Re: How to expand SYS1.LINKLIB?

2006-11-16 Thread Vernooy, C.P. - SPLXM
Or, when you decide to do a cleanup of old stuff, delete a couple of uncataloged HASPCKPTs and then discover that *the* haspckpt was among them. Only then you realize what the ABSTR JCL statement is good for... Or, do a $PQ command in the early 80's, when JES2 still accepted it without parameters.

Re: How to expand SYS1.LINKLIB?

2006-11-16 Thread Ted MacNEIL
>Or, do a $PQ command in the early 80's, when JES2 still accepted it without >parameters. This was the fasted Cold Start I ever saw... March 14th, 1981. Second week on the job. When in doubt. PANIC!! -- For IBM-MAIN subscr

Re: 1401 and Music

2006-11-16 Thread Graeme Gibson
Yes, and 1-part paper gave a sharper "steel band" effect while 5-part was closer to a steam-calliope playing in a circus tent! Ahh, those old chain 1403s.. In my early Service Bureau days ('66/'67) we regularly did processing for the various wool brokers (and for the Wheat Board too), and some

Re: IBMLINK again

2006-11-16 Thread O'Brien, David W. (NIH/CIT) [C]
That's normal. If you leave the field blank and hit enter you get a series of panels guiding you through the software choices until you get to the component you want to report on. -Original Message- From: Robert Justice [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 15, 2006 5:16 P

MFM: Module Fetch Monitor

2006-11-16 Thread Jose Martinez
We are at z/OS 1.7, and we are using the Module Fetch Monit Hello all. We are at z/OS 1.7, and we are using the Module Fetch Monitor to diagnose problems related to user modules. When using its option "2", Data_Set List, you obtain the list of all LLA libraries whose modules are loaded in storag

Re: remote support questions - curiousity

2006-11-16 Thread R.S.
Greg Smith wrote: Ed Finnell wrote: In a message dated 11/13/2006 10:44:35 A.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: windows PC than os/2 was. I find it at last practical to use from home, especially to logon to the SE's . so do the hackers We have an interesting

Re: External Timer Source without STP on a Z9

2006-11-16 Thread R.S.
Ted MacNEIL wrote: *Fully* failing to recognize the needs of single-CPC sites which require uninterrupted operation and accurate time. How do you get uninterrupted operation on a single-CPC site? (*) Never IPL? Very seldom. 2-3 times a year. Usually, when CPC is changed to new one. Suc

Extended Catalog Sharing PROBLEM

2006-11-16 Thread Jim Marshall
We are at z/OS V1R7 and learned (the hard way) there is a current BUG in Extended Catalog Sharing which is still outstanding and places catalogs at risk. Had a Development catalog broken by ECS. IBM says there are APARs to apply and also some to come out in two weeks or so. IBM says: "We see

Re: External Timer Source without STP on a Z9

2006-11-16 Thread R.S.
Timothy Sipples wrote: Ed Gould writes: This a tangent issue but it really shows that PC weenies are finally coming to grips (or not) with power issues with the server farms. A few weeks ago in one of the trade mags there was an article (California?) where the power company actually told a place

Re: 1401 & Music

2006-11-16 Thread Hall, Ken (GTI)
Dataproducts made a series of printers that used bands. The B-200, B-600, etc. I've suggested these over on the Hercules list for those die-hards who want the most in realism. They print and sound as much like a 1403 as anything I've seen. Fast too. Sorry if this had already been mentioned, I

Re: External Timer Source without STP on a Z9

2006-11-16 Thread Ted MacNEIL
>Such outages are fully accepted by business. Wow! An understanding business! >No unplanned IPLs/outages. Must be nice! We still have them! When in doubt. PANIC!! -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access ins

RES: Dynamically obtaining allocated space characteristics

2006-11-16 Thread Ituriel do Nascimento Neto
Take a look at archives and search for a program provided by Jim Moore, that does exactly what you need. Atenciosamente / Regards / Saludos Banco Bradesco S/A 4254/DPCD Alphaville Suporte Técnico - Software Básico Mainframes Ituriel do Nascimento Neto Tel: 55 11 4197-2021 Fax: 55 11 4197-2814

Re: Fwd: IBM shows tools to tame mainframes

2006-11-16 Thread John Eells
So far as I know, HCM is still a priced optional feature. However, msys for Operations is indeed gone in z/OS R8. Glen.Gasior wrote: I wonder if there are special deals where you get it for free, or maybe it comes free with .e Hardware Con

Re: External Timer Source without STP on a Z9

2006-11-16 Thread R.S.
Ted MacNEIL wrote: Such outages are fully accepted by business. Wow! An understanding business! They are aware we can increase our availability. They are also aware of costs. Higher service level means higher costs. Rolls Royce is excellent car, while Toyota is acceptable good. -- Radoslaw

Re: Extended Catalog Sharing PROBLEM

2006-11-16 Thread Blair Svihra
Hi Jim, there have been a number of CAS related issues introduced in 1.7 and 1.8. Dino Software initially notified IBM of the CAS CLOSE (F CATALOG,CLOSE) problem back in December of 05. It took IBM quite a while to release UA28625 (1.7) and UA28626 (1.8) to address the problem. We keep our c

Wiki? (was: FAQ)

2006-11-16 Thread Kirk Wolf
How about a "Wiki" ? It could be used for FAQs, best practices, etc. Technical stuff: JspWiki runs nicely on z/OS under Tomcat; Rob Schramm did some nice work on z/OS with it that we integrated into a SHARE LAB. See: http://dovetail.com/docs/s8369tca.pdf http://jspwiki.org/wiki/RobSchramm

Re: Wiki? (was: FAQ)

2006-11-16 Thread Tom Marchant
On Thu, 16 Nov 2006 08:05:53 -0600, Kirk Wolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >How about a "Wiki" ? It could be used for FAQs, best practices, etc. Questions are easy. The answers part of it might be difficult. Just look at the recent disputes we have here over simple stuff. And don't get me start

Where can you get a Minor in Mainframe?

2006-11-16 Thread Carol Srna
I spotted this requirement in a job ad. "We are looking for someone with a Bachelor's Degree in CIS with a mainframe minor". What college/unversity offers a "mainframe minor"? -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive acces

Re: Where can you get a Minor in Mainframe?

2006-11-16 Thread Doc Farmer
Big Blue U? -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Carol Srna Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2006 08:26 To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Where can you get a Minor in Mainframe? I spotted this requirement in a job ad. "We are looking

ISV magnanimity (was Catalog screwups)

2006-11-16 Thread Shane
On Thu, 2006-11-16 at 09:05 -0500, Blair Svihra wrote: > ... there have been a number of CAS related issues introduced in 1.7 > and 1.8. Dino Software initially notified IBM of the CAS CLOSE (F > CATALOG,CLOSE) problem back in December of 05. It took IBM quite a > while to release UA28625 (1.

Re: ARC0103I when adding STK VSM to virtual tape esoteric.

2006-11-16 Thread John Benik
That's what we will be doing, but since we are not converting this to STK for a while we were just trying to get all the esoterics in place. And we don't want to force JCL changes to the users. This brings me to my next question isn't there a way to only have tape units defined to the default

Re: Where can you get a Minor in Mainframe?

2006-11-16 Thread Choate, Bill
I don't know if they call it a minor in mainframes but Northern Illinois University has a fairly extensive systems programming program. Bill -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Carol Srna Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2006 9:26 AM T

Re: remote support questions - curiousity

2006-11-16 Thread Ed Finnell
In a message dated 11/16/2006 6:32:59 A.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Yes, it sounds like Hollywood S-F movie. Very unlikely to happen. How likely is that hackers will want to break your well-protected home access solution ? >> IIRC that was how they were able to

Re: Wiki? (was: FAQ)

2006-11-16 Thread Ed Finnell
In a message dated 11/16/2006 8:19:18 A.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Questions are easy. The answers part of it might be difficult. Just look at the recent disputes we have here over simple stuff. And don't get me started on best practices. >> Yeah, more I think

Re: Where can you get a Minor in Mainframe?

2006-11-16 Thread Ed Finnell
In a message dated 11/16/2006 8:54:20 A.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I don't know if they call it a minor in mainframes but Northern Illinois University has a fairly extensive systems programming program. >> _www.niu.edu_ (http://www.niu.edu) in beautiful Dekalb,

IE7 ? Experiences or otherwise.

2006-11-16 Thread Ed Finnell
Guess this is now available from M$ download page. Any problems with host toasties -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search t

Re: Where can you get a Minor in Mainframe?

2006-11-16 Thread Chris Hoelscher
where can tyou get a minor in mainframe? at central pennsylvania university ... or as it is more commonly referred ... CPU Chris Hoelscher IDMS & DB2 Database Administrator Humana Inc 502-476-2538 [EMAIL PROTECTED] The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to wh

Re: Dynamically obtaining allocated space characteristics

2006-11-16 Thread Charles Mills
It occurs to me that the conclusion of my note should read "CSI will return the former. The DSCBs will let you compute the latter, and also return the TRK and the 2 part of the original allocation." Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] O

What's NAPS?

2006-11-16 Thread Bruce A. McKnight
I was surfing the PSP buckets for z/OS 1.4 and came across something calles NAPS. I found references to EUVF* in the body. What product is NAPS and EUVF? -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send

Re: IE7 ? Experiences or otherwise.

2006-11-16 Thread Hall, Ken (GTI)
We have a VPN client that sets the proxy in IE whenever it's run, and doesn't unset it. IE7 seems to hang for a LONG time when it can't get to the proxy. Very annoying the first couple of times. It's also hung and crashed for other reasons. Quickbooks 2004 has a warning page in their latest upd

Re: Dynamically obtaining allocated space characteristics

2006-11-16 Thread Dave Quinn
Thank you for your help Charles & all. I believe I am now able to calculate/generate most of the same information for a dataset that is available in ispf which is the bulk of my current project. Dave -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Beha

Re: IE7 ? Experiences or otherwise.

2006-11-16 Thread Knutson, Sam
Seems to work fine with Host On Demand V9. Thanks, Sam -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ed Finnell Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2006 10:17 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: IE7 ? Experiences or otherwise. Guess this is now

Orphan Tape mounts

2006-11-16 Thread John Benik
We have been seeing this a lot lately, and I was wondering if anybody has seen this before. It seems to cause an issue especially when doing reclaims. Most jobs run and unload the drive, and we are not sure what would be causing this, or how we can even duplicate it to see what would cause it

Re: IE7 ? Experiences or otherwise.

2006-11-16 Thread Daniel A. McLaughlin
We were told not to download on our work systems because of problems with some applications. I use it at home with no ill results. Daniel McLaughlin Z-Series Systems Programmer Crawford & Company 4680 N. Royal Atlanta Tucker GA 30084 phone: 770-621-3256 fax: 770-621-3237 email: [EMAIL PROTE

Re: Shane's antipodes

2006-11-16 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Wed, 15 Nov 2006 14:59:16 +, john gilmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Australians (and Tasmanians) cannot reasonably be deprived of exclusive > rights to the platypus/platypodes pair; but I am not prepared to surrender > the [antipus]/antipodes pair to them too. Like octopus/octopodes,

Re: Orphan Tape mounts

2006-11-16 Thread Ed Finnell
In a message dated 11/16/2006 9:48:09 A.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Usually what we have to do is vary the drive offline and back online to clear this. So what we've been doing is varying the range offline and back online because there have been so many of them.

Re: IE7 ? Experiences or otherwise.

2006-11-16 Thread Ed Finnell
In a message dated 11/16/2006 9:35:35 A.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Seems to work fine with Host On Demand V9. >> Thanks, couldn't afford it. Use three tier model with lots of Sockets to lots of teeny-tiny servers. ---

Re: Where can you get a Minor in Mainframe?

2006-11-16 Thread Rick Fochtman
Carol Srna wrote: I spotted this requirement in a job ad. "We are looking for someone with a Bachelor's Degree in CIS with a mainframe minor". What college/unversity offers a "mainframe minor"? -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / s

Re: Where can you get a Minor in Mainframe?

2006-11-16 Thread Veilleux, Jon L
My ex-boss is teaching mainframe courses at Northeastern. I am not sure if they actually have a major though. Jon L. Veilleux [EMAIL PROTECTED] (860) 636-2683 -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Carol Srna Sent: Thursday, Nove

Re: What's NAPS?

2006-11-16 Thread Walt Farrell
On 11/16/2006 10:16 AM, Bruce A. McKnight wrote: I was surfing the PSP buckets for z/OS 1.4 and came across something calles NAPS. I found references to EUVF* in the body. What product is NAPS and EUVF? Probably the Network Authentication Services component (which implements Kerberos for

Re: Where can you get a Minor in Mainframe?

2006-11-16 Thread Tom Marchant
On Thu, 16 Nov 2006 10:56:19 -0500, Veilleux, Jon L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >My ex-boss is teaching mainframe courses at Northeastern. I am not sure >if they actually have a major though. when I was going to school there wasn't even a computer science department. Everything was part of the m

Re: Extended Catalog Sharing PROBLEM

2006-11-16 Thread Robert Justice
On Thu, 16 Nov 2006 06:44:26 -0600, Jim Marshall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >We are at z/OS V1R7 and learned (the hard way) there is a current BUG in >Extended Catalog Sharing which is still outstanding and places catalogs at >risk. Had a Development catalog broken by ECS. IBM says there are APA

Re: Wiki? (was: FAQ)

2006-11-16 Thread Tom Marchant
On Thu, 16 Nov 2006 10:05:13 EST, Ed Finnell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >In a message dated 11/16/2006 8:19:18 A.M. Central Standard Time, >[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >> >>Questions are easy. The answers part of it might be difficult. >>Just look at the recent disputes we have here over simple

Re: ISV magnanimity (was Catalog screwups)

2006-11-16 Thread Bruce Black
Kudos to all those involved - potentially critical fixes were highlighted ASAP. A service not offered by IBM that I am aware of. The IBMLINK ASAP application provides prompt notification of APARs marked HIPER or similar status. However, you have to subscribe to the FMIDs you are interested in,

Re: ISV magnanimity (was Catalog screwups)

2006-11-16 Thread Jon Brock
Yes, it does. Since I griped about IBMLink a couple of days ago, I do want to point out that this particular improvement is a good thing. Jon With the new IBMLINK release, the ASAP email now contains the APARs that were updated. --

Re: Where can you get a Minor in Mainframe?

2006-11-16 Thread David Andrews
On Thu, 2006-11-16 at 09:58 -0600, Rick Fochtman wrote: > Carol Srna wrote: > >"We are looking for someone with a Bachelor's Degree in CIS with a > >mainframe minor". What college/unversity offers a "mainframe minor"? > Whoever wrote the ad has absolutely NO UNDERSTAND of the IT industry. OTOH,

Re: Extended Catalog Sharing PROBLEM

2006-11-16 Thread Bruce Black
You see the part of about OA18578 which is not available yet! We are turning ECS off for now. The exposure is still lurking in the shadows. The PTFs are available as of today. -- Bruce A. Black Senior Software Developer for FDR Innovation Data Processing 973-890-7300 personal: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: ISV magnanimity (was Catalog screwups)

2006-11-16 Thread Knutson, Sam
IBM offers several options we are using. 1. Red Alerts https://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/set2/sas/f/redAlerts/home.html 2. Enhanced PSP Tool and PSP buckets http://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/set2/psp/srchBroker 3. ASAP https://www-304.ibm.com/jct03004c/ibmlink/asap/asapPage.jsp?lc=e

SMF UPDATE RECORD

2006-11-16 Thread Judy Ellis
Does anyone know if SMF has an SMF UPDATE record? I need to find out when and who updated a VSAM file. Also if you have the JCL to do that with, that would help. or point me to the JCL. REGARDS, jELLIS -- For IBM-MAIN subscri

Re: Extended Catalog Sharing PROBLEM

2006-11-16 Thread Alan Schwartz
In working a separate problem about Catalog I asked level 2 in there was any Catalog damage risk if I left my catalogs in ECS until the ptf's for OA18578 are available. He sounded confused and said they were. I rechecked and, lo and behold, the ptf's can be ordered. The son-of-a-gun publishe

Re: ISV magnanimity (was Catalog screwups)

2006-11-16 Thread Brian Peterson
Sam For completeness, you might wish to add the following very interesting offering to your list. -=-=-=- 5. ResourceLink's zSeries Software Service Page >From the ResourceLink main menu, click on "Fixes", then click on "Subscribe to APAR tracking" "This area allows you to view Service APARs

Re: Orphan Tape mounts

2006-11-16 Thread Mark Zelden
On Thu, 16 Nov 2006 09:47:29 -0600, John Benik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >We have been seeing this a lot lately, and I was wondering if anybody has >seen this before. It seems to cause an issue especially when doing >reclaims. Most jobs run and unload the drive, and we are not sure what >would

Re: Wiki? (was: FAQ)

2006-11-16 Thread R.S.
Tom Marchant wrote: [...] Yeah, more I think about it probably needs to come from Software Manufacturing either as a url or as member in .DOCLIB. Each group would be responsible for their FAQ and Software Manufacturing would assimilate into IBM speak for distribution. If there was a wiki, we'd

Re: SMF UPDATE RECORD

2006-11-16 Thread Alan C. Field
Judy, It's in the SMF records 60-69 (I think). I haven't used it myself but the usually recommended s/w is DAF from www.cbttape.org. I can't access CBTTAPE at the moment to verify whether my SMFSRCH program is there too. Alan Judy Ellis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discuss

Re: ISV magnanimity (was Catalog screwups)

2006-11-16 Thread Chris Mason
Sam "Alert Services for zSeries" appears to be an old name for your no. 1. Google for "Alert Services for zSeries" gives https://techsupport.services.ibm.com/server/redAlerts?mode=100 which lets you read for 10 seconds before giving you https://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/set2/sas/f/redAlerts/h

Re: SMF UPDATE RECORD

2006-11-16 Thread Matthew Stitt
Take a look at CBT tape file 529. You will also need a program or two from file 527. It's probably the record 14-19, and 61-69 that you are interested in. Can't remember the exact ones, but there are some programs that report on the data in them. There are others also, most likely DAF could hel

MB per SSCH for FICON Channel

2006-11-16 Thread Joe jeffries
Hi folks, wondered if anyone can help me understand some FICON performance issues? I'm seeing huge DISC times (58 - 70%) for a device on LCU 6571. The manual says that I can get an good estimate of the MB/SSCH by taking the MB/SEC from the IOQ activity report and dividing them by the Total SSCH

Re: Shane's antipodes

2006-11-16 Thread john gilmore
Some clarifications, in no particular order: The term 'antipus' may well now denote a pterosaur; it is, however, the Greek and English singular of 'antipodes', as 'platypus' is the [Greek and English] singular of 'platypodes'. The Merriam-Webster dictionaries have, I suppose, legitimate uses

Re: SMF UPDATE RECORD

2006-11-16 Thread Rick Fochtman
- Does anyone know if SMF has an SMF UPDATE record? I need to find out when and who updated a VSAM file. Also if you have the JCL to do that with, that would help. or point me to the JCL. Look at the 60

Re: Where can you get a Minor in Mainframe?

2006-11-16 Thread Veilleux, Jon L
I worked with one of the professors from Central Illinois at an IBM seminar on teaching mainframe courses. There were also professors from West Virginia, North Carolina Central, Montclair State, and several others that I cannot remember, but there is a push to get colleges working on mainframe educ

Re: Where can you get a Minor in Mainframe?

2006-11-16 Thread Carol Srna
OK. OK. The smirk is wiped off my face. :-) Thanks All. "Veilleux, Jon L" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List 11/16/2006 12:55 PM Please respond to IBM Mainframe Discussion List To IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU cc Subject Re: Where can you get a Minor in Mainframe? I

Re: Wiki? (was: FAQ)

2006-11-16 Thread Kirk Talman
1) Wiki's have the disadvantage that they require discipline and time. The content of a Wiki page needs to exceed the reliability of an opinion or a preference -- "religious" or otherwise. 2) Their advantage is that they offer concentrated information. They can act as a focal point for links t

Re: Where can you get a Minor in Mainframe?

2006-11-16 Thread Ed Finnell
In a message dated 11/16/2006 12:26:58 P.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: OK. OK. The smirk is wiped off my face. :-) >> Probably in today's environment a CS minor is pretty easy to come by. To get mainframe centric need to get the IBM courses. Different paths for dif

Re: IE7 ? Experiences or otherwise.

2006-11-16 Thread Ray Mullins
Ditto...so far, no problems on the home box. But Firefox 2.0 IMHO still kicks derrière over IE. Later, Ray -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Daniel A. McLaughlin Sent: Thursday November 16 2006 07:48 To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Sub

Re: Wiki? (was: FAQ)

2006-11-16 Thread Alan Altmark
On Thursday, 11/16/2006 at 06:26 CET, "R.S." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Haven't the discussion gone away from the topic ? > FAQ is not official documentation and need not to be 100,00% accurate. > It can contains simplification, etc. Otherwise there will be very few > entries - the rest will be

Re: P390

2006-11-16 Thread Sebastian Welton
On Thu, 16 Nov 2006 14:47:33 +0900, Timothy Sipples <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Yes, agreed. As Dave Jones points out, PWD would provide development >licenses at a very attractive price. I had a slightly different goal in >mind with that blog post, a "home mainframe" with full license rights for

Re: Orphan Tape mounts

2006-11-16 Thread Liliane L. Clever
Just in case... Make sure that the operators have not issued a MOUNT command. Liliane At 12:23 PM 11/16/2006, you wrote: On Thu, 16 Nov 2006 09:47:29 -0600, John Benik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >We have been seeing this a lot lately, and I was wondering if anybody has >seen this before. It s

Has anyone heard anything more on "the PSI letter"?

2006-11-16 Thread Charles Mills
Does anyone KNOW what is the status of PWD licenses for the FLEX-ES box? I have heard that there is a backlog of orders due to panic buying over this issue. Charles Mills -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: IE7 ? Experiences or otherwise.

2006-11-16 Thread Hall, Ken (GTI)
Those of us who access the HMC on the z9's have Firefox installed. IE of any flavor apparently doesn't work well with it. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ray Mullins Sent: Thursday, November 16, 2006 1:43 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA

Re: Displaying ISPF Panels from a COBOL program

2006-11-16 Thread Warren Ball
Thanx John, This basically worked; I didn't have to add much more than to use a DSN, for the new ISPF profile dataset. After working through various ISPF errors, the program works- except that it does not display the panels! It executes the VDEFINE's properly and after a CALL ISPLINK (or the

Re: Displaying ISPF Panels from a COBOL program

2006-11-16 Thread Dave Kopischke
> >Any further ideas on what I might do in the program, to get ISPF panels to display? > I just got through working through a poorly designed and executed application that does serve up panels via a COBOL program. While my first reaction is "why ???", my thought is you've got the application d

Re: IE7 ? Experiences or otherwise.

2006-11-16 Thread Mark Zelden
On Thu, 16 Nov 2006 14:55:04 -0500, Hall, Ken (GTI) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Those of us who access the HMC on the z9's have Firefox installed. IE of any flavor apparently doesn't work well with it. > I haven't had a problem with IE and z9 remove HMC access. I do use (and prefer) Firefox bu

Re: IE7 ? Experiences or otherwise.

2006-11-16 Thread Daniel A. McLaughlin
IE7 leads to another question. Do you use pop-up stoppers or spy-bot sweepers or adaware sweepers? Daniel McLaughlin Z-Series Systems Programmer Crawford & Company 4680 N. Royal Atlanta Tucker GA 30084 phone: 770-621-3256 fax: 770-621-3237 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: www.crawfordandcompan

Re: IE7 ? Experiences or otherwise.

2006-11-16 Thread Ed Finnell
In a message dated 11/16/2006 2:14:10 P.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: IE7 leads to another question. Do you use pop-up stoppers or spy-bot sweepers or adaware sweepers? >> All of the aboveand just downloaded fix for another hole in ActiveX --

Re: Displaying ISPF Panels from a COBOL program

2006-11-16 Thread Lindy Mayfield
Hi Warren, I have a relatively simple ISPF DB2 query tool that I have used for some years now (because we don't have QMF) for simple things. It is written in COBOL. Perhaps you can get the information you need from this working example. All of the source you should be able to find here: http:

Re: IE7 ? Experiences or otherwise.

2006-11-16 Thread Rick Fochtman
-- Those of us who access the HMC on the z9's have Firefox installed. IE of any flavor apparently doesn't work well with it. --- VISTA works well, also...

Re: How do I get parms passed from STD linkage to my C program?

2006-11-16 Thread Thomas David Rivers
Carmen, Is this an IBM C, SAS/C or Dignus C program. Does the C program have a main() - or is it just a function you would like to invoke? - Dave Rivers - Carmen V wrote: I have an assembler program that is loading the C module that that has the socket stuff in it. It runs and do

Re: Has anyone heard anything more on "the PSI letter"?

2006-11-16 Thread Steve Comstock
Charles Mills wrote: Does anyone KNOW what is the status of PWD licenses for the FLEX-ES box? I have heard that there is a backlog of orders due to panic buying over this issue. Charles Mills We got ours no problem. But maybe it was a timing issue. Kind regards, -Steve Comstock ---

IBM-TV from Developer works....

2006-11-16 Thread Ed Finnell
_http://www-306.ibm.com/software/info/television/en_us/index.jsp_ (http://www-306.ibm.com/software/info/television/en_us/index.jsp) -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Where can you get a Minor in Mainframe?

2006-11-16 Thread Ted MacNEIL
>when I was going to school there wasn't even a computer science department. >Everything was part of the math department. University of Waterloo, Degree in Computer Science, Minor in Statistics, 1981. They had the degree programme for a long time; I enrolled in 1976. I knew I wanted to go ther

Re: [MVS-OE] WTO msgs. via redirection to /dev/console

2006-11-16 Thread Ted MacNEIL
>The manual "z/OS USS Programming: Assembler Callable Services Ref" If that manual really exists under that name, some obnoxious person on IBM-Main is going to have few words to eat! When in doubt. PANIC!! -- For IBM-MAIN

Re: Shane's antipodes

2006-11-16 Thread Ted MacNEIL
At the risk of being off-topic: >The Merriam-Webster dictionaries have, I suppose, legitimate uses in >schoolrooms, but their editorial bent is resolutely populist and >anti-intellectual. They, for example, list 'octopi', which is bog Latin, >instead of 'octopodes' as a legitimate plural of 'o

Re: Shane's antipodes

2006-11-16 Thread Dave Kopischke
On Thu, 16 Nov 2006 07:49:21 +1000, Shane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Walt, pulling John into line, wrote: >> >> > I know that, among other things, 'antipodes' is Britspeak for 'Australia >> > and New Zealand', and thus legitimately plural; but I prefer the >> > definition that makes antipodes co

Re: Displaying ISPF Panels from a COBOL program

2006-11-16 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 11/16/2006 at 03:01 PM, Warren Ball <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >Any further ideas on what I might do in the program, to get ISPF >panels to display? Connect to the WorkStation Agent. However, if you just need the processing logic then you've already done what's needed

Re: How to expand SYS1.LINKLIB?

2006-11-16 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 11/15/2006 at 05:35 PM, Matthew Stitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >You haven't even lived until you forget to update the IPL bootstrap >records on the only sysres you've got that is supposed to work. While the scope is local rather than global, you haven't lived until

Re: [MVS-OE] WTO msgs. via redirection to /dev/console

2006-11-16 Thread Ed Finnell
In a message dated 11/16/2006 4:13:29 P.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If that manual really exists under that name, some obnoxious person on IBM-Main is going to have few words to eat! >> Well _http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/BPXZB151/CC

Re: What's NAPS?

2006-11-16 Thread Bruce A. McKnight
Thanks, Walt. I was looking for some info on potential applications. Any good redbooks on the subject?--- On Thu 11/16, Walt Farrell < [EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: From: Walt Farrell [mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Thu, 16 Nov 2006 11:06:55 -0500Subject: Re: What's NAPS?On 11/16/

PR: New IBM z/OS System Programmer Mastery Test

2006-11-16 Thread Timothy Sipples
For those of you curious about the System z Academic Initiative, there's another, new dimension to the program that just got added. You don't have to be in college for this one. The IBM Academic Initiative System z team is pleased to announce the availability of the IBM Entry Level for z/OS Syst

Re: [MVS-OE] WTO msgs. via redirection to /dev/console

2006-11-16 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 11/16/2006 at 06:24 PM, Ed Finnell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >Well > >_http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/BPXZB151/CCONTENTS >?SHELF=BPXZSH51&DN=SA22-7803-06&DT=20041206120805_ >(http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/BPXZ

Re: Shane's antipodes

2006-11-16 Thread Shane
On Thu, 2006-11-16 at 17:47 +, john gilmore wrote: > The term 'antipus' may well now denote a pterosaur; it is, however, the > Greek and English singular of 'antipodes' John, John, John ... Surely you (of all people) are not trying to suggest Australia (or any where else that constitutes a "

Re: Where can you get a Minor in Mainframe?

2006-11-16 Thread Bill Seubert
On Thu, 16 Nov 2006 08:26:19 -0600, Carol Srna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I spotted this requirement in a job ad. > >"We are looking for someone with a Bachelor's Degree in CIS with a >mainframe minor". What college/unversity offers a "mainframe minor"? > Take a look here: http://www-304.ibm.co

Re: P390

2006-11-16 Thread Timothy Sipples
Sebastian Welton writes: >I presume that a z800 can be used for PWD use as I know of ISVs that use >rather larger systems but I doubt you would get the ADCD as these are >(were?) only for FLEX-ES based systems which means you're going to need >ESCON and tape drives. Yes, a z800 is eligible for PWD

Re: Is the teaching of non-reentrant HLASM coding practices ever defensible?

2006-11-16 Thread Randy Hudson
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Shmuel Metz , Seymour J. wrote: >> Very true, but not obvious from the marketing material at that time. Even though the MCH only refreshed a few things, there was the implication that the class of things which would be refreshed would expand over time to cover us

Re: P390

2006-11-16 Thread Alan Altmark
On Friday, 11/17/2006 at 02:37 ZE9, Timothy Sipples/Chicago/[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Yes, a z800 is eligible for PWD, or so I've been told. Discounts on h/w in PWD require that you have an active interest in developing a software product, and provide to IBM a plan that shows when you expect t