Re: Looking for tn3270 emulator that can run on macOS 10.15.2 (Catalina)

2020-01-07 Thread Don Poitras
In article <29e2159a-8aed-07b9-c4cf-7e521f172...@gmail.com> you wrote:
> On 2020-01-08 12:32 AM, Steve Smith wrote:
> > I like Vista TN3270 a lot better than anything else I have available now.
> > I slightly prefer Bluezone, but I wouldn't pay $30 for it over $20 Vista.
> > And it's a lot more than that.

> BlueZone is good although it crashed when I set a custom screen size of 
> 62 * 160. It's one of the few emulators
> where you can map the mouse wheel to F7/F8 for scrolling (standard in 
> Vista).


> > It would be nice if Tom B. would port it to Mac & Linux.  That might be
> > enough to convert me to Mac, as I'm thoroughly disgusted with
> > Microsoft-ware.

> No need to port it. It works fine with Wine.

> Microsoft are not the same company they were 10 years ago. IMO, Windows 
> 10 is a great OS and Office 365 is peerless and great value for money. I 
> have a Mac at home and they're great machines.
> I recently had a choice between a PC or a Mac for a new work machine and 
> chose the PC. I spend a lot of time in a shell and find Windows 10 WSL 
> with Ubuntu to be better than using brew on a mac.

Apparently, the osx binary for wine won't run under Catalina as 32-bit
apps are no longer supported. I've heard that it works if built from
source though. Not sure if Vista will then run.

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Re: Looking for tn3270 emulator that can run on macOS 10.15.2 (Catalina)

2020-01-07 Thread David Crayford

On 2020-01-08 12:32 AM, Steve Smith wrote:

I like Vista TN3270 a lot better than anything else I have available now.
I slightly prefer Bluezone, but I wouldn't pay $30 for it over $20 Vista.
And it's a lot more than that.


BlueZone is good although it crashed when I set a custom screen size of 
62 * 160. It's one of the few emulators
where you can map the mouse wheel to F7/F8 for scrolling (standard in 
Vista).




It would be nice if Tom B. would port it to Mac & Linux.  That might be
enough to convert me to Mac, as I'm thoroughly disgusted with
Microsoft-ware.


No need to port it. It works fine with Wine.

Microsoft are not the same company they were 10 years ago. IMO, Windows 
10 is a great OS and Office 365 is peerless and great value for money. I 
have a Mac at home and they're great machines.
I recently had a choice between a PC or a Mac for a new work machine and 
chose the PC. I spend a lot of time in a shell and find Windows 10 WSL 
with Ubuntu to be better than using brew on a mac.


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Re: 3270 PCOMM Emulator support for Japanese

2020-01-07 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Tue, 7 Jan 2020 18:52:33 -0500, Cameron Conacher wrote:
>
>Anyone doing support work for Japanese language?
>Using PCOMM Emulator sessions?
>
>I simply want to have IBM-930 available in the list.
>Currently my list shows Italy, and then Latin America; no "J"s at all.
> 
Don't know about PCOMM, but x3270 shows:
Japanese w/Kana  (CP930)
Japanese w/Latin (CP939)

My guess is that you'd have much trouble entering ISPF commands
without the Latin quadrant.

Choice of emulator depends on which hue of lipstick you want to
adorn the pig with.

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Can I do variable field-length blanking with SORT?

2020-01-07 Thread Farley, Peter x23353
I have a fixed-record-length data file which has "subsections" starting with a 
"data characteristics" record (call it a "subsection header").  One of the 
fields in the "subsection header" is a 2-byte zoned decimal "data length" value 
which identifies the number of SIGNIFICANT columns in the "data" portion of the 
records following the "subsection header".

What I would like to do is to blank out the NON-significant data columns in the 
data records that follow each "subsection header".  The data records have 
suffered from some "data pollution" where non-significant data has been 
accidentally stored beyond the significant data columns.

Each "subsection header" may have a different "significant data" length value 
for the following data records.

Example INPUT data (column 1 = record type [H = header, D = data], data starts 
in column 3 in each record):

H 05  COMMENT: "05" IS SIGNIFICANT DATA COLUMNS
D 12345 XYZ ABC DEF
D 45678 GHI JKL MNO
H 10
D 1234567890 ABCDEFGHIJKL
D 9876543210 MNOPQWRSTUVWXYZ

Example OUTPUT data (column 1 = record type [H = header, D = data], data starts 
in column 3):

H 05  COMMENT: "05" IS SIGNIFICANT DATA COLUMNS
D 12345
D 45678
H 10
D 1234567890
D 9876543210

Obviously I can write a pretty simple script or program to accomplish this 
"data cleaning" operation, but I wondered if it would be possible using just 
SORT.

The data volume is in the range of about 100K-200K records per file if that 
matters.

TIA for any ideas you can offer.

Peter
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3270 PCOMM Emulator support for Japanese

2020-01-07 Thread Cameron Conacher
Hello folks,
Quick question.
Anyone doing support work for Japanese language?
Using PCOMM Emulator sessions?

I have been working at this for twenty+ years.
We used to run EXTRA, and our own home grown emulator sessions.
Now we are running PCOMM.
All I want to be able to do, is have my PCOMM Emulator 3270 sessions
installed so that I can choose configure, and then select Japanese from the
Host Code Page drop down list.
I simply want to have IBM-930 available in the list.
Currently my list shows Italy, and then Latin America; no "J"s at all.

I expected that I could have our support folks run some magic incantation
to have IBM-930 added to my drop down selection list.
I cannot read or write Japanese. I do not want to be able to type Japanese.
I just want to be able to look at some Japanese text in a file, and first
see the Japanese characters, and then second be able to browse the file in
ISPF HEX mode to see the actual underlying hex values.

So far I have had no luck.
Is there anyone here who happens to be a PCOMM resource, and understands
what I need to ask our support folks to do?

Thanks in advance for any advice.

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Re: Looking for tn3270 emulator that can run on macOS 10.15.2 (Catalina)

2020-01-07 Thread Tom Marchant
On Tue, 7 Jan 2020 13:04:21 -0600, Paul Gilmartin wrote:

>>Don Poitras wrote:
>>
>>The Vista TN3270 emulator can copy a screen (or part of a screen) as text.
>> 
>Is that Vista's or Windows support?

Vista. IMO, it has very powerful copy and paste capabilities.

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Re: COBOL Static or Dynamic

2020-01-07 Thread ITschak Mugzach
The way your load module is created is also impacted by the linkage editor
CALL / NCAL options. As per you "how do i know" question, look at CBTTAPE
for COBANAL. it tells you how the program was COMPILED (not linked edited).

ITschak

On Wed, Jan 8, 2020 at 12:00 AM scott Ford  wrote:

> Ron,
>
> Not sure what you mean not behaving like a Dynamic program ?
> The called modules are the ones being called dynamically, do see the csect
> of the called module in the linklib ? If so it’s not dynamic.
>
> Scott
>
> On Tue, Jan 7, 2020 at 4:55 PM Gibney, Dave  wrote:
>
> > A program complied and linked NODYM will have the called module CSECTs
> > physically in the loadmodule.  But, even a then, if there are CALL
> variable
> > USING x y z. in the program, these calls will be resolved dynamically at
> > runtime.
> >
> > > -Original Message-
> > > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List  On
> > > Behalf Of McCabe, Ron
> > > Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 2020 1:52 PM
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> > > Subject: COBOL Static or Dynamic
> > >
> > > Hello List,
> > >
> > > How can one tell if a COBOL program was compiled Dynamically or
> > Statically
> > > when browsing the program in your LINKLIB?  If I were to use AMBLIST
> what
> > > would I be looking for to tell if the compiled module is Dynamic or
> > Static?  We
> > > use Endevor and the listing it produces says our program was compiled
> > using
> > > the DYN CBL option but it is not behaving like a Dynamic program.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
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Re: COBOL Static or Dynamic

2020-01-07 Thread scott Ford
Ron,

Not sure what you mean not behaving like a Dynamic program ?
The called modules are the ones being called dynamically, do see the csect
of the called module in the linklib ? If so it’s not dynamic.

Scott

On Tue, Jan 7, 2020 at 4:55 PM Gibney, Dave  wrote:

> A program complied and linked NODYM will have the called module CSECTs
> physically in the loadmodule.  But, even a then, if there are CALL variable
> USING x y z. in the program, these calls will be resolved dynamically at
> runtime.
>
> > -Original Message-
> > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List  On
> > Behalf Of McCabe, Ron
> > Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 2020 1:52 PM
> > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
> > Subject: COBOL Static or Dynamic
> >
> > Hello List,
> >
> > How can one tell if a COBOL program was compiled Dynamically or
> Statically
> > when browsing the program in your LINKLIB?  If I were to use AMBLIST what
> > would I be looking for to tell if the compiled module is Dynamic or
> Static?  We
> > use Endevor and the listing it produces says our program was compiled
> using
> > the DYN CBL option but it is not behaving like a Dynamic program.
> >
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> > Manager of Mainframe/Midrange Systems
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Re: COBOL Static or Dynamic

2020-01-07 Thread Gibney, Dave
A program complied and linked NODYM will have the called module CSECTs 
physically in the loadmodule.  But, even a then, if there are CALL variable 
USING x y z. in the program, these calls will be resolved dynamically at 
runtime.

> -Original Message-
> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List  On
> Behalf Of McCabe, Ron
> Sent: Tuesday, January 07, 2020 1:52 PM
> To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
> Subject: COBOL Static or Dynamic
> 
> Hello List,
> 
> How can one tell if a COBOL program was compiled Dynamically or Statically
> when browsing the program in your LINKLIB?  If I were to use AMBLIST what
> would I be looking for to tell if the compiled module is Dynamic or Static?  
> We
> use Endevor and the listing it produces says our program was compiled using
> the DYN CBL option but it is not behaving like a Dynamic program.
> 
> Thanks,
> Ron McCabe
> Manager of Mainframe/Midrange Systems
> Mutual of Enumclaw
> 
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COBOL Static or Dynamic

2020-01-07 Thread McCabe, Ron
Hello List,

How can one tell if a COBOL program was compiled Dynamically or Statically when 
browsing the program in your LINKLIB?  If I were to use AMBLIST what would I be 
looking for to tell if the compiled module is Dynamic or Static?  We use 
Endevor and the listing it produces says our program was compiled using the DYN 
CBL option but it is not behaving like a Dynamic program.

Thanks,
Ron McCabe
Manager of Mainframe/Midrange Systems
Mutual of Enumclaw


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Re: Looking for tn3270 emulator that can run on macOS 10.15.2 (Catalina)

2020-01-07 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Tue, 7 Jan 2020 10:35:42 -0800, Charles Mills wrote:

>... and Vista has a nice facility to select a dataset name "intelligently"
>(for subsequent copy and paste).
>
x3270 is similar.  Default is "/tmp/x3scr/$UNIQUE.html"

>I too really dislike bitmap screen shots from customers and associates
>(because you can't then cut and paste as text a dataset name, register
>contents, hex string, or similar).
>
Exactly.

ISPF Edit's hex representation isn't very useful for copy-and-paste.
Worse for UTF-8 files -- designers lost sight of the objective.  XEDIT
does better.  (ObShmuel.)

I reiterate my praise of x3270's HTML.  Browse and copy.


>-Original Message-
>From: Don Poitras
>Sent: Tuesday, January 7, 2020 10:24 AM
>
>The Vista TN3270 emulator can copy a screen (or part of a screen) as text.
> 
Is that Vista's or Windows support?


>-Original Message-
On Tue, 7 Jan 2020 19:13:18 +0100, R.S. wrote:
>>
>> Can other emulators copy a screen as text?
>
>Obviously YES.
>
That's less than entirely obvious.  If the emulator has no built-in Copy
facility the user might resort to the desktop's.  If the emulator displays
the screen image as a graphic the user might need to resort to OCR.

Some installations regard impeding screen copy as a security feature,
or intellectual property protection.

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Re: Looking for tn3270 emulator that can run on macOS 10.15.2 (Catalina)

2020-01-07 Thread Charles Mills
... and Vista has a nice facility to select a dataset name "intelligently"
(for subsequent copy and paste).

I too really dislike bitmap screen shots from customers and associates
(because you can't then cut and paste as text a dataset name, register
contents, hex string, or similar).

Charles


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(Catalina)

...

The Vista TN3270 emulator can copy a screen (or part of a screen) as
text.

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Re: Looking for tn3270 emulator that can run on macOS 10.15.2 (Catalina)

2020-01-07 Thread Don Poitras
In article <5625468136063305.wa.paulgboulderaim@listserv.ua.edu> you wrote:
> On Tue, 7 Jan 2020 12:00:01 -0500, scott Ford wrote:

> >I have been using QWS3270 for years . X3270 is not bad for script
> >automation we use it in our CI process with Jenkins.
> > 
> When I've been called on for troubleshooting I much prefer screen
> snapshots as text rather than image.  X3270 can copy a screen either
> as text or as full-color HTML.  Either is suitable for copy-and-paste
> of text snippets.
> Most frequently, I'd receive Hummingbird bitmap screenshots.  Grrr.
> H. can snap a screen as text, but it's neither the default nor well
> documented.
> Can other emulators copy a screen as text?
> -- gil

The Vista TN3270 emulator can copy a screen (or part of a screen) as
text.

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Re: Looking for tn3270 emulator that can run on macOS 10.15.2 (Catalina)

2020-01-07 Thread R.S.

W dniu 2020-01-07 o 19:06, Paul Gilmartin pisze:

On Tue, 7 Jan 2020 12:00:01 -0500, scott Ford wrote:


I have been using QWS3270 for years . X3270 is not bad for script
automation we use it in our CI process with Jenkins.


When I've been called on for troubleshooting I much prefer screen
snapshots as text rather than image.  X3270 can copy a screen either
as text or as full-color HTML.  Either is suitable for copy-and-paste
of text snippets.

Most frequently, I'd receive Hummingbird bitmap screenshots.  Grrr.
H. can snap a screen as text, but it's neither the default nor well
documented.

Can other emulators copy a screen as text?

Obviously YES.
I'm sure about IBM PCOMM and less known Nexus Terminal.
BTW: Nexus is the fastest 3270 emulator and one of the smallest (1,4MB 
approx.). It is Windows only, so not for MacOS.
PCOMM is also Windows only (there was OS/2 version also, the last one is 
20+ years old).


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Re: RMM retention period

2020-01-07 Thread Tom Conley

On 1/7/2020 10:28 AM, Jake Anderson wrote:

Hello

Apologies if this a dummy query

Apart from EDGRMMXX and JCL specifications where else the physical tapes
get its retention period ?

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Re: Looking for tn3270 emulator that can run on macOS 10.15.2 (Catalina)

2020-01-07 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Tue, 7 Jan 2020 12:00:01 -0500, scott Ford wrote:

>I have been using QWS3270 for years . X3270 is not bad for script
>automation we use it in our CI process with Jenkins.
> 
When I've been called on for troubleshooting I much prefer screen
snapshots as text rather than image.  X3270 can copy a screen either
as text or as full-color HTML.  Either is suitable for copy-and-paste
of text snippets.

Most frequently, I'd receive Hummingbird bitmap screenshots.  Grrr.
H. can snap a screen as text, but it's neither the default nor well
documented.

Can other emulators copy a screen as text?

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Re: RMM retention period

2020-01-07 Thread R.S.

W dniu 2020-01-07 o 16:28, Jake Anderson pisze:

Hello

Apologies if this a dummy query

Apart from EDGRMMXX and JCL specifications where else the physical tapes
get its retention period ?


As Bill responded, VRS is main specification for retention period for 
tape volumes and/or tape datasets.

Other methods are not the best choice, IMHO.

However you mentioned "physical tapes". What do you mean? Do you have 
virtual tapes like IBM VTS or Oracle VSM?
It is important, because VRS, RETPD and EDGPRMxx apply to logical 
volumes - those seen by z/OS.
Logical tape volume can be real one if you don't have VTS. It can be 
open reel, physical cart (written directly as MVS volume) or virtual 
wolume residing on some disk inside VSM or VTS or any other device.


Regarding VTS - physical tapes are out of RMM scope.

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Re: Looking for tn3270 emulator that can run on macOS 10.15.2 (Catalina)

2020-01-07 Thread scott Ford
I have been using QWS3270 for years . X3270 is not bad for script
automation we use it in our CI process with Jenkins.

Scott

On Tue, Jan 7, 2020 at 11:32 AM Steve Smith  wrote:

> I like Vista TN3270 a lot better than anything else I have available now.
> I slightly prefer Bluezone, but I wouldn't pay $30 for it over $20 Vista.
> And it's a lot more than that.
>
> It would be nice if Tom B. would port it to Mac & Linux.  That might be
> enough to convert me to Mac, as I'm thoroughly disgusted with
> Microsoft-ware.
>
> sas
>
> On Tue, Jan 7, 2020 at 7:21 AM Don Poitras <
> 028977cc0221-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote:
>
> > He's not talking about Vista the Windows OS, but rather Vista, Tom
> > Brennan's
> > emulator. Wine is a light-weight app that can run Windows programs by
> > converting API calls on the fly. I used it years ago, so I don't know how
> > well it works these days. I actually run the Vista emulator under VMware
> > Fusion (running Windows 10) as I needed the VM for a separate product
> (that
> > I'm pretty sure wouldn't work under Wine as it does serial I/O).
> >
> > In article <9612299174345260.wa.jimracf.g...@listserv.ua.edu> you wrote:
> > > I don't really like Vista and always prefer a native solution if
> > possible, although admittedly that's something of a logical fallacy when
> > you are emulating 3270 terminals!
> >
> >
> > > Jim
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Re: Looking for tn3270 emulator that can run on macOS 10.15.2 (Catalina)

2020-01-07 Thread Steve Smith
I like Vista TN3270 a lot better than anything else I have available now.
I slightly prefer Bluezone, but I wouldn't pay $30 for it over $20 Vista.
And it's a lot more than that.

It would be nice if Tom B. would port it to Mac & Linux.  That might be
enough to convert me to Mac, as I'm thoroughly disgusted with
Microsoft-ware.

sas

On Tue, Jan 7, 2020 at 7:21 AM Don Poitras <
028977cc0221-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote:

> He's not talking about Vista the Windows OS, but rather Vista, Tom
> Brennan's
> emulator. Wine is a light-weight app that can run Windows programs by
> converting API calls on the fly. I used it years ago, so I don't know how
> well it works these days. I actually run the Vista emulator under VMware
> Fusion (running Windows 10) as I needed the VM for a separate product (that
> I'm pretty sure wouldn't work under Wine as it does serial I/O).
>
> In article <9612299174345260.wa.jimracf.g...@listserv.ua.edu> you wrote:
> > I don't really like Vista and always prefer a native solution if
> possible, although admittedly that's something of a logical fallacy when
> you are emulating 3270 terminals!
>
>
> > Jim

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Re: RMM retention period

2020-01-07 Thread Mark Jacobs
SMS Management Class perhaps.

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On Tuesday, January 7, 2020 10:28 AM, Jake Anderson  
wrote:

> Hello
>
> Apologies if this a dummy query
>
> Apart from EDGRMMXX and JCL specifications where else the physical tapes
> get its retention period ?
>
> Regards
> Jake
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Re: [EXTERNAL] RMM retention period

2020-01-07 Thread Bill Bishop (TMNA)
VRS - Vital Record Specification

You can assign a retention period based upon the file name or masked version of 
the name. 

Thanks

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Hello

Apologies if this a dummy query

Apart from EDGRMMXX and JCL specifications where else the physical tapes get 
its retention period ?

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RMM retention period

2020-01-07 Thread Jake Anderson
Hello

Apologies if this a dummy query

Apart from EDGRMMXX and JCL specifications where else the physical tapes
get its retention period ?

Regards
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Re: Looking for tn3270 emulator that can run on macOS 10.15.2 (Catalina)

2020-01-07 Thread Don Poitras
He's not talking about Vista the Windows OS, but rather Vista, Tom Brennan's
emulator. Wine is a light-weight app that can run Windows programs by 
converting API calls on the fly. I used it years ago, so I don't know how
well it works these days. I actually run the Vista emulator under VMware
Fusion (running Windows 10) as I needed the VM for a separate product (that
I'm pretty sure wouldn't work under Wine as it does serial I/O).

In article <9612299174345260.wa.jimracf.g...@listserv.ua.edu> you wrote:
> I don't really like Vista and always prefer a native solution if possible, 
> although admittedly that's something of a logical fallacy when you are 
> emulating 3270 terminals!


> Jim

> On Fri, 3 Jan 2020 21:02:35 +0800, David Crayford  wrote:

> >Why not just run Vista over Wine?
> >
> >On 2020-01-03 7:18 PM, Joe Monk wrote:
> >> I use ZOC as well. I found Mocha to be lacking.
> >>
> >> Joe
> >>
> >> On Fri, Jan 3, 2020 at 4:43 AM Jim Taylor  wrote:
> >>
> >>> I agree with the comments about c3270/x3270 but disagree when you say
> >>> there aren't any good macOS emulators - I really like ZOC and found it 
> >>> much
> >>> nicer to user than PComms on my Windows machine.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Jim
> >>>
> >>> On Fri, 3 Jan 2020 18:36:56 +0800, David Crayford 
> >>> wrote:
> >>>
>  Unfortunately, x3270 and c3270 really suck! You won't find a native 3270
>  emulator on macOS that's any good. That may change as the web based 3270
>  emulators get better (Zowe has one).
> 
>  Guys with Macs in my team use Windows 3270 emulators running on Wine.
>  There are a few quirks like macOS keyboard shortcuts not working
>  properly but they can be worked around. Other than that
>  they work exactly like they do on Windows.
> 
> 
>  On 2020-01-01 1:24 AM, Mark Regan wrote:
> > Since the Catalina version of macOS is 64-bit only, any 32-bit tn3270
> > emulators no longer work on the macOS. I found ZOC, and I'm trying it
> >>> out
> > but was wondering if there are any other products out there.
> >
> > Another option is to try and build a copy x3270 or c3270 for use on
> >>> macOS.
> > Not being a programmer, I have no clue how to use 'make' to build it.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > *Mark T. Regan, K8MTR*
> > CTO1 USNR-Retired, 1969-1991
> > Nationwide Insurance, Retired, 1986-2017

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Re: Ftp batch accessing desktop

2020-01-07 Thread Jantje.
On Mon, 6 Jan 2020 17:43:40 +0400, Peter  wrote:

>Does anyone have a sample JCL to connect desktop ftp server and get files
>and replace on preallocated Mainframe dataset ?

The fact that the server is on a desktop is not relevant (except for 
reliability and availability, of course).

>Basically I would like to achieve it via batch JCL.

//FTP  EXEC PGM=FTP,PARM='your.desktop.server(EXIT',
// REGION=4M
//NETRCDD DISP=SHR,DSN=YOUR.PASSWORD.DATASET(PASSMBR)
//SYSTCPD  DD DSN=YOUR.TCPIP.PARMLIB(TCPDATA),DISP=SHR
//SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=*
//OUTPUT   DD SYSOUT=*
//INPUT DD *
binary
cd /your/server/dir
get serverfile 'YOUR.MAINFRAM.DATASET(DATAMBR)
quit


Cheers,

Jantje.

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Re: Looking for tn3270 emulator that can run on macOS 10.15.2 (Catalina)

2020-01-07 Thread Jim Taylor
I don't really like Vista and always prefer a native solution if possible, 
although admittedly that's something of a logical fallacy when you are 
emulating 3270 terminals!


Jim

On Fri, 3 Jan 2020 21:02:35 +0800, David Crayford  wrote:

>Why not just run Vista over Wine?
>
>On 2020-01-03 7:18 PM, Joe Monk wrote:
>> I use ZOC as well. I found Mocha to be lacking.
>>
>> Joe
>>
>> On Fri, Jan 3, 2020 at 4:43 AM Jim Taylor  wrote:
>>
>>> I agree with the comments about c3270/x3270 but disagree when you say
>>> there aren't any good macOS emulators - I really like ZOC and found it much
>>> nicer to user than PComms on my Windows machine.
>>>
>>>
>>> Jim
>>>
>>> On Fri, 3 Jan 2020 18:36:56 +0800, David Crayford 
>>> wrote:
>>>
 Unfortunately, x3270 and c3270 really suck! You won't find a native 3270
 emulator on macOS that's any good. That may change as the web based 3270
 emulators get better (Zowe has one).

 Guys with Macs in my team use Windows 3270 emulators running on Wine.
 There are a few quirks like macOS keyboard shortcuts not working
 properly but they can be worked around. Other than that
 they work exactly like they do on Windows.


 On 2020-01-01 1:24 AM, Mark Regan wrote:
> Since the Catalina version of macOS is 64-bit only, any 32-bit tn3270
> emulators no longer work on the macOS. I found ZOC, and I'm trying it
>>> out
> but was wondering if there are any other products out there.
>
> Another option is to try and build a copy x3270 or c3270 for use on
>>> macOS.
> Not being a programmer, I have no clue how to use 'make' to build it.
>
> Regards,
>
> *Mark T. Regan, K8MTR*
> CTO1 USNR-Retired, 1969-1991
> Nationwide Insurance, Retired, 1986-2017
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Re: zOSMF

2020-01-07 Thread Marc Yves Desravines
Hi Scott,

There is also a new task in z/OSMF called Security Configuration Assistant.  
When you enable it, you will have a visual framework for examining the 
different elements of z/OSMF security.

More information: 
https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSLTBW_2.4.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r4.izua300/izulite_SecurityAssistant_setup.htm

regards,
Marc

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Re: Enterprise COBOL 6.3 and IBM Programmer Tools

2020-01-07 Thread Timothy Sipples
Tom Savor wrote:
>For us, the programs that run in Batch and Online are DB2 i/o
>programs.  So your solution wont work for us as SQL and LP(64)
>are in-compatible.

Don Poitras wrote:
>There is a painful work-around. Use an assembler stub to call the DB2
>API in amode 31. Allocate all storage that will be written to or read
>from DB2 in storage allocated below the bar. I've done this in C, so
>I have to think it's possible to do in COBOL. I see there is an
>ALLOCATE statement that can be used to get dynamic storage below the
>bar. In C, we use __malloc31().
>
>Of course, it would be much better if DB2 would provide a 64-bit API.
>Now that C, COBOL and PL1 are able to run amode=64, I think there's
>a good argument to be made that this should be a priority.

I personally agree, Don. I encourage RFE submissions:

https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/

The workaround you describe is one option, fairly well traveled. Here are a
couple other possibilities that come to mind, "thinking out loud" again:

1. Use an AMODE 64 C or C++ stub that accesses Db2 via the 64-bit ODBC
driver, then your AMODE 64 COBOL program interfaces to that stub. There's
also an AMODE 31 COBOL -> AMODE 31 C/C++ stub -> AMODE 31 ODBC driver path
available. One current, documented limitation here is that data must still
fit below the 2GB bar either way.

2. A Java stub (via JDBC), although this one might need a bit of
"situationally aware" source code since COBOL's "INVOKE" is not available
for use within CICS.

3. The Db2 Native REST Services.


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