That is certainly interesting. Enterprise COBOL 4.2 (and prior!) usually do a
dynamic allocation of SYSOUT if there is no JCL allocation. I have run in to
cases where the dynamic allocation fails because the attempt to do it is being
done in an I/O error routine. I can't recall offhand the
Only if you are an incompetent company...
From: Ed Gould edgould1...@comcast.net
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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
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
Unimportant question, probably, but I've long wondered... What exactly does
lpp stand for in this instance?
Frank
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On 5/4/2012 4:02 PM, Frank Swarbrick wrote:
Unimportant question, probably, but I've long wondered... What exactly does
lpp stand for in this instance?
I have long assumed it stood for 'licensed program products'. But I know not
for sure...
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I know little about nothing in this regard, but given a zBx with an Intel
processor (that, along with POWER7, is available right?), I can't see why you'd
have to recompile anything. And in fact, could you not run Windows, Linux for
Intel, and Solaris for Intel on zBx? Wouldn't you just be
I know of the NULLOUT and NULLOFL options to specify return code setting if
there are no records to be written to the output file. I'm wondering if there
is any option I can specify so that the SORTOUT file will not even be opened if
there are no records to be written to it. Basically, I want
IF LASTCC = 4
THEN SET MAXCC=0
Oh well!
Thanks again,
Frank
From: Frank Yaeger yae...@us.ibm.com
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2012 11:38 AM
Subject: Re: DFSORT, no records for SORTOUT
Frank Swarbrick at IBM Mainframe
. MAXIMUM CONDITION CODE WAS 0
Exactly what I was looking for. Thanks Bill!!
Frank
From: Frank Swarbrick frank.swarbr...@yahoo.com
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2012 12:16 PM
Subject: Re: DFSORT, no records for SORTOUT
That works
19, 2012 4:30 PM
Subject: Re: DFSORT, no records for SORTOUT
On Thu, 19 Apr 2012 10:22:56 -0700, Frank Swarbrick
frank.swarbr...@yahoo.com wrote:
I know of the NULLOUT and NULLOFL options to specify return code setting if
there are no records to be written to the output file. I'm
wondering
Whomever it was that invented the entire COND construct in JCL was severely
demented; with the ABENDCC options being only a small part of it!
:-(
From: Joel C. Ewing jcew...@acm.org
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2012 11:25 AM
Subject:
I have the following job (cut down to include only the relevant parts):
//VAPPROC4 JOB
//BACKUP1 EXEC PROC=SORTBKUP,COND=(4,LT)
//EP4IN EXEC PROC=EP4IN,COND=(4,LT)
//E4INPRT EXEC PROC=E4INPRT
//
The EP4IN PROC is a vendor supplied proc as follows:
//EP4IN PROC
//STEP01 EXEC
(yes, with COND)
On 04/18/2012 12:43 PM, Frank Swarbrick wrote:
I have the following job (cut down to include only the relevant parts):
//VAPPROC4 JOB
//BACKUP1 EXEC PROC=SORTBKUP,COND=(4,LT)
//EP4IN EXEC PROC=EP4IN,COND=(4,LT)
//E4INPRT EXEC PROC=E4INPRT
//
The EP4IN PROC
Haha, I think there were GCC projects for both COBOL and PL/I, but both are
stagnate (and probably incomplete).
One can still dream, though!
Frank
From: McKown, John john.mck...@healthmarkets.com
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Sent: Friday, April 13, 2012 12:53 PM
: Modernizing the BCP code ?
http://www.opencobol.org/
HTH
Peter
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Sent: Friday, April 13, 2012 4:07 PM
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Subject: Re: Modernizing the BCP code ?
Haha, I think
:38:26 -0700
From: Frank Swarbrick frank.swarbr...@yahoo.com
Subject: Re: PL/I with variable PLISTs (was: LE C calling HLASM)
Hmmm Have you (or anyone) actually verified that this works? I just
wrote
the following programs:
identification division
According to Tom Ross (of IBM COBOL development) at SHARE last year, they are
working on migrating the back end to the same one that PL/I uses. (And I am
assuming the same one some of the other languages also use.)
No idea if that would fix COBOL arithmetic.
Frank
- Original Message
I actually checked that. The code is slightly different, but I don't see that
it's much better.
01 FULLWORD-SORTOF PIC S9(9) BINARY VALUE +9.
09 ADD 100 TO FULLWORD-SORTOF
000354 GN=16
I wonder if this would work:
declare THEFUNCTION entry returns(fixed bin) options(nodescriptor,
linkage(system), fetchable);
result = THEFUNCTION(magic, parm1, parm2);
result = THEFUNCTION(magic, parm1, parm2, parm3, parm4);
Frank
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From: Phil Smith
Thanks.
Steve Comstock's method does work, in any case.
Frank
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From: Victor Gil victor@broadridge.com
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Cc:
Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2012 1:59 PM
Subject: Re: PL/I with variable PLISTs (was: LE C calling HLASM)
Frank,
I just
and Health Insurance Company.SM
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Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2012 1:07 PM
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Subject: Re: Modernizing the BCP code ?
I actually checked
Subject: Re: PL/I with variable PLISTs (was: LE C calling HLASM)
On 4/10/2012 4:33 PM, Frank Swarbrick wrote:
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From: Phil Smithp...@voltage.com
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Cc:
Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2012 3:31 PM
Subject: Re: PL/I with variable PLISTs (was: LE C
Hmmm Have you (or anyone) actually verified that this works? I just wrote
the following programs:
identification division.
program-id. callopt.
data division.
working-storage
Subject: Re: PL/I with variable PLISTs
On 4/11/2012 11:38 AM, Frank Swarbrick wrote:
Hmmm Have you (or anyone) actually verified that this works? I just
wrote the following programs:
identification division.
program-id. callopt.
data division.
working-storage section
That does, indeed, work. And it's also as fugly as h*ck. :-)
Thanks Steve.
Frank
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Cc:
Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2012 12:55 PM
Subject: Re: PL/I with variable PLISTs
Sorry, Victor's
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From: Steve Comstock st...@trainersfriend.com
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Cc:
Sent: Saturday, April 7, 2012 8:46 AM
Subject: Re: Enterprise COBOL and XML attributes
On 4/6/2012 5:29 PM, Frank Swarbrick wrote:
Enterprise COBOL v4.2.
First real
world
I only happened to learn PL/I this weekend, so take this with a grain of salt,
but can't you activate THEFUNCTION with a call rather than as a function in
order to be able to use LINKAGE(SYSTEM)? And then use PLIRETV() in order to
get the return code?
declare THEFUNCTION entry options(ASM
I don't know if this is relevant, but I was looking at the PL/I DL/I (IMS)
interface (PLITDLI) and noticed that they actually have to pass, as the first
parameter, a fullword containing the remaining number of items! Crazy!
For example, in COBOL you say:
call 'CBLTDLI' using ghnp, pcb-mask,
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From: Phil Smith p...@voltage.com
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Cc:
Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2012 3:31 PM
Subject: Re: PL/I with variable PLISTs (was: LE C calling HLASM)
Bernd Oppolzer wrote:
I don't know if it helps you, but using C I would code the two calls
of the parameters
is fixed
(see also my GDDM example on the other post). This is not required by
any OS convention,
at least that's my understanding.
Kind regards
Bernd
Am 11.04.2012 00:19, schrieb Frank Swarbrick:
I don't know if this is relevant, but I was looking at the PL/I DL/I
(IMS
We don't have PL/I in our shop (I downloaded an old trial version of
VisualAge PL/I for Windows to play with at home), but it seems to me that one
MIGHT be able to do the following for PL/I to call DL/I:
declare CEETDLI entry linkage(SYSTEM);
or perhaps
declare CEETDLI entry(char(4), *, *, *,
Enterprise COBOL v4.2.
First real
world attempt at using XML GENERATE. Works as designed, and relatively
user friendly, but not particularly flexible for real world
requirements.
XML
GENERATE will generate no fields as attributes unless with WITH
ATTRIBUTES phrase is specified. In that
, Frank Swarbrick wrote:
Several good ideas given.
My sysprog installed BLSR and I got very good results:
Without BLSR:
-
-TIMINGS
(MINS.)--
-PAGING COUNTS
-STEPNAME
PROCSTEP RC EXCP
CONN
TCB SRB
CLOCK SERV
WORKLOAD PAGE
That was our original thought, but since we have to open it as I-O it wouldn't
work for us. Well, not without shareoptions 4.
Thanks!
Frank
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From: Chip Grantham cgrant...@ameritas.com
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Sent: Wednesday, April 4, 2012 9:37 AM
Tested with DEFERW=YES (that is the proper syntax, by the way. Commas are
optional.)
It didn't gain me much, as I am only updating 32 of 61459 records, so I'm not
going to worry about it at this time.
With BLSR DEFERW=YES:
CSR020I BUFSI=1024, BUFSD=20480, BUFNI=10, BUFND=256, HBUFNI=0,
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From:
Frank Swarbrick frank.swarbr
Current program does the following (in COBOL!).
- Opens KSDS for I-O
- Sequentially processes another file (non-VSAM).
- For each record in the non-VSAM file it attempts a random (keyed) read of a
record on the KSDS file. The key is, essentially, a concatenation of a record
type code ('4' or
your while to investigate it. See the JCL Reference manual for
the parameters to use.
HTH
Peter
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Frank Swarbrick
Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2012 5:24 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Subject: VSAM
wanted for random reads
Run the 4's then run the 5's. It can't be that simple.
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Frank Swarbrick
Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2012 4:24 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Subject: VSAM help wanted
Several good ideas given.
My sysprog installed BLSR and I got very good results:
Without BLSR:
-
-TIMINGS
(MINS.)--
-PAGING COUNTS
-STEPNAME
PROCSTEP RC EXCP
CONN
TCB SRB
CLOCK SERV
) OUTFILE(MYFILE)
/*
Frank
From: Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Sent: Friday, February 24, 2012 8:06 PM
Subject: Re: Thought: new DISP status function
On Fri, 24 Feb 2012 15:48:57 -0800, Frank Swarbrick wrote:
I'm
using your method?
Thanks,
Frank
From: Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Sent: Friday, February 24, 2012 12:24 AM
Subject: Re: Thought: new DISP status function
On Thu, 23 Feb 2012 13:44:18 -0800, Frank Swarbrick wrote:
I'd much
I like it.
John: What would your expectation be if the characteristics of the existing
dataset were different than those specified on the DD. SPACE and the like.
Would this new parm alter the characteristics as specified on the DD, or would
they say the same?
Frank
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Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2012 3:30 PM
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Mainframe Discussion List
[mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Frank Swarbrick
Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2012 3:44 PM
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Subject: Re: Thought: new DISP status function
I'd much prefer the latter, but of course have no idea how
much work it would be.
What
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List
[mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Frank Swarbrick
Sent: Thursday, February 23, 2012 4:07 PM
To: IBM
How many transactions am I going to post today? How many on Monday. What
about Tuesday after a three day weekend? What about Tuesday on a 3 day weekend
4 years from now?
Each transactions is 100 bytes. We save the transactions for a year. We are
a brand new bank that has not yet processed
Variable length records?
From: Scott Ford scott_j_f...@yahoo.com
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Sent: Friday, February 17, 2012 8:59 AM
Subject: Re: Archaic allocation in JCL (Was: Physical record size query)
Gil,
Worked with a math phd for a bunch of yrs and he
2012 13:46:12 -0800, Frank Swarbrick wrote:
How many transactions am I going to post today? How many on Monday. What
about Tuesday after a three day weekend? What about Tuesday on a 3 day
weekend 4 years from now?
Each transactions is 100 bytes. We save the transactions for a year. We
But who has the responsibility? This seems something that a system programmer,
with some good analysis tools, should do. Or the system itself should be such
that it can do it's own analysis. After all, is that not what computers are
for?
Frank
From:
, Feb 16, 2012 at 2:04 AM, Frank Swarbrick
frank.swarbr...@yahoo.comwrote:
We are a CICS shop with IMS DB (DBCTL), but I've been curious for a while
about the differences between how CICS works and how IMS TM works. I
couldn't find anything on the web. Anyone have a link to a good reference
That's not just a suggestion. It's a requirement. If you compile a CICS COBOL
program with DYNAM the compile and link (bind) may succeed, but the program
will not execute properly under CICS. (Not sure I've actually ever tried it,
but I can't imagine any other result based on the
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Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2012 5:28 PM
Subject: Re: CICS vs IMS
On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 11:44 AM, Frank Swarbrick
frank.swarbr...@yahoo.com wrote:
deleted
1) How does BMS compare to MFS. Power, flexibility, ease of use.
Pretty similar. One run to create a binary map, one run
We are a CICS shop with IMS DB (DBCTL), but I've been curious for a while about
the differences between how CICS works and how IMS TM works. I couldn't find
anything on the web. Anyone have a link to a good reference?
Thanks,
Frank
Are you sure you are a mainframer?
From: Thomas Berg thomas.b...@swedbank.se
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Sent: Monday, February 13, 2012 4:27 AM
Subject: Archaic allocation in JCL (Was: Physical record size query)
I can't understand why we STILL need to
We do this. And while it somewhat simplifies things, it doesn't eliminate the
requirement of determining how much storage is required. It just moves it, and
gives a set of sizes, rather than infinite granularity.
We have the following SMS data classes:
DATACLAS AVGREC PRIMARY SECONDARY
If you specify a default data class in this manner does this negate the
requirement for both SPACE and DATACLAS?
Sounds good to me!
Frank
From: Vernooij, CP - SPLXM kees.verno...@klm.com
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Sent: Monday, February 13, 2012 6:43 AM
I am having a hard time seeing this type of rationality put forth. It's
throwing me for a loop. It's been a peeve of mine since I started on
mainframes 15+ years ago. I'm used to hearing it's your application; you
figure out how much space it will require, both now and 10 years down the
Might it be nice to have something other than the LNKLST that behaves as sort
of a global JOBLIB? I'm specifically referring to for batch jobs, but I
imagine it would be useful for TSO as well. In this could be specified those
libraries that don't need much of what LNKLST provides (don't ask
Iowa State University
515-294-3088
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zMan
Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2011 1:48 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Subject: Re: removing nulls from a file
On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 1:18 PM, Frank
I agree, it looks like the original file is encoded in small-endian UTF-16.
If the file is generated on a Windows system and there's no way to change the
creating software to use UTF-8 or an ASCII code page (I'm betting there is, if
one looks hard enough) you can probably use Windows Notepad to
Argh.
Why *wouldn't* you want to edit a file using FileAid in TSO. That's what it's
for! If it can't handle doing what it is built to do then perhaps there is
something wrong with the tool.
How does disallowing concurrent logons force one to not do this? Or is it just
punishment? If you
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Sent: Friday, December 9, 2011 5:00 PM
Subject: Re: Java apps have most flaws, Cobol is cleanest.
On 12/9/2011 4:48 PM, Frank Swarbrick wrote:
Kind of a non sequitur. COBOL programs (I am a COBOL programmer) do little
in the way of dynamic allocation, thus no GC required
ALLOCATE and FREE are part of the 2002 COBOL international standard (ISO/IEC
1989:2002); a standard which IBM has made no commitment to implement...
While certainly useful if you would like to build linked lists, I personally
would much prefer dynamic-length tables and dynamic-length strings.
Kind of a non sequitur. COBOL programs (I am a COBOL programmer) do little in
the way of dynamic allocation, thus no GC required. (Not that I wouldn't like
some dynamic allocation in COBOL...)
Frank
From: Barry Merrill ba...@mxg.com
To:
Can DFSORT be used to do the following?
File 1 contains all records to be placed in the output.
File 2 contains only some records with the same key.
If the record is in file 2, then the output record should contain information
from two fields in file 2.
Otherwise the output record should contain
Very cool. I obviously had no understanding of what the ? option was really to
be used for. :-)
Now I have the following, that at a glance appears to be working
//SYMNAMES DD *
CHR-PAN-ACCOUNT,6,19,CH
CHR-PIC-CNT,1223,1,PD
CHR-ISSUE-CNT,1224,1,PD
Sounds good to me. Are you going to propose it?
From: Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Sent: Monday, November 28, 2011 6:48 PM
Subject: Re: SETTING CONDITION CODE
On Mon, 28 Nov 2011 17:17:13 -0800, Frank Swarbrick
frank.swarbr
Now that's a nice enhancement. This, along with the allowing of instream
datasets in a PROC, gives me hope that IBM is open to further improvements to
JCL!
Frank
From: Jack Schudel j...@nersp.cns.ufl.edu
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Sent: Monday, November
FWIW, COBOL can now call by value, if desired.
given:
int cfunc (int x, double x, struct t *p);
do this:
call 'cfunc' using value cobol-fullword cobol-double
reference cobol-structure
returning ret-fullword
Frank
From:
This does not work going the other direction. If it were available it would
properly be named SBRECVEOL, or something similar; but the fact is it is not an
available option.
From: Farley, Peter x23353 peter.far...@broadridge.com
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
What method is being used to transport the file from the UNIX box to the
Windows box?
It should not be a straight binary transfer because, as you've noticed, this
does not convert from the UNIX end-of-line delimiter to the Windows end-of-line
delimiter.
It's a fact that some Windows
There are alternatives. As you say, web services is one. I was just hoping
for a message queuing alternative to IBM MQ. Most likely we will go the web
services path; I just wanted to make sure I wasn't missing a better alternative
it it was available and in our price range.
Thanks!
Frank
We have a vendor product that would like us to use WebSphere MQ to interface
with it. We do not have MQ, and apparently have to intention of getting it any
time soon (too expensive; too much support required...?). They also support
some alternative message queuing products (Java Message
Is this the solution he was looking for? The solution you give is how an FTP
client can retrieve a report from JES. Appears to me the OP wants to know how
to have z/OS act as the client and automatically send the report to an FTP
server. If this is the case, as it was for us (we also
Even using Spanned (record format is S) or Undefined (record format is U) Cobol
(Enterprise COBOL 4.2) appears to not allow a record length more than 32K:
32 IGYGR1224-E The maximum calculated record size of file
WIRE-DOCUMENT-FILE was greater than the maximum allowable size
Why would you want to enforce such a ridiculious restriction?
:-(
From: Robin Atwood robin.atw...@microfocus.com
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Sent: Tuesday, August 9, 2011 8:18 AM
Subject: Enforcing job name conventions - which exit?
From: Robin Atwood
Sent: 09 August 2011 15:08
To:
like posting this information because I've received useful contacts and
information based on it. I'm curious what policies other businesses have.
Frank
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FirstBank Data Corporation - Lakewood, CO USA
P: 303-235-1403
For VSE you would use Doctor D.
For z/OS Anyone know if ASG-SmartFile has such a thing? Seems like any
similar tool (File-AID, etc.) should, but I have no idea if they do.
Frank
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Indeed, I ran in to the same things when converting from VSE to z/OS last year.
I look forward to any useful ideas.
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On 7/4/2011 at 5:42 AM, in message
programmers? Why might that be?
Frank
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On 6/14/2011 at 11:57 AM, in message
BANLkTikXG75y4Jx1xijnpJV=3fta4dj...@mail.gmail.com, Mike Schwab
mike.a.sch
I prefer SPACE=(0,0)
On 5/27/2011 at 10:42 AM, in message 005101cc1c8d$07532e00$15f98a00$@mcn.org,
Charles Mills charl...@mcn.org wrote:
REGION=0K requests only one-thousandth as much as REGION=0M.
Does SPACE=(TRK,0) allocate only 1/15 as much DASD as SPACE=(CYL,0)?
Charles
as well?
Thank you...
John Weber
FiTeq Inc.
Financial Technologies Powering Innovation in Payments
30851 Agoura Road, Suite 103
Agoura, CA 91301
O: 818 483 4487 Fax: 818 865 8562
Cell: 562 221 5702
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the record from SORTIN01 and not
SORTIN02?
Thanks,
Frank
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The information contained in this electronic communication and any document
attached hereto
Thanks! I knew there must be something.
Frank
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On 5/9/2011 at 3:23 PM, in message
offf5bd485.e13342b7-on8825788b.007544bd-8825788b.00757...@us.ibm.com
You can use Infosphere Federation Server. We do this to access Oracle
databases, but Federation Server supports many database types.
Costs $$$ of course...
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I believe DB2 Connect is the other direction (allows non-mainframe access to
DB2 for z/OS).
Frank
On 5/6/2011 at 6:47 AM, in message
A826B9FD78356242A9D9595912F9B23234FE3261D0@DOITTMAIL03.doitt.nycnet, Barkow,
Eileen ebar...@doitt.nyc.gov wrote:
I do not know much about DB2 but I do know that
Just to unnecessarily add fuel to the fire, the following is a CICS SIT
parameter:
USSHOME
The USSHOME system initialization parameter specifies the name and path
of the root directory for CICS® TS 4.1 files on z/OS® UNIX.
The information contained in this electronic communication and any
...@efirstbank.com, on 04/22/2011
at 06:35 PM, Frank Swarbrick frank.swarbr...@efirstbank.com said:
Where can an application programmer who can barely spell SVC and PC
get an understanding of what these are?
I'll take your word that the majority of your programmers are that
ignorant, but do you
out this issue. I don't think my
sysprogs would touch COBOL with a ten foot pole. :-) They'd shoot us if we
(appl dev) gave this to them to resolve. And rightly so.
Frank
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Where can an application programmer who can barely spell SVC and PC get an
understanding of what these are? (I know the SVC is supervisor call, but
that's about it.)
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Applications Architect - Mainframe Applications Development
FirstBank Data Corporation - Lakewood, CO USA
P
I'm no expert, but we discovered when we used EXT that we could not use SMS DSS
(ADRDSSU) to backup the file, because apparently DSS uses EXCP I/O (or
something), and EXT does not support EXCP. Or something like that.
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Frank Swarbrick
Applications Architect - Mainframe Applications
of HealthMarkets, Inc. -The Chesapeake
Life Insurance Company(r), Mid-West National Life Insurance Company of
TennesseeSM and The MEGA Life and Health Insurance Company.SM
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needs to delete it. So if the user does not have delete access
the put fails.
I don't have any way to test this on z/OS, but someone might want to
try it.
Frank
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Frank Swarbrick
Applications Architect - Mainframe Applications Development
FirstBank Data Corporation - Lakewood, CO USA
P: 303-235
Anyone know of a good newgroup or listserv for discussion of RESTful services?
Thanks,
Frank
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Frank Swarbrick
Applications Architect - Mainframe Applications Development
FirstBank Data Corporation - Lakewood, CO USA
P: 303-235-1403
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Frank Swarbrick
Applications Architect - Mainframe Applications Development
FirstBank Data Corporation - Lakewood, CO USA
P: 303-235-1403
On 3/18/2011 at 2:17 PM, in message
of27de444e.0baf690d-on86257857.006f2f1d-86257857.006f6...@us.ibm.com, Wayne
Driscoll wdri...@us.ibm.com wrote:
Phil
=DEV.ATM.CIRRPT.BKP(+1),
//REFDD=*.SORTIN,
//UNIT=(,7),
//DISP=(NEW,CATLG,DELETE)
What am I doing wrong?
Frank
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Frank Swarbrick
Applications Architect - Mainframe Applications Development
I guess I should mention that LIKE with a DSN does work as expected.
On 3/11/2011 at 10:00 AM, in message 4d79f2d2.6f0f.008...@efirstbank.com,
Frank Swarbrick frank.swarbr...@efirstbank.com wrote:
The documentation states:
REFDD Parameter
The following attributes are copied to the new data
Ah-hah, ok. Re-reading the docs with that knowledge in mind I see that I made
an assumption and that assumption made me misread the docs. Happens too often.
Thanks!
Frank
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Frank Swarbrick
Applications Architect - Mainframe Applications Development
FirstBank Data Corporation - Lakewood, CO
On 2/17/2011 at 1:31 PM, in message
20110218155212.223c0f58...@smtp.patriot.net, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
shmuel+ibm-m...@patriot.net wrote:
In 4d5bfc54.6f0f.008...@efirstbank.com, on 02/16/2011
at 04:30 PM, Frank Swarbrick frank.swarbr...@efirstbank.com said:
Let me give a very specific
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