Re: z/OS FBA Services (Was: PDS/E, Shared Dasd, and COBOL V5)

2013-09-17 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In CAAJSdji5fA+mi5FPQ0dZ_AD3tkKAAe0gSs=whoizsotn2j-...@mail.gmail.com, on 09/16/2013 at 09:17 PM, John McKown john.archie.mck...@gmail.com said: Personally, unless I am doing an internal email, I use the ISO date format. Where? That's fine for human-readable text, but for anything that is

Re: z/OS FBA Services (Was: PDS/E, Shared Dasd, and COBOL V5)

2013-09-17 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 5237891d.2090...@phoenixsoftware.com, on 09/16/2013 at 03:41 PM, Ed Jaffe edja...@phoenixsoftware.com said: I'm pretty sure the support is intended to access ordinary FBA disk files and has nothing whatsoever to do with tape. I'm pretty sure that the support is intended to allow a server

Re: z/OS FBA Services (Was: PDS/E, Shared Dasd, and COBOL V5)

2013-09-17 Thread John Gilmore
The problem can be much worse when two or more groups, e.g., anglophone and francophone Canadians, share the use of a facility. Usually, the issues are formally linguistic ones, but they may really be cultural or ethnic. When my wife and I shop in Hoboken, NJ, which has a large Barese/Molfetani

Re: z/OS FBA Services (Was: PDS/E, Shared Dasd, and COBOL V5)

2013-09-17 Thread Ed Jaffe
On 9/17/2013 4:59 AM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: In 5237891d.2090...@phoenixsoftware.com, on 09/16/2013 at 03:41 PM, Ed Jaffe edja...@phoenixsoftware.com said: I'm pretty sure the support is intended to access ordinary FBA disk files and has nothing whatsoever to do with tape. I'm

Re: z/OS FBA Services (Was: PDS/E, Shared Dasd, and COBOL V5)

2013-09-17 Thread John McKown
Sounds like it is almost made-to-order for a UNIX filesystem colony address space to allow a z/OS UNIX filesystem on an FBA device. On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 9:12 AM, Ed Jaffe edja...@phoenixsoftware.comwrote: On 9/17/2013 4:59 AM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: In

Re: z/OS FBA Services (Was: PDS/E, Shared Dasd, and COBOL V5)

2013-09-17 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Tue, 17 Sep 2013 01:57:55 -0400, Gerhard Postpischil wrote: On 9/16/2013 9:47 PM, John Gilmore wrote: I meant something a little more restrictive, to wit the regions that used to be [and in some measure still are] colo[u]red pink on world maps. The problem is worse than just regional. My

Re: z/OS FBA Services (Was: PDS/E, Shared Dasd, and COBOL V5)

2013-09-17 Thread Clark Morris
On 16 Sep 2013 15:41:34 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: On 9/16/2013 3:04 PM, Mike Schwab wrote: That sounds like Virtual Tape Libraries and not AIX or Linux disk file systems. I'm pretty sure the support is intended to access ordinary FBA disk files and has nothing whatsoever to

Re: z/OS FBA Services (Was: PDS/E, Shared Dasd, and COBOL V5)

2013-09-17 Thread Tony Harminc
On 16 September 2013 19:48, John McKown john.archie.mck...@gmail.com wrote: HFS UNIX filesystems are supported in the OMVS address space itself. zFS filesystems are supported in a colony address space called ZFS. In passing, there is no strong connection between running a filesystem in the

FBA Tape (Was: z/OS FBA Services (Was: PDS/E, Shared Dasd, and COBOL V5))

2013-09-17 Thread Blaicher, Christopher Y.
Morris Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2013 9:58 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: z/OS FBA Services (Was: PDS/E, Shared Dasd, and COBOL V5) On 16 Sep 2013 15:41:34 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: On 9/16/2013 3:04 PM, Mike Schwab wrote: That sounds like Virtual Tape Libraries

Re: z/OS FBA Services (Was: PDS/E, Shared Dasd, and COBOL V5)

2013-09-16 Thread Gord Tomlin
On 2013-09-14 10:37, Paul Gilmartin wrote: What access methods and DSORGs can we expect to see supported? Again all new? Or considerable compatibility with existing art? UNIX filesystems? PDSE? What release target? -- gil FBA Services are intended to allow a FBA device to be updated by

Re: z/OS FBA Services (Was: PDS/E, Shared Dasd, and COBOL V5)

2013-09-16 Thread Ed Jaffe
On 9/16/2013 9:17 AM, Gord Tomlin wrote: FBA Services are intended to allow a FBA device to be updated by both z/OS and other platforms. The API (IOSFBA) is all new, and is in no way related to the access methods we all know and love. Forget all about data sets, VTOCs, cylinders, and so on.

Re: z/OS FBA Services (Was: PDS/E, Shared Dasd, and COBOL V5)

2013-09-16 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Mon, 16 Sep 2013 12:17:33 -0400, Gord Tomlin wrote: FBA Services are intended to allow a FBA device to be updated by both z/OS and other platforms. The API (IOSFBA) is all new, and is in no way related to the access methods we all know and love. Forget all about data sets, VTOCs, cylinders,

Re: z/OS FBA Services (Was: PDS/E, Shared Dasd, and COBOL V5)

2013-09-16 Thread Ed Jaffe
On 9/16/2013 10:37 AM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: Where I see such as: create new devices of TYPE=FBA attached to this control unit. Given that these devices are defined as Unit Record devices, they cannot be shared among users on a single system. Right. There is no such thing as

Re: z/OS FBA Services (Was: PDS/E, Shared Dasd, and COBOL V5)

2013-09-16 Thread Mark Zelden
On Sat, 14 Sep 2013 08:27:53 -0500, Joel C. Ewing jcew...@acm.org wrote: Just to be precise, the ISO standard for dates is more than just order. If punctuation is used, the standard requires -, not /, as in: -mm-dd Good catch. I changed my IPLINFO exec years ago to use the ISO 8601

Re: z/OS FBA Services (Was: PDS/E, Shared Dasd, and COBOL V5)

2013-09-16 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Mon, 16 Sep 2013 19:10:08 +0200, Jan Vanbrabant wrote: Hi listers, The base IOS apar OA41040 has been closed. It contains now: ... *V1R13 SA22-7608 MVS Programming Authorized Assembler Services *Guide http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/zoslib/pdf/IOSFBASC_113.pdf *Chapter 32. z/OS

Re: z/OS FBA Services (Was: PDS/E, Shared Dasd, and COBOL V5)

2013-09-16 Thread Mike Schwab
On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 12:37 PM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.comwrote: On Mon, 16 Sep 2013 19:10:08 +0200, Jan Vanbrabant wrote: Hi listers, The base IOS apar OA41040 has been closed. It contains now: ... *V1R13 SA22-7608 MVS Programming Authorized Assembler Services *Guide

Re: z/OS FBA Services (Was: PDS/E, Shared Dasd, and COBOL V5)

2013-09-16 Thread John Gilmore
Defining something as a unit-record device is an old trick, used to provide minimal, early, ad interim support for its use. No one need to get his undies in knots about (or draw cosmic conclusions from) this. John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA

Re: z/OS FBA Services (Was: PDS/E, Shared Dasd, and COBOL V5)

2013-09-16 Thread Ed Jaffe
On 9/16/2013 3:04 PM, Mike Schwab wrote: That sounds like Virtual Tape Libraries and not AIX or Linux disk file systems. I'm pretty sure the support is intended to access ordinary FBA disk files and has nothing whatsoever to do with tape. Is there even such a thing as FBA tape? -- Edward E

Re: z/OS FBA Services (Was: PDS/E, Shared Dasd, and COBOL V5)

2013-09-16 Thread Jan Vanbrabant
Hi listers, The base IOS apar OA41040 has been closed. It contains now: *V1R13 GA23-0854 z/OS MVS Data Areas, Volume 2 http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/zoslib/pdf/IOSDFBA_113.pdf *V1R13 GA32-0855 z/OS MVS Data Areas, Volume 3 http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/zoslib/pdf/IOSDIOST_113.pdf *V1R13

Re: z/OS FBA Services (Was: PDS/E, Shared Dasd, and COBOL V5)

2013-09-16 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Mon, 16 Sep 2013 15:41:33 -0700, Ed Jaffe wrote: On 9/16/2013 3:04 PM, Mike Schwab wrote: That sounds like Virtual Tape Libraries and not AIX or Linux disk file systems. I'm pretty sure the support is intended to access ordinary FBA disk files and has nothing whatsoever to do with tape. Is

Re: z/OS FBA Services (Was: PDS/E, Shared Dasd, and COBOL V5)

2013-09-16 Thread John McKown
HFS UNIX filesystems are supported in the OMVS address space itself. zFS filesystems are supported in a colony address space called ZFS. Why not support another filesystem type, allocated on the unit record FBA device, in another colony address space? Perhaps even a z/Linux formatted filesystem

Re: z/OS FBA Services (Was: PDS/E, Shared Dasd, and COBOL V5)

2013-09-16 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Mon, 16 Sep 2013 18:48:55 -0500, John McKown wrote: HFS UNIX filesystems are supported in the OMVS address space itself. zFS filesystems are supported in a colony address space called ZFS. Why not support another filesystem type, allocated on the unit record FBA device, in another colony

Re: z/OS FBA Services (Was: PDS/E, Shared Dasd, and COBOL V5)

2013-09-16 Thread Ron Hawkins
Subject: Re: [IBM-MAIN] z/OS FBA Services (Was: PDS/E, Shared Dasd, and COBOL V5) This date format, yy/mm/dd---/mm/dd would of course be better---is in no way ambiguous. It is an ISO/ANSI standard 'descending' date, the crucial merits of which are that it is 1) unambiguous and 2

Re: z/OS FBA Services (Was: PDS/E, Shared Dasd, and COBOL V5)

2013-09-16 Thread John Gilmore
Ron Hawkins wrote: Surely you meant to say almost all of the rest of the world... I meant something a little more restrictive, to wit the regions that used to be [and in some measure still are] colo[u]red pink on world maps. None of my Pakistani friends of course thinks of him/herself as a

Re: z/OS FBA Services (Was: PDS/E, Shared Dasd, and COBOL V5)

2013-09-16 Thread John McKown
Personally, unless I am doing an internal email, I use the ISO date format. There should be no chance of accidental misunderstanding. Of course, some may ask what weird date is that? in which case I can explain. On my checks, I use dd mon . Again, no confusion and it is intuitively obvious

Re: z/OS FBA Services (Was: PDS/E, Shared Dasd, and COBOL V5)

2013-09-16 Thread Gerhard Postpischil
On 9/16/2013 9:47 PM, John Gilmore wrote: I meant something a little more restrictive, to wit the regions that used to be [and in some measure still are] colo[u]red pink on world maps. The problem is worse than just regional. My last time in Halifax, we shopped at a mall for books, candy, and

Re: z/OS FBA Services (Was: PDS/E, Shared Dasd, and COBOL V5)

2013-09-14 Thread David Crayford
Are z/OS FBA services new or are IBM releasing internal services that have been used by the likes of media manager for years? On 14/09/2013 9:32 AM, Shane Ginnane wrote: On Fri, 13 Sep 2013 18:03:03 -0700, Ed Jaffe wrote: ... PROBLEM SUMMARY:

Re: z/OS FBA Services (Was: PDS/E, Shared Dasd, and COBOL V5)

2013-09-14 Thread John Gilmore
This date format, yy/mm/dd---/mm/dd would of course be better---is in no way ambiguous. It is an ISO/ANSI standard 'descending' date, the crucial merits of which are that it is 1) unambiguous and 2) immediately orderable/sortable. Its exclusive use is also a very imperfectly honored FIPS

Re: z/OS FBA Services (Was: PDS/E, Shared Dasd, and COBOL V5)

2013-09-14 Thread Ed Jaffe
On 9/14/2013 4:13 AM, David Crayford wrote: Are z/OS FBA services new or are IBM releasing internal services that have been used by the likes of media manager for years? All new. The new IOSFBA service is not for managing fixed-block data sets on an ECKD device. Rather, IOSFBA is used to

Re: z/OS FBA Services (Was: PDS/E, Shared Dasd, and COBOL V5)

2013-09-14 Thread David Crayford
On 14/09/2013 8:59 PM, Ed Jaffe wrote: On 9/14/2013 4:13 AM, David Crayford wrote: Are z/OS FBA services new or are IBM releasing internal services that have been used by the likes of media manager for years? All new. The new IOSFBA service is not for managing fixed-block data sets on an

Re: z/OS FBA Services (Was: PDS/E, Shared Dasd, and COBOL V5)

2013-09-14 Thread Joel C. Ewing
On 09/14/2013 07:20 AM, John Gilmore wrote: This date format, yy/mm/dd---/mm/dd would of course be better---is in no way ambiguous. It is an ISO/ANSI standard 'descending' date, the crucial merits of which are that it is 1) unambiguous and 2) immediately orderable/sortable. Its exclusive

Re: z/OS FBA Services (Was: PDS/E, Shared Dasd, and COBOL V5)

2013-09-14 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Fri, 13 Sep 2013 22:52:14 -0700, Ed Jaffe wrote: APAR Identifier .. OA41040 Last Changed 13/09/12 d/m/y (European Date Format) - ie: September 13, 2012. LOL. I guess you're trying to prove Gil's point. :) It's a shame there are so many dots in there. Otherwise they

Re: z/OS FBA Services (Was: PDS/E, Shared Dasd, and COBOL V5)

2013-09-14 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Sat, 14 Sep 2013 05:59:59 -0700, Ed Jaffe wrote: On 9/14/2013 4:13 AM, David Crayford wrote: Are z/OS FBA services new or are IBM releasing internal services that have been used by the likes of media manager for years? All new. The new IOSFBA service is not for managing fixed-block data

Re: z/OS FBA Services (Was: PDS/E, Shared Dasd, and COBOL V5)

2013-09-14 Thread John Gilmore
Mr. Ewing is correct. A full ISO 8601 date-and-time stamp takes the form -MM-DDThh:mm:ssTZD An example would be 2013-09-14T11:46:13:05:00 in which '-', 'T', and ':' are prescribed. My earlier post omitted these details in the interests of brevity. Googling ISO 8601 will yield more of

z/OS FBA Services (Was: PDS/E, Shared Dasd, and COBOL V5)

2013-09-13 Thread Ed Jaffe
On 9/13/2013 5:47 PM, Clark Morris wrote: IF (caps intentional) the z series AND z/OS are to have a long term future, the z series must support the fastest fiber protocol (see Lynn Wheeler's posts on the subject) and FBA (support that SHORT SIGHTED BEAN COUNTERS vetoed according to Lynn).

Re: z/OS FBA Services (Was: PDS/E, Shared Dasd, and COBOL V5)

2013-09-13 Thread Shane Ginnane
On Fri, 13 Sep 2013 18:03:03 -0700, Ed Jaffe wrote: ... PROBLEM SUMMARY: * USERS AFFECTED: Users at HBB7780 and above * * PROBLEM

Re: z/OS FBA Services (Was: PDS/E, Shared Dasd, and COBOL V5)

2013-09-13 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Fri, 13 Sep 2013 18:03:03 -0700, Ed Jaffe wrote:. APAR Identifier .. OA41040 Last Changed 13/09/12 Ambiguous date. https://xkcd.com/1179/ Symptom .. NF FUNCTION Status ... CLOSED UR1 What's UR1? I suppose I should RTFM. Component

Re: z/OS FBA Services (Was: PDS/E, Shared Dasd, and COBOL V5)

2013-09-13 Thread John P. Baker
In addition to OA41040, there are at least three (3) related APARs -- OA41558 DEVSERV OA42887 SRM OA42912 [Not available] John P. Baker -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to

Re: z/OS FBA Services (Was: PDS/E, Shared Dasd, and COBOL V5)

2013-09-13 Thread Ed Jaffe
On 9/13/2013 8:43 PM, John P. Baker wrote: In addition to OA41040, there are at least three (3) related APARs -- OA41558 DEVSERV OA42887 SRM OA42912 [Not available] APAR Identifier .. OA42912

Re: z/OS FBA Services (Was: PDS/E, Shared Dasd, and COBOL V5)

2013-09-13 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
At 21:48 -0500 on 09/13/2013, Paul Gilmartin wrote about Re: z/OS FBA Services (Was: PDS/E, Shared Dasd, and COBOL V: x-charset UTF-8On Fri, 13 Sep 2013 18:03:03 -0700, Ed Jaffe wrote:. APAR Identifier .. OA41040 Last Changed 13/09/12    Ambiguous date. d/m/y

Re: z/OS FBA Services (Was: PDS/E, Shared Dasd, and COBOL V5)

2013-09-13 Thread Ed Jaffe
On 9/13/2013 9:55 PM, Robert A. Rosenberg wrote: At 21:48 -0500 on 09/13/2013, Paul Gilmartin wrote about Re: z/OS FBA Services (Was: PDS/E, Shared Dasd, and COBOL V: x-charset UTF-8On Fri, 13 Sep 2013 18:03:03 -0700, Ed Jaffe wrote:. APAR Identifier .. OA41040 Last Changed