Re: OT: Digital? Cloud? Modern And Cost-Effective? Surprise! It's The Mainframe - Forbes

2015-03-27 Thread Scott Ford
It's not at 191 it's a s360/195 . Scott On Friday, March 27, 2015, Nims,Alva John (Al) ajn...@ufl.edu wrote: Several others posted that it looks more like a 360/91 and I concur. Now, when I originally responded, I had done a search on www.ibm.com of 360/191 and it did return a hit

Re: OT: Digital? Cloud? Modern And Cost-Effective? Surprise! It's The Mainframe - Forbes

2015-03-27 Thread Scott Ford
Technology University of Florida (352) 273-1298 -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU javascript:;] On Behalf Of Scott Ford Sent: Friday, March 27, 2015 11:13 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU javascript:; Subject: Re: OT: Digital? Cloud

OT: Digital? Cloud? Modern And Cost-Effective? Surprise! It's The Mainframe - Forbes

2015-03-26 Thread Scott Ford
John, Is that a 360/195 ? On Thursday, March 26, 2015, John McKown john.archie.mck...@gmail.com javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','john.archie.mck...@gmail.com'); wrote: Why did they put in a picture of an ancestor of the z13? I'll grant that the old machines really did look a lot more computer-ish

Re: OT: Digital? Cloud? Modern And Cost-Effective? Surprise! It's The Mainframe - Forbes

2015-03-26 Thread Scott Ford
Yeah, Mike that's what I thought. Heard of a s360/195 had never seen one. Regards, Scott On Thursday, March 26, 2015, Mike Schwab mike.a.sch...@gmail.com wrote: S/360. On Thu, Mar 26, 2015 at 6:38 AM, John McKown john.archie.mck...@gmail.com javascript:; wrote: Why did they put in a

Re: How Our Engineering Environments are Killing Diversity: Introduction

2015-03-23 Thread Scott Ford
I agree with you John and Mark, I always ask from what viewpoint is the author writing and what experience. One could every possible degree and still not understand what 'many of us do'. I run into this on a regular basis. I have seen the 'shooting down of ideas' at meetings before. Once has to be

Re: More big brother/big data

2015-03-22 Thread Scott Ford
What ever happened to customers / people as being valuable. Ugh ... I must be getting old. Regards, Scott On Sunday, March 22, 2015, Aled Hughes 0050619ca8df-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu wrote: Thanks for that Shane - scary! Your link didn't work for me, but I traced the article to

Re: RDJFCB

2015-03-20 Thread Scott Ford
: Something to keep in mind which I haven't seen mentioned. What happens if there is a concatenation? Will you only report the first DSN for the DDName? Regards, Steve Thompson On 03/19/2015 06:55 PM, Scott Ford wrote: Thanks Bernd, Sam I am looking at the SVC99() call you in C On Thursday, March

Re: Load modules

2015-03-20 Thread Scott Ford
schrieb Scott Ford: Elardus, Ty my friend, I worked in manufacturing for awhile we had an external table like this we loaded into CICS. Those were the days of macro CICS. Thanks my friend. Regards, Scott On Friday, March 20, 2015, Elardus Engelbrecht elardus.engelbre...@sita.co.za

Re: Load modules

2015-03-20 Thread Scott Ford
Elardus, Ty my friend, I worked in manufacturing for awhile we had an external table like this we loaded into CICS. Those were the days of macro CICS. Thanks my friend. Regards, Scott On Friday, March 20, 2015, Elardus Engelbrecht elardus.engelbre...@sita.co.za wrote: Elardus Engelbrecht

Re: Intermittent, not consistently reproducible problems with PDSEs on z/OS V2R1 (incl. infrequent S0F4-20 RSN 1C0752EE ABENDs)

2015-03-20 Thread Scott Ford
Bernd, Me too, you can filter also my special characters , maybe it's on my default ... Regards, Scott On Friday, March 20, 2015, Bernd Oppolzer bernd.oppol...@t-online.de wrote: I also found this; seems very good to me: https://share.confex.com/share/120/webprogram/Handout/

Re: RDJFCB

2015-03-19 Thread Scott Ford
Tony, Correct, same address space On Thursday, March 19, 2015, Tony Harminc t...@harminc.net wrote: On 19 March 2015 at 17:22, Scott Ford idfzos...@gmail.com javascript:; wrote: Yeah, I will definitely check this out .. thank you Sam and Peter ... Just so we're all on the same page here

Re: RDJFCB

2015-03-19 Thread Scott Ford
Gil, I have to look, I had thought about it .. Thank you, Scott On Thursday, March 19, 2015, Scott Ford idfzos...@gmail.com wrote: Tony, Correct, same address space On Thursday, March 19, 2015, Tony Harminc t...@harminc.net javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','t...@harminc.net'); wrote: On 19

Re: RDJFCB

2015-03-19 Thread Scott Ford
it. I recall that it was no big deal, when I did it ca. 15 or 20 years ago. After locating the DDNAME in the TIOT, it used SWAREQ, IIRC, to find the corresponding DSNAME. Kind regards Bernd Am 19.03.2015 um 21:56 schrieb Scott Ford: All: I have a need to find the current dataset name

Re: Load modules

2015-03-19 Thread Scott Ford
, the COBOL compiler's local customization options reside in a non-executable load module that the compiler uses in this fashion. Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Scott Ford Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2015 8:27 AM

Re: Load modules

2015-03-19 Thread Scott Ford
Geez mr Elardus tell us how you really feel...your great love it On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 2:11 PM, Elardus Engelbrecht elardus.engelbre...@sita.co.za wrote: Scott Ford wrote: Yeah , now i see thank you Charles I have the same thing which Charles Mills kindly described. Load a mod with data

Re: RDJFCB

2015-03-19 Thread Scott Ford
or directly via assembler. Or if you read between the lines enough, you can the c-runtime svc99 function directly from cobol with text units built in your working storage. This is a really good way to practice your pointers in COBOL. On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 1:56 PM, Scott Ford idfzos...@gmail.com

RDJFCB

2015-03-19 Thread Scott Ford
All: I have a need to find the current dataset name of a ddname of a STC running. The STC is in Cobol and I would like to write the ddname query in Assembler. Could I do the following Call xyz passing ddname ... Either with EXTRACT or RDJFCB find the dataset name and pass it back ?

Re: Load modules

2015-03-19 Thread Scott Ford
elardus.engelbre...@sita.co.za wrote: Scott Ford wrote: Yeah , now i see thank you Charles I have the same thing which Charles Mills kindly described. Load a mod with data and play with it. In my case, I inherited an ancient IEFUJI exit. That thing loads a module residing in a linklist

Load modules

2015-03-19 Thread Scott Ford
All, I have a question about a process. One installation I worked in we loaded an object module into storage and the residing program used data inside the load module ...Has anyone else seen this ? if so do you by chance have an example. I need to base some product activation messages on where

Re: CR on records using OCOPY converting from ASCII to EBCDIC

2015-03-19 Thread Scott Ford
Look at the OCOPY in Z/Os Unix services there is a parameter to fix CRLF On Thursday, March 19, 2015, Kevin Landin klan...@central-insurance.com wrote: We FTP a zip file from a vendor as binary to a z/OS Unix file. We then expand the zip file using the JAR command: jar xf input.zip

Re: Turning JSCBAUTH off and back on again (Was: IEBCOPYO (was: APF-authorized ...))

2015-03-17 Thread Scott Ford
All, See this thread ...Charles this is the one I spoke about... https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/bit.listserv.ibm-main/tR7c3Pi9pFI/tnp_CEFOh-IJ Regards, Scott On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 10:52 AM, John McKown john.archie.mck...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 9:43 AM, Binyamin

Re: Tech Skills Heading the Way of the Dinosaur - 2015 Edition

2015-03-17 Thread Scott Ford
Lizette and Elardus , The article I skimmed and will read more later. I agree. Sometimes one learns bad habits or techniques because of exposure and rush to get things done . I suffer from this horrible illness and have been trying to correct it through questions and research. Regards, Scott On

Re: Turning JSCBAUTH off and back on again (Was: IEBCOPYO (was: APF-authorized ...))

2015-03-16 Thread Scott Ford
- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU javascript:;] On Behalf Of Scott Ford Sent: Monday, March 16, 2015 3:20 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU javascript:; Subject: Re: IEBCOPYO (was: APF-authorized ...) I have a related question to this very informative thread

Re: Turning JSCBAUTH off and back on again (Was: IEBCOPYO (was: APF-authorized ...))

2015-03-16 Thread Scott Ford
Charles, I did a quick google on JSCBAUTH and long thread in 2010...very interesting several people mentioned to SYNC and LINK to perform authorized calls unless I misunderstood the thread. Scott On Monday, March 16, 2015, Scott Ford idfzos...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, it does. On Monday, March

Re: IEBCOPYO (was: APF-authorized ...)

2015-03-16 Thread Scott Ford
I have a related question to this very informative thread. Inside a long running task, i.e.; stc can you turn off APF authorization and turn back on ? Btw I have customers asked about this. Regards, Scott On Monday, March 16, 2015, Paul Gilmartin 000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu

Re: Turning JSCBAUTH off and back on again (Was: IEBCOPYO (was: APF-authorized ...))

2015-03-16 Thread Scott Ford
? Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU javascript:;] On Behalf Of Scott Ford Sent: Monday, March 16, 2015 3:20 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU javascript:; Subject: Re: IEBCOPYO (was: APF-authorized ...) I have

Re: Knowledgecentre versus the library server

2015-03-12 Thread Scott Ford
Also there is a new RedBooks app for the IPAD , if you own one. It's really nice On Thursday, March 12, 2015, Charles Mills charl...@mcn.org wrote: But no longer some of the peripheral products such as the new COBOL. Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List

Re: Using AXREXX macro

2015-03-12 Thread Scott Ford
Charles, Thank you very much. I really appreciate it. I am going to write it and give it a try. This could save me a lot of time and effort. Regards, Scott www.identityforge.com On Thursday, March 12, 2015, Charles Mari cm...@us.ibm.com wrote: Scott, I discussed this with Harris (System

Re: Knowledgecentre versus the library server

2015-03-11 Thread Scott Ford
Charles, I agree , I search then if i find the .boo I download the PDF. The searches are much faster on you local pc for sure.. Regards, Scott On Wednesday, March 11, 2015, Charles Mills charl...@mcn.org wrote: Agreed on this also. Prefer PDF to KC except for the most trivial of quick

Re: Knowledgecentre versus the library server

2015-03-11 Thread Scott Ford
I would rather download the PDFs,I'm think personally, it's easier more me. On Wednesday, March 11, 2015, Staller, Allan allan.stal...@kbmg.com wrote: The new tools are not as available, reliable, or efficient as their predecessors [1]. [1] In a bout of frustration I complained to a duty

Re: LE Question

2015-03-10 Thread Scott Ford
Alan: I was thinking along the lines of what you suggested. cant suggest as a ISV and developer to customers to use CICS or DB2 as a solution. I personally think its overkill for a system type application which we are..besides we handle sensitive security type data. Regards, Scott On Tue, Mar

LE Question

2015-03-09 Thread Scott Ford
I have a question about heaps. I want to have a Cobol program call a C routine, the C routine to place data onto the heap then return back to Cobol. The question is can Cobol then reference that data ? Regards, Scott www.identityforge.com

Re: LE Question

2015-03-09 Thread Scott Ford
programming guide (ceea2190) chapter 14 for details. Sam On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 9:08 AM, Scott Ford idfzos...@gmail.com wrote: I have a question about heaps. I want to have a Cobol program call a C routine, the C routine to place data onto the heap then return back to Cobol. The question

Re: LE Question

2015-03-09 Thread Scott Ford
if COBOL supported 64-bit addressing. But IBM can't see the use for that. Of course if the data are large enough they go into page data sets anyway, but that's utterly transparent to the programmer. On Mar 9, 2015 2:06 PM, Scott Ford wrote: I will have to read and try ..my question is how do

Re: LE Question

2015-03-09 Thread Scott Ford
qualified memory. Either way, i think you need an API. On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 3:44 PM, Scott Ford idfzos...@gmail.com javascript:; wrote: Sam, 2-3 G . Regards, Scott On Monday, March 9, 2015, Paul Gilmartin 000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu javascript:; wrote

Using AXREXX macro

2015-03-03 Thread Scott Ford
All: I would like to have a running STC using an Assember sub program call AXREXX. I want to have the AXREXX coded with rexxoutdsn so that the STC can retrieve output generated by the AXREXX program ... All comments and opinions appreciated. Regards, Scott www.idmworks.comn

Re: O/T Assemblers were once people: My aunt did it for NASA

2015-02-26 Thread Scott Ford
Ed, Excellent, liked the article..in my case not my aunt but my father ... Scott On Thursday, February 26, 2015, Ed Gould edgould1...@comcast.net wrote: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/02/26/my_aunt_was_a_ human_assembler_at_nasa/

Re: A Must read --------

2015-02-24 Thread Scott Ford
Shane, Scary stuff... On Tuesday, February 24, 2015, Shane Ginnane ibm-m...@tpg.com.au wrote: On Tue, 24 Feb 2015 01:15:17 -0500, Scott Ford wrote: Check out this article on Wired.com.How the NSA’s Firmware Hacking Works and Why It’s So Unsettling And NSA director Michael Rogers says

A Must read --------

2015-02-23 Thread Scott Ford
Check out this article on Wired.com.How the NSA’s Firmware Hacking Works and Why It’s So Unsettling http://www.wired.com/2015/02/nsa-firmware-hacking/ -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email

Re: High i/o rate and CPU usage by catalog after converting a set of files to extended and placing them on model 54's

2015-02-22 Thread Scott Ford
Sheldon, His logic is not clear to me .can you detail a tad more .. Regards, Scott On Sunday, February 22, 2015, Sheldon Davis sda...@isracard.co.il wrote: I have managed to recreate the problem. I will open a PMR and I will check with the developer why he is doing what he is. A cobol

Re: IKJ56228I vs. IEFA107I

2015-02-12 Thread Scott Ford
Gil, What's the structure where the file is located you might need the entire Unix path Regards, Scott On Thursday, February 12, 2015, Charles Mills charl...@mcn.org wrote: FWIW, not a good justification but perhaps some light on the topic: a JFCB has a fixed-length 44-byte dataset name area

Re: XREF Members of JCL libs and their datasets

2015-02-12 Thread Scott Ford
Mitch, The other consideration us money, don't know the cost of the product you mentioned. I realize a persons time is also valuable , just my $.02 worth Regards, Scott On Thursday, February 12, 2015, Nims,Alva John (Al) ajn...@ufl.edu wrote: Take a look at File 270 from the CBTTAPE

Re: Vary OPEERLOG offline before IPLing the system?

2015-02-10 Thread Scott Ford
Peter, First question what is happening after the vary operlog offline and JES2 stopping? I can't see doing the vary offline and I have done a bunch of automation work. Regards, Scott iDF On Tuesday, February 10, 2015, Peter Hunkeler p...@gmx.ch wrote: I found that automation is setup to vary

Re: (My) John Ehrman Assembler Book

2015-02-09 Thread Scott Ford
John, I like your book very much. It's much appreciated , it will a valuable asset in my gapping Assembler knowledge. How long did it take you to write The book ? Regards, Scott On Monday, February 9, 2015, John Ehrman ehr...@us.ibm.com wrote: Richard Lawrence posted: The long awaited John

Re: ancient cobol applications

2015-02-07 Thread Scott Ford
That's not the only causemanagement being cheap, an issue I have seen for years...experienced people are worth their weight on 'gold' . On Saturday, February 7, 2015, Anne Lynn Wheeler l...@garlic.com wrote: local news just had item about ancient software at state agencies, 619 major

Re: Top-Secret

2015-02-03 Thread Scott Ford
Gil: Actually I like that scenario. A lot of ways to skin the cat..so to speak Regards, Scott www.idmworks.com On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 9:39 AM, Paul Gilmartin 000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu wrote: On Mon, 2 Feb 2015 21:06:47 -0500, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: In

Re: Top-Secret

2015-02-03 Thread Scott Ford
: On Tue, 3 Feb 2015 11:39:09 -0500, Scott Ford wrote: Actually I like that scenario. A lot of ways to skin the cat..so to speak I use it to run authorized programs with TSO CALL from SSH sessions. Perhaps with familiarity with the APIs one might bypass Rexx and call its services

Re: Top-Secret

2015-02-02 Thread Scott Ford
Walt, The STC is autrhorized runs AC(1) from a APF authorized library. We have been using r_admin to pass commands and retrieve output to other external security subsystems ( i,e.; ACF2 and TSS ). But functionally, TSS supports FDT , user defned segments and fields, I dont know what the RACF

Re: Top-Secret

2015-02-01 Thread Scott Ford
Peter: The command in question runs in TSO/E Option # 6 and can be executed via IKJEFT01 in batch. With these two options being true , can i write a command processor using IKJEFSI,IKJEFSR ..etc. ? My issue is we run as a STC ...i want to be able to call establish a temporary TSO environment and

Re: Top-Secret

2015-02-01 Thread Scott Ford
@LISTSERV.UA.EDU javascript:;] On Behalf Of Scott Ford Sent: Sunday, February 01, 2015 11:30 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU javascript:; Subject: Re: Top-Secret Peter: The command in question runs in TSO/E Option # 6 and can be executed via IKJEFT01 in batch. With these two options being true , can i

Top-Secret

2015-01-31 Thread Scott Ford
opinions and/or comments much appreciated Regards, Scott Ford www.idmworks.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Compile COBOL Programs In 64 Bit.

2015-01-19 Thread Scott Ford
What about usage of 64 bit dataspaces ...without calling Assembler Scott ford www.identityforge.com from my IPAD On Jan 19, 2015, at 4:54 PM, Clark Morris cfmpub...@ns.sympatico.ca wrote: On 14 Jan 2015 16:57:26 -0800, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: Hi,I am looking for COBOL

Re: Boston - what a place

2015-01-15 Thread Scott Ford
Ed, I saw -30 back home in Indiana, I was out in it, with 2+ feet of snow, man it was cold and nasty Scott ford www.identityforge.com from my IPAD On Jan 15, 2015, at 4:34 PM, Ed Gould edgould1...@comcast.net wrote: On Jan 13, 2015, at 8:10 AM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: On Tue, 13 Jan

Re: Boston - what a place

2015-01-15 Thread Scott Ford
Ed, We had a crowned road, lived south of Indy. The ditch along side the road was even with the road. We had a neighbor abandon his car and jump and literally disappeared in the drift. My father and I went to get boots and etc. on and finally he surfaced from the snow. Scott ford

Re: Boston - what a place

2015-01-13 Thread Scott Ford
Sounds like my home state Indiana. When I moved to Jersey everyone told me how much snow and how cold it was...I just rolled my eyes Scott ford www.identityforge.com from my IPAD On Jan 13, 2015, at 1:05 AM, Ed Gould edgould1...@comcast.net wrote: On Jan 12, 2015, at 5:09 PM

Re: Forced password change held to be harmful -- Was RE: RACF password history was: AW: //STARTING JOB ...

2015-01-03 Thread Scott Ford
Happy Holidays my friend Regards, Scott From: Charles Mills Sent: ‎Monday‎, ‎December‎ ‎29‎, ‎2014 ‎8‎:‎56‎ ‎AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Why force your users to change passwords at all? I know everyone does it but what problems does it solve? 1. Bob needs access to some dataset

Merry Christmas

2014-12-25 Thread Scott Ford
Merry Christmas to you and yours from me and my girlshere in New Jersey Best Regards, Scott ford www.identityforge.com from my IPAD -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists

Re: JCLLIB in started proc?

2014-12-18 Thread Scott Ford
master JCL (shown in Figure 1) or specify an alternate version of the master JCL, as described in Changing the master scheduler JCL. Sorry about the wrap guys and gals on my iPad.. Scott ford www.identityforge.com from my IPAD On Dec 18, 2014, at 1:50 PM, Jousma, David david.jou...@53

Re: I want to add data of 30 VSAM files to one PS flat file.

2014-12-18 Thread Scott Ford
From ibm themselves in their technology terms site file A collection of related data that is stored and retrieved by an assigned name. A sequence of records. If the file is located in internal storage, it is an internal file; if it is on an input/output device, it is an external file. Scott

Re: IKJ56500I COMMAND OPUTX NOT FOUND

2014-12-17 Thread Scott Ford
Yeah but that's only as of z/OS 2.1 ….as a ISV we support backlevel versions also …so one has to come up with two solutions … Regards, Scott From: Charles Mills Sent: ‎Wednesday‎, ‎December‎ ‎17‎, ‎2014 ‎10‎:‎17‎ ‎AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU THAT IS AWESOME! Wow! Thanks, Charles

Re: IKJ56500I COMMAND OPUTX NOT FOUND

2014-12-17 Thread Scott Ford
Gil: That was what I was trying to say and didn't do it very well. Love the new JCL changes is Z/OS 2.1 Scott From: Paul Gilmartin Sent: ‎Wednesday‎, ‎December‎ ‎17‎, ‎2014 ‎11‎:‎43‎ ‎AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU On 2014-12-17, at 09:31, Scott Ford wrote: Yeah but that's

Re: JCLLIB in started proc?

2014-12-17 Thread Scott Ford
Charles, Can we see you job stream ? Scott ford www.identityforge.com from my IPAD On Dec 17, 2014, at 8:05 PM, Charles Mills charl...@mcn.org wrote: I just added a JCLLIB statement to a cataloged procedure that I start with a Start command. I am getting IEFC019I MISPLACED JCLLIB

Re: IKJ56500I COMMAND OPUTX NOT FOUND

2014-12-13 Thread Scott Ford
Hey Charles You try this . To copy all members from a fully qualified PDS 'turbo.gammalib' to an existing UNIX directory dir: cp //'turbo.gammalib' dir Scott ford www.identityforge.com from my IPAD On Dec 13, 2014, at 11:30 AM, Charles Mills charl...@mcn.org wrote: Thanks. Thanks all

Re: IKJ56500I COMMAND OPUTX NOT FOUND

2014-12-12 Thread Scott Ford
I can see if I can find it on my system , what librarywhat version of z/os? Scott ford www.identityforge.com from my IPAD On Dec 12, 2014, at 5:29 PM, Charles Mills charl...@mcn.org wrote: I'm not sure that I hate JCL but I do know that JCL and USS do not seem to be a happy marriage

Re: IKJ56500I COMMAND OPUTX NOT FOUND

2014-12-12 Thread Scott Ford
I will look Sent from Windows Mail From: Charles Mills Sent: ‎Friday‎, ‎December‎ ‎12‎, ‎2014 ‎6‎:‎03‎ ‎PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Thanks. That's the sort of thing I expected. I know you don't know the exact name but any clue on what the library would be? Charles

Re: IKJ56500I COMMAND OPUTX NOT FOUND

2014-12-12 Thread Scott Ford
yep found it .. Here SYS1.SBPXEXEC Sent from Windows Mail From: Charles Mills Sent: ‎Friday‎, ‎December‎ ‎12‎, ‎2014 ‎6‎:‎03‎ ‎PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Thanks. That's the sort of thing I expected. I know you don't know the exact name but any clue on what the library

Re: IKJ56500I COMMAND OPUTX NOT FOUND

2014-12-12 Thread Scott Ford
Yep that's where I found it J O Skip Sent from Windows Mail From: J O Skip Robinson Sent: ‎Friday‎, ‎December‎ ‎12‎, ‎2014 ‎6‎:‎24‎ ‎PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU The SMPE install library is SBPXEXEC, which in our shop is SYS1.SBPXEXEC. However, since this works for you in TSO,

Re: thought: z/OS structured logging

2014-12-06 Thread Scott Ford
When you build hardware its logical to try to sell it or push it for solutions ...does mean you have to like it or be involved if you don't need to or want to Scott ford www.identityforge.com from my IPAD On Dec 5, 2014, at 11:25 AM, David Crayford dcrayf...@gmail.com wrote: On 6/12

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

2014-10-23 Thread Scott Ford
I am with Bernd on the Rexx I/O has been a bottleneck, but logically speaking I/O can be a bottleneck being slow than memory functions. My Rexx experience is with VM, Netview, TSO, z/OS. Also Orexx on Linux and Windows. So I speak from experience as I am sure Bernd does. Scott ford

Re: 64bit

2014-10-20 Thread Scott Ford
! Cheers, TomR COBOL is the Language of the Future! Scott - I think that only enterprise cobol 5.x support 64 bit natively. Sam On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 7:17 AM, Scott Ford 0006f84450fa-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu wrote: All, I have a generalized design question. First

Re: 64bit

2014-10-17 Thread Scott Ford
All, C and C++ I know supports it , If my old eyes read correctly. Hlasm does. If I am just using 64bit storage to store/retrieve data that should work? Scott ford www.identityforge.com from my IPAD On Oct 17, 2014, at 2:11 PM, Don Poitras poit...@pobox.com wrote: In article

Re: 64bit

2014-10-17 Thread Scott Ford
Charles, The more I see the more I want/will convert the Cobol code to C or C++. Scott ford www.identityforge.com from my IPAD On Oct 17, 2014, at 4:46 PM, Charles Mills charl...@mcn.org wrote: COBOL can talk to any legal assembler program. But it can only manipulate data below

Re: 64bit

2014-10-17 Thread Scott Ford
Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Scott Ford Sent: Friday, October 17, 2014 1:55 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: 64bit Charles, The more I see the more I want/will convert the Cobol code to C or C

64bit

2014-10-16 Thread Scott Ford
and binder parameters. Do I have to do anything special parameter wise ? Thanks as always, Regards, Scott ford www.identityforge.com - www.idmworks.com from my IPAD -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions

Re: REXX syscall spawnp and IPCS

2014-10-10 Thread Scott Ford
Steve: Hard to help unless we see your Rexx code ? Regards, Scott From: Steve Austin Sent: ‎Friday‎, ‎October‎ ‎10‎, ‎2014 ‎10‎:‎30‎ ‎AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Hello, I've run out of hammers trying to use REXX syscall spawnp to run a REXX that drives IPCS in a child

Re: Notes from SFO

2014-10-09 Thread Scott Ford
Man, why can we mainframes with a ton of expertise and experience not cash in on some of these goodies… Such is life in the fast lane. The only thing close I have experienced in working in Europe …5 yrs wih a company, 5 weeks vacation ..amen and thank you billy… Regards, Scott From:

Re: Linklist load during IPL message

2014-10-06 Thread Scott Ford
Jake: I would think you could search thru the Linklist and find if the module was missing … I think ISRDDN can do it Regards, Scott From: Jake anderson Sent: ‎Monday‎, ‎October‎ ‎6‎, ‎2014 ‎11‎:‎20‎ ‎AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Hi Group, We had a situation where a DB2

Re: IEFUJI or IEFUJV sample %%%$$%#????

2014-10-05 Thread Scott Ford
Charles and Brian: Yeah I remember this guy … He was using several different ids on the Listserv. Regards, Scott www.idmworks.com aka www.identityforge.com From: Charles Mills Sent: ‎Sunday‎, ‎October‎ ‎5‎, ‎2014 ‎11‎:‎20‎ ‎AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU I think someone is

Re: Alias relating to Non-VSAM datasets

2014-10-05 Thread Scott Ford
Normal TSO alias's - ‘yes’, but I don't understand why you want to do this Alan ? Are you trying to solve a problem or a new design of some sort ? Regards, Scott From: Ted MacNEIL Sent: ‎Friday‎, ‎October‎ ‎3‎, ‎2014 ‎12‎:‎03‎ ‎PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU ‎Experimented with

Re: OT - Bash Vunerability

2014-09-26 Thread Scott Ford
First I had heard of this vulnerability. Very interesting Scott From: Charles Mills Sent: ‎Thursday‎, ‎September‎ ‎25‎, ‎2014 ‎8‎:‎15‎ ‎PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Thanks. I'm reading http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shellshock_(software_bug) and I sort of get it. I guess the

Re: COBOL LINK without Assembler?

2014-09-22 Thread Scott Ford
Kirk: I called A Cobol routine(s) in C without an issue …threaded , the threads started in C. I have code if you would like to see Regards, Scott www.identityforge.com From: Kirk Wolf Sent: ‎Monday‎, ‎September‎ ‎22‎, ‎2014 ‎10‎:‎38‎ ‎AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Thanks

Re: Data Conversion

2014-09-20 Thread Scott Ford
The 'hex' I referred for example maybe is old school, working with PSRs and taking on the phone as they saying go to hex address In a dump. As a Sysprog on VM, VSE and then MVS this was given terminology ... Scott ford www.identityforge.com from my IPAD On Sep 19, 2014, at 11:07 PM

Data Conversion

2014-09-17 Thread Scott Ford
Guys/Gals: I have a fundamental question to ask. We have a Cobol routine passing a set of parms ..one of the parms is a number PIC 999. The called program is in HLASM and receives the parms and we have WORKAREA dsect setup and address it with a using. My issue is I must convert this PIC 999

Test message

2014-09-17 Thread Scott Ford
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Data Conversion

2014-09-17 Thread Scott Ford
Guys/Gals: I have a fundamental question to ask. We have a Cobol routine passing a set of parms ..one of the parms is a number PIC 999. The called program is in HLASM and receives the parms and we have WORKAREA dsect setup and address it with a using. My issue is I must convert this PIC

Re: Data Conversion

2014-09-17 Thread Scott Ford
- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Scott Ford Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2014 10:59 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Data Conversion Guys/Gals: I have a fundamental question to ask. We have a Cobol routine passing a set of parms

RE Re: Data Conversion

2014-09-17 Thread Scott Ford
.. Regards, Scott Ford www.idmworks.com From: retired-mainfra...@q.com Sent: ‎Wednesday‎, ‎September‎ ‎17‎, ‎2014 ‎2‎:‎17‎ ‎PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Just out of curiosity, wouldn't it be faster and safer to create very short versions of your routines. Have the COBOL routine just

Re: Data Conversion

2014-09-17 Thread Scott Ford
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Scott Ford Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2014 12:39 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Data Conversion Charles: We are creating SMF records, user defined. So we are passing

Re: How tell if have OMVS Segment

2014-09-12 Thread Scott Ford
Charles: I would think so, the logic to me is sound..Some LE supported languages do it automatically, I.E. Cobol, I think C or C++ does.. If it doesn't it should for sure. Regards, Scott From: charl...@mcn.org Sent: ‎Friday‎, ‎September‎ ‎12‎, ‎2014 ‎10‎:‎40‎ ‎AM To: IBM Mainframe

Re: How tell if have OMVS Segment

2014-09-11 Thread Scott Ford
Charles, It sounds like IMHO, that IBM needs to have build or review Language Ref or Guides. I run into the same sort of issues. Especially, when you trying to shoot a bug or develop something new. LE services or function doc is getting better for sure. But mixing and matching functionality

Re: Rexx Idiom (was: FTP of EBCDIC file)

2014-09-10 Thread Scott Ford
Darth: Personally, I believe everyone has their own techniques in writing computer code. Where you cloned someone’s code and made changes or created it or read manuals and did one of the above. Sent from Windows Mail From: Darth Keller Sent: ‎Wednesday‎, ‎September‎ ‎10‎, ‎2014

Re: How tell if have OMVS Segment

2014-09-10 Thread Scott Ford
Charles: Are you using TCPIP ? If so when you init the stack, if no OMVS segment exists it will fail with a bad return code. We run under LE also. Regards, Scott From: charl...@mcn.org Sent: ‎Wednesday‎, ‎September‎ ‎10‎, ‎2014 ‎6‎:‎22‎ ‎PM To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List I

Re: How tell if have OMVS Segment

2014-09-10 Thread Scott Ford
Todd is right that's another way. Check the ACEE used by STC and see if it has the OMVS seg. Regards, Scott From: Burrell, C. Todd (CDC/OCOO/OCIO/ITSO) (CTR) Sent: ‎Wednesday‎, ‎September‎ ‎10‎, ‎2014 ‎6‎:‎34‎ ‎PM To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List Can't you make a call to RACF

Re: How to cleanly shutdown a socket server?

2014-08-19 Thread Scott Ford
We have been using a Socket-C lose and then a Socket-Shutdown.. Regards, Scott www,idmworks.com From: dlik...@infosecinc.com Sent: ‎Tuesday‎, ‎August‎ ‎19‎, ‎2014 ‎5‎:‎02‎ ‎PM To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List I have been struggling with this for a while... Cancel always works

Re: Mainframe jargon and acronyms wasRe: AMBLIST, AMASPZAP, and UNIX Program Objects

2014-08-16 Thread Scott Ford
I seem to remember IMPL, initial micro program load Scott ford www.identityforge.com from my IPAD On Aug 15, 2014, at 11:51 AM, Clark Morris cfmpub...@ns.sympatico.ca wrote: On 15 Aug 2014 07:09:13 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main Elardus wrote: Just my little comments, if you don't

Re: MASPEGH? (was new JVM based language)

2014-08-11 Thread Scott Ford
Charles, Yeah actually very funny Scott ford www.identityforge.com from my IPAD On Aug 11, 2014, at 12:49 PM, Charles Mills charl...@mcn.org wrote: Google thinks it's a city on Long Island. Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN

Re: 64-bit Common (Was: ECSA Survey)

2014-07-01 Thread Scott Ford
Peter: I was referring to how we use SP231. If I read correctly dataspaces are associated with address spaces. If the address allocating, using the dataspace ends/terminates, that dataspace is gone ? Is this not true I want to make sure I understand it correctly Regards, Scott From:

Re: ECSA Survey

2014-06-30 Thread Scott Ford
Charles: We don't use SP 241, we use sp 231 and have the customer allocate it. Regards, Scott www.idmworks.com From: Ed Jaffe Sent: ‎Sunday‎, ‎June‎ ‎29‎, ‎2014 ‎3‎:‎06‎ ‎PM To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On 6/29/2014 11:27 AM, John Gilmore wrote: A z/OS above-the-bar CSA

Re: 64-bit Common (Was: ECSA Survey)

2014-06-30 Thread Scott Ford
Ed: I have a quick 64bit storage question, I need to allocate 64bit storage that's not attached to a TCB, much like sp 231 IS ? an I do this ? I know dataspaces have to be attached. Regards, Scott www.idmworks.com From: Ed Jaffe Sent: ‎Monday‎, ‎June‎ ‎30‎, ‎2014 ‎10‎:‎12‎ ‎AM

Re: 64-bit Common (Was: ECSA Survey)

2014-06-30 Thread Scott Ford
Rob, Thanks I took a look ..new to 64 bit storage, started looking at MVS Extended Addressability as well as the Assembler macro manuals. Scott ford www.identityforge.com from my IPAD On Jun 30, 2014, at 11:06 AM, Rob Scott rsc...@rocketsoftware.com wrote: See the OWNER keyword

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