Re: Bringing up skills learned on z/OS Hercules in interview?

2020-04-10 Thread Mike Schwab
Hercules emulates IBM S/370 and successor hardware. You have to install the operating system and software and data on top of it. zCobol and zAsm emulates the hardware and operating system calls to run user mode software. http://z390.sourceforge.net/zcobol/index.html On Fri, Apr 10, 2020 at

Re: Bringing up skills learned on z/OS Hercules in interview?

2020-04-10 Thread Mike Schwab
Here is a thread about Year 2000 IBM 370/390/ESA and future z emulators. FSI had been selling 390/ESA emulators through IBM, but would not get a license to emulate z processors. https://tech-insider.org/mainframes/research/2001/0308.html PSI was trying to sell Itaniums running an emulator to run

Re: About the leap second and coding

2020-04-10 Thread Mike Schwab
We abandond the sun? You did that when you changed from Solar Time to Time zones. And again with Daylight Savings Time.. And I looked up the change in time on Wikipedia, and calculated a year gets 1 second longer every 150 years or so, so in 2200 we would have a leap second every year, in 2350

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

2020-04-08 Thread Mike Schwab
PROGRAM-ID pgmname RECURSIVE. https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SS6SG3_4.2.0/com.ibm.entcobol.doc_4.2/PGandLR/tasks/tpsubw03.htm On Tue, Apr 7, 2020 at 9:47 PM Seymour J Metz wrote: > > Maybe,but there's nothing in his example to suggest that COBOL supports > recursion; you'd have

Re: Upwards Compatibility of Code in Z series Boxes

2020-04-07 Thread Mike Schwab
A vendor has to decide the minimum required hardware for his software. IBM chooses the minimum for the versions of z/OS, z/VM, z/VSE, z/TPF, and its other software. Cobol 5 requires PDSEs ,etc. A company might have to run on older hardware if they have a DR site with an older computer. 31 bit

Re: Free 3270 emulator for Mac OS

2020-04-06 Thread Mike Schwab
Building with transistors and LED indicators is all the rage. https://hackaday.com/2016/07/06/42300-transistor-megaprocessor-is-complete/ On Mon, Apr 6, 2020 at 12:47 PM Seymour J Metz wrote: > > I would start bottom up from the gates, which can be built with radically > different technologies,

Re: New Jersey Pleas for COBOL Coders for Mainframes Amid Coronavirus Pandemic

2020-04-05 Thread Mike Schwab
Cobol IMS TELON job is paying 59-100K/year in Springfield IL, kind of a low wage. On Sun, Apr 5, 2020 at 2:09 PM Bob Bridges wrote: > > Says here "COBOL is a dead language that hasn't been taught in most > universities for decades, and the rare COBOL coders command anywhere from > $55 to $85 an

Re: Wanted Civil programmers in New Jersey urgently

2020-04-05 Thread Mike Schwab
Well, the 3rd COVID19 bill included an extra $600 per week increase in benefits from federal sources. Should be able to change the formulae quick enough, then just multiply the number of checks by the $600 to transfer from the Feds. Actually I expect the problem to be a maxed out database or

Re: strange python announcement

2020-03-29 Thread Mike Schwab
Here is a website with free coding programs designed to get a non-programmer up to speed in about 1 year of full time learning. https://www.freecodecamp.org/ On Sun, Mar 29, 2020 at 10:48 PM Seymour J Metz wrote: > > Well, at the moment Ruby looks better than Python, and I'm wondering about >

Re: Upwards Compatibility of Code in Z series Boxes

2020-03-29 Thread Mike Schwab
Yep. APL\360 will fail if you use more than 8MiB. On Sun, Mar 29, 2020 at 6:42 PM Charles Mills wrote: > > Hardware upward compatibility of problem state code is darned near 100%. > > Some privileged instructions have gone away, but that is only a concern if > you are porting an OS, or OS-like

Re: Upwards Compatibility of Code in Z series Boxes

2020-03-29 Thread Mike Schwab
IBM S/360 code compiled in early 1960s is still running on current z/15 boxes. Try the Turnkey 4- package. It is MVS 3.8J from 1983, PTFs applied, and user software added. On Sun, Mar 29, 2020 at 5:50 PM Grant Steele wrote: > > Impressed with the depth on this list from the contributors. I am

Re: 64-bit application dump analysis [was: RE: Problems with ESTAEX invoked in AMODE 64 . . . ]

2020-03-29 Thread Mike Schwab
They could have secret information running on the system and captured in the dump that they don't want you to view. On Sun, Mar 29, 2020 at 12:33 PM Walt Farrell wrote: > > On Thu, 26 Mar 2020 13:10:18 -0500, Paul Gilmartin > wrote: > > >On Thu, 26 Mar 2020 17:54:58 +, Seymour J Metz

Re: Mandatory Work From Home at my company

2020-03-23 Thread Mike Schwab
(Seymour J.) Metz > http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 > > > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of > Mike Schwab [mike.a.sch...@gmail.com] > Sent: Monday, March 23, 2020 8:48 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU

Re: Mandatory Work From Home at my company

2020-03-23 Thread Mike Schwab
Linux s390x. On Mon, Mar 23, 2020 at 5:45 PM Seymour J Metz wrote: > > > Ah! If only ISPF were more multi-session friendly, outa tha box. > > It was, with WSA. > > > -- > Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz > http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 > > > From: IBM Mainframe

Re: RUCSA

2020-03-12 Thread Mike Schwab
Well, any product that requires ALLOWUSERKEYCSA(YES) won't run on z/OS 2.4 until you do install it. On Thu, Mar 12, 2020 at 7:54 AM Dana Mitchell wrote: > > Is anyone using RUCSA yet? We currently have a very old ISV product that > requires running with ALLOWUSERKEYCSA(YES) on z/OS 2.2. As

Re: CAS9

2020-03-10 Thread Mike Schwab
http://www.bsp-gmbh.com/turnkey/cookbook/bsppilot.html CBTTAPE 249 file 33 is BSPPILOT. On Tue, Mar 10, 2020 at 7:21 AM Nai, Dean wrote: > > Currently we use CAS9 to start and stop everything during an IPL. CA will be > going away so I was wondering if anyone had thoughts on other cheap or free

Re: DSPSERV CREATE, is ORIGIN parm a relic?

2020-03-07 Thread Mike Schwab
With 64 bit machines, each processor now has 8K unique to it. Do they need to avoid the first 8K? On Sat, Mar 7, 2020 at 7:25 AM Peter Relson wrote: > > Answer: Not totally > > It is true that all current machines support page 0 in a data space, and > for them the "normal" origin returned would

Re: Two related alias entry address questions

2020-03-03 Thread Mike Schwab
2 less letters to type. Same command. On Tue, Mar 3, 2020 at 2:37 PM Charles Mills wrote: > > "Getting the aliases" is not an issue; getting the alias's entry point offset > is the issue. > > I am copying to a PDS because the program objects are in a PDSE but what I > want at the other end is

Re: Two related alias entry address questions

2020-03-03 Thread Mike Schwab
COPYGRP or COPYGROUP gets the aliases. https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSLTBW_2.1.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r1.idau100/cpogrp.htm On Tue, Mar 3, 2020 at 1:49 PM Charles Mills wrote: > > Thanks. > > > Probably the step that is failing. > > Yup! > > > How are you doing this copy? > > IEBCOPY

Re: 2 Spaces after periods [was: RE: Rexx parse using period as placeholder]

2020-02-28 Thread Mike Schwab
Well, how about a rotary dial cell phone? https://gizmodo.com/someone-built-a-distraction-free-cellphone-with-a-worki-1841636089 On Fri, Feb 28, 2020 at 11:55 AM Tom Brennan wrote: > > It's what younger folks who are not part of the USA "baby boom" call > older folks like me who do strange

Re: 2 Spaces after periods [was: RE: Rexx parse using period as placeholder]

2020-02-28 Thread Mike Schwab
And proud of it. On Fri, Feb 28, 2020 at 9:49 AM Tom Brennan wrote: > > Boomer :) > > On 2/28/2020 7:40 AM, Mitch Mccluhan wrote: > > I VOTE FOR 2 SPACES!!! Is that loud enough? It has ALWAYS made reading, > > easier. > > Mitch > > > > > > -Original Message- > > From: Joel C. Ewing

Re: 2 Spaces after periods [was: RE: Rexx parse using period as placeholder]

2020-02-27 Thread Mike Schwab
ot assure me that it was anything real. > > Reason: Nor that it was not. > > John: But I must think it is one or the other. > > Reason: By my father's soul, you must NOT -- until you have some evidence. > > Can you not remain in doubt? > > John: I don't know that I h

Re: OT Boeing flight software

2020-02-27 Thread Mike Schwab
After the gross negligence and stonewalling on the 737 max? > > > -- > Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz > http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 > > > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of > Mike Schwab [mike.a.s

OT Boeing flight software

2020-02-27 Thread Mike Schwab
https://www.orlandosentinel.com/space/os-bz-boeing-safety-commercial-crew-20200226-bgvthodnjzgmlc36hsxcaopahu-story.html Boeing didn’t perform full end-to-end test of its astronaut capsule before troubled mission, ‘surprising’ NASA safety panel. Critically, the panel learned early this month

Re: 2 Spaces after periods [was: RE: Rexx parse using period as placeholder]

2020-02-27 Thread Mike Schwab
Single space after a period if not end of sentence. I. E. abbreviations. On Thu, Feb 27, 2020 at 2:59 PM Paul Gilmartin <000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > > On Thu, 27 Feb 2020 15:48:44 -0500, Steve Smith wrote: > > >Thanks for another reminder I'm "really old" :-). The

Re: PDSE as GDG for archival

2020-02-27 Thread Mike Schwab
On Thu, Feb 27, 2020 at 9:17 AM Steve Thompson wrote: > A.B.C.GVnn(member) in order to access the "archived" member. Each generation is a completely different PDS member and only contains the members written to this PDS. Our shop did use them. -- Mike A Schwab, Springfield IL USA Where

Re: SMPE BYPASS(HOLDSYS,HOLDERR)

2020-02-14 Thread Mike Schwab
Since it will be doing a delete, SMPE cannot restore the PTF. So you need to back up the SMPE files and target files in order to do a restore. Then you can bypass the hold and apply the PTFs. On Fri, Feb 14, 2020 at 2:22 PM Paul Jodlowski wrote: > > Has anybody ever ran SMPE apply with

Re: Tape dataset tracking

2020-02-14 Thread Mike Schwab
The scratch would have uncataloged the tape. Need to recatalog. On Fri, Feb 14, 2020 at 10:37 AM Max Smith wrote: > > Peter, > > Is the data set listed the data set you are looking for? Is this a real tape > or virtual? Is the volume listed as scratch? or Private? TS7700 or other? > > Max

Re: UTF16 to EBCDIC

2020-02-10 Thread Mike Schwab
ote: > > On Feb 10, 2020, at 3:01 PM, Mike Schwab wrote: > >> > >> ASCII wasn't finalized when the S/360 was announced. And it needed to > >> use existing 7 bit peripherals, tapes, etc. > >> > > > > But System/360 was supposed to b

Re: UTF16 to EBCDIC

2020-02-10 Thread Mike Schwab
ASCII wasn't finalized when the S/360 was announced. And it needed to use existing 7 bit peripherals, tapes, etc. On Mon, Feb 10, 2020 at 1:27 PM Adam Jacobvitz <02b29b762ea6-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > > IBM mainframes still use EBCDIC? > > On Mon, Feb 10, 2020 at 10:54 AM, Paul

Re: UTF16 to EBCDIC

2020-02-09 Thread Mike Schwab
EBCDIC, EBCDIC DBCS, UTF-16, and ASCII all require the user to know the code page for the data set. UTF-8 uses up to 32 bits and incorporates all languages include several DBCS languages from Asia. On Sun, Feb 9, 2020 at 10:07 PM Edward Finnell <000248cce9f3-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu>

Re: UTF16 to EBCDIC

2020-02-09 Thread Mike Schwab
Would UTF-16 to UTF-8 be a better conversion? You still have to be certain of the source character set. And is supported by some z/OS software. On Sun, Feb 9, 2020 at 11:55 AM Cameron Conacher wrote: > > Ah yes, > I mis-typed/fat fingered the reply. > As you say, it SHOULD read EDCICONV. > >

Re: z15 System Recover Boost [EXTERNAL]

2020-02-06 Thread Mike Schwab
Any additional IPL / Recovery BOOST processing power is over and above normal processing. It will not reduce the processing power on other LPARs. Unless you DON'T have any spare processors (or CP capacity). On Thu, Feb 6, 2020 at 4:30 PM Feller, Paul wrote: > > The final word on the zIIP thing

Re: DFSort question

2020-01-28 Thread Mike Schwab
The dataset is Not Cataloged 2. It does exist on tape and you must reference the dataset with DSN and VOLSER. Alternative is to create the tape with a different DSN so it can be cataloged. If the same VOLSER you overwrote it and any subsequent files on the tape are destroyed. Applies to real

Re: Talking to 3270 terminals?

2020-01-14 Thread Mike Schwab
https://turnkey-mvs.yahoogroups.narkive.com/YoMvjj8Q/turnkey-mvs-under-vm-and-3270-w-3174 3174 with ethernet and token ring. Hercules on PC connected to ethernet. Apple II with token ring as console. On Tue, Jan 14, 2020 at 9:24 AM Charles Mills wrote: > > Would talking the TN3270 protocol to

Re: Migrating to new compiler release

2020-01-13 Thread Mike Schwab
I would certainly have 6.2 and 6.3 available for a few months of testing, for sure. Probably a 3 way compare with 5.2 so you can be certain of a useable program if you limit to 5.2 / 6.3. On Mon, Jan 13, 2020 at 5:33 PM Frank Swarbrick wrote: > > I was wondering what "methodologies" shops have

Re: How many ways can one sentence be wrong dept

2020-01-12 Thread Mike Schwab
Exactly. Let the channels emulate CKD and have maps to the actual data. NVME even got rid of the hard disk emulation layer. On Sun, Jan 12, 2020 at 6:41 PM Matt Hogstrom wrote: > > That was my thinking too Paul. We should be able to mask a lot of this in > software and not have to do a lot

Re: How many ways can one sentence be wrong dept

2020-01-12 Thread Mike Schwab
PDSs are limited to 16 extents, 64K tracks, and one volume. https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSLTBW_2.3.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r3.idad400/allocsp.htm PDSEs are limited to 123 extents and one volume. https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSLTBW_2.3.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r3.idad400/allocsp.htm

Re: How many ways can one sentence be wrong dept

2020-01-12 Thread Mike Schwab
PDS Compress is moving modules forward into space formerly used by updated or removed members. ADRDSSU consolidates multiple extent datasets into less extents (hopefully down to 1) and moves datasets adjacent to free space to have larger areas of free space. On Sun, Jan 12, 2020 at 11:32 AM

[SUSPECTED SPAM] Re: Job Posting

2020-01-10 Thread Mike Schwab
Fifth is 1/5, Third is 1/3, Fifth Third might be expressed as 1/5 1/3. Maybe abbreviate to /5 /3 assuming the 1. Improperly drop the first / to get the 5/3. On Wed, Jan 8, 2020 at 12:34 PM Chicklon, Thomas <01fbdb5fcb44-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > > 5/3 is in fact a play on the

Re: Test

2020-01-08 Thread Mike Schwab
Might depend on the other outbound traffic from the IP Address. Any intermediate mail forwarder might block it depending on the IP address. I. E. a lot of mainframe generated email (bank notices) that get determined to be spam, etc. On Wed, Jan 8, 2020 at 1:14 PM Jousma, David

Re: it was 20 years ago today ....

2020-01-03 Thread Mike Schwab
Was holding the primary for his replacement on 9/11/2001, that had to be postponed. On Fri, Jan 3, 2020 at 1:53 PM Savor, Thomas (Alpharetta) wrote: > > You mean the Mayor that killed corruption and the Mafia in Nyc...that idiot ?? > > Thanks, > > Tom Savor > -Original Message- > From:

Re: FW: Re: it was 20 years ago today ....

2020-01-02 Thread Mike Schwab
We had people come in on the 1st to test everything. Nothing happen. A few websites didn't add 1900 to the year, they put a 19 in front of the year, resulting in 19100. On Thu, Jan 2, 2020 at 5:20 PM Tom Brennan wrote: > > My oldest was just hitting 5 and couldn't reach the breaker box. But I

Re: it was 20 years ago today ....

2019-12-31 Thread Mike Schwab
W.C. Fields? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._C._Fields On Tue, Dec 31, 2019 at 2:01 PM Rupert Reynolds wrote: > > Ah . . . sigh . . . > A story I can tell now: > One night around the new year, at the end of 1999. I was wondering around > (client) with a bottle of nice sparkling wine, looking

Re: Strange Migration behaviour DFHSM

2019-12-31 Thread Mike Schwab
The management class on the dataset may be set to require backup or migration to Level 1 before allowing migration to ML2. On Tue, Dec 31, 2019 at 5:31 AM Lennie Dymoke-Bradshaw wrote: > > Is it possible you have a tape device which is stuck in some allocation > failure? > > I encountered one

Re: Strange Migration behaviour DFHSM

2019-12-29 Thread Mike Schwab
How many scratch tape volumes? How is the recycle process performing. On Sun, Dec 29, 2019 at 9:50 PM Jake Anderson wrote: > > Hi > > Our DFHSM is a single host based . Strange behaviour an noticing with it as > when i manually try to HMIGRATE to ML2(Virtual tape) and it's still in > DFHSM

Re: VSAM record length 0

2019-12-28 Thread Mike Schwab
I tried creating a PS FB LRECL=6 for a list of volsers. It was not created and didn't work until it got to 10. Other files I have seen replace a zero length record replaced with a 1 blank record. On Sat, Dec 28, 2019 at 1:39 PM Paul Gilmartin <000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu>

Re: how to compare active parameter with the parameter in member

2019-12-18 Thread Mike Schwab
Well, there is the IBM Command IPLINFO, and it might show the values you want to capture. https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSLTBW_2.4.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r4.ieag100/d3ipl.htm But I think you want to check out http://mzelden.com/mvsfiles/iplinfo.txt which is also posted to

Re: ZOS 1.13 2.2 2.3 in the same sysplex

2019-12-18 Thread Mike Schwab
Have you tried to run it on z/OS 2.1 / 2.2 / 2.3? That is a supported combination. On Wed, Dec 18, 2019 at 3:09 PM Gibney, Dave wrote: > > Their app not supporting z/OS 2.2 in not necessarily equal to won't run on > z/OS 2.2 > > > -Original Message- > > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion

Re: RACEOUTE REQUEST=RESUME ?

2019-12-18 Thread Mike Schwab
"S RESUME,USER=abc12345" with RESUME a tso proc to capture the USER parameter? Sure. On Wed, Dec 18, 2019 at 1:13 PM esst...@juno.com wrote: > > Mark Schuffenhauer wrote,. > I find it easiest to do it under PGM=IKJEFT01 > Under a user who has admin authority, presuming RACF is setup

Re: how to compare active parameter with the parameter in member

2019-12-17 Thread Mike Schwab
Search the system log for the updating USERID and select the commands you entered and search for the static location of those values? On Tue, Dec 17, 2019 at 11:48 AM Jason Cai wrote: > > Hi all > > After some paramters were changed dynamically , these paremeters didn't be > changed in members

Re: Defining SCSI in DS8k box

2019-12-17 Thread Mike Schwab
You will need to convert to using Linux containers without the z/VM layer and FCP to open system volumes. I did this on ESS F20s, should be similar for DS8xxx. On Tue, Dec 17, 2019 at 2:44 AM Peter wrote: > > CKD are well supported for Linux guest. > > But having FBA disk to linux guest will

Re: How do I compare CPU times on two machines?

2019-12-14 Thread Mike Schwab
https://www-01.ibm.com/servers/resourcelink/lib03060.nsf/pages/lsprindex?OpenDocument Large System Performance Reference. On Sat, Dec 14, 2019 at 9:29 AM Charles Mills wrote: > > Responding to @Phil, yeah, don't you love it: apply a magical fudge factor > and then report the results to five

Re: Misuse of the word hexadecimnal (Was RE: COPYING PDS TO PDS ...)

2019-12-05 Thread Mike Schwab
Candidate for a Pullet Surprise. http://english.ohmynews.com/articleview/article_view.asp?menu=c10400=378714_no=1 On Thu, Dec 5, 2019 at 1:38 PM Charles Mills wrote: > Mea culpa. > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muphry%27s_law > > Charles > > > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe

Re: Misuse of the word hexadecimnal (Was RE: COPYING PDS TO PDS ...)

2019-12-05 Thread Mike Schwab
Basically, any printable character is any character with a recognized value in your selected character set and excludes the control characters X'00'- X'1F' (in UTF-8, ASCII, and all EBCDIC code pages). Bell, Carriage Return, Line Feed, Vertical Tab, Page Feed are some assigned printer control

Re: SNA theory and practice book by anura guruge

2019-12-04 Thread Mike Schwab
https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Anura+guruge+on+SNA+theory+and+practice.=nb_sb_noss Has 3 options. On Wed, Dec 4, 2019 at 2:01 AM Peter wrote: > > Hello > > Cross posted > > I am trying to buy a book by Anura guruge on SNA theory and practice. > > Does anyone have a link where i can buy ? > > Peter >

Re: COPYING PDS TO PDS ...

2019-12-03 Thread Mike Schwab
And if you use quotes, the dataset name is not cataloged and you must include the volser. On Tue, Dec 3, 2019 at 8:43 AM Lennie Dymoke-Bradshaw wrote: > > Well I have tried all sorts of settings for that but I cannot get it to work. > If you place the entire DSNAME and member including

Re: Paging Jay Maynard

2019-11-27 Thread Mike Schwab
https://twitter.com/tronguy Pretty much ignores anything Hercules related, won't assign a replacement owner. On Wed, Nov 27, 2019 at 11:28 AM Seymour J Metz wrote: > > Does anybody have a valid e-mail address for Jay Maynard? The two I have > bounce. > > > -- > Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz >

Re: z/OS 2.3 installation

2019-11-24 Thread Mike Schwab
VTAM Logmode table? On Sun, Nov 24, 2019 at 11:37 PM saurabh khandelwal wrote: > > Dear Group, > > We are in processing of z/OS 2.3 installation and during our first IPL, as > soon as we login to TSO using APPLID, system throwing us back and session > terminated message i am getting on TN3270

Re: Mainframe DEVOPS

2019-11-21 Thread Mike Schwab
How well does http://spflite.com/ work for you? On Thu, Nov 21, 2019 at 2:00 PM Seymour J Metz wrote: > > Tritus SPF; it is, alas, abandon-ware, but it is able to run ISPF dialogs > that do not depend on TSO commands or TSO function packages. It has regexen, > but the syntax is not the same as

Re: Tracking called (non-main) programs using SMF records

2019-11-13 Thread Mike Schwab
http://www.longpelaexpertise.com.au/ezine/SoftwareUsageWithoutTADz.php For many years IBMs Peter Relson has offered a free ‘as is, no warranty’ tool to monitor program fetch activity: the Module Fetch Monitor. Contact Peter directly at rel...@us.ibm.com. On Wed, Nov 13, 2019 at 10:07 AM Steff

Re: Peter Relson Article

2019-11-13 Thread Mike Schwab
mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 > > > > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of > Mike Schwab > Sent: Tuesday, November 12, 2019 7:21 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: Peter Relson Article > > Musicians make the best prog

Re: Peter Relson Article

2019-11-12 Thread Mike Schwab
Musicians make the best programmers and code breakers, On Tue, Nov 12, 2019 at 6:16 PM scott Ford wrote: > > These are great I have ran across a lot of creative people in IT. Music and > photography. To mention a few. > > Scott > > On Tue, Nov 12, 2019 at 6:55 PM Bill Johnson < >

Re: git with it

2019-11-06 Thread Mike Schwab
Not much you can do with 127 characters and null. Have you considered UTF-8? On Wed, Nov 6, 2019 at 10:12 AM scott Ford wrote: > > Kirk: > > yeah a lot of people are not found of EBCDIC ...ascii much easier > > On Wed, Nov 6, 2019 at 11:10 AM scott Ford wrote: > > > Henri and Lionel, > > > >

Re: calculating data set size - compression concern

2019-11-05 Thread Mike Schwab
e LISTCAT > info immediately and the DCOLLECT down the road apiece. Appreciate your > timely help! > > Mike > > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On > Behalf Of Mike Schwab > Sent: Tuesday, November 5, 2019 11:

Re: calculating data set size - compression concern

2019-11-05 Thread Mike Schwab
https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSLTBW_2.3.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r3.idai200/recstr.htm IDCAMS DCOLLECT RECORD TYPE D 264(X'108') CHARACTER 8 DCDUDSIZ USER DATA SIZE (64 BIT UNSIGNED BINARY NUMBER) 272(X'110') CHARACTER 8 DCDCUDSZ COMPRESSED DATA SET SIZE (64 BIT UNSIGNED BINARY NUMBER)

Re: Zfs from 1 LPAR to another

2019-11-05 Thread Mike Schwab
Same program, different entry points. On Tue, Nov 5, 2019 at 5:03 PM David Spiegel wrote: > > Hi Skip, > It's AMATERSE (with //SYSUT1 and //SYSUT2) > or TRSMAIN (with //INFILE and //OUTFILE). > > Regards, > David > > On 2019-11-05 17:40, Jesse 1 Robinson wrote: > > Just to be clear: is that

Re: CBPs (processors) - what is it?

2019-11-05 Thread Mike Schwab
The only reference I could find was in https://www.google.com/url?sa=t=j==s=web=35=2ahUKEwj-w5G99tPlAhUEWqwKHWHNBfw4HhAWMAR6BAgBEAI=https%3A%2F%2Fshare.confex.com%2Fshare%2F118%2Fwebprogram%2FHandout%2FSession10691%2FIntroToSharedQueues.pdf=AOvVaw3QyWMZhBU9yTFG9-57yysI , where it is a 10 meter

Re: How display level of paging?

2019-11-05 Thread Mike Schwab
B real 30TB Paging. > > Implies 3:1 virtual to real. > > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of > Mike Schwab > Sent: Tuesday, November 5, 2019 10:39 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: How display level of paging? >

Re: How display level of paging?

2019-11-05 Thread Mike Schwab
10TB real 30TB Paging. On Tue, Nov 5, 2019 at 10:35 AM Allan Staller wrote: > > I never based my estimates on the amount of real. Only on the Virtual. > > Using our same 10TB system with a 2:1 virtual to real would result in 20 TB > page slots and a 60TB paging subsystem. > > > > -Original

Re: WTO message at the end of JCL

2019-11-05 Thread Mike Schwab
OS/VS1 introduced the 3270 device. On Tue, Nov 5, 2019 at 6:41 AM scott Ford wrote: > > Actually, this in the way back machine we were doing this in the OS /VS2 > days. > > On Tue, Nov 5, 2019 at 7:38 AM scott Ford wrote: > > > Many concepts re-surface Steve. > > > > On Mon, Nov 4, 2019 at

Re: How display level of paging?

2019-11-02 Thread Mike Schwab
Paging packs should be a minimum of 3X real memory. 1 to back main memory, then another copy of both for a system dump. On Sat, Nov 2, 2019, 08:17 Charles Mills wrote: > Please forgive the basic question: I'm a product developer, not a sysprog. > > Two part question: > > 1. What command, panel

Re: WTO message at the end of JCL

2019-10-30 Thread Mike Schwab
Maybe there is a WTOR? On Wed, Oct 30, 2019, 00:05 Peter wrote: > The message displayed by WTO just comes up but i want it to br displayed as > a RED colour message with outstanding message number to suppress by > operator. > > On Wed, 30 Oct, 2019, 8:47 AM Mike Schwab, >

Re: WTO message at the end of JCL

2019-10-29 Thread Mike Schwab
http://planetmvs.com/freeware/dampf08.txt WTO from exit. https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSLTBW_2.1.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r1.ieab600/iea3b6_Determining_equivalent_JCL.htm //STEPWTO EXEC PGM=WTO,COND=(0,EQ),PARM='JOB RC NON ZERO' On Tue, Oct 29, 2019 at 11:23 PM Peter wrote: > > Hi >

Re: DCOLLECT use of KB/MB

2019-10-29 Thread Mike Schwab
>OVERLAY=(49:DCVVLCAP,MUL,+1024,TO=FI,LENGTH=4)) > > re 'MVS': funny. > > re IBM-MAIN search: I got a list of message title & authors, the newest > being from 2008. Nothing on the list was clickable, so it would be useless > even if weren't already useless.

Re: DCOLLECT use of KB/MB

2019-10-29 Thread Mike Schwab
t a list of message title & authors, the newest > being from 2008. Nothing on the list was clickable, so it would be useless > even if weren't already useless. > > sas > > > On Mon, Oct 28, 2019 at 10:23 PM Mike Schwab > wrote: > > > > > https://www.ibm.com/su

Re: DCOLLECT use of KB/MB

2019-10-28 Thread Mike Schwab
adding 1 before dividing for a report in number of tracks. On Mon, Oct 28, 2019 at 8:32 PM Paul Gilmartin <000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > > On Mon, 28 Oct 2019 16:22:34 -0500, Mike Schwab wrote: > > >Power of 2. Number of cylinders is another field.

Re: DCOLLECT use of KB/MB

2019-10-28 Thread Mike Schwab
Power of 2. Number of cylinders is another field. On Mon, Oct 28, 2019 at 4:12 PM Steve Smith wrote: > > What does "kilobytes" and "megabytes" mean to DCOLLECT, specifically, type > "V" (volume) records in the values it shows for volume capacity, and > several related fields? i.e. does

Re: DFSORT SUM FIELDS

2019-10-27 Thread Mike Schwab
use an inrec statement to enlarge numeric fields so you don't exceed the size of the field. On Sun, Oct 27, 2019 at 7:08 AM ITschak Mugzach wrote: > > Sri, > > This was just an example. I am trying to summarize by sort keys. there > might be ten records with same sort keys. I expect a single

Re: Power failure

2019-10-17 Thread Mike Schwab
I agree. By mistake both power cords lead to the same UPS, or even the same breaker. Pick a low impact time. Turn each breaker off for 1 minute then turn back on. Look for anything that went down and change outlets as needed. Then power off each UPS to check for different breakers but same

Re: Power failure

2019-10-17 Thread Mike Schwab
Maybe the NYC/WE is single power source and it lost power momentarily and ordered a reboot when it restarted? On Thursday, October 17, 2019, Peter wrote: > Yes... How can a SE reboot a machine on its own > > On Thu, 17 Oct, 2019, 11:02 AM Vernooij, Kees (ITOP NM) - KLM, < >

Re: STGADMIN.DPDSRN Confusion

2019-10-16 Thread Mike Schwab
I think it is cataloged to that volume. Uncatalog no scratch that dataset. On Wed, Oct 16, 2019 at 9:16 AM Mark Jacobs <0224d287a4b1-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > > I'm attempting to rename an inuse non-vsam dataset, even with read access to > the STGADMIN.DPDSRN.SYS1.* profile,

Re: Mainframe environment on AWS

2019-10-10 Thread Mike Schwab
Instruction and called function emulation. Written by the guy that did z390 and zcobol. On Thu, Oct 10, 2019 at 1:40 PM Peter wrote: > > Out of curiosity, How is lzlab hosting the mainframe on cloud ?(x86). > Moreover recently they have published about moving one of the Swiss company >

Re: Mainframe environment on AWS

2019-10-08 Thread Mike Schwab
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhdFPEHdwCg On Tue, Oct 8, 2019 at 4:20 AM Peter wrote: > > Hi All > > Is there anyone in the group who had Mainframe on AWS space ? > > I Would like to a set a one using my AWS account. Any pointers would be > appreciated. > > Peter > >

Re: Phoenix Software International Announces IBM(R) JES3 Licensing Agreement

2019-10-06 Thread Mike Schwab
https://www.nytimes.com/1983/11/05/business/the-publicity-effect-of-ibm-sting.html On Mon, Oct 7, 2019 at 3:15 AM Timothy Sipples wrote: > > Ed Jaffe wrote: > >It's not every day someone acquires a core z/OS component from IBM (has > >that EVER happened?) so you can be sure we will treat it with

Re: casting with XL C\C++ compiler

2019-09-27 Thread Mike Schwab
I imagine it is quite a few steps ahead of z/OS Unix System Services keeping up with Unix / Linux commands. On Fri, Sep 27, 2019 at 12:48 PM Charles Mills wrote: > > Alan, thanks. We've spoken at the TDM. I hope I was not too hard on you > guys.. I'm aware of the product of which you speak and

Re: Trying to put three reports together with SORT

2019-09-24 Thread Mike Schwab
I would assume the DEPARTMENT and LOCATION tables are fairly static. How about creating a table of each for your use? Have a run to insert / update the records from the appropriate source. Then you are left with one job to parse the employees with these tables. I think they can even do this

OT ARPANET Tshirt

2019-09-20 Thread Mike Schwab
I've bought T-shirts from here. Printed in US, sizes correct. Lasts dozens of washes. https://shirt.woot.com/offers/welcome-to-the-arpanet?ref=w_cnt_top20_12_tl -- Mike A Schwab, Springfield IL USA Where do Forest Rangers go to get away from it all?

Re: SFTP Special Charcters

2019-09-19 Thread Mike Schwab
lmartin > Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2019 1:36 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: SFTP Special Charcters > > On Thu, 19 Sep 2019 13:21:43 -0500, Mike Schwab wrote: > > >Different IBM MVS software packages used different characters sets. > >APL and C f

Re: SFTP Special Charcters

2019-09-19 Thread Mike Schwab
Gilmartin <000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > > On Thu, 19 Sep 2019 13:21:43 -0500, Mike Schwab wrote: > > >Different IBM MVS software packages used different characters sets. > >APL and C files are usually the ones that require a different > >translat

Re: SFTP Special Charcters

2019-09-19 Thread Mike Schwab
Different IBM MVS software packages used different characters sets. APL and C files are usually the ones that require a different translation. IBM MVS printers often used two different code pages too. On Thu, Sep 19, 2019 at 11:17 AM Statler, David

Re: CA-1 migration to RMM

2019-09-19 Thread Mike Schwab
As Free Abandonware, request permission for CBTTAPE.org (admin Sam G.) to host the IBM supplied AS IS files and Any non-IBM supplied updates under the GPL 2 license or higher or equivalent that might be developed for z/OS 2.1 or higher. On Thu, Sep 19, 2019 at 10:38 AM Max Smith wrote: > > Dean,

Re: DAE Mystery

2019-09-17 Thread Mike Schwab
Automatic restart in your WLM? On Tue, Sep 17, 2019, 13:48 Mark Jacobs < 0224d287a4b1-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > I manually stopped DAE on all systems so someone could remove an entry > from the shared DAE dataset. Shortly thereafter it started itself, and I > can't figure out

Re: Control block values that exempt 522 Timeouts

2019-09-17 Thread Mike Schwab
Well, if that represents 24 hours then 2555 is 1 second. On Tue, Sep 17, 2019 at 8:09 AM Lindy Mayfield wrote: > > Hi, > > I understand that address spaces can be made exempt from 522 timeouts if > there is a particular value in one of three control blocks. If I have it > correct they are: >

Re: DFSMSrmm and DFHSM - Tape Expirations

2019-09-12 Thread Mike Schwab
For TMS we had a batch job that would send expiration volumes to the VTAPE machine. Are you running that? On Thu, Sep 12, 2019 at 12:43 PM Max Smith wrote: > > Hi Terri, > I see you went ahead and opened a case for this with the RMM team, I will > work with them and make sure we get things

z15 Type 8561 Introduction released.

2019-09-11 Thread Mike Schwab
http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redpieces/abstracts/sg248850.html?Open -- Mike A Schwab, Springfield IL USA Where do Forest Rangers go to get away from it all? -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send

Re: z/OS 2.1 to 2.4 [EXTERNAL]

2019-09-06 Thread Mike Schwab
https://www-01.ibm.com/software/support/lifecycleapp/PLCDetail.wss?q45=Z497063S01245B61~B227540X25949K69~Z966844T77753Y85 z/OS 2.2 Available Sep 30 2015, End of Marketing Jan 29 2018 End of Service Sep 30 2020. z/OS 2.1 was 2 years earlier. z/OS 2.3 was / should be 2 years later. z/OS 2.4 should

Re: Migration from z114 to z14ZR1, CF structure sizes

2019-09-06 Thread Mike Schwab
vel 15. > So if level 22 does not require a structure increase, level 17 structures are > probably OK. > > Kees. > > > -Original Message- > > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On > > Behalf Of Mike Schwab > >

Re: Migration from z114 to z14ZR1, CF structure sizes

2019-09-06 Thread Mike Schwab
I would multiply. Example 1.1 * 1.2 * 1.1 * 1.1 * 1.1 = 1.75692 instead of 1.6 by addition. On Fri, Sep 6, 2019 at 12:17 PM Vernooij, Kees (ITOP NM) - KLM wrote: > > You can ask IBM for the information about CF levels 18 - 22. If structure > sizes need to be increased during a CF level

Re: z/OS 2.1 to 2.4 [EXTERNAL]

2019-09-06 Thread Mike Schwab
Two DASD incompatibilities I know of from OS/390. Dropping ISAM and adding EAVs DSCBs to the VTOC. PDSE V2 I'm not sure of. Possibly the various extended attributes. Drop the ISAM first and don't use the new facilities until you are certain you don't need to go back. On Fri, Sep 6, 2019 at

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