Re: POST Errors

2011-01-20 Thread Binyamin Dissen
On Wed, 19 Jan 2011 19:25:31 -0500 John P. Baker john.ba...@hfdtechs.com wrote: :I am trying to understand the differences in some of the abend codes :associated with a POST macro. :Abend 102-00 is described as Incorrect ECB and the linkage from the caller :is through an SVC instruction

Re: Integrated Workload Pricing

2011-01-20 Thread Bruno Sugliani
On Thu, 20 Jan 2011 14:10:41 +0800, Timothy Sipples timothy.sipp...@us.ibm.com wrote: snippage... But IBM took a nice step closer to perfection here, in my opinion. Perfection does not exist really I also understood on the very same day that CICS prices have increased significantly.

Re: CA-MSM advice

2011-01-20 Thread Z1
On 19/01/11 23:22, Gibney, Dave wrote: Should I: 1. Use MSM to upgrade MSM to latest version, then proceed with my products? 2. Toss MSM 2.0.2, install latest and greatest MSM, and proceed? 3. Dump MSM and revert to PAX enhanced ESD? 4. Wish I had fewer CA Products :) I'll confess I am not an

Re: z/OS 1.11 upgrade - WLM couple datasets

2011-01-20 Thread Brian Westerman
It's a matter of what you feel is acceptable. Keeping a master catalog that may/will contain obsolete entries is not acceptable to me, but may be to some sites. I'm not trying to judge any sites on what they feel is correct. It's a clean way to migrate (new master catalogs) and in the case of

Re: REXX question: if a string is printable

2011-01-20 Thread Miklos Szigetvari
Hi Thank you very much , I'm using the routine bellow, to display MQ messages as text, and with c2x as hexa string Perfect , thank you again . On 1/19/2011 2:41 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: On Wed, 19 Jan 2011 04:15:39 -0600, Bruce Hewson wrote: Actually, this can be shortened to:

Re: POST Errors

2011-01-20 Thread Peter Relson
Keep in mind that most abend code / reason code writeups are for reference after you get the problem, not for general reading. If you had written my POST abended with 102-xx, and I can't understand from the documentation what that means, then this would need clarification. In general,

Re: If Else JCL question

2011-01-20 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Gainsford, Allen the only cond code testing I ever do when writing procs is, if it's true, it's through, meaning the step/job won't execute if the COND is true. Heh. I learned that one as If true, don't do.

Re: Integrated Workload Pricing

2011-01-20 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Timothy Sipples Al Sherkow writes: Integrated Workload Pricing does not change the charges or value unit requirements of the WebSphere products. The 'value' is in reduced software charges for CICS and IMS. IBM

Publib.boulder.IBM down

2011-01-20 Thread Micheal Butz
Can'nt get to the bookshelf Sent from my iPhone -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at

Re: Publib.boulder.IBM down

2011-01-20 Thread J. D. Cassidy
What is this - Sent from my iPhone ??? = Can'nt get to the bookshelf = = Sent from my iPhone = = -- = For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, = send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message:

Re: digitize old hardcopy manuals

2011-01-20 Thread Eric Spencer
you can upload a pdf to evernote and it will be indexed and made searchable. there are some size limitations on the free subscription... Eric Spencer Neon Enterprise Software LLC. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Bob

Re: CA-MSM advice

2011-01-20 Thread Knutson, Sam
Hi Dave, Your canonical answer should come from CA support but I have been using MSM since 2.0 and currently have 3.1 installed. I would suggest to just reinstall 3.1 from scratch as the quickest, cleanest and most beneficial path. They could upgrade you preserve logs, etc. but make the big

Re: Publib.boulder.IBM down

2011-01-20 Thread Roger Bolan
On 1/20/2011 7:09 AM, J. D. Cassidy wrote: What is this - Sent from my iPhone ??? When you reply from your phone, the app may add that automatically. I've seen the same thing on some of my own emails when replying from my Android phone. --Roger

Re: Publib.boulder.IBM down

2011-01-20 Thread Hal Merritt
That appears to be a default signature added by the IPhone email application. Other phone based email applications often do something similar. Emailing from smart phones is growing so one might expect to see this more often in the future. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe

Re: List spam

2011-01-20 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 4d359646.3000...@trainersfriend.com, on 01/18/2011 at 06:31 AM, Steve Comstock st...@trainersfriend.com said: On the other hand, some email providers are over-ambitious in their blocking. I wish I had one like that ;-) I'm leading a tour to Japan this fall and when I send emails to the

Re: z/OS 1.11 upgrade - WLM couple datasets

2011-01-20 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In f5ff22ced304764eaac97a43706235b7174bd9c...@corpexmbx.bekco.com, on 01/18/2011 at 01:44 PM, Greg Shirey wgshi...@benekeith.com said: Given the environment described in Joel Ewing's post, (to which Shmuel responded), I wouldn't think there would be much to synchronize after doing an import

Re: List spam

2011-01-20 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In aanlktinpdwgfgumjbvlpseb5uovjghuv9irrx_suu...@mail.gmail.com, on 01/18/2011 at 10:48 AM, Mike Schwab mike.a.sch...@gmail.com said: Yep. I signed up for a topica.com email group. They have issues. I bet the people marking it as spame has signed up for the list then marked an email as

Re: z/OS 1.11 upgrade - WLM couple datasets

2011-01-20 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In f5ff22ced304764eaac97a43706235b7174bd9c...@corpexmbx.bekco.com, on 01/18/2011 at 10:20 AM, Greg Shirey wgshi...@benekeith.com said: I don't understand what the extra complication is, Creating a new catalog. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO position; see

Re: digitize old hardcopy manuals

2011-01-20 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Thu, 20 Jan 2011 09:37:29 -0500, Eric Spencer wrote: you can upload a pdf to evernote and it will be indexed and made searchable. there are some size limitations on the free subscription... And it appears that Evernote Premium may be required for OCR. -- gil

Re: Publib.boulder.IBM down

2011-01-20 Thread Gary Dawson
You can change the signature to reflect whatever you want it to say. Look at the signature option under settings/mail,contacts,calendar Thanks, GaryD From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Hal Merritt Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2011 9:16 AM To:

Re: Publib.boulder.IBM down

2011-01-20 Thread Ted MacNEIL
What is this - Sent from my iPhone ??? Why is this an issue? - Ted MacNEIL eamacn...@yahoo.ca -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET

Re: Publib.boulder.IBM down

2011-01-20 Thread Vernooij, CP - SPLXM
I am not at all interested in iphones, smartphones, their sigs and other boring related stuff. However I am interested in the boulder site. Furthermore iphones are totally off-topic in IMB-MAIN. Can we please respect the OP and stick to his/her topic or else start a new thread? If the subject does

Re: z/OS 1.11 upgrade - WLM couple datasets

2011-01-20 Thread Greg Shirey
Ah, thanks for the clarification. I was thinking of complication as referring to something difficult, which of course is not necessarily so. Regards, Greg Shirey Ben E. Keith Company -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) Sent:

Re: Publib.boulder.IBM down

2011-01-20 Thread Matthew Stitt
This is what I use: http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/SHELVES And it is working fine for me. Also I use: http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/z/os/zos/bkserv/ Which gives several releases and does give access to the BookManager format books and PDF format also. On Thu, 20 Jan

Re: Publib.boulder.IBM down

2011-01-20 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Matthew Stitt This is what I use: http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/SHELVES And it is working fine for me. Apparently the other one (publib with no 'z') hosts the InfoCenters, none of which

Re: digitize old hardcopy manuals

2011-01-20 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In aanlktikqbsjxfavu_fw-j2mn4jppac7dfkq_hdpgr...@mail.gmail.com, on 01/19/2011 at 11:31 AM, William Donzelli wdonze...@gmail.com said: Yes, there are gaps - lots of gaps - but some of those gaps are simply docs that Al has scanned but not made available for a variety of reasons (mostly legal,

Re: Jes2 Question

2011-01-20 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 3ac0257148732942829f0dcb534ccc8b10c68...@scenms004.sita.co.za, on 01/19/2011 at 12:22 PM, Annetjie Van Heerden annetjie.vanheer...@sita.co.za said: We have a job that is 'stuck' on the internal reader/input queue That suggests that the job didn't do a CLOSE or ENDREQ, or anything that

Re: EMail attachments stopped working

2011-01-20 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In ofd4fe9bde.877881c8-on8825781c.007b5fd4-8825781c.007be...@ea.epson.com, on 01/18/2011 at 02:33 PM, John Mattson john_matt...@ea.epson.com said: However, the RFC for SMTP defines the maximum for a line of data as 1000, That's including the CRLF. That makes the largest FB LRECL 998. --

Re: EMail attachments stopped working

2011-01-20 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In ofb8309a50.37bd983a-on8825781c.006a7b54-8825781c.006b6...@ea.epson.com, on 01/18/2011 at 11:32 AM, John Mattson john_matt...@ea.epson.com said: Is there an IBM Manual which will tell me the proper format and limitations for these eMail messages and MIME parms??? I hope not; they should

Re: EMail attachments stopped working

2011-01-20 Thread Chris Mason
John Maybe zOS 1.11 will be better... gotta be, right? If you are going to wait for a functionally stabilised and replaced component like SMTP to improve, you will meet Godot first! SMTP (old, nay antique, and VMCF-dependent) is replaced by brand shining new CSSMTP as of z/OS V1R11. I guess

Re: digitize old hardcopy manuals

2011-01-20 Thread William Donzelli
Perhaps, but I would still encourage anybody planning to discard or scan old manuals to check whether bitsavers can use them. Yes, just like old software - save it for the archive, even if it has to stay hidden until possible legal problems are sorted out. -- Will

Re: digitize old hardcopy manuals

2011-01-20 Thread Eric Spencer
I have several hand written notes that I have taken a picture of with my phone and uploaded and they are fully searchable on the free version. The monthly upload limit has been a problem for some of the pdf documents I would like to put up there but I havent been sufficiently motivated yet to

Re: EMail attachments stopped working

2011-01-20 Thread Chris Mason
Ulrich Being free means there's no incentive to assure function and that's a key factor for business use. Which tends to make being free the worst thing about XMITIP! Chris Mason On Tue, 18 Jan 2011 14:40:46 -0800, Ulrich Krueger u...@pacbell.net wrote: To John Mattson: Have you considered

Re: CA-MSM advice

2011-01-20 Thread Mark Zelden
On Wed, 19 Jan 2011 15:22:24 -0800, Gibney, Dave gib...@wsu.edu wrote: I haven't fired up CA0MSM since last May. It reports version: Starting CA MSM system. Release: 2.0.2 Production (2,125); 2010/03/12 07:51; msm10bld1 I used it for my last install of Common Services, CA-1, CA-7 and possibly

Re: CA-MSM advice

2011-01-20 Thread Mark Zelden
On Thu, 20 Jan 2011 09:11:16 +, Z1 v1i9v...@ntlworld.com wrote: 1) As far as I am aware MSM cannot maintain MSM even at version 3 Not true at all. Even at the first GA release (2.0) one of the first steps after install is to import the MSM CSI into MSM so you can maintain the product.

Enqueue on SYS1.BRODCAST

2011-01-20 Thread Donnelly, John P
We received calls from TSO users who had initiated a TSO LOGON and then just hung; no activity, no messages, just hung. After some angst we discovered with a TASID display: System ENQ contention Line 1 o Command ===

WAS: EMail attachments stopped working... NOW When great techs go over the side

2011-01-20 Thread John Mattson
WHICH brings up another point. Ain't it a shame when great techs go over to management type positions? I see that Lionel has moved up (?) and will now be in the sales department at IBM (see: http://www.lbdsoftware.com/index.htm ) and will maintain the site for a while, but not

Re: Enqueue on SYS1.BRODCAST

2011-01-20 Thread Lizette Koehler
We received calls from TSO users who had initiated a TSO LOGON and then just hung; no activity, no messages, just hung. I would suggest that you look at the IKJTSOxx member in SYS1.PARMLIB and make BRODCAST an individual TSO dataset rather than the SYS1.BRODCAST dataset. I think by giving

Is there a way around =3D =C5 =A2 etc etc?

2011-01-20 Thread John Mattson
One of the pains to many lists is the arrival of eMails with strange = and =20 and =3D and so on and on. One may read around them with a little mental effort, but when a message involves REXX or CLIST or assembler code, cleaning it up to work gets to be a pain. So: 1) just for curiosity,

SimpList (Was: DOWNLOADING PDS FROM MAINFRAME TO PC)

2011-01-20 Thread Edward Jaffe
On 1/17/2011 1:56 PM, Dave Salt wrote: The response to the recent promotion of using SimpList for free during all of 2011 has been exceptional. The promotion finishes at the end of this month, so if you haven't signed up yet and don't want to miss out I suggest acting fast (see my original

Re: Enqueue on SYS1.BRODCAST

2011-01-20 Thread Ulrich Krueger
Is it possible that the user who held the enqueue was just logging on to TSO and walked away from the terminal while pending broadcast messages were being displayed, filling the screen until the *** message was displayed at the bottom of a full screen, with more pending messages waiting to be

Re: Is there a way around =3D =C5 =A2 etc etc?

2011-01-20 Thread Mark Pace
My way around it was to stop receiving this email in Lotus Notes. I created a gmail account and get all my listservs in gmail rather than my company Lotus Notes email. YMMV On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 1:20 PM, John Mattson john_matt...@ea.epson.comwrote: One of the pains to many lists is the

Re: Is there a way around =3D =C5 =A2 etc etc?

2011-01-20 Thread McKown, John
Those are what is called quoted printable escapes or encoding. I hate them. I don't know how to eliminate them. I think they are done by the email server, or maybe the original email MUA. -- John McKown Systems Engineer IV IT Administrative Services Group HealthMarkets(r) 9151 Boulevard 26

Re: digitize old hardcopy manuals

2011-01-20 Thread Martin Packer
With Evernote you only need premium for the month you break the free cap. Personally I'm a very happy premium user - as can be seen by my input to their bulletin board. I particularly like the idea of shared notebooks - though THIS would be my first use of it. Martin Martin Packer, Mainframe

Re: If Else JCL question

2011-01-20 Thread Lindy Mayfield
LOL. I've been writing JCL for 25 years and I still cannot get the COND right. From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin [paulgboul...@aim.com] Sent: 20 January 2011 02:45 To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re:

Re: SimpList (Was: DOWNLOADING PDS FROM MAINFRAME TO PC)

2011-01-20 Thread Dave Salt
From: edja...@phoenixsoftware.com I inquired about taking advantage of this offer for 2011 and was told that SimpList is not available for use by ISVs. :-( You were never told that. Caution is always prudent when letting another ISV take a look at your software, especially for an entire

Re: If Else JCL question

2011-01-20 Thread Mark Pace
One thing I've been taught since I was in school 30+ years ago. Do not use NOT logic. COND goes against everything I've worked at my entire career. On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 2:07 PM, Lindy Mayfield lindy.mayfi...@ssf.sas.comwrote: LOL. I've been writing JCL for 25 years and I still cannot get

Re: Enqueue on SYS1.BRODCAST

2011-01-20 Thread Donnelly, John P
That was it. Thankyou John Donnelly National Semiconductor Corporation 2900 Semiconductor Drive Santa Clara, CA 95051 408-721-5640 408-470-8364 Cell cjp...@nsc.com -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Ulrich Krueger Sent:

Re: Is there a way around =3D =C5 =A2 etc etc?

2011-01-20 Thread Walt Farrell
On Thu, 20 Jan 2011 10:20:05 -0800, John Mattson john_matt...@ea.epson.com wrote: One of the pains to many lists is the arrival of eMails with strange = and =20 and =3D and so on and on. One may read around them with a little mental effort, but when a message involves REXX or CLIST or assembler

Re: If Else JCL question

2011-01-20 Thread Ted MacNEIL
One thing I've been taught since I was in school 30+ years ago. Do not use NOT logic. COND goes against everything I've worked at my entire career. I started as a JCL jockey (Prod Support/Job Scheduling) in 1981, and I believe the 'NOT Logic' is why a lot of people have problems. I used to keep

Re: SimpList (Was: DOWNLOADING PDS FROM MAINFRAME TO PC)

2011-01-20 Thread Edward Jaffe
On 1/20/2011 11:21 AM, Dave Salt wrote: From: edja...@phoenixsoftware.com I inquired about taking advantage of this offer for 2011 and was told that SimpList is not available for use by ISVs. :-( You were never told that. I guess it was a misunderstanding then. In response to my inquiry you

Re: If Else JCL question

2011-01-20 Thread CM Poncelet
But one of the most useful purposes of COND= testing is COND=(0,LE,whatever) ... which ensures the current jobstep will NOT execute unless previous jobstep whatever did NOT execute. So 'NOT logic' can still do what 'IF ELSE etc.' cannot. g CP Mark Pace wrote: One thing I've been taught

Re: If Else JCL question

2011-01-20 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Thu, 20 Jan 2011 14:22:36 -0500, Mark Pace wrote: One thing I've been taught since I was in school 30+ years ago. Do not use NOT logic. COND goes against everything I've worked at my entire career. Assemblerthink. Or maybe BASICthink. The IF ... GOTO ... paradigm tersified and carried to

Re: SimpList (Was: DOWNLOADING PDS FROM MAINFRAME TO PC)

2011-01-20 Thread Dave Salt
Ed, When I replied to your request for a one year trial by saying I'm not sure it's difficult to understand how that could be misconstrued to mean No you can't use it. Especially when the very next sentence I wrote said Can you elaborate on why you want to do this. To allow another ISV to

Re: If Else JCL question

2011-01-20 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Thu, 20 Jan 2011 20:04:08 +, CM Poncelet wrote: But one of the most useful purposes of COND= testing is COND=(0,LE,whatever) ... which ensures the current jobstep will NOT execute unless previous jobstep whatever did NOT execute. So 'NOT logic' can still do what 'IF ELSE etc.' cannot. g CP

Re: SimpList (Was: DOWNLOADING PDS FROM MAINFRAME TO PC)

2011-01-20 Thread Edward Jaffe
On 1/20/2011 12:27 PM, Dave Salt wrote: Ed, When I replied to your request for a one year trial by saying I'm not sure it's difficult to understand how that could be misconstrued to mean No you can't use it. Especially when the very next sentence I wrote said Can you elaborate on why you want

Re: If Else JCL question

2011-01-20 Thread Frank Swarbrick
It's not only not logic, but is also what I would call inverse conditional. Ideally there would be an option to say execute if the return code is equal to zero or execute if the return code is less than 5. Even some not logic would be OK (IMO) if we could say execute if the return code is NOT

Re: z/XDC Release z1.12 now avaiable

2011-01-20 Thread Edward Jaffe
On 1/18/2011 1:46 PM, David Cole wrote: z/XDC release z1.12 is now fully available. Major new features include: Installed and operational here. Already found a use for one of the new facilities. Great job, Dave! -- Edward E Jaffe Phoenix Software International, Inc 831 Parkview Drive North

Re: CA-MSM advice

2011-01-20 Thread Gibney, Dave
Thanks to all, I will probably do a mix of the options. I may need to get Endevor going before I upgrade MSM. I will likely jump to the 3.1 version of MSM shortly. My current complaint is that JAVA is dog slow and even slower in my constrained sandbox/install LPAR. And no, I don't and won't

If Else JCL question

2011-01-20 Thread john gilmore
I was looking this morning at data on non-multiple and multiple human births in which live births were classified as single(si), double(do), triple(tr), quadruple (qa), or quintuple (qi). Now if one were interested only in single births it would be folly to write ¬do ¬tr ¬qa ¬qi instead

Re: If Else JCL question

2011-01-20 Thread Mark Pace
I wasn't looking for a lesson. Thank you very little. On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 3:57 PM, john gilmore john_w_gilm...@msn.comwrote: I was looking this morning at data on non-multiple and multiple human births in which live births were classified as single(si), double(do), triple(tr), quadruple

Re: CA-MSM advice

2011-01-20 Thread Gibney, Dave
For the record, I just got a very nice call from CA Support on this issue. He was very helpful and stated that my option: 2. Toss MSM 2.0.2, install latest and greatest MSM, and proceed? was my best path. I expect I will follow his advice. I really appreciate this proactive support from CA.

If Else JCL question

2011-01-20 Thread john gilmore
Mark Pace wrote: | I wasn't looking for a lesson. Thank you very little. and I was not offering one to Mr Pace but to others here who may prefer logic to sloganeering. The relational expressions a b and b a are equivalent; and either can be obtained from the other by simple, readily

HBBN700 and SMPWRK6

2011-01-20 Thread Gibney, Dave
I haven't moved to using this thing yet. I generally try to put RSU maintenance on for everything, so that if I need to use it, it will be up to date. This hurking monster is blowing away (E37) my SMPWRK6. I mostly have MOD 3s. And a handful of MOD9. PDS and PDSE won't do multi-volume. Has

Re: Publib.boulder.IBM down

2011-01-20 Thread Eric Bielefeld
And here I thought it was just people bragging that they had an iphone. -- Eric Bielefeld Systems Programmer Hal Merritt hmerr...@jackhenry.com wrote: That appears to be a default signature added by the IPhone email application. Other phone based email applications often do something

Re: If Else JCL question

2011-01-20 Thread Ted MacNEIL
Where was blue kryptonite when we needed it! Somebody save me! C'mon! - Ted MacNEIL eamacn...@yahoo.ca -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET

Re: Sample compiling/linking ICSF app under OMVS

2011-01-20 Thread Henrique Seganfredo
So, I am advancing on the subject. Had to change the environment variables I was setting before linker invocation, because my caller program is AMODE64 and I was outputting AMODE31 with the linker. I did these declarations: export _CC_L6SYSLIB=SYS1.CSSLIB:SSOP.TZ11.CEE.SCEEBND2 export

Re: If Else JCL question

2011-01-20 Thread Greg Shirey
Either I'm confused too, or COND says do NOT execute if 4 is less than the return code; that is - COND=(4,LT). Unless you meant something else... Greg Shirey Ben E. Keith Company -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Frank Swarbrick Sent: Thursday,

Re: If Else JCL question

2011-01-20 Thread Donnelly, John P
Gotta do this: %$%$#@$CONDCODES //STEP EXEC PGM=IEFBR14,COND=(9,LT) SAYS RUN IEFBR14 UNLESS 9 IS LESS THAN THE CURRENT MAXIMUM RETURN CODE. IF IT'S TRUE, DON'T DO...

Re: If Else JCL question

2011-01-20 Thread Edward Jaffe
On 1/19/2011 10:11 AM, Donald Johnson wrote: We used to use a program called KABOOM, which did not exist (as I suspect with BLOWUP). One JCL statement, and a very prominent S806 abend. We use: //ABEND806 EXEC PGM=ABEND806 This program does exactly what its name implies. ;-) -- Edward E

Re: HBBN700 and SMPWRK6

2011-01-20 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Thu, 20 Jan 2011 13:42:14 -0800, Gibney, Dave wrote: I haven't moved to using this thing yet. I generally try to put RSU maintenance on for everything, so that if I need to use it, it will be up to date. This hurking monster is blowing away (E37) my SMPWRK6. I mostly have MOD 3s. And a

Re: HBBN700 and SMPWRK6

2011-01-20 Thread Lizette Koehler
I haven't moved to using this thing yet. I generally try to put RSU maintenance on for everything, so that if I need to use it, it will be up to date. This hurking monster is blowing away (E37) my SMPWRK6. I mostly have MOD 3s. And a handful of MOD9. PDS and PDSE won't do multi-volume.

Re: If Else JCL question

2011-01-20 Thread Erik Janssen
We use EXEC PGM=IEFBR15, but the funny thing was when I used EXEC PGM=KABOOM or something like that (because obviously it doesn't matter what you use as long as the program doesn't exist), some incident manager informed me that the standard to force an S806 abend was to use program IEFBR15 and

Re: If Else JCL question

2011-01-20 Thread Frank Swarbrick
Honestly, I no longer know. I just know it's confusing as heck, and I have yet to see a defense of it. (Well, John Gilmore seemed to think it was understandable, if not perhaps defensible). On 1/20/2011 at 3:00 PM, in message f5ff22ced304764eaac97a43706235b7174c143...@corpexmbx.bekco.com,

Re: If Else JCL question

2011-01-20 Thread Shane Ginnane
I usually keep an IEFBR15 laying around for test purposes. And like Eds', this does as advertised. Best to keep such away from your incident manager ;-) Shane ... On Fri, Jan 21st, 2011 at 10:47 AM, Erik Janssen wrote: We use EXEC PGM=IEFBR15, but the funny thing was when I used EXEC

Re: If Else JCL question

2011-01-20 Thread Wayne Bickerdike
Shane, Have you been hiding that IEFBR15 from me? I was using IFEBR14. As we know DNA stands for National Dyslexic Association...:) Wayne On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 11:16 AM, Shane Ginnane ibm-m...@tpg.com.au wrote: I usually keep an IEFBR15 laying around for test purposes. And like Eds', this

Re: subscripti ng

2011-01-20 Thread Wayne Bickerdike
That's why I'm short of breath, I'm thinking too much? On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 7:53 AM, Anne Lynn Wheeler l...@garlic.com wrote: popular press has people using less than 5% of their brains. there has been extensive advances in knowledge of the brain over the last decade from MRI studies.

Re: If Else JCL question

2011-01-20 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Fri, 21 Jan 2011 11:16:46 +1100, Shane Ginnane wrote: I usually keep an IEFBR15 laying around for test purposes. And like Eds', this does as advertised. Best to keep such away from your incident manager ;-) By as advertised, do we mean: IEFBR15 CSECT BR15 END

Re: Integrated Workload Pricing

2011-01-20 Thread Edward Jaffe
On 1/19/2011 8:25 PM, Al Sherkow wrote: You may have heard me discuss or present that IBM's Variable Workload License Charges (WLC) can be thought of as 'Container License Charges'. Al, Are you going to talk about IWP at SHARE in Anaheim? Ed -- Edward E Jaffe Phoenix Software International,

Re: HBBN700 and SMPWRK6

2011-01-20 Thread Gibney, Dave
NAME === SMPWRK6 WAIT === NOPROTECT === NO DSNTYPE === LIBRARY DSN ===SYSOUT === UNIT === SMS VOL ===DISP:INIT === NEW FINAL === DELETE SPACE:UNITS === CYL PRIM === 2000 SECOND === 2000 DIR === 4500

Re: If Else JCL question

2011-01-20 Thread Shane
By as advertised, do we mean: IEFBR15 CSECT BR15 END we do. I like ABEND806. Until some novice tries to generalize: //STEP EXEC PGM=ABEND213 ... and complains that it still ABENDs with 806, not 213. ROTF - hadn't thought of that. You must deal with more

Re: WAS: EMail attachments stopped working... NOW When great techs go over the side

2011-01-20 Thread Edward Jaffe
On 1/20/2011 10:13 AM, John Mattson wrote: WHICH brings up another point. Ain't it a shame when great techs go over to management type positions? I see that Lionel has moved up (?) and will now be in the sales department at IBM (see: http://www.lbdsoftware.com/index.htm ) and will

Re: HBBN700 and SMPWRK6

2011-01-20 Thread Mark Jacobs
Once we get to zOS 1.12 across the sysplex I'm going to migrate our SMP/E SMS pool to EAV's. I'm sick of fighting single volume PDS/PDSE problems after 30 years. Mark Jacobs Time Customer Service -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of Gibney, Dave Sent:

Re: If Else JCL question

2011-01-20 Thread CM Poncelet
Any boolean tests can be performed with 'COND=', but not so with 'IF ELSE etc.' We have already discussed this in the past. But please show me how 'IF ELSE ...' handles the following: Execute STEPF if - STEPA sets CC=04, STEPB sets CC=00, STEPC did not execute, STEPD sets CC=08 and STEPE did

Re: If Else JCL question

2011-01-20 Thread John Eells
Erik Janssen wrote: We use EXEC PGM=IEFBR15, but the funny thing was when I used EXEC PGM=KABOOM or something like that (because obviously it doesn't matter what you use as long as the program doesn't exist), some incident manager informed me that the standard to force an S806 abend was to

Re: If Else JCL question

2011-01-20 Thread Ted MacNEIL
subtract the time spent in that RPGN from 100% to find true CPU busy on systems that might have low utilization effects. Except for the fact that software measurements suffer from the fact that not all CPU consumed is capured. - Ted MacNEIL eamacn...@yahoo.ca

Re: Sample compiling/linking ICSF app under OMVS

2011-01-20 Thread Henrique Seganfredo
Done. Below is the example if anyone is interested. Compile C prog as AMODE64 to be called as a dll from Java (JDK 6 / 64). Everything under USS: #Compile cc -V -c -o GenChav.o -Wc,dll,LP64,exportall -I. -I/usr/lpp/java/J6.0_64/include GenChav.c cmplisting.txt #DD SYSLIB cards needed by the

IBM's mainframe-blade hybrid to do Windows

2011-01-20 Thread Ed Gould
http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2011/01/12/ibm_zenterprise_zbx_update/ -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the

Re: If Else JCL question

2011-01-20 Thread Tony Harminc
On 20 January 2011 21:31, John Eells ee...@us.ibm.com wrote: Erik Janssen wrote: We use EXEC PGM=IEFBR15, but the funny thing was when I used EXEC PGM=KABOOM or something like that (because obviously it doesn't matter what you use as long as the program doesn't exist), some incident manager

Re: Publib.boulder.IBM down

2011-01-20 Thread J. D. Cassidy
The penny has dropped!! - The only one with a sense of irony?? = And here I thought it was just people bragging that they had an iphone. = = -- = Eric Bielefeld = Systems Programmer = = = Hal Merritt hmerr...@jackhenry.com wrote: = That appears to be a default signature added by the IPhone

Re: Enqueue on SYS1.BRODCAST

2011-01-20 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
At 10:32 -0800 on 01/20/2011, Ulrich Krueger wrote about Re: Enqueue on SYS1.BRODCAST: OTOH ... waiting next in line was a batch job. What's this job doing with the BRODCAST dataset? JOB NOTIFY=USERID maybe? -- For IBM-MAIN

Re: If Else JCL question

2011-01-20 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Fri, 21 Jan 2011 02:01:45 +, CM Poncelet ponce...@bcs.org.uk wrote: Any boolean tests can be performed with 'COND=', but not so with 'IF ELSE etc.' We have already discussed this in the past. Sorry; I missed that. But please show me how 'IF ELSE ...' handles the following: Execute STEPF

digitize old hardcopy manuals

2011-01-20 Thread William Smith
There are a number of free, Windows-based applications that provide comparable function to that of the licensed Adobe Acrobat product (a.k.a the distiller).  They can be found at http://www.techsupportalert.com/content/best-free-pdf-tools.htm.  This site (Gizmo's Freeware) is the # 1 most