Re: EXTERNAL: COBOL V6.2 possible change in behavior with recent patch level

2021-03-12 Thread Savor, Thomas
Mr Ross, I'm not sure that you guys at IBM have realized that you have created a nightmare out there in the field for a lot of customers and especially vendors of COBOL applications. I'm a part of many that support/write Assembler/Cobol code for a giant Credit Software system. We have 5+ mill

Re: LISTCAT output information in XML or JSON

2021-03-12 Thread Salva Carrasco
I wrote an assembler UDTF for Db2 that retrieve list of cataloged datasets based on mask/type using the CSI. Can share it if you are interested. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to li

Re: COBOL V6.2 possible change in behavior with recent patch level

2021-03-12 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Fri, 12 Mar 2021 17:43:05 +, Frank Swarbrick wrote: >... >If only COBOL had "tagged redefines" (see also "tagged unions", "sum types", >"variant types" and many other names for the same idea). > Like ALGOL 68 conforms-to-and-becomes? > > >From: Tom Ross

Re: COBOL V6.2 possible change in behavior with recent patch level

2021-03-12 Thread Clark Morris
[Default] On 12 Mar 2021 09:34:42 -0800, in bit.listserv.ibm-main frank.swarbr...@outlook.com (Frank Swarbrick) wrote: >Thanks for this info. Makes me feel better (for whatever reason). >We actually had some guesses that the issue was caused by migrating from COBOL >V4 to V6, even though that wa

Re: JCL checkers?

2021-03-12 Thread Don Leahy
I am a big fan or Pro/JCL. Especially the feature that lets you simulate the execution of an entire job stream. It’s an easy way to check that your DSNs are consistent from job to job, without actually running them. On Fri, Mar 12, 2021 at 15:28 Mitch Mccluhan < 005d889cebf0-dmarc-requ...@l

Re: Strasbourg data center fire

2021-03-12 Thread Mike Schwab
https://twitter.com/wizardofzos/status/1370465804702076932?s=20 Mainframe.community in building SBG3, of 360,000 domain names. On Fri, Mar 12, 2021 at 5:28 PM Charles Mills wrote: > > Is there a mainframe relevance? Not being snarky; inquiring minds want to > know. > > Charles > > -Original

Re: Strasbourg data center fire

2021-03-12 Thread Ed Jaffe
On 3/12/2021 3:28 PM, Charles Mills wrote: Is there a mainframe relevance? Not being snarky; inquiring minds want to know. Plenty! Quite a few mainframe shops are using TCT (Transparent Cloud Tiering) to back their data up the cloud (instead of tape) directly from their IBM, EMC or Hitachi D

Re: Strasbourg data center fire

2021-03-12 Thread Charles Mills
Is there a mainframe relevance? Not being snarky; inquiring minds want to know. Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Mike Schwab Sent: Friday, March 12, 2021 1:02 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Strasbourg

Strasbourg data center fire

2021-03-12 Thread Mike Schwab
https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/ovh-fire-update-four-halls-sbg1-destroyed-well-all-sbg2/ -- Mike A Schwab, Springfield IL USA Where do Forest Rangers go to get away from it all? -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / a

Re: JCL checkers?

2021-03-12 Thread Mitch Mccluhan
Folks, As an FYI, J-MAN makes it possible to work on a "reference model",  from which the tool automatically creates as many target environments as you need, based on "rules" that describe how to modify the jobs to make them effective for the specific target environments. Every single keyword o

IPL from SCSI DVD or via NVMe

2021-03-12 Thread Ed Jaffe
I'd like to IPL stand-alone tape-based utilities from SCSI DVD or via NVMe instead of mainframe tape. Is it possible? Has anyone done this? Thanks, -- Phoenix Software International Edward E. Jaffe 831 Parkview Drive North El Segundo, CA 90245 https://www.phoenixsoftware.com/ ---

Re: COBOL V6.2 possible change in behavior with recent patch level

2021-03-12 Thread Frank Swarbrick
Thanks for the input, Tom. I agree with everything you say. A somewhat ironic thing is it technically isn't "bad data". Rather, it's good data but only under certain circumstances. That is, there is a redefines (several, actually), and the condition should have been evaluated only in cases w

Re: COBOL V6.2 possible change in behavior with recent patch level

2021-03-12 Thread Frank Swarbrick
Thanks for this info. Makes me feel better (for whatever reason). We actually had some guesses that the issue was caused by migrating from COBOL V4 to V6, even though that was done months ago. (The "bad code" was added after the migration, and thus had never run under COBOL V4). The unfortunat

COBOL V6.2 possible change in behavior with recent patch level

2021-03-12 Thread Tom Ross
>We recently applied patches up through September 2020 to our Enterprise COB= >OL V6.2 compiler. Prior to this we had patches through September 2019. Th= >is appears to have changed how some code is generate, even though the compi= >ler options have not changed. Frank, this is unfortunate, but I

Re: IBM Open Enterprise SDK for Go is now available!

2021-03-12 Thread Tom Conley
On 3/12/2021 10:14 AM, Yuan Jie Song wrote: IBM Open Enterprise SDK for Go makes available the popular and industry-standard Go (or Golang) programming language to z/OS users. Go is a general-purpose programming language for building large-scale complex software, and is the language of cloud

Re: COBOL V6.2 possible change in behavior with recent patch level

2021-03-12 Thread Clark Morris
[Default] On 11 Mar 2021 11:52:56 -0800, in bit.listserv.ibm-main frank.swarbr...@outlook.com (Frank Swarbrick) wrote: >We recently applied patches up through September 2020 to our Enterprise COBOL >V6.2 compiler. Prior to this we had patches through September 2019. This >appears to have chang

Re: DFHSM Backups using DFDSS - Enqueues

2021-03-12 Thread Shaffer, Terri
Hi Sorry, No.. I opened an issue with IBM, and they told me DFHSM will eventually backup the file, Because I did a List BCDS on the dataset and it was backed up. They just fill the logs with failures, instead of giving a RC=4, Warning about the backup. Ms Terri E Shaffer Senior Systems Enginee

IBM Open Enterprise SDK for Go is now available!

2021-03-12 Thread Yuan Jie Song
IBM Open Enterprise SDK for Go makes available the popular and industry-standard Go (or Golang) programming language to z/OS users. Go is a general-purpose programming language for building large-scale complex software, and is the language of cloud infrastructure such as Kubernetes, Open Contai

Re: lost mainframe info

2021-03-12 Thread Stan Saraczewski
That is wonderful and thank you for your help. Is it possible for you to send contact info to me ? Privately is fine... On Fri, Mar 12, 2021 at 7:06 AM Charles Mills wrote: > I know the service bureau in question. They recently moved. I have sent > your information to my contact there. > > Char

Re: lost mainframe info

2021-03-12 Thread Stan Saraczewski
Ok thanks for all the questions and tips. If no one recognizes the logo I may just have to abandon the question. On Fri, Mar 12, 2021 at 6:40 AM Jeremy Nicoll wrote: > On Fri, 12 Mar 2021, at 14:25, Stan Saraczewski wrote: > > Using a 3270 emulator get a never ending 'connecting'. That is my > >

Re: lost mainframe info

2021-03-12 Thread Charles Mills
I know the service bureau in question. They recently moved. I have sent your information to my contact there. Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Stan Saraczewski Sent: Friday, March 12, 2021 6:26 AM To: IBM-MAIN

Re: lost mainframe info

2021-03-12 Thread Stan Saraczewski
Yes hence the request for contact info. On Fri, Mar 12, 2021 at 6:56 AM Seymour J Metz wrote: > I assume that you mean a TN3270 client. Is it possible that they've moved > their TN3270 server? > > > -- > Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz > http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 > >

Re: lost mainframe info

2021-03-12 Thread Seymour J Metz
I assume that you mean a TN3270 client. Is it possible that they've moved their TN3270 server? -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Stan Saraczewski [stansar

Re: lost mainframe info

2021-03-12 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
On Fri, 12 Mar 2021, at 14:25, Stan Saraczewski wrote: > Using a 3270 emulator get a never ending 'connecting'. That is my > description of 'unreachable'. Do you know if your client was likely to have had some sort of official arrangement with some site with a real machine etc, or could this be

Re: lost mainframe info

2021-03-12 Thread Seymour J Metz
You might try a whois on the domain name, although that may not help. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Stan Saraczewski [stansaraczew...@gmail.com] Sent:

Re: lost mainframe info

2021-03-12 Thread Stan Saraczewski
Using a 3270 emulator get a never ending 'connecting'. That is my description of 'unreachable'. On Fri, Mar 12, 2021 at 6:16 AM Binyamin Dissen wrote: > Unreachable or the credentials do not work? > > On Fri, 12 Mar 2021 05:31:30 -0800 Stan Saraczewski > wrote: > > :>The host where my client ha

Re: lost mainframe info

2021-03-12 Thread Stan Saraczewski
Searching for the info is in progress now. On Fri, Mar 12, 2021 at 6:21 AM Jeremy Nicoll wrote: > On Fri, 12 Mar 2021, at 13:44, Stan Saraczewski wrote: > > The owner recently is deceased and his wife does not know. Yes an IP addr > > but that is pretty useless using WHOIS. > > At least you shou

Re: LISTCAT output information in XML or JSON

2021-03-12 Thread David Purdy
It took my previous company two tries, and the last try was complete in the sixth year of a two year project. David -Original Message- From: John McKown To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Sent: Thu, Mar 11, 2021 8:05 am Subject: Re: LISTCAT output information in XML or JSON Thanks. Interesti

Re: lost mainframe info

2021-03-12 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
On Fri, 12 Mar 2021, at 13:44, Stan Saraczewski wrote: > The owner recently is deceased and his wife does not know. Yes an IP addr > but that is pretty useless using WHOIS. At least you should know the country involved, though. How about however payment was made? Surely there's an account number

Re: lost mainframe info

2021-03-12 Thread Binyamin Dissen
Unreachable or the credentials do not work? On Fri, 12 Mar 2021 05:31:30 -0800 Stan Saraczewski wrote: :>The host where my client has rented time and stored software is now :>unreachable. Used to get a standard VTAM large logo proclaiming MTI-1 and a :>list of apps below, like CICS and TSO to se

Re: AMODE issue

2021-03-12 Thread Binyamin Dissen
Wow. I am trying to figure this out. In general, I would expect that File-Aid wants the program calling data-masking to be compiled at amode31, which should be pretty much all modern compilers, especially those LE enabled. The "remote" user is a fly in the ointment. I don't see why remote should

Re: lost mainframe info

2021-03-12 Thread Stan Saraczewski
Yes, AT+T. Not sure if they would share customer info. On Fri, Mar 12, 2021 at 5:43 AM Itschak Mugzach < 0305158ad67d-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > Do you have an ip address? Who own it? > > בתאריך יום ו׳, 12 במרץ 2021, 15:32, מאת Stan Saraczewski ‏< > stansaraczew...@gmail.com>:

Re: lost mainframe info

2021-03-12 Thread Stan Saraczewski
The owner recently is deceased and his wife does not know. Yes an IP addr but that is pretty useless using WHOIS. On Fri, Mar 12, 2021 at 5:42 AM Jeremy Nicoll wrote: > On Fri, 12 Mar 2021, at 13:31, Stan Saraczewski wrote: > > The host where my client has rented time and stored software is now

Re: lost mainframe info

2021-03-12 Thread Itschak Mugzach
Do you have an ip address? Who own it? בתאריך יום ו׳, 12 במרץ 2021, 15:32, מאת Stan Saraczewski ‏< stansaraczew...@gmail.com>: > The host where my client has rented time and stored software is now > unreachable. Used to get a standard VTAM large logo proclaiming MTI-1 and a > list of apps below,

Re: lost mainframe info

2021-03-12 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
On Fri, 12 Mar 2021, at 13:31, Stan Saraczewski wrote: > The host where my client has rented time and stored software is now > unreachable. Used to get a standard VTAM large logo proclaiming MTI-1 and a > list of apps below, like CICS and TSO to select from. > > Can anyone provide contact info or

lost mainframe info

2021-03-12 Thread Stan Saraczewski
The host where my client has rented time and stored software is now unreachable. Used to get a standard VTAM large logo proclaiming MTI-1 and a list of apps below, like CICS and TSO to select from. Can anyone provide contact info or at least the name of the company ? -

Re: JCL checkers?

2021-03-12 Thread Jeffrey Holst
Like several others we use JCLCHECK from Broadcom/CA. We were using JCLSCAN, but we had a new requirement that we be able to check JCL intended to run on a different sysplex. (We create our production JCL on a test sysplex.) JCLCHECK has a feature that does this. ---