Re: Searching the archives.

2018-08-20 Thread Vernooij, Kees (ITOPT1) - KLM
>From https://listserv.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html I select "Search the >archives" and search for "system symbols" since "1 jan 2018". It did work well earlier this year. Kees. > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On > Behalf Of

Re: Funny characters in CPAC.PARMLIB(HZSPRM00)

2018-08-20 Thread Wayne Bickerdike
Nearest thing in Oz are possumy characters. Tails aren't as bushy though. On Tue, Aug 21, 2018 at 9:25 AM Paul Gilmartin < 000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > On Mon, 20 Aug 2018 21:00:06 +, Jesse 1 Robinson wrote: > > >In chasing down an anomaly in Health Checker, I dis

IBM Announcing New DS8882F Enterprise Storage

2018-08-20 Thread Timothy Sipples
I'd like to draw your attention to a new, high performance IBM Z and IBM LinuxONE attachable storage system: the IBM DS8882F. Details here: https://developer.ibm.com/storage/2018/08/13/new-ds8882f-big-value-smaller-package/ The DS8882F is a full fledged member of the IBM DS8880 series, with the s

TESTAUTH BRANCH=XM ?

2018-08-20 Thread Tony Harminc
(I'm speaking of the MVS macro, and not the TSO command.) BRANCH=XM appears to be undocumented, though it's been in the macro for 15 years. It seems to surround the function of TESTAUTH FCTN=1 with a change to home space mode and back, so that presumably relevant MVS control blocks such as the JSC

Re: Funny characters in CPAC.PARMLIB(HZSPRM00)

2018-08-20 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Mon, 20 Aug 2018 21:00:06 +, Jesse 1 Robinson wrote: >In chasing down an anomaly in Health Checker, I discovered two squirrelly >characters in CPAC.PARMLIB(HZSPRM00) > >.,ACTIVE/INACTIVE+ > Indicates the target check(s) are ACTIVE or > INACTIVE. > >The odd characters here are x'BA' (l

Re: Funny characters in CPAC.PARMLIB(HZSPRM00)

2018-08-20 Thread Jesse 1 Robinson
Got it with input from various folks including Tom Brennan. My terminal was set to '3278T' (Type 6), which I had never noticed or had occasion to question. Changed to '3278' (Type 3). Along with Code Page 37 (already set), that worked. Thanks to all! . . J.O.Skip Robinson Southern California Ed

Re: Funny characters in CPAC.PARMLIB(HZSPRM00)

2018-08-20 Thread Roland Fernandez
Skip, My emulator was set to 1047-Latin and it displayed the same squirrely characters. Updating to 037-US now displays them as proper brackets. Thanks, Roland Fernandez Pacific Life -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archi

Re: Funny characters in CPAC.PARMLIB(HZSPRM00)

2018-08-20 Thread Chris Hoelscher
So they weren't squirrelly characters, just .. squarely characters Chris Hoelscher Technology Architect, Database Infrastructure Services Technology Solution Services Humana Inc. 123 East Main Street Louisville, KY 40202 Humana.com (502) 476-2538 or 407-7266 -Original Message- From:

Re: Funny characters in CPAC.PARMLIB(HZSPRM00)

2018-08-20 Thread Tony Harminc
On 20 August 2018 at 17:00, Jesse 1 Robinson wrote: > In chasing down an anomaly in Health Checker, I discovered two squirrelly > characters in CPAC.PARMLIB(HZSPRM00) > > .,ACTIVE/INACTIVE+ >Indicates the target check(s) are ACTIVE or >INACTIVE. > > The odd characters here are x'BA' (look

Funny characters in CPAC.PARMLIB(HZSPRM00)

2018-08-20 Thread Jesse 1 Robinson
In chasing down an anomaly in Health Checker, I discovered two squirrelly characters in CPAC.PARMLIB(HZSPRM00) .,ACTIVE/INACTIVE+ Indicates the target check(s) are ACTIVE or INACTIVE. The odd characters here are x'BA' (looks like a triangle pointing down) and x'BB' (looks like right angle

Re: JES2 Spool Data Set Browse (SDSB) sample

2018-08-20 Thread Peter Ten Eyck
I have written some REXX to inventory all running jobs and STCs on a given LPAR and search for certain messages in the JESMSGLG DD for each job/STC. This Redbook provided helpful examples: Implementing REXX Support in SDSF. --

Re: FYI: IEEE Survey Ranks Programming Languages

2018-08-20 Thread Jack J. Woehr
On 8/20/2018 9:49 AM, Nightwatch RenBand wrote: Doesn't this nicely prove how worthless such surveys are? "There is a special place in hell reserved for those who create sloppy surveys, who have polluted the software developer industry with absolute noise and nonsense over many years now." -

Re: Searching the archives.

2018-08-20 Thread Edward Finnell
First glimpse I thought the indexes were busted, but going to listserv.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html everything looks OK. Subj and Authors by date. The curious thing is if I go to Search Archives first get no hits on Subj or Author search. However if I select a month to view and then tab over to

Re: Searching the archives.

2018-08-20 Thread Lizette Koehler
Which URL are you using? There are two and one is for a much older archive. Could you show us your search keywords and where you are entering them? General MVS IBM-Mainhttps://listserv.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html IBM-MAIN Archives 1986-2004 (834 Subscribers) https://listserv.ua.edu/

Re: JES2 Spool Data Set Browse (SDSB) sample

2018-08-20 Thread Kirk Wolf
We use DALUASSR instead of DALSSREQ, since it doesn't required APF authorization. On Sun, Aug 19, 2018 at 4:14 PM, Charles Mills wrote: > I did not know/think that DALSSREQ was optional. > Certainly the name is unique and is not a cataloged DSN. > > CharlesSent from a mobile; please excuse the b

Re: FYI: IEEE Survey Ranks Programming Languages

2018-08-20 Thread Nightwatch RenBand
> Doesn't this nicely prove how worthless such surveys are? Go ask the same question to the mainframe community, and you will get a completely different ranking. Go ask the same question to the app programmer community, and you will get a completely different ranking. >Peter Hunkeler Please e

Re: Question ABout ISPF Panels

2018-08-20 Thread Larry Zuckett
Hi Paul, You can also do this form of the execute if you don't want it defined in the SYSEXEC concatenation: &C1 = UPPER(C1) VER (&C1 NONBLANK LIST,OPT3,OPT4) if (&C1 = 'OPT3') &ZSEL = 'CMD(EX '

Re: Question ABout ISPF Panels

2018-08-20 Thread Larry Zuckett
Hi ESSTEAM, If you are are using Options on your panel, then you can set &ZCMD to the rexx or clist routine you would like to execute. )Body width(80) expand(\\) %--\-\-- %--\-\

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: does anyone remember a program called BLKTAPE?

2018-08-20 Thread Dyck, Lionel B. (RavenTek)
What about using TAPEMAP from CBT file 299 to see the characteristics of the tape, then read it BLP and copy it into a disk file to clean up. -- Lionel B. Dyck (Contractor) < Mainframe Systems Programmer – RavenTek Solution

Re: does anyone remember a program called BLKTAPE?

2018-08-20 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Mon, 20 Aug 2018 07:42:04 -0500, Dave Jones wrote: >This will deblock a BLOCKTAP tape into its original format: >PIPE tape | deblock vb | > tape outfile a >if you have CMS Pipelines available. > Couldn't one then just FILEDEF ... RECFM VB and read it directly? (How could one have CMS but

Re: IBM support pages gone?

2018-08-20 Thread Mike Schwab
Clear your cache? On Mon, Aug 20, 2018 at 4:13 AM Beesley, Paul wrote: > > Strange, works for a colleague as well, but not for me in IE, Firefox, or > Chrome. OK thanks, must be just me.. > > Regards and thanks > Paul > > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IB

Searching the archives.

2018-08-20 Thread Vernooij, Kees (ITOPT1) - KLM
Hello, I try to look up a subject from a few months ago in the Archives, but all the searchoptions return matches from sometimes 2005 and older, sometimes 2009 and older. Nothing from this year. How do I Search the Archives? Kees. For in

Re: does anyone remember a program called BLKTAPE?

2018-08-20 Thread Dave Jones
This will deblock a BLOCKTAP tape into its original format: PIPE tape | deblock vb | > tape outfile a if you have CMS Pipelines available. DJ -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to l

Re: IBM support pages gone?

2018-08-20 Thread Beesley, Paul
Strange, works for a colleague as well, but not for me in IE, Firefox, or Chrome. OK thanks, must be just me.. Regards and thanks Paul -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Richards, Robert B. Sent: Monday, August 20, 2018

Re: IBM support pages gone?

2018-08-20 Thread Richards, Robert B.
Second one also works: http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1OA40731 OA40731: ABEND0C4 IN ADRSB207 +X'4C6'WHEN DSS INVOKED VIA THE API AND CHECKVTOC PARM IS SPECIFIED IN THE SYSIN WHEN DUMP TO TAPE -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTS

Re: IBM support pages gone?

2018-08-20 Thread Richards, Robert B.
Works on my end of the pond... http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1OA53980 Bob -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Beesley, Paul Sent: Monday, August 20, 2018 4:29 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: IB

IBM support pages gone?

2018-08-20 Thread Beesley, Paul
More useful IBM support pages gone missing this morning. Everything I search for produces the old Our Apologies ... page. Example, Google for CKR0617, second hit is titled IBM OA53980: CKR0617 MESSAGE AT STARTUP ... Clicking the link gets you the page not found. And, Google for ADRDTDSC 0C4, firs

Re: Anyone here exprerienced in JSON parser (assembler)

2018-08-20 Thread ITschak Mugzach
Hi Martin, Charles. Json Parser is a service loaded at IPl (much like subsystems does), and supplies callable routines to parse Json format strings. I solved my problem, but "gos save IBM" for unclear documentation. the rexx version was quit easy as it was based on a sample, but the assembler rout