On Sat, 14 Apr 2012 00:44:19 +0800, David Crayford wrote:
>
>What I find the most disappoinging about that list is it forces you to
>FLOAT(IEEE)! How useful is that for most assembler programs? I suppose
>it's to keep the size of the runtime down
>to only support functions for one floating point st
On Sat, 14 Apr 2012 00:13:31 +0800, David Crayford wrote:
>I personally wouldn't use Metal-C for writing exits. Unless they are
>very simple structures the DSECT conversion utility is painful due to
>the ambiguous syntax of assembler data declarations. It takes a "best"
>guess, which sometimes wor
On Thu, 12 Apr 2012 10:01:57 -0500, Mark Zelden wrote:
>
>I use SoftCopy librarian to download / manage PDF bookshelves (per my last
>post - for example, Tivoli since
>bookmanager format is not available).
>
Is it ecumenical, or does it require a particular OS?
-- gil
--
On Thu, 12 Apr 2012 10:49:08 -0400, John Eells wrote:
>Miklos Szigetvari wrote:
>>
>> Just got some REXX IRXINIT dumps, and seems to me the code is not very
>> modern.
>
>> But "backwater" code that lives far away from any
>frequently-traveled mainstream code path is an unlikely optimization tar
On Thu, 12 Apr 2012 16:25:27 +0200, Vernooij, CP - SPLXM wrote:
>At least I would like the BOOKFIND command with its cursor sensitive arguments
>to keep working.
>
>Do you really need the BOO format? Will a PDF reader with good searchable
>index and BOOKFIND PDF support do too?
>
Too much bandw
On Wed, 11 Apr 2012 12:52:16 -0500, Kirk Wolf wrote:
>
>Also, according to the documentation you will get an EINVAL error if the
>second argument (the buffer) is NULL.
>
I thought I saw that this had changed, perhaps at 1.13, to
implement a POSIX future direction. Alas, no; I must have
been read
z/OS 1.12. The source:
/* Doc: Print the resolved pathname of each argument
*/
#include
/* appears to contain:
char*realpath(const char * __restrict__,
char * __restrict__);
*/
int main( int argc, char ** argv ) {
char *resolved_name;
/* Thi
On Wed, 11 Apr 2012 07:04:45 -0500, Tom Marchant wrote:
>
>> A renowned industry expert ...
>>[said] the 4341 might not be compatible with the 148
>
>Not what you are looking for, but in the late 1970's, when I
>was an Amdahl SE someone said that they understood that
>the Amdahl was IBM-compatible,
On Wed, 11 Apr 2012 12:53:22 +0300, Yifat Oren wrote:
>
>Other utilities, such as IEBGENER. have to decompress the data set as they
>are doing a record by record, logical, copy (this may not be true for IDCAMS
>when using the compression interface, see II14507).
>
Is this done by the utility (ugh!)
On Wed, 11 Apr 2012 09:27:28 +0200, Marian Gasparovic wrote:
>Just to add to what John said. Client and server glossary is reversed
>in X Window world. ...
>
No, it is not reversed. As elsewhere in the world, the server
LISTENs for a connection; the client requests to CONNECT.
It has nothing to
On Wed, 11 Apr 2012 00:48:33 +0200, Bernd Oppolzer wrote:
>I would not blame PL/1 for this.
>It is not OK IMHO to request the caller to set the
>high order bit on the last parameter, when the number of the parameters is
>fixed
>(see also my GDDM example on the other post). This is not required by
On Tue, 10 Apr 2012 10:53:34 -0500, McKown, John wrote:
>http://www.idevcloud.com/Menu.htm
>
>This is a site where you can get a i/OS (iSeries aka AS/400) ...
>
Oh no! Another TLA war!
-- gil
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On Tue, 10 Apr 2012 08:41:26 -0400, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote:
>In <9575668525598233.wa.paulgboulderaim@bama.ua.edu>, on
>04/08/2012
> at 03:58 PM, Paul Gilmartin said:
>
>>Overall, yes, but, last time I checked, no Curses; no X11.
>
>Those aren't
On Tue, 10 Apr 2012 15:27:29 +, Hal Merritt wrote:
>I read about such, um, issues a while back. Seems that there were more and
>more shipboard systems, but each was evolving on its own way lacking a common
>strategy. That means the systems were often fundamentally incompatible and
>therefor
On Mon, 9 Apr 2012 08:39:17 -0500, McKown, John wrote:
>I apologize, but others may find this interesting. Too expensive for me.
>
>http://www.etsy.com/shop/usbtypewriter
>
Also consider:
http://xkcd.com/1031/
http://wiki.xkcd.com/irc/Leopard
-- gil
compiler and RTL. I partly concurred, but noted
that C/C++ Enhanced lacks X11 and Curses libraries. Perhaps I
didn't qualify my remark sufficiently; I had expected it to be apparent
from the context.
>On Sun, Apr 8, 2012 at 1:58 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 8 Apr 2012 13
On Sun, 8 Apr 2012 13:39:11 -0700, Sam Siegel wrote:
>
>The IBM XL C/C++ team did a GREAT jobs with ASCII compatibility. :-)
>
Overall, yes, but, last time I checked, no Curses; no X11.
Sockets? I don't know.
-- gil
--
For IBM
On Sun, 8 Apr 2012 12:55:54 -0700, Sam Siegel wrote:
>
>Actually it is C. The intermediate buffer is used to allow the UNICODE
>service to translate to ASCII. UNICODE services need to know how much data
>is being passed in. The code runs POSIX(ON), XPLINK and is compiled the
>ASCII option.
>
And
On Sun, 8 Apr 2012 11:15:55 -0700, Sam Siegel wrote:
>
>Paul - Thanks for the tips. The code does not create any path segments.
>
You're welcome.
>My goal here is to be able to point the user to the reference manuals so
>they can determine what is appropriate for their use. It is
>their responsi
On Sun, 8 Apr 2012 09:55:46 -0600, Steve Comstock wrote:
>On 4/8/2012 9:46 AM, Sam Siegel wrote:
>> I'm trying to find the manual (by full name or number) that provides
>> precise definitions about pathnames (hfs and zfs) for the unix subsystem
>> on zos. Specifically, I'm interested in knowing
On Thu, 5 Apr 2012 09:31:57 -0500, Chris Mason wrote:
>
>However, there are indications you have been seduced by the incorrect use of
>the abbreviation for what started out as VTAM's Unformatted System Services at
>least two decades before UNIX System Services appeared on the IBM scene.
>
Don't
On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 08:59:09 -0500, Mark Zelden wrote:
>On Wed, 28 Mar 2012 17:28:10 -0500, Dave Barry wrote:
>
>>We recently changed JES2 on a development z/OS LPAR to use seven-digit
>>instead of five-digit job numbers. A coworker pointed out to me what
>>appeared to be an increase in initiat
On Sat, 31 Mar 2012 21:57:03 -0300, Clark Morris wrote:
>
>While z/OS is probably immune to executables being introduced from
>outside, how vulnerable is a web server to outside attack (Apache,
>Websphere, etc.)? Java on the server side is effectively executable
>code. If dynamic SQL is allowed,
On Sun, 1 Apr 2012 09:38:11 -0500, Ray Overby wrote:
>I am not aware of native rexx support for LOAD. You could write a rexx
>function in assembler. I believe if you look at the CBT web site there
>is at least a single example of this.
>
I found something at:
http://www.cbttape.org/xephon/xe
On Fri, 30 Mar 2012 12:09:48 +0200, Jan Vanbrabant wrote:
>
>*Re. Technote T1013032 *
>
>*https://www-304.ibm.com/support/entdocview.wss?uid=isg3T1013032*
>
>*(Switching From DB2 Private Protocol (PP) to DRDA Protocol Question)*
>
>*
However SNA is no longer a strategic protocol and customers
On Fri, 30 Mar 2012 12:09:48 +0200, Jan Vanbrabant wrote:
>
>*Re. Technote T1013032 *
>
>*https://www-304.ibm.com/support/entdocview.wss?uid=isg3T1013032*
>
>*(Switching From DB2 Private Protocol (PP) to DRDA Protocol Question)*
>
>*
However SNA is no longer a strategic protocol and customers
On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 13:38:33 -0400, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote:
>In <0342014919725794.wa.paulgboulderaim@bama.ua.edu>, on
>03/28/2012
> at 09:10 AM, Paul Gilmartin said:
>
>>Quite so. Which is the reason I think FTP is in error for claiming
>>the data
On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 11:00:15 -0500, Tom Marchant wrote:
>On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 15:21:41 GMT, MD Johnson wrote:
>
>>Does anyone know what I could look for to detect when
>>an SVC contains code to place the caller into and
>>authorized state (key 0).
>
>You could run a GTF trace and examine all SVC ca
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9225514/As_60th_anniversary_nears_tape_reinvents_itself?source=CTWNLE_nlt_dailyam_2012-03-29
...
Lemmons can write a video file to a tape; the tape then shows up
on any desktop, such as a Mac, Windows or Linux machine, and it
presents itself ju
On Wed, 28 Mar 2012 23:13:58 +0200, R.S. wrote:
>The problem is we don't believe. :-)
>
It's easy. Bribe the sysadmin. (FSVO "access".)
>W dniu 2012-03-28 22:45, Ray Overby pisze:
>> Yes, I believe I have a way to attack a mainframe system where I don't
>> have access.
-- gil
On Tue, 27 Mar 2012 21:39:26 -0400, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote:
>
>>WTF!? Didn't Shmuel tell us that UTF-8 contains all of Unicode?
>
>Yes, but I said nothiong about either IBM-424 or IBM-1047. Is there an
>easy way to find what code point it's choking on? Also, I thought that
>you wanted to t
On Tue, 27 Mar 2012 15:43:18 -0500, Norbert Friemel wrote:
>
>UTF-8 is a variable-width encoding (1 to 4 Bytes/"octets" per character), it's
>not a single byte character set. "sbdataconn" specifies single byte encoding.
>Use "site encoding=mbcs" and "site mbdataconn=(IBM-424,UTF-8)" to specify
>
On Tue, 27 Mar 2012 11:09:23 -0700, Skip Robinson wrote:
>The reason I brought up this 'vulnerability' is that we hired a consultant
>a while back to look for weaknesses. Of course they were able to logon
>with a vanilla userid that had no special authority. And this is what they
>did.
>
>We all s
On Tue, 27 Mar 2012 11:25:43 +0200, גדי בן
אבי wrote:
>The file http://gadib.tripod.com/images/ibm-424.xmit is a xmitted PDS
>containing one member.
>The text is in IBM-424.
>The text in the line below new code is in Hebrew. IT should start with x'41'.
>
Thanks. After some munging, I get:
22
On Tue, 27 Mar 2012 11:15:52 -0400, Gross, Randall [GCG-PFS] wrote:
>Ask your auditor to recommend one for the mainframe ;-)
>
That's likely not the auditor's job. But if he knows of none, it is
his prerogative to assign a failing grade.
However, what body certifies the available commercial
On Tue, 27 Mar 2012 09:06:30 -0500, John Gilmore wrote:
>I like zMan's idea for a two-sided--nanosecond and millimeter--ruler;
>his notion that the availability of the second, millimeter side would
>make justifying its cost easy is a really inspired piece of nonsense.
>
>I wish I'd thought of it.
On Tue, 27 Mar 2012 06:55:42 -0700, Phil Smith wrote:
>Tony Thigpen wrote:
>>I have used that method also. But, it has the same problem. Anytime you use
>>xedit with either (noprof or with a special, single purpose profile, the
>>routines are most likely now broken. It's not something that can b
On Tue, 27 Mar 2012 07:47:39 -0500, McKown, John wrote:
> ..., the UNIX epoch is simply a number. The number of seconds since 00:00:00
> GMT 1 Jan 1970. It would be rather easy to convert to -mm-ddThh:mm:ss if
> it weren't for the "leap seconds". Which may or may not be of any interest to
>
On Mon, 26 Mar 2012 11:22:38 +0200, ××× ×× ××× wrote:
>I tried
>quote site encoding=m
>quote site mbdataconn=(IBM-424,UTF-8)
>
>and got:
>504 MULTI-BYTE ENCODING NOT SUPPORTED FOR RECFM=FB
>
I'm curious: where might I find a sample of valid IBM-424 code
to experiment with?
(Damn Listserv
On Mon, 26 Mar 2012 16:29:18 -0500, Kirk Wolf wrote:
>
>a) don't use "USS" since it is not an official IBM acronym for z/OS Unix
>b) don't correct someone who does.
>
You forgot:
c) don't boast about your forays into (a) and (b).
-- gil
---
On Mon, 26 Mar 2012 10:16:32 -0700, Dick Bond wrote:
>I agree with Chris Mason. IBM should have never started called it USS -
>how about a simple definitive abbreviation, like "zUnix". IBM adores
>putting a "z" in front of everything (for some clueless reason) so why
>should their version of Un
On Mon, 26 Mar 2012 08:52:45 -0500, Walt Farrell wrote:
>I mentioned this over on RACF-L the other day, so for some of you this will be
>old news.
>
>But the time has come for me to retire and have fun with other things. I've
>enjoyed the discussions here, and working with many of you to plan
>en
On Mon, 26 Mar 2012 09:57:45 -0500, McKown, John wrote:
>
>Hebrew doesn't seem to be in UTF-8, looking here:
>http://www.utf8-chartable.de/
>
".de" isn't the first place I'd look for Hebrew.
And, as Steve pointed out, UTF-8 is effectively a transfer-encoding,
not restricting the repertoire of Uni
On Mon, 26 Mar 2012 08:09:48 -0600, Steve Comstock wrote:
>
>Get it working, put it in a script (REXX, CLIST, shell script); then
>one line to invoke the script. Simple.
>
The "quote site ..." earlier in the thread suggests that the OP
wanted to be able to operate the process from the PC side.
--
On Mon, 26 Mar 2012 15:41:50 +0200, גדי בן
אבי wrote:
>I am trying to transfer a file (PDS member) from z/OS to windows, so this
>shouldn't be an issue.
>
Is IBM-424 a multibyte CP? If not, this should be a reportable defect.
-- gil
---
On Thu, 22 Mar 2012 16:17:30 -0500, McKown, John wrote:
>This may be another weird desire on my part. But I'm wondering why IBM does
>not enhance the QSAM and BSAM access methods to support the OPTCD=Q and CCSID=
>parameters on the DD statememt to work with datasets on media other than tape.
>E
On Thu, 22 Mar 2012 13:27:43 -0500, Tom Marchant wrote:
>On Thu, 22 Mar 2012 11:59:09 -0400, Robert A. Rosenberg wrote:
>
>>Since the problem is that the DSN Name is enqueued upon (which is
>
>That's not what the OP wrote. The problem is that the data set is on
>an SMS-managed volume and the cata
On Thu, 22 Mar 2012 10:44:16 -0400, Sevetson, Phil wrote:
>Rename the cataloged version to some [newname].
>Catalog the uncataloged version and rename it to some [newname2].
>Rename the [newname] back to the [original name].
>
Won't work.
>-Original Message-
>From: IBM Mainframe Discussi
On Thu, 22 Mar 2012 07:42:39 -0700, Pesce, Andy wrote:
>Even though it violates everything about being "Managed by SMS".
>"IDCAMS Delete Noscratch" on a dataset that is SMS controlled will indeed
>leave the
>dataset on the volume.
>
Is this a bug or a feature?
Well, I suppose you need to be abl
On Wed, 21 Mar 2012 17:38:28 -0700, Cris Hernandez #9 wrote:
>
>-use DROP to free memory for any array that's no longer needed
>
But be careful. I have an example that shows that DROPping
members of a stem can actually increase memory usage.
-- gil
-
On Wed, 21 Mar 2012 16:40:12 -0500, Jonathan Goossen wrote:
>A way to simulate this is to accumulate the stem elements to a string and
then iterate through them.
If jobs is a string of job names...
o Sometimes you haven't control over this: the compound
may be defined by a host environment co
On Wed, 21 Mar 2012 21:04:34 +, Gibney, Dave wrote:
>
>Much of my growth in this field has been slow and steady.
>The Rexx associative array realization is one of the "aha moments" I still
>remember.
>
You can code FORTRAN in any language. You will sometimes
be told that if your Rexx, Lisp
On Wed, 21 Mar 2012 15:46:47 -0500, Robert Heffner wrote:
>We are finally being allowed to use Internet Service Retrieval for downloading
>our software and service, and I have a general question to those who have been
>using it. I have done several downloads of Shopz orders using RECEIVE
>FROM
On Wed, 21 Mar 2012 19:53:34 +, Gibney, Dave wrote:
>I once greatly improved a Rexx routine exploiting the associative Rexx
> array. It was some extract from a TMS report. It was originally written like
> any other array with a subscript variable. And a lot of for loops.
> I changed it
On Tue, 20 Mar 2012 13:25:09 -0500, Kirk Wolf wrote:
>I can agree that OMVS segments should usually have their own directory.
> It would be possible to have them share a common directory, but in that
>case you would usually want to make it ready only, which would prevent some
>z/OS Unix stuff from
On Tue, 20 Mar 2012 17:11:54 +0100, Marc Manuel wrote:
>
>I've just setup the nfs server on z/OS 1.11.
>
>From an AIX 6.3 client, I try to copy 395 mvs files, ...
>cp /mnt/mvs/* /data/mvs
>
>IKJ56220I DATA SET UDMZ.A500.TESTNFS.AR82000.C1904293 NOT ALLOCATED, TOO
>MANY DA
>IKJ56220I MAXIMUM NUMBER
On Tue, 20 Mar 2012 10:54:50 +0100, Thomas Berg wrote:
>The only alternative (as seen from the principle of least astonishment) I can
>think of is using the explicit option "NULL" - assuming that value is never a
>"real" option.
>
In some contexts, such an option is unjustified. Designs should
On Mon, 19 Mar 2012 17:43:45 -0400, Gord Tomlin wrote:
>IMHO using '*' to represent null violates the Principle of Least
>Astonishment. '*' is often used in masking to represent "anything",
>which is a long way from null.
>
>How about using NULL to represent null, e.g.,
>
>thing3(option1,NULL) /*
On Mon, 19 Mar 2012 16:19:37 +, Costin Enache wrote:
>Of course. The final result looks like SHA-1, but several operations could
>take place before - DES, etc. At the end it is a cryptographic operation. The
>corect question would be - how are the passwords hashed, and potentially
>encrypte
On Sun, 18 Mar 2012 10:02:28 -0400, Gerhard Postpischil wrote:
>On 3/18/2012 9:03 AM, Ron Hawkins wrote:
>> And finally, my memory may be a bit dodgy nowadays, but it's my recollection
>> that the EOF for empty datasets was introduced so that DFSMShsm and DFSMSdss
>> could migrate, move and copy e
On Tue, 13 Mar 2012 16:12:07 -0500, John Gilmore wrote:
>
>The sequence
>
> 2012 June 30, 23h 59m 59s
> 2012 June 30, 23h 59m 60s
> 2012 July 1, 0h 0m 0s
>
>will certainly appear in the transmitted sequence, but
On Tue, 13 Mar 2012 16:45:35 -0400, Robert A. Rosenberg wrote:
>At 14:41 -0500 on 03/13/2012, John Gilmore wrote about Leap seconds
>and the Server Timer Protocol:
>
>>This is the title of a new this month IBM Techdocs White Paper,
>>WP101091, by Gregory Hutchison, a PDF of which can be downloaded
On Tue, 13 Mar 2012 14:41:32 -0500, John Gilmore wrote:
>
>Be aware that the next leap-second insertion will be at 11:59:59 UTF
>on 30 June 2012.
>
UTF? I don't know the TLA. But I'd say UTC 23:59:59.999..., perhaps
a second later than yours.
And I know we disagree on this, but, from:
http
On Tue, 13 Mar 2012 07:54:06 -0500, McKown, John wrote:
>Going back into the dark days of history, CICS has often done things which the
>OS can also do. One thing I remember was it implemented its own version of
>program fetch. It would read the directory entry for a program, allocate the
>corr
On Tue, 13 Mar 2012 15:38:35 +0100, Vernooij, CP - SPLXM wrote:
>
>~ The system took a longer time to run a job, job step, or procedure
>than the time specified in one of the following:
>
>- The TIME parameter of the EXEC or JOB statement
>
>- The standard time limit specified in
On Tue, 13 Mar 2012 10:26:33 -0400, Gerhard Postpischil wrote:
>
>there is one case that I have not seen mentioned - in the dark
>ages, under release 21 of OS/360(MVT), IEFBR14 steps on our
>system abended with S322. I had to write a special exception
>into IEFUTL to allow allocation to complete.
>
On Tue, 13 Mar 2012 11:46:39 +, Jousma, David wrote:
>I just read about that. Not sure it is too helpful, unless I am
>mis-understanding it? Time changes at 02:00 local time, based on what I
>read, the CICS clock would be off for the next 22 hours until the next local
>midnight?:
>
>AUTO
On Mon, 12 Mar 2012 12:18:23 -0500, Mark Zelden wrote:
>
>>But why not write the EOF unconditionally, ...
>
>I don't know under what thread subject and when, but this has been
>discussed on IBM-MAIN before. I'm not going to try and find it,
>but you can. I'm sure there's a good reason. :-)
>
On Mon, 12 Mar 2012 16:58:44 -0600, Jerry Whitteridge wrote:
>CICS needs a nudge to pick up the timechange - we issue a
>
>F CICSNAME,CEMT-PERFORM RESET
>
Why? Couldn't this be automated with a PARM?
>To each region following the automatic change (We are on Sysplex Timers)
-- gil
On Mon, 12 Mar 2012 10:40:27 -0500, Mark Zelden wrote:
>
>As John M. hinted, it does require a valid DSORG.
>
But why not write the EOF unconditionally, regardless of
DSORG? The only reason I can imagine not to do so is
if the programmer is alocating absolute track addresses
to recover a deleted
On Fri, 9 Mar 2012 08:33:11 -0500, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote:
>
>>Better: tilde substitution in the PATH. Where I work, user homes
>>are not in /u. And some people mount HOME via NFS from a system
>>with YA naming standard.
>
>Is there an outstanding requirement to support UNC in z/OS Unix?
On Thu, 8 Mar 2012 14:01:03 -0600, Tom Marchant wrote:
>
>In order for this to work correctly, an ENTRY statement
>is needed:
>
>//SYSLMOD DD DSN=main.loadlib
>//NEWMOD DD DSN=load.library.where.you.put.the.new.module
>//SYSLIN DD *
> INCLUDE NEWMOD(BA4C1426)
> INCLUDE SYSLMOD(BA4C1976)
> E
On Thu, 8 Mar 2012 11:29:38 -0600, McKown, John wrote:
>> -Original Message-
>> [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Scott Ford
>> Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2012 11:02 AM
>>
>> You saying the working directory on Z/os unix is different
>> than the homes?
>>
I really, really hope tha
On Thu, 8 Mar 2012 09:02:47 -0500, John Gilmore wrote:
>
>2) many historical keyword subparameters, e.g., those of the DCB=
>keyword parameter, have been half promoted: they continue to be usable
>as subparameters, but they may now also be coded as parameters
>
All DCB subparameters, or only some?
On Thu, 8 Mar 2012 06:48:52 -0800, Charles Mills wrote:
>PATH is not only under-specified in the JCL reference, it is also
>over-specified.
>
>- Is case-sensitive. Thus, /u/joe and /u/JOE and /u/Joe define three
>different files.
>
>Is not an aspect of the PATH= parameter, it is an aspect of the H
On Wed, 7 Mar 2012 19:04:40 -0800, Charles Mills wrote:
>Well, who's counting indeed, but my JCL reference says
>
>The pathname: ...
>- Has a length of 1 through 255 characters. ...
>
I stand corrected; I misread earlier in the same section:
Each directory or filename:
Is preceded by a sl
On Wed, 7 Mar 2012 18:54:47 -0500, Tony Harminc wrote:
>On 7 March 2012 18:27, Charles Mills wrote:
>> Many long threads here on that one ...
>>
>> What's worse, "parm" means two different things.
>>
>> There is a limit of 100 characters on the operand of PARM=.
>>
>> But I was referring to "param
On Wed, 7 Mar 2012 19:44:24 -0600, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
>Firefox is telling me about:
>
>http://www.ibm.com/systems/z/os/zos/bkserv/
>
>The page isn't redirecting properly
>
>Firefox has detected that the server is redirecting the request for this
>address in a
Firefox is telling me about:
http://www.ibm.com/systems/z/os/zos/bkserv/
The page isn't redirecting properly
Firefox has detected that the server is redirecting the request for this
address in a way that will never complete.
* This problem can sometimes be caused by disabli
On Wed, 7 Mar 2012 17:36:39 -0500, zMan wrote:
>
>Whatever you do, you want to use SSL or equivalent. FTP is dead in the water.
>
Have you discussed this with the developers of, e.g., the SMP/E
RECEIVE FROMNETWORK command?
I'm waiting breathlessly for the next release.
-- gil
-
On Tue, 6 Mar 2012 10:42:57 -0600, Elardus Engelbrecht wrote:
>af dc wrote:
>
>>I need to do a tapemap for about 100 tapes (virtual volumes), I've jcl:
>
>>what is the best way to generate 100 jcls ??? rexx ? icetool ?
>
>First loop is for each line containing volser and second loop is generating
On Tue, 6 Mar 2012 16:03:05 +, af dc wrote:
>Hello,
>I need to do a tapemap for about 100 tapes (virtual volumes), I've jcl:
>
>//V1 EXEC PGM=IEBGENER
>//SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=*
>//SYSOUT DD SYSOUT=*
>//SYSUT1 DD DISP=OLD,
>//DSN=AL2999.SOMETH,
>//DCB=(RECFM=FB,L
On Mon, 5 Mar 2012 14:17:07 -0700, Mark Post wrote:
>
>Most Linux operating systems read the hardware clock during the startup
>process, and use that to set the system clock. NTP takes over from there, but
>only affects the system clock, not the hardware clock. The system only tries
>to set th
On Mon, 5 Mar 2012 10:19:03 -0500, Steve Conway wrote:
>Ed Jaffe said:
>IMHO, STP should be included in the price of the machine.
>
>I totally agree. There should also be an option to use NTP. Not every
>shop needs the granularity of STP, and they damn sure don't want to pay
>for functionality t
On Mon, 5 Mar 2012 14:19:33 +, Pate, Gene wrote:
>I am amazed at the uproar over this. Is there anything that a PCFLIH backdoor
>can accomplish that any AC=1 module in any APF authorized library cannot?
>Is there anyone else out there that is running any vendor code for which they
>have not
On Sat, 3 Mar 2012 10:39:32 +0100, R.S. wrote:
>W dniu 2012-03-03 07:34, Edward Jaffe pisze:
>>
>> IMHO, STP should be included in the price of the machine.
>
>Or at least "STP light" which would allow to use ETS (NTP).
>However it's NOT incluted. :-(
>
I like that idea.
Is the hardware associa
On Fri, 2 Mar 2012 19:31:55 -0600, Joel C. Ewing wrote:
>On 03/02/2012 06:44 PM, Charles Mills wrote:
>> And the answer from those who know is
>>
>> "It happened during the POR last Thursday and we're talking with IBM to
>> figure out why a POR would do that to us."
>>
>> Thanks all for your patie
On Thu, 1 Mar 2012 15:45:43 -0600, Betsy Jeffery wrote:
>
>* The program issues MVS command to modify a CICS region (f, region-name cemt
>blah, blah) via SVC 34.
>* The REXX itself is not allowed (by the Info Security folks) to issue the
>commands.
>
??? But it can call a program in some other l
On Thu, 1 Mar 2012 16:08:46 -0500, Tony Harminc wrote:
>On 1 March 2012 16:01, McKown, John wrote:
>
>> What would I like? A complete GNU tool chain. Also, current versions of
>> Perl, python, ruby, gawk, sed, grep, bash, vim, emacs(?). Of course, I
>> realise that IBM cannot afford to supply th
On Thu, 1 Mar 2012 05:47:38 -0600, Jan MOEYERSONS wrote:
>
>>Sanely organized networks, even those that do not span multiple time
>>zones, collect and store only UTC [GMT] STCKE values.
>>
>>The table involved is short; it is ordered; it can be searched using
>>very efficient glb-seeking binary sea
On Wed, 29 Feb 2012 15:43:02 -0500, John Gilmore wrote:
>Paul Gilmartin writes:
>
>
>STCKE is notionally closer to TAI than to UTC in that TAI and STCKE
>are continuous timescales and UTC is discontinous. TAI and STCKE both
>embody the notion of (micro)seconds since an epoch
On Wed, 29 Feb 2012 11:07:31 -0600, Barry Merrill wrote:
>FALSE:
>Sanely organized networks, even those that do not span multiple time
>zones, collect and store only UTC [GMT] STCKE values.
>
STCKE is notionally closer to TAI than to UTC in that TAI and STCKE
are continuous timescales and UTC is
On Wed, 29 Feb 2012 10:11:06 -0600, Bill Godfrey wrote:
>On Wed, 29 Feb 2012 09:47:03 -0600, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
>
>>On Wed, 29 Feb 2012 09:12:20 -0600, Bill Godfrey wrote:
>>>
>>> http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/BPXZB5A0/E.6.2
>>&g
On Wed, 29 Feb 2012 05:53:14 -0600, Jan MOEYERSONS wrote:
>On Tue, 28 Feb 2012 19:45:11 +, Rob Scott wrote:
>
>>Obviously this assumes you know the UTC offset at the time of the LPAR
>>
>And that is exactly where it hurts... How does one know what the offset was at
>the time the timestamp was
On Wed, 29 Feb 2012 09:12:20 -0600, Bill Godfrey wrote:
>
>http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/BPXZB5A0/E.6.2
>
>The value in the word returned by this routine is in seconds-since-1/1/1970,
>but, unlike the value returned by the C library time() function and expected
>by lo
On Wed, 29 Feb 2012 09:14:36 +0530, Jake anderson wrote:
>
> typo - it happens when a userid is *not* defined with alias relating to
>user catalog.
>
To my understanding, that's half right. It happens when a userid is
*not* defined with alias relating to user catalog _and_ the master
catalog is
On Tue, 28 Feb 2012 17:20:50 -0500, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote:
>
>If you're licensed for z/OS then you're licensed for the members of
>SAMPLIB.
>
Including creating derivative works? Where can I find this
in writing? May I distribute such derivative works at least
to other z/OS licensees? I
On Tue, 28 Feb 2012 14:51:31 -0800, Edward Jaffe wrote:
>On 2/28/2012 8:51 AM, McKown, John wrote:
>> IOW, damned if I do and damned if I don't (insert hard line breaks, that is).
>
>My advice is not to ever insert any hard breaks. That just makes things worse.
>When one relies on software that pr
On Tue, 28 Feb 2012 20:11:09 +, Rob Scott wrote:
>If you are lucky enough to be in control of the data collection, then you
>could save the CVTLDTO value in the same control block or record as the STCK
>value so that you can accurately re-construct local time at a later date.
>
And the data
On Tue, 28 Feb 2012 09:57:44 -0800, Charles Mills wrote:
>Is there any straightforward way to convert an STCK value from some point in
>the fairly recent (months, not decades) past to local time for the LPAR's
>locale? By "straightforward" I mean without having to maintain my own table
>of time ch
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