Re: Funny characters in CPAC.PARMLIB(HZSPRM00)

[Wayne Bickerdike]

Nearest thing in Oz are possumy characters. Tails aren't as bushy though.

On Tue, Aug 21, 2018 at 9:25 AM Paul Gilmartin <
000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote:

> On Mon, 20 Aug 2018 21:00:06 +, Jesse 1 Robinson  wrote:
>
> >In chasing down an anomaly in Health Checker, I discovered two squirrelly
> characters in CPAC.PARMLIB(HZSPRM00)
> >
> >.,ACTIVE/INACTIVE+
> >   Indicates the target check(s) are ACTIVE or
> >   INACTIVE.
> >
> >The odd characters here are x'BA' (looks like a triangle pointing down)
> and x'BB' (looks like right angle). Any idea what they're supposed to
> represent?
>
>
> On Mon, 20 Aug 2018 16:53:09 -0500, Roland Fernandez wrote:
> >
> >My emulator was set to 1047-Latin and it displayed the same squirrely
> characters.  Updating to 037-US now displays them as proper brackets.
> >
> Are you sure it was 1047?  In: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EBCDIC_1047
> I see them as Ý and ¨ --  LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Y WITH ACUTE and
> DIAERESIS.
>
> I hate EBCDIC!
>
> -- gil
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IBM Announcing New DS8882F Enterprise Storage

[Timothy Sipples]

I'd like to draw your attention to a new, high performance IBM Z and IBM
LinuxONE attachable storage system: the IBM DS8882F. Details here:

https://developer.ibm.com/storage/2018/08/13/new-ds8882f-big-value-smaller-package/

The DS8882F is a full fledged member of the IBM DS8880 series, with the
same architecture (including software/firmware foundation), features, and
resiliency. However, it's designed to install within a standard 19 inch
rack and to require only 16U of rack space. That means the DS8882F can be
installed within the IBM z14 ZR1 and IBM LinuxONE Rockhopper II frame, for
a single footprint machine plus storage solution. (It doesn't have to be,
though. You have full multi-system/multi-type and physical installation
flexibility, with both FICON/ECKD and FCP/FBA support.)

Like the other members of the IBM DS8880 family, the IBM DS8882F supports
Cloud Object Storage with z/OS DFSMShsm, called "Transparent Cloud
Tiering." On premises and/or off premises cloud-compliant storage can be
used as another HSM storage tier, automatically staged/de-staged. Details
here:

http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redbooks/pdfs/sg248381.pdf

The DS8882F is an all flash design for high performance, with up to 358.4TB
of raw capacity. Storage level encryption is supported, of course. (Did I
mention it's a full fledged DS8880 system?)

For a few years now I've/we've been looking/waiting for a smaller form
factor mainframe storage system as the spiritual successor to the IBM
DS6800. Spiritual only, though, because I really want to have the full
feature set available with the same design approach, just in a smaller form
factor and still with a healthy amount of storage capacity (up to 300+ TB
usable). Now it's here, and it's great to see this choice, IMHO.


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Multi-Geography
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TESTAUTH BRANCH=XM ?

[Tony Harminc]

(I'm speaking of the MVS macro, and not the TSO command.)

BRANCH=XM appears to be undocumented, though it's been in the macro
for 15 years. It seems to surround the function of TESTAUTH FCTN=1
with a change to home space mode and back, so that presumably relevant
MVS control blocks such as the JSCB are accessible.

1) Is BRANCH=XM supported? (In passing, the doc says that "Only SVC
routines can use BRANCH=YES." Is that true?)

2) The description of TESTAUTH says it requires entry in Primary mode
with PASN-HASN-SASN. Is *that* true?

3) What is the official way for a SS PC routine to find out if the
issuer of the PC is running in an APF authorized environment? (I am
aware that that caller could be in SRB mode or otherwise not be in a
state conducive to answering the question, but presumably one would
care only if the caller is in a user key and problem state.)

4) Design-wise, is there a reason that APF authorization of the caller
is not a criterion that can be applied when the PC routine is set up
with ETDEF?

Thanks!

Tony H.

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Re: Funny characters in CPAC.PARMLIB(HZSPRM00)

[Paul Gilmartin]

On Mon, 20 Aug 2018 21:00:06 +, Jesse 1 Robinson  wrote:

>In chasing down an anomaly in Health Checker, I discovered two squirrelly 
>characters in CPAC.PARMLIB(HZSPRM00)
>
>.,ACTIVE/INACTIVE+
>   Indicates the target check(s) are ACTIVE or
>   INACTIVE.
>
>The odd characters here are x'BA' (looks like a triangle pointing down) and 
>x'BB' (looks like right angle). Any idea what they're supposed to represent?


On Mon, 20 Aug 2018 16:53:09 -0500, Roland Fernandez wrote:
>
>My emulator was set to 1047-Latin and it displayed the same squirrely 
>characters.  Updating to 037-US now displays them as proper brackets.
>
Are you sure it was 1047?  In: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EBCDIC_1047
I see them as Ý and ¨ --  LATIN CAPITAL LETTER Y WITH ACUTE and
DIAERESIS.

I hate EBCDIC!

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Re: Funny characters in CPAC.PARMLIB(HZSPRM00)

[Jesse 1 Robinson]

Got it with input from various folks including Tom Brennan. My terminal was set 
to '3278T' (Type 6), which I had never noticed or had occasion to question. 
Changed to '3278' (Type 3). Along with Code Page 37 (already set), that worked. 
Thanks to all!

.
.
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Southern California Edison Company
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Subject: (External):Re: Funny characters in CPAC.PARMLIB(HZSPRM00)

Skip,

My emulator was set to 1047-Latin and it displayed the same squirrely 
characters.  Updating to 037-US now displays them as proper brackets.

Thanks,
Roland Fernandez
Pacific Life

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Re: Funny characters in CPAC.PARMLIB(HZSPRM00)

[Roland Fernandez]

Skip,

My emulator was set to 1047-Latin and it displayed the same squirrely 
characters.  Updating to 037-US now displays them as proper brackets.

Thanks,
Roland Fernandez
Pacific Life

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Re: Funny characters in CPAC.PARMLIB(HZSPRM00)

[Chris Hoelscher]

So they weren't squirrelly characters, just .. squarely characters 

Chris Hoelscher
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Tony Harminc
Sent: Monday, August 20, 2018 5:31 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: [IBM-MAIN] Funny characters in CPAC.PARMLIB(HZSPRM00)

On 20 August 2018 at 17:00, Jesse 1 Robinson  wrote:
> In chasing down an anomaly in Health Checker, I discovered two 
> squirrelly characters in CPAC.PARMLIB(HZSPRM00)
>
> .,ACTIVE/INACTIVE+
>Indicates the target check(s) are ACTIVE or
>INACTIVE.
>
> The odd characters here are x'BA' (looks like a triangle pointing down) and 
> x'BB' (looks like right angle). Any idea what they're supposed to represent?

BA and BB are the codepage 037 points for left and right square brackets, 
respectively.

Tony H.

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Re: Funny characters in CPAC.PARMLIB(HZSPRM00)

[Tony Harminc]

On 20 August 2018 at 17:00, Jesse 1 Robinson  wrote:
> In chasing down an anomaly in Health Checker, I discovered two squirrelly 
> characters in CPAC.PARMLIB(HZSPRM00)
>
> .,ACTIVE/INACTIVE+
>Indicates the target check(s) are ACTIVE or
>INACTIVE.
>
> The odd characters here are x'BA' (looks like a triangle pointing down) and 
> x'BB' (looks like right angle). Any idea what they're supposed to represent?

BA and BB are the codepage 037 points for left and right square
brackets, respectively.

Tony H.

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Funny characters in CPAC.PARMLIB(HZSPRM00)

[Jesse 1 Robinson]

In chasing down an anomaly in Health Checker, I discovered two squirrelly 
characters in CPAC.PARMLIB(HZSPRM00)

.,ACTIVE/INACTIVE+
   Indicates the target check(s) are ACTIVE or
   INACTIVE.

The odd characters here are x'BA' (looks like a triangle pointing down) and 
x'BB' (looks like right angle). Any idea what they're supposed to represent?

.
.
J.O.Skip Robinson
Southern California Edison Company
Electric Dragon Team Paddler
SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager
323-715-0595 Mobile
626-543-6132 Office <= NEW
robin...@sce.com


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Re: JES2 Spool Data Set Browse (SDSB) sample

[Peter Ten Eyck]

I have written some REXX to inventory all running jobs and STCs on a given LPAR 
and search for certain messages in the JESMSGLG DD for each job/STC. This 
Redbook provided helpful examples: Implementing REXX Support in SDSF.   
  

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Re: FYI: IEEE Survey Ranks Programming Languages

[Jack J. Woehr]

On 8/20/2018 9:49 AM, Nightwatch RenBand wrote:

Doesn't this nicely prove how worthless such surveys are?



"There is a special place in hell reserved for those who create sloppy 
surveys, who have polluted the software developer industry with absolute 
noise and nonsense over many years now." - Geertjan Wielenga, senior 
principal product manager at Oracle for NetBeans, InfoQ interview 
https://www.infoq.com/news/2018/08/netbeans-apache-update-aug18


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www.well.com/~jax # thinking, a way of skeptically interrogating the universe
www.softwoehr.com # with a fine understanding of human fallibility. - Carl Sagan

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Re: Searching the archives.

[Edward Finnell]

First glimpse I thought the indexes were busted, but going to 
listserv.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html everything looks OK. Subj and Authors by 
date. The curious thing is if I go to Search Archives first get no hits on Subj 
or Author search. However if I select a month to view and then tab over to 
right for search Archives everything behaves normally with Subj or Author 
search. We're limited to 100 hits so windowing can be used:Since  1 JAN 2015 
and Until 31 Dec 2017 to refine the the range. HTH...maybe Darren can add more 
insight.    


In a message dated 8/20/2018 7:55:55 AM Central Standard Time, 
kees.verno...@klm.com writes:

 
but all the searchoptions return matches from sometimes 2005 and older, 
sometimes 2009 and older. Nothing from this year.

How do I Search the Archives?

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Re: Searching the archives.

[Lizette Koehler]

Which URL are you using?  There are two and one is for a much older archive.

Could you show us your search keywords and where you are entering them?



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Re: JES2 Spool Data Set Browse (SDSB) sample

[Kirk Wolf]

We use DALUASSR instead of DALSSREQ, since it doesn't required APF
authorization.

On Sun, Aug 19, 2018 at 4:14 PM, Charles Mills  wrote:

> I did not know/think that DALSSREQ was optional.
> Certainly the name is unique and is not a cataloged DSN.
>
> CharlesSent from a mobile; please excuse the brevity.
>  Original message From: Paul Gilmartin <
> 000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> Date: 8/19/18  4:21 PM
> (GMT-05:00) To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: JES2 Spool Data Set
> Browse (SDSB) sample
> On Sun, 19 Aug 2018 12:51:54 -0700, Ed Jaffe wrote:
> >
> >It's pretty trivial if you already know how to do allocation via SVC99.
> >Looking at (E)JES code, I see we use the following keys:
> >
> >DALRTDDN (let the system choose DD name)
> >DALDSNAM (owner.jobname.jobid.dsnum.dsname)
> >DALSTATS (SHR)
> >DALSSREQ (technically only needed for secondary JES)
> >DALRECFM
> >DALLRECL
> >DALPERMA
> >DALCLOSE (same as FREE=CLOSE)
> >DALBRTKN (see mapping macro IAZBTOKP)
> >
> Absent DALSSREQ, what tells DYNALLOC that this is a request for a spool
> file rather
> than an ordinary data set?  Perhaps that DALDSNAM contains a qualifier
> (dsnum?)
> that would be invalid otherwise?
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Re: FYI: IEEE Survey Ranks Programming Languages

[Nightwatch RenBand]

> Doesn't this nicely prove how worthless such surveys are? Go ask the same
question to the  mainframe community, and you will get a completely
different ranking. Go ask the same question to the app programmer
community, and you will get a completely different ranking.
>Peter Hunkeler
 Please excuse my soapbox moment... It does not mean that surveys are
"worthless".  The survey shows what it shows.  It does demonstrate the
importance of "critical thinking", a subject no longer taught in USA public
schools, and which is illegal in dictatorships and oligarchies.  The reader
has to read and understand what was studied, what the question was, and who
was surveyed, and not just read the summary.  I believe Mr Hunkeler's
analysis is correct, but let's not throw out surveys "with the bathwater".

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Re: Question ABout ISPF Panels

[Larry Zuckett]

Hi Paul,

You can also do this form of the execute if you don't want it defined in the 
SYSEXEC concatenation:

  = UPPER(C1)   
VER ( NONBLANK LIST,OPT3,OPT4)  
if ( = 'OPT3')  
   = 'CMD(EX ''SDTS003.CLIST.CLIST(OPTION3)'')'   
if ( = 'OPT4')  
   = 'CMD(EX ''SDTS003.CLIST.CLIST(OPTION4)'')'   
)END

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Re: Question ABout ISPF Panels

[Larry Zuckett]

Hi ESSTEAM,

If you are are using Options on your panel,  then you can set  to the rexx 
or clist routine you would like to execute.

)Body  width(80) expand(\\) 
%--\-\--
%--\-\-- IBM APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT TOOLS  --\-\-- 
%--\-\--
+Command %===>_ZCMD 
+   
+  %1)+ IBM Application Performance Analyzer
+  %2)+ IBM Debug Tool  
+  %3)+ IBM Fault Analyzer  
+  %4)+ IBM File Manager
+  %5)+ IBM File Manager for DB2
+  %6)+ IBM File Manager for IMS
+  %7)+ IBM Workload Simulator - Test Manager   
+   
+  Enter Option and Press %ENTER+ to continue or %PF3 (CANCEL) to exit. 
)INIT   
)PROC   
  = TRANS( TRUNC (,'.')   
   1,'CMD(EX ''SYS1.SCAZEXEC(CAZISPS)'') MODE(FSCR) NEWAPPL(CAZ3)'  
   2,'CMD(EX ''SYS1.SEQAEXEC(EQASTART)'' ''PUMEMBER(EQAZ)'')'   
   3,'CMD(%IDISISPF)'   
   4,'CMD(%FMMENU)' 
   5,'CMD(%FMMENU MPANEL(FMN2ST00) APPL(FMN2))'   
   6,'CMD(%FMMENU MPANEL(FMN1ST00) APPL(FMN1))'   
   7,'CMD(%WSIMTM)'   
   X,EXIT 
   *,'?'  
   )  
 =.TRAIL   
)END

However,  if you had something like this where you are prompting for value and 
executing a REXX routine based on that value, then you can do the following:

)Attr Default(%+_) 
   @ type(text) intens(high) caps(off) just(left ) hilite(blink)   
   ¬ type(input) intens(non)   
   _ type(input) intens(high) caps(off)
   ~ type(input) intens(high) caps(on) 
)Body  width(80) expand(\\)
%--\-\-- SAMPLE OPTION PANEL --\-\--   
+Command %===>_ZCMD   + Enter %MODEL+ for templates
+  
+ %ENTER "OPT1" or "OPT2"  
+ %_c1+ Enter "OPT1" or "OPT2" 
+  
+  Press %ENTER+ to continue or %PF3 (CANCEL) to exit. 
)INIT  
 .cursor = ZCMD
  =  
   =  
)REINIT
)PROC  
  = UPPER(C1)   
VER ( NONBLANK LIST,OPT1,OPT2)  
if ( = 'OPT1') 
   = 'CMD(OPTION1)'  
if ( = 'OPT2') 
   = 'CMD(OPTION2)'  
)END  

Rexx routines OPTION1 and OPTION2 are in my SYSEXEC concatenation:

OPTION1:

/* REXX */   
 
say 'executing option 1 rexx routine'
exit 

OPTION2:

/* REXX */   
 
say 'executing option 2 rexx routine'
exit

From ISPF OPTION 7.1 select TESTPANL:

SYA1 Invoke Dialog Function/Selection Panel  
Command ===> 
  More: +
Invoke selection panel:  
   PANEL  . . TESTPANL   

gives you the display:

Select "OPT1" or "OPT2":

SYA1 

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: does anyone remember a program called BLKTAPE?

[Dyck, Lionel B. (RavenTek)]

What about using TAPEMAP from CBT file 299 to see the characteristics of the 
tape, then read it BLP and copy it into a disk file to clean up.

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Mainframe Systems Programmer – RavenTek Solution Partners


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Sent: Monday, August 20, 2018 8:40 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: does anyone remember a program called BLKTAPE?

On Mon, 20 Aug 2018 07:42:04 -0500, Dave Jones wrote:

>This will deblock a BLOCKTAP tape into its original format:
>PIPE tape | deblock vb | > tape outfile a if you have CMS Pipelines 
>available.
> 
Couldn't one then just FILEDEF ... RECFM VB and read it directly?

(How could one have CMS but not have Pipelines?  Really old OS?)

-- gil

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Re: does anyone remember a program called BLKTAPE?

[Paul Gilmartin]

On Mon, 20 Aug 2018 07:42:04 -0500, Dave Jones wrote:

>This will deblock a BLOCKTAP tape into its original format:
>PIPE tape | deblock vb | > tape outfile a 
>if you have CMS Pipelines available.
> 
Couldn't one then just FILEDEF ... RECFM VB and read it directly?

(How could one have CMS but not have Pipelines?  Really old OS?)

-- gil

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Re: IBM support pages gone?

[Mike Schwab]

Clear your cache?
On Mon, Aug 20, 2018 at 4:13 AM Beesley, Paul  wrote:
>
> Strange, works for a colleague as well, but not for me in IE, Firefox, or 
> Chrome. OK thanks, must be just me..
>
> Regards and thanks
> Paul
>
> -Original Message-
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> Subject: Re: IBM support pages gone?
>
> Second one also works:
>
> http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1OA40731
>
> OA40731: ABEND0C4 IN ADRSB207 +X'4C6'WHEN DSS INVOKED VIA THE API AND 
> CHECKVTOC PARM IS SPECIFIED IN THE SYSIN WHEN DUMP TO TAPE
>
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> Behalf Of Richards, Robert B.
> Sent: Monday, August 20, 2018 5:03 AM
> To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
> Subject: Re: IBM support pages gone?
>
> Works on my end of the pond...
>
> http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1OA53980
>
> Bob
>
> -Original Message-
> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On 
> Behalf Of Beesley, Paul
> Sent: Monday, August 20, 2018 4:29 AM
> To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
> Subject: IBM support pages gone?
>
> More useful IBM support pages gone missing this morning. Everything I search 
> for produces the old Our Apologies ... page.
> Example, Google for CKR0617, second hit is titled IBM OA53980: CKR0617 
> MESSAGE AT STARTUP ...
> Clicking the link gets you the page not found.
> And, Google for ADRDTDSC 0C4, first hit is IBM OA40731: ABEND0C4 IN ADRSB207 
>  Also goes to a page not found.
> Come on IBM how are we supposed to analyse any problems?
>
> Regards and thanks
> Paul
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Searching the archives.

[Vernooij, Kees (ITOPT1) - KLM]

Hello,

I try to look up a subject from a few months ago in the Archives, but all the 
searchoptions return matches from sometimes 2005 and older, sometimes 2009 and 
older. Nothing from this year.
How do I Search the Archives?

Kees.


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Re: does anyone remember a program called BLKTAPE?

[Dave Jones]

This will deblock a BLOCKTAP tape into its original format:
PIPE tape | deblock vb | > tape outfile a 
if you have CMS Pipelines available.

DJ

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Re: IBM support pages gone?

[Beesley, Paul]

Strange, works for a colleague as well, but not for me in IE, Firefox, or 
Chrome. OK thanks, must be just me..

Regards and thanks
Paul

-Original Message-
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf 
Of Richards, Robert B.
Sent: Monday, August 20, 2018 10:06 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: IBM support pages gone?

Second one also works:

http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1OA40731

OA40731: ABEND0C4 IN ADRSB207 +X'4C6'WHEN DSS INVOKED VIA THE API AND CHECKVTOC 
PARM IS SPECIFIED IN THE SYSIN WHEN DUMP TO TAPE

-Original Message-
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf 
Of Richards, Robert B.
Sent: Monday, August 20, 2018 5:03 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: IBM support pages gone?

Works on my end of the pond...

http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1OA53980

Bob

-Original Message-
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf 
Of Beesley, Paul
Sent: Monday, August 20, 2018 4:29 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: IBM support pages gone?

More useful IBM support pages gone missing this morning. Everything I search 
for produces the old Our Apologies ... page.
Example, Google for CKR0617, second hit is titled IBM OA53980: CKR0617 MESSAGE 
AT STARTUP ...
Clicking the link gets you the page not found.
And, Google for ADRDTDSC 0C4, first hit is IBM OA40731: ABEND0C4 IN ADRSB207 
 Also goes to a page not found.
Come on IBM how are we supposed to analyse any problems?

Regards and thanks
Paul

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Re: IBM support pages gone?

[Richards, Robert B.]

Second one also works:

http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1OA40731

OA40731: ABEND0C4 IN ADRSB207 +X'4C6'WHEN DSS INVOKED VIA THE API AND CHECKVTOC 
PARM IS SPECIFIED IN THE SYSIN WHEN DUMP TO TAPE

-Original Message-
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf 
Of Richards, Robert B.
Sent: Monday, August 20, 2018 5:03 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: IBM support pages gone?

Works on my end of the pond...

http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1OA53980

Bob

-Original Message-
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf 
Of Beesley, Paul
Sent: Monday, August 20, 2018 4:29 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: IBM support pages gone?

More useful IBM support pages gone missing this morning. Everything I search 
for produces the old Our Apologies ... page.
Example, Google for CKR0617, second hit is titled IBM OA53980: CKR0617 MESSAGE 
AT STARTUP ...
Clicking the link gets you the page not found.
And, Google for ADRDTDSC 0C4, first hit is IBM OA40731: ABEND0C4 IN ADRSB207 
 Also goes to a page not found.
Come on IBM how are we supposed to analyse any problems?

Regards and thanks
Paul

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Re: IBM support pages gone?

[Richards, Robert B.]

Works on my end of the pond...

http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg1OA53980

Bob

-Original Message-
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf 
Of Beesley, Paul
Sent: Monday, August 20, 2018 4:29 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: IBM support pages gone?

More useful IBM support pages gone missing this morning. Everything I search 
for produces the old Our Apologies ... page.
Example, Google for CKR0617, second hit is titled IBM OA53980: CKR0617 MESSAGE 
AT STARTUP ...
Clicking the link gets you the page not found.
And, Google for ADRDTDSC 0C4, first hit is IBM OA40731: ABEND0C4 IN ADRSB207 
 Also goes to a page not found.
Come on IBM how are we supposed to analyse any problems?

Regards and thanks
Paul

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IBM support pages gone?

[Beesley, Paul]

More useful IBM support pages gone missing this morning. Everything I search 
for produces the old Our Apologies ... page.
Example, Google for CKR0617, second hit is titled IBM OA53980: CKR0617 MESSAGE 
AT STARTUP ...
Clicking the link gets you the page not found.
And, Google for ADRDTDSC 0C4, first hit is IBM OA40731: ABEND0C4 IN ADRSB207 
 Also goes to a page not found.
Come on IBM how are we supposed to analyse any problems?

Regards and thanks
Paul

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(registered number 08514184) and Canopy The Open Cloud Company Limited 
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Re: Anyone here exprerienced in JSON parser (assembler)

[ITschak Mugzach]

Hi Martin, Charles.

Json Parser is a service loaded at IPl (much like subsystems does), and
supplies callable routines to parse Json format strings. I solved my
problem, but "gos save IBM" for unclear documentation. the rexx version was
quit easy as it was based on a sample, but the assembler routine is more
complex to understand.

so the answer to my question, "is there any doctor on board", is yes. it
migt be me ;-)

ITschak

On Sat, Aug 18, 2018 at 6:55 PM Martin Packer 
wrote:

>
> (I guess I’m not alone in this and) I’m scratching my head as to what
> you’re talking about.) I know “JSON” and Assembler and Rexx but I have no
> idea what the specific code you’re talking about is or where both flavours
> came from.
>
> It’d probably help if you told us.
>
> Thanks, Martin
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> > On 18 Aug 2018, at 10:38, ITschak Mugzach  wrote:
> >
> > I have a program that prses Json text written in assembler, and same code
> > in Rexx. The rexx code works fine. When I try to parse a Json array
> entry,
> > I get an error  "objecthandle must be zero for globl search". however, my
> > search is  hwtz_searchtype_object... Again, the Rexx code which is one to
> > one with the assembler runs perfect, but I want it in assembler.
> >
> > ITschak
> >
> >
> > ITschak Mugzach
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