Re: CeBIT and mainframes

2016-03-19 Thread Mick Graley
Nah, not letting him off that easily! The word "coded" is the same in both languages, and BCD ¬= BSD. Like us Brits tend to say "kicks" and the Americans tend to say "see, eye, see, ess" but it's still actually CICS :-) Cheers, Mick. On 18 March 2016 at 18:35, Tom Brennan wrote: > Maybe EBSDIC i

Re: [SURVEY] What ISPF terminal model do you use

2016-03-19 Thread Mick Graley
No. That's what I've got set. Cheers, Mick. On 18 March 2016 at 18:09, Paul Gilmartin <000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > On Fri, 18 Mar 2016 17:47:38 +, Mick Graley wrote: >> >>I wish IBM would enhance ISPF so that it would set the screen

Re: [SURVEY] What ISPF terminal model do you use

2016-03-19 Thread Mick Graley
Hi All, At my old employers we used Eicon Aviva for terminal emulation and it was quite good, I liked it, lots of customization possible and it was fast. At my current employer we use Microfocus Rumba and I'm not very impressed with it! At home I've used X3270 on Linux and WC3270 on Windows to con

Re: ISF.CONNECT.*

2018-07-05 Thread Mick Graley
I believe turning off "write to programmer" messages with TSO PROFILE NOWTPMSG will hide the ICH408I but you might miss something else you want to see. Cheers, Mick. On 4 July 2018 at 09:47, Barbara Nitz wrote: > Something has changed with SDSFAUX between z/OS 2.1 and z/OS 2.3. > > Under z/OS 2

Re: z/OS BDAM question

2018-11-02 Thread Mick Graley
Hi All, I can confirm that there is no 64K tracks limit on DSORG=DA data sets. I inherited a number of Adabas databases and they use DSORG=DA. One of my larger databases has a data storage component that is 240,525 tracks (16,035 cylinders) in 9 extents across 8 volumes. Organization . . . : DA

Re: z/OS BDAM question

2018-11-02 Thread Mick Graley
..lack od BDAM files here > > I think, you missed very important point: 64k tracks *PER VOLUME*. The > limit is not per dataset. > > > -- > Radoslaw Skorupka > Lodz, Poland > > > > > > > W dniu 2018-11-02 o 12:32, Mick Graley pisze: > > Hi All, > >

Re: z/OS BDAM question

2018-11-02 Thread Mick Graley
er > datasets are. > Of course some (PDS) datasets cannot be multivolume, while DA (and PS) > can be, but that's different story. > > -- > Radoslaw Skorupka > Lodz, Poland > > > > > > > > W dniu 2018-11-02 o 12:51, Mick Graley pisze: > > Hi Rado

Re: z/OS BDAM question

2018-11-02 Thread Mick Graley
ess are > limited to 65536 tracks. > > ...so, I must assume ADABAS has a way for accessing records of a dataset > that large... > > On Fri, 2 Nov 2018 11:32:23 +, Mick Graley > wrote: > > >Hi All, > > > >I can confirm that there is no 64K tracks limit

Re: z/OS BDAM question

2018-11-02 Thread Mick Graley
Nah - it's actually how they are on the IBM manual page - weird. On Fri, 2 Nov 2018 at 15:38, Paul Gilmartin < 000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > On 2018-11-02, at 05:39:38, R.S. wrote: > > ... > > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit > > Content-Type: text/plain; ch

Re: [EXTERNAL] LRECL=255 vs LRECL=259

2016-11-16 Thread Mick Graley
I think Ed might be right here on the SYSGEN option history, however TSO EDIT doesn't seem to support it fully these days. I have access to 5 very different systems each with different heritage. Two of them are >30 years old and will date back to the SYSGEN days, one of them I'm not sure of it's ag

Re: A true discussion in today's world (at least here)

2016-11-24 Thread Mick Graley
I agree with Tony, the analogy doesn't fit. Not fixing a car that isn't broken makes sense. Not applying fixes for KNOWN errors usually doesn't make sense. We all know that PTFs can go PE and cause problems, but you have to weigh up the likelihood of a known error causing you serious problems. Also

Re: A true discussion in today's world (at least here)

2016-11-24 Thread Mick Graley
I'm a DB2 SysAdm/SysProg and DB2 maint always has reams of hold data. The longer you leave it the bigger the job to wade through it all and build the required jobs. Multiply it by many DB2 sub-systems and the job gets bigger and bigger. You have to have the toleration fixes on the current release o

Re: A Means To RECALL Migrated GDS' Based on a Block of Relative Gens

2016-12-20 Thread Mick Graley
It's also worth noting that you can use wild cards in the HRECALL data set name if you can be that generic, i.e. bring back ALL migrated generations with a single HRECALL command. I use it a lot to recall all my personal code libraries before I go on overnight call-out - I hate waiting for data set

Re: TSO receive on MultiVolume PS error

2016-05-23 Thread Mick Graley
Yes XMIT definitely supports DSORG=PS RECFM=U data sets. Good example being DFDSS dumps. I regularly use DFDSS to dump multiple data sets, then XMIT that dump data set to get a very portable RECFM=FB LRECL=80 version of the dump. Cheers, Mick. On 20 May 2016 at 18:36, Jesse 1 Robinson wrote: > O

Re: Kind of COND in a CLIST

2016-07-21 Thread Mick Graley
Also if you were to create a CLIST for this as suggested previously, rather than adding lots of IFs or WHENs, you should just be able to specify CONTROL FLUSH once at the beginning of the CLIST. Mick. On 21 July 2016 at 14:24, Norbert Friemel wrote: > On Thu, 21 Jul 2016 14:36:30 +0200, R.S. wr

Re: z/OS Operating System size

2016-09-03 Thread Mick Graley
I think we're comparing apples and oranges here though. S/370 assembler (you said original MVS) ¬= C/C++ lines of code or generated object (machine) code. Cheers, Mick. On 2 September 2016 at 22:45, Steve Beaver wrote: > the original mvs, much of which was written years ago before os390 was about

Re: Old School Maintenance Philosophy -- Never ACCEPT?

2018-05-29 Thread Mick Graley
I (used to) do something similar with a few added steps: DFDSS dump the whole SMP/E environment ACCEPT CHECK ACCEPT RECEIVE APPLY CHECK (there are sometimes system holds that need addressing before APPLY and this gets the report out as well as doing the APPLY CHECK) APPLY It's probably worth noti