Re: Discussion groups devoted to Mainframe(zos) automation tools

2012-05-23 Thread Brian Westerman
There is also the Syzygy Automation Suite, it's a comprehensive, yet far less expensive solution than most. www.SyzygyInc.com Brian Westerman -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to

Re: Subpool 231 usage

2012-05-23 Thread Brian Westerman
It's embarrassing to admit, but I actually did this to myself in one of our products (SyzMPF/z) which automates console messages. We also use a name table to hold the address if the getmained area for later processing by multiple address spaces. In my haste, I had created a situation whereby

Re: Subpool 231 usage

2012-05-23 Thread Andy Wood
Another program cannot acquire storage within your sp231 storage. At least, not unless that program, or some other program, first released/freemained all or part of your storage (yes, that could happen accidentally). When you say the abend points to unknown=program, do you mean that you can't

SETLOCK OBTAIN

2012-05-23 Thread Ron MacRae
Hi all, I have the following piece of code running on many SRBs to give serialisation. SETLOCK OBTAIN, TYPE=CML,ASCB=(11), PRIMARY ADDRESS SPACE MODE=UNCOND,

Re: SETLOCK OBTAIN

2012-05-23 Thread Ron MacRae
Sorry should have added. My situation, multiple SRBs in a single address space, some of which might be non-dispatchable, doesn't appear to match any of the subcodes of the S073 abend. I suspect this will be some variant of s073 but not 100% sure. Ron.

Re: OpenSSL MAKE problem

2012-05-23 Thread Magnus Persson
Well for me it's easy. I got a customer request that they want OpenSSL because they move from NFTP and the ones that are to receive the file have a concept that is built on OpenSSL... Hälsningar / Best regards, Magnus Persson, Mainframe Tieto -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe

Re: Anyone using MASH (Multiple Address Space HSM)

2012-05-23 Thread Mark Jacobs
Can I ask under what situations would that be appropriate? Mark Jacobs On 05/22/12 18:21, Lizette Koehler wrote: Thanks Allan, but that is not what I was asking about. In an HSMPlex you can setup what is called MASH (Multiple Address Space HSM). This is where one LPAR can have upto 39 DFHSM

24/7/365 appropriateness was Re: IBMLink outages in 2012

2012-05-23 Thread Clark Morris
On 22 May 2012 20:04:42 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: In hj3lr7lassfuf88ovoeg000i1pp935e...@4ax.com, on 05/21/2012 at 03:51 PM, Clark Morris cfmpub...@ns.sympatico.ca said: I'm the last to see my own errors. Hopefully it was obvious I meant 24/7/365 That's no better. Either

Re: Easytrive

2012-05-23 Thread Helen Biederbeck
Hello Ron, Here is some information to assist you. Create the procedure PROC020S. This is how it is called from the Easytrieve program: Run Statically with PARM SQLSYNTAX NONE BIND (STATIC-ONLY) DEFINE LNAMEIN S 8 A DEFINE BRANCHO S 2 A DEFINE EMPNOS 5 A DEFINE LOC1

Re: 24/7/365 appropriateness was Re: IBMLink outages in 2012

2012-05-23 Thread Bill Ashton
In actuality, isn't 24x7 comprehensive enough? The 24 infers that the availability is round the clock, as opposed to most operating schedules that embrace a single day shift of 8 hours (banker's hours), or a day of 14 or 16 hours. The 7 infers that availability is every day of the week, as

Re: 24/7/365 appropriateness was Re: IBMLink outages in 2012

2012-05-23 Thread Mike Liberatore
YES enough said!!! Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry -Original Message- From: Bill Ashton bill00ash...@gmail.com Sender: IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Date: Wed, 23 May 2012 08:30:11 To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Reply-to: IBM Mainframe Discussion List

Re: Subpool 231 usage

2012-05-23 Thread Ray Overby
Perhaps you could look at the common storage tracking information for your SP 231 storage. With appropriate settings in your DIAGXX parmlib member CSA/SQA storage tracking data should indicate the owner (address space) of the storage. Perform this analysis before the problem occurs. This

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Unicode Services translation question

2012-05-23 Thread Charles Mills
I don't understand what I am seeing from Unicode Services translation. I specify translation from 1047 (Encoding scheme 1100 - EBCDIC, SBCS; Name LATIN 1 / OPEN SYSTEM) to 1252 (Encoding scheme 4105 - ASCII, SBCS; Name MS-WIN LATIN-1). As both CCSIDs are SBCS I would expect that any common

Re: 24/7/365 appropriateness was Re: IBMLink outages in 2012

2012-05-23 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
cfmpub...@ns.sympatico.ca (Clark Morris) writes: On a logical basis I agree with you but has the 24/7/365 shortcut for continuous availability become so pervasive that it is the shorthand way for saying it and is it the way that the general public as opposed to us professional nitpickers best

Re: Anyone using MASH (Multiple Address Space HSM)

2012-05-23 Thread Lizette Koehler
Mark, From the IBM Presentations the biggest boost would be that one HSM address space (HSMA) is the main that runs only RECALLS. Then an aux (HSMB) could run PSM or SSM, then another aux could run DUMP/BACKUP. Then each HSM could be in a different WLM class. This could offload the work as

Re: 24/7/365 appropriateness was Re: IBMLink outages in 2012

2012-05-23 Thread Bill Fairchild
And the general public, many Dilbertian managers, and even some of us professional nitpickers, think that a job running 1 hour instead of 10 is 900% faster, and that 1 is 10 times smaller than 10. 2+2 no longer = 5; now it equals chartreuse. Fortunately architects and engineers know how to

Re: 24/7/365 appropriateness was Re: IBMLink outages in 2012

2012-05-23 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
bfairch...@rocketsoftware.com (Bill Fairchild) writes: And the general public, many Dilbertian managers, and even some of us professional nitpickers, think that a job running 1 hour instead of 10 is 900% faster, and that 1 is 10 times smaller than 10. 2+2 no longer = 5; now it equals

Re: 24/7/365 appropriateness was Re: IBMLink outages in 2012

2012-05-23 Thread Mike Schwab
On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 9:20 AM, Bill Fairchild bfairch...@rocketsoftware.com wrote: And the general public, many Dilbertian managers, and even some of us professional nitpickers, think that a job running 1 hour instead of 10 is 900% faster, and that 1 is 10 times smaller than 10.  2+2 no

Re: 24/7/365 appropriateness was Re: IBMLink outages in 2012

2012-05-23 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Wed, 23 May 2012 14:20:03 +, Bill Fairchild wrote: And the general public, many Dilbertian managers, and even some of us professional nitpickers, think that a job running 1 hour instead of 10 is 900% faster, I believe that's correct usage, even as an airplane that flies from New York

Re: Unicode Services translation question

2012-05-23 Thread Kirk Wolf
Charles, x'C2AC' is the logical not symbol in UTF-8. Are you sure that you are translating to 1252? When I display the translate table for 1047-1252 using Unicode Services, it appears to be single bye - single byte: Here is a dump using the showtrtab command (part of the free Co:Z Toolkit) -

Re: 24/7/365 appropriateness was Re: IBMLink outages in 2012

2012-05-23 Thread R.S.
IMHO everyone here perfectly understand common (and intended) meaning of 24/7/365. While is formally inaccurate, it's still clear. The rest is as worth to discuss as USS=Unix System Services. Maybe there is official IBM meaning* of 24/7/365 or the only proper description of continuous

Re: Unicode Services translation question

2012-05-23 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Wed, 23 May 2012 06:43:53 -0700, Charles Mills wrote: I don't understand what I am seeing from Unicode Services translation. I specify translation from 1047 (Encoding scheme 1100 - EBCDIC, SBCS; Name LATIN 1 / OPEN SYSTEM) to 1252 (Encoding scheme 4105 - ASCII, SBCS; Name MS-WIN LATIN-1). As

Re: Unicode Services translation question

2012-05-23 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2012 10:40 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Unicode Services translation question snip (John M. was lately ranting on another forum

Re: Unicode Services translation question

2012-05-23 Thread Charles Mills
Are you sure that you are translating to 1252? Mighty sure. Could I be confused? Of course. But it looks rock solid to me. I have a lot of display facilities in the code and everything looks right (except the output). Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List

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Re: Subpool 231 usage

2012-05-23 Thread Scott Ford
All:   Thank you so much for the help. We are digging through the problem. I hadnt seen this one before, so I was looking for pointers to point me the right direction to find the cause.   All your help was very much appreciated. Scott J Ford Software Engineer http://www.identityforge.com  

Re: Unicode Services translation question

2012-05-23 Thread Walt Farrell
Does it work as you expected for other characters in 1047 whose equivalent in 1252 have values above x7F? Or is the not sign the only one that's mis-behaving? -- Walt -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: Unicode Services translation question

2012-05-23 Thread Charles Mills
Does it work as you expected for other characters in 1047 whose equivalent in 1252 have values above x7F? I just put in a broken vertical bar (EBCDIC 6A) and it translated (allegedly into 1252) as C2A6 rather than the expected A6. Where are you going with this? You obviously have something in

Brain drain: Where Cobol systems go from here

2012-05-23 Thread Ed Gould
Brain drain: Where Cobol systems go from here -When the last Cobol programmers walk out the door, so may 50 years of business processes within the software they created. Will you be ready? http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9227263/The_Cobol_Brain_Drain? taxonomyId=154

Re: Unicode Services translation question

2012-05-23 Thread Kirk Wolf
Charles, I'm not sure what the problem is, but 1252 is a single byte charset, so it seems wrong that you are getting multi-byte results. I don't see any difference in how you are calling CUNLCNV I tried our code with your technique string (we default to LMREC) : *showtrtab -s 1047 -t 1252

Re: Unicode Services translation question

2012-05-23 Thread Charles Mills
Thanks. Could there be something wrong with how your Unicode Services tables are configured? Sure, but I try to avoid blame the compiler and blame the operating system for as long as possible! I want to see where Walt was going with the 7F question. Charles -Original Message- From:

Re: SETLOCK OBTAIN

2012-05-23 Thread Jim Mulder
I have the following piece of code running on many SRBs to give serialisation. SETLOCK OBTAIN, TYPE=CML,ASCB=(11), PRIMARY ADDRESS SPACE MODE=UNCOND, REGS=USE, RELATED=(*(SERSTLRL)) The fine manual

Re: Unicode Services translation question

2012-05-23 Thread Charles Mills
Here is what showtrtab shows (pretty much as expected: 6A-A6 and B0 - AC). $ ./showtrtab -s 1047 -t 1252 00: 00 01 02 03 9C 09 86 7F 97 8D 8E 0B 0C 0D 0E 0F 10: 10 11 12 13 9D 0A 08 87 18 19 92 8F 1C 1D 1E 1F 20: 80 81 82 83 84 85 17 1B 88 89 8A

Re: Unicode Services translation question

2012-05-23 Thread Charles Mills
I *think* I understand the problem. I am going to have to revisit the documentation and then the code. When I *re*-parametize the service with a different CCSID it is not taking. I have a handle or something that is not getting re-initialized. I just started the program over with 01047/01252 and

Re: Brain drain: Where Cobol systems go from here

2012-05-23 Thread Roberts, John J
When the last Cobol programmers walk out the door, so may 50 years of business processes within the software they created. Will you be ready? http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9227263/The_Cobol_Brain_Drain? taxonomyId=154 Ed, Interesting article and fairly accurate IMO. This is what

Re: Brain drain: Where Cobol systems go from here

2012-05-23 Thread Steve Comstock
On 5/23/2012 3:39 PM, Roberts, John J wrote: When the last Cobol programmers walk out the door, so may 50 years of business processes within the software they created. Will you be ready? http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9227263/The_Cobol_Brain_Drain? taxonomyId=154 Ed, Interesting

Re: Screen Scraping TN3270

2012-05-23 Thread Tony Harminc
On 21 May 2012 16:57, Longnecker, Dennis dennis.longnec...@courts.wa.gov wrote: Curious as to what people might be using, if anything, on the JAVA side for screen scraping TN3270 applications.  Last year, because of performance problems, we switched from IBM Hats to a different JAVA based

Re: Comparison of compiler generated code AD 1980(ish) v 2010(ish)

2012-05-23 Thread Bernd Oppolzer
Update to this CALL PLIMOVE generates loop of MVCs topic: we did some further research and found out, that for CALL PLIMOVE with known length at compile time, even with EP PL/1 V3.9, there is a code sequence generated which uses MVCL, if the length is greater or equal 16384. For lengths below

Re: Brain drain: Where Cobol systems go from here

2012-05-23 Thread Frank Swarbrick
Only if you are an incompetent company... From: Ed Gould edgould1...@comcast.net To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2012 2:31 PM Subject: Brain drain: Where Cobol systems go from here Brain drain: Where Cobol systems go from here -When

Re: Brain drain: Where Cobol systems go from here

2012-05-23 Thread Thomas H Puddicombe
I'm almost old enough to admit I'm old. I remember a time when businesses would take the brightest young business minds they had, turn them over to folks like Steve (good teachers) for 90 days, and get back ... COBOL programmers who understood the business. Oddly enough, it was those 90-day

Re: Brain drain: Where Cobol systems go from here

2012-05-23 Thread Frank Swarbrick
Indeed, this is exactly what our company does.  Our newest COBOL victim/developer (g) was working in a non-IT part of the company.  I myself came from such a place.  As have a not insignificant number of our other COBOL programmers. From: Thomas H