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Introduction:
Systems, Apps, Ops, and T&D completed an online archive for TSO mainframe output. In plain
English: we who rely on the mainframe will be able to forward data to a webpage requiring a
slightly quirky logon. It'll save loads of paper, allow us to share data with each other in the
office, and even permit a download their stuff to the PC to burn to a CD.
Documentation online:
http://www.marist.edu/~mvsarch/archfaq.html
1. How to access
2. What to look for
3. How do I open it
Answers
1. How to access
The userid is your TSO "HM" account.
This will determine which office you work for and therefore which office directory you
can see. For example an account "HMCCXXX" indicates the user works for the
Computer Center.
The password is your personal password from your "J" account.
Your "J" account is the same account you use to check your vacation balance, access the
Library online databases, get to your online Elearning courses, or access the Internet
while using a student lab machine. This password will indicate to the system the
individual accessing the archive.
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2. What to look for
Once you are in the archive you may sort by title, date, or sender. If you took the
opportunity to indicate which folder you wanted your report archived to, simply click on
the label for that subdirectory (folder) and search the reports you've stored there by either
date, title, or sender.
Please note a running total for your reports is seen in the lower right corner within a
subdirectory. This is simply a size, in kilobytes or megabytes, for general reference when
determining how many files may fit on a single 80-minute CD. There is no minimum
established for reports downloaded to CD. There are some limitations as to how many
reports can be stuffed onto one CD. For more detailed information on burning CDs at the
desktop please see : Recording Data to a CD
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How do I open it
You must have the Marist desktop standard: Adobe Acrobat Reader 5.0 or higher to open the
PDF. Once you select a report to view it, you will be prompted for a read-only password. Each
office has their own TSO identifier as this password. The intent for this document security is to
prevent disclosure of confidential material should a report be intercepted while enroute to the
Auditors or another reporting authority via the Internet.
Should you expect to see a file online, but have trouble locating it, first try looking in folders
with a similar name to the one you'd anticipated finding the file within. If you thought you'd sent
it to a folder named "Weekly" look for a close but mispelled match, such as "weakly". Then look
at your Office Main Page in case the file was not uploaded to a subdirectory/folder but simply to
the Main Page.
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Step by Step ScreenShots
BATCH a System Generated Report or Run a FOCUS report – NOT a
nonprint or on table hold as excel – a simple focexec and then BATCH it from TSO. (Ex. MFD
and a focexec)
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Here I routed to my
account - my HELD
OUTPUT
How to “Program” the F6 Key
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ZERO
SIX
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Once they hit ENTER
Go to TSO Held Output – (logon and choose menu quickly via ‘0.S.H’ at command
prompt).
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We want to view the HELD output, because we are going to forward it to either email
or to the online archive from there:
SELECT the report by typing an ‘S’ in leftmost column on the associated row (under NP).
Notice the ‘F6 = PrtMenu’ option down at the bottom right ??? Press F6 for this screen –
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Where I choose Option #2 – this sends the output to a bin where it is converted to a PDF and
placed online. The menus direct me as I go. Once done I press ENTER:
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Please fill in the fields below to document the file being archived.
This information will be available in the Document Summary of the
archived file. The title information will be used to build the
entry on the web archive index page to allow for easy identification
of the files in the archive. The type information will allow you
you to group similar reports together. All reports with the same
type will be placed in the same directory/folder in the archive.
Author ==>,Julia M Sheehy
Subject ==>,
Title ==>,
Type ==>,General something
,
,
,
,
PF1 = Help PF3 = Quit
Value for type can only contain: The letters A-Z, the numbers 0-9 and
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Blanks and other special characters are not allowed
Please press enter to correct your entry.
So I did and I called it TRAIL_DATA but ‘Oops!’ I meant it to be TRIAL_DATA ! These
are the prompts I get as I create a folder
,
A new folder on the web archive will be created,
if you continue. The value you entered for type,
was TRAIL_DATA,
,
,
Here are the folders you have previously defined:,
GENERAL,
,
If you want to create the new folder enter Y,
Otherwise, enter N to change the name.,
So I entered N and changed the name to TRIAL_DATA
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Where I choose Option #1: Focus has to talk to Lotus Notes. We get these helpful directions:
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Fill in to label the report. We recommend using ‘T’ in order to make importing the document to
Excel as either a tab delimited or comma delimited file easier. They will have to delete or ignore
the lines where their headings and page numbers are (not difficult to do). Press enter to get:
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In these examples my report is either online, or in my Lotus inbox. Either way I can download
it, look at it, print just the page I need, or burn it to CD!!!!! J
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This is how it looks in Lotus email – as a text attachment from the sender’s TSO
account:
attachment
If I go to the archive this is what I see at the url: http://www.marist.edu/~mvsarch/
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PASSWORD IS A COMBINATION OF YOUR TSO LOGIN ID AND YOUR LDAP
PASSWORD.
THE LDAP PASSWORD IS USED TO CHECK VACATION BALANCES.
In plain English, if you don’t know your LDAP, call HelpDesk ask them to reset it.
LDAP PASSWORDS ARE ALWAYS CASE SENSITIVE
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READ-ONLY password is the four letter TSO ID for my office – HMCC for Computer
Center (IT) – HMAP for Accounts Payable (Business Office), HMAR for Accounts Receivable
(Student Accounts), HMPO for Personnel Office (Human Resources) etc etc, etc.
And NO we cannot edit. The system generates an encrypted master password, as well as the
coded office password. Outta luck if we wish to edit. We can F6 the report to themselves email
if they need to edit. Here is what the PDF online will look like:
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