Re: Is there currently a way to access MongoDB from z/OS LE languages?

2013-10-24 Thread Rob Schramm
With a JDBC driver and a bit of JAVA code..you could use the COBOL/JAVA procedure BCDBATCH to help tie the two together. Did a quick scan and there appear to be at least few JDBC drivers. Rob Rob Schramm Senior Systems Consultant Imperium Group On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 1:18 AM, David Crayford

Re: GDG question

2013-10-24 Thread Rob Schramm
Phil, AFAIK, the whole GDG assignment only happens once.. during initial creation. MODing will change the size of the data set.. not the GVoo number(s). With SMS a new GDG entry gets rolled in at step end. Most everything you need to know is in "Chapter 29. Processing Generation Data Groups

Re: Is there currently a way to access MongoDB from z/OS LE languages?

2013-10-24 Thread David Crayford
On 25/10/2013 12:28 PM, Tony Harminc wrote: On 24 October 2013 23:49, Ze'ev Atlas wrote: About a previous post, the endianess should not be a big issue to deal with once the two sides of the protocol are well defined. The EBCDIC issue is a make or break issue. MongoDB works decidedly with U

Re: Want your feedback on shell command interface to V2R1 IAZSYMBL

2013-10-24 Thread Rob Schramm
Oh yea.. I guess if I paid more attention to the topic... I would have seen that. It is funny that everyone starts to gravitate towards problems around the same time. Been working some on RDz.. BPX_SHAREAS and SPAWN_SCRIPT have recently become very interesting to me. I have to admit that the who

NY Metro NaSPA Chapter Meeting: Tuesday, 29 October 2013

2013-10-24 Thread Mark Nelson
he next meeting of the NY Metro NaSPA Chapter will be on Tuesday, 29 October, 2013, in room 1219 at the IBM Building at 590 Madison Avenue, New York City, from 10:00 AM until 4:30 PM. Sessions for the day include: "A Perspective on System z Capacity Delivery - Past and Future", Bob Ro

GDG question

2013-10-24 Thread Phil Smith
Apologies for the naïve question, but I spent some time Googling and reading and didn't find a clear answer to this. We have a data set that gets fetched from the network and changes occasionally. I'd like to untie this update from normal operation-that is, on the off-chance that the network is

Re: Is there currently a way to access MongoDB from z/OS LE languages?

2013-10-24 Thread Tony Harminc
On 24 October 2013 23:49, Ze'ev Atlas wrote: > About a previous post, the endianess should not be a big issue to deal with > once the two sides of the protocol are well defined. The EBCDIC issue is a > make or break issue. MongoDB works decidedly with UTDF-8 and I need COBOL to > natively vie

Re: Is there currently a way to access MongoDB from z/OS LE languages?

2013-10-24 Thread Ze'ev Atlas
Actually, it looks like there is support to UTF-8: ___ You need to do two steps to convert ASCII or EBCDIC data to UTF-8: Use the function NATIONAL-OF to convert the ASCII or EBCDIC string to a national (UTF-16) string. Use the function DISPLAY-OF to convert the na

Re: Is there currently a way to access MongoDB from z/OS LE languages?

2013-10-24 Thread John McKown
I'm not sure about the following. I'm up late due to ... well, it doesn't matter. But I am wondering if it would be easier to interface MongoDB (on a remote system such as z/Linux) with a z/OS Java routine. And then interface the Java routine with COBOL. I need to read up on the Java <-> COBOL comm

Re: Allocation problem with LMCOPY

2013-10-24 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
At 14:24 -0500 on 10/24/2013, Paul Gilmartin wrote about Re: Allocation problem with LMCOPY: On Thu, 24 Oct 2013 15:12:39 -0400, Robert A. Rosenberg wrote: This will also fix the INIT issue that if a JOB Step has a DISP=OLD with further steps as DISP=SHR, the dataset remains exclusively held

Re: Is there currently a way to access MongoDB from z/OS LE languages?

2013-10-24 Thread Ze'ev Atlas
>It's not much fun accessing Mongo in C let alone COBOL. Agree My language of choice is Perl which flaws with that stuff and I am working on my JavaScript skills. However, what drives me is frustration. Whenever I do a mainframe project, I see how much I miss the other side's features and then

Re: Is there currently a way to access MongoDB from z/OS LE languages?

2013-10-24 Thread David Crayford
On 25/10/2013 10:58 AM, Ze'ev Atlas wrote: It should be simple enough to build a client. There are many http://docs.mongodb.org/ecosystem/drivers/. Of course, that's for accessing MongoDB running off the mainframe. I'm interested to know why you would want to do that? I have no intention on port

Re: Is there currently a way to access MongoDB from z/OS LE languages?

2013-10-24 Thread Ze'ev Atlas
>EBCDIC may not be your only problem! What about endianess? I suggest you >study the wire protocol if you are serious thank you for pointing me to the right direction. I will look at the documents you've mentioned about both, EBCDIC and endianess and see if it it worth it. ZA --

Re: Is there currently a way to access MongoDB from z/OS LE languages?

2013-10-24 Thread Ze'ev Atlas
>It should be simple enough to build a client. There are many >http://docs.mongodb.org/ecosystem/drivers/. Of course, that's for accessing >MongoDB running off the mainframe. I'm interested to know why you would >want to do that? I have no intention on porting the whole engine because I understan

Re: Is there currently a way to access MongoDB from z/OS LE languages?

2013-10-24 Thread David Crayford
On 25/10/2013 10:29 AM, Ze'ev Atlas wrote: Assuming I use my experience in porting Open Source C libraries to the mainframe and import the MongoDB C driver and compile it successfully, my main issue would then be, as usual, the pesky EBCDIC. When working on the PCRE library, there was already

Re: Is there currently a way to access MongoDB from z/OS LE languages?

2013-10-24 Thread David Crayford
On 25/10/2013 10:04 AM, Ze'ev Atlas wrote: Hi all Is there currently a way to access MongoDB from z/OS LE languages? It should be simple enough to build a client. There are many http://docs.mongodb.org/ecosystem/drivers/. Of course, that's for accessing MongoDB running off the mainframe. I'm i

Re: Is there currently a way to access MongoDB from z/OS LE languages?

2013-10-24 Thread Ze'ev Atlas
Assuming I use my experience in porting Open Source C libraries to the mainframe and import the MongoDB C driver and compile it successfully, my main issue would then be, as usual, the pesky EBCDIC. When working on the PCRE library, there was already a full EBCDIC implementation, but there is o

Is there currently a way to access MongoDB from z/OS LE languages?

2013-10-24 Thread Ze'ev Atlas
Hi all Is there currently a way to access MongoDB from z/OS LE languages? ZA -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: z/OS IPL Issue

2013-10-24 Thread Mike Schwab
As long as you accept a complete line at a time, like multiple SDSF operator sessions, it should work, unless two people happen to issue the same command and it causes problems. On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 11:28 AM, John McDowell wrote: > Mark, > > I understand what you are saying, the unintentional

Re: Allocation problem with LMCOPY

2013-10-24 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Thu, 24 Oct 2013 15:12:39 -0400, Robert A. Rosenberg wrote: > >This will also fix the INIT issue that if a JOB Step has a DISP=OLD >with further steps as DISP=SHR, the dataset remains exclusively held >until the last DISP=SHR step ends (since INIT can not downgrade the >EXC ENQ to the SHR ENQ us

Re: Allocation problem with LMCOPY

2013-10-24 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
At 11:59 -0500 on 10/24/2013, Paul Gilmartin wrote about Re: Allocation problem with LMCOPY: Will 2.1 allow me to DYNALLOC a data set NEW, then immediately downgrade the ENQ to SHR? What command? Assembler only? I do not know but the lack of an ability to convert an EXC ENQ to a SHR one ha

Re: Allocation problem with LMCOPY

2013-10-24 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Wed, 23 Oct 2013 21:47:34 -0700, Jon Perryman wrote: >Sorry, I thought that the DD name was contained in the DATAID variable. It's >value was always in a format that ISPF uses for dynamic allocation. I always >assumed that it was the DD name. When the dataset name is specified instead of DD

Re: z/OS IPL Issue

2013-10-24 Thread John McDowell
Mark, I understand what you are saying, the unintentional interleaving of multiple user inputs, is something you can accept/overcome. This is one possible resolution of allowing multiple concurrent uses of the "Integrated 3270", I personally favor a model of one writer/multiple readers such is

Re: DB2 v9->v10 problem

2013-10-24 Thread Robert Galambos
This would be better asked on the IDUG.ORG forum On Thursday, October 24, 2013, R.S. wrote: > Environment z/OS 1.11, DB2 v9.1, CICS TS 4.1 > is being migrated to > z/OS 1.13, DB2 v10.1, CICS TS 4.2 (DB2 in Compatibility Mode) > > One CICS transaction expected strange behavior: much more CPU used

DB2 v9->v10 problem

2013-10-24 Thread R.S.
Environment z/OS 1.11, DB2 v9.1, CICS TS 4.1 is being migrated to z/OS 1.13, DB2 v10.1, CICS TS 4.2 (DB2 in Compatibility Mode) One CICS transaction expected strange behavior: much more CPU used for "open cursor" operation. Acces path wasn't changed. It seems DB2 lost ability to read index in b

Re: z/OS IPL Issue

2013-10-24 Thread Mark Zelden
On Wed, 23 Oct 2013 21:54:54 -0500, John McDowell wrote: >I agree that the inability to share the "Integrated 3270" among multiple >concurrent sessions is unfortunate and that it would be a useful enhancement >to list that restriction. Off the top of my head I can see that the >"ownership" of

Re: z/OS IPL Issue

2013-10-24 Thread John McKown
Thanks. I am so used to being the _only_ person in our _very small_ shop who does IPLs that it never occurred that the person doing the IPL or shutdown would need a helper. Unfortunately, one of the other people here who will (<1%) occasionally IPL tends to just "punch it out" if the shutdown doesn

Re: Allocation problem with LMCOPY

2013-10-24 Thread Thomas Berg
You are right , I was thinking of the case when you use the format 'LMINIT DATAID(LMID) DATASET('dsn') ENQ(SHR)' Here it allocates a ISPn dd. Best Regards Thomas Berg ___ Thomas Berg Specialist zOS\RQM\IT Delivery SWEDBANK

Re: Issue with the REORG of BDAM datasets

2013-10-24 Thread Roger Steyn
Thanks gentleman ..That was it . A standalone REORG needs space to hold the new index and CA suggested us to do ASYNCH REORG . Thank you !   On Wednesday, October 23, 2013 8:07 AM, Roger Steyn wrote: Greetings ,    Recently , we had a problem during the REORG of SAR index file . It was

Re: PL/1 and z/OS 2.1

2013-10-24 Thread Beesley, Paul
Hi Gary Yes, There are many many calls to MQCONN, MQOPEN, etc in the PL/1 for MVS programs. Regards and thanks Paul -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Gary Jacek Sent: Wednesday, October 23, 2013 10:00 PM To: IBM-MAIN