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Webcast Replay: What to Know Migrating from CA Panvalet Librarian to CA Endevor [Mar. 9th]

Learn the steps for using CA M3A to migrate your CA Panvalet / Librarian solution to CA Endevor® Software Change Manager, and explore why CA Endevor SCM is the leading mainframe SCCM solution, and one of the highest rated CA products by NPS.   With CA Panvalet and CA Librarian...

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Hi Storage Managers: Do you know someone in your data center that uses CA Panvalet or CA Librarian? 

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TECH TIPS: How to reinitialize LAM after applying a PTF

Steps to Perform:  1. Update the RIMPARMS member referenced by your Common Service startup PROC with the following RIMPARM:     PRODUCT(CA-LIB44) VERSION(LJ44) INIT(LJ44INIT) PARM(REINIT,NAME=LAM) 2. Ensure your Common Services startup PROC steplib points to the...

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TECH TIPS: The difference between INIT versus REINIT when initializing Librarian

The difference between INIT and REINIT is - INIT pulls from LPA if present - REINIT loads from STEPLIB then the LINKLIST  

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Tech Tips: How to copy members from a Librarian Master File to a PDS.

You can copy selected members or all members from a Librarian Master File to a PDS. Example below: //**********************************************************************************************************************    THIS SAMPLE JCL WILL USE THE GROUP PROCESSING OPTION...

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Tech Tips: Will CA Librarian be effected by complying with Departmental requirements for the 12-character password passphrase.

No. CA Librarian software is not affected at all with password passphrase.

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Tech Tips: How to turn on archiving for an existing Librarian Master File .

To turn on archiving for an existing librarian master file you will need to reinitialize using the -OPT command. Sample JCL below.   //JOBCARD //*******************************************************************************************/ //* THIS SAMPLE JCL WILL USE...

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Tech Tips: How to Set Up the LIB/CCF-ISPF(TSO) HISTORY Exits

Exit $CCFU004 (EXIT4) is i nvoked before the history create and update panels display. $CCFU004 c an be used to standardize information used for history member creation. When a programmer logs out a member that has no associated history member on the history master file, LIB/CCF...

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Tech Tips: How to get around security errors for ACCESS(UPDATE) when trying to do a -SELECT on a member to copy it to a PDS

When you restrict update access to a  Librarian Master file to read-only access you will need to use -EXTRACT instead of -SEL when accessing the member. The -EXTRACT command does not require update authority to the master file. The -SEL(SELECT) command does require update authority to the...

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TECH TIPS: How to tell what type of security is setup for a Librarian Master File.

To tell what type of security is set up for a Librarian master file run an INDEX report against that specific master file. It will show what security is setup, MCD, External. It will also show what options were set when the Librarian Master File was initialized. Here is an example of...