Re: NETSTAT and PIPES
Coding PIPE CMS xxx is exactly the same as coding address CMS ' ... That is, CMS performs the full command resolution, and an EXEC will get selected instead of a MODULE. Therefore it is recommended to use address COMMAND and PIPE COMMAND. Even more: you should not abbreviate a CMS command, this to avoid user defined synonyms, so do *not* code PIPE COMMAND L * EXEC A ... but PIPE COMMAND LISTFILE * EXEC A ... Then and only then you are sure that an unexpected EXEC or synonyms makes you exec do something else than expected. Lesson 1, chapter 3 in this self study TeleCourse explains it in great detail http://www.vm.ibm.com/download/packages/descript.cgi?TCVM1 So, I am pretty sure your PIPE CMS invokes the TELNET EXEC, not the MDOULE. For your TELNET case: /* your exec */ address command /* Be sure to execute what we need */ 'PIPE COMMAND EXEC TELNET 2009/7/13 Gentry, Stephen stephen.gen...@lafayettelife.com (I tried to post this to the cms pipes list but it was rejected) I have a simple EXEC that pipes the output of the NETSTAT command to a stem. If I issue NETSTAT in a normal CMS session, I get the results back that I expect. When run it in an EXEC containing a PIPE, I get errors from the NETSTAT command. Code: PIPE CMS NETSTAT TELNET | stem myStem. There two files with the name NETSTAT, one is a MODULE the other an EXEC. When I run It from a CMS session, the EXEC gets invoked but when I run it from and EXEC I wrote containing the PIPE command above it seems to invoke the MODULE. Is that the way PIPES work? I thought the CMS param set the environment. Any thoughts? Thanks, Steve -- Kris Buelens, IBM Belgium, VM customer support
Re: SYSPROF.EXEC
Gentry, Stephen stephen.gen...@lafayettelife.com wrote: Yes, I know it?s preferred that users don?t modify this EXEC. Everytime we go to a new release of VM, I have to modify this EXEC. We running vm 5.2 and modifications worked fine on that release. The same mods do not work on 5.4. IIRC I can access the S disk as another fmode, for example E. I use MAINT to make the mods to the exec on E. I log off and back on to MAINT and generate a new CMS NSS. Is there anything else I should have to do? I don?t think I?ve got to regen the CMS nucleus do I? I don?t remember doing it in years past when I?ve made this change. I?m checking the insflags variable for the word ?BATCH? Is any of this documented anywhere? I?d really appreciate some help with this. We have long had the need to provide some additional customisation before some parts of the SYSPROF EXEC complete. The way we do this, to provide minimal maintenance impact, is to insert a number of calls into the SYSPROF on first system build (naturally - we use the VMSES source part update procedure). In our case the calls are all to the same LSYSPROF EXEC with different keypoint parameters. This way the (modified) SYSPROF can be built into the INSTSEG once and never needs to change. Note, however, that if some of your external calls are early in the SYSPROF then your LSYSPROF will have to break another rule and be on the S-190 disk. What I have never understood is why optional external calls were not included in SYSPROF as standard, avoiding this need for local customisation. Colin Allinson Amadeus Data Processing GmbH
Re: SYSPROF.EXEC
SYSPROF EXEC was a great enhancement. Before there was only assembler code (DMSINS). SYSPROF was the step IBM made to make the CMS startup tailorable. Only later people started thinking: SYSPROF is IBM code one should not change. 2009/7/13 Colin Allinson cgallin...@amadeus.com **... What I have never understood is why optional external calls were not included in SYSPROF as standard, avoiding this need for local customisation. * Colin Allinson** * Amadeus Data Processing GmbH -- Kris Buelens, IBM Belgium, VM customer support
Re: SYSPROF.EXEC
On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 9:43 AM, Kris Buelenskris.buel...@gmail.com wrote: SYSPROF EXEC was a great enhancement. Before there was only assembler code (DMSINS). SYSPROF was the step IBM made to make the CMS startup tailorable. Only later people started thinking: SYSPROF is IBM code one should not change. It's a gray area and things evolve over time. When you start shipping working sample code for an exit that a customer may fill in, the risk exists that critical function is shipped in it and you require the customer to rework his exit with an upgrade (or miss function). Ideally the product should work without the exit filled in, and the interface should not changed In IGS the major modification to SYSPROF was to add a dozen hooks to calls a local exit that was filled in. However, there's many fingers in the pie and the interface is so delicate that the IGS platform shipped with a standard local exit that called yet another local exit that the installation could fill in. But again, that was sufficiently complicated that they ship a boilerplate sample where you stick in local processing again. We had a lot of fun moving the customization into VMLINK - there's neat things you can do with pre-exit and post-exit that are pretty isolated. So the code invoked by SYSPROF and friends does a 'VMLINK ABCTOOLS ( FILE ABCDISKS' and that VMLINK control file described which disks to access, at what file mode, including processing that determined the right disk based on the user's credentials, picked up a backup disk when the primary was not available, etc. The advantage is that you don't have to predict all the possible intervention, but the caller will simply link the disk and you make it as complex as you need (and resist the temptation to write REXX variables into the caller environment to make up for restrictions in the interface). Rob
Re: SYSPROF.EXEC
Kris Buelens kris.buel...@gmail.com wrote:- SYSPROF EXEC was a great enhancement. Before there was only assembler code (DMSINS). SYSPROF was the step IBM made to make the CMS startup tailorable. Only later people started thinking: SYSPROF is IBM code one should not change. That goes back a way ;-) Yes, I agree that SYSPROF EXEC was a great enhancement (but not without it's downside). Someone who knew what they were doing could modify DMSINS and, I would argue that, you still need to know what you are doing to modify SYSPROF - even though it seems simpler to do. Before I restructured the local changes to SYSPROF to externalise them, it was a nightmare. Whenever there was new VM release with any change to the IBM supplied SYSPROF code then we had to totally rework our local fixes onto the new base or to ignore the new base and go with our old modified SYSPROF as a full part replacement (which is what tended to happen). Now it is a relatively simple job to insert the hooks without messing too much with the IBM supplied function. The problem with modifying a number of things like this is that it is all too easy to break IBM function or to lock yourself out from new/changed function. At least with the PROFILE EXEC's of the TCPIP workers there are hooks for local customisation. Yes, the move to SYSPROF was a good idea but it is a pity it didn't go just that one step further to keep IBM function and any local customisation separate. Colin Allinson Amadeus Data Processing GmbH
Re: DCSS
Chip Davis wrote: ... when shared segments were implemented in VM. It seems to me that it predated the VM/370 SEPP/BSEPP days when I started, but there's been many a synapse lost since then. Google, Wikipedia, ibm.com, and even Melinda's wonderful work have not been revealing, so I thought perhaps might be an old gray-beard like myself (with a better memory) still reading this list. Any help? CP67 had named systems ... basically page image was saved to reserved location and the IPL command would map the saved portion of virtual memory to those saved pages on disk. Used originally for CMS. 360/67 segment (sharing) only offered 1mbyte segments ... and CMS was much smaller than 1mbyte ... in fact standard CMS virtual machines were 256kbytes and CMS kernel (low core address) was something like the first 18 pages. So something as a result ... CMS had 3 shared pages ... that were locked into real storage ... every virtual memory page table (for named CMS) had same 3 virtual page table entries pointing to the same (locked) real pages. To provide read-only protection of those three pages, CP67 played special games with the 360 storage protect keys. Moving to 370, original 370 virtual memory architecture (defined in the 370 red book ... the red book was cms script file with command line options would print the full architecture book ... or just the principles of operation subset) had 64kbyte segment options and 1mbyte segment options. For 370, CMS was restructured to have the 1st 64k non-shared data, and the 2nd 64k shared ... using the 370 64kbyte shared segment facility. The original 370 virtual memory architecture also had R/O segment protect facility ... bit defined in each virtual memory segment table which would provide R/O segment protection. vm370 was initially implemented to use this facility for protecting shared pages. The mechanism was still the defined named systems and invoked/used via the ipl-by-name facility. the retrofit of virtual memory hardware to 370/165 ran into delays and at one point there was suggestion to drop a lot of the 370 virtual memory features in order to buy back six months in the scheduled (and not slip the 370 virtual memory announcement by six months). One of the features that got dropped was segment protect. As a result, all the other hardware implementations had to go back and remove all the features dropped by the 165 implementation ... and vm370 had to return to the (kludge) r/o page protection mechanism using the 360 key protect mechanism (from cp67) ... but for whole segments. I was at the science center ... past posts mentioning science center http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#545tech and we were still running with 360/67 and doing lots of enhancements to cp67. One of the features was a page-mapped filesystem faciilty for cms. This eliminated a whole lot of I/O simulation overhead and pathlength (even compared to diagnose I/O ... a form of which I had originally done as undergraduate) and opened up the ability to do a whole lot more interesting things using virtual memory (basically allowing page mapped views of anything done as part of standard cms file operations ... not just restricted to ipl-by-name). Misc. past posts mentioning page-mapped work for cms filesystem http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#mmap Eventually, science center was slated for getting at 370/155 and I had to look at moving lots of my cp67 work to vm370 ... old memo on the subject http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#email731212 and a couple describing having done the work (and what was in the csc/vm distribution system) http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#email750102 http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#email750430 one of my hobbies had been providing highly modified cp67 systems to internal locations (sort of my own product distribution). that dropped off as some number of internal locations moved from cp67 to vm370 ... but really took off when I had moved from cp67 to vm370. One of my major hobby/customers was the HONE system ... lots of past posts http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#hone HONE had been created after the 23jun69 unbundling announcement ... originally cp67 virtual machine systems originally targeted at giving branch office SEs hands-on to operating systems running in virtual machines. The HONE system even got special CP67 modifications that simulated the initial new instructions in 370 ... allowing running/testing of 370 operating systems that used the new instructions (i.e. allowing them to run in virtual machine under cp67 on 360/67. The science center had also ported apl\360 to cp67 cms for cms\apl. A lot of sales marketing support applications were developed in APL and started to be offered to sales marketing. Eventually that use came to dominate HONE activity and the virtual machine experience for branch office SEs evaporated. APL had been restructured to shared memory operations and originally HONE had a special
REXX and Panels
I am just getting back to VM after many years and am trying to remember how to do the things that I can easily do in TSO REXX. Does anyone know how to simulate panels in REXX on CMS without using DMS/CMS or ISPF? I know that some of the basic CMS execs (Filelist, etc) use XEDIT macros, but I can't find any documentation for this. Thanks, Jon Jon L. Veilleux veilleu...@aetna.com (860) 636-2683 This e-mail may contain confidential or privileged information. If you think you have received this e-mail in error, please advise the sender by reply e-mail and then delete this e-mail immediately. Thank you. Aetna
Re: REXX and Panels
Many years ago, IBM had a package, I think it was called REXX/CUA. I am not in the office today or I could give you the product number. We wrote several menued execs using it. I don't remember the price, if there was a price. It was ALL in REXX and XEDIT. There is also the IOS3270 module in the IBM Downloads page. I use that today for some of my execs where I want a full-screen refresh of status information. /Tom Kern Veilleux, Jon L wrote: I am just getting back to VM after many years and am trying to remember how to do the things that I can easily do in TSO REXX. Does anyone know how to simulate panels in REXX on CMS without using DMS/CMS or ISPF? I know that some of the basic CMS execs (Filelist, etc) use XEDIT macros, but I can't find any documentation for this. Thanks, Jon Jon L. Veilleux veilleu...@aetna.com (860) 636-2683
Re: DCSS addenda
re: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009j.html#67 DCSS Some of the other stuff in CSC/VM was released in my resource manager (which appeared with vm370 release 3 plc9) the 23jun69 unbundling announcement started charging for (application) software and se services (but they managed to make the case that kernel software should still be free). some posts mentioning unbundling http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#unbundle When I was undergraduate ... I had added tty/ascii terminal support to cp67 ... and tried to make the 2702 do something it couldn't quite do. that somewhat was motivation behind the univ. starting a project for a clone controller using interdata/3 ... discussed some in this recent post http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009j.html#60 A Complete History Of Mainframe Computing four of us got written up being responsible for clone controller business. some posts mentioning clone controller http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#360pcm The clone controller business has been attributed as the motivation for the FS project. http://www.ecole.org/Crisis_and_change_1995_1.htm quote from above: IBM tried to react by launching a major project called the 'Future System' (FS) in the early 1970's. The idea was to get so far ahead that the competition would never be able to keep up, and to have such a high level of integration that it would be impossible for competitors to follow a compatible niche strategy. However, the project failed because the objectives were too ambitious for the available technology. Many of the ideas that were developed were nevertheless adapted for later generations. Once IBM had acknowledged this failure, it launched its 'box strategy', which called for competitiveness with all the different types of compatible sub-systems. But this proved to be difficult because of IBM's cost structure and its RD spending, and the strategy only resulted in a partial narrowing of the price gap between IBM and its rivals. ... snip ... old post with somebody taking FS quotes from FergusMorris book on IBM http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001f.html#33 IBM's VM for the PC c.1984?? Now allowing 370 product pipelines dry up is claimed to have given the clone processors foothold in the market ... and success of the clone processors is major motivation to decide to start (also) charging for kernel software. My resource manager got chosen to be the guinea pig for kernel software charging ... and as a result ... I had to spend some amount of time with the business people lawyers on policies regarding software charging. another mad rush to get products back into the 370 product pipeline was the 303x stuff ... recent discussion http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009j.html#59 A Complete History Of Mainframe Computing basically after FS was killed, work on 3081 was started but that was going to take 6-7 yrs ... and they needed something on much shorter cycle ... so 3031 was repackaged 370/158, 3032 was repackaged 370/168, and 3033 started out as 168 wiring diagram remapped to newer chips that were 20% faster. Now one of the things that were in the page-mapped filesystem stuff was location independence support. Carefully crafted executable code could be loaded at any virtual location in any virtual address space. The same shared object could appear at different virtual addresses in different virtual address spaces. Operating systems that had been designed for paged-mapped operations had support for this as a matter of course ... including IBM's TSS/360. CMS inherited a lot of its structure, compilers and other features from os/360 ... which had a real-storage orientation. OS/360 Relocatable address constants ... were relocated at load time ... and while executing were tied to a specific address. This nominally prevented having the same shared object appearing simultaneously in multiple virtual address spaces at different addresses. The 370 issue was that with only 256 64kbyte segments (in 16mbyte virtual address space) ... there would be great difficulty in finding unique locations for every application that might be available at a large location. Any single user wouldn't necessarily require more than 16mbytes ... but might require an arbitrary combination of applications available at the installation. To support shared fixed address applications which might be used in arbitrary combination... a unique location had to be chosen for ever application ... but the total possible aggregate size of all available applications exceeded 16mbytes. Lots of past posts mentioning difficulty of modifying code so it would be location independent while executing (in addition to having to modify it for executing in a R/O protected shared segment) http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#adcon
Re: NETSTAT and PIPES
On Monday, 07/13/2009 at 12:23 EDT, Gentry, Stephen stephen.gen...@lafayettelife.com wrote: I have a simple EXEC that pipes the output of the NETSTAT command to a stem. If I issue NETSTAT in a normal CMS session, I get the results back that I expect. When run it in an EXEC containing a PIPE, I get errors from the NETSTAT command. Code: PIPE CMS NETSTAT TELNET | stem myStem. There two files with the name NETSTAT, one is a MODULE the other an EXEC. When I run it from a CMS session, the EXEC gets invoked but when I run it from and EXEC I wrote containing the PIPE command above it seems to invoke the MODULE. Is that the way PIPES work? I thought the CMS param set the environment. PIPE CMS NETSTAT will invoke the NETSTAT EXEC (which invokes the NETSTAT MODULE), just as if you had typed it at the console. By what means did you conclude that PIPE CMS NETSTAT did *not* invoke the exec? Alan Altmark z/VM Development IBM Endicott
VM and a 9672-R22
Can anyone tell me what the highest level of VM that will run on a 9672-R22? Thank you, Scott R Wandschneider Senior Systems Programmer|| Infocrossing, a Wipro Company || 11707 Miracle Hills Drive, Omaha, NE, 68154-4457|| : 402.963.8905 || :847.849.7223 || : scott.wandschnei...@infocrossing.com **Think Green - Please print responsibly**
Re: VM and a 9672-R22
On Monday, 07/13/2009 at 09:40 EDT, Wandschneider, Scott scott.wandschnei...@infocrossing.com wrote: Can anyone tell me what the highest level of VM that will run on a 9672-R22? z/VM V3.1 was the last release to operate on anything prior to a G5. (R22 is a G2.) Alan Altmark z/VM Development IBM Endicott
Re: SYSPROF.EXEC
On Monday, 07/13/2009 at 04:28 EDT, Colin Allinson cgallin...@amadeus.com wrote: Yes, the move to SYSPROF was a good idea but it is a pity it didn't go just that one step further to keep IBM function and any local customisation separate. FWIW, I can't find a Requirement for this in the requirements database. Alan Altmark z/VM Development IBM Endicott
Replicating z/VM documentation
As I am often in locations where internet access is either not possible or not allowed, I really like to keep the official z/VM documentation on my laptop. I know there are web pages with all the PDF files, etc.. But I have issues using them: - The PDF files are named with the manual number, rather than a human readable title. I usually end up renaming them when I download (and am often inconsistent). - I'm never sure I have the 'latest and greatest' - The process is entirely manual So I'm wondering what other people do to keep local copies.. It would be nifty to have something that checked the web pages for newer copies of the pdf files and did 'wget' or something on them - and was smart enough to suck the title out of the web page as well and use it to name the file locally. But - maybe there are other solutions I'm not aware of? Anybody have a nice way to deal with 'replicating' the z/VM documentation? (if your a Notes user, you'll understand the 2nd verb) p.s. Hmmm.. I bet I can use wget with the right incantation and get the whole website to my laptop along with PDFs.. but not sure it handles checking for changes? Scott
Re: VM and a 9672-R22
Thanks Alan. BTW, Thanks for your response on the MVS Stand-alone dump - I lost the email before I could say thanks, but the manual was a BIG help. Thank you, Scott -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Alan Altmark Sent: Monday, July 13, 2009 9:03 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: VM and a 9672-R22 On Monday, 07/13/2009 at 09:40 EDT, Wandschneider, Scott scott.wandschnei...@infocrossing.com wrote: Can anyone tell me what the highest level of VM that will run on a 9672-R22? z/VM V3.1 was the last release to operate on anything prior to a G5. (R22 is a G2.) Alan Altmark z/VM Development IBM Endicott Confidentiality Note: This e-mail, including any attachment to it, may contain material that is confidential, proprietary, privileged and/or Protected Health Information, within the meaning of the regulations under the Health Insurance Portability Accountability Act as amended. If it is not clear that you are the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that you have received this transmittal in error, and any review, dissemination, distribution or copying of this e-mail, including any attachment to it, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please immediately return it to the sender and delete it from your system. Thank you.
Re: REXX and Panels
On Jul 13, 2009, at 6:46 AM, Thomas Kern wrote: Many years ago, IBM had a package, I think it was called REXX/CUA. I am not in the office today or I could give you the product number. We wrote several menued execs using it. I don't remember the price, if there was a price. It was ALL in REXX and XEDIT. Good news: you're describing CUA2001: http://www.vm.ibm.com/download/packages/cua2001.vmarc On the VM Downloads Page now. I wrote a lot of stuff in it at Rice when it was still a paid product; I've messed with it a bit more since then. It's a pretty easy way to do an XEDIT interface for a Rexx ap. Adam
Re: REXX and Panels
Hi, Jon. There are a couple of good (and free!) packages you can try: 1) CUA2001 from the IBM VM Download page (http://www.vm.ibm.com/download/packages/) Very nice form building CUA complaint 3270 panels, and well documented too. I think it actually uses Xedit under the covers to drive the screen. 2) RDM (Rexx Display Manager), developed by the University of Victoria. It can be used from other languages besides Rexx and it comes with a replacement DMS API interface. It can be found here: http://uvvm.uvic.ca/~freeware/ Good luck. Veilleux, Jon L wrote: I am just getting back to VM after many years and am trying to remember how to do the things that I can easily do in TSO REXX. Does anyone know how to simulate panels in REXX on CMS without using DMS/CMS or ISPF? I know that some of the basic CMS execs (Filelist, etc) use XEDIT macros, but I can't find any documentation for this. Thanks, Jon Jon L. Veilleux veilleu...@aetna.com (860) 636-2683 This e-mail may contain confidential or privileged information. If you think you have received this e-mail in error, please advise the sender by reply e-mail and then delete this e-mail immediately. Thank you. Aetna -- Dave Jones V/Soft www.vsoft-software.com Houston, TX 281.578.7544
Re: REXX and Panels
REXX/CUA became CUA2001 before it was discontinued as a product. It is now available as is on the VM downloads page: http://www.vm.ibm.com/download/packages/descript.cgi?CUA2001 On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 7:46 AM, Thomas Kerntlk_sysp...@yahoo.com wrote: Many years ago, IBM had a package, I think it was called REXX/CUA. I am not in the office today or I could give you the product number. We wrote several menued execs using it. I don't remember the price, if there was a price. It was ALL in REXX and XEDIT. There is also the IOS3270 module in the IBM Downloads page. I use that today for some of my execs where I want a full-screen refresh of status information. /Tom Kern -- Bruce Hayden Linux on System z Advanced Technical Support IBM, Endicott, NY
Re: Replicating z/VM documentation
As I need a regular IBM Manual, I read it from the CD/DVD the first time and while I have it open, I use the File/SaveAs function to put a copy in my own manuals folder with a name I can recognize. Then when I am finished with it, I email a copy of that newnamed pdf to my home address to populate my home copy of manuals. Some levels of Windows let you have a Title column in the file list window and ALL IBM manuals have a proper title tag in their pdf copy. I just haven't played with it enough to have it on ONLY for the directories I want. /Tom Kern Scott Rohling wrote: As I am often in locations where internet access is either not possible or not allowed, I really like to keep the official z/VM documentation on my laptop. I know there are web pages with all the PDF files, etc.. But I have issues using them: - The PDF files are named with the manual number, rather than a human readable title. I usually end up renaming them when I download (and am often inconsistent). - I'm never sure I have the 'latest and greatest' - The process is entirely manual So I'm wondering what other people do to keep local copies.. It would be nifty to have something that checked the web pages for newer copies of the pdf files and did 'wget' or something on them - and was smart enough to suck the title out of the web page as well and use it to name the file locally. But - maybe there are other solutions I'm not aware of? Anybody have a nice way to deal with 'replicating' the z/VM documentation? (if your a Notes user, you'll understand the 2nd verb) p.s. Hmmm.. I bet I can use wget with the right incantation and get the whole website to my laptop along with PDFs.. but not sure it handles checking for changes? Scott
Re: Replicating z/VM documentation
I find it just as frustrating when I look at the manuals via the internet and the pdf (my preference over html) has a title of HCSK5B30 or something as useful as that. Jim Scott Rohling wrote: --00151757444e2547a6046e970b6f Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit As I am often in locations where internet access is either not possible or not allowed, I really like to keep the official z/VM documentation on my laptop. I know there are web pages with all the PDF files, etc.. But I have issues using them: - The PDF files are named with the manual number, rather than a human readable title. I usually end up renaming them when I download (and am often inconsistent). - I'm never sure I have the 'latest and greatest' - The process is entirely manual So I'm wondering what other people do to keep local copies.. It would be nifty to have something that checked the web pages for newer copies of the pdf files and did 'wget' or something on them - and was smart enough to suck the title out of the web page as well and use it to name the file locally. But - maybe there are other solutions I'm not aware of? Anybody have a nice way to deal with 'replicating' the z/VM documentation? (if your a Notes user, you'll understand the 2nd verb) p.s. Hmmm.. I bet I can use wget with the right incantation and get the whole website to my laptop along with PDFs.. but not sure it handles checking for changes? Scott --00151757444e2547a6046e970b6f Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable As I am often in locations where internet access is either not possible or = not allowed, I really like to keep the official z/VM documentation on my la= ptop.=C2=A0=C2=A0 I know there are web pages with all the PDF files, etc..= =C2=A0=C2=A0 But I have issues using them:br br-=C2=A0 The PDF files are named with the manual number, rather than a h= uman readable title.=C2=A0=C2=A0 I usually end up renaming them when I down= load (and am often inconsistent).br-=C2=A0 I#39;m never sure I have the = #39;latest and greatest#39;br -=C2=A0 The process is entirely manualbrbrSo I#39;m wondering what oth= er people do to keep local copies..=C2=A0=C2=A0 It would be nifty to have s= omething that checked the web pages for newer copies of the pdf files and d= id #39;wget#39; or something on them - and was smart enough to suck the t= itle out of the web page as well and use it to name the file locally.=C2=A0= =C2=A0 But - maybe there are other solutions I#39;m not aware of?br brAnybody have a nice way to deal with #39;replicating#39; the z/VM doc= umentation? (if your a Notes user, you#39;ll understand the 2nd verb)br= brp.s.=C2=A0 Hmmm..=C2=A0 I bet I can use wget with the right incantation = and get the whole website to my laptop along with PDFs..=C2=A0=C2=A0 but no= t sure it handles checking for changes?=C2=A0 br brScottbr --00151757444e2547a6046e970b6f-- -- Jim Bohnsack Cornell University (972) 596-6377 home/office (972) 342-5823 cell jab...@cornell.edu
Re: Replicating z/VM documentation
Hello Scott, If your laptop is running Windows, you could use Softcopy Librarian which queries a master list of z/VM publications (those that are found on the CD or DVD publication deliverables) and compares the list to your local repository. It can distinguish between publications that have been updated and those that have not and will allow you to download any number of publications (one to all) for a given shelf (library) or product. As you might have guessed, it can also download shelf and index files (.bks, .bki, and .xks) for use on the host or with Softcopy Reader for Windows or Linux. Take a look at the following site for Softcopy Librarian download information: http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?doc=4000640org=SWrs=4 Thanks! Michael J. Forte z/OS Storage ID and POK Softcopy Support Software Engineer, System z Information Solutions 58HA IBM Poughkeepsie, New York mjfo...@us.ibm.com Office: 845-435-9062, T/L: 295-9062 Fax: 845-432-9405 Building 052-1, B09 2455 South Road, Poughkeepsie, NY 12601 Often those who work the hardest are the luckiest... From: Scott Rohling scott.rohl...@gmail.com To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Date: 07/13/2009 10:23 AM Subject: Replicating z/VM documentation Sent by: The IBM z/VM Operating System IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU As I am often in locations where internet access is either not possible or not allowed, I really like to keep the official z/VM documentation on my laptop. I know there are web pages with all the PDF files, etc.. But I have issues using them: - The PDF files are named with the manual number, rather than a human readable title. I usually end up renaming them when I download (and am often inconsistent). - I'm never sure I have the 'latest and greatest' - The process is entirely manual So I'm wondering what other people do to keep local copies.. It would be nifty to have something that checked the web pages for newer copies of the pdf files and did 'wget' or something on them - and was smart enough to suck the title out of the web page as well and use it to name the file locally. But - maybe there are other solutions I'm not aware of? Anybody have a nice way to deal with 'replicating' the z/VM documentation? (if your a Notes user, you'll understand the 2nd verb) p.s. Hmmm.. I bet I can use wget with the right incantation and get the whole website to my laptop along with PDFs.. but not sure it handles checking for changes? Scott
Re: Replicating z/VM documentation
I download all the manuals when we go to a new release, and create a shortcut/alias for each one with it's real title (or as close as I can get with some special characters). This way I have a name that means something to me, but also the links work between the manuals. Robert Reuscher Network Software Development/Support (214) 477-7091 -Original Message- From: Jim Bohnsack jab...@cornell.edu Sent: Monday, July 13, 2009 9:45 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: Replicating z/VM documentation I find it just as frustrating when I look at the manuals via the internet and the pdf (my preference over html) has a title of HCSK5B30 or something as useful as that. Jim Scott Rohling wrote: --00151757444e2547a6046e970b6f Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit As I am often in locations where internet access is either not possible or not allowed, I really like to keep the official z/VM documentation on my laptop. I know there are web pages with all the PDF files, etc.. But I have issues using them: - The PDF files are named with the manual number, rather than a human readable title. I usually end up renaming them when I download (and am often inconsistent). - I'm never sure I have the 'latest and greatest' - The process is entirely manual So I'm wondering what other people do to keep local copies.. It would be nifty to have something that checked the web pages for newer copies of the pdf files and did 'wget' or something on them - and was smart enough to suck the title out of the web page as well and use it to name the file locally. But - maybe there are other solutions I'm not aware of? Anybody have a nice way to deal with 'replicating' the z/VM documentation? (if your a Notes user, you'll understand the 2nd verb) p.s. Hmmm.. I bet I can use wget with the right incantation and get the whole website to my laptop along with PDFs.. but not sure it handles checking for changes? Scott --00151757444e2547a6046e970b6f Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable As I am often in locations where internet access is either not possible or = not allowed, I really like to keep the official z/VM documentation on my la= ptop.=C2=A0=C2=A0 I know there are web pages with all the PDF files, etc..= =C2=A0=C2=A0 But I have issues using them:br br-=C2=A0 The PDF files are named with the manual number, rather than a h= uman readable title.=C2=A0=C2=A0 I usually end up renaming them when I down= load (and am often inconsistent).br-=C2=A0 I#39;m never sure I have the = #39;latest and greatest#39;br -=C2=A0 The process is entirely manualbrbrSo I#39;m wondering what oth= er people do to keep local copies..=C2=A0=C2=A0 It would be nifty to have s= omething that checked the web pages for newer copies of the pdf files and d= id #39;wget#39; or something on them - and was smart enough to suck the t= itle out of the web page as well and use it to name the file locally.=C2=A0= =C2=A0 But - maybe there are other solutions I#39;m not aware of?br brAnybody have a nice way to deal with #39;replicating#39; the z/VM doc= umentation? (if your a Notes user, you#39;ll understand the 2nd verb)br= brp.s.=C2=A0 Hmmm..=C2=A0 I bet I can use wget with the right incantation = and get the whole website to my laptop along with PDFs..=C2=A0=C2=A0 but no= t sure it handles checking for changes?=C2=A0 br brScottbr --00151757444e2547a6046e970b6f-- -- Jim Bohnsack Cornell University (972) 596-6377 home/office (972) 342-5823 cell jab...@cornell.edu This e-mail may contain Sprint Nextel Company proprietary information intended for the sole use of the recipient(s). Any use by others is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender and delete all copies of the message.
Re: Replicating z/VM documentation
-Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Thomas Kern Sent: Monday, July 13, 2009 9:43 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: Replicating z/VM documentation As I need a regular IBM Manual, I read it from the CD/DVD the first time and while I have it open, I use the File/SaveAs function to put a copy in my own manuals folder with a name I can recognize. Then when I am finished with it, I email a copy of that newnamed pdf to my home address to populate my home copy of manuals. Some levels of Windows let you have a Title column in the file list window and ALL IBM manuals have a proper title tag in their pdf copy. I just haven't played with it enough to have it on ONLY for the directories I want. /Tom Kern I am a z/OS'er who hangs around here. I have a number of PDF manuals which I copied from the MVS CDs onto my Amazon KindleDX (nice, but pricey). At least on the MVS CDs, there are a number of XKS files. These files are book shelf type files which contain the file name of the PDF and the associated manual number and title. I wrote a small Perl script on Linux which parses the XKS files and does an ln command to create a file name like: manual.numbetitle.PDF . An example file name would be: SC26-7396-10.zOS_V1R10_DFSMS_Installation_Exits.PDF Since Windows cannot have two names for one file, this script would need to be massaged to do a rename, I guess. I was working on a way to slurp down the current PDF files from IBM, but got to feeling bad about how much bandwidth I would consume, so I never tried. -- John McKown Systems Engineer IV IT Administrative Services Group HealthMarkets(r) 9151 Boulevard 26 * N. Richland Hills * TX 76010 (817) 255-3225 phone * (817)-961-6183 cell john.mck...@healthmarkets.com * www.HealthMarkets.com Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message may contain confidential or proprietary information. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. HealthMarkets(r) is the brand name for products underwritten and issued by the insurance subsidiaries of HealthMarkets, Inc. -The Chesapeake Life Insurance Company(r), Mid-West National Life Insurance Company of TennesseeSM and The MEGA Life and Health Insurance Company.SM
Re: Replicating z/VM documentation
On Monday, 07/13/2009 at 11:00 EDT, McKown, John jmck...@healthmarkets.com wrote: Since Windows cannot have two names for one file, this script would need to be massaged to do a rename, I guess. Actually you can do the same thing with Windows hardlinks. These are symbolic links, not shortcuts, created by the fsutil command: c: cd My Documents\Pubs\pdfs c: fsutil hardlink create ..\VM 5.4\54 License Info Doc.pdf c2461069.pdf Shortcuts won't work unless the application is specifically coded to understand .lnk files (gag). I wish Create shortcut would create hardlinks instead. Is there an app for that? Alan Altmark z/VM Development IBM Endicott
Re: Replicating z/VM documentation
Fortunately, I run Linux as my workstation ;-)I do run Windows under VirtualBox, but only for personal use (iTunes for my iPhone, and Quicken). So maybe I can use the Librarian to download/replicate and the Reader on Linux.. but I really prefer PDF files as the format is ubiquitous and I can easily share them. Thanks for the suggestion and pointer! Scott On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 8:47 AM, Michael Forte mjfo...@us.ibm.com wrote: Hello Scott, If your laptop is running Windows, you could use Softcopy Librarian which queries a master list of z/VM publications (those that are found on the CD or DVD publication deliverables) and compares the list to your local repository. It can distinguish between publications that have been updated and those that have not and will allow you to download any number of publications (one to all) for a given shelf (library) or product. As you might have guessed, it can also download shelf and index files (.bks, .bki, and .xks) for use on the host or with Softcopy Reader for Windows or Linux. Take a look at the following site for Softcopy Librarian download information: http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?doc=4000640org=SWrs=4 Thanks! *Michael J. Forte* z/OS Storage ID and POK Softcopy Support Software Engineer, System z Information Solutions 58HA IBM Poughkeepsie, New York* **mjfo...@us.ibm.com* mjfo...@us.ibm.com Office: 845-435-9062, T/L: 295-9062 Fax: 845-432-9405 Building 052-1, B09 2455 South Road, Poughkeepsie, NY 12601 Often those who work the hardest are the luckiest... From: Scott Rohling scott.rohl...@gmail.com To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Date: 07/13/2009 10:23 AM Subject: Replicating z/VM documentation Sent by: The IBM z/VM Operating System IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU -- As I am often in locations where internet access is either not possible or not allowed, I really like to keep the official z/VM documentation on my laptop. I know there are web pages with all the PDF files, etc.. But I have issues using them: - The PDF files are named with the manual number, rather than a human readable title. I usually end up renaming them when I download (and am often inconsistent). - I'm never sure I have the 'latest and greatest' - The process is entirely manual So I'm wondering what other people do to keep local copies.. It would be nifty to have something that checked the web pages for newer copies of the pdf files and did 'wget' or something on them - and was smart enough to suck the title out of the web page as well and use it to name the file locally. But - maybe there are other solutions I'm not aware of? Anybody have a nice way to deal with 'replicating' the z/VM documentation? (if your a Notes user, you'll understand the 2nd verb) p.s. Hmmm.. I bet I can use wget with the right incantation and get the whole website to my laptop along with PDFs.. but not sure it handles checking for changes? Scott
Re: Replicating z/VM documentation
Hello Rob, Are you using a download or is there something specific that you are monitoring? Ed Martin Aultman Health Foundation 330-363-5050 ext 35050 -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Rob van der Heij Sent: Monday, July 13, 2009 11:35 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: Replicating z/VM documentation On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 4:21 PM, Scott Rohlingscott.rohl...@gmail.com wrote: p.s. Hmmm.. I bet I can use wget with the right incantation and get the whole website to my laptop along with PDFs.. but not sure it handles checking for changes? The first speed-up is to block all the surfing statistics that IBM has added to the various pages. I measured it to be more than 50% of the time it takes to load the page (whether I sit in Europe or in the US, no excuses there). I modified the HTML page that lists all the books so that it points to the local copies of the PDFs for the ones that I have here handy. In fact, I even have the copy of the monitor record layout local on my thinkpad, but that may not be something everyone else needs that often ;-) And I'll do it again with next release (if any). Rob
Re: Replicating z/VM documentation
I have installed the z/VM V5R4 Information Center DVD onto my (Windows) laptop. There's a collection of manuals and redbooks that are copied onto the HD and a (java) app that provides a menu'd interface with search capabilities (including the .pdf's). I don't know if this was something that was produced for releases earlier than 5.4. The reference # is SK5T-7098-00. My usual method, though, has been to download the manuals I wanted and do the Save As routine, cutting and pasting the document title after the SCnn original file name. Of course since certain special chars like / and : aren't accepted in file names one does need to do a bit of editing frequently. Still, it's better than a directory full of indecipherable and non-descriptive filenames. ___ Karl S Huf | Senior Vice President | World Wide Technology 840 S Canal, Chicago, IL, 60607 | phone (312)630-6287 | k...@ntrs.com Please visit northerntrust.com CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This communication is confidential, may be privileged and is meant only for the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender ASAP and delete this message from your system. IRS CIRCULAR 230 NOTICE: To the extent that this message or any attachment concerns tax matters, it is not intended to be used and cannot be used by a taxpayer for the purpose of avoiding penalties that may be imposed by law. For more information about this notice, see http://www.northerntrust.com/circular230 P Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail.image/jpeg
Re: REXX and Panels
Many years ago, IBM had a package, I think it was called REXX/CUA. I am not in the office today or I could give you the product number. We wrote several menued execs using it. I don't remember the price, if there was a price. It was ALL in REXX and XEDIT. CUA2001. I think it's in the IBM downloads library. www.vm.ibm.com/download Also the FULLSCREEN pipe stage.
Re: NETSTAT and PIPES
Running it using your suggestions causes the following: The exec looks like this: To answer Alan's question from an earlier email. The NETSTAT module is on our X drive. I link to TCPMAINT's 592 disk as Z. BTW, the netstat module on X was copied from TCPMAINT. With the disks in this order, I get the result above. When I move 592 higher up in the search order, I still get what I got above. When I DETACH 592 from my machine and issue the command manually (from the command line), I get the result above. X is still attached and it has the MODULE only. This is what makes me think that the PIPE is running the module instead of the exec, even with tcpmaint 592 attached and first in the search order. BTW, notice the tcpip level in the first example, 5.2. This is even more confusing because we are running on VM 5.4 Further, I just tried running the EXEC again. Tcpmaint 592 is higher in the search string. I get the following result: So far about the only thing it's been consistent at is being inconsistent. -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Kris Buelens Sent: Monday, July 13, 2009 2:24 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: NETSTAT and PIPES Coding PIPE CMS xxx is exactly the same as coding address CMS ' ... That is, CMS performs the full command resolution, and an EXEC will get selected instead of a MODULE. Therefore it is recommended to use address COMMAND and PIPE COMMAND. Even more: you should not abbreviate a CMS command, this to avoid user defined synonyms, so do *not* code PIPE COMMAND L * EXEC A ... but PIPE COMMAND LISTFILE * EXEC A ... Then and only then you are sure that an unexpected EXEC or synonyms makes you exec do something else than expected. Lesson 1, chapter 3 in this self study TeleCourse explains it in great detail http://www.vm.ibm.com/download/packages/descript.cgi?TCVM1 So, I am pretty sure your PIPE CMS invokes the TELNET EXEC, not the MDOULE. For your TELNET case: /* your exec */ address command /* Be sure to execute what we need */ 'PIPE COMMAND EXEC TELNET 2009/7/13 Gentry, Stephen stephen.gen...@lafayettelife.com (I tried to post this to the cms pipes list but it was rejected) I have a simple EXEC that pipes the output of the NETSTAT command to a stem. If I issue NETSTAT in a normal CMS session, I get the results back that I expect. When run it in an EXEC containing a PIPE, I get errors from the NETSTAT command. Code: PIPE CMS NETSTAT TELNET | stem myStem. There two files with the name NETSTAT, one is a MODULE the other an EXEC. When I run It from a CMS session, the EXEC gets invoked but when I run it from and EXEC I wrote containing the PIPE command above it seems to invoke the MODULE. Is that the way PIPES work? I thought the CMS param set the environment. Any thoughts? Thanks, Steve -- Kris Buelens, IBM Belgium, VM customer support
Re: NETSTAT and PIPES
On Monday, 07/13/2009 at 02:16 EDT, Gentry, Stephen stephen.gen...@lafayettelife.com wrote: Running it using your suggestions causes the following: [IMAGE] The listserver doesn't redistribute attachments. A plain-text copy/paste is sufficient. Alan Altmark z/VM Development IBM Endicott
CSE Survey
I am looking for folks who are using (or are preparing to use) Cross-System Extensions (CSE). This includes a. The full-blown PVM-based solution with cross-system CP commands, a shared spool (XSPOOL), cross-system LINK protection (XLINK), and a shared source directory. b. The PVM-less XLINK (with or without shared directory) c. Some other variation I want to know 1. When you started using CSE 2. The elements of CSE you using 3. How many systems you have in your cluster 4. Whether or not you give permission for IBM to contact you for more details (If you don't say YES, then I will assume NO.) I would prefer that you send your response directly to me rather than posting to the listserver. Thanks, Alan Alan Altmark Sr. Software Engineer IBM z/VM Development
Updating z/VM
Hello all, Can some one tell me where the best place to look on the procedures for updating z/VM, lets say using an RSU tape? Its been a while since I did one and I need to brush up. BTW, Any one know where and when IBM will be offering installation and other classes on the new z/VM? Thanks
Re: VM history question
Mike Walter mike.wal...@hewitt.com said: Surely Sir Lynn would know off the top of his head, and have ALL the gory details in his astonishingly complete personal records. I'm definitely no substitute for Sir Lynn, but I remember DCSS and DMKSNT in VM/370 Release 3 PLC 8, which is where I started with VM. In fact, I used CMSAMS and CMSVSAM then for Unnatural Practices, or at least not for the purposes for which they were created. I was porting the CP/67 port of LISP/MTS to VM/370, and needed something to replace the named segment used under CP/67 for LISP's pushdown stack. Instead of checking the stack pointer for the end of the stack, it would just push onto the stack and take the program check when it ran off the end. I simulated that by using DIAG x'64' to attach CMSAMS and CMSVSAM, and then set the protect key to user key for all but the last 2K (remember 2K pages?) page. A LISP interpreter written entirely in BAL, with self-modifying code and almost out of base register addressibility... that was quite an interesting piece of code. regards, Jeff Savit
Re: Updating z/VM
On Monday, 07/13/2009 at 03:41 EDT, Howard Rifkind vmes...@yahoo.com wrote: Can some one tell me where the best place to look on the procedures for updating z/VM, lets say using an RSU tape? z/VM Guide for Automated Installation and Service is the book to look at. Any one know where and when IBM will be offering installation and other classes on the new z/VM? Installation of z/VM 6.1 will be just like installation of prior releases. Alan Altmark z/VM Development IBM Endicott
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Re: Updating z/VM
Thanks all --- On Mon, 7/13/09, Thompson, Ken ken.thomp...@eds.com wrote: From: Thompson, Ken ken.thomp...@eds.com Subject: Re: Updating z/VM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Date: Monday, July 13, 2009, 3:54 PM The z/VM Service Guide will contain the information regarding updating z/VM with maintenance. Ken Thompson EDS National VM/VSE Capability ken.thomp...@eds.com (901)-465-6556 From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Howard Rifkind Sent: Monday, July 13, 2009 2:41 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Updating z/VM Hello all, Can some one tell me where the best place to look on the procedures for updating z/VM, lets say using an RSU tape? Its been a while since I did one and I need to brush up. BTW, Any one know where and when IBM will be offering installation and other classes on the new z/VM? Thanks
Re: REXX and Panels
We use XMENU/E that was originally a Kolinar product. It can still be found at CA. I do not know its price, but it works great and includes KWAKEUP as part of the package. Regards, Richard Schuh -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Bruce Hayden Sent: Monday, July 13, 2009 7:32 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: REXX and Panels REXX/CUA became CUA2001 before it was discontinued as a product. It is now available as is on the VM downloads page: http://www.vm.ibm.com/download/packages/descript.cgi?CUA2001 On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 7:46 AM, Thomas Kerntlk_sysp...@yahoo.com wrote: Many years ago, IBM had a package, I think it was called REXX/CUA. I am not in the office today or I could give you the product number. We wrote several menued execs using it. I don't remember the price, if there was a price. It was ALL in REXX and XEDIT. There is also the IOS3270 module in the IBM Downloads page. I use that today for some of my execs where I want a full-screen refresh of status information. /Tom Kern -- Bruce Hayden Linux on System z Advanced Technical Support IBM, Endicott, NY
Re: Updating z/VM
Rats; and I was hoping I could swear off swearing :-) On Mon, 13 Jul 2009 17:21:29 -0400, Alan Altmark alan_altm...@us.ibm.com wrote: Installation of z/VM 6.1 will be just like installation of prior release s. Alan Altmark z/VM Development IBM Endicott =
Re: Replicating z/VM documentation
On Mon, 13 Jul 2009, Scott Rohling wrote: - The PDF files are named with the manual number, rather than a human readable title. I usually end up renaming them when I download (and am often inconsistent). - I'm never sure I have the 'latest and greatest' - The process is entirely manual So I'm wondering what other people do to keep local copies.. I do the same thing you do, and it's a huge pain. Some of my co-workers use the Library Reader on their Windows laptops, but I find that even worse than having to rename all the PDFs. I'm sure that says something about the Library Reader, or me, or both, but that's just what I want: the PDF format, with a usable name, available offline on my laptop. Doesn't seem like it should be as much effort as it is. Steve -- Steve Marak -- sama...@gizmoworks.com
Re: Replicating z/VM documentation
On Mon, 13 Jul 2009, Steve Marak wrote:
On Mon, 13 Jul 2009, Scott Rohling wrote:
Some of my co-workers use the Library Reader on their Windows laptops, but
I find that even worse than having to rename all the PDFs. I'm sure that
says something about the Library Reader, or me, or both, but that's just
what I want: the PDF format, with a usable name, available offline on my
laptop. Doesn't seem like it should be as much effort as it is.
Steve
No worries (as our Aussie friends say). Softcopy Librarian downloads the
PDF files with the poor names. But it also downloads the XKS files. The
XKS files have the title and manual number in it. Using the fsutil command
that Alan previously mentioned (it's at work, I'm at home). My Perl script
for Linux follows ( 46 lines)
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use Encode qw(from_to);
my ($file,$line,$name,$title,$docid,$shelftitle);
{
local $/;
$file=; #slurp the entire file
}
$_=$file; #just easier, ya know?
from_to($_,utf16-be,iso-8859-1); #convert encoding
tr/\n//d; #remove line-end character.
($shelftitle)=m/SHELFHEADER[^]*.*?TITLE([^]*)\/TITLE.*?\/SHELFHEADER/;
$shelftitle= unless defined $shelftitle;
$shelftitle=~s/ PDF Extended Shelf//;
$shelftitle=~s/apos;/'/g;
$shelftitle=~s/quot;//g;
$shelftitle=~s/lt;//g;
$shelftitle=~s/gt;//g;
$shelftitle=~s/amp;//g;
s/DOCUMENT /\nDOCUMENT /g;
s/\/DOCUMENT/\/DOCUMENT\n/g;
my @line=split /\n/;
foreach $line (@line) {
next unless $line=~m/^DOCUMENT /;
($name)=$line=~m/NAME=([^]+)/;
$name=~tr/ //d;
($title)=$line=~m/TITLE(.*?)\/TITLE/;
($docid)=$line=~m/ DOCID=([^]*)/;
$docid=~tr/ //d;
$name=lc $name;
$title=~s/apos;/'/g;
$title=~s/quot;//g;
$title=~s/lt;//g;
$title=~s/gt//g;
$title=~s/amp;//g;
$title=~tr/:,//d;
#The next 3 lines massage the title a bit.
$title=~s/z\/OS/zOS/g;
$title=~s/SMP\/E/SMPE/g;
$title=~s/[\/ ]/_/g;
#Escape the special characters
$title=~s/([\(\)'\\])/\\$1/g;
print $docid.$title\t$name\t$ARGV\t$shelftitle\n;
print STDERR ln \$name.pdf\ $docid.$title.pdf\n;
}
You run the above like:
for i in *.xks;do ./mksym.pl $i;done names.txt 2do_ln.sh
sh do_ln.sh
Modify as necessary for Windows. I don't know Windows any more, praise
God!
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Trying to write with a pencil that is dull is pointless.
Maranatha!
John McKown
Re: NETSTAT and PIPES
Is this what you are trying to do? 'pipe command NETSTAT TELNET | stem sve1.' 'pipe stem sve1. | sve TEXT A' 'browse sve TEXT A' This works for me. Paul Feller AIT Mainframe Technical Support From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Gentry, Stephen Sent: Sunday, July 12, 2009 8:48 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: NETSTAT and PIPES (I tried to post this to the cms pipes list but it was rejected) I have a simple EXEC that pipes the output of the NETSTAT command to a stem. If I issue NETSTAT in a normal CMS session, I get the results back that I expect. When run it in an EXEC containing a PIPE, I get errors from the NETSTAT command. Code: PIPE CMS NETSTAT TELNET | stem myStem. There two files with the name NETSTAT, one is a MODULE the other an EXEC. When I run It from a CMS session, the EXEC gets invoked but when I run it from and EXEC I wrote containing the PIPE command above it seems to invoke the MODULE. Is that the way PIPES work? I thought the CMS param set the environment. Any thoughts? Thanks, Steve
Re: VM history question
Jeff, yours may be the earliest reference to saved segments so far. Is the named segment you mention the same concept? That would push implementation of the idea back into the CP/67 days. -Chip- On 7/13/09 20:15 Jeff Savit said: I was porting the CP/67 port of LISP/MTS to VM/370, and needed something to replace the named segment used under CP/67 for LISP's pushdown stack.
Re: VM history question
On Tuesday, 07/14/2009 at 12:12 EDT, Chip Davis c...@aresti.com wrote: Jeff, yours may be the earliest reference to saved segments so far. Is the named segment you mention the same concept? That would push implementation of the idea back into the CP/67 days. I thought Sir Lynn's posts on the subject rather definitive, no? If I read it rightly, NSS was in CP/67 and DCSS arrived VM/370 R3. Alan Altmark z/VM Development IBM Endicott
