Re: FYI LinkedIn passwords hacked

2012-06-08 Thread Clark Morris
mind explaining further what unsalted passwords are? Clark Morris -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Personal password policy was Re: FYI LinKEdln passwords hacked

2012-06-08 Thread Clark Morris
in LinkedIn, since I have no truly personal information there and at most a links to a VERY small group of friends on that site and on Facebook, is it worth bothering changing the password. Clark Morris -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe

Re: LE COBOL odd behavior

2012-06-06 Thread Clark Morris
the standard assumed that the file would remain somewhere. Clark Morris Scott ford www.identityforge.com On Jun 6, 2012, at 9:16 AM, McKown, John john.mck...@healthmarkets.com wrote: Did somebody change the LE options? That's all that I can think of. No, I don't know what the option(s) might

Re: How to leave ISPF

2012-05-27 Thread Clark Morris
(SYSOUT Z as I recall). Clark Morris -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

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: IBMLink outages in 2012

2012-05-21 Thread Clark Morris
On 20 May 2012 20:18:55 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: 24/7/265? That hurts, sounds more like my tyres. I'm the last to see my own errors. Hopefully it was obvious I meant 24/7/365 (or should that be 365.24?). Clark Morris MARK DOUGLAS -Original Message- From: IBM

Re: IBMLink outages in 2012

2012-05-21 Thread Clark Morris
for business needs? Clark Morris We need high availability for applications that enable us to effectively support our own high availability systems. This seems to be operational support for our System z hardware and software, reporting problems electronically, researching problem databases

Re: IBMLink outages in 2012

2012-05-20 Thread Clark Morris
platform is the best one for our critical applications. In short is this just a techy problem or is it also an image problem within the larger organization? Clark Morris Regards, Tom Conley -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff

Re: Servicelink, ETR and SR

2012-05-18 Thread Clark Morris
that availability, it casts doubt on IBM's claim to deliver that kind of reliability and availability. Most people interface with applications, not the base operating system and it is on those applications that they form their opinion of the platform. Clark Morris Thanks, Christian Christian Gilmore Senior

Is the Microsoft service operation more reliable? was Re: Servicelink, ETR and SR

2012-05-17 Thread Clark Morris
in this area both for those of you who like me have Windows on their home computers and for your organizations? I believe that I have always been able to get to the Microsoft fix and knowledge base sites. Clark Morris -- For IBM-MAIN

Re: CSVEDIT using COBOL

2012-05-14 Thread Clark Morris
used class in job statement. Am i write? So how does any of this relate to dealing with comma separated values using COBOL. I would expect discussions of UNSTRING and STRING versus the use of reference modification (FIELD-NAME (position length)). Clark Morris

Re: XPAF replacement

2012-05-11 Thread Clark Morris
on that issue? Clark Morris Best regards, Troy Wilson Technical Program Manager Alliance Partnership Management The Xerox Connection - TXC BGO / PSG / APM / TXC Xerox Corporation 555 S. Aviation Boulevard MS: ESM1-052 El Segundo, California 90245 Ph.: 310-333-6424 / Internal: 8*823-6424 FAX: 310-333-6560

Re: IBMLink Outage May 4-7

2012-05-02 Thread Clark Morris
of Service Link is always available. If I had the money I would bring this up at a shareholders meeting but the travel costs are too great for the low value to me personally. Clark Morris Jerry Whitteridge Lead Systems Programmer Safeway Inc. 925 951 4184 If you feel in control you just aren't

Re: IBMLink Outage May 4-7

2012-05-02 Thread Clark Morris
be If Microsoft can maintain continuous availability, why can't you?. Clark Morris MA -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: GO TO cobol

2012-04-29 Thread Clark Morris
V1R4. Clark Morris snip I wrote PERFORM READ-RECORD. PERFORM SOMETHING ELSE. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM

Re: GO TO cobol

2012-04-25 Thread Clark Morris
an hour off a compute bound program compiled with the COBOL VS compiler and which were detailed in an article by me in a 1991 or 1992 issue of Technical Support published by NaSPA would have to be revisited when moving to VS COBOL II V1R4 and later to reduce the CPU time further. Clark Morris

Re: A z/OS Redbook Corrected - just about!

2012-04-24 Thread Clark Morris
System Services), USS (Unformatted System Services), VTAM, SNA, TCPIP, SMS, RACF, CSI, CSI (guess why I used it TWICE), HCD, etc. etc. This is not forum about one persons idee fixe or fobia. Crime Scene Investigator checking out bad use of Catalog Search Interface? G.D. and R. Clark Morris

Re: GO TO cobol

2012-04-23 Thread Clark Morris
to do unnatural things in the code EXIT PARAGRAPH EXIT SECTION. I know I could have used them. Unfortunately many companies seem stuck on coding standards last updated for COBOL VS. Clark Morris PL/I is the archetypical; language that makes these facilities available

Re: Why does Enterprise COBOL V4.1 optimization complain about a PERFORM loop?

2012-04-23 Thread Clark Morris
a PERFORM. Clark Morris TIA for curing my ignorance. Peter PP 5655-S71 IBM Enterprise COBOL for z/OS 4.1.0 TESTGOTO Date 04/23/2012 Time 15 LineID PL SL +-*A-1-B--+2+3+4+5+6+7-|--+8 01 * PROPRIETARY COMMENT

Re: GO TO cobol

2012-04-22 Thread Clark Morris
TO statements and have the resulting program execute with the same or less CPU time. I am assuming that both the before and after versions are compiled with OPTIMIZE. Clark Morris -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: GO TO cobol

2012-04-21 Thread Clark Morris
the algorithms and doing obscure things that require good documentation for the poor soul who has to understand it six months in the future. Clark Morris -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email

Re: GO TO cobol

2012-04-18 Thread Clark Morris
PARAGRAPH and others. However if the majority of programmers remain actually or mentally stuck on the 1974 compiler, it probably would be a waste of money. Clark Morris Also, CICS used to treat the HANDLE CONDITION API as a GO TO, not a perform. Went to the Well in the early-mid 80's over

Re: GO TO cobol

2012-04-17 Thread Clark Morris
moved inline to eliminate the branching. The compiler could detect where a one byte field was initialized and never changed so it could use immediate instructions (MVI, CLI) when the field was used in a MOVE or COMPARE. Making sure all sequential files had BLOCK 0 coded also did wonders. Clark

Re: GO TO cobol

2012-04-17 Thread Clark Morris
where paragraphs can only be reached by PERFORM. In many cases the code for a PERFORM is actually the code for the paragraph being PERFORMED. Clark Morris But with GOTOless programming the logic is easier to read. There is no question about how you got somewhere. agreed

Re: GO TO cobol

2012-04-17 Thread Clark Morris
believe that GO TO can have an effect try compiling a program generated by CSP release 4 with all its GO TO statements with OPTIMIZE. If the module is large enough it can give the compiler real fits and chew CPU time unbelievably. Clark Morris As to the OP's belief about performance, structured

Re: GO TO cobol

2012-04-17 Thread Clark Morris
, just not in any IBM compiler. Add it to the list of SHARE requirements for functions that exist in the 2002 standard. Clark Morris -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu

Re: GO TO cobol

2012-04-17 Thread Clark Morris
and -- I've seen many programs without a single period. How they work is beyond my comprehension. Of course, a paragraph name does imply a period. All paragraphs have to end with a period. Clark Morris

Re: GO TO cobol

2012-04-16 Thread Clark Morris
V1R4 through Enterprise COBOL. Unfortunately our shops probably are in just a maintenance mode regarding COBOL and would have no interest in taking advantage of the efficiencies in coding and performance associated with the newer constructs in the 2002 COBOL standard. Clark Morris

Re: GO TO cobol

2012-04-16 Thread Clark Morris
and when the IF statement nesting becomes too complex you can move an IF ... END-IF pair into a separate paragraph with little or no performance penalty due to code movement and the simplified PERFORM code if you eliminate GO TO statements. Clark Morris

Re: Modernizing the BCP code ?

2012-04-13 Thread Clark Morris
through +999,999,999. TRUN(BIN) always has been fiasco. Clark Morris -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Modernizing the BCP code ?

2012-04-13 Thread Clark Morris
records, I needed USAGE BIT and the various native binary usages contained in the 2002 standard in the 1960s, 1970s and beyond. Clark Morris Cheers, TomR COBOL is the Language of the Future! -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe

Re: Malicious Software Protection

2012-03-31 Thread Clark Morris
not require machine language executable code. Clark Morris Bill Fairchild -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Greg Dorner Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2012 11:38 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Malicious Software

Re: Backlevel IPCS issue at z/OS 1.13

2012-03-10 Thread Clark Morris
routines from that or prior eras don't violate TC. Clark Morris Be very, very careful here, folks. There are only a few simple rules. Follow them, please. Timothy Sipples Resident Enterprise

Re: JCL example to relink a CSECT into an existing load module

2012-03-08 Thread Clark Morris
that can trigger recompiles based on copybook changes, that is probably the way to go. The other choice is to scan the source library for all instances of COPY BA4C1426 and generate the compile jobs for these programs. Clark Morris Thanks, Tim Zielke CICS/MQ Systems Programmer Aon Hewitt

Re: Program FLIH backdoor - This is a criminal breach of security!

2012-03-06 Thread Clark Morris
) routine itself but also in the caller What caller? It might not be the intended caller. Of course, I meant the intended caller. Unintended callers can't successfully use the service. How does the system verify that the caller is the intended caller versus an impostor? Clark Morris

Re: Originality (was: Duplicating SYSOUT ...)

2012-03-01 Thread Clark Morris
. However, I'm just a bumped up DOS360 COBOL payroll programmer, not a lawyer. Clark Morris - Original Message - From: Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) shmuel+ibm-m...@patriot.net To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Sent: Thursday, March 1, 2012 9:52:04 AM Subject: Re: Originality (was: Duplicating SYSOUT

Re: Originality (was: Duplicating SYSOUT ...)

2012-02-29 Thread Clark Morris
see a judge or a lawyer asking why samples were distributed in a manner that said they were examples if they weren't to be copied and modified as needed. Clark Morris Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin

Re: Archaic allocation in JCL (Was: Physical record size query)

2012-02-18 Thread Clark Morris
the CA size I want. Of course if allocation is in millions of anything, that caveat doesn't matter (or have they changed VSAM so a CA can be larger than a cylinder?). Clark Morris -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: z/OS Feeding SolarWinds

2012-02-18 Thread Clark Morris
otherwise. Because they __know__ that Windows always works correctly! Don't they read the details that come with the Microsoft updates and don't look at knowledge base entries. There is a wealth of information available at the Microsoft web-site for anyone who cares to take the effort. Clark Morris

Re: NASA closes it's last mainframe

2012-02-14 Thread Clark Morris
. Support for scientific and compute intensive application probably has not kept up on the mainframe. Clark Morris Sent from my iPad Scott Ford Senior Systems Engineer www.identityforge.com On Feb 13, 2012, at 1:48 PM, Bob Shannon bshan...@rocketsoftware.com wrote: One of my favorite SHARE

Re: NASA closes it's last mainframe

2012-02-12 Thread Clark Morris
and MVS, I hate to see this happen but it may be an intelligent decision. Clark Morris *Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable. - Original Message - From: Dave Day david...@consolidated.net To: IBM-MAIN

Re: Why can't the track format be changed? (was: Physical record size query)

2012-02-07 Thread Clark Morris
them on CKD devices. Clark Morris -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: OT: Backup drives for a PC

2012-02-01 Thread Clark Morris
On 21 Jan 2012 02:43:39 -0800, in bit.listserv.ibm-main Radoslaw wrote: W dniu 2012-01-21 03:13, Clark Morris pisze: [...] Both my wife and I are adding family pictures so that is part of the reason for the capacity. In response to Radoslaw, I am getting the second drive so that I can rotate

IPLs and system maintenance was Re: PDSE

2012-01-21 Thread Clark Morris
was that the operator would institute a simple procedure at a specific time with no outage. I think at one time IBM owned a computer company (Sequent?) that claimed to be able to do the same thing. I know that I was impressed by the Tandem capability. Clark Morris

OT: Backup drives for a PC

2012-01-20 Thread Clark Morris
the additional price for this usage. I am assuming that better shock protection is given the hard drive in the portable versions. Clark Morris -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists

Re: OT: Backup drives for a PC

2012-01-20 Thread Clark Morris
On 20 Jan 2012 10:32:32 -0800, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: In 7f9jh753g211qjd3n3it85al7bd8buv...@4ax.com, on 01/20/2012 at 01:40 PM, Clark Morris cfmpub...@ns.sympatico.ca said: I have an external 2 terabyte hard drive that I use as a back up device by plugging it into each of the two

Re: AutoCoder

2012-01-18 Thread Clark Morris
to 705/7080 Autocoder, I had the feeling that it was more sophisticated than the 360 Assembler, especially in the Macro area. Clark Morris 360/165 machines Do you mean 360/65or 370/165? -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff

Re: Internal text

2012-01-17 Thread Clark Morris
are now twenty plus years old and has questions please feel free to e-mail me at either cfmpub...@ns.sympatico.ca or cfmt...@uniserve.com. Clark Morris Graham Hobbs - Original Message - From: Clark Morris cfmpub...@ns.sympatico.ca Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main To: IBM-MAIN

Re: Internal text

2012-01-07 Thread Clark Morris
amount of parsing of the JOB and DD cards to among other things set the JOBCLASS in the JCT. While the exit is over 20 years old, it still should be useful as one way to handle parsing. Clark Morris Initial testing indicates the INTTXT presents the parameter in the order specified in the JCL

Re: removing nulls from a file

2011-12-30 Thread Clark Morris
any utility capable of translating UTF-16 to UTF-8. I believe that iconv will work. COBOL can handle with USAGE NATIONAL. Just describe the fields correctly. See the manual for details. Clark Morris -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe

Re: Eight-character TSO Userid Support

2011-12-24 Thread Clark Morris
with a case for it being worth doing. The name limitations don't seem to be present in the Unix/Linux and Windows environments and both may use Unicode for at least some of the names. File names also may need to be reviewed. The fun will be the transition. Clark Morris

Re: IBM SR availability problems

2011-12-14 Thread Clark Morris
anything. Have you ever had similar problems with the Microsoft Update, accessing Microsoft Download sites, the Microsoft Knowledge Base (all sorts of information about Microsoft fixes and updates), or Microsoft purchase site? Clark Morris Regards. Linda - Original Message - From

Re: Java apps have most flaws, Cobol is cleanest.

2011-12-08 Thread Clark Morris
do COBOL programmers. As one who doesn't have that degree, I am skeptical of its value for most business programming. Clark Morris (If the link does not fold right, follow the links from here: http://www.cicsworld.com/node/4252) Ian http://www.cicsworld.com

Re: Last use date of a PDS member

2011-12-04 Thread Clark Morris
to any of the exits to catch up with the newer facilities since the JES3 exit dates back to the 1980's and the JES2 exit to 1990. Clark Morris - Ted MacNEIL eamacn...@yahoo.ca Twitter: @TedMacNEIL -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe

Re: ShopZ Down?

2011-11-08 Thread Clark Morris
need point of view, the number of outages makes IBM look unreliable and not living up to their ads for z. Clark Morris -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu

OT measures was Re: Out damn'd GMT ...

2011-11-04 Thread Clark Morris
. As far as I know, the US is the only country that still uses the 16 oz pint. Of course, it may also be the only non-metric country left, as well. Canada may be officially metric but I am looking at an advertisement for meat at $4.99 a pound at my local grocery here in Nova Scotia, Canada. Clark

Re: Lines per page - IDCAMS output

2011-10-26 Thread Clark Morris
have FDRABR, you have very powerful tool for listing catalogs or disk datasets. Also check the CBT tape. IDCAMS is a very poorly designed listing. Clark Morris -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send

Re: Cobol dynamic file allocation using SETENV and C run time environment

2011-10-20 Thread Clark Morris
to setenv and solve the problem? Clark Morris Cheers, TomR COBOL is the Language of the Future! -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message

Re: Looking for clues on a bug in assembler

2011-10-16 Thread Clark Morris
that doesn't happen at close (or some other thing that I didn't expect. Refreshing the DCB between CLOSE and OPEN seems like an excellent idea on general principles. Clark Morris Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Don Poitras

Re: Fairwell to a Friend

2011-10-09 Thread Clark Morris
On 9 Oct 2011 06:34:13 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: On 10/8/2011 12:19 PM, Rick Fochtman wrote: Received from another list: -- To those who new him: Gilbert Sain-Flour passed away

Re: OT to my collegues

2011-09-30 Thread Clark Morris
into asking if you have read the manual and now that we can get the IBM manuals on-line it is easier. I just wish the other vendors were as open. Clark Morris Rick -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions

Re: OT to my collegues

2011-09-30 Thread Clark Morris
how a DVI connector worked. Clark Morris Scott J Ford Software Engineer http://www.identityforge.com   From: Edward Jaffe edja...@phoenixsoftware.com To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Sent: Thursday, September 29, 2011 4:54 PM Subject: Re: OT to my collegues On 9/29

Re: Security Certificate error message at IBMLINK

2011-09-26 Thread Clark Morris
it be hosted on z? An interested shareholder wants to know. Clark Morris Linda - Original Message - From: Skip Robinson jo.skip.robin...@sce.com To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Sent: Monday, September 26, 2011 1:50:38 PM Subject: Re: Security Certificate error message at IBMLINK I've been

Re: FORCE ARM

2011-09-24 Thread Clark Morris
to do with allow resource managers is more likely. It might be a good idea to add a NOARM parameter because FORCE,ARM is less dangerous than FORCE and then have FORCE,NORARM mean what the current FORCE means. Then if just FORCE is issued, have a prompt for ARM or NOARM. Clark Morris Peter

Re: OT Microsoft Cloud Services has rainy day

2011-09-22 Thread Clark Morris
, don't bet on IBM not being vulnerable to a similar problem. Clark Morris -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search

Re: CSP

2011-08-25 Thread Clark Morris
On 24 Aug 2011 23:19:14 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: Clark Morris asks: Does EGL generate any better code than the awful spaghetti GO TO laden COBOL code of CSP? Do not look directly into the sun. :-) Kind of missing the point. Generated code isn't supposed to be pretty

Re: CSP

2011-08-24 Thread Clark Morris
worth doing (functionally and financially), not to mention that Cross System Product (CSP) is out of support. Does EGL generate any better code than the awful spaghetti GO TO laden COBOL code of CSP? Clark Morris

Re: Security is fun in the PC world....

2011-08-19 Thread Clark Morris
/OS and z/Linux (Eclipse, Websphere, etc.)? Since Internet Explorer and Firefox have reported exposures on the client side, I would assume that the various web servers can have holes. Clark Morris Ed -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe

Re: Security is fun in the PC world....

2011-08-18 Thread Clark Morris
On 18 Aug 2011 14:00:39 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: --snip This person had a user-id and password with privileges. Think of the harm someone with a system programmers id and privileges can do. For those of

Re: Security is fun in the PC world....

2011-08-17 Thread Clark Morris
you there are a number of Unix and Windows shops that take it very seriously. How quickly do mainframe shops apply the PTF's for integrity APARs? How quickly do the other environments apply the comparable fixes? Clark Morris Ed

Re: SHARE Attendance

2011-08-15 Thread Clark Morris
to get to dinner and back before it ended. Given that the Thursday SCIDS used to go until 1 AM with the singalong at 10 or 10:30 what was the reasoning behind the earlier hour? At age 72 was it because of people who are getting close to my age? Clark Morris

JES3 and SNA NJE was Re: BDT and PDSEs

2011-08-08 Thread Clark Morris
requirement still rankles. Clark Morris From: John Eells ee...@us.ibm.com To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Sent: Tue, June 14, 2011 9:17:03 AM Subject: Re: BDT and PDSEs Fair points. However, there are two things I want to mention: First, let me note that BDT, in its new incarnation as z/OS elements

Space allocation needs to change was Re: Growing an extent (was: Creating a multi-volume ...)

2011-08-08 Thread Clark Morris
and increment. One way to do that might be to honor the OUTLIM parameter for all data sets. Clark Morris -- gil -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message

Re: Space allocation needs to change was Re: Growing an extent

2011-08-08 Thread Clark Morris
the requirement and justification. Clark Morris Rick -- 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 http

Re: musings on listing a catalog

2011-08-03 Thread Clark Morris
and smell in SYS1.SAMPLIB(IGG*) for a nice start. Can it be used with a simple COBOL CALL IGGCSI00 USING parameter-1, parameter-2 ...? Clark Morris Quote from 'DFSMS Managing Catalogs': Catalog Search Interface (CSI) is a read-only general-use programming interface that is used to obtain information

Re: Servicelink

2011-07-30 Thread Clark Morris
they are working on it. It would be very interesting to get the availability figures for service link. Clark Morris Barbara -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu

Re: An upbeat story

2011-06-14 Thread Clark Morris
a pre-disposition against the mainframe. I suspect that it is because the university/4 year college curriculum may not do much to prepare people for business programming. Also Computer Science graduates may want and get more money. Clark Morris Do you remember Neodata up in Boulder, Frank

Re: retraction ...

2011-06-11 Thread Clark Morris
is better. The name Glen Chatfield comes to mind. My shop had a Dusquene Systems product in the performance area on MVT. Clark Morris Ed Ps MIM was really an excellent product and while not totally bug free it was top shelf Sent from my iPad On Jun 10, 2011, at 1:52 PM, Knutson, Sam sknut

Re: DCBs and DCBEs - Could IBM have done it any worse?

2011-06-09 Thread Clark Morris
still set) it would ABEND/0cx. The only way to avoid this is to unset the flags that would cause the pointer to be referenced. I omitted the :-) to save bandwidth. How hard would it be for IBM to allow use of the ACB for QSAM data sets? BSAM? BPAM? PDSE? BDAM? Clark Morris Tony H

Re: ShopZ

2011-05-23 Thread Clark Morris
, October 24th at 12:00 AM MDT / 06:00 GMT. Haven't the IBMLINK and ShopZ heard about the ability of z to do 24/7/365.24 availability? Reading about these things is embarrassing. Clark Morris Bob Shannon -- For IBM-MAIN

Re: IBMLINK Planned Outage Today

2011-05-21 Thread Clark Morris
Microsoft's problem handling system (Windows Update and access to the knowledge Base of known problems and other interesting information) have any outages or are they able to be 24/7/365.24? Clark Morris -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe

IT Auditors was Re: Mixing Auth and Non-Auth Modules

2011-04-27 Thread Clark Morris
on a single CPU (global only) rather than JES2. In our conversation with him before the report, he seemed to think lack of security was rather common. Clark Morris Perhaps this is a bit off topic, but I have yet to encounter an IT auditor I could trust. At my very first job I was in a small shop

Re: zIIPs and zAAPs

2011-03-27 Thread Clark Morris
On 26 Mar 2011 15:42:24 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: On 3/24/2011 1:19 PM, Clark Morris wrote: On 19 Mar 2011 06:55:11 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: So (once again) the tech support bods (vendor and customer) are dancing around on egg-shells trying to accommodate

Re: zIIPs and zAAPs

2011-03-24 Thread Clark Morris
security and which causes effort to be made just to save money. The effect may be to have people look at platform movement if they are going to have to rewrite/replace software to save money anyway. Clark Morris Nothing novel there. Shane ... Note that this is not an LPAR limit. An individual

Re: SR might be palatable if (part 4, Multilingual)

2011-03-23 Thread Clark Morris
to have something that is as user surly, error ridden and with periodic unavailability as this. My experience with the Microsoft support sites is better. Clark Morris, retired systems and applications programmer This is probably not much of interest to native English speakers, since you're

QSAM I/O and 31 bit was Re: Opening a Spanned File for Input Using Assembler

2011-03-08 Thread Clark Morris
possibly out of date talents, this does not constitute a customer request. However it does express contempt for the idea that people have to fool around with 24/31 bit peculiarities in 2011 and that it will probably get worse with 64 bit. Lack of strategy strikes again. Clark Morris TITLE

Re: Java performance (was Re: SMF data question)

2011-03-08 Thread Clark Morris
looking at the code below my comment is And they complain about COBOL being verbose. Clark Morris public class RecordFieldAverage { private long nRecs = 0; private long total = 0; private long min = 0; private long max = 0; public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception { String ddname

Re: IBM Service Request Issue

2011-02-17 Thread Clark Morris
? Was the wrong product/process scrapped and should SR have been sent to the dump? Clark Morris Christopher Y. Blaicher Senior Software Developer Austin Development Lab phone: 512.340.6154 mobile: 512.627.3803 fax: 512.340.6647 10431 Morado Circle Austin, TX 78759 -Original Message- From

WSJ.com - Coming Next: A Supercomputer Saves Your Life

2011-02-05 Thread Clark Morris
*Please note, the sender's email address has not been verified. This article and its companion are another take on the IBM Jeopardy contest. In the companion article see what you think of the buzzer rule. If you are having trouble with any of the links in this

Re: z/OS Virus Checker zLinux Virus Checker

2011-01-30 Thread Clark Morris
injection work against DB2? Clark Morris The 3rd place I look for mainframe malware is in the parmlibs, JCL, macros, utilities and such. DASD utilities can erase the entire storage pool if corrupted. Who can update these libraries? Are they subject to stringent change control procedures

Re: 64 bit mode disabled

2010-12-03 Thread Clark Morris
of thing that is known at the systems programming techie level but not the buying level. Clark Morris Tom Harper Neon Enterprise Software Sugar Land, TX -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Martin Packer Sent: Thursday, December 02

Re: 64 bit mode disabled

2010-12-03 Thread Clark Morris
a contract and now it is mainly a hobby and ongoing interest. Clark Morris -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search

Re: 64 bit mode disabled

2010-12-03 Thread Clark Morris
they do not have these instructions? What is the minimum z/OS level for Enterprise COBOL 4.2? The level set for the operating system level should be used by the compiler. Clark Morris IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu wrote on 12/02/2010 10:38:06 AM: From: Clark Morris cfmpub

Re: best method to completely list all cataloged data sets

2010-12-02 Thread Clark Morris
and the aliases, then only list the HLQs in the catalogs that the aliases in the master catalog pointed to. If I were bothering to list all catalog entries, I would want two lists - the good entries and the bad ones. Getting rid of garbage and confusion is goodness. Clark Morris Mark

Re: 64 bit mode disabled

2010-12-02 Thread Clark Morris
that this will not happen soon; and this was entirely predictable: reactionary, pathologically risk-averse institutional behavior is characteristic--I had almost written the defining characteristic--of many mainframe shops. Please convince the COBOL compiler developers of this need. Clark Morris John Gilmore

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

2010-12-01 Thread Clark Morris
On 30 Nov 2010 07:42:00 -0800, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Clark Morris Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 2010 9:27 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: A New Threat for password

Re: A New Threat for password hacking

2010-11-30 Thread Clark Morris
of code points for many of the characters. Also how many passwords do you have to remember? Clark Morris -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of McKown, John Sent: Monday, November 29, 2010 10:58 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject

Re: IEFBR14

2010-11-28 Thread Clark Morris
predecessors as well as successors such as DYL280? Clark Morris 2. While not an IBM employee he made the MVS/XA announcement in France for IBM. I doubt the original was named IEHBR14. Meet the guy at a party put on by a Candle coworker of mine in 83, Brian Ball, who was announcing his engagement

Re: zOS messages.. totally true... almost totally useless

2010-11-22 Thread Clark Morris
erroneous value, statement number, etc.) is aparable and maybe automatically escalates at 6 month intervals. Clark Morris W. Kevin Kelley -- IBM POK Lab -- z/OS Core Technical Development -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff

Re: Why are TSO IDs limited to 7 characters

2010-11-05 Thread Clark Morris
in some cases (such as in the TSO logon if I recall correctly). Step names and proc names also have the inhibition. Clark Morris I believe RACF will allow creating an OMVS segment with an 8-character ID, compatible with prevalent institutional IDs. What would happen if a user with such an ID

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