Re: Opinion: Using C "standard library" routines in COBOL.

I'm interested in how people deal with the case of the functions and what type of executables people create. Relevant is discussion of overflow. By Standard fine for COBOL, not fine for C. sprintf is fun but do I want to interpret a string 4m times to produce a report?

Re: OAM message CBR3006I with an MTL

On Thu, 6 Apr 2017 18:28:14 +, O'Connor, Ruth wrote: And I asked them to confirm that we're not supposed to define their drives with COMPACT. (Somehow I got the impression that the data will be compressed automatically when it reaches the Data Domain. Maybe we would use the

Re: Opinion: Using C "standard library" routines in COBOL.

On Fri, Apr 7, 2017 at 3:43 AM, Bill Woodger wrote: > I'm interested in how people deal with the case of the functions and what > type of executables people create. > > Relevant is discussion of overflow. By Standard fine for COBOL, not fine > for C. > > sprintf is fun

Pipes

Does anyone have a SHARE proceedings CD with these two presentations that you would be willing to share: "Plumbers Who Dump CVTs and the Control Blocks that Love Them:MVS/TSO Pipelines for Systems Programmers", SHARE February 1999, Session 2875, Hobart Spitz, Paine Webber "Two Dimensional

Re: Unexplained delays in WLM managed jobclasses

On Fri, 7 Apr 2017 06:34:54 +, Vernooij, Kees (ITOPT1) - KLM wrote: >> >> See if you have APAR OA51343 and prereq's installed. >>

Re: Job hold on jes2 input queue

As J.O.Skip mentioned I had a similar issue, but I was joining 2 systems into a JES2 MAS and there was a previous definition for another SYSNAME in the definition, after I followed the doc some have pointed me to I was about to modify the node name and get my jobs running after being submitted,

Friday funny

Some of these are so funny looking at them with today's eyes but back in the day they were awesome http://www.computerworld.com/article/3162104/computer-hardware/10-fun-tech-ads-through-the-years.html -- Lionel B. Dyck

Program software to make SMS calls

Hey Does anybody know of any software for mainframe Z/OS where you can send SMS messages to a mobile phone and maybe make a predefined speak to a mobile phone. Or maybe specify a way to do it. It can be an open source code., or a plugin from a a payable software company Of course a free of

Re: Program software to make SMS calls

That technology has been around for many years, I first saw this provided by a vendor on a large scale about 12 years ago with CA/OPS and Uni-center sent text messages based on trapping messages for the console log, I think just about any automation process / tool can do this now Carmen

FW: What are mainframes

On 4/7/17, 3:47 PM, "David Boyes" wrote: Anne & Lynn Wheeler l...@garlic.com commented: > IBM also funded $50M Andrew project at CMU, Andrew File System Which is still alive and well and in production use at dozens of sites. It’s now supported on

Re: FW: What are mainframes

dbo...@sinenomine.net (David Boyes) writes: > Which is still alive and well and in production use at dozens of > sites. It’s now supported on System z hardware as well. AFS offers a > lot of cool stuff that make continuous availability a reality on > relatively cheap hardware. It implements a

Fw: Apache Spark on z listserver or forum?

> I wish IBM would start to embrace Stack Overflow a little bit more as > the user experience is far superior to DeveloperWorks both in terms of > UX and effeciency. Hi David, I had considered your earlier post. I went with DeveloperWorks based on some direct feedback I received from

Assembler question

I am helping on an assembler program that is accessing a sequential file in move mode, yet the move is not happening. R1 points to valid data after the GET, but the record area specified was not filled in. This application is being ported from VSE to z/OS. Code snippets: OPEN

Re: RLS for catalogs

I love getting affirmation after all these years, but I'm still a bit queasy. All I did was change from GRS ring to star. No RNL changes. Is the 'QNAME=SYSZVVDS RNAME=volser' conversion still explained? Note that, despite years of IBM recommendations, we do not convert RESERVE to ENQ because

Re: Assembler question

If memory serves, OPEN (HPPCTL,UPDAT) should be coded as OPEN (HPPCTL,'UPDAT') - with quotes around UPDAT (or INPUT or OUTPUT). On 08/04/2017 00:28, Sam Siegel wrote: > OPEN for UPDAT might require the GET LOCATE instead of GET MOVE. > > Try OPEN for INPUT and see if work area is populated. >

Re: Assembler question

OPEN for UPDAT might require the GET LOCATE instead of GET MOVE. Try OPEN for INPUT and see if work area is populated. On Fri, Apr 7, 2017 at 4:09 PM, Tony Thigpen wrote: > I am helping on an assembler program that is accessing a sequential file in > move mode, yet the move is

Re: Unexplained delays in WLM managed jobclasses

I seem to remember a similar type problem from very early days of WLM Managed Initiators. Thanks for the heads up Mark. Kees, curious if this is a full on WLM Managed environment or a mix of JES and WLM managed. From: Mark Zelden To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Sent:

Re: Fwd: Apache Spark on z listserver or forum?

On 8/04/2017 1:16 AM, Tony Harminc wrote: On 7 April 2017 at 09:57, David Crayford wrote: I wish IBM would start to embrace Stack Overflow a little bit more as the user experience is far superior to DeveloperWorks both in terms of UX and effeciency. I find mailing lists

Re: RLS for catalogs

The reason for the difference in runtimes must be simple: the system that has the GRS Lock structure in its local CPC has much faster access to it. We see the same with the CA-DISK IXMAINT function that als does massive catalog searches. Kees. > -Original Message- > From: IBM

Re: Unexplained delays in WLM managed jobclasses

Correct, but that is not the cause in this situation. Kees. > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On > Behalf Of Tom Marchant > Sent: 06 April, 2017 16:51 > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: Unexplained delays in WLM

Re: z/OS revives again

I'm reluctant to embark on a tangent here, but facts are important John McKown wrote: >ACA == "Affordable Care Act" aka "Obamacare". The law which basically >tries to socialize medicine like it is in Canada, the U.K.​, and Europe. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act contains many

Re: Opinion: Using C "standard library" routines in COBOL.

> The S0C1 is because SYS1.SCEELKED isn’t available for the dynamic calls. SCEELKED is intended to be used at linkedit/binder/ time, not execution time. What is statically linked is not the code for the C function, but only a little stub which finds the way to the code at runtime. In the

Re: Unexplained delays in WLM managed jobclasses

> -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On > Behalf Of Mark Zelden > Sent: 06 April, 2017 16:58 > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: Unexplained delays in WLM managed jobclasses > > On Thu, 6 Apr 2017 12:08:25 +,

Re: Anyone Using Classic Data Capture for VSAM?

Yes, there's overhead involved in capturing data changes and replicating them. That's true on every platform. I think you're fundamentally asking "How much?" The basic, unsatisfying answer is "It depends. Try it." It depends on the velocity of data changes and the amount of replicated data,

Re: z/OS 2.2 PDF Download Collection - index working now

On Thu, 6 Apr 2017 22:33:23 -0500, Bill Godfrey wrote: > >Here's what I got in cygwin. No problems so far. >... >$ ls -l SC27843005.zip >-rwx--+ 1 User1 None 867963245 Mar 15 00:00 SC27843005.zip > >$ cksum SC27843005.zip >300300463 867963245 SC27843005.zip >... Oops. All my fault. I

Re: Opinion: Using C "standard library" routines in COBOL.

Subsequent COBOL V5.2 testing showed that including CEESG003 at link/bind time also works for COBOL V5.2 dynamic call. SYS1.SCEELKED is still required in STEPLIB/JOBLIB/LINKLIST for dynamic calls to work. Thanks again to John M. for starting this discussion. I love learning useful new ways

Re: Ordering IBM service without software excel

On Fri, 7 Apr 2017 11:56:24 -0500, Tom Marchant wrote: Thank you for asking. The service is for an IBM z/OS product called DB2 V10 CM8 still in support atleast for a few more months. The service is required to get to DB2 NFM and then to migrarte to V11. Yes I do know

Re: 360 announce day

Especially now that his namesake is being used for Tax preparation! I don't know if to think that is the dumbest use of the Watson, or that are Tax Preparation gotten so complicated that it requires a super computer to do so? (I lean towards the later :) ) Al Nims Systems Admin/Programmer 3

Re: Opinion: Using C "standard library" routines in COBOL.

Are all z/OS XL C/C++ RTL modules just stubs line this? Or is it just some.? From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of Peter Hunkeler Sent: Friday, April 7, 2017 12:19 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re:

Re: Program software to make SMS calls

On Fri, Apr 7, 2017 at 8:38 AM, James Wellingtin wrote: > Hey > Does anybody know of any software for mainframe Z/OS where you can send SMS > messages to a mobile phone and maybe make a predefined speak to a mobile > phone. > > Or maybe specify a way to do it. > > >

Re: Fwd: Apache Spark on z listserver or forum?

On 7 April 2017 at 09:57, David Crayford wrote: > I wish IBM would start to embrace Stack Overflow a little bit more as the > user experience is far superior to DeveloperWorks both in terms of UX and > effeciency. I find mailing lists (like this one!) offer by far the best

Re: FTP TLS options

Does z/OS 2.2 support TLS v1.2 for FTP clients without the use of AT-TLS? This new server we have is (currently) configured to support only TLS v1.2, and nothing earlier. We're trying to get approval to "back down" to TLS v1.0, but I figured I'd ask this anyway. Frank

Re: 360 announce day

And now he's spinning in his grave Doug Fuerst d...@bkassociates.net -- Original Message -- From: "Tom Marchant" <000a2a8c2020-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> To: IBM-MAIN@listserv.ua.edu Sent: 07-Apr-17 12:43:48 PM Subject: Re: 360 announce day On Fri, 7 Apr 2017 09:15:49

Re: RLS for catalogs

On Fri, 7 Apr 2017 06:16:30 +, Vernooij, Kees (ITOPT1) - KLM wrote: >The reason for the difference in runtimes must be simple: the system that > has the GRS Lock structure in its local CPC has much faster access to it. >We see the same with the CA-DISK IXMAINT

Re: Opinion: Using C "standard library" routines in COBOL.

My prior example, which did both a static and a dynamic call to CUSERID, was flawed because the statically linked version of CUSERID caused runtime initialization to happen which does not occur if there is no statically linked stub. However, I found the solution to the problem. In the

Re: Opinion: Using C "standard library" routines in COBOL.

Good information to know! Thanks!! From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of Farley, Peter x23353 Sent: Friday, April 7, 2017 12:07 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Opinion: Using C

Re: Fwd: Apache Spark on z listserver or forum?

On 7/04/2017 9:50 PM, Erin Farr wrote: Hi, Our site is currently in the very early stages of dabbling with Apache Spark on z and was wondering if there is a Listserver or Forum specifically for Apache Spark on z. Thanks, Roger We now have a forum on DeveloperWorks. Tag questions with

FTP TLS options

We currently use the following options for client connections to an FTPS server: SECURE_MECHANISM TLS ;Use TLS, if supported by server SECURE_DATACONN PRIVATE ;Protect data connection when using TLS KEYRING FTPS/ftpsring ;Key ring for TLS encryption NETRCLEVEL

360 announce day

360 announce day http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/mainframe/mainframe_PR360.html -- virtualization experience starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: Opinion: Using C "standard library" routines in COBOL.

On Fri, Apr 7, 2017 at 10:59 AM, Frank Swarbrick < frank.swarbr...@outlook.com> wrote: > Are all z/OS XL C/C++ RTL modules just stubs line this? Or is it just > some.? > ​I did a fast scan, as well as I could, and it sure seems to be most, if not all. Since they are vectoring to some table via

Fwd: Apache Spark on z listserver or forum?

> > Hi, > Our site is currently in the very early stages of dabbling with > Apache Spark on z and was wondering if there is a Listserver or Forum > specifically for Apache Spark on z. > > Thanks, Roger We now have a forum on DeveloperWorks. Tag questions with zos-spark. The link is here:

Re: Pipes

Hi Lionel, Google brings up that Hobart has a current LinkedIn entry and this interesting link which contains a paper from him on pipelines - https://www.mail-archive.com/cms-pipelines@vm.marist.edu/msg02783.html. Marty's also on LinkedIn. Good luck! Cheryl -Original Message- From: IBM

Re: 360 announce day

On Fri, 7 Apr 2017 09:15:49 -0700, Anne & Lynn Wheeler wrote: >360 announce day >http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/mainframe/mainframe_PR360.html "IBM Board Chairman Thomas J. Watson Jr. called the event the most important product announcement in the company's history." -- Tom

Re: Ordering IBM service without software excel

On Fri, 7 Apr 2017 10:55:17 -0500, Avram Friedman wrote: >(From about PUT1106 to date) What release are you running? I ask because z/OS 1.13 was GA in September, 2011 and you seem to be looking for maintenance that goes back farther than that. -- Tom Marchant

Ordering IBM service without software excel

I am supporting a shop with active IBM an active software service contract but no Software Excel / IBM link. In such an environment how does a USA customer order preventive service and enhanced hold data. (From about PUT1106 to date) Thank you Av Friedman

Re: Pipes

I have dug up "Plumbers Who Dump CVTs and the Control Blocks that Love Them: MVS/TSO Pipelines for Systems Programmers", SHARE February 1999, Session 2875, Hobart Spitz, Paine Webber For Lionel and will send it to him off-list and now starting the search for the CD/DVD that has it, but it

Re: Ordering IBM service without software excel

On Fri, Apr 7, 2017 at 10:55 AM, Avram Friedman wrote: > I am supporting a shop with active IBM an active software service contract > but no Software Excel / IBM link. > In such an environment how does a USA customer order preventive service > and enhanced hold

Re: Ordering IBM service without software excel

Also, RECEIVE ORDER. John McKown wrote: On Fri, Apr 7, 2017 at 10:55 AM, Avram Friedman

Re: Friday funny

On Fri, Apr 7, 2017 at 8:28 AM, Dyck, Lionel B. (TRA) wrote: > Some of these are so funny looking at them with today's eyes but back in > the day they were awesome > > http://www.computerworld.com/article/3162104/computer- > hardware/10-fun-tech-ads-through-the-years.html > >

Re: Program software to make SMS calls

I've made (limited) use of SMS-to-text for years. The problem from my perspective is that you have to know which carrier the phone is connected to. That's especially tricky these days because users can move their phones from carrier to carrier without having to change numbers. It's one thing

Re: Program software to make SMS calls

On Fri, Apr 7, 2017 at 10:29 AM, Jesse 1 Robinson wrote: > I've made (limited) use of SMS-to-text for years. The problem from my > perspective is that you have to know which carrier the phone is connected > to. That's especially tricky these days because users can move

Re: RLS for catalogs

On Thu, 6 Apr 2017 11:35:47 -0500, Mark Zelden wrote: >On Thu, 6 Apr 2017 15:56:29 +, Jesse 1 Robinson >wrote: > >>This goes back several years when CF and memory resources were more expensive >>and less flexible than today. Think standalone CF

Re: Apache Spark on z listserver or forum?

Hi Tony, I completely agree. Linda Sent from my iPhone > On Apr 7, 2017, at 10:16 AM, Tony Harminc wrote: > >> On 7 April 2017 at 09:57, David Crayford wrote: >> I wish IBM would start to embrace Stack Overflow a little bit more as the >> user