Re: Creating .xls on z/OS

2012-09-17 Thread Walter Marguccio
> From: Steve Goetze > If you would like to pursue the Hybrid Batch / Perl Linux suggestion, > here's a sample Co:Z Launcher job that runs a perl program Steve, terrific ... thanks. Walter Marguccio z/OS Systems Programmer BELENUS LOB Informatic GmbH Munich - Germany ---

Re: Creating .xls on z/OS

2012-09-17 Thread Scott Ford
Guys, Thanks for the clarification, also great idea and process Scott ford www.identityforge.com On Sep 17, 2012, at 12:10 PM, Steve Goetze wrote: > The example JCL that I posted offloads the Perl processing to a Linux > server - that part of the "hybrid batch" job doesn't run on z/OS. > > IBM

Re: Strings

2012-09-17 Thread David Crayford
I consider C++ a much safer language than C, wrt to both string handling and memory management. In fact, I find it difficult to fathom why anybody would still write C code when C++ is such a superior language. Strong typing alone is worth the effort. Memory leaks in C++ code are almost always due

Re: Creating .xls on z/OS

2012-09-17 Thread Scott Ford
Yep same here on Fedora 17.. Scott ford www.identityforge.com On Sep 17, 2012, at 12:41 PM, "McKown, John" wrote: > On z/OS, Perl is apparently "stabilized" at 5.8.7. But in the job shown > below, the perl code is running on the Linux system, not on z/OS. So you need > to know the Perl which

Re: Is there a correspondence between 64-bit IBM mainframes and PoOps editions levels?

2012-09-17 Thread Mike Schwab
On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 5:42 PM, John Gilmore wrote: > I doubt that what you want is available without caveats. > > The notices section of all recent versions of the publication you call > the PoOps---Why the 's'?--- and I prefer to call the PrOp contain some > such weasel language as > > > All f

Re: Creating .xls on z/OS

2012-09-17 Thread Ed Gould
Walter: One question that sort of bothers me on this given your request what program runs on Z/os that can read (and create the graphs) that the XLS file contains? It would seem to me that a simple .csv file could be created quite easily on Z/os and then sent to the appropriate platform for

Re: Is there a correspondence between 64-bit IBM mainframes and PoOps editions levels?

2012-09-17 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Mon, 17 Sep 2012 18:42:04 -0400, John Gilmore wrote: >I doubt that what you want is available without caveats. > >The notices section of all recent versions of the publication you call >the PoOps---Why the 's'?--- and I prefer to call the PrOp contain some >such weasel language as > > >All faci

Re: Is there a correspondence between 64-bit IBM mainframes and PoOps editions levels?

2012-09-17 Thread John Gilmore
I doubt that what you want is available without caveats. The notices section of all recent versions of the publication you call the PoOps---Why the 's'?--- and I prefer to call the PrOp contain some such weasel language as All facilities discussed in this publication are not necessarily availabl

Re: Is there a correspondence between 64-bit IBM mainframes and PoOps editions levels?

2012-09-17 Thread Farley, Peter x23353
Dave, The only IBM-resident page I ever found was this one on the VM side of their sites: http://www.vm.ibm.com/devpages/jelliott/cmosproc.html HTH Peter -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of David Cole Sent: Monday, Sep

Is there a correspondence between 64-bit IBM mainframes and PoOps editions levels?

2012-09-17 Thread David Cole
Hi All, For all of the various 64-bit mainframes that IBM has released, I'm trying to figure out which edition levels of the PoOps correspond to which machines. Does anyone know where I might find such a list? Thanks, Dave Cole REPLY TO: dbc...@colesoft.com ColeSoft Marketing

Re: IPCS help needed

2012-09-17 Thread Jim Mulder
IBM Mainframe Discussion List wrote on 09/17/2012 04:42:20 PM: > My SRB executing on pr 02 did the following in that order: > > PC entered POST to post an ecb a task was waiting on > then immediately on return, updated a count field in a data area, > decrementing it by one. > >

Re: IPCS help needed

2012-09-17 Thread Dave Day
Yea, I think I'm just about to get to that "oh" moment. Had a really unique one last week. Had never seen this before. My SRB executing on pr 02 did the following in that order: PC entered POST to post an ecb a task was waiting on then immediately on return, updated a count field in a

RCNVTCAT under z/OS 1.13

2012-09-17 Thread Dana Mitchell
We just upgraded our last LPAR to 1.13 over the weekend. I noticed today that the output from RCNVTCAT (from CBT FILE 542) appears to be a tiny bit different.For each entry instead of 'CAT(catalog.name' being generated, every entry is just 'CAT(CAT'. Looking at the REXX code, I can't fo

Re: IPCS help needed

2012-09-17 Thread Blaicher, Christopher Y.
Dave day said, "The runchain IPCS command showed me the error, I just have to figure out how I created the error in the 1st place." Isn't it always the case. How the heck did I do THAT? Then, once you see it, you have an embarrassed "oh". Chris Blaicher Senior Software Engineer, Software Serv

Fw: Is The Batch LSR Subsystem Dynamic?

2012-09-17 Thread Jim Mulder
>> Thanks! I'd already read the book and noted that Dynamic SSI came after >> BLSR. And so the BLSR book might not have been updated. > I am pretty sure that I submitted a request about 15 years ago >to update the next edition of the Batch LSR manual to say that >SETSSI can be used to active Batc

Re: IPCS help needed

2012-09-17 Thread Dave Day
Bill, Thanks for the info. Had already looked at the system trace table in the dump. The SRB had been dispatched. I found the IEAMSCHD entry, then a bunch of timer pops, and then finally the 5B abend. The runchain IPCS command showed me the error, I just have to figure out how I creat

Re: IPCS help needed

2012-09-17 Thread David Cole
And I believe that XDC can be used to trace code running in SRB mode. True that... [-dbc] Dave Cole REPLY TO: dbc...@colesoft.com ColeSoft Marketing WEB PAGE: http://www.colesoft.com 736 Fox Hollow RoadVOICE:540-456-8536 Afton, VA 22920FAX: 540-456-6658

Re: IPCS help needed

2012-09-17 Thread Bill Fairchild
More SRB debugging hints: The SRB routine may never have been dispatched, or was dispatched with a lot of other higher-priority activity (especially SRBs) running. This would depend on whether you SCHEDULEd your SRB as global or local and what other work was running on all the various processor

Re: IPCS help needed...thanks for the help.

2012-09-17 Thread Dave Day
Exactly what I needed. Thanks to all who responded. Definitely a broken chain. --Dave On 9/17/2012 12:40 PM, Steven St.Jean wrote: Dave, You want the IPCS RUNCHAIN command. Something like this: ===> ip runchain addr(entry1) link(x'offset') chain(limit) Where entry1 is the address

Re: DFSMSRmm cds reorg getting full and is it unwise to code secondary space for a cds?

2012-09-17 Thread Thomas Conley
On 9/17/2012 1:52 PM, Mike B wrote: Hi, I'm somewhat new to the storage game. I noticed that our RMM cds is showing at 84% utilization. Just so I don't get ambushed with any EDG2109I MASTER FILE IS FULL warnings, I want to be pre-prepared with reorg jcl should we need to respond. The RMM Primer d

Re: Rule error [Job: CJPDSCRE]

2012-09-17 Thread Lizette Koehler
Is there more details you can provide? Not sure what you are using, what platform (z/OS Level, product. etc..) And what kind of issue is: Find Rules In Errors Lizette > > >- Find Rules in Error > >Regards, > >John Donnelly --

Re: IPCS help needed

2012-09-17 Thread Mike Myers
Dave: You can use the RUNCHAIN command to run through your list and have it run a REXX exec on each list entry. The REXX exec can examine the data in the list item and produce (say) a message if it finds anything that you determine to be a discrepancy. ADDRESS is the location of your first l

Rule error [Job: CJPDSCRE]

2012-09-17 Thread John . P . Donnelly
- Find Rules in Error Regards, John Donnelly z/OS Systems Services Texas Instruments SVA 2900 Semiconductor Drive Santa Clara, CA 95051 Tel:(408)721-5640 Email: john.p.donne...@ti.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / arch

Re: IPCS help needed

2012-09-17 Thread Wayne Driscoll
You could write a REXX exec that uses the EVALUATE command to validate eye-catchers in your control blocks, then use the RUNCHAIN command to execute the exec. Or you could write the whole validation logic in REXX, including the chaining part. If you use RUNCHAIN, each time your exec gets driv

Re: IPCS help needed

2012-09-17 Thread van der Grijn, Bart (B)
It sounds like you're in need of RUNCHAIN. You can define the pointer and you can add a max number of link to go through. See the MVS IPCS commands manual. Bart -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Dave Day Sent: Monday, S

Re: IPCS help needed

2012-09-17 Thread Steven St.Jean
Dave, You want the IPCS RUNCHAIN command. Something like this: ===> ip runchain addr(entry1) link(x'offset') chain(limit) Where entry1 is the address of the first entry in the chain, offset is the hex offset into each entry of the forward pointer, and limit is the number of entries you want

Re: IPCS help needed

2012-09-17 Thread Sam Siegel
On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 10:22 AM, Dave Day wrote: > Looking at an SVC dump of my application. Dump was produced by my FRR > when the SRB that was running timed out. 05B abend. I set a timer when > the SRB initially kicks off. > > The logic in the SRB is processing some data areas, work

IPCS help needed

2012-09-17 Thread Dave Day
Looking at an SVC dump of my application. Dump was produced by my FRR when the SRB that was running timed out. 05B abend. I set a timer when the SRB initially kicks off. The logic in the SRB is processing some data areas, working its way from top to bottom in a linked/chained list

Re: Creating .xls on z/OS

2012-09-17 Thread McKown, John
On z/OS, Perl is apparently "stabilized" at 5.8.7. But in the job shown below, the perl code is running on the Linux system, not on z/OS. So you need to know the Perl which is installed on the Linux system. On my very current Fedora 17, I have Perl 5.14.2 installed. -- John McKown Systems Engi

Re: Creating .xls on z/OS

2012-09-17 Thread Steve Goetze
The example JCL that I posted offloads the Perl processing to a Linux server - that part of the "hybrid batch" job doesn't run on z/OS. IBM Ported Tools for z/OS Perl ( http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/z/os/zos/features/unix/ported/perl/index.html) supports Perl version 5.8.7. But, as is often the ca

Re: Creating .xls on z/OS

2012-09-17 Thread Scott Ford
Excellent, what version of Perl is supported on Unix System Services, v5 ? Scott ford www.identityforge.com On Sep 17, 2012, at 11:52 AM, Steve Goetze wrote: > If you would like to pursue the Hybrid Batch / Perl Linux suggestion, > here's a sample Co:Z Launcher job that runs a perl program to r

Re: C and LE -- when prepend userid on file names?

2012-09-17 Thread Charles Mills
> How do the C language and LE prepare a SVC99 I would *guess* that LE and/or the C library are prepending the userid before issuing SVC 99 -- I have no other explanation. > do you use the same files to include when compiling? Not sure what you mean. Do you mean "am I including exactly the sam

Re: Creating .xls on z/OS

2012-09-17 Thread Steve Goetze
If you would like to pursue the Hybrid Batch / Perl Linux suggestion, here's a sample Co:Z Launcher job that runs a perl program to read input data from a z/OS dataset and write the output in .XLS format to another dataset. The perl program itself is a PDS member on z/OS, so nothing is required on

Re: C and LE -- when prepend userid on file names?

2012-09-17 Thread Thomas David Rivers
Bernd Oppolzer wrote: I'd like to sum it up for those who don't know C on z/OS: to read a member of a partioned data set, you have at least the following possibilities: a) specify the full name (DSN + member) in apostrophes on the fopen function call b) without apostrophs, then the TSO prefix

Re: Creating .xls on z/OS

2012-09-17 Thread Sam Siegel
On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 6:30 AM, Walter Marguccio < walter_marguc...@yahoo.com> wrote: > From: "McKown, John" > > > I would *STRONGLY* suggest that you try to get your management to allow > you to install Co:Z Hybrid Batch > John, > I wasn't unaware of Co:Z Hybrid Batch. However, we have already

Re: Creating .xls on z/OS

2012-09-17 Thread Sam Siegel
On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 2:09 AM, Walter Marguccio < walter_marguc...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > From: "McKown, John" > > > > Supposedly, but I haven't actually tried. Look at: > > > http://poi.apache.org/ > > as always, thanks to everybody for your valuable input. > I'll try to answer to some of the q

Re: Creating .xls on z/OS

2012-09-17 Thread McKown, John
LibreOffice (oocalc) can save in .xls or .xlsx. And I think that you can "script" it to read in a .csv, then apply the appropriate formats. Or you can make a "template" LibreOffice spreadsheet with all the formatting and graphs. Then write a script to open the template, import the data from a .c

Re: Creating .xls on z/OS

2012-09-17 Thread McKown, John
That's OK. My autocorrecting read adapters saw what you meant to write. Of course, like Word's autocorrect, my autocorrect is sometimes in error. But then semantic check usually raises the "WTF?" flag and I reread. -- John McKown Systems Engineer IV IT Administrative Services Group HealthMark

Re: Creating .xls on z/OS

2012-09-17 Thread Walter Marguccio
> I wasn't unaware of Co:Z Hybrid Batch. "I was unaware ... ", should be ... sorry, brain cells not yet online, although is late afternoon, for me.   Walter Marguccio z/OS Systems Programmer BELENUS LOB Informatic GmbH Munich - Germany

Re: Creating .xls on z/OS

2012-09-17 Thread Walter Marguccio
From: "McKown, John" > I would *STRONGLY* suggest that you try to get your management to allow you > to install Co:Z Hybrid Batch John, I wasn't unaware of Co:Z Hybrid Batch. However, we have already Co:Z Batch implemented on every LPARs. Still, I need a .xls generator on the Linux side. Wal

Re: Creating .xls on z/OS

2012-09-17 Thread McKown, John
If you are going to "offload" the work to Linux or even MS-Windows, I would *STRONGLY* suggest that you try to get your management to allow you to install Co:Z Hybrid Batch. It is cost-free, if you don't want any support. If you must have support, that is a cost option. Co:Z Hybrid Batch is a ba

Re: C and LE -- when prepend userid on file names?

2012-09-17 Thread Elardus Engelbrecht
Charles Mills wrote: >I guess I AM losing my mind. No, you are NOT losing your mind. I'm following your excellent thread, but I am wondering about one thing: >If I had my druthers the C library would not be doing me this "favor" at all. >If I issue fopen("FOO.BAR", then try to open FOO.BAR, no

DFHSM ARECOVER list dsns backed-up

2012-09-17 Thread af dc
Hello, I need to know a way to list all dsns backuped-up on abar run. I tried several ARECOVER cmds with VERIFY and i couldn't any result. HSEND WAIT ARECOVER - DATASETNAME(XX.BKP.abar0717.C.C01V0001) - VOLUMES(F11024) VERIFY this cmd didn't list anything. Can you pls give me a

Re: Creating .xls on z/OS

2012-09-17 Thread Walter Marguccio
> From: "McKown, John" > Supposedly, but I haven't actually tried. Look at: http://poi.apache.org/ as always, thanks to everybody for your valuable input. I'll try to answer to some of the questions which have been posed : we don't have SAS, nor DB2; .csv is considered not acceptable becau