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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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,
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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
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
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.,
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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,
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.
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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,
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
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)
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
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
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
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;
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
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
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,
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
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 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
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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
=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
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
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
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
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
) 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
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
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
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
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,
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,
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
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
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
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
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:
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,
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
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
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
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
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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