Broken LISTSERV (was: Duplicate temporary dataset names)

2008-04-07 Thread Paul Gilmartin 
On Mon, 7 Apr 2008 09:05:36 +0200, Hunkeler Peter (KIUK 3) wrote:

>>//SYSEXEC  DD  DISP=(OLD,PASS),DSN=&&SYSEXEC
>
>Trying the &, I get:
>   IEFC620I UNIDENTIFIABLE CHARACTER a ON THE DD STATEMENT
>   IEFC620I UNIDENTIFIABLE CHARACTER m ON THE DD STATEMENT
>   IEFC620I UNIDENTIFIABLE CHARACTER p ON THE DD STATEMENT
>   IEFC620I UNIDENTIFIABLE CHARACTER ; ON THE DD STATEMENT
>
>What's the secret here?
>
 Broken LISTSERV.   I had coded two-ampersands-followed
-by-SYSEXEC ("&&SYSEXEC"), which escaping to HTML entities should
convert to "&&SYSEXEC" (who knows how this will appear on
the LISTSERV?)  Instead, the raw HTML shows: "&&SYSEXEC".
Apparently two consecutive ampersands overstress its tiny mind.

Can this be reported to L-Soft?

-- gil

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Re: Broken LISTSERV (was: Duplicate temporary dataset names)

2008-04-07 Thread Steve Comstock 

Paul Gilmartin wrote:

On Mon, 7 Apr 2008 09:05:36 +0200, Hunkeler Peter (KIUK 3) wrote:


//SYSEXEC  DD  DISP=(OLD,PASS),DSN=&&SYSEXEC

Trying the &, I get:
  IEFC620I UNIDENTIFIABLE CHARACTER a ON THE DD STATEMENT
  IEFC620I UNIDENTIFIABLE CHARACTER m ON THE DD STATEMENT
  IEFC620I UNIDENTIFIABLE CHARACTER p ON THE DD STATEMENT
  IEFC620I UNIDENTIFIABLE CHARACTER ; ON THE DD STATEMENT

What's the secret here?


 Broken LISTSERV.   I had coded two-ampersands-followed
-by-SYSEXEC ("&&SYSEXEC"), which escaping to HTML entities should
convert to "&&SYSEXEC" (who knows how this will appear on
the LISTSERV?)  Instead, the raw HTML shows: "&&SYSEXEC".
Apparently two consecutive ampersands overstress its tiny mind.

Can this be reported to L-Soft?

-- gil


The LISTSERV doesn't process HTML; it uses plain text.
I'm curious why you didn't just code &&SYSEXEC in the first place.

[Now I'll wait to see how this comes through on the actual
message, just to verify.]


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Re: Broken LISTSERV (was: Duplicate temporary dataset names)

2008-04-07 Thread Paul Gilmartin 
On Mon, 7 Apr 2008 06:41:46 -0600, Steve Comstock wrote:
>
>The LISTSERV doesn't process HTML; it uses plain text.
>
I get a pop-up selection that says:

Plain Text
HTML

... But I left it at the default, "Plain text"

>I'm curious why you didn't just code &&SYSEXEC in the first place.
>
I did exactly that.  LISTSERV corrupted it.

>[Now I'll wait to see how this comes through on the actual
>message, just to verify.]
>
Yours is fine.  Apparently you posted via E-mail (I'm guessing
because your Date: header indicates MDT, not CDT).  I posted
via the WWW interface, so that narrows the suspect list.  I'll
wait to see how your text that I quoted comes through.

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Re: Broken LISTSERV (was: Duplicate temporary dataset names)

2008-04-07 Thread Paul Gilmartin 
On Mon, 7 Apr 2008 06:41:46 -0600, Steve Comstock wrote:
>
>The LISTSERV doesn't process HTML; it uses plain text.
>I'm curious why you didn't just code &&SYSEXEC in the first place.
>
>[Now I'll wait to see how this comes through on the actual
>message, just to verify.]
>
Trying with a different browser.  Sorry for the test.

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Re: Broken LISTSERV (was: Duplicate temporary dataset names)

2008-04-07 Thread Steve Comstock 

Paul Gilmartin wrote:

On Mon, 7 Apr 2008 06:41:46 -0600, Steve Comstock wrote:

The LISTSERV doesn't process HTML; it uses plain text.


I get a pop-up selection that says:

Plain Text
HTML

... But I left it at the default, "Plain text"


I'm curious why you didn't just code &&SYSEXEC in the first place.


I did exactly that.  LISTSERV corrupted it.


Whoa! I see. It came through corrupted here.





[Now I'll wait to see how this comes through on the actual
message, just to verify.]


Yours is fine.  Apparently you posted via E-mail (I'm guessing
because your Date: header indicates MDT, not CDT).  I posted
via the WWW interface, so that narrows the suspect list.  I'll
wait to see how your text that I quoted comes through.



Yes, I use the email connection. OK. Interesting.



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Re: Broken LISTSERV (was: Duplicate temporary dataset names)

2008-04-09 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) 
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 04/07/2008
   at 10:41 AM, Paul Gilmartin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:

>Yours is fine.  Apparently you posted via E-mail (I'm guessing because
>your Date: header indicates MDT, not CDT).  I posted via the WWW
>interface, so that narrows the suspect list.

The web interface is not LISTSERV, any more than bit.listserv.ibm-main is
IBM-MAIN.
 
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Re: Broken LISTSERV (was: Duplicate temporary dataset names)

2008-04-09 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) 
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 04/07/2008
   at 06:41 AM, Steve Comstock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:

>[Now I'll wait to see how this comes through on the actual
>message, just to verify.]

It came through just fine.
 
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