Re: Unicode 6.1.0 released (not on z/OS yet)

2012-02-01 Thread Steve Comstock
On 2/1/2012 10:30 AM, McKown, John wrote: Just in case anybody is really interested. http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode6.1.0/ I am. Thanks. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-355-2752 http://www.trainersfriend.com * To get a good Return on your

Re: OT: Backup drives for a PC

2012-02-01 Thread Steve Comstock
. Thanks: Clark Morris -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-355-2752 http://www.trainersfriend.com * To get a good Return on your Investment, first make an investment! + Training your people is an excellent investment * Try our tool for calculating your Return

Re: IBM Research z196 Papers

2012-01-31 Thread Steve Comstock
. But individual articles are $30 for non-IEEE members and $20 for IEEE members. Am I reading that right? -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-355-2752 http://www.trainersfriend.com * To get a good Return on your Investment, first make an investment! + Training your

Re: ISPF Workstation Agent for Windows 7?

2012-01-27 Thread Steve Comstock
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Re: The Trainer's Friend announces - no price increase

2012-01-25 Thread Steve Comstock
On 1/24/2012 11:28 PM, Timothy Sipples wrote: Steve Comstock writes: We are using the same pricing we used in 2002. :-) We aren't, thank goodness. We slashed z/OS prices repeatedly then increased some of them this year, once, a bit, far less than we slashed them. Yes. Well, our classroom

Re: QUEUED() not working with ISPF (CROSS POSTED to ISPF-L)

2012-01-25 Thread Steve Comstock
in Test mode. This always refreshes panels and messages. Start ISPF with ISPF TEST or, once you are in ISPF, run your tests under ISPF option 7, Dialog Test -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-355-2752 http://www.trainersfriend.com * To get a good Return on your

Re: The Trainer's Friend announces - no price increase

2012-01-25 Thread Steve Comstock
On 1/25/2012 10:55 AM, R.S. wrote: W dniu 2012-01-25 00:58, Steve Comstock pisze: We are using the same pricing we used in 2002. :-) I have to admit I increased my prices significantly. ;-) Especially when measured in USD, because dollar is much cheaper than 10 years ago. [Well, just

The Trainer's Friend announces - no price increase

2012-01-24 Thread Steve Comstock
of the training. [Well, just a thought.] [No offense intended to those who abhor any kind of marketing on the list. But what an opportunity!] -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-355-2752 http://www.trainersfriend.com * To get a good Return on your Investment

Re: Ikjeft01

2012-01-23 Thread Steve Comstock
invoked TSO facilities (IKJEFTSR, IKJCT441, IKJTSOEV) from COBOL (and PL/I, and C, and Assembler), but I've not called TSO itself from any program. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-355-2752 http://www.trainersfriend.com * To get a good Return on your Investment

Re: Mainframe advertisement

2012-01-11 Thread Steve Comstock
of mainframes, especially z/OS, their flagship operating system. IBM is not telling the story and doesn't seem to care about winning the hearts and minds of anyone vis a vis mainframes. Sigh. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-355-2752 http://www.trainersfriend.com

Re: How to find a PDS member

2012-01-04 Thread Steve Comstock
to the member's name. SRCHFOR looks for text inside datasets or members. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-355-2752 http://www.trainersfriend.com * To get a good Return on your Investment, first make an investment! + Training your people is an excellent investment

Re: Semiprivileged instructions, part 1 (3)

2011-12-30 Thread Steve Comstock
fowl, eh? So, this is the kind of thing I find difficult and in need of clarification. Peter Relson z/OS Core Technology Design -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-355-2752 http://www.trainersfriend.com * To get a good Return on your Investment, first make

Re: removing nulls from a file

2011-12-29 Thread Steve Comstock
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Re: Semiprivileged instructions, part 1

2011-12-29 Thread Steve Comstock
to take care of when they occur). The long and short of it is that you can't use TRAP2/TRAP4 on your own if you are not privileged. Peter Relson z/OS Core Technology Design Thanks for that, Peter. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-355-2752 http

Semiprivileged instructions, part 1

2011-12-28 Thread Steve Comstock
: are these first eight instructions useful for applications programmers? -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-355-2752 http://www.trainersfriend.com * To get a good Return on your Investment, first make an investment! + Training your people is an excellent investment * Try

Semiprivileged instructions, part 2

2011-12-28 Thread Steve Comstock
for the application programmer? This may then result in a new course. We'll see.] -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-355-2752 http://www.trainersfriend.com * To get a good Return on your Investment, first make an investment! + Training your people is an excellent

Re: Semiprivileged instructions, part 1

2011-12-28 Thread Steve Comstock
... Tony H. You're right. I knew that, but blew it. Thanks. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-355-2752 http://www.trainersfriend.com * To get a good Return on your Investment, first make an investment! + Training your people is an excellent investment * Try

Re: Eight-character TSO Userid Support

2011-12-27 Thread Steve Comstock
where it doesn't. -- John McKown Systems Engineer IV IT -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-355-2752 http://www.trainersfriend.com * Special promotion: 15% off on all DB2 training classes scheduled by September 1, taught by year end 2011 * Check out our

Re: Imagine dealing with THIS in production

2011-12-16 Thread Steve Comstock
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Re: Is there an SPF setting to turn CAPS ON like keyboard key?

2011-12-15 Thread Steve Comstock
the compare. User friendly is programmer difficult. But it's the right way to go. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-355-2752 http://www.trainersfriend.com * To get a good Return on your Investment, first make an investment! + Training your people is an excellent

Re: IBM RDZ vs COBOS

2011-12-14 Thread Steve Comstock
the product (if it's good). After all, they offer the software with no guarantees and no maintenance. So why restrict it? -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-355-2752 http://www.trainersfriend.com * To get a good Return on your Investment, first make an investment

Re: JCL sheesh! for today

2011-12-12 Thread Steve Comstock
) BR R15 YREGS END (I am _not_ an assembler programmer.) I also wish that procedure expose ... would set SIGL inside the procedure, not outside. -- gil -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-355-2752 http

Re: Java apps have most flaws, Cobol is cleanest.

2011-12-10 Thread Steve Comstock
on your last paragraph: 1. What are you refering to as 'they' when you say: they are easy to package as COBOL functions 2. What do you mean by 'package as COBOL functions', for that matter? 3. What COBOL preprocessor? Mystified in Denver. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's

Re: Java apps have most flaws, Cobol is cleanest.

2011-12-09 Thread Steve Comstock
or the underlying z/OS system. There is very little chance of changing that, I'm afraid. So it is what it is, and we soldier on. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-355-2752 http://www.trainersfriend.com * To get a good Return on your Investment, first make an investment

Re: Java apps have most flaws, Cobol is cleanest.

2011-12-09 Thread Steve Comstock
://www.trainersfriend.com/Language_Environment_courses/m512descr.htm http://www.trainersfriend.com/COBOL_Courses/d704descr.htm http://www.trainersfriend.com/COBOL_Courses/D725descrpt.htm -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-355-2752 http://www.trainersfriend.com * To get

Re: JCL sheesh! for today

2011-12-08 Thread Steve Comstock
movie that got best foreign fill at the Academy Awards last year: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiyFeT0Tpkk And, oh yes, back to work. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-355-2752 http://www.trainersfriend.com * To get a good Return on your Investment, first make

Re: Licence to kill -9

2011-11-30 Thread Steve Comstock
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Re: Multipl Entry Points in PL/1 Load Module

2011-11-24 Thread Steve Comstock
applications programmers. If that's what you're needing, then we're good. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-355-2752 http://www.trainersfriend.com * To get a good Return on your Investment, first make an investment! + Training your people is an excellent investment

Re: Multipl Entry Points in PL/1 Load Module

2011-11-22 Thread Steve Comstock
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Re: Multipl Entry Points in PL/1 Load Module

2011-11-22 Thread Steve Comstock
POINT So either way, the binder control statements work. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-355-2752 http://www.trainersfriend.com * To get a good Return on your Investment, first make an investment! + Training your people is an excellent investment * Try our tool

Re: Multipl Entry Points in PL/1 Load Module

2011-11-22 Thread Steve Comstock
[top posting] Sorry, I forgot to mention that I pulled the OPTIONS(MAIN) off the OP's code for running my tests. On 11/22/2011 10:24 AM, Steve Comstock wrote: On 11/22/2011 8:54 AM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: In4ecb9897.6080...@trainersfriend.com, on 11/22/2011 at 05:41 AM, Steve

Re: Terminology

2011-11-22 Thread Steve Comstock
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Re: Multipl Entry Points in PL/1 Load Module

2011-11-22 Thread Steve Comstock
above. The OP didn't want to call mstste1, just mstste. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-355-2752 http://www.trainersfriend.com * To get a good Return on your Investment, first make an investment! + Training your people is an excellent investment * Try our

Re: Simple record extraction from a sequential file

2011-11-21 Thread Steve Comstock
a proliferation of subroutines (or methods) available but no one knows how to find them or use them (except for, perhaps, the most frequently used 10%). So it goes. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-355-2752 http://www.trainersfriend.com * To get a good Return on your

Re: Braces, Brackets, Broken braces, and Parentheses

2011-11-18 Thread Steve Comstock
think. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-355-2752 http://www.trainersfriend.com * To get a good Return on your Investment, first make an investment! + Training your people is an excellent investment * Try our tool for calculating your Return On Investment

Re: Braces, Brackets, Broken braces, and Parentheses

2011-11-18 Thread Steve Comstock
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-main.html -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-355-2752 http://www.trainersfriend.com * To get a good Return on your

Website rewrite to HTML5

2011-11-18 Thread Steve Comstock
We'll also be happy to hear any suggestions for improvements. Probably best if you reply directly to me, off list, which is why I set the reply-to back to me instead of to the list. Thanks for any time and effort you can put into this on our behalf. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock

Re: USS

2011-11-18 Thread Steve Comstock
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Re: USS

2011-11-17 Thread Steve Comstock
Services (USS) United States Ship (USS) Then no one has a valid cause of complaint Ken Brackets? Oh, you mean parentheses: ( ) Brackets are: [ ] (not square brackets, just brackets) Braces are: { } (not curly braces, just braces) Oh, wait. It's not Friday yet. Sorry. ;-) -- Kind regards, -Steve

Re: Data encrypt

2011-11-15 Thread Steve Comstock
communications. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-393-8716 http://www.trainersfriend.com * To get a good Return on your Investment, first make an investment! + Training your people is an excellent investment * Try our new tool for calculating your Return

Re: C newbie - pass a LDAP handle out to calling routine

2011-11-06 Thread Steve Comstock
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Maintenance at two in the afternoon? On a Friday?

2011-10-28 Thread Steve Comstock
if they are using mainframes for their online / web based work? Sheesh! Someone should teach them they can use mainframes and do maintenance while the system keeps running! Makes you wonder about staying with them. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-393-8716 http

Re: CRLF in Unix being translated on Mainframe to x'25'

2011-10-25 Thread Steve Comstock
='out_path_name',filedata=T,cp=37,recdelim=nl this would convert the file from codepage 923 (ISO-8859-15) to codepage 37 (USA EBCDIC), including converting the record delimiter from ASCII LF to EBCDIC NL. Just a thought. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-393-8716 http

Re: Our community strengths

2011-10-25 Thread Steve Comstock
it: they are either hopelessly lost or they have a future plan that does not include z/OS. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-393-8716 http://www.trainersfriend.com * Special promotion: 15% off on all DB2 training classes scheduled by September 1, taught by year end

Redbook

2011-10-10 Thread Steve Comstock
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Re: Transitioning Highly Available Applications to System z (Was: Redbook)

2011-10-10 Thread Steve Comstock
to be really good. Recommended reading, I think. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO

Re: Fairwell to a Friend

2011-10-08 Thread Steve Comstock
, 1401 Liggates Road Lynchburg, VA 24502 Cell 434-401-4828 carlos @gsf-soft.com I'm really sorry to hear that. He was a class act. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-393-8716 http://www.trainersfriend.com

Re: RES: WTO Sample Program

2011-10-06 Thread Steve Comstock
details on what you want to do with the WTO/WTOR - please be specific. Lizette -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-393-8716 http://www.trainersfriend.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff

Re: JCL CROSS-REFERENCE Utilities

2011-10-05 Thread Steve Comstock
://www.trainersfriend.com/JCL_courses/B620descrpt.htm /ad -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-393-8716 http://www.trainersfriend.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists

Looking for recommendations for web hosting

2011-09-26 Thread Steve Comstock
, but if anyone has some recommendations, please send, em to me. You can reply on list or off list. Hope I get your email. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-393-8716 http://www.trainersfriend.com

Re: Suggestion for a Job running Under a Loop

2011-09-20 Thread Steve Comstock
TIME= on JOB statements and OUTLIM= on all SYSOUT DD statements. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-393-8716 http://www.trainersfriend.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access

New Course Announcement: DB2 Version 10 Differences

2011-09-15 Thread Steve Comstock
If your shop is moving to DB2 V10, or if you have it installed and are now ready to exploit V10's new features, this course can save you months of trial and error and provide heavy hands-on experience so you're ready and confident in just four days. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's

New Course Announcement: DB2 Version 10 Differences

2011-09-15 Thread Steve Comstock
If your shop is moving to DB2 V10, or if you have it installed and are now ready to exploit V10's new features, this course can save you months of trial and error and provide heavy hands-on experience so you're ready and confident in just four days. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's

Re: How to splitting loadmudules

2011-09-09 Thread Steve Comstock
?] compare the separate modules for others with the same name. Gets pretty complicated from this point on, I think. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-393-8716 http://www.trainersfriend.com -- For IBM

Re: subtask recovery

2011-09-07 Thread Steve Comstock
schemes. John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721-1817 USA Interesting. How do you 'hide' a control task? What do you mean by 'largely hidden'? -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-393-8716 http://www.trainersfriend.com

Re: Cobol and large QSAM record length

2011-08-29 Thread Steve Comstock
=VBS in your runtime JCL. I don't have a chance to test this right now, but it's the only alternative I can think of. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-393-8716 http://www.trainersfriend.com * Special promotion: 15% off on all DB2 training classes scheduled

Re: Help with an LE problem

2011-08-26 Thread Steve Comstock
ListIBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu : : : :I have a CEEDUMP with : : CEE3250C The system or user abend U 802 R=NULL was issued. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-393-8716 http://www.trainersfriend.com * Special promotion: 15% off on all DB2 training classes

Re: Book: What On Earth is a Mainframe?

2011-08-26 Thread Steve Comstock
of topics that might be helpful to someone with a Windows or UNIX background. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-393-8716 http://www.trainersfriend.com * Special promotion: 15% off on all DB2 training classes scheduled by September 1, taught by year end 2011

Re: FW: CEE0813S Insufficient Storage

2011-08-23 Thread Steve Comstock
the storage, including the data definitions for the variables you are passing? -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-393-8716 http://www.trainersfriend.com * Special promotion: 15% off on all DB2 training classes scheduled by September 1, taught by year end 2011

Re: CLOCK change problem

2011-08-21 Thread Steve Comstock
domain. I very rarely bother responding to challenge/response systems, especially those from irresponsible companies. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-393-8716 http://www.trainersfriend.com * Special promotion: 15% off on all DB2 training classes scheduled

Re: CLOCK change problem

2011-08-21 Thread Steve Comstock
- Israel Should you use the mailblocks package and expect a response from me, you should preauthorize the dissensoftware.com domain. I very rarely bother responding to challenge/response systems, especially those from irresponsible companies. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's

Re: CLOCK change problem

2011-08-21 Thread Steve Comstock
-233-4130 (mobile) 636-294-1014(res) j...@thethomasresidence.us (Email) -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Steve Comstock Sent: Sunday, August 21, 2011 7:09 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re

Re: Security is fun in the PC world....

2011-08-20 Thread Steve Comstock
That's for sure. Just read an article about super cookies. Yikes! -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-393-8716 http://www.trainersfriend.com * Special promotion: 15% off on all DB2 training classes scheduled by September 1, taught by year end 2011 * Check out our

Re: SV: PDS(E) invalid membernames give suprising behaviour in ISPF Data Set List Utility (BROWSE)

2011-08-19 Thread Steve Comstock
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Re: Copy z/OS USS pax format file to another z/OS system without FTP

2011-08-18 Thread Steve Comstock
RECEIVE against the flat file; now you have a PDS whose members are pax files. Under the shell use pax -r to unwind each member into the unix file system. Done it dozens of times. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-393-8716 http://www.trainersfriend.com * Special

Re: JCL Parm data with embedded slashes

2011-08-18 Thread Steve Comstock
feature request. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-393-8716 http://www.trainersfriend.com * Special promotion: 15% off on all DB2 training classes scheduled by September 1, taught by year end 2011 * Check out our entire DB2 curriculum at: http

Re: JCL Parm data with embedded slashes

2011-08-18 Thread Steve Comstock
options? I have tried PARM='...' and PARM=('...'), but they both produce the same results. Thanks in advance for your suggestions! *don* -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-393-8716 http://www.trainersfriend.com * Special promotion: 15% off on all DB2 training

Re: JCL Parm data with embedded slashes

2011-08-18 Thread Steve Comstock
statement without them being seen as LE options? I have tried PARM='...' and PARM=('...'), but they both produce the same results. Thanks in advance for your suggestions! *don* -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-393-8716 http://www.trainersfriend.com

Re: JCL Parm data with embedded slashes

2011-08-18 Thread Steve Comstock
of the path name should be seen as a run-time option and the CEE3606I message should go away. - Don Imbriale On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 11:39 AM, Steve Comstock st...@trainersfriend.comwrote: On 8/18/2011 9:25 AM, Don Imbriale wrote: A correction to my previous post : Actually a double slash isn't needed

Re: UNIX (Unix System Services)

2011-08-17 Thread Steve Comstock
System Programming, volumes 1 and 9 specifically That should help. :-) -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-393-8716 http://www.trainersfriend.com * Special promotion: 15% off on all DB2 training classes scheduled by September 1, taught by year end 2011 * Check

z/OS V1.13 differences for application developers

2011-08-16 Thread Steve Comstock
Writing z/OS CGIs in Assembler You can find links to detailed descriptions of these (and all our) courses at: http://www.trainersfriend.com/General_content/CourseIndex.htm Finally, a reminder: our promotion for DB2 training ends soon - see the signature file below. -- Kind regards, -Steve

Re: Z Toolkit for z/OS Install

2011-08-11 Thread Steve Comstock
run in a separate address space? -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-393-8716 http://www.trainersfriend.com * Special promotion: 15% off on all DB2 training classes scheduled by September 1, taught by year end 2011 * Check out our entire DB2 curriculum

Re: file allocation dcb order

2011-08-10 Thread Steve Comstock
. Note that high level languages might modify this behavior using exits behind the scenes; check the docs for the language of interest. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-393-8716 http://www.trainersfriend.com * Special promotion: 15% off on all DB2 training classes

Re: assembler help!

2011-08-04 Thread Steve Comstock
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-main.html -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-393-8716 http://www.trainersfriend.com * Special promotion: 15% off on all DB2

Re: assembler help!

2011-08-04 Thread Steve Comstock
On 8/4/2011 7:31 AM, Steve Comstock wrote: [correcting my own post] On 8/4/2011 7:02 AM, Crabtree, Anne D wrote: In our IEFACTRT (accounting exit), an assembler program, it has the following commands: L R2,PARMJOBC ICM R1,7,0(R2) If PARMJOBC contains a binary integer length of 4 with 00 00

Re: IEBGENER QUESTION

2011-08-02 Thread Steve Comstock
Compressible. . : NO Referenced date . . : 2011/08/02 Expiration date . . : ***None*** Thanks in advance Can you show us the data (just a couple of lines) from your browse? -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-393

Re: disclosing business information on the internet

2011-07-28 Thread Steve Comstock
. Especially the information if a poster is using, say, VSE and not z/OS. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-393-8716 http://www.trainersfriend.com * Special promotion: 15% off on all DB2 training classes scheduled by September 1, taught by year end 2011

Re: disclosing business information on the internet

2011-07-28 Thread Steve Comstock
like posting this information because I've received useful contacts and information based on it. I'm curious what policies other businesses have. Frank -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-393-8716 http://www.trainersfriend.com * Special promotion: 15% off

Our technical papers

2011-07-23 Thread Steve Comstock
to support development and improvement of these papers. If some paper has helped you or your organization, it would be a nice gesture to give back a little. So, think about it. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-393-8716 http://www.trainersfriend.com * Special promotion

Thanks for the reviews; the paper is now published on our website

2011-07-19 Thread Steve Comstock
/General_content/Book_site.htm and help yourself (no 'registration', no fees). This paper is the fifth one in the list. I will still take comments and make appropriate changes if you have some thoughts / corrections. Thanks again. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303

Need reviewers for new paper: Setting Up the IBM HTTP Server

2011-07-18 Thread Steve Comstock
on the acknowledgements page. Thanks. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-393-8716 http://www.trainersfriend.com * Special promotion: 15% off on all DB2 training classes scheduled by September 1, taught by year end 2011 * Check out our entire DB2 curriculum at: http

Re: running Assembler I/O macro code as AMODE 31, RMODE ANY

2011-07-15 Thread Steve Comstock
On 7/15/2011 8:14 PM, Edward Jaffe wrote: On 7/14/2011 12:55 PM, Tom Marchant wrote: On Thu, 14 Jul 2011 08:40:37 -0600, Steve Comstock wrote: yes, there is some penalty for AMODE switching. What penalty is that, Steve? Do BASSM and BSM run significantly slower than BASR/BALR and BR

Re: running Assembler I/O macro code as AMODE 31, RMODE ANY

2011-07-14 Thread Steve Comstock
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Schwab members on the list

2011-07-14 Thread Steve Comstock
Anyone on the list from Charles Schwab located in the Denver area? Please contact me off list. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-393-8716 http://www.trainersfriend.com * Special promotion: 15% off on all DB2 training classes scheduled by September 1, taught

Re: running Assembler I/O macro code as AMODE 31, RMODE ANY

2011-07-13 Thread Steve Comstock
macros (TESTCB, SHOWCB, GET, PUT, PUTX, etc) and the only way these can work is by linking everything as AMODE 24, RMODE BELOW. That is *a* way; it is *NOT* the only way. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-393-8716 http://www.trainersfriend.com * Special

Re: running Assembler I/O macro code as AMODE 31, RMODE ANY

2011-07-13 Thread Steve Comstock
; it is *NOT* the only way. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-393-8716 http://www.trainersfriend.com * Special promotion: 15% off on all DB2 training classes scheduled by September 1, taught by year end 2011 * Check out our entire DB2 curriculum at: http

Re: running Assembler I/O macro code as AMODE 31, RMODE ANY

2011-07-13 Thread Steve Comstock
[mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Steve Comstock Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2011 2:56 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: running Assembler I/O macro code as AMODE 31, RMODE ANY On 7/13/2011 12:32 PM, Barkow, Eileen wrote: I passed all the info I got from this list onto the programmers

Re: running Assembler I/O macro code as AMODE 31, RMODE ANY

2011-07-12 Thread Steve Comstock
(In Assembler) * I/O and AMODE 31 they're all free and have some tidbits you might find helpful. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-393-8716 http://www.trainersfriend.com * Special promotion: 15% off on all DB2 training classes scheduled by September 1

Where's the official announcement?

2011-07-12 Thread Steve Comstock
? Thanks. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-393-8716 http://www.trainersfriend.com * Special promotion: 15% off on all DB2 training classes scheduled by September 1, taught by year end 2011 * Check out our entire DB2 curriculum at: http

Re: z114 announcement letter from IBM

2011-07-12 Thread Steve Comstock
On 7/12/2011 11:28 AM, John McKown wrote: http://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/cgi-bin/ssialias?infotype=ANsubtype=CAhtmlfid=897/ENUS111-136appname=USN Thanks John. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-393-8716 http://www.trainersfriend.com * Special promotion: 15

New instructions

2011-07-12 Thread Steve Comstock
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Re: New instructions

2011-07-12 Thread Steve Comstock
On 7/12/2011 12:23 PM, Cheryl Walker wrote: It's the same instructions as on the z196. Nothing new. Cheryl Thanks, Cheryl. == Cheryl Watson Watson Walker, Inc. www.watsonwalker.com 941-266-6609 == On Jul 12, 2011, at 1:57 PM, Steve Comstock wrote

Announcement: Applications development for the web on z/OS

2011-07-11 Thread Steve Comstock
.) = -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-393-8716 http://www.trainersfriend.com * Special promotion: 15% off on all DB2 training classes scheduled by September 1, taught by year end 2011 * Check out our entire DB2 curriculum at: http://www.trainersfriend.com

Re: z/OS 1.13 preview

2011-07-06 Thread Steve Comstock
On 7/6/2011 10:33 AM, Edward Jaffe wrote: On 7/5/2011 1:57 PM, Steve Comstock wrote: WOW! That's a big deal. Is this documented somewhere public? Or is this NDA? Do you what the certain restrictions are? Can you tell us? Can you tell us how it's done? The Feb 15, 2011 announcement preview

Re: z/OS 1.13 preview

2011-07-05 Thread Steve Comstock
to handle custom-generated data within the data itself. Without support for above-the-bar execution, such programs would need to manage two areas for each data structure: one above the bar and one below the bar. Of course, code and data must be in separate cache lines. -- Kind regards, -Steve

Re: Obtaining System Information from a COBOL program

2011-06-27 Thread Steve Comstock
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Announcement: New DB2 courses and DB2 training promotion

2011-06-23 Thread Steve Comstock
are excited! -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-393-8716 http://www.trainersfriend.com * To get a good Return on your Investment, first make an investment! + Training your people is an excellent investment * Try our new tool for calculating your Return On Investment

Re: Obtaining System Information from a COBOL program

2011-06-23 Thread Steve Comstock
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Re: At which zOS level was the initial save area (TCBFSAB) changed to 144 bits?

2011-06-22 Thread Steve Comstock
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Re: Obtaining System Information from a COBOL program

2011-06-22 Thread Steve Comstock
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