Recovery from a logic error

2009-01-01 Thread Magen Margalit
Hi List, We are Z10 with Zos 1.9 shop. We recently had a major logic error with DB2 catalog which led us to think how can we prepare and recover quickly in the event of any (not just DB2) logical error (In this case the PPRC / HRC copy of the data won't help since the error was replicated).

Re: Syncsort Oddity

2009-01-01 Thread Barry Merrill
Sounds like the file was created with RECFM=V writes, and was never blocked when created, inspite of the DCB attributes. Barry -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to

Syncsort Oddity

2009-01-01 Thread Bill Klein
Do you know how the original file was created? I would be interested if it was created by a COBOL program compiled with NOAWO. If so, you may want to make AWO an shop default (and/or non-modifiable COBOL compiler option) ??? ?? ??? gad...@malam.com wrote in message

Re: SHARE Session 8194: z390 and zcobol Portable Mainframe COBOL Compiler written in structured macro assembler

2009-01-01 Thread Don Higgins
Does this mean that it might be possible to use zcobol to compile some of our current z/OS COBOL programs into Java classes and run them on a zAAP? 3. C++ for Windows platforms 4. HLA/MASM assembler for Intel platforms John Yes, the zcobol framework provides for alternate code generation

Re: SHARE Session 8194: z390 and zcobol Portable Mainframe COBOL Compiler written in structured macro assembler

2009-01-01 Thread Don Higgins
All of the specialty engines types except zAAP have technological and contractual means of restricting their use to the IBM-desired new workloads. But an engine that runs Java by design in order to attract new work (hopefully from Sun or HP boxes) can't really look at your JVM bytecodes and say

Re: Shell Scripts in EKM

2009-01-01 Thread Jim Holloway
Are you running the EKM Server under MVS with JZOS batch loader? While I agree with you both concerning the lousy messaging, running the EKM Server as a started task with the batch loader modifies the message enough for automation (we use BMC) to pickup on the fact that EKM is up and

Re: Shell Scripts in EKM

2009-01-01 Thread Lizette Koehler
Yes we are running JZOS batch loader and EKM as an STC. However, we have no BPXM023I messages. Only the text of the messages. I have asked IBM about this and they indicated it has to do with the BPX.CONSOLE profile. How is yours set for EKM STC? Is EKM STC in the access list? Lizette

Re: SHARE Session 8194: z390 and zcobol Portable Mainframe COBOL Compiler written in structured macro assembler

2009-01-01 Thread Kirk Wolf
A commercial Cobol compiler that targets Java byte codes have been available for a long time: http://www.legacyj.com/lgcyj_perc1.html As far as I can tell, it runs as pure Java byte codes and on z/OS and would therefore take advantage of zAAP. But, one should contact the company for details.

Re: IBM Debug Tool in pure batch

2009-01-01 Thread Jeff Holst
I don't have specific experience with this, but when I look at an example in the user manual, I noticed that there is no hyphen on the continuations. In fact, I found elsewhere that the commands are free form and can start in column 1. A command is terminated by a semicolon ';'. I suspect that

Re: A Smile for the Week

2009-01-01 Thread Ted MacNEIL
4) A TRUE Klingon Warrior does not comment his code! A TRUE programmer does not comment their code! It was hard to write; it should be hard to read! - Too busy driving to stop for gas! -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff /

IBM Debug Tool in pure batch

2009-01-01 Thread Bill Klein
I haven't seen the actual problem code - but if it follows (normal) COBOL rules, there would be a difference between: LIST ALL (on two lines with no hyphen) versus LI -ST all (on two lines with a hyphen in column 7 of the continuation line). One uses the hyphen to continue

SHARE Session 8194: z390 and zcobol Portable Mainframe COBOL Compiler written in structured macro assembler

2009-01-01 Thread Bill Klein
The last that I heard (which was quite a while ago) if you tried using that product on z/OS, it could work with line sequential (HFS) files but *NOT* with normal QSAM files (and I am not even certain about VSAM KSDS or RRDS files). Kirk Wolf k...@dovetail.com wrote in message

Re: Recovery from a logic error

2009-01-01 Thread Binyamin Dissen
On Thu, 1 Jan 2009 04:08:00 -0600 Magen Margalit syste...@gmail.com wrote: :We are Z10 with Zos 1.9 shop. :We recently had a major logic error with DB2 catalog which :led us to think how can we prepare and recover quickly in the :event of any (not just DB2) logical error :(In this case the PPRC