Re: Rexx parse using period as placeholder

2020-02-26 Thread John Gateley
Regarding PCRE2-Perl-Compatible Regular Expressions. Version 10.33 for z/OS is available on file 939 and includes a much improved Rexx interface. http://www.cbttape.org/ftp/cbt/CBT939.zip Files 882 and 884 are no longer supported and have been removed from the CBT website. John

Re: Old joke realism

2020-02-26 Thread Styles, Andy (ITS zPlatform Services)
Funny, I get something similar: The requested website is categorised as "Adult/Mature Content;Personal Sites". Andy Styles z/Series System Programmer -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Vernooij, Kees (ITOP NM) - KLM Sent

Re: Old joke realism

2020-02-26 Thread Meir Zohar
Well, the site header does explicitly note ... Warning: This site contains adult themes, violence, profanities, and other such fun stuff. If it bothers you, just don't read it. Filters lack humor 😉 -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Styles, Andy (ITS

URL for DCF manuals

2020-02-26 Thread Seymour J Metz
Does anybody have a current URL for the DCF bookshelf or to PDF versions of the manuls? DLF? I'd like to update https colon //en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCRIPT_%28markup%29 and https: colon //en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Generalized_Markup_Language. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~s

Re: Rexx parse using period as placeholder

2020-02-26 Thread David Crayford
I've got a REXX parse puzzle to solve and I would like suggestions on how to solve it. Syntax:     INDSN(DSNAM(MEMBER))     The code is simple. It uses the parse instruction with a template.        parse var parm . '(' val ')'       *-* parm = 'INDSN(DSNAME(MEMBER))'       >L>   "INDSN(DSNA

Re: Rexx parse using period as placeholder

2020-02-26 Thread Seymour J Metz
When I'm testing a template I usually use variable names so it's easier to follow what's happening; feel free to change them to periods. trace i;parse var parm kw '(' dsn '(' mem ')' ')' 95 *-* parse var parm kw '(' dsn '(' mem ')' ')' >V> "INDSN(DSNAME(MEMBER))

Re: Rexx parse using period as placeholder

2020-02-26 Thread Seymour J Metz
I seriously doubt that he meant for the file name to be a constant. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Paul Gilmartin [000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listse

Re: Rexx parse using period as placeholder

2020-02-26 Thread David Crayford
Great! How will that work if I don't have a member name? INDSN(DSNAME) On 2020-02-26 8:11 PM, Seymour J Metz wrote: When I'm testing a template I usually use variable names so it's easier to follow what's happening; feel free to change them to periods. trace i;parse var parm kw '(' dsn '('

Re: URL for DCF manuals

2020-02-26 Thread John McKown
I found this: ftp://public.dhe.ibm.com/printers/products/os390/SH20-9161-0_Document_Composition_Facility_Users_Guide_Jul78.pdf It appears to be a scanned in PDF. I see references all over the place to DCF, but no manuals. On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 5:21 AM Seymour J Metz wrote: > Does anybody have

Re: URL for DCF manuals

2020-02-26 Thread Steve Partlow
A non-IBM source of scans of old DCF manuals are here: http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/ibm/370/DCF/ Curious, what are you using DCF for these days? I'm currently attempting to convert old internal documentation to Markdown, I wonder if others are doing the same.

VM/RACF

2020-02-26 Thread Nai, Dean
Anyone have any experience with RACF on VM? I was creating a group that had over 2000 MDISK statements. I got some type of size error that I didn’t understand because RACF on VM is new to me. Maybe I need to create it as a Universal group. Any thoughts? Dean Nai >

Re: Rexx parse using period as placeholder

2020-02-26 Thread Dale R. Smith
On Wed, 26 Feb 2020 20:01:43 +0800, David Crayford wrote: >I've got a REXX parse puzzle to solve and I would like suggestions on >how to solve it. > >Syntax: > >     INDSN(DSNAM(MEMBER)) > >     The code is simple. It uses the parse instruction with a template. > >        parse var parm . '(' val

Re: Rexx parse using period as placeholder

2020-02-26 Thread David Crayford
Well done, you nailed it! On 2020-02-26 11:17 PM, Dale R. Smith wrote: On Wed, 26 Feb 2020 20:01:43 +0800, David Crayford wrote: I've got a REXX parse puzzle to solve and I would like suggestions on how to solve it. Syntax:     INDSN(DSNAM(MEMBER))     The code is simple. It uses the par

Re: URL for DCF manuals

2020-02-26 Thread John McKown
On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 8:42 AM Steve Partlow wrote: > A non-IBM source of scans of old DCF manuals are here: > http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/ibm/370/DCF/ > > Curious, what are you using DCF for these days? I'm currently attempting > to convert old internal documentation to Markdown, I w

Re: URL for DCF manuals

2020-02-26 Thread Seymour J Metz
I'm editing wiki article and some of them have links that no longer point to the relevant articles. I do use bitsavers as a source of references, but in this case the articles cite the current versions of the manuals and and rather not change them to older editions. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Met

Re: URL for DCF manuals

2020-02-26 Thread Seymour J Metz
The error messages are horrendous, but I've even used it for designing shirts; I wrote several of the designs linked from http colon //mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3/#humor in LaTeX, to say nothing of Mathematical papers. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3

Re: URL for DCF manuals

2020-02-26 Thread Martin Packer
At the risk of starting a flame war :-) ... "I like Markdown. But I _love_ LaTex." Most people don't want the writing complexity of the latter. And rather more tooling supports the former. (I, too, like the expressiveness of the latter.) Cheers, Martin Martin Packer zChampion, Systems Inves

Re: URL for DCF manuals

2020-02-26 Thread Seymour J Metz
I use bitsavers as a resource for citations, but the article already cites the current editions and I'd rather not revert to older ones. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU

Re: Rexx parse using period as placeholder

2020-02-26 Thread Seymour J Metz
> Great! How will that work if I don't have a member name? The code will tell me not to believe you when you write "Syntax: INDSN(DSNAM(MEMBER))" Writing the code is the easy part; the hard part is getting the actual requirements. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3

Re: URL for DCF manuals

2020-02-26 Thread Seymour J Metz
As long as it isn't WYSIAYG, with DWYTIMBD. Take m$ word - please! -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Martin Packer [martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com] Sent: Wednesd

Re: Rexx parse using period as placeholder

2020-02-26 Thread Sri h Kolusu
>The input could have a blank delimited string containing an embedded period before the one I wanted to parse out. Even though this is a rexx topic, DFSORT has rich parsing facility that can parse the strings with ease. //STEP0100 EXEC PGM=SORT //SYSOUT DD SYSOUT=* //SORTIN DD * WORD1 WORD2 9

Re: Rexx parse using period as placeholder

2020-02-26 Thread scott Ford
Sri, Sir this is great.. Scott On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 11:53 AM Sri h Kolusu wrote: > >The input could have a blank delimited string containing an embedded > period before the one I wanted to parse out. > > Even though this is a rexx topic, DFSORT has rich parsing facility that can > parse the

Re: URL for DCF manuals

2020-02-26 Thread Farley, Peter x23353
If you shorten that ftp link to this instead: ftp://public.dhe.ibm.com/printers/products/os390/ You will se several other DCF manuals and even a DLF program directory. HTH Peter -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of John McKown Sent: Wednesday, February

Re: URL for DCF manuals

2020-02-26 Thread Dale R. Smith
On Wed, 26 Feb 2020 11:21:18 +, Seymour J Metz wrote: >Does anybody have a current URL for the DCF bookshelf or to PDF versions of >the manuls? DLF? I'd like to update https colon >//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCRIPT_%28markup%29 and https: colon >//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Generalized_Markup_

Re: URL for DCF manuals

2020-02-26 Thread Seymour J Metz
Those are for R3; https colon //www-05.ibm.com/e-business/linkweb/publications/servlet/pbi.wss?PAG=C11&SSN=20BZW560607520&TRL=TXT&WRD=dcf&PBL=&LST=ALL&RPP=100&submit=Start+search gives me the current release. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ___

Re: URL for DCF manuals

2020-02-26 Thread Seymour J Metz
Perfect, but confusing; you have to click on "HTML" to get the PDF. Thanks. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of Dale R. Smith Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2020 3:01 PM To: IBM-MAIN

Re: URL for DCF manuals

2020-02-26 Thread Seymour J Metz
I spoke too soon. "DCF V1R4.0: SCRIPT/VS User's Guide" has two buttons; clicking on "S544-3191-02" takes me to a page that has options for Read, Download HTTP and Download Director. Read takes me to https colon //www-01.ibm.com/servers/resourcelink/svc00100.nsf/pages/zos-library-archives?Open

Re: URL for DCF manuals

2020-02-26 Thread Gibney, Dave
I suspect Susan Shumway is at SHARE. Since the product has been stabilized for a couple decades at least, they may not have produced a .pdf of these manuals. > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On > Behalf Of Seymour J Metz > Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2020 3:0

z/OS 2.2 /usr/include /le directory does not exists

2020-02-26 Thread Sheldon Davis
Hi When trying to apply some ptf's in z/os 2.2 they are failing because directory /usr/include/le/ and some sub directories are missing. I don’t see any holds telling me to define the new directories which is a bit strange. Did anyone experience this ? Best Regards Sheldon Davis Isracard ---