Re: IDCAMS delete with mask

2009-09-27 Thread Barbara Nitz
>So this half-a$$ed masking was put in there by DESIGN? WOW! Incredibly >brain dead. They violated Lionel Dyck's "principle of least astonishment". >It should have been designed to work like standard dataset masking in SMS. >Designer: "Should we use DFDSS rules? Nahhh! (and now for something

Re: IDCAMS delete with mask

2009-09-27 Thread Pinnacle
- Original Message - From: "Mark Zelden" Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Sent: Sunday, September 27, 2009 11:08 AM Subject: Re: IDCAMS delete with mask On Sat, 26 Sep 2009 21:17:52 -0400, Robert A. Rosenberg wrote: At 17:05 -0700 on 09/26/2009, Stuart Holland wrote about IDCAMS

Re: Security

2009-09-27 Thread Rob Schramm
My 2 cent, http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg247699.html?Open Chapter 7. IP Filtering Regards, Rob Schramm -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the me

Re: Security

2009-09-27 Thread Robert S. Hansel (RSH)
Mike, If you have RACF as your z/OS security product, I suggest you investigate the use of the SERVAUTH class. Regards, Bob - Robert S. Hansel | 2009 RACF Training Lead RACF Specialist | > Intro & Basic Admin - Boston -

Re: Long parms...again

2009-09-27 Thread john gilmore
adically inappropriate for internal, computational use. Analogously, 2009 September 27, 20090927, and the like are appropriate to data entry and display, and radically inappropriate to computation. For computation internal to a computer a signed fullword Gregorian-Day (GD) value that refle

Re: Long parms...again

2009-09-27 Thread Anne & Lynn Wheeler
wmhbl...@comcast.net (William H. Blair) writes: > Of course, to some people it wasn't "common knowledge." > But folks were no more interested in hearing about the > two-digit year problem in 1981 than they were in 1995. > Nobody (but some banks and a lot of software vendors) > cared. It would not h

Re: IDCAMS delete with mask

2009-09-27 Thread Mark Zelden
On Sat, 26 Sep 2009 21:17:52 -0400, Robert A. Rosenberg wrote: >At 17:05 -0700 on 09/26/2009, Stuart Holland wrote about IDCAMS >delete with mask: > >>The delete with mask feature currently defaults to only looking in the >>master catalog. You have to code the CATALOG parameter to have it look >>

Re: Long parms...again

2009-09-27 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Sun, 27 Sep 2009 05:32:31 -0500, William H. Blair wrote: > >There was some question which representation would be >best to represent dates>1999: dddF or 0cyydddF. The >several IBMers with whom folks like us at GUIDE on some >of the futures task forces discussed the issue eventually >decided

More bad news.

2009-09-27 Thread Howard Rifkind
Don't mean to be harping on this but if you read the papers this morning or checked out any of the web news sites you would of seen this: "U.S. job seekers exceed openings by record ratio" Something like 6 to 1 and if that's the case in the general job market it's only worse for mainframe syste

Re: Long parms ... again

2009-09-27 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Sun, 27 Sep 2009 05:41:24 -0500, Elardus Engelbrecht wrote: > >>Not really. Rexx, supplied by IBM, supports at least 3 different linkage >conventions: > >Thanks for your kind reply. Does interpreted Rexx and compiled Rexx support >these 3 different linkage conventions? > I haven't a Rexx compil

Re: Long parms ... again

2009-09-27 Thread Elardus Engelbrecht
Paul Gilmartin wrote: >Not really. Rexx, supplied by IBM, supports at least 3 different linkage conventions: Thanks for your kind reply. Does interpreted Rexx and compiled Rexx support these 3 different linkage conventions? Just curious... Groete / Greetings Elardus Engelbrecht

Re: Long parms...again

2009-09-27 Thread William H. Blair
Andy Wood wonders: > Maybe they were just optimists and figured that by the > time they really needed it, the operating system would > have been updated to provide it. As I said, I don't know where Poughkeepsie got the idea. Maybe they thought of it all by themselves. We did not care at the tim

Re: Long parms...again

2009-09-27 Thread Andy Wood
On Fri, 25 Sep 2009 16:52:04 -0500, William H. Blair wrote: . . . > >The short version: Yes, essentially, it has been like that forever, >or indeed at least "long enough" that his intended point was valid. > >The long version: > >I don't know about "that field" specifically, since I'm not a CIC