Re: Need for small machines was Re: Macro List/Execute Forms (Was: Need help with Assembler ...)

2007-03-28 Thread Ron Hawkins
ISMF... In contrast, which native ISPF application would a person have to go into to see a list of all their DB2 tables? -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Zos / file creation / dates

2007-03-28 Thread Vernooy, C.P. - SPLXM
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... Hello, Am interfacing w/ a customer who is working on an IBM 'box' w/ the Zos O.S. and natural. He is creating files for us but is having trouble creating a file w/ today's date in the filename. Can anyone help? (No unix

Re: Serial Editors

2007-03-28 Thread Michael Knigge
Where do you get THE? Does it have to be purchased? THE is an Open Source Product. The latest version I've tried was somehow buggy in SPF-Mode. If you give it a try, then try different versions. Maybe you wanna have a look at http://www.planetmvs.com/spfeditor There is a thing mentioned

Re: Uss reason code 0x0be800cc any ideas what ipt is?

2007-03-28 Thread Miklos Szigetvari
/IPT:initial/ /pthread-creating/ /thread/ . http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/BPXZB140/CCONTENTS?SHELF=BPXZSH41DN=SA22-7803-04DT=20040105144922 -- Miklos Szigetvari Development Team ISIS Information Systems Gmbh tel: (+43) 2236 27551 570 Fax: (+43) 2236 21081 E-mail:

Sysplex timer

2007-03-28 Thread Víctor de la Fuente
Hi again! Yesterday we tried to synchronize our Sysplex Timers with an ETS, but we couldn't get it. My problem is I didn't find any manuals with help. It shows an error window, but I don't know where to look for information about it. Could you tell me where can I look for? Thank you very much!

Re: Sysplex timer

2007-03-28 Thread George Kozakos
Yesterday we tried to synchronize our Sysplex Timers with an ETS, but we couldn't get it. My problem is I didn't find any manuals with help. It shows an error window, but I don't know where to look for information about it. Could you tell me where can I look for? The manual is SY27-2641-02 9037

Re: Another article on the Flex/IBM issue

2007-03-28 Thread Phil Smith III
Wayne Driscoll [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: While this service is a great start, in the description it clearly states that this is to be used to TEST developed solutions, not as a product development environment. Kind of a catch-22 at this point, w/o other access to an IBM system, you won't have a

Re: Zos / file creation / dates

2007-03-28 Thread Veilleux, Jon L
Another issue with changing first qualifiers is that you will fill up your master catalog with junk filenames. The first qualifier should always be an entry that points to a user catalog. The mastercatalog should not be updateable by the general user. Jon L. Veilleux [EMAIL PROTECTED] (860)

Re: IEFC603I PROCLIB DEVICE I/O ERROR READING FOR JOB

2007-03-28 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 03/24/2007 at 10:43 AM, Clark Morris [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: This may relate to the user-surly approach of a lot of mainframe implementation. People should know enough not submit a job / start a task when a library is being updated. Similarly people should memorize

Re: ishell vs 3.17

2007-03-28 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 03/24/2007 at 03:57 PM, Paul Gilmartin [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: And allowing HFS directories to appear among the concatenands on the EDIT/BROWSE/etc. panels? With parameters? -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO position; see

Re: ISPF Limitations (was: Need for small machines ... )

2007-03-28 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 03/27/2007 at 06:55 AM, Paul Gilmartin [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Heck, even XEDIT can display and edit a long line as a single field which spans several screen lines. That would be nice as an option; I wouldn't want it as a default. And what do you mean even? XEDIT is

Re: Sysplex timer

2007-03-28 Thread Shane
On Wed, 2007-03-28 at 19:43 +1000, George Kozakos wrote: but I don't know where to look for information about it. Could you tell me where can I look for? The manual is SY27-2641-02 9037 Maintenance Manual Being at home at present, I'm presuming this is the manual about the size of a

Re: Zos / file creation / dates

2007-03-28 Thread Russell Witt
A first or second qualifier of Dyymmm would be fine. If the first qualifier you would have a problem cataloging the file on your own system, however since this would be a new foreign tape received once a day/week/month from the other customer, I am not sure that cataloging it on your system is a

Re: EZA1551I - Unknown host: aa.bb.com

2007-03-28 Thread Carol Srna
Thanks for responding Pat. We are z/OS 1.7 Resolver Trace Initialization Complete - 2007/03/27 12:45:52.976735 res_init Resolver values: Global Tcp/Ip Dataset = None Default Tcp/Ip Dataset = None Local Tcp/Ip Dataset = None Translation Table = Default UserId/JobName

Re: BookLibrary Server and z/OS 1.8

2007-03-28 Thread Peter Vander Woude
Andy, I believe that Library Server still will only work with XML Toolkit V1.6. I know 1.6 of the xml toolkit is out of support, but library server has not been updated to use the newer versions yet. I'm just getting to working on 1.7, and although I had the XML toolkit (v1.7-v1.9) on my

Re: Sysplex timer

2007-03-28 Thread Víctor de la Fuente
Yeah, we are planning STP, but now we need to synchronize our clocks. I know we can't automatically update time if it's deviation is higher than 5 seconds, but I SUPPOSE you can connect to the ETS. Nevertheless, now we are doing manual synchronization. My problem is we couldn't find a manual

Re: Need for small machines was Re: Macro List/Execute Forms (Was: Need help with Assembler ...)

2007-03-28 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Dave Salt [ snip ] The original poster said something along the lines of I don't want to keep scraps of paper with all my DB2 table names on it. In support of that, I used an analogy that even though Windows

Re: Sysplex timer

2007-03-28 Thread Shane
On Wed, 2007-03-28 at 14:29 +0200, Víctor de la Fuente wrote: My problem is we couldn't find a manual describing the different states and errors we can find on Sysplex Timer. Shane proposed two of them; but I couldn't find the first one, and the second one does not describe such errors.

Re: Another article on the Flex/IBM issue

2007-03-28 Thread Wayne Driscoll
Phil, Thnaks for pointing that out, I scanned that page, and missed the description, however I was looking at the program description in the application for the specific programs, and it states: Program Intent The Remote Development Program is intended soley for testing solution provider developed

Re: z/OS V1R9 Time Line?

2007-03-28 Thread John Eells
Mark Steely wrote: Does any know when z/OS V1R9 will be available? snip It's our intent to ship new releases of z/OS every September (insert standard IBM disclaimer here), as we say in z/OS Planning for Installation. See topic 1.3 Annual release cycle at:

Re: Need for small machines was Re: Macro List/Execute Forms (Was: Need help with Assembler ...)

2007-03-28 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dave Salt Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2007 9:58 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Need for small machines was Re: Macro List/Execute Forms (Was: Need help with Assembler ...)

Job class enforcement was Re: IEFC603I PROCLIB DEVICE I/O ERROR READING FOR JOB

2007-03-28 Thread Clark Morris
On 28 Mar 2007 04:21:06 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 03/24/2007 at 10:43 AM, Clark Morris [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: This may relate to the user-surly approach of a lot of mainframe implementation. People should know enough not submit a job / start a task

Re: Sysplex timer

2007-03-28 Thread Chris Mason
Victor George has given you a specific answer. Let me give you a more general one: Google. Using IBM sysplex timers and ETS, I got 78 hits - and George's references were, or were in, hits 1 and 3. Also - just to help a little with English - the strict answer to your question is Yes - and

Re: ISPF not productive

2007-03-28 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 03/26/2007 at 02:29 PM, Dave Salt [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: BTW: Some people advocate REFLISTS and the ISPF Workplace (etc), which of course come 'free' with ISPF. Meanwhile, IBM sells Spiffy as an add-on product to enhance ISPF. If Spiffy didn't do a *much* better job

Re: Macro List/Execute Forms (Was: Need help with Assembler ...)

2007-03-28 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 03/23/2007 at 05:54 PM, Patrick O'Keefe [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Uh oh. Now I'm going to start getting paranoid. The last 2 times I attended SHARE (Seattle and Tampa) I didn't spend much time at (ex-)SCIDS, but I did look around for the IBM-Main banner a few times

Re: Sysplex timer

2007-03-28 Thread Chris Mason
Victor Something I forgot to mention - but it's just a comment - maybe: I picked this up only because failure to find help information is just about impossible when Google is to hand - although it may be faster and easier to ask real people on a list such as this than wade through the chaff a

Re: Another article on the Flex/IBM issue

2007-03-28 Thread Edward Jaffe
Edward Jaffe wrote: Wayne Driscoll wrote: Ed, While this service is a great start, in the description it clearly states that this is to be used to TEST developed solutions, not as a product development environment. Kind of a catch-22 at this point, w/o other access to an IBM system, you won't

Re: ISPF not productive

2007-03-28 Thread Dave Salt
From: Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) [EMAIL PROTECTED] IBM sells lots of things, and I don't see any correlation between sales figures and quality. The everybody else has one argument is not an appropriate criterion for purchase decisions. I don't see any correlation either. Who said everybody else

Re: Zos / file creation / dates

2007-03-28 Thread Paul Gilmartin
In a recent note, Vernooy, C.P. - SPLXM said: Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 09:55:01 +0200 tomk wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... Hello, Am interfacing w/ a customer who is working on an IBM 'box' w/ the Zos O.S. and natural. He is creating files for us but is having

Re: Sysplex timer

2007-03-28 Thread Chris Mason
Victor Since I got myself involved, I may as well try to see it out. What you appear to need - as is mentioned in the redbook to which George referred: http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg242070.html - are the *maintenance* manuals. In principle, these manuals are used only by the folk

Re: Zos / file creation / dates

2007-03-28 Thread McGrath, Gale
Hi, We have WebSphere and we write the logs to files instead of letting them go to SYSPRINT (JES). We want the date and time in the file name. The JCL for the server has this: PATH='/prt/JISP/ENV/was.log.dLYYMMDD..tLHHMMSS' We brought up a server this morning and the WAS log is being written

Re: ishell vs 3.17

2007-03-28 Thread Paul Gilmartin
In a recent note, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) said: Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 07:19:27 -0400 And allowing HFS directories to appear among the concatenands on the EDIT/BROWSE/etc. panels? With parameters? Whatever it takes. I assume they could be saved in the ISPPROF (as ISPF already

Re: Job class enforcement was Re: IEFC603I PROCLIB DEVICE I/O ERROR READING FOR JOB

2007-03-28 Thread Paul Gilmartin
In a recent note, Clark Morris said: Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 10:15:06 -0300 As someone who modified an exit 6 from the CBT tape that set job class based on job requirements to meet my shop's needs, I obviously disagree vehemently. Job class is a means of assigning work. If the job class

Re: ISPF not productive

2007-03-28 Thread Eric N. Bielefeld
I still think that what you learned first and grew up on determines what editor you like best. I worked with VM for about 15 years at PH Mining until they retired VM. I never liked XEDIT as well as ISPF. I know that some of the best people at PH liked XEDIT better, but they learned it

Re: ISPF not productive

2007-03-28 Thread Larry DiCioccio
It works when using Vista32, as the emulator, and _not_ in GUI mode. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Eric N. Bielefeld Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2007 11:21 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: ISPF not productive I still

Re: ISPF not productive

2007-03-28 Thread Wayne Driscoll
Eric, That really depends on the terminal emulator you use. I use Vista, and one of the things I love about it is that it treats the scroll wheel as ISPF UP and DOWN commands. Now if ISPF find could use regular expressions, I would be a happy man. Wayne Driscoll Product Developer JME Software

Re: ISPF not productive

2007-03-28 Thread Paul Gilmartin
In a recent note, Wayne Driscoll said: Subject: Re: ISPF not productive That really depends on the terminal emulator you use. I use Vista, and one of the things I love about it is that it treats the scroll wheel as ISPF UP and DOWN commands. Now if ISPF find could use regular

Re: ISPF Limitations (was: Need for small machines ... )

2007-03-28 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
Gerard Schildberger wrote: I was talking to some IBMer one day (rather high up in the food chain), and he related to a time where IBM asked some customers (it might even been at a SHARE/GUIDE MVS or TSO QA session), and the question was asked, would you like IBM to port XEDIT to ISPF (or SPF)

Re: ISPF not productive

2007-03-28 Thread Johnny Luo
On 3/28/07, Wayne Driscoll [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Eric, That really depends on the terminal emulator you use. I use Vista, and one of the things I love about it is that it treats the scroll wheel as ISPF UP and DOWN commands. Interesting! Is it possible to do this in PCOMM since I don't

Re: ISPF not productive

2007-03-28 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2007 10:44 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: ISPF not productive snip Many users would also yearn for the ability to move the cursor

Re: ISPF not productive

2007-03-28 Thread GAVIN Darren * OPS EAS
In Passport emulator you can assign WORD DELETE to a key (I have it on CTRL-End key) -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2007 8:44 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: ISPF not

A little good news for MF

2007-03-28 Thread Steve Comstock
Just got back from teaching a class (my first payable work this year, and my backlog is now back to zero; but, that's all for a different post that I may never put out). Anyway, the client contact told me they have been moving work off the mainframe but that recently they have had some serious,

Re: ISPF not productive

2007-03-28 Thread Dave Salt
From: Eric N. Bielefeld [EMAIL PROTECTED] Its funny how things work out when you've been away from ISPF for a while. When I would edit something at Lands End on the mainframe, I would keep grabbing the mouse and try to scroll forward using the scroll wheel. I wish I could do that in ISPF. I

Re: ISPF not productive

2007-03-28 Thread Tom Schmidt
On Wed, 28 Mar 2007 10:54:16 -0500, McKown, John wrote: -Original Message- On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Many users would also yearn for the ability to move the cursor or to delete a word at a time rather than a character at a time. Wasn't there something in old green screen 3270

3490 off maintenance June 30 2007

2007-03-28 Thread Ken Porowski
I just got this announcement that the 3490-F1A (and others) will be going off maintenance services on June 30, 2007. It seems to me that 3 months is rather short notice that you can't get service from IBM (I know you can probably get 3rd party maint). What if you have a long term contract? Am I

Re: Sysplex timer

2007-03-28 Thread (IBM Mainframe Discussion List)
In a message dated 3/28/2007 8:18:08 A.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Also - just to help a little with English - the strict answer to your question is Yes - and that's it. The question was Could you xx. This is correct as far as the English that I learned 50+

Re: ISPF not productive

2007-03-28 Thread Eric N. Bielefeld
I didn't know Vista allowed that. I'll have to try getting Vista at my next job then. We had Rumba at Lands End. At PH, we had some old thing that was last supported around 1999. I can't even remember the name any more. Eric Bielefeld Sr. z/OS Systems Programmer Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Re: DFSMSdss DOC APAR OA20117 (was RE: HSM Missing Member from Recalled Dataset -- Update

2007-03-28 Thread Andrew N Wilt
I'd like to second John's request/recommendation on adding your voices to either the marketing request or the SHARE requirement. The more people interested in a particular change that add their voices/votes, the more it helps the priority get set so that the change gets done. Thanks, Andrew

Re: Sysplex timer

2007-03-28 Thread Mark Zelden
On Wed, 28 Mar 2007 12:18:32 EDT, IBM Mainframe Discussion List [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The question was Could you xx. This is correct as far as the English that I learned 50+ years ago in my childhood English grammar classes, but not so far as current, slangy, idiomatic, and au courant

Re: Sysplex timer

2007-03-28 Thread Víctor de la Fuente
I think this is the answer I need! I'll look for those Maintenance Book tomorrow. By the way, please don't think I use the list as a Google's substitution. I think in the list as a last try before giving up. I went into Google for hours, but couldn't find why the query was failing. Before that,

Call for XEDIT freaks, submit ISPF requirements

2007-03-28 Thread Pinnacle
This is a call to all the XEDIT freaks that have been punking ISPF the last few days to put your money where your mouth is and submit some SHARE requirements for the ISPF editor. I get sick and tired of all the XEDIT freaks saying how XEDIT is way better than ISPF, but they never back it up

Re: Sysplex timer

2007-03-28 Thread (IBM Mainframe Discussion List)
In a message dated 3/28/2007 11:41:44 A.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: And all this relates to sysplex timers how? It relates just as much as Chris Mason's lengthy paragraph, to which I was submitting a response. You should also take him to task for straying OT. I

Re: ISPF not productive

2007-03-28 Thread Tom Schmidt
On Wed, 28 Mar 2007 11:20:20 -0500, Eric N. Bielefeld wrote: I didn't know Vista allowed that. Actually, Vista32 is even smarter than that -- it allows you to specify the wheel use but the default is that wheelup triggers PF7 and wheeldown triggers PF8. (You can't reprogram the wheel

Re: Call for XEDIT freaks, submit ISPF requirements

2007-03-28 Thread John P Kalinich
Tom Conley of the IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU wrote on 03/28/2007 11:50:25 AM: This is a call to all the XEDIT freaks that have been punking ISPF the last few days to put your money where your mouth is and submit some SHARE requirements for the ISPF editor. I get sick

Re: Sysplex timer

2007-03-28 Thread Mark Zelden
It relates just as much as Chris Mason's lengthy paragraph, to which I was submitting a response. You should also take him to task for straying OT. Bill... sorry if you felt picked on - that wasn't my intent. Your post was the one I hit reply to, thus the quoted text. But to be fair to

Re: ISPF not productive

2007-03-28 Thread Neubert, Kevin (DIS)
I don't know if this is much news, but WebSphere Host On-Demand Version 10 has Mouse wheel support for Java 2 JVM 1.4 and higher clients... http://www-304.ibm.com/jct03002c/software/webservers/hostondemand/featur esv10.html Regards, Kevin -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe

Re: Sysplex timer

2007-03-28 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Víctor de la Fuente [ snip ] Excuse me if I'm asking too much. Never be afraid to ask a mainframe-related question, an answer to which you've already sought on your own and not found, in this forum. All that is

Re: Call for XEDIT freaks, submit ISPF requirements

2007-03-28 Thread George, William (DHS-ITSD)
As far as your first item Running xedit(REXX) macros from the prefix area Where that line is the target. This a very possible and quite useful via Doug Nagle's LMAC or UMAC. I've implemented it and added many line command 'macros'. Bill -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe

Re: 3490 off maintenance June 30 2007

2007-03-28 Thread Rugen, Len
3 months should be enough time to find out that 3rd parties will probably still support them and charge less. When we had to bid our hardware maintenance, IBM lost BIG. We had little choice but to go elsewhere. It hasn't been perfect, but I drive a Ford, not a BMW... -Original

Re: Call for XEDIT freaks, submit ISPF requirements

2007-03-28 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Mark Pace I'm not one of the ones that have BMed about ISPF not being XEDIT. And I wouldn't because I haven't used ISPF long enough to know what I can and can't do with it. But off hand here are the things

Re: Call for XEDIT freaks, submit ISPF requirements

2007-03-28 Thread Mark Pace
[ snip ] Change works on all elements at once, not having to continuously press PF6. On the command line, C STRING ROPE ALL Enter will change every occurrence of STRING to ROPE in the currently-edited member. No fair, to easy. :-) Sort macro On the command line, SORT x y will sort the

Re: Call for XEDIT freaks, submit ISPF requirements

2007-03-28 Thread Hardee, Charles H
My ISPF says SORT x y will sort using the data from column x to column y, not length y. Also, you can have multiple keys, SORT a b c d will sort on columns a thru b then c thru d. You can also say SORT i j A l m D which will sort based on columns I thru j ASCENDING and then l thru m DESCENDING.

Re: Call for XEDIT freaks, submit ISPF requirements

2007-03-28 Thread Chris Hoelscher
Chuck - when did you return to CA ? Chris Hoelscher Senior IDMS DB2 Database Administrator Humana Inc 502-476-2538 [EMAIL PROTECTED] The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain CONFIDENTIAL material. If you receive this

Re: Call for XEDIT freaks, submit ISPF requirements

2007-03-28 Thread Hardee, Charles H
Almost 2 1/2 years past. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chris Hoelscher Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2007 1:08 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Call for XEDIT freaks, submit ISPF requirements Chuck - when did you return

Re: Call for XEDIT freaks, submit ISPF requirements

2007-03-28 Thread Ray Mullins
Stating the obvious there, Mark. :-) I hate ICCF. I'll use DITTO online edit before I use ISPF. Anything but ICCF. Not to mention its design where every time you hit enter or a PF key, it rewrites the file (or a portion). At an earlier employer that sold an ISPF/PDF look-alike product, I

Re: Call for XEDIT freaks, submit ISPF requirements

2007-03-28 Thread Ray Mullins
Oops, DITTO online edit before I use - ICCF -. I never got to experience the wonder that is SPMOL. That's probably a good thing. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Pace Sent: Wednesday March 28 2007 11:18 To:

Re: Call for XEDIT freaks, submit ISPF requirements

2007-03-28 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Mark Pace [ snip ] Change works on all elements at once, not having to continuously press PF6. On the command line, C STRING ROPE ALL Enter will change every occurrence of STRING to ROPE in the

Re: Call for XEDIT freaks, submit ISPF requirements

2007-03-28 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Hardee, Charles H My ISPF says SORT x y will sort using the data from column x to column y, not length y. Also, you can have multiple keys, SORT a b c d will sort on columns a thru b then c thru d. You can also

Re: Call for XEDIT freaks, submit ISPF requirements

2007-03-28 Thread Dave Salt
I think the ISPF editor is the bees knees, and I rarely use anything else. But for those who don't like it, it's not like there isn't a choice. ISPF can be configured so that selecting a file for edit or view automatically causes the file to open on the PC/workstation using the editor of

Re: Call for XEDIT freaks, submit ISPF requirements

2007-03-28 Thread Mark Pace
On 3/28/07, Ray Mullins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I hate ICCF. I'll use DITTO online edit before I use ISPF. Anything but ICCF. Not to mention its design where every time you hit enter or a PF key, it rewrites the file (or a portion). ICCF's biggest drawback. Once you hit enter, it's

Re: ISPF not productive

2007-03-28 Thread Gregory, Gary G
I guess over time you end up using all of the mainframe editors. When I started off in this business I was 16 and a part-time operator for a local hospital and that's about the time VSE/ICCF was introduced. In college we used MUSIC/SP and when I started at the bank a few years later ROSCOE and

Re: Call for XEDIT freaks, submit ISPF requirements

2007-03-28 Thread Steve Comstock
Chase, John wrote: -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Mark Pace [ snip ] Change works on all elements at once, not having to continuously press PF6. On the command line, C STRING ROPE ALL Enter will change every occurrence of STRING to ROPE in the

Re: Job class enforcement was Re: IEFC603I PROCLIB DEVICE I/O ERROR READING FOR JOB

2007-03-28 Thread Gerhard Postpischil
Clark Morris wrote: As someone who modified an exit 6 from the CBT tape that set job class based on job requirements to meet my shop's needs, I obviously disagree vehemently. Job class is a means of assigning work. If the job class is based on job requirements known at JCL interpretation, then

Re: Call for XEDIT freaks, submit ISPF requirements

2007-03-28 Thread Gregory, Gary G
Oh yeah, I forgot about using LDL in DITTO. I think the DITTO editor is great since you can actually go into library members and edit, copy, etc. Better than having to punch them and then recatalog. When I was at Furr's we had a developer that wrote own editor under CICS (XA). It was a

Re: Call for XEDIT freaks, submit ISPF requirements

2007-03-28 Thread Gregory, Gary G
Ray, I think punching cards was better than ICCF. Gary Garland Gregory, MS CA Senior Software Engineer Tel: +1-214-473-1863 Fax: +1-214-473-1050 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ray Mullins Sent:

Re: Call for XEDIT freaks, submit ISPF requirements

2007-03-28 Thread Visser, Hans (PinkRoccade Infrastructure Services Technisch Specialist)
test. Sorry if it succeeds. ;-) -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Pinnacle Sent: woensdag 28 maart 2007 18:50 To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Call for XEDIT freaks, submit ISPF requirements This is a call to all the XEDIT

Re: Call for XEDIT freaks, submit ISPF requirements

2007-03-28 Thread Mark Pace
On 3/28/07, Gregory, Gary G [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ray, I think punching cards was better than ICCF. Having done both, Nah, ICCF is better than an IBM 29 Card Punch. -- Mark Pace Mainline Information Systems -- For

Re: Job class enforcement was Re: IEFC603I PROCLIB DEVICE I/O ERROR READING FOR JOB

2007-03-28 Thread Clark Morris
On 28 Mar 2007 11:47:22 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: Clark Morris wrote: As someone who modified an exit 6 from the CBT tape that set job class based on job requirements to meet my shop's needs, I obviously disagree vehemently. Job class is a means of assigning work. If the

Re: Call for XEDIT freaks, submit ISPF requirements

2007-03-28 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
/*DLW wrote: I have to say, after using both XEDIT and ISPF, that using XEDIT is like Bowling without thumbs. I have been a Sysprog for many years and have had the pleasure of using both. (So spare me the n00b label, kids.) ;-) My impression of XEDIT is that it is the VM equivilent of VI

Re: Job class enforcement was Re: IEFC603I PROCLIB DEVICE I/O ERROR READING F...

2007-03-28 Thread (IBM Mainframe Discussion List)
In a message dated 3/28/2007 2:29:46 P.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Why verify and fail when the system can just make it what it should be this week? How is productivity helped. One reason - the job's submitter may be trying to run his work at lower cost than the

IBM-Main snubbery (was Macro List/Execute Forms (Was: Need help with Assembler ...))

2007-03-28 Thread Patrick O'Keefe
On Wed, 28 Mar 2007 08:36:04 -0400, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... That could mean that there was a logistics snafu yet again and the table didn't get labelled. ... What? Apply logic rather than assume a conspiracy? That is hardly in the spirit of this thread. I was

Re: 125 JES internal reader allocation failed

2007-03-28 Thread Charles Mills
The customer has increased and increased INTRDR= and the error is still occurring. Again, this is with FTP scripts that are otherwise working widely so it is not something real simple and stupid. It is an intermittent error. The customer claims he is not seeing INTRDR allocation errors otherwise.

Re: Another article on the Flex/IBM issue

2007-03-28 Thread Wayne Driscoll
I'll be the first to admit that I could be wrong on it. It is odd that the overall description, it says Development, but on the application for a contract, it states soley for testing. I would be happy as heck to be wrong on it, and the rates do seem relativly reasonable, still more than a FLEX

Re: Call for XEDIT freaks, submit ISPF requirements

2007-03-28 Thread Taylor, Clarence B
The thing I miss most about xedit was the simplicity of the macros. If I found myself doing something repetitive, such as a series of change commands, I could quickly create a macro by: Typing x x x and then in the new member x x I would enter those change commands just as I entered them in

Re: Call for XEDIT freaks, submit ISPF requirements

2007-03-28 Thread Ted MacNEIL
I want DELTA deck support. Why are you (and others) posting requirement here? IBM doesn't act off this list! Why not do what the OP suggested, and submit them through appropriate channels? This is just lowering an already low signal to noise ratio. - Too busy driving to stop for gas!

Re: Job class enforcement was Re: IEFC603I PROCLIB DEVICE I/O ERROR READING F...

2007-03-28 Thread Ed Gould
On Mar 28, 2007, at 2:41 PM, (IBM Mainframe Discussion List) wrote: In a message dated 3/28/2007 2:29:46 P.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Why verify and fail when the system can just make it what it should be this week? How is productivity helped. One reason - the

Re: Job class enforcement was Re: IEFC603I PROCLIB DEVICE I/O ERROR READING FOR JOB

2007-03-28 Thread Ted MacNEIL
Why verify and fail when the system can just make it what it should be this week? How is productivity helped. I wish I had ThruPut Mangler, again! I've used it at three different instances of my career, and at all three we went from over 30 jobclasses to less than 10. One down to four.

Re: Call for XEDIT freaks, submit ISPF requirements

2007-03-28 Thread Patrick O'Keefe
On Wed, 28 Mar 2007 12:50:25 -0400, Pinnacle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... put your money where your mouth is and submit some SHARE requirements for the ISPF editor. ... I had to go back and check that. Maybe email systems, browsers, or news readers translated that to BM here, please, but it

Re: Job class enforcement was Re: IEFC603I PROCLIB DEVICE I/O ERROR READING F...

2007-03-28 Thread Ted MacNEIL
One reason - the job's submitter may be trying to run his work at lower cost than the correct job class would cost, assuming a job-class-based charge-back policy is in effect. If people are doing that, then your charge back policies should be reviewed. NOT, what the user is doing to get

Re: Job class enforcement was Re: IEFC603I PROCLIB DEVICE I/O ERROR READING F...

2007-03-28 Thread (IBM Mainframe Discussion List)
In a message dated 3/28/2007 3:14:21 P.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If you have draconian policies, users will perform unusual acts to get around it. Too true. And the policies don't even have to be draconian. This is normal human behavior. As many lawyers know,

Re: Job class enforcement was Re: IEFC603I PROCLIB DEVICE I/O ERROR READING F...

2007-03-28 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ted MacNEIL Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2007 4:15 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Job class enforcement was Re: IEFC603I PROCLIB DEVICE I/O ERROR READING F... One reason -

Re: Job class enforcement was Re: IEFC603I PROCLIB DEVICE I/O ERROR READING FOR JOB

2007-03-28 Thread Mark Zelden
On Wed, 28 Mar 2007 21:10:20 +, Ted MacNEIL [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But, in all cases nobody was required to specify job classes when we were done. And, if they did, they were ignored -- T/M set the class. That's the way it should be done. We run TM on some LPARs and (unfortunately) do

Re: 125 JES internal reader allocation failed

2007-03-28 Thread Richard Peurifoy
Charles Mills wrote: The customer has increased and increased INTRDR= and the error is still occurring. Again, this is with FTP scripts that are otherwise working widely so it is not something real simple and stupid. It is an intermittent error. The customer claims he is not seeing INTRDR

Re: Job class enforcement was Re: IEFC603I PROCLIB DEVICE I/O ERROR READING F...

2007-03-28 Thread Ted MacNEIL
I can hijack a C initiator to get my work done and to elided with the other programmers!, shouldn't I, as the system administrator, make sure that the programmer doesn't get away with it? We are talking a matter of degree. If one programmer/user is doing it, fine, remediation includes everything

Re: Call for XEDIT freaks, submit ISPF requirements

2007-03-28 Thread Mark Vitale
At an earlier employer that sold an ISPF/PDF look-alike product, I always used it in VSE. Pinky, are you pondering what I'm pondering? employer=ADR and product=VOLLIE? Fondly, an ex-ADR-ite Mark Vitale Senior Software Engineer ISM - The power behind great IT decisions Visit us at

Re: Job class enforcement was Re: IEFC603I PROCLIB DEVICE I/O ERROR READING FOR JOB

2007-03-28 Thread Ted MacNEIL
Just submit a job and be done with it. Can we have an AMEN, brothers and sisters? - Too busy driving to stop for gas! -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the

Re: Job class enforcement was Re: IEFC603I PROCLIB DEVICE I/O ERROR READING FOR JOB

2007-03-28 Thread Gerhard Postpischil
Clark Morris wrote: Why verify and fail when the system can just make it what it should be this week? How is productivity helped. Some jobs are real problems. For instance, we had one that required six tape drives (out of eight), and lots of work space. We had a special class, without a

SMS Management Class usage

2007-03-28 Thread Tim Hare
Will DCOLLECT gather data on all management classes in use from the catalog (i.e. including migrated datasets)? I suspect I have several management classes which aren't in use, inherited from someone's previous work, and I'm looking for a good safe way to clean up. Thanks Tim Hare Senior

Re: Call for XEDIT freaks, submit ISPF requirements

2007-03-28 Thread Gregory, Gary G
I was thinking it was either BIM-EDIT or CA Vollie. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Vitale Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2007 3:47 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Call for XEDIT freaks, submit ISPF requirements

Re: Call for XEDIT freaks, submit ISPF requirements

2007-03-28 Thread Ray Mullins
Sorry, Brain, go back to trying to take over the world. :-) Employer=Software AG, product=NATURAL ISPF, which uses product=ENTIRE SYSTEM SERVER. :-) And it provides a consistent environment in z/OS, z/VSE and BS2000/OSD. Later, Ray -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion

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