Re: Ads in Redbookd.

2015-04-17 Thread Anthony Thompson
Ditto. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Shane Ginnane Sent: Friday, 17 April 2015 2:20 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Ads in Redbookd. How long have we had ads (sorry, Promotions) in Redbooks ?. Just pulled

Re: table load

2015-04-17 Thread Bernd Oppolzer
I strongly suggest to remove the binary length field from the file before transferring the file to the SQL Server side. The representation binary length 2 byte / char with fixed length is the normal representation for DB2 VARCHAR columns that DB2 unload tools like DSNTIAUL etc. generate. It is

Re: /tmp issue

2015-04-17 Thread Anthony Thompson
As mentioned, thoroughly inappropriate to use /tmp for mass Serverpac /ShopzSeries downloads or decompressions. I have always used a personal zFS for such purposes (SMPNTS, or SMPWKDIR). Which can be easily re-sized/re-mounted depending on needs. I'm wondering what the OP thinks SYSTEM/tmp is

Re: SMP/e FTP receive error - Help

2015-04-17 Thread Elardus Engelbrecht
Nathan Astle wrote: While Downloading the latest RSU from IBM site, I have received the below error message : Connection to server interrupted or timed out. Receiving data Look in your client FTP.DATA for things like these: CCONNTIME, DATACTTIME, DATAKEEPALIVE, DCONNTIME, DSWAITTIME,

Re: RACF POSIT follies

2015-04-17 Thread Pommier, Rex
Hi Elardus, Easter Egging in the more general sense is trying to fix something by randomly replacing elements when you don't have any idea what to fix and hoping you get the right thing. Based on the custom in various parts of the world of hunting for Easter Eggs. Also known as shotgun

Re: Ads in Redbookd.

2015-04-17 Thread Shane Ginnane
On Fri, 17 Apr 2015 09:32:52 -0300, Clark Morris wrote: Given what we pay for Redbooks, I can understand IBM wanting some kind of revenue stream and find print ads easy to ignore. And how long before we have sponsored authors - if you can't bring some bucks, you aren't welcome (F1 drivers come

Re: New updated Z13 redbook (3/31/2015)

2015-04-17 Thread Elardus Engelbrecht
Ed Gould wrote: IBM z13 Technical Introduction Thanks Ed for kindly posting this. Now, I want TWO (prod and drp), you pay, I play... ;-D Groete / Greetings Elardus Engelbrehc -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive

Re: SMP/e FTP receive error - Help

2015-04-17 Thread Lizette Koehler
What are the control cards for SMP/E you are using? Have you checked to see if the IBM website is having issues? Sometimes when doing Network receives, IBM FTP Website where you down load from is having an issue. You usually have to open an SR to SMP/E for assistance. Lizette -Original

RFE for ISPF ZSTART extended functionality

2015-04-17 Thread Thomas Berg
Hi, Would be grateful if you would vote for my RFE: -- Notification generated at: 17 Apr 2015, 09:01 AM Eastern Time (ET) ID:69786 Headline:ISPF

Re: Ads in Redbookd.

2015-04-17 Thread Clark Morris
On 17 Apr 2015 01:30:02 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: Given what we pay for Redbooks, I can understand IBM wanting some kind of revenue stream and find print ads easy to ignore. Clark Morris Ditto. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List

Re: Ads in Redbookd.

2015-04-17 Thread Elardus Engelbrecht
Shane Ginnane wrote: How long have we had ads (sorry, Promotions) in Redbooks ?. Just pulled the z13 Tech Intro Ed posted about - can't be that long since I downloaded one, and I certainly don't recall included ads. Out of 192 pages, there are only a handful sponsored pages. That I can handle.

Re: Ads in Redbookd.

2015-04-17 Thread Carroll Linda - lcarro
Good point. IBM pays the expenses of those who attend these residencies to work on the Red Books... we're talking airfare, hotel, car, meals, etc... Not all of those who go to Poughkeepsie to work on the Red Books reside in the US, so the airfares can he huge. Some of these efforts takes

Re: Ads in Redbookd.

2015-04-17 Thread John McKown
On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 9:14 AM, Roger Suhr suhr...@gmail.com wrote: Somebody's got to pay for these books. Are you? For me, it depends entirely on the cost. To what extent will I go? Well, I actually paid for Knuth's The Art of Computer Programming, Volume 4A: Combinatorial Algorithms, Part

Re: RFE for ISPF ZSTART extended functionality

2015-04-17 Thread Doug Henry
On Fri, 17 Apr 2015 10:03:51 -0400, Farley, Peter x23353 peter.far...@broadridge.com wrote: I logged into SHARE content but the most recent ISPF Hidden Treasures I can find seems to be from Austin 2009. Can you please post a more direct URL to the 2015 version? Or maybe better guide me to

Re: RFE for ISPF ZSTART extended functionality

2015-04-17 Thread Thomas Conley
On 4/17/2015 9:09 AM, Thomas Berg wrote: Hi, Would be grateful if you would vote for my RFE: -- Notification generated at: 17 Apr 2015, 09:01 AM Eastern Time (ET) ID:69786 Headline:

Re: RFE for ISPF ZSTART extended functionality

2015-04-17 Thread Farley, Peter x23353
Tom, I logged into SHARE content but the most recent ISPF Hidden Treasures I can find seems to be from Austin 2009. Can you please post a more direct URL to the 2015 version? Or maybe better guide me to the path to find the 2015 presentations? Thanks, Peter -Original Message-

Re: Ads in Redbookd.

2015-04-17 Thread Martin Packer
As a Redbooks author I'll take a percentage. :-) TGIF. :-) Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter / Facebook IDs: MartinPacker Blog:

Re: RACF POSIT follies

2015-04-17 Thread Elardus Engelbrecht
Pommier, Rex wrote: Easter Egging in the more general sense is trying to fix something by randomly replacing elements when you don't have any idea what to fix and hoping you get the right thing. Thanks, Rex, for telling this egg-head some facts of the life. ;-) For myself for

SMP/e FTP receive error - Help

2015-04-17 Thread Nathan Astle
Hello, Cross Posted to TCPIP-L While Downloading the latest RSU from IBM site, I have received the below error message : Connection to server interrupted or timed out. Receiving data recv error from receive_data - EDC5120I Interrupted function call. (errno2=0x766 50291) Connection with

Re: Ads in Redbookd.

2015-04-17 Thread John McKown
On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 8:00 AM, Shane Ginnane ibm-m...@tpg.com.au wrote: On Fri, 17 Apr 2015 09:32:52 -0300, Clark Morris wrote: Given what we pay for Redbooks, I can understand IBM wanting some kind of revenue stream and find print ads easy to ignore. And how long before we have sponsored

Re: Ads in Redbookd.

2015-04-17 Thread Roger Suhr
Somebody's got to pay for these books. Are you? On Apr 16, 2015 11:51 PM, Shane Ginnane ibm-m...@tpg.com.au wrote: How long have we had ads (sorry, Promotions) in Redbooks ?. Just pulled the z13 Tech Intro Ed posted about - can't be that long since I downloaded one, and I certainly don't

Re: Ads in Redbookd.

2015-04-17 Thread Elardus Engelbrecht
Roger Suhr wrote: Somebody's got to pay for these books. Are you? Perhaps, just like you did it in the past for IBM 'licensed books' for very restricted contents available for paying customers. On the other side - If I pay for a book (not magazines/newspapers/etc) - it should be without ads.

Re: RFE for ISPF ZSTART extended functionality

2015-04-17 Thread Farley, Peter x23353
I know GIYF, but shouldn't it be easier to find starting from a SHARE login? I'm just sayin'. Thanks for the suggestion, I got the presentation. Peter -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Doug Henry Sent: Friday, April

Re: RACF POSIT follies

2015-04-17 Thread Phil Smith III
I should state explicitly that Vanguard was NOT the problem: it was the solution! It's a great tool, and both the Vanguard tools and the efforts of some folks there were instrumental in getting us to a solution. Apologies if anyone thought I was calling them out in a negative light-it was so

Re: old LISTUTIL program

2015-04-17 Thread Tony Harminc
On 17 April 2015 at 12:49, Bill Godfrey bgodfrey...@gmail.com wrote: I'm looking for an old IBM Type III or IV program for OS/360 named LISTUTIL, which is described in a bitsavers.org copy of the 1971 manual Catalog of Programs for IBM System 360. What's the program number? I've looked at

Re: old LISTUTIL program

2015-04-17 Thread Barry Merrill
With SAS, try DATA _NULL_; INFILE WHATEVER; INPUT; LIST; IF _N_ GT 50 THEN STOP; and you'll get a nice hex dump with bytes vertically arranged and the EBCDIC character interpreted above each byte - mucho better IMO than having hex at left and text at the right. Barry Merrill -Original

Re: RFE for ISPF ZSTART extended functionality

2015-04-17 Thread Tom Marchant
On Fri, 17 Apr 2015 10:03:51 -0400, Farley, Peter wrote: I logged into SHARE content but the most recent ISPF Hidden Treasures I can find seems to be from Austin 2009. Can you please post a more direct URL to the 2015 version? Or maybe better guide me to the path to find the 2015

Re: old LISTUTIL program

2015-04-17 Thread Charles Mills
Type 3 and type 4 are the original open source. They were field developed programs. My recolle tion is that 3s were written by ibm field people and 4s were written by customers.  CharlesSent from a mobile; please excuse the brevity Original message From: Bill Godfrey

Re: SMP/e FTP receive error - Help

2015-04-17 Thread Kurt Quackenbush
While Downloading the latest RSU from IBM site, I have received the below error message : Connection to server interrupted or timed out. Receiving data Look in your client FTP.DATA for things like these: CCONNTIME, DATACTTIME, DATAKEEPALIVE, DCONNTIME, DSWAITTIME, FTPKEEPALIVE, INACTTIME,

Re: RFE for ISPF ZSTART extended functionality

2015-04-17 Thread Farley, Peter x23353
Thanks, that worked. The original link pointed directly to the Seattle 2015 page, where there was not a proceedings link. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Tom Marchant Sent: Friday, April 17, 2015 12:40 PM To:

Re: SCRTTOOL requirements?

2015-04-17 Thread Al Sherkow
Tim -- The purpose of the SCRTTOOL is to collect the information IBM needs to prepare an invoice. It is not intended to help you manage your environment or data. It is not integrated into z/OS because when IBM updates it to a new Version level, every customer using it is supposed to install

Re: RACF POSIT follies

2015-04-17 Thread Pommier, Rex
Phil, You'll get no disagreement from me that Easter Egging is a valid approach when nothing else makes sense. That was one reason I put in in the more general sense. I wasn't trying to imply that you were doing something wrong with your debugging, just giving an explanation of the term. If

old LISTUTIL program

2015-04-17 Thread Bill Godfrey
I'm looking for an old IBM Type III or IV program for OS/360 named LISTUTIL, which is described in a bitsavers.org copy of the 1971 manual Catalog of Programs for IBM System 360. The Type III and IV programs are described as for unrestricted distribution. Basically LISTUTIL printed a data set,

Re: RACF POSIT follies

2015-04-17 Thread Phil Smith III
Pommier, Rex wrote, on IBM-MAIN, in response to What is 'Easter Egging'?: Easter Egging in the more general sense is trying to fix something by randomly replacing elements when you don't have any idea what to fix and hoping you get the right thing. Based on the custom in various parts of the

Re: old LISTUTIL program

2015-04-17 Thread Bill Godfrey
On Fri, 17 Apr 2015 14:49:14 -0400, Tony Harminc t...@harminc.net wrote: On 17 April 2015 at 12:49, Bill Godfrey bgodfrey...@gmail.com wrote: I'm looking for an old IBM Type III or IV program for OS/360 named LISTUTIL, which is described in a bitsavers.org copy of the 1971 manual Catalog of

Re: RFE for ISPF ZSTART extended functionality

2015-04-17 Thread J O Skip Robinson
Some background. SHARE requirements were moved wholesale into RFE from a historically separate system. In contrast to requirements entered directly into RFE, both IBM and SHARE were wary about making the transplanted requirements publicly viewable because the original authors might not feel

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Finding SHARE in Seattle sessions

2015-04-17 Thread Pinnacle
Here is a link to the index for SHARE in Seattle: https://share.confex.com/share/124/webprogram/start.html Regards, Tom Conley -- -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to