Re: How to recatalog to a different master catalog?

2010-03-28 Thread John Eells
Bruno Zani wrote: I am still stucked in z/OS 1.9, but I remember noticing that IBM was offering the capability of using IDCAMS, in a four step process, to create system type files cataloged in another master catalog. The four steps are: 1) creation of a new master catalog and connexion of

RDP @Dallas

2010-03-28 Thread Shane Ginnane
It's a development environment for Partnerworld members. Basically a cheap(ish) z/VM client environment. Not offered to customers I would imagine. See http://www-304.ibm.com/isv/spc/rdp.html Shane ... On Sun, Mar 28th, 2010 at 2:58 AM, Eric Bielefeld wrote: What is the Dallas RDP offering?

Re: How to recatalog to a different master catalog?

2010-03-28 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Sun, 28 Mar 2010 09:46:10 -0400, John Eells wrote: Yes, that's still how ServerPac works, and it is likely to continue to work that way forever (because it uses different names temporarily to avoid ENQ problems if you have to delete data sets and restart along the way). I discovered by

How to find loadlib in a dump?

2010-03-28 Thread Lindy Mayfield
I have a module abending but I cannot find the load library it was run from. Is there a way to find this in a dump? thanks very much Lindy -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to

Re: Call for XEDIT freaks, submit ISPF requirements

2010-03-28 Thread Mark van der Eynden
rather I loathe XEDIT's behavior of always scrolling to put the search target on CURLINE. From fading memory, have you tried 'set stay on' I'd rather have regular expressions. Must have come from the *nix world, never heard of them, or needed them ;-) I think the biggest thing that makes a

Re: How to find loadlib in a dump?

2010-03-28 Thread Gerhard Postpischil
On 3/28/2010 2:57 PM, Lindy Mayfield wrote: I have a module abending but I cannot find the load library it was run from. Is there a way to find this in a dump? Strictly speaking, no (a program could dynamically allocate a PDS, open a DCB, load the module, close the DCB, and free the

Re: Call for XEDIT freaks, submit ISPF requirements

2010-03-28 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Sun, 28 Mar 2010 15:55:03 -0500, Mark van der Eynden wrote: rather I loathe XEDIT's behavior of always scrolling to put the search target on CURLINE. From fading memory, have you tried 'set stay on' Isn't that the one that suppresses positioning to the bottom of the file on an unsuccessful

/usr/lib/nls/charmap/IBM-1047

2010-03-28 Thread Paul Gilmartin
(z/OS 1.10) Motivatted by a thread in ASSEMBLER-LIST, I scanned /usr/lib/nls/charmap/IBM-1047 looking for matching character names in /usr/lib/nls/charmap/UTF-8. (I used regular expressions.) I found 186 IBM-1047 code points that have no matching names in UTF-8. I think this is pretty

Call for XEDIT freaks, submit ISPF requirements

2010-03-28 Thread Phil Smith III
Paul Gilmartin wrote: rather I loathe XEDIT's behavior of always scrolling to put the search target I believe you mean the fact that if the search target is on the screen, the screen still moves to make the target the current line. A very long time ago (like, 25+ years), back at UofW, I wrote

Teach z/OS JCL Using Herclues

2010-03-28 Thread Jim Marshall
Bill Smith (ex-IBM'er) asked me a question and I told him I would post it on IBM-Main. Bill worked for IBM for many, many years and took off in a lateral direction getting a Masters in Education and was recently teaching JCL to 20+ French speaking (a bit of English too) trainees. Bill is

Re: Mainframe Executive article on the death of tape

2010-03-28 Thread Timothy Sipples
Perhaps a more interesting question is whether hard disks are dead, felled (or soon to be) by solid state storage. :-) - - - - - Timothy Sipples Resident Architect STG Value Creation and Complex Deals IBM Growth Markets E-Mail: timothy.sipp...@us.ibm.com

Re: Teach z/OS JCL Using Herclues

2010-03-28 Thread scott
On 03/28/2010 07:15 PM, Jim Marshall wrote: Bill Smith (ex-IBM'er) asked me a question and I told him I would post it on IBM-Main. Bill worked for IBM for many, many years and took off in a lateral direction getting a Masters in Education and was recently teaching JCL to 20+ French speaking

Re: Teach z/OS JCL Using Herclues

2010-03-28 Thread Scott Barry
On Sun, 28 Mar 2010 20:49:50 -0400, scott svet...@ameritech.net wrote: On 03/28/2010 07:15 PM, Jim Marshall wrote: Bill Smith (ex-IBM'er) asked me a question and I told him I would post it on IBM-Main. Bill worked for IBM for many, many years and took off in a lateral direction getting a

Re: Mainframe Executive article on the death of tape

2010-03-28 Thread Rick Fochtman
---snip Perhaps a more interesting question is whether hard disks are dead, felled (or soon to be) by solid state storage. :-) --unsnip- I respectfully

Re: An amusing REXX program - JES2DISK == copies JES output to disk using REXX's SDSF API

2010-03-28 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In listserv%201003261546106832.0...@bama.ua.edu, on 03/26/2010 at 03:46 PM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com said: Prior to JES, Data Management facilities were unsuitable for the needs of spooling. In what way? -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO position; see

Re: An amusing REXX program - JES2DISK == copies JES output to disk using REXX's SDSF API

2010-03-28 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
I agree with much of what you write, but must challenge on item. In 4e2421a41003261420t52bf2254pf53955d4b0ed0...@mail.gmail.com, on 03/26/2010 at 09:20 PM, Sam Siegel s...@pscsi.net said: Then there are things like checkpoint restart. On unix, that is something the database does. There is

Re: Mainframe emulator part of a conspir a cy ââ¬Â¢ The Register

2010-03-28 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In listserv%201003261057061600.0...@bama.ua.edu, on 03/26/2010 at 10:57 AM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com said: POSIX shell is _not_ DOS-like nor native TSO-like. Yes, it's missing the functionality of the TSO stack. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO

Re: Crazy idea for a desktop integration with z/OS project?

2010-03-28 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In blu149-w9b380f9fbe75912eb551ea1...@phx.gbl, on 03/25/2010 at 12:10 PM, Dave Salt ds...@hotmail.com said: IMO, the ideal compromise is to use tools like IPT (from IBM) and SimpList (from MacKinney). Partially, but that still doesn't address issues like cut and paste. I see a real need for a

Re: Call for XEDIT freaks, submit ISPF requirements

2010-03-28 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In listserv%201003260009331459.0...@bama.ua.edu, on 03/26/2010 at 12:09 AM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com said: I'd rather have regular expressions. Why not both? For simple operations, XEDIT syntax is cleaner. ObColdDeadFinger The SPF clone I use on my PC has regular expressions. I

Re: Call for XEDIT freaks, submit ISPF requirements

2010-03-28 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 4bacacf4.5000...@trainersfriend.com, on 03/26/2010 at 06:47 AM, Steve Comstock st...@trainersfriend.com said: One feature of ISPF edit I use a lot these days is the ability to edit ASCII files and browse files encoded in UTF-8 and UTF-16. Did XEDIT support that? There was no Unicode when

Re: Call for XEDIT freaks, submit ISPF requirements

2010-03-28 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 20100326145355.yluii.456976.r...@hrndva-web11-z02, on 03/26/2010 at 02:53 PM, Eric Bielefeld eric-ibmm...@wi.rr.com said: I think the biggest thing that makes a person like one editor over the other is which one you grew up with. Perhaps for you; I would never want to go back to the

Re: Mainframe emulator part of a conspir a cy ââ¬Â¢ The Register

2010-03-28 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 032620101707.18493.4bace9e4000e70bc483d22216125569b0a02d29b9b0ebf9d0e0c9d0...@att.net, on 03/26/2010 at 05:07 PM, Warren Brown war...@att.net said: Quite a wish list for an editor. CMS xedit has it all. No. But it does have things that I want, and some of the missing features can be

Re: Call for XEDIT freaks, submit ISPF requirements

2010-03-28 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In listserv%201003252335354683.0...@bama.ua.edu, on 03/25/2010 at 11:35 PM, Mark van der Eynden mark.van-der-eyn...@hp.com said: Really, the more I think about it the more I think XEDIT should be ported to ISPF in its entirety. You are me. I can't think of a single thing that the ISPF

Re: Mainframe Executive article on the death of tape

2010-03-28 Thread Ted MacNEIL
Perhaps a more interesting question is whether hard disks are dead, felled (or soon to be) by solid state storage. :-) Not that soon. We need to see the price/GB fall a bit, to as lww as DASD was 5 or 6 years ago. Moore's law will help, and (fortunately) he over-stated the timeframe by about 4

Re: Mainframe Executive article on the death of tape

2010-03-28 Thread Ted MacNEIL
A long absence of power to affect refreshes of solid state storage can still render solid state storage unusable, while true disks don't need refreshing to maintain the content. There are some shops, in the Greater Toronto Area, using them in production. Also, power surges and vagaries in

Re: An amusing REXX program - JES2DISK == copies JES output to disk using REXX's SDSF API

2010-03-28 Thread Sam Siegel
On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 3:49 PM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) shmuel+ibm-m...@patriot.net shmuel%2bibm-m...@patriot.net wrote: I agree with much of what you write, but must challenge on item. In 4e2421a41003261420t52bf2254pf53955d4b0ed0...@mail.gmail.com, on 03/26/2010 at 09:20 PM, Sam

Re: Mainframe Executive article on the death of tape

2010-03-28 Thread Thomas Kern
I think it will be quite a while before all hard disks are gone, but it is inevitable. When my phone has a 16GB memory card in it and a slot for another 16GB, you have to accept that solid state storage is not far off. I do see a migration from hard to solid-state, must the way we migrated from

Re: Mainframe Executive article on the death of tape

2010-03-28 Thread Ted MacNEIL
You have a very high profile database, get a solid-state storage system to put the data on. I know that is the conventional wisdom. Lower priority stuff gets to stay on the old hard round/brown disks. I saw a presentation, at CMG Canada last month, where the presenter showed the benefits, of

Re: WTO Alternative using HLASM

2010-03-28 Thread Juergen Keller
hello Conrad, why is it not allowed to use WTOs in DSME-Exit? We bought an exit from IBM and it uses WTOs. So it can be used. regards Juergen -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to