Re: What is the PDS command?

[Roger Bolan]

It's all built into ISPF nowadays.  I would suggest that it is worth your
time to go through the ISPF Tutorial every time you get a new release.  On
my systems the main ISPF panel has an option 11 for Workplace  ISPF
Object/Action Workplace.   You can also get to by the ISPF command DSLIST.
 You can list datasets, append other datasets and save any lists you want.
I construct lots of lists for different projects.  Once I am displaying the
datasets in my list, I can use the SRCHFOR command to search inside all the
libraries in my list.  I can exclude libraries with the X (EXCLUDE) primary
command if I need to. I have the options for SRCHFOR set to default to
searching only the non-excluded libraries.  So, for example, if I want to
search through a list of 30 JCL libraries for all members that use AMBLIST,
it's easy.

On Fri, Dec 15, 2023 at 4:51 PM Paul Feller  wrote:

> Greetings Bob,
>
> I was looking through my old JCL library and ran across several examples of
> scans using ISRSUPC.  Depending on what you want to do you could try
> ISRSUPC.  If you have access to JOBSCAN you could try it.  If you client
> has
> DAF, you can use that to scan SMF records to see if any executing jobs are
> touch the dataset.
>
>
> //SEARCH02 EXEC PGM=ISRSUPC,PARM=('SRCHCMP,ANYC,LPSF')
>
> //NEWDDDD DSN=D0PCPN.JCLLIB.CA7PROD,DISP=(SHR,KEEP,KEEP)
>
> // DD DSN=D0PCPN.JCLLIB.OVERRIDE,DISP=(SHR,KEEP,KEEP)
>
> // DD DSN=D0PCPN.JCLLIB.ALTERNAT,DISP=(SHR,KEEP,KEEP)
>
> // DD DSN=D0PCPN.JCLLIB.FREEZE,DISP=(SHR,KEEP,KEEP)
>
> // DD DSN=D0PCPN.JCLLIB.ABEND,DISP=(SHR,KEEP,KEEP)
>
> //OUTDDDD SYSOUT=X
>
> //SYSINDD *
>
> SRCHFOR'UNIT=TAPE'
>
> /*
>
>
> Paul
>
> -Original Message-
> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List  On Behalf
> Of
> John Pratt
> Sent: Friday, December 15, 2023 5:09 PM
> To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
> Subject: Re: What is the PDS command?
>
> Hi Bob,
>
> If I remember correctly =3.14 has a batch option and you can concatenate
> all
> your JCL libraries into the generated job.
>
> John.
>
> -Original Message-
> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List  On Behalf
> Of
> Bob Bridges
> Sent: Saturday, 16 December 2023 8:55 AM
> To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
> Subject: What is the PDS command?
>
> Long ago I wrote - I'm pretty sure I wrote - a REXX exec that would do a
> 3.14 search through multiple libraries for a character string.  I'm looking
> for it now, and I find one in my archives that uses the PDS command to do
> the search.
>
> But what's the PDS command?  I've a strong suspicion that I wrote this at a
> client that had a popular CBTTAPE utility, and if so it's not appropriate
> for my current location.  Can someone confirm?
>
> If you care, what I really want to do is search through a list of JCL
> libraries for certain DSN fragments.  There's a job we're probably going to
> shut down, and I want to be sure the datasets it produces are not used
> anywhere else in production.
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Re: TN3270, EBCDIC and ASCII

[Roger Bolan]

There are a few layers to getting the codepages right for using a terminal
emulator and ISPF Edit and Browse on the host.
For example, in Personal Communications I first define my host codepage.  I
have a lot of choices. From 420 (Arabic) to 1130 (Vietnamese).  I tend to
use 1047 (U.S.) to get my square brackets right.
Reference:
https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/personal-communications/15.0?topic=pages-contents#ToC

Then, on the host side. If you are using the ISPF UDLIST interface to Unix
(OMVS) you can use either EBCDIC, ASCII, or UTF8 for EDIT or VIEW.
Reference:
https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/3.1.0?topic=317-zos-unix-directory-list-utility-line-commands

If you are not editing/viewing a Unix file, then you can use the primary
command SOURCE ASCII if you need to.

In ISPF Browse, you can use the DISPLAY command to view data as UTF8,
UTF32, UCS2, UNICODE, ASCII, USASCII, and EBCDIC, or specify the numeric
CCSID.
Reference:
https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/3.1.0?topic=information-pdf-browse-primary-commands



On Tue, Oct 10, 2023 at 2:22 PM Seymour J Metz  wrote:

> Mostly not ASCII, which is where the trouble lies, at least until
> everybody is Unicode and the code page madness goes away.  Only 0-127 are
> ASCII, and even there it is common to repurpose 0-31.
>
> 
> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List  on behalf
> of Rick Troth 
> Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2023 4:15 PM
> To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
> Subject: Re: TN3270, EBCDIC and ASCII
>
> Not late at all.
>
> The copy-n-paste point makes me wonder if the fonts are actually mapped
> to ASCII values.
> I don't know graphical environments well enough to analyze it. But it
> would mean that, yes, there *is* A/E translation happening even in the
> graphical 3270 emulators. (In hopes of not steering Juan wrong with what
> I said before.)
>
> -- R; <><
>
>
> On 10/10/23 14:19, Steve Thompson wrote:
> > I am replying a bit late to this.
> >
> > However, when you do a copy/paste from the TN3270 screen to Notepad
> > (as an example), it then becomes "ASCII". Same for copy to Word.
> >
> > Now, if you copy from your workstation and paste into the TN3270
> > emulator, it gets converted/translated to "EBCDIC" and watch out for
> > the ] [, and others becoming goofy.
> >
> > Just thought you might need that bit of info.  I've used QWS3270,
> > EXTRA, VISTA, HOD (Host On Demand), and one or two others.
> >
> > Steve Thompson
> >
> > On 10/10/2023 12:18 PM, jgmauta...@yahoo.com.ar wrote:
> >> Hi!
> >> I want to understand how TN3270 emulation works regarding convertion
> >> of characters (between EBCDIC and ASCII, and viceversa).
> >> This is how I think it works (more or less), but I am not sure at
> >> all. So please let me know about any mistakes.
> >> Let suppose that you use a TN3270 emulator program to access the ISPF
> >> browser to display a dataset. Let also assume, to simplify, that it
> >> contains just a single character, an "A".In DASD, what is indeed
> >> stored is X'C1' or, to be more accurate, BINARY'1100 0001'. When you
> >> BROWSE the dataset, then the Mainframe sends to the TN3270 PC client
> >> exactly X'C1' (BIN'1100 0001'). No convertion is done at the
> >> Mainframe side. Then, when the TN3270 client receives X'C1', because
> >> it knows that this is a TN3270 session and that its configured
> >> CODEPAGE is say 500, it realizes that X'C1' corresponds to an "A"
> >> displayable character. And, before sending the instruction to display
> >> it on the PC screen, it converts X'C1' to X'41'.
> >> Is this more or less how this works?
> >> Thanks in advnace for your help,
> >>
> >> Juan Mautalen
> >>
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Re: IBM RCF Documentation email address?

[Roger Bolan]

I never had problems with the email address either.  Somebody else said
that.  I just hadn't used it in a while.  I just said I use the web pages
with the "site feedback" button.  I always go to the IBM Documentation on
the web.  If you go to the main section links like z/OS MVS - IBM
Documentation <https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/2.5.0?topic=zos-mvs> you
have links to both the web pages and the PDF books.
IBM also has other links where you can download indexed collections of PDFs
for those rare times when you need the books but don't have web access.

On Fri, Apr 28, 2023 at 6:25 AM Seymour J Metz  wrote:

> Are you referring to KC web pages? What about manuals in PDF format?
>
> I've never had problems sending an RCF e-mail to the address in the manual.
>
>
> --
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>
> 
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> Subject: Re: IBM RCF Documentation email address?
>
> RCF?  Email?  Do you mean the old "reader's comment form"?I use the
> "site feedback" button on the web pages.  For example, see z/OS 2.5.0 - IBM
> Documentation <https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/2.5.0>
> I always seem to get a timely response.  I haven't used the old email
> address in years.
>
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>
> > Is there a different documentation error / omission address then this one
> > for IBM manuals?
> >
> > mhvr...@us.ibm.com<mailto:mhvr...@us.ibm.com>
> >
> > I sent one to that address on April 4 and have yet to receive any reply,
> > not even an acknowledgement that the email was received.
> >
> > Peter
> >
> > This message and any attachments are intended only for the use of the
> > addressee and may contain information that is privileged and
> confidential.
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Re: IBM RCF Documentation email address?

[Roger Bolan]

RCF?  Email?  Do you mean the old "reader's comment form"?I use the
"site feedback" button on the web pages.  For example, see z/OS 2.5.0 - IBM
Documentation 
I always seem to get a timely response.  I haven't used the old email
address in years.

On Mon, Apr 24, 2023 at 9:31 AM Farley, Peter <
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> Is there a different documentation error / omission address then this one
> for IBM manuals?
>
> mhvr...@us.ibm.com
>
> I sent one to that address on April 4 and have yet to receive any reply,
> not even an acknowledgement that the email was received.
>
> Peter
>
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Re: BookManager

[Roger Bolan]

The BookManager format (on z/OS at least) is a special output format from
the DCF (Document Composition Facility) SCRIPT command.  With OS/390
Softcopy Print you could print from the BookManager books but I never
thought the results were really great.  If you have the original source
text which will be in BookMaster, Starter GML, or just Script commands
format, I would start from there.

If it were me, and I had the original source for the documents I would
reformat them with DCF using the BookMaster profile and macro library (if
you still have it around), or the Starter Set GML profile and macro
library.  I would output to a DEV(AFPA) or DEV(AFP2A) format and then use
the afpxpdf transform that comes with the "IBM Print Transforms from
AFP" product that works with the Infoprint Server component of z/OS to
transform the AFP format to PDF.

If going from the BookManager format is your only option, the results are
going to be not as nice and more work.  If you can only convert a topic at
a time to PDF then maybe you could assemble them back into a PDF book with
Adobe Acrobat.  I don't have any experience with that.
--Roger

On Fri, Mar 3, 2023 at 2:04 PM Dave Wade  wrote:

> On Tue, 28 Feb 2023 18:59:09 +0100, Bernd Oppolzer <
> bernd.oppol...@t-online.de> wrote:
>
> >What is the preferred way to convert BookMgr books to PDF?
> >
> >My customer has some home-written BookMgr books, which they cannot access
> >after the z/OS migration (BookMgr support was dropped with z/OS 2.4).
> >
> >We managed to transfer the books to Windows (and OS/2, BTW), where we can
> >at least look at the books. Now I would like to convert the books to PDFs.
> >But the free Softcopy Reader refuses to print more than one (selected)
> >topic
> >or ranges of topics; if you try to do this using the print menu
> >(selected or range),
> >the output is always empty.
> >
> >Is this a bug - or: is printing larger portions of text not allowed in
> >the free version?
> >What are the options?
> >
>
> The old "ILRWIN" product will let you print an entire book, but I think
> its a16 bit application..
> So:-
>
> 1. Find a machine with a 32-bit copy of Windows installed and the 16-bit
> DVM installed.
>  you run 16-bit app in 64-bit windows here:-
> https://github.com/otya128/winevdm/releases/tag/v0.8.0 >
>
> 2. Find an old documentation CD or similar with the old "Book Manager Read
> for Windows".
> I found a copy on the PCOMMS 5.4 CD in the \win\install\ilrwin folder.
>
> 3. Open the book and print using a PDF print driver. Microsoft include one
> with recent Windows.
> FOXIT PDF viewer has one for older windows.
>
> I hope this is helpfull
>
> Dave
>
> >Thanks for all suggestions,
> >kind regards
> >
> >Bernd
> >
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Re: BookManager

[Roger Bolan]

The B2H tool was BookMaster source to  HTML, not BookManager

On Tue, Feb 28, 2023, 11:19 AM Colin Paice  wrote:

> There is a very old B2H package which I think is Rexx based.  It was
> supported on Windows NT, OS2, VM, OS390 etc,
> I think I used to use it.  It is mentioned
> http://afrodita.rcub.bg.ac.rs/~ivica/b2h.html
> Colin
>
> On Tue, 28 Feb 2023 at 18:00, Bernd Oppolzer 
> wrote:
>
> > What is the preferred way to convert BookMgr books to PDF?
> >
> > My customer has some home-written BookMgr books, which they cannot access
> > after the z/OS migration (BookMgr support was dropped with z/OS 2.4).
> >
> > We managed to transfer the books to Windows (and OS/2, BTW), where we can
> > at least look at the books. Now I would like to convert the books to
> PDFs.
> > But the free Softcopy Reader refuses to print more than one (selected)
> > topic
> > or ranges of topics; if you try to do this using the print menu
> > (selected or range),
> > the output is always empty.
> >
> > Is this a bug - or: is printing larger portions of text not allowed in
> > the free version?
> > What are the options?
> >
> > The eMail address book...@us.ibm.com, which is mentioned in the Softcopy
> > Reader
> > help texts, doesn't exist any more (BTW: the Softcopy Reader is a 2012
> > edition;
> > this seems to be the last one available).
> >
> > Is there a documented API to read the books using a C or REXX program
> > and build the PDFs this way? Or build HTML from the books?
> >
> > Thanks for all suggestions,
> > kind regards
> >
> > Bernd
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Re: Capture 3270 screen as text (was: TNZ 3270 Emulator: ... )

[Roger Bolan]

IBM PCOMM can capture screens as text

On Sat, Nov 19, 2022, 7:14 AM Kirk Wolf  wrote:

> Cutting text from x3270 works fine.
> You can also do File/Screen Save  to text / html / RichText or printer
>
> Kirk Wolf
> Dovetailed Technologies, LLC
> http://coztoolkit.com
> Dovetailed Technologies: +1 636.300.0901
>
> Note: Our website and domain name have changed from dovetail.com to
> coztoolkit.com
>
> On Fri, Nov 18, 2022, at 9:33 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
> > On Sat, 19 Nov 2022 08:57:04 +0800, David Crayford wrote:
> >
> > >On 19/11/22 02:12, René Jansen wrote:
> > >> RMFIII is my main use case.
> > >
> > >If it's graphics that you seek, RMF has been modernized to export to
> > >Prometheus/Grafana.
> > >
> > Contrariwise, at times I have wished to be able to capture a screen as
> text
> > for embedding in User Manuals such that:
> > o The appearance of the screen is realistic (colors don't matter much.)
> > o The text can be searched and Copy/Pasted for user experiments.
> >
> > IBM Pubs does a credible job of this, as in:
> > 
> > and the corresponding PDF document.  Both have selectable text.
> >
> > What tool does this?  (And facilitates problem reports in text format?)
> >
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Re: Blank page print after upgrade Zos2.5

[Roger Bolan]

Those are PSF exits.  If you reassembled and relinked they should work the
same.   A full external trace can show everything sent to the printer.

On Wed, Aug 10, 2022, 2:08 AM Tommy Tsui  wrote:

> We didn’t change any printer definition and default line per page.we use
> default separator exit only. Any change we need?
>
> 「Tommy Tsui 」在 2022年8月10日 週三，下午3:27 寫道：
>
> > Hi Brain
> > Thanks for your information. After I checked, we already assembled all
> new
> > separator exit APSUX01 & 02. The new page inserted after a separator
> page.
> > We don’t know why.  The data seems not problem. All new page break are
> > correct.
> >
> > 「Brian Westerman 」在 2022年8月10日 週三，下午1:13
> > 寫道：
> >
> >> I am assuming that you are printing with JES2 and not VPS or some other
> >> remote print product.
> >>
> >> This can happen if you didn't re-assemble your separator exit.  Although
> >> it can happen with VPS as well if you forget to assemble it, but VPS is
> >> good about telling you if you forgot.  JES can mess up if the exit
> didn't
> >> assemble cleanly, or
> >>
> >> Do you notice that the data your exit is putting out is not being
> >> inserted into the separator?  Also, this can happen if your printer
> >> definitions have changed between the releases.
> >>
> >> Did you change your default lines per page for the printer.  IF your
> >> separator is larger than the page, it will cause an extra eject.
> >>
> >> IBM says "Some printers do not reposition to "top of forms" after the
> >> trailer page. To avoid feeding blank pages through your printer,
> include a
> >> page eject statement in your exit routine following the trailer
> separator
> >> page."  If your problem is a blank page after the last separator, then
> this
> >> is likely to be the reason.
> >>
> >> Otherwise, I need more information to help you debug this.
> >>
> >> Brian
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Re: SLIP IF not working

[Roger Bolan]

Try adding A=SVCD, assuming that is the kind of dump you want.

On Tue, Jun 7, 2022, 10:48 AM Dave Jousma <
01a0403c5dc1-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote:

> On Tue, 7 Jun 2022 20:19:08 +0700, Robin Atwood 
> wrote:
>
> >I wanted to get a dump of my server when the instruction at 001234 in
> module
> >MOD1 gets executed, so I entered:
> >
> >
> >
> >SLIP SET,IF,J=SRV1,PVTMOD=(MOD1,001234),ID=SLP1,END
> >
> >
> >
> >I made a transaction that drove MOD1 but no dump was taken. So, OK, the
> >offset maybe incorrect (there are lots of csects in MOD1) and I adjusted
> the
> >offset, but to no avail. So just to see if the trap worked at all, I
> >entered:
> >
> >
> >
> >SLIP SET,IF,J=SRV1,PVTMOD=(MOD1),ID=SLP1,END
> >
> >
> >
> >but still no dump. So I must be missing something basic; I was recently
> >doing a lot of SLIP SA traps and didn't have this
> >
> >trouble. MOD1 is definitely in memory at the time the SLIP command is
> >issued. Any advice much appreciated.
> >
>
> Robin,
>
> Is this module loaded by CICS?   If so, there are special actions you have
> to take, but I do not remember.  I worked with IBM support on a problem,
> and I recall them telling me that if loader didnt load the module that a
> SLIP will not work.
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Re: Tracking CLIST/Exec Usage

[Roger Bolan]

Hello,
Let me just add a little cautionary note to this thread.
Do not delete anything without knowing what it is used for.
Some of the products I support have CLIST or EXEC tools used to create or
change resources that can be used unchanged for years and then suddenly
require changes.
You might have some tools that are vital, despite being used only once
every few years.
Regards,
--Roger

On Wed, Jan 26, 2022 at 8:41 AM David Spiegel 
wrote:

> Hi List,
> I have been given the task of cleaning up unused software.
> Part of that is identifying which CLISTs/Execs are not being used.
>
> Can someone please suggest a way to do this?
>
> Thank you in advance.
>
> Regards,
> David
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Re: is there any document for using shopz

[Roger Bolan]

Try https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/search/shopz

On Thu, Jan 20, 2022 at 10:36 PM Jason Cai  wrote:

> Hi all
>
>I just am authorized to access IBM shopz. I had never accessed IBM
> shopz before.
>
>   Is there any document about how to order production or PTF by shopz.
>
>   Any suggestion is greatly appreciated!
>
> Thanks a lot!
>
> Jason Cai
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Re: IBM Knowledge Center down?

[Roger Bolan]

Just a question.  Are you still using old links to the "Knowledge Center"
site or new links to the "IBM Documentation" site?
For example:
See https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/2.4.0
for the z/OS 2.40 books.
I have been using the "IBM Documentation" site all day yesterday and today
and haven't noticed any problems.
--Roger

On Fri, Jan 21, 2022 at 10:36 AM Richards, Robert B. (CTR) <
01c91f408b9e-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote:

> I remember doing those tech updates by hand...circa 1985?
>
> -Original Message-
> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List  On Behalf
> Of Carmen Vitullo
> Sent: Friday, January 21, 2022 12:24 PM
> To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
> Subject: Re: IBM Knowledge Center down?
>
> not shameless IMHO, a great tool I use first before hitting the books.
>
> to age myself a bit, I remember getting boxes of hard copy, and updates
> periodically and was able to update the doc by hand, anyone remember the
>
> | update makes and what pages to remove and replace?
>
> taking that away and replacing it with a ACTION(DOC) update is little to
> no help with all the products that now encompass the base
>
> I hope IBM developers are reading, listening, we really need the ability
> to update PDF doc, IBM pushed KC to be on our local processors, and HAD a
> great tool to get the doc from IBM and update our local copy of the KC,
> last I head that's not working? or de funked?
>
> I don't know how this can be done, but I'm sure it can be done via SMP/E
> or an outboard tool to update our local doc with any ACTION(DOC) I would be
> willing to do what's necessary to create a local repository and update any
> cfg file to make this happen locally
>
> Carmen
>
>
>
> On 1/21/2022 11:03 AM, Ramsey Hallman wrote:
> > To throw in a shameless plug, if you have MVS/QuickRef, much of the
> > IBM and ISV content is available on your mainframe for instant access,
> > internet or not, KC up or down, USB plugable, etc.  And for our
> > clients, if there is content we do not currently have that you desire,
> > let us know and we will do our best to obtain that content and add it to
> our database.
> >
> > Prior to becoming a developer for MVS/QuickRef, every shop I worked in
> > as a s/p had QuickRef.  If it didn't when I arrived, it did by the time
> I left.
> > I don't know what I would have done without it.  It's almost
> > impossible to keep physical manuals up to date as quickly as software
> changes.
> >
> > Ramsey Hallman
> > MVS/QuickRef Development
> > Chicago-Soft, Ltd.
> >
> > On Fri, Jan 21, 2022 at 10:48 AM René
> > Jansen
> > wrote:
> >
> >> Yes, that is a very good idea. It would follow the general route in
> >> which progress is made, then undone, and then redone. As JSON api’s
> >> to everything are the fashion nowadays, that would be really welcome
> >> to stay updated, by e.g. having a nightly cronjob that updates the
> >> docs databases. If these were of the tagged variety, we could even
> >> generate updated PDFs out of these. I would be like updating TLS
> >> newsletters without catching your finger in the blue binder!
> >>
> >> Best regards,
> >>
> >> René.
> >>
> >> Sent from my iPad
> >>
> >>> On 21 Jan 2022, at 16:25, Matt Hogstrom  wrote:
> >>>
> >>> One thing not mentioned on the thread is the ability to have APIs
> >>> to
> >> read the IBM document database.  If one exists please share.  The
> >> document database assumes a human at a browser which is limiting and
> >> a supported and stable API interface would be welcome.
> >>> Matt Hogstrom
> >>> PGP key 0F143BC1
> >>>
>  On Jan 20, 2022, at 17:18, Hank Oerlemans <
> >> 03c4d8bf55f3-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote:
>  How many online systems have IBM put out there now ?
>  Just when it's all seems stable it changes and we go around again.
>  I could mention the stacks of manuals I started with that never
>  went
> >> down :-) but think of the trees.
>  Damn ! Am I that old ?
> 
>  I'm gonna download the pdf collection for now.
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Re: What not to do on a z/OS system...

[Roger Bolan]

Well, mine was just silly and did not involve games or using unauthorized
CPU time.
I was just doing my normal code development job and running PL/I compiles,
links, and tests.
The systems I normally used restricted the jobnames to userid + a
character.  Then one of the systems I was working on allowed the jobname to
be whatever I wanted.   So I took one of my ordinary jobs that didn't use
any more time or resources than normal, and "just for fun" I gave it a
jobname of "COREHOGG".

OMG!!   When I submitted that my phone immediately blew up with people
yelling at me about what did I think I was doing?   Not the operators.
They could see what it was.  But other users who just reacted to the name
COREHOGG without knowing anything else about the job.

So I learned not to give jobnames "just for fun". :)

--Roger

On Tue, Jan 18, 2022 at 3:41 PM Robert Prins 
wrote:

> OK, it's not the silly season, but have you ever used your employers
> equipment to do something silly? And are not afraid to admit it?
>
> Well, I have in the early 1990'ies, and I actually got away with it,
> without losing my job.
>
> And talking about jobs, if anyone of you know of any companies looking for
> someone with 36+ years of PL/I, and a bit less Db2 and CICS, feel free to
> drop me a line.
>
> So what did I do? Let's go back a few years…
>
> 
> Setting the record straight
> <
> https://prino.neocities.org/blog/2022-01-19-setting-the-record-straight.html
> >
>
> Robert
> --
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> robert(a)prino(d)org
> The hitchhiking grandfather 
> Some REXX code for use on z/OS
> 
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Re: HOW to use dfsort to replace these dates and times with BLANK

[Roger Bolan]

I have not worked this out, but I would look at dfsort FINDREP and regular
expressions.

On Fri, Jan 7, 2022, 1:39 AM Jason Cai  wrote:

> Hi all
>
>  There are many dates and times in the input.
>
> Please see it below
>
> input
> ===
> 06/28/2018 2018.17  AA  18:07:46.51
> BB 06/28/2019 16:07:46.50
> =
>
>  The issue is that the position of date and time isn't fixed.
>
> at the same time, the value of time and date is variable.
>
>
>  We hope to use dfsort to replace these dates and times with BLANK to get
> the following output.
>
> output
> 
> AA
> BB
> =
>
> We are migrating z/OS from 2.2 to 2.3 .
>
> Any suggestions are highly appreciated!
>
> Thanks a lot!
>
> Jason Cai
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Re: Catch-22 on z/OSMF under z/OS 2.4

[Roger Bolan]

Tom,

You can avoid conflicts between Infoprint Server up and other requirements.

See Customizing the IBM HTTP Server - Powered by Apache - IBM Documentation

https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/2.4.0?topic=central-customizing-http-server-powered-by-apache

Guidelines:

   1. Start a separate IBM HTTP Server - Powered by Apache to be used
   exclusively by Infoprint Central. A separate HTTP server can improve
   Infoprint Central performance. Also, you can customize the HTTP server for
   Infoprint Central without affecting other applications that use the HTTP
   server.

If you have other conflicts, Infoprint Server can even use a separate
TCPIP stack.  See
Customizing z/OS Communications Server (TCP/IP) - IBM Documentation

https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/2.4.0?topic=lpd-customizing-zos-communications-server-tcpip

Regards,
--Roger



On Wed, Dec 1, 2021 at 3:36 PM Tom Longfellow <
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> I needed to vent so here goes.
>
> Health checker says AT-TLS needs updating for GPMSERV/DDS
> Infoprint server now requres https support not configured in our AT-TLS
> config.
> Plus we want to convert to AT-TLS support for TN3270 port 23.
>
> z/OSMF comes up and 'says' web services are running..
>
> Attempts to browse https://hostname:6443/zosmf time out with no reply to
> the browser. (Chrome, Firefox,
> An IP trace on port 6443 shows an HELO command for TLS and a never ending
> series of inbound and outbound ACK packets.
> NETSTAT commands show the connections in CLosWait status.
>
> All of this goes on without a single indication the /global/zosmf/logs
> files.
>
> SO --- This leaves me with a potential AT-TLS problem that even if I
> knew the solution, I have no way to correct or change the AT-TLS
> configuration without the failing product affected by the problem working.
> In other words no mandatory Configuration Assistant --- no changed to
> AT-TLS. CATCH-22
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Re: System Programmer Titles

[Roger Bolan]

Someone in this thread said
 "but I'm at a loss as to how to compare them with each other."

I think that is exactly what those in charge want.

On Tue, Oct 12, 2021, 10:03 AM John McKown 
wrote:

> I prefer Arcane Wizard of Technology
>
> On Tue, Oct 12, 2021, 08:42 Cameron Conacher <
> 03cfc59146bb-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote:
>
> > I tried o get "King" once, but that did not get very far.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > …….Cameron
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > -Original Message-
> > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List  On Behalf
> > Of Brian Westerman
> > Sent: Tuesday, October 12, 2021 1:03 AM
> > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
> > Subject: [External] Re: System Programmer Titles
> >
> > I am leaning towards "He who shall not be called after midnight without
> > invoking his considerable wrath", but I don't think it would fit on my
> card.
> >
> > Brian
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Re: Infoprint Server, duplex option

[Roger Bolan]

Yes.  You can use the DUPLEX option on the OUTPUT JCL statement with
Printway Extended as long as you have set the correct values in
duplexes-supported in your printer definition.  If you tell Printway what
kind of duplexing your printer supports, then it can do it.
See
https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/2.5.0?topic=ppdip-validating-that-data-sets-can-print-as-requested-basic-extended-mode#pwlimit

On Mon, Oct 4, 2021 at 8:29 PM Frank Swarbrick 
wrote:

> Hi Roger,
>
> We do currently use PCL in document-header parameters to specify duplex,
> font, orientation, etc.  That means we have at least 12 different printer
> definitions for each printer.  Allowing dynamic specification of the duplex
> parameter would allow use to cut this down to 4, I think (80 char portrait,
> 132 char portrait, 132 char landscape and 176 char landscape, I think.)
> I was wondering if we could eliminate at least the duplex PCL code and
> specify DUPLEX in the JCL.
>
> We do use some transforms, but we don't use them for simple text output.
>
> 
> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List  on behalf
> of Roger Bolan 
> Sent: Sunday, October 3, 2021 11:18 PM
> To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU 
> Subject: Re: Infoprint Server, duplex option
>
> See IBM Print Transforms from AFP for Infoprint Server for z/OS
> <
> http://publibfp.boulder.ibm.com/epubs/pdf/aokfa102.pdf?mhsrc=ibmsearch_a=%22infoprint%20Server%22%20duplex%20afpxpcl
> >
> Generally the DUPLEX on the OUTPUT JCL card is for AFP output through PSF,
> but for Infoprint Server there are associated products that transform AFP
> documents into PCL, Postscript, or PDF and some of these can use the DUPLEX
> attribute.  For Infoprint Server it is also possible to define a
> document-header value which can be a string of PCL/PJL commands understood
> by most printers. See PCL 5 Printer Language Technical Quick Reference
> Guide (hp.com) <http://h10032.www1.hp.com/ctg/Manual/bpl13205.pdf>
> If your printer accepts the PCL header and can do duplex, you can set the
> control for duplex in the document-header of a printer definition for the
> printer.
> --Roger
>
>
> On Thu, Sep 30, 2021 at 5:23 PM Frank Swarbrick <
> frank.swarbr...@outlook.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Does anyone happen to know if non-PSF print jobs (specifically, LPR or
> > IPP) support the use of the DUPLEX parameter on the OUTPUT JCL statement?
> > I've tried it with an IP Printway LPR printer definition, but it doesn't
> > seem to have any effect.  The documentation leads me to think it might
> only
> > be supported for PSF printers, but it's really not clear.
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Re: Infoprint Server, duplex option

[Roger Bolan]

See IBM Print Transforms from AFP for Infoprint Server for z/OS

Generally the DUPLEX on the OUTPUT JCL card is for AFP output through PSF,
but for Infoprint Server there are associated products that transform AFP
documents into PCL, Postscript, or PDF and some of these can use the DUPLEX
attribute.  For Infoprint Server it is also possible to define a
document-header value which can be a string of PCL/PJL commands understood
by most printers. See PCL 5 Printer Language Technical Quick Reference
Guide (hp.com) 
If your printer accepts the PCL header and can do duplex, you can set the
control for duplex in the document-header of a printer definition for the
printer.
--Roger


On Thu, Sep 30, 2021 at 5:23 PM Frank Swarbrick 
wrote:

> Does anyone happen to know if non-PSF print jobs (specifically, LPR or
> IPP) support the use of the DUPLEX parameter on the OUTPUT JCL statement?
> I've tried it with an IP Printway LPR printer definition, but it doesn't
> seem to have any effect.  The documentation leads me to think it might only
> be supported for PSF printers, but it's really not clear.
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Re: FTP distributed system EBCDIC encoded file

[Roger Bolan]

If you can get the original file with the NL to your mainframe with purely
binary transfers there are a couple of things that can help.
On a zVM CMS system I made a Rexx to do it like this:
/*rexx*/
Parse arg fn ft fm .
Address command
/* splits on 0x15 */
'PIPE <' fn ft fm  '| DEBLOCK LINEEND | >' fn ft 'A'

On TSO starting from a dataset I used
/* REXX COMMAND TO FIX UNSPLIT HFS FILES */
/* Roger Bolan May 18, 2010 */
Trace C
ADDRESS tso
PARSE ARG olddsn
if olddsn = '?' then call explain
stripdsn = Strip(olddsn,'B',"'")
"OPUT '"||stripdsn||"' '/tmp/"||stripdsn||"'"
"OGET '/tmp/"||stripdsn||"' '"||stripdsn||"'"  "TEXT"
"OSHELL rm /tmp/"||stripdsn
return RC
explain:
  say 'Use from ISPF 3.4'
  say 'Example format:  %split  / '
  say 'use / to enter the quoted fully qualified name from ISPF 3.4'
  exit 0

Try that.

Regards,
--Roger


On Tue, Jul 27, 2021, 4:02 PM Frank Swarbrick 
wrote:

> We have a vendor that is providing a file that is EBCDIC (IBM-1140)
> encoded, but also includes an NL record/line terminator.  The source system
> is NOT a mainframe system.  I'm trying to figure out how to FTP the file to
> the mainframe and have it treat NL as, well, NL; i.e. a record terminator.
> Binary mode (no SITE options) doesn't work because it stores the NL
> characters.  ASCII mode (no SITE options) doesn't work, I believe because
> it still expects the CRLF delimiter.  I tried specifying "SITE TYPE E"
> (EBCDIC) and that also does not eliminate the NL delimiter.
>
> Any thoughts?  We're seeing if the vendor can just not use a delimiter at
> all, but no luck yet.
>
> Note: They can create it in UTF-8, but they are including the UTF-8 Byte
> Order Mark (BOM).  I am able to get z/OS to strip the BOM, but I have to
> specify the transmission as being "multi-byte", so the destination has to
> be VB.  Which we can deal with, but we'd prefer FB as that is how we have
> it from the old vendor.
>
> FYI, here are the 3 "SITE" commands mentioned in the note above:
> encoding=mbcs
> mbdataconn=(ibm-1140,utf-8)
> UnicodeFileSystemBOM=never
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Re: PPFA

[Roger Bolan]

As Salva said the logo itself is likely a page segment.  If you browse the
AFP resource itself, it probably has some lines at the top that will
identify the tool that made it.  It sounds like to change the logo, they
would change the image, replace the page segment member with the new logo
with the same name, and then you might not need to change overlay, pagedef,
or formdef at all.
If the user has IBM support contracts to allow for support for usage or
"how to" questions, the best thing would be to open a case so IBM can help
with access to the data.

If he can't determine or use the original tool for some reason, he could
try downloading the AFP Printer Driver from this web site:
https://dl.ricohsoftware.com/downloads/aa9a248e-101c-4aa6-b109-1cf7403f3b4f

Yes, that's a Ricoh site.  The old IBM Printing Systems Division is part of
Ricoh nowadays.
With that printer driver you can configure to "print" any image on Windows
into an AFP page segment.

Then the binary page segment file can be uploaded to z/OS.  If it needs to
go into an MVS library you can use AFRREBLK (part of PSF) to turn the file
into a library member.

--Roger

On Mon, Apr 26, 2021 at 11:10 AM Alan Altmark 
wrote:

> Asking for a friend who has been tasked to change the logo that is printed
> on the reports being generated by Infoprint on z/OS.  They have a PAGEDEF
> and FORMDEF that contains the logo, but the person who originally set that
> up is long gone.   He has familiarity with Infoprint and how to get the
> reports generated and all that, but not with how the xDEFs are created.
>
> My instincts (as someone who did a lot of PSF-related stuff back in the
> late 80s) is that this was the job of PPFA.   You could upload a JPG,
> one-page PDF, or GIF (or whatever), and tell PPFA to build the PAGEDEF and
> FORMDEF for it.   Blah blah blah  blah blah
> blah.  Right.
>
> My familiarity with PSF was restricted almost entirely to VM, and that
> back to the late 80s when I was doing PSF/VM testing on a new release of
> VM.   I think I may have used PPFA exactly once during that time.
>
> If it *is* PPFA that deals with this, and assuming the source files for
> the current pagedef/formdef are still extant, what kinds of files should he
> be looking for and where would they most likely be?  If the files aren't
> there, can PPFA read in the existing DEF objects so that he can modify
> them without starting from the very beginning?
>
> Yes, I could tell him to RTFMs, but there's a lot of FMs to R and I'd like
> to point him in the right direction so he can start digging.
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> Alan Altmark
> z/VM Consultant
> IBM Lab Services
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Re: LPSTAT Fails

[Roger Bolan]

I know you fully specified the path when you gave the lpstat command, but I
wonder if that's enough.
There are two versions of lpstat.  One is just a stub.
See
https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSLTBW_2.4.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r4.aopu000/lps.htm
where it says: " /bin/lpstat is a stub command. z/OS® UNIX recognizes it
but does not support its function. To make sure that you run
/usr/lpp/Printsrv/lpstat, do either of these:

   - Use the mv command to rename /bin/lpstat.
   - Change your PATH environment variable so that /usr/lpp/Printsrv comes
   before /bin."

You can also run the command /usr/lpp/Printsrv/samples/aopcheck
That's a Rexx exec.  Check the comments inside.  If you use all default
names then you can run aopcheck with no arguments.  If you use non-default
names, you can pass your names as arguments or you can customize aopcheck
to use the defaults configured for your site.
The aopcheck checks certain permissions bits and owner and group names and
gives messages that contain the phrase "but should be" if anything isn't as
expected.
You might want to see
https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSLTBW_2.4.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r4.aops000/custmap.htm
and review the steps in the Infoprint Server Customization Roadmap to make
sure you didn't skip something.

For more than that, you should open a case with IBM for the Infoprint
Server component of z/OS.
Start here: https://www.ibm.com/support/home/

--Roger





On Mon, Oct 5, 2020 at 10:28 AM David Spiegel 
wrote:

> Hi,
> A user issues /usr/lpp/Printsrv/bin/lpstat -a
> and gets:
> /usr/lpp/Printsrv/bin: FSUM9209 cannot execute: reason code = 0b1b011f:
> EDC5111I Permission denied.
>
> The user is COnnected to AOPADMIN which is PErmitted UPDATE to PRINTSRV
> AOP.ADMINISTRATOR
>
> Here are the z/OS V2.3 Files and Permission Bits:
> Dir755   rwxr-xr-x  2020-02-06 04:35 OMVSKERN 8192  .
> Dir755   rwxr-xr-x  2020-02-06 04:35  OMVSKERN 8192 ..
> Syml   777   rwxrwxrwx  2019-04-29 20:56  OMVSKERN   42 .aokcinit
> Syml   777   rwxrwxrwx  2019-04-29 20:56  OMVSKERN   48 afpxpcl
> Syml   777   rwxrwxrwx  2019-04-29 21:24  OMVSKERN   34 afpxpcld
> Syml   777   rwxrwxrwx  2019-04-29 20:56  OMVSKERN   48 afpxpdf
> Syml   777   rwxrwxrwx  2019-04-29 21:24  OMVSKERN   34 afpxpdfd
> Syml   777   rwxrwxrwx  2019-04-29 20:56  OMVSKERN   46 afpxps
> Syml   777   rwxrwxrwx  2019-04-29 21:24  OMVSKERN   33 afpxpsd
> File   755   rwxr-xr-x  2017-05-24 17:40  OMVSKERN  2162688 aopchkinv
> File   700   rwx--  2017-05-24 17:40  OMVSKERN20480 aopcstart
> File   700   rwx--  2020-02-06 04:34  OMVSKERN  3911680 aopd
> File   754   rwxr-xr--  2020-02-06 04:34  OMVSKERN32768 aopdemon
> File   700   rwx--  2020-02-06 04:34  OMVSKERN   286720 aopippd
> File   750   rwxr-x---  2020-02-06 04:34  OMVSKERN  3092480 aoplogu
> File   700   rwx--  2020-02-06 04:34  OMVSKERN   299008 aoplpd
> File   755   rwxr-xr-x  2020-02-06 04:34  OMVSKERN  5517312 aopmig
> File   755   rwxr-xr-x  2020-02-06 04:34  OMVSKERN  2396160 aopmigns
> File   755   rwxr-xr-x  2020-02-06 04:34  OMVSKERN  1810432 aopmigpw
> File   700   rwx--  2020-02-06 04:34  OMVSKERN   176128 aopnetd
> File   755   rwxr-xr-x  2020-02-06 04:34  OMVSKERN  3534848 aopoms
> File   700   rwx--  2020-02-06 04:35  OMVSKERN  3198976 aopoutd
> File   755   rwxr-xr-x  2020-02-06 04:35  OMVSKERN  2408448 aopsapd
> File   750   rwxr-x---  2020-02-06 04:35  OMVSKERN  2625536 aopsend
> File   755   rwxr-xr-x  2020-02-06 04:34  OMVSKERN 5292 aopsetup
> File   700   rwx--  2020-02-06 04:35  OMVSKERN  1835008 aopssid
> File   755   rwxr-xr-x  2017-05-24 17:40  OMVSKERN13399 aopstart
> File   755   rwxr-xr-x  2020-02-06 04:35  OMVSKERN  2625536 aopstat
> File   750   rwxr-x---  2020-02-06 04:35  OMVSKERN  2519040 aopstop
> File   700   rwx--  2020-02-06 04:35  OMVSKERN   847872 aopsubd
> File   700   rwx--  2020-02-06 04:35  OMVSKERN   663552 aopwsmd
> File   750   rwxr-x---  2017-05-24 17:40  OMVSKERN  2633728 aopxcfut
> File   700   rwx--  2020-02-06 04:35  OMVSKERN   532480 aopxfd
> File   755   rwxr-xr-x  2020-02-06 04:34  OMVSKERN  3358720 cancel
> File   755   rwxr-xr-x  2020-02-06 04:34  OMVSKERN  2871296 filter
> File   750   rwxr-x---  2020-02-06 04:34  OMVSKERN  2072576 hinvu
> Dir755   rwxr-xr-x  2017-05-24 17:40  OMVSKERN 8192 IBM
> File   750   rwxr-x---  2017-05-24 17:40  OMVSKERN 1760
> loadprinterinventory
> File   755   rwxr-xr-x  2020-02-06 04:34  OMVSKERN  3383296 lp
> File   755   rwxr-xr-x  2020-02-06 04:34  OMVSKERN  3444736 lpstat
> File   750   rwxr-x---  2020-02-06 04:35  OMVSKERN  3608576 pidu
> File   755   rwxr-xr-x  2017-05-24 17:40  OMVSKERN 2223 remotexf
> File   750   rwxr-x---  2020-02-06 04:35  OMVSKERN  2023424 sdbu
>
> 

Re: [External] Re: Simple JES2 spool offload question

[Roger Bolan]

Rex,
I don't know how WS=(/JOBNAME=REX*) would work.  I always have *something*
on the left side of the slash.
I guess it would select any jobs that match the pattern first, and then
select everything.  But the left side bothers me.  It could either select
from everything on the spool, or select nothing.


On Fri, Sep 11, 2020 at 9:12 AM Pommier, Rex 
wrote:

> Hi Roger,
>
> Thanks for pointing that out to me, I missed it when I was looking.  I'm
> still not clear so let me say what I *think* it's saying and you can tell
> me if I'm completely missing the mark.
>
> If the criteria is left of the slash, it's straightforward, to be selected
> by the offloader SYSOUT or jobs need to match all the criteria.  No match,
> no selection.
>
> If the criteria is to the right of the slash, JES2 will look at each
> criterion and if JES2 has something in the spool file that matches that
> particular criterion, JES2 will use that in determining whether or not to
> include the spool item, but if JES2 doesn't find anything that matches the
> particular criterion, it'll ignore the criterion completely?   For example,
> if I have WS=(/JOBNAME=REX*), JES2 will scan through the spool looking for
> jobs that start with REX and if it finds any, that's all it'll offload, but
> if it doesn't find any it'll offload everything (based on any other
> criteria I might have)?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Rex
>
> -Original Message-
> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List  On Behalf
> Of Roger Bolan
> Sent: Sunday, September 6, 2020 5:44 PM
> To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
> Subject: [External] Re: Simple JES2 spool offload question
>
> See Tuning work selection criteria
> <
> https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSLTBW_2.4.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r4.hasa300/has2v5_Tuning_work_selection_criteria.htm
> >
> about 2/3 of the way down the page it talks about using JOBNAME to the
> left or right of the slash in more detail.
> --Roger
>
> On Fri, Sep 4, 2020 at 11:25 AM Pommier, Rex 
> wrote:
>
> > Hi List,
> >
> > I have a question that has puzzled me on and off for years regarding
> > the work selection criteria for the JES2 spool offload facility.  That
> > is the use of the slash.  I get the part about criteria left of the
> > slash being required, i.e. if you have JOBNAME=ABCDE and WS=(JOB/)
> > only output from jobs named ABCDE will get selected.  What does it
> > mean that a selection criteria to the right of the slash means it is
> > preferred?  I mean, I would assume JES is either going to select the
> SYSOUT or it isn't.
> >
> > This is from the JES2 init and tuning reference - item 3 is the
> > puzzler to
> > me:
> >
> > A slash can be used within the work selection list to further specify
> > work selection. The use of a slash has the following general meaning:
> > 1) those criterion listing several specifications is prioritized in a
> > left to right priority order when placed to the left of the slash; 2)
> > the placement of a criterion to the left of the slash indicates a
> > required exact match of work selection and job criteria; and 3)
> > placement of a criterion to the right of the slash indicates a
> > preferred (but not required match) of work selection and job criteria.
> >
> > Sounded like a good question for a Friday.
> >
> > TIA,
> > Rex
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Re: Simple JES2 spool offload question

[Roger Bolan]

See Tuning work selection criteria

about 2/3 of the way down the page it talks about using JOBNAME to the left
or right of the slash in more detail.
--Roger

On Fri, Sep 4, 2020 at 11:25 AM Pommier, Rex 
wrote:

> Hi List,
>
> I have a question that has puzzled me on and off for years regarding the
> work selection criteria for the JES2 spool offload facility.  That is the
> use of the slash.  I get the part about criteria left of the slash being
> required, i.e. if you have JOBNAME=ABCDE and WS=(JOB/) only output from
> jobs named ABCDE will get selected.  What does it mean that a selection
> criteria to the right of the slash means it is preferred?  I mean, I would
> assume JES is either going to select the SYSOUT or it isn't.
>
> This is from the JES2 init and tuning reference - item 3 is the puzzler to
> me:
>
> A slash can be used within the work selection list to further specify work
> selection. The use of a slash has the following general meaning: 1) those
> criterion listing several specifications is prioritized in a left to right
> priority order when placed to the left of the slash; 2) the placement of a
> criterion to the left of the slash indicates a required exact match of work
> selection and job criteria; and 3) placement of a criterion to the right of
> the slash indicates a preferred (but not required match) of work selection
> and job criteria.
>
> Sounded like a good question for a Friday.
>
> TIA,
> Rex
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Re: Any shop use UNIX in a production job?

[Roger Bolan]

I scanned this whole thread and I was surprised not to see Infoprint Server
mentioned. If the question is does anyone use Unix in a production job the
answer is yes. Lots of sites use Infoprint Server for production printing.
Infoprint Server uses Unix daemons and Unix files.

On Friday, April 17, 2020, Tony Harminc  wrote:

> On Mon, 13 Apr 2020 at 17:51, Seymour J Metz  wrote:
> >> ... DD: PATHOPTS ... And if ...The file does not exist,Then MVS
> performs an open() function.
>
> > Where does MVS do this? Converter? Interpreter? Initiator? Does SVC 99
> also do it, and under what TCB?
>
> One imagines Common Allocation (some IEFABxxx module) if it happens in
> both batch and dynamic allocation.
>
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Re: KC: The request cannot be fulfilled by the server

[Roger Bolan]

It seems to me that I get that message only when accessing KC with Chrome
but not with Firefox.

On Wed, Dec 11, 2019, 11:43 AM Charles Mills  wrote:

> Does anyone else get the above message about half the time they try to use
> Knowledge Center, or is it just me?
>
>
>
> I keep hoping a company that runs "Expect More from the IBM Cloud" on
> national TV would have enough Web capacity for a documentation repository.
>
>
>
> Charles
>
>
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Re: Job abend with S722

[Roger Bolan]

OK.  Let me add a little more background explanation to my previous post.
 Naturally, if the output is from a loop or other error you don't want to
just permit it.  But sometimes that is not the case.   There was a case a
few years ago, since fixed by APAR (I don't remember exactly which product
took the APAR).   Ordinary size print jobs through Infoprint Server started
getting S722 abends.  The reason was that the output was all being counted
together because all of the output came from aopoutd daemon running in Unix
for all the jobs.  The S722 abends were not because of the output of the
individual jobs, but because of the accumulated output of all the jobs
processed.  The fix was things like the _BPX_UNLIMITED_OUTPUT environment
variable so that the aopoutd daemon could continue to process the jobs
without every job getting S722 because the limit had been passed.
--Roger

On Fri, Jul 5, 2019 at 8:36 AM Roger Bolan  wrote:

> See page 124 section 5.4  here
> http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redbooks/pdfs/sg246377.pdf
> Setting ESTBYTE OPT=0 may help.
> If Unix is involved then  _BPX_UNLIMITED_OUTPUT=YES might also help.
> --Roger
>
> On Fri, Jul 5, 2019 at 7:46 AM raji ece  wrote:
>
>> One of our job is abending with RC S722 and the error show the maximum
>> outlimit execeed. We have coded lines=99(Maximum limit) and run but
>> getting same error. Current zos level is 1.13. any idea?
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Re: Job abend with S722

[Roger Bolan]

See page 124 section 5.4  here
http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redbooks/pdfs/sg246377.pdf
Setting ESTBYTE OPT=0 may help.
If Unix is involved then  _BPX_UNLIMITED_OUTPUT=YES might also help.
--Roger

On Fri, Jul 5, 2019 at 7:46 AM raji ece  wrote:

> One of our job is abending with RC S722 and the error show the maximum
> outlimit execeed. We have coded lines=99(Maximum limit) and run but
> getting same error. Current zos level is 1.13. any idea?
>
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Re: How can I get reports in the Output Queue in SDSF to print

[Roger Bolan]

Ron,
Look at Output Disposition in the IBM Knowledge Center.
See
https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSLTBW_2.3.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r3.ieab600/iea3b6_Subparameter_definitions1.htm
You might have an output disposition of KEEP or LEAVE.   You can change
these with SDSF and release the job so it prints and then stays on the
queue for further re-printing.
--Roger

On Fri, Feb 1, 2019 at 12:08 AM McCabe, Ron 
wrote:

> Hello,
>
> How can I get reports that are in the Output Queue in SDSF to be
> re-printed...basically I want them to be processed again.
>
> Thanks,
> Ron McCabe
> Manager of Mainframe/Midrange Systems
> Mutual of Enumclaw
>
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Re: Crosshair cursor

[Roger Bolan]

I almost never use it, but it's not a big deal.  On my emulator (PCOMM)
it's mapped to the ctrl-home key which toggles it on or off instantly as
needed.

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> What do you do when you can't see where the cursor is in order to move it
> where want it? Hitting home and then moving it back near where it was isn't
> nearly as nice as having the crosshairs. To say nothing of lining up text.
>
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Re: CA VIew Reports

[Roger Bolan]

Take a look at the Infoprint Server component of z/OS in  the IBM Knowledge
Center.  With the IBM Print Transforms afpxpdf it can change AFP or line
data into PDF and email it.  All the documentation is online at www.ibm.com.
--Roger

On Wed, Dec 12, 2018, 4:01 AM venkat kulkarni  Hello Group,
>
> Is there any way to offload reports  from CA View (SAR) to windows desktop
> in pdf format and also keeping report information like when it was
> originally created, Job name , Job ID etc.
>
> Any suggestions on this please.
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Re: IND$FILE -- where did the name come from?

[Roger Bolan]

YES!  That's what I was trying (and failing) to remember.
Now if somebody has the documentation for that it might explain the name
IND$FILE.

On Wed, Nov 28, 2018 at 9:35 AM Mike Wawiorko <
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> Back to the IBM 3270 PC perhaps.
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_3270_PC
>
> Mike Wawiorko
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> This mail originated from outside our organisation - charl...@mcn.org
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> Back well before Windows 3. Back to DOS.
>
> Charles
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Re: IND$FILE -- where did the name come from?

[Roger Bolan]

This is a really vague memory,  but I think that the name IND$FILE goes all
the way back,  possibly to Windows 3.1.  I think the product back then was
PC3270.
--Roger

On Wed, Nov 28, 2018, 7:36 AM Charles Mills  There is a link map on that link (hmmm, two different meanings of "link"
> there) that shows INDx CSECT names, so I think it establishes that IND
> is the component prefix.
>
> FILE is pretty obvious, like the COPY in IEBCOPY.
>
> So the only remaining question is "why the dollar sign?" (Or pound sign,
> for
> those of you so geographically disposed.)
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> At my old company we reverse-engineered the protocol.
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Re: Adjust CSSMTP Translation Table

[Roger Bolan]

> I wanted to share the solution with you.
Thank you.

On Tue, Jul 10, 2018, 11:31 AM Kayhan Tanriverir <
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> Hi,
> The problem is solved.
>
> CSSMTP fails to initialize when the  configuration file contains a
> TRANSLATE statement specifying a code page other than IBM-1047.
> Because the input buffer was not properly  initialized.  Applied PTF
> UI55791 solved the problem.
> CSSMTP has been corrected to initialize the input buffer used  for the
> conversion.
> It is enable IBM-1026 (Turkish code page) into the TRANSLATE statement in
> the CSSMTP configuration file.
>
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>  Iyi calismalar, saygilar /
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Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Connect:Direct and VOL=REF ?

[Roger Bolan]

The syntax you showed makes me think that preceding commas are required.


On Mon, Jul 2, 2018, 9:43 AM Dyck, Lionel B. (RavenTek) 
wrote:

> Using C:D 5.2 and yes I had tried that :-)
>
> The 'error' message, if that is what you want to call it, claims invalid
> VOL=SER= usage.
>
> Banging head against the wall removes the pain of trying to figure this
> out but that is only temporary.
>
> --
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> Mainframe Systems Programmer – RavenTek Solution Partners
>
> -Original Message-
> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On
> Behalf Of Elardus Engelbrecht
> Sent: Monday, July 02, 2018 9:59 AM
> To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
> Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: Connect:Direct and VOL=REF ?
>
> Dyck, Lionel B. (RavenTek) wrote:
>
> >After pouring thru the connect:direct pubs and finding that REF= is
> support, I've not been able to find the correct syntax to do a VOL=REF=dsn
> within a Connect:Direct Proc on the TO parameters.
>
> >Can anyone offer any suggestions/advice/direction?
>
> >The documented syntax is:
>
> >VOL = ( [PRIVATE],[RETAIN] ,[volume-sequence-no]
> >,[volume-count]
> >,[SER = (serial-no[,serial-no,...] ) ] ) | ( [SER = (serial-no,
> >[serial-no,...] ) | REF = dsn])
>
> >We've tried:
> >Vol=ref=dsn
> >Vol=(ref=dsn)
> >Vol=ser=(ref=dsn)
>
> According to what you post and my copy of the C:D PDF doc I have, after a
> lot of trimming that looong and hard to read syntax diagram,
>
> ... try Vol=(ref=dsn) , but you have done that???
>
> If not working, what version of C:D do you have?
> Do you see any error message(s)?
> Are you using C:D batch or online?
>
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Re: CSSMTP debug No Brackets Allowed

[Roger Bolan]

OK.  I'm at my desk.
Using a PCOMM session defaulting to 1047.
In ISPF Browse, using DISPLAY CCSID 1047
I see "010:MLCFGPROCESSCONFIGSTMT:TOKENARRAYÝ0M 5 Ý1M , I 7,"
but if I use DISPLAY CCSID 037
I see "010:MLCFGPROCESSCONFIGSTMT:TOKENARRAY[0] 5 [1] , I 7,"
and I can see the brackets.

Oddly, when I try that again on a PCOMM session defaulting to 037
I see the opposite results.  I see brackets with DISPLAY CCSID 1047
and I see "010:MLCFGPROCESSCONFIGSTMT:TOKENARRAY[0M 5 [1M , I 7,"
if I use DISPLAY CCSID 037.

So there is some interaction between your Terminal Emulator code page and
the ISPF Browse
Display that I can't explain.

While this looks right to me as I paste it into Gmail, who knows what will
happen when I
press Send.

--Roger




On Thu, Jun 7, 2018 at 11:55 AM, Seymour J Metz  wrote:

> >z/OS UNIX files can be tagged with a code page,
>
> Yes, if it's a  tagged Unix file than the code page should be taken from
> the file. Otherwise they should use the locale.
>
> >Has anyone a scheme to translate the SYSOUT CHARS
> >parameter (available through SDSF) to/from a CCSID?
>
> It would be installation dependent.
>
>
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> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List  on behalf
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> To: IBM-MAIN@listserv.ua.edu
> Subject: Re: CSSMTP debug No Brackets Allowed
>
> On Thu, 7 Jun 2018 17:14:46 +, Seymour J Metz wrote:
>
> >That doesn't solve the problem of incompatible EBCDIC code pages. Perhaps
> an option to translate from the current locale?
> >
> z/OS UNIX files can be tagged with a code page, but not Classic data
> sets,  nor
> SYSOUT, nor Linux files.  Has anyone a scheme to translate the SYSOUT CHARS
> parameter (available through SDSF) to/from a CCSID?
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Re: CSSMTP debug No Brackets Allowed

[Roger Bolan]

There ARE brackets.  Brackets are not at consistent code points in all code
pages.  In this line
"010:mlCfgProcessConfigStmt:tokenArrayÝ0¨ 5 Ý1¨ , i 7,"
there are brackets.  View that line using different code pages and you
should see them.
You will see "TokenArray[0] 5[1] ".  I used to deal with this all the time
writing C code.  Depending on if I wrote the code on my 3279 terminal or
PC and moved the code to the host, I would have to adjust the code for
brackets for what the compiler expected.   Try using the ISPF Browse
display ccsid command to see them.
Turn hex on too.  I am on my phone or I could show it.
--Roger



On Jun 7, 2018 1:25 AM, "Beesley, Paul"  wrote:

I noticed this also and don't think it is a problem at all. Think it's just
over zealous debugging on the part of the developer reminding themselves of
the syntax requirements. Otherwise, it makes no sense.

Paul

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Subject: CSSMTP debug No Brackets Allowed

CSSMTP DEBUG  :010:mlCfgProcessConfigStmt:No brackets allowed CSSMTP DEBUG
:010:mlCfgProcessConfigStmt:tokenArrayÝ0¨ 5 Ý1¨ , i 7,
CSSMTP INFO   :010:mlCfgProcessConfigStmt:Statement(166): 'LogLevel
 7
CSSMTP DEBUG  :010:mlCfgProcessConfigStmt:No brackets allowed

I am getting numerous lines in my CSSMTP sysout warning me that no brackets
are allowed.  I have triple checked the config and don't have brackets in
the statement lines referenced. This does not stop the program from
working, simply clutters up sysout.

Anyone know the source of the problem?
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Re: InfoPrint GUI

[Roger Bolan]

Hi Anne,
Redirect might sound like administration, but I know Infoprint Central can
display the printer definitions from the inventory but it does not edit
them.  You need Administrator authority to change the printer definitions
either with the ISPF panels or with the pidu command in OMVS.  The redirect
function tells Printway to send jobs targeted to one printer to another
printer instead.  Restore will end the temporary redirection.   The book
doesn't give details on exactly what happens under the covers to make that
happen. I think this is intended as a way to print jobs that were destined
for a printer which is temporarily out of service.

I know if you're using JCL to submit jobs you can use an OUTPUT JCL
statement with DEST=IP:nnn.nnn.nnn.nnn to direct print to a specific IP
address even if that address is not in one of your existing printer
definitions.  If you want to combine a new IP address with one of your
existing printer definitions for other attributes you can specify both.
See
https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSLTBW_2.3.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r3.aopu000/sing3.htm
for an example of using FSSDATA to select a printer definition by name, and
also override the IP address with DEST=IP:
That only affects that job.  To permanently change the IP address for a
printer definiton you have to use the pidu command or the ISPF panels.
Regards,
--Roger

On Tue, Feb 13, 2018 at 6:31 AM, Adams, Anne (DTI) <anne.ad...@state.de.us>
wrote:

> Thanks Roger,
> Still a little confused though. Upon looking at (SA38-0693-00) Infoprint
> Server Operation and Administraion, Using Infoprint Central, Work with
> Printers, IP PrintWay printers. (I can) start, stop, and redirect ... which
> does appear to be an admin function. Again, the change does not appear
> permanent. However, it may be as you said ... those functions are not
> available
>
> ~Anne
>
> -Original Message-
> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On
> Behalf Of Roger Bolan
> Sent: Monday, February 12, 2018 3:21 PM
> To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
> Subject: Re: InfoPrint GUI
>
> Anne,
> I see it.  Infoprint Central (what we call the GUI) is for working with
> jobs and printers for operations basically, but not for Adminstrator
> tasks.  The book says, on that page:
>
> Infoprint Central lets users display information about, but not work with,
> these
> objects:
> * Printer definitions
> * Printer pool definitions
> * Infoprint Server daemons
>
> To make a permanent new IP address for one of the printer definitions, use
> the ISPF panels instead of Infoprint Central.
> You should be a member of the AOPADMIN group to change printer definitions
> in the inventory.  See page 55 in that manual for more details.
>
> If you want to change the mapping of a host-name to an IP address, that
> would be done in your DNS instead of Infoprint.
>
> Changing the IP address for a printer definition in the ISPF panels does
> not require an IPL.  As soon as you PF3 back out of the panel where you
> changed the printer definition, you will see a message like "Element was
> updated".  As soon as you see that your printer definition modifications
> are in effect to be used.
> --Roger
>
>
>
> On Mon, Feb 12, 2018 at 12:14 PM, Adams, Anne (DTI) <
> anne.ad...@state.de.us>
> wrote:
>
> > Hey Roger -
> >
> > People here want to be able to change the printer definitions (ie. The
> > ip
> > address) using the GUI. From the manual (p. 339 from the infoprint
> > manual, Chapter 8, Customizing Infoprint Central.  aop1c010) it
> > appears that definitions are not supported and testing appears to
> > confirm that. We change the IP address but lose it when we IPL.
> > Unfortunately, I can't include an image of the page or an attachment.
> >
> > -Original Message-
> > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU]
> > On Behalf Of Roger Bolan
> > Sent: Monday, February 12, 2018 12:11 PM
> > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
> > Subject: Re: InfoPrint GUI
> >
> > Hi Anne,
> > I'm not sure what you're referring to.   Can you put in a link to the
> > statement in the documentation your question is about?
> > Is this something you see in the IBM Knowledge Center or a Redbook or
> what?
> > --Roger
> >
> > On Mon, Feb 12, 2018 at 7:53 AM, Adams, Anne (DTI)
> > <anne.ad...@state.de.us
> > >
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Hello all,
> > >
> > > Anyone know anything about the InfoPrint GUI? In particular, I've
> > > been told (it's in the manual) that changes made using the GUI are
> > > not permanent. They will revert back after an IPL. Mana

Re: InfoPrint GUI

[Roger Bolan]

Anne,
I see it.  Infoprint Central (what we call the GUI) is for working with
jobs and printers for operations basically, but not for Adminstrator
tasks.  The book says, on that page:

Infoprint Central lets users display information about, but not work with,
these
objects:
* Printer definitions
* Printer pool definitions
* Infoprint Server daemons

To make a permanent new IP address for one of the printer definitions, use
the ISPF panels instead of Infoprint Central.
You should be a member of the AOPADMIN group to change printer definitions
in the inventory.  See page 55 in that manual for more details.

If you want to change the mapping of a host-name to an IP address, that
would be done in your DNS instead of Infoprint.

Changing the IP address for a printer definition in the ISPF panels does
not require an IPL.  As soon as you PF3 back out of the panel where you
changed the printer definition, you will see a message like "Element was
updated".  As soon as you see that your printer definition modifications
are in effect to be used.
--Roger



On Mon, Feb 12, 2018 at 12:14 PM, Adams, Anne (DTI) <anne.ad...@state.de.us>
wrote:

> Hey Roger -
>
> People here want to be able to change the printer definitions (ie. The ip
> address) using the GUI. From the manual (p. 339 from the infoprint manual,
> Chapter 8, Customizing Infoprint Central.  aop1c010) it appears that
> definitions are not supported and testing appears to confirm that. We
> change the IP address but lose it when we IPL. Unfortunately, I can't
> include an image of the page or an attachment.
>
> -Original Message-
> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On
> Behalf Of Roger Bolan
> Sent: Monday, February 12, 2018 12:11 PM
> To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
> Subject: Re: InfoPrint GUI
>
> Hi Anne,
> I'm not sure what you're referring to.   Can you put in a link to the
> statement in the documentation your question is about?
> Is this something you see in the IBM Knowledge Center or a Redbook or what?
> --Roger
>
> On Mon, Feb 12, 2018 at 7:53 AM, Adams, Anne (DTI) <anne.ad...@state.de.us
> >
> wrote:
>
> > Hello all,
> >
> > Anyone know anything about the InfoPrint GUI? In particular, I've been
> > told (it's in the manual) that changes made using the GUI are not
> > permanent. They will revert back after an IPL. Management wants us to
> > use the GUI, but that is not acceptable. Am I missing something?
> >
> > Anne R Adams, CISSP
> > DTI, Systems Engineering
> > Sr. Mainframe Services Analyst
> > 302.298.3196
> >
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Re: InfoPrint GUI

[Roger Bolan]

Hi Anne,
I'm not sure what you're referring to.   Can you put in a link to the
statement in the documentation your question is about?
Is this something you see in the IBM Knowledge Center or a Redbook or what?
--Roger

On Mon, Feb 12, 2018 at 7:53 AM, Adams, Anne (DTI) 
wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> Anyone know anything about the InfoPrint GUI? In particular, I've been
> told (it's in the manual) that changes made using the GUI are not
> permanent. They will revert back after an IPL. Management wants us to use
> the GUI, but that is not acceptable. Am I missing something?
>
> Anne R Adams, CISSP
> DTI, Systems Engineering
> Sr. Mainframe Services Analyst
> 302.298.3196
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Re: codepages

[Roger Bolan]

Not from Browse that I know of.   To convert and save the file I would just
use iconv.

On Jan 28, 2018 9:33 AM, "Paul Gilmartin" <
000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote:

> On Sat, 27 Jan 2018 22:14:54 -0700, Roger Bolan wrote:
>
> >You don't have to specify lines and columns usually.   I can DISPLAY UTF8
> >instead of saying DISPLAY CCSID 1208.  Typically, I just need DISPLAY
> ASCII
> >and DISPLAY RESET so I have those on PF keys so I can toggle in and out of
> >ASCII.
> >
> Yes, and if the file is tagged with CCSID, there's no need for the DISPLAY
> command.
>
> But my question was, *if* one specifies lines and columns, is there then a
> command
> to export the entire file, as viewed, to Unicode?
>
> -- gil
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Re: codepages

[Roger Bolan]

You don't have to specify lines and columns usually.   I can DISPLAY UTF8
instead of saying DISPLAY CCSID 1208.  Typically, I just need DISPLAY ASCII
and DISPLAY RESET so I have those on PF keys so I can toggle in and out of
ASCII.

On Jan 26, 2018 7:21 PM, "Paul Gilmartin" <
000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote:

> On Fri, 26 Jan 2018 16:25:51 -0700, Roger Bolan wrote:
>
> >I have to work with data in different code pages all the time.  It's not
> >too bad in ISPF.
> >
> >Here's some of the help for the ISPF  Browse DISPLAY command:
> >display line 1 5 cols 20 30 ccsid 1200  will display
> >the characters in lines 1 through 5 at
> >columns 20 through 30 as UTF-16 data.
> >Acronyms UTF8, UTF16, UTF32, UCS2, UNICODE
> >ASCII, USASCII and EBCDIC may be used for
> >the subparameter 'CCSID n' where n is the
> >relevant CCSID value.
> >UTF8 represents CCSID 1208,
> >UTF16 - CCSID 1200, UTF32 - CCSID 1232,
> >ASCII - CCSID 850, USASCII - CCSID 819,
> >UCS2 & UNICODE - CCSID 17584,
> >and EBCDIC - CCSID 1047.
> >The line and cols parameters are optional
> >and if omitted the command applies to the
> >full line or column range. If only 1 line
> >or column value is given, then the command
> >only applies to that line or column.
> >
> >Here's a link to the list of CCSID code pages provided by ISPF
> >https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSLTBW_2.3.0/
> com.ibm.zos.v2r3.f54dg00/ecpt.htm#ecpt
> >
> >In addition, I have various PCOMM profiles set to work with different code
> >pages by default, like 1047, 037, ibm420, 1140, 1141, and 273.
> >
> 1208? (mentioned above)
>
> Once those fields are tediously defined (I hope this can be done in a
> macro.  But
> is there a limit to the length of the command string?), is there a command
> to export
> the entire file in Unicode?
>
> -- gil
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Re: codepages

[Roger Bolan]

I have to work with data in different code pages all the time.  It's not
too bad in ISPF.

Here's some of the help for the ISPF  Browse DISPLAY command:
display line 1 5 cols 20 30 ccsid 1200  will display
the characters in lines 1 through 5 at
columns 20 through 30 as UTF-16 data.
Acronyms UTF8, UTF16, UTF32, UCS2, UNICODE
ASCII, USASCII and EBCDIC may be used for
the subparameter 'CCSID n' where n is the
relevant CCSID value.
UTF8 represents CCSID 1208,
UTF16 - CCSID 1200, UTF32 - CCSID 1232,
ASCII - CCSID 850, USASCII - CCSID 819,
UCS2 & UNICODE - CCSID 17584,
and EBCDIC - CCSID 1047.
The line and cols parameters are optional
and if omitted the command applies to the
full line or column range. If only 1 line
or column value is given, then the command
only applies to that line or column.

Here's a link to the list of CCSID code pages provided by ISPF
https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSLTBW_2.3.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r3.f54dg00/ecpt.htm#ecpt

In addition, I have various PCOMM profiles set to work with different code
pages by default, like 1047, 037, ibm420, 1140, 1141, and 273.

To change PCOMM profile for the default terminal code page, I do have to
log off and on, but just to look at the data with ISPF Browse I do not.
--Roger

On Fri, Jan 26, 2018 at 2:31 PM, Paul Gilmartin <
000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote:

>
> How easy is it to change ISPF code page?  In my experience ISPF senses the
> terminal
> code page at startup so I have had to logoff, change my terminal code page
> and log on.
>
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Re: codepages

[Roger Bolan]

If you can capture the data and use ISPF Browse DISPLAY command to view the
data with different code pages you might be able to identify the one that
makes sense of all the data.

On Jan 26, 2018 12:02 PM, "scott Ford"  wrote:

> I have an issue where a customer is not forthright in providing us a the
> codepage of data coming into a TCP STC on z/OS ..We bring the data in via a
> Scoket-Read,. Is there any way I can query the datastream and find out what
> codepage it is ?
>
>
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Re: LRS VPS Printer Replacment

[Roger Bolan]

You should also look at Infoprint Server.  It's a component of z/OS.

I don't know what the LRS VPS definitions look like, but I see another post
here that mentions 12K definitions.  If you can read those with code, Rexx
perhaps, and parse them, you could create a text file of pidu create
commands to create the equivalent definitions for the Printer Inventory.
PIDU = Printer Inventory Definition Utility.

The documentation is in the IBM Knowledge Center.
You can go here:
https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter
and just search for pidu

or go here to see all the Infoprint Server related books, including in PDF
format.
https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSLTBW_2.3.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r3.aps/aps.htm


--Roger

On Thu, Dec 14, 2017 at 2:20 AM, zos reader  wrote:

> Hi,
>
> We are planning to replace LRS VPS Printers to other Vendor product, I am
> not aware of other vendor products in Market.
>
> Can you all share your thoughts please.
>
> Thanks..
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Re: My attglobal.net email was moved to att.net

[Roger Bolan]

I"m surprised you lost emails.  My experience suggests that email addresses
never die.  I still get email (mostly spam) that is sent to my old
netscape.net email address forwarded to my current email addresses.

On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 1:51 PM, Sam Golob  wrote:

> Hi Folks,
>
> To write to me about CBT Tape information, the proper email address is:
>
> sbgo...@cbttape.org.
>
> My attglobal.net email went away, and all emails sent there, are now
> lost.  But I was able to replace it with:
>
> sbgo...@att.net.
>
> So both the sbgolob.cbttape.org and sbgolob.att.net addresses are now
> valid.
>
> I'm trying to make it easier to reach out for CBT Tape information,
> and to contact me.  Thanks for bearing with me. Dealing with this was a
> pain in the neck.  I think that AT is trying to get rid of the
> attglobal.net domain altogether. Now I have to try and change all the
> references in the CBT Tape documentation (yecch).  So at least this message
> gives you a heads-up.  My cbttape.org email address is pointed to, on the
> home page of www.cbttape.org, as is Sam Knutson's email.
>
> All the best of everything to all of you.
>
> Sincerely,Sam
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Re: Knowledge Center bugs getting creative

[Roger Bolan]

More creative?  Yes. Bug? No.  Somehow that just feels to me like a
deliberate trick instead of a bug.  Something in the JavaScript or other
code.  It also seems more likely to be in the browser than the server to
me.  Check Google for ways to make web pages spin or rotate.

On Sep 19, 2017 11:34 PM, "Andrew Rowley" 
wrote:

> Knowledge Center bugs are getting more creative. I found the whole TOC
> spinning today:
>
> https://twitter.com/AndrewRowley10/status/910374514252484615
>
> (Why CICS 3.1.0? Because that's what the Google link led to.)
>
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Re: WinSCP or FileZilla to z/OS (not OMVS) ?

[Roger Bolan]

Not for me.  The Remote Site says 'BOLAN.' for MVS, and /u/bolan for OMVS.
I have two different site definitions in the Filezilla site manager.  I
tried swapping on the Remote Site screen and it gets errors if I try to use
an OMVS HFS directory on the site that uses 'BOLAN.' and vice versa.  I am
not using SFTP just FTP and passive mode.  I also do not use anonymous
logon but have to give a userid and password for both sides.  When I do
this from outside my office there are some additional VPN and firewall
logins I need before I can use Filezilla for anything, but I imagine that
is not Lionel's problem because he said he could get to the OMVS side.

On Sat, Sep 2, 2017 at 3:00 PM, Wayne Bickerdike <wayn...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I use Filezilla.
>
> Thought it was just wrap quotes around the dataset name for z/OS otherwise
> it goes to a USS file.
>
> On Sat, Sep 2, 2017 at 7:42 AM, Paul Gilmartin <
> 000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 1 Sep 2017 13:42:00 -0600, Roger Bolan wrote:
> >
> > >I use Filezilla to connect to my z/OS systems both for MVS datasets and
> > >OMVS.  I have the same IP address for both site definitions.  As far as
> I
> > >can tell the only difference is on the Advanced Tab in the Site Manager
> > >where the OMVS site definition has a default remote directory of
> /u/bolan
> > >defined, and the MVS site definition has a blank default remote
> directory.
> > >
> > Does FileZilla support both FTP and sftp?  Is it possible, then, that
> your
> > success was with Classic FTP and the OP's failure was with sftp?
> >
> > Does configuring the Co:z server for sftp require admin privilege/
> >
> > >On Fri, Sep 1, 2017 at 12:14 PM, Dyck, Lionel B. (TRA) wrote:
> > >
> > >> Any thoughts on how to get WinSCP or FileZilla to access z/OS datasets
> > >> when  connected?
> > >>
> > >> All I am able to get is access to the OMVS side of the system.
> > >>
> > Life would be a lot simpler if people avoided Classic data sets.
> >
> > -- gil
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Re: WinSCP or FileZilla to z/OS (not OMVS) ?

[Roger Bolan]

I use Filezilla to connect to my z/OS systems both for MVS datasets and
OMVS.  I have the same IP address for both site definitions.  As far as I
can tell the only difference is on the Advanced Tab in the Site Manager
where the OMVS site definition has a default remote directory of /u/bolan
defined, and the MVS site definition has a blank default remote directory.
--Roger

On Fri, Sep 1, 2017 at 12:14 PM, Dyck, Lionel B. (TRA) 
wrote:

> Any thoughts on how to get WinSCP or FileZilla to access z/OS datasets
> when  connected?
>
> All I am able to get is access to the OMVS side of the system.
>
> thx
>
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Re: Researching Destination z article on non-US mainframes

[Roger Bolan]

That's very true and it works in the other direction too.  We worked on a
product that started out in Japan and the manual for it had  been
translated into English by someone in Japan.  It was completely unusable .
We had to start over from scratch and rewrite the manual in English.

On Aug 12, 2017 4:39 PM, "Charles Mills"  wrote:

> I once had a customer say "PLEASE DON'T translate your manuals. We are
> used to technical materials in English and know what they mean. If you
> translate it into [French? German? I don't recall] we will have no idea
> what you are trying to say."
>
> Charles
>
>
> -Original Message-
> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On
> Behalf Of Brian Westerman
> Sent: Saturday, August 12, 2017 5:44 PM
> To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
> Subject: Re: Researching Destination z article on non-US mainframes
>
> Actually, even with the foreign sites, I believe that most of them elect
> to not run the translated messages options.  I don't normally go to the
> sites (actually I never go there), but it seems to me in the meetings that
> (at least the people I deal with) seem to speak English as well (or better)
> than I do.  In fact, they seem to take it as high praise if I should
> mention it.  The few discussions I have had about the subject are that it's
> no harder to learn English for manual reading than any other language.  I
> have been told that  having the manuals in digital format makes it VERY
> easy to cut and paste the text into their translation program of choice.
> It's only the English idioms and jokes that give them problems, and IBM
> books are any BUT funny.
>
> The decline in alternate language options though (at least for messages)
> seems to be more because of lack of desire on the part of the sites rather
> than the vendors not creating the option(s).
>
> Our automation products used to have the option of (I think) 12 languages
> for the messages and manuals, but I can't even remember the last time
> someone asked for a local language message module.  With our last two
> versions we elected to remove most of the messages (almost) completely.   I
> think we still might have some translated manuals, but that's about it.
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Re: Attachmate Reflections 3270 Client and detecting URLs

[Roger Bolan]

I don't know about Attachmate, but IBM Personal Communications does this.
--Roger

On Feb 9, 2017 11:13 AM, "Dyck, Lionel B. (TRA)"  wrote:

> Is there a way to have the Attachmate Reflections 16.0 3270 client detect
> a url in the 3270 data and make it clickable?
>
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Re: IEBGENER SYSIN Comments?

[Roger Bolan]

https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSLTBW_2.2.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r2.idau100/u1241.htm

That page documents the standard format of the Utility control statements.

On Wed, Dec 21, 2016 at 8:51 AM, Paul Gilmartin <
000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote:

> On Wed, 21 Dec 2016 08:26:14 -0700, Sri h Kolusu wrote:
> >
> >Seriously? That COLS line was for demonstration purposes to show that both
> >the Control cards and Comments are within the first 72 bytes. It is NOT
> >part of the control cards nor is it a comment.
> >
> I was hoping for a way to code a comment.
>
> >> And I was looking for a form where SYSIN contains no commands, only
> >comments.
> >
> >What is the purpose of this? When you are invoking a program/utility, you
> >can pass parameters to the program/utility via a PARM statement or SYSIN.
> >In your case you chose NOT to pass any parameters via SYSIN.  That brings
> >us to the question "what is the purpose of having comments?"
> >
> Adding identifying information to SYSPRINT, where I'd expect comments to
> be listed along with control statements.  I needed none of the latter.
>
> >What is stopping you from coding a COMMENTS dd and you can have all your
> >comments in there?
> >
> ... and in the next job step modding IEBGENER's sysprint to that.
> I'm doing that now.  But since IEBGENER already has a SYSIN,
> I was hoping I could put the comments there and avoid the extra
> job step.
>
> -- gil
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Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: IBM PMR Entry requires an OS?

[Roger Bolan]

It varies by product.   DCF (Document Composition Facility), for example is
one product ID  across z/VSE, z/VM, and z/OS, while PSF is separate
products across the same three mainframe environments.
--ROGER

On Oct 19, 2016 7:36 AM, "Dyck, Lionel B. (TRA)"  wrote:

> For products that run on multiple platforms the product selection accounts
> for that  - for ISPF I can select ISPF for z/OS or z/VM - I would imagine
> (could be wrong) that other multi-platform products have similar options
> (or should)
>
>
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> VA OI Service Delivery & Engineering
>
> -Original Message-
> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On
> Behalf Of Charles Mills
> Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2016 8:34 AM
> To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
> Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: IBM PMR Entry requires an OS?
>
> I have no idea but what about products that run on more than one OS?
>
> Maybe this is just one of those "it's an imperfect world" things?
>
> Charles
>
> -Original Message-
> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On
> Behalf Of Dyck, Lionel B. (TRA)
> Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2016 9:21 AM
> To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
> Subject: IBM PMR Entry requires an OS?
>
> Am I missing something in the IBM Service Request (PMR) entry.  The user
> is required to enter a product, which implies an OS, but then is forced to
> select an OS from a dropdown list.
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Re: z/OS bookshelves in weird order in KC

[Roger Bolan]

I think the best way to use IBM Knowledge Center is to forget about books
and bookshelves when looking for information.  Just search for the specific
terms or keywords or phrases (in quotes) that relate to the information you
want.  Once you have found the appropriate "hit" in the search results,
then you can expand from there to find out what book and bookshelf you are
in to read the related material.
--Roger

On Mon, Oct 3, 2016 at 1:16 PM, Peter Hunkeler  wrote:

> Is this only me? Today I was looking up something on IBM KnowledgeCenter,
> and I opened the "content" view (left side) to see the bookshelves. I
> didn't find the ISPF bookshelve where I was expecting, then I noticed that
> it is named "ISPF" and not longer "z/OS ISPF" in the V2.2 list. It still is
> "z/OS ISPF" in the V2.1 list. Then I recognized the list is in weird order.
> For example, "z/OS XL C/C++" is listed before "z/OS Common Interface Model"
> in the V2.1 list. Then ISPF is somehow sorted if you neglect the "z/OS"
> prefix.
>
>
> Are they trying to implement some intelligent sorting that ignores some
> keywords, such as the "z/OS" prefix? I don't like that idea at all. My eyes
> are not clever enough to ignore the keywords (of which I would not know
> which to ignore and which not), when browsing the list looking for some
> specific shelf.
>
>
> I would prefer if a) the shelves are named exactly as the products are,
> and b) if the list is kept in strict alphabetic order by product name.
>
>
>
> What do others think?
>
>
>
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Re: PDS / PDS/e Question

[Roger Bolan]

Wouldn't amblist give you what you want?

On Aug 6, 2016 4:52 PM, "Steve Beaver"  wrote:

> I want the control information/linkedit.
>
> Steve
>
> -Original Message-
> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On
> Behalf Of retired mainframer
> Sent: Saturday, August 6, 2016 1:07 PM
> To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
> Subject: Re: PDS / PDS/e Question
>
> What data are you hoping to see?
>
> The first several records of a load module in a PDS normally contain
> control
> information and not the instructions/data that will appear in memory after
> the module is loaded.
>
> I don't know if the format of a program object in a PDSE has been publicly
> documented.
>
> > -Original Message-
> > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU]
> > On Behalf Of Steve Beaver
> > Sent: Saturday, August 06, 2016 9:23 AM
> > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
> > Subject: PDS / PDS/e Question
> >
> > When reading thru a PDS / PDSe to pickup the first 60 bytes of a load
> > module.  I can get the DIRECTROY and do the POINT, and GET, but will
> > that get me to the first 60 bytes that I really Want in a RECFM U
> > Library?
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Re: ibm afp print driver for windows 10

[Roger Bolan]

On this page: http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=nas8N1018815
I found this:

> The Ricoh Production Print Solutions AFP Printer Driver for Windows is
> available on the InfoPrint Solutions web site at:
>
> *http://www.infoprint.com/internet/dcfdata.nsf/vwWeb/P4000384*
> 
>
> This version of the AFP printer driver contains a supports the following
> operating systems:
>
> Windows 7, Windows 8.1, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2012, Windows
> Vista, Windows XP
>

but no mention yet of Windows 10.

Regards,
--Roger

On Fri, Aug 5, 2016 at 12:42 PM, Tim Brown  wrote:

> Not sure if this is proper forum, looking for IBM AFP Print Driver that
> supports Windows 10
> The last one I had worked on Windows 7.
>
> Tim Brown
> Central Hudson Gas & Electric
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Re: PPRC suspended - Sense code ?

[Roger Bolan]

Try Google with site:ibm.com pprc sense 10901000

On Jul 24, 2016 11:22 AM, "Jake Anderson"  wrote:

> Hello,
>
>
> Could someone please point me to any Manual which has the PPRC suspended
> Sense code ?
>
> That would help me to research the error code I have received.
>
> The sense I am trying to see is SENSE=10901000
>
> Any direction would be much helpful
>
> Jake
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Re: jedit (Was "Windows based editor / reformatter for DOS/VSE JCL?")

[Roger Bolan]

Jedi-T. Picture Mr. T as a Jedi. 
On Jun 21, 2016 4:42 PM, "Tom Brennan"  wrote:

> I keep thinking of Obi-Wan.
>
> Charles Mills wrote:
>
>> 
>>
>> Every time I see the name jedit I wonder if it is somehow related to
>> JDate.
>>
>> 
>>
>> Charles
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Re: OT: got to have it! device (pen shaped) with 32 GiB flash, flashlight, stylus, & ball point pen.

[Roger Bolan]

Looks good.  I would caution just one thing.  I once had a pen that had a
built-in USB flash drive.  The pen had a metal case (which is what this
looks like).  One day, I went to plug it in and got a static electricity
spark from the pen to the USB port on my desktop.   That was the end for my
USB drive.  It was toast.  I've never had that problem with any of my other
USB keys which have plastic or rubber type cases.
--Roger

On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 1:00 PM, Scott Ford  wrote:

> For the techie who has everything , lol, John
>
> On Friday, April 22, 2016, R.S.  wrote:
>
> > W dniu 2016-04-22 o 14:35, John McKown pisze:
> >
> >>
> >>
> http://smile.amazon.com/Pomarks-Multi-function-Ballpoint-FlashLight-Smartphone/dp/B016OG4BEE
> >>
> >>
> >> - OTG : Designed with a 32GB USB OTG flash drive for special data
> >> transfer, just plug and play
> >> - STYLUS : Soft stylus pen head with sensitivity input and protect
> >> your
> >> screen the same time
> >> - BALLPOINT PEN : Rotate to enable and disable the writing pen, feel
> >> free to write anything at anytime in anywhere
> >> - FLASHLIGHT: Button Cells powered emergency flashlight
> >>
> >>
> >> How can I keep VSAM files on that device?
> > Seriously: I have something similar. I has only 1GB, but it's A LOT, when
> > considering it as space for presentation files.
> > Red laser as a pointer is failing all the time, but HID function (HID -
> > Human Interface Device, like mouse is really fine. The functionality is
> > simple: two buttons, one next slide, one for previous slide.
> > I've got it for free, but I think the cost of it was similar (10 years
> > ago).
> >
> >
> > --
> > Radoslaw Skorupka
> > Lodz, Poland
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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> > zapisane na dysku.
> >
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Re: rexx and tso alllocate

[Roger Bolan]

IBM z/OS has a component called Infoprint Server.  In combination with IBM
Print Transforms, Infoprint Server can select jobs from JES, transform the
data into PDF and then send it to a printer or use sendmail to email it.
See the IBM Knowledge Center.Try a search for infoprint server ibm
print transforms.
That should get you started.
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/search/infoprint%20server%20ibm%20print%20transforms?lang=en

Regards,
--Roger

On Thu, Mar 3, 2016 at 8:31 AM, Tim Brown  wrote:

> Briefly,  I have a home grown process that takes selected output files
> from the Jes2 spool via an external writer and writes them to a combined
> dataset with separators. I then read the results via REXX and create
> individual files that are processed via TXT2PDF to create pdfs. Some of the
> resulting pdfs were not taking the width of the page and I thought it was
> related to files whose actual lrecl was quite less than the lrecl of 300
> that was used to capture all files originally. That was not the case, it
> was the zoom parameter on the font statement, by making it 100 it fit the
> page perfectly.
>
> I am ok for now , but since I started this thread, how do others create
> PDF's from Jes2 spool output?
>
> Appreciated as always!
>
> Tim
>
>
>
> -Original Message-
> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On
> Behalf Of Bill Woodger
> Sent: Wednesday, 02 March, 2016 4:16 AM
> To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
> Subject: rexx and tso alllocate
>
>
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>
> Joel Ewing has made a valid point about programs potentially having LRECL
> expectations. COBOL is good for that.
>
> Tim Brown is silent on what he actually wants to do this for. Until then
> it's difficult to suggest something concrete. Ditch the blocksize has been
> said, making the LRECL smaller has no obvious benefit has been said. Just
> to add that the LRECL can always be "overridden" on the DD for a subsequent
> reference.
>
>
> On Wednesday, 2 March 2016 08:24:22 UTC, Ted MacNEIL  wrote:
> > Why not just create a VBA file with a very long LRECL and not worry
> about it at all? Longer  LRECLs don't introduce any more ov‎eReader than
> short ones.
> >
> > -teD
> >   Original Message
> > From: Kjell Holmborg
> > Sent: Wednesday, March 2, 2016 02:54
> > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
> > Reply To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List
> > Subject: Re: rexx and tso alllocate
> >
> > One suggestion might be that your rexx program writes records to a stem
> variable and you could keep track of the longest record and then just
> before writing the contents of the stem variables to the dataset you do a
> TSO Allocate with the longest record as a variable to the ALLOCATE command.
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Re: Debugging APAR statement

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https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/mobile/#!/SSLTBW_2.1.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r1.gim2000/mcsapr.htm

The IBM Knowledge Center is your friend.  The above link is from my mobile
phone.  You can find all the topics that mention your keyword and then work
your way up and down through the context of the books.
On Feb 28, 2016 7:31 AM, "Peter"  wrote:

> Hi Lizette
>
> Thank you for pointing me to that link i was rather specifically looking
> keywords inside a APAR member. Generally like a template and each keywords
> written by IBM and it's explanation.
> On Feb 28, 2016 7:31 PM, "Lizette Koehler" 
> wrote:
>
> > A quick internet search brought up this link.  See if it helps.
> > I used
> > IBM ++APAR for the search keywords
> >
> > http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21424131
> >
> > If you have more specific questions, please let us know.
> >
> >
> > Lizette
> >
> >
> > > -Original Message-
> > > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU]
> On
> > > Behalf Of Peter
> > > Sent: Sunday, February 28, 2016 5:30 AM
> > > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
> > > Subject: Debugging APAR statement
> > >
> > > Hi
> > >
> > > Apology in advance for asking a basic question.
> > >
> > > I am preparing a notes for my team members. Is there any URL or Manual
> > where
> > > it explains each keywords of an APAR ?
> > >
> > > Any pointers would be much appreciated.
> > >
> > > Peter
> > >
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Re: Where to set options for SFE line command in TSO ISPF DSLIST?

[Roger Bolan]

Let me come back and close out this thread.   My problem was solved by ISPF
itself.  Yes, I could write my own line command, I've done that before, but
I was confused because I was sure that I had easily changed those options
before with no problem and then was unable to find that panel.  The
explanation is that I was using multiple guest z/OS systems on a z/VM
host.  The options I set were in effect for my userid across all the
systems, but apparently the panel for setting them easily was only on the
z/OS 2.1 system and not on the earlier levels.   I had just not realized
that was a new panel, and I was looking for it on an older system.

--Roger

On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 10:11 PM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) <
shmuel+ibm-m...@patriot.net> wrote:

> In
> <CAFERoii1eu+upenFOAzf=B0j7piv=oQkxo7P+jN59=9q9_g...@mail.gmail.com>,
> on 11/24/2015
>at 07:12 PM, Roger Bolan <rogerbo...@gmail.com> said:
>
> >But I can't seem to find where to change them for the SFE line
> >command.
>
> Short of writing your own line command[1] I don't think that you can
> do it. Can you make a business case for an RFE?
>
> [1] It's not hard.
>
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Where to set options for SFE line command in TSO ISPF DSLIST?

[Roger Bolan]

When I use ISPF DSLIST and the SFE line command to do a SUPER search
extended in a library it uses these options:
PROCESS OPTIONS USED: NOPRTCC LMTO FMSTOP

I know how to get other options when I use the extended search-for utility
outside of the DSLIST SFE line command.   Like:
   Extended Search-For Process
Options


  Enter "/" to select option or "blank" to remove.  Scroll to view
selections.
  Press Enter/End to process or Return/Cancel to
exit.

More: +
  Input Process Control
Options
 SEQ  - Ignore FB 80/VB 255 standard sequence number columns,
or
  /  NOSEQ- Process FB 80/VB 255 standard sequence number columns as
text.
 COBOL- Ignore COBOL FB 80 sequence number columns
1-6.
 MIXED- Data may contain DBCS strings delimited by SO/SI
characters.
  /  ANYC - Text string matches on "any" (upper or lower)
case.
  /  SDUPM- Search duplicate members in a PDS
concatenation.
 CKPACKL  - Check and unpack data before searching data sets or
members.
 FMSTOP   - Stop search on first matched text
string.
 ALLMEMS  - Search all members including alias
entries.
 FINDALL  - Require all strings found for return code
1.

But I can't seem to find where to change them for the SFE line command.

Does anybody know where those options are set?  When I issue the SFE
command I get only these options:

 Select Process Options with /   Select Output Options with /
Mixed Mode   /  View output
Any case /  Save output
 /  Set EDIT FIND string /  Filter list
 /  Set BROWSE FIND string

but I want to set others.

Regards,
--Roger

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Re: SMP/E Help

[Roger Bolan]

My suggestion, as someone who has converted application programs to SMP/E
packaging in the past, is to be sure allocate your own CSI sandbox, with
your own zones, distribution libraries, and target libraries, where you can
play, experiment, and test without affecting anyone else on the system.
--Roger

On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 10:31 AM, Ed Gould  wrote:

> Charles,
> about 15 years ago we had a european product foisted up on us from a user.
> This was not SMP installable.
> The boss told me to try and install it.
> It was a so so installation some minor gotchas but it went reasonably
> smoothly..
> I ran into a problem with it in execution (detail are blurred by now). I
> contacted the author and was told to hand link edit one of their modules
> outside of SMPE . I said that is iffy for this but what about the rest of
> the product if we run into any issues? The answer was yes we have had
> issues with that and that is the way the product works.
> I got off the phone and told my boss and he told me to drop it as the
> product must be completely SMPe maintainable.
> He told me to write him a memo and explain the issues and he forwarded it
> up to his boss and the answer came back to delete the product.
>
> Ed
>
> ps: I am replying to you directly as my reply to IBM-Main have been
> bouncing and since no one is owning IBM main anymore I don't know who to
> complain to.
>
>
>
> On Sep 11, 2015, at 10:26 AM, Charles Mills wrote:
>
> I assume one of the reasons you are venturing down this road is not so
>>> much because
>>> you (or your customers) think the initial install of your software in
>>> SMP/E format is
>>> very exciting, but rather because of the prospect of follow-on service
>>> in PTF format.
>>>
>>
>> I can't speak for the OP but I can speak to our own recent expedition
>> into the wonderful world of building for SMP/E. No, the motivation had
>> nothing to do with PTFs. We have a pretty simple product and for us, so far
>> at least, for better or worse every fix consists of either (1) a change to
>> configuration files in character form, so the change can be e-mailed as a
>> simple text file or snippet with some edit instructions; or (2) an entire
>> new build just like a new installation but with a JCL process that does not
>> clobber existing customer parms.
>>
>> No, the motivation was customer requests. I said to a customer sysprog "I
>> thought our IEBCOPY install was pretty good." He said "it's great, and
>> SMP/E is a pain in the [butt], but it's a consistent pain in the [butt].
>> Every vendor's IEBCOPY install is unique."
>>
>> Customers -- especially the largest customers -- don't IMHO by-and-large
>> love SMP/E, but they know it and live and breathe it, and they want vendor
>> products delivered that way.
>>
>> Charles
>>
>> -Original Message-
>> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On
>> Behalf Of Kurt Quackenbush
>> Sent: Friday, September 11, 2015 8:09 AM
>> To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
>> Subject: Re: SMP/E Help
>>
>> I need some help with SMP/E. I need to convert our software to use
>>> SMP/E. I am not a SMP/E heavy. I have the following;
>>>
>>> 1. Linklib
>>> 2. Proclib
>>> 3. Parmlib
>>> 4. JCLLIB ( for install ) , this can be removed , because SMP/E will
>>> do it 5. Rexx Clistlib
>>>
>>
>> Further thoughts on the process of packaging your software in SYSMOD
>> format:  I assume one of the reasons you are venturing down this road is
>> not so much because you (or your customers) think the initial install of
>> your software in SMP/E format is very exciting, but rather because of the
>> prospect of follow-on service in PTF format.  Therefore, you must consider
>> how you intend to supply parts/files later in PTFs before you create your
>> initial FUNCTION SYSMOD.
>>
>> In my opinion, most parts/files ("elements" in SMP/E terminology) are
>> very simple to package and install.  Using your example, procs, parmlib
>> members, sample JCL, execs, are all very simple to manage, package, and
>> install, because they are just members of a partitioned data set that are
>> copied and replaced by SMP/E.  It is modules and load modules that cause
>> the most grief.
>>
>> Traditional z/OS software is SMP/E packaged using MOD elements to
>> describe modules that get link edited during the APPLY to create load
>> modules (load modules or program objects).  It is link edit steps in JCLIN
>> that tells SMP/E how to put the MODs together to create these load
>> modules.  This is all a very well grooved path, but, JCLIN and MODs can be
>> a great pain, and I'd say the cause of most grief for packagers and
>> installers.
>>
>> You can greatly simplify you and your customers' efforts if you can avoid
>> MODs and JCLIN altogether.  That is, it is far simpler to package complete
>> load modules using PROGRAM elements rather than as individual MODs with
>> JCLIN.  PROGRAM elements treat load modules as simple members of a
>> partitioned 

Re: FILEDATA --Who gets the SR?

[Roger Bolan]

I say just take your best guess and go for it.  Problems often don't fall
cleanly into one area or another and require separate groups to discuss the
issue with each other.

On Thu, Apr 2, 2015 at 4:39 PM, Paul Gilmartin 
000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu wrote:

 I submitted an RCF before I explored this behavior so deeply!
 Now, I believe there's matter for an SR:

 DD FILEDATA=BINARY in JCL overrides RECORD in the file tag
 RECORD in the file tag prevails over DD FILEDATA=TEXT in JCL.

 Not consistent; it's certainly not according to the Fine Manuals.
 I hope it's not WAD, but you know what they say.

 Should the SR go to UNIX System Services or to DfSMS?

 Thanks,
 gil

 (JCL available on request.)

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Re: publibz-infocenter-knowledgecenter

[Roger Bolan]

 Yes, but what tools are available to manage and organize the
 downloaded books? We need an equivalent to the old bookshelves and the
 programs that used them, preferably for Linux or z/OS.


Unfortunately, I don't know.  I try to cope with the new lack of
bookshelves by organizing my PDFs into directories myself.   For example I
have a  directory for \PSF\V4R5 so I can use Adobe Reader Advanced Search
to search in just that directory.   It's not as good as the old BookManager
bookshelves, but it at least lets me search the books for just one product
at a time.

--Roger

On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 7:59 AM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) 
shmuel+ibm-m...@patriot.net wrote:

 In
 caferoigrylcgrneqrrstd3cpz5k+r74kjzn4otmedhheg-1...@mail.gmail.com,
 on 12/18/2014
at 05:37 PM, Roger Bolan rogerbo...@gmail.com said:

 The documentation itself is available in the new IBM Knowledge Center
 and you can download PDF format for the books.

 Yes, but what tools are available to manage and organize the
 downloaded books? We need an equivalent to the old bookshelves and the
 programs that used them, preferably for Linux or z/OS.

 I'd say bring back BookMaster and BookManager, but I know it won't
 happen. I wish that there were a BookMaster clone for Linux.

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Re: publibz-infocenter-knowledgecenter

[Roger Bolan]

I don't think IBM is even creating the kind of bookshelves we're familiar
with anymore.   At least, not for everything.

For example,  if I go to the Publications Center and search for PSF
Bookshelf (without the quotes), I get a list that includes bookshelves for
PSF V3R1 through V4R4, but the latest, V4R5 is NOT listed.   Softcopy
Librarian also finds no bookshelf for PSF 4.5 either.

The documentation itself is available in the new IBM Knowledge Center and
you can download PDF format for the books.   Go to the Knowledge Center
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/?lang=en
and find Infoprint Server, Infoprint Transforms PSF for z/OS, DCF, fonts
in the Table of Contents.
Then right-click and choose Open in a new tab (content only).

That gives you a page with Abstract | TOC | PDF links for all the books
in that section and you can download the PDFs if you wish.

Regards,
--Roger
http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/epubs/pdf/aps4ac40.pdf





On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 8:56 AM, Paul Gilmartin 
000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu wrote:

 Curse you, Red Baron!

 My bookmark to publibz/z/OS documentation redirected for a
 while to a similar infocenter shelf list; later to a knowledgecenter
 shelflist.  Now it redirects to the knowledgecenter storefront.

 What's a quick link to this week's z/OS v2r1 software shelflist?

 (was: http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/zos/v2r1/index.jsp )

 Bring back LOOKAT!

 Thanks,
 gil

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Re: Question: Possible to send email, with an attachment from the Mainframe?

[Roger Bolan]

You can also use the Infoprint Server component of z/OS to send emails, and
AFP or PDF documents as attachments by defining a printer as an email
destination.   See the details in the documentation here:
http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/zos/v2r1/topic/com.ibm.zos.v2r1.aps/aps.htm

--Roger




On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 1:32 PM, Jousma, David david.jou...@53.com wrote:

 In my example, the attachment is the contents of the SASLIST member, so
 make that line whatever DSN that contains the attachment information.
  They system automatically places that data into the attachment file noted
 in FILENAME= in the attach1 member.  That name is going to be the name of
 the file attached to the email when it gets delivered.

 _
 Dave Jousma
 Assistant Vice President, Mainframe Engineering
 david.jou...@53.com
 1830 East Paris, Grand Rapids, MI  49546 MD RSCB2H
 p 616.653.8429
 f 616.653.2717



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 Behalf Of Leonard Sasso
 Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2014 2:39 PM
 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
 Subject: Re: Question: Possible to send email, with an attachment from the
 Mainframe?

 David:

 Where do I place the DSN of the attachment in the ATTACH1 Member?

 Do I set the FILENAME equal to it, like FILENAME=MY.ATTACH1.FILE ?




 Thank You.

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 Date:   08/20/2014 01:20 PM
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 The JCL I run is simply IEBGENER

 //EMAIL1 EXEC PGM=ICEGENER
 //SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=*
 //SYSINDD  DUMMY
 //SYSUT1   DD DSN=DAVE.PDS(#HELLO),DISP=SHR
 // DD DSN=DAVE.PDS(BODY),DISP=SHR
 // DD DSN=DAVE.PDS(ATTACH1),DISP=SHR
 // DD DSN=DAVE.PDS(SASLIST),DISP=SHR
 //SYSUT2  DD  SYSOUT=(B,SMTP),DEST=,
 //DCB=(RECFM=FB,LRECL=133,BLKSIZE=0)

 Contents of each of the members, broken out, done this way because some of
 the parts are programmatically generated, like the contents of the
 attachment.

 Member #HELLO

 HELO xxx
 MAIL FROM:x
 RCPT TO:xx
 DATA
 FROM: xxx
 TO:   xxx
 SUBJECT:  your title
 MIME-VERSION: 1.0
 CONTENT-TYPE: MULTIPART/MIXED; BOUNDARY=SIMPLE BOUNDARY

 --SIMPLE BOUNDARY
 CONTENT-TYPE: TEXT/PLAIN


 Member BODY
 Body of your email



 Member ATTACH1
 --SIMPLE BOUNDARY
 CONTENT-TYPE: TEXT/PLAIN
 CONTENT-DISPOSITION: ATTACHMENT; FILENAME=userlist.txt



 Member SASLIST
 Contents you want put in the userlist.txt file
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 Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2014 1:13 PM
 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
 Subject: Re: Question: Possible to send email, with an attachment from the
 Mainframe?

 David:

 Thank you.


 Could you please provide an example, including the JCL?




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 from the Mainframe?
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 Yes, no additional software is necessary.  I do it now with:


 HELO 

Re: AW: RMF Spreadsheet Reporter

[Roger Bolan]

Since 'BIRR.' is already your working directory, what happens if you use
RETR D196.T145616.LISTING
instead of
RETR 'BIRR.D196.T145616.LISTING'

Regards,
--Roger


On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 11:51 AM, Christian Birr 
christian.b...@birrconsulting.de wrote:

 Miklos,
 I can't tell you, the FTP process is build internally and I suspect that
 the process is generated before the job has finished, there is no
 possibility on RMF PP side to switch on a trace but as I understand, the
 host FTP is used so I might be able to switch it on there, no messages in
 SYSLOG either.
 Michael had a similar problem and described the path he did go to avoid it
 (Thanks Michael). Maybe raising the timeout limit on host side would solve
 the problem. I'll give it a try tomorrow.
 One last word on RMF PP - btw RMF PM works fine - : even if it's free
 software I would expect that the code works (I don't want to start a new
 discussion about Freebie software). Someone in the RMF team could answer
 those questions, still awaiting a reply.
 Christian

 -Ursprüngliche Nachricht-
 Von: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] Im
 Auftrag von Miklos Szigetvari
 Gesendet: Mittwoch, 16. Juli 2014 17:08
 An: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
 Betreff: Re: AW: RMF Spreadsheet Reporter

 HI

 Some questions:
 1) Are you sure the input dataset is cataloged at the time of the FTP get ?

 2)If it is a submitted job, it can be that the dataset is not yet exits
 in the time of the FTP. Is it possible to set some delay before the FTP
 get ?

 3)You can switch on the FTP trace

 4)Any console message about this FTP GET ?

 On 16.07.2014 13:09, Christian Birr wrote:
  No, not at all. And I don't agree with Shane, report selection and JCL
 run fine and after retrieving the reports manually with FTP everything
 works perfect in RMF PP. The only culprit is the internal FTP not working.
  Here is an extract of the FTP log:
 
  SENT: USER BIRR
  331 Send password please.
  SENT: PASS (*hidden*)
  230 BIRR is logged on.  Working directory is BIRR..
  SENT: SYST
  215 MVS is the operating system of this server. FTP Server is running on
 z/OS.
  SENT: PWD
  257 'BIRR.' is working directory.
  SENT: CWD 'BIRR'
  250 BIRR. is the working directory name prefix.
  SENT: PWD
  257 'BIRR.' is working directory.
  SENT: site retpd
  200 SITE command was accepted
  SENT: site autorecall
  200 SITE command was accepted
  SENT: TYPE A
  200 Representation type is Ascii NonPrint
  SENT: SITE noasatrans
  200 SITE command was accepted
  SENT: PORT 192,168,16,38,4,194
  200 Port request OK.
  SENT: RETR 'BIRR.D196.T145616.LISTING'
  550 Data set BIRR.D196.T145616.LISTING not found
  FTP Get failed
  550 Data set BIRR.D196.T145616.LISTING not found
 
  Christian
 
  -Ursprüngliche Nachricht-
  Von: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] Im
 Auftrag von Boris Lenz
  Gesendet: Mittwoch, 16. Juli 2014 11:49
  An: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
  Betreff: Re: RMF Spreadsheet Reporter
 
  Any special characters like $ @ # in the userid?
 
  Regards,
  Boris
 
 
  On Tue, July 15, 2014 21:02, Christian Birr wrote:
  I'll do that tomorrow; I'm on CET and on duty since 5:00, need some
 sleep.
  My hope was that someone of RMF/Böblingen would chime in.
  Thanks
  Christian
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Re: EBCDIC viewer for Windows

[Roger Bolan]

There is a plugin called TextFX for Notepad++ that you could use in this
way:  Select all the text and and use the TextFX menu to choose TextFX
Convert and convert EBCDIC to ASCII.   That's not quite just viewing
exactly what the EBCDIC is, but it will allow you to read text.  Be careful
about not saving the ASCII text unless that is what you want to do.


On Sun, Jun 22, 2014 at 1:49 AM, Linda Mooney linda.lst...@comcast.net
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 Greetings!

 I am looking for an EBCDIC viewer for Windows, to view flat datasets that
 were created on the mainframe. Edit is not necessary for what I need. Can
 anyone recommend one for me? Originally, I was looking for a plugin for
 Notepad++, but didn't find one.

 Thanks,

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Re: EBCDIC viewer for Windows

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Apparently TextFX is not active in Notepad++ by default, you have to
activate it.  See
http://superuser.com/questions/519366/where-is-the-textfx-option.


On Sun, Jun 22, 2014 at 9:02 AM, Roger Bolan rogerbo...@gmail.com wrote:

 There is a plugin called TextFX for Notepad++ that you could use in this
 way:  Select all the text and and use the TextFX menu to choose TextFX
 Convert and convert EBCDIC to ASCII.   That's not quite just viewing
 exactly what the EBCDIC is, but it will allow you to read text.  Be careful
 about not saving the ASCII text unless that is what you want to do.


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 wrote:

 Greetings!

 I am looking for an EBCDIC viewer for Windows, to view flat datasets that
 were created on the mainframe. Edit is not necessary for what I need. Can
 anyone recommend one for me? Originally, I was looking for a plugin for
 Notepad++, but didn't find one.

 Thanks,

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Re: HP P4015tn paper tray selection

[Roger Bolan]

Rick,

You may need to broaden your testing.  The books for afp2pcl and afpxpcl
both contain this Tip for the AOP_TRAYID:
PCL tray IDs do not match the tray numbers embossed on the actual printer
trays.

Test changing more than just the fourth position.

For more details, see
http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/zos/v1r13/topic/com.ibm.zos.r13.aokfa00/afp2pclentry.htm?resultof=%22%61%66%70%78%70%63%6c%22%20%22%61%6f%70%5f%74%72%61%79%69%64%22%20

--Roger


On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 7:45 AM, Rick Stetser 
001012027c5e-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu wrote:

 I have a developer who's trying to print on an HP Laserjet P4015tn printer
 that has three paper sources.  The first one, I think, is the manual paper
 feed and the other two are actual trays that hold paper and they’re marked
 3 and 4 on the outside of the tray.  The developer is trying to get the
 forms from the bottom tray (marked 4) to print but without success.  The
 document data is AFP which is transformed to PCL via IP Printway (hereafter
 called Infoprint).

 We're using a FORMDEF that looks like this:

 SETUNITS 1 IN 1 IN;
 FORMDEF WHDOC OFFSET .158 .197 JOG YES REPLACE YES;
 COPYGROUP LODRWRPT
BIN 2
OFFSET .158 .197;
 COPYGROUP UPDRWRSS
BIN 3
OFFSET .158 .197;
 COPYGROUP   DRWTHREE
   BIN4
  OFFSET .158  .197;

 Currently we print this document (using a slightly different FORMDEF) so
 that one page comes out on plain paper from tray 3 and the other paper has
 special paper stock and prints from tray 2.  The change that’s being tested
 is to have an additional page print on plain stock from tray 4.  What’s
 actually happening is the additional page is printing from tray 2.   If the
 FORMDEF COPYGROUP DRWTHREE, is changed to BIN 2, the stock draws from tray
 3.

 We tried playing around with the AOP_TRAYID settings changing the fourth
 position to all of the values from 1 to 5.  In many cases that caused the
 printer to draw from the manual paper feed.  If anyone has any suggestions
 on this I would sure appreciate it.  We're z/OS 1.13.

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Re: Dumb SMPE question

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Does IBM ever send a fixing PTF with a PRE(PE-PTF) instead of a
SUP(PE-PTF)?

In my experience, Yes, but rarely.   I have seen it done.   There used to
be limits on the size of PTFs or the number of parts they contained.  Those
limits have probably gone away over the years, but sometimes developers
would need to just ship the specific parts that needed fixing and PRE the
PE-PTF instead of superseding it which required reshipping all of the parts
in the superseded PTF.
--Roger


On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 3:42 PM, Pommier, Rex rpomm...@sfgmembers.comwrote:

 Mark,

 Let me ask a general question about IBM packaging.  Does IBM ever send a
 fixing PTF with a PRE(PE-PTF) instead of a SUP(PE-PTF)?  If the fixing PTF
 has a PRE of the PTF you deleted, would you not be causing yourself
 problems in that the PRE PTF is now missing?

 Rex

 -Original Message-
 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On
 Behalf Of Mark Pace
 Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2014 3:12 PM
 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
 Subject: Re: Dumb SMPE question

 Well sort of yes.  This PTF - UA70446
 HDZ1D10 FIXC HELD AA41551 HDZ1D10 ++HOLD(HDZ1D10) FIXCAT FMID(HDZ1D10)
 REASON(AA41551) RESOLVER(UA70446)

 CATEGORY(IBM.Function.VSAM-RLS)

 DATE(13266).
 UA70446 ERR  HELD AA43280 HDZ1D10 ++HOLD(UA70446) FMID(HDZ1D10)
 REASON(AA43280) ERROR DATE(13347)
COMMENT(SMRTDATA(CHGDT(131213)))
 CLASS(PE).

 I hate having these PTFs in my SMPPTS that every time I install an RSU the
 APPLY tries to install this PTF again, and I spend more time researching
 why the PTF didn't APPLY.  If I didn't have them in there I wouldn't be
 wasting time researching PTFs that don't apply.

 Am I being short sighted?


 On Wed, Feb 5, 2014 at 5:46 PM, Tom Marchant m42tom-ibmm...@yahoo.com
 wrote:

  On Wed, 5 Feb 2014 13:40:06 -0500, Mark Pace wrote:
 
  Is there a way to unreceive maintenance?  I have about 50 PTFs in my
  SMPPTS that will not APPLY for one reason or another.
 
  for one reason or another?
 
  Not because of PE, I hope.
 
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Re: SR stupidity

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Hi Dave,
I don't know what the web pages on the customer end of the SR process look
like, but I guess my expectation would be that there would be a check box
somewhere for notify or something similar.   If there is not, then
another way to go is to say that email is your preferred method of contact
and then the IBMer can respond from the ECuRep (Enhanced Customer
Repository) site using email and have that email optionally copied into the
problem record as an automatic update.


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 Probably not old enough to have ordered anything online before



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Re: Infoprint Manager

[Roger Bolan]

Just for clarity, that link is for
4400/6400/6500/6700 Printer Management Utility (v 3.16D)

and not Infoprint Manager which is different, and a supported product, not
a freebie.


On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 8:14 AM, Dazzo, Matt mda...@pch.com wrote:

 Of course after sending the help request I found it. For anyone who might
 be interested here is the link.


 http://www.infoprintsolutionscompany.com/internet/dcfdata.nsf/WebR10/P4000128

 Thanks Matt

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 Subject: Infoprint Manager

 Several years ago there was a desktop tool which I believe was called
 'infoprint manager' (a freebie by the way) that our operations staff used
 to control IBM 6500 printers remotely over IP. When searching for it today
 there are a lot of hits for 'inforprint manager' but I can't find a link
 for downloading the free tool. Does anyone know if this tool is available
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Re: OT: How to open a new list at UA.EDU?

[Roger Bolan]

Peter,
I assume you meant the afp-l discussion list at
http://lists.topica.com/lists/afp-l/  ?
I am still able to login so it doesn't seem really dead.  On the other
hand, I don't see any new posts since October of 2012.   Maybe it just
needs some prodding?
--Roger


On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 5:35 AM, Shane Ginnane ibm-m...@tpg.com.au wrote:

 On Tue, 28 May 2013 05:32:49 -0500, Elardus Engelbrecht wrote:

 There is also Google Groups, but ... I will stay from it if I can... ;-)

 I will second that.
 Just recently I have been getting some reasonably sophisticated spam
 seemingly using my address scraped  from the z1090 yahoo group. Looking at
 the source I see a thread from z1090 with several well known contributors
 addresses linked in open text.
 Bloody appalling management.

 But this has been thrashed here before ...

 Shane ...

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Re: Use of PDSE font library datasets with IP Printway

[Roger Bolan]

Rick,

I took one little test case I had and copied all the AFP resources,
including fonts, into PDSE libraries and the afpxpdf transform seemed to
have no problem with it.

--Roger


On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 6:47 AM, Rick Stetser rick.stet...@yahoo.comwrote:

 We're z/OS 1.11 using IP Printway (aka Infoprint).  I'm considering
 changing one of the font library datasets used with Infoprint from a PDS to
 a PDSE.  Does anyone know if this would cause a problem?  Thanks for any
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Re: Use of PDSE font library datasets with IP Printway

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Hi Rick,
I know of no problem, but I have not tried it myself either.  None of the
font libraries on my test system are currently PDSE.

The Infoprint documentation makes no mention of the term PDSE.

However, the PSF documentation does say that resources, including fonts,
can be in PDSE libraries.  If PSF allows it, then I would be surprised if
Printway did not also allow it.

However, I assume you're talking about AFP fonts and it really is only the
Transforms from AFP to other formats (PS, PCL, PDF) that would care, and
there isn't any way to be sure except to test it.   I did not find any
APARs for Printway or the Transforms that mention PDSE either.

Regards,
--Roger


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 We're z/OS 1.11 using IP Printway (aka Infoprint).  I'm considering
 changing one of the font library datasets used with Infoprint from a PDS to
 a PDSE.  Does anyone know if this would cause a problem?  Thanks for any
 responses.

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Re: FTP variable block dataset from z/OS to Windows and back

[Roger Bolan]

Gilbert,
I move AFP files all the time.   Of the 3 methods mentioned in your
reference,
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21188301 ,
I use Method 3, tersing, the most.   It seems the easiest and most
foolproof to me.   You just terse the original file, then make sure all
transfers are done in binary mode, not text, and unterse the file on the
new z/OS system.  For the final FTP upload, I specify something like
SITE RECFM=FB LRECL=1024 BLKSIZE=0 CYLINDERS PRIMARY=10 SECONDARY=10
where you adjust the size to fit your requirements.   Then I do my binary
FTP upload to z/OS.  Untersing the data set restores the original DCB
attributes.

AFRREBLK is for fixing untersed binary AFP files that have been uploaded
from a non-MVS system.   If you have PSF, you should find
SYS1.SAPSEXEC(AFRREBLK) and the sample profile SYS1.SAMPLIB(AFRREBLK).
Read the comments inside the exec for usage details.

Text files are a little more forgiving, but I occasionally get one somebody
has sent to me that is all one long wrapped file.  Chances are it has CRLF
type characters in it.   One way to fix some of those files is to use the
OMVS system to split it.   I have a little exec like this:
 BROWSEBOLAN.MY.CLIST(SPLIT) - 01.02  Line  Col 0
 Command ===  Scroll ===
* Top of Data ***
/* REXX COMMAND TO FIX UNSPLIT HFS FILES */
/* Roger Bolan May 18, 2010 */
Trace C
ADDRESS tso
PARSE ARG olddsn
if olddsn = '?' then call explain
stripdsn = Strip(olddsn,'B',')
OPUT '||stripdsn||' '/tmp/||stripdsn||'
OGET '/tmp/||stripdsn||' '||stripdsn||'  TEXT
OSHELL rm /tmp/||stripdsn
return RC
explain:
  say 'Use from ISPF 3.4'
  say 'Example format:  %split  / '
  say 'use / to enter the quoted fully qualified name from ISPF 3.4'
  exit 0

Sometimes text files have only a x'15' or x'25' byte dividing the original
records.  I have a VM system too, so I use pipe commands, like the
following excerpts, sometimes.

/* splits on 0x15 */
'PIPE ' fn ft fm  '| DEBLOCK LINEEND | ' fn ft 'A'

/* splits on x'25'*/
'PIPE ' fn ft fm  '| DEBLOCK C | ' fn 'SPLIT A'

Regards,
--Roger






On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 10:12 AM, retired mainframer 
retired-mainfra...@q.com wrote:

 You have received a couple of ideas to solve the transfer problem.  It's
 your last sentence I'm concerned about.  If the minor tweaks are strictly
 limited to a character by character substitution (one for one) it may be OK
 (obviously not if the dataset contains a checksum).  But if any
 substitution
 changes the number of characters in a record, it will mess up
 XMIT/RECEIVE, TERSE, and/or the BDW/RDW to render the data unreadable by
 normal z/OS I/O.

 And then there is my paranoid concern regarding why someone is altering a
 mainframe dataset to make it look like the mainframe has the wrong data.
 Data received from a Windows system should be easily identified as such so
 problems with the data can be addressed on the system that created it.

 :: -Original Message-
 :: From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU]
 On
 :: Behalf Of Gilbert Cardenas
 :: Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2013 6:11 AM
 :: To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
 :: Subject: FTP variable block dataset from z/OS to Windows and back
 ::
 :: Does anyone know if the following limitation still applies?
 :: http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21188301
 ::
 :: I have a request to ftp a z/OS variable blocked dataset to a windows
 :: server and then be able to ftp that dataset back to a z/OS system.  I
 am
 :: not privy to all the details about why they want to do this, just been
 :: asked if it is possible to do?  I'm guessing they want to make some
 :: minor tweaks to the dataset and re-upload.
 ::
 :: Anyhow, can this be done and if so, can you share any samples?
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Re: Products to produce/modify AFP resources for use on z

[Roger Bolan]

Yes.  I agree with that recommendation.  One of the links I gave earlier
was to
http://www.infoprint.com/internet/ipww.nsf/vwWebPublished/sw_create_en#h1
and if you scroll down on that page, you will find the Elixir Design Pro
Tools in the list of products for creating and managing AFP resources and
data streams.
--Roger


On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 5:17 AM, Gilbert Cardenas 
gilbertcarde...@grocerybiz.com wrote:

 Hi Linda, we are a Xerox shop and the product we use is called Elixir
 Design Pro Tools.  It falls in the low cost category.
 It's not free but not terribly expensive either.  I believe they have an
 AFP module.  I'm not sure what the cost comparison is between the Xerox and
 AFP modules are though.
 http://www.elixir.com/DesignPro-Tools.html
 It allows us to create/modify forms, fonts, graphics.

 Regards,
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Re: mainframe batch jobs in output queue with USER in status column

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There are probably lots of ways for an output job to get a user hold.   Are
there any messages in the syslog about these messages?  Are they print jobs
where a printer definition or a job or a user might have requested a hold
or a retain time?It might not be a problem (look for error messages).
It might be normal processing for some (or all) of these jobs.  Could these
be Infoprint Server IP Printway basic mode jobs?  A routing exit could put
them on hold.


On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 2:52 PM, John McKown john.archie.mck...@gmail.comwrote:

 I just did that by doing a TSO TRANSMIT command. It put the STATUS as
 USER and the DEST as my RACF id. I could also do it with a
 DEST=SYSUID on a SYSOUT=class DD statement. I could also do in on
 the SDSF O panel by putting my RACF id in the DEST column instead of
 LOCAL.

 On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 3:38 PM, Tim Brown tbr...@cenhud.com wrote:
  Lately a number of jobs are appearing in the output Q with USER in the
 Status column
  visible via SDSF, The output class for the job card and sysout are not
 defined to go to
  held classes. Not sure what is causing this.
 
  Thanks,
 
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Re: Products to produce/modify AFP resources for use on z

[Roger Bolan]

For free, you can download the AFP Printer Driver from IBM.com.  One of the
things you can do with it is to print to files to create overlays and
page segments.

Tools available for creating AFP documents and AFP resources are also found
on the www.infoprint.com pages.  See this page.
http://www.infoprint.com/internet/ipww.nsf/vwWebPublished/sw_create_en

On the mainframe, you can use OGL (Overlay Generation Language) to create
overlays.  You can use PPFA (Page Printer Formatting Aid) to create
formdefs and pagedefs.

PSF 3.4 is old.   Did you mean PSF 4.3?  PSF 4.3 and 4.4 are the only
currently supported versions of PSF.

Here is documentation for PPFA:  IBM Infoprint PPFA PDF Extended
Shelfhttp://publibfp.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr/XKS/ib6xks01

and for OGL
http://www-05.ibm.com/e-business/linkweb/publications/servlet/pbi.wss?CTY=USFNC=SRXPBL=S544-3702-04

Current levels of OGL and PPFA support bar codes with BCOCA (Bar Code
Object Content Architecture) including QR codes.   The documentation for QR
bar codes is not in the OGL book yet, but it is in DOC APAR PM55807.

There is another old, but still available product, PMF (Print Management
Facility) that uses APL2 and GDDM to create and edit fonts, pagedefs, and
formdefs on z/OS.  I think that the AFP Font Collection or Infoprint Fonts
also came with some kind of font tools on the CD-ROM or DVD.   See the
book PRINT
MGMT FACIL USER GD  REF
(SH35-0059-03)http://www-05.ibm.com/e-business/linkweb/publications/servlet/pbi.wss?PAG=C11SSN=12LTA0003025518044TRL=TXTWRD=PBL=sh35-0059LST=ALLRPP=10submit=Go

 Regards,
--Roger




On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 3:41 PM, Linda Mooney linda.lst...@comcast.netwrote:

 Greetings!



 My shop is interested in finding a no-cost, perhaps low-cost, product to
 use for building/modifying AFP resources - pagedef, formdef, overlay,
 psegs, and (possibly) fonts.  We are using JES2 and PSF 3.4 on a z800
 currently. We do not have InfoPrint.  We do use a fair amount of bar code
 (as a callable font), and we are currently using static QR codes (loaded as
 pseg), but we will want to generate them also.  Currently, we run native
 OGL for all AFP resource builds and modifications.



 I did ask our friend Google and found a couple of possibles, though the
 minimum requirements they listed are so very minimal that, coupled with not
 finding dates, I was left to wonder if they were viable products.


 Can you tell me, what product(s) your shop uses and give me some insight
 and links the product(s)?  Also, if there is another list that I should
 cross-post to, I would also appreciate that address.



 TIA,



 Linda

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Re: Why would TRSMAIN end with RC=0 but not unpack the data?

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I think on almost all systems nowadays TRSMAIN is just an alias for
AMATERSE.


On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 12:42 PM, R.S. r.skoru...@bremultibank.com.plwrote:

 W dniu 2012-12-18 18:51, Binyamin Dissen pisze:


  Wild guess: Customer used AMATERSE and yo are using TRSMAIN.
 AFAIK AMATERSE support more data formats than TRSMAIN. Can it be the issue?





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Re: Why would TRSMAIN end with RC=0 but not unpack the data?

[Roger Bolan]

Could the original data set have been truncated before it was tersed?   Can
you verify that the original data set was okay before tersing, and that the
PACK step also got return code 0?



On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 10:51 AM, Binyamin Dissen 
bdis...@dissensoftware.com wrote:

 I am only getting part of the first record of the dump

 DR2 H ..Á.@IEAVTSDT­
 CDF4C40056F7CCCEEECEC
 4920800005FC200095153243A

 The TRS file is 200 cylinders

 Output is

 ** AMA572I STARTING TERSE DECODE   UNPACK   01:28:13  12/19/2012 
 ** AMA527I  INPUT  - DDNAME : INFILE   DSNAME: censored.trs
 ** AMA528I  OUTPUT - DDNAME : OUTFILE  DSNAME: censored.dump
 ** AMA555I  THE VALUES ARE:  BLKSIZE= 24960   LRECL=4160PACKTYPE=PACK
RECFM=FIXED
 ** AMA573I TERSE COMPLETE DECODE   UNPACK   01:28:13  12/19/2012 
 ** AMA504I  RETURN CODE: 0

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Re: Why would TRSMAIN end with RC=0 but not unpack the data?

[Roger Bolan]

Uploading (from workstation to MVS data set) is a step where unintentional
changes can easily happen.   Using either FTP or a terminal emulator like
Personal Communications, you may have to send SITE commands or set values
to control the allocation, both size and DCB attributes) of the  host data
set on the receiving end of the upload.   When I have clients send MVS data
sets to me, I typically have them terse it first, then do BINARY
downloads/uploads and make sure the final target sequential data set didn't
end with 16 extents.  For binary FTP upload  of tersed data I specify the
space and DCB.  For example:
SITE recfm=fb lrecl=1024 cylinders primary=100 secondary=10 blksize=0
for the tersed data set.  Then I use JCL for the AMATERSE UNPACK step which
pre-allocates a large output data set and releases the extra space.

--Roger



On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 11:31 AM, Binyamin Dissen 
bdis...@dissensoftware.com wrote:

 Yes, I uploaded it.

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Re: Why File transfer through TSO IND$FILE is slower than TCP/IP FTP ?

[Roger Bolan]

On my systems FTP is still faster than IND$FILE, but let me just throw out
a little tidbit for consideration.

On my own Personal Communications sessions that use IND$FILE for transfers,
I found a very noticeable increase in speed if I defined my connections
using the numeric dotted IP address for the host instead of a host name
that got resolved through DNS.I can't explain why.  I can only report
that someone once suggested that to me and it did make my IND$FILE
transfers faster.  YMMV.
--Roger

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Re: Print Option from Mainframe to Microsoft Note

[Roger Bolan]

Jake,
Arthur's example is for calling the transform by itself, without using a
Printway printer definition.   You are correct that you do have to have the
separate FMID for the transform installed.There is an older Infoprint
Transforms product (afp2pdf) which is no longer marketed by IBM, but which
can also be used if you already have it.   Could you use another transform,
like txt2pdf, from a printer definition?  Good question.  I don't know.
I've never tried that.
--Roger

On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 12:36 AM, Jake anderson justmainfra...@gmail.comwrote:

 Unfortunately AFP related FMID is not installed due to which my progress is
 stalled.

 On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 11:57 AM, Arthur Fichtl arthur_fic...@afisumag.de
 wrote:

  hi, Jake,
  what about that:
 
  http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/**infocenter/zos/v1r13/index.**
  jsp?topic=%2Fcom.ibm.zos.r13.**aokfa00%2Fpdfxmp.htm
 http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/zos/v1r13/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.ibm.zos.r13.aokfa00%2Fpdfxmp.htm
 
 
  Transform an AFP MVS™ data set, specifying a form definition
 To transform the MVS data set USERX.AFP(MYFILE) into an output PDF
 file called myfile.pdf, using the form definition F1C10110, enter:
 
 |afpxpdf -j form-def=f1c10110 -o myfile.pdf //'USERX.AFP(MYFILE)'|
 
 
 
 
 
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Re: Rexx Exec Help Desperately Sought!

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The XMITIP doc says that it will handle dsnames the same as TSO, that is,
partially qualified names get your prefix added, and fully qualified
dsnames must be inside single quotes.

I think you are just running into the way TSO parses the quotes.   You may
need to make sure the quotes get passed into XMITIP by doubling them.  For
example:
EX 'SYS2.LOCAL.CLIST(XMITIP)' '''TM#T.M.XMITIP.PARMCARD.userid1'''
That may be hard to see, so here is what that is:
1. One set of single quotes around the whole parameter value
2. 2 sets of single quotes (not double quotes) around the dsname so that
XMITIP will see 1 set of single quotes.
for a total of 3 single quotes on each side of the dsname.

Or, if you allocate 'SYS2.LOCAL.CLIST' to your SYSPROC ddname, you should
be able to do this:
%XMITIP 'TM#.M.XMITIP.PARMCARD'
and use only a single set of quotes.

When you are calling certain tools, the quote doubling may depend on how
many levels of CLIST or REXX are nested.  I once had a tool where I had to
put 6 single quotes on each side of a fully qualified dsname to be able to
pass a fully qualified dsname with a single set of single quotes all the
way to the inside.  It depends on how the clists or rexx expect to see the
quotes.

Regards,
--Roger


On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 9:55 AM, Elardus Engelbrecht 
elardus.engelbre...@sita.co.za wrote:

 George Rodriguez wrote:

 Boy do I need help!

 There are (hot!) girls lurking too on IBM-MAIN... ;-D

 In my Rexx exec I extract the userid ...

 from where? Just curious.

 I then start building the file that has all the XMITIP parameter cards,

 Now this is where I need your help... If what follows is what I'm doing
 in the Rexx exec what are the needed parameters?

 EX 'SYS2.LOCAL.CLIST(XMITIP)' how and what do I say here...

 Based on what you wrote, I think (?) you want to execute your REXX program
 with the dataset as a [single] parameter.

 If so, try this: EX 'DSN.HOLDING.THE.EXEC(REXX EXEC)' 'Parm1 parm2 parm3
 etc'

 Using your posted example, try this (using only one parameter):

 EX 'SYS2.LOCAL.CLIST(XMITIP)' 'TM#T.M.XMITIP.PARMCARD.userid'

 In Batch you can do this:

 //PLAY   EXEC PGM=IKJEFT01
 //SYSPRINT DD  SYSOUT=*
 //SYSTERM  DD  SYSOUT=*
 //SYSTSPRT DD  SYSOUT=*
 //SYSTSIN  DD  *
  EX 'SYS2.LOCAL.CLIST(XMITIP)' 'TM#T.M.XMITIP.PARMCARD.userid1'
  EX 'SYS2.LOCAL.CLIST(XMITIP)' 'TM#T.M.XMITIP.PARMCARD.userid2'
  ...etc...


 HTH!

 Groete / Greetings
 Elardus Engelbrecht

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Re: Can't get output to print with Infoprint

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Rick,
If you are using Printway Extended Mode, try using Infoprint Central to
handle the job.  If your printer definition is matching on DEST, CLASS, and
FORMS, and you have changed those, you might need to change the DEST,
CLASS, and FORMS on the held job to match the printer definition again.
It's hard to tell without seeing all the data.   You might need to open a
problem record with IBM and then send the printer inventory dump and maybe
a trace too.  The pidu dump command includes job objects and shows more
information than just the pidu export.

It sounds like the other suggestion and the comments about messing up the
carriage control if copying the spool file to a dataset was referring to
the XDC line command in SDSF.  To preserve carriage control already in the
file, you can preallocate a DDNAME to a dataset and then use the XFC
command instead.

Regards,
--Roger

On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 11:59 AM, Don Poitras sas...@sas.com wrote:

 It creates a VBA dataset. The carriage control should be preserved.

 Rick Stetser wrote:
 
  Thanks for the response.  Unfortunately, this messes up the carriage
 control and the file will no longer print correctly.

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Re: Printing barcodes on mainframe generated reports

[Roger Bolan]

If you are using AFP, you can create BCOCA (Bar Code Object Content
Architecture) bar codes instead of using fonts.
See how to use the AFP Toolbox from COBOL applications to create bar
codes.  The AFP Toolbox documentation is in the PSF bookshelf.Here is
the latest level bookshelf:
http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/SHELVES/apsbk430

Regards,
--Roger

On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 9:23 AM, Goldsby, Gary
gary.gold...@fredmeyer.comwrote:

 G'day mates,
 This is my second attempt to get information about how to
 print barcodes on a report that is created in a Cobol program on a
 mainframe IBM platform. My particular issue is I do not understand how to
 look at a barcode and know what is required on the printline to satisfy the
 input requirements of the barcode logic.
 My installation is using AFP formats and fonts and
 printing via Infopac and / or RMDS.
 The particular barcode I am interested in is known as '3
 of 9'.
 If you have a cobol program that is sending a 13 digit UPC
 number to a '3 of 9' barcode I would like to see the working storage
 variables and the procedure division logic you are using.

 Thanks for your time,
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