Strange ISPF initialization problem

2008-11-10 Thread Ray Mullins
accumulate enough round tuits, will be upgraded. But this is one of those “gotta make it work now because of deadlines” situations. Thanks in advance, Ray -- M. Ray Mullins Roseville, CA, USA http://www.catherdersoftware.com/ http://www.catherdersoftware.com/ http://www.mrmullins.big-bear

Re: Strange ISPF initialization problem

2008-11-10 Thread Ray Mullins
, or if someone else mucked it up, but anyway that block size has been removed (yay SDB!), and so far a couple of users have been able to get on. I do appreciate everyone's help, and hopefully I can get back to lurking/reading IBM-MAIN. Later, Ray -- M. Ray Mullins Roseville, CA, USA http

Re: z/OS job market (I could just scream!)

2007-07-26 Thread Ray Mullins
Ou quelque parte de la France? Irgendwo in Deutschland? Or in the UK? Or nearby countries? :-) -- M. Ray Mullins Roseville, CA, USA http://www.catherdersoftware.com/ http://www.mrmullins.big-bear-city.ca.us/ -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: z/OS job market (I could just scream!)

2007-07-26 Thread Ray Mullins
/OS systems programmer. Some day. )-: My second choice is to be a cat, but that doesn't pay well these days. Yeah, but all you have to do is look cute and purr when you're hungry. -- M. Ray Mullins Roseville, CA, USA http://www.catherdersoftware.com/ http://www.mrmullins.big-bear

Re: XMIT loses the AC(1) attribute

2007-07-26 Thread Ray Mullins
? One member or multiple members? You didn't XMIT it as SEQ, did you? Probably not, because you would have S106'd or something like that since there'd be no directory information. Did you forget to authorize the target data set? Later, Ray -- M. Ray Mullins Roseville, CA, USA http

Re: sysprog demand

2007-07-26 Thread Ray Mullins
; contact me off-list if anyone wants info.) Later, Ray -- M. Ray Mullins Roseville, CA, USA http://www.catherdersoftware.com/ http://www.mrmullins.big-bear-city.ca.us/ -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul D'Angelo Sent

Re: CA Sues Rocket Software

2007-08-10 Thread Ray Mullins
, Ray -- M. Ray Mullins Roseville, CA, USA http://www.catherdersoftware.com/ http://www.mrmullins.big-bear-city.ca.us/ http://www.the-bus-stops-here.org/ German is essentially a form of assembly language consisting entirely of far calls heavily accented with throaty guttural sounds. ---ilvi

Re: XMIT QUESTION

2007-08-21 Thread Ray Mullins
the DDNAME in the OUTDD parameter. ALLOC DD(XMITOUT) DA(XMIT(TEST)) SHR XMIT ABC.DEFG DA(CNTL(JOBCARD)) OUTDD(XMITOUT) FREE DD(XMITOUT) RECEIVE will support a PDS(E) member for INDS, or you can do the same ALLOCATE trick. Best regards, Ray -- M. Ray Mullins Roseville, CA, USA http

Re: SHOPZ download issues

2007-08-29 Thread Ray Mullins
. Ray Mullins Roseville, CA, USA http://www.catherdersoftware.com/ http://www.mrmullins.big-bear-city.ca.us/ http://www.the-bus-stops-here.org/ German is essentially a form of assembly language consisting entirely of far calls heavily accented with throaty guttural sounds. ---ilvi French

Re: SYSMDUMP in DB2 SP WLM

2007-09-11 Thread Ray Mullins
the company that are making me wonder if it was a good thing to take this position so quickly. Thanks and best regards, Ray Mullins -- M. Ray Mullins Roseville, CA, USA http://www.catherdersoftware.com/ http://www.mrmullins.big-bear-city.ca.us/ http://www.the-bus-stops-here.org/ German

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2007-09-11 Thread Ray Mullins
Oh. That is totally embarrassing. I completely apologize for that last part of the e-mail. That was, of course, supposed to be private. And I have embarrassed myself, and probably have screwed myself big-time. Looks like I have a lot of explaining to do Regards, Ray Mullins -- M. Ray

Re: CBT Tape Help

2007-09-13 Thread Ray Mullins
Hello Bob, That's IEBUPDTE SYSIN format. Go ahead and read the fine documentation in DFSMS Utilities, but the quick info is that this is SYSIN, SYSUT2 points to your output PDS, and use PARM=NEW on the EXEC card. (No need for SYSUT1 in this case). Oh, in case anyone is wondering...my gaffe

Re: CBT Tape Help - Getting a Little Further

2007-09-13 Thread Ray Mullins
. However, there are times when /* will appear in column 1 (think JES2 JECL or no-longer-required end-of-data cards) and the DLM gives a means of specifying the end of data marker (columns 1 and 2). Personally, I prefer the DSN= on the SYSIN DD card. Later, Ray -- M. Ray Mullins Roseville, CA

Re: CBT Tape Help - Won't Assemble

2007-09-13 Thread Ray Mullins
Are you using your own assembler JCL, or the one that came with it? It looks like the SYSLIB concatenation is missing the DITTO source library. Later, Ray -- M. Ray Mullins Roseville, CA, USA http://www.catherdersoftware.com/ http://www.mrmullins.big-bear-city.ca.us/ http://www.the-bus

Re: JAVA un z/OS

2007-09-21 Thread Ray Mullins
are big-endian machines, so Java will also run better on their native boxen. Later, Ray -- M. Ray Mullins Roseville, CA, USA http://www.catherdersoftware.com/ http://www.mrmullins.big-bear-city.ca.us/ http://www.the-bus-stops-here.org/ German is essentially a form of assembly language

Re: Mass PDS Compress Without Volume Specification

2007-10-05 Thread Ray Mullins
But Ed, think of the possibilities! Write it, add it to Phoenix' stable of excellent products, sell it for a pittance so many companies could afford it... :-D Later, Ray -- M. Ray Mullins Roseville, CA, USA http://www.catherdersoftware.com/ http://www.mrmullins.big-bear-city.ca.us/ http

Re: ADABAS vs. IMS vs. DB2 Who is faster?

2007-10-12 Thread Ray Mullins
Which includes the removal of the 255 task limit, amongst other things... -- M. Ray Mullins Roseville, CA, USA http://www.catherdersoftware.com/ http://www.mrmullins.big-bear-city.ca.us/ http://www.the-bus-stops-here.org/ German is essentially a form of assembly language consisting entirely

Re: Bruce Black passed away

2007-11-08 Thread Ray Mullins
saved mails dating from 1995 with tidbits that he contributed, including one that helped me avoid a RACF violation abend with DIV by being able to issue a RACROUTE with the proper information. I will be lighting a virtual candle at the web site mentioned in the e-mail from FDR. Ray -- M. Ray

Re: ATMs (Was: High order bit in 31/24 bit address)

2007-11-08 Thread Ray Mullins
Most I dealt with in the mid-1980s were Tandem NonStop. Later, Ray -- M. Ray Mullins Roseville, CA, USA http://www.catherdersoftware.com/ http://www.mrmullins.big-bear-city.ca.us/ http://www.the-bus-stops-here.org/ German is essentially a form of assembly language consisting entirely

OT - FW: [Fwd: [ClassicMainframes] multics source is now open]

2007-11-10 Thread Ray Mullins
Way off-topic for IBM-MAIN, but based on prior threads some of y'all might be interested in this. Later, Ray -- M. Ray Mullins Roseville, CA, USA http://www.catherdersoftware.com/ http://www.mrmullins.big-bear-city.ca.us/ http://www.the-bus-stops-here.org/ German is essentially a form

Re: IBM to the PCM market(the sky is falling!!!the sky is falling!!)

2007-04-05 Thread Ray Mullins
I second Rob's comment. Timothy, in general I find your posts informative and your commentary is not 100% rah-rah IBM when necessary. And I hope you never get into trouble for expressing your opinion where IBM has stumbled. However, both you and Marcia continue to ignore the context of the

Re: IBM to the PCM market(the sky is falling!!!the sky is falling!!)

2007-04-09 Thread Ray Mullins
Alan, I'm glad you spoke up. Your note is well-written, and speaks volumes. And it was a good idea to keep Chuckie away from the keyboard. :-) As Timothy and Marcia are both marketing folks, you're right, Alan, they would not be able to speak for IBM regarding ISVs. But I think things would

Re: IBM to the PCM market(the sky is falling!!!the sky is falling!!)

2007-04-10 Thread Ray Mullins
- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Timothy Sipples Sent: Monday April 09 2007 22:22 To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: IBM to the PCM market(the sky is falling!!!the sky is falling!!) Ray Mullins writes: As Timothy and Marcia are both marketing folks

Re: RESTART SINGLE JOB STEP

2007-04-10 Thread Ray Mullins
Just off the top of my head, without trying... You would need both RESTART= and COND=(0,LE) on the JOB card. The RESTART points to the step you want to execute, and the COND will flush the job after the step executes. Later, Ray -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List

Re: IS IBM COBOL dead or just not being upgraded for z9? Re: z9 Hardware update

2007-04-18 Thread Ray Mullins
?) Later, Ray -- M. Ray Mullins Roseville, CA, USA http://www.catherdersoftware.com/ http://www.mrmullins.big-bear-city.ca.us/ http://www.the-bus-stops-here.org/ German is essentially a form of assembly language consisting entirely of far calls heavily accented with throaty guttural sounds

Re: Best practices for software delivery

2007-04-26 Thread Ray Mullins
Gil's #1 point caused me issues for transmission of object files to VSE, although with '/*'. That's why I'd love a DLM option in z/VSE or something similar. Later, Ray -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent:

Re: DB2 version 8 SPUFI and ISPF

2007-05-15 Thread Ray Mullins
Assuming TN3270, the ISPF variable ZTERMCID is set by the value specified when the TN3270 session is negotiated. I don't believe you can override this inside ISPF, but I could be mistaken. That might be a question for ISPF-L. Code page Z variables are documented here:

Re: DB2 version 8 SPUFI and ISPF

2007-05-15 Thread Ray Mullins
Subject: Re: DB2 version 8 SPUFI and ISPF In which case I don't quite understand because the value of ZTERMCID is 37 but our emulator is using 1146. Any further ideas. Jim McAlpine On 5/15/07, Ray Mullins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Assuming TN3270, the ISPF variable ZTERMCID is set by the value

Re: Payback on zIIPs

2007-05-17 Thread Ray Mullins
No, it can't. DB2 V7 doesn't have the ability to build zIIP eligible enclaves. My understanding of PROJECTCPU=YES is that if the zIIP-eligible bit is on for the enclave definition but thou hast no zIIP installed, the appropriate buckets are incremented. (Based on discussions with those who had

Re: calling ISPLINK from COBOL

2007-05-18 Thread Ray Mullins
Ah. You have to be running under TSO and start ISPF for ISPLINK to work, otherwise you get the RC 20.(Well, that first part is not exactly 100% true; I've seen some pretty good spoofing of TSO that fools ISPF.) You can run ISPF under batch TSO (EXEC PGM=IKJEFT1B or IKJEFT01); I haven't used

Re: PDS caused JCL error - WHY

2007-05-23 Thread Ray Mullins
Hi Ken, You can only reference a temporary data set once in a job step. (Cue ranting from the Peanut Gallery about restrictive JCL designs from the 1960's. And for those of you not familiar with the term, Wikipedia says: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peanut_gallery .) You'll have to create

My turn to grip about ServiceLink

2007-06-01 Thread Ray Mullins
Grumble. Nothing like intermittent response problems. I've already had the generic 500 Server Error twice this morning, and occasionally slow response times. But it is working most of the time, so I won't bother opening a request. At least now. When I got the standard how we doin'? phone call

Re: Questions to the list

2007-06-01 Thread Ray Mullins
RIF = reduction in force -- M. Ray Mullins Roseville, CA, USA http://www.catherdersoftware.com/ http://www.mrmullins.big-bear-city.ca.us/ http://www.the-bus-stops-here.org/ German is essentially a form of assembly language consisting entirely of far calls heavily accented with throaty

Re: SHARE: JES2 Songbook

2007-06-07 Thread Ray Mullins
)? Thanks, Ray -- M. Ray Mullins Roseville, CA, USA http://www.catherdersoftware.com/ http://www.mrmullins.big-bear-city.ca.us/ -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark H. Young Sent: Thursday 07 June 2007 05:39 To: IBM

Re: Patents, Copyrights, Profits, Flex and Hercules

2007-06-12 Thread Ray Mullins
like an actual product to exist before marketing, etc. And I don't think I could find a company that would allow me to use their software for cheap (or free), even in exchange for a no-license charge. And z/VSE (and z/VM) seem to be completely off the PWD radar. Later, Ray -- M. Ray Mullins

Re: New IBM web look/feel

2007-06-12 Thread Ray Mullins
. -- M. Ray Mullins Roseville, CA, USA http://www.catherdersoftware.com/ http://www.mrmullins.big-bear-city.ca.us/ -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Matthew Stitt Sent: Tuesday 12 June 2007 13:55 To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU

Re: Patents, Copyrights, Profits, Flex and Hercules

2007-06-12 Thread Ray Mullins
Oops, correction... z/OS for research purposes, but I can't afford - $1K - /month. Was thinking $12K/year. -- M. Ray Mullins Roseville, CA, USA http://www.catherdersoftware.com/ http://www.mrmullins.big-bear-city.ca.us/ -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List

Re: Patents, Copyrights, Profits, Flex and Hercules

2007-06-13 Thread Ray Mullins
Decision Support for z/OS and Tivoli Decision Support for OS/390 * MVS(TM), OS/390, and z/OS * OPC and Tivoli Workload Scheduler for z/OS Nuttin' about Unix System Services, USS, or any combinations of the letter z and Linux. Later, Ray -- M. Ray Mullins Roseville, CA, USA http

Re: SV: PCOM questions

2007-07-05 Thread Ray Mullins
/VSE default USSes), and the Ignore undefined chars. At least, I've never found them. Later, Ray -- M. Ray Mullins Roseville, CA, USA http://www.catherdersoftware.com/ http://www.mrmullins.big-bear-city.ca.us/ -- For IBM-MAIN

Re: Regarding SDSF pgm

2007-07-20 Thread Ray Mullins
that the field is a fullword (or halfword, or doubleword, depending on the PIC) and it will not try to play games to have the value match the PIC clause. In something as compute-intensive as SMF triplets, every little bit helps. Later, Ray -- M. Ray Mullins Roseville, CA, USA http

Re: IBM sues maker of Intel-based Mainframe clones

2006-12-12 Thread Ray Mullins
I don't have the links handy, but the USPTO has set up a data base for information on patents and prior art (e.g., Y2K windowing). It was covered in Computerworld and some of the other trade press a few months ago. I liked Candle's old tact - an unpublished work - using copyright. Later, Ray

Re: COBOL compiler options JCL PARM.

2006-12-13 Thread Ray Mullins
: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Ray Mullins Sent: 12 December 2006 17:19 To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: COBOL compiler options JCL PARM. Having been down this path before in a galaxy far, far away: Because you can have multiple CBL cards at the beginning

Re: S0C1 with ILC 6

2006-12-14 Thread Ray Mullins
Ed Jaffe (from the PSI that is not being sued) demonstrated a good one recently that I'm now using: Jxx *+2 Which generates A7x4 0001. No base register necessary, and PSW points between the A7x4 and 0001. Later, Ray -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List

Re: S0C1 with ILC 6

2006-12-15 Thread Ray Mullins
Also, sometimes SVC 0D processing gets in the way. There are times when you want the ease, so to speak, of a program check. But in released ISV code, I don't put those in, and even try to remove those I come across nowadays. BTW, my hats off to whoever at IBM that assigned 13 to the ABEND SVC

Re: S0C1 with ILC 6

2006-12-15 Thread Ray Mullins
Software in response to this information. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ray Mullins Sent: Friday, December 15, 2006 10:12 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: S0C1 with ILC 6 BTW, my hats off to whoever at IBM

Re: S80A loading CEEMENU3

2006-12-19 Thread Ray Mullins
Ah, yes...one of my favorite commercials of all time. And where I get my fake personal consulting company name from. *g* Later, Ray -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Eells Sent: Tuesday December 19 2006 07:03 To:

Re: IBM sues maker of Intel-based Mainframe clones

2006-12-21 Thread Ray Mullins
You make the presumption (sorry) that this doctrine applies to all court cases. It only constitutionally applies to criminal courts. In civil court, the burden of proof is on the defendant - always has been, even in English common law. That's why OJ owes the Goldman family a bazillion dollars

Re: Transferring ADABAS backup file from VSE to MVS using FTP

2006-12-28 Thread Ray Mullins
Hello Gadi, Have you checked VSE-L's archives (actually use Google newsgroup search on bit.listserv.vse-l)? There have been discussions like this in the past there as well. One thing I remember is that CSI's FTP client may have had issues in the past with RDWs. I think BSI's FTP client works

Re: [SPAM] RE: IEBGENER and unlabled tape

2007-01-08 Thread Ray Mullins
Bill - technically, you don't need the DSN, but you'll just get the system-generated temporary data set name in the mount message. You don't need the VOL=SER, either, in a vanilla (read - no tape management system) environment. Lack of a VOL=SER will cause z/OS to issue the MOUNT message asking

Re: [SPAM] RE: IEBGENER and unlabled tape

2007-01-08 Thread Ray Mullins
Thanks, Rick - I was too busy to fill in all the details. Later, Ray -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rick Fochtman Sent: Monday January 08 2007 10:24 To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: [SPAM] RE: IEBGENER and unlabled tape

Re: Special characters in passwords was Re: RACF - Password rules .

2007-01-16 Thread Ray Mullins
I'm not so sure about out of the planning stage. When a large community college district located in Southern California shot themselves in the foot (IMHO) and dumped their 370/158 for a Honeywell Series 6000 (without Multics, but GCOS 7 + TSS) in the early 1980's, a B language compiler came with

Re: Special characters in passwords was Re: RACF - Password rules .

2007-01-16 Thread Ray Mullins
SNOBOL! Here, hand me some strings! BTW - I saw a car on I-80 here in Roseville (CA) a couple of days ago with the vanity plate SNOBOL. Sadly, I wasn't driving my car with ASM PGMR and a Hercules license plate frame on it. He was older than I. I wonder if it's anyone that the group might

Re: AOPBATCH Continuation character

2007-01-22 Thread Ray Mullins
Dank u wel, Jantje! I know there was a gotcha, but I couldn't remember it... I've got to get back into OE-type stuff - it's been way too long... Later, Ray -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jan MOEYERSONS Sent: Monday January

Re: TSO TRANSMIT of PDS member

2007-02-20 Thread Ray Mullins
Just for confirmation, it's always worked that way. Something else to note: if you want to transmit an individual member to VM/CMS, you also must code SEQ so it doesn't generate an IEBCOPY module. CMS's RECEIVE will say some very not-nice things if you don't code SEQ. Later, Ray -Original

Re: Attractive Alternatives to Mainframes

2007-02-22 Thread Ray Mullins
http://www.actscorp.com/reboothill.htm - but they admit the stories are old. However, they admit they are trolling for new stories. Later, Ray -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ed Gould Sent: Thursday February 22 2007 14:38 To:

Re: License keys for ISV products(What alternatives are there?)

2007-02-25 Thread Ray Mullins
I worked at a small financial services company where the sysprog disabled the SYNCSORT key code. It eventually came back to bite him and he was asked to leave. Later, Ray -- M. Ray Mullins Roseville, CA, USA http://www.catherdersoftware.com/ http://www.mrmullins.big-bear-city.ca.us/ http

Re: License keys for ISV products(What alternatives are there?)

2007-02-26 Thread Ray Mullins
Sadly, though, this type of cheapskate behavior was SOP there. Most 30-day net invoices were paid around 45 days. I bailed after 2 years when I got a sysprog job. -- M. Ray Mullins Roseville, CA, USA http://www.catherdersoftware.com/ http://www.mrmullins.big-bear-city.ca.us/ http://www.the

Re: Missing IBMers on whois.ibm.com

2007-02-28 Thread Ray Mullins
Might be bullet item #5 on that page: Employees who have chosen to be unlisted will not be shown. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gilbert Saint-Flour Sent: Wednesday February 28 2007 13:39 To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject:

Re: FBA rant

2007-03-03 Thread Ray Mullins
that the designers used it because someone said to use up all the 3370s that weren't selling. Not that I believed that 100%... Later, Ray -- M. Ray Mullins Roseville, CA, USA http://www.catherdersoftware.com/ http://www.mrmullins.big-bear-city.ca.us/ http://www.the-bus-stops-here.org/ German

Re: Is IEF686I DDNAME REFERRED TO ON DDNAME KEYWORD ... new?

2007-03-05 Thread Ray Mullins
? Later, Ray -- M. Ray Mullins Roseville, CA, USA http://www.catherdersoftware.com/ http://www.mrmullins.big-bear-city.ca.us/ http://www.the-bus-stops-here.org/ German is essentially a form of assembly language consisting entirely of far calls heavily accented with throaty guttural sounds

Re: Is IEF686I DDNAME REFERRED TO ON DDNAME KEYWORD ... new?

2007-03-06 Thread Ray Mullins
Yep, as Maxwell Smart says, now that oughta do it! Since it's flushing on a JOBLIB, the JESMSG data set is going to be awfully small - what, 4 or 6 lines total? Don't worry, every once in a while IEHIBALL just slips up. Later, Ray -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List

Re: Looking for ideas on remote system

2007-03-07 Thread Ray Mullins
It's very popular with the Hercules set. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Staller, Allan Sent: Wednesday March 07 2007 09:17 To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Looking for ideas on remote system I believe Jan Jeagar(?)

Re: MVS Experience

2007-03-14 Thread Ray Mullins
Lot's of snippage, but Mark strikes a point that is a major gripe with me... -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark H. Young Sent: Wednesday March 14 2007 11:22 To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: MVS Experience On Wed, 14

Re: DB2 V9 z/OS GA (Was: What to do with extra storage on new z9)

2007-03-15 Thread Ray Mullins
Yes, but the DB2 on z/VM and z/VSE is not really DB2. :-) There are 3 different code platforms for DB2 - I'm missing some details, so someone please fill in the blanks... - Non-mainframe platforms (Unix-type), which came from another data base product purchased by IBM a long time ago

Re: DB2 V9 z/OS GA (Was: What to do with extra storage on new z9)

2007-03-15 Thread Ray Mullins
@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: DB2 V9 z/OS GA (Was: What to do with extra storage on new z9) -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Ray Mullins Yes, but the DB2 on z/VM and z/VSE is not really DB2. :-) There are 3 different code platforms for DB2 - I'm missing some

Re: MVS Experience

2007-03-16 Thread Ray Mullins
Great minds think alike, Chris! I can think of 2.75 for myself (although that includes .5 of one and .25 of another, and all of those run on S/390 architecture or better *g* ). -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Craddock,

Re: Need help with Assembler accessing VSAM file in reentrant LE-conforming program

2007-03-16 Thread Ray Mullins
Steve, welcome to MF=L/E land. Note - the following is really simple, and merely a starting point. What you really should do, IMHO, in this situation, is in a constant area, code #OPENOPEN (,INPUT),MF=L #OPEN_L EQU *-#OPEN Then in your DSECT area, code @OPENDSXL(#OPEN_L)

Re: Need help with Assembler accessing VSAM file in reentrant LE-conforming program

2007-03-16 Thread Ray Mullins
The (*,label) and (S,label) syntaxes (the latter for when the label is in a DSECT) are documented not with the macros, but in a general addressing paragraph before the macro documentation. Later, Ray -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On

Re: Need help with Assembler accessing VSAM file in reentrant LE-conforming program

2007-03-17 Thread Ray Mullins
in a while, forget to initialize something in the MF=L expansion (weird Sx2A abends, anyone?) Later, Ray -- M. Ray Mullins Roseville, CA, USA http://www.catherdersoftware.com/ http://www.mrmullins.big-bear-city.ca.us/ http://www.the-bus-stops-here.org/ German is essentially a form

Re: SDSF ? display

2007-03-21 Thread Ray Mullins
DSID is assigned by JES. It is the same number that appears in the allocation messages for a data set assigned to SYSOUT (and DD *, for that matter, which can also be displayed by SDSF). I had this great explanation written up, but then I ran a test and I refreshed my memory a few things. I'm

Re: TRSMAIN ON VSE

2007-03-22 Thread Ray Mullins
TRSMAIN is a z/OS-only program. (Aside: didn't I read somewhere that TRSMAIN was going to be an officially-supported program starting with z/OS 1.9? Or was that wishful thinking?) I see you posted the same question on VSE-L a couple of weeks ago and were pointed at TERSE z/VSE's program.

Re: Start of a PDSE rant was Re: OA03767 PDS/E Restriction

2007-03-22 Thread Ray Mullins
PDSE supports alias member names that are up to 1023 characters long. See the program object libraries that are distributed with CICS/TS. On other S/390 compatible operating systems: BS2000/OSD supports 64 character member names in its (relatively) newer library scheme; the old one supported 10

Re: Call for XEDIT freaks, submit ISPF requirements

2007-03-28 Thread Ray Mullins
Stating the obvious there, Mark. :-) I hate ICCF. I'll use DITTO online edit before I use ISPF. Anything but ICCF. Not to mention its design where every time you hit enter or a PF key, it rewrites the file (or a portion). At an earlier employer that sold an ISPF/PDF look-alike product, I

Re: Call for XEDIT freaks, submit ISPF requirements

2007-03-28 Thread Ray Mullins
@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Call for XEDIT freaks, submit ISPF requirements On 3/28/07, Ray Mullins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I hate ICCF. I'll use DITTO online edit before I use ISPF. Anything but ICCF. Not to mention its design where every time you hit enter or a PF key, it rewrites the file

Re: Call for XEDIT freaks, submit ISPF requirements

2007-03-28 Thread Ray Mullins
Sorry, Brain, go back to trying to take over the world. :-) Employer=Software AG, product=NATURAL ISPF, which uses product=ENTIRE SYSTEM SERVER. :-) And it provides a consistent environment in z/OS, z/VSE and BS2000/OSD. Later, Ray -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion

IBM to the PCM market

2007-04-03 Thread Ray Mullins
even think about it. Later, Ray -- M. Ray Mullins Roseville, CA, USA http://www.catherdersoftware.com/ http://www.mrmullins.big-bear-city.ca.us/ http://www.the-bus-stops-here.org/ German is essentially a form of assembly language consisting entirely of far calls heavily accented with throaty

Re: IBM to the PCM market(the sky is falling!!!the sky is falling!!)

2007-04-04 Thread Ray Mullins
competition, but also in many ways they have, until recently, been champions of z/Architecture and its operating systems. Kind regards, Ray Mullins P.S. And to someone who mentioned pooling resources - PWD contracts - expressly forbid - sharing of PWD materials and resources, i.e., one FLEX-ES per

Re: IBM to the PCM market(the sky is falling!!!the sky is falling!!)

2007-04-04 Thread Ray Mullins
Of Thompson, Steve Sent: Wednesday April 04 2007 13:27 To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: IBM to the PCM market(the sky is falling!!!the sky is falling!!) -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ray Mullins Sent: Wednesday, April 04

Re: IBM to the PCM market(the sky is falling!!!the sky is falling!!)

2007-04-04 Thread Ray Mullins
: Wednesday April 04 2007 13:50 To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: IBM to the PCM market(the sky is falling!!!the sky is falling!!) -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ray Mullins Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2007 3:33 PM To: IBM

Re: z/OS on the ISERIES

2006-01-16 Thread Ray Mullins
/PACK ASCII are defined in general instructions.) At the risk of introducing a nostalgia thread because I don't have an S/360 POP available, in the old S/360 with the ASCII bit in the PSW, did ED/EDMK/UNPK act any different, or were they not supported in ASCII mode? Later, Ray -- M. Ray Mullins

Re: z/OS on the ISERIES

2006-01-18 Thread Ray Mullins
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) Sent: Tuesday January 17 2006 13:06 In !!AAAYAJ/6KggGInlFs/2GBOkJFIDCgAAAEPNVYp [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 01/16/2006 at 12:55 PM, Ray

Re: State of the Mainframe - News Article

2006-01-25 Thread Ray Mullins
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Phil Payne Sent: Tuesday January 24 2006 15:05 To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: State of the Mainframe - News Article On the same system, an IMS DB/DC system managing customer

Re: Testing ASM under TSO

2006-01-27 Thread Ray Mullins
Me too! Although I will say that HLASM IDF has the plus of being able to run on z/VSE and z/VM. (z/TPF?) Aside - I'd like to give public congratulations to my ex-colleagues: http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/19153.wss Later, Ray -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe

Re: IBMLINK vs techsupport.services.ibm.com

2006-02-02 Thread Ray Mullins
on the system, usually the startup script will have the assignment. The suggestion to join the FLEX-ES is an excellent one. If you post this exact message, there are a lot of people (including some of the brains behind Funsoft) who can help. Best regards, Ray Mullins -- M. Ray Mullins Roseville

Re: SMP/E SE37 Retry and ++ZAP

2006-02-03 Thread Ray Mullins
PDSEs are (were?) funny about having multiple DCB's opened against them, and being opened UPDAT, OUTIN or INOUT. I remember that in an earlier life, we had to disable update in place if the target was a PDSE. Later, Ray -- M. Ray Mullins Roseville, CA, USA http://www.catherdersoftware.com

Re: AMA140T ... BINDER ERROR (was: SMP/E SE37 Retry and ++ZAP)

2006-02-04 Thread Ray Mullins
They're pretty good at bouncing the PMR's around until it hits the right area. I open DB2 PMRs under one component ID even if the problem resides in a different component ID area of DB2, because the right component ID isn't recognized. Later, Ray -- M. Ray Mullins Roseville, CA, USA http

Re: Codepage 37 vs 1047

2006-02-06 Thread Ray Mullins
Sideways topic - are other code pages, like 1141, supported? And is BPXDEUSH now 1141, not 273? I did notice that the DB2 V8 precompiler, with C and CPP, uses 37 by default, not 1047. (But I'm used to ??( and ??), anyway. Mental note to self - override DB2 precompiler step with CP 1140.)

Re: Mainframe Programmer on EBay

2006-02-06 Thread Ray Mullins
I'm guessing s/he's more of an apps person, not a systems person. The guy/gal has chutzpah, I'll grant that. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Desi de la Garza Sent: Monday February 06 2006 14:29 To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU

Re: IBM Purchases JZOS

2006-02-14 Thread Ray Mullins
Boy, between this, CIMS Lab, and others, IBM's on a buying tear. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kirk Wolf Sent: Tuesday February 14 2006 14:20 To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: IBM Purchases JZOS IBM announcement

Something to show the PFK's

2006-02-23 Thread Ray Mullins
IBM marketing has created a very nice poster that your graphic arts department can blow up so you can hang it on the wall... http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/zoslib/pdf/history_of_the_mainframe_poster.pd f And for those of you who work at universities, this is perfect for your office door/bulletin

Re: Adabas db 3380 - 3390

2006-02-27 Thread Ray Mullins
a lot of good ADA/NAT/other SAG product knowledge over there. http://listserv.uark.edu/scripts/wa.exe?SUBED1=sag-lA=1 to sign up. If you're going to be dealing a lot with ADA/NAT I highly recommend subscribing. Kind regards, Ray Mullins (ex-SAG developer) -Original Message- From: IBM

Re: Tax chooses dead language - Austalia

2006-02-28 Thread Ray Mullins
I've noticed that the initial-upper-rest-lower style for acronyms appears to have originated in the UK. The BBC refers to Nato, Nasa, and Cobol (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4021093.stm as an example). -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: USING ISPF OPTION 3.14 to EXCLUDE MEMBERS THAT HAVE THE SEARCH WORD

2006-03-09 Thread Ray Mullins
EXCLUDE excludes the named members from the search. The only thing I can think of possibly is using LNMFTO - List not found member totals. I'm not sure when that came into ISRSUPC. BTW, I never use 3.12 or 3.14; I always use 3.13 and 3.15, because there you can get online help for all the

Re: How to start a subtask under another user

2006-03-09 Thread Ray Mullins
Instead of the mother task doing the work, have the subtask do a RACROUTE LOGON as the first thing the attached task does. The only time you should do the ATTACH DISP=NO is when you are propagating TCBSENV/ASCBSENV. Also, STATUS has been deprecated since MVS/ESA 4.3. Use ATTACH DISP=YES. (IBM

Re: Any products that let you ignore certain messages?

2006-03-10 Thread Ray Mullins
Sí, yo comprendo, creo que si. Ass/u/me/ing you're just looking for precedent, and for messages your product issues... Many C/C++ compilers have a #pragma option (varies from compiler to compiler, of course) that can suppress (and then unsuppress) messages. I have had to use it before to

Re: How to start a subtask under another user

2006-03-10 Thread Ray Mullins
This may have changed... But no. The very first SVC screening routine I wrote was to propagate TCBSENV because of this very situation. Contact me off-list for details. Best regards, Ray -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of

Re: IMS -- Old Manual

2006-03-10 Thread Ray Mullins
Have you asked on IMS-L? -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of James Chappell Sent: Friday March 10 2006 08:00 To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: IMS -- Old Manual Hopefully someone can point me in the right direction

Re: Problem copying VM volumes under z/OS

2006-03-20 Thread Ray Mullins
Bom dia, Oswaldo, This has been discussed before on VMESA-L, which is now known as IBMVM. Go here: http://listserv.uark.edu/archives/ibmvm.html You can search the archives, and subscribe there também. Saludos, Ray -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List

Re: List contents of DFSMSdss-produced dump?

2006-03-20 Thread Ray Mullins
First, run with PARM='TYPRUN=NORUN', so you won't actually copy anything off the tape. Then use INCLUDE((**)). ADRDSSU will show you all of the data sets dumped/copied onto the tape. Then, once you figure out what's there, and what to rename to (usually just changing the HLQ is sufficient to

Re: List contents of DFSMSdss-produced dump?

2006-03-20 Thread Ray Mullins
@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: List contents of DFSMSdss-produced dump? In a recent note, Ray Mullins said: Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2006 14:24:30 -0800 First, run with PARM='TYPRUN=NORUN', so you won't actually copy anything off the tape. Got it. Thanks. Then use INCLUDE

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