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On Fri, 4 Aug 2006 09:26:06 +0200, Vernooy, C.P. - SPLXM
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We also are having problems with 1 OSA. We did put the channel
Off/Online but that did not solve the problem. My IP colleagues are
On Mon, 7 Aug 2006 00:03:26 -0400, Robert A. Rosenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
At 22:37 -0500 on 08/05/2006, Tom Marchant wrote
about Re: WHY IS JCL ALLERGIC TO LOWER CASE?:
On Sat, 5 Aug 2006 23:01:10 -0400, Robert A. Rosenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
I forget what the JES3 equivalent would
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Mark Zelden
[ snip ]
We all know that other platforms can and do some things
better and perhaps some of those things can be changed on
this platform. It takes time, money, and enough good reasons
to do so.
A certain mail system based in VM used to use mixed case file names to
protect the data. With a little REXX effort, one could use that to his or
her advantage.
I'm of the opinion, FWIW, that where it makes sense, allow lower case. But
then I feel the same way about sequence numbers.
It is
In a message dated 8/7/2006 7:13:30 A.M. Central Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
It is Mondayand since the 1403 train has long since left the station,
speed is no longer an issue.
Ever see the shredded 1403 ribbon dangling by the edges? 'Overprinting is
cool' was the
Chris Langford wrote:
snip
1403 printers had chains, 3211 had trains.
snip
1403 printers had both chains and trains. Honest! I spent lots
(and lots) of hours rebuilding 1403 trains as a CE...
--
John Eells
z/OS Technical Marketing
IBM Poughkeepsie
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In a message dated 8/7/2006 7:46:38 A.M. Central Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Makes me wonder about the cumulative total of years this list represents.
Can we say it's in the thousands?
Well if the subscriber's number is 3-4 thousand and the average on job
experience is
Not war, just awe. When I saw my first 1403 in 1976, it took me a long time
to accept that the box of paper in the back could possibly have been blank.
Nigel
On 7/8/06 13:45, Daniel A. McLaughlin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
I've seen boxes of cards, set innocently on top of a 1403, go scattering
On Mon, 2006-08-07 at 08:45 -0400, Daniel A. McLaughlin wrote:
I've seen boxes of cards, set innocently on top of a 1403, go scattering
when the paper out was hit.
What, you never sat a mug of coffee on top whilst you answered an alarm
at the console ???
No, of course not - *nobody*
In a message dated 8/7/2006 7:59:23 A.M. Central Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
What, you never sat a mug of coffee on top whilst you answered an alarm
at the console ???
OKAY, one more and I'm off to the appliance store. Director coming in meets
CE going out. Morning
Chase, John wrote:
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Mark Zelden
[ snip ]
We all know that other platforms can and do some things
better and perhaps some of those things can be changed on
this platform. It takes time, money, and enough good reasons
Hi
Is it possible to define a new exit to JES2 on the fly?
Environment is z/OS 1.6.
I can see that I can enable/disaple exits bud how about define a new routine?
Med venlig hilsen
Frank Allan Rasmussen
Systemprogrammør
Fyns Amts EDB-central
+45 65 41 35 50
If we had a method of unconditionally maintaining CAPS OFF mode all the
time, that yield the same effect as eliminating the CAPS facility
altogether. I would both welcome and push for such an option. (as well
as the analogous setting I would never use -- to keep CAPS ON in effect
all the time,
Daniel A. McLaughlin wrote:
I've seen boxes of cards, set innocently on top of a 1403, go scattering
when the paper out was hit.
And I've seen some boxes scattered even after the owner was prodded to
remove them prior to the disaster (and it once happened to me - I
thought I had it far
On Mon, 7 Aug 2006 08:38:46 -0500, Mark Zelden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If one is willing to lose their ISPF profile, another way that would
work would be to delete your profile (or at least ISREDIT) and
set ZDEFAULT with CAPS OFF and PROFILE LOCK (and your other
preferred settings). I've been
Where does one find this ZDEFAULT to modify it? I'm unable to locate
it.
If it is a sysprog only module then I guess I'm outta luck.
Thanks
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To:
Heck. That was just TO simple. Sheesh. I was looking every where
else. Even edited the ISREDIT table looking for it. Nope.
Thanks
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Sent: Monday, August 07, 2006 7:12 AM
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Sent: Saturday, August 05, 2006 10:40 PM
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Subject: Re: ISPF CAPS Status (Was: WHY IS JCL ALLERGIC ...)
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Concerning the antiquity of single case, what
On Mon, 7 Aug 2006 07:09:13 -0700, George, William (DHS-ITSD)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Where does one find this ZDEFAULT to modify it? I'm unable to locate
it.
If it is a sysprog only module then I guess I'm outta luck.
Thanks
ISPF Edit and Edit Macros
Creating a ZDEFAULT Edit Profile,
Thanks Mark!
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
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Sent: Monday, August 07, 2006 7:20 AM
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Subject: Re: JCL Enhancement suggesion
On Mon, 7 Aug 2006 07:09:13 -0700, George, William (DHS-ITSD)
Paul Gilmartin wrote:
What about the minor change to make the existing behavior unsymmetrical?
The editor should, prudently, set CAPS OFF when asked to edit a file
containing lower case characters. As we note that's safe and easy to
undo with UCC if wrong; but never override an existing setting
Go to www.cbttape.org and download file 198.
Unfortunatelly you have to IPL to define this exit 5 the first time,
but after that any load (new exit or already defined one) will be
dynamic.
Atenciosamente / Regards / Saludos
Ituriel do Nascimento Neto
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Where does one find this ZDEFAULT to modify it?
At the EDIT command prompt:
== profile zdefault
.
.
make suitable modifications, including:
profile lock
Then switch to another profile, and exit ISPF cleanly.
When in doubt.
PANIC!!
All,
I need to submit a Job and monitor it (at least wait for it to end). Is
there an official API? I've heard about the SAPI, but if I got it right
it uses a SSI which I can't use/access from C (-- I need a C solution).
Thanks for any help,
Michael
There are probably better answers, but depending on what you mean by
monitor, you *may* be able to do the job with FTP. Look at the section of
the manual on submitting jobs. The TCP/IP address of this machine is
always 127.0.0.1
Charles
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion
What is it you need to do once it ends? Do *you* just need to know that
it has run? Do you need to do something once it runs? Do you need to
know how it completed?
With a bit more information you might get an answer that hits what you
need just by making use of built in functionality.
Later,
On Monday 07 August 2006 13:15, Michael Knigge wrote:
I need to submit a Job and monitor it (at least wait for it to end).
Is there an official API? I've heard about the SAPI,
but if I got it right it uses a SSI which I can't use/access
from C (-- I need a C solution).
Submitting a job
On Sat, 5 Aug 2006 00:35:12 +, Ted MacNEIL [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
...
You're wrong!
It is a big deal!
ISPF will run CAPS off if there is one character in lower case in the
member.
As a vendor, it may seem fine to you.
But, you should aim for the lowest common denominator.
...
Ok. Ed
Patrick O'Keefe, who appears to be on the side of the or, better, my angels,
nevertheless writes
Ok. Ed doesn't get to vote. I'm a customer (but not of Ed's products)
so I get to vote, and I vote for mixed case JCL.
Perhaps he, Ed Jaffe that is, and other ISVs should not be allowed to
Ok. Ed doesn't get to vote. I'm a customer (but not of Ed's products)
so I get to vote, and I vote for mixed case JCL.
If it could be submitted successfuly, I would vote for it, too.
But, as long as it cannot, I still say the vendors have to put up with it!
When in doubt.
PANIC!!
On Mon, 7 Aug 2006 19:50:55 +, Ted MacNEIL [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ok. Ed doesn't get to vote. I'm a customer (but not of Ed's products)
so I get to vote, and I vote for mixed case JCL.
If it could be submitted successfuly, I would vote for it, too.
But, as long as it cannot, I still
In a recent note, Ted MacNEIL said:
Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2006 19:50:55 +
Ok. Ed doesn't get to vote. I'm a customer (but not of Ed's products)
so I get to vote, and I vote for mixed case JCL.
If it could be submitted successfuly, I would vote for it, too.
But, as long as it
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin
Sent: Monday, August 07, 2006 3:28 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: Vendor JCL (was: WHY IS JCL ALLERGIC ... )
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And, here I'm a little uneasy that if we instruct
i am researching Java on the mainframe. We have many
non-OO or traditional COBOL subroutines to access our Z/Series data. Our
COBOL subroutines are compiled with the Enterprise COBOL version 3, but
use the traditional procedural style.
The current manuals and IBM Red Books only talk about the OO
Paul Gilmartin writes:
And, here I'm a little uneasy that if we instruct our
customers to CHANGE 'VENDOR.PREFIX' 'USER.PREFIX' ALL
etc., _if_desired_, that the editing may have the effect
of making unintended changes elswhere in the files that
by happenstance match the pattern. This is a
Since ISPF is basically a given for every installation, I don't know
why a vendor couldn't just use standard ISPF file tailoring. Again,
put
the JCL in a second PDS with the same name as the original PDS. Let
the
user submit it then and their or later.
Be careful what you wish for. That BMC
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Craddock, Chris
Sent: Monday, August 07, 2006 4:22 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: Vendor JCL (was: WHY IS JCL ALLERGIC ... )
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Be careful what you wish for. That BMC thingie you're
(cross-posting, and setting Reply-to: ASM370)
In a recent note, john gilmore said:
Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2006 21:06:27 +
Paul Gilmartin writes:
I'd be delighted to be able to supply an INCLUDE member
with all the strings we invite customers to change
provided as JCL
Affectionately known as autocurst
To be honest, I dislike all those autocust things. Going way back to
CA-Activator. Some work better and are easier to use than others,
but I always want to review my JCL and save it in some sort of
install library anyway (usually with names like #INST01,
Paul Gilmartin wrote:
What must I do to process general input text with the assembler?
must I do my own lexical analysis, character by character?
There are HLASM macro functions now for quoting, dequoting, searching,
doing case-insensitive compares, etc. I use them all the time!
--
I don't know. If you travel a good bit it might be a good investment and
deductible. Not affiliated, other than my friend in CA. found it helpful.
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the nite and another guy is moving some things off to JSF. Just
thought I'd ask the question here before opening an issue with IBM.
We did a search at the IBM and site and didn't get a hit. THANX
In a recent note, Mark Zelden said:
Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2006 16:54:03 -0500
It may take a little longer, but I don't mind going into each
member and doing an ISPF CHANGE ALL command for tape_unt and
vend_hlq to whatever I need. If I know I will do a lot of this
At least two
Dear folks;
As a possibly a neverending debate, I wanto to know, besides storage and
CPU usage implications, what are the benefits of not having all the smf
records ON with the exception of 4,5 and 99.
I don't have neither the VSAM SMF records ON nor the CICS record ON. I run
about 10k+ Jobs
If you rule out CPU and MEMORY about the only thing left you want to
consider consumption of is I/O which they do.
Here is what we record currently perhaps that will help your
consideration. I do record type 99 records and retain them for 5 days.
I needed them once and it was worth having them
On Mon, 7 Aug 2006 16:54:03 -0500, Mark Zelden [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Affectionately known as autocurst
To be honest, I dislike all those autocust things. Going way back to
CA-Activator. Some work better and are easier to use than others,
but I always want to review my JCL and save it in
On Mon, 7 Aug 2006 16:54:03 -0500, Mark Zelden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Affectionately known as autocurst
To be honest, I dislike all those autocust things. Going way back to
CA-Activator. Some work better and are easier to use than others,
but I always want to review my JCL and save it in
If this has already been posted, just ignore it.
http://technology.inq7.net/infotech/infotech/view_article.php?article_id=136
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At 13:57 +0100 on 08/07/2006, Nigel Hadfield wrote about Re: Why is
JCL allergic to lower case?:
Not war, just awe. When I saw my first 1403 in 1976, it took me a long time
to accept that the box of paper in the back could possibly have been blank.
Nigel
My favorite Printer War Story
At 10:17 -0400 on 08/07/2006, Thompson, Steve (SCI TW) wrote about
Re: ISPF CAPS Status (Was: WHY IS JCL ALLERGIC ...):
Then we should all argue punctuation and spelling. Correct English
spelling, grammar, punctuation, are all being discarded so that we can
go back to speling in the Simplist
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 08/06/2006
at 11:12 AM, Paul Gilmartin [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
In a small VM/CMS installation, I approached our sysadmin/consultant/
VM JOAT for help with a problem in a Rexx EXEC. As sysadmin, he was
able to log on to my account and try a fix. He didn't notice the
In [EMAIL PROTECTED],
on 08/07/2006
at 10:17 AM, Thompson, Steve (SCI TW)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Hebrew had no case.
Still doesn't. It does, however, have variant forms of several letters
when at the ends of words.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 08/07/2006
at 08:43 AM, Ed Finnell [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
I seem to remember that the Universal character train had mixed case
long before VTAM.
Correct; the UCS feature came out in the 1960s but VTAM came out in
the 1970's.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz,
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 08/04/2006
at 04:39 PM, Paul Gilmartin [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
But, according to the z/OS 1.7 JCL RM, UCS=(,FOLD) is not meaningful
on DD SYSOUT.
I may have been thinking of the pre-MVS support; it definitely worked
in OS/360. Does anybody still have JCL manuals for
At 16:54 -0500 on 08/07/2006, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Mark_Zelden?= wrote
about Re: Vendor JCL (was: WHY IS JCL ALLERGIC ... ):
It may take a little longer, but I don't mind going into each
member and doing an ISPF CHANGE ALL command for tape_unt and
vend_hlq to whatever I need.
The problem with that
At 17:47 -0300 on 08/07/2006, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote about
Re: ISPF CAPS Status (Was: WHY IS JCL ALLERGIC ...):
In [EMAIL PROTECTED],
on 08/07/2006
at 10:17 AM, Thompson, Steve (SCI TW)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Hebrew had no case.
Still doesn't. It does, however, have variant
Actually IIRC Arabic characters vary dependent on whether they are at the
beginning, middle or end of a word
James F Smith
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
Of Robert A. Rosenberg
Sent: 08 August 2006 12:26
To:
In a recent note, Robert A. Rosenberg said:
Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2006 00:21:06 -0400
At 16:54 -0500 on 08/07/2006, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Mark_Zelden?= wrote
about Re: Vendor JCL (was: WHY IS JCL ALLERGIC ... ):
It may take a little longer, but I don't mind going into each
member and doing
Hello list,
Does z900 support 3174 connectivity? I have a customer who currently
running z800 and has 3174 connection with a tape library. He will
upgrade to z900 soon, I wonder if 3174 is still supported by z900 or
I will notify customer to upgrade tape library interface as well.
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