Re: Friday musings on the future of 3270 applications

2007-06-05 Thread J R
@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Friday musings on the future of 3270 applications Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2007 17:26:20 +0300 On Tue, 5 Jun 2007 09:50:48 -0400 J R [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: :Binyamin Dissen: ::There was/is also something called TSSO ::last time I used TSSO, TPUT output went to the console :TPUT

Re: Friday musings on the future of 3270 applications

2007-06-05 Thread J R
List IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Friday musings on the future of 3270 applications Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2007 09:39:45 -0500 -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of J R Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2007 9:34 AM

Re: Friday musings on the future of 3270 applications

2007-06-05 Thread J R
PROTECTED] Reply-To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Friday musings on the future of 3270 applications Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2007 10:27:52 -0500 On Tue, 5 Jun 2007 10:58:07 -0400, J R wrote: Oh, man. Any chance of getting this to run as a UNIX command

Re: SYSTERM to DSN

2007-06-04 Thread J R
I suspect that the immediate command responses are not the ones at issue. There are also the asynchronous ones emanating from the HSM address space. In this case, the solution proposed by Lizette may be a better approach. From: O'Brien, David W. (NIH/CIT) [C] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: IBM

Re: SYSTERM to DSN

2007-06-04 Thread J R
:27 -0400 Rather than 'suspect', why don't we wait for Daniel to supply the requested information. From: J R [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Mon 6/4/2007 1:25 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: SYSTERM to DSN I suspect that the immediate command

Re: Principles of Operation in pop American English?

2007-06-01 Thread J R
DASDBill: with, like, my 8- and 11-year-old grandsons who are currently, like, visiting Since it's Friday, why do we tend to list our kids by ascending age? After all, unlike the chicken and the egg, we *do* know which came first. I always list mine by descending age. From: (IBM

Re: What is 'Program Logical Manuals'?

2007-05-31 Thread J R
Chris Mason: ... abort the product Freudian slip? From: Chris Mason [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: What is 'Program Logical Manuals'? Date: Thu, 31 May 2007 15:50:50 +0200 Johnny Since you are something

Re: Why is there JOB scope for DSN ENQ's anyway?

2007-05-25 Thread J R
Paul Gilmartin said: the initiator was able to allocate it again in STEP2. I hope this was not done without an ENQ. Right, but maybe the intervening de-allocate was done without a DEQ. Besides, the message IKJ56247I FILE SYSUT1 NOT FREED, IS NOT ALLOCATED may not come to pass the way you

Re: Mainframe Empty datasets

2007-05-18 Thread J R
LOCATE the dataset OBTAIN the DSCB Examine DS1LSTAR From: CICS Guy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Mainframe Empty datasets Date: Fri, 18 May 2007 11:36:37 -0500 I read it more that the dataset may have been

Re: Date Time in JCL

2007-05-18 Thread J R
Peter Farley said: SYSTMEG Time, Execute, GMT SYSTMEL Time, Execute, Local GMT's could be suffixed U for Universal or Z for Zulu instead of G, I don't really care as long as the functionality is the same. Despite being an aviator, I like G more than Z in this context because it

Re: Top 10 software install gripes

2007-05-12 Thread J R
Rick Fochtman said: Ken, the physical BLKSIZE of the directory is 255, plus a 8-byte physical key. I think you'll find that's 256. From: Rick Fochtman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Top 10 software install

Re: Recalling GDG generations

2007-04-10 Thread J R
This is driven by the results of catalog LOCATE. The generations of the GDG are returned by a single LOCATE for the GDG base. From: Pommier, Rex R. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Recalling GDG generations

Re: IEBCOPY question?

2007-03-07 Thread J R
Surprising comments coming from someone who has spent years in the area of performance. Mark, Shirley you've come across people like Ted before? I'm surrounded by them. Things are only problems if they perceive them first. It's both frustrating and amusing when, a week or so later, they

Re: Interesting PDF doing the rounds

2007-02-15 Thread J R
I can see it from Toronto! From: Ted MacNEIL [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Interesting PDF doing the rounds Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 18:30:25 + It's visible from Chicago Not from Toronto! - Too busy

Re: Interrupting DSLIST [resent with the correct Reply To]

2007-01-12 Thread J R
Edward Jaffe said: Thankfully! This deferral is usually very short lived. But isn't that the problem here? DSLIST data is obtained via superlocate, which has the potential of retrieving enormous amounts of data from multiple catalogs in a single invocation of SVC26. From: Edward Jaffe

Re: S0C1 with ILC 6

2006-12-15 Thread J R
From: Tom Marchant What's wrong with the ABEND macro? ABEND macro requires setup, changes registers, etc. If it's a true this *should* never happen scenario, a S0C3 (or similar) abend preserves registers, etc. From: Tom Marchant [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List

Re: Decimal FP (was: vendor JCL)

2006-12-14 Thread J R
From: Chris Mason I seem to remember SPOOL meant Simultaneous Peripheral Operations On Line I think we all acknowledge that SPOOL was contrived to mean Simultaneous Peripheral Operations On Line. The doubt expressed within this thread relates to whether anyone ever really thought of it as an

Re: Decimal FP (was: vendor JCL)

2006-11-30 Thread J R
Was SPOOL *ever* an acronym? Evidently, you and Ted were the only ones not to see the rhetorical nature of that question. From: Tom Marchant [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Decimal FP (was: vendor JCL)

Re: Assembler question

2006-11-08 Thread J R
I don't see what all the fuss is about. I just know that My Way is better than Everyone Else's Way. Hmm! But you probably think that z/VM is better than z/OS as well? From: Alan Altmark [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU

Re: Apology

2006-10-26 Thread J R
Just refer to him as Feel Pain. :-) From: Edward Jaffe [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Apology Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 10:01:49 -0700 Phil Payne wrote: I've been grumbled at for my recent ad hominem directed

Re: FW:A Letter To The FLEX-ES Community

2006-10-06 Thread J R
I think *has* reflects the singular subject box. It shouldn't reflect the plural object 200 MIPS. From: Alan Altmark [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: FW:A Letter To The FLEX-ES Community Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2006

Re: Absolute value packed decimal in SyncSort

2006-09-08 Thread J R
FORMAT=PD? From: Imbriale, Don [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Absolute value packed decimal in SyncSort Date: Fri, 8 Sep 2006 16:04:16 -0500 I'm stumped. I've read and searched everything I can, but no luck.

Re: Terminal Status Block(TSB) - where to find its description

2006-09-05 Thread J R
You can determine that by looking at the CSCB (CHTRKID). Or check for ASCBTSB non-zero. If you want to look at the description of the TSB, look at IKJTSB (which is in SYS1.MACLIB). If want to look at it via a program, you're going to have to do some cross-address processing, e.g. SRB.

Re: What part of z/OS is the OS?

2006-08-29 Thread J R
This implies that any command thrown at it be it MVC or OI, is handled by the Operating system. Shirley, you can't be serious! I'm not familiar with the MVC and OI commands, but if you're referring to the MVC and OI instructions, these are handled directly by the CPU. [1] [1] other than for

Re: What part of z/OS is the OS?

2006-08-29 Thread J R
Not really, but you CAN get by without ISPF (even though it would be difficult). We tend to refer to the parts we deal intimately with by name, e.g. TSO, ISPF, HLASM, VTAM, TCP/IP, JES2, SDSF, etc., etc. Unless we are looking at some component in particular, we tend to refer to everything else

Re: Z/os Performance issue: REWRITE a sequential data set

2006-08-28 Thread J R
From: Johnny Luo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ok, ADCD 1.4 is old and maybe is lack of maintenance so its PL/I compiler is 'buggy'. But how about the compiler of my friend's site? It's the newer version and is under normal maintenance( built on 20051017) . I doubt that IBM would accept your

Re: Why is it still there?

2006-08-27 Thread J R
ACF2 also does (or did) this I think (I'm not sure). It may have gone away when it went to the SAF interface as opposed to ZAPing SVCs. This is one of the very few justifiable uses of system abend codes by non-IBM code. If you are replacing SVCs 130-133, it makes perfect sense to use x82,

Re: Why is it still there?

2006-08-25 Thread J R
Any program that returns to the operating system by branching to the address it was told when it initially got control is assumed to have completed successfully. SVC 3 = normal completion SVC 13 = abnormal completion If sss in nonzero, it was abended by a service routine and sss is the

Re: Why is it still there?

2006-08-25 Thread J R
You probably mean the fact that the code type parameter of the ABEND macro detemines whether it will be seen as a user or a system abend, right? No. My quibble was with your characterization of system vs. user as service routine vs. programmer. Usually, Sxxx abends are for system code, user

Re: SVC Screening and TCBUSER

2006-08-25 Thread J R
TCBUSER did serve its purpose in the day, but I can remember a time a conflict occurred in three different products that my then-employer sold. Almost twenty years ago I was a partner in an ISV. We had three main products, all of which made use of their own SVC and subsystem. (This came about

Re: Bypass Update of Last Used Date in OPEN (was EXCP with a DEB)

2006-08-24 Thread J R
Steve Myers said: utilities generally verify read access through SAF, and do a data ENQ on the data set name, but they do not actually process the data set through OPEN. While it is dangerous ... Dangerous? (*) Sensitive to OS changes, maybe, but as long as *all* the necessary precautions

Re: Search Archives Backward?

2006-08-22 Thread J R
In http://groups.google.ca/group/bit.listserv.ibm-main/ if you use the Search this group feature, you can then click on Sort by date and you will get what you want. From: Paul Gilmartin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU

Re: Rent-a-phone

2006-08-13 Thread J R
I do the opposite; my phone works everywhere I need or want to go. Since roaming fees are ridiculously expensive, if I'm going somewhere for long enough, I buy the cheapest SIM card when I get there. I currently use a Canadian SIM and have a UK one in my wallet. From: Phil Payne [EMAIL

Re: Two TSO TRANSMIT (XMIT) questions

2006-08-13 Thread J R
Double click on the zip file that you downloaded. Double click on setup.exe to install XMITmanager. Double click on any .xmi file (i.e. a XMIT dataset that you have downloaded to your PC). Things should be intuitive from there on. From: Ed. Benoit [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: IBM Mainframe

Re: Finger trouble brings down NHS

2006-08-02 Thread J R
problem with the interruptible power supplies I gotta get me one of those IPS. Much more fun than UPS. From: Phil Payne [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Finger trouble brings down NHS Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2006

Re: Mainframe Limericks...

2006-06-23 Thread J R
English now belongs to everybody and is all the better for universal ownership. There's no doubt that English has been enriched through global ownership. However, not only spelling differences but also ambiguity is a pain in the fanny. q.v. http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/fanny From: Skip

Re: Mainframe Limericks...

2006-06-23 Thread J R
Limericks... Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2006 12:36:59 -0700 J R wrote: I apologize if I offended any person for whom English is not their first language. It was certainly not my intention to do that. My beef is with the nouveau-mainframers who insist on using wintel and unix terminology in place of our

Re: Mainframe Limericks...

2006-06-22 Thread J R
There once was a person named Rishi, Who posted a message most fishy. For pluralizing JCL, He should rot in hell, Though, now commonplace, it's cliche. Real mainframers don't pluralize JCL! _ Express yourself instantly with MSN

Re: Mainframe Limericks...

2006-06-22 Thread J R
. (BTW, I knew my limerick wasn't very good but it was the best I could come up with.) From: Chris Mason [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Mainframe Limericks... Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2006 18:35:29 +0200 J R

Re: Mainframe Limericks...

2006-06-22 Thread J R
I apologize if I offended any person for whom English is not their first language. It was certainly not my intention to do that. My beef is with the nouveau-mainframers who insist on using wintel and unix terminology in place of our well-established vernacular. From: Liliane L. Clever [EMAIL

Re: Track capacity?

2006-06-16 Thread J R
It's a long, long time since I've used it but take a look at the TRKCALC macro. It's well documented within SYS1.MACLIB(TRKCALC). From: Charles Mills [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Track capacity? Date: Fri, 16

Re: SSI experience

2006-05-31 Thread J R
Judicious use of S99TIONQ? Maybe use S99CNENQ first? From: Victor Gil [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: SSI experience Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 11:09:46 -0500 Ed, My tests indicate that DYNALLOC is in fact

Re: Wherefrom E15 and E35 Exit routines for SORT

2006-05-29 Thread J R
I'm pretty sure that Binyamin meant exactly what he wrote. Firstly, he suggested that, if there were such things, standard exits might emulate default, i.e. non-exit, behavior. Secondly, he went on to describe what exits are normally used for, i.e. anything but default behavior. From: Frank

Re: 'Problem' with EXPDT on SynchSort SORTOUT

2006-05-24 Thread J R
The FM says, Use the EXPDT parameter to specify the expiration date for a *new* data set. From: Jan Vanbrabant [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: 'Problem' with EXPDT on SynchSort SORTOUT Date: Wed, 24 May 2006

Re: 'Problem' with EXPDT on SynchSort SORTOUT

2006-05-24 Thread J R
The Fine Manual is SA22-7597-08 z/OS MVS JCL Reference. From: Jan Vanbrabant [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: 'Problem' with EXPDT on SynchSort SORTOUT Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 12:11:05 + Hi jayare, What

Re: Write to BR14 allocated PSDS - Unitech ACR 3.3

2006-05-24 Thread J R
The problem here is one of imprecise communication. IEFBR14 does not create datasets. IEFBR14 does not allocate datasets. IEFBR14 does not initialize datasets. I suspect we all knew what the gist of the vendor's recommendation was but, as written in the OP's post, one had to wonder. What we

Re: submit job from SYSPUNCH

2006-05-08 Thread J R
Thanks, Bill, I'd forgotten about /*DEL. Regarding point #2, I think that PUNCH statements are processed as they are encountered. However, one could punch a /*DEL card which should terminate the job which would have been submitted IIRC. Bill

Re: rexx or other macro processor on z/os?

2006-05-08 Thread J R
Yes, I read that too. But it didn't answer my question because it doesn't say when the object deck is written. My question was not as to *where* in the deck the PUNCH output appears but *when* the deck, PUNCH output and all, is written. In any event, as pointed out by Bill Lalonde and Shmuel

Re: Submit job from SYPUNCH was (fwd) Re: rexx or other macro processor on z/os?

2006-05-07 Thread J R
Why don't you have SYSPUNCH SYSOUT=(*,INTRDR)? Because it's a good idea to check the assembly completion code to ensure that the generated JCL is good. That way you can avoid submitting partially and/or incorrectly built jobs to the internal reader. From: Clark Morris [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: submit job from SYSPUNCH

2006-05-07 Thread J R
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: submit job from SYSPUNCH Date: Sun, 7 May 2006 15:15:33 + J R [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Why don't you have SYSPUNCH SYSOUT=(*,INTRDR)? Because it's a good idea to check the assembly completion code to ensure that the generated JCL is good. That way

Re: SSI experience

2006-05-04 Thread J R
Maybe they could assign a group of college co-op students to the task? Careful! According to legend, that's the kind of thing that begat IEHMOVE. From: Tom Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: SSI

Re: Meaningful Subject: (was: Dumb question?)

2006-05-03 Thread J R
In many countries, it's also offensive to equate dumb with lacking in intelligence. It's ironic that, because of the widespread use of this interpretation, many people who cannot speak prefer to be called mute or speechless. From: Paul Gilmartin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: IBM Mainframe

Re: IEC141I 013-C0 during SUBSYS open

2006-05-01 Thread J R
What sort of subsystem was involved (JES or something else)? Did you get more messages (probably in the SYSMSGS)? From recent postings, I got the impression that Victor was writing his own subsystem. From: Bruce Black [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List

Re: TOD Clock the same as the BIOS clock in PCs?

2006-04-24 Thread J R
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: TOD Clock the same as the BIOS clock in PCs? Date: Date: Mon, Apr 24 2006 4:36 am which was probably brought to you by the same people who have a bizarre collating sequence where zero follows 9 (see your local keyboard or telephone keypad for

Re: Reading Variable record with bad BDW/RDW?

2006-04-24 Thread J R
Use DYNALLOC Information Retrieval for the DSORG. From: Thomas David Rivers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Reading Variable record with bad BDW/RDW? Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2006 15:18:39 -0400 Hi John, Yeah... I

Re: Reading Variable record with bad BDW/RDW?

2006-04-24 Thread J R
Your inclinations assume that: (a) DCBDSORG will change during OPEN, and (b) the data will appear in his program without an error. I don't believe (a) ever happens. I think he already has the error before he sees the data. From: Paul Gilmartin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: IBM Mainframe

Re: Reading Variable record with bad BDW/RDW?

2006-04-24 Thread J R
In a recent note, J R said: Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2006 16:24:54 -0400 Your inclinations assume that: (a) DCBDSORG will change during OPEN, and I don't believe (a) ever happens. I certainly did assume that. Have I misunderstood the following: Title: z/OS V1R5.0 DFSMS: Using Data

Re: Reading Variable record with bad BDW/RDW?

2006-04-24 Thread J R
Code DINRTORG to request the return of the data set organization (DSORG) of the specified resource. Code DINRTMEM to request the return of the member name associated with the specified allocation. By getting this information *before* OPEN you should be able to set up your DCB appropriately.

Re: z900 Capacity Models?

2006-03-27 Thread J R
Ha! The more things change, the more they stay the same. Back in the very early '70s at IBM, I did some performance work using an SMI (System Measurement Instrument?). There were rumored to be only two in all of the UK, and we were using both at the time. Those of us entrusted with the beast

Re: Need help with msg IEE114I

2006-03-07 Thread J R
APPC Transaction? From: Richard Tsujimoto [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Need help with msg IEE114I Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2006 12:09:30 -0500 When a D J,L command is issued, the response is message IEE114I, showing a

Re: Military Time?

2006-02-24 Thread J R
On 2006-02-24 09:41, howard.braazee said: Except that if someone enters 00:01AM, while it might not be technically correct, it is unambiguous. Are you saying that, in your programs, you check for and allow 00:01AM? It would be nice to be correct. It is more important to be clear

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