Re: ISPF issue - new system

2018-10-11 Thread Steve Coalbran
I think that the ISPF startup will automativally allocate a clean ISPF profile if none exists? It does here. So rename your ISPF profile at the READY prompt, then start ISPF and copy+replace back from the original (if needs be)? From: IBM Mainframe Discussion L

Re: Question ABout ISPF Panels

2018-08-30 Thread Steve Coalbran
You cannot issue ISPF dialog commands from within a panel's *REXX section or PANEXIT.. You will get syntax errors (or worse). You can set values inside a *REXX section and act on them afterwards, ie... ... &ZERRALRM = YES &ZERRHM = MYAPPL &CURSOR = .CURSOR &CSRPOS = .CSRPOS *REXX(*,ZCMD,ZER

Re: Use of dynamic system symbols in JCL

2018-06-08 Thread Steve Coalbran
Hi Lizette, I have a UDLC (User Defined Line Command) for our group. DJ - Displays Job status info. It creates a list of assignment SET statements in JCL for each of: SYSVAR, MVSVAR, MVSVAR SYMDEF, and then does the same for System Symbols (trapped from SDSF command -D SYMBOLS). Then I extract on

Re: In-Stream Symbols and The Length

2018-03-28 Thread Steve Coalbran
Hi Lizette I tried even a 2 stage attempt, hoping to fool it! 2 // SET B=' ' 3 // SET A=&B'UNIT=SYSDA' IEFC653I SUBSTITUTION JCL - A= 4 //STEP1EXEC PGM=IEFBR14 5 //SETDDDD DISP=SHR,DSN=MY.DSN&A IEFC653I SUBSTITUTION JCL - DISP=SHR,DSN=MY.DSN Same, see, not even &A ge

Re: rexx and tso alllocate

2016-03-04 Thread Steve Coalbran
Hi Lizette - this site gets forbidden for me (I work for Nordea bank now - no longer IBM - more restrictive) Could you possibly be so kind as to send me this code :-D to coalb...@hotmail.com ? /Steve > Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2016 10:27:28 -0700 > From: stars...@mindspring.com > Subject: Re: rexx

Re: rexx and tso alllocate

2016-03-04 Thread Steve Coalbran
ALLOC with VB LRECL=32756 ? ;-) /S > Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2016 10:27:28 -0700 > From: stars...@mindspring.com > Subject: Re: rexx and tso alllocate > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > > Have you tried under TSO BATCH with or without ISPF libraries (and I am > thinking the ISF libraries may need to be

Migrate ti new userid

2015-09-22 Thread Steve Coalbran
I am trying to migrate all data on one TSO userid to a new id. Is there an easy way to do this? At the moment I have been working using ISPF LMD utiities to generate HBACK+HRECOVER NEWNAME commands but I can see that GDGs will prsent a problem. I guess VSAM will also. Any ideas?! /Steve ---

Re: Message handling (was: Submit job without messages)

2015-07-28 Thread Steve Coalbran
*/ /*=TRY===>> CALL ABEXIT "ERROR TEST","ONE§TWO§THREE§FOUR§F½½½I½½½V½½½E";EXIT >>---*/ ABEXIT: PROCEDURE

Re: Submit job without messages

2015-07-28 Thread Steve Coalbran
You're right Lizette - should be under TSO-REXX or even ISPF-L ? /Steve From: Lizette Koehler To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Date: 2015-07-28 16:55 Subject:Re: Submit job without messages Sent by:IBM Mainframe Discussion List For those that might not be aware. There i

Re: Message handling (was: Submit job without messages)

2015-07-28 Thread Steve Coalbran
2015-07-28 17:34 Subject:Message handling (was: Submit job without messages) Sent by:IBM Mainframe Discussion List (LISTSERV appears to have mangled your nice section marks and required blanks.) On 2015-07-28, at 08:41, Steve Coalbran wrote: > > /* Break lm at the fir

Re: Submit job without messages

2015-07-28 Thread Steve Coalbran
need help on this. (I said I was naive.) On Tue, 28 Jul 2015 15:40:09 +0200, Steve Coalbran wrote: >SAYMSG: PROCEDURE >PARSE ARG zedsmsg,lm >zedlmsg = "" /* Break lm at the first paragraph mark. Since lm appears to be no further used, anything after the paragraph mark is

Re: Submit job without messages

2015-07-28 Thread Steve Coalbran
Correction!!! Last line of ABEXIT: should be: EXIT cc /*>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>*/ c

Re: Submit job without messages

2015-07-28 Thread Steve Coalbran
gt;>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>*/ NOTE: In these... § is a paragraph-mark so forces a newline in the long-message block. ½ is a required-blan

Re: Submit job without messages

2015-07-28 Thread Steve Coalbran
CALL OUTTRAP "M." ADDRESS TSO "SUBMIT" jcljob /* "jcljob" is tso format dataset name of a single JCL job */ CALL OUTTRAP "OFF" PARSE VAR m.1 jobname "(" jobid ")" qsub . IF( qsub<>"SUBMITTED" )THEN SIGNAL SUBMITERROR Then you can do what you will with the message details. /Steve From:

Re: How comes SDSF HOLD panel shows one line per OutputGroup instead of per job?

2015-07-27 Thread Steve Coalbran
Hi Peter Any chance of a screen print/trap to show this phenomena? /Steve From: Peter Hunkeler To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Date: 2015-07-27 12:53 Subject:How comes SDSF HOLD panel shows one line per OutputGroup instead of per job? Sent by:IBM Mainframe Discussion List

HELP COMMANDS

2015-07-21 Thread Steve Coalbran
HELP Såvida annat inte anges ovan: / Unless stated otherwise above: IBM Svenska AB Organisationsnummer: 556026-6883 Adress: 164 92 Stockholm -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists.

Re: ISPF Workstation Setup ( Was: IND$FILE Resource Log & Monitoring)

2015-07-14 Thread Steve Coalbran
by:IBM Mainframe Discussion List In , on 06/13/2015 at 10:22 AM, Steve Coalbran said: >1. What's a CV (apart from what I need for my next job!)? SNA Control Vector. >2. Whatever address I need, how do I get it? GTTERM -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JO

Re: ISPF Workstation Setup ( Was: IND$FILE Resource Log & Monitoring)

2015-06-13 Thread Steve Coalbran
TSERV.UA.EDU Date: 2015-06-13 01:15 Subject:Re: ISPF Workstation Setup ( Was: IND$FILE Resource Log & Monitoring) Sent by:IBM Mainframe Discussion List In , on 06/12/2015 at 03:02 PM, Steve Coalbran said: >Thanks Lizette, >I have played with WSA but not for som

Re: ISPF Workstation Setup ( Was: IND$FILE Resource Log & Monitoring)

2015-06-12 Thread Steve Coalbran
Thanks Dave, I will try downloading at z/OS 2.1 and retry my scenarios. It may make a difference here? Who knows? /Steve From: Dave Salt To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Date: 2015-06-12 17:24 Subject:Re: ISPF Workstation Setup ( Was: IND$FILE Resource Log & Monitoring) Sent by:

Re: ISPF Workstation Setup ( Was: IND$FILE Resource Log & Monitoring)

2015-06-12 Thread Steve Coalbran
interception, tampering, amendment or viruses or any consequence thereof. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Steve Coalbran Sent: Friday, June 12, 2015 9:21 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: ISPF Workstation Setup ( Wa

Re: ISPF Workstation Setup ( Was: IND$FILE Resource Log & Monitoring)

2015-06-12 Thread Steve Coalbran
Hi John, What is this of which you speak? "an already in-place FTP of members" Does it have a psychic IPADDR function for 'obfuscated' servers? /Steve From: John Abell To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Date: 2015-06-12 15:09 Subject:Re: ISPF Workstation Setup ( Was: IND$FILE Resourc

Re: ISPF Workstation Setup ( Was: IND$FILE Resource Log & Monitoring)

2015-06-12 Thread Steve Coalbran
Thanks Lizette, I have played with WSA but not for some time. I had to stop when I found Customers whose servers are behind: LDAP+Citrix+TPX, etc... don't seem to have a locatable IPADDR. I tried the standard, running TSO NETSTAT and locating the first 'Established' connection, but that does not

Re: IBM mainframe operations in the 80s

2015-06-11 Thread Steve Coalbran
NICE! I remember it well...! Give me a 3279, SNA-attached with SSRT (Remember that?! SubSecondRespondTime?!) Eat your heart out TCP/IP+LDAP+CITRIX+?!=CTRT (CoffeeTimeResponseTime)! Then we could really work fast!? "and yer try and tell the young folk of today... "[https://youtu.be/Xe1a1wHxTyo] :-

Re: DFSORT - How to select last 8 bytes in variable length records

2015-06-07 Thread Steve Coalbran
Excellent solution! Just tried it using original data supplied. I will save this example should I ever get such an unusual format of input data. Almost unchanged after JCL snippet Cut&Paste... //* //S010 EXEC PGM=IDCAMS //SY

Re: Fault Analyzer experts?

2015-06-05 Thread Steve Coalbran
Excellent! Trevlig helg! /Steve From: Thomas Berg To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Date: 2015-06-05 15:30 Subject:Re: Fault Analyzer experts? Sent by:IBM Mainframe Discussion List FYI and YMMV, I edited the variable successfully in the )INIT section, it was easy: )INI

Re: Fault Analyzer experts?

2015-06-05 Thread Steve Coalbran
__ Thomas Berg Specialist zOS/RQM/IT Delivery Swedbank AB (Publ) Interactive is 'manual.' Batch is 'automatic.' > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of > Steve Coalbran > Sent: Thursday, June

Re: Fault Analyzer experts?

2015-06-04 Thread Steve Coalbran
#x27;manual.' Batch is 'automatic.' > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of > Steve Coalbran > Sent: Thursday, June 04, 2015 4:22 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: Fault Analyzer

Re: Fault Analyzer experts?

2015-06-04 Thread Steve Coalbran
Hej Thomas, Sorry I missed the bulk of the answers and this may be a duplicate. Does PANEL(IDIPIDAD) display? If so TYPE command DDLIST M IDIPIDAD to see the PANEL source --- if that helps. :-/ /Steve From: Thomas Berg To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Date: 2015-06-04 16:10 Subject:

Re: Notify for XMIT

2015-06-01 Thread Steve Coalbran
It seemed to work without error with NOW on the SEND but changing that to NOWADAYS... SEND 'MESSAGE' USER(FOO) NOWADAYS INVALID KEYWORD, NOWADAYS SEND RETURNED CC 92 (typo '7' removed) /Steve From: "Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)" To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Date: 2015-05-31 19:55 Sub

Re: QUESTION ABOUT SPACE ABEND

2015-05-29 Thread Steve Coalbran
What happened to the X37 exit. I thought it had been incorporated into JES2. Melvin Avis in IBM UK wrote the basic code for this years ago (before retiring). It intercepts an x37 abend and overrides (expands) space allocation values for many situations. /Steve From: "Vernooij, CP (ITOPT1) -

Re: GENERATED STATEMENT!?

2015-05-28 Thread Steve Coalbran
n List On Thu, 28 May 2015 13:51:26 +0200, Steve Coalbran wrote: >I missed the original of this. >Is the original JCL for the job available? > Yes. It's in the archives. -- gil -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / sign

Re: GENERATED STATEMENT!?

2015-05-28 Thread Steve Coalbran
Clearly this is not the case: "JES requires that the "*" will be separated by a comma or blank from the next JCL keyword" I knew this because just today I discovered the SYMBOLS,EXPORT SYMLIST JCL functions. Well I have only been writing it for 40 years. I'm sure it wasn't there in OS/360 ?

Re: GENERATED STATEMENT!?

2015-05-28 Thread Steve Coalbran
I missed the original of this. Is the original JCL for the job available? /steve From: Doron Geva To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Date: 2015-05-28 12:26 Subject:Re: GENERATED STATEMENT!? Sent by:IBM Mainframe Discussion List It seems like JES error. JES is the one that

Re: PCI DSS compliance for z/OS

2015-05-19 Thread Steve Coalbran
Microwave it! /Steve From: Todd Arnold To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Date: 2015-05-19 14:25 Subject:Re: PCI DSS compliance for z/OS Sent by:IBM Mainframe Discussion List Phil Smith wrote: > ... and when decommissioning hardware-no more "How many DSEs should we > do?

Re: Scheduling software

2015-05-18 Thread Steve Coalbran
We use IBM TWS as our mainframe scheduler and I have worked on this as it's previous name OPC which is still used synominously. /Steve From: Scott Barry To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Date: 2015-05-15 18:08 Subject:Re: Scheduling software Sent by:IBM Mainframe Discussion

Re: Primary allocation of a dataset

2015-05-14 Thread Steve Coalbran
I missed most of the thread but, is this what you mean, in REXX you can issue: RC = LISTDSI('K248610.USER.EXEC' "RECALL DIRECTORY SMSINFO") Which might give results something like this... SYSDSNAME= K248610.USER.EXEC SYSVOLUME= PRI001 SYSUNIT

Re: z/OS Platform Software Products on ... Tape?

2015-05-13 Thread Steve Coalbran
Hi Ed re: "Don't have internet connectivity to the Internet" (& "DVD" what's that?) Our S148 (IBM 3148) is still 'out' for uploads at the moment as both our proudly maintained 3420s 'crapped out' (after a program using BSPs weirdly) ran on first one then the other! We had to fallback to our re

Re: Where can a running TSO program get its "terminal name"

2015-05-12 Thread Steve Coalbran
Hi Rupert In TSO REXX you can use a 'SYSVAR'... tid = SYSVAR("SYSTERMID") /Steve From: Rupert Reynolds To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Date: 2015-05-12 19:59 Subject:Re: Where can a running TSO program get its "terminal name" Sent by:IBM Mainframe Discussion List Many