Re: Calling idcams

2012-06-20 Thread Scott Ford
cbttapes and xephon pubs. Much thanks , John Regards , Scott ford www.identityforge.com On Jun 20, 2012, at 10:58 AM, McKown, John john.mck...@healthmarkets.com wrote: IGGCSI00 is only for doing the equivalent of a LISTCAT type function. You could call IDCAMS itself, with I/O exits to feed

Re: Calling idcams

2012-06-20 Thread Scott Ford
Gord, Not sure what you saying, all COBOL is LE now...Assembler you can choose, C , I am not knowledgable in enough to say.. Scott ford www.identityforge.com On Jun 20, 2012, at 4:29 PM, Gord Tomlin gt.ibm.li...@actionsoftware.com wrote: One could argue that creating LE enabled programs

Re: Calling idcams

2012-06-20 Thread Scott Ford
Shmuel, I want sure and wanted to ask. All the examples I saw in rexx,assembler and COBOL all did searches , I figured it was a search only.. Scott ford www.identityforge.com On Jun 20, 2012, at 1:54 PM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) shmuel+...@patriot.net wrote: In e52f4f44-5cae-479f-92cb

Re: convert Decimal to bytes

2012-06-20 Thread Scott Ford
Art, Tony's suggestion using a d2c in rexx works well..not sure what you are asking.. An address in hex to decimal, then bytes ? Scott ford www.identityforge.com On Jun 20, 2012, at 5:28 PM, Tony Harminc t...@harminc.net wrote: On 20 June 2012 17:15, Art aa...@usa.net wrote: Hi would anyone

Re: COBOL 3.4 and LE Considerations questions

2012-06-20 Thread Scott Ford
Ed, I has problems with backward compatibility with a customer running z/os 1.7 with our code developed on 1.11 ..certain LE functions were not working, it was a fix I think , 1.10 and up no issues with any customers, we develop our STCs in LE COBOL 4.2 Scott ford www.identityforge.com

Re: convert Decimal to bytes

2012-06-21 Thread Scott Ford
Elardus, Amen my friend, hard help when can't see what the are trying to do Scott ford www.identityforge.com On Jun 21, 2012, at 5:38 AM, Elardus Engelbrecht elardus.engelbre...@sita.co.za wrote: Art aa...@usa.net wrote: Hi would anyone know of a calculator and/or formal via rexx that I

Re: Brain drain: Where Cobol systems go from here

2012-06-23 Thread Scott Ford
Shmuel, Experience is the teacher. My problem is that a lot of folks with the experience will be retiring, hence a lot of experience and insight goes away..fwiw Scott ford www.identityforge.com On Jun 22, 2012, at 10:02 AM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) shmuel+...@patriot.net wrote: In vnetibm

Re: 'Inexperienced' RBS tech operative's blunder led to banking meltdown

2012-06-27 Thread Scott Ford
After reading the article a lot of issues...technical and non-technicalseems to be a epidemic of ppl who don't want to read ..seeing a lot of it lately. Plus good experienced people are hard to find. Fwiw Scott ford www.identityforge.com On Jun 27, 2012, at 12:39 PM, Bill Ashton

Re: 'Inexperienced' RBS tech operative's blunder led to banking meltdown

2012-06-27 Thread Scott Ford
Ed, Sounded like production testing..if it works it's productions if not its a test Scott ford www.identityforge.com On Jun 27, 2012, at 3:47 PM, Ed Gould edgould1...@comcast.net wrote: Could it be instead that CA does not follow SMPE conventions (sup,pre etc) ? Ed ps: I would love

Re: CA product numbers (was 'Inexperienced' RBS tech operative's blunder led to banking meltdown)

2012-06-27 Thread Scott Ford
Gord, Same here we use Opensuse for z/Pdt I have to dig to find the release. But for me it's not too bad, since I have time in a development shop that we are. Scott ford www.identityforge.com On Jun 27, 2012, at 2:09 PM, Gord Tomlin gt.ibm.li...@actionsoftware.com wrote: They are based

Re: 'Inexperienced' RBS tech operative's blunder led to banking meltdown

2012-06-27 Thread Scott Ford
my $0.02 worth Scott ford www.identityforge.com On Jun 27, 2012, at 11:43 AM, Phil Smith p...@voltage.com wrote: John McKown wrote: I somewhat agree (as difficult as that is for me). In today's world, it is expected that a worker will just walk in off the street and have the intuitive

Re: Real cost savings (was: 'Inexperienced' RBS tech operative's blunder led to banking meltdown)

2012-06-27 Thread Scott Ford
and tools... Scott ford www.identityforge.com On Jun 27, 2012, at 2:20 PM, Dave Salt ds...@hotmail.com wrote: If a company has 100 programmers and they cost an average of $50 an hour, and they use a tool like SimpList or IPT to improve their productivity by 10%, they could get rid of 10 programmers

Re: CA product numbers (was 'Inexperienced' RBS tech operative's blunder led to banking meltdown)

2012-06-27 Thread Scott Ford
Wonder who stayed up all night thinking of these names Scott ford www.identityforge.com On Jun 27, 2012, at 11:39 AM, McKown, John john.mck...@healthmarkets.com wrote: I like the Canonical's method of naming releases of the Ubuntu Linux releases. Warty Warthog / Hoary Hedgehog / Breezy

Re: 'Inexperienced' RBS tech operative's blunder led to banking meltdown

2012-06-27 Thread Scott Ford
Jerry, I went to a DR test, where before hand myself and another old hand tried to tell some younger staff members make sure they inventory their tapes..well the didn't and forgot 14 of them Scott ford www.identityforge.com On Jun 27, 2012, at 1:11 PM, Jerry Whitteridge jerry.whitteri

Re: SMF Type 80 relocation section detail mapping macro

2012-06-28 Thread Scott Ford
Hey Tony, What ever happened to good old PLMs ... Scott ford www.identityforge.com On Jun 28, 2012, at 2:34 PM, Tony Harminc t...@harminc.net wrote: On 28 June 2012 06:44, Donald Likens dlik...@infosecinc.com wrote: I've been looking through the books but have not found a detail mapping

Re: VSAM tracking

2012-06-29 Thread Scott Ford
Peter, Just to add to the great explanation from Lizette , dcollect and ICETOOL can do a lot also. It might be worth looking at Scott ford www.identityforge.com On Jun 29, 2012, at 4:07 AM, mf db dbajava...@gmail.com wrote: Lizette, Probably My email didn't explained much. Yes I want

Re: CA product numbers (was 'Inexperienced' RBS tech operative's blunder led to banking meltdown)

2012-06-29 Thread Scott Ford
John, Hopefully my mid summer I am getting another system here at home, going yo be 16g with win7 64bit ,,vbox, fedora under it... Scott ford www.identityforge.com On Jun 27, 2012, at 1:17 PM, McKown, John john.mck...@healthmarkets.com wrote: -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe

Re: 'Inexperienced' RBS tech operative's blunder led to banking meltdown

2012-06-29 Thread Scott Ford
Kirk, Absolutely ugly in regression testing...Or found Friday at 5 pm Scott ford www.identityforge.com On Jun 28, 2012, at 1:12 PM, Kirk Talman rkueb...@tsys.com wrote: well said not supposed to exist, but ... especially ugly when the problem is regression testing IBM Mainframe

Re: Sad News About Rick Fochtman

2012-07-02 Thread Scott Ford
I didnt know Rick either, sorry to hear he passed away. My prayers to his family and friends. Scott J Ford Software Engineer http://www.identityforge.com/   From: Mohammad Khan mkkha...@hotmail.com To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Sent: Monday, July 2, 2012 9:07

Re: 'Inexperienced' RBS tech operative's blunder led to banking meltdown

2012-07-02 Thread Scott Ford
read the manuals. Many of them i feel haven't had the fortune of learning z/OS from the early days. I learned CICS many moons ago with the source assemblies and PLMs. Unfortunately, the have shall we say disappeared. Scott ford www.identityforge.com On Jul 2, 2012, at 7:43 PM, John Gilmore

Re: 'Inexperienced' RBS tech operative's blunder led to banking meltdown

2012-07-03 Thread Scott Ford
Shmuel, So have I ..competent people usually are on the same technical page, for sure Scott ford www.identityforge.com On Jul 2, 2012, at 9:13 AM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) shmuel+...@patriot.net wrote: In 24ed21e9-0ebc-42b6-af26-5e07aa72c...@yahoo.com, on 07/02/2012 at 12:51 AM, Scott

Re: 'Inexperienced' RBS tech operative's blunder led to banking meltdown

2012-07-03 Thread Scott Ford
Shmuel:   I work the same way, we have to test, no opinions, being a ISV. We support three security subsystems...RACF,ACF2 and Top-Secret. Even as a Sysprog on VM/VSE and MVS I always tested. To me personally, crazy not to, if I wanted to stay employed. Secondly, I have a responsibility to my

Re: Quantas hit by leap second issue?

2012-07-04 Thread Scott Ford
Extremely Scott ford www.identityforge.com On Jul 4, 2012, at 8:16 PM, Edward Jaffe edja...@phoenixsoftware.com wrote: On 7/4/2012 5:11 PM, zMan wrote: On Wed, Jul 4, 2012 at 4:25 PM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) shmuel+...@patriot.net wrote: He started out right but then got turned around

Re: INACTIVE Spool Volume

2012-07-05 Thread Scott Ford
Reiner, Can you tell me which version of z/OS your installation is on ? Scott ford www.identityforge.com On Jul 5, 2012, at 7:52 AM, Reiner Markus reiner.mar...@gmx.net wrote: Kees, seems we werer hit by this red alert. z/OS 1.11 PTF UA61942 is already accepted because it's from

Re: INACTIVE Spool Volume

2012-07-05 Thread Scott Ford
Reiner, Sorry I asked, I reread your last post. I know your on z/OS 1.11 Scott ford www.identityforge.com On Jul 5, 2012, at 8:45 AM, Scott Ford scott_j_f...@yahoo.com wrote: Reiner, Can you tell me which version of z/OS your installation is on ? Scott ford www.identityforge.com

Re: RACF question

2012-07-06 Thread Scott Ford
Yep, I saw that, we found they had no access to sys1.linklib which is we're adduser, etc are Scott ford www.identityforge.com On Jul 6, 2012, at 5:15 PM, craig.p...@fotlinc.com wrote: Not always, Here is the ABEND 306-30 documentation. The user attempted to use a controlled program

Re: RACF question

2012-07-07 Thread Scott Ford
commands we can use to determine what is or isn't required for product installation. I need some suggestions...any help is appreciated. Scott ford www.identityforge.com On Jul 6, 2012, at 5:15 PM, craig.p...@fotlinc.com wrote: Not always, Here is the ABEND 306-30 documentation. The user

Re: RACF question

2012-07-07 Thread Scott Ford
=RACF 11.51.03 STC00472 IEF196I CSV028I ABEND306-30 JOBNAME=RACF STEPNAME=RACF Scott ford www.identityforge.com On Jul 7, 2012, at 4:11 PM, Scott Ford scott_j_f...@yahoo.com wrote: Joel, Thank you very much. We are working with the customer on Monday. So I have homework.. Scott

Off topic

2012-07-07 Thread Scott Ford
Has anyone has messages disappear when the sent them to the listserv ? Scott ford www.identityforge.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message

Fwd: RACF question

2012-07-07 Thread Scott Ford
Scott ford www.identityforge.com Begin forwarded message: From: Scott Ford scott_j_f...@yahoo.com Date: July 7, 2012 4:49:13 PM EDT To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: RACF question Joel, Hers the exact error: 11.51.03 STC00472 CSV025I PROGRAM

Re: 'Inexperienced RBS tech operative's blunder...'

2012-07-10 Thread Scott Ford
Sam, Sam I see this almost everyday as a ISV. A lot of misunderstands, misinformation, you name it. I ave always lived if you don't know the answer just ask, i would be the first to help if I can. Culturally, there are always issues, been there too..living aboard Scott ford

Re: Sad News About Rick Fochtman

2012-07-10 Thread Scott Ford
Ed, Thank you, he will be missed, life is short Scott ford www.identityforge.com On Jul 10, 2012, at 3:33 PM, Ed Finnell efinnel...@aol.com wrote: One of the other list members sent me an obituary reference. It's a difficult web page to navigate(for me) and blew out my browser a couple

Re: Relationship of C signals to z/OS terminology?

2012-07-13 Thread Scott Ford
Charles, Not exactly, yeah I know that's the point .I am surprised its not in some diagnostic guide. Let me dig .. Scott ford www.identityforge.com On Jul 13, 2012, at 10:53 AM, Charles Mills charl...@mcn.org wrote: Hey Scott g yes I have. Did I miss something? Do you see anywhere

Re: COBOL packed decimal

2012-07-14 Thread Scott Ford
John, So your saying in COBOL are you talking about Comp-3 binary ? Scott ford www.identityforge.com On Jul 14, 2012, at 8:08 AM, John Gilmore jwgli...@gmail.com wrote: Doing integer--as opposed to real fixed-point--arithmetic with packed-decimal values is the real culprit here. Integer

Re: COBOL packed decimal

2012-07-14 Thread Scott Ford
I understand the difference , just trying to understand what John is saying Scott ford www.identityforge.com On Jul 14, 2012, at 12:22 PM, Steve Comstock st...@trainersfriend.com wrote: On 7/14/2012 10:16 AM, Scott Ford wrote: John, So your saying in COBOL are you talking about Comp-3

Re: COBOL packed decimal

2012-07-14 Thread Scott Ford
Tom Ross's Share presentation on COBOL performance is excellent. Scott ford www.identityforge.com On Jul 14, 2012, at 12:34 PM, Chris Mason chrisma...@belgacom.net wrote: John Integer arithmetic should never be done with anything but binary integers. What never? One excuse might

Re: Yahoo Password Breach: 7 Lessons Learned - Security - Attacks/breaches - Informationweek

2012-07-14 Thread Scott Ford
Ed, I skimmed the below article. I agree with what they say, we are in the security business. I think the punishment of the perps should be severe enough to deter hacking like that. Maybe I am too old school. They should be held accountable for their actions. Scott ford www.identityforge.com

Re: Yahoo Password Breach: 7 Lessons Learned - Security - Attacks/breaches - Informationweek

2012-07-15 Thread Scott Ford
Hey zMan, Very true..but still I think Yahoo has a responsibility to their customers Scott ford www.identityforge.com On Jul 15, 2012, at 10:43 AM, zMan zedgarhoo...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 12:18 AM, Ed Gould edgould1...@comcast.net wrote: http://www.informationweek.**com

Re: Yahoo Password Breach: 7 Lessons Learned - Security - Attacks/breaches - Informationweek

2012-07-15 Thread Scott Ford
ZMan, Very true. Scott ford www.identityforge.com On Jul 15, 2012, at 12:53 PM, zMan zedgarhoo...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 12:12 PM, Scott Ford scott_j_f...@yahoo.com wrote: Hey zMan, Very true..but still I think Yahoo has a responsibility to their customers

Re: Yahoo Password Breach: 7 Lessons Learned - Security - Attacks/breaches - Informationweek

2012-07-16 Thread Scott Ford
You mandate any policy you want, try enforcing password rules Scott ford www.identityforge.com On Jul 16, 2012, at 1:39 PM, Finch, Steve (ES - Mainframe) steve.fi...@hp.com wrote: Perhaps 8 character passwords should be replaced with 255 characters passphases (password phases) ? Steve

Re: IGGCSI to retrieve tape volume serial

2012-07-16 Thread Scott Ford
Victor, Try a 'google rexx iggcsi' , there several samples and one of the fields was tape datasets Scott ford www.identityforge.com On Jul 16, 2012, at 9:43 PM, Victor Zhang victor_wor...@yahoo.com.cn wrote: For a non-vsam dataset, how can I determine if it is a dasd dataset or a tape

Re: Urgent help needed - Message ISN000E

2012-07-17 Thread Scott Ford
What about erep and logrec Scott ford www.identityforge.com On Jul 17, 2012, at 6:50 AM, Richards, Robert B. robert.richa...@opm.gov wrote: Permanent Failure When the system detects that the service processor is permanently, completely failing, the system receives a service processor

Re: Yahoo Password Breach: 7 Lessons Learned - Security - Attacks/breaches - Informationweek

2012-07-20 Thread Scott Ford
Sales pitch, sorry guys...I will bet there are thousands and thousands of users using either TSO or CMS ..of course CICS and IMS and DB2 ...we also sell software ...LDAP ...but I won't go there unless its offline. This isn't the place to try to hustle ppl Scott ford www.identityforge.com

Re: COBOL packed decimal

2012-07-20 Thread Scott Ford
Shmuel, Who did the inherit the 1108 from ? My dad worked for Unisys on the 1108sdude Scott ford www.identityforge.com On Jul 20, 2012, at 11:43 AM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) shmuel+...@patriot.net wrote: In 9307538697441482.wa.paulgboulderaim@listserv.ua.edu, on 07/19/2012 at 09

Re: COBOL packed decimal

2012-07-21 Thread Scott Ford
); and UNIVAC was at that time a division of Sperry Rand. John Gilmore, Ashland, MA, 01721 - USA On 7/20/12, Scott Ford scott_j_f...@yahoo.com wrote: Shmuel, Who did the inherit the 1108 from ? My dad worked for Unisys on the 1108sdude Scott ford www.identityforge.com On Jul 20, 2012, at 11:43

Re: COBOL packed decimal

2012-07-21 Thread Scott Ford
gil,   Thats the reason I asked ..see my other post. Could say I have a vested interest. My late father Scott J Ford Software Engineer http://www.identityforge.com/   From: Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Sent: Saturday, July

Re: COBOL packed decimal

2012-07-22 Thread Scott Ford
My dad worked on the 1108 II, I think at Ft. Harrison in Indy Scott ford www.identityforge.com On Jul 21, 2012, at 9:26 AM, John Gilmore jwgli...@gmail.com wrote: The Unisys 1108, a (36-bit) word machine, was originally the UNIVAC 1108 I (circa 1965) and the UNIVAC 1108 II (circa 1968

Re: COBOL packed decimal

2012-07-22 Thread Scott Ford
I was aware of the hardware on the machines, since my late father was a FE on them. Didn't really know anything about the opsys or programming languages. So the history is very interesting Scott ford www.identityforge.com On Jul 22, 2012, at 8:37 AM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) shmuel

Re: Submitting a requirement for z/OS to at least acknowledge SIGNAL SHUTDOWN by printing a message

2012-07-22 Thread Scott Ford
Gil, I am with you and zMan what's so difficult about an orderly shutdown on OMVS and z/os address spaces..z/Pdt has vtamappl, everything shutdown fine... Scott ford www.identityforge.com On Jul 22, 2012, at 6:37 PM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com wrote: On Sun, 22 Jul 2012 18:23:36

Re: Submitting a requirement for z/OS to at least acknowledge SIGNAL SHUTDOWN by printing a message

2012-07-22 Thread Scott Ford
David, What issuing a z/Pdt cmd OPRMSG 'cmd ...'. Scott ford www.identityforge.com On Jul 22, 2012, at 4:17 PM, David Boyes dbo...@sinenomine.net wrote: How can I go about submitting a requirement for z/OS to acknowledge and handle the same external interrupt as VM, VSE and Linux use

Re: Submitting a requirement for z/OS to at least acknowledge SIGNAL SHUTDOWN by printing a message

2012-07-22 Thread Scott Ford
Robert, That is my understanding also..as long as an automation package or maybe even system rexx could intercept the message and take action that was desired. I don't see why that wouldn't work... Scott ford www.identityforge.com On Jul 22, 2012, at 8:51 PM, Robert A. Rosenberg hal9

Re: Yahoo Password Breach: 7 Lessons Learned - Security - Attacks/breaches - Informationweek

2012-07-22 Thread Scott Ford
Sorry we are competitors I won't say more Scott ford www.identityforge.com On Jul 22, 2012, at 8:38 PM, Timothy Sipples timothy.sipp...@us.ibm.com wrote: Shmuel Metz asks: There is support for mapping long user ids into short user ids. Does that support work if the access validation

Re: Submitting a requirement for z/OS to at least acknowledge SIGNAL SHUTDOWN by printing a message

2012-07-23 Thread Scott Ford
I guess I don't understand what David is asking..I thought that the z/Pdt cmd 'oprmsg ' routes a message or command to z/os from Linux ... Scott ford www.identityforge.com On Jul 23, 2012, at 2:00 PM, Frank Swarbrick frank.swarbr...@yahoo.com wrote: Don't know if z/OS itself is part

Re: LU Lookup failed - sense 00003003

2012-07-23 Thread Scott Ford
Chris, My VTAM is old but I seem to Remember that CICS, aka kicks, was the Plu Scott ford www.identityforge.com On Jul 23, 2012, at 6:47 PM, Chris Mason chrisma...@belgacom.net wrote: Greg You still need a pool even if it has only one entry. I checked the IP and SNA Codes manual

Re: Authorized Rexx Assembler Function

2012-07-24 Thread Scott Ford
Excellent, better yet what about a authorized rexx function callable via rexx Scott ford www.identityforge.com On Jul 24, 2012, at 3:05 AM, Binyamin Dissen bdis...@dissensoftware.com wrote: On Tue, 24 Jul 2012 00:57:09 -0500 Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com wrote: :On Mon, 23 Jul 2012

Re: Yahoo Password Breach: 7 Lessons Learned - Security - Attacks/breaches - Informationweek

2012-07-24 Thread Scott Ford
Too bad you can't use the LDAP to signon to TSO.. I understand what your saying Timothy. The big trick as we have found is design.. Plan seems to be a bad 4 letter word Scott ford www.identityforge.com On Jul 24, 2012, at 8:06 PM, Timothy Sipples timothy.sipp...@us.ibm.com wrote: Shmuel Metz

Re: Gordon Crovitz: Who Really Invented the Internet?

2012-07-25 Thread Scott Ford
John, I agree, there seems to be no sense of responsibility. Scott ford www.identityforge.com On Jul 24, 2012, at 4:09 PM, John Gilmore jwgli...@gmail.com wrote: The scientific community made early and significant use of the DARPA predecessor of today's Internet, and almost none

Re: [z390] Anyone want Source code listing of last VSE program product Supervisor?

2012-08-05 Thread Scott Ford
So what's a wooden paddle ? Scott ford www.identityforge.com On Aug 3, 2012, at 4:57 PM, Clark Morris cfmpub...@ns.sympatico.ca wrote: On 3 Aug 2012 11:51:50 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: Pehaps he could send it to the Computer History Museum, on the condition

Re: [z390] Anyone want Source code listing of last VSE program product Supervisor?

2012-08-06 Thread Scott Ford
Very interesting, os/vs2/hasp was the first release i worked on. Before that all VSE. Scott ford www.identityforge.com On Aug 6, 2012, at 10:53 AM, McKown, John john.mck...@healthmarkets.com wrote: -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN

C compile question

2012-08-06 Thread Scott Ford
can some lead me some assistance Scott ford www.identityforge.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: [z390] Anyone want Source code listing of last VSE program product Supervisor?

2012-08-06 Thread Scott Ford
God I love it, need a sense of humor Scott ford www.identityforge.com On Aug 6, 2012, at 8:29 PM, Clark Morris cfmpub...@ns.sympatico.ca wrote: On 6 Aug 2012 15:20:02 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: In a1ff1e2a-3a73-4c0f-8a06-a562b18ae...@yahoo.com, on 08/05/2012 at 09:10 PM

Re: File Processing

2012-08-07 Thread Scott Ford
I love it .I had a COBOL programmer bet me that our DOS/VSE system on our 4381 was causing her abend. She bet me a dinner, well I collected, brought her in and did a instruction trace pointed right to her code Scott ford www.identityforge.com On Aug 7, 2012, at 3:27 PM, McKown, John

Re: [z390] Anyone want Source code listing of last VSE program product Supervisor?

2012-08-07 Thread Scott Ford
Too many yutz's in the world Scott ford www.identityforge.com On Aug 7, 2012, at 9:15 AM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) shmuel+...@patriot.net wrote: In 0f38850c-ff90-42cc-8897-b4fa59db3...@yahoo.com, on 08/06/2012 at 09:52 PM, Scott Ford scott_j_f...@yahoo.com said: God I love it, need

Re: File Processing

2012-08-08 Thread Scott Ford
ford www.identityforge.com On Aug 7, 2012, at 9:57 PM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) shmuel+ibm-m...@patriot.net wrote: In 39235829-1d9d-411b-bb12-6b739e1c2...@yahoo.com, on 08/07/2012 at 08:12 PM, Scott Ford scott_j_f...@yahoo.com said: I love it .I had a COBOL programmer bet me that our DOS

Re: Message Flooding Problem

2012-08-08 Thread Scott Ford
Barbara, Just curious you don't use dsitbl01 anymore or am I dating myself .lol Scott ford www.identityforge.com On Aug 8, 2012, at 1:08 AM, Barbara Nitz nitz-...@gmx.net wrote: Mark, No we don't, and that was one of the options I was looking at yesterday. use this one. You

Re: Auditors Don't Know Squat!

2012-08-08 Thread Scott Ford
Amen bro I am a mainframe believer for long time Scott ford www.identityforge.com On Aug 8, 2012, at 12:19 AM, Thomas Kern tlk_sysp...@yahoo.com wrote: On 8/7/2012 21:20, Robert A. Rosenberg wrote: At 10:17 + on 08/07/2012, Pearce, Colin E wrote about Re: Auditors Don't Know Squat

Re: Message Flooding Problem

2012-08-09 Thread Scott Ford
message flooding Scott ford www.identityforge.com On Aug 9, 2012, at 1:16 AM, ibmmain nitz-...@gmx.net wrote: Just curious you don't use dsitbl01 anymore or am I dating myself .lol No idea since I don't 'do' NetView. I guess this is because there are two NetViews per system, one system

Re: GUIfication of tn3270 screens

2012-08-13 Thread Scott Ford
I looked at Host OnDemand and looked scalable also, with macros and Apis. I used it at a customer site and liked it Scott ford www.identityforge.com On Aug 13, 2012, at 9:37 AM, Kirk Wolf k...@dovetail.com wrote: If I understand the scenario, the OP has a 3270-based debugger product and wants

Re: Auditors Don't Know Squat!

2012-08-17 Thread Scott Ford
John, I agree with you on you observations about auditors been through a fair share of them. Management education wouldnt hurt either. Scott ford www.identityforge.com On Aug 17, 2012, at 11:04 AM, John Gilmore jwgli...@gmail.com wrote: Auditing is not 'boot camp'. All professional firms do

Re: REPLACEMENT ASID SHORTAGE

2012-08-17 Thread Scott Ford
Elardus, That's funny.love it its like people pronouncing across with a 't' ...there is no 't' in across Scott ford www.identityforge.com On Aug 17, 2012, at 9:46 AM, Elardus Engelbrecht elardus.engelbre...@sita.co.za wrote: Neil Haley wrote: I have lost count of the number

Re: Auditors Don't Know Squat!

2012-08-17 Thread Scott Ford
Hadn't heard core cancer, that's pretty graphic VM problem... Scott ford www.identityforge.com On Aug 17, 2012, at 1:17 PM, Tony Harminc t...@harminc.net wrote: On 17 August 2012 12:40, Ward, Mike S mw...@ssfcu.org wrote: Way back when, we used to call a memory leak something else

Re: Auditors Don't Know Squat!

2012-08-17 Thread Scott Ford
: Re: Auditors Don't Know Squat! CICS and VTAM were the kings of chewing up storage... Steven F. Conway, CISSP LA Systems z/OS Systems Support Phone: 703.295.1926 steve_con...@ao.uscourts.gov From:  Scott Ford scott_j_f...@yahoo.com To:    IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Date:  08/17/2012 02:43 PM

Re: Auditors Don't Know Squat!

2012-08-17 Thread Scott Ford
Yeah, I was on a CICS 1.4 system written in macro level COBOL, storage violations were a dine a dozen everyday. Before started identifying them and fixing them. Scott ford www.identityforge.com On Aug 17, 2012, at 6:26 PM, Barry Merrill ba...@mxg.com wrote: Memory Leaks, Core Cancer, Storage

Re: Auditors Don't Know Squat!

2012-08-17 Thread Scott Ford
I used to do a lot in a VM shop before I became the SNA guy. Scott ford www.identityforge.com On Aug 17, 2012, at 7:19 PM, Gerhard Postpischil gerh...@valley.net wrote: On 8/17/2012 6:43 PM, Frank Swarbrick wrote: How many systems programmers do programming as part of their systems

Re: Some fun with IBM acronyms and jargon (was Re: Auditors Don't Know Squat!)

2012-08-18 Thread Scott Ford
. Scott ford www.identityforge.com On Aug 18, 2012, at 12:36 PM, John Gilmore jwgli...@gmail.com wrote: IBM had the considerable advantage, circa 1964, of having had substantial experience with the inadequacies of the fix-handling machinery it had put together for IBSYS. It came to terms early

Re: Delay Problem with SSL and DVIPA

2012-08-23 Thread Scott Ford
Did you run a packet trace, to see where the delay is ? That would be the first thing ...in my mind..it's not always a case of reviewing definitions... Scott ford www.identityforge.com On Aug 23, 2012, at 2:03 PM, Gibney, Dave gib...@wsu.edu wrote: I suggest you ask this on IBMTCP-L. You

Re: IEC161I 037(108,000,IGG0CLFE)-0257 under ZOS 1.10

2012-08-23 Thread Scott Ford
Alvaro, Do you know how to use google .. http://www.jatomes.com/Help/VsamRc.php The rc and reason is there, 2 mins work Scott ford www.identityforge.com On Aug 23, 2012, at 4:02 PM, Alvaro Quintupray aquin...@bancoestado.cl wrote: Hi. We have migrated from ZOS 1.8 to ZOS 1.10

Re: IEC161I 037(108,000,IGG0CLFE)-0257 under ZOS 1.10

2012-08-23 Thread Scott Ford
Bill, No shame in not knowing ... Scott ford www.identityforge.com On Aug 23, 2012, at 5:44 PM, Bill Fairchild bfairch...@rocketsoftware.com wrote: Good advice. I have wanted to give the same advice many times. However, even if one can find in 2 minutes the relevant text that explains

Re: IEC161I 037(108,000,IGG0CLFE)-0257 under ZOS 1.10

2012-08-23 Thread Scott Ford
Does the vsam file verify with idcams ? If so, maybe it's the CICS file table entry... Scott ford www.identityforge.com On Aug 23, 2012, at 6:06 PM, Quintupray Burgos Alvaro Eligio aquin...@bancoestado.cl wrote: Scott. I had already done the research about the Return Codes

Re: William Thurston (1946-2012)

2012-08-23 Thread Scott Ford
Yep, I had to google it. The big C ... Scott ford www.identityforge.com On Aug 23, 2012, at 6:59 PM, John Gilmore jwgli...@gmail.com wrote: Thurston is dead too soon, at age 65, another cancer victim. He was the greatest geometer/topologist of this age and one of the great geometers of any

Re: IEC161I 037(108,000,IGG0CLFE)-0257 under ZOS 1.10

2012-08-23 Thread Scott Ford
Alvaro:   What is really odd is the 0257 return code..I looked up the IEC161I for your release and no 0257 .. I wonder if this is a bug .. Scott J Ford Software Engineer http://www.identityforge.com/   From: Quintupray Burgos Alvaro Eligio

Re: execs or scripts

2012-08-24 Thread Scott Ford
Phil, Worked VM since SP1, they were always execs to me. Scripts makes me think Nix, unix . Scott ford www.identityforge.com On Aug 24, 2012, at 12:18 PM, Phil Smith p...@voltage.com wrote: On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 11:54 AM, Bob Shannon bshan...@rocketsoftware.com wrote: I prefer exec

Re: X86 server

2012-08-24 Thread Scott Ford
z/os1.12 on a intel i7', everything s good, but are also only doing development. Scott ford www.identityforge.com On Aug 23, 2012, at 12:11 PM, Anne Lynn Wheeler l...@garlic.com wrote: john.mck...@healthmarkets.com (McKown, John) writes: X64 hardware, as much as it has improved, is still

Re: Documenting SMS environment ACS routines.

2012-08-24 Thread Scott Ford
John, I wished I could help out. I have to write manuals for our products, writing isn't one of my finer points. I was thinking about creating a file to feed Visio to do doc work like what your referring to Scott ford www.identityforge.com On Aug 24, 2012, at 8:41 AM, McKown, John john.mck

Re: execs or scripts

2012-08-24 Thread Scott Ford
John, Maybe the usage of execs or rexx in writing or speaking might be based on whether you learned iron VM or z/OS. I learned my on VM. So I can only give you my perspective. Scott ford www.identityforge.com On Aug 24, 2012, at 12:15 PM, John Gilmore jwgli...@gmail.com wrote: Bob, I'm

Re: execs or scripts

2012-08-24 Thread Scott Ford
programming language, particularly suitable for EXEC procedures or programs for personal computing. They consider REXX a language Scott ford www.identityforge.com On Aug 24, 2012, at 1:11 PM, McKown, John john.mck...@healthmarkets.com wrote: I usually say script because of use of shell script

Re: OS/390 CD collection free to a good home

2012-08-25 Thread Scott Ford
I am guilty too Scott ford www.identityforge.com On Aug 25, 2012, at 4:29 AM, Shane Ginnane ibm-m...@tpg.com.au wrote: I have the complete 9 CD Online Library OS/390 Collection, dated September 1998, SK2T-6700-10. If anyone has any use for it, I will gladly mail them the CDs and the IBM

Re: What size memory object backs an IARCP64

2012-08-26 Thread Scott Ford
. To me that's fair. Scott ford www.identityforge.com On Aug 26, 2012, at 9:53 AM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) shmuel+...@patriot.net wrote: In CAE1XxDG0KSJUsAoBa170+wgt5NdLP1f+qToBiBCm_D6es=y...@mail.gmail.com, on 08/25/2012 at 09:03 AM, John Gilmore jwgli...@gmail.com said: These things

Re: Was: X86 server - Competitive economic advantage of System z plus z/OS compared with x86 plus (Linux or windoze)

2012-08-26 Thread Scott Ford
I saw the same exercise in a pharm. company trying to go from MVS, multiple Lpars to unix. Several millions of $$$ and it was a bustsome applications were difficult to convert Scott ford www.identityforge.com On Aug 26, 2012, at 1:57 PM, Ed Gould edgould1...@comcast.net wrote: On Aug

Re: execs or scripts

2012-08-26 Thread Scott Ford
and disadvantages. Feeling that rexx is much simpler to write, test and implement. Speed of devdelopment is a plus Scott ford www.identityforge.com On Aug 26, 2012, at 9:37 AM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) shmuel+...@patriot.net wrote: In 5159fdfc-4063-4acb-969a-95c03fc7d...@yahoo.com, on 08/25/2012

Re: execs or scripts

2012-08-26 Thread Scott Ford
John, Ty I didn't realize REXX, was a PL/1 dialect. Very interesting I wrote PL/1 under OS/VS2 many many moons ago, in the 70s. I hadnt heard of a SLPL..so I find this also interesting..and would like to know more. Scott ford www.identityforge.com On Aug 26, 2012, at 2:55 PM, John Gilmore

Re: execs or scripts

2012-08-27 Thread Scott Ford
Shmuel, To be honest, the 'if then do' logic is very PL/1 like Scott ford www.identityforge.com On Aug 27, 2012, at 8:40 AM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) shmuel+...@patriot.net wrote: In 58fc7f986fcb804286e23b59decf420f65c0b...@nwt-s-mbx1.rocketsoftware.com, on 08/27/2012 at 11:33 AM, Bob

Re: execs or scripts

2012-08-27 Thread Scott Ford
Python would have my vote also, with a nice API to z/OS functions Scott ford www.identityforge.com On Aug 27, 2012, at 2:53 PM, Kirk Wolf k...@dovetail.com wrote: OK, get your knives and arrows handy... I like REXX, but I don't find the language itself to be nearly as nice as scripting

Re: execs or scripts

2012-08-27 Thread Scott Ford
Sure is Scott ford www.identityforge.com On Aug 27, 2012, at 8:56 PM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) shmuel+...@patriot.net wrote: In e7f5328d-f80a-4616-bc74-d174caf47...@yahoo.com, on 08/27/2012 at 02:02 PM, Scott Ford scott_j_f...@yahoo.com said: To be honest, the 'if then do' logic

Re: The IBM zEnterprise EC12 announcment

2012-08-28 Thread Scott Ford
1 pt for Kees Scott ford www.identityforge.com On Aug 28, 2012, at 9:53 AM, Vernooij, CP - SPLXM kees.verno...@klm.com wrote: Hunkeler Peter , KIUP 4 peter.hunke...@credit-suisse.com wrote in message news:dc74548a025aff4a85f46926802a9b2308d2b...@chsa1035.share.beluni.net ... Why

C-ATTACH ..options

2012-08-29 Thread Scott Ford
All:   I am rethinking a design because of issues I ran into trying to run C , with threading and attaching an operator interface.. Am i right in my assumption, I can write a C driver program, call and Attach the operator interface ( for modify commands ) and attach TCPIP C functions, read

Re: execs or scripts

2012-08-29 Thread Scott Ford
Shmuel, I love perl and even ruby, but I am in a batch z/os environment writing for customers, well that's a horse of a different color as they say.. Scott ford www.identityforge.com On Aug 28, 2012, at 6:43 PM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) shmuel+...@patriot.net wrote: In 584b9998-992d-4fab

Re: Too true to be funny - 51% of the surveyed Americans think that stormy weather can interfere with the functionality of the cloud.

2012-08-30 Thread Scott Ford
the 'cloud' is unless it effects them directly..I use it with my iPad Scott ford www.identityforge.com On Aug 30, 2012, at 9:39 AM, McKown, John john.mck...@healthmarkets.com wrote: http://www.citrix.com/lang/English/lp/lp_2328330.asp quote The survey carried out on 1000 adult americans

Re: Too true to be funny - 51% of the surveyed Americans think that stormy weather can interfere with the functionality of the cloud.

2012-08-30 Thread Scott Ford
Kirk, Yep, in Europe, where I lived for awhile they 'stream' kids...if you have engineering skills or abilities they decide for the kid Scott ford www.identityforge.com On Aug 30, 2012, at 10:41 AM, Kirk Talman rkueb...@tsys.com wrote: IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU

Re: Too true to be funny - 51% of the surveyed Americans think that stormy weather can interfere with the functionality of the cloud.

2012-08-30 Thread Scott Ford
John, That's ones funny Scott ford www.identityforge.com On Aug 30, 2012, at 1:09 PM, McKown, John john.mck...@healthmarkets.com wrote: That's right up there with: my PC is down! Did you press the power button? Yes What do you see, try ... OK, it's really bad. What

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