Re: Clarification on Sysres Volumes(RMF)

2012-01-03 Thread Lizette Koehler
Hi All, One thing I have noticed from the report is that most of the user ID are the reason for volume contentions. Name ReasonCritical val. Possible cause or action DOV0053DEV -Z18RS193.0 % delay May be reserved by another system. DOV0061DEV -Z18RS192.0 %

Re: Clarification on Sysres Volumes(RMF)

2012-01-03 Thread jagadishan perumal
Little Correction : During This Situation when I do : /D GRS,C It does really produces any information about Volume or Dataset Contention. I meant It doesnt Produces any result pertaining to dataset or volume contentions. Jags On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 1:43 PM, jagadishan perumal

Re: Clarification on Sysres Volumes(RMF)

2012-01-03 Thread jagadishan perumal
Hi Lizette, Apology for not being precise. Datasets found in SYSRES are : are some BCP related datasets , assembler datasets,language environment datasets,IBM book manager datasets First failure Support technology(FFST) datasets are found. During This Situation when I do : /D GRS,C It does

Re: z/OS version of NetCat or native JCL support

2012-01-03 Thread Elardus Engelbrecht
Gerard Nicol wrote: I am looking for the most elegant way to send a file to a raw socket on a remote machine. I was hoping there was a socket DD like you can using APPC, but I can’t find anything in the docs for anything like You don't send something to a 'socket', you transfer something to a

Re: RSU Apply Error in PTF

2012-01-03 Thread saurabh khandelwal
I dont have SMMPRINT DD NAMe defined in my SMPE . I will add this DDNAME in my SYSLIB DDDEF in target zone. Also I check for ASMA90 utility. I already have this option specified. DEFINITION - UTILITY ENTRY ASMA90 === Verify or enter operands for UTILITY entry ASMA90: LOAD

RES: ACCOUNT REPORT

2012-01-03 Thread ITURIEL DO NASCIMENTO NETO
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PDS Command - 40 Years Old

2012-01-03 Thread John P Kalinich
The PDS command is still running today in the z/OS environment. Tom Springer, Steve Smith, and William Finkelstein were the original authors 40 years ago when they worked together at Security Pacific National Bank. Bruce Leland and Steve Smith took the PDS command to a new level after developing

Re: IBM Manuals

2012-01-03 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) In f255efe0ecf08c4a9c1db6aff423541717f9c...@ch2wpmail1.na.ds.ussco.com, on 12/30/2011 at 05:12 PM, Chase, John jch...@ussco.com said: -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe

Re: IBM manual formats

2012-01-03 Thread Shane
On Tue, 3 Jan 2012 05:39:14 -0600 Jan MOEYERSONS wrote: On Sun, 1 Jan 2012 09:48:59 -0600, John McKown wrote: I like having IBM manuals be readable in electronic form. Personally, I prefer using the Web and BookManager format over PDF. Hear, hear! Please give us back Bookmanager for ALL

Re: Clarification on Sysres Volumes(RMF)

2012-01-03 Thread Joel C. Ewing
I believe JES2 uses physical reserves on entire volume when accessing HASPCKPT datasets and depending on your JES PARMLIB member may hold it for a significant time -- not a good dataset type to put on a SYSRES shared with other systems. Others may be able to suggest JES PARMLIB changes to

Re: z/OS version of NetCat or native JCL support

2012-01-03 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Gerard Nicol Sent: Monday, January 02, 2012 8:35 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: z/OS version of NetCat or native JCL support Hi, I am looking for the most elegant way to

Re: Clarification on Sysres Volumes(RMF)

2012-01-03 Thread Lizette Koehler
Hi Lizette, Apology for not being precise. Datasets found in SYSRES are : are some BCP related datasets , assembler datasets,language environment datasets,IBM book manager datasets First failure Support technology(FFST) datasets are found. During This Situation when I do : /D

strcoll(), sort(1), LC_COLLATE (and perhaps DFSORT)

2012-01-03 Thread Paul Gilmartin
The recent mixed case thread on ASSEMBLER list piqued my curiosity, and I asked some questions about UNIX commands on MVS-OE. But I think this is as general as IBM-MAIN. I can't seem to get the En_US collating sequence to work as I believe it should. The problem may arise from a failure of the

Re: Clarification on Sysres Volumes(RMF)

2012-01-03 Thread Mark Zelden
On Tue, 3 Jan 2012 13:43:02 +0530, jagadishan perumal jagadish...@gmail.com wrote: Apology for not being precise. . As per Mark advise I did TSO RMFMON and Found some SYS1.HASCKPT datasets used by JES2, some User Job using their Assigned volumes. chuckle (sorry). That will do it! No

Re: IBM manual formats

2012-01-03 Thread Jan MOEYERSONS
On Sun, 1 Jan 2012 09:48:59 -0600, John McKown joa...@swbell.net wrote: I like having IBM manuals be readable in electronic form. Personally, I prefer using the Web and BookManager format over PDF. Hear, hear! Please give us back Bookmanager for ALL manuals, IBM. But I cannot easily download

Re: z/OS version of NetCat or native JCL support

2012-01-03 Thread Gerard Nicol
Elardus, Thanks for your reply. I'm not exactly sure why people always presume that someone asking a question they don't understand is some sort of moron, but working on the assumption of good faith let me further explain myself. Firstly, I never said that there was a SOCKET keyword in JCL, but

Re: cpu / machine identification

2012-01-03 Thread Scott Ford
Brian, I am used to that type of support structure. I have noticed a more of a reliance on the vendor for a lot more than the actual product the support. Regards, Scott Sent from my iPad On Jan 3, 2012, at 1:11 AM, Brian Westerman brian_wester...@syzygyinc.com wrote: I agree, We make

Re: z/OS version of NetCat or native JCL support

2012-01-03 Thread Elardus Engelbrecht
Gerard Nicol wrote: Thanks for your reply. It is a pleasure! I try to be helpful. Firstly, I never said that there was a SOCKET keyword in JCL, but perhaps there should be. The founding fathers of MVS obviously thought at one time that it would be nice to be able to write to another process

Re: z/OS version of NetCat or native JCL support

2012-01-03 Thread Scott Ford
Gerard, I think the issue here is understanding what was required , now that we have seen a spec it helps. Btw, most folks on here are systems programmers and developers. Some of of us have done hit all, I.e.; sysprogs,network eng, developer and consulted. Answer me a quick question, why are

Re: z/OS version of NetCat or native JCL support

2012-01-03 Thread McKown, John
I tend to use NFS. The z/Linux system can NFS export a subdirectory. z/OS can then import that subdirectory, with or without automatic code point translation. The z/OS job then simply uses a DD with the appropriate PATH= to write to the z/Linux system. With icrond on z/Linux, the user can

Re: z/OS version of NetCat or native JCL support

2012-01-03 Thread Gerard Nicol
John, I don't have the ability to install any software on my client's machines as they run those machines on behalf of their clients. Many of these clients may not have configured USS subsystems. I have contemplated using some sort of rexec step, but you then have to move the data to be

Re: z/OS version of NetCat or native JCL support

2012-01-03 Thread Gerard Nicol
Scott, I support a system that has to talk with RMM, Control-M/Tape, Zara, CA-1 and TLMS. I have a customer who themselves have many z/OS customers who are unlikely to allow my native z/OS load module to be installed so my solution is to give them a JCL proc that they can call at the end of

Re: PDS Command - 40 Years Old

2012-01-03 Thread Don Poitras
John P Kalinich wrote: The PDS command is still running today in the z/OS environment. Tom Springer, Steve Smith, and William Finkelstein were the original authors 40 years ago when they worked together at Security Pacific National Bank. Bruce Leland and Steve Smith took the PDS command to

Re: z/OS version of NetCat or native JCL support

2012-01-03 Thread Scott Ford
John, Excellent ideas and thoughts Regards Scott Sent from my iPad On Jan 3, 2012, at 10:08 AM, McKown, John john.mck...@healthmarkets.com wrote: I tend to use NFS. The z/Linux system can NFS export a subdirectory. z/OS can then import that subdirectory, with or without automatic code

Re: z/OS version of NetCat or native JCL support

2012-01-03 Thread Scott Ford
Gerald, So are you saying you don't want a vendor created solution for you customer ? I worked on Wall Street and with govt agencies without these restrictions, in fact we write security products for various US govt agencies. Regards, Scott Sent from my iPad On Jan 3, 2012, at 10:20 AM, Gerard

Re: PDS Command - 40 Years Old

2012-01-03 Thread John P Kalinich
Don Poitras of the IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu wrote on 01/03/2012 09:16:02 AM: It's a great program. I wish the support for PDSE that was introduced included mapping the entire program object rather than just the B_TEXT segment though. As it is, I still need to use

Re: z/OS version of NetCat or native JCL support

2012-01-03 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Scott Ford Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2012 9:25 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: z/OS version of NetCat or native JCL support John, Excellent ideas and thoughts Regards

Re: z/OS version of NetCat or native JCL support

2012-01-03 Thread Gerard Nicol
Scott, Ideally yes. Unfortunately these are the constraints I am working under in this instance. Incidentally my US Gov clients don't let me run native z/OS programs either and we supply them in source format. Gerard -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List

Re: z/OS version of NetCat or native JCL support

2012-01-03 Thread Scott Ford
John, I agree, I don't get the restrictions, is this a management decision or technical restriction or a security issue ? Regards, Scott Sent from my iPad On Jan 3, 2012, at 10:36 AM, McKown, John john.mck...@healthmarkets.com wrote: -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe

Re: z/OS version of NetCat or native JCL support

2012-01-03 Thread McKown, John
I don't know. Either for Gerard or even for my shop. My manager is likely going to be mildly upset at me. Went I implement z/OS 1.12 on the second, production, z/OS image in our shop (we have three: Dev, prod, and sandbox), I plan to move most of my personal source data from PDSE datasets to

Re: z/OS version of NetCat or native JCL support

2012-01-03 Thread Scott Ford
Gerard, I can tell you otb, z/ os as far as I know won't do what you want without writing some code. So I guess u can't FTP . Regards, Scott Sent from my iPad On Jan 3, 2012, at 10:50 AM, Gerard Nicol gerard.ni...@tapetrack.com wrote: Scott, Ideally yes. Unfortunately these are

Re: z/OS version of NetCat or native JCL support

2012-01-03 Thread Gerard Nicol
FTP is an option but it complicates things because without rexec there is no way of knowing if the FTPed file has subsequently been processed. I was looking for a solution that displayed the distributed processing of the data in the JES job log. If it's not doable then it's not doable, but it

IBM manual formats

2012-01-03 Thread Joe Ellett
Other than Amazon's proprietary Kindle environment, virtually all eReaders (BN Nook, Kobo, Sony etc.) and virtually all eBook clients and apps (Apple iPad/iPhone/iPod Touch iBooks, Android Aldiko, etc.) are standardized on the open epub and pdf formats. As John previously remarked, pdf format

Re: z/OS version of NetCat or native JCL support

2012-01-03 Thread Scott Ford
John, Yeah I agree on the ISPF editor vs 'vi', which is a tad painful to use. I know a lot of non-techies get nervous around unix. Been there done that Regards, Scott Sent from my iPad On Jan 3, 2012, at 11:01 AM, McKown, John john.mck...@healthmarkets.com wrote: I don't know. Either for

Re: z/OS version of NetCat or native JCL support

2012-01-03 Thread Scott Ford
Gerard, On the unix side u could send a acknowledge that the file/ data was received and have a small compiled rexx compost check for completion codes...only a thought ... Regards, Scott Sent from my iPad On Jan 3, 2012, at 11:12 AM, Gerard Nicol gerard.ni...@tapetrack.com wrote: FTP is an

Re: z/OS version of NetCat or native JCL support

2012-01-03 Thread Gerard Nicol
Scott, There are an infinite number of options that start with sneakerware and end at what I actually want to be able to do ;-) Gerard -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Scott Ford Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2012 9:24 AM To:

Re: Date and time of IPL API?

2012-01-03 Thread Bill Fairchild
Also International Phonetic Alphabet. Recommended if you regularly read John Gilmore's posts. :-) Bill Fairchild -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Jim Thomas Sent: Friday, December 30, 2011 9:23 PM To:

Re: PDS Command - 40 Years Old

2012-01-03 Thread Don Poitras
John P Kalinich wrote: Don Poitras of the IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu wrote on 01/03/2012 09:16:02 AM: It's a great program. I wish the support for PDSE that was introduced included mapping the entire program object rather than just the B_TEXT segment though. As

Re: Question on adding an SVC routine dynamically to a running system

2012-01-03 Thread Bill Fairchild
And an SVC cannot be used very well in certain environments (disabled, locked, SRB mode). In such an environment, an SVC xx would indeed generate a system trace entry, followed immediately by an SVC 13 (ABEND) entry. A BAKR/PR combination would generate at least one system trace entry and

Re: z/OS version of NetCat or native JCL support

2012-01-03 Thread Chris Mason
Gerard ... why people always presume that someone asking a question they don't understand is some sort of moron, ... What was needed in your original post was some effort to put the netcat thing into some sort of context with respect to what you *really* wanted to do.

Re: PDS Command - 40 Years Old

2012-01-03 Thread Mark Zelden
On Tue, 3 Jan 2012 11:27:49 -0500, Don Poitras sas...@sas.com wrote: You need to keep hitting '0' to continue the display and after a while the top of the listing rolls off. A little PDS training is in order... :-) Try the SETLOG command. Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services -

Re: z/OS version of NetCat or native JCL support

2012-01-03 Thread Chris Mason
Elardus What about FTP? You can use that to specify an IP address ('foreign host name') ... Yes indeed - although the name must always be translated to an IP address and, as should apply to any well-written client program, you can use an IP address directly. A well-written program always

Re: z/OS version of NetCat or native JCL support

2012-01-03 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Gerard Nicol Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2012 10:13 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: z/OS version of NetCat or native JCL support FTP is an option but it complicates things

Re: Question on adding an SVC routine dynamically to a running system

2012-01-03 Thread Tom Marchant
On Tue, 3 Jan 2012 16:44:58 +, Bill Fairchild wrote: A BAKR/PR combination would generate at least one system trace entry Would it? -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send

Re: IBM manual formats

2012-01-03 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 4953978233034455.wa.jan.moeyersonsadelior...@bama.ua.edu, on 01/03/2012 at 05:39 AM, Jan MOEYERSONS jan.moeyers...@adelior.be said: I think you can. Just install the old, but still faithfull Library Reader for Windows What if you don't run windoze? (IMHO it still is better than the Java

Re: PDS Command - 40 Years Old

2012-01-03 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In of47a909a7.302297d5-on8625797a.004490c4-8625797a.00451...@csc.com, on 01/03/2012 at 06:34 AM, John P Kalinich jkali...@csc.com said: Bruce Leland and Steve Smith took the PDS command to a new level after developing the StarTool® vendor product. Bruce did a lot before that as well, as I

Re: Question on adding an SVC routine dynamically to a running system

2012-01-03 Thread Bill Fairchild
If your code that you want traced in the System Trace table runs authorized, you can also use the TRACE instruction. I did that once to shoot a weird timing problem. Bill Fairchild -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Dave

Re: ACCOUNT REPORT

2012-01-03 Thread Greg Shirey
Sergio, you might check out FILE019 on the CBT. Regards, Greg Shirey Ben E. Keith Company -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Sérgio Lima Costa Sent: Monday, January 02, 2012 4:56 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: ACCOUNT REPORT Hello List. We need

Re: z/OS version of NetCat or native JCL support

2012-01-03 Thread Gerard Nicol
Seriously Chris, what you are saying is that you commented on something without fully understanding it and now want to excuse it because others made the same mistake. Did I make the mistake of assuming only those who understood the question would reply, sure. Guilty as charged. I'm not sure any

Re: Question on adding an SVC routine dynamically to a running system

2012-01-03 Thread Bill Fairchild
You're right. I'm wrong. PR causes a trace entry to be formed if it follows a PC but not if it follows a BAKR. Bill Fairchild -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Tom Marchant Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2012 10:51 AM To:

Re: XML Generate String Length

2012-01-03 Thread Dave Kopischke
Isn't there a memory size parameter on the CICS program entry? -- Mike A Schwab, Springfield IL USA Where do Forest Rangers go to get away from it all? Yes, I think this is it: Maxdatalen defined on the service. We have it set to 1024 which I believe is kilobytes. As it turns out, it was

Re: SV: cpu / machine identification

2012-01-03 Thread zMan
Yes. I know folks who live near prisons: they leave cars unlocked with keys in them, on the theory that if someone breaks out, they'd rather they take the car and go than come into the house... On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 11:57 AM, Bill Fairchild bfairch...@rocketsoftware.com wrote: I have had two

A design question

2012-01-03 Thread Scott Ford
All, I am looking to rewrite a COBOL app(stc) in C. The current code calls a lot of assembler sub routines,which isn't a problem, but we do call an assembler operator interface which uses the MVS modify command interface.I want to do the same in C using pthreads, with one thread being activate

Re: PDS Command - 40 Years Old

2012-01-03 Thread Don Poitras
Mark, That's somewhat better. Only 4 '0's required. Still lost the top of the listing though. I used the max of 64000 lines, but the AMBLIST of the module I'm looking at produces 123000 lines. I suppose I could figure out where in the source this limit is set, but it's just not that big a deal

Re: Question on adding an SVC routine dynamically to a running system

2012-01-03 Thread Tom Marchant
On Sun, 1 Jan 2012 12:58:46 -0600, Dave Day wrote: I was using the trace entry in the trace table as a trigger mechanism for my code. By matching entries, I can give count and elapsed time in my reporting logic. You lost me there. You want to issue an SVC to cause a trace entry to be created.

Re: SV: cpu / machine identification

2012-01-03 Thread Scott Ford
Zman, In that case a .45 automatic and a big dog comes in handy, lol , sorry just couldn't resist.. Regards, Scott Sent from my iPad On Jan 3, 2012, at 1:17 PM, zMan zedgarhoo...@gmail.com wrote: Yes. I know folks who live near prisons: they leave cars unlocked with keys in them, on the

Re: IBM-MAIN Digest - 31 Dec 2011 to 1 Jan 2012 (#2012-1)

2012-01-03 Thread zMan
On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 4:02 PM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) shmuel+ibm-m...@patriot.net wrote: David Boyes dbo...@sinenomine.net said: Big hassle: the illustrations in the older manuals are in APF format, which isn't documented anywhere. What gives you that idea? Well now, let's use our

Re: A design question

2012-01-03 Thread Sam Siegel
Scott - The answer is yes. Please see: https://computing.llnl.gov/tutorials/pthreads/ for some examples that include thread coordination. Sam On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 10:17 AM, Scott Ford scott_j_f...@yahoo.com wrote: All, I am looking to rewrite a COBOL app(stc) in C. The current code

Re: Question on adding an SVC routine dynamically to a running system

2012-01-03 Thread John Gilmore
Tom Marchant wrote: | What's wrong with just issuing a TIME macro to get the time entry? Notionally, this would greatly reduce system overheads; but if elapsed time is what is required, what's wrong with a pair of STCKEs? Using them would reduce these overheads to zero. It may be, however,

Re: z/OS version of NetCat or native JCL support

2012-01-03 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 7c5d174bbb4e5446626772d92f79d...@mail.gmail.com, on 01/03/2012 at 07:08 AM, Gerard Nicol gerard.ni...@tapetrack.com said: Thanks for your reply. I'm not exactly sure why people always presume that someone asking a question they don't understand is some sort of moron, For the same reason

Re: z/OS version of NetCat or native JCL support

2012-01-03 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In a6b9336cdb62bb46b9f8708e686a7ea00b038bb...@nrhmms8p02.uicnrh.dom, on 01/03/2012 at 10:59 AM, McKown, John john.mck...@healthmarkets.com said: I was also looking at scripting a telnet session. But the only telnet client I could find on z/OS 1.10 was TSO based and used 3270 macros (TPUT /

Re: z/OS version of NetCat or native JCL support

2012-01-03 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 5999379416490322.wa.elardus.engelbrechtsita.co...@bama.ua.edu, on 01/03/2012 at 08:28 AM, Elardus Engelbrecht elardus.engelbre...@sita.co.za said: After I have rereading their replies and your requirement, I see your point. Perhaps they will chime in again giving hopefully better replies.

Re: PDS Command - 40 Years Old

2012-01-03 Thread Dave Salt
Another way to see an AMBLIST is to select load modules from a SimpList member list using function 'A'. Or, if you only need to know the link date, select the member(s) using function 'K'. The link date is then displayed in MMDD format next to each selected member. Dave Salt SimpList(tm)

Re: A design question

2012-01-03 Thread Scott Ford
Sam:   Thanks a lot. As I type i have the url open in a browser Hey send me your resume to scott.f...@identityforge.com Regards, Scott J Ford Software Engineer http://www.identityforge.com   From: Sam Siegel s...@pscsi.net To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Sent:

Re: A design question

2012-01-03 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Scott Ford Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2012 12:17 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: A design question All, I am looking to rewrite a COBOL app(stc) in C. The current code

Re: z/OS version of NetCat or native JCL support

2012-01-03 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2012 12:18 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: z/OS version of NetCat or native JCL support In

Re: Question on adding an SVC routine dynamically to a running system

2012-01-03 Thread Dave Day
I have a software offering that Dave Cole markets. You can go to his website, and take a look at z/XPF. It competes in a niche market on z/OS, application profiling. What makes mine different from the other guys in this arena is the approach I use to get the profiling data. Instead of

Re: IBM TS7740 Copy/Export process

2012-01-03 Thread Pinnacle
Russ, You sure you want to do that? Export/Copy leaves the virtual volume in the library, and it can still be accessed. If you drive EJC, that volume will be exported. I agree with you that Export/Copy is a cluster f of the first order, but updating ACTVOL and driving EJC for these

Re: Date and time of IPL API?

2012-01-03 Thread Charles Mills
I thought it meant Unix System Services, if you regularly read ... oh, never mind. g Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Bill Fairchild Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2012 8:28 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Date

Re: IBM-MAIN Digest - 31 Dec 2011 to 1 Jan 2012 (#2012-1)

2012-01-03 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In cafo-8tqm4mjredrfxy8vzyloa2byq6r+o25aargc-92qdou...@mail.gmail.com, on 01/03/2012 at 01:24 PM, zMan zedgarhoo...@gmail.com said: Well now, let's use our imaginations, boys and girls. Presumably he has that idea because he's been unable to find any such documentation. I've been unable to

Re: IBM-MAIN Digest - 31 Dec 2011 to 1 Jan 2012 (#2012-1)

2012-01-03 Thread Roger Bolan
On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 9:21 AM, David Boyes dbo...@sinenomine.net wrote: Big hassle: the illustrations in the older manuals are in APF format, which isn't documented anywhere. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive

Re: IBM-MAIN Digest - 31 Dec 2011 to 1 Jan 2012 (#2012-1)

2012-01-03 Thread Roger Bolan
If you were referring to the pictures in the BookManager format of the book, rather than the AFP format, then see http://publibfi.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr/BOOKS/EPHZ2L03/4.2.10?SHELF=DT=20050922160211CASE= for an explanation. On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 1:56 PM, Roger Bolan rogerbo...@gmail.com

Re: A design question

2012-01-03 Thread Scott Ford
John, I am in your debt, man you just shone a big light on this issue for me, wow!!! Regards, A big Ty Scott Sent from my iPad On Jan 3, 2012, at 2:28 PM, McKown, John john.mck...@healthmarkets.com wrote: -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List

Re: strcoll(), sort(1), LC_COLLATE (and perhaps DFSORT)

2012-01-03 Thread Frank Yaeger
Paul Gilmartin on IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu wrote on 01/03/2012 05:48:30 AM: And, BTW, I'm quite unfamiliar with DFSORT. What collating options does it support? DFSORT's support for LOCALE is described in z/OS DFSORT Application Programming Guide, e.g. General:

Re; cpu / machine identification

2012-01-03 Thread Dale Miller
Scott Ford wrote: Been on the phone with a certain ISP and had to tell them how to shoot the problem. I worked for a company whose business involved processing records of pharmaceutical sales. We had processing centers in diverse locations which entailed a lot of data transmission. The

Re: Date and time of IPL API?

2012-01-03 Thread Mark Zelden
On Fri, 30 Dec 2011 22:53:08 -0600, Mark Zelden m...@mzelden.com wrote: On Fri, 30 Dec 2011 21:22:33 -0600, Jim Thomas j...@thethomasresidence.us wrote: IPA = Initial (or IPL) parameter area ... take a peek at IHAIPA. Jim The time from D IPLINFO is slightly different than the time in the

Re: Question on adding an SVC routine dynamically to a running system

2012-01-03 Thread Tony Harminc
On 3 January 2012 14:33, Dave Day david...@consolidated.net wrote:   I have a software offering that Dave Cole markets. You can go to his website, and take a look at z/XPF.  It competes in a niche market on z/OS, application profiling. What makes mine different from the other guys in this

Re: z/OS version of NetCat or native JCL support

2012-01-03 Thread Mike Schwab
You said SEND to Linux. How about an email to your account? //GENRSMTP PROC HLQ=hlq.mlq.rlq,LLQ=DUMMY,GEN='(+1)', // LIB=library.PARMLIB,MEM=genrcard //STEP02 EXEC PGM=IEBGENER,COND=EVEN //SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=* //SYSUT1 DD DSN=HLQ..LLQ.GEN,DISP=SHR,RECFM=FB //SYSUT2 DD

Re: SV: cpu / machine identification

2012-01-03 Thread Rick Fochtman
-snip--: Zman, In that case a .45 automatic and a big dog comes in handy, lol , sorry just couldn't resist.. Regards, Scott

Re: PDS Command - 40 Years Old

2012-01-03 Thread Rick Fochtman
--snip--- Thanks. I hadn't seen that. It's almost useless for large modules though. You need to keep hitting '0' to continue the display and after a while the top of the listing rolls off.

Re: Re-Linkling a load module with AC(1)

2012-01-03 Thread Schwarz, Barry A
Try eliminating the second include. Also verify that PCOPY actually has text. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Fred Kaptein Sent: Thursday, November 03, 2011 1:11 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re-Linkling a

Re: SV: cpu / machine identification

2012-01-03 Thread Scott Ford
Rick, Like your style Sent from my iPad On Jan 3, 2012, at 5:23 PM, Rick Fochtman rfocht...@ync.net wrote: -snip--: Zman, In that case a .45 automatic and a big dog comes in handy, lol , sorry just

Re: z/OS version of NetCat or native JCL support

2012-01-03 Thread Gerard Nicol
Mike, I am unfamiliar with this technique. So you are sending to an SMTP server via JES2? Does this only work for z/Linux or could you also send to an intel Linux as well? Gerard -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Mike

Re: Eight-character TSO Userid Support

2012-01-03 Thread Hal Merritt
Yea, I complained about beling allowed to create the segment only to have it ignored and wondered why I wasn't warned when I defined it. I was politely pointed to the: IKJ56644I NO VALID TSO USERID, DEFAULT USER ATTRIBUTES USED ... as my warning/error message. I believe that RACF should

Re: z/OS version of NetCat or native JCL support

2012-01-03 Thread Scott Ford
Yep, this another way if zLinux is connected and has an email server running. Sent from my iPad On Jan 3, 2012, at 5:59 PM, Gerard Nicol gerard.ni...@tapetrack.com wrote: Mike, I am unfamiliar with this technique. So you are sending to an SMTP server via JES2? Does this only work for

Re: z/OS version of NetCat or native JCL support

2012-01-03 Thread Mike Schwab
There is an SMTP function within JES on z/OS, and it sends an email to your email account on the web. On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 4:59 PM, Gerard Nicol gerard.ni...@tapetrack.com wrote: Mike, I am unfamiliar with this technique. So you are sending to an SMTP server via JES2? Does this only work

Re: Clarification on Sysres Volumes(RMF)

2012-01-03 Thread Gibney, Dave
Dave Gibney Information Technology Services Washington State University -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Lizette Koehler Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2012 5:47 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Clarification on

Re: A design question

2012-01-03 Thread Tony Harminc
On 3 January 2012 14:28, McKown, John john.mck...@healthmarkets.com wrote: This is what you need to get familar with: http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/EDCLB1B0/3.138 quote General Description Used to communicate with the operator's console. The __console2()

Re: z/OS version of NetCat or native JCL support

2012-01-03 Thread Lionel Dyck
The mail server on z/OS must be configured and it will then take the input from the JES SPOOL and route it to any valid SMTP server on the intra/internet. Lionel B. Dyck z Client Architect IBM Corporation - West IMT Mobile Phone: 1-925-207-4518 E-mail: lionel.d...@us.ibm.com System z:

Re: A design question

2012-01-03 Thread Dave Kopischke
(shall we call it USS for short?) Here it is a new year and you start by dredging up that old Navy acronym controversy again. tsk tsk tsk -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to

Re: A design question

2012-01-03 Thread Scott Ford
Tony, Thanks for the info. I know I could also issue an 'attach' and have it perform the console ops. And then 'detach' when a shutdown command is issued. Still doing some thinking... Regards, Scott Sent from my iPad On Jan 3, 2012, at 6:37 PM, Tony Harminc t...@harminc.net wrote: On 3

Re: z/OS version of NetCat or native JCL support

2012-01-03 Thread Gerard Nicol
That would imply that you need to be talking SMTP to get the data from the z/OS SMTP server to the remote SMTP server. For this to work for my requirement the traffic would have to be relayed transparently, but it's kinda along the lines of what I was looking for. I can't believe that IBM didn't

Re: A design question

2012-01-03 Thread Scott Ford
Lol , I love it Sent from my iPad On Jan 3, 2012, at 7:11 PM, Dave Kopischke dgkopisc...@oppenheimerfunds.com wrote: (shall we call it USS for short?) Here it is a new year and you start by dredging up that old Navy acronym controversy again. tsk tsk tsk

Re: z/OS version of NetCat or native JCL support

2012-01-03 Thread Mike Schwab
You only have to get the z/OS programmer to start the outgoing mail server going, They you add the email header to the top, the Period CRLF QUIT at the bottom, and put the right destination value on the sysout statement. On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 6:35 PM, Gerard Nicol gerard.ni...@tapetrack.com

Re: z/OS version of NetCat or native JCL support

2012-01-03 Thread John McKown
There is, IMO, a lot of stuff missing from z/OS UNIX. Such as the initially mentioned netcat command. On Tue, 2012-01-03 at 17:35 -0700, Gerard Nicol wrote: That would imply that you need to be talking SMTP to get the data from the z/OS SMTP server to the remote SMTP server. For this to work

Re: z/OS version of NetCat or native JCL support

2012-01-03 Thread Scott Ford
Gerard , One thing to remember is the 7 layer osi model. IBM pretty much follows the design rules. I consulted with GSS a bunch of yrs in NYC and in the days of SNA the 7 layers were pretty much rule/ law written or unwritten it was understood. BTAM,VTAM and TCPIP are network transport, apps do

Re: IBM TS7740 Copy/Export process

2012-01-03 Thread Russell Witt
Tom, The driving eject is so that our existing eject logic would get control and we didn't have to write a new interface. Granted, a copy of the virtual-volume is still inside the robot (which is why IBM does not drive the EJECT exit); however a copy now resides outside the robot and for DR

Re: IBM TS7740 Copy/Export process

2012-01-03 Thread Pinnacle
Russ, Unfortunately, you need to save the status files and rely on the BVIR reports to figure out which volumes have been copy exported to which containers. Since they can be copy exported to multiple containers, and neither RMM nor CA-1 is designed to handle that, filling in the fields as

Re: z/OS version of NetCat or native JCL support

2012-01-03 Thread Scott Ford
John, Yep, i agree . Sent from my iPad On Jan 3, 2012, at 7:56 PM, John McKown joa...@swbell.net wrote: There is, IMO, a lot of stuff missing from z/OS UNIX. Such as the initially mentioned netcat command. On Tue, 2012-01-03 at 17:35 -0700, Gerard Nicol wrote: That would imply that you

Re: A design question

2012-01-03 Thread Sam Siegel
Scott - Another option is to have an assembler driver that attaches the various tasks. Each sub task can be an assembler program that uses CEEPIPI to setup LE and call the C program. Then you have a 'classic' subtask structure instead of a pthread structure. Sam On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 4:29 PM,

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