Re: SDSF PS Command column

On Fri, 2 Feb 2024 23:37:20 -0600, Paul Gilmartin wrote: >On Fri, 2 Feb 2024 15:55:26 -0600, Mark Zelden wrote: > >>On Fri, 2 Feb 2024 19:30:39 +, Frank Swarbrick wrote: >> >>>Is there any way to get more than the first 40 characters of the associated >>

Re: SDSF PS Command column

:14 ttyp 0:00 grep IZU Best Regards, Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS ITIL v3 Foundation Certified mailto:m...@mzelden.com Mark's MVS Utilities: http://www.mzelden.com/mvs

Re: ISPF edit - clone a column

s are always omitted. */ /* */ /***/ Best Regards, Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS ITIL v3 Foundation Certified mailto:m...@mzelden.com Mark's MVS Utilities: http://www.mzelden.com/mvsutil.html Systems Programming expert at http://search390.

Re: Custom ISPF command

've been working this way for over 30 years and when I get to a new system and try to work without it, I am not nearly as productive. But more than that, for someone like me that is working on many different sysplexes, clients, etc. all in a short time period of time or constantly switching

Re: Custom ISPF command

ing on what the ISPF customization is at the shop I'm at. As far as adding them dynamically, on some systems I access rarely, I simply use this CLIST to add all "my stuff" after ISPF invocation. So NO - you do not need to restart ISPF. http://www.mzelden.com/mvsfiles/ispcm

Re: How can I keep JES2 from being SYSPLEXed?

I assume you had the same OWNNODE also? Because I thought XCFGRPNM defaulted to the OWNNODE.nodename if you don't code it. If you want to connect those two independent JES2 nodes, they are going to need a unique ownnode name. Regards, Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulti

Re: HEALTH CHECKER (USS_FILESYS_CONFIG)

-checker-zos-users-guide Security setup: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/2.4.0?topic=zos-create-security-definitions Regards, Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS ITIL v3 Foundation Certified mailto:m...@mzelden.com Mark's MVS Utilities: http://www.mze

Re: HEALTH CHECKER (USS_FILESYS_CONFIG)

ACE" and the policy and do: F HZSPROC,REPLACE,PARMLIB=xx https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/2.4.0?topic=guide-health-checker-zos Regards, Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS ITIL v3 Foundation Certified mailto:m...@mzelden.com Mark's M

Re: EDIT MACRO REQUEST

u need help with the "EDITREXX" part, see "EDMACALL" on my web site / CBT file 434. URL of my web site below. The source code has a simple example of an edit macro. Regards, Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/

Re: SMF Interval

On Fri, 29 Dec 2023 13:57:35 -0600, Mark Zelden wrote: >On Thu, 28 Dec 2023 21:23:18 -0800, Ed Jaffe >wrote: > >>What SMF interval do most folks use? >> > >In my experience (from many shops / clients over the years), it matches the >RMF interval >and the m

Re: SMF Interval

VAL(59) Best Regards and Happy New Year! Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS ITIL v3 Foundation Certified mailto:m...@mzelden.com Mark's MVS Utilities: http://www.mzelden.com/m

Re: Stupid JCL question

MVS 3.8 was just *slightly* earlier than "IF / THEN" conditional JCL existed. :-) Regards, Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS ITIL v3 Foundation Certified mailto:m...@mzelden.com Mark's MVS Utilities: http://www.mzelden.com/mvsutil.html

Re: SMP/E - Pointing Existing TARG & DLIB Zones To New CSI's

You might want to look at the sysres cloning example on my web site / CBT file 434 also as that clones the SMP/E ZONEs with it. I don't clone the DLIB volser(s) / zones these days (haven't in many years), but you can easily see how it is done. See URL below. Regards, Mark -- M

Re: zOSMF install - SDSF ISFPRMxx

have been coming to me about the 9 migrations I did. Regards, Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS ITIL v3 Foundation Certified mailto:m...@mzelden.com Mark's MVS Utilities: http://www

Re: zOSMF install - SDSF ISFPRMxx

On Tue, 5 Dec 2023 15:33:16 -0600, Mark Zelden wrote: >My only real complaint about all of this is that it caught me by surprise. >The requirement >was announced at the last possible time it could - the last quarterly >announcement for z/OS 2.4 >enhancements (I think) as

Re: zOSMF install - SDSF ISFPRMxx

Part of the problem with this conversion is you need someone that understands SDSF ISFPRMxx / SDSF external security and RACF (or ACF2 / TOP SECRET). These days that is probably difficult in many shops. I work with a number of good sysprogs that are basically clueless when it comes to RAC

Re: IEF211I - DATA SET RESERVATION UNSUCCESSFUL on relative GDG

Look into ALOCxx parmlib option - "SDSN_WAIT WAITALLOC(YES)" Regards, Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS ITIL v3 Foundation Certified mailto:m...@mzelden.com Mark's MVS Utilities: http://www.mzelden.com/mvsutil.html On Thu, 30 Nov 2023

Re: Page Datasets in User Catalog

re this is documented now. :) I'm guessing "DFSMS managing catalogs". Best Regards, Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS ITIL v3 Foundation Certified mailto:m...@mzelden.com Mark's MVS Utilities: http://www.mzelden.com/mvsutil.html ---

Re: IBM APAR Names

h. I also work with people that don't relationship between the APAR number and the ++PTF that is show for "REL" when looking at IBMLINK or seeing what is in the public domain from an APAR search in google. Regards, Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/O

Re: DFDSS RFE - Please read / vote

nk people can see all the text in the RFE (even though I put in my first post). You can also read my comments though. https://ibm-z-hardware-and-operating-systems.ideas.ibm.com/ideas/ZOS-I-3862 Best Regards, Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS ITIL v3 Foundation

Re: DFDSS RFE - Please read / vote

the copy. I've just never needed to do this with FDR for over 30 years of having ISV datasets (or IBM program products) as an extension of the sysres set. Hence the RFE. I don't know what FDR does behind the scenes to accomplish this, but it does without any issue. Best Regards, Ma

Re: DFDSS RFE - Please read / vote

irectly catalogged. No different than SYS1.LINKLIB except they are not part of the OS. Best Regards, Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS ITIL v3 Foundation Certified mailto:m...@mzelden.com Mark's MVS Ut

Re: DFDSS RFE - Please read / vote

hat get copied to the volume at any given time after maintenance to one of those products. Then I clone the IBM sysres volumes and the program product volumes as one set using full volume copies (except for zFS files that are logically copied and have the sysres name as part of the dataset name).

Re: DFDSS RFE - Please read / vote

On Fri, 13 Oct 2023 15:31:42 -0500, Mark Zelden wrote: I've had some offline responses also. Including the suggestion to use TOLERATE(ENQFAILURE) which only applies to the input dataset. Let me explain again and show all the DFDSS control cards. I have an "program products"

Re: DFDSS RFE - Please read / vote

But I know one does not need access to STGADMIN.DPDSRN.dsn_to_rename in order for it to work with FDRCOPY. Regards, Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS ITIL v3 Foundation Certified mailto:m...@mzelden.com Mark's MVS Utilities: http://www.mzelden.com/mvsutil

DFDSS RFE - Please read / vote

run the copy job. This could be very error prone if someone doesn't put in the correct volser on ISPF and they could rename the "real" in use dataset or perhaps one on a different sysres set. ---

Re: Obscure Websphere question

;t use symlinks as recommended when installing" that some other things may be hard coded and need to change. So the best recommendation is to open a case with IBM WAS support. Best Regards, Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS ITIL v3 Foundatio

Re: Risk/Reward ASVT in 31 bit storage

On Fri, 22 Sep 2023 16:10:37 -0500, Mark Zelden wrote: >On Fri, 22 Sep 2023 19:50:43 +, Mark Jacobs >wrote: > >>So nothing more than that. IMHO it doesn't seem too worthwhile in most >>environments. Thanks however. >> >>Mark Jacobs >> &

Re: Risk/Reward ASVT in 31 bit storage

All my sandbox LPARs have this coded and I'm sure system software is all fine since z/OS 2.3. I think I added ASVT even in z/OS 2.1 in my sandboxes after all software had z/OS 2.1 maintenance or versions running. CBLOC VIRTUAL31(IHALCCA,IHAPCCA,IHAASVT) Best Regards, Mark -- Mark Zelde

Re: Risk/Reward ASVT in 31 bit storage

g below the line private. And I do mean slightly. It is about 4K per 1000 entries. I guess you would add up MAXUSER and RSVNONR to know what you are using now. Each ASVT entry is 4 bytes in SQA <16M, so less SQA means more private. Best Regards, Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Ser

Re: SDSF and JESSPOOL

use AUXSAF(NOFAILRC4) on your >> rescue system ... If this happens to be a modified version of my onepack JCL from my web site / CBT file 434, when I put out the z/OS 2.5 version it will have CONNECT AUXSAF(NOFAILRC4) in the ISFPRM00 member that is supplied by default. Best Regards,

Re: When did the IPCS follow 64 bit pointer character change?

NGTH(X'20')--All bytes contain X'00' 0080 1004 00020078 00040016 00A0 FE01 1FEDE400 00C0 2800 FBFB FE7C 00E0.:FF. LENGTH(X'20')--All bytes contain X'00' B

Re: Is the IBM Assembler List still alive - Dumps - Early days

I'm with most of the posters... There needs to be an IBM-MAIN-NOSTALGIA list and these trips down memory lane moved there when they start. I was pretty much gone from IBM-MAIN over the last 2-3 years due to just being too busy to try and keep up but recently have tried to start following again.

Re: Changing a LIBRARY-ID in the OSCONFIG of HCD

the existing hardware token? > >BTW, is there anywhere in HCD that you can see the generated token? > It should be software / "MVS" only. A good way to check is to create an IOCP deck. If you did you wouldn't see any of that information in there. It think the answe

Re: Strange results for the PS1 prompt with z/OS Unix

Agree with Shmuel. I assume the same emulator profile is used for both? If you are working with z/OS Unix for sure you want 1047. If using Vista TN3270 it identifies that as "US C Programming". Maybe you aren't seeing a "`" correctly (backtick). Regards, Mar

ibm-main@listserv.ua.edu

ce name format: local-nodename.userid.jobname.jobid.dsidentifier.name Regards, Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS ITIL v3 Foundation Certified mailto:m...@mzelden.com Mark's MVS Utilities: http://www.mzeld

Re: Minimum LPAR size for z15 processor

R activate on a z15 processor >with the same 1.5GB allocation, or will we need to bump it up some? > >Mark Jacobs > If you are asking if it needs 8G, that is for z/OS 2.3 and above on a z15 and has nothing to do with a CF. I have a sandbox CF LPARs that have 1GB. They even have struc

Re: SMP/E usermod build question for DFSMSdss change

Sorry for top posting. Yes, you want to zap the MOD (CSECT).SMP/E knows all the LMODs it is relevant to be it one LMOD as in this case or many LMODs. Regards, Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS ITIL v3 Foundation Certified mailto:m...@mzelden.com

Re: RSU Maintenance: Asking For a Friend

l. > >Has anyone ever heard of this method for putting on maintenance? Can you see >any benefits of this approach? > Didn't someone ask about this recently? It does seem like a good want to get to 2072 maintenance level quickly. :) Per the 2 emails I had today: >Dear Mark Ze

Re: JES2

On Mon, 17 Jul 2023 15:27:49 -0500, Paul Gilmartin wrote: >On Mon, 17 Jul 2023 15:16:22 -0500, Mark Zelden wrote: >> >>I have worked in some environments where they reset it by shift so they could >>tell what shift the job ran on by the number. 1 for day, 2000 for 2nd s

Re: JES2

o they could tell what shift the job ran on by the number. 1 for day, 2000 for 2nd shift, 3000 for 3rd. Regards, Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS ITIL v3 Foundation Certified mailto:m...@mzelden.com Mark's MVS Utilities: http://www.mzelden

Re: Best practice for /etc and /var when upgrading

#x27;t find Netview datasets in the supplied PROGxx if you didn't order Netview. So what updates are you referring to and how would you get them? Best Regards, Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS ITIL v3 Foundation Certified mailto:m...@mzelden.com Ma

Re: Best practice for /etc and /var when upgrading

sting /etc and /var for your OS upgrade or a copy of it with documented required changes from the upgrade workflow, just like you would handle required parmlib changes. Regards, Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS ITIL v3 Foundation Certified mailt

Re: Best practice for /etc and /var when upgrading

e. Of >course, you also need procedures for service that hits them. > No service ever hits /etc or /var. They are not SMP/E targets. The distributed /etc can be thought of being like IPO1.PARMLIB from serverpac. Best Regards, Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/O

Re: Best practice for /etc and /var when upgrading

orkflow for current versions. Regards, Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS ITIL v3 Foundation Certified mailto:m...@mzelden.com Mark's MVS Utilities: http://www.mzelden.com/mvsutil.html -

Re: Problems with IBM Software Download Servers Change

OCSWG90-_-E Opening a case was my next step, but I figured I see other's with the same problem here. Anyway, don't bother testing or seeing if it works because IBM just fixed it in the last 5 minutes. I've been running tests every 15 minutes all day... Regards, Mark -- Mark

Problems with IBM Software Download Servers Change

IBM's problem and everyone is having it, but since I didn't see any other posts about it today I wanted to make sure it wasn't just my client. Regards, Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS ITIL v3 Foundation Certified mailto:m...@mzelden.com Ma

Re: Best practice for /etc and /var when upgrading

g) Unmount the CPAC etc at /service Unmount the newly created 2.4 etc at /servz25 Best Regards, Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden

Re: HOLD Action of a superseded PTF

hould be reviewed. Regards, Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS ITIL v3 Foundation Certified mailto:m...@mzelden.com Mark's MVS Utilities: http://www.mzelden.com/mvsutil.html Systems Programming expert at http://search390.techtarget.com/ateExperts/ On

Re: Rexx Exec to Build 10,000 PDS Members: ALLOC vs ISPF Services vs ?

? Will it run daily? Hourly? Every 15 minutes? I would just use whatever method you are most comfortable with depending on that answer. But if you are already using REXX, I don't know why you would then use ISPF services on top of that. When I've done similar things I've used A

Re: zHPF gotcha's ?

Rs after any testing. > >- Do I have to tell DB2 that zHPF has been activated for it to take advantage >of it? No. All DB2 I/O should be zHPF-capable. I recall even back at V10 it was and I assume you are running something newer than that. Regards, Mark -- Mark Z

Re: zOSMF certificates

der z/OS 2.3 based on the samples so at least we had 5 years.We put the new expiration 10 years out. Regards, Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS ITIL v3 Foundation Certified mailto:m...@mzelden.com Mark's MVS Utilities: http://www.mzelden.com/mvsutil.html

Re: Cloning SMPe Global, Target and DLIB

n back it all up and restore it together. When a version or product is obsolete it is simple to delete the entire thing regardless of how it is spread out on dasd (SMS vs. non-sms control). Regards, Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS ITIL v3 Foundation C

Re: Cloning SMPe Global, Target and DLIB

he same for many years prior and after. The only thing that ever really changed was the introduction of VSAM for zFS. I've always kept the volser as part of the name even when it was HFS, so zFS vs. HFS doesn't matter in terms of that sample. Regards, Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden C

Re: separate SMPe environments

have a bunch of cloned DLIB zones and DLIB volumes matching all those zones. One DLIB zone per maintenance target zone is enough. Best Regards, Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS ITIL v3 Foundation Certified

Re: DLM Tape reading

* PRINT MAXFLDS=1 TITLE ITEM=('TAPE LABEL INFO',30) RECORDFIELD=(80,1) LABELSDATA=YES /*

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: USS zlib issues

I meant to add that the sourceid is PUT2208, RSU2209. I'm at RSU2212. Best Regards, Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS ITIL v3 Foundation Certified mailto:m...@mzelden.com Mark's MVS Utilities: http://www.mzelden.com/mvsutil.html On Fri, 17 M

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: USS zlib issues

HFS HZCZLIBZ Best Regards, Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS ITIL v3 Foundation Certified mailto:m...@mzelden.com Mark's MVS Utilities: http://www.mzelden.com/mvsutil.html

Re: linklist error at IPL

nyway). Regards, Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS ITIL v3 Foundation Certified mailto:m...@mzelden.com Mark's MVS Utilities: http://www.mzelden.com/mvsutil.html On Thu, 16 Mar 2023 17:20:36 -0500, Steve Horein wrote: >Do you have any kind of autom

Re: zOSMF

tidy it >up with a DELETEPKG for PTFs, since we do RECEIVE ORDER very frequently. > Ditto, except mine is still 4 volume 3390-9 zFS. I tidy it up with a weekly cron script that deletes everything older than 90 days. Best Regards, Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, O

Re: How long for an experiened z/OS sysprog to come up to speed on a new environment?

t is part of what my client gets by hiring me. Regards, Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS ITIL v3 Foundation Certified mailto:m...@mzelden.com Mark's MVS Utilities: http://www.mzelden.com/mvsutil.html -

Re: How long for an experiened z/OS sysprog to come up to speed on a new environment?

are upgrades (not just installing PTFs) across a large complex environment without breaking something. And hardware? Forget it... they don't have a clue. And my comments above refer to "OS" system programming. Other areas like CICS, DB2, MQ, Network have similar challenges but the

Re: zOSMF

sandbox sysplex today. Anyone else use the samples and not do expiring certificates reporting? If not reporting, time to look at when yours expire. :) Regards, Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS ITIL v3 Foundation Certified mailto:m...@mzelden.com

Re: NJE over IP

I implemented it years ago was at some version of when it became available, there should have been an update to /etc/services. vmnet 175/tcp # JES NJE over TCP/IP I honestly don't know if that not being there causes a problem or not but it was something I check

Re: CLIST for APF and link list datasets

#x27;s a great thing to have for reference in the syslog when looking back at IPLs, Regards, Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS ITIL v3 Foundation Certified mailto:m...@mzelden.com Mark's MVS Utilities: http:/

Re: Missing Values For The 'SDSF DA' Panels - z/OS 2.5

art SDSF until after CMF tasks or RMF is started at IPL time. Making CMF/RMF a pre-req of SDSF should also remind someone to recycle SDSF even if CMF/RMF is "forced" recycled without SDSF. Regards, Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS ITIL v3

Re: z/OSMF

ay the release after z/OS 2.3. There was no other usage at the time as everything else was using NFS. These days everything critical / volatile is backed up to the cloud by keeping it on my Onedrive as long as there is nothing sensitive / a security risk. Regards, Mark -- Mark Zelden -

Re: z/OSMF

ng supported now. The DFS/SMB file system could not be mounted with RWSHARE. https://www.ibm.com/docs/de/zos/2.3.0?topic=v2r3-dfssmb-prepare-removal-dfssmb Regards, Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS ITIL v3 Foundation Certified mailto:m...@mzelden.com M

Re: z/OSMF

t I worked with were SMB (no longer supported at all on z/OS) and IBM HTTP Server (no longer supported). This is what you need in your ZFS parms to make it the default: sysplex_filesys_sharemode=rwshare Regards, Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS I

Re: z/OSMF

F OMVS,PFS=ZFS,FSINFO If ZFS is not running under OMVS and is a separate address space still: F ZFS,Q,FILESETS or F ZFS,FSINFO In the filesets display, the "S" flag says it is sysplex aware. In FSINFO look for "RS" Regards, Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Servi

Re: z/OSMF

ystem ownership shouldn't be a performance issue these days for R/W file systems and never was for R/O file systems. Regards, Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS ITIL v3 Foundation Certified mailto:m...@mzelden.com Mark'

Re: Computers

I liked the video too! I started in this business 10 years after that video in a clerical position using punch interpreters and printers before becoming a computer operator. That was basically all the same equipment I was using in 1981 still. Regards, Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: SMP/E oddity?

update all of them when I add a new SMPPTSn data set. Regards, Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS ITIL v3 Foundation Certified mailto:m...@mzelden.com Mark's MVS Utilities: http://www.mzelden.com/mvsutil.html ---

Re: FileZilla for "ftp" from W11 to z/OS

as indicating a DSN? No. But why would you need or use that syntax since you are either FTPing into z/OS or Unix in any given connection. BTW, FileZilla does allow multiple active FTPs so you could FTP into both at the same time and it will be in two tabs. Best Regards, Mark -- Mark Zelden -

Re: Limiting quantity of tape drives used by user

is >now in the know on the subject, and will be going forward. > And Thruput Manager is a bunch of JES2 exits with dynamic settings controlled with JAL/DAL etc. So one could code a JES2 exit / exits to address just this issue without purchasing ThruPut Manager. Best Regards, Mark

Re: Limiting quantity of tape drives used by user

splexes have seen what you described, but only a couple of times only in the last few years and we just deal with it and follow up with a gentle hand slapping. Best Regards, Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS ITIL v3 Foundation Certified mailto:m...@mz

Re: XMSE & XMD Mapping Macros

by XMDXMSE XMDR034 DSXL4 reserved * XMDLNTH EQU *-XMD length of XMD MEND Best Regards, Mark -- Mark Ze

Re: HYCD or IOCP

-switchable) in the IODF or it can be done with a VARY command. Here is some relevant doc: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/2.3.0?topic=star-setting-up-automatic-tape-switching Best Regards, Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS ITIL v3 Foundation Certified mailto

Re: MVS Update

le to read a zipped XMI file. You have to unzip it first for XMIT Manager - at least since windows 7 or maybe before that (I'm pretty sure it worked on ziiped files on older win-doze versions). Regards, Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS ITIL v3 Foundat

Re: z/OSMF PSWI

st clone process with FDRCPK to combine extents to avoid the LNKLST limitations. Still had the secondaries though to facilitate maintenance.I wrote an exec (LNKVER) still on my web site to help manage it.. The doc has the old rules: (32) + (16n) + (k-1) n = the number of DASD extent

Re: z/OSMF PSWI

ly one extent. = Best Regards, Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS ITIL v3 Foundation Certified mailto:m...@mzelden.com Mark's MVS Utilities: http://www.mz

Re: z/OSMF PSWI

again I don't care. No one better be updating the live sysres anyway except under extreme circumstances. As usual YMMV and if you are in a shop with 220 LNKLST data sets you probably have a very good reason for never wanting any secondary extents even in your maintenance environment.

Re: Linklist and Syncsort confusion

a lot of Jr. sysprogs and it seems everyone gets this wrong and doesn't understand how it is supposed to work until they break break something. Thankfully it's in a sandbox LPAR 99% of the time because they know better than to be mucking with a production system. Best Regards, Mar

Re: Problems caused by Health Checker?

en start it after HSM with whatever console automation product is in use. The first option being better so HC starts as early as it can at IPL time. Best Regards, Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS ITIL v3 Foundation Certified mailto:m

Re: LINK monitor status for OSA HMC

nnections need to be migrated to Enterprise Extender. We have a little time though. :) Best Regards, Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS ITIL v3 Foundation Certified mailto:m...@mzelden.com Mark's MVS Utilities: http://www.mzelden.com/mvsutil.html Syst

Re: How to set time parameter in TSO/E REXX getmsg function

at what you mean? https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/2.4.0?topic=expression-using-interpret-instruction Best Regards, Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS ITIL v3 Foundation Certified mailto:m...@mzelden.com Mark's MVS Utilities: http:/

Re: Problems caused by Health Checker?

.HZS.HCHECKER.HISTORY (your name may be different depending on how you defined the logstream) and see if anything is migrated ever. In my case I define the logstream with AUTODELETE(YES) and RETPD(14). It gets assigned a MGMTCLAS that doesn't migrate. Best Regards, Mark -- Mark Ze

Re: Superuser (su) in batch

On Fri, 12 Aug 2022 09:42:13 -0500, Paul Gilmartin wrote: >On Thu, 11 Aug 2022 16:44:50 -0500, Mark Zelden wrote: >>... >> /* rexx */ >> /*=*/

Re: Java And Specialty Engines

ered opening a case with IBM? Your CPU is certainly a supported model, but you didn't say anything about OS version, Java version or liberty. Best Regards, Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS ITIL v3 Foundation Certified mailto:m...@

Re: Superuser (su) in batch

On Thu, 11 Aug 2022 16:36:43 -0500, Paul Gilmartin wrote: >On Thu, 11 Aug 2022 13:23:27 -0500, Mark Zelden wrote: >> >>ISHELL in batch won't work, but this "trick" with BPXBATCH will. The key is >>using >>"echo" and piping the commend

Re: SDSF JS command cross-sysplex

On Thu, 11 Aug 2022 13:32:46 -0500, Mark Zelden wrote: >On Thu, 11 Aug 2022 15:34:20 +0100, Keith Gooding wrote: > >>I found that the SDSF ‘JS’ (job steps) command issued from the SDSF panels or >>via the REXX API produces no output if the target job is running on a >>

Re: SDSF JS command cross-sysplex

ading to 2.5 and could this just be a security related problem? I assume both LPARs are in the same JESplex. Works fine under z/OS 2.4. Best Regards, Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS ITIL v3 Foundation Certified mailto:m...@mzelden.com Mark&#

Re: Superuser (su) in batch

quot;su". For example: //FINDEXEC PGM=BPXBATCH,REGION=500M //STDERR DD SYSOUT=* //STDOUT DD SYSOUT=* //STDPARM DD * sh echo find / -user 99 -exec ls -l {} \; | su; Regards,

Re: HMC processor option

the number of processors on the HMC for an LPAR, I question if you should be the one trying to change anything on the HMC to begin with. Or is this a homework question? Regards, Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS ITIL v3 Foundation Certified mailto:m...@mze

Re: Unable to access dsn's from catalog - 3.4

/ Confirm Data Set Delete 2. Space / Confirm Member Delete 3. Attrib / Include Additional Qualifiers 4. Total / Display Catalog Name

Re: RED Alert Today Regarding z/OS Service Orders

On Wed, 14 Apr 2021 10:34:58 +, Richards, Robert B. (CTR) wrote: >Hi Mark! > > > >In this notification and the one below, IBM makes no distinction between >RECEIVE methods. Under normal circumstances, I use RECEIVE ORDER on a daily >basis. I did get the following notification from IBM's My

RED Alert Today Regarding z/OS Service Orders

Wow, two questions from me in a single day. A new record. :) Before I go through the checking / remediation part, does anyone know if the "service orders" also include SMP/E RECEIVE ORDER? It doesn't specifically say it one way or the other. https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/6441973 -

ASAP List Customization on IBMLINK

Hi everyone, My IBMLINK ASAP list has been broken since around the beginning of 2021. I don't know for sure if that it started right at the beginning of the year but it was close to that time. All the APARs are in random order so when I get my ASAP notification email it is hard to find the AP

Re: how to compare active parameter with the parameter in member

On Wed, 18 Dec 2019 19:51:17 -0600, Paul Gilmartin wrote: >On Thu, 19 Dec 2019 00:50:09 +, Edward Finnell wrote: > >>All of Lionel's software is at www.lbdsoftware.com >> >>IPLINFO is a Mark Zelden creation >>athttp://www.mzelden.com/mvsfiles/iplinfo.tx

Re: AUTHPGM in IKJTSOxx

en alter the name (or not alter the name). If you called it FRED.LOCAL1 and never renamed it, PA (PAGEADD) doesn't care about the name does it? Best Regards, Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS ITIL v3 Foundation Certified mailto:m...@mzelden.com M

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