Hi Folks,
Consistent with Ze'ev Atlas' announcement of yesterday, I have
posted File 939 on the Updates page of www.cbttape.org which contains
Version 10.23 of PCRE (Perl-Compatible Regular Expressions), ported to
z/OS. You can now find it there.
Please remember to go to the
After almost a day out, the www.cbttape.org website is back. Sam Knutson
and HIS tech support worked on it. Good news.
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Hi Folks,
I decided to cut CBT Tape versions a bit more often. For the
previous few years, I've cut about 2 versions per year, relying on the
Updates page primarily, to get the new material and fixed material to
the people.
Even though it's a pain in the neck to do a release, it's
Hi Folks,
After a LONG TIME, a new version of the CBT Tape, Version 493, has
now been cut, with over 50 file changes. Please enjoy.
You can now download most of the files (for a short while,
hopefully) from the CBT directory, but please keep an eye on the Updates
directory, which
Hi Folks,
Relatively recently, IBM's TSO people have implemented four global
LOGON options (valid for the entire LPAR) which are settable with the
(new) LOGON keyword in the IKJTSOxx member of PARMLIB.
In short, these are (with the bit that sets each one):
Password Phrase Support
Hi Folks,
Please get that off-topic jerk off our list. This drivel doesn't
belong there. Thanks..
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Hi Folks,
Please note that on CBT File 220, on the UPDATES page only, the
execs SDUMPG and SDUMPE will display storage above the bar, in 64-bit
storage. I'm sorry I forgot to post these execs, about a half year ago,
when they were extended from the original SDUMP exec.
I think
Hi Folks,
If you are making a new master catalog and want to catalog all of
the old master catalog's entries in it, the RCNVTCAT or SCNVTCAT REXX
execs are the thing for you. (CBT File 542 on the UPDATES page of
www.cbttape.org). Same goes for other catalog contents, when you want
to
Hi Folks,
To follow up the last discussion, I fixed LASTCLPA better.
New code is on www.cbttape.org/updates.htm (File 133)
I used the CVT HBB7705 bit, CVTOSLV3,X'10' to test for the z/OS
level. If that bit is on, we're OK. No further worries about what FMIDs
the future z/OS
y to notice this kind of stuff in programs that we use. If
any of you ever notices a breakdown in how one of the CBT Tape programs
works, please inform me as promptly as possible, so we can fix it, and
it will still remain useful and available for all the people to use.
Thanks again for your supp
Hi Folks,
Bob Richards and I solved the ALIAS problem with RCNVTCAT.
RCNVTCAT was not defining alias entries properly. RELATE was
generated in the line before NAME was generated, in all DEFINE ALIAS
statements that were generated by the exec.
I fixed SCNVTCAT in File 542 as well.
Hi Folks,
When you're making a new system or new catalogs, isn't it nice to
generate DEFINE statements for most of the stuff that's in there?
Especially if it is a new system and a new master catalog. OR, are you
cleaning up the master catalog to make sure there's no junk that got
Hi Folks,
CBT Tape Version 492 has been cut, and the website www.cbttape.org
has been updated accordingly (I think).
Use it in good health and happiness.
Sincerely,Sam
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Hi Folks,
I'm happy to say that CBT Version 491 is now available on
www.cbttape.org. Of course, new Updates will be put on the Updates page
from now on. As always, please download from the Updates Page first, if
the file number you are looking for is there. In that way, you'll get
the
Hi Folks,
We've just been involved in fixing three TSO commands that do
approximately the same thing:
They find cataloged and uncataloged copies of a dataset name on your system.
The programs are:FIND (CBT File 406), FINDFILE (CBT File 300), and
TSOFIND (CBT File 879).
The programs
Hi Folks,
You can look at the code in IKJEFF10 which is in File 863 of the
CBT collection www.cbttape.org and see how it gets its results.
Below is the File 001 (doc) entry for CBT File 863.
Use it in good health...
Sincerely, Sam
FILE 863 is from Jim Callihan and
Hi Folks,
A little-known resource for access to (i.e. finding out about)
useful commands and programs is CBT File 874, a TSO HELP file for some
very useful commands and programs. Some of these programs do things,
the likes of which are hard to find elsewhere, especially among FREE
Hi Folks,
CBT Tape Version 490 has just been cut and the web site
www.cbttape.org has been (hopefully) updated.
There is one change that you should make, if you are downloading
from a TAPE, or a virtual TAPE. There is no problem if you are
downloading zipped XMIT files from the
Hi Folks,
Regarding www.cbttape.org .
It has been pointed out to me (3 times in the last two weeks) that
I haven't made a version cut of the CBT Tape in about 9 months now. ALL
of the fixes and changed files since then are on the UPDATES page, and
NOT on the CBT page. Please
Hi Folks,
I'd like to make you aware of a new contribution to the CBT Tape,
on Files 930, 932, and 933 of the Updates page of www.cbttape.org. This
is a CALENDAR FILE from Phil Polchinski, which can solve just about
all of your date differences and day-of-week and day-of-month
Hi Shmuel,
I sent him both OPTLIB files, as you probably know by now, but what
tape were the 5734LM* files on?
All the best of everything to you and your family.
Sincerely, Sam
On 6/11/2015 3:41 AM, Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz wrote:
Could you send Bill Godfrey copies of OPTLIBM.MAC
Hi Folks,
After having heard sporadic complaints for some time, about broken
links at the CBT Tape web site, www.cbttape.org, I have finally set
about trying to fix things up a bit. On the crosslinks page (that is,
people whose sites LINK TO US - www.cbttape.org), I have restored valid
Hi Folks,
This note concerns the CBT Tape web site, www.cbttape.org.
I have pretty much completed the addition of the XMIT Viewer
section. There had been a problem for people without a z/OS or MVS
system, to look at CBT Tape files, most of which are packaged there in
zipped TSO XMIT
Hi Folks,
I have attempted (i.e. begun) to make available on www.cbttape.org
some XMIT-format file viewers for the PC. You can get to the proper
screen from the cbttape.org Home Page by either clicking on XMIT Manager
(on the left side) and going to the new clicker under Other XMIT
Hi Folks,
I just made a new panel, accessible from www.cbttape.org, that will
help PC users. This screen will let you directly download some zip
files from the CBT Tape collection, which are otherwise cumbersome to
get, unless you have a z/OS system, or even if you have a z/OS system.
Hi Folks,
I agree with Mike Schwab. I myself search CBTDOC.PDS with the PDS
command:
FIND : /string/ THEN(MEMLIST)
command, which is the equivalent of doing a FIND on a string in CBT File
001. So browse CBT File 001 and look for what you think you want. It
MAY be a bit more accurate
a lot of help from the
machine-readable examples on File 931 of the CBT Tape (currently in the
Updates directory).
All the best of everything to all of you...
Sincerely,Sam Golob
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Hi Folks,
John Kalinich just forwarded the following correction to what I
posted yesterday:
Not to nitpick, but the error was discovered by
mainfram1...@gmail.com. Greg just reported it to IBM SMS development.
The error also affects ATTRIB and MAP for PDSE's.
Sorry about that.
Hi Folks,
There was an error in the PDS 8.6 program which wasn't an error in PDS.
It showed up when you wanted to do a HISTORY subcommand against a
load module in a PDSE. Instead of the display, you got a S378 abend.
The real error was caused by an error in IBM's DESERV macro in SYS1.MACLIB.
Hi Folks,
PUT 1412 for z/OS 2.1 and 1.13, is a memorable PUT level (RSU or
whatever). At that level, IBM has retrofitted its UCB lookup changes
that were designed for the next release (2.2?) so that they will also
apply to these earlier releases (HBB7790, HBB7780 and JBB778H). The PTF
Hi Folks,
For those of you who wish to install XMIT-Manager (originally from
Neal Johnston-Ward) on 64-bit Windows systems, there is a version of it
which was modified by Robert A.H. Prins to install there.
I had placed this version on File 916 of the CBT Tape, but it needs
a
Hi Folks,
I was just involved in an exercise to improve an old file copying
program from CBT Tape File 316. It is called FFYCOPY, and it was
written in the mid-1970's by Frank Yates (courtesy of Jim Marshall).
This program's copy engine uses BSAM with double buffers, and for its
time,
Hi Folks,
The CBT Tape Version 489 has now been cut. Our website
www.cbttape.org should now reflect the new version wherever it is
relevant. All updated files since Version 488 (the Updates page
files) have now been copied to the CBT directory. Any new updates for
Version 490 will now
conveniently.
Any suggestions will be helpful. But concrete examples or code
samples would be best.
Thanks much.
Sam Golob on behalf of Carlos Aguilera (car...@gsf-soft.com)
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, I can modify it further for 2.1.
If you are using the IDCMSGEN program from CBT File 360, from the
Wisconsin State datacenter (originally), please let me know. Thanks
MUCH...
All the best of everything to all of you.
Sincerely,Sam Golob
Hi Folks,
I have just modified an old program that I have been using for
maybe 25 years. It comes from CBT File 149 and is called (very
non-descriptively) COMPARE. I renamed it to COMPLOAD, because it
compares two load modules, and/or entire load module libraries, to find
differences.
Hi Folks,
CBT Tape Version 488 has been cut, dated June 3, 2014. Files from
this cut are now reflected on the CBT directory of www.cbttape.org. It
is also possible to get a disk pack (currently a 3390 mod 2) with all
the CBT files already loaded on it, and ZZSA loaded on it as IPL text.
Hi Folks,
I'd like to take a straw poll. There is some JCL in the CBT Tape to
load an INFOMVS database with CBT Tape data. Should I get rid of it?
Does anybody use INFOMVS anymore? Here's a chance to say what you
think. Maybe I'll just separate it out and move it to the pds which is
Hi Folks,
I fixed the old PRINTOFF TSO command (which used to be on the IPO
and CBIPO) from CBT File 325 so it now prints correct dates. I know that
IBM has now come out with the PRINTDS TSO command which does the same
thing (prints out a dataset to SYSOUT), but some of you might still
Hi Folks,
For a free zip/unzip that runs on z/OS and is compatible with
ordinary zip formats, please check out MINIZIP and MINIUNZ on File 865
of the CBT Tape.
All the best of everything to all of you.
Sincerely,Sam
Hi Folks,
A new version of the CBT Tape, Version 486, has been cut. The
www.cbttape.org website has been updated to reflect this (hopefully in
all the right places). Thank you for your continued support.
All the best of everything to all of you.
Sincerely,Sam
Hi Folks,
Arnie started the CBT Tape around July 1975. He was able to keep it
up until the Bank of New England, who had bought the Connecticut Bank
and Trust Company, took away his tape drives, which was in September
1990. I made the first cut in October 1990 (Version 322). So I have
Hi Folks,
Oops. Sorry. VSAMANAL and VSAMANDX on CBT Tape File 035 have to
be AMODE 24. When I looked at their origins (on File 294 and File 172)
I saw that they pre-date XA. So they are AMODE 24. When I tried
VSAMANAL as AMODE 31 I got an abend 30E. When I tried it as AMODE 24,
it
Hi Folks,
Times change, and sometimes it is hard to keep up. A small reminder
often helps.
In the old days when the CBT Tape collection was distributed only
on tape, before the Internet and our www.cbttape.org web site, it was
necessary to make updates to the collection very often,
Hi Folks,
I just put out CBT Tape Version 485, and I discovered some errors
on the load module file, File 035. Three PL/I program load modules are
erroneously marked as being AMODE 64. They should be corrected as follows:
ASMTOZAF - should be AMODE 24
VSAMANAL - should be AMODE 31
Hi Folks,
I'll fix File 035 on the Updates page, to have the correct AMODE
for the three programs, ASMTOZAF, VSAMANAL and VSAMANDX.
I guess this will be the easiest way to get the corrected
programs. Also, the tape mapping program called SS0104 (from CBT File
266) has been fixed on
Hi Folks,
The new CBT Tape Version 485 has been cut. Most of the
www.cbttape.org web site has been updated with material from the new
version. The Updates page still has a few entries that didn't make the
Dec 16 deadline.
As you probably have figured out, I've been making
Hi Folks,
Just for the record, I have to say one thing. If you are writing
some program that you're selling for money, it has to be (at least with
your best effort) 100 percent airtight. When you have the
responsibility for keeping a data center up, you have to take that
responsibility
Hi Folks,
I don't want to stir things up any more, and I think that everyone
has come to the following conclusion: If you want to be an unauthorized
program and look at some UCB-related control blocks without changing
them, and you don't mind that you may get an erroneous result once in
Hi Folks,
I'm answering John Gilmore's position mostly, although I've read
the entire thread. John presumes that you have to be safe at all
costs. My answer is: What's the whole point of this lookup method?
Gilbert himself told it to me. IT'S AUTHORIZATION. You want to be able
to
Hi Folks,
Please refer to yesterday's post with this title.
I made a small mistake in determining the end of the ULUT (UCB
Lookup Table) entries. This was fixed this morning. Anyone who
downloaded Files 731, 046, and 035 yesterday, from the Updates page of
www.cbttape.org, should
Hi Folks,
Alex Brodsky was kind enough to point out to me that the ULUT has
to be serialized, and he referred me to the SETLOCK macro, which talks
about this.
However, it seems to me that serialization is necessary only if you
want to change something in the ULUT, and not if you
Hi Folks,
Somebody please enlighten me. If you're trying to scratch a
dataset on a pack, and somebody else is in the middle of doing an IODF
change at the time, what is the difference if you are obtaining a copy
of the UCB (to determine what's on the disk pack), or the real UCB
itself?
Hi Folks,
In answer to Paul Gilmartin's question about whether the COPYMODS
program (CBT File 229) is capable of changing VOLSERs of copied tapes,
and where it can change them on the copied tape, (the VOL1 label or the
HDR1 labels), I have the following detailed answer.
The COPYMODS
Hi Folks,
There are two programs on the CBT Tape that can change SL to NL.
These are: COPYSLNL which is a variant of the COPYFILE program, that is
on File 229. And COPYMODS from CBT Tape File 229 with PARM or SYSIN
option of STRIP can do it too. This is for an ENTIRE TAPE, with many
Hi Folks,
I called up Alastair, sent him yesterday's digest, and he'll have a
look.
All the best of everything to all of you.
Sam
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Hi Folks,
If anybody has a problem with anything on the CBT Tape, why don't
you copy me personally also, when you send a note to the IBM-Main list
or any other list. This way, I may be able to contact the author myself
(if he/she is still reachable). That might make things a bit easier
can help you with that, as well.
We are extremely happy that Gilbert's wonderful work is continuing
on, and the proceeds are helping his wife and family.
All the best of everything to all of you.
Sincerely,Sam Golob
Hi Folks,
I just added File 874 to the Updates page of www.cbttape.org with a
bunch of TSO HELP members for some programs and commands I use from the
CBT Tape. Included also is a load module library in XMIT format, which
contains Greg Price's full screen Help called HEL or FSH or FSHELP.
Hi Folks,
Happy to announce that CBT Tape Version 484 has been cut, and all
the stuff from the Updates page of www.cbttape.org was moved to the CBT
page. I think I've updated the www.cbttape.org website with all the 484
stuff as opposed to the 483 stuff. I'm always open to people
Hi Folks,
My wife and I were probably closer to Rick than most. I couldn't
write right away. It was too big a kick in the gut.
I've known Rick for over 20 years, ever since he contributed The
Archiver (CBT File 147). I've visited him in Chicago alone, and with
my wife, and we
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