Re: Some kind of hint!!!

2009-01-14 Thread Kirk Wolf
Toolkit that is shipped with the z/OS Java SDK. So, there is no reliance at runtime on unsupported alphaWorks tools (the code generated by the alphaWorks-only tool is yours). Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe

Re: Need TN3270e software

2009-01-09 Thread Kirk Wolf
that it works fine (for me). If you use Linux, it is probably available from your distro package manager. For windows, there is a custom build here: http://x3270.bgp.nu/download.html Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies -- For IBM

Re: A Smile for the Week

2009-01-05 Thread Kirk Wolf
IMO, the best exploration of literate programming and the like is the anti-pattern - How to write unmaintainable code : http://mindprod.com/jgloss/unmain.html Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe

Re: Shell Scripts in EKM

2009-01-05 Thread Kirk Wolf
want your own message ids, just write your message that begins with the ID and ensure that the user has this permission. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 11:31 AM, Lizette Koehler stars...@mindspring.com wrote: We are going to try that next. I was hesitant since I

Re: SHARE Session 8194: z390 and zcobol Portable Mainframe COBOL Compiler written in structured macro assembler

2009-01-01 Thread Kirk Wolf
. 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://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm

Re: How to calculate size of a PS dataset

2008-12-23 Thread Kirk Wolf
of a track. Of course, this only gives you an estimate, which can be skewed by: - Variable sized blocks (smaller blocks have more overhead) - last track not full - text mode transfers with trailing-blank trimming enabled Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com

Re: Attachmate Extra! and upload to PDS from PC

2008-12-22 Thread Kirk Wolf
partitioned datasets. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com/products/sftp.html -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO

Free / open source FTP-SSH Proxy available for z/OS

2008-12-12 Thread Kirk Wolf
agreements are available from Dovetailed Technologies. 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

Re: Anyone using JAVA 6.0 on z/OS?

2008-12-12 Thread Kirk Wolf
On balance, I think that Java does a pretty good job with version-to-version compatibility. Most programs in my experience work fine on version upgrades. There are some problems, but they are usually because the programmer was sloppy and paid no attention to deprecated apis, etc.If your code

Re: Encryption routine from IBM accepting limited set of input characters

2008-12-11 Thread Kirk Wolf
I don't understand the context in which you would want something like this, but it sounds like a validation routine in front of an encryption routine (two separate things). Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 9:07 AM, Hunkeler Peter (KIUK 3) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

Re: EKM, JAVA and Tape Encryption

2008-12-09 Thread Kirk Wolf
It looks to me like your JAVA_HOME directory wasn't specified correctly, since you are getting a message that the JVM dll can't be loaded. You seem to have JAVA_HOME set to /usr/lpp/java/J5.0. Is there really a Java SDK installed there? Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies On Tue, Dec 9, 2008

Re: EKM, JAVA and Tape Encryption

2008-12-09 Thread Kirk Wolf
Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 10:06 AM, Kirk Wolf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It looks to me like your JAVA_HOME directory wasn't specified correctly, since you are getting a message that the JVM dll can't be loaded. You seem to have JAVA_HOME set to /usr/lpp/java/J5.0

Re: Fw: Mainframe Hosted BLOGs and WIKIs

2008-11-28 Thread Kirk Wolf
to work with our stuff is not an acceptable answer to the open source community has been a major task that is almost complete. We're hoping the next project, Kuali, goes much easier. /ahw you would have to worry about porting would be possibly support for the IBM Java SDK. Kirk Wolf

Re: Fw: Mainframe Hosted BLOGs and WIKIs

2008-11-27 Thread Kirk Wolf
JDK might be work depending on whether they used Sun internal classes) Have you considered just running under a zLinux virtual machine? Then all you would have to worry about porting would be possibly support for the IBM Java SDK. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 10:51

Re: curl from ported tools

2008-11-26 Thread Kirk Wolf
consequences. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com PS You can use our free Co:Z toolkit, which includes a replacement for BPXBATCH which also lets you do things like this: // EXEC DTLSPAWN //STDIN DD * curl http://url | todsn //DD:DATA //DATA DD DSN=TEMP,DISP=(NEW,PASS

Re: curl from ported tools

2008-11-26 Thread Kirk Wolf
One technique would be to pipe the XML/HTML output from curl through an XSLT style-sheet processor like Xalan, which would pick off the data you wanted and output it to a simple text file, or pipe that through awk for additional formatting. If you wanted to parse into a W3C Dom, you could of

Re: Mainframe Hosted BLOGs and WIKIs

2008-11-25 Thread Kirk Wolf
Just curious - Which JspWiki plugins do you use? Do you use our SAF interface for Tomcat? Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 12:46 PM, Edward Jaffe [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Jousma, David wrote: Jspwiki.org We use this one, with TOMCAT running under JZOS on z/OS

Re: Interesting CS Course Syllabus

2008-11-20 Thread Kirk Wolf
If you follow the link on this page to Dr. Rannie's home page, you can see that his other interests are primitive fire building. Coincidence? :-) On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 8:51 PM, Lindy Mayfield [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: While searching for CCW command codes (x'08' actually) I ran across this

Re: Storage usage of Java-Applications

2008-11-18 Thread Kirk Wolf
information: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/jdk/diagnosis/60.html Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 12:23 PM, Arthur Brack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello everybody, I have a Java-Application running in JCL that reads and writes datasets in several

Re: Crazy(?) thought - run z/Linux binaries on z/OS UNIX

2008-11-13 Thread Kirk Wolf
recent versions of the most basic open source unix utilities, or the essential gnu tool chain to z/OS. If IBM can't justify investments like this in z/OS, it won't happen. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 12:00 AM, Timothy Sipples [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

Re: Fwd: storing a PDF file in DB2 for z/OS

2008-11-13 Thread Kirk Wolf
seems the most natural to me. You might also consider a zFS file in say /tmp. Kirk Wolf On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 3:20 AM, Jim McAlpine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 11:07 PM, Kirk Wolf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This question has great potential for a really long IBM-MAIN

Re: Crazy(?) thought - run z/Linux binaries on z/OS UNIX.

2008-11-12 Thread Kirk Wolf
Tim, You make some excellent points... On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 12:43 AM, Timothy Sipples [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2. There's something called the Linux Standard Base (LSB) which would provide the common application environment that most people care about when they say Linux. So you could

Re: Crazy(?) thought - run z/Linux binaries on z/OS UNIX.

2008-11-11 Thread Kirk Wolf
, then you would have one form of IPC between guests and the z/OS host. This would be, in a sense, what Co:Z does, but without the SSH and socket connections that Co:Z uses. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies P.S. With obvious bias I would have to disagree that co-processing between z/OS and z/Linux

Re: Fwd: storing a PDF file in DB2 for z/OS

2008-11-11 Thread Kirk Wolf
) on that platform to load the PDF into the LOB via a remote DB2 connection. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies From: Jim McAlpine [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 5:02 PM Subject: string a PDF file in DB2 for z/OS To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List ibm-main@bama.ua.edu We are looking at storing PDF

Re: Need someone to fix a free HTTP Server written in Assembler

2008-11-06 Thread Kirk Wolf
If you choose an OSI-approved open-source license, like GPL or BSD, then you can host your project for free on sourceforge and use their source code control (CVS or subversion), their forums, their download file space, their bandwidth, etc. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies On Wed, Nov 5, 2008

Re: Need someone to fix a free HTTP Server written in Assembler

2008-11-04 Thread Kirk Wolf
= -W a,goff,ESD,LIST %.o : %.s $(CC) -c $(ASMFLAGS) $ $*.list Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 8:22 AM, Steve Comstock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Paul Gilmartin wrote: On Mon, 3 Nov 2008 11:04:10 -0600, Kirk Wolf wrote: Then, use a Unix shell on z/OS

Re: Need someone to fix a free HTTP Server written in Assembler

2008-11-03 Thread Kirk Wolf
sourceforge.net is free, and provides all the tools that you need to collaborate and develop open source projects. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 7:52 AM, Paul Gilmartin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2 Nov 2008 19:40:16 -0600, John McKown wrote: How will you

Re: Need someone to fix a free HTTP Server written in Assembler

2008-11-03 Thread Kirk Wolf
control is only one of the features of Sourceforge, you also get forums, a wiki, and other tools to coordinate a development effort. You can make builds of your product available for download from sourceforge, but you could always package release builds and make them available from CBT. Kirk Wolf

Re: Need someone to fix a free HTTP Server written in Assembler

2008-11-03 Thread Kirk Wolf
. You don't need to have a z/OS client. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 10:27 AM, Paul Gilmartin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If the workstation SourceForge mirror is NFS shared between WS and z/OS, does that suffice for the synching? We do a lot of NFS sharing and have

Re: FTP MEMBERS FROM PC TO MAINFRAME (HOW TO)

2008-10-29 Thread Kirk Wolf
RUNSFTP 100% 1676 1.6KB/s 00:00 Uploading RUNSPAWN to //KIRK.COZ.SAMPJCL/RUNSPAWN RUNSPAWN 100% 1608 1.6KB/s 00:00 Uploading RUNWIN to //KIRK.COZ.SAMPJCL/RUNWIN RUNWIN 100% 713 0.7KB/s 00:00 sftp Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com

Re: Favorite Way(s) for COBOL as HTTP Client?

2008-10-23 Thread Kirk Wolf
the request. You might consider using an open source http client written in in C and calling it from Cobol, although the suggestion for using curl is also interesting. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 1:02 AM, Roland Schiradin [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Hi Timothy, use the TCP

Re: Favorite Way(s) for COBOL as HTTP Client?

2008-10-23 Thread Kirk Wolf
this easy to do: // EXEC DTLSPAWN run a login shell... //STDIN DD * curl http://my.url | todsn //DD:XML //XML DD DSN=XML,DISP=(NEW,PASS), //* // EXEC PGM=COBPGM On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 8:27 AM, Kirk Wolf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To fully implement http, you would want to support

OpenSSH SFTP client support for MVS datasets

2008-10-22 Thread Kirk Wolf
registration info, see: http://dovetail.com/services.html) Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com

Re: z/Architecture Reference Summary

2008-10-20 Thread Kirk Wolf
I remember when I took a university course on 370 assembler language programming. A yellow card was a couple of bucks and we were allowed to use it when taking the tests, along with anything that we could write on it. Here we go with another good ol days thread :-) Kirk Wolf Dovetailed

Re: LE module CELHV002?

2008-10-10 Thread Kirk Wolf
If you used LRECL=1, then you did have a record boundary of 1, so it was doing fwrite() with a length of 1. This is because todsn() always uses QSAM. As it turns out, even with a rational DCB, the C library is more expensive than direct QSAM macros. For this reason, it is likely that a future

Re: LE module CELHV002?

2008-10-10 Thread Kirk Wolf
to drop some fancy z-arch instructions into the generated code. Maybe someone more familiar with Metal-C can enlighten me on this. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 9:52 AM, David Crayford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kirk Wolf wrote: If you used LRECL=1, then you did have

Re: Weird SDSF thought.

2008-10-02 Thread Kirk Wolf
a pipe. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 2:32 PM, Steve Comstock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John McKown wrote: 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

Re: IBM Java URL

2008-09-30 Thread Kirk Wolf
Larry, If you found a broken link re: z/OS Java, you can report it here and someone will probably fix it: http://www-03.ibm.com/servers/eserver/zseries/software/java/contact/ Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 7:58 AM, Gray, Larry - Larry A [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

OpenSSH SFTP support for MVS datasets

2008-09-29 Thread Kirk Wolf
/sftp/index.html The sftp-server is in beta status; we appreciate any feedback or comments on our support forum: http://dovetail.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=8 For forum registration info, see: http://dovetail.com/services.html) Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com

Re: Data conversion EBCDIC to ASCII

2008-09-26 Thread Kirk Wolf
probably mention that John gets 10% of the license revenue from Co:Z. Unfortunately for John, its a free product (Apache 2.0 binary license) :-) (Commercial support contracts are available) Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 10:09 AM, John McKown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri

Re: Squashing VB records into FB

2008-09-26 Thread Kirk Wolf
-p 0x00 // Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 1:23 PM, John McKown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 26 Sep 2008, Sproull, George CTR DISA GS4B14 wrote: Hi, Is there a native z/OS utility that would take in a file of the following VB format (for example

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

2008-09-12 Thread Kirk Wolf
to reach back into the z/OS server Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 11:04 AM, Paul Ip [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wow...Thanks for the reply. Oh, it is correct that a windows program will process the VB files from z/OS. It expects the Prefix contain only the length

Re: BPXWDYN relative GDG reference error

2008-09-09 Thread Kirk Wolf
. Kirk Wolf On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 6:39 AM, Walt Farrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 8 Sep 2008 15:54:33 -0500, Kirk Wolf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Its wierd. Some GDGs work fine and others fail with this error. Are you sure that, in the failing cases, that the (0) generation actually

Re: BPXWDYN relative GDG reference error

2008-09-09 Thread Kirk Wolf
Again, referencing (0) is *not* the problem. That works fine on most GDGs. The error seems specific to some GDGs, where *no* relative reference works, even though there are several G000V00 generations cataloged. On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 8:14 AM, J R [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It is my

Re: BPXWDYN relative GDG reference error

2008-09-09 Thread Kirk Wolf
was not found. Also - I get the same error when I allocate a new dataset using (+1), which I guess probably failed because it found when it tried to create a 0 generation entry and found that one already existed in the catalog that wasn't associated in the base entry. Thanks, Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies

BPXWDYN relative GDG reference error

2008-09-08 Thread Kirk Wolf
NUMBER INCOMPATIBLE FOR SPECIFIED STATUS rc=60030976 ( BPXWDYN allocation failed S99ERROR=0x0394 S99INFO=0x ) I may be missing something obvious, but it seems to me that the status (DISP=SHR) should be compatible with a relative reference of 0. Thanks for any help. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed

Re: question for C experts - strcpy vs memcpy

2008-09-08 Thread Kirk Wolf
(Is this really a topic for IBM-MAIN?) FWIW, I would be surprised if most modern optimizing C compilers didn't generate the same exact code, as well as: memcpy(dest, LITERAL, sizeof(LITERAL)+1); Kirk Wolf On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 1:25 PM, John McKown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I am copying

Re: BPXWDYN relative GDG reference error

2008-09-08 Thread Kirk Wolf
Its wierd. Some GDGs work fine and others fail with this error. On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 1:52 PM, Kirk Wolf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't understand the error that I'm getting from BPXWDYN when I try to allocate an existing dataset whic is the current/latest generation of an existing GDG

Re: Browsing an ASCII file

2008-09-04 Thread Kirk Wolf
If you are using z/OS prior to 1.9, you can use some handy shell scripts that we built for handling the conversion. Included in these is aobrowse, which can be used from an OMVS session. See the updated atools package download from: http://dovetail.com/downloads/jzos/index.html Kirk Wolf

Re: signing off my corporate email account

2008-08-29 Thread Kirk Wolf
other remote desktop to get to your home Linux box and run the email client or browser client there. - Doesn't Google Groups allow posting? It might not be blocked by your corporate filter Kirk Wolf On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 1:58 PM, John McKown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 28 Aug 2008, Ted

Re: signing off my corporate email account

2008-08-29 Thread Kirk Wolf
, Aug 29, 2008 at 5:19 PM, Steve Comstock [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Kirk Wolf wrote: John, A few options: - Bounce your Web client or smtp/pop client through either: - A Tor proxy for the selected domain - An ssh session that port forwards through your home linux box - Run a secure SOCKS

Re: Statistics when writing PDS members

2008-07-30 Thread Kirk Wolf
any prior statistics so that I can carry forward creation date, version/mod level, etc. Thanks, Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: secure ftp on the mainframe

2008-07-29 Thread Kirk Wolf
that complicates things. And of course, adding in the z/OS specific patches, especially to support datasets, PDSs, etc, is a big job. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 10:27 AM, Hal Merritt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you have any links to SFTP sources? Google search

Statistics when writing PDS members

2008-07-29 Thread Kirk Wolf
with DISP=SHR and then to use the ISPF ENQ protocols for serializing the directory and member names. Our plan is to allow this method, or to allow DISP=OLD allocation of the dataset.My question is this: which technique should be the default? Any ideas or suggestions would be appreciated. Kirk Wolf

Re: Statistics when writing PDS members

2008-07-29 Thread Kirk Wolf
Tom, Thanks for clarifying. Its a pity that the C library doesn't have a call to set directory entry user data before closing. It seems like alot of overhead to OPEN/BLDL/POINT/STOW/CLOSE and rewrite the directory (at least those entries following the one that you updated) each time you replace

Re: secure ftp on the mainframe

2008-07-29 Thread Kirk Wolf
of their cool tee shirts ( http://www.openssh.org/tshirts.html) Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message

Re: Enterprise Scheduler

2008-07-23 Thread Kirk Wolf
the same connection to access data in the context of the z/OS job step (even temporary datasets passed from previous steps). For more information, see: http://dovetail.com/coz Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies -- For IBM-MAIN

Re: replacing SAS for SMF reports?

2008-06-21 Thread Kirk Wolf
/cookbook.html#4_5 ) I agree that this would be a really nice open source project. We are willing to help by providing Java, JZOS, and Co:Z technical support if someone wants to tackle pieces of it. Feel free to use our forums: http://www.dovetail.com/forum/ Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies

Re: sFTP from/to z/OS

2008-06-18 Thread Kirk Wolf
similarly should file interest in these through the support center and (continue to) lobby at SHARE. Regards, Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 9:36 AM, Hal Merritt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Mary, and welcome to the gottahaveitnow club :-) You have two

Re: sFTP from/to z/OS

2008-06-18 Thread Kirk Wolf
Firewalls typically snoop FTP control connection commands so that they can open ports for PASV. TLS complicates this since the data is encrypted. Google ftp fls firewall for more information on the challenges. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 12:54 PM, Rugen, Len

Re: replacing SAS for SMF reports?

2008-06-17 Thread Kirk Wolf
,DELETE) //STDOUT DD PATH='/home/user/Smf83BaseRecord.java', // PATHOPTS=(OWRONLY,OCREAT), // PATHMODE=SIRWXU //STDENV DD * ... // For the JZOS alphaWorks downloads, see: http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/zosjavabatchtk Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 1:07

Re: replacing SAS for SMF reports?

2008-06-16 Thread Kirk Wolf
example JCL that dumps SMF and offloads processing of it using Co:Z. Our download site has a sample C program, but you could also use Java. http://dovetail.com/docs/coz/cookbook.html#4_5 Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 9:51 AM, McKown, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

JZOS Cookbook available on alphaWorks

2008-06-09 Thread Kirk Wolf
A new JZOS Cookbook package is now available on alphaWorks, which might be of interest to those who would like to do Java development on z/OS. See: http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/zosjavabatchtk for more information. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies === Introduction

Re: Just for consideration: offloading regex processing to zIIP / zAAP?

2008-05-29 Thread Kirk Wolf
DD * # this script runs on the linux box fromdsn //DD:INPUT | my-sed-awk-filter.sh | todsn //DD:OUTPUT /* //INPUT DD ... //OUTPUT DD ... // Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe

Re: Just for consideration: offloading regex processing to zIIP / zAAP?

2008-05-29 Thread Kirk Wolf
Hmmm. So neither organization wants to use Linux on z because they can't control it completely :-) On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 8:33 AM, McKown, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kirk Wolf Sent

Re: Just for consideration: offloading regex processing to zIIP / zAAP?

2008-05-29 Thread Kirk Wolf
screams, since the protocol stack is very efficient. For more details on configuration options, see: http://dovetail.com/docs/coz/config.html#config_launcher_optional Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 9:20 AM, David Andrews [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

Re: 80-Column Minds (Was: SMP/E question)

2008-05-22 Thread Kirk Wolf
Certainly z/OS is not limited to 80 columns any moreIn some places, you can have 100 columns (JCL PARM=) :=) -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the

Re: Probably a basic TCP/IP question

2008-05-12 Thread Kirk Wolf
. AFAIK, there is no place to important system-wide environment variables so that *every* USS process gets them. Feature or bug? Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 4:57 PM, Pommier, Rex R. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think John wins the prize! I just IPLed my sandbox moving

Re: Java Batch

2008-05-06 Thread Kirk Wolf
David - Yes, it does help to reduce JVM start-up times, which are mostly about class-loading and JITing. YMMV On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 2:52 PM, David Andrews [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2008-05-05 at 14:32 -0500, Kirk Wolf wrote: SDK 6 has a feature (AOT) whereby these optimizations

Re: Java Batch

2008-05-05 Thread Kirk Wolf
be reused over and over between different jobs. For more information on JZOS: http://www-03.ibm.com/servers/eserver/zseries/software/java/jzos/overview.htm Kirk Wolf On Mon, May 5, 2008 at 2:12 PM, Clark F Morris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 02 May 2008 22:01:10 +0200, Thomas Zierer [EMAIL

Re: Emulators (again ...)

2008-04-28 Thread Kirk Wolf
Not that size specifically, but I commonly use 132x50. To use SSL, you need to put L: in front of the connect string. On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 5:47 PM, Shane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2008-04-26 at 11:12 -0500, Kirk Wolf wrote: x3270 (and c3270) are open source run great under either

Re: Emulators (again ...)

2008-04-26 Thread Kirk Wolf
For Ubuntu, you simply install the x3270 package. Kirk Wolf On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 5:40 PM, Shane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2008-04-25 at 12:20 -0500, McKown, John wrote: But I'll still use x3270 under Linux versus having to run Windows at home. I recently had a need to meander

Re: DCF: Can it live again?

2008-04-15 Thread Kirk Wolf
overall. So you can plead with IBM to port and open DCF, but DocBook is already open, free, and portable to about everywhere. Like DCF, you can customize the styles and tags to meet your requirements. I don't think that it is as polished as DCF right now, but it is pretty usable IMO. Kirk Wolf

Re: Send a command to a desktop from MVS

2008-04-10 Thread Kirk Wolf
David, Our free Co:Z toolkit does exactly what you are asking: you have a batch job on z/OS that runs a script on Windows. The script running on Windows can reach back into z/OS and access Datasets or DDs. It uses SSH as an underlying secure network transport. For more information, see:

Re: GERONIMO on ZOS

2008-04-07 Thread Kirk Wolf
in this manual, you will have to customize a shell script for //STDENV DD that configures the CLASSPATH, environment variables, Java properties, etc for Geronimo. You can probably adapt / call the existing Geronimo shell script to do this, after removing the call to java at the very end. Kirk Wolf

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2008-04-04 Thread Kirk Wolf
John, I found your joke a little odd, until I remembered that you were from Texas, where people literally drive with beer in their hand :-) Kirk On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 6:41 PM, John McKown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 3 Apr 2008, McKown, John wrote: I admit to being uninterested in the

Re: Can forked/spawned address spaces be identified as such?

2008-03-25 Thread Kirk Wolf
at 05:20 PM, Kirk Wolf [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: This distinction has no analog in modern operating systems, where interfaces are expressed *entirely* by APIs and service routines, and not by skipping through PSA-ASCB-etc.etc. That's certainly the preference in *ix systems, but it's not always what

Long translate (TR) instruction?

2008-03-24 Thread Kirk Wolf
approach is just to loop for 256 byte chunks. The average length transaction is almost certainly less than 256 bytes. Any advise on the fastest instruction path to do this would be appreciated. Thanks, Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies

Re: Long translate (TR) instruction?

2008-03-24 Thread Kirk Wolf
Thanks everyone for all the advice. Kirk On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 2:42 PM, Edward Jaffe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: McKown, John wrote: I don't think you have a choice, in the general case. That is because all the new TRxx type instructions seem to terminate when the data in your buffer

Re: Can forked/spawned address spaces be identified as such?

2008-03-21 Thread Kirk Wolf
, and not by skipping through PSA-ASCB-etc.etc. In any case, I appreciate Mr. Relson's (and other IBMers) contributions to IBM-MAIN, even if I don't always like what they say. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies PS A sore point with me is always submit a requirement, but that's another topic

Re: Convert EBCDIC to ASCII in batch?

2008-03-20 Thread Kirk Wolf
and windows codepages) Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com/coz On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 10:04 AM, McKown, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I cannot think of an easy way to do this, so I thought that I'd ask. I want to copy a sequential file to another sequential file (both on DASD

Re: Convert EBCDIC to ASCII in batch?

2008-03-20 Thread Kirk Wolf
Thats curious. The code uses the C library to do dataset I/O and of course you would have pipe I/O between the processes. One variable is whether you have Unicode Services enabled for these codepages or not - we fall back to ICONV() if not, which can be more expensive. Might also be some LE

Re: MVS initiated FTP to Windows

2008-03-19 Thread Kirk Wolf
On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 12:06 PM, McKown, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Of course, I don't allow ftp at all. I use SSH. I think that there is an SSH server available for Windows, but I don't really know. FTP is popular, but a nasty protocol to secure properly, especially through NAT-style

Re: WTO from REXX under Unix Ssystem Services?

2008-03-15 Thread Kirk Wolf
the __console2() api. I've attached below the usage/syntax of the wto command. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies === $ wto Missing WTO message USAGE: wto [-r ROUTCDE,...] [-d DESC,...] message where: ROUTCDE: DESC: 1

Re: Legal Issues with WEB

2008-03-11 Thread Kirk Wolf
/6981278.html Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies LLC On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 5:24 PM, Thompson, Steve [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone see this or run into such issues? http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic; articleId=9067863source=NLT_PMnlid=8http

Re: Batch job to perform sftp transfer

2008-02-25 Thread Kirk Wolf
Betsy , You don't need to run the sshd daemon to use the sftp client from z/OS. Also, even though OpenSSH is open source, it is licensed under a BSD license. IBM is free to modify it as they wish (which they have) and not redistribute their patches. Kirk Wolf On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 9:41 AM

Re: Batch job to perform sftp transfer

2008-02-24 Thread Kirk Wolf
If you search the archives, you'll find a thread from last July where this was discussed entitled SSH from with in USS. If it was simply about typing passwords, then they could have disabled keyboard-interactive mode. On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 5:17 AM, J R [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Its a big

Re: Batch job to perform sftp transfer

2008-02-23 Thread Kirk Wolf
IBM's port of ssh has code that detects an OMVS environment and explicitly prohibits execution. Same thing for the sftp command, as it uses 'ssh' under the covers. Try either one and you get: FOTS1252 The SSH client cannot be run under OMVS. FOTS0841 Connection closed Its a big secret as to

Re: Batch job to perform sftp transfer

2008-02-22 Thread Kirk Wolf
Co:Z toolkit includes all of these tools, and if you also install it on the remote system you can significantly extend the capabilites of running plain ssh or sftp. Regards, Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 10:41 AM, Miller, Bill [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Unix grep question

2008-02-12 Thread Kirk Wolf
Best to use grep along with find for this kind of thing. See: http://www.athabascau.ca/html/depts/compserv/webunit/HOWTO/find.htm On Feb 12, 2008 7:38 AM, Todd Burrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello: I have a user that is using the GREP command in Unix. Apparently he is searching through

Re: Curious(?) way to ZIP a mainframe file.

2008-02-12 Thread Kirk Wolf
a java vm. This can be reduced by using the shared classes feature of java 5, which is even better in java 6. The source code for the java ZipStream program is posted here: http://www.dovetail.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=659 Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies

Re: Curious(?) way to ZIP a mainframe file.

2008-02-12 Thread Kirk Wolf
) at sun.tools.jar.Main.main(Main.java:942) On Feb 12, 2008 10:09 AM, Paul Gilmartin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 12 Feb 2008 09:25:35 -0600, Kirk Wolf wrote: Using jar requires that the file be first stored in an HFS file, since jar can only process files, and not stdin. Will it process

Re: Keep only the tail of the dataset

2008-01-29 Thread Kirk Wolf
This might have been mentioned, but using our free Dataset Pipes tool, this is pretty easy if your file is text, since tail would work: // EXEC DTLSPAWN //LOG DD DISP=OLD,DSN=... //STDIN DD * fromdsn //DD:LOG \ | tail -2000 \ | todsn //DD:LOG // If the dataset has fixed length,

Re: Keep only the tail of the dataset

2008-01-29 Thread Kirk Wolf
John, Sorry, I read the original question to mean how can I truncate a dataset to the last n lines. In any case, I agree with your earlier post - if you really want it to only *ever* keep the last n lines, then an wrap-around RRDS is the way to go (if you can change the program). Kirk On Jan

Re: Co:Z Co-Processing Toolkit for z/OS is now FREE

2008-01-25 Thread Kirk Wolf
on how to make it easier. Regards, Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies On Jan 25, 2008 1:17 AM, Timothy Sipples [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kirk, It's worth mentioning, from the narrow view of network encryption, that you could traverse a HiperSocket to Linux on z using the unencrypted socket

Re: Co:Z Co-Processing Toolkit for z/OS is now FREE

2008-01-24 Thread Kirk Wolf
, and should be considered when used within a secure network. The security of this approach is far superior, IMO, to using NFS - which requires much more trust in the security of the NFS client operating system. Regards, Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies On Jan 24, 2008 8:42 AM, Doc Farmer [EMAIL

Re: Co:Z Co-Processing Toolkit for z/OS is now FREE

2008-01-24 Thread Kirk Wolf
Sorry Doc, I finger-checked your name. On Jan 24, 2008 9:43 AM, Kirk Wolf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Don, Spoken like a true security consultant :-) But seriously - we would welcome any comments or questions that you have. It might be good to add something to our documentation to address any

Re: Z Co-Processing Toolkit for z/OS is now FREE

2008-01-24 Thread Kirk Wolf
are welcome to scrape and convert it. Thanks, Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies On Jan 24, 2008 11:32 AM, McKown, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Got it and am playing around with it now. I have run into one problem as follows: quote DtlSpawn[N]: Copyright (C) 2005-2006 Dovetailed Technologies

Warning: Co:Z Co-Processing Toolkit for z/OS bug

2008-01-24 Thread Kirk Wolf
/RACF SUPERUSER privileges. Even though we have fixed the bug, as a general policy we don't recommend running under UID(0) or SUPERUSER privileges. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive

Co:Z Co-Processing Toolkit for z/OS is now FREE

2008-01-23 Thread Kirk Wolf
Dovetailed Technologies announces today that the Co:Z Co-Processing Toolkit for z/OS is now free for use, under the terms of the Apache V2 license. The Co:Z Co-Processing Toolkit allows a z/OS batch job to remotely launch a process on a distributed system, redirecting input and output from the

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