ISPF scrollable areas

2011-12-07 Thread Andy Robertson
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Re: Segmenting an output spool file in z/OS - 2nd attempt

2011-10-20 Thread Andy Robertson
in Assembler, the SETPRT macro can be issued against a DCB writing SYSOUT it's literally a decade since I wrote the relevant bit of code but I think what you do is more or less SETPRT dcbaddr,DISP=SCHEDULE Dunno of any facility in a HLL to do this Andy Robertson

Re: Fairwell to a Friend

2011-10-09 Thread Andy Robertson
Respectful sympathies to all who knew him. A very handy programmer and a true gentleman. Andy R ** This email is confidential and may contain copyright material of the John Lewis Partnership. If you are not the

Re: dynamic STEPLIB

2011-07-22 Thread Andy Robertson
first See ISPF Services Guide SC34-4819-09 2.22.5.2 User link libraries Works for us!!! Andy Robertson telephone mobile 0777 214 9545 home 01308 420797 -IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu wrote: - To: IBM-MAIN

Re: dynamic STEPLIB

2011-07-22 Thread Andy Robertson
What a pity: we must have been lucky in our selection of products. Thank youall for the correction. Andy Robertson telephone mobile 0777 214 9545 home 01308 420797 -IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu wrote: - To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu From

Re: Cool Things You Can Do in z/OS

2011-04-05 Thread Andy Robertson
Steve, It might be a millionth of a degree cooler to add the fact that you can send emails from CICS as well as batch jobs? See the XMITCICS freeware (written in COBOL) at www.thenightland.co.uk/MYWEB/mvsxmitmail.html for the method Andy Robertson telephone mobile

Re: ISPF Action Bar Button

2011-01-06 Thread Andy Robertson
this works for me )ABC DESC(Exit) pdc desc('Exit') ACTION RUN(END) )ABCINIT .ZVARS = 'EXITX' .RESP = ENTER Andy Robertson telephone mobile 0777 214 9545 home 01308 420797 -IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu

Re: Merry Christmas

2010-12-22 Thread Andy Robertson
Merry Christmas all Andy Robertson telephone mobile 0777 214 9545 home 01308 420797 ** This email is confidential and may contain copyright material of the John Lewis Partnership. If you

Re: z/os 1.11 and low private

2010-10-28 Thread Andy Robertson
COULD YOU POSSIBLY GIVE ME YOUR CASE NUMBER FOR THIS PROBLEM? WE HAVE CONNECT:DIRECT 4.6 AND ARE HOPING TO RUN IT ON Z/OS 1.12. I NEED TO KNOW IF WE'LL HIT YOUR BUG ('SCUSE CAPS - KEYBOARD WONKY!!!) Andy Robertson telephone mobile 0777 214 9545 home 01308 420797 From

Re: Easytrieve to COBOL - IBM Migration Utility of z/OS - program 5697-N44

2010-09-23 Thread Andy Robertson
Not really. I think we had to fiddle a bit to make DB2 DCLGENs work - some had to be massaged a bit for EMU to accept them. But nothing serious Andy R -IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu wrote: - rom: Ron Wells rwe...@agfinance.com was there any show stoppers??

Re: Easytrieve to COBOL - IBM Migration Utility of z/OS - program 5697-N44

2010-09-22 Thread Andy Robertson
John Lewis Partnership has been using it successfuly for years Andy Robertson from: McKown, John john.mck...@healthmarkets.com Has anybody used this to migrate off of Easytrieve Plus from CA? ** This email is confidential

FROMNTS - FB-80 datasets????

2010-09-16 Thread Andy Robertson
the time is mostly taken up by un-taring the downloaded tarball (or unpaxing the paxball, or whatever) Question therefor: is there any way to convert the PTFs and HOLDs in the SMPNTS directory into nice sensible z/OS datasets, so they may be RECEIVEd simply and quickly?? Andy Robertson

ISPF system commands under program control?

2010-09-14 Thread Andy Robertson
Does anyone know a way to issue ISPF System Commands (eg PANELID, FKA ON, etc) under program control??? Would it, for example, be possible to set the command field in a panel and DISPLAY it with .RESP set to END??? (Doesn't seem to work, unfortunately . . .) Andy Robertson

Re: ISPF system commands under program control?

2010-09-14 Thread Andy Robertson
ah, the COMMAND option of DISPLAY PANEL(...). gotcha To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu From: John P Kalinich jkali...@csc.com ** This email is confidential and may contain copyright material of the John Lewis Partnership. If you are

Re: mainframe zip

2010-08-13 Thread Andy Robertson
Use jar files? Needs JAVA in batch, but I think they can be read by zip. Andy Robertson telephone mobile 0777 214 9545 home 01308 420797 Subject: mainframe zip Are there any free zip programs that will compress a number of mvs text files which are compatible with winzip. Jim

Re: getting NJE node name

2010-07-27 Thread Andy Robertson
yes, very much thanks Andy Robertson telephone mobile 0777 214 9545 home 01308 420797 From: Charles Mills charl...@mcn.org Does the following fragment help? * * INFORMATION RETRIEVED FROM JES VIA IEFSSREQ LAR1,ASSOB MVC RVDERMAC,=CL8'IEFSSREQ

getting NJE node name

2010-07-26 Thread Andy Robertson
I'm trying to simulate TSO TRANSMIT format data for secure email I find I need the NJE node I'm executing on for the header Has anyone any code they have used to extract this??? All hints gratefully received. Andy Robertson telephone mobile 0777 214 9545 home 01308 420797

Re: getting NJE node name

2010-07-26 Thread Andy Robertson
COBOL/HLASM The program is my XMITMAIL freeware, callable subroutine to send an email- Andy To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu From: Lizette Koehler stars...@mindspring.com Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Date: 07/26/2010 12:34PM Subject: Re: getting NJE node name How are

Andy's MVS Pages - XMITMAIL etc

2010-07-16 Thread Andy Robertson
A few people here use my very modest selection of freeware, or have web pages with links that point to it. Please be advised the address is changing to http://www.thenightland.co.uk/MYWEB/mvsindex.html ~ Andy Robertson

setting defaults for system variables for users who SSH in to z/OS

2010-07-14 Thread Andy Robertson
We have users on boxen who are SSH-ing in to our z/OS system to run a program that WTORs to the console and sets a simple return code based on the reply. We put the program that does the WTOR on a private directory in the z/OS filesystem. At the moment, when the SSH is issued from a box, the

Re: setting defaults for system variables for users who SSH in to z/OS

2010-07-14 Thread Andy Robertson
not have to Andy Robertson ** This email is confidential and may contain copyright material of the John Lewis Partnership. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify us immediately and delete all copies

Re: Cobol routine to convert TEXT to displayable HEX

2010-06-10 Thread Andy Robertson
-PERFORM GOBACK. http://www.thenightland.co.uk/MYWEB/mvsxmitmail.html Ddownload it, and look for Andy Robertson telephone

Re: CA Easytrieve replacement

2010-03-12 Thread Andy Robertson
I am not very familiar with EasyTrieve (we have it). ICETOOL has some nice reporting tools in it also. What would be really nice would be a way to process a COBOL copybook to create ICETOOL symbols. John McKown COBDFSYM, from the Tools Tricks page???

Re: CA Easytrieve replacement

2010-03-12 Thread Andy Robertson
On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 09:10:18 -0600, McKown, John john.mck...@healthmarkets.com wrote: I am not very familiar with EasyTrieve (we have it). ICETOOL has some nice reporting tools in it also. What would be really nice would be a way to process a COBOL copybook to create ICETOOL symbols.

Re: Scatter Plot with GDDM Presentation Graphics Facility

2010-02-08 Thread Andy Robertson
If you'e using the CHART call I think it's the BINDING parameter Section 4.101 of GDDM-PGF Programming Reference, I can't advise if you are using the more modern calls Andy R -- From: Martin Packer martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Sent by: IBM

Re: ISPF - scrolling of scrollable areas on panels

2009-12-20 Thread Andy Robertson
Many thanks Dave, but it is in fact a scrollable area not a dynamic area I think this is probably unfixable unless IBM builds in some new interfaces Andy Robertson -IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu wrote: - rom: Dave Salt ds...@hotmail.com Andy

ISPF - scrolling of scrollable areas on panels

2009-12-18 Thread Andy Robertson
row in the AREA and everything below it is a blank. Is there any way to control how a scrollable )AREA scrolls? Andy Robertson telephone mobile 0777 214 9545 home 01308 420797 ** This email is confidential

Re: Problem calling IKJEFTSR from batch

2009-12-11 Thread Andy Robertson
You could try calling IDCAMS from your program and providing an output routine to write the output to incore storage: see the manual. I can email you the (assembler) routine we use Andy Robertson telephone mobile 0777 214 9545 home 01308 420797 -IBM Mainframe

ISPF question

2009-10-01 Thread Andy Robertson
alchemy beyond my current skill Anyone done this? Andy Robertson telephone mobile 0777 214 9545 home 01308 420797 ** This email is confidential and may contain copyright material of the John Lewis Partnership

Re: ISPF question

2009-10-01 Thread Andy Robertson
That works!!! Thank you Phil - Andy Robertson Andy Robertson telephone mobile 0777 214 9545 home 01308 420797 McLaren Phil phil.mcla...@axawinterthur.co.uk Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Date: 10/01/2009 01:35PM Subject: Re: ISPF question

Re: Reading DD card information

2009-09-22 Thread Andy Robertson
We use the one of my INSTASM programs to do a crude version of this http://home.clara.net/andywrobertson/mvsinstasm.html Though its not among the functions documented there you might like to downloasd this and look at the INSTSET/INSTGET section of the INSTDOC member. The facility does not

Re: COBDFSYM With COBOL 410 - ((attn Frank Yeager??))

2009-09-20 Thread Andy Robertson
Thanks, Frank, Martin; the problem was my cut-and-pasting from PDF. In fact the standard version of COBDFSYM works well with 410. Apologies for timewasting. Andy Robertson ** This email is confidential and may contain

COBDFSYM With COBOL 410 - ((attn Frank Yeager??))

2009-09-18 Thread Andy Robertson
I'm quite happy to plunge in and start debugging, but Id like to ask first if there is a version adapted for 410 available already Andy Robertson ** This email is confidential and may contain copyright material of the John

Re: COBDFSYM With COBOL 410 - ((attn Frank Yeager??))

2009-09-18 Thread Andy Robertson
On Fri, 18 Sep 2009 11:32:12 -0500, Greg Shirey wgshi...@benekeith.com wrote: Andy, We have COBOL 4.1 here and have used the same COBDFSYM REXX since December 2005, and it works for us. There is a restriction that the copybook member must have an 01 level to work properly, but I don't recall

Re: passing parameter data in BPXBATCH

2009-09-17 Thread Andy Robertson
the TSO command Andy Robertson. Sven Siebert extern.sven.sieb...@volkswagen.de , I try to call a C program via a JCL script. I get stuck in passing parameter data to the C program search_modules. It is clear that I can pass these parameters to BPXBATCH-PARM , but the limitation is the length

Re: 2 Identical STC Running at the Same Time

2009-08-05 Thread Andy Robertson
From: Bill Fairchild bi...@mainstar.com - I meant to say that the data set involved does not have to be anything meaningful. Of course, if DISP=OLD, then the data set must already exist. -

Re: And you ask why I hate OMVS?

2009-06-23 Thread Andy Robertson
exit 0 fi echo jlp_killprocess: £1 - kill failed exit 12 Bottom of Data *** Andy Robertson telephone mobile 0777 214 9545 home 01308 420797 -IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu wrote

Re: dynamic allocation

2009-06-11 Thread Andy Robertson
No caching == poor performance. Frequent refresh == poor performance. You can't win. The ideal would be an LLA that refreshed automatically and incrementally whenever a STOW was performed on any of its catenands. We're not there yet. Our application library is called OPS.LIVE.LOADLIB We have

Re: Wait under CICS

2009-06-05 Thread Andy Robertson
under CICS, nor are things like STIMER WAIT I can't see how to do it. So, has anyone got any bright ideas??? Andy Robertson ** This email is confidential and may contain copyright material of the John Lewis Partnership

Re: Wait under CICS

2009-06-05 Thread Andy Robertson
Could they not check that they are running in a CICS environment and then call a subroutine to do an EXEC CICS DELAY ? Or am I oversimplifying things. Jim McAlpine The problem is you can't CALL a subprogram with EXEC CICS in it - as I understand it. You have to EXEC CICS LINK to it. This

Re: Wait under CICS

2009-06-05 Thread Andy Robertson
Farley, Peter x23353 peter.far...@broadridge.com Re: Wait under CICS My answer would be two identically-named subroutines, one for batch and one for online. One uses EXEC CICS WAIT, the other uses normal STIMER wait, both accept identical parameters. AFAIK if a module uses EXEC CICS

Re: Wait under CICS

2009-06-05 Thread Andy Robertson
Now that's worth trying. Thanks Harry Andy Robertson To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu From: Harry Wahl harry_w...@hotmail.com Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Date: 06/05/2009 04:04PM Subject: Re: Wait under CICS Andy, Invoke a stored procedure

Re: Accessing LDAP data on other servers from z/OS

2008-10-16 Thread Andy Robertson
We got what we needed (which is not a lot) by adding SGLDEXEC to our SYSPROC concatenation and using exec LDAPSRCH under ordinary TSO Thanks to all for hints ** This email is confidential and may contain copyright material of

Acessing LDAP data on other servers from z/OS

2008-10-15 Thread Andy Robertson
. Is it possible to access LDAP data on another box from the USS side of z/OS and how would one start?? Any pointers or manuals to read?? Andy Robertson telephone mobile 0777 214 9545 home 01273 488272

Can a TFS be 1.5 Gb

2008-08-18 Thread Andy Robertson
USS on z/OS 1.8 our /tmp directory has a TFS mounted on it with PARM('s 1000') For a variety of operational reasons it would be useful for us to have a /tmp directory larger than 1000 MB z/OS V1R8.0 UNIX System Services Planning ch 3.14.1 says you can use

Re: Question on RACF database upgrade for z/OS 1.7-1.8

2008-05-07 Thread Andy Robertson
into another block. If you share a RACF database between z/OS V1R8 and z/OS V1R7, you need to install the PTF on the z/OS V1R7 system. UA24980 PTF is on with other compatibility maint thanks for all answers Andy Robertson telephone mobile 0777 214 9545 home 01273 488272

Question on RACF database upgrade for z/OS 1.7-1.8

2008-05-06 Thread Andy Robertson
Hi Just starting to plan the 1.7- 1.8 z/OS upgrade We have a four-system sysplex and intent to go to 1.8 by doing a rolling update over a week. Ie there will be about a week with some systems running z/OS 1.8 and some running z/OS 1.7 One thing I can't seem to find unambiguous information

Re: LE-compliant assembler program with 'instance-storage'.

2008-03-06 Thread Andy Robertson
On Thu, 6 Mar 2008 09:57:00 +0100, Fred van der Windt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This poses no problems in most situations but sometimes we would like to maintain a 'state' in a program that is saved between different calls to the program within a transaction. This would be similar to COBOL

Re: Price of CPU seconds

2008-02-19 Thread Andy Robertson
Last year we found ourselves CPU constrained at peak hour and undertook a series of initiatives to save it. The metric we used to decide whether a particular initiative was worth taking - which did not pretend to be other than a very rough guide - was 1p (0.01 pounds UK) per CPU second.

Re: Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year

2007-12-24 Thread Andy Robertson
Happy Christmas to all on the list :) -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at

Re: Bruce Black passed away

2007-11-07 Thread Andy Robertson
Respecs for a true professional Andy Robertson telephone mobile 0777 214 9545 home 01273 488272 ** This email is confidential and may contain copyright material of the John Lewis Partnership. If you

Re: z/OS 1.9 Features summary

2007-10-30 Thread Andy Robertson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU RIEND.COM cc: (bcc: Andy Robertson/MANSERV/JLP) Sent

MAPPING a RMM-managed tape volume

2007-07-24 Thread Andy Robertson
z/OS 1.7 We are trying to map a RMM managed cart using DITTO //* //* //S3 EXEC PGM=DITTOA,PARM='JOBSTREAM',COND=(0,NE) //SYSPRINT DD

Re: What do you call something like QMF?

2007-06-28 Thread Andy Robertson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: AFAIK, QMF hasn't required GDDM in a long time. I wish it didn't, but it seems it does reference: Installing and ManagingDB2 QMF for TSO and CICS Version 8 Release 1 Document Number GC18-7444-02 Section 1.2.2 Prerequisite software

Re: Broken GDG Chain

2007-05-31 Thread Andy Robertson
ALTER ROLLIN ? This group is invaluable... Q. HSM ML1 problems, now we're recovering data. SA recalled 3 versions of a GDG and they show up in 3.4. However, when the GDG base is expanded, they no long show in its chain. Does anyone have a magic command to repair that? I am combing

Anyone have a SBCS translate table for code page 850 to 285

2007-04-13 Thread Andy Robertson
We are a UK site and use code page 285 on our z/OS system our FTP.TCPXLBIN is a slightly tailored version of SEZATCPX(UK) run through CONVXLAT of course Just wondering now if any one has translate tables for 850-285 we can rip off Failing that translate tables for 850-037 would be a good

Re: Fw: ceebinit question

2006-10-13 Thread Andy Robertson
On Thu, 12 Oct 2006 17:15:20 -0500, Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I appreciate the pointers though. If in the unlikely event I eventually find myself writing those LE handlers, I'll definitely be re-reading in detail those aforementioned LE chapters. -Mark In that event you might or might

SAMBA on USS?

2006-09-28 Thread Andy Robertson
Hello list I get this request from a user I'm looking into ways of pushing out files written from Datastage on USS to Windows servers. FTP functionality is not available from within the product, so we'd have to write a FTP script to push the files onto a FTP server. On Linux I've

Re: SAMBA on USS?

2006-09-28 Thread Andy Robertson
On Thu, 28 Sep 2006 09:30:48 -0500, Big Iron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The z/OS Distributed File Service (SMB server) supports Windows clients. Have they considered NFS? z/OS has a client. Bill Thanks Bill, we'll look at NFS

Put messages on JESMSGLG but not Z.LOG

2006-07-06 Thread Andy Robertson
We have a very numerous class of messages we generate which we want to remove from the OPERLOG (where they can be seen from Z.LOG) but retain in the JES2 job messages (JESMSGLG) I believe this should be doable if we change the HARDCOPY statement in CONSOLxx to specify a range of ROUTECDEs that

Listing datasets in DFDSS volume dump

2006-06-23 Thread Andy Robertson
We dumped 20 volumes physically, using DFDSS, using this sort of control card: DUMP INDDNAME(DISKn) OUTDDNAME(TAPEn) FULL n = A, B, C .. Is there a way to find what dataset(s) are on TAPEA, TAPEB, etc?? -- For

Re: ICETOOL question

2006-06-12 Thread Andy Robertson
On Fri, 9 Jun 2006 15:01:52 -0700, Frank Yaeger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If so, then you can use the following DFSORT/ICETOOL job. I'm assuming all of your input files have RECFM=FB and the same LRECL. //S1EXEC PGM=ICETOOL //TOOLMSG DD SYSOUT=* //DFSMSGDD SYSOUT=* //IN3 DD DSN=...

ICETOOL question

2006-06-09 Thread Andy Robertson
If I have a set of files containing records as follows: File 1 10012345FIRST 10112345FIRST 10212345FIRST 10312345FIRST File 2 10012345 SECOND 10312345 SECOND 10512345 SECOND 10612345 SECOND File 3 10012345THIRD 10112345

Re: Looking for binary to character translation utility

2006-04-13 Thread Andy Robertson
On Wed, 12 Apr 2006 16:54:19 -0700, Charles Mills [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm looking for a free or very inexpensive utility ***available in source code form*** that would convert an arbitrary mainframe file to a character (such as hex) format, and back again. You might or might not want to

Similar products to ASG-Workload Planner??

2006-03-28 Thread Andy Robertson
We have ASG-Workload Planner (was BETA 44 Process Planning Manager). We are looking to evaluate alternatives to the product before we commit ourselves to a furthur contract. Since I hate utterly openended stuff like thus I thought I'd ask if any one has experience with rival products that we

Re: C on z/OS questions

2006-03-22 Thread Andy Robertson
On Tue, 21 Mar 2006 13:47:20 -0500, john stephens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need to be able to have this routine dynamically linked at run time if/when the user requries. Therefore, I need to be able to compile and link this routine without a 'main'. I can live with the di/tri-graphs if need

Re: C on z/OS questions

2006-03-22 Thread Andy Robertson
On Wed, 22 Mar 2006 07:53:24 -0500, john stephens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A couple of questions. What is the purpose of the pre-link steps and under what conditions (if any) are they required / optional? Prelink is used to process side decks when you do DLL work. . What I gave you was a

Re: C on z/OS questions

2006-03-22 Thread Andy Robertson
On Wed, 22 Mar 2006 08:46:05 -0600, McKown, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I may have misunderstood what Andy meant (likely in fact). However, I do want to state that you call CALL a COBOL subroutine from an HLASM program. No, you didn't misunderstand, It's just that I didn't want the extra

Re: C on z/OS questions

2006-03-22 Thread Andy Robertson
On Wed, 22 Mar 2006 08:29:09 -0600, Andy Robertson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 22 Mar 2006 07:53:24 -0500, john stephens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A couple of questions. What is the purpose of the pre-link steps and Lastly, John, here's an example of making a COBOL mainline and a C

Re: C on z/OS questions

2006-03-21 Thread Andy Robertson
On Tue, 21 Mar 2006 12:09:58 -0500, john stephens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm looking for a boost up here. Is there someone on the list who would be willing to help me work through some of the issues I'm having? Many Many thanks in advance. John Stephens jls(at)jkstephensdotnet We use C on

Issuing commands from program - MGCRE 126 bytes?

2006-02-23 Thread Andy Robertson
Like a lot of places, we use the MGCR macro to issue commands in batch. We use a controlled (RACF restricted) program. Use of this facility is far less than it was but it is still occasionally useful to issue commands when we are making system changes and so forth MGCR and MGCRE seem

Re: Codepage 37 vs 1047

2006-02-07 Thread Andy Robertson
On Tue, 7 Feb 2006 09:07:01 +, Jim McAlpine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What about UK DB2 shops. What code page did you go for. SCCSID=285 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to

Re: DLLs and STEPLIBs

2006-02-07 Thread Andy Robertson
On Tue, 7 Feb 2006 12:16:49 -0500, Lester, Charles (LNG-DAY) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm posting to the Assembler list because I mention assembler several times in this message :-) Cross-posting to IBM-MAIN. I've looked thru the archives and manuals and some SHARE presentations, and can't seem

Re: HOWTO get a ICU(-like) functionality with IMS? (was: 'Is EZECHART supported with IMS?')

2006-02-02 Thread Andy Robertson
On Thu, 2 Feb 2006 03:43:13 -0600, Jan Vanbrabant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: or we might consider writing our own EZCHART in COBOL to call GDDM-PGF directly and make use of its full function. Do you guys have by chance such a COBOL sample or skeleton to start from? Is there a GDDM listserver at your

Re: POSIX run-time option vs TSO and Batch

2006-01-31 Thread Andy Robertson
On Mon, 30 Jan 2006 17:42:33 -0600, Wendell Simmons [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Found the problem. Thanks to everyone for their input. The problem is that in the chain of modules being invoked, one of them is doing a COBOL CALL ISPLINK with a SELECT PGM option. This distorts the enclave

Re: POSIX run-time option vs TSO and Batch

2006-01-20 Thread Andy Robertson
On Thu, 19 Jan 2006 13:19:00 -0600, Wendell Simmons [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a C application that uses Unix Services and therefore has to run with POSIX ON - logic has been added to the C program to display the setting of the POSIX option. This C application is invoked from a COBOL

Re: POSIX run-time option vs TSO and Batch

2006-01-20 Thread Andy Robertson
On Fri, 20 Jan 2006 11:14:12 -0600, Wendell Simmons [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In response to your question about the highest level module in the enclave being the one that determines the POSIX option; If I fix the highest level module in the enclave in the TSO environment (module VORPTMEN) to

Assembler training / books?/

2005-12-29 Thread Andy Robertson
I learned Assembler so long ago I have forgot from whence Anyone know a good book I can give a newbie to teach him Assembler?? Information about non-IBM Courses would also useful - (we are contacting IBM to chase up their offerings, of course). Note, we are in the UK

Re: Assembler training / books?/

2005-12-29 Thread Andy Robertson
On Thu, 29 Dec 2005 09:23:27 -0700, Steve Comstock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Surprisingly, Assembler has been our most frequently requested RCT topic. Take a look at our website for more information. Home page: http://www.trainersfriend.com/ Assembler courses available:

Re: Merry Christmas!

2005-12-28 Thread Andy Robertson
Ain't no need to be politcally correct. Today is Christmas. In the US, it's a Federally recognized Holiday, since 1870, by the name Christmas. You can wish me Happy Holidays, Season's Greetings, whatever. But, I say to you, Merry Christmas! Merry Christmas to you and every one on the list

Re: 3270 Session Manager survey - results (sorta, kinda)

2005-12-13 Thread Andy Robertson
On Tue, 13 Dec 2005 16:03:33 +1100, Bruce Jefferies [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd hoped for a bigger response and I'm not sure it is valid to draw any conclusions from the sample I did get, anyway for what it's worth... VendorProduct Votes Mackinney VTAMSwitch

Re: Fw: Running COBOL under z/os.e

2005-11-25 Thread Andy Robertson
On Thu, 24 Nov 2005 01:19:28 -0700, William M. Klein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This certainly is NOT the intended target for z/OS.e - but it is clearly documented as allowed (both technically and by the license). Does any one have information as to what approximate proportion of mainframe sites

COBOL copybook - Java bean mapper??

2005-11-16 Thread Andy Robertson
A while back I wrote (largely for my own amusement) a dialog to take a COBOL copy book, compile it, and generate a Java class that could be used to map and access it. This took the obvious path of compiling the copybook as part of a stub program and analysing the MAP and SYSADATA output. It was

Re: SOC2 Problem in user defined macro

2005-10-04 Thread Andy Robertson
On Tue, 4 Oct 2005 08:14:04 -0500, Jerry Ragland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, In my assember code I call a user defined macro UWTO which prints the value passed to it during the call. The UWTO macro - MACRO NAMEUWTO VAR STM 14,1,TEAREASYSNDX WTO 'VAR'

Re: SOC2 Problem in user defined macro

2005-10-04 Thread Andy Robertson
On Tue, 4 Oct 2005 09:39:45 -0500, Wayne Driscoll [EMAIL PROTECTED] SUPPLY.COM wrote: Jerry, The issue is that anytime you have a work area that contains non- executable code you must ensure that you do not attempt to allow the CPU to fetch instructions from this work area. One of the best ways

MCNVTCAT

2005-09-27 Thread Andy Robertson
Any one got a copy they can bung me? (Ghastly grin) Any format. Yes we have tried RCNVTCAT. For reasons too complex to explain we only have the LISTCAT output, not the catalog any more. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff /

Re: MCNVTCAT

2005-09-27 Thread Andy Robertson
Thanks to all who sent me a copy, I have now got a working version (and very nice it is too). -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO

Re: Is there any XML parser available on z/OS ?

2005-09-26 Thread Andy Robertson
On Mon, 26 Sep 2005 04:28:09 -0500, Roger Lowe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 26 Sep 2005 10:58:15 +0200, CAPRON Romain [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to know if there is an XML parser available on z/OS? Romain, Have a look at

Re: IBM and gaming

2005-09-16 Thread Andy Robertson
On Fri, 16 Sep 2005 08:12:11 EDT, Ed Finnell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ever since 'Kayaker and Physicist' kinda put the weird label on himself. His original proposal was to drop atom bombs out the back end of a space exploration vehicle. Lack of suitable ablative shield put the kibosh on the

automatic program / JCL crossreferencing utility???

2005-09-16 Thread Andy Robertson
We have a request from our users to provide a utility that will tell them which jobs a specified program is run in, and which JCL elements (procedures, include members, etc) the program is coded into. This has expanded into a request for a comprehensive list by program of the procedures and job

Re: APF authorization of Java 1.4 DLL's

2005-09-13 Thread Andy Robertson
On Tue, 13 Sep 2005 15:15:58 +0100, Jim McAlpine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am in the process of installing WebSphere 5.1. When I first started up the 1.Has anyone with WAS 5.1 installed come across this before. 2. Does anyone with WAS 5.1 installed have the apf bit set for the Java 1.4DLL's.

rsh under z/OS

2005-08-11 Thread Andy Robertson
Do IBM ship it??? AFAIK the sshd daemon is part of IBM Ported Tools, but rsh is not available Can any one clarify -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the

Re: rsh under z/OS

2005-08-11 Thread Andy Robertson
On Thu, 11 Aug 2005 09:02:37 -0500, Matt Simpson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As somebody else pointed out, you might be better off with SSH. We use RSH because we have applications that were set up back in the dark ages before Ported Tools made SSH available on z/OS. But if you're not already

Re: IPL periodicity

2005-06-23 Thread Andy Robertson
Weekly. This is probably inertia, we could get by with less but so far have no operational reason to. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET

Re: Strobe Question...

2005-06-17 Thread Andy Robertson
On Thu, 16 Jun 2005 15:02:48 +0200, Michael Knigge [EMAIL PROTECTED] SOFTWARE.DE wrote: If it helps, the COBOL-Program is CALLed from another COBOL-Program, which is CALLED by an ASM-Prog that was ATTACHed as a Subtask. Just a note: If you are repeatedly calling the COBOL prog from the ASM

COBOL short variable length files????

2005-06-06 Thread Andy Robertson
I seem to remember a discussion here about a PTF, trick or Compiler option that would allow the latest flavours of COBOL programs to tolerate short Variable Length files. I mean the case where the FILE SECTION is RECORD VARYING FROM nnn TO mmm And your JCL is //DDNAME DD

Re: COBOL short variable length files????

2005-06-06 Thread Andy Robertson
On Mon, 6 Jun 2005 10:02:47 -0700, Charles Mills [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If DDNAME is being opened for input, can you get away with overriding the LRECL? That is, explicitly coding //DDNAME DD LRECL=mmm+4, ... Even though the DSCB LRECL is greater than that - although presumably the maximum