Wiki and documentation, was: Philosophy: curiousity question

2010-12-05 Thread arthur_fic...@afisumag.de
In a former life I developed together with a colleague a VBS based Word to JSPWiki Conververter that ran just fine before management decided to save as much money as possible despite the risk of desaster problerms. Personally I find that a Wiki (or something similar with hypertext

Re: Attach RC=20

2010-12-05 Thread Binyamin Dissen
On Sat, 4 Dec 2010 17:23:03 -0800 Sam Siegel s...@pscsi.net wrote: :Hi List, : :I'm getting a return code of 20 in RC when issuing an attach macro. RC=20 :does not seem to be documented. Can anyone provide an explanation or :assistance? Details listed here X'14' = 20. Quite possibly due to

Re: Attach RC=20

2010-12-05 Thread Peter Relson
wsAttach dsxl(l'csAttch) As Bill Godfrey correctly indicated, the value of L'csAttch is not the length of the parameter area. It happens to be 4. Therefore the MVC only moved 4 bytes and the defined storage area for wsAttach was only 4 bytes. And, if what was posted was truly a copy of

Re: Philosophy: curiousity question

2010-12-05 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Sat, 4 Dec 2010 21:23:39 -0600, Mike Schwab wrote: Open the USB text file with Notepad, select all and copy, paste into a 3270 member edit session. Ah, so you had a working z/OS. I was trying to envision a standalone restore from the thumb drive. Maybe next year's model. Why not just keep

Re: Attach RC=20

2010-12-05 Thread Sam Siegel
On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 5:37 PM, Bill Godfrey yak36...@yahoo.com wrote: On Sat, 4 Dec 2010 17:23:03 -0800, Sam Siegel wrote: I'm getting a return code of 20 in RC when issuing an attach macro. RC=20 does not seem to be documented. Can anyone provide an explanation or assistance? Details

Re: Attach RC=20

2010-12-05 Thread Sam Siegel
On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 3:02 AM, Binyamin Dissen bdis...@dissensoftware.comwrote: On Sat, 4 Dec 2010 17:23:03 -0800 Sam Siegel s...@pscsi.net wrote: :Hi List, : :I'm getting a return code of 20 in RC when issuing an attach macro. RC=20 :does not seem to be documented. Can anyone provide

Re: Attach RC=20

2010-12-05 Thread Sam Siegel
On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 6:27 AM, Peter Relson rel...@us.ibm.com wrote: wsAttach dsxl(l'csAttch) As Bill Godfrey correctly indicated, the value of L'csAttch is not the length of the parameter area. It happens to be 4. Therefore the MVC only moved 4 bytes and the defined storage area for

Re: Philosophy: curiousity question

2010-12-05 Thread Gerhard Postpischil
On 12/4/2010 1:37 PM, Ted MacNEIL wrote: In 1981, my first job, we printed the IPL instructions and got into trouble with management because the documentation was online (on the mainframe). My question was: How do we read the IPL instructions when/if the mainframe was down? You should have

IPCS RunCpool with NOUSED option

2010-12-05 Thread michealbutz
Hi, I was able to get a report from the IPCS runcpool SUBCOMMAND using the Following syntax RUNCPOOL X'12345678' VERIFY DISPLAY The report says that there 105 cells allocated to the POOL 7 in use I would think using the NOUSED option would list all the Cells even the ones which are not

Re: CFRM Coupling Facility Structure Size

2010-12-05 Thread Bill Neiman
There are at least two effects that can cause this behavior. First, CF storage is allocated in increments of 1M at current CFLEVELs. A policy specification of 64000K will be rounded up to the nearest 1M frame, so a structure allocated in response to that specification will actually require

Re: IPCS RunCpool with NOUSED option

2010-12-05 Thread J R
NOUSED says that you are not interested in seeing the cells that are in use. Have you tried the AVAILABLE operand? Date: Sun, 5 Dec 2010 13:43:30 -0500 From: michealb...@optonline.net Subject: IPCS RunCpool with NOUSED option To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Hi, I was able to get a

Re: Philosophy: curiousity question

2010-12-05 Thread Mike Schwab
Just the starter system at the Hot Site. On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 8:43 AM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com wrote: On Sat, 4 Dec 2010 21:23:39 -0600, Mike Schwab wrote: Open the USB text file with Notepad, select all and copy, paste into a 3270 member edit session. Ah, so you had a working

Re: IPCS RunCpool with NOUSED option

2010-12-05 Thread michealbutz
THAANK YOU VERY MUCH the ones that are available instead of in use Must have been Freed -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of J R Sent: Sunday, December 05, 2010 3:06 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: IPCS RunCpool with

Re: Philosophy: curiousity question

2010-12-05 Thread Ted MacNEIL
You should have explained to management that there is this wonderful new-fangled device called a printer. As I said in my post, I got in trouble for using said device. He told us there was NO reason to print the instructions. Except for the impact to my performance appraisal, he didn't last

Re: OT: In regard to password cracking Who is Abbie Sciuto was Re: A New Threat for password hacking

2010-12-05 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
At 18:39 -0500 on 12/01/2010, Don Leahy wrote about Re: OT: In regard to password cracking Who is Abbie Sciuto : So could Chloe O'Brien. I took me a IMDB lookup to find that she was a 24 hacker. I'll take your Chloe O'Brien and respond with Warehouse 13's Claudia Donovan (who hacked W13's

Re: Attach RC=20

2010-12-05 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
At 15:03 -0800 on 12/05/2010, Edward Jaffe wrote about Re: Attach RC=20: On 12/5/2010 6:27 AM, Peter Relson wrote: Rather than use L'csAttch, a typical approach is to add an equate such as csAttch_Len EQU *-csAttch right after the list form and then use that equate. I like how (many of? most

Re: Philosophy: curiousity question

2010-12-05 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
At 23:17 + on 12/05/2010, Ted MacNEIL wrote about Re: Philosophy: curiousity question: You should have explained to management that there is this wonderful new-fangled device called a printer. As I said in my post, I got in trouble for using said device. He told us there was NO reason

Re: Philosophy: curiousity question

2010-12-05 Thread Ted MacNEIL
You should have started with the machine powered off, powered it up, and then asked him to follow the (inaccessible) IPL instructions to IPL the machine (with you helping him to understand those functions he was unable to understand). As an alternative, just ask him to read them to you and you

Re: Attach RC=20

2010-12-05 Thread Sam Siegel
On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 6:55 PM, Robert A. Rosenberg hal9...@panix.comwrote: At 15:03 -0800 on 12/05/2010, Edward Jaffe wrote about Re: Attach RC=20: On 12/5/2010 6:27 AM, Peter Relson wrote: Rather than use L'csAttch, a typical approach is to add an equate such as csAttch_Len EQU