Re: How to Carbon Copy (Cc:) in Email from MVS?

2012-06-14 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 0327319053108678.wa.lmburchcabq@listserv.ua.edu, on 06/14/2012 at 11:03 AM, Larry Burch lmbu...@cabq.gov said: Paul: Thanks for nothing! Other than refering to the RCPT TO: in the envelope as a header, Paul is correct. in the Bcc: construct What bcc construct. The bcc tag in the

Re: Familiar

2012-06-19 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In m3mx40basm@garlic.com, on 06/18/2012 at 04:54 PM, Anne Lynn Wheeler l...@garlic.com said: betatest for product was 1969 When did design start? -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT Atid/2http://patriot.net/~shmuel We don't care. We don't have to care, we're

Re: Familiar

2012-06-19 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In caarmm9qzhn7172t7zvtkpapp+qqkbdhzjxaaoyq5cztm_aj...@mail.gmail.com, on 06/18/2012 at 05:56 PM, Tony Harminc t...@harminc.net said: I don't know CICS, but HASP also used few of the available OS services. Here's an excerpt from a little 1970-ish course handbook (SR23-3697-0) that explains

Re: Familiar

2012-06-19 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 5581573438612873.wa.paulgboulderaim@listserv.ua.edu, on 06/18/2012 at 04:42 PM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com said: Doesn't MFT stand for Multiprogramming with a Fixed number of Tasks? Don't confuse etymology with semantics. Not only did more recent releases of OS/360 support

Re: installing serverpac for 1.13 using 1.11 system

2012-06-19 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 0921302214459850.wa.jonboy644gmail@listserv.ua.edu, on 06/18/2012 at 09:03 AM, John Chase jonboy...@gmail.com said: The installation copy of the 1.13 root f/s that came with the Serverpac shows /etc and /var as directories, not symlinks, so perhaps we got a devective Serverpac? I

Re: ADRDSSU (was: IEBPTPCH questions)

2012-06-20 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 5098408892869838.wa.paulgboulderaim@listserv.ua.edu, on 06/19/2012 at 09:22 AM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com said: Would any responsible administrator unload a data set to an archive and grant read access to that archive to any user not having read access to the original data

Re: ADRDSSU (was: IEBPTPCH questions)

2012-06-20 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In CAArMM9Tuco_MNbtQ5ZEg=uhy48ojk0gmk5ys-n3mvnvlxa2...@mail.gmail.com, on 06/19/2012 at 06:19 PM, Tony Harminc t...@harminc.net said: Well, then we're into the dangerous and powerful utilities auditor checklist again. IEFBR14 with the RC=0 fix? -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and

Re: IEBPTPCH questions

2012-06-20 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 0096899832141155.wa.paulgboulderaim@listserv.ua.edu, on 06/19/2012 at 08:25 AM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com said: An unfortunate restriction of TSO TRANSMIT is that its output is not suitable for an instream data set. Why does that matter? -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz,

Re: Calling idcams

2012-06-20 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In e52f4f44-5cae-479f-92cb-c156fdfa3...@yahoo.com, on 06/20/2012 at 10:46 AM, Scott Ford scott_j_f...@yahoo.com said: I am in the process of wanting to call idcams, principally, a define and delete alias function in Assembler. I have looked at IGGCSI00 and various examples, it doesn't appear

Re: Why is GRS ENQ needed in SMFDUMP program?

2012-06-22 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In CAE1XxDFG9DZMu=+npbg4tc4pgc2wcydx2gnsrt8vnpke_qu...@mail.gmail.com, on 06/20/2012 at 02:36 PM, John Gilmore jwgli...@gmail.com said: Anciently, under OS/PCP and OS/MFT, the Linkage Editor issued a RESERVE for the DASD volume on which the target PDS for its output load module resided in much

Re: COBOL 3.4 and LE Considerations questions

2012-06-22 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 2a9e1363b91de94a874408de46f0b32daf44ad4...@cwm-ex-mbc-1.dcgov.priv, on 06/20/2012 at 03:19 PM, Myers, Edouard (OCTO) edouard.my...@dc.gov said: If I compile an Enterprise Cobol 3.4 module under a z/OS v1r11 system and its LE version can I run that same module on a z/OS V1R9 system with

Re: convert Decimal to bytes

2012-06-22 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In e3bdb5aee89ab14caaf930af702759a409f...@exmbx2010-1.campus.mcgill.ca, on 06/20/2012 at 09:28 PM, Uriel Carrasquilla uriel.carrasqui...@mail.mcgill.ca said: 1024 bytes = 1 Kilobyte Actually, 1000 bytes = 1 Kilobyte and 1024 bytes = 1 Kibibyte. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and

Re: OT but important Wall Street Journal article on Internet regulation

2012-06-22 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In ecj4u7dd2vt0gv0t30od9a27mqmbivg...@4ax.com, on 06/20/2012 at 07:29 PM, Clark Morris cfmpub...@ns.sympatico.ca said: Would you think better of Crovitz if his quoting VINTON Cerf was transformed by me to his quoting VINCENT Cerf? No, because the error I commented on was in the original

Re: convert Decimal to bytes

2012-06-22 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In cae1xxde8oowf8pdjqa0ypnyj0xahusade2sqqnfxvddv9ot...@mail.gmail.com, on 06/21/2012 at 04:14 PM, John Gilmore jwgli...@gmail.com said: Since he probably has a PC he could of course use the Windows calculator. What if he's not running wiondoze on his PC? -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz,

Re: Why is GRS ENQ needed in SMFDUMP program?

2012-06-23 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In CAE1XxDHCLFzEm2DQ8i_rc3PA9tP=JKa576L=2j0uQ=kp9k6...@mail.gmail.com, on 06/22/2012 at 09:16 AM, John Gilmore jwgli...@gmail.com said: I have reviewed Shmuel's language, and it still seems to me that he was equating a hardware RESERVE with an ENQ macro, Try a remedial reading course. My

Re: Why is GRS ENQ needed in SMFDUMP program?

2012-06-30 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 67102dbd-8232-47d1-88be-9b62c0715...@comcast.net, on 06/25/2012 at 03:33 AM, Dale Miller dalelmil...@comcast.net said: You might call the RESERVE macro a special form of ENQ, but the actual reserve was a hardware feature on DASD. There is no the actual reserve; there is a RESERVE macro

Re: SV: Why is GRS ENQ needed in SMFDUMP program?

2012-06-30 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In bay145-w28ad40f15a4f1654e89483a3...@phx.gbl, on 06/25/2012 at 09:25 AM, J R jayare...@hotmail.com said: The RESERVE macro did (still does?) not directly do the hardware reserve. Rather, it set a bit in the UCB to tell the next IO to the unit to prepend a reserve CCW to the channel

Re: The Truth Will Set You Free -- on Destination z

2012-07-01 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 4fedf3c7.7010...@gabegold.com, on 06/29/2012 at 02:28 PM, Gabe Goldberg g...@gabegold.com said: The Truth Will Set You Free http://destinationz.org/Mainframe-Solution/Business-Case/The-Truth-Will-Set-You-Free.aspx The ensemble limit of 8 is only relevant to sharing Intel and POWER

Re: 'Inexperienced' RBS tech operative's blunder led to banking meltdown

2012-07-01 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In a6b9336cdb62bb46b9f8708e686a7ea0115baa1...@nrhmms8p02.uicnrh.dom, on 06/28/2012 at 07:44 AM, McKown, John john.mck...@healthmarkets.com said: My personal desire would be something akin to ISPF available from a z/OS UNIX shell If IBM were willing, the ISPF WSA would be a good start. and

Re: release SYSOUT for a running STC

2012-07-01 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In caluepdg0d1-zceg9dlbgpienh5oevxdqp1ldgsjjog+ar0n...@mail.gmail.com, on 06/28/2012 at 09:29 AM, Matan Cohen matancohen...@gmail.com said: I wonder if there is a way to release a specific sysout DD for a running STC? Assuming that you want a solution in the STC code rather than in the JCL,

Re: HELP WITH PCOM - PASTE OPTION NOT WORKING CORRECTLY

2012-07-01 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 2f5ebb4a2535bf478a8605e1b5e119c332f56...@nwt-s-mbx2.rocketsoftware.com, on 06/28/2012 at 05:25 PM, Steve Bireley sbire...@rocketsoftware.com said: Many people want their 3270 emulator to act like a word processor : ). What does act like a word processor mean. Depending on the answer, some

Re: COBOL 3.4 and LE Considerations questions

2012-07-01 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In vnetibm.20120628210314.7...@bldgate.vnet.ibm.com, on 06/28/2012 at 01:47 PM, Tom Ross tmr...@stlvm20.vnet.ibm.com said: This was changed quite a few years ago, when customers realized that the LE release was tied to the OS release, and they were running with newer releases in development

Re: release SYSOUT for a running STC

2012-07-01 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 99ab43dc-4e6d-42ea-9433-e0e02f33f...@yahoo.com, on 06/29/2012 at 11:28 AM, Scott Ford scott_j_f...@yahoo.com said: Someone mentioned in a previous post about SPIN and FREE...is this a vendor STC or in house written? No. FREE=CLOSE et al have been standard JCL for ages. But does the OP want

Re: release SYSOUT for a running STC

2012-07-03 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In caluepdh0cuszsusbuzhhtvkh-agnzegolynk6lhdbaueyea...@mail.gmail.com, on 07/02/2012 at 10:27 AM, Matan Cohen matancohen...@gmail.com said: The DD I want to relese is a TDQ written to a DD - so I cant control the PGM nor the JCL. Then you can spin off segments[1] for early printing or

Re: 'Inexperienced' RBS tech operative's blunder led to banking meltdown

2012-07-03 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 24ed21e9-0ebc-42b6-af26-5e07aa72c...@yahoo.com, on 07/02/2012 at 12:51 AM, Scott Ford scott_j_f...@yahoo.com said: This industry is tough enough without a language barrier. Add the language barrier it gets down right ugly. I've worked with competent people with a language barrier. I've

Re: The Truth Will Set You Free -- on Destination z

2012-07-03 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 4ff12fdc.2010...@gabegold.com, on 07/02/2012 at 01:21 AM, Gabe Goldberg g...@gabegold.com said: Sysplex ensemble. Il va sans dire. The point is that an ensemble is not the largest unit of coordinated z boxes that IBM supports. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT

Re: 'Inexperienced' RBS tech operative's blunder led to banking meltdown

2012-07-03 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In CAE1XxDEzxDZ4YJ3iJHU4TqXk34Cvp2J3ysWA0ese=1scde0...@mail.gmail.com, on 07/02/2012 at 05:33 PM, John Gilmore jwgli...@gmail.com said: John Reid has reminded us all of a generic weakness in the way we TINW. do things. I don't know about you, but when I install a new system I test it, have

Re: Quantas hit by leap second issue?

2012-07-04 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In caarmm9qdhnpyad88a2mdyztdyzmvhf_iloxkk3d5y8sjkxt...@mail.gmail.com, on 07/03/2012 at 12:02 AM, Tony Harminc t...@harminc.net said: Since native* English words do not contain q without an immediately following u, one might reasonably suggest that QANTAS indeed be pronounced Kantas, by

Re: Sad News About Rick Fochtman

2012-07-04 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 1599538529031849.wa.mkkhan88hotmail@listserv.ua.edu, on 07/02/2012 at 08:07 AM, Mohammad Khan mkkha...@hotmail.com said: My call was answered by his brother who informed me that Rick passed away on Friday of natural causes. We'll miss him. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg

Re: PCOMM copy-paste (quite another issue)

2012-07-04 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 2f5ebb4a2535bf478a8605e1b5e119c332f5d...@nwt-s-mbx2.rocketsoftware.com, on 07/02/2012 at 03:26 PM, Steve Bireley sbire...@rocketsoftware.com said: True that they are not unique to APL and is a code page issue. However, some of the lines drawn on 3270 screens in many emulators are drawn

Re: Quantas hit by leap second issue?

2012-07-04 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In CAE1XxDFdGi5uieWxxeXJErugkjVB0A0-fb=wi6ft1e=gtug...@mail.gmail.com, on 07/03/2012 at 09:31 AM, John Gilmore jwgli...@gmail.com said: Robert A. Rosenberg wrote: begin extract By the way you mean Homophone not Homonym. The former are words that sound alike but are spelled differently while

Re: PCOMM copy-paste (quite another issue)

2012-07-06 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 5949005395636248.wa.alanaltmarkus.ibm@listserv.ua.edu, on 07/05/2012 at 09:19 AM, Alan Altmark alan_altm...@us.ibm.com said: Fidelity in copy/paste requires that both applications know what they're doing with the clipboard. Of course. Default locale for Western Windows assumes code

Re: Online 3270 manual? [was: RE: PCOMM copy-paste (quite another issue)]

2012-07-11 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 985915eee6984740ae93f8495c624c6c21e5b12...@jscpcwexmaa1.bsg.ad.adp.com, on 07/09/2012 at 10:55 AM, Farley, Peter x23353 peter.far...@broadridge.com said: The replacement manual for the -10 edition, GA23-0060-0, which bitsavers does have, seems to have only pages E1 and E2. At least, there

Re: IBM System Storage Channel Command Reference?

2012-07-12 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In acae6e9bdf980c47bc9ed5bc1c0e34f30e208...@hqpwp553.calpers.ca.gov, on 07/11/2012 at 09:01 PM, Starr, Alan alan_st...@calpers.ca.gov said: Can somebody provide me with a URL or publication number for the manual that describes the MVS (CKD) channel commands supported by the IBM System Storage

Re: VTAMAPPL PGM

2012-07-12 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In CALuePdi533-C8m=OkPj9H=fbso1igwq6d0zarhm2lyc_06l...@mail.gmail.com, on 07/11/2012 at 03:02 PM, Matan Cohen matancohen...@gmail.com said: Is there any equivalent program so I can use in order to start a STC automatically on IPL (except the COMMNDxx) ? Is there a current version of TSSO on

Re: Online 3270 manual? [was: RE: PCOMM copy-paste (quite another issue)]

2012-07-12 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 985915eee6984740ae93f8495c624c6c21e5bd2...@jscpcwexmaa1.bsg.ad.adp.com, on 07/12/2012 at 09:27 AM, Farley, Peter x23353 peter.far...@broadridge.com said: Thank you. Thank you for prompting me to do a search that lead me to a much more usefull source ;-)

Re: Show the //SYSIN DD * lines when using TYPRUN=SCAN?

2012-07-13 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 6700504004248585.wa.paulgboulderaim@listserv.ua.edu, on 07/12/2012 at 10:41 PM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com said: TYPRUN=SCAN's checking is a bad joke. IIRC, it fails to report errors as fundamental as DSNAME 44 characters. Is that true in JES3 or only in JES2? That

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

2012-07-13 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In CAArMM9TAObiJu1BvHCumRYfGXvyo+=ccm-_4tzcd0itldx6...@mail.gmail.com, on 07/13/2012 at 12:43 PM, Tony Harminc t...@harminc.net said: FORCE is most certainly not just a stronger form of CANCEL He may be thinking of FORCE ARM. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT Atid/2

Re: COBOL packed decimal

2012-07-15 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 5001ef16.8000...@t-online.de, on 07/15/2012 at 12:13 AM, Bernd Oppolzer bernd.oppol...@t-online.de said: I don't think that there is any cultural or philosophical difference between mainframe or distributed/workstation developers, given the same number of years of experience and skill

Re: COBOL packed decimal

2012-07-15 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In CAE1XxDE7yYDyoQaTGFNhxp1tSiVHnK+i8GTQptXD6=8bgfh...@mail.gmail.com, on 07/14/2012 at 08:08 AM, John Gilmore jwgli...@gmail.com said: Integer arithmetic should never be done with anything but binary integers. Your reasoning is correct for two's complement machines, e.g., z, but is incorrect

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

2012-07-16 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In of481ed85f.720f607e-on48257a3d.00242269-48257a3d.0026c...@us.ibm.com, on 07/16/2012 at 03:03 PM, Timothy Sipples timothy.sipp...@us.ibm.com said: Yahoo! Mail -- the Web version -- *still* does not use HTTPS for most communications AFAIK. For example, if you're using a free wi-fi hotspot

Re: Email formatting (was: Yahoo Password Breach ...)

2012-07-18 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 4330217043601718.wa.paulgboulderaim@listserv.ua.edu, on 07/17/2012 at 11:33 AM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com said: There's too much DWIM in that convention No, there's too much DWYTIM[1] and not enough DWIM. I'd settle for DWITYTDADTTSGM[2]. I hate it when such busybody mailers

Re: Help with elementary CPU speed question

2012-07-18 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 985915eee6984740ae93f8495c624c6c21e5c49...@jscpcwexmaa1.bsg.ad.adp.com, on 07/17/2012 at 12:04 PM, Farley, Peter x23353 peter.far...@broadridge.com said: t SHOULD NOT be necessary to have considerable statistical prowess or have access to DCOLLECT output (which most normal application

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

2012-07-19 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 886132E644ECAE808EED6EEFA317@graham, on 07/17/2012 at 11:15 AM, Graham Hobbs gho...@cdpwise.net said: When someone uses the underscores between some words .. what does that mean? Underscore. ITYM when somebody uses underscore *around* a word. In that case it means the same as

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

2012-07-19 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In ofae475794.d0761284-on48257a3e.001cb9f7-48257a3e.001fa...@us.ibm.com, on 07/17/2012 at 01:45 PM, Timothy Sipples timothy.sipp...@us.ibm.com said: Most coffee shops, hotels, etc. still don't use encrypted wi-fi. Bletch! I'd better check what my local library uses, if anything. 3. The

Re: REXX ISPF edit FIND failing

2012-07-19 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 9b26bc6a6df52d4483dd73b1fe7b4b0658b83d6...@uspho-mxvs07.amer.thermo.com, on 07/18/2012 at 10:37 AM, Hardee, Chuck chuck.har...@thermofisher.com said: Uh, I don't think so. You're thinking CLIST not REXX. I doubt it. What he wrote was 'The problem is that ISPF/ISREDIT evaluates/substitutes

Re: COBOL packed decimal

2012-07-20 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 9307538697441482.wa.paulgboulderaim@listserv.ua.edu, on 07/19/2012 at 09:22 AM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com said: 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

Re: REXX ISPF edit FIND failing

2012-07-20 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In ofc799207c.54ac2d90-on88257a40.004f10aa-88257a40.004f4...@ea.epson.com, on 07/19/2012 at 07:25 AM, John Mattson john_matt...@ea.epson.com said: Shmuel ! A previous reply also suggested SCAN OFF. I tried it, Did you try it with your original FIND, or with the FIND that used picture? Please

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

2012-07-20 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In ofbece3590.44f08adb-on48257a41.002f9ff5-48257a41.00320...@us.ibm.com, on 07/20/2012 at 05:06 PM, Timothy Sipples timothy.sipp...@us.ibm.com said: I'm not sure I understand the question, There is support for mapping long user ids into short user ids. Does that support work if the access

Re: Debug SVC

2012-07-20 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 1342772932.49603.yahoomail...@web171502.mail.ir2.yahoo.com, on 07/20/2012 at 09:28 AM, Costin Enache e_cos...@yahoo.com said: Please assist a poor soul into finding a way to debug SVC (supervisor call interrupt) handlers. There is a major difference between the SVC interrupt handler and an

Re: COBOL packed decimal

2012-07-22 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In c4c6c378-b640-43a1-88d5-7c79f3bf0...@yahoo.com, on 07/20/2012 at 08:08 PM, Scott Ford scott_j_f...@yahoo.com said: Who did the inherit the 1108 from ? My dad worked for Unisys on the 1108sdude Unisys was a merger of Burroughs and UNIVAC; They kept the B6500 line from Burroughs and the

Re: COBOL packed decimal

2012-07-22 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 1342898015.24312.yahoomail...@web164504.mail.gq1.yahoo.com, on 07/21/2012 at 12:13 PM, Scott Ford scott_j_f...@yahoo.com said: I wasnt sure if the 1108 had come from RCA or Buroughs The 1108 dates back to the old Remington-Rand or Sperry Rand, not to the RCA EDP acquisition. It's possible

Re: re-entrant modules and the binder

2012-07-23 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In CAE1XxDE+7LU3kKQt2pEgJVyNR2U7-=st1ejzi9abaxyuavr...@mail.gmail.com, on 07/22/2012 at 09:12 AM, John Gilmore jwgli...@gmail.com said: Specifying the RENT option when you assemble your HLASM subroutines instructs the HLASM to check your code for non-reentrant constructs, and it finds many but

Re: COBOL packed decimal

2012-07-23 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In f031d213-4695-4551-bd15-96e97b8d8...@yahoo.com, on 07/22/2012 at 11:29 AM, Scott Ford scott_j_f...@yahoo.com said: I was aware of the hardware on the machines, since my late father was a FE on them. Didn't really know anything about the opsys or programming languages. There were two OS's;

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

2012-07-23 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In b870629719727b4ba82a6c06a31c29123249662...@hqmailsvr01.voltage.com, on 07/22/2012 at 07:26 PM, Phil Smith p...@voltage.com said: Couldn't CP PVMSG send something that automation could pick up? What if you're not running z/VM? Does the CP in PR/SM support PVMSG? -- Shmuel (Seymour

Re: IGGCSI to retrieve tape volume serial

2012-07-23 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 3222468561495810.wa.victorworkcnyahoo.com...@listserv.ua.edu, on 07/23/2012 at 04:41 AM, Victor Zhang victor_wor...@yahoo.com.cn said: But I can't find how to locate number of extents for a non-vsam dataset. The data are not in the catalog; use OBTAIN. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz,

Re: IGGCSI to retrieve tape volume serial

2012-07-24 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 9538009122010217.wa.victorworkcnyahoo.com...@listserv.ua.edu, on 07/23/2012 at 08:41 AM, Victor Zhang victor_wor...@yahoo.com.cn said: Can I interpret this to get non-vsam used or allocated size? No. DSCBTTR TTR of format-1 DSCB for non-VSAM data set You can use it in an OBTAIN. --

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

2012-07-24 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 245275432281.wa.paulgboulderaim@listserv.ua.edu, on 07/23/2012 at 03:55 PM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com said: As I stated initially, one of my motives was portability. In a conventional UNIX system, processes needn't register to receive SIGTERM. In a conventional Unix

Re: Authorized Rexx Assembler Function

2012-07-24 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 6efdefc7-f5c2-48b9-ba6f-8b0b41b99...@googlegroups.com, on 07/23/2012 at 07:35 PM, Garry G. Green garryg.gr...@yahoo.com said: Of particular interest is how APF is handled in a TSO environment. Note that TSO in the free MVS did not have the parallel TMP, so ISPF could not depend on the

Re: AW: Gordon Crovitz: Who Really Invented the Internet?

2012-07-25 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In E36DC330434FBA4ABA45590D5370A88B076C4765@INTERCHIP-SBS.interchip.local, on 07/24/2012 at 12:19 PM, David Stokes sto...@interchip.de said: Yeah, right. Much better to restrict it to government and corporations who never abuse things. That's your proposal, not mine, TYVM. What would have

Re: Gordon Crovitz: Who Really Invented the Internet?

2012-07-25 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 500ec8bf.5020...@acm.org, on 07/24/2012 at 11:09 AM, Joel C. Ewing jcew...@acm.org said: That certainly would have been nice, but I'm not convinced anyone at the time understood the potential scope of those problems, They understood enough to warn against it, whether or not they

Re: Gordon Crovitz: Who Really Invented the Internet?

2012-07-25 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In cae1xxdher2jjpx0cyzr+ku8g-6afdj7n4q13ww7g+jbe-hx...@mail.gmail.com, on 07/24/2012 at 04:09 PM, John Gilmore jwgli...@gmail.com said: The scientific community made early and significant use of the DARPA predecessor of today's Internet, and almost none of the problems that afflict us today

Re: REXX ISPF edit FIND failing

2012-07-25 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 9251321842665626.wa.paulgboulderaim@listserv.ua.edu, on 07/24/2012 at 10:39 AM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com said: And remembering that Rexx considers lower case characters special. Not quite, but the default value of an uninitialized variable is the upper case name. Do these

Re: AW: Gordon Crovitz: Who Really Invented the Internet?

2012-07-25 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In E36DC330434FBA4ABA45590D5370A88B076C4A24@INTERCHIP-SBS.interchip.local, on 07/25/2012 at 12:25 PM, David Stokes sto...@interchip.de said: No. Starting ten years lat(t)er is your concept, not mine Well no, not mine. I wasn't responding to you here. Well, you were responding to Joel C.

Re: Gordon Crovitz: Who Really Invented the Internet?

2012-07-25 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In E36DC330434FBA4ABA45590D5370A88B076C49FF@INTERCHIP-SBS.interchip.local, on 07/25/2012 at 12:21 PM, David Stokes sto...@interchip.de said: One really has to ask however what exactly In an anarchic fashion that opened us up to all sorts of network abuse. actually means It means not

Re: Gordon Crovitz: Who Really Invented the Internet?

2012-07-25 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In a6b9336cdb62bb46b9f8708e686a7ea0115baa1...@nrhmms8p02.uicnrh.dom, on 07/25/2012 at 08:02 AM, McKown, John john.mck...@healthmarkets.com said: What, no mention of CP/M-86? It never had enough market share; DR-DOS would be more likely. And you totally ignored things like the Amiga. Did

Re: Gordon Crovitz: Who Really Invented the Internet?

2012-07-26 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In E36DC330434FBA4ABA45590D5370A88B076C4CA6@INTERCHIP-SBS.interchip.local, on 07/26/2012 at 09:47 AM, David Stokes sto...@interchip.de said: Yes, well, I'm sure Wrong! and Lol! and are you a troll (not to mention look farther and are you (a) bankrobber) Sigh! Humor is such a subjective

Re: Gordon Crovitz: Who Really Invented the Internet?

2012-07-26 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In CAE1XxDGmMk8nKK=xkjinenh0qjhxaytmb_wvxi2w4vus+an...@mail.gmail.com, on 07/26/2012 at 01:58 PM, John Gilmore jwgli...@gmail.com said: I also grow weary of complaints about my notionally 'exotic' vocabulary. This term once had a precise meaning. (Signage annoucing efforts at 'exotic plant

Re: Some IBM internet IP addresses changing on 26 Aug 2012

2012-07-26 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 2l301898lcsfh0l746t31qqovcfe36b...@4ax.com, on 07/25/2012 at 12:25 PM, Clark Morris cfmpub...@ns.sympatico.ca said: Why should customers have to be aware of this? Presumably firewall issues. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT Atid/2http://patriot.net/~shmuel

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

2012-07-26 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In CAPtSOKyrh+P_tbZ0svTJKPgguERk4STJ1WK9Ku=5hqw5aks...@mail.gmail.com, on 07/26/2012 at 12:24 PM, Bill Ashton bill00ash...@gmail.com said: or does anyone have any other suggestions? Info-zip -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT Atid/2http://patriot.net/~shmuel We

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

2012-07-29 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In CAE1XxDH=2+e+p2ag55ykgtwlc+ttbptqvrzv8iunhoaxpzg...@mail.gmail.com, on 07/27/2012 at 10:34 PM, John Gilmore jwgli...@gmail.com said: 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

Re: Some IBM internet IP addresses changing on 26 Aug 2012

2012-07-29 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In d62518tlvl2c80hjdjfkc5lqmc5icg9...@4ax.com, on 07/27/2012 at 09:27 AM, Clark Morris cfmpub...@ns.sympatico.ca said: I would agree so that is why I question the changing of IP addresses. Are you saying that you don't see why there might be a need to reconfigure firewalls after changing if

Re: Top posting

2012-07-29 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 1343549987.5014f22372...@postoffice.tpg.com.au, on 07/29/2012 at 06:19 PM, Shane Ginnane ibm-m...@tpg.com.au said: Might I request the luminaries of the list perhaps indulge those of us unfortunate enough to be using the (severely crippled) web interface and *top post* in replies ?. Please

Re: Top posting

2012-07-29 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 50155783.2090...@actionsoftware.com, on 07/29/2012 at 11:32 AM, Gord Tomlin gt.ibm.li...@actionsoftware.com said: While there is an RFC (I'm not going to hunt for the number on a Sunday) that specifies that bottom posting is correct, More precisely, it specifies that a response follow the

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

2012-07-30 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 45fcfbbb8bc8eb4a9dfedc6fa2cc7fdf17f90...@sdkmbx02.emea.sas.com, on 07/30/2012 at 09:28 AM, Lindy Mayfield lindy.mayfi...@sas.com said: For me, punched card isn't quite as easy to pronounce as punch card, but I have some difficulties saying iced tea. Perhaps ice' tea would be more a more

Re: Top posting

2012-07-30 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 8693414129914945.wa.elardus.engelbrechtsita.co...@listserv.ua.edu, on 07/30/2012 at 05:48 AM, Elardus Engelbrecht elardus.engelbre...@sita.co.za said: Just curious, while I agree 100% with what you wrote, where is that standard written? I seem to recall that in a previous thread, that

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

2012-07-30 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 8848452157165904.wa.paulgboulderaim@listserv.ua.edu, on 07/30/2012 at 09:27 AM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com said: Was that uniformly true? Was what universally true. I don't know of any S/360 card equipment that used nonstandard CCW opcodes for read and punch. If you're

Re: Rexx Exec Help Desperately Sought!

2012-08-01 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 5271902217232606.wa.elardus.engelbrechtsita.co...@listserv.ua.edu, on 07/31/2012 at 10:55 AM, Elardus Engelbrecht elardus.engelbre...@sita.co.za said: Using your posted example, try this (using only one parameter): EX 'SYS2.LOCAL.CLIST(XMITIP)' 'TM#T.M.XMITIP.PARMCARD.userid' Assuming

Re: Rexx Exec Help Desperately Sought!

2012-08-01 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In CAApqkjt47TQe2TfmFTC5dwgfaHJAwF4s=DUec9fRXgnm3M=2...@mail.gmail.com, on 07/31/2012 at 11:32 AM, George Rodriguez george.rodrig...@palmbeachschools.org said: I'm trying to execute XMITIP Is it in your SYSPROC or SYSEXEC? EX 'SYS2.LOCAL.CLIST(XMITIP)' how and what do I say here... I'm very

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

2012-08-01 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 77142d37c0c3c34da0d7b1da7d7ca343415c6...@nwt-s-mbx2.rocketsoftware.com, on 07/30/2012 at 08:32 PM, Bill Fairchild bfairch...@rocketsoftware.com said: but I have heard data is my whole life when listening to conversational English (not Latin), find data are to sound strange, While I cringe

Re: Authorized Rexx Assembler Function

2012-08-01 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 50176649.9050...@gmail.com, on 07/31/2012 at 12:59 PM, David Crayford dcrayf...@gmail.com said: On 31/07/2012 12:09 PM, Steve Comstock wrote: I never saw an answer from you regarding my question for some examples of how other non-primitive OS's provide a simple way a program can protect

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

2012-08-01 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 5016b9ec.9020...@acm.org, on 07/30/2012 at 11:44 AM, Joel C. Ewing jcew...@acm.org said: My recollection is that in the era of punched cards the more common usage by programmers/operators was just card, cards, or card deck and others more often than not called them IBM cards Also

Re: Auditors Don't Know Squat!

2012-08-03 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In cae1xxdhabxscw9vqmeojswt_kabw4mstc78po3bhqjdrabt...@mail.gmail.com, on 08/03/2012 at 01:52 PM, John Gilmore jwgli...@gmail.com said: Auditors are, legitimately, preoccupied with computer security, and some PTFs address security issues. Some PTF's introduce security vulnerabilities.

Re: Auditors Don't Know Squat!

2012-08-03 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In b59b09b8b0099f44b859d46ffb38b10ec32...@crplivexc66.citnet.cit.com, on 08/03/2012 at 02:21 PM, Ken Porowski ken.porow...@cit.com said: See if you can get the auditors to agree that you will apply all applicable (to your environment) PTFs flagged as a Red Alert within 30-60 days of

Re: Is this valid COBOL syntax?

2012-08-03 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 1344012753.76726.yahoomail...@web122103.mail.ne1.yahoo.com, on 08/03/2012 at 09:52 AM, Frank Swarbrick frank.swarbr...@yahoo.com said: The program was written in pre-COBOL II (COBOL 85) syntax.  At that time the REMARKS paragraph valid (I'm guessing as an IBM extension), No. and

Re: Auditors Don't Know Squat!

2012-08-05 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 7071703290621695.wa.paulgboulderaim@listserv.ua.edu, on 08/03/2012 at 04:37 PM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com said: Don't blame the auditors. Why not? A good auditor is a joy forever, but a bad auditor can cause immense damage. And what do you find wrong with the auditor's

Re: [z390] Anyone want Source code listing of last VSE program product Supervisor?

2012-08-06 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In canij+dcwo4xfsx0itfnd-org9gkoh819gfwkwudic5greqx...@mail.gmail.com, on 08/03/2012 at 08:09 PM, William Donzelli wdonze...@gmail.com said: Yes, we would love to have the scans - it is just a matter of logistics. If you are willing to flat out donate them to be scanned and archived, then

Re: Auditors Don't Know Squat!

2012-08-06 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 7867308318271579.wa.paulgboulderaim@listserv.ua.edu, on 08/05/2012 at 01:41 PM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com 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

Re: [z390] Anyone want Source code listing of last VSE program product Supervisor?

2012-08-06 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 45fcfbbb8bc8eb4a9dfedc6fa2cc7fdf17f93...@sdkmbx02.emea.sas.com, on 08/06/2012 at 06:30 PM, Lindy Mayfield lindy.mayfi...@sas.com said: Books I've bought from the UK say this in the front. Seems a bit strict, but is this the same thing? This book is sold subject to the condition that it

Re: [z390] Anyone want Source code listing of last VSE program product Supervisor?

2012-08-07 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 0f38850c-ff90-42cc-8897-b4fa59db3...@yahoo.com, on 08/06/2012 at 09:52 PM, Scott Ford scott_j_f...@yahoo.com said: God I love it, need a sense of humor You would have liked Rannie; he had a marvelous sense of humor. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT Atid/2

Re: File Processing

2012-08-07 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 39235829-1d9d-411b-bb12-6b739e1c2...@yahoo.com, on 08/07/2012 at 08:12 PM, Scott Ford scott_j_f...@yahoo.com said: I love it .I had a COBOL programmer bet me that our DOS/VSE system on our 4381 was causing her abend. She bet me a dinner, well I collected, brought her in and did a

Re: Using NOTE and POINT simulation macros on CMS?

2012-08-07 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 77142d37c0c3c34da0d7b1da7d7ca343415c8...@nwt-s-mbx2.rocketsoftware.com, on 08/07/2012 at 01:08 PM, Bill Fairchild bfairch...@rocketsoftware.com said: How did you successfully use POINT without having first done a NOTE so that the POINT knows where to POINT? Some obvious ways that it can be

Re: File Processing

2012-08-07 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In a6b9336cdb62bb46b9f8708e686a7ea0115baa1...@nrhmms8p02.uicnrh.dom, on 08/07/2012 at 02:27 PM, McKown, John john.mck...@healthmarkets.com said: We had DOS/VS at that time. The DOS person said that DOS would occasionally kill his programs as well. With the words USER REQUESTED TERMINATION. The

Re: File Processing

2012-08-07 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In CAFMxNW+NmuenEh0Tem8RnQdZ=jtgauuhsoilq6iussgrltr...@mail.gmail.com, on 08/07/2012 at 12:03 PM, Sam Siegel s...@pscsi.net said: An 0c7 is a data exception error detected by the hardware. No; it is an ABEND detected by the Program FLIH when there is no SPIE to catch interupt code 7. Without

Re: Using NOTE and POINT simulation macros on CMS?

2012-08-08 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 8082333213958528.wa.alanaltmarkus.ibm@listserv.ua.edu, on 08/08/2012 at 02:04 AM, Alan Altmark alan_altm...@us.ibm.com said: 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

Re: Space Allocation In Bytes

2012-08-08 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 0fdb46cc-7d2e-4887-9f5c-fc29d9c2b...@aim.com, on 08/08/2012 at 09:45 AM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com said: I do not find a stated minimum for the BDW. Absent firm information, I'll assume 4-byte blocks (nothing but BDW) are permissible. No, the minimum ios 8; see 3.2.3.1 Block

Re: Space Allocation In Bytes

2012-08-08 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In CAJTOO58735VUTbFZ-GL2hvGg5=p=zoaf0271gsclbqt0y4j...@mail.gmail.com, on 08/08/2012 at 10:11 AM, Mike Schwab mike.a.sch...@gmail.com said: 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. Are you sure didn't

Re: Space Allocation In Bytes

2012-08-08 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In CAJTOO5-_jCQt3_wepucjBcEqhu7sNFbv7TcE=4vabeyj5mv...@mail.gmail.com, on 08/08/2012 at 02:15 PM, Mike Schwab mike.a.sch...@gmail.com said: On TSO ISPF 3.2, it failed with record length too short so I kept adding 1 to the LRECL until 10 worked. This was about 9 years ago. Well, ISPF has its

Re: reasons for using started task or batch job

2012-08-12 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 3ebf9c9d119fd847b3a096c515a018f69486c...@surfsdvmp35.cnasurety.net, on 08/10/2012 at 03:50 PM, Pommier, Rex R. rex.pomm...@cnasurety.com said: What would be the reason(s) for starting long-running tasks like CICS as a started task or a batch job? START doesn't tie up an initiator, and

Re: X86 server

2012-08-13 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In capmheapqah_j8ooge4ytzzhnstdmyra_elty4zsd3hgtp1k...@mail.gmail.com, on 08/13/2012 at 02:16 PM, Henri Kuiper henrikui...@zdevops.com said: 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 :). What

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