Re: OOBOL and English was Re: Still COBOL After All These Years?

2020-07-21 Thread Wayne Bickerdike
Mike Schwab wrote: *Actually, the original gram was 1 cubic centimeter of distilled waterat 4c, making a kilogram 10 cm * 10 cm * 10 cm of distilled water at4c. Then they discovered nuclear isotopes that allowed the mass ofwater to vary between samples.* There's a logical reason for this. The

Re: Multi-channel OSA-ICC routing and TCP port behavior

2020-07-21 Thread Brian Westerman
The important thing though is that it works as local 3270, and that's what the OP wanted to use it for. Since it will work, there is no good reason not to use it. Brian On Mon, 20 Jul 2020 13:17:00 +0200, R.S. wrote: >Excuse me, but IMHO OSA-ICC is just way to get rid off old equipment >like

Re: Multi-channel OSA-ICC routing and TCP port behavior

2020-07-21 Thread Brian Westerman
I completely disagree. Why would IBM have two settings in the configuration screen for them, one as a 3270 and the other as a console, if they only wanted you to be able to use consoles? Brian On Mon, 20 Jul 2020 11:25:54 +, Parwez Hamid wrote: >Agreed. The full name is OSA-Express Inte

Re: Multi-channel OSA-ICC routing and TCP port behavior

2020-07-21 Thread Seymour J Metz
No, the important thing is that it works as local *non-SNA*. Local SNA would be useless for NIP consoles. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Brian Westerma

Re: Using AN EAX value of PC Routineto index into the Authority Table

2020-07-21 Thread Peter Relson
How is using a field for what it is intended for abuse? "Abuse" in this case is creating a subsystem when there is no need to do so. In the past, subsystems were sometimes created solely to have access to the SSCTUSER field. And how is N/T easier? For the same reason as above -- there is

Re: Multi-channel OSA-ICC routing and TCP port behavior

2020-07-21 Thread Tony Thigpen
Brian, In regards to the '3270' or 'console' setting, that is very specific to z/OS. On z/VSE and z/VM the consoles are set to '3270' in the ICC configuration. Setting the value to 'console' for them will lead to problems. Yet, on z/OS, you must set the field to 'console' handle to some quirk

Re: Multi-channel OSA-ICC routing and TCP port behavior

2020-07-21 Thread Tony Thigpen
And, this is were the discussion has drifted. His original question had noting to do with the operating system side of the ICC. It had to do with the limited IP configuration when using both ports. He had it working with one port, but he thought he was misunderstanding the limitations on the se

Re: Multi-channel OSA-ICC routing and TCP port behavior

2020-07-21 Thread Seymour J Metz
Doesn't z/OS work with a real 3270 as a console? If so, then it's the ICC that's doing something nonstandard with the 3270 setting. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on

Re: Using AN EAX value of PC Routineto index into the Authority Table

2020-07-21 Thread Seymour J Metz
I can see the point about creating an unnecessary subsystem, but what's complicated about looking up a subsystem? -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Peter

Sending email from the Mainframe

2020-07-21 Thread Sasso, Len
We are using CSSMTP to send email from the Mainframe. All our messages must implement TLS 1.2 or higher for transport level encryption. What you using? Please Be Safe! Thank You! Len Sasso Systems Administrator Senior CSRA, A General Dynamics Information Technology Company 327 Columbia TPKE

Re: OOBOL and English was Re: Still COBOL After All These Years?

2020-07-21 Thread Pew, Curtis G
On Jul 20, 2020, at 10:22 PM, Jackson, Rob wrote: > > American standard--Imperial units; they're rubbish. Abject garbage. SI is > not a fad, despite its origins. No fan of the "French;" no fan of "Trump;" > no fan of anything political. But SI, revised a couple times or three, is a > beaut

Re: OOBOL and English was Re: Still COBOL After All These Years?

2020-07-21 Thread Martin Packer
Measures where the names have other meanings are unhelpful. So "1 cup" might be meaningful to a USAn (or someone like me who bought measuring spoons/cups in the USA) but it's thoroughly ambiguous. I notice that USAns don't talk about "stone" (14lbs) so there's only so far the non-decimal useful

Re: OOBOL and English was Re: Still COBOL After All These Years?

2020-07-21 Thread David Crayford
I agree that cups are useful! The only time I find Imperial useful is reading US recipes that use cups. Other than that Imperial is brain damaged! And I say that having grown up in the UK to a family which used Imperial all the time in my youth. I used to go to the sweet shop and ask for a quart

Re: Multi-channel OSA-ICC routing and TCP port behavior

2020-07-21 Thread Dana Mitchell
We recently migrated to z14's and I was working on setting up the ICC definitions on the new boxes. One of the docs I ran across pointed out the fact that there is only one gateway address, and had a nice diagram showing one of the ports connected to the outside world, and the other port rele

Re: OOBOL and English was Re: Still COBOL After All These Years?

2020-07-21 Thread Martin Packer
Then the 440 yard and 880 yard races would've meant nothing to you at school. :-) Cheers, Martin Martin Packer zChampion, Systems Investigator & Performance Troubleshooter, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter / Facebook IDs: MartinPacker Blog: https://mainframeperfo

Re: OOBOL and English was Re: Still COBOL After All These Years?

2020-07-21 Thread David Crayford
No, but I understood what the 18 and 6 yard boxes were in football :) Measuring out cups of flour is easier than getting the scales out when making Yorkshire puddings. > On 21 Jul 2020, at 10:33 pm, Martin Packer wrote: > > Then the 440 yard and 880 yard races would've meant nothing to you at

Re: OOBOL and English was Re: Still COBOL After All These Years?

2020-07-21 Thread Tom Russell
> Do we really want to stick with a system of units that few of us understand, > with the > same name denoting different quantities depending on context? I agree with Shmuel. As a Canadian I was always mildly amused that the Americans had different quarts and gallons from us. They were wrong o

Re: Multi-channel OSA-ICC routing and TCP port behavior

2020-07-21 Thread Christian Svensson
+1 on Tony's remark - but I do find the discussions and experiences of the people here always fascinating and entertaining :-). As it was mentioned, the 3270 / console setting - I had to use the "operator console" to get my z/VM 6.3 instance to play along. If I used the 3270 option for the SYSC th

Re: Multi-channel OSA-ICC routing and TCP port behavior

2020-07-21 Thread Tony Thigpen
I don't have an answer to that. I know what works and what does not. I never dug into what was different due to the settings. Most likely, it was something not in the specifications that z/OS happened to use, or had added for some reason, to the 3274 long ago. Tony Thigpen Seymour J Metz wro

Re: Multi-channel OSA-ICC routing and TCP port behavior

2020-07-21 Thread Lloyd Fuller
z/VM and z/VSE allow 3215s as their consoles. z/OS does not. z/OS requires a 3270 full screen console. Regards. Lloyd -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Tony Thigpen Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2020 11:32 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Multi-

Re: Multi-channel OSA-ICC routing and TCP port behavior

2020-07-21 Thread Tony Thigpen
I don't ever use SYSC. Hum, I thought that was the 3270 emulation in the HMC that did not use an ICC connection. (I never use the HMC 3270 emulation either.) Maybe I am not understanding the SYSC stuff. Tony Thigpen Christian Svensson wrote on 7/21/20 11:24 AM: +1 on Tony's remark - but I do

Re: Multi-channel OSA-ICC routing and TCP port behavior

2020-07-21 Thread Tony Thigpen
But, what does 3215 support have to do with the fact that z/OS requires a special option on the ICC and can not use the 3270 option on the ICC? Tony Thigpen Lloyd Fuller wrote on 7/21/20 11:37 AM: z/VM and z/VSE allow 3215s as their consoles. z/OS does not. z/OS requires a 3270 full screen

Re: OOBOL and English was Re: Still COBOL After All These Years?

2020-07-21 Thread David Spiegel
Hi Tom, Don't forget that Metric was foisted upon us (as was federal bilingualism) by Justin's father as a political move after he quelled the FLQ Crisis. It also was a sneaky way to get more tax revenue. That is, 1 penny/liter gasoline tax seems more palatable than an extra 4.5 cents/gallon.

Re: OOBOL and English was Re: Still COBOL After All These Years?

2020-07-21 Thread Tony Thigpen
It's all perspective and how precise you need to be. And what we are measuring. The only thing I know that is measured in yards is cloth and football. In football, we never measure in feet or inches, just yards. We just care if it crosses the line. For construction, we never use yards, it's

Re: Sending email from the Mainframe

2020-07-21 Thread Tony Thigpen
We found it easier to set up a small SMTP relay box on an Intel platform and let it do all the TLS heavy lifting. Tony Thigpen Sasso, Len wrote on 7/21/20 9:44 AM: We are using CSSMTP to send email from the Mainframe. All our messages must implement TLS 1.2 or higher for transport level encry

Re: Sending email from the Mainframe

2020-07-21 Thread Allan Staller
We send everything plain text to the corporate email server and let them handle it! -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Tony Thigpen Sent: Tuesday, July 21, 2020 11:02 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Sending email from the Mainframe [CAUTION

Re: OOBOL and English was Re: Still COBOL After All These Years?

2020-07-21 Thread David Spiegel
Hi Tony, "... 100 knots is about 55mph ..." Assuming you meant Kilometers/Hour (based upon the context), it's actually 62.5 MPH. Regards, David On 2020-07-21 12:00, Tony Thigpen wrote: It's all perspective and how precise you need to be. And what we are measuring. The only thing I know that

Re: OOBOL and English was Re: Still COBOL After All These Years?

2020-07-21 Thread Pew, Curtis G
On Jul 21, 2020, at 11:12 AM, David Spiegel wrote: > > "... 100 knots is about 55mph ..." > Assuming you meant Kilometers/Hour (based upon the context), it's actually > 62.5 MPH. > Well, if the posted limit is 55 mph, 62.5 mph seems about the right speed to go. 😉 But duck-duck-go tells me 10

Re: Using AN EAX value of PC Routineto index into the Authority Table

2020-07-21 Thread Gord Tomlin
On 2020-07-21 09:35, Seymour J Metz wrote: I can see the point about creating an unnecessary subsystem, but what's complicated about looking up a subsystem? It's not complicated to look up a subsystem, but it could be an excessive path length. I've seen systems with over 200 subsystems defin

Re: Metal C and generated Assembler

2020-07-21 Thread Linda Chui
hi Scott, Thank you for opening a case for this in our official support channel. We will handle from there. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the messa

Re: OOBOL and English was Re: Still COBOL After All These Years?

2020-07-21 Thread Tony Thigpen
Too many things That context was with regard to driving in Canada and should have been 100 KPM, not 100 knots. :-( Last time I was in Canada, we still were stuck with mostly 55mph limits in USA while Canada seemed to have a standard of 100kpm so I equate the two. My point was that I don

Re: OOBOL and English was Re: Still COBOL After All These Years?

2020-07-21 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
On Tue, 21 Jul 2020, at 17:00, Tony Thigpen wrote: > It's all perspective and how precise you need to be. And what we are > measuring. > > The only thing I know that is measured in yards is cloth and football. What about "the whole nine yards"? > In home improvements, boards and such are meas

Re: OOBOL and English was Re: Still COBOL After All These Years?

2020-07-21 Thread Tony Thigpen
Well, "the whole nine yards" is about cloth, so I guess it fits the two known items. :-) As for things being in SI and not US, but labeled as US, yes, I too am seeing that. If you buy washers (for bolts) at the big box stores, they have larger holes than the ones at the true hardware store. An

Re: OOBOL and English was Re: Still COBOL After All These Years?

2020-07-21 Thread Gibney, Dave
It's been a very long time since I drove in Canada (BC). What I noticed was that the yellow, recommended speed thought the upcoming curve, really meant go that speed through the curve. Unlike ours in the US where they are very much advisory. > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe D

Re: OOBOL and English was Re: Still COBOL After All These Years?

2020-07-21 Thread Jesse 1 Robinson
Or not... https://www.npr.org/2013/01/14/169140590/-the-whole-nine-yards-of-what . . J.O.Skip Robinson Southern California Edison Company Electric Dragon Team Paddler SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager 323-715-0595 Mobile 626-543-6132 Office ⇐=== NEW robin...@sce.com -Original Message- From:

Re: OOBOL and English was Re: Still COBOL After All These Years?

2020-07-21 Thread Tony Thigpen
But who believes anything that the NPR says. :-) (As I slap myself in the face for bringing up politics.) Tony Thigpen Jesse 1 Robinson wrote on 7/21/20 3:22 PM: Or not... https://www.npr.org/2013/01/14/169140590/-the-whole-nine-yards-of-what . . J.O.Skip Robinson Southern California Edison

Re: OOBOL and English was Re: Still COBOL After All These Years?

2020-07-21 Thread Mike Schwab
100 KPM (Kilometers per minute) would be about 6,000 KPH (Kilometers per hour), about Mach 6, or 3 times the speed of the Concorde. On Tue, Jul 21, 2020 at 1:24 PM Tony Thigpen wrote: > Too many things > > That context was with regard to driving in Canada and should have been > 100 KPM, not

Re: OOBOL and English was Re: Still COBOL After All These Years?

2020-07-21 Thread Tony Thigpen
I guess everyone knows I can't type worth a flip. :-) Tony Thigpen Mike Schwab wrote on 7/21/20 4:58 PM: 100 KPM (Kilometers per minute) would be about 6,000 KPH (Kilometers per hour), about Mach 6, or 3 times the speed of the Concorde. On Tue, Jul 21, 2020 at 1:24 PM Tony Thigpen wrote: To

Re: OOBOL and English was Re: Still COBOL After All These Years?

2020-07-21 Thread David Crayford
Not as bad as the pint. I thought I was being short changed when I first ordered a beer in the USA! On 21 Jul 2020, at 10:57 pm, Tom Russell wrote: >> Do we really want to stick with a system of units that few of us understand, >> with the >> same name denoting different quantities depending o

Re: Multi-channel OSA-ICC routing and TCP port behavior

2020-07-21 Thread Brian Westerman
You can use ICC 3270's as z/OS consoles, I think what you are referring to is that you may not be able to use them as NIP consoles. Brian On Tue, 21 Jul 2020 11:41:59 -0400, Tony Thigpen wrote: >But, what does 3215 support have to do with the fact that z/OS requires >a special option on the