Re: GO TO cobol

2012-04-18 Thread Dale Miller
in the case of the original non-structured COBOL where PERFORM's would be necessary. Dale Miller -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: VHow convert historic STCK to local time?

2012-03-10 Thread Dale Miller
reference without a $30K price tag. I can even get a wrist watch with an external time reference in the $100 price range. Dale Miller -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists

Re: Customer Service, the good and the bad...

2012-03-06 Thread Dale Miller
to pay to discover HP's defect. Dale Miller -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: VHow convert historic STCK to local time?

2012-03-02 Thread Dale Miller
Well, Z/OS isn't alone in grappling with the idiocies of time management: http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2012/03/how-a-leap-year-bug-could-topple-microsofts-azure-cloud-service.ars?utm_source=rssutm_medium=rssutm_campaign=rss Dale Miller

Re; cpu / machine identification

2012-01-03 Thread Dale Miller
system, but this support staff's not bothering to read the manual (or not having a current manual) is a little too much. Of course, I don't have a good excuse for not Googling for a more current manual, either. Dale Miller

Re: What SMF record types an formats does ACF2 write?

2011-12-06 Thread Dale Miller
writes undocumented SMF records is not playing cricket. If the SMF records are to be useful me, they have to be documented. If they're not useful to me, I'll turn them off, and they won't be useful to the vendor. Dale Miller

Terminology

2011-11-21 Thread Dale Miller
used to indicate logical negation in an expression, and normally called the negation symbol, but informally called the not sign. Dale Miller -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email

Re: Lines per page - IDCAMS output

2011-10-27 Thread Dale Miller
retirement before I got the round tuit. Dale Miller -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu

Re: Our community strengths

2011-10-27 Thread Dale Miller
using Warp when it became impossible to get a new printer with Warp support, and my old EPSON laser EPL6600 finally died after quite a few years of unblemished service. Dale Miller -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff

Re: Looking for clues on a bug in assembler

2011-10-26 Thread Dale Miller
as user error. Dale Miller -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html

Our community strengths

2011-10-25 Thread Dale Miller
. Of course, with the current political climate regarding Social Security and Medicare, I might have to go back to work. Perhaps I should have made larger private investments, but then maybe I would have invested in Enron, AIG, Lehman Brothers, or Bernie Madoff. Dale Miller

Re: Chaos feared after UNIX time-zone database if nuked

2011-10-17 Thread Dale Miller
the lack of DST in Arizona, but that's not totally true. DST is observed on the Indian reservations in Arizona, which caused us some difficulty and embarrassment on a trip from Prescott to Denver. Dale Miller -- For IBM

Re: Chaos feared after Unix time-zone database is nuked

2011-10-12 Thread Dale Miller
promptly decided we were out of license. When the IPL failed, the systems staff were rousted out of bed and lost a lot of sleep. Dale Miller -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email

IBM-MAIN INFO

2011-09-03 Thread Dale Miller
or unsubscribe. I did send a note to Darren, but no response yet. Dale Miller -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives

Re: IBM-MAIN INFO

2011-09-01 Thread Dale Miller
to Darren would be in order. Dale Miller -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm

missing digests

2011-08-09 Thread Dale Miller
the file IBM-MAIN INFO does not exist on the server. I don't have the moderator's email address either. Dale Miller dalelmiller at comcast.net -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email

Re: Corrupt PDS - I/O ERROR

2011-08-01 Thread Dale Miller
for input. Mr. Poncelet demanded a verifiable example. I provided one. Read a member of a PDS with IDCAMS PRINT with a DD specifying RECFM=U,BLKSIZE=32760 This works, and does NOT update the DSCB. Dale Miller -- For IBM-MAIN

Re: CORRUPT PDS - I/O ERROR

2011-07-30 Thread Dale Miller
that the DSCB is updated from the DCB for a file opened INPUT. But one thing should be obvious: the OPEN process is much more complex than indicated by the section from the JCL Reference Manual. Dale Miller dalelmil...@comcast.net

Re: CORRUPT PDS - I/O ERROR

2011-07-30 Thread Dale Miller
think, any attributes coded in the DCB are not overridden by the merged-in attributes. The merged information (with any attributes coded in the program DCB having priority) are merged back to the JFCB, and are merged back to the DSCB only if the open is for output. Dale Miller

Re: CORRUPT PDS - I/O ERROR

2011-07-28 Thread Dale Miller
backups and frequent monitoring of the dataset's attributes. Dale Miller -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search

Re: Real return address for LINK and ATTACH

2011-07-05 Thread Dale Miller
an Initiator TCB. Shmuel Metz also rose to the occasion. Thanks, guys. Dale Miller -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO

Re: Real return address for link and attach

2011-07-03 Thread Dale Miller
without my consent) programs executing as a result of EXEC PGM= are (normally?) invoked via LINK, and they run under a PRB (or used to). Dale Miller -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email

Re: UTC offset for dates in the past?

2011-06-16 Thread Dale Miller
them several web pages where this problem was discussed and acknowledged, but a fix was declined by Microsoft. Dale Miller -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu

Re: An upbeat story

2011-06-16 Thread Dale Miller
the exercise with the statement: Of course, in the real world a file might consist of hundreds of records. Dale Miller -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu

Re: An upbeat story

2011-06-16 Thread Dale Miller
.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/ 1130/1130_facts4.html which describes the Commercial Subroutine Package for the 1130. CSP may have descended from an IDEAL or vice- versa. The only IDEAL's I can remember were an optional mode in Borland TASM (Intel X86 assembler), and something from CA. Dale

Re: An upbeat story

2011-06-14 Thread Dale Miller
of the 1130 (for its day) and the functionality of their work held up, at least while I was still in the area. Dale Miller -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu

Re: An upbeat story

2011-06-14 Thread Dale Miller
Sorry, I forgot to mention that their programming was done in Fortran, and used the Commercial Subroutine Package, which was a set of Fortran- callable subroutines which could do such things as decimal arithmetic, etc. Dale Miller

Re: zPrime is Dead - Neon Surrenders to IBM

2011-06-07 Thread Dale Miller
came, it was based on a shakier case regarding bundling I.E. Anybody remember doing a search on the web for OS2 (prior to Google) on a Windoze machine, and getting very few hits? Anybody remember what happened to OS2 and its Boot Manager if Windoze was installed after OS2? Dale Miller

Re: What is the current feeling for MVC loop vs. MVCL

2011-06-03 Thread Dale Miller
the results of such a move were undefined, even though people had been doing it for years. Dale Miller dalelmil...@comcast.net -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists

Re: What is the current feeling of MVC loop vs. MVCL

2011-06-03 Thread Dale Miller
access to anything but my Mac or my wife's Windoze these days. Dale Miller dalelmil...@comcast.net -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN

Re: How Mainframe Startup Screen Works

2011-05-11 Thread Dale Miller
Gerhard Postpischil wrote: So please don't use BAL unless you mean it. pedantry I doubt that it's possible to use BAL anymore. I think the sentence should have read:So please don't use 'BAL' unless you mean it. /pedantry Dale Miller dalelmil...@comcast.net

USS

2011-05-06 Thread Dale Miller
communications, but I can't always overcome carelessness or arrogance on the part of the other party. Dale Miller -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET

USS

2011-05-05 Thread Dale Miller
Ted MacNEIL said: I shall continue to use USS to relate to z/UNIX. When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less. I must add: not if you expect me to understand you. Dale Miller dalelmil...@comcast.net

Re: 0Cx abends

2011-04-09 Thread Dale Miller
could not make sense of it. Dale Miller dalelmil...@comcast.net -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http

Re: 3270 Emulator Software

2010-09-01 Thread Dale Miller
. Dale Miller dalelmil...@comcast.net -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm

Re: Instream Data

2010-06-25 Thread Dale Miller
of an absentee management structure led me to put myself out to pasture. Since I've retired, I have no access to my old stuff or an MVS system to dig into the CBT, so I can't refer you directly to which entry it is (or was). Dale Miller

Re: z/Vendor Watch: zNext or z11? Either Way, It's Coming Soon!

2010-06-17 Thread Dale Miller
. Of course, I have seen some very poor availability tolerated on the unix/ windoze side of the data centers. Dale Miller dalelmil...@comcast.net -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email

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

2010-03-29 Thread Dale Miller
'800' to x'' require 3 bytes, and code points from x'1' to x'1' (the current standard limit) require 4 bytes. So, there is no character in the Unicode repertoire missing from UTF-8. Dale Miller dalelmil...@comcast.net

Used Shark Available

2008-09-29 Thread Dale Miller
as a gift, which was a real problem, since the mayor understandably didn't want city employees to be seen throwing things away. Dale Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions