I don't know about others, but I would love to see the slide deck.
Ramsey
On Tue, Feb 7, 2023 at 2:53 PM Rob Scott wrote:
> Note that there is no jobname qualifier on the JES2.CANCEL.BAT profile.
> This is why SDSF has the extra JESSPOOL profile check that goes beyond
> vanilla JES2 cancel comm
+1
I agree whole-heartedly with Mike and Charles.
Ramsey Hallman
MVS/Quickref Support Group
Chicago-Soft, LTD.
On Mon, May 22, 2023 at 5:34 PM Mike Shaw wrote:
> +1
>
> I have been working with IBM z/OS documentation for over 40 years and have
> submitted many reader comment f
In the two most recent shops I've worked in (prior to my current gig), the
Windows and Unix support staff was two times more than the mainframe staff.
Operations, help desk, security worked with all groups combined. We had 7
sysprogs, 16 Windows admins, and 14 Unix admins (sysprog staff maintained
Steve, if your shop happens to have MVS/Quickref, we have the Serena
content in our database.
Ramsey Hallman
MVS/Quickref Support
On Fri, Jul 28, 2023 at 11:45 AM Steve Beaver wrote:
> I'm at a shop that uses Serena Changeman and have NON of the PDF's.
>
>
>
> W
).
Ramsey Hallman
MVS/Quickref
Chicago-Soft, Ltd
On Tue, Sep 26, 2023 at 2:42 PM Ross Vaughn wrote:
> Our shop is looking for some Z skills training specifically around storage
> and SMS. We are having difficulty finding companies who can offer the
> training. I’ve inquired with ProTech and Z
I truly hesitate to offer replies like this, but occasionally it seems
appropriate to potentially resolve an issue. There is a company,
Chicago-Soft, Ltd, for which I work, who offers a product MVS/QuickRef.
QuickRef, among other things (and there are many more), contains tons of
documentation fro
About 10 years ago I was working at a firm in Southern California. They
hired a new VP over the technology area. His goal in life was to get off
the mainframe. He convinced the powers above that he could run the entire
workload currently on a S/390 on a quad processor running Windows, saving
the
Bill,
DB2 will hold the thread open for a short time waiting to see if it can be
reused. It's expensive to create/destroy threads.
Do you have Omegamon, or CICS/Mon, or some other monitoring tool, mostly
for CiCS? If so, take a look at those transactions
and I think you'll see the DB2 time is v
Mark,
Most of the CL/Supersession documentation appears to be available online.
Search "IBM CL/Supersession V3". I found multiple PDF's - Basic Config
Guide, Customization Guide, Problem Determination Guide, etc.
Ramsey
On Thu, Oct 21, 2021 at 12:25 PM Gilson Cesar de Oliveira
wrote:
> Mark:
Central Daylight Time is 5 hours BEHIND UTC. As I write this, it's about
13:00 CDT. That's 18:00 UTC.
Are you sure about the 7 *PM* time 7AM UTC would be 2AM CDT.
Ramsey
On Mon, Nov 1, 2021 at 12:47 PM Carmen Vitullo wrote:
> I hate to beat a dead horse as it relates to time change, but
I agree with Charles. This is probably a firewall issue on the client
side. Have their network guys check the logs to see what's going on. If
it works for you, it should also work for the client. When I've seen these
before, and we see a lot of this, 99 times out of 100, it's the client's
firew
Second paragraph, second sentence:
It contains a new OpenJCEPlus security provider offering optimized
performance through exploitation of cryptographic hardware on IBM Z and
enabling the cryptographic algorithms required for TLS V1.3 support in the
OpenJCEPlus provider.
On Fri, Nov 19, 2021 at 11:
Mark, I've used SPFLite for several years now. I've never had an issue
with it and it works great.
Ramsey
On Tue, Dec 21, 2021 at 5:22 AM Mark Regan wrote:
> https://spflite.com/Home.html
> I've used it off and on, on Win10 and was wondering what others think about
> the product, as it is fre
ossible to
keep physical manuals up to date as quickly as software changes.
Ramsey Hallman
MVS/QuickRef Development
Chicago-Soft, Ltd.
On Fri, Jan 21, 2022 at 10:48 AM René Jansen
wrote:
> Yes, that is a very good idea. It would follow the general route in which
> progress is made, then undone
I've never used CEETEST, instead doing all of my debugging with z/XDC, an
outstanding product from ColeSoft, but let me ask a question based on my
experience.
Are you sure you use the line number in the PDS in the AT? Unless you also
define the ds and member somewhere, the loadmod has no knowledg
Mario, where does the "MYMODULE" come from in your DUMPT command???
I don't see anything named that in your module map.
According to your module map, your CSECT name is $PRIV10. If you
DUMPT $PRIV10 $PRIV10
what happens?
And in your AMBLIST what is your #1 CESD?
Ramsey
On Sat, Feb
You might try WinMerge. Open source, free download. Does a great job of
comparing files and can produce an output file. Not sure about removing
dups - never had a reason to do that.
ramsey
On Thu, Mar 24, 2022 at 7:12 AM Paul Gilmartin <
000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote:
Larry, I'll let others provide summaries and links, however, I'd say
mainframes are definitely here to stay. IBM and its operating systems may
have been around for many years, but IBM has done an excellent job of
modernizing both hardware and software. When you invoke some software,
whether by mous
Go to share.org for all sorts of info
2023 SHARE Events*SHARE Atlanta | March 5-8**SHARE New Orleans | August
13-18*
Ramsey
On Mon, Oct 24, 2022 at 12:17 PM Joseph Reichman
wrote:
> Thanks BTW
>
> When is the next share what are the perquisites to attend
>
> > On Oct 24, 2022, at 12:49 PM, Rob
Unless Passport TN3270 has been renamed, Rocket Software has (also has)
BlueZone, which is an excellent 3270 emulator. It was the company-wide
emulator at my last corporate position. Individuals can purchase it (I
did), though I don't recall the price.
Ramsey
On Thu, Nov 17, 2022 at 10:37 AM Harr
Hi, Sheila.
I cannot help specifically, however, if you do not have the complete error
message I am including it below. The message says the reason for the
failure is noted in the error. You might consider posting the ENTIRE error
message to the group.
IZUR400E The request could not be completed.
Not to be confused with I-E-B-pitty-patch (IEBPTPCH).
rh
On Sat, Apr 13, 2024 at 4:56 PM Rupert Reynolds wrote:
> Affectionately known in UK as I-E-B-up-ditty :-)
>
> On Sat, 13 Apr 2024, 15:39 ITschak Mugzach, <
> 05a7ced721d8-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote:
>
> > IEBUPDTE. JCL can b
ile access. Collect a System SSL trace and verify the
ICSF return code and reason code relating to the error. See z/OS
Cryptographic
Services ICSF Application Programmer's Guide for more information about
ICSF
return and reason codes. If the problem persists contact your service
represent
As mentioned by Mike Shaw yesterday, the below will list z/OS datasets with
any high-level qualifier:
/__SYS2.
The "SYS2." can be /__yourtsoid. or /__SYS1. or /__anyhlq.
I don't think it will take an "*", however, I may not have waited long
enough for a display of every data set on our system to
Most of IBM's messages manuals, and various others, have gone to 2-up
format.
On Fri, Aug 16, 2024 at 8:14 AM Paul Gilmartin <
042bfe9c879d-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote:
> On Fri, 16 Aug 2024 11:43:53 +, Peter Relson wrote:
>
> >Gil wrote
> > The PDF was in two-up format
> >and I
Cheryl,
Thank you for 51 years of unequaled knowledge and insight!!! It's CERTAINLY
been appreciated.
Ramsey
On Sun, Sep 8, 2024 at 3:35 PM Cheryl Watson
wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I’m about to remove my IBM-Main registration. At 80, with 60 years of
> mainframe behind me, it’s time for my retiremen
You should be running QuickRef -
* Text Below Copyright (c) 2020, IBM
*
*AOP047Eexception-information *
Explanation: This message is displayed with message AOP004E and contains
diagnostic information that might be helpful in solving the problem
Dave, I regret to hear of another mainframe shutting down. It's a shame
many companies do not realize exactly what they are doing until it is too
late. I don't know about WSU, but the companies I've been involved with
who migrated off of IBM mainframes were surprised to find how much it cost
to "
I agree with Syrmour's method. When I am stumped, I'll start an email to
my boss (the best assembler coder I know) asking what I've done wrong.
While putting as much information into the email as possible, so he doesn't
think I'm taking the easy way out, 99 times out of 100 I'll find my issue.
Usu
Sorry for the "fat fingers", Seymour.
On Fri, Feb 26, 2021 at 12:02 PM Ramsey Hallman
wrote:
> I agree with Syrmour's method. When I am stumped, I'll start an email to
> my boss (the best assembler coder I know) asking what I've done wrong.
> While putting as
Tony, I assume when you say "mini z/OS V2R1 system" that includes SDSF. If
yes, allocate a sysout type dataset. Mine is userid.print.out (org=po,
recfm-fb, lrecl 133, blksize-13300 (or 26600, or ...)). Select your job in
JES, either an individual output segment or the entire job. On the command
Warren, that depends slightly. Put a member in some MACLIB. If it is
truly a copybook, then COPY member (not in column 1, I usually put COPY
in 10 and member in 16). If it is truly a macro, then just specify the
name, like IHAPSA DSECT=YES and it will expand (again not in column 1).
Ramsey
Any chance you have access to z/XDC by ColeSoft??? The absolute best
debugger available. I can offer syntax for that but have never used the
z/OS Debugger.
Ramsey
On Tue, Nov 5, 2024 at 9:11 AM Seymour J Metz wrote:
> I'm finding the reference manual for the z/OS Debugger rather terse, and
> am
e are missing
in our database that a licensee would like added, let us know and we'll do
our best to add it. In OS's, our current database includes z/OS 1.13
through 3.1, z/VM 4.4 through 7.3, as well as OS/390 2.10.
Ramsey Hallman
MVS/Quickref Support/Development
Ch
Steve,
I believe the most recent is -13 ( Fourteenth Edition (May, 2022) - First
Edition being 00).
The Jump mnuemonics are definitely in that edition.
Ramsey
On Fri, Sep 20, 2024 at 9:27 AM Steve Thompson wrote:
> I am trying to get an up to date copy of the PoOP and when I
> check it for "J
iscoll
> > Broadcom MSD
> > All opinions are strictly my own
> >
> > On Fri, Sep 20, 2024 at 9:39 AM Ramsey Hallman <
> > 061e76a747b5-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote:
> >
> > > Steve,
> > >
> > > I believe the most r
Peter, your experience and insight will be sorely missed. Congratulations
on your retirement. Hope you truly enjoy your "time off" for all the other
things that are awaiting you.
Ramsey
On Fri, Jan 3, 2025 at 1:41 PM Seymour J Metz wrote:
> It's always sad to see an old timer leave, but I can'
Peter, you may have already looked the message up, but it appears you need
your CE to diagnose this:
IEA480E (form 1 of 2) , {SCU | CACHE | DASD | MEDIA }, {SERVICE |
MODERATE | SERIOUS | ACUTE} ALERT,
MT=machine type/model, SER=MMPP-S,
If you have MVS/Quickref, option S, enter the volser. SG is listed in col 13
Ramsey
On Fri, Mar 28, 2025 at 11:08 AM MVS JES2 <
0784e6483dad-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote:
> d sms,vol(abc123)
>
> On Fri, Mar 28, 2025 at 7:29 AM Radoslaw Skorupka <
> 0471ebeac275-dmarc-requ...@list
The version prior to 3.1 is 2.5 of z/OS.
>From the error message, it does not necessarily have to be the job name. It
could be other JCL issues.
IEFC452I text - JOB NOT RUN - JCL ERROR
Explanation
Depending on the message text, one of the following:
JOBFAIL
The error was dete
Just for info, the IDI's are IBM Fault Analyzer messages:
IDI0012S Abend abend-code occurred in abend exit processing,
Explanation: An abend occurred in Fault Analyzer. This message is followed
by
message IDI0013S.
System action: Processing terminates.
User response: This is an internal
Mark, in your assembler code, you've "reverted" back to the callers R13 and
reloaded your registers prior to loading R15 with your return code. So you
are picking up something in the caller's storage area. Move your L R15,RC
to before the L and LM instruction in the RESTORE and RETURN code.
On Tue
oying your return code with the L R15,RC statement.
Ramsey
On Tue, Jul 15, 2025 at 2:25 PM Ramsey Hallman
wrote:
> Mark, in your assembler code, you've "reverted" back to the callers R13
> and reloaded your registers prior to loading R15 with your return code. So
> you ar
Matt,
Thank you. We've worked hard on those plug-ins and are proud of them.
Our developer who created all of these will be presenting at SHARE.
Ramsey Hallman
MVS/Quickref Support
On Fri, Aug 1, 2025 at 9:39 AM Matt Hogstrom <
08699818dae4-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote:
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