Re: CMS/PDF
On my z/VM system, the PDF command brings up the same main menu as ISPF. Is that what you meant? --Roger On Fri, Aug 5, 2011 at 10:27 AM, clifford jackson cliffordjackson...@msn.com wrote: I seem to remember a CMS/PDF function under z/VM if so where can I find it.. Cliff Jackson Senior Systems Programmer 703-607-1393
Re: moving members to a z/OS system
I like the FTP answer. I remember solving the same problem in the old days using ISPF on VM. It had a feature for selecting a set of files, like * script a, and transmitting them to the MVS system to be received as a PDS. On Mar 15, 2011 9:45 AM, Edward M Martin emar...@aultman.com wrote: Hello John and Everyone else, Thank you all. The changing of the directory to the PDS/E was the biggest thing I did not know you could do. All of this will help and I will build a rexx to do it all. Y OOH! Ed Martin Aultman Health Foundation 330-363-5050 Ext 35050 *From:* The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU] *On Behalf Of *McKown, John *Sent:* Tuesday, March 15, 2011 11:32 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: moving members to a z/OS system Ah! ftp zossystem zosuser password mkdir cms.pds cd cmd.pds prompt mput * I'm ...
Re: Intelligent Mail barcode fonts for VM PSF
Tim, I found out my problem unzipping the file from the USPS site was that I had Filezip, maybe an old version. I uninstalled Filezip on my Windows XP system and then I was able to unzip the USPS file. Instead of XmitManager and afrreblk, I used another tool I have for reading XMIT format files and got the files into what looks like the correct z/VM format. I sent them to you. --Roger On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 2:24 AM, Tim O'Brien tobr...@tobe.com wrote: Hello Remember I am starting with a zip file from the USPS. I do not an MVS system. I used the XMIT Manager to get the files out on a PC since that is the best I could do. The files on the PC do Equal the files on VM I used a hex editor and Xedit hextype. There are extra likely file format information before th 5A 00 that looks to be at the start of each record. Also al the font file names that start with X are only 2 bytes. All my VM fonts with X are normal 4 records. I still stuck trying to get this new barcode fonts. Is anyone else using VM PSF to print USPS new barcodes? The old barcodes work, but the USPS is drop them soon. Thanks Tim
Re: Intelligent Mail barcode fonts for VM PSF
Tim, For AFP resource files like fonts that have been uploaded in a binary format from a PC, you probably need to reblock them into the normal record structure for the host. See http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=psd1P4000182 to get the AFRREBLK tool for MVS and VM. There are links on that page to both the FTP download of the package and to documentation on how to use it. Regards, --Roger On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 9:48 AM, Tim O'Brien tobr...@tobe.com wrote: Hello Ok I got all the files/program XmitManager (takes the file out of the tso receive) USPS zip file (has the files) VMA (pc version of vmarc) unziped the file pull the 240 300 fonts out of the PDS format used VMA to create a VMARC of the files ind$file that up to customer's VM site run VMARC to extract the files and oops ... the some how even thought every thing ran fine the file all have one record (ok one had 2) if I xedit them and compare them to other fonts .. I could sort of guess where a line break might need to be. But this just seams to not be the right way Thanks for the thought ... or did I miss a step? tim
Re: Intelligent Mail barcode fonts for VM PSF
Tim, From this earlier note of yours, I assume that you are using the AFP fonts for PSF/VM to print to the MPI Tech Blue Server (I'm not familiar with the MPI Tech Blue Server) so that PSF/VM sees it as an IPDS printer, and the Blue Server transforms the AFP data into PCL for the printer. On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 2:51 PM, Tim O'Brien tobr...@tobe.com wrote: Hello This customer's printing to PCL is via MPI Tech's Blue server z/vse(s) - z/vm queue - psf 2 grp 4 - tcp - PC Blue server - printer this setup has kept working over a few vm upgrades I just moved the minidisks between the upgrade sorry I could give you better info tim
Re: Intelligent Mail barcode fonts for VM PSF
Tim, My guess would be that the MPI Tech Blue Server (if it is doing the transform I think it is) is only going to use the 300 pel version of the fonts, and that both the 240 and 300 pel versions have the same member names so you will need to keep them separate. --Roger On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 9:48 AM, Tim O'Brien tobr...@tobe.com wrote: Hello Ok I got all the files/program XmitManager (takes the file out of the tso receive) USPS zip file (has the files) VMA (pc version of vmarc) unziped the file pull the 240 300 fonts out of the PDS format used VMA to create a VMARC of the files ind$file that up to customer's VM site run VMARC to extract the files and oops ... the some how even thought every thing ran fine the file all have one record (ok one had 2) if I xedit them and compare them to other fonts .. I could sort of guess where a line break might need to be. But this just seams to not be the right way Thanks for the thought ... or did I miss a step? tim
Re: Intelligent Mail barcode fonts for VM PSF
David, What two issues are conflated? I'm getting confused now. I was only trying to answer Tim's question about how to get the USPS AFP fonts for IMB into a format that PSF/VM could use. Can you give a link to what you see that indicates AFP now natively supports PCL4 printers? Many kinds of printers can have IPDS cards in them so that they support IPDS as well as PCL or PS. Or are you talking about using the AFP Viewer to see the image and then print it to a PCL printer? I guess I'm not understanding completely what you're asking. PSF is only going to handle MO:DCA-P (a.k.a. AFPDS) data and use IPDS to communicate with a printer that supports IPDS. PSF only does IPDS output. If you are on z/OS, then Infoprint Server with the Infoprint Transforms can take AFP and convert it to PDF, PostScript, or PCL and send it to a non-IPDS printer. Infoprint Server can also send AFP to a remote PSF (like Infoprint Manager) for printing. If you want to see the publications that describe AFP Architecture, see http://www.outputlinks.com/SpecialInterest/AFPColorConsortium/publications.html The Infoprint Server documentation can be found within the z/OS Information Centers. See the z/OS Internet Library as a starting point to get to the documentation for your level of z/OS. http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/z/os/zos/bkserv/ Regards, --Roger On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 1:38 PM, David Boyes dbo...@sinenomine.net wrote: I think we're conflating two issues — I wanted to know about the issue of PCL. I'm playing with an idea to be able to eliminate some of the outboard processing. From what I can see in the docs (at least for z/OS AFP), AFP now natively supports PCL4 printers. I'm curious if anyone has tried this in general as an alternative to IPDS printers. I have some ideas about handling the output for archiving if this actually works without screwing up the output too badly. Not being a AFP wizard, I was looking for some sample output from the AFP PCL driver. -- db
Re: Intelligent Mail barcode fonts for VM PSF
Tim, I don't understand the last paragraph. When you move AFP resources around, just use binary all the time. There is no such thing as blocks or records on the PC, and then you do a binary upload to a VM file that is RECFM V and then run AFRREBLK to fix it. If you enter afrreblk ? it gives some brief help. The comments inside the exec explain what it does and the syntax better. Upload the files with something like UP300 for the filetype, and then you could, in FILELIST, do something like EXECUTE * AFRREBLK / = FONT300 A ( FONTLIB 300 to create the reblocked FONT300 files. AFRREBLK will separate the file into records with one structured field per record. See the comments in the exec for details. Does that help? --Roger On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 4:32 PM, Tim O'Brien tobr...@tobe.com wrote: Hello Ok I took the Zip file and extracted the fonts ... Yep the 240 are not needed .. but just in case I'm doing both and watching my filetype names So now I have the Files as they would be on MVS .. but sitting on the PC .. likely not blocked as why would you need that, when the library should be loaded on an mvs like system .. That is why I used VMARC .. I assumed it keep the file formats I found VMA .. which is the PC/WINDOWS version of VMARC I put the files in to one arc file and moved that up Binary/fixed to Z/VM Then I extracted the files with VMARC .. yep they came out with recfm v and lrecl all over the place ,,, just like normal fonts would look but it's all ONE record NOTHING generated an error message or warning about file not be correctly formatted My quick guess is that either extracted from the TSO file or the pc version of VMARC does not know how/where the lines should have been separated ... ... Ok we have used the reblocker after moving AFP resources to the mainframe, but the file was preblocked by the generating program .. is there a blocker program and does it have a version for the PC .. and then are these files on the PC even blocked up to start with ... Hope all is well, Enjoy tim
Re: Intelligent Mail barcode fonts for VM PSF
For some reason, right now, when I try to download and unzip uspsFontsAFP-1.4.0.zip my system is telling me it isn't a valid Zip archive, so I can't look inside, but here's what I suggest. Don't use the VSE fonts. VSE does link the fonts into phases, as you noted, and those phases are not useful on VM or MVS. If you can unzip the file and get the MVS version of the fonts, those should work just fine on VM too. The difference is that, on VM, each member of the MVS font library becomes a separate file with the filetype indicating the type of fonts, like FONTLIBB, FONT300, or FONTOLN, etc. I'm assuming these are traditional AFP fonts. Regards, --Roger On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 12:27 PM, Tim O'Brien tobr...@tobe.com wrote: Hello I see the US Post Office is giving out the Intelligent Mail barcode fonts for other major flavor of IBM OSs that run PSF ... see https://ribbs.usps.gov/onecodesolution/download.cfm and the uspsFontsAFP-1.4.0.zip file. The build of the Fonts under VSE is via a Link Edit of a text deck ... Can anyone tell me/point me how to use this maybe to build them under VM? could I move Fonts from VSE to VM (we have both at this Customer's site) Any advice would be Great! Hope all is well, Enjoy tim
Re: Intelligent Mail barcode fonts for VM PSF
I have NOT tried this, but there is a tool called XmitManager from cbttape.org that might help. If you can unzip a file from the original zip package that is supposed to be an sequential unloaded PDS file from the XMIT command, it might be able to pull the individual members from that to your PC which you could then upload to VM as separate files. As I said, I have NOT tried this, but I get the impression from reading about Xmit Manager that it might work. --Roger On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 2:37 PM, Tim O'Brien tobr...@tobe.com wrote: Hello to Quote the included PDF file on the MVS install The files to be uploaded are unloaded MVS partitioned data sets (PDS) in “TSO Transmit” format. To restore the files for use on an MVS system you will require: - A personal computer equipped with an emulator capable of doing a binary upload to TSO on the MVS host. - A version of the TSO RECEIVE command that can accept its input from a sequential file, i.e., the TSO/E version of RECEIVE So I did upload them to Z?VM .. but how to I get the then in to something .. I can see eye catchers ... but they are still in that PDS format for the receive command.. .. still stuck ..
Re: Copyfile with PACK on MVS ?
TERSE works for both sequential and PDS, but with PDS you have to specify directory blocks on the output to unterse it. In my own JCL I do this: //MYJCLJCLLIB ORDER=BOLAN.MY.PROCLIB // SET SPACE='(CYL,(200,20,250),RLSE)' //UN1 EXEC UNTRSPDS,INDS=TRSDSN. and in my proclib I have this member: //UNTRSPDS PROC INDS=NULLFILE,DATE= //DELOUT EXEC PGM=IEFBR14 //DD1 DD DISP=(MOD,DELETE),SPACE=(TRK,(0)),UNIT=SYSDA, // DSN=SERVE2.INDS.DATE. //UNTERSE EXEC PGM=TRSMAIN,PARM=UNPACK //SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=* //INFILE DD DISP=SHR,DSN=INDS..TRS //OUTFILE DD DSN=*.DELOUT.DD1, // UNIT=SYSDA, // DISP=(NEW,CATLG,DELETE), // SPACE=SPACE. //DELTRSIN EXEC PGM=IEFBR14,COND=(0,LT,UNTERSE) //DD1 DD DISP=(OLD,DELETE),UNIT=SYSDA, // DSN=*.UNTERSE.INFILE, // SPACE=(TRK,(0)) // PEND --Roger On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 6:00 AM, McKown, John john.mck...@healthmarkets.com wrote: -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Rob van der Heij Sent: Tuesday, December 21, 2010 3:22 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Copyfile with PACK on MVS ? Friends, When a RECFM V file is transferred through download/upload with a PC, we need to protect the record layout. And when it's non-text you can't stick CRLF between the lines. On VM we normally have people use the PACK option of COPYFILE, which puts enough info in the file to restore the structure. What do people do on MVS? I thought a simple IEBGENER to convert to VB or whatever would do, but that does not seem to be common practice... does TERSE maybe put stuff in to retain the record structure? And does our DETERSE recover that? Thanks, Rob You can use AMATERSE or TSO XMIT. AMATERSE only works for sequential datasets. XMIT works for both PDS and sequential. I use XMIT. There is something called XMITMANAGER for Winblows which can then manipulate that file if you need to on a Windows machine. I don't use it. In some cases, I just use z/OS UNIX files and pax. -- John McKown Systems Engineer IV IT Administrative Services Group HealthMarkets(r) 9151 Boulevard 26 * N. Richland Hills * TX 76010 (817) 255-3225 phone * 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: Terse on z/VM
Try the FCOPY package from http://www.vm.ibm.com/download/packages/ I'm not near a system to verify this right now, but I believe that the UNPACK function in FCOPY can also understand TERSE format. The tersed file on MVS should be RECFM=FB LRECL=1024, so after you download binary to the PC and upload to VM you should still have a RECFM=F LRECL=1024 before untersing. Untersing with the FCOPY / ( UNPACK should give you back the file's original RECFM and LRECL before tersing. --Roger On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 1:55 PM, John Della Torre john...@internode.on.netwrote: I have a PS file (200 CYLs) on MVS that I'd like to TERSE and send to VM via my PC. Is there a command on VM that allows me to UNPK the TERESEd file? It's a vanilla z/VM 5.4 system. Nothing additional other than what's delivered. Thanks.
Re: Rexx for auto logoff
I know I'm catching up with an old thread, but I think this approach is REAL SCARY. If I were a user with anything important on a temp disk and I lost it because you forced a CP LOGOFF on me, I would be very upset. At the very least, execute a logoff exec that will check for temp disks and do a disconnect instead if there are any. --Roger Rob van der Heij rvdh...@gmail.com Sent by: The IBM z/VM Operating System IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU 11/19/2008 05:48 AM Please respond to The IBM z/VM Operating System IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU To IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU cc Subject Re: Rexx for auto logoff Or something to let a REXX program ask for user input and time-out after 10 minutes? address command , 'PIPE (end \) cons asynch | i: faninany | take | var resp', '\ literal +600 | delay | spec ,timeout, | i:' if resp = 'timeout' then 'CP LOGOFF' -Rob
Re: R.I.P -- BookMaster.....
I'm afraid there's more. See http://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/cgi-bin/ssialias?subtype=cainfotype=anappname=iSourcesupplier=897letternum=ENUS908-180 It says there is no replacement product, and service will be discontinued too. The document above lists BookMaster under the section for Service withdrawal date: September 30, 2009 I would like to point out that BookMaster was a separate application running on top of DCF (Document Composition Facility, a.k.a. Script) and DCF continues to be marketed and supported. It also contains its own Starter Set of GML tags, which are similar to BookMaster, but limited to more basic document functions. I would also like to suggest strongly that if you have existing documents that were produced by BookMaster that you make sure that you hang onto any fonts you got from BookMaster so that you can continue to print those documents saved as AFP files. Roger Bolan The IBM z/VM Operating System IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU wrote on 08/05/2008 02:22:56 PM: On Tuesday, 08/05/2008 at 03:22 EDT, Dave Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Buried in all of the good news today about z/VM 5.4, z/OS, etc, is this sad note: Software withdrawal: IBM Publishing Systems BookMaster 1.4.0, IBM Publishing Systems ProcessMaster VM Edition 1.3.0, and IBM Publishing Systems ProcessMaster MVS Edition 1.1.0 Wonder if we could ask the current product owners to put these tools up on the VM download web page, for use as is, where is? I would rely like to be able to use ProcessMaster here as well. Withdrawal from marketing just means you can't order it any more. You can keep using it as long as you keep paying, and you continue to be entitled to service. If we subsequently withdraw it from service, then you can still keep using it as long as you keep paying for it. Pay. Use. Repeat ad infinitum. See the pattern? ;-) Alan Altmark z/VM Development IBM Endicott
Re: downloading CMS files
All the suggestions so far are good. PCOMM allows selecting multiple files at once. FTP with the mget command also is good. If you want a more GUI interface instead of issuing FTP commands from the command line you can get things like FileZilla or FTP Commander that make it easier to use FTP. I often use FileZilla myself and like it. Roger Bolan The IBM z/VM Operating System IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU wrote on 07/18/2008 07:43:40 AM: I am looking for an easy way to download a number of CMS execs from my A-disk to my PC. IND$FILE works OK for 1-at-a-time downloads but I am trying to find a shortcut to be able to set up a list of exec names and download them all at once. I would greatly appreciate any recommendations. Frank McMahon
Re: sfmc1 error message: iew0346
This has been answered in a PMR. But since the problem is one of documentation (which I will try to get updated) and it has come up before in this discussion list, I decided to put the answer out here too. You should not run into this using any of the installation or service execs. But there is a manual process documented in an appendix to the PSF/VM program directory which should have included this change. The change needed is to use this command: FILEDEF SYSLMOD DISK PSFBASE LOADLIB A ( BLKSIZE 8192 before the LKED commands. So do this command along with the other FILEDEF command shown in appendix A.3 step 15a. If you forget, and get the error, you will have to back up and do both LKED commands again, even though only one will trigger the message. --Roger The IBM z/VM Operating System IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU wrote on 11/29/2007 10:20:17 PM: I actually found this very same question in the archive, but with no reply. Now I'm doing for z/VM 5.3 and having the same problem. Anybody have a solution? On the call back from IBM for the AM. I am running through the manual install of the PSF software under z/VM 5.1. I get to the point where I am doing the SFCM install and issue: lked aprsfcml ( libe psfbase xref I get an error: IEW0364 CSECT APRSTATC EXCEEDS 512 TIMES 00256, THE SYSLMOD RECORD SIZE. DIAGNOSTIC MESSAGE DIRECTORY IEW0364 ERROR - TABLE OVERFLOW -- INPUT TEXT EXCEEDED MAXIMUM OR TOO MANY CHANGES OF ORIGIN IN INPUT. DMSLKD016W Terminal error messages issued Jan Canavan 323-394-4876 cell tia __ This email may contain confidential and privileged material for the sole use of the intended recipient(s). Any review, use, distribution or disclosure by others is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient (or authorized to receive for the recipient), please contact the sender by reply email and delete all copies of this message. To reply to our email administrator directly, send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Printing HTML source
Sorry to be late noticing your post. Could the answer to your original question have been the H2S package available on the http://www.vm.ibm.com/download/packages/ site? --Roger The IBM z/VM Operating System IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU wrote on 08/28/2007 02:06:50 AM: A short while ago I asked if there was any VM tool to convert HTML source into print format.
Re: The History of Computer Role-Playing Games...
The DND game and the StarTrek game on PLATO were both around in 1977. IIRC, the PLATO system I worked with ran on a CDC 6600 that I think was physically in the Minneapolis/Saint Paul area. The University of Nebraska was linked by a dedicated leased line. There was one extremely obese guy I remember who could be found in the basement of Ferguson Hall playing DND at 3:00 am often, although I never saw this same person on the campus in the daylight hours, ever. Regards, Roger Bolan
Re: Question on Infoprint
I just realized that you asked this question in the IBMVM group, so that eliminates Printway as a possibility. Regards, Roger Bolan IBM Printing Systems Division Visit our Web site at http://www.ibm.com/printers.
Re: Question on Infoprint
Hi Rick, You don't give enough details here. If this is line data being printed with PSF with a FORMDEF and PAGEDEF, then PPFA allows you to specify ROTATION of 0, 90, 180, or 270 for the page. If you are using DCF Script to format AFP data, you can use the logical device type to choose the page orientation. For example, if you are using DEV(AFPA) just change it to DEV(AFPA180). If you're talking about Infoprint Printway, then I don't see anything. You might try going through the configuration panels on the printer itself and see if the hardware allows you rotate pages 180 degrees. Regards, Roger Bolan IBM Printing Systems Division Visit our Web site at http://www.ibm.com/printers. Rick Stetser [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: The IBM z/VM Operating System IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU 09/25/2006 10:11 AM Please respond to The IBM z/VM Operating System IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU To IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU cc Subject Question on Infoprint I've been asked if, by some setting in my printer definitions, I can have the output of a document print 180 degrees from the way it prints normally. I can't see any option that might remotely suggest how to do this. Does anyone know if this is possible? Thanks for any help on this.
Re: Ibmlink?
Try http://www.ibm.com/ibmlink/link2 Regards, Roger Bolan The IBM z/VM Operating System IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU wrote on 06/27/2006 04:34:55 PM: Is ibmlink down : http://www.ibmlink.ibm.com or did they move and not tell me? Marcy Cortes
