Re: Alternative to REPRO for VSAM RLS KSDS Merge

2011-12-02 Thread Phil Sidler
On Wed, 30 Nov 2011 08:52:32 -0800, Ed Gould ps2...@yahoo.com wrote: FILEAID manuals are usually good, however I have found that their support people are quite good and can answer questions usually without research and after RTFMING they can answer questions like this Ah, well, Compuware says

Re: Alternative to REPRO for VSAM RLS KSDS Merge

2011-11-30 Thread Phil Sidler
On Tue, 29 Nov 2011 19:29:04 -0800, Ed Gould ps2...@yahoo.com wrote: Have you looked at something like fileaId or other like utility? Hi Ed, We have File-AID and I looked into using it, but I couldn't figure out how to get it to overwrite existing records in the target dataset. I'm not very

Alternative to REPRO for VSAM RLS KSDS Merge

2011-11-29 Thread Phil Sidler
Since IDCAMS REPRO does not support VSAM datasets in RLS mode (and neither does SORT), is there another utility that could be coaxed to perform the same function? I'd like to be able to copy/merge one KSDS to another replacing the records in the target dataset that have the same keys as the

Re: Alternative to REPRO for VSAM RLS KSDS Merge

2011-11-29 Thread Phil Sidler
Yes, that's right, John. It is the destination dataset that is being shared. Besides, if the source dataset were the problem, EXPORT would be no better than REPRO as far as RLS goes: Access method services do not use RLS when performing an IDCAMS EXPORT, IMPORT, PRINT, or REPRO command. If

Re: HOWTO invoke Web Services from a batch program?

2011-07-02 Thread Phil Sidler
On Fri, 24 Jun 2011 12:52:05 +0200, Jan Vanbrabant vanbrabant...@gmail.com wrote: The question is fully contained in the subject: HOWTO invoke Web Services from a batch program? Hi Jan, One way I've done this is with a COBOL/Java combination. If you have the WSDL describing the web service,

Re: setsockopt problem

2010-04-10 Thread Phil Sidler
On Fri, 9 Apr 2010 06:40:58 -0700, osman cinar eren ocinare...@yahoo.com wrote: thanks for the prompt reply. After i read this document, i switched to COBOL as these two timeout values were written as supported for COBOL API. But with these options used for setsockopt in COBOL, i still receive

Re: Need new 3270 emulator: SSH, inexpensive, reliable

2009-08-26 Thread Phil Sidler
On Tue, 25 Aug 2009 10:35:18 -0700, John Mattson john_matt...@ea.epson.com wrote: Management is jumping for PCI and JSOX, and now wants a SSH based 3270 emulation for accessing mainframe TSO, CICS, and such apps. Please You could keep your same emulator and use ssh to tunnel the

Re: Enterprise COBOL code generation question

2009-05-01 Thread Phil Sidler
On Fri, 1 May 2009 08:38:59 -0500, Chase, John jch...@ussco.com wrote: Thanks for pointing out the benefit of TRUNC(OPT) to me. But then there's this in the Notes for TRUNC in the Installation Customization Guide: 2. TRUNC=BIN is the recommended option when interfacing with other products

APF question

2009-04-23 Thread Phil Sidler
Anyone running a program called EDVPARM? A consultant is trying to convince us to install this program to an authorized library with AC(1). Looking at the source concerns me. It appears that you can pass it a program name and parameter list and the program will ATTACHX it. This seems like a

Re: APF question

2009-04-23 Thread Phil Sidler
On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 13:22:31 -0400, Stocker, Herman herman.stoc...@avisbudget.com wrote: It is an Endevor utility that prevents everyone from selecting their own options. This keeps the control under the Endevor Admins. And out of the applications programmer/consultant. Yes, unfortunately there

Re: APF question

2009-04-23 Thread Phil Sidler
On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 16:59:39 -0700, Gibney, Dave gib...@wsu.edu wrote I guess you need to ask CA the why and wherefore and safeguards. We use Endevor, but I'm not aware of seeing the source for any modules. I Oh, don't point to CA. This isn't actually part of Endevor. googled found:

Re: SFTP Client for z/OS

2007-05-03 Thread Phil Sidler
On Thu, 3 May 2007 07:49:29 -0400, John Kington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the pointer. I gave in for now and we will duplicate the data to hfs. Another option is to use regular ftp over an encrypted ssh tunnel. for example, ssh -S -fo -L ftp/2221:127.0.0.1:21 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: SFTP Client for z/OS

2007-05-03 Thread Phil Sidler
Yet another approach... cat //'MVS.DATA.SET' | ssh -T [EMAIL PROTECTED] /bin/cat '' unixfile or cp //'MVS.DATA.SET' /dev/fd1 | ssh -T [EMAIL PROTECTED] /bin/cat '' unixfile probably there is some variant that will work to Windows.

Re: Code Page 863

2007-02-23 Thread Phil Sidler
See if this is correct. I generated it from CDRA. I assumed you meant 863-037 (US EBCDIC). ; ; Conversion Table for 00863 (ccsid 25439) to 00037 (ccsid 00037) ; 00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 0A 0B 0C 0D 0E 0F ;

Re: Code Page 863

2007-02-23 Thread Phil Sidler
darn, should have read further. this was way off. -- 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: How order PartnerWorld free software?

2007-01-09 Thread Phil Sidler
On Tue, 9 Jan 2007 16:23:48 -0800, Charles Mills [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This note is addressed to software vendors with a FLEX development system through PartnerWorld for Developers. I believe we are entitled to no-cost licenses for a lot of IBM software. Some of it comes on the initial DVD,

Re: IEW2611E

2006-12-30 Thread Phil Sidler
IEW2611E 4313 ALIAS CANNOT REPLACE MODULE WITH SAME NAME. Why is this considered an error when I specify (R) on the NAME statement? perhaps because the linkage editor doesn't want to bother finding if there are aliases for the real module that might need to be cleaned up? So it's

Re: Use of Java jar files supplied by IBM with z/OS products.

2006-12-29 Thread Phil Sidler
On Wed, 27 Dec 2006 12:25:27 -0600, McKown, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: files. Finally, I get to my question. Is it OK for me to download the jar files to my workstation? I have absolutely NO idea where to look to see what the license is that would address this issue. For CICS, as an example,

Re: Now, address linkmvs - resent

2006-12-22 Thread Phil Sidler
On Thu, 21 Dec 2006 17:47:30 -0600, Phil Sidler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't think so, for address linkmvs. You have to You're right. This only works for 1 parameter as if from a JCL PARM. Rexx extends this and c doesn't handle multiple PARMS. So, according the the LE Programming Guide

Re: Now, address linkmvs - resent

2006-12-22 Thread Phil Sidler
On Fri, 22 Dec 2006 10:10:57 -0700, Paul Gilmartin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a recent note, Phil Sidler said: Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2006 10:38:42 -0600 #pragma runopts(PLIST(OS)) struct parm { short parm_len; char parm_data[32767]; /* not the real size of the array

Re: Max Allocation w/ Space= DD

2006-12-22 Thread Phil Sidler
On Fri, 22 Dec 2006 14:52:29 -0500, Dean Montevago [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anybody comment on this: I specify 4000/4000cyl and z/OS allocates 1/4000cyl. The info you guys provided has been very helpful but I don't understand why I'm getting this It sounds like the dataset has used the

Re: Now, address linkmvs

2006-12-21 Thread Phil Sidler
On Thu, 21 Dec 2006 13:32:02 -0700, Steve Comstock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since the argument list for address linkmvs is a list (array) of addresses pointing to halfword prefix strings, I use: #pragma environment(CLA2) struct argtable_entry { short argstring_len; char

Re: Now, address linkmvs

2006-12-21 Thread Phil Sidler
On Thu, 21 Dec 2006 15:42:22 -0700, Steve Comstock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Indeed, I tried what you suggested and got a S0C4 (of course, I could have made some kind of an error in copying or compiling, etc., but I think I'm closer to right on this one). Well, I was a bit cavalier in thinking I

Re: Now, address linkmvs - resent

2006-12-21 Thread Phil Sidler
I don't think so, for address linkmvs. You have to You're right. This only works for 1 parameter as if from a JCL PARM. Rexx extends this and c doesn't handle multiple PARMS. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive

Re: IBM sues maker of Intel-based Mainframe clones

2006-12-20 Thread Phil Sidler
FWIW, IBM is still touting the FLEX based systems, too. http://www-304.ibm.com/jct09002c/isv/zseries/flexes.html I don't think either T3 or Cornerstone can sell these right now. So, I wouldn't believe web sites or email. Oh, that's not news to you, is it?

Re: Using address link for C program

2006-12-19 Thread Phil Sidler
On Tue, 19 Dec 2006 10:19:08 -0600, Phil Sidler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: strncpy(ts, argp-argstring_ptr, MAX(argp-argstring_length,sizeof(ts-1))); Oops, meant to use MIN, not MAX. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive

Re: Using address link for C program

2006-12-19 Thread Phil Sidler
On Tue, 19 Dec 2006 11:17:44 -0700, Steve Comstock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If change the definition of ts to be char ts[256]; then I get a clean compile, but I abend with S0C1 when I test. Yep, another typo, but you found it. I am linking with with the SCEESPC library. Seems to pick up

Re: Using address link for C program

2006-12-19 Thread Phil Sidler
On Tue, 19 Dec 2006 13:18:21 -0700, Steve Comstock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So it looks like only the first four characters are being caught. One more typo. s/b sizeof(ts) - 1, not sizeof(ts-1). -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe /

Re: More on Law Suit

2006-12-14 Thread Phil Sidler
One irony. IBM licensed PSI to run z/OS on a Designated Machine and now they are suing them for running z/OS on that machine. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: More on Law Suit

2006-12-14 Thread Phil Sidler
On Thu, 14 Dec 2006 10:52:38 -0500, John P Baker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are you certain about that? My understanding was that IBM licensed PSI to run z/OS on a designated real IBM mainframe. No, not certain. But I thought that I had heard somewhere that the machine L.L.Bean was testing with

Re: More on Law Suit

2006-12-14 Thread Phil Sidler
On Thu, 14 Dec 2006 11:50:35 -0600, Tom Moulder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There was a time when IBM had language in the license agreement that allowed the license to be transferred to another computer. What some within IBM viewed as a loophole was changed. However, the agreements in place could

Re: Change of behaviour for ROUTE *ALL command

2006-12-12 Thread Phil Sidler
On Tue, 12 Dec 2006 19:47:40 -0500, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 12/04/2006 at 10:35 AM, Phil Sidler [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: BTW, you would get better response post to the IBM-MAIN list instead of just to the google group. There is no google

Re: IBM sues maker of Intel-based Mainframe clones

2006-12-11 Thread Phil Sidler
On Mon, 11 Dec 2006 23:08:33 +0100, Lindy Mayfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I feel so stupid. (-: Ok, IBM doesn't license their software for PSI. End of story. Then why does IBM need to sue PSI? Like, they can create all the emulator they want, but if IBM doesn't give them DB2 for example

Re: IBM sues maker of Intel-based Mainframe clones

2006-12-09 Thread Phil Sidler
On Sat, 9 Dec 2006 10:40:54 -, Phil Payne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There are repeated and obvious indications that some posters are either using or trying to use z/OS under Hercules - the latest being serious enquiries about running CF code and the new zArchitecture floating point decimal

Re: IBM sues maker of Intel-based Mainframe clones

2006-12-06 Thread Phil Sidler
Heya Pat! On Wed, 6 Dec 2006 14:31:02 -0600, Patrick O'Keefe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Phil. The article was certainly vague (and inconsistant) about what the actual alledged infringment was. I suspect a Hercules user running MVT would not have to worry. The designer that built the

Re: IBM sues maker of Intel-based Mainframe clones

2006-12-05 Thread Phil Sidler
I see from a note on the FLEX-ES list that other emulation may be in jeopardy as well. A pattern? Should hercules users worry, too? snip Norbert, it is true that IBM suspended software pricing on all new FLEX-ES commercial licenses after November 1st. I believe they (IBM and FSI) are still

Re: Change of behaviour for ROUTE *ALL command

2006-12-04 Thread Phil Sidler
Volkmar Langer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes... We recently got problems with some sysplex related functions in system automation. Finally we found out that the functions issued commands like ROUTE *ALL,D XCF. ... The difference seems to be a change in the default value of the parameter T= in the