Re: REXX (was How to calculate the JES2 Checkpoint and Spool Space)

On 2017-01-24 15:58, wjipho...@gmail.com wrote: dunno if it helps, but a stem qualifier may start with a number, i.e. s.0data='testing' I have used that in the past to avoid some conflicts. That is indeed a very useful characteristic, and I've used it with 0gxxx variables to create pseudo-globa

Re: Prino's z/OS Tools and utilities

One addition @ , still working on the main panels for RAP00100 & RAP00200 - EINC2FOC - convert PL/I %include to Focus FFILE definition Robert -- Robert AH Prins robert.ah.prins(a)gmail.com --

Re: How to calculate the JES2 Checkpoint and Spool Space

On 2017-01-23 00:13, Dale R. Smith wrote: On Sun, 22 Jan 2017 15:00:08 -0700, Lizette Koehler wrote: Please note that "variables" like "!4k" start with an exclamation point (!). I would have liked to use just "4k", but REXX does not allow "variable" names that start with a number. That woul

Re: ISPCFIGU - which one? [SOLVED - sort of]

On 2017-01-20 23:28, Tom Conley wrote: On 1/20/2017 6:00 PM, Robert Prins wrote: On 2017-01-20 17:50, Tom Conley wrote: On 1/20/2017 12:34 PM, Robert Prins wrote: On 2017-01-20 15:10, Tom Conley wrote: and the Pop-Up that appears after the search tells me Robert, I use TSOLIB from the

Re: AW: ISPCFIGU - which one?

Hi Roland, On 2017-01-20 15:10, Roland Schiradin wrote: Hi Bob, Please, please, please, don't call me Bob! I'm also working on Sam system. I would try to rename the ISPCFIGU in the linklist. Do a /F LLA,REFRESH. New logon and verify again. If it works contact Sam and ask him. You may also t

Re: ISPCFIGU - which one?

On 2017-01-20 17:50, Tom Conley wrote: On 1/20/2017 12:34 PM, Robert Prins wrote: On 2017-01-20 15:10, Tom Conley wrote: and the Pop-Up that appears after the search tells me Robert, I use TSOLIB from the READY prompt, and then enter ISPF. You can verify the options and the active

Re: ISPCFIGU - which one?

On 2017-01-20 15:10, Tom Conley wrote: On 1/20/2017 9:36 AM, Robert Prins wrote: I've been given access to a z/OS 2.2 system (tanks Sam G), and one of the first things I've been trying to do is to use several levels of command tables - the system only seems to use ISRCMDS and ISPCMD

ISPCFIGU - which one?

I've been given access to a z/OS 2.2 system (tanks Sam G), and one of the first things I've been trying to do is to use several levels of command tables - the system only seems to use ISRCMDS and ISPCMDS, and the latter seems to be a version that's been carried forward ever since, which is a friend

Prino's z/OS Tools and utilities

Hi all, I had promised to make another one of my tools available a few weeks ago, aka RSN... OK, I'm still reworking the code and initial panel of the main "Formatted Browse" routine, but because I don't want to let you wait (ha, ha, ha.

Re: A Christmassy PL/I tale

Patrick, On 2016-12-26 10:58, Patrick Vogt wrote: > Hi Prino > >> Let's assume you gate-crash an IBM GSE meeting, way back in 2010 and talk >> to an IBM developer about optimizing code, and he tells you that IBM is >> well ahead (by "at least" five years) of the Open Source community! > > If you

Fwd: Re: A not very Christmassy PL/I tale

lems > of the PL/1 code generator. The mainframe should win this competition, > but it will probably lose anyway, because of > > a) skill problems (specialists are too old, no young people available) > > b) IT managers are not aware of or don't like the mainframe platform > >

Re: A not very Christmassy PL/I tale

Kind regards, have a good christmas time Bernd Am 25.12.2016 um 20:40 schrieb Robert Prins: Hi all, Apologies for this rant on Christmas day... Let's assume you gate-crash an IBM GSE meeting, way back in 2010 and talk to an IBM developer about

Just to pique your interest...

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A not very Christmassy PL/I tale

Hi all, Apologies for this rant on Christmas day... Let's assume you gate-crash an IBM GSE meeting, way back in 2010 and talk to an IBM developer about optimizing code, and he tells you that IBM is well ahead (by "at least" five years) of the Open Source community! So on this Christmas day y

Re: REXX determine library that is executed from

On 2016-11-22 18:31, Donald Likens wrote: I failed to mention that when using EXEC 'rexx.library'. (where 'rexx.library' contains member TEMPNAME.) I am thinking about looking at the output of LISTA but not sure it is worth the effort. If anyone else has a need for this capability I may be able

Re: The EHIxxxx execs (CBT Tape 769) - Thank you!

On 2016-11-20 12:47, Robert Prins wrote: Hi all, After a long, long time, I've decided to update these legacy-language to HTML tools again, but I need some help, as I'm only on a z/OS 1.10/1.12 system, which means that I have absolutely no clues about - the way all new JCL stat

Re: REXX determine library that is executed from

On 2016-11-20 01:29, Donald Likens wrote: Has anyone come up with a way for a REXX program to determine the library it resides in? /* REXX exec to find dataset from which an exec is running*/ /*** trace ?r * \| * *

The EHIxxxx execs (CBT Tape 769)

Hi all, After a long, long time, I've decided to update these legacy-language to HTML tools again, but I need some help, as I'm only on a z/OS 1.10/1.12 system, which means that I have absolutely no clues about - the way all new JCL statements are coloured, or - all the latest COBOL keywords. As

Re: Rexx and hex data strings

On 2016-10-28 18:15, Robert Prins wrote: On 2016-10-28 18:09, Robert Prins wrote: On 2016-10-28 17:40, Paul Gilmartin wrote: On Fri, 28 Oct 2016 20:18:46 +, Robert Prins wrote: On 2016-10-27 15:46, Itschak Mugzach wrote: As the information is in machine readable ([binary] data) it

Re: Rexx and hex data strings

On 2016-10-28 18:09, Robert Prins wrote: On 2016-10-28 17:40, Paul Gilmartin wrote: On Fri, 28 Oct 2016 20:18:46 +, Robert Prins wrote: On 2016-10-27 15:46, Itschak Mugzach wrote: As the information is in machine readable ([binary] data) it can't be rapped with an apostrophe be

Re: Rexx and hex data strings

On 2016-10-28 17:40, Paul Gilmartin wrote: On Fri, 28 Oct 2016 20:18:46 +, Robert Prins wrote: On 2016-10-27 15:46, Itschak Mugzach wrote: As the information is in machine readable ([binary] data) it can't be rapped with an apostrophe because the data may include apostrophe. ...

Re: Rexx and hex data strings

On 2016-10-27 15:46, Itschak Mugzach wrote: Walt, As the information is in machine readable (hex data) it can't be rapped with an apostrophe because the data may include apostrophe. I thought marking a block of data as comment and access it some how. May be a function like source,in May do it. W

Re: ABO Automatic Binary Optimizer

On 2016-10-15 14:44, Peter Relson wrote: So, if someone compiles their COBOL program without optimization and tests it, then compiles it with optimization before putting it into production, does it need to be tested again? Well, it's an excellent question Tom, but needs to be directed to people

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

On 2016-10-05 17:20, Dana Mitchell wrote: On Wed, 5 Oct 2016 15:47:25 +, Robert Prins wrote: As for the above error, I think calls to ISPREXPX are only to be used if you use a separate REXX panel exit, using PANEL REXX they are (not yet tested) obsolete. I have the version of this code

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

On 2016-10-04 14:41, Dana Mitchell wrote: I've PM'ed Robert for a copy of his updates to this, but haven't heard back yet. I am ashamed to admit that I wasn't already using Dougs SDSF highlighting modification. It sounds very cool, so I tried installing the last copy that I could find on archiv

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

On 2016-10-01 10:35, Robert Prins wrote: LOG: Display Filter View Print Options Help SDSF SYSLOG 7910.101 SYS1 SYS1 09/30/2016 0W <=== or ST: Display Filter View Print Options H

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

Hi all, This RFE, < https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=73512>, "Better use of ISPF screen names in SDSF" comes from Pedro Vera (IBM), has attracted a fair number (15) of votes, and thanks to help I've had on the ISPF-L list I've actually found an easy way to impl

Re: Friday OTT : DOS vs Windows performance

On 2016-10-01 01:59, CM Poncelet wrote: 't is Friday, so here we go again. I wrote the following in Intel assembler in the 1990's to check the CPU-cycles performance of DOS vs Windows 3.1 (if memory serves), using a 486/33Mhz processor and practically all executable code loaded in the instructio

Re: REXX Compare Anomaly

On 2016-09-30 17:30, Dyck, Lionel B. , TRA wrote: Here is a REXX challenge Why does this compare results in ok ttr = 'E0' if ttr = '00' then say 'ok'; else say 'ng' And this one works and results in ng ttr = 'E0' if ttr == '00' then say 'ok'; else say 'ng' If you don't use s

JOBDEF DUPL_JOB=NODELAY|DELAY option

Is there any way of enabling this on a per-jobclass basis? Robert -- Robert AH Prins robert.ah.pr...@gmail.com No programming (yet) @ -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instruction

Re: retrieving last commands

On 2016-07-12 11:04, Andreas Fischer wrote: is it possible to retrieve the last ispf command within an edit macro written in rexx? i had a brief look in ibm's documentation but didn't found anything helpful. since you can use the retrieve command in panel dialogs the data must be stored somewhere

Re: Read a PDS (all members) like PS dataset

On 2016-06-14 17:30, Peter Ten Eyck wrote: Any suggestions on how to read though a PDS (all members) like PS dataset. Example, read via a program the trough a PDS finding every called or linked program statement without regard to PDS member name. You could try adapting

RFE's and voting for them

Whenever I come up with something that seems, at least to me, useful, be it PL/I or ISPF (and very soon SDSF), I create an RFE, and post it, here, on the PL-1 list, and also on http://ibmmainframes.com/index.php and that means many of my suggestions have received double figure votes. However,

RFE: SuperC WORKSIZE option as ISPF configuration option

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Very weird scrolling anomaly with hidden excluded lines

Hi all, I'm visually comparing two datasets by excluding and hiding lines: X ALL HIDE X F '*' 2 ALL on both datasets, and the resulting screens are the same. PF8 on both, resulting screens are the same PF8 on both, resulting screens are the same PF8 on both, resulting screens are not the same

Friday, but not funny at all...

Totaal van de wilde boskonijnen besnuffeld: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=85255 A, sorry to say, complete idiot asking for a builtin function in Enterprise PL/I to generate documents in a bribed-through pseudo ISO M$ format... Robert -- Robert AH Prins ro

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

On 2016-03-10 13:45, David Crayford wrote: We're building a new product which will have several UI's; ISPF, Web, Eclipse etc. For the ISPF we're wondering how we should optimize the screen real estate for todays customer. I use a custom 60x160 which seems to be the norm in our office. Lots of th

An ISPF Editor RFE to vote for (or not...)

https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=84517 Description: It is possible to limit both the "width" and "depth" of the ISPF editor F(ind), C(jange) and (e)X(clude) commands, by specifying bounds and labels. Of these two, the bounds ("width") can be set

Re: A useful(?) RFE: Enhance the S, F and L line commands to work with hidden lines

On 2016-01-18 16:30, Charles Mills wrote: The link in your signature is 404. Perhaps you mean prins? Also in your obfuscated e-mail address? Changed the link . My surname is Prins, see

Re: A useful(?) RFE: Enhance the S, F and L line commands to work with hidden lines

On 2016-01-18 15:38, Vernooij, CP - KLM , ITOPT1 wrote: Could you post the text here? I am curious about you want, that is not available now. Description: The 'S', 'F' and 'L' line commands are used to reshow hidden lines, and can only be entered on lines that are not displayed ***and*** not hi

A useful(?) RFE: Enhance the S, F and L line commands to work with hidden lines

If you consider this useful, please vote for it. http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=82590 Robert -- Robert AH Prins robert.ah.pr...@gmail.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive acces

Re: JES2 - originating jcl

On 2015-12-15 14:41, Sumi, Joseph J. , CMS/CTR, CTR wrote: Hello, is there a JES2 exit that will allow us to place the dataset and member name of the job that was submitted ? The originating dataset/member would be added as a comment to the JESLOG, MESSAGES, or JCL. I would assume JES2 would k

Re: SK3T-4271-28

On 2015-10-04 20:49, Alan Young wrote: 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/o

SK3T-4271-28

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 -- Robert AH Prins robert.ah.pr...@gmail.com -- F

An ISPF related RFE to vote for (or not...)

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=74898 Basically, I would like SuperC to tell me that there were differences, but they were masked by certain process statements, like dpline ' Report date:' ochgt ':','.' nchgt ':','.' Robert -- Robert AH Prins robert.ah

Re: Enterprise PL/1 performance

On 2015-02-27 23:08, Shmuel Metz , Seymour J. wrote: In <49f2b7b0100a4f488766e671d8c27dcb971...@defthw99ex2msx.ww931.my-it-solutions.net>, on 02/24/2015 at 10:49 AM, "Beesley, Paul" said: Our customer has been trialling Enterprise PL/1 4.4, with the intention of upgrading from their curren

Re: Enterprise PL/1 performance

on WSCLEAR, which did not require initializing variables, I don't know about pre Enterprise Versions of PL/I. Denis. -----Original Message- From: Robert Prins To: IBM-MAIN Sent: Tue, Feb 24, 2015 2:54 pm Subject: R

Re: Enterprise PL/1 performance

On 2015-02-24 11:57, Beesley, Paul wrote: Info on the PL/I list: Join pl...@listserv.dartmouth.edu on the internet. To subscribe, send a note to lists...@listserv.dartmouth.edu In the body of the note, enter: SUB PL1-L yourname To post a comment, send it to pl...@listserv.dartmouth.edu Robe

Re: Enterprise PL/1 performance

On 2015-02-24 11:52, Beesley, Paul wrote: Robert Many thanks for your reply. I have added my vote to the RFE. Here are the compiler options from the latest trial, the LE override options from the DCL PLIXOPT statement, and the results of a CLER transaction from the relevant CICS region. I don

Re: Enterprise PL/1 performance

On 2015-02-24 10:49, Beesley, Paul wrote: Hello Our customer has been trialling Enterprise PL/1 4.4, with the intention of upgrading from their current compiler, PL/1 for MVS&VM. They have issues with performance, particularly with CICS programs, where the CPU time of a transaction is 3 times wh

Re: need access to mainframe

On 2015-02-18 16:01, Elardus Engelbrecht wrote: Phil Sidler wrote: Try DeZhi @ http://www.efglobe.com/cgi-bin/mainframe/mainuser Interesting. Very interesting. First time I see a free mainframe, but it is an ancient z/OS v1.06. But hey, I see those admins are not taking any nonsenses from new

Re: need access to mainframe

On 2015-02-18 15:41, Phil Sidler wrote: On Tue, 17 Feb 2015 03:29:39 +, Ze'ev Atlas wrote: Could anybody give me very limited remote access to a well configured z/OS development LPAR?All I need is to install few libraries and use the C and COBOL compilers and create some SYSOUT and perha

Fwd: Re: Doug Nadel snippet

All, On Nov 9, 2014, at 2:20 PM, Robert Prins wrote: I got a reply, telling me to have a look at http://web.archive.org/web/20140103041347/http://www.sillysot.com/ftp/ and the routine is indeed mentioned there (ADDCHAR.TXT), but sadly that routine has not been archived. :( After I had told

Re: Doug Nadel snippet

I got a reply, telling me to have a look at http://web.archive.org/web/20140103041347/http://www.sillysot.com/ftp/ and the routine is indeed mentioned there (ADDCHAR.TXT), but sadly that routine has not been archived. :( Robert -- Robert AH Prins robert(a)prino(d)org -

Doug Nadel snippet

In a grey-ish past, Doug Nadel once published a tiny (no more than a few lines of REXX) edit macro that made it possible to change, in the ISPF editor, the characters that are used as word-separators, which, if I remember correctly, removed the '-' so that it became possible to search for "this-

Green zebra paper

Hi, Yes, I know, it's still for sale... I've been looking to get it, as image or html+css, but all I could find are the plain formats (green/white/green/white), whereas I "needed" the == -- -- -- == type. In the end I resorted to scanning an old cut, and using Gimp I've n

Re: ISMF data in batch using REXX

On 2014-04-29 07:23, Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh wrote: Hi, We're using the "totals" REXX to provide a summary for a storage group opened up in ISMF. Example output is as follows: Totals for 1 volumes: (15 volumes had missing info.) Capacity: 8.31 GB Allocated: 5.69 GB (68%) Free: 2.63 GB (

Re: XMITMGR

On 2014-02-02 18:10, nic...@rnes.org wrote: On Monday, January 27, 2014 3:37:46 PM UTC-5, Bill Godfrey wrote: On Sun, 26 Jan 2014 14:03:37 -0700, Steve Comstock wrote: Replying to my own post (and top-posting at that): found the problem. Needed to install 64-bit java. Done. Works. -Steve

Re: Quote on Slashdot.org

On 2013-09-30 16:40, Mike Schwab wrote: Pascal is like an improved PL/I, Ada is an improved Pascal. I would rather say that Pascal is a very inferior copy of PL/I. Robert -- Robert AH Prins robert(a)prino(d)org On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 8:13 AM, Scott Ford wrote: David, I am not familiar wi

Re: free zIP/UNZIP in z/OS

On 2013-06-21 12:18, Paul Gilmartin wrote: On Fri, 21 Jun 2013 12:05:30 +0200, Paolo Cacciari wrote: what about (IBM) TRSMAIN??? Should be imbedded in Z/OS release. Portability? TERSE (terse & unterse) is available for many platforms, DOS, doze, OS2, AIC, OSX, Linux... http://tech.gr

Re: XMIT Manager

On 2013-05-17 20:20, Mike Schwab wrote: How about just ZIPing up the installed files, including the original documentation? It's on my gmail drive, in WinRAR format. https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B0oygbfs7DsVc2VxanE3cUthQlU/edit?pli=1 Robert -- Robert AH Prins robert(a)prino(d)org

Re: Weird ISPF scrolling problem

On 2013-03-10 11:52, Don Imbriale wrote: Sat, Mar 9, 2013 at 1:31 PM, Robert Prins wrote: DOWN works without problems. If the penultimate line of the logical screen has an underlined sequence number, indicating that it's followed by hidden excluded lines, and the cursor is on the very

Re: Weird ISPF scrolling problem

On 2013-03-09 17:09, DanD wrote: -Original Message- From: Itschak Mugzach Look like pf7 is not defined as up. Type KEYS to see it's value בתאריך 9 במרץ 2013 12:02, מאת "Robert Prins" I've got a weird problem with the ISPF editor disabling scrolling when there are h

Re: Weird ISPF scrolling problem

On 2013-03-09 16:51, Itschak Mugzach wrote: > בתאריך 9 במרץ 2013 12:02, מאת "Robert Prins" : >> I've got a weird problem with the ISPF editor disabling scrolling when there are hidden excluded lines. The problem occurs both on z/OS 1.10 and z/OS 1.6, and both with Tom Br

Weird ISPF scrolling problem

I've got a weird problem with the ISPF editor disabling scrolling when there are hidden excluded lines. The problem occurs both on z/OS 1.10 and z/OS 1.6, and both with Tom Brennan's Vista tn3270 and with x3270, and of course it may have been solved in later releases of z/OS, or, pretty unlikely,

Re: Does someone know about DeZhi ?

On 2013-02-15 00:12, Eric Loriaux wrote: Anyway, intented I'm now aware that this is no legal stuff I can't honestly use it I guess It may not be legal, but Suppose you've got this great idea of doing something, like converting PCRE for use on z/OS, or keeping your CBTTape up to date while ou

Re: Does someone know about DeZhi ?

On 2013-02-14 23:57, Eric Loriaux wrote: Can you FTP from/to it or use IND$FILE? Never tried either. FTP doesn't see to work on fandezhi.efglobe.com No, inward FTP has been blocked. You can FTP out to your own server. although telnet 3270 on port 23 does. Robert -- Robert AH Prins robert

Re: Does someone know about DeZhi ?

On 2013-02-14 23:11, Mark Zelden wrote: On Thu, 14 Feb 2013 23:58:04 +, Robert Prins wrote: On 2013-02-14 12:55, Eric Loriaux wrote: Does someone know about DeZhi ? http://www.efglobe.com/cgi-bin/mainframe/mainuser They are supposed to give free TSO accounts... I'll test this ev

Re: Does someone know about DeZhi ?

On 2013-02-14 12:55, Eric Loriaux wrote: Does someone know about DeZhi ? http://www.efglobe.com/cgi-bin/mainframe/mainuser They are supposed to give free TSO accounts... I'll test this evening but I was just wondering whether you've tried it already or if you're aware of any other service like

Re: LOOKAT: Bookie vs. PDF?

On 2013-01-06 16:14, Paul Gilmartin wrote: With the impending demise of Bookie, what is to become of the valuable LOOKAT facility? Will LOOKAT then redirect the user to a lnk to download the relevant M&C manual in PDF? Ugh. (Or does InfoCenter already provide an equivalent facility?) If you

Re: Why would TRSMAIN end with RC=0 but not unpack the data?

The emulator may also be to blame, Tom Brennan's Vista TN3270 has an option to remove the obsolete EOF (x'1A') from text files upon z/OS-to-PC IND$FILE, but the initial version containing this option would also remove the same character (for binary files!) if it occurred as the last character of a

Re: Announcing z/OS port of PCRE 8.31 - version 0.1 beta

es free > > H:\pcre> > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On > Behalf Of Robert Prins > Sent: Sunday, December 02, 2012 11:23 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: Announcing z/OS port of PCRE 8.31 - ver

Re: Announcing z/OS port of PCRE 8.31 - version 0.1 beta

>From a posting on the forum of "that" system: I've ported the PCRE (Perl Compatible Regular Expressions) to native z/OS (no USS [Unix Servicses], just good ol' native z/OS), including COBOL API. The installation file is available on: http://www.zaconsultants.net on the downloads page. The conce

Do you recognize these data set names

Hi all, Yesterday evening I found data from HSBC customers on a system that is not HSBC. This morning I has another look around, and came across JCL containing other data set names that are unknown in this particular system. Does anyone recognize any of them: Here are a few: ORL.GRISB.PROCLIB O

Re: WSCON/FILEXFER problems

On 2012-06-26 13:49, Stefan wrote: I've found this issue a long time ago and fixed it with the following workaround: /* WSCON always throws rc 8 when a member has been opened in edit mode */ /* immediately before the WSCON service. */ /* So this sequence of command

WSCON/FILEXFER problems

I've got a set of execs that convert "legacy" languages into fancy HTML and optionally transfer the result of the conversion to a PC and start a browser. Recently someone told me that this latter functionality is broken, and after some investigation

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