Re: Anyone know why IBM ISV center is down?

2022-11-20 Thread Binyamin Dissen
Every other week, evening Israeli time. It was scheduled for tonight. On Sun, 20 Nov 2022 10:50:26 +0200 Itschak Mugzach <0305158ad67d-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: :>IBM sites are usually down on Sundays. :> :>*| **Itschak Mugzach | Director | SecuriTeam Software **|** IronSphere

how long will wait to vary the bad path offline

2022-11-20 Thread Jason Cai
Hi all We had a situation with a bad FICON Director that resulted in a huge performance impact due to the default way that z/OS handles error recovery on FICON paths. The symptoms were many (thousands) of IOS050I or IOS051I messages in the task's joblog, followed by IOS001E,

Re: AW: SPF/SE is available for free

2022-11-20 Thread W Mainframe
The SPF/SE is an excellent editor, indeed...I use another eccellent editor, always free, The Hessling Editor, a Xedit clone with full macro support using Rexx. Dan Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone On Tuesday, November 15, 2022, 5:47 AM, Michael Knigge wrote: Some words from Tim's wife

Re: TNZ 3270 Emulator: Any Experiences?

2022-11-20 Thread Dave Jones
Thank you very much, Neil. That works as expected here on our internal network. Some information: 1) host is z/VM 7.3 2) Terminal size is 62x160 3) this also works when run on a zLinux image, running as a guest of the z/VM 7.3 system; very much like running it on USS. Now add GDDM graphics and

Re: Capture 3270 screen as text (was: TNZ 3270 Emulator: ... )

2022-11-20 Thread Seymour J Metz
Do you mean curses commands or HTML markup as opposed to 3270 buffer orders? -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Paul Gilmartin

Re: TNZ 3270 Emulator: Any Experiences?

2022-11-20 Thread Seymour J Metz
I know that PM is encumbered by ms IP, but I thought that SOM and WPS were strictly IBM. Further, the SOM and WPS for OREXX require only the header files, not the actual code of SOM and WPS. I From: IBM Mainframe

Re: Question on writing PL1 to use EXEC PARM/PARMDD

2022-11-20 Thread Steve Smith
To support long parms, you'd need DCL PARAM CHAR(32760) VAR; /* Maybe CHAR(*) would work */ There is a manual where you could get the definitive answer. But you might need to know the language name is PL/I to find it. sas On Sun, Nov 20, 2022 at 2:08 AM Robin Vowels wrote: > M: PROC (PARAM)

Re: Anyone know why IBM ISV center is down?

2022-11-20 Thread Steve Thompson
If you are talking about the formerly known as Dallas Center/LAB that was transferred to POK, I was using it last week, but I didn't read the broadcast messages. I know that they do system maintenance on Sundays, and I don't know if this is one of those. Hope that helps you. Regards, Steve

Re: Question on writing PL/I to use EXEC PARM/PARMDD

2022-11-20 Thread Robin Vowels
On 2022-11-21 02:29, Steve Smith wrote: Not necessarily. My example code (which preceded) comes straight from the manual, and is required when main PROCEDURE statement is as I showed, namely, M: PROC (PARAM) OPTIONS (MAIN); DECLARE PARAM CHARACTER(100) VARYING; Assuming using an LE

Re: Question on writing PL1 to use EXEC PARM/PARMDD

2022-11-20 Thread Seymour J Metz
Use DECLARE FOO CHAR(*) VARYING for the input value. If you need to copy it inside of a BEGIN or nested PROCEDURE block, or as CONTROLLED, you can use LENGTH(FOO) for a dynamic length. You only receive the user parameter sideof the PARM, not the LE side. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz

Re: Capture 3270 screen as text (was: TNZ 3270 Emulator: ... )

2022-11-20 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Sun, 20 Nov 2022 03:54:33 +, Seymour J Metz wrote: >Or they support the c conventions of the desktop they run on and assdume >that the user already knows those. > That's likely not to work because lines might be separated and indented not by CRLF and leading spaces but by cursor

Re: TNZ 3270 Emulator: Any Experiences?

2022-11-20 Thread kekronbekron
Ah yes, these I'm aware of. Thought there was something new I didn't know about. - KB --- Original Message --- On Sunday, November 20th, 2022 at 1:10 PM, David Crayford wrote: > On 19/11/22 12:20, kekronbekron wrote: > > > What? RMF can export to prometheus? > > Do you mean zDG,

Re: Anyone know why IBM ISV center is down?

2022-11-20 Thread Itschak Mugzach
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Re: Question on writing PL/I to use EXEC PARM/PARMDD

2022-11-20 Thread Steve Smith
Not necessarily. Assuming using an LE compiler, the EXECOPTS compile option controls this. sas On Sun, Nov 20, 2022 at 2:30 AM Robin Vowels wrote: > The string passed to the main procedure needs to start with > a slash, because everything up to and including the slash > is omitted when

Re: TNZ 3270 Emulator: Any Experiences?

2022-11-20 Thread zMan
WTF? ELIF. AYOD? On Sun, Nov 20, 2022 at 7:26 AM Seymour J Metz wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I know that PM is encumbered by ms IP, but I thought that SOM and WPS were > strictly IBM. Further, the SOM and WPS for OREXX require only the header > files, not

Re: TNZ 3270 Emulator: Any Experiences?

2022-11-20 Thread Seymour J Metz
EXPN? It was the laptop. That's my story and I'm sticking to it. The question remains: What IP prevented the release of the SOM and WPS support in OREXX, as opposed to SOM and WPS themselves? -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3

Anyone know why IBM ISV center is down?

2022-11-20 Thread Binyamin Dissen
Anyone know why IBM ISV center is down? -- Binyamin Dissen http://www.dissensoftware.com Director, Dissen Software, Bar & Grill - Israel -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to

Re: Anyone know why IBM ISV center is down?

2022-11-20 Thread zMan
But if it doesn't come back up, it's probably because IBM laid off the person who knew how it worked. I wish I was joking. On Sun, Nov 20, 2022 at 4:24 AM Binyamin Dissen wrote: > Every other week, evening Israeli time. It was scheduled for tonight. > > On Sun, 20 Nov 2022 10:50:26 +0200

Re: Question on writing PL/I to use EXEC PARM/PARMDD

2022-11-20 Thread Robert Prins
No it doesn't EPLI 5.3+ now gives a warning when you use "CHAR(100) VAR". You should nowadays code "CHAT(*) VAR"! RTFM! On Sun, 20 Nov 2022 at 16:59, Robin Vowels wrote: > On 2022-11-21 02:29, Steve Smith wrote: > > Not necessarily. > > My example code (which preceded) comes straight from the

Re: Anyone know why IBM ISV center is down?

2022-11-20 Thread Charles Mills
They are down every other Sunday from roughly 9:30 to 15:30 US Central time. I don't think they have ever said "it will be exactly every other Sunday" but it pretty much always is exactly every other Sunday (including today). I would guess the reason is something like "routine maintenance." Why

Re: Capture 3270 screen as text (was: TNZ 3270 Emulator: ... )

2022-11-20 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Sun, 20 Nov 2022 16:57:25 +, Seymour J Metz wrote: >Do you mean curses commands or HTML markup as opposed to 3270 buffer orders? > Any of those. Most likely ANSI terminal cursor positioning commands. Any of those interfere with copying a screen image to a document, replicating a

Re: AW: SPF/SE is available for free

2022-11-20 Thread Bob Bridges
I haven't been keeping up with this thread, but I drop in on the random long-running thread just because, and I see this. For ooREXX and VBS and the like I've been trying out Notepad++, but I'm not entirely happy with it. There are a few functions (like the missing that I don't care for, and

Re: TNZ 3270 Emulator: Any Experiences?

2022-11-20 Thread Neil Johnson
There is IND$FILE support in tnz. It is a bit different from other emulators I've seen - I still need to document it. The basic idea of a download is that you enter the IND$FILE command yourself in the session with all the appropriate arguments. After the command completes, you press Esc to go to

Re: Question on writing PL/I to use EXEC PARM/PARMDD

2022-11-20 Thread Robin Vowels
On 2022-11-21 05:46, Farley, Peter wrote: Thanks to all for the PL/I advice, and yes, I do know they changed the name from 1 to I a long time ago, The language has always been called PL/I, from IBM's first LRM C28-6571. (after, of course, from earlier temporary names such as NPL) but I

Re: Question on writing PL/I to use EXEC PARM/PARMDD

2022-11-20 Thread Seymour J Metz
Is that across the board or only when it is the parameter for OPTIONS(MAIN)? -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Robert Prins [robert.ah.pr...@gmail.com]

Re: Capture 3270 screen as text (was: TNZ 3270 Emulator: ... )

2022-11-20 Thread Andrew Rowley
On 21/11/2022 3:52 am, Paul Gilmartin wrote: That's likely not to work because lines might be separated and indented not by CRLF and leading spaces but by cursor addressing commands which are not meaningful when pasted into a text document. By the time the screen is displayed the 3270

Re: TNZ 3270 Emulator: Any Experiences?

2022-11-20 Thread Andrew Rowley
On 19/11/2022 8:19 pm, Peter Sylvester wrote: It seems to me that this code currently poses a security risk. Certificate validation always say OK. (well it is said like this in the code.) Which terminal emulators actually validate the certificate? I would like to think all of them do, but

Re: SPF/SE is available for free

2022-11-20 Thread Farley, Peter
I would respectfully disagree. Crowd-funding to pay for various legal fees has been done many times across the world for other people in trouble of one kind or another with those in power, so why not this one? You might even be able to interest organizations like the ACLU or its European

Re: Question on writing PL/I to use EXEC PARM/PARMDD

2022-11-20 Thread Robert Prins
Oops fat finger, "CHAR(*) VAR" On Sun, 20 Nov 2022 at 19:16, Robert Prins wrote: > No it doesn't EPLI 5.3+ now gives a warning when you use "CHAR(100) VAR". > You should nowadays code "CHAT(*) VAR"! > > RTFM! > > On Sun, 20 Nov 2022 at 16:59, Robin Vowels wrote: > >> On 2022-11-21 02:29, Steve

Re: Anyone know why IBM ISV center is down?

2022-11-20 Thread Farley, Peter
I don't know how ISV's monitor the IBM ISV center activity, but IBM's Zxplore student education website (url below) which is also hosted at the ISV center posts a warning about "maintenance" outages starting the Wednesday or Thursday before the "maintenance" weekends. The message on that

Re: Question on writing PL/I to use EXEC PARM/PARMDD

2022-11-20 Thread Farley, Peter
Thanks to all for the PL/I advice, and yes, I do know they changed the name from 1 to I a long time ago, but I didn't much like that rename starting from when they did it. What was wrong with using a plain Arabic numeral? Then again I use the Roman numeral III for my full name since I am the

Q: DB2 Online Classes

2022-11-20 Thread Steve Thompson
Anyone know of an online, at your own pace, DC2 programming class? I have a need to learn DB2 SQL type programming. I used to do this with Fujitsu COBOL on NT 4.0 years ago, but now I need to know the specifics of the DB2 world. I know that they have to do a BIND (I wrote an ISPF system that

Re: Anyone know why IBM ISV center is down?

2022-11-20 Thread Charles Mills
We monitor the status of Dallas and several other sites with a free account from SiteUpTime.com. Charles -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the

Re: Anyone know why IBM ISV center is down?

2022-11-20 Thread Farley, Peter
Since I started using the IBM Zxplore site to increase my knowledge and practical experience in October 2021, the RDP site on which it is hosted has been pretty regularly down for maintenance just about every other Sunday from 14:30 to 20:30 UTC. There have been times the maintenance window

Re: TNZ 3270 Emulator: Any Experiences?

2022-11-20 Thread David Crayford
On 20/11/22 23:13, Dave Jones wrote: Now add GDDM graphics and it will be nearly perfect.  Here we go again! tnz is a curses application, a TUI (text user interface) that runs in a shell. It's not X windows and doesn't run in a GUI container. It's my understanding on some Linux desktop

Re: TNZ 3270 Emulator: Any Experiences?

2022-11-20 Thread Peter Sylvester
On 20/11/2022 23:46, Andrew Rowley wrote: On 19/11/2022 8:19 pm, Peter Sylvester wrote: It seems to me that this code currently poses a security risk. Certificate validation always say OK. (well it is said like this in the code.) Which terminal emulators actually validate the certificate?