Re: Modern JCL for new Data Set Allocation

JES3, and includes holding job for a dataset to get free instead of starting and waiting. On Sat, Aug 2, 2025 at 10:13 AM Paul Gilmartin < 042bfe9c879d-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > On Sun, 3 Aug 2025 00:13:01 +1000, Clement Clarke wrote: > >... > >"With SMS, the JCL becomes mu

Re: Strange S0C4 on z15

Any patches for z15 applied to one but not the other? On Fri, Aug 1, 2025 at 11:10 AM Philippe Leite < 086a789d3d38-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > As I said to Rob, I already knew this POP rule for a long time, but it > doesn't answer this situation I'm facing. > It's exactly the sam

Re: I know someone looking for Cobol employment (with some training) looking for a job.

American Express, Phoenix? There is a direct 4 lane expressway for occasional visits. On Thu, Jul 24, 2025 at 8:07 PM Tony Thigpen wrote: > All, > > My daughter's sister-in-law graduated with a programing degree in May of > last year (2024). She has been working for a company that was training

Re: US Based zOS Systems Programmers

I was working on an IBM ESS F20 unit with a dedicated phone line for machine call in / CE use. In came a call to collect a debt, reported no person is assigned to the desk, and took the person's basic info and call back number to find if they were an employee or at least clear the number from thei

Re: BMC's AMI Cloud

I wouldn't put a key in the catalog, but another encrypted dataset ?"SYS1.CATLGKEY"? with catalog and key. You can put everything into the master catalog, to each user having their own catalog, so the site can configure catalogs as they wish. And published procedures to split some files off to a

Re: BMC's AMI Cloud

On Mon, Jul 21, 2025 at 11:58 PM Timothy Sipples wrote: > Russell Witt wrote: > [deleted] > >IBM has been pushing Pervasive Encryption for years now, which > >means encrypting the data at-home with an application specific > >encryption key (so payroll and warehouse don't use the same > >encryptio

Re: BMC's AMI Cloud

http://www.mzelden.com/mvsutil.html https://www.longpelaexpertise.com.au/ezine/OnePackSystem.php https://www.longpelaexpertise.com.au/ezine/SampleDR.php On Fri, Jul 18, 2025 at 5:03 PM Jay Maynard < 05997213d6c2-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > The DR part is the part I'm most interest

Re: Contention problem TSO and batch job

Syntax diagram as drawn also requires specification in a particular order. In reality, any keyword can be specified in any order. Duplicates or conflicts are handled by the last one controls. On Fri, Jul 18, 2025 at 7:03 AM Seymour J Metz wrote: > "that tells you it's a non-repeatable choice wh

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Contention problem TSO and batch job

TSO ALLOCATE does not have an abnormal disposition field like DISP=(NEW,CATLG,DELETE). On Thu, Jul 17, 2025 at 12:04 PM Pommier, Rex < 0737643a508d-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > No, go reread the doc snippets provided. The "NEW" implies CATLG, and the > CATLG DELETE are separate pa

Re: murmurhash3 in PL/I

http://www.simotime.com/simoi370.htm#I@MVCIN MVCIN Move Character Inverse. On Mon, Jul 7, 2025 at 1:36 PM Paul Gilmartin < 042bfe9c879d-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > On Mon, 7 Jul 2025 12:13:49 -0500, Thomas David Rivers wrote: > > > > // Block read - if your platform needs to do

Re: what releases of DB2 could run on MVS 3.8J or MVS/SE

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Db2 Ran on DOS/VSE and VM/370 before 1983-5. https://web.archive.org/web/20230413143250/https://www.ibm.com/common/ssi/ShowDoc.wss?docURL=/common/ssi/rep_ca/6/877/ENUSZP83-0746/index.html&lang=en&request_locale=en Initial version ran on MVS/370 and MVS/XA exploiti

Re: 3420 environmentals?

How about electrical power? On Wed, Jun 25, 2025 at 12:13 PM Bodra - Pessoal < 02eda2bc565a-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > As I remember, IBM 3420 drive itself does not generate much heat, but it > needs a > IBM 3803 Control Unit that dissipate some heat due 5 or 6 boards populated >

Re: In IBM-land, AFP means...

Only three roles at a time. One movie had a former stooge as a guest star. https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/78v7in/last_appearance_of_curly_and_the_only_4_stooges/ On Thu, Jun 19, 2025 at 9:44 AM Seymour J Metz wrote: > And here I thought that there were only four three stooges. Thanks

Re: Looking for clues on out-of-storage at end-of-jobstep

Try REGION=6M or 20M. This should be small enough to get a dump. Probably looping somewhere by this time. On Mon, Jun 16, 2025 at 11:56 PM Tony Harminc wrote: > On Mon, 16 Jun 2025 at 18:09, Charles Mills wrote: > > > [...] > > Storage is apparently being exhausted, despite REGION=0M. In the

Re: How does HSM know its backup and spill volumes (VOLSERS)?

Recycle? On Thu, Jun 12, 2025 at 10:22 PM Greg Peck < 0837501bb183-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > Hi, > > I can list the defined BACKUP and SPILL volumes for our HSM system using > these commands: > > TSO hsend q backup(daily) > which returns the below as the last line of output > AR

Re: STC Userids

A denial of service attack would to to attempt to log on to the ID with the wrong password, until it is revoked when it reaches the number of invalid logon attempts. On Wed, Jun 11, 2025 at 6:41 PM Jack Zukt < 059cd493dd41-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > Hi > You already have a few an

Re: zOSMF Datasets

Can you start z/OSMF with an IPL to take advantage of IPL boost? On Mon, Jun 9, 2025 at 6:49 PM R Dooley < 0818b6c21e0e-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > Agree. IBM does need to continue making enhancements/improvements to the > z/OSMF ServerPac process. While working for service pro

Re: Replication problem

https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/2.4.0?topic=commandsckd-pprcopy-suspendsuspending-pairs Use the PPRCOPY SUSPEND command to suspend PPRCOPY operation between a primary and secondary volume pair. When the PPRCOPY SUSPEND command is directed to the primary or secondary device of a PPRCOPY volume pair

Re: CICS Question

https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cics-ts/6.x?topic=upgrading-planning-upgrade https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cics-ts/6.x?topic=upgrading-planning-upgrade#planning_intro__check-cics-downward-compat You can run CICS TS for z/OS, beta regions in parallel with older CICS regions within the same LPAR if the f

Re: RTFM

CVOL c On Mon, May 26, 2025 at 4:42 AM Radoslaw Skorupka < 0471ebeac275-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > [deleted] > BTW: I remember when I have found some error message. Explanation > mentioned possible problems with OS CVOL. I'm old fart, but really too > young to work with CVOLs. Wh

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: 3390A’s

It allocates the expanded area in 21 cylinder chunks. So you need to expand a Mod 54 VTOC / Index by 4/315ths. On Thu, May 22, 2025 at 12:48 PM Steve Beaver < 050e0c375a14-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > They are just huge meaning 5 Mod54's > > > -Original Message- > From: IB

Re: Volume Summary from IBM File Manager

The EAV allocates in 21 cylinder chucks, and the VTOC size depends on the number of datasets. Recommendations for Mod 54 should work. The max VTOC sizes were bases on filling with single track datasets, growth in the EAV area would be 1/315 of the track allocation area. On Wed, May 21, 2025 at 7

Re: 3390A’s

I used them on real hardware. 1 for 1 on static. Need about 10% of each LCU for the busy volumes so 230 real 26 for PAVs. On Wed, May 21, 2025 at 6:42 PM Steve Beaver < 050e0c375a14-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > Is anyone using 3390A’s? > > > Sent from my iPhone > > No one said I

Re: Scratch tape woes (RMM, SMS, OAM)

Check the VTAPE Time To Live. It gives a number of days between when a tape is scratched and the VOLSER can be undeleted before it can be written on. On Wed, May 21, 2025 at 7:04 AM rpinion865 < 042a019916dd-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > A run of RMM house keeping job? > > "Confide

Re: Disable user timeout via JWT?

24 hours / 1440 minutes is unlimited, right? On Wed, May 14, 2025 at 2:36 PM Phil Smith III wrote: > Yes. That's where we started this discussion. That only goes to 24 hours; > I want to turn it OFF. Don't even care about jobs, TBH--it's our box. > > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainfr

Re: the SHARE songbook

Xmit file viewer? https://www.cbttape.org/xmitview.htm On Tue, May 13, 2025 at 4:21 PM Tom Brennan wrote: > 1) Go to www.cbttape.org > 2) Click CBT > 3) Find and download CBT033.ZIP > 4) Unzip to get FILE033.XMI > 5) Upload the XMI file to TSO > 6) RECEIVE INDA(FILE033.XMI) > 7) Download FILE033

Re: C78 abends under TSO TEST

https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/2.5.0?topic=codes-c78 Explanation An error occurred when the system tried to process a virtual storage management (VSM) service. A reason code in the SDWACRC field of the system diagnostic wor

Re: JAVA in Zosmf

z/OS 2.5 requires Hercules Hyperion 4.8 for SIMD instructions. https://github.com/SDL-Hercules-390/hyperion/releases On Wed, May 7, 2025 at 6:42 AM Marco Antonio Ferreira < 08146744a9d4-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > Hi guys, > > I´m looking for a solution > > I have a Zos 2.5, r

Re: New version of JOL - a JCL replacement language

It does have https set up. On Sun, May 4, 2025 at 11:57 AM Paul Gilmartin < 042bfe9c879d-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > On Tue, 29 Apr 2025 23:50:35 +1000, Clement Clarke wrote: > >... > >https://www.jolucl.com/JolDoc/ > > > That link fails with: > > Warning: Potential Security R

Re: Packed decimal sign nibbles

Got a nibble for the length, so 1-16 bytes, 31 (30) digits. On Fri, May 2, 2025 at 9:10 PM Paul Gilmartin < 042bfe9c879d-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > On Sat, 3 May 2025 01:48:11 +, Farley, Peter wrote: > > >Answer: Not a lot. Basically you have to move the digits you have to

Re: Packed decimal sign nibbles

Unpack an extra byte and ignore the extra digit and sign. On Tue, Apr 29, 2025 at 6:19 PM Bernd Oppolzer wrote: > Topic drift: > > a really useful enhancemant for COBOL and other mainframe language IMO > would be: > > the possibility to define DECIMAL variables, which are REALLY unsigned, > that

Re: What has IBM ever done for us? (probably more than I know)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semi-Automatic_Ground_Environment paid for IBM's computer factories and basic technology, leading to cheaper manufacturing costs that other makers could not match. On Tue, Apr 29, 2025 at 2:25 AM Dave Wade < 06d3d37cab79-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > On

Re: Packed decimal sign nibbles

Mathematically, positive and signed are equal (SP, AP, ZAP, CP). Character comparisons of Display / Packed go bit by bit so a character sort would be by high to penultimate digits, then sign nibble / last digit display or last digit / sign nibble packed. On Mon, Apr 28, 2025 at 12:06 PM Paul Gilma

Re: Packed decimal sign nibbles

That rule would be compiler specific, while the FACE / BD is Pack Decimal specific (mainframe / ?other?). On Mon, Apr 28, 2025 at 11:41 AM Phil Smith III wrote: > Ah, so the "unsigned" thing is COBOL-specific? That would explain the > confusion/varied answers! > > Heh, "FACE positive, B&D negati

Re: What has IBM ever done for us? (probably more than I know)

I used a couple of track balls, but I find the track pad slightly better. Both better than a mouse, and absolutely hate the eraser pointer in the middle of the keyboard. On Mon, Apr 28, 2025 at 8:44 AM Seymour J Metz wrote: > It's better than the stupid trackpads that have infested the laptop >

Re: Day of week from a program

Eliminate bits 0-7 with a ICM R?.B'1000',=X'00'? Eliminate bits 60-63 and convert to seconds by dividing by 1,024.000,000? Adjust for local time by adding or subtracting 3600 seconds per hour? Combine last 2 steps by dividing by 604,800? On Sat, Apr 19, 2025 at 4:01 PM Paul Gilmartin < 042bfe9

Re: FTP dataset issue (using today's date)

You have numerics after a period. You'll need a .D and a 7 digit date. On Thu, Apr 17, 2025 at 7:21 AM Peter Ten Eyck < 04d3761a18a7-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > Struggling to ftp a dataset with today's date in the name. This job does > not work: > > //

Re: z17

The mini z16 could be ordered with one chip in one drawer and one I/O case and fit in a half rack.. On Wed, Apr 16, 2025 at 7:58 PM Andrew Rowley < 070d6809bfe9-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > On 16/04/2025 11:29 pm, Steve Beaver wrote: > > I know the z17 is an evolution, but why have

Re: z17

/s > > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf > Of Mike Schwab > Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2025 10:51 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: z17 > > 5.5GHz is a 2 inch 5 cm signal. 10 GHz would require a si

Re: z17

5.5GHz is a 2 inch 5 cm signal. 10 GHz would require a signal length of 1 inch 2.5 cm. On Wed, Apr 16, 2025 at 8:31 AM Steve Beaver < 050e0c375a14-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > We all know the z17 has been announced. > > > > What I am disappointed in is the CP's have not gone faste

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

https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/3.1.0?topic=sys1parmlib-smfprmxx-system-management-facilities-smf-parameters On Sun, Apr 13, 2025 at 9:01 AM Lindy Mayfield < 05a2ba9c925b-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > Hi, > > I need to do some tests and then look at SMF records for TCP/IP activity,

Re: ISPF EDIT CHANGE regex requirements?

Have you tried https://www.spflite.com/ , a windows program that edits on your PC in EBCDIC then submits to the mainframe? On Sat, Apr 12, 2025 at 5:01 PM Tom Brennan wrote: > So I have an ISPF edit plug-in, where instead of the normal dataset > edit, something else happens. That something else

Re: IMS question

DB2 equivalent is to use the concatenated key and the segment name, key, and data. On Thu, Apr 10, 2025 at 10:16 AM Seymour J Metz wrote: > IMS supports (or used to) more than relational databases. > > -- > Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz > http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 > עַם יִשְׂרָאֵל חַי > נֵ֣צַח יִש

Re: HSM Question

https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/3.1.0?topic=command-migrationvolume-migrationlevel1-migrationlevel2-volume-listing-migration-volumes#s4323 https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/3.1.0?topic=ocds-syntax-list-command TSO HLIST ML2 ODS(hlq.data.set.name) https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/3.1.0?topic=tapes-syn

Re: WORM backup tapes block ransomeware attacks?

One good practice is the trainee or alternate does all the work using the documented instructions. Any additions during the exercise are recorded and added to the instructions for next time. On Wed, Apr 9, 2025 at 6:37 AM Seymour J Metz wrote: > As with any DR scenario, you need good documentat

Re: WORM backup tapes block ransomeware attacks?

How to recover? 1. Log available? Analyze logs and backout corrupted data. 2. No log or did not work? Restore from version prior to corruption, analyse for any valid kupdates before applying. 3. Don't update tape? Well, if you overwrite a block on tape all contents past that point are gone.

Re: Backup options for z/OS

ABARS to back up applications, if ADRDDSU with DSN selection does not work for you. On Mon, Apr 7, 2025 at 8:57 AM Jake Anderson < 0655e880aa7d-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > Hello, > > I am trying to understand the various backup options for mainframe data. So > far in my experience

Re: Migrating Storage pools to EAV

Total number of extents is limited to ?253? over multiple volumes. On Mon, Apr 7, 2025 at 2:48 PM Jousma, David < 01a0403c5dc1-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > I think the point of my question wasn’t worded clearly.The problem is > poor allocation coding over the years where coded

Re: HSM Question

Try TSO HLIST ML2(TAPE) ODS(hlq.data.set.name) ‪On Mon, Apr 7, 2025 at 6:55 AM ‫גדי בן אבי‬‎ wrote:‬ > Thanks Mile, > The first command created an empty dataset. > > Gadi > > > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf > of Mike

Re: IBM-MAIN Digest - 18 Mar 2025 to 19 Mar 2025 (#2025-76)

Yep. z/OS has 3 incompatible versions of Java, so far. On Thu, Mar 20, 2025 at 9:51 AM John Abell < john.ab...@intnlsoftwareproducts.com> wrote: > The issue for some of us is that C code written for z/OS can easily be > ported to other platforms since z/OS is the platform of record. PL/X might

Re: Reentrant Lite ?

CICS and IMS/TM have transaction definitions that include a workarea size. Since you are getting the address in a register anyway, How about standardizing on a 4K work area? On Fri, Mar 28, 2025 at 11:13 AM Rupert Reynolds wrote: > I sometimes wondered whether CICS did something like this for it

Re: Expand DSN names (WAS : Java saved IBM Z?!)

z/OS Unix System Services imposes a 1024 name length limit. A few directories exceed this and is corrected by CD brfore re-extracting the affected files. On Thu, Mar 27, 2025 at 6:20 AM Thomas Berg < 0619bfe39560-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > How about UNIX/Linux name standard limi

Re: Expand DSN names (WAS : Java saved IBM Z?!)

Well, keys can be 255 bytes. Or keep VTOC key length of 44 and store longer name in another catalog field, Short name consists of LLQ and as many HLQs (30+ bytes) as will fit and an 4 byte (a-z)(a-z0-9) unique qualifier in between. //ddname DD DISP=SHR,DNS(x?)=(data,set, name), etc On Wed

Re: Office 365

Office 365 uses content as data for Artificial Intelligence. Your content may appear on someone else's screen. HIPAA, Legal Documents, Trade Secrets, etc should not be touched by Office 365. You will lose all content if you stop paying. On Wed, Mar 26, 2025 at 1:52 PM Steve Beaver < 050e0c375

Re: Virtual volumes assigned wrong category on TS7770

Did you check all datasets on the tape? I.E. Label=2 or higher. ‪On Mon, Mar 24, 2025 at 2:39 AM ‫גדי בן אבי‬‎ wrote:‬ > Hi, > During an audit of our virtual tape system, we found many virtual volumes > that were assigned the wrong category. > This caused these virtual volumes to be unusable. >

Re: Fededral Project

64 bit mode is 26 years old this year since 1999? 31 bit mode is 40 years old this year since 1985? 24 bit virtual mode / 3270 is 47 years old this year since 1978? 24 bit is 61 years old since 1964? On Fri, Mar 21, 2025 at 4:44 PM Seymour J Metz wrote: > Yes, they want to replace 30-year old te

Re: IBM Z Development and Test Environment - ADCD

https://www.reddit.com/r/mainframe/comments/gjnv75/zpdt_and_ibm_isvs_question/ IBM was behind on the unexpected high volume of requests for the personal mainframe. Covid hit and it was suspended and not resumed. https://www.reddit.com/r/mainframe/comments/gjnv75/zpdt_and_ibm_isvs_question/ On Fr

Re: IBM Z Development and Test Environment - ADCD

https://www.reddit.com/r/mainframe/comments/gjnv75/zpdt_and_ibm_isvs_question/ Basically, the $1000 personal mainframe was derailed by Covid and not restarted, not to mention they weren't prepared for the volume of requests they got before covid. On Fri, Mar 21, 2025 at 8:04 AM John Blythe Reid <

Re: Rescue system (was stupid outages)

RACF? Just the Emergency IDs to restore from (V)Tape. Users won't have any datasets, may need a different production RACF database. On Fri, Mar 7, 2025 at 10:57 AM Radoslaw Skorupka < 0471ebeac275-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > Some of us wrote about so called rescue system. > Usual

Re: Open enterprise edition ISO

About a decade ago you could boot z/OS from the DVD drive in the mainframe. z/VM had a trial version on DVD you could download. On Thu, Mar 6, 2025 at 11:33 AM Paul Gilmartin < 042bfe9c879d-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > On Thu, 6 Mar 2025 16:27:08 +, Seymour J Metz wrote: > >

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: The mainframe is alive

And don't forget inside attacks. DOGE firings, changes may result in missed Social Security payments, delays in payment enrollment. https://www.cnbc.com/2025/03/01/doge-actions-may-cause-social-security-benefit-interruption-ex-agency-head.html On Mon, Mar 3, 2025 at 4:59 PM Mike Schwab

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: The mainframe is alive

https://www.newera.com/INFO/Five_Keys.pdf https://www.tridex.org/wp-content/uploads/How-to-Hack-Db2-for-z_OS.pdf https://badcyber.com/a-history-of-a-hacking/ On Mon, Mar 3, 2025 at 1:52 PM Dick Williams < 071a5827fb2c-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > LOLOLOLOL you people are hilarious.

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Cognizant

wrote: > What does your link have to do with Disney employees and a lawsuit? The > article is talking about luxury apartments in Chennai. Either you got the > wrong link or I'm missing something. > > Rex > > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussi

Re: Cognizant

Yep Disney employees lost in 2014-2018. https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/industry/services/property-/-cstruction/a-new-era-of-luxury-living-the-worlds-first-taj-branded-residences-in-chennai/articleshow/118575461.cms On Wed, Feb 26, 2025 at 2:54 PM Dick Williams < 071a5827fb2c-dmarc-requ

Re: New WAIT state in z/OS 3.1?

Shades of the 500 mile email. 3 MS timeout. https://www.ibiblio.org/harris/500milemail.html On Tue, Feb 18, 2025 at 2:07 PM rpinion865 < 042a019916dd-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > Hey, I know how to fix that. Old story, new IBM 370/158 installed by > third party. IPLed 158 and it

Re: Scheduled IPL Frequency

To implement RSU maintenance, release quarterly. To implement a PUT or individual PTF if you are encountering a mentioned error. On Tue, Feb 11, 2025 at 8:13 AM Mark Jacobs < 0224d287a4b1-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > Is there currently a recommendation for a time period between IPL

Re: Copy of MVS

https://hercules-390.groups.io/g/group/topics is a help group for the Hercules emulator. https://groups.io/g/H390-MVS/topics is a help group for running MVS on Hercules emulator. https://groups.io/g/turnkey-mvs/topics is a help group for the Turnkey MVS 3.8 on the Hercules emulator. On Wed, Feb 5,

Re: Use of ZIIPS

Reduce 1 cpu at a time. On Mon, Feb 3, 2025 at 4:05 AM Lennie Bradshaw wrote: > I think you should run with as many GPs and ziips as your underlying > hardware should support. > I have been unable to run with 2 GPs and 2 ziips on a machine that is a 2 > engine Core i7. > Lennie > > -Original

Re: Mainframe physical tape backup

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPcm7-KvytI 6 carbon fiber bicycle parts that wear out quickly or fail catastrophically. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPcm7-KvytI On Mon, Jan 27, 2025 at 7:57 PM kekronbekron < 02dee3fcae33-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > Apologies, I didn't mean tha

Re: VPS STC run as a batch job

An update to the operating system could have slightly increased its memory use, and VPS's memory got reduced a slight amount, causing the error. On Mon, Jan 27, 2025 at 12:08 PM rpinion865 < 042a019916dd-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > That is something to be investigated. Running as

Re: VPS STC run as a batch job

You might include a JOB card in the proclib to override any needed values, like region, TIME=1440, etc. On Mon, Jan 27, 2025 at 11:51 AM rpinion865 < 042a019916dd-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > For what it is worth, we are running VPS, PGM=VP12DRIV, as a batch job and > we > appear t

Re: OMVS

IBM Licensed Material - Property of IBM 5694-A01 Copyright IBM Corp. 1993, 2011 (C) Copyright *Mortice Kern* Systems, Inc., 1985, 1996. (C) Copyright Software Development Group, University of Waterloo, 1989. All Rights Reserved. U.S. Government Users Restricted Rights Use, duplication or disclosu

Re: ADRDSSU DUMP/RESTORE

A LISTCAT from the source system should be included in the backup. If you search the listing, you will find the components and can build the recatalog from there. On Sat, Jan 25, 2025 at 8:05 AM rpinion865 <042a019916dd-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > > Bingo, give that man a cigar.

Re: AI - Food for Thoiught

Colossus, The Forbin Project, 1970, 2 hours https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNDa1it7hsU On Wed, Jan 22, 2025 at 1:51 PM Steve Beaver <050e0c375a14-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > > They are building 10 AI datacenters under construction. I have no doubt the > will have their > > Own sm

Re: OMVS

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_UNIX_Specification Contains the whole history of the various competing certification schemes or later revisions of schemes. Note Linux and OS/390 are both formerly certified. And this is due to the cost of getting each version certified, not that incompatibilit

Re: File transfer question

HMC / I/O definition requires 80 bytes per line (Conner ran into thins in https://blog.share.org/Technology-Article/i-just-bought-an-ibm-z890-now-what ) On Sun, Jan 19, 2025 at 7:03 AM Radoslaw Skorupka <0471ebeac275-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > > IMHO it works as expected. > When y

Re: z/OS 2.1 & 2.2 on z16?

A comment on this post says z/OS 2.1 WILL NOT run, 2.2 WILL run. https://www.reddit.com/r/mainframe/comments/1hhiexa/is_it_possible_to_migrate_from_ibm_z9_to_ibm_z16/ And a z9 WILL NOT run z/OS 2.2 On Tue, Jan 14, 2025 at 2:01 PM Rebecca Martin <050348c1817e-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> w

Re: Use of TAR to test access register validity

On Tue, Jan 14, 2025 at 6:03 AM Binyamin Dissen <0662573e2c3a-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > [deleted] > > Brings back memories of an MVS program that checked if it was running under > MVS (IIRC a CVT bit). If it wasn't, what could it do about it? > Use MVT layout? -- Mike A Schwab,

Re: Pipes

https://www.pcre.org/ for z/OS On Mon, Jan 13, 2025 at 8:53 PM David Crayford <0595a051454b-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > > If only there were a Rexx PCRE2 command processor for TSO REXX. The > challenge with regular expressions, especially in Perl, which is arguably > one of the lea

Re: AI makes stuff up

On Mon, Jan 13, 2025 at 12:12 PM Lionel B Dyck <057b0ee5a853-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > [deleted]> > By giving false and/or misleading information can "allow a human being > to come to harm" > The ancient Chinese curse of YES men, or YES robots. -- Mike A Schwab, Springfield IL US

Re: Canonical way to limit a concatenated tape file DD to two tape drives?

in the days past when I > actually had access to a “machine room”). > > Ah well, it was worth a try. I’ll stick with the one-drive solution, it gets > the job done without any fuss. > > Peter > > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of > Mike Schwab >

Re: Canonical way to limit a concatenated tape file DD to two tape drives?

https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/2.4.0?topic=up-syntax-1 //ddname DD DISP=SHR,DSN=hlq.data.set.name1.llq, // UNIT=(tape,2) * device,count // DD DISP=SHR,DSN=hlq.data.set.name2.llq, // UNIT=AFF=ddname * repeat as needed On Fri, Jan 10, 2025 at 6:02 PM Farley, Peter <031df298a9da-dmarc-requ..

Re: ISPF Edit of same named files

Try use the VOLSER field. ISPF 3 has various ways to compare two files to show the difference. On Fri, Jan 10, 2025 at 8:32 AM roscoe5 <056b62686b81-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > > I want to Edit a pair of files, from Prod and Test LPARs, both named > SYS1.TCPPARMS(PROFILE8), concur

Re: Bye all

https://planetmainframe.com/2023/06/sabre-is-getting-off-the-mainframe-one-way-or-another/ On Thu, Jan 9, 2025 at 11:14 PM The North American Becker <0762a73125b7-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > > The mainframe is dead. > > --

Re: Issue with installing chpid mapping tool

Can you locate your current JAVA directory? Is there a command such as JAVA -ver ? Is there a later version of JAVA to download? On Thu, Jan 9, 2025 at 11:35 AM raji ece <05ff2ba04c83-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > > Hello All, > > Good day ! > > As part of the hardware migration from

Re: ISREDIT CAPS ON OFF

When terminals and printers did not have lower case. On Wed, Jan 8, 2025 at 6:51 PM Lennie Bradshaw wrote: > > CLIST design is over 50 years old I think. > Lennie > > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of > Paul Gilmartin > Sent: 09 January 2025 00:13 > T

Re: HSM Audit Problem

r suggestion. I suppose that the rationale behind it would > be that the records that I now have in error would not be copied to the new > file? It may be worth a try. How > Regards > Jack > > > On Tue, 7 Jan 2025 at 17:56, Mike Schwab < > 05962a42dc49-dmarc-requ...@li

Re: HSM Audit Problem

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.edu> wrote: > > Hi all, > Unfortunately, after reading the

Re: Java 17 and TWS vel IWS vel ZWS

https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/release-notes-ibm-workload-scheduler-version-1022 Include JAVA fixes so it must include a version of JAVA. On Fri, Jan 3, 2025 at 6:43 AM Radoslaw Skorupka <0471ebeac275-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > > Issue: TWS 10.1 does not work with Java 17. It w

Re: Assembler vs. assembly vs. machine code

Tandy TRS-80 Model 1 basic had POKE commands where you gave an address and a value to store there. One published use I remember was to generate certain graphic characters to turn on and off a part of the character cell since the difference displayed between the two values in the byte was one of si

Re: Job opening at Cigna

Bonus for not saying USS for UNIX Systems Services. On Fri, Dec 27, 2024 at 2:08 PM Tom Brennan wrote: > > Sounds really good! > But I had to chuckle at z/OS, Z/OS, z/os, and Z/oS all on the same page :) > > On 12/27/2024 11:45 AM, Darrold Usher wrote: > > https://cigna.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-U

Re: Value of TCBJLB

If its not in the STEPLIB you will get an S806. Included any needed loadlib on the step lib, include any loadlib from JOBLIB. On Wed, Dec 18, 2024 at 9:11 AM Joseph Reichman <05812645a43c-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > > I’m writting a program that searches for modules in a system >

Re: SMPE and auditors

https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/system/files/inline-files/zOS%20Preventive%20Maintenance%20Strategy_1.pdf IBM creates RSUs quarterly and suggests applying 2-4 times a year. Have management consider quarterly RSU implementations, Explain monthly PUT tapes have less testing of PTFs and therefore

Re: converting Cobol to java - remaining on the mainframe

zIIP workload can migrate to CPs if you don't have enough. Needs to be monitored to manage costs. https://knowledge.broadcom.com/external/article/244576/xcom-ziip-usage.html On Tue, Dec 10, 2024 at 11:41 AM Jerry Whitteridge wrote: > > The first question to ask is do you have any zIIP processor

Re: IEAMSXMP - Cross Memory POST - Supervisor State required?

(E)CSA for an amount large enough to send data both ways? On Sun, Dec 8, 2024 at 4:44 PM Richard Zierdt wrote: > > Thank you, Peter. Others have also responded - thank you - suggesting Unix > Pipes and TCP/IP. Those environments being new to me, I will try to solve > my problem using only M

Re: ISPF Edit - how to switch off CAPS ON

So, an ideal JCL editor would uppercase lines that start with // (but not //*) through the third set of blanks and not enclosed in quotes. On Sun, Dec 8, 2024 at 6:46 AM Radoslaw Skorupka <0471ebeac275-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > > W dniu 07.12.2024 o 17:20, billogden pisze: > [...

Re: "Recently" is relative

quot; (illegally copied) material about mainframes in Poland. :-) > > -- > Radoslaw Skorupka > Lodz, Poland > > > > > W dniu 06.12.2024 o 17:31, Mike Schwab pisze: > > JCL //name IF / THEN / ELSE / ENDIF is from the mid 1990s. > > > > On Fri, Dec 6, 2024 at 9:26

Re: "Recently" is relative

JCL //name IF / THEN / ELSE / ENDIF is from the mid 1990s. On Fri, Dec 6, 2024 at 9:26 AM Radoslaw Skorupka <0471ebeac275-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > > Some colleagues of mine are sometimes angry for me, because when I > "modernize" some system things I tell them how old the "new f

Re: ISPF Edit - how to switch off CAPS ON?

X ALL;F ALL P'<' (find only lower case) C ALL P'<;' P'>'.(change all lower case to UPPER CASE). On Wed, Dec 4, 2024 at 10:59 PM Schmitt, Michael wrote: > > I’ve had users complain that my application generated JCL with some lower > case comments, because it turned CAPS OFF when they edited the J

Re: Very strange - missing trace table entries

It is what I ran into in the mid 1990s then helped another person about 2010 during a DR test since the smaller default region triggered the S806 in a Db2 batch job with no region. On Mon, Dec 2, 2024 at 9:10 AM Peter Relson wrote: > > Mike S wrote > > DB2 with a S806 means there was not enough

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