Re: Modern JCL for new Data Set Allocation

Hi, SMS can do a lot based on your dataset name but that does not mean that the result is what you need or want. When coding Rexx I usually do the allocations from within instead of relying in the JCL. However, be it with JCL, be it from within the exec, I always specify the RECFM, the LRECL, the s

Re: STC Userids

Hi You already have a few answers. I would begin by pointing out that PROTECTED userids were created si that you could assign them to started tasks. To me, the biggest drawback of associating a password userid to a started task, is the risk of having it revoked by inactivity if the number of days b

Re: Enabling the KDFAES encryption algorithm for the RACF Database

we've never had to do. > > Regards, Bob > > Robert S. Hansel > Lead RACF Specialist > RSH Consulting, Inc. > 617-969-8211 > www.linkedin.com/in/roberthansel > www.rshconsulting.com > > -Original Message- > Date:Sun, 27 Apr 2025 22:34:54 +0100 >

Re: Enabling the KDFAES encryption algorithm for the RACF Database

Hi We have implemented it for a while now. Activated KDFAES with SETR command and password expiration did the rest. Regards Jack On Fri, Apr 25, 2025, 20:12 Jasi Grewal < 040674ae00fc-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > Greetings, > > > We are planning to migrate to the KDFAES encryption

Re: How do I enable SMF for TCP/IP Record type 119?

Hi According to the z/OS Communications Server: IP Programmer's Guide and Reference manual, You can control the collection of these records by using the SMFCONFIG statements in PROFILE.TCPIP, or by using statements in the various application's configuration files. For more information about those s

PPRC Doubts

Hi, We have recently changed our disaster recovery solution from XRC to Global Mirror. Now we are experiencing huge delays for all of the IO to complete, having experienced recently one delay of over five thousand seconds until all of the IO requests have been synchronized. When we were using XRC,

Re: Enqueue Question

Hi I had a similar problem awhile ago. The only way that I could find to overcome it was making it a two job solution. The first job creates it and the second job uses it. Two jobs in the same PDS member using the same jobname. When I scheduled it the jobnames were different but with dependencies.

Re: Weird SORT behaviour

Hi Kolusu, It is great to hear from you. I do hope that all is well with you. Thank you very much for the info, it did the trick. Regards Jack On Wed, 12 Feb 2025 at 12:34, Sri Hari Kolusu wrote: > >> May be I am missing something obvious. > > Jack, > > Too early here but I think you would get

Weird SORT behaviour

Hi all, I am having an issue with a sorting a file and maybe you can have some helpful suggestions. The input file has 87.231 records, with a RECFM(VB) and a LRECL(704). I need to get all the records that meet these conditions: INCLUDE COND=(8,4,CH,EQ,C'tool',OR, 7,7,CH,EQ,C'project',

Re: Idea received: Provide a negative exclude command for EDIT and VIEW

It is all a matter of perspective. If you would have come to ISPF after five or six years of XEDIT, you would be arguing exactly the opposite. It took me a while to adjust to ISPF. In fact, ISPF was so alien to me that for a long time I would work from CMS, retrieving the files I needed from MVS an

Re: HSM Audit Problem

Hi Max Thank you for your input We will do that Regards Jack On Thu, 9 Jan 2025 at 16:01, Max Smith wrote: > Jack, > I would definitely open a case to IBM, we can help you get this cleaned > up. The ERR 39 does not generate a fix for this so you are on your own, not > necessarily a problem if

Re: HSM Audit Problem

. Check the fine manuals. > > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf > Of Jack Zukt > Sent: Wednesday, January 8, 2025 10:52 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: HSM Audit Problem > > [CAUTION: This Email is from outside the

Re: HSM Audit Problem

equ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > Did you run the audit dsctl command with the FIX parameter? IIRC it > doesn't actually fix a problem that it identifies but it creates the FIXCDS > commands for you to review and then issue if you're happy with them. > > On Tue, 7 Jan 2025 at 11:28,

Re: HSM Audit Problem

edu> wrote: > Try an ADRDSSU COPY hlq.valid.name TO hlq.error.name REPLACE. > > https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/2.4.0?topic=ccd-copy-dataset-command-syntax-logical-data-set > > On Tue, Jan 7, 2025 at 5:28 AM Jack Zukt > <059cd493dd41-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua

Re: HSM Audit Problem

just do not see how can I address them. What if I change the backup generation number to seven from ten? Will HSM remove the three records in error, or will I loose three of the seven that I do have and still be stuck with the three in error? Regards Jack On Tue, 7 Jan 2025 at 09:55, Jack Zukt

Re: HSM Audit Problem

gt; 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 Monday, January 6th, 2025 at 12:19 PM, Jack Zukt < > 059cd493dd41-dmarc-requ...@li

HSM Audit Problem

Hi all, I am running a HSM AUDIT DSCTL(BACKUP), which is ending with a few ERR 39: ERR 39 dataset name IS MISSING, with a lot of dots afterward. When I execute the LIST BCDS LEVEL (dataset name) command, it wil display, for a ten generation backup, seven good backups and three error lines "ARC0184I

Re: Bye all

Thank you very much for all you contributions. Enjoy your retirement Best wishes Jack On Fri, Jan 3, 2025, 15:49 Joseph Reichman < 05812645a43c-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > You are the best > > > On Jan 3, 2025, at 10:18 AM, Lionel B Dyck < > 057b0ee5a853-dmarc-requ...@listserv

Re: ISPF Edit - how to switch off CAPS ON

Yes Regards Jack On Mon, Dec 9, 2024, 14:02 Seymour J Metz wrote: > Does ISPF support case conversion for accented characters? > > -- > Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz > http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 > עַם יִשְׂרָאֵל חַי > נֵ֣צַח יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל לֹ֥א יְשַׁקֵּ֖ר > > > > __

Re: Logon to TSO+ISPF on multiple LPAR's at the same time?

Hi, A lifetime ago, or at least on another century, we used ISPF exit ISREX16 to overcome this situation for ISPF work files. I think it might have been on an OS/390 2.6. I really have no idea if that is still needed, but the exit is still active on those systems, now running z/OS 2.5. Regards Jac

RACF Erase on Scratch

Hi all, I am cross posting this as there is more than RACF to it. I have been reading as much literature as I can get about RACF Erase on Scratch and I have been doing some testing on a sandbox. And I am getting nowhere fast. We are being asked what will the implications be of activating EOS. I ca

Re: X'00' bytes, Notepad and Windows 10 vs 11

Notepad was a great product. Than W11 came and MS improved it. On Sat, Nov 16, 2024, 03:12 Paul Gilmartin < 042bfe9c879d-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > On Fri, 15 Nov 2024 20:50:34 -0600, Dale R. Smith wrote: > >> > >> ... hoping for a quick setting fix on the Windows 11 side. > > >

Re: Listing proclibs

Hi Have you tried PROC at the SDSF command line? Or maybe I did not quite understood your request. Regards Jack On Wed, Nov 13, 2024, 21:34 Bob Bridges < 0587168ababf-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > Ah, I should have thought long ago to ask this question here! I'm slow, I > am. Is t

Re: What is a "programming language"? Was:: Modifying JCL on the fly

Hi Would you call DFSORT a programing language? It has conditional logic, variables, it can compute, change data... Regards Jack On Mon, Nov 11, 2024, 00:16 Phil Smith III wrote: > Radoslaw Skorupka wrote, in part: > >Short answer: NO WAY. > >However you can use some *programming* language for t

Re: Suppressing a Very Specific Instance of ICH408I

We use Netview for that kind of selected message supress Regards Jack On Fri, Nov 8, 2024, 21:06 esst...@juno.com wrote: > Hello - .I have been looking at the MPF and IEAVMXIT, and don't see that > its specific enough for what I want to suppress -These Exits seem to be too > generic -I would li

Re: Calculating used dataset space

would like a copy, send me > your email address and I will > send it to you. > > > > "Confidentially doc, I am the wabbit." > > Bugs Bunny > > Sent with Proton Mail secure email. > > On Thursday, November 7th, 2024 at 3:44 PM, Jack Zukt < > 0

Re: Calculating used dataset space

e- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf > Of Jack Zukt > Sent: Thursday, November 7, 2024 1:46 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: Calculating used dataset space > > I Dave > Ta > Thank you for your suggestion. > We run an hourly dco

Re: Calculating used dataset space

eable data in SMF. > > > -Original Message- > > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On > > Behalf Of Jack Zukt > > Sent: Wednesday, November 6, 2024 12:21 PM > > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > > Subject: Re: Calculating used dataset space > > > > He

Re: Calculating used dataset space

Hello Steve, I do not know if there are backups to be restored. If there are it will be worth a try. Thank you for the suggestion. Regards Jack On Wed, Nov 6, 2024, 19:51 Steve Estle < 05dcac13570d-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > Jack, > > I might be missing something here, but do you

Re: Calculating used dataset space

Thanks for the tip Willy but the datasets have since been deleted. I am afraid that I will have to work with SMF records. Type 15 is the only one that comes to my mind. It will be only sequential datasets to search for. Regards Jack On Wed, Nov 6, 2024, 13:38 Willy Jensen wrote: > CBT program VT

Calculating used dataset space

Hi, I have been asked if I could find out the space that have been used by some datasets on a few specific past dates. The only way that occurs to me is using SMF type 15. Before I start coding REXX or SORT to do that, as anyone else already done that? Is there anything that will do it on the CBT?

Re: SDSF/RACF weird behaviour

Hi Thank you all for your input and to Rob for the explanation. I do agree with you that giving the lacking permission would not be a problem, but the change in behavior was what was really troubling me. Regards Jack On Tue, 29 Oct 2024 at 05:18, Luc Martens (KBC) < 051d09d8838b-dmarc-requ..

SDSF/RACF weird behaviour

Hi, I am cross posting this as I am not sure which will be the best forum for it. Since we moved to z/OS 2.5, every time a user cancel a job, $CJ(nn), he gets an ICH408I message for insufficient READ access to the OPERCMDS (MVS.MCSOPER.userid) profile (at least the userids that do not have acce

Re: RACF Multi-Factor Authentication

uthentication(MFA): > Planning > < > https://colinpaice.blog/2024/02/03/multi-factor-authenticationmfa-planning/ > > > I had problems when I used a Yubikey dongle because I bought the wrong one > which does not support one time passwords. > Colin > > On Fri, 11 Oct 2

RACF Multi-Factor Authentication

Hi, I asked this a few days ago at the RACF-List, but got only the one answer. So, I am trying this forum now. May be I will get lucky. Is any of you using RACF Multi-Factor Authentication? Is the implementarion tricky? Any problems that we should be aware of before going down that path? Regards

Re: ICETOOL OCCUR statement

Thank you all for your help. I managed to get the results I need using dfosrt. Regards Jack On Wed, 9 Oct 2024 at 12:41, Jack Zukt wrote: > Thank you Mike > I did not knew that. > Regards > Jack > > > On Wed, 9 Oct 2024 at 12:38, Mikael Nystrom < >

Re: ICETOOL OCCUR statement

röm > Core Ledgers > SEB > > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf > Of Jack Zukt > Sent: den 9 oktober 2024 13:30 > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: ICETOOL OCCUR statement > > CAUTIO

Re: ICETOOL OCCUR statement

edu> wrote: > Have you looked at LISTDSI or the catalog search interface? > > On Wed, Oct 9, 2024 at 5:15 AM Jack Zukt < > 059cd493dd41-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > > > Hi Mike > > Thank you for your answer. > > Unfortunately that will gi

Re: ICETOOL OCCUR statement

GNED 1 DCDNMEXT NUMBER OF EXTENTS OBTAINED > 122(X'7A') CHARACTER 2 DCDVOLSQ VOLUME SEQUENCE NUMBER > > On Wed, Oct 9, 2024 at 4:26 AM Jack Zukt > <059cd493dd41-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > > > > Hi all, > > > > I was asked to

ICETOOL OCCUR statement

Hi all, I was asked to create a REXX program to identify datasets that are approaching the 59 volumes extent limit. I was trying to do that using ICETOOL OCCUR statement and a DCOLLECT file for input. So far it is geting me nowhere fast. Do you think that this is a feaseble option to get that res

Re: Checking another address space private region

Thank you all very much for your help Your input has been, as always, enlightning. We have been able to find the culprit. The automation team is using an API to reach Netview from a web based program and there is something between those two that is not behaving as exepected. They are now debugging

Re: Checking another address space private region (

g storage, but may not > > On Thu, Oct 3, 2024, 19:10 Michael Oujesky wrote: > > > What type of files? VSAM, physical sequential, ZFS? SMF records > > ought to be able to tell. If PS, note that the buffer pool has to be > > freed after close. > > > &

Re: Checking another address space private region

space memory) command. This provides a lot of > information about address space regions. > > > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf > Of Jack Zukt > Sent: Wednesday, October 02, 2024 8:55 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: R

Re: Checking another address space private region (

Hi Peter Thank you for your input. We will look into it. What we are trying to see is what is going on on a netview address space that sometimes runs out of memory and terminates with an abend. We suspect that it may be related to open and close of files but we need a way to check for it. Best wish

Re: Checking another address space private region

ole of their region as a > matter of course. > > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf > of Jack Zukt <059cd493dd41-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> > Date: Wednesday, 2 October 2024 at 13:57 > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: [EXTERNAL] Checking another

Checking another address space private region

Hi, Is there a way to check another address space private area? I need to see what is happening on an active started task private region in order to understand what is driving it full. Regards Jack -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / sig

Re: So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish!

Thank you for everything Enjoy your retirement Best wishes Jack On Sun, Sep 8, 2024, 21:35 Cheryl Watson wrote: > Hi All, > > I’m about to remove my IBM-Main registration. At 80, with 60 years of > mainframe behind me, it’s time for my retirement. > > Thank you all for your help, your support, a

Re: Minor Announcement

Hi Kolosu, That is not what I would have called a minor announcement. That is more the kind of earth shattering news. I am going to miss your knowledge, availability and readiness to help out. I wish you all the best on your new assignment. Thank you for your time and all that you have taught me. B

Re: IRXJCL with sequential SYSEXEC

Exec resides in the //SYSEXEC DD. > > Regards, > David > > On 2024-07-12 12:29, Jack Zukt wrote: > > Hi > > Shiuld it not begin with /* rexx */ ? > > > > Regards > > Jack > > > > On Fri, Jul 12, 2024, 17:22 Schmitt, Michael > > wrote:

Re: IRXJCL with sequential SYSEXEC

Hi Shiuld it not begin with /* rexx */ ? Regards Jack On Fri, Jul 12, 2024, 17:22 Schmitt, Michael wrote: > I'm on zOS 2.5 now, which has the new feature of allowing the exec for > PGM=IRXJCL to be a sequential file, rather than a member of a PDS. The DD > is still SYSEXEC. > > The natural way

Re: Mainframe history - 12 inch floppies?

May be they meant 12" laser discs. On Thu, Jul 11, 2024, 18:23 Tony Harminc wrote: > On Thu, 11 Jul 2024 at 12:00, Radoslaw Skorupka < > 0471ebeac275-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > > > I just found information in some book that IBM mainframes used 12 inch > > floppy diskettes. Late

Re: Mainframe history - 12 inch floppies?

You are right. It was 8 inch, not 12. My bad Regards Jack On Thu, Jul 11, 2024, 17:06 Glen Garrison wrote: > IBM series 1 used 8" floppy disks. I don't find reference to 12 inch. > > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf > Of Radoslaw Skorupka > Sent: Thurs

Re: Mainframe history - 12 inch floppies?

Hi I do remember an IBM 4341 that used one of those for IML. And at that same shop, before 3270 became widely available, there was a pool of ladies that would do the data entry from coded sheets to those floppy disks that afterwards were used as sysin. That was even before the 4341, it was for an I

Re: DFSORT Question regarding SORTOUT Library Member Statistics

Hi You could run a rexx in an ispf batch environment that could use listds to get the member names for each pds and then edit each member with an initial macro that would do the save and end. Best wishes Jack On Tue, Jun 25, 2024, 16:17 Cameron Conacher < 03cfc59146bb-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua

Re: Weird error with class DATASET

Hi Peter, Thank you for your input. It is a bit strange reading your statement " To be picky, RACF never "interferes". RACF only answers a question asked of it. " as I so frequently said something akin to that so many times over the years. Should RACF be called on what would be a second extent

Re: Weird error with class DATASET

< 0471ebeac275-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > W dniu 30.04.2024 o 12:45, Jack Zukt pisze: > > Hi all, > > > > I am cross-posting this to IBM-Main and RACF-L > > A strange situation was related to me yesterday. > > An ICETOOL job was executing using a

Weird error with class DATASET

Hi all, I am cross-posting this to IBM-Main and RACF-L A strange situation was related to me yesterday. An ICETOOL job was executing using a tape file for work space as the input files are quite large. As one tape was not enough, a mount for a second one was issued. When that happened, RACF preve

Re: SMS & GDG SCRATCH option

Hi All, I am going to investigate the possibility of using the IGGCATxx member options. Thank you all for your helpful answers and pointing me towards a possible solution. Regards Jack On Thu, 18 Apr 2024 at 16:02, Steve Pryor wrote: > Yes, that's correct. The ACS routines get control for new

SMS & GDG SCRATCH option

Hi all, Where, if possible, on the ASC routines of a SMS managed environment, can I force the SCRATCH option for a GDG base entry at definition time? Regards Jack -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions,

Re: DFSORT and IPL Date

Hi Kolusu, Beautiful, elegant and delivers the intended result. Many thanks Best wishes Jack On Wed, 20 Mar 2024 at 16:59, Sri Hari Kolusu wrote: > >> What I am trying to achieve is simple. I want to select, using DCOLLECT > TYPE D records, files that have been created after the last IPL and te

Re: DFSORT and IPL Date

Hi Kolusu, What I am trying to achieve is simple. I want to select, using DCOLLECT TYPE D records, files that have been created after the last IPL and ten days before today: INCLUDE COND=(DCURCTYP,EQ,DCUDATAT,AND, * Type = Data type DCDCREDT,LT,DATE3P-10,&, * Created < curr date -

Re: DFSORT and IPL Date

The use of a JP variable is an interesting possibility. It does not solve the problem but it will provide an interim solution that can be easily maintained. Thank you Regards Jack On Wed, 20 Mar 2024 at 14:42, Scott Barry wrote: > One option is to harvest the /D IPLINFO information at IPL-time

Re: DFSORT and IPL Date

Hi Scott, Thank you for the suggestion. I am trying to build the JCL using only DFSORT capabilities. I was just wondering if maybe that particular capability would be available, as DFSORT as a wide range of date processing. An may be that if not yet, it would become available in the near future Reg

DFSORT and IPL Date

Hi, Is there a way to make SORT date comparisons referencing the IPL date? I have not been able to find anything on the manual. Regards Jack -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists.

Re: RACF, external password management

Hi, If what you need is to prevent users from using easy to guess passwords, RACF already has the tools that you need, from implementing mixed case, passphrases, and special characters, or/and using the password or passphrase exit, which is very easy to implement, to validate password complexity an

Re: DFSORT JOINKEYS problem

Hi Massimo & Kolusu, Thank you both for your answers. As Massimo noticed, the first SKIP was wrong. There is no space between the RDW and the record subtype; there are only spaces between columns. My bad. Kolusu, thank you for the improved JCL. And I will take you on your offer. I am really intere

DFSORT JOINKEYS problem

Hi all, I have two files created using IRRDBU00. One has type 220 records, TSO segments, the other one has type 200 records, base userid information. For the userids on the 220 type records, I want to get from the 200 type records the userid, user name; last logon date; default group left four cha

Re: Insecure security - was SDSF PS Command column

Hi Bill, I can relate to your suspicions about password managers. Not to long ago Lastpass found out that they have been hacked, which must have been a big problem for its end users (which, fortunately I am not). On the other hand, I have way too many passwords to be manageable without a password m

Re: Insecure security - was SDSF PS Command column

Hello all, That is an interesting point. However how many of you are still able to manage your passwords withiut using a password manager? I gave up many years ago. Regards Jack On Wed, Feb 14, 2024, 15:13 Pommier, Rex wrote: > Steve, > > You make a good point about making security so onerous o

Re: DSS dump and migrated datasets

Hi, You coul use HSM ABARs. It will recall any migrated dataset that matches your filter. Best wishes Jack On Thu, Nov 23, 2023, 16:58 Radoslaw Skorupka < 0471ebeac275-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > I need to dump a lot of small dataset with HLQ=user_to_be_deleted. > Since the user i

Re: The JES2 NJE node that cannot die.

Hi, You could try using RACF to prevent the node being used. >From the RACF Administrator's Guide: You can use profiles in the NODES class to control how RACF® validates inbound work on an NJE network. As with other RACF profiles, a NODES profile consists of a profile name, a profile class, a un

Re: RACF, the FACILITY class, and z/XDC

Hi, Rver since IBM gave us CDT, user defined classes migration stopped being a problem. You no longer need the assembler macros to define user classes. Everything is in the RACF database. Best wishes Jack On Mon, Nov 13, 2023, 08:42 Rob Scott wrote: > Although setting up your own SAF class is no

Re: Cloud Storage

Thank you all for your input. It has been quite helpful, Best regards Jack On Wed, 1 Nov 2023 at 02:56, David Crayford wrote: > > On 1 Nov 2023, at 10:34 am, Jon Perryman wrote: > > > > On Wed, 1 Nov 2023 08:48:03 +0800, David Crayford > wrote: > > > >> Sorry, OMEGAMON is a Rocket product. I

Cloud Storage

Hello all, Is there anyone out there using cloud storage for backup or dataset migration, using IBM Cloud Tape Connector for z/OS or Model9? A few months ago one of our clients asked Model9 for a POC and that has been one of those projects that seems to be going nowhere fast and I am curious about

Re: ICETOOL built repor

Hi all, After researching a bit more, I used the ICETOOL operator RESIZE and managed to get the result that I needed. Regards Jack On Thu, 26 Oct 2023 at 10:46, Jack Zukt wrote: > Hi all, > > I need to print a record that has two fields, Volume serial, with six > positions, and d

ICETOOL built repor

Hi all, I need to print a record that has two fields, Volume serial, with six positions, and device number with four positions. Using ICETOOL I can print it with nice titles and columns headers but I would like to print it with three column pairs instead of just one, so it would print in just one

Re: Small problem with JNFxCNTL and VTOF

Hello Kolusu, Thank you for your input. I dropped the RECFM=FB approach and insrted a RDW at the beggining of the work record and it worked fine. Best regards, JAck On Wed, 11 Oct 2023 at 20:06, Sri h Kolusu wrote: > >> I was trying to use JNF1CNTL and JNF2CNTL to build the input files for > th

Small problem with JNFxCNTL and VTOF

Hi, I am using DFSORT JOINKEYS to compare two files and to create two output files with the unpaired records from each one of those files. My problem is that one of the input files has a VB format while the other one has a FB format. I was trying to use JNF1CNTL and JNF2CNTL to build the input fil

Re: SORT INCLUDE problem

Hello Kolusu, Thank you very much for your help. I was not quite happy with the solution that I had come up with, as I was reading the input file twice and that bothered me because that is not an efficient solution. You latest solution is much simpler and efficient. And much more elegant as well.

Re: SORT INCLUDE problem

Hi Kolusu I tried the JCL that you have sent. It works, as expected, but maybe I was not quite clear in my last question. Is there a way to get all the dataset profiles that have two different groups with the same access using SORT or ICETOOL but without using JOINKEYS, so that the input file woul

Re: SORT INCLUDE problem

Hi Kolusu, Thank you very much for your input. The input file already is a subset of 0404 records, and the SUM FIELDS=NONE was the culprit. Once again the trouble come from copying a previously used JCL and not cleaning it properly. Now, if you will not mind, I have another question regarding this

Re: SORT INCLUDE problem

Ok, I found the problem (I think) It was probably due to the "SUM FIELDS=NONE" statement Best wishes Jack On Fri, 15 Sept 2023 at 10:42, Jack Zukt wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to find a RACF dataset profile for which two different groups > have ALTER access. > I am usi

SORT INCLUDE problem

Hi, I am trying to find a RACF dataset profile for which two different groups have ALTER access. I am using for the INPUT a subset of a type 0404 records from a IRRDBU00 output file. In the first step I am crating two files with the dataset profiles in which the groups have ALTER authority: //SYM

Re: Help on DFSORT SUM FIELDS

Hi Kolusu, UBFLAG4 and UMFLAG4 are not recognized as valid names. As far as I can tell, the DCOLLECT record descriptors that I am using are the most recent ones on the IBM site, even if they are for z/OS 2.1. Any suggestions? Best wishes Jack On Thu, 7 Sept 2023 at 17:15, Sri h Kolusu wrote: >

Re: Help on DFSORT SUM FIELDS

Kolusu, You are so right about that. I was waiting for having this right before I would attempt that step. DFSORT is a magnificent product but I still am in an very early user stage. I have to do this in small steps. Thank you once again for your help Best wishes Jack On Thu, 7 Sept 2023 at 16:33,

Re: Help on DFSORT SUM FIELDS

Kolusu, Of course it was that. That is what happens when you copy something so it you will not have to write everything from scratch. I forgot to change that 12 to 8, as I did on the other places. Thank you so much for your help. That is one of those errors that was staring me on the face and yet

Re: Help on DFSORT SUM FIELDS

0 KB830 KB 0 KB ASCLI 16.988 KB 0 KB 0 KB ASCLI 0 KB 0 KB 17.817 KB And I still cannot understand why. Best wishes Jack On Thu, 7 Sept 2023 at 15:11, Jack Zukt wrote: > Hi Kol

Re: Help on DFSORT SUM FIELDS

Hi Kolusu, Thank you for you help. I used one HLQ that has few files, (10 DASD; 1 Migrated; 11 HSM Backup; 22 DCOLLECT records). On my first try it gave me three output records: ASCLI 0 KB830 KB 0 KB ASCLI 16.988 KB 0 KB

Re: Help on DFSORT SUM FIELDS

Hi Kolusu, I knew it must be something simple,I just could not figure it out. Thank you so much for your help and for the explanation. Now, I hope that you do not mind if I ask you for one more thing. I wanted to have one line with the high level qualifier and all the three values but instead I am

Help on DFSORT SUM FIELDS

Hi all, I am trying to process DCOLLECT type "D"; "B"; "M"; records in order to get one record by HLQ with the allocated space by active files, migrated files and backup files, and I am doing something wrong because I am getting one output record for each input record, instead of the few hundreds I

Re: With regrets, after many years I will no longer be following IBM-MAIN

I have been a part of this list (and RACF) for decades. I have found valuable insights here, and even more valuable help for specific situations. I am deeply grateful for the help you all have been giving me along theses years and I hope to be around here for a few more years. There are a very few

Re: Help for US Talent

Been there, got a lot of t-shirts Jack On Tue, 15 Aug 2023 at 21:59, Seymour J Metz wrote: > Sometimes you have to do something boring that is not your responsibility > because you're the only one they trust to do it right and they can't afford > for it to be done wrong. > > That said, there's n

Re: How can a REXX data stack pass information from a program?

It has been a long many years since I wrote my last cobol program. I was wondering if it would be possible to use a card punch to write to the stack. Best wishes Jack On Tue, Aug 15, 2023, 20:13 Paul Gilmartin < 042bfe9c879d-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > On Tue, 15 Aug 2023 19:01:07

Re: How can a REXX data stack pass information from a program?

stack, I'm wondering what > that actually means. Is it just that a program could write something to > SYSTSIN? > > > > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf > Of Jack Zukt > Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2023 1:05 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@

Re: How can a REXX data stack pass information from a program?

You need to pass eight bytes from a Cobol program to the invoking REXX. Why not use a disk file with a DD name? You can allocate it in the REXX, call the Cobol program, this can write it to the disk file, and you can read it in the calling REXX. Why does it have to be through the stack? Best wishes

ibm-main@listserv.ua.edu

What is it that you are trying to acomplish? Best wishes Jack On Tue, Aug 8, 2023, 20:49 Paul Gilmartin < 042bfe9c879d-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > How should the user code > DD SYSOUT=(,),DSN=&SYSUID > > in order that the last qualifier of the system-generated name for the > s

Re: Automount (was USS Features)

As someone pointed out, it is only one more user file and I suppose that you no not manage your space by restricting the number of user files. As it has also been noticed, it can, and will be HSM migrated. And when you delete a RACF userid the zfs file goes with all the others, there is no USS dire

Re: Separation of Duties RACF Security Admins/Systems Programmers - Sarbanes-Oxley

Role based security is the only kind that is manageable. Any other kind and you are playing at security, you are not managing it. Sysprogs and Secadmins really should be different persons. It is a very different role. It is a different mindset. I have worked both roles, sometimes both at the same t

Re: Mainframe Makers.... WAS: Ars Technica: The IBM mainframe: How it runs and why it survives

I have been using ISPF workplace extensively for years now but, for some reason, I cannot convince anyone else to use it. It is very useful when you have to work with different systems that use different conventions for the same type of files, like SMF, SMPE, DCOLLECT reports, SYSLOG, to name a few

SETROPTS ERASE(ALL)

Hello, Cross posted to RACF and MVS I am pretty sure that this topic has already been discussed on both RACF and MVS lists but I was not able to find anything on my searches. We were asked by a client about the impact that its system might suffer if they accepted their auditors recommendation of en

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