Re: ISPF Panel and LPAR name

2012-08-16 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 7695765772818059.wa.paulgboulderaim@listserv.ua.edu, on 08/15/2012 at 06:37 PM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com said: Do batch ISPF jobs use panels? Yes. How, By specifying the panel on the ISPSTART. and is it necessary? Yes. It seems almost a contradiction in terms. No.

Re: ISPF Panel and LPAR name

2012-08-17 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In of1a25d1f0.ca6c550d-on88257a5d.0014c951-88257a5d.00157...@sce.com, on 08/16/2012 at 08:54 PM, Skip Robinson jo.skip.robin...@sce.com said: IIRC ISPF in batch requires all the standard DD allocations or it just won't work at all. Period. Yes, except that they can be dynamic rather than

Re: Auditors Don't Know Squat!

2012-08-19 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In m3628hgxwy@garlic.com, on 08/17/2012 at 02:45 PM, Anne Lynn Wheeler l...@garlic.com said: i remember visiting pok in the early 70s when ibm was under gov. restrictions to preserve everything printed Why didn't they preserve what they needed for their own use and deliver the stuff they

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

2012-08-19 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 2080556112895229.wa.scottfagencayahoo@listserv.ua.edu, on 08/17/2012 at 07:07 PM, Scott Fagen scottfagen...@yahoo.com said: APAR = Authorized (Authorised for the rest of the world) My spell checker accepts authorized bu tot authorised. PMR is a Problem Management Request Are you

Re: Auditors Don't Know Squat!

2012-08-19 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 1345243408.2350.yahoomail...@web122106.mail.ne1.yahoo.com, on 08/17/2012 at 03:43 PM, Frank Swarbrick frank.swarbr...@yahoo.com said: How many systems programmers do programming as part of their systems programming job? It varies from shop to shop. These days the percentage of systems

Re: IPL sequence question

2012-08-19 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In cd22aa1aee707d489d9250d13e3862a1891574d...@nihmlbxcms02.nih.gov, on 08/17/2012 at 11:56 AM, O'Brien, David W. (NIH/CIT) [C] obrie...@mail.nih.gov said: I'm copying a number of DASD volumes this weekend and have a question. Which comes first at IPL: execution of the Commndsx member of

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

2012-08-21 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 10621aa97d7a8640bd671c4b287949eb100b6...@gwcorpmail4.gwl.bz, on 08/20/2012 at 08:57 AM, Mullen, Patrick patrick.mul...@gwl.ca said: Similarly, everywhere I've lived (UK, South Africa, Canada), a spell checker would be confined to use by Harry Potter and his chums. Only if they're studying

Re: ISPF Panel and LPAR name

2012-08-21 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 6419321491215114.wa.paulgboulderaim@listserv.ua.edu, on 08/20/2012 at 07:57 AM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com said: There are contrary valid points of view here: Perhaps on what is desirable, but the behavior of the ISPF code is a matter of fact. o Not to require the programmer

Re: batch (was: ISPF Panel and LPAR name)

2012-08-22 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 3289299314261205.wa.paulgboulderaim@listserv.ua.edu, on 08/21/2012 at 09:58 AM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com said: But IBM, with little clue, requires ISPPLIB to be allocated when running ISPF in batch. It might, rather be a courtesy for ISPSTART in batch to fail if ISPPLIB _is_

Re: ISPF Panel and LPAR name

2012-08-22 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 50342f7d.6030...@bcs.org.uk, on 08/22/2012 at 02:01 AM, CM Poncelet ponce...@bcs.org.uk said: Is that so? Yes, they know what they are doing and why. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT Atid/2http://patriot.net/~shmuel We don't care. We don't have to care,

Re: ISPF Panel and LPAR name

2012-08-23 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 645893134704.wa.paulgboulderaim@listserv.ua.edu, on 08/22/2012 at 09:36 AM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com said: But isn't ISPF itself a large step moving TSO in the direction of what Windows later became? No. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT Atid/2

Re: ISPF Panel and LPAR name

2012-08-23 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In offadfa57b.19e8601a-on85257a62.0050ea48-85257a62.0051d...@tsys.com, on 08/22/2012 at 10:54 AM, Kirk Talman rkueb...@tsys.com said: More accurately a session manager is Windows for z/OS. Not even close. While I have had issues with TPX, the comparison is still insulting. -- Shmuel

Re: ISPF Panel and LPAR name

2012-08-23 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 50359f17.2080...@bcs.org.uk, on 08/23/2012 at 04:10 AM, CM Poncelet ponce...@bcs.org.uk said: Well ... art/entertainment v. science/engineering as in Aesop's fable about the Cicala and the Ant. Industry makes its own bread: it does not sing all summer and expect bread when winter arrives.

Re: ISPF Panel and LPAR name

2012-08-23 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 50361ac9.1080...@bcs.org.uk, on 08/23/2012 at 12:58 PM, CM Poncelet ponce...@bcs.org.uk said: Solomon's Book of Proverbs, chapter 26 verse 5 Ah, the Devil quoting scripture. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT Atid/2http://patriot.net/~shmuel We don't care. We

Re: batch (was: ISPF Panel and LPAR name)

2012-08-23 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 50359115.9090...@bcs.org.uk, on 08/23/2012 at 03:10 AM, CM Poncelet ponce...@bcs.org.uk said: What happened to your sycophants, Metz? I don't have, or want, any. There may be people who often agree with me, but I'm not aware of one that won't point out any errors that I make. For that

Re: execs or scripts

2012-08-26 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 5159fdfc-4063-4acb-969a-95c03fc7d...@yahoo.com, on 08/25/2012 at 12:41 AM, Scott Ford scott_j_f...@yahoo.com said: They consider REXX a language Given that substantial applications have been written in REXX, why would you not consider it to be a programming language? -- Shmuel

Re: ISPF Panel and LPAR name

2012-08-26 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 50382f4e.6000...@bcs.org.uk, on 08/25/2012 at 02:50 AM, CM Poncelet ponce...@bcs.org.uk said: As your interpretation seems to be the only one that matters How is that not a lie? -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT Atid/2http://patriot.net/~shmuel We don't

Re: X86 server

2012-08-26 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 2174580136452535.wa.paulgboulderaim@listserv.ua.edu, on 08/24/2012 at 10:31 PM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com said: On Thu, 23 Aug 2012 22:13:49 -0400, Anne Lynn Wheeler wrote: ... max configured z196 with 80 processors is rated for 50BIPS and goes for $28M (about

Re: ISPF Panel and LPAR name

2012-08-26 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 503996a6.8030...@bcs.org.uk, on 08/26/2012 at 04:23 AM, CM Poncelet ponce...@bcs.org.uk said: What's your problem, Metz? Dealing with hypocritical fools. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT Atid/2http://patriot.net/~shmuel We don't care. We don't have to care,

Re: execs or scripts

2012-08-27 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In cae1xxdgd6eavqvjzptcfkmu9dht3jdjdefc_unfnmzawfak...@mail.gmail.com, on 08/26/2012 at 02:55 PM, John Gilmore jwgli...@gmail.com said: REXX can also be viewed--Its inventor so views it--as a PL/I dialect. REXX is structurally very different from PL/I, and PL/I habbits will get you into

Re: execs or scripts

2012-08-27 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 58fc7f986fcb804286e23b59decf420f65c0b...@nwt-s-mbx1.rocketsoftware.com, on 08/27/2012 at 11:33 AM, Bob Shannon bshan...@rocketsoftware.com said: CLIST stands for Command List i.e., a means to string a series of TSO commands together. It was rudimentary. Although some improvements have

Re: ISPF Panel and LPAR name

2012-08-27 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 503ba219.7000...@bcs.org.uk, on 08/27/2012 at 05:36 PM, CM Poncelet ponce...@bcs.org.uk said: Well ... subject to interpretation. For example, DOS was a lot closer to the *original* (pre-ESA) ISPF than Microsoft Windows ever was Neither looked anything like ISPF, or even like the original

Re: Space Allocation In Bytes

2012-08-28 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 503bf5eb.5010...@bremultibank.com.pl, on 08/28/2012 at 12:34 AM, R.S. r.skoru...@bremultibank.com.pl said: Valid, but illogical. Data set with zero size is illogical. No. That's exploitation of side effect. Stilla valid (it works, so it is valid), but it's still illogical. It's

Re: Space Allocation In Bytes

2012-08-28 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 2147353307588112.wa.paulgboulderaim@listserv.ua.edu, on 08/27/2012 at 06:43 PM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com said: But its length attribute is nonzero. In fact, IIRC, HLASM will never create a symbol with length attribute of zero; Don't confuse symbol with SET symbol. The

Re: Space Allocation In Bytes

2012-08-28 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 2627995591725082.wa.paulgboulderaim@listserv.ua.edu, on 08/27/2012 at 07:09 PM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com said: ... so SPACE=(0,1) does allocate space. What's in your ACS? -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT Atid/2http://patriot.net/~shmuel We

Re: No Data returned in PPLANS area

2012-08-28 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 056a01cd84f3$853f7420$8fbe5c60$@mindspring.com, on 08/28/2012 at 01:02 AM, Lizette Koehler stars...@mindspring.com said: I would like to understand better what you are trying to do. IKJPARS is a TSO service routine for parsing a command; the caller passes a Parse Parameter List (PPL) that,

Re: execs or scripts

2012-08-29 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 0088725960804398.wa.paulgboulderaim@listserv.ua.edu, on 08/28/2012 at 09:42 AM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com said: How would you employ VALUE() to simplify this? Whoops! Substitution of the tail does occur. That leaves OOREXX, which hasn't ben ported :-( -- Shmuel

Re: execs or scripts

2012-08-29 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 584b9998-992d-4fab-9b21-268ad144d...@yahoo.com, on 08/28/2012 at 11:56 AM, Scott Ford scott_j_f...@yahoo.com said: Parsing for me is not an issue. I understand it's not 'NIX' like, but if you understand the language you craft your programs or scripts to perform what you want. When I have

Re: Space Allocation In Bytes

2012-08-29 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 503d2b0b.6010...@neo.tamu.edu, on 08/28/2012 at 03:33 PM, Richard Peurifoy r-peuri...@neo.tamu.edu said: I think BSAM/QSAM will simulate an EOF without doing any I/O to the data set if you try to read it. I'd prefer an ABEND. Note that if you first write to it first then [B|Q]SAM will

Re: Space Allocation In Bytes

2012-08-29 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 503cfd09.1010...@bremultibank.com.pl, on 08/28/2012 at 07:16 PM, R.S. r.skoru...@bremultibank.com.pl said: BTW: it's NOT similar to /dev/null or DD DUMMY. Of course it is. Zero-space dataset is real object, consuming real resources (VTOC, maybe catalog) with no real (as intended) use.

Re: Space Allocation In Bytes

2012-08-29 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 1384193780234110.wa.paulgboulderaim@listserv.ua.edu, on 08/28/2012 at 06:26 PM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com said: I believe this is the behavior of QSAM. BSAM at least in the past behaved otherwise; cheerfully reading residual, likely invalid, data. For a zero-extent dataset

Re: TSO LOGON Reconnect confirmation.

2012-08-29 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 5214889636111450.wa.paulgboulderaim@listserv.ua.edu, on 08/28/2012 at 10:28 PM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com said: You're right. I don't like it. How did you guess? Actually, in HLASM I could do anything, even write my own TMP. If I wanted to. If I knew how. Couldn't I?

Re: execs or scripts

2012-08-29 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 0c4610fa-8e37-401f-8833-7fc935672...@yahoo.com, on 08/29/2012 at 02:19 PM, Scott Ford scott_j_f...@yahoo.com said: I love perl and even ruby, but I am in a batch z/os environment writing for customers, While it is backlevel, there is a Perl for z/OS. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz,

Re: Cobol programs abend after re-linking on z/OS 1.11

2012-08-30 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In ofd2c947e4.f5332661-on88257a69.00708885-88257a69.00729...@ucdmc.ucdavis.edu, on 08/29/2012 at 01:51 PM, John Norgauer john.norga...@ucdmc.ucdavis.edu said: Programs are compiled and linked with 20 year old Cobol What is the COBOL name and product number? U4052 abend. What does the

Re: The IBM zEnterprise EC12 announcment

2012-08-30 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 58fc7f986fcb804286e23b59decf420f65c10...@nwt-s-mbx1.rocketsoftware.com, on 08/30/2012 at 02:40 PM, Bob Shannon bshan...@rocketsoftware.com said: The concept is very similar; the implementation is very different. Instead of designing a different type of memory they utilize off the shelf

Re: Strings (hijacked from: The IBM zEnterprise EC12 announcment)

2012-09-04 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In CAHm_n2m0YMNqapMVRe=sxzmayt1w9vvzvs+3v25eithm_c6...@mail.gmail.com, on 09/04/2012 at 12:10 PM, Kirk Wolf k...@dovetail.com said: But other metal-level language implementations are not care free - consider length-prefixed strings - the programmer must still check lengths before moving data.

Re: ADDRESS LINKMVS - +IRX0250E System abend code 047, reason code 00000000

2012-09-05 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In fd20b743d96a9545b2420d8f28400f35025a2...@g2w2530.americas.hpqcorp.net, on 09/05/2012 at 02:51 AM, Cifani, Domenic domenic.cif...@hp.com said: I'm hoping someone can help me with an issue we are experiencing following an upgrade from z/OS 1.11 to 1.13. We are running an REXX EXEC in batch

Re: ADDRESS LINKMVS - +IRX0250E System abend code 047, reason code 00000000

2012-09-05 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 1679112769409333.wa.paulgboulderaim@listserv.ua.edu, on 09/05/2012 at 02:00 AM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com said: But aren't there ways a nonauthorized program can delete PDS members? Yes. There are even way to do it by accident. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and

Re: Preventing the installation of unapproved software

2012-09-05 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 50475f32.9050...@acm.org, on 09/05/2012 at 09:18 AM, Joel C. Ewing jcew...@acm.org said: and this is the only locally produced documentation that makes sense on z/OS, While the auditors in question may be stark raving bonkers, there is other relevant documentation; change control

Re: zEC12, and previous generations, why? type question - GPU computing.

2012-09-05 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In a6b9336cdb62bb46b9f8708e686a7ea0115baa1...@nrhmms8p02.uicnrh.dom, on 09/05/2012 at 11:45 AM, McKown, John john.mck...@healthmarkets.com said: If it is because the z architecture is not good at numeric computation, The z architecture is fine for numeric computations. The problem is that the

Re: ADDRESS LINKMVS - +IRX0250E System abend code 047, reason code 00000000

2012-09-05 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 1346854774.87382.yahoomail...@web164503.mail.gq1.yahoo.com, on 09/05/2012 at 07:19 AM, Scott Ford scott_j_f...@yahoo.com said: Yep Walt is right for sure, I have called IRXJCL rexx clist and done a LINKMVS to an authorized RACF program , works like a champ Interesting, given that the

Re: ADDRESS LINKMVS - +IRX0250E System abend code 047, reason code 00000000

2012-09-05 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 1346879110.62512.yahoomail...@web126204.mail.ne1.yahoo.com, on 09/05/2012 at 02:05 PM, Scott Ford scott_j_f...@yahoo.com said: Your right IRXJCL is unauthorized. I assume the LINKMVS is an ATTACH another subtask ... No. That would be ADDRESS ATTACHMVS, and it will still be in the same

Re: Strings (hijacked from: The IBM zEnterprise EC12 announcment)

2012-09-05 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 3240638450612647.wa.paulgboulderaim@listserv.ua.edu, on 09/05/2012 at 06:09 PM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com said: Is this IRXEXCOM, IIRC? From the GI: 3.1.3.2 TSO/E REXX programming services  IRXEXCOM - Variable Access The IRXEXCOM variable access routine lets

Re: SMP/E question

2012-09-06 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In c11ded818b17214792b97fba28712bed15ef0a4...@jer-email1.jer.ad.malam.com, on 09/06/2012 at 01:31 PM, gad...@malam.com said: When I ran APPLY CHECK, I got the messages below. That's been normal for decades. What would be the recommended procedure to resolve these errors? Read the hold text

Re: zEC12, and previous generations, why? type question - GPU computing.

2012-09-06 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In caccgc5dh-2kebjfpnmt0apwdcjjaondevelz6wnufcla7og...@mail.gmail.com, on 09/06/2012 at 01:58 AM, George Henke gahe...@gmail.com said: I believe IBM produced a pc with a 370 to run VM on a PC. XT/370 and AT/370 used a 68000 with custom microcode and a second 68000 with standard microcode.

Re: Anyone know how to copy a PDS directory as a flat file?

2012-09-06 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In CAHm_n2=y0-wuhodm8q0cyfat2edh-u8mpco4jd0o_sdjc91...@mail.gmail.com, on 09/06/2012 at 10:05 AM, Kirk Wolf k...@dovetail.com said: But don't PDS directory blocks have keys on disk? Yes, but the OP asked for 256 bytes, suggesting that he doesn't need the keys and in fact is not prepared to

Re: Anyone know how to copy a PDS directory as a flat file?

2012-09-06 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 071a01cd8c33$88e2d440$9aa87cc0$@mcn.org, on 09/06/2012 at 06:28 AM, Charles Mills charl...@mcn.org said: Anyone know how to accomplish this, short of writing an assembler program to do it? Write a PL/I or REXX program to read the directory. Assuming that you don't need the key, the DCB

Re: Anyone know how to copy a PDS directory as a flat file?

2012-09-06 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 07b601cd8c4a$4065bbd0$c1313370$@mcn.org, on 09/06/2012 at 09:11 AM, Charles Mills charl...@mcn.org said: But don't PDS directory blocks have keys on disk? I don't *think* so. Always has, always will. From z/OS DFSMS Using Data Sets. SC26-7410-09: 3.7.2 PDS Directory PDS member

Re: Anyone know how to copy a PDS directory as a flat file?

2012-09-07 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 07df01cd8c4d$b1408b20$13c1a160$@mcn.org, on 09/06/2012 at 09:35 AM, Charles Mills charl...@mcn.org said: Did you read my preceding post? g The one that denied the key field for PDS directory blocks? ;-) BTW, I saw a quote from an earlier message, but not the message itself, talking about

Re: JES2 record count

2012-09-07 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 0455733492565759.wa.juergen.kellerdeutscheboerse@listserv.ua.edu, on 09/07/2012 at 08:52 AM, Juergen Keller juergen.kel...@deutsche-boerse.com said: is there someone having experiences with JES2? I have a strange problem. A user created a spool file and SDSF and $DJ are showing a record

Re: SMP/E - Applying service to WAS

2012-09-09 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In c11ded818b17214792b97fba28712bed15ef0a5...@jer-email1.jer.ad.malam.com, on 09/09/2012 at 12:50 PM, gad...@malam.com said: find: FSUM6004 write error on standard output: EDC5133I NO SPACE LEFT ON DEVICE. Look at the script to see where it is redirecting the output of find, e.g., find foo

Re: Anyone know how to copy a PDS directory as a flat file?

2012-09-11 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In p0624080bcc7321fafda9@[192.168.1.11], on 09/10/2012 at 01:03 AM, Robert A. Rosenberg hal9...@panix.com said: At 15:30 -0400 on 09/07/2012, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote about Re: Anyone know how to copy a PDS directory as a flat file?: Got paraphrase of WAD. Broken as designed

Re: Blades versus z was Re: Turn Off Another Light - Univ. of Tennessee

2012-09-11 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In a7ur48l9vhqq4g7p4akhsbhejdmea3i...@4ax.com, on 09/10/2012 at 11:31 AM, Clark Morris cfmpub...@ns.sympatico.ca said: Does i-o on system z take less cpu and memory resource than i-o on Intel servers?, Probably less CPU, not less memory. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT

Re: Anyone know how to copy a PDS directory as a flat file?

2012-09-11 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 000801cd8f44$116df7a0$3449e6e0$@att.net, on 09/10/2012 at 06:04 AM, Kenneth J. Kripke kenneth_kri...@att.net said: Next will come the member NAME, ttr, C field, and, the number of TTRN's. You will want to AND out the C field. Then multiply the number of ttrn's by 2 to convert to bytes.

Re: How many subscribers?

2012-09-12 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In CAArMM9Rbbo+aF=OE=UpRCPa4=g5wd_mmjhuagmomu5eeeir...@mail.gmail.com, on 09/11/2012 at 08:54 PM, Tony Harminc t...@harminc.net said: But when was the last time anyone saw an actual Usenet/UUCP server? When was the last time someone mentioned UUCP on IBM-MAIN? A more relevant question is When

Re: Anyone know how to copy a PDS directory as a flat file?

2012-09-12 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 4244327715204510.wa.paulgboulderaim@listserv.ua.edu, on 09/11/2012 at 08:42 AM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com said: You veered away from the topic of my question I was addressing different issues; whether a fake [BQ]SAM read of the directory returns actual TTR's at all, and

Re: Creating .xls on z/OS

2012-09-19 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In a04f9dd3-3573-4468-b873-ec2367518...@yahoo.com, on 09/17/2012 at 12:00 PM, Scott Ford scott_j_f...@yahoo.com said: Excellent, what version of Perl is supported on Unix System Services, v5 ? 5.8.7; the Unicode support broke EBCDIC after that. I don't know whether anybody is trying to fix

Re: IPCS help needed

2012-09-19 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In a6cf87cbc0b60a459cb79af044a096db14780b4...@mailccr.us.syncsort.com, on 09/17/2012 at 04:25 PM, Blaicher, Christopher Y. cblaic...@syncsort.com said: Dave day said, The runchain IPCS command showed me the error, I just have to figure out how I created the error in the 1st place. Isn't it

Re: Is there a correspondence between 64-bit IBM mainframes and PoOps editions levels?

2012-09-19 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 3348199517678240.wa.paulgboulderaim@listserv.ua.edu, on 09/19/2012 at 10:33 AM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com said: How are Arabic numbers written in a paragraph of Arabic (or Hebrew) text? Left to right[1], just like Roman numerals or quoted English text. But Hebrew numbers are

Re: Is there a correspondence between 64-bit IBM mainframes and PoOps editions levels?

2012-09-19 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 2675223931833657.wa.paulgboulderaim@listserv.ua.edu, on 09/17/2012 at 07:56 PM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com said: An even greater luxury would be an electronic P{or}Op[s] in which the viewer could select on the title page model, feature set, and OPTABLE in any combination and

Re: Is there a correspondence between 64-bit IBM mainframes and PoOps editions levels?

2012-09-19 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In a6cf87cbc0b60a459cb79af044a096db14780b4...@mailccr.us.syncsort.com, on 09/18/2012 at 10:37 AM, Blaicher, Christopher Y. cblaic...@syncsort.com said: I think you miss an important item here. ISV's ship object code, not source code. Most have drunk the OCO koolaid, but I doubt that all

Re: The Transaction state (was Model 2827 New Instructions)

2012-09-20 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 3682632231537456.wa.maryanne4psugmail@listserv.ua.edu, on 09/19/2012 at 08:19 AM, Mary Anne Matyaz maryanne4...@gmail.com said: I have reviewed the Transactional Execution section of the new zProOps Do you have a publicly accessible URL for SA22-7832-09? -- Shmuel (Seymour J.)

Re: Installing IMWEBSRV on a system with R/O root

2012-09-21 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 1190298266964067.wa.mitchdanagmail@listserv.ua.edu, on 09/20/2012 at 01:24 PM, Dana Mitchell mitchd...@gmail.com said: I'm working on installing HTTP server IMWEBSRV on a system with a read only root zfs. The setup.sh wants to create directories under /usr/lpp/internet/server_root

Re: Installing IMWEBSRV on a system with R/O root

2012-09-21 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 2185360607951952.wa.mitchdanagmail@listserv.ua.edu, on 09/20/2012 at 02:21 PM, Dana Mitchell mitchd...@gmail.com said: So it's 'normal' for all this server code to actually reside under /usr/lpp? Yes. would it be appropriate to copy it to something under /var? No; /var is not

Re: Installing IMWEBSRV on a system with R/O root

2012-09-21 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In a6b9336cdb62bb46b9f8708e686a7ea0115baa1...@nrhmms8p02.uicnrh.dom, on 09/20/2012 at 02:31 PM, McKown, John john.mck...@healthmarkets.com said: Well, it is the *IBM* standard. It's definitely not what I'm used to in Linux. In Linux, this particular directory, at least for Apache, ends up in

Re: Is there a correspondence between 64-bit IBM mainframes and PoOps editions levels?

2012-09-21 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In cafo-8tr39w9ys5a7gy4qtnimvwg38btsuytzob11ojc22r2...@mail.gmail.com, on 09/19/2012 at 05:31 PM, zMan zedgarhoo...@gmail.com said: For the record, MVCIN has been around since the 4300s. Every generation believes that it invented sex. The 4300 may mark MVCIN becoming standard, but the

Re: OT - disappearing responses

2012-09-21 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In CAJTOO5-YP4mU-4ec5C9CJKPpef=ezwojhoezc_d4jxkdyee...@mail.gmail.com, on 09/19/2012 at 07:01 PM, Mike Schwab mike.a.sch...@gmail.com said: That account goes away if you change providers or move and have to change providers. Plus it enables a lot of impersonation. No more so than web mail.

Re: OT - disappearing responses

2012-09-21 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 9b277c67-0e6e-4fbc-b50d-83450902d...@comcast.net, on 09/19/2012 at 11:36 PM, Ed Gould edgould1...@comcast.net said: Sender: IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Try pointing this out to them. I have been through this issue with YAHOO and GMAIL. AFter talking with their

Re: OT - disappearing responses

2012-09-23 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 20120920084124.7eb5d8229f08b74462b6b...@gmx.net, on 09/20/2012 at 08:41 AM, ibmmain nitz-...@gmx.net said: I do. Unfortunately only at home, email clients cannot go through the firewall at work. Are you sure? It's more likely that port 25 can't get through the firewall but port 587 can.

Re: OT - disappearing responses

2012-09-23 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In CAJTOO5-_OgoTQ6jouYsF9MbmzgSQuv4pGYf0xNswZY7=zgb...@mail.gmail.com, on 09/20/2012 at 10:57 AM, Mike Schwab mike.a.sch...@gmail.com said: Someone could start their PC, start their email client, enter your email as the sender, and start sending emails through your account via SMTP by only

Re: OT - disappearing responses

2012-09-23 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 505b4ddf.8010...@trainersfriend.com, on 09/20/2012 at 11:09 AM, Steve Comstock st...@trainersfriend.com said: Spoofing your email account can be done outside some social engineering contxt. At least that seems to be the concensus in this conversation, although I lack the technical knowledge

Re: OT - disappearing responses

2012-09-23 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In a6b9336cdb62bb46b9f8708e686a7ea0115baa1...@nrhmms8p02.uicnrh.dom, on 09/20/2012 at 12:21 PM, McKown, John john.mck...@healthmarkets.com said: Spoofing email is rather simple. FSVO spoofing. It's trivial to generate your own From header field, but anybody that knows how to read headers can

Official current definition of MVS

2012-09-23 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
There is a discussion inn the news group a,lt.folklore.computers as to whether the term MVS includes TSO. Can anybody point to an explicit statement from IBM? Thanks. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO position; see http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html We don't

Re: The Transaction state (was Model 2827 New Instructions)

2012-09-23 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 7845989131359869.wa.m42tomibmmainyahoo@listserv.ua.edu, on 09/21/2012 at 07:22 AM, Tom Marchant m42tom-ibmm...@yahoo.com said: David Bond posted this link on the Assembler list: http://publibfi.boulder.ibm.com/epubs/pdf/dz9zr009.pdf And for the reference summary:

Re: z/os mount command

2012-09-23 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In ce3ffbb7e42033469ef752a1d8a19ba10216f...@kl1221tc.cs.ad.klmcorp.net, on 09/20/2012 at 08:48 AM, Vernooij, CP - SPLXM kees.verno...@klm.com said: Yes, from the MVS Basic course: there are 3 ways to create an Address Space: START, LOGON and MOUNT. There's been an internal address space

Re: z/OS SYSLOG - why not let everybody read?

2012-09-23 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In caodpegslghomjp3vej_av5mb8ftwhhzgl_24z3xds9es6df...@mail.gmail.com, on 09/19/2012 at 03:47 PM, Itschak Mugzach imugz...@gmail.com said: SYSLOG tells a lot about identities running in your system, and more specific, those who are assigned to STCs and the way they get it (STARTED class,

Re: Official current definition of MVS

2012-09-24 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 50606024.6020...@us.ibm.com, on 09/24/2012 at 09:29 AM, John Eells ee...@us.ibm.com said: MVS might have at some point included TSO. Perhaps sooner, but since MVS Version 1 if I recall correctly, TSO and later TSO/E have been either: a) Different products with separate product (order)

Re: Return Address from IKJPARS ?

2012-09-24 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 505fe342.4020...@valley.net, on 09/24/2012 at 12:36 AM, Gerhard Postpischil gerh...@valley.net said: You are expected to branch back using R14, or else issue SVC 3 Even if it works, an SVC 3 is not expected. I'd consider that to be Russian roulette. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz,

Re: z/os mount command

2012-09-24 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 0110b80401e52145b9da944d6269a...@mail.cenhud.com, on 09/19/2012 at 03:53 PM, Tim Brown tbr...@cenhud.com said: I recall there was a MOUNT procedure coded, I'm not aware of any reason to modify it, and it's not the source of your JCL error. As others have mentioned, you need a slash in

Re: Official current definition of MVS

2012-09-25 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In CAE1XxDH+r00Q87x75=xz7z7kfdkpdq2w53t6xz_b7kkrxbx...@mail.gmail.com, on 09/24/2012 at 09:39 PM, John Gilmore jwgli...@gmail.com said: and he has here committed a [vulgar sense] oxymoron. Actually a typo; that should have been It started as a feature of OS/360 MVT. -- Shmuel (Seymour

Re: Another Light goes out

2012-09-27 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In of146f19ea.fc6ac4d6-on86257a85.003eeb52-86257a85.003f0...@agfinance.com, on 09/26/2012 at 06:28 AM, Ron Wells ron.we...@slfs.com said: and too bad...but then computer world has always been a MS fan.. That seems unlikely, given when they started. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg

Re: Another Light goes out

2012-09-27 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 5063f617.80...@bremultibank.com.pl, on 09/27/2012 at 08:45 AM, R.S. r.skoru...@bremultibank.com.pl said: Excuse me, what is misleading? It's obviousm that .NET framework work on Windows operating system and the windows is not free of charge. However you can have Windows (for money) and

Re: Can I use IGGCSI00 to Access an Entire Catalog Without Specifying a Filter ?

2012-09-27 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 0522205521763729.wa.elardus.engelbrechtsita.co...@listserv.ua.edu, on 09/26/2012 at 08:28 AM, Elardus Engelbrecht elardus.engelbre...@sita.co.za said: Try KEY = '**' CSIFILTK = SUBSTR(KEY,1,44) Why not LEFT(KEY,44)? -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT Atid/2

Re: Can I use IGGCSI00 to Access an Entire Catalog Without Specifying a Filter ?

2012-09-27 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In dc74548a025aff4a85f46926802a9b2308fb7...@chsa1035.share.beluni.net, on 09/27/2012 at 09:00 AM, Hunkeler Peter (KIUP 4) peter.hunke...@credit-suisse.com said: You might wonder why the CSI* variables are filled using the substr() function. Indeed; why not LEFT? There is a special behavior

Re: GIM39001E in SMP/E RECEIVE FROMNTS

2012-09-27 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 2898629948738139.wa.paulgboulderaim@listserv.ua.edu, on 09/26/2012 at 08:56 AM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com said: I stand corrected. But still, if RECEIVE tolerates processing a SYSMOD prior to its PRErequisites on the assumption that APPLY will sort things out, I might hope

Re: Query for Destination z article on reporting problems

2012-09-27 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 506316c1.30...@gabegold.com, on 09/26/2012 at 10:52 AM, Gabe Goldberg g...@gabegold.com said: I'm writing article for Destination z -- http://destinationz.org/ -- giving tips for reporting problems to vendors. Off the top of my head: 1. Be honest about severity level. 2. Know

Re: Another Light goes out

2012-09-28 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In ce3ffbb7e42033469ef752a1d8a19ba10216f...@kl1221tc.cs.ad.klmcorp.net, on 09/27/2012 at 03:52 PM, Vernooij, CP - SPLXM kees.verno...@klm.com said: That way, Linux is not free, you have to buy a PC first, You don't need to buy a PC from Linus Torvalds to run Linux, and you don't need a PC at

Re: Another Light goes out

2012-09-28 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 5064c431.8000...@bremultibank.com.pl, on 09/27/2012 at 11:25 PM, R.S. r.skoru...@bremultibank.com.pl said: We (me and others) claim that .NET framework is free of charge. Having it does not involve any additional cost. Does that mean that you will steal a copy of windoze? You are not

Re: Can I use IGGCSI00 to Access an Entire Catalog Without Specifying a Filter ?

2012-09-28 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In CAE1XxDG6M+fOThgy4pizzKY0=w9wmdxhvt89davm-wkyrtc...@mail.gmail.com, on 09/27/2012 at 11:46 AM, John Gilmore jwgli...@gmail.com said: Shmuel is correct. Not if LEFT behaves the same as SUBSTR and STRINGRANGE is enabled. Both the test Peter ran and the text he cited from the manual say that

Re: PL/I Compile error unresolved symbols

2012-09-30 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In cajtoo59q4_cypgbcmo0qjpeeovbcqfhjsihomjoqcjiu6a2...@mail.gmail.com, on 09/29/2012 at 10:42 AM, Mike Schwab mike.a.sch...@gmail.com said: Looks like there is some missing code in LOAD_DIR: PROC; This is routine to read a PDS directory, and P is an pointer within the directory block. But I

Re: JCL Source Library Name Available During Execution?

2012-09-30 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 2086667416745713.wa.paulgboulderaim@listserv.ua.edu, on 09/28/2012 at 10:01 PM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com said: What ever became of MIME types, which are at least defined in an RFC? More than one. See RFC 2048, which describes the registration process for new types and

Re: Sysplex Manager- FILE667 - CBT

2012-09-30 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In CAE1XxDEy1+cyg2M1hv3r1Dm-UTWrDW=yiqffybaocjff8ag...@mail.gmail.com, on 09/28/2012 at 03:08 PM, John Gilmore jwgli...@gmail.com said: What Flaubert in fact wrote was | Le bon Dieu est dans le détail. Then, given the existence of Daniel Defoe's bit of doggerel, the inference that the devil

Re: 047 in TSO command processor

2012-09-30 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 35aab4a7-4ffd-4fb9-a943-30a2bfba0...@optonline.net, on 09/30/2012 at 11:12 AM, Micheal Burn michealb...@optonline.net said: Did a tsolib activate on the dataset From the READY prompt? -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT Atid/2http://patriot.net/~shmuel We

Re: Sysplex Manager- FILE667 - CBT

2012-09-30 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In CAE1XxDHWzTJMVY-7Ced=e9piBb-DiEgu=v6dx65ff9hkcov...@mail.gmail.com, on 09/30/2012 at 12:04 PM, John Gilmore jwgli...@gmail.com said: The Defoe is: Wherever God erects a house of prayer, The devil always builds a chapel there; And 'twill be found upon examination, The latter has the largest

Re: How to get a tape's DSCB

2012-10-04 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 0f2549fd-fa84-4602-9164-d30466d42...@aim.com, on 10/03/2012 at 08:35 AM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com said: On Oct 3, 2012, at 08:15, McKown, John wrote: It would be very difficult and have a lot of overhead to have IOS (not iOS) check every CCW chain for suspect CCWs. ...

Re: How to get a tape's DSCB

2012-10-04 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 77142d37c0c3c34da0d7b1da7d7ca343722f8...@nwt-s-mbx1.rocketsoftware.com, on 10/03/2012 at 04:01 PM, Bill Fairchild bfairch...@rocketsoftware.com said: It does need to be done for DASD. No; something different needs to be done. It is all handled by CCW prefixing. FSVI it; CCW prefixing

Re: Zero length records outlawed! (Again.)

2012-10-04 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 2142487373662645.wa.paulgboulderaim@listserv.ua.edu, on 10/03/2012 at 04:34 PM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com said: Sigh. Morons. Why did they do that!? It's like being back in old OS/360 which specified the minimum count field in an RDW as 5. For VBS, yes, but not for VB. --

Re: Zero length records outlawed! (Again.)

2012-10-05 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 0061634022294882.wa.paulgboulderaim@listserv.ua.edu, on 10/04/2012 at 11:38 AM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com said: Or, the OS can prohibit the occurrence of boundary values, and the programmer need never be concerned with them. No, the OS can prohibit the occurrence of boundary

Re: Zero length records outlawed! (Again.)

2012-10-05 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 0897781066770312.wa.paulgboulderaim@listserv.ua.edu, on 10/04/2012 at 03:51 PM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com said: Was the null segment in VBS invented (partly) to deal with the problem of noise record processing on tapes? No The lower limit is higher when going to tape. --

Re: Zero length records outlawed! (Again.)

2012-10-05 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 136401cda235$aff94dd0$0febe970$@mcn.org, on 10/04/2012 at 09:39 AM, Charles Mills charl...@mcn.org said: Who knows? Because it made sense to the programmer. We put lots of empty lines in these e-mails. (Technically they contain one or two delimiter characters, No. Technically the message

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