Re: IEFBR14

2012-03-13 Thread Leonard D Woren
Mike Schwab wrote on 3/13/2012 5:59 AM: On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 7:19 AM, Paul Gilmartinpaulgboul...@aim.com wrote: deleted I suppose the same could be achieved for CKD data sets by maintaining a bitmap of used tracks, which would add only .00025% overhead to the size of a data set. -- gil

Re: TAPEMAP execution for multiple tapes

2012-03-13 Thread Leonard D Woren
Sam Golob wrote on 3/11/2012 9:23 AM: Hi Folks, Here is a way that I TAPEMAP multiple tapes, with a PROC. All the best... Sam //* //* TAPEMAP UTILITY PROGRAM //* //TAPEMAP PROC VL=XX //TAPEMAP EXEC PGM=TAPEMAP //STEPLIB DD DISP=SHR,DSN=SYS2.LINKLIB //SYSUT1 DD

Re: New code? use ENQ/DEQ or ISGENQ?

2012-01-18 Thread Leonard D Woren
Dave Day wrote on 1/18/2012 7:38 AM: John, They both wind up going to the same place, eventually. The ENQ/DEQ SVC's execute a Program Call into the GRS address space, as part of SVC processing. ISGENQ gets there in what appears to be a more straight forward fashion. It sets up the

Re: Eight-character TSO Userid Support

2012-01-01 Thread Leonard D Woren
Peter Relson wrote on 12/27/2011 4:49 AM: What PARMLIB member is it that allows8 characters between periods? http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/dgt2c190/8.6.5.1 As Paul Gilmartin posted, this is a reference to: MODIFY CATALOG,DISABLE(DSNCHECK) FWIW, I wouldn't bet

Re: Clarification on IEHPROGM

2011-11-15 Thread Leonard D Woren
Rick Fochtman wrote on 11/15/2011 12:17 PM: I, personally, can think of no good reason to ever use IEHPROGM in a z/OS environment; IDCAMS is the current vehicle for the kinds of changes that IEHPROGM once performed admirably well. Rick We must not have been using the same IEHPROGM. I don't

Re: The IBM Displays Memory Lane

2011-11-13 Thread Leonard D Woren
Thomas Berg wrote on 11/11/2011 6:37 AM: About the 2250, a link with a photo of the wonder in action: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/computinghistory/2250.html The text on that page mentions using it as the console on a 360/91. UCLA CCN had such a thing. The 2250 was the master console and was

wget for TSO

2011-01-31 Thread Leonard D Woren
Does anyone have a TSO version of WGET? I've done a lot of searching via Google and haven't found anything. The closest thing that I found is an IBM web page on how to port open source projects to z/OS UNIX which happens to use GNU WGET as the example. As a last resort, I may have to use

Re: z/OS Virus Checker zLinux Virus Checker

2011-01-31 Thread Leonard D Woren
Thomas Kern wrote on 1/31/2011 11:23 AM: PS. They did not appreciate my picture of the z890 with a McAfee box on top of it. A manager at one shop I worked at long long ago mentioned that at his previous shop, the auditors once came in and asked What do you have that keeps application

IBM-MAIN longevity (was Re: Share Attendance)

2008-07-30 Thread Leonard D Woren
Ed Finnell wrote on 7/29/2008 7:15 AM: [snip] Darren is the only owner it's ever had, IBM-Main celebrated it's 22nd birthday in June. Rats... I didn't subscribe until July 1986. Unless it's already been done somewhere, someday I'm going to dig up all of the list traffic and produce a

Re: IBM-MAIN longevity (was Re: Share Attendance)

2008-07-30 Thread Leonard D Woren
Ted MacNEIL wrote on 7/30/2008 11:36 AM: My understanding is that some of the early years were lost from the archives. If so, and if someone will give me the missing date ranges, I'll look around and try to find my archives which should be pretty complete. (I just hope that I don't have

Branch Entry Catalog

2008-07-22 Thread Leonard D Woren
Who calls Branch Entry Catalog (as opposed to issuing SVC 26)? /Leonard -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives

Re: In defense of z/XDC

2007-10-16 Thread Leonard D Woren
David Cole wrote on 12/31/2006 5:57 AM: It [z/XDC] probably is a quite adequate tool for other environments when the application code does not have ESTAE's that sometimes retry). Yes, z/XDC is at least that. But for myself and my customers (a fairly large number these days), the presence of