Re: Location of forms code in z/OS manuals

2022-10-26 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Wed, 26 Oct 2022 14:55:05 +, Seymour J Metz wrote: >... >Downloading and parsing multiple index.html files should work for some but not >all of the manuals that I've downloaded. > How are the forms codes useful? Ordering hardcopies? Citations? Wandering only slightly OT, I notice

Re: Location of forms code in z/OS manuals

2022-10-26 Thread Seymour J Metz
PDFBox is certainly the way to go for the title, but IBM doesn't appear to be putting the forms code anywhere accessible. From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of Mike Beer Sent: Wednesday, October 26, 2022 1:00 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU

AW: Location of forms code in z/OS manuals

2022-10-26 Thread Mike Beer
Hi, Students of Rony Flatscher (Professor at the WU, Vienna) worked on several interesting REXX projects. One of the was the use of PDF files out of Rexx. https://wi.wu.ac.at/rgf/diplomarbeiten/ Look for author Dobrea Rony's Bean Scripting Framework allows the easy integration of Java into

Re: Location of forms code in z/OS manuals

2022-10-26 Thread Farley, Peter
The "pdftotext" command line tool from the XPDFReader team does a pretty credible job of extracting good, readable (and more importantly, utility program readable) text from IBM PDF's. I use it very successfully to extract data from the z/Architecture PoOP for a side project of mine.

Re: Batch to extract scratch tape listing

2022-10-26 Thread Paul Gorlinsky
This is a bit vague. Which OS? Which tape manager? Which Tape Server? In general, all of the systems include a process to extract SCRATCH tape information. From the Tape Managers, they usually include a Report Writer of some sort get the information. From the Tape Servers, they all do it

Batch to extract scratch tape listing

2022-10-26 Thread Peter
Hello Is there a sample JCL to extract scratch Virtual tape count using batch? Peter -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Location of forms code in z/OS manuals

2022-10-26 Thread Seymour J Metz
By form code I mean the ---xx number that identifies the manual and used to be (without the -xx) the number used for ordering the manual. E.g., has the form code SA22-7801-14 and the title z/OS UNIX System Services User's Guide, Downloading and parsing multiple index.html files

Re: Location of forms code in z/OS manuals

2022-10-26 Thread Seymour J Metz
Title is only one of the two data that I want as keys. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Wendell Lovewell [01e9c0ee0673-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu]

Re: Fixed fields in regex (was: Trying to Parse a LISTCAT with SORT)

2022-10-26 Thread Walt Farrell
On Tue, 25 Oct 2022 10:33:23 -0500, Paul Gilmartin wrote: >On Tue, 25 Oct 2022 08:55:09 -0500, Walt Farrell wrote: >On Sat, 22 Oct 2022 04:09:43 +, Sri h Kolusu wrote: >> %03=(ENDBEFR=C'.',FIXLEN=8), # Node 3 >> ... >Thanks. I've wished for

Re: Location of forms code in z/OS manuals

2022-10-26 Thread Wendell Lovewell
Seymour, could you use the Title tag? root@WLPC:/a/temp# pdfinfo sg246818.pdf | grep Title Title: Merging Systems into a Sysplex Gil, thanks for the tip on pdfinfo. Wendell -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff /

Re: Location of forms code in z/OS manuals

2022-10-26 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Wed, 26 Oct 2022 13:39:02 +, Seymour J Metz wrote: >I wanted to write a script to index a bunch of manuals that I downloaded from >IBM and wanted the forms code to be the primary key. The file names are not >very helpful. Given that, I have to live with whatever information IBM chooses

Re: Location of forms code in z/OS manuals

2022-10-26 Thread Seymour J Metz
I wanted to write a script to index a bunch of manuals that I downloaded from IBM and wanted the forms code to be the primary key. The file names are not very helpful. Given that, I have to live with whatever information IBM chooses to provide, unless and until someone submits an RFE with a

Re: AFP file

2022-10-26 Thread Shelia Chalk
Thank you so much.. it works... Thanks again Shelia Chalk -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Gadi Ben-Avi Sent: Wednesday, October 26, 2022 7:41 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: AFP file Send it as binary using ftp Then use the

Re: AFP file

2022-10-26 Thread Gadi Ben-Avi
Send it as binary using ftp Then use the AFRREBLK utility to reblock it. AFRREBLK is in SAPSEXEC. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Shelia Chalk Sent: Wednesday, October 26, 2022 3:36 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: AFP file Hello, Has

AFP file

2022-10-26 Thread Shelia Chalk
Hello, Has anyone ever sent a file type .AFP file from the pc to mainframe? If so, what product do you use and how? Thanks Shelia Chalk -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to