem with DFSORT SUM FIELDS

2022-12-15 Thread Jack Zukt
Hi, I am trying to use DFSORT to summarize the space on a few STORAGE GROUPS. The INPUT is a file with all the DCOLLECT TYPE "V" records. I am sorting it by the storage group name, and using for SUM FIELDS the "TOTAL CAPACITY OF VOL" and "ALLOCATED SPACE ON VOL": //SYMNAMES DD DISP=SHR,DSN=&SORTIN

Re: Transmitting SMF records

2022-12-15 Thread Seymour J Metz
There are several facilities for encoding variable-length recrds into FB, e.g., XMIT. A bit kludgy, but it works. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Gary W

Re: Transmitting SMF records

2022-12-15 Thread Farley, Peter
Doesn't XMIT/RECEIVE handle VBS in both directions? I thought it did. Peter -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Pommier, Rex Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2022 10:24 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Transmitting SMF records What I remember fr

Re: Transmitting SMF records

2022-12-15 Thread Pommier, Rex
What I remember from a discussion long ago was that the reason a VBS dataset can't be put back together again is that when the VBS dataset is sent to a Windows intermediary, some of the binary metadata defining the records and blocks is lost by the Windows side, making it impossible to recreate

Re: Transmitting SMF records

2022-12-15 Thread Gary Weinhold
I'm glad there was a solution. But the underlying problem seems to be that z/OS FTP appears to be limited to processing a binary (image) transfer as a stream of bytes unless the transfer is between a z/OS client and z/OS server. IBM RECFM of VB and VBS seem to be quite well defined and I don't

Re: DB2 V12 DB2 connect v9.5 problem

2022-12-15 Thread Doug
We just went from DB2 v9 to v12 M500. Had to upgrade clients to 11.5. Doug . On Dec 15, 2022, at 08:35, Clark, Kevin wrote: Looks like you'll need to be at least V11.1.??? for Data Sever Client https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2-for-zos/12?topic=aclid-v12r1mnnn-application-compatibility-level

Re: DB2 V12 DB2 connect v9.5 problem

2022-12-15 Thread Clark, Kevin
Looks like you'll need to be at least V11.1.??? for Data Sever Client https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/db2-for-zos/12?topic=aclid-v12r1mnnn-application-compatibility-levels-data-server-clients-drivers V9.5 reach EOS many years ago. We just ran a scan to locate software version and still have a few

Re: Steve Myers whereabouts

2022-12-15 Thread Carmen Vitullo
Steve WAS a regular on ibmmainframes.com for a long time, I worked with Steve back in the 90's @ Boeing, great guy, IMHO a great assembler coder I was about to ask about Bob Richards, Last I heard he took a spill and out out of commission for a while Carmen On 12/14/2022 3:21 PM, Sam Golob w

Re: DB2 V12 DB2 connect v9.5 problem

2022-12-15 Thread Binyamin Dissen
Perhaps I am missing something, but the V12R1M500 is the BIND APPLCOMPAT on the mainframe. The client doesn't need any V12 services (or V9, for that matter). How can I bind the PACKAGE so that the client side APPLCOMPAT (of *) is acceptable? Or how can I tell IBM DB2 Client 9.5 to set APPLCOMPAT