Re: Zowe?

2019-01-04 Thread Tom Conley
On 1/4/2019 9:19 PM, Jesse 1 Robinson wrote: Stepping aside from what Zowe the architecture consists of, could we at least agree up front how to say it? (The confusion over 'Linux' went on way too long.) When Zowe was introduced to SHARE in St. Louis, the authors allowed that they wanted a

Re: FW: Concurrent Server Task Dispatch issue multitasking issue

2019-01-04 Thread Ed Jaffe
On 1/4/2019 9:20 PM, Brian Westerman wrote: I don't share the ECBLIST between the main and subtask, so I'm not sure what happens if you do You get a 301 abend if ever two TCBs WAIT on the same event. -- Phoenix Software International Edward E. Jaffe 831 Parkview Drive North El Segundo, CA

Re: FW: Concurrent Server Task Dispatch issue multitasking issue

2019-01-04 Thread Brian Westerman
When you test the ECB is anything being posted? Is it possible that your subtasks are actually sharing the ECBLIST for other use and they are clearing it for you? It would be interesting to have all of your tasks (main and sub) wto when they are posted so that you can see where you are when

Re: Zowe?

2019-01-04 Thread Alan Young
The mainframe is the MMORPG and each CICS region is a different server instance. From: "Schuffenhauer, Mark" Sent: Friday, January 4, 2019 14:41 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Zowe? Depends on if they have server experience beyond Windows, then there

Re: Exit Calls or Using

2019-01-04 Thread Jesse 1 Robinson
Tom and I grappled with a menagerie of system exits that had been adopted and adapted by SCE during the 70s (?) and 80s. Exit code had been tweaked to some extent to fit installation standards, but likewise standards had been shaped to some extent by the way exits worked. Today when I get

Re: Zowe?

2019-01-04 Thread ronjhawkins1
I have met people with that name, but pronounced zo-ee, as in Zowie Bowie. Ron Hawkins Director, Ipsicsopt Pty Ltd (ACN: 627 705 971) | m: +61 400029610 | h: +61 387399252 | email: ronjhawki...@gmail.com -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Jesse 1

Re: Zowe?

2019-01-04 Thread Jesse 1 Robinson
Stepping aside from what Zowe the architecture consists of, could we at least agree up front how to say it? (The confusion over 'Linux' went on way too long.) When Zowe was introduced to SHARE in St. Louis, the authors allowed that they wanted a homophone of the given name Zoe, but that

Re: Zowe?

2019-01-04 Thread scott Ford
Mark, Absolutely, especially if one has has Unix and Linux exposure compared to Windoze. Scott On Fri, Jan 4, 2019 at 4:41 PM Schuffenhauer, Mark wrote: > Depends on if they have server experience beyond Windows, then there can > be a frame of reference. Otherwise, I prefer to use an

Re: Network names

2019-01-04 Thread Anne & Lynn Wheeler
sme...@gmu.edu (Seymour J Metz) writes: > I would have loved to see an enhanced SNA with internetworking and > DNS, but when CCITT refused to look at it, that wasn't an option. > > If the major TCP-based protocols at least switched to SCTP, that would > be an improvement. re:

Re: Zowe?

2019-01-04 Thread Schuffenhauer, Mark
Depends on if they have server experience beyond Windows, then there can be a frame of reference. Otherwise, I prefer to use an example based on playing multi-player console/PC games. You can go local or remote, it doesn't matter, but how can one box have 4 people play at once? How can the

Re: Network names (was: System Symbols)

2019-01-04 Thread Seymour J Metz
I would have loved to see an enhanced SNA with internetworking and DNS, but when CCITT refused to look at it, that wasn't an option. If the major TCP-based protocols at least switched to SCTP, that would be an improvement. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3

Re: 64-bit C code fetching IGGCSI00

2019-01-04 Thread scott Ford
Peter, So how does a Cobol Pam , 31bit address say a Hiperspace ? I assume an interface program units AR registers , etc., am I correct ? I have don’t this want to... Scott IDMWORKS On Fri, Jan 4, 2019 at 8:46 AM Peter Relson wrote: > From the LE team: > > fetch() will indeed reject loading

Re: Zowe?

2019-01-04 Thread scott Ford
R.S., boy can I related to that..CICS is a foreign concept to PC people because of their experience and frame of reference. Scott On Fri, Jan 4, 2019 at 4:02 PM R.S. wrote: > W dniu 2019-01-04 o 18:31, Phil Smith III pisze: > > A colleague asked me, "WTF really *is* Zowe?" and the only answer

Re: DFRMM Setup

2019-01-04 Thread Bill Bishop (TMNA)
I currently have 6 production, 1 test, and 1 sandbox LPARs sharing a RMM environment. I have SYSID as the SMFID of each LPAR. I have CDSID as a generic name. We created the system with all 6 LPARs when we installed RMM. Based upon this, I would say you need to keep CDSID(SYSA). Also, we

Re: HSM and empty files

2019-01-04 Thread Glenn Wilcock
Hi, Sorry to hear that you feel this way. Our desire is to balance providing leading edge solutions while meeting our clients' needs for base functionality. Recently, the z/OS team switched to using RFE so that we can better manage client requests. It enables clients to vote on enhancements

Re: Zowe?

2019-01-04 Thread R.S.
W dniu 2019-01-04 o 18:31, Phil Smith III pisze: A colleague asked me, "WTF really *is* Zowe?" and the only answer I had was that I thought it was like z/OSMF, only more so (and ISTR that it's even built on top of z/OSMF), and open source. [...] That remains me my troubles when I teach

DFRMM Setup

2019-01-04 Thread Fred Kaptein
I have a question about setting up DFRMM on a new LPAR. We currently have an LPAR called SYSA, running DFRMM on a z/OS R2.2 system. We are in the process of building LPAR, SYSB, which will share everything with SYSA, including the DFRMM control data sets. (The PDA data sets will be independent).

Re: Zowe?

2019-01-04 Thread scott Ford
Peter, Me too, i have played with Postman generating HTTPS Get and retrieve JCL info on jobs that were submitted it wasnt too bad. My questions are on more complex work tasks, i.e. ; submit a RACF request to do something like 'ADDUSER'.. Scott On Fri, Jan 4, 2019 at 3:55 PM Farley, Peter x23353

Re: Zowe?

2019-01-04 Thread Farley, Peter x23353
All done in a browser, or all done as an Eclipse-based interface that may have a browser view? I thought it was going to be an open-source version of the z/OS Explorer Eclipse setup (open source RDz?), but maybe I misunderstood too. Also still learning. Peter -Original Message-

Re: Network names (was: System Symbols)

2019-01-04 Thread scott Ford
Seymour, In many ways I preferred the SNA architecture over TCPIP. But i have a bias since i did SNA work for many years and knew it very well. Scott On Wed, Jan 2, 2019 at 1:05 PM Seymour J Metz wrote: > Well, at one time I expected >

Re: Zowe?

2019-01-04 Thread scott Ford
Tom, oh yeah. Isn't Zowe a CI/DEPLOY type product or aimed at CI/DEPLOY needs ? Scott On Fri, Jan 4, 2019 at 3:47 PM Tom Marchant < 000a2a8c2020-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > On Fri, 4 Jan 2019 12:31:11 -0500, Phil Smith III wrote: > > >A colleague asked me, "WTF really *is*

Re: Zowe?

2019-01-04 Thread Tom Marchant
On Fri, 4 Jan 2019 12:31:11 -0500, Phil Smith III wrote: >A colleague asked me, "WTF really *is* Zowe?" As a long-time fan of Frank Zappa, my first thought is "Wowie Zowie". From the first album by The Mothers of Invention. -- Tom Marchant

Re: Crosshair cursor

2019-01-04 Thread Seymour J Metz
Toggling it on and off is fine, and I normally didn't use the crosshair cursor, but it was a lifesaver when I needed it. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of Roger Bolan Sent:

Re: Crosshair cursor

2019-01-04 Thread Seymour J Metz
Well, at some point peripheral vision becomes an issue; my guess is that 43" would be okay but that 72" would be too big. I never saw the point of dual monitors, except for cases where drivers weren't available for a single monitor with the same real estate. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz

Re: Zowe?

2019-01-04 Thread Peter Ten Eyck
I am still struggling with this question myself. The best I can tell; it is intended to be a framework or set of standards to access existing z/OS APIs (IBM z/OSMF) or create new APIs to access existing z/OS functionality, all done in a web browser; perhaps extending existing z/OS functionally.

Re: Exit Calls or Using

2019-01-04 Thread Seymour J Metz
IMHO, if you don't have the source code then that in itself is a good reason to get rid of the exit, carefully. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of Tom Brennan Sent: Friday,

Re: Exit Calls or Using

2019-01-04 Thread Tom Brennan
On 1/4/2019 4:35 AM, Peter Relson wrote: Whether or not your exit routine is doing anything useful can only be determined by examining the routine and understanding the exit. That means someone has to find the source code, make sure it's the actual version running, and then be able to

Re: Crosshair cursor

2019-01-04 Thread Phil Smith III
Jesse 1 Robinson wrote: >After all my years of using Vista exclusively, I've never used 'locate >cursor'. >I'm curious as to what otherwise un- or little-used key combo you assign to >this function. My reaction too! I tinkered, eventually figured out how to set it (some more discussion

Zowe?

2019-01-04 Thread Phil Smith III
A colleague asked me, "WTF really *is* Zowe?" and the only answer I had was that I thought it was like z/OSMF, only more so (and ISTR that it's even built on top of z/OSMF), and open source. I've seen https://www.rocketsoftware.com/zowe-open-source-mainframe but it just says "Zowe good"

Re: Crosshair cursor

2019-01-04 Thread Jesse 1 Robinson
After all my years of using Vista exclusively, I've never used 'locate cursor'. I'm curious as to what otherwise un- or little-used key combo you assign to this function. . . J.O.Skip Robinson Southern California Edison Company Electric Dragon Team Paddler SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager

Re: Crosshair cursor

2019-01-04 Thread Bill Hitefield
Same here. I find it is great for lining up columns and such. I leave it on 99% of the time. Bill Hitefield Dino-Software Corporation 800.480.DINO 423.878.5660 www.dino-software.com -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Don Leahy Sent: Saturday, December

Re: Concurrent Server Task Dispatch issue multitasking issue

2019-01-04 Thread Joseph Reichman
Tony thanks as I said the basic design of my code is from section H in tcp/ip for beginners “concurrent server” with the exception of the subtask having a select or as I change it to selectx and multiple tasks Thanks again > On Jan 4, 2019, at 10:51 AM, Tony Thigpen wrote: > > This

Re: FW: Concurrent Server Task Dispatch issue multitasking issue

2019-01-04 Thread Tony Thigpen
This sounds like an ECB problem, not an EZASMI problem. Double check your ECB list to make sure that you have the high bit set in the last ECB pointer only. Make sure that any of your subtasks that use the same ECB list is not setting the high-bit on the wrong ecb pointer. Verify that you

Re: Crosshair cursor

2019-01-04 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Fri, 4 Jan 2019 09:12:34 -0600, Dana Mitchell wrote: > >I like the Vista function 'locate cursor'.When you press the corresponding >key(s), the cursor does your choice of blink or explode... > Isn't something like that endemic in Windows: dithering on CTRL makes the cursor explode? --

Re: FW: Concurrent Server Task Dispatch issue multitasking issue

2019-01-04 Thread Joseph Reichman
Rob This is the way I have both it in the main and subtask. There is a way around this problem by passing COMECBPT to the subtask. And posting the main task To do a clean up I am currently re-writing this code and if there is a real problem with the main task getting control after the

Re: FW: Concurrent Server Task Dispatch issue multitasking issue

2019-01-04 Thread Rob Scott
What value do you have for APITYPE on your INITAPI call? I believe you need APITYPE=3 for async processing. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Joseph Reichman Sent: Friday, January 4, 2019 2:49 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: FW: Concurrent

Re: Crosshair cursor

2019-01-04 Thread Dana Mitchell
On Thu, 3 Jan 2019 19:15:28 +, Seymour J Metz wrote: >What do you do when you can't see where the cursor is in order to move it >where want it? I like the Vista function 'locate cursor'.When you press the corresponding key(s), the cursor does your choice of blink or explode... Dana

Re: FW: Concurrent Server Task Dispatch issue multitasking issue

2019-01-04 Thread Joseph Reichman
Just did didn't seem to help I'll post my code shortly but let me explain the scenario. As I stated in my earlier post I have two selects * In the main acting as a listener * In the subtask to do multiple I/Os different sockets Initially before I do any reads or writes the 4

Re: 64-bit C code fetching IGGCSI00

2019-01-04 Thread Peter Relson
>From the LE team: fetch() will indeed reject loading load module of another AMODE. This is related to the fact that LE will not only load the module into storage (with the LOAD macro) but will also manage some control blocks and data for the module, such as the load list table, the WSA and

Re: Crosshair cursor

2019-01-04 Thread Tom Marchant
On Fri, 4 Jan 2019 10:20:50 +0800, David Crayford wrote: >39" 4K TVs are cheap as chips these days. The bigger the better. The >days of dual monitors are over. If your video card supports the 4K resolution, you can totally get rid of the dual monitors. In fact, it can give the resolution of 4

Re: FW: Concurrent Server Task Dispatch issue multitasking issue

2019-01-04 Thread Joseph Reichman
Ok thanks -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Rob Scott Sent: Friday, January 4, 2019 7:35 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: FW: Concurrent Server Task Dispatch issue multitasking issue I suggest replacing the EZASMI SELECTS with simple

Re: Exit Calls or Using

2019-01-04 Thread Peter Relson
The responses are all on target. All of the exits are called when they are defined to be called. It is likely not going to be overly helpful to count how many times. Whether or not your exit routine is doing anything useful can only be determined by examining the routine and understanding the

Re: FW: Concurrent Server Task Dispatch issue multitasking issue

2019-01-04 Thread Rob Scott
I suggest replacing the EZASMI SELECTS with simple STIMERM timers and see if the problem still exists. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Joseph Reichman Sent: Friday, January 4, 2019 12:31 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: FW: Concurrent

Re: FW: Concurrent Server Task Dispatch issue multitasking issue

2019-01-04 Thread Joseph Reichman
Brian I have that code the problem is after I attach my Subtasks my Main Task Hardly gets control. I have 4 subtasks each with a EZASMI SELECT as each handles multiple I/O’s I do a WTO after the TIMEOUT from the SELECT on both the main task and subtask and it seems that the main task Hardly

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2019-01-04 Thread Aled Hughes
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