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
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
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 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
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 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 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 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 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 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 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
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 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
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 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 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 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 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
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)
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
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
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 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 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 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:
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