On 28 Dec 2010 03:47:55 -0800, gad...@malam.com (??? ?? ???) wrote:
The reason for this request is that the specified DSNAME is a VSAM KSDS. Many
jobs read the file, and some update it.
Sometimes, about once a year, a job running on the 'wrong' LPAR updates the
file, and corrupts it.
The
On 25 Dec 2010 23:06:40 -0800, ps2...@yahoo.com (Ed Gould) wrote:
The programmer joined Goldman Sachs in May, 2007, and was paid an annual
salary of $400,000, according to records.He was apprehended after Goldman
Sachs noticed large amounts of data being uploaded from its servers via HTTPS
On 22 Dec 2010 08:02:41 -0800, paulgboul...@aim.com (Paul Gilmartin)
wrote:
ISPF doesn't have any rules about what an ISPF application can look
for.
Apparently it can't look for a semicolon; that feels like a rule to me.
It can - unless we've told it to handle semicolons differently.
On 20 Dec 2010 15:01:31 -0800, chrisma...@belgacom.net (Chris Mason)
wrote:
My security problem arose because I was in the habit of keying a userid, then
tabbing and keying in the password. All the time I would be looking at the
keyboard - as poor typists do!
All of the solutions that shops
On 21 Dec 2010 13:19:51 -0800, jch...@ussco.com (Chase, John) wrote:
That said - I never understood how a computer professional doesn't
decide that it would be a valuable skill to learn to type and take the
time and effort to do so. Sure it's some up front work - but it
saves so much work
On 27 Oct 2010 09:52:58 -0700, t...@harminc.net (Tony Harminc) wrote:
Interesting that Erlang and Pascal are both the names of programming
languages, and of units of measure. Are there other languages with the
same naming oddity? Is there e.g. a Newton language?
A Basic measurement? Hourglass?
On 28 Sep 2010 10:29:46 -0700, rpin...@netscape.com (Richard Pinion)
wrote:
That's what we have done. We were hoping SORT would be able to do it.
We would rather use a system utility as opposed to writing our own code.
One reason for writing my own code is that all of the programmers can
read
On 28 Sep 2010 11:17:40 -0700, st...@trainersfriend.com (Steve
Comstock) wrote:
One reason for writing my own code is that all of the programmers can
read and maintain CoBOL or EasyTrieve.But most only know the
simplest basics in the SORT utility.
We can fix that ;-)
On 10 Sep 2010 14:03:27 -0700, eamacn...@yahoo.ca (Ted MacNEIL) wrote:
The question should be:
How can we deliver our product/service most effectively?.
Unfortunately, the question asked is:
What can we out-source, this year?
Those are subsets of How can we show on our resume how we dropped
On 13 Sep 2010 12:59:13 -0700, charl...@mcn.org (Charles Mills) wrote:
If I code it as PARM='STRING', then if the user wants to pass in a string
with quotes in it, he needs quadruple quotes, e.g.
//MYSTEP EXEC BAR,STRING='The value is 3.14'
which I find fairly ridiculous and
On 5 Sep 2010 12:26:56 -0700, li...@akphs.com (Phil Smith III) wrote:
Having said that, I'll agree that *every* mainstream news story of which I've
ever
had first-hand knowledge got several significant and important facts wrong,
such
as names, ages, and confusing an employment address with a
On 6 Sep 2010 09:30:03 -0700, paulgboul...@aim.com (Paul Gilmartin)
wrote:
Apparently IBM saw sufficient need or business case for the
facility to invest the resource to provide it in JES2. Why
stop short of supporting it in ISPF?
The business case could be something like It doesn't cost much,
On 3 Sep 2010 17:41:48 -0700, cfmpub...@ns.sympatico.ca (Clark Morris)
wrote:
Mirroring will happily duplicate bad data written by a misbehaving
program (or by misbehaving hardware for that matter).
And a backup program will blithely copy bad data to the backup
mechanism.
Sure, but we can go
On 7 Sep 2010 12:26:57 -0700, shmuel+ibm-m...@patriot.net (Shmuel Metz
, Seymour J.) wrote:
I doubt a reporter would be able to determine easily which side
of an argument is flat out wrong, even with some hours of
research.
However, a reporter working offline should at least be able to consult
I had a dBase application that I sent out, with full directions and
routine to do backups. When a user's copy got corrupted, she
realized that she usually neglected this option and before calling for
help, backed up the corrupted copy over her one good backup.
On 3 Sep 2010 06:39:47 -0700, john.mck...@healthmarkets.com (McKown,
John) wrote:
One of the many reasons that I prefer computer languages. They are not
ambiguous.
Well, they shouldn't be. I guess you could design one where the meaning of a
statement
is not defined unambiguously. But it is
On 3 Sep 2010 07:22:45 -0700, paulgboul...@aim.com (Paul Gilmartin)
wrote:
And in common English:
Generic is something that is general, common, or inclusive rather than
specific, unique, or selective. (wikipedia)
Esoteric knowledge, in the dictionary (non-scholarly) sense, is thus that
which
On 3 Sep 2010 08:25:13 -0700, gerh...@valley.net (Gerhard Postpischil)
wrote:
Then there are all the Janus words, which are spelled the
same, pronounced the same, but have opposite meanings
Fortunately, there are not many. Here are a few in English:
And potentially the most dangerous:
On 3 Sep 2010 12:06:49 -0700, john.mck...@healthmarkets.com (McKown,
John) wrote:
I'm a Linux user on my personal equipment. And one, lone, Mac Mini. I've never
really the upgraded Mac OSX, just applied recommended patches. My Linux boxes
- well one is very old and running a 2003 version of
On 3 Sep 2010 12:23:18 -0700, gada...@charter.net (Gerhard Adam)
wrote:
That works fine for files managed by a DBMS. What about ordinary PS/PO
datasets that may get updated several times between backup cycles?
They need to be backed up more frequently if they're that critical. This
isn't
On 3 Sep 2010 09:51:53 -0700, john.mck...@healthmarkets.com (McKown,
John) wrote:
As shown, nothing because it is invalid syntax. grin
But with parenthesis around the A=B, it means exactly what it says: Assign the
value of B to A, then test to see if it is equal to zero or not. That is where
On 3 Sep 2010 12:42:52 -0700, shmuel+ibm-m...@patriot.net (Shmuel Metz
, Seymour J.) wrote:
I would absolutely LOVE a grass roots campaign to eliminate = as a
token in any and all languages. Comparison should be ==.
== is an abomination.
Assignment should be :=.
There I agree, although I would
On 24 Aug 2010 13:25:12 -0700, st...@trainersfriend.com (Steve
Comstock) wrote:
Exactly. In my JCL class, I proclaim, parameters are either
keyword or positional, then I explain what those two terms
mean; then when we get to the EXEC statement I recall that
earlier assertion and then say, I lied;
On 25 Aug 2010 12:01:34 -0700, shmuel+ibm-m...@patriot.net (Shmuel
Metz , Seymour J.) wrote:
An how come no emulator supports 3290 style partitions?
I thought some did.
Or does one?
Blue zone.
With my computer monitor, I find 3270-model 5 to be enough, but sure
enough it does offer 3290. I
On 19 Aug 2010 11:14:17 -0700, joa...@swbell.net (John McKown) wrote:
I cheat
// SET PARM1='FIRST PART'
// SET PARM2='SECOND PART'
//DOIT EXEC PGM=PGM,PARM='PARM1PARM2'
I'm fairly sure this works.
I strongly recommend such cheating.
On 15 Aug 2010 10:31:33 -0700, shmuel+ibm-m...@patriot.net (Shmuel
Metz , Seymour J.) wrote:
Yes, but there are things that a good compiler will optimize away.
It's best to write code that is readable and maintainable before
worrying about performance.
There are some habits that we can get into
On 16 Aug 2010 12:35:09 -0700, zedgarhoo...@gmail.com (zMan) wrote:
Alas, not a joke with too many folks. I heard a VP of Engineering with
a PhD in Computer Science tell his team not to comment because the
comments might not describe what the code actually does. Apparently
his degree didn't
Reading this heading reminds me of a scene in the movie _Ghost
Busters_.
Yes, he has no disk.
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On 12 Aug 2010 06:35:34 -0700, john.mck...@healthmarkets.com (McKown,
John) wrote:
So the programmers don't even need to understand machine architecture any
more.
Unfortunately, this leads them to write poorly performing code due to a total
lack of
understanding of even basic knowledge of how
On 11 Aug 2010 05:51:20 -0700, john.mck...@healthmarkets.com (McKown,
John) wrote:
This is about some comments from Oracle EVP John Fowler. He indicates that
disk is dying.
He envisions it being replace by flash RAM. And not in our current mode of
being an
external I/O device, but actually
On 11 Aug 2010 11:42:13 -0700, shmuel+ibm-m...@patriot.net (Shmuel
Metz , Seymour J.) wrote:
IBM's use of the term DASD gets around saying disk,
drum, data cell, MSS, ...
but by the time
disk goes away, the term DASD may not quite apply either.
How not?
Indirect Access Storage Cloud???
On 11 Aug 2010 08:57:53 -0700, r.skoru...@bremultibank.com.pl (R.S.)
wrote:
The world is full of forecast, predictions and prophecies. People
remember only few of them: the most accurate and the most funny because
of its inaccuracy (Watson Sr: 5 computers, Gates: 640kB is enough).
Sometimes
On 3 Aug 2010 22:16:33 -0700, timothy.sipp...@us.ibm.com (Timothy
Sipples) wrote:
Yet that's exactly what's NOT happening (or at least not happening fast
enough) in the rest of computing -- and that's a big problem for individual
businesses and for the planet. Remember those old movies which
On 3 Aug 2010 00:19:10 -0700, timothy.sipp...@us.ibm.com (Timothy
Sipples) wrote:
I don't remember where I read or heard the story, but I think IBM preferred
to use the term storage because memory implied that forgetting is
possible. Therefore, to avoid conveying the impression that IBM computers
On 3 Aug 2010 09:10:45 -0700, ken.porow...@cit.com (Ken Porowski)
wrote:
I guess if we did it consistently and often enough we might get a
reporter or two to check their facts but as they are probably not
Mainframe savvy (or even tech savvy) I doubt it would get anywhere.
Perhaps if we targeted
There are hybrids - for instance pronouncing DASD as Das-Dee.
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On 27 Jul 2010 00:03:45 -0700, maarten.slegtenho...@mail.ing.nl
(Maarten Slegtenhorst) wrote:
On the matter of screws:
I own a 91 Jeep Wrangler with a lot of torx screws and in time the torx-hole
becomes a round hole.
Allan-screws are a bit better but still have the same problem.
I personally
On 26 Jul 2010 14:27:44 -0700, ken.porow...@cit.com (Ken Porowski)
wrote:
IBM makes what is claimed to be the biggest Mainframe announcement in
decades and most of the traffic on this list is on the etymology of CICS
and PoPs
I love it.
It's not like I'm going out today to buy a new mainframe.
On 27 Jul 2010 05:51:04 -0700, thomas.kel...@commercebank.com (Kelman,
Tom) wrote:
So, what do we in the United States of America call ourselves.
Our name is like the United Nations or the United Kingdom - a
description about what was wanted instead of a real name.
On 23 Jul 2010 18:24:26 -0700, zedgarhoo...@gmail.com (zMan) wrote:
That's OK, John, Ted was just repeating what I'd said many posts earlier. So
you can agree with me, and sleep at night.
P.S. I like United Statesians -- makes perfect sense!
It still isn't sufficient, there are other American
On 23 Jul 2010 21:31:30 -0700, t...@harminc.net (Tony Harminc) wrote:
On the other hand, Unitedstatians have been known to pronounce SNA and
RJE as words, and even on occasion to say them together so that it
sounds like a sneeze.
That's a new one for this USAmerican.
Bless you!
Wait - light
On 24 Jul 2010 08:38:23 -0700, rfocht...@ync.net (Rick Fochtman)
wrote:
Most hardware and home center stores don't even know what a
Robertson-drive screw IS. And of the few that know, you'll only find
wood screws. No machine screws. :-(
In the U.S., we use screws that use hex wrenches for this
On 24 Jul 2010 12:30:05 -0700, gib...@wsu.edu (Gibney, Dave) wrote:
My CICS guy just retired. He used KICKS or C-I-C-S depending on the
audicence. I've always used C-i-c-s, because that's what I heard first.
Now that I have to become the CICS guy also, maybe I'll have to start
using KICKS :( At
On Mon, 26 Jul 2010 06:59:58 -0600, Howard Brazee
howard.bra...@cusys.edu wrote:
Most hardware and home center stores don't even know what a
Robertson-drive screw IS. And of the few that know, you'll only find
wood screws. No machine screws. :-(
In the U.S., we use screws that use hex wrenches
On 26 Jul 2010 07:16:35 -0700, cfmpub...@ns.sympatico.ca (Clark
Morris) wrote:
Could Unix directories handle all of the functions of PDSE? When I
read that we would still need PDSs, I wondered what pointy haired
idiot designed the PDSE where one needed a started address space even
to read it.
I
On 26 Jul 2010 07:16:09 -0700, bi...@mainstar.com (Bill Fairchild)
wrote:
United Statesian is more than merely a perfect sense-maker. It is the
literal translation into English
from the Spanish word estadounidense, which means someone from the United
States of America.
Many hispanophones
On 26 Jul 2010 10:39:52 -0700, ds...@hotmail.com (Dave Salt) wrote:
Most countries use hex wrenches and Torx screws (etc) for niche applications.
Robertson screws (square head) don't fill a niche, they're designed for
general
purpose, every day use. In contrast, Phillips screws ('X' head) are
On 26 Jul 2010 11:36:00 -0700, zedgarhoo...@gmail.com (zMan) wrote:
Actually, I was amazed to learn (in my late 40s) that Mexico is considered
part of *NORTH* America. Central America starts at the southern border of
Mexico. Who knew?
While Central America starts south of Mexico, Central America
snip---
But it's still a Green Card isn't it?
--unsnip-
:-) Hasn't been green in over thirty years! :-)
Mine's still green.
On 23 Jul 2010 08:35:23 -0700, ps2...@yahoo.com (Ed Gould) wrote:
Watch the
Wraphttp://www.informationweek.com/news/hardware/supercomputers/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=226200076cid=nl_IW_daily_2010-07-23_h
The zEnterprise server, which supercedes the z10 in IBM's heavy metal lineup,
can absorb
On 23 Jul 2010 08:52:54 -0700, zedgarhoo...@gmail.com (zMan) wrote:
It's always appeared to me to be:
Americans: see-eye-see-ess
Others: kicks
My brother said kicks. I don't know where he got that, he lived in
California. Wherever I've worked it was see-eye-see-ess, including
trips to
On 23 Jul 2010 08:25:57 -0700, steve_thomp...@stercomm.com (Thompson,
Steve) wrote:
SNIPPAGE
Aren't Green Cards purple now?
zShields up
Green blackberries are red.
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On 15 Jul 2010 12:21:10 -0700, k...@dovetail.com (Kirk Wolf) wrote:
If your are deciding whether to use COBOL or Java based on asking this
question, use COBOL :-)
However that should not be the sole criterion.In fact, it almost
is useful only as finding evidence to support the choice I want.
On 13 Jul 2010 08:11:48 -0700, ken.porow...@cit.com (Ken Porowski)
wrote:
Now, I'll sit back and enjoy the debate on the question if an 'operator error'
counts as a 'glitch'.
For the opening shot in this, I'd argue: yes. While no system can ever be
totally idiot proof, human intervention can
On 13 Jul 2010 11:05:44 -0700, zedgarhoo...@gmail.com (zMan) wrote:
OK, this is topic drift, but: are you saying that having stringent password
requirements is a failure? Because I sure think it is -- it just encourages
folks to use patterns or otherwise weak passwords and/or to write them down
On 2 Jul 2010 04:48:56 -0700, jch...@ussco.com (Chase, John) wrote:
The best anti-virus software I've found so far is Linux. :-) And, it's
FREE!
Free helps. But when is the last time you got an MVS virus?
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On 30 Jun 2010 09:05:08 -0700, netsfw-ibmm...@yahoo.com (Mark T.
Regan, K8MTR) wrote:
http://mervadrian.wordpress.com/2010/06/24/migrate-from-mainframe-to-what/
Thanks,
Mark Regan
Modern means in the current style. Occasionally it sticks with a
style, and new terms such as post-modern come
On 25 Jun 2010 15:26:46 -0700, rfocht...@ync.net (Rick Fochtman)
wrote:
Even BAL programmers can produce lousy code; it's just sometimes harder
to spot. :-)
Character string manipulations, like scanning control statements, can be
inordinately complex in BAL if you're not really careful in the
On 25 Jun 2010 13:33:38 -0700, eamacn...@yahoo.ca (Ted MacNEIL) wrote:
What is the definition of user here?
Programmers, etc.
I went into more detail of what I meant into a previous response to Mark Z.
Then that statistic is a show me stat.
On 24 Jun 2010 05:12:04 -0700, john.mck...@healthmarkets.com (McKown,
John) wrote:
In general, I agree, but management must also be concerned with
maintainability.
The perceived decrease in HLASM programming skills have likely made management
do one of its infamous one size fits all commands.
On 24 Jun 2010 15:40:31 -0700, mzel...@flash.net (Mark Zelden) wrote:
Is that like the ZOOM or SHOWPROC commands that have come with MVS for
a decade or so?
Come with MVS? Please point me to where these are distributed if you can
because I've only seen home grown utilities of this nature
On 25 Jun 2010 09:07:31 -0700, st...@trainersfriend.com (Steve
Comstock) wrote:
I'm pretty sure those are not generally distributed with z/OS.
I wonder how they got distributed to these different shops then.
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On Fri, 25 Jun 2010 10:34:01 -0600, Howard Brazee
howard.bra...@cusys.edu wrote:
On 25 Jun 2010 09:07:31 -0700, st...@trainersfriend.com (Steve
Comstock) wrote:
I'm pretty sure those are not generally distributed with z/OS.
I wonder how they got distributed to these different shops
On 25 Jun 2010 12:42:43 -0700, eamacn...@yahoo.ca (Ted MacNEIL) wrote:
In a z/OS environment, with access methods, online sub-systems, utilities,
and the like, less than 5% of the code running on the z/Box is user-written.
What is the definition of user here?
On 23 Jun 2010 17:39:54 -0700, gsg_...@yahoo.com (gsg) wrote:
Does anyone know of a way to delete all of the members of a PDS which is
allocated by job scheduler software? We currently use an assembler program
that does a reset(I think), but management wants us to not use assembler. I
know
On 24 Jun 2010 07:00:44 -0700, terri.e.shaf...@jpmchase.com (Terri E
Shaffer) wrote:
You also do a 3.4 and enter S * DEL on the command line to delete
everything.
Interesting. I entered HELP there and got:
HELP NOT AVAILABLE+
LIST OF COMMANDS NOT FOUND
How can I get a list of
On 24 Jun 2010 07:37:22 -0700, thomas.kel...@commercebank.com (Kelman,
Tom) wrote:
With massive outages like this both your main site and your DR site
would probably be affected unless they are on opposite sides of the
world, or the DR site is on the moon.
Shouldn't a shop that has backup sites
On 24 Jun 2010 10:30:24 -0700, st...@trainersfriend.com (Steve
Comstock) wrote:
Howard Brazee wrote:
On 24 Jun 2010 07:00:44 -0700, terri.e.shaf...@jpmchase.com (Terri E
Shaffer) wrote:
You also do a 3.4 and enter S * DEL on the command line to delete
everything.
Interesting. I
On 24 Jun 2010 11:09:39 -0700, mark.jac...@custserv.com (Mark Jacobs)
wrote:
On 06/24/10 13:59, Frank Swarbrick wrote:
Now that we've been on z/OS for a few weeks I feel to need to ask a question
that has annoyed me since I started working on z/OS two years ago. Instream
datasets are good.
On 24 Jun 2010 13:13:25 -0700, frank.swarbr...@efirstbank.com (Frank
Swarbrick) wrote:
//PROC DDAR02
//SORT EXEC PGM=SORT
//DFSPARM DD *
SORT FIELDS=(1,10,PD,A,
13,4,PD,A,
17,4,PD,A,
11,2,PD,A),
EQUALS
Someone
On 23 Jun 2010 07:48:44 -0700, john_w_gilm...@msn.com (john gilmore)
wrote:
Ed Finnell has just made the important point that these sites should be
separated by at least 10 miles (16 kilometers).
Sometimes this magic number needs reconsideration. The right value may be 30
or 50 miles (48
I've also seen dependence upon the same communications infrastructure.
If the microwave tower goes down, the backup site wasn't any more
useful than the main site.This was a decade ago, and maybe some
type of cloud technology has solved that problem.
Yeah, I don't care for this design from a programmer's perspective:
//MYTEST EXEC SKIPSTEP, // COND.MYGEN1=(4093,NE), UNLIKELY
CONDITION CODE: THIS WILL RUN
// COND.MYGEN2=(4093,NE), UNLIKELY CONDITION CODE: THIS WON'T
RUN
// COND.MYGEN3=(4093,NE)UNLIKELY
On Tue, 8 Jun 2010 22:12:29 +0200 (CEST), starwars
nonscrivet...@tatooine.homelinux.net wrote:
Holes in 3rd party products do not equal holes in z/OS. Get the vendor to
fix his mess.
I don't know if this is necessarily true.
On 31 May 2010 10:08:25 -0700, zedgarhoo...@gmail.com (zMan) wrote:
After cleverly changing their name from Computer Associates to CA
several years ago, CA has again renamed itself, this time to CA
Technologies. The first renaming was claimed to be to Improve brand
perception (because, of course,
You can try XDF to copy it to disk and then do with it what you want
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On 26 May 2010 05:43:06 -0700, jch...@ussco.com (Chase, John) wrote:
SORTOUT contains following records, the same as SORTIN:
SMITH
SMO99Y
SMO#$!
SMYTHE
Amazing, baffling and befuddling. I get the same counter-intuitive
result.
I won't even try to guess why; I'll just try to limit my
We have a lot of jobs that use the following SORTIN
SORT FIELDS=(01,009,A),
FORMAT=CH
SUM FIELDS=NONE
What is the simplest ways to change this to ensure that either we
exclude blank data or only include numeric IDs here?
On Tue, 25 May 2010 09:59:16 -0600, Howard Brazee
howard.bra...@cusys.edu wrote:
We have a lot of jobs that use the following SORTIN
I mean SYSIN
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On 25 May 2010 09:16:46 -0700, john.mck...@healthmarkets.com (McKown,
John) wrote:
Excluding blanks is easiest:
EXCLUDE COND=(1,9,CH,EQ,C' ')
I've used that with SORT FIELDS=COPY. Actually, it appears that
EXCLUDE won't work, it needs to be OMIT.
Including only numeric I'm not as
On 25 May 2010 09:18:33 -0700, alan_st...@calpers.ca.gov (Starr, Alan)
wrote:
INCLUDE COND=(1,9,CH,GE,C'0',AND,1,9,CH,LE,C'9')
That would allow '00x01'.
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On 25 May 2010 09:48:27 -0700, yae...@us.ibm.com (Frank Yaeger) wrote:
It's not clear to me exactly what you want to do. Do you want to
omit records with blanks in 1-9 from the output file? Or do you
want to make sure records with blanks in 1-9 are kept but NOT
summarized, or what?
It looks
On 25 May 2010 09:37:34 -0700, paulgboul...@aim.com (Paul Gilmartin)
wrote:
What's left? What's right? I hold between my thumb and forefinger a
memory
chip, and with my microscopic X-ray vision I observe that the bits are numbered
left-to-right. I rotate my hand 180 degrees. Now they're
On 25 May 2010 10:08:09 -0700, jch...@ussco.com (Chase, John) wrote:
INCLUDE COND=(1,9,CH,GE,C'0',AND,1,9,CH,LE,C'9')
That would allow '00x01'.
How so? Any position in the field less than c'0' (x'F0') would cause
the entire field to evaluate less than c'0', thus
On 25 May 2010 12:37:52 -0700, eamacn...@yahoo.ca (Ted MacNEIL) wrote:
Understand, with a Bank, that may be forbidden by law (debits first
processing being illegal...).
In the US, maybe.
I used to work for a Canadian bank: debit first was allowed.
People in the US have to realise that not all
On 20 May 2010 10:07:48 -0700, john.mck...@healthmarkets.com (McKown,
John) wrote:
All prime examples of media know-nothings trying to be know
it alls.
Has anyone yet developed a vaccine for stupid ?? :-)
Rick
Yes - it induces the only cure - death.
Results of stupidity often survive
On 20 May 2010 07:49:37 -0700, wgshi...@benekeith.com (Greg Shirey)
wrote:
At the time I was working for an ISV, and beginning 12/31/1999
all technical employees were on call, and three at a time had
to man the help line until 1/3. We got a few calls, but mostly
minor stuff. However, at the
On Tue, 18 May 2010 13:20:49 -0600, Howard Brazee
howard.bra...@cusys.edu wrote:
Creating the data set as RECFM=V on the z/OS side and omitting any
filtering downstream seems optimum to me. What arguments favor a
more complicated process?
I'll try it.
It didn't read right. I'll just clean up
On 19 May 2010 06:32:33 -0700, thomas.kel...@commercebank.com (Kelman,
Tom) wrote:
OS/2 probably didn't have the security issues of Windows because (1) not
as many people used it, and (2) it wasn't around long enough for the
hackers to really get going on it.
I think primarily #1.We're
Trailing blanks disappeared with the FTP!!!
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On 19 May 2010 07:47:39 -0700, peter.hunke...@credit-suisse.com
(Hunkeler Peter , KIUP 4) wrote:
It didn't read right. I'll just clean up the file on the Unix side.
So then the program did not write variable length records. The record
format (RECFM) is usually declared within the program, so
On 19 May 2010 10:13:48 -0700, yae...@us.ibm.com (Frank Yaeger) wrote:
Note: Your posts are going to the newsgroup but not to the mailing list.
You might
want to send them to the mailing list AND newsgroup so that more people.
can see them.
I have my newsreader set up to post to the mailing
On 19 May 2010 09:30:07 -0700, john.mck...@healthmarkets.com (McKown,
John) wrote:
Trailing blanks disappeared with the FTP!!!
As is normal unless you are running with LOCSITE TRAILINGBLANKS set. I thought
I mentioned that?
I've been distracted lately.
You said the following. I inferred
I have a job that creates a LRECL=7104 record.Most of this a
variable length comment.It gets FTPd to a Unix machine and loaded
into a database.They want the extra spaces removed.
I doubt if the optimal solution would be to make it variable length,
and wonder if I should create a
On 18 May 2010 11:48:00 -0700, john.mck...@healthmarkets.com (McKown,
John) wrote:
Trailing blanks or embedded blanks?
quote site notrailingblanks
on the ftp to remove trailing blanks, for a UNIX client (ftp initiated by
UNIX).
locsite notrailingblanks
for a z/OS client (ftp initiated by
On 18 May 2010 11:59:54 -0700, paulgboul...@aim.com (Paul Gilmartin)
wrote:
Creating the data set as RECFM=V on the z/OS side and omitting any
filtering downstream seems optimum to me. What arguments favor a
more complicated process?
I'll try it.
I need to find a PDS member, and I know it starts with QA05. Trouble
is, I don't know the name of the PDS. (The person who created it
retired). I suspect the PDS is archived off.
What do you recommend?
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On 14 May 2010 09:46:16 -0700, charl...@mcn.org (Charles Mills) wrote:
Would a search of JCL libraries for 'QA05' possibly turn up a reference to
it?
I looked in the obvious candidate PDSes.Is there a way to submit a
batch search with bigger wild cards?
On 14 May 2010 10:13:50 -0700, john_j_ke...@ao.uscourts.gov (John
Kelly) wrote:
or give the retired person a call.
That worked.
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