Re: Subject Unicode

2014-01-12 Thread Ed Finnell
It might survive as .txt attachment. Everything else gets sliced and diced. In a message dated 1/11/2014 4:15:43 P.M. Central Standard Time, poit...@pobox.com writes: Yeah, I didn't think that would work. :) If you're reading this as I am, all the (well most of) text below ended up as

Re: z/OS 1.13 PTF apply Issue

2014-01-12 Thread Lizette Koehler
Some searches on the internet for IBM S106 0F brings up These messages and the ABENDS106-0F indicate that a link list ( LNKLST ) library has gone into additional extents. This could occur if SMP/E maintenance was being applied to the library So, if your LINKLST library

Re: z/OS 1.13 PTF apply Issue

2014-01-12 Thread Lizette Koehler
Also. The *LINKLST* does not always mean SYS1.LINKLIB. It means that in the Linklst concatenation you may have a datasets in secondary extents. You need to see what library was being worked on at the time of the failure. In the output of your SMP/E job it will tell you what PTF it was working

Re: Darren seems to be alive but....

2014-01-12 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In ed403499-6ec5-4b86-954e-6a81b175d...@comcast.net, on 01/08/2014 at 08:38 AM, Ed Gould edgould1...@comcast.net said: That is why I am surprised that Darren didn't get the message There is a difference between didn't get and didn't notice. but then that leaves the issue up in the air Not

Re: Mainframe culture question - how display a tab character?

2014-01-12 Thread Charles Mills
I didn't read the question but the answer is ... g Output is the response to a z/OS console display command. Did Unicode support for WTO make into z/OS V2R1? Charles Composed on a mobile: please excuse my brevity Timothy Sipples sipp...@sg.ibm.com wrote: There's a tab symbol glyph at Unicode

Re: Mainframe culture question - how display a tab character?

2014-01-12 Thread John Gilmore
The IBM HLASM supports a builtin function called BYTE that permits an arbitrary character to be defined and introduced into assembled text. It is 'generic' so that, for example |nul setc BYTE(0) --nul character, x'00' |nul setc BYTE(x'00') --nul character are

Re: Subject Unicode (Also email. Also TAB.)

2014-01-12 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Sun, 12 Jan 2014 03:48:45 -0500, Ed Finnell wrote: It might survive as .txt attachment. Everything else gets sliced and diced. Depends on the MUA. The text I submitted earlier by email: == Polyglot == A common Russian phrase is ОЧЕНЬ ХОРОШО. The Greek might be ΠΟΛΥ ΚΑΛΑ. ...

Re: z/OS 1.13 PTF apply Issue

2014-01-12 Thread venkat kulkarni
Yes, I checked Job log and errors starting from GIM44002S message and the reason is GIMDRS module present in SYS1.MIGLIB, which is part of LNKLST concatenation. GIM44002S ** SYSTEM ABEND 106 OCCURRED WITH A REASON CODE OF '000F'X AFT SMP/E CALLED THE GIMDRS UTILITY TO PROCESS THE

Re: Mainframe culture question - how display a tab character?

2014-01-12 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On 2014-01-12, at 07:06, John Gilmore wrote: ... [HLASM advocacy redacted.] I also prefer to use 'µ', 'µµ', 'µµµ', or 'µµ...µ', one or more instances of the Greek minuscule, to display the positions of such characters. It is widely available (for use in such constructs as µsec) but even

Re: Subject Unicode (Also email. Also TAB.)

2014-01-12 Thread John Gilmore
On the several keyboards I have at hand tab is modal, right or left depending upon the current shift-key setting. The modal marking appears to be | tab| | —— | | —— | in which the 'arrowheads' are solid, not open. I should think that '|' would be adequately perspicuous. The

Re: Subject Unicode (Also email. Also TAB.)

2014-01-12 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Sun, 12 Jan 2014 10:29:22 -0500, John Gilmore wrote: ... [Tabs'] effects depend upon local tab settings, and many implementations disambiguate them by replacing them with blanks of currently equivalent effect in saved/stored files. Thereby sacrificing some small economy of storage. There

Re: z/OS 1.13 PTF apply Issue

2014-01-12 Thread Lizette Koehler
Your SYS1.MIGLIB has secondary extents. If a dataset will be in the LINKLST - it is HIGHLY recommend to not have secondary extents. PRIMARY space allocation only - secondary space allocation of 0 (zero). You can try F LLA,REFRESH If that does not work IPL I would like to understand how

Re: z/OS 1.13 PTF apply Issue

2014-01-12 Thread venkat kulkarni
Yes, I already did LLA refresh. But I also accept this mistake that, I should have IPLed from another volume and then apply maintenance on the RES volume where DDDEF is pointing to.. But to correct this mistake now, I can try IPLing system from another RES volume and then try running this apply

Re: z/OS 1.13 PTF apply Issue

2014-01-12 Thread Lizette Koehler
I cannot tell you what would be the best process for your shop. I do not know your systems. However, if it is reasonable to use a different SYSRES to IPL from at this point, I would investigate that. 1) were the two sysres volumes at the same level of maintenance/ 2) If the other sysres is at a

Re: z/OS 1.13 PTF apply Issue

2014-01-12 Thread venkat kulkarni
Hello, Yes, Both RES volume are on same Maintenance level. Yes, its production system but I can request customer to provide downtime window and IPL system from another RES volume and then try applying PTF again. I think this will be safest way to do now. I will also check my all LNKLST

Re: Subject Unicode (Also email. Also TAB.)

2014-01-12 Thread Bernd Oppolzer
IMO, the idea to put tab characters into files is wrong from the beginning. But of course it comes from the paper tape paradigma, where a file is historically a paper tape feeding a teletype machine. With normal local typewriters, a tab is nothing other than a command to the typewriter to

Re: LLA/VLF -- NAMED LNKLST?

2014-01-12 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 1e667f6bf4a6234ab758381402ef464d133cd...@loumbxwpg12s01.rsc.humad.com, on 01/08/2014 at 11:01 PM, Steve Thompson sthompso...@humana.com said: I seem to recall something about Named LNKLST. Try 3.7 Changing the LNKLST Concatenation in z/OS MVS Programming: Authorized Assembler Services

Re: SMP/E GIM69217I

2014-01-12 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 4384793391606637.wa.paulgboulderaim@listserv.ua.edu, on 01/09/2014 at 11:51 AM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com said: Is this cloning, sometimes called deployment to a live system? It seems there's a flaw in the process if the live system is not updated by a process identical to

Re: Subject Unicode

2014-01-12 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 1389314155.47172.yahoomail...@web126205.mail.ne1.yahoo.com, on 01/09/2014 at 04:35 PM, Scott Ford scott_j_f...@yahoo.com said: PC ( data using a foreign language Unicode page What are you trying to say? If the PC is using Unicode then it will transimit data as UTF-7 or UTF-8, which covers

Re: Subject Unicode

2014-01-12 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 022c01cf0da5$a7b25180$f716f480$@mcn.org, on 01/09/2014 at 05:45 PM, Charles Mills charl...@mcn.org said: There are several flavors of Unicode, but they relate to how the code points are stored in a file or transmitted, not to the character set. Actually, those are transforms rather than

Re: Subject Unicode

2014-01-12 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 0e75a300-f7c5-46a7-a1d3-7189d2a58...@yahoo.com, on 01/09/2014 at 08:39 PM, Scott Ford scott_j_f...@yahoo.com said: We send a data message from a pc, we encrypt it with AES128 , the message is received at the host (z/OS) decrypted then converted from ascii to ebcdic If it really was ASCII

Re: Subject Unicode

2014-01-12 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 20140110034419.c71008f...@panix3.panix.com, on 01/09/2014 at 10:44 PM, Don Poitras poit...@pobox.com said: As of z/OS 2.1, ISPF supports UTF-8, so a binary transfer will still show an A if it was an A on the PC. Only if the PC was using UTF-8 or translates to Unicode with UTF-8 as part of

Re: Subject Unicode

2014-01-12 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In CAArMM9QOFq1jtzwmj=LWHTKkadMzx=aaqppbbqjnk+c8kuz...@mail.gmail.com, on 01/09/2014 at 09:00 PM, Tony Harminc t...@harminc.net said: There is no general way to convert UNICODE into EBCDIC, There are EBCDIC transforms for Unicode. I'm not sure whether that qulifies as EBCDIC. --

Re: Subject Unicode

2014-01-12 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In of065337e4.0e9ce2ec-on48257c5c.0027bfa8-48257c5c.00297...@sg.ibm.com, on 01/10/2014 at 03:30 PM, Timothy Sipples sipp...@sg.ibm.com said: Somehow I'm reminded of the save two characters impulse which then caused a lot of angst in preparing for Y2K. The situations are not comparable. With

Re: Subject Unicode

2014-01-12 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In bay177-w36d24c9a61f3b6464b4992f2...@phx.gbl, on 01/10/2014 at 09:36 AM, Harry Wahl harry_w...@hotmail.com said: You could use the BOM UTF characters There are none. U+FEFF ZERO WIDTH NO-BREAK SPACE is a Unicode character. usually inserted transparently at the beginning of a UTF file.

Re: Subject Unicode

2014-01-12 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 9931357931112854.wa.paulgboulderaim@listserv.ua.edu, on 01/10/2014 at 08:41 AM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com said: Notepad? What's that? Perhaps some obsolete predecessor of Wordpad? No, it's a superior version of wordpad. HTH. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and

Re: Subject Unicode

2014-01-12 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In CAE1XxDHn0wgwJpm+cNLSdzv=ccvoz1u5o6em7xwxnqs4u0z...@mail.gmail.com, on 01/10/2014 at 09:50 AM, John Gilmore jwgli...@gmail.com said: As soon, however, as you need to support o three or more different roman-alphabet natural languages, or o a roman-alphabet language and a non-alphabetic

Re: Subject Unicode

2014-01-12 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In CAE1XxDHBJRiuFH7N-031xdJ3DUnO6QyG-=otde8fvnc-uyv...@mail.gmail.com, on 01/10/2014 at 11:02 AM, John Gilmore jwgli...@gmail.com said: The problem is not one of representability but of subset choice. There is no problem of subset choice, because use of UTF-8 does not imply a proper subset

Re: z/OS Job Opening

2014-01-12 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 9E263B5EE73E4E06BF755F95CEA935E8@barryf93b83d71, on 01/10/2014 at 10:22 AM, retired mainframer retired-mainfra...@q.com said: I don't know anything about the recruiting firm or their customer. I don't know about the customer, but SPCI has been around for decades. -- Shmuel (Seymour

Re: Subject Unicode

2014-01-12 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In cae1xxdgwscr+ffp13_rperg4jmkferdgp4f6sxtz7v48o4g...@mail.gmail.com, on 01/10/2014 at 01:28 PM, John Gilmore jwgli...@gmail.com said: Briefly, effective rules for encoding any 'character' recognized as a Unicode one as a 'longer' UTF-8 one do not in general exist. What are you drinking? RFC

Re: Mainframe culture question - how display a tab character?

2014-01-12 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 03f701cf0e3c$d1a371d0$74ea5570$@mcn.org, on 01/10/2014 at 11:47 AM, Charles Mills charl...@mcn.org said: MS Word would say FOO^tBAR. Have you reported the bug? That should be FOO^9BAR. Parm2=FOOtabBAR I'd go with that. Parm2=FOO^tBAR That would be flat wrong. -- Shmuel

Re: Subject Unicode

2014-01-12 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 20140110195944.3d5f333...@panix2.panix.com, on 01/10/2014 at 02:59 PM, Don Poitras poit...@pobox.com said: As far as 3270 goes, I think it's just going to us the CODEPAGE and CHARSET you start ISPF with. I think it's going to be limited to the set of EBCDIC code pages. As this is the first

Re: Mainframe culture question - how display a tab character?

2014-01-12 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In ofe902f58f.ddd660b4-on88257c5c.006d8c43-88257c5c.006e4...@sce.com, on 01/10/2014 at 12:04 PM, Skip Robinson jo.skip.robin...@sce.com said: An intriguing question in view of the absence of tabs in the conventional EBCDIC character set. What absence? HT is and always has been '05'X. VT is

Re: Mainframe culture question - how display a tab character?

2014-01-12 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 043101cf0e4c$7944d050$6bce70f0$@mcn.org, on 01/10/2014 at 01:39 PM, Charles Mills charl...@mcn.org said: Both my aging Yellow Card Yello? That's the new card. HT should be on the older green card as well. And, in fact, it is: thank you, bitsavers. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz,

Re: Mainframe culture question - how display a tab character?

2014-01-12 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 044601cf0e4d$b4be3a30$1e3aae90$@mcn.org, on 01/10/2014 at 01:48 PM, Charles Mills charl...@mcn.org said: It occurs to me that what may be meant is the absence of control-character-based formatting in mainframe usage. On UNIX and Windows systems, fields are often delimited by tabs Making the

Re: Subject Unicode (Also email. Also TAB.)

2014-01-12 Thread Bernd Oppolzer
Two short additions: first: Regards in the 4th paragraph is a sort of typo, should read Regarding second: from the moment on when we terminated to exchange files by paper tape, we should have stopped to put tabs into files from that same moment on - if not before. My opinion ... Kind regards

Re: Subject Unicode (Also email. Also TAB.)

2014-01-12 Thread Ted MacNEIL
you have the problem to decide what tab positions this file is meant to have, and you always have to guess, and it's wrong most of the time, and the result looks awful Your solution would also look awful with proportional text. - Ted MacNEIL eamacn...@yahoo.ca Twitter: @TedMacNEIL

Re: Subject Unicode (Also email. Also TAB.)

2014-01-12 Thread Bernd Oppolzer
Am 12.01.2014 19:10, schrieb Ted MacNEIL: you have the problem to decide what tab positions this file is meant to have, and you always have to guess, and it's wrong most of the time, and the result looks awful Your solution would also look awful with proportional text. My focus is on source

Re: Re : Uploading to z/OS SMPNTS

2014-01-12 Thread Jim Thomas
Sir, Thank you for your direction. Kind Regards. Jim Thomas -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Saturday, January 11, 2014 6:43 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Re : Uploading to z/OS

Re: Subject Unicode (Also email. Also TAB.)

2014-01-12 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Sun, 12 Jan 2014 18:59:25 +0100, Bernd Oppolzer wrote: second: from the moment on when we terminated to exchange files by paper tape, we should have stopped to put tabs into files from that same moment on - if not before. My opinion ... Why? Where else would you keep them? Regards tabs

Re: Re : Uploading to z/OS SMPNTS

2014-01-12 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Sun, 12 Jan 2014 12:37:20 -0600, Jim Thomas wrote: Thank you for your direction. You're welcome. Glad to put aside my pedant's hat and help, however briely. But did it help? It's a complicated topic with many correct answers competing to be the best in any particular environment. That

Re: Authorized ISPF command Failure

2014-01-12 Thread retired mainframer
Is it linked AC(1)? Is it in a library that is APF authorized? :: -Original Message- :: From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On :: Behalf Of MichealButz :: Sent: Saturday, January 11, 2014 11:11 PM :: To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU :: Subject: Authorized

Re: Subject Unicode

2014-01-12 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Sun, 12 Jan 2014 10:45:23 -0500, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: Notepad? What's that? Perhaps some obsolete predecessor of Wordpad? No, it's a superior version of wordpad. HTH. Doesn't understand UNIX line breaks. For me that's a deal breaker. -- gil

Re: Authorized ISPF command Failure

2014-01-12 Thread Micheal Butz
Yes to all should work ? Sent from my iPhone On Jan 12, 2014, at 4:19 PM, retired mainframer retired-mainfra...@q.com wrote: Is it linked AC(1)? Is it in a library that is APF authorized? :: -Original Message- :: From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List

Re: Subject Unicode

2014-01-12 Thread Kirk Wolf
On Linux gedit works fine, on Windows I use Notepad++ which handles Unix eols and UTF-8 Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 3:28 PM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.comwrote: On Sun, 12 Jan 2014 10:45:23 -0500, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote:

Re: Subject Unicode (Also email. Also TAB.)

2014-01-12 Thread John Gilmore
Tabs are useful for formatting input text. I use tab settings of 10, 16. 35, and 72 for HLASM source formatting; but I will not use a text editor that does not---optionally for those who have other preferences---replace tabs with blanks during save/storage operations. Bernd and I are thus in

Re: Subject Unicode

2014-01-12 Thread Kirk Wolf
BTW, Notepad++ is not only free/open source, but it also has the goal of preventing Global Warming :-) http://notepad-plus-plus.org/ .. while at the same time likes to show off: http://notepad-plus-plus.org/features/column-mode-editing.html Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies

Re: Subject Unicode

2014-01-12 Thread John Gilmore
I don't generally respond to Shmuel's animadversions. This time, however, he has crossed the line of civilized behavior. His experience with Unicode appears to be limited to attentive reading of its defining documents. Its implementations are, unsurprisingly, imperfect. In particular the

Re: Authorized ISPF command Failure

2014-01-12 Thread DanD
Is this an ISPF dialog or is it just a command processor invoked while in ISPF? Does it work as expected from READY? Dan -Original Message- From: Micheal Butz Sent: Sunday, January 12, 2014 4:36 PM Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Subject: Re: Authorized ISPF command Failure Yes

Re: Authorized ISPF command Failure

2014-01-12 Thread Micheal Butz
The latter TSO Command from ISR@PRIM I believe is the Panel name. Sent from my iPhone On Jan 12, 2014, at 6:11 PM, DanD mvs-j...@sympatico.ca wrote: Is this an ISPF dialog or is it just a command processor invoked while in ISPF? Does it work as expected from READY? Dan

Re: Subject Unicode

2014-01-12 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Sun, 12 Jan 2014 15:48:49 -0600, Kirk Wolf wrote: On Linux gedit works fine, on Windows I use Notepad++ which handles Unix eols and UTF-8 You mean I don't have to wait for Windows 14!? Thanks! Does it do UNIX eols on in put *and* output? Wordpad only does the former. Thanks again, gil

Re: Authorized ISPF command Failure

2014-01-12 Thread retired mainframer
After you updated IKJTSO00, did you refresh TSO with the PARMLIB command? Any chance that adding the command processor caused the library to grow into a new extent? :: -Original Message- :: From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On :: Behalf Of Micheal Butz

Re: Subject Unicode

2014-01-12 Thread Bernd Oppolzer
Some words about editors, tabs, eolchar, eofchar. The editor which I like most does the following: - read files that have CRLF eols or LF eols - output files with CRLF or LF, controlled by an editor setting - output an EOF char, if desired (0x1a); most of the time, I don't want it - allow

Re: z/OS 1.13 PTF apply Issue

2014-01-12 Thread retired mainframer
LINKLST datasets that occupy secondary extents at IPL time do not suffer from this problem. It only arises if the dataset grows into a NEW extent after the IPL. The problem arises then because the LINKLST DEB was built when the LINKLST was defined and any attempt by LLA to access the new extent

Re: z/OS 1.13 PTF apply Issue

2014-01-12 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
At 16:19 -0800 on 01/12/2014, retired mainframer wrote about Re: z/OS 1.13 PTF apply Issue: LINKLST datasets that occupy secondary extents at IPL time do not suffer from this problem. It only arises if the dataset grows into a NEW extent after the IPL. The problem arises then because the

Re: Mainframe culture question - how display a tab character?

2014-01-12 Thread Timothy Sipples
Do you get 3270 extended attributes to play with -- notably reverse video -- when WTOing? If so, that'd be darn useful. Timothy Sipples GMU VCT Architect Executive (Based in Singapore) E-Mail:

Re: Authorized ISPF command Failure

2014-01-12 Thread Ed Jaffe
On 1/11/2014 11:11 PM, MichealButz wrote: Authorized command 'SPSWT'. Return code = 20. Reason code = 56. ISPD250 Invocation error - System error encountered invoking authorized command 'SPSWT'. Does it work when invoked from READY? -- Edward E Jaffe Phoenix Software International, Inc 831