Re: Communication between two computer systems (LPARS or physical)

2021-08-10 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
es who issued the WTO and also doesn't just take some literal text from the WTO and have that executed as the actual command... since a mechanism like that is likely to get misused. -- Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own. -

Re: Coding for the future - REXX quoting

2021-06-25 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
On Fri, 25 Jun 2021, at 15:00, Paul Gilmartin wrote: > In TSO, the argument of ADDRESS is case-insensitive; in CMS, case-sensitive. > I understand it's a PSW. Sounds dangerous. PSW? -- Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions

Re: Coding for the future

2021-06-25 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
On Fri, 25 Jun 2021, at 02:37, David Crayford wrote: > On 24/06/2021 9:44 pm, Jeremy Nicoll wrote: > > On Thu, 24 Jun 2021, at 01:57, David Crayford wrote: > > > >> For example, to create and ISPF in Lua you instantiate and ISPF object > >> and then commu

Re: Coding for the future

2021-06-25 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
s ugly. For those who haven't seen this sort of thing in other languages, here's how it's done in perl and python: https://perlmaven.com/here-documents https://www.w3schools.com/python/gloss_python_multi_line_strings.asp -- Jeremy Nico

Re: ISPF Edit: Introduce New SUBMIT Module

2021-06-24 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
ule, whereas it could ... if that was a (tso) command processor. -- Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: ISPF Edit: Introduce New SUBMIT Module

2021-06-24 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
ile buffer without (already) using ispf services via isplink or ispexec? - ISTR you wanted to TPUT info to the screen? Why would you do that when instead you could use SETMSG to display it in a standard ispf message? -- Jeremy Nico

Re: ISPF Edit: Introduce New SUBMIT Module

2021-06-24 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
in any application. Eg the "tso" that one can type before a tso command on a commandline executes a "select ..." via a command-table definition (or it used to). -- Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own.

Re: ISPF Edit: Introduce New SUBMIT Module

2021-06-24 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
not want to write an Edit Macro to do this. (I already wrote one of > these). nor do want to invoke an Edit Macro which will call the Command > Processor. Why precisely is an edit macro not an adequate solution, if you write it in assembler? -- Jeremy Nicol

Re: Coding for the future

2021-06-24 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
t can you use lua to tell ispf edit to run a macro (written in lua) and can that macro issue ispf editor commands, and also display ispf panels (eg to find out what the macro should do or display its results) and issue tso commands? How about replacing REXX in eg Netview? -- Jeremy Nicoll - my opi

Re: Coding for the future

2021-06-20 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
On Sun, 20 Jun 2021, at 20:03, Jeremy Nicoll wrote: > I have in the past rather than using just numbered elements of stems eg > > thing.1 = "The problem here is" > thing.2 = 21 > thing.3 = 25 > > typically defined > > _errpfx = 1 ; _xcoord

Re: Coding for the future

2021-06-20 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
On Sun, 20 Jun 2021, at 19:08, Paul Gilmartin wrote: > On Sun, 20 Jun 2021 18:08:39 +0100, Jeremy Nicoll wrote: > >> > > >> I see. I'd be inclined to code the repetitive part of that as a loop. > > > >There'd be no gain in converting the 8 separat

Re: Coding for the future

2021-06-20 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
On Sun, 20 Jun 2021, at 17:25, Paul Gilmartin wrote: > On Sun, 20 Jun 2021 16:09:54 +0100, Jeremy Nicoll wrote: > > > >> So what would you do? Suppose it'd not just [been] three things > >> that need to be exclu[d]ed first but, say, twenty? > > > >sele

Re: Coding for the future

2021-06-20 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
On Sun, 20 Jun 2021, at 15:57, Jeremy Nicoll wrote: > So what would you do? Suppose it'd not just three things > that need to be exclued first but, say, twenty? Oops, sent that too soon. I find it useful often, usually when validating things, eg: select when words(f!ce_bfe) \

Re: Coding for the future

2021-06-20 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
On Sun, 20 Jun 2021, at 13:39, Paul Gilmartin wrote: > On Sun, 20 Jun 2021 10:48:09 +0100, Jeremy Nicoll wrote: > >Really? What's wrong with > > > >select > > when name='' then nop > > when st<>'NC' then nop > > when Ge

Re: Coding for the future

2021-06-20 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
work so well. There'd be nothing wrong with the less elegant select when name='' then nop when st<>'NC' then nop otherwise do amount = GetAmount(userID) if amount <= then call ProcessUser end -- Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own. --

Re: Noise token "EXTERNAL"

2021-06-19 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
On Sat, 19 Jun 2021, at 17:04, Paul Gilmartin wrote: > On Sat, 19 Jun 2021 16:23:05 +0100, Jeremy Nicoll wrote: > > > >> Can it [EXTERNAL] be suppressed? > > > >Only if the listserv has configurable Subject editing, I expect ... > >or if it can be forced to rei

Re: Coding for the future

2021-06-19 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
discussions go off-topic and people edit the Subject: usefully. Some email/news clients can be set-up to elide words from Subject lines (sometimes used to strip "Re: Re: Ad: RE:" etc from Subject lines. > On Sat, 19 Jun 2021 08:51:57 +0100, Jeremy Nicoll wrote: > >.

Re: EXTERNAL: Coding for the future

2021-06-19 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
compiler simpler to write, and solved the problem of a compiler having to decide on nested ifs which one an else belonged to (the "hanging else" problem - usually solved by assuming an else belongs to the most recent if). Because it made clear whether an else would be expected it

Re: EXTERNAL: Coding for the future

2021-06-18 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
a lot easier later to add code within the do/ends of if fx then do ntim=ntim+1 end else do nres=nres+1 end than to have to add all the do/end stuff as well as the debugging code later on. It's also easier, if need be, to comment the if and else parts

Re: Coding for the future

2021-06-17 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
On Thu, 17 Jun 2021, at 18:27, Seymour J Metz wrote: > My mantra for the past half century has been "You have > to carve the bird at the joints." Squawk! Translation: "leave the bird alone!" -- Jeremy Nicol

Re: Coding for the future

2021-06-16 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
passes processed the whole set - originals and the intermediate ones. The macro names and the parms they took were obviously the same throughout but the code in the macros was different in the first 2 passes from that in the second 2 passes. -- Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are

Re: Coding for the future

2021-06-16 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
nd when I finally write code a lot of the hard work has already been done. -- Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Coding for the future

2021-06-15 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
On Tue, 15 Jun 2021, at 23:06, Bob Bridges wrote: > In a recent email one of our number, whose name I won't mention except to > say that his initials are Jeremy Nicoll, made a comment that got me thinking > about ~my~ past and present coding habits. Caramba! Who was it then? I&#

Re: Can I sense the LIBDEF status?

2021-06-12 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
work, if the alloc had worked. > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of > Jeremy Nicoll > Sent: Friday, June 11, 2021 18:19 > > Twenty+ years ago I always used ALLOC to allocate the datasets > concerned, and only if that worked t

Re: Can I sense the LIBDEF status?

2021-06-11 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
On Fri, 11 Jun 2021, at 21:02, Paul Gilmartin wrote: > Do LIBDEF/ALTLIB immediately ALLOCATE the data sets named? Twenty+ years ago I always used ALLOC to allocate the datasets concerned, and only if that worked then issued LIBDEF/ALTLIB via their ddname interfaces. -- Jeremy Nicoll -

Re: Currently executing TCB in an address space

2021-05-16 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
now what is executing where? -- Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Dataset contention

2021-03-31 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
> the inherent vast volume of the data, the only reasonable real-world > solution is "trust but verify" your employee's activities. The thing is, verification IMO should amount to more than someone just signing-off Joe

Re: Load module

2021-03-30 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
ssibly could, would it be better if it was reassembled with the right RACF version's macros and right OS's macros? Or does it use no macros (even if they're only for mapping DSECTs) at all? -- Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own. ---

Re: Abend S052-104

2021-03-28 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
n in a different address space from the earlier job? -- Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Dataset contention

2021-03-26 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
ng jobs just wastes system resources. Does nobody supervise what you and your colleagues do? -- Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists

Re: Dataset contention

2021-03-26 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
) and try again if exclusive use was granted, update the file, free it again, and stop trying end -- Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instruc

Re: Dataset contention

2021-03-26 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
com/us/en/ca-mainframe-software/traditional-management/ca-mim-for-z-os/12-5/search.html?page=1 says that the format of MIM1039I is job jobid asid tcb needs type qname rname What qname value are you seeing? -- Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own. ---

Re: Can I use a REXX PLIST when calling a COBOL program?

2021-03-22 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
On Mon, 22 Mar 2021, at 22:30, Paul Gilmartin wrote: > On Mon, 22 Mar 2021 19:41:10 +0000, Jeremy Nicoll wrote: > > >On Mon, 22 Mar 2021, at 19:27, Rich Tabor wrote: > > > > LINKAGE SECTION. >

Re: Can I use a REXX PLIST when calling a COBOL program?

2021-03-22 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
program name, not a variable containing it, and the other values are the name of variables. Linkpgm will )in this case) build the parm list with three parm addresses in it. -- Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: lost mainframe info

2021-03-12 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
a screenshot? Apart from the "MTI-1" literal you mentioned, do any of the listed services have any clues at all in their names? -- Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / si

Re: lost mainframe info

2021-03-12 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
an account number or (if by eg PayPal) an email address? Were there no support emails? -- Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.e

Re: lost mainframe info

2021-03-12 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
contact info or at least the name of the company ? If your client /rented/ facilities surely they had a contract of some sort, and thus must know the company name etc? How did they logon? Was there an ip address involved? -- Jeremy Nicoll - my opin

Re: Where UADS dataset name goes in case of ACF2?

2021-03-03 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
e how you can safely run a system at all. How would you protect your datasets and other resources? -- Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lis

Re: Where UADS dataset name goes in case of ACF2?

2021-03-03 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
On Wed, 3 Mar 2021, at 17:11, ITschak Mugzach wrote: > I looked at RCVT in an ACF2 system, but the RCVTUADS is nullified. How can > I locate the active UADS in this case? What would a UADS be used for on such a system? Wouldn't everything user-related be under ACF2 control? -- Je

Re: Sharing data sets VSAM VB

2021-02-25 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
On Thu, 25 Feb 2021, at 21:10, Paul Gilmartin wrote: > On Thu, 25 Feb 2021 14:56:36 +0000, Jeremy Nicoll wrote: > >... Better, use several trailing steps and conditional jcl ... > > > That's *so* 20th Century. Better, wrap the payload in a Rexx > program t

Re: Sharing data sets VSAM VB

2021-02-25 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
) to rename that flagfile to indicate if the job ran ok, or had bad step CCs, or abended. Alternatively have each step append information into the flagfile, and that way you can (also) record when the job started to run, what it did etc. -- J

Re: XMITIP and ANTI SPOOF message

2021-02-18 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
On Thu, 18 Feb 2021, at 21:41, Tom Brennan wrote: > On 2/18/2021 12:15 PM, Jeremy Nicoll wrote: > > How would someone spoof that, unless they had access to my > > mail hosting company's servers? > > ... or coded their own SMTP relay program... Ok, yes, also if they

Re: Anyway to save ISRDDN output?

2021-02-18 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
How do they know that the file hasn't been created by hand, or edited between being produced and sent? -- Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send em

Re: XMITIP and ANTI SPOOF message

2021-02-18 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
the email in a header whose format depends on the mail system concerned. For example I see X-Delivered-To: headers in some of my mail. How would someone spoof that, unless they had access to my mail hosting company's servers? -- Jeremy Nicoll - my

Re: wc3270 or NOTEPAD++ help

2021-02-13 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
or mingw environment). -- Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: wc3270 or NOTEPAD++ help

2021-02-12 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
e default transfer buffer size of 65535. hostSpecifies the host name or IP address of the remote host to connect to. Notes: - mget and mput commands take y/n/q for yes/no/quit. - Use Control-C to abort commands. C

Re: Rexx stem variable question

2021-02-02 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
without anything prior referring to "tax.". In most of my code there is eg a tax. = 0 or whatever I think I'd like the default value of any element of tax. to contain, and I usually comment what that stem will be used for, and its structure at the same time. --

Re: JES PREPRINT

2021-01-29 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
st an 8-character value that could - for all we know - be a DEST value or a FORMs name or something that has significance in a specifc site. Maybe an external writer's work selection criteria selected those bits of sysout and did something with them. -- Jeremy Nicoll -

Re: ISPF for mainframe Linux

2021-01-29 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
On Fri, 29 Jan 2021, at 19:29, Paul Gilmartin wrote: > On Fri, 29 Jan 2021 19:06:55 +0000, Jeremy Nicoll wrote: > > >On Fri, 29 Jan 2021, at 03:27, David Crayford wrote: > >... > >Later, I wrote a PF-key driven editor (that is users did not have to > >remember

Re: ISPF for mainframe Linux

2021-01-29 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
dit, with 18 or so years' use of ispf edit in the middle period to confuse me. -- Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: ISPF for mainframe Linux

2021-01-28 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
Software http://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/10153/Macro-Processors-and-Techniques-for-Portable-Software/ (IIRC Peter Brown was a prof elsewhere - Univ of Canterbury? - and I do remember him coming as a visiting lecturer.) -- Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own. --

Re: ISPF for mainframe Linux

2021-01-28 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
On Thu, 28 Jan 2021, at 19:44, Jeremy Nicoll wrote: > On Thu, 28 Jan 2021, at 07:58, David Crayford wrote: > > I think your the one missing the point. I can't remember the last time I > > had to write a macro as I can do the things I need just using commands. > > I

Re: ISPF for mainframe Linux

2021-01-28 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
the contents of one set of lines with another via prefix commands. -- Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: ISPF for mainframe Linux

2021-01-28 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
point of supporting a whole programming language of its own and might not issue any editor commands at all, it's harder to justify. -- Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive

Re: ISPF for mainframe Linux

2021-01-28 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
to write a parser for validating that data, whereas to some extent the approach I took here allowed me to use all those function calls to do some of the enforcement of the structure of the definitions. It also meant that when I had to adjust the code, I had the code and the search definiti

Re: Request for help with removing sequence numbers from PDS members

2021-01-11 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
ere one sets the addressing environment to ispexec before issuing a series of commands all intended to be executed under the ispexec environment. If you also have non-ispf commands following that you will need to set their environments appropriately. And of course it needs run in an ispf environment,

Re: Using symbolic DD names

2020-12-31 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
rding to ISPF Dialog Developer's Guide and Reference, zscreen is a 1-byte variable containing: Logical screen number up to 32 screens (1-9, A-W) -- Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: EBCDIC-ASCII converter and other tools

2020-12-30 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
On Tue, 29 Dec 2020, at 19:25, Rupert Reynolds wrote: > novalue: > error: > trace R > xxErrL = ERL > xxErrN = RC > say > say "ERROR" xxErrN > say errortext(xxErrN) > say sourceline(xxErrL) > trace ?i > nop > nop > exit What a

Re: How test correct procstep RC with JCL IF?

2020-12-11 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
On Fri, 11 Dec 2020, at 20:01, Charles Mills wrote: > //FOO EXEC MYPROC,PRM1=A,PRM2=B,LBL=FOO > //FOO EXEC MYPROC,PRM1=C,PRM2=D,LBL=BAR > > It's an invitation to errors. So I see. Shouldn't the last line have been //BAR EXEC MYPROC,PRM1=C,PRM2=D,LBL=BAR -- Jeremy Ni

Re: TSO ALLOCATE Pathname Length?

2020-12-05 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
all the HDR1 label has space for). Spaces and other special characters are valid in such names. The JCL ref manual has an example of a valid DSN='AB CD'. I don't know whether it'd be valid to define a datasetname on such a tape as having just a single-letter name. I don

Re: Auto Reply on SDSF Console

2020-12-01 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
VS REPLY ' REPLYID ',NO') > > ROUTE(ONE AUTO1)) NETLOG(Y); > > > > With everything coded in the MAT, there is no need for a rexx!!! -- Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Extraneous blanks in SDSF issued command

2020-11-30 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
ISFIN dd statement? If so, does that presume card images? -- Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Auto Reply on SDSF Console

2020-11-30 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
, 2007. ftp://public.dhe.ibm.com/software/tivoli/netview/dqgl2mst.pdf Look at the last few lines of the sample ACTAPPLS exec, on p188. -- Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instru

Re: Auto Reply on SDSF Console

2020-11-30 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
ead the whole message if it needs to. -- Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Auto Reply on SDSF Console

2020-11-30 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
unction to strip off leading and trailing blanks or > hexadecimal zeroes. > >Syntax: STRIP(varname) > where 'varname' is the variable name whose value without > leading and trailing blanks and hexadec

Re: Auto Reply on SDSF Console

2020-11-30 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
sive values in the 'volume' var. Given volume = 'SP5145 ' , 'SP5146 ' , 'SP5147 ' (though since that's a list of volsers I doubt very much I'd have called that var 'volume' - surely eg 'volslist' wou

Re: Auto Reply on SDSF Console

2020-11-30 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
uses strip(). -- Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Auto Reply on SDSF Console

2020-11-30 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
On Mon, 30 Nov 2020, at 12:42, Barkow, Eileen wrote: > STRIP is not allowed in NETVIEW REXX Why do you say that? -- Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructi

Re: Has anyone integrated Rexx with IKJPARS?

2020-11-23 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
nts? And sigl? It'd be deeply confusing if the sigl-derived line number in an error message was really a statement number rather than the physical line number in the squished code. Imagine if a single line had several similar statements on it... you wouldn't know which one had caused

Re: Has anyone integrated Rexx with IKJPARS?

2020-11-23 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
REXX is more efficient something that everyone here accepts? -- Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Has anyone integrated Rexx with IKJPARS?

2020-11-23 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
rue under TSO etc - there's nothing to stop you providing a closing bracket, if you want one. -- Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Has anyone integrated Rexx with IKJPARS?

2020-11-23 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
On Tue, 24 Nov 2020, at 00:34, Al Ferguson wrote: > ADDRESS “MVS” “EXECIO ” Why do you have quotes around 'MVS'? -- Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / a

Re: Running same stc in a LPAR

2020-11-23 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
stance of the STC was started with a unique T= parm. -- Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Has anyone integrated Rexx with IKJPARS?

2020-11-20 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
ngth(rgt_frag) if r_frg_sz > 0 then rgt_frag = left(rgt_frag,r_frg_sz-1) /* The remaining text is built from non-null end fragments: */ l_frg_sz = length(lft_frag) r_frg_sz = length(rgt_frag) select when l_frg_sz > 0 & r

Re: Has anyone integrated Rexx with IKJPARS?

2020-11-19 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
OKEN!YOURTOKEN (I also sometimes have an escaped blank character so that an exec that expects a single token as its argument could be given !the!meaning!of!life but still process that as "the meaning of life". Or I pass tokens which are: c2x(whatever) -- Jeremy Nicoll - my opin

Re: SADUMP IPL tape

2020-11-19 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
ogram (at least, 20+ years ago) was a different matter. That was generally placed on specific disk volumes. The SADUMP tape was only used to get the system IPLed and make it load the disk-resident program. Has this process changed? -- Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions a

Re: Is there a JES2 command to submit a job?

2020-11-19 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
ps and combined code written in assember and rexx. -- Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Is there a JES2 command to submit a job?

2020-11-19 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
ome don't. The significant point is that they start immediately (rather than waiting for an initiator), and they tend to do system-y things rather than user or batch-suite ones. -- Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own. --

Re: Is there a JES2 command to submit a job?

2020-11-19 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
. You only need the $TA aspect if you want JES2 to handle the aspect of deciding when the STC is to execute. -- Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructi

Re: ISPF dsn sort

2020-10-15 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
st number of files)? If that's the case, you'd expect a larger delay each time you scroll the list too, at least until all the rows of the underlying table have been populated. It might be possible to work out what's going on by running the panel's logic under dialog test, i

Re: dataset allocation

2020-10-08 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
I'd expect them to get annoyed with you. -- Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: dataset allocation

2020-10-08 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
sysprog reply a bit earlier saying that such classes DO exist? > I not working for a software co where I can go APF authorized and do > what ever I want Things may have changed but I don't recall APF authorisation having anything to do with time limits. Speak to your sysprogs

Re: dataset allocation

2020-10-08 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
of running through a list of dsnames and generating DD statements for them. What is it about that that's complicated? -- Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access ins

Re: dataset allocation

2020-10-08 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
d you need to send actual dsnames to someone else? What on earth is so difficult about building JCL? It's just lines of text. -- Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access i

Re: dataset allocation

2020-10-07 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
sible, to help sell VM, CMS and Xedit as a development tool. -- Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: dataset allocation

2020-10-07 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
hand write that many dd statements? All you'd have to do is read the dataset list a line at a time and use a clist or rexx exec or whatever to generate jcl dd statements for each one. -- Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own.

Re: dataset allocation

2020-10-07 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
On Wed, 7 Oct 2020, at 22:04, Paul Gilmartin wrote: > On Wed, 7 Oct 2020 11:36:12 -0400, Joseph Reichman wrote: > > > >There is a maximum of 5 min CPU time for job step > > On Wed, 7 Oct 2020 18:15:56 +0100, Jeremy Nicoll wrote: > >On Wed, 7 Oct 2020, at 18:06, Joseph

Re: dataset allocation

2020-10-07 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
y the editor, not by the macro's own logic, and the change command likewise. -- Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: dataset allocation

2020-10-07 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
you then examine those in much more detail? -- Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: dataset allocation

2020-10-07 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
On Wed, 7 Oct 2020, at 14:49, Paul Gilmartin wrote: > On Wed, 7 Oct 2020 13:45:04 +0100, Jeremy Nicoll wrote: > >... > >Alternatively, maybe you never wrote any edit macros in anything other > >than REXX? ISTR that one could use any SAA language, eg COBOL or > >

Re: dataset allocation

2020-10-07 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
On Wed, 7 Oct 2020, at 15:40, Robert Prins wrote: > On 2020-10-07 11:00, Jeremy Nicoll wrote: > > On Wed, 7 Oct 2020, at 04:03, Wayne Bickerdike wrote: > > > >> On a different note. I just compared EDIT macro performance versus > >> IPOUPDTE. IPOUPDTE was about 6

Re: dataset allocation

2020-10-07 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
was in REXX) or scanning through the file line by line, compared with calling editor commands (which one would expect to be fairly efficient)? -- Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff

Re: blanks at the end of Unix file names - was LMINIT cannot handle concatenation with more than 16 data sets?

2020-09-30 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
7;t find any member name > containing lower case characters. An IBM employee has said > on this list that those names are invalid. Well they weren't invalid back then. -- Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own. -

Re: Constant Identifiers

2020-09-05 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
they are not then this isn't an example of what > you're talking about. Did you accidentally reverse your meaning? Or > what am I missing? He meant defining TWO = 2 earlier. -- Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own. ---

Re: REXX true/false (was Constant Identifiers)

2020-09-05 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
t > way in the first place. This is better: > > if fx then str='true'; else str=true Not really. That might as well have been str = "true" but somewhat pointless. (Sorry.) -- Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own. -

Re: How to determine which SMP CSI is used

2020-08-19 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
nstall got into a mess. Maybe someone (else) then restarted with a new CSI and zones and never got rid of the old one. Another possibility is that neither CSI contains the FMID. Maybe there's other CSIs yet to be discovered. We just don't know what sort of mess the OP has inherited. -

Re: How to determine which SMP CSI is used

2020-08-19 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
On Wed, 19 Aug 2020, at 14:51, Itschak Mugzach wrote: > or just browse one of the PTFs and see the FMID. Than use the SMPE ISPF > interface option 3.2 (Cross Zone Query) to see if the FMID is installed... Surely that presupposes that the ispf dialog is pointed at the right CSI? -- Jeremy

Re: Edit Macro

2020-08-07 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
the parm value. > This is the results: > >>O> "EDIT DATASET('XXX0111.DATA(DATAXX)') MACRO(EICUPDT) > PARM(1)" <---This is the last line that the trace produced I don't see how it's possible for the code you posted to hav

Re: ISPF development question

2020-07-30 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
startup exec I allocated the PDS and issued all the necessary LIBDEF commands with LIBRARY(ddname), which - only needing one PDS to be allocated (by me, not LIBDEF itself) presumably speeded things up. -- Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own. --

Re: OOBOL and English was Re: Still COBOL After All These Years?

2020-07-23 Thread Jeremy Nicoll
That in turn might dictate that a wearer shouldn't be more than (say) 120 kg nor be falling more than 20m. -- Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructio

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