Re: Run python with arguments JCL

Thanks David. How about reading the in stream data from a USS file using STDPARM DD PATH= Example: //STDPARM DD PATH='/u/turbo/abc.parms',PATHOPTS=ORDONLY I am not sure this will work for Python in stream data as I never tried the same. Regards, Suresh Chacko On Sun, May 18, 202

Re: Run python with arguments JCL

Hi Peter, Please try to use the in stream data in multi lines using 'X' as the continuation character in 72 column. Regards, Suresh Chacko On Sun, May 18, 2025, 12:19 PM Peter < 05e4a8a0a03d-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > Hello > > I am trying to run a

Re: Dataset File System

Dear Lionel, Thanks a lot for the share. A platform where both TSO and USS meet. I will experiment the same to explore more Thanks, Suresh On Sat, Dec 23, 2023, 11:02 PM Lionel B. Dyck wrote: > I looked and could not find an IBM Idea to address the DFSMShsm migration > issues with DSFS so I

Re: Free ZOWE Class

Dear Lionel Thanks for the share. Regards, Suresh On Tue, Sep 5, 2023, 5:14 PM Lionel B. Dyck wrote: > Just ran across this - y'all (or some) may be interested: > > Free Zowe course and OMP digital badge from Interskill and the Open > Mainframe Project. Enjoy! > > https://interskill.com/zowe/

Re: OMVS Man Pages

Dear Lionel, Good post. Regards, Suresh On Thu, May 11, 2023, 4:25 PM Lionel B. Dyck wrote: > Please check out this IBM Idea (aka requirement) that I just posted > regarding the OMVS Man pages and vote and/or comment > > https://ibm-z-hardware-and-operating-systems.ideas.ibm.com/ideas/ZOS-I-36

Re: VM Workshop 2021 Presentations Available on YouTube

Dear Timothy, Thanks a lot for the link. Regards, Suresh Chacko On Tue, Jun 22, 2021, 09:57 Timothy Sipples wrote: > The 2021 VM Workshop assembled virtually on June 10 and 11, and the > presentations are now available on YouTube here: > > https://www.youtube

Re: ISPF development tips and tricks

Dear Lionel, Excellent contribution! Thank you, Suresh Chacko On Fri, Apr 19, 2019, 18:10 Lionel B. Dyck wrote: > I am announcing a new, free, ebook with usable examples for all ISPF > developers with tips and tricks to jump start or improve your dialog > writing. It is 70+ pages an

Re: (OT) Good bye everyone

Dear Ed, Best wishes and prayers, Regards, Suresh On Mon, Jul 16, 2018 at 11:23 PM, Edward Gould wrote: > Approximately 2 months I had a life altering incident. > I can no longer function as a sysprog. I resigned my no pay job at the > place I used to donate my time. > I find I can no longer d

Re: zFS V5: Good news.

Dear V.Kees, Lionel, Very good information and command. Thanks, Suresh N Chacko On Tue, Jun 5, 2018 at 4:00 PM, Dyck, Lionel B. (RavenTek) < lionel.d...@va.gov> wrote: > I found the answer - the command to display all zFS files and their > version is: > > zfsadm aggrinfo -long > > Cheers > > -

Re: TSO messaging command called TO

Hi all, Is it possible to send a message to a console using TSO TO command? I use SEND command for the same. Kindly advise. Regards, Suresh On Jun 2, 2018 1:24 AM, "Sam Golob" wrote: Hi Folks, I hope that this message will be useful to a large number of people, and will make communication

Re: DB2 & CICS Training

Dear Venkat You can find CICS and Db2 courses at Marist IDCP, Poughkeepsie, NY, U.S. You may contact Mr. Angelo Corridori in angelo.corrid...@marist.edu. Best regards Suresh Chacko Sent from my iPhone > On Nov 26, 2017, at 17:58, David Staudacher wrote: > > Venkat: Besides the IB

Re: Sources of message: IKJ56700A ENTER JOBNAME CHARACTER(S) -

Dear Lindy Edit the job in 3.4 and the PROFILE. If PACK is ON, set it OFF with PACK OFF command and resubmit the job and see it resolves the issue. Thanks, Suresh Chacko On Wed, Jun 28, 2017 at 10:28 AM, Lindy Mayfield wrote: > Hello. > > Can someone tell me what triggers thi

Re: TIME jn JCL (again)

Dear all, As the STEP value is not an override for the JOB value. The 90 seconds for the JOB is cumulative for the entire job run. Though, here this step time is limit to 80 and if there is a prior step to this one which takes 30 secs, then the step which limited with 80 secs will get only 60 sec

Re: New ISPF command - SETCLIP

Dear Lionel Thank you for this good share. Best regards, Suresh Sent from my iPhone > On Sep 16, 2016, at 16:11, Lionel Dyck wrote: > > I've just posted a new tool to www.lbdsoftware.com > for y'all. > > > > SETCLIP is an ISPF dialog that makes it easy for a use

Re: New Updates to lbdsoftware.com

Dear Lionel, Appreciate your efforts great contributions System z World! Best regards, Suresh Chacko On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 11:53 PM, Lionel Dyck wrote: > I've made a few updates: > > > > 1. FASTPATH was updated to clear up a point and shoot bug that has > been

Re: z/OS Master/User catalog dataset re-organization

Hi all, Thanks to all. Gone through z/OS catalog management reference guide too. Best regards, Suresh On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 6:59 AM, suresh chacko wrote: > Hi all, > > Thanks to all for the valuable inputs and shares. > > Is it required to organize a planned outage during t

Re: z/OS Master/User catalog dataset re-organization

LPARS are spread across and connected with GRS. Regards, Suresh On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 12:49 AM, John Eells wrote: > suresh chacko wrote: > >> Hello Group, >> >> Like to know the best practices in z/OS Catalog dataset management and >> what >> all ar

Re: z/OS Master/User catalog dataset re-organization

Dear Dave, Thank you so much for the share. Have a great day! Regards, Suresh On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 12:36 AM, Gibney, Dave wrote: > See inline below. > > > -Original Message- > > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] > > On

Re: z/OS Master/User catalog dataset re-organization

t; -Original Message- > > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] > > On Behalf Of suresh chacko > > Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2016 12:29 PM > > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > > Subject: z/OS Master/User catalog dataset re-organizat

z/OS Master/User catalog dataset re-organization

Hello Group, Like to know the best practices in z/OS Catalog dataset management and what all are the steps involved in z/OS catalog dataset re-organization activity. Kindly share from your expert experience and knowledge. Regards, Suresh N C

Re: My Assembler Text

Dear John, Thank you for this share. Regards, Suresh Chacko On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 1:30 PM, Steve Horein wrote: > Thank you sir! > > On Thu, Apr 21, 2016 at 2:08 PM, John Ehrman wrote: > > > Some materials that may be useful to teachers of IBM mainframe Assembler &g

Re: 4-hour MSU rolling average

Mark, Excellent one. I use the same. Regads, Suresh On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 12:17 AM, Greg Shirey wrote: > I use the following, which is similar to the REXX provided earlier in this > thread (and liberally stolen from Mark Zelden). > > /* REXX */ > > CVT = C2D(STORAGE(10,4)) > RMCT = C2D(ST

Re: COMMANDxx member

Hi Relson, Thank you for the additional info. Regards, Suresh On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 3:54 PM, Peter Relson wrote: > >The following rules apply to the creation of COMMNDxx: > >... > >Do not specify comments. > > That was the old rule. > As of z/OS 2.1 or as of z/OS 1.11 with APAR OA38328, the

Re: COMMANDxx member

tclas]][,STOR|S=[storclas]) > DD NAME=some_data_set_mask_here > D D,O > > You can control your System Dump Datasets through ACS code or your can > specify the SMS classes you want Dumps to use in the DD ADD,SMS command. > > Try commands and determine what will work in your shop > >

Re: COMMANDxx member

Kees, That's great! I was thinking about it. But I thought 2 blank spaces required. It's clear. Well appreciated. Suresh On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 6:08 PM, Vernooij, CP (SPLXM) - KLM < kees.verno...@klm.com> wrote: > > I have seen the below CD command in our COMMANDxx and so wanted to ask and >

Re: COMMANDxx member

ee the topic on sharing system commands in > z/OS MVS Planning: Operations for details about how the system processes > system symbols in commands that flow through two or more systems. > > > As others have pointed out - what you enter on the console is what you > would place bet

COMMANDxx member

Hi I need a help in coding syntax of z/OS COMMANDxx of PARMLIB. Please note that our installation is not sysplex and 4 LPARS connected with GRS in CEC's, one at Primary site and the other at secondary site. We are on z/OS 1.12. The below are for the automatic dump data sets allocation coded in th

Re: Difference between MVS and z / OS systems

dware architecture. Thanks, Suresh Chacko On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 9:07 PM, Helio Jose Da Silva < helio.si...@rural.com.br> wrote: > Hello list, > > Someone can tell me the relevant differences between the MVS and z / OS > systems? > > > T

Re: z/OS 1.9 under z/VM 6.3 on zBC12

Hi Alan, Thanks for the detailed expert explanation on z/VM and guests. I agree with you on z/OS versions usage and support on various processors. Thanks for the z/OS 1.12 general support reminder too. Regards, Suresh On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 5:52 PM, Alan Altmark wrote: > On Sun, 23 Feb 2014 2

Re: Accountability (was: multiple TSO Sessions (try this))

Great point on accountability. Thanks. Suresh On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 7:37 PM, Skip Robinson wrote: > There was a time when I promoted (at least) two userids for system support > folks. SLED DASD was far less reliable than today's virtual arrays, It was > a dreadfully monotonous occurrence for

Re: multiple TSO Sessions (try this)

I agree to that, One TSO userid per user in the same LPAR at a time to perform his or her task. I don't understand the the logic of having multiple logon's of the same userid in the *same LPAR* at the same time. What I experienced is that if a TSO userid is logged on with a LPAR, loggin on the sam

Re: 4-Hour Rolling Average in sub capacity reporting

t; Kees. > > > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On > Behalf Of suresh chacko > Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2013 08:42 > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: 4-Hour Rolling Average in sub capacity reporting >

Re: 4-Hour Rolling Average in sub capacity reporting

Corrected version... Mike, That means if i want add or reduce MSU's of the LPAR it's better to perform the change at the beginning hours of 2nd of every month. Kindly confirm. Also advise how IBM will charge on sub capacity changes if I add MSU's on a later day of month. Thanks, Suresh On Thu

Re: 4-Hour Rolling Average in sub capacity reporting

Mike, That means if i want add or reduce MSU's of the LPAR it's better to perform the change at the beginning hours of 2nd of every month. Kindly confirm. Also advise if I add MSU's on a later day of month. Thanks, Suresh On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 11:16 AM, Mike Shorkend wrote: > And the period

Re: Explanation of S0C4 reason 4

Jake, Thanks a lot. I am on a emergency leave in India right now. So what I am planning to do is to execute the job jcl with REGION=0. Regards, Suresh On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 9:39 PM, Jake anderson wrote: > what did you do to resolve ? > > > On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 9:34 PM, s

Re: Explanation of S0C4 reason 4

Thank you all for the support and feedbacks. Regards, Suresh On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 6:08 PM, Peter Relson wrote: > >I just looked in the Assembler Authorized Guide on Virtual Storage > >And it says subpool 0 is always 8 > > If the books says so, please explain where so we can correct that. >

Re: Explanation of S0C4 reason 4

solution how to overcome this scenario. In this case how I can display the PSW of the abended job to see the key. Appreciate your responses in this subject. Thanks, Suresh Chacko On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 3:56 PM, Micheal Butz wrote: > Hi > > As I am in the middle of debugging my TS

Re: The z/OS V2.1 Migration PDF available

Dear Marna, Thanks a lot for the guidance. Regards, Suresh On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 1:51 AM, Marna WALLE wrote: > Hi All, > Since you mentioned the z/OS V2,1 Migration book being available, I > thought I would bring to your attention something. It's different. > > We've tried a new format for

Re: Issue with JES SPOOL

Thanks to everyone for the JES2 share. Great knowledge. Regards, Suresh On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 3:10 AM, baby eklavya wrote: > Hello everyone , > > > Is there a different way to come out of the below situation other than a > cold start of JES2 > > *$HASP050 JES2 RESOURCE SHORTAGE OF TGS - 100 %

Re: z/TPF question

I would also like to know whether zIIP engine can be used for ALCS and z/TPF environments. If we can be used, what type of ALCS and TPF processes can be offloaded from CP to zIIP. Thanks, Suresh On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 9:13 PM, Sam Siegel wrote: > Hi - Does anyone know if zIIP engines can be us

Re: Group capacity lpar capped ?

This is something interesting to me and I am also looking for the same. I am learning and exploring REXX. I like to have the help in displaying two items - 1. Total % Weight: and 2, WLM Capping %: 0.0. 3. A specific time the LPAR is capped using CVT, RMCT and RCT Storage search. Kindly req

Re: Question concerning Z/VM, Linux and General Processors

Hello That's true ZAAP and Java workloads can be run on ZIIP meeting the below.. The zAAP on zIIP capability is not available if z/OS is in an LPAR and zAAPs are installed on the machine. zIIP to CP ratio of no more than 1:1; the number of zIIPs cannot exceed the number of CPs. z/OS V1.11 and abo

Re: Question concerning Z/VM, Linux and General Processors

, Suresh On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 9:47 AM, R.S. wrote: > W dniu 2013-04-05 06:51, suresh chacko pisze: > >> Points we shared and learnt. Thanks to all for this knowledge share. >> >> 1. CP is kneecapped and expensive. >> > Not always kneecapped, especially not true

Re: Question concerning Z/VM, Linux and General Processors

Points we shared and learnt. Thanks to all for this knowledge share. 1. CP is kneecapped and expensive. Linux will run faster on IFL. 2. CP and IFL's can be shared in single LPAR 3. Proper sizing of Memory, Paging, SRN resources. 4. If still high usage caused by Linux instance - adding

Re: Question concerning Z/VM, Linux and General Processors

I agreed with Tom. GCP is set run at low speed though Linux can be hosted natively on it. There may be something went wrong in initial planning of Memory, storage sizing etc. Otherwise there should not be any high CPU usage on IFL. On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 5:55 PM, Tom Marchant wrote: > On Thu, 4