Re: grep ascii files...

2024-04-18 Thread Kirk Wolf
autoconversion? Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies https://coztoolkit.com On Thu, Apr 18, 2024, at 8:06 AM, Lionel B. Dyck wrote: > I just used grep on a file tagged ISO8859 and it worked without using iconv. > > t ISO8859-1 T=on -rwxr-xr-x 1 XXX ZZZ 2618 Feb 20 08:21

Re: grep ascii files...

2024-04-18 Thread Kirk Wolf
Behold the power of Unix pipelines: $ iconv -f ISO8859-1 -t IBM-1047 myasciifile | grep MATCH iconv is not "first converting" the the whole file to EBCDIC since both iconv and grep run at the same time :-) Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies https://coztoolkit.com On Thu, Apr 18,

Re: How do one return a fullword binary to a C program from an assembler subroutine?

2024-04-16 Thread Kirk Wolf
: int MYASM(void); #pragma linkage (MYASM,OS_NOSTACK) ... int answer = MYASM(); The return value is R15 from assembler. Parameters are passed via a plist pointed to by R1 in the normal way. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies https://coztoolkit.com On Tue, Apr 16, 2024, at 3:14 PM, Willy Jensen wrote

Re: How can I determine MVS FQDSN from DD Name in Batch COBOL Program?

2024-03-26 Thread Kirk Wolf
at anything you want from C/C++.It's been very reliable for many years in all sorts of use cases. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http:// <http://dovetail.com>coztoolkit.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / a

Re: IGGCSI00 Catalog Search interface

2024-03-14 Thread Kirk Wolf
AFAIK this is not in the catalog, but there are some flags in the Format1 DSCB: DS1LARGE, DS1EATTR, DS1STRP Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http:// <http://dovetail.com>coztoolkit.com On Thu, Mar 14, 2024, at 8:19 AM, Don Johnson wrote: > Good morning! > > I am working wi

Re: Nanosecond resolution timestamps for HLL's?

2024-02-28 Thread Kirk Wolf
FWIW, JZOS has an api: com.ibm.jzos.ZUtil::getTodClockExtended() https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/sdk-java-technology/8?topic=jzos-zutil Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http:// <http://dovetail.com>coztoolkit.com -- F

Re: Where are Unix reason codes over 7371 documented

2024-02-04 Thread Kirk Wolf
If access to the specified network is required, the user must be permitted to the appropriate SAF resource Maybe you have a Comm Server SERVAUTH rule that is not permitting access to the network? Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http:// <http://dovetail.com>coztoolkit.com On Sat, Feb 3,

Re: New SSH vulnerability

2024-01-25 Thread Kirk Wolf
se you are only protecting SSHD connections from this MITM attack. FYI - information on configuring OpenSSH can be found here: https://coztoolkit.com/docs/pt-quick-inst/pto-inst-cpacf.html#pto-inst-cpacf-enable Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http:// <http://dovetail.com>coztoolkit.com On

Re: netcat for z/OS?

2024-01-12 Thread Kirk Wolf
I can neither confirm nor deny that IBM's ssh-proxyc is based on BSD netcat. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http:// <http://dovetail.com>coztoolkit.com On Fri, Jan 12, 2024, at 10:42 AM, Grant Taylor wrote: > On 1/12/24 10:02 AM, Kirk Wolf wrote: > > IBM ships a command w

Re: netcat for z/OS?

2024-01-12 Thread Kirk Wolf
IBM ships a command with z/OS: "ssh-proxyc - HTTP SOCKS-5 Proxy command for ssh client" See the IBM z/OS OpenSSH User's Guide for more information. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http:// <http://dovetail.com>coztoolkit.com On Thu, Jan 11, 2024, at 10:16 PM, Frank

Re: SSH tunneling for unattended process.

2024-01-11 Thread Kirk Wolf
that is a problem, but it wasn't the issue. PS> I tunnel tn3270 in ssh all the time, and I never store any passwords in files or scripts or pass them in command lines. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http:// <http://dovetail.com>coztoolkit.com On Thu, Jan 11, 2024, at 1:42 PM, Rick Tr

Re: SSH tunneling for unattended process.

2024-01-11 Thread Kirk Wolf
Did I say anything about using passwords for ssh? Again, this has nothing to do with your assertion that using tn3270 over a ssh tunnel would expose the userid and password. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http:// <http://dovetail.com>coztoolkit.com PS> I use a ssh key agent on m

Re: SSH tunneling for unattended process.

2024-01-10 Thread Kirk Wolf
Jon, I don't think you answered my question. If on your client you set up a TN3270 tunnel with: ssh -L 623:127.0.0.1:623 zoshost and then connect your tn3270 client to port localhost:623 and login How EXACTLY is your userid and password exposed? Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http

Re: SSH tunneling for unattended process.

2024-01-09 Thread Kirk Wolf
hat traffic on one socket across the loopback adapter can be seen by something other than the processes on the ends of the socket or a privileged process? Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http:// <http://dovetail.com>coztoolkit.com --

Re: OpenSSH CVE-2023-48795 vulnerability

2024-01-05 Thread Kirk Wolf
This would be found in the IBM Security Portal. Here is information on registering to obtain access: https://www.ibm.com/community/z/wp-content/uploads/sites/14/2022/06/zSystem-Integrity.pdf Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http:// <http://dovetail.com>coztoolkit.com On Fri, Jan 5, 2024

Re: Looking for COBOL SYSADATA record layouts

2023-12-16 Thread Kirk Wolf
you'll likely find that you only need a couple of record types. You could just type these into structs in a few hours, and it would be easier than translating from Java code. But mapping the ADATA records is by far the easiest part :-) Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http:// &

Re: Looking for COBOL SYSADATA record layouts

2023-12-16 Thread Kirk Wolf
time and I'm not 100% sure that IBM provided DSECTS, but I think that they did. I looked and can't find them either. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http:// <http://dovetail.com>coztoolkit.com PS> When it comes to mapping Cobol records in C, you'll find that the basic stuff i

Re: Anyone with zCX docker hands on?

2023-11-09 Thread Kirk Wolf
On many archs, ChaCha20-Poly1305 is implemented using vector instructions. On z/OS, OpenSSH now supports a SIMD (vector) enhance version. Not quite as good as CPACF with AES+SHA256 however. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http:// <http://dovetail.com>coztoolkit.com On Thu, Nov 9

Re: Rocket miniconda frustrations

2023-11-05 Thread Kirk Wolf
systems. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http:// <http://dovetail.com>coztoolkit.com On Fri, Nov 3, 2023, at 6:44 PM, Jousma, David wrote: > We do pay for GIT client support through IBM, which I realize is actually > rocket support behind the scenes.cURL used to come packaged with G

Re: Access to PDS(E) ISPF statistics outside of TSO/ISPF

2023-10-10 Thread Kirk Wolf
With Java, the JZOS Toolkit has an interface to PDS directories, including MemberStatistics https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/sdk-java-technology/8?topic=SSYKE2_8.0.0/com.ibm.java.zsecurity.api.80.doc/com.ibm.jzos/overview-summary.htm Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http:// <http://dovetail.

Re: Assembler access to USS functions

2023-10-06 Thread Kirk Wolf
RE dubbing which happens at the first kernel call.Look in the LE books if you don't believe me. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http:// <http://dovetail.com>coztoolkit.com On Thu, Oct 5, 2023, at 8:15 PM, Seymour J Metz wrote: > The issue isn't what has access to environmental variabl

Re: Assembler access to USS functions

2023-10-03 Thread Kirk Wolf
he envar table could be there (in the CEEEDB I believe). Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http:// <http://dovetail.com>coztoolkit.com On Tue, Oct 3, 2023, at 11:22 AM, Farley, Peter wrote: > Unfortunately none of those callable services provides access to the POSIX > environment variabl

Re: PL/X Open Source and PL/I - Helping to save the world and cut CPU Cycles and electricity

2023-10-03 Thread Kirk Wolf
You omitted C++, which has std:string which does know how long strings are. C++11 is a game changer and makes C++ way more usable. Sadly, C++11 is still not quite fully available AFAIK for XLC++. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http:// <http://dovetail.com>coztoolkit.com On Tue,

Re: USS Environment variables

2023-10-02 Thread Kirk Wolf
r example, if you look at the z/OS Unix Assembler Services guide, you will see that the kernel services that *use* environment vars (e.g. STEPLIB) have arguments where you give it a pointer to your envar table. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http:// <http://dovetail.com>coztoolkit.com On

Re: USS Environment variables

2023-10-02 Thread Kirk Wolf
(enclave data block): CEEEDBENVAR CEEEDBENVIRON I could be wrong, but I'm not sure that there are environment variables in USS outside of what is provided by LE (and for example the LE C library). Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http:// <http://dovetail.com>coztoolkit.com On Mon, Oct 2, 20

Re: PL/X Open Source and PL/I - Helping to save the world and cut CPU Cycles and electricity

2023-10-02 Thread Kirk Wolf
), which all work, they are still painful compared with PL/X and assembler. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http:// <http://dovetail.com>coztoolkit.com On Mon, Oct 2, 2023, at 12:02 PM, Eric D Rossman wrote: > I write PL/X daily. PL/X, on the average, is not really better than C in > t

Re: Utility to Read from JES2 spool

2023-09-29 Thread Kirk Wolf
RC= JOB00851 KIRKTKIRK OUTPUT A RC= ... *> fromdsn -JES.J853.all > j853.log* fromdsn(KIRK.BR14.ALL)[N]: 39 records/2476 bytes read; 2515 bytes written in 0.011 seconds (223.278 KBytes/sec). Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http:// <http://dovetail.com>

With regrets, after many years I will no longer be following IBM-MAIN

2023-08-30 Thread Kirk Wolf
e directly for questions in my area of expertise. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http:// <http://dovetail.com/>coztoolkit.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu

Re: LISTSERV Trivia: Deleting drafts?

2023-08-28 Thread Kirk Wolf
Gil, Not your question, but is the WWW interface why all of your posts break into a new thread? ( at least in a few mailers that I have used). Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http:// <http://dovetail.com/>coztoolkit.com On Mon, Aug 28, 2023, at 3:21 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: > I us

Re: Syncsort > DFsort migration

2023-08-28 Thread Kirk Wolf
On Mon, Aug 28, 2023, at 11:59 AM, Tom Brennan wrote: > LOL "a while" > Don't worry, IBM would sell you Capacity-on-Demand while the job ran. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://coztoolkit.com -- For IB

Re: JAVA IDE

2023-08-23 Thread Kirk Wolf
BTW: ibm-main is probably the worst place to ask :-) Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies To answer you question, for a real Java IDE, Java programmers generally believe that IntelliJ is the best and that's hard to argue with.I've used Eclipse for a really long time. If you are doing z

Re: Converting Assembler TPUTS to ISPF

2023-08-22 Thread Kirk Wolf
Maybe port ncurses to ISPF? (LOL). Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies https://coztoolkit.com Related: Our port of ncdu to z/OS can be very handy. We include a binary or you can build from source with "make". https://coztoolkit.com/community/ncdu.html On Tue, Aug 22, 2023, at 2:17 P

Re: Has anyone

2023-08-16 Thread Kirk Wolf
, but after that it is quite nice. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies See: https://coztoolkit.com/docs/coz/coz_index.html On Tue, Aug 15, 2023, at 4:02 PM, Bob Bridges wrote: > I've ranted on this before so I'll make it short: I finally, maybe a year > ago, got tired of trying to write s

Re: [EXT] Re: Cloud may be overpriced compared to on-premises systems

2023-08-08 Thread Kirk Wolf
ibm-main is really terrific. Where else can you go to discuss current technologies but get so much deep expertise in both computer history and transportation policy. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies PS> Beware of "Post hoc, ergo propter hoc" On Tue, Aug 8, 2023, at 9:38 AM,

Re: Accessing JCL SETs in Rexx

2023-08-04 Thread Kirk Wolf
ol Service (IAZSYMBL). Symbols must be set to a value subsequent to the EXPORT statement for the symbol value to be exported. So, without exporting, I don't believe that there is a supported API for a program to see JCL or JES symbols. Kirk Wolf On Thu, Aug 3, 2023, at 7:02 PM, Sri h Kolusu wro

Re: Accessing JCL SETs in Rexx

2023-08-03 Thread Kirk Wolf
14: https://coztoolkit.com/docs/cozbatch/examples.html Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies https://coztoolkit.com On Thu, Aug 3, 2023, at 1:39 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: > On Thu, 3 Aug 2023 17:48:56 +, Seymour J Metz wrote: > > >The short answer is use ADDRESS LINKMVS. It's probably easi

Re: Preferred FTP Client for Windows

2023-08-01 Thread Kirk Wolf
In Co:Z, linerule=L4 (4 byte length prefixes) and linerule=rdw (IBM compatible RDWs) are different things. There is also a linerule=mfrdw, but you'll have to look at the documentation for that. Kirk Wolf On Mon, Jul 31, 2023, at 6:29 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: > On Mon, 31 Jul 2023 17:16

Re: Preferred FTP Client for Windows

2023-07-31 Thread Kirk Wolf
the enhanced "dsput" and "dsget" commands to simplify dataset transfer with like allocations, sending entire PDS(E)s, etc. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies https://coztoolkit.com On Fri, Jul 28, 2023, at 10:43 AM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: > On Fri, 28 Jul 2023 09:58:04 -0500, Jo

Re: SYSLOGD config question.

2023-07-25 Thread Kirk Wolf
f you want. Alternatively, "-X" just truncates the log after a configurable time. But you should have one or the other to prevent the files from growing without bound. Just my preference, but I would name the files "something.log". Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies https://

Re: [EXT] Re: Invoke Java from Assembler

2023-07-13 Thread Kirk Wolf
Using the JNI interface, you can create the JVM once and then make as many method invocations as you like with it. There isn't a requirement to call CEEPIPI if you are doing this from C, since your LE Enclave will already be there. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies https://coztoolkit.com

Re: Invoke Java from Assembler

2023-07-11 Thread Kirk Wolf
K versions). Another option would be to use Enterprise COBOL which has a Java JNI interface included. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies https://coztoolkit.com On Tue, Jul 11, 2023, at 4:58 PM, Crawford Robert C (Contractor) wrote: > We're interested in invoking Java from assembler in batch.

Re: C DLL abend CEE3350S

2023-07-11 Thread Kirk Wolf
XL C/C++ User's Guide" using "-W l,dll". Take a look at that book and try to build a tiny Hello Word dll first. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://coztoolkit.com On Tue, Jul 11, 2023, at 1:52 PM, Eric Erickson wrote: > I've a LE C DLL I've built that contains a several m

Re: Code Page for dataset names

2023-07-05 Thread Kirk Wolf
at many non-US shops use non-US EBCDIC character sets for theeir TN3270 terminals, and then they use national and special characters for DSNAMES and symbols in JCL. The catch is that whatever they use must have hex representations for the supported characters that match CP-037. Kirk Wolf Dov

Re: How batch create a PDSE2 with Generations?

2023-06-28 Thread Kirk Wolf
FWIW, BPXWDYN (a text interface to SVC99) can be called from any programming language with standard linkage via LOAD/CALL. Kirk Wolf On Tue, Jun 27, 2023, at 8:29 PM, Steve Smith wrote: > OK, I totally missed your point. Sorry about that. > > Going back to gil's post, I agree

Re: JAVA started tasks?

2023-06-23 Thread Kirk Wolf
I'm not sure what that even means. Java programs are run by just invoking the JVM and specifying options on which class to run. The JZOS batch launcher is a z/OS Utility program that will do that for you. There is no "java subsystem" that needs to be started first. Kirk Wolf

Re: PDS/PDSE Member information

2023-06-15 Thread Kirk Wolf
m/docs/zos-utilities/dsp-ref_pdsdir.html Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies PS> Co:Z Toolkit is available free under the terms of our Community License: https://coztoolkit.com/support.html On Thu, Jun 15, 2023, at 10:10 AM, Jack Zukt wrote: > Hi all, > > Is there a way to get the PDS/PDSE memb

Re: unix commands in batch and su

2023-06-13 Thread Kirk Wolf
: OMVSKERN KIRK Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies https://coztoolkit.com PS> Co:Z Toolkit is available under our free Community License, or our Enterprise License with commercial terms and support. https://coztoolkit.com/support.h

Re: SSHD terminates immediately with permission(?) problem

2023-05-31 Thread Kirk Wolf
The PORT statement should be like we should in our "z/OS OpenSSH Quick Install Guide" that I referred to earlier. https://coztoolkit.com/docs/pt-quick-inst/pto-inst-basic.html#pto-inst-tcpip PORT ... 22 TCP SSHD* NOAUTOLOG ; OpenSSH SSHD server Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technolo

Re: SSHD terminates immediately with permission(?) problem

2023-05-28 Thread Kirk Wolf
ion for port 22. See our "IBM z/OS OpenSSH Quick Install Guide" section 1.11 here: https://coztoolkit.com/docs/pt-quick-inst/pto-inst-basic.html#pto-inst-tcpip Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://coztoolkit.com On Fri, May 26, 2023, at 8:09 PM, Tom Brennan wrote: > Can you change

Re: Replacing SSH Keys - best practices?

2023-05-23 Thread Kirk Wolf
. You then would distribution the ca public key to all of your servers. The avoids the requirement for updating authorized_keys with user public keys. This would on;y be an option for OpenSSH servers (or a few other products) Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http:// <http://dovetail.

Re: VBS file read in windows - end of record issue

2023-05-18 Thread Kirk Wolf
, you will get BDWs and SDWs. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies PS> Co:Z SFTP and Co:Z Dataset Pipes have options for converting z/OS records like RECFM=VBS into streams of bytes with various terminators, like cr, crlf, rdw, l4 (4 byte length prefix), mfrdw (Microfocus), an aribtrary hex separa

Re: If You Had Invested $10,000 In IBM In 2013, This Is How Much You Would Have Today

2023-04-19 Thread Kirk Wolf
Bill is correct. I would add that the OP also forgets this minor detail: https://www.marketbeat.com/stocks/NYSE/IBM/dividend/ Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies https://coztoolkit.com On Mon, Apr 17, 2023, at 9:58 AM, Bill Johnson wrote: > If you had invested 10,000 in Tesla 2 years ago, yo

Re: Unzip on z/OS ?

2023-03-24 Thread Kirk Wolf
/ZipDatasets.html Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies PS> JZOS automatically takes advantage of both zIIP engines and zEDC. On Thu, Mar 23, 2023, at 10:48 PM, Mike Hochee wrote: > http://www.info-zip.org is a good bet. Whatever product/freeware you choose > it needs to more or les

Re: Does BSAM I/O area have to be fixed storage

2023-03-23 Thread Kirk Wolf
e 31 bit C Library HEAP storage. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies On Thu, Mar 23, 2023, at 9:22 AM, Seymour J Metz wrote: > FSVO QSAM. > > "FIXED=USER > With this DCBE option, you assert that the data areas remain fixed from the > time the READ or WRITE > macro instruction

Re: IGGCSI00 - NVSNATTR

2023-03-21 Thread Kirk Wolf
Peter, Did you ever get an answer to this question about NVSMATTR='Q' ? As far as I know, there is no public API (callable by assembler, not an IBM utility), that can be used to determine PDSEV2. Am I wrong? Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies https://coztoolkit.com On Mon, Jan 23, 2023, at 1

Re: Git, and other Open Tools, Alternative for z/OS

2023-03-16 Thread Kirk Wolf
Well, if you're vendors use open source then you could have a commercial license that offers warranties and indemnities that cover it. We have offered that to our Co:Z customers for many years. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://coztoolkit.com On Thu, Mar 16, 2023, at 5:23 AM, ITschak

Re: Transmitting SMF records

2023-01-25 Thread Kirk Wolf
ISTR that distributed SAS has an option to read binary byte stream files with BDW+RDWs, which is what you would get if the program were to produce a merged RECFM=U DCB. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies, LLC http://coztoolkit.com Dovetailed Technologies: +1 636.300.0901 Note: Our website

Re: Markup languages

2022-12-23 Thread Kirk Wolf
On Fri, Dec 23, 2022, at 10:01 AM, Seymour J Metz wrote: > Steep learning curve? DocBook looks pretty simple. > Of course I didn't mean you :-) Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies, LLC http://coztoolkit.com -- For IB

Re: Markup languages

2022-12-23 Thread Kirk Wolf
the XML elements Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies, LLC http://coztoolkit.com Dovetailed Technologies: +1 636.300.0901 Note: Our website and domain name have changed from dovetail.com to coztoolkit.com On Thu, Dec 22, 2022, at 6:52 AM, Paul Gorlinsky wrote: > Did RUNOFF ever make it mainfr

Re: Transmitting SMF records

2022-12-16 Thread Kirk Wolf
The OP didn't specify IBM FTP, so I'll mention that could use Co:Z SFTP, which has a subcomment "dsput" which will allocate a dataset on the target system matching the source system and then upload the dataset in binary, preserving record formats. Example: //SFTP EXEC PROC=SFTPPROC //SFTPIN

Re: DD PATHOPTS OTRUNC extending

2022-12-13 Thread Kirk Wolf
It's not surprising that the C library is able to override the DD (JFCB) at open time. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/2.1.0?topic=processing-filling-in-dcb I don't think that IBM documents this very well for DD: that reference PATH specifications. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies, LLC

Re: JZOS VSAM API equivalent VSAM ENDREQ?

2022-12-01 Thread Kirk Wolf
will see that there are now wrappers for several of the C library "*_unlocked" functions. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies, LLC http://coztoolkit.com Dovetailed Technologies: +1 636.300.0901 Note: Our website and domain name have changed from dovetail.com to coztoolkit.com On Thu, Dec 1,

Re: JZOS VSAM API equivalent VSAM ENDREQ?

2022-12-01 Thread Kirk Wolf
that does this. It does not expose a low level VSAM api. 2) There is no fread_unlocked in the ZFile class. You can use the javadoc or open the class file in an IDE to see exactly what methods are there. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies, LLC http://coztoolkit.com Dovetailed Technologies: +1

Re: Capture 3270 screen as text (was: TNZ 3270 Emulator: ... )

2022-11-19 Thread Kirk Wolf
Cutting text from x3270 works fine. You can also do File/Screen Save to text / html / RichText or printer Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies, LLC http://coztoolkit.com Dovetailed Technologies: +1 636.300.0901 Note: Our website and domain name have changed from dovetail.com to coztoolkit.com

Re: zOS 1.13 (really) how copy MVS loadmod from ZFS to PDSE

2022-10-17 Thread Kirk Wolf
I've seen that when there isn't enough memory to start java. Always seemed like bad coding to me ;-) Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies, LLC http://coztoolkit.com Dovetailed Technologies: +1 636.300.0901 Note: Our website and domain name have changed from dovetail.com to coztoolkit.com

Re: Assembler courses

2022-09-24 Thread Kirk Wolf
most ubiquitous C-language software uses object-based techniques such as you describe ("struct with function pointer" interfaces). It's actually quite common, and when used correctly it provides for separation of concerns in large systems. Gr

Re: SFTP question

2022-09-01 Thread Kirk Wolf
That works if the target server allows for ssh shell logins. Many are restricted to only sftp, which means that neither ssh remote command or scp will work. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies, LLC http://coztoolkit.com Dovetailed Technologies: +1 636.300.0901 Note: Our website and domain name

Re: SFTP question

2022-09-01 Thread Kirk Wolf
. $script_dir/sftp_connect.sh <https://coztoolkit.com/support.html Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies, LLC http://coztoolkit.com Note: Our website and domain name have changed from dovetail.com to coztoolkit.com On Thu, Sep 1, 2022, at 10:01 AM, rpinion865 wrote: > Nobody

Re: How to use LISTDSI from Rexx under Unix shell?

2022-08-25 Thread Kirk Wolf
0 6144 PSUSER.COZ.TEST.SEQ WORK81 2008/09/24 1 15 4 FB 80 27920 POUSER.COZ.TESTJCL Co:Z is free to use under the terms of our Community License. Enterprise License and Support Agreements also available. See: http://coztoolkit.com/support.html Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologi

Re: C compile: INFORMATIONAL CCN4118 **name** C F1:2008 Character constant 'xF0' has more than 1 character.

2022-08-18 Thread Kirk Wolf
IMO, not a good way. According to the standard, the integer value of 'ABC' is implementation dependent. The IBM XLC/C++ Language Reference doesn't document how it will be treated (padding, alignment, etc) as far as I can see. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies, LLC http://coztoolkit.com

Re: C compile: INFORMATIONAL CCN4118 **name** C F1:2008 Character constant 'xF0' has more than 1 character.

2022-08-17 Thread Kirk Wolf
This is one of those rare cases when Gil stays on topic and also I agree completely ;-) In the C standards, these are “multi-character integer character constants” aka multi-chars and resolve to type int. All of the issues that Gil points out are "implementation dependent"

Re: TESTAUTH from C/C++

2022-08-15 Thread Kirk Wolf
inlining support is another option that often good, but in many cases it can be tricky because you have to carefully declare all of the register clobbers, not to mention the crazy syntax and symantics of __asm. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies, LLC http://coztoolkit.com Dovetailed Technologies: +1

Re: Java?

2022-06-30 Thread Kirk Wolf
JZOS batch launcher program that would be dubbed since it uses z/OS Unix services itself prior to invoking the JVM. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies, LLC http://coztoolkit.com Note: Our website and domain name have changed from dovetail.com to coztoolkit.com On Thu, Jun 30, 2022, at 8:4

Re: Some UNIX file usage questions

2022-06-21 Thread Kirk Wolf
FYI - JZOS includes a wrapper for __console2() - class com.ibm.jzos.MvsConsole Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies, LLC http://coztoolkit.com Note: Our website and domain name have changed from dovetail.com to coztoolkit.com On Tue, Jun 21, 2022, at 11:54 AM, Charles Mills wrote: > _conso

Re: SFTP JOB Data parameter

2022-06-16 Thread Kirk Wolf
IMO, the contortions in this thread seem to be in search of the most complicated solution. By just using the z/OS UNIX shell in batch, the OP's requirement can be solved in a straightforward way. FWIW, here's how you would do this with Co:Z SFTP and Co:Z Batch, along with our sample proc and

Re: How to force use of a single unix process to all bpxbatch calls?

2022-05-31 Thread Kirk Wolf
find -exec is a generally poor choice for doing something efficiently, especially on z/OS. find -exec is an extremely popular way to demonstrate a heaping dose of impenetrable syntax On Tue, May 31, 2022, at 6:05 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: > On Tue, 31 May 2022 15:08:57 -0500, Kirk W

Re: How to force use of a single unix process to all bpxbatch calls?

2022-05-31 Thread Kirk Wolf
to rexx in either a temp file or stem. Then your main rexx can parse through those and maybe use syscall commands to move, rename, delete, etc. At the end of the day, it's impossible to give very good answers to a question that is posed so generally and without much detail. -- Kirk Wolf Dovetail

Re: How to force use of a single unix process to all bpxbatch calls?

2022-05-30 Thread Kirk Wolf
and without a shell? - What language is your program developed in? - I don't understand this: "I want to use the same time used to create a new stc every call and that the unix task will remain active the entire job life" Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies On Sun, May 29, 2022, at 8:00

Re: AT-TLS & FTP troubles - cannot get very simple setup working

2022-05-25 Thread Kirk Wolf
SSH_FXP_ATTRS 105 SSH_FXP_EXTENDED 200 SSH_FXP_EXTENDED_REPLY201 Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com PS> z/OS OpenSSH doesn't use AT-TLS.It can directly use ICSF calls or direct CPACF instructions for Ciphers and Macs. SSH (

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Potential Resource Savings Techniques

2022-05-11 Thread Kirk Wolf
LOL, this is one of those sure-fire and then throw gasoline on ibm-main threads of the class: "Here are some historical things about MVS that you probably didn't know" Keep um, coming :-) -- Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Te

Re: SAF without an ESM

2022-05-05 Thread Kirk Wolf
Hey, that was both kinds! On Thu, May 5, 2022, at 9:03 PM, David Spiegel wrote: > *flotsam > > On 2022-05-05 19:45, Kirk Wolf wrote: > > Oh my, LOL. > > About half of ibm-main posts are attempts at humor (many unintentional), > > and the other half are just pedantic

Re: SAF without an ESM

2022-05-05 Thread Kirk Wolf
- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscr

Re: SDSF - ISPF questions (wishes?)

2022-05-03 Thread Kirk Wolf
Thanks Rob for your response. I appreciate the very nice APIs for SDSF, and agree that these are normally the best solution for this kind of problem. Unfortunately for the audience and on-the-fly context at hand, any REXX or code is probably ruled out :-) -- Kirk Wolf PS> For the pr

Re: SDSF - ISPF questions (wishes?)

2022-05-02 Thread Kirk Wolf
>> ??? > >> But there were installers for MVS long before Rexx infiltrated TSO/E. > >> A classic example is SMP/E, which IBM deemed safe until > >> Spring, 2010. > > -- > gil > > --

Re: SDSF - ISPF questions (wishes?)

2022-05-01 Thread Kirk Wolf
Right. I can do that also using Co:Z SFTP, pretty simple in a batch. My thing for now is something that is purely SDSF / ISPF commands and options for wide audience as Rx. On Sun, May 1, 2022, at 10:03 AM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: > On Sun, 1 May 2022 09:18:20 -0500, Kirk Wolf wr

Re: SDSF - ISPF questions (wishes?)

2022-05-01 Thread Kirk Wolf
what others think you are." - John Wooden > > > On May 1, 2022, at 9:19 AM, Kirk Wolf wrote: > > > > Kind ibm-mainers, > > > > I have a question about printing selective held spool files to a data set > > with SDSF under ISPF. > > > > Her

SDSF - ISPF questions (wishes?)

2022-05-01 Thread Kirk Wolf
rd, like the Job/Step/procstep/ddname of the spol file ? b) if not (a), maybe some way to at least print the list of spool files (from the ? list panel) to the print data set. There doesn't seem to be an obvious way to print that to the same SDSF output print dataset. Thanks, Kirk Wol

Re: Use of zCX

2022-04-26 Thread Kirk Wolf
ed > answers. > > > -- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > Kirk Wolf Dovetailed

Re: Use of zCX

2022-04-25 Thread Kirk Wolf
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Re: Use of zCX

2022-04-22 Thread Kirk Wolf
> Thought and comments always welcome. > DJ > > -- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-M

Re: Sftp Vs connect direct

2022-04-17 Thread Kirk Wolf
ago when networks were much less reliable. Co:Z is available free under our Community License, Enterprise License and Support agreements are also available. https://dovetail.com/support.html Kirk Wolf http://dovetail.com On Sat, Apr 16, 2022, at 3:45 PM, Steve Beaver wrote: > The wh

Re: [MVS-OE] Running z/OS Unix commands from an MVS sequential dataset

2022-04-04 Thread Kirk Wolf
for a command. On Mon, Apr 4, 2022, at 7:44 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: > On Apr 4, 2022, at 10:47:36, Kirk Wolf wrote: > > ... > > //AWK EXEC PGM=COZBATCH > > //DSNS DD * > > "//'SYS1.MACLIB(ACB)'" > > "//'SYS1.MACLIB(CHECK)'" >

Re: [MVS-OE] Running z/OS Unix commands from an MVS sequential dataset

2022-04-04 Thread Kirk Wolf
022 12:59:27 -0500, Kirk Wolf wrote: > > > >We certainly have seen that using data sets from z/OS Unix commands that > >don't explicitly document support is your pet peeve. IMO this seems overly > >pedantic, since IBM code that uses fopen (and works) is ext

Re: [MVS-OE] Running z/OS Unix commands from an MVS sequential dataset

2022-04-04 Thread Kirk Wolf
wrote: > On Apr 4, 2022, at 10:47:36, Kirk Wolf wrote: > > > > - You can make awk not only act like (f)grep, but it also takes dsn syntax > > since uses fopen(). > > > Is that documented as supported? > > > Kirk Wolf Dove

Re: UNIX CHAR FILES

2022-03-24 Thread Kirk Wolf
to see if the location is configurable. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com On Thu, Mar 24, 2022, at 3:59 PM, Shelia Chalk wrote: > I have a Unix Char file in /var. I would like to copy it over to another > /var directory with all the same attributes. Can someone help me

Re: Holy Moly ...

2022-02-14 Thread Kirk Wolf
. They really > don’t understand social or engagement. Not digital natives. A real threat > for us.” > > Joe > > -- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists..

Re: Coding IF statement in BPXBATCH shell

2022-02-13 Thread Kirk Wolf
Of course you know that there is a paid Enterprise License with support. http://dovetail.com/support.html Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies On Sat, Feb 12, 2022, at 8:26 PM, Seymour J Metz wrote: > Some shops won't let you install free software, but for everybody else, that > sound

Re: More of LOG4J

2022-01-26 Thread Kirk Wolf
velopment, spread, and usefulness, while inserting subtle > > exploitable defects. > > > > -- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu

Re: More of LOG4J

2022-01-26 Thread Kirk Wolf
se popular open source projects. Most of these have a history, many contributors, test suites, etc. What was shocking about the LOG4J vulnerability was that is was one of these. -- Kirk Wolf On Wed, Jan 26, 2022, at 12:34 PM, Phil Smith III wrote: > Kirk Wolf wrote: > > >Is that

Re: More of LOG4J

2022-01-26 Thread Kirk Wolf
been a quality component used by thousands of projects for so long (20 years?, not sure exactly). People armed with no understanding of the vulnerability or even Java immediately began contacting all of their software vendors, even products that clearly don't even use java. This only made the probl

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