Re: Restriction on length of CLASSPATH?

2012-06-13 Thread Kirk Wolf
I do not believe this to be true. Please post a test case. It may be helpful to have your java program print the classpath, like: http://dev-answers.blogspot.com/2006/06/how-do-you-print-java-classpath.html Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 8:00 AM

Re: Anyone a Unicode Services expert? -- roundtrip conversion

2012-06-12 Thread Kirk Wolf
UTF-8 characters, they will map uniquely back to where they started. But, you cannot have a round-trip from UTF-8 - IBM-1047 (since the source set is MUCH bigger). But, I still don't understand the results that Charles is seeing; doesn't look like round-tripping :-( Kirk Wolf Dovetailed

Re: Controlling the FTP server - FTCHKPWD

2012-06-08 Thread Kirk Wolf
using a port of entry (the TERMINAL CLASS), to restrict access by IP address. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 7:41 AM, Steven St.Jean sstj...@sdsusa.com wrote: Jake, I do not use FTCHKPWD, but I use FTCHKCMD to control user access (and lots

IBM Ported Tools OpenSSH - Key Authentication webinars

2012-06-06 Thread Kirk Wolf
, and key rings and how to use them with Ported Tools and Co:Z. Title:IBM Ported Tools for z/OS: OpenSSH - Using Key Rings Date:Tuesday, June 19, 2012 Time:2:00 PM - 3:00 PM EDT == Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com +1 636.300.0901

Re: OpenSSL MAKE test problem.

2012-06-05 Thread Kirk Wolf
In z/OS C, you can specify an encoding #pragma around individual constants. so you would have to develop patches to supply these. On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 6:12 AM, Peter Sylvester peter.sylves...@edelweb.frwrote: On 06/05/2012 12:30 PM, Magnus Persson wrote: Well, I tried it all, but still

Re: Can DFSORT do pattern matching?

2012-05-31 Thread Kirk Wolf
Sorry if I wasn't clear earlier: the IBM C library has POSIX compatible RE functions. For Perl compatible REs, you would probably want to port the pcre.orglibrary (written in C). I'm not sure if it would be practical to run Perl from within an exit. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http

Re: Can DFSORT do pattern matching?

2012-05-30 Thread Kirk Wolf
; but not as nice as PCRE IMO. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com FWIW: Since PCRE is a BSD license (i.e. not copy-left), perhaps IBM should consider adding built-in conditionals based on it ? -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe

Re: Can DFSORT do pattern matching?

2012-05-29 Thread Kirk Wolf
a command that converts dsname patterns to regular expressions. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu

Re: Transferring stuff from Mainframe to a RDz/UT clone of itself

2012-05-27 Thread Kirk Wolf
I believe that MFNetDisk could be used to replicate volumes to a PC. I wonder if you could convert the MFNetDisk volume file to the volume-file format used by zPDT? Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com

Re: IBM(r) z/OS(r) Management Facility (z/OSMF)

2012-05-24 Thread Kirk Wolf
z/OS MF also includes a new web service API, the z/OS jobs REST interface - http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/zosmf/vxrx/topic/com.ibm.zosmf.configguide.help.doc/IZUHPINFO_API_RESTJOBS.html -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe /

Re: Unicode Services translation question

2012-05-23 Thread Kirk Wolf
D4 D6 D2 D3 D5 F0: 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 B3 DB DC D9 DA 1A Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com FWIW: here is how showtrtab displays a one-many table: *showtrtab -s 1047 -t utf-8* 00: 00 01: 01 02: 02 03: 03 04: C29C 05: 09 06: C286 07: 7F 08: C297 09

Re: Unicode Services translation question

2012-05-23 Thread Kirk Wolf
: 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 B3 DB DC D9 DA 1A Could there be something wrong with how your Unicode Services tables are configured? Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com +1 636.300.0901 On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 3:11 PM, Charles Mills charl...@mcn.org wrote: Does

Re: OpenSSL MAKE problem

2012-05-22 Thread Kirk Wolf
Magnus, Terry, and all - We were wondering why there seems to be a recent swell of interest in porting OpenSSL to z/OS? Could you comment (offline if you prefer) as to why you need it? Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 6:36 AM, Magnus Persson

Re: XPLINK Modules in SCEERUN2

2012-05-22 Thread Kirk Wolf
Putting XPLINK (SCEERUN2) modules into Dynamic LPA is documented in z/OS Language Environment Customization - Ch4: Placing Language Environment modules in Link Pack and LIBPACK. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com

Re: XPLINK Modules in SCEERUN2

2012-05-22 Thread Kirk Wolf
Should have mentioned: the key information is actuall in CEE.SCEESAMP(EDCWLPA) On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 10:57 AM, Kirk Wolf k...@dovetail.com wrote: Putting XPLINK (SCEERUN2) modules into Dynamic LPA is documented in z/OS Language Environment Customization - Ch4: Placing Language Environment

Re: JZOS unexpected type

2012-05-21 Thread Kirk Wolf
- http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/z/os/zos/tools/java/products/jzos/overview.html Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists

Re: JZOS unexpected type

2012-05-21 Thread Kirk Wolf
the -encoding option on javac: http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/technotes/tools/windows/javac.html On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 9:49 AM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.comwrote: On Mon, 21 May 2012 09:07:49 -0500, Kirk Wolf wrote: Just a suggestion, but why compile your Java programs on z

Re: SFTP

2012-05-11 Thread Kirk Wolf
There are detailed instructions in the IBM Ported Tools User's Guide for starting SSHD under a BPXBATCH started task. BTW: The example that you have given doesn't jive - it doesn't execute the shell script sshd.sh. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com PS If you want to use z/OS

Re: SFTP

2012-05-11 Thread Kirk Wolf
and access datasets or DDs in the original batch job step. In all (4) cases, OpenSSH is used on Linux and IBM Ported Tools OpenSSH is used on z/OS along with components from the Co:Z Toolkit. Also, you can easily substitute other *NIX platforms or even Windoze for Linux. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed

Re: XML Parsing

2012-05-01 Thread Kirk Wolf
COBOL is too much work for me, but if you post some real sample XML (your above sample is not complete/valid), I will try to give you the XSLT example for transforming it. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 11:13 AM, Ron Thomas ron5...@gmail.com wrote

Re: XML Parsing

2012-04-30 Thread Kirk Wolf
: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XSLT#Example_1_.28transforming_XML_to_XML.29 Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 12:13 PM, Ron Thomas ron5...@gmail.com wrote: Hi , We have XML file that is send by the customer, we need to alter the XML file and send

Re: Does C/LE open of DD:ddname(member) use SVC 99 or FIND?

2012-04-30 Thread Kirk Wolf
OPEN/CLOSE path.I don't think that it does that. So, for my money, better BPAM support would be nice. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 11:45 AM, Charles Mills charl...@mcn.org wrote: Does anyone *know* whether a C/C++ Language Environment fopen

Re: Anybody use the cob2 command on a UNIX shell to compile COBOL?

2012-04-18 Thread Kirk Wolf
On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 10:33 PM, John McKown joa...@swbell.net wrote: Guess I am spoiled by the assembler (as command) and C/C++ compiler's support of both UNIX paths and z/OS PDS[E]s. Spoiled by common sense :-) z/OS Unix commands should not be walled out from z/OS datasets. I have a,

Re: Anybody use the cob2 command on a UNIX shell to compile COBOL?

2012-04-17 Thread Kirk Wolf
BPXWDYN and then invoke the COBOL compiler with LINKMVS. Similarly, it should not be difficult to write a REXX shell script for FORTRAN. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff

Re: Inexpensive estimate of uncompressed size of PS-E dataset

2012-04-16 Thread Kirk Wolf
Bob, Thanks; I should have thought of looking at the LISTCAT output. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 6:59 PM, Bob Rutledge deerh...@ix.netcom.comwrote: Kirk Wolf wrote: I'm trying to understand how to use the catalog fields: COMUDSIZ UDATASIZ

Re: Modernizing the BCP code ?

2012-04-13 Thread Kirk Wolf
instructions, at what point does writing hand-written assembler code become less and less practical? Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 11:29 PM, Tom Ross tmr...@stlvm20.vnet.ibm.comwrote: That is close to what I said. I said that C/C++ and PL/I

Re: __console2()

2012-04-13 Thread Kirk Wolf
points to a modify appl= string. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 4:12 PM, Scott Ford scott_j_f...@yahoo.com wrote: All: I am to use the __console2() function call in C to build an operator Modify interface. Reading the manual , I can issue

Inexpensive estimate of uncompressed size of PS-E dataset

2012-04-12 Thread Kirk Wolf
? - which flags should I use to determine that the value in UDATASIZ is valid - VVRNFLGS? not bit x'80'? - COMPIND bit x'40'? Pointers to additional documentation or usage information would be appreciated. Thanks, Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com

Re: openssl make - z/OS UNIX question - Help

2012-04-11 Thread Kirk Wolf
a Unix guru who knows make and the shell really well and they could probably help you. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 10:10 AM, Shaffer, Terri E terri.e.shaf...@jpmchase.com wrote: Hi Kirk, Wow thank you!! I have deleted the whole openssl-1.0.1

Re: openssl make - z/OS UNIX question - Help

2012-04-11 Thread Kirk Wolf
A compiler configuration problem makes perfect sense I should have thought of it. On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 11:54 AM, Shaffer, Terri E terri.e.shaf...@jpmchase.com wrote: Kirk, First I really want to thank you for all your help. I now finally have a valid openssl module

Re: realpath() syntax?

2012-04-11 Thread Kirk Wolf
(the buffer) is NULL. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 12:40 PM, McKown, John john.mck...@healthmarkets.com wrote: before the #include stdlib.h insert the line: #define _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED 1 as shown here: http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin

Re: openssl make - z/OS UNIX question - Help

2012-04-11 Thread Kirk Wolf
. I would CC the mvs-oe list for posterity. Regards, Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message

Re: HSM to open systems

2012-04-11 Thread Kirk Wolf
and give you excellent throughput at a low cost. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com +1 636.300.0901 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu

Re: openssl make - z/OS UNIX question - Help

2012-04-10 Thread Kirk Wolf
-Wl,xplink:THIRTY_TWO_BIT DES_PTR DES_UNROLL MD2_CHAR RC4_INDEX RC4_CHAR BF_PTR:::, Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 6:53 AM, Shaffer, Terri E terri.e.shaf...@jpmchase.com wrote: Hi Kirk. Thanks, You have helped lots, But I must have added it wrong

Re: openssl make - z/OS UNIX question - Help

2012-04-10 Thread Kirk Wolf
. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 9:55 AM, David Crayford dcrayf...@gmail.com wrote: Make sure you are using the right codepage. Are you sure you are running the shell in 1047? looks like it may be 037 judging by the mangled square brackets On 10/04

Re: openssl make - z/OS UNIX question - Help

2012-04-10 Thread Kirk Wolf
declaration for function strncasecmp. but everything links OK, so these are probably OK. (but the correct include file may have an improved macro / inlined implementation, so this should probably be fixed). Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 2:06 PM, Shaffer

Re: openssl make - z/OS UNIX question - Help

2012-04-09 Thread Kirk Wolf
Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Kirk Wolf Sent: Friday, April 06, 2012 4:04 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: openssl make - z/OS UNIX question - Help Sounds to me like config/Configure worked (and generated make files). Refer to my original response

Re: Accessing USS on Mainframe thru Telnet

2012-04-06 Thread Kirk Wolf
the rest. Unfortunately, there isn't an official acronym for z/OS Unix System Services. Until such time as there is, maybe we should use zUSS or maybe Xeus :-) Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 12:50 PM, Veilleux, Jon L veilleu...@aetna.comwrote: I

Re: openssl make - z/OS UNIX question - Help

2012-04-06 Thread Kirk Wolf
Sounds to me like config/Configure worked (and generated make files). Refer to my original response: -- configure and make ./config --prefix=/usr/local --openssldir=/usr/local/openssl export _C89_CCMODE=1 export MAKE=gmake $MAKE so, do the exports and then execute gmake ($MAKE) Kirk Wolf

Re: Accessing USS on Mainframe thru Telnet

2012-04-05 Thread Kirk Wolf
I agree with Mark. IBM Ported Tools for z/OS - OpenSSH is free, and works well to encrypt your connections. With most recent PTFs, it is not possible to use ICSF and CPACF to enable hardware acceleration of the ciphers and macs, which allows for much less CPU usage. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed

Re: Accessing USS on Mainframe thru Telnet

2012-04-05 Thread Kirk Wolf
We use a Dallas RDP system, and IBM installed IBM Ported Tools OpenSSH for us.I think that all I had to do was to customize the SSHD started task a bit. There isn't much payback for using ssh over tty telnet, until your password is snatched from an unencrypted telnet session :-) But if you

Re: openssl make - z/OS UNIX question - Help

2012-04-05 Thread Kirk Wolf
patch to the 1.0.1 Configure perl script. But there could be differences in the format of this (very complicated) line. Finally, I would suggest that you probably want to move this thread to the mvs...@vm.marist.edu list. Regards, Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com On Wed, Apr

Re: openssl make - z/OS UNIX question - Help

2012-04-04 Thread Kirk Wolf
. GTI DCT ECS Core Services zSoftware Group / Emerging Technologies Office: # 614-213-3467 Cell: # 412-519-2592 -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Kirk Wolf Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2012 3:11 PM To: IBM-MAIN

Re: openssl make - z/OS UNIX question - Help

2012-04-03 Thread Kirk Wolf
Terri, We recently did a port of OpenSSL (0.9.8k I believe), and there are a few things that you will need to do. (Note: in our port, the crypto/evp library worked fine, but there were some ASCII issues in the tools/commands that we didn't attempt to resolve.) Here are some notes, but be

Re: openssl make - z/OS UNIX question - Help

2012-04-03 Thread Kirk Wolf
Terri, I see both config and Configure in openssl 0.9.8q config is a shell script, that starts: #!/bin/sh # # OpenSSL config: determine the operating system and run ./Configure # # config -h for usage information. ... So, config is a front end to the Configure perl script. Kirk Wolf

Re: openssl make - z/OS UNIX question - Help

2012-04-03 Thread Kirk Wolf
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Kirk Wolf Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2012 1:59 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: openssl make - z/OS UNIX question - Help Terri, I see both config and Configure in openssl 0.9.8q

Re: openssl make - z/OS UNIX question - Help

2012-04-03 Thread Kirk Wolf
: # 412-519-2592 -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Kirk Wolf Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2012 3:11 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: openssl make - z/OS UNIX question - Help Do this first: ./config --prefix=/usr

Re: A z/OS Redbook Corrected - just about!

2012-03-26 Thread Kirk Wolf
that the polite etiquette in this matter is to: a) don't use USS since it is not an official IBM acronym for z/OS Unix b) don't correct someone who does. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe

Re: rexx cpu intensive

2012-03-23 Thread Kirk Wolf
to the program to capture timing of code blocks, starting top down and refining until you zero in on the problem areas. In most programs, 95% of the time is spent in 5% of the code. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com PS IBM wouldn't say the REXX uses too much CPU - rather, REXX

Re: A z/OS Redbook Corrected - just about!

2012-03-21 Thread Kirk Wolf
Thank goodness IBM is spending time correcting USS atrocities rather than improving z/OS Unix. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email

Re: Prevent FTP from root

2012-03-21 Thread Kirk Wolf
. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com PS Our Co:Z SFTP product supports IBM FTP-compatible user exits, and therefore also works with most customer or vendor FTP exits. Co:Z is free to use; enterprise license and support agreements are also available

Re: Prevent FTP from root

2012-03-20 Thread Kirk Wolf
complete control over FTP access, you may want to implement a FTCHKCMD exit. See the z/OS Comm Server documentation for details; a sample is provided by IBM. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 1:01 PM, Bruce Wheatley bwheat...@cds.ca wrote: We have

Re: Password Phrase Encryption Algo?

2012-03-19 Thread Kirk Wolf
Sorry if I'm being pedantic, but SHA-1 is not an encryption algorithm - it is a cryptographic hash function. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptographic_hash_function On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 9:09 AM, Costin Enache e_cos...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi, Does anybody have a clue how the PASSPHRASE is

Re: Interfacing with the MainFrame

2012-03-07 Thread Kirk Wolf
SSH/SFTP client, etc Regards, Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 4:20 PM, McKown, John john.mck...@healthmarkets.comwrote: OpenSSH is a separately orderable and installable feature from z/OS base. I.e. you can order it from ShopzSeries in the same

Re: Interfacing with the MainFrame

2012-03-07 Thread Kirk Wolf
. = Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com +1 636.300.0901 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: More REXX SDSF CGI fun (was: Anybody used SDSF / REXX in HTTPD CGI pgm)

2012-02-29 Thread Kirk Wolf
-side scripting language that can make web services calls can use this API. The client will need to be able to encode and decode JSON, but many languages and toolkits support that readily. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com +1 636.300.0901 On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 8:27 AM, Dana

Re: Duplicating SYSOUT output to another DD/DSN in realtime ? (JCL)

2012-02-28 Thread Kirk Wolf
On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 10:31 AM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) shmuel+ibm-m...@patriot.net wrote: In CAHm_n2=7u1del2+9s0zlmtkdz9sqp7cbrp11uyib7fgw0ow...@mail.gmail.com, on 02/27/2012 at 05:35 PM, Kirk Wolf k...@dovetail.com said: Here's a slightly patched REXX script that I found by Bill

Re: Duplicating SYSOUT output to another DD/DSN in realtime ? (JCL)

2012-02-28 Thread Kirk Wolf
On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 9:25 AM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.comwrote: On Mon, 27 Feb 2012 17:35:39 -0600, Kirk Wolf k...@dovetail.com wrote: ... Do you feel left out of John G.'s CABAL? Gil, If you are referring to John G's recent post: Still, their UNIX-oriented initiatives

Re: Duplicating SYSOUT output to another DD/DSN in realtime ? (JCL)

2012-02-27 Thread Kirk Wolf
How about a simple REXX unix script that uses STORAGE to grab the jobid out of the SSIB? Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 10:20 AM, McKown, John john.mck...@healthmarkets.com wrote: I was trying to write up a way to do something like that: fetching

Re: Duplicating SYSOUT output to another DD/DSN in realtime ? (JCL)

2012-02-27 Thread Kirk Wolf
This seems to work: /* REXX */ NUMERIC DIGITS 24 ; CVTPTR=STORAGE(10,4) /*CVT*/ TCBW=STORAGE(D2X(C2D(CVTPTR)),4) TCB=STORAGE(D2X(C2D(TCBW)+4),4) TIOT=STORAGE(D2X(C2D(TCB)+12),4) JBID=STORAGE(D2X(C2D(TIOT)),8) JBID=STRIP(JBID) SAY JBID On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 2:04 PM, Kirk Wolf k...@dovetail.com

Re: Duplicating SYSOUT output to another DD/DSN in realtime ? (JCL)

2012-02-27 Thread Kirk Wolf
Duh. This prints the jobname, not the jobid. But you get the idea :-) On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 2:15 PM, Kirk Wolf k...@dovetail.com wrote: This seems to work: /* REXX */ NUMERIC DIGITS 24 ; CVTPTR=STORAGE(10,4) /*CVT*/ TCBW=STORAGE(D2X(C2D(CVTPTR)),4) TCB=STORAGE(D2X(C2D(TCBW)+4),4

Re: Duplicating SYSOUT output to another DD/DSN in realtime ? (JCL)

2012-02-27 Thread Kirk Wolf
So, I found that it is actually tricky to get the current jobid using REXX in a WLM-initiated environment. Here's a slightly patched REXX script that I found by Bill Lalonde that will do it: /* REXX */ /* curjobid.rexx (adapted from http://billlalonde.tripod.com/rexx/findjsab.txt) */ /* Based

Re: IBM Doing Some Restructuring?

2012-02-13 Thread Kirk Wolf
The official announcement is not due for 7 weeks, but the rumor is that IBM has new technology involving a massive BlueGene/Q system that will replace most of their software engineers, and that they have hired Jesse Anderson to lead the project

Re: z/OS Unicode Services custom table?

2012-02-02 Thread Kirk Wolf
are dependent on the exact handling of control character conversions in that table, which the Unicode Services tables don't seem to provide a direct replacement for. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 6:53 PM, Tony Harminc t...@harminc.net wrote: snip How

Re: z/OS Unicode Services custom table?

2012-02-01 Thread Kirk Wolf
, please let me know. (I can build my own, but we have customers that would like this, and modifying z/OS Unicode Services is a little intimidating). Thanks again, Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 2:13 PM, Mark Jacobs mark.jac...@custserv.comwrote

Re: z/OS Unicode Services custom table?

2012-02-01 Thread Kirk Wolf
C0: 7C C1 C2 C3 C4 C5 C6 C7 C8 C9 D1 D2 D3 D4 D5 D6 D0: D7 D8 D9 E2 E3 E4 E5 E6 E7 E8 E9 AD E0 BD 5F 6D E0: 79 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 91 92 93 94 95 96 F0: 97 98 99 A2 A3 A4 A5 A6 A7 A8 A9 C0 4F D0 A1 07 On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 2:02 PM, Kirk Wolf k...@dovetail.com

z/OS Unicode Services custom table?

2012-01-31 Thread Kirk Wolf
Has anyone tried creating a custom table for z/OS Unicode Services? I would like to create one that matches the FTP TCPIP.STANDARD.TCPXLBIN dataset, for use by iconv, but the manual z/OS Unicode Services User's Guide is a little intimidating... Thanks, Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http

Re: z/OS Unicode Services custom table?

2012-01-31 Thread Kirk Wolf
Mark, AFAIK, there is not a IBM-supplied conversion table for Unicode services that matches TCPIP.STANDARD.TCPXLBIN. It would be great if I were wrong. If not, then it seems that you have to generate your own user-defined conversion table and image. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http

Re: Copy programs in file system to MVS Dataset

2012-01-10 Thread Kirk Wolf
Did you try cp -X ? Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 8:23 AM, Mark Jacobs mark.jac...@custserv.comwrote: I'm trying to copy program objects that reside in a path (the WAS 7.0 IPCS formatting modules) into a PDSE dataset. Everything I've tried

Re: z/OS version of NetCat or native JCL support

2012-01-05 Thread Kirk Wolf
Gerard, Correct; the Co:Z Toolkit (Co:Z Launcher, Dataset Pipes, Co:Z SFTP, Co:Z Batch) are free as in beer. See: http://dovetail.com/docs/coz/licenses.html Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com Commercial license and support agreements are also available, see: http

Re: IBM manual formats

2012-01-04 Thread Kirk Wolf
| while read f do echo Examining: $f title=$(pdfinfo $f | grep Title: | cut -c17- | tr -d '/\\:' | tr ' ' '_') if test -n $title -a ! -s $title.pdf ; then echo link $title.pdf - $f ln -s $f $title.pdf fi done Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com

Re: z/OS version of NetCat or native JCL support

2012-01-04 Thread Kirk Wolf
back to z/OS to read the DD fromdsn -l crlf -t ISO8859-1 //DD:INPUT | nc myhost.com 5000 // Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com On Wed, Jan 4, 2012 at 6:07 PM, Tony Harminc t...@harminc.net wrote: Well, perhaps. But there are many options to consider if you want something like

Re: Portable jar command?

2011-12-13 Thread Kirk Wolf
Gil, For a portable script that uses the jar command, I would first look in $PATH, and then in $JAVA_HOME/bin. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: Data encrypt

2011-11-16 Thread Kirk Wolf
are just as easy to code to as ICSF, and then you don't have to worry about whether ICSF is configured / started. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com PS Our OpenSSH Accelerator for z/OS was implemented hooking the OpenSSL cipher and mac routines in Ported Tools OpenSSH to use

Re: SLightly O/T Perl

2011-11-02 Thread Kirk Wolf
John - I agree with you on the report. I wonder how HLASM would compare in this kind of study :-) On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 11:02 AM, John Gilmore johnwgilmore0...@gmail.comwrote: I took the trouble to read the original reports from SIU, and I am underwhelmed. They reflect a peculiar, often

Re: SLightly O/T Perl

2011-11-02 Thread Kirk Wolf
on the architects or management. Kirk Wolf On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 2:16 PM, McKown, John john.mck...@healthmarkets.comwrote: The worst was one I heard about from a friend. In the days of punched cards. The programmer literally would write code: A100. ADD +1 TO A. SUBTRACT B FROM C GIVING D. PERFORM A200

Which RACF/SAF profiles affect OMVS tape mounting via SVC99 with S99NOMNT=0 ?

2011-11-02 Thread Kirk Wolf
, but I don't find it documented. (actually, the program uses BPXWDYN with MOUNT, which under the covers uses SVC99 with S99NOMNT=0) Thanks, Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff

Re: SLightly O/T Perl

2011-11-02 Thread Kirk Wolf
Darn - prior art. So much for my patent application :-) On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 4:34 PM, Ed Finnell efinnel...@aol.com wrote: Early on(mid sixties) there was a 'Blue Fortran'(not IBM) that cursed diagnostics at you then would printout a 'one finger salute' at the end. It was humorous for

Re: Batch COBOL as a Consumer of Web Services

2011-11-01 Thread Kirk Wolf
. - I believe that there are also several vendors that have SOAP clients for batch COBOL, but I don't know any specifics. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 3:41 PM, Roberts, John J jrobe...@dhs.state.ia.uswrote: At this installation we have a business

Re: DSCB DSECTs?

2011-10-28 Thread Kirk Wolf
? My other question has to do with PDS-Es. I've read that LSTAR can't be used, but I notice that ISPF 3.4 has used% for PDS-Es. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 10:42 AM, Chase, John jch...@ussco.com wrote: Thanks, Bill, John and Tony. Abject

Re: Please Help IBM Fix 'Broken' PDSE Problems

2011-10-28 Thread Kirk Wolf
. Of course, this would be painful, and perhaps not even possible.But if it were, then you would also have a fix/regression test. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 11:50 AM, Edward Jaffe edja...@phoenixsoftware.comwrote: On 10/28/2011 4:53 AM, Jim Thomas wrote: Has

Re: HFS sharing and rolling product upgrades

2011-10-27 Thread Kirk Wolf
interface from Java. Cheers, Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com PS consider using awk to build job to do the whole thing in a pipeline without temp files. *Something* like: catsearch cicsts*.** |\ cut -d '.' -f 2- |\ sort -u |\ awk ' BEGIN { print //JOBNAME JOB (ACCT),PGMR

Re: As IBM CEO, Ginni Rometty will bring some Midwestern charm

2011-10-27 Thread Kirk Wolf
I've heard of southern charm, but many coast-dwellers view all of fly-over territory as pejoratively charming :-) Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com (a Midwesterner, a Midwest company) On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 4:40 PM, Scott Ford scott_j_f...@yahoo.com wrote: Kirk, I am

Re: CRLF in Unix being translated on Mainframe to x'25'

2011-10-25 Thread Kirk Wolf
. With SSH/SFTP, you can use any Windows client, such as the free popular PuTTY psftp command. Co:Z SFTP is free to use but enterprise license and support agreements are also available. /plug Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com

Re: OMVS Telnet Client

2011-10-03 Thread Kirk Wolf
/OS host to the target server. Then simply use telnet from your local workstation through the forwarder. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions

Re: NFS vs FTP

2011-09-16 Thread Kirk Wolf
the security of the client so that unauthorized users can't access the mounted filesystem. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com PS With the (free) Co:Z Launcher you can have a hybrid application that processes data as it is transferred. Of course, you can also just transfer the file

Re: FTP JESLRECL Limit

2011-08-30 Thread Kirk Wolf
The JES2 limit for internal reader is definitly 32K. I think that JES3 is still 254 (maybe 255?). Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com PS With Co:Z SFTP you can submit jobs to the internal reader and use up to 32K input LRECL, and either fixed or variable length records. On Tue

Re: Copying file to OMVS

2011-08-25 Thread Kirk Wolf
This is not really what you asked - but the pax command can read directly from a z/OS dataset - you don't need to copy to a Unix file first. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 7:49 AM, Angel Tamayo a.tamay...@gmail.com wrote: Hi List, Maybe someone

Re: SFTP and FSSEC error

2011-08-25 Thread Kirk Wolf
that this might have something to do with SSHD privilege separation. In the Ported Tools OpenSSH, there are some specific RACF steps that need to be made to set up the privilege separation userid. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 1:28 PM, Bruce Wheatley

Re: JRIO/JZOS zAAP eligability questions

2011-08-22 Thread Kirk Wolf
The JZOS JNI libraries included with the z/OS Java SDK are zAAP eligible. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 9:38 AM, Steve Austin steve.aus...@macro4.comwrote: Hello, I've read that JRIO has been deprecated and the JZOS component should be used

Re: Copy z/OS USS pax format file to another z/OS system without FTP

2011-08-18 Thread Kirk Wolf
pax supports sequentail datasets - check the documentation. The -W seqparms= keyword also allows you to specify fopen() options, like blksize, space, recfm. I usually use blksize=27998,recfm=u for pax datasets. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 11

Re: Get a user password from RACF.

2011-08-18 Thread Kirk Wolf
Agreed. Maybe a good application for RACF Passtickets? On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 2:14 PM, Cris Hernandez #9 hernandez...@yahoo.comwrote: this begs the question... why? If you need to use the ID, why not just change the password? only answer I can come up with is that the ID's password is

Re: UNIX (USS)

2011-08-17 Thread Kirk Wolf
- it tracks your installed programs. After you get used to this, you never want to go back. - the Ubuntu support community is fantastic Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com PS With a Unix/Linux client, our Dataset Pipes tools have some cool capabilities not available on Windows

Re: Z Toolkit for z/OS Install

2011-08-11 Thread Kirk Wolf
Sharing an address space also allows you to run shell scripts in batch and allow commands to access DD cards in the original address space. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 10:54 AM, McKown, John john.mck...@healthmarkets.com wrote: look

Re: Co: Z Toolkit for z/OS Install

2011-08-10 Thread Kirk Wolf
the LDA while in TSO OMVS). Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 9:31 AM, Randy Hoekstra randy.hoeks...@haworth.comwrote: I'm trying to install the Co: Z Toolkit for z/OS under TSO OMVS and can't get around the FSUM9225 no memory: EDC5132I NOT ENOUGH

Re: Z Toolkit for z/OS Install

2011-08-10 Thread Kirk Wolf
COZ_LOG=D /S0W1/tmpcozsftp Co:Z SFTP version: 1.9.0 (5.0p1) 2011-05-09 Copyright (C) Dovetailed Technologies, LLC. 2008. All rights reserved. .. *ZosUtil[D]: region size requested = 10K, Actual below/above limit = 8168K / 10K* .. The 10K region size is what my TSO logon proc used. Kirk

Re: Co: Z Toolkit for z/OS Install

2011-08-10 Thread Kirk Wolf
Duh, I'm not sure what I forgot about your REXX LDA tool... I've even used it myself before :-) Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 12:41 PM, Mark Zelden m...@mzelden.com wrote: Which was how I originally determined what Kirk wrote about where

Re: base arithmetic in REXX

2011-08-01 Thread Kirk Wolf
Like this? - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base_36 (included is a Python examples, and links to other implementations. REXX left as an excercise for the reader :-) Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 9:35 AM, Norbert Friemel nf.ibmm...@web.de wrote

Re: FTP from IBM's book server

2011-08-01 Thread Kirk Wolf
still work. If you are still not jealous, I recently upgraded my desktop to a 6 core beast that has important stuff on a solid state drive. The PDF viewer, including searching, etc. really screams... Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com

Re: z/os SSH question

2011-07-28 Thread Kirk Wolf
, etc). Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 5:25 PM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.comwrote: On Wed, 27 Jul 2011 15:11:32 -0500, Hal Merritt wrote: If you distribute the keys they become public information, so then what's the point? Secret keys need

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