SV: SV: SV: Article for the boss: COBOL will outlive us all

2013-02-20 Thread Thomas Berg
-Ursprungligt meddelande- Från: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] För Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) Skickat: den 20 februari 2013 01:20 Till: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Ämne: Re: SV: SV: Article for the boss: COBOL will outlive us all In

Re: Low priority workload

2013-02-20 Thread Werner Kuehnel
This manual micro-managment is exactly what we do, by REXX, though. The problem is that batch gets unlimited resources as long as the lpar is not capped and chases your lpar into capping. So we try to avoid capping during online periods (07:00 - 19:00) by assigning batch jobs dynamically (by

Re: XCF transport classes

2013-02-20 Thread Kirk Hubbard
I just finished an XCF Transport Class evaluation. Our largest class was 40K and we found we were having a fair amount of message degradation because we have messages bigger than 40k and the resizing was slowing things down. At the recommendation of the Parallel Sysplex Best Practices guide,

Problem with SYSEVENT QVS

2013-02-20 Thread jan de decker
Hi List, I am struggling with the SYSEVENT QVS macro. Coding: MVC QVSLEN,=AL4(QVS_LEN) LAR1,QVS SYSEVENT QVS Bottom of the program IRAQVS QVS=YES, + DSECT=NO And included the CVT macro CVT

Re: Problem with SYSEVENT QVS

2013-02-20 Thread Binyamin Dissen
Did you check your listing for the CVT macro? On Wed, 20 Feb 2013 13:47:41 +0100 jan de decker jan.je...@gmail.com wrote: :Hi List, : : :I am struggling with the SYSEVENT QVS macro. : : :Coding: : :MVC QVSLEN,=AL4(QVS_LEN) :LAR1,QVS : SYSEVENT QVS : :Bottom of the

USPTO does another goodie.

2013-02-20 Thread John McKown
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1Sect2=HITOFFd=PALLp=1u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htmr=1f=Gl=50s1=8,380,676.PN.OS=PN/8,380,676RS=PN/8,380,676 quote Automatic deletion of temporary files *Abstract* Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products feature

Re: USPTO does another goodie.

2013-02-20 Thread Steve Conway
What an innovation - creating a file with an expiration date. ::smh:: I can't even pretend to be surprised... Steven F. Conway, CISSP LA Systems z/OS Systems Support Phone: 703.295.1926 steve_con...@ao.uscourts.gov From: John McKown john.archie.mck...@gmail.com To:

Re: USPTO does another goodie.

2013-02-20 Thread Ron Wells
I am going to pat. a gas tank ... From: John McKown john.archie.mck...@gmail.com To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Date: 02/20/2013 07:26 AM Subject:USPTO does another goodie. Sent by:IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU

Re: XCF transport classes

2013-02-20 Thread Leonardo Vaz
Thank you for the info Kirk! :-) -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Kirk Hubbard Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2013 7:26 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: XCF transport classes I just finished an XCF Transport

Re: Problem with SYSEVENT QVS

2013-02-20 Thread Binyamin Dissen
Did you look at your LISTING? Might your source have an END statement before it? What do you see in the XREF for the CVT fields? On Wed, 20 Feb 2013 14:34:41 +0100 jan de decker j...@jedsp.net wrote: :Hi Binyamin, : : :Yes, at the bottom of the program I have : : : CVT

Re: Problem with SYSEVENT QVS

2013-02-20 Thread Leonardo Vaz
I am by no means an assembler expert, but are you sure you should use the word CVT? It is pointing to the DSECT, right? I think that if the problem was with the expansion of the macro, the ASMA044E would happen in the previous line (as CVTPTR is part of the macro): 374 58F0 0010

Re: Problem with SYSEVENT QVS

2013-02-20 Thread Leonardo Vaz
Sorry, forgot to put this in the other e-mail. If you want the CVT address all you need is: L Rxx,16(0,0) Since the CVT is always at this same position. Regards, Leonardo Vaz -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of

Re: Debug Tool: No source

2013-02-20 Thread Donald Likens
Thank you. It worked... It sure helps to know what you are looking for because now I found it in the users guide now. Thanks a lot! -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to

Re: USPTO does another goodie.

2013-02-20 Thread Tom Marchant
On Wed, 20 Feb 2013 07:52:40 -0600, Ron Wells wrote: I am going to pat. a gas tank ... Method and apparatus for storing and transporting highly flammable liquids and delivering said liquids to an external apparatus with a mechanism to allow for the introduction of additional liquids to the

Re: Dualcase vs monocase. Was: Article for the boss...

2013-02-20 Thread John Gilmore
Shmuel is right, and this thread is symptomatic. Before dual-case devices became available the use of single-case ones was clearly defensible because inescapable. The defense of the continued use of single-case ones once dual-case replcements had become available, notionally on economic grounds,

Re: Load To Global with PC_cp (OT)

2013-02-20 Thread John Gilmore
von Neumann, as many of you presumably know, created working models of self-reproducing entities, which do so at random, asexually, in an agitated pea soup of spare parts. Sequences like egg-chicken-egg (or, pace Gerhard, chicken-egg-chicken) have also been modeled, as have explicitly sexual

DFSORT

2013-02-20 Thread Ron Thomas
Hello. I have 2 files of 80 bytes length and need to compare using joinkeys to get the matched and unmatched records in each of 2 files. The issue is data that need to be joined is a binary data. The picture clause is s9(09) comp which is the customer number and this is the 1'st field in the

Re: IGD17271I under ISPF but only sometimes

2013-02-20 Thread Art Gutowski
On Thu, 14 Feb 2013 18:31:40 -0600, Jim Mooney jmoo...@princesscruises.com wrote: Can anyone explain why? Does ispf suppress informational msgs, while the FileAid application does not? (I know... next step call the vendor) but thx for any input, Jim, It is not that ISPF suppresses the

Re: Problem with SYSEVENT QVS

2013-02-20 Thread Gerhard Postpischil
On 2/20/2013 7:47 AM, jan de decker wrote: 378 0 320+ L 15,CVTSRM-CVT(,15) ASMA044E Undefined symbol - CVT The base of the CVT is named CVTMAP, not CVT. IBM tends to be extremely inconsistent about naming. Gerhard Postpischil Bradford, Vermont

Re: Problem with SYSEVENT QVS

2013-02-20 Thread John McKown
From a quick look at the CVT macro, if you specify DSECT=YES, then you should have a CVT DSECT generated for you. On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 10:58 AM, Gerhard Postpischil gerh...@valley.netwrote: On 2/20/2013 7:47 AM, jan de decker wrote: 378 0 320+ L

Re: Problem with SYSEVENT QVS

2013-02-20 Thread Leonardo Vaz
I think what Gerhard meant is that Jan should have L 15,CVTSRM-CVTMAP(,15) instead of L 15,CVTSRM-CVT(,15) -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of John McKown Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2013 12:06 PM To:

Re: Problem with SYSEVENT QVS

2013-02-20 Thread Richard Peurifoy
On 2/20/2013 11:21 AM, Leonardo Vaz wrote: I think what Gerhard meant is that Jan should have L 15,CVTSRM-CVTMAP(,15) instead of L 15,CVTSRM-CVT(,15) This is being generated by the SYSEVENT macro, and is therefore under IBM's control. -- Richard

Re: DFSORT

2013-02-20 Thread Massimo Biancucci
Hello, I think there's not difference if the keys are binary or not, anyway could you please give us more hints about the join ?   Are the keys unique in both files or not ?   Could you provide a print screen of both files ?   Regards. Massimo Da: Ron Thomas

Re: Problem with SYSEVENT QVS solved

2013-02-20 Thread jan de decker
Thanks everybody for helping me out In the end it came down to this: For my application I need a kind of CVT and CVTX called LACVT and LACVTX. In one of the macro's I coded a labeled USING with CVT as the label for my own LACVT. This was a hard one. Again, thanks to you all. Best

Re: USPTO does another goodie.

2013-02-20 Thread Mike Schwab
Prior work: OS/360 1964 (and successors) Expiration Date field. On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 7:46 AM, Steve Conway steve_con...@ao.uscourts.gov wrote: What an innovation - creating a file with an expiration date. ::smh:: I can't even pretend to be surprised... Steven F. Conway, CISSP -- Mike

Re: Dualcase vs monocase. Was: Article for the boss...

2013-02-20 Thread Joel C. Ewing
On 02/20/2013 08:58 AM, John Gilmore wrote: Shmuel is right, and this thread is symptomatic. Before dual-case devices became available the use of single-case ones was clearly defensible because inescapable. The defense of the continued use of single-case ones once dual-case replcements had

Re: DFSORT

2013-02-20 Thread Sri h Kolusu
Ron, The JOINKEYS feature indeed treats the keys to compare as binary. If both files have keys in binary format, you can compare them straight away without any normalization. However if you have 1 key in binary and the other key in ZD/PD/UFF/SFF format then you need to normalize them. You can

Re: USPTO does another goodie.

2013-02-20 Thread Walt Farrell
On Wed, 20 Feb 2013 07:26:41 -0600, John McKown john.archie.mck...@gmail.com wrote: So, just put an expiration time as part of a file name and you can patent it? These people have their head where the sun don't shine. OK, maybe nobody else has done this _exact_ thing. But, really? Of course, in

Secure Service Delivery

2013-02-20 Thread Paul Gilmartin
With permission of the author, David Boyes of Sine Nomine, I'm copying this, largely unedited. CHANGE ALL 'z/VM' 'z/OS' and it's mostly relevant. Some feedback: Good news, your z/VM systems support secure FTP (RFC 4217). The FTPS functions don't work without some kind of certificate

Re: Dualcase vs monocase. Was: Article for the boss...

2013-02-20 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
jwgli...@gmail.com (John Gilmore) writes: They opposed providing every programmer with his or her own terminal: terminals were not needed all the time; they could be shared, as keypunches had been. They opposed the use of color terminals, describing them as costly frills. They opposed the

Re: Load To Global with PC_cp (OT)

2013-02-20 Thread John Gilmore
Does this list really need more traffic cops telling others what to post? John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the

Re: Load To Global with PC_cp (OT)

2013-02-20 Thread Don Imbriale
Does this list really need to devolve into yet another extremely off-topic topic? On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 11:15 AM, Gerhard Postpischil gerh...@valley.netwrote: On 2/19/2013 7:54 AM, Peter Relson wrote: Since the chicken and egg situation was (correctly) mentioned, A chicken and egg

Re: USPTO does another goodie.

2013-02-20 Thread John Gilmore
And there are situations in which such a network-oriented scheme is an excellent idea. I do have a quibble. I suspect that an implementation by figuring out the most recent modification date/time among all the chunks of the file, across all the relevant servers, and comparing that with the

Re: USPTO does another goodie.

2013-02-20 Thread John Gilmore
Steve, I think that I will instead treat IBM-MAIN as a species of disclosure journal. That way anyone who wants to circumvent a patent on the original notion will be able to use my public-domain one to do so. My idea is not of course a really new one. In the old days---I have no notion how

Re: SV: SV: SV: Article for the boss: COBOL will outlive us all

2013-02-20 Thread Leslie Turriff
On Wednesday 20 February 2013 02:15:51 Thomas Berg wrote: It's not the features that are bad in those instances, but rather the syntax for requesting the features; that syntax is about as far from the purported English-like character of COBOL as you can get. I can't immediately see that

ICSF IMP-PKA keys

2013-02-20 Thread Frank Swarbrick
Is there anyone out there who uses IMP-PKA keys and does not use the Trusted Key Entry (TKE) workstation, and would be willing to answer a few questions? Thanks, Frank -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access

OT: Solaris 7 Software

2013-02-20 Thread Lizette Koehler
I am not sure where is the best place to post. But I thought I would start here. I have a need for the Solaris 7 (yes about 1990 something) software for a box I have. I have a license for the Solaris but not the software. If someone has a copy I can copy or acquire, that would be great.

Re: SV: SV: SV: Article for the boss: COBOL will outlive us all

2013-02-20 Thread Frank Swarbrick
For what its worth, some of those you've mentioned are either IBM extensions, Micro Focus extensions, or both.  Specifically, all of the COMP[UTATIONAL]-# usages.  COMPUTATIONAL-X is Micro Focus.  FUNCTION-POINTER and PROCEDURE-POINTER are IBM, which MF followed.  PROGRAM-POINTER is COBOL 2000.

Re: SV: SV: SV: Article for the boss: COBOL will outlive us all

2013-02-20 Thread John Gilmore
Some things improved when the future of COBOL was wrested from Codasyl, and some did not. We still have the proliferation of distinctions among entities that ought not to be distinguished, distinctions without substantive differences. The three entities pointer procedure-pointer program-pointer

Re: SV: SV: SV: Article for the boss: COBOL will outlive us all

2013-02-20 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Wed, 20 Feb 2013 21:19:16 -0500, John Gilmore wrote: pointer procedure-pointer program-pointer are the poster children for this dubious practice. I know what the differences among tgherm are, but if pointer had not been misconceived in the beginning they would have been unnecessary. (There

Debug Tool with Subprograms

2013-02-20 Thread Donald Likens
I am having many problems with the IBM debug tool but what is driving me nuts right now. This is a little difficult for me to explain so hopefully someone will remember the old TSO TEST commands. What I want to do is (using old TSO Test terminology) qualify a at label goto label2 qualify b at

Re: Debug Tool with Subprograms

2013-02-20 Thread Miklos Szigetvari
Hi If you re searching for something similar to TEST , with the HLASM Toolkit IDF you are better. as with the Debug Tool On 21.02.2013 05:00, Donald Likens wrote: I am having many problems with the IBM debug tool but what is driving me nuts right now. This is a little difficult for me