Re: Stupid JCL trick?

2012-02-22 Thread Andrew Armstrong
On Tue, 21 Feb 2012 15:48:12 -0600, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com wrote: Nope. RTFM. ...nevertheless (even though it's not in the fine manual) something that appears to work for me is: // IF 1 = 1 THEN ...do this stuff... // ENDIF and // IF 1 = 0 THEN ...don't do this stuff... //

Re: John McCarthy 1927-2011

2011-10-27 Thread Andrew Armstrong
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Re: Data offload to DVDs or external drives

2011-10-20 Thread Andrew Armstrong
Backing up to paper (and restoring from it) is already possible... http://www.ollydbg.de/Paperbak/ The author claims about 3 MB per A4 page, so 1 TB could be backed up to about 700 reams. I think the paper would last longer than the ink though.

Re: Last card reader?

2011-08-18 Thread Andrew Armstrong
Sounds a bit harsh Ed! ...let he who hath omitted no comma sack the first sysprog. the guy was fired the next morning. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with

Re: Last card reader?

2011-08-17 Thread Andrew Armstrong
FWIW the last IBM 3505 I saw was in 1984. I remember one time the CE was called in to fix it (kept data checking or some such). Apparently, 3505's had optical sensors to detect the holes, and this particular unit was occasionally spitting machine oil onto the cards. As the machine oil soaked

Re: Really obscure STP/HMC question

2011-05-16 Thread Andrew Armstrong
Mark, I went with a pair of Symmetricom S200 time servers. There are a few other good vendors out there but support in Australia was an important criterion for us. I've emailed more detail direct to you, but in short it was a cookbook solution straight out of the STP implementation redbook.

Re: Really obscure STP/HMC question

2011-05-12 Thread Andrew Armstrong
Hi Mary Anne, I don't mean to sound critical, but why bother with dial-up time services in this day and age? There are plenty of good internet NTP sources that give +/-100ms precision. You can even implement your own time server (as I have) - synchronised to GPS satellites - that will supply a

Re: When is an OSA card too busy?

2011-04-20 Thread Andrew Armstrong
Jim, I know I've banged on about this before, but I can't stress enough just how useful taking a (SYSTCPDA) packet trace during your problem period (even for just a minute or two), using IPCS to convert it to SNIFFER format, downloading it to a PC and feeding it into Wireshark (www.wireshark.org)

Re: REXX INCLUDE ?

2011-04-09 Thread Andrew Armstrong
FWIW, I wrote an INCLUDE processor for Rexx as part of my Rexx XML Parser many moons ago. I've recently published it as a SourceForge project (more current than the CBT647 file - no offence to CBT guys, it's just that I like the subversion version control that sourceforge provides). See:

Re: AT-TLS and CICS Sockets performance

2011-03-20 Thread Andrew Armstrong
I'd get some more diagnostic info if I were you. Ramp up your logging level in your AT-TLS configuration and also take some network packet traces. There may be multiple SSL handshakes taking place in pseudo-conversational mode but in traces I have taken (of TN3270 connections) the SSL overhead

Re: SNTPD

2011-03-10 Thread Andrew Armstrong
Hi Jimmy, Although SNTPD is a USS process, I'd bet that the source of its time reference is the LPAR's TOD clock which should be UTC (best practice). Using the SET TIMEZONE command adjusts the z/OS zone offset, but leaves the LPAR's TOD clock as-is, so SNTPD will still serve out the same UTC

Re: AT-TLS security for SSL sockets

2011-02-22 Thread Andrew Armstrong
Jim, The EZY1300E message reports that errno 54 (Connection Reset by Peer) was returned on a RECV socket call by the CICS listener (CSKL). I'd conclude that the remote client has, for one reason or another, decided to drop the connection - probably after the SSL handshake as completed since the

Re: AT-TLS security for SSL sockets

2011-02-17 Thread Andrew Armstrong
Jim, In addition to reading the manuals, I highly recommend that you also download and become familiar with the IBM Configuration Assistant for z/OS Communications Server (there is one for each version of z/OS)... http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg24013160 ...I've found it really

Re: Identify all MVS images in a CEC

2010-09-23 Thread Andrew Armstrong
Steve, You could implement SSDP in your agents. I'm no expert on it but it's worth a look: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_Service_Discovery_Protocol The problem may reduce to identifying instances of your agent. Cheers, Andrew On Wed, 22 Sep 2010 09:06:00 +0100, Steve Austin

Re: TN3270 printing - scalable?

2010-06-03 Thread Andrew Armstrong
I've used VPS/TCPIP for many years and it's pretty easy to implement. The flexibility and support is excellent. Having said that, a solution I have implemented quite effectively at one site is to simply publish reports to the mainframe web server (IBM HTTP Server V7) and let the users download

Re: Bye from Brian

2009-11-25 Thread Andrew Armstrong
Brian, I'd strongly recommend you continue lurking! 35 years of experience is a valuable community resource to lose, and many people on this list are very interested in what has happened over the last several decades. I too am a LTL - I only wish I was paid for it! Best wishes, Andrew. (Fellow

Re: CLIST/REXX Library Formats

2009-09-11 Thread Andrew Armstrong
I prefer VB255 for ease of editing - especially with modern 3270 emulators that support big-x-big geometry. I'm shooting from the hip here as I don't have access to a machine at the moment, but I've only ever been bitten by the RECFM=VB plus ISPF editor combo once. In the mid 1990's I created a

Re: The PUT FTP not working with large files

2009-04-27 Thread Andrew Armstrong
Coincidentally, I was chasing up exactly the same symptom just last week and came up with APAR PK71695...could be relevant (and has a testable workaround): ERROR DESCRIPTION: The DATACTTIME for the FTP client is not being set properly for send processing. The result is the timer is not set

Re: JCL parser status

2008-09-08 Thread Andrew Armstrong
I'm with you - comments are problematic, but you could track the original physical structure by emitting sequences of attributes as they are found on each line. For example, //INPUT DDDSN=MY.DATASET, This is a required // BLKSIZE=3120, input dataset //

Re: JCL parser

2008-08-28 Thread Andrew Armstrong
You're not the only insane one! I've already written a JCL parser in Rexx (JCL2XML) as part of CBT File 647 (XML Parser in Rexx). I wonder whether 'flex' is flexible enough to cope with the relatively complicated JCL line continuation rules. Sure gave me some grief in Rexx!

Re: Slow FTP transfer from z/OS to Unix

2008-06-18 Thread Andrew Armstrong
François, You say throughput is bad for a PUT from the mainframe to the Linux server. Check the throughput when, from the mainframe, you do a GET from the Linux server. If the throughput is good in only one direction then this, in my experience, is the classic symptom of a full duplex/half duplex

Re: crazy thoughts - keeping product installation infomation

2008-05-15 Thread Andrew Armstrong
I think this would be an excellent use for a Wiki server - of pretty much any flavor, take your pick... http://www.wikimatrix.org/ All you have to do is post your install JCL, output, sage advice, product PDFs etc onto it, and it is available as long as you have access to a web browser. If the

Re: OT: loose vs. lose

2008-01-12 Thread Andrew Armstrong
This rant was brought you you as a public service message. Every you in that sentence is spelled correctly. (Make sure you're using the right words on resumes, cover letters, and any communication where you don't want to negatively impress the recipient.) Isn't to negatively impress a

Re: Another REXX query

2007-03-26 Thread Andrew Armstrong
Seb, Maybe sh is tokenizing the message string before passing it to logger. You could try quoting the message string (I cant test this at the moment so I'm not sure it would work): 'BPXBATCH sh logger -d1 'output_line'' BTW, I find using left() and right() to pad strings out to a specified

Re: JCL to XML

2006-09-27 Thread Andrew Armstrong
Well, better late than never, as they say... I've just added a JCL2XML Rexx procedure to CBT file 647 (Rexx XML parser). In addition to converting your JCL to XML, it also spits out a graphml file that can be used to draw flowchart-style diagrams of your JCL. You can download it from

Dr Who destroys Satan with a little help from IBM

2006-09-12 Thread Andrew Armstrong
Old IBM hardware never dies it seems... http://thenewmainframe.blogspot.com/ -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the

Re: SOAP on z/OS?

2005-08-04 Thread Andrew Armstrong
On Wed, 3 Aug 2005 11:05:53 -0500, McKown, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: it (or even write a simplistic REXX parser). Done... http://www.cbttape.org/ftp/updates/CBT647.zip Cheers, A. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff /