On 21 May 2008 11:10:12 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (McKown,
John) wrote:
Don't bother with the delete. The put will replace it if it exists
or create it if it does not already exist.
That's not what I observed - I will try again.
I once worked with a guy that wrote a VTAM app that would acquire someone's
terminal (easy in the dumb terminal days) and display a screen that would
look just like the USS MSG10 screen. When the person attempted to logon, it
would respond with idiotic messages, after clearing all data out of the
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Subject: Re: FTP delete
On 21 May 2008 11:10:12 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (McKown,
John) wrote:
Don't
Dean
If you want to know when a particular function was withdrawn, you can do
worse than scanning the IBM publications pages starting here:
http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/z/os/zos/bkserv/
That is what I have just done on your behalf and I (re)confirmed that the
AnyNet functions were removed in
On Wed, 2008-05-21 at 13:16 -0400, Rob Scott wrote:
I worked at a site once (many) years ago where some bright spark once
wrote a program called IJKEFT01
Dave Phillips, Tom Rusnak and I once engaged in that sort of wheel war
about a million years ago.
An example of the sort of thing we'd do:
On 21 May 2008 12:21:27 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (McKown,
John) wrote:
That's not what I observed - I will try again.
Strange. That has always worked for me. If it doesn't work, please post
the error message. I'm curious.
Hmmm. What I had observed was that the FTP appeared to work, but
that
Chris,
Thank you for extracting this for me. I have to digest this. I will be
back with another post.
Dean
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On Tue, 20 May 2008 15:39:01 -0400, Dean Montevago wrote:
If it's marked shipped in SRD, click on it and there will be FTP
instructions to download it to your workstation. Do you have the rest of
the steps to upload and unwind it ?
Never having done this, I'm curious: Neither your followup nor
On Wed, 21 May 2008 10:11:54 -0400, Daniel McLaughlin
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Of what value is that to an auditor?
...
Our auditors are asking us if there is any way we can receive
automatic
email alerts when the gear phones home. ...
I suspect hearing about the phone home capability raises
I've seen the variation where a CLIST was set up to display a message
when a user would log on that his logon authority was temporarily
suspended pending an investigation by the security department - great
fun when you were just getting back from a nice, relaxing vacation.
Also, about 20
(BTW creative misuse of the TSO TERMINAL and PROFILE commands was
always good for laughs if you found someone's line-mode TSO session
unguarded. Sort of like remapping someone's 3270 emulator today.)
Speaking of remapping, when I was a junior programmer I was loaned out
to another project for
'card chads'?
Showing your age!
Whish I had thought of that back when we had them!
Jerry
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Lizette,
I'll need to add support for Ed's point of view...I just completed a
webinar about zIIP processing this morning and we had four times as many
attendees as we have ever had before (well over a hundred). The interest
from customers and potential customers was intense and lots of questions
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'card chads'?
Showing your age!
Whish I
Has anyone encountered this problem when issuing this IPCS command:
RSMDATA VIRTPAGE RA(address) COMMON
results in:
System ABEND 01D, reason code 6B000B10
PSW 070C5000 816E7FD8, module IEANUC01, CSECT IAXDS, offset 0A10
Instruction
I just wanted to let everyone know of an issue I had with the Serverpac
Install. First, YES - I did not read the PSP. So it is not a surprise I made
a small miscalculation.
In Dec 2007 there was a fix that was release for GIMUNZIP. It has to do with
SB37 abends on SYSUT1 during the Unzip of
On Wed, 21 May 2008 13:18:09 -0400, Richards, Robert B.
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I smiled when I read them, but then the adult inside me kicked in his
two cents and decided that to actually do these jokes would not be
funny.
...
I very seldomly find practical jokes funny. But I could see
On Wed, 21 May 2008 13:53:43 -0400, Daniel McLaughlin wrote:
In your PARMLIB create:
BROWSESYS1.TEST.ZOS17.PARMLIB(PROGDM) - 01.01Line
Col
001 080
Command === Scroll ===
CSR
* Top of Data
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In school, *someone* wrote a program called FUN that simulated the
command prompt of the interactive system we used. FUN was a simple
program that waited for some input from the user, wrote an exact
replica of the message that would appear when an
On Wed, 21 May 2008 15:02:52 -0500 Paul Schuster [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
:Has anyone encountered this problem when issuing this IPCS command:
:RSMDATA VIRTPAGE RA(address) COMMON
:results in:
:System ABEND 01D, reason code 6B000B10
:PSW 070C5000
On 21 May 2008 12:43:34 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Don Leahy) wrote:
The PL had PFK10 set up as CANCEL. This screwed me up because my own
userid had PFK10 set up as SAVE. After losing several rounds of
changes by hitting CANCEL when I meant SAVE, I changed the PL's PFK10
setting to match the one
On 21 May 2008 12:57:59 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jerry Fuchs)
wrote:
'card chads'?
Showing your age!
Whish I had thought of that back when we had them!
Those rectangular chads could hurt someone when they get into one's
eyes.
How about an operator command we wrote as follows:
$TSYS=HI
$HASP000 OK
$HASP999 System now in high speed
Adam
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Hello:
Pages of xPLPA are considered eligible for page-out (right?) So would doing
a PGSER FREE on a xPLPA page (after a PGSER FIX was previously done) make
this page any more subject to being stolen and paged out?
Trying to resolve a problem where this PGSER FREE is being considered the
Tom Harper wrote:
I can see Trever Eddolls point of view, that there isn't all that much
out there yet. My analogy is that it's something like HDTV. You see it,
you like it, you want more. But it takes time to develop, test, and
implement, as writing code in Enclave SRB mode is not easy, as I'm
Of what value is that to an auditor?
Who knows? It is likely on some check list somewhere. Many auditors, the poor
kind, love those don't-have-to-think-about-it check lists!
I disagree.
Auditors do not set standards, nor do they enforce them.
Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) set standards
Thank-you everyone who answered! All the information I rec'd was MOST
helpfull!
Thanks again!
Lucy Arnold
Storage Manager
U.C. Davis Medical Center
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at 03:02 PM, Mark Zelden [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
It is supported with basic sysplex.
Then why didn't you say so?
Doesn't my statement - Basic vs. Parallel sysplex isn't the issue
already imply that clearly enough?
Obviously not.
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Hello: xPLPA pages are eligible for page out (right?) So if a PGSER
FREE is
issued (preceded by a PGSER FIX) against a xPLPA page, would it make it
any
more easier for it to be paged out?
Trying to
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'card chads'?
Showing your age!
Whish I had thought of that back when we had them!
Those rectangular chads could hurt someone when they get into one's
eyes.
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AMEN. Spent 6 weeks with an
I'm surprised at how many people missed the point of this blog post.
The blogger was correct.
We have lost our sense of humour.
Did anybody read the disclaimer?
[Update: For those of you who missed the tongue in cheek nature of this post,
it is in fact, a joke. Please don’t try this at work. —
There's a simple ROT here. Do NOT assign PF keys to CANCEL (or SAVE, which as
your experience demonstrates, is similarly destructive when
unintended.) It's users' foolishness in so doing which impels vendors to
presume to save them from their own stupidity by adding PITA confirmation
dialogs
On Wed, 21 May 2008 15:31:16 -0400, David Andrews wrote:
That was well over 20 years ago, back when we worked 16 hour days for
the joy of it. These days the auditors and security officers would go
berzerk; but at the time *we* were in charge of security, and EDP
auditors hadn't yet arrived on
On Wed, 21 May 2008 13:35:43 -0500, McKown, John wrote:
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I use (replace at the end of the put command to overwrite
the file.
When going to the open system servers (Windows, Linux, AIX), we never
do that. Actually in the IBM
On Wed, 21 May 2008 23:39:44 +, Ted MacNEIL wrote:
It IS NOT stupidity to customise keys!
If a user wants a SAVE or CANCEL key, and knows where it is, what is the
problem?
I envy your dexterity.
OTOH, I recall bitter opposition (though not unanimous) in
these pages when I expressed a wish
I think some of the things on the list are conceptual jokes but not
practical, sort of like the stuff that happens to Wiley Coyote. These are
funny to think about, or see in a cartoon, but not funny if they really
happened to someone. I think the guideline for jokes has to be
harmlessness.
I wouldn't make DELETE or CANCEL a single keystroke command, but I feel
DENTER gives me sufficient opportunity to reconsider, and I shouldn't need
to type / to bypass confirmation every time I enter DSLIST.
There is a way in DSLIST, or ISPF EDIT.
Make the single CANCEL Key (EDIT) the
I think some of the things on the list are conceptual jokes but not practical,
sort of like the stuff that happens to Wiley Coyote. These are funny to think
about, or see in a cartoon, but not funny if they really happened to someone.
I think the guideline for jokes has to be harmlessness.
Gord Tomlin wrote:
Apparently I'm a bit thick today, but I cannot seem to get the results I
want from the IPCS RUNARRAY subcommand when combined with the CBFORMAT
command.
I have an array of control blocks in a dump, and I want to use a format
model to display each element of the array. In a
Robert Wright wrote:
PROC 0
EVALSYM X CLIST(POSITION(P) LENGTH(L) HEXADECIMAL)
CBFORMAT X+P POSITION(0) LENGTH(L.) MODEL(format-model-name)
Of course the CLIST would work better if the CBFORMAT subcommand took
into account that the length in variable L had been formatted using
At 13:06 -0400 on 05/21/2008, Richards, Robert B. wrote about Re:
Practical jokes for mainframe systems programmers:
Ask the person that was the object of the joke if they thought it was
funny. Hey, I like a good joke as much as the next person, but these did
not hit my funny bone for some
At 15:01 -0600 on 05/21/2008, Howard Brazee wrote about Re: Practical
jokes for mainframe systems programmers:
Those rectangular chads could hurt someone when they get into one's
eyes.
They can also affect national elections if not fully detached from
the punched card.
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