Re: REXX SURVEY

REXX was first available only in VM/CMS, then in 1982-85, it came installed in MVS/370 Please let me know if you have any questions, or concerns! Thank You! Roger W Suhr suhr...@gmail.com<mailto:rws...@outlook.com> 563-581-9065 (from my personal co

Re: REXX SURVEY

You wrote: Wasn't it TSO/E V2 in 1988? Thai's possible, I really don't remember those details! 😉 Please let me know if you have any questions, or concerns! Thank You! Roger W Suhr suhr...@gmail.com<mailto:rws...@outlook.com> 563-581-9065 (from

Re: REXX SURVEY

REXX370 V3.48 01 May 1992 as it comes with z/OS 2.5 Please let me know if you have any questions, or concerns! Thank You! Roger W Suhr suhr...@gmail.com<mailto:rws...@outlook.com> 563-581-9065 (from my personal computer) From: IBM Mai

Re: Non-reentrant program not allowed (where?); Advantages of reentrant programs?

Writing reentrant code is a good idea, but requires extra care, and work. It's best to use macros for program entry, and exit, for consistency, that will setup program linkage correctly and allow for the allocation of extra storage, besides the program's safe area. Reentrant programs must stor

Re: Will z/OS be obsolete in 5 years?

With the new flash drives there are no more SPINNING parts. Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone Get Outlook for Android From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of Phil Smith III Sent: Tuesday, August 8, 2023 2:18:14 PM T

Re: They are *all* dinosaurs

a dinosaur simply hasn't looked at a moder mainframe in WHILE. It's not just about COBOL anymore, you can run anything on system z hardware these days. Please let me know if you have any questions, or concerns! Thank You! Roger W Suhr suhr...@gmail.com 563-581-9065 (fro

Re: Will z/OS be obsolete in 5 years?

Re: Will z/OS be obsolete in 5 years? That's what they said in 1995! Please let me know if you have any questions, or concerns! Thank You! Roger W Suhr suhr...@gmail.com 563-581-9065 (from my personal laptop) -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf O

Re: RSU Maintenance: Asking For a Friend

you have any questions, or concerns! Thank You! Roger W Suhr suhr...@gmail.com 563-581-9065 (from my personal laptop) -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Tom Marchant Sent: Tuesday, July 18, 2023 9:53 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: RSU

Re: A Discussion about RLSE on RAID Drives with Chat GPT-4

lease let me know if you have any questions, or concerns! Thank You! Roger W Suhr suhr...@gmail.com 563-581-9065 (from my personal laptop) -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Hobart Spitz Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2023 7:10 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.U

Re: RACF - SDSF question

STC!) MVS.CANCEL.STC.C30TCI* (G) MVS.CANCEL.STC.** (G) Roger W. Suhr suhr...@gmail.com -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Shaffer, Terri Sent: Tuesday, February 7, 2023 8:32 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: RACF - SDSF question Hi, I know there is

Re: PDS compression needs a new name - defoam? unfoam? degas? I hope someone has a better idea!

Look at the PDS command (rel 8.6) on the CBTTAPE (CBTTAPE.ORG) Roger W. Suhr suhr...@gmail.com -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Mike Schwab Sent: Saturday, December 24, 2022 14:28 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: PDS compression needs a new

Re: Can I get the true jobname in JCL

Try &SYSJOBNM. Roger W. Suhr suhr...@gmail.com -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Colin Paice Sent: Friday, December 16, 2022 4:07 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Can I get the true jobname in JCL If I start OMPROUTE.OMP1, or issue S

Re: Simple JOBGROUP or Simple User

Hi, Maybe you can try this: //DRCPYFC JOBGROUP //DRCPYFC1 GJOB // CONCURRENT NAME=DRCPYFC2 I'm not sure you need two CONCURRENT statement Roger W. Suhr suhr...@gmail.com -Ori

Re: SMF Record types to capture

z/OS 2.5 provides for new "extended" SMF record types >255. They have a standard type (I forgot the number) for backward compatibility, AND an extended type number (4 digits). Roger W. Suhr suhr...@gmail.com -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Beha

Re: Trouble getting new mainframe staff?

I think people in the US would be available. It all depends what the company is willing to pay. Of course there may be some age discrimination going on as well. Roger W. Suhr suhr...@gmail.com -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of esmie moo Sent

Re: Using the JOBNAME system symbol in a batch job

lace since z/OS 2.3 (maybe earlier, but that's when I've been told after I created an RFE about this.) Roger W. Suhr suhr...@gmail.com -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Gadi Ben-Avi Sent: Wednesday, December 29, 2021 09:03 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV

Re: EXTERNAL: Coding for the future

months ago. So doing this will help me follow my thoughts at a later time. Of course I also hope it will help someone who looks at this, when I'm not around. Roger W. Suhr suhr...@gmail.com -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Bob Bridges Sent: Satur

Re: EXTERNAL: Coding for the future

How about: if fx then do ntim=ntim+1 end else do nres=nres+1 end Roger W. Suhr suhr...@gmail.com -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Clark Morris Sent: Friday, June 18, 2021 7:19 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re

Re: JCL checkers?

We're using CA-JCLCHECK; it works well, I get no complaints from users. It has many customization options. (maybe too many 😉) Roger W. Suhr suhr...@gmail.com -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Bill Giannelli Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2021 1:32

Re: TS7720 to EMC DLM migration

We decided not to do that and go with a TS7760 instead. Easy peasy Roger W. Suhr suhr...@gmail.com -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Peter Sent: Wednesday, December 23, 2020 11:22 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: TS7720 to EMC DLM migration

Re: Build and submit proc

No need to be naughty here. Roger W. Suhr suhr...@gmail.com -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Hobart Spitz Sent: Tuesday, December 22, 2020 2:14 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Build and submit proc You can do it in batch REXX. Stop

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

Mississippi, but only on some toll roads. Roger W. Suhr mailto:suhr...@gmail.com From: mailto:suhr...@gmail.com <mailto:suhr...@gmail.com> Sent: Tuesday, August 4, 2020 11:32 To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> Subject: Re: OOBOL and English was Re: Still

Re: Still COBOL After All These Years?

I couldn't agree more! Roger W. Suhr suhr...@gmail.com -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Mark Regan Sent: Thursday, July 16, 2020 11:41 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Fwd: Still COBOL After All These Years? https://www.planetmainfram

Re: Gratuitous EXECIO Documentation

It does, but FOO could be a variable symbol in which case it woud be evaluated ADDRESS ({variable symbol}) Like: FOO ="TSO" ADDRESS (FOO) =>> sets host environment to "TSO" -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Phil Smith III Sent: Saturday, June 6, 20

Re: REXX as JCL replacement

I agree with David Crayford's comment, 100%! Let's put this to rest. To completely replace JCL with REXX is not an option. If you want to run certain applications driven by REXX program, by my guest, that's a design issue. But please don't plan on replacing everything

Re: empty KSDS behavior - why?

had been used before and no valid header record could be found. So I doubt IBM will ever provide an option to do this in the DEFINE command. There are programs available on the CBT Tape (CBTTAPE.ORG) that will initialize a new cluster (intelligently). Personally, I like the INITKSDS program.

Re: GDG with timestamp

give you the creation dates, if it is a tape dataset. ISPF services can be used in REXX and in other higher level programming languages. It takes some getting used to and any program using them must run in an ISPF environment. Roger W. Suhr suhr...@gmail.com -Original Message- From

Re: Disable DYNALLOC?

My 5 cents: Why do people always have to control everything. DYNALLOC is a beautiful thing. It has to be used properly, for sure and it's not a "one size fits all" tool, but it is very useful. If you really have to control all allocations, then look into using and exit (DADSM,SMS comes to min

Re: UTC and Daylight Savings Time

Local time is just that, local - which means the time must adhere to the LOCAL requirement. UTC is the world wide standard time, it will not change for daylight savings. Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone Original message From: "Bill Bishop (TMNA)" Date: 1/5/17

Re: IBM Lays Out Plans to Hire 25,000 in U.S. Ahead of Trump Meeting

Yeah, but what kinds of jobs?  It doesn't matter, I won't go back to work for IBM,  because their whole philosophy is outdated and backward.  To many levels of management, who do only administrative work and talk your head off, but don't have a clue what's going on in the industry.  Sent from

Re: Is there any tools or interface which could analyse or monitor SYS1.MANX directly?

ribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- Hava a great day! Roger W. Suhr Indianapolis, IN 46202 suhr...@gmail.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff

Re: Outsourcing Experiences

Hello, Over the years I have worked in both environments (as the company employee and as the employee of an outsourcing company). In my opinion it's all a matter of value. If a company does not value it's data and IT infrastructure enough to see it as part of it's core business, it will even

Re: A New Perfromance Model ?

Paddler SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager 626-302-7535 Office 323-715-0595 Mobile jo.skip.robin...@sce.com -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Roger W. Suhr (GMail) Sent: Wednesday, April 08, 2015 2:30 PM To: IBM-MAIN

Re: A New Perfromance Model ?

I think this nailed it! Clueless is also correct. It did start back in the 90's with "disk space is cheap", then it went to "memory is cheap' and now it's MIPS is a commodity, so is the manpower to maintain all that stuff. It's all in the CLOUD now anyway - who cares! Roger On 4/8/2015 4:11

Re: A New Perfromance Model ?

On 4/4/2015 3:11 PM, esst...@juno.com wrote: Hi Im not a performance analyst, Im a CICS & MQ Sys-Prog. I dont understand this new "paradyne". Some Back ground March 1 Our Development Team introducd some new functionality. The following week we were plagued with multiple 0C4 and 0C7 - ASRA Abend

Re: Dataset space release

Yes, use the RELEASE parameter of the ALLOCATE command Roger On 3/24/2015 1:52 PM, Tim Brown wrote: Can space in an allocated dataset via Rexx with the tso allocate cmd be freed and space reclaimed as is possible with a jcl allocated dataset with the RLSE option SPACE=(CYL,(10,2),RLSE) if th

Re: Setting RMF Post Processor report for partial date/time

Like it or not, I think you need two runs: TIME(12,235959) DATE(15040,15040) TIME(00,115959) DATE(15041,15041) Roger -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Lizette Koehler Sent: Friday, February 27, 201

Re: massive IBM layoff rumored?

No doubt, there will be some people missing @ IBM next month, but mass layoff's? That's far fetched. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Bill Johnson Sent: Monday, January 26, 2015 1:02 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subje

Re: non-IBM: SONY new tape storage - 185 Terabytes on a tape.

When the company is in litigation and needs data from years back for evidence in court, a few hundred dollars for some tapes seem very cost effective, as opposed to losing a case, or being charged with negligence for loosing data (very high fines apply)! Roger -Original Message- From:

Re: Inquire SPACE/DIR allocation attributes

Hi, Do you know ISPF? Regards Roger -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Gabor Hoffer Sent: Wednesday, April 23, 2014 7:58 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Inquire SPACE/DIR allocation attributes Hi, How can I

Re: Sorry state of IT education?

It's really simple, I always tell my younger colleagues: If you're willing to stay in the office after work hours, I'll stay with you and show/help you with a few things, and where to find more information. If not, don't expect me to interrupt my work to do yours. Some do, some don't, so wha

Re: Another Golden Anniversary - Dartmouth BASIC

Wow, 1959 I was 6 years old and just entering elementary school! Roger -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Barry Merrill Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2014 8:54 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Another Golden Annive

Re: Friday Humor: Happy Birthday Mainframe

We kept a case of beer and a case of champagne under the raised floor in the computer room. It was very cool down there. For the days when celebrations were called for. Roger -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Bernd Opp

Re: 3270 Emulators and consoles

VistaTN3270 from Tom Brennan is a nice low cost product! I love to work with it on my Hercules - MVS system Roger -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Wissink, Brad [ITSYS] Sent: Monday, March 31, 2014 1:57 PM To: IBM-MAIN@L

Re: [OT ] Mainframe memories

Was the smoke black or white? -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Chris Hoelscher Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2014 9:48 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: [OT ] Mainframe memories Maybe IBM elected a new chairman that

Re: XMITMGR

Check this. It works on Win7: http://sourceforge.net/directory/os:windows/freshness:recently-updated/?q=un xmit Roger -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Scott Ford Sent: Friday, January 24, 2014 10:21 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LIS

Re: IBM sells x86 server business to Lenovo (was Levono)

Just like any other company! -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of DASDBILL2 Sent: Friday, January 24, 2014 8:40 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: IBM sells x86 server business to Lenovo (was Levono) IBM's core bu

Re: Disposal of storage devices/med

I usually don't say much here. With all the senior expertise here, there is little I can add. I really liked this story. This is the BEST way I ever heard, to eliminate all trace data from a magnetic device. Hahaha, congratulations on your ingenuity and resourcefulness. I just wonder if an IT a

Re: Geek Is Now A Praiseword, Not An Insult Apparently - Forbes

Definitions of 'legacy' [leg-uh-see] Dictionary.com - (Showing 1 definitions) (noun) 1. anything bequeathed Find more definitions for legacy on Dictionary.com » Synonyms: Bequest Birthright Devise Endowment Aid Alimony Allocation Allotment Bequeathal Bequeathment

Re: RMM v/s TS7740 VTS

Compression/compaction is done in the controller/FICON Adapter, if it is turned ON in either SMS, a parmlib member, or JCL (DBB=TRTCH=COMP). 2-3:1 is achieved on average. It's important, because it will affect the performance of the VTS, and tape usage (capacity). Roger S. -Original Messa

Re: SMF record - IPADDR

900$@com>, on 07/15/2013 at 12:08 AM, "Roger W. Suhr" said: >I'd vote for both. All IBM product SMF records type 0-200 should be >documented in the SMF manual. Alternatively, the SMF and control blocks manuals should have links[1] to the appropriate product manuals.

Re: SMF record - IPADDR

I'd vote for both. All IBM product SMF records type 0-200 should be documented in the SMF manual. Roger S. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Ed Gould Sent: Sunday, July 14, 2013 11:00 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subj

Re: Parsing

ed further information on the correct German language please consult the German dictionary. Thank you very much Roger W Suhr -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of John Gilmore Sent: Thursday, November 22, 2012 8:05 AM To:

Re: Parsing

Incorrect observation: Hund = Dog not hound Tier = Animal Reh = Deer (male female) Rehbock = buck (male) Regards Roger W Suhr -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Lindy Mayfield Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2012 10:20

Re: Does IDCAMS really do that?

>>20.2.13 Delete a Member of a Partitioned (Non-VSAM) Data Set in a Catalog: >>Example 13 ?? ... ?? DELETE - >> EXAMPLE.NONVSAM2 - >> PURGE - >> CATALOG(USERCAT4) >> >>The [second] DELETE command deletes all remaining member

Re: Space Allocation In Bytes

12 10:17 AM :>: To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU :>: Subject: Re: Space Allocation In Bytes :>: :>: W dniu 2012-08-28 17:59, Roger W. Suhr pisze: :>: > No, it's not illogical. We use Format 1 DSCB entries as model DSCB :>: for :>: > GDG's and other things. No data spac

Re: The IBM zEnterprise EC12 announcment

> Using LINUX or ZOS? Both + z/VM Roger -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of shai hess Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2012 1:59 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: The IBM zEnterprise EC12 announcment On Tue, Aug 28,

Re: Space Allocation In Bytes

No, it's not illogical. We use Format 1 DSCB entries as model DSCB for GDG's and other things. No data space use is needed for that, so we allocate TRK=0. No problem there! Roger -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Shmue

Re: Parallel Sysplex Online Training

Hi Saurabh, I would think that virtual SYSPLEX training would be very difficult to provide, since you would need access to HMC hardware consoles and other equipment (at least one system z machine where you could define a coupling facility and multiple LPARS with access to DASD and TAPE subsystems,