Re: Simple Rexx question

2024-08-22 Thread Glenn Knickerbocker
Won't work for USS files, though. Those will need BPXWDYN. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/3.1.0?topic=tef-listdsi says > Restriction: LISTDSI does not support files in the UNIX file system. > Unpredictable results might occur. 9 *-* "ALLOCATE DD("Arg(1)")" Arg(2)

Re: message: "You are not authorized to view the archives with the email address you used to log in."

2024-08-16 Thread Glenn Knickerbocker
On Fri, 16 Aug 2024 14:24:49 +, Seymour J Metz wrote: >I've never used the web interface. What is the appropriate action after >message: "You are not authorized to view the archives with the email address >you used to log in."? * Are you logged in with the same address that's subscribed to

Re: As a long-time Rexx programmer

2024-06-14 Thread Glenn Knickerbocker
On Fri, 14 Jun 2024 11:51:23 -0400, Phil Smith III wrote: >"If the command contains special characters or blanks, enclose it in single >quotation marks." > >Might not be the best example, but it's clear from the doc that whoever wrote >it doesn't understand that unassigned Rexx variables return

Re: Archeology researce

2024-05-15 Thread Glenn Knickerbocker
On 5/15/2024 12:13 PM, I wrote: > Sadly, a direct link to Product Lifecycle search results doesn't work (403 > Forbidden), Hmm, maybe that was just a temporary glitch. This works for me now: > https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/lifecycle/search/?q=5655-ZOS+or+5650-ZOS+or+5694-A01 ¬R --

Re: Archeology researce

2024-05-15 Thread Glenn Knickerbocker
On Wed, 15 May 2024 14:08:49 +, Allan Staller wrote: >Does anyone have links or documents to the z/OS 2.4 and 2.5 announcement >letters? For those curious or still looking, this Product Lifecycle list has links to all the General availability (GA), End of marketing (EOM), and End of suppor

Re: Sv: Execute Rexx from Cobol

2024-05-07 Thread Glenn Knickerbocker
On Tue, 7 May 2024 18:27:08 +, Lars Höglund wrote: >We had a program called JOBINFO (in allocated STEPLIB) >Didn't realize that jobinfo = jobinfo() in a Rexx will trying to start, and >maybe executing the cobolmodule >We also have a Rexx called jobinfo, and that the one I want to execute. Oh

Re: Execute Rexx from Cobol

2024-05-07 Thread Glenn Knickerbocker
On Tue, 7 May 2024 11:33:21 +, Lars Höglund wrote: > An error has occurred in Rexx module: XMAIL > Error Type: SYNTAX > Error Line Number : 299 > Instruction : jobinfo = JOBINFO() > Return Code : 44 > Error Message text: Function did not return data So, the

Re: Rexx numeric digits and scientific notation question

2024-03-14 Thread Glenn Knickerbocker
stage). > >Roops > >On Thu, 14 Mar 2024, 17:04 Glenn Knickerbocker, wrote: > >> On Wed, 13 Mar 2024 11:01:30 -0500, Charles Mills >> wrote: >> >And the answer is ... "The three numeric settings are automatically saved >> across internal and externa

Re: Rexx numeric digits and scientific notation question

2024-03-14 Thread Glenn Knickerbocker
On Wed, 13 Mar 2024 11:01:30 -0500, Charles Mills wrote: >And the answer is ... "The three numeric settings are automatically saved >across internal and external subroutine and function calls." >I was setting numeric digits in an initialization subroutine, so Rexx >helpfully unset it on return f

Re: Missing LMOD doing APPLY

2024-02-07 Thread Glenn Knickerbocker
On Wed, 7 Feb 2024 22:07:35 +, Kurt Quackenbush wrote: >> GIM24601E ** LMOD ENTRY IEWLDR00 IS NEEDED FOR PROCESSING BUT IS NOT IN THE >> SMPCSI LIBRARY > >Are you installing the FMIDs in the waves and ripples sequence as described in >the z/OS 3.1 Program Directory? >https://www.ibm.com/doc

Re: EDIT MACRO REQUEST

2024-01-09 Thread Glenn Knickerbocker
On Tue, 9 Jan 2024 23:31:10 +, Schmitt, Michael wrote: >3. LMMLIST LIST STATS(YES) to create a list of the members, with statistics > While LMMLIST rc = 0 > If ZLCNORC = 0 > LMPUT to write your NONE line Of course, that assumes that there *are* already statistics. If the memb

Re: LISTDSI - hardcoded dsn vs. read in from file

2024-01-04 Thread Glenn Knickerbocker
On Thu, 4 Jan 2024 13:55:22 -0600, Steve Estle wrote: >I've hardcoded the enclosing double quote/quote inside my file as follows: >"'SYS1.PARMLIB'" That's the problem. When your exec that works correctly does this: > DSName = "'SYS1.PARMLIB'" the doubl

Re: Kinda fun

2023-11-09 Thread Glenn Knickerbocker
On Wed, 8 Nov 2023 09:49:34 -0500, Rick Troth wrote: >Cards and printed paper are even human readable. Wow. I've heard tales (probably at KTRU) of reading magnetic tape/cards with iron filings and a loupe. ¬R -- For IBM-MAIN s

Re: APAR theology (was: IBM APAR Names)

2023-11-06 Thread Glenn Knickerbocker
On Sun, 5 Nov 2023 00:20:52 +, Seymour J Metz wrote: >IBM used to document how it assigned the prefix in sysmod ids, but its been >decades since I've seen documentation that matched practice. What I've never >seen violated is that the sysmod ids associated with an APAR all have the same >nu

Re: Mainframe Makers.... WAS: Ars Technica: The IBM mainframe: How it runs and why it survives

2023-07-31 Thread Glenn Knickerbocker
On Mon, 31 Jul 2023 10:54:28 -0500, Grant Taylor wrote: >> Why don't we see these systems being discussed (or maybe I just don't >> frequent the right web sites)? >I suspect it's /where/ we are talking. This list, IBM territory reddit.com/r/mainframe/ does occasionally get some Unisys discussio

Re: Userid schemes

2023-07-13 Thread Glenn Knickerbocker
On Thu, 13 Jul 2023 17:22:12 -0400, Phil Smith III wrote: >I've seen various schemes used for creating up-to-eight-character userids, all >truncated as needed, of course. ... >Anyone got any other variations? This is purely a curiosity item, no agenda. Standard at IBM Poughkeepsie when I started

Re: "National" characters

2023-07-12 Thread Glenn Knickerbocker
The particularly perverse one was France, code page 297, with à for @ "at," reasonable enough; £ for # "pound" but the wrong kind; and $ for $ because there was no special sign for the franc (not even a ligature of Fr). When the euro was introduced, that was really the end of trying to maintain

Re: "National" characters

2023-07-10 Thread Glenn Knickerbocker
On Mon, 10 Jul 2023 11:27:04 -0500, Paul Gilmartin wrote: >The ISPF User's Guide calls "#", "$" and "@" "Special" characters; otherwise >discussing national language support. Where, specifically? In a quick search on "special character national language" in both Vol I and Vol II, I spotted only

Re: Code Page for dataset names

2023-07-05 Thread Glenn Knickerbocker
On Wed, 5 Jul 2023 14:16:27 -0400, Matt Hogstrom wrote: >I recently ran into a question that I didn’t know the answer to. The >question was, what code page are dataset names and other z/OS artifacts coded >in? Since the special characters like #, $ and @ are different in codepages >1047, ver