CBT Tape Version 480 has been cut

2011-01-17 Thread Sam Golob
Hi Folks, CBT Tape Version 480 is now the current version release of the CBT MVS Utilities Tape collection of free MVS software. The "CBT" page of the www.cbttape.org website has been mostly updated, as of this writing. A few things have not yet been done, such as the DFDSS and FDR back

Re: EMail attachments stopped working

2011-01-17 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
At 00:07 -0500 on 01/18/2011, zMan wrote about Re: EMail attachments stopped working: No, DATA is the end of the envelope. SMTP doesn't know from MIME: it just knows envelope and body. MIME is content only, interpreted by the MUA, not the MTA. MIME is a red herring here. What I was saying is

Re: EMail attachments stopped working

2011-01-17 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Tue, 18 Jan 2011 00:07:04 -0500, zMan wrote: >No, DATA is the end of the envelope. SMTP doesn't know from MIME: it >just knows envelope and body. MIME is content only, interpreted by the >MUA, not the MTA. MIME is a red herring here. > Time was. But nowadays I suspect there are busybody MTAs t

Re: Sample compiling/linking ICSF app under OMVS

2011-01-17 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Mon, 17 Jan 2011 22:11:02 -0600, Henrique Seganfredo wrote: > >Where can I find a sample of compile and link commands for a ICSF-aware app >to run under OMVS? > There's a Rexx example in 'SYS1.SAMPLIB(CSFTEST)' IIRC. Rexx, but the interface it uses is "address LINKPGM", which is equivalent to C

Re: EMail attachments stopped working

2011-01-17 Thread zMan
No, DATA is the end of the envelope. SMTP doesn't know from MIME: it just knows envelope and body. MIME is content only, interpreted by the MUA, not the MTA. MIME is a red herring here. On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 11:01 PM, Robert A. Rosenberg wrote: > At 18:00 -0800 on 01/17/2011, John Mattson wrote

Sample compiling/linking ICSF app under OMVS

2011-01-17 Thread Henrique Seganfredo
Hello, Where can I find a sample of compile and link commands for a ICSF-aware app to run under OMVS? Regards, Henrique Seganfredo -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama

Re: EMail attachments stopped working

2011-01-17 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
At 18:00 -0800 on 01/17/2011, John Mattson wrote about EMail attachments stopped working: So, our first PS 80 dataset contains something like this... HELO EAI1.EPSON.COM MAIL FROM: RCPT TO: DATA FROM: rn_c...@ea.epson.com TO:edwin_bern...@ea.epson.com SUBJECT: (TEST) Sku Download Exception

Re: EMail attachments stopped working

2011-01-17 Thread zMan
No, sorry -- postmaster is where bounced notes go. Maybe they're supposed to be returned: is a "bad" note returnable? *SHOULD* the "bad" notes be going -- that is, do they look legitimate? I was assuming that they were somehow known to be invalid (typo in address, or other problem). Trying to grok

Re: help

2011-01-17 Thread scott
On 01/17/2011 08:59 PM, John Mattson wrote: > "I need somebody." > > Don't we all... -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Sea

Re: Date representations: Y2k revisited

2011-01-17 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
At 04:12 + on 01/10/2011, john gilmore wrote about Re: Date representations: Y2k revisited: Robert A Rosenberg writes: It is not as simple as that since you have to allow for calenders getting out of sync. When the Julian calender was replaced by the regorian one, there were (depending

Re: EMail attachments stopped working

2011-01-17 Thread John Mattson
Trying to give you a sensible answer here. "Bad" notes are ones which are not sent, and stop SMTP from sending others which would normally be "good". Assuming our "g2" server is the "Postmaster" you refer to (it is the gateway to Notes), then according to the Notes admin, it is not giving a

Re: EMail attachments stopped working

2011-01-17 Thread zMan
SWAGs: So what makes that a "bad" note? Do you know? What's it supposed to do with a "bad" note? Did POSTMASTER (or equivalent) go away? MIME is content-related, doesn't (shouldn't) have anything to do with SMTP. On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 9:00 PM, John Mattson wrote: > zOS 1.08  (yes, I have 1.11

EMail attachments stopped working

2011-01-17 Thread John Mattson
zOS 1.08 (yes, I have 1.11 ready to go as soon as I get management OK). Please be gentle, TCPIP is not my strength. Early 2011-Jan eMails creating attachments using Mime stopped working. What we do is fairly simple, create three FB 80 PS datasets, one with the addressing & mime info, One with

Re: help

2011-01-17 Thread John Mattson
"I need somebody." -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html

Re: DOWNLOADING PDS FROM MAINFRAME TO PC

2011-01-17 Thread Dave Salt
> From: rob.schr...@gmail.com > I have a client that uses Simplist ... it is pretty cool... especially > driving everything from ISPF. I don't know who your client is but I'm glad they like the file transfer feature. The ability to easily transfer files by selecting them from any regular membe

Re: DOWNLOADING PDS FROM MAINFRAME TO PC

2011-01-17 Thread Cris Hernandez #9
don't know what you're trying to do with it, but for transport purposes, I run a utility on the mainframe to make a flatfile then xmit as text. no corruption when sent back to the mainframe if receiving file is pre-allocated with correct LRECL & RECFM. IEBUPDTE (or is it IEBCOPY?) or SAS Proc

Re: DOWNLOADING PDS FROM MAINFRAME TO PC

2011-01-17 Thread Rob Schramm
I have a client that uses Simplist ... it is pretty cool... especially driving everything from ISPF. -Rob -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message

Re: DOWNLOADING PDS FROM MAINFRAME TO PC

2011-01-17 Thread Don Poitras
Use nmap. e.g. prompt case nmap $1 $1.txt mget * Do the opposite for uploading. i.e. nmap $1.$2 $1 Craig Pace wrote: > > I agree with the XMIT only because of file space that is saved; however, > you can download it a empty directory on your PC with the FTP MGET option > and then run a batch

Re: DOWNLOADING PDS FROM MAINFRAME TO PC

2011-01-17 Thread Dave Salt
WSA.EXE doesn't require a second step to rename the downloaded files. Simply enter the target directory in ISPF option 3.7.2 (e.g. enter C:\MyDir\*.txt) and enter the PDS name (e.g. 'MY.PDS') and then select some or all of the members from the displayed member list. For example, to select all me

Re: DOWNLOADING PDS FROM MAINFRAME TO PC

2011-01-17 Thread Craig Pace
I agree with the XMIT only because of file space that is saved; however, you can download it a empty directory on your PC with the FTP MGET option and then run a batch program (anything.BAT) that simply does a RENAME x:\path\* x:\path\*.txt and it will rename all files to have the .txt extentio

Re: System Pack vs Starter System + ServerPac

2011-01-17 Thread Greg Smith
> When do you plan to install the new z10? We plan to have the Customized > Offerings Driver available on DVD next month. If you need to put the > z10 in before that, have the IBM account team contact me directly and I > will put them in touch with the people who are supporting an interim > DVD-b

Re: DOWNLOADING PDS FROM MAINFRAME TO PC

2011-01-17 Thread Rob Schramm
Willie, Unfortunately, mget doesn't work like that... you can specify multiple filenames and use the file* .. but cannot change the name on the mget. I have to agree with the other poster about using XMI for the whole PDS. But in this case, once you are done with the mget, you should be able t

Re: DOWNLOADING PDS FROM MAINFRAME TO PC

2011-01-17 Thread Pinnacle
- Original Message - From: "willie bunter" Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main Sent: Monday, January 17, 2011 1:39 PM Subject: DOWNLOADING PDS FROM MAINFRAME TO PC Hallo All, It has been a long while since I downloaded a PDS from the MAINFRAME to my PC. I am having a bit of difficulty

Re: DOWNLOADING PDS FROM MAINFRAME TO PC

2011-01-17 Thread Dave Salt
I highly recommend using the ISPF Workstation Agent (WSA.EXE). It makes file transfers really easy and doesn't require you to enter a userid and password. Check here for instructions: http://www.tsotimes.com/articles/archive/spring04/wsafiletransfer.html Hope that helps, Dave Salt SimpList(t

DOWNLOADING PDS FROM MAINFRAME TO PC

2011-01-17 Thread willie bunter
Hallo All,   It has been a long while since I downloaded a PDS from the MAINFRAME to my PC. I am having a bit of difficulty having them downloaded with  a .txt extension.  I did the following : ftp-1 open (ip address) supplied userid and password LCD U:\FTP CD 'NGL02D.UTIL.JCL' mget * *.txt   Howe

Re: REXX question: if a string is printable

2011-01-17 Thread Miklos Szigetvari
Hi Thank you very much On 1/17/2011 2:30 PM, Mark Zelden wrote: On Mon, 17 Jan 2011 12:09:46 +0100, Miklos Szigetvari wrote: Hi Any REXX function to decide if a string contains only printable characters? I'm sure there are different ways. Here is what I do in my IPLINFO exec for dis

Re: REXX question: if a string is printable

2011-01-17 Thread Mark Zelden
On Mon, 17 Jan 2011 12:09:46 +0100, Miklos Szigetvari wrote: >Hi > >Any REXX function to decide if a string contains only printable characters? > I'm sure there are different ways. Here is what I do in my IPLINFO exec for displaying subsystem names which often have non-display characters (I rep

Re: DUMPXY delay execution from IEFU29 swicth

2011-01-17 Thread Elardus Engelbrecht
Vernooij, CP wrote: >Ok, this can cause SMF interaction. We switched smf 19 off, because we don't need/use them. I also dropped SMF record type 19. Thanks for your kind help. Perhaps if you have other type of solutions, I'm all ears! This is what this list is for. Helping each others for free.

Re: DUMPXY delay execution from IEFU29 swicth

2011-01-17 Thread Vernooij, CP - SPLXM
"Elardus Engelbrecht" wrote in message news:... > Vernooij, CP wrote: > >Why? How does SMF processing on one system influence SMF processing on > another system? I don't see the relation between them, nor the reason to > spread them in time. > > During 'I SMF', especially when you record SMF reco

Re: help

2011-01-17 Thread Scott Rowe
Yes. On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 6:38 AM, Ray Pearce wrote: > Wasn't it Thursdays that Arthur could never get the hang of... > > > -Original Message- > > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > > [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Stan Weyman > > Sent: 15 January 2011 23:22 > > To: IBM

Re: REXX question: if a string is printable

2011-01-17 Thread Elardus Engelbrecht
Miklos Szigetvari wrote: >:>Any REXX function to decide if a string contains only printable characters? Look at functions DATATYPE and VERIFY and then come back to Binyamin's question: Define "printable characters". Perhaps, you could place a list of 'printable characters' in 'reference' and u

Re: REXX question: if a string is printable

2011-01-17 Thread Binyamin Dissen
On Mon, 17 Jan 2011 12:09:46 +0100 Miklos Szigetvari wrote: :>Any REXX function to decide if a string contains only printable characters? Define "printable characters". -- Binyamin Dissen http://www.dissensoftware.com Director, Dissen Software, Bar & Grill - Israel Should you use the mailbl

Re: DUMPXY delay execution from IEFU29 swicth

2011-01-17 Thread Elardus Engelbrecht
Vernooij, CP wrote: >Why? How does SMF processing on one system influence SMF processing on another system? I don't see the relation between them, nor the reason to spread them in time. During 'I SMF', especially when you record SMF record type 19, the system writes out SMF record type 19 for eac

Re: DUMPXY delay execution from IEFU29 swicth

2011-01-17 Thread GUIRAO LOPEZ, ALVARO
I have seen at Workflow/Exceptions in RMF Monitor 3 since 04.59 to 06.36 in one of the systems of the sysplex the next delay: CONSOLEENQ -SYSZMCS 62.5 % delay ROUTE-GROUP--CNID This is the problem. Subject: Re: DUMPXY delay execution from IEFU29 swicth From: "Vernooij, CP - SPLXM" Re

Antwort: REXX question: if a string is printable

2011-01-17 Thread Michael Klaeschen
/* REXX */ VAR.0=2 VAR.1='SOME VALID CHARACTERS' VAR.2='CONTAINS !§$%&/ WHICH ARE NOT VALID.' /* VALID CHARACTERS: A-Z AND 0-9 AND BLANK */ REFERENCE=XRANGE('A','I')!!XRANGE('J','R')!!XRANGE('S','Z') REFERENCE=REFERENCE!!XRANGE('0','9') REFERENCE=REFERENCE!!' ' SAY 'REFERENCE IS '!!REFERE

Re: REXX question: if a string is printable

2011-01-17 Thread Cris Hernandez #9
huh, never had that issue... maybe a spf macro (not my area of expertise) using edit command: f p'.' or c p'.' ' ' all is there only 1 character or multiple characters that your print function can't handle? don't have the rexx manual handy, but there are hex conversion functions the could b

Re: help

2011-01-17 Thread Ray Pearce
Wasn't it Thursdays that Arthur could never get the hang of... > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Stan Weyman > Sent: 15 January 2011 23:22 > To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu > Subject: Re: help > > > I got the '42' referen

Re: DUMPXY delay execution from IEFU29 swicth

2011-01-17 Thread Vernooij, CP - SPLXM
"Elardus Engelbrecht" wrote in message news:... > GUIRAO LOPEZ, ALVARO wrote: > > >Well, I have detected that this problem didn't happen in one system, has > occurred in all the systems of the sysplex, 8 systems, except in one of them > ( ?? ) > > >TC04 06:01:03.84 JOB50804 RO *ALL,I SMF >

REXX question: if a string is printable

2011-01-17 Thread Miklos Szigetvari
Hi Any REXX function to decide if a string contains only printable characters? -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the

Re: DUMPXY delay execution from IEFU29 swicth

2011-01-17 Thread Elardus Engelbrecht
GUIRAO LOPEZ, ALVARO wrote: >Well, I have detected that this problem didn't happen in one system, has occurred in all the systems of the sysplex, 8 systems, except in one of them ( ?? ) >TC04 06:01:03.84 JOB50804 RO *ALL,I SMF I would not recommend to do 'RO *ALL,I SMF' in your Sysplex. Spac

Re: DUMPXY delay execution from IEFU29 swicth

2011-01-17 Thread GUIRAO LOPEZ, ALVARO
Don't worry about other jobs, they don't work with the same input files, some of them process the smf data of the past hour, +PRSMF000 is a message issued by a program in batch that don't have any relation. Well, I have detected that this problem didn't happen in one system, has occurred in all

Re: DUMPXY delay execution from IEFU29 swicth

2011-01-17 Thread Vernooij, CP - SPLXM
Yes, 10 minutes is very strange. However I see some more strange things. E.g. what are jobs EXLFGJ602, EXSIH530 and EXLFH722 doing? Could they be delaying some SMF processing? Who issues the PRSMF000 message? What is IEFU29 doing? Could it be that the jobs are holding the SMF gdg and that IEFU29

Re: DUMPXY delay execution from IEFU29 swicth

2011-01-17 Thread GUIRAO LOPEZ, ALVARO
Hi Kees, We have automated the SMF switch command, but I see the delay between the switch command and the START DUMPXY command from IEFU29 is too big, 10 minutes But the most logical it's what you say and since the switch command, the SMF dataset continue processing and is filled, so, IEFU

Re: DUMPXY delay execution from IEFU29 swicth

2011-01-17 Thread Vernooij, CP - SPLXM
"GUIRAO LOPEZ, ALVARO" wrote in message news:<2116f82f6e2d7b4eb7da9048379f11b80a88d64...@s1128expm114.bbva.igrup obbva>... > Hi list, > > This morning we had a 10 minutes delay with the start DUMPXY command from the 'I smf' switch, and when the IEFU29 send the start command to the SMF dataset rep

DUMPXY delay execution from IEFU29 swicth

2011-01-17 Thread GUIRAO LOPEZ, ALVARO
Hi list, This morning we had a 10 minutes delay with the start DUMPXY command from the 'I smf' switch, and when the IEFU29 send the start command to the SMF dataset repeat the command immediately to the next SMF dataset without a switch command, this has provoked a JCL error by duplicate data s