Re: Auditors Don't Know Squat!

2012-08-17 Thread Gord Tomlin
as plotted against time the line would slope downward. -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation) Tel: (905) 470-7113, Fax: (905) 470-6507 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff

Re: UNABLE TO DO A FULL VOLUME RESTORE - DFDSS

2012-09-06 Thread Gord Tomlin
You can only do a full volume restore from a full volume dump. Please verify that the dump was a full volume dump, not a data set dump, and let us know. -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation) Tel: (905) 470-7113, Fax: (905) 470-6507

Re: Proof That Dinosaurs Can Learn New Tricks

2012-09-07 Thread Gord Tomlin
AFAIK there was never a June 2013 release date for the next z/OS release. -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation) Tel: (905) 470-7113, Fax: (905) 470-6507 On 2012-09-07 12:03, John P Kalinich wrote: "This time, there was no new

Re: C and LE -- when prepend userid on file names?

2012-09-15 Thread Gord Tomlin
The results of the documented behavior might be somewhat surprising for users of systems where the TSO user prefix is not the same as the RACF userid. -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation) Tel: (905) 470-7113, Fax: (905) 470-6507 On

Re: BEGINPARALLEL in IEFSSNxx

2012-10-13 Thread Gord Tomlin
Check with all your ISVs that supply subsystems as well. In some cases, there are requirements for ISV products to be started in a specific order relative to other ISV products. It is impossible to guarantee a specific order after the BEGINPARALLEL statement. -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action

Re: OT? But a nice article about IDEs

2012-10-30 Thread Gord Tomlin
disagree with much of what is said in the article, which is long on opinion and short on objective facts. -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation) Tel: (905) 470-7113, Fax: (905) 470-6507 On 2012-10-30 08:52, McKown, John wrote: http

Re: Sortlessness?

2013-09-04 Thread Gord Tomlin
plies. -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation) Tel: (905) 470-7113, Fax: (905) 470-6507 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions,

Pre-assigned/invariantASIDs?

2013-09-06 Thread Gord Tomlin
else recall such a list? -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation) Tel: (905) 470-7113, Fax: (905) 470-6507 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions,

Re: Pre-assigned/invariantASIDs?

2013-09-06 Thread Gord Tomlin
ave a certain ASID. -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation) Tel: (905) 470-7113, Fax: (905) 470-6507 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send ema

Re: Pre-assigned/invariantASIDs?

2013-09-06 Thread Gord Tomlin
ASID value is not an intended programming interface. -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation) Tel: (905) 470-7113, Fax: (905) 470-6507 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / arc

Re: Pre-assigned/invariantASIDs?

2013-09-06 Thread Gord Tomlin
ing surely prompted your question.) I was actually just looking at another table in the Diagnosis Reference (PC services in system function table), and happened to think "I wonder what that list of pre-assigned ASIDs looks like now". Pure curiosity, coupled with a wee senility check!

Re: Track PDS/PS Changes

2013-09-09 Thread Gord Tomlin
representative. eventACTION will perform the tracking you are looking for. I won't say more here, because this list does not welcome marketing, but you can obtain the contact information from http://www.actionsoftware.com/ to investigate further. HTH. -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Sof

Re: z/OS FBA Services (Was: PDS/E, Shared Dasd, and COBOL V5)

2013-09-16 Thread Gord Tomlin
both z/OS and other platforms. The API (IOSFBA) is all new, and is in no way related to the access methods we all know and "love". Forget all about data sets, VTOCs, cylinders, and so on. It's in z/OS 2.1. -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of

Re: SPLEVEL SET=2

2013-09-27 Thread Gord Tomlin
ove options. This allows us to change the settings for a new release, while preserving the settings used to build each prior release. -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation) Tel: (905) 470-7

Re: TN3270 emulator application scripting

2013-10-01 Thread Gord Tomlin
On 2013-10-01 11:37, Frank Swarbrick wrote: We currently have a Windows application that uses our terminal emulator's EHLLAPI functionality. For starters, what TN3270 emulator are you using? -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation

Re: TN3270 emulator application scripting

2013-10-01 Thread Gord Tomlin
query a database and return a result to the macro/script. -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation) Tel: (905) 470-7113, Fax: (905) 470-6507 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff

Re: Interested in up to date open source software or low cost utilities?

2013-10-03 Thread Gord Tomlin
obody is about to get rich selling z/OS apps for $100 a pop. -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation) Tel: (905) 470-7113, Fax: (905) 470-6507 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe

Re: Interested in up to date open source software or low cost utilities?

2013-10-03 Thread Gord Tomlin
frustrating, case. There have been ports to s390, but the custodians of the Python trunk are unwilling to accept s390 patches into their code base, and are quite hostile to the platform. This situation is regrettable, since there is a wealth of tools built with Python. -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action

Re: Interested in up to date open source software or low cost utilities?

2013-10-03 Thread Gord Tomlin
uot; (plural) to "gatekeeper" (singular). -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation) Tel: (905) 470-7113, Fax: (905) 470-6507 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / a

Re: Interested in up to date open source software or low cost utilities?

2013-10-04 Thread Gord Tomlin
mostly all about EBCDIC, which means the hostility is directed toward the operating systems that use EBCDIC as opposed to the hardware platform. Sorry for being inexact. -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation) Tel: (905

Re: How diagnose potential memory leaks with LE?

2013-10-10 Thread Gord Tomlin
would infer that "memory error" indicated that the (hardware) memory had a fault, not that memory was left allocated when it should not have been. -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation) Tel:

Re: shark fin

2013-10-10 Thread Gord Tomlin
interested to hear that you have a shark fin: http://www.seashepherd.org/ -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation) Tel: (905) 470-7113, Fax: (905) 470-6507 -- For IBM-MAIN

Re: Interested in up to date open source software or low cost utilities?

2013-10-28 Thread Gord Tomlin
cally, he mentioned reading strings from two files and comparing them. -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation) Tel: (905) 470-7113, Fax: (905) 470-6507 -- For IBM-MAIN subs

Re: Interested in up to date open source software or low cost utilities?

2013-10-28 Thread Gord Tomlin
antic ambiguity. Agreed. -- -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation) Tel: (905) 470-7113, Fax: (905) 470-6507 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instruct

Re: Interested in up to date open source software or low cost utilities?

2013-10-28 Thread Gord Tomlin
;Intelligent" string collation of the sort you are suggesting is probably something that would find a better home in a run time library or in a utility product, as opposed to being built right into a computer language. In fact, a Google search for "locale sensitive string comparison&qu

Re: Unicode (was: ... open source ...?)

2013-10-29 Thread Gord Tomlin
On 2013-10-29 16:29, John Gilmore wrote: sharp, acerbic disagreement---has a place here. Many here would disagree with you on that point! -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation) Tel: (905) 470-7113, Fax: (905) 470-6507

Re: Unicode (was: ... open source ...?)

2013-10-29 Thread Gord Tomlin
On 2013-10-29 16:44, John Gilmore wrote: Acerbically perhaps? Hopefully not! ;) -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation) Tel: (905) 470-7113, Fax: (905) 470-6507

Re: Interesting? How _compilers_ are compromising application security

2013-10-30 Thread Gord Tomlin
C/C++ Messages". -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation) Tel: (905) 470-7113, Fax: (905) 470-6507 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions,

Re: DISPLAY TCPIP,,NETSTAT help

2013-10-31 Thread Gord Tomlin
On 2013-10-31 10:32, Elardus Engelbrecht wrote: Maybe Ed McMahon would have said it better. Who is he/it? I don't recall his/it name here on IBM-MAIN. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_McMahon -- -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corpor

Re: Aging Sysprogs = Aging Farmers

2013-11-06 Thread Gord Tomlin
to finger a user. Thank goodness IBM did not choose to prefix all their commands with "ya" for "yet another". -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation) Tel: (905) 470-7113, Fax: (905) 470-6507

Re: Aging Sysprogs = Aging Farmers

2013-11-06 Thread Gord Tomlin
he name, though, and never did learn who this other Gord was. -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation) Tel: (905) 470-7113, Fax: (905) 470-6507 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / sign

Re: IEFIIC question

2013-11-27 Thread Gord Tomlin
d suggest obtaining a dump of the address space and then using IPCS VERBEXIT VSMDATA to analyze the storage associated with the IEFIIC TCB. -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation) Tel: (905) 470-7113, Fax: (905

Re: Lookat

2013-12-12 Thread Gord Tomlin
On 2013-12-12 13:57, Clark Morris wrote: I can get a 32 GB flash drive for under 50 Canadian dollars if I watch for a sale and I have seen 64 GB drives advertised. Apparently you are missing the good sales! I bought 32 GB USB 3.0 sticks for about CAD $16. -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action

Re: Geek Is Now A Praiseword, Not An Insult Apparently - Forbes

2013-12-17 Thread Gord Tomlin
On 2013-12-17 00:54, Elardus Engelbrecht wrote: But according to non z/Os geeks 'legacy' is: obsolete, outdated, antique, etc. or something like that ... In Toronto, when IBM disposed of their country club, the housing development that replaced it was called "Legacy".

Re: IBM Knowledge Center beta

2013-12-19 Thread Gord Tomlin
contorted than we've come to expect from IBM. Of course it does nothing to address the user community's wish to continue to be able to view manuals online in BookManager format. -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation) Tel: (905)

Re: RFE voting at IBM developerWorks

2014-10-23 Thread Gord Tomlin
If I was submitting an RFE, I would certainly want to know in advance whether my submission would be readable by others outside of IBM, as this would influence what details I included in the submission. -- Regards, Gord Tomlin On 2014-10-23 13:53, Thomas Berg wrote: I suspected something

Re: System vs. user ABEND codes

2014-11-07 Thread Gord Tomlin
That should be "the former often has the PIC in plain view." In the case of S0C4, that's only true if the S0C4 is PIC 4. On 2014-11-07 06:23, Martin Packer wrote: And the former has the PIC in plain view in. -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of

Re: FTP hangs?

2014-11-25 Thread Gord Tomlin
. It didn't hang, but we were only getting about 26 Kb/sec. They changed the MTU size for the connection from defaultsize to 1492, and things got much better. Just a thought, in case your hang isn't really quite a hang. -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division

Requirements for use of RECORD parameter on SETRP macro

2015-01-09 Thread Gord Tomlin
don't have access to manuals for z/OS releases prior to 1.11. Does anyone know when this requirement changed? -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation) Tel: (905) 470-7113, Fax: (905) 470

Re: Requirements for use of RECORD parameter on SETRP macro

2015-01-09 Thread Gord Tomlin
On 2015-01-09 12:23, Tom Marchant wrote: It is in the list in the manual for z/OS 1.7, not in the 1.8 manual. The summary of changes doesn't mention it, so I wonder if it is just a doc change. If it's just a doc change, then it either corrected or introduced a doc error. -- Reg

Re: Requirements for use of RECORD parameter on SETRP macro

2015-01-09 Thread Gord Tomlin
On 2015-01-09 13:18, John Eells wrote: I don't know the answer but I think you can find the other books here: http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr/Shelves Thanks John...great link! -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation

Curiosity: IEAAPFxx and LNKLSTxx

2015-02-05 Thread Gord Tomlin
It's been many years now since IBM introduced the ability to define lnklst and APF list via PROGxx. Just curious: is anyone out there still using IEAAPFxx and LNKLSTxx for these purposes? -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation

Re: accounting packages

2015-03-13 Thread Gord Tomlin
t's a small business, there are plenty of suitable accounting packages such as QuickBooks available at a low price. -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation) Tel: (905) 470-7113, Fax: (905

Re: Looking for decision tree for hardware purchases

2013-05-15 Thread Gord Tomlin
I would want to include some RAS considerations such as: - mean time to failure; - mean time to repair; - availability of local service personnel. -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation) Tel: (905) 470-7113, Fax: (905) 470-6507 On 2013

Re: ECSA

2013-05-24 Thread Gord Tomlin
The storage is in subpool 231, which is a CSA/ECSA subpool. This subpool is owned by the system, and it is not freed by task or address space termination. -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation) Tel: (905) 470-7113, Fax: (905) 470-6507

Re: ECSA

2013-05-24 Thread Gord Tomlin
Are you looking at system trace to see that STORAGE RELEASE? The ASID, work unit address, and PSW for the STORAGE RELEASE should reveal who issued it. Can you post the relevant lines from system trace (assuming that is where you are looking)? -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software

Re: ECSA

2013-05-27 Thread Gord Tomlin
t! In the unseen trace record, the "return address" should be usable to identify the issuer of the STORAGE RELEASE. -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation) Tel: (905) 470-7113, Fax: (905) 470-6507 On 2013-05-24 16:44, Scott Fo

Re: ECSA

2013-05-28 Thread Gord Tomlin
numbers. -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation) Tel: (905) 470-7113, Fax: (905) 470-6507 On 2013-05-28 14:12, Scott Ford wrote: DASDBILL2: I was using : gtfparm: TRACE=SYSM,USRP,TRC,DSP,PCI,SRM but when I start GTF look: 0290 T

Re: Run TSO batch as different user?

2013-06-19 Thread Gord Tomlin
Did you try adding the userid and password to the job card? -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation) Tel: (905) 470-7113, Fax: (905) 470-6507 On 2013-06-19 17:21, Charles Mills wrote: Here's an easier and less controversial questi

Re: Run TSO batch as different user?

2013-06-19 Thread Gord Tomlin
...which will of course lead to controversy! ;) -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation) Tel: (905) 470-7113, Fax: (905) 470-6507 On 2013-06-19 17:34, Gord Tomlin wrote: Did you try adding the userid and password to the job card

Re: Run TSO batch as different user?

2013-06-20 Thread Gord Tomlin
Absolutely! Forgot about that! -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation) Tel: (905) 470-7113, Fax: (905) 470-6507 On 2013-06-19 18:10, Ed Jaffe wrote: On 6/19/2013 2:34 PM, Gord Tomlin wrote: Did you try adding the userid and password

Re: z/TPF question

2013-08-13 Thread Gord Tomlin
t the price of some of the engines on the box. -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation) Tel: (905) 470-7113, Fax: (905) 470-6507 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / ar

Re: Any z/OS product support to access VSAM data via JDBC?

2013-08-23 Thread Gord Tomlin
March 2005, IBM directed me to look at IBM WebSphere Information Integrator Classic Federation and Classic Event Publisher Version 8.2 for this purpose. I'm not sure what current IBM product (if any) contains the equivalent functionality. -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software Internat

Re: Task to subtask communications

2013-08-28 Thread Gord Tomlin
of the ECBs it waits on are posted, the main task just needs to check which ECB(s) were POSTed and take the appropriate actions. -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation) Tel:

Re: Historical question regarding the stop command

2012-12-05 Thread Gord Tomlin
I had never heard of the ability to issue a STOP command for a TSO session, so I tried it with one of my TSO sessions (which was in READY mode), and nothing happened. It would appear that as of z/OS 1.13 this ability no longer exists. -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a

Re: Historical question regarding the stop command

2012-12-05 Thread Gord Tomlin
Start to stop my computer?" -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation) Tel: (905) 470-7113, Fax: (905) 470-6507 On 2012-12-05 14:35, McKown, John wrote: Well, I know for a fact that some vendors still don't use MODIFY commands for

Re: Historical question regarding the stop command

2012-12-05 Thread Gord Tomlin
Yes the session was in READY mode, as I stated in my previous post. The console showed nothing other than the command I issued. No response. Give it a try on your system and post your results. -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation) Tel

Re: Historical question regarding the stop command

2012-12-05 Thread Gord Tomlin
. TSO/E session is terminated. IKJ56470I [redacted] LOGGED OFF TSO AT 18:55:52 ON DECEMBER 5, 2012 IKJ56400A ENTER LOGON OR LOGOFF- -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation) Tel: (905) 470-7113, Fax: (905) 470-6507 On 2012-12-05 17:23

Re: 64 Bit Common Storage (was Common Data Space Basics)

2012-12-13 Thread Gord Tomlin
s...", and it makes no mention of IARST64 or IARCP64. z/OS V1R13.0 MVS Authorized Assembler Services Reference EDT-IXG documents IARCP64, IARST64 and IARV64, including the options for obtaining 64-bit common storage. -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Ma

Re: Is it possible to write an exit for ADRDSSU to capture backup information?

2012-12-14 Thread Gord Tomlin
The ADRDSSU "user interaction module" can do a great many things. Can you describe specifically what you mean by backup information? -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation) Tel: (905) 470-7113, Fax: (905) 470-6507 On 2012-1

Re: SAVE macro

2013-03-01 Thread Gord Tomlin
ld know by Monday. ;) -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation) Tel: (905) 470-7113, Fax: (905) 470-6507 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, sen

Re: WAIT >1 (Friday type question, a day late)

2016-06-20 Thread Gord Tomlin
one of the ECBs is posted. -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation) Tel: (905) 470-7113, Fax: (905) 470-6507 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions

Re: Windows based editor / reformatter for DOS/VSE JCL?

2016-06-21 Thread Gord Tomlin
well as OpenBSD. Running JEdit on z/OS strikes me as being a quick route to PTSD You can use the FTP plugin of jEdit to edit z/OS UNIX files from your workstation. -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation) Tel: (905) 470-7113, Fax: (905

Re: z/OS OpenSSL, SelfSigned Certs, etc

2016-06-22 Thread Gord Tomlin
self-signed certificate", since your root certificate will not be a known and trusted certificate. -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation) Tel: (905) 470-7113, Fax: (905

Re: AW: Re: AW: Re: S0C4-11 abend caused by BASSM to address with all X'00' bytes

2016-07-23 Thread Gord Tomlin
zeros." (http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/IEA2A4B0/11.2?SHELF=iea2bkb4&DT=20110614131125) -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation) Tel: (905) 470-7

RFE: Add support to EDCDSECT for generating Doxygen-compatible comments

2016-07-28 Thread Gord Tomlin
RFE: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=92319 If you like it, please vote for it! Thanks! -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation) Tel: (905) 470-7113, Fax:

Re: GMail vs. COBOL

2016-08-18 Thread Gord Tomlin
rbird), Paul Gilmartin's messages also break threads on IBM-MAIN; Gil is active here, so his posts break lots of threads for me. Interestingly, his posts do not break threads on ASSEMBLER-LIST. There are plenty of moving parts here. -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action S

Re: GMail vs. COBOL

2016-08-18 Thread Gord Tomlin
On 2016-08-17 21:31, zMan wrote: Heck, people reply to existing threads with new topics; This is a pure human behavioral issue, and drives me nuts. -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation) Tel: (905) 470-7113, Fax: (905) 470-6507

Re: GMail vs. COBOL

2016-08-18 Thread Gord Tomlin
not one of them) have a strong preference for bottom-posting, based in part on standards. -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation) Tel: (905) 470-7113, Fax: (905) 470-6507

Re: GMail vs. COBOL

2016-08-18 Thread Gord Tomlin
yours. There is a standard that declares bottom-posting to be correct, and top-posting to be incorrect. Personally, I hate bottom-posting, but the majority here seem to be in favor of it, so I comply. I don't bottom-post except on listservs. -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software Internat

Re: included text from every other reply in a email chain..

2016-08-19 Thread Gord Tomlin
defeats the main alleged benefit of bottom-posting (I realize the irony that this reply is bottom-posted). -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation) Tel: (905) 470-7113, Fax: (905) 470-6507

Re: Cobol V5/V6

2016-08-31 Thread Gord Tomlin
On 2016-08-31 02:53, Timothy Sipples wrote: Sharon Lopez wrote: >My concern is that IBM will announce EOS for Enterprise Cobol 4.2 >and we will not be ready. That's a healthy concern... Please put your reply on the Cobol V5/V6 thread, not the RD/z thread. Thank you. -- Re

Re: k4t4949b (September 2016 refresh of the z/OS 2.2 manuals)

2016-09-19 Thread Gord Tomlin
You can use 7-Zip to show the archive type, for example: 7z l -slt F:\winzip\example.zip You might want to redirect the command output, since you are dealing with a large archive, and the command output will likely be large. -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a divisi

Re: z/OS Platform Software Products on ... Tape?

2015-05-12 Thread Gord Tomlin
lumes are Linux files. They can be unzipped without an existing z/OS system running. As Scott says, it's easy and simple, but of course it's a zPDT-only answer. -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation) Tel: (905) 470-7113,

IBM z/OS Internet Library trimmed to z/OS 1.13 and above

2015-09-02 Thread Gord Tomlin
enhancement. -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation) Tel: (905) 470-7113, Fax: (905) 470-6507 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email

Re: Term "Open Systems" (as Sometimes Currently Used) is Dead -- Who's with Me?

2015-09-10 Thread Gord Tomlin
through the misappropriation of the term and simply ignore it. -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation) Tel: (905) 470-7113, Fax: (905) 470-6507 -- For IBM

Re: SYMUP - Umod

2015-09-14 Thread Gord Tomlin
F1-6-4-1-2-0 -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation) Tel: (905) 470-7113, Fax: (905) 470-6507 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send emai

Re: Getting the TIOT

2015-09-22 Thread Gord Tomlin
interface, but is the two-line approach common? Aside from theoretical changes, is there any reason not to use it? The TIOT is no longer all-inclusive. Files can now live in the XTIOT instead of the TIOT. GETDSAB can find both. -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a

Re: C code to get running job name

2018-01-12 Thread Gord Tomlin
BJBNS. -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation) Tel: (905) 470-7113, Fax: (905) 470-6507 Support: https://actionsoftware.com/support/ -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / sign

Re: curious: Popularity & use of C on z/OS.

2018-01-12 Thread Gord Tomlin
On 2018-01-12 13:58, Steve Smith wrote: I don't know much about C# (call it "see pound" to impress people*) To really "B Sharp", call it "C Sharp" like the folks at Microsoft. ;) -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda C

Re: System z & Meltdown/Spectre

2018-01-26 Thread Gord Tomlin
(a very long time ago) worked at a shop that wanted to do that; in fact it was the IBM performance SE who originally suggested it. -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation) Tel: (905) 470-7113, Fax: (905) 470-6507 Support:

Re: ZOS 2.3 home page trying to find

2018-01-30 Thread Gord Tomlin
tware/isv230.html -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation) Tel: (905) 470-7113, Fax: (905) 470-6507 Support: https://actionsoftware.com/support/ -- For IBM-MAIN subs

Re: IBM(F)Link down for the count

2018-02-01 Thread Gord Tomlin
On 2018-02-01 19:00, Tom Conley wrote: 23/7 I'll take the under. -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation) Tel: (905) 470-7113, Fax: (905) 470-6507 Support: https://actionsoftware.com/su

Re: Parmlib members change control?

2018-02-15 Thread Gord Tomlin
https://actionsoftware.com/ -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation) Tel: (905) 470-7113, Fax: (905) 470-6507 Support: https://actionsoftware.com/support/ -- For IBM-MAIN

Re: TSO temp dataset

2018-02-15 Thread Gord Tomlin
6500I COMMAND J NOT FOUND *** Apparently neither has TSO. -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation) Tel: (905) 470-7113, Fax: (905) 470-6507 Support: https://actionsoftware.com/su

Re: TSO temp dataset

2018-02-15 Thread Gord Tomlin
clear from Itzchak's original reply whether J was to be invoked as a primary command or a line command). Learn something every day... -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation) Tel: (905) 470-7113, Fax: (905) 470-6507 Supp

Re: Programmatically access the SYSTRACE data in a SVCDUMP?

2018-02-19 Thread Gord Tomlin
MAIN What I've done is: 1. Send SYSTRACE output to a data set. 2. Use an edit macro that generates a REXX exec that contains IPCS NOTE commands to show the trace lines and IPCS WHERE commands for the PSW addresses in the trace lines. 3. Run the generated exec in IPCS. -- Regards, Go

Re: Product license key program

2018-02-28 Thread Gord Tomlin
to know the answers to these questions. -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation) Tel: (905) 470-7113, Fax: (905) 470-6507 Support: https://actionsoftware.com/support/ -- Fo

Re: Product license key program

2018-03-02 Thread Gord Tomlin
appropriate thing for the customer to do would be to contact the vendor, preferably in advance, and in both cases the vendor should exercise reasonable judgement. I'm jealous of your t-shirt collection. ;) -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Com

Re: KeePass

2018-03-08 Thread Gord Tomlin
...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN Yes, what's up? -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation) Tel: (905) 470-7113, Fax: (905) 470-6507 Support: https://actionsoftware.com/su

Re: [OT] KeePass

2018-03-08 Thread Gord Tomlin
ess. I've marked this OT, since, well, it's OT here. -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation) Tel: (905) 470-7113, Fax: (905) 470-6507 Support: https://actionsoftware.com/support/ --

Re: Subpool sharing and subpool freeing at main task termination

2018-03-29 Thread Gord Tomlin
aa800/pers.htm https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSLTBW_2.2.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r2.ieaa800/sptbl.htm -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation) Tel: (905) 470-7113, Fax: (905) 470-6507 Support:

Re: DFSMSdss dump fix after binary transfer

2018-04-21 Thread Gord Tomlin
On 2018-04-21 05:27, Wayne Bickerdike wrote: I always terse the dump first, seems problematic if you don't. ADRDDSU DUMP, TERSE, FTP in Binary. Reverse the process on the next MVS platform. That's exactly what we've been doing for years, and it works fine. -- Regards, Gor

Re: PDSE MAXGENS API

2018-05-01 Thread Gord Tomlin
On 2018-05-01 15:51, Steve Smith wrote: I have no idea what IBM requires to grant access, other than a signed NDA. FAMS is documented in the DFSMS Advanced Customization Guide, for which a license must be purchased at a not insignificant price. -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Heretic alert: I really detest TSO REXX (the language)

2018-05-15 Thread Gord Tomlin
On 2018-05-15 10:09, Edward Gould wrote: I agree pretty much with you, if there are only two options (CLIST & Rexx) which would you choose? If the choice was CLIST, I'd be starting a thread, "Heretic alert: I really detest TSO CLIST (the language)" -- Regards, Gord Tom

Re: Stack Exchange mainframe proposal

2018-06-06 Thread Gord Tomlin
On 2018-06-06 17:13, Jesse 1 Robinson wrote: Friday look-ahead. What would the consensus of cats be on the best way to skin them? If you want to skin cats, I don't think the cats would be wanting to provide a consensus. -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a divisi

Re: SYSLOG / OPERLOG displaying date.

2018-06-07 Thread Gord Tomlin
. If you're going to agitate for something like this, how about going for the unambiguous ISO 8601 format -mm-dd, either instead of or in addition to the ambiguous dd/mm/... or mm/dd/... -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation) Tel:

Re: Stack Exchange mainframe proposal

2018-06-07 Thread Gord Tomlin
On 2018-06-07 03:50, David Crayford wrote: The good thing about Stack Exchange is that moderators can jump in an close a thread when it starts to drift and delete answers/comments that are inappropriate. Doing that on IBM-MAIN would shrink it by 90%. ;) -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action

Re: SYSLOG / OPERLOG displaying date.

2018-06-07 Thread Gord Tomlin
use of dd/mm/ or mm/dd/. BTW, are we having this conversation on June 7 or July 6? ;) -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation) Tel: (905) 470-7113, Fax: (905) 470-6507 Support: https://actionsoftware.c

Re: ADRDSSU (was: IEBPTPCH questions)

2012-06-19 Thread Gord Tomlin
RDSSU every day. We FTP the tersed dumps off platform, and can unterse and restore them reliably on a different system. -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation) Tel: (905) 470-7113, Fax: (905) 470

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