Re: checking for the existence of a file in batch REXX

2009-05-22 Thread Tony Harminc
2009/5/22 Jim McAlpine jim.mcalp...@gmail.com OK, we've implemented that bit of code and got to the point of executing IKJEFTSR to issue a LISTDS command but that invocation failed with - IKJEFTSR FAILED - RC=          -1         REASON CODE=          68 and the following - IKJ56652I You

Re: VSMLOC results questin

2009-05-12 Thread Tony Harminc
2009/5/12 Paul Schuster pgs4ibmm...@pacbell.net:  If you do (for example) a VSMLOC PVT,AREA=((R4),(R0)),TCB=VSMLCTCB by one task (I will call it TCB123) and it  completes RC=0, but the TCB returned in the VSMLCTCB field is another task (I will call it TCB456), what is this really telling me?  

Re: Servicelink and ActiveX controls

2009-05-11 Thread Tony Harminc
2009/5/11 Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com: On Mon, 11 May 2009 00:45:50 -0500, Barbara Nitz wrote: On Friday afternoon IBM had corrected the coding error that caused activeX to be executed in the first place and that then terminated the browser (no matter what type of browser). After

Re: Validating Addrees

2009-05-11 Thread Tony Harminc
2009/5/11 Tom Marchant m42tom-ibmm...@yahoo.com: On Sat, 9 May 2009 16:35:58 -0400, Tony Harminc wrote: Keep in mind that in many cases the attributes can change between the time you check, and the time you (or some service or program you call) actually uses the storage. And Binyamin made

Re: ADRDSSU protection

2009-05-11 Thread Tony Harminc
2009/5/11 Walt Farrell wfarr...@us.ibm.com: On Sat, 9 May 2009 18:54:21 -0700, Ed Gould ps2...@yahoo.com wrote: Also if they do have access to amaspzap they can get around almost anything, so I would still restrict that access (along with its alias's). That's not true, Ed.  Access to

Re: How to display Stars for Password in ISPF

2009-05-09 Thread Tony Harminc
2009/5/8 Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com: Sigh.  If IBM users were serious about this sort of thing, they'd submit a Requirement that LOGON not distinguish between invalid user ID and valid user ID with invalid password, reducing the exhaustive search space from M*N to M+N. That

Re: Validating Addrees

2009-05-09 Thread Tony Harminc
2009/5/8 Joe Reichman joereich...@optonline.net:  would anyone know if you have a stroage address to determine its nature e.g. CSA SQA etc. would I have to check all of the entries in the LDA ..GDA or is the best way to invoke VSM. macros LSIT RGN etc or is a combination of

Re: How to display Stars for Password in ISPF

2009-05-08 Thread Tony Harminc
2009/5/8 Lizette Koehler stars...@mindspring.com: I am trying to create a panel that has something like a password field.  When you enter the password, it replaces the characters as they are typed from source to stars. Is this possible?  Or is INTENS(NON) my only option? Surely even if the

Re: Slightly off topic power limits

2009-04-29 Thread Tony Harminc
2009/4/29 Eric Bielefeld eric-ibmm...@wi.rr.com: I remember IBM used to advertise the MP3000 that we had at PH Mining as taking less power than a coffee pot. It does. It is rated at 1.32 kVA (per frame), and I measured it (a P30 with full DASD) at 850 W . You can't always directly compare kVA

Re: Slightly off topic power limits

2009-04-28 Thread Tony Harminc
2009/4/27 R.S. r.skoru...@bremultibank.com.pl: Slightly on topic: I had an occasion to compare two z machines: old z9 and new z10. Very similar in MIPS, channels, memory configuration. Power consumption as shown by HMC Old blue z9: 4kW New green z10: 6 kW. So, replacing old equipment with

Re: Effective pipeline programming [was:RE: METAL C: CodeGen defeciency?]

2009-04-23 Thread Tony Harminc
2009/4/23 David Andrews d...@lists.duda.com: On Thu, 2009-04-23 at 14:57 -0400, Bob Rutledge wrote: It's not [nonzero],0, it's 15,0. Hey, you're absolutely RIGHT.  (I wonder if it's always been like this? Am I mis-remembering stuff from 35 years ago? Yup - it's always been like this. I think

Re: What (More) Open Source Software for z/OS?

2009-04-22 Thread Tony Harminc
2009/4/21 Martin Packer martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com: I'm not sure why this turned into another OCO debate, but attempting to return to Tim's original post: Well, Tim's original post was about What (More) Open Source Software Do You Want for z/OS?. I can speak only for myself, but when I think of

Re: PDSE Load Module Format?

2009-04-15 Thread Tony Harminc
2009/4/15 Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com: There are APIs for extracting information from program objects.  It is my understanding that AMBLIST uses those APIs rather than parsing program objects itself.  (Will AMBLIST process program objects in Unix files?) Yes, AMBLIST works fine on

Re: Rexx

2009-04-05 Thread Tony Harminc
2009/4/5 Edward Jaffe edja...@phoenixsoftware.com: I would very much like to see a generalized, callable REXX external function that does *full* IKJPARS emulation in fewer lines than my  behemoth. The positional parameters are relatively easy. (Don't forget to prompt if they're not there!)

Re: SAP, mainframes, and multinationals

2009-04-01 Thread Tony Harminc
2009/4/1 john gilmore john_w_gilm...@msn.com: For those of you who read German readily, there is a new book: Siegele, Ludwig, Joseph Zepelin.  Matrix der Welt.  SAP und der neue globale Kapitalizmus.  Frankfurt und New York: Campus-Verlag, 2009. available that describes---publicly and in

Re: secure file transfer FROM z/OS

2009-04-01 Thread Tony Harminc
2009/4/1 Timothy Sipples e99...@jp.ibm.com: As Kirk alluded to, there are also numerous private protocol file transfer products, and they do have advantages in many missions. And it's important to choose a vendor who understands the subtleties of mainframe datasets in a mostly non-mainframe

Re: Smoking Power Supply Alarms Net Brokerage House

2009-03-29 Thread Tony Harminc
2009/3/27 Timothy Sipples timothy.sipp...@us.ibm.com: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/03/27/smokey_the_power_supply/ Pure coincidence that it was an HP blade in the story, rather than, say, an IBM one... Tony H. -- For

Re: FW: SYSOUT dynamic allocation in COBOL

2009-03-17 Thread Tony Harminc
2009/3/17 Ulrich Krueger u...@pacbell.net: Glad to hear that this is a non-issue for your shop, Steve. I just felt like I had to climb up on my soap-box and point this potential pitfall out to you as well as to the rest of the user community so they don't have to suffer through the same issues

Re: RACF password id checking

2009-03-10 Thread Tony Harminc
2009-03-06 Hal Merritt hmerr...@jackhenry.com wrote: IMHO: exits as a subspecies are evil critters. They become an ongoing maintenance challenge and tend to attract unwelcome attention from auditors. Exits are hard to write, hard to stress test, and introduce a level of risk. You need

Re: 3490E cartridges

2009-03-02 Thread Tony Harminc
2009/3/1 Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com: On Sat, 28 Feb 2009 21:16:01 -0500, Tony Harminc wrote: The next step may well be direct SMP/E RECEIVE FROMNET or even RECEIVE ORDER, though these certainly won't work for all customers. However, IBM provides instructions for use of RECEIVE

Re: OOREXX and USS/TSO

2009-03-02 Thread Tony Harminc
2009/2/28 Itschak Mugzach imugz...@gmail.com: Does anyone has good experience in developing OOREXX under USS including TSO and ISPF Address commands? I'll try to co-submit this question to TSO-REXX. It's been worked on in the past, and I think some significant difficulties were found. Check the

Re: 3490E cartridges

2009-02-28 Thread Tony Harminc
2009-02-28 Pete Borton peter.bor...@northgatearinso.com: We supply some customers on CD, but others appear to be even more 'jurassic' than we are, and insist (I'm led to believe) on tape cartridge. We led ourselves to believe that for several years, but when we were faced with the complication

Re: Mantissa Presenting at SHARE (March 6, 2009)?

2009-02-23 Thread Tony Harminc
2009/2/22 Patrick O'Keefe patrick.oke...@wamu.net: On Fri, 20 Feb 2009 11:14:14 -0700, Mark Post mp...@novell.com wrote: ... I don't know how successful they'll be, but I wish them well. ... I take it, then, that you are an exponent of Mantissa. Sorry. I couldn't resist. Characteristic

Re: Mantissa Presenting at SHARE (March 6, 2009)?

2009-02-20 Thread Tony Harminc
2009/2/20 Kelman, Tom thomas.kel...@commercebank.com: If a company has a license for Windows itself can Microsoft restrict what hardware it is run on? Well, IANAL etc, but there do seem to be two major MS WIndows licence types. The Retail licence doesn't say anything about what it runs on,

Re: Z11 - Water cooling?

2009-02-02 Thread Tony Harminc
2009/2/2 Vince Getgood vincent.getg...@xchanging.com: I've had a little more info, from an unconfirmed source. I understand that IBM ARE looking at liquid chilling (note the change) for the Z11 (or whatever). However it's likely to be liquid gas, rather than water. Hmmm... probably

Re: Amid Economic Turbulence, Mainframes Counter IT Cost-Cutting Trend

2009-01-21 Thread Tony Harminc
2009/1/20 Edward Jaffe edja...@phoenixsoftware.com: Swoyer makes some good observations ... http://www.esj.com/news/article.aspx?EditorialsID=3475 An interesting phrase in there: freshly minted IT pros. I was freshly minted 30-something years ago, but I sure wasn't a pro. Tony H.

Re: SHARE copyright

2009-01-15 Thread Tony Harminc
2009/1/15 Anne Lynn Wheeler l...@garlic.com: wfarr...@us.ibm.com (Walt Farrell) writes: This seems rather obvious, so perhaps you've already tried it or rejected it for some reason, but the SHARE web page at http://www.share.org has a Contact Us link, and one of the links on that page will

Re: VTAM security issue

2009-01-13 Thread Tony Harminc
2009/1/13 Itschak Mugzach imugz...@gmail.com Please have a look at this scenario: CICS of organization A is connected (LU6.2 Connection) to CICS of organization B. No problem with that. I looked into the CDRM and found some other application of organization B defined in VTAMLST of

Re: MVS 4 minute 'outage'

2009-01-08 Thread Tony Harminc
2009/1/8 JE Thinnes jethin...@aol.com: Update. We experienced another 'hang' lasting 2 minutes. I would be tempted to hit RESTART the next time you see this hang. That may tell you who's running at that moment, and if you resume and then repeat it a few times you may be able to see if the

Re: the Z/10 and timers.

2009-01-07 Thread Tony Harminc
2009/1/7 Anne Lynn Wheeler l...@garlic.com: Howerver, I don't anything about 360/65 multiprocessor was for anything other than two-way. In particular, the 65MP did not have a programmable prefix register to relocate low storage for each CPU the way S/370 and later do. Rather, the prefixing

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

2008-12-31 Thread Tony Harminc
2008/12/31 John McKown joa...@swbell.net: On Tue, 30 Dec 2008 16:16:25 -0600, Don Higgins d...@higgins.net wrote: Here is something new and something old for 2009. Come to SHARE session 8194 in Austin TX on March 3, 2009 at 8 AM for the first live demonstration of zcobol portable mainframe

Re: Names (was: Health Checker questions)

2008-12-12 Thread Tony Harminc
2008/12/12 Patrick O'Keefe patrick.oke...@wamu.net: ... the penchant of good programmers to pick meaningful names when possible ... unless cleverness happens to strike, of course. I have to go back 25 years or so, but the program Host Command Facility (HCF) had the module prefix CHF. Its

Re: z10 power problem notification

2008-12-10 Thread Tony Harminc
2008/12/10 Skip Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I know that the double hardware failure delayed repair because the second part had to ordered. No one else has suggested that the CPU slowdown resulted from any cause other than heat. Here is a chart I obtained that indicates the effect of rising

Re: Drop hardware maintenance contract

2008-12-08 Thread Tony Harminc
2008/12/8 Peggy Andrews [EMAIL PROTECTED]: We are soon at the end of a decommissioning project (very, very sad). Our hardware maintenance contract (z800, Shark, and ATL/VTS) expires 2/1/09, but we may not be able to decommission until a few months after that. Does anyone have ideas on

Re: IFL Extended to OpenSolaris

2008-11-19 Thread Tony Harminc
2008/11/19 Tom Marchant [EMAIL PROTECTED]: From the announcement: Prior to this announcement, z/VM was authorized to run on IFL processors only if, on the IFL processors, z/VM was being used exclusively to run Linux workloads and, if required, z/VM applications in support of those Linux

Re: searching all members of a pds using wildcards

2008-11-18 Thread Tony Harminc
2008/11/18 Mark Zelden [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Since you are the Simplist vendor I assume you must know that the people you are responding to have Simplist. If you know they don't, then prefacing all your responses with if you have simplist is nothing more than advertising.I'd really hate it

Re: Problem with Cestpair command after upgrade to 9990V

2008-11-14 Thread Tony Harminc
2008/11/13 Maurice Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello David, I think you need to remove your commas from the PRIM and SEC parms ... A properly written TSO command treats blanks and commas identically as operand separators. Indeed any number of blanks, commas, or /* comments */ can be used in the

Re: The Register article on HP replacing z

2008-11-12 Thread Tony Harminc
2008/11/11 Edward Jaffe [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Tony Harminc wrote: ... The Reg has also bought into IBM's line about speciality engines being some sort of performance enhancers for Java, Linux, and so on, rather than just a scheme for maintaining market differentiation between Classic and New

Re: The Register article on HP replacing z

2008-11-11 Thread Tony Harminc
2008/11/11 Dave Salt [EMAIL PROTECTED]: So if HP alone is converting more than 250 mainframe shops every 2 years, then at least 1,000 mainframe shops will be gone over the next 8 years? Ouch! Someone please tell me this isn't true? When HP claims it has helped more than 250 customers

Re: Query: Mainframers look forward and back

2008-11-06 Thread Tony Harminc
On 2008-11-06 Anton Britz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: a) What is Mr. Goldberg trying to achieve ., Sales for CA or sensation/hysteria b) What lists are you cross posting too c) How much money are you getting for the information we will provide you d) How long have you been in the Mainframe

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

2008-11-04 Thread Tony Harminc
2008-11-04 Paul Gilmartin [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Tue, 4 Nov 2008 10:41:34 -0500, J R wrote: Yes, I noticed the XMIT within XMIT format. Unfortunately, this confounds XmitManager because the top level invocation converts the second level members to ASCII which the second level invocation can't

Re: Prefix for User application messages written to the log

2008-11-03 Thread Tony Harminc
2008/11/3 Schneiderwent, Craig [EMAIL PROTECTED]: What I'm trying to do is create an internal standard that says all messages begin with a particular prefix. I'd like to be able to point to an IBM document that supports the notion of, say, not writing messages to the log that begin DFH or

Re: DFSORT PARSE question

2008-10-29 Thread Tony Harminc
2008/10/29 Chase, John [EMAIL PROTECTED]: OK, that's fine for the specific cases. Now generalize it so: Ludwig Van Beethoven = Beethoven Henry Ford= Ford Harvey L. Cliburn = Cliburn Viktor Korchnoi = Korchnoi Elmer Fudd= Fudd Popeye the Sailor

Re: Efficient conversion of GMT to/from local time from COBOL?

2008-10-29 Thread Tony Harminc
2008/10/29 Farley, Peter x23353 [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi all, A question has been asked of me to which I think I know the answer, but not how (in)efficient it would be: Is there a z/OS-supplied function to convert GMT to local time (or back again)? CEEGMTO is an LE function that will give

Re: JES2 BERTs???

2008-10-27 Thread Tony Harminc
2008/10/27 John McKown [EMAIL PROTECTED]: So, anybody want to tell me what a BERT is really used for? It seems to be a generic overflow type control block. How do I avoid this in the future? If JES2 didn't have BERTs, it couldn't have the $DILBERT and $DOGBERT macros. And what fun would that

Re: z/Architecture Reference Summary

2008-10-23 Thread Tony Harminc
2008/10/23 Don Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] quoted: Hi Don, I have spoken to the writer for z/Architecture and he mentioned that there is currently an error in the repricing of the documents you questioned. The website should be fixed by next Monday. Thanks, Debbie Quick ID Service

Re: Concatenating TERSEd data?

2008-10-17 Thread Tony Harminc
2008/10/17 Tim Hare [EMAIL PROTECTED]: We need to TERSE a fairly large (for us) amount of data. This data is in multiple separate datasets now, but needs to be sent as one large sequential dataset. We can TERSE the concatenated sequential input of course; but out of curiosity I'm wondering:

Re: A Security SubSystem question

2008-10-14 Thread Tony Harminc
2008/10/14 Scott Ford [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I am in the process of writing an Assembler routine to see if RACF, ACF2 or Top-Secret are running on z/OS. I am confused about where I should find the information. I have tried looking at the RCVT ( desct = ichprcvt ) because I have noticed that on

Re: Finding Variables in C++ Dump

2008-10-09 Thread Tony Harminc
2008/10/9 Bernd Oppolzer [EMAIL PROTECTED]: A variable which is listed in the storage offset listing as 0(r13) actually never is held in storage, but it resides in a register all the time. 0(r13) simply means that no storage is allocated for this variable (this is not very nice, I asked the

Re: VSAM I/O

2008-10-06 Thread Tony Harminc
On Sun, 5 Oct 2008 12:53:34 -0400, Rob Schramm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am looking for the simplest way to intercept/modify an i/o for a VSAM data set without impacting the application. All suggestions are welcome. When you say I/O, do you mean the logical VSAM I/O, or the physical I/O that

Re: How to enter Trademark TM symbol in hostexplorer emulator

2008-09-17 Thread Tony Harminc
2008/09/17 P.Sabarish Kannan [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I wanted to know how do we enter Trademark TM symbol in hostexplorer .Basically my requirement is to insert this character in Db2 v8 tables for both ascii and ebcdic table. I tried selecting different codepages from host explorer i)French

Re: Anyone heard of a company called TIBCO ?

2008-08-21 Thread Tony Harminc
2008/8/21 Tony B. [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Supposedly they develop mainframe/open systems related products. The only thing I know about them is that they acquired the Huron/Objectstar product from Amdahl/Antares/Fujitsu several years ago. They may well have renamed it (indeed looking at their

Re: Timer Unit (TU) conversion to CPU time

2008-08-18 Thread Tony Harminc
2008/8/18 Richard Peurifoy [EMAIL PROTECTED]: The Timer Units are based on the S360 timer which was a word in low storage (80 X'50'). It was updated based on the line frequency (60 hertz in the US). It does not change with the speed of the CPU, and so is constant. The Timer no longer exists

Re: IBM 029 keypunch -- 0-8-2 overpunch -- what hex code results?

2008-07-23 Thread Tony Harminc
2008/7/23 Mark Waterbury [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Does anyone recall how to determine the one byte value that results from a column on an 80-byte card that was overpunched with the 0-8-2 holes punched out? Please tell me, in hex, e.g. X'82' (for example only). Thanks. Do you mean an algorithm?

Re: IBM 029 keypunch -- 0-8-2 overpunch -- what hex code results?

2008-07-23 Thread Tony Harminc
2008/7/23 William H. Blair [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Tony Harminc wrote: Do you mean an algorithm? ... I'm not sure there is an overall algorithm, though obviously there are certain patterns to be seen. Of course there is an algorithm. Card readers implement it. In fact, it can be deduced

Re: z/VM Evaluation Edition Now Available

2008-07-22 Thread Tony Harminc
2008-07-22 Wayne Driscoll [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now I realize that IBM has valid reasons for the limitation, but in my opinion, point 2 You can run it on any System z10 machine is more of a lowlight than a highlight. Another example of IBM making things available at a low or no cost, but

Re: Terminal SYSIN in TSO Logon Proc

2008-07-19 Thread Tony Harminc
2008/7/19 Kenneth E Tomiak [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Sometimes people add things to a logon proc not understanding true needs, too. I have seen SYSPRINT added into steps that never use it because someone thought that is where output goes. And SYSIN is where input comes from. And then it gets

Re: Terminal SYSIN in TSO Logon Proc

2008-07-17 Thread Tony Harminc
2008/7/17 Itschak Mugzach [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I think its SYSTSIN No - that's something quite different. SYSTSIN is used when running the Terminal Monitor Program in batch (or in any non-terminal environment). The TMP reads command input from SYSTSIN in that case, but it is unrelated to SYSIN.

Re: ALLOWUSERKEYCSA(NO) was (Re: CA Jobtrac 3.5 Off Support)

2008-07-15 Thread Tony Harminc
2008/7/15 Jim Mulder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU wrote on 07/14/2008 02:52:12 PM: Indeed. Though in fairness, it must be pointed out that not every use of user key CSA is a security or integrity exposure. Distinguishing the many cases that are

Re: ALLOWUSERKEYCSA(NO) was (Re: CA Jobtrac 3.5 Off Support)

2008-07-14 Thread Tony Harminc
2008/7/14 Edward Jaffe [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Identifying integrity exposures is a double-edged sword. Everyone agrees that such exposures must be identified and fixed. But, the real-world risk posed by any such exposure is proportional to the amount of attention you draw to it. Well, maybe.

Re: IBM's mainframe-oriented newsgroups

2008-07-10 Thread Tony Harminc
2008/7/10 Patrick O'Keefe [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I had to include mainframe in the subject to keep this On Topic. :-) IBM has a bunch of newsgroups at news://news.software.ibm.com. Some of them (like the CommServer groups) have no other similar fora (listservers, etc.) My employer blocks NNTP

Re: Z/OS IBM Mainframe Computer Time To Rent.

2008-07-03 Thread Tony Harminc
2008/7/3 Shai Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Anyone can give me a link to sites which are not expensive? When the rental period is over, how do you return the time? Tony H. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: Z/OS IBM Mainframe Computer Time To Rent.

2008-07-03 Thread Tony Harminc
2008/7/3 Chase, John [EMAIL PROTECTED]: -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Tony Harminc 2008/7/3 Shai Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Anyone can give me a link to sites which are not expensive? When the rental period is over, how do you return the time

Re: TN3270 *from* a host??

2008-06-26 Thread Tony Harminc
2008/6/26 Chris Mason [EMAIL PROTECTED]: So, in order to answer the original question So who is right? Can I open a TN session to a host in another domain??? restated accurately as Can I create a TELNET connection using 3270 data stream from one Communications Server IP component - using the

Re: We're losing the battle

2008-06-23 Thread Tony Harminc
2008/6/23 Timothy Sipples [EMAIL PROTECTED]: You can be darn sure the card approval service -- the GDPS-based (likely) application that approves or denies your card transaction -- is still working round the clock. So the mainframe is still working. Chances are the Web front end is not (yet)

Re: American Airlines

2008-06-02 Thread Tony Harminc
2008/6/2 Eric Chevalier [EMAIL PROTECTED]: However, we were using 2314s attached to these boxes, and I believe there _was_ a hardware RPQ on the drives. Called something like Airlines Control Buffer, I _think_ the feature allowed the drive to disconnect from the channel while doing a seek.

Re: Hardware Alerts

2008-05-22 Thread Tony Harminc
2008/5/22 Gary Eheman [EMAIL PROTECTED]: If possible, I would be using the phone system PBX for this. Find out the numbers that the IBM equipment is dialing, and then have the PBX handle the rest. Send emails or call someone telling them that the evil piece of IBM equipment is phoning that

Re: VMWare more reliable

2008-05-14 Thread Tony Harminc
2008/5/14 Gary Green [EMAIL PROTECTED]: than the mainframe. Or so it was reported back in January... http://redmondmag.com/features/article.asp?editorialsid=2400#reliable Interesting that Google Desktop's malware warning is triggered by this site. Tony H.

Re: estimating number of records.

2008-05-14 Thread Tony Harminc
2008/5/14 Gary Green [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Well, disk datasets should be relatively easy... (if the information is returned from the LMDIST call) Number of tracks used * % of space used * blocks per track divided by record length. Or am I missing something in the question? RECFM=V ? Tony

Re: Mainframe programming vs the Web

2008-05-13 Thread Tony Harminc
2008/5/12 Robert A. Rosenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED]: If you accept only cards that use 4 4-character fields, you can also have 4 windows (each 4 characters wide) and auto-advance the cursor after the 4th character (I have seen this done but it may need JavaScript). AJAX (or JavaScript) will

Re: 3420 old tapes

2008-05-06 Thread Tony Harminc
2008-05-06 John Eells [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 3420-4, -6, and -8 could definitely be used for both 1600bpi and 6250bpi but *not* for 800 bpi. I don't recall at this point whether the odd-numbered models (-3, -5, -7) could read 800 bpi or were 1600 bpi only. If the latter, I think you

Re: allowuserkeycsa

2008-05-06 Thread Tony Harminc
2008/5/6 Patrick Loftus [EMAIL PROTECTED]: We've been using the default of YES up to z/OS 1.8, but will now take the default of NO for z/OS 1.9. Shouldn't be any problem, as we will discover any issues when rolling out through various systems. So far we've discovered a bug in our Sysprog

Re: File format for an unloaded partitioned data set?

2008-05-02 Thread Tony Harminc
2008/5/2 Roger Bowler [EMAIL PROTECTED]: From: Hendrik Boom [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have a few unloaded partitioned data sets dating back to the 70's. I'd like to extract some members from them (on a Linux system). Are there any tools for this? Is there any documentation about this file

Re: Fixed-Point and Scientific Notation

2008-04-28 Thread Tony Harminc
2008/4/27 John P. Baker [EMAIL PROTECTED]: In many cases, the user may simply specify 1.75E+6, the context will determine both the format and the length, and everything will be fine. However, there are other computational situations where the use of a particular format and/or length is

Re: DCF: Can it live again?

2008-04-16 Thread Tony Harminc
2008/4/16 David Boyes [EMAIL PROTECTED]: It'd still be nice to have something on Linux that understands 1403 listings, though. lpd...? Tony H. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email

Re: DYNALLOC question

2008-04-15 Thread Tony Harminc
2008/4/15 McKown, John [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I am writing a TSO command processor. One option is to direct output to a dataset. In support of this, for new datasets, I would like to support the parms LIKE(existing.ds.name) and USING(attr-list). Good idea! I can see the DALLIKE key for the

Re: DCF: Can it live again?

2008-04-15 Thread Tony Harminc
2008/4/15 David Boyes [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I'll say in public: if IBM is willing to let me have the source for DCF and Bookie, I will port it to Linux for free. I want it for my own use, and I think there are others who feel the same. Is IBM DCF significantly different from the publicly

Re: Has z/Journal gone to the dark side

2008-04-14 Thread Tony Harminc
2008/4/14 Kelman, Tom [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I just got an email titled Legacy Modernization Spotlight. When I clicked on the links in it they took me to articles that look like they're in the online version of z/Journal but they're sponsored by Microsoft and talk about converting from the

Re: IBM sites on Google Maps

2008-04-12 Thread Tony Harminc
2008/4/12 Jim Elliott, IBM [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wed, 2 Apr 2008 18:05:56 -0400, Tony Harminc wrote: ... Some non-US IBM lab sites I know appear unfuzzy: the Toronto lab: http://maps.google.com/?ll=43.818489,-79.33676z=17 That link is to IBM Canada HQ at 3500 and 3600 Steeles, Markham

Re: SVCDUMP capture phase statistics.....

2008-04-10 Thread Tony Harminc
2008/4/10 Barbara Nitz [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Local storage end 09/18/2042 01:53:47.370496 -- very interesting time stamp I've got three questions here: 1. Why is there this interesting time stamp that says the dumps will be finished in 2042? A TOD value of all ones

Re: Authorized Rexx Assembler Function

2008-04-10 Thread Tony Harminc
2008/4/10 Lindy Mayfield [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Is there any way to create a Rexx function that runs authorized? Seems that when a Rexx function is called the JSCBAUTH is turned off. By Rexx function, do you mean a function written in Rexx, or one written (typically in assembler) as part of a

Re: Debugging TSO FTP command

2008-04-07 Thread Tony Harminc
2008/4/7 McKown, John [EMAIL PROTECTED]: CEE5101C During initialization, the callable service BPX1MSS failed. The system return code was 000156 , the reason code was 0B0C00FA . The application will be terminated. The key is the 0B0C00FA, for which BPXMTEXT displays: BPXPRIN1

Re: Code page dilema

2008-04-04 Thread Tony Harminc
008/4/4 Steve Comstock [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I'm having some trouble finding the right mix of code pages in the right place to accomplish some work. Environment: z/OS 1.9, ISPF specifies terminal type 3278, enable euro SDSF just changed codepage support for 1140 On the workstation, Tom

Re: Code page dilema

2008-04-04 Thread Tony Harminc
2008/4/4 Steve Comstock [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Well, 1140 is indeed essentially 037+Euro; and 924 is apparently 1047+euro; it is not supported in SDSF nor Vista tn3270. It does appear to be supported in ISPF, however. But it's not clear to me how to tell ISPF to use that code page. Any

Re: Faxing from the mainframe

2008-04-03 Thread Tony Harminc
On 03/04/2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I was at Varian Associates, I wrote a PROFS-to-Telex interface. I wonder if anyone still uses PROFS (officially discontinued in favor of the great-in-theory-but-wretched-in-practice Lotus Notes)? Or even Telexes? At the time,

Re: CA ESD files Options

2008-04-02 Thread Tony Harminc
On 02/04/2008, Anne Lynn Wheeler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: you can get a satellite photo of the old GPD/disk plant site here http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=entab=wl put in the address 5600 Cottle Rd, San Jose, Ca. and select satellite. I noticed recently that if you do this for the IBM

Re: IBMLink, again

2008-03-29 Thread Tony Harminc
On 29/03/2008, Paul Gilmartin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There's a thread ongoing in MVS-OE on CGI security. The first principle is: don't trust data received over the network. The second is: don't trust Javascript validation on the client side. Always remember that your potential

Re: IBMLink, again

2008-03-28 Thread Tony Harminc
On 27/03/2008, Bruce Hewson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would assume, like on some web screens we use here, that the text input fields are not transparent. By that I mean the characters entered are treated as HTTP control characters, or something like that. I am trying to convince some

Re: Help with TSO parsing?

2008-03-27 Thread Tony Harminc
On 27/03/2008, McKown, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I admit that I have no experience with this. I am attempting to modify a TSO command processor that I downloaded from IBM. I am adding a new keyword at the end. I am failing at execution time with the messages: IKJ56293I RACSEQ2 FAILED -

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

2008-03-20 Thread Tony Harminc
On 20/03/2008, Support, DUNNIT SYSTEMS LTD. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually, I need to be able to determine what the original job name is. Keep in mind that UNIX allows the parent process to go away without the child ending. In that case there will be no parent jobname. (Well obviously there

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

2008-03-19 Thread Tony Harminc
On 19/03/2008, Support, DUNNIT SYSTEMS LTD. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are there any control block fields or flags within these address spaces that indentify them as being started by a fork or spawn action? Are there different indicators for forked versus spawned address spaces? There are

Re: Assembler to C or C++ Conversion

2008-03-17 Thread Tony Harminc
On 17/03/2008, John Bachiochi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone run across a software package that will successfully convert Assembler code to working C or C++ code or, alternatively, allow Assembler code to run in a server-based environment more or less as is (much like MicroFocus does

Re: Prevent IEW2456E error with cmd in SYSLIN

2008-02-25 Thread Tony Harminc
On 25/02/2008, Gilbert Saint-Flour [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The job below gets an IEW2456E error (and RC=8) because the PROG222 program contains EXTRN XX which is not available. The XX module is sometimes needed, but not in this case. It would be better if PROG222 defined XX

Re: 2097?

2008-02-12 Thread Tony Harminc
On Tue, 12 Feb 2008 16:10:10 -0600, Tom Moulder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: CPC NAME = ZHE Hmmm... ZHÈ is a Chinese word for this. So maybe it's just self identifying. Tony H. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: VSAM Surprise

2008-02-07 Thread Tony Harminc
On Tue, 5 Feb 2008 15:50:42 -0500, Arthur T. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't think its APARable. Probably the same as specifying output to an existing PDS with a DSN with no member specified. Something not really discussed (yet) is that this is a NEW dataset with directory blocks

Re: BLDVRP parm list

2008-02-07 Thread Tony Harminc
On Wed, 6 Feb 2008 17:14:57 -0500, Jim Mulder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The BLDVRP macro is pretty much unusable in this regard. I had the same problem with Batch LSR's use of BLDVRP back in 1989. So in Batch LSR, we hand build the whole BLDVRP parm list using the IDABLPRM mapping macro. But

Re: WLM for toddlers

2008-02-07 Thread Tony Harminc
On Thu, 7 Feb 2008 13:50:00 -0600, Support, DUNNIT SYSTEMS LTD. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We have a customer who says they have a: compiled/linked COBOL load module invoked from a DB2 sp that runs in the WLM address space. Probably you should read that as runs in a WLM-managed address space, or

Re: IND$FILE

2008-02-04 Thread Tony Harminc
On Mon, 4 Feb 2008 12:21:43 -0600, Paul Gilmartin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Don't you find it peculiarly ironic, Alan, that the vendor chose to regard the specifications of a data interchange protocol as business confidential? Do you believe that by so circling the wagons around its products IBM

Re: CA ESD files

2008-02-04 Thread Tony Harminc
On Sun, 3 Feb 2008 07:56:17 +0200, #1490;#1491;#1497; amp;#1489;#1503; #1488;#1489;#1497; [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know of a way to extract files from a CA ESD file without using a tape drive. This gets discussed from time to time. The answer seems to be that there is no supported

Metal C

2008-01-31 Thread Tony Harminc
I was looking forward to this, but now that I've found a little time to play with it, I am a little puzzled. There are options METAL and GENASM, and the doc says that METAL forces GENASM, but when I try GENASM without METAL, I get CCN0458(S) Option GENASM is invalid because option METAL is not

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