Re: What s going on in the redbooks site?

2012-02-05 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
joa...@swbell.net (John McKown) writes: I was a FidoNet user. A sort of distributed BBS network. Dial into a local node, pick up and send messages. The local nodes would exchange messages throughout the day (usually at night). Dial in the next day to get the newly distributed message. Repeat

Re: What s going on in the redbooks site?

2012-02-05 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 1328418173.16719.291.ca...@mckown5.johnmckown.net, on 02/04/2012 at 11:02 PM, John McKown joa...@swbell.net said: And, of course, CompuServe And many others. Unlike CompuServe, the typical BBS didn't use a proprietary protocol. For that matter, neither did fido. BTW, I know of at least

New PDSLOAD version under test

2012-02-05 Thread Sam Golob
Hi Folks, I would like to make a request of the readers, if you have time to look at this, and for your general information. The PDSLOAD program is like a subset of IEBUPDTE, in that it will reload members of a partitioned dataset from a sequentialized copy, using member separators ./

Re: What s going on in the redbooks site?

2012-02-05 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
shmuel+ibm-m...@patriot.net (Shmuel Metz , Seymour J.) writes: And many others. Unlike CompuServe, the typical BBS didn't use a proprietary protocol. For that matter, neither did fido. BTW, I know of at least one BBS that supports zmodem over telnet. re:

How to reformat JFCB creation date in SMF to 'yyyy/mm/dd' format by DFSORT

2012-02-05 Thread Minoru Massaki
Hello DFSORT expert, I'm looking for the way to reformat JFCB creation data x'yy' to c'/mm/dd' by using DFSORT. I have read DFSORT manuals and looked for it in Web, I still don't have right answer. JFCB creation date is 3 bytes hex filed in the format 'yy'. the year yy is an offset

Re: Returning to the fold

2012-02-05 Thread Rick Fochtman
Not very hard. :-) Rick - On 2/3/2012 7:18 PM, Scott Ford wrote: Rick, You really looking for work ? Sent from my iPad Scott Ford Senior Systems Engineer www.identityforge.com On Feb 3, 2012, at 6:18 PM, Rick Fochtmanrfocht...@ync.net

Re: How to reformat JFCB creation date in SMF to 'yyyy/mm/dd' format by DFSORT

2012-02-05 Thread retired mainframer
:: -Original Message- :: From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On :: Behalf Of Minoru Massaki :: Sent: Sunday, February 05, 2012 10:47 AM :: To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu :: Subject: How to reformat JFCB creation date in SMF to '/mm/dd' :: format by DFSORT :: ::

Re: What s going on in the redbooks site?

2012-02-05 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
shmuel+ibm-m...@patriot.net (Shmuel Metz , Seymour J.) writes: The Internet[1] is not the Web. Before the WWW, we had Archie, FTP, Gopher and other services that in many ways were more convenient than the WWW, and certainly more reliable. [1] A vast WAIS-land. re:

Re: Very Lage Page Datasets (was ASM and HiperPAV)

2012-02-05 Thread Martin Packer
Paging (if you'll pardon the pun :-) ) Don Deese and wondering what checks he has in CPExpert in this area. Might provide inspiration to z/OS Development - if Barbara's comment had spurred them to revisit this area. Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, Mainframe Performance Consultant, zChampion

Re: How to reformat JFCB creation date in SMF to 'yyyy/mm/dd' format by DFSORT

2012-02-05 Thread J R
JFCB creation date is 3 bytes hex filed in the format 'yy'. Actually, of course, everything may be expressed in hex. ;-) However, that doesn't tell the SORT program exactly how a field should be interpreted. The fact is that the JFCB creation date is a 1-byte binary number followed by

Re: z/OS compiling COBOL/CICS pgms

2012-02-05 Thread Graham Hobbs
Terry, Thanks, I got the non DB2 compile/link going+ using DFHZITCL. Manual refers to DFHEITVL but it wasn't found? Won't need the DB2 one until next week so will work on it then but pointers taken. cheers Graham .. both Sheffield's coming back up?! - Original Message - From: Terry

Mainframe Testing

2012-02-05 Thread Mohd Rizwan
Hi Friends, Can anybody tell me about Mainframe testing, what are the tools are used for Mainframe system testing -- *Mohd Rizwan 9538451750* -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to

Re: How to reformat JFCB creation date in SMF to 'yyyy/mm/dd' format by DFSORT

2012-02-05 Thread Minoru Massaki
Hello retired mainframer-san, Thank you very much for telling me the way of reformat the JFCB creation date. It was really what I wanted to know. I did a test with following DFSORT control statements on z/OS V1.12. It worked fine. Assume that input JFCB creation date field is at location 149 in

Re: Mainframe Testing

2012-02-05 Thread Lim Ming Liang
Are you looking for some kind of debugging tools, or QA methodology in the z/OS ? Regards Lim ML On 06/02/12 12:47 PM, Mohd Rizwan wrote: Hi Friends, Can anybody tell me about Mainframe testing, what are the tools are used for Mainframe system testing

Re: Mainframe Testing

2012-02-05 Thread Tsai Laurence
Wsim aka TPNS 2012-2-6 下午1:12 於 Mohd Rizwan rizwaan.pa...@gmail.com 寫道： Hi Friends, Can anybody tell me about Mainframe testing, what are the tools are used for Mainframe system testing -- *Mohd Rizwan 9538451750* --

Re: Mainframe Testing

2012-02-05 Thread Lim Ming Liang
Is it system load testing you're looking for ? Regards Lim ML On 06/02/12 2:56 PM, Tsai Laurence wrote: Wsim aka TPNS 2012-2-6 下午1:12 於 Mohd Rizwan rizwaan.pa...@gmail.com 寫道： Hi Friends, Can anybody tell me about Mainframe testing, what are the tools are used for Mainframe system testing

Re: Mainframe Testing

2012-02-05 Thread Timothy Sipples
There are many, many testing tools relevant to mainframes. Could you elaborate on what you mean by mainframe system testing? Timothy Sipples Resident Enterprise Architect (Based in Singapore)