On Sat, 21 Jun 2025 12:42:31 -0500, Jon Perryman wrote:
>This makes for an entertaining story, but I suspect SAY was an actual design
>decision.
Oh, I didn't mean to suggest that talking terminals were the reason for the
choice of name, just that the literal meaning did always make sense, becau
On Fri, 20 Jun 2025 16:49:53 +0100, Colin Paice wrote:
>I think SAY came about because of history.In the beginning, most people
>using REX(X) ran it on CMS interactively and it chatted to the end user
>running the exec.
Mike's explanation in The REXX Language was that "SAY . . . typically cau
On Wed, 5 Mar 2025 18:01:01 -0500, Phil Smith III wrote:
>Rupert Reynolds wrote about taking down a system by compressing a PDS. What
>stories can y'all share about times you or someone you worked with took down a
>system in a way that made you SMH afterward?
Stupid outage I *fixed*, twice:
In
On Thu, 16 Jan 2025 21:10:57 -0600, Lionel B Dyck wrote:
>Corrected URL as the article was moved to the Tutorials section of the site
>https://dinoframe.io/tutorial/a-rexx-outtrap-secret
It took me a while to understand what the alternative was to
call outtrap 't.'
x = sayit('Calling LISTD')
On Sat, 28 Dec 2024 10:53:31 -0600, Steve Beaver wrote:
>IBM moved thousands of people to IOWA 15 years ago. Does anyone know how many
>people actually worked in Dubuque?
Was it only 15? I thought it was 20 or more, back when I was in VM support.
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On Fri, 6 Dec 2024 16:26:25 +0100, Radoslaw Skorupka
wrote:
>Some colleagues of mine are sometimes angry for me, because when I
>"modernize" some system things I tell them how old the "new feature" is.
>Sometimes it is 20 or 30 years. :-)
With CMS Pipelines, any features added since level 1.10 i
On Fri, 25 Oct 2024 14:05:15 -0500, I wrote:
>Yes, you can set both PASSWORD and PHRASE independently, and use either one at
>logon. There's only one INTERVAL setting for both, so you can't have, say, a
>short-lived password and a longer-lived passphrase.
Whoops, didn't notice which list I was
On Fri, 25 Oct 2024 13:35:10 -0500, Steve Beaver wrote:
>I have NEVER turned on Passphrases in RACF for anything.
>Does RACF support Passwords and PassPhrases at the Sametime
>On an either or basis
Yes, you can set both PASSWORD and PHRASE independently, and use either one at
logon. There's onl
Not directly to PDF, but LP3820 from the VM Download Library will convert to
PostScript and it might be easier from there:
https://www.vm.ibm.com/download/packages/descript.cgi?LP3820
On z/OS, there's the Print Transforms offering for conversions like this:
https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/3.
On Wed, 2 Oct 2024 17:05:34 -0500, I wrote:
>E-mail addresses are visible there, but you can also just click the pencil
>icon to reply to a post, and you'll have options to send your reply
>>To: To the List (IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU)
>> To the Poster (whoever@wherever)
However! I f
On Wed, 2 Oct 2024 17:21:51 -0400, Rick Troth wrote:
>But there's a problem. I don't know how to engage off-list. In fact, to
>chat with Steve is impossible because LISTSERV presents his email
>address as 050e0c375a14-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu.
That should be a valid address to send him
Won't work for USS files, though. Those will need BPXWDYN.
https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/3.1.0?topic=tef-listdsi says
> Restriction: LISTDSI does not support files in the UNIX file system.
> Unpredictable results might occur.
9 *-* "ALLOCATE DD("Arg(1)")" Arg(2)
On Fri, 16 Aug 2024 14:24:49 +, Seymour J Metz wrote:
>I've never used the web interface. What is the appropriate action after
>message: "You are not authorized to view the archives with the email address
>you used to log in."?
* Are you logged in with the same address that's subscribed to
On Fri, 14 Jun 2024 11:51:23 -0400, Phil Smith III wrote:
>"If the command contains special characters or blanks, enclose it in single
>quotation marks."
>
>Might not be the best example, but it's clear from the doc that whoever wrote
>it doesn't understand that unassigned Rexx variables return
On 5/15/2024 12:13 PM, I wrote:
> Sadly, a direct link to Product Lifecycle search results doesn't work (403
> Forbidden),
Hmm, maybe that was just a temporary glitch. This works for me now:
> https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/lifecycle/search/?q=5655-ZOS+or+5650-ZOS+or+5694-A01
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On Wed, 15 May 2024 14:08:49 +, Allan Staller
wrote:
>Does anyone have links or documents to the z/OS 2.4 and 2.5 announcement
>letters?
For those curious or still looking, this Product Lifecycle list has links to
all the General availability (GA), End of marketing (EOM), and End of suppor
On Tue, 7 May 2024 18:27:08 +, Lars Höglund wrote:
>We had a program called JOBINFO (in allocated STEPLIB)
>Didn't realize that jobinfo = jobinfo() in a Rexx will trying to start, and
>maybe executing the cobolmodule
>We also have a Rexx called jobinfo, and that the one I want to execute.
Oh
On Tue, 7 May 2024 11:33:21 +, Lars Höglund wrote:
> An error has occurred in Rexx module: XMAIL
> Error Type: SYNTAX
> Error Line Number : 299
> Instruction : jobinfo = JOBINFO()
> Return Code : 44
> Error Message text: Function did not return data
So, the
stage).
>
>Roops
>
>On Thu, 14 Mar 2024, 17:04 Glenn Knickerbocker, wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 13 Mar 2024 11:01:30 -0500, Charles Mills
>> wrote:
>> >And the answer is ... "The three numeric settings are automatically saved
>> across internal and externa
On Wed, 13 Mar 2024 11:01:30 -0500, Charles Mills wrote:
>And the answer is ... "The three numeric settings are automatically saved
>across internal and external subroutine and function calls."
>I was setting numeric digits in an initialization subroutine, so Rexx
>helpfully unset it on return f
On Wed, 7 Feb 2024 22:07:35 +, Kurt Quackenbush wrote:
>> GIM24601E ** LMOD ENTRY IEWLDR00 IS NEEDED FOR PROCESSING BUT IS NOT IN THE
>> SMPCSI LIBRARY
>
>Are you installing the FMIDs in the waves and ripples sequence as described in
>the z/OS 3.1 Program Directory?
>https://www.ibm.com/doc
On Tue, 9 Jan 2024 23:31:10 +, Schmitt, Michael
wrote:
>3. LMMLIST LIST STATS(YES) to create a list of the members, with statistics
> While LMMLIST rc = 0
> If ZLCNORC = 0
> LMPUT to write your NONE line
Of course, that assumes that there *are* already statistics. If the memb
On Thu, 4 Jan 2024 13:55:22 -0600, Steve Estle wrote:
>I've hardcoded the enclosing double quote/quote inside my file as follows:
>"'SYS1.PARMLIB'"
That's the problem. When your exec that works correctly does this:
> DSName = "'SYS1.PARMLIB'"
the doubl
On Wed, 8 Nov 2023 09:49:34 -0500, Rick Troth wrote:
>Cards and printed paper are even human readable. Wow.
I've heard tales (probably at KTRU) of reading magnetic tape/cards with iron
filings and a loupe.
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On Sun, 5 Nov 2023 00:20:52 +, Seymour J Metz wrote:
>IBM used to document how it assigned the prefix in sysmod ids, but its been
>decades since I've seen documentation that matched practice. What I've never
>seen violated is that the sysmod ids associated with an APAR all have the same
>nu
On Mon, 31 Jul 2023 10:54:28 -0500, Grant Taylor
wrote:
>> Why don't we see these systems being discussed (or maybe I just don't
>> frequent the right web sites)?
>I suspect it's /where/ we are talking. This list, IBM territory
reddit.com/r/mainframe/ does occasionally get some Unisys discussio
On Thu, 13 Jul 2023 17:22:12 -0400, Phil Smith III wrote:
>I've seen various schemes used for creating up-to-eight-character userids, all
>truncated as needed, of course.
...
>Anyone got any other variations? This is purely a curiosity item, no agenda.
Standard at IBM Poughkeepsie when I started
The particularly perverse one was France, code page 297, with
à for @ "at," reasonable enough;
£ for # "pound" but the wrong kind; and
$ for $ because there was no special sign for the franc (not even a ligature of
Fr).
When the euro was introduced, that was really the end of trying to maintain
On Mon, 10 Jul 2023 11:27:04 -0500, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
>The ISPF User's Guide calls "#", "$" and "@" "Special" characters; otherwise
>discussing national language support.
Where, specifically? In a quick search on "special character national
language" in both Vol I and Vol II, I spotted only
On Wed, 5 Jul 2023 14:16:27 -0400, Matt Hogstrom wrote:
>I recently ran into a question that I didn’t know the answer to. The
>question was, what code page are dataset names and other z/OS artifacts coded
>in? Since the special characters like #, $ and @ are different in codepages
>1047, ver
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