Re: Calling idcams

2012-06-20 Thread Gord Tomlin
that operate with GNU's library. But...that's the nice thing about standards: there are so many to choose from! -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation) Tel: (905) 470-7113, Fax: (905) 470-6507 On 2012-06-20 13:04, McKown, John wrote: I have

Re: Calling idcams

2012-06-21 Thread Gord Tomlin
On 2012-06-20 17:13, McKown, John wrote: -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@listserv.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Gord Tomlin Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2012 3:30 PM To: IBM-MAIN@listserv.ua.edu Subject: Re: Calling idcams One could argue that creating LE

Re: Relationship of C signals to z/OS terminology?

2012-07-13 Thread Gord Tomlin
in a reasonable amount of time. In such a scenario, you can cause your cleanup code to run in several ways including, but not limited to, an ETXR for the worker TCB. -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation) Tel: (905) 470-7113, Fax: (905) 470-6507

Re: Top posting

2012-07-29 Thread Gord Tomlin
written. The longer the thread gets, the more painful this becomes. I do not use the web interface, so I am not aware of the problems its users are encountering, but bottom posting is enough of an annoyance for me in my email client. I am happy to comply with this request. -- Regards, Gord Tomlin

Re: Auditors Don't Know Squat!

2012-08-17 Thread Gord Tomlin
On 2012-08-17 18:39, Chip Grantham wrote: I looked at the V1.13 glossary and found program temporary fix (PTF) That's what it's been for as long as I can remember... -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation) Tel: (905) 470-7113, Fax

Re: UNABLE TO DO A FULL VOLUME RESTORE - DFDSS

2012-09-06 Thread Gord Tomlin
You can only do a full volume restore from a full volume dump. Please verify that the dump was a full volume dump, not a data set dump, and let us know. -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation) Tel: (905) 470-7113, Fax: (905) 470-6507

Re: Proof That Dinosaurs Can Learn New Tricks

2012-09-07 Thread Gord Tomlin
AFAIK there was never a June 2013 release date for the next z/OS release. -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation) Tel: (905) 470-7113, Fax: (905) 470-6507 On 2012-09-07 12:03, John P Kalinich wrote: snip from Ed's blog This time

Re: C and LE -- when prepend userid on file names?

2012-09-15 Thread Gord Tomlin
The results of the documented behavior might be somewhat surprising for users of systems where the TSO user prefix is not the same as the RACF userid. -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation) Tel: (905) 470-7113, Fax: (905) 470-6507

Re: OT? But a nice article about IDEs

2012-10-30 Thread Gord Tomlin
disagree with much of what is said in the article, which is long on opinion and short on objective facts. -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation) Tel: (905) 470-7113, Fax: (905) 470-6507 On 2012-10-30 08:52, McKown, John wrote: http

Re: SPLEVEL SET=2

2013-09-27 Thread Gord Tomlin
to change the settings for a new release, while preserving the settings used to build each prior release. -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation) Tel: (905) 470-7113, Fax: (905) 470-6507

Re: TN3270 emulator application scripting

2013-10-01 Thread Gord Tomlin
On 2013-10-01 11:37, Frank Swarbrick wrote: We currently have a Windows application that uses our terminal emulator's EHLLAPI functionality. For starters, what TN3270 emulator are you using? -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation) Tel

Re: Interested in up to date open source software or low cost utilities?

2013-10-03 Thread Gord Tomlin
for this business model is the small number of potential customers. The Apple and Google app marketplaces each have hundreds of millions of potential customers. Someone producing a z/OS app has perhaps a few thousand at most. Nobody is about to get rich selling z/OS apps for $100 a pop. -- Regards, Gord

Re: Interested in up to date open source software or low cost utilities?

2013-10-03 Thread Gord Tomlin
, and frustrating, case. There have been ports to s390, but the custodians of the Python trunk are unwilling to accept s390 patches into their code base, and are quite hostile to the platform. This situation is regrettable, since there is a wealth of tools built with Python. -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action

Re: Interested in up to date open source software or low cost utilities?

2013-10-03 Thread Gord Tomlin
) to gatekeeper (singular). -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation) Tel: (905) 470-7113, Fax: (905) 470-6507 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send

Re: How diagnose potential memory leaks with LE?

2013-10-10 Thread Gord Tomlin
indicated that the (hardware) memory had a fault, not that memory was left allocated when it should not have been. -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation) Tel: (905) 470-7113, Fax: (905) 470-6507

Re: shark fin

2013-10-10 Thread Gord Tomlin
be interested to hear that you have a shark fin: http://www.seashepherd.org/ -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation) Tel: (905) 470-7113, Fax: (905) 470-6507 -- For IBM-MAIN

Re: Interested in up to date open source software or low cost utilities?

2013-10-28 Thread Gord Tomlin
home in a run time library or in a utility product, as opposed to being built right into a computer language. In fact, a Google search for locale sensitive string comparison shows that such facilities are available for several languages. -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International

Re: Unicode (was: ... open source ...?)

2013-10-29 Thread Gord Tomlin
On 2013-10-29 16:29, John Gilmore wrote: sharp, acerbic disagreement---has a place here. Many here would disagree with you on that point! -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation) Tel: (905) 470-7113, Fax: (905) 470-6507

Re: Unicode (was: ... open source ...?)

2013-10-29 Thread Gord Tomlin
On 2013-10-29 16:44, John Gilmore wrote: Acerbically perhaps? Hopefully not! ;) -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation) Tel: (905) 470-7113, Fax: (905) 470-6507

Re: Interesting? How _compilers_ are compromising application security

2013-10-30 Thread Gord Tomlin
. -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation) Tel: (905) 470-7113, Fax: (905) 470-6507 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists

Re: DISPLAY TCPIP,,NETSTAT help

2013-10-31 Thread Gord Tomlin
On 2013-10-31 10:32, Elardus Engelbrecht wrote: Maybe Ed McMahon would have said it better. Who is he/it? I don't recall his/it name here on IBM-MAIN. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_McMahon -- -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation

Re: Aging Sysprogs = Aging Farmers

2013-11-06 Thread Gord Tomlin
that if I want to search the files in a directory for occurrences of a string that the command I would want is grep. Or how about flex/bison? And please don't ask me to finger a user. Thank goodness IBM did not choose to prefix all their commands with ya for yet another. -- Regards, Gord

Re: Aging Sysprogs = Aging Farmers

2013-11-06 Thread Gord Tomlin
this other Gord was. -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation) Tel: (905) 470-7113, Fax: (905) 470-6507 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions

Re: IEFIIC question

2013-11-27 Thread Gord Tomlin
obtaining a dump of the address space and then using IPCS VERBEXIT VSMDATA to analyze the storage associated with the IEFIIC TCB. -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation) Tel: (905) 470-7113, Fax: (905) 470-6507

Re: Lookat

2013-12-12 Thread Gord Tomlin
On 2013-12-12 13:57, Clark Morris wrote: I can get a 32 GB flash drive for under 50 Canadian dollars if I watch for a sale and I have seen 64 GB drives advertised. Apparently you are missing the good sales! I bought 32 GB USB 3.0 sticks for about CAD $16. -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action

Re: Geek Is Now A Praiseword, Not An Insult Apparently - Forbes

2013-12-17 Thread Gord Tomlin
On 2013-12-17 00:54, Elardus Engelbrecht wrote: But according to non z/Os geeks 'legacy' is: obsolete, outdated, antique, etc. or something like that ... In Toronto, when IBM disposed of their country club, the housing development that replaced it was called Legacy. -- Regards, Gord

Re: IBM Knowledge Center beta

2013-12-19 Thread Gord Tomlin
than we've come to expect from IBM. Of course it does nothing to address the user community's wish to continue to be able to view manuals online in BookManager format. -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation) Tel: (905) 470-7113, Fax: (905

Re: Mainframe culture question - how display a tab character?

2014-01-10 Thread Gord Tomlin
the parameters in dump format (both character and hexadecimal) and not attempt to convert the tab character to some other representation. -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation) Tel: (905) 470-7113, Fax: (905) 470-6507

Re: Dataspace versus common area above the bar

2014-01-20 Thread Gord Tomlin
provided by the data space. -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation) Tel: (905) 470-7113, Fax: (905) 470-6507 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: Dataspace versus common area above the bar

2014-01-21 Thread Gord Tomlin
in 64-bit storage do require quadword consistency, while the same algorithm using 31-bit storage would only require doubleword consistency. Having said that, the OP did not mention any need to update his tables. -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer

Re: z/OSMF (was: Entry Level System Programmer Job Description)

2014-02-06 Thread Gord Tomlin
/OSMF as of z/OS 2.1, has anyone here implemented z/OSMF and seen a positive effect on interest levels in systems programming jobs from younger individuals? Or, has anyone here implemented z/OSMF and carried on using it themselves because they prefer it to the existing tools? -- Regards, Gord

Re: Looking for decision tree for hardware purchases

2013-05-15 Thread Gord Tomlin
I would want to include some RAS considerations such as: - mean time to failure; - mean time to repair; - availability of local service personnel. -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation) Tel: (905) 470-7113, Fax: (905) 470-6507 On 2013

Re: ECSA

2013-05-24 Thread Gord Tomlin
The storage is in subpool 231, which is a CSA/ECSA subpool. This subpool is owned by the system, and it is not freed by task or address space termination. -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation) Tel: (905) 470-7113, Fax: (905) 470-6507

Re: ECSA

2013-05-24 Thread Gord Tomlin
Are you looking at system trace to see that STORAGE RELEASE? The ASID, work unit address, and PSW for the STORAGE RELEASE should reveal who issued it. Can you post the relevant lines from system trace (assuming that is where you are looking)? -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software

Re: ECSA

2013-05-27 Thread Gord Tomlin
it! In the unseen trace record, the return address should be usable to identify the issuer of the STORAGE RELEASE. -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation) Tel: (905) 470-7113, Fax: (905) 470-6507 On 2013-05-24 16:44, Scott Ford wrote: Gord

Re: ECSA

2013-05-28 Thread Gord Tomlin
numbers. -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation) Tel: (905) 470-7113, Fax: (905) 470-6507 On 2013-05-28 14:12, Scott Ford wrote: DASDBILL2: I was using : gtfparm: TRACE=SYSM,USRP,TRC,DSP,PCI,SRM but when I start GTF look: 0290 T

Re: Run TSO batch as different user?

2013-06-19 Thread Gord Tomlin
...which will of course lead to controversy! ;) -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation) Tel: (905) 470-7113, Fax: (905) 470-6507 On 2013-06-19 17:34, Gord Tomlin wrote: Did you try adding the userid and password to the job card

Re: Run TSO batch as different user?

2013-06-20 Thread Gord Tomlin
Absolutely! Forgot about that! -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation) Tel: (905) 470-7113, Fax: (905) 470-6507 On 2013-06-19 18:10, Ed Jaffe wrote: On 6/19/2013 2:34 PM, Gord Tomlin wrote: Did you try adding the userid and password

Re: z/TPF question

2013-08-13 Thread Gord Tomlin
the price of some of the engines on the box. -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation) Tel: (905) 470-7113, Fax: (905) 470-6507 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive

Re: Any z/OS product support to access VSAM data via JDBC?

2013-08-23 Thread Gord Tomlin
WebSphere Information Integrator Classic Federation and Classic Event Publisher Version 8.2 for this purpose. I'm not sure what current IBM product (if any) contains the equivalent functionality. -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation

Re: Task to subtask communications

2013-08-28 Thread Gord Tomlin
, the main task just needs to check which ECB(s) were POSTed and take the appropriate actions. -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation) Tel: (905) 470-7113, Fax: (905) 470-6507

Re: Sortlessness?

2013-09-04 Thread Gord Tomlin
, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation) Tel: (905) 470-7113, Fax: (905) 470-6507 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists

Pre-assigned/invariantASIDs?

2013-09-06 Thread Gord Tomlin
recall such a list? -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation) Tel: (905) 470-7113, Fax: (905) 470-6507 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send

Re: Pre-assigned/invariantASIDs?

2013-09-06 Thread Gord Tomlin
a certain ASID. -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation) Tel: (905) 470-7113, Fax: (905) 470-6507 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email

Re: Pre-assigned/invariantASIDs?

2013-09-06 Thread Gord Tomlin
programming interface. -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation) Tel: (905) 470-7113, Fax: (905) 470-6507 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send

Re: Pre-assigned/invariantASIDs?

2013-09-06 Thread Gord Tomlin
prompted your question.) I was actually just looking at another table in the Diagnosis Reference (PC services in system function table), and happened to think I wonder what that list of pre-assigned ASIDs looks like now. Pure curiosity, coupled with a wee senility check! -- Regards, Gord

Re: Track PDS/PS Changes

2013-09-09 Thread Gord Tomlin
to be representative. eventACTION will perform the tracking you are looking for. I won't say more here, because this list does not welcome marketing, but you can obtain the contact information from http://www.actionsoftware.com/ to investigate further. HTH. -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software

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

2013-09-16 Thread Gord Tomlin
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. It's in z/OS 2.1. -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer

Re: Metal C vs. HLASM - for C callable subroutine?

2014-03-25 Thread Gord Tomlin
with the cryptic syntax used to map C constructs to Assembler constructs. Your code will probably be more understandable if you write a LE-compliant Assembler subroutine to do those functions. -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation) Tel

Re: Metal C vs. HLASM - for C callable subroutine?

2014-03-25 Thread Gord Tomlin
runtime. Admittedly these occasions are not that common; in my experience it's not very often that a situation presents itself where C with inline Assembler is preferable to pure Assembler. -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation) Tel

Re: Historical question regarding the stop command

2012-12-05 Thread Gord Tomlin
I had never heard of the ability to issue a STOP command for a TSO session, so I tried it with one of my TSO sessions (which was in READY mode), and nothing happened. It would appear that as of z/OS 1.13 this ability no longer exists. -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International

Re: Historical question regarding the stop command

2012-12-05 Thread Gord Tomlin
? -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation) Tel: (905) 470-7113, Fax: (905) 470-6507 On 2012-12-05 14:35, McKown, John wrote: Well, I know for a fact that some vendors still don't use MODIFY commands for their products. They hang a WTOR. Why? I

Re: Historical question regarding the stop command

2012-12-05 Thread Gord Tomlin
Yes the session was in READY mode, as I stated in my previous post. The console showed nothing other than the command I issued. No response. Give it a try on your system and post your results. -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation) Tel

Re: Historical question regarding the stop command

2012-12-05 Thread Gord Tomlin
. TSO/E session is terminated. IKJ56470I [redacted] LOGGED OFF TSO AT 18:55:52 ON DECEMBER 5, 2012 IKJ56400A ENTER LOGON OR LOGOFF- -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation) Tel: (905) 470-7113, Fax: (905) 470-6507 On 2012-12-05 17:23

Re: 64 Bit Common Storage (was Common Data Space Basics)

2012-12-13 Thread Gord Tomlin
/OS V1R13.0 MVS Authorized Assembler Services Reference EDT-IXG documents IARCP64, IARST64 and IARV64, including the options for obtaining 64-bit common storage. -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation) Tel: (905) 470-7113, Fax: (905) 470

Re: Is it possible to write an exit for ADRDSSU to capture backup information?

2012-12-14 Thread Gord Tomlin
The ADRDSSU user interaction module can do a great many things. Can you describe specifically what you mean by backup information? -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation) Tel: (905) 470-7113, Fax: (905) 470-6507 On 2012-12-14 16:02

Re: SAVE macro

2013-03-01 Thread Gord Tomlin
by Monday. ;) -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation) Tel: (905) 470-7113, Fax: (905) 470-6507 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email

Re: RFE voting at IBM developerWorks

2014-10-23 Thread Gord Tomlin
If I was submitting an RFE, I would certainly want to know in advance whether my submission would be readable by others outside of IBM, as this would influence what details I included in the submission. -- Regards, Gord Tomlin On 2014-10-23 13:53, Thomas Berg wrote: I suspected something

Re: System vs. user ABEND codes

2014-11-07 Thread Gord Tomlin
That should be the former often has the PIC in plain view. In the case of S0C4, that's only true if the S0C4 is PIC 4. On 2014-11-07 06:23, Martin Packer wrote: And the former has the PIC in plain view in. -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer

Re: FTP hangs?

2014-11-25 Thread Gord Tomlin
getting about 26 Kb/sec. They changed the MTU size for the connection from defaultsize to 1492, and things got much better. Just a thought, in case your hang isn't really quite a hang. -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation) Tel: (905) 470

Curiosity: IEAAPFxx and LNKLSTxx

2015-02-05 Thread Gord Tomlin
It's been many years now since IBM introduced the ability to define lnklst and APF list via PROGxx. Just curious: is anyone out there still using IEAAPFxx and LNKLSTxx for these purposes? -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation) Tel

Re: Requirements for use of RECORD parameter on SETRP macro

2015-01-09 Thread Gord Tomlin
On 2015-01-09 13:18, John Eells wrote: I don't know the answer but I think you can find the other books here: http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr/Shelves Thanks John...great link! -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation) Tel

Re: Requirements for use of RECORD parameter on SETRP macro

2015-01-09 Thread Gord Tomlin
On 2015-01-09 12:23, Tom Marchant wrote: It is in the list in the manual for z/OS 1.7, not in the 1.8 manual. The summary of changes doesn't mention it, so I wonder if it is just a doc change. If it's just a doc change, then it either corrected or introduced a doc error. -- Regards, Gord

Requirements for use of RECORD parameter on SETRP macro

2015-01-09 Thread Gord Tomlin
don't have access to manuals for z/OS releases prior to 1.11. Does anyone know when this requirement changed? -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation) Tel: (905) 470-7113, Fax: (905) 470-6507

Re: accounting packages

2015-03-13 Thread Gord Tomlin
a small business, there are plenty of suitable accounting packages such as QuickBooks available at a low price. -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation) Tel: (905) 470-7113, Fax: (905) 470-6507

Re: z/OS Platform Software Products on ... Tape?

2015-05-12 Thread Gord Tomlin
files. They can be unzipped without an existing z/OS system running. As Scott says, it's easy and simple, but of course it's a zPDT-only answer. -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation) Tel: (905) 470-7113, Fax: (905) 470-6507

Re: IBM bkserv website donw or gone?

2015-11-18 Thread Gord Tomlin
ing: http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr/Shelves -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation) Tel: (905) 470-7113, Fax: (905) 470-6507 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff

IBM z/OS Internet Library trimmed to z/OS 1.13 and above

2015-09-02 Thread Gord Tomlin
or enhancement. -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation) Tel: (905) 470-7113, Fax: (905) 470-6507 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email

Re: SYMUP - Umod

2015-09-14 Thread Gord Tomlin
-0 -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation) Tel: (905) 470-7113, Fax: (905) 470-6507 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists

Re: Term "Open Systems" (as Sometimes Currently Used) is Dead -- Who's with Me?

2015-09-10 Thread Gord Tomlin
through the misappropriation of the term and simply ignore it. -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation) Tel: (905) 470-7113, Fax: (905) 470-6507 -- For IBM

Re: Getting the TIOT

2015-09-22 Thread Gord Tomlin
he two-line approach common? Aside from theoretical changes, is there any reason not to use it? The TIOT is no longer all-inclusive. Files can now live in the XTIOT instead of the TIOT. GETDSAB can find both. -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Co

Re: Good, free flowchart software

2015-12-10 Thread Gord Tomlin
use the Draw component of LibreOffice (libreoffice.org) or OpenOffice (openoffice.apache.org) to create flow charts. There are also several flow chart projects on sourceforge.net. -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation) Tel: (905) 470

Re: z/OS OpenSSL, SelfSigned Certs, etc

2016-06-22 Thread Gord Tomlin
self-signed certificate", since your root certificate will not be a known and trusted certificate. -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation) Tel: (905) 470-7113, Fax: (905

Re: WAIT >1 (Friday type question, a day late)

2016-06-20 Thread Gord Tomlin
- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation) Tel: (905) 470-7113, Fax: (905) 470-6507 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@lists

Re: AW: Re: You thought IEFBR14 was bad? Try GNU's /bin/true code

2016-02-11 Thread Gord Tomlin
On 2016-02-11 15:46, Paul Gilmartin wrote: Does anyone else (Google doesn't) remember the ELHO acronym? > Isn't that the lead-in for extended SMTP protocol exchange? Almost... "EHLO". -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporati

Re: System Trace Table Size -- REDUX

2016-02-25 Thread Gord Tomlin
I needed was several seconds before the event causing the dump. Providing ample storage for system trace is a great way to help your vendors solve any problems you encounter, and in today's environment of cheap and plentiful storage the cost is minimal. -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action So

RFE: Add support to EDCDSECT for generating Doxygen-compatible comments

2016-07-28 Thread Gord Tomlin
://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe_ID=92319 If you like it, please vote for it! Thanks! -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation) Tel: (905) 470-7113, Fax: (905) 470-6507

Re: AW: Re: AW: Re: S0C4-11 abend caused by BASSM to address with all X'00' bytes

2016-07-23 Thread Gord Tomlin
t; (http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/IEA2A4B0/11.2?SHELF=iea2bkb4=20110614131125) -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation) Tel: (905) 470-7113, Fax: (905

Re: Unterse for 64 bit LINUX?

2017-02-22 Thread Gord Tomlin
where a firewall will not allow zip or tar files through, but will let tersed files through. Having said that, I'm pretty sure the reason is that the firewall was unaware of terse format, and would have blocked it if it was able to recognize terse. -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software

Re: included text from every other reply in a email chain..

2016-08-19 Thread Gord Tomlin
defeats the main alleged benefit of bottom-posting (I realize the irony that this reply is bottom-posted). -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation) Tel: (905) 470-7113, Fax: (905) 470-6507

Re: Cobol V5/V6

2016-08-31 Thread Gord Tomlin
On 2016-08-31 02:53, Timothy Sipples wrote: Sharon Lopez wrote: >My concern is that IBM will announce EOS for Enterprise Cobol 4.2 >and we will not be ready. That's a healthy concern... Please put your reply on the Cobol V5/V6 thread, not the RD/z thread. Thank you. -- Regards

Re: k4t4949b (September 2016 refresh of the z/OS 2.2 manuals)

2016-09-19 Thread Gord Tomlin
You can use 7-Zip to show the archive type, for example: 7z l -slt F:\winzip\example.zip You might want to redirect the command output, since you are dealing with a large archive, and the command output will likely be large. -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a divisi

Re: GMail vs. COBOL

2016-08-18 Thread Gord Tomlin
messages with Thunderbird), Paul Gilmartin's messages also break threads on IBM-MAIN; Gil is active here, so his posts break lots of threads for me. Interestingly, his posts do not break threads on ASSEMBLER-LIST. There are plenty of moving parts here. -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software Intern

Re: GMail vs. COBOL

2016-08-18 Thread Gord Tomlin
On 2016-08-17 21:31, zMan wrote: Heck, people reply to existing threads with new topics; This is a pure human behavioral issue, and drives me nuts. -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation) Tel: (905) 470-7113, Fax: (905) 470-6507

Re: GMail vs. COBOL

2016-08-18 Thread Gord Tomlin
them) have a strong preference for bottom-posting, based in part on standards. -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation) Tel: (905) 470-7113, Fax: (905) 470-6507 -- For IBM-MAIN

Re: GMail vs. COBOL

2016-08-18 Thread Gord Tomlin
with yours. There is a standard that declares bottom-posting to be correct, and top-posting to be incorrect. Personally, I hate bottom-posting, but the majority here seem to be in favor of it, so I comply. I don't bottom-post except on listservs. -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International

Re: AW: How large are your system trace & master trace on z13?

2016-10-28 Thread Gord Tomlin
te, always remember to increase system trace size if you turn on branch tracing to help debug a problem. If you need the other trace entries for context, the volume of branch tracing will reduce the amount of other trace data available in a trace table of a given size. -- Regards, Gord Tom

Re: IBM Education Assistance for z/OS - Useful??

2016-10-12 Thread Gord Tomlin
The page referenced by your link shows only 2.2 items. I don't see any benefit to removing items for all but the latest release. -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation) Tel: (905) 470-7113, Fax: (905

IBM doc page - down or dead?

2016-11-28 Thread Gord Tomlin
The page I use to reach IBM manuals has been unavailable all day. I get IBM's usual 404 page instead. http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/z/os/zos/bkserv/ Is anyone able to reach this page? Can anyone at IBM comment on whether this page is intentionally missing? -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action

Re: LRECL=255 vs LRECL=259

2016-11-15 Thread Gord Tomlin
I've never seen LRECL=259 in my life...well, until now! -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation) Tel: (905) 470-7113, Fax: (905) 470-6507 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe

Re: LOOKAT gone? - Doc Buddy? Seriously?

2016-12-07 Thread Gord Tomlin
g. IBM's Byzantine web sites and web apps suggest that they haven't been looking. -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation) Tel: (905) 470-7113, Fax: (905) 470-6507 -- Fo

Re: IBM doc page - down or dead?

2016-11-29 Thread Gord Tomlin
for a very long time. Until yesterday, that is. -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation) Tel: (905) 470-7113, Fax: (905) 470-6507 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff

Re: Linux Copying z/OS Volumes Using Raw-Track Access Mode?

2017-03-16 Thread Gord Tomlin
(requiring an additional volume) in order to get at a copy of the individual data set. -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation) Tel: (905) 470-7113, Fax: (905) 470-6507 -- Fo

Re: Need help understanding use of CEEPIPI from non-LE assembler main programs

2017-03-16 Thread Gord Tomlin
by ADD_ENTRY calls for all the routines to be called via CEEPIPI. Then we do CALL_SUB for any routine using the index returned by ADD_ENTRY. -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation) Tel: (905) 470-7113, Fax: (905) 470-6507

Re: Any SMF statistics available for LOAD of a program?

2017-08-09 Thread Gord Tomlin
for any assistance you can provide. Peter Shameless plug: eventACTION's Reference Tracker component will collect that information for you. -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation) Tel: (905) 470-7113, Fax: (905) 470-6507

Re: Terminology - Datasets

2017-04-27 Thread Gord Tomlin
In the field, we find that despite IBM's attempts to sweep "USS" as an acronym for "UNIX System Services" under the rug, it refuses to go away and remains in common use. -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation) Tel: (905)

Re: Terminology - Datasets

2017-04-27 Thread Gord Tomlin
On 2017-04-27 18:07, Paul Gilmartin wrote: On Thu, 27 Apr 2017 17:30:30 -0400, Gord Tomlin wrote: Any time Gil succeeds in getting a z/OS MVS facility to work with z/OS UNIX files, we'll have to update our doc! ;) Be specific. What qualifies as a "z/OS MVS facility"? IEBG

Re: Researching Destination z article on non-US mainframes

2017-08-09 Thread Gord Tomlin
find the experiences very similar to those of US users, other than those related to dealing with IBM. -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation) Tel: (905) 470-7113, Fax: (905) 470-6507

Re: S0D5 accessing dataspace

2017-05-09 Thread Gord Tomlin
, the alleged performance guru at the site used their monitoring product (can't remember whether it was Omegamon or TMON) to swap out a started task that needed to be non-swappable. -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation) Tel: (905) 470-7113, Fax

Re: Store Clock Fast really can give duplicates

2017-06-21 Thread Gord Tomlin
On 2017-06-21 11:58, Tony Harminc wrote: Muphry's law? ^ Murphy's Law in action. -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation) Tel: (905) 470-7113, Fax: (905) 470-6507

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