Re: Crosshair cursor

2019-01-02 Thread Pommier, Rex
I don't but I probably should. Doing the 62x160 screen on a 22 inch monitor with my old eyes, I sometimes lose track of what line I'm on when deleting a dataset in ISPF 3.4. :-( Haven't lost a dataset yet... Rex From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf

DFDSS question

2019-01-08 Thread Pommier, Rex
Hi all, I'm looking at DFDSS dataset dump and see this parameter in the manual: NEWNAMEUnconditional which would allow me to rename datasets being backed up instead of needing to use the RENUNC on a restore. Unfortunately, the manual also states - and I verified by trying it - that I can't us

Re: Using IF/THEN/ELSE for return code checking

2019-01-17 Thread Pommier, Rex
Grant, Would it work to use an IF-THEN-ELSE in the ADRDSSU step: IF MAXCC LE 4 THEN SET MAXCC=0 Then you should be able to just check for RC=0 in your IF statement at the end of the job Rex -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Ward Able, Grant Sent: T

Re: Where's the fire? | Computerworld Shark Tank

2019-01-17 Thread Pommier, Rex
Trailing edge... We finally got migrated off a machine with 32K (yes, K) in the 1984-5 timeframe. Rex -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of PINION, RICHARD W. Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2019 9:39 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: [External] Re:

HSM question - ML2 copy2 tapes that have no copy1

2019-02-13 Thread Pommier, Rex
Hello list, I have a few HSM ML2 duplex tapes that no longer have their corresponding migrate tapes that I can't seem to get rid of. If I try to do DELVOL, I get an error saying they're not defined migrate volumes. What we're doing is migrating our HSM ML2 environment into a VTS (replicated)

Re: HSM question - ML2 copy2 tapes that have no copy1

2019-02-14 Thread Pommier, Rex
wning" primary volume. Recycle the "owning" primary volume. The "offending" duplex volumes will be deleted as part of the recycle process. HSEND RECYCLE EXECUTE VOLUME(owning volser) HTH, -----Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of

Re: HSM question - ML2 copy2 tapes that have no copy1

2019-02-14 Thread Pommier, Rex
ainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Pommier, Rex Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2019 11:30 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: HSM question - ML2 copy2 tapes that have no copy1 Allan, Sorry, this doesn't help. The LIST TTOC is only showing my VTS-based ML2 tapes which have no

Re: [External] Re: HSM question - ML2 copy2 tapes that have no copy1

2019-02-19 Thread Pommier, Rex
Thank you, Max, for that excellent response. I'm off to the tape mgmt. doc to figure out how to scratch the tapes. Rex -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Max Smith Sent: Friday, February 15, 2019 9:28 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: [External]

Re: [External] Is there an HCD for Dummy's book anywhere?

2019-02-19 Thread Pommier, Rex
Tony, When you are defining your new control unit, at the "add control unit" panel, put in the CU number and additional stuff you need. CUADD isn't yet. You will then get your "select processor / CU" panel, select the appropriate CCSID and other info - CUADD isn't yet. The next screen is anot

Re: Incoming | Computerworld SHARK TANK

2019-04-15 Thread Pommier, Rex
Similar situation. True story from the early 80s and I'm being purposely vague as to who/where to protect the victims. Non-IBM datacenter (one of the bunch for those who remember) removable disk drives in a computer room that had normal ceiling tile - you know the ones that are always flaking

Re: [External] Re: CBR3006I LIB ID not recognised

2019-05-06 Thread Pommier, Rex
Regarding the "how do the IBM hardware guys set the LIB ID" question - it is set during the initial configuration of the machine. We were able to pick the library ID for the composite library as well as the distributed library name back when we put our first TS7720 on the floor. When we upgrad

Re: [External] Re: Ancient DASD connectivity

2019-05-15 Thread Pommier, Rex
It was sheer size of the componentry that drove this design. I think the 3990 was the last stand-alone disk controller. With the arrival of 2105s, the CU was inside the same cabinet as the drives and Logical CUs (LCUs) were born. One big black box (literally). Adding additional cabinets no

Re: [External] Re: Ancient DASD connectivity

2019-05-15 Thread Pommier, Rex
19:53:07 +, Pommier, Rex wrote: >where did the 9340 subsystem fit in the timeline between 3990 and 2105? or the >RAMAC2? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_IBM_magnetic_disk_drives#IBM_9340_and_9345 -- Tom Ma

Re: [External] Re: Ancient DASD connectivity

2019-05-16 Thread Pommier, Rex
PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: [External] Re: Ancient DASD connectivity On Wed, 15 May 2019 20:31:55 +0000, Pommier, Rex wrote: >The point I was making was that IBM had some DASD subsystems for >large(r) customers with integrated controllers Oh. Sorry I misunderstood. Thanks for the clar

Re: [External] Re: DFDSS QUESTION - PHYSICAL DATASET BACKUP

2019-05-16 Thread Pommier, Rex
John, I see that you're doing a TYPRUN=NORUN. What happens if you strip all the excess/optional lines from your SYSIN. Can you eliminate the error by eliminating most of the control cards and just re-add them until you hit the error again? Rex -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe

Re: [External] Re: DFDSS QUESTION - PHYSICAL DATASET BACKUP

2019-05-16 Thread Pommier, Rex
Do you have some kind of hidden hex character in your input stream? -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of John Dawes Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2019 10:21 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: [External] Re: DFDSS QUESTION - PHYSICAL DATASET BACKUP I tried

Re: [External] Re: DFDSS QUESTION - PHYSICAL DATASET BACKUP

2019-05-16 Thread Pommier, Rex
John, Do you need to change your INDDNAME to PHYSINDD? The 2.2 manual indicates that INDDNAME is used for full or track copying and PHYSINDD is used for datasets. Are both the datasets you're going after on the same volume? Rex -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List

Re: [External] Re: DFDSS QUESTION - PHYSICAL DATASET BACKUP

2019-05-16 Thread Pommier, Rex
I just reread the manual. INDDNAME is OK. My other question still arises. Are both datasets on the same volume? Rex -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Pommier, Rex Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2019 11:48 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re

Re: [External] Re: DFDSS QUESTION - PHYSICAL DATASET BACKUP

2019-05-16 Thread Pommier, Rex
a successful Physical backup of 2 dsns.I am curious if it works for you.  I am running V2R02.0  On Thursday, 16 May 2019, 4:47:56 pm UTC, Pommier, Rex wrote: John, Do you need to change your INDDNAME to PHYSINDD?  The 2.2 manual indicates that INDDNAME is used for full or track copying

Re: DFDSS QUESTION - PHYSICAL DATASET BACKUP

2019-05-16 Thread Pommier, Rex
I just changed my SYSIN to look as close to identical to yours as I can see, given the formatting problems you're having, and it still worked. Regarding the "column 1" question David had, I just tried it, and all DFDSS did was ignore the first character of the dataset name and tell me it couldn

Re: [External] Re: DFDSS QUESTION - PHYSICAL DATASET BACKUP

2019-05-17 Thread Pommier, Rex
ay, May 17, 2019 7:29 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: [External] Re: DFDSS QUESTION - PHYSICAL DATASET BACKUP Rex, I used your jcl and it worked.  I was successful with and without the NORUN parm. A massive thanks.  On Thursday, 16 May 2019, 7:35:43 pm UTC, Pommier, Rex wrote:

Re: [External] Re: What crashing COBOL systems reveal about applications maintenance -- GCN

2020-05-21 Thread Pommier, Rex
OPT(0) burns that much more CPU? Is this on all compiles or many or just a few of them? If compiles are that bad using OPT(0), what will an OPT(2) do? We're just starting our install of 6.3, going from 4.2 and this sounds like something we need to be aware of. Thanks, Rex -Original Mess

Re: [External] Where do started PROC errors go?

2020-05-21 Thread Pommier, Rex
Charles, A couple things to check. Is there anything in the SYSLOG showing what happened to the task? Check your JES2PARM member of parmlib. In there, you should find a JOBCLASS(STC) stanza. What does that show for LOG, MSGCLASS, MSGLEVEL, OUTDISP and OUTPUT? Rex -Original Message-

Re: [External] Where do started PROC errors go?

2020-05-21 Thread Pommier, Rex
ERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Pommier, Rex Sent: Thursday, May 21, 2020 9:23 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: [External] Where do started PROC errors go? Charles, A couple things to check. Is there anything in the SYSLOG showing what happened to the task? Check your JES2PARM member o

Re: [External] Where do started PROC errors go?

2020-05-21 Thread Pommier, Rex
Carmen also brought up a good point, you may be running with a started task table ICHRIN03 instead of the STARTED class. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Pommier, Rex Sent: Thursday, May 21, 2020 11:55 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re

Re: [External] Re: z/OS 2.3 systems show OPI=YES

2020-05-26 Thread Pommier, Rex
Hi Clark, Not "was", is, DYL280 aka Vision:Results still exists. We run it in our datacenter. Rex -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Clark Morris Sent: Friday, May 22, 2020 3:05 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: [External] Re: z/OS 2.3 systems

Re: [External] Re: What is GRXBIMG

2020-06-04 Thread Pommier, Rex
Hi Joe, The point here is that even though this has been documented for decades, nobody is actually doing this. Nobody seems to know what this DD would be used for, it isn't being allocated, and beyond what you show from the manual, there's nothing to show what the DD card would look like for

Re: [External] COBOL Question

2020-06-05 Thread Pommier, Rex
Hi Bernd, My COBOL is about as old as yours is, but I have a niggling in the back of my mind that AND takes precedence over OR, and if so, your equation became IF ( TVOLL (IND1) NOT = HIGH-VALUE AND SMOD (IND1) = 'B' ) OR SMOD (IND1) = 'R' so the TVOL and B would become false, bu

Re: [External] Re: COBOL Question

2020-06-05 Thread Pommier, Rex
As our e-mails crossed in the ether, you are absolutely correct in your evaluation below. Rex -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Bernd Oppolzer Sent: Friday, June 5, 2020 12:59 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: [External] Re: COBOL Question

Re: [External] Re: "Everyone wants to retire mainframes"

2020-06-09 Thread Pommier, Rex
So does this mean that 2/3 of companies out there are running unsupported hardware and software? -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Raphaël Jacquot Sent: Tuesday, June 9, 2020 7:48 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: [External] Re: "Everyone wants t

Re: [External] Re: "Everyone wants to retire mainframes"

2020-06-09 Thread Pommier, Rex
Maybe based on their "logic", my z14 is 30 years old because we're running an application on it that was written in the late 80s. Never mind that it has been maintained for the past 30+ years, since we can find 30 year old code in the application, the entire thing must be 30+ years old. Rex -

Re: [External] Re: "Everyone wants to retire mainframes"

2020-06-09 Thread Pommier, Rex
Years ago, IBM did sell hardware/software to universities at deeply discounted prices to attract young people to them. Why they stopped is anybody's guess. Rex -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Tom Brennan Sent: Tuesday, June 9, 2020 10:54 AM To: IBM-

Re: [External] Re: "Everyone wants to retire mainframes"

2020-06-10 Thread Pommier, Rex
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2020 2:50 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: [External] Re: "Everyone wants to retire mainframes" On Wed, 10 Jun 2020 17:02:40 +, Frank Swarbrick wrote: >Here's a quo

Re: CBTTAPE

2020-06-15 Thread Pommier, Rex
But what of those of us who don't have SDSF? Yes, we exist. :-) Rex -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Jousma, David Sent: Monday, June 15, 2020 1:27 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: [External] Re: CBTTAPE I keep saying thisuse the ISFSLAS

Re: [External] Re: New Mainframe Community

2020-06-15 Thread Pommier, Rex
I remember that as well. They would display about 3-4 pages of the manual and have the rest grayed out with the "pay to unlock and read". Rex -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Tom Brennan Sent: Monday, June 15, 2020 2:03 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.

Re: [External] Re: CBTTAPE

2020-06-15 Thread Pommier, Rex
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Monday, June 15, 2020 3:12 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: [External] Re: CBTTAPE On Mon, 15 Jun 2020 19:04:24 +, Pommier, Rex wrote: >But what of those of us who don't h

z/OS 2.4 and SDSF question

2020-06-16 Thread Pommier, Rex
Hello list, I have a "does it work" question. We don't run SDSF, instead have a competing product. As part of our testing of 2.4, one of my coworkers submitted a job with TYPRUN=COPY on the job card and found it doesn't work. Under 2.2, we get the entire input stream before the JES2 job stat

Re: [External] Re: z/OS 2.4 and SDSF question

2020-06-16 Thread Pommier, Rex
, 2020 at 1:32 PM Pommier, Rex wrote: > Hello list, > > I have a "does it work" question. We don't run SDSF, instead have a > competing product. As part of our testing of 2.4, one of my coworkers > submitted a job with TYPRUN=COPY on the job card and found it d

Re: [External] Re: z/OS 2.4 and SDSF question

2020-06-16 Thread Pommier, Rex
.UA.EDU Subject: [External] Re: z/OS 2.4 and SDSF question I get the same thing you do under z/OS 2.4. About 12 lines of output. I have SDSF. On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 1:32 PM Pommier, Rex wrote: > Hello list, > > I have a "does it work" question. We don't run SDSF, i

Re: [External] Re: z/OS 2.4 and SDSF question

2020-06-16 Thread Pommier, Rex
Behalf Of Michael Babcock Sent: Tuesday, June 16, 2020 3:21 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: [External] Re: z/OS 2.4 and SDSF question The default MSGLEVEL was 1,1 and that’s what was coded on the jobcard. On Tue, Jun 16, 2020 at 2:47 PM Pommier, Rex wrote: > Hi Michael and Al

CA-ACCUCHEK

2020-06-17 Thread Pommier, Rex
Hello list, Based on the subject line of my post, does anybody know anything about something called CA-ACCUCHEK? I have a developer asking about it and I know nothing about it. I checked CA's (OK, Broadcom's) web site and got no hits. Duck Duck Go wasn't any help either, pointing me to some

Re: [External] Re: CA-ACCUCHEK

2020-06-17 Thread Pommier, Rex
ternal] Re: CA-ACCUCHEK CA-ACCUCHEK was a file comparison utility similar to comparex. Joe On Wed, Jun 17, 2020 at 2:06 PM Pommier, Rex wrote: > Hello list, > > Based on the subject line of my post, does anybody know anything about > something called CA-ACCUCHEK? I have a develop

Re: [External] Re: z/OS 2.4 and SDSF question

2020-06-17 Thread Pommier, Rex
11.24.16 J0056548 WEDNESDAY, 17 JUN 2020 11.24.16 J0056548 IRR010I USERID ALOEFIS ASSIGNED TO THIS JOB. Regards, Al Loeffler -Original Message- From: IBM Mainfra

Re: [External] Re: z/OS 2.4 and SDSF question

2020-06-17 Thread Pommier, Rex
Hi Steve, As the OP, I agree that this doesn't appear to be an SDSF issue. I was trying to make sure it wasn't a display issue with my third party software, and knowing that others who are running SDSF are having the same issue gives me confidence that it is a problem in (most likely) JES2.

Re: [External] Re: dfdss equivalent to fdr map

2020-06-18 Thread Pommier, Rex
In John's defense, when I saw "volume map" and "dfdss" in the same sentence, I thought like John did, that you wanted a tape volume map. That's what I get for thinking this early in the morning. :-) Rex -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of David Spiege

Re: dfdss equivalent to fdr map

2020-06-18 Thread Pommier, Rex
DITTO or FileManager will produce such a disk volume map. Rex -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Vernooij, Kees (ITOP NM) - KLM Sent: Thursday, June 18, 2020 8:42 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: [External] Re: dfdss equivalent to fdr map FDR MA

Re: z/OS 2.4 and SDSF question

2020-06-19 Thread Pommier, Rex
Update on this. I opened a PMR on it and got a reply back from IBM that they are opening an APAR on this. Rex -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Pommier, Rex Sent: Tuesday, June 16, 2020 1:32 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: [External] z/OS

Re: z/OS 2.4 and SDSF question

2020-06-19 Thread Pommier, Rex
ssage- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Pommier, Rex Sent: Friday, June 19, 2020 9:02 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: z/OS 2.4 and SDSF question [CAUTION: This Email is from outside the Organization. Unless you trust the sender, Don’t click links or open attachmen

Re: SMP/e maintenance methodologies

2020-06-22 Thread Pommier, Rex
I agree with Dave completely. I do similar - on both APPLY CHECK and APPLY. Why spend an inordinate amount of time telling SMP/E manually to do what SMP/E is designed to do automatically. Let it skip the open APARs and other things that will cause a "bad" return code. Like Dave said, just ve

Re: [External] Re: dfdss equivalent to fdr map

2020-06-22 Thread Pommier, Rex
Yes, because z/OS (well, the allocation routines anyway) knows nothing of the back-end storage. As far as z/OS is concerned its data is still sitting on SLED 3390 volumes so things like free extent sizes and so on still matter. Rex -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion Li

Re: z/OS 2.4 and SDSF question

2020-06-22 Thread Pommier, Rex
IBM assigned an APAR number on Friday to this. It is APAR OA59800. Thanks, Rex -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Pommier, Rex Sent: Friday, June 19, 2020 9:10 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: [External] Re: z/OS 2.4 and SDSF question Not

3 phase power question for the gray hair group. :-)

2020-06-22 Thread Pommier, Rex
Hi group, I have a light - probably trivia by now - question for those of you who have been around a while. My earliest experience with IBM disk was 3380s. They ran 3 phase power, and if the phases weren't cabled correctly, the machine wouldn't power up. I seem to recall hearing stories of (

Re: [External] Re: How display amount of real storage?

2020-06-22 Thread Pommier, Rex
Yup, that's what it means. systeM. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Charles Mills Sent: Monday, June 22, 2020 12:49 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: [External] Re: How display amount of real storage? Playing around, I see that /D M with no =an

Re: [External] Hitachi RAID box going out of support

2020-06-25 Thread Pommier, Rex
Who's maintaining your z9? Is that still supported by IBM? I know that years ago at a prior site, we had a couple HP-branded Hitachi boxes that we were migrating off, and we went to a third party service contract for the HP disk. When an HDA failed, I actually swapped it out and sent it to t

Re: RACF-SailPoint

2020-07-02 Thread Pommier, Rex
Unfortunately, yes, a bit. I only have to deal with the mainframe connector and at this point it's only used for reporting but they're looking at making it do a bunch more. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Ron Wells Sent: Thursday, July 2, 2020 7:29

Re: RACF-SailPoint

2020-07-02 Thread Pommier, Rex
s what concerns me...too me it is a BREECH of security Want to stay off list.. my email is ron.we...@omf.com They only mentioned a exit/api needs to be installed >> bother me ... trying to get pros/cons and what others have experienced.. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discuss

Re: [External] Re: Vtoc and index sizing based on Mods

2020-07-06 Thread Pommier, Rex
Hi Peter, I don't think anybody answered this question. With modern (read: emulated) boxes I've been told the location of the VTOC/VTOCIX/VVDS don't matter anymore. Back in the SLED days I was a stickler for placing the VTOC & IX 1/3 of the way into the volume, right next to each other to tr

Re: Storage & tape question

2020-07-06 Thread Pommier, Rex
Hi Allan, Nope, he meant MB. The number Rob is talking about it thruput. You pay for the capacity of the pipeline for ingesting data into the VTS in 100 MB/second increments. Rex -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Allan Staller Sent: Monday, July 6,

trying to find IBM problem determination tools studio for downloading

2020-07-06 Thread Pommier, Rex
Hi List, As the subject says, I'm looking for a current URL where I can find the latest version (whatever version that is) of the PD Tools Studio software. Supposedly this software is a free download for anybody who has IBM debug tool or FileManager. We have FileManager and I have developers

Re: [External] Re: trying to find IBM problem determination tools studio for downloading

2020-07-06 Thread Pommier, Rex
: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of Pommier, Rex Sent: Monday, July 6, 2020 4:08:44 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: trying to find IBM problem determination tools studio for downloading **CAUTION EXTERNAL EMAIL** **DO NOT open attachments or click on links from unknown sende

Re: [External] Re: Using SSH and SFTP from Windows to z/OS using authorized_keys ???

2020-07-07 Thread Pommier, Rex
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Monday, July 6, 2020 5:57 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: [External] Re: Using SSH and SFTP from Windows to z/OS using authorized_keys ??? On Mon, 6 Jul 2020 16:12:59 -0600, Grant Taylor

Re: [External] Re: Storage & tape question

2020-07-07 Thread Pommier, Rex
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of John McKown Sent: Tuesday, July 7, 2020 8:58 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: [External] Re: Storage & tape question On Tue, Jul 7, 2020 at 8:19 AM Jackson, Rob wrote: > Fun little note on RAID: it is fallib

Re: [External] Re: Storage & tape question

2020-07-07 Thread Pommier, Rex
Regarding the second disk failing while the first was rebuilding, I've heard more than once that a second failure in a RAID array shortly after the first, while the rebuild is happening is not that uncommon. Something about the sudden extra stress on the rest of the drives in the RAID set due t

COBOL 6.3 compiler options question

2020-07-08 Thread Pommier, Rex
Hi, Can somebody give me a definitive definition of the NOJTC and JTC compiler options in 6.3? I'm not seeing it in the COBOL reference or any COBOL manual for that matter, yet it shows up on the option list when we compile a program: NOFLAGSTD HGPR(PRESERVE) NOINITCHECK

Re: [External] Re: COBOL 6.3 compiler options question

2020-07-08 Thread Pommier, Rex
stion Not I. There is a May, 2020 update to the P/G and it's not in there. Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Pommier, Rex Sent: Wednesday, July 8, 2020 2:11 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: COBOL 6.

Re: [External] Re: COBOL 6.3 compiler options question

2020-07-09 Thread Pommier, Rex
ssage- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Pommier, Rex Sent: Wednesday, July 8, 2020 3:09 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: [External] Re: COBOL 6.3 compiler options question I'm kind of hoping Captain COBOL will see my reque

Re: [External] Silly ISMF question

2020-07-09 Thread Pommier, Rex
Obvious questions would be 1) do you have some kind of filter on screens 2 or 3 of the selection criteria? 2) old CDS name? 3) using a saved list instead of generating a new one for the source? If none of these things are it, may I suggest showing us your volume selection entry panel? Rex ---

Re: [External] Silly ISMF question

2020-07-09 Thread Pommier, Rex
'ACTIVE' (fully specified or 'Active') Use ENTER to Perform Selection; Use DOWN Command to View next Selection Panel; Use HELP Command for Help; Use END Command to Exit. On Thu, 9 Jul 2020 20:03:33 + "Pommier, Rex" wrote: :>Obvious questions would be :&g

Re: [External] COBOL 6.3 compiler options question

2020-07-10 Thread Pommier, Rex
Thanks, Tom! Rex -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Tom Ross Sent: Thursday, July 9, 2020 8:39 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: [External] COBOL 6.3 compiler options question >Can somebody give me a definitive definition of the NOJTC and JTC >c

Re: potential catalog search error - shown by IGGCSI00 [EXTERNAL]

2020-07-10 Thread Pommier, Rex
Or, if not, I would hope the OP would be getting a zillion "unauthorized" messages from people trying to update the master catalog. Rex -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Bruce Lightsey Sent: Friday, July 10, 2020 11:15 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU

Re: [External] Re: Options grow for migrating mainframe apps to the cloud | Network World

2020-07-15 Thread Pommier, Rex
Ron, Let me rephrase that for you. So many words, so much... Blowing Snow. I like the first line of the last paragraph, which is a Gartner quote from last year: "The value gained by moving applications from the traditional enterprise platform onto the next 'bright, shiny thing' rarely p

Re: OOBOL and English was Re: Still COBOL After All These Years?

2020-07-22 Thread Pommier, Rex
A kilogram may not technically be a weight, but if not the whole world, at least a large percentage of the world uses it as such. Looking at a package of dried fruit in front of me and it says net weight 340 grams which I believe translates to .34 kilograms. Rex -Original Message- F

Re: [External] Re: Started task stopping immediately. No error messages.

2020-07-27 Thread Pommier, Rex
Nice catch, Joe. Charles, I would agree about a customer-facing process not generating messages upon termination. However, the FTP daemon isn't "quite" that bad. Just for curiosity, I tried to start a second FTPD on my sandbox. It did what it was supposed to do, started the FTPD1 daemon and

Re: [External] Re: OOBOL and English was Re: Still COBOL After All These Years?

2020-08-04 Thread Pommier, Rex
Radoslaw, Speed limits are different in the States based on which state you're in. Each state can set its own speed limit. I am in South Dakota, and most smaller 2 lane roads are 55 MPH. Many of the state 2 lane roads are 65, and the interstates have an 80 MPH speed limit, the equivalent of

Re: [External] IBM z15 Announcement Letter

2020-08-06 Thread Pommier, Rex
Radoslaw, The announcement letter says the planned availability date for the enhancements is September 15. I believe the documentation will be available on that date as well. In your note below, you quoted them " and will be available at planned availability in the "Library" section of Resour

Re: [External] IBM z15 Announcement Letter

2020-08-07 Thread Pommier, Rex
may change rules. 5. Most document in huge library are not needed for years, but you never know when something is needed... 6. I like this book and I browse/read it. You may call it deviation, but this is part of education about the machines.  ;-) Regards -- Radoslaw Skorupka Lodz, Pol

Re: Dovetail/Kirk Wolf?

2020-08-31 Thread Pommier, Rex
Hmm, guess I don't exist. LOL Never had a twitter account and don't want one. Rex -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Frank Swarbrick Sent: Monday, August 31, 2020 4:39 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: [External] Re: Dovetail/Kirk Wolf? If o

shopZ gone?

2020-09-03 Thread Pommier, Rex
Hi all, Can anybody get into ShopZ? I was there a half hour ago now I just get a blank screen. Literally - a white blank page. Thanks, Rex The information contained in this message is confidential, protected from disclosure and may be legally privileged. If the reader of this message is n

Re: [External] Re: shopZ gone?

2020-09-03 Thread Pommier, Rex
And I placed and received one earlier today as well. Downloaded it and realized I had the wrong PTF so went back to ShopZ to order the right one, and got (and still get) blank screen. Tried new browser instance, next step - reboot. :-( -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussio

Re: shopZ gone?

2020-09-03 Thread Pommier, Rex
. _ Dave Jousma AVP | Director, Technology Engineering  Fifth Third Bank  |  1830 East Paris Ave, SE  |  MD RSCB2H  |  Grand Rapids, MI 49546 616.653.8429  |  fax: 616.653.2717 -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Pommier, Rex Sent: Thursday

Re: ILR012W ALL LOCAL PAGING SPACE IS FULL OR BAD, ASM WAIT03C RSN=01 [EXTERNAL]

2020-09-04 Thread Pommier, Rex
I know this is a long shot but did you check your storage array to make sure there wasn't a hiccup in it that momentarily disabled the SCM? Rex -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Mark Jacobs Sent: Friday, September 4, 2020 7:00 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.

Re: ILR012W ALL LOCAL PAGING SPACE IS FULL OR BAD, ASM WAIT03C RSN=01 [EXTERNAL]

2020-09-04 Thread Pommier, Rex
A265I 50% OF LOCAL PAGE DATA SET SPACE IS ALLOCATED Mark Jacobs Sent from ProtonMail, Swiss-based encrypted email. GPG Public Key - https://api.protonmail.ch/pks/lookup?op=get&search=markjac...@protonmail.com ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Friday, September 4, 2020 8:54 AM, Pommier, Re

Simple JES2 spool offload question

2020-09-04 Thread Pommier, Rex
Hi List, I have a question that has puzzled me on and off for years regarding the work selection criteria for the JES2 spool offload facility. That is the use of the slash. I get the part about criteria left of the slash being required, i.e. if you have JOBNAME=ABCDE and WS=(JOB/) only output

Re: [External] Re: Simple JES2 spool offload question

2020-09-11 Thread Pommier, Rex
OBNAME to the left or right of the slash in more detail. --Roger On Fri, Sep 4, 2020 at 11:25 AM Pommier, Rex wrote: > Hi List, > > I have a question that has puzzled me on and off for years regarding > the work selection criteria for the JES2 spool offload facility. That > is th

Re: [External] MEPL showing the latest PTF

2020-09-17 Thread Pommier, Rex
Bill, If UI70029 supercedes UI69028, then yes, the code correction in UI69028 is included. Rex -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Bill Giannelli Sent: Thursday, September 17, 2020 9:28 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: [External] MEPL showing

Re: Searching MLPA module

2020-09-21 Thread Pommier, Rex
Unlike PLPA, it is subject to page out. Are you saying that PLPA pages are fixed and can't be paged out? Isn't that what the first P in PLPA means - pageable? The FLPA modules are page fixed and not subject to page-outs. Rex -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List

Re: [External] Re: Searching MLPA module

2020-09-21 Thread Pommier, Rex
all paging rate compared with modules in other libraries." https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSLTBW_2.1.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r1.ieae100/plpae.htm Joe On Mon, Sep 21, 2020 at 7:57 AM Pommier, Rex wrote: >Unlike PLPA, it is subject to page out. > > Are you saying that

Re: [External] BOF on COBOL and the systems programmer at SHARE

2020-09-22 Thread Pommier, Rex
Thanks, Clark, Hoping to see you at 15:15 Central time on Thursday. :-) Rex -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Clark Morris Sent: Tuesday, September 22, 2020 10:36 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: [External] BOF on COBOL and the systems progra

Re: BOF on COBOL and the systems programmer at SHARE

2020-09-22 Thread Pommier, Rex
Are they recording BOFs or just regularly scheduled sessions? -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Richards, Robert B. Sent: Tuesday, September 22, 2020 1:34 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: [External] Re: BOF on COBOL and the systems programmer at

Re: [External] BOF on COBOL and the systems programmer at SHARE

2020-09-22 Thread Pommier, Rex
ex -Original Message- From: Clark Morris Sent: Tuesday, September 22, 2020 4:44 PM To: Pommier, Rex Subject: Re: [External] BOF on COBOL and the systems programmer at SHARE [Default] On 22 Sep 2020 10:22:36 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main rpomm...@sfgmembers.com (Pommier, Rex) wrote: >Tha

master JCL

2019-05-29 Thread Pommier, Rex
Hello listers, I'm apparently having a case of brain-drain. Is there an easy way to display the currently used master JCL? I know I can look at LINKLIB and PARMLIB and see what's there, but is there a way of displaying what's actually running? I thought at one point in time I could see it in

Re: master JCL

2019-05-30 Thread Pommier, Rex
gt; -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of > Pommier, Rex > Sent: Wednesday, May 29, 2019 3:10 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: (External):master JCL > > Hello listers, > > I'm apparently having a case of brain-drain. Is t

Re: [External] Re: Fwd: Just how secure are mainframes? | Trevor Eddolls

2019-05-30 Thread Pommier, Rex
I have been under the impression it stands for External Security Manager, of which the "big 3" would be RACF, ACF2, Top Secret. Rex -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Tom Brennan Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2019 10:21 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject

Re: [External] Re: Need a second set of eyes to look at my NPF settings

2019-05-30 Thread Pommier, Rex
Are you using NPFVTAM and NPFQMGR? If so, are they running? -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Tony Thigpen Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2019 9:50 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: [External] Re: Need a second set of eyes to look at my NPF settings

Re: [External] Re: ads on Knowledge Center?

2019-05-31 Thread Pommier, Rex
Thanks, Sue, for all you do to keep the documentation usable. :-) Rex -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Susan Shumway Sent: Friday, May 31, 2019 8:28 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: [External] Re: ads on Knowledge Center? Hi all, Yikes, than

Re: [External] Re: Hybrid SMS Storage Group - Database

2019-06-11 Thread Pommier, Rex
John, No spares in the array? Or did a fail-over fail as well? If no spares, that sounds more like a bone-headed management move to try to save a couple bucks. Not absolving the admin from responsibility but it sounds like a bigger problem. Rex -Original Message- From: IBM Mainfr

Re: [External] controversy? Using _any_ tool or only _specific_ tools?

2019-06-28 Thread Pommier, Rex
John, There is nothing "efficient and cost effective" in eliminating brain trust material and people who are willing/able to dig in and use the tools available. I've seen firsthand (as I'm sure, many on this list) the short term "gain" and long term crippling of a company by doing just that -

Re: [External] Re: zOSMF software validation looking for *.F files

2019-07-01 Thread Pommier, Rex
Bill, Presuming your DB2 12 install will be going into its own SMP/E environment and new target/distribution libraries, as soon as you have a successful base APPLY, you should be able to accept them. As a new install of a new release, what reason would you have to try to do a RESTORE? Doing

Re: [External] Re: zOSMF software validation looking for *.F files

2019-07-01 Thread Pommier, Rex
DB2V11 FMIDS. HTH, -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Pommier, Rex Sent: Monday, July 1, 2019 10:21 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: [External] Re: zOSMF software validation looking for *.F files Bill, Presuming your DB2 12 install will be

Re: [External] Re: zOSMF software validation looking for *.F files

2019-07-01 Thread Pommier, Rex
: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: [External] Re: zOSMF software validation looking for *.F files Perhaps that will solve the OP's problem. Run the accept w/NOPURGE and then manually delete the RELFILES. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Pommier, R

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