Re: 3270 screen size limit

2005-12-22 Thread Ray Mullins
There's also a required logmode of D4x32XX3 where the little x is one of A, B or C (usually C). Best regards, Ray -- M. Ray Mullins Roseville, CA, USA http://www.catherdersoftware.com/ http://www.mrmullins.big-bear-city.ca.us/ http://www.the-bus-stops-here.org/ German is essentially a form

Re: DMV systems?

2005-12-29 Thread Ray Mullins
that can run under their own hypervisor (VM2000). -- M. Ray Mullins Roseville, CA, USA http://www.catherdersoftware.com/ http://www.mrmullins.big-bear-city.ca.us/ http://www.the-bus-stops-here.org/ German is essentially a form of assembly language consisting entirely of far calls heavily

Re: Legality of Hercules was (fwd) Hercules 3.03 announcement

2005-12-29 Thread Ray Mullins
costs. Later, Ray -- M. Ray Mullins Roseville, CA, USA http://www.catherdersoftware.com/ http://www.mrmullins.big-bear-city.ca.us/ http://www.the-bus-stops-here.org/ German is essentially a form of assembly language consisting entirely of far calls heavily accented with throaty guttural sounds

Re: Legality of Hercules was (fwd) Hercules 3.03 announcement

2005-12-29 Thread Ray Mullins
, are you listing? *g* ) and might be able to short-circuit the process. Later, Ray P.S. Phil, I owe you another pint for the boxer/leg comment last week. Next time I'm over there... -- M. Ray Mullins Roseville, CA, USA http://www.catherdersoftware.com/ http://www.mrmullins.big-bear

Re: Windows .wmf Vulnerability

2006-01-06 Thread Ray Mullins
CheckPoint/Zone Labs redistributes CA's anti-virus/anti-spyware product IMHO, CA's stuff has a lot less overhead than the Big 2... -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of turner, mark Sent: Friday January 06 2006 07:51 To:

Re: An unexpected lights out operation

2006-05-16 Thread Ray Mullins
Amen. Although my voltage does not seem to fluctuate quite so much, at least once a week my UPS kicks in. The drop is so quick and resumes so quickly that I only see the little APC Windoze agent saying You are back on utility power. (In fact, it just did this 2 minutes ago, while composing an

Re: An unexpected lights out operation

2006-05-17 Thread Ray Mullins
Phil, was this intentional? -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Phil Payne Sent: Wednesday May 17 2006 03:44 Combining this sentence... We were working hand-off. With this phrase consolidated onto stiffies, Is a

Re: Dataset contention on GDG

2006-05-17 Thread Ray Mullins
Getting nostalgic for a moment, but was there ever a usermod to change the behavior of the relative GDG numbers? When I worked at a large tax processing concern back in the mid-1980's, you had to code in their environment //STEP1 EXEC //DD1 DD DSN=BLAH(+1),DISP=NEW //STEP2 EXEC //DD1 DD

Re: SMP/E SMPWRK* vs. SDB

2006-05-24 Thread Ray Mullins
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of R.S. Sent: Wednesday May 24 2006 00:10 I think it's typical for IBM. Examples: snip 2. DB2 doesn't (wasn't) check RACF profile when started/closed. Effect: everybody (who can issue

Re: PDSE percent used

2006-06-13 Thread Ray Mullins
To refute Bruce's belief, it is a fact. You pay a nice 5-digit USD amount for one copy (and DSECTs) of the DFSMSdfp Advanced Customization Manual, which not only documents FAMS, but SMS services, DASDCALC, and some CVAF routines, amongst others. (Additional copies cost USD 1K back in 1999. It

Re: PDSE percent used

2006-06-13 Thread Ray Mullins
Sorry, wrong word. Yes, I meant confirm. Inadequate caffeine syndrome. :-) -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bruce Black Sent: Tuesday June 13 2006 12:19 To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: PDSE percent used To refute

Re: Patent #6886160

2006-06-15 Thread Ray Mullins
At least the EU has stopped the software patent insanity. Software patents and businesses processes just cannot be patented. They produce nothing tangible. (USA example) I just saw where Blockbuster is suing Netflix because they are applying for a patent for the way they do business - use a

Re: Patent #6886160

2006-06-19 Thread Ray Mullins
While catching up with my industry pub reading this week, I found something very interesting in eWeek. Columnist Jim Rapoza holds software patents in the same high regard (*cough*) as most of the denizens here on IBM-MAIN. So I was happy to read his most recent column at

Re: Curiosity

2006-06-28 Thread Ray Mullins
You aren't looking too closely, then. The numbers may be small, but there are MF assembler programmers younger than I am (just turned 44). In fact, my company just hired at least one graduate from Northern Illinois' program. Later, Ray -- M. Ray Mullins Roseville, CA, USA http

Re: Looking For A Search Engine

2006-06-28 Thread Ray Mullins
Don't forget that IPOUPDTE is now CPPUPDTE (it supports PDSEs). And, yes, it still needs that $$$COIBM member. Later, Ray -- M. Ray Mullins Roseville, CA, USA http://www.catherdersoftware.com/ http://www.mrmullins.big-bear-city.ca.us/ http://www.the-bus-stops-here.org/ German

Re: zIIP enabling PTFs

2006-06-30 Thread Ray Mullins
Two of the DB2-specific PTFs are available, however we've found that prereq PTFs are marked PE (I don't have the details). Other DB2-specific PTFs are almost there. Later, Ray -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Richards.Bob

Re: Musings on a holiday weekend

2006-07-03 Thread Ray Mullins
in the latest IBM Systems Journal, good job! Later, Ray -- M. Ray Mullins Roseville, CA, USA http://www.catherdersoftware.com/ http://www.mrmullins.big-bear-city.ca.us/ http://www.the-bus-stops-here.org/ German is essentially a form of assembly language consisting entirely of far calls heavily

Re: MVS Poster

2006-07-11 Thread Ray Mullins
It does say first draft and it probably wasn't prepared or designed by z/OS gurus. Maybe we should all hit the contact z/OS link (at the bottom of the page that Mark referred to) with updates, -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of

Re: Why is zSeries so CPU poor?

2006-07-19 Thread Ray Mullins
Yeah, p-code. That was what it was called. Ran like crap on an Apple IIe. I may still have the iAPX 432 POP-equivalent in a box somewhere. It was an interesting concept but alas turned into another one of those dead-ends. Maybe Intel or someone will resurrect the concept. In any case, I'm

Re: TCP/IP Translate Table

2006-07-21 Thread Ray Mullins
If it's European Spanish, use code table 1145 instead. The 2xx tables (and for that matter 37) are obsolete, replaced by 114x and some 115x, which has a spot for the Euro (€, or Alt+0128 for Windows CP 1252) symbol. Later, Ray -- M. Ray Mullins Roseville, CA, USA http

Re: TCP/IP Translate Table

2006-07-21 Thread Ray Mullins
thoughts ? -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ray Mullins Sent: Friday, July 21, 2006 10:59 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: TCP/IP Translate Table If it's European Spanish, use code table 1145 instead. The 2xx tables

Re: VSE Version of XMIT Receive

2006-07-24 Thread Ray Mullins
I had to do something similar at a prior position - in this case z/OS - VSE. It wasn't very pretty. Problem #1 - there is no RECEIVE-type program. But I did take a REXX based on a program written by (I think) Dave Alcock that displays info about what is in an XMIT file and change it to actually

Re: VSE Version of XMIT Receive

2006-07-24 Thread Ray Mullins
platforms. It did it in a similar fashion as to what I did (build a job stream to be transmitted). I wish I'd snagged a copy of them. -- M. Ray Mullins Roseville, CA, USA http://www.catherdersoftware.com/ http://www.mrmullins.big-bear-city.ca.us/ http://www.the-bus-stops-here.org/ German

Re: VSE Version of XMIT Receive

2006-07-25 Thread Ray Mullins
In a recent note, Ray Mullins said: Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 17:35:22 -0700 I got around it by substituting '~*' if I found '/* in col 1 (which I knew, in our environment, would never be found in real live data). A bit of a challenge, though not impossible, since NETDATA contains some

Re: snding svc dumps

2006-07-26 Thread Ray Mullins
Years ago, a large USA federal law enforcement agency (that goes by a 3 letter acronym) for that reason would not send us SYSMDUMPs, but only paper dumps. Some poor Special Agent had to go through the dump with a permanent black ink marker and go over any identifiable information in the

Re: Associated Press: 540,000 New Yorkers at Risk of Identity Theft

2006-07-26 Thread Ray Mullins
I wonder if these types of situations will cause the pendulum to swing back more towards roll-your-own software. There has been a slight slowdown of buying canned packages for various reasons because of the hurdles of customizing for one's particular environment or redoing your business

Re: snding svc dumps

2006-07-26 Thread Ray Mullins
Probably - they have a lot of Special Agents. And sometimes you could even read through the permanent marker. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bruce Black Sent: Wednesday July 26 2006 14:10 To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject:

Re: Natural Error with DB2 Version 8

2006-07-26 Thread Ray Mullins
You might want to ask this on SAG-L. Subscribe at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Best regards, Ray -- M. Ray Mullins Roseville, CA, USA http://www.catherdersoftware.com/ http://www.mrmullins.big-bear-city.ca.us/ http://www.the-bus-stops-here.org/ German is essentially a form of assembly language

Re: snding svc dumps

2006-07-27 Thread Ray Mullins
Under your agreements, could you give the vendor access via a limited user id? I recall once, many moons ago when I was in support, we had this arrangement with one of our customers (I want to say it was one of the 3 credit bureaus). Later, Ray -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe

Re: CA-View and alternate screen sizes

2006-07-27 Thread Ray Mullins
Could it be a misleading message - that it's trying to find a module for 27x132 support and failing? Release is probably the wrong word, but I can see screen-size specific code (Software AG's COM-PLETE had (may still have) some specific size modules for its mapping services). Later, Ray

Re: Looking for non-English text (UTF-16) for lab data

2006-07-28 Thread Ray Mullins
Some more ligatures and accents... From France, Cæsar Cœuresseulé (Caesar Lonelyheart) From Brasil or Portugal, Joãoinho São João (Johnny St. John) From the Czech Republic, although this is probably grammatically incorrect, as I know only one Czech word: Praha sušenky (Prague Cookies) From

Re: IBM Redbook: Introduction to the New Mainframe: z/OS Basics

2006-07-28 Thread Ray Mullins
During the zNextGen monthly call yesterday, someone mentioned that the number of z/OS sysprog jobs on Dice has grown a lot in the past few months. Ray -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bob Shannon Sent: Friday July 28 2006 06:45

Re: Problem with PCOMM Font Size

2006-07-28 Thread Ray Mullins
Are you maximizing and restoring? PCOMM has some (IMHO) strange behavior in this area. It won't allow you to set the font if you're maximized. I set the font using a TrueType font (I use IBM3270) with the window not maximized and select Automatic Sizing (select IBM3270 in the list below the

Re: Looking for non-English text (UTF-16) for lab data

2006-07-28 Thread Ray Mullins
28 2006 09:04 To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Looking for non-English text (UTF-16) for lab data Ray Mullins wrote: Some more ligatures and accents... From France, Cæsar Cœuresseulé (Caesar Lonelyheart) From Brasil or Portugal, Joãoinho São João (Johnny St. John) From the Czech

Re: IBM Redbook: Introduction to the New Mainframe: z/OS Basics

2006-07-28 Thread Ray Mullins
It wasn't said, but I interpreted it to mean positions. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ed Finnell Sent: Friday July 28 2006 09:05 To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: IBM Redbook: Introduction to the New Mainframe: z/OS

Re: IBM Redbook: Introduction to the New Mainframe: z/OS Basics

2006-07-28 Thread Ray Mullins
Shmuel, contact the comp sci/DP/IS department chair directly. Good ones will give you an opportunity to talk with them. And bring examples. Later, Ray -- M. Ray Mullins Roseville, CA, USA http://www.catherdersoftware.com/ http://www.mrmullins.big-bear-city.ca.us/ http://www.the-bus-stops

Re: IBM Redbook: Introduction to the New Mainframe: z/OS Basics

2006-07-28 Thread Ray Mullins
Not just z/OS, but z/VSE and z/VM as well (and z/TPF?) -- M. Ray Mullins Roseville, CA, USA http://www.catherdersoftware.com/ http://www.mrmullins.big-bear-city.ca.us/ http://www.the-bus-stops-here.org/ German is essentially a form of assembly language consisting entirely of far calls

Re: Java Packed Decimal

2006-08-01 Thread Ray Mullins
The Honeywell (now Bull) Series 6000 also had (has?) a version of PD in its 36-bit word (6 BCD or 4 ASCII characters). Later, Ray -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Thompson, Steve (SCI TW) Sent: Tuesday August 01 2006 06:17 To:

Re: Java Packed Decimal

2006-08-02 Thread Ray Mullins
Unisys still covers the two different families, so if the Burroughs equipment had it, then they do support it on that ClearPath line. (POP for Unisys, anyone?) Later, Ray -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Shmuel Metz (Seymour

Re: Namespace Conflicts (Was: S99RBXLN Head's Up)

2006-08-02 Thread Ray Mullins
And get them to at least do test assemblies on stuff xlated from PL/X. (I found one in DB2 V71 recently that was introduced by a recent PTF; a PMR has been opened.) Later, Ray -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Edward Jaffe

Re: Heads Up: OA17104 if you have zIIP support installed

2006-08-03 Thread Ray Mullins
For PROJECTCPU - to see how much you can actually save if you had a zIIP lying around... (Although we just got a zIIP and a zAAP to see how our products fare on it. My stuff's working. :-) Later, Ray -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On

Re: Old product tapes

2006-08-09 Thread Ray Mullins
(Why (do (you (say (that)? :-P (Never touched the stuff. APL, OTOH...) -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gibney, Dave Sent: Wednesday August 09 2006 15:14 To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Old product tapes SNOBOL

Re: RMF Mentor required

2006-08-10 Thread Ray Mullins
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Vernooy, C.P. - SPLXM Sent: Thursday August 10 2006 02:23 To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: RMF Mentor required Joe jeffries [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... I

IDRC

2006-08-11 Thread Ray Mullins
Good day, I'm forwarding a request from ASSEMBLER-LIST from someone who does not live on IBM-MAIN. Thanks, Ray -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Assembler List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tony Thigpen Sent: vendredi, 11. août 2006 03:47 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:

Re: Merging datasets wtih different DCBs

2006-08-11 Thread Ray Mullins
What about a one-off QD REXX with 3 read loops? Later, Ray On 8/11/06, Perryman, Brian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks An ex-colleague (who doesn't have access to this list) emailed me to say that he wants to merge three datasets into one larger one. All are PS files with character

Re: Write to the internal reader in C and get jobid back.

2006-08-17 Thread Ray Mullins
Why doesn't it assemble? There's no reason why it shouldn't work in z/OS 1.6 and 1.7. Do you know about opening the INTRDR as a VSAM ESDS and then issuing an ENDREQ to get the job idenfier? Later, Ray -- M. Ray Mullins Roseville, CA, USA http://www.catherdersoftware.com/ http

Re: 27x132?

2006-08-21 Thread Ray Mullins
Interesting - I don't have that specified anywhere in my .ws files. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hunkeler Peter (KIUB 34) Sent: Sunday August 20 2006 23:34 To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: 27x132? [3270]

Re: 27x132?

2006-08-21 Thread Ray Mullins
I hate to disagree with you, Ed. I find it useful for SDSF. (We're not blessed with (E)JES here, sorry.) And I browse/view a lot of data sets as part of my work that have long LRECLs. But I never use it for editing. :-) Later, Ray -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion

Re: 27x132?

2006-08-22 Thread Ray Mullins
No, it probably doesn't - but what you said makes sense if D4C32XX3 isn't the default. Later, Ray -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Hunkeler Peter (KIUB 34) Sent: Monday August 21 2006 23:12 To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject:

Before I RCF these...

2007-11-16 Thread Ray Mullins
, otherwise it’s interpreted as a register anyway (noted at z/OS V1.8) If not, I’ll file the RCFs. TIA, Ray -- M. Ray Mullins Roseville, CA, USA http://www.catherdersoftware.com/ http://www.mrmullins.big-bear-city.ca.us/ http://www.the-bus-stops-here.org/ German is essentially

Re: Newspaper: IBM Invests $5M in Illinois State Univ.

2007-11-16 Thread Ray Mullins
experience. Bias note - I got my training at Los Angeles Valley College, one of the L.A. Community College District campu...er, some proper Latin declined plural goes here. And, frankly, I'd love to get our local CC (Sierra) interested in the IBM world. Later, Ray -- M. Ray Mullins Roseville, CA, USA

Re: DFHSM CANCEL REQUEST

2007-11-19 Thread Ray Mullins
(I apologize if this is a duplicate. E-mail issues.) OK...I thought I remembered this, and the manual bears me out. There is a CANCEL MOUNT command, just like Mr. Jaffe asked about below... C three-digit-unit-address C /four-digit-unit-address (The latter is because if you don't put the

Re: DFHSM CANCEL REQUEST

2007-11-19 Thread Ray Mullins
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ray Mullins Sent: Monday, November 19, 2007 2:21 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: DFHSM CANCEL REQUEST (I apologize if this is a duplicate. E-mail issues.) OK...I thought I remembered this, and the manual bears me out

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

2012-03-22 Thread Ray Mullins
. Cheers, Ray -- M. Ray Mullins Roseville, CA, USA http://www.catherdersoftware.com/ German is essentially a form of assembly language consisting entirely of far calls heavily accented with throaty guttural sounds. ---ilvi French is essentially German with messed-up pronunciation and spelling

Re: COBOL x ACB EXLST WITH JRNAD

2012-03-22 Thread Ray Mullins
=(JRNEXIT,A,L) JRNEXIT DCCL8'EXITJRN' I don't think that can be done w/out dropping down to an assembler module to handle the I/O. Thanks in advance, Jose Adauto Ribeiro -- M. Ray Mullins Roseville, CA, USA http://www.catherdersoftware.com/ German is essentially a form of assembly

Re: Leaving IBM

2012-03-26 Thread Ray Mullins
Thank you, Walt, for your excellent posts and conveyance of information over the years. You will be missed. Cheers, Ray -- M. Ray Mullins Roseville, CA, USA http://www.catherdersoftware.com/ German is essentially a form of assembly language consisting entirely of far calls heavily accented

Re: Strip column 1 from reports

2012-04-24 Thread Ray Mullins
if the RECFM has the A or M. This is similar to the SDSF default behavior of starting the display at column 2. Cheers, Ray -- M. Ray Mullins Roseville, CA, USA http://www.catherdersoftware.com/ German is essentially a form of assembly language consisting entirely of far calls heavily accented

Re: Progress Toward z/OS Personal Use License

2012-04-26 Thread Ray Mullins
for developers? (Yes, I know, I can download the trial z/VM and jury-rig it under Hercules...) -- M. Ray Mullins Roseville, CA, USA http://www.catherdersoftware.com/ German is essentially a form of assembly language consisting entirely of far calls heavily accented with throaty guttural sounds

Re: old tapes and nostalgia

2012-05-02 Thread Ray Mullins
was thinking Hercules Project or some such.) I also have a collection of old and assorted reference cards collected over the last 32 years, but those are not likely to have any value, either. Missing the good old days, I guess. -- M. Ray Mullins Roseville, CA, USA http://www.catherdersoftware.com

Re: Compiled SYSTEM Rexx exec

2012-05-16 Thread Ray Mullins
, and I can vouch that it's sometimes easy to slip up. Cheers, Ray -- M. Ray Mullins Roseville, CA, USA http://www.catherdersoftware.com/ German is essentially a form of assembly language consisting entirely of far calls heavily accented with throaty guttural sounds. ---ilvi French is essentially

Re: Retiring after 43+ years with IBM

2012-05-16 Thread Ray Mullins
these years doing something that was a lot of fun for me. Long live the mainframe, IBM, z/OS, DFSORT and ICETOOL! -- M. Ray Mullins Roseville, CA, USA http://www.catherdersoftware.com/ German is essentially a form of assembly language consisting entirely of far calls heavily accented with throaty

Re: Patents, Copyrights, Profits, Flex and Hercules

2007-06-15 Thread M. Ray Mullins
Timothy Sipples wrote: Ray Mullins writes: Random thought - I wonder what would happen if Fujitsu and Hitachi decided to release their clones of MVS and VSE to hobbyists. Yeah, yeah, there's legal agreements, etc., which probably preclude that. It's an interesting hypothetical to ponder

Re: Running COBOL under z/os.e

2005-11-24 Thread M. Ray Mullins
H... on 2005.11.23 12:40 McKown, John said the following: Also in: http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/e0z2b161/1.11 quote Application programming: z/OS.e does not run the following types of applications: CICS, IMS, COBOL (with an exception), Fortran, and PL/I

Re: EXEC PARM bug or feature?

2005-11-27 Thread M. Ray Mullins
The whole slash business in COBOL goes back to the OS/VS COBOL days, before LE was even a blip on the PL/I radar (yes, that's where the LE stuff originated, and why COBOL had to adapt to LE). I remember setting COBOL runtime options after the slash back in the early 1980's. PL/I X (and

Re: DB2 Version 8 question

2007-11-23 Thread Ray Mullins (Gmail backup)
in both compatibility mode and new function mode. -- M. Ray Mullins Roseville, CA, USA http://www.catherdersoftware.com/ http://www.mrmullins.big-bear-city.ca.us/ http://www.the-bus-stops-here.org/ German is essentially a form of assembly language consisting entirely of far calls heavily accented

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