On Sun, 2 Dec 2018 03:48:50 +, Jesse 1 Robinson wrote:
>
>War story. We once tried to provide emergency recovery for a sister shop whose
>upgrade had tanked horribly. They brought copies of their critical programs on
>tape. Forget why, but one of them needed to be relinked for our environment
On Tue, 4 Dec 2018 11:41:43 -0600, Kirk Wolf wrote:
>
>Are there examples in CBT of code that do similar analysis of DASD
>datasets? Even something that does a good job at deducing
>SPACE=(unit,(pri,sec)) is not as simple as one might think.
>
AVGREC adds to the chaos.
If the initial allocation
On Sun, 2 Dec 2018 19:20:07 +, Seymour J Metz wrote:
>I believe that he's using a different meaning of client, e.g., customer.
>
>IND$FILE, SFTP and WSA are all easier to use for people who are not at home
>with the Eunix utilities.
>
My favorite approach has been NFS. It puts my z/OS data o
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>323-715-0595 Mobile
>626-543-6132 Office ⇐=== NEW
>robin...@sce.com
>
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>To: IBM-MAIN@
On Tue, 4 Dec 2018 23:48:12 +, Jesse 1 Robinson wrote:
>
>I'm not aware that IEBGENER itself ever changed. You either kept the classic
>version or played the alias game. The app we shot in the foot counted on
>IEBGENER default behavior by hardcoding I/P block size later on for the same
>file
On Wed, 5 Dec 2018 08:52:26 -0600, Tom Marchant wrote:
>On Tue, 4 Dec 2018 19:47:40 -0600, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
>
>>And ISTR that the number of control
>>statements in SYSIN once needed to be declared in PARM.
>
>I don't remember that, so I looked on bi
On Wed, 5 Dec 2018 10:15:21 -0600, Tom Marchant wrote:
>
>>the programmer must
>>indicate to IEBGENER how much storage it needs.
>
>I think you mean that sufficient REGION must be provided. That is no different
>than any program.
>
>That same manual specifies
>
>
>The minimum region sizes are:
>o
On Wed, 5 Dec 2018 13:43:03 -0600, Dana Mitchell wrote:
>I have another challenge with Knowledge Centre, I'm using KC4Z and loaded the
>z/OS 2.2 content. When I do a search for a keyword, all the search results
>just say 'Found in: z/OS 2.2.0'. Instead it would be much more helpful if it
On Wed, 5 Dec 2018 20:42:14 +, Edward Finnell wrote:
>
>https://www-01.ibm.com/servers/resourcelink/svc00100.nsf/pages/lookatkc?OpenDocumentIn
> a message dated 12/5/2018 2:39:05 PM Central Standard Time,
>000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu writes:
>(Is there any confirmation of th
On Wed, 5 Dec 2018 21:50:27 +, Edward Finnell wrote:
>Don't know what AOL does sometimes.
>
That's what I use, but IMAP, not webmail.
>The IBM url
>is:https://www-01.ibm.com/servers/resourcelink/svc00100.nsf/pages/lookatkc
>
Thanks.
>The tinyurl is:
> https://tinyurl.com/ycxffjr3
>
... but
On Thu, 6 Dec 2018 19:52:53 -0600, Dale R. Smith wrote:
>
>So how many millions will IBM spend to recreate in KC the function that has
>been available in BookManager for many years?
>
All good things musr pass, with inevitable future shock. BookManager
had capacity problems; fixing them might ha
On Sat, 8 Dec 2018 18:18:04 +, Rugen, Len wrote:
>I guess you could write assembler code entirely with
> DCX'.'
>
Don't do that!
RLDs? Location independent code?
>The use ZAP to maintain it :-)
>
"ZAP" is a key word. How does one guarantee that any program in any langua
On Sun, 9 Dec 2018 19:34:48 +0300, venkat kulkarni wrote:
>Hello Group,
>
>We have some FTP job enabled b/w AIX to MF and now we have requirement to
>convert them into SFTP.
>
>But as AIX is ascii and MF is EBCDIC system. How this transfer will work.
>Also, currently FTP process use ascii mode to
On Mon, 10 Dec 2018 08:37:21 -0800, Charles Mills wrote:
>
>I would like to break the lines (intelligently -- at an English word
>boundary) no later than column 72.
>
fold -sw72 file.text
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On Mon, 10 Dec 2018 16:25:53 +, esmie moo wrote:
>Gentle Readers,
>I have a slight problem. A disk was flashed using FDRFLASH, however, the
>relationship between the source and target was not released. I looked at the
>option of using ICKDSF to break the relationship. Below is the job I in
On Mon, 10 Dec 2018 09:13:15 -0800, Charles Mills wrote:
>Perhaps a command that is local to your site?
>
>IKJ56500I COMMAND TF72 NOT FOUND
>
https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSLTBW_2.1.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r1.f54em00/tflow.htm
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On Mon, 10 Dec 2018 09:48:20 -0800, Charles Mills wrote:
>Oh, I did it as a primary command because I wanted it done to the entire
>file.
>
>I would need to do on each line. Not out of the question.
>
I believe it operates on each succeeding line until the indention changes.
-- gil
On Mon, 10 Dec 2018 21:01:36 +0300, venkat kulkarni wrote:
>
>We have strange SFTP output cases.
>
>1) We had requirement of sending ascii file using SFTP from Solaris to
>Mainframe . So, we used DD command to convert this ascii file into ebcdic
>
>using conv parameter and CBS size equal to record
On Mon, 10 Dec 2018 21:24:08 +0300, venkat kulkarni wrote:
>Non readable format means in ebcdic format.
>
???
I would that on the mainframe you should want it in EBCDIC format.
>> On Mon, 10 Dec 2018 21:01:36 +0300, venkat kulkarni wrote:
>> >
>> >1) We had requirement of sending ascii file us
On Mon, 10 Dec 2018 21:01:36 +0300, venkat kulkarni wrote:
>Hello All,
>
>We have strange SFTP output cases.
>
>1) We had requirement of sending ascii file using SFTP from Solaris to
>Mainframe . So, we used DD command to convert this ascii file into ebcdic
>
Please supply more information for di
On Mon, 10 Dec 2018 21:25:34 +, Jesse 1 Robinson wrote:
>Text consisting of paragraphs with no indentions or blank lines seems like a
>pretty odd notion of 'paragraphs'. ...
>
It's MS Word's convention. Pressing ENTER inserts a ¶.
On Mon, 10 Dec 2018 14:32:11 -0700, Sri h Kolusu wrote:
>>
On 2018-12-10, at 15:44:31, Charles Mills wrote:
> It has nothing to do with MS-Word but yes, MS-Word also follows this
> convention. No, the lines are nowhere near of equal length. Fold would
> probably work. I have z/OS of course. But as I said I now have the problem
> solved. Several good
On Tue, 11 Dec 2018 06:05:57 +0100, Mike Beer wrote:
>Any XEDIT compatible editor (e.g. THE) should do this with a few commands
>
>ZONE 1 72
>FLOW
>FILE
>
I find no FLOW command in:
z/VM Version 7 Release 1 XEDIT Commands and Macros Reference
IBM SC24-6337-00
Is XEDIT considered an "XEDIT comp
On Tue, 11 Dec 2018 12:05:07 -0800, Charles Mills wrote:
>You can readily disable smart quotes.
>
But some people like them.
Microsoft will outwit you. I once sent a co-worker a JCL excerpt with:
"...BLKSIZE=6144,..."
He wrote back, "What's this 'BLKSIZEa44'?"
There was *no* quoted-printabl
On Tue, 11 Dec 2018 22:17:54 +, Seymour J Metz wrote:
>> That is precisely what "smart quotes" is all about.
>
>That's why I hate them.
>
>BTW, how do I turn off half-smart quotes on the computer of someone who's
>sending me a document?
>
After the fact, copy and paste the code you need, then
On Wed, 12 Dec 2018 08:28:20 -0500, Carmen Vitullo wrote:
>
>//ISPBTCH EXEC PGM=IKJEFT01,
>
>// DYNAMNBR=40,TIME=1440
>//SYSTSIN DD *
>ISPSTART CMD(BPXWH2Z -vc /hfs/zfs/ OMVS.USR.LOCAL
>//SYSTSPRT DD SYSOUT=*
>//SYSEXEC DD DSN=SYS1.SBPXEXEC,DISP=SHR
>//ISPLIST DD SYSOUT=A,DCB=(LRECL=121,BLKSIZE=12
On Wed, 12 Dec 2018 08:41:27 -0500, John Eells wrote:
>Friday, 14 December 2018, will be my last day at IBM. For the curious,
>I started on a Wednesday, 1 June 1977, so it will be 41 years, 6 months
>since I started as a CE in the local Poughkeepsie branch office.
>
Thanks for all the advice
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On Mon, 17 Dec 2018 07:56:36 -0600, Dave Jones wrote:
>I can reach https://www.powerbasic.com/ now..
>
Hmmm... "Open Source", but you need an ISV licensed tool to build it.
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On Mon, 17 Dec 2018 14:13:49 -0600, Tom Marchant wrote:
>>
>>>I can reach https://www.powerbasic.com/ now..
>>>
>>Hmmm... "Open Source", but you need an ISV licensed tool to build it.
>
Their License Agreement is at:
https://www.powerbasic.com/Content/Images/uploaded/PowerBASIC_License_A
On Tue, 18 Dec 2018 14:30:21 +, Cieri, Anthony wrote:
>
>Once in z/OS (USS) I used a program called CAUNZIP to unzip and SMP/E receive
>all of the PTFs. ...
>
Would "jar" have extracted them for you? If not, CA is doing a disservice be
requiring
idiosyncratic tools.
Perhaps even better wou
On Tue, 18 Dec 2018 14:36:34 +, Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh wrote:
>
>Yes, I get scart0.zip and unzip it on a PC.
>I then set quote site parameters and mput them bunch by bunch.
>Like... mput *.bin, mput *.txt, and so on.
>
Ouch!
>Should I just chuck the scart0.zip into USS, and process there?
On Tue, 18 Dec 2018 09:36:09 -0600, Al Ferguson wrote:
>I have found "jar -xf scart0.zip" works fine for me. I like to stick with base
>product (or other tools provided by/through) IBM, or Open Source vs pulling
>3rd party versions of generic utilities (I do not trust their maintenance
>histori
On Tue, 18 Dec 2018 09:36:09 -0600, Al Ferguson wrote:
>I have found "jar -xf scart0.zip" works fine for me. I like to stick with base
>product (or other tools provided by/through) IBM, or Open Source vs pulling
>3rd party versions of generic utilities (I do not trust their maintenance
>histori
On Tue, 18 Dec 2018 18:16:47 +, Seymour J Metz wrote:
>I have no problem with 7z, but using an extension for the wrong format is sick.
>
Yes.
I understand that customary vs. peculiar format is an option; I don't know
the default.
Which do you use?
Can the archives you create be extracted b
On Tue, 18 Dec 2018 16:39:09 -0600, Robert Longabaugh wrote:
>..
>CAUNZIP documentation is in several places, including here:
>https://docops.ca.com/ca-common-services-for-z-os/14-1/en/administrating/caunzip-utility
>
Where I see:
... CAUNZIP is a TSO utility that extracts the contents of
On Mon, 24 Dec 2018 17:02:05 +, Farley, Peter x23353 wrote:
>
>One second in clock units is X'F424'. ...
>http://publibfi.boulder.ibm.com/epubs/pdf/dz9zr011.pdf
>
>So right after you do STCK TIME then do this to get a time 90 seconds later
>(SEC90 is an 8 byte field, the same size as your
On Sat, 15 Sep 2018 08:52:55 -0400, Peter Relson wrote:
>
>On Sat, 20 Apr 2013 14:39:08 -0400, Peter Relson wrote:
>>... The documentation says "The STCKCONV macro converts an input
>>time-of-day (TOD) clock value to time of day and date, and returns the
>>converted values to the call
On Tue, 25 Dec 2018 12:09:10 -0500, Joseph Reichman wrote:
>Thanks
>
>I have it in a macro and will post the code
>.WAIT ANOP
> L R15,16 GET CVT ADDRESS
> L R15,X'8C'(R15) GET ECVT ADDRESS
> L R15,X'384'(R15) GET
On Wed, 26 Dec 2018 09:00:47 -0500, Peter Relson wrote:
>
>>I believe a programmer might reasonably expect that STCKCONV usefully return
>>whatever TIME would have returned at the instant of the STCK.
>
>A programmer would expect next to nothing due to the name of a service
>since it is not possib
On Wed, 26 Dec 2018 08:28:07 -0500, Mark Regan wrote:
>https://www.computerworld.com/article/3330396/application-development/situation-normal-all-fudged-up.html
>
Did I miss something? Did it describe the "one adjustment," on the "One card"
that he added? Would it be obvious if I were familiar
In: MVS Interactive Problem Control System (IPCS) Customization
Version 2 Release 3 SA23-1383-30
I read:
TOD Clock Service
The time-of-day (TOD) clock service provides a caller, including your exit
routine,
with a TOD clock image. In the clock image, bit 0 is set on to allow the
service
On Fri, 28 Dec 2018 14:46:41 -0500, Peter Relson wrote:
>I shouldn't have included "TIME" among the services I mentioned because
>that's "current", not "historic" (so only has to deal with "current" leap
>seconds) and because it does not let you choose STCK as the "zone" -- you
>
Not as the "xo
gt;bit clock will roll over, and bit 0 will return to zero.
>
By my arithmetic, January 1, 1900 + 143 years = January 1, 2043.
Doesn't forcing bit 0 to 1 as described below restrict the cycle of the clock
to 71 years rather than the 143 years from 1971 to 2114 stated below?
>On Fri, D
On Fri, 28 Dec 2018 21:57:43 -0600, Joe Monk wrote:
>>"By my arithmetic, January 1, 1900 + 143 years = January 1, 2043".
>
>Ummm ... Did you forget the year 1900? Theres only 142 years left after you
>subtract the Year 1900.
>
WTF!?
So, by that reasoning, January 1, 1900 + 1 year = January 1, 19
On Sat, 29 Dec 2018 05:21:30 +, Farley, Peter x23353 wrote:
>"A STCK value came from the clock and is not to be considered UTC time."
>
>Then what is STP/NTP (or whatever the current mechanism is named) supposed to
>do? Isn't the entire point of a hardware clock-setting mechanism to set the
On Fri, 28 Dec 2018 23:52:07 -0600, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
>> ...
>I believe otherwise. In order to avoid discontinuities at leap seconds of the
>sort
>that cause network failures:
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leap_second#Examples_of_problems_associated_with_the
On Sat, 29 Dec 2018 11:54:48 -0500, Peter Relson wrote:
>
>What this is likely trying (but failing) to say is that this service
>applies a windowing technique, which much of z/OS will do in the coming
>years, as we approach the end of the standard epoch.
>
Kind of like:
https://en.wikipedia.
On Sat, 29 Dec 2018 11:54:48 -0500, Peter Relson wrote:
> ...
>What this is likely trying (but failing) to say is that this service
>applies a windowing technique, which much of z/OS will do in the coming
>years, as we approach the end of the standard epoch.
>
I forgot to ask:
How will this pla
On Sat, 29 Dec 2018 19:18:56 +, Sean Gleann wrote:
>
>I'm using IEASYMU2 on a daily basis to create (immediately after IPL) or
>update 2 system symbols.
>
I hope you don't mean you IPL daily.
>These symbols contain date values for 'yesterday' in Gregorian and Julian
>
Julian? https://en.wiki
On Sat, 29 Dec 2018 14:00:03 -0500, Jim Mulder wrote:
> SA22-7832-11 (z14 level of Principles of Operation) explains how the TOD
> clock
>and clock comparator deal with the next epoch.
>
Wow!
... the multiple- epoch facility ... the clock-comparator sign control ...
Thanks.
> I can't s
On Mon, 31 Dec 2018 08:29:19 +, Sean Gleann wrote:
>
>As for "This is the sort of thing that should be routinely provided by the
>OS." - a huge YES! to that, and other associated values like 'first working
>day of the week/month/year' and so on.
>Its a crying shame that the only other way of ge
On Mon, 31 Dec 2018 16:54:08 +, Martin Packer wrote:
>
>Paul, do you have a sample?
>
>(This would actually anable something for me.)
>
I have nothing in use that I can share, but something like:
#! /bin/sh -x
submit <
On Mon, 31 Dec 2018 16:00:02 -0500, Tony Harminc wrote:
>
>In the mid 1990s, when SNA interconnection between enterprises was at its
>peak, IBM had an SNA network name registry. (For all I know they may still
>have it.) Names were of the form character customer code>, so e.g. IBM itself was USIBM (
On Wed, 2 Jan 2019 13:34:01 -0600, Tom Marchant wrote:
>On Wed, 2 Jan 2019 18:16:27 +, Edward Finnell wrote:
>
>>Wonder if the local library or edu has a subscription?
>
>Yes, I wonder. Haven't checked yet.
>
>I wonder if SHARE could get a subscription...
>
https://xkcd.com/2085/
https
On Thu, 3 Jan 2019 10:52:41 -0600, Glenn Wilcock wrote:
>
>I looked and didn't see any Patches for skipping empty data sets.
>
>HSM treats these as normal since both migration and expiration can depend on
>the existence of a valid backup copy. For this reason, HSM recently added
>support for dat
On Thu, 3 Jan 2019 19:02:32 +, Seymour J Metz wrote:
>You haven't lived until you have to talk to a vendor on the telephone while
>surrounded by other conversations. To be fair, they don't appreciate your
>reading out loud from the dump any more then you enjoy their chatter - which
>might a
On Fri, 4 Jan 2019 09:12:34 -0600, Dana Mitchell wrote:
>
>I like the Vista function 'locate cursor'.When you press the corresponding
>key(s), the cursor does your choice of blink or explode...
>
Isn't something like that endemic in Windows: dithering on CTRL makes
the cursor explode?
-- gi
On Mon, 7 Jan 2019 22:55:32 +, Savor, Thomas (Alpharetta) wrote:
>I'm trying to write a copy program for Source code or Load Data from one Pds
>to Another.
>
Doesn't IBM already supply one?
>The Source Code part seems to be working...no issues.
>The Load library code however, I cant seem to
On Tue, 8 Jan 2019 07:20:17 -0600, Tom Marchant wrote:.
>
>Remember that each member starts at some TTR location, where R is not
>necessarily zero. And the number of bytes available on the track where an
>output member starts is not necessarily, or even likely, the same as the
>number of bytes t
On Tue, 8 Jan 2019 10:50:30 -0500, Kurt Quackenbush wrote:
>On 1/8/2019 10:38 AM, daverankin...@gmail.com wrote:
>> DATE 01/08/19 TIME 15:33:56 SMP/E GIMJVCLT OUTPUT SMP/E
>> 36.98
>> ...
>> Jan 08, 2019 3:34:06 PM com.ibm.smp.GIMJVCLT main
>> SEVERE: A runtime exception o
On Tue, 8 Jan 2019 15:19:28 -0500, Tony Thigpen wrote:
>FYI, I also put REXX into that category if someone tries to be 'fancy'.
>And I use REXX a lot.
>
(To what are you replying? Did this thread come from BITNET?)
What do you consider "fancy" or "unreadable" Rexx? I know a FORTRAN
programmer
e with bit or Boolean data
>types.
>
I'll confess to having replaced:
if A==B then X = 'FooBar'; else X = ''
with:
X = copies( 'FooBar', A==B )
>__
>From: Paul Gilmartin
>Sent: Tuesday, January 8, 2019
On Thu, 10 Jan 2019 17:59:07 +, Seymour J Metz wrote:
>
>for the code written in PL/S (nee BSL), the optional source has the generated
>assembler with the source PL/S as comments; I found that reasonably easy to
>work with even though I would rather have had a PL/S compiler.
>
Ugh! Working
On Thu, 10 Jan 2019 17:49:44 -0500, Cameron Conacher wrote:
>Thank you Jerry.
>Do I simply add a normal DD statement identifying my file?
>
>//MYFILE DD DSN=HLQ.MYFILE,DISP=OLD
>
DD may not work because java may run in a separate address space unless you have
_BPX_SHAREAS=MUST. I'd concur with M
On Thu, 10 Jan 2019 19:30:41 -0500, zMan wrote:
>Semicolons?😀
>
(My laptop doesn't speak emoji.)
Semicolons, yes, but:
do <=> {
end<=> }
switch <=> SELECT
...
I think Rexx got much of its lexical flavor from PL/I. But that's easy for
me to say becase I don't know PL/I.
On Fri, 11 Jan 2019 20:27:30 +, Seymour J Metz wrote:
>Keep in mind that wiki is a mixed bag; its emphasis of secondary sources over
>primary sources tends to damage its reliability. Also, the URL you gave was
>for PL/I rather than for REXX.
>
>
>From:
On Fri, 11 Jan 2019 12:49:07 -0800, Ed Jaffe wrote:
>On 1/11/2019 12:35 PM, David Spiegel wrote:
>> (I've never encountered a TSO stack (outside of Rexx) in my 43 years of
>> using TSO.)
>
It's there, and other implementations of Rexx, such as Regina, struggle
to emulate it.
>I suspect this is a
On Fri, 11 Jan 2019 20:58:51 +, Seymour J Metz wrote:
>FSVO goto that lives in a different universe from PL/I. The REXX signal
>statement trashes the stack rather than simply popping it appropriately.
>Consider
>
SIGNAL trashes the DO nest but it does not update the CALL/RETURN stack. I
e
On Fri, 11 Jan 2019 21:15:20 +, Seymour J Metz wrote:
>> It's there, and other implementations of Rexx, such as Regina, struggle to
>> emulate it.
>
>All implementations of REXX provide a stack, but none of them even try to
>provide the stack mechanisms that TSO has and CLIST DATA/DATA PROM
On Sat, 12 Jan 2019 22:58:13 +, Rupert Reynolds wrote:
>Fancy code? I remember once wanting to set a flag under certain circs, and
>I considered something like:
>
>/* Rexx */
>TRUE = 1=1
>FALSE = \TRUE
>. . .
>flag = TRUE
>
>I can't remember now whether I used it, or hated it.
>
More concisel
On Tue, 15 Jan 2019 15:07:41 -0800, Charles Mills wrote:
>Well, I just voted for it (after I got past IBM's #$#@^! logon process).
>
>The driver for mainframe C was "porting industry applications" and few UNIX
>applications retrieve ISPF statistics.
>
Via LM services, or TSO-free?
(Heck, if por
On Tue, 15 Jan 2019 22:57:28 +, Seymour J Metz wrote:
>IBM never upgraded TSO/E for the REXX standard. I see nothing in z/OS TSO/E
>REXX Reference Version2 Release3, SA32-0972-30 about built-in variables TRUE
>and FALSE.
>
Are these variables (like RC)? Can the programmer assign to them?
(C
On Sun, 13 Jan 2019 14:06:51 -0800, Ed Jaffe wrote:
>
>> On 13/01/2019 7:06 pm, Tony Thigpen wrote:
>>> I have seen some reports that current C compilers, which understand
>>> the z-hardware pipeline, can actually produce object that is faster
>>> running than an assembler. Mainly because no sane a
On Tue, 15 Jan 2019 21:46:03 +, Seymour J Metz wrote:
>Given the size of PoOps, perhaps an RFE for a separate manual containing well
>commented examples for all of the complex instructions, including sort.
>
Sounds like a Users Guide to me.
>
>From: C
On Wed, 16 Jan 2019 07:43:36 -0500, Mark Regan wrote:
>https://www.computerworld.com/article/601/data-center/wheres-the-fire.ht
>ml
>
Broken URL. Fix your mailer. Or throw it away and get one that works.
Or post via the web interface.
-- gil
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On Wed, 16 Jan 2019 20:51:32 +, Seymour J Metz wrote:
>I don't recall ever seeing built-in variables TRUUE and FALSE, but I haven't
>read the standard.
>
>http://www.rexxla.org/rexxlang/standards/ has ordering information and links.
>At $125, I'd just go for the draft, but it's probably wort
On Wed, 16 Jan 2019 13:08:28 -0800, Charles Mills wrote:
>Oh. End of story.
>
>Thanks.
>
There are programmers who, for whatever reason, prefer to drag along
ISPF rather than to drag along LE. For such people:
z/OS IBM ISPF Services Guide
Version 2 Release 3 SC19-3626-30
Dismayingly, I
On Wed, 16 Jan 2019 17:20:03 -0600, Kirk Wolf wrote:
>Quick and dirty from C to list directory and / or retrieve member
>statistics:
>
>fopen("MY.PDS", "rb,type=record,noseek,recfm=u")
>loop fread() ... 256 byte directory blocks until EOF
>- process each member entry in the block.
> See
On Thu, 17 Jan 2019 00:52:02 -0500, Gord Tomlin wrote:
>On 2019-01-16 18:43, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
>> FAMS information.
>>
>> o I don't know the API.
>
>And you won't, unless you make a significant contribution to IBM's coffers.
>
Customers need to p
On Thu, 17 Jan 2019 09:49:30 +, Ward Able, Grant wrote:
>This seems simple and I may be having a senior moment, but I don’t seem to be
>able to get this to work.
>I have a number of batch jobs that do ADRDSSU backups, then execute a variable
>number of PROC statements to copy files.
> TSOBA
On Thu, 17 Jan 2019 17:11:46 +, Franzon, Stephen wrote:
>But if BKDSN.RC = 4, then ( RC > 0 & BKDSN.RC <> 4 ) will evaluate false
>regardless of the RC of any other step, which is not what is required. If any
>other step has a non zero RC, then it needs to evaluate true.
>
I stand corrected
On Tue, 15 Jan 2019 22:57:28 +, Seymour J Metz wrote:
>IBM never upgraded TSO/E for the REXX standard. I see nothing in z/OS TSO/E
>REXX Reference Version2 Release3, SA32-0972-30 about built-in variables TRUE
>and FALSE.
>
>More important, IMHO, is that IBM did not add the ANSI extensions to
On Fri, 18 Jan 2019 19:20:43 +, Seymour J Metz wrote:
>
>Yes. Specifically, WITH input_redir [output_redir] [error_redir] .
>
>> Pointless for CMS or TSO since the concept of standard input/standard
>> output is alien to each.
>
>Perhaps pointless for CMS, but the TSO stack has all of the ne
On Mon, 21 Jan 2019 22:00:51 -0600, Tim Hare wrote:
>I haven't seen the Apache web server mentioned for some reason. I haven't
>used Apache but on the previous Domino-based web server you could write a Rexx
>CGI (Common Gateway Interface, not Computer Generated Images) program that
>could be
On Mon, 21 Jan 2019 22:31:52 -0600, Tim Hare wrote:
>I moved a lot of tape datasets to SMS managed disk, also, but one group of
>application people fought the idea of using unique, catalog-able names for
>their datasets. Pure laziness - they didn't want to go through the work of
>making the ch
On Tue, 22 Jan 2019 17:13:04 +, Seymour J Metz wrote:
>I've used the CC bits but never the ILC bits.
>
I've used them to tell whether I was on 370 hardware or 31-bit mode on
XA hardware. I did not support 24-bit mode on XA hardware.
-- gil
--
On Thu, 24 Jan 2019 13:25:48 +0100, R.S. wrote:
>
>It depends.
>There were historical OSes like Amdahl UTS or AIX/ESA.
>There is "something" like CFCC (Coupling Facility Control Code).
>There is z/VM which is hypervisor or just OS.
>Sometimes TPF was not counted as OS even by IBM.
>There is/was Op
On Thu, 24 Jan 2019 14:44:25 -0500, Kevin Mckenzie wrote:
>Right. touch is a standard unix command; it officially is used for
>updating the access or last modified time of a file, but it's often used
>sort of as a utility command in the way IEFBR14 can be used to create a
>file.
>
>So I would thi
On Fri, 25 Jan 2019 19:47:23 +, Edgington, Jerry wrote:
>
>For Cobol, the DATA parm determines where the work storage is loaded.
>DATA(31) means it will attempt to loaded above the line. However, the program
>must also be at least RMODE(31) or ANY. And if during the compile, there is
>any
On Sat, 26 Jan 2019 16:37:09 -0800, Charles Mills wrote:
>Well I must be really contrary or else I got out of the wrong side of the
>bed this morning. @Peter and @Ed are of course two of the people I most
>admire in the field of assembler and MVS, but I totally disagree with almost
>everything the
On Sun, 27 Jan 2019 11:44:54 +, Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh wrote:
>
>Seeing a name like BS2000 or BS3000 made me think of a hypothetical marketing
>department where their product is so useless, but they proudly sell it, by
>naming it BS2000.
>They call the new and improved version BS3000.
>
>
On Sun, 27 Jan 2019 21:23:32 +, Seymour J Metz wrote:
>For the same reason that Nova (No va) is funny in Hispanic countries; BS has a
>colloquial meaning in the US.
>
That's disputed:
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/chevrolet-nova-name-spanish/
-- gil
On Sun, 27 Jan 2019 23:47:09 -0500, Jim Mulder wrote:
>
>> If I were designing
>> FREEMAIN from scratch, I would drop the LENGTH and just always free
>> the entire block. Yes, you would lose the ability to free half of a
>> buffer -- but gain some simplicity of design, and eliminate the
>> nas
On Tue, 29 Jan 2019 14:19:07 +, Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh wrote:
>
>Let's say there's a REXX program being run in batch with
>PGM=IKJEFB1B,PARM='%SOMETHING'.
>I'm sure SMF records program names.. but is there any field that also captures
>the REXX that's being run via IKJEFT01 or IKJEFT1B?
>
On Tue, 29 Jan 2019 11:06:51 -0500, Bob Bridges wrote:
>...
>Anyway, we attempted the RESTORE, but we got lots and lots of error messages
>saying we need to include other PTFs in the RESTORE. Some of these have an
>indirect connection to A and B; B superceded at least three of them, for
>exampl
On Tue, 29 Jan 2019 16:23:06 +, David Spiegel wrote:
>Hi Bob,
>2) Yes for the current situation. If, however, PTFs between base and
>your new PTFs are ACCEPTd, no.
>> ... [about 20 lines skipped]
>> Question #2) ...
What ever became of the venerable practice of interleaving replies close to
On Tue, 29 Jan 2019 11:46:39 -0500, Bob Bridges wrote:
>Never heard of CA-MSM, but I'll look into it. (I've been in contact with Bob
>Boerum at CA, but he's never mentioned it.)
>
>We've been using the SMP/E panels, and, as you say, letting them construct the
>JCL.
>
Yes. And I always save t
On 2019-01-29, at 09:52:18, Allan Staller wrote:
> Comments interspersed.
>
> HTH,
>
Thanks. It would further be useful if you distinguished quoted material
with the customary ">" prefix.
> -Original Message-
> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of
> Bob Bridges
> Sent: T
.
Too much misguided DWIM.
> -Original Message-
> From: Paul Gilmartin
> Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2019 11:06 AM
>
> On 2019-01-29, at 09:52:18, Allan Staller wrote:
>
>> Comments interspersed.
>>
>> HTH,
>>
> Thanks. It would further be usef
On Tue, 29 Jan 2019 09:08:07 -0800, Charles Mills wrote:
>To the best of my (possibly faulty, of course) recollection SMF does not
>record PARM= anywhere under any circumstances -- other than if it somehow gets
>used in a way that ends up in SMF, e.g. a program that takes PARM=ddname and
>then
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