Re: Final Week to register for z/OS On line classes -- [Block o'gibersh]

2010-01-31 Thread Joel C. Ewing
Had exactly the same problem on another list, with most likely contributing culprit being the SMTP server at vm.marist.edu. More explicitly, you need follow Walt's suggestion and send an email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message set ibm-main fullhdr If this fixes the problem, this should

Re: Posts missing from ibm-main on google groups

2010-01-31 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In blu137-w226dc0c084578fb0fd248fa3...@phx.gbl, on 01/28/2010 at 02:46 PM, J R jayare...@hotmail.com said: I'm perplexed. I use google groups to monitor ibm-main, Google's software for news groups has been degrading for a long time. You'll find that bit.listserv.ibm-main is not the only

Re: Re : Extracting STDOUT data from USS

2010-01-31 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In listserv%201001290758497806.0...@bama.ua.edu, on 01/29/2010 at 07:58 AM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com said: Why re-invent the wheel? Why do you assume that they had a wheel when they wrote the code for the first version of CICS? How did you do an ATTACH in early releases of DOS/360?

Re: Re : Extracting STDOUT data from USS

2010-01-31 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In listserv%201001280858249055.0...@bama.ua.edu, on 01/28/2010 at 08:58 AM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com said: My naive understanding of the OS/360 multiprocessing ITYM multiprogramming. paradigm is that when one unit of work WAITs, another is dispatched. How does CICS manage to

Re: Re : Extracting STDOUT data from USS

2010-01-31 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 05c701ca9e76$66eb0bd0$34c123...@us, on 01/26/2010 at 04:57 AM, Jim Thomas j...@thethomasresidence.us said: I'm looking for some direction and advice on dynamically extracting STDOUT data from USS Assuming that you mean Unix and not USS, STDOUT is just another file handle. The same

Re: Joseph Poon

2010-01-31 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 20100128150035.xhjx3222.eastrmmtao103.cox@eastrmimpo01.cox.net, on 01/28/2010 at 10:00 AM, mpac...@gmail.com said: Given how trivial it is to forge mail, FSVO forge. It's certainly trivial to provide a bogus From: header field, but it's highly nontrivial to provide a bogus source IP.

Re: Re : Extracting STDOUT data from USS

2010-01-31 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In listserv%201001271136391298.0...@bama.ua.edu, on 01/27/2010 at 11:36 AM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com said: Gee, you do I/O, you wait Who R U? In CICS you're supposed to use CICS services for I/O, not to do your own in the main CICS task. One of those services is to run code in a

Re: Friday thought - a couple of SUBSYS= subsystems for discussion.

2010-01-31 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In listserv%201001291001530009.0...@bama.ua.edu, on 01/29/2010 at 10:01 AM, Martin Kline martin.kl...@yrcw.com said: I can think of a couple other solutions using out-of-the-box methods, but neither is as clean as what you're proposing. You'd need a minimum number of subsystem routines - JCL

Re: Output to pdf from JES2

2010-01-31 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In blu137-w1028a06cab9322cf9ba3a1e8...@phx.gbl, on 01/29/2010 at 09:12 AM, Nigel Salway nigel_sal...@hotmail.com said: Has anyone used a product which can convert a JES2 output to a PDF, then email the PDF as an attachment. JES2MAIL from CASI (formerly DATA21). There's probably a dozen

Re: Re : Extracting STDOUT data from USS

2010-01-31 Thread Joel C. Ewing
On 01/29/2010 07:59 AM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: On Thu, 28 Jan 2010 10:33:49 -0500, Thompson, Steve wrote: So when you did this call to CICS, it would recognize you would need to wait (whether you actually needed to or now, you will now) and then it would go dispatch another transaction that

Re: Extracting STDOUT data from USS

2010-01-31 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to bit.listserv.ibm-main,alt.folklore.computers as well. shmuel+ibm-m...@patriot.net (Shmuel Metz , Seymour J.) writes: Who R U? In CICS you're supposed to use CICS services for I/O, not to do your own in the main

Re: Friday thought - a couple of SUBSYS= subsystems for discussion.

2010-01-31 Thread Rick Fochtman
snip-- Doesn't FREEPOOL test whether there is a buffer pool before trying to free it? unsnip- That's a fairly recent refinement to the FREEPOOL macro. For many years there

DFHSM QUESTION - ARC1151I :RECALL PROBLEM

2010-01-31 Thread esmie moo
Good Morning Gentle Readers,   I am trying to trouble shoot a problem.  A batch job was trying to recall an ML2 dsn.  However the job failed after waiting for an hour with the following messages: ARC1001I MK2.RWNPT$O0.RNPT.X.G0076V00  RECALL FAILED, RC=0051,REAS= ARC1151I ANOTHER DFSMSHSM

Re: DFHSM QUESTION - ARC1151I :RECALL PROBLEM

2010-01-31 Thread Lizette Koehler
The ARC1151I indicates that there was another DFHSM function active for this dataset. The DFHSM Log or PDA may have some additional information. I am not sure that SMF would be helpful. Look at ALL DFHSM STCs to see if perhaps a recall and backup or dump were occurring at the same time for this

Re: Posts missing from ibm-main on google groups

2010-01-31 Thread Ed Finnell
In a message dated 1/31/2010 9:47:36 A.M. Central Standard Time, shmuel+ibm-m...@patriot.net writes: Google is broken again? Problems in the gayeway to Usenet? Seems like there ought to be a UUNET utility that would SYNC the feeds and the posts and ding group owners for being down

Poon / Miller

2010-01-31 Thread Darren Evans-Young
It appears someone is either forging emails from their account or their account has been comprimised. I'm not surprised that the accounts are yahoo and hotmail. Both subscribers have been on the list since 2002/2003 time period, so I doubt they are bogus subscriptions...unless they are sleeper

FSS Printers in JES2

2010-01-31 Thread Lizette Koehler
I had a problem this weekend when operations installed a new INFO Print 4000 printer. The $ADDFSS was good The $ADDPRT was good But when they finally got to testing the printer they got a FSS Failed to Connect. It looks like we missed a Dataset for the PSF printer that is coded on

Re: FSS Printers in JES2

2010-01-31 Thread Roger Bolan
Here is a link to the PSF V4R3 Bookshelfhttp://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/Shelves/APSBK420 --Roger On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 2:50 PM, Lizette Koehler stars...@mindspring.comwrote: I had a problem this weekend when operations installed a new INFO Print 4000 printer. The

Re: DFHSM QUESTION - ARC1151I :RECALL PROBLEM

2010-01-31 Thread O'Brien, David W. (NIH/CIT) [C]
Check to see if recycle was running. Thank You, Dave O'Brien NIH Contractor From: Lizette Koehler [stars...@mindspring.com] Sent: Sunday, January 31, 2010 12:57 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: DFHSM QUESTION - ARC1151I :RECALL PROBLEM The

Re: Output to pdf from JES2

2010-01-31 Thread Roger Bolan
Check out Infoprint Server and Infoprint Transforms. http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/z/os/zos/printsoftware/ipserverhome_z_ww.html It can select jobs from the JES spool, transform them to PDF and send them to email addresses as attachments. --Roger On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 8:12 AM, Nigel Salway

Re: FSS Printers in JES2

2010-01-31 Thread Lizette Koehler
Thanks, that should help. I don't know why printers are always a Sev1. Seems to me a little planning could make it a bit smoother. Lizette Subject: Re: FSS Printers in JES2 Here is a link to the PSF V4R3 Bookshelfhttp://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi- bin/bookmgr_OS390/Shelves/APSBK420

Re: Receive e-mails on z/OS

2010-01-31 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In farjl5h413phej5o6l3ohpujr83nis5...@4ax.com, on 01/22/2010 at 12:34 PM, Eric Chevalier et...@tulsagrammer.com said: Perl's CPAN site has a variety of packages for processing MIME-format mail. I use MIME::Parser et al for parsing spam and it works well; while the Perl in Ported Tools is

Re: Friday thought - a couple of SUBSYS= subsystems for discussion.

2010-01-31 Thread Ken Gunther
I think we could use the GPSAM routines from the CBT tape to create the TEE function. Ken G. McKown, John wrote: OK, it is Friday. And this is on topic. It may even be interesting. I was thinking of two possible SUBSYS= subsystems to use, especially on batch jobs.

IBM countersues Neon over zPrime accelerator

2010-01-31 Thread Ed Gould
http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2010/01/29/ibm_countersues_neon/ With mainframe revenues off sharply and likely to be so until the System z11 mainframes ship much later this year, IBM can ill afford to look the other way as Neon Software peddles its zPrime tool for offloading mainframe

Re: The origins of CICS

2010-01-31 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to bit.listserv.ibm-main,alt.folklore.computers as well. web pages gone 404 ... but there is always the wayback machine The Evolution of CICS: Myth and Matter (1968)

Re: PSF printer

2010-01-31 Thread Hunkeler Peter (KIUP 4)
Isn't it the other way 'round? The operator tells the printer to print output matching ceratin criteria, such as FORMS ($tprtxyz FORMS=FORM1). This effectively tells JES to only reply to PSF's is-there anything-I-can-print-inquiries with output that has FORMS=FORM1. When there is no more output