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System REXX is documented in the most obvious of places - the z/OS MVS
Programming: Authorised Assembler Services Guide, chapter 31.
https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/2.5.0?topic=guide-system-rexx
Andy Styles
z/Series Systems Programmer
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Providing it's running under JES2 or JES3 and not SUB=MSTR, instream data in
procedures is fine:
//PGM EXEC PGM=FRED,PARMDD=PARMS
//PARMS DD *
blah blah blah
Andy Styles
z/Series System Programmer
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Might depend on what you're after, but will
SET BOUNDARY(GLOBAL).
LIST
HOLDSYSTEM
HOLDDATA
.
do what you want?
Andy Styles
z/Series System Programmer
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The message is pretty clear: Your VTMF.LINKLIB is a PDSE that contains program
objects, and you can't put those into a PDS - the target library
(S172.SYSL.ENDEVOR.V17R0 in this case) MUST be a PDSE.
At a wild guess, based purely on the member name being copied (M10SNCOB
es System Programmer
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Styles, Andy (ITS zPlatform Services)
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To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
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ls -a
or
la -la
-l being 'long', and -a being 'all'
ftp> ls -a
200 Port request OK.
125 List started OK
.
..
.bash_history
.bashrc
.gitconfig
Andy Styles
z/Series System Programmer
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Michael K
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There sure is; the SMPE manual has a whole section on receiving maintenance
through a batch job:
https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/2.4.0?topic=guide-preparing-use-internet-service-retrieval
I haven't been near Shopz for about 4 years for maintenance.
Andy Styles
z/Series
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According to Chambers dictionary (the de facto resource for cryptic crosswords
here), there are 12 noun definitions for root, 4 intransitive verb definitions,
and 6 transitive verb definitions..
The one you're referring to appears, according to the entries, to be Australi
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I wonder if these are IEBCOPY unload format - that is, IEBCOPY from a PDS to a
PS. It's been years since I had to deal with those, probably since I installed
products directly from a vendor tape (one of those round things with the
write-protect ring).
IEBCOPY seems to c
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Rocket has indeed ported vim to z/OS; I use it all the time.
It took a while to getting used to, being unfamiliar with that kind of editor,
but once I got the terminal file sorted, and the keyboard mappings worked out,
it's good. The challenge is the extent of what it ca
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You can use RECEIVE ORDER to just get HOLDDATA.
RECEIVE
ORDER(
ORDERSERVER(ORDRINFO)
CONTENT(HOLDDATA)
CLIENT(CLNTINFO)
)
Andy Styles
z/Series System Programm
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ISREDIT MACRO must be the first macro command in a macro. The ISPEXEC doesn't
count as a macro command; they can certainly be used prior to an ISREDIT MACRO
command.
I have many examples of this usage to determine whether a command is being
called as a macro or a command
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Quick and dirty
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Quick and dirty - assumes the profile will put numbers in 73-80, and doesn't do
much in the way of error checking:
/* REXX */
parse source .
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You may want to look into the PWT detailed in BPXPRMxx; you may need to follow
that on to SMFPRMxx to see what TWT/JWT/SWT values are set there.
Andy Styles
z/Series System Programmer
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Logging back on with RECONNECT - either at a native VTAM (unformatted?) screen,
as in LOGON APPLID(blah) DATA(RECONNECT) - and/or possibly with the Reconnect
option selected on the full screen TSO logon screen takes me straight back to
where I was whenever I experience a
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Certainly not my area of expertise, but looks like maybe SMF type 30?
https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSLTBW_2.3.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r3.ieag200/rec30.htm
This may help as well:
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/common-data-provider-tso-logon-successful-event-missi
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I concur; deselecting 'Display Total Tracks' causes the progress bar to appear
on a SORT command - I always have that selected, along with 'Show Catalog Name'.
Andy Styles
z/Series System Programmer
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I don't get that behaviour. What I see is the progress bar displayed when
scrolling right the first time; after that ISPF presumably just uses the table
it built to display the datasets. I've tried on both z/OS 2.3 and z/OS 2.4 and
with SMS and non-SMS datasets, catalogue
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There appears to be a GA23-0059-7 here:
http://www.ruelgnoj.co.uk/3270/3270.pdf
Whether that's Tony's one, I don't know, but it looks like it came from
Bookmanager - I can't access it from my work laptop, but it looks okay on my
phone.
Andy Styles
z/Series System Pro
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I went through a similar discussion last year (? this year? Time flies..), and
I now do RECEIVE ALL - just means you have all available fixes, whether you
then go on to APPLY them of course, is entirely up to you, but I found it was
better to have them than now. It's als
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My trouble with JES2 is that different subparameters of the same statement can
only be changed by different methods.
Take things like NJEDEF; I've seen places where it looks like the original
installing lazy sysprog decided that rather than go through the trouble of
in
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Isn't the goal here to identify jobs that have been submitted, but not started?
Long-running jobs don't fit that criteria, having already started - or have I
missed the point?
Andy Styles
z/Series System Programmer
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Which scheduler (I assume you mean batch scheduler)?
TWS (IWS, zWS, and whatever other names the marketing department dream up in
the pub) monitors jobs that haven't started after it has submitted them - and
writes messages out for 'LONG TIME ON INPUT QUEUE'; I don't k
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Okay, I'm going to moan a bit.
Just logged on to Shopz, and I see a message:
Issue on z/OS, z/VM, z/VSE service orders using an installed report is FIXED.
You could proceed on this kind of order. For the existing orders impacted by
the issue, we are trying to recover the
Funny, I get something similar:
The requested website is categorised as "Adult/Mature Content;Personal Sites".
Andy Styles
z/Series System Programmer
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Of course it will; you'll be allowing the job to create more output..
Andy Styles
z/Series System Programmer
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> Not exactly. It is a set of PTFs that have been extensively tested together
> by IBM.
> Then they have been adopted as a whole by many shops.
>
> --
> Tom Marchant
Is that true? I thought it was just the CST that was extensively tested; that's
only released quarterly, w
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Hi Kurt,
> Did you really get more PTFs assigned RSU1903 the second time? Or did you
> simply get
> more PTFs? Let me explain:
I believe we received new PTFs - with RSU1903 being assigned to them at the
same time. That's the behaviour I'm querying - and I think you agr
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Hi Kurt,
I've snipped a fair bit of this, but (and I've manually added quoting, so
apologies if it breaks):
> Were any of these PTFs also received in the prior RECEIVE ORDER? And Were
> they applied and
> accepted, perhaps purging them from the global zone prior to the
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Aha, I think from that perspective, it's effectively RECEIVE ORDER
CONTENT(RECOMMENDED); you cannot specify an RSU in Shopz either.
Andy Styles
z/Series System Programmer / zPlatform
Enterprise Technology Services / Group CIO
LLOYDS BANKING GROUP
M:
07802 309040 | P: 713
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We always (I hope..) get the latest HOLDDATA as well;
How do you specify a specific RSU, I didn’t think that was an option for
RECEIVE ORDER?
Andy Styles
z/Series System Programmer
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Hi all,
A question on some behaviour that I think we've noticed over the last few RSUs
that have been announced.
We did a RECEIVE ORDER CONTENT(RECOMMENDED) in early April (just after the "New
Service Levels" email), and got a number of fixes for RSU1903. Over the last
Assuming we're talking copying to disk (I'm not sure you could copy a dataset
to tape, never tried), but ZFS's, being VSAM, must be cataloged; you couldn't
thus copy a ZFS to two different volumes with the same dataset name because of
the catalog clash.
Andy Styles
z/Series System Programmer
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Hi all,
I have an occasion to extract a user-specified subset of all tasks in the
system. I'm doing this in REXX by chaining through the ASCBs in the ASVT, which
returns me the name of the task (in ASCBJBNI/ASCBJBNS), along with a couple of
other bits. This all works fin
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Yes, I spotted this too. I've been too busy to spare time to think about it,
but I too use it for seamless file transfer to/from my laptop, and would miss
that functionality. I suspect IBM would be pushing other, more cumbersome
technologies like IDz.
I was also wondering
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Whenever I've seen something about the next release of z/OS, IBM have always
referred to it as "the release after z/OS x.x". I suspect it's in case the
marketing department notice and decide it's going to be called something else..
Andy Styles
z/Series System Programmer
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On 02-01-2019 at 16:51, Robert Prins wrote:
>> On 2019-01-02 08:26, Styles, Andy , ITS zPlatform Services wrote:
>> 62 x 160 eh? Still using a small screen then? :-)
> Only 23" full HD, and pretty bad eyesight, myopic (-6.5) and problems using
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I also frequently use crosshairs (toggled by SHIFT-HOME, which I think is
something similar to the combination on the 3270 keyboard I used in the 80s). I
switch crosshair on/off depending on what I'm doing.
62 x 160 eh? Still using a small screen then? :-)
Andy Styles
z/S
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We tripped over something with z/OS 2.1 maintenance and volcounts. These are
some notes I have:
With z/OS 2.1, an enhancement to DFSMS came in which meant that when a dataset
(tape in this case) filled 5 volumes, DFSMS automatically created the
additional control blocks t
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The "platinum" (or ) build says to have a single
master cat for all systems in a sysplex. Now I get that not everything is a
sysplex, but where it is, take caution.
Where you have master cats for other systems as user cats, there's a big red
flag - the system won't let y
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Couldn't they just use standard SRCHFOR (=3.15), select all the members with S
*, and then unselect the ones they don't want?
Andy Styles
z/Series System Programmer
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say date('S', date('B') - 1 ,'B')
Andy Styles
z/Series System Programmer
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Sent: 02 August 2018 09:44
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Subject: Re: how
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There you are, that's what he said, fairly recent. A bit like those new-fangled
PDSEs and new format JES2 commands..
Andy Styles
z/Series System Programmer
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Not that I've ever played with them, but there are commands / options to ROLLIN
and ROLLOFF GDS members of GDGs - could they help? Looks like IEHPROGM might be
able to rebuild indexes too. Chapter 29 of Using Data Sets looks like the place
to go.
Never played with any of
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Is it outage, rather than downtime? (ie, unexpected)
Can't shutdown and IPL in 315 seconds.. (well, we can't).
Andy Styles
z/Series System Programmer
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Hmm; bearing in mind that the IEFC653I message doesn't reproduce inline
comments either, it looks like it's working the same way:
2 // SET D='DISP=SHR'
3 // EXEC PGM=IEFBR14
4 //DD DD DSN=MY.DSN,&
This is a real possibility - I've seen it in action; a connection via NJE was
established and an unauthenticated user was able to submit a batch job under
the id of someone in the Security area with RACF SPECIAL access. At that time,
our NJE network was using unsecured IP connections over port 1
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Assuming their id has been deleted:
find . -nouser
-rw-r--r--1 5 10 Jul 17 09:09 test.txt
Where '5' is the id of the deleted user (actually just me issuing chown 5
test.txt - but users without ids show up as numerics in ls).
01/12/17 15:45:50 /u/
22 PM, Jack J. Woehr wrote:
> On 11/22/2017 1:46 AM, Styles, Andy (ITS zPlatform Services) wrote:
>> I've used x3270, and I find it functional, but lacking. Both keyboard
>> remapping and font support are stuck in the 90s.
> Open source software works because users partici
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Perhaps Tom could be persuaded to port Vista to Linux :-)
I've used x3270, and I find it functional, but lacking. Both keyboard remapping
and font support are stuck in the 90s.
Andy Styles
z/Series Systems Programmer
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Morning folks,
We've got a zAware partition running, but we've done almost nothing with since
it was set up a couple of years back, so we're thinking of dropping it.
Does anyone actively use zAware?
Thanks,
Andy Styles
z/Series Systems Programmer
Lloyds Banking Group
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I imagine that a vendor product like CIM or TACM could surgically zap the
catalog to remove the entries.
I checked with one of our storage folks, he suggested that the catalog entry
actually has MIGRAT (I've checked that on one of my own migrated datasets with
LISTC), and
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I would hazard a guess that the answer to that is the same answer as to why
Windows XP (and probably NT!) is still in use!
Not to mention anyone running out-of-support mainframe software (and hardware
for that matter)..
Andy Styles
z/Series Systems Programmer
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It varies between browsers, I believe.
Chrome 55.0.2883.87 seems to play nicely - perhaps nicer - but IE
11.0.9600.18665 is definitely not happy.
Andy Styles
z/Series Systems Programmer
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We are not on z13s yet, but we've been using the Javascript version for a few
months now on EC12s, and it's generally okay - we do get the NIP messages okay,
recently we had to reply to some when we mucked up some page datasets.
I agree it blips sometimes, but I've put that down to the browser (
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If it's just the JESLOG you're interested in, take a look at the JESLOG
parameter of the JOB card:
Syntax:
JESLOG= {SPIN}
{NOSPIN}
{SUPPRESS}
Subparameter Definition:
SPIN
JESLOG is spin-eligible. There is an optional second operand.
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If you DON'T have the keys for DR, then it makes a mockery of any DR capability
you think you have. In a real DR situation, you can't plan, you need it all
working there and then.
Andy Styles
z/Series Systems Programmer
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I think:
+1+2+3+4+5+6+7--
//SYSIN DD DATA,
// DLM=AVERYLONGDELIMITERSTRINGCANONLYBEGINAT16ANDREACHUNTILCOL71PLUS06
So the extra 6 characters bring it to 63 (assuming my maths is correct!).
Andy Styles
z/Series Systems
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This might depend on your code page settings.
For me, using IBM-1047, it's:
C P'^' ' ' 80 95 ALL
Where the '^' is the shift-6 character (on my UK keyboard!). To find out what
character you're expected to use, in EDIT, issue:
HELP
14
2
CHANGE
1
3
This should take you t
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