Re: Rant of the Day - First World Problems

2018-06-13 Thread Ward Able, Grant
I hate doing a search in the KC, because you seldom get a pointer to what you are searching for, but have to divine other searches to get to the data. KC SEARCH STINKS! Regards – Grant. In theory, there's no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is. There is no

Problem with JCL

2018-01-30 Thread Ward Able, Grant
Previously posted to ISPL-List I have a situation where I need to execute a single JCL procedure, but ONLY execute some steps (including the DSN allocations) for part B or part C, depending on the return code of part A. The problem I seem to be stuck with is that in part B (STEP10 below) I

Re: Problem with JCL

2018-02-01 Thread Ward Able, Grant
Thanks to all who have responded. I have decided to follow the route of having a step which will run a REXX exec to do the allocations for me. Far, far easier than any other solution I was considering :) Regards – Grant. In theory, there's no difference between theory and practice. In

Re: REXX as JCL replacement

2018-07-04 Thread Ward Able, Grant
I seldom post here, but have been intrigued by this thread. What are the problems (perceived or real) that will be resolved by replacing JCL with REXX? Regards – Grant. In theory, there's no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is. There is no such thing as the

Re: REXX as JCL replacement

2018-07-10 Thread Ward Able, Grant
program products; REXX is that language. On Wed, Jul 4, 2018 at 3:53 AM, Ward Able, Grant wrote: > I seldom post here, but have been intrigued by this thread. > > What are the problems (perceived or real) that will be resolved by > replacing JCL with REXX? > > > > Regar

Re: Many arguments to a Rexx function call

2018-04-10 Thread Ward Able, Grant
I just looked in the REXX Reference manual and found this (which I did not know before!): There can be up to an implementation-defined maximum number of expressions, separated by commas, between the parentheses. In TSO/E, the implementation maximum is up to 20 expressions. Regards – Grant

Re: Assembler calling DSNTAIR

2018-04-13 Thread Ward Able, Grant
(Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@listserv.ua.edu> on behalf of Ward Able, Grant <gwarda...@dtcc.com> Sent: Friday, April 13, 2018 10:24 AM To: IBM-MAIN@listserv.ua.edu Subject: Assem

Assembler calling DSNTAIR

2018-04-13 Thread Ward Able, Grant
I have an Assembler program linked AMODE(31) RMODE(24). It makes SQL calls and under some circumstances I will call DSNTIAR to printout the DB2 error & diagnostic info. The call statement I am using for this is: CALL DSNTIAR,(SQLCA,(6),LRECL),LINKINST=BASSM,MF=(E,PARM) Yet I am getting an

Re: Assembler calling DSNTAIR

2018-04-16 Thread Ward Able, Grant
Just a quick note to all who have so kindly responded. I am going to be out of the office for this week and will look at these responses in more detail when I get back. I used LINKINST, as this was mentioned in the DB2 KC as my program is AMODE(31) RMODE(24). Regards – Grant DTCC Internal

Re: ASMA034E

2018-11-15 Thread Ward Able, Grant
I have been following the ASMA034E discussion and am interested in learning how to do the new-fangled relative branching stuff. Can someone point me to a reasonably simple example? I learned my Assembler in the 80's and have been using that way of coding ever since. I think it is time to

Re: ASMA034E

2018-11-15 Thread Ward Able, Grant
ATTENTION! This email originated outside of DTCC; exercise caution. On 2018-11-16 1:47 AM, Ward Able, Grant wrote: > Can someone point me to a reasonably simple example? If you can do branch instructions then you can do branch-relative instructions. Apart from RR instructions (BR, BASR, B

SDSF using REXX - observing strangeness

2018-09-21 Thread Ward Able, Grant
X-posting to TSO-REXX and IBM-MAIN Hi all, I have an exec that uses SDSF to do some screen-scraping of messages from the JES2MSGLG, but I am seeing something weird and I wonder if this is something I have done, or a crazy anomaly. Apologies for any reformatting that may take place. Does

Using IF/THEN/ELSE for return code checking

2019-01-17 Thread Ward Able, Grant
This seems simple and I may be having a senior moment, but I don’t seem to be able to get this to work. I have a number of batch jobs that do ADRDSSU backups, then execute a variable number of PROC statements to copy files. TSOBATCH PGM=IKJEFT01 CC= BKDSNPGM=ADRDSSU CC= 0004 Each

Re: Using IF/THEN/ELSE for return code checking

2019-01-21 Thread Ward Able, Grant
, Would it work to use an IF-THEN-ELSE in the ADRDSSU step: IF MAXCC LE 4 THEN SET MAXCC=0 Then you should be able to just check for RC=0 in your IF statement at the end of the job Rex -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Ward Able, Grant Sent

Re: [External] Re: Using IF/THEN/ELSE for return code checking

2019-01-21 Thread Ward Able, Grant
I will give this a try in the real world. In my tests it has proven to be correct. Thanks Jon Regards – Grant DTCC Internal (Green) -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Jon Jon Sent: 17 January 2019 21:51 To:

Re: Knowledge Centre - (was Re: Rant)

2018-12-07 Thread Ward Able, Grant
I have voted for these. Will these be for ALL Knowledge Centres, or just the z/OS ones? In theory, there's no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is. There is no such thing as the Cloud. It is just somebody else’s computer. If you don't have time to do it right, when

Re: XML File to MQ

2019-03-06 Thread Ward Able, Grant
If you are using MQ Server, rather than MQ Client, then you can use channel compression, which works well for text based data, such as xml files. We use these in some of our channels: COMPHDR('SYSTEM') COMPMSG('ZLIBFAST') Regards – Grant. In theory, there's no difference between

Re: Copying portions of a huge data set

2019-06-26 Thread Ward Able, Grant
This may be simplistic, but using REXX & EXECIO, as long as you can identify the errant data easily enough, you should be able to get this done fairly easily. Maybe not as quick as REPRO, but without much hassle. Regards – Grant. In theory, there's no difference between theory and

Re: Editing HLASM source with Visual Studio - columns 73-80

2019-12-10 Thread Ward Able, Grant
>>> Is there a batch method to UNNUM all members in a list of PDS's? I guess you would have to write an EDIT macro. Then write a REXX exec to invoke that macro for each member Regards – Grant. In theory, there's no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is. Worry more

Re: CICS term _BLINK_

2019-12-10 Thread Ward Able, Grant
Carlos - probably best to ask this on the dedicated CICS list cic...@listserv.uga.edu you can subscribe here: https://listserv.uga.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=CICS-L=1 I don't remember the details, but you would have to turn on an attribute in a MAP or in the 3270 datastream. Regards - Grant. In

Re: Goodbye.

2020-08-03 Thread Ward Able, Grant
Alles van die beste, Kees. Regards – Grant. In theory, there's no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is. Worry more about your character than your reputation. Character is what you are, reputation merely what others think you are. - John Wooden If you don't have

Re: "Everyone wants to retire mainframes"

2020-06-09 Thread Ward Able, Grant
There's no such thing as The Cloud - it's just someone else's computer... Regards – Grant. DTCC Public (White) -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Mitch Mccluhan Sent: 09 June 2020 13:51 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: "Everyone wants

Re: a Way to stop receiving Post email from my Yahoo email.

2021-02-23 Thread Ward Able, Grant
I think you have to send an email to the list server - something about NOMAIL, but you can try send an email to mailto:lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN Regards – Grant. In theory, there's no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is. Worry more

Re: Windows FTPS client

2021-07-29 Thread Ward Able, Grant
With my FTP software (Ipswitch WS_FTP) I have to have a different session for zOS and OMVS files. For OMVS files, I have to specify the host type of Unix (standard) Regards – Grant. In theory, there's no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is. Worry more about your

Re: System Programmer Titles

2021-10-12 Thread Ward Able, Grant
Associate Director :-) Regards - Grant. In theory, there's no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is. Worry more about your character than your reputation.  Character is what you are, reputation merely what others think you are. - John Wooden If you don't have time to

Re: EAGREX0500E Error 5 . Machine storage exhausted or request exceeds limit in REXX

2021-12-15 Thread Ward Able, Grant
From what I can find, VARSTORAGE only pertains to OUTTRAP: VARSTORAGE (HIGH) indicates that CLIST variables and REXX OUTTRAP variables containing output from authorized commands invoked by REXX can be kept in storage above the 16M line. Regards – Grant. In theory, there's no difference

Re: Rexx routine to dump all variables when debugging?

2022-02-17 Thread Ward Able, Grant
I am interested in this routine please! gwardable at dtcc dot comm Regards – Grant. Telephone Internal: 201496 (London) Telephone External: +44 (0)207 650 1496 EAM – Enterprise Application Middleware In theory, there's no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is. Worry

Re: Name conflict: CICS macro name IDENTIFY conflicts with MVS macro name IDENTIFY

2022-07-20 Thread Ward Able, Grant
As stated by IBM Hursley (John Tilling) on the CICS-List, CICS does not ship an IDENTIFY macro! Regards - Grant. Telephone Internal: 201496 (London) EAM - Enterprise Application Middleware In theory, there's no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is. Worry more about