Re: RMM tape movement to vault

2020-12-01 Thread Joe Testa
Jake, RMM uses a Vital Record Specification (VRS) to control tape movement from one location to another. A VRS can be defined with many attributes to select the criteria for moving tapes. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Jake Anderson Sent: Monday,

Re: Need help with ISPF Dialogue Manager and VGET

2018-08-01 Thread Joe Testa
Yes, you need VDEFINEs to map the ISPF dialog variable names to storage locations in your Assembler program, so that VGET knows where to save the data it gets. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Beverly Caldwell Sent: Wednesday, August 1, 2018 2:43 PM

Re: An explanation for branch performance?

2016-04-29 Thread Joe Testa
There seems to be little point worrying about the time needed to branch past an eyecatcher at the start of a program, compared to the time used by the rest of the program. From: Mike Schwab Sent: Friday, April 29, 2016 10:27 AM Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU

Re: Split screen ISPF edit copy?

2015-06-23 Thread Joe Testa
CLIP and GLUE -Original Message- From: John McKown Sent: Tuesday, June 23, 2015 12:40 PM Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Split screen ISPF edit copy? On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 11:24 AM, Charles Mills charl...@mcn.org wrote: In a split

Re: Split screen ISPF edit copy?

2015-06-23 Thread Joe Testa
Scratch that ... these seem to be local macros we have here. -Original Message- From: Joe Testa Sent: Tuesday, June 23, 2015 12:42 PM Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Split screen ISPF edit copy? CLIP and GLUE -Original Message

Re: Stop RELEASE of a tape

2015-05-06 Thread Joe Testa
From DFSMSrmm Guide and Reference Changing Pending Actions To reclaim volumes: a.. From pending release, use the CHANGEVOLUME subcommand with a volume serial number and either the RETPD or EXPDT operands. -- jat -Original Message- From: Mark Pace Sent: Wednesday, May 06, 2015

Re: IBM’s reorg-from-Hell launches next week - Cringely

2015-01-26 Thread Joe Testa
To see the full article, use your favorite search engine and search, WITH quotes, for the full article title: IBM Dismisses Report of Massive Layoffs then click on the first search result. -Original Message- From: Mark Regan Sent: Monday, January 26, 2015 4:03 PM Newsgroups:

Re: curious: volsers 6 non-blank chars non-numeric tape

2014-03-14 Thread Joe Testa
From the JCL reference manual for the DD statement: [volume] serial-number subparameters (1 - 255): volume serial numbers (1 - 6 alphanumeric, $, #, @, or special characters) -Original Message- From: Ken Smith Sent: Friday, March 14, 2014 3:43 PM Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main To:

Re: Volume Restriction Using an EXIT

2014-03-12 Thread Joe Testa
Maybe we should prepare him for DELETION (FREEZE). -Original Message- From: mf db Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2014 11:26 AM Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Volume Restriction Using an EXIT The board is at the end of the month? ?? On Wed,

Re: slightly O/T but interesting

2013-01-23 Thread Joe Testa
Biometrics not reliable: at Heathrow Airport they have iris scanners. Once when you enter the security area, a second time when you are getting ready to go into the gate area. I didn't match between the first time and the second time ... how could that be? Well, I wear progressive-lens