Re: SysRexx, MPF exit and debugging

2017-12-11 Thread Brian Westerman
Not much to it is there? Thanks for the link. Brian -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: TRSMAIN

2017-12-11 Thread zMan
OK, but that's not the intended use case for TRSMAIN, is it? So why risk breakage for folks using it as intended? Seems like you want a slightly different tool. (Yes, I'm being a hardass here!) On Mon, Dec 11, 2017 at 6:58 PM, John McKown wrote: > On Mon, Dec 11, 2017 at 5:47 PM, zMan wrote: >

Re: NFS on Mainframe

2017-12-11 Thread Munif Sadek
Hi Allan BPXMTEXT does not support reason code qualifier 6E05 From Network File System Guide and Reference Version 2 Release 3 SC23-6883-30 6E Indicates NFS Client modules (that is, GFSC). 05 NFS reason codes See Table 74 on page 457. 0002 NFSERR_NOENT No such file or directory A comp

Re: Random number generation in a fixed range via utility program(s) only?

2017-12-11 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Mon, 11 Dec 2017 22:08:03 +, Farley, Peter x23353 wrote: > >I do not see any "modulus" operation available in the SORT manual, so it >apparently isn't possible to post-process the IEBDG numbers with SORT to >convert each of the random numbers modulo the limit value. I suppose division >a

Re: Random number generation in a fixed range via utility program(s) only?

2017-12-11 Thread Farley, Peter x23353
Don, that would actually be easy to do and will work well, thank you. Didn't occur to me at first but in hindsight it's quite obvious. Peter -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Grinsell, Don Sent: Monday, December 11, 20

Re: List of MVS callable services

2017-12-11 Thread Frank Swarbrick
That looks like it. Oddly, the name/token service routines are not included. Thanks, Frank From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of Sri h Kolusu Sent: Monday, December 11, 2017 4:55 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: List of MVS callable servic

Re: TRSMAIN

2017-12-11 Thread John McKown
On Mon, Dec 11, 2017 at 5:47 PM, zMan wrote: > Seems like a bad idea, since it will produce something that can't > necessarily be unTERSEd on another box. > ​My application is: z/OS -> Linux -> different z/OS . I can't go directly from z/OS #1 to z/OS #2. > > On Mon, Dec 11, 2017 at 1:45 PM,

Re: List of MVS callable services

2017-12-11 Thread John McKown
On Mon, Dec 11, 2017 at 4:59 PM, Frank Swarbrick < frank.swarbr...@outlook.com> wrote: > Is there a link to a list of the services that MVS provides that can be > invoked via a standard linkage call (and thus requiring no actual assembler > coding)? Things like the name/token service routines, et

Re: List of MVS callable services

2017-12-11 Thread Charles Mills
There are also the "Callable Services for High-Level Languages" in the book of that name. Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Frank Swarbrick Sent: Monday, December 11, 2017 3:00 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Sub

Re: List of MVS callable services

2017-12-11 Thread Sri h Kolusu
Frank, Check out the manual "MVS Programming: Callable Services for High-Level Languages" https://www-304.ibm.com/servers/resourcelink/svc00100.nsf/pages/zOSV2R3sa231377/$file/ieac100_v2r3.pdf Thanks, Kolusu From: Frank Swarbrick To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Date: 12/11/2017 04:00 P

Re: Random number generation in a fixed range via utility program(s) only?

2017-12-11 Thread Allan Kielstra
I'm not sure if this qualifies as "utilities" or "scripting." You did invite submissions from the USS community. And, in that community, those concepts can get mixed. At any rate, here is my effort using USS od -d /dev/urandom 2>/dev/null | head -8000 | cut -d" " -f2- | sed "s/ *//g" | cut -

Re: TRSMAIN

2017-12-11 Thread zMan
Seems like a bad idea, since it will produce something that can't necessarily be unTERSEd on another box. On Mon, Dec 11, 2017 at 1:45 PM, John McKown wrote: > On Mon, Dec 11, 2017 at 12:28 PM, David Mingee > wrote: > > > You might consider using the MODE C command in FTP vs. AMTERSE/UNTERSE >

Re: SOAP Calls

2017-12-11 Thread Frank Swarbrick
While Enterprise COBOL can be used to process XML messages (SOAP messages are a form of XML message), COBOL itself does not provide the underlying communication protocol (generally HTTP/HTTPS). I'm sure there are services out there that allow for this, but COBOL itself does not. ___

List of MVS callable services

2017-12-11 Thread Frank Swarbrick
Is there a link to a list of the services that MVS provides that can be invoked via a standard linkage call (and thus requiring no actual assembler coding)? Things like the name/token service routines, etc. I see them documented in the MVS Programming: Assembler Service Reference manuals, but

Re: Random number generation in a fixed range via utility program(s) only?

2017-12-11 Thread Sri h Kolusu
>>>I do not see any "modulus" operation available in the SORT manual, so it apparently isn't possible to post-process the IEBDG numbers with SORT to convert each of the random numbers modulo the limit value. I suppose division and truncation and subtraction may work, though I haven't figured o

Re: Random number generation in a fixed range via utility program(s) only?

2017-12-11 Thread Grinsell, Don
Can you generate two numbers? For every sequential number 1-8000 generate a random number to use as a sort key. Sort on the random key and the sequential numbers should get jumbled up just fine. Shouldn't really matter if the random numbers repeat. I can't say exactly how you would actually

Random number generation in a fixed range via utility program(s) only?

2017-12-11 Thread Farley, Peter x23353
Is it possible to do the following using only utility programs and control statements? (z/OS Unix solutions also welcome) Task: Generate 8-digit zoned-decimal numbers from 1 to some limit (e.g., 1 to 8000) in pseudo-random order with exactly one occurrence of each number in the range in t

Re: RSU maintenance strategy - Need expert suggestions

2017-12-11 Thread Edward Gould
Mark, > On Dec 9, 2017, at 12:32 PM, Mark Zelden wrote: > > And then you just apply everything that turns up in MISSINGFIX for > FIXCAT(*) along with the RSU maintenance? > > Why install a 100% of missing maintenance specific to some hardware or > hardware > feature you don't have or for som

Re: TRSMAIN

2017-12-11 Thread John McKown
On Mon, Dec 11, 2017 at 12:28 PM, David Mingee wrote: > You might consider using the MODE C command in FTP vs. AMTERSE/UNTERSE > utility. It will run much faster and save CPU time. > ​Does that work with data sets which are RECFM=U which are stored on a non-z/OS system (in my case - Linux).​ -

Re: TRSMAIN

2017-12-11 Thread David Mingee
You might consider using the MODE C command in FTP vs. AMTERSE/UNTERSE utility. It will run much faster and save CPU time. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Ed Jaffe Sent: Monday, December 11, 2017 1:16 PM To: IBM-MAIN@

Re: TRSMAIN

2017-12-11 Thread Ed Jaffe
On 12/11/2017 9:51 AM, PINION, RICHARD W. wrote: Is there a way to make TRSMAIN use hardware compression, PCIE hardware compression? No. AMATERSE uses it's own compression. Sounds like a good SHARE requirement tho... -- Phoenix Software International Edward E. Jaffe 831 Parkview Drive North E

TRSMAIN

2017-12-11 Thread PINION, RICHARD W.
Is there a way to make TRSMAIN use hardware compression, PCIE hardware compression? FIRST TENNESSEE Confidentiality notice: This e-mail message, including any attachments, may contain legally privileged and/or confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient(s), or the employee

SOAP Calls

2017-12-11 Thread Dazzo, Matt
Our applications folks are asking if there is a way to do SOAP calls from cobol? Does Cobol V62 support SOAP from the cobol program or does the V62 cobol program have to use CICS web services for SOAP? Thanks Matt -- For IBM-MA

CMS style XMITMSG for Unix and other platforms

2017-12-11 Thread Rick Troth
friends -- VM/CMS* has a wonderful utility driven by 'XMITMSG' (the command) and by APPLMSG (the macro). If you're a VMer, you know about it. If you're a VSE or MVS person, maybe not. It's good stuff. For (at least) the second time, I started putting together an XMITMSG work-alike for Unix (POSIX,

Re: SysRexx, MPF exit and debugging

2017-12-11 Thread John McKown
On Sun, Dec 10, 2017 at 10:49 PM, Brian Westerman < brian_wester...@syzygyinc.com> wrote: > Where can I find a copy of the MPFNREXX to try this out? > ​I put it up here: https://github.com/JohnArchieMckown/miscutil/blob/master/MPFNREXX The original code was by Dana Mitchell, who gave it to me as

Re: NFS on Mainframe

2017-12-11 Thread Allan Staller
TSO BPXMTEXT where is the reason code from the message. In the case below: "TSO BPXMTEXT 6E050002" -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Munif Sadek Sent: Thursday, December 7, 2017 11:26 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LIS

Re: RSU maintenance strategy - Need expert suggestions

2017-12-11 Thread van der Grijn, Bart (B)
We install RSU four times a year. It definitely does not require 1 FTE. I would estimate it takes us about 16-32 man hours per quarter covering both z/OS and DB2. Bart -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of ANIL KUMAR Sent:

Re: RSU maintenance strategy - Need expert suggestions

2017-12-11 Thread John Eells
Our recommendations (for IBM products) are here: https://www-03.ibm.com/systems/resources/zOS_Preventive_Maintenance_Strategy.pdf ANIL KUMAR wrote: Hi All, I needed expert suggestions on following the RSU maintenance strategy for z/OS , associated ISV products , DB2 etc. Could you please let