Re: IEBPTPCH questions

2012-06-19 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Tue, 19 Jun 2012 08:51:12 -0500, Tom Marchant wrote: I didn't see anything in the OP's query that required instream data. I'm sorry. I violated the cardinal rule of IBM-MAIN, that a followup never addresses matters not raised by the OP. -- gil

Re: Co:Z SPTF OMVS segment duplicate

2012-06-21 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Thu, 21 Jun 2012 10:41:59 -0500, Mark Steely wrote: I have several ID's that share the same UID. Don't do that. Would different UIDs and a common HOME directory work for you? Would separate home directories and symlinks to a project/group directory, group-writable work? Some times the

Re: Shrinking a ZFS aggregate

2012-07-05 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Thu, 5 Jul 2012 08:50:25 -0500, McKown, John wrote: What is needed is for IBM to write a zfsresize command. This command would reorganize the internals of a zfs, compacting the used portions towards the front of the dataset, adjusting the internal pointers, and marking some portion (based

Re: Import image to overlay

2012-07-12 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Thu, 12 Jul 2012 00:26:49 -0400, Ed Finnell *@AOL.COM wrote: _www.printers.ibm.com_ (http://www.printers.ibm.com) redirects to the Ricoh site. ... It's worse than that. There, I see: You may have JavaScript disabled in your browser. Instructions for enabling JavaScript can be

Re: OT Yahoo Accounts Hacked

2012-07-12 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Thu, 12 Jul 2012 11:58:17 -0700, Lizette Koehler wrote: http://www.cnn.com/2012/07/12/tech/web/yahoo-users-hacked/index.html?hpt=hp_t2 (CNN) -- Hackers posted online what they say is login information for more than 450,000 Yahoo users. Does this imply that Yahoo is storing passwords

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

2012-07-13 Thread Paul Gilmartin
I stand corrected about SIGKILL vs. SIGILL. On Fri, 13 Jul 2012 09:45:00 -0700, Charles Mills wrote: BTW, this is z/OS batch (STC actually). Does operator CANCEL generate a SIGKILL? Or ...? I once suggested that for compatibility with existing UNIX conventions z/OS system shutdown should send

Re: COBOL packed decimal

2012-07-14 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Sat, 14 Jul 2012 14:39:04 -0400, John Gilmore wrote: Some years ago this situation changed dramatically. Mike Cowlishaw---he who designed REXX---devised what is now ANSI decimal floating point (DFP). DFP behaves consistently in ways that do not surprise accountants. (All three

Re: Yahoo Password Breach: 7 Lessons Learned - Security - Attacks/breaches - Informationweek

2012-07-16 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Mon, 16 Jul 2012 13:31:07 -0400, zMan wrote: On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 12:00 PM, John Gilmore wrote: Passwords or userids that may be at most 8 characters in length are unacceptable today. Passwords, yes; userids, meh -- I don't consider a userid to be a secure data point. It's not a

Re: Yahoo Password Breach: 7 Lessons Learned - Security - Attacks/breaches - Informationweek

2012-07-17 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Tue, 17 Jul 2012 13:45:51 +0800, Timothy Sipples wrote: 4. It's a big problem when practically everybody in the security community criticizes Yahoo! for their intransigence in fixing the problem. It's an even bigger problem when my own mother suffered from Yahoo's decade plus long failure to

Re: Yahoo Password Breach: 7 Lessons Learned - Security - Attacks/breaches - Informationweek

2012-07-17 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Tue, 17 Jul 2012 13:13:03 +0800, Timothy Sipples wrote: You're referring to TSO/E only, which has a 7 character user ID limitation. Yes, if you're shopping for TSO/E, maybe that's a strike against TSO/E. Also (consequently?) if you're shopping for a Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor military fighter

Re: Yahoo Password Breach: 7 Lessons Learned - Security - Attacks/breaches - Informationweek

2012-07-17 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Tue, 17 Jul 2012 07:36:49 -0500, McKown, John wrote: -Original Message- [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Timothy Sipples Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2012 12:13 AM snip Fact: Every z/OS licensee receives Tivoli Directory Server for z/OS with LDAP. There's no such

Unsetting a JCL symbol.

2012-07-17 Thread Paul Gilmartin
Just curious. Once a JCL symbol has been set, is there any way subsequently to restore it to exactly the state and behavior it had before it was set? -- gil -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions,

Re: Unsetting a JCL symbol.

2012-07-17 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Tue, 17 Jul 2012 16:43:32 -0500, Bass, Walter W wrote: Try this ... //* SAVE CURRENT VALUE OF MYSYM // SET SAVESYM=MYSYM //* SET MYSYM TO A NEW VALUE // SET MYSYM='NEWVAL' ... //* RESTORE MYSYM // SET MYSYM=SAVESYM Probably not the answer you wanted, but it works. Actually,

Re: REXX ISPF edit FIND failing

2012-07-19 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Thu, 19 Jul 2012 10:19:28 +0100, Rupert Reynolds wrote: There is no need to send edit commands via ISPEXEC anyway:-) What was the rationale for making the initial host command environment when an edit macro is entered TSO rather than the obvious ISREDIT? Was it merely that the ISPF

Re: REXX ISPF edit FIND failing

2012-07-19 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Thu, 19 Jul 2012 09:12:54 -0700, John Mattson wrote: And the grand prize goes to Tom Ambros Yes, use DOUBLE AMPERSANDS in REXX and the FINDs work properly. So simple when we finally see it. Many thanks to everyone. So is the behavior of EDIT different when identical command strings are

Re: COBOL packed decimal

2012-07-21 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Fri, 20 Jul 2012 11:43:45 -0400, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: Is this because Unisys is deficient in conformance to the standard, or because IBM's implementation contains an extension to the standard? No, it's because UNIVAC used ones complement arithmetic on most of its lines, Including

Re: REXX ISPF edit FIND failing

2012-07-21 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Fri, 20 Jul 2012 15:55:28 -0700, John Mattson wrote: Shmuel ! Its amazing how much you contribute without access to a z system. Hope my memory and research is that good when we go off zOS (we're being SAPonified). So, are you on a slippery slope? -- gil

Re: Passwords and user-ids was Re: Yahoo Password Breach: 7 Lessons Learned - Security - Attacks/breaches - Informationweek

2012-07-21 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Fri, 20 Jul 2012 23:22:38 -0300, Clark Morris wrote: If you believe that user-ids should be larger than 7 characters or even 8, then what are the implications for SMF records and various control blocks in z/OS? Many modern products use XML to avoid such hard limits. -- gil

Re: REXX ISPF edit FIND failing

2012-07-22 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Sun, 22 Jul 2012 13:50:25 +0100, CM Poncelet wrote: Same question as earlier: Do identical command strings issued to ISREDIT from CLIST and CALL have identical effect? I would expect the ISREDIT effects of REXX/Clist v. ISPLINK calls to be identical, because the command strings in the call

Re: Submitting a requirement for z/OS to at least acknowledge SIGNAL SHUTDOWN by printing a message

2012-07-22 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Sun, 22 Jul 2012 15:17:11 -0500, David Boyes wrote: For those of you who haven't seen it, VM, VSE and Linux register for a specific fully-architected hardware external interrupt (in the PoPs) that indicates that the LPAR is being shut down. VSE issues a message, VM reflects the interrupt to

Re: Submitting a requirement for z/OS to at least acknowledge SIGNAL SHUTDOWN by printing a message

2012-07-22 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Sun, 22 Jul 2012 18:23:36 -0400, zMan wrote: Some years ago, I suggested in MVS-OE that MVS shutdown should send SIGTERM to all dubbed processes so that processes coded to UNIX conventions could perform orderly shutdown. The suggestion was not well received. Can you elaborate? Why would

Re: AW: Cbttape Freeware isn't available

2012-07-23 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Mon, 23 Jul 2012 08:50:35 -0400, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: Could someone post the IP, the problem still seems to exist for some of us. Maybe DNS corruption. I'd guess a firewall issue. Does yours allow ICMP packets through? Have you tried a tracerte[1] for the same sites? [1] The name

Re: Gordon Crovitz: Who Really Invented the Internet?

2012-07-23 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Mon, 23 Jul 2012 15:57:16 -0400, Mitch wrote: you mean it wasn't Al Gore? No, he just eponymously supplied some of the algorithms. -- gil -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to

Re: Authorized Rexx Assembler Function

2012-07-23 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Mon, 23 Jul 2012 19:35:04 -0700, Garry G. Green wrote: Also TSO has an APF list. When you request invocation of a program that is on the APF list (today this is in Parmlib IKJTSO; in the SPF days it was a zap to IKJEFTE2/8) - instead of running the program, IKJEFT02 posts IKJEFT01

Re: AW: Cbttape Freeware isn't available

2012-07-24 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Tue, 24 Jul 2012 06:11:45 -0400, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: There are sites that will do these things for you. There are sites that do DNS and whois lookups for you. There are no sites that analyze what your own firewall is blocking. Granted. And the firewall design probably

Re: REXX ISPF edit FIND failing

2012-07-24 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Tue, 24 Jul 2012 08:39:35 -0400, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: Address ISREDIT does not in general require quotes either. The quotes are only needed because you want constants with special characters. And remembering that Rexx considers lower case characters special. Had you wanted, e.g.,

Who's blacklisting IBM-MAIN

2012-07-25 Thread Paul Gilmartin
Attempting to connect to the archives from my employer's WAN, I get: Compliance Alert:URL - http://listserv.ua.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A0=ibm-main; Category - Malicious Sites And access to the archives is unbearably slow to impossible from elsewhere. -- gil

Re: Using SSH or SCP in REXX under TSO

2012-07-25 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Wed, 25 Jul 2012 22:12:01 +, Uriel Carrasquilla wrote: Does anybody have a sample REXX that can be shared to either scp or ssh to remote Unix from TSO? I have seen JCL to that effect using BPXBATCH but I have not tried it since I need the REXX. Crudely (error recovery is left as an

Re: Using SSH or SCP in REXX under TSO

2012-07-26 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Thu, 26 Jul 2012 09:55:07 -0500, McKown, John wrote: Remember! that scp on z/OS does an EBCDIC to ASCII translation. If you need a binary transfer, you'll need to use sftp. I've not tried sftp. I'd expect that sftp and scp are both variants of ssh, and the EBCDIC-ASCII translation is

Re: Using SSH or SCP in REXX under TSO

2012-07-26 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Thu, 26 Jul 2012 10:37:28 -0500, McKown, John wrote: No. sftp uses a separate SSH subsystem which does not do the code translation. IIRC, sftp as distributed by IBM only does a binary transfer. The Dovetailed Technologies enhancments to z/OS sftp allows for code translation. And, in

Re: Using SSH or SCP in REXX under TSO

2012-07-26 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Thu, 26 Jul 2012 16:13:12 +, Uriel Carrasquilla wrote: For the source_file, is it a USS file? or can it be a zOS file? open() requires a USS file. 'open (source_file)' O_RDONLY reads the file but where is it used? The descriptor gets assigned to map.0 map.1 = 1 map.2 = 2 shouldn't

Re: Is it possible to open a ZIP file with PAX?

2012-07-26 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Thu, 26 Jul 2012 12:24:34 -0400, Bill Ashton wrote: Is it possible to use the PAX program to open a .zip file on the mainframe, or does anyone have any other suggestions? I know I can open it on the PC and transfer the file components over...just looking to see if I can cut out a step. No.

Re: Who's blacklisting IBM-MAIN

2012-07-26 Thread Paul Gilmartin
archives unresponsive? From: Darren Evans-Young Date: 07/26/12 16:28 To: Paul Gilmartin I'll look into it. Slow for me too. Probably related to the new server they migrated Listserv to. Darren (I know; I'm violating etiquette by distributing a private communication

Re: Friday: What you've been waiting for! Build an 80 column punched card reader!

2012-07-27 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Fri, 27 Jul 2012 07:21:26 -0500, McKown, John wrote: For the truly strange hardware hackers among us. Hardware: http://codeincluded.blogspot.co.nz/2012/07/punch-card-reader-hardware.html software: http://codeincluded.blogspot.co.nz/2012/07/punchcard-reader-software.html Ummm... USB

Re: Top posting

2012-07-29 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Sun, 29 Jul 2012 11:32:19 -0400, Gord Tomlin wrote: While there is an RFC (I'm not going to hunt for the number on a Sunday) that specifies that bottom posting is correct, as a reader I find bottom posting to be hugely counterproductive. When reading a thread in order, bottom posting requires

Re: Friday: What you've been waiting for! Build an 80 column punched card reader!

2012-07-30 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Sun, 29 Jul 2012 22:03:06 -0400, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: Paul Gilmartin is almost right. Both the reader and the punch read and punched what they were presented with. What is that supposed to mean? Bit 2 of the CCW opcode selected whether to read/punch EBCDIC or column binary

Re: Unix file system - space release question

2012-07-30 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Mon, 30 Jul 2012 15:31:13 +1000, NAIDOO, Raleigh wrote: SSBoYXZlIGNvbmZpZ3VyZWQgc2Z0cCB0byBydW4gdW5kZXIgVVNTIG9uIG15IHovT1MgVjEuMTEg c3lzdGVtLiBUaGUgcGh5c2ljYWwgSEZTIGZpbGUgc3lzdGVtIGFzc29jaWF0ZWQgd2l0aCBzZnRw A. C'mon! Are you using the df -v command to investigate this further? As

Re: Unix file system - space release question

2012-07-30 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Mon, 30 Jul 2012 09:05:44 +0200, Miklos Szigetvari wrote: Hi I don't know if it is an sftp specific issue or not We have here never used sftp, but we are using ZFS instead of HFS. For me it would be interesting to know who is writing full the file system. Maybe a TRAP on errno2 if it is

Re: Top posting

2012-07-30 Thread Paul Gilmartin
Synthesizing a compromise: On Mon, 30 Jul 2012 10:42:02 -0500, Mark Zelden wrote: Sorry, I use the web interface and I still hate (is that too strong a word) top posting. I naturally read from the top down and scrolling down, reading, then scrolling up, while scrolling down again to read a

Re: Authorized Rexx Assembler Function

2012-07-31 Thread Paul Gilmartin
Storage protection in other OSes: On Mon, 30 Jul 2012 22:09:07 -0600, Steve Comstock wrote: Sigh. I keep forgetting (wishful thinking?) what a primitive OS z/OS is; that it provides no simple way a program can protect its storage from meddling by others. z/OS still thinks it's running on a

Re: Authorized Rexx Assembler Function

2012-07-31 Thread Paul Gilmartin
What about TSO? On Jul 31, 2012, at 10:17, Steve Comstock wrote: We're both familiar with UNIX, which classically runs each process in a separate address space. How much simpler or more effective could it be? Likewise z/VM. Yes, well, each batch job runs in a separate address space,

Re: Rexx Exec Help Desperately Sought!

2012-08-01 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Aug 1, 2012, at 06:42, Roger Bolan wrote: The XMITIP doc says that it will handle dsnames the same as TSO, that is, partially qualified names get your prefix added, and fully qualified dsnames must be inside single quotes. I think you are just running into the way TSO parses the quotes.

Re: Rexx Exec Help Desperately Sought!

2012-08-01 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Aug 1, 2012, at 12:07, Lizette Koehler wrote: The User's Guide for XMITIP is fairly comprehensive on how to run this in batch. The JCL and samples are good. What if the exec is being run from a batch program, what do I need to change? Rexx Exec ID2EMAIL calls via an EX the XMITIP Rexx

Re: Why ain't there no XILL?

2012-08-02 Thread Paul Gilmartin
Serialization, performance, auxiliary storage and a related hardware realization: On Aug 2, 2012, at 07:46, Wayne Driscoll wrote: I would assume the pother is because OIL and NIL are macros that provide or and and processing with serialization. Your notation fails to provide serialization.

Re: Using NOTE and POINT simulation macros on CMS?

2012-08-02 Thread Paul Gilmartin
OS simulation is dreadfully deficient. On 2012-08-02 15:00, Thomas David Rivers wrote: Then, a POINT to return to the beginning of the file, using the TTR retrieved from just after the OPEN (with +1 added because the NOTE occurs after OPEN but before any READ.) I believe that NOTE is

Re: Using NOTE and POINT simulation macros on CMS?

2012-08-02 Thread Paul Gilmartin
The Strategic Interactive Platform: On Thu, 2 Aug 2012 19:44:25 -0400, Anne Lynn Wheeler wrote: ... later when company declared CMS strategic interactive platform (and abondoned TSO for that purpose) ... there was quite a bit of efforts getting CMS running on MVS. it was operational but

Re: Auditors Don't Know Squat!

2012-08-03 Thread Paul Gilmartin
What does the vendor recommend? On Thu, 2 Aug 2012 14:11:03 -0500, zOSdude wrote: Our auditors (Feds) say we need to apply all new PTF's within 30 days of availability. I'm speechless. Does anyone have the patience to form a cogent argument without laughing, crying, or tying one on? I told my

Re: Using NOTE and POINT simulation macros on CMS?

2012-08-03 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Fri, 3 Aug 2012 06:42:54 -0400, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: Are you referring to the OS rules or to the OS simulation in CMS? NOTE has always been valid in OS after a checked write. I stand corrected. READ or WRITE. But IIRC, the OP said he did NOTE before either I/O operation. -- gil

Re: Auditors Don't Know Squat!

2012-08-06 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Mon, 6 Aug 2012 18:09:05 -0400, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: at 01:41 PM, Paul Gilmartin said: Sounds like a standard to me. Not even close. A finding is a statement that they found something they didn't like. A standard is a published policy, not something the auditor makes up. My

Re: Using NOTE and POINT simulation macros on CMS?

2012-08-07 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On 2012-08-07 11:11, Bill Fairchild wrote: So presumably when the control records were created, CA software did a NOTE of the TTR of the beginning of each volser range and saved the results of the NOTE in the control record. This saved NOTE value was the base to which the offset,

Re: Using NOTE and POINT simulation macros on CMS?

2012-08-07 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On 2012-08-07 19:10, Robert A. Rosenberg wrote: At 22:24 -0500 on 08/06/2012, Dale R. Smith wrote about Re: Using NOTE and POINT simulation macros on CMS?: So it sounds like the NOTE Macro will only work after a Read or a Write has been done to the dastaset, not after an OPEN Macro. If

Re: Using NOTE and POINT simulation macros on CMS?

2012-08-08 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Aug 8, 2012, at 01:04, Alan Altmark wrote: First pointer: We welcome your CMS questions over on IBMVM! ;-) Sorry I haven't been watching IBM-MAIN as closely as I should, but the TTR isn't. It's the CMS file system record number of the record that was just read (shifted left 8 bits)

Re: Space Allocation In Bytes

2012-08-08 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Aug 8, 2012, at 06:06, R.S. wrote: BTW: your allocation request was illogical - you wanted to have 80-byte records and requested 1 byte. Such request has to be re-interpreted or canceled. ;-) I believe the block specification is an average. As such, it's not required to be a

Re: Space Allocation In Bytes

2012-08-08 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Aug 8, 2012, at 09:11, Mike Schwab wrote: A zero byte VB record is expanded to 1 blank x'40' so the minimum is a block of 9 bytes including block size and record size field. ??? No. http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/dgt2d490/3.1.3.1.2 Title: z/OS V1R12

Re: Using NOTE and POINT simulation macros on CMS?

2012-08-08 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Wed, 8 Aug 2012 09:18:35 -0400, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) shmuel+...@patriot.net wrote: To increment the record number by one, add 256 to the TTR. ITYM add 256 to the TTRz. Does this work when you cross a track boundary? I might expect it to work less well for TTRz than for relative block

Re: Using NOTE and POINT simulation macros on CMS?

2012-08-09 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Aug 8, 2012, at 18:51, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: Does this mean that if the current record spans several blocks, setting the z byte causes enough intervening blocks containing enough segments to be skipped that the block read contains the first segment of the next record? No;

Re: GUIfication of tn3270 screens

2012-08-10 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Fri, 10 Aug 2012 13:36:42 -0400, Frank Chu wrote: It's for an application that has already been written by us. The app is an assembler debugger and we want to add the ability/option of displaying it's contents on the PC with something other than in a 3270 emulator. There's not a lot of

Listserv Web Archive Text Box

2012-08-10 Thread Paul Gilmartin
Well, the web archive is temporarily working, so not that. Rather, is there any way to make the text entry box for Post/Reply narrower. I don't operate my browser fullsreen; I need other things on the screen. But when I operate the browser in a restricted window, some of the controls such as

Re: modifying secondary space allocation

2012-08-13 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Aug 13, 2012, at 06:26, Kerneels wrote: Only works , if there is are no active job with an ENQUE on the dataset ex. Parmlib. Silly question? How about DISP=SHR? If you can create a data set without exclusive ENQ (it has happened to me), why not extend one? On 8/13/2012 4:21 AM,

Re: X86 server

2012-08-13 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Mon, 13 Aug 2012 14:16:14 +0200, Henri Kuiper wrote: Or are you hinting at running z/OS from x86 hardware? If the latter is the case : feel free to contact me. You can take a sneak peak at http://zdevops.com We do z/OS virtualizations on x86 hardware :). Would this be more like Platform

Re: Valid DATACLAS names - where documented?

2012-08-13 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Mon, 13 Aug 2012 15:30:01 -0400, Gross, Randall [GCG-PFS] wrote: Subparameter Definition --- data-class-name Specifies the name of a data class to be used for allocating the data set. The name, one to eight characters, is defined by the storage

DNS lookup failures (was: ESCON)

2012-08-13 Thread Paul Gilmartin
DNS squatting and recycling On Mon, 13 Aug 2012 20:10:19 -0400, Tony Harminc wrote: SSA was an industry standard for a few milliseconds in 1997. It's sad/amusing to scan the Wayback Machine for the quondam SSA Industry Association site www.ssaia.org . From 1997 to early 1998, it's there, along

Re: How to update the last referenced date in the VTOC

2012-08-14 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Tue, 14 Aug 2012 16:24:31 -0500, Tim Hare wrote: Don't know how super-efficient it is, but use DCOLLECT input (or FDREPORT extract if you have FDREPORT), then in Rexx under IKJEFT01 Read a record set dataset_name_variable to the DSN If you're worried about uncataloged also set unit and

Re: ISPF Panel and LPAR name

2012-08-15 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Wed, 15 Aug 2012 17:15:21 -0700, Skip Robinson wrote: I didn't know you allocate ISPPROF to DUMMY in batch. I've always used a temporary data set to achieve the same goals. //ISPPROF DD SPACE=(TRK,(1,1,2)),UNIT=SYSALLDA,DCB=SYS1.PROCLIB I stand corrected; I just reviewed my own code.

Re: Auditors Don't Know Squat!

2012-08-17 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Fri, 17 Aug 2012 16:40:28 +, Ward, Mike S wrote: Way back when, we used to call a memory leak something else on the mainframe. I have used memory leak for so long I forgot what that term was. Oh well. Back in that day, IBM never said memory, but always storage. Language evolves; we must

Re: ISPF Panel and LPAR name

2012-08-20 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Mon, 20 Aug 2012 02:01:57 +0100, CM Poncelet wrote: Gosh. The ISPPLIB DD must be allocated in the JCL. No; a dynamic allocation before ISPSTART will work just as well. There are contrary valid points of view here: o Not to require the programmer to provide resources he doesn't intend to

Re: Some fun with IBM acronyms and jargon (was Re: Auditors Don't Know Squat!)

2012-08-20 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Aug 20, 2012, at 10:04, zMan wrote: On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 8:35 AM, Rupert Reynolds wrote: Does anyone have a copy of the old JARGON FILE that buzzed around the IBM VM network in the '90s when i was working in Portsmouth North Harbour? I'd love to see it again. I think it included

Re: GOFF

2012-08-21 Thread Paul Gilmartin
A zero-PDS system? On Tue, 21 Aug 2012 18:54:00 -0300, Clark Morris wrote: Can PDSE be in the linklist or lpalist? If not, this is like IBM not having a way for SNA channel attached 3270s as console devices because VTAM was set up as a started task. If PDSE is a basic access method, somehow

Re: ISPF Panel and LPAR name

2012-08-21 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Wed, 22 Aug 2012 04:57:25 +0100, CM Poncelet wrote: IBM have recognized that 99% of users are computer illiterate, but have 99% of the money. So they are following Microsoft's 'lead' and, step-by-step, implementing Windoze for mainframes. And this, were it to happen, would be entirely a Bad

Re: ISPF Panel and LPAR name

2012-08-22 Thread Paul Gilmartin
ISPF _is_ Windows for z/OS. On Wed, 22 Aug 2012 08:22:17 +0100, CM Poncelet wrote: ... because it is moving back towards suppressing intelligence (as Mao Tse Tung did in China, in the 1960s). We should not all be obliged to look at pictures just because the majority of people cannot read. But

Re: ISPF Panel and LPAR name

2012-08-22 Thread Paul Gilmartin
Can I throw away my keyboard and use only my mouse? On Wed, 22 Aug 2012 11:02:36 -0400, Dave Salt wrote: Paul Gilmartin wrote: I love Google's query completion. And it would be a good thing if ISPF were to do similarly on every panel which allows a data set name to be typed. I suspect Dave S

Re: X86 server

2012-08-22 Thread Paul Gilmartin
Which costs less? On Wed, 22 Aug 2012 13:40:01 -0700, Edward Jaffe wrote: On 8/13/2012 10:01 PM, Jake anderson wrote: Does IBM provides support running Z/OS on X86 ? Yes, with its RDT offering: http://www.ibm.com/software/rational/products/devtest/systemz/ What's IBM's economic rationale

Re: JES/2 Spool

2012-08-23 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Thu, 23 Aug 2012 08:23:57 -0700, Lizette Koehler wrote: Several options ... You could write a rexx and use SDSF REXX to get it There's much sample code in: Title: z/OS V1R12.0 SDSF Operation and Customization Document Number: SA22-7670-14

Re: static const arrays in C

2012-08-24 Thread Paul Gilmartin
What the ANSI standard says. On Fri, 24 Aug 2012 12:37:05 +0200, Bernd Oppolzer wrote: we have some modules written in C that have large arrays with constants. For some reasons we are forced to compile those modules using the RENT compiler option, which moves those arrays to the WSA (writable

Re: static const arrays in C

2012-08-24 Thread Paul Gilmartin
Make initializers page-aligned? On Fri, 24 Aug 2012 14:41:16 +0200, Bernd Oppolzer wrote: Using the compiler option ROCONST (which is NOT the default with C programs), ... to avoid treading, however lightly, on the ANSI standard. you can specify that variables with the const attribute not be

Re: static const arrays in C

2012-08-24 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Fri, 24 Aug 2012 10:13:21 -0400, Thomas David Rivers wrote: As Gil mentioned - this is only really true for static data... extern data can't be trusted because the user might have put the 'const' keyword in one declaration, and left it off in another... which would mean that the extern

Re: X86 server

2012-08-24 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Thu, 23 Aug 2012 22:13:49 -0400, Anne Lynn Wheeler wrote: ... max configured z196 with 80 processors is rated for 50BIPS and goes for $28M (about $560,000/BIPS) ... ibm has base price of $1815 for e5-2600 blade ... which have ratings at 527BIPS (about $3.44/BIPS), ... A factor of 160,000.

Re: Space Allocation In Bytes

2012-08-25 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Wed, 8 Aug 2012 14:06:04 +0200, R.S. wrote: BTW: your allocation request was illogical - you wanted to have 80-byte records and requested 1 byte. Such request has to be re-interpreted or canceled. ;-) As in: DD LRECL=80,SPACE=(1,...),... Seveal contributors argued that there

Re: Space Allocation In Bytes

2012-08-25 Thread Paul Gilmartin
=NONE.SUCH The data set needn't exist; the step isn't executed; yet I believe an exclusive ENQ is issued for its name which could be used to serialize execution. From: Paul Gilmartin Date: 08/25/2012 08:27 AM The JCL RM says: blklgth -- (only if AVGREC is not coded) Specifies

Re: Was: X86 server - Competitive economic advantage of System z plus z/OS compared with x86 plus (Linux or windoze)

2012-08-26 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Sun, 26 Aug 2012 13:06:13 +0200, Arthur Fichtl wrote: OTOH, if you look at the global big new companies (e.g. Google, Amazon, Facebook), nobody of them is running MF systems because these companies are not captivated by legacy systems. Instead, Google (as known to the public) is running a

Re: X86 server

2012-08-27 Thread Paul Gilmartin
Batch on other systems: (can Darren or someone please report to L-SOFT problems replying via the web interface to plies such as Rex's that have: Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 They can be read clearly. When replying, quoted text appears as

Re: execs or scripts

2012-08-27 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Mon, 27 Aug 2012 11:33:01 +, Bob Shannon wrote: CLIST stands for Command List i.e., a means to string a series of TSO commands together. It was rudimentary. Although some improvements have been added since its inception, it's no Rexx. Both CLIST and CMS EXEC, but not EXEC 2 nor Rexx

Re: Space Allocation In Bytes

2012-08-27 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Mon, 27 Aug 2012 13:36:58 -0700, Skip Robinson wrote: I'm curious about the experiment that shows something on disk. ZAP command says 'DATA SET UNAVAILABLE OR NON-EXISTENT'. IEHLIST says 'THE ABOVE DATASET HAS NO EXTENTS'. What view of the disk shows something on a data track? I'm trying

Re: Space Allocation In Bytes

2012-08-27 Thread Paul Gilmartin
) batch job so I could post here a refutation to the doubter. Why does MVS make simple things so damned hard!? OK. Here's the hybrid solution; batch JCL: // //EMPTY JOB 505303JOB,'Paul Gilmartin', // MSGLEVEL=(1,1),REGION=0M //* //USERCOUTPUT JESDS=ALL,DEFAULT=YES, // CLASS=R,PAGEDEF

Re: The IBM zEnterprise EC12 announcment

2012-08-28 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Tue, 28 Aug 2012 05:11:56 -0500, Shane Ginnane wrote: So IBM obviously couldn't use the z11 name and so the marketing intelligentsia came up with that marvellous ploy to fill the gap. Let's hope they have dibs on the next few iterations of znumber, so we can avoid this farce again in

Re: Space Allocation In Bytes

2012-08-28 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Tue, 28 Aug 2012 00:45:25 -0700, Lizette Koehler wrote: Peter, I works fine if working in ISPF. But when the question of line command is requested, I am thinking along the lines of a simple interface that could be used batch or foreground. Thanks for your understanding. Simply, there are

Re: The IBM zEnterprise EC12 announcment

2012-08-28 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Tue, 28 Aug 2012 13:55:43 +, Meral Temel (Garanti Teknoloji) wrote:  One cryptographic/compression co-processor per core Presumably optionally disabled to comply with export restrictions? I'm told we have the cryptographic PRNG disabled on most of our processors because it's separately

Re: The IBM zEnterprise EC12 announcment

2012-08-28 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Tue, 28 Aug 2012 10:49:21 -0400, Tony Harminc wrote: Presumably optionally disabled to comply with export restrictions? Is there really anywhere these days you can send a mainframe to that you can't send a crypto processor to? Surely no one in Cuba or Iran can order up a zEC12 in any case,

Re: The IBM zEnterprise EC12 announcment

2012-08-28 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Tue, 28 Aug 2012 10:44:32 -0500, Todd Last wrote: According to today's virtual event, the EC12 is the 12th generation of modern mainframes. Can anyone list out the 11 previous generations? Something like: Matthew 1 King James Version (KJV) 1 The book of the generation of Jesus Christ,

Re: The IBM zEnterprise EC12 announcment

2012-08-28 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Tue, 28 Aug 2012 11:29:48 -0500, Kirk Wolf wrote: From: http://java.sun.com/javase/technologies/core/basic/intl/faq.jsp#core-textrep The primitive data type char in the Java programming language is an unsigned 16-bit integer that can represent a Unicode code point in the range U+ to

Re: execs or scripts

2012-08-28 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Tue, 28 Aug 2012 13:21:14 -0400, John Gilmore wrote: Other people's parsing machinery is, in my experience, usable only for context-free 'languages'; and since I devise and use only context-sensitive--yes, PL/I-like--languages, I have found that I must build my own parsing machinery; and this

Re: Space Allocation In Bytes

2012-08-28 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Tue, 28 Aug 2012 15:33:15 -0500, Richard Peurifoy wrote: But for CKD doesn't there have to be some place to write the EOF? I think BSAM/QSAM will simulate an EOF without doing any I/O to the data set if you try to read it. Yup. As I said here lately, I've depended on that behavior in the

Re: Space Allocation In Bytes

2012-08-28 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Tue, 28 Aug 2012 14:45:42 -0700, Skip Robinson wrote: I know that ISPF Browse will show 'no data' if it judges from the VTOC that utilization is zero, as in 3.2, regardless of what might be there physically. OTOH IEBGENER attempts read a file until EOF regardless of VTOC info. I ran GENER to

TSO LOGON Reconnect confirmation.

2012-08-28 Thread Paul Gilmartin
In the TSO graphic LOGON panel, I can either S Reconnect, in which it preempts any active session, or I can not select Reconnect, in which case it rejects the LOGON if another session is active. Either of these behaviors is extreme. If there's another session, I'd like it to prompt me:

Re: TSO LOGON Reconnect confirmation.

2012-08-28 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Tue, 28 Aug 2012 21:04:24 -0400, Gerhard Postpischil wrote: I'd like it to prompt me: Another session is active. R(econnect) or C(ancel)? Yes, but you probably won't like it. The method is to implement a pre-logon exit, which entails doing your own screen I/O, error recovery,

Re: DFDSS

2012-09-01 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Sat, 1 Sep 2012 21:46:36 -0400, Doug wrote: Gill Agreed! HFS/zFS With DFDSS should be made to honor user allocation specifications for data set restore. No. I'll go further than that. It should allocate as the primary extent the largest available eligible extent. It should allocate as the

Re: iSeries

2012-09-03 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Mon, 3 Sep 2012 10:19:57 -0700, Charles Mills wrote: Two identical tradenames do not necessarily infringe on each other. The test is the likelihood of customer confusion. Would a mattress buyer be likely to think IBM was behind a Serta iSeries? Would a computer buyer impute Serta's reputation

Re: The IBM zEnterprise EC12 announcment

2012-09-04 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Tue, 4 Sep 2012 15:01:37 -0400, Thomas David Rivers wrote: cxx: t.c line 3:Error #144: a value of type const char [7] cannot be used to initialize an entity of type char [6] char s6[ 6 ] = wombat; Is there any convenient way to perform this initialization? (I don't consider either

Re: Strings (hijacked from: The IBM zEnterprise EC12 announcment)

2012-09-04 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Tue, 4 Sep 2012 14:32:12 -0500, Kirk Wolf wrote: (BTW - strncpy() also zeros bytes after the terminator, if necessary) For more information, see: http://www.courtesan.com/todd/papers/strlcpy.html under Common Misconceptions There's no discernible date of publication of that paper save for

Re: Preventing the installation of unapproved software

2012-09-05 Thread Paul Gilmartin
What about IP liability concerns? On Sep 5, 2012, at 06:47, R.S. wrote: W dniu 2012-09-05 14:21, Greg Dorner pisze: Man, the auditors came up with a new one! Gap noted. Automated controls to prevent the installation of unapproved software were not documented. 1. The requirement is plain

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