On Wed, 13 Jun 2012 22:10:26 -0500, Larry Burch wrote:
Ah, Lizette, thanks. Just looking at the link that you provided immediately
helped to straighten out my expectations. Obviously the Cc: stuff that we see
in our email client is part of the DATA portion.
For To: put the RCPT-TO in the
On Thu, 14 Jun 2012 11:46:52 +0530, Jake anderson wrote:
Can we really represent the Total CPU time taken for a Job in MIPS(average)
No.
? Does it really makes sense to represent the CPU time in MIPS ?
No.
MIPS is a rate; a ratio of two quantities, similar to miles per
hour. It's meaningless
On Wed, 13 Jun 2012 13:50:17 -0500, McKown, John wrote:
I __think__ I understand what IBM is saying. You must differentiate between a
hex value (0x00..0xFF) and a code point (a subset of hex values). Not
every hex value is a code point in every CCSID. I.e. a single byte CCSID
may have less
On Wed, 13 Jun 2012 12:37:58 -0500, Ron Thomas wrote:
Hi,
We are using rexec to trigger a shell script in unix box, but getting the
below error message. can some let me know what could be issue.
Using NETRC file //'KEVIN07.NETRC.DATA'.
MACHINE : tpj4012
LOGIN : krn
PASSWORD: **
MVS
On Wed, 13 Jun 2012 08:31:12 -0400, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote:
In
... a Unicode code page ...
Oxymoron? Unicode is unicode. There's only one code point
for any given character. Unicode was designed to avoid the
babel of code pages.
-- gil
On Wed, 13 Jun 2012 17:30:41 -0700, Charles Mills wrote:
FWIW, z/OS Unicode Services does indicate that at least one SUB character
was output. It's not an error (RC still = 0) but it is a documented output
status bit flag.
What avail is this if SUB is a valid character in the input code page?
On Mon, 11 Jun 2012 07:23:22 -0500, McKown, John wrote:
If you mean that they FTP transferred an XMIT file via an intermediate system
which was ASCII based (such as Windows) and forgot to do a BINary transfer at
some stage, you are out of luck. The problem is that, in general, if you do an
On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 12:03:55 -0400, Farley, Peter x23353 wrote:
I believe that slide refers to round trips within the z/OS world only.
There is no statement that CCSID conversion by a system other than z/OS (such
as the PC ftp client in your example) will be covered in the 'round trip
On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 15:02:17 -0400, Tony Harminc wrote:
The objective of this criterion is to send data from one system to
another one that has different representations of character data, and
retrieve it without loss. Often the do not convert choice is not
available. For example, data stored in
On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 12:59:13 -0700, Charles Mills wrote:
A round-trip conversion works only in a two-tier homogenous environment
where the data makes the complete round trip. For example, if you pass data
from DB2 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows to DB2 for z/OS and then back to DB2
for Linux, UNIX,
On Mon, 11 Jun 2012 12:10:35 +0530, Jake anderson wrote:
Are there any possibilities of converting TEXT file to XMIT format. Since
TRANSMIT does this.
some of our home grown IMS tools were XMITED improperly with TEXT file. So
just trying to know if the TEXT file can be FTPed and received all
On Mon, 11 Jun 2012 17:32:33 +0530, Jake anderson wrote:
Unfortunately the pds was transmitted with .txt file some years ago but now
am trying restore the pds members from text files.
Are the text files corresponding to the PDS members accessible
to you? (Where?) If on z/OS, copy them to PDS
On Tue, 5 Jun 2012 13:59:25 -0700, Lizette Koehler stars...@mindspring.com
wrote:
IEF694I DDNAME REFERENCE TO DD CONCATENATION REFERS ONLY TO FIRST DD
Explanation: THE JCL DDNAME keyword has been used to refer to a DD
concatenation. When the object of a DDNAME reference is a concatenation of
On Wed, 6 Jun 2012 11:33:55 -0500, Hansen, Dave L - Eagan, MN wrote:
I need to allocate a dataset exclusively (EXCL/DISP=MOD) to do a delete from
REXX (or batch).
By delete from Rexx do you mean TSO? If not, what?
I can go out by hand using 3.4 and delete all I want from the dataset
On Sun, 3 Jun 2012 17:06:35 +0200, Giovanni Santuz wrote:
RD =RANDOM(1,9)
HSMDS = 'TWRK.TEMP.D'!!RD
HLIST DSNAME('ODSN') ODS('HSMDS')
CALL READ_HSMDS
Is RANDOM() the best way to do this, given that there's a 50%
chance of collision in 372 tries? Would it be better (and more
informative) to
On Thu, 31 May 2012 19:31:04 -0600, Steve Comstock wrote:
Something has to specify the UNIT. Does LIKE establish the
UNIT but not the VOL? Strange.
LIKE establishes neither; UNIT comes from the system default
unit, usually SYSALLDA; VOL is chosen from available storage
volumes.
Humph! I
On Fri, 1 Jun 2012 13:27:54 -0500, McKown, John wrote:
I don't know about that message in particular, but I know that the HSM started
task often issues message via a directed TPUT having an option to deliver it
to the userid which issued the HSM command. Similar to what the z/OS SEND
commands
On Thu, 31 May 2012 21:45:54 +, Gibney, Dave wrote:
There is a parmlib option to abend NOT CATLG 2. I recommend using it.
Would this cause the ABEND at the beginning or at the end of the job step?
The latter would be suboptimal.
IMO, SMS should be set up for all allocations and the
On Tue, 29 May 2012 22:50:05 +0200, R.S. wrote:
Solution: add SMPJHOME DD to SMPE job.
I'm curious why IBM did not add a DDDEF for that...
http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/gimrfr42/4.20
4.20 SMPJHOME
...
No default location is assumed by SMP/E for
On Wed, 30 May 2012 10:18:42 -0500, Elardus Engelbrecht wrote:
The very best thing of this - These reports are shifted to the left
automagically despite the output datasets are still RECFM=FBA. So no blanks
lines in column 1 are shown, especially in e-mails to my clients.
Best? Doesn't this
On Wed, 30 May 2012 10:24:10 -0700, Frank Yaeger wrote:
I would suggest specifying RECFM=FB on the DFSORT output DD when you
remove the carriage control characters, to override the default of
RECFM=FBA,
so the carriage control characters won't be expected.
It would be _so_ clever if DFSORT
On Mon, 28 May 2012 09:17:04 -0400, Gary Weinhold wrote:
You only need (want) 1 billion random numbers. I think multiplying each 9
digit number by a prime greater than 1 billion and dividing by 1 billion will
generate a unique 9 digit remainder for each number.
(Why didn't I think of that!?)
On Fri, 25 May 2012 10:30:45 -0500, Roberts, John J wrote:
So all Personally Identifiable Information (PII) fields must be masked. I
have figured out techniques to mask names and addresses. But I now need to
figure out a technique to mask a nine digit numeric key. This field is used
as
On Mon, 28 May 2012 11:19:01 -0700, Phil Smith a...@efghijk.lmn wrote:
Well, if the goal is to protect the data, then it needs to be
cryptographically secure. Security through obscurity isn't security.
plug
Voltage SecureData is an encryption platform that provides Format-Preserving
On Fri, 25 May 2012 19:01:13 -0400, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote:
This part wasn't answered. You need to use the field mark key
(x'1E').
Does ISPF treat it the same way that TSO does? I thought that it was
just another character except for TSO line mode.
Don't know. But I once tried to
On Fri, 25 May 2012 07:44:31 -0500, McKown, John wrote:
I know that I can run the TSO TMP in batch. Using this, I can run a REXX
program which sets up all the ISPF required datasets. I can then invoke
ISPSTART with the CMD(...) option to run another program/CLIST/REXX. In that
program, I can
On Fri, 25 May 2012 15:54:05 +0200, R.S. wrote:
When one leaves ISPF usually there is a panel Specify Disposition of
Log Data Set. Usually the answer is 2 - delete.
Q: how is it possible to exit ISPF by choosing some option (X - Exit)
and NOT see the panel? I saw it many moons ago.
BTW: I don't
On Wed, 23 May 2012 10:33:52 -0400, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote:
on 05/22/2012 at 10:22 AM, John Gilmore said:
One-inch tapes were once very common in IBM shops,
Common?
I had the impression they were rare (well, I never saw one). And
expensive. It wouldn't make economic sense to split
On Wed, 23 May 2012 14:20:03 +, Bill Fairchild wrote:
And the general public, many Dilbertian managers, and even some of us
professional nitpickers, think that a job running 1 hour instead of 10 is 900%
faster,
I believe that's correct usage, even as an airplane that flies from
New York
On Wed, 23 May 2012 06:43:53 -0700, Charles Mills wrote:
I don't understand what I am seeing from Unicode Services translation.
I specify translation from 1047 (Encoding scheme 1100 - EBCDIC, SBCS; Name
LATIN 1 / OPEN SYSTEM) to 1252 (Encoding scheme 4105 - ASCII, SBCS; Name
MS-WIN LATIN-1).
As
On Tue, 22 May 2012 13:09:08 +0200, R.S. wrote:
BTW: I heard about 1-inch tapes. Is it true? Did such wide tapes exist?
Current cartridges are 1/2 inch wide. The article says that 729 was also
1/2 inch.
http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/storage/storage_7340.html
... but can you
On Mon, 21 May 2012 09:07:49 -0500, Kirk Wolf wrote:
Just a suggestion, but why compile your Java programs on z/OS? Much
better, IMO, to use a IDE like Eclipse on your desktop and then just
publish the class files or jars to z/OS for execution.
I understand that internally Java uses a 16-bit
On Mon, 21 May 2012 09:57:48 -0500, Kirk Wolf wrote:
the -encoding option on javac:
http://docs.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/technotes/tools/windows/javac.html
Ah! And even better:
http://docs.oracle.com/javase/1.4.2/docs/guide/intl/encoding.doc.html
Perhaps the OP's preferred code page is
On Mon, 21 May 2012 17:23:37 -0500, Ed Gould wrote:
Agreed...(about screen scraping). I have run into a few over the last
40 something years. bIt is just plain a DON'T DO IT.
Twice I have been called in at something in the morning because
some IDIOT thought it was a good idea. Not only
On Mon, 21 May 2012 08:43:14 -0400, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote:
on 05/21/2012 at 12:15 AM, Paul Gilmartin said:
Those generate parameter lists with a distinct CMS flavor.
Not even close; 8 character tokenization is mickey mouse. The PLIST
has a distinct REXX flavor. ...
Well, then, a CMS
On Sat, 19 May 2012 22:35:04 -0400, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote:
You probably should be using ADDRESS ATTACH or ADDRESS LINK for what
you are doing. See 2.5.9 in SA22-7790, z/OS TSO/E REXX Reference for
more details.
Those generate parameter lists with a distinct CMS flavor. I'll
recommend
On Fri, 18 May 2012 14:21:49 -0400, Anne Lynn Wheeler wrote:
In the mid-70s, one of the people in the vm370/cms development group
significantly rewrote and developed full function OS r/w filesystem
(real os vtoc, pds directory, etc.) function in CMS (joke that the
100k bytes was more efficient
On Fri, 18 May 2012 16:32:34 -0400, Anne Lynn Wheeler wrote:
VM/SF was from the POK high-end group ... which was responsible for
XA. vm370 was still from the endicott mid-range group ... which had less
political clout.
So, who won? It doesn't sound as if the climate would admit a
compromise?
On Thu, 17 May 2012 19:33:17 +, Jousma, David wrote:
Picking and choosing what maintenance to apply will typically get you into
trouble at some point especially if you have limited opportunities to
implement said maintenance. If you have a weekly window, then you may operate
on a
On Wed, 16 May 2012 06:41:27 -0600, Steve Comstock wrote:
He has no choice on this: all the new compilers _must_ use LE.
Even Metal C?
-- gil
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On Wed, 16 May 2012 07:55:48 -0600, Steve Comstock wrote:
Well, I knew someone would raise that exception. No,
Metal C does not use LE. Not sure if SP C (Systems
Programmer C) is still around and it would be an
exception too.
I believe it's been discussed in these fora that C and PL/I
share an
On Wed, 16 May 2012 17:21:25 +0200, Miklos Szigetvari wrote:
Do you have the chance to compare the speed of the two codes ?
Does execution speed always trump code size? Where should the
tradeoff be? For example, any loop with a fixed number of
iterations (even a million) could be flattened to
On Mon, 14 May 2012 09:23:46 -0400, John Eells wrote:
Another alternative is to reduce the number of libraries in the LPA list
(or in dynamic LPA). This will have an effect on system performance,
however, and there is another series of topics in section 1.4 of the
Initialization and Tuning Guide
On Mon, 14 May 2012 09:13:47 -0500, McKown, John wrote:
From my (small) shop:
AMTMS4I 16 MEG LINE
AMTMS3I NUC R/O 00FE4000 00FF112 Ki ---
AMTMS3I NUC R/W 00FD5000 00FE3FFF 60 Ki ---
AMTMS3I SQA
On Fri, 11 May 2012 21:20:34 +0800, David Crayford wrote:
You really are a cheeky monkey Shane! I've always enjoyed the aussie
larakin humour...
Is that American Urban, or Strine (var. larrikin)?
-- gil
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On Fri, 11 May 2012 11:43:33 -0400, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote:
The suggestion to create datasets with a timestamp in the name seems
like your best bet in the meantime.
However, that suggestion treads perilously close to the topic of
many an inflammatory thread hereabouts.
-- gil
On Fri, 11 May 2012 16:16:03 -0400, Robert A. Rosenberg wrote:
At 00:58 -0500 on 05/11/2012, Mike Schwab wrote about Re: ### of GDG Entries:
We have Mobius that creates report files with the date and time as
part of the file name. Huge numbers of 1 track datasets.
Why not make them members of
On Thu, 10 May 2012 14:23:10 +, Hal Merritt wrote:
I don't know of any good way to attack this withoug going all the way back to
initial file creation, understand the file attributes (to include local code
page), then step through the transmission process understanding exactly what
is
On Thu, 10 May 2012 14:52:17 -0700, Phil Smith wrote:
How many z/OS shops actually run with a different locale (codepage)?
I mean both globally for the entire system as well as within one or more
databases.
I'm assuming the second set is much larger than the first; it's the first I'm
really
On Wed, 9 May 2012 12:29:31 +0800, David Crayford wrote:
Years ago when my wife was working for HDS and I had a lively discussion
at a Christmas lunch with some of her colleagues about the the mainframes
superior I/O. They scoffed at me like I had been living in a cave for
the last decade. I was
On Wed, 9 May 2012 13:12:52 -0500, Walt Farrell wrote:
On Wed, 9 May 2012 12:37:18 -0500, Joel C. Ewing wrote:
Another one of those message formats that appears to Thunderbird as
garbage. I can read it fine on the ibm-main online archive, where is
shows Ituriel's readable message followed by
On Sun, 6 May 2012 23:23:14 -0400, Robert A. Rosenberg wrote:
The problem is that before 64 AMODE you had 3 AMODE Choices -
24-Only, 31-Only, or BOTH 24 and 31 (ie: Any). If I code AMODE-31 I
can have problems with something that needs AMODE-24. There needs to
be am AMODE (such as ALL) to say
On Mon, 7 May 2012 08:09:45 -0600, Steve Comstock wrote:
AMODE ANY means the program will be given control in
the AMODE of its invoker and supports running in AMODE24
or AMODE31, whichever it's caller is currently running in.
Of course this contradicts the conventional English notion of
any in
On Sun, 6 May 2012 09:27:22 -0700, Charles Mills wrote:
I am kicking the ENQ idea around. ENQ is certainly promising. There are some
interlock issues with re-establishing the exclusive ENQ after relinquishing
it, and what do the intended waiting tasks do in the meantime, but it has
promise.
Two
On Sun, 6 May 2012 15:26:33 -0700, Charles Mills wrote:
I have z/OS tasks of all stripes driving a z/OS system exit. I have a finite
supply of a resource that each task needs in the exit. Sometimes the
resources are exhausted and will not be replenished for a while. What if we
come through the
On Sat, 5 May 2012 08:54:52 -0500, Paul Edwards wrote:
I have a zip file that appears to have been produced using pkzip for z/OS.
However, it looks like it has been transmitted using some sort of text
protocol, because the high bit has been stripped from most bytes, and some
other bytes appear
On Fri, 4 May 2012 10:12:30 -0700, Edward Jaffe wrote:
On 5/4/2012 7:52 AM, Thomas Conley wrote:
I think the MPFLST option should be something like JOBLOG, SYSLOG, or BOTH.
That should satisfy the needs of all parties.
I like this idea. However, I would caution against the use of the word
On Fri, 4 May 2012 16:08:30 -0400, Kenneth Barkhau wrote:
Many years ago I used dynamic allocation' to allocate a dataset from an
assembler program. In order to issue the DYNALLOC macro (I believe that it
is still documented in z/OS JOB MGMT) you must setup values in 'RB' request
block, 'RBPTR'
On Wed, 2 May 2012 22:39:45 -0700, Edward Jaffe wrote:
On 5/2/2012 7:33 PM, Scott Ford wrote:
So how do you protect code, whatever language you have written in , in
business ?
You must treat it as trade secret information.
Not quite the point. Suppose someone wanted to create a product
On Wed, 2 May 2012 14:41:51 +0530, saurabh khandelwal wrote:
If I am not wrong, it is because of using PTF for wrong version of z/OS ,
which is not applicable.
BTDT. It's somewhat irritating that when this happens SMP/E
does not list the ++VER MCS appearing in the SYSMOD as an
aid to
On Wed, 2 May 2012 07:00:37 -0500, McKown, John wrote:
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=articleitem=plugable_multiseat_kicknum=1
This is a USB device which can plug into a normal PC running Linux (Fedora 17
is mentioned). You then connect a DisplayLink monitor, USB keyboard and mouse
to
On Wed, 2 May 2012 09:35:14 -0700, Lizette Koehler wrote:
We have on occasion users submit 1000's of recalls at one time. They use a
variety of processes from TSO Batch HRECALL to a REXX process. Of course this
can impact other users who are looking to just get one or two datasets back.
A
On Mon, 30 Apr 2012 13:20:48 -0700, Charles Mills wrote:
At least too many OPEN's is better than too many DYNALLOC's *and* too many
OPEN's.
Ummm. No. A few years ago, I had an APAR created because
the z/OS UNIX (USS) command e.g.:
$ cp -P'SPACE=(5000,5000)' homelog //temp.test.space3
On Mon, 30 Apr 2012 23:43:24 +0200, Bernd Oppolzer wrote:
Don't know what it's worth, but I'm quite sure that you can read a directory
of a PDS simply by issuing fopen on it as a binary file - like this
directory = fopen (dd:pdsfile, rb);
that is, if you don't specify member names in
On Mon, 30 Apr 2012 05:05:42 -0500, Elardus Engelbrecht wrote:
Linda Mooney wrote:
Are you wanting to just rem ove the carraige control, or would you rather
execute and write the ouput out as the finished reports? You could execute
the cc programmatically or, if you have LRS/DRS ( probably
On Fri, 27 Apr 2012 15:18:05 -0700, Edward Jaffe wrote:
That's it, Steve! The name of my test EXEC is 'GOTO'. So, it was executing
itself recursively! :-D
At times when I want to write pure Rexx, insensitive to default
command environment, I start my EXEC with address NOTHING
and explicitly
On Thu, 26 Apr 2012 18:09:27 -0400, Rob Schramm wrote:
Yep.
lcd 'local pdsname'
cd 'foreign pdsname'
MPUT *
will do it just fine.
The tricky part may be allocating the receiving PDS. Notice that
the statement of the problem said it had to be done using FTP.
It's easily enough done with the
On Tue, 24 Apr 2012 23:36:19 -0700, Edward Jaffe wrote:
The march toward a personal use z/OS license takes another step forward ...
http://www.ibm.com/common/ssi/rep_ca/5/897/ENUS212-145/ENUS212-145.PDF
... Additionally, the [Rational Developer and Test Environment for System z]
product can
On Wed, 25 Apr 2012 10:19:19 -0400, Farley, Peter x23353 wrote:
I'll grant you the dongle issue (but it's probably unavoidable) and possibly
the APAR submission issue (which can be anything from a non-issue to a
business killer), but why is Linux/Intel hosting a problem to you rather than
a
On Wed, 25 Apr 2012 16:27:00 +0200, Alvaro Guirao Lopez wrote:
You can acquire Red Hat that have support, Suse doesn't have support...
Are you saying that Red Hat will provide APAR support for RDz DTE?
I suppose if the price were right.
zPDT is still available only for ISV and internal IBM
On Wed, 25 Apr 2012 10:43:20 -0500, Joel C. Ewing wrote:
...
My wife has some very expensive Embroidery software that requires a
dongle. The license does entitle her to run the software on multiple
platforms, both her laptop and desktop, since the dongle prevents
concurrent use. After a year or
On Tue, 24 Apr 2012 10:00:46 -0500, Greg Boyd wrote:
Starting with ICSF HCR7750 and the z9, ICSF relies on the CPACF hardware on
the host for the full SHA support (SHA-1 as well as SHA-2). The CP Assist (CP
Assist for Cryptographic Function) is running compliant implementations of the
SHA
On Tue, 24 Apr 2012 12:23:39 -0400, Rob Schramm wrote:
Worked for me.
Starting with ICSF HCR7750 and the z9, ICSF relies on the CPACF hardware on
the host for the full SHA support (SHA-1 as well as SHA-2). The CP Assist
(CP Assist for Cryptographic Function) is running compliant
On Tue, 24 Apr 2012 11:33:08 -0500, Walt Farrell wrote:
Starting with ICSF HCR7750 and the z9, ICSF relies on the CPACF hardware on
the host for the full SHA support (SHA-1 as well as SHA-2). The CP Assist
(CP Assist for Cryptographic Function) is running compliant implementations
of the SHA
On Tue, 24 Apr 2012 19:46:54 -0500, Karl Severson wrote:
We've always had a problem with FTP and non-text files (object files, binary,)
that are variable length on our VM/ESA systems. When they get to where they
are going they aren't the same as when they left the source system. This can
be
On Wed, 31 Aug 2011 (last year) 20:07:42 -0500, Paul Gilmartin (I) wrote:
If you have ICSF, there's CSNBOWH. See Rexx samples in SYS1.SAMPLIB(CSF*).
There's a manual somewhere.
A few days ago, I received an off-list communication from a colleague
who tried this, then attempted to replicate
On 2012-04-20 11:53, Martin Truebner wrote in ASSEMBLER-LIST:
Did you ever try to copy code from a PDF? As and idea: a funny char
aside of the space (in col 1) and an other one in col 10 and col 16
would make it a easy to rebuild source from a (PDF-)printed manual.
1) There's another good
On Tue, 17 Apr 2012 22:23:09 -0500, John McKown wrote:
I do use a UNIX subdirectory on my SYSEXEC concatenation. But, as you
said, it cannot be first. So I have an empty PDS with FB/80 as the first
DSN in the concatenation. A clumsy work around, but at least it works
for me.
When you do this,
On Thu, 19 Apr 2012 08:39:12 -0500, Donald Likens wrote:
I just ran two STCs that updated the same z/OS USS file at the same time. How
do I stop multiple processes from updating the same z/OS USS file at the same
time?
flockfile()?
On Thu, 19 Apr 2012 16:50:44 +0200, Michael Klaeschen wrote:
locking mechanisms are just convention for well-behaving processes and do
not guarantee exclusive use.
IMHO, POSIX and common Unix implementations just don't offer exclusive
control as found in MVS (i.e. GRS). May be you can use
On Wed, 18 Apr 2012 09:30:59 -0400, Veilleux, Jon L wrote:
According to the JCL manual that won't work:
The following keywords are the only keywords supported by IBM and recommended
for use in relational-expressions. Any other keywords, even if accepted by the
system, are not intended or
On Wed, 18 Apr 2012 09:47:05 -0500, Joel C. Ewing wrote:
On 04/18/2012 08:46 AM, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
On Wed, 18 Apr 2012 09:30:59 -0400, Veilleux, Jon L wrote:
According to the JCL manual that won't work:
The following keywords are the only keywords supported by IBM and
recommended
On Wed, 18 Apr 2012 08:02:20 -0500, Victor Zhang wrote:
So I code:
//ABC PROC VER='620'
//IF620 IF (VER=620) THEN
//PGMNAME EXEC PGM=PGM
//STEPLIB DD DNS=LOADMOD.V620
// ELSE
//PGMNAME EXEC PGM=PGM
//STEPLIB DD DNS=LOADMOD.V710
//ENDIF
A possible drawback of such a scheme is that at job
On Tue, 17 Apr 2012 22:23:09 -0500, John McKown wrote:
I do use a UNIX subdirectory on my SYSEXEC concatenation. But, as you
said, it cannot be first. So I have an empty PDS with FB/80 as the first
DSN in the concatenation. A clumsy work around, but at least it works
for me.
Me, too. It could
On Wed, 18 Apr 2012 12:25:06 -0500, Joel C. Ewing wrote:
So does IBM change the docs to agree with the implementation (the
cheaper solution), or do they change the code to not conflict with the
docs (which may break existing usage)? In any event, the existing JCL
documentation should not be
On Wed, 18 Apr 2012 21:59:33 -0300, Clark Morris wrote:
On Wed, 18 Apr 2012 23:04:51 +0200 (CEST), in bit.listserv.ibm-main
Nomen Nescio wrote:
Hoo dat!?
This gets back to what I said. PERFORM is net 5 instructions more *per PEFORM*
than two GO TOs (to and fro) so loops processing millions of
On Tue, 17 Apr 2012 10:59:59 -0500, Mark Zelden wrote:
I ran an exec similar to this from TSO to mount the PDSE on the local system:
/* rexx */
Address TSO
MOUNT FILESYSTEM(NFS_ZELD) TYPE(NFS) ,
MOUNTPOINT('/u/zelden/testnfs') ,
PARM('SYST:ZELDEN.TEST.PDSE,text,xlat(Y)')
Can you
On Tue, 17 Apr 2012 13:07:18 -0600, Steve Comstock wrote:
On 4/17/2012 12:53 PM, McKown, John wrote:
As the OP, I thought I'm mention that I finally got the z/OS NFS server to
allow me to mount a high-level onto a z/OS UNIX subdirectory on the same
system.
Clever and resourceful. But certainly
On Tue, 17 Apr 2012 17:49:24 -0400, Tony Harminc wrote:
Actually, they probrably would document that SYSLIB DD name cannot be
used to with z/OS 1.12 and above to allow for testing alternate
versions of the program.
Are you thinking, rather, perhaps, of STEPLIB?
Its likely that they internally
On Tue, 17 Apr 2012 16:29:13 -0600, Steve Comstock wrote:
Cheers,
TomR COBOL is the Language of the Future!
So, in other words, you'll make the exclusion explicit instead of
removing the restriction. :-)
But, I gather from some of the discussions, and your comments, on
this list, you are
On Sun, 15 Apr 2012 23:15:19 -0700, Edward Jaffe wrote:
The problem with GOTO is that the suitability of the target branch location is
not enforced by the compiler according to any structured discipline.
C commits this offense. Shame on C.
Premature terminations (posit/quit/admit) can almost
On Mon, 16 Apr 2012 07:28:10 -0500, McKown, John wrote:
Our use of GO TO is generally restricted to usage such as:
PERFORM I-P THRU I-P-EXIT UNTIL CONDITION.
I-P.
READ FILE AT END
SET CONDITION TO TRUE
GO TO I-P-EXIT
END-READ
...
I-P-EXIT.
EXIT.
Otherwise, to
On Mon, 16 Apr 2012 15:42:12 +0200, Thomas Berg wrote:
Premature terminations (posit/quit/admit) can almost always be handled
with
LEAVE-type statements or immediate return from a subroutine. Some
languages have
SIGNAL, EXIT, etc. which can help provide structured premature
termination for
On Mon, 16 Apr 2012 16:51:27 +0200, Thomas Berg wrote:
DO I =1
DO J = 1
DO K= 1
CALL P1
...
END K
END J
END I
P1:
CALL P2
P2: PROCEDURE EXPOSE J
LEAVE J
Ok, I can see logic in
On Mon, 16 Apr 2012 11:34:55 -0600, Jerry Whitteridge wrote:
Yup - absolutely agree with Mary Anne. Base FTP has been disabled in this shop
for years on the Mainframe. Only FTPS is accepted. Outgoing FTP has to be
justified to all and sundry why we cannot use a secure method.
I believe my
On Mon, 16 Apr 2012 16:45:21 -0500, Matthew Stitt wrote:
You could have the exact same result by placing a period
after the 2000-exit. Then the End-if is not needed.
gd,r
I sure am glad that COBOL attained its design objective
of being intelligible (intuitively? unambiguously?) to a
PFC-level
On Mon, 16 Apr 2012 17:29:23 -0600, Jerry Whitteridge wrote:
Has anyone tried (apart from Paul G) exporting the PDSE via NFS and mounting
it at a z/Unix mountpoint on the same system ? That should be able to provide
your path as well a classic access
We tried and failed. But we didn't try
On Mon, 16 Apr 2012 17:06:28 -0700, Dale McCart wrote:
Your JCL will fail on z/OS 1.12 as well.
change name of SYSLIB DD to something else //VDSKAA9 DD
UNIT=3390,VOL=SER=DSKAA9,DISP=SHR will work.
While you would think SYSLIB would qualify as anyname apparently it dose
not.
Submit a
On Mon, 16 Apr 2012 21:37:54 -0500, Mike Schwab wrote:
Actually, they probrably would document that SYSLIB DD name cannot be
used to with z/OS 1.12 and above to allow for testing alternate
versions of the program.
Are you thinking, rather, perhaps, of STEPLIB?
Its likely that they internally
On Fri, 13 Apr 2012 18:15:19 -0400, Farley, Peter x23353 wrote:
Mind you, I wouldn't want to be the one supporting three different languages
for all those DSECTS ...
But it *would* be awfully helpful if IBM did it for us... :)
I wonder again why, nowadays, IBM doesn't make a product of PL/X.
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