Reading IBM Manuals on the Kindle DX (eBook)
I bought a Kindle DX ebook reader. One reason being that I wanted to read IBM manuals while travelling. The Kindle displays the PDFs nicely but lacks the possibility to jump from the TOC or links. For that reason and because other ebook formats, such as MOBI, have other advantages, I'm looking for a way to transform IBM manuals into the MOBI format. So far my experiments in transforming from PDF to MOBI did not show satisfactory results. I'm hoping that HTML for MOBI would yield in better results. Does anyone know if IBM manuals are available in HTML format? I'm not thinking about the format show by the Library Server which is split into too many small pages. I'm think about the manual as one large HTML file or possibly one HTML file per chapter. Any other suggestions are welcome as well. -- Peter Hunkeler CREDIT SUISSE AG -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Reading IBM Manuals on the Kindle DX (eBook)
Hunkeler Peter (KIUP 4) pisze: I bought a Kindle DX ebook reader. One reason being that I wanted to read IBM manuals while travelling. The Kindle displays the PDFs nicely but lacks the possibility to jump from the TOC or links. For that reason and because other ebook formats, such as MOBI, have other advantages, I'm looking for a way to transform IBM manuals into the MOBI format. So far my experiments in transforming from PDF to MOBI did not show satisfactory results. I'm hoping that HTML for MOBI would yield in better results. Does anyone know if IBM manuals are available in HTML format? I'm not thinking about the format show by the Library Server which is split into too many small pages. I'm think about the manual as one large HTML file or possibly one HTML file per chapter. Any other suggestions are welcome as well. My humble suggestion: sell it away and buy something which is capable to read IBM (and not only IBM) documentation. It can be any netbook/notebook. It also provides much more features. Last but not least: it's easier. -- Radoslaw Skorupka Lodz, Poland -- BRE Bank SA ul. Senatorska 18 00-950 Warszawa www.brebank.pl Sd Rejonowy dla m. st. Warszawy XII Wydzia Gospodarczy Krajowego Rejestru Sdowego, nr rejestru przedsibiorców KRS 025237 NIP: 526-021-50-88 Wedug stanu na dzie 16.07.2010 r. kapita zakadowy BRE Banku SA (w caoci wpacony) wynosi 168.248.328 zotych. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Reading IBM Manuals on the Kindle DX (eBook)
Was having just the same debate with my Dad: He wanted to read a certain UK newspaper on a Kindle. I pointed out there were alternatives that would do what he wanted. In THIS case an inept PDF reader is an inept PDF reader. Period. :-( Martin Martin Packer, Mainframe Performance Consultant, zChampion Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter / Facebook IDs: MartinPacker Unless stated otherwise above: IBM United Kingdom Limited - Registered in England and Wales with number 741598. Registered office: PO Box 41, North Harbour, Portsmouth, Hampshire PO6 3AU -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Reading IBM Manuals on the Kindle DX (eBook)
I also have a Kindle DX. And I agree that the PDF reader on it is junk. Which is surprising since the base OS is Linux and should be able to use okular for PDF. I use okular on Linux/Intel and like it. But I also admit that I don't know all the constraints imposed by the hardware. I don't like laptops. OK, my laptop is a beast. I need to try something smaller than an 8 pound, 17.3 in wide screen behemoth. I really love the Kindle's screen. Laptops wash out easily in bright sunlight. And N. Texas often has bright sunlight. The Kindle's screen is excellent everywhere I go. Um, it there is enough ambient light. Just like paper. On Wed, 2011-01-05 at 10:52 +, Martin Packer wrote: Was having just the same debate with my Dad: He wanted to read a certain UK newspaper on a Kindle. I pointed out there were alternatives that would do what he wanted. In THIS case an inept PDF reader is an inept PDF reader. Period. :-( Martin Martin Packer, Mainframe Performance Consultant, zChampion Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter / Facebook IDs: MartinPacker Unless stated otherwise above: IBM United Kingdom Limited - Registered in England and Wales with number 741598. Registered office: PO Box 41, North Harbour, Portsmouth, Hampshire PO6 3AU -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html -- John McKown Maranatha! -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: IEFACTRT problem - z/OS 1.11
OK, the IEF032I (no IEF374I messages in the JES log) messages have no TCB or SRB so I guess that this is a red herring. That goes to show how close we look at our SYSOUTs...lol. Thanks, Jon -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Mark Zelden Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2011 11:50 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: IEFACTRT problem - z/OS 1.11 On Tue, 4 Jan 2011 09:48:51 -0500, Veilleux, Jon L veilleu...@aetna.com wrote: Mark, thanks for the explanation. However, I find it strange that almost all of the jobs I have looked at in our archives have no TCB or SRB time. I can't believe that all of them are that short running, but who knows? Jon It's easy enough to verify, just look at the IEF374I message in JESYSMSG. Regards, Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS mailto:mzel...@flash.net Mark's MVS Utilities: http://home.flash.net/~mzelden/mvsutil.html Systems Programming expert at http://expertanswercenter.techtarget.com/ -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html This e-mail may contain confidential or privileged information. If you think you have received this e-mail in error, please advise the sender by reply e-mail and then delete this e-mail immediately. Thank you. Aetna -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: ISPF Program Edit Macro
On Tue, 4 Jan 2011 21:02:19 -0500, DanD mvs-j...@sympatico.ca wrote: Thanks for the suggestion Walt. That seems like it would cause continual overhead as each time it would be issued the REXX would get control and it would be re-defining editsub. No, because once you've defined it as a program macro it's defined for the rest of that edit session, and so on the 2nd, 3rd, etc. calls ISPF edit simply recognizes the name as a program macro and runs the program instead of the exec. I'm also wondering...as this is a program EDIT MACRO, how do you CALL it from a REXX/CLIST? address isredit !macro-name So, for example, given a REXX exec named editsub: /* rexx */ isredit macro isredit define editsub macro pgm isredit !editsub -- Walt Farrell IBM STSM, z/OS Security Design -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Health Check IBMVSM,VSM_SQA_THRESHOLD
We have been getting these more often since going z1.11 about 3 months ago. We did not many if any under z1.9. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Greg Shirey Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2011 2:16 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Health Check IBMVSM,VSM_SQA_THRESHOLD Matt, Have you been getting these exceptions for some time now, and have you been running with the parmlib settings as indicated below, or has something changed recently? I'm curious because we have not modified our SQA allocations in years, but we had RMFGAT take more than one SVCDUMP yesterday for SQA shortage: DUMP TITLE=COMPON=VSM,COMPID=SC1CH,ISSUER=IGVVSERR,OUT_OF_SQA It's a strange coincidence, but maybe that's the nature of coincidences... Thanks, Greg -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Dazzo, Matt Sent: Monday, January 03, 2011 10:00 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Health Check IBMVSM,VSM_SQA_THRESHOLD We are getting some exceptions with this check which I would like to try and clear up. Our current allocations in parmlib are SQA=(6,200), and CSA=(2000,112000). Below is some of the information from the check exception. Can anyone recommend how to modify the ieasysxx parms to help reduce the exceptions. Thanks Matt CHECK(IBMVSM,VSM_SQA_THRESHOLD) START TIME: 01/03/2011 10:24:15.123210 CHECK DATE: 20040910 CHECK SEVERITY: MEDIUM CHECK PARM: SQA(80%),ESQA(80%) IGVH100I The current allocation of SQA storage is 361K of the total size of 932K. ( 38%) The IPL HWM for this allocation is 91%. Ensuring an appropriate amount of storage is available is critical to the long term operation of the system. An exception will be issued when the allocated size of SQA is greater than the owner specified threshold of 80%. snip -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Reading IBM Manuals on the Kindle DX (eBook)
On Wed, 5 Jan 2011 05:58:03 -0600, John McKown wrote: I really love the Kindle's screen. Laptops wash out easily in bright sunlight. And N. Texas often has bright sunlight. The Kindle's screen is excellent everywhere I go. Um, it there is enough ambient light. Just like paper. I'm still looking for a laptop, or even better, a tablet with a Pixel Qi screen like the XO has. See http://laptop.org/en/laptop/index.shtml . -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Reading IBM Manuals on the Kindle DX (eBook)
I bit the bullet and bought an Apple iPad, and bought a $1 PDF reader. Reads IBM manuals just fine, including PDF bookmarks (called OutLine in the particular reader I installed. I didn't get the Kindle DX for exactly your reasons. Pros: - readable size, and you can zoom the full page display to get rid of the blank margins and still have a full page displayed, or zoom a lot and get one paragraph or diagram. - personal preference: I like the touch screen for paging and zooming - storage capacity of more manuals than I'll probably download - in the several thousand range - easier to carry than a laptop Cons: - spendy little sucker - I can print a lot of manuals for the same cost. - tied to the iTunes interface - somewhat clunky IMHO - not upgradable - get the size right the first time. I have the 32GB, probably could have gotten away with the 16 GB for z/OS library only. - eyes get tired after a couple of continuous viewing hours - 10 hour battery life - not so viewable in the sun - at the edge of being too heavy for long term viewing; I wish it was lighter, but the weight is not offensive. If you want further information, I'd be delighted to talk with you directly. David Purdy -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Hunkeler Peter (KIUP 4) Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2011 4:34 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Reading IBM Manuals on the Kindle DX (eBook) I bought a Kindle DX ebook reader. One reason being that I wanted to read IBM manuals while travelling. The Kindle displays the PDFs nicely but lacks the possibility to jump from the TOC or links. For that reason and because other ebook formats, such as MOBI, have other advantages, I'm looking for a way to transform IBM manuals into the MOBI format. So far my experiments in transforming from PDF to MOBI did not show satisfactory results. I'm hoping that HTML for MOBI would yield in better results. Does anyone know if IBM manuals are available in HTML format? I'm not thinking about the format show by the Library Server which is split into too many small pages. I'm think about the manual as one large HTML file or possibly one HTML file per chapter. Any other suggestions are welcome as well. -- Peter Hunkeler CREDIT SUISSE AG -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Reading IBM Manuals on the Kindle DX (eBook)
I love reading on my kindle, however I have found that it just is not a good format for any type of technical manual, PDF or otherwise. If you are going to read something straight through it works fine, but it is difficult to jump around within a document. I find myself doing that a lot in technical manuals to lookup something talked about elsewhere. I end up going to printed manuals or PDF on a full laptop/desktop instead. That is just my personal experience with it. You may want to check out something like the iPad, or one of the Android versions that are coming out now, it may work better for this purpose. Frank Finley -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Hunkeler Peter (KIUP 4) Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2011 3:34 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Reading IBM Manuals on the Kindle DX (eBook) I bought a Kindle DX ebook reader. One reason being that I wanted to read IBM manuals while travelling. The Kindle displays the PDFs nicely but lacks the possibility to jump from the TOC or links. For that reason and because other ebook formats, such as MOBI, have other advantages, I'm looking for a way to transform IBM manuals into the MOBI format. So far my experiments in transforming from PDF to MOBI did not show satisfactory results. I'm hoping that HTML for MOBI would yield in better results. Does anyone know if IBM manuals are available in HTML format? I'm not thinking about the format show by the Library Server which is split into too many small pages. I'm think about the manual as one large HTML file or possibly one HTML file per chapter. Any other suggestions are welcome as well. -- Peter Hunkeler CREDIT SUISSE AG -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Reading IBM Manuals on the Kindle DX (eBook)
On Wed, 5 Jan 2011 08:29:16 -0500, David Purdy wrote: I have the 32GB, probably could have gotten away with the 16 GB for z/OS library only. Just for a point of reference, I have the full softcopy collections for five z/OS releases from 1.8 through 1.12, both .PDF and .BOO, as well as OS/390 2.10, several redbooks and every edition of the POO that I could find. It all fits in 32 GB. -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Reading IBM Manuals on the Kindle DX (eBook)
My humble suggestion: sell it away and buy something which is capable to read IBM (and not only IBM) documentation. It can be any netbook/notebook. It also provides much more features. You haven't compared readability of LCD based versus E-Ink based devices, have you? For reading just anywhere except in the dark there is nothing comparable to an E-Ink device. I do own a notebook for all the other stuff I need a computer for. I bought the Kindle for its own purpose. -- Peter Hunkeler Credit Suisse -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Reading IBM Manuals on the Kindle DX (eBook)
In THIS case an inept PDF reader is an inept PDF reader. Period. :-( It is not inept; but, yes, it lacks some functions. The readability of the rendered pages, however, is excellent. It is just much, much more relaxed reading compared to any i-(straining)-Pad-like device. -- Peter Hunkeler Credit Suisse -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Reading IBM Manuals on the Kindle DX (eBook)
If you want further information, I'd be delighted to talk with you directly. Thanks for that offer, David. But I've made my decision and I don't regret it. What I'm looking for is a way to convert IBM manuals to MOBI format. If I don't succeed, I can live with the current PDF support. I don't use the Kindle when I need to lookup information in a look-at way, e.g. what exactly does this parameter do or what is the explanation of this abend code. I'll be sitting in fromt of my PC when this kind of question arised. So I'll have all the nice things as Acrobat and Internet to quickly look up. I'm using the Kindle when I want to learn by reading complete chapters from start to end. It is only a bit messy to get to the start of the chapter. Thereafter reading is fun. -- Peter Hunkeler Credit Suisse -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Reading IBM Manuals on the Kindle DX (eBook)
For iPad I recommend 64GB (which I did and forewent 3G). It was frustrating that iPhone 4 could only come with 32GB. (Ours are within 10GB of full at present.) But I would hope 32GB would be enough on an iPad for PDF viewing. BTW I invested in iAnnotate PDF for obvious reasons. Martin Packer, Mainframe Performance Consultant, zChampion Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter / Facebook IDs: MartinPacker Unless stated otherwise above: IBM United Kingdom Limited - Registered in England and Wales with number 741598. Registered office: PO Box 41, North Harbour, Portsmouth, Hampshire PO6 3AU -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Reading IBM Manuals on the Kindle DX (eBook)
You might want to check out a program called Calibre. It is for ebook collections, and will do many different types of format changes. There is a spot where you can choose your specific device and format criteria. You may have options included with that program that may help. I have had good luck converting word docs and CHM files before, the only PDF's I have converted were basic text, but had good luck with those. Frank Finley -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Hunkeler Peter (KIUP 4) Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2011 9:09 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Reading IBM Manuals on the Kindle DX (eBook) If you want further information, I'd be delighted to talk with you directly. Thanks for that offer, David. But I've made my decision and I don't regret it. What I'm looking for is a way to convert IBM manuals to MOBI format. If I don't succeed, I can live with the current PDF support. I don't use the Kindle when I need to lookup information in a look-at way, e.g. what exactly does this parameter do or what is the explanation of this abend code. I'll be sitting in fromt of my PC when this kind of question arised. So I'll have all the nice things as Acrobat and Internet to quickly look up. I'm using the Kindle when I want to learn by reading complete chapters from start to end. It is only a bit messy to get to the start of the chapter. Thereafter reading is fun. -- Peter Hunkeler Credit Suisse -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Reading IBM Manuals on the Kindle DX (eBook)
You might want to check out a program called Calibre. I've got it installed lately. So far I'm impressed about its functionality. I converted the Extended Addressability Guide as a first step. Text sections looked good but code snipplets were unusable. You may have options included with that program that may help. I surely will have to try different options. I just understand that converting from PDF to anything else is not always easy and often results are not satisfactory. I think that HTML might be a better base to start with and knowing that IBM manuals are available via browser as HTML file made me hope I could get complete manuals as HTML files. The IBM Information Center allows up to 100 topics to be printed, which gives you a single HTML page (file) with all these topics. That file needs some manipulation to delete the repeating footer that are not needed and maybe some more. I'll give it a try to see what Calilbe will produce with this. -- Peter Hunkeler Credit Suisse -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Errors in VVDS
Running a Diagnose on a VVDS I get an error on missing catalogs. DIAGNOSE VVDS INDATASET(SYS1.VVDS.VSTD001) IDC11367I THE FOLLOWING VVDS REFERENCED CATALOGS WERE NOT ENCOUNTERED: CATALOG.USER.SYSTEM.ZOS19 CATALOG.MASTER.ZOS19 IDC0001I FUNCTION COMPLETED, HIGHEST CONDITION CODE WAS 4 These are old catalogs that no longer exist and I'm unsure why they are there to begin with, errors in my ACS routines I assume. Anyway the error message is not of much help on how to repair the VVDS and remove the reference to these catalogs. Any suggestions? -- Mark D Pace Senior Systems Engineer Mainline Information Systems -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: IEFACTRT problem - z/OS 1.11
On Wed, 5 Jan 2011 07:07:50 -0500, Veilleux, Jon L veilleu...@aetna.com wrote: OK, the IEF032I (no IEF374I messages in the JES log) messages have no TCB or SRB so I guess that this is a red herring. That goes to show how close we look at our SYSOUTs...lol. Thanks, Jon Well, that would mean z/OS 1.12, correct? This thread is about z/OS 1.11 so that must be your problem! :-) Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS mailto:mzel...@flash.net Mark's MVS Utilities: http://home.flash.net/~mzelden/mvsutil.html Systems Programming expert at http://expertanswercenter.techtarget.com/ -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Errors in VVDS
I have had good luck with Temporarily define the catalog Import connect it to the master catalog Run IDCAMS delete vvds-dsn catalog(temp-cat-dsn) noscr file(dd-name). The DD statement points to the volume with the VVDS. Delete the catalog. The error is due to residual data sitting in the VVDS even after any dataset related to the catalog has been deleted. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Mark Pace Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2011 8:00 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Errors in VVDS Running a Diagnose on a VVDS I get an error on missing catalogs. DIAGNOSE VVDS INDATASET(SYS1.VVDS.VSTD001) IDC11367I THE FOLLOWING VVDS REFERENCED CATALOGS WERE NOT ENCOUNTERED: CATALOG.USER.SYSTEM.ZOS19 CATALOG.MASTER.ZOS19 IDC0001I FUNCTION COMPLETED, HIGHEST CONDITION CODE WAS 4 These are old catalogs that no longer exist and I'm unsure why they are there to begin with, errors in my ACS routines I assume. Anyway the error message is not of much help on how to repair the VVDS and remove the reference to these catalogs. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Errors in VVDS
On Wed, 5 Jan 2011 10:59:57 -0500, Mark Pace wrote: IDC11367I THE FOLLOWING VVDS REFERENCED CATALOGS WERE NOT ENCOUNTERED: These are old catalogs that no longer exist and I'm unsure why they are there to begin with The VVDS is cataloged in every catalog that contains VSAM and SMS-managed data sets on the volume. There is a back reference to each catalog in the VVDS. Deleting the data sets does not remove these associations between the catalogs and the VVDS. -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: OPENSSL calls from Mainframe C
Look at the EDCCL procedure ... Here is what I do: //ADC Bernd: Look at the EDCCL procedure ... Here is what I do: //ADCDMETA JOB SYSTEMS,MSGLEVEL=(1,1),MSGCLASS=X,CLASS=A,PRTY=8, // NOTIFY=SYSUID,REGION=0M // EXEC EDCCL, // INFILE='.C.LIBRARY(PGRMNAME)', // OUTFILE='X.LINKLIB(PGRMNAME),DISP=SHR', // CPARM='LIS,SO,EXP,DEF(MVS),NOMARGINS,LOCALE(EN_US.IBM-1140)', // LPARM='AMODE(31),MAP' //LKED.SYSIN DD * NAME PGRMNAME(R) /* Scott J Ford From: Bernd Oppolzer bernd.oppol...@t-online.de To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Sent: Thu, December 30, 2010 5:38:19 PM Subject: OPENSSL calls from Mainframe C Hello all, I need to compile a ANSI C program on the mainframe, which does calls to the OPENSSL library. The OPENSSL library is located in the z/OS Unix filesystem, and the header files for the compile, too. I've not much experience with z/OS Unix. Our compile jobs deal with classical MVS datasets. So I have three problems to solve: a) access to the header files (*.h) during the compile step b) access to the library files (*.a) during the linkage editor step c) the OPENSSL library is compiled with XPLINK For a), I guess that I need to specify the z/OS Unix directory on the SYSLIB concatenation, but I have no idea how to do this. For b), I hope that there is a special syntax for the linkage editor INCLUDE statement. For c), the problem is as follows: my own program cannot be compiled with XPLINK, because it must be callable from PL/1. But I think that I can compile it without XPLINK and call XPLINK functions anyway, if I code appropriate #pragmas for the called functions. Thank you very much for your help and any suggestions. Best wishes for the new year. Kind regards Bernd -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Reading IBM Manuals on the Kindle DX (eBook)
You may want to check out Auto Kindle. It is a free Windows only download from download.cnet.com and might be what you want. I have never used it, so I don't stand behind the results. My wife told me that I could NOT use HER kindle for such storage. On Wednesday, January 5, 2011, Hunkeler Peter (KIUP 4) peter.hunke...@credit-suisse.com wrote: You might want to check out a program called Calibre. I've got it installed lately. So far I'm impressed about its functionality. I converted the Extended Addressability Guide as a first step. Text sections looked good but code snipplets were unusable. You may have options included with that program that may help. I surely will have to try different options. I just understand that converting from PDF to anything else is not always easy and often results are not satisfactory. I think that HTML might be a better base to start with and knowing that IBM manuals are available via browser as HTML file made me hope I could get complete manuals as HTML files. The IBM Information Center allows up to 100 topics to be printed, which gives you a single HTML page (file) with all these topics. That file needs some manipulation to delete the repeating footer that are not needed and maybe some more. I'll give it a try to see what Calilbe will produce with this. -- Peter Hunkeler Credit Suisse -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Errors in VVDS
Thanks for the response, but your sequence doesn't seem to work for me. DEFINE USERCATALOG (- NAME (CATALOG.USER.SYSTEM.ZOS19) - VOLUME(PCAT11) - CYLINDERS (1 1) - ICFCATALOG ) IDC0510I CATALOG ALLOCATION STATUS FOR VOLUME PCAT11 IS 0 IDC0512I NAME GENERATED-(I) CATALOG.USER.SYSTEM.ZOS19.CATINDEX IDC0001I FUNCTION COMPLETED, HIGHEST CONDITION CODE WAS 0 Didn't need to do the import connect as this defined it in the master catalog. //STEP1 EXEC PGM=IDCAMS //DD1 DD DISP=OLD,UNIT=SYSALLDA,VOL=SER=STD001 //SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=* //SYSIN DD * DELETE SYS1.VVDS.VSTD001 CATALOG(CATALOG.USER.SYSTEM.ZOS19) - NOSCRATCH FILE(DD1) IDC3012I ENTRY SYS1.VVDS.VSTD001 NOT FOUND IDC3009I ** VSAM CATALOG RETURN CODE IS 8 - REASON CODE IS IGG0CLEG-42 IDC0551I ** ENTRY SYS1.VVDS.VSTD001 NOT DELETED IDC0001I FUNCTION COMPLETED, HIGHEST CONDITION CODE WAS 8 What am I missing? On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 11:25 AM, Schwarz, Barry A barry.a.schw...@boeing.com wrote: I have had good luck with Temporarily define the catalog Import connect it to the master catalog Run IDCAMS delete vvds-dsn catalog(temp-cat-dsn) noscr file(dd-name). The DD statement points to the volume with the VVDS. Delete the catalog. The error is due to residual data sitting in the VVDS even after any dataset related to the catalog has been deleted. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Mark Pace Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2011 8:00 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Errors in VVDS Running a Diagnose on a VVDS I get an error on missing catalogs. DIAGNOSE VVDS INDATASET(SYS1.VVDS.VSTD001) IDC11367I THE FOLLOWING VVDS REFERENCED CATALOGS WERE NOT ENCOUNTERED: CATALOG.USER.SYSTEM.ZOS19 CATALOG.MASTER.ZOS19 IDC0001I FUNCTION COMPLETED, HIGHEST CONDITION CODE WAS 4 These are old catalogs that no longer exist and I'm unsure why they are there to begin with, errors in my ACS routines I assume. Anyway the error message is not of much help on how to repair the VVDS and remove the reference to these catalogs. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html -- Mark D Pace Senior Systems Engineer Mainline Information Systems -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Errors in VVDS
On Wed, 5 Jan 2011 12:54:51 -0500, Mark Pace wrote: DELETE SYS1.VVDS.VSTD001 CATALOG(CATALOG.USER.SYSTEM.ZOS19) - NOSCRATCH FILE(DD1) IDC3012I ENTRY SYS1.VVDS.VSTD001 NOT FOUND There is no entry in the BCS for the VVDS. You would first need to catalog the VVDS in that catalog. Then you should be able to do the DELETE NOSCRATCH -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Errors in VVDS
He could also check out the VVDSFIX program which is available for download from IBM. I've used it to correct some catalog inconsistencies which seem familiar to what the OP has encountered. On Wed, 5 Jan 2011 12:10:50 -0600, Tom Marchant m42tom-ibmm...@yahoo.com wrote: On Wed, 5 Jan 2011 12:54:51 -0500, Mark Pace wrote: DELETE SYS1.VVDS.VSTD001 CATALOG(CATALOG.USER.SYSTEM.ZOS19) - NOSCRATCH FILE(DD1) IDC3012I ENTRY SYS1.VVDS.VSTD001 NOT FOUND There is no entry in the BCS for the VVDS. You would first need to catalog the VVDS in that catalog. Then you should be able to do the DELETE NOSCRATCH -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Errors in VVDS
Thanks, Matthew, that looks exactly like what I need. On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 2:51 PM, Matthew Stitt mathwst...@bellsouth.netwrote: He could also check out the VVDSFIX program which is available for download from IBM. I've used it to correct some catalog inconsistencies which seem familiar to what the OP has encountered. On Wed, 5 Jan 2011 12:10:50 -0600, Tom Marchant m42tom-ibmm...@yahoo.com wrote: On Wed, 5 Jan 2011 12:54:51 -0500, Mark Pace wrote: DELETE SYS1.VVDS.VSTD001 CATALOG(CATALOG.USER.SYSTEM.ZOS19) - NOSCRATCH FILE(DD1) IDC3012I ENTRY SYS1.VVDS.VSTD001 NOT FOUND There is no entry in the BCS for the VVDS. You would first need to catalog the VVDS in that catalog. Then you should be able to do the DELETE NOSCRATCH -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html -- Mark D Pace Senior Systems Engineer Mainline Information Systems -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: CEEROPT
Cool! I will take a look at that. Or have my IMS DBA look at it, as IMS manuals are often terribly cryptic... Thanks, Frank On 1/4/2011 at 12:35 PM, in message aanlktinq8dopdruqnyvkr1q5_1fpqyvjxafahn=7w...@mail.gmail.com, Don Leahy don.le...@leacom.ca wrote: For IMS, you can use the RTT (Resource Translation Table) to change the default Plan name. On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 16:07, Frank Swarbrick frank.swarbr...@efirstbank.com wrote: It's somewhat of a general, not specific, desire. I want to use an ENVAR to hold the name of the DB2 PLAN that my batch jobs are to use. CEEPRMxx would be used to set the default plan. To override that I could specify a different plan in a CEEROPT and compile this in to a user load library and then include that load library in my JOBLIB concatenation. This works, but could have the unitended consequence that any time I use that user load library I always get that CEEROPT if I don't remember to delete it when I'm done. The way I just put forth would 1) create a temporary load library and compile a CEEROPT in to it 2) this can be referred to in STEPLIBs for one or more steps 3) it automatically gets deleted at the end of the job, so there's no possibility of using that CEEROPT when I don't mean to. (Plus, it has a unique DSNAME anyway.) CEEOPTS works, but it's (to my mind) overly verbose for this simple need. Plus I'd have to specify it for each step that I want to use it in. Well, I suppose this is true for the STEPLIB in any case, but for some reason that doesn't bother me as much. Probably just a personal problem. PARM might be OK except that it can't be used for an IMS batch job. In any case, it was a fun little exercize and I'm glad I did it. Frank -- Frank Swarbrick Applications Architect - Mainframe Applications Development FirstBank Data Corporation - Lakewood, CO USA P: 303-235-1403 On 1/3/2011 at 1:17 PM, in message listserv%201101031417352939.0...@bama.ua.eduLISTSERV%25201101031417352939.06F 0...@bama.ua.edu, Mark Zelden mzel...@flash.net wrote: On Mon, 3 Jan 2011 12:31:49 -0700, Frank Swarbrick frank.swarbr...@efirstbank.com wrote: So here's what I've got working. Not the most obvious thing in the world, but it seems to work. It forces me to use STEPLIB instead of JOBLIB for my LOADLIB concatenation, which I don't prefer, but I can live with it. Why does it force you to use STEPLIB? See my last post - what exactly are you trying to accomplish? Just setting an environment variable at runtime? If so, have you tried doing that just in the parm or the CEEOPTS DD? Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS mailto:mzel...@flash.net Mark's MVS Utilities: http://home.flash.net/~mzelden/mvsutil.html Systems Programming expert at http://expertanswercenter.techtarget.com/ -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html The information contained in this electronic communication and any document attached hereto or transmitted herewith is confidential and intended for the exclusive use of the individual or entity named above. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient or the employee or agent responsible for delivering it to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any examination, use, dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication or any part thereof is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please immediately notify the sender by reply e-mail and destroy this communication. Thank you. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html The information contained in this electronic communication and any document attached hereto or transmitted herewith is confidential and intended for the exclusive use of the individual or entity named above. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient or the employee or agent responsible for delivering it to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any examination, use, dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication or any part thereof is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please immediately notify the sender
Re: Reading IBM Manuals on the Kindle DX (eBook)
The IBM Information Center allows up to 100 topics to be printed, which gives you a single HTML page (file) with all these topics. That file needs some manipulation to delete the repeating footer that are not needed and maybe some more. I'll give it a try to see what Calilre will produce with this. Just for the records: This way looks very promissing. The transformed content looks very good, including tables that are wider than the DX's display. I'll now have to find out how to change the HTML links pointing back to the Information Center to links pointing to content within the HTML file instead. I'm positive a couple of REXX lines will do. -- Peter Hunkeler Credit Suisse -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
