Re: Emergency
2008/7/26 P S [EMAIL PROTECTED]: What version of z/VM are you running? My money is on 419 -- Steve When one person suffers from a delusion it is insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called religion. 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: How To Remove Some Garbled Characters From A Post
On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 1:59 PM, esmie moo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good Morning Gentle Readers nbsp; How do I remove garbled characters from a post to this board.nbsp; For example I noticed that the following is inserted after I have made a post e.g.amp;nbsp; I think the culprit could be when I hit the space bar it is substituted by amp;nbsp nbsp; I hope I was able to make myself understood. nbsp; Switch your mail client into text only mode - i.e. turn off HTML posting. -- Steve When one person suffers from a delusion it is insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called religion. 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Javascript disabled in Firefox
On Feb 12, 2008 4:24 PM, Steve Comstock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Steve Flynn wrote: You're probably already aware but the Firefox addon NoScript allows you to set up whitelists of sites which are allowed to run Javascript wqhen you visit them. It's intelligent enough so that if you permit site A to run scripts and Site A calls a script located on site B, Site B is still blocked. H. Where do you find this? I went to the Firefox site and did not find NoScript in the list of addons or plugins. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/722 -- Steve When one person suffers from a delusion it is insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called Religion. 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Javascript disabled in Firefox
On Feb 12, 2008 11:29 AM, Martin Packer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And yes I do recognise that javascript is a potential attack vector. Which is why I'm on FF 3 Beta 2 (soon to be Beta 3), upgrade all the machines in the house to the latest 2.0.0.x promptly, and follow the nightly build bugfixes here: http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewforum.php?f=23sid=b4ed55acd37ee85978b45a44bb031fc2 You're probably already aware but the Firefox addon NoScript allows you to set up whitelists of sites which are allowed to run Javascript wqhen you visit them. It's intelligent enough so that if you permit site A to run scripts and Site A calls a script located on site B, Site B is still blocked. -- Steve When one person suffers from a delusion it is insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called Religion. 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: COMPRESS QUESTION
On Feb 11, 2008 12:22 PM, John Dawes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hallo To all A batch job abended on a IEC032I E37-04. The job was trying to write out to a member in a PDS library. I checked the status of the library and it showed that it had the following allocation: Current Allocation Allocated tracks . : 5,000 Allocated extents . : 16 Maximum dir. blocks : 400 Current Utilization Used tracks . . . . : 958 Used extents . . . : 1 Used dir. blocks . : 25 Number of members . : 425 I executed a compress (via batch successfully). However, when I perform an I it shows the same statistics. Is there something else that I am supposed to do even though I compressed the library? Thanks in advance for your replies to my post. Issue a Free (F) against it. Easiest way is via 3.4, where you can also compress datasets using Z. -- Steve When one person suffers from a delusion it is insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called Religion. 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: 3270 emulator for Mac?
On 05/10/2007, McKown, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't remember anybody asking about this before. I just got a new Mac Mini and put it on my LAN at home. I use x3270 on Linux, but don't like it very much compared to Hummingbird on Windows. I know that I can use x3270 on my new Mac, but I'm wondering if there are any Mac native (Aqua) 3270 emulators out there? I have done a Google search and have come up empty (lots of useless hits). Tried http://www.brown.edu/Facilities/CIS/tn3270/ ? -- Steve When 1 person suffers from a delusion it is insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called Religion. 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Slightly OT But Linux
On 08/08/2007, Harry Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 7 Aug 2007 23:22:46 -0500, Ed Gould [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dell to stuff hypervisors in flash memory http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/08/07/dell_hypervisor_flash/ Sounds to be that this might be doable in IBM's version of Linux... IBM doesn't have a version of Linux I beg to differ. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_on_zSeries -- Steve When 1 person suffers from a delusion it is insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called Religion. 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Slightly OT But Linux
On 08/08/2007, Bob Shannon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: IBM doesn't have a version of Linux I beg to differ. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_on_zSeries I think Harry's point is that although IBM provides OCO changes to Linux so that it will run on System Z, one cannot order from IBM a version of Linux for System Z. One must order from one of the standard Linux distributors, Red hat, Suse, etc. You can't? I'd always assumed it was plainly orderable directly from IBM... Never looked of course, not being in a position where I order software. I'll get my coat! -- Steve When 1 person suffers from a delusion it is insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called Religion. 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Suggestions for New Laptop.
On 22/07/07, Z Z [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello All. I am in the market for a new notebook/laptop. I am looking at DeLL, Toshiba and recommendations from this group. Any suggestions are gratefully appreciated. Would you care to post some required specs. Wifi required for example? 12 screen or 17? Widescreen a necessity? Ram requirements? -- Steve When 1 person suffers from a delusion it is insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called Religion. 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Non - ECC, non-parity memory was Re: Risks (Was Re: Decoding the encryption puzzle)
On 06/02/07, Kim Goldenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (I guess this is to Shane?) I'd try swapping out the memory, and/or swapping the memory sticks in the machine and see if it gets past that point. Usually, if memtest86 shops for some reason, there is a memory problem; probably it's in the location it parked itself to run. Swapping memory within the box will tell you if the problem moves, putting new memory in (from another, known good, system) will also tell you that there is a problem. As an aside, my Windows machine at home - rock solid, no problems at all. No errors when testing with Memtest95 and Prime95 My friends machine, flaky as hell, random crashes, lock ups, reboots, etc. Errors when testing with Memtest96 and Prime95 We swapped memory sticks. My machine, still rock solid. His machine, NOW rock solid. We can only put this down to timing issues with the motherboards - they are from different manufacturers. Moral of the story - Bad Ram is not always Bad Ram - sometimes it's Bad driver circuitry/motherbaord design. Only way to tell is to swap some kit around. -- Steve Despair - It's always darkest just before it goes pitch black... -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: IBM sues maker of Intel-based Mainframe clones
On 23/12/06, Phil Payne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For the nine months ended 30 September 2006 IBM's gross margin on software was 84.6%. I apologise to IBM for overstating the figure as 85%. I'm in the wrong business :( -- Steve Despair - It's always darkest just before it goes pitch black... -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: bama.ua.edu mail server blocks my webmail account since yesterday
On 24/11/06, Denis Gäbler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thats not true, since I am not the owner of netscape.net domain. See: Please note that we do not expect end users to take this route if it is the case that the listing is not related to your own actions, such as is most often the case with ISP's outgoing mail servers, co-located servers, free webmails, etc. being listed. In those cases, the ISP involved needs to contact SORBS directly, and if the end user contacts us instead, this will be all we will be able to tell them. Yes - I kind of assumed that you would contact your ISP and request them perform this task. I didn't think you'd perform this yourself... -- Steve Despair - It's always darkest just before it goes pitch black... -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Curiosity
On 30/06/06, Anne Lynn Wheeler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jim Mulder wrote: O(n) - searching a list of n elements O(n ** 2) - bubble sort of n elements O(n * log(n)) - heap sort of n elements there are many cases of searching list of n elements ... which can result in non-linear overhead increases. this typically happens when the frequency of searching is possibly related to load, but the length of the list can increase much faster than increase in processing (say a queue). Only you Lynn, could take a post on examples of Big Oh notation and post the default time-out values for IP protocols. Are you on a mission to have as many links to your website on this list as is possible? Go on, post something only tenuously related to a single word in this post and add another 62 links to your usenet posts over the last 15 years. -- Steve Despair - It's always darkest just before it goes pitch black... -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: SSL/TLS Woes FTP
On 23/06/06, Chase, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Dave Jones John, try running your FTP client in passive mode. Everything I see in the doc referring to passive mode is in context of servers, not clients. How do I run the FTP client in passive mode? You get it to issue a PASV command after negotiating the filing system type... normally it's a configuration option, but if you're typing these commands in to a CLI based client, PASV is the command -- Steve Despair - It's always darkest just before it goes pitch black... -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: DFSMSdss Performance Question
On 13/06/06, Knutson, Sam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks! The OPT(4) is something I should have remembered but it was pretty late. I did consider PARALLEL but it's not automagical and I This OPTIMIZE(4) thing is a new one to me - I'm not a storage person so I've never come across it... Is there any reason these days for having the product default to OPTIMIZE(1) - when would one ever let that parameter default? -- Steve Despair - It's always darkest just before it goes pitch black... -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Decide whether programs invoked by a JCL exist
On 12/06/06, Johnny Luo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Recently I've got a mission from my manager. He asked me:If I got a JCL which runs many cobol programs,how can I know whether these load modules exist or not without actually running it? So,can anyone give me some hints on this?In fact,I intend to write a rexx to scan the JCL and extract names of programs and then search the library or link list.But,it seems that's not the method my manager expects. If you have a product like Jobscan or Pro/JCL you can use it to locate JCL which calls a module which cannot be located. -- Steve Despair - It's always darkest just before it goes pitch black... -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Decide whether programs invoked by a JCL exist
On 12/06/06, McKown, John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you have a product like Jobscan or Pro/JCL you can use it to locate JCL which calls a module which cannot be located. Does it check modules loaded i.e. via CALL ? No, only the module listed in the PGM= parm on the EXEC statement. It does not attempt to run or examine the module at all. Just verify that it exists on the STEPLIB/JOBLIB or Link List. I'm not even sure if it checks if the module is marked not executable or not. This is correct. One could use a deep cross-reference product like XINFO to locate CALL'd modules and so forth, I guess. To roll your own would most likely be prohibitive in time and energy unless you have an exceptionally understanding boss! -- Steve Despair - It's always darkest just before it goes pitch black... -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: SMF records type 65?
On 09/06/06, Jasen Kloeppel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there any other SMF record which I might be able to use to derive the same information? Try Type 17 ( scratch) and 18 (rename). 17 is written when a non-VSAM dataset is scratched. There will be one type 17 for each volume of a multivolume dataset. 18 is written whenever a non-VSAM dataset is renamed. -- Steve Despair - It's always darkest just before it goes pitch black... -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: 'Rogue' HLQs
On 07/06/06, Perryman, Brian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Some people in our apps support department create test files under their own TSO userid HLQ, which get SMS-placed onto the 'user' storage pool, but then later they manually rename these files to have a production dataset prefix, I have no idea why - so they can test some production jobs, perhaps. Anyway, these production HLQs would normally go in their own catalog and SMS storage pool but, because the files were renamed, they're staying in the original catalog and storage pool. It's playing havoc with my storage policies and DR planning. Any ideas if there's a quick and easy way (preferably something in RACF?) I can stop them doing this? Remove their ability to create, rename, copy or alter anything with a production HLQ. They are applications support - they should have no access to production datasets other than (perhaps) to read them. If they want to put data into production, it gets copied in via a batch job which runs under and audited and controlled batch userid. Your data is important - no-one should have the right to fiddle about with it. -- Steve Despair - It's always darkest just before it goes pitch black... -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Google Architecture
On 01/06/06, Bill Richter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It appears that Google architecture is the antithesis of conventional mainframe application achitecture in all aspects. http://labs.google.com/papers/googlecluster-ieee.pdf You may find this an interesting readd too... http://labs.google.com/papers/gfs-sosp2003.pdf -- Steve Despair - It's always darkest just before it goes pitch black... -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Java strangeness
On 20/05/06, Steve Comstock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm baffled by my Java apps not running all of a sudden. Simple stuff from the starter lab in one of our Java courses, stuff that I tested last week (I have printouts) no longer works. Instead I see lines like this: === Howdy.class Howdy.class 4: FSUM7343 cannot open ÈëÈÊÁ/_--- for output: EDC5129I No such file or directory. Howdy.class 4: FSUM7343 cannot open ¦/Î/%/ for input: EDC5129I No such file or directory. Howdy.class 4: FSUM7343 cannot open ¦/Î/Ñ? for input: EDC5129I No such file or directory. And in the same directory, an 'ls' command shows these filenames: ÅëÈÊÑ Å--î --- Whot's happenin'? I assume you've ran an fsck on the weird disk? -- Steve Despair - It's always darkest just before it goes pitch black... -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
z/OS 1.6 - step-time rounding errors...
We upgraded to zOS 1.6 last weekend. On Monday I noticed a job I'd just written was reporting some weird values for elapsed wall-clock time... 16.35.29 JOB05267 -JOBNAME STEPNAME PROCSTEPRC EXCPCPUSRB CLOCK 16.35.29 JOB05267 -CM700DSP KSL 00 769K 1.88.18 34.57 16.35.31 JOB05267 -CM700DSP ANALYSE 00244.01.00.04 16.35.31 JOB05267 -CM700DSP EMAILSTEP0010 FLUSH 0.00.00 1439.9 That last step flushed, but appeared to take almost 24 hours to do so. I mentioned this to our sysprogs, who said my job was the only one to exhibit this problem. I've just analsysed the weeks archived syslogs, and found that about 34% of our flushed steps are showing the elapsed wall-clock time of almost 24 hours, and I've found another 10,809 ocurrences of this in the syslogs. I'm not sure if this site has modified the exit which produces this figure (I'm not a sysprog, so I'd not know where to look, even if I could understand the source when I found it). Apparenttly, they can finding nothing on teh IBM database for anything resembling this, which makes me think it's a bug in some exit we've modified at this site. Can anyone give me any clues as to where I could look to invesitigate further? -- Steve Despair - It's always darkest just before it goes pitch black... -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: z/OS 1.6 - step-time rounding errors...
On 12/05/06, Philippe Leite [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Steve, This is probably a bug in the IEFACTRT exit. Thank you Gentlemen - I shall go and prod bearded people until one of them works out what the problem is. I meant to mention this in my original post - I can find no instances of this happening prior to last Saturday, prior to IPL'ing onto 1.6 (from 1.4) on this production box. I find it slightly disturbing that no-one noticed it in testing however. Ho hum... -- Steve Despair - It's always darkest just before it goes pitch black... -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: HSM and GDG all requests
On 10/05/06, Mark Jacobs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We have in the past couple of weeks had users perform a HRECALL on a GDG base entry. This causes all migrated datasets to be recalled. This is causing havoc with out storage groups. Is there any reason why the following wouldn't work. Use an IEFDB401 Dynamic Allocation Parameter Validation Exit to perform the following checks 1) Is it a GDG ALL Request? (Using IGGCSI00 catalog search interface) 2) No. Allow request 3) Is JOBNAME == HSM 4) Yes. Deny request. 5) Else allow request. What happens when a batch job wants to alloc an entire GDG base and then read all the generations, via a straightforward //GDGBASE DD DSN=SOME.GDG.BASE,DISP=SHR Will that get past your exit and be allowed? In this case the recalling user will be the userid the job is running under and therefore will be denied according to your pseudocode, wont it? -- Steve Despair - It's always darkest just before it goes pitch black... -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
FTP PUT of a temporary dataset
Can I PUT a temporary dataset using FTP... For example, I have a job where the last thing it should do is slap some results over to a GDG on another machine. I'd really like to be able to: PUT TEMPDSN 'SOME.REMOTE.GDG.BASE(+1)' However, TEMPDSN doesn't appear to get resolved to it's real temporary name. Can you only FTP PUT cataloged datasets? Is there some way of referring to a DD name instead of the real name of the dataset itself? For example: PUT DD:REPFILE 'SOME.REMOTE.GDG.BASE(+1)' I can't find anything in TCP/IP manuals indicating I can do this, but I thought I'd ask the collective before I start cataloging transient datasets. -- Steve Despair - It's always darkest just before it goes pitch black... -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Secure FTP
On 13/03/06, McGee, Cletus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We are exploring our options to meet a requirement to do a secure FTP from the Mainframe. I was wondering what others have done in this area. Any product suggestions or methodologies to accomplish this? We have used a SSH tunnel carrying FTP. The target box was a windows PC running copSSH. -- Steve Despair - It's always darkest just before it goes pitch black... -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Fw: Tax chooses dead language - Austalia
On 28/02/06, R.S. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: BTW: Isn't COBOL the most primitive language in use ? OK, I assume Basic (BASIC ?) is not in use. Isn't COBOL unpopular on other platforms ? Visual BASIC still seems quite popular... OK, so it's not basic BASIC, but it's basically the same. (OK, I'll shut up now!). As an aside, one language whilch I thought was particularly nice was Modula-2, but it didn't seem to gather any steam outside of academia. -- Steve Despair - It's always darkest just before it goes pitch black... -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Regular expression to define valid MVS dataset
On 26/02/06, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 02/24/2006 at 01:42 AM, Steve Flynn [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: As Gilmartin says, it's trivially easy to define the DSN naming conventions as an RE, Restricting the length to 44 is the hard part. I do that outside of the regexp. Problem solved now, thanks to some help from this list. -- Steve Despair - It's always darkest just before it goes pitch black... -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Regular expression to define valid MVS dataset
Listers, -- Steve Despair - It's always darkest just before it goes pitch black... -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Regular expression to define valid MVS dataset
I'll try again, without hitting SEND immediately! I was after a regular expression to define a valid MVS dataset name. Does anyone have something to hand? I can't find anything in the archives... -- Steve Despair - It's always darkest just before it goes pitch black... -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Regular expression to define valid MVS dataset
On 23/02/06, Binyamin Dissen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, 23 Feb 2006 13:12:44 + Steve Flynn [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
:I was after a regular expression to define a valid MVS dataset name.
:Does anyone have something to hand? I can't find anything in the
:archives...
Don't know RE's but.
Maximum length 44
I'm struggling to encode this part into the RE! If I'm being honest
I'm struggling on a lot more than that...
Structure is FOO followed by (. FOO) from zero to 21 times (21 times making
up the 44 character length)
FOO is one to eight characters
First character is Alphabetic or #$@
Second to eighth is alphabetic [EMAIL PROTECTED] or numeric
Can this be described as an RE?
Speaking as somene who is learning RegExp's as he goes along I think;
FOO = [EMAIL PROTECTED]@$]{1,8}?\.
At this point I think I've covered the first qualifier... An ungodly
mess if I ever saw one. Hope slips from my grasp as I realise I have
no way to say and that can be followed by more of the same but only
as long as you don't roll over 44 characters and don't forget that you
can end in a period
As a little background, I'm writing an XML schema which is describing
an XML document which can contain MVS datasets in a few fields. I'm
trying to valididate fields and coming to the conclusion it's
exceptionally difficult for my limited experience.
Sigh. Never has my sig looked more appropriate.
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Re: Regular expression to define valid MVS dataset
On 23/02/06, David Cole [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In addition, a dash (aka hyphen, minus sign) can be used anywhere a digit can (i.e. 2nd through 8th character within any qualifier). Bugger. Forgot about that too! -- Steve Despair - It's always darkest just before it goes pitch black... -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: Regular expression to define valid MVS dataset
On 23/02/06, Paul Gilmartin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In a recent note, Steve Flynn said:
FOO = [EMAIL PROTECTED]@$]{1,8}?\.
Are minuscule alphabetics allowed in data set names?
They are in my specific case.
And it depends on whether your site has disabled ICF
catalog DSN validity checking, discussed here recently.
And it depends on what language or interface to the OS
you're using. Some languages impose restrictions beyond
those imposed by the OS, particularly if DSN validity
checking is disabled.
[snip]
What's your objective. It might be easier if you can use
a difference of regular expressions in a boolean expression,
e.g.
The objective is to write an XML schema which describes the valid
entries that can be inserted into an XML file for a DSN entry. If a
user wishes to express their dataset inside the XML file in lowercase,
it's ok (which is why I say it's valid in my specific case).
overrridelibPROD.s0me.DSN-.th#e.USER.WANTS65/overrridelib would be valid.
overridelibI don't understand what should go in
here.../overrridelib should fail.
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Re: Regular expression to define valid MVS dataset
On 23/02/06, Ted MacNEIL [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
FOO = [EMAIL PROTECTED]@$]{1,8}?\.
Actually, the above is incorrect.
A.
Is a valid dataset name under the above RE.
It's completely incorrect. I have further refined it, but my latest
effort is still not up to scratch.
As Gilmartin says, it's trivially easy to define the DSN naming
conventions as an RE, but I'll be buggered if I can work it out. Of
course, having to learn RE at the same time is hampering me somewhat.
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Re: Headsup: FileZilla Client Bug
On 22/02/06, Paul Gilmartin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: SIGH! So they do a SYST and detect that it's MVS. Of course MVS uses partitioned data sets, and members are indicated by parentheses, which they try to accommodate, which is really not their responsibility, especially since they only wind up breaking something else. They were probably trying to fix some other reported bug. I wonder what. /SIGH! I'll submit a patch. -- Steve Despair - It's always darkest just before it goes pitch black... -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: ISREDIT macro advice required.
On 16/02/06, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 02/16/2006 at 03:03 PM, Steve Flynn [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Things are getting weird. Not really; you're just expecting REXX to have CLIST semantics. Bingo, sort of... After much gnashing of teeth, wailing and staring in disbelief at the terminal, I checked which DD the offending library was concatenated into. I expected it to be in my SYSPROC concat, but it appeared in my SYSEXEC concatentation, so it was being interpreted as a REXX procedure. Double quoting the EXCLUDE commands at the start of the code meant that they all ran through OK, and lines were excluded as I would expect, but then I got RC (-3) errors from the SET LINE=1 command... TRX is used at this site, so I was able to modify my own allocations on the fly. Moving the CLIST library from SYSEXEC and adding it to SYSPROC meant the code worked as expected! As for the original error, I sussed that within a few minutes - once all of the exclude commands have been executed, there was no data left to process, the main DO/WHILE loop was bypassed as 1 is not LE 0, and the command right at the end to DELETE .ZF .DEL failed as .DEL was only set within the loop we just bypassed. Easily fixed, which is more than can be said for the 3 snapped pencils, my steadily increasing blood pressure and the 5 hours on my timesheet for a 5 minute job. I'll go back to lurking and ranting silently. Many thanks to all those that offered help! :) -- Steve Despair - It's always darkest just before it goes pitch black... -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: ISREDIT macro advice required.
On 16/02/06, Itschak Mugzach [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are you running your edit macro in background (BDISPMAX(100))? if so, just call your edit with a larger number of display screens like this: EXEC PGM=IKJEFT01,DYNAMNBR=100, PARM='ISPSTART CMD(%editmyds) BDISPMAX(9)' and, as Walt mentioned, you can specify Control list (and conlist / symlist) We are running it in the background, as part of a batch job. BDISPMAX is at the default of 100... I've not tried turning the BDISPMAX value up, as I consistently errors when running the code. I'd like to fix it before turning up BDISPMAX. Things are getting weird. If I execute the following as a batch edit macro: ISREDIT MACRO /* ISREDIT EXCLUDE 'IN FORCE' ALL ISREDIT DELETE ALL NX ISREDIT RESET It fails with (excuse the reflow and wrapping if it screws up): ** ** * Command in error . : EXCLUDE IN FORCE ALL * ** * Invalid parameter * * Check for misspelled keywords or too many bounds (numeric) parameters. * ** * Error message ID . : ISRE197 * ** * Last return code . : 20 * ** * Macro executing . : EM#MGMLA* ** * Press ENTER key to terminate the macro.* ** ** ** ** However, if I change the code to ISREDIT MACRO /* ISREDIT EXCLUDE 'ABC123' ALL ISREDIT DELETE ALL NX ISREDIT RESET i.e. No spaces inside the quoted exclude line. It works perfectly! I suspected some oddball maintenance that might have been applied recently, but both exclude commands work perfectly well, as you'd expect them to, when issued as direct commands within an edit session. I do believe I'm starting to lose my marbles. 4 hours looking at perfectly good (simple) code which isn't working as it should! -- Steve Despair - It's always darkest just before it goes pitch black... -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
Re: File 'cookiejar.bin' when viewing IBM HTML manuals on the WEB
On 11/01/06, Support, DUNNIT SYSTEMS LTD. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For years, I've been putting up with prompts to download a file named 'cookiejar.bin' every time I browse a page in one of IBM's online HTML manuals. Any way I can get rid of this anoying file download prompt? I've searched the archives but came up empty. Is it not just a case of setting your browser to accept cookies? That's the only thing I can think of... -- Steve Despair - It's always darkest just before it goes pitch black... -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
