CBT V509 has been cut

Dear Folks, CBT V509 has been cut and put on the web site www.cbttape.org. ENJOY…..! All the best of everything to all of you. Sincerely,Sam -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email

JWT timeouts avoided

Dear Folks, In my experience you can override the JWT timeouts using the Q522 TSO command from Thomas Ramseier on CBT File 483.  If you want to check whether timing is in effect, look at the CSCF TSO command on File 954.  I am available offline if you need any more specialized help.    

REVIEW 51,3 and later can now automatically expand XMIT-format files

Dear Folks,     I would like to advertise a great improvement that Greg Price has put into the REVIEW (free file browser) TSO command.     REVIEW can now automatically expand XMIT-format files and show you (immediately, without needing to do a RECEIVE) what is in them.  You can see all the m

A Tribute to Steve Myers

Dear Folks,     I hope (that some of) these programs will help you to maintain your z/OS systems better than before.     Steve Myers is (was) an excellent and original Assembler programmer.  I have not seen anybody who programs like him.  I lost track of him after May or June 2022 and I am n

Running OPER in Background

Dear Folks,     Sorry, I made a mistake in how to run ASUB or TSUB from File 797.  It is: ASUB NSR 1 ?  to nullify the OPER entry, and ASUB NSR 2 ?  to nullify the OPERATOR entry. If you need to use TSUB,  substitute the word TSUB for ASUB.  See my previous messages for the differen

Running OPER in Background

Dear Folks, I forgot to mention that if you want OPER to run in the background under your userid, I think you should use TSUB (which works against the LWA-pointed tables in your own userid), rather than using ASUB (which works against the PARMLIB tables in member IKJTSOxx).  If you want t

Running OPER in background

Dear Folks, OPER is listed in the TSO Auth table IKJEFTNS.  And that table entry stops it from running in the background.  The table entry is set in the PARMLIB member IKJTSOxx.  A permanent way of removing OPER from the IKJEFTNS table is to remove OPER from the NOTBKGRD NAMES( ) list. 

Contacting Gabriel Gargiulo

Dear Folks, If anyone wants to contact Gabriel Gargiulo (author of TSO and REXX books) please write to me at sbgo...@cbttape.org.  Gabe has discontinued his website at theamericanprogrammer.com and he has a new email address.  Gabe is the author of a bunch of TSO and REXX books.  He is q

PCRE 10.45

job, to continue to make PCRE available for z/OS users, please contact me (Sam Golob at sbgo...@cbttape.org) and I will make the necessary arrangements. Thank you. All the best of everything to all of you. Sincerely,Sam

Dumping control blocks on your system easily

Dear Folks,    To make it easier to dump control blocks from your system, I made a load library which is member F566DUMP on CBT File 566 (Updates page) and it is in TSO XMIT format, so you can TSO RECEIVE it.  This should make it easier to see that you can dump control blocks from your system

Dumping control blocks on your system easily

Dear Folks,    I would like to show all of you how to display the contents of almost any control block on your system, in a very convenient format, and very easily.  All you have to do is slightly modify an existing assembler program with the name of the control blook, its mapping macro, and

Sysprogs--save yourselves time and your company money

Dear Folks,     I'm just sending this short note, to help us sysprogs make better use of our working time.     We all know that the CBT Tape (www.cbttape.org) has zillions of useful tools, and we may have given up trying to use them, because there are so many of them. But I'll try to tell yo

BRODCAST dataset help

Dear Folks,    If you have any problems relating to SYS1.BRODCAST, or the BROADCAST dataset in general, you are welcome to run them by me, since I wrote two packages of programs to deal with SYS1.BRODCAST problems, maintenance, and related matters.    IBM's help in these matters is probably

Unwanted datasets on SMS disk packs

Dear Folks, Did you ever have trouble while moving datasets around, and they landed on an SMS pack so you couldn’t uncatalog them? Here is what you can do. The SMS bit on the Format-1 VTOC entry for the dataset is the X’80’ bit at +4E in the Format-1 VTOC entry. Turn that bit off and then you ca

LISTPROC

Dear Folks, Use LSTPROC exec from CBT File 312. You’ll be happy. Best of everything to all of you. Sincerely, Sam -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the

AUTOCMD

Dear Folks,     I may have misunderstood your request for the program AUTOCMD.  If you want a job scheduler which runs automatically, then try OTTO on File 332.  Look at member OTTO#.  It ran on OS/390 version 1.3 many years ago, but it probably still works today.  Give it a try and let me kno

AUTOCMD

Dear Folks,     The program COMMAND from CBT File 019 works very well on modern z/OS.  See if it suits you.     All the best of everything to all of you Sincerely,    Sam -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive

Modifying a DSCB for a dataset

Dear Folks,     I made a slight mistake in checking the CBT Files.  The DASD member of CBT File 020 isn't what I thought is was.  In reality, it is a REXX to display the entire DSCB of a dataset name which you supply, but it doesn't seem to have the capability of changing the DSCB. The two pr

How to "touch" mainframe files

Dear Folks, Try the CDSCB TSO command from CBT File 300, or ZAPDSCB from File 566.  The DSCB command seems to be on File 020, but it is old.  The others have been fixed in the last few years.      All the best of everything to all of you. Sincerely,   Sam --

A Fast Intro to time-saving CBT Tools

Dear Folks,     This is a way for z/OS sysprogs to expand their capabilities quickly.     The idea was implemented many years ago, but it ought to be brought to people's attention.     WE HAVE HELP MEMBERS for some of the time-saving free tools that people can use.  They are in CBT Tape File

A new way to look at load modules

Dear Folks,     We have a new TSO command called LISTMOD, which allows you to see what is in a load module very clearly, INCLUDING ALL DISPLACEMENTS.  I don't believe that this kind of tool existed before, or at least (if it did), it wasn't in wide circulation.  The tool is on the CBT Tape Fil

Current Mailing Address

Dear Folks,     Sam Golob's current (snail mail) mailing address has changed.     It is now:   Sam Golob,  P.O. Box 702,  Pomona, NY 10970     I am trying to change all occurrences of the old address on the CBT Tape, but it is difficult.  Therefore this notice.     Thanks.     All the

Xephon stuff is back online - correction

Correction to Xephon's former website address: www.xephon.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Xephon stuff is back online

Dear Folks,    As you may know, the Xephon magazines (from 2005 and previous) are back online at www.cbttape.org.  The VM stuff was courtesy of SDS (who had bought the VM rights from Xephon and had given us permission to post the magazines with attribution to them) and the rest of it was court

CBT Version 506 has been cut

Dear Folks,     It is with great pleasure that we are able to announce that CBT Version 506 has been cut.  Many thanks to the Creator of the world that many people were able to contribute to this update, in many ways. There were at least 50 file updates in this version.  All updates (on the U

Sam Golob articles are now directly online

Dear Folks,     Sorry for the mixup, but I moved my System Programming articles on the CBT Tape Web Site (www.cbttape.org) to their own directory.  The CBT Tape home page has been changed to reflect this.     To find my articles now, please go to www.cbttape.org/articles .  There are about 2

Sam Golob articles are now directly online

Dear Folks,     Recently I received a request to put my (over 230) articles about MVS Systems Programming, directly online.  They had previously resided (and still reside) on CBT Tape Files 014 and 120, which are in zipped XMIT-format, and therefore they are not so readily accessible.  So I f

Xephon MVS magazines from January 97 thru May 97

Dear Folks,     I'm not sure if it is well-known, but a great many XEPHON magazines can now be found on the CBT Tape website, at www.cbttape.org/xephon , and all that material may be used in good conscience by anyone, since Xephon has been defunct for a long time.  The VM and VSE magazines wer

Steve Myers whereabouts

Dear Folks, Does anyone know how to get in contact with Steve Myers? Please contact me off list if you can get in touch with him or you know how to contact him. Thanks much. All the best of everything to all of you. Sincerely, Sam Golob. www.cbttape.org

CBT Version 503 has been cut

Dear Folks,     The CBT Tape Version 503 has been cut.  Its "official" date is July 20, 2022.     All the best of everything to all of you. Sincerely,    Sam -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions,

Contributions to CBT snce 02/22/22

Dear Folks,    I have been laid up since Feb 22,2022 and did not have access to my emals (which are overloaded with Spam).  If you have sent any CBT contributions between then and now, please resend them, if you want them to be posted.  Thanks.  Sorry for any inconvenience.    All the best o

CBT Tape Version 502 has been cut

Dear Folks,     CBT Tape Version 502 has been cut.  It is a large incremental change from V501. Please enjoy     All the best of everything to all of you Sincerely,    Sam -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff

Now it's easier to find stuff on the CBT Tape

Dear Folks,     There is now a new ISPF dialog which makes it much easier to find and download materials from the CBT Tape.  The dialog is called CBTVIEW, and it can be found on File 043 of the Updates Page of the CBT Tape (www.cbttape.org/updates.htm).     When this dialog is working, almos

CBT Tape Updates

Dear Folks,     I have a dilemma.  The dilemma is:  How often should I make new CBT Tape Versions?     We make about 2 or 3 CBT Tape Version updates per year, and we have been doing that for the past 16 or 17 years now.  This is in contrast to when Arnie was doing the CBT Tape.  Arnie (Casin

I need sample tapes in AWS disk format

, and the tape labels.  I don't care about the particulars of the data. Please attach the data to an email to me.  If you have any questions, please write to me off-list. THANK YOU... Sincerely, Sam Golob P.S.  The COPYMODS program, even as it is now, can do many t

CBT Version 501 is completed

Dear Folks, I think I've finished updating the website www.cbttape.org with the proper changes for Version 501. Use it in good health and happiness. All the best of everything to everyone Sincerely, Sam

www.cbttape.org is updated with CBT Version 501 (partially)

Dear Folks, The CBT Tape Version 501 has been cut, and the www.cbttape.org website has been partially updated.  I hope to finish the update of the website tomorrow. Meanwhile, all the new files have been loaded into the CBT directory, so you can get to them now.  Also, File 001, in

Disassemble an object deck

Dear Folks, Is there a FREE tool to disassemble an object deck directly (without linkediting it first)?  I know that STARTOOL READOBJ can do it, but that's an expensive "pay product". Thanks much for any ideas or programs. All the best of everything to all of you. Sincerely, 

PRECIS Tape Mapping Program from UNC

Dear Folks,     I just put up an old tape mapping program named PRECIS from "UNC", which I presume is the University of North Carolina.  The load module was linkedited in 1986, so it is old.  But it works beautifully, the report is concise, and it displays the beginning of each data block, wh

Separating CSECTs from a load module

stream, or in any way you want. I hope this helps.  Please note that (we hope) all auxiliary programs needed or called by the PDS program, are included in File 182 under the member UTILXMIT. All the best of everything to all of you... Sincerely,    Sam Golob (on behalf of J

Learning the basics of SMP/E

Dear Folks,     I was just reviewing an article I wrote in 1988 (a long time ago) that encapsulates and summarizes my original efforts to learn SMP/E.     Many of us systems programmers don't have a chance to do system maintenance, leaving it to "the designated person (or people)". And also,

Code to verify LOGON password

Dear Folks,     I am just trying to get a very old program to work.  It is so old, that it mucks with the TSB password field, and I don't want to deal with that.  I don't care to reveal the password anywhere.  I just want the user to enter a password, and the security system should say "GO" or

Code to verify LOGON password

Dear Folks,     Does anyone have user-written code for RACF, so that if the user types in a password, the code will verify if it is the user's actual LOGON password?     I'd like to see code that does this, for ACF2 and Top Secret as well, but I'm primarily interested in RACF.     Thank yo

Additional zap for TASID

Dear Folks,     There is an additional zap for TASID that is necessary in the initiator display (option 4).  After applying the previous zaps, another zap has to be applied, to show the jobclass for a running job, in the initiator display.  The reason for this is that in z/OS 2.1 (we think) t

TASID ZAP from CBT File 980

Dear Folks,     I am pleased to announce that someone has come up with an additional zap to TASID, so the initiator display works for z/OS 2.4, and it also works correctly on 2.2 and 2.3.  CBT Tape File 980 has been updated accordingly.     Many thanks to the contributor.     All the best o

TASID ZAP from CBT File 980

Dear Folks,     CBT File 980 contains a zap for TASID 5.21, so that the initiator display (option 4) is made to work.  I think that the zap is good for z/OS 2.2 and 2.3, but I tried it on z/OS 2.4 and it doesn't seem to work anymore.  Does anyone have a fix for z/OS 2.4, or can someone pinpoin

CBT Tape V-500 has been released

Dear Folks, CBT Version 500 has been released as of today, at www.cbttape.org.  Please note some of the big updates in the "Changes Section".  Again, since we have the Updates page for intermediate updates in-between "tape" version releases, we only have to make full "version updates" tw

How can you change TCAS defaults using the TSOKEYxx PARMLIB member?

Dear Folks,     Thanks to Joe Monk for getting me the correct information.  First of all, the parameters, which have to be in "=" format, and not TSO format with parentheses, must PRECEDE the comments, and all of them, except the last one, have to be followed by a comma.  For example: USERMA

How can you change TCAS defaults using the TSOKEYxx PARMLIB member?

Dear Folks,     Clark understood my question correctly.  (Hi Clark--haven't heard from you in a while.)     The PARMLIB command deals with the IKJTSOxx member of PARMLIB.  I'm interested in the TSOKEYxx member of PARMLIB which deals with TCAS.     There doesn't seem to be any member in SYS1

How can you change TCAS defaults using the TSOKEYxx PARMLIB member?

Hi Folks,     The TSOKEYxx parmlib member is supposed to have a whole set of parameters that can (supposedly) be changed for TCAS.  I was not successful in being able to change ANY of them using the TSOKEYxx PARMLIB member.  The defaults always came back, no matter how I changed the TSOKEY00

Can you set a FIXED dispatching priority using WLM?

Dear Folks,     Question.  Can you set a FIXED dispatching priority in WLM, like in the old IPS, ICS, OPT days?     Thanks     All the best. Sincerely,    Sam -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive a

CBT File 874

Hi Folks,     Hope you're all well.  Stay safe.     This is just a suggestion, but it may help people to find some tools they might need, on occasion.     CBT Tape File 874 (www.cbttape.org) - always check the Updates page first - has a collection of TSO HELP members for a sizable collection

Re: HOW DO I VERIFY A USERID'S ACCESS TO A DATASET

Hi Folks,    Just wanted to say that I've posted David Spiegel's Assembler program and REXX to File 836 on the Updates page, as 3 members:  RACROUTE (assembler program), RACRAUTH (rexx), and RACROUT$ (assembly JCL).  I would recommend renaming the RACRAUTH rexx to something like DSAUTH, but f

CBT Tape Version 499 has been loaded

Hi Folks,     At www.cbttape.org we have loaded CBT Version 499.  Please enjoy. Remember to refer to the Updates Page first, in between version releases. Sincerely,   Sam -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access

CBT File 120

Hi Folks,    There's another article in CBT File 120 (Updates Page) on www.cbttape.org.  The title is: BM2003MA  :  Using z/OS System Services Macros, or not I hope you enjoy it.    All the best of everything to all of you. Sincerely,    Sam ---

CBT 120 revisions

Hi Folks,     Just to mention that I can revise my articles at any time.  It's a nice luxury to have.     It used to be, when I wrote for the magazine, that once I submitted an article to the editor, I had no further control or say, as to the content.  I didn't have a chance to correct any c

CBT 120

Hi Folks,     Just to let you know there's another article on CBT File 120 (Updates page).     The article is: BM2002FE  :  ONLCLIP - Changing the VOLSER of a disk pack (while the pack remains online)     It isn't needed often, but sometimes it's very useful.  The article goes

Tape Problem

Hi Folks,     I once wrote a package to audit tape differences between the IBM 3494 VTS and CA-1.  It is on CBT Tape File 519. www.cbttape.org  CBT file.  It converts the tape inventory of CA-1 and the VTS to a common format, and compares them, reporting discrepancies.  Hope it helps.  This s

CBT File 120 - a new article -please look

Hi Folks,     I just wrote another article for the "system doctors" about how to alter, cancel, or change the status of jobs, when necessary, and when the IBM methods might not be working for you.  It's nice to have a tool in your pocket when you need it.     This article, together with the

CBT 120 - new article

Hi Folks,     Regarding my new article, please download File 846 from the Updates page of www.cbttape.org.  When writing the article, I made several fixes to the file.  So please use the Updates page for Files 846 and 312, as well as for File 120.     All the best of everything to all of you

CBT File 120 - new article

Hi Folks,     This is to announce a new article, member BM2001JB, which is about a new technique of backing up and restoring and loading IPL text.  The technique is based on CBT File 846 and it comes from two programs written by our friend somitcw, and two other programs written by me.  A sim

CBT File 120

Hi Folks,     I've written another article.  It's about the impact of the 8-character TSO userid change in z/OS 2.3.  I hope you enjoy it.  The member name is BM2001JA.     Thanks to all the people who appreciate my concern for the appropriate audience here.  This stuff is intended for syspr

CBT File 120 - A new article - Member BM1912DE

Dear Folks,     Please leave the distribution of my articles as is.  If you want to see more of them, please think responsibly and don't post them.  Get them from where they are.  Thanks much. Sincerely,  Sam -- For IBM-MAIN

CBT File 120 - A new article - Member BM1912DE

Hi Folks,     I've just completed a new article which you might find interesting to read.  It is on the Updates page of www.cbttape.org on File 120, as member BM1912DE.     The article talks about some newer programs, many of which I have had a part in writing.  In all likelihood, you have n

CBT File 120

Hi Folks,     If and when I write more articles for CBT File 120, I promise to post the notice about them here.     The naming convention for the articles will be BMyymoMO. Example:  BM1911NV which means BM  year 19, month 11,  NV for November.     So that's the pattern, and you can look th

CBT File 120

Hi Folks,     Correction.  The new article is member BM1911NV.  Sorry about the error.     All the best of everything to all of you. Sincerely,    Sam -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send e

CBT File 120

Hi Folks,     I've started writing articles again, but this time it isn't for "Technical Support" magazine.  Rather than make a blog, I decided to just put them out in CBT File 120, because the (interested) audience would most likely be systems programmers, software developers for z/OS and MV

CBT Version 498 has been cut

Hi Folks,     I'm happy to announce that CBT Version 498 has been cut, dated 12/01/19.     Please note the following announcement:     In between version changes, please download files from the "Updates Page" to get the latest software.  If your file number is not in the Updates Page, ONLY

TSO USERS program which also displays ACTIVE jobs

Hi Folks,     Just to let you know about this program.  The ACTIVE part does not work on XA systems and above, without some tweaking, because the CSCB control block (mapped by the IEECHAIN macro) was moved above the 16M line, and that is what contains most of the information about currently a

TSO USERS program which also displays ACTIVE jobs

Hi Folks,     Thanks to all who have helped me so far (especially Frank).     I am trying to locate original source code for a program I have that displays TSO USERS, and also TSO ACTIVE jobs.  I only have a disassembly, and it is a somewhat complex program. From looking at the IKJPARMs in it

A bit of nostalgia

Hi Folks,     Almost ever since I started using TSO, if I wanted to see who else was logged on, I would use the USERS command.  It was second nature.     At one point, maybe ten years ago, I started looking around for the source code for USERS.  And I couldn't find it. It wasn't on the CBT T

Another tool

Hi Folks,     Just want to make aware of a new tool that I stumbled into writing.  But it looks to be more useful than I originally thought.  So I figured to mention it and maybe some people will get mileage out of it.  It is called LISTMOD and it is on File 994 of the Updates page of www.cbt

CBT File 120 revisited

Hi Folks,     For almost 20 years, I wrote a monthly column for NaSPA's magazine "Technical Support", which was entitled "MVS Tools and Tricks of the Trade".  The administrators of NaSPA had kindly allowed me to distribute these articles on File 120 of the CBT Tape.  (See www.cbttape.org Upda

New CBT Version 497 is cut

Hi Folks,     CBT Version 497 is now available on www.cbttape.org. Over 60 files changed.  (They were available on Updates before.)  Use it well...     All the best of everything to all of you. Sincerely,    Sam -- For I

The 64-bit version of LOOK from CBT File 264 is finally out

Hi Folks,     I guess I have to clarify the situation about the LOOK program.  It's intent is to help in system-level code development, and as such, I'd probably say that it shouldn't be installed in any place where there might be a problem of an "unauthorized" person "snooping" at what's in

The 64-bit version of LOOK from CBT File 264 is finally out

Hi Folks,     It worked out well that we had the previous problem when incorrect ASID's were over-typed in LOOKN.  Turns out that LOOKJ (the 31-bit version) had the same issue, and we just fixed it there, too.     I just reloaded File 264 to the www.cbttape.org Updates page, and also File 03

The 64-bit version of LOOK from CBT File 264 is finally out

Hi Folks,     I think we fixed the problem.  We were checking the validity of the over-typed ASID, and when it was wrong, it was possible to feed a wrong ASID into the SRB that gets the data from the other address space.  The fix was, that in the case of an error when the ASID was being over-

The 64-bit version of LOOK from CBT File 264 is finally out

Hi Folks,     For now, LOOKN is in Beta status.  It seems to work fine in regular operation, but for now, don't try to switch to an invalid or inactive ASID.  We'll try and fix the issue as soon as we can.     Thanks for bearing with us. Sincerely,   Sam

The 64-bit version of LOOK from CBT File 264 is finally out

Hi Folks,     I'm happy to announce that the 64-bit version of the LOOK program from CBT File 264 is finally out, on the Updates page of www.cbttape.org.  It has been a long time in coming.     Now you can browse virtual storage and and navigate control blocks in all three:  64-bit, 31-bit,

Help in updating old programs

Hi Folks,     I have been working on updating some old programs to run on z/OS.  Origin of these programs is CBT Tape File 830 (use the one on the Updates page).  These are old Xephon program contributions written from the mid-1980's thru the mid-1990's. There are a lot of them, and many of t

R.F. Perretta

the list, or off-list, and let me know.     Thank you very much.     All the best of everything to all of you. Sincerely,   Sam Golob   sbgo...@cbttape.org -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions

CBT File 483-contact the author

Dear Folks,     Sorry to bother you about this kind of thing.  I have had to modify several items on CBT File 483 from Thomas Ramseier, and since it is "his file", I would like to contact him.  Last I heard from him was in 2001, when he worked for the Swiss Federal Office of Information Techno

CBT Tape Version 496 has been cut

Hi Folks,     The CBT Tape web site, www.cbttape.org, has just been updated with CBT Version 496.  The updates will (hopefully) now go to Version 497.  Please check the site to make sure things were done correctly, and all the updates that were supposed to be there, are there.  Thanks much for

Bad Design but nobody cares

Hi Folks,     I hope this post isn't considered a waste of everyone's time.  I came across this "design element" (so to speak) in my work concerning the Broadcast Dataset (aka SYS1.BRODCAST, in its more restrictive sense).     Question:  When you are reformatting the active Broadcast Dataset

Small and useful CLIST - error

Hi Folks,     Just a handy thing (in one place) that can make life easier.  I wrote it as a CLIST to keep it really simple:  It is called LASTT (you can name it more appropriately, e.g. TIMES) PROC 0 LOGTIME   /* CBT FILE 133  */ LASTIPL   /* CBT FILE 300  */ LASTCLPA  /* CBT FILE

Small and useful CLIST

Hi Folks,     Just a handy thing (in one place) that can make life easier.  I wrote it as a CLIST to keep it really simple:  It is called LASTT (you can name it more appropriately, e.g. TIMES) PROC 0 LOGTIME   /* CBT FILE 133  */ LASTIPL   /* CBT FILE 300  */ LASTCLPA  /* CBT FILE

CBT File 312 IPLCHK changed to IPLTCHK

Hi Folks,     Lionel Dyck's program to report on which disk volumes contain IPL text, in CBT File 312, has been renamed from IPLCHK to IPLTCHK (IPL Text Check).  Since this problem was discussed on IBM-Main about a week ago, and Lionel's solution was reported here, I just needed to say that he

Ken Tomiak's recent work

Dear Folks,     It is with great sadness that I must inform you of the passing of our dear friend, Ken Tomiak.  As a tribute to him, and I think this is the best tribute we can offer him, I am making available his very considerable amount of work, which he did in his last couple of years.  Th

Finding all DASD volumes containing IPL text

Hi Folks,     Lionel Dyck posed the question of how you can determine which of your disk packs have IPL text on them, and what IPL text do they have?     Lionel solved his own problem (with Bob Richards' help). Please see his exec called IPLCHK on CBT File 312 on the UPDATES page.  If you als

URL Table for MOSHIX mainframe YouTube videos

Thanks for the suggestion, Mike.  I updated the $MOSHIX member (doco) with this URL, but with the explanation that sometimes a URL accessed by a web page, does not include all possible (in this case) videos.  So we have to access the video with a direct URL in order to find it. All the best...

URL Table for MOSHIX mainframe YouTube videos

Hi Folks,     CBT File 977 is only on the Updates page of www.cbttape.org. Sorry I omitted that information. All the best of everything to all of you. Sam -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, se

URL Table for MOSHIX mainframe YouTube videos

Hi Folks,     I have created File 977 on the www.cbttape.org which contains a table of all the URL's of the current MOSHIX mainframe videos.  It is member MOSHIXT in the pds, and it contains printable EBCDIC characters only.  The member should be downloaded with ASCII to the PC and looked at

TSO messaging command called TO

Hi Folks,     I hope that this message will be useful to a large number of people, and will make communication between logged-on TSO users easier.     We have just resurrected an old TSO command to conveniently send messages to another TSO user.  The "TO" command is much easier to use than t

NY Metro NaSPA Chapter Meeting, Wednesday, 18 April, 2018

to Mark Nelson at mar...@us.ibm.com.    All the best of everything to all of you Sincerely,    Sam Golob -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

EMPTYTST postscript and thanks

Hi Folks,     I was very heartened by the response to my previous post about our writing the EMPTYTST program (CBT Tape File 971 on the Updates page, www.cbttape.org).  This is a batch program which was designed to run in a jobstream where some data in a dataset may, or may not, have been pro

EMPTYTST program - Test if a non-VSAM dataset is empty

Hi Folks,     Because of some interest on this list, we just wrote a tool that might help people in long jobstreams.  It is called EMPTYTST and it is a batch program which can tell if a PS dataset or a PO member is empty or not.     EMPTYTST uses SYSUT1 for the input dataset, and returns a co

Free PDS86 V151

Hi Folks,    If you are using PDS86 on a z/OS 2.3 system, please install the latest version from CBT Tape File 182, if you plan on turning on the 8-character userids and prefixes.  The latest release has been fixed for that.  It has also been fixed for ISPF userid's of length 8.    Thanks fo

CBT Tape URL is www.cbttape.org

Hi Folks,     Most people know the URL for the CBT Tape, but in case somebody doesn't know it, it's www.cbttape.org.  There may be some people who are new to this list, and who don't (yet) know that they can get many marvelous tools for z/OS there (all for free).  (Of course, all disclaimers

CBT Tape Version 495 has been cut

Hi Folks,     The CBT Tape Version 495 has been cut (finally).  There have been over 60 file changes made since the last version was cut last March.  I believe that this is the single biggest increment in changes between file versions.     The tape was cut yesterday, and the website updates

Converting programs to accommodate 8-character userids and prefixes

Hi Ed,     Ah, nostalgia!!!     Funny thing is, UADS was studied in depth by Jim Marshall in the early 90's.  And although it's not too wise to use it (via the ACCOUNT command) to define working userids in a production system, but on a development system the knowledge of SYS1.UADS can com

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