Re: Coupling Facility List structure versus CIC Data Table

As the application is now using a CICS Data Table, perhaps the Data Table can be changed to a Coupling Facility Data Table? From: Laurence Chiu <05c4ba336ee7-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> Sent: Friday, May 31, 2024 14:47 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU

Re: What am I doing wrong with BPXWUNIX sort?

I think I have always used the position specification format. In a couple of processes I ran before, I have xrc = BPXWUNIX("/bin/sort -bdu -k1.1,1.11 ","pl.","pls.") xrc = BPXWUNIX("/bin/sort -bd -k1.10,1.26 -k2.1,2.8","d.","ds.") Maybe sort is aborting with a return code (RC, retval, etc.)

Re: Why does ISPF BROWSE abend with S878 searching a large sequential file?

Is the file RECFM=V? For me, variable records seem to vex ISPF browse and edit more than RECFM=F files. It runs out of storage sooner with the variable length files. That is with a TSO region of 131072. If alternative editors/viewers are available, they may fair better. IBM File Manager works

Re: Why email from z/OS SMTP rejected by Gmail?

Looks to me that there are missing less thans (<) before the ltuser. occurrences. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List Sent: Dec 11, 2022 11:29 AM To: Subject: Why email from z/OS SMTP rejected by Gmail? Has anyone else seen this? I have a couple of z/OS applications

Re: dfsort -TASK I/O TABLE EXCEEDS TIOT LIMIT OF 0064K

The first job can do one pass of the input to split the output into three files of 250 IDs each. Then run three subsequent jobs concurrently to split the first step output files into the individual files. That is one less pass on the total input. If there is enough TIOT space, an additional

Re: SYNCSORT question: How to treat variable length KSDS as variable length input to SORT JOINKEYS

Add a TYPE=V parameter to the JOINKEYS statement for the VSAM file. It might also need a RECFM=V on the SORTJNFx DD for the VSAM file.   Alan   -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List Sent: Jun 6, 2022 6:07 PM To: Subject: SYNCSORT question: How to treat variable length

Re: Publicly available site for SA23-7832-13 zArch PoOP for z16?

?   Thanks for that link, but those are all the ones up to the -12 edition, not including the new -13 edition yet.   Peter   -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Alan Young Sent: Friday, June 3, 2022 6:23 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Publicly

Re: Publicly available site for SA23-7832-13 zArch PoOP for z16?

https://linux.mainframe.blog/zarchitecture-principles-of-operation has a link to that version and older versions of it.   Alan   -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List Sent: Jun 2, 2022 9:39 PM To: Subject: Publicly available site for SA23-7832-13 zArch PoOP for z16?  

Re: Use of zCX

>>Early 2001.  Possibly included to run VSE in a z/OS address space to >>aid migration? >> >DUO (DOS Under OS)? If memory serves, DUO was around way before as one of the products acquired when CA bought UCCEL. I have a recollection of seeing a manual in the blue binders that I think CA

Re: SCCHowTo_Book

I was able to access it by replacing the protocol of ftp: with https: at the start if the URL.   -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List Sent: Apr 7, 2022 10:41 AM To: Subject: Re: SCCHowTo_Book   Len,   The link is active, however most browsers stopped supporting FTP

Re: z/OS v2R5 TN3270 Changes

Crossover makes it very easy to install applications in Wine. It can also install applications into different wine instances. There is a 30 day trial available.   https://www.codeweavers.com/crossover   -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List Sent: Apr 4, 2022 9:16 AM To:

Re: Holy Moly ...

Other tech news has started to pick up on this.   https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/02/ibm-exec-called-older-workers-dinobabies-who-should-go-extinct-lawsuit-says/   https://www.theregister.com/2022/02/14/ibm_age_discrimination_court_documents/   -Original Message- From: IBM

Re: ERBSCAN in batch

The summary of records report in the REXX is produced by program ERBMFSCN. There is sample JCL on how to call that in ERBSMFSC. -Original Message- >From: kekronbekron <02dee3fcae33-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> >Sent: May 7, 2021 8:10 PM >To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU >Subject:

Re: Anyone have SFTP JCL to share?

The Dovetailed Co:Z SSH and Tectia SSH products have MVS dataset support. Depending on the site’s business usage, the site may be able to use Co:Z for no charge under the Co:Z Community License. -Original Message- >From: Roberto Halais >Sent: Apr 14, 2021 12:23 PM >To:

Re: ISPF for mainframe Linux

I use JOE as an editor for linux command line. https://joe-editor.sourceforge.io . On windows or wine, I use Notepad++. https://notepad-plus-plus.org mc.ext can be configured to launch custom programs (or editors) for file extensions. Exiting and keeping the directory location...Do you have

Re: Where is the data compression manual SA22-7208

-Original Message- >From: John Ganci <0313d5d8c097-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> >Sent: Jul 24, 2020 9:39 PM >To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU >Subject: Re: Where is the data compression manual SA22-7208 > >Thanks. Alas, my PC runs Linux. Softcopy librarian appears to be Windows-only

Re: SG24-5451

It is in the IBM Publications Center - https://www.ibm.com/e-business/linkweb/publications/servlet/pbi.wss -Original Message- >From: Brian Westerman >Sent: May 30, 2020 11:26 PM >To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU >Subject: SG24-5451 > >Hi, > >Does anyone still have a copy of the redbook

Re: TIME a data set was created?

You may be thinking of DMS/OS aka SAMS:DISK aka CA-DISK. From: Tom Brennan Sent: Friday, May 29, 2020 23:27 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: TIME a data set was created? Semi-Related - I seem to remember a software product, not sure what the name was,

Re: Developers say Google's Go is 'most sought after' programming language of 2020

There is a port but it is a couple of years old. https://github.com/zos-go/go IBM has a recent post about it coming to zOS. https://developer.ibm.com/mainframe/2020/04/24/ibm-intends-to-enable-go-on-z-os/ From: Ed Jaffe Sent: Saturday, May 9, 2020 14:58 To:

Re: IBM Developerworks is gone!

It seems like IBM has decided on using github for the latest iteration. https://github.com/IBM https://github.com/cicsdev https://cicsdev.github.io/ -Original Message- >From: scott Ford >Sent: May 8, 2020 9:59 AM >To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU >Subject: Re: IBM Developerworks is gone!

Re: Phases of Project in Mainframe

This Redbook looks similar to that z10 SAPR document. It is for a z13. Mainframe from Scratch: Hardware Configuration and z/OS Build http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg248329.html -Original Message- >From: Edward Finnell <000248cce9f3-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> >Sent: Feb 9,

Re: SYNCSORT Question: JFY a numeric field with leading zeroes?

One way I did it was using FINDREP= with STARTPOS and ENDPOS to change space to zero. You can make multiple passes on the output record with multiple IFTHEN=(WHEN=INIT statements - BUILD first then FINDREP or other manipulation after the build. If you have a more recent version that supports

Re: WLM Service Definition Formatter

le to download? > >I can download all the other four files on the site, just not that one. > >Thanks, Bobby > >From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of >Alan Young >Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2019 11:21 AM >To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU >Subject: Re: [IBM-MAIN] WLM S

Re: WLM Service Definition Formatter

The download works here. I do notice it is a ftp link and not an http(s) link. Is it possible your organization is blocking ftp access? -Original Message- >From: "Herring, Bobby" >Sent: Jun 12, 2019 8:31 AM >To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU >Subject: WLM Service Definition Formatter > >I

Re: SDSF API question -- why only REXX & Java?

The Implementing REXX Support in SDSF redbook ( http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg247419.html?Open ) has some sample code for COBOL to call the SDSF interface via REXX. -Original Message- >From: Seymour J Metz >Sent: May 24, 2019 1:01 PM >To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU >Subject:

Re: Java no longer a free lunch

Phoenix SHARE session 23993 - Java Update has details on how it will not affect the mainframe and other details on how the mainframe JVM relates to OpenJ9. I think some of session's statements are somewhere on IBMs site but I am not recalling where at the moment.

Re: Cobol Working Storage size in Dump

You did not specify which compiler version or if the dump is from batch or CICS, but... This link is CICS orientated and was published in 2009, so it may not apply to the "newer" compilers: http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg27017236 . I think the key in either environment is to

Re: Are there compiler options to move Working Storage in Cobol above the line?

Also ask them to look at the file buffers. If VSAM files are used, AMP='RMODE31=ALL' on each DD will move control blocks and buffers above the line. Check to see that files are not excessively buffered or if the specified buffers can be reduced a bit to free storage. On sequential DDs with

Re: zos program to supply web based client

If http is not a requirement, would the RSSERVER socket sample in the z/OS Communication Server be a starting point to roll their own? If http is a requirement, https://www.z-mainframe.com/zbogor-tiny-web-server might be something to look into. Another thought is to install Rocket's

Re: Zowe?

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: System level coding examples

I have the 2nd edition of the book. It does cover data and hiper spaces. They are in the Extended Addressibility section. If memory serves, data spaces were introduced in the 1990s with MVS/ESA 4.x or 5 and Hiperspaces were around before that. The section on Inter Address Space Communications

Re: SHARE St.Louis 2018 Proceedings Extraction Error - Solved!

Linux can extract the files from an .exe file using 7za command in the p7zip package. MacOSX can extract the files with the Keka application. From: Paul Gilmartin <000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> Sent: Tuesday, October 2, 2018 10:16 To:

Re: Zowe needs node.js, which you have to pay for on z/OS

There appears to be some confusion. https://developer.ibm.com/node/sdk/ says "Announcement: Deprecating the IBM SDK for Node.js in favour of the community SDKs Now that AIX on Power, Linux on Power, and Linux on IBM Z are an integral part of the community build process – we are no longer

Re: SUSE splits from Microfocus

And some have gone on to become Perspecta. It is a merger of Vencore, Keypoint and the USPS part of DXC. From: Phil Smith III Sent: Friday, July 6, 2018 10:35 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: SUSE splits from Microfocus R.S. wrote: >What about EDS?

Re: Using JCL Symbld and TYPRUN=SCAN

I have had to do the indirection described in this document to make it work. http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1OA47958 Alan From: Gadi Ben-Avi Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2018 22:59 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Using JCL Symbld and

Re: Rant of the Day - First World Problems

When IBM made the change they should have coordinated with Google to dump the current index of the site and initiate a reindex. Still it was a bit abrupt to do this without warning. A couple of people have left comments on the new landing page requesting reinstatement of that version's KC.

Re: SORTLIB DD

If the dataset is RECFM=F and the tape(s) statistics can be viewed in a tape management product, the record count can be approximated with the sum of the block counts of the tape(s) * the block size and then divided by the LRECL. It is an approximation as it is not known many records are

Re: SORTLIB DD

Can the large file be split into two or more smaller files? One way to split is https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSLTBW_2.1.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r1.iceg200/ice2cg_Splitting.htm Then sort the smaller files and merge the sorted files. Sort will only merge from two DDs at a time.

Re: CLIP?

Edward Gould wrote: Our big boss was trying to show the board how he tried to save money. They sort of forced him into getting STC (now STK) tape drives. All of a sudden some of our jobs were getting S237 (block count did not match trailers), STC said we had bum tapes, we went through all sort of

Re: JCL "diagramming"?

Oh that reminded me... if a site has CA-JCLCHECK, that can produce a flowchart using the GRAPH option. I don't know if the output is similar to JCLFLOW. From: Mike Schwab Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2018 12:57 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU

Re: JCL "diagramming"?

John McKown wrote: ​I forgot my usual disclaimer: This software must not cost any money. That really limits my options.​ There is file 679 on the CBT tape that may be of use. Alan -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff /

Re: VSAM usage for ancient disk models

-Original Message- >From: Edward Gould <edgould1...@comcast.net> >Sent: Jan 16, 2018 6:43 PM >To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU >Subject: Re: VSAM usage for ancient disk models > >> On Jan 16, 2018, at 5:06 PM, Alan Young <ayo...@teleport.com> wrote: >>

Re: VSAM usage for ancient disk models

Not sure how far you want to go back, but take a look at MVS/DFP V3R3 Device Support Reference on http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/library . Section 4.9 - VSAM Usage of Space for Selected Devices has 2305-2, 3330, 3340/3344, 3350, 3375, 3380, 3390 and 9345. The direct link

Re: Off topic - FTP client/server for android that supports the android SD card

Total Commander with the ftp plugin works for me on Android 4.4. However, you may be dealing with a version of Android where the external sdcard permissions were "locked down" by Google and/or the phone/tablet manufacturer. The application may need to be granted access to the sdcard or it has

Re: fopen DD

vetail.com/products/cozbatch.html Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com On Thu, Oct 12, 2017 at 8:19 PM, Alan Young <ayo...@teleport.com> wrote: Try changing the STDENV DD to //STDENV DD * _BPX_BATCH_SPAWN=YES _BPX_SHAREAS=YES /* The variables are discussed in htt

Re: fopen DD

Try changing the STDENV DD to //STDENV DD * _BPX_BATCH_SPAWN=YES _BPX_SHAREAS=YES /* The variables are discussed in https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSLTBW_2.1.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r1.bpxa400/bpxug240.htm -Original Message- >From: Frank Swarbrick

Re: REXX and SDSF question (expanded API question)

Take a look at https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSLTBW_2.1.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r1.isfa500/rexx.htm Peter Ten Eyck wrote: Can someone point me to some documentation (coding examples) on how to use the SDSF API in REXX? I have my REXX/SDSF exec working, but it runs slow issuing those

Re: re-Initialize different types of VSAM files

I guess you want to keep the dataset(s) on the same physical volumes. For the KSDS VSAM file, try ALTERing the dataset with REUSE and then open the dataset as output. I am not sure it will work on a Linear VSAM file, but you can try it. Donald Likens wrote: This is for MQ but really not

Re: JCL to get a report of large datasets

Ron Thomas wrote: Hi . Is there using utility job where i can use it pull all datasets that occupy huge space . Let me know how i can go ahead and do it .? Regards Ron T Run ISMF (Naviquest) in ISPF batch mode. In the same step, run ACBQBAI2 to gather data and then ACBQBAR1 to create

Re: PIC Z is for zero suppression was Re: A slight regression

Clark Morris wrote: [Default] On 30 May 2017 12:35:46 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main peter.far...@broadridge.com (Farley, Peter x23353) wrote: COBOL does have PICTURE usage type "Z" for zero-terminated strings, so you don't have to use the STRING verb to construct constant strings with a

Re: Data/hiperspaces (was: ... 4G bar?)

John McKown wrote: ​IMO, what they mean is that there is not any syntactical language element which encompasses the hiperspace API at a native language level. Example, COBOL has a SORT verb which directly implements a language interface to the "sort" function. As opposed to doing a CALL

Re: Calling bpxwdyn from CA-Easytrieve

copies. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Alan Young Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2017 1:11 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Calling bpxwdyn from CA-Easytrieve I have called it for many years from COBOL using the C

Re: Calling bpxwdyn from CA-Easytrieve

I have called it for many years from COBOL using the C string parameter format (NULL terminated parameter string in the doc). No wrappers needed. Here's a short snippet: WORKING-STORAGE SECTION. 01 WORKAREA. 05 BPXWDYN PIC X(08) VALUE 'BPXWDYN'. 05

Re: how to: convince programmer something else is better.

Is the data going to be stored in a standalone file? If so and the storage filesystem is NTFS, have them turn on NTFS file and folder compression for that folder or just the datasets. It is built in to Windows and will transparently compress the whole dataset and not just blank space fields. If

Re: DDs in USS?

Paul Gilmartin wrote: When I am in a shell, and the only way I can think of to do a RECEIVE is to stuff JCL down an INTRDR with an IKJEFT01 step that invokes a Rexx EXEC to queue a response to the RECEIVE prompt, it hurts as if I've run into a wall. But you'll excuse it if you can call RECEIVE

Re: Envionment variables?

Paul Gilmartin wrote: On Fri, 2 Dec 2016 17:10:27 -0600, John McKown wrote: On Fri, Dec 2, 2016 at 4:57 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: I have, for example an EXEC/Macro that invokes "pax -v" to display a detailed directory of a pax.Z archive. Invoked from a shell, it displays contents

Re: Reading the Command Table

The ISPVCALL debug command displays the active command tables (along with a bunch of other ISPF information) for the user. It writes the information to a dataset and by default it will display the file in a edit session when the trace is ended. The edit display can be suppressed by specifying

Re: curl is Rocket science.

Well, on linux/unix a command line of curl -O downloads a file or page in binary mode. What curl command line are you issuing? -Original Message- >From: Paul Gilmartin <000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> >Sent: Oct 28, 2016 6:05 PM >To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU >Subject:

Re: RFE 73512 - "Better use of ISPF screen names in SDSF"

Robert Prins wrote: To those unfamiliar with the concept of SHADOW variables, a copy of Doug Nadel's Share Winter 1999 paper "ISPF Panels Beyond the Basics" can be found at this ridiculously long and wrapping URL

Re: k4t4949b (September 2016 refresh of the z/OS 2.2 manuals)

Paul Gilmartin wrote: Thanks for your quick action. A few thoughts: o "Admits" is a slightly biased word. 7-Zip is not the problem. By experiment (a scientific sample of one test case) it works fine if one chooses the right options. This is correct. 7zip is not the problem. The

Re: Verify record cound against the file trailer [by SORT?]

Hi Peter, The fine print in Syncsort documentation states NULLOFL only applies to non-SORTOUT OUTFIL statements. If I change the DD of SORTOUT to OUT1 and add a FNAMES=OUT1 parameter to the OUTFIL statement then I get a CC 4 from Sri's example. I have not looked at DFSORT documentation in a

Re: Microprocessor Optimization Primer

David Crayford wrote: How do I find out how much time is spent in JIT overhead compared to actual processing? What tools do you use to profile your JVM apps? Last year I looked into JinsightLive for IBM System z and the IBM Health Center for Java for an cpu and runtime increase a client was

Re: EXTERNAL: Re: IBM z/OS Product Documentation 2016

I think there was a SHARE presentation done explaining how to download all of the PDFs at once, but I agree it needs to be better documented by IBM on their website. Here's how to get a zip of all the PDFs for an z/OS release. Go to the IBM Publications Center at

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: [SURVEY] What ISPF terminal model do you use

orks/blogs/MartinPacker From: Alan Young <ayo...@teleport.com> To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Date: 10/03/2016 21:04 Subject:Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: [SURVEY] What ISPF terminal model do you use Sent by:IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> Ah, y

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: [SURVEY] What ISPF terminal model do you use

& Systems Performance, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter / Facebook IDs: MartinPacker Blog: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/blogs/MartinPacker From: Alan Young <ayo...@teleport.com> To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Date: 10/03/2016 20:

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: [SURVEY] What ISPF terminal model do you use

Try adding the -oversize option as -oversize 43x132. Alan Martin Packer wrote: Yes. And it gives invidious choices: 43 x 80 and 32 x 132. You can guess I'd want 43 x 132. :-) Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Cloud & Systems Performance,

Re: JCL sample needed

David, This sample JCL and REXX EXECs will run ISPF in batch to do the edit. It will need a couple of changes to work on your system. is the dataset to edit like /tmp/ascii.txt is the ISPF message library like SYS1.ISPMLIB is the ISPF table library like SYS1.ISPTLIB //EDITASC EXEC

Re: Sort for not there?

Paul Gilmartin wrote: On Thu, 7 Jan 2016 12:56:14 -0700, Alan Young wrote: It's just like a regexp or unix shell command, precede the special character with a escape backslash. find r'a\'\"b' Nope: SDSF EDITMAINTRCX (JOB06470) JESMSGLG Para

Re: BPXBATCH "SH ...; su; pax ..." does not do what you think it does

Peter Hunkeler wrote: To run commands in a "su" shell environment, you have to write all the commands into a UNIX file first, and then call "su" by redirecting stdin to that UNIX file. echo "id" > /tmp/sucommandfile su < /tmp/sucommandfile The manual has examples of executing

Re: REXX-question

Leopold Strauss wrote: Hi, all I simply wanted to automize the receiving of a lot of XMIT-files in zOS-unix-shell ( not TSO) Last but not least my problem could be broken down to following terminal-input-problem with the RECEIVE-command: rexx-script: parse arg indsn outdsn address tso

Re: I just bought an IBM z890

It looks like the zVM 5.3 Evaluation Edition page is still up at http://www.vm.ibm.com/eval. It is a DVD of a system that can be IPLed and it then runs out of a ramdisk. IIRC, it needs about 3GB to do so. Looking back at the posts I don't see what this z890 has, so this may or may not an

Re: SK3T-4271-28

Robert Prins wrote: I'm trying to find the full (~5GB collection) of z/OS 1.12 manuals, does anyone know if the above (.zip) is still around anywhere. Tried changing URL's, but to no avail... Robert Go to https://www.ibm.com/shop/publications/order Then choose your country Then click on

Re: Is there anything like backtrace_symbols() in LE or the C library on z/OS?

Kirk Wolf wrote: See: http://linux.die.net/man/3/backtrace_symbols Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com CEEURTB in the LE Vendor Interfaces manual? Alan -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive

Re: z/OS Platform Software Products on ... Tape?

Yeah, BD drives have never come down in price like DVD drives did. The 50GB and 100GB media can be expensive too. But then again so is TB tape... I use this combo: http://www.amazon.com/LG-Electronics-Internal-Rewriter-WH14NS40/dp/B007YWMCA8 plus

Re: dynamic allocation for tape using TSO in batch

Larre, Is it possible that the SMS ACS routines are not handling the dynamic tape allocation properly? Another thought is does the step require TSO? If TSO is not required and the program can be called from REXX, can the step execute IRXJCL instead of IKJEFT1A? Alan Larre Shiller wrote:

Re: LE Question

The C runtime I/O functions fopen(), fread(), fwrite(), etc. support hiperspace data if the fopen() file mode parameter type=memory(hiperspace) is specified. The functions are callable from COBOL. You just have to setup the parameters for what C expects and compile with NODYNAM. On our system

Re: InfoCenter TOS?

John McKown wrote: I think you are a bit tongue-in-cheek, but in today's litigious world, who knows? But one thing that I relatively new and which I despise is that, unlike with the old BookManager and PDF, the above definitely means that I __CANNOT__ make a copy of the site for

Re: Dynalloc with FREE=CLOSE,SPIN=UNALLOC

Sam Siegel wrote: My error ... I thought that text units could be added to a dynalloc request. After reading the doc, dynalloc appears to be limited to a subset of svc99 functions. You might have you use the svc99() function and build your own text units. You can specify text units in the

Re: Dynalloc with FREE=CLOSE,SPIN=UNALLOC

Paul Gilmartin wrote: On Sat, 6 Sep 2014 13:16:53 -0700, Alan Young wrote: Sam Siegel wrote: My error ... I thought that text units could be added to a dynalloc request. After reading the doc, dynalloc appears to be limited to a subset of svc99 functions. You might have you use

Re: Sorting CSV data that begins with an IP address

Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh wrote: Hello, I need help sorting some 5000 lines based on the first entry in a CSV - IP address. When sorting, I need the whole record to be involved in the sort, not just the IP's. Sample data: IP,MAC,Make-Model,SEPINFO,Type,Ping,Status,Printer,GRPNAME Warehouse

Re: DYNALLOC reusing DUMMY

Paul Gilmartin wrote: Is in use synonymous with open? Squirrely either way. How can the user control the in use status? Does either TSO ALLOCATE or BPXWDYN provide a keyword? They are not the same. You can have a dataset closed, allocated to the step and the in use attribute set or

Re: Dynamic Allocation in COBOL

Mark Jacobs wrote: This might not be the right forum for this question, but... Doing some very limited in initial research I've found three documented methods of performing Dynamic Allocation in COBOL ( Enterprise COBOL 4.2), BPXWDYN, CEEENV or setenv. Q1) Are there any others?We already