Re: Regular Expressions in ISREDIT z/OS 2.01

2015-02-26 Thread Govind Chettiar
On Tue, 24 Feb 2015 23:07:53 -0500, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) shmuel+ibm-m...@patriot.net wrote: In 2502068772076383.wa.rashapoogmail@listserv.ua.edu, on 02/24/2015 at 03:32 PM, Govind Chettiar rasha...@gmail.com said: On zOS if I try f r'([0-9]{4})(\w+)' A while back I looked at the new

Re: Regular Expressions in ISREDIT z/OS 2.01

2015-02-24 Thread Govind Chettiar
On Fri, 12 Dec 2014 11:20:21 -0600, Jon Butler jon.but...@fepoc.com wrote: I can use regular expressions, but the generic attributes such as \d for any digit do not appear to work in ISPF. If I use FIND r'\([0-9]\)' I can find the string (9), but if I use FIND r'\(\d\)' I can not. For me

Jobs at a given time

2015-01-30 Thread Govind Chettiar
Hi Is it possible to find out what jobs were running at a given point in time or within a given time interval, say, between 10 and 11 pm? We use OPC scheduler and IOF (not SDSF) Thanks -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff /

Re: COBOL Programmers In Demand?

2015-01-20 Thread Govind Chettiar
On Sun, 18 Jan 2015 10:37:01 -0500, Aled Hughes aledlhug...@aol.com wrote: According to the UK's Daily Mail, COBOL programmers are commanding 'big money' especially some of the retired ones. I suspect some of the so-called salaries are contractor rated. £50,000 (about US $76K) works out at less

Re: Accessing VSAM Data from non-zOS platform

2014-10-09 Thread Govind Chettiar
Since I'm having some difficulty with the quote option, copy-pasting this content We are currently using JRIO (last supported release will be JAVA7). The replacement is the JZOS Toolkit (under application development at this time). The application connects to a JAVA applet on the mainframe.

Re: Accessing VSAM Data from non-zOS platform

2014-10-09 Thread Govind Chettiar
On Tue, 7 Oct 2014 10:39:03 -0400, Bill Ashton bill00ash...@gmail.com wrote: If you need near-time or real-time access to the data, I would recommend you look at CA Technologies product called VSAM Transparency for Datacom/DB. Having used this for a lot of years, it was great. The 20-second

Re: Accessing VSAM Data from non-zOS platform

2014-10-07 Thread Govind Chettiar
@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Govind Chettiar Sent: Monday, October 06, 2014 6:40 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Accessing VSAM Data from non-zOS platform Hello, Would like some insight from people who have tried it on how to get to VSAM data on zOS from non zOS platforms. I

Re: Sorry state of IT education?

2014-04-23 Thread Govind Chettiar
On Tue, 22 Apr 2014 19:45:44 +, Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh vignesh.v.sankaranaraya...@marks-and-spencer.com wrote: I imagine this is the norm for today because a well-educated, intelligent, worker costs a lot more than a pre-programmed drone. As a result, the industry is now flooded with

Re: Enterprise COBOL v5.1 and RDz v9.x

2014-04-17 Thread Govind Chettiar
[...] When an upgrade to zOS 2.1 is performed is one automatically at Cobol 5.1 as well? Well, IT DEPENDS. AFAIK you cannot order downlevel COBOL. So, when you order z/OS 2.1 now and you also order COBOL - you will get 5.1 version. In general you can order only current versions of the

Re: Enterprise COBOL v5.1 and RDz v9.x

2014-04-15 Thread Govind Chettiar
On Mon, 14 Apr 2014 12:24:05 +, Chase, John jch...@ussco.com wrote: Hi All, I learned via PMR that Rational Developer for System z (RDz) v9.x (latest greatest) does not officially support Enterprise COBOL v5.1. The workaround suggested by RDz Support was to specify COBOL v4.2 and

Re: 3270 Emulators and consoles

2014-04-02 Thread Govind Chettiar
On Tue, 1 Apr 2014 07:40:37 -0500, Govind Chettiar rasha...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, 31 Mar 2014 18:51:47 +, MARTIN, MIKE mike.mar...@ncsecu.org wrote: All, We have a z114 and are upgrading to Windows 7. Is anyone using a 3270 emulator other than PCOMM for their OSA-ICC console

Re: 3270 Emulators and consoles

2014-04-01 Thread Govind Chettiar
On Mon, 31 Mar 2014 18:51:47 +, MARTIN, MIKE mike.mar...@ncsecu.org wrote: All, We have a z114 and are upgrading to Windows 7. Is anyone using a 3270 emulator other than PCOMM for their OSA-ICC console functions. Mike Martin Reflection/Attachmate

Re: Doug Nadel's ISPFHTML - retired

2014-03-26 Thread Govind Chettiar
On Tue, 25 Mar 2014 07:25:35 -0400, Richards, Robert B. robert.richa...@opm.gov wrote: Hank, Thanks for the heads up about Doug. I still use his tools on a daily basis. Tools such as ISRFIND, ISRDDN, and TASID to name a few. Thank you, Doug, for your contribution to ISPF's usefulness and my

Re: multiple TSO Sessions (try this)

2014-02-01 Thread Govind Chettiar
made motley contributions, some [but not too much] context is necessary. Trimming is good; evisceration is bad. John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA On 1/31/14, Govind Chettiar rasha...@gmail.com wrote: I would respectfully disagree with this somewhat blanket statement. Many is the time I'd

Re: multiple TSO Sessions (try this)

2014-01-31 Thread Govind Chettiar
I would respectfully disagree with this somewhat blanket statement. Many is the time I'd have liked my ISPF Editor session in one window and the compiler output in another so I can fix the syntax errors etc easily w/o having to F2 back and forth all the time. This is just one example.

Re: multiple TSO Sessions

2014-01-30 Thread Govind Chettiar
Great reply, thanks for clarifying all that. At my place we don't have sysplex, but I'll check with contractor whether they had multiple LPARS and a SYSPLEX in his last workplace. I did start reading Mark's $SNGLTSO document but was lost very quickly! Regards

Re: multiple TSO Sessions

2014-01-29 Thread Govind Chettiar
Not ashamed to acknowledge my ignorance here but I'm not fully able to follow discussions of separate images or shared environments. If this chap says he had up to 4 TSO sessions, but was working on the same datasets and so on, would they have been different LPARs. Aren't two LPARs like two

multiple TSO Sessions

2014-01-28 Thread Govind Chettiar
A contractor who joined our team said that in his previous place of employment he could have multiple TSO sessions each of which used the same userid and password, so he used to have multiple instances of his TN3270 emulator running and a different TSO session in each. I am curious to know how

Re: Scary Sysprogs

2014-01-08 Thread Govind Chettiar
It's pretty creativity-stifling to work in a company where the threat of being fired looms. If one works for a firm that has annual RIFs just as a matter of practice and one is constantly in fear of setting a foot wrong lest one get on that list, then one is not going to do anything more than

Re: RDW with FTP

2014-01-03 Thread Govind Chettiar
Thanks for confirming, Massimo. We are providing data to a vendor of a big data product who requested that we use these options for the FTP so wanted to be sure I was doing it right. Regards -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff /

RDW with FTP

2014-01-02 Thread Govind Chettiar
Hi, I'd appreciate any information on the usage of RDW option when ftp'ing a file from the host (MVS) to a workstation. Per the manual this is the definition RDW Specifies that Variable Record Descriptors (RDW) are treated as if they were part of the record and not discarded during ftp

Calling Cobol subroutine from EasyTrieve

2013-07-25 Thread Govind Chettiar
Hi all, I am calling a Cobol subroutine from an Easytrieve program. Is there a known limit to the amount of data that can be exchanged in this scenario? I'm running into two limitations We wrote test programs to test easytrieve calling a sub program with a linkage section of 44,000 bytes.

Re: The amazing disappearing mainframe.

2013-07-13 Thread Govind Chettiar
Not really one of the greatest rivalries anymore...With the diminishing interest in Test cricket and the surfeit of ODIs and, worse, T20s, I think Test cricket might be going the way of the IBM Mainframe. -- For IBM-MAIN