Re: python calling COBOL [was: RE: z/OS 3.1 Enhancements & Support News]

Hi Peter, retcode 4 means failed to load target DLL (COBOL). Did you do an export STEPLIB=HLQ.DSN where the COBOL DLL resides? Is the first COBOL compiled as DLL? Did not had the time yet to upload the sources to the git repo. Denis. On Wednesday, July 10, 2024 at 01:07:52 AM GMT+2, Farley, Pe

z16 features on VTAM/TCPIP Communication server

Hello All, We are enabling QDIOEIB on our environment which comes with z16. OSA exp7s card. Hope there might some other features came with z16 for VTAM/TCPIP. Please do share and appreciate your help. Thank you.! -- For IBM-MA

Re: Off topic discussions

Ditto. On 10/07/2024 04:58, Doug Fuerst wrote: > I agree with Darren. This is a forum for technical discussions and > information exchanges for MVS systems programmers. > Anything else is simply not appropriate. Have all the opinions and > viewpoints you'd like, but on this forum, get rid of them.

Re: Off topic discussions

I agree with Darren. This is a forum for technical discussions and information exchanges for MVS systems programmers. Anything else is simply not appropriate. Have all the opinions and viewpoints you'd like, but on this forum, get rid of them. That goes for everyone. Doug Fuerst -- Origi

Re: Alter z/OSMF Workflow Input?

Ok, then tell Metz to quit posting his pro Israel BS. Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone On Tuesday, July 9, 2024, 10:25 PM, David Spiegel <0468385049d1-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: Hi Dave, You're either naive or willfully misleading people. Either way, this forum is for technical

Off topic discussions

Please take the non-IBM-MAIN discussions offline. I'm about to start removing folks from the list. Darren -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message:

Re: Alter z/OSMF Workflow Input?

Hi Dave, You're either naive or willfully misleading people. Either way, this forum is for technical discussions, not, Mideast politics. Please get that through your dense skull. Regards, David On 2024-07-09 22:14, Dave Beagle wrote: It has nothing to do with the destruction of Israel. And don’

Re: Alter z/OSMF Workflow Input?

It has nothing to do with the destruction of Israel. And don’t hand me your BS. Bernie Sanders agrees with me. I maxed out donating to Bernie in 2016 and received an autographed copy of his book Our Revolution. Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone On Tuesday, July 9, 2024, 10:11 PM, Dave Beagle w

Re: Alter z/OSMF Workflow Input?

Then tell Metz to take his crap elsewhere too. Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone On Tuesday, July 9, 2024, 9:50 PM, David Spiegel <0468385049d1-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: Hi Dave, I Googled before I asked, but, wanted to give you the benefit of the doubt in case I made a mistake

Re: Alter z/OSMF Workflow Input?

Hi Dave, I Googled before I asked, but, wanted to give you the benefit of the doubt in case I made a mistake. According to Google Translate, it means "Freedom for Palestine". This expression usually means that Israel should be destroyed as well. You should be aware that this forum is not a platf

Re: Alter z/OSMF Workflow Input?

Free Palestine? If that is it, take this crap elsewhere. Doug Fuerst -- Original Message -- From "Dave Beagle" <0525eaef6620-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> To IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Date 7/9/2024 21:04:07 PM Subject Re: Alter z/OSMF Workflow Input? Google it. And how come you

Re: Alter z/OSMF Workflow Input?

Classification: Confidential z/OS MF still sucks! -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Dave Beagle Sent: Tuesday, July 9, 2024 8:18 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Alter z/OSMF Workflow Input? [CAUTION: This Email is from outside the Organiza

Re: Alter z/OSMF Workflow Input?

z/OSMF was developed to simplify z/OS installation and maintenance. Because of the retirement of a plethora of installers (not expert Assembler coders) who were closing in on retirement. (Myself included) Dave الحريةلفلسطين Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone On Tuesday, July 9, 2024, 9:04 PM, D

Re: Alter z/OSMF Workflow Input?

Google it. And how come you haven’t asked about Metz’s political statement after his? Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone On Tuesday, July 9, 2024, 3:45 PM, rpinion865 <042a019916dd-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: Fleegle, the legal beagle. "Confidentially doc, I am the wabbit." Bu

Re: python calling COBOL [was: RE: z/OS 3.1 Enhancements & Support News]

Not in SYSLIB for the LINK step as far as I could see (“ax” and “bx” outputs from the “cc” link step are pasted below), but hlq.SCEERUN2 is in the LINKLIST here. I am using the “cc” module I could find on our system, so my actual compile and link of that program from the z/OS Unix shell may or

Re: python calling COBOL [was: RE: z/OS 3.1 Enhancements & Support News]

>> test on our z/OS V2.5 system, but apparently the essential LE module >> CEL4RO31 does not exist on our system (or at least I nave not yet found it). Peter, CEL4RO31 is supported in V2R4 and higher . Do you have hlq.SCEERUN2 in your SYSLIB ? Thanks, Kolusu --

Re: python calling COBOL [was: RE: z/OS 3.1 Enhancements & Support News]

Follow-up: I was able to use Denis Gäbler’s blog instructions to set up his python-calling-COBOL test on our z/OS V2.5 system, but apparently the essential LE module CEL4RO31 does not exist on our system (or at least I nave not yet found it). I am going to guess that either (1) that capability

Re: OS/VS2 Release 2: Happy 50th Anniversary!

Don't forget the other 1972 arrivals. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 עַם יִשְׂרָאֵל חַי נֵ֣צַח יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל לֹ֥א יְשַׁקֵּ֖ר From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of Mike Schwab <05962a42dc49-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.

Re: Alter z/OSMF Workflow Input?

Fleegle, the legal beagle. "Confidentially doc, I am the wabbit." Bugs Bunny Sent with Proton Mail secure email. On Tuesday, July 9th, 2024 at 3:17 PM, David Spiegel <0468385049d1-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > Hi Dave, > What does the Arabic after your name mean? > > Thanks a

Re: Alter z/OSMF Workflow Input?

Hi Dave, What does the Arabic after your name mean? Thanks and regards, David On 2024-07-09 15:03, Dave Beagle wrote: Proving the old adage you can’t teach an old dog new tricks. Dave الحريةلفلسطين Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone On Tuesday, July 9, 2024, 11:03 AM, Kurt Quackenbush wrote:

z/OS Connect and CICS question

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: Alter z/OSMF Workflow Input?

Proving the old adage you can’t teach an old dog new tricks. Dave الحريةلفلسطين Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone On Tuesday, July 9, 2024, 11:03 AM, Kurt Quackenbush wrote: > Upstream in the process, agreed to HLQ of NEWMCAT. > Downstream in the process, edited JCL not to use NEWMCAT. > Now at

Re: message IEA793AJUsr wonderinfJ

Also find the parm DUMPDS= and change it to NO to drop the SYS1.DUMPnn datasets at your next IPL -Original Message- From: Steve Beaver [mailto:st...@stevebeaver.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 9, 2024 11:59 AM To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List Subject: Re: message IEA793AJUsr wonderinfJ Then

Re: message IEA793AJUsr wonderinfJ

Then it’s time to update parking COMMD00 with the dynamic commands then execute the 2 commands Sent from my iPhone No one said I could type with one thumb > On Jul 9, 2024, at 11:42, Joseph Reichman > <05812645a43c-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > > That did it I had no replies

Re: C interface to MVS

On Mon, 8 Jul 2024 17:32:54 -0500, Charles Mills wrote: >What does the LLVM project "Clang" compiler -- which is the "new" or "current" >IBM C/C++ compiler for z/OS -- use for libraries? Is it open source? > >Charles > >On Mon, 8 Jul 2024 17:08:15 -0500, Charles Mills wrote: > >>I wasn't sure w

Re: message IEA793AJUsr wonderinfJ

That did it I had no replies outstanding Get Outlook for iOS From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of Steve Beaver <050e0c375a14-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> Sent: Tuesday, July 9, 2024 12:09:14 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU

Re: message IEA793AJUsr wonderinfJ

You need to change to dynamic dumps Sent from my iPhone No one said I could type with one thumb > On Jul 9, 2024, at 07:31, Joseph Reichman > <05812645a43c-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > > Just wondering how to respond to this message > > > > *01 IEA793A NO DUMP DATA SETS A

Re: another z/OSMF rant. -- Catch-22 is killing me

China labs is the problem Sent from my iPhone No one said I could type with one thumb > On Jul 9, 2024, at 10:16, Matthew Stitt wrote: > > Your issue looks familiar to me. Maybe you need the following security > setup and permissions: > > BBG.AUTHMOD.BBGZSAFM > > BBG.AUTHMOD.BBGZSAFM.S

Re: another z/OSMF rant. -- Catch-22 is killing me

Your issue looks familiar to me. Maybe you need the following security setup and permissions: BBG.AUTHMOD.BBGZSAFM BBG.AUTHMOD.BBGZSAFM.SAFCRED Give your z/OS MF server user id (Or group id) READ access to those profiles. If your contact can, look at case TS016443932. I went through this pro

Re: Alter z/OSMF Workflow Input?

> Upstream in the process, agreed to HLQ of NEWMCAT. > Downstream in the process, edited JCL not to use NEWMCAT. > Now at the "Perform Workflows" stage. > Process complains that that my datasets do not exist in the catalog, etc. Of > course... z/OSMF expects to find the target data sets with the

Re: Another Sort Question

>> 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 Corporation ---

Re: Another Sort Question

>> 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 DFSOR

Re: Another Sort Question

Hello, Maybe you can try this: //STEP1  EXEC PGM=ICETOOL                                        //TOOLMSG DD SYSOUT=*                                            //DFSMSG  DD SYSOUT=*                                            //IN      DD DISP=SHR,DSN=YOUR.DATASET  //TOOLIN  DD *                 

Re: Another Sort Question

Thank you Sri, I do indeed see the WER* messages in the log. I will see who I can hunt down here. Or I will just work around things. As always Sri, I appreciate your info. Thanks …….Cameron From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Sri Hari Kolusu Sent: Tuesday, July 9, 2024 10:24 AM

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, and I don't support it. Thanks, Kolusu DFSORT Development IBM Corporation ---

Re: message IEA793A

Make them SMS managed, assigned to their own storage group and with a management class that deletes them after 30, 60, 90 days (your choice) of non-use. Once the SG is sized correctly it should manage itself. Mark Jacobs Sent from ProtonMail, Swiss-based encrypted email. GPG Public Key - htt

Re: message IEA793A

Dumps are numbered as they are taken.This is your first dump of the IPL. Use the command D D,T to display what dumps have been taken. If you have static dump data sets they may be numbered SYS1.DUMP00, SYS1.DUMP01, SYS1.DUMP02 your message was saying SYS1.DUMP01 not found. You most proba

Re: Another Sort Question

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 output fi

Re: Another Sort Question

>> 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

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 see

Re: another z/OSMF rant. -- Catch-22 is killing me

'Yes, grammar' is important, like spelling.. Great setup, thanks. On Tue, Jul 9, 2024 at 8:05 AM Tom Longfellow < 03e29b607131-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > A brief apology to all with a Moral > > "Don't type angry" > > The initial post is embarassingly peppered with bad gramme

Re: message IEA793A

Thanks > On Jul 9, 2024, at 8:47 AM, גדי בן אבי wrote: > > We stopped using pre allocated dump datasets a long time ago. > We have these commands in SYS1.PARMLIB > DD ADD,SMS=(STOR=WORK) - Allocate dump > Datasets on a storage class named work > DD NAME=SYS1.

Re: message IEA793A

We stopped using pre allocated dump datasets a long time ago. We have these commands in SYS1.PARMLIB DD ADD,SMS=(STOR=WORK) - Allocate dump Datasets on a storage class named work DD NAME=SYS1.&SYSNAME..DMP&SEQ'- Defines the name of the dump datasets D

Re: message IEA793A

Classification: Confidential Sounds like you may be using dynamic dumps . D D,T to display the current dumps. You will see either a list of sys1.dumpxx datasets or a list of dump datasets(not sys1.dumpxx). Delete/rename/migrate the z/OS datasetsto free space, for non SYS1.DUMPxx For sys1.dumpx

Re: ATTLS Using Crypto Card

Classification: Confidential There are some system monitor displays on the HMC. Also, IIRC, the RMF I CPU report will also show crypto usage. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Jake Anderson Sent: Monday, July 8, 2024 11:35 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.E

message IEA793AJUsr wonderinfJ

Just wondering how to respond to this message *01 IEA793A NO DUMP DATA SETS AVAILABLE FOR DUMPID=001 . USE THE DUMPDS COMMAND OR REPLY D TO DELETE THE DUMP So I tried DD CLEAR,DSN=01 and DD CLEAR DSN=(ALL) none of them seem to help thanks --

message IEA793A

Hi I am trying to figure out how to deal with this message *01 IEA793A NO DUMP DATA SETS AVAILABLE FOR DUMPID=001 (IOSAS ). USE THE DUMPDS COMMAND OR REPLY D TO DELETE THE DUMP I tried DD CLEAR,DSN=01 And get the following response SYS1.DUMP DASD DATA SETS NOT CLEARED: NOT DEFIN

Re: another z/OSMF rant. -- Catch-22 is killing me

Classification: Confidential agreed -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Doug Fuerst Sent: Monday, July 8, 2024 11:14 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: another z/OSMF rant. -- Catch-22 is killing me [CAUTION: This Email is from outside the Orga

Re: another z/OSMF rant. -- Catch-22 is killing me

A brief apology to all with a Moral "Don't type angry" The initial post is embarassingly peppered with bad grammer. You usually don't think to get a prooifreader for Ranting. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive acce

Re: ATTLS Using Crypto Card

The other answers are great. If you need more specifics about what/how hardware is being used by ICSF, you can enable any or all of the STATS options in the ICSF parmlib member. STATS(ALG,ENG) would probably do the trick but you could also enable SRV if you want to see the callable service usag

Re: ATTLS Using Crypto Card

The SYSOUT output in your TCPIP STC should have plenty of cryptographic related information there. Mark Jacobs Sent from ProtonMail, Swiss-based encrypted email. GPG Public Key - https://api.protonmail.ch/pks/lookup?op=get&search=markjac...@protonmail.com On Tuesday, July 9th, 2024 at 12:35

Re: C interface to MVS

Regarding other vendors, I heard about the following C compilers: - IBM (described below by Timothy - thanks!) - Dignus C, AFAIK also available for z/TPF and z/VM, and z/Linux - SAS/C - BMC - however the compiler is being used like PLX, that means only for internal purposes and not for sale. -

Re: Tectia for ZOS STC Hang - Nessus Intrusion Detection Scans?

Everyone, I appreciate everyone's response - to bring everyone up to date I am working with network security team (owners of Nessus scans) and we are trying to isolate with Nessus vendor (unfortunately not much help - they point to us working with Tectia vendor which we already are - gotta love

Re: C interface to MVS

I started with C/370 ca. 1993. We wanted to implement a large insurance math package in such a way that we could deploy it to both mainframe and PCs at the same time, with the same source code. This was big fun, but it was hard to do. We succeeded in the end; the package is still in prod use to