Re: References for multiple UCBs

2023-01-25 Thread Seymour J Metz
MVT IOS was the first one that I came up with, but it requires reading between the lines *"original research" in wikispeak) and I was hoping for "multiple exposures for dummies". I added a citation of IODEVICE in OS/360 Sysgen and the same editor deleted it and added a citation needed template i

Re: Tcpip ports

2023-01-25 Thread Robyn Gilchrist
NETSTAT is great to see ports, but it is a snapshot. To view port usage over a period of time, perhaps you could define a SERVAUTH EZB.PORTACCESS.** profile with ID(*) READ and AUDIT(ALL). Specify a value for resname on the SAF keyword of the PORT statement in TCPPROF and obey it into TCP (or

Re: LDAP with TS7700 and/or DS8K's

2023-01-25 Thread Roger Lowe
On Mon, 23 Jan 2023 14:48:13 +, Benik, John E wrote: >I imagine HMC and LDAP would be for AOS access on the DS8K's, but it also >sounds like setting up the TS7700 would be a little more involved and a little >more complicated. I'd be curious as to the reasons you decided to go the LDAP >

XL C\C+ strange compile errors

2023-01-25 Thread Joseph Reichman
Hi I have a very short C++ program compiling as /CXX which all it does is basically open a file I am getting a whole slew of errors but they are not from my program they are standard includes CEE.SCEEH.H(STDDEF) and in fact I didn't explicitly include them (maybe they got included by 2 in

zOSMF

2023-01-25 Thread Steve Beaver
Hi All Has anyone ever retrofitted their current SMPe environment into zOSMF? Regards, Steve -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message:

Re: Transmitting SMF records

2023-01-25 Thread Andrew N Wilt
Hi Andrew, You have a good point. The GDKUTIL utility is pretty new to z/OS, and we were going for meeting the customer requirement. That was specifically to provide a JCL utility that could download the sequential data in a Cloud Object to z/OS, as well as upload z/OS data to a Cloud Ob

Re: Transmitting SMF records

2023-01-25 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Wed, 25 Jan 2023 20:24:59 +, Andrew N Wilt wrote: >... > The GDKUTIL utility does allow an Upload of something with RECFM=U. > This was done at the behest of a customer that was using ftp to put SMF data > out for processing by the SAS tool. Apparently, they are able to decipher

Re: DFSORT OUTREC conditional formatting

2023-01-25 Thread Radoslaw Skorupka
W dniu 24.01.2023 o 22:52, Sri h Kolusu pisze: The following scenario: Input file VB. At offset 23 (RDW included) 2-byte field Other relevant fields are 101,8 109,8 181,8 No sort needed. Radoslaw, Use the following control cards which will give you the desired results. I optimized the job

Re: Transmitting SMF records

2023-01-25 Thread Andrew Rowley
On 26/01/2023 7:24 am, Andrew N Wilt wrote: The GDKUTIL utility does allow an Upload of something with RECFM=U. This was done at the behest of a customer that was using ftp to put SMF data out for processing by the SAS tool. Apparently, they are able to decipher the RDW records result

Re: DFSORT OUTREC conditional formatting

2023-01-25 Thread Sri h Kolusu
>> Depending on the field 23,2 we have word ALTER/READ in the report. However the field contain other values, let's say X'1101' which should be translated to C'CHANGE'... but this record type implies slightly different format. For X'1101' I should use HEADER('DESC3') ON(175,8,CH) - note, 188->1

Re: Transmitting SMF records

2023-01-25 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Thu, 26 Jan 2023 09:23:54 +1100, Andrew Rowley wrote: >On 26/01/2023 7:24 am, Andrew N Wilt wrote: >... >I would be slightly surprised if SAS can't read VB records properly >formatted with the RDW. RECFM U was a workaround for the problem where >FTP stripped out the RDW. So GDKUTIL seems to

Re: Transmitting SMF records

2023-01-25 Thread Paul Gorlinsky
From my experience with one of the vendors, NOT SAS, all of these products just expect a stream of data to process. If you are using PC versions, just download as binary ... the VBS data. The import programs parse the data correctly. Going from Mainframe to Mainframe, save yourself a lot of he

Re: Transmitting SMF records

2023-01-25 Thread Steve Beaver
Terse the file and be done with it Sent from my iPhone No one said I could type with one thumb > On Jan 25, 2023, at 17:31, Paul Gorlinsky wrote: > > From my experience with one of the vendors, NOT SAS, all of these products > just expect a stream of data to process. If you are using PC ver

Re: Transmitting SMF records

2023-01-25 Thread Kirk Wolf
ISTR that distributed SAS has an option to read binary byte stream files with BDW+RDWs, which is what you would get if the program were to produce a merged RECFM=U DCB. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies, LLC http://coztoolkit.com Dovetailed Technologies: +1 636.300.0901 Note: Our website and do

Re: Transmitting SMF records

2023-01-25 Thread David Spiegel
Hi Paul, Do you DFSMSdss->AMATERSE->XMIT large amounts of SMF Data? (Probably not.) I would never try to XMIT a Dataset like this (assuming that you could even have enough space for the XMIT Output.) Not only that , but BLKSIZE=3120 is inefficient and really slow (and with no Transmit Exit, gene

Re: Transmitting SMF records

2023-01-25 Thread Andrew Rowley
On 26/01/2023 10:20 am, Paul Gilmartin wrote: It's possibly catering to the novice user rather than the journeyman. Unfortunately I don't think that's the case. When transferring variable length binary records, the default options give you unusable (I would call it corrupted) data. You need t

Re: Transmitting SMF records

2023-01-25 Thread Andrew Rowley
On 26/01/2023 10:40 am, Kirk Wolf wrote: ISTR that distributed SAS has an option to read binary byte stream files with BDW+RDWs, which is what you would get if the program were to produce a merged RECFM=U DCB. It does, but I can't see any reason to implement that other than to workaround IBM

HOLDDATA Not Working as Expected

2023-01-25 Thread Ed Jaffe
Actual Sysprogs, Recently I was surprised by an unexpected REPORT ERRSYSMODS behavior. I think I've had a misconception about this for a long time... Like many vendors, we maintain HOLDDATA with FIXCAT information as well as ERROR HOLD and RELEASE statements. One of our products had a bug i

Re: HOLDDATA Not Working as Expected

2023-01-25 Thread Mike Schwab
++HOLD ACTION(Apply xx) On Thu, Jan 26, 2023 at 12:05 AM Ed Jaffe wrote: > > Actual Sysprogs, > > Recently I was surprised by an unexpected REPORT ERRSYSMODS behavior. I > think I've had a misconception about this for a long time... > > Like many vendors, we maintain HOLDDATA with FIXCAT info