The Business Case for BatchPipes in the z/OS Base (was: ... Pipes ...)

2021-09-27 Thread Hobart Spitz
I'm going to pivot here. I'm putting my support behind putting BatchPipes in the z/OS base (rather than just Pipes). If you agree, please write/support such a requirement and/or educate your management to get interested. BatchPipes includes BatchPipesWorks, a not so current, but still highly

Re: The Business Case for BatchPipes in the z/OS Base (was: ... Pipes ...)

2021-09-27 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Mon, 27 Sep 2021 07:26:51 -0500, Hobart Spitz wrote: >I'm going to pivot here. I'm putting my support behind putting BatchPipes >in the z/OS base (rather than just Pipes). If you agree, please >write/support such a requirement and/or educate your management to get >interested. BatchPipes

FW: a Custom migration from CA scheduler to IBM workload scheduler on z/OS

2021-09-27 Thread
FYI, for anyone interested. From: Brian Miller Sent: Monday, September 27, 2021 10:55 AM To: David Mingee Subject: a Custom migration from CA scheduler to IBM workload scheduler on z/OS Hi David, Hope you and the family have weathered theses strange times? I received this

Re: a Custom migration from CA scheduler to IBM workload scheduler on z/OS

2021-09-27 Thread Philippe TESSIER
Hi I was external trainer for IBM since 1989 on TWS z/OS and TWS Distributed My catalog of training is IWSD 9.50 user IWSD 9.50 Administration ZWS 9.50 user ZWS 9.50 Administration Delta ZWS/IWS Distributed DWC for ZWS And my second business is the migration of every scheduler to every

Re: The Business Case for BatchPipes in the z/OS Base (was: ... Pipes ...)

2021-09-27 Thread Hobart Spitz
Gil wrote: >On Mon, 27 Sep 2021 07:26:51 -0500, Hobart Spitz wrote: >>I'm going to pivot here. I'm putting my support behind putting BatchPipes >>in the z/OS base (rather than just Pipes). If you agree, please >>write/support such a requirement and/or educate your management to get >>interested.

z/OS Dataset Last Date Used Information

2021-09-27 Thread Jasi Grewal
Hi, I am interested in acquiring information on the DASD Datasets, which were updated recently and to understand the resources utilization. Is there a Tool available in CBT or somewhere where I could use to provide me report on each DASD dataset which were updated today for an example. I am

Re: zPDT Learner's Edition

2021-09-27 Thread Phil Smith III
Ed Jaffe wrote: >It's not the oldest SHARE requirement by >any means, but certainly a long-standing one with an indefensible >rationale, that has withstood the test of time. "indefensible"? "unimpeachable"? What did you mean?

Tape Tools reporting and Splunk

2021-09-27 Thread Benik, John E
I was wondering if anybody is routing any of their Tape tools reporting to Splunk? Especially interested if you are doing this without using some other third party software product. Regards, John Benik This e-mail, including attachments, may include confidential and/or proprietary

PL/I vs. JCL

2021-09-27 Thread Phil Smith III
A friend writes: In a conversation elsewhere I mentioned the oops between JCL using /* as end of dataset and PL/I using /* */ for comment brackets - meaning that PL/I had to start in column 2 to prevent a comment from being interpreted as JCL. Oopsie. Does anyone remember which came first? There

Re: PL/I vs. JCL

2021-09-27 Thread Mike Schwab
PL/I uses column one for a carriage control while JCL requires a / in column one, so this was never a problem On Mon, Sep 27, 2021 at 10:09 PM Phil Smith III wrote: > > A friend writes: > > In a conversation elsewhere I mentioned the oops between JCL using /* as end > of dataset and PL/I using

Re: PL/I vs. JCL

2021-09-27 Thread Charles Mills
Adding a dummy first line because LISTSERV rejected this post because it thought it was a command, not a message ... //SYSIN DD DATA,DLM=xx solves the /* in column 1 problem. PL/I supports specifiable margins, so PL/I source can start in column 1. My earliest S/360 memories are from 1968, and

Re: PL/I vs. JCL

2021-09-27 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Mon, 27 Sep 2021 15:42:35 -0700, Charles Mills wrote: . > >//SYSIN DD DATA,DLM=xx solves the /* in column 1 problem. > +1 In one case I resorted to an exhaustive search to find a digraph not occurring in a NETDATA sysin. Ugh! >PL/I supports specifiable margins, so PL/I source can start in

Re: PL/I vs. JCL

2021-09-27 Thread Joe Monk
PL/I is free format. The default is 2 - 72, but there is a compiler option to change that (SORMGIN). Joe On Mon, Sep 27, 2021 at 5:09 PM Phil Smith III wrote: > A friend writes: > > In a conversation elsewhere I mentioned the oops between JCL using /* as > end > of dataset and PL/I using /* */

Re: PL/I vs. JCL

2021-09-27 Thread Charles Mills
> column 1 is reserved for carriage control. That seems to conflate source > code with SYSPRINT. It does seem to, but in fact PL/I supports source listing formatting using ANSI carriage control. "The MARGINS option specifies which part of each compiler input record contains PL/I statements,

Re: PL/I vs. JCL

2021-09-27 Thread Robin Vowels
- Original Message - From: "Phil Smith III" To: Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2021 8:08 AM A friend writes: In a conversation elsewhere I mentioned the oops between JCL using /* as end of dataset and PL/I using /* */ for comment brackets - meaning that PL/I had to start in column 2

Re: PL/I vs. JCL

2021-09-27 Thread Robin Vowels
From: "Joe Monk" To: Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2021 8:36 AM PL/I is free format. The default is 2 - 72, IBM's catalogue procedure was set up for columns 2 to 72. Sites could change that -- as ours did -- to read columns 1 to 80. but there is a compiler option to change that (SORMGIN).

Re: zPDT Learner's Edition

2021-09-27 Thread Ed Jaffe
On 9/27/2021 1:39 PM, Phil Smith III wrote: Ed Jaffe wrote: It's not the oldest SHARE requirement by any means, but certainly a long-standing one with an indefensible rationale, that has withstood the test of time. "indefensible"? "unimpeachable"? What did you mean? I meant to say there

Re: PL/I vs. JCL

2021-09-27 Thread Robin Vowels
- Original Message - From: "Mike Schwab" To: Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2021 8:12 AM PL/I uses column one for a carriage control while JCL requires a / in column one, so this was never a problem PL/I does not use card column 1 for carriage control. That was an option that a

Re: PL/I vs. JCL

2021-09-27 Thread Robin Vowels
- Original Message - From: "Charles Mills" To: Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 2021 11:19 AM column 1 is reserved for carriage control. That seems to conflate source code with SYSPRINT. It does seem to, but in fact PL/I supports source listing formatting using ANSI carriage