Re: TN3270 emulator application scripting

2013-10-02 Thread Timothy Sipples
Frank, just to clarify, are these the ingredients for the new pattern: 1. Maintain the 3270 user interface paradigm; 2. Allow in-line or pop-up presentation of contextual information (signature images) based on a field value (account number) displayed in the 3270 interface; 3. If possible,

Re: SDK for z/OS

2013-10-02 Thread Timothy Sipples
I think all the Java 5 releases on z/OS were zAAP-enabled -- initial zAAP support dates back to one of the Java 4 revisions as I recall. So one indirect way to determine whether there's some relevant activity is to take a look at RMF Monitor III and see what zAAP-eligible workload there is, then

Re: DLm2100 and DD4500 Config for MF

2013-10-02 Thread Greg Schmeelk
Hi, Lizette, We are doing a similar proof of concept utilizing DLM with a DD back end. Richard's comments about HSM data and deduping was very interesting and helpful in determining what our expectations should be. Could you please share your findings or any other information of interest once

Re: SDK for z/OS

2013-10-02 Thread John McKown
I've never really used it, but I have gotten some UNIX filesystem data usage records out of RACF when the RACF user was UAUDIT. So it may be possible to use the UNIX chaudit command to cause SAF (RACF) to produce SMF records showing who used a file / subdirectory and when. On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at

Re: Quote on Slashdot.org

2013-10-02 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 957ca5bb-6dc8-423f-a983-cc947c960...@yahoo.com, on 09/30/2013 at 01:11 AM, Scott Ford scott_j_f...@yahoo.com said: I wonder why the government chose Ada...? First, it was designed under DOD auspices specifically for mission critical work. Second, it's a much better language than most of

Re: Does your company have different SLO / SLA's for Scheduled / Unscheduled downtime?

2013-10-02 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 524900a1.40...@yahoo.com, on 09/30/2013 at 12:40 AM, Thomas Kern tlk_sysp...@yahoo.com said: I like to account for four different types of service time for SLAs. 5. Environmental outages a. Earthquake b. Flood c. Squirrel d. War Such environmental outages should not count

Re: Quote on Slashdot.org

2013-10-02 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 52491967.4070...@gmail.com, on 09/30/2013 at 02:25 PM, David Crayford dcrayf...@gmail.com said: There is no doubt that Ada is a much, much better programming language then PL/I, C, COBOL etc. I could make a case for PL/I, and there are languages that are clearly better than Ada for

Re: DSNAME Syntax

2013-10-02 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 4989582253241223.wa.paulgboulderaim@listserv.ua.edu, on 09/28/2013 at 09:59 PM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com said: I believe that with JCL I could readily allocate and KEEP a data set with the actual name 'FORMAT4.DSCB' (but perhaps not catalog it). But is that a reserved name

Re: Quote on Slashdot.org

2013-10-02 Thread M Baker
I remember reading that Fred Brooks regrets that it wasn't the systems programming language for OS/360. I suppose because it was a big, complex language for the time it didn't quite make the cut. I've always been kind of curious about that. I wonder if, although (since) it was as you wrote

Re: Quote on Slashdot.org

2013-10-02 Thread Gross, Randall [PRI-1PP]
In college, I used the PL/1 F compiler on a 360/40 running PCP, circa 1971. It was horribly buggy. Of course, I have no idea if the college kept maintenance up to date. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of M Baker Sent:

Re: Quote on Slashdot.org

2013-10-02 Thread Barry Merrill
I recall a study many years ago with regard to which statistics tools was best, among active statisticians, with many criteria in the survey questions, that concluded that the strongest correlation was with one single answer: What was your FIRST statistics tool used? Barry Merrill

Re: Quote on Slashdot.org

2013-10-02 Thread Pew, Curtis G
On Oct 2, 2013, at 8:32 AM, M Baker baker...@gmail.com wrote: I remember reading that Fred Brooks regrets that it wasn't the systems programming language for OS/360. I suppose because it was a big, complex language for the time it didn't quite make the cut. I've always been kind of

Re: Quote on Slashdot.org

2013-10-02 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
l...@garlic.com (Anne Lynn Wheeler) writes: for the fun of it I did a rewrite in pascal of a major portion of the VM370 kernel (done in assembler) ... and demonstrated it running (faster) in virtual address space interacting with a smaller vm370 kernel. part of the issue was that mainframe

Re: Quote on Slashdot.org

2013-10-02 Thread Scott Ford
Barry, GDDM ...then SAS Scott ford www.identityforge.com from my IPAD 'Infinite wisdom through infinite means' On Oct 2, 2013, at 9:47 AM, Barry Merrill ba...@mxg.com wrote: I recall a study many years ago with regard to which statistics tools was best, among active statisticians, with

Re: Quote on Slashdot.org

2013-10-02 Thread Richard Pinion
One of the colleges I attended, 1977-78, used a Honeywell system running Multics. PL/I was taught as well as IBM 360 assembler. I was told the IBM assembler ran under an 360 emulator. The university did its own mods to the OS. --- curtis@austin.utexas.edu wrote: From: Pew,

Re: SDK for z/OS

2013-10-02 Thread John Eells
Timothy Sipples wrote: I think all the Java 5 releases on z/OS were zAAP-enabled -- initial zAAP support dates back to one of the Java 4 revisions as I recall. So one indirect way to determine whether there's some relevant activity is to take a look at RMF Monitor III and see what zAAP-eligible

Re: Quote on Slashdot.org

2013-10-02 Thread Bernd Oppolzer
PL/1 and System 360 was a combined effort; OS/360, too. The same way as the 360 architecture should make all other platforms obsolete, PL/1 was supposed to make all other programming languages obsolete. As we know today, the first goal was reached - well, almost - but the second failed. The PL/1

Re: TN3270 emulator application scripting

2013-10-02 Thread Bell, Robert M.
We have converted from host explorer to bluezone. Both support scripting and macros and/or vb and .net for creating windows apps. We have both vb and .net apps as well as scipts and macros that are launched from the emulator. You can contact me offline if you need anything more Regards

Re: SDK for z/OS

2013-10-02 Thread Kirk Wolf
One thing to remember about the more recent Java JVMs is that each release improves its JIT compiler technology and will take advantage of the latest instructions on the machine that it runs on. Over the years, these improvements have really added up, and the latest Java SDK runs substantially

Standard TSO/MVS way to delete a PDS(E) member

2013-10-02 Thread Binyamin Dissen
I am aware of the ISPF LM functions. I wonder if there is a native MVS or TSO command to easily do this. There is delete pds(member), but that requires exclusive access. There is IEHPROGM, but I would as soon just avoid it. -- Binyamin Dissen bdis...@dissensoftware.com

Re: Quote on Slashdot.org

2013-10-02 Thread Bernd Oppolzer
Hello Tony, I think, I have a description somewhere of the 1979 variant of P-Code used in the Stanford compiler (scanned document). I'll send it to you offline. The two passes of the compiler are written in Pascal, and the second one generates 370 object code from P-Code; it writes the 80 byte

Re: Quote on Slashdot.org

2013-10-02 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Wed, 2 Oct 2013 17:03:09 +0200, Bernd Oppolzer wrote: PL/1 and System 360 was a combined effort; OS/360, too. The same way as the 360 architecture should make all other platforms obsolete, PL/1 was supposed to make all other programming languages obsolete. As we know today, the first goal was

Re: Standard TSO/MVS way to delete a PDS(E) member

2013-10-02 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Wed, 2 Oct 2013 18:14:15 +0300, Binyamin Dissen wrote: I am aware of the ISPF LM functions. I wonder if there is a native MVS or TSO command to easily do this. There is delete pds(member), but that requires exclusive access. There is IEHPROGM, but I would as soon just avoid it. I believe

Re: Standard TSO/MVS way to delete a PDS(E) member

2013-10-02 Thread Elardus Engelbrecht
Binyamin Dissen wrote: I wonder if there is a native MVS or TSO command to easily do this. What about STOW and DESERV DELETE? Yes, they're macros, not commands, but I think you can conjure a little program to us that. There is delete pds(member), but that requires exclusive access. That is

Re: Standard TSO/MVS way to delete a PDS(E) member

2013-10-02 Thread Binyamin Dissen
On Wed, 2 Oct 2013 10:33:31 -0500 Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com wrote: :On Wed, 2 Oct 2013 18:14:15 +0300, Binyamin Dissen wrote: :I am aware of the ISPF LM functions. :I wonder if there is a native MVS or TSO command to easily do this. :There is delete pds(member), but that requires

Re: Standard TSO/MVS way to delete a PDS(E) member

2013-10-02 Thread Binyamin Dissen
On Wed, 2 Oct 2013 10:36:39 -0500 Elardus Engelbrecht elardus.engelbre...@sita.co.za wrote: :Binyamin Dissen wrote: :I wonder if there is a native MVS or TSO command to easily do this. :What about STOW and DESERV DELETE? Yes, they're macros, not commands, but I think you can conjure a little

Re: Standard TSO/MVS way to delete a PDS(E) member

2013-10-02 Thread Mark Zelden
On Wed, 2 Oct 2013 18:14:15 +0300, Binyamin Dissen bdis...@dissensoftware.com wrote: I am aware of the ISPF LM functions. I wonder if there is a native MVS or TSO command to easily do this. There is delete pds(member), but that requires exclusive access. There is IEHPROGM, but I would as soon

Re: Quote on Slashdot.org

2013-10-02 Thread Bernd Oppolzer
Please look at is this way - with a little sense of humour: IBM had with this architecture for some time (in the late 60s and in the 70s) such a strong postion on the global computer market, that indeed almost all other architectures were obsolete or niche platforms. Even here in Germany,

Re: Standard TSO/MVS way to delete a PDS(E) member

2013-10-02 Thread Mark Zelden
On Wed, 2 Oct 2013 10:48:49 -0500, Mark Zelden m...@mzelden.com wrote: On Wed, 2 Oct 2013 18:14:15 +0300, Binyamin Dissen bdis...@dissensoftware.com wrote: I am aware of the ISPF LM functions. I wonder if there is a native MVS or TSO command to easily do this. There is delete pds(member), but

Re: TN3270 emulator application scripting

2013-10-02 Thread Frank Swarbrick
Thanks Timothy!  I will put these on the list of options. (GDDM sounds very interesting, though perhaps too much in the way of programming requirements on the z/OS side.) Frank From: Timothy Sipples sipp...@sg.ibm.com To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Sent:

Re: Standard TSO/MVS way to delete a PDS(E) member

2013-10-02 Thread Elardus Engelbrecht
Binyamin Dissen wrote: As this is all REXX, I am trying to avoid shipping a program. Ah, now I understand. You can write a little REXX program. I was ready to post it here, but you don't want a program :Good. What about utilities and IDCAMS? Great. Which one will do what I want? Why not use

Determining number of Parameters passed to a COBOL program

2013-10-02 Thread Raupach, Robert E (CTO Architecture + Engineering)
Greetings... A colleague asked me the following question: Is there a way to determine how many parameters are being passed into a COBOL program? I could show him in Assembler, but in COBOL, I wouldn't have a clue. Can someone advise? Thx, Bob R

Re: Determining number of Parameters passed to a COBOL program

2013-10-02 Thread Roberts, John J
Is there a way to determine how many parameters are being passed into a COBOL program? It all depends on the convention you employ for passing parameters. The most common is to pass the PARM string as a comma delimited string. So in the simplest form, the number of parameters is the number

Re: Determining number of Parameters passed to a COBOL program

2013-10-02 Thread Sam Siegel
On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 9:36 AM, Raupach, Robert E (CTO Architecture + Engineering) rraup...@thehartford.com wrote: Greetings... A colleague asked me the following question: Is there a way to determine how many parameters are being passed into a COBOL program? I could show him in

Re: Determining number of Parameters passed to a COBOL program

2013-10-02 Thread Binyamin Dissen
Assuming that the VL convention is used, if I recall my reading of cobol compiler listings, using a lot of items in the PROCEDURE DIVISION USING and then assigning the addresses one by one and stopping when the high order bit is set. On Wed, 2 Oct 2013 16:36:04 + Raupach, Robert E (CTO

Re: Determining number of Parameters passed to a COBOL program

2013-10-02 Thread Steve Comstock
On 10/2/2013 10:36 AM, Raupach, Robert E (CTO Architecture + Engineering) wrote: Greetings... A colleague asked me the following question: Is there a way to determine how many parameters are being passed into a COBOL program? I could show him in Assembler, but in COBOL, I wouldn't have a

Re: Standard TSO/MVS way to delete a PDS(E) member

2013-10-02 Thread Kirk Wolf
Mark, I'm curious - if the PDS is allocated with DISP=SHR, will IDCAMS use ISPF compatible ENQs to serialize the member when deleting? Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com On Wed, Oct 2, 2013 at 10:48 AM, Mark Zelden m...@mzelden.com wrote: On Wed, 2 Oct 2013 18:14:15 +0300,

Re: Determining number of Parameters passed to a COBOL program

2013-10-02 Thread Roberts, John J
This is of course for a COBOL BATCH MAIN program. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Roberts, John J Sent: Wednesday, October 02, 2013 11:43 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Determining number of Parameters

Re: Standard TSO/MVS way to delete a PDS(E) member

2013-10-02 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Wed, 2 Oct 2013 11:05:34 -0500, Elardus Engelbrecht wrote: Binyamin Dissen wrote: As this is all REXX, I am trying to avoid shipping a program. Ah, now I understand. You can write a little REXX program. I was ready to post it here, but you don't want a program :Good. What about utilities

Re: Quote on Slashdot.org

2013-10-02 Thread Tony Harminc
On 1 October 2013 20:06, Bernd Oppolzer bernd.oppol...@t-online.de wrote: And: it turned out, that the P-Code is not so machine-independant as it should be. There will be some difficulties regarding character sets etc., when I try to port the compiler to an ASCII based platform, for example

Re: Determining number of Parameters passed to a COBOL program

2013-10-02 Thread Steve Comstock
On 10/2/2013 10:47 AM, Roberts, John J wrote: This is of course for a COBOL BATCH MAIN program. Whar do you mean by 'This'? Are you refering to your original question or to the answer below? -Steve -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List

Re: Determining number of Parameters passed to a COBOL program

2013-10-02 Thread Roberts, John J
I was referring to my reply. The original question wasn't clear. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Steve Comstock Sent: Wednesday, October 02, 2013 11:55 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Determining number

Re: Standard TSO/MVS way to delete a PDS(E) member

2013-10-02 Thread Elardus Engelbrecht
Paul Gilmartin wrote: The OP said he was concerned about the exclusive ENQ. This is why I posted the documentation, but the OP said something otherwise. I'm going to test it when I have free time. Then Mark Z. suggested that preallocating the data set SHR avoids the exclusive ENQ. Is that

Re: Standard TSO/MVS way to delete a PDS(E) member

2013-10-02 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Wed, 2 Oct 2013 11:47:44 -0500, Kirk Wolf wrote: I'm curious - if the PDS is allocated with DISP=SHR, will IDCAMS use ISPF compatible ENQs to serialize the member when deleting? Do you like to gamble? -- gil -- For

Reminder IBMLINK Outage

2013-10-02 Thread Lizette Koehler
Just a heads up. IBMLink Outage Communication. 2 October 2013 In order to adopt IBMLink to Corporate Web standards and improve user experience through a new rich look and fell, the application may not be accessible during the following period: The installation will be deployed starting on

IBMLINK Missing In Action

2013-10-02 Thread Lizette Koehler
Has anyone noticed lately that IBMLINK seems to be missing? When I try www.ibm.com/ibmlink I get taken to a products upgrade page and I have to hunt through several menu items to just find the SR Function. I am still trolling through IBM.COm to find SIS, APAR, and so forth. Thanks Lizette

Re: Reminder IBMLINK Outage

2013-10-02 Thread Thomas Conley
On 10/2/2013 1:27 PM, Lizette Koehler wrote: Just a heads up. IBMLink Outage Communication. 2 October 2013 In order to adopt IBMLink to Corporate Web standards and improve user experience through a new rich look and fell, the application may not be accessible during the following period:

Re: IBMLINK Missing In Action

2013-10-02 Thread Staller, Allan
Try here: http://www-947.ibm.com/support/entry/portal/search/ Al Staller | Z Systems Programmer | KBM Group | (Tel) 972 664-3565 | allan.stal...@kbmg.com -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Lizette Koehler Sent:

Re: Reminder IBMLINK Outage

2013-10-02 Thread Staller, Allan
According to IBM marketing publications, parallel sysplex is designed to provide 6 nines (99.) percent availability. This represents about 31 seconds of down time/year. This IBMLINK outage amounts to the expected down time in about 1400 years (12*3600)/30. IBM should be embarrassed. This

Re: Reminder IBMLINK Outage

2013-10-02 Thread Linda
Yep, I'll take works over pretty any time. Better would be if they put it up on z. Linda Sent from my iPhone On Oct 2, 2013, at 10:45 AM, Staller, Allan allan.stal...@kbmg.com wrote: According to IBM marketing publications, parallel sysplex is designed to provide 6 nines (99.) percent

Re: IBMLINK Missing In Action

2013-10-02 Thread Ayon, John
I use this link to get to IBMLINK: https://www-304.ibm.com/ibmlink/servicelink/servicelink.wss?lc=encc=US John Ayon | Technology Specialist | z/OS Server Technology Meijer | Building 982 - 2 South | 2727 Walker Ave NW | Grand Rapids, MI 49544 Phone : 616-791-3623 john.a...@meijer.com

Re: Standard TSO/MVS way to delete a PDS(E) member

2013-10-02 Thread Mark Zelden
On Wed, 2 Oct 2013 11:47:44 -0500, Kirk Wolf k...@dovetail.com wrote: Mark, I'm curious - if the PDS is allocated with DISP=SHR, will IDCAMS use ISPF compatible ENQs to serialize the member when deleting? Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com In a word, no. But this is a

Re: Reminder IBMLINK Outage

2013-10-02 Thread DASDBILL2
It would also be better if they subjected their messages to a little proofreading; e.g., look and fell.  But they were correct in categorizing the new look as rich (one possible meaning of which is laughable ). Bill Fairchild Franklin, TN - Original Message - From: Linda

Re: Reminder IBMLINK Outage

2013-10-02 Thread Martin Packer
And adopt probably should be adapt. Oh no! I scored an own goal. :-) 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:

How Many Sysplex Distributors?

2013-10-02 Thread Hansen, Dave L - Eagan, MN
CROSS-POSTED to IBMTCP-L and IBM-MAIN. Dear Networking Friends: Is it OK to run more than one Sysplex Distributor in a Sysplex? Thank you, Dave -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions,

TSO REXX and GRS Commnad Output

2013-10-02 Thread Hansen, Dave L - Eagan, MN
Dear REXX people, I am trying to get the result from a GRS command into an array. We are running z/OS V1R13 and the TSO/E REXX Reference shows some Examples. It shows mcode = getmsg('dispmsg.','sol',,,120). So the stem dispmsg. will have the solicited messages. I tried to get this EXEC

Re: IBMLINK Missing In Action

2013-10-02 Thread Richards, Robert B.
I use this one and it always seems to work: https://www-304.ibm.com/usrsrvc/account/userservices/jsp/login.jsp?persistPage=truepage=/ibmlink/ -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Ayon, John Sent: Wednesday, October 02,

Re: TSO REXX and GRS Commnad Output

2013-10-02 Thread Mark Zelden
On Wed, 2 Oct 2013 18:52:27 +, Hansen, Dave L - Eagan, MN dave.l.han...@usps.gov wrote: Dear REXX people, I am trying to get the result from a GRS command into an array. We are running z/OS V1R13 and the TSO/E REXX Reference shows some Examples. It shows mcode =

Re: TSO REXX and GRS Commnad Output

2013-10-02 Thread Richards, Robert B.
It is timing out waiting on the reply? Change the 3 to a higher value on the GETMSG and see if it helps. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Hansen, Dave L - Eagan, MN Sent: Wednesday, October 02, 2013 2:52 PM To:

Re: Determining number of Parameters passed to a COBOL program

2013-10-02 Thread R.S.
W dniu 2013-10-02 18:36, Raupach, Robert E (CTO Architecture + Engineering) pisze: Greetings... A colleague asked me the following question: Is there a way to determine how many parameters are being passed into a COBOL program? I could show him in Assembler, but in COBOL, I wouldn't have

Re: Quote on Slashdot.org

2013-10-02 Thread Kirk Wolf
BTW: here's a Object-Pascal compiler based on LLVM project: http://code.google.com/p/llvm-pascal/ (I think that there are more than one of these) For info in LLVM: http://llvm.org/ IBM has reportedly become more interested in LLVM for z: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_itempx=MTM1MTc

Re: Reminder IBMLINK Outage

2013-10-02 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Wed, 2 Oct 2013 11:00:35 -0700, Linda wrote: Yep, I'll take works over pretty any time. Better would be if they put it up on z. Can they afford it? Perhaps if it could run in specialty engines. -- gil -- For IBM-MAIN

STP Dialout Failure

2013-10-02 Thread Clifford McNeill
Anybody else experiencing failures with STP/ETR dialout to NIST ACTS? http://www.nist.gov/pml/div688/grp40/acts.cfm Cliff McNeill -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive

Re: STP Dialout Failure

2013-10-02 Thread Jerry Whitteridge
Government shutdown ? Jerry Whitteridge Lead Systems Programmer Safeway Inc. 925 951 4184 If you feel in control you just aren't going fast enough. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Clifford McNeill Sent: Wednesday,

Re: Determining number of Parameters passed to a COBOL program

2013-10-02 Thread umen csv
Hi,  You can check this http://www.cobug.com/cobug/forums/cobolLang/65.shtml where they suggest a test for NULL against the address of a parameter.  That worked for me too some time ago. Unless iterating through all parameters and checking for null there is no way to count them at the language

Re: STP Dialout Failure

2013-10-02 Thread Bob Rutledge
Clifford McNeill wrote: Anybody else experiencing failures with STP/ETR dialout to NIST ACTS? http://www.nist.gov/pml/div688/grp40/acts.cfm Point a browser at that link. Bob -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff /

Re: TSO REXX and GRS Commnad Output

2013-10-02 Thread Hansen, Dave L - Eagan, MN
THANK YOU! I added the CONSPROF and it works: CONSPROF SOLDISPLAY(NO) CONSPROF UNSOLDISPLAY(NO) address TSO 'CONSOLE ACTIVATE' CONSOLE SYSCMD(RO *ALL,D GRS,C) mrc = getmsg('CNSL.','SOL',,,3) Do i = 1 to CNSL.0 Say i CNSL.i If i // 20 = 0 Then Do Say Press 'ENTER' to clear the

Re: TSO REXX and GRS Commnad Output

2013-10-02 Thread Mark Zelden
On Wed, 2 Oct 2013 20:00:07 +, Hansen, Dave L - Eagan, MN dave.l.han...@usps.gov wrote: THANK YOU! I added the CONSPROF and it works:

Re: STP Dialout Failure

2013-10-02 Thread R.S.
W dniu 2013-10-02 21:42, Clifford McNeill pisze: Anybody else experiencing failures with STP/ETR dialout to NIST ACTS? http://www.nist.gov/pml/div688/grp40/acts.cfm What's worse? Using so obsolete, unreliable technology as dialout or using so unreliable service provider as gov.us ?

SORT JOBID A of mysterious origin

2013-10-02 Thread Charles Mills
Probably like many folks, I like to keep my jobs in SDSF sorted chronologically. I have been noticing lately that they fairly often mysteriously shift to being sorted by JOBID. No matter -- I just enter SORT CRDATE and move on. I have been wondering what causes it, however. I just now happened to

Re: SORT JOBID A of mysterious origin

2013-10-02 Thread Schwartz, Alan
I think this might be your problem. Here's what I found in IBMlink: The problem is with SDSF. The local fix is to issue SET CSORT OFF. CSORT stands for cursor-sensitive sorting. APAR PM59695 - PTF - UK77441 superceeded by UK79343 (neither ptf has been received) With CSORT enabled,

Re: SORT JOBID A of mysterious origin

2013-10-02 Thread Mark Zelden
My first thought was that it could be related to CSORT, but I wouldn't expect this bug (nor any CSORT action) to update the saved variables for recalling commands. Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS mailto:m...@mzelden.com ITIL v3 Foundation Certified

FRR Recovery Routine Environment

2013-10-02 Thread Donald Likens
I do not understand what I am doing wrong. I setup the following recovery environment: SETFRR A,FRRAD=FRRA,EUT=YES,MODE=FULLXM,WRKREGS=(R1,R2), PARMAD=(R3) STR13,0(R3) I then caused my program to abend. When my recovery routine is entered I ABEND with an S0C4 because R2 is

Re: TSO REXX and GRS Commnad Output

2013-10-02 Thread Skip Robinson
I recently worked a long and involved SR over RC=4 from GETMSG. It's way worse than a 'warning'. RC=4 means 1. You got no data back in your stem variable. Nada. Nichts. Zip. 2. We're not going to tell you why. Dare you to guess. As for SOLDISP and UNSOLDISP, they control whether 'solicited'

Re: FRR Recovery Routine Environment

2013-10-02 Thread Binyamin Dissen
On entry R13 is undefined. Also, R2 is pointing at the FRR entry - perfectly fine. Try a SLIP to debug your FRR. On Wed, 2 Oct 2013 15:47:21 -0500 Donald Likens dlik...@infosecinc.com wrote: :I do not understand what I am doing wrong. I setup the following recovery environment: : :SETFRR

Re: SORT JOBID A of mysterious origin

2013-10-02 Thread Charles Mills
Wow, thanks, that's got to be it. I did seem to feel there was a correlation with exiting from browse. Yup Mark, if I do a point-and-shoot sort on RECS and then a RETRIEVE, I see SORT RECS A. Googling CSORT I find Mark with the same problem on April 10, 2012. I tried re-creating

Re: SORT JOBID A of mysterious origin

2013-10-02 Thread Lester, Bob
Hi Folks, A side note - I did this set command and my hi-lighting of fields (on my ISPF DA panel) has returned. I'd been wondering what had happened. Changed default between z/OS 1.11 and z/OS 1.13? Hmmm. Thanks! BobL -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List

Re: Quote on Slashdot.org

2013-10-02 Thread Clark Morris
On 1 Oct 2013 08:01:35 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: On Tue, 1 Oct 2013 11:52:16 -0300, Clark Morris wrote: greatest value of GOTO is the longjump; the ability to exit a nest of not only compounds, but also blocks and function calls. I pine for this facility in Rexx, POSIX shell,

Re: Determining number of Parameters passed to a COBOL program

2013-10-02 Thread John Gilmore
Whitehead famously defined a Unitarian as someone who believes in, at most, one God. The analogous principle here is that a COBOL batch main program may have at most one parameter, a PARM, a value of which may be omitted from, for example, a JCL EXEC statement, in which case its value will be a

Re: IBMLINK Missing In Action

2013-10-02 Thread Ed Jaffe
On 10/2/2013 10:28 AM, Lizette Koehler wrote: Has anyone noticed lately that IBMLINK seems to be missing? It's been up and down like a yo-yo. -- Edward E Jaffe Phoenix Software International, Inc 831 Parkview Drive North El Segundo, CA 90245 http://www.phoenixsoftware.com/

Re: IBMLINK Missing In Action

2013-10-02 Thread Clark Morris
On 2 Oct 2013 16:08:12 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main Ed Jaffee wrote: On 10/2/2013 10:28 AM, Lizette Koehler wrote: Has anyone noticed lately that IBMLINK seems to be missing? It's been up and down like a yo-yo. Are there any SHARE requirements for IBMLINK availability? For those of you who

Re: Quote on Slashdot.org

2013-10-02 Thread David Crayford
On 3/10/2013 3:35 AM, Kirk Wolf wrote: IBM has reportedly become more interested in LLVM for z: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_itempx=MTM1MTc and has contributed some patches to the LLVM project (at least for C/C++ compilers):

Re: FRR Recovery Routine Environment

2013-10-02 Thread John Gilmore
Binyamin's advice to use a SLIP is on the mark. Do you need help with the details? John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu

Re: FRR Recovery Routine Environment

2013-10-02 Thread Kenneth Wilkerson
I use FRRs a lot because just about every PC routine I write can be called from an SRB. The PC routine defines a ESTAEX when called in task mode and examines the FRR stack and adds or replaces an FRR when called in an SRB routine or when a lock is set. I rarely use EUT=YES FRRS. Not a big fan

Re: Standard TSO/MVS way to delete a PDS(E) member

2013-10-02 Thread Joel C. Ewing
On 10/02/2013 01:06 PM, Mark Zelden wrote: On Wed, 2 Oct 2013 11:47:44 -0500, Kirk Wolf k...@dovetail.com wrote: Mark, I'm curious - if the PDS is allocated with DISP=SHR, will IDCAMS use ISPF compatible ENQs to serialize the member when deleting? Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies

Re: Standard TSO/MVS way to delete a PDS(E) member

2013-10-02 Thread Ed Gould
On Oct 2, 2013, at 10:36 AM, Elardus Engelbrecht wrote: There is delete pds(member), but that requires exclusive access. That is an IDCAMS command, not TSO. Way back when we ran into this issue with IDCAMS. The way we got around it was to have a DD statement with the dsn and a disp=shr

Re: IBMLINK Missing In Action

2013-10-02 Thread Ed Jaffe
On 10/2/2013 5:48 PM, Clark Morris wrote: Are there any SHARE requirements for IBMLINK availability? Yes. -- Edward E Jaffe Phoenix Software International, Inc 831 Parkview Drive North El Segundo, CA 90245 http://www.phoenixsoftware.com/