Re: UNICODE to EBCDIC

2013-09-23 Thread Steve Comstock
On 9/23/2013 12:02 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: On Mon, 23 Sep 2013 10:44:04 -0600, Steve Comstock wrote: On 9/23/2013 10:22 AM, John McKown wrote: If you mean a program, then the UNIX iconv command can do that. There is also the iconv set of C language subroutines if you want to write your own

Re: COBOL 5.1 Share presentations

2013-09-23 Thread Steve Comstock
On 9/23/2013 2:23 PM, Tom Ross wrote: Tom, Could you share the SHARE presentations you have given on COBOL V5? I just sent them over, they should be live soon at: http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=3Dswg21634215 'Soon' meaning that more than a week later these presentations are

Re: COBOL 5.1 Share presentations

2013-09-23 Thread Steve Comstock
On 9/23/2013 3:12 PM, Bob Rutledge wrote: Lose the 3D, http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21634215 Bob Thanks, Bob. That did it. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-355-2752 http://www.trainersfriend.com * We are going out of business effective

Re: Unused variables

2013-09-20 Thread Steve Comstock
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Re: Looking for COBOL V5R1 Softcopy Librarian docs

2013-09-16 Thread Steve Comstock
. Charles Well, not quite what you're after, but I stumbled on this yesterday: http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/z/os/zos/bkserv/v2r1pdf/ The COBOL docs can be found here (and other places, I'm sure): http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg27036733 -Steve Comstock -Original

Re: z/OS 2.1 and tools like COBOL 5.1, Fault Analyzer, Debug Tool, etc

2013-09-14 Thread Steve Comstock
! Program objects can also be stored as z/OS UNIX files; I presume you wouldn't need PDSEs for those files then, eh? Will that work? -Steve Comstock -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email

Re: The Trainer's Friend Going Out Of Business Sale

2013-09-11 Thread Steve Comstock
: Steve Comstock st...@trainersfriend.com To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Sent: Monday, September 9, 2013 5:19:34 AM Subject: The Trainer's Friend Going Out Of Business Sale After 38 years of creating and delivering training courses for IBM mainframe (OS/360 through z/OS) application programmers

Re: The Trainer's Friend Going Out Of Business Sale

2013-09-11 Thread Steve Comstock
Oooops. Sorry. Not meant for the list. -Steve On 9/11/2013 2:06 PM, Steve Comstock wrote: On 9/11/2013 1:11 PM, Linda Mooney wrote: Hi Steve, I wish you only the best - and lots of it. Sorry to hear that the business is closing. 38 years is a long run. Hope we will still see you

The Trainer's Friend Going Out Of Business Sale

2013-09-09 Thread Steve Comstock
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Re: Dynamic Allocation in COBOL

2013-09-06 Thread Steve Comstock
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Re: Searching for a SUBMIT and WRITER tool

2013-09-05 Thread Steve Comstock
: INFO IBM-MAIN That is so user friendly. But not likely to happen. -Steve Comstock -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: C issue - 'struct stat'

2013-08-02 Thread Steve Comstock
://www.trainersfriend.com/UNIX_and_Web_courses/u520descr.htm ), we devote almost 20% of the student material to make and makefiles. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-355-2752 http://www.trainersfriend.com * To get a good Return on your Investment, first make an investment

Re: COBOL ? - emulating recursive PERFORM statement

2013-07-30 Thread Steve Comstock
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Re: COBOL ? - emulating recursive PERFORM statement

2013-07-30 Thread Steve Comstock
On 7/30/2013 1:02 PM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: In 51f7e21e.8070...@trainersfriend.com, on 07/30/2013 at 09:56 AM, Steve Comstock st...@trainersfriend.com said: Yes, that's a very critical issue to face. Most (not all) COBOL shops I've seen are reluctant to use many of the new

Re: Teaching COBOL INITIALIZE? [was:RE: COBOL ? - emulating recursive PERFORM statement]

2013-07-30 Thread Steve Comstock
, as you suggest), but there are times it is a nice tool to have, especially in initializing tables that have value clauses in their declare. -Steve -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Steve Comstock Sent: Tuesday, July 30

Re: Looking for help with an obscure C integer problem

2013-07-28 Thread Steve Comstock
Excellent work Bernd! -Steve Comstock On 7/27/2013 10:07 AM, Bernd Oppolzer wrote: I was able to reproduce the problem with a little test program: #include stdio.h #include stdlib.h static void longtest (long long lwert) { int test; test = lwert 0xLL; if (test

Re: z/OS 2.1 Program Product number

2013-07-25 Thread Steve Comstock
on Feb. 5, 2013; the zBC12 launch did indeed occur Tuesday. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-355-2752 http://www.trainersfriend.com * To get a good Return on your Investment, first make an investment! + Training your people is an excellent investment * Try our

Re: Is there a reverse bits hardware instruction?

2013-07-24 Thread Steve Comstock
On 7/24/2013 11:59 AM, Charles Mills wrote: He's reading the op? Charles Composed on a mobile: please excuse my brevity Lynd, Eugene C. eugene.c.l...@saic.com wrote: Of course there is. XI (EXCLUSIVE OR IMMEDIATE) and XC (EXCLUSIVE OR CHARACTER). Where's Steve Comstock when you need him

Re: COBOL was: COBOL Parser

2013-07-18 Thread Steve Comstock
On 7/18/2013 6:46 AM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: On Thu, 18 Jul 2013 08:13:02 -0400, John Gilmore wrote: COBOL optimization has always been problematic for two reasons. The less important of them is that, until now at least, some syntactically interesting features of the language have been

Re: Question on how to debug S0C7 (data exception) abend

2013-07-04 Thread Steve Comstock
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Re: Question on how to debug S0C7 (data exception) abend

2013-07-04 Thread Steve Comstock
of the dump'.) Still, for 1) above, one mustn't be afraid of diving into a dump if it's called for. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-355-2752 http://www.trainersfriend.com * To get a good Return on your Investment, first make an investment! + Training your

Re: Question on how to debug S0C7 (data exception) abend

2013-07-03 Thread Steve Comstock
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Re: Question on how to debug S0C7 (data exception) abend

2013-07-03 Thread Steve Comstock
. Such a class might even be designed to almost force the students into making errors along the way - fixing problems in the context of a training environment instead of production. At least a little bit like 'real life'. But, of course, I'm biased that way. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock

Re: Great quote on http://slashdot.org (changes frequently)

2013-06-30 Thread Steve Comstock
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Re: Theology question: Parameter formats

2013-06-30 Thread Steve Comstock
is 'it depends' and, as Shmuel points out, the devil is in the details. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-355-2752 http://www.trainersfriend.com * Special promotion: 15% off on all DB2 training classes scheduled by September 1, taught by year end 2011 * Check out our

Re: Theology question: Parameter formats

2013-06-30 Thread Steve Comstock
, it is true everywhere. HTH kind regards Bernd Am 30.06.2013 20:11, schrieb Steve Comstock: My whole point was to address the assertion from an earlier point in this thread that C invariably passes arguments by reference. As usual, the simple answer is 'it depends' and, as Shmuel points out

Re: Theology question: Parameter formats

2013-06-29 Thread Steve Comstock
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Re: Language environment question

2013-06-29 Thread Steve Comstock
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Re: Why does IBM keep saying things like this:

2013-06-10 Thread Steve Comstock
well, and some do not Perhaps this is a commentary on his own writing. :-) [snip] -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists

Re: Check out CERN Data Centre passes 100 petabytes | CERN

2013-06-08 Thread Steve Comstock
On 6/8/2013 12:52 PM, Ed Finnell wrote: _CERN Data Centre passes 100 petabytes | CERN_ (http://home.web.cern.ch/about/updates/2013/02/cern-data-centre-passes-100-petabytes) Give them a pretty big honkin data collection. Wonder how that compares to the data stored at NSA. -Steve Comstock

Re: HTTP Server

2013-06-06 Thread Steve Comstock
_Writing z/OS CGIs in COBOL (2 days)_ http://www.trainersfriend.com/UNIX_and_Web_courses/uc04descr.htm _Writing z/OS CGIs in Assembler (2 days)_ http://www.trainersfriend.com/UNIX_and_Web_courses/uc06descr.htm I'm just sayin'. :-) Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc

Re: I/O Optimization

2013-06-05 Thread Steve Comstock
Spanned 'Standard' here means no embedded short blocks. -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. On 5/06/2013 1:24 PM, Bernd Oppolzer wrote: Yes, I guess, that the freads on ZFS will be faster, but: - the customer wants the files to be classical z/OS data sets, and - because of the cache

Re: B37 för FTINCL in ISPF for userid.ISPnnnnn.SPFTEMPn.WORK datasets

2013-05-20 Thread Steve Comstock
the constraints! That's what they're there for. Now, perhaps the various _default_ constraints should be larger, but that's what the various configuration settings and files are for, as is SMS. Windows doesn't let you choose / specify the constraints. -Steve Comstock

Re: Rather interesting article on hacking the mainframe using ftp

2013-05-18 Thread Steve Comstock
down to it. And insiders, especially 'trusted' insiders can always hack any system they're trusted on, with enough time and cleverness. It's the hacker from outside that is the concern. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-355-2752 http://www.trainersfriend.com

Re: Return codes

2013-05-08 Thread Steve Comstock
: Wednesday, May 08, 2013 1:45 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Return codes Hi , Can some one let me know why the return code generated is a mutilple of 4? e.g 4,8,12,16 Thanks, Ron T -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-355-2752 http://www.trainersfriend.com

Re: as OpenMVS assembler always gives ASMA935U

2013-05-02 Thread Steve Comstock
On 5/2/2013 7:26 AM, Etienne Thijsse wrote: On Thu, 2 May 2013 07:17:00 -0600, Steve Comstock st...@trainersfriend.com wrote: Those three are all available. And I changed _AS_MACLIB to just IMS.SDFSMAC, there was no change. I think as is complaining about something else... if it would just

Re: as OpenMVS assembler always gives ASMA935U

2013-05-02 Thread Steve Comstock
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Re: Mixing C and assembler - under OpenMVS

2013-05-01 Thread Steve Comstock
. The default binder option is, essentially, NORENT, so the other suggestion of an extra step to bind this way is not necessary You might check out the values in the environment variables that influence how the c89 command works. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303

Re: Mixing C and assembler - under OpenMVS

2013-05-01 Thread Steve Comstock
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Re: Check whether job still running

2013-05-01 Thread Steve Comstock
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Re: PDS searches

2013-04-30 Thread Steve Comstock
each time a new release comes out. -- Peter Hunkeler -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock

Re: TNLs (Was: PDS searches)

2013-04-30 Thread Steve Comstock
On 4/30/2013 1:17 PM, Ed Jaffe wrote: On 4/30/2013 6:00 AM, Steve Comstock wrote: ... spend some time perusing the docs each time a new release comes out. It seems that most people are too busy these days to read the Release Information books. Some folks still only use commands they learned

Re: PDS searches

2013-04-29 Thread Steve Comstock
' or a wide selection of other commands and the commands will be worked against all datasets in the list. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-355-2752 http://www.trainersfriend.com * To get a good Return on your Investment, first make an investment! + Training

Re: PDS searches

2013-04-29 Thread Steve Comstock
on ISPF 3.4, but that would require the pdses to have some common naming convention. Not true. See my post. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-355-2752 http://www.trainersfriend.com * To get a good Return on your Investment, first make an investment! + Training

Re: IBM Enterprise COBOL V5 announced

2013-04-26 Thread Steve Comstock
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Re: Packed decimal and sign nibble

2013-04-25 Thread Steve Comstock
On 4/25/2013 8:01 AM, Tom Marchant wrote: On Wed, 24 Apr 2013 10:38:06 -0600, Steve Comstock wrote: So-called unsigned packed-decimal data is mis-leading at best because it cannot be used in any packed decimal arithmetic or compare operations Unsigned-Packed-Decimal was introduced

Re: FW: Packed decimal and sign nibble

2013-04-25 Thread Steve Comstock
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Re: IBM Enterprise COBOL V5 announced

2013-04-25 Thread Steve Comstock
suggest. John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA Probably because the programmers haven't been trained in the latest features and capabilities. :-) -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-355-2752 http://www.trainersfriend.com * To get a good Return on your

Re: IBM Enterprise COBOL V5 announced

2013-04-25 Thread Steve Comstock
there. I've seen it myself many times. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-355-2752 http://www.trainersfriend.com * To get a good Return on your Investment, first make an investment! + Training your people is an excellent investment * Try our tool for calculating

Re: Packed decimal and sign nibble

2013-04-24 Thread Steve Comstock
not add it. Any and all ideas gratefully accepted... ...phsiii [Note: this is an experiment with Thunderbird, not explicitly setting the Reply-to, so you may need to reset.] -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-355-2752 http://www.trainersfriend.com * To get

Re: Packed decimal and sign nibble

2013-04-24 Thread Steve Comstock
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Re: Packed decimal and sign nibble

2013-04-24 Thread Steve Comstock
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Re: Packed decimal and sign nibble

2013-04-24 Thread Steve Comstock
Fixing some typos in my own response: On 4/24/2013 9:34 AM, Steve Comstock wrote: On 4/24/2013 9:19 AM, John Gilmore wrote: My understanding of the difference between unsigned and signed packed decimal values is that the rightmost sign nibble in a signed packed value is occupied by a digit

Re: Packed decimal and sign nibble

2013-04-24 Thread Steve Comstock
of which are between x'0' and x'9'. Not related at all to the OP, at any rate. Joel C Ewing On 04/24/2013 10:34 AM, Steve Comstock wrote: On 4/24/2013 9:19 AM, John Gilmore wrote: My understanding of the difference between unsigned and signed packed decimal values is that the rightmost sign

Re: Packed decimal and sign nibble

2013-04-24 Thread Steve Comstock
the OP was not including what I think I will start calling 'pseudo-packed-decimal' in his question. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-355-2752 http://www.trainersfriend.com * To get a good Return on your Investment, first make an investment! + Training your people

Re: Packed decimal and sign nibble

2013-04-24 Thread Steve Comstock
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Re: The digital arms trade, article in the Economist, 2013 March 30

2013-04-02 Thread Steve Comstock
. There is no discussion of z/OS exploits, but I do not find this reassuring. Our turn will certainly come. John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA Do you have a link for an online version? -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-355-2752 http://www.trainersfriend.com * To get a good

Re: COBOL listserv?

2013-03-25 Thread Steve Comstock
. (something like comp.lang.cobol). -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-355-2752 http://www.trainersfriend.com * To get a good Return on your Investment, first make an investment! + Training your people is an excellent investment * Try our tool for calculating your

Re: Convert 64 bit to decimal in Assembler

2013-03-20 Thread Steve Comstock
'4020202020202020202020202020202020' You haven't told us how long the target field pointed at by R7 is, but it's at least 21 bytes judging by your OI instruction. So I've just used the first 17 bytes. The field LONG must, of course, be 16 bytes on a quadword boundary. -- Kind regards, -Steve

Re: Convert 64 bit to decimal in Assembler

2013-03-20 Thread Steve Comstock
On 3/20/2013 6:22 AM, Steve Comstock wrote: On 3/20/2013 3:03 AM, Donald Likens wrote: Has anyone come up with a better way to convert a 64 bit binary number to decimal then the way I did it? Here is what I did: LGR1,WKCELLD CVDG R1,LONG * UNPK 0(11,R7),LONG(6

Re: Convert 64 bit to decimal in Assembler

2013-03-20 Thread Steve Comstock
On 3/20/2013 6:52 AM, Tom Marchant wrote: On Wed, 20 Mar 2013 06:22:29 -0600, Steve Comstock wrote: CVDG R1,LONG The field LONG must, of course, be 16 bytes on a quadword boundary. Certainly it must be 16 bytes, but the POO does not specify a quadword boundary. It also does

Re: Convert 64 bit to decimal in Assembler

2013-03-20 Thread Steve Comstock
On 3/20/2013 7:55 AM, Gerhard Postpischil wrote: On 3/20/2013 8:48 AM, Steve Comstock wrote: edpat dcx'4020202020202020202020202020202020' All three tries at an edit mask so far have been flawed. FSVO 'flawed' If the OP really wants UNPK with leading zeroes, Ah, there we

Re: Q re attaching COBOL program

2013-03-18 Thread Steve Comstock
, the using statement, and the point in the code where you think RC is getting set. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-355-2752 http://www.trainersfriend.com * To get a good Return on your Investment, first make an investment! + Training your people

Re: Q re attaching COBOL program

2013-03-18 Thread Steve Comstock
Assembler routine is looking at the return value 3. show us your procedure division header 4. show us where your COBOL program sets the return code we may need more to see the problem, but this is a start (and, no, LE is not making local copies of your parameter). -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock

Re: Parameter list changes between calling and called program

2013-03-15 Thread Steve Comstock
and RMODE settings What kind of Abends are you getting? -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-355-2752 http://www.trainersfriend.com * To get a good Return on your Investment, first make an investment! + Training your people is an excellent investment * Try our

Re: USS date command, subtract one day

2013-03-14 Thread Steve Comstock
for leap years and such. It's not a shell command, but you could write a very short program that returns the output from the CEEDATE call and then just invoke the program from a shell script. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-355-2752 http

Re: iewl syslin

2013-03-11 Thread Steve Comstock
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Re: Enqueue during VSAM REPRO - Who is the culprit

2013-03-11 Thread Steve Comstock
additionally ENQ on SYSDSN? Which does REPRO use? -- gil -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock

Re: iewl syslin

2013-03-10 Thread Steve Comstock
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Re: LE dump (CEE3DMP) performance

2013-03-05 Thread Steve Comstock
, RPTSTG, STACK, STORAGE, THREADHEAP, THREADSTACK, TRAP, XPLINK, HEAPPOOLS as well as MSGFILE Hoe this helps. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-355-2752 http://www.trainersfriend.com * To get a good Return on your Investment, first make an investment

Re: Where current HLASM doc?

2013-03-04 Thread Steve Comstock
interfaces. John Ehrman once pointed out to me that even some of the new extended mnemonics are found in the PoO, not the HLASM docs (which is where I expected to find them). -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-355-2752 http://www.trainersfriend.com * To get a good

Re: Where are the zOS elements and features?

2013-02-27 Thread Steve Comstock
it allows you to search an entire shell. Anybody knows what is going on? Best regards, jan I always start here: http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/z/os/zos/bkserv/ and it still works. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-355-2752 http://www.trainersfriend.com

Re: Secure Service Delivery

2013-02-22 Thread Steve Comstock
? there's no problem writing to a z/OS UNIX file from COBOL. They need to add support for z/OS files before SFTP can be a suitable replacement for FPTS. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-355-2752 http://www.trainersfriend.com * To get a good Return on your Investment

Re: Secure Service Delivery

2013-02-22 Thread Steve Comstock
they don't want to spend. Sigh. I will check out the Dovetailed Tech mod recommended by John M. in the other post. Thanks, John, for the info. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-355-2752 http://www.trainersfriend.com * To get a good Return on your Investment

Re: Secure Service Delivery

2013-02-22 Thread Steve Comstock
. Maybe a little high. I agree there should be some percentage, even 5% (~2.5 weeks) would be pretty good. But not 0%. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-355-2752 http://www.trainersfriend.com * To get a good Return on your Investment, first make an investment

Re: Article for the boss: COBOL will outlive us all

2013-02-16 Thread Steve Comstock
don't see much interest or enlightenment. Very frustrating. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-355-2752 http://www.trainersfriend.com * To get a good Return on your Investment, first make an investment! + Training your people is an excellent investment * Try our

Re: 2.1 UNIX Enhancements

2013-02-13 Thread Steve Comstock
submit jobs from data sets and z/OS UNIX files using IEBGENER and/or ISPF edit. (IEBGENER is better; it doesn't impose an archaic LRECL/RECFM constraint.) What's the z/OS Jobs REST Interface, anyway? Sounds like a feature relevant more to batch than to UNIX. -- gil -- Kind regards, -Steve

Re: JSON format in ISPF Services Guide?

2013-02-07 Thread Steve Comstock
Barbara, Go to http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/z/os/zos/bkserv/ and in the search box in the upper right hand corner do a search on ispf client gateway one of those docs probably has what you're looking for. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-355-2752 http

Re: Rejoice! z/OS 2.1 addresses some long term JCL complaints from here:

2013-02-05 Thread Steve Comstock
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Re: Rejoice! z/OS 2.1 addresses some long term JCL complaints from here:

2013-02-05 Thread Steve Comstock
On 2/5/2013 12:44 PM, Anne Lynn Wheeler wrote: st...@trainersfriend.com (Steve Comstock) writes: Actually, my understanding was that it went the other way: lots of HASP code was lifted into ASP. There was probably some borrowing in the other direction, too, I would imagine. (For the relative

Re: My Last Days as a Sysprog

2013-02-01 Thread Steve Comstock
love the city. Living in the hinterlands would drive me nuts. (OK, it is Friday.) -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-355-2752 http://www.trainersfriend.com * To get a good Return on your Investment, first make an investment! + Training your people

Re: FW: mainframe selling points

2013-01-31 Thread Steve Comstock
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Re: mainframe selling points

2013-01-29 Thread Steve Comstock
On 1/29/2013 10:40 AM, Don Williams wrote: Hi Steve, Thanks for great reply. More below... Don -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Steve Comstock Sent: Monday, January 28, 2013 11:36 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU

Re: My Last Days as a Sysprog

2013-01-28 Thread Steve Comstock
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Re: PDF books to Epub

2013-01-28 Thread Steve Comstock
they cost, but to give you some feel for what kind of tools are out there: http://www.desktopauthor.com/buy_offerdnamlsuite.asp http://www.epagewiz.com/ -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-355-2752 http://www.trainersfriend.com * To get a good Return on your Investment

Re: Mislocated doc

2013-01-28 Thread Steve Comstock
is being dependent on _our_ LAN people for Internet access. Especially during off hours, like the weekends. Off hours? You have off hours? Luxury! You should work for my boss: he's always working. Oh, wait. That's me. Never mind. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303

Re: mainframe selling points

2013-01-25 Thread Steve Comstock
will be appreciated ! ! Thanks, Joe http://www.trainersfriend.com/CoolThingsToDo.htm -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-355-2752 http://www.trainersfriend.com * To get a good Return on your Investment, first make an investment! + Training your people

Re: Security vulnerability in IBM HTTP Server for z/OS Version 5.3 (PM79239)

2013-01-05 Thread Steve Comstock
by a handful of resellers with, I am sure, varying amounts of savy about these portals, so the word could easily fall through the cracks at that point. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-355-2752 http://www.trainersfriend.com * To get a good Return on your Investment

Re: Missing sections in CEEDUMP

2012-12-18 Thread Steve Comstock
, I seem to recall.) Can you tell us the version of COBOL and z/OS? Can you tell us the values of your runtime options? -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-355-2752 http://www.trainersfriend.com * To get a good Return on your Investment, first make an investment

Re: Missing sections in CEEDUMP

2012-12-18 Thread Steve Comstock
, check your installation CEEOPTs settings: have the defaults changed? What are the current values? -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-355-2752 http://www.trainersfriend.com * To get a good Return on your Investment, first make an investment! + Training your people

Re: Phil Payne

2012-12-17 Thread Steve Comstock
/ -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-355-2752 http://www.trainersfriend.com * To get a good

Re: Etymology 101; was Parsing

2012-11-26 Thread Steve Comstock
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Re: Parsing (was: New way to do UCB lookups)

2012-11-19 Thread Steve Comstock
is written with no interword separators also. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-355-2752 http://www.trainersfriend.com * To get a good Return on your Investment, first make an investment! + Training your people is an excellent investment * Try our tool for calculating

Re: Z196 and z/OS 1.4

2012-11-14 Thread Steve Comstock
was provided, but almost surely not back to z/OS 1.4. I love those little insights and war stories. Thanks, Jim. Jim Mulder z/OS System Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie, NY -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-355-2752 http://www.trainersfriend.com * To get

Re: XML to TEXT data

2012-11-06 Thread Steve Comstock
yourself. /ad -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-355-2752 http://www.trainersfriend.com * To get a good Return on your Investment, first make an investment! + Training your people is an excellent investment * Try our tool for calculating your Return

Re: RES: XML to TEXT data

2012-11-06 Thread Steve Comstock
Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] Em nome de Steve Comstock Enviada em: terça-feira, 6 de novembro de 2012 12:39 Para: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Assunto: Re: XML to TEXT data On 11/6/2012 7:34 AM, Sérgio Lima Costa wrote: Hello List. Someone know, if exist a program that run under ZOS

Re: Check out ATT, Verizon, Sprint, T-Mobile Offer Statements On Hurricane Netwo

2012-11-03 Thread Steve Comstock
the message and any attachments from your system. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock

Re: Correction to Carmine's Book Cost

2012-10-29 Thread Steve Comstock
as to have the best new chapter of the book. Just a thought... Ummm. There are copyright laws, ya' know. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-355-2752 http://www.trainersfriend.com * To get a good Return on your Investment, first make an investment! + Training

Re: Book Enquiry

2012-10-22 Thread Steve Comstock
regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-355-2752 http://www.trainersfriend.com * To get a good Return on your Investment, first make an investment! + Training your people is an excellent investment * Try our tool for calculating your Return On Investment for training dollars

Re: Sample course materials

2012-10-15 Thread Steve Comstock
courses are useful for systems staff, but we don't have any courses for systems staff explicitly. On Oct 15, 2012 4:38 AM, Graham Hobbs gho...@cdpwise.net wrote: .. was me:-) - Original Message - From: Steve Comstock st...@trainersfriend.com Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main To: IBM-MAIN

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