Re: Cbttape Freeware isn't available

2012-07-24 Thread Francisco Hernandez
Hello, Thank you very much for all the messages received. The problem is already solved. I usually use the Chrome browser which was where the problem had apparently not clear the cache at the end of the session which is the option chosen. Using Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer works

Re: Submitting a requirement for z/OS to at least acknowledge SIGNAL SHUTDOWN by printing a message

2012-07-24 Thread John Eells
No. Clark Morris wrote: On 23 Jul 2012 12:49:31 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: snip Is there a comparable facility for JES3? Clark Morris snip - Support is provided to allow jobs for which journaling is used to be stopped after a currently running step has finished and held

Re: IGGCSI to retrieve tape volume serial

2012-07-24 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 9538009122010217.wa.victorworkcnyahoo.com...@listserv.ua.edu, on 07/23/2012 at 08:41 AM, Victor Zhang victor_wor...@yahoo.com.cn said: Can I interpret this to get non-vsam used or allocated size? No. DSCBTTR TTR of format-1 DSCB for non-VSAM data set You can use it in an OBTAIN. --

Re: Gordon Crovitz: Who Really Invented the Internet?

2012-07-24 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
shmuel+...@patriot.net (Shmuel Metz , Seymour J.) writes: There's an error in that article and in the RSCS article; RSCS uses connection-oriented protocols, not connectionless protocols. re: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012j.html#83 Gordon Crovitz: Who Really Invented the Internet?

Re: Authorized Rexx Assembler Function

2012-07-24 Thread Scott Ford
Excellent, better yet what about a authorized rexx function callable via rexx Scott ford www.identityforge.com On Jul 24, 2012, at 3:05 AM, Binyamin Dissen bdis...@dissensoftware.com wrote: On Tue, 24 Jul 2012 00:57:09 -0500 Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com wrote: :On Mon, 23 Jul 2012

Re: AW: Cbttape Freeware isn't available

2012-07-24 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Tue, 24 Jul 2012 06:11:45 -0400, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: There are sites that will do these things for you. There are sites that do DNS and whois lookups for you. There are no sites that analyze what your own firewall is blocking. Granted. And the firewall design probably

Re: REXX ISPF edit FIND failing

2012-07-24 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Tue, 24 Jul 2012 08:39:35 -0400, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: Address ISREDIT does not in general require quotes either. The quotes are only needed because you want constants with special characters. And remembering that Rexx considers lower case characters special. Had you wanted, e.g.,

Re: useful? XML encoded SMF.

2012-07-24 Thread David Crayford
Don't hipster programmers prefer JSON these days? XML too verbose. On 24/07/2012, at 11:30 PM, McKown, John john.mck...@healthmarkets.com wrote: OK, remember that I'm a bit of a UNIX bigot for some things. But I was wondering if anybody else thinks it would be helpful to have a program

Can't get output to print with Infoprint

2012-07-24 Thread Rick Stetser
I'm on z/OS v1.11 and I have a job on the JES2 spool that I can't get to print. The job ran and generated output to output class T with a DEST of I3816. That printer is still defined in the Infoprint printer database but it doesn't physically exist any longer. In addition, the host name has

Re: S0C4 in CEE3DMP

2012-07-24 Thread Charles Mills
Anyone besides me remember this? I did report it to IBM, and I have been running SLIPs and dumps off and on for the past five+ months for LE Level two. They have now figured it out! https://www-304.ibm.com/support/entdocview.wss?uid=isg1PM68947 Charles -Original Message- From: IBM

Re: Authorized Rexx Assembler Function

2012-07-24 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2012 10:16 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Authorized Rexx Assembler Function On Tue, 24 Jul 2012 10:05:00 +0300, Binyamin

Re: Replacing CA products

2012-07-24 Thread Mitch
John: Good morning. some interesting choices. Please contact me offline as I have a number of partners/solutions that can automate the replacements for you. As an example, ACF2 to RACF CA1 to DFSMS/rmm CA7 to TWS* CA11 to TWS* CA-Panvalet to ISPW (or SysChange) If you have any other

Re: useful? XML encoded SMF.

2012-07-24 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of David Crayford Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2012 10:48 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: useful? XML encoded SMF. Don't hipster programmers prefer JSON these days? XML too

Re: useful? XML encoded SMF.

2012-07-24 Thread Martin Packer
Good luck with a DTD that covers the panoply of SMF record types and subtypes. :-) Might well prefer JSON myself (hip that I ain't) :-) - but similar issues arise with that. Martin (not speaking for SMF or any other Development) Packer Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems

Re: useful? XML encoded SMF.

2012-07-24 Thread R.S.
You should look at SMF4U product. They do exactly what you want plus many, many other things. See: http://www.smf4u.eu/ -- Radoslaw Skorupka Lodz, Poland -- Tre tej wiadomoci moe zawiera informacje prawnie chronione Banku przeznaczone wycznie do uytku subowego adresata.

Re: useful? XML encoded SMF.

2012-07-24 Thread Barry Merrill
MXG has MANY customers that have been DIRECTLY READING z/OS SMF DATA FILES from AIX and Unix and Linux and Windows platforms for years, without any changes required by IBM or any of the other 350 vendors whose SMF data we read. No download involved, read via ftp access, write only the output data

Re: useful? XML encoded SMF.

2012-07-24 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of John Gilmore Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2012 10:58 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: useful? XML encoded SMF. The case for offloading z/OS SMF processing from z/OS to

Re: Can't get output to print with Infoprint

2012-07-24 Thread Don Poitras
Could you snap the output to a dataset and then use another job (pointing to a connected printer) to print it? e.g. Make sure you are browsing the output, then: PRT ODSN 'RPT2.PRINT' * NEW PRT PRT CLOSE In article 6488658857530022.wa.rick.stetseryahoo@listserv.ua.edu you wrote: I'm on

Re: useful? XML encoded SMF.

2012-07-24 Thread Frank Swarbrick
Isn't System XML limited to parsing of XML, not generation of XML. I could very well be wrong, but I seem to recall hearing/reading that somewhere. From: McKown, John john.mck...@healthmarkets.com To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2012 9:59

Re: useful? XML encoded SMF.

2012-07-24 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Frank Swarbrick Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2012 12:14 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: useful? XML encoded SMF. Isn't System XML limited to parsing of XML, not

Re: Replacing CA products

2012-07-24 Thread Norman Hollander on DesertWiz
Your Destination vendor will have appropriate services and tools for your migration. Be sure to ask about them. The vendors are there to help make you successful. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of John A Zoppetti Sent:

Re: Authorized Rexx Assembler Function

2012-07-24 Thread Binyamin Dissen
On Tue, 24 Jul 2012 10:16:27 -0500 Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com wrote: :On Tue, 24 Jul 2012 10:05:00 +0300, Binyamin Dissen wrote: ::Why have such a special list rather than merely verifying that the program ::resides in an APF authorized library and was linked with AC=1? :Because a

Re: Can't get output to print with Infoprint

2012-07-24 Thread Rick Stetser
Thanks for the response. Unfortunately, this messes up the carriage control and the file will no longer print correctly. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu

Re: Can't get output to print with Infoprint

2012-07-24 Thread Richard Pinion
Trying looking in the IP PrintWay Transmission Queue Selection panel. I think there are fields, printer selection, that can be changed which will release the output. Richard and Vickie Pinion --- rick.stet...@yahoo.com wrote: From: Rick Stetser rick.stet...@yahoo.com To:

Re: Authorized Rexx Assembler Function

2012-07-24 Thread Walt Farrell
On Tue, 24 Jul 2012 10:51:33 -0500, McKown, John john.mck...@healthmarkets.com wrote: Also, remember that we are talking about TSO. An archaic piece of software, which IBM has just seeming lost interest in. Imagine what could be done if the non-APF user code ran in a subspace, like CICS uses.

Re: Can't get output to print with Infoprint

2012-07-24 Thread Rick Stetser
Isn't that used for basic mode printers? We're using extended mode. I don't believe the transmiision queue this panel works with is used as the data is sent via TCPIP. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: Can't get output to print with Infoprint

2012-07-24 Thread Don Poitras
It creates a VBA dataset. The carriage control should be preserved. Rick Stetser wrote: Thanks for the response. Unfortunately, this messes up the carriage control and the file will no longer print correctly. -- Don Poitras - zSeries R D - SAS Institute Inc. - SAS Campus Drive

Re: Authorized Rexx Assembler Function

2012-07-24 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Walt Farrell Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2012 12:59 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Authorized Rexx Assembler Function On Tue, 24 Jul 2012 10:51:33 -0500, McKown, John

Re: Help with elementary CPU speed question

2012-07-24 Thread Martin Packer
s/300J/600J/ :-) Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter / Facebook IDs: MartinPacker Blog:

Re: useful? XML encoded SMF.

2012-07-24 Thread Martin Packer
I'd say generation of XML was pretty cheap. It's the parsing that's expensive. Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter / Facebook IDs: MartinPacker Blog:

Using CGIPARSE in REXX

2012-07-24 Thread Dana Mitchell
Can anyone give me an example or a pointer to one that shows how to use CGIPARSE in a CGI REXX? I can get it to display expected results when I code it in REXX, but without the equivalent of EVAL command, I don't see how one makes use of the output from CGIPARSE. thanks Dana

Re: Submitting a requirement for z/OS to at least acknowledge SIGNAL SHUTDOWN by printing a message

2012-07-24 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 245275432281.wa.paulgboulderaim@listserv.ua.edu, on 07/23/2012 at 03:55 PM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com said: As I stated initially, one of my motives was portability. In a conventional UNIX system, processes needn't register to receive SIGTERM. In a conventional Unix

Re: Authorized Rexx Assembler Function

2012-07-24 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 6efdefc7-f5c2-48b9-ba6f-8b0b41b99...@googlegroups.com, on 07/23/2012 at 07:35 PM, Garry G. Green garryg.gr...@yahoo.com said: Of particular interest is how APF is handled in a TSO environment. Note that TSO in the free MVS did not have the parallel TMP, so ISPF could not depend on the

Re: Using CGIPARSE in REXX

2012-07-24 Thread McKown, John
This is a snippet from a REXX CGI that has been running for a few years: /* get the POST data into the qs variable */ qs= do while(lines()) qs=qs||linein() qs=strip(qs,'t',d2c(13)) /* remove trailing CR chars */ end ... /* set the environment variable QUERY_STRING to the contents of qs

ShopZseries Change

2012-07-24 Thread Matthew Stitt
Just received this notification. 1. z/OS family - all hardware, OS, and related software: Flashes - TITLE: SMP/E Internet Service Retrieval and Shopz download servers will change hostname and public internet IP addresses on August 26, 2012. These IP address changes may require customer

Re: Gordon Crovitz: Who Really Invented the Internet?

2012-07-24 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
sto...@interchip.de (David Stokes) writes: The virus vulnerability (and number of spambots and DOS attack bots) on the Internet is much more a function of the Operating Systems of the user nodes connected to the Internet than of the Internet itself. Much of the current problem stems from

Some IBM internet IP addresses changing on 26 Aug 2012

2012-07-24 Thread Marna WALLE
For your awareness (this information is provided in lots of other places, but I wanted to repeat it here): SMP/E Internet Service Retrieval and Shopz download servers will change hostname and public internet IP addresses on August 26, 2012. These IP address changes may require customer

Re: AW: Gordon Crovitz: Who Really Invented the Internet?

2012-07-24 Thread Ed Finnell
IBM is a large corporation. Different factions have been captivated by marketing pressures since the beginning. The RD side has always been more forth coming. For a number of years IBM-Main was accessible via INFO-Access under hardware. It was a mirror of BAMA.UA.EDU and for me was great way

Re: Gordon Crovitz: Who Really Invented the Internet?

2012-07-24 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
jwgli...@gmail.com (John Gilmore) writes: The scientific community made early and significant use of the DARPA predecessor of today's Internet, and almost none of the problems that afflict us today emerged during that period. There was no money to be made by chicanery, and little of it

Re: Yahoo Password Breach: 7 Lessons Learned - Security - Attacks/breaches - Informationweek

2012-07-24 Thread Scott Ford
Too bad you can't use the LDAP to signon to TSO.. I understand what your saying Timothy. The big trick as we have found is design.. Plan seems to be a bad 4 letter word Scott ford www.identityforge.com On Jul 24, 2012, at 8:06 PM, Timothy Sipples timothy.sipp...@us.ibm.com wrote: Shmuel Metz

Re: REXX ISPF edit FIND failing

2012-07-24 Thread CM Poncelet
Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: In 500e6b77.2090...@bcs.org.uk, on 07/24/2012 at 10:31 AM, CM Poncelet ponce...@bcs.org.uk said: OK. But I do not *have* to code ISPEXEC CONTROL ERRORS RETURN. The rest is mostly ISREDIT ... apart from pure REXX instructions which do not need quotes

Re: Replacing CA products

2012-07-24 Thread Brian Westerman
I didn't see automation products on your list but we have replaced over 100 CA installed sites with our Automation software. Not only is our software less than 5 to 10% of the CA cost, we are also much better in many areas. You can view the software at www.SyzygyInc.com . Brian Westerman