Re: SMP/E GIM69217I

Paul is thinking UNIX and needs to look at how we do MVS maintenance. The MVS maintenance philosophy is more robust than UNIX. In UNIX, the philosophy is to apply maintenance to each system separately. In z/OS we apply maintenance to a copy of the system (once). We then IPL any (not necessarily

Re: LLA/VLF -- NAMED LNKLST?

It depends on what you call frequently. Our IMS production libraries are LLA controlled and updated at several slots a day, with an LLA update. I think that if your libraries can be updated each second/minute by each linkedit job that produces a new production module, this is a frequency which y

Re: z/OS 1.13 PTF apply Issue

Robert is correct. Pauls GIM69217I is also due to applying PTF's on a live system. Both you and Paul only shot yourself in the foot but it could easily been a shot to the head. Applying critical component PTF's to a live system is dangerous. Only do this if you can tolerate the risk. If you do r

Re: RDW with FTP

You might find this useful: /*/ /* */ /* This Program Written By Paul Edwards.*/ /* Released to the public domain

Re: Mainframe "culture" question - how display a tab character?

For those who don't remember AFP there was a DCF Translate x'05' x'15' to get tabbing on AFP printers. Hmm or was it the other way? Wish I'd kept the source. In a message dated 1/13/2014 6:46:23 A.M. Central Standard Time, shmuel+ibm-m...@patriot.net writes: >in their career had occasion

Re: Subject Unicode

On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 1:27 PM, Tony Harminc wrote: > On 12 January 2014 10:21, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) > wrote: > > on 01/09/2014 at 09:00 PM, Tony Harminc said: > > > >>There is no general way to convert UNICODE into EBCDIC, > > > > There are EBCDIC transforms for Unicode. I'm not sure whet

Re: LLA/VLF -- NAMED LNKLST?

Why would you hope that production libraries are not typically modified frequently?  Our production application libraries are modified on a daily basis, with one or more business application programs updated daily as the business requires. Frank > > From: Pet

Re: CSTRSU for RSU1312

My: //SMPCNTL DD * SET BDY(GLOBAL). RECEIVE SYSMODS HOLDDATA ORDER(ORDERSERVER(ORDSRVR)

Re: Subject Unicode

On 12 January 2014 10:21, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: > on 01/09/2014 at 09:00 PM, Tony Harminc said: > >>There is no general way to convert UNICODE into EBCDIC, > > There are EBCDIC transforms for Unicode. I'm not sure whether that qulifies > as EBCDIC. Exactly as much as UTF-8 qualifies a

Re: How Bad is InfoCenter?

Which search box did you use? The one right above the Contents area combined with a scope setting to limit the shelf or manual should do the trick. I found it pretty easy to create a custom scope list by clicking Scope, then selecting only the specific areas I wanted to search. Give it an eas

How Bad is InfoCenter?

Wanting to look up some HLASM features, I resigned myself to trying InfoCenter for 2.1. My experience: On the Publibz z/OS main page, I find a link to: z/OS V2R1 Information Center http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/zos/v2r1/index.jsp ... a page with two frames. The left frame is a list

Re: CSTRSU for RSU1312

Maybe because " will be available through ShopzSeries on Wednesday, January 15, 2014." Today is the 13th. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of David Magee Sent: Monday, January 13, 2014 10:17 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.ED

CSTRSU for RSU1312

Anyone have any info concerning RSU1312. The ++ASSIGNS finally showed up late last week but RECEIVE ORDER( ORDERSERVER ... jobs are not pulling anything with RSU1312. An email from IBM on the 10th stated: >> Hello, >> We are writing to notify our CST subscribers that RSU1312 will be available

Re: Subject Unicode (Also email. Also TAB.)

On Sun, 12 Jan 2014 13:09:40 -0500, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: > >>Thereby sacrificing some small economy of storage. There are even >>better arguments for deferring the disambiguation, such as: > >>o Use of tabs as field separators in exported data bases. > >>o Rendering in proportional-spac

Re: Subject Unicode

On Sun, Jan 12, 2014 at 5:28 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: > On Sun, 12 Jan 2014 15:48:49 -0600, Kirk Wolf wrote: > > >On Linux gedit works fine, on Windows I use Notepad++ which handles Unix > >eols and UTF-8 > > > You mean I don't have to wait for Windows 14!? Thanks! > > Does it do UNIX eols on in

Re: Authorized ISPF command Failure

Didn't know that was IKJEFTSR thanks Sent from my iPhone > On Jan 13, 2014, at 5:16 AM, Rob Scott wrote: > > The return and reason codes are from IKJEFTSR and indicate that the command > is authorized but could not be found in an authorized library. > > Rob Scott > Lead Developer > Rocket So

Re: XCF Signalling - MAXMSG CLASSDEF etc

On Mon, 13 Jan 2014 06:37:12 -0600, Andrew Metcalfe wrote: >Hi > >I am reviewing our (very old) definitions in COUPLExx for signalling >(MAXMSG/CLASSDEF etc.). > >Is there any recent documentation available as a guide. I have seen the White >Paper "Parallel Sysplex Performance:XCF Performance

Re: XCF Signalling - MAXMSG CLASSDEF etc

Hi, I'm not aware of anything more recent. The principles and methodology still apply. The throughput and response times are better these days than what is indicated in the charts. Resolving any issues raised by the z/OS Health Checker will go a long way towards ensuring that your config

Re: Question on 3390D

Nobody using 3390D? -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Subject Unicode

In , on 01/12/2014 at 05:11 PM, John Gilmore said: >If I argued that the comments prefixed to a routine described its >putative algorithm correctly and that the routine itself could thus >contain no error, Shmuel would still hopefully be quick to point out >the inadequacy of my argument; but h

Re: Subject Unicode

In <8160871980876269.wa.paulgboulderaim@listserv.ua.edu>, on 01/12/2014 at 03:28 PM, Paul Gilmartin said: >Doesn't understand UNIX line breaks. I don't FTP text files as binary. NOTEPAD doesn't introduce fancy formatting that I didn't request and don't want. For me, that makes it supperi

Re: Mainframe "culture" question - how display a tab character?

In , on 01/10/2014 at 02:19 PM, Skip Robinson said: >To evaluate the existence of an EBCDIC tab character, let's take the >total number of instances in which any member of this list has ever >in their career had occasion to code X'05'in a z/OS file for any >functional purpose whatever. The d

Re: Subject Unicode

In <20140111220658.62ce18f...@panix3.panix.com>, on 01/11/2014 at 05:06 PM, Don Poitras said: >I don't know how these characters are going to survive email, Not without proper[1] MIME header fields; characters like, e.g., Copyright (©), Euro (€), Registered (®), Yen (¥), are not ASCII. [1] E

Re: Authorized ISPF command Failure

In , on 01/12/2014 at 02:11 AM, MichealButz said: >I put the entry in IKJTSO00 AUTHCMD and AUTHPGM Did you activate the change? -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO position; see We don't care. We don't have to care, we

Re: Mainframe "culture" question - how display a tab character?

In , on 01/10/2014 at 10:45 PM, Ed Gould said: >Somewhere in the far reaches of my memory there was a ZAP to tso EDIT > that worked eg:Label(tab char) br tabchar R15 Why a zap? What is TABSET, chopped liver? SCRIPT was another application that supported tabs. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.)

XCF Signalling - MAXMSG CLASSDEF etc

Hi I am reviewing our (very old) definitions in COUPLExx for signalling (MAXMSG/CLASSDEF etc.). Is there any recent documentation available as a guide. I have seen the White Paper "Parallel Sysplex Performance:XCF Performance Considerations (Version 3.1)" from 2006, but I wondered if there is

Re: Subject Unicode (Also email. Also TAB.)

In <52d2d540.1020...@t-online.de>, on 01/12/2014 at 06:47 PM, Bernd Oppolzer said: >IMO, the idea to put tab characters into files is wrong from the >beginning. I don't agree; it's useful for text markup. I don't like taking away a printable character as a logical tab. -- Shmuel (Seym

Re: Subject Unicode (Also email. Also TAB.)

In <7503442349556875.wa.paulgboulderaim@listserv.ua.edu>, on 01/12/2014 at 09:55 AM, Paul Gilmartin said: >Thereby sacrificing some small economy of storage. There are even >better arguments for deferring the disambiguation, such as: >o Use of tabs as field separators in exported data ba

Re: Mainframe "culture" question - how display a tab character?

Thanks all for your suggestions. I am going to go with "". Yes, whatever you use, other than a rigorous escape regimen (\\ = \, \t = tab) introduces ambiguities: could also represent a literal ' < t a b > '. But this is not a diagnostic dump, this is a confirmation back to the user of what he o

Re: Mainframe "culture" question - how display a tab character?

Don't *think* so. Others undoubtedly know better than I. Sorry if my last reply seemed overly snotty. Thanks for your suggestion. Would be good if I had a richer output medium. Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Ti

Re: Authorized ISPF command Failure

The return and reason codes are from IKJEFTSR and indicate that the command is authorized but could not be found in an authorized library. Rob Scott Lead Developer Rocket Software 77 Fourth Avenue . Suite 100 . Waltham . MA 02451-1468 . USA Tel: +1.781.684.2305 Email: rsc...@rs.com Web: www.rock