Re: JCL checkers?

2021-03-12 Thread Jeffrey Holst
Like several others we use JCLCHECK from Broadcom/CA. We were using JCLSCAN, but we had a new requirement that we be able to check JCL intended to run on a different sysplex. (We create our production JCL on a test sysplex.) JCLCHECK has a feature that does this. ---

Re: Extraneous blanks in SDSF issued command

2020-11-30 Thread Jeffrey Holst
If you press PF1 to get the help for this panel, you will see that this is working exactly as described there. As someone else discussed, PF5 will get you to a screen where you can type your command in one continuous stream. Someone noted that the SLIP command is "quirky." Perhaps so, but only b

Re: COBOL and English was Re: Still COBOL After All These Years?

2020-07-20 Thread Jeffrey Holst
Perhaps I can put this in some historical context for the MOVE vs COPY choice. Decades ago Grace Hopper spoke at an ASM meeting I attended. The folks on the ENIAC team developed a COBOL precerser that looked a bit like English. Actually they had observed that in most languages, commands start wi

AUTHPGM in IKJTSOxx

2019-11-13 Thread Jeffrey Holst
Does AUTHPGM require that the specified program have a non-zero AC or that it be in an APF authorized library? I ask because it appears that a very clever user may have written a program whose name matches a program in the AUTHPGM list. The program executes a macro instruction that requires AP

Re: CA Spool Security Setup

2019-10-21 Thread Jeffrey Holst
If you are a licensed user, this can be answered be the vendor (ca is now a Broadcom company). -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-M

Re: how to force a free of ispf allocated Dataset

2019-10-07 Thread Jeffrey Holst
I seem to recall that there is a program on CBTTAPE that can call IDCAMS or IEHPROGM but intercepts the and ignores the ENQ on the dataset to be renamed (or deleted). There is a certain danger to it, so it performs a security check to try to restrict it use to only those who are authorized. I ha

Re: Fwd: It's Official: Open-Plan Offices Are Now the Dumbest Management Fad of All Time | Inc.com

2019-07-25 Thread Jeffrey Holst
Is sending a link to this INC article going to be an annual event? It looked familiar, and then I realized that the article was published on July 16, 2018. I am pretty sure that someone posted a comment about it on IBM-MAIN back then, On Wed, 24 Jul 2019 08:29:05 -0400, Mark Regan wrote: >For

Re: Boeing's 737 Max Software Outsourced to $9-an-Hour Engineers

2019-07-01 Thread Jeffrey Holst
On first read, this seems to have been outsourced to programmers in India, so H1B visa rules would not apply. Jeff Holst On Sun, 30 Jun 2019 20:46:26 +, Seymour J Metz wrote: >So much for paying prevailing wages to H1B visa holders. this should be in >court, but I won't hold my breathe.

Re: Incoming | Computerworld SHARK TANK

2019-04-15 Thread Jeffrey Holst
Back in the mid-70s, had something similar happen at a company I have long since departed. Some idiot operator decided to put a sticky label on the spindle of a 2314 stack. Needless to say, the glue on the label was no match for the forces on it when the stack was spun up. Pieces of the label we

Re: [EXTERNAL] Are Mainframes a Security Risk? | Enterprise Systems Media

2018-01-19 Thread Jeffrey Holst
On Thu, 18 Jan 2018 07:42:33 -0600, John McKown wrote: >The author of this article should work on some others, such as: > >"Are Humans a Security Risk?" >"Are Paper records a Security Risk?" >"Are Customers a Security Risk?" >"Mitigating risk by eliminating telephones in the corporate environmen

Re: PDSCLEAN issue

2018-01-17 Thread Jeffrey Holst
On Tue, 16 Jan 2018 11:21:56 -0600, Paul Gilmartin wrote: >On Tue, 16 Jan 2018 16:08:49 +, Beesley, Paul wrote: > >>I have been using the PDSCLEAN program from the CBT tape file 693 for a while >> ... >>... >>The report says the PDSE has been cleared, and indeed there are 0 members, >>h

Re: Possible COBOL RFE to abend if any warnings occured

2017-08-18 Thread Jeffrey Holst
Unless you have other specific examples, both NUMCHECK and SSRANGE already offer the ABD sub-option. I would think the RFE would be rejected as already delivered. On Fri, 18 Aug 2017 00:19:14 +, Frank Swarbrick wrote: >Not yet submitted. Please comment. > >COBOL Language Environment �war

Re: Problem Generating CA-7 SASSBSTR Batch LJOB Output

2017-03-10 Thread Jeffrey Holst
Bob, I just did a test on my 11.3 system (soon to be upgraded to 12.0). While the 11.3 documentation fails to include the sentence that you note was added in 12.0, that sentence appears to describe how 11.3 works as well. When I created my own set of batch terminal datasets, the output from the

Re: Problem Generating CA-7 SASSBSTR Batch LJOB Output

2017-03-08 Thread Jeffrey Holst
BATCHO#n (which is empty) and writes it contents to SYSPRINT. Jeffrey Holst On Tue, 7 Mar 2017 14:14:37 -0500, Robert S. Hansel (RSH) wrote: >Greetings all, > >I was able to get SASSBSTR running successfully, but in the process may have >discovered a bug in the program. SASSBSTR a

Re: Problem Generating CA-7 SASSBSTR Batch LJOB Output

2017-03-06 Thread Jeffrey Holst
I seem to recall having a similar problem at one time. I learned from the vendor that the batch terminal interface closes and reopens SYSPRINT. This is a non-issue with SYSOUT datasets, but if the SYSPRINT is going to a data set, only the display of the commands get captured. Solution: Instead o

Re: INTRDR and NJE

2017-02-15 Thread Jeffrey Holst
I want to thank those who responded, but I may have led people astray by mentioning CA-7. We are planning to use NCF which is indeed part of the base. A shared COMDS is quite impossible, as the new sysplex will ultimately be in a different city. The essence of my question, to which nobody respo

INTRDR and NJE

2017-02-14 Thread Jeffrey Holst
We are planning to split our production sysplex (where we also do development) into a purely production sysplex and a development syslpex. What I am researching is how best to set up jobs that are submitted by our scheduler (CA-7) on the production system to run on the development sysplex. Thes

Re: Deleting a dataset that GRS has enqueued.

2016-01-29 Thread Jeffrey Holst
On Wed, 27 Jan 2016 09:00:05 -0600, Peter Ten Eyck wrote: >A question about deleting a dataset that GRS (z/OS 1.13) has enqueued. > >We have two LPARs in a sysplex, each with their own catalog structure. There >is a dataset named the same and cataloged in each LPAR on two different >volumes. >

Re: Different Security Products in a Sysplex

2015-07-30 Thread Jeffrey Holst
I don't recall exactly how we accomplished this, but a number of years ago, I was involved with an ACF2 to Top Secret conversion. During that time we had both ACF2 and Top Secret active, not just on the same sysplex, but the same LPAR. My recollection was that one had to be in warning mode, so t

Edge Portfolio Analyzer Alternatives

2015-06-16 Thread Jeffrey Holst
program object libraries. Unless my info on EPA is bad, that makes it pretty useless. What alternatives are there? What I have seen so far don't seem to give as complete a picture (at least in easily readable form) as EPA. Jeffrey Holst Systems Administrator Senior Technology and Operations, S

IGW01595E message during PDS to PDSE copy

2015-02-13 Thread Jeffrey Holst
During a test conversion of a PDS load library to a PDSE program object library, one of the error messages that I recieved was the following: IGW01595E MEMBER RECVCSM CANNOT BE COPIED BECAUSE IT HAS NOTELISTS OR OTHER USER-TTRS . I am not sure what a NOTELIST or USER-TTRS mght be