On Wed, 29 Jan 2014 08:31:07 -0600, John McKown wrote:
Oh, my. Given the fact that many of our users cannot remember a single RACF
logon id, assigning them multiple would cause chaos. And is against company
Yup. We can't even get a group ID for some tech support purposes.
If the employee having
On Wed, 29 Jan 2014 13:44:41 -0800, Frank Swarbrick wrote:
Is there some actual technical reason why TSO cannot be made to allow one user
ID to log in multiple times to TSO within a single LPAR?
Yes. Bad design.
The assumption that the user ID could be used as a handle for an
interactive TSO
On Wed, 29 Jan 2014 15:56:41 -0600, John McKown wrote:
LPARs are exactly like separate machines. Or maybe closer to virtual
machines under z/VM or VMWare or Hyper-V or ... .
Extremely close indeed. There are legends that in the earliest days
of PR/SM one could recognize VM CP message prefixes
On Wed, 29 Jan 2014 18:40:11 -0500, Tony Harminc wrote:
On 29 January 2014 17:19, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
think there was also a problem with the TIOC sending command output to the
wrong terminal. I.e. enter the LISTALC command on terminal#1 and the
results might go to terminal#2 instead. But I'm
On Thu, 30 Jan 2014 01:21:19 -0600, Elardus Engelbrecht wrote:
Barbara Nitz wrote:
We only have one lpar (one system), and I am now logged in 11 times with the
same TSO userid. We have made sure that each of those TSO sessions has their
own ISPF profile data set. And each session can have up
On Thu, 30 Jan 2014 09:04:14 -0500, Peter Relson wrote:
I don't know what aboriginal refers to in this context, but the answer to
the first question is yes. And the behavior has existed since the
introduction of system symbols.
That's what I meant by aboriginal.
It is not OK to truncate
On Thu, 30 Jan 2014 14:35:19 -0400, Clark Morris wrote:
On 30 Jan 2014 09:55:32 -0800, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote:
Every single TSO user in my shop is assigned two ID's. No one has ever asked
for a third, but many people only use one of their assigned ID's. We have
never had an
On Thu, 30 Jan 2014 15:01:48 -0500, Micheal Butz wrote:
Would anyone know if there is a way
For example scanning the TIOT
If a dataset has been dummied out
I get the following, without resorting to a TIOT scan:
user@HOST: rexx say BPXWDYN( 'alloc dd(FOO) dummy' );
say
On Thu, 30 Jan 2014 20:18:05 +, Jousma, David wrote:
We have an exit for DFSORT that scans TIOT to see if someone concatenated a
DUMMY dataset as input. Here is what I believe to be the relevant snippet of
code:
Comments inline.
On Thu, 30 Jan 2014 13:07:45 -0800, Ed Jaffe wrote:
Of course, CEA is the great equalizer (subsequent to the enhancements
for Web ISPF). Thanks for posting this Barbara! :-)
I thought I was curious, so I searched the doc for CEA (publibz; 1.13;
I have no idea how I'd do this with Infocenter, or
On 2014-01-30 14:04, Jousma, David wrote:
We had some enterprising programmers that coded jobs something like:
//SORTIN DD DSN=a.data.set.name,disp=shr
// dd dd1,disp=shr
// dd DD2,disp=shr
// dd dsn=another.data.set.name,disp=shr
And in the proc defaulted DD1, and
On Fri, 31 Jan 2014 06:39:47 -0600, Govind Chettiar wrote:
I would respectfully disagree with this somewhat blanket statement. ...
this? Please cite.
-- gil
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On Fri, 31 Jan 2014 07:19:37 -0700, Lizette Koehler wrote:
So I did a little searching and discovered a whole new REXX manual I did not
know about REXX/UNIX
It's precious! And, dismayingly, it's the only place that BPXWDYN is
documented.
Proving that Conway's Law applies to documentation as
On Fri, 31 Jan 2014 09:16:41 -0600, John McKown wrote:
Look at the DYNAMNBR parameter on the EXEC JCL statement
ref:
http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/IEA2B6A0/16.6
Should this matter if he's doing FREE? The allocations should then not be
concurrent. Perhaps the FREE
On Fri, 31 Jan 2014 13:21:41 -0500, Dave Salt wrote:
Are you saying you can edit PC files on the mainframe without the WSA being
active? If so, how?
I customarily edit Solaris files on the mainframe without WSA. Does Win 7 have
an NFS server? Customarily? Well, infrequently. I more
On Fri, 31 Jan 2014 10:34:50 -0800, John Norgauer wrote:
No, I'm sorry to mis-lead you. I am not editing PC files on the mainframe.
What I meant was that I edit mainframe files on my PC using ISPF.
What benefit does this provide over tn3270? Well, CPU cycles, of course.
ISPF hosted on
On Fri, 31 Jan 2014 13:59:47 -0500, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote:
on 01/31/2014 at 07:02 AM, Lizette Koehler said:
There is a TSO REXX newsgroup that might also be helpful.
Not as much as the listserve.
And for this, MVS-OE might be more relevant than TSO-REXX.
-- gil
On Fri, 31 Jan 2014 18:26:02 +0100, jan de decker wrote:
Thanks to a sugesstion from the list (Thanks John) I got a bit further.
The stem is empty apart from the number of lines which is correct.
o How does interpreted Rexx behave?
o Is the behavior the same with other input files?
-- gil
Today, when I click on my bookmarked:
http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/zos/v2r1/index.jsp
... it appears that Infocenter has tossed its cookies on me,
and I get taken, deeper, to the last individual page I visited.
I can get to the index by deleting all cookies pertaining to
On Mon, 3 Feb 2014 10:58:16 +1100, Hank Oerlemans wrote:
Does NOTEPAD work from the command prompt (CMD.EXE) ?
How about Notepad++? I suspect Cygwin might show me how.
I have my WSA set up to invoke WORDPAD on the PC but I had to mess around
with the environment PATH variable to find it.
On Tue, 4 Feb 2014 10:09:59 +1100, Hank Oerlemans wrote:
Anything that takes a file as an argument should work I would think.
WS cmd field is 50 bytes wide so whatever fits I suppose.
Ouch! I have filenames (not to mention pathnames) longer than that.
For comparison, in the Classic world,
On Thu, 30 Jan 2014 20:18:05 +, Jousma, David wrote:
We have an exit for DFSORT that scans TIOT to see if someone concatenated a
DUMMY dataset as input. Here is what I believe to be the relevant snippet of
code:
...
* CHECK FOR DUMMY DD STATEMENT
*
On Tue, 4 Feb 2014 10:25:32 -0600, Mike Schwab wrote:
Suggestion: Add DD keyword SKIP. Similar to DUMMY, but will continue
with the next concatenated DD statement.
No good:
user@HOST: rexx say bpxwdyn( 'alloc skip msg(wtp)' )
-22
-- gil
On Tue, 4 Feb 2014 12:20:21 -0600, John McKown wrote:
On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 11:45 AM, Jousma, David wrote:
Sorry for being dense...Never heard of it? What is SKIP? I just looked
in JCL reference, don't see anything?
There is no SKIP parameter in JCL. Gil was wanting IBM to create such a
On Wed, 5 Feb 2014 16:39:14 +, Blaicher, Christopher Y. wrote:
The end of the list is shown by having a TIOELNGH of zero. Also, TIOSLTYP bit
will be on if the entry has been freed. You can skip the entry if this is on.
You only have to worry about that bit if you do dynamic allocation
On 2014-02-05 17:25, Micheal Butz wrote:
Is there any way of knowing a data set contains load modules
I know that it has a RECFM=U LRECL =0
If it's a PDS, no. A PDS may even contain a mixture of
load modules and other things.
If it's a PDSE, it may be empty, or contain load modules,
or
On Thu, 6 Feb 2014 17:34:56 +1100, Greg Price wrote:
On 6/02/2014 11:25 AM, Micheal Butz wrote:
Is there any way of knowing a data set contains load modules
If PDSE verify it is a program (and not a DATA) PDSE using ISITMGD macro.
I have received a correction off-list that a PDSE must not
On Thu, 6 Feb 2014 14:43:07 -0800, Ray Mullins wrote:
In z/OS 1.13, I'm playing with instream data in a PROC for the first time to
try to simplify some bind JCL and I've run into an error. It's an atypical
situation, I realize.
Of course, instream data in a PROC are (sic!?) a relatively new
On Fri, 7 Feb 2014 14:58:53 +, Nims,Alva John (Al) wrote:
I have been doing a little research and looking at the z/OS 1.13's z/OS MVS
JCL User's Guide it turns out you can code in-stream data in a JES2
procedure and I am going to assume you can't with JES3, but to do so, DO NOT
use the //
On Fri, 7 Feb 2014 10:09:34 -0600, Mike Schwab wrote:
On Fri, Feb 7, 2014 at 9:39 AM, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
I would be astonished if for the matter here // DD DATA were not the
functional equivalent of // DD *.
-- gil
// DD DATA,DLM='##' (is the default /*?)
//* jcl statements of your
On Fri, 7 Feb 2014 13:55:27 +, Pommier, Rex wrote:
That depends on if the fix PTF contains all the elements in the
PE-PTF or only some of them. If it contains all then it can SUP. If
it does not it must PRE to pick up the elements that it does not
contain - Note this can only occur if
On Mon, 10 Feb 2014 13:28:41 -0600, Peter X. DeFabritus wrote:
Do you have OA42696 installed?
Wherein I read:
Problem conclusion
The member list processor and the data set list processor are
enhanced to process scroll amounts greater than . New ISPF
system variable ZSCROLNL is
On 2014-02-10 16:16, Scott Ford wrote:
I have a Cobol program that can input either RECFM=FB or RECFM=VB and I am
trying to make it easier for our customers to use.
The input file can be either and whats the simplest way to tell the program
that the input is FB OR VB. I was thinking
On Mon, 10 Feb 2014 15:41:53 -0500, John Gilmore wrote:
If you write the assembly-language subroutine, make it [a] generic,
reentrant RECFM-get routine that will be reusable and put the logic
for distinguishing FB and VB (and rejecting other possible values) in
its caller.
My notion of generic
In:
http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/zos/v2r1/topic/com.ibm.zos.v2r1.gim2000/entgsm.htm
SYSMOD entry (global zone)
SMP/E for z/OS Reference
SA23-2276-00
I read:
SOURCEID
lists the character strings assigned to this SYSMOD during RECEIVE. These
values ...
The
On Mon, 10 Feb 2014 16:03:40 -0800, Skip Robinson wrote:
A sysmod can have multiple SOURCEIDs. If you receive a sysmod and specify
your own SOURCEID, yours is added to any that are already supplied in the
PTF being delivered. I do this all the time.
Thanks. That seems reasonable. But now I
On Mon, 10 Feb 2014 16:24:19 -0800, Skip Robinson wrote:
When you run UCL, the syntax may vary according to the type of element
you're modifying. Never had occasion to 'change' SOURCEID, but I would
guess that you REP the entire existing set of SOURCEIDs with a new set
that has all and only the
On Fri, 7 Feb 2014 19:32:30 +, Gibney, Dave wrote:
-Original Message-
On Behalf Of Kurt Quackenbush
Sent: Friday, February 07, 2014 5:40 AM
... Or do what I do and
build the exclude list required to get RC=0.
Why even spend the time to do that? The result is the same, the
On Mon, 10 Feb 2014 19:51:39 -0800, Skip Robinson wrote:
If no PTFs will APPLY in a particular effort, you're treated to a special
message and return code:
GIM24801S ** NO SYSMODS SATISFIED THE OPERANDS SPECIFIED ON THE APPLY
COMMAND.
GIM20501IAPPLY PROCESSING IS COMPLETE. THE HIGHEST RETURN
On Tue, 11 Feb 2014 11:25:54 +0530, venkat kulkarni wrote:
Hello,
On newly installed z/OS 2.1 system we experiencing OMVS
segment not defined issue
$HASP373 EZAZSSI STARTED
ICH408I JOB(OSNMPD ) STEP(OSNMPD ) CL(PROCESS ) 807
OMVS SEGMENT NOT DEFINED
etc...
We already
On Tue, 11 Feb 2014 06:38:33 -0600, Kathryn A. Pinto wrote:
Skip has given most of the answers already. But to summarize the processing
of UCLIN on the SOURCEID subentry:
Thanks.
Should I have been able to infer all this clearly from the SMP/E Commands
manual? If
not, I'll submit an RCF.
On Tue, 11 Feb 2014 08:56:03 -0600, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
On Tue, 11 Feb 2014 06:38:33 -0600, Kathryn A. Pinto wrote:
Skip has given most of the answers already. But to summarize the processing
of UCLIN on the SOURCEID subentry:
Thanks.
Should I have been able to infer all this clearly from
On Tue, 11 Feb 2014 22:47:42 -0400, Clark F Morris wrote:
... CSP and possibly its successor forced an F zone on all
signed fields with positive values leaving the D zone for negative
fields. The elimination of NUMPROC(MIG) means this behavior if still
existing can cause problems.
...
On Wed, 12 Feb 2014 18:06:56 -0500, Tony Harminc wrote:
..., but some instructions are allowed by the architecture to
recognize access exceptions in the case where no data is stored, e.g.
STCM with a zero mask.
Ouch! How does this work when the 4 bytes that might be accessed
span a page
On Wed, 12 Feb 2014 18:39:14 -0500, Tony Harminc wrote:
..., freeing zero length is an instant disaster.
That ought to be a no-op.
You can't free 0 bytes at address 0? Now that is an inconsistency. Ah
- the subpool thing on FREEMAIN. Is that also true for STORAGE
RELEASE?
The subpool thing
On Thu, 13 Feb 2014 12:10:54 +, DASDBILL2 wrote:
If you are allocating such a data set with disposition=new, the request will
fail if there is not at least one available (Format 0) DSCB in the VTOC which
z/OS can change into a Format 1 DSCB in which to save all the information
about your
On Thu, 13 Feb 2014 09:42:32 -0500, Thomas H Puddicombe wrote:
If your application didn't want any storage, why did it waste the system
service's time by asking for none?
It might be that the size is variable, as John G. suggested, and 0 is so
unlikely that it is on average a greater waste of
On Thu, 13 Feb 2014 10:24:44 -0500, John Gilmore wrote:
Clarke Morris wrote:
begin extract
The problem is not the compiler options used for the COBOL generation
of CSP programs, the problem is the compiler options of the programs
that use the output from CSP programs.
/end extract
and I
On Fri, 14 Feb 2014 15:14:44 -0800, Charles Mills wrote:
Is there a standard IBM z/OS XLC macro for is compiling on z/OS? I looked
for __ZOS and __MVS and so forth but did not find anything.
I have code that runs Windows or z/OS and I have just been using #ifdef
WIN32 to differentiate the two
On Sun, 16 Feb 2014 07:40:39 -0800, Charles Mills wrote:
I am by no means an expert but based on my mental model, the branch approach
is going to be slower.
It depends on the likelihood of an expensive cache fault performing
an operation which has no effect.
-Original Message-
From:
On Mon, 17 Feb 2014 07:49:18 -0500, Peter Relson wrote:
If the branch technique is faster, and depending on how high a
percentage most of the time (as in most of the time CURRENT will be
zero) is, then the branch technique given as the alternative to no-branch
is likely not optimal. Even with
On Mon, 17 Feb 2014 08:02:40 -0800, Charles Mills wrote:
I got to thinking it would be nice to have a store different instruction (or
make store behave this way automatically under the covers) which would
invalidate the cache only if what it were storing were different from what was
in memory
On 2014-02-17, at 10:36, Ted MacNEIL wrote:
I have to ask: Why they big concern over a few instructions?
Optimisation of a few is not worth the effort
these days.
Hmmm... No single instruction is worth optimizing.
No single instruction among a million is
On Mon, 17 Feb 2014 14:11:32 -0600, Greg Kreth wrote:
How to issue TSO prompts in batch
Why bother? Whom would you expect to reply to such a prompt?
If I have a program that insists on issuing a prompt, such as RECEIVE,
I can (sometimes) stage a reply with a Rexx queue instruction.
-- gil
On Mon, 17 Feb 2014 20:05:12 -0500, Gerhard Postpischil wrote:
On 2/17/2014 7:34 PM, Bernd Oppolzer wrote:
My question is: if we had such an instruction, how would this fit into the
overall machine concept? And: are there some performance benefits,
or are there some problems with this
On Tue, 18 Feb 2014 11:26:41 -0500, John Gilmore wrote:
X L2 defines a two-byte field. Its value can range from x'' to x''.
Viewed as unsigned this is a numeric range of 0 = u = 65535. Viewed
as signed it is a numeric range of -32768 = s = +32767.
In either case the answer to your
On Tue, 18 Feb 2014 17:27:50 -0500, Mike Myers wrote:
I am trying to xmit a couple of files from a z/OS system and then
receive them on a different system. There is no connection between these
systems except an intervening notebook.
The process I have used is:
1. xmit the file to myself on the
On Tue, 18 Feb 2014 22:42:56 +, Mike Walter wrote:
On z/OS the XMIT/TRANSMIT command creates files in NETDATA format (on z/VM the
commands is SENDFILE). The first record is easily identifiable as NETDATA
format as it always begins with: \INMR01
For more detailed info, Google: IBM netdata
On Tue, 18 Feb 2014 16:58:01 -0600, Mike Schwab wrote:
I would TRS PACK the XMIT file, FTP it to target, then TRS UNPACK the
file, and receive.
Why?
If you really want to have fun, TRS PACK the XMIT file; compress the
PACKed file; use jar to create a .zip archive; FTP that to the target
system;
On 2014-02-19, at 01:22, Hunkeler, Peter wrote:
I would TRS PACK the XMIT file, FTP it to target, then TRS UNPACK the
file, and receive.
Why?
Because of the size of the XMTI file? Apart from that it doesn't help much
since also the tersed file needs to be copied to the target system
On Wed, 19 Feb 2014 12:51:33 +, DASDBILL2 wrote:
Since virtual storage is now so much less expensive and so much more available
than storage [1] was 50 years ago, why not be really extravagant and use one
whole byte per store? If the byte contains 0, then the store number is not
valid, or
On Tue, 18 Feb 2014 18:39:42 -0500, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote:
at 01:47 PM, Tony Harminc t...@harminc.net said:
Indeed this is the way conditional execution and branching works (and
has always worked) in channel programs.
No. Every generation believes that it invented sex, ...
On Wed, 19 Feb 2014 17:29:17 -0500, John Gilmore wrote:
Curtis G Pew wrote:
begin extract
I think one of the folks involved in Solaris zfs (not to be confused
with OMVS zFS) calculated that the entropy generated by a full 128-bit
address space would result in enough heat to boil all the oceans
On Tue, 30 Apr 2013 23:25:40 -0400, Robert A. Rosenberg wrote:
This solution does not fly. JOB2 will sit there and waste an
initiator until JOB1 (which is long running) ends.
How much does an initiator cost?
-- gil
--
For
On Wed, 1 May 2013 07:51:50 -0400, John Gilmore wrote:
The UPT (UPdate Tree) instruction inserts a new node in a tree
conditionally. If it does not find an existing node having a
nominated key in a [sub]tree, it inserts a new node into that
[sub]tree at a location that, while not inappropriate,
On 2013-05-01, at 10:32, Ed Jaffe wrote:
On 5/1/2013 8:43 AM, Ed Jaffe wrote:
On 5/1/2013 8:24 AM, Ed Gould wrote:
I am somewhat surprised that you indicate that duplicate jobnames are to be
allowed. I have worked in a few shops that job naming stand is frozen and
it would wreek havoc if a
On 2013-05-01, at 10:42, Steve Comstock wrote:
2. The z/OS UNIX Command Reference doc points out that 'cc' command
is fully supported for compatibility with older UNIX systems.
However, it is recommended that the c89 command be used instead
Or, perhaps c99. About which that document
On 2013-05-01, at 10:11, Staller, Allan wrote:
Your Doman Name Service (DNS) should be able to overcome this difficulty.
A DNS translates an name (e.g. HOSTNAME) to an IP address (e.g.
192.168.81.99) or vice versa.
This problem most often arises because of acquisitions, reorganizations,
On Wed, 1 May 2013 19:20:36 +, DASDBILL2 wrote:
Duplicate jobnames are allowed or not allowed at the discretion of the
customer. There is now a parameter to allow duplicate jobnames' running
simultaneously. Those shops that do not want havoc can opt not to use the new
parameter. All
On Thu, 2 May 2013 10:14:04 -0500, Ed Gould wrote:
R.S.
That would mean that the scheduler had its own security and letting
applications near production.
No, not its own security. RACF.
Then the finger pointing would start and never end. No Thanks.
Look. If you let people submit jobs
On Thu, 2 May 2013 17:22:51 -0400, John Gilmore wrote:
Some shops have even institutionalized practices that produce
duplicate jobname values.
I know of one that long required development programmers who used the
submit command to use their TSOIDs as the name of every job they
All because they
On Fri, 3 May 2013 21:13:56 -0500, J. Leslie Turriff wrote:
On 2013-05-03 18:24:07 Phil Smith wrote:
http://www.tomshardware.com/picturestory/508-mainframe-computer-history.html
I didn't realize that Eniac was that big... 49-ft high cabinets! Wow!
And:
Also, in a backward step
On Sat, 4 May 2013 21:53:08 -0400, Anne Lynn Wheeler wrote:
...
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013f.html#57 The cloud is killing traditional
hardware and software
...
... is killing traditional ... is a paraphrase of progress. In the 1950s
you might have heard The electronic computer
On Tue, 7 May 2013 13:34:07 -0400, Gerhard Postpischil wrote:
On 5/7/2013 5:02 AM, Lizette Koehler wrote:
The only way I can think of restricting is an exit in JES2. Or if this is a
TSO User you may wish to look at IKJEFT10 exit.
You'd be surprised how many secure installations permit a TSO
On Tue, 7 May 2013 17:50:32 -0400, Ed Finnell wrote:
Yeah, we had a bright VMer said he could run circles around ISPF with XEDIT
macros. Well maybe after six thousand job submissions. Had to retool him
pretty good
How was he submitting the jobs? NJE? FTP? Other (specify)?
But are you
On Wed, 8 May 2013 10:33:46 -0400, Gerhard Postpischil wrote:
On 5/8/2013 8:37 AM, Walt Farrell wrote:
I'm not sure why Gerhard thinks that is a security problem, gil. But
certainy if users push jobs through the INTRDR directly (as opposed
to via TSO/E SUBMIT or ISPF SUB) then you can't depend
On Wed, 8 May 2013 08:37:12 -0700, Ed Jaffe wrote:
They might have simply put their 'control's in the wrong exits (TSO) and
were too lazy to refit them into the (JES and SMF) exits where they
belonged.
A plausible motivation is that they want all jobs submitted via their scheduler.
On Tue, 7
On Wed, 8 May 2013 11:08:36 -0500, Mark Zelden wrote:
On Wed, 8 May 2013 10:55:37 -0500, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
Does the class matter? If I allocate:
//SYSUT2 DD SYSOUT=(B,INTRDR)
... will the job not run? Will the punch writer contend with INTRDR?
(You mean they had a punch
On Wed, 8 May 2013 12:10:36 -0500, Mark Zelden wrote:
What is this, MVS 101? :-)
There's an aphorism I haven't used here in a while. I'll let readers guess.
-- gil
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On Wed, 8 May 2013 14:41:28 -0400, Gerhard Postpischil wrote:
While I prefer the branch table conjecture, I have a number of programs
that use a three-way branch (e.g., CH R15,=H'8') to save, what in the
good old days was expensive storage. As for range checking, my all-time
favorite is CL (e.g.,
On Wed, 8 May 2013 22:40:13 -0400, John Gilmore wrote:
... 2) interdict, or anyway attempt to
interdict, any practice that is judged to be anomalous.
In some cases when someone has espoused a practice or point of
view that you judge to be anomalous, you characterize him as
an intelligent
On Sat, 11 May 2013 17:09:19 -0400, Dave Salt wrote:
The edit session ends with CANCEL, which means no changes were saved, which
means ISPF sets the return code of the macro to 4. If you want to end with a
different return code, you can hard code it like this:
EXIT CODE(0)
Or set it using this
On Sun, 12 May 2013 18:55:05 -0500, J. Leslie Turriff wrote:
Sorry; I should have marked that Off-Topic.
This is an interesting exposition on the subject. I suppose that this
is
unavoidable in any business that produces large software systems.
http://blog.zorinaq.com/?e=74
I
On Mon, 13 May 2013 10:46:45 -0400, John Gilmore wrote:
The work of Rufus Isaacs on aircraft-collision avoidance, which I have
mentioned here before, is highly instructive. He found that the only
safe collision-avoidance strategies for aircraft A in an air space
also occupied by aircrafts B, C,
On Mon, 13 May 2013 15:15:06 -0500, Kirk Wolf wrote:
Agreed - it would be nice if TSO OMVS had a solution for masking passwords,
but it doesn't.
Long ago, before SSL was available, I went to PMR with this. I even used
the magic word, security. I reported it as a problem with stty -echo,
and
On Wed, 15 May 2013 06:00:44 -0500, John McKown wrote:
According to IBM, you cannot get a z/OS license for a Hercules based
machine. It has been asked for by many, for a hobbyist environment.
Perhaps more like WINE than like Hercules. You don't need z/OS
to run applications; only interface
On Wed, 15 May 2013 06:54:01 -0400, John Gilmore wrote:
Earlier this week, on another list, I encountered someone who was
proposing to use STCK TOD values in a new system.
Circa 1987, in a design meeting I advocated reserving a 4-digit
field for a date. I was sneered at because the TIME macro
On Thu, 16 May 2013 09:36:55 +0300, Binyamin Dissen wrote:
While questionably STCKE will be better than STCK (depending on the use), the
correct solution is to use some kind of unbiased value with an optional
displacement. True, STCK(E) is easier, but it not a good value to be hardened
for long
On Thu, 16 May 2013 11:23:08 -0400, John Gilmore wrote:
... of STCK[E] values:
It is usable 'against the past' only after midnight 1899 December 31.
The question whether it is GMT, UTC, or LOCAL misses the point. It is
none of these. It is best thought of as a coarse-grained TIA-like
value.
On Fri, 17 May 2013 07:24:48 -0700, Lloyd Fuller wrote:
You have to look at where C was originally designed to run. It was designed
for
the DEC PDP8. Those were SMALL in resources machines. Later versions of C
were
built on the PDP11s, but Richie and crew started out on the PDP8. And, yes,
On Fri, 17 May 2013 10:43:43 -0400, Farley, Peter x23353 wrote:
There was a person who offered to re-package the XMIT software in a more
current installer a few years back, but IIRC when he contacted the author he
could not get permission to do so.
I do not believe that the original author is
On Sat, 18 May 2013 03:39:05 -0500, Elardus Engelbrecht wrote:
I like to use ST screen so I can see all elements of a job/stc/tso. One line
per address space. You want to see more lines per Address Space, use ? against
it.
ST is also handy where I absolutely want to see ALL elements of a job
On Sat, 18 May 2013 15:17:22 -0500, John McKown wrote:
http://mainframed767.tumblr.com/post/50574743147/big-iron-back-door-maintp-part-two
basically the person must be able to ftp into a UNIX subdirectory and
to submit a job. They upload a program called netcat into a data set
starting with
On Sat, 18 May 2013 11:57:35 -0700, William Smith wrote:
If you are having issues with the CBT implementation of XMIT manager on a
64-bit machine, I suggest you look into UnXmit on SourceForge.� It's open
source and runs just fine on Windows 7 x64.� Truly, well done and documented
nicely by
On Sun, 19 May 2013 13:24:49 +, Robert AH Prins wrote:
On 2013-05-19 09:40, Uwe Oswald wrote:
Hi @ll,
has someone ever tried to extract fields SMF30DDS and SMF30DDR (long floating
point hex) or any field in REXX? There are a couple of F2something routines
out there but it seems that none
On Sun, 19 May 2013 18:21:38 -0400, Scott Ford wrote:
I agree you need a RACF ID and password an of course a list of permits. Which
as was pointed that batch submission can be prevented by the permits no being
there. Secondly, I find an article of this type irresponsible.
irresponsible
On Mon, 20 May 2013 17:25:38 +0200, Thomas Berg wrote:
As I described at the ISPF-L list, this didn't work. And that's because ISPF
uses an userid.ISPn.SPFTEMPn.WORK file just for file tailoring into a
preallocated ISPFILE ddname.
But it worked with preallocating the ISPWRKn and/or
On 2013-05-20, at 09:59, Thomas Berg wrote:
Windows make work until the disk is full. And that is what we want!
Someone is apt to point out that behavior is better suited to a
single-user desktop system than to a multi-user enterprise system.
And on Windows the constraint is your local
On Mon, 20 May 2013 13:45:46 -0500, Mike Schwab wrote:
Our section uses and IEBGENER proc to SYSOUT=(A,,INTRDR) and works just fine.
I have an EDIT macro that does very similar. _And_ it allocates the INTRDR
with attributes of the data set being submitted; it doesn't quietly truncate
my data
On Tue, 21 May 2013 00:03:00 -0400, Thomas Kern wrote:
On 05/20/2013 11:21 AM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote:
at 03:17 PM, John McKown said:
http://mainframed767.tumblr.com/post/50574743147/big-iron-back-door-maintp-part-two
Control the resources, not the tools.
There are easier ways to
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