Re: hexadecimal?

2013-12-21 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In of8230a144.9ea02174-on88257c3c.006cea00-88257c3c.006d8...@sce.com, on 12/09/2013 at 11:56 AM, Skip Robinson jo.skip.robin...@sce.com said: Not sure what's meant by having to chain CCWs. Read PoOps. I just finished updating an old RYO program that writes 80 byte records to any device

Re: hexadecimal?

2013-12-21 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In p06240401ceca853cbacd@[192.168.2.101], on 12/08/2013 at 03:27 PM, Robert A. Rosenberg hal9...@panix.com said: Data in the computer is stored in 8-bit long bytes. Data in a computer are stored in units dictated by the architecture. For the S/360 it's 8-bit[1] bytes. I've seen word sizes of

Re: hexadecimal?

2013-12-21 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 9820584016396110.wa.paulgboulderaim@listserv.ua.edu, on 12/08/2013 at 08:25 PM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com said: (The last is the maximum supported by channel programs, or was.) 2^16 is a limitation on a single CCW; it is not a limitation on a CCW chain, and data chaining goes

Re: Check out Ternary flip-flap-flop

2013-12-21 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In a90e503c23f97441b05ee302853b0e629021484...@fspas01ev010.fspa.myntet.se, on 12/09/2013 at 02:51 PM, Thomas Berg thomas.b...@swedbank.se said: OT, but does anyone know where I can find a REAL explanation of how Quantum computing works ? Have you read the wiki article? Anything more detailed

Re: Curiosity: TCB mapping macro name - why IKJTCB?

2013-12-21 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 1891265032.6001250.1386631293335.javamail.r...@comcast.net, on 12/09/2013 at 11:21 PM, DASDBILL2 dasdbi...@comcast.net said: In general, hardware-oriented control blocks' mapping macros begin with IHA, That came later. IHA was originally Supervisor. I must assume its mapping DSECT macro

Re: hexadecimal?

2013-12-21 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 20131210023525.GC6157@dlc-dt, on 12/09/2013 at 09:35 PM, David L. Craig dlc@gmail.com said: Of course, real MVS programmers use STARTIO Real MVS systems programmers understand the principle of least privilege and don't write AC(1) code unless it confers an advantage of some sort. In

Re: SMF DUMP SB37 - what am I doing wrong?

2013-12-21 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 04a901cef60d$abaf4040$030dc0c0$@mcn.org, on 12/10/2013 at 05:09 PM, Charles Mills charl...@mcn.org said: What the heck am I doing wrong? BLKSIZE? -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO position; see http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html We don't care. We

Re: Lookat

2013-12-22 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 0727804906280897.wa.elardus.engelbrechtsita.co...@listserv.ua.edu, on 12/11/2013 at 11:30 PM, Elardus Engelbrecht elardus.engelbre...@sita.co.za said: Good idea, now I have pondering on it, I'll have a nice discussion with my DRP team so we can replace DVDs with external hard drives. Why

Re: Deinstall software, for example BDT

2013-12-24 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 4ee2851a2279b94cb70cd69b17410609b7dfa...@s1flokydce2kx01.dm0001.info53.com, on 12/17/2013 at 02:56 PM, Jousma, David david.jou...@53.com said: If you want to completely remove all traces, then use this. change yourfmid to the FMID(s) you want to remove: What did he do to you? APPLY

Re: OMVS UID display

2013-12-24 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In CAAFjFpFky=-aaA8-KS1i1R9vKwKH=pb269ryvdhwrutb5m0...@mail.gmail.com, on 12/14/2013 at 12:06 AM, venkat kulkarni venkatkulkarn...@gmail.com said: LOGNAME command gives my RACF ID . Then what is the use of ID and WHOAMI command. To pass Unix certification, for one thing. Also, the UID may be

Re: OMVS UID display

2013-12-24 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In CAJTOO59_hM2AwcV8Z4a0Y3TqaTX=o4go1dctgy_gztx0dcc...@mail.gmail.com, on 12/13/2013 at 11:44 AM, Mike Schwab mike.a.sch...@gmail.com said: Multiple IDs can use the same UID number. Yes, but you can get the userid in other ways. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO

Re: EXCP Counts in SMF Exit

2013-12-24 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 1480926979.8195705.1387049432028.javamail.r...@comcast.net, on 12/14/2013 at 07:30 PM, DASDBILL2 dasdbi...@comcast.net said: The SMF EXCP counting code counts all EXCPs but not necessarily all I/O requests.  If your wayward job is using the STARTIO access method or the Media Manager to do

Re: GUI vs 3270 Re: MVS Quick Reference, was: LookAT

2013-12-24 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 52a9b59f.2090...@gmail.com, on 12/12/2013 at 09:09 PM, David Crayford dcrayf...@gmail.com said: Would they be seduced by a GUI? The Devil is in the details. Would they be seduced by a GUI that was as fast, functional, reliable and user friendly as the old interface? Probably most would.

Re: COBOL IN SRB Mode (Was Un-authorized caller)

2013-12-24 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 8p0ka91p0u2h3skg8nklk9o1sbmk4co...@4ax.com, on 12/12/2013 at 02:47 PM, Clark Morris cfmpub...@ns.sympatico.ca said: If the only code that is aimed for zAAP or zIIP is code that would have run authorized anyway, then no additional exposure is caused by their use. That would be true if

Re: GUI vs 3270 Re: MVS Quick Reference, was: LookAT

2013-12-24 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In a90e503c23f97441b05ee302853b0e6290237e7...@fspas01ev010.fspa.myntet.se, on 12/12/2013 at 03:38 PM, Thomas Berg thomas.b...@swedbank.se said: Not I. If I compare a typical 3270-interface and a typical PC/WEB-interface I generally can observe that the response times is about 50 times better

Re: DCF: Can it live again?

2013-12-27 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 435b77ba27fc254099b1763e498def664ca...@va1exc02.snaads.sinenomine.net, on 04/16/2008 at 09:31 AM, David Boyes dbo...@sinenomine.net said: The key to what I want is the Bookmaster tag set, From what you wrote further on, you really mean BookManager; the BookManager/BUILD tag set is a

Re: Deinstall software, for example BDT

2013-12-27 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 52b0cc69.8070...@bremultibank.com.pl, on 12/17/2013 at 11:12 PM, R.S. r.skoru...@bremultibank.com.pl said: BTW: Who's using BDT? JES3 users, unless IBM has finally fixed it so that it can do NJE without BDT. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO position; see

Re: hexadecimal?

2013-12-29 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 20131222125014.GB23307@dlc-dt, on 12/22/2013 at 07:50 AM, David L. Craig dlc@gmail.com said: And don't come back with real MVS programmers don't need to debug their code. ;-) I'd be the last person to make, or defend, such a statement. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and

Re: Testing for key 8

2013-12-29 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In CAFO-8tpGjfigAn8qw8BXXCqpVywcZ94DnXo=yicihgjk5ig...@mail.gmail.com, on 12/27/2013 at 06:31 PM, zMan zedgarhoo...@gmail.com said: Is there a simpler way to see whether we were called in key 8 (not that this is that complicated): EPSW R14,R0Extract PSW SLL R14,8

Re: Word sizes was Re: hexadecimal?

2013-12-29 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In e1odb9ptb08f9rl26d93uugpu47jd9v...@4ax.com, on 12/22/2013 at 08:52 AM, Clark Morris cfmpub...@ns.sympatico.ca said: Also 48 bits on the Honeywell 800 and Burroughs B5000. Yes, and several others, for one of which I used to have lust in my heart. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg

Re: Curiosity: TCB mapping macro name - why IKJTCB?

2013-12-29 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 0871825165316453.wa.paulgboulderaim@listserv.ua.edu, on 12/22/2013 at 10:56 AM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com said: ATTACH/DETACH appeared contemporaneously with TSO!? IBM Operating System/360 Concepts and Facilities, C28-6535-0, is ©1965 and mentions ATTACH. Even ATTACH for MFT

Re: Curiosity: TCB mapping macro name - why IKJTCB?

2013-12-29 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 5000331903687025.wa.afg0510videotron...@listserv.ua.edu, on 12/22/2013 at 10:01 AM, Andreas F. Geissbuehler afg0...@videotron.ca said: In the early '70 IBM released a new and improved CRJE called TSO, CRJE was a new and improved CRBE, but TSO was something new. I believe it was part of

Re: Early !BM multiprocessors (renamed from Curiosity: TCB mapping macro name - why IKJTCB?)

2013-12-29 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 1689901514.1458087.1387743082672.javamail.r...@comcast.net, on 12/22/2013 at 08:11 PM, DASDBILL2 dasdbi...@comcast.net said: I seem to remember working with some S/360 Model 55 MPs at an FAA Air Route Traffic Control Center in 1978.  ITYM 9020, which used modified S/360 processors as

Re: Turing's belated pardon

2013-12-29 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 1912514778140765.wa.paulgboulderaim@listserv.ua.edu, on 12/24/2013 at 03:01 PM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com said: http://boingboing.net/2013/12/24/queen-elizabeth-pardons-turing.html In my view, the Queen should have pardoned every man and woman persecuted under the cruel and

Re: Does code on both zIIP and zAAP have to run authorized was Re: COBOL IN SRB Mode (Was Un-authorized caller)

2013-12-29 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In h2ekb9lp58c21i7ajmuu8b5hg1d38nn...@4ax.com, on 12/24/2013 at 09:46 PM, Clark Morris cfmpub...@ns.sympatico.ca said: Subject line says it all. My understanding of most discussions here is that the answer is yes. The answer is different for ZIIP and ZAAP. Then the second question is

Re: Curiosity: TCB mapping macro name - why IKJTCB?

2013-12-29 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 017401cefffc$510bc390$f3234ab0$@mcn.org, on 12/23/2013 at 11:30 AM, Charles Mills charl...@mcn.org said: http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/ibm/360/os/R19_Jun70/GC28-6628-5_System_Control_Blocks_Rel_19_Jun70.pdf gives the layout of the TCB and the field names all begin with TCB. Page

Re: Curiosity: TCB mapping macro name - why IKJTCB?

2013-12-29 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 20131225020725.60c1924...@panix5.panix.com, on 12/24/2013 at 09:07 PM, Randy Hudson i...@panix.com said: No JES then; HASP might have been available, but it mostly worked by emulating devices and hooking into standard exits (IEFUJV, IEFUJI) to massage the JCL to point to its (pseudo-)

Re: hexadecimal?

2013-12-29 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In CAE1XxDF1kgwAt+nJgHsWHPjuqPwBawHfAC2wQNb7h7=7pfy...@mail.gmail.com, on 12/22/2013 at 07:10 AM, John Gilmore jwgli...@gmail.com said: Shmuel writes begin extract Nonsense; I/O channels on the 7090 were binary. The fact that the 7909 was an 8-bit channel rather than a 6-bit channel doesn't

Re: Need tutorial

2013-12-30 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 8988413032026434.wa.herowith.zerogmail@listserv.ua.edu, on 12/28/2013 at 08:28 AM, Rajesh Kumar herowith.z...@gmail.com said: I need a good tutorial for rexx and cobol. REXX Reference Summary Handbook, ISBN 0-9639854-2-6 REXX in 21 Days Both out of print, alas. -- Shmuel

Re: Learning Rexx (was: Need tutorial)

2013-12-30 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 5c8fv3f78unypshw9tyopynk.1388251271...@email.android.com, on 12/28/2013 at 12:21 PM, Charles Mills charl...@mcn.org said: The user-friendly interactive nature of CMS. Rhat would seem to describe TSO as well. The only place where CMS has a clear edge, IMHO, is XEDIT. -- Shmuel

Re: One day, a computer will fit on a desk (1974) - YouTube

2013-12-30 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In m3zjnjsodg@garlic.com, on 12/29/2013 at 09:50 AM, Anne Lynn Wheeler l...@garlic.com said: note that (at least low-end and mid-range) 360s 370s were emulation on some native microprocessor ... so 5100 wasn't all that different. The data paths on the 2030, 2040, 2050, 2065 and 2085

Re: DCF: Can it live again?

2013-12-30 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In caarmm9qj3myeauuvhm0dmhx-cpqm2ayso3qc9anon5kznbc...@mail.gmail.com, on 12/29/2013 at 06:03 PM, Tony Harminc t...@harminc.net said: I imagine it's written in C, since it runs on Windows and Linux on i86, Cite? There are BookManager products on windoze, but I'm not aware of any that accept

Re: Learning Rexx (was: Need tutorial)

2013-12-30 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 07dd01cf055e$eb92e0d0$c2b8a270$@mcn.org, on 12/30/2013 at 07:59 AM, Charles Mills charl...@mcn.org said: It's really a separate topic, but I think there is little doubt that it makes sense to edit code of any sort in some fast character-at-a-time interactive environment even if the target

Re: One day, a computer will fit on a desk (1974) - YouTube

2013-12-31 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 1388417488.11875.16.camel@localhost, on 12/30/2013 at 10:31 AM, David Andrews d...@lists.duda.com said: Though the wikipedia article doesn't mention it, my recollection is that Magnuson's M80 system was microprogrammable by the user. Anybody remember/use that? Remember. -- Shmuel

Re: Major, Minor CDE

2013-12-31 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 0f20e5de-10c1-4297-9d1f-f0f2c23cc...@optonline.net, on 12/30/2013 at 05:15 PM, Micheal Butz michealb...@optonline.net said: I started from ASXBFTCB looking at TCBJPQ which had a CDE entry but not for program on the job step. There may be more than one job step in an address space.

Re: DCF: Can it live again?

2013-12-31 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In CAArMM9SSRtTZ=YtZ1J=061vX2f8pwMf=eeasizbwkllmacv...@mail.gmail.com, on 12/30/2013 at 03:29 PM, Tony Harminc t...@harminc.net said: It seems plausible that at least some of the code would be common with other platform implementations. Are you talking about BookManager/READ? That's not

Re: REXX tutorial

2014-01-02 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 8244105070189912.wa.elardus.engelbrechtsita.co...@listserv.ua.edu, on 12/31/2013 at 11:11 AM, Elardus Engelbrecht elardus.engelbre...@sita.co.za said: Hmmm, I wonder, did someone actually read ProOps from first to last page and understanding everything with only one RTFM? ;-D Yes, but I

Re: DCF: Can it live again?

2014-01-02 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 660c973e-4a5c-4e6c-9e94-3301602f9...@yahoo.com, on 12/31/2013 at 04:10 PM, Scott Ford scott_j_f...@yahoo.com said: Is the DCF format for Book Manager available ? The documentation of the BookManager/BUILD tag set is available; the macros that implement it are copyrighted. Similarly for

Re: DCF: Can it live again?

2014-01-02 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In caarmm9qnrw0pvarh6ta0p2duevngxkfrfajczuwwjctzjx3...@mail.gmail.com, on 12/31/2013 at 03:40 PM, Tony Harminc t...@harminc.net said: I'm not aware of any dispute. ? The OP Mentioned the core Bookie code. Out of the blue See above. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT

Re: REXX tutorial

2014-01-02 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 28b0c42e-730c-4eb1-8d23-8022a3cdd...@yahoo.com, on 01/02/2014 at 11:54 AM, Scott Ford scott_j_f...@yahoo.com said: Reading manuals.what's that ...seen a lot of wanting instant gratification instead of doing the research first and then asking questions When the manual is well over 1K

Re: TSO COPY Help

2014-01-02 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In cc42e2f56d60f24fb8a6bcc639d1d96306d08...@samtcasxmb13.usa.dce.usps.gov, on 01/02/2014 at 06:10 PM, Hansen, Dave L - Eagan, MN dave.l.han...@usps.gov said: So the OS/MVT and OS/VS2 TSO Data Utilities: COPY, FORMAT,LIST,MERGE User's Guide and Reference (SC28-6765-4) shows the options for

Re: ó One day, a computer will fit on a desk (1974) - YouTube

2014-01-02 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In ofca19006c.9b43266e-on85257c54.006478fb-85257c54.0065c...@tsys.com, on 01/02/2014 at 01:31 PM, Kirk Talman rkueb...@tsys.com said: PDP stood for personal data processor. Programmable. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO position; see

Re: Literate JCL?

2014-01-04 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 8d0d6ab843cdf6c-15b0-11...@webmail-m245.sysops.aol.com, on 01/03/2014 at 09:59 AM, Mitch mitc...@aol.com said: I will talk with someone at a vendor site that may be able to do something close to this. May I ask for other input from anyone else that sees value in this? I liked the idea

Re: TSO TESTAUTH requires Apf Authorized environment ?

2014-01-05 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In !!AAAYAJXIDufoOyhGhgKtFLrs5tbCgAAAEJSwPVy4YgRPs/aYb0rjcHgBAA==@optonline.net, on 01/05/2014 at 01:01 PM, MichealButz michealb...@optonline.net said: After using TESTAUTH many times I got the message listed below Has someone removed TESTAUTH from the authorized

Re: TSO FULL SCREEN MODE UNDER ISPF

2014-01-06 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In !!AAAYAJXIDufoOyhGhgKtFLrs5tbCgAAAEHgHztPQ3sNJi6d9su/5f2IBAA==@optonline.net, on 01/05/2014 at 06:41 PM, MichealButz michealb...@optonline.net said: Would anyone know to display TSO FULL SCREEN UNDER ISPF What are you asking? How to wirite an ISPF dialog? How to

Re: TSO FULL SCREEN MODE UNDER ISPF

2014-01-06 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 1934743922114507.wa.paulgboulderaim@listserv.ua.edu, on 01/05/2014 at 08:33 PM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com said: Bad design; wrong layering, but typical of IBM. Properly, the TSO command, full screen or line mode, should run in its split, perceiving a screen geometry matching

Re: TSO FULL SCREEN MODE UNDER ISPF

2014-01-06 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 52ca46c4.7050...@phoenixsoftware.com, on 01/05/2014 at 10:01 PM, Ed Jaffe edja...@phoenixsoftware.com said: There is nothing special going on. Any program invoked as an ISPF application can use standard ISPF DISPLAY services The issue is a TSO fullscreen application, e.g.,SDSF, not some

Re: TSO FULL SCREEN MODE UNDER ISPF

2014-01-06 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 4676648172689488.wa.paulgboulderaim@listserv.ua.edu, on 01/05/2014 at 08:39 PM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com said: *And* I believe SDSF stays in its split. No; SDSF only honors ISPF splits if you run it as an ISPF application. What Hank is talking about is running SDSF as a

Re: Scary Sysprogs

2014-01-07 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 50b183ed-12c8-4404-915c-4ce8217f2...@yahoo.com, on 01/06/2014 at 03:54 PM, Scott Ford scott_j_f...@yahoo.com said: I agree, a lot of the young kids don't want to dig thru doc , research or learn how hardware and software work. Sure, but is it a higher percentage than for the older folks?

Re: TSO FULL SCREEN MODE UNDER ISPF

2014-01-07 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 20140106191027.17d7b33...@panix2.panix.com, on 01/06/2014 at 02:10 PM, Don Poitras poit...@pobox.com said: Sure it does. No; you're giving the right answer to the wrong question. From the help file: That confirms what Hank and I wrote. Specifically, However, when you invoke SDSF as a TSO

Re: Innovating an old IMS 3270-based application

2014-01-07 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In cajb5jbtq_vynhg012mbaqvk4sfy+uwuehprfqvbx7hty4zi...@mail.gmail.com, on 01/06/2014 at 04:56 PM, Sanya Off sanya...@gmail.com said: I wonder if some of you may share the experience and opinions with regards to approaching a grand task of making an old IMS-based monster application more

Re: Darren seems to be alive but....

2014-01-08 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 9db59a6e-9a50-4e6c-be95-9b9e3244b...@comcast.net, on 01/07/2014 at 11:59 AM, Ed Gould edgould1...@comcast.net said: Darren seems to be alive but it isn't clear who is in charge. The issue isn't who is in charge, but what resources he has. Send your list questions to

Re: TSO FULL SCREEN MODE UNDER ISPF

2014-01-08 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 7280b0f7-a217-4d37-aea2-f1e46be53...@optonline.net, on 01/07/2014 at 11:48 AM, Micheal Butz michealb...@optonline.net said: I need to have a TGET To have a full screen TPUT to display What happens if you don't have a TGET before the TPUT FULLSCR? Did you issue a STFDMODE? Did you use

Re: Hardware failures (was Re: Scary Sysprogs ...)

2014-01-08 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In caajsdjjarmx2jqj0awzwf1gnptnx_5eysazwro83e2ewsc5...@mail.gmail.com, on 01/08/2014 at 07:16 AM, John McKown john.archie.mck...@gmail.com said: The LAN people _refused_ to believe that the OSA could fail that way without disrupting all the IP sessions of the users on that OSA. That's

Re: Darren seems to be alive but....

2014-01-12 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In ed403499-6ec5-4b86-954e-6a81b175d...@comcast.net, on 01/08/2014 at 08:38 AM, Ed Gould edgould1...@comcast.net said: That is why I am surprised that Darren didn't get the message There is a difference between didn't get and didn't notice. but then that leaves the issue up in the air Not

Re: LLA/VLF -- NAMED LNKLST?

2014-01-12 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 1e667f6bf4a6234ab758381402ef464d133cd...@loumbxwpg12s01.rsc.humad.com, on 01/08/2014 at 11:01 PM, Steve Thompson sthompso...@humana.com said: I seem to recall something about Named LNKLST. Try 3.7 Changing the LNKLST Concatenation in z/OS MVS Programming: Authorized Assembler Services

Re: SMP/E GIM69217I

2014-01-12 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 4384793391606637.wa.paulgboulderaim@listserv.ua.edu, on 01/09/2014 at 11:51 AM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com said: Is this cloning, sometimes called deployment to a live system? It seems there's a flaw in the process if the live system is not updated by a process identical to

Re: Subject Unicode

2014-01-12 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 1389314155.47172.yahoomail...@web126205.mail.ne1.yahoo.com, on 01/09/2014 at 04:35 PM, Scott Ford scott_j_f...@yahoo.com said: PC ( data using a foreign language Unicode page What are you trying to say? If the PC is using Unicode then it will transimit data as UTF-7 or UTF-8, which covers

Re: Subject Unicode

2014-01-12 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 022c01cf0da5$a7b25180$f716f480$@mcn.org, on 01/09/2014 at 05:45 PM, Charles Mills charl...@mcn.org said: There are several flavors of Unicode, but they relate to how the code points are stored in a file or transmitted, not to the character set. Actually, those are transforms rather than

Re: Subject Unicode

2014-01-12 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 0e75a300-f7c5-46a7-a1d3-7189d2a58...@yahoo.com, on 01/09/2014 at 08:39 PM, Scott Ford scott_j_f...@yahoo.com said: We send a data message from a pc, we encrypt it with AES128 , the message is received at the host (z/OS) decrypted then converted from ascii to ebcdic If it really was ASCII

Re: Subject Unicode

2014-01-12 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 20140110034419.c71008f...@panix3.panix.com, on 01/09/2014 at 10:44 PM, Don Poitras poit...@pobox.com said: As of z/OS 2.1, ISPF supports UTF-8, so a binary transfer will still show an A if it was an A on the PC. Only if the PC was using UTF-8 or translates to Unicode with UTF-8 as part of

Re: Subject Unicode

2014-01-12 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In CAArMM9QOFq1jtzwmj=LWHTKkadMzx=aaqppbbqjnk+c8kuz...@mail.gmail.com, on 01/09/2014 at 09:00 PM, Tony Harminc t...@harminc.net said: There is no general way to convert UNICODE into EBCDIC, There are EBCDIC transforms for Unicode. I'm not sure whether that qulifies as EBCDIC. --

Re: Subject Unicode

2014-01-12 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In of065337e4.0e9ce2ec-on48257c5c.0027bfa8-48257c5c.00297...@sg.ibm.com, on 01/10/2014 at 03:30 PM, Timothy Sipples sipp...@sg.ibm.com said: Somehow I'm reminded of the save two characters impulse which then caused a lot of angst in preparing for Y2K. The situations are not comparable. With

Re: Subject Unicode

2014-01-12 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In bay177-w36d24c9a61f3b6464b4992f2...@phx.gbl, on 01/10/2014 at 09:36 AM, Harry Wahl harry_w...@hotmail.com said: You could use the BOM UTF characters There are none. U+FEFF ZERO WIDTH NO-BREAK SPACE is a Unicode character. usually inserted transparently at the beginning of a UTF file.

Re: Subject Unicode

2014-01-12 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 9931357931112854.wa.paulgboulderaim@listserv.ua.edu, on 01/10/2014 at 08:41 AM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com said: Notepad? What's that? Perhaps some obsolete predecessor of Wordpad? No, it's a superior version of wordpad. HTH. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and

Re: Subject Unicode

2014-01-12 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In CAE1XxDHn0wgwJpm+cNLSdzv=ccvoz1u5o6em7xwxnqs4u0z...@mail.gmail.com, on 01/10/2014 at 09:50 AM, John Gilmore jwgli...@gmail.com said: As soon, however, as you need to support o three or more different roman-alphabet natural languages, or o a roman-alphabet language and a non-alphabetic

Re: Subject Unicode

2014-01-12 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In CAE1XxDHBJRiuFH7N-031xdJ3DUnO6QyG-=otde8fvnc-uyv...@mail.gmail.com, on 01/10/2014 at 11:02 AM, John Gilmore jwgli...@gmail.com said: The problem is not one of representability but of subset choice. There is no problem of subset choice, because use of UTF-8 does not imply a proper subset

Re: z/OS Job Opening

2014-01-12 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 9E263B5EE73E4E06BF755F95CEA935E8@barryf93b83d71, on 01/10/2014 at 10:22 AM, retired mainframer retired-mainfra...@q.com said: I don't know anything about the recruiting firm or their customer. I don't know about the customer, but SPCI has been around for decades. -- Shmuel (Seymour

Re: Subject Unicode

2014-01-12 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In cae1xxdgwscr+ffp13_rperg4jmkferdgp4f6sxtz7v48o4g...@mail.gmail.com, on 01/10/2014 at 01:28 PM, John Gilmore jwgli...@gmail.com said: Briefly, effective rules for encoding any 'character' recognized as a Unicode one as a 'longer' UTF-8 one do not in general exist. What are you drinking? RFC

Re: Mainframe culture question - how display a tab character?

2014-01-12 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 03f701cf0e3c$d1a371d0$74ea5570$@mcn.org, on 01/10/2014 at 11:47 AM, Charles Mills charl...@mcn.org said: MS Word would say FOO^tBAR. Have you reported the bug? That should be FOO^9BAR. Parm2=FOOtabBAR I'd go with that. Parm2=FOO^tBAR That would be flat wrong. -- Shmuel

Re: Subject Unicode

2014-01-12 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 20140110195944.3d5f333...@panix2.panix.com, on 01/10/2014 at 02:59 PM, Don Poitras poit...@pobox.com said: As far as 3270 goes, I think it's just going to us the CODEPAGE and CHARSET you start ISPF with. I think it's going to be limited to the set of EBCDIC code pages. As this is the first

Re: Mainframe culture question - how display a tab character?

2014-01-12 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In ofe902f58f.ddd660b4-on88257c5c.006d8c43-88257c5c.006e4...@sce.com, on 01/10/2014 at 12:04 PM, Skip Robinson jo.skip.robin...@sce.com said: An intriguing question in view of the absence of tabs in the conventional EBCDIC character set. What absence? HT is and always has been '05'X. VT is

Re: Mainframe culture question - how display a tab character?

2014-01-12 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 043101cf0e4c$7944d050$6bce70f0$@mcn.org, on 01/10/2014 at 01:39 PM, Charles Mills charl...@mcn.org said: Both my aging Yellow Card Yello? That's the new card. HT should be on the older green card as well. And, in fact, it is: thank you, bitsavers. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz,

Re: Mainframe culture question - how display a tab character?

2014-01-12 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 044601cf0e4d$b4be3a30$1e3aae90$@mcn.org, on 01/10/2014 at 01:48 PM, Charles Mills charl...@mcn.org said: It occurs to me that what may be meant is the absence of control-character-based formatting in mainframe usage. On UNIX and Windows systems, fields are often delimited by tabs Making the

Re: Subject Unicode (Also email. Also TAB.)

2014-01-13 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 7503442349556875.wa.paulgboulderaim@listserv.ua.edu, on 01/12/2014 at 09:55 AM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com said: Thereby sacrificing some small economy of storage. There are even better arguments for deferring the disambiguation, such as: o Use of tabs as field separators in

Re: Subject Unicode (Also email. Also TAB.)

2014-01-13 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 52d2d540.1020...@t-online.de, on 01/12/2014 at 06:47 PM, Bernd Oppolzer bernd.oppol...@t-online.de said: IMO, the idea to put tab characters into files is wrong from the beginning. I don't agree; it's useful for text markup. I don't like taking away a printable character as a logical tab.

Re: Mainframe culture question - how display a tab character?

2014-01-13 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In d91559ad-3ca0-4033-a2d6-a6c34ad4f...@comcast.net, on 01/10/2014 at 10:45 PM, Ed Gould edgould1...@comcast.net said: Somewhere in the far reaches of my memory there was a ZAP to tso EDIT that worked eg:Label(tab char) br tabchar R15 Why a zap? What is TABSET, chopped liver? SCRIPT was

Re: Subject Unicode

2014-01-13 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 20140111220658.62ce18f...@panix3.panix.com, on 01/11/2014 at 05:06 PM, Don Poitras poit...@pobox.com said: I don't know how these characters are going to survive email, Not without proper[1] MIME header fields; characters like, e.g., Copyright (©), Euro (€), Registered (®), Yen (¥), are

Re: Mainframe culture question - how display a tab character?

2014-01-13 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In of0fb78386.d971c375-on88257c5c.00788311-88257c5c.007a9...@sce.com, on 01/10/2014 at 02:19 PM, Skip Robinson jo.skip.robin...@sce.com said: To evaluate the existence of an EBCDIC tab character, let's take the total number of instances in which any member of this list has ever in their

Re: Subject Unicode

2014-01-13 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 8160871980876269.wa.paulgboulderaim@listserv.ua.edu, on 01/12/2014 at 03:28 PM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com said: Doesn't understand UNIX line breaks. I don't FTP text files as binary. NOTEPAD doesn't introduce fancy formatting that I didn't request and don't want. For me,

Re: Subject Unicode

2014-01-13 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In CAE1XxDF7qr2ek3mdCFRsgdqUjpReOCmCs5qqfckwMY7sh=t...@mail.gmail.com, on 01/12/2014 at 05:11 PM, John Gilmore jwgli...@gmail.com said: If I argued that the comments prefixed to a routine described its putative algorithm correctly and that the routine itself could thus contain no error, Shmuel

Re: RUN detaches the TSO TEST/TESTAUTH TCB

2014-01-16 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 7ee50a70-b843-4093-9d30-9225ade4f...@optonline.net, on 01/15/2014 at 01:44 PM, Micheal Butz michealb...@optonline.net said: From the doc it seems run detaches the TSO test TCB so PSATOLD is valid correct ? What are you trying to ask? The RUN subcommand of TEST doesn't detach the TEST TCB,

Re: Subject Unicode

2014-01-16 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In CAArMM9T5iAWomwY=mpt5lazdbz7xaz0h6b0nhyjws0ymc0o...@mail.gmail.com, on 01/13/2014 at 02:27 PM, Tony Harminc t...@harminc.net said: But no one would say that UTF-8 *is* ASCII, or that UTF-EBCDIC *is* EBCDIC. Well, all ASCII characters are valid single octet UTF-8 sequences, so I would say

Re: Automatic Job Ended Email (detail information)

2014-01-18 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 7216707982190237.wa.brianwestermansyzygyinc@listserv.ua.edu, on 01/16/2014 at 12:57 AM, Brian Westerman brian_wester...@syzygyinc.com said: Any comments or suggestions? You can't please everybody, and what please a user in the more common scenarios might not please him in exceptional

Re: Automatic Job Ended Email (detail information)

2014-01-18 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In CAAJSdjgZ9QWkX4=cZfqBfKfivB33E6Ny=ukd15fc_tvauhq...@mail.gmail.com, on 01/16/2014 at 07:32 AM, John McKown john.archie.mck...@gmail.com said: Not a direct response to your question, but something that has been running around in my mind lately (lots of room there). Why email? Because it's

Re: pax, ddnames and _BPX_SHAREAS

2014-01-19 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 9f187145e7dd6e4398287ff781d211350a308...@046-ch1mpn1-042.046d.mgd.msft.net, on 01/17/2014 at 01:12 PM, van der Grijn, Bart (B) bvandergr...@dow.com said: I can't figure out how to override this setting for my IKJEFT01 step. What happens if your REXX code sets _BPX_SHAREAS using the

Re: pax, ddnames and _BPX_SHAREAS

2014-01-19 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In caajsdjhom97scaffzr_jbb6rokt-yo9+wst3-dxgkca5+cj...@mail.gmail.com, on 01/17/2014 at 08:59 AM, John McKown john.archie.mck...@gmail.com said: paxRC=bpxwunix(wCMD,,DD:PAX,stderr.) That provides a DD for stdout; the OP needs a dd for stdin: paxRC=bpxwunix(wCMD,DD:PAX,STDOUT.,STDERR.) --

Re: Pleas quote the text you reply to (Was: Automatic Job Ended Email (detail information))

2014-01-19 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 0de6a9840123e547b061ac5b6765c026cee...@exmb-05.ad.wsu.edu, on 01/18/2014 at 02:52 AM, Gibney, Dave gib...@wsu.edu said: Except, and pardon my ignorance, I have never been able to follow his attribution link to anywhere useful. Do you mean When I cite an RFC, when I give a URL, or when I

Re: Pleas quote the text you reply to (Was: Automatic Job Ended Email (detail information))

2014-01-19 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 52d98efa.50...@aim.com, on 01/17/2014 at 01:13 PM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com said: *But* leave enough header information (Date: and From:) as citation so the readercan refer to the full text of the cited article in the Archives. Those that care about long established Internet

Re: pax, ddnames and _BPX_SHAREAS

2014-01-19 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 1389977617.39838.yahoomail...@web184806.mail.gq1.yahoo.com, on 01/17/2014 at 08:53 AM, Lloyd Fuller leful...@sbcglobal.net said: Look at your DSName.  It is not a valid MVS dataset name:  What gives you that idea? too many characters without a period. No; look at the trace he gives in a

Re: Automatic Job Ended Email (detail information)

2014-01-19 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In ofbd8bb0dc.d53a-on48257c64.00593e08-48257c64.005c3...@sg.ibm.com, on 01/19/2014 at 12:45 AM, Timothy Sipples sipp...@sg.ibm.com said: If you're planning to insert a Web link in the e-mail -- Click Here for More Information or similar -- then you can cheat a bit. The URL itself could

Re: Automatic Job Ended Email (detail information)

2014-01-19 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In cajtoo58mfcezx2tdshvhbt9njz9po+bor-xhwr0crzu7ury...@mail.gmail.com, on 01/18/2014 at 11:53 PM, Mike Schwab mike.a.sch...@gmail.com said: How about a tinyurl style URL with a SMS message to email or twitter. That still requires the recipient to have a cell phone with SMS active. In the US

Re: pax, ddnames and _BPX_SHAREAS

2014-01-20 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 0158509868278815.wa.paulgboulderaim@listserv.ua.edu, on 01/20/2014 at 11:17 AM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com said: I agree with John, rather the Shmuel. In the OP's command (which Shmuel trimmed), it appears that he was trying to write a pax archive, not extract one. The

Re: Pleas quote the text you reply to (Was: Automatic Job Ended Email (detail information))

2014-01-20 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 0de6a9840123e547b061ac5b6765c026d05...@exmb-05.ad.wsu.edu, on 01/20/2014 at 08:30 AM, Gibney, Dave gib...@wsu.edu said: In this particular message, I mean stuff below between starting 0DE6A98401. That's a message id. Those with fully functional mail software can use it to search for

Re: pax, ddnames and _BPX_SHAREAS

2014-01-22 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 4955235761654675.wa.paulgboulderaim@listserv.ua.edu, on 01/21/2014 at 12:09 AM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com said: And your (mis)interpretation to be disingenuous rather than misinformed. Then I consider you ro be a fool and a hypocrite. Presumably you have never overlooked an

Re: Pleas quote the text you reply to (Was: Automatic Job Ended Email (detail information))

2014-01-22 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 5888946518314654.wa.paulgboulderaim@listserv.ua.edu, on 01/21/2014 at 12:14 AM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com said: Is message ID specified/required in some successor to RFC 822? Even RFC 822 specifies it, under optional fields. In the current standard, RFC 5322, it says: 3.6.4.

Re: Pleas quote the text you reply to (Was: Automatic Job Ended Email (detail information))

2014-01-22 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 0de6a9840123e547b061ac5b6765c026d13...@exmb-05.ad.wsu.edu, on 01/21/2014 at 08:25 AM, Gibney, Dave gib...@wsu.edu said: I guess Outlook and Exchange are not fully functional mail software. I've seen much harsher judgements of them, starting with b0rken and going down from there. --

Re: Automatic Job Ended Email (detail information)

2014-01-22 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 52de617c.2020...@gmail.com, on 01/21/2014 at 08:01 PM, David Crayford dcrayf...@gmail.com said: There are tons of URL safe base64 encoders/decoders out there He's trying to shorten the URL; BASE64 encoding would lengthen it. OTOH, I can conceive of situations where BASE64 would be more

Re: Automatic Job Ended Email (detail information)

2014-01-23 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 1672677481329115.wa.brianwestermansyzygyinc@listserv.ua.edu, on 01/22/2014 at 03:38 AM, Brian Westerman brian_wester...@syzygyinc.com said: I have handled the HTML/TEXT email stuff, currently I build both parts of the email, and send it, unless the client site has specified NOHTML, in

Re: System Symbols Question

2014-01-23 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In cae1xxdhdqs_qmqcs0m1fpvbxbf9dov4-rnb5bmds6p9fog-...@mail.gmail.com, on 01/22/2014 at 11:27 AM, John Gilmore jwgli...@gmail.com said: Tom Marchant wrote begin extract There might be cases where an 8 character symbol name won't work. For example, when a symbol represents a volume serial

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