Stunted JES2 spool volume and other questions

2020-03-28 Thread Richards, Robert B.
I tried to add a few spool volumes (z/OS 2.3) without paying attention to the TGSPACE value. My bad. Two were added, one was *stunted* and the last two were ignored. Now, I want to dynamically increase TGSPACE and SPOOLNUM and then add more spool volumes. Current TGSPACE=814,375 and 75% used C

Re: REXX MVSVAR SYMDEF behavoiur

2020-03-28 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
On Sat, 28 Mar 2020, at 04:28, Bruce Hewson wrote: > Hi, > > examples using the code I posted. > > %SYMSUB 'testing &sysname in &sysplex' > &'TESTING TSYS IN PLEX40'. > READY > %SYMSUB 'Foo' >

Free 3270 emulator for Mac OS

2020-03-28 Thread Peter
Hello I have been using x3270 emulator from brown University and it works well but it doesn't maximize to the full screen size. Is there a way or free alternative emulator which can be tried on Mac OS ? Peter -- For IBM-MAIN su

Re: Free 3270 emulator for Mac OS

2020-03-28 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Sat, 28 Mar 2020 22:47:17 +0400, Peter wrote: > >I have been using x3270 emulator from brown University and it works well >but it doesn't maximize to the full screen size. > And it will die with Catalina, >Is there a way or free alternative emulator which can be tried on Mac OS ? > Check the

Re: Free 3270 emulator for Mac OS

2020-03-28 Thread Charles Mills
Why the determination not to financially reward the developers for their efforts? Why would I hypothetically write a 3270 emulator if it's not important enough to pay for? Why are computer people so loathe to financially reward computer people? We're not talking 1% territory here. Tom Brennan's

Re: Free 3270 emulator for Mac OS

2020-03-28 Thread Joe Monk
Ive been trying to get in touch with the guy who wrote the brown university emulator. So far no response... Joe On Sat, Mar 28, 2020 at 4:04 PM Charles Mills wrote: > Why the determination not to financially reward the developers for their > efforts? Why would I hypothetically write a 3270 emul

Re: Free 3270 emulator for Mac OS

2020-03-28 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Sat, 28 Mar 2020 16:47:36 -0500, Joe Monk wrote: >Ive been trying to get in touch with the guy who wrote the brown university >emulator. So far no response... > On https://www.brown.edu/cis/tn3270/index.html#latest Peter DiCamillo says has no resource nor intention to support a 64-bit version

Re: Free 3270 emulator for Mac OS

2020-03-28 Thread Joe Monk
Yep ... so as soon as he responds to me we can make that happen. The conversion from Cocoa to the new APIs isnt hard. Joe On Sat, Mar 28, 2020 at 4:55 PM Paul Gilmartin < 000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > On Sat, 28 Mar 2020 16:47:36 -0500, Joe Monk wrote: > > >Ive been tr

Re: strange python announcement

2020-03-28 Thread John McKown
Bah, true nerds use APL! On Fri, Mar 27, 2020, 17:29 Wayne Bickerdike wrote: > What's a nerd to do? LUA, Rexx or Python? > > On Sat, Mar 28, 2020 at 5:08 AM Roland Koo wrote: > > > The focus of this announcement is on IBM's intent to participate in the > > open source community to help establis

Re: strange python announcement

2020-03-28 Thread scott Ford
John, Very funny but true, Jack I agree python is getting extremely popular. I read it was going to takeover from Java. Scott On Sat, Mar 28, 2020 at 6:19 PM John McKown wrote: > Bah, true nerds use APL! > > On Fri, Mar 27, 2020, 17:29 Wayne Bickerdike wrote: > > > What's a nerd to do? LUA, R

Re: strange python announcement

2020-03-28 Thread Charles Mills
I'm looking at Python on the Rocket site. Practically speaking, is Python usable from TSO or only from the UNIX command prompt? That is > There's no advantage to REXX anymore, as fine a language as it is. In Rexx under TSO, I can allocate couple of datasets and then run a "legacy MVS" (you kno

Re: Free 3270 emulator for Mac OS

2020-03-28 Thread Seymour J Metz
There's room for both open source and proprietary software. My preference is for well maintained software to which I can easily make local changes. If I have to pay a reasonable license fee and can only provide my changes to people who are licensed, that's fine. Are you actually seeing resista

Re: REXX MVSVAR SYMDEF behavoiur

2020-03-28 Thread Seymour J Metz
SYMSUB is a REXX routine that he wrote to pass the argument to MVSVAR('SYMDEF',*) and display or return the result. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Jere

Re: strange python announcement

2020-03-28 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Sat, 28 Mar 2020 16:42:20 -0700, Charles Mills wrote: >I'm looking at Python on the Rocket site. > >Practically speaking, is Python usable from TSO or only from the UNIX command >prompt? That is > >> There's no advantage to REXX anymore, as fine a language as it is. > >In Rexx under TSO, I can

Re: strange python announcement

2020-03-28 Thread scott Ford
Gil and Charles, Both excellent questions, I don’t know ..I wonder if the Rocket documentation for Python for Z talks about it ? Scott On Sat, Mar 28, 2020 at 8:21 PM Paul Gilmartin < 000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > On Sat, 28 Mar 2020 16:42:20 -0700, Charles Mills wrot

Re: REXX MVSVAR SYMDEF behavoiur

2020-03-28 Thread Bruce Hewson
Hello Jeremy, I have been coding the single quote around 'MVSVAR' and other TSO External Functions seemingly forever. I assume that I have to do that as I run with SIGNAL NOVALUE enabled. On Thu, 26 Mar 2020 19:09:40 +, Jeremy Nicoll wrote: > >Apart from the documented behaviour of MVSVA

Re: REXX MVSVAR SYMDEF behavoiur

2020-03-28 Thread Seymour J Metz
SIGNAL NOVALUE has no effect on the treatment of function names. The only difference between calling MVSVAR and 'MVSVAR' is that with the latter REXX will skip the search for an MVSVAR: label and will only search in external function packages, load library concatenations* and procedure library

Re: Free 3270 emulator for Mac OS

2020-03-28 Thread ITschak Mugzach
We use Mocha (was recommended here) and it is cheap and work well (does include support for ind$file). ITschak בתאריך יום א׳, 29 במרץ 2020, 0:04, מאת Charles Mills ‏: > Why the determination not to financially reward the developers for their > efforts? Why would I hypothetically write a 3270 em

Re: strange python announcement

2020-03-28 Thread David Crayford
On 2020-03-29 7:42 AM, Charles Mills wrote: I'm looking at Python on the Rocket site. Practically speaking, is Python usable from TSO or only from the UNIX command prompt? That is USS only as it's enhanced ASCII (file tagging). You could call it from TSO using bpxwunix or something similar.

Re: strange python announcement

2020-03-28 Thread David Crayford
On 2020-03-29 7:21 AM, scott Ford wrote: John, Very funny but true, Jack I agree python is getting extremely popular. According to Tiobe it's been one of the most popular languages for the last 15 years. https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/ I read it was going to takeover from Java. I ver