Re: Dumb SDSF question

2024-07-18 Thread Rob Scott
and not routed via XCF. Rob Scott Rocket Software Get Outlook for Android<https://aka.ms/AAb9ysg> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of Phil Smith III Sent: Thursday, July 18, 2024 10:32:04 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Dumb SDSF qu

Dumb SDSF question

2024-07-18 Thread Phil Smith III
Poking around in SDSF today, I scrolled all the way to the right and found: SysLevel z/OS 02.04.00 HBB77C0 z/OS 02.04.00 HBB77C0 z/OS 02.04.00 HBB77C0 (etc.) Why is this listed for each running task? Wild guess: in a SYSPLEX/JESPLEX (and no, I don’t understand the difference

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: tape sharing question

2024-07-17 Thread Pommier, Rex
Thanks, Brian. I'll check it out! Rex -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Brian Westerman Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2024 11:52 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: tape sharing question Hi, CA-1 allows you to set up specific tape

Re: tape sharing question

2024-07-16 Thread Brian Westerman
Hi, CA-1 allows you to set up specific tape ranges that are to be used as Read-only. It should be pretty simple to set it up so that your sandbox has the setup for read only whereas production has read-write. Brian -- For

tape sharing question

2024-07-16 Thread Pommier, Rex
Hi list, Just looking for ideas/options here. First the environment. z/OS 2.4 migrating to 3.1. CA-1 tape management. IBM TS7760 at primary site replicated to a second TS7760T. 2 LPARs in question here, one production and developer teat, the second a sandbox. We ran into a couple snags

Re: z/OS Connect and CICS question

2024-07-16 Thread Peter Ten Eyck
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Re: z/OS Connect and CICS question

2024-07-15 Thread Cameron Conacher
are out of luck. Thanks …….Cameron From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Peter Ten Eyck Sent: Monday, July 15, 2024 2:03 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: z/OS Connect and CICS question I am trying to figure out how I can run one z/OS Connect instance: going to two CICS

Re: z/OS Connect and CICS question

2024-07-15 Thread Peter Ten Eyck
I am trying to figure out how I can run one z/OS Connect instance: going to two CICS regions, one being the primary and the other being the secondary (or failover when the primary is down). Not sure it can be done, looking at this documentation:

Re: to tbsarg/tbscan or just tbscan - that is the question

2024-07-12 Thread Schmitt, Michael
ust tbscan - that is the question Cross posting to ISPF-L and IBM-Main So, I can do "tbsarg table namecond(var,eq)" "tbscan table" Or I can do "tbscan table arglist(var)" Both provide the same results, at least in my limited testing. What advantages are t

to tbsarg/tbscan or just tbscan - that is the question

2024-07-12 Thread Lionel B. Dyck
Cross posting to ISPF-L and IBM-Main So, I can do "tbsarg table namecond(var,eq)" "tbscan table" Or I can do "tbscan table arglist(var)" Both provide the same results, at least in my limited testing. What advantages are there in using the tbsarg/tbscan compared to just using tbscan?

Re: z/OS Connect and CICS question

2024-07-11 Thread esst...@juno.com
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Re: z/OS Connect and CICS question

2024-07-10 Thread Peter Ten Eyck
The CICS transactions run under the QR TCB. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: z/OS Connect and CICS question

2024-07-10 Thread esst...@juno.com
M-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: z/OS Connect and CICS question Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2024 14:10:00 -0500 Any suggestions on how to handle this use case: Two CICS regions: A and B. A is an inquiry and update region and runs all the time except when the nightly batch cycle is underway. B is an inquiry

z/OS Connect and CICS question

2024-07-09 Thread Peter Ten Eyck
Any suggestions on how to handle this use case: Two CICS regions: A and B. A is an inquiry and update region and runs all the time except when the nightly batch cycle is underway. B is an inquiry region and runs 24/7. We want all z/OS service calls to run in region A, when region A is down,

Re: Another Sort Question

2024-07-09 Thread Sri Hari Kolusu
>> Maybe you can try this: Ituriel, That would be an extra pass of data which is not necessary. You can adjust it to read just 1 record and issue the RC=12, but the question arises as to why the other product doesn't work as designed. Thanks, Kolusu DFSORT Development IBM Corpo

Re: Another Sort Question

2024-07-09 Thread Sri Hari Kolusu
>> I do indeed see the WER* messages in the log. Cameron, Thanks for confirming that it is the other product that does NOT behave the way it supposed to work. DFSORT does honor the NULLOFL parm and ends the job with RC=4. You probably need to open a case with the vendor. Thanks, Kolusu

Re: Another Sort Question

2024-07-09 Thread Ituriel do Neto
eciate your info. Thanks …….Cameron From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Sri Hari Kolusu Sent: Tuesday, July 9, 2024 10:24 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Another Sort Question > I still see RC=0 Cameron, Please send me the COMPLETE joblog and I will check > as

Re: Another Sort Question

2024-07-09 Thread Cameron Conacher
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Another Sort Question > I still see RC=0 Cameron, Please send me the COMPLETE joblog and I will check > as to why your job does not end with an RC=4. Just an fyi. . . If your DFSMSG > has WERxxx messages, then you are using the other product, an

Re: Another Sort Question

2024-07-09 Thread Sri Hari Kolusu
ion -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Cameron Conacher Sent: Tuesday, July 9, 2024 6:53 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: Another Sort Question I still see RC=0 STEP0100 00 56 Thanks ...Cameron From: IBM Mainfr

Re: Another Sort Question

2024-07-09 Thread Cameron Conacher
I still see RC=0 STEP0100 00 56 Thanks ...Cameron From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Sri Hari Kolusu Sent: Tuesday, July 9, 2024 9:31 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Another Sort Question >> Basically, I wanted to raise RC=4 when the

Re: Another Sort Question

2024-07-09 Thread Sri Hari Kolusu
>> Basically, I wanted to raise RC=4 when the output file from the SORT is >> empty. Cameron, NULLOFL should work. Can you run this job? //STEP0100 EXEC PGM=ICETOOL //TOOLMSG DD SYSOUT=* //DFSMSG DD SYSOUT=* //LOG31IN DD * //LOG31OUT DD SYSOUT=* //TOOLIN DD * SELECT FROM(LOG31IN) -

Another Sort Question

2024-07-09 Thread Cameron Conacher
Good morning, I have a SORT step that uses ICETOOL to perform a SELECT for a group of records. In addition I have included NULLOFL=RC4 with the SORT Control Statements. Basically, I wanted to raise RC=4 when the output file from the SORT is empty. I can work around this, but wanted to check to

Re: DFSORT Question regarding SORTOUT Library Member Statistics

2024-06-25 Thread Schmitt, Michael
IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Sri Hari Kolusu Sent: Tuesday, June 25, 2024 11:36 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: DFSORT Question regarding SORTOUT Library Member Statistics > I don't think that option is on the template workbench. Michael, I don't use workbench, b

Re: DFSORT Question regarding SORTOUT Library Member Statistics

2024-06-25 Thread Jack Zukt
ent: Tuesday, June 25, 2024 11:01 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: DFSORT Question regarding SORTOUT Library Member Statistics > > >> I want to know if I can include an option, or processing clause to > ensure that Library statistics are generated for each new member a

Re: DFSORT Question regarding SORTOUT Library Member Statistics

2024-06-25 Thread Sri Hari Kolusu
> I don't think that option is on the template workbench. Michael, I don't use workbench, but I am assuming that it does let you EDIT the template. If it does , then just add/Modify the stats parm in the template. Thanks, Kolusu

Re: DFSORT Question regarding SORTOUT Library Member Statistics

2024-06-25 Thread Schmitt, Michael
I don't think that option is on the template workbench. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Sri Hari Kolusu Sent: Tuesday, June 25, 2024 11:26 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: DFSORT Question regarding SORTOUT Library Member Statistics

Re: DFSORT Question regarding SORTOUT Library Member Statistics

2024-06-25 Thread Sri Hari Kolusu
>> It is a sore point with me that the File Manager template workbench doesn't >> generate ISPF statistics on the templates it creates. It will /maintain/ >> statistics if they already exist, but it won't create them. Michael, Did you try to use the option STATS=FORCE ? The ISPF statistics

Re: DFSORT Question regarding SORTOUT Library Member Statistics

2024-06-25 Thread Schmitt, Michael
where what's provided in input or a DD is a library, not a library(member). So DFSORT sorting to a library(member) wouldn't create stats. For the OP question, I think the respondents have hit all the options to create ISPF stats... * ISPF 3.5 (usually the best method in ISPF) * ISPF Edit, save

Re: DFSORT Question regarding SORTOUT Library Member Statistics

2024-06-25 Thread Cameron Conacher
Fantastic!! Thanks …….Cameron From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Sri Hari Kolusu Sent: Tuesday, June 25, 2024 11:42 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: DFSORT Question regarding SORTOUT Library Member Statistics >> Or just Enter/SAVE/F3 a couple of hundred

Re: DFSORT Question regarding SORTOUT Library Member Statistics

2024-06-25 Thread David Spiegel
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: DFSORT Question regarding SORTOUT Library Member Statistics I want to know if I can include an option, or processing clause to ensure that Library statistics are generated for each new member as I create them. At the moment, I have a couple of hundred new

Re: DFSORT Question regarding SORTOUT Library Member Statistics

2024-06-25 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Tue, 25 Jun 2024 18:24:52 +, Robert Prins wrote: >Or if you don't care about stats, just that they are set, ISPF 3.5 > ISRSUPC with the UPDMVS8 option generates a patch file. But is there any tool to apply such a patch and update the stats, and even the revision level in cols. 73-80? --

Re: DFSORT Question regarding SORTOUT Library Member Statistics

2024-06-25 Thread Sri Hari Kolusu
>> Or just Enter/SAVE/F3 a couple of hundred times.  Cameroon, You can use ISPF to Set the statistics. Look at the option 5 in UTILITIES. Menu Options View Utilities Compilers Help EN sss DSLIST - Data Sets M e 5 1. Library e

Re: DFSORT Question regarding SORTOUT Library Member Statistics

2024-06-25 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Tue, 25 Jun 2024 15:01:20 +, Sri Hari Kolusu wrote: > >Unfortunately, ... > >DFSORT does NOT copy/generate member statistics when copying. However, if >your shop has FILE-MANAGER, then you can use the following. > >//STEP0100 EXEC

Re: DFSORT Question regarding SORTOUT Library Member Statistics

2024-06-25 Thread Robert Prins
anks. >> I can try that. >> Or just Enter/SAVE/F3 a couple of hundred times.  >> >> Appreciate the information as always. >> >> >> Thanks >> >> …….Cameron >> >> >> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf >> Of Sri Hari Ko

Re: DFSORT Question regarding SORTOUT Library Member Statistics

2024-06-25 Thread Robert Prins
n > > > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf > Of Sri Hari Kolusu > Sent: Tuesday, June 25, 2024 11:01 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: DFSORT Question regarding SORTOUT Library Member Statistics > > >> I want to know if I can include an opti

Re: DFSORT Question regarding SORTOUT Library Member Statistics

2024-06-25 Thread Willy Jensen
Wouldn't that set the statistics to the current date and time, plus the userid of the SORT job? Also, if you have File Manager, I assume that it could do the copy, including statistics. As a free alternative to File Manager, see PDS86 at cbttape.org file 182.

Re: DFSORT Question regarding SORTOUT Library Member Statistics

2024-06-25 Thread Farley, Peter
If you have the free PDS tool from the CBTTAPE site, that tool also allows you to add ISPF statistics to an existing member. Peter From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Cameron Conacher Sent: Tuesday, June 25, 2024 11:17 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: DFSORT Question

Re: DFSORT Question regarding SORTOUT Library Member Statistics

2024-06-25 Thread Cameron Conacher
Question regarding SORTOUT Library Member Statistics >> I want to know if I can include an option, or processing clause to ensure >> that Library statistics are generated for each new member as I create them. >> At the moment, I have a couple of hundred new Library Members that have no

Re: DFSORT Question regarding SORTOUT Library Member Statistics

2024-06-25 Thread Sri Hari Kolusu
>> I want to know if I can include an option, or processing clause to ensure >> that Library statistics are generated for each new member as I create them. At the moment, I have a couple of hundred new Library Members that have no member statistics at all (who last changed, when created when

Re: DFSORT Question regarding SORTOUT Library Member Statistics

2024-06-25 Thread Cameron Conacher
Subject: Re: DFSORT Question regarding SORTOUT Library Member Statistics Would the ISPF LM Services, i. e. LMCOPY, provide the results you want? Sent with Proton Mail secure email. On Tuesday, June 25th, 2024 at 10: 42 AM, Cameron Conacher <03cfc59146bb-dmarc-request@ LISTSERV. UA. EDU>

Re: DFSORT Question regarding SORTOUT Library Member Statistics

2024-06-25 Thread rpinion865
Would the ISPF LM Services, i.e. LMCOPY, provide the results you want? Sent with Proton Mail secure email. On Tuesday, June 25th, 2024 at 10:42 AM, Cameron Conacher <03cfc59146bb-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > Hello everyone, > I believe I simply cannot do this using DFSORT,

DFSORT Question regarding SORTOUT Library Member Statistics

2024-06-25 Thread Cameron Conacher
Hello everyone, I believe I simply cannot do this using DFSORT, but I wanted to confirm with the wider/wiser team. I have create a little DFSORT Utility to clone JCL/PROCs/Control Statement etc... by copying selected members from a Library to another Library with little Market changes.

Re: PL/I Options question

2024-06-13 Thread Charles Mills
>Then again, looking at the manual, specifying "MARGINS(2,72)" in your pre ' Ta-da! 99% right. Turns out the default for the third sub-operand is 1, so you actually need MARGINS(2,72,0); Problem solved! Thank you! Charles On Thu, 13 Jun 2024 21:12:48 +, Robert Prins wrote: >No simple

Re: PL/I Options question

2024-06-13 Thread Charles Mills
Okay, I tried this. Does not seem to work. What am I doing wrong? 1. I override the SYSIN in the PROC with -- and I checked the job output, the override worked -- //SYSINDD * /* // DD

Re: PL/I Options question

2024-06-13 Thread Charles Mills
Interesting idea. That certainly fulfills the requirements of my question and certainly should work. It's a more complex solution than I had hoped for. I think what I will have to do is make a separate copy of the source code for this one purpose. Leave the source code untouched for other

Re: PL/I Options question

2024-06-13 Thread Robert Prins
No simple way, but with a compiler exit you could suppress them. Never used this feature, so someone else would have to chip in, or you could ask in comp.lang.pl1, or the PL/I mailing list. Then again, looking at the manual, specifying "MARGINS(2,72)" in your pre ' /*" new process statements

Re: PL/I Options question

2024-06-13 Thread Charles Mills
Ah! What am I doing wrong? My default font is proportional and I missed that leading blank before the comment /*. I thought it was a JCL end-of-file /*. Now, yes, it works as you describe. The source file *PROCESS statements get absorbed into the following comments. This is brilliant! I am

Re: PL/I Options question

2024-06-13 Thread Robert Prins
There should be, assuming that you use "margins(2,72,1)", a space before the '/*' comment in your sysin. It works because PL/I doesn't allow nested comments, so the '/*' will just match on the first '*/' ignoring any '/*' in between. The 2506W message seems to indicate that the '/' is in column 1

Re: PL/I Options question

2024-06-13 Thread Allan Staller
: PL/I Options question [CAUTION: This Email is from outside the Organization. Unless you trust the sender, Don’t click links or open attachments as it may be a Phishing email, which can steal your Information and compromise your Computer.] No joy: IBM1159I W The string /*PROCESS

Re: PL/I Options question

2024-06-13 Thread Robert Prins
On Thu, 13 Jun 2024 at 16:52, Allan Staller wrote: > Classification: Confidential > > AFAIK, any of the compiler options should be overrideable via JCL. I did > not check the syntax. NO, compiler options specified in the source via *PROCESS statements CANNOT be overridden by options specified

Re: PL/I Options question

2024-06-13 Thread Charles Mills
No joy: IBM1159I W The string /*PROCESS is not recognized as a valid option keyword and is ignored. Also tried without the leading slash; same error. CM On Thu, 13 Jun 2024 12:48:21 +, Allan Staller wrote: >Classification: Confidential > >// PARM='/*PROCESS

Re: PL/I Options question

2024-06-13 Thread Robert Prins
OK, I found another way to transiently zap any *PROCESS statements in the source, but it will only work if your source starts with a comment line after any of them. To do so you also need to be able to access the compile JCL, which you obviously) can do using the SJ command in SDSF. Just change

Re: PL/I Options question

2024-06-13 Thread Allan Staller
Classification: Confidential // PARM='/*PROCESS TEST(BLOCK,SYM,SEPARATE)' -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Charles Mills Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2024 4:47 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: PL/I Options question [CAUTION: This Email

Re: PL/I Options question

2024-06-13 Thread Andrew Wilkinson
Charles, Not strictly what you asked for, but have you tried using job IBMWIOP to set a non-overridable default? I presume one can slip the resulting options module into the compile STEPLIB for those cases where you need it. Reference is

Re: PL/I Options question

2024-06-12 Thread Robert Prins
On Thu, 13 Jun 2024 at 04:27, Attila Fogarasi < 05b6fee9abb7-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > Enterprise PL/I added a NOPROCESS parm option which causes all *PROCESS to > be ignored. This was quite a few years ago so should be in your PL/I > compiler version. > Not sure if that's of

Re: PL/I Options question

2024-06-12 Thread Attila Fogarasi
Enterprise PL/I added a NOPROCESS parm option which causes all *PROCESS to be ignored. This was quite a few years ago so should be in your PL/I compiler version. On Thu, Jun 13, 2024 at 8:14 AM Charles Mills wrote: > I failed to say that the basic problem is that it seems that *PROCESS > seems

Re: PL/I Options question

2024-06-12 Thread Charles Mills
I failed to say that the basic problem is that it seems that *PROCESS seems to unconditionally override PARM=. I am looking for a way to override *PROCESS with PARM=. Charles On Wed, 12 Jun 2024 16:46:55 -0500, Charles Mills wrote: >This is one of those things where the surrounding details

Re: PL/I Options question

2024-06-12 Thread Wayne Bickerdike
Charles, I've only ever specified ISASIZE as a PARM override. You could try PARM='/TEST()' You need the slash delimiter, you probably know that. On Thu, Jun 13, 2024 at 7:47 AM Charles Mills wrote: > This is one of those things where the surrounding details are what they > are, and would

PL/I Options question

2024-06-12 Thread Charles Mills
This is one of those things where the surrounding details are what they are, and would be a distraction if posted here. Please trust me, the situation is what it is. I have a PL/I source file that includes *PROCESS TEST(BLOCK,SYM); Let's pretend that cannot be changed. Is there anything I can

Re: APPN networking question - Identifying transient users.

2024-06-10 Thread Tom Longfellow
Thanks for the suggestions of using the session establishment exits from the old SSCP networking days. I think the hurdles are too advanced for me. While I could possibly get a working exit, I also have concerns about how those exits work in the "new" APPN world. (New = over 30 years) My

Re: APPN networking question - Identifying transient users.

2024-06-10 Thread Tom Longfellow
The CDRSCS display are good for showing you session that are active between the host you are on and host sessions to and from other systems. I cannot find a way to dispaly the 'back chatter" between the other systems that have used me as a conduit.

Re: APPN networking question - Identifying transient users.

2024-06-06 Thread Attila Fogarasi
D NET,CDRSCS doesn't show what you want with appropriate operands? On Fri, Jun 7, 2024 at 1:25 AM Tom Longfellow < 03e29b607131-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > I have tried to ask this question before but have found it difficult to > put into words. > > Pictur

Re: APPN networking question - Identifying transient users.

2024-06-06 Thread Michael Stein
On Thu, Jun 06, 2024 at 10:25:21AM -0500, Tom Longfellow wrote: > I have tried to ask this question before but have found it difficult > to put into words. > > Picture three mainframes A, B, and C. > There are terminals owned by A that communicate with applications on C. >

APPN networking question - Identifying transient users.

2024-06-06 Thread Tom Longfellow
I have tried to ask this question before but have found it difficult to put into words. Picture three mainframes A, B, and C. There are terminals owned by A that communicate with applications on C. There is no direct APPN link from A to C. B has links to A and C.The sessions from A find C

Re: DSNTEP2 question

2024-06-05 Thread
Sorry for the spamming. I'm dabbling with the interface to IBM-MAIN - not successfully... Being in a hurry is not recommended.. (In my defense I'm getting many requests from many people at my client and try to reply quickly...) Best Regards, Thomas Berg

DSNTEP2 question

2024-06-05 Thread
I haven't found an appropiate discussionlist for my question (I have been out of the loop 8 years) so I post it here (Sorry! Please redirect me if you can.) I'm running DSNTEP2 in batch and using a JCL and command I used before (I think...) and getting an error message I can't understand

Re: VTS question

2024-05-14 Thread Nigel Morton
IBM has (had?) a TS7770 marketing bundle for small configurations. The name tripping off the tongue, it's called the High Performance Tape/Cloud Controller and is a bundle of a TS7770, two FICON ports, 60TB of SSD cache and some other features. So, it's tapeless which solves the need for a TS3500

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: VTS question

2024-05-14 Thread Pommier, Rex
information. Rex -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Radoslaw Skorupka Sent: Friday, May 10, 2024 9:21 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: VTS question Virtual tapes for mainframe: IBM Visara Dell DLm 2500, 8500 (the largest IBM competitor

Re: VTS question

2024-05-10 Thread Radoslaw Skorupka
Virtual tapes for mainframe: IBM Visara Dell DLm 2500, 8500 (the largest IBM competitor) Interkom (AFAIK Luminex) Luminex MVT Model9 ATSM zAppliance Optica z/VT Fujitsu Eternus Hitachi (no details available) Universal Software VTA (AFAIK ESCON only) Secure agent SDS CA VTape Support for external

Re: VTS question

2024-05-10 Thread John Sawyer
Hello Rex, SecureAgent has a VTL that supports tape libraries. We have done many migrations using a Host-free method from environments like you describe. You can reach out to me at your convenience if you'd like more info. - John John Sawyer SecureAgent Software M. 918.691.9000

Re: VTS question

2024-05-10 Thread John Sawyer
om: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of > Pommier, Rex > Sent: Thursday, May 9, 2024 3:44 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: VTS question > > [CAUTION: This Email is from outside the Organization. Unless you trust the > sender, Don’t click links or open attachm

Re: VTS question

2024-05-10 Thread Ken Bloom
24 3:44 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: VTS question [CAUTION: This Email is from outside the Organization. Unless you trust the sender, Don’t click links or open attachments as it may be a Phishing email, which can steal your Information and compromise your Computer.] Hello list,

Re: VTS question

2024-05-10 Thread Allan Staller
Classification: Confidential Luminex VTS is worth a look -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Pommier, Rex Sent: Thursday, May 9, 2024 3:44 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: VTS question [CAUTION: This Email is from outside the Organization

Re: VTS question

2024-05-10 Thread Paul Gorlinsky
ATSM z/Appliance is the product name -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

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.

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: SYNCSORT question - how to specify different sorting parameters for JOIN input files F1/F2

2024-05-07 Thread Massimo Biancucci
9:18 Farley, Peter < 031df298a9da-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> ha scritto: > This is a question specific to the SYNCSORT product, not a general SORT > question. > > I do not have access to question the Syncsort support team, and I cannot > see from the latest programmer's guide for t

Re: SYNCSORT question - how to specify different sorting parameters for JOIN input files F1/F2

2024-05-06 Thread Schmitt, Michael
n it comes to sort products, just because it isn't documented doesn't mean it won't work. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Farley, Peter Sent: Monday, May 6, 2024 12:17 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: SYNCSORT question - how to specify differe

SYNCSORT question - how to specify different sorting parameters for JOIN input files F1/F2

2024-05-06 Thread Farley, Peter
This is a question specific to the SYNCSORT product, not a general SORT question. I do not have access to question the Syncsort support team, and I cannot see from the latest programmer's guide for the product (Syncsort MFX Programmer's Guide, Version 3.1) what the answer to this question

Re: JES2 Question - releasing AND requeuing HELD sysout

2024-04-25 Thread Michael Babcock
Manually change one and see what command gets generated in Syslog. On Thu, Apr 25, 2024 at 1:52 PM Karl S Huf wrote: > I really thought this would have been more straightforward, and perhaps it > is and I'm just not seeing it. > > I have groups of jobs that are sent to a held output class (T)

JES2 Question - releasing AND requeuing HELD sysout

2024-04-25 Thread Karl S Huf
I really thought this would have been more straightforward, and perhaps it is and I'm just not seeing it. I have groups of jobs that are sent to a held output class (T) that periodically need to be released and requeued to a different output class (7). So if my jobs all start with ABC I know I

Re: REXX vs other languages WAS: Rexx numeric digits and scientific notation question

2024-04-24 Thread Seymour J Metz
digits and scientific notation question On Mon, 22 Apr 2024 14:01:23 +, Seymour J Metz wrote: >delete foo >rather than >'DELETE' foo >is a simple example. In practise I often need multiple upper case constants in >a single expression. This isn't a valid example because 'de

Re: REXX vs other languages WAS: Rexx numeric digits and scientific notation question

2024-04-24 Thread Seymour J Metz
-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: REXX vs other languages WAS: Rexx numeric digits and scientific notation question On 23/04/2024 12:01 am, Seymour J Metz wrote: > delete foo > > rather than > > 'DELETE' foo > > is a simple example. In practise I often need multiple

Re: Commands via Rexx (Re: REXX vs other languages WAS: Rexx numeric digits and scientific notation question

2024-04-23 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
On Tue, 23 Apr 2024, at 11:25, Rony G. Flatscher wrote: > The nice thing is that Rexx allows different variants of string > concatenations and one is free to use what seems to be the > "easiest", the "safest". Personally I use blank concatenations > by default and abuttal or || only if there

Re: REXX vs other languages WAS: Rexx numeric digits and scientific notation question

2024-04-23 Thread Eric Rossman
0 seconds and completed 41597318 iterations. Eric Rossman -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2024 10:42 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: REXX vs other languages WAS: Rexx numeric digits and sc

Re: REXX vs other languages WAS: Rexx numeric digits and scientific notation question

2024-04-23 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Tue, 23 Apr 2024 14:07:05 +, Schmitt, Michael wrote: >You lost me when you say that rather than embrace the conventions, standards, >and features of the language I'm coding in (REXX), I should restrict it to the >limitations of other languages. > Did I say that? I was trying to take a

Re: REXX vs other languages WAS: Rexx numeric digits and scientific notation question

2024-04-23 Thread Schmitt, Michael
WAS: Rexx numeric digits and scientific notation question On Tue, 23 Apr 2024 10:59:47 +1000, Andrew Rowley wrote: >... >To me, it is much clearer to be explicit, including the concatenation, e.g. >"DELETE " || foo >seems much clearer about exactly what is hap

Commands via Rexx (Re: REXX vs other languages WAS: Rexx numeric digits and scientific notation question

2024-04-23 Thread Rony G. Flatscher
On 23.04.2024 05:03, Andrew Rowley wrote: On 23/04/2024 11:55 am, Paul Gilmartin wrote: On Tue, 23 Apr 2024 10:59:47 +1000, Andrew Rowley  wrote:     ... To me, it is much clearer to be explicit, including the concatenation, e.g. "DELETE " || foo That overkill is apt to confuse a POSIX shell

Re: REXX vs other languages WAS: Rexx numeric digits and scientific notation question

2024-04-22 Thread Andrew Rowley
On 23/04/2024 11:55 am, Paul Gilmartin wrote: On Tue, 23 Apr 2024 10:59:47 +1000, Andrew Rowley wrote: ... To me, it is much clearer to be explicit, including the concatenation, e.g. "DELETE " || foo That overkill is apt to confuse a POSIX shell partisan who would see the blank as part of

Re: REXX vs other languages WAS: Rexx numeric digits and scientific notation question

2024-04-22 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Tue, 23 Apr 2024 10:59:47 +1000, Andrew Rowley wrote: >... >To me, it is much clearer to be explicit, including the concatenation, e.g. >"DELETE " || foo >seems much clearer about exactly what is happening/expected, which are >variables and which are (expected to be) constant etc. > That

Re: REXX vs other languages WAS: Rexx numeric digits and scientific notation question

2024-04-22 Thread Andrew Rowley
On 23/04/2024 12:01 am, Seymour J Metz wrote: delete foo rather than 'DELETE' foo is a simple example. In practise I often need multiple upper case constants in a single expression. In this example, delete *looks like* an instruction rather than a variable - the fact that it is a variable

Re: REXX vs other languages WAS: Rexx numeric digits and scientific notation question

2024-04-22 Thread Jon Perryman
On Mon, 22 Apr 2024 14:01:23 +, Seymour J Metz wrote: >delete foo >rather than >'DELETE' foo >is a simple example. In practise I often need multiple upper case constants in >a single expression. This isn't a valid example because 'delete' will also work. As Andrew said, rarely will you

Re: DFSort Report question

2024-04-22 Thread Sri Hari Kolusu
>> What I would like to do is change LEGACY/KDFAES to PASSPHRASE if possible. Lionel, You just want to change the ON value and not the header. Assuming you have a COPY/SORT step to filter the data, you can change the values there. I am showing for position 21, but you can change to that 616

Re: DFSort Report question

2024-04-22 Thread Lionel B. Dyck
Behalf Of Sri Hari Kolusu Sent: Monday, April 22, 2024 2:02 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: DFSort Report question >> The ON value could be "LEGACY", "KDFAES", "PASSWORD" or "NOPHRASE". Lionel, How do you determine which header value need

Re: DFSort Report question

2024-04-22 Thread Sri Hari Kolusu
>> The ON value could be "LEGACY", "KDFAES", "PASSWORD" or "NOPHRASE". Lionel, How do you determine which header value need to be used? I am guessing that it is going to depend on a value in the file. If So we can dynamically change it. Thanks, Kolusu DFSORT Development IBM Corporation

DFSort Report question - SYMNAMES DD ?

2024-04-22 Thread Nash, Jonathan S.
Can you set up a constant in the SYMNAMES DD to do that ? Or is that for different functions ? -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Lionel B. Dyck Sent: Monday, April 22, 2024 2:25 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: DFSort Report question Does

DFSort Report question

2024-04-22 Thread Lionel B. Dyck
Does anyone know who to change the value found in the ON to a more meaningful value: For example this: HEADER('PassPhrase') ON(616,10,CH) The ON value could be "LEGACY", "KDFAES", "PASSWORD" or "NOPHRASE". Thanks in advance Lionel B. Dyck <>< Github: https://github.com/lbdyck System Z

Re: REXX vs other languages WAS: Rexx numeric digits and scientific notation question

2024-04-22 Thread Seymour J Metz
: Monday, April 22, 2024 1:45 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: REXX vs other languages WAS: Rexx numeric digits and scientific notation question On Mon, 22 Apr 2024 01:41:21 +, Seymour J Metz wrote: >I was referring to 'I once found CMS ISPF to reauire "address isredit

Re: REXX vs other languages WAS: Rexx numeric digits and scientific notation question

2024-04-22 Thread Jon Perryman
On Mon, 22 Apr 2024 01:41:21 +, Seymour J Metz wrote: >I was referring to 'I once found CMS ISPF to reauire "address isredit 'isredit >'". >Otherwise the command went to ISPEXEC.', which clearly is b0rk3n. This seems very unlikely given that IBM does good QA and this would have caused a

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