Re: EBCDIC-ASCII converter and other tools

scripting. Ever since Windows got a Linux subsystem I spend all my time in a bash shell :) On 30/12/2020 2:09 am, Frank Swarbrick wrote: > It doesn't look like Windows 10 included PowerShell supports EBCDIC, but the > open source version, PowerShell 7.1 does. > > PS C:\Users\fswar> Form

Re: EBCDIC-ASCII converter and other tools

It doesn't look like Windows 10 included PowerShell supports EBCDIC, but the open source version, PowerShell 7.1 does. PS C:\Users\fswar> Format-Hex 1047.txt Label: C:\Users\fswar\1047.txt Offset Bytes Ascii 00 01 02 03 04

Re: COBOL LIB

If you don't have COBOL developers in house it seems unlikely you would have purchased the COBOL compiler. Can't the vendor supply you with binary executables that they have compiled? From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of CarlosM Martinez Sent:

Security and z/OS open source tools

I have downloaded and installed in my personal z/OS Unix directory curl and a few other z/OpenSource tools from Rocket Software. I have asked my z/OS security guy if we can go ahead and have our systems group (outsourced to IBM zCloud) "officially" install them. He came back with the

Re: [MVS-OE] Other user trying to run my shell script gets "FSUM7351 not found" error

ct: Re: [MVS-OE] Other user trying to run my shell script gets "FSUM7351 not found" error On 2020-11-18, at 10:16:41, Frank Swarbrick wrote: > > Can you explain the difference between executing a script that executes the > program, which requires this, while running the program

Re: [MVS-OE] [External] Re: [MVS-OE] Other user trying to run my shell script gets "FSUM7351 not found" error

ess a file or subdirectory with a known name. So in your example, the user must have search (x) permission on all of these: /u /u/dvfjs /u/dvfjs/rocket /u/dvfjs/rocket/bin Kirk Wolf On Tue, Nov 17, 2020 at 3:25 PM Frank Swarbrick wrote: > OK, issue resolved. I not only had to set the read and

Re: [MVS-OE] [External] Re: [MVS-OE] Other user trying to run my shell script gets "FSUM7351 not found" error

my shell script gets "FSUM7351 not found" error Did you need the read bit on the entire path, or only the execute bit? -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of Frank Swarb

Re: [MVS-OE] [External] Re: [MVS-OE] Other user trying to run my shell script gets "FSUM7351 not found" error

he user doesn't have read/search/execute permissions to the full directory path of /u/dvfjs/rocket/bin/curl ? Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com On Mon, Nov 16, 2020 at 12:51 PM Frank Swarbrick < frank.swarbr...@outlook.com> wrote: > Any thoughts on this? I

Re: Other user trying to run my shell script gets "FSUM7351 not found" error

my shell script gets "FSUM7351 not found" error That sounds like PATH is different in the two cases. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of Frank Swarbrick Sent: Monday, N

Re: FTP converting between UTF-8 and EBCDIC

ould. YMMV. Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Frank Swarbrick Sent: Monday, November 16, 2020 10:16 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: FTP converting between UTF-8 and EBCDIC The record is made up o

Other user trying to run my shell script gets "FSUM7351 not found" error

Any thoughts on this? I can execute this job and have no issue. I'm trying to let another developer run it. He's able to run /u/dvfjs/rocket/bin/curl directly (in STDPARM, following "SH ".) But if he executes my shell script (/u/dvfjs/jira_test) he gets "/u/dvfjs/rocket/bin/curl:

Re: FTP converting between UTF-8 and EBCDIC

___ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of Paul Gilmartin <000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> Sent: Monday, November 16, 2020 10:55 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: FTP converting between UTF-8 and EBCDIC On Mon, 16 Nov 2020 17:26:12 +, Fr

Re: FTP converting between UTF-8 and EBCDIC

dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> Sent: Sunday, November 15, 2020 8:14 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: FTP converting between UTF-8 and EBCDIC On Mon, 16 Nov 2020 02:28:06 +, Frank Swarbrick wrote: >We don't use Unix for any of our production business applications. If we

Re: FTP converting between UTF-8 and EBCDIC

___ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of Paul Gilmartin <000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> Sent: Sunday, November 15, 2020 4:15 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: FTP converting between UTF-8 and EBCDIC On Sun, 15 Nov 2020 22:44:05 +,

FTP converting between UTF-8 and EBCDIC

I couldn't find this actually stated anywhere, but it looks like if you want to use z/OS FTP to transmit a UTF-8 encoded file to (and I assume from) an EBCDIC codepage you have to use multi-byte encoding instead of single byte encoding. The z/OS file also has to be variable length, not fixed

Re: Learning shell scripting

mmands that have been stored in a text file. For example, the programmer could store all the appropriate compiling and linking commands in a file. www.ibm.com From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of Frank Swarbrick Sent: Monday, November 9, 2020 2

Re: Learning shell scripting

M-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Learning shell scripting On Mon, 9 Nov 2020 20:48:23 +, Frank Swarbrick wrote: >While I've used Unix/Linux systems on and off for over 30 years, I've never >really taken the time to learn shell scripting. For a z/OS environment are >there any highly recomm

Learning shell scripting

While I've used Unix/Linux systems on and off for over 30 years, I've never really taken the time to learn shell scripting. For a z/OS environment are there any highly recommended tutorials and/or references? -- For IBM-MAIN

Re: Can a non-admin restrict others from viewing one of their own MVS data sets?

from viewing one of their own MVS data sets? Frank Swarbrick said: >I was successfully able to use the Security System (RACF) >panels to add a dataset profile for a dataset with my HLQ, >with UACC(NONE). I had another developer who would >normally have access try to view it and he

Re: Can a non-admin restrict others from viewing one of their own MVS data sets?

: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Frank Swarbrick Sent: Friday, November 6, 2020 2:43 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Can a non-admin restrict others from viewing one of their own MVS data sets? In the Unix world one can use chmod (change mode) on their own files to make it so non

Can a non-admin restrict others from viewing one of their own MVS data sets?

In the Unix world one can use chmod (change mode) on their own files to make it so non-superusers cannot view a particular file. Is there anything similar for MVS data sets? -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: Modify UNIX File Format

alf of Paul Gilmartin <000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> Sent: Thursday, October 29, 2020 1:08 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Modify UNIX File Format On Thu, 29 Oct 2020 18:31:03 +0000, Frank Swarbrick wrote: >Using the z/OS UNIX Directory List Utility (

Modify UNIX File Format

Using the z/OS UNIX Directory List Utility (ISPF 3.17) command MF (Modify Format) you are able to change the file format. It prompts you with a panel looking something like this: Modify z/OS UNIX File Format Command ===> Pathname . : /u/dvfjs/cics_headers.txt Type . . .

Re: Generic name for PDS/PDSE

artitioned Dataset (PDS) or a Partitioned Dataset Extended (PDSE) unless the context clearly demands otherwise." I personally at least would have to think "what the heck does he mean?" every time I encountered "MVS library." Charles -Original Message- From: IBM

Re: Syncsort to DFSORT - my time has come.

- unless you have an exceptionally large number of sorts - or tight SMF space restrictions. There’s gold in them there records. :-) Cheers, Martin Sent from my iPad > On 27 Oct 2020, at 21:13, Frank Swarbrick wrote: > > Here is our ICEPRM00, if you are interested. > > JCL >

Generic name for PDS/PDSE

Is there a standard "generic" name for PDS/PDSE? Is it "PDS(E)"? Or maybe something like "MVS library" or "MVS dataset library"? Just wondering. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to

Re: Syncsort to DFSORT - my time has come.

Here is our ICEPRM00, if you are interested. JCL DYNALOC=(SYSDA,12) DYNAUTO=YES MSGDDN=SYSOUT PARMDDN=DFSPARM SMF=NO INV DYNALOC=(SYSDA,12) DYNAUTO=IGNWKDD ERET=ABEND MSGDDN=SORTMSG PARMDDN=SORTPARM SMF=SHORT TSO SMF=SHORT TSOINV SMF=SHORT TD1 SMF=SHORT

Re: SMF to capture user login history

Of Frank Swarbrick Sent: Monday, October 26, 2020 1:47 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: SMF to capture user login history [CAUTION: This Email is from outside the Organization. Unless you trust the sender, Don’t click links or open attachments as it may be a Phishing email, which can steal

Re: SMF to capture user login history

ery RACF user has default group assigned. And of course the user is connected to this group. HTH -- Radoslaw Skorupka Lodz, Poland W dniu 26.10.2020 o 17:30, Frank Swarbrick pisze: > Curious question. Is it possible to have a single user ID with different > privileges depending on

Re: SMF to capture user login history

Curious question. Is it possible to have a single user ID with different privileges depending on what group you specify when logging in (to TSO, for example)? From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of Seymour J Metz Sent: Sunday, October 25, 2020 8:05

Re: Bill Klein, COBOL standards person has died

Sad news. Thanks for letting us know, Clark. From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of Clark F Morris Sent: Thursday, September 24, 2020 1:05 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Bill Klein, COBOL standards person has died The following is from

Re: Passing STDENV DD to FTP via SYSIN

You can also use the CEEOPTS DD. Something like this: //CEEOPTS DD * ENVAR("GSK_PROTOCOL_TLSV1_2=1") [...any other LE options you wish to use...] /* We also use this method of specifying TLS 1.2, but I seem to recall the "official" method is to use AT-TLS instead. At the time we wanted to

Re: Multiple FTP Servers

A couple of things... * According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FTPS, port 990 has been "reserved" as the official listener port for the FTPS data connection. * This doesn't mean you must use this port. Our FTPS server uses 8443. Apparently some brainiac thought that FTPS and HTTPS

Accessing github (and other public internet sites) (was Re: A little magic from Doug Nadel)

Question for you all. Are you allowed to have your z/OS machines access internet sites such as github, directly? If not, what processes do you follow to get said data on to your z/OS systems? From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of David Crayford

Re: PL/I RFE to vote for (or not)

There is one advantage to COBOL's rather archaic arithmetic statements: DIVIDE dividend BY divisor GIVING quotient REMAINDER remain DIVIDE divisor INTO dividend GIVING quotient REMAINDER remain From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of Robert

Re: Dovetail/Kirk Wolf?

If one does not use Twitter does one truly exist? From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of Kirk Wolf Sent: Monday, August 31, 2020 3:23 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Dovetail/Kirk Wolf? I'm fine (and utterly amused that my status might

Re: z/OS use of "legacy" programming languages

. From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of Timothy Sipples Sent: Wednesday, July 1, 2020 12:07 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: z/OS use of "legacy" programming languages Frank Swarbrick asked: >Is Pascal also still supported/

z/OS use of "legacy" programming languages

Some time ago I noticed that z/OS Language Environment has support for both "FORTRAN IV" and "VS FORTRAN" (FORTRAN 77 standard), even though the latest Fortran compiler hasn't been enhanced since 1993 (??). I've been learning modern Fortran (standards Fortran 90, 95, 03 and 08) using GNU

Re: Good FTP client for MVS data set access

r, but yes a sysprog would need to install it if not installed, configure and setup the security or have the secadmin do the security. Carmen Vitullo - Original Message - From: "Frank Swarbrick" To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Sent: Thursday, June 18, 2020 1:20:14 PM Subject:

Re: Good FTP client for MVS data set access

rsecomm.properties File 755 2020-02-20 11:50 CPV8281 294 ssl.properties Carmen Vitullo - Original Message - From: "Frank Swarbrick" To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Sent: Thursday, June 18, 2020 12:52:18 PM Subject: Re: Good FTP client for MVS data set access Looks like some of

Re: Good FTP client for MVS data set access

al Message - From: "Frank Swarbrick" To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 2020 5:29:58 PM Subject: Re: Good FTP client for MVS data set access Hey Carmen, Is that z/OS Explorer (free) or is that IBM Developer (formerly Rational Developer -- expensive) for Z th

Re: Good FTP client for MVS data set access

/explorer I have installed Carmen Vitullo - Original Message - From: "Frank Swarbrick" To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 2020 5:29:58 PM Subject: Re: Good FTP client for MVS data set access Hey Carmen, Is that z/OS Explorer (free) or is that IBM

Re: Improve OMVS cp performance?

/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Frank Swarbrick [frank.swarbr...@outlook.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 2020 6:53 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Improve OMVS cp performance? Do you think its

Re: Improve OMVS cp performance?

, although it would take some careful design to make it efficient and transparent. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Frank Swarbrick [frank.swarbr

Re: Good FTP client for MVS data set access

S data set access [External Email. Exercise caution when clicking links or opening attachments.] I use Filezilla (Open Source) and Bluezone (now from Rocket) Both have their pluses and minuses. > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On > Behalf Of Frank Swarbric

Re: Good FTP client for MVS data set access

s.] I use Filezilla (Open Source) and Bluezone (now from Rocket) Both have their pluses and minuses. > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On > Behalf Of Frank Swarbrick > Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 2020 11:10 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subj

Re: Good FTP client for MVS data set access

ow from Rocket) Both have their pluses and minuses. > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On > Behalf Of Frank Swarbrick > Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 2020 11:10 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Good FTP client for MVS data set access > &

Re: Improve OMVS cp performance?

effort. I suspect that it will be a lot more involved to get it approved than to actually implement it. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Frank Swarbrick [fr

Re: Good FTP client for MVS data set access

from the GUI moving or coping datasets can be done using a drag and drop. Carmen Vitullo - Original Message - From: "Frank Swarbrick" To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Sent: Wednesday, June 17, 2020 1:09:55 PM Subject: Good FTP client for MVS data set access What FTP client

Good FTP client for MVS data set access

What FTP client do you use to access MVS data sets? Do you like it? I personally use the FTP Client that is part of Micro Focus (formerly Attachmate) Reflection Desktop for IBM (Reflection Workspace). Being an application suite dedicated to mainframe access (the application is primarily a

Re: Improve OMVS cp performance?

I wonder what kind of effort it might be for z/OS to support Unix path names as aliases/links to MVS legacy data sets. Probably a lot of work, but it seems like it would be quite useful for situations such as this where the Unix application only supports Unix paths. Just a wild thought. Not

Re: "Everyone wants to retire mainframes"

In a kinder, more gentle world, the message would tell you which. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Frank Swarbrick [frank.swarbr...@outlook.com] Sent: T

Re: Goto Statements AND COBOL OPTIMIZATION

Those were added w/ COBOL 2002, not 2014. Don't give yourself too much credit!  From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of Tom Ross Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2020 6:07 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Goto Statements AND COBOL OPTIMIZATION

Re: "Everyone wants to retire mainframes"

e you sure that it wasn't in the joblog? -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Frank Swarbrick [frank.swarbr...@outlook.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2020 1:02 PM To

Re: "Everyone wants to retire mainframes"

Here's a quote from a message I posted to this list in 2009: "I have a very basic one to complain about: DFS0929I BLDL FAILED FOR MEMBER --DDMPPSZ This really means that the specified PSB DDMPPSZ is not in the specified IMS library. Why can't it just say that? As an application programmer do

Re: COBOL Question

Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Frank Swarbrick [frank.swarbr...@outlook.com] Sent: Tuesday, June 9, 2020 10:42 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: COBOL Question Do you mean like this? integer, dimension(10) :: a, b, c a = [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10] b = [2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11

Re: COBOL Question

Subject: Re: COBOL Question What about gcc Fortran? Does that run on OMVS? Linux on Z? -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Frank Swarbrick [frank.swarbr

Re: COBOL Question

/* If a problem has a single neck, it has a simple solution. */ -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Frank Swarbrick Sent: Monday, June 8, 2020 21:22 I've been teaching myself (modern) Fortran the last few weeks. Just b

Re: COBOL Question

, 2020, 08:22:18 PM CDT, Frank Swarbrick wrote: I've been teaching myself (modern) Fortran the last few weeks. Just because. It has an interesting behavior that I kind of like. Normal IF statement: if (something) then end if But it also has a "one line IF" (not su

Re: COBOL Question

I've been teaching myself (modern) Fortran the last few weeks. Just because. It has an interesting behavior that I kind of like. Normal IF statement: if (something) then end if But it also has a "one line IF" (not sure offhand of the Fortran "name" for this): if (something) must

Re: COBOL Question

Were there really three releases of VS COBOL II that didn't implement COBOL 1985? I thought there was only one. But I didn't live through it. I generally think of COBOL II and COBOL 1985 as being "the same", since that was (essentially) the case by the time I became a COBOL developer (in

Re: COBOL Question

Apologies again if this has already been answered. I'm a few days behind. You can use a full stop (period) to terminate an IF statement. The "problem" is (and one of the any reasons I elide all periods that are not absolutely required) it terminates an entire COBOL "sentence" (not just a

Re: COBOL Question

GO TO to an "exit" procedure (that is, a procedure that terminates unconditionally terminates the program) is, in my mind, acceptable as well. In fact, if you try to "perform" a "terminal" exit procedure the compiler will give you a warning that your "calling" procedure will never reach its

Re: COBOL Question

With Enterprise COBOL V5 and up you could do the following: PERFORM VARYING JC FROM 1 BY 1 UNTIL JC > 99 IF X > 999 EXIT PERFORM CYCLE END-IF IF FIRST-NAME = "ROBERT" EXIT PERFORM CYCLE END-IF IF TYPE <> 195 EXIT PERFORM CYCLE END-IF IF NOT SO-ON EXIT PERFORM CYCLE END-IF IF

Re: Gratuitous EXECIO Documentation

I can't seem to find any way to give a "thumbs up" to a listserv post. So consider this to be a virtual thumbs up.  (Yes, I am kidding about not being able to find how to do it. I realize that listserv far pre-dates Twitter, Facebook and the like.) From:

Re: What crashing COBOL systems reveal about applications maintenance -- GCN

We use OPT(1). Probably for no good reason. (And it was my decision, meaning its easy enough to change!) From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of Tom Ross Sent: Wednesday, May 20, 2020 3:19 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: What crashing

Re: Oil futures and computer "help"

Never trust a computer application that you yourself didn't write. And even then don't trust it. Only slightly kidding. From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of Bob Bridges Sent: Wednesday, May 13, 2020 5:28 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject:

Re: Developers say Google's Go is 'most sought after' programming language of 2020

https://developer.ibm.com/mainframe/2020/04/24/ibm-intends-to-enable-go-on-z-os/ IBM intends to enable Go on z/OS - Mainframe DEV IBM intends to enable a full native Go (or Golang) compiler on z/OS. IBM intends to

Re: TSO/E SUBMIT exit

Are you still wanting to limit "non OPER" users to only those jobs beginning with their user ID? If so, for gods sake why? Sounds very 1960s... From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of Robert Hahne Sent: Wednesday, May 6, 2020 2:34 PM To:

Re: Mainframe user ID length

I know on my MQ instance I have installed on my home Windows machine, MQ truncates my Windows user ID "Frank Swarbrick" to "Frank Swarbr". From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of Seymour J Metz Sent: Monday, May 4, 2020

Re: IBM-MAIN Digest - 2 May 2020 to 3 May 2020 (#2020-125)

Discussion List on behalf of Tom Marchant <000a2a8c2020-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> Sent: Monday, May 4, 2020 2:31 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: IBM-MAIN Digest - 2 May 2020 to 3 May 2020 (#2020-125) On Mon, 4 May 2020 19:14:31 +, Frank Swarbrick wrote: >Wha

Re: IBM-MAIN Digest - 2 May 2020 to 3 May 2020 (#2020-125)

It's simple enough to write your own CICS signon screen to allow for longer user IDs (and passwords/phrases), but I think CICS would have to add support for the EXEC CICS SIGNON command to allow for a longer user ID. Currently: " USERID(data-value) Specifies the 8-byte sign-on user ID. The

Re: IBM-MAIN Digest - 2 May 2020 to 3 May 2020 (#2020-125)

Interesting stuff. I certainly won't claim to understand it all. What I would love to see is some sort of "single signon" option, where a user would only need to sign on to their personal workstation and not need to explicitly sign on to z/OS at all. It seems like (to me, anyway!) a user could

Re: Mainframe user ID length

From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of Walt Farrell Sent: Sunday, May 3, 2020 7:22 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Mainframe user ID length On Thu, 30 Apr 2020 19:46:04 +0000, Frank Swarbrick wrote: >Is z/OS still limited in all cases to 8 upper case characters? I

Re: Mainframe user ID length

: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of Timothy Sipples Sent: Saturday, May 2, 2020 12:34 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Mainframe user ID length Frank Swarbrick wrote: >"more than 8"? What's the limit, if any? The z/OS LDAP Server's CN limit is 256 charac

Re: Mainframe user ID length

il.com ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Thursday, April 30, 2020 3:46 PM, Frank Swarbrick wrote: > Is z/OS still limited in all cases to 8 upper case characters? I am curious > if a user that only has access to MQ might be able to have a longer and > ideally mixed case user ID. They would

Re: Mainframe user ID length

⇐=== NEW robin...@sce.com -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Frank Swarbrick Sent: Thursday, April 30, 2020 12:46 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: (External):Mainframe user ID length CAUTION EXTERNAL EMAIL Is z/OS still limited in all cases to 8 upper

Mainframe user ID length

Is z/OS still limited in all cases to 8 upper case characters? I am curious if a user that only has access to MQ might be able to have a longer and ideally mixed case user ID. They wouldn't have access to TSO or CICS or IMS.

Re: Latest COBOL standard is 2014 was Re: Cobol

And believe it or not, there is an ISO group working on a 202X standard for COBOL. From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of Clark Morris Sent: Monday, April 27, 2020 7:39 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Latest COBOL standard is 2014 was Re:

Re: C

The "1974" COBOL compiler (OS/VS COBOL) required the printer control character to be explicitly defined. This "bug" can be "emulated" with VS COBOL II and subsequent compilers by specifying the "NOADV" compiler option. Not recommended for new programs, but useful when migrating from OS/VS

Re: IGYSC2025-W cobol message

Is SAS-BLOCK or B-C-BILL ever referred to later in the program? If so, post the code. If not then just delete both fields from the linkage section. From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of Mahesh KN Sent: Friday, April 24, 2020 5:21 AM To:

Re: Why rip out COBOL when you can modernize key applications? - Weirdware

ng a table stack. On 2020-04-08 5:14 AM, Frank Swarbrick wrote: > Nested subroutines. > > Small example: > > ID DIVISION. > PROGRAM-NAME. MAINPROG. > [...] > PROCEDURE DIVISION. > CALL 'NESTED-PROGRAM-1' > GOBACK. > > ID DIVISION. >

Re: Why rip out COBOL when you can modernize key applications? - Weirdware

Sorry, I guess technically they are "nested programs". From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of Frank Swarbrick Sent: Tuesday, April 7, 2020 3:14 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Why rip out COBOL when you can modernize key ap

Re: Why rip out COBOL when you can modernize key applications? - Weirdware

, Frank Swarbrick wrote: > Internal subroutines and local variables have been supported since COBOL 1985 > (VS COBOL II era). > They're not ideal, but they do exist. > > > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of > David Spiegel > Sent

Re: Why rip out COBOL when you can modernize key applications? - Weirdware

Internal subroutines and local variables have been supported since COBOL 1985 (VS COBOL II era). They're not ideal, but they do exist. From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of David Spiegel Sent: Tuesday, April 7, 2020 12:58 PM To:

Re: GOTOs (was CLIST)

A bit off topic perhaps, but COBOL now supports the following: EXIT PERFORM (like LEAVE) EXIT PERFORM CYCLE (like ITERATE) EXIT PARAGRAPH (like LEAVE but exists the current COBOL paragraph) EXIT SECTION (like LEAVE but exists the current COBOL section) You can even exit from a simple block,

Re: Glossary (was: ZOA ... Ansible)

Why not just "UNIX file" or "z/OS UNIX" file? From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of Steve Smith Sent: Friday, February 21, 2020 6:16 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Glossary (was: ZOA ... Ansible) What's wrong with USS again?

Re: Manuals for CA-VOLLIE?

I don't have a Broadcom logon, but did you try this page? https://techdocs.broadcom.com/content/broadcom/techdocs/us/en/ca-miscellaneous/legacy_bookshelves_and_pdfs/bookshelves_and_pdfs/bookshelves/ca-vollie-for-z-vse.html From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on

Re: Manuals for CA-VOLLIE?

You might ask on bit.listserv.vse-l. From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of Bernd Oppolzer Sent: Monday, February 3, 2020 11:25 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Manuals for CA-VOLLIE? In my new project assignment, I have to use a tool called

Re: Starting an application in ISPF

@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Starting an application in ISPF And even simpler, add it's and select cmd options to your ispf command table. This way you can type a short name to invoke it. ITschak בתאריך יום ו׳, 17 בינו׳ 2020, 2:44, מאת Frank Swarbrick ‏< frank.swarbr...@outlook.com>: > This works

Re: Starting an application in ISPF

ve Smith Sent: Thursday, January 16, 2020 4:17 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: (External):Re: Starting an application in ISPF Just write and invoke a simple exec (or clist if that's your thing): /* REXX */ ADDRESS ISPEXEC 'SELECT PGM(DGTFMD01) NEWAPPL(DGT) SCRNAME(ISMF)' EXIT Y

Re: Starting an application in ISPF

your thing): /* REXX */ ADDRESS ISPEXEC 'SELECT PGM(DGTFMD01) NEWAPPL(DGT) SCRNAME(ISMF)' EXIT You could also invoke it from option 7.1 (Dialog Test), but that adds some overhead. sas On Thu, Jan 16, 2020 at 6:47 PM Frank Swarbrick wrote: > Doesn't work for me. Must not be in my "

Re: Starting an application in ISPF

just type START ISMF on any ISPF command line Launches in a new window YMMV rgds -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Frank Swarbrick Sent: Friday, 17 January 2020 12:24 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Starting an application in ISPF I am a developer

Starting an application in ISPF

I am a developer who wants to start up the ISMF application. Being a developer I don't have it as an option on any ISPF menu. Documentation states I can use "ISPSTART PGM(DGTFMD01) NEWAPPL(DGT)" from TSO. This works, but then I have only that application running, and not my other ISPF

Re: Migrating to new compiler release

enders or unexpected emails** You’ve got me there! I would think that chance is relatively small and wouldn’t worry about it. On Wed, Jan 15, 2020 at 12:08 PM Frank Swarbrick < frank.swarbr...@outlook.com> wrote: > Intentional differences, yes.

Re: Migrating to new compiler release

be documented in the migration guides I would think. On Tue, Jan 14, 2020 at 1:38 PM Frank Swarbrick wrote: > I understand that the runtime is part of LE, and is generally shared > between versions (at least V5 and V6 seem to share the same runtime for > many/most functions). Conceiv

Re: Migrating to new compiler release

10:42 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Migrating to new compiler release Seems to me your problem is recompiling after testing. If you want to avoid problems that re-compiling could introduce, then don't. sas On Wed, Jan 15, 2020 at 11:59 AM Frank Swarbrick < frank.swa

Re: Migrating to new compiler release

...@outlook.com (Frank Swarbrick) wrote: >I disagree with that. A new version may simply be new features, none >affecting any features the old version supported. The 6.3 compiler supports a new ARCH level for the z15 and uses SIMD instructions rather that the selected conversion to floating

Re: Migrating to new compiler release

for the same statement, for another. It certainly would. If the code generated for every statement was the same for both compilers, then there would be no difference between the two. Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Fr

Re: Migrating to new compiler release

ers, then there would be no difference between the two. Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Frank Swarbrick Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2020 11:37 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Migrating to new compi

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