Re: JinsightLive - Java profile for z/OS and Linux on z

2010-06-09 Thread Kirk Wolf
favorite. There aren't any good ones on z/OS that I know of :-( All three styles have their advantanges and disadvantages in different scenarios. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 2:51 PM, McKown, John john.mck...@healthmarkets.comwrote: http

Re: JBoss for z/OS

2010-06-08 Thread Kirk Wolf
Jim, I haven't tried it for a few years, but it used to run OK under the JZOS batch launcher, so long as you configured it properly with a default external file encoding of ISO8859-1 (like Websphere does). Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com PS JBoss uses Tomcat as a web

Re: ftp.exe and Vista

2010-06-02 Thread Kirk Wolf
Sounds a little like the Vista firewall might be stepping on the FTP data connections. Try disabling the firewall completely (temporarily!!) and see if the problem goes away. HTH, Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 2:05 PM, C. Ardillo cardill

Re: FTP Get Blocked by ISPF EDIT

2010-06-01 Thread Kirk Wolf
On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 11:26 PM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.comwrote: In the case of the C RTL, the programmer should be given the choice of ENQ SYSDSN EXC or ISPF serialization which has an excellent track record when used properly. -- gil Paul, I agree! Kirk

Re: z/Vendor Watch: zNext or z11? Either Way, It's Coming Soon!

2010-05-25 Thread Kirk Wolf
in the same box as z-engines (vs separate boxes)? (but please, don't vector off into a Windows-bashing discussion... non-z arch blades could also run linux/solaris/aix/bsd/etc. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com

Re: z/OS Unix and VBA files.

2010-04-30 Thread Kirk Wolf
=(OLD,DELETE) //LC2 DD DSN=LC2,DISP=(OLD,DELETE) //STDIN DD * diff //DD:LC1 //DD:LC2 | awk ' {arbitrarily long awk script} ' // Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com/products/cozbatch.html On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 5:46 AM, Shane Ginnane ibm-m...@tpg.com.au wrote

Re: ETR is down (hilarious resolution)

2010-04-29 Thread Kirk Wolf
Instead of ¢ (cents) you probably need to use रू (rupees). On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 9:33 AM, Bob goolsby bob.gool...@gmail.com wrote: Tom -- Let me get this right -- They want you to sanitize your text so Their system will let you send then a Trouble Ticket?  Their system can't handle

Re: Turning on ACF2 SECURITY Privilege through an exit . . .

2010-04-23 Thread Kirk Wolf
On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 1:01 PM, Bathmaker, Jon jon.bathma...@credit-suisse.com wrote: Tony, I wanted an ACF2 exit, not general advice. Thanks. You think you only get what you ask for on IBM-MAIN? Be happy if the thread even remotely relates to your question :-)

Re: Mainframe Applications Development using a modern GUI

2010-04-22 Thread Kirk Wolf
as interfaces to legacy systems * Demos Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com IBM JZOS Development http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/z/os/zos/tools/java/products/jzos/overview.html -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff

Re: COBOL - no longer being taught - is a problem

2010-04-21 Thread Kirk Wolf
changes and requirements, but eventually there is a price to pay. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 8:37 AM, McKown, John john.mck...@healthmarkets.com wrote: Easy solution. Declare COBOL a national treasure and force all Universities in Canada to teach

Re: Code page for Java on USS

2010-04-21 Thread Kirk Wolf
, -Dfile.encoding sets the *default* character set used by Java when converting from bytes to/from UTF strings, but Java code can easily use a different encoding on a file-by-file basis. Regards, Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com ( and IBM JZOS Development

Re: SSH connection using PuTTY

2010-04-15 Thread Kirk Wolf
I assume that you are actually connecting to SSH (typically port 22, with ssh mode configured in PuTTY) Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 6:30 AM, Michael Knigge michael.kni...@set-software.de wrote: try TERM=xterm doesn't work I can't enter 2, I

Re: SSH connection using PuTTY

2010-04-14 Thread Kirk Wolf
try TERM=xterm On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 6:25 AM, Michael Knigge michael.kni...@set-software.de wrote: All, could anyone tell me correct settings for a SSH connection to a z/OS Box? I use PuTTY and encounter some funny things, for i. e. I can't enter the number 2 Maybe just $TERM is wrong

Re: Recommendations on download monitor

2010-04-01 Thread Kirk Wolf
, 2010 at 7:26 PM, Steve Comstock st...@trainersfriend.com wrote: Kirk Wolf wrote: Maybe you have a virus/botnet? Hope not. I've been pretty satisfied with Avast! (Or a teenager with a BitTorrent habit :-) Ha! One son, 44, living in LA trying to become a star. (He's a fine actor, but it's

Re: Recommendations on download monitor

2010-04-01 Thread Kirk Wolf
fun with them. Here is a very funny account of what one guy did: http://www.ex-parrot.com/~pete/upside-down-ternet.html Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 2:02 PM, Kirk Wolf k...@dovetail.com wrote: For Tomato support, check: http

Re: Recommendations on download monitor

2010-03-30 Thread Kirk Wolf
if you find that they are wrong, though. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO

Re: An amusing REXX program - JES2DISK == copies JES output to disk using REXX's SDSF API

2010-03-26 Thread Kirk Wolf
advantages of z/OS of Unix: - massive multiprocessing with great resource management (WLM) - JES (but I guess you did cover this) - stability, backwards compatibility, reliability... FWIW, did IBM sell more net-new z engines last year for z/OS or for Linux? Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http

Re: Crazy idea for a desktop integration with z/OS project?

2010-03-19 Thread Kirk Wolf
).If it were me, I would write the client daemon in Java and use the free jsch ssh/sftp client library. This way, you don't have to write anything on z/OS and it would be totally secure (and portable). Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 10:03 AM

Re: 64-Bit Storage / Performance Issues with z/OS 1.10

2010-03-19 Thread Kirk Wolf
RE: z/OS 64-bit Java - My preference is to run the 31-bit JVM on z/OS unless you really need 64-bit (eg. you need more than 1.5G java heap). Although SDK6-64 has come a long way in eliminating the performance penalty, it is still heavier than 31-bit. Also, consider that many z/OS services are

Re: Portable? XMIT Manager

2010-03-18 Thread Kirk Wolf
. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 10:03 AM, Angel-Luis Dominguez angel_luis_dominguez_mar...@yahoo.es wrote: I have a lot of mainframe documentation in XMI format so I can have a look at it in any place. But today it is a common practice not allow

Re: FTP problem

2010-03-18 Thread Kirk Wolf
as a line terminator. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives

Wierd fork error and unknown message PERN001I

2010-03-17 Thread Kirk Wolf
ideas would be appreciated, Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search

zPDT (Was: What was the historical price of a P/390?)

2010-03-13 Thread Kirk Wolf
Does anyone have any developer experiences with zPDT that they would like to share? Feel free to respond off-list if you must Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 7:27 AM, Bob Shannon bshan...@rocketsoftware.com wrote: What was the historical price

Re: SSH ICSF is not working

2010-03-12 Thread Kirk Wolf
Read the FAQ in the IBM Ported Tools for z/OS User's Guide on setting up ICSF and /dev/random. On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 8:04 AM, MONTERO ROMERO, ENRIQUE ELOI enriqueeloi.mont...@servifactory.com wrote: Hi to all, We have the ICSF running as an STC in our environment. === CSFM400I CRYPTOGRAPHY

Re: SSH ICSF is not working

2010-03-12 Thread Kirk Wolf
have to RTM. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com PS its a pity that it is such a hassle on z/OS to provide a /dev/random device to *all* users, all the time. Modern *nix operating systems all have a software implemented /dev/random device that uses a widely accepted algorithm

Re: SSH ICSF is not working

2010-03-12 Thread Kirk Wolf
be:    head /dev/random | od -x -- gil Exactly! (but use the same userid as the batch job to ensure that the SAF permissions are identical) Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe

Re: SSH from z/OS to linux to execute command

2010-03-09 Thread Kirk Wolf
Agreed - you can bypass the rand helper if ICSF is enabled for /dev/random support, which is more secure and *much* faster. But ssh will also need to find ssh_config in /etc/ssh. For a complete list of files, check the IBM Ported Tools manual. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http

Re: What's with IBMLINK now??

2010-02-26 Thread Kirk Wolf
Classic? Its antiquated. With the proper edge servers, it is completely unnecessary to redirect to different host names for load balancing. IBM's practice of doing this is lame, and demonstrates that they don't know how to run a large scale web site. On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 12:30 PM, George

Re: Crazed idea: SDSF for z/Linux

2010-02-25 Thread Kirk Wolf
in Co:Z SFTP, which is accessible securely from zLinux (or any system with ssh connectivity to z/OS. See: http://dovetail.com/docs/sftp/using.html#server_jes Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 9:13 AM, McKown, John john.mck...@healthmarkets.com wrote

Re: Crazed idea: SDSF for z/Linux

2010-02-25 Thread Kirk Wolf
So long as crazed ideas are on the table, how about putting key MVS I/O subsystems in VM and providing diagnose interfaces to them from guests? Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 10:59 AM, Thompson, Steve steve_thomp...@stercomm.com wrote

Re: Best practice for 24-bit storage in assembler called from C/C++

2010-02-22 Thread Kirk Wolf
:-) 3) The C library EDCDSECT tool is really handy for creating a C mapping of your assembler workarea DSECTS. Feel free to contact me offline if you want to discuss more. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 8:00 PM, Charles Mills charl...@mcn.org wrote

Re: Moving data from z/OS to a desktop

2010-02-18 Thread Kirk Wolf
OpenSSH will also do compression itself (using zlib's LZ algorighm): cat file | ssh -oCompression=yes u...@remote 'cat file' You can also set this option on when using sftp. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 1:51 PM, McKown, John john.mck

Co:Z Toolkit / SFTP new release

2010-02-09 Thread Kirk Wolf
authenticate via SAF RACDCERT digital certificates As always, we would appreciate any feedback or suggestions. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions

Re: FTP CODE PAGE

2010-02-04 Thread Kirk Wolf
terminators psftp get //HLQ.MY.DATASET Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com PS If you prefer a single byte encoding, you might want to use ISO8859-2, which AFAIK covers Polish characters. 2010/2/4 Rafal Hanzel hanz...@zetokatowice.pl: Hi all I'd like to ftp file from z/OS to WinXP

Re: Appl. Dev. Tooling

2010-02-01 Thread Kirk Wolf
You can interactively debug Java programs from Eclipse (free) using its built-in support for JPDA. We do it all the time... Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 11:33 AM, Chase, John jch...@ussco.com wrote: Hi, All, We currently license Rational

Re: Conflicting PCI Requirements - TLS FTP

2010-01-28 Thread Kirk Wolf
- a single encrypted socket that works fine with firewalls and NAT routers. 2) Regular FTP over an SSH Tunnel/Proxy See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_Transfer_Protocol#FTP_over_SSH_.28not_SFTP.29 or: http://dovetail.com/products/ftpsshproxy.html Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http

Re: Enormous redbook

2010-01-25 Thread Kirk Wolf
Steve, 38MB is enormous? What kind of internet backwater are you in? :-) Kirk -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the

Re: USS Batch

2010-01-20 Thread Kirk Wolf
This is one of the many BPXBAT* problems that is solved by the free Co:Z Batch utility. See: http://dovetail.com/products/cozbatch.html Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 4:49 PM, Mark Steely mark.ste...@wnco.com wrote: We have several batch jobs that spawn (forked

Re: Anybody use a Wiki for internal information?

2010-01-12 Thread Kirk Wolf
, you can also run JspWiki on a Linux or Windoze box. I like it for its simplicity and plugins, and have used it extensively as a collaborative systems analysis and design repository. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com PS We've been considering doing a quick-start JspWiki

Re: Anybody use a Wiki for internal information?

2010-01-12 Thread Kirk Wolf
a zAPP engine or regular CP cycles to spare, you can also run JspWiki on a Linux or Windoze box.   I like it for its simplicity and plugins, and have used it extensively as a collaborative systems analysis and design repository. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com PS We've

Re: PCI and Auditors perceptions thereof

2010-01-06 Thread Kirk Wolf
FWIW - you should be able to run the sftp client from a z/OS userid that has an OMVS segment, but has a read-only home directory shared by multiple userids. It seems unlikely to me that the Unix shell will work this way, but I haven't tried it. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http

Re: PCI and Auditors perceptions thereof

2010-01-05 Thread Kirk Wolf
Scott - I don't think that you actually meant *proprietary* It is of course very different from FTP and uses an open packet protocol within the SSH tunnel, rather than a telnet-sh command language like FTP. see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SSH_file_transfer_protocol Kirk Wolf Dovetailed

Re: PCI and Auditors perceptions thereof

2010-01-05 Thread Kirk Wolf
Donald, Here's an example of running a shell script in-line in a batch z/OS job which invokes sftp: http://dovetail.com/docs/sftp/client.html#client-batch I know that we have some users that also use REXX, but a Unix shell script might work as well for your requirements. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed

Re: PCI and Auditors perceptions thereof

2010-01-05 Thread Kirk Wolf
Don, RE: USS requirement for SFTP You can use IBM's sftp or our free Co:Z sftp if the z/OS userid has a valid OMVS segment. That's likely what is missing when you say that USS is not enabled, since z/OS has required USS for TCP/IP support for a long time. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies

Re: PCI and Auditors perceptions thereof

2010-01-05 Thread Kirk Wolf
systems, then there's nothing wrong with it. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 6:12 PM, Donald Russell russell@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 16:06, Kirk Wolf k...@dovetail.com wrote: Don, RE: USS requirement for SFTP You can use

Re: argv for z/OS C++ batch

2009-12-31 Thread Kirk Wolf
Paul, How would this help anyone? What benefits would it have over BPXBATCH (or COZBATCH) ? Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com/products/cozbatch.html On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 10:27 PM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com wrote: On Wed, 30 Dec 2009 20:09:13 -0600, John

Re: argv for z/OS C++ batch

2009-12-31 Thread Kirk Wolf
. Happy New Year, Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com PS Re: Prohibitive(?): COZBATCH is *free* to use but we offer paid commercial support agreements if you require. On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 10:58 AM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com wrote: On Thu, 31 Dec 2009 09:25:05 -0600

Re: IBM 9393 RVAs Obsolete for Sure

2009-12-30 Thread Kirk Wolf
Since it is the government, the normal course of action would be to get a special bid from IBM to continue to maintain them at 10x the cost of buying new. On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 10:20 AM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com wrote: On Wed, 30 Dec 2009 14:05:13 +0100, R.S. wrote: BTW: I think

API to rename dataests other than calling IDCAMS

2009-12-22 Thread Kirk Wolf
references :-( Thanks, Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http

Re: API to rename dataests other than calling IDCAMS

2009-12-22 Thread Kirk Wolf
Thanks for the suggestion. If I were to use CSI and C rename then I should also probably do my own ENQ on the GDG base. After all of that, its probably just as easy to write a general C wrapper for calling IDCAMS. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 1

Re: API to rename dataests other than calling IDCAMS

2009-12-22 Thread Kirk Wolf
, Kirk Wolf wrote: I need a programming api to rename datasets, including relative references to GDGs. Is calling IDCAMS the only route, or are there alternatives? Not running under a TSO TMP, so the TSO RENAME command is not a good alternative. I've found that the IBM C-library routines don't handle

Re: curious about Java usage.

2009-12-21 Thread Kirk Wolf
into their mainframe control system, which then manages deploying/promoting it through the different mainframe environments, even though the build is done on a distributed platform. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 9:37 AM, John Chase jch...@ussco.com wrote: On Fri, 30 Oct 2009 09:39:49

Re: Is there a system programming library for C++?

2009-12-11 Thread Kirk Wolf
On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 9:52 AM, J R jayare...@hotmail.com wrote: Also Systems C (from Dingus) http://www.dignus.com/dcxx/ Maybe the dingus ate your library! OK, that was funny! Re: a library reference, have you looked at the XL C/C++ Run-time Library Reference ? Kirk Wolf Dovetailed

Re: Clues on using C++ prelink * lked for first time

2009-12-09 Thread Kirk Wolf
On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 4:45 PM, Charles Mills charl...@mcn.org wrote: - BPXBATCH won't take //STDIN DD * input. Go figure. Friends don't let friends use BPXBATCH :-) Here's a free alternative: http://dovetail.com/products/cozbatch.html Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com

Re: Is there a good mailing list or forum for mainframe C/C++ specifically?

2009-12-03 Thread Kirk Wolf
Not to mention that most would not consider M$ as the leading authorities on how to write safe C/C++ code :-) On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 11:07 AM, McKown, John john.mck...@healthmarkets.com wrote: OPINION TIME! The safe versions are not safer than using some of the others which include the

Re: What is the advantage of one over the other?

2009-12-01 Thread Kirk Wolf
I would assume that LE means that they are using the C library (fopen, fread). I would also be very interested in understanding the advantages of one over the other. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 4:59 PM, Arthur Gutowski aguto...@ford.com wrote

Re: Question on RDWInputRecordStream

2009-11-27 Thread Kirk Wolf
. But there's not much code in RDWInputStream; its not too difficult to write your own SDWInputStream. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 12:09 PM, John McKown joa...@swbell.net wrote: On Thu, 2009-11-26 at 09:13 -0600, Kirk Wolf wrote: SMOP: int len

Re: WPS vs SAS WPS on zLinux

2009-11-26 Thread Kirk Wolf
know how to write efficient code that scales up Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 6:48 AM, Roger Bowler ibm-m...@snacons.com wrote: On Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:25:19 -0600, Kirk Wolf k...@dovetail.com wrote: I don't know if it's undeserved

Re: Java - yet again

2009-11-26 Thread Kirk Wolf
On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 7:21 AM, Shane ibm-m...@tpg.com.au wrote: Hmmm - my opinions of write once, run nowhere java is probably well known. Despite Kirks protestations, most of the java I see seems to have been written by people who have their programming grounding (for want of a better

Re: Question on RDWInputRecordStream

2009-11-26 Thread Kirk Wolf
SMOP: int len = rdwInputStream.read(recbuf, 4); int rdw = (len+4)16; ByteUtil.putInt(rdw, recbuf, 0); On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 5:48 AM, John McKown joa...@swbell.net wrote: I finally got around to writing a test program which ujses RDWInputRecordStream. The data returned does not include the

Re: Using ibmjzos.jar on a PC.

2009-11-23 Thread Kirk Wolf
license. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 1:11 PM, McKown, John john.mck...@healthmarkets.com wrote: It appears to not be allowed. I found the following statement on the Web on IBM's site: quote Program Name: IBM 31-bit SDK for z/OS, Java

Re: Antwort: How to access FIELDS in a RECORD using Java? (was:RE: How do __you__ read non-DB non-XML files in Java?)

2009-11-20 Thread Kirk Wolf
And how are regular expressions applicable in a Java program that wants to access a field formatted (eg. SMF) record? On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 5:13 PM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) shmuel+ibm-m...@patriot.net wrote: In of46a61f33.3d28353f-onc1257673.0052707b-c1257673.00538...@deutscherring.de, on

Re: Question on RDWInputRecordStream

2009-11-20 Thread Kirk Wolf
would be replaced by your Java program which would wrap System.in in an RDWInputStream. And as you know, the cool thing is that the Java code is processing records as they are transferred throug the pipe :-) Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies (and IBM JZOS Development) http://dovetail.com On Fri, Nov

Re: Antwort: How to access FIELDS in a RECORD using Java? (was:RE: How do __you__ read non-DB non-XML files in Java?)

2009-11-19 Thread Kirk Wolf
on using the JZOS Record Generator. And BTW, this code runs on any platform although the SDK version is only available and supported by IBM on z/OS. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 9:32 AM, McKown, John john.mck...@healthmarkets.com wrote: -Original

Re: XMITMGR for 64 Bit Windows?

2009-11-19 Thread Kirk Wolf
would be helpful. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 8:41 AM, Wendell Lovewell wlovew...@mackinney.com wrote: Hi Dennis. I think the 64-bit problem with XMITMGR is a problem with the installation .exe and not with XMITMGR itself.  I think I remember

Re: WPS vs SAS WPS on zLinux

2009-11-19 Thread Kirk Wolf
SAS is a great product with great history; its only natural (and good) for there to be competition. Here's another: http://www.dullesopen.com/products/features On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 8:12 AM, Scott Barry sba...@sbbworks.com wrote: On Thu, 19 Nov 2009 07:38:22 -0600, William Richter

Re: WPS vs SAS WPS on zLinux

2009-11-19 Thread Kirk Wolf
(and performant) over and over again for many languages that compile to Java byte codes. One would have to benchmark specific workloads with this technology to see how well it performs. It could suck, but it could also perform well. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com On Thu, Nov 19

Re: Reentrant Programs and Protected Storage

2009-11-18 Thread Kirk Wolf
a load from the current joblib/steplib environment. For example, since you are using DB2, it would try to load DSNHDECP. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 2:52 PM, David Shein dsh...@pobox.com wrote: And it certainly was not clear.  You wrote: There is a non-reentrant

Re: How do __you__ read non-DB non-XML files in Java?

2009-11-17 Thread Kirk Wolf
the old record framework, which is why we wrote it.Please compare the code and performance of the two and I'm sure you will agree, but any suggestions that you have for improvment would be appreciated. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies (and IBM JZOS development) On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 7:47 AM

Re: compiling Java question - z/OS jar(s) on non-z/OS?

2009-11-17 Thread Kirk Wolf
record classes from ADATA files. The generator will run on z/OS or on your workstation if you download the ADATA files. Have you looked at the JZOS Cookbook? It has a sample Eclipse project and a guide to help you get started. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com On Tue, Nov 17

Re: An Alternative Modest PARM Proposal

2009-11-04 Thread Kirk Wolf
important (and independent) usability problems with JCL. A poll on IBM-MAIN is not enough - requirements need to be submitted to IBM via support center, SHARE, zBLC, etc. It would be nice if there were some consensus here; but that's too much to hope for :-) Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http

Re: An Alternative Modest PARM Proposal

2009-11-04 Thread Kirk Wolf
To me, the PARMX approach strikes the right balance: - You have to explicitly change existing JCL to have a program see 100. - Existing programs that already support 100 work with only a JCL change As far as the argument that PARMX is dangerous because someone could code PARMX with a program

Re: IBMLINK and JAVA errors- PITA

2009-11-04 Thread Kirk Wolf
This looks like a server side java problem (JSP missing) amd not a browser applet or plugin failure. But it could be browser related...try clearing your cache and any cookies for the site. On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 1:15 PM, J Ellis jerry.el...@libertymutual.com wrote: After my latest Vista upgrade

Re: An Alternative Modest PARM Proposal

2009-11-03 Thread Kirk Wolf
AMACLIB=PRFX..AMACLIB // SET LINKLIB=PRFX..LINKLIB Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 10:04 AM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com wrote: On Tue, 3 Nov 2009 09:33:01 -0600, McKown, John wrote: I still say dump the request for a change to PARM length max

Re: SET (was: An Alternative Modest PARM Proposal)

2009-11-03 Thread Kirk Wolf
Maybe the only thing that is broken is the manual :-) On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 4:40 PM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com wrote: On Tue, 3 Nov 2009 10:25:51 -0600, Kirk Wolf wrote: Re: Use of symbols in the operand of SET is not supported. - really? This works fine: // SET PRFX=SYS1 // SET

Re: BPXBATCH Program

2009-10-30 Thread Kirk Wolf
Leonard, I'm not sure if I understand the question. DD STDENV contains lines that set environment variables prior to execution of a shell or program: VARNAME=VALUE AFAIK, it is always used by BPXBATCH if present. See: SA22-7802 z/OS Unix System Services Command Reference Appendix D. Kirk Wolf

Re: Of interest to Developers

2009-10-30 Thread Kirk Wolf
FYI - Here is a FAQ on the program: http://www14.software.ibm.com/cgi-bin/pwdown/public/httpdl/stg/zpdt_isv_faq.pdf By the time you pay the annual fees for zPDT and z/OS ADCD *AND* buy a PC from IBM's approved list, isn't it cheaper (and better) to use the Remote Developer Program? Is this

Re: Of interest to Developers

2009-10-28 Thread Kirk Wolf
bit. BTW: how long after you plunk your $$ down for this does the dongle (sorry, its now a USB Hardware key) expire? Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: JVM based languages? (mildly OT)

2009-10-26 Thread Kirk Wolf
RE: JVM startup time. Its improved some in SDK 6.0, and you can make big improvements to it if you enable class data sharing with AOT (caching of JITed byte codes). For example, with SDK 6.0 and AOT, I've seen base Tomcat 6.0 startup in about 2 seconds. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http

Re: JVM based languages? (mildly OT)

2009-10-26 Thread Kirk Wolf
You might compare that to running HelloWorld to see base JVM versus how many classes are loaded, initialized, etc for Clojure. On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 8:58 AM, David Andrews d...@lists.duda.com wrote: On Mon, 2009-10-26 at 05:20 -0400, Martin Packer wrote: I wonder what JVM startup time

Re: JVM based languages? (mildly OT)

2009-10-25 Thread Kirk Wolf
David, What's this program called, Cloj-ENER? :-) BTW: Here's a list of JVM languages that is a very interesting read: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_JVM_languages Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 7:15 AM, David Andrews d...@lists.duda.com

Re: IBM C header files

2009-10-20 Thread Kirk Wolf
the Unix shell. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com PS We use Eclipse with CDT as an IDE, and then use ANT FTP to upload source file deltas to z/OS HFS/zFS with one click, and then just run make from the z/OS Unix shell (preferring a ssh shell to TSO/OMVS

Re: IBM book prices - Printer?

2009-10-19 Thread Kirk Wolf
Though not necessarily meeting your requirements, I just bought a Canon MX330 all in one (printer, scanner, fax) just for the purpose of using the sheet feed scanner to scan documents directly to PDFs, although I use it occasionally for color printing.It works great with my Linux box, but also

Re: IBM C header files

2009-10-19 Thread Kirk Wolf
What about using AT-TLS? On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 1:57 PM, Henry Willard hwill...@megapathdsl.netwrote: Pierre Fichaud wrote: Folks, I've been hired to implement SSL socket calls in an existing z/OS product. The IBM SSL API is in C. I'm changing the TCB structure to have 2

Re: COBOL is an obvious cash cow to be milked to death was Re: Does Ent. COBOL 4.1 generate 64-bit binary arithmetic instructions?

2009-10-13 Thread Kirk Wolf
This new article in zJournal might be of some interest in the context of this thread: http://www.zjournal.com/index.cfm?section=articleaid=1231 Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe

Re: U.S. house decommissions its last mainframe, saves $730,000

2009-10-11 Thread Kirk Wolf
If the US government is migrating away from IBM mainframes, they must have found something more expensive :-) On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 3:30 PM, Anne Lynn Wheeler l...@garlic.comwrote: The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to

Re: Does Ent. COBOL 4.1 generate 64-bit binary arithmetic instructions?

2009-10-09 Thread Kirk Wolf
optimized assembler code for the new instructions. Sell the tool priced at a percentage of savings, and you might make some money :-) Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 12:42 AM, Timothy Sipples timothy.sipp...@us.ibm.com wrote: This COBOL discussion feels

Re: COBOL is an obvious cash cow to be milked to death was Re: Does Ent. COBOL 4.1 generate 64-bit binary arithmetic instructions?

2009-10-09 Thread Kirk Wolf
Wrong equations :-) What is the *business case* for adding better optimizations to the COBOL compiler? Back in the day when there was fierce PCM competition, you could add new instructions and then spend money in compiler exploitation as a competitive advantage. Now the business case is a

Re: Curioser and curiouser

2009-10-06 Thread Kirk Wolf
not unheard of. But now you want to run Java web applications as CGIs without a servlet container? (which probably starts a JVM for each page). Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 12:23 PM, Steve Comstock st...@trainersfriend.com wrote: Barkow, Eileen wrote

Re: Slow FTPS thruput

2009-09-25 Thread Kirk Wolf
to compare them *without* network interference: test and compare transfers to the same system, via the loopback adapter. Then, perhaps to another LPAR over a real adapter and minimal router interference. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com

Re: Long parms ... again (was: Reading DD card information)

2009-09-23 Thread Kirk Wolf
wouldn't need a new 'PARMX' keyword. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO

Re: Long parms ... again (was: Reading DD card information)

2009-09-23 Thread Kirk Wolf
control it at an installation setting, as a jobstep setting or as a program setting using the capabilities of LE options. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 11:55 AM, Ted MacNEIL eamacn...@yahoo.ca wrote: Sorry if this was already suggested, but how

Re: Long parms ... again (was: Reading DD card information)

2009-09-23 Thread Kirk Wolf
system code or control blocks to support 100 character PARMS, only how you could control whether you cause incompatible user programs to fail. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 4:24 PM, Gainsford, Allen allen.gainsf...@eds.comwrote: Sorry if I wasn't

Re: Reading DD card information

2009-09-22 Thread Kirk Wolf
Posix shells in batch is obvious. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 8:57 AM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.comwrote: On Tue, 22 Sep 2009 14:44:08 +0100, Andy Robertson wrote: http://home.clara.net/andywrobertson/mvsinstasm.html The facility

Re: How much will fit in a dataset?

2009-09-22 Thread Kirk Wolf
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 8:06 AM, Michael Knigge michael.kni...@set-software.de wrote: ... B) the whole stuff is written in Java... This is why I hoped I could do all the needed calculations by myself because calling native stuff (assembler) is expensive in Java Expensive how? What

Re: Reading DD card information

2009-09-21 Thread Kirk Wolf
Gilbert, My suggestion for having JCL/SET variables in a ASASYMBM user table has to do with what a program would see when it runs in the initiator. Of course, each step would see different variables/values. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 2:06 AM

Re: Reading DD card information

2009-09-21 Thread Kirk Wolf
I'm sorry - I didn't read Gilbert's example closely enough. One possibility would be to have the program see the last valuable of a given variable before the step was executed, sinces it is uncommon to set a variable more than once in the scope of a given step. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies

Re: Reading DD card information

2009-09-21 Thread Kirk Wolf
Gil, I agree 100%, but I'll add that *both* would be valuable (100 parm, and JCL/SET variables visible). Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 11:48 AM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.comwrote: On Mon, 21 Sep 2009 11:03:31 -0500, Kirk Wolf wrote: My suggestion

Re: Reading DD card information

2009-09-17 Thread Kirk Wolf
Not to drudge up old threads, but wouldn't it be nice if JCL PROC and SET variables were not thrown away by the converter/interpreter and instead placed in an ASASYMB-style symbol table by the initiator? This would be useful in so many ways Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http

Re: passing parameter data in BPXBATCH

2009-09-17 Thread Kirk Wolf
run a login shell in the same address space without being root. - you can use //STDIN DD *, so that is easy to write a shell script inline in your JCL. - you can work around the 100-character parm limit. See example #6 here: http://dovetail.com/docs/cozbatch/examples.html Kirk Wolf Dovetailed

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