Re: IF/THEN/ELSE checking in JCL

2008-11-20 Thread Clem Clarke
John McKown wrote: On Thu, 20 Nov 2008 13:02:25 +0930, Fred Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, We have a job with lots of steps, where STEP1 must complete with RC =04 and all subsequent steps must end with RC=00 if the next step is to run. I can see that we could test IF (RC LE 4) AND

Re: CA Sues Rocket Software

2007-08-08 Thread Clem Clarke
You might not want to hear this - America is the most litigious country on the planet. I gave a talk to the Theosophical Society on Beliefs, and why America is at is is. It is only 3 pages, and you might find it fascinating to read. I lived in the US for quite a few years in the 70's, and

Re: Mainframe Blog Posting re: Mainframe Migrations to z

2007-07-07 Thread Clem Clarke
Hi Ed, Ed Gould wrote: On Jul 5, 2007, at 12:47 AM, Clem Clarke wrote: Hi Tim, Clement: My memory is probably incorrect on this but I think Standard Oil did something like this in the 70's. My memory is really hazy as I only had a brief exposure to it. I *VAGUELY* remember John

Jol Network and Scheduling Guide Uploaded

2007-07-05 Thread Clem Clarke
Hi everyone. The editor ate (well added to) my text. The previous message shouldn't have asterisks around the example. __ Here's an example of a small job network. NETWORK ONE; SUBMIT JOB1; SUBMIT JOB2; SUBMIT JOB3 AFTER JOB1 JOB2 ENDED; ENDNET;*

Re: Mainframe Blog Posting re: Mainframe Migrations to z

2007-07-04 Thread Clem Clarke
Hi Tim, I was going to make this a private message to you, but others may get something beneficial from this. As some of you may know, my intention has been to make a Universal, common use anywhere command language. Thus far I have achieved the following versions: MVS (IBM), MSP

Jol Network and Scheduling Guide Uploaded

2007-07-04 Thread Clem Clarke
Hi everyone. Here is a link to the Scheduling and Network documentation. http://members.ozemail.com.au/~oscarptyltd/Jol_Scheduling_and_Networking_Guide.pdf This allows you to Network jobs, and to create a Schedule that runs specific jobs on specific days. Here's an example of a small job

Re: Patents, Copyrights, Profits, Flex and Hercules

2007-06-21 Thread Clem Clarke
Phil Smith III wrote: Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You write USS when you mean z/OS Unix system Services. Why is one piece of incorrect nomenclature worse than another? They are equally wrong. Pray tell, what is the real difference between the Unix Sub System

Re: Read JCL Symbols from a program?

2007-06-19 Thread Clem Clarke
Sorry about the formatting in this text only newsgroup. However, you can see it formatted correctly in the Jol Reference Guide at http://members.ozemail.com.au/~oscarptyltd/Jol_Reference_Guide.pdf. That said, there is a special command in Jol for storing or saving symbolic variables for

Re: Read JCL Symbols from a program?

2007-06-19 Thread Clem Clarke
Kirk Wolf wrote: Kenneth E Tomiak wrote: What are you defining a current JCL symbol to be? Show us an example. On Tue, 12 Jun 2007 15:17:57 -0500, Kirk Wolf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know how to read the current JCL symbols from a program? Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies

New version of Jol Uploaded.

2007-06-18 Thread Clem Clarke
Greetings everyone. I have uploaded a new version of Jol, and documentation. Jol can replace JCL and offers may advantages over JCL. A brief description is here: http://members.ozemail.com.au/~oscarptyltd/oscar_jol_desc.html The Concept and Facilities Manual is here:

Re: Patents, Copyrights, Profits, Flex and Hercules

2007-06-17 Thread Clem Clarke
at the end of strings, and who knows what else to soak up CPU cycles? MVS was really very efficient. The MVS part knows record lengths, and can automatically do things faster. And PL/I (for example) knows string lengths, too. Clem Phil Smith III wrote: Clem Clarke [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Free C Compiler

2007-06-16 Thread Clem Clarke
Timothy Sipples wrote: Thinking out loud some more, it seems much of the service could be done via convenient e-mail. Or perhaps you could use the already existing procedures with FTP, with the SITE JES option to submit and receive jobs. When the job is complete, you'll get another

Re: Patents, Copyrights, Profits, Flex and Hercules

2007-06-16 Thread Clem Clarke
Phil Payne wrote: Then there was Nestle Frankfurt, who wanted both CPUs to have the same serial number. BS3000 was pulled because Fujitsu (deservedly) lost a court case. One of the settlement conditions was the withdrawal of BS3000, another was $600 million, if memory serves. At the time,

Re: Patents, Copyrights, Profits, Flex and Hercules

2007-06-14 Thread Clem Clarke
, Mob 0401-054-155. Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Clem Clarke wrote: Hi Tim, I won't copy your entire message, but reading between the lines I think in essence you are saying that the MVS part of Z/OS is effectively dead, done and finished as far as IBM is concerned? Or would like

Re: Patents, Copyrights, Profits, Flex and Hercules

2007-06-13 Thread Clem Clarke
Hi Tim, I won't copy your entire message, but reading between the lines I think in essence you are saying that the MVS part of Z/OS is effectively dead, done and finished as far as IBM is concerned? Or would like it to be ... Is that the truth? Cheers, Clem Timothy Sipples wrote:

Patents, Copyrights, Profits, Flex and Hercules

2007-06-11 Thread Clem Clarke
All good ideas come from a single individual, and by constantly putting roadblocks in their paths, progress stops. Patents and copyrights mean that people cannot stand on the shoulders of those who went in front of them When you make a judgment (that stifling the competition, for example) is

Re: Cross-assembler : HLASM -- 8086

2007-06-01 Thread Clem Clarke
Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 05/31/2007 at 01:38 PM, Flint, Mike [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Does anyone know of a product that will take HLASM source and produce object or executables for the wintel platform? Such a product would not be a cross assembler

Re: jcl with dates as part of the DSNAME.

2007-05-10 Thread Clem Clarke
) //* DSID=OUTPUT //SYSUT2 DD DSN=USERID.TEST.T110507,DISP=(NEW,PASS),SPACE=(TRK,(10), // RLSE),UNIT=(SYSDA) Clem Clarke ,-._|\ Clement V. Clarke - Author Jol, EASYJCL, EASYPANEL, 370TO486 / Oz \ Web: http

Re: Laugh, laugh. I thought I'd die - application crashes

2007-04-24 Thread Clem Clarke
Anne Lynn Wheeler wrote: The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to bit.listserv.ibm-main,alt.foklore.comupters as well. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Clem Clarke) writes: In PCP, MFT and MVT, SVC 99 didn't even exist! Nor TSO. Yep. TSO was, as I

Re: Laugh, laugh. I thought I'd die - application crashes

2007-04-24 Thread Clem Clarke
Gerhard Adam wrote: In PCP, MFT and MVT, SVC 99 didn't even exist! Nor TSO. I guess one could say, in a round about sort of way, that IEFBR14 was the front end to invoking the DASD allocation, scratch and catalog SVCs? I'm sorry, but you still can't say it no matter how

Re: Laugh, laugh. I thought I'd die - application crashes

2007-04-24 Thread Clem Clarke
Oops. I think you forgot the SR 15,15 I seem to remember we apared it at Shell, Melbourne, some centuries ago!!! Clem PS: Others probably did the same. Bill Wilkie wrote: In case anyone lost it, assemble this: BR14 Just hive it a name. Bill

Re: Laugh, laugh. I thought I'd die - application crashes

2007-04-23 Thread Clem Clarke
Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 04/16/2007 at 05:45 PM, Kirk Talman [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: As IEFBR14 is a frontend to SVC 99 (allocation), It isn't. It does what the name suggests, with a zero return code, and that's all it does. In PCP, MFT and

Re: The Sky is indeed Falling

2007-04-18 Thread Clem Clarke
Of course, the Source Code for early versions of the OS and language translators was also available. Indeed, the source for MVS 3.8 is, I believe, still available. Now, if that were run through my 370 to 486/ Pentium converter, and either turned into a bootable system on Intel hardware, or

Re: Fast and Safe C Strings: User friendly C macros to Declare and use C Strings.

2007-04-16 Thread Clem Clarke
way into Z/OS at the moment. And it should take into account these performance robbing routines. Clem Paul Gilmartin wrote: In a recent note, Clem Clarke said: Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2007 15:11:45 +0800 I have spent some years studying this problem and have developed some User

Re: Fast and Safe C Strings: User friendly C macros to Declare and use C Strings.

2007-04-16 Thread Clem Clarke
, Hercules etc. I am trying to choose my words carefully - very carefully Ce la vie, Clem Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 04/13/2007 at 03:11 PM, Clem Clarke [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Some 20 years ago, it became clear that C strings were not as safe, nor as fast

Fast and Safe C Strings: User friendly C macros to Declare and use C Strings.

2007-04-13 Thread Clem Clarke
Some 20 years ago, it became clear that C strings were not as safe, nor as fast, as strings in PL/I, Assembler or Pascal. The primary reasons are that one needs to find the current length of a string before or during a copy process - this is very time consuming. Secondly, there is no way of

Re: Anyone using graphical ISPF?

2006-08-17 Thread Clem Clarke
I had a little play with it a few years ago, and it also had another advantage, as I recall. Every time you started a new session, you got a new window, and so jumping from one ISPF window was made much easier. The edit killed it for me though. I did think of trapping the TCP/IP output from

Some Tokenising Routines - PL/I, 370 Assembler, Intel Assembler

2006-06-29 Thread Clem Clarke
, set the two preceding bytes to the length, call a routine, and it is all split up ready for you to access each word simply. Create only beautiful days, live life to the max, and don't only think outside the box, but get rid of it! Clem Clarke Clement V. Clarke - Author Jol, EASYJCL

Open Sourcing ASM, PL/I and C Code

2006-04-25 Thread Clem Clarke
in Source Forge. And I also imagine that the IBM Open Source contract or the Apache contract could be used. Does anyone have thoughts on this? Many thanks, Clem Clarke ─ ,-._|\ Clement V. Clarke - Author Jol

Anquish of JCL (Was: Migrating me from linux/bsd to zOS) - Jol - a JCL Replacement Language

2006-04-14 Thread Clem Clarke
back into it. It would seem that there is still quite a bit of life in the old girl yet. Create only beautiful days, Clem Clarke ,-._|\ Clement V. Clarke - Author Jol, EASYJCL, EASYPANEL, OSCAR, 370TO486 / Oz \ [EMAIL PROTECTED], Web: http://www.ozemail.com.au/~oscarptyltd \_,--.x/ 16/38