The solution is to associate a date with a change bar. It's easy to do with
"obsolete" markup languages like Script, not so much with WYSIAYG.
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The code
with open('workfile', encoding="utf-8") as f:
read_data = f.read()
is for reading text and you would normally be concerned with the character
count. Try
with open('workfile', "rb") as f:
read_data = f.read()
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Well, sort of. Think of the master catalog as the officer of the day;
essentially the same as other catalogs, but designated for a special role.
There's also something called a multilevel alias (MLA), which you probably
don't have to worry about.
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This is killing a fly with a sledge hammer, but maybe Exit 15: DISPLAY service
exit?
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THE UTF-8
transform of 'AC'X), but rather what various current interpreters expect.
I believe that NetRexx supports a UTF-8 encoding of the source, but I was
concerned with classic and OO flavors.
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'AC'X is not valid as the first octet of a UTF-8 sequence and the indicator is
in the first octet, which must be one of
0xxx
110x
1110
0xxx
'AC'X is valid in the second, third or fourth octet.
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A little hard to read without field names or at least offsets for each
doubleword, but DCBOFLGS is a bit puzzling; I would have expected 08 and 18
where I see 0A and 1A. Could you post the code that works and the code that
does not work?
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Have you looked at ZERRMSG, ZERRSM, and ZERRL?
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To
Current versions of, e.g., bash, go, ooRexx, perl, python, ruby, rust, x11.
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It uses TPUT, but capturing the TPUT is only available if you are running under
TSO Session Manager or RYO using the hooks for SM.
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Does anybody have announcement letters, or at least dates, for MVS/SE
(5740-XE1) R1 and R2, MVS/SP V1 (5740-XYS, 5740-XYN) and MVS/XA?
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OUTTRAP is for messages written by PUTLINE and PUTGET; the TSO Session Manager
can capture TPUT but there is no way to capture WTO directly.
However, if you have the proper authorization (OP does not) then you can
examine console messages with the CONSOLE facility.
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See the CONSOLE facility in TSO. I don't know whether it is available in System
Rexx.
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programming position, please contact me offline. Must be able to obtain a
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It is possible to process an assignment statement that you read as a
subcommand; you just need to treat it as a special case instead of relying on
IKJSCAN. Your code needs to recognize it as an assignment statement and pass
the entire statement to IKJPARSE.
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signment statements are special cases.
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No, I'm getting upset about trying to put words in my mouth; that's not
something that is acceptable in Academia.
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t: Re: Logical Nor (¬) in ASCII-based code pages?
Seymour J Metz wrote, in part:
>You seem to be confirming what I wrote; if the locale is UTF-8 then
>your character data should be UTF-8. The ¬ character in UTF-8 has a
>different encoding from the ¬ character in Unicode, so there is no
>is
You seem to be confirming what I wrote; if the locale is UTF-8 then your
character data should be UTF-8. The ¬ character in UTF-8 has a different
encoding from the ¬ character in Unicode, so there is no issue of a zero octet.
'00AC'X is not a valid UTF-8 string.
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Is charout() relevant in a Unicode context? AFAIK, you need to transform
Unicode data with, e.g., UTF-8, For charout() to handle it.
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ambiguity.
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Seymour J Metz wrote, in part:
>> “AC” is meaningless in a Unico
Why 0A? An EBCDIC NL is '15'x. TSO doesn't use LF as an end of line.
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1. If you request output in storage, does each line end in '15'x (NL)?
2. What happens if you use an explicit TERMPUT=EDIT?
Yes, that's supposed to be the default, but I'm grasping at straws here.
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re they the same users that think that, e.g., CP850 is ASCII?
> I’m more than willing to believe in some code page with hex AA as the NOT
> sign, just never seen it.
See, e.g., <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CP850#Character_set>.
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Bookmarked. Thanks.
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Please show your code. In particular, what is TERMPUT=?
The term "unprintable" is vague; it depends on the particular character set and
translation table.
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list the environments that are allowed with TSO=YES, the default environment or
how to issue a TSO command. I would guess that the later is ADDRESS TSO
command, but it would be nice to have confirmation,
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Subject: Re: Logical Nor (¬) in ASCII-based code pages?
On Sun, 7 May 2023 13:27:16 +, Seymour J Metz wrote:
>I've seen Logical Not (¬) at AA and at AC. Are there and ASCII-based code
>pages that have it at a third position? Put anot
I've seen Logical Not (¬) at AA and at AC. Are there and ASCII-based code pages
that have it at a third position? Put another way, is there a third code point
that ooRexx and Regina should recognize as ¬?
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it has at least two
relevant meanings in that section :-(
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Se
Regina REXX
On Fri, 5 May 2023 23:53:52 +, Seymour J Metz wrote:
>I don't recall the details, but AA is '¬' on, e.g., CP852 and AC is '¬' on,
>e.g., CP850.
I see AA in both. Look like Windows box drawing code pages. ("not"
i
ay 5, 2023 7:22 PM
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Subject: Re: Z/OS port of Regina REXX
On Fri, 5 May 2023 22:25:09 +, Seymour J Metz wrote:
>What code page are you using? What release of Regina? In some code pages Not
>is 'AA'X, in others 'AC'X. In Unicode it's U+0
What code page are you using? What release of Regina? In some code pages Not is
'AA'X, in others 'AC'X. In Unicode it's U+00AC ('C2AC'X in UTF-8).
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How old is it? Does anybody still run with SWA below the line?
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Yes, and the "z/VM related PDFs" tab
<https://www.vm.ibm.com/library/other.html> on the z/VM equivalent has a link
to the current PoOps.
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So why are you continuing this nonsense? Isn't it hypocritical to thank Darren
and then ignore what he wrote?
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OTOH, it's nice to see that Darren is alive and kicking.
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3/5
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It is the government's job if it is based on
There is for TSO;/E REXX; I don't know about ooRexx or Regina. There is a regex
class in ooRexx, but it's missing a lot.
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Is there a REXX-aware PEG package?
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If you need more than ECMA Script regexen there's PCRE.
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It won't work for nested parentheses.
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It's not difficult to write an assembler subroutine to parse and return the
results in REXX variables.
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PCRE is one option. There is also a package (XPARSE? XPROC?) that calls
IKJPARSE.
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The following i
One feature that I would like to see on such a dashboard is the ability to
upload sample source code or text along with a flag as to whether IBM should
treat it as public or private.
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How many different files does he have? An equivalent to the PL/I FILE keyword
would be more flexible than hard-wiring the ddnames at compile time.
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The OP isn't trying to retrieve the information; he's trying to open a file
using a dynamic ddname. Put another way, he wants to open the same DCB multiple
times, with a different DCBDDNAM each time.
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Is PL/I an option at your shop?
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I have an input file that contains thousands of rec
I would have said that it was unwise of IBM to overload ABEND S0C4 in OS/VS,
but that once they had done so there was no graceful way to change it.
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when you need the books but don't have web access.
On Fri, Apr 28, 2023 at 6:25 AM Seymour J Metz wrote:
> Are you referring to KC web pages? What about manuals in PDF format?
>
> I've never had problems sending an RCF e-mail to the address in the manual.
>
>
> --
&g
K3wl. Using R0 as R_1 reminds me of the BXH/BXLE trick for testing successive
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Are you referring to KC web pages? What about manuals in PDF format?
I've never had problems sending an RCF e-mail to the address in the manual.
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Set the initial length to the remaining bytes on the "page". After that, use
the "page size". That leaves the question of how an unpriveleged program
determines the "page size".
Scare quotes because a 1 MiB "page" is actually a segment in the nomenc
Yikes!
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Subject: Re: Inexplicable 0C4!
On Thu, Apr 27, 2023 at 07:54:56PM +, Seymour J Metz wrote:
> R1 is the ta
tein
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On Thu, Apr 27, 2023 at 03:28:26PM +0000, Seymour J Metz wrote:
> Is it possible that the string is in key 0 or read-only storage?
It's a certainty for the whole string, but probably not for
ulder
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Subject: IPCS formatting of I/O control blocks
The last time I looked, IPCS did not format, e.g., DCB, DECB, IOB. Has that
ch
I'm pretty sure that trace i would have sped up the problem resolution, as Walt
suggested.
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Is it possible that the string is in key 0 or read-only storage?
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On Thu, Apr 27, 2023 at
BC 1 seems to be correct.
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"If the operation is completed with condition code 0, the contents of
No, but perhaps LGFI, avoiding the literal, would be better.
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Is UPRX a full 256 bytes?
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I have had two of these during the course of two months, so it's getti
The last time I looked, IPCS did not format, e.g., DCB, DECB, IOB. Has that
changed?
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ASD; "logical record
size" refers to either a segment of a physical record, or, for spanned records,
a record constructed from a sequence of such segments, and the meaning of
"record" depends upon context.
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The DASD documentation uses the term record.
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Yes, but IBM would have given the same ABEND code had they done a READ CKD and
compared.
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There is a BUFL parameter, but it's not needed in this case; LRECL=max,
BLKSIZE=max will do the job.
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Charles
DCBOFLGS='30'X=DCBOFEOV+DCBOFOPN
DCBLRECL='C8'X=100
DCBBLKSI==3E8'X=1000
The OPEN exit needs to
OIDCBOFLGS,DCBOFPPC
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I'm pretty sure that there won't be any progress without the contents of the
DCB at the time of failure; the current IOB might help. And if there is a
SYNADAF, its output would also help.
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The drill is first do a scan, then a parse. If you're using TEST[AUTH] CP, then
you are prompted for a complete command and that's what you should enter. The
fact that you provided a member name doesn't change that. So
TEST MYPDS(FOO) CP
FOO 666 ASID(1)
...
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There is a port of PCRE, which has named captures.
How hard would it be to port ooRexx 5.0, including glue code for existing
applications?
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The IKJIDENT looks okay although it would be easier to read if you broke it at
a comma rather than at column 71.
Please show the code that sets up IKJPARSE, starting at entry..
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the DCB at the time of ABEND?
DCBOFPPC processing is older than DCBE.
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, but it's pretty straightforward. Regina comes with header
files for C, so it shouldn't be any more difficult to write a Rexx-aware
routine in C than it is in assembler.
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Or use TSO EDIT.
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> IMHO it is not related to the group.
How is a question about the HMC on an IBM mainframe not related to IBM-MAIN?
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It's simple, but, IMHO, pointless. At the beginning of the macro, you test the
current environment. If it's not ISREDIT, then call EDIT with an initial macro.
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That's only relevant if you're using BDAM.
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There's also <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Feeling_of_Power> and
<https://www.mpoweruk.com/coal.htm>
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ObHolmesGinsbookDevice "International icons, equally unintelligible in every
language"
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Sorry, that should be "That's not a GUPI."
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CP support of Linux on
Z?
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Sun, 16 Apr 2023 02:42:46 +0000, Seymour J Metz wrote:
>I'm questioning "a program could determine that PARM was not specified".
>
... which you said it could do by "scan[ning] the JCL or the internal text."
>On Sun, 16 Apr 2023 02:01:10 +, Seymour J Metz wrote:
I'm questioning "a program could determine that PARM was not specified".
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nderstand that all of the forms are
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:artificial stupidity" - see GIGO.
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>If humans ever get so dependent on AI that they bli
at 10:54 PM Seymour J Metz wrote:
> "However, separate chains within a single address space are independent."
> doesn't sound like a single chain.
>
>
> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf
> of Paul Gilma
bject: Re: What is BPXAS and how do I make them stop piling up?
Here is my entry in IEFJOBS:
//BPXASJOB (SYSTEMS),'USS ADDRESS',MSGCLASS=Z
//BPXASEXEC PROC=BPXAS,GETWORK=BPXPRJSR
So, yes, IEFJOBS does work.
Matthew
On Tue, 11 Apr 2023 15:36:40 +0000, Seymour J Metz wrote:
ction of a proclib and
output disposition. As usual, it's the sort of thing that I would look up in
the logic manuals if they still existed. Lacking documentation, only a test
will determine whether I guessed correctly.
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What's in JOBCLASS(STC)?
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Well, here's the real deal:
//BPX
Almost, it reflected things that the user wrote, but not always the most recent
ones. That's part of what fooled people.
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I don't know of any way to search them by content, but you can at least find
them with, e.g.,
LOCATE FIRST NOTELINE .first .last
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BPXAS proc itself; in
particular, I don't know whether the installation can provide a JOB card and
accompanying // OUTPUT card for BPXAS in the IEFJOBS concatenation.
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rg/wiki/ELIZA>, which fooled many people?
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Our disappointment in the events of the past half century is best discussed
off-list.
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On Sun, 9 Apr 2023 20:41:33 +, Seymour J Metz wrote:
>Curse you, OCO!
>
>I suspect that validating a potential ENVB address requires running a tree
>rather than just a lis
Or the chilling "The Humanoids" by Jack Williamson "To serve Man, and keep him
from harm".
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Wouildn't that depend on the programming and training?
Some people lack an impulse to preserve themselves. Consider reckless behavior
and suicide attempts.
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ome of the alternative pathways may also
be horrifying.
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