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  • I Cooked a SYSRES!

    But before we all start panicking, let me preface this by saying it was on my employers z/D&T (Development and Test) environment – not a client system. No mainframes were hurt (much) in the making of this blog post. So what happened? TLDR: It turns out the SYS1.NUCLEUS dataset can’t have extents allocated, it must…

  • Adding Users to RACF

    RACF users can be made with the ADDUSER command. Because creating a user is a multiple step process with a lot of different RACF commands involved, creating a user via batch is common. RACF commands can be run in batch with the IKJEFT01 program, which allows you to execute TSO commands in batch. There are…

  • Jobcard Template Insert Macro

    /* rexx */“isredit macro”“isredit (cur) = cursor” lineno = curline = “//JOBCARD  JOB ,’Name’,NOTIFY=&SYSUID.,”“isredit line_after “lineno” = (line)”line = “//            MSGCLASS=A,MSGLEVEL (1,1),CLASS=A”“isredit line_after “lineno+1″ = (line)”line = “//““isredit line_after “lineno+2″ = (line)” Macro: Insert job card templateAbout: An isredit macro to insert a job card into a member open in ispf edit.Usage: Allocate the macro…