>>It should be 133 anyway, makes coding for my 1403 line printer a cinch
>>:)
>
> Why not 145 for the 1443 or 242 for the 3800?
>
I'm still using up the 132 column printer layout sheets from 1975 :)
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Hello Roger,
correct, this manual / PDF should have been included on the installation
media. This is being looked into internally by IBM...
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=> I think the licensed manuals are supposed to be shipped to you with the
=> product. Did you get any CDs or DVDs of documentation with the
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On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 6:35 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 17:34:23 -0400, Don Leahy wrote:
>
>>Nearly all of the Cobol programs that I have worked with in the past
>>20 years have had some sort of connection to a DBMS or message queuin
Hi all,
Is there any big concern when added real memory from 5 to 7G, if all CSA,
SQA, ECSA and ESQA remain unchanged?
thanks and regards
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> which were opened for the system/360 project
The East Fishkill, NY plant was specially built to manufacture
Solid Logic Technology (SLT) modules for the System/360. At the
time, this plant was considered "highly automated." I am not
aware of any plants in the U.S. that were specifically built t
Gord Tomlin wrote:
> To be completely accurate, we are developing a new component for an
> existing product. The existing product is written entirely in Assembler
> and is not compatible with LE. I would love to not use CEEPIPI, but
> that's a non-starter. The new component needs to use a couple o
On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 17:34:23 -0400, Don Leahy wrote:
>Nearly all of the Cobol programs that I have worked with in the past
>20 years have had some sort of connection to a DBMS or message queuing
>system. Abends are needed in order to roll back uncommitted updates
>when a condition arises that pre
Nearly all of the Cobol programs that I have worked with in the past
20 years have had some sort of connection to a DBMS or message queuing
system. Abends are needed in order to roll back uncommitted updates
when a condition arises that prevents the application from continuing.
In other words, ab
On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 15:05:15 -0500, Diehl, Gary
wrote:
>Factual ??
Even though I'm one (of many, I'm sure) that started the "Fine"
usage, in this case I'm sure it stands for "Fascinating". Or perhaps
"Fun-filled".
Pat O'Keefe
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Behalf Of Edward Jaffe
Sent: Tuesday, September 15, 2009 2:38 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
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My wife and her crew used to be COBOL/CICS programmers. They migrated
to Software AG's NATURAL/CICS about 22 years ago. And a few years ago
they started migrating to Java on Solaris (that may be changing soon
too). For training, they attended a number of our undergraduate
Computer Science course
On Tuesday 15 September 2009, P S wrote:
> http://www.ciozone.com/index.php/Server-Technology-Zone/The-Mainframe-The-D
>inosaur-That-Wouldn-t-Die.html
>
> Something that caught my eye:
> "IBM...opened five major new plants."
>
> Which five? Anyone know?
Here is a link to an IBM FAQ. There is a sec
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> Sent: Tuesday, September 15, 2009 2:16 PM
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>
> On Tue, 2009-09-15 at 14:55 -0400, Schwarz, Barry A wrote:
> > if you
On Fri, 11 Sep 2009 20:57:40 -0500, Tom Moulder
wrote:
>You laugh ...
>
>I am working with a company that literally did this. They shipped a
>very large disk array to the central computing center and placed it next
>to the production array; synchronously copied all the data; found a
>quiet poin
Okay, I figured it out. I had to RACF define and allow update access to
ISFATTR.JOB.PRTDEST
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 3:23 PM, Mary Anne Matyaz wrote:
> Mark, they are fine on my 1.10 system, but I just bring over my ISFPRMxx
> member from release to release. Why don't you try starting SDSF with
http://www.ciozone.com/index.php/Server-Technology-Zone/The-Mainframe-The-Dinosaur-That-Wouldn-t-Die.html
Something that caught my eye:
"IBM...opened five major new plants."
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I think the licensed manuals are supposed to be shipped to you with the
product. Did you get any CDs or DVDs of documentation with the product?
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On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 5:43 AM, J D Cassidy wrote:
> Hello all,
>
>
> slightly off-topic, but I will pose the question -
>
>
> I am looking for
>http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS97967+14-Sep-2009+BW20090914
I get page not found
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Fine?
Funny?
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Patrick O'Keefe wrote:
RTFM (where "m" can stand for either manual or macro).
And, what does "F" stand for? ;-)
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Back in about 1989 I wrote some clists to be shipped as part of an IBM
product. I *think* our shipped clists were in FB 80 format but I don't
remember for sure. What I did was to keep my actual code in columns 9
through 72 so that the clist could be copied into either FB 80 or VB 255
with or with
Mark, they are fine on my 1.10 system, but I just bring over my ISFPRMxx
member from release to release. Why don't you try starting SDSF with your old
ISFPRMxx?
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a small scroll of paper, in hexadecimal, with each octet separated by
whitestuff and blackstuff."
As so often happens, technology outraces standards.
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On Mon, 14 Sep 2009 19:09:29 -0300, Digestani, Raul
wrote:
>I'm asking about how to obtain current TCB address in an
>assembly pgm.
Others have given helpful answers. I'll give the curmudgeonly
answer.
RTFM (where "m" can stand for either manual or macro).
The Data Areas manual's descript
On Tue, 2009-09-15 at 14:55 -0400, Schwarz, Barry A wrote:
> if your real intent is to obtain data from the TCB, such as the TIOT
> address, consider looking at the EXTRACT macro/service.
Why? PSA->TCB->TIOT is GUPI.
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z390 and zcobol full release v.1.5.01 is now available for download and install
using InstallShield for Windows from www.z390.org. This release includes new
Unicode codepage support for ASCII and EBCDIC codepages compatible with
z/OS. The zcobol compiler now compiles 408 of the NIST COBOL 1
Others have provided the details. On the other hand, if your real
intent is to obtain data from the TCB, such as the TIOT address,
consider looking at the EXTRACT macro/service.
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The answer depends on what you have done to or with IBMUSER on each
system. Is IBMUSER connected to the same groups with the same authority
on each system? Does IBMUSER have access to the same resources at the
same level on each system? Does IBMUSER own the same profiles on each
system?
You cou
Maybe an occasional abend might be worth doing. But it smacks of poor
design when "oops.. I didn't really test this.. so I'll just abend"
methodology takes over. With all the I think the term is xtreme
programming where testing is built into the program from the bottom up,
that abending to ha
I have a problem trying to compile a list of ROLLED-OFF gdg dsns which were
created over the past 3 years. We noticed that the dsns were not being deleted
because of a NOSCRATCH option used when the gdg base was created by the user.
I ran a LISTCAT of the catalog and did a FIND command for ROL
Hello,
I'm trying to get the RMF Spreadsheet reporter working and I am quite
stumped.
This is on Windows XP, Excel 2003. I have downloaded and installed the
latest version of the reporter. It starts up OK, I define my SMF dump
datasets. I Select Create->Workingset. The job runs successfu
>>> On 9/15/2009 at 9:21 AM, in message
, Erik Janssen
wrote:
> We also have 'problems' with the filestatus 97, especiallly in DR. I ended up
>
> verifying all VSAM datasets with ISMF (it allows for cluster only selection
> which is nice if you want to fire a verify ds(/) ) The whole idea of gi
>>> On 9/15/2009 at 8:53 AM, in message
, Rob
Schramm wrote:
> I always thought that abending a cobol program was a lame duck method.
> Bringing that practice into JAVA seems equally lame duck. Handle the dang
> issue or put the offending records off into an exception file and get on
> about p
Re: Posting From r.skoru...@bremultibank.com.pl on Fri, 11 Sep 2009 20:50:31
+0200
> Well. I thought the rules are slightly different: it is enough to
> run some product ONCE during reporting period (month) to pay for
> that. More precisely: if you run ABC product on LPAR1 (only) and
> LPAR1 high
I'm in the same group, IFSOPER, on both systems. There is some difference
between the groups on each system. But I can't figure what the difference
is. On the 1.9 system I do not run SDSF as a server, and there is not a
ISFPRMxx member. On the 1.10 system I am running it as a server and I am
us
On 15 Sep 2009 07:55:25 -0700, rob.schr...@siriuscom.com (Rob Schramm)
wrote:
>I always thought that abending a cobol program was a lame duck method.
>Bringing that practice into JAVA seems equally lame duck. Handle the dang
>issue or put the offending records off into an exception file and get
Thanks, Paul.
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Sent: Tuesday, September 15, 2009 10:59 AM
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Subject: Re: User-written ISPF-Editor line commands
I did send mine to Don.
As you said pretty
Gord Tomlin wrote:
To be completely accurate, we are developing a new component for an
existing product. The existing product is written entirely in Assembler
and is not compatible with LE. I would love to not use CEEPIPI, but
that's a non-starter. The new component needs to use a couple of API
Hello,
I have noticed in a number of traces, that for a newly attached TCB
there is a 'SVCR0' without a previous 'SVC 0'.
Is this really a return from an EXCP SVC or something else masquerading
as such?
Thanks
Steve
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To be completely accurate, we are developing a new component for an
existing product. The existing product is written entirely in Assembler
and is not compatible with LE. I would love to not use CEEPIPI, but
that's a non-starter. The new component needs to use a couple of APIs
that are only pro
Thank you, gentlemen. I had read the INTRDR init statement
documentation. It does not mention SYSAFF. However, I issued the JES2
operator command to set SYSAFF on our test system and tested it. Thanks
again.
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Paul, Bob, et al.: here is a version of LINEMAC and a dsn extractor I have
used before. Feel free to treat this like open source - modify/fix/enhance
and re-share it!
Thanks!
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 10:58 AM, Beesley, Paul wrote:
> I did send mine to Don.
> As you said pretty please I'll find s
Mark Pace wrote:
>On my 1.9 system in SDSF the fields SAFF & PRTDEST are unprotected and I
can make changes.
>I just installed a 1.10 system and these fields are protected.
Your ISFPRMxx could be replaced during installation...
>I've been through the ISFPRMxx file and can not figure out what
On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 09:08:51 -0600 Steve Comstock
wrote:
:>Binyamin Dissen wrote:
:>> On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 08:43:31 -0600 Howard Brazee
:>> wrote:
:>> :>On 15 Sep 2009 06:59:56 -0700, dennis.ro...@lmco.com (Roach, Dennis ,
:>> :>N-GHG) wrote:
:>> :>>> Reconstruct what?I thought 97 meant
>Wait a minute. "Before the data is firmed"? What do you mean? How
does this happen?
Unflushed buffers?
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>I always thought that abending a cobol program was a lame duck method.
When I was taught programming, at the University of Waterloo (1976), I was
taught:
1. Handle what you can think of.
2. Abend when you get something you can't handle.
3. Figure out how to handle what caused you to abend.
4. I
>Many managers believe that it's cheaper and easier to hire people who
have Java on their resumes than to believe existing employees can
learn Java on their own (or to train them).
In my 30+ years, I've only met two managers who believe that disciplines
transcend platforms.
If you know how to pr
We also have 'problems' with the filestatus 97, especiallly in DR. I ended up
verifying all VSAM datasets with ISMF (it allows for cluster only selection
which is nice if you want to fire a verify ds(/) ) The whole idea of giving a
filestatus 97 is in my view pointless since any subsequent progr
It's a way to ensure that operating staff notice the error.
There is also the problem that even correct execution
of steps can give RC > 0, even RC >> 4.
(Especially from utilities...)
If You use products like OPC this can make the life
*extremely* complicated...
Many years of experience have sh
Binyamin Dissen wrote:
On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 08:43:31 -0600 Howard Brazee
wrote:
:>On 15 Sep 2009 06:59:56 -0700, dennis.ro...@lmco.com (Roach, Dennis ,
:>N-GHG) wrote:
:>>> Reconstruct what?I thought 97 meant the open statement was
:>>> successful and file integrity was verified. So the
On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 08:43:31 -0600 Howard Brazee
wrote:
:>On 15 Sep 2009 06:59:56 -0700, dennis.ro...@lmco.com (Roach, Dennis ,
:>N-GHG) wrote:
:>>> Reconstruct what?I thought 97 meant the open statement was
:>>> successful and file integrity was verified. So the file is OK, the
:>>> open
I did send mine to Don.
As you said pretty please I'll find somewhere appropriate to post them
:)
Regards
Paul
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I always thought that abending a cobol program was a lame duck method.
Bringing that practice into JAVA seems equally lame duck. Handle the dang
issue or put the offending records off into an exception file and get on
about processing. Set a code... send an e-mail.
Just my 2 cents.
Cheers,
I'm about to use DBSYNC to migrate my RACF database to a new system. The
new system already contains some definitions including the user IBMUSER
which I don't want to corrupt. Do I have to do anything special to make
sure that the existing IBMUSER on the new system doesn't get changed.
Jim McAlp
On 15 Sep 2009 07:01:02 -0700, st...@trainersfriend.com (Steve
Comstock) wrote:
>> No, most of the Java programmers developed programs for application servers
>> before, respectively they're still doing.
>
>Ah. I ask because Jonathan Sayles, and some others, insist
>that long time COBOL programmer
On 15 Sep 2009 06:59:56 -0700, dennis.ro...@lmco.com (Roach, Dennis ,
N-GHG) wrote:
>> Reconstruct what?I thought 97 meant the open statement was
>> successful and file integrity was verified. So the file is OK, the
>> open is OK.
>>
>> What am I missing?
>
>That depends on how important d
I was talking about the Firefox version, not the IBM Toolbar version. I have
Firefox 3.5.3 installed.
For the Toolbar (which I just downloaded and installed), version.txt dated
5/5/2009 has:
Bob
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On my 1.9 system in SDSF the fields SAFF & PRTDEST are unprotected and I
can make changes.
I just installed a 1.10 system and these fields are protected. I've been
through the ISFPRMxx file and can not figure out what to change to make
these fields unprotected. The SAFF, I'm not really concerne
Gord Tomlin wrote:
Definitely, the key item is the meaning of "dormant". Clearly, the
environment "exists" until it is destroyed by the term call. The
question is what should happen when the environment exists but is dormant.
IBM states in the description of init_sub that it "sets the environm
Are we talking about the same tool ?
Its home page is :
http://www-01.ibm.com/software/support/toolbar/index.html?ibmsst=ibmTbMe
nu
The version for Firefox on there is 3.3.8 ( sorry, I said 3.5.8 before )
And yes the problem still exists at 3.3.8
Just installed the IE version and it seems to reme
Hi,
I know for IMS, that in case e.g. a class is not found, there will be an U101
abend.
So in order to force an U101 Abend in IMS you could do a:
Class.forName("my.non.exisiting.Class");
But I am not sure if that will create an abend in all environments such as JZOS
and BPXBATCH?!
Nevertheles
Daniel Erdmann wrote:
2009/9/15 Steve Comstock
Daniel Erdmann wrote:
Our development staff is going to develop new programs in Java instead of
COBOL.
Using the same staff of programmers that wrote the COBOL code?
No, most of the Java programmers developed programs for application server
> -Original Message-
>
> >>So how do you use it? What do you do differently when you get a 97
> than
> >>when you get a 00?
> >
> >Depending on the application, I might put out a message saying to
> >reconstruct from logs.
>
> Reconstruct what?I thought 97 meant the open statement w
2009/9/15 Steve Comstock
> Daniel Erdmann wrote:
>
>> Our development staff is going to develop new programs in Java instead of
>> COBOL.
>>
>
> Using the same staff of programmers that wrote the COBOL code?
>
No, most of the Java programmers developed programs for application servers
before, re
Daniel Erdmann wrote:
2009/9/15 Michael Klaeschen
from my reading of the MVS JCL Reference, there is no abend-disposition
available, neither for the DISP nor for the PATHDISP parameter. Instead,
one may code an abnormal termination disposition. But as the introduction
to the DISP parameter rea
2009/9/15 Michael Klaeschen
> from my reading of the MVS JCL Reference, there is no abend-disposition
> available, neither for the DISP nor for the PATHDISP parameter. Instead,
> one may code an abnormal termination disposition. But as the introduction
> to the DISP parameter reads, the behaviour
On 14 Sep 2009 15:06:20 -0700, shmuel+ibm-m...@patriot.net (Shmuel
Metz , Seymour J.) wrote:
>>So how do you use it? What do you do differently when you get a 97 than
>>when you get a 00?
>
>Depending on the application, I might put out a message saying to
>reconstruct from logs.
Reconstruct w
I only see 3.5.3 here in the US. And Binyamin's problem still exists at this
level.
Bob
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Sent: Tuesday, September 15, 2009 9:05 AM
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On Thu, 10 Sep 2009 15:44:12 -0500, Rick Fochtman wrote:
>
>Which is more effieient for CLIST/REXX libraries? the choices are
>"RECFM=FB, LRECL=255" or "RECFM=FB,LRECL=80"?
>
>I lean toward the VB-format...
My personal preference is FB-80, not because it is more "efficient" but
because that's the
I seem to recall a thread not too long ago where someone was asking for
sites that had implemented Hiperbatch. You might want to check the
archives. These tools should still be valid. Some of these tools require a
specific need/setup (Hiperbatch). For general buffering, SMB is a good
place to s
Hmmm, I hadn't noticed that, but you're right.
There is a newer version available by the way ( 3.5.8 ) - best to
uninstall 3.5.2 and download the newer version as there is some problem
with the update mechanism
Regards
Paul
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Daniel,
from my reading of the MVS JCL Reference, there is no abend-disposition
available, neither for the DISP nor for the PATHDISP parameter. Instead,
one may code an abnormal termination disposition. But as the introduction
to the DISP parameter reads, the behaviour in case of an abend relie
I am trying to set the options for the IBM toolbar for firefox (3.5.2) but
they do not survive a firefox restart. Is there some trick to make it
permanent?
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Should you use the mailblocks package and
Did anyone ever post their source for the line commands they spoke about? If
not, can you, pretty please! :-)
Mark, you are exempt. I got yours from your website. Good stuff!
Bob
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We're seeing indications of SMS ACS involvement and are working that angle with
IBM.
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Fear enuff. Appreciate the advice..
JC
=> On Thu, 10 Sep 2009 09:45:35 +0200, J D Cassidy
=> wrote:
=>
=>>appreciate the advice, thank you. Bloody hard way to get a manual
=>> though...
=>
=> Perhaps you weren't around when you had to fill out a paper form and send
=> it
=> to the branch office?
Hello,
we have some discussions in our shop about how to handle Java batch jobs in
JCL.
You have to know that our operating decided some decades ago that they want
to use the abend-disposition for cleaning up if the executed COBOL program
gets an error.
This means they force an abend within the C
I'm very interested to see how this discussion will proceed.
Maybe someone of IBM wants to participate.
By similar issues we ended up with the following "solution":
we wrote an LE exit, which we tried to activate in all environments,
that is, batch, TSO and IMS, in our case. Programming language
Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote:
>Using RFC 1149?
Yes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_over_Avian_Carriers
Above page also describes shortly what actually happened.
FYI, that pigeon's name is Winston. ;-D
More info:
http://www.itweb.co.za/sections/internet/2009/0909091636.asp?
S=Broadband&A=B
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