Re: smart phone = lazy user

2015-03-09 Thread Bass, Walter W
-Original Message- On Monday, March 09, 2015 10:56 AM, Elardus Engelbrecht wrote: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/03/150305110546.htm Hmmm - wonder why it took them so long to figure that out. Been that way since decent search engines appeared - I was stoked when I discovered

DB2 query estimator (was: How Does Your Shop Limit Testing in the Production LPAR)

2015-01-09 Thread Bass, Walter W
Speaking as a developer. A few years back we used to pass all new (or troublesome) queries through Visual Explain. We LOVED it. It dramatically improved our ability to tune queries before we implemented them. Then our internal software police took Visual Explain away from us and made us use

Re: [ANN] Lua4z: the Lua programming language on z/OS, with batteries

2014-10-24 Thread Bass, Walter W
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of David Crayford Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2014 10:08 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: [ANN] Lua4z: the Lua programming language on z/OS, with batteries snip OK, let's try

Re: Feebie software

2014-07-07 Thread Bass, Walter W
I saw the exact same situation. Being forced to convert from hourly consultant to salaried employee in the post Y2K cutbacks was the worst thing that has ever happened in my career. The bean counters see salaried employees as a fixed cost (annual salary) for a fixed amount of work (assigned

Re: Accessing TIOT-JFCB segments from COBOL

2014-06-11 Thread Bass, Walter W
Here is sample code that handles SWAREQ logic in COBOL: === IDENTIFICATION DIVISION. PROGRAM-ID.GETJFCB. DATA DIVISION. ** WORKING-STORAGE SECTION.

Re: NSA and Heartbleed

2014-04-14 Thread Bass, Walter W
I find it very entertaining to consider that groups that repeatedly complain about the gross incompetence of the government, will in the next breath pontificate on how that same incompetent government manages to conduct nearly omniscient feats of intelligence and maintain conspiracies comprised

Re: Unicode (was: ... open source ...?)

2013-10-29 Thread Bass, Walter W
Indubitably! -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of John Gilmore Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2013 4:44 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Unicode (was: ... open source ...?) Acerbically perhaps? John Gilmore,

Re: Best Desktop 3D Printers | Digital Trends

2013-10-14 Thread Bass, Walter W
Steve Comstock said: snip Do you suppose you can use a 3D printer to manufacture a 3D printer? /snip Certainly. Google REPRAP. Bill Bass United HealthCare Greenville, SC This e-mail, including attachments, may include confidential and/or proprietary information, and may be used only by the

Re: SYSIN Symbol Resolution vs. LRECL

2013-10-11 Thread Bass, Walter W
Shmuel said: snip You can't get JCL error for a condition detectable only at tun time. IMHO, the best way to handle substitution beyond LRECL is to drive the SYNAD exit. /snip Sure you can. Dataset not found produces a runtime JCL error quite frequently. Bill Bass United HealthCare

Re: Standard TSO/MVS way to delete a PDS(E) member

2013-10-03 Thread Bass, Walter W
I fail to see why you would expect an abend if the member was being edited in ISPF when it was deleted in batch. My expectation was that the batch delete would work fine and that user performing the ISPF edit would not notice any impact. I would expect the following to happen: 1) The member

Re: Standard TSO/MVS way to delete a PDS(E) member

2013-10-03 Thread Bass, Walter W
Ah - OK. Somewhere back in the mists of time I was once aware that the Edit SAVE only enqueued the PDS momentarily, but I failed to recall that fact when needed. So the abend concern is only if the ISPF Edit SAVE occurred at the same instant as the batch delete. A small but admittedly not

Re: Break a dataset into new record boundaries?

2013-01-15 Thread Bass, Walter W
snip I think I just need a PF-key-invocable macro that would split a record at the cursor position, putting the character under the cursor into the latter record. /snip You don't need an edit macro for that one. Just edit the dataset, enter the KEYS command and set the PF key of your

Re: Processing a COBOL COPY book

2013-01-10 Thread Bass, Walter W
I also could not access the document. Like so many other documents at IBM, it is only available via FTP. This is a serious impediment because my company (as do many other companies with paranoid security) blocks all external access via FTP. It would be a great help if IBM would make the various

Re: Strange PDS members

2012-10-12 Thread Bass, Walter W
Lizette, I agree with Skip Robertson. EDIT PACK is probably on. This not something defined per the dataset. This is specified in the EDIT PROFILE and is applied at the MEMBER level, not the dataset level. I.E. You can have just one member within a PDS saved with PACK ON and still have

Re: Unsetting a JCL symbol.

2012-07-18 Thread Bass, Walter W
symbol. But doesn't line 2 set MYSYM to 'INITVAL'? -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Bass, Walter W Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2012 10:33 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Unsetting a JCL symbol. Paul, Note in your

Re: Unsetting a JCL symbol.

2012-07-17 Thread Bass, Walter W
Try this ... //* SAVE CURRENT VALUE OF MYSYM // SET SAVESYM=MYSYM //* SET MYSYM TO A NEW VALUE // SET MYSYM='NEWVAL' ... //* RESTORE MYSYM // SET MYSYM=SAVESYM Probably not the answer you wanted, but it works. Another possibility is to take advantage of the fact that symbols that