Re: Interview questions

2025-05-29 Thread Thomas Berg
opinion. Thomas Berg Mundus Vult Decipi Den tors 29 maj 2025 17:15Jeremy Nicoll skrev: > On Tue, 27 May 2025, at 15:18, rpinion865 wrote: > > I would appreciate it very much, if > > the list could give me questions to ask during the interview > > process. > > A lon

Re: Reader cnventuons (was: Check for ENQ ...) From:

2025-05-08 Thread Thomas Berg
Another solution is to add (e g) two blanks in front of every line. (And remove them at a convenient opportunity.) Thomas Berg Mundus Vult Decipi Den tors 8 maj 2025 18:13Paul Gilmartin < 042bfe9c879d-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> skrev: > On Thu, 8 May 2025 12:29:30 +0200,

Re: New version of JOL - a JCL replacement language

2025-05-04 Thread Thomas Berg
FWIW, I tested the link yesterday with the same result. Today I had no problem clicking the same link. The website seems totally ok. Thomas Berg Mundus Vult Decipi Den sön 4 maj 2025 18:57Paul Gilmartin < 042bfe9c879d-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> skrev: > On Tue, 29 Apr 2025

Re: Packed decimal sign nibbles

2025-04-28 Thread Thomas Berg
I began programming at IBM mainframes 1979. I remember encountered those A, E signs a few times but not exactly why. I suspect maybe from punched cards or punched tape. We had both at that time. I have also seen them in some manuals st that time. Thomas Berg Mundus Vult Decipi Den mån 28 apr

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: EXTERNAL Email: Re: IEFC452I !?!

2025-04-24 Thread Thomas Berg
Have you tried to change the account info in the job card? Thomas Berg Mundus Vult Decipi Den tors 24 apr. 2025 16:11Steve Thompson skrev: > Hi all: > > I'm still trying to figure this out while I still have access to > the system. > > A few things -- I am just a

Re: Expand DSN names (WAS : Java saved IBM Z?!)

2025-03-27 Thread Thomas Berg
at in normal applications.) In practice we would want to work with much more limited name lengths as it would be more managable by the brain, but I could se lenghts of around 130 to be useful sometimes (with modern screen space in 3270). Thomas Berg Mundus Vult Decipi Den tors 27 mars 2025 1

Re: Expand DSN names (WAS : Java saved IBM Z?!)

2025-03-27 Thread Thomas Berg
How about UNIX/Linux name standard limits? What lengths are permitted? (And what hex code ranges etc?) Are there any consensus? Thomas Berg Mundus Vult Decipi Den tors 27 mars 2025 01:22Seymour J Metz skrev: > Sigma? You don't have to go as far as SDS; IBM had that too

Re: Open XL C dramaticallly slower thant z/OS XL C compiler - expected?

2025-03-20 Thread Thomas Berg
Could the reason be that IBM is fearing anti trust problems? Due to be the sole provider of PL/X. And maybe liability issues. Thomas Berg Mundus Vult Decipi Den ons 19 mars 2025 18:45James Mulder skrev: > For compiler listings and actual assembler listings, and assembler > inline

Re: Stupid outages you caused

2025-03-07 Thread Thomas Berg
"Don't do that again!". I changed the approach a bit. Thomas Berg Mundus Vult Decipi Den fre 7 mars 2025 21:54Leonard D Woren skrev: > And one of those TSO logon procs should have *no* DDs at all, for > desperation time. You can manually allocate stuff if it comes t

Re: ISPF start with multiple screens

2025-02-04 Thread Thomas Berg
I'm curious about what kind of solutions you are looking for. Is it ispf split screens, multiple parallell ispf sessions under one tso session (haven't heard about any such working) or multiple/parallell tso sessions? Do you allow modified ispf installation panels? Rexxes? Thomas Ber

Re: AI makes stuff up

2025-01-22 Thread Thomas Berg
I always prefix all those serches with "ibm". If not the result is more or less irrelevant. Thomas Berg Den ons 22 jan. 2025 16:47Matt Hogstrom skrev: > Context is king. > > Whenever I search for content related to z I prefix it like “z/os rmm > rustable” and that ten

Re: The mainfeame is alive

2025-01-12 Thread Thomas Berg
x27;t created and the programmer was not availible (changed job, retired or dead.)) Thomas Berg Den sön 12 jan. 2025 22:32Seymour J Metz skrev: > When I was drafted into teaching a programming class I warned my student > that I would take points off for pointless comments. > > However

Re: Ideas of managing a data structure

2024-12-30 Thread Thomas Berg
c scans/deletes. No ad hoc > updates or deletes. > > On Mon, 30 Dec 2024 13:34:02 +0100 Thomas Berg > <0619bfe39560-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > > :>Is the main issue to avoid loss of storage space? That is, access time is > :>not that important?

Re: Ideas of managing a data structure

2024-12-30 Thread Thomas Berg
Is the main issue to avoid loss of storage space? That is, access time is not that important? Thomas Den mån 30 dec. 2024 08:28Binyamin Dissen < 0662573e2c3a-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> skrev: > The issue with playing with pointers is that the storage would be lost. > Blocks > have quite

Re: ISPF Edit - how to switch off CAPS ON?

2024-12-05 Thread Thomas Berg
If I was in your place I would solve it with an init macro and a macro for the end command. Then you can get it exactly as you want. Thomas Berg Den tors 5 dec. 2024 22:10Radoslaw Skorupka < 0471ebeac275-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> skrev: > W dniu 05.12.2024 o 21:02, Phil Smith

Re: PASSPORT Terminal emulator - locked cursor/keyboard

2024-11-12 Thread Thomas Berg
f > Of Paul Gilmartin > Sent: Tuesday, November 12, 2024 5:21 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: PASSPORT Terminal emulator - locked cursor/keyboard > > On Tue, 12 Nov 2024 22:27:02 +0100, Thomas Berg wrote: > > >As I remember it was just a simple setting like e g

Re: PASSPORT Terminal emulator - locked cursor/keyboard

2024-11-12 Thread Thomas Berg
Den tis 12 nov. 2024 23:21Paul Gilmartin < 042bfe9c879d-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> skrev: > On Tue, 12 Nov 2024 22:27:02 +0100, Thomas Berg wrote: > > >As I remember it was just a simple setting like e g "Send Reset Key before > >Arrow Keys" (exampl

Re: PASSPORT Terminal emulator - locked cursor/keyboard

2024-11-12 Thread Thomas Berg
As I remember it was just a simple setting like e g "Send Reset Key before Arrow Keys" (example) in the emulator. But I don't remember if it was at setting in the emulator, TSO or ISPF. Only that took a long time to found out... Thomas Den tis 12 nov. 2024 20:07Paul Gilmartin < 042bfe9c879d-d

Re: PASSPORT Terminal emulator - locked cursor/keyboard

2024-11-12 Thread Thomas Berg
You wrote: I think that is a bad idea as there should be an obvious indication that what you are typing is disappearing into the ether. * But that is not different from what already happens. Make it automatically tab to the next unprotected field? * How? Den tis 12 nov. 2024 19:25Binyamin Dissen <

Re: What is a "programming language"? Was:: Modifying JCL on the fly

2024-11-11 Thread Thomas Berg
less) variable as a separate element = A script. * Can set a condition as a separate element and set an arbitrary (more or less) variable as a separate element = A programming language. Thomas Berg -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / sign

Re: Wiping old magnetic disks (Was Re: OFF TOPIC - DELETING ALL FILES SOFTWARE FROM A LAPTOP)

2024-11-06 Thread Thomas Berg
Really, reading this thread I would say: Make a furnace and melt the whole disk. No forensic can find anything in that. Saves a LOT of time (no search for and install of software, no time to run that, no cutting, grinding, hammering). Thomas Berg Den ons 6 nov. 2024 08:55Paul Gilmartin

Re: Simple Rexx question

2024-08-22 Thread Thomas Berg
ְׂרָאֵל חַי > נֵ֣צַח יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל לֹ֥א יְשַׁקֵּ֖ר > > ____ > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf > of Thomas Berg <0619bfe39560-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> > Sent: Thursday, August 22, 2024 10:31 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSER

Re: Simple Rexx question

2024-08-22 Thread Thomas Berg
Hi, I have a rexx that extract info about allocations from current memory. I. e. it works outside TSO. (I haven't used it in 8 years so YMMV...) If you are interested I can send it to you. Extract from desc text: /* REXX

Re: Couple of questions about job id

2024-08-08 Thread Thomas Berg
Fake it til you make it. :D Den ons 7 aug. 2024 18:50roscoe5 < 056b62686b81-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> skrev: > Yep. I’ve been impressed by how helpful and dead wrong ChatGPT can be. It > has told me to issue commands that don’t exist, etc. When challenged, > especially if I ask it for th

Re: How to "touch" mainframe files

2024-08-02 Thread Thomas Berg
There is a lot of speculation in this thread. Why not test the theories? Both in z/OS (there were a JCL suggestion) and in unix/Linux. Thomas Berg Den lör 3 aug. 2024 05:22Phil Smith III skrev: > Well this is interesting, in that it sounds like I'm not the only one > who's n

Re: another z/OSMF rant. -- Catch-22 is killing me

2024-07-12 Thread Thomas Berg
Soo true. Thomas Berh Den fre 12 juli 2024 12:36Seymour J Metz skrev: > I've always felt that a series of painful DR drills was much better than > not being prepared in a real disaster, and when my boss confiscated a tape > or declared key personnel dead, I heartily approved. Every obstacle you

Re: Packed Decimal -- Extended(?)

2024-07-11 Thread Thomas Berg
Yes, of course. But when you have maybe hundreds of programs that need to handle it is a problem. At least in a normal IT setting with typical programmers and typical requirements of performance. Thomas Berg Den tors 11 juli 2024 12:15Binyamin Dissen < 0662573e2c3a-dmarc-r

Re: Packed Decimal -- Extended(?)

2024-07-11 Thread Thomas Berg
FWIW, many years ago when I coded COBOL pgms for a bank we had problems with this when we needed to convert currency in billions with 4 decimals. Unfortunately I don't remember how we solved this. But the point is that is/was a real problem. Thomas Berg Den tors 11 juli 2024 08:13Farley,

Re: About Python and REXX

2024-07-04 Thread Thomas Berg
on 6 - TSO commands: > > Enter the command > > OMVS > > > > Your RACF profile will need an OMVS segment and a UID. > > > > You can also poke around using the Interactive shell. It's a menu based > > shell into OMVS. > > > > ISHELL command... &g

Re: About Python and REXX

2024-07-04 Thread Thomas Berg
Sorry for my ignorance, how do I access OMVS? Thomas Berg Den tors 4 juli 2024 06:38Wayne Bickerdike < 059234794979-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> skrev: > In OMVS try the python command For version 3,1, it's python3. Or just have > a look around the OMVS directories.

Re: z/OS 3.1 Enhancements & Support News

2024-07-03 Thread Thomas Berg
A bit OT, but how can you easily check if Python is installed on z/OS? (Can't ask anyone here for the moment due to an organisational mess.) Thomas Berg Den ons 3 juli 2024 09:01Timothy Sipples skrev: > David Crayford wrote: > > >There are equivalents to almost all of those

Re: Restore members in a PDS - how/which tool?

2024-05-09 Thread Thomas Berg
I did the delete in ISPF 3.1. By some reason the space was released so only 1 track was left. I tried with PDS86 but it didn't find any member. We found a decently fresh backup so I only lost 2 days of work. That was acceptable. Thomas Berg Den tors 9 maj 2024 17:22Seymour J Metz skrev: &

Re: Restore members in a PDS - how/which tool?

2024-05-09 Thread Thomas Berg
s hasty as myself: ALWAYS check the dataset name extra before mass deletion... Thomas Berg Den tors 9 maj 2024 13:59Seymour J Metz skrev: > For PDS: PDS96 > > For PDSE: define it with multiple versions > > -- > Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz > http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz

Re: Large arbitrary 3270 screen sizes and IBM Dallas

2016-04-25 Thread Thomas Berg
If you know the applid ('x' below) for tso you can use this format: logon applid=x,logmode=d4c32xx33 Best Regards, Thomas Berg _______ Thomas Berg Specialist zOS/ IT Delivery/AM Swedbank AB (Publ) Inte

Re: IBM develops 7 nm chip technology.

2015-07-10 Thread Thomas Berg
I can vision a scene: IBM'ers on knees at the floor, searching desperately for the chip. Best Regards, Thomas Berg ___ Thomas Berg Specialist zOS/RQM/IT Delivery Swedbank AB (Publ) Interactive is ‘manual.’ Bat

Re: Fault Analyzer experts?

2015-06-10 Thread Thomas Berg
I can't get this working. I got the impression (by other experiments) that the formatting user exit is invoked AFTER the selecting the "User" option?! Best Regards, Thomas Berg _______ Thomas Berg Specialist zOS/

Re: Fault Analyzer experts?

2015-06-10 Thread Thomas Berg
Thanks! I missed that one! Best Regards, Thomas Berg ___ Thomas Berg Specialist zOS/RQM/IT Delivery Swedbank AB (Publ) Interactive is 'manual.' Batch is 'automatic.' > -Original Message

Re: Fault Analyzer experts?

2015-06-05 Thread Thomas Berg
27;DISTRANS(IDIDA)'< ' */ End *ENDREXX )PROC Best Regards, Thomas Berg _

Re: Fault Analyzer experts?

2015-06-05 Thread Thomas Berg
Well you are quite innovative! :) What you are saying is that I in the )INIT section should read the dynarea data, "zap" I with my text" and save it in the same variable? (Your example as such will not work - as I want it to (seamlessly with FA).) Best Regar

Re: Fault Analyzer experts?

2015-06-04 Thread Thomas Berg
I know the panel in question but as the content is dynamically created (in a dynamic area) I'm not helped by that. Best Regards, Thomas Berg ___ Thomas Berg Specialist zOS/RQM/IT Delivery Swedbank AB (Publ) Interacti

Re: Fault Analyzer experts?

2015-06-04 Thread Thomas Berg
It isn't the panel itself that are dynamically created, it is the content that is. And it is by a program. And I have of course not the source of the program. (Theoretically I maybe can zap the text "User" but...) Best Regar

Re: Fault Analyzer experts?

2015-06-04 Thread Thomas Berg
option 6. > > Regards, > Tom Conley Unfortunately the panel in question (IDIPIDAD) is dynamically created (the content it is). So no cigar. (It seems to be quite common now to use dynamic panels. Although it have its advantages for the developer it complicat

Re: Fault Analyzer experts?

2015-06-04 Thread Thomas Berg
I'm of course heavily offended by this sexist remark! ;) (My wife also likes these kind of jokes.) Best Regards, Thomas Berg ___ Thomas Berg Specialist zOS/RQM/IT Delivery Swedbank AB (Publ) Interactive is ‘manual.’

Re: Fault Analyzer experts?

2015-06-04 Thread Thomas Berg
" to something more descriptive. How? Best Regards, Thomas Berg _______ Thomas Berg Specialist zOS/RQM/IT Delivery Swedbank AB (Publ) Interactive is ‘manual.’ Batch is ‘automatic.’ > -Original Message- > From:

Fault Analyzer experts?

2015-06-04 Thread Thomas Berg
I'm wondering if there are any Fault Analyzer experts/experienced maintainers here at IBM-MAIN? I have some problems and questions regarding maintaining/installing FA. Best Regards, Thomas Berg ___ Thomas Berg Speci

Re: Corrupt PDSE - IGW699I PDSE Directory Validation Unsuccessful

2015-05-26 Thread Thomas Berg
Thanks! Regarding 2: I restored the dataset to another name and then did 2 renames. IEBPDSE did not report any problems. Best Regards, Thomas Berg ___ Thomas Berg Specialist zOS/RQM/IT Delivery Swedbank AB (Publ

Re: Corrupt PDSE - IGW699I PDSE Directory Validation Unsuccessful

2015-05-25 Thread Thomas Berg
Is that applicable on zOS 1.13 ? As that is what the prod system is at. (Looked at OA43214 - it said Software version 210.) Best Regards, Thomas Berg ___ Thomas Berg Specialist zOS/RQM/IT Delivery Swedbank AB (Publ

Re: Corrupt PDSE - IGW699I PDSE Directory Validation Unsuccessful

2015-05-25 Thread Thomas Berg
tem it is still running after >10 minutes. It consumes CPU time but no EXCP (stands still at 4 EXCP). When run in the DEV system it consumed 10213 EXCP. Best Regards, Thomas Berg _______ Thomas Berg Specialist zOS/RQM/IT Deli

Re: Corrupt PDSE - IGW699I PDSE Directory Validation Unsuccessful

2015-05-25 Thread Thomas Berg
. *** Best Regards, Thomas Berg ___ Thomas Berg Specialist zOS/RQM/IT Delivery Swedbank AB (Publ) Interactive is 'manual.' Batch is 'automatic.' > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discus

Re: Corrupt PDSE - IGW699I PDSE Directory Validation Unsuccessful

2015-05-25 Thread Thomas Berg
my area of competence.) Best Regards, Thomas Berg _______ Thomas Berg Specialist zOS/RQM/IT Delivery Swedbank AB (Publ) Interactive is 'manual.' Batch is 'automatic.' > -Original Message- >

Re: Corrupt PDSE - IGW699I PDSE Directory Validation Unsuccessful

2015-05-25 Thread Thomas Berg
BTW, we are on zOS 2.1 in the DEV system and zOS 1.13 in the prod system. Best Regards, Thomas Berg ___ Thomas Berg Specialist zOS/RQM/IT Delivery Swedbank AB (Publ) Interactive is 'manual.' Batch is

Re: Corrupt PDSE - IGW699I PDSE Directory Validation Unsuccessful

2015-05-25 Thread Thomas Berg
Best Regards, Thomas Berg ___ Thomas Berg Specialist zOS/RQM/IT Delivery Swedbank AB (Publ) Interactive is 'manual.' Batch is 'automatic.' > -Original Message

Re: Corrupt PDSE - IGW699I PDSE Directory Validation Unsuccessful

2015-05-25 Thread Thomas Berg
olved the immediate problem by restoring a backup from yesterday. Best Regards, Thomas Berg _______ Thomas Berg Specialist zOS/RQM/IT Delivery Swedbank AB (Publ) Interactive is 'manual.' Batch is 'automatic.'

Re: Corrupt PDSE - IGW699I PDSE Directory Validation Unsuccessful

2015-05-25 Thread Thomas Berg
this time.) I have restored a backup from yesterday now so the immediate problem is solved. (And saved the corrupted PDSE in case anyone except me is interested.) Best Regards, Thomas Berg ___ Thomas Berg Specialist zOS/RQM/IT

Corrupt PDSE - IGW699I PDSE Directory Validation Unsuccessful

2015-05-25 Thread Thomas Berg
browsing from the dev system. We have 7 other similar datasets, all populated from the prod system and mostly viewed from the dev system. First time for me of a corrupt PDSE causing an abend like this. Best Regards, Thomas Berg

Re: IEFBR14 question

2015-05-11 Thread Thomas Berg
This long thread show the danger with feature creep. IEFBR14 of nowadays is too complicated to use. Best Regards, Thomas Berg ___ Thomas Berg Specialist zOS/RQM/IT Delivery Swedbank AB (Publ) Interactive is 'm

Re: ENQ for the life of the job

2015-05-11 Thread Thomas Berg
. Best Regards, Thomas Berg _______ Thomas Berg Specialist zOS/RQM/IT Delivery Swedbank AB (Publ) Interactive is ‘manual.’ Batch is ‘automatic.’ -- For IBM-MAIN

RFE for ISPF ZSTART extended functionality

2015-04-17 Thread Thomas Berg
king also in a "SELECT PANEL()..." statement - and/or 2: ZSTART with ISPSTART working also with a CMD() operand.(Assumes that it will be processed at the first panel display.) No: 1 is preferred as it leaves more control to the site ISPF administrators and users. Best Regard

Re: Intermittent, not consistently reproducible problems with PDSEs on z/OS V2R1 (incl. infrequent S0F4-20 RSN 1C0752EE ABENDs)

2015-03-23 Thread Thomas Berg
The mathematician sounds like a lawyer to me... :) Best Regards, Thomas Berg ___ Thomas Berg Specialist zOS/RQM/IT Delivery Swedbank AB (Publ) > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussio

Re: Intermittent, not consistently reproducible problems with PDSEs on z/OS V2R1 (incl. infrequent S0F4-20 RSN 1C0752EE ABENDs)

2015-03-20 Thread Thomas Berg
PDSEs > on z/OS V2R1 (incl. > infrequent S0F4-20 RSN 1C0752EE ABENDs) > > > Have you tried with - directly after each IEBGENER step - do an IEBGENER > > from the member > to SYSOUT ? > Yes. Makes no difference. Same problem Just to check: Do you mean that IEBGENER to SYS

Re: Intermittent, not consistently reproducible problems with PDSEs on z/OS V2R1 (incl. infrequent S0F4-20 RSN 1C0752EE ABENDs)

2015-03-20 Thread Thomas Berg
with empty members.) Best Regards, Thomas Berg ___ Thomas Berg Specialist zOS/RQM/IT Delivery Swedbank AB (Publ) > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.E

Re: Intermittent, not consistently reproducible problems with PDSEs on z/OS V2R1 (incl. infrequent S0F4-20 RSN 1C0752EE ABENDs)

2015-03-20 Thread Thomas Berg
I submitted the JCL on z/OS 1.13 with expected result (that is: member is NOT empty). Best Regards, Thomas Berg ___ Thomas Berg Specialist zOS/RQM/IT Delivery Swedbank AB (Publ) > -Original Message- >

Re: Turning JSCBAUTH off and back on again (Was: IEBCOPYO (was: APF-authorized ...))

2015-03-17 Thread Thomas Berg
the key 8 data. Of course, this is only feasible if performance is not a problem. (Not that I'm a knowledgeable person in any of these areas...) Best Regards, Thomas Berg ___ Thomas Berg Specialist zOS/RQM/IT Delivery Sw

Re: Forced password change held to be harmful -- Was RE: RACF password history was: AW: //STARTING JOB ...

2015-01-14 Thread Thomas Berg
A bit OT, but this, I think, is a good idea: http://www.passwordcard.org/en Best Regards, Thomas Berg ___ Thomas Berg Specialist zOS/RQM/IT Delivery Swedbank AB (Publ

Re: SRCHFOR within SDSF job queue

2015-01-07 Thread Thomas Berg
I thought that I did that. Best Regards, Thomas Berg ___ Thomas Berg Specialist zOS/RQM/IT Delivery Swedbank AB (Publ) > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.

Re: Suggestion for the ICETOOL SUBSET operator

2015-01-06 Thread Thomas Berg
ace before it's not simple anymore. Best Regards, Thomas Berg _______ Thomas Berg Specialist zOS/RQM/IT Delivery Swedbank AB (Publ) > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAI

Suggestion for the ICETOOL SUBSET operator

2014-12-17 Thread Thomas Berg
:22,71:10) Here only the parts from position 31, length 22, and position 71, length 10, is selected for the output record. (The record will contain selected parts concatenated from pos 1, length 32.) Padding spec may also be added. Best Regards, Thomas Berg

Re: IKJ56500I COMMAND OPUTX NOT FOUND

2014-12-13 Thread Thomas Berg
,DSN=ISP.Y.MLIB //ISPSLIB DDDISP=SHR,DSN=ZZZ.Y.SLIB // DDDISP=SHR,DSN=ISP.Y.SLIB //ISPLOGDDSYSOUT=&S2,DCB=(RECFM=VA,LRECL=125,BLKSIZE=129) //ISPLIST DDSYSOUT=&S2,DCB=(RECFM=FA,LRECL=121,BLKSIZE=121) //SYSOUTDDSYSOUT=&S //SYSTSP

Re: DFSORT/ICETOOL pondering

2014-10-23 Thread Thomas Berg
I thought we lost you when you retired. Good to hear that you can't keep you there! :) Best Regards, Thomas Berg ___ Thomas Berg Specialist zOS/RQM/IT Delivery Swedbank AB (Publ) > -Original Message

Re: RFE voting at IBM developerWorks

2014-10-23 Thread Thomas Berg
I can understand that. But it also means that no one can vote for it. Nevertheless, your motive is reasonable for me. Best Regards, Thomas Berg ___ Thomas Berg Specialist zOS/RQM/IT Delivery Swedbank AB (Publ

Re: RFE voting at IBM developerWorks

2014-10-23 Thread Thomas Berg
I suspected something like that, but why? It doesn't look like it's for security reasons, at least for many of them. (At least they should be readable.) Best Regards, Thomas Berg _______ Thomas Berg Specialist

RFE voting at IBM developerWorks

2014-10-23 Thread Thomas Berg
I'm looking at RFEs at http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute May RFEs are marked with a "private" symbol which means I can't look at it or vote for it. Why is that? Best Regards, Thomas Berg ____

Re: DFSORT/ICETOOL pondering

2014-10-23 Thread Thomas Berg
Thanks Kolusu! It seems so easy when you (and Norbert) explains! :) Of course I should RTFM, but when you are ignorant it takes time find the relevant pieces. (I wonder how many work hours the help here at IBM-MAIN have saved?) Best Regards, Thomas Berg

Re: DFSORT/ICETOOL pondering

2014-10-23 Thread Thomas Berg
ions. One question: you placed the BI-field at the end. If it was very long records, would it from a performance view be better to place it in front, at position 1 (or 5 if V records)? Best Regards, Thomas Berg

Re: DFSORT/ICETOOL pondering

2014-10-23 Thread Thomas Berg
> -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] > On Behalf Of Norbert Friemel > Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2014 4:13 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: DFSORT/ICETOOL pondering > > On Thu, 23 Oct 2014 16:

Re: DFSORT/ICETOOL pondering

2014-10-23 Thread Thomas Berg
> -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] > On Behalf Of Elardus Engelbrecht > Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2014 4:06 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: DFSORT/ICETOOL pondering > > Thomas Berg wrot

Re: DFSORT/ICETOOL pondering

2014-10-23 Thread Thomas Berg
> -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] > On Behalf Of Norbert Friemel > Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2014 3:58 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: DFSORT/ICETOOL pondering > On Thu, 23 Oct 2014 15:43:

Re: DFSORT/ICETOOL pondering

2014-10-23 Thread Thomas Berg
lution. Best Regards, Thomas Berg _______ Thomas Berg Specialist zOS/RQM/IT Delivery Swedbank AB (Publ) > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] > On Behalf

Re: DFSORT/ICETOOL pondering

2014-10-23 Thread Thomas Berg
from the program with customized control statements for each actual case. Currently I do this with REXX EXECIO, stems etc. Best Regards, Thomas Berg _______ Thomas Berg Specialist zOS/RQM/IT Delivery Swedbank AB (Publ) > --

Re: DFSORT/ICETOOL pondering

2014-10-23 Thread Thomas Berg
> -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] > On Behalf Of Elardus Engelbrecht > Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2014 3:52 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: DFSORT/ICETOOL pondering > > Thomas Berg wrote:

DFSORT/ICETOOL pondering

2014-10-21 Thread Thomas Berg
ve been looking at OUTFIL/OUTREC etc. but I can't see a straight forward and general solution/"template". I'm hoping for someone who have done this before to supply an example. Best Regards, Thomas Berg _____

Re: Alternative to TSO RECEIVE

2014-10-11 Thread Thomas Berg
Thanks! Tried it, it took 221 files in 9 elapsed seconds. That’s about 24/second compared with RECEIVE at (very rough) 3/seconds... :) Best Regards, Thomas Berg ___ Thomas Berg Specialist zOS/RQM/IT Delivery Swedbank AB

Re: Alternative to TSO RECEIVE

2014-10-10 Thread Thomas Berg
> -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] > On Behalf Of Elardus Engelbrecht > Sent: Friday, October 10, 2014 1:59 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: Alternative to TSO RECEIVE > > Thomas Berg wr

Alternative to TSO RECEIVE

2014-10-10 Thread Thomas Berg
ment. Any suggestion for a better performance? Best Regards, Thomas Berg _______ Thomas Berg Specialist zOS/RQM/IT Delivery Swedbank AB (Publ) -- For IBM

Re: IEFUJI or IEFUJV sample %%%$$%#????

2014-10-06 Thread Thomas Berg
including the email headers - to this list. Then we can make a more fair judgment. Best Regards, Thomas Berg _______ Thomas Berg Specialist zOS/RQM/IT Delivery Swedbank AB (Publ) > -Original Message- > Fro

Re: Enterprise COBOL v5.1 Implemented?

2014-10-02 Thread Thomas Berg
uenced the behavior of the 5.1 compiler. (?) Best Regards, Thomas Berg _______ Thomas Berg Specialist zOS/RQM/IT Delivery Swedbank AB (Publ) -- For IBM-MAIN

Re: z/OS FTP client behavior

2014-09-18 Thread Thomas Berg
t in an orthogonal fashion is simply inept engineering. Writing more > code to do it wrong than it would have taken to do it right is > hacking, in the original sense. I would not call it a hack, rather a "cludge". Best Regards, Thomas Berg ____

Re: Logon / Command Procs

2014-09-16 Thread Thomas Berg
Can you use the same load libraries ? Usually it's a problem with that. (If different versions.) Best Regards, Thomas Berg ___ Thomas Berg Specialist zOS/RQM/IT Delivery Swedbank AB (Publ) > -Original

Re: Deleting Cluster Using IEFBR14 or IDCAMS

2014-09-16 Thread Thomas Berg
. Can it happen anymore, BTW ? Was a long time ago...) Best Regards, Thomas Berg ___ Thomas Berg Specialist zOS/RQM/IT Delivery Swedbank AB (Publ) -- For

Re: SORT JCL

2014-09-16 Thread Thomas Berg
with what follows. OTOH, what it does it does very fast and efficient so it's worth the effort to learn it IMHO. (Although I still haven't done that - time flies...) Best Regards, Thomas Berg ___

Re: FTP of EBCDIC file

2014-09-08 Thread Thomas Berg
> -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] > On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin > Sent: Monday, September 08, 2014 7:26 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: FTP of EBCDIC file > > On Mon, 8 Sep 2014 18:52:03

Re: FTP of EBCDIC file

2014-09-08 Thread Thomas Berg
NEWSTACK/DELSTACK. There is a theoretical performance enhancement with using the stack instead of stem. With stack REXX need only one "parsing" of variable and don't need to setup a stem. This depends of course much on how smart the REXX interpreter or compiler is. Best

Re: ISPF PanExit question

2014-04-24 Thread Thomas Berg
I think you must have a '&' before 'EXITDATA': PANEXIT ((Field1 Field2 Field3 zuser),REXX,PANEXIT,&EXITDATA,MSG=PEX001) Best Regards, Thomas Berg _______ Thomas Berg Specialist zOS/RQM/IT

Re: 3270 Emulators and consoles

2014-04-11 Thread Thomas Berg
Ok. I just wondered if HOD did something unusual, like communicated to a "http" server at the mainframe that in turn communicated with tso the "usual" way (-->VTAM-->TSO etc.). Best Regards, Thomas Berg ______

Re: ISPF START command remains on the command line

2014-04-09 Thread Thomas Berg
A site command table that "overrides" the standard START command ? (Or a user command table.) Best Regards, Thomas Berg _______ Thomas Berg Specialist zOS/RQM/IT Delivery Swedbank AB (Publ) > -Ori

Re: ISPF START command remains on the command line

2014-04-09 Thread Thomas Berg
Spontaneously I would suspect a bad coded ISPF panel (the one the "START" I left/reoccurring on). Best Regards, Thomas Berg _______ Thomas Berg Specialist zOS/RQM/IT Delivery Swedbank AB (Publ) > -Ori

Re: Real programmers eat foo

2014-04-09 Thread Thomas Berg
...) Best Regards, Thomas Berg ___ Thomas Berg Specialist zOS/RQM/IT Delivery Swedbank AB (Publ) > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] > On Behalf Of Ken Porows

Re: 3270 Emulators and consoles

2014-04-08 Thread Thomas Berg
t runs locally. Does that mean it communicates with z/OS in the same way as e g PCOMM ? Med Vänlig Hälsning Thomas Berg ___ Thomas Berg Specialist zOS/RQM/IT Delivery Swedbank AB (Publ) ---

FW: 3270 Emulators and consoles

2014-04-04 Thread Thomas Berg
/Attachmate Rumba 7.5 TN3270 Plus -- from SDI tn3270 X -- for the Macintosh by Peter DiCamillo: http://www.brown.edu/cis/tn3270/ VistaTN3270 -- from Tom Brennan x3270 ZOC Terminal -- from EmTec: http://www.emtec.com/zoc/tn3270-terminal-emulation.html Best Regards, Thomas Berg

Re: 3270 Emulators and consoles

2014-04-04 Thread Thomas Berg
Explorer Passport PCOMM QWS3270 from Jolly Giant Reflection/Attachmate Rumba 7.5 SDI's TN3270 Plus VistaTN3270 from Tom Brennan x3270 ZOC Terminal from EmTec: http://www.emtec.com/zoc/tn3270-terminal-emulation.html Best Regards, Thomas Berg ______

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