Re: GTTERM assistance

On Tue, 1 Nov 2022 at 17:16, Colin Paice wrote: > I think I read that IBM was going to drop SNA in a future release os z/OS , > if so would it be wise to continue down this path? > I can't imagine that IBM is going to "drop SNA" any time soon - too much still depends on it, and it's hard to see

Re: GTTERM assistance

> Any assistance would be greatly appreciated. > > I am working on a SNA interface for a batch framework. This is mostly just > a massive learning exercise that will likely never be utilized, but I have > learned SO much while working on this project (currently 6 years in the > making). I'm confus

AW: SPF/SE is available for free

Not that good. Every row in the editor has a grey line above and under the row... Bye, Michael Mit freundlichen Grüßen Michael Knigge Software Engineer Rühmkorffstraße 5 30163 Hannover Telefon: +49 511 330 998 23 Fax: +49 511 330 998 65 michael.kni...@set.de https://set.de H

AW: SPF/SE is available for free

My pleasure I personally use SPF/SE nearly every day. We have a product that processes print files and we also support z/OS - for this reason we often have to handle files from z/OS Record oriented files with RECFM=VB SPF/SE can handle them like a charm Bye, Michel Mit fre

Re: GTTERM assistance

Te MF=L would be in place of the other MF=L, not in addition to it. Also, check the forward chain. From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of Brian Chapman Sent: Tuesday, November 1, 2022 4:13 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: GTTERM as

AW: SPF/SE is available for free

Jay, I've got the following information. Hello Michael. I contacted his wife and she told me that Tim’s SPF s/w is “gone forever”. Apparently he PW protected it and when she tried to break the PW, it self destructed. In any case, according to her, there is no hope for any data recovery.

Re: GTTERM assistance

I think I read that IBM was going to drop SNA in a future release os z/OS , if so would it be wise to continue down this path? Colin On Tue, 1 Nov 2022 at 20:14, Brian Chapman wrote: > Shmuel, > > All I see is that your save area code is bad > > Thanks. I'm not sure how that 64 bit save area cod

Shift work (was End of several eras)

Nothing to do with mainframe machines per se, but at various jobs I was assigned to second shift and found it suited me to the ground. I could sleep late, get up and get a leisurely lunch, wander off to work, work until late (I was always a night owl), then come back to my hotel room and watch

Re: GTTERM assistance

Shmuel, All I see is that your save area code is bad Thanks. I'm not sure how that 64 bit save area code got stuck in there. What's in SESSBLK? SESSBLK is just a user control block with the 'session' variables. The values for SESSPRI and SESSALT and SESSATTR are still zero after the SVC call.

Re: SPF/SE is available for free

You might want to try DOSBox-X, Robert On Tue, 1 Nov 2022 at 19:03, Schmitt, Michael wrote: > The problem with SPF/PC in DOSBox isn't memory management, it was > something about text modes. The problem was that DOSBox was created for > running DOS games, not text applicat

Re: SYSTEM REXX use

F AXR,REXXTEST AXR0500I AXREXX OUTPUT DISPLAY 889 EXECNAME=REXXTEST REQTOKEN=4000DC57E5671A5C6E10 Test Message On Tue, 1 Nov 2022 18:15:59

Re: GTTERM assistance

All I see is that your save area code is bad, but that shouldn't affect the returned values from GTTERM. What's in SESSBLK? I would probably have written something like GTTLIST GTTERM PRMSZE=SESSPRI,ALTSZE=SESSALT,ATTRIB=SESSATTR, * MF=(E,GTTLIST) for documentation, but

Re: SPF/SE is available for free

Slightly off topic, at one time I had a Linux ISPF editor. I don't remember the name. I installed it under S/390 Linux. This would have been some time between 2002 and 2010. Sent with Proton Mail secure email. --- Original Message --- On Tuesday, November 1st, 2022 at 3:23 PM, Jay

Re: SPF/SE is available for free

Hm. According to the README on the Github site, the source code was stored encrypted...are the encrypted files still in existence? Perhaps they can be obtained and decrypted. It's a long shot, to be sure, but definitely worth a try. On Tue, Nov 1, 2022 at 9:22 AM Michael Knigge wrote: > FYI: > >

Re: SPF/SE is available for free

The problem with SPF/PC in DOSBox isn't memory management, it was something about text modes. The problem was that DOSBox was created for running DOS games, not text applications like SPF/PC. I don't have DOSBox installed right now, but I /think/ the problem was that DOSBox running SPF/PC was sl

GTTERM assistance

Hello all, Any assistance would be greatly appreciated. I am working on a SNA interface for a batch framework. This is mostly just a massive learning exercise that will likely never be utilized, but I have learned SO much while working on this project (currently 6 years in the making). The addre

Re: SYSTEM REXX use

SYSLOG, There's a msg id I could give you, if I had a system > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On > Behalf Of Seymour J Metz > Sent: Tuesday, November 01, 2022 11:16 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: SYSTEM REXX use > > > Where does the output of

Re: SYSTEM REXX use

Where does the output of say go? Thanks. From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of ITschak Mugzach Sent: Tuesday, November 1, 2022 2:12 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: SYSTEM REXX use Seymour, TSO is supported by SystemRexx, inclu

Re: SPF/SE is available for free

True, but Tritus paid much more attention to ISPF compatibility, and TSPF is still my preferred editor on my desktop. From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of Grant Taylor <023065957af1-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> Sent: Tuesday, November 1

Re: SYSTEM REXX use

Seymour, TSO is supported by SystemRexx, including OMVS. The modify command will always route the exec to run under axr stc having TSO=YES. Best ITschak Sa בתאריך יום ג׳, 1 בנוב׳ 2022 ב-18:16 מאת Seymour J Metz : > You can submit a MODIFY AXR command from TSO, but the code doesn't run in > the

Re: End of several eras

Love the stories, I graduated from Vo-tech as an RPG / COBOL programmer thinking I'd get a job easy as a programmer, not so, but a good learning experience as an operator they to production control, to now a sysprog.  I started in 1977 working for a large retailer, no IMS but CICS , SII (Sende

Re: End of several eras

I feel nostalgic after I read your post.  Get this, I started in 1978 and I worked on an OS/360.  I was an IMS DB/DC tech. running batch (via BMP) and batch jobs which updated the database.  One problem I often encountered - the IMS/DC would abend because log tapes (dual logging) due to a STC t

Re: SPF/SE is available for free

Grant, Are you aware that Apple’s OS is a certified Unix OS? -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: SYSTEM REXX use

You can submit a MODIFY AXR command from TSO, but the code doesn't run in the TSO address space and doesn't have access to TSO services. From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of Kenneth J. Kripke <046fa3a8ef80-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> S

Re: SPF/SE is available for free

On 11/1/22 9:56 AM, Schmitt, Michael wrote: CTC had different iterations of the product: - SPF/PC: ran in DOS, but used special memory management to edit larger files. SPF/PC can still run under DOSBox but not very well N.B. My boxed copy of version 4.0 of SPF/PC states that it is "for OS/2

Re: SPF/SE is available for free

On 11/1/22 9:56 AM, Schmitt, Michael wrote: CTC had different iterations of the product: - SPF/PC: ran in DOS, but used special memory management to edit larger files. SPF/PC can still run under DOSBox but not very well I have a boxed coy of SPF/PC. Does, or can, Bonnie's gift extend to th

Re: Dynamic LPA Services

Paul, I very much doubt that the csvdylpa workarea is in common storage. It is much more likely to be in an authorised private subpool. You can check by inspecting the output subpool value returned by the service. Rob Scott Rocket Software From: IBM Mainframe Di

Re: SPF/SE is available for free

Cool! I still use SPF/SE, in fact was using it just yesterday. But I have SPF/SE 3.5 build 614 so yours is a lot newer. CTC had different iterations of the product: - SPF/PC: ran in DOS, but used special memory management to edit larger files. SPF/PC can still run under DOSBox but not very we

Re: SPF/SE is available for free

Michael, Thank you for this gift to our community. I used SPF/PC and SPF/SE extensively in the past and thought it was gone forever. Mike Shaw MVS/QuickRef Support Group Chicago-Soft, Ltd. On Tue, Nov 1, 2022 at 10:22 AM Michael Knigge wrote: > FYI: > > I guess some of you guys use SPF/SE (SP

Re: SPF/SE is available for free

Thank you for preserving this and making it available. One question: You say it's picky about fonts...how well does it work with Ricardo Banffy's outstanding 3270 font, available at https://github.com/rbanffy/3270font ? On Tue, Nov 1, 2022 at 9:22 AM Michael Knigge wrote: > FYI: > > I guess som

SPF/SE is available for free

FYI: I guess some of you guys use SPF/SE (SPF SourceEdit) from Command Technology. The editor was developed by Tim Tetivia, who unfortunately died in 2022 as a result of a corona infection. With some research and help from other SPF users (namely Peter aka Verizon), it was possible to contact T

Re: SYSTEM REXX use

Hi Ken. You may probably(?) already have an AXR00 PARMLIB member (or some other suffix, pointed to from IEASYSxx via the AXR=(xx) parameter. The AXRxx member lets you define a prefix character (like $ for JES2) that provides an alternative to using F AXR,rexxname: /***

[Public] RE: EXTERNAL: Re: End of several eras

I learned a lot from the CICS source code IBM distributed for years. I learned how to hash, build segmented tables, how to build linked lists, all techniques I incorporated in my programs to make them dynamic and resilient. Robert Crawford Mainframe Management United Services Automobile Associa

Re: End of several eras

Back in the 7090 era I read the code for FAP, and it sorted the symbol table using a binary radix sort bearing the comment "This is the world's best known test of the sense indicators." I thought that the code was really slick, and these days I would have called it k3wl. The slickest thing that

Re: End of several eras

That's complicated. To begin with, even in the OS/360 days IBM did not provide source code for OS or DOS service that they distributed as object code, although they did provide microfiche of the assembly listings. CP-67 and later VM/370, of course, got service as source updates, as did HASP and

Re: End of several eras

Hi Tom, That is one of the arguments for non-OCO. Customers would have the ability to suggest code improvement/fixes, much like Open Source today (which IBM schizophrenically) supports. Another IBM mistake was to not make PL/X (or PL/AS) publicly available. While I am mentioning IBM mistakes, t

Re: Crypto Express question

I'm specifically referring to payment card crypto functions, like PIN validation, chip cryptogram stuff, etc. From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of Timothy Sipples Sent: Monday, October 31, 2022 12:08 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Cryp