for iPhone
On Thursday, October 21, 2021, 9:13 PM, David Crayford
wrote:
On 21/10/2021 7:31 am, Bill Johnson wrote:
I do almost everything important via app with a mainframe on the back end. Banking,
health records, retail shopping, insurance claims, investing. And with very high
confidence th
s, I’ve worked in 15 shops in my career, including banking, insurance,
retail, and health care. In all of them, the mainframe is the most important
and most used platform. And it’s not even close.
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On Thursday, October 21, 2021, 9:13 PM, David Crayford
wrote:
O
On 22/10/2021 3:51 pm, Andrew Rowley wrote:
On 22/10/2021 2:46 am, A T & T Management wrote:
Java, it has to be translated each time it run, provided you know
the language and it's been debugged. Schools may teach it but they
too want to make money and look good because they can say it's m
On 22/10/2021 5:18 pm, Jantje. wrote:
That said, as @Joe says, the C signal handling is not real conducive to "make note
of the problem and continue on where you were" processing.
O, and returning from the signal handler does indeed resume processing after
the instruction that caused the aben
On 22/10/2021 5:59 pm, Radoslaw Skorupka wrote:
W dniu 22.10.2021 o 03:12, David Crayford pisze:
On 21/10/2021 7:31 am, Bill Johnson wrote:
I do almost everything important via app with a mainframe on the
back end. Banking, health records, retail shopping, insurance
claims, investing. And
Haha, you don't give up. How about this. HSBC has nearly $3T dollars in
assets. They have integrated their mainframe with Amazons AWS cloud.
You've been pwned man, take a breather.
"For large financial institutions, it can be extremely hard to predict
when your architecture may need to scale t
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You're using the wrong signal. SIGABND
Customers couldn't board their planes. It doesn't matter how solid
your IT platforms are when humans can make errors.
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On Friday, October 22, 2021, 7:38 PM, David Crayford
wrote:
Haha, you don't give up. How about this. HSBC has nearly $3T dol
I wouldn’t be touting their decision making. Also, the AWS
signing was so they could layoff thousands of employees. A move that wreaks of
desperation.
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On Friday, October 22, 2021, 9:39 PM, David Crayford
wrote:
On 23/10/2021 9:04 am, Bill Johnson wrote:
No
On 23/10/2021 6:52 am, Andrew Rowley wrote:
On 22/10/2021 8:21 pm, David Crayford wrote:
I wouldn't consider a drag race using a prime number sieve a good
indication of the overall performance of Java on z/OS. That's a very
specific use case and not one that anybody would ever
On 8/03/2017 9:15 PM, David Griffiths1 wrote:
Hi, not sure of the definitive answer but you can probably take a guess by
comparing with the Metal C library. By definition Metal C calls don't
require access to the unix kernel. In fact if you don't want to connect to
OMVS why not use Metal C anyway
use of the disparity with compilers from
other platforms.
Cheers,
Dave Griffiths
z/OS Developer
IBM United Kingdom Limited, Hursley Park, Winchester, SO21 2JN, UK
From: David Crayford
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Date: 08/03/2017 13:52
Subject:Re: Which C library function
Because forintf() has a variadic argument list the float is converted to a
double. This is called "default argument promotions". You may want to dig out a
copy of the C99 standard.
> On 14 Mar 2017, at 7:55 am, Charles Mills wrote:
>
> OK. I just coded a static_cast on @Gil's suggestion. Shou
On 29/03/2017 6:48 PM, Ed Jaffe wrote:
What's missing is binder/loader/contents support to load/manage
executable RMODE(64) modules and enough officially-supported SVC and
PC-entered z/OS services to make running programs there feasible.
After that, you would need compiler and HLL run-time la
On 31/03/2017 2:54 AM, David W Noon wrote:
On Thu, 30 Mar 2017 13:01:26 -0500, Paul Gilmartin
(000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu) wrote about
"Data/hiperspaces (was: ... 4G bar?)" (in
<1090839201676758.wa.paulgboulderaim@listserv.ua.edu>):
[snip]
... HLL programs cannot us
On 31/03/2017 3:27 AM, John McKown wrote:
So, any HLL has only indirect access to dataspaces and hiperspaces.
What's the definition of a "HLL"?
Anything that isn't assembler.
Some people think C is a LLL, but that's just wishful thinking.
C is ..., um, That is, it's ... . Got it: a good lan
On 31/03/2017 11:58 AM, Tony Harminc wrote:
On 30 March 2017 at 22:29, David Crayford wrote:
I'm almost certain that IBM have a z/OS port of
clang/LLVM because I've seen evidence in their libuv port on github. Using
the LLVM backend it's possible to port a plethora of la
Developing web applications in 2017 is trivial but you're going to have
to learn some new tricks! Luckily it's no particularily onerous. The
back-ends of some of the most popular sites on the web are written using
scripting languages. Take Ruby on Rails as an example. It's a full blown
MVC fram
On 2/04/2017 7:57 AM, Steve Beaver wrote:
My challenge is that I don't do C/S applications which to me is a small CICS.
I have absolutely no idea how to do anything in that world.
I have my brother going in the Direction of RACKSPACE and let them instantiate
Redhat Linux and take care of the
On 5/04/2017 8:05 PM, big.e.smalls wrote:
I think he did a good job,
https://youtu.be/ximv-PwAKnc
I enjoyed it. It's a good take on how millennials should view the
mainframe. It's not about massive computing power it's about reliability.
On 6/04/2017 6:35 PM, Bill Woodger wrote:
Just to note, the UK Weather Centre (The Meteorological Office, or Met Office)
uses a big-boy LinuxONE and they were an early user of that.
Do you know what they use if for? Probably not for weather forecasting
algorithms.
--
On 6/04/2017 7:30 PM, Bill Woodger wrote:
On 6/04/2017 6:35 PM, Bill Woodger wrote:
Just to note, the UK Weather Centre (The Meteorological Office, or Met Office)
uses a big-boy LinuxONE and they were an early user of that.
Do you know what they use if for? Probably not for weather forecasting
On 7/04/2017 9:50 PM, Erin Farr wrote:
Hi,
Our site is currently in the very early stages of dabbling with
Apache Spark on z and was wondering if there is a Listserver or Forum
specifically for Apache Spark on z.
Thanks, Roger
We now have a forum on DeveloperWorks. Tag questions with zos-
On 8/04/2017 1:16 AM, Tony Harminc wrote:
On 7 April 2017 at 09:57, David Crayford wrote:
I wish IBM would start to embrace Stack Overflow a little bit more as the
user experience is far superior to DeveloperWorks both in terms of UX and
effeciency.
I find mailing lists (like this one!) offer
On 11/04/2017 8:34 PM, Parwez Hamid wrote:
The Met Office a HPC and 2 x IBM LinuxOne Servers. The HPC does the lager part
of the number crunching.
http://www.itproportal.com/news/met-office-gets-new-mainframe-can-handle-23000-trillion-calculations-per-second/
"According to a press release, this
On 11/04/2017 9:01 PM, John McKown wrote:
http://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/ShowDoc.wss?docURL=/common/ssi/rep_ca/6/897/ENUS217-186/index.html&request_locale=en
Just looks like it is announcing that z/OS PL/I 5.1 (and above?) will go
with the new "continuous delivery" that IBM is embracing instea
On 11/04/2017 9:13 PM, John McKown wrote:
On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 8:10 AM, David Crayford wrote:
On 11/04/2017 9:01 PM, John McKown wrote:
http://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/ShowDoc.wss?docURL=/common/
ssi/rep_ca/6/897/ENUS217-186/index.html&request_locale=en
Just looks like it is announ
me up with an answer before the question is even asked!
On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 8:42 AM, David Crayford wrote:
On 11/04/2017 8:34 PM, Parwez Hamid wrote:
The Met Office a HPC and 2 x IBM LinuxOne Servers. The HPC does the lager
part of the number crunching.
http://www.itproportal.com/new
> On 11 Apr 2017, at 10:35 pm, Paul Gilmartin
> <000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote:
>
> 2.4.2 Windows XP
> 2.4.3 Windows Vista
> 2.4.4 Windows 7
> 2.4.5 Windows 8 and 8.1
> 2.4.6 Windows 10
>
> ... similar for MacOS. Or have they stopped at Windows 10?
Yes, Windows 10 is th
On 19/04/2017 1:58 PM, Timothy Sipples wrote:
We have a customer in my general part of the world that is, as I write
this, moving from an IBM mainframe they installed in early 1999 (with ~1998
software releases) to a shiny new IBM z System machine. They have "only"
about 19 years (and counting) o
How do your management sleep at night with an unsupported software?
On 19/04/2017 8:58 PM, John McKown wrote:
That is interesting to know. But, unless the situation changes (IMO "for
the better"), then we are stuck on our current configuration FOREVER. Upper
management utterly hates, despises,
m
www.syncsort.com
CONNECTING BIG IRON TO BIG DATA
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On 31/03/2017 3:27 AM, John McKown wrote:
So, any HLL has only ind
On 21/04/2017 9:41 PM, David W Noon wrote:
On Fri, 21 Apr 2017 21:22:04 +0800, David Crayford (dcrayf...@gmail.com)
wrote about "LLVM ( wasRe: Swift on z/OS (was Data/hiperspaces (was: ...
4G bar?))" (in ):
[snip]
IBM have ported LLVM/clang to z/OS. The beta of swift gives the ga
On 22/04/2017 1:20 AM, Frank Swarbrick wrote:
Is it naive to hope that Swift some could "replace" COBOL on z/OS? I'm not
clear on IBM's ideas of what Swift would be used for on z/OS.
There have been many attempts to replace COBOL over the years. Anybody
remember EGL? That was a flop. The ele
On 27/04/2017 1:28 AM, David W Noon wrote:
I am currently using an interpretive loop to format the decimal data. I am
going to look into using __EDMK() instead. (And yes, the volume, potentially
millions of iterations per day, justifies the effort.)
Do you know the size and scaling factor of the
On 28/04/2017 9:13 AM, Andrew Rowley wrote:
On 28/04/2017 3:23 AM, Kirk Wolf wrote:
And yet I fail to see why this is an issue since the JZOS sample JCL
shows
how to use the shell language to handle this - with more flexibility.
For example, the "java" command launcher can't do this:
for i in
On 28/04/2017 8:29 PM, scott Ford wrote:
John:
Thank you kind sir. Much appreciated..I am verifying I dont have a storage
creep issue when we call IRRSEQ00...
You may want to use a GETMAIN/FREEMAIN GTF trace for diagnosing storage
creeps.
Scott
On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 8:09 AM, John McKown
On 28/04/2017 12:16 PM, Andrew Rowley wrote:
On 28/04/2017 1:28 PM, David Crayford wrote:
I agree that it would be ideal if the JZOS batch launcher was
modernized to support wildcards but disagree about the shell. I find
it's absolutely necessary just to do stuff like:
. /etc/pr
On 28/04/2017 9:11 PM, John McKown wrote:
On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 7:53 AM, David Crayford wrote:
On 28/04/2017 8:29 PM, scott Ford wrote:
John:
Thank you kind sir. Much appreciated..I am verifying I dont have a storage
creep issue when we call IRRSEQ00...
You may want to use a GETMAIN
I could be wrong but I don't think many sites replace their mainframes
with "server farms". Normally they would replace them with big boxes,
rack servers or blades depending on the size of the system. HP
Superdomes used to be popular a decade ago but it seems Xeon class x86
servers can now do t
On 21/05/2017 7:55 AM, Clark Morris wrote:
Large cloud operations claim they assemble their own blades for 1/3rd
the price of brand named blades ... around $1/BIPS ... possibly
contributing to IBM selling off its server business.
Given these figures, why haven't emulation and various mainframe
Interestingly "This beta is based on Version 6 of the SDK" which is
significant as it features ECMAScript 6. I had a quick at the previous
Beta and gave up because it was too back level.
On 29/05/2017 9:08 AM, Timothy Sipples wrote:
The IBM SDK for Node.js is now available in a "Beta 1" relea
On 30/05/2017 5:18 AM, Charles Mills wrote:
Nearly any "Hello, world" program from the Web will run without modification on
z/OS, either as a UNIX command or as a conventional load module.
ftp://www.cs.uregina.ca/pub/class/cplusplus/CExample.html
z Linux is Linux, Linux, Linux. Nearly any Linu
This might bewilder you some more because C++ is a tricky language for a
beginner. It''s a simple thin wrapper class around C stdio that provides
RAII and some return value checks that throw exception when errors
occur. If you can work this out you're well on your way to being
competent. It's m
> On 31 May 2017, at 2:19 am, John McKown wrote:
>
>> On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 1:07 PM, scott Ford wrote:
>>
>> All:
>>
>> I saw a thread between Peter Fairley and John in April, this year speaking
>> about a cobol program calling C ..I am in the same board but did not see
>> the C code. Can s
call different functions depending on some type which would
benefit from an OO design.
Charles
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ons in class header (and very little use of function
macro)
Kirk Wolf
Dovetailed Technologies
http://dovetail.com
On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 7:22 AM, David Crayford
wrote:
This might bewilder you some more because C++ is a tricky language for a
beginner. It''s a simple thin wrapper c
dified to call the
cleanup routine. You just delete the class and if it has a destructor, it gets called.
Voila!
Charles
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On 31/05/2017 9:36 PM, John McKown wrote:
On Wed, May 31, 2017 at 8:26 AM, David Crayford wrote:
I think I should have used the term object based for non-OO languages.
Scope based finalization is a sweet spot of C++ with scoped based
destructors. I'm coding a lot of Java at the moment
leanup routine for this record. Now I have to go
back and make sure that every piece of code that uses it gets modified to call the
cleanup routine. You just delete the class and if it has a destructor, it gets called.
Voila!
Charles
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And I should have called it the implicit conversion operator. It's a
good example of how to use C++ as a better C to make use of destructors.
On 31/05/2017 9:41 PM, David Crayford wrote:
Re-posted due to formatting issues:
I think I should have used the term object based for non-OO lang
On 31/05/2017 11:03 PM, Tony Harminc wrote:
On 30 May 2017 at 20:48, David Crayford wrote:
If you download IBMs beta nodejs port you will get a free C compiler and
runtime 🙂
I noticed that. I'm probably missing a big chunk here, but why does a
Node.js implementation require its own (o
Java is a much simpler language then C++. For starters there is no
undefined behavior, everything is in the spec. The new lambda
expressions are a welcome addition but as a language it lacks features
that languages like C# have in abundance. The one saving grace is
annotations which a lot of Ja
On 7/06/2017 1:43 AM, Ed Jaffe wrote:
On 6/6/2017 10:04 AM, Mark Zelden wrote:
On Tue, 6 Jun 2017 12:44:28 -0400, Tony Harminc
wrote:
Is it not bizarre that in 2017 we are still dealing with systems that
"don't work right" with one browser or another? I mean, seriously...
I agree 100%.Bu
IIRC subpool 1 is for LE internals and subpool 2 for user heap and
stack. Makes sense so presumably a user-space storage overwrite wont
corrupt LE so it can shutdown cleanly.
On 7/06/2017 2:46 PM, bernd.oppol...@t-online.de wrote:
First allocation in subpool 1,
secondary allocations in subpoo
On 7/06/2017 2:08 AM, Rob Schramm wrote:
That is one surprising thing about Rexx and sort.. that Rexx doesn't have
built in support to call sort without a rigamarole.
It's difficult to implement a generic sort in REXX because functions are
not first class objects.
For example, using the UNIX
On 11/06/2017 7:15 AM, Ed Jaffe wrote:
On 6/6/2017 8:54 PM, David Crayford wrote:
On 7/06/2017 1:43 AM, Ed Jaffe wrote:
We test (E)JES Web with current releases of Chrome, Firefox, Opera,
Safari, and IE. We also test with IE8 because it's a different
animal and requires special code to
On 14/06/2017 5:54 PM, R.S. wrote:
W dniu 2017-06-14 o 10:21, Styles, Andy (ITS zPlatform Services) pisze:
Classification: Public
I would hazard a guess that the answer to that is the same answer as
to why Windows XP (and probably NT!) is still in use!
Not to mention anyone running out-of-sup
)..
Andy Styles
z/Series Systems Programmer
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> On 15 Jun 2017, at 8:22 am, Mike Schwab wrote:
>
> https://www.arcanoae.com/arcaos-5-0-now-available/
> OS2 Warp for 2017, still 32 bit, updated drivers for newer hardware.
> Includes Win 3.1 compatibility.
>
What browser runs on OS/2?
>> On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at
If the string can be mutated either by the client or the runtime
returning by reference is not re-entrant.
I would always prefer to use strings buffers:
int get_string(char * buf, size_t buflen);
Strings are s much easier in C++.
On 20/06/2017 9:59 AM, John McKown wrote:
On Mon, Jun 19,
That's not what I meant. It's not thread safe without locking. And even
if you're not multi-threaded it may be better practice to copy the
static C string into a buffer. Take strerror() for example. Once you've
got the error you either print it immediately or copy the message into a
buffer. str
We use Jira but we're a vendor lab not a production site. Do you run
cURL directly from NetView or submit a batch job?
On 29/06/2017 7:11 PM, Werner Kuehnel wrote:
Nathan,
I don't know ServiceNow, but we create automatically tickets for abending jobs or
jobs with RC > 4 in JIRA ticketing syst
On 21/07/2017 1:11 AM, Kirk Wolf wrote:
As usual, the knowledge and helpfulness of those on this list is
astonishing.
I'm actually writing this in Java (to 64-bit java "long" epoch seconds,
from both STCK and STCKE inputs), but the sample IBM assembler code
initially puzzled me.
I had to do ju
On 21/07/2017 6:43 AM, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
On Thu, 20 Jul 2017 14:33:58 -0700, Charles Mills wrote:
Yes, negative UNIX times are legal and generally work.
I had understood that negative time_t values are illegal but generally work.
The closest I can find in POSIX is:
http://pubs.opengroup
> On 16 Nov 2021, at 5:55 am, zMan wrote:
>
>
>>
>> Neither "Unformatted System Services" nor "Unix System Services" has or
> should have the word "screen".
> I dunno, after the many, Many, MANY times we've gone round on this I *want *to
> screen
>
+ 100
>> On Mon, Nov 15, 2021 at
I was in a meeting with IBM last week with JVM devs and this was mentioned.
It’s not ready until Q2 next year.
> On 20 Nov 2021, at 09:31, Andrew Rowley wrote:
>
> On 20/11/2021 2:40 am, Yuan Jie Song wrote:
>> IBM Semeru Runtime Certified Edition for z/OS, Version 11, is the latest
>> relea
RACF key stores are also a WIP
> On 21 Nov 2021, at 06:44, David Crayford wrote:
>
> I was in a meeting with IBM last week with JVM devs and this was mentioned.
> It’s not ready until Q2 next year.
>
>>> On 20 Nov 2021, at 09:31, Andrew Rowley
>>> wrote
On 29/11/21 4:26 am, Tom Longfellow wrote:
I dread z/OSMF as an installer.
It's my understanding that z/OSMF just uses workflows to submit SMP/E
jobs. The grey beards hate using it but the young guys are ambivalent.
I am old enough to remember CA-AGGRAVATOR (i know, wrong name ) and ha
On 29/11/21 5:27 pm, Sebastian Welton wrote:
On Mon, 29 Nov 2021 12:03:01 +0800, David Crayford wrote:
Didn't CA create the Chorus Software Manager that was generally very
well received by the community. I haven't used it but I heard that
installing mainframe software using SMP/E w
On 1/12/21 1:55 am, Seymour J Metz wrote:
I just wish that they would acknowledge their abandoned child OREXX.
IBM certainly haven't abandoned ooRexx. It's my understanding that Rick
McGuire works on it almost full time. The mailing lists still get quite
a bit of traffic and the Github repo s
On 1/12/21 10:03 am, Tom Longfellow wrote:
Just to clarify on my earlier comments. The wealth of choices for
installations is not necessarily 'bad' just potentially loaded with dead
ends.
I think we have all seen big 'initiatives' from IBM that were later 'withdrawn
from marketing' becau
t.
Charles
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On 1/12/21 1:55 am, Seymour J Metz wrote:
I just wish
On 1/12/21 11:58 pm, René Jansen wrote:
David,
Thank you for mentioning these plugins, I am certainly going to have a look at
them.
There are some things in your mail I feel I have to correct.
On 30 Nov 2021, at 22:55, David Crayford wrote:
On 1/12/21 1:55 am, Seymour J Metz wrote:
I just
On 8/12/21 9:34 pm, Bodra - Pessoal wrote:
Just a very simple question: They know word CONTINGENCY and data MIRROR?
Of course they do. Cloud computing providers allow you to set
availability zones on different data centeres and they replicate. Like
most It outages I suspect human error just
It’s a stinker and it’s going to affect 10s of millions applications.
> On 12 Dec 2021, at 00:24, Jousma, David
> <01a0403c5dc1-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote:
>
> Looks like a bad one...
>
>
> https://www.lunasec.io/docs/blog/log4j-zero-day/
>
>
>
> Dave Jousma
>
> Vice Presid
On 12/12/21 7:32 am, Bill Johnson wrote:
Nearly every bank in the world runs a mainframe. That’s a fact.
I'm calling BS. None of the challenger banks (Startling, Yolt, Monzo,
Moneze, N26 etc) run mainframes. They have millions of customers and are
gaining millions by the week at the expense o
On 12/12/21 6:31 am, Bill Johnson wrote:
IBM still puts out new boxes, new operating systems, new releases of key
software, and is still ahead of other platforms. I suspect the new 2nm chip
will keep them there.
Have you been drinking? IBM don't fab their own chips and haven't for
years. Who
S the challenger banks
have nearly 40m customers and that is increasing every year
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1239190/challenger-banks-users-in-the-united-states/
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On Saturday, December 11, 2021, 7:31 PM, David Crayford
wrote:
On 12/12/21 7:32 am, Bill Jo
On 12/12/21 6:37 am, Attila Fogarasi wrote:
not so difficult on z/OS (and there is log4j usage on
z/OS but unclear that RCE can do much harm on a properly secured z/OS
system -- this will vary by what application is using the log4j library).
Fingers crossed! The truth is almost no mainframe net
On 12/12/21 4:10 am, Tom Brennan wrote:
People say OS/2 was far better in design, operation, and security than
Windows, but it's gone now.
I worked a company in the 90s who used OS/2 Warp IMO it was terrible.
Under the covers it had preemptive multi-tasking, memory protection etc
so was a fa
On 13/12/21 6:57 am, Andrew Rowley wrote:
On 12/12/2021 1:20 pm, David Crayford wrote:
Fingers crossed! The truth is almost no mainframe network (worth its
salt) is visible to outside world. But that doesn't stop the public
servers being compromised.
A quick fix if you are unable to u
On 14/12/21 12:12 pm, Andrew Rowley wrote:
On 14/12/2021 12:30 am, Filip Palian wrote:
My intention was to share information about the vulnerabilities
affecting
Java language. (Without performing a proper comparison) I'd prefer
not to
get into discussion about one language being less secure th
On 18/12/21 10:23 pm, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
On Sat, 18 Dec 2021 08:32:11 -0500, Mark Regan wrote:
Some of you may have already seen this since it was also shared on
LinkedIn, which is where I saw it.
https://medium.com/theropod/top-8-reasons-for-using-python-instead-of-rexx-for-z-os-a6b67f8210
I agree with almost everything he says. Python is light years better
than REXX. Of course, that's subjective but it IMO it's in a different
league. I've been working with YAML configs recently and Python has a
very nice YAML library. No such luck with REXX, especially classic REXX
on z/OS.
In
If you have a C compiler you can build gawk from source. David Pitts
ported it years ago.
On 20/12/21 3:13 am, Farley, Peter x23353 wrote:
I have been using awk from JCL using DD's as script source, input and output
files for years now. There is no issue using awk in normal JCL. I even use a
y because IBM bought into the Open Source thing a little late -
and of course Microsoft sabotaging Rexx where it could, just because it was a
better BASIC.
Best regards,
René.
On 19 Dec 2021, at 00:54, David Crayford wrote:
I agree with almost everything he says. Python is light years b
g it to z/OS.
On 20 Dec 2021, at 04:37, David Crayford wrote:
There's a Python client library for Kafka but it would be a very heavy lift to
implement a client on z/OS using REXX.
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Wow, meldmerge is awesome. It has Github integrations and syntax
highlighting.
There is a difference between IBMs Python port and Rockets. Rocket have
patched Python to use fopen() so it supports the MVS file system. There
are also other MVS libraries such as a load module call API, IDCAMS,
B
On 21/12/21 3:50 am, Seymour J Metz wrote:
Personally, I would like for IBM to fully support all of the popular languages
in TSO, including languages that I don't particularly like.
Is there a reason that you prefer Python to, e.g., Ruby?
I can't speak for Kirk but to me a no-brainer. Ruby pe
On 21/12/21 10:58 am, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
*New file system support to access z/OS data sets*
IBM plans to provide a new file system type that will render traditional
z/OS data sets accessible by the z/OS UNIX name space. This will enable
z/OS UNIX applications, tools, and utilities transparent
On 21/12/21 11:36 am, David Crayford wrote:
Not only do they support granular ENQs and even better in our case
ENQs they are rip-roaring fast.
I meant to say "in our case no ENQs"...
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I've plonked the gawk for z/OS binaries on Github
https://github.com/daveyc/gawk_zos. You will need Rocket Git to clone
the repo but otherwise you can download the files using old school.
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On 21/12/21 2:41 am, Seymour J Metz wrote:
Six languages doesn't strike me as a lot; I know more assemblers than that. My
position is that the CS curriculum should stress learning multiple, radically
different, langages rather than the language du jour.
I know a lot more languages than 6. Tha
Here we go again. Bulls**t Bill is spouting his usual ignorant nonsense.
One of my colleagues was working in the z/OS Unix team at the time of
the Logica breach and was part of the team who performed a detailed,
forensic investigation. The fact is that a hacker exploited a serious
zero day vuln
+1
All the best ideas are simple
On 29/12/21 7:53 am, Tom Harper wrote:
Make them members of a PDSE.
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On 5/1/22 8:04 am, Seymour J Metz wrote:
If IBM replaces REXX across the board, that would have to include continuing to
support TSO. Also, those developing in REXX for TSO and ISPF environments would
get a productivity boost if oorexx were supported there.
It's a moot point because it's neve
ge.
On 5/1/22 10:06 am, Seymour J Metz wrote:
That's David Crayford, not me. I have no basis to either confirm or contradict.
It's unfortunate if true.
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On 5/1/22 4:18 pm, Itschak Mugzach wrote:
Z = “my text “
Address ispexec vput x shared
Did you mean "VPUT Z SHARED"? There is no need to use VPUT, ISPF will
use the implicit variable pool which is bound automatically to REXX.
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