Re: IMS and CICS prices to increase by 9% in 2013

2012-09-05 Thread Timothy Sipples1
IBM also announced: 1. No additional charge support extensions/lifecycles for CICS TS V3 and CICS TS V4; 2. Price reductions (technology dividends) for all IBM AWLC software products when moving to the new zEC12 model. Note also that the announcement letter deals with IMS V9 and V10, not IMS V11

Re: Blades versus z was Re: Turn Off Another Light - Univ. of Tennessee

2012-09-05 Thread Timothy Sipples1
For purposes of licensing its software running on Linux, IBM assigns a metric called PVUs (Processor Value Units) to each type of processor core. Most IBM software products for Linux are licensed according to the number of PVUs at a price per PVU. Likewise, annual software subscription and support

How to define RMF APPLPER

2012-09-05 Thread Tommy Tsui
Hi all, If I define a service class for specific jobs can I use rmf overview Applper to know the CPU utilization or MSU allocation,? Many thanks -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to

Re: Dcollect question

2012-09-05 Thread Scott McLeod
On Fri, 31 Aug 2012 14:26:39 -0400, O'Brien, David W. (NIH/CIT) [C] obrie...@mail.nih.gov wrote: We use dcollect to gather input to CIMS for chargeback / reporting purposes. A question has arisen regarding HSM migrated DB2 dataspaces. In the output of the dcollect an entry appears for the

Re: Dcollect question

2012-09-05 Thread Uriel Carrasquilla
I have a question regarding DCOLLECT data for HSM migrated datasets. The expiry date for the datasets is empty even when I know there are rules based on the dataset name. How can I obtain the expiry date for our datasets under SMS control? From: IBM

Re: Dcollect question

2012-09-05 Thread Hervey Martinez
The management class has the expiration information. Regards, Hervey -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Uriel Carrasquilla Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2012 7:28 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject:

Re: ADDRESS LINKMVS - +IRX0250E System abend code 047, reason code 00000000

2012-09-05 Thread McKown, John
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Preventing the installation of unapproved software

2012-09-05 Thread Greg Dorner
Man, the auditors came up with a new one! Gap noted. Automated controls to prevent the installation of unapproved software were not documented. So I have been assigned the task of researching how to provide Automated controls to prevent the installation of unapproved software. I'm hoping

Re: ADDRESS LINKMVS - +IRX0250E System abend code 047, reason code 00000000

2012-09-05 Thread Walt Farrell
On Wed, 5 Sep 2012 01:05:26 -0500, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com wrote: On Wed, 5 Sep 2012 00:25:32 -0500, Kenneth J. Kripke wrote: DATA AT PSW 0001CE48 - 58101000 0A6B5023 Data shows a MODESET SVC which does require authorization. Check the AUTHPGM specifications in IKJTSOxx in

Re: Preventing the installation of unapproved software

2012-09-05 Thread R.S.
W dniu 2012-09-05 14:21, Greg Dorner pisze: Man, the auditors came up with a new one! Gap noted. Automated controls to prevent the installation of unapproved software were not documented. So I have been assigned the task of researching how to provide Automated controls to prevent the

Re: Preventing the installation of unapproved software

2012-09-05 Thread Paul Gilmartin
What about IP liability concerns? On Sep 5, 2012, at 06:47, R.S. wrote: W dniu 2012-09-05 14:21, Greg Dorner pisze: Man, the auditors came up with a new one! Gap noted. Automated controls to prevent the installation of unapproved software were not documented. 1. The requirement is plain

Re: Blades versus z was Re: Turn Off Another Light - Univ. of Tennessee

2012-09-05 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
re: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#56 Blades versus z was Re: Turn Off Another Light - Univ. of Tennessee http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#57 Blades versus z was Re: Turn Off Another Light - Univ. of Tennessee http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2012l.html#59 Blades versus z was Re: Turn

Re: Preventing the installation of unapproved software

2012-09-05 Thread Blaicher, Christopher Y.
You have to show the whole picture of security involved in z/OS. 1) The instruction set is broken into general, semi-privileged and privileged. 2) The operating system has RACF, or equivalent, to control who can put what in what libraries and data sets. 3) Data set (read as libraries) control the

Re: Preventing the installation of unapproved software

2012-09-05 Thread R.S.
W dniu 2012-09-05 15:16, Paul Gilmartin pisze: There's a genuine IP concern here. An employee might bring in from a former employer an SD RAM with a TSO TRANSMIT unloaded library containing a licensed program product, not licensed at the new site and expose the new employer to significant

Link for Enterprise Tech Journal

2012-09-05 Thread Neil Haley
Howdy, Does anyone have the link for the PDF version of the August/September 2012 issue of Enterprise Tech Journal? There is an article that I want and for some reason, I did not get their email for this issue. I did try to contact them from the site, but the email address does not seem to

Re: Preventing the installation of unapproved software

2012-09-05 Thread Pew, Curtis G
On Sep 5, 2012, at 8:16 AM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com wrote: Perhaps the auditor should require that use of AMASPZAP be restricted. We've restricted AMASPZAP since before I started working for the University. We had a fun auditor request the other day. As a result of one request,

Re: Link for Enterprise Tech Journal

2012-09-05 Thread Rich Hintz
http://enterprisesystemsmedia.com/magazines/enterprise-tech-journal/etj-2012-08-09 For something like this Google is the best tool, rather than trying to contact a human. -- Rich Hintz CENIC http://www.cenic.org On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 6:45 AM, Neil Haley nha...@ca.ibm.com wrote: Howdy,

Re: ADDRESS LINKMVS - +IRX0250E System abend code 047, reason code 00000000

2012-09-05 Thread Ed Gould
Unless the rules have changed The only time IEHPROGM needs to be APF authorized is for SCRATCH VTOC. This could be a bug in IEHPROGM as well.. Ed On Sep 5, 2012, at 12:25 AM, Kenneth J. Kripke wrote: DATA AT PSW 0001CE48 - 58101000 0A6B5023 Data shows a MODESET SVC which does

Re: Link for Enterprise Tech Journal

2012-09-05 Thread Neil Haley
Thanks, this I already have. In the email notifications that are sent for new issues, it contains a link to a downloadable PDF version that you cannot get from the web. They use an URL shortener (http://mfzne.com/0i1ie for example) to get to the PDF. This short URL is what I am looking for.

Re: Link for Enterprise Tech Journal

2012-09-05 Thread Lizette Koehler
I think if you subscribe (FREE) to the digital editions you will get the download links. Have you subscribed to the digital editions? Lizette Thanks, this I already have. In the email notifications that are sent for new issues, it contains a link to a downloadable PDF version that you

Re: Preventing the installation of unapproved software

2012-09-05 Thread John Gilmore
I strongly encourage programmers to write 'throwaway' programs that investigate the files associated with a system. The idea is to obtain answers to such questions as o How many As? How many Bs? o More Ds than Es after controlling for Cs? that characterize the objects being manipulated by a

Re: Link for Enterprise Tech Journal

2012-09-05 Thread Neil Haley
Howdy, I have been subscribed for several years (I used to get the print, but switched to digital 2 years ago), I tried the email address on their contact page but got this bounce message: -- Hi. This is the qmail-send program at mainframezone.com. I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your

Re: Strings (hijacked from: The IBM zEnterprise EC12 announcment)

2012-09-05 Thread Kirk Wolf
On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 7:03 PM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com wrote: snip. You, Lynn, and John G. are correct to distrust null-terminated strings. But if you write in C, you are pretty much stuck with them since the library uses them. Call it distrust if you want, but they work fine

Re: Preventing the installation of unapproved software

2012-09-05 Thread Mitch
Is this application software developed in house? ISV updates? What? Check out ISPW or SysChange tools. Mitch McCluhan -Original Message- From: Greg Dorner gdor...@wpsic.com To: IBM-MAIN IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Sent: Wed, Sep 5, 2012 5:21 am Subject: Preventing the installation of

Re: Preventing the installation of unapproved software

2012-09-05 Thread Roberts, John J
I *HATE* checklist auditors. This sounds like a WINTEL based checklist It does indeed sound like the auditor is applying Wintel security principles to a mainframe system. The right questions to ask re mainframe security are: (1) Are the users properly authenticated? (2) Is the data properly

Re: The IBM zEnterprise EC12 announcment

2012-09-05 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Wed, 5 Sep 2012 07:17:38 -0700, Scott Ford wrote: Here my example I was referring to initially..   Execution JCL:   typedef struct IRXJCL_type {   short int arg_length;   char argument[22]; } IRXJCL_type;     puts(this_param.argument);    IDFRACFC USER AA1122BB   Without the memset in this

Re: The IBM zEnterprise EC12 announcment

2012-09-05 Thread Charles Mills
dest needs to be 23 chars long in order to hold 22 usable characters plus a terminator. This is the hazard of strcpy and strcat. You have a real hazardous program here. What if I executed it with PARM='NOWISTHETIMEFORALLGOODMEN TOCOMETOTHEAIDOFTHEPARTY' ? Look into STL std::string. Charles

Re: Preventing the installation of unapproved software

2012-09-05 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Wed, 5 Sep 2012 13:51:24 +, Pew, Curtis G wrote: We've restricted AMASPZAP since before I started working for the University. Seriously. -- gil -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send

Re: Anybody using HIS 2000 SNA server connecting through z/OS V1.13 on z114 ?

2012-09-05 Thread Chris Mason
Lawrence You should ask also on the HIS Forum: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/biztalkhis/threads Since you are using HIS 2000, you are probably using the LAN DLC, There should be no problems; the protocols don't change. Chris Mason On Wed, 5 Sep 2012 22:07:49 +0800, Tsai

The IBM zEnterprise EC12 announcment - Please start a NEW Thread or Terminate this one

2012-09-05 Thread Lizette Koehler
List - This does not seem to apply the EC12 announcement any more. If Darren is watching this probably should be terminated and a new proper thread started. I like to keep my threads together and this is really wrecking my filtering process. Thanks for your attention and assistance.

Re: Preventing the installation of unapproved software

2012-09-05 Thread Elardus Engelbrecht
Greg Dorner wrote: Man, the auditors came up with a new one! Gap noted. Automated controls to prevent the installation of unapproved software were not documented. DANGER! ALARM! EVACUATE! START DRP! GAP NOTED IN AUDITORS BRAIN CELLS! ;-D After reading all those threads: I have one request

Re: ADDRESS LINKMVS - +IRX0250E System abend code 047, reason code 00000000

2012-09-05 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Wed, 5 Sep 2012 07:19:34 -0700, Scott Ford wrote: Yep Walt is right for sure, I have called IRXJCL rexx clist and done a LINKMVS to an authorized RACF program , works like a champ Walt is right, of course, but you misunderstand him, and what you say is true but incomplete. The test JCL: //

Re: Strings (hijacked from: The IBM zEnterprise EC12 announcment)

2012-09-05 Thread Bernd Oppolzer
Good point. Many of you out there seem to dislike C for such reasons like that discussed here: you have to take more responsibility for manageing the lengths of the used buffers etc. - but the same people often like ASSEMBLER, where the chance to put errors in your program is much higher. My

Re: Preventing the installation of unapproved software

2012-09-05 Thread Elardus Engelbrecht
Radoslaw Skorupka wrote: BTW: What about pedophile porn pictures and movies? How can we control it? Maybe your cow-worker keeps some of these pictures as members of JSMITH.COBOL.VAR.OBJECT library? Ahem, how did you know that dataset and its contents? ;-D hm. ;-D No, I'm just joking,

Re: Preventing the installation of unapproved software

2012-09-05 Thread Greg Dorner
Will you pass these 'rants and expletives' to these auditors? :-D I will be passing them on to my manager. We are talking Federal auditors and billion dollar government contracts, so, no, I won't be telling the auditors anything. I let management (who are trained not to put their foot in their

Re: Strings (hijacked from: The IBM zEnterprise EC12 announcment)

2012-09-05 Thread McKown, John
If we had the C compiler, I would use it. Of course, I wouldn't have learned how to create DLLs use LE enabled HLASM, either. Yes, I've done that. As far as compiled HLLs are concerned, I've always loved PL/I. I would probably like the PL/X (or whatever) that IBM uses for much of their software

Re: Strings (hijacked from: The IBM zEnterprise EC12 announcment)

2012-09-05 Thread Charles Mills
Well, that's the choice, isn't it? Either you do everything yourself, or the compiler does things for you. I really like C++. It provides a framework for organizing a large project that is invaluable IMHO. If you just evaluate C++ as is it a better way to write Hello World? then the answer is no

Re: Preventing the installation of unapproved software

2012-09-05 Thread Chip Grantham
Greg, I've always believed the mainframe allows the installation of software with the ability to certify only authorized data access is allowed via RACF (or equivalent), access to potentially harmful actions against the OS must be granted, (APF or otherwise), and all access is (or at least

Re: Strings

2012-09-05 Thread Bernd Oppolzer
I agree that string handling with normal C string functions is problematic and error-prone; here the Pascal heritage (where strings are also arrays of chars) seems to be a problem. But I recently had so much problems with C++ strings, that I don't believe that this is really a solution. The

zEC12, and previous generations, why? type question - GPU computing.

2012-09-05 Thread McKown, John
I guess that I should preface this with another question. Does anybody use a z for heavy numeric computation anymore? Or has that all gone to Intel and Power boxes? Why is that? If it is because the z architecture is not good at numeric computation, I have a question. The internals of the z has

Re: Remove a system from a SYSPLEX but keep it in the GRS ring

2012-09-05 Thread Joe D'Alessandro
(in XCFLOCAL mode) I am pretty sure XCFLOCAL will not work in the GRSPLEX. I believe the doc states that the system must be a MONOPLEX for GRS to be active. If you want this rescue system to be XCFLOCAL, you will have to keep it outside of a GRSPLEX, and then risk lockout or corruption due

Re: Preventing the installation of unapproved software

2012-09-05 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Wed, 5 Sep 2012 16:59:16 +0100, haralder haralder wrote: We explained our auditor that the software instalation tool in z/OS is SMP/E, which is protected by the GIM.* profile in the FACILITY class in our RACF. We printed the accesses for that profile and they were satisfied enough after we

Re: The IBM zEnterprise EC12 announcment

2012-09-05 Thread Scott Ford
Charles:   I get what your saying, this is a test program ..I understand, this is why I am asking ok  ? This is why one asks questions of their collegues..   At least where I grew up in corn country . Scott J Ford Software Engineer http://www.identityforge.com/  

Re: Preventing the installation of unapproved software

2012-09-05 Thread Scott Ford
Sounds like these auditors are smoking funny cigarettes ...and not sharing ... Scott J Ford Software Engineer http://www.identityforge.com/   From: Elardus Engelbrecht elardus.engelbre...@sita.co.za To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Sent: Wednesday, September 5,

Another stupid idea spawned by the zEC12.

2012-09-05 Thread McKown, John
OK, I'm reading the Redbooks on this. And I'm wondering something due to my hardware ignorance. I've noticed that doing a P.O.R. is rather time consuming, especially on my company's z9BC. I don't know what a P.O.R. actually does internally. One thing that I am fairly sure of is that it loads

Re: Strings

2012-09-05 Thread Charles Mills
In many C++ implementations it is possible to replace 'new' with your own 'debug_new' via a macro, and trace or link all of the malloc's.. Both of the C++ environments that I use (IBM z/OS XLC and MS VS) have built-in find the leak functions that I use routinely to make certain I am not leaking

Re: The IBM zEnterprise EC12 announcment

2012-09-05 Thread retired mainframer
Since this is perfectly legal C and C++, it seems you should be opening a PMR with your compiler vendor. :: -Original Message- :: From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On :: Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin :: Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2012 4:51 PM :: To:

Re: Preventing the installation of unapproved software

2012-09-05 Thread Bonno, Tuco
Any thoughts? I also accept rants and expletives. -- ok, here's a rant for you: auditors: their only function in life is to show up on the battlefield after the battle, and shoot the wounded. /s/ tuco bonno; Graduate, College of Conflict Management; University of SouthEast Asia;

Re: ADDRESS LINKMVS - +IRX0250E System abend code 047, reason code 00000000

2012-09-05 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In fd20b743d96a9545b2420d8f28400f35025a2...@g2w2530.americas.hpqcorp.net, on 09/05/2012 at 02:51 AM, Cifani, Domenic domenic.cif...@hp.com said: I'm hoping someone can help me with an issue we are experiencing following an upgrade from z/OS 1.11 to 1.13. We are running an REXX EXEC in batch

Re: ADDRESS LINKMVS - +IRX0250E System abend code 047, reason code 00000000

2012-09-05 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 1679112769409333.wa.paulgboulderaim@listserv.ua.edu, on 09/05/2012 at 02:00 AM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com said: But aren't there ways a nonauthorized program can delete PDS members? Yes. There are even way to do it by accident. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and

IGD17054I Dataset not found at program close for temp datasets

2012-09-05 Thread O'Brien, David W. (NIH/CIT) [C]
Google search found the following Technote: .Receiving IGD17054I on temp data sets since year 2010 In which the following lines appear: Resolving the problem The ultimate solution to this problem is to change the RNL exclusion list entry to SYS1. or SYS1.*, however, there are limits that may

Re: The IBM zEnterprise EC12 announcment

2012-09-05 Thread retired mainframer
The problem with using a pointer instead of an array is that the pointer points to a string literal and any attempt to modify the literal invokes undefined behavior. A statement of the form s6[0] = 'x'; is legal with the array but not with the pointer. The fact that the expression

Re: ADDRESS LINKMVS - +IRX0250E System abend code 047, reason code 00000000

2012-09-05 Thread Scott Ford
Gil:   Your point well taken , cant show my code , we are a vendor ...   I just checked my code..my STC is AC=1 calls  IRXJCl which does a LINKMVS to an assembler routine which is AC=1 so do i assume ( bad word i know ) that there is no authorization issue in this case since everyone

Announcement: The Trainer's Friend Special Sale

2012-09-05 Thread Steve Comstock
We are holding a sale that can provide affordable training for z/OS application programmers (many of the topics here are also of interest to systems programmers, so check it out). If you have people who can teach, here is an opportunity to get them quality materials to teach from. The materials

Re: Strings (hijacked from: The IBM zEnterprise EC12 announcment)

2012-09-05 Thread Charles Mills
Rexx is so magical there is no real reason it could not support Substr(a,3,1) = 'x' and actually be doing a = Substr(a,1,2) || 'x' || Substr(a,4) under the covers. Even, for that matter, Substr(a,3,1) = 'xyz' or Substr(a,3,3) = 'x' Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe

Re: Another stupid idea spawned by the zEC12.

2012-09-05 Thread R.S.
Well, maybe it's being developed? Maybe we should simply wait for next generation? I'm serious. BTW: there is something which I really consider stupid: ESCON. EC12 still supports old format of I/O cards. Both I/O Drawer and I/O Cage are supported (with some *non-technical* limitations), one

Re: Preventing the installation of unapproved software

2012-09-05 Thread R.S.
W dniu 2012-09-05 17:50, Elardus Engelbrecht pisze: Radoslaw Skorupka wrote: BTW: What about pedophile porn pictures and movies? How can we control it? Maybe your cow-worker keeps some of these pictures as members of JSMITH.COBOL.VAR.OBJECT library? Ahem, how did you know that dataset and

Re: Another stupid idea spawned by the zEC12.

2012-09-05 Thread August Carideo
when I mention this weeks ago they all thought I was out of my mind all the big Z/os shops were like ESCON who needs ESCON any more well we do, and yes I know all about FICON to ESCON converters what a poor excuse for poor planning From: R.S. r.skoru...@bremultibank.com.pl To:

Re: Anybody using HIS 2000 SNA server connecting through z/OS V1.13 on z114 ?

2012-09-05 Thread R.S.
W dniu 2012-09-05 16:07, Tsai Laurence pisze: Dear listers , as the subject, my client would like to know whether it is ok or not . Appreciated those can reply . Thanks ! Some of us use (used) similar configuration. Is it OK - well, it depends on what you want. Surely it works. -- Radoslaw

Re: ADDRESS LINKMVS - +IRX0250E System abend code 047, reason code 00000000

2012-09-05 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Wed, 5 Sep 2012 11:47:50 -0700, Scott Ford wrote: Gil: � Your point well taken , cant show my code , we are a vendor ... � I just checked my code..my STC is AC=1 calls� IRXJCl which does a LINKMVS to an assembler routine which is AC=1 so do i assume ( bad word i know ) that there is

Re: ADDRESS LINKMVS - +IRX0250E System abend code 047, reason code 00000000

2012-09-05 Thread Scott Ford
Gil,   Your right IRXJCL is unauthorized. I assume the LINKMVS is an ATTACH another subtask ... So that the authorization would be that of the Task initiator , am I close.. Scott J Ford Software Engineer http://www.identityforge.com/   From: Paul Gilmartin

Re: Preventing the installation of unapproved software

2012-09-05 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 50475f32.9050...@acm.org, on 09/05/2012 at 09:18 AM, Joel C. Ewing jcew...@acm.org said: and this is the only locally produced documentation that makes sense on z/OS, While the auditors in question may be stark raving bonkers, there is other relevant documentation; change control

Re: zEC12, and previous generations, why? type question - GPU computing.

2012-09-05 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In a6b9336cdb62bb46b9f8708e686a7ea0115baa1...@nrhmms8p02.uicnrh.dom, on 09/05/2012 at 11:45 AM, McKown, John john.mck...@healthmarkets.com said: If it is because the z architecture is not good at numeric computation, The z architecture is fine for numeric computations. The problem is that the

Re: ADDRESS LINKMVS - +IRX0250E System abend code 047, reason code 00000000

2012-09-05 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 1346854774.87382.yahoomail...@web164503.mail.gq1.yahoo.com, on 09/05/2012 at 07:19 AM, Scott Ford scott_j_f...@yahoo.com said: Yep Walt is right for sure, I have called IRXJCL rexx clist and done a LINKMVS to an authorized RACF program , works like a champ Interesting, given that the

Re: zEC12, and previous generations, why? type question - GPU computing.

2012-09-05 Thread zMan
On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 2:28 PM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) shmuel+...@patriot.net wrote: In a6b9336cdb62bb46b9f8708e686a7ea0115baa1...@nrhmms8p02.uicnrh.dom, on 09/05/2012 at 11:45 AM, McKown, John john.mck...@healthmarkets.com said: If it is because the z architecture is not good at

Re: Another stupid idea spawned by the zEC12.

2012-09-05 Thread McKown, John
In sync with IOCD, LIC: These are kept on the SEs' HD. The SEs are associated with a single CEC. So, when the SEs are updated, have it mirror the changes to the SSD in the CEC. Perhaps, instead of HSA in SSD, just load the HSA from the SSD and have some way, when needed, to reload the SSD from

Re: zEC12, and previous generations, why? type question - GPU computing.

2012-09-05 Thread Conlin, Pete
With IBM's acquisition of SPSS several years ago the recent acquisition of Netezza (for use as an attached processor for computational workloads on zSeries), IBM's z/Series intentions seem to have changed. After the AS (Application System) disaster (early eighties, great demo, not scalable,

Re: Strings

2012-09-05 Thread Bernd Oppolzer
I got answers like this, before. These things work well, if you are in a development environment or in an earlier test stage. What we have: we have a production system or an almost production system in a very late stage. Then, when combining severel hundred PL/1 modules and DLLs and several

Re: Strings (hijacked from: The IBM zEnterprise EC12 announcment)

2012-09-05 Thread Scott Ford
I have to give Mike Cowlishaw a lot of credit Rexx works well Scott ford www.identityforge.com On Sep 5, 2012, at 3:51 PM, Charles Mills charl...@mcn.org wrote: Rexx is so magical there is no real reason it could not support Substr(a,3,1) = 'x' and actually be doing a = Substr(a,1,2) || 'x'

Re: ADDRESS LINKMVS - +IRX0250E System abend code 047, reason code 00000000

2012-09-05 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Wed, 5 Sep 2012 14:05:10 -0700, Scott Ford wrote:   Your right IRXJCL is unauthorized. I assume the LINKMVS is an ATTACH another subtask ... So that the authorization would be that of the Task initiator , am I close.. (Why don't I get quotation indicators () when I quote your text?) I

Re: Strings (hijacked from: The IBM zEnterprise EC12 announcment)

2012-09-05 Thread Tony Harminc
On 5 September 2012 15:51, Charles Mills charl...@mcn.org wrote: Rexx is so magical there is no real reason it could not support Substr(a,3,1) = 'x' and actually be doing a = Substr(a,1,2) || 'x' || Substr(a,4) under the covers. Even, for that matter, Substr(a,3,1) = 'xyz' or Substr(a,3,3) =

Re: zEC12, and previous generations, why? type question - GPU computing.

2012-09-05 Thread Tony Harminc
On 5 September 2012 17:17, zMan zedgarhoo...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 2:28 PM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) shmuel+...@patriot.net wrote: The z architecture is fine for numeric computations. The problem is that the implementation is competing with processors manufactured in bulk.

Re: Strings (hijacked from: The IBM zEnterprise EC12 announcment)

2012-09-05 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Wed, 5 Sep 2012 18:02:51 -0400, Tony Harminc wrote: On 5 September 2012 15:51, Charles Mills charl...@mcn.org wrote: Rexx is so magical there is no real reason it could not support Substr(a,3,1) = 'x' and actually be doing a = Substr(a,1,2) || 'x' || Substr(a,4) under the covers. Even, for

Re: Strings (hijacked from: The IBM zEnterprise EC12 announcment)

2012-09-05 Thread Charles Mills
It would be easy enough to code one that returns as a numeric string the address of one of its arguments. My recollection is that when calling assembler from Rexx you get the address of a copy of the string data, not the address of whatever internal control block represents a variable in

Re: Preventing the installation of unapproved software

2012-09-05 Thread Jerry Whitteridge
Implement a RACF program control rule - if that is really what they want you to do. You'll have everybody screaming, but you prevented the unauthorized execution of programs. Jerry Whitteridge Lead Systems Programmer Safeway Inc. 925 951 4184 If you feel in control you just aren't going fast

Re: zEC12, and previous generations, why? type question - GPU computing.

2012-09-05 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
t...@harminc.net (Tony Harminc) writes: There *was* a single-chip 370 produced by someone in the late 70s - a 168i. I think it was a university or research institute, but not IBM. I'm not finding anything on Google with a casual search, but things like this are easily overwhelmed. SLAC did

CSI - Catalog Search Interface

2012-09-05 Thread Lizette Koehler
I have been trying to figure out how to code CSI with more than one field. So far between the manual and sample from IBM, I am stumped. Has anyone modified the sample REXX IGGCSIRX from IBM to use more than one CSIFLDx in the function? I want to pull the space fields for VSAM datasets. Or are

Re: Strings (hijacked from: The IBM zEnterprise EC12 announcment)

2012-09-05 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Wed, 5 Sep 2012 15:41:15 -0700, Charles Mills wrote: It would be easy enough to code one that returns as a numeric string the address of one of its arguments. My recollection is that when calling assembler from Rexx you get the address of a copy of the string data, not the address of

Re: Strings (hijacked from: The IBM zEnterprise EC12 announcment)

2012-09-05 Thread Charles Mills
ADDRESS LINKPGM ... allow the called program to modify the Rexx variables passed as arguments Could be -- but you still get the *string data*, right, not the address of whatever internal control block represents a variable inside Rexx? My *guess* would be that if you can indeed modify the

Re: Strings (hijacked from: The IBM zEnterprise EC12 announcment)

2012-09-05 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Wed, 5 Sep 2012 16:18:07 -0700, Charles Mills wrote: ADDRESS LINKPGM ... allow the called program to modify the Rexx variables passed as arguments Could be -- but you still get the *string data*, right, not the address of whatever internal control block represents a variable inside Rexx?

Re: Strings (hijacked from: The IBM zEnterprise EC12 announcment)

2012-09-05 Thread Scott Ford
What Open Object Rexx are strings handled the same way ? Scott ford www.identityforge.com On Sep 5, 2012, at 7:18 PM, Charles Mills charl...@mcn.org wrote: ADDRESS LINKPGM ... allow the called program to modify the Rexx variables passed as arguments Could be -- but you still get the

Re: Anybody using HIS 2000 SNA server connecting through z/OS V1.13 on z114 ?

2012-09-05 Thread Tsai Laurence
Thanks ,Chris. 2012/9/5 Chris Mason chrisma...@belgacom.net Lawrence You should ask also on the HIS Forum: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/biztalkhis/threads Since you are using HIS 2000, you are probably using the LAN DLC, There should be no problems; the protocols

Re: CSI - Catalog Search Interface

2012-09-05 Thread Gerhard Postpischil
On 9/5/2012 7:03 PM, Lizette Koehler wrote: CSIFIELD = CSIFILTK || CSICATNM || CSIRESNM || CSIDTYPS || CSIOPTS CSIFIELD = CSIFIELD || CSINUMEN || CSIFLD1 || CSIFLD2 Each field name must be 8 bytes long (trailing blank fill), which may be the problem. However, the data is not coming back

Re: ADDRESS LINKMVS - +IRX0250E System abend code 047, reason code 00000000

2012-09-05 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 1346879110.62512.yahoomail...@web126204.mail.ne1.yahoo.com, on 09/05/2012 at 02:05 PM, Scott Ford scott_j_f...@yahoo.com said: Your right IRXJCL is unauthorized. I assume the LINKMVS is an ATTACH another subtask ... No. That would be ADDRESS ATTACHMVS, and it will still be in the same

Re: Strings (hijacked from: The IBM zEnterprise EC12 announcment)

2012-09-05 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 3240638450612647.wa.paulgboulderaim@listserv.ua.edu, on 09/05/2012 at 06:09 PM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com said: Is this IRXEXCOM, IIRC? From the GI: 3.1.3.2 TSO/E REXX programming services  IRXEXCOM - Variable Access The IRXEXCOM variable access routine lets

Re: ADDRESS LINKMVS - +IRX0250E System abend code 047, reason code 00000000

2012-09-05 Thread Scott Ford
Stellar Gil and very much appreciated Scott ford www.identityforge.com On Sep 5, 2012, at 6:02 PM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com wrote: On Wed, 5 Sep 2012 14:05:10 -0700, Scott Ford wrote: Your right IRXJCL is unauthorized. I assume the LINKMVS is an ATTACH another subtask ... So

IPL Probelm.

2012-09-05 Thread Mehrshad Manshadi
Hi, During IPL the system the last message which appear on the console is as follows  and after that the machine is not available any more. I tried to IPL from HMC but the problem is exactly same. CUN2046I AN EMPTY UNICODE ENVIRONMENT HAS BEEN ESTABLISHED CUN2005I CONVERSION ENVIRONMENT

Re: IPL Probelm.

2012-09-05 Thread ibmmain
During IPL the system the last message which appear on the console is as follows  and after that the machine is not available any more. I tried to IPL from HMC but the problem is exactly same. CUN2046I AN EMPTY UNICODE ENVIRONMENT HAS BEEN ESTABLISHED CUN2005I CONVERSION ENVIRONMENT

Re: zEC12, and previous generations, why? type question - GPU computing.

2012-09-05 Thread Timothy Sipples1
Yes, there are organizations that use zEnterprise servers for heavy numeric computation. Like decimal floating point. Cryptography is another excellent example. And you can buy optional CryptoExpress adapters if you want to augment the excellent capabilities found in every machine. You can also

Re: zEC12, and previous generations, why? type question - GPU computing.

2012-09-05 Thread George Henke
I believe IBM produced a pc with a 370 to run VM on a PC. Merrill Lynch had one. Somewhere in the late 80's I believe. On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 1:52 AM, Timothy Sipples1 sipp...@sg.ibm.com wrote: Yes, there are organizations that use zEnterprise servers for heavy numeric computation. Like