Re: S222 abends and Reason Codes

2009-07-05 Thread John McKown
On Sat, 4 Jul 2009, Ed Gould wrote: snip There is no justice in the world. Ed Agreed. In my first job, I had one programmer who got an S0C7 abend. I told him it was a data problem, look in his program to determine which variable was bad. His response: System abend - system problem -

Re: S222 abends and Reason Codes

2009-07-05 Thread Ted MacNEIL
System abend - system problem - you fix it. Same story everywhere. When I started, we knew that S0C* abends were caused by application programmer issues. Now, if it starts with S, it has to be a system problem. Maybe it's a good thing that LE converts them to U*** abends. (8-{]} User abend -

Re: My Green Screen IBMLink is still working

2009-07-05 Thread Edward Jaffe
Edward Jaffe wrote: Today is the day the IBMLink 3270 interface is supposed to no longer work. But, I've been logged on since Monday and it's still up. Am I on borrowed time? A They finally killed my session (after nearly a week)! After logging back in, the ETR and SIS

Re: S222 abends and Reason Codes

2009-07-05 Thread Don Leahy
On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 1:33 AM, Ed Gouldps2...@yahoo.com wrote: SNIP The programmer was asked to leave but I got very annoyed as he got a consultants job at a large insurance company here in Chicago and a very nice pay raise. There is no justice in the world. I don't know about that. You

Re: S222 abends and Reason Codes

2009-07-05 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of John McKown On Sat, 4 Jul 2009, Ed Gould wrote: snip There is no justice in the world. Ed Agreed. In my first job, I had one programmer who got an S0C7 abend. I told him it was a data problem, look in his

Re: My Green Screen IBMLink is still working

2009-07-05 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Edward Jaffe Edward Jaffe wrote: Today is the day the IBMLink 3270 interface is supposed to no longer work. But, I've been logged on since Monday and it's still up. Am I on borrowed time?

Re: S222 abends and Reason Codes

2009-07-05 Thread John McKown
On Sun, 5 Jul 2009, Chase, John wrote: Write an ESPIE to change it to a U0C7 and toss it back. :-) -jc- No such thing. User abends are decimal in nature, whereas system abends are 3 character hex. -- Trying to write with a pencil that is dull is pointless. Maranatha! John McKown

Re: S222 abends and Reason Codes

2009-07-05 Thread Chase, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of John McKown On Sun, 5 Jul 2009, Chase, John wrote: Write an ESPIE to change it to a U0C7 and toss it back. :-) -jc- No such thing. User abends are decimal in nature, whereas system abends are 3

Computerworld: London Stock Exchange to Abandon Windows

2009-07-05 Thread Timothy Sipples
I saw this on Slashdot: http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/07/03/1216250 - - - - - Timothy Sipples IBM Consulting Enterprise Software Architect Based in Tokyo, Serving IBM Japan / Asia-Pacific E-Mail: timothy.sipp...@us.ibm.com

Novell and Red Hat Competing for More Mainframe Installations

2009-07-05 Thread Timothy Sipples
Novell and Red Hat are very aggressively competing for System z installations. Red Hat just announced an extension of their z10 BC pricing promotion through the end of 2009: http://www.redhat.com/rhel/server/mainframe/promo/ Meanwhile, Novell recently had a general price reduction and has their

Re: APPC and VTAMAPPL (was: job started with SUB=MSTR...)

2009-07-05 Thread Tommy Tsui
Hi Walt Here is the error message, do youw know what's going on ??? D NET,APING,ID=MVSLU01 IST097I DISPLAY ACCEPTED ICH408I JOB(APPC) STEP(APPC) 619 LOGON/JOB INITIATION - NOT AUTHORIZED TO APPLICATION MVSLU01 IST1489I APING SESSION INFORMATION 618 IST1490I DLU=NET1.MVSLU01