Re: Need email address of Rich Packer

2009-04-29 Thread Gary Green
Howard, If you could send me your email address offline, I think I may have it. I would rather not post it in the clear. Gary at evergreen (dash or hyphen) systems dot com Gary Green Never use a 2x4 when a 2x6 will do just as well! -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion

Re: Possible new SYSTEM symbols in JCL.

2009-04-28 Thread Gary Green
employer) Gary Green Never use a 2x4 when a 2x6 will do just as well! -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of John McKown Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 2009 12:47 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Possible new SYSTEM symbols

Re: Wacked again - One time post.

2009-04-06 Thread Gary Green
see us at www.dtg-usa.com She seemed okay but was not that technical; as it seems most of the head hunters out there. If anything passes my way, and a lot does, I'll send them along. Gary Green Never use a 2x4 when a 2x6 will do just as well! -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe

Re: New GDG question

2009-01-27 Thread Gary Green
is not the same as SMFDOW. The values of these SMF set symbols allow me to generate the alias name for the related GDG... As I said, works like a charm. HTH Gary Green Never use a 2x4 when a 2x6 will do just as well! -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m

Re: Resolving an ALIAS

2009-01-26 Thread Gary Green
requests for the code. Please send me a PM and I will place you in the list. Gary Green Never use a 2x4 when a 2x6 will do just as well! -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Linda Mooney Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2009 8:28 PM

Re: Resolving an ALIAS

2009-01-22 Thread Gary Green
the base file goes away, i.e. the GDG, the alias goes away with it. It works great. Gary Green Never use a 2x4 when a 2x6 will do just as well! -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Rob Lister Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2009

Re: Resolving an ALIAS

2009-01-22 Thread Gary Green
Boy, do I feel stupid. For some reason I thought the OP asked a different question. Really sorry for the topic drift. :( Gary Green Never use a 2x4 when a 2x6 will do just as well! -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Gary

You can't escape, even in space.

2008-08-28 Thread Gary Green
It's not mainframe related, but just too good to not pass along. Watch the wrap. (So slap my hand, it's the first one this month for me). ggg http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasicarticleId=9113654source=NLT_VVRnlid=37

Teaching Linux on Mainframe

2008-08-27 Thread Gary Green
Interesting article about Linux being taught on a mainframe instead of an x86 box. Watch the wrap. http://searchenterpriselinux.techtarget.com/news/article/0,289142,sid39_gci1327045,00.html?track=NL-795ad=657824asrc=EM_NLN_4320237uid=1900046#

Way... Back question...

2008-08-19 Thread Gary Green
All you IBM'ers out there reading this, please delete this message and keep moving... I'm serious now, move on... There is nothing for you to see here... . . . Now that they're gone... Way, WAY back, IBM provided a utility in IPO1.LINKLIB (at least I think that's where it was) which would

Re: Way... Back question...

2008-08-19 Thread Gary Green
SR 15,1R -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [EMAIL PROTECTED]','','','')[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gary Green Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2008 11:45 To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Way... Back question... I looked in the CPAC loadlib(s) and it's

Re: Way... Back question...

2008-08-19 Thread Gary Green
Thanks for the reference Lizette. Another list member reminded me of the name of the utility. Even though other processes could provide the same function, I was always fond of using the IPOUPDTE, now CPPUPDTE (which makes sense), utility. Some shops would not allow me to install non-approved

Re: Way... Back question...

2008-08-19 Thread Gary Green
] On Behalf Of Gary Green Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2008 11:45 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Way... Back question... All you IBM'ers out there reading this, please delete this message and keep moving... I'm serious now, move on... There is nothing for you to see here... . . . Now

Re: Way... Back question...

2008-08-19 Thread Gary Green
I guess that's a perfect example of ask, and yee shall receive. :) Thanks John! Gary Green Never use a 2x4 when a 2x6 will do just as well! -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Eells Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2008 3:58 PM

Re: Way... Back question...

2008-08-19 Thread Gary Green
placed them like that as an homage to Rocky Bullwinkle. Of all the people that went into that room to watch movies, chat, whatever..., only one person ever caught the reference. That was my son who had not even been born when Rocky Bullwinkle were on. Gary Green Never use a 2x4 when a 2x6

Re: California's COBOL payroll system

2008-08-06 Thread Gary Green
.re I agree 100%. Unfortunately, too many organizations depend on a college degree, rather than any demonstration of good sense or experience. Any dummy with a MBA (which really means very little) can get a job in management of nearly any organization This reminds me of a contract I did once

Re: California's COBOL payroll system

2008-08-06 Thread Gary Green
In other words, you got out in time? Or before it got worse? g On Wed Aug 6 13:55 , Tom Harper [EMAIL PROTECTED] sent: Well, don't include me in your we. I didn't elect them. I moved to Texas in 1983. Tom Harper IMS Utilities Development Team NEON Enterprise Software, Inc. Sugar Land, TX

Re: Politics - California state computers can't handle pay cut, controller says - sacbee.com

2008-08-05 Thread Gary Green
Ya know... It's crap and FUD like this that makes my blood boil!!! COBOL, an antique language, not taught anymore and difficult to maintain. Where do I start? How about I offer to go in there, analyze the situation, come up with a solution that would work with their existing system, write it

Re: Can't read newly created procedure

2008-08-05 Thread Gary Green
)? Just a thought. Gary Green While the big event is over, there is still time for you to help me with my efforts to assist those stricken with cancer! Please support my efforts by visiting: http://www.active.com/donate/tntsonj/tntsonjGGreen Thank you. -Original Message- From: IBM

Re: STOPX37 SMS loop

2008-08-05 Thread Gary Green
Does STOPX37 not have a special DD card you code that tells it to ignore processing for this step. Something like //PROIGNOR or //IGNORPRO, something like that? Gary Green While the big event is over, there is still time for you to help me with my efforts to assist those stricken with cancer

Did anyone else receive this marketing stuff?

2008-08-01 Thread Gary Green
The below email arrived in my inbox (actually, the Junk Email box) earlier today. Did anyone else receive something like it? Just curious. Gary Green While the big event is over, there is still time for you to help me with my efforts to assist those stricken with cancer! Please support my

Re: Share Attendance

2008-07-28 Thread Gary Green
Not that I will be there, but I must ask... WHICH Doctor Who will it be? On Mon Jul 28 12:19 , Lizette Koehler [EMAIL PROTECTED] sent: Gang, My boss approved me going to Share in San Jose next weekend. If you would like to meet the face behind the emails, I will be wearing my Doctor Who

Interesting Article

2008-07-21 Thread Gary Green
on the H1B Visa program. I know it's not specific to mainframes but all of us are affected by it one way or another. Some even more so... :( http://cwflyris.computerworld.com/t/3367772/68381743/127066/2/ -- For IBM-MAIN

Disaster in the making

2008-07-15 Thread Gary Green
We plan and plan and plan to make sure everything is correct with the systems and such that we are responsible for. Then along comes someone that make a decision that makes it all moot. You gotta read this article. If it were not so serious, it would be funny.

Re: TSO/ISPF Screen Swap

2008-07-14 Thread Gary Green
What you're thinking of is SWAP NEXT or SWAP PREV. Next goes to the next ISPF screen in the list. Prev does the reverse (it goes backwards). If it matters, I have ALL my swap related keys coded as PF2 SPLIT NEW PF9 SWAP NEXT PF14 SPLIT LIST PF21 SWAP PREV And since I usually control the

Re: TSO/ISPF Screen Swap

2008-07-14 Thread Gary Green
Jul 2008 09:35:07 -0400, Gary Green wrote: And since I usually control the system I change the ISPF CONFIG to allow 32 split screens. I don't control the system here, but I have been frustrated by the need for 8 splits. I created a customized ISPCFIGU in my private load library concatenated

Re: WebSphere Question

2008-07-11 Thread Gary Green
Well, I know very little about the environment, but I will send an email asking for more details. Thanks. Gary Green While the big event is over, there is still time for you to help me with my efforts to assist those stricken with cancer! Please support my efforts by visiting: http

Re: WebSphere Question

2008-07-11 Thread Gary Green
not close enough to the product to say that with any semblance of experience/knowhow. I appreciate the comments and will be passing them along in a few. Thanks. Gary Green While the big event is over, there is still time for you to help me with my efforts to assist those stricken with cancer! Please

Re: WebSphere Question

2008-07-11 Thread Gary Green
Thank You Tim! I'll be passing this along in about 30 seconds. Gary Green While the big event is over, there is still time for you to help me with my efforts to assist those stricken with cancer! Please support my efforts by visiting: http://www.active.com/donate/tntsonj/tntsonjGGreen Thank

WebSphere Question

2008-07-10 Thread Gary Green
? Gary Green While the big event is over, there is still time for you to help me with my efforts to assist those stricken with cancer! Please support my efforts by visiting: http://www.active.com/donate/tntsonj/tntsonjGGreen http://www.active.com/donate/tntsonj/tntsonjGGreen Thank you

Re: PCOMM file xfer question (and rant)

2008-07-08 Thread Gary Green
Well, I use Attachmate all the time and I upload FB files all the time... If no one else can assist, I'll login and force my brain cells to remember how I do it. On Tue Jul 8 11:25 , Pinnacle [EMAIL PROTECTED] sent: Can anybody tell me how to turn off the bleeping RECFM(V) that PCOMM

Another difference between platforms...

2008-06-30 Thread Gary Green
=viewArticleBasicarticleId=9103238source=NLT_ESnlid=42 Gary Green While the big event is over, there is still time for you to help me with my efforts to assist those stricken with cancer! Please support my efforts by visiting: http://www.active.com/donate/tntsonj/tntsonjGGreen Thank you

Re: Another difference between platforms...

2008-06-30 Thread Gary Green
] On Behalf Of Gary Green Sent: Monday, June 30, 2008 12:36 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Another difference between platforms... Back in the 80's we mainframe(rs) went from 24 bit to 31 bit, then towards the end of the millennium, we started migrating to 64 bit with the introduction

Re: Another difference between platforms...

2008-06-30 Thread Gary Green
I enjoy cross-country motorcycle trips. Unfortunately, once I started working for a consulting outfit, that fell to the wayside. :( Perhaps at my next job... (he says hopefully) Gary Green While the big event is over, there is still time for you to help me with my efforts to assist those

Re: Outsourcing hits new low

2008-06-16 Thread Gary Green
Yeah, I read about that last year. It's not only McDonalds that is doing this. Gary Green I can use all the help I can get with my fight against cancer! Please support my efforts! Thank you. http://www.active.com/donate/tntsonj/tntsonjGGreen -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe

Re: The ABCs of z/OS Maintenance.

2008-06-13 Thread Gary Green
Only the nine pages? I thought it was longer than that since it was a chapter subset of manual #1. Gary Green I can use all the help I can get with my fight against cancer! Please support my efforts! Thank you. http://www.active.com/donate/tntsonj/tntsonjGGreen -Original Message

Re: The ABCs of z/OS Maintenance.

2008-06-13 Thread Gary Green
Perhaps in the future before I post that kind of information, I should look at it myself...? ;) Gary Green I can use all the help I can get with my fight against cancer! Please support my efforts! Thank you. http://www.active.com/donate/tntsonj/tntsonjGGreen -Original Message- From

Re: The ABCs of z/OS Maintenance.

2008-06-13 Thread Gary Green
Yeah... With a sucker born every minute, I guess I'm this minute's. Or that minute's... Or..., you get the idea. ;) Hey, is it Friday already? Gary Green I can use all the help I can get with my fight against cancer! Please support my efforts! Thank you. http://www.active.com/donate

Outsourcing dilemma or debacle, you decide...

2008-06-12 Thread Gary Green
, but my friend had to get it off his chest, and I, passing it along, mine. There are plenty other examples but my friend just sighed and left at this. Gary Green I can use all the help I can get with my fight against cancer! Please support my efforts! Thank you. http://www.active.com/donate

Re: Migrated Dataset List

2008-06-12 Thread Gary Green
If you want to read the file, then a simple solution is to coble together something in SAS to read the MCDS and then write the report. There are samples of this floating around the web somewhere. Gary Green I can use all the help I can get with my fight against cancer! Please support my

Outsourcing dilemma or debacle, you decide... take 2

2008-06-12 Thread Gary Green
emailing) tell him about this opportunity in the save area where he is currently employed. It's a 6-month contract position and job the requirements read exactly like his job description! Small, small world. Sad, but true. Gary Green I can use all the help I can get with my fight against cancer

Re: The ABCs of z/OS Maintenance.

2008-06-04 Thread Gary Green
I just tried it again and it works for me. Huh... Here is another link related to this one. It's the registration page to download the article. Perhaps you'll have better luck. A side question if I may... (just curious) Are you located at the Credit Suisse site in New Brunswick, NJ? Gary

Re: The ABCs of z/OS Maintenance.

2008-06-04 Thread Gary Green
I can't believe I forgot to include the new link. Sorry! https://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/iwm/web/pick.do?lang=en_USsource=swg-systemzprfm5S_PKG=ZPRFE50608IItcode=108AF19E On Wed Jun 4 9:37 , Gary Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] sent: I just tried it again and it works for me. Huh... Here

Re: Free replacement for DASD INVENTORY?

2008-06-04 Thread Gary Green
Others may chime in with a similar suggestion... If you have DFSORT, you could run DCOLLECT (IDCAMS utility) and pass the output to DFSORT to produce the reports. I know IBM has some stuff on one of their sites that provides the job streams and SORT SYSIN statements. If you can not locate

Re: DFSORT/ICETOOL question

2008-06-04 Thread Gary Green
I probably already know the answer but does the number of segments/offsets change with each record type or would/do they remain the same? If the later, then there is a DFSORT solution. On Wed Jun 4 12:59 , Tim Hare [EMAIL PROTECTED] sent: Really two questions I guess. 1. We have variable

Re: Another pathetic job offer

2008-06-04 Thread Gary Green
reason that name sticks in my mind. Made me think perhaps Dell was getting into the outsourcing business. Of course, I could, and may well be, all wrong and it's just a figment of my lackluster imagination. Gary Green I can use all the help I can get with my fight against cancer! Please support

Re: Monitor use of Load-Library as JOBLIB/STEPLIB

2008-06-04 Thread Gary Green
Merrill said in a prior email. He remarked that only the name of the first PDS in a concatenation order would be recorded in the SMF records. Then he remarked even IF all the PDS(E) names were recorded, how would we be able to find out from which PDS the load module originated. Gary Green I can

Re: Another pathetic job offer

2008-06-04 Thread Gary Green
That I like! Gary Green I can use all the help I can get with my fight against cancer! Please support my efforts! Thank you. http://www.active.com/donate/tntsonj/tntsonjGGreen -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bobbie Justice

The ABCs of z/OS Maintenance.

2008-06-03 Thread Gary Green
someone's fancy. Have fun. http://www-931.ibm.com/tela/webmail/CampaignPublisher/15165 Gary Green I can use all the help I can get with my fight against cancer! Please support my efforts! Thank you. http://www.active.com/donate/tntsonj/tntsonjGGreen

Another pathetic job offer

2008-06-03 Thread Gary Green
A few months back I posted to the NG about a job posting that arrived in my inbox for a poorly paid Sr. Systems Programmer position in North Jersey and it caused quite a stir and a lot of traffic. Well, a friend that is now looking for a position in the Philadelphia area, sent this to me and I

Re: Another pathetic job offer

2008-06-03 Thread Gary Green
a statement that 65k in Kentucky was like something in 6-figures elsewhere. I checked before posting this but it's no longer there. Hmmm... Gary Green I can use all the help I can get with my fight against cancer! Please support my efforts! Thank you. http://www.active.com/donate/tntsonj

Re: Monitor use of Load-Library as JOBLIB/STEPLIB

2008-06-03 Thread Gary Green
. re But even if the full DSNAMEs were provided, you'd have no way of knowing which PDS actually had the member that was loaded/referenced. Really? If one knew the names of the PDS' in question, I assume one could discern the concatenation order. With that knowledge and the name of the

Re: Controlling the execution sequence of dependant jobs in JES2 (a suggested fix)

2008-05-27 Thread Gary Green
That's if the job names used are the FTP logon userid +1 character. If they are different, the jobs are not tracked. If someone has different information, I would love to hear it. On Tue May 27 7:09 , Edward Jaffe [EMAIL PROTECTED] sent: Elardus Engelbrecht wrote: Write a REXX or CLIST

Re: Controlling the execution sequence of dependant jobs in JES2 (a suggested fix)

2008-05-27 Thread Gary Green
That makes all the off-topic discussions, admittedly some started by me, worth it! Thanks! On Tue May 27 10:23 , Edward Jaffe [EMAIL PROTECTED] sent: Gary Green wrote: That's if the job names used are the FTP logon userid +1 character. If they are different, the jobs are not tracked

Re: Controlling the execution sequence of dependant jobs in JES2 (a suggested fix)

2008-05-27 Thread Gary Green
My assumption was his fingers were typing faster than the Windows-controlled keyboard could handle and dropped the L. ;-) On Tue May 27 14:04 , Tom Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] sent: On Tue, 27 May 2008 10:23:17 -0700, Edward Jaffe wrote: Gary Green wrote: That's if the job names used

Re: Controlling the execution sequence of dependant jobs in JES2 (a suggested fix)

2008-05-27 Thread Gary Green
Yes... Now that he jumped over 24 delivery vans. About 10-12 more than his father. On Tue May 27 12:17 , Edward Jaffe [EMAIL PROTECTED] sent: Tom Schmidt wrote: On Tue, 27 May 2008 10:23:17 -0700, Edward Jaffe wrote: You should be using 'JESINTERFACE:EVEL 2' They spelled

Interesting article

2008-05-27 Thread Gary Green
different? http://federaltimes.com/index.php?S=3533568 Gary Green I can use all the help I can get with my fight against cancer! Please support my efforts! Thank you. http://www.active.com/donate/tntsonj/tntsonjGGreen http://www.active.com/donate/tntsonj/tntsonjGGreen

Re: Practical jokes for mainframe systems programmers

2008-05-21 Thread Gary Green
Now THAT is funny... On Wed May 21 13:16 , Rob Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] sent: I worked at a site once (many) years ago where some bright spark once wrote a program called IJKEFT01 whose sole purpose in life was to just ATTACH IKJEFT01 *unless* it was the target userid in which case it also

Re: Practical jokes for mainframe systems programmers

2008-05-21 Thread Gary Green
Ah..., someone, huh...? ;-) On Wed May 21 11:00 , Edward Jaffe [EMAIL PROTECTED] sent: Rob Scott wrote: I worked at a site once (many) years ago where some bright spark once wrote a program called IJKEFT01 whose sole purpose in life was to just ATTACH IKJEFT01 *unless* it was the target

MVS Shop in Bethelem

2008-05-20 Thread Gary Green
India, and short-sightedness, strikes again... A close friend is being outsourced and asked me to ask the group if anyone know's the name of an MVS shop in the Bethlehem/Allentown PA. area. My friend thinks there is a position available somewhere in that area and would like to target the

DFHSM Abend

2008-05-20 Thread Gary Green
Wouild someone be able to help me save a bunch of research time with this problem. We have a user that is attempting to recall a migrated dataset (standard JCL PDS). However, DFHSM is getting an abend E37-04 during the recall process. If this were a recover I would allocate a new dataset,

Re: Arthur W. Burks, 1915-2008

2008-05-19 Thread Gary Green
Yeah..., and based on their propensity to trumpet Windoze, we may be in for a world of hurt. On Mon May 19 13:26 , john gilmore [EMAIL PROTECTED] sent: Burks was the the last co-author, with von Neumann and Goldstine, of the first and still relevant programming-techniques paper; he also

Re: Mainframe programming vs the Web

2008-05-16 Thread Gary Green
You're kidding... Really? Gary Green I can use all the help I can get with my fight against cancer! Please support my efforts! Thank you. http://www.active.com/donate/tntsonj/tntsonjGGreen -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf

Re: Mainframe programming vs the Web

2008-05-16 Thread Gary Green
Sheesh... I had better start using this computer for something other than work. ;-) Thanks. Gary Green I can use all the help I can get with my fight against cancer! Please support my efforts! Thank you. http://www.active.com/donate/tntsonj/tntsonjGGreen -Original Message- From

VMWare more reliable

2008-05-14 Thread Gary Green
than the mainframe. Or so it was reported back in January... http://redmondmag.com/features/article.asp?editorialsid=2400#reliable But disputed... Watch the wrap.

Re: estimating number of records.

2008-05-14 Thread Gary Green
Well, disk datasets should be relatively easy... (if the information is returned from the LMDIST call) Number of tracks used * % of space used * blocks per track divided by record length. Or am I missing something in the question? On Wed May 14 10:31 , 'McKown, John' [EMAIL PROTECTED] sent:

Re: VMWare more reliable

2008-05-14 Thread Gary Green
I did not notice. As you said, interesting... On Wed May 14 13:59 , Tony Harminc [EMAIL PROTECTED] sent: 2008/5/14 Gary Green [EMAIL PROTECTED]: than the mainframe. Or so it was reported back in January... http://redmondmag.com/features/article.asp\?editorialsid=2400#reliable Interesting

Re: estimating number of records.

2008-05-14 Thread Gary Green
Okay, okay, you found the flaw in my suggestion... grumble, grumble, grumble... ;) On Wed May 14 14:01 , Tony Harminc [EMAIL PROTECTED] sent: 2008/5/14 Gary Green [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Well, disk datasets should be relatively easy... (if the information is returned from the LMDIST call

Re: estimating number of records.

2008-05-14 Thread Gary Green
Harminc Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2008 1:02 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: estimating number of records. 2008/5/14 Gary Green [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Well, disk datasets should be relatively easy... (if the information is returned from the LMDIST call) Number of tracks used

Re: estimating number of records.

2008-05-14 Thread Gary Green
Ah... Kicking and scratching all the way, huh... On Wed May 14 13:56 , 'McKown, John' [EMAIL PROTECTED] sent: -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [EMAIL PROTECTED]','','','')[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gary Green Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2008 1:53 PM To: IBM

Re: Mainframe programming vs the Web

2008-05-14 Thread Gary Green
I did not know about the sequels. Thanks. Oh, my son says the movie is available on Netflix. He promised to add it to his list and perhaps move it towards the top. Gary Green I can use all the help I can get with my fight against cancer! Please support my efforts! Thank you. http

Re: Mainframe programming vs the Web

2008-05-13 Thread Gary Green
At the risk of this thread straying off topic too much, I agree... I have two copies floating around my house somewhere. I can never find them when I want to reread the book; about every 4-5 years. Where's Gregory?. On Tue May 13 10:08 , Daniel McLaughlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] sent: While

Re: Mainframe programming vs the Web

2008-05-13 Thread Gary Green
Are you certain it was a DOS system. I thought it was an MFT, or MVT, and housed in a 165/95, was it...? On Tue May 13 13:58 , 'Robert A. Rosenberg' [EMAIL PROTECTED] sent: At 10:08 -0400 on 05/13/2008, Daniel McLaughlin wrote about Re: Mainframe programming vs the Web: While we're

Re: Mainframe programming vs the Web

2008-05-13 Thread Gary Green
Oh yes. I remember starting to read it when someone on CompuServe (remember that) recommended it to me back in the 80's. I laid it down somewhere and it was gone. I never did get another copy to finish reading... On Tue May 13 13:58 , Rick Fochtman [EMAIL PROTECTED] sent:

Re: Mainframe programming vs the Web

2008-05-13 Thread Gary Green
While we are on the subject... http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064177/ On Tue May 13 15:09 , 'Hardee, Charles H' [EMAIL PROTECTED] sent: Fantablous movie! Computer takes over the world, almost! Classic! -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [EMAIL

Re: Performance report help

2008-05-09 Thread Gary Green
and perhaps roll your own to get the info you need. Earlier, I think I read a post by another forum member to look at DFSORT to produce something. That is a very good idea. Gary Green I can use all the help I can get with my fight against cancer! Please support my efforts! Thank you. http

Another one bites the dust.

2008-05-07 Thread Gary Green
As the subject says... http://searchdatacenter.techtarget.com/news/article/0,289142,sid80_gci1312380,00.html?track=NL-576ad=638786asrc=EM_NLN_3601410uid=1900046 Watch the wrap. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive

Interesting Article

2008-05-06 Thread Gary Green
about the mainframe and TCO... Gary Green I can use all the help I can get with my fight against cancer! Please support my efforts! Thank you. http://www.active.com/donate/tntsonj/tntsonjGGreen http://www.active.com/donate/tntsonj/tntsonjGGreen

Re: REXX Error (Was: 'action' in UK33496)

2008-04-23 Thread Gary Green
re Of course, being 51 may have something to do with it. Or as we say, C.R.S ;) -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search

Re: switch from CA-SYSVIEW to SDSF

2008-04-22 Thread Gary Green
Sysview, but I have learned a bit about it, and can use it with JES output, syslog displays, etc. Doug Fuerst Gary Green wrote: Ah... These two products do not provide the same informaiton. SYSVIEW provides internal, control-block structure information (at a minimum) while SDSF (Spool Display

Re: switch from CA-SYSVIEW to SDSF

2008-04-21 Thread Gary Green
Ah... These two products do not provide the same informaiton. SYSVIEW provides internal, control-block structure information (at a minimum) while SDSF (Spool Display and Search Facility) provides informaiton about Jobs in the JES queue. On Mon Apr 21 14:39 , Duane Weaver [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: JOB00045 $HASP165 IBMUSERB ENDED AT N1 - JCL ERROR CN(INTERNAL)

2008-04-09 Thread Gary Green
Ah, we would need a little bit more than that to answer your question. Perhaps the JCL job log? On Wed Apr 9 15:20 , Fabio D'Alfonso [EMAIL PROTECTED] sent: Hi, I am getting this error submitting a job. The job is a simple logrec format and previously worked. How could we go over this?

Re: JOB00045 $HASP165 IBMUSERB ENDED AT N1 - JCL ERROR CN(INTERNAL)

2008-04-09 Thread Gary Green
If that is the EXACT JCL you submitted, the lower case characters in the DSN would cause a JCL error. Try converting them to upper case and resubmitting. On Wed Apr 9 15:57 , Fabio D'Alfonso [EMAIL PROTECTED] sent: Hi this is the job //STEP1EXEC PGM=IFCDIP00 //SERERDS DD

False Advertising

2008-04-09 Thread Gary Green
Many of you will probably receive the email from one of the MF sites which will contain the reference to this article. http://serverspecs.blogs.techtarget.com/2008/04/04/why-there-should-probably-be-no-windows-in-the-data-center/?track=NL-576ad=634581asrc=EM_NLN_3449818uid=1900046 When I saw

Re: How to check if a job has run?

2008-04-08 Thread Gary Green
As other have written, writing something to walk the JCT/SCT chain will do as you ask. Run the program as the last step in the job and you can do with the information as you wish. I did something like this at a client location a few years ago. The program was called RCWALKER and could

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2008-03-31 Thread Gary Green
I know we've been down this road before. Here is more fuel for the fire. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8Tsqk6jJoY blocked::http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8Tsqk6jJoY Gary Green EverGreen Systems I can use all the help I can get with my fight against cancer! Please support my efforts

Re: Is IT becoming extinct?

2008-03-24 Thread Gary Green
Sounds like this is the same thought process that proclaimed that the mainframe was dead. I loved the statement (my words of the thier toughts) about bulk purchases are limiting the company by preventing the user commuinity from taking advantage of newer, more flexible offerings. Yeah,

Re: SYMDUMP Question

2008-03-20 Thread Gary Green
or in the listserv? In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 03/17/2008 at 01:18 PM, Gary Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Origin: 205.203.128.142 X-Mailer: AtMail 4.61 - 205.203.128.142 - [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Antivirus: checked in 0.008sec at bama.ua.edu

Re: MVS initiated FTP to Windows

2008-03-19 Thread Gary Green
A lot has been said about MVS/DNS/etc..., knowing the IP address of the workstation in order for MVS to initiate the FTP down to the WS. Most have said it needs to be a static IP address. At this site, we use static IP addresses. However, while I no longer have the VBS/WSF (a VB script)

Re: MVS initiated FTP to Windows

2008-03-19 Thread Gary Green
exist in the first place. If the DHCP/DNS is setup correctly, every PC should have a valid DNS name that resolves the IP address correctly. I don't remember any site I've worked at recently (5 years) where I couldn't use a DNS name to address a desktop machine. Gary Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] 3/19/2008

Re: MVS initiated FTP to Windows

2008-03-19 Thread Gary Green
Well, that's an interesting question, Rick. In my situations, everything was behind the firewall so there was little concern for hackers. I do know that the IIS on the WS can be setup with some security (userid, password, restricted directory(ies), etc... Is there any built-in security for

Re: MVS initiated FTP to Windows

2008-03-19 Thread Gary Green
figured the format of a TRSMAIN compressed EBCDIC file should ensure a decent amount of protection. On Wed Mar 19 14:25 , 'McKown, John' [EMAIL PROTECTED] sent: -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [EMAIL PROTECTED]','','','')[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gary

Re: MVS initiated FTP to Windows

2008-03-18 Thread Gary Green
..re Not possible with standard Windows because it don't come with a FTP server. Ah.. But it does! All you need to do is install IIS on your workstation, configure it and somehow get the IP address of the WS to the host and use that to FTP your files down! This is how I get all my

SYMDUMP Question

2008-03-17 Thread Gary Green
We have been running SYMDUMP 2.0 for quite some time and it was never updated. CA's current version is 7.0, and there were no intervening release numbers. We were repeatedly told by CA that there is nothing, NADA, zip… that will convert our older CSL’s to the newer PROTSYM’s ???. So,

Re: SYMDUMP Question

2008-03-17 Thread Gary Green
see from the support site, there IS upgrade information to version 7.0 available. Have your CA rep raise an issue to obtain the data you need. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [EMAIL PROTECTED]','','','')[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gary Green Sent: Monday, March

Re: Bob Richards Update

2008-03-14 Thread Gary Green
That is great to hear! And I love the way you introduced your status. :) Real mainframer. I know JR will appreciate hearing the good news. I keep her abreast of the health and goings on of forum members and she has not liked the news these past few years. :( Too many fallen comrades and she

Re: Bob Richards Update

2008-03-14 Thread Gary Green
Maybe PERF=MAX is not attainable at this moment. But with a proper WLM configuration, it will eventually [percolate its way up. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Richards, Robert B. Sent: Friday, March 14, 2008 11:05 AM To:

Re: CA-SYSVIEW

2008-02-22 Thread Gary Green
I use it and it's not bad... Beyond that, we would need to get into specifics. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Grine, Janet [GCG-PFS] Sent: Friday, February 22, 2008 4:06 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: CA-SYSVIEW I am

Re: Need Urgent Help...Sorry for this post.

2008-02-15 Thread Gary Green
Not to make light of your situation, but the North Jersey and New York areas seem to have more requirements that most other places in the country. The hottest skills recently seem to be CICS, MQ, DB2 and Storage Management (open systems and MVS). Try these sites: SimplyHired

Interesting Mainframe Article: 5 Myths Exposed

2008-02-13 Thread Gary Green
http://searchdatacenter.techtarget.com/tip/0,289483,sid80_gci1299376,00.html?track=NL-576ad=624866asrc=EM_NLN_3060935uid=1900046 Watch the wrap. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to

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