Re: Dates of previous releases of the operating system

2012-02-02 Thread Steve Comstock
gards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-355-2752 http://www.trainersfriend.com * To get a good Return on your Investment, first make an investment! + Training your people is an excellent investment * Try our tool for calculating your Return On Investment for training

Re: OT: Backup drives for a PC

2012-02-01 Thread Steve Comstock
0 cartridge was somewhat noticeable. Thanks: Clark Morris -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-355-2752 http://www.trainersfriend.com * To get a good Return on your Investment, first make an investment! + Training your people is an excellent investm

Re: Unicode 6.1.0 released (not on z/OS yet)

2012-02-01 Thread Steve Comstock
On 2/1/2012 10:30 AM, McKown, John wrote: Just in case anybody is really interested. http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode6.1.0/ I am. Thanks. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-355-2752 http://www.trainersfriend.com * To get a good Return on

Re: IBM Research z196 Papers

2012-01-31 Thread Steve Comstock
. But individual articles are $30 for non-IEEE members and $20 for IEEE members. Am I reading that right? -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-355-2752 http://www.trainersfriend.com * To get a good Return on your Investment, first make an investment! + Tra

Re: ISPF Workstation Agent for Windows 7?

2012-01-27 Thread Steve Comstock
multiple windows in ISPF. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-355-2752 http://www.trainersfriend.com * To get a good Return on your Investment, first make an investment! + Training your people is an excellent investment * Try our tool for calculating your Ret

Re: The Trainer's Friend announces - no price increase

2012-01-25 Thread Steve Comstock
On 1/25/2012 10:55 AM, R.S. wrote: W dniu 2012-01-25 00:58, Steve Comstock pisze: We are using the same pricing we used in 2002. :-) I have to admit I increased my prices significantly. ;-) Especially when measured in USD, because dollar is much cheaper than 10 years ago. [Well, just a

Re: QUEUED() not working with ISPF (CROSS POSTED to ISPF-L)

2012-01-25 Thread Steve Comstock
Software Systems Branch 651-406-1208 dave.l.han...@usps.gov You want to run in Test mode. This always refreshes panels and messages. Start ISPF with ISPF TEST or, once you are in ISPF, run your tests under ISPF option 7, Dialog Test -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer'

Re: The Trainer's Friend announces - no price increase

2012-01-25 Thread Steve Comstock
On 1/24/2012 11:28 PM, Timothy Sipples wrote: Steve Comstock writes: We are using the same pricing we used in 2002. :-) We aren't, thank goodness. We slashed z/OS prices repeatedly then increased some of them this year, once, a bit, far less than we slashed them. Yes. Well, our clas

The Trainer's Friend announces - no price increase

2012-01-24 Thread Steve Comstock
of the training. [Well, just a thought.] [No offense intended to those who abhor any kind of marketing on the list. But what an opportunity!] -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-355-2752 http://www.trainersfriend.com * To get a good Return on your Inves

Re: Ikjeft01

2012-01-23 Thread Steve Comstock
27;ve invoked TSO facilities (IKJEFTSR, IKJCT441, IKJTSOEV) from COBOL (and PL/I, and C, and Assembler), but I've not called TSO itself from any program. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-355-2752 http://www.trainersfriend.com * To get a good Return on

Re: Mainframe advertisement

2012-01-11 Thread Steve Comstock
e not interested in raising the level of awareness of mainframes, especially z/OS, their "flagship operating system". IBM is not telling the story and doesn't seem to care about winning the hearts and minds of anyone vis a vis mainframes. Sigh. -- Kind regard

Re: How to find a PDS member

2012-01-04 Thread Steve Comstock
7;Member: ABCCOP*' next to the member's name. SRCHFOR looks for text inside datasets or members. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-355-2752 http://www.trainersfriend.com * To get a good Return on your Investment, first make an investment! + Trai

Re: Semiprivileged instructions, part 1 (3)

2011-12-30 Thread Steve Comstock
ged-operation exception', according to the table, so they are not privileged. Neither fish nor fowl, eh? So, this is the kind of thing I find difficult and in need of clarification. Peter Relson z/OS Core Technology Design -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstoc

Re: removing nulls from a file

2011-12-29 Thread Steve Comstock
gnoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-355-2752 http://www.trainersfriend.com * To get a good Return on your Investment, first make an investment! + Training your

Re: Semiprivileged instructions, part 1

2011-12-29 Thread Steve Comstock
uch changes are something that "we" in the base control program expect to take care of when they occur). The long and short of it is that you can't use TRAP2/TRAP4 "on your own" if you are not privileged. Peter Relson z/OS Core Technology Design Thanks for that, Peter. --

Re: Semiprivileged instructions, part 1

2011-12-28 Thread Steve Comstock
On 12/28/2011 2:57 PM, Tony Harminc wrote: On 28 December 2011 15:16, Steve Comstock wrote: The PoPs says, on page 5-24 in the PDF version (dz9zr008.pdf / SA22-7832-08), "there are 23 semiprivilged instructions". [...] PC - Program Control That's Program Call... T

Semiprivileged instructions, part 2

2011-12-28 Thread Steve Comstock
are useful for the application programmer? This may then result in a new course. We'll see.] -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-355-2752 http://www.trainersfriend.com * To get a good Return on your Investment, first make an investment! + Training your pe

Semiprivileged instructions, part 1

2011-12-28 Thread Steve Comstock
;s hard to say.) My focus: are these first eight instructions useful for applications programmers? -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-355-2752 http://www.trainersfriend.com * To get a good Return on your Investment, first make an investment! + Training your

Re: Eight-character TSO Userid Support

2011-12-27 Thread Steve Comstock
some cases where it doesn't. -- John McKown Systems Engineer IV IT -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-355-2752 http://www.trainersfriend.com * Special promotion: 15% off on all DB2 training classes scheduled by September 1, taught by year end 2

Re: Imagine dealing with THIS in production

2011-12-16 Thread Steve Comstock
BM-MAIN -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-355-2752 http://www.trainersfriend.com * To get a good Return on your Investment, first make an investment! + Training your people is an excellent investment * Try our tool for calculating your Return On In

Re: Is there an SPF setting to turn CAPS ON like keyboard key?

2011-12-15 Thread Steve Comstock
the string copy to uppercase, then do the compare. User friendly is programmer difficult. But it's the right way to go. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-355-2752 http://www.trainersfriend.com * To get a good Return on your Investment, first make

Re: IBM RDZ vs COBOS

2011-12-14 Thread Steve Comstock
ted in and using the product (if it's good). After all, they offer the software with no guarantees and no maintenance. So why restrict it? -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-355-2752 http://www.trainersfriend.com * To get a good Return on your Invest

Re: JCL "sheesh!" for today

2011-12-12 Thread Steve Comstock
ork with "address LINKPGM") BR R15 YREGS END (I am _not_ an assembler programmer.) I also wish that "procedure expose ..." would set SIGL inside the procedure, not outside. -- gil -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock

Re: Java apps have most flaws, Cobol is cleanest.

2011-12-10 Thread Steve Comstock
27;m unclear on your last paragraph: 1. What are you refering to as 'they' when you say: "they are easy to package as COBOL functions" 2. What do you mean by 'package as COBOL functions', for that matter? 3. What COBOL preprocessor? Mystified in Denver. --

Re: Java apps have most flaws, Cobol is cleanest.

2011-12-09 Thread Steve Comstock
e: http://www.trainersfriend.com/Language_Environment_courses/m512descr.htm http://www.trainersfriend.com/COBOL_Courses/d704descr.htm http://www.trainersfriend.com/COBOL_Courses/D725descrpt.htm -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-355-2752 http://www.trainersfriend.

Re: Java apps have most flaws, Cobol is cleanest.

2011-12-09 Thread Steve Comstock
ng z/OS system. There is very little chance of changing that, I'm afraid. So it is what it is, and we soldier on. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-355-2752 http://www.trainersfriend.com * To get a good Return on your Investment, first make an investment!

Re: JCL "sheesh!" for today

2011-12-08 Thread Steve Comstock
ow to the soundtrack from Departures, the Japanese movie that got best foreign fill at the Academy Awards last year: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiyFeT0Tpkk And, oh yes, back to work. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-355-2752 http://www.trainersfrien

Re: Licence to kill -9

2011-11-30 Thread Steve Comstock
sage: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-355-2752 http://www.trainersfriend.com * To get a good Return on your Investment, first make an investment! + Training your people is

Re: Multipl Entry Points in PL/1 Load Module

2011-11-24 Thread Steve Comstock
not a systems programmer. I develop and teach courses designed for z/OS applications programmers. If that's what you're needing, then we're good. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-355-2752 http://www.trainersfriend.com * To get a good Re

Re: Multipl Entry Points in PL/1 Load Module

2011-11-22 Thread Steve Comstock
On 11/22/2011 2:56 PM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: In<4ecbdad9.8070...@trainersfriend.com>, on 11/22/2011 at 10:24 AM, Steve Comstock said: call mstst; call mstste; You left out call mstste1 So either way, the binder control statements work. See above.

Re: Terminology

2011-11-22 Thread Steve Comstock
/bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html --

Re: Multipl Entry Points in PL/1 Load Module

2011-11-22 Thread Steve Comstock
[top posting] Sorry, I forgot to mention that I pulled the OPTIONS(MAIN) off the OP's code for running my tests. On 11/22/2011 10:24 AM, Steve Comstock wrote: On 11/22/2011 8:54 AM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: In<4ecb9897.6080...@trainersfriend.com>, on 11/22/2011 at 05:4

Re: Multipl Entry Points in PL/1 Load Module

2011-11-22 Thread Steve Comstock
On 11/22/2011 8:54 AM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: In<4ecb9897.6080...@trainersfriend.com>, on 11/22/2011 at 05:41 AM, Steve Comstock said: Hmm. Try changing your alias to: ALIAS MSTSTE(MSTST1) That won't do what he asked for. He needs an ALIAS statement for each

Re: Multipl Entry Points in PL/1 Load Module

2011-11-22 Thread Steve Comstock
unication in z/OS". See http://www.trainersfriend.com/Language_Environment_courses/m520descr.htm -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-355-2752 http://www.trainersfriend.com * To get a good Return on your Investment, first make an investment! + Traini

Re: Simple record extraction from a sequential file

2011-11-21 Thread Steve Comstock
easier to roll your own. So now we get a proliferation of subroutines (or methods) available but no one knows how to find them or use them (except for, perhaps, the most frequently used 10%). So it goes. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-355-2752 http://www.train

Re: USS

2011-11-18 Thread Steve Comstock
archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-355-2752 http://www.trainersfriend.com * To get a good Return on your Investment, first make an investment! + Training your people is an excellent investment * Try our

Website rewrite to HTML5

2011-11-18 Thread Steve Comstock
ze and resolution) * Typos * Badly written prose We'll also be happy to hear any suggestions for improvements. Probably best if you reply directly to me, off list, which is why I set the reply-to back to me instead of to the list. Thanks for any time and effort you can put into this

Re: Braces, Brackets, Broken braces, and Parentheses

2011-11-18 Thread Steve Comstock
For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-355-2752 http://www

Re: Braces, Brackets, Broken braces, and Parentheses

2011-11-18 Thread Steve Comstock
le bracket', which makes some sense, I think. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-355-2752 http://www.trainersfriend.com * To get a good Return on your Investment, first make an investment! + Training your people is an excellent investment * Try our t

Re: USS

2011-11-17 Thread Steve Comstock
t Friday yet. Sorry. ;-) -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-393-8716 http://www.trainersfriend.com * To get a good Return on your Investment, first make an investment! + Training your people is an excellent investment * Try our new tool for calculating you

Re: Data encrypt

2011-11-15 Thread Steve Comstock
best to prevent communications. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-393-8716 http://www.trainersfriend.com * To get a good Return on your Investment, first make an investment! + Training your people is an excellent investment * Try our new tool for calcul

Re: C newbie - pass a LDAP handle out to calling routine

2011-11-06 Thread Steve Comstock
-- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-393-8716 http://www.train

Maintenance at two in the afternoon? On a Friday?

2011-10-28 Thread Steve Comstock
ne know if they are using mainframes for their online / web based work? Sheesh! Someone should teach them they can use mainframes and do maintenance while the system keeps running! Makes you wonder about staying with them. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 30

Re: Our community strengths

2011-10-25 Thread Steve Comstock
public. But they don't seem to care about it: they are either hopelessly lost or they have a future plan that does not include z/OS. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-393-8716 http://www.trainersfriend.com * Special promotion: 15% off on all DB2 training c

Re: CRLF in Unix being translated on Mainframe to x'25'

2011-10-25 Thread Steve Comstock
ds: ifile path='in_path_name',filedata=T,cp=923,recdelim=lf ofile path='out_path_name',filedata=T,cp=37,recdelim=nl this would convert the file from codepage 923 (ISO-8859-15) to codepage 37 (USA EBCDIC), including converting the record delimiter from ASCII LF to EBCDIC NL. Ju

Re: Transitioning Highly Available Applications to System z (Was: Redbook)

2011-10-10 Thread Steve Comstock
to be a routing node (ROUTEALL). This is in contrast to the limited design choices imposed prior to the availability of the "virtual MAC" capability. - Chris Mason On Mon, 10 Oct 2011 07:36:41 -0600, Steve Comstock wrote: The weekly redbooks announcement includes this book: C

Redbook

2011-10-10 Thread Steve Comstock
, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-393-8716 http://www.trainersfriend.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Searc

Re: Fairwell to a Friend

2011-10-08 Thread Steve Comstock
, 1401 Liggates Road Lynchburg, VA 24502 Cell 434-401-4828 carlos @gsf-soft.com I'm really sorry to hear that. He was a class act. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-393-8716 http://www.trainers

Re: RES: WTO Sample Program

2011-10-06 Thread Steve Comstock
details on what you want to do with the WTO/WTOR - please be specific. Lizette -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-393-8716 http://www.trainersfriend.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / si

Re: JCL CROSS-REFERENCE Utilities

2011-10-05 Thread Steve Comstock
x27;new' features, right? Consider: http://www.trainersfriend.com/JCL_courses/B620descrpt.htm -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-393-8716 http://www.trainersfriend.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signo

Looking for recommendations for web hosting

2011-09-26 Thread Steve Comstock
m off to run some errands, but if anyone has some recommendations, please send, em to me. You can reply on list or off list. Hope I get your email. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-393-8716

Re: Suggestion for a Job running Under a Loop

2011-09-20 Thread Steve Comstock
and OUTLIM= on all SYSOUT DD statements. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-393-8716 http://www.trainersfriend.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send ema

New Course Announcement: DB2 Version 10 Differences

2011-09-15 Thread Steve Comstock
If your shop is moving to DB2 V10, or if you have it installed and are now ready to exploit V10's new features, this course can save you months of trial and error and provide heavy hands-on experience so you're ready and confident in just four days. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The

New Course Announcement: DB2 Version 10 Differences

2011-09-15 Thread Steve Comstock
If your shop is moving to DB2 V10, or if you have it installed and are now ready to exploit V10's new features, this course can save you months of trial and error and provide heavy hands-on experience so you're ready and confident in just four days. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The

Re: How to "splitting" loadmudules

2011-09-09 Thread Steve Comstock
different. So you would have to process each load module in a separate job then [manually?] compare the separate modules for others with the same name. Gets pretty complicated from this point on, I think. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-393-8716 http://www

Re: subtask recovery

2011-09-07 Thread Steve Comstock
schemes. John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721-1817 USA Interesting. How do you 'hide' a control task? What do you mean by 'largely hidden'? -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-393-8716 http

Re: Cobol and large QSAM record length

2011-08-29 Thread Steve Comstock
ur code and then DCB=VBS in your runtime JCL. I don't have a chance to test this right now, but it's the only alternative I can think of. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-393-8716 http://www.trainersfriend.com * Special promotion: 15% off on all

Re: Book: What On Earth is a Mainframe?

2011-08-26 Thread Steve Comstock
t it covers a pretty wide spectrum of topics that might be helpful to someone with a Windows or UNIX background. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-393-8716 http://www.trainersfriend.com * Special promotion: 15% off on all DB2 training classes scheduled by Septem

Re: Help with an LE problem

2011-08-26 Thread Steve Comstock
cussion List :> :> :> :>I have a CEEDUMP with :> :> CEE3250C The system or user abend U 802 R=NULL was issued. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-393-8716 http://www.trainersfriend.com * Special promotion: 15% off on all DB2 training

Re: FW: CEE0813S Insufficient Storage

2011-08-23 Thread Steve Comstock
king to request the storage, including the data definitions for the variables you are passing? -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-393-8716 http://www.trainersfriend.com * Special promotion: 15% off on all DB2 training classes scheduled by September 1, tau

Re: CLOCK change problem

2011-08-21 Thread Steve Comstock
en) for well over two decades. Kind Regards Jim Thomas 617-233-4130 (mobile) 636-294-1014(res) j...@thethomasresidence.us (Email) -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Steve Comstock Sent: Sunday,

Re: CLOCK change problem

2011-08-21 Thread Steve Comstock
e a switch to allow the TOD to be altered. :> :>How does the STP affect this? -- Binyamin Dissen http://www.dissensoftware.com Director, Dissen Software, Bar& Grill - Israel Should you use the mailblocks package and expect a response from me, you should preauthorize the dissensoftware.co

Re: CLOCK change problem

2011-08-21 Thread Steve Comstock
ware, Bar& Grill - Israel Should you use the mailblocks package and expect a response from me, you should preauthorize the dissensoftware.com domain. I very rarely bother responding to challenge/response systems, especially those from irresponsible companies. -- Kind regards, -Steve Com

Re: Security is fun in the PC world....

2011-08-20 Thread Steve Comstock
crumbs. -- gil That's for sure. Just read an article about "super cookies". Yikes! -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-393-8716 http://www.trainersfriend.com * Special promotion: 15% off on all DB2 training classes scheduled by September 1, taugh

Re: SV: PDS(E) "invalid" membernames give suprising behaviour in ISPF Data Set List Utility (BROWSE)

2011-08-19 Thread Steve Comstock
ating Nonstandard PDSE Member Names" -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-393-8716 http://www.trainersfriend.com * Special promotion: 15% off on all DB2 training classes scheduled by September 1, taught by year end 2011 * Check out our entire DB2 cur

Re: JCL Parm data with embedded slashes

2011-08-18 Thread Steve Comstock
one of the path name should be seen as a run-time option and the CEE3606I message should go away. - Don Imbriale On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 11:39 AM, Steve Comstock wrote: On 8/18/2011 9:25 AM, Don Imbriale wrote: A correction to my previous post : Actually a double slash isn't needed; just ne

Re: JCL Parm data with embedded slashes

2011-08-18 Thread Steve Comstock
statement without them being seen as LE options? I have tried PARM='...' and PARM=('...'), but they both produce the same results. Thanks in advance for your suggestions! *don* -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-393-8716 http://www.tra

Re: JCL Parm data with embedded slashes

2011-08-18 Thread Steve Comstock
ptions? I have tried PARM='...' and PARM=('...'), but they both produce the same results. Thanks in advance for your suggestions! *don* -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-393-8716 http://www.trainersfriend.com * Special promotion: 15%

Re: JCL Parm data with embedded slashes

2011-08-18 Thread Steve Comstock
rth a shot. Otherwise, this seems like a good candidate for a new feature request. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-393-8716 http://www.trainersfriend.com * Special promotion: 15% off on all DB2 training classes scheduled by September 1, taugh

Re: Copy z/OS USS pax format file to another z/OS system without FTP

2011-08-18 Thread Steve Comstock
RECEIVE against the flat file; now you have a PDS whose members are pax files. Under the shell use pax -r to unwind each member into the unix file system. Done it dozens of times. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-393-8716 http://www.trainersfriend.com * Sp

Re: UNIX (Unix System Services)

2011-08-17 Thread Steve Comstock
edbooks: - The ABCs of z/OS System Programming, volumes 1 and 9 specifically That should help. :-) -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-393-8716 http://www.trainersfriend.com * Special promotion: 15% off on all DB2 training classes scheduled by September

z/OS V1.13 differences for application developers

2011-08-16 Thread Steve Comstock
the World Wide Web UC01 Introduction to CGIs on z/OS UC04 Writing z/OS CGIs in COBOL UC06 Writing z/OS CGIs in Assembler You can find links to detailed descriptions of these (and all our) courses at: http://www.trainersfriend.com/General_content/CourseIndex.htm Finally, a reminder: our

Re: Z Toolkit for z/OS Install

2011-08-11 Thread Steve Comstock
n in the same process, but depending on how you're configured you can have multiple processes in the same address space. Do you know that the OMVS command forces execution in a separate address space, or only that the Unix commands may run in a separate address space? -- Kind regards,

Re: file allocation dcb order

2011-08-10 Thread Steve Comstock
diagram with a detailed explanation. Note that high level languages might modify this behavior using exits behind the scenes; check the docs for the language of interest. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-393-8716 http://www.trainersfriend.com * Specia

Re: assembler help!

2011-08-04 Thread Steve Comstock
On 8/4/2011 7:31 AM, Steve Comstock wrote: [correcting my own post] On 8/4/2011 7:02 AM, Crabtree, Anne D wrote: In our IEFACTRT (accounting exit), an assembler program, it has the following commands: L R2,PARMJOBC ICM R1,7,0(R2) If PARMJOBC contains a binary integer length of 4 with 00 00

Re: assembler help!

2011-08-04 Thread Steve Comstock
ive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-393-8716 http://www.trainersfriend.com * Special promotion: 15%

Re: IEBGENER QUESTION

2011-08-02 Thread Steve Comstock
Creation date . . . : 2011/08/02 SMS Compressible. . : NO Referenced date . . : 2011/08/02 Expiration date . . : ***None*** Thanks in advance Can you show us the data (just a couple of lines) from your browse? -- Kind regards, -Steve Comst

Re: disclosing "business" information on the internet

2011-07-28 Thread Steve Comstock
re these concerns justified or just paranoia? I like posting this information because I've received useful contacts and information based on it. I'm curious what policies other businesses have. Frank -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-393-8716 http://ww

Re: disclosing "business" information on the internet

2011-07-28 Thread Steve Comstock
something about them. This sometimes changes answers. Especially the information if a poster is using, say, VSE and not z/OS. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-393-8716 http://www.trainersfriend.com * Special promotion: 15% off on all DB2 training classes

Our technical papers

2011-07-23 Thread Steve Comstock
e a contribution / donation to support development and improvement of these papers. If some paper has helped you or your organization, it would be a nice gesture to give back a little. So, think about it. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-393-8716 http://www.trai

Thanks for the reviews; the paper is now published on our website

2011-07-19 Thread Steve Comstock
friend.com/General_content/Book_site.htm and help yourself (no 'registration', no fees). This paper is the fifth one in the list. I will still take comments and make appropriate changes if you have some thoughts / corrections. Thanks again. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The T

Need reviewers for new paper: Setting Up the IBM HTTP Server

2011-07-18 Thread Steve Comstock
27;ll include your name on the acknowledgements page. Thanks. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-393-8716 http://www.trainersfriend.com * Special promotion: 15% off on all DB2 training classes scheduled by September 1, taught by year end 2011 * Check out our

Re: running Assembler I/O macro code as AMODE 31, RMODE ANY

2011-07-15 Thread Steve Comstock
On 7/15/2011 8:14 PM, Edward Jaffe wrote: On 7/14/2011 12:55 PM, Tom Marchant wrote: On Thu, 14 Jul 2011 08:40:37 -0600, Steve Comstock wrote: yes, there is some penalty for AMODE switching. What penalty is that, Steve? Do BASSM and BSM run significantly slower than BASR/BALR and BR? There

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2011-07-14 Thread Steve Comstock
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Re: running Assembler I/O macro code as AMODE 31, RMODE ANY

2011-07-14 Thread Steve Comstock
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Re: running Assembler I/O macro code as AMODE 31, RMODE ANY

2011-07-13 Thread Steve Comstock
List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Steve Comstock Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2011 2:56 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: running Assembler I/O macro code as AMODE 31, RMODE ANY On 7/13/2011 12:32 PM, Barkow, Eileen wrote: I passed all the info I got from this list onto the progra

Re: running Assembler I/O macro code as AMODE 31, RMODE ANY

2011-07-13 Thread Steve Comstock
at some of these programs call assembler modules to do the i/o via QSAM and VSAM macros (TESTCB, SHOWCB, GET, PUT, PUTX, etc) and the only way these can work is by linking everything as AMODE 24, RMODE BELOW. That is *a* way; it is *NOT* the only way. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Tr

Re: running Assembler I/O macro code as AMODE 31, RMODE ANY

2011-07-13 Thread Steve Comstock
these can work is by linking everything as AMODE 24, RMODE BELOW. That is *a* way; it is *NOT* the only way. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-393-8716 http://www.trainersfriend.com * Special promotion: 15% off on all DB2 training classes scheduled by Se

Re: New instructions

2011-07-12 Thread Steve Comstock
On 7/12/2011 12:23 PM, Cheryl Walker wrote: It's the same instructions as on the z196. Nothing new. Cheryl Thanks, Cheryl. == Cheryl Watson Watson& Walker, Inc. www.watsonwalker.com 941-266-6609 == On Jul 12, 2011, at 1:57 PM, Steve

New instructions

2011-07-12 Thread Steve Comstock
nd regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-393-8716 http://www.trainersfriend.com * Special promotion: 15% off on all DB2 training classes scheduled by September 1, taught by year end 2011 * Check out our entire DB2 curriculum at: http://www.trainersfriend.com/DB2_a

Re: z114 announcement letter from IBM

2011-07-12 Thread Steve Comstock
On 7/12/2011 11:28 AM, John McKown wrote: http://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/cgi-bin/ssialias?infotype=AN&subtype=CA&htmlfid=897/ENUS111-136&appname=USN Thanks John. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-393-8716 http://www.trainersfriend.com *

Where's the official announcement?

2011-07-12 Thread Steve Comstock
ter for the 114? Thanks. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-393-8716 http://www.trainersfriend.com * Special promotion: 15% off on all DB2 training classes scheduled by September 1, taught by year end 2011 * Check out our entire DB2 cur

Re: running Assembler I/O macro code as AMODE 31, RMODE ANY

2011-07-12 Thread Steve Comstock
(In Assembler) * I/O and AMODE 31 they're all free and have some tidbits you might find helpful. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-393-8716 http://www.trainersfriend.com * Special promotion: 15% off on all DB2 training classes scheduled by S

Announcement: Applications development for the web on z/OS

2011-07-11 Thread Steve Comstock
's Friend Store.) = -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-393-8716 http://www.trainersfriend.com * Special promotion: 15% off on all DB2 training classes scheduled by September 1, taught by year end 2011 * Check out our entire DB

Re: z/OS 1.13 preview

2011-07-06 Thread Steve Comstock
On 7/6/2011 10:33 AM, Edward Jaffe wrote: On 7/5/2011 1:57 PM, Steve Comstock wrote: WOW! That's a big deal. Is this documented somewhere public? Or is this NDA? Do you what the "certain restrictions" are? Can you tell us? Can you tell us how it's done? The Feb 1

Re: z/OS 1.13 preview

2011-07-05 Thread Steve Comstock
onvenient to embed custom-generated code to handle custom-generated data within the data itself. Without support for above-the-bar execution, such programs would need to manage two areas for each data structure: one above the bar and one below the bar. Of course, code and data must be in separate ca

Re: Obtaining System Information from a COBOL program

2011-06-27 Thread Steve Comstock
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Re: Obtaining System Information from a COBOL program

2011-06-23 Thread Steve Comstock
mmers. So I'm hearing "assembler code using established APIs like GETDSAB". Comments, anyone ? Stan mailto:stan.hay...@cra-arc.gc.ca (613) 941-8091 -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Beha... On Thu, 23 Jun 2011

Announcement: New DB2 courses and DB2 training promotion

2011-06-23 Thread Steve Comstock
excited! -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-393-8716 http://www.trainersfriend.com * To get a good Return on your Investment, first make an investment! + Training your people is an excellent investment * Try our new tool for calculating your Return On Inves

Re: Obtaining System Information from a COBOL program

2011-06-22 Thread Steve Comstock
ation? -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-393-8716 http://www.trainersfriend.com * To get a good Return on your Investment, first make an investment! + Training your people is an excellent investment * Try our new tool for calculating your Return On Investme

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