Re: JES2 z22 model privileged resources

2022-11-10 Thread Richard Pinion
At least I know I'm not the only one seeing this behavior. Thanks for the reply. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: A not very Christmassy PL/I tale

2016-12-25 Thread Richard Pinion
and IBM were one of the biggest users internally when I worked for them. ICI in the UK were big PL/I users too. Apart from a lack of available programmers, I would prefer to program in PL/I than COBOL. On Mon, Dec 26, 2016 at 7:17 AM, Richard Pinion <rpin...@netscape.com> wrote: > Reminds me of t

Re: A not very Christmassy PL/I tale

2016-12-25 Thread Richard Pinion
Reminds me of the horror stories of when IBM first released PL/I. It was said to be the language to replace COBOL and FORTRAN. Many companies converted their COBOL applications to the IBM's new PL/I. Only to have terrible consequences. Many of these companies reconverted back to COBOL.

3592 J70

2016-11-04 Thread Richard Pinion
Does anyone know what the login information is for the 3592 J70 controller? I have an old laptop connected to the serial port on the J70. I'm using NetTerm to connect. I get the AIX 3592 J70 login screen, but that's as far as I can get. Also, attempting to connect the 3592 via FICON to a IBM

Re: Weird problem hoping to be saved by SMP/E

2016-11-02 Thread Richard Pinion
What about SMP/E's generate command. You should be able to edit the job stream that it creates to get the proper control statements to build the over-laid modules from the Distribution libraries. Chapter 7. The GENERATE command With the GENERATE command, you can create a job stream that builds a

Re: Friday OTT : DOS vs Windows performance

2016-10-03 Thread Richard Pinion
Since we taking a walk down memory lane, my first DOS was MS-DOS 1.0, run on a Columbia Data Products luggable. My first computer was a 16K, with expansion box, Timex Sinclair. And who remembers DesqView (I think that is how it was spelled). DesqView was described as a multi-window

Re: How do you say "z/OS"?

2016-09-25 Thread Richard Pinion
"zed". The sound of the letter is zzz. Zoo, Zorro, zero. For even older UK TV, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z-Cars On Sun, 25 Sep 2016 15:15:02 -0500, Richard Pinion <rpin...@netscape.com> wrote: >I've been watching old episodes of the British TV program UFO by Gerry an

Re: How do you say "z/OS"?

2016-09-25 Thread Richard Pinion
I've been watching old episodes of the British TV program UFO by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson. Lots of count downs 10,9...1,0. Not one single zed, always zero as in hero with a z. That's my observation of the day. -- For

Re: How do you say "z/OS"?

2016-09-16 Thread Richard Pinion
"Ohhh, you can call me Ray, you can call Jay, you can call RJ, you can call Ray Jay, but you doesn't have to call me Johnson!" Grammatical errors were part of the skit --- ken.porow...@cit.com wrote: From: "Porowski, Kenneth" To:

Re: Internals of Catalog

2016-09-13 Thread Richard Pinion
The VVDS contains VVR and NVR records. VVR's describe VSAM data sets, while NVR's describe non-VSAM data sets. --- gregd...@pobox.com wrote: From: Greg Dyck To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Internals of Catalog Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2016

Re: DFSORT - ICETOOL - Search for text and replace with date

2016-09-13 Thread Richard Pinion
That should be "FAMILIAR" not "FAMILAR"! --- rpin...@netscape.com wrote: From: Richard Pinion <rpin...@netscape.com> To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: DFSORT - ICETOOL - Search for text and replace with date Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2016 0

Re: DFSORT - ICETOOL - Search for text and replace with date

2016-09-13 Thread Richard Pinion
That should be "familar" not "family"! --- rpin...@netscape.com wrote: From: Richard Pinion <rpin...@netscape.com> To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: DFSORT - ICETOOL - Search for text and replace with date Date: Tue, 13 Sep

Re: DFSORT - ICETOOL - Search for text and replace with date

2016-09-13 Thread Richard Pinion
While not directly related to your question, but are you family with XMITIP from Lionel B. Dyck? Real handy stuff for emailing and attachments from the mainframe. --- skol...@us.ibm.com wrote: From: Sri h Kolusu To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re:

Re: SDSF Mystery

2016-04-11 Thread Richard Pinion
But if you had read every document IBM has written, cover to cover, of every component of the system, in regards to migrating from level to level, you would have know this :) --- jesse1.robin...@sce.com wrote: From: Jesse 1 Robinson To:

Re: Grace didn't coin the term "bug"?

2016-03-15 Thread Richard Pinion
I thought the term debugging came from the days when the first computers were made from vacuum tubes. The tubes produced light, which in turn attracted bugs. Periodically, the computer had to be "debugged". My source was probably urban legend. --- wdonze...@gmail.com wrote: From:

Tritus SPF again

2016-02-25 Thread Richard Pinion
I received my USB 3.5 inch diskette drive today. I copied the contents of the diskette to my SSD, and tried to execute TSPF.EXE. It didn't work because it is a 16 bit application. Googled a little, and found DOSBOX. Downloaded and installed DOSBOX. Executed DOSBOX, and I am able to execute

Re: Tritus SPF

2016-02-22 Thread Richard Pinion
> > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On > Behalf Of Richard Pinion > Sent: Monday, February 22, 2016 10:54 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Tritus SPF > > I just found a copy of Tritus SPF

Tritus SPF

2016-02-22 Thread Richard Pinion
I just found a copy of Tritus SPF 1.2 or 2.0 for the PC. Some documents says 1.2, while others say 2.0. Anyway, it is two manuals, a reference card, 5 1/4 diskettes, and 3 1/2 diskette. Now, I have to find a working 3 1/2 diskette reader!

Re: Query: Will modern z/OS and z/VM classes suffice for MVS and VM/370

2016-02-16 Thread Richard Pinion
I worked for a company in 1983-85 that had dual 4341's running MVS SP 1.3. The 4341 was attached to 3350 DASD. --- jo.skip.robin...@att.net wrote: From: Skip Robinson To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Query: Will modern z/OS and z/VM classes

Re: Compile error

2016-01-22 Thread Richard Pinion
JES2 was a half ASP project, just a little play on words :) --- jo.skip.robin...@att.net wrote: From: Skip Robinson To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Compile error Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2016 08:50:43 -0800 The name 'DB2' seems to have

Re: REXX and the console

2016-01-04 Thread Richard Pinion
Perhaps something like this?? /* REXX */ TRACE I CONSOLE DEACTIVATE CONSOLE ACTIVATE COUNTER

Re: Is there a source for detailed, instruction-level performance info?

2015-12-24 Thread Richard Pinion
Don't use zoned decimal for subscripts or counters, rather use indexes for subscripts and binary for counter type variables. And when using conditional branching, try to code so as to make the branch the exception rather than the rule. For large table lookups, use a binary search as opposed to a

Re: PTF error clarification

2015-12-23 Thread Richard Pinion
To make everybody happy, make this a user controlled option, you decide what causes RC=xx. --- robert.richa...@opm.gov wrote: From: "Richards, Robert B." To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: PTF error clarification Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2015

Re: User Cats and Replication Sites

2015-11-25 Thread Richard Pinion
I might be remembering incorrectly, but doesn't z/OS FTP now support pipes? --- jerry.whitteri...@safeway.com wrote: From: Jerry Whitteridge To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: User Cats and Replication Sites Date: Wed, 25 Nov

Re: Fastest way to read OLDEST GDG entry

2015-11-17 Thread Richard Pinion
If you have the FDR reporting tools, you could select, sort, and then generate the JCL to accomplish this. --- z...@cdc.gov wrote: From: "Burrell, C. Todd (CDC/OCOO/OCIO/ITSO) (CTR)" To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Fastest way to read OLDEST GDG

Re: I just bought an IBM z890

2015-11-07 Thread Richard Pinion
Excellent idea! --- mp...@suse.com wrote: From: Mark Post To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: I just bought an IBM z890 Date: Sat, 7 Nov 2015 10:37:27 -0700 >>> On 11/6/2015 at 04:51 PM, Connor Krukosky >>> wrote:

Re: I just bought an IBM z890

2015-11-07 Thread Richard Pinion
I don't know the answer, but will MVS 3.8 run on a z890? We're talking S/370 mode vs zARCH mode, right? I don't think the z890 will have S/370 mode in the HMC configuration screens. --- vbc...@gmail.com wrote: From: Vince Coen To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU

Re: I just bought an IBM z890

2015-11-07 Thread Richard Pinion
Hey IBM-Main folks, what about a "jump-start" for paying for Mr. Krukosky travel and hotel expenses to Share. I'd make a donation. --- conn...@connorsdomain.com wrote: From: Connor Krukosky To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: I just bought

OMVS mount failure

2015-11-03 Thread Richard Pinion
Which manual(s) do I look in to find a mount failure when I receive the messages below. This is for z/OS 2.1. BPXF274I FILE SYSTEM Z220.OMVS.ETC 952 FAILED TO MOUNT. RETURN CODE = 008A, REASON CODE = EF096058

Re: Releasing Orphan Storage without IPL

2015-10-30 Thread Richard Pinion
Anyone ever make GRS swappable using one of those third party system monitors? I did! Had to IPL too. --- tuco.bo...@admin.sc.gov wrote: From: "Bonno, Tuco" To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Releasing Orphan Storage without IPL Date:

Re: ServerPac install

2015-10-28 Thread Richard Pinion
I didn't know that, thanks! --- nitz-...@gmx.net wrote: From: "nitz-...@gmx.net" To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: ServerPac install Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2015 08:38:21 +0100 > Updated my RACF data set profile > for Z220.**, IPL'ed to cycle

Re: ServerPac install

2015-10-28 Thread Richard Pinion
Are you overlaying a running system/zfs's? --- pacemainl...@gmail.com wrote: From: Mark Pace To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: ServerPac install Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2015 11:24:42 -0400 It seems most of these are fairly unimportant, at

Re: ServerPac install

2015-10-27 Thread Richard Pinion
I'm just completing the z/OS 2.2 ServerPac install, and everything is relatively smooth. I only defined one catalog, the new master. The only problem I had was with the new ZFS data sets. Using the SSA of Z220 appended to the standard names, gave me fits, as the ZFS format steps failed, stating

Re: (External):Re: Unicode services Red alert

2015-10-16 Thread Richard Pinion
What happens if one does not use Unicode services and does not apply the PTF? --- rel...@us.ibm.com wrote: From: Peter Relson To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: (External):Re: Unicode services Red alert Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2015 08:39:15 -0400

Re: Syncsort changes hands

2015-10-14 Thread Richard Pinion
LOL! --- and...@blackhillsoftware.com wrote: From: Andrew Rowley To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Syncsort changes hands Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2015 22:41:58 +1100 On 14/10/2015 20:25, Timothy Sipples wrote: > Fun fact: Syncsort's

Re: [Bulk] Re: [IBM-MAIN] File Placement Utility

2015-10-11 Thread Richard Pinion
If the OP has FDR, and if I remember correctly FDR/CPK could be used for file placement. And many, many moons ago Boole & Babbage had DASD/Tune or Tune/DASD which would tell you what data sets to put together to reduce arm movement and decrease access time. Now you're talking 70's, 80's, and

Re: IOEZ00807I when OMVS initializes at Disaster Recovery site

2015-10-08 Thread Richard Pinion
I submitted my vote for the RFE. --- dbutt...@gmail.com wrote: From: Dave Butts To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: IOEZ00807I when OMVS initializes at Disaster Recovery site Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2015 14:12:57 -0500 Thanks, Bart. In my pmr

Re: Employees exposed to direct enforcement actions (WAS Volkswagen Programmed Vehicle to Deactivate Pollution Control Systems)

2015-09-19 Thread Richard Pinion
um fine as I recall). > > And I'm about to have to take the annual certification class... > > Regards, > Steve Thompson > > On 09/18/2015 04:29 PM, Richard Pinion wrote: > >> As an employee of a company who deals with HIPPA controlled/protected >> data, I feel >

Re: Employees exposed to direct enforcement actions (WAS Volkswagen ProgrammedVehicle to Deactivate Pollution Control Systems)

2015-09-19 Thread Richard Pinion
Everyone on the list, I apologize for my last two posts. I did not intend for them to go to the list, rather, I had intended to direct my replies directly to the individuals. I believe my concerns about HIPPAA (notice two A's zman) are correct, and I felt that it was appropriate to express

Re: Employees exposed to direct enforcement actions (WAS Volkswagen Programmed Vehicle to Deactivate Pollution Control Systems)

2015-09-19 Thread Richard Pinion
class... Regards, Steve Thompson On 09/18/2015 04:29 PM, Richard Pinion wrote: > As an employee of a company who deals with HIPPA controlled/protected data, I > feel > very uncomfortable knowing that I can be charged either with a civil or > criminal > violation in the event that HIPPA d

Re: Dataset enqueue, how to find the culprit.

2015-09-18 Thread Richard Pinion
I think this setting for RMF will cut an SMF record for enqueue conditions. RMF must be started pointing to the member which specifies ENQ(DETAIL). EDIT USER.PARMLIB(ERBRMF00) - 01.05 Columns 1 00080 Command ===>

Re: Dataset enqueue, how to find the culprit.

2015-09-18 Thread Richard Pinion
Run RMF, I think monitor I, with the following option. This create an RMF SMF enqueue record. VIEW USER.PARMLIB(ERBRMF00) - 01.05 Command ===> 14 ENQ(DETAIL) Then run the RMF postprocessor as below. //STEP010 EXEC PGM=ERBRMFPP

Re: Volkswagen Programmed Vehicle to Deactivate Pollution Control Systems

2015-09-18 Thread Richard Pinion
in furtherance of a crime. John P. Baker -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Richard Pinion Sent: Friday, September 18, 2015 4:30 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Volkswagen Programmed Vehicle to Deactivate

Re: Dataset enqueue, how to find the culprit.

2015-09-18 Thread Richard Pinion
The old RMF TSO command RMFMON suboption SENQR will also tell you this information. --- stars...@mindspring.com wrote: From: Lizette Koehler To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Dataset enqueue, how to find the culprit. Date: Fri, 18 Sep

Re: Volkswagen Programmed Vehicle to Deactivate Pollution Control Systems

2015-09-18 Thread Richard Pinion
As an employee of a company who deals with HIPPA controlled/protected data, I feel very uncomfortable knowing that I can be charged either with a civil or criminal violation in the event that HIPPA data, under my control, is accidentally lost or stolen. And I am not talking about an intentional

Re: replacement CRTs for 3278s

2015-08-04 Thread Richard Pinion
I'm waiting for a model that has 24 PF keys :) --- elardus.engelbre...@sita.co.za wrote: From: Elardus Engelbrecht elardus.engelbre...@sita.co.za To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: replacement CRTs for 3278s Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2015 14:34:45 -0500 Blake, Don

Datapacker for VSAM

2015-07-31 Thread Richard Pinion
We are z/OS 2.1 and our customer is z/OS 1.11. Below is the description of our situation. We are receiving customer VSAM data sets that have been dumped by DF/DSS (dump by data set), the DF/DSS dump data set is tersed, and then SFTP'ed (binary mode) to our SFTP server. When I reverse the

Re: TSO-only proc (was Re: Product Remove from z/OS)

2015-07-13 Thread Richard Pinion
Watch what you say or someone may knock the SNA out of you :) --- shmuel+ibm-m...@patriot.net wrote: From: Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) shmuel+ibm-m...@patriot.net To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: TSO-only proc (was Re: Product Remove from z/OS) Date: Mon, 13 Jul

Re: TSO-only proc (was Re: Product Remove from z/OS)

2015-07-07 Thread Richard Pinion
Yeah, but what about breaking the VTAM and worse yet the JES2 procs? --- bshan...@rocketsoftware.com wrote: From: Bob Shannon bshan...@rocketsoftware.com To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: TSO-only proc (was Re: Product Remove from z/OS) Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2015

Re: TSO-only proc (was Re: Product Remove from z/OS)

2015-07-07 Thread Richard Pinion
Naw, card punch and card reader are your best friends in such an emergency :) --- ee...@us.ibm.com wrote: From: John Eells ee...@us.ibm.com To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: TSO-only proc (was Re: Product Remove from z/OS) Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2015 11:37:50 -0400

Re: GRS Control Unit ( Was IBM mainframe operations in the 80s)

2015-06-12 Thread Richard Pinion
The IBM mainframe emulator Hercules has CTC 3088 functionality. I think that is used for TCP/IP. --- mark.jac...@custserv.com wrote: From: Mark Jacobs - Listserv mark.jac...@custserv.com To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: GRS Control Unit ( Was IBM mainframe

Re: Fault Analyzer experts?

2015-06-04 Thread Richard Pinion
I have fault analyzer, she's my wife! Sorry dear, I couldn't resist. --- kph...@live.com wrote: From: Ken Hume IBM kph...@live.com To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Fault Analyzer experts? Date: Thu, 4 Jun 2015 07:16:43 -0600 Hi all, I am, or may not be, an

Re: Challenge with DFSORT

2015-04-27 Thread Richard Pinion
Perhaps you could check x.PARMLIB(ICEPRM00). This could be different for each system based on selection of ICEPRMxx by system symbols for each LPAR. --- rosalen.lu...@gmail.com wrote: From: Lucas Rosalen rosalen.lu...@gmail.com To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re:

Re: SYSZEC16

2015-04-15 Thread Richard Pinion
[mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Richard Pinion Sent: Wednesday, April 15, 2015 5:53 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: SYSZEC16 After cancelling the job, LLXCLNTE, that was hung on SYSZEC16, all the other jobs started running. From the display below, I'm not sure why

Re: SYSZEC16

2015-04-15 Thread Richard Pinion
Sorry, it is not a COBOL program. Rather it is DF/SORT RECORD TYPE=V SORT FIELDS=COPY OUTFIL FNAMES=SELECT,INCLUDE=(05,07,PD,NE,71412118) --- rpin...@netscape.com wrote: From: Richard Pinion rpin

Re: SYSZEC16

2015-04-15 Thread Richard Pinion
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: SYSZEC16 Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2015 07:44:12 -0500 Richard Pinion wrote: Sorry, it is not a COBOL program. Rather it is DF/SORT Do you get any abends (that APAR mentions abends and RACF amongst other things)? What do you see if you issue D GRS,C

SYSZEC16

2015-04-15 Thread Richard Pinion
I am running z/OS 2.1. I have had a couple of occurrences of an enqueue on SYSZEC16 PURGE. The enqueue is held and is waiting from the same batch job. I've tried googling and searching IBM. This is the only thing I found that might pertain to the problem. That's an old entry for OA34343.

Re: AMATERSE and PDSE PACK Option validation

2015-04-09 Thread Richard Pinion
I voted for it and added a comment requesting AMATERSE compute a checksum during terse, and verify the checksum during unterse. --- flet...@nz1.ibm.com wrote: From: Anthony Fletcher flet...@nz1.ibm.com To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: AMATERSE and PDSE PACK Option

CLIST conversion from lowercase to uppercase

2015-04-08 Thread Richard Pinion
First of all, I know I should use REXX. But my REXX skills are not as proficient as my CLIST skills. I'm reading a file that has lower case characters in the record. I'm generating SFTP commands for CoZ SFTP merged with JCL. When I write using the record which has lowercase, the lowercase

Re: AMATERSE and PDSE ?

2015-04-08 Thread Richard Pinion
And if whatever reason, the tersed data set gets truncated, the unterse should not end normally. And validity checking would be nice too, checksum or whatever. --- ba...@mxg.com wrote: From: Barry Merrill ba...@mxg.com To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: AMATERSE and

Re: CLIST conversion from lowercase to uppercase

2015-04-08 Thread Richard Pinion
On Wed, 8 Apr 2015 09:24:41 -0700, Richard Pinion wrote: First of all, I know I should use REXX. But my REXX skills are not as proficient as my CLIST skills. I'm reading a file that has lower case characters in the record. I'm generating SFTP commands for CoZ SFTP merged with JCL. When I write

Re: Sort Jcl - hi-jacking

2015-04-02 Thread Richard Pinion
Here's a nice little topic for discussion. What do the three letter message prefixes stand for? IBM sort ICE Syncsort WER CICS DFH IMS DFS IBM ??? IGD (anybody ever notice IGDZILLA in SYS1.LPALIB?) . . . . --- cblaic...@syncsort.com wrote: From:

Re: OT: Digital? Cloud? Modern And Cost-Effective? Surprise! It's The Mainframe - Forbes

2015-03-30 Thread Richard Pinion
JES2 was a half ASP project. --- dlc@gmail.com wrote: From: David L. Craig dlc@gmail.com To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: OT: Digital? Cloud? Modern And Cost-Effective? Surprise! It's The Mainframe - Forbes Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2015 11:38:59 -0400 On

Re: COBOL Compiller options in IGYCDOPT

2015-03-22 Thread Richard Pinion
T'aint, must be a programmer from the little ole south. --- stars...@mindspring.com wrote: From: Lizette Koehler stars...@mindspring.com To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: COBOL Compiller options in IGYCDOPT Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2015 15:40:24 -0700 Not sure what

Re: OT - Spock (Leonard Nimoy) has died

2015-02-27 Thread Richard Pinion
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQ_duzQzS1I --- 000248cce9f3-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu wrote: From: Ed Finnell 000248cce9f3-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: OT - Spock (Leonard Nimoy) has died Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2015

Re: Twelve different companies IBM has been (watch the wrap)

2015-02-05 Thread Richard Pinion
Maybe they will make a movie and cal it the twelve shades of blue. _ Netscape. Just the Net You Need. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: Inquiry looking for education HCD

2015-01-30 Thread Richard Pinion
Where's the Trainer Friend when you need them. --- r.skoru...@bremultibank.com.pl wrote: From: R.S. r.skoru...@bremultibank.com.pl To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Inquiry looking for education HCD Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2015 22:26:32 +0100 W dniu 2015-01-30 o

Re: Google got its own airport

2014-11-12 Thread Richard Pinion
So the galactic wars, not the clone wars, will be between Google and Microsoft? --- thomas_amb...@keybank.com wrote: From: Ambros, Thomas thomas_amb...@keybank.com To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Google got its own airport Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2014 13:25:07

z/OS FTP client behavior

2014-09-16 Thread Richard Pinion
First, I'm not in the TCP-L group. Second this is a general question regarding the behavior of the z/OS FTP client. Third, I do not read every IBM manual cover to cover and commit to memory. In this case, I should have done number three. We are running z/OS 1.13. Executing the FTP client

Re: z/OS FTP client behavior

2014-09-16 Thread Richard Pinion
East Paris, Grand Rapids, MIĀ  49546 MD RSCB2H p 616.653.8429 f 616.653.2717 -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Richard Pinion Sent: Tuesday, September 16, 2014 2:41 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: z/OS FTP client

Re: Happy New Year

2014-08-12 Thread Richard Pinion
Who cares that's next quarter. --- 000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu wrote: From: Paul Gilmartin 000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Happy New Year Date: Tue, 12 Aug 2014 08:56:10 -0500 IBM is forced

Re: z/OS 1.13 and 3490 tape drives

2014-08-07 Thread Richard Pinion
They work OK for us. Been on 1.13 since January 2012. --- sharon.lo...@nc.gov wrote: From: Lopez, Sharon sharon.lo...@nc.gov To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: z/OS 1.13 and 3490 tape drives Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2014 18:55:47 + Has anyone experienced any issues

Keep calm and let the system programmer handle it

2014-07-02 Thread Richard Pinion
OT and sort of SPAM, check out this t-shirt. http://teespring.com/SYSTEMSPROGRAMMER _ Netscape. Just the Net You Need. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive

Re: IEFUJI problem, preventing TSO logon

2014-06-27 Thread Richard Pinion
You could call me Ray, or you could call me Ray Jay, or you could call me Ray Jay Johnson. But you doesn't has to call me Johnson. --- rel...@us.ibm.com wrote: From: Peter Relson rel...@us.ibm.com To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: IEFUJI problem, preventing TSO

Re: Another one gone....

2014-06-13 Thread Richard Pinion
Most hospitals are jumping on the Epic bandwagon these days. --- 0013e2d84072-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu wrote: From: Bobbie Justice 0013e2d84072-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Another one gone Date: Fri, 13 Jun

Re: Another one gone....

2014-06-13 Thread Richard Pinion
That's Epic HIS software, in case you didn't know. And it doesn't run on z! --- rpin...@netscape.com wrote: From: Richard Pinion rpin...@netscape.com To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Another one gone Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2014 06:58:30 -0700 Most hospitals

Re: Another one gone....

2014-06-12 Thread Richard Pinion
I work for a company that is in the business of taking historical data from hospitals and re-hosting the data on servers. We have re-hosted several hospitals in the four years I have been with this company. Fortunately for me, the company has a baby z10 for purposes of converting the data for

Accessing TIOT-JFCB segments from COBOL

2014-06-11 Thread Richard Pinion
I have a COBOL program, RENT/31/ANY, that does the following PSAOLD-TCB-TIOT-JFCB segments. The program is run on z/OS 1.11 system. I don't know the PTF level, it is a customer site. If the program is run from a one step job, or as the first step of a job it works. However, subsequent

Re: Accessing TIOT-JFCB segments from COBOL

2014-06-11 Thread Richard Pinion
If this code is still running a year from now, I'd be surprised and still employed! --- d...@lists.duda.com wrote: From: David Andrews d...@lists.duda.com To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Accessing TIOT-JFCB segments from COBOL Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2014

Re: Sorry state of IT education?

2014-04-23 Thread Richard Pinion
FWIW, I always go to the manuals first(hard copy, personal CD/DVD collections, IBM internet documentation). Next, I Google. And if all else fails, then this list. --- linda.lst...@comcast.net wrote: From: Linda linda.lst...@comcast.net To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU

Re: [OT ] Mainframe memories

2014-03-10 Thread Richard Pinion
Now that's something to be proud of, and funny too! Richard and Vickie Pinion --- ba...@mxg.com wrote: From: Barry Merrill ba...@mxg.com To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: [OT ] Mainframe memories Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2014 14:09:58 -0500 In 1966 we got 360/44

Re: OT: Entry Level System Programmer Job Description

2014-01-30 Thread Richard Pinion
8. Determine which of John Gilmore's typos are actually typos. LOLROTF!!! Richard and Vickie Pinion --- tonybabo...@icloud.com wrote: From: Tony Babonas tonybabo...@icloud.com To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: OT: Entry Level System Programmer Job Description Date:

Re: JCL (was: Re: Aging Sysprogs = Aging Farmers)

2013-11-07 Thread Richard Pinion
And to throw another twist to this thread, some people say the LRECL and RECFM should not be coded in the JCL. That way when a change is made to the program source, that affects LRECL and/or RECFM, the corresponding JCL doesn't have to be updated. What are some opinions about that

Re: Aging Sysprogs = Aging Farmers

2013-11-04 Thread Richard Pinion
Yeah, but farmers have their own dating site www.farmersonly.com. Never seen one of those for system programmers. --- scott_j_f...@yahoo.com wrote: From: Scott Ford scott_j_f...@yahoo.com To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Aging Sysprogs = Aging Farmers Date:

Space allocation using OGET

2013-11-01 Thread Richard Pinion
z/OS 1.13, I am getting the following error when I issue an OGET with the output data set being new. OGET '/work/shopzseries' 'LDARP1.SHOPZ.ZOS' IKJ56893I DATA SET LDARP1.SHOPZ.ZOS NOT ALLOCATED+ IGD17351I SPACE REQUESTED IS TOO LARGE.

Re: Space allocation using OGET

2013-11-01 Thread Richard Pinion
volumes. On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 10:05 AM, Richard Pinion rpin...@netscape.com wrote: z/OS 1.13, I am getting the following error when I issue an OGET with the output data set being new. OGET '/work/shopzseries' 'LDARP1.SHOPZ.ZOS' IKJ56893I DATA SET LDARP1.SHOPZ.ZOS NOT ALLOCATED

Re: z/OS IPL Issue

2013-10-22 Thread Richard Pinion
What about nerf herders? --- rel...@us.ibm.com wrote: From: Peter Relson rel...@us.ibm.com To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: z/OS IPL Issue Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2013 07:50:32 -0400 Which is what OA38328 is an attempt to resolve. Works just fine on LPALSTxx and

Re: StopX-37 functionality other products

2013-10-21 Thread Richard Pinion
ACC/SRS from DTS Software. --- darth.kel...@assurant.com wrote: From: Darth Keller darth.kel...@assurant.com To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: StopX-37 functionality other products Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2013 10:32:55 -0500 I'm curious as to what other products shops

Re: Quote on Slashdot.org

2013-10-02 Thread Richard Pinion
One of the colleges I attended, 1977-78, used a Honeywell system running Multics. PL/I was taught as well as IBM 360 assembler. I was told the IBM assembler ran under an 360 emulator. The university did its own mods to the OS. --- curtis@austin.utexas.edu wrote: From: Pew,

Old Info-zip program

2013-09-26 Thread Richard Pinion
I know the Info-zip program is very old, year 2000, but I need a FREE compression program that checks the consistency of the compressed file when it is uncompressed. I was using TRSMAIN, but I found out the hard way that a tersed file can be truncated and TRSMAIN doesn't issue an error message.

Re: Old Info-zip program

2013-09-26 Thread Richard Pinion
The truncation occurred in the sftp transmission step(s). I was able to get the zip part of Infozip to work, but not the unzip. Would you be willing to share you Infozip zip/unzip programs? --- manfred.l...@googlemail.com wrote: From: Manfred Lotz manfred.l...@googlemail.com To:

Re: Old Info-zip program

2013-09-26 Thread Richard Pinion
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Old Info-zip program Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2013 07:59:57 -0500 Richard Pinion wrote: The truncation occurred in the sftp transmission step(s). Ok. Show us your dataset/files atrributes and your SFTP attempt and messages. I believe you need some

Re: Old Info-zip program

2013-09-26 Thread Richard Pinion
Here is the JCL and error messages. The zipped files does exist, I can see it and browse it under ISPF 3.4. BROWSELDARP1.ZIPPED Line Col 001 132 Command ===

Re: Pissing contest(s)

2013-09-25 Thread Richard Pinion
Posts from AbsKerneels reminds me of the movie title One fly over the cuckoos nest. Richard and Vickie Pinion --- kerne...@absoftwareconsultants.com wrote: From: AbsKerneels kerne...@absoftwareconsultants.com To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Pissing contest(s) Date:

Re: Pissing contest(s)

2013-09-23 Thread Richard Pinion
Do the movie titles Grumpy old men and Grumpier old men come to mind? --- ibm-m...@tpg.com.au wrote: From: Shane Ginnane ibm-m...@tpg.com.au To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Pissing contest(s) Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2013 05:37:46 -0500 Enuff already guys. There's no

Re: TRSMAIN

2013-08-21 Thread Richard Pinion
2013 14:59, Richard Pinion rpin...@netscape.com wrote: A data set is compressed using TRSMAIN on z/OS. It is transmitted, using binary format, to a non-z/OS server. For whatever reason the compressed file on the server is incomplete. When the compressed file is transmitted, using binary

sftp

2013-08-01 Thread Richard Pinion
I am running z/OS 1.13 and using the IBM Ported Tools sftp client. I have some JCL from a few years back that I am using but it doesn't work anymore. Any suggestions or observations would be appreciated. //SFTP EXEC PGM=BPXBATCH, // PARM='PGM /bin/sftp -b

Re: sftp

2013-08-01 Thread Richard Pinion
616.653.2717 -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Richard Pinion Sent: Thursday, August 01, 2013 7:11 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: sftp I am running z/OS 1.13 and using the IBM Ported Tools sftp client. I have

Re: sftp

2013-08-01 Thread Richard Pinion
worked. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com PS Co:Z SFTP is free to use under our Community License and is easy to run from batch JCL http://dovetail.com/products/sftp.html http://dovetail.com/docs/sftp/client.html#client-batch On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 6:54 AM, Richard Pinion rpin

Re: Announcing PCRE 8.33 for native z/OS

2013-07-05 Thread Richard Pinion
Remember Shai Hess's project. --- zatl...@yahoo.com wrote: From: Ze'ev Atlas zatl...@yahoo.com To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Announcing PCRE 8.33 for native z/OS Date: Fri, 5 Jul 2013 10:07:39 -0500 I use SRCHFOR a lot. However, to do complex searches

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