Mainframe, MVS and zOS Discussion

eclip looks interesting. why 10 you asked - because that is the limit that IBM allows using their native clipboard facility (actually 11 but clipboard 1 is the Default). With eclip how do you access the invidiual clipboards or are you using a custom, non-ibm, cut/paste that stores clipboards externa...

Several of my in-house users were asking a few weeks ago how to use the ISPF Cut and Paste. As part of that discussion I learned they didn't know about using user defined clipboards - they only used the default clipboard. To simplify the use of clipboards I developed an ISPF dialog I called SETCLIP ...

Here is an update to PDSEGEN for those using it

Be aware that z/OS is not the same a Unix where stdout and stderr have special and agreed upon meanings. With z/OS a DD can be whatever the programmer wants it to be. Thus a SYSPRINT and a SYSOUT DD could be used for completely different purposes in different programs. From a different perspective, ...

DB2 Guy - I'm sorry you feel that way. I was hoping that the information would be helpful for others who are looking to take advantage of pdse member generations. I have been answering some questions in the community but realize i'm new to this forum so haven't had time to answer a lot.

If you don't have access to read SYS1.PARMLIB but would still like to see if you have PDSE Member Generations available at your site then use this small rexx exec: /* REXX */ CVT = C2D(Storage(10,4)) CVTDFA = C2D(Storage(D2X(CVT + 1216),4)) /* cvt + 4c0 */ DFAMGEN = C2D(Storage(D2X(cvtdfa + 76),4)) ...

The best way to answer that is that it depends on the particular program. Read the doc to see what each DD is and how it is used.

For a generalized solution to sending e-mail from z/OS check out XMITIP from www.lbdsoftware.com. This utility is in use at several hundred sites around the world and makes it easy to send plain text emails, or get complex with attachments. Included with the tool are routines to convert text to html...

There are numerous tools that will do this. Some have been mentioned but one of the best, and free, is the PDS command which can be found on FILE 182 on the CBTTape.org site. Another approach is to write a rexx exec that lists all the members of the pds and then invokes an ispf edit macro on each me...

Check out this tool PDSEGEN is an ISPF dialog that works makes working with Member Generations easy and intuitive. Included with PDSEGEN is the ability to Backup all member and generations, retaining all ISPF statistics, to a normal PDS that can be processed by any software that works with a PDS (e....

How many of you know that as of z/OS 2.1 IBM has provided the ability to enable member generations in your PDSE Version 2 libraries? Do you know how to enable them (see sys1.parmlib member IGDSMSxx)? There are several resources online from IBM and SHARE on PDSE Member Generations BUT you will have t...

If your system has SMTP enabled then you can send an email to as an sms message. For a list of common sms addresses see http://20somethingfinance.com/how-to-send-text-messages-sms-via-email-for-free/ XMITIP has the ability to generate a properly formatted SMTP email, including a sms message - see ww...