safe path From z/os 1.4 to z/os 1.10?

2009-10-24 Thread Itschak Mugzach
A customer is running z/os 1.4 and wishes to install 1.10. I know that IBM documents only 3 versions migration paths, but I wonder if someone has done it not on a side-by-side solution, but co-existing versions, and how should it be done. Thanks for your ideas , Itschak

Bizarre requirement for ENFREQ macro

2009-10-24 Thread Peter Relson
I'll grant that it's strange -- even somewhat bizarre. It's perhaps related to the fact that ENF was not originated for external use, but REQUEST=LISTEN became so. Apparently, users adapted to this eccentricity so that there was never a clamor to address it. For what it's worth, the macro

JVM based languages? (mildly OT)

2009-10-24 Thread John McKown
This is not entirely about IBM mainframes, so I hope you don't mind. But I'm curious about what languages/compilers exist which will produce Java byte code which could be run on a zAAP. I have found four (4) so far. 1) Java http://java.sun.com/ 2) NetREXX - another REXX variant, but not exactly

Re: safe path From z/os 1.4 to z/os 1.10?

2009-10-24 Thread Doug Fuerst
I just did 1.4 to 1.9. Contact me off list for details. Doug Itschak Mugzach wrote: A customer is running z/os 1.4 and wishes to install 1.10. I know that IBM documents only 3 versions migration paths, but I wonder if someone has done it not on a side-by-side solution, but co-existing

Re: JVM based languages? (mildly OT)

2009-10-24 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Sat, 24 Oct 2009 09:07:23 -0500, John McKown wrote: In addition, has anyone else written and compiled any Java (or other JVM based language) on a non-z platform and gotten the compiled .class or .jar file to run on the z after doing a simple BINary upload of the .class or .jar file into a UNIX

Re: IEFSD095 Alias

2009-10-24 Thread Ed Gould
--- On Fri, 10/23/09, Schwarz, Barry A barry.a.schw...@boeing.com wrote: From: Schwarz, Barry A barry.a.schw...@boeing.com Subject: Re: IEFSD095 Alias To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Date: Friday, October 23, 2009, 7:58 PM Just to add one of my pet peeves - If people would add things like this

Return Code from EZASMI macro Select Service

2009-10-24 Thread Joe Reichman
Hi, The way I read the EZASMI Select Service macro description in the communication server guide and reference if the return code is 0 then there are active connections If I receive a connection post a subtask issue GIVESOCKET and have been notified by the Subtask that it has has