Re: Exits reassembly

Hi Tom, If //SMPSTS is DDDEFd to or points at "... someone's personal dataset ...", this person should face serious consequences. If the usermod was constructed outside of SMP/e, the same consequences should apply (pun intended). Regards, David On 2025-04-21 17:00, Tom Brennan wrote: If I was

Re: JAVA in Zosmf

Hi Marco, Running z/OS on hardware that it wasn't licensed for, is a violation of IBM's rules. Regards, David On 2025-05-07 07:41, Marco Antonio Ferreira wrote: Hi guys, I´m looking for a solution I have a Zos 2.5, running in a Hercules development environment, I'm trying to put Zosmf o

Re: Stupid outages you caused

Hi Leonard, I used to support VS1, but, my employer used VM/SP as the interactive system to EDIT/SUBMIT/Test (and PROFS). Besides batch, they used CICS. I searched for ACEP (never heard of it before) and found very little. (How) Did it compare to TSO-replacements like TONE etc. (or CRJE)? Than

Re: Stupid outages you caused

N/SORTOUt pointing to the same production payroll tape. Usually works, but the default region was low. It read all the data in, then closed SORTIN and abended during SORTOUT open, after it's written an eof tape mark over the first records -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussi

Re: Stupid outages you caused

Hi Dave, Did you also use JTIP for Wylbur? Thanks and regards, David On 2025-03-06 13:22, Dave Gibney wrote: By the third time, I had a pretty solid thought that it was my action. And, yes the ultimate cause was the update. It was quickly repaired. The need to rework the somewhat extensive JE

Re: Stupid outages you caused

... and periodically test the Backup LOGON PROCs to make sure that they still work (and don't fail due to security changes and deleted Datasets). On 2025-03-07 13:23, Mike Shaw wrote: I once fat-fingered a JCL error into our one and only TSO logon proc, and had to keypunch in IEBUPDTE JCL and c

Re: Stupid outages you caused

Hi Richard, Have you ever tried out (or used) TSSO (CBT Tape) when JES2 won't come up? (It has a TSO command line interface on the Master Console.) Regards, David On 2025-03-07 16:04, rpinion865 wrote: Yep, I have one of those. It is called $TSOCYA. And for those of us who came into the main

Outages avoided (was: Stupid outages you caused)

Hi Colleagues, This is not about me. Instead it is about my manager at a large multinational food company in the mid-'80s. He was the type of guy whose picture should've been beside "penny-wise and pound-foolish" in a dictionary. We were using 3420 technology for tape. He always bought the chea

Re: Outages avoided (was: Stupid outages you caused)

Hi Steve, You said: "...availability manger ..." Were there 3 wise men too? You said: "... (cohabitating the raised floor) ..." What was the couple doing on the raised floor? Regards, David On 2025-03-09 19:07, Steve Estle wrote: Hi all, I have so many stories I could share - mainframe and

Re: OMVS DATASET

Hi Shelia, Here is sample JCL to increase the size of the zFS: //ZFSADM03 JOB (ACCT), // '    ', // CLASS=A, // MSGCLASS=X, // MSGLEVEL=(1,1), // REGION=0M, // NOTIFY=&SYSUID //GROW    EXEC PGM=IOEZADM,REGION=0M, //   

Re: Executing a clist from debug tool

Hi Joseph AMV"SH, Regarding your member name (Please forgive me, I can't resist puns) ... Are you nuts? Regards, David On 2025-03-12 09:15, Joseph Reichman wrote: Hi I’m running / debugging a program using debug tool I would like to execute a clist Debug tool allows you to execute clists whe

Re: New version of JOL - a JCL replacement language

Hi Clem, Where is JOL60.zip? Thanks and regards, David On 2025-05-07 08:54, Clement Clarke wrote: Subject: Re: New version of JOL - a JCL replacement language I couldn't resist Paul A photo at Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/clemclarke I have uploaded the Jol Documentation as a Zip fil

Re: DFRMM S0C4/SF13 ABEND: EDGI100I being issued spuriously?

... or DDLIST On 2025-05-16 12:58, Seymour J Metz wrote: ISRDDN is an easy tool for checking that sort of issue. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 עַם יִשְׂרָאֵל חַי נֵ֣צַח יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל לֹ֥א יְשַׁקֵּ֖ר From: IBM Mainframe Discuss

Re: Disable user timeout via JWT?

+1 On 2025-05-14 12:56, Phil Smith III wrote: As I said, it's a dev system behind a VPN. At any given moment there are an average of zero users connected at the moment. If I connect to check something and leave my connection active, I'd like it to stay connected. There's no reason to force me

Re: Fwd: Disable user timeout via JWT?

Hi David, If I am in the middle of some activity and have say 9 ISPF screens open, I don't want to have to re-set it up all over again just because of a 1 hour meeting. To be secure, a Windows/Linux/Mac OS workstation could be set up with say a 30 minute timeout, so that the mainframe session(s

Re: Run python with arguments JCL

Hi Suresh, X in Column 72 applies to Assembler, JCL (optionally) and "old" utility programs (e.g. IEHPROGM). For more modern utilities (e.g. supplied by DFSMS like DFSMSDss), the TSO convention is used (either '+' or *'-'*). Regards, David On 2025-05-18 07:13, suresh chacko wrote: Hi Peter,

Re: Run python with arguments JCL

Hi Rene, If the line numbers are to the right of column 72, they are ignored. Regards, David On 2025-05-18 06:16, René Jansen wrote: Check if you have line numbers in the JCL René. On 18 May 2025, at 10:23, Peter <05e4a8a0a03d-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: When i run this same

Re: Run python with arguments JCL

heard about JCL ;-) René. On 18 May 2025, at 12:23, David Spiegel <0468385049d1-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: Hi Rene, If the line numbers are to the right of column 72, they are ignored. Regards, David On 2025-05-18 06:16, René Jansen wrote: Check if you have line num

Re: Run python with arguments JCL

frame Discussion List on behalf of David Spiegel <0468385049d1-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> Sent: Sunday, May 18, 2025 7:51 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Run python with arguments JCL External Message: Use Caution Hi Suresh, X in Column 72 applies to Assembler, JCL (opti

Re: Run python with arguments JCL

Hi Paul, It's not necessarily true for instream data that 73 and later are ignored. Regards, David On 2025-05-18 11:06, Paul Gilmartin wrote: On Sun, 18 May 2025 06:23:20 -0400, David Spiegel wrote: Hi Rene, If the line numbers are to the right of column 72, they are ignored. ??? Is

Re: Run python with arguments JCL

2025 11:18:42 -0400, David Spiegel wrote: Hi Paul, It's not necessarily true for instream data that 73 and later are ignored. "necessarily"? Does that hedge mean it's sometimes true? When? Please cite the relevant documents. The OP might learn more by prefixing

Re: Run python with arguments JCL

about the IEBGENER utility, see Chapter 6, “IEBGENER (Sequential Copy/Generate Data Set) Program,” on page 107 . Regards, David On 2025-05-18 16:48, Paul Gilmartin wrote: On Sun, 18 May 2025 15:57:36 -0400, David Spiegel wrote: HI Paul, It's up to the program processing the instream

Re: Hot to get SMS to display large files within a Storage Group.

Hi Claude, Please look at CBT (cbttape.org) VTOC (File 112). Regards, David On 2025-05-15 08:35, Claude Richbourg wrote: Hello all, I have been looking for a way to get SMS to display large files within a storage group. We have a few Storage Groups that have 300+ volumes and one shot up with

SysProg UID(0)?

Hi, Is it absolutely necessary for SysProgs running SMP/e Jobs with USS Maintenance to have UID(0)? One reason I can think of is that the new files need to be owned by UID(0)/GID(0). Another is that since "System" Directories (e.g. /usr) are owned by UID(0)/GID(0), the new files cannot be place

Re: SysProg UID(0)?

Hi Gil, I saw this reference before I asked, but, it seems like other references say that BPX.SUPERUSER is enough. Thanks ad regards, David On 2025-05-22 19:14, Paul Gilmartin wrote: On Thu, 22 May 2025 17:59:07 -0400, David Spiegel wrote: Hi, Is it absolutely necessary for SysProgs

Re: SysProg UID(0)?

ur J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 עַם יִשְׂרָאֵל חַי נֵ֣צַח יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל לֹ֥א יְשַׁקֵּ֖ר From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of David Spiegel<0468385049d1-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2025 5:

Re: My Apologies (and the Back story

Hi Steve, They have other problems too. (As I pointed out in my LInkedIn post) They offer terrible wages for contract SysProgs. Sometimes  the money they offer has not been market rate for 40 years (no exaggeration). This gluttonous behaviour was the catalyst for HCL and DXC to use the same ta

Re: [EXT] Re: [EXT] Re: [EXT] Re: [EXT] Re: [EXT] Re: z/os 3.1 SCLM

rammer sch...@ssfcu.org -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of David Spiegel Sent: Friday, July 18, 2025 2:03 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: [EXT] Re: [EXT] Re: [EXT] Re: [EXT] Re: [EXT] Re: z/os 3.1 SCLM Please Note: This email is from an [EXTERNAL] send

Re: APF authorized TSO programs

Hi Joseph, Do you use (CBT File 452 (Dan Dalby's) STEPLIB Program? Regards, David On 2025-06-29 21:30, Joseph Reichman wrote: JUST CHECKED YES Data Set Information Command ===> D

Re: Contention problem TSO and batch job

Hi Jon, "... pipe dream ..." Pun intended? Regards, David On 2025-07-18 01:01, Jon Perryman wrote: On Thu, 17 Jul 2025 16:49:04 -0500, Paul Gilmartin wrote: The syntax diagram in: says that CATALOG and DELETE are mutually e

Re: z/os 3.1 SCLM

Hi Shelia, I think that you can change this by modifying (or deleting) the ISPF Stats for the member (or zapping Byte 3). Please see: ISPF statistics entry in a PDS directory z/OS ISPF Dialog Developer's Guide and Reference SC19-3619-00 A valid ISPF directory can consist of fifteen halfwords o

Re: [EXT] Re: z/os 3.1 SCLM

Thanks for your help again. Shelia Chalk Mainframe System Programmer sch...@ssfcu.org -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of David Spiegel Sent: Friday, July 18, 2025 11:26 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: [EXT] Re: z/os 3.1 SCLM Please Note: This email

Re: [EXT] Re: [EXT] Re: z/os 3.1 SCLM

Hi Shelia, Is there a SCLM Project involving Connect:Direct on 2.4? Regards, David On 2025-07-18 13:17, Chalk, Shelia wrote: Yes Shelia Chalk Mainframe System Programmer sch...@ssfcu.org -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of David Spiegel Sent: Friday

Re: [EXT] Re: [EXT] Re: [EXT] Re: z/os 3.1 SCLM

Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of David Spiegel Sent: Friday, July 18, 2025 12:25 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: [EXT] Re: [EXT] Re: [EXT] Re: z/os 3.1 SCLM Please Note: This email is from an [EXTERNAL] sender. Do not click on links or attachments unless you expect them from the

Re: [EXT] Re: [EXT] Re: [EXT] Re: [EXT] Re: z/os 3.1 SCLM

to figure out what you meant by Why are you using unsupported software for Source Code Management? Can you help me understand? Thanks Shelia Chalk Mainframe System Programmer sch...@ssfcu.org -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of David Spiegel Sent

Re: US Based zOS Systems Programmers

Hi Steve, The real problem here is: HCL, TCS and DXC (and Non-Indian companies who have decided to earn more per candidate due to the spread between what they pay and what their customers pay.) They have to understand that skill/experience must be compensated at market rate, not 40-year-old mar

Re: US Based zOS Systems Programmers

work from outside, for example, under Texas law. On Thu, Jul 24, 2025 at 7:22 AM David Spiegel < 0468385049d1-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: Hi Steve, I am a US citizen, but, don't live in the USA. At some companies, I am ineligible for remote work for this reason (Some

Re: US Based zOS Systems Programmers

Hi Michael, I worked for STC in the '80s. One day, I get a call from someone looking to buy garbage bags. Regards, David On 2025-07-24 09:39, Michael Watkins wrote: Over a decade ago, I put a resume on Linkedin calling myself as a 'z/OS storage manager'. I received requests to apply for jobs

Re: US Based zOS Systems Programmers

edu/~smetz3 עַם יִשְׂרָאֵל חַי נֵ֣צַח יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל לֹ֥א יְשַׁקֵּ֖ר From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of David Spiegel <0468385049d1-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2025 8:21 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subj

Re: US Based zOS Systems Programmers

Hi Steve, I am a US citizen, but, don't live in the USA. At some companies, I am ineligible for remote work for this reason (Some intelligent companies don't care where one resides.) Regards, David On 2025-07-24 07:40, Steve Beaver wrote: TCS has sold a service contract to Toyota in Plano. Th

Re: SYSLOG or OPERLOG scanning tools

Hi Max, Can you please send me a copy to dspiegel...@hotmail.com? Thanks and regards, David On 2025-07-22 09:01, Massimo Biancucci wrote: Lennie, if a Rexx is enough for you, I've something (not so general) doing something like that. Best regards. Max Il giorno mar 22 lug 2025 alle ore 13:50

Re: US Based zOS Systems Programmers

Vos Meint "Itel"? On 2025-07-24 09:59, Seymour J Metz wrote: Itel? -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 עַם יִשְׂרָאֵל חַי נֵ֣צַח יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל לֹ֥א יְשַׁקֵּ֖ר From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of Davi

Re: US Based zOS Systems Programmers

צַח יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל לֹ֥א יְשַׁקֵּ֖ר From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of David Spiegel <0468385049d1-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> Sent: Friday, August 1, 2025 8:54 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: US Based zOS Systems Prog

Re: US Based zOS Systems Programmers

frame Discussion List on behalf of David Spiegel <0468385049d1-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2025 9:49 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: US Based zOS Systems Programmers External Message: Use Caution Hi R'Shmuel AMV"SH, Noch Ah M'

Re: US Based zOS Systems Programmers

צַח יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל לֹ֥א יְשַׁקֵּ֖ר From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of David Spiegel <0468385049d1-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2025 9:49 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: US Based zOS Systems P

Re: US Based zOS Systems Programmers

אֵ֔ל לֹ֥א יְשַׁקֵּ֖ר From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of David Spiegel <0468385049d1-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> Sent: Friday, August 1, 2025 8:09 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: US Based zOS Systems Programmers External

Re: US Based zOS Systems Programmers

"; substituting the Biblical Noach still leaves it unclear. Maybe if I knew German or Yiddish it would be clearer. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 עַם יִשְׂרָאֵל חַי נֵ֣צַח יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל לֹ֥א יְשַׁקֵּ֖ר From: IBM Mainframe

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