Re: Convert Text to XMIT

2012-06-12 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Mon, 11 Jun 2012 07:23:22 -0500, McKown, John wrote: If you mean that they FTP transferred an XMIT file via an intermediate system which was ASCII based (such as Windows) and forgot to do a BINary transfer at some stage, you are out of luck. The problem is that, in general, if you do an

Re: Convert Text to XMIT

2012-06-12 Thread Jake anderson
Paul, Thanks for your reply. I presume this would need little more research and get back to you all once I recover it. Jake On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 12:53 PM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.comwrote: On Mon, 11 Jun 2012 07:23:22 -0500, McKown, John wrote: If you mean that they FTP

Re: ENF Listener usage

2012-06-12 Thread Peter Relson
snip There are many easy ways to serialize the entry and exiting of an ENF exit or any other kind of hook so that you can know when it is safe to free up the CSA it uses and remove the code. One way I have used in the past is to increment an exit-in-use counter with CS logic upon entry and

ALESEERV AL=PASN

2012-06-12 Thread Micheal Butz
Hi, Does AL=PASN on the ALESERV macro mean that the ALET is available to all address spaces Which is the same concept LXRES with SYSTEM=YES Correct ?? -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: ALESEERV AL=PASN

2012-06-12 Thread Chuck Arney
No. It means it is available to all Tasks within the address space. Chuck Arney Arney Computer Systems On Jun 12, 2012, at 7:09 AM, Micheal Butz michealb...@optonline.net wrote: Hi, Does AL=PASN on the ALESERV macro mean that the ALET is available to all address spaces Which

Re: ALESEERV AL=PASN

2012-06-12 Thread Dave Day
Michael, If you re executing an AESERV to add an alet, it means the alet is available to all units of work in the pasn address space. --Dave On 6/12/2012 7:09 AM, Micheal Butz wrote: Hi, Does AL=PASN on the ALESERV macro mean that the ALET is available to all address spaces

Re: ALESEERV AL=PASN

2012-06-12 Thread Micheal Butz
Thanks -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Dave Day Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2012 8:26 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: ALESEERV AL=PASN Michael, If you re executing an AESERV to add an alet, it means the alet is

Re: ALESEERV AL=PASN

2012-06-12 Thread Rob Scott
Can I strongly suggest that you review the MVS Extended Addressability manual : SA22-7614 It is a very well written guide on how to do exotic things in z/OS including synchronous cross-memory, AR-mode programming and managing dataspaces and hiperspaces. Rob Scott Lead Developer Rocket

Re: User written checks for IBM health checker

2012-06-12 Thread Walt Farrell
On Sun, 10 Jun 2012 12:04:51 +0300, John s justfor...@gmail.com wrote: I am trying to write checks(user) in IBM health checker using SYSREXX.I have gone through the sample -HZSSXCHK.This sample just outlines the skeleton for writing the user checks. My question is ...lets say for example if I

Re: ALESEERV AL=PASN

2012-06-12 Thread Binyamin Dissen
On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 07:25:32 -0500 Dave Day david...@consolidated.net wrote: :Michael, : : If you re executing an AESERV to add an alet, it means the alet is :available to all units of work in the pasn address space. More precisely, it is available to all units of work where this address

MICS Capacity Planner

2012-06-12 Thread Dale Houg
Does anyone use the MICS Capacity Planner Option?Have you found it useful? Some of its features require SAS/STAT, which we don’t have. Does anyone use the MICS Capacity Planner Option without having SAS/STAT? -- For

Anyone a Unicode Services expert? -- roundtrip conversion

2012-06-12 Thread Charles Mills
My understanding of roundtrip conversion is that every code point in the from CCSID translates to a unique (possibly meaningless) code point in the to CCSID so that if for example a customer is so foolish as to transmit, for example, an object deck from z/OS to a PC in text format, and then

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

2012-06-12 Thread Farley, Peter x23353
This is a false assumption: ... every code point in the from CCSID translates to a unique (possibly meaningless) code point in the to CCSID There is no guarantee that all code points in a given CCSID map to a unique code point in any other CCSID. Peter -Original Message- From:

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

2012-06-12 Thread Charles Mills
Well, Peter, that's certainly consistent with what I see. I'm looking, however, at slide 11 of http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/ieduasst/stgv1r0/index.jsp?topic=/c om.ibm.iea.zos/zos/1.9/IntegratingNewAppOnzOS/zOSV1R9_Integrating_newAppl_LE UnicodeServices/player.html . (You may have to

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

2012-06-12 Thread Farley, Peter x23353
I believe that slide refers to round trips within the z/OS world only. There is no statement that CCSID conversion by a system other than z/OS (such as the PC ftp client in your example) will be covered in the 'round trip guarantee. You have to be transmitting and receiving with the same or a

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

2012-06-12 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 12:03:55 -0400, Farley, Peter x23353 wrote: I believe that slide refers to round trips within the z/OS world only. There is no statement that CCSID conversion by a system other than z/OS (such as the PC ftp client in your example) will be covered in the 'round trip

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

2012-06-12 Thread Charles Mills
Thanks, Peter. Please understand I am not criticizing or faulting z/OS Unicode Services. I am just trying to explain to a customer the output they may expect to see when they use our product that in turn uses Unicode Services (USS? -- LOL -- never mind). Let's leave PCs out of it. If I were

Re: SMF volume

2012-06-12 Thread Finch, Steve (ES - Mainframe)
We separate the SMF data into multiple LOGSTREAMs. Then dump each LOGSTREAM to it's own dataset We use the Virtual Tape Subsystem to clone (duplex) the datasets, then push the data out to real tapes as soon as possible Then we produce a bill for the cost of supporting this process. People

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

2012-06-12 Thread Farley, Peter x23353
Well, I don't have my green card with me at the moment, but IIRC 3F is the EBCDIC SUB character, which means mapping it to ASCII 1A is correct. EBCDIC 41 I think is hard space or something like that, and classic 7-bit ASCII does not support such a character, so there is no way for EBCDIC 41 to

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

2012-06-12 Thread Charles Mills
Peter, thanks. Believe me, I have done a *lot* of CCSID research. CCSID 1208 is Encoding scheme 7807 - UTF-8, UCS-2 transform; Name UTF-8 WITH IBM PUA. It is *the* basic UTF-8 CCSID. there is no way for EBCDIC 41 to round trip through classic 7-bit ASCII Fair enough. Unicode services reports

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

2012-06-12 Thread Steve Comstock
On 6/12/2012 11:59 AM, Charles Mills wrote: Peter, thanks. Believe me, I have done a *lot* of CCSID research. CCSID 1208 is Encoding scheme 7807 - UTF-8, UCS-2 transform; Name UTF-8 WITH IBM PUA. It is *the* basic UTF-8 CCSID. there is no way for EBCDIC 41 to round trip through classic 7-bit

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

2012-06-12 Thread Farley, Peter x23353
I will have to leave the answer to your fundamental question for wiser and more experienced heads to answer. I would think you could file a PMR on this and see what IBM has to say about it. You might only get a doc change out of it, but at least then there would be doc on what is and is not

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

2012-06-12 Thread Charles Mills
I've lost the original post, what is the mapping you are trying to achieve? The original example was somewhat extreme. CCSID 01027: Encoding scheme 1100 - EBCDIC, SBCS; Name JAPAN LATIN CCSID 01208: Encoding scheme 7807 - UTF-8, UCS-2 transform; Name UTF-8 WITH IBM Both the Unicode manual

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

2012-06-12 Thread Charles Mills
Right. I don't have a functional problem. There is no fix that I am looking for. I have an understanding and documentation (mine!) problem. Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Farley, Peter x23353 Sent: Tuesday, June

Fwd: Big blksize in MFNetDisk

2012-06-12 Thread shai hess
-- Forwarded message -- From: Shai Hess mfnetd...@mfnetdisk.com Date: Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 9:26 PM Subject: Big blksize in MFNetDisk To: shai.h...@gmail.com ** HI, Many time I was asked if it is better to run MFNetDisk PC component in Linux or Windows. It seem to me that for big

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

2012-06-12 Thread Tony Harminc
On 12 June 2012 13:59, Charles Mills charl...@mcn.org wrote: Fair enough. Unicode services reports however that it supports roundtrip conversion in many of these cases, including for example, 37 to 850 (pretty basic ASCII). What does roundtrip conversion mean? That is my fundamental question.

Re: Weird thought on misuse of a GDG.

2012-06-12 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 93891f43642f3c419a7d75acc2b1db6f3c68cc9...@exchangemb2.dhs.state.ia.us, on 06/11/2012 at 02:58 PM, Roberts, John J jrobe...@dhs.state.ia.us said: Also, what is the significance of the V00 part of the qualifier? It's the version. I was always led to believe that it was a vestige of

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

2012-06-12 Thread Charles Mills
Thanks. I think either your and my understanding of roundtrip is flawed, or Unicode Services understands it differently, or I am missing something. Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Tony Harminc Sent: Tuesday, June

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

2012-06-12 Thread Charles Mills
FYI: A round-trip conversion works only in a two-tier homogenous environment where the data makes the complete round trip. For example, if you pass data from DB2 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows to DB2 for z/OS and then back to DB2 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows with a round-trip conversion, no data

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

2012-06-12 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 15:02:17 -0400, Tony Harminc wrote: The objective of this criterion is to send data from one system to another one that has different representations of character data, and retrieve it without loss. Often the do not convert choice is not available. For example, data stored in

Re: LE COBOL odd behavior

2012-06-12 Thread William M Klein
Clark stated, If the statement //SYSOUT DD some parameters is missing and you have a DISPLAY something in your program and the LE runtime option CBLQDA is (ON), the program will dynamically allocate a temporary file with DISP=(NEW,DELETE) and write to it. This is true for all QSAM files. If the

Re: Convert Text to XMIT

2012-06-12 Thread Robert Prins
Jake, On 2012-06-12 07:54, Jake anderson wrote: Thanks for your reply. I presume this would need little more research and get back to you all once I recover it. I have done something like this in 2005(?). The XMIT file was screwed and I could not get it back, but the contents, a PL/I library

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

2012-06-12 Thread Roberts, John J
Why does IBM have this compulsion to be different from everyone else and invent its own terminology rather than using a conventional, well-understood word such as bijective? Because bijective is not so well understood by anyone born before 1952 or so. The term relates to SET Theory, which was a

Re: Is there an Enterprise COBOL API to detect SOURCE-COMPUTER WITH DEBUGGING on or off at runtime?

2012-06-12 Thread William M Klein
Peter's original question was The subject is the question. Obviously I can insert a WORKING-STORAGE switch that is off by default and a Debugging line in the PROCEDURE division to turn on that switch when WITH DEBUGGING is in effect, but this seems clumsy to me. If there is another way, I'd

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

2012-06-12 Thread zMan
On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 4:03 PM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.comwrote: Why does IBM have this compulsion to be different from everyone else and invent its own terminology rather than using a conventional, well-understood word such as bijective? Harumph. It may be an established and

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

2012-06-12 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 12:59:13 -0700, Charles Mills wrote: A round-trip conversion works only in a two-tier homogenous environment where the data makes the complete round trip. For example, if you pass data from DB2 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows to DB2 for z/OS and then back to DB2 for Linux, UNIX,

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

2012-06-12 Thread Kirk Wolf
I would say that bijection (a one-one correspondence) is not exactly the same as roundtripping. For example: IBM-1047 (single byte EBCDIC) - UTF-8 - you can round-trip this, since you can take any character in the source code page, and get a UTF-8 character. If you take any of *those* 256

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

2012-06-12 Thread John Gilmore
The term 'bijective' is a fairly old one, the earliest reference I found in a Mathematical Reviews index was for 1939.. Anyone who has had a college course in mathematical logic or, yes, set theory is likely to know or have forgotten its meaning. It does, however, have a bad reputation because

installing serverpac for 1.13 using 1.11 system

2012-06-12 Thread Tim Brown
During the serverpac for zos 1.13 I believe there is a step where you mount the new systems root system on the driving system at the /service point. Is the command for this MOUNT FILESYSTEM('ZOS13.OMVS.VAR.ROOT') + MOUNTPOINT('/service') + TYPE(ZFS) MODE(RDWR) I believe we had

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

2012-06-12 Thread Charles Mills
They are saying that if you go from Linux to z/OS to Linux then '%' might become '?' and then back to '%'. (Those are just example characters -- don't take them literally.) But if you go from z/OS to Linux to Java then '?' might become '%' and then '!'. They are saying that round-trip does not

Re: How many cost a cpu second?

2012-06-12 Thread Salva Carrasco
Apart from the syntax error How many vs. How much, My question is not having much success. In other terms: If I have a STC consuming 25,000 cpus / secs per month, and I spend two days optimizing it to reduce to 15,000. Am I gaining money or loosing time ?

Re: How many cost a cpu second?

2012-06-12 Thread R.S.
W dniu 2012-06-12 23:13, Salva Carrasco pisze: Apart from the syntax error How many vs. How much, My question is not having much success. In other terms: If I have a STC consuming 25,000 cpus / secs per month, and I spend two days optimizing it to reduce to 15,000. Am I gaining money or

Re: installing serverpac for 1.13 using 1.11 system

2012-06-12 Thread Joe Connally
I did the same thing recently on a CustomPac. Step1 of the RESTORE job is a REXX exec and mounts the file system and then loads. Look at the exec and you should see the mount logic. I think the exec is CPPEHFS. Joe Connally -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List

Re: How many cost a cpu second?

2012-06-12 Thread Charles Mills
I think you are not getting an answer -- actually as I recall you got several answers to this effect -- because the question is effectively how long is a piece of string? I use several LPARs for development. For various business reasons a CPU second costs me and my employer nothing. OTOH if you

Re: installing serverpac for 1.13 using 1.11 system

2012-06-12 Thread Tim Brown
Thanks Sent from my Verizon Wireless Droid -Original message- From: Joe Connally joe.conna...@motion-ind.com To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Sent: Tue, Jun 12, 2012 21:29:12 GMT+00:00 Subject: Re: installing serverpac for 1.13 using 1.11 system I did the same thing recently on a CustomPac.

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

2012-06-12 Thread Charles Mills
I have opened a PMR. Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Charles Mills Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2012 12:50 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Anyone a Unicode Services expert? -- roundtrip conversion Thanks. I

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

2012-06-12 Thread Tony Harminc
On 12 June 2012 18:55, Charles Mills charl...@mcn.org wrote: I have opened a PMR. For the doc, or the behaviour of the service? Or did you choose the let us decide for you option...? Tony H. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff

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

2012-06-12 Thread Charles Mills
Not sure what you mean. Here's the PMR: Problem Details . Product or Service: Support for Unicode Component ID: 5752SCUNI

Re: How many cost a cpu second?

2012-06-12 Thread Joel C. Ewing
Or, to expand on R.S.'s remarks, if your installation software charges are based on peak 4-hour MSU* average during the month and this application not only must run during the peak time but is sufficient to raise that peak, then your software license charges will go up for that month and there

Re: How many cost a cpu second?

2012-06-12 Thread Charles Mills
and I spend two days optimizing it What is your time worth? Are you an employee whose salary is already a sunk cost, or are you a $250/hour consultant? You don't have to answer that question, but my point is that the value of your time figures into the question Am I gaining money or loosing

Re: Failed Disk Data Exposure

2012-06-12 Thread Ronald Hawkins
Don, I suggest that you look into your vendor's implementation of encryption of data at rest. If you have HDS then all RAID schemes and disk types are supported (HDD, SSD and SATA) and there is no performance impact. I believe EMC and IBM also support Encryption of data at rest. With

Re: installing serverpac for 1.13 using 1.11 system

2012-06-12 Thread retired mainframer
On my last 1.11 system, the mount point was /SERVICE. We also had the alternate root system normally mounted there (for any SMPE work). You may need to confirm the mount point is free before issuing the mount command. :: -Original Message- :: From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List

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

2012-06-12 Thread Charles Mills
1027 was a test case and the data is arbitrary. I think the point of round trip is supposed to be that *every* character is recoverable. A good write-up in of all places g the Glossary of the Z Unicode manual. Emphasis is mine. Round trip. Encoding that occurs when *every* code point in the

Printing DASD type

2012-06-12 Thread mf db
Hello All, We know pretty well that Mod - 3 , Mod - 9 . Mod - 27 has a Cylinder of 3K , 9K and 27k, but in a environment where we have mixture of all these type it becomes hard to know by each Volume serial. Are there any ways to scan only the Volumes corresponding to MOD 3 or MOD 9 ? Any