Re: Determining file attributes *before* OPEN

2008-10-07 Thread John McKown
the volser. I'd use the newest IGGCSI00 interface to do that instead of the old way (which I can't even remember what it is called - LOCATE?) -- John McKown -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instruc

Re: LE question about COBOL compatibility

2008-10-06 Thread John McKown
On Mon, 6 Oct 2008 09:51:28 -0700, Tom Ross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>IMHO, the only reasonable excuse for keeping OS/VS Cobol around is not >>>having the source code to recompile. >> >>Unfortunately, that is a common problem. > >Although it was solved years ago by Source Recovery Company. Th

3270 emulator under Linux/Intel

2008-10-06 Thread John McKown
On the off chance that anybody cares. I would like to mention that the Hummingbird 3270 emulator seems to run just fine using WINE on Linux/Intel. IIRC, I also tested an old version of QWS3270 under WINE also. x3270 works, but just is not as nice, IMO. -- John

Re: VSAM I/O

2008-10-05 Thread John McKown
Hope this makes sense. Look at the doc how how BLSR works. -- Q: What do theoretical physicists drink beer from? A: Ein Stein. Maranatha! John McKown -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send ema

Re: Space needed to un-pax SMP/E 3.5?

2008-10-03 Thread John McKown
On Fri, 3 Oct 2008 09:33:50 -0500, Chase, John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hi, All, > >Got the new SMP/E downloaded, but so far haven't been able to complete >the RECEIVE. The job keeps running out of space in the HFS for the >unpack operation. 4,000 cylinders is too small. > >Anybody know just

Re: Weird SDSF thought.

2008-10-03 Thread John McKown
On Fri, 3 Oct 2008 09:18:19 -0500, Chase, John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >You could cut your IT budget to zero by regressing to paper & pencils. > >BTW, we sell paper & pencils. :-) > >-jc- Believe it or not, I was at a place which was told to cut their budget by 10%. They came up with

Re: Weird SDSF thought.

2008-10-02 Thread John McKown
r capability. -- Q: What do theoretical physicists drink beer from? A: Ein Stein. Maranatha! John McKown -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html

Weird SDSF thought.

2008-10-02 Thread John McKown
In my usually weird thought mode, I was wondering about something. We're on z/OS 1.8, and so this thought may not apply to later releases. Anyway, there are three display drivers for SDSF that I can see: ISFBDSP - Batch; ISFS4DSP - ISPF; ISFTDSP - native TSO. What occurred to me was yet another dri

Re: LE question about COBOL compatibility

2008-10-02 Thread John McKown
On Thu, 2 Oct 2008 12:35:16 -0500, John P Kalinich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Mark Yuhas of the IBM Mainframe Discussion List >wrote on 10/02/2008 12:27:32 PM: > >> Has IBM announced what release of LE will not support old COBOL runtime >> environments, specifically OS/VS COBOL and VS COBOL II?

Re: HMC and changing the LPAR weights

2008-10-01 Thread John McKown
On Wed, 1 Oct 2008 21:05:11 +, Ted MacNEIL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>Does anyone know if there is a way to automate changing the weight distribution in the HMC? I have never heard of such a thing, but thought I'd >ask anyway. > >I'm not sure what you mean. >But, IRD/WLM can manage it based

zIIP eligible products?

2008-10-01 Thread John McKown
Just a quick question. I know that Java work is zAAP eligible. And I know that a lot of DB2 work is zIIP eligible. From what I've read, to be zIIP eligible, the code must run in an "enclave SRB". What other products do that? Unfortunately, our shop is very primitive. No DB2 or other RDMS. 99% of ou

Re: History question: //SYSABOUT DD statement

2008-09-30 Thread John McKown
On Tue, 30 Sep 2008 14:53:12 -0500, Chase, John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hi, All, > >I can't remember what the //SYSABOUT DD statement was for (doing a >little "cleanup" here). Didn't it have something to do with OS/VS >COBOL? Or was it "long-ago" MVS-specific? > >We seem to have more than a

Re: Mapping Macros for argument to CCWs Define Extent, Locate Record etc.?

2008-09-30 Thread John McKown
On Tue, 30 Sep 2008 14:42:12 -0400, IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >John, >Here is another reason why we z/OS-ers should be thankful for the VM world. > >Check out http://www.vm.ibm.com/pubs/cpdacb/index.html?where there is a whole passel of DSECTs.? You want to look at D

Re: Curiousity question

2008-09-30 Thread John McKown
On Tue, 30 Sep 2008 10:15:36 -0400, Grine, Janet [GCG-PFS] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I have always thought of QuickRef as an automatic "sure let's get it" >kind of product. Has anyone heard of other similar products? What kind >of experience can we expect in the area of cost increases for this

Re: zFA-Reorg/Maint

2008-09-29 Thread John McKown
On Mon, 29 Sep 2008 11:07:08 -0500, Ron Wells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >thanks for your feed back. >I realize the app is not designed correctlytrying to get that >changed... >they have more activity in there directory than on the file so saying >that... the directory is what is being

Re: zFA-Reorg/Maint

2008-09-29 Thread John McKown
On Mon, 29 Sep 2008 09:59:00 -0500, Bruno Sugliani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Mon, 29 Sep 2008 09:00:51 -0500, John McKown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> >>I don't think so. I've never heard of a "defrag" utility for zFS or HFS >>filesy

Re: zFA-Reorg/Maint

2008-09-29 Thread John McKown
On Mon, 29 Sep 2008 08:55:20 -0500, Ron Wells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Was asked if there is another way>> utility or product.. to reorg..zFS >files.. and basic Maint. that others have followed ... > >excp's are climbing..and files growing...needing to get a handle on them >before>> bang << I

Re: Omegamon II MVS V520 on z/OS 1.9

2008-09-29 Thread John McKown
ied to the bean counters. We're in that situation right now with some product replacements, which I cannot go into. -- Q: What do theoretical physicists drink beer from? A: Ein Stein. Maranatha! John McKown -- For IBM-MAIN

Re: COBOL program

2008-09-26 Thread John McKown
columns. > I have one that, for some reason, is VBA/259. I think it was from the time when the largest LRECL that could be editted in ISPF was 255 bytes. -- Q: What do theoretical physicists drink beer from? A: Ein Stein. Maranatha! John McKown

Re: Squashing VB records into FB

2008-09-26 Thread John McKown
On Fri, 26 Sep 2008 14:37:56 -0500, Kirk Wolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >John, > >Hey, you missed your opportunity to mention Co:Z todsn and fromdsn :-) > >// EXEC DTLSPAWN >//INDD DSN=HLQ.VB.DSN,DISP=SHR >//OUT DD DSN=HLQ.FB.DSN,DISP=(NEW,CATLG), >// DCB=(LRECL=80,RECFM=FB), ...

Re: Data conversion EBCDIC to ASCII

2008-09-26 Thread John McKown
On Fri, 26 Sep 2008 09:05:43 -0600, Steve Comstock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I'd really suggest installation of Dovetailed Technologies Co:Z free >> product. Why? It will do the above in a single step! >> >> fromdsn -s IBM-1047 -t ISO8859-1 'BRASIL.ZOS.CONTEST.JCL(DATA1)' >/data1 >> >> revers

Re: Squashing VB records into FB

2008-09-26 Thread John McKown
RDWS AS DATA SENDSITE ; TURN OFF GENERATED SITE COMMAND SITE LRECL=80 RECFM=FB PRI=? SEC=? CYLINDERS PUT 'variable.file' 'fixed.file' /* // Note: it is important to use LOCSITE RDW and __not__ SITE RDW. The first way works. The second

Re: Squashing VB records into FB

2008-09-26 Thread John McKown
On Fri, 26 Sep 2008 11:22:45 -0400, Sproull, George CTR DISA GS4B14 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hi, > Is there a native z/OS utility that would take in a file of the >following VB format (for example): > >First VB record = |rdw1|record1-40 bytes| >Next VB record = |rdw2|record2-200 bytes| >

Re: Microsoft Windows Vista vs. z/OS

2008-09-26 Thread John McKown
Ah, the smug smiles on the faces of all Linux users. Not that the UI on the various X Window managers hasn't changed over time. And then there's the KDE vs. GNOME vs. Xfce vs. ... wars as well. But if I decide that I like the KDE 3.5 UI and don't like the new 4.1, then I just keep KDE 3.5! Nobody f

Re: Data conversion EBCDIC to ASCII

2008-09-26 Thread John McKown
On Fri, 26 Sep 2008 10:09:21 -0500, Mark Zelden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >What was wrong with this suggestion 5 days ago? z/OS UNIX wasn't >required at all nor the considerations that go along with (OMVS segments, >intermediate storage etc.). > >http://bama.ua.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0809&L=ibm-ma

Re: Data conversion EBCDIC to ASCII

2008-09-26 Thread John McKown
On Fri, 26 Sep 2008 08:59:06 -0500, Paul Gilmartin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Or, if the OP has insufficient z/OS Unix temporary file space >(or none at all), which seems to have been a problem: > >cp "//'BRASIL.ZOS.CONTEST.JCL(EBCDIC)'" /dev/fd/1 | >iconv -f ibm-1047 -t iso8859-1

Re: Data conversion EBCDIC to ASCII

2008-09-26 Thread John McKown
On Fri, 26 Sep 2008 16:50:24 +0200, Hunkeler Peter (KIUK 3) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>(It's best not to overwrite the original input file because you >>might need to try once more.) > >In case of iconv, I seem to remeber that it even doesn't support >using the same file as input and as output.

Re: COBOL program

2008-09-26 Thread John McKown
On Fri, 26 Sep 2008 09:59:39 -0500, Field, Alan C. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Have you got a COBOL program that can read any file? > >If you do, it can read a PDS member by specifying pdsname(member) in the JCL, e.g //MYDD DD DISP=SHR,DSN=MYPDS(MYMEMBER) > My guess is that the OP needs to be abl

Re: Data conversion EBCDIC to ASCII

2008-09-26 Thread John McKown
On Fri, 26 Sep 2008 07:59:40 +0200, Hunkeler Peter (KIUK 3) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I'd suggest: > >1) OMVS to start a UNIX shell. Or, if available, better use > telnet, rlogin, SSH to log into UNIX. >2) cp "//'BRASIL.ZOS.CONTEST.JCL(DATA1)'" data1 >3) iconv -f ibm-1047 -t iso8859-1 data1 >

Re: jes2

2008-09-25 Thread John McKown
th half-duplex, one side sends some data, then says "ok, you can send now" and vice versa. They must take turns on the line. -- Q: What do theoretical physicists drink beer from? A: Ein Stein. Maranatha! John McKown -

Re: SRB Wait & JWT

2008-09-25 Thread John McKown
On Thu, 25 Sep 2008 08:29:46 -0700, Patrick Falcone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hi Tom, >  >I'm sorry, yes my below is poorly worded. >  >You answered my question in that an SRB does not wait. I guess I should have just looked at the SMF manual , as I'm doing now, to better understand the scope of

Re: Export catalog by FTP

2008-09-25 Thread John McKown
On Thu, 25 Sep 2008 07:06:27 -0600, David Logan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I think you're going to have problems trying to FTP a RECFM=U dataset. I >think you need to either write it out as RECFM=FB, or use a utility like TSO >XMIT to turn it into a dataset that is easily FTP'd. > >David Logan >M

Re: CICS DFHRPLConcatenation

2008-09-25 Thread John McKown
On Thu, 25 Sep 2008 09:02:30 -0400, Barkow, Eileen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >i think that the reason the loadlibs need to be in DFHRPL even if in >linklist is because CICS does its own type of load of the modules from >DFHRPL, not a MVS load which would come out of steplib/linklist. > CICS now

Re: Export catalog by FTP

2008-09-25 Thread John McKown
On Thu, 25 Sep 2008 07:54:59 -0400, Lizette Koehler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Could you supply the JCL you use to do the EXPORT or the DFDSS with the >messages? > >I usually code a BLKSIZE=32760 on my DFDSS dumps of datasets for FTP >transmissions. DFDSS does not require it, but for FTP transmi

Re: Senior project title about MF

2008-09-24 Thread John McKown
On Wed, 24 Sep 2008 17:00:15 -0400, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >In ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, >on 09/24/2008 > at 08:00 AM, Ron Wells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > >>and all operating systems will run on them > >That's not going to happen. The platforms for, e.g., WXWX VIII, GC

Re: Some help with SMS

2008-09-24 Thread John McKown
On Wed, 24 Sep 2008 15:45:33 -0500, Dave Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >No, I don't really want SMS for any reason. I tried IPL'ing with the SMS >sub-system not getting started, and had numerous problems when running. So, >I'm back to having SMS active. Since it is active, it must have some or

Re: Some help with SMS

2008-09-24 Thread John McKown
On Wed, 24 Sep 2008 15:27:24 -0500, Dave Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I need some SMS help. I've never had to mess with it before, and don't have a clue. If there is a quick and dirty way to get what I need done, I'd appreciate someone givimg me some help. >I've just migrated from a 1.

Re: Article on z/OS on Intel, sort of.

2008-09-24 Thread John McKown
On Wed, 24 Sep 2008 20:12:14 +0200, Lindy Mayfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >And when reading about the marriage of the operating system to the z >hardware, I wondered if this was somehow different from the Mac. Anyone >know if/how it is? It is similar. Apple will only license Mac OSX on Apple

Article on z/OS on Intel, sort of.

2008-09-24 Thread John McKown
http://www.interopnews.com/analysis/how-to-make-a-killing-in-the-mainframe-market.html Actually, it is more about how IBM has captured the zArch and thus z/OS market. It seems to bemoan the fact that there is not, and likely never will be, a competitor which can run z/OS and thus run z/OS legacy a

Re: 3480/3490 tape devices

2008-09-24 Thread John McKown
On Wed, 24 Sep 2008 17:02:52 +0100, Greeley, Kevin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Apologies if you've already seen this: > >"IBM plans to discontinue delivery of software on 3480, 3480 Compressed >(3480C), and 3490E tape media. IBM recommends using Internet delivery >when ordering your z/OS products

Re: 3480/3490 tape devices

2008-09-24 Thread John McKown
r as it passes through these >servers. Which is way ALL files which come in from the outside must be encrypted at our shop. > >HTH > >Hal -- John McKown -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive acc

Re: IBMLink is broken again?

2008-09-24 Thread John McKown
ed cannot be displayed." with >the same "500 Internal server error" message. > http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/Shelves is still working OK. -- John McKown -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe /

Re: Senior project title about MF

2008-09-24 Thread John McKown
a sort-of sponsor in IBM who thought he could get me an ADCD license. However, that died the instant that I said that Hercules/390 would be my platform. I couldn't afford even the least expensive FlexES system. -- John McKown --

Re: JCL statements not in JCL manual?

2008-09-24 Thread John McKown
like to parse as much of the JCL as I can. I could do the suggestion about considering all "JCL" between a // CNTL and // ENDCNTL as "instream" data and not parse it at all. -- John McKown -- For IBM-MAIN subsc

Re: Space errors in JAVA during SMP/E Apply

2008-09-22 Thread John McKown
nt /usr/lpp/jdk.new 10) ALTER old.jdk.LDS.name some.new.name.just.to.be.safe 11) ALTER new.jdk.LDS.name old.jdk.LDS.name 12) mount /usr/lpp/jdk #mount copy of filesystem at old mount point === The above is off the top of my head, but should be close. I think

Re: Space errors in JAVA during SMP/E Apply

2008-09-22 Thread John McKown
y 1024K (1 Meg). If not, then unmount the filesystem. Do an IDCAMS ALTER command to add a second volume. Then try the zfsadm command. I don't know if you need to MOUNT the filesystem before the zfsadm command in this case, or afterwards. I'd try before and if

Re: Logic in FTP procedure

2008-09-22 Thread John McKown
On Mon, 22 Sep 2008 20:14:11 +0200, Wolfgang Schäfer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hallo Jürgen, > >probably the easiest way might be to generate a listing of the target >directory first, parse it and then find the newest file in the list ... > >/* rexx */ >/* assumes you have a NETRC file ... */ >q

Re: JCL statements not in JCL manual?

2008-09-22 Thread John McKown
d be to process them more like "instream data" than JCL. Is that the correct thing to do? How do these "program control statements" get processed by the JCL converter / intepreter? Are they converted into internal text? -- John McKown ---

Re: getting the mainframe id in a cobol program

2008-09-22 Thread John McKown
On Mon, 22 Sep 2008 12:48:16 -0500, Brain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hello. > >Could some one please help me mt to get the mainframe id when i execute the >cobol program, this id will hen be inserted in a table to see who has inserted >the record. > >Thanks, >RajeevV If you want a "pure" COBOL p

JCL statements not in JCL manual?

2008-09-22 Thread John McKown
Does anybody know of any valid JCL statements which are not documented in the JCL manual? So far, I have found the PRINTDEV statement, which is apparently related to AFP printing. -- John McKown -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe

Re: IEFU84

2008-09-22 Thread John McKown
the SRB is a dispatchable unit of work in the address space. I'm fairly sure that resets the JWT. I.e. the JWT is not reset just by TCB work, but by SRB work as well. -- John McKown -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / ar

Re: VTOC INDEX STATUS : DISABLED

2008-09-22 Thread John McKown
xamine the data in the datasets copied because you likely have a corrupted datasets somewhere. -- Q: What do theoretical physicists drink beer from? A: Ein Stein. Maranatha! John McKown -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive

Re: Data conversion EBCDIC to ASCII

2008-09-19 Thread John McKown
e 1047 (C language, UNIX) to ASCII code page ISO8859-1. -- Q: What do theoretical physicists drink beer from? A: Ein Stein. Maranatha! John McKown -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email t

Re: Display Esoteric values

2008-09-19 Thread John McKown
the addresses assigned to a generic or esoteric. I would think that Tivoli, et al. could likely do this as well. -- Q: What do theoretical physicists drink beer from? A: Ein Stein. Maranatha! John McKown -- For IBM-MAIN subsc

Re: Size Of SQA At Next IPL

2008-09-19 Thread John McKown
t is called. -- Q: What do theoretical physicists drink beer from? A: Ein Stein. Maranatha! John McKown -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GE

Re: Porting a new operating system

2008-09-18 Thread John McKown
On Thu, 18 Sep 2008 12:51:46 -0600, Mark Post <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 9/18/2008 at 12:33 PM, in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Rich Smrcina ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> There is a project underway to port OpenVMS to System z. > >If this is what David Boyes talked about, it's not a port

Re: Porting a new operating system

2008-09-18 Thread John McKown
- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO > Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html >

Re: Defining Page Datasets on RESCUE Pack

2008-09-16 Thread John McKown
complete system replacement. It does work. Try it! You'll like it! -- Maranatha! John McKown -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html

Re: Efficient defrag? Not for weekends only...

2008-09-16 Thread John McKown
On Tue, 16 Sep 2008 08:37:00 -0500, Adams, Rick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >There is also a product from Dino software called Real Time Defrag. > >ThanksRick Can it move datasets which are in use? That is really what the OP wants. -

Re: zIIP zAAP, ICF, IFL question

2008-09-13 Thread John McKown
ngine conversion, i.e. change zIIP to zAAP > - and what is typical price for such change? Is it only engine price > difference or more ? > > > Regards > -- Q: What do theoretical physicists drink beer from? A: Ein Stein. Maranatha! John McKown --

Re: z/OS 1.7 FTP RDW option for VB files

2008-09-12 Thread John McKown
ngle x'FF' as. It the next byte is x'01', then it is an end-of-record indicator. -- Q: What do theoretical physicists drink beer from? A: Ein Stein. Maranatha! John McKown -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff /

Re: z/OS 1.7 FTP RDW option for VB files (fwd)

2008-09-12 Thread John McKown
to z/OS. Or, depending, you could write a program on z/OS to read the VB file and massage it into the format you need before ftp'ing. Then another program to go the other way. But there is __NO__ way to get ftp to do it fo

Re: Name/tokens

2008-09-11 Thread John McKown
ervisor, and running all the iSeries, pSeries, and zSeries software on it. . After, the iSeries runs on Power via a sort of emulation. If I had an AIX box available to me, I'd love to see how Hercules/390 (not an optimally performing em

Re: ISFP default intrdr assignments

2008-09-11 Thread John McKown
se the Dynamic Allocation exit to change the text fields to include the DEST=DUMMY field. This is the IEFDB401 exit. It is documented in the "z/OS Installation Exits" manual. -- Q: What do theoretical physicists drink beer fro

Re: SMPE Help for LinkEdt failures

2008-09-11 Thread John McKown
t do theoretical physicists drink beer from? A: Ein Stein. Maranatha! John McKown -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html

DFSMShsm question - seg ML2 data by STORCLAS?

2008-09-11 Thread John McKown
a on the virtual ML2 tapes, then use VDR to make copies to different sets of physical tapes so that at D.R. we can first reload the virtual ML2 tapes to the D.R. VTS which contain the production data. Am I making sense? -- Q: What do theoretical physicists drink beer from? A: Ein Stein. Ma

Re: question for C experts - strcpy vs memcpy (fwd)

2008-09-08 Thread John McKown
specially, on non-Mainframes. - Too busy driving to stop > for gas! > Agreed. I/O is far more of a bottle neck than CPU. Especially went I'm mainly reading and writing. -- Q: What do theoretical physicists drink beer from? A: An EIN stein. Maranatha! John McKown

Re: question for C experts - strcpy vs memcpy (fwd)

2008-09-08 Thread John McKown
strncpy and snprintf so that I don't get buffer overflows. -- Q: What do theoretical physicists drink beer from? A: An EIN stein. Maranatha! John McKown -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructi

Re: question for C experts - strcpy vs memcpy (fwd)

2008-09-08 Thread John McKown
On Mon, 8 Sep 2008, Mark Post wrote: > >>> On 9/8/2008 at 2:25 PM, in message > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, John McKown > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -snip- > > Why don't I just look at the generated code? Because I don't > > have a C co

question for C experts - strcpy vs memcpy

2008-09-08 Thread John McKown
better performance. Why don't I just look at the generated code? Because I don't have a C compiler for z/OS. I'm writing my code on Linux using GCC. -- Q: What do theoretical physicists drink beer from? A: An

Re: JCL parser status

2008-09-08 Thread John McKown
l. Comments are "free form" and don't really give any information to a computer. They are only useful to humans. Sometimes. Maybe. -- Q: What do theoretical physicists drink beer from? A: An EIN stein. Maranatha! John McKown -

Re: JCL parser status

2008-09-07 Thread John McKown
archive access instructions, > send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO > Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html > -- Q: What do theoretical physicists drink beer from? A: An EIN stein. Maranatha! John McKown

Re: JCL parser status

2008-09-07 Thread John McKown
comment to the data which came off of the same physical card. No way am I going to try to do that! -- Q: What do theoretical physicists drink beer from? A: An EIN stein. Maranatha! John McKown -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / sig

JCL parser status

2008-09-07 Thread John McKown
speciality JCL statements yet (such as the PRINTDEV from PSF?). -- Q: What do theoretical physicists drink beer from? A: An EIN stein. Maranatha! John McKown -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, s

Re: Info on Setting Up an Lpar for Flashcopy

2008-09-06 Thread John McKown
from? A: An EIN stein. Maranatha! John McKown -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html

Re: Info on Setting Up an Lpar for Flashcopy

2008-09-06 Thread John McKown
> > I know we have FDR and I think we have Compaktor, but I'm not sure. > > > > In answer to Tom Conolly, since my internet connection at my > > hotel is so slow, I will look at FDRINSTANT, but my hopes are > > not too high. It was good talking

Re: Third Party Tool Usage

2008-09-05 Thread John McKown
27;t show the concatenated datasets, on the first dataset in the concatenation. -- Q: What do theoretical physicists drink beer from? A: An EIN stein. Maranatha! John McKown -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access i

Re: Compression figures, anyone?

2008-09-05 Thread John McKown
ED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO > Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html > -- Q: What do theoretical physicists drink beer from? A: An EIN stein. Maranatha! John McKown -- For IBM-MAIN su

Re: VSCR (SQA) LCCA/PCCA > 16M OPTIONAL WITH Z/OS 1.9 DIAGxx CBLOC VIRTUAL31(IHALCCA,IHAPCCA)

2008-09-04 Thread John McKown
I'm curious. With so much of our application code becoming 31 bit and residing above the line, what is the big push for even less below-the-line z/OS storage? I.e. what uses up 24-bit storage now-a-days? -- Q: What do theoretical physicists drink beer from? A: An EIN stein. Maranatha!

Re: Changing Mainframe's Clock

2008-09-03 Thread John McKown
have the same TOD value. Is that what you were asking about? If you could change one of the TODs, an outage will result. The sysplex is always checking that the clocks of all systems in the sysplex are synch'ed. -- Q: What do theoretical physicists drink beer from? A: An E

Re: signing off my corporate email account

2008-08-29 Thread John McKown
theoretical physicists drink beer from? A: An EIN stein. Maranatha! John McKown -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html

Re: SMS - Delete

2008-08-29 Thread John McKown
=SER=volser //SYSIN DD * DELETE dataset.name - FILE(VOLSER) - NVR /* It it is VSAM, then delete using VVR instead of NVR. -- Q: What do theoretical physicists drink beer from? A: An EIN stein. Maranatha! John McKown --

Re: MXI running authorised

2008-08-28 Thread John McKown
hink. By authorized, do you mean APF authorized? As in, linked AC=1 and in an APF library? Or do you mean something else, like some sort of RACF authorization? -- Q: What do theoretical physicists drink beer from? A: An EIN stein. Maranatha! Jo

Re: signing off my corporate email account

2008-08-28 Thread John McKown
st of us indulge ourselves in. Hum, he's been in our staff meetings, which tend to rabbit trail quite often. But he doesn't like it here. In any case, I am set up at home now. And, if necessary, I can still get to my lists by logging onto my home Linux system from my work Li

Re: signing off my corporate email account

2008-08-28 Thread John McKown
On Thu, 28 Aug 2008, Imbriale, Donald wrote: > Any chance you can use the web interface for reading and posting? Or > would that too be a violation of policy? > > Don Imbriale I'm not sure. Probably, if they thought about it.

Re: signing off my corporate email account

2008-08-28 Thread John McKown
t said, a throw down Yahoo or Gamil account should work just fine. > Web based is best as it is less likely to be blocked by the productivity > police. Blocked by Websense. > > HTH > -- Q: What do theoretical physicists drink b

Re: signing off my corporate email account

2008-08-28 Thread John McKown
. I just won't be able to respond quite as easily as I don't like leaving my SSH tunnel up. It tends to freak our LAN people since they can't tell what is going on. -- Q: What do theoretical physicists drink beer from? A: An EIN stein. Maranatha! John McKown -

signing off my corporate email account

2008-08-28 Thread John McKown
hysicists drink beer from? A: An EIN stein. Maranatha! John McKown -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://

commands in a JCL stream.

2008-08-24 Thread John McKown
; all the possible z/OS command verbs. That's because I used CA-OPS/MVS to create a command rule called MOMMA. When embedded in JCL, the command does not get executed and I get a JCL error. But I can enter the command via SDSF or a console session. Again, many thanks. -- Q: What do

SYSCHK DD statement

2008-08-24 Thread John McKown
or does it not matter? Thanks - I may just ignore SYSCHK in my parser. I doubt that anybody really uses it any more. -- Q: What do theoretical physicists drink beer from? A: An EIN stein. Maranatha! John McKown -- For IBM

Re: Why don't I see my CSA storage in the dump?

2008-08-23 Thread John McKown
y can be overridden with the CHNGDUMP (CD) command. I think that the default for SYSABEND will contain the common areas. But that's not for sure, depending on your shop standards. If you can do operator commands, you might try looking at the output from "D D,O" to see what the d

Re: JCL parser

2008-08-22 Thread John McKown
#x27;ll fail in my attempt. -- Q: What do theoretical physicists drink beer from? A: An EIN stein. Maranatha! John McKown -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the

JCL parser

2008-08-22 Thread John McKown
ye? -- Q: What do theoretical physicists drink beer from? A: An EIN stein. Maranatha! John McKown -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO

Re: VSMLIST Data

2008-08-21 Thread John McKown
t of the storage that you got in a single GETMAIN. This is unlike CICS. When you do a CICS GETMAIN, you must FREEMAIN the exact same storage address and length, or you getan error. -- Q: What do theoretical physicists drink beer from? A: An EIN stein. Maranatha! John McKown ---

Re: Timer Unit (TU) conversion to CPU time

2008-08-18 Thread John McKown
s/is guaranteed to increment by 1 every microsecond. The bits 52-103 may or may not be updated at a higher frequency. But regardless, bit 51 is incremented by 1 every microsecond. True since the TOD clock was first introduced. -- Q: What do theoretical physicists drink beer from? A: An EIN st

Re: UNIX2DOS in ZOS/UNIX Environment

2008-07-24 Thread John McKown
eplace "unix2dos" and "dos2unix" on UNIX systems which do not implement the. I've used the "sed" command to do so. -- Q: What do theoretical physicists drink beer from? A: An EIN stein. Maranatha! John McKown -

Re: Test; please ignore

2008-07-20 Thread John McKown
And to those who say "so what? bandwidth is cheap!", that's what we used to say about gas. "Waste not, want not." -- Q: What do theoretical physicists drink beer from? A: An EIN stein. Maranatha! John McKown --

Re: Which is better? question about CGI program.

2008-07-14 Thread John McKown
#x27;ve been using REXX on this project because I've had occassion where I needed to do TSO commands via "address TSO". However, this particular function does not need that functionality. > > Lindy -- Q: What do theoretical physicists drink

Re: Which is better? question about CGI program.

2008-07-14 Thread John McKown
8 does not have mod_perl. > > Peter -- Q: What do theoretical physicists drink beer from? A: An EIN stein. Maranatha! John McKown -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAI

Re: How to change the ISPF code page?

2008-07-14 Thread John McKown
I'd need to press the "Unicode" key, followed by 00A5 to enter a "yen" symbol. -- Q: What do theoretical physicists drink beer from? A: An EIN stein. Maranatha! John McKown -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / si

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