Re: z/OSMF Migration Workflow Question

2022-03-25 Thread Marna WALLE
Hi Carmen, Ed's got the Notification response. If you'd like more (like an email), please let's get it written down in an RFE so we can get it on the record. For the Help: actually, I've found that unlike other Help (in ISPF) this z/OSMF Help is pretty good. If you find you need field help

Re: z/OSMF Migration Workflow Question

2022-03-25 Thread Marna WALLE
[Written at risk of receiving a lot of "I've done it this way and I will not change" kind of responses... :) ] The Workflow interface is meant to allow you to assign and track steps to certain people. Even en masse where you can put all Security items to one person, Networking items to

Re: z/PDT

2022-03-25 Thread Jay Maynard
Actually, the z/PDTLE license *does* prohibit using it to develop software to be sold. On Fri, Mar 25, 2022 at 9:52 AM Tony Harminc wrote: > On Fri, 25 Mar 2022 at 07:33, Joseph Reichman > wrote: > > > At the time of my re-newel I asked my rep > > Why do I have to pay so much money > > When

Re: z/PDT

2022-03-25 Thread Ed Jaffe
On 3/25/2022 7:52 AM, Tony Harminc wrote: On Fri, 25 Mar 2022 at 07:33, Joseph Reichman wrote: At the time of my re-newel I asked my rep Why do I have to pay so much money When the learners edition is only a few hundred dollars And they responded well that’s because you have z/PDT personal

Re: FORMAC was ABP

2022-03-25 Thread Seymour J Metz
M4? -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Charles Mills [charl...@mcn.org] Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2022 4:57 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re:

Re: z/OSMF Migration Workflow Question

2022-03-25 Thread Carmen Vitullo
well there's the issue, notification inside z/OSMF, my team, most of my team never has logged onto z/OSMF, they have no reason, I've wrote doc, provided step by step directions from logon to the uses of z/OSMF, to date only my DB2, TCP/IP guy has ever logged on. external notification would be

Re: z/PDT

2022-03-25 Thread Ed Jaffe
On 3/25/2022 8:48 AM, Tony Harminc wrote: I thought it was pretty clear that what Joseph has, and what I commented on, is not the "nobody actually has it yet" Learner's Edition, but the long standing Personal Edition. Obviously I was wrong. Joseph's question/comment was: Why do I have to

Re: z/PDT

2022-03-25 Thread Lionel B. Dyck
And from what I've been told the LE also precludes doing open source development ☹ Unless that has changed. Lionel B. Dyck <>< Website: https://www.lbdsoftware.com Github: https://github.com/lbdyck “Worry more about your character than your reputation. Character is what you are, reputation

Re: z/PDT

2022-03-25 Thread Joseph Reichman
Since you responded to my post maybe you Can answer a question At the time of my re-newel I asked my rep Why do I have to pay so much money When the learners edition is only a few hundred dollars And they responded well that’s because you have z/PDT personal edition and can sell software

Re: Actual Block Processor

2022-03-25 Thread Seymour J Metz
I'm pretty sure that SVC 121 is just a client of ABP/MM. I don't know whether eithyer PDSE or HFS use it. As usual, I would love to know of any relevant documents that wiki considers reliable sources. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3

Re: z/PDT

2022-03-25 Thread Matt Hogstrom
IIRC you can’t sell any artifacts (binaries and such) as they must be built on real IBM Z hardware. Perhaps this has changed but it was a terms and condition way to ensure that real hardware is used for real products. Matt Hogstrom "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately

Re: z/OSMF Migration Workflow Question

2022-03-25 Thread Ed Jaffe
On 3/25/2022 8:18 AM, Carmen Vitullo wrote: Marna, thank you, I've used my workflow during my migration from z/OS 2.3 to 2.4, I've used the assign field to assign tasks to team members, 2 issues;  1) what's the format of the ID? what mechanism is used, if any, to notify the teammate that a

Re: Can SORTWKnn Data Sets Use More Than One Volume?

2022-03-25 Thread Allan Staller
Classification: Confidential The last time I looked, DF/SORT required single extent SORTWK. SYNCSORT did not. I suspect that SORTWKxx overrode SMS. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2022 3:40 PM To:

Re: z/OSMF Migration Workflow Question

2022-03-25 Thread Carmen Vitullo
Marna, thank you, I've used my workflow during my migration from z/OS 2.3 to 2.4, I've used the assign field to assign tasks to team members, 2 issues; 1) what's the format of the ID? what mechanism is used, if any, to notify the teammate that a task is assigned to them, its not working for

Re: z/PDT

2022-03-25 Thread Joseph Reichman
My sales rep indicated that when I finish developing my software I apply and rent time on a LPAR on real iron I.E z15 Thanks > On Mar 25, 2022, at 11:05 AM, Ed Jaffe wrote: > > On 3/25/2022 7:52 AM, Tony Harminc wrote: >>> On Fri, 25 Mar 2022 at 07:33, Joseph Reichman wrote: >>> >>> At

Re: PL/I question

2022-03-25 Thread Rupert Reynolds
Vaguely related, can anyone comment on the assertions that PL/I was considered "too slow" back in the old days, and that it was "too verbose for writing system code"? Excuse me? MVS system macros are stuffed with its close relative, PL/S! I can see its size would make compiling slow on limited

Re: FORMAC was ABP

2022-03-25 Thread Seymour J Metz
Definitely for the 2741; I don't recall whether APL supported the 2740 or 1050. And, of course, there were APL options on many 3270 devices. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List

Re: z/PDT

2022-03-25 Thread Tony Harminc
On Fri, 25 Mar 2022 at 07:33, Joseph Reichman wrote: > At the time of my re-newel I asked my rep > Why do I have to pay so much money > When the learners edition is only a few hundred dollars > > And they responded well that’s because you have z/PDT personal edition and > can sell software you

Re: z/PDT

2022-03-25 Thread Tony Harminc
On Fri, 25 Mar 2022 at 11:05, Ed Jaffe wrote: > > On 3/25/2022 7:52 AM, Tony Harminc wrote: [...] > > I doubt that the personal edition licence prohibits you from selling > > software that you develop. But even if I am wrong on that... > > It most certainly does!!! Commercial use of any kind is

Re: z/PDT

2022-03-25 Thread Tony Harminc
On Fri, 25 Mar 2022 at 12:01, Ed Jaffe wrote: > > On 3/25/2022 8:48 AM, Tony Harminc wrote: > > > > I thought it was pretty clear that what Joseph has, and what I > > commented on, is not the "nobody actually has it yet" Learner's > > Edition, but the long standing Personal Edition. Obviously I

Re: FORMAC was ABP

2022-03-25 Thread Tony Harminc
On Thu, 24 Mar 2022 at 14:10, Pierre Fichaud wrote: > > At our college, we had an APL terminal. > I wrote a couple of programs. > A very powerful language and quite cryptic. > Programs were coded in RPN, weren't they? Not RPN, but APL has no operator precedence, so if you expect 3+4x2 to come

Re: z/OSMF Migration Workflow Question

2022-03-25 Thread Carmen Vitullo
let me check, Kurt, but notification's have been defined and turned on  I received an email from the z/OSMF team suggesting I open an RFE for this function Carmen On 3/25/2022 1:46 PM, Kurt J. Quackenbush wrote: From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Carmen Vitullo Sent:

Re: z/OSMF Migration Workflow Question

2022-03-25 Thread Carmen Vitullo
ok, the user tab was setup to use the SMTP user used to logon to the SMTP server, I changed this to my email addy, I'll see if this gets me any email notification thanks Kurt Carmen On 3/25/2022 1:50 PM, Carmen Vitullo wrote: let me check, Kurt, but notification's have been defined and

Re: FORMAC was ABP

2022-03-25 Thread Tony Harminc
On Fri, 25 Mar 2022 at 14:47, Carmen Vitullo wrote: > > I don't want to keep dragging this thread around but I always wonders > what APL was used for? or what maybe our IBM guys was doing 8 hrs a day > on an APL terminal ) IBM used APL internally extensively in the 1980s, and I'll bet there are

Re: FORMAC was ABP

2022-03-25 Thread Carmen Vitullo
excellent info thanks so much Charles Carmen On 3/25/2022 2:02 PM, Charles Mills wrote: I got into a discussion with a retired neighbor about this and he wrote me I've written system software in assembly and C, when I was writing extensions to APL interpreters, but found those languages so

Re: FORMAC was ABP

2022-03-25 Thread Tom Brennan
What that ... ??? That really surprises me. Glad I never tried APL. I can't remember, but I think there was one guy in our shop who did use it - at least I remember all the hieroglyphics on his keyboard. On 3/25/2022 11:10 AM, Tony Harminc wrote: Not RPN, but APL has no operator

Re: FORMAC was ABP

2022-03-25 Thread Carmen Vitullo
I don't want to keep dragging this thread around but I always wonders what APL was used for? or what maybe our IBM guys was doing 8 hrs a day on an APL terminal ) Carmen On 3/25/2022 1:10 PM, Tony Harminc wrote: On Thu, 24 Mar 2022 at 14:10, Pierre Fichaud wrote: At our college, we had an

Re: z/OSMF Migration Workflow Question

2022-03-25 Thread Kurt J. Quackenbush
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Carmen Vitullo Sent: Friday, March 25, 2022 11:28 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: z/OSMF Migration Workflow Question > well there's the issue, notification inside z/OSMF, Whoa, I'm pretty sure you can tell z/OSMF

Re: FORMAC was ABP

2022-03-25 Thread Charles Mills
I got into a discussion with a retired neighbor about this and he wrote me I've written system software in assembly and C, when I was writing extensions to APL interpreters, but found those languages so much less agreeable than writing in APL that I switched to writing in another high-level

Re: FORMAC was ABP

2022-03-25 Thread Charles Mills
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_E._Iverson Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Carmen Vitullo Sent: Friday, March 25, 2022 12:18 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: FORMAC was ABP I wonder, the

Modifying a USS Root File System that is Read-Only

2022-03-25 Thread Matt Hogstrom
I’m in a bit of new territory in terms os working with the root file system for USS. I have a small sysplex for development and recently I was looking to install some additional software that I’d like to place under a mount point off `/`. I could find something existing but it is more

Re: Modifying a USS Root File System that is Read-Only

2022-03-25 Thread John McKown
I'm too lazy for that. On a UNIX she'll prompt, or TSO OMVS, I enter: chmount -w / mkdir /bubbaJ chmount -r / On Fri, Mar 25, 2022, 15:36 Matt Hogstrom wrote: > I’m in a bit of new territory in terms os working with the root file > system for USS. > > I have a small sysplex for development

Re: z/PDT

2022-03-25 Thread Joseph Reichman
I think I have personal addition > On Mar 25, 2022, at 11:47 AM, Joseph Reichman wrote: > > My sales rep indicated that when I finish developing my software I apply and > rent time on a LPAR on real iron I.E z15 > Thanks > > > >> On Mar 25, 2022, at 11:05 AM, Ed Jaffe wrote: >> >> On

Re: Can SORTWKnn Data Sets Use More Than One Volume?

2022-03-25 Thread Scott Barry
On Fri, 25 Mar 2022 13:04:37 +, Allan Staller wrote: >Classification: Confidential > >The last time I looked, DF/SORT required single extent SORTWK. SYNCSORT did >not. > >I suspect that SORTWKxx overrode SMS. > >-Origilal Message- >From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of

Re: FORMAC was ABP

2022-03-25 Thread Carmen Vitullo
I wonder, the name Ken Iverson is so familiar, does anyone know if he taught any MVS Structure classes for IBM in NY? I recall my teacher talking about the history of MVS, how it started, why it was designed as to what it is now, and he talked like he was one of the developers. just curious

Re: FORMAC was ABP

2022-03-25 Thread David Spiegel
Hi Carmen, At different jobs in the '80s: 1) "Decision Support" with the ADRS add-on (at a computer hardware company) 2) crunching Nielsen marketing data (at a large multi-national food company) 3) actuarial stuff (insurance) Regards, David On 2022-03-25 14:47, Carmen Vitullo wrote: I don't

Re: Modifying a USS Root File System that is Read-Only

2022-03-25 Thread Gord Tomlin
On 2022-03-25 16:36 PM, Matt Hogstrom wrote: I am getting these messages when attempting to mount as RDWR … READ mounts fine. IOS000I 0AA4,EF,WRI,E7,0200,,56E8,MT24R1,CATALOG , 8002A4000CA0A1A2A3A4000300E2000C IOS000I

Re: Using SORT to add quotes around CHAR fields? (Listserv)

2022-03-25 Thread Wayne Bickerdike
I couldn't resist. Here's a REXX solution. Should work for any layout which is defined in the manner of the original request, although my test data only has the header in the first record. On Thu, Mar 24, 2022 at 7:47 AM Don Johnson < 02ee771a0785-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: >

Re: PL/I question

2022-03-25 Thread Jay Maynard
Oh, not at all. At least in the 80s, all of the nice things were separately charged program products, and the PL/I Optimizer was definitely in that category. You could use the PL/I F compiler from MVT if you wanted and could get your hands on a copy, though, at no charge. On Fri, Mar 25, 2022 at

Re: PL/I question

2022-03-25 Thread Wayne Bickerdike
I think Pl/I was "free" before IBM unbundled software. I started in 1975 and we had the F level and Optimizing compiler. Most of our senior programmers wrote in Assembler but my first year was all PL/I, Assembler came later. We never used COBOL but had RPG and Mark IV. A couple of years later we

Re: PL/I question

2022-03-25 Thread allan winston
>From 1970 to 1972, I was in a shop that made the transition from PL/I F to the PL/I optimizing compiler. I would frequently use the LIST compiler option to look at the machine code generated and found that the PL/I F compiler generated quite poor code, frequently having to make a library call

Re: Modifying a USS Root File System that is Read-Only

2022-03-25 Thread Matt Hogstrom
Gord, I think that might be it. I had checked that they were not read-only in z/OS but you are correct. These systems are running under z/VM so I’ll need to check with them to confirm but that makes perfect sense. If anyone is interested, the 3 MVS systems are in a SYSPLEX under z/VM

Re: PL/I question

2022-03-25 Thread CM Poncelet
AFAIK The reason PL/I was not 'more popular' was its high license fee.   Meanwhile, I've known people use even COBOL to write/maintain system code.   As for me, I wrote all system code in assembler - bar adhoc stuff, as in to be executed once only (e.g. to convert CICS DFHCSD [?] RDO-defined LU2

Re: PL/I question

2022-03-25 Thread Bob Bridges
License fee? I always assumed PL/I sort of came with the OS. I didn't think it'd be any extra. --- Bob Bridges, robhbrid...@gmail.com, cell 336 382-7313 /* You've never been lost until you've been lost at Mach 3. -Paul F Crickmore, test pilot */ -Original Message- From: IBM

Re: Using SORT to add quotes around CHAR fields? (Listserv)

2022-03-25 Thread Wayne Bickerdike
Hi Sri, Yes, I took a few shortcuts! If I were to build a complete solution, I would parse the attributes and dynamically build the file tailoring skeleton. The underlying data comes from CA (Broadcoms) Datacom sample database. I expect that similar table extracts may be required for porting to

Re: z/PDT

2022-03-25 Thread Sebastian Welton
Dallas - ISV which means zPDT and tends to get the ADCD a bit quicker Passport Advantage - means ZD systems and this ADCD is packaged slightly differently. In fact an ISV wouldn't be able to use it and vice-versa Sebastian >Just opened a ticket was told will get a response by tommorow >