Re: IND$FILE and zFS?

2021-03-29 Thread Timothy Sipples
If you're interested in creating a file transfer program compatible with zFS, there's a possible "head start" available: a mainframe version of the Kermit file transfer protocol. http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/k370.html Kermit can operate over TN3270(E) connections. I don't think IBM Mainframe

Re: Abend S052-104

2021-03-29 Thread Rob Scott
Gary If you update the PPT entry for your server jobstep program to NOCANCEL, then you can consider moving the ownership of that PC-cp to the server. Rob From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Gary Weinhold Sent: 28 March 2021 05:58 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Abend S0

Re: Control-M/Tape

2021-03-29 Thread Oren, Yifat
Hi, Please check out Control-M/Tape CTTSBD (Data Set Stacking) -https://documents.bmc.com/supportu/INC/help/Main_help/en-US/index.htm#70522.htm. It can be used to duplicate tape volumes. Hope that helps, Yifat Disclaimer: These postings are my own and do not necessarily represent BMC's posi

Lead BMC products

2021-03-29 Thread Steve Beaver
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Any One Looking for new gig?

2021-03-29 Thread Steve Beaver
Is anyone in the group a fully a position as a Lead to convert from BMC products to IBM alternatives. Must be a must a US Citizen and reside in the US -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, sen

Re: [MVS-OE] FILEDATA=RECORD writes atomic?

2021-03-29 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On 2021-03-29, at 05:18:27, William Schoen wrote: > > It is done by the access method or application writing the records. > Thanks. Of course IBM might document the implementation of access methods, though not of user-written applications. > All writes seen by the kernel are atomic. > If ther

Re: Abend S052-104

2021-03-29 Thread Peter Relson
It was set up this way when we decided we had to add a PC to our product 20 years ago. I believe the programmer was afraid that a customer could accidentally cancel the server started task and cause all running instances of our product to abend (which could include CICS and IMS/TM regions, batch

Re: Any One Looking for new gig?

2021-03-29 Thread Radoslaw Skorupka
W dniu 29.03.2021 o 15:26, Steve Beaver pisze: Is anyone in the group a fully a position as a Lead to convert from BMC products to IBM alternatives. I'm not US citizen so it is not for me however I would advice to be more specific. There is big difference between tools, knowledge needed and c

Re: LFAREA in z/OS 2.3

2021-03-29 Thread Harris Morgenstern
Prior to V2R3 the specification of the 1M LFAREA resulted in storage being physically reserved for LFAREA frames (used to back IARV64 PAGEFRAMESIZE=1Meg requests), but which could potentially be used for other purposes. If the system ran low on memory, the 1M LFAREA could be used to satisfy

Assembler Language Programming for IBM System z Servers

2021-03-29 Thread Wendell Lovewell
Hello all. Does anyone know if Dr Ehrman's excellent assembler book could be updated for the new instructions released since 2015? Or, at least refreshed with current standards for PDF-page generation standards? What I mean is, it would really be helpful if: a) The pages in the Table of Cont

Re: Any One Looking for new gig?

2021-03-29 Thread PINION, RICHARD W.
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Re: IND$FILE and zFS?

2021-03-29 Thread Farley, Peter x23353
Even large shops who are relatively up-to-date in z/OS release level have not made z/OSMF available to application teams in any form. Most are limiting that access to systems teams and even they don’t much like it from the posts I have seen on this list. There have to be less intrusive / compl

Re: IND$FILE and zFS?

2021-03-29 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Mon, 29 Mar 2021 18:36:43 +, Farley, Peter x23353 wrote: > >There have to be less intrusive / complex-to-implement--shop-wide >alternatives, and an updated or open-sourced IND$FILE would provide one such. > As an ISV's employee, I was delighted with NFS. It made desktop filesystems visible

Re: IND$FILE and zFS?

2021-03-29 Thread Farley, Peter x23353
Not sure why not. NIH is one possible reason. "Too new-fangled for us, our programmers will never figure it out" might be another. Lack of time (under-staffing) or sheer laziness may be other possible reasons, along with "We're getting off the mainframe Real Soon Now (tm) so do nothing new th

Re: Abend S052-104

2021-03-29 Thread Binyamin Dissen
On Sun, 28 Mar 2021 00:58:22 -0400 Gary Weinhold wrote: :>It was set up this way when we decided we had to add a PC to our product :>20 years ago.  I believe the programmer was afraid that a customer could :>accidentally cancel the server started task and cause all running :>instances of our p

Re: IND$FILE and zFS?

2021-03-29 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Mon, 29 Mar 2021 19:12:26 +, Farley, Peter x23353 wrote: >Not sure why not. NIH is one possible reason. "Too new-fangled for us, our >programmers will never figure it out" might be another. > ??? It makes the desktop FS look like z/OS; view/edit with ISPF 3.17 (panel, not version) an

Re: IND$FILE and zFS?

2021-03-29 Thread Charles Mills
"It's a UNIX thingy; we don't want that on our mainframe." Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Farley, Peter x23353 Sent: Monday, March 29, 2021 12:12 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: IND$FILE and zFS?

Re: IND$FILE and zFS?

2021-03-29 Thread Radoslaw Skorupka
W dniu 29.03.2021 o 21:02, Paul Gilmartin pisze: On Mon, 29 Mar 2021 18:36:43 +, Farley, Peter x23353 wrote: There have to be less intrusive / complex-to-implement--shop-wide alternatives, and an updated or open-sourced IND$FILE would provide one such. As an ISV's employee, I was delighte