Simply from option 6 I entered SMCOPY Alan Field Technical Engineer Principal BCBS Minnesota
Phone: 651.662.3546 Mobile: 651.428.8826 From: "Steve Comstock" <[email protected]> To: [email protected], Date: 11/06/2013 08:58 Subject: Re: Aging Sysprogs = Aging Farmers Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On 11/6/2013 7:47 AM, Alan Field wrote: > Possibly because many of us don't run Session manager. > > Here's what I get: SESSION MANAGER NOT ACTIVE - SMCOPY IGNORED in response > to the SMCOPY command. > > Alan Field > Technical Engineer Principal > BCBS Minnesota > > Phone: 651.662.3546 Mobile: 651.428.8826 Interesting. I knew that the 'SM' in 'SMCOPY' stood for session manager, but my recent experience has been that the SMCOPY command has always worked. Must have lucked out in that session manager was always running where I happened to test it. Can you show us the actual command you issued? Kind regards, -Steve > > > > > > From: "Steve Comstock" <[email protected]> > To: [email protected], > Date: 11/05/2013 21:39 > Subject: Re: Aging Sysprogs = Aging Farmers > Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> > > > > On 11/5/2013 5:26 PM, David Crayford wrote: >> On 6/11/2013 12:37 AM, John Gilmore wrote: >>> I do of course agree that z/OS is perceived to be boring, but that is >>> another question. >> >> I don't think it's perceived as boring, certainly it's perceived as user >> hostile. Take Pauls cp command example, it's easy to copy files >> using a simple command. For those that prefer GUIs they can drag and > drop or >> copy/paste. On the mainframe one has no choice but >> to run JCL. JCL certainly is an antique, and a very unpleasant one. >> > > Actually, in a TSO session (analogous to a UNIX session), > you can use the SMCOPY command without JCL. It's just > that most people aren't aware of it. > > <ad> > > Covered in our courses > > TSO CLIST Programming in z/OS - 3 days > > http://www.trainersfriend.com/TSO_Clist_REXX_Dialog_Mgr/a650descrpt.htm > > TSO REXX Programming in z/OS - 5 days > > http://www.trainersfriend.com/TSO_Clist_REXX_Dialog_Mgr/a750descrpt.htm > > </ad> > > -- > > Kind regards, > > -Steve Comstock > The Trainer's Friend, Inc. > > 303-355-2752 > http://www.trainersfriend.com > > * We are going out of business effective 30 December, 2013 > > * To purchase a set of our training materials at terrific prices, > check out our Going Out Of Business Sale: > > http://www.trainersfriend.com/SpecialSale > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
