Rui Miguel Feio

MVS commands to display Dynamic Exits

17th August 2009 Rui Miguel Feio

The following are some of the most common ways to display Exits and Exit Routines: 1. Display the names of all the Exits /D PROG,EXIT,ALL Example of what this command returns: CSV460I 13.31.32 PROG,EXIT DISPLAY 941 EXIT DEF EXIT DEF EXIT DEF SYSSTC.IEFACTRT E SYSSTC.IEFUJI E SYSSTC.IEFUJV E SYS.IEFACTRT E […]

MVS command to Delete an Exit routine from an Exit

17th August 2009 Rui Miguel Feio

The following command deletes an exit routine from an exit: /SETPROG EXIT,DELETE,EXITNAME=exit_name,MODNAME=mod_name,FORCE=yes_no Example: exit_name = SYSSTC.IEFACTRT mod_name = IEFACTRT /SETPROG EXIT,DELETE,EXITNAME=SYSSTC.IEFACTRT,MODNAME=IEFACTRT Note: FORCE = NO is the default value and therefore we don’t need to specify it. This changes the state of the exit routine to inactive and the system […]

Backup and Restore a web site in CPANEL

16th August 2009 Rui Miguel Feio

It’s a good practice to make backups prior to submit any changes to your site. Time and again people skip the backup to find themselves with problems and not having an easy and quick way to undo their changes. This may not seem a big problem, but if the changes […]

How to check which RACF datasets are in use

16th August 2009 Rui Miguel Feio

Knowing the names and locations of the RACF datasets that are currently being used by the system is quite easy. For this we have to use the command TSO RVARY Example: TSO RVARY Returns: RACF DATABASE STATUS: ACTIVE USE NUM VOLUME DATASET —— — — —— ——- YES PRIM 1 […]

How to check who’s allocating a device unit

16th August 2009 Rui Miguel Feio

Let’s say for instance that you have a DASD volume (TSTCT1) and you would like to know who’s using it (allocating it). In order to do this we first need to know the unit address of said device: /D U,VOL=volume_name In our example: /D U,VOL=TSTCT1 Result: RESPONSE=TST1 IEE457I 09.53.10 UNIT […]