Re: AT-TLS Redbook

2024-05-09 Thread Timothy Sipples
As far as I’m aware there’s no IBM redbook that exclusively covers z/OS AT-TLS, but there are several redbooks that contain relevant chapters or sections. See this page for an index:

Re: VTS question

2024-05-09 Thread kekronbekron
Hi Paul, Is there a more friendlier name for this - "Advanced TS Migrations VTS built on Dell power edge servers … 3480, 3490, and 3590 support"? OP, in addition to Luminex, you can consider - Optica zVT BMC Model9 (called AMI Ops something these days) Visara I don't believe there's a small

Re: VTS question

2024-05-09 Thread Paul Gorlinsky
Yes … Advanced TS Migrations VTS built on Dell power edge servers … 3480, 3490, and 3590 support. AES256 and zSTD compressed images and smart support for replication up to 8 locations, as well as scratch retention for any duration site chooses.

AT-TLS Redbook

2024-05-09 Thread Paul Gorlinsky
I have a client that in the early stages of planning an AT-TLS installation for TLS 1. Is there a Redbook that focuses on AT-TLS? Thanks -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to

VTS question

2024-05-09 Thread Pommier, Rex
Hello list, We currently have a very small TS7760 grid, one frame at our primary site replicating to a secondary frame at out alternate site. The alternate site is a TS7760T with an old single frame TS3584 with 5 3592-E08 drives hanging off the back of it. We just found out the 3584 is out

Re: Restore members in a PDS - how/which tool?

2024-05-09 Thread Lionel B Dyck
at 2.5 I think IBM ISPF changed the member delete to delete the member and all generations so a PDSE wouldn't have been helpful at that point. glad you had a backup available. On Thu, May 9, 2024 at 3:03 PM Thomas Berg < 0619bfe39560-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > I did the delete

Re: Restore members in a PDS - how/which tool?

2024-05-09 Thread Thomas Berg
I did the delete in ISPF 3.1. By some reason the space was released so only 1 track was left. I tried with PDS86 but it didn't find any member. We found a decently fresh backup so I only lost 2 days of work. That was acceptable. Thomas Berg Den tors 9 maj 2024 17:22Seymour J Metz skrev: >

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: JOB card format

2024-05-09 Thread Pommier, Rex
Well my mind isn't so great - as it never even thought about that. Thanks. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Phil Smith III Sent: Thursday, May 9, 2024 2:10 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: JOB card format GMTA!

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: JOB card format

2024-05-09 Thread Phil Smith III
GMTA! -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Mike Schwab Sent: Thursday, May 9, 2024 2:57 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: JOB card format 357912 so 5x the 64k limit. * 60 = 2,1474,720 seconds. About 1/1000 of a 2GB limit if .001

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: JOB card format

2024-05-09 Thread Phil Smith III
Rex Pommier wrote, in part: >So how did they come up with this one? From the JCL reference manual: >minutes >Specifies the maximum number of minutes the step can use the processor. >Minutes must be a >number from 0 through 357912 (248.55 days). >357912 minutes? My brain isn't coming up with a

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: JOB card format

2024-05-09 Thread Mike Schwab
357912 so 5x the 64k limit. * 60 = 2,1474,720 seconds. About 1/1000 of a 2GB limit if .001 second units. On Thu, May 9, 2024 at 12:48 PM Pommier, Rex wrote: > > Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: JOB card format > > On Thu, 9 May 2024 10:44:10 -0500, Steve Beaver wrote: > > >TIME=1440 turns off the

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: JOB card format

2024-05-09 Thread Pommier, Rex
It is most definitely CPU time: Job card on my test job: //RRPJ#180 JOB (435001),'RRP',MSGLEVEL=(1,1), // CLASS=T,MSGCLASS=X,TIME=(0,30), // NOTIFY= Abend info: -STEPNAME PROCSTEPRC EXCP CONN TCB SRB CLOCK -APPLYSMP

Re: Restore members in a PDS - how/which tool?

2024-05-09 Thread Lionel B. Dyck
Is there a way to swap? Actually, you can edit the old generation and save it which will create a new base (generation 0) member and the original base will become the -1 generation. That's about the best you can do. With PDSEGEN you can compare any generation to any generation if that helps.

Re: Restore members in a PDS - how/which tool?

2024-05-09 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Thu, 9 May 2024 10:11:35 -0500, Lionel B. Dyck wrote: >It actually depends on how the member was deleted - sadly many tools will only >delete the base (generation 0) member and leave the non-zero generations >alone. However if that is the case then you need a tool that can display those

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: JOB card format

2024-05-09 Thread Seymour J Metz
In TUs? -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 עַם יִשְׂרָאֵל חַי נֵ֣צַח יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל לֹ֥א יְשַׁקֵּ֖ר From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of Pommier, Rex Sent: Thursday, May 9, 2024 1:48 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU

Re: JOB card format

2024-05-09 Thread Seymour J Metz
is to large if it's stored in timer units. If that isn't an anachronism, I don't know what is. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 עַם יִשְׂרָאֵל חַי נֵ֣צַח יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל לֹ֥א יְשַׁקֵּ֖ר From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on

Re: JOB card format

2024-05-09 Thread Seymour J Metz
Bletch! Where is that documented? I find the suspension of JWT by TIME=1440 to not only unintuitive but harmful. what if I need to limit the CPU time but allow long waits? -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 עַם יִשְׂרָאֵל חַי נֵ֣צַח יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל לֹ֥א יְשַׁקֵּ֖ר

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: JOB card format

2024-05-09 Thread Pommier, Rex
Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: JOB card format On Thu, 9 May 2024 10:44:10 -0500, Steve Beaver wrote: >TIME=1440 turns off the timing -- This depends on whether there is an >exit controlling the use of 1440 > I wonder why the designers didn't choose , the largest possible 4-digit value, to

Re: JOB card format

2024-05-09 Thread Seymour J Metz
I don't know a Hebrew idiom for that. An approximate English equivalent for לא דובים ולא יער would be There ain't no such animal. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 עַם יִשְׂרָאֵל חַי נֵ֣צַח יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל לֹ֥א יְשַׁקֵּ֖ר From: IBM

Re: JOB card format

2024-05-09 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Thu, 9 May 2024 17:06:01 +, Seymour J Metz wrote: >לא דובים ולא יער > "not my monkeys, not my circus"? >TIME= on the JOB and EXEC is, was and always will be CPU time. It's the TIME= >on the /*JOBPARM that is wall clock time. -- gil

Re: JOB card format

2024-05-09 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Thu, 9 May 2024 09:25:58 -0400, Phil Smith III wrote: >... >Thanks for the info, Shmuel et al. And yes, Gil, they're still card images, >right? > Well, sort of. Alas, too many programmers and products remain unaware that the 80-column limit was relaxed long ago, although larger valuew

Re: JOB card format

2024-05-09 Thread Phil Smith III
Except that TIME=1440 or TIME=NOLIMIT unintuitively overrides that /*JOBPARM value, right? Not that I think IBM has the infodev resources to spend, but the amount of discussion this generated suggests to me that the doc is insufficient. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe

Re: JOB card format

2024-05-09 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Thu, 9 May 2024 10:44:10 -0500, Steve Beaver wrote: >TIME=1440 turns off the timing -- This depends on whether there is an exit >controlling the use of 1440 > I wonder why the designers didn't choose , the largest possible 4-digit value, to mean "forever"? (OTHH, I get cognitive

Re: JOB card format

2024-05-09 Thread Seymour J Metz
לא דובים ולא יער TIME= on the JOB and EXEC is, was and always will be CPU time. It's the TIME= on the /*JOBPARM that is wall clock time. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 עַם יִשְׂרָאֵל חַי נֵ֣צַח יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל לֹ֥א יְשַׁקֵּ֖ר From:

Re: JOB card format

2024-05-09 Thread Radoslaw Skorupka
Yes, it is CPU time. Wall time is JWT specified in SMFPRMxx. BTW: JWT is quite good for checking the above. Simply run IEBGENER with SYSUT2 pointing to VOL=SER=NOSUCH and specify TIME=(,10). A little bit harder is to specify low service class (low velocity) and run some ineffective I/O like

Re: JOB card format

2024-05-09 Thread Radoslaw Skorupka
Yes, it is CPU time. Wall time is JWT specified in SMFPRMxx. BTW: JWT is quite good for checking the above. Simply run IEBGENER with SYSUT2 pointing to VOL=SER=NOSUCH and specify TIME=(,10). A little bit harder is to specify low service class (low velocity) and run some ineffective I/O like

Re: JOB card format

2024-05-09 Thread Charles Mills
Are you certain? "minutes Specifies the maximum number of minutes a job may use the processor." Seems to pretty clearly say processor (CPU) time. Charles On Thu, 9 May 2024 15:35:54 +, Hayim Sokolsky wrote: >In truth, TIME= is “wall time” and not CPU time. How many real-world minutes

Re: JOB card format

2024-05-09 Thread Steve Beaver
TIME=1440 turns off the timing -- This depends on whether there is an exit controlling the use of 1440 -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Hayim Sokolsky Sent: Thursday, May 9, 2024 10:36 AM To:

Re: JOB card format

2024-05-09 Thread Hayim Sokolsky
In truth, TIME= is “wall time” and not CPU time. How many real-world minutes is your job allowed to run before it gets cancelled if it runs over. As there are 1,440 minutes in a 24 hour day, TIME=1440 turns off the timing. Hayim Hayim Sokolsky (he/him/his) Director, Software Engineering

Re: Restore members in a PDS - how/which tool?

2024-05-09 Thread Seymour J Metz
Alas, if he did a fast bulk erase then they're toast. That's also true for PDS. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 עַם יִשְׂרָאֵל חַי נֵ֣צַח יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל לֹ֥א יְשַׁקֵּ֖ר From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of Tom Marchant

Re: Restore members in a PDS - how/which tool?

2024-05-09 Thread Lionel B. Dyck
It actually depends on how the member was deleted - sadly many tools will only delete the base (generation 0) member and leave the non-zero generations alone. However if that is the case then you need a tool that can display those non-zero generations as, once again, many tools will ignore them

Re: Restore members in a PDS - how/which tool?

2024-05-09 Thread Tom Marchant
I believe PDSE member generations won't help if the member was deleted. -- Tom Marchant On Thu, 9 May 2024 11:58:59 +, Seymour J Metz wrote: >For PDS: PDS96 > >For PDSE: define it with multiple versions > >-- >Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz >http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 >עַם יִשְׂרָאֵל חַי

Re: JOB card format

2024-05-09 Thread Phil Smith III
Hah, "your shop". We're a dev shop, three people, ADCD. Can't even spell "accounting field for JES2", since we don't go near anything where that would matter. Thanks for the info, Shmuel et al. And yes, Gil, they're still card images, right? -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe

Re: Restore members in a PDS - how/which tool?

2024-05-09 Thread Thomas Berg
Thanks. Unfortunately by some reason the space was released after the deletion (used ISPF 3.1) so it didn't work. But we found a decently fresh backup and could restore most members. Those I created yesterday and today was lost but that's acceptable. Note to myself and other people as hasty as

Re: JOB card format

2024-05-09 Thread Seymour J Metz
The generic format is in JCL Reference, but your installation may have imposed restrictions on the accounting and programmer name fields. Is your shop using the accounting field for JES2? If so, that's also in the JCL reference. Or has IBM dropped that option? -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz

Re: JOB card format

2024-05-09 Thread Allan Staller
Classification: Confidential JES2 ESTTIME parameter -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Phil Smith III Sent: Wednesday, May 8, 2024 7:59 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: JOB card format [CAUTION: This Email is from outside the Organization.

Re: JOB card format

2024-05-09 Thread Seymour J Metz
There are three distinct limits: CPU time: controlled by JCL Execution time limit: controlled by JECL. Wait time limit: JCL only controls on/off. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 עַם יִשְׂרָאֵל חַי נֵ֣צַח יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל לֹ֥א יְשַׁקֵּ֖ר

Re: Restore members in a PDS - how/which tool?

2024-05-09 Thread Seymour J Metz
For PDS: PDS96 For PDSE: define it with multiple versions -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 עַם יִשְׂרָאֵל חַי נֵ֣צַח יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל לֹ֥א יְשַׁקֵּ֖ר From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of

Re: Restore members in a PDS - how/which tool?

2024-05-09 Thread Seymour J Metz
PDS is one of the tools that I really miss when I'm somewhere it's not allowed. Essential, IMHO. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 עַם יִשְׂרָאֵל חַי נֵ֣צַח יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל לֹ֥א יְשַׁקֵּ֖ר From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf

Re: Restore members in a PDS - how/which tool?

2024-05-09 Thread Lionel B. Dyck
If the PDS was a PDS then if you, or the system, hasn't performed a compress you should be good. If it was a PDSE then you're toast (sorry). If a PDS then get the PDS command from CBTTape file 182. This command in PDS will restore all members - unfortunately it can't recover the original

Re: Consultation on the Potential Risks of Deleting Specific Datasets

2024-05-09 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
On Wed, 8 May 2024, at 13:17, Jason Cai wrote: > Dear all > > I am reaching out to discuss a specific operation we are considering > for our z/OS DCOLLECT reports. Currently, we are planning to delete all > the datasets where LASTREF=NONE and DSORG=PS. Multiple people have mentioned JCL but

Re: Execute Rexx from Cobol

2024-05-09 Thread Radoslaw Skorupka
I always use names (variables, modules, etc.) which cannot be confused with any keyword. Just to eliminate risk of problems as described here. Sometimes I screw up with using "quick and dirty" scripts names of variables which are as self-explanable as "r1, r2, x, y, i". :-( -- Radoslaw