Re: Anyone a Unicode Services expert? -- roundtrip conversion

2012-06-13 Thread Tony Harminc
On 13 June 2012 15:02, Mike Schwab mike.a.sch...@gmail.com wrote: Roundtrip example:  Every defined character in 1027, excluding values that do not have a character defined, exist in 1208, is successfully translated from 1027 to 1208 and back to 1027.  All codepoints that do not have a

Re: Anyone a Unicode Services expert? -- roundtrip conversion

2012-06-12 Thread Tony Harminc
On 12 June 2012 13:59, Charles Mills charl...@mcn.org wrote: Fair enough. Unicode services reports however that it supports roundtrip conversion in many of these cases, including for example, 37 to 850 (pretty basic ASCII). What does roundtrip conversion mean? That is my fundamental question.

Re: Anyone a Unicode Services expert? -- roundtrip conversion

2012-06-12 Thread Tony Harminc
On 12 June 2012 18:55, Charles Mills charl...@mcn.org wrote: I have opened a PMR. For the doc, or the behaviour of the service? Or did you choose the let us decide for you option...? Tony H. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff

Re: Failed Disk Data Exposure

2012-06-08 Thread Tony Harminc
On 8 June 2012 17:37, zMan zedgarhoo...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 5:20 PM, McKown, John john.mck...@healthmarkets.comwrote: If it were a single drive in a Raid 5 type configuration, I'd guess it would be totally impossible. But in a Raid 1 (mirrored), why not? Each drive

Re: How to suppress Message in REXX App

2012-06-01 Thread Tony Harminc
On 1 June 2012 18:14, Skip Robinson jo.skip.robin...@sce.com wrote: TSO PROFILE command controls messages issued via PUTLINE, which invokes TSO services and is therefore suppressible within TSO. TPUT is an SVC that cannot be intercepted by TSO and therefore cannot be suppressed by TSO. Uh, not

Re: Screen Scraping TN3270

2012-05-23 Thread Tony Harminc
On 21 May 2012 16:57, Longnecker, Dennis dennis.longnec...@courts.wa.gov wrote: Curious as to what people might be using, if anything, on the JAVA side for screen scraping TN3270 applications.  Last year, because of performance problems, we switched from IBM Hats to a different JAVA based

Re: Rexx - calling assembler question

2012-05-18 Thread Tony Harminc
On 18 May 2012 11:36, Scott Ford scott_j_f...@yahoo.com wrote: All: I am in the process of writing a Rexx program that will call an Assembler program and pass parameters. The program is simple.. -

Re: Rexx - calling assembler question

2012-05-18 Thread Tony Harminc
On 18 May 2012 12:25, Scott Ford scott_j_f...@yahoo.com wrote: Tom: Tom? Let me explain, sorry, I should have been more clear.. The Rexx program or clist will call and Asembler module , the Assembler module in this case will do calls to the R_Radmin to perform extracts..output will go to

Re: Early IPL problems

2012-05-18 Thread Tony Harminc
On 18 May 2012 15:11, McKown, John john.mck...@healthmarkets.com wrote: I use the HMC and the Operating System Messages ICON. I don't have any NIPCONS, so I IPL and monitor from the HMC until I can get an SMCS console going. If you do have a 3270 type console, why not record the console on

Re: Servicelink, ETR and SR

2012-05-17 Thread Tony Harminc
On 17 May 2012 11:19, Stone, Sandy sandy.st...@medmutual.com wrote: We got that too. Notified their webmaster via the link on the 'not found' page. The notfound link I got to is just the general contact us page for IBM US. They used to have a broken link page, prefilled with the relevant info,

Re: Codepages and locales

2012-05-11 Thread Tony Harminc
On 11 May 2012 08:27, Phil Smith p...@voltage.com wrote: Paul Gilmartin wrote: Different from what.  Everything is different from something else. Perhaps different from IBM-1047? Doh, yeah, sorry. It seemed obvious at the time... - but of course you're right, it wasn't. It's perhaps even a

Re: National Vulnerability Database (NVD) Search for Mainframe Vulnerabilities

2012-05-08 Thread Tony Harminc
On 8 May 2012 11:06, Pascoe, Raymond M raymond.pas...@highmark.com wrote: Not sure if this forum is the appropriate place to ask this question, so please advise. It's a fine place to ask. We have been requested by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid, as a part of our mainframe compliance

Re: National Vulnerability Database (NVD) Search for Mainframe Vulnerabilities

2012-05-08 Thread Tony Harminc
On 8 May 2012 18:57, Walt Farrell walt.farr...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, 8 May 2012 18:31:56 -0400, Tony Harminc t...@harminc.net wrote: One can learn quite a bit from these published documents, not least lists of fixes that must be applied in order to pass the claimed security specifications

Re: /usr/lpp

2012-05-05 Thread Tony Harminc
On 4 May 2012 22:30, Lloyd Fuller leful...@sbcglobal.net wrote: Licensed Program Products.  i.e., IBM separate products:  COBOL, C, etc. Not just IBM; ISVs can register a prefix to go under /usr/lpp, and then it's the right place to install those vendor products too. Unfortunately IBM has

Re: WTOR macro conflicting/confusing info?

2012-04-25 Thread Tony Harminc
On 25 April 2012 19:30, Edward Jaffe edja...@phoenixsoftware.com wrote: On 4/25/2012 4:26 PM, Paul Schuster wrote: In the WTOR documentation (SA22-7607-17 and earlier versions[z/OS V1R13.0 MVS Assembler Services Reference IAR-XCT]), there is this in the LIST form description: The message

Re: EXTRACT,QEDIT macro

2012-04-25 Thread Tony Harminc
On 25 April 2012 19:13, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) shmuel+ibm-m...@patriot.net wrote: on 04/23/2012 at 06:25 PM, Tony Harminc t...@harminc.net said: I believe you asked and received answers to the same question on Feb 10 of this year. To repeat, there is only one CIB and communications ECB per

Re: Explination of S0C4 reason code 4 and related data areas

2012-04-24 Thread Tony Harminc
On 23 April 2012 17:01, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) shmuel+ibm-m...@patriot.net wrote: on 04/20/2012 at 06:54 PM, Tony Harminc t...@harminc.net said: There are other possible reasons for an 0C4-04 abend, but 0C4-04 is always a protection exception of some sort. I wouldn't call invalid page

Re: EXTRACT,QEDIT macro

2012-04-23 Thread Tony Harminc
On 23 April 2012 17:30, Micheal Butz michealb...@optonline.net wrote:  I have a question regarding the usage of the Extract Qedit macros for operator communication I have started task looking to process a Flush Or Modify command via the com/cib the pointer to the CIB is just for the current

Re: Explination of S0C4 reason code 4 and related data areas

2012-04-20 Thread Tony Harminc
On 20 April 2012 17:19, Micheal Butz michealb...@optonline.net wrote: A S0C4 reason code 4 means the storage key and the PSW key don't match There are other possible reasons for an 0C4-04 abend, but 0C4-04 is always a protection exception of some sort. typically trying to access storage key 0

Re: IEHLIST LISTVTOC inconsistency

2012-04-18 Thread Tony Harminc
On 17 April 2012 21:26, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) shmuel+ibm-m...@patriot.net wrote: I suspect they continue to use a combination of DADSM and home-grown manipulation of control blocks. More likely a bog standard search of the TIOT with some of them doing an OPENJ, e.g., IEHLIST, IEHPROGM. For

Re: IEHLIST LISTVTOC inconsistency

2012-04-17 Thread Tony Harminc
On 16 April 2012 23:32, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com wrote: 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

Re: IEHLIST LISTVTOC inconsistency

2012-04-17 Thread Tony Harminc
On 17 April 2012 18:37, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com wrote: On Tue, 17 Apr 2012 17:49:24 -0400, Tony Harminc wrote: I doubt that the IEH utilities use DYNALLOC. They long predate the very existence of DYNALLOC, and while they may, of course, have been updated, I suspect they continue

Re: GO TO cobol

2012-04-16 Thread Tony Harminc
On 16 April 2012 13:35, John Gilmore johnwgilmore0...@gmail.com wrote: [...] I even object, but not much, to |.trvend   anop   , I supply the missing-operand comma for anop, mexit, etc., only when I want to place a comment after it. I've found that the risk of later copying (by me or

Re: Modernizing the BCP code ?

2012-04-13 Thread Tony Harminc
On 13 April 2012 10:23, Kirk Wolf k...@dovetail.com wrote: It is also interesting (to me) to point out that Metal C uses the same back-end. One would think so, but I'm not so sure... Metal-C generates assembler code which is not dependent on the C library or LE, supports user inlined

Re: Modernizing the BCP code ?

2012-04-13 Thread Tony Harminc
On 13 April 2012 14:53, McKown, John john.mck...@healthmarkets.com wrote: Sounds like what is done by the GNU compiler people. From what I've read, all the GNU compilers utilize the same back end code generator. IIRC, at one time the non-C compilers really did a language to C conversion,

Re: Modernizing the BCP code ?

2012-04-13 Thread Tony Harminc
On 13 April 2012 14:10, Edward Jaffe edja...@phoenixsoftware.com wrote: Yes. This has been one of the justifications for not having a new z/OS Architectural Level Set i.e., the existing PL/X compiler cannot generate code that takes advantage of the newer hardware features, so why force

Re: System completion code 201

2012-04-11 Thread Tony Harminc
On 10 April 2012 18:07, Micheal Butz michealb...@optonline.net wrote: I have a piece of CSA storage sp 241 That I am obtaining in key 8 (I know this is a no no) No! No...! When go to supervisor state should i code KEY=NZERO on the modeset I am assuming NZERO is 8 or should I specifically

Re: Unix path name

2012-04-08 Thread Tony Harminc
On 8 April 2012 13:43, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com wrote: o While many UNIX-like systems provide a definition of PATH_MAX  in /usr/include/limits.h, POSIX deprecates this, and USS does not  provide one.  IBM gives the rationale that the limit is filesystem-  dependent and code relying

Re: Printing a '3 of 9' barcode on a mainframe generated report

2012-04-04 Thread Tony Harminc
On 4 April 2012 13:13, Goldsby, Gary gary.gold...@fredmeyer.com wrote: G'day mates,                I would like to know if anyone has been successful in using a COBOL program to create a report that contains a UPC based '3 of 9' barcode. I am using COBOL on a MVS system and sending the print

Re: LE enclave calls another LE enclave

2012-03-30 Thread Tony Harminc
On 30 March 2012 13:55, Steve Comstock st...@trainersfriend.com wrote: [...] I would definitely look at CEEPIPI; however, this involves non-LE Assembler invoking a routine to set up one or more LE environments then running either a main or a subroutine under those environments. It's not clear

Re: LE enclave calls another LE enclave

2012-03-30 Thread Tony Harminc
On 30 March 2012 14:22, Steve Comstock st...@trainersfriend.com wrote: On 3/30/2012 12:13 PM, Tony Harminc wrote: [...] Is it not generally the case that LE assembler can make itself non-LE for purposes of calling something, just by not passing the appropriate value in R12? Whoa! That's news

Re: LE enclave calls another LE enclave

2012-03-30 Thread Tony Harminc
On 30 March 2012 16:45, Steve Comstock st...@trainersfriend.com wrote: On 3/30/2012 2:37 PM, Tony Harminc wrote: [...] Sure - but that's a quite different situation. We are talking about LE assembler calling LE assembler when it may be desirable that the called program not perceive

Re: Malicious Software Protection

2012-03-27 Thread Tony Harminc
On 27 March 2012 11:06, Greg Dorner gdor...@wpsic.com wrote: Our auditors are insisting that we install a product that protects against malicious software (viruses, worms, trojans, etc.). But have they asked you about the powerful and dangerous AMASPZAP yet? They aren't Real Auditors until

Re: Certificates and signed programs

2012-03-26 Thread Tony Harminc
On 26 March 2012 09:40, Walt Farrell wfarr...@us.ibm.com wrote: On Mon, 26 Mar 2012 05:31:42 -0500, Josef Boeck josef.bo...@opus-it.at wrote: [...] My question: Am I able to verify if the program runs as signed program and is verified or if the program runs without verification. I didn't find

Re: Grace Hopper Stories!! (was RE: Pre-Friday fun: Halon dumps and POK Resets)

2012-03-26 Thread Tony Harminc
On 23 March 2012 11:53, Sevetson, Phil psevet...@fisa.nyc.gov wrote: How many people here have been to one of her lectures?  Where she used to hold up 11-inch bits of wire, explaining that This is a nanosecond and sometimes carried around a coil of wire that was a light-microsecond long? I

Re: Pre-Friday fun: Halon dumps and POK Resets

2012-03-23 Thread Tony Harminc
I've never been near an actual Halon dump, but I do remember those computer shows in the 1970s, with vendors showing off their various infrastructure, tape racks, document storage, even an outfit with a mockup of a 360/30 used for operator training. The Halon people always had a demo - a clear

Re: Theology question

2012-03-20 Thread Tony Harminc
On 20 March 2012 11:33, Phil Smith p...@voltage.com wrote: I should have noted that NULL, NONE, et al. are valid, so we can't really use any of them. Something like *NONE would work, but is also pretty ugly. Not least because it looks like something from an AS/400, uh, I mean IBM i. Tony H.

Re: Secret Service Guide

2012-03-16 Thread Tony Harminc
On 16 March 2012 10:45, R.S. r.skoru...@bremultibank.com.pl wrote: W dniu 2012-03-16 14:44, Zaromil Tisler pisze: Service Guide, IBM System z10 Enterprise Class (GC28-6866-05)  http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=pub1gc28686605 Thank you, I appreciate it. just downloaded it. I also

Re: Performance question

2012-03-15 Thread Tony Harminc
On 15 March 2012 15:31, Scott Ford scott_j_f...@yahoo.com wrote: All, I heard art one time on z/os that java was well sort of a performance hog..not talking in Unix Systems Services...is it true and what release did it change, if it did ... Even early versions of java on z/OS were not

Re: Server time Protocol and CICS

2012-03-14 Thread Tony Harminc
On 13 March 2012 11:08, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com wrote: On Tue, 13 Mar 2012 07:54:06 -0500, McKown, John wrote: Going back into the dark days of history, CICS has often done things which the OS can also do. One thing I remember was it implemented its own version of program fetch. It

Re: JES2 displays captured via batch

2012-03-14 Thread Tony Harminc
On 14 March 2012 16:13, Lizette Koehler stars...@mindspring.com wrote: Can a batch job capture the results of a JES2 command into a sequential dataset $dq $HASP647      6 XEQ S ZOS1 $HASP644      8 OUT ZOS1 $HASP643    904 PPU LOCAL             ANY $HASP646 15.8046 PERCENT SPOOL

Re: Tips for continuing DD statement with only one parameter field

2012-03-08 Thread Tony Harminc
On 8 March 2012 10:46, Edward Jaffe edja...@phoenixsoftware.com wrote: On 3/8/2012 7:28 AM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: o Pathnames must be absolute (start with /) This is an inconvenience I wish could be rectified. No leading slash should default to one's home directory. When, and on which

Re: JCL example to relink a CSECT into an existing load module

2012-03-08 Thread Tony Harminc
On 8 March 2012 11:57, Tim Zielke tim.zie...@aonhewitt.com wrote: Our application team would like to change just the BA4C1426 code and then relink the change into the existing modules.  So for the example below, BA4C1976 would not be recompiled, but the binder step would be run to update

Re: LAE instruction

2012-03-07 Thread Tony Harminc
On 6 March 2012 19:07, Bill Fairchild bfairch...@rocketsoftware.com wrote: Sobre-pequeño?  Izquierdo medio?  Alto medio?  Gordo-pequeño?  No sé. I have never had to use only the high half of a grande, only the low half or the entire grande. It is often enough necessary to zero the high half

Re: Tips for continuing DD statement with only one parameter field

2012-03-07 Thread Tony Harminc
On 7 March 2012 18:27, Charles Mills charl...@mcn.org wrote: Many long threads here on that one ... What's worse, parm means two different things. There is a limit of 100 characters on the operand of PARM=. But I was referring to parameters in the more general sense of, as the manual says,

Re: Interfacing with the MainFrame

2012-03-07 Thread Tony Harminc
On 7 March 2012 16:51, Ed Mackmahon dropip...@gmail.com wrote: Many thanks for your answers. Let me provide some more information I intend that the interface will logon to the mainframe and issue some operator commands, read some members etc... gather information and send it to the open

Re: Good source for relationship of opcodes, models, MACHINE() and ARCH()

2012-03-06 Thread Tony Harminc
On 6 March 2012 11:25, John Gilmore johnwgilmore0...@gmail.com wrote: It is not a secret that XL C/C++ and Enterprise PL/I share the same optimizer and code generator; and it is thus unsurprising that their ARCH levels are the same. Which leads one to wonder if a METAL option for PL/I exists,

Re: LAE instruction

2012-03-06 Thread Tony Harminc
On 6 March 2012 16:00, Micheal Butz michealb...@optonline.net wrote: The Doc for LAE says the inst the functionality is dependent on PSW bits 16 17 address space control bits these are set by the SAC inst So my original question remains does Should address space control buts be set via the

Re: How convert historic STCK to local time?

2012-03-01 Thread Tony Harminc
On 1 March 2012 16:01, McKown, John john.mck...@healthmarkets.com wrote: What would I like? A complete GNU tool chain. Also, current versions of Perl, python, ruby, gawk, sed, grep, bash, vim, emacs(?). Of course, I realise that IBM cannot afford to supply these things for free. I,

Re: Unwanted New Threads (Was: SMP/E Order Server Pair)

2012-02-27 Thread Tony Harminc
While we're on the topic of posting problems, am I the only reader to have trouble with Radoslaw Skorupka's posts? I find that his original posts are fine, but his replies to anyone else's are always shown without line breaks. I read the list with Gmail. I notice that both his original and reply

Re: Unwanted New Threads (Was: SMP/E Order Server Pair)

2012-02-27 Thread Tony Harminc
On 27 February 2012 12:21, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com wrote: On Mon, 27 Feb 2012 18:13:06 +0100, Jan Vanbrabant wrote: Also having the same problem wth  have trouble with Radoslaw Skorupka's posts . No line breaks at all. Style.  John M. habitually posts without line breaks.  I deal

Re: Duplicating SYSOUT output to another DD/DSN in realtime ? (JCL)

2012-02-27 Thread Tony Harminc
On 27 February 2012 06:18, Thomas Berg thomas.b...@swedbank.se wrote: Is there any possibility to duplicate the output to SYSOUT to another Ddname/DSname in realtime ? I want to follow the execution by inspecting the output but at the same time save it for processing in a following step.

Re: Duplicating SYSOUT output to another DD/DSN in realtime ? (JCL)

2012-02-27 Thread Tony Harminc
On 27 February 2012 15:12, McKown, John john.mck...@healthmarkets.com wrote: I need to learn how to use the STORAGE function to do chain chasing in REXX. I generally dislike this any more. I am becoming more of a GUPI programmer as I age. Or maybe I'm just too lazy anymore. Regardless, you're

Re: JES2 OFFLOAD - requesting help, ideas, etc.

2012-02-26 Thread Tony Harminc
On 25 February 2012 22:17, Robert A. Rosenberg hal9...@panix.com wrote: At 15:55 -0500 on 02/23/2012, Tony Harminc wrote about Re: JES2 OFFLOAD - requesting help, ideas, etc.: The latter is what would result from using my catalogued tape dataset suggestion, if it works at all. There would

Re: TCBTQE

2012-02-26 Thread Tony Harminc
On 26 February 2012 18:24, Edward Jaffe edja...@phoenixsoftware.com wrote: I can't think of any z/OS services right now that will implicitly issue STIMER[M]. That doesn't mean there aren't any. Possibly DYNALLOC does. Some time around 1980 IBM fixed some problem that I don't remember by

Re: JES2 OFFLOAD - requesting help, ideas, etc.

2012-02-23 Thread Tony Harminc
On 23 February 2012 13:52, Bruce Richardson bruce.richard...@arcelormittal.com wrote: Hello IBM-MAIN people, Hi Bruce - long time, etc...    One of our difficult processes is the JES2 OFFLOAD. Every weekday night (at 18:30) we start the offload of production output to tape (with PURGE).

Re: Batch process VS Started task

2012-02-23 Thread Tony Harminc
On 19 February 2012 17:04, Ed Gould edgould1...@comcast.net wrote: Not sure if this is what you are looking for but There is a facility called execution batch monitoring (at least in JES2) You feed it input and it creates output (to your specifications). It was originally designed for

Re: Authorized functions

2012-02-17 Thread Tony Harminc
On 16 February 2012 19:32, Walt Farrell wfarr...@us.ibm.com wrote: On Thu, 16 Feb 2012 14:42:01 -0700, Steve Comstock st...@trainersfriend.com wrote: OK, just being a little crazy, what about EXEC PGM=MYASMPGM which does some stuff and then does XCTL to the TMP? Would that work? The last

Re: Authorized functions

2012-02-16 Thread Tony Harminc
On 16 February 2012 13:31, Scott Ford scott_j_f...@yahoo.com wrote: Walt: Are we saying Cobol cant invoke TMP ?? If so, where do i find an example I'm not Walt, of course. But as far as I know, no one can invoke the TMP. Well, not quite true, obviously, but no normal program, even if APF

Re: EXTRACT FIELDS=COMM for subtasks

2012-02-10 Thread Tony Harminc
On 10 February 2012 16:34, Micheal Butz michealb...@optonline.net wrote: I know EXTRACT FIELDS=COMM (using the ECB) for stop or modify command works for the TCB your running dunning the course of my programming I attach 4 other subtasks is there any parameter on the ATTACH e.g. like ALCOPY(

Re: STC CSCB / CIB question

2012-02-09 Thread Tony Harminc
On 9 February 2012 11:57, Mike Lewis michaeldwayne1...@gmail.com wrote: Early in the life of a STC (earlier, anyway)...  the specific START command text as issued by the operators resides within the CSCB.  By the time the STC's lowly CSECT gains control, the record of the specific START

Re: gcc on z/OS (was: CPP (C++) file on z/OS)

2012-02-06 Thread Tony Harminc
On 4 February 2012 12:03, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com wrote: On Sat, 4 Feb 2012 00:53:47 +0100, Tomasz Rola wrote: I don't have any kind of problem with mainframes or the way they are. I accept the fact they are different from what I am used to, and at the same time I am interested. It's

Re: C program and LE/IMS option

2012-02-03 Thread Tony Harminc
On 3 February 2012 08:11, John Gilmore johnwgilmore0...@gmail.com wrote: Eliminating LE usage from a [non-Metal] C function would be a formidable undertaking.  You can, however, set up the LE before the first CALL to your C function and  keep it up between these CALLs in such a way that you

Re: CPP (C++) file on z/OS

2012-02-01 Thread Tony Harminc
On 31 January 2012 19:44, Tomasz Rola rto...@ceti.com.pl wrote: My question about courts etc was because I think even if there is any kind of court in the land of Linux, it is peopled by a bunch of ronins. So there is no central authority that could decide now we go into z/OS or something.

Re: Intrdr

2012-02-01 Thread Tony Harminc
On 31 January 2012 23:55, Tom Wasik wa...@us.ibm.com wrote: A couple thoughts come to mind. - Use NOTIFY= on the job card to get a TSO message when the job completes That's going to be hard to capture in a program, since it is done as a cross-memory TPUT. Tony H.

Re: z/OS Unicode Services custom table?

2012-02-01 Thread Tony Harminc
On 1 February 2012 15:50, Kirk Wolf k...@dovetail.com wrote: OK, so I found a sneaky way of adding a new conversion table to Unicode Services to match TCPIP.STANDARD.TCPXLBIN.    Thanks again to Mark and John for getting me started.. 1) Unless you want to modify SYS1.SCUNTBL, create a new

Re: TOD clock format

2012-01-30 Thread Tony Harminc
On 30 January 2012 18:27, Phil Smith p...@voltage.com wrote: It's been a while since I did an STCK and looked at the results. ISTR that the last five or so nibbles were always zero; now they aren't. Five zero nibbles suggest quite a slow CPU. On current hardware, a number of bits to the right

Re: ISPF Workstation Agent for Windows 7?

2012-01-27 Thread Tony Harminc
On 27 January 2012 15:40, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com wrote: o A long-running process in one window locks operations in all  other windows.  (Am I wrong?  I thought this was fundamental  to the design of TSO.) It's fundamental to the design of ISPF, but not to that of TSO. The reason

Re: Peculiar issue related to TSO logons

2012-01-10 Thread Tony Harminc
On 10 January 2012 10:33, Richards, Robert B. robert.richa...@opm.gov wrote: Rex, Thank you. I got rid of all but one using your suggestion. That last one was a FORCE U=*LOGON*,a=?? I would think the risks of issuing a FORCE to be much higher than those of leaving the STARTING TSU sitting

Re: IBM manual formats

2012-01-04 Thread Tony Harminc
On 3 January 2012 08:44, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) shmuel+ibm-m...@patriot.net wrote: In 4953978233034455.wa.jan.moeyersonsadelior...@bama.ua.edu, on 01/03/2012   at 05:39 AM, Jan MOEYERSONS jan.moeyers...@adelior.be said: I think you can. Just install the old, but still faithfull Library Reader

Re: z/OS version of NetCat or native JCL support

2012-01-04 Thread Tony Harminc
On 3 January 2012 19:35, Gerard Nicol gerard.ni...@tapetrack.com wrote: I can't believe that IBM didn't provide a APPC connection to their TCP address space, if they did you could just IEBEGENER data to a remote SMTP server (or other service) from JCL without having to spool the data or

Re: Question on adding an SVC routine dynamically to a running system

2012-01-03 Thread Tony Harminc
On 3 January 2012 14:33, Dave Day david...@consolidated.net wrote:   I have a software offering that Dave Cole markets. You can go to his website, and take a look at z/XPF.  It competes in a niche market on z/OS, application profiling. What makes mine different from the other guys in this

Re: A design question

2012-01-03 Thread Tony Harminc
On 3 January 2012 14:28, McKown, John john.mck...@healthmarkets.com wrote: This is what you need to get familar with: http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/EDCLB1B0/3.138 quote General Description Used to communicate with the operator's console. The __console2()

Re: Control Blocks Generated By Attach

2012-01-01 Thread Tony Harminc
On 1 January 2012 15:38, Micheal Butz michealb...@optonline.net wrote: The TCB is just a control block that keeps track of ownership of resources storage,  modules loaded, in the case of DB2 which DB2 SSID is associated with task Well perhaps, but that's a strange way of putting it. The TCB

Re: Looking for Mailing List

2011-12-29 Thread Tony Harminc
On 29 December 2011 14:38, John P. Baker hfdte...@comporium.net wrote: I am looking for a mailing list where I can pose questions specific to the EZASMI TCP/IP socket programming interface. Can anyone offer any suggestions? I believe the IBM-TCP list (ibmtc...@vm.marist.edu) covers all of

Re: cpu / machine identification

2011-12-29 Thread Tony Harminc
On 28 December 2011 20:58, Brian Westerman brian_wester...@syzygyinc.com wrote: I don't mean to be flippant, but I seriously almost spit my diet coke all over my screen when I read the previous reply about allowing the software company to audit their system. :) I really don't think any site

Re: Semiprivileged instructions, part 1

2011-12-28 Thread Tony Harminc
On 28 December 2011 15:16, Steve Comstock st...@trainersfriend.com wrote: The PoPs says, on page 5-24 in the PDF version (dz9zr008.pdf / SA22-7832-08), there are 23 semiprivilged instructions. [...] PC - Program Control That's Program Call... Tony H.

Re: Is there an SPF setting to turn CAPS ON like keyboard key?

2011-12-15 Thread Tony Harminc
On 15 December 2011 12:11, McKown, John john.mck...@healthmarkets.com wrote: No, but n the ISPF edit screen, you can specify an Initial Macro. That initial macro can do a ISREDIT CAPS OFF. But this breaks in the (for me at least) common case where you edit a new member, and then copy in all

Re: How to read past EOF

2011-12-10 Thread Tony Harminc
On 9 December 2011 12:46, Skip Robinson jo.skip.robin...@sce.com wrote: I have a GTF trace file full of gold nuggets and bright red rubies. Unfortunately GTF trace was restarted at the next IPL, so the data set has immediate EOF. I used StarTool to reset logical (VTOC) end of file to the full

Re: JCL sheesh! for today

2011-12-08 Thread Tony Harminc
On 8 December 2011 11:05, Charles Mills charl...@mcn.org wrote: YES! That was the JCL sheesh! for another day, that a DD statement has no home directory and that all paths must be absolute. I should be able to code PATH='foo/bar' and when I run the job that becomes /u/myuserid/foo/bar but when

Re: JCL sheesh! for today

2011-12-08 Thread Tony Harminc
On 8 December 2011 02:20, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com wrote: On Thu, 8 Dec 2011 01:07:32 -0600, Peter Bishop wrote: A wish: //ddname DD IPADDR=n.n.n.n,PATHOPTS=R Wouldn't it be nice if you could just open a pipe to (or from, or both) an IP address straight into your JCL?  Different

Re: Licence to kill -9

2011-11-28 Thread Tony Harminc
On 28 November 2011 16:03, Lindy Mayfield lindy.mayfi...@sas.com wrote: Us computer people, we have a lot of power.  We can do at least as much or more damage (even if we are royally incompetent)  such as a nurse, a doctor, an electrician, a plumber or some such professional. What are your

Re: Terminology RE: USS

2011-11-19 Thread Tony Harminc
On 18 November 2011 11:01, John Gilmore johnwgilmore0...@gmail.com wrote: This 'Shebang'---There is of course another one--- is not just a verbal slurring of 'Hash Bang'.  It has a much more elegant name.  It is a conflation. Consider, just in English, to which they are not confined, o      

Re: Washington DC Position Available - Peformance Capacity Reporting/Planning

2011-11-16 Thread Tony Harminc
On 16 November 2011 14:57, Bill Fairchild bfairch...@rocketsoftware.com wrote: Wow.  So many acronyms.  I am tempted to ask what USS means, but I won't. I won't even ask if you're being apophatic or paraleptic. Tony H. -- For

Re: Data encrypt

2011-11-15 Thread Tony Harminc
On 15 November 2011 16:03, John Roberts jrobe...@dhs.state.ia.us wrote: My Social Security card, which I obtained ca. 1959, states the following:   For Social Security purposes.  Not for identification. That language was removed in 1972, after it had become clear that the SSN was now a defacto

Re: Data Areas?

2011-11-11 Thread Tony Harminc
On 11 November 2011 19:56, Steve Horein steve.hor...@gmail.com wrote: I see. So while not impossible to make my own maps for reference, it will/would be a tedious and time consuming effort. Thanks for the explanation! It can be so, but it can also be educational and even at times, fun.

Re: How to enable Storage Protection Override?

2011-11-09 Thread Tony Harminc
On 9 November 2011 08:30, Rob Scott rsc...@rocketsoftware.com wrote: My own reference list for key assignments :        0       Supervisor        1       JES        2       Reserved* (used to be VSPC)        3       Reserved*        4       Reserved*        5       Data management (eg

Re: OT measures was Re: Out damn'd GMT ...

2011-11-04 Thread Tony Harminc
On 4 November 2011 16:41, Roberts, John J jrobe...@dhs.state.ia.us wrote: Canada was further along the metric road at one point.  Then the government changed and they (Brian Mulroney's Conservatives) backpedalled on a few things.   Mostly it was weights and measures in the supermarket, just

Re: Re-Linkling a load module with AC(1)

2011-11-03 Thread Tony Harminc
On 3 November 2011 16:11, Fred Kaptein fred.kapt...@hp.com wrote: //SYSLIN      DD *  INCLUDE SYSLIB(PCOPY)  INCLUDE SYSLIB(PCOPY2)  NAME PCOPY  AC(1)  ALIAS PCOPY2 but it fails with the following errors [...] IEW2230S 0414 MODULE HAS NO TEXT. [...] This is probably because you have

Re: DSCB DSECTs?

2011-10-28 Thread Tony Harminc
On 28 October 2011 11:13, Chase, John jch...@ussco.com wrote: OK, now I know I've gone blind:  I can't seem to find a DSECT for the various formats of DSCBs.  It also seems the Data Areas manuals aren't published any more (I don't find them in the z/OS 1.11 MVS or DFSMS bookshelves).  I've run

Re: Maintenance at two in the afternoon? On a Friday?

2011-10-28 Thread Tony Harminc
On 28 October 2011 16:29, Steve Comstock st...@trainersfriend.com wrote: Well, I just tried to do some online credit card account maintenance with my Capital One card, and got the message 'System Unavailable'. I called tech support and they said they were doing maintenance on the system.

Re: BLDL error Cause

2011-10-24 Thread Tony Harminc
On 24 October 2011 02:07, jagadishan perumal jagadish...@gmail.com wrote: When he tries to allocate a member within the dataset : TPUN011.NEWMAPST(map), he gets a message as BLDL error I tried searching some error related to PDF as starting with ISR but I was not able to fetch any error

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

2011-10-24 Thread Tony Harminc
On 24 October 2011 17:41, Lizette Koehler stars...@mindspring.com wrote: I have tried several tests.  Either I only get one record up on the mainframe or the data is definately in bin format when it arrives.  I have tried BIN FB,  BIN VB,  ASCII FB and ASCII VB.  So far the 44 records I have

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

2011-10-24 Thread Tony Harminc
On 24 October 2011 18:20, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) shmuel+ibm-m...@patriot.net wrote: No; the Unix new line indication is LF (X'0A'), For some values of UNIX. the windoze/DOS new line indication is CRLF (X'0D0A') Yes. and the z/OS new line indication for EBCDIC is NEL (X'25'). No. EBCDIC

Re: z/OS SYSLOG observation / thought

2011-10-18 Thread Tony Harminc
On 18 October 2011 13:29, McKown, John john.mck...@healthmarkets.com wrote: Columns 41 through 48 in the z/OS SYSLOG (formatted with a 4 digit year in columns 21-27) have various information in them. For many messages, it is the JES assigned number such as JOB12345. For a commands and command

Re: TSO TEST Debugging with TPUT and input paramters

2011-10-07 Thread Tony Harminc
On 7 October 2011 13:47, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) shmuel+ibm-m...@patriot.net wrote: In CAArMM9SgR06zW5gMp5YcHHX=1qcd9fyx78gyqxv4gb4nxaa...@mail.gmail.com, on 10/06/2011   at 06:03 PM, Tony Harminc t...@harminc.net said: Certainly any program can issue TPUT when running under TSO

Re: TSO TEST Debugging with TPUT and input paramters

2011-10-07 Thread Tony Harminc
On 7 October 2011 14:01, Ed Gould ps2...@yahoo.com wrote: Tony: AFAIK and its been this way since TSO/E first came out. TPUT will only work IN TSO That is certainly not true. TPUT from the very beginning had an ASID= option (well, in pre-MVS days it was TJID=, which is actually still there as

Re: TSO TEST Debugging with TPUT and input paramters

2011-10-07 Thread Tony Harminc
On 7 October 2011 16:34, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) shmuel+ibm-m...@patriot.net wrote: In caarmm9te8lasltn8adyberdywd0jukdot1h0o9g7g263nyx...@mail.gmail.com, on 10/07/2011   at 01:30 PM, Tony Harminc t...@harminc.net said: Though it's not, of course, logically required, I infer from the context

Re: TSO TEST Debugging with TPUT and input paramters

2011-10-06 Thread Tony Harminc
On 6 October 2011 17:29, Micheal Butz michealb...@optonline.net wrote: When entering the command paramters are they surrounded by quotes Generally, no. But you have to enter what the command is expecting, and it's possible that it wants a quoted string. Are you sure what you have is a TSO

Re: TSO TEST Debugging with TPUT and input paramters

2011-10-06 Thread Tony Harminc
On 6 October 2011 18:39, Micheal Butz michealb...@optonline.net wrote: The parameter is a - if I enter a - Is the CPPL a half length 1 followed by '-' No - the CPPL is four fullwords in length, and it points to four separate items, one of which is the command buffer. The command buffer itself

  1   2   3   4   5   6   7   >