Re: John's spare time ... Job Scheduler Programmer Architect?

On Wed, 7 Jun 2017 01:33:45 +, Rob Schramm wrote: >Nice > >On Tue, Jun 6, 2017, 9:19 PM Andrew Rowley wrote: >> call bpxwunix 'sort',in.,out.,stderr. >> Great minds think alike: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/blogs/MartinPacker/entry/bpxwunix_z_os_best_kept_secret10?lang=zh

Re: "New" Java-less Operating System Messages blips like crazy

On 7/06/2017 1:43 AM, Ed Jaffe wrote: On 6/6/2017 10:04 AM, Mark Zelden wrote: On Tue, 6 Jun 2017 12:44:28 -0400, Tony Harminc wrote: Is it not bizarre that in 2017 we are still dealing with systems that "don't work right" with one browser or another? I mean, seriously...

Rexx SORT (was: ... Job Scheduler ... )

On Wed, 7 Jun 2017 00:33:30 +, Rob Schramm wrote: >Address SORT > >is more what I was thinking. It is just such a commonly needed thing for >simple sorts i.e. >SORT 1 8 a > I'm guessing the arguments are a column range and Ascending? >Guess I am just lazy/annoyed when it comes to things

Re: "New" Java-less Operating System Messages blips like crazy

Don't forget EPIC browser... On Wed, Jun 7, 2017 at 3:47 AM, Ed Jaffe wrote: > On 6/6/2017 10:43 AM, Ed Jaffe wrote: > >> >> We test (E)JES Web with current releases of Chrome, Firefox, Opera, >> Safari, and IE. We also test with IE8 because it's a different animal

Re: John's spare time ... Job Scheduler Programmer Architect?

Nice On Tue, Jun 6, 2017, 9:19 PM Andrew Rowley wrote: > On 7/06/2017 10:33 AM, Rob Schramm wrote: > > Address SORT > > > > is more what I was thinking. It is just such a commonly needed thing > for > > simple sorts i.e. > > SORT 1 8 a > > > I have sorted Rexx

Re: John's spare time ... Job Scheduler Programmer Architect?

On 7/06/2017 10:33 AM, Rob Schramm wrote: Address SORT is more what I was thinking. It is just such a commonly needed thing for simple sorts i.e. SORT 1 8 a I have sorted Rexx stems using calls to omvs sort before. It was a long time ago, but I think it was something like call bpxwunix

Re: Effect of SET PROG=xx

On 5/16/2017 5:46 AM, Charles Mills wrote: only dumb developers I like you too, Tom. I thought we were friends. Perhaps he was referring to the IBM developers that made MVS SET commands sometimes work additively and sometimes as full replacement. LOL -- Edward E Jaffe Phoenix Software

Re: CSSMTP Startup Failure

And gals too. You know what I mean. :) -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: CSSMTP Startup Failure

Thanks to all who responded. It was indeed Apar OA48941 for Unicode services. I found it doing a Google search before getting back to the listserv. I have applied the fix to our Test LPAR and CSSMTP will now start correctly. Prior to last Sunday, we had not IPL'ed our production LPAR since

Re: John's spare time ... Job Scheduler Programmer Architect?

Address SORT is more what I was thinking. It is just such a commonly needed thing for simple sorts i.e. SORT 1 8 a Guess I am just lazy/annoyed when it comes to things that I think should be provided. Rob On Tue, Jun 6, 2017, 6:38 PM Paul Gilmartin <

Re: How to call VS COBOL II RES program from COBOL V5.2-enabled assembler?

On 30 May 2017 at 20:44, Farley, Peter x23353 wrote: > I can call the VS COBOL II RES program multiple times if I first LOAD and > call IGZERRE once (the LE version from CEE.SCEERUN), but > using IGZERRE and CEEPIPI together is not allowed either according to the >

Re: How to call VS COBOL II RES program from COBOL V5.2-enabled

assembler? >EXEC PGM=ASM1 (LOAD and CALL)--> VSCOB2RES >Also:;ASM1 (LOAD and CALL via CEEPIPI)--> eCOBOL52 >Two different CAL's in one top-level assembler program to COBOL programs >compiled with different COBOL compilers. Either or both COBOL programs may >be called multiple times in one

Re: CSSMTP Startup Failure

On 6 June 2017 at 17:38, Jesse 1 Robinson wrote: > That APAR may look enticing, but it's pretty unlikely. Some data/time field > in Unicode turned all zero in late 2015. Anyone who IPLed after > that moment in time would get Unicode initialization failure. I doubt that

Re: John's spare time ... Job Scheduler Programmer Architect?

On Tue, 6 Jun 2017 15:19:36 -0400, Tony Harminc wrote: > >> o Rexx has no form of instream data ("here-docments"). > >Sourceline() is a common approach to what I think you mean by instream >data. It's often used to keep Help data within the exec. > Indeed, I've used it that way. It saves many

Re: CSSMTP Startup Failure

That APAR may look enticing, but it's pretty unlikely. Some data/time field in Unicode turned all zero in late 2015. Anyone who IPLed after that moment in time would get Unicode initialization failure. I doubt that OP has avoided IPL all this time unless it's a very infrequently used LPAR. . .

Re: CSSMTP Startup Failure

On 2017-06-06 14:58, Vinson Lee wrote: We're still on z/OS 1.13 and just IPL'ed. The CSSMTP started task won't come up and we're getting this: EZD1807I CSSMTP ERROR IN INITIALIZATION : CONFIGURATION FILE ERRORS We also see this in the log: CSSMTP INFO :001:mlCfgOpenSocket:IPv4 socket

Re: CSSMTP Startup Failure

Look further back in the IPL SYSLOG and confirm that UNICODE services were successfully initialized. > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] > On Behalf Of Lizette Koehler > Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2017 12:58 PM > To:

Re: CSSMTP Startup Failure

If you do not get an good answers, You might try joining the TCPIP list and ask there as well TCPIP To subscribe, send mail to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the command (paste it!) in the e-mail message body: SUBSCRIBE IBMTCP-L Or this url and go to the bottom of the

Re: "New" Java-less Operating System Messages blips like crazy

There would be two places to point your finger: 1) HTML (etc) generators that don't serve standards-compliant HTML (etc). 2) Browsers that don't play nice with standards-compliant HTML (etc). I wonder which of these it is this time. (It could be both.) Cheers, Martin Sent from my iPad > On

Re: John's spare time ... Job Scheduler Programmer Architect?

On 6 June 2017 at 14:53, Paul Gilmartin <000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > o Rexx has no form of instream data ("here-docments"). Sourceline() is a common approach to what I think you mean by instream data. It's often used to keep Help data within the exec. Tony H.

CSSMTP Startup Failure

We're still on z/OS 1.13 and just IPL'ed. The CSSMTP started task won't come up and we're getting this: EZD1807I CSSMTP ERROR IN INITIALIZATION : CONFIGURATION FILE ERRORS We also see this in the log: CSSMTP INFO :001:mlCfgOpenSocket:IPv4 socket successfully open/closed

Re: John's spare time ... Job Scheduler Programmer Architect?

>>> (E.g coding dozens of lines of DFSORT commands where a single "grep" would suffice.) Paul, I am not sure why DFSORT is dragged into this topic, but you don't have to code dozens of DFSORT commands. I always believe in using the right utility for the job. Scheduling jobs is not something

Re: John's spare time ... Job Scheduler Programmer Architect?

On Tue, 6 Jun 2017 18:08:54 +, Rob Schramm wrote: >That is one surprising thing about Rexx and sort.. that Rexx doesn't have >built in support to call sort without a rigamarole. > This is true of Rexx vis-a-vis many common utilities. Sources of the surprise: o Rexx has no construct to

Re: "New" Java-less Operating System Messages blips like crazy

Our experience is exactly how Bart summed it up. For us, this usually happends during the early NIP messages when loading an image, and already having the Operation System Messages window open. The only way to fix this seems to close and re-open the window. I will follow John Eells advice and

Re: John's spare time ... Job Scheduler Programmer Architect?

That is one surprising thing about Rexx and sort.. that Rexx doesn't have built in support to call sort without a rigamarole. Rob On Tue, Jun 6, 2017, 1:29 PM John McKown wrote: > On Tue, Jun 6, 2017 at 11:55 AM, Paul Gilmartin < >

Re: "New" Java-less Operating System Messages blips like crazy

On 6/6/2017 10:43 AM, Ed Jaffe wrote: We test (E)JES Web with current releases of Chrome, Firefox, Opera, Safari, and IE. We also test with IE8 because it's a different animal and requires special code to make things work right... Oops. Forgot we added Edge to our test suite last year. So,

Re: "New" Java-less Operating System Messages blips like crazy

On 6/6/2017 10:04 AM, Mark Zelden wrote: On Tue, 6 Jun 2017 12:44:28 -0400, Tony Harminc wrote: Is it not bizarre that in 2017 we are still dealing with systems that "don't work right" with one browser or another? I mean, seriously... I agree 100%.But I also find it

Re: "New" Java-less Operating System Messages blips like crazy

I get a scrolling issue that I don't think has been mentioned, sorry if I missed it. I'm using FF and EC12 When I open the window and don't yet have more than a page worth of messages (and thus no scroll bar) and then issue commands (example, a couple of 'D A,L' commands) the message area

Re: John's spare time ... Job Scheduler Programmer Architect?

On Tue, Jun 6, 2017 at 11:55 AM, Paul Gilmartin < 000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > On Tue, 6 Jun 2017 06:44:25 -0400, John Eells wrote: > >> > >> ... I expect to be informed of deficiencies of crontab, but at least > it's there. > > > > > >Why do you think crontab is

Design Partnership Program for C/C++ compilers on z

Design Partnership Program for C/C++ compilers on z: We are trying to better understand z/OS C/C++ client needs and have an on-going two-way communication to receive feedback on priorities and deliveries. Would you or some of your colleagues be interested in participating? You'd be helping to

Re: "New" Java-less Operating System Messages blips like crazy

On Tue, 6 Jun 2017 12:04:21 -0500, Mark Zelden wrote: >On Tue, 6 Jun 2017 12:44:28 -0400, Tony Harminc wrote: > >I agree 100%.But I also find it bizarre that developers don't test with >both of what I at least consider to be the 2 major players. ... > Chrome, Firefox,

Re: How to call VS COBOL II RES program from COBOL V5.2-enabled assembler?

Can anyone on the list answer my questions? If not I will have to open a ticket with IBM, and that takes time. I would really appreciate any answers you can provide sooner than I can get answers from IBM. If anyone is in contact with Tom Ross at IBM, please ask him to chime in here. Peter

Re: Old Oses

It was the first VM we ran on our P370, but that P370 is long, long, long gone. SP6 was brand new. Everyone else was running SP5. It came with a full set of printed manuals with custom vinyl binders. For some reason IBM shipped us two sets. The shipping must have cost more than the license.

Re: "New" Java-less Operating System Messages blips like crazy

On Tue, 6 Jun 2017 10:49:47 -0400, Tom Conley wrote: > >> It varies between browsers, I believe. >> Chrome 55.0.2883.87 seems to play nicely - perhaps nicer - but IE >> 11.0.9600.18665 is definitely not happy. > >Thanks for this, it 'splains a lot. I'm using that level of IE, but I >can't use

Re: "New" Java-less Operating System Messages blips like crazy

On Tue, 6 Jun 2017 12:44:28 -0400, Tony Harminc wrote: >On 6 June 2017 at 12:23, Mark Zelden wrote: >> Before I started my reply I intended to write that I was using Firefox, but >> forgot >> to mention it. I've been using FF for HMC access since zEC12 (I

Re: "New" Java-less Operating System Messages blips like crazy

On 2017-06-06 12:44, Tony Harminc wrote: Is it not bizarre that in 2017 we are still dealing with systems that "don't work right" with one browser or another? I mean, seriously... Tony H. And funny how often the browser that won't display a site correctly comes from Redmond. It's unfortunate

Old Oses

blockquote, div.yahoo_quoted { margin-left: 0 !important; border-left:1px #715FFA solid !important; padding-left:1ex !important; background-color:white !important; } Guys, Does anyone is running an old VMSP Release 6? RegardsDan Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone

Re: John's spare time ... Job Scheduler Programmer Architect?

Kirk Wolf wrote: On Tue, Jun 6, 2017 at 5:44 AM, John Eells wrote: Why do you think crontab is "not there" in z/OS? Oh but it is: https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSLTBW_1.13.0/com.ibm.zos.r13.bpxa500/crondmon.htm Precisely my point! -- John Eells IBM

Re: John's spare time ... Job Scheduler Programmer Architect?

The link references the Unix command, cron, that runs under Unix System services, so you can schedule Unix commands, which could issue JES2/STC/TSO... commands from there. Personally I recommend SCHEDRUN from the CBT Tape, which uses JES2 auto commands to issue MVS commands. Al Nims UFIT

Re: John's spare time ... Job Scheduler Programmer Architect?

On Tue, 6 Jun 2017 06:44:25 -0400, John Eells wrote: >> >> ... I expect to be informed of deficiencies of crontab, but at least it's >> there. > > >Why do you think crontab is "not there" in z/OS? > I'm aware that it's there, although only recently (from my perspective). I don't know that it

Re: John's spare time ... Job Scheduler Programmer Architect?

On Tue, 6 Jun 2017 06:44:25 -0400, John Eells wrote: >Paul Gilmartin wrote: >> On Mon, 5 Jun 2017 22:52:30 +, Rob Schramm wrote: >> >>> Serious topic swing.. making a new thread. Isn't there a free-ish or CBT >>> tape Job Scheduler? >>> >> I've always thought it strange

Re: "New" Java-less Operating System Messages blips like crazy

On 6 June 2017 at 12:23, Mark Zelden wrote: > Before I started my reply I intended to write that I was using Firefox, but > forgot > to mention it. I've been using FF for HMC access since zEC12 (I forgot what > HMC version - 2.12 perhaps) because the IE on my work laptop

Re: John's spare time ... Job Scheduler Programmer Architect?

Time for me to hit the JES2 manual to see what's there. Are there any presentations on it? Rob On Tue, Jun 6, 2017, 11:59 AM Kirk Wolf wrote: > On Tue, Jun 6, 2017 at 5:44 AM, John Eells wrote: > > > > > Why do you think crontab is "not there" in z/OS? >

Re: "New" Java-less Operating System Messages blips like crazy

On Tue, 6 Jun 2017 10:49:51 -0500, Mark Zelden wrote: >On Tue, 6 Jun 2017 10:42:25 -0400, Tom Conley >wrote: > >>On 6/6/2017 8:48 AM, John Eells wrote: >>> The HMC architect was not aware of this; he'd be thankful if someone >>> opened a problem

Re: John's spare time ... Job Scheduler Programmer Architect?

On Tue, Jun 6, 2017 at 5:44 AM, John Eells wrote: > > Why do you think crontab is "not there" in z/OS? > > Oh but it is: https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSLTBW_1.13.0/com.ibm.zos.r13.bpxa500/crondmon.htm

Re: John's spare time ... Job Scheduler Programmer Architect?

Things appear to be changing. Tom Wasik has presented several sessions at recent SHARE meetings on native job scheduling functions being incorporated into JES2. I'm not sure that Tom actually said so, but I imagine that this function is aimed at JES3 shops who are reluctant to convert to JES2.

Re: "New" Java-less Operating System Messages blips like crazy

Just like to point out that for as long as I can remember, IBM has referred to HMC Op Sys Msg app as 'problem determination mode'. You even get a warning message in MVS when it's been active for any length of time. OTOH I have to admit that it looks very different now from the last time I used

Re: LE QuestionT

In-line. Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of scott Ford Sent: Tuesday, June 6, 2017 7:06 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: LE QuestionT > I need some help understanding LE and Cobol. I ran our Cobol STC

Re: "New" Java-less Operating System Messages blips like crazy

Classification: Public I can't really use FF officially, but I have an very old portable version lying around (37.0.2), and it seems fine on that too. Andy Styles z/Series Systems Programmer -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On

Re: "New" Java-less Operating System Messages blips like crazy

I just activated the HMC console on a PROD LPAR, console message flow rate is very fast, but seems to scroll nicely for a GUI display Carmen - Original Message - From: "Carmen Vitullo" To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Sent: Tuesday, June 6, 2017 9:50:42 AM

Re: "New" Java-less Operating System Messages blips like crazy

On my Z13s Hardware Management Console (Version 2.13.1) I.E. 11.0.09 the console messages seem to pop up, mouse moment over the console area highlights different parts of the console, I.E, I enter D A,L and the display on mouse over gets highlighted Carmen - Original Message -

Re: "New" Java-less Operating System Messages blips like crazy

On 6/6/2017 10:45 AM, Styles, Andy , ITS zPlatform Services wrote: Classification: Public It varies between browsers, I believe. Chrome 55.0.2883.87 seems to play nicely - perhaps nicer - but IE 11.0.9600.18665 is definitely not happy. Andy Styles z/Series Systems Programmer Andy, Thanks

Re: "New" Java-less Operating System Messages blips like crazy

Classification: Public It varies between browsers, I believe. Chrome 55.0.2883.87 seems to play nicely - perhaps nicer - but IE 11.0.9600.18665 is definitely not happy. Andy Styles z/Series Systems Programmer -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List

Re: "New" Java-less Operating System Messages blips like crazy

On 6/6/2017 8:48 AM, John Eells wrote: The HMC architect was not aware of this; he'd be thankful if someone opened a problem (PMH) for it. John, It's kinda hard to miss. Our hardware guy is out for a few days, so I'll get a hardware PMR to you early next week. We're on an EC12. Let me

Re: LE QuestionT

There a several presentations in SHARE.ORG for LE HEAP information. Perhaps they can be of help to you Lizette > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On > Behalf Of scott Ford > Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2017 7:06 AM > To:

Re: John's spare time ... Job Scheduler Programmer Architect?

>> I've always thought it strange that OS/360 ... z/OS never had a scheduler built-in; >It did. Stack a deck in the reader, Every job card as the next job Thanks guys, I actually LOL'd -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff /

LE QuestionT

All: I need some help understanding LE and Cobol. I ran our Cobol STC with RPT options and STG options on, i see a large like 700K Heap size. My first question is where does LE place the HEAP ( what Subpool ) ? Secondly, is that HEAP storage freed anytime during the running of a STC written in

Re: John's spare time ... Job Scheduler Programmer Architect?

Looking on your website I cannot see downloads for other than z/OS or Windows. Where is the one for Linux and does it work within the Linux platform for job scheduling ? On 06/06/17 13:20, Clem Clarke wrote: Tim, You might like to look at Jol's Networking Facility. Jol is an English

Re: "New" Java-less Operating System Messages blips like crazy

The HMC architect was not aware of this; he'd be thankful if someone opened a problem (PMH) for it. Ronald Kristel wrote: We have been experiecing the same issue. Never reported it as a RFE/PMR because we expected it to be more a "local internet browser" issue then a HMC issue. We tend to

Re: John's spare time ... Job Scheduler Programmer Architect?

Tim, You might like to look at Jol's Networking Facility. Jol is an English like enhancement language for Z/OS. It also works on Windows, Linux and OS/2. The main Jol Website is here: www.Jol-Oscar.com Re Jol Networking: You can see the documentation here, with pictorial representations of

Re: John's spare time ... Job Scheduler Programmer Architect?

Paul Gilmartin wrote: On Mon, 5 Jun 2017 22:52:30 +, Rob Schramm wrote: Serious topic swing.. making a new thread. Isn't there a free-ish or CBT tape Job Scheduler? I've always thought it strange that OS/360 ... z/OS never had one built-in; something that's routine on other OSes

Re: Strange issue in ISPF edit

>Just in case it is not clear: ISPF Profiles are stored per last qualifier. To be entirely correct: ISPF edit profiles are stored per RECM-LRECL-LLQ combination. Also, the number of profiles kept is limited, default is 25. The least used profile is deleted first, when a new combination in

Re: "New" Java-less Operating System Messages blips like crazy

We are not on z13s yet, but we've been using the Javascript version for a few months now on EC12s, and it's generally okay - we do get the NIP messages okay, recently we had to reply to some when we mucked up some page datasets. I agree it blips sometimes, but I've put that down to the browser

Re: "New" Java-less Operating System Messages blips like crazy

>I'm trying to use the new Java-less Operating System Messages console on >the HMC. My version is Blippy McBlipperson, which makes it extremely >difficult to use, because you can't watch it. As new messages are sent >to the console, the display collapses and expands at least 10x/sec. >Anybody

Re: Strange issue in ISPF edit

Just in case it is not clear: ISPF Profiles are stored per last qualifier. Kees. > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On > Behalf Of Dana Mitchell > Sent: 02 June, 2017 21:57 > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: Strange

Re: John's spare time ... Job Scheduler Programmer Architect?

As some other examples, DB2 for z/OS has a task scheduler: https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSEPEK_12.0.0/admin/src/tpc/db2z_taskschedulerarchitecture.html z/OS is UNIX(TM), and of course z/OS UNIX System Services includes cron. Here's an article describing how to use it: