Re: And the survey says...

That's true about the features, I only implemented a subset of possibilities, and mostly that's on purpose. For example, there's no FTP, minimal IND$FILE, no HLLAPI, no GDDM (although I did try once with help from the 3270 stream master, Greg Price). No SNA printing, no 5250, and just enough

Re: And the survey says...

I can't promise that Vista has all the functions discussed in this thread, but in the years that I've used it, I've seen Tom add a lot of new variations. I suggest that curious cats spend a few minutes exploring the 'Paste Functions' enumerated under the Edit menu. Several of those were

Flashcopy for Non-SMS volume backup?

To all Storage Management Gurus on IBM-MAIN: What is the "best practice" procedure for creating a fast-replication (flashcopy) Non-SMS volume backup? FRBACKUP makes it easy for SMS-managed volumes... Thanks, -- Phoenix Software International Edward E. Jaffe 831 Parkview Drive North El

Re: And the survey says...

Linea meaning wrapping, i.e., copying consequtive buffer locations without regard to line boundaries. Both block and linear copies are useful, and it's nice to have both. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe

Re: And the survey says...

Here's an example of a block copy in Vista. What's a linear copy? You mean, without regard to line endings? No, I don't think so. You could certainly use your favorite stream-oriented editor to remove the line endings. Menu Utilities Compilers O ---

Re: And the survey says...

What about a linear copy? -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Gord Tomlin [gt.ibm.li...@actionsoftware.com] Sent: Friday, April 30, 2021 5:25 PM To:

Re: And the survey says...

On 2021-04-30 17:04 PM, Seymour J Metz wrote: Can you do both a linear copy and a block copy? Any rectangular selection. -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation) Tel: (905) 470-7113, Fax: (905) 470-6507 Support:

Re: And the survey says...

Can you do both a linear copy and a block copy? -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Gord Tomlin [gt.ibm.li...@actionsoftware.com] Sent: Friday, April 30,

Re: Syntax for calling a program from REXX with parm

I went at it systematically: ++-- ---+ + address LINKMVS '','' | Error running , line : Unexpected "," or ")" | ++--

Re: Program invoked SORT, SMS managed //SORTOUT DD DSN=& [EXTERNAL]

Doh! Yep, that explains it. Shame on me for not doing what you did. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Feller, Paul Sent: Friday, April 30, 2021 3:13 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Program invoked SORT, SMS managed //SORTOUT DD DSN=&

Re: AW: And the survey says...

On 2021-04-30 07:11 AM, Michael Knigge wrote: I've worked with PCOM, RUMBA, Nexus and Vista tn3270 And I felt in love with Vista tn3270.. Why?! You might roll your eyes, but it's the font. The first time I've installed Vista tn3270 I looked at it and no other 3270 Emulator I've used so

Re: Program invoked SORT, SMS managed //SORTOUT DD DSN=& [EXTERNAL]

Maybe this will help. IGD17165I MULTI-VOLUME TEMPORARY DATA SET dsname WILL NOT BE STRIPED. Explanation: It is not possible to allocate a multi-volume temporary data set in extended format. Due to

Re: And the survey says...

On 2021-04-29 13:05 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: Alas, the screenshot-as-text is the $FeatureX apparently absent from the $EmulatorY modally favored in this thread. I'm going to ASSume that "the $EmulatorY modally favored in this thread" refers to Vista. With Vista, you can copy/paste any

Re: Syntax for calling a program from REXX with parm

Bob, hereby a piece of code where I call AMATERSE to UNTERSE ... it's not important anyway I think it's what you're looking for. It allocs the needed DDNAMEs and then call AMATERSE and after reads SYSPRINT (output from AMATERSE) to evaluate the run. What you're interested in is the LINKMVS and

Re: Syntax for calling a program from REXX with parm

You need the LINKMVS or ATTCHMVS environment. The syntax is ADDRESS environment command The first word of the command is the program name. Subsequent words are the names of parameter. Example: foo = MYPROGRAM bar = MYPARM MYDDNAMES myparm = 'TRACE=NO' myddnames =

Re: Program invoked SORT, SMS managed //SORTOUT DD DSN=&

In addition to the EXT DC, we have implemented an IFG0EX0B exit to adjust secondary allocations. 1) Increase secondary allocation by 150%. 2) If no secondary specified, use a default of 50 tracks. Below is the part of the exit that tests how the dataset has been opened. Notice that it is

Syntax for calling a program from REXX with parm

I know I've done this before, but I'm having trouble doing something that most of you will say should be simple. I have some JCL that executes a program in batch, and I want to create a REXX that does it in the foreground - allocates the datasets, runs the program, then fetches the output and

Re: And the survey says...

What I'm comfortable with is a slashed digit and an underscored letter. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Paul Gilmartin

Re: Program invoked SORT, SMS managed //SORTOUT DD DSN=&

Wild guess: you didn't provide secondary allocation. That means one extent. -- Radoslaw Skorupka (looking for new job) Lodz, Poland W dniu 30.04.2021 o 20:30, PINION, RICHARD W. pisze: I have what is probably an elementary question. I had a program invoked SORT ABEND with a SE37-08 on a

Program invoked SORT, SMS managed //SORTOUT DD DSN=&

I have what is probably an elementary question. I had a program invoked SORT ABEND with a SE37-08 on a SMS managed temporary SORTOUT dataset. Here's the error stream. 11.48.03 JOB16510 IGD17273I ALLOCATION HAS FAILED FOR ALL VOLUMES SELECTED FOR DATA SET 056 056

Re: And the survey says...

W dniu 30.04.2021 o 18:29, Bob Bridges pisze: Font?! Emulators usually let you select among a variety of fonts. (I always use Consolas these days, because it's fixed-spacing ~and~ slashes the zeroes.) Does Vista offer something unique? Vista provide own font. The same for PCOMM. Note,

Re: And the survey says...

On Fri, 30 Apr 2021 16:36:22 +, Seymour J Metz wrote: >I once worked on a project for Bell Labs where their chain slashed Os rather >than zeroes. > I've seen "Ø"; also "Ō". The rationale given was that the less common letters should take more effort than the more common digits, like

Re: SPF/SE... out of business

Ouch! I don't know him, but I hope they get well soon. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Barry Merrill [ba...@mxg.com] Sent: Friday, April 30, 2021 12:16

Re: And the survey says...

Disclosure, I've used PComm, Vista, Attachmate Extra, IBM HOD, Mocha, Hummingbird and a few other emulators that I don’t recall. I find Hummingbird not terribly intuitive or set up well to customize it to make it more suitable for what I do. For example, I have to use TSO file transfer (FTP

Re: AW: And the survey says...

On 4/30/21 5:11 AM, Michael Knigge wrote: I've worked with PCOM, RUMBA, Nexus and Vista tn3270 And I felt in love with Vista tn3270.. Why?! You might roll your eyes, but it's the font. No, I don't roll my eyes at that. I /was/ going to say that's one of the /little/ creature features

Re: And the survey says...

I once worked on a project for Bell Labs where their chain slashed Os rather than zeroes. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Bob Bridges

Re: User complaints (was "And the survey says...")

Q: "why didn't you tell me foo?" A: "Because it didn't matter." They almost always give their (mistaken) interpretation instead of the raw data. I also hated the ones hat gave me a SYSABEND on dead trees instead of of a SYSMDUMP that I could browse in IPCS. But it's not always the user's

Re: And the survey says...

Font?! Emulators usually let you select among a variety of fonts. (I always use Consolas these days, because it's fixed-spacing ~and~ slashes the zeroes.) Does Vista offer something unique? --- Bob Bridges, robhbrid...@gmail.com, cell 336 382-7313 /* Although small children have taboos

Re: How to specify logical SYSLIB when linking with xclang++ under uss

Yup, this did exactly what I needed. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Richard Way Sent: Friday, April 30, 2021 9:06 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: How to specify logical SYSLIB when linking with xclang++

Re: And the survey says... [sidebar]

To me the real thing if LibreOffice or BookMaster (z"l). I used to call WordPerfect WordPervert until I had to use ms office. In particular, cut-and-paste of items in lists is horribly broken. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3

User complaints (was "And the survey says...")

My favorite: Customer: That trick you showed me? It didn't work. Me: What ~did~ it do? Customer: Nothing. Me: Oh, come on, it did something. You got an error message, right? What did it say? Customer: Oh, it said some damn thing. This was a regular customer; we'd had this conversation

Re: And the survey says...

Oops. I was JUST thinking I should maybe look into it. Guess I won't. --- Bob Bridges, robhbrid...@gmail.com, cell 336 382-7313 /* I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain. -Carol Leifer */ -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Paul

FW: SPF/SE... out of business

I received this email from Tim in January. Barry Herbert W “Barry” Merrill, PHD President-Programmer Merrill Consultants MXG Software 10717 Cromwell Drive Dallas, TX 75229 www.mxg.com 214 351 1966 ad...@mxg.com for business

Re: And the survey says... [sidebar]

Makes sense to me. I use the same reasoning whenever I buy a new PC and shell out actual money for a copy of Office Pro. The lookalikes (my sister swears by Open Office, for example) may ~say~ they're fully compatible. But when I supply a solution to a client I'm unwilling to risk it; it's

Re: How to specify logical SYSLIB when linking with xclang++ under uss

Thanks! I believe this is exactly what I need to do, and in fact I had an edit session going on a config customization for syslib_x when I spotted your reply! Much appreciated. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of David

Re: SORTTRAK usage on z/OS 2.4

okay...Let me try that and see how it goes Regards, Robert -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: SORTTRAK usage on z/OS 2.4

If there are no in-house written subroutines already available to you on the test system you are using, that means you need to write them yourself. It sounds like that was the CBT author's intent anyway. Besides, it's a good little programming project to write useful tool subroutines. Try it,

Re: ICSF Dynamic service update and MIGLIB

Hello, Mike. I'm the author of the APAR/PTF in question as well as some of the wording the canned DYNACT hold text. I can try to explain. DYNACT is intended to provide for non-disruptively reloading modules used by the ICSF address space (CSFINPVT, CSFINPV2) and the ICSF LPA modules should

Re: SORTTRAK usage on z/OS 2.4

Thanks for your inputs . We are doing this on a test system at this time and I couldnt find any date /time conversion subroutines over there Could you please provide me a sample of SUDATE , SUTIME and SUYYDDDF which I can use for this purpose ? Regards, Robert

Re: SFTP jcl with proxy server

Take a look at the z/OS OpenSSH User's Guide documentation for: ssh options: - ProxyCommand - ProxyUseFdPass command: - ssh-proxyc   (in z/OS V2R4, if you have a prior release you can get it from https://dovetail.com/community.html ) I don't know what kind of proxy you are referring to, but

OT: wikipedia DASD or tape editors?

I wanted to rename and update the wikipedia article Track (disk drive) at so that it applied to all DASD, but there was resistance from editors who had not grown up with, e.g., drums, CRAM, noodle pckers, RACE. I've started a new article

Re: SFTP jcl with proxy server

I am using ProxyCommand. but where do I specify the password? On Fri, Apr 30, 2021 at 8:58 AM william giannelli wrote: > ok "-oProxyCommand" then? > > On Fri, Apr 30, 2021 at 8:51 AM Kurt Quackenbush wrote: > >> On 4/28/2021 6:25 PM, Bill Giannelli wrote: >> > How do specify a proxy server

Re: SFTP jcl with proxy server

ok "-oProxyCommand" then? On Fri, Apr 30, 2021 at 8:51 AM Kurt Quackenbush wrote: > On 4/28/2021 6:25 PM, Bill Giannelli wrote: > > How do specify a proxy server in JCL for SFTP executing BPXBATCH? > I have no experience using it, but have you considered the > -oProxyCommand option of sftp?

Re: SFTP jcl with proxy server

On 4/28/2021 6:25 PM, Bill Giannelli wrote: How do specify a proxy server in JCL for SFTP executing BPXBATCH? I have no experience using it, but have you considered the -oProxyCommand option of sftp? Kurt Quackenbush -- IBM, SMP/E Development Chuck Norris never uses CHECK when he applies

Re: And the survey says...

The author cited GDDM manuals rather than 3179G manuals or the 3270 data streams manual. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Greg Price

AW: And the survey says...

I think you're close  I've worked with PCOM, RUMBA, Nexus and Vista tn3270 And I felt in love with Vista tn3270.. Why?! You might roll your eyes, but it's the font. The first time I've installed Vista tn3270 I looked at it and no other 3270 Emulator I've used so far provided a such great

Re: how to reply highlight message by REXX

I second the motion for auto-reply, unless you need to apply logic to determine the response to give. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/2.3.0?topic=sys1parmlib-autorxx-auto-reply-policy-specifications On Thu, Apr 29, 2021 at 8:23 AM ibmmain wrote: > Hi all > > > After we submit a JOB, we need

z/OS Conda install questions

I'm looking at installing some of the Rocket ported tools using their new CONDA process and from what I see the only way to do so is to install the entire CONDA filesystem on each LPAR/Plex. That makes it difficult to easily identify the specific changes for change management along with installing

Re: re： how to reply highlight message by REXX

A skeleton example : /* REXX */ lastrc=ISFCALLS("ON") address SDSF "ISFEXEC SR" fixedfield = word(ISFCOLS,1) say "Number of rows returned :" ISFROWS do rowindex = 1 to ISFROWS say "Now processing row :" value(fixedfield"."rowindex) do colindex =

Re: And the survey says...

On 29/04/2021 7:41 pm, Alexander Huemer wrote: I was just pointed to this document: [1]. Definitely not the 3179G book you mentioned, but it seems to contain information related to 3270 vector graphics. Maybe it helps. -Alex