Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote:
Ok. If you say so. What was the first IBM utility?
I don't know[1] what the first IBM utility was that did a dynamic allocation,
but it wasn't IEHMOVE, because IEHMOVE did no such thing[2]. IEHMOVE was
documented as requiring a DD statement with unit, volume and
In fact Shmuel is, as so often, quite wrong.
IEHMOVE did require a DD statement for the target, move-to dataset;
and I did not, of course, say that it did not.
It did not, however, move the source dataset directly to this target.
Instead it allocated storage for a very different
In
CAE1XxDHzjQRW9FomT+2W_+ZM7B4MoT=iynf3jyrgj5xa0wh...@mail.gmail.com,
on 09/23/2013
at 06:09 AM, John Gilmore jwgli...@gmail.com said:
Instead it allocated storage for a very different
.,, target dataset dynamically.
I believe that most posters in this thread
John Gilmore wrote:
IEHMOVE did require a DD statement for the target, move-to dataset; and I did
not, of course, say that it did not.
It did not, however, move the source dataset directly to this target. Instead
it allocated storage for a very different
.,, target
Enuff already guys.
There's no shortage of egos on this list, but let's keep it so we can all take
something out of it.
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From: Shane Ginnane ibm-m...@tpg.com.au
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Subject: Pissing contest(s)
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2013 05:37:46 -0500
Enuff already guys.
There's no
On 9/23/2013 6:33 AM, Elardus Engelbrecht wrote:
Interesting. I think I also observed failed moves, but can't remember the fine
details. What RC and messages did it gave in such cases?
The only error, but not RC, I remember vividly is the case where a PDS
didn't have enough directory blocks
Adjacent 01 levels have been used to allocate storage larger than the maximum
allowed by COBOL.
On Sat, 21 Sep 2013 20:18:53 -0300 Clark Morris cfmpub...@ns.sympatico.ca
wrote:
:On 20 Sep 2013 08:12:42 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main John Gilmore
:wrote:
:
:The idea of eliminating unreferenced
Just for fun, here is a little history of crypto for the mainframe systems.
1977 – IBM 3845 DES encryption unit (channel attached)
1979 – IBM 3848 DES encryption unit (channel attached) - Faster, adds Triple-DES
1989 - IBM 4753 channel-attached crypto unit - uses 4755 crypto adapter
internally,
Hi Todd,
Are you saying that the Redbook SG24-7848-00 System z Crypto andTKE Update is
just plain wrong ?
Actually, I cannot figure out what that text from the RedBook is trying to say
:-)
All protected-mode keys are stored as CCA secure key tokens, wrapped by the
master key of the Crypto
Gerhard Postpischil wrote:
The only error, but not RC, I remember vividly is the case where a PDS didn't
have enough directory blocks to add another member, did the add to the
directory anyway, causing the last name to be dropped from the directory. This
was particularly annoying when doing a
Gerhard is right in the sense that the asterisks-and-dots DSNAME could
sometimes be shorter. There were, however, circumstances in which
multiple-asterisk prefixes, infixes, and suffixes did occur.
I suspect that his homegrown utility scratched instances of such
datasets rapidly enough to make
Today, our mainframe team has both Scheduled Unscheduled downtime in a
single downtime SLA.
Does your company have separate SLO / SLA's for Scheduled / Unscheduled
downtime?
The information contained in this electronic communication and any document
attached hereto or transmitted herewith
On Mon, 23 Sep 2013 09:08:25 -0400, Gerhard Postpischil wrote:
...
And I think Mr. Gilmore had too many asterisks. The pattern I recall was
to prepend *. until a unique name resulted (IIRC, giving things like
*.*.*.jobname.other). I had a home-grown utility, run daily, that
scratched temporary
All,
I was doing some rexx work in batch on z/OS... attempting to use
EXECIO * DISKR INPUTDD (Finis Stem in.
FREE F(INPUTDD)
Where the INPUTDD was
//INPUTDD DD DSN=SOME.PDS(MEMBER)
and the results were very strange (multiple lines concatenated, seemed to
be picking up a prior member in the
Hi Todd,
Are you saying that the Redbook SG24-7848-00 System z Crypto andTKE Update
is just plain wrong ?
Actually, I cannot figure out what that text from the RedBook is trying to
say :-)
OK, I looked at the RedBook and I see what it's talking about now. It's sort
of a halfway way of
In case you were not aware, there is a newsgroup for TSO-REXX
If you have not done so, you can join here. Just go to the bottom of the
Webpage
http://www2.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?TSO-REXX
what are the attributers? Lrecl, blksize, etc...
Did you check the original PDS to see if that member
I love it ...2 points Richard ...
Scott J Ford
Software Engineer
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From: Richard Pinion rpin...@netscape.com
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Sent: Monday, September 23, 2013 8:47 AM
Subject: Re: Pissing contest(s)
Do the movie
IMHO that is not pedantic, just clarifying. In similar circumstances I have
advocated (and implemented) using the LE storage obtain and release mechanisms
and a LINKAGE section table definition with OCCURS 1 to utilize as much
storage as needed for the business purpose (millions of rows in one
So does anyone wonder where the phrase came from anyhow? Were there such
contests in the distant past? Was it an ancient Greek olympic event?
What? Certainly seems like good material for Monty Python.
John Mattson, Epson America desk: 562-290-4163 cell:310-210-9152
From: Scott Ford
Historically, the use of a DSN{AME]= value like
*.*.GUBBINS
was not possible for an ordinary application programmer, whose JCL
would have been rejected as in error if it had contained such a DSN=
value. Such practices were once common for member names too. IBM for
long distributed CICS
What in.0 in.1 etc. Holds?
בתאריך 23 בספט 2013 17:38, מאת Lizette Koehler stars...@mindspring.com:
In case you were not aware, there is a newsgroup for TSO-REXX
If you have not done so, you can join here. Just go to the bottom of the
Webpage
http://www2.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?TSO-REXX
Sounds English to me ..lol
Scott J Ford
Software Engineer
http://www.identityforge.com/
From: John Mattson john_matt...@ea.epson.com
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Sent: Monday, September 23, 2013 11:06 AM
Subject: Re: Pissing contest(s)
So does
Suspect you have issue with PDS...although maybe directory is lla frozen,
prior data?
Below code works seq or pds(mem)
/* REXX */
ALLOC SHR FILE(INPUT) DATASET('UKLANRX.JCL.CNTL(SYSGEN)')
EXECIO * DISKR INPUT (STEM INPUT. FINIS)
FREE FILE(INPUT)
CNTR = 1
DO WHILE CNTR = INPUT.0
SAY INPUT.CNTR
I think you meant UK. :-) And as pissed and pissed off are movable
UKUS feasts :-) here goes...
Think urinals. :-)
You asked for it. :-) So here's some toilet humour. :-)
Cheers, Martin
Martin Packer,
zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator,
Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM
Agreed!
In a pub in England, to get pissed means to get drunk. Right, Rob? :-)
In that case, it would be a drinking contest. Much better imagery!
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On Mon, 23 Sep 2013 10:54:44 -0500, Donald Likens dlik...@infosecinc.com
wrote:
WebSphere Application Server supplies some of its information in its SMF
records in Unicode format. Is there a facility available to convert Unicode to
EBCDIC?
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WebSphere Application Server supplies some of its information in its SMF
records in Unicode format. Is there a facility available to convert Unicode to
EBCDIC?
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WebSphere Application Server supplies some of its information in its SMF
records in Unicode format. Is there a facility available to convert Unicode to
EBCDIC?
Which EBCDIC code page would you like?
Check out Unicode Services User's Guide and
Although some may disapprove of our practice, it has been in place for
decades. Our SLAs apply to unscheduled outages. As long as an outage is
scheduled, approved, advertized to affected clients, and completed on
time, we are not dinged for it. Of course we try to minimize scheduled
outages,
The SAS Language (and of course, MXG Software that processes every SMF record
on the face
of the earth, and written in the SAS Language) has NO problem inputting Unicode
data and
storing either as ASCII or EBCDIC characters.
And it's not ONLY WEBSPHERE SMF that has UNICODE.
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Herbert W.
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On 9/23/2013 11:07 AM, John Gilmore wrote:
Historically, the use of a DSN{AME]= value like
*.*.GUBBINS
was not possible for an ordinary application programmer, whose JCL
would have been rejected as in error if it had contained such a DSN=
value.
Sorry to disagree, but application
On 9/23/2013 10:55 AM, Clark Morris wrote:
On 23 Sep 2013 06:09:02 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote:
Adjacent 01 levels have been used to allocate storage larger than the maximum
allowed by COBOL.
With the more recent versions of COBOL is the practice still necessary
or can the
On 23 Sep 2013 09:23:00 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote:
If you mean a program, then the UNIX iconv command can do that. There is
also the iconv set of C language subroutines if you want to write your
own.
http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/edclb1c0/3.440
On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 11:44 AM, Steve Comstock
st...@trainersfriend.comwrote:
On 9/23/2013 10:22 AM, John McKown wrote:
If you mean a program, then the UNIX iconv command can do that. There is
also the iconv set of C language subroutines if you want to write your
own.
Rob:
why do you want to free it ...its not clear why you need to ...
If it was allocated dynamically or a file for temporary usage, 'yes' free it ,
but allocated via a '// DD ' ...odd
Scott J Ford
Software Engineer
http://www.identityforge.com/
On Mon, 23 Sep 2013 08:03:40 -0700, Skip Robinson jo.skip.robin...@sce.com
wrote:
Although some may disapprove of our practice, it has been in place for
decades. Our SLAs apply to unscheduled outages. As long as an outage is
scheduled, approved, advertized to affected clients, and completed on
On 23 Sep 2013 06:09:02 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote:
Adjacent 01 levels have been used to allocate storage larger than the maximum
allowed by COBOL.
With the more recent versions of COBOL is the practice still necessary
or can the tables be large enough? Given the existence of
On 9/23/2013 10:27 AM, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
Nowadays, might a viable practice be to scratch anything
that's neither catalogued nor allocated?
I didn't want to write a monograph, but keep the response brief. The
scratch program in question considers the (installation's)
classification of the
On 9/23/2013 10:22 AM, John McKown wrote:
If you mean a program, then the UNIX iconv command can do that. There is
also the iconv set of C language subroutines if you want to write your
own.
http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/edclb1c0/3.440
On 9/23/2013 12:02 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
On Mon, 23 Sep 2013 10:44:04 -0600, Steve Comstock wrote:
On 9/23/2013 10:22 AM, John McKown wrote:
If you mean a program, then the UNIX iconv command can do that. There is
also the iconv set of C language subroutines if you want to write your
own.
I was not using the word 'ordinary' in a pejorative or even
deprecatory way. I intended only to exclude very savvy people writing
application code in assembly language and their like.
I was at least half-aware of the DOS-compatibility quote-framed DSNAME
value loophole, but if I remember
On Mon, 23 Sep 2013 10:44:04 -0600, Steve Comstock wrote:
On 9/23/2013 10:22 AM, John McKown wrote:
If you mean a program, then the UNIX iconv command can do that. There is
also the iconv set of C language subroutines if you want to write your
own.
We just configured and started two OpenSSH servers on different hosts. I have
been able to logon to both SHH servers using PuTTY, we can initiate sftp from
the PuTTY session and it works okay to transfer files. We are now trying to
get SFTP to work from a batch job but it fails with RC=255
You'll have to harvest the host public key from both servers and store
them in one of the files identified below.
Depending on whether the servers have RSA or DSA host public keys you
might have to play with the ssh-keyscan command to get the right type key.
ssh-keyscan -t rsa (or dsa)
Attributes were recfm=FB, lrecl=120 PDS.
There were no I/O errors. I was able to copy the member via 3.3 to the
sequential file without issue. Also, viewed it numerous times.
I will have to allocate my own copy and re-check it.
As for the FREE... no harm no foul. If I had done an ALLOCATE
FYI - Slides and a recording of our June 12, 2012 webinar: IBM Ported
Tools for z/OS OpenSSH: Key Authentication is available on our web site:
http://dovetail.com/webinars.html
(this is part 1 of a two part series; part 2 is Using Key Rings )
Kirk Wolf
Dovetailed Technologies
Yep agreed, lived in Europe so I get it ...but still fun ...life is t short
not to have fun ...
Scott J Ford
Software Engineer
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For official character conversion in assembler, see the IBM manual z/OS
Unicode Services User's Guide and Reference which documents use of their
unicode services.
Jon Perryman.
From: Steve Comstock st...@trainersfriend.com
Actually, COBOL has the builtin
If you mean a program, then the UNIX iconv command can do that. There is
also the iconv set of C language subroutines if you want to write your
own.
http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/edclb1c0/3.440
http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/cbcpg1c0/8.6.3
Tom,
Could you share the SHARE presentations you have given on COBOL V5?
I just sent them over, they should be live soon at:
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=3Dswg21634215
'Soon' meaning that more than a week later these presentations are still no=
t there.
Our web people took
Tom,
Here is my 2cents worth
Yes it is do-able. However, here are the challenges
1) How many applications have unique LOADLIBs?
2) What STCs are those libraries tied to - DB2 Stored Procedures, MQ STC, DB2
STC, CICS STC, IMS STC.
3) How many loadlibs need to be replicated from PDS to PDS/E?
On Mon, 23 Sep 2013 14:48:32 -0500, Kirk Wolf wrote:
FYI - Slides and a recording of our June 12, 2012 webinar: IBM Ported
Tools for z/OS OpenSSH: Key Authentication is available on our web site:
http://dovetail.com/webinars.html
(this is part 1 of a two part series; part 2 is Using Key Rings
On Mon, 23 Sep 2013 12:17:20 -0700, Tom Ross wrote:
...
Step 6 when all code has been moved, the only programs in PDS should be
unused, and the PDS datasets could be deleted
If this plan was used, the COBOL V5 PDSE requirement would not be disruptive.
My question, is it do-able?
I believe
Gil,
Agreed; this is really stupid - but it has always worked that way.
Kirk Wolf
Dovetailed Technologies
http://dovetail.com
On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 3:37 PM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.comwrote:
On Mon, 23 Sep 2013 14:48:32 -0500, Kirk Wolf wrote:
FYI - Slides and a recording of our
On 9/23/2013 2:23 PM, Tom Ross wrote:
Tom,
Could you share the SHARE presentations you have given on COBOL V5?
I just sent them over, they should be live soon at:
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=3Dswg21634215
'Soon' meaning that more than a week later these presentations are
Lose the 3D,
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21634215
Bob
Steve Comstock wrote:
On 9/23/2013 2:23 PM, Tom Ross wrote:
Tom,
Could you share the SHARE presentations you have given on COBOL V5?
I just sent them over, they should be live soon at:
.and this is why NSA stopped monitoring us.
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On Sep 23, 2013, at 10:39 AM, John Mattson john_matt...@ea.epson.com wrote:
With all the heavy seriousness these days, a little levity is in order.
On 9/23/2013 3:12 PM, Bob Rutledge wrote:
Lose the 3D,
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21634215
Bob
Thanks, Bob. That did it.
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z/OS Unicode Services is an AWESOME facility but there is a little bit of a
learning curve (or coding curve if there is such a thing). It will certainly
handle whatever you need, assuming assembler is viable option for you.
Unicode is not a character set (or format) -- it's a whole family of
In Australia piss is also a slang word for alcohol. We're having a barbie
Sunday arvo. Just bring your own piss.
On 23/09/2013, at 11:24 PM, Richards, Robert B. robert.richa...@opm.gov
wrote:
Agreed!
In a pub in England, to get pissed means to get drunk. Right, Rob? :-)
In that
On Mon, 23 Sep 2013 16:56:46 -0700, Charles Mills wrote:
Unicode is not a character set (or format) -- it's a whole family of
character sets. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode. If it's UTF-8 then you
can do a 98% job if you just treat it as ASCII. If it's UTF-16 or UCS-2 you
can do a 98%
Yer right. It's a single character set (all the characters in the world! --
well, not quite: Jurchen, Nü Shu, Tangut, and Linear A are working their way
through the approval process; Klingon is ineligible because of lack of real
world use) and a variety of ways of encoding them. Okay?
It's not
On 23 September 2013 20:18, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com wrote:
On Mon, 23 Sep 2013 16:56:46 -0700, Charles Mills wrote:
There is actually a Unicode EBCDIC (UTF-EBCDIC) but it's pretty obscure.
Not as obscure as it deserves to be.
Never miss a chance on this one, do you Gil... As you
The first time I encountered something like this phrase, circa 1950,
it took the form of
Don't get into a pissing match with a skunk!
I suspect that the phrase and its variants have multiple etymologies,
with much semantic cross contamination among them.
John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA
Paul Gilmartin's opinions about EBCDIC are not always or necessarily
wrong in detail, but they are wholly predictable.
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On 9/23/13, John Gilmore jwgli...@gmail.com wrote:
Paul Gilmartin's opinions about EBCDIC are not always or necessarily
wrong in detail, but they are wholly predictable.
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On Mon, 23 Sep 2013 21:23:04 -0400, Tony Harminc wrote:
Not as obscure as it deserves to be.
Never miss a chance on this one, do you Gil... As you know, I think
UTF-EBCDIC was a great idea, and can't understand how it failed to
catch on. Maybe there's just not much call for invoking legacy
On 24/09/2013 10:43 AM, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
It doesn't say (but perhaps TR # 16 does) which EBCDIC code page
(or for that matter, which flavor of ASCII -- ISO8859-??) is used.
This could be chaotic. And the dreadful LF-NEL pitfall lurks.
ASCII suffers similar problems; else why would we have
On Tue, 24 Sep 2013 11:18:30 +0800, David Crayford wrote:
The C++ committee wanted to deprecate trigraphs in the last standard
http://tinyurl.com/n3nas3u. EBCDIC was the only tangible reason
for keeping them alive. I've lost count of the amount of times I've had
a C/C++ analysis tool choke
David,
I like that...he someone says take a piss, it's more like leave one
Scott ford
www.identityforge.com
from my IPAD
'Infinite wisdom through infinite means'
On Sep 23, 2013, at 8:01 PM, David Crayford dcrayf...@gmail.com wrote:
In Australia piss is also a slang word for alcohol.
On 23 September 2013 21:56, John Gilmore jwgli...@gmail.com wrote:
I suspect that the phrase and its variants have multiple etymologies,
with much semantic cross contamination among them.
Indeed. I had imagined that any actual such contest would be engaged
in only by small boys, and that the
On 9/23/2013 3:15 PM, John Gilmore wrote:
I was not using the word 'ordinary' in a pejorative or even
deprecatory way. I intended only to exclude very savvy people writing
application code in assembly language and their like.
The problem is that ordinary is extremely subjective, depending not
That's it, exactly.
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I have been asked to take on the task of remediating the health checks for
sysplex. I have been given a list of some of the health checks that come up
as exceptions on designated LPARs. Any suggestions?
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