Re: Mainframe programming vs the Web

2008-05-12 Thread CICS Guy
John, For multiple states beginning with the same letter, keep pressing the first letter Four or five times for Arizonagrin Bill -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chase, John Sent: Monday, May 12, 2008 7:55 AM T

Re: absurd programs that used to be everywhere ...

2008-05-09 Thread CICS Guy
IIRC, Algol(?) and no light pens anywhere...And, dang it, it usually wongrumble... -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Matthew Stitt Sent: Friday, May 09, 2008 8:12 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: absurd prog

Re: absurd programs that used to be everywhere ...

2008-05-09 Thread CICS Guy
FWIW, I think (it's on an old tape) I still have a copy of three-dimensional Tic-Tac-Toe written by Bob Blair for CICS.. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of F. J. Kelley Sent: Friday, May 09, 2008 6:21 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA

Re: 3420 old tapes

2008-05-07 Thread CICS Guy
the CICS Guy.. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2008 10:39 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: 3420 old tapes In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 05/06/2008 at 02:24 PM

Re: CTRACE writer peculiarity

2008-05-07 Thread CICS Guy
An open/close will produce an EOF marker and the minimum allocation will be one track... -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Patrick O'Keefe Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2008 3:51 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: CTRACE w

Re: COBOL / VSAM question.

2008-04-18 Thread CICS Guy
IIRC (early VSAM & DOS) Originally when a VSAM dataset that was not closed correctly had an open failure and required an actual verify run against it. Maybe later the mear fact of attempting an open, with its failure, resulted in it being 'verified'. Later still, the automatic verification occurr

Re: Workable Mainframe Debuggers

2008-04-13 Thread CICS Guy
Just to throw my two cents into this, I've always prefered the printed dump, from VSE, I could (usually) find the problem Once I got stuck into the MVS environment, I have been trying to understand and use IPCS, and not with too much success...grinSomething just hasn't 'clicked' yet, b

Re: IBM CEO's remuneration last year ?

2008-04-07 Thread CICS Guy
Oh heck, who rung our moral compass's bell? First "black helecopters" then "black holes" Or is it the other around? -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Anton Britz Sent: Monday, April 07, 2008 2:21 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU

Re: INDEX() or POS() string functions in Enterprise COBOL?

2008-04-06 Thread CICS Guy
] On Behalf Of CICS Guy Sent: Friday, April 04, 2008 6:37 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: INDEX() or POS() string functions in Enterprise COBOL? I've always resorted to an inline perform loop with reference modification compares... Yes, that obviously would work, but I was looking

Re: INDEX() or POS() string functions in Enterprise COBOL?

2008-04-04 Thread CICS Guy
I've always resorted to an inline perform loop with reference modification compares... -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Farley, Peter x23353 Sent: Friday, April 04, 2008 2:59 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: INDEX() or POS()

Re: OT: Computer Science Education: Where Are the Software Engineers of Tomor...

2008-01-09 Thread CICS Guy
Probably executed a DIAG..grin... -Original Message-From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ed FinnellSent: Tuesday, January 08, 2008 3:07 PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Re: OT: Computer Science Education: Where Are the Software Engineers of Tomor..

Re: FTP Failure

2007-12-28 Thread CICS Guy
Gave it a try and all I got back was the three splats *** -Original Message-From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lizette KoehlerSent: Friday, December 28, 2007 1:01 PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Re: FTP Failure You might try using the shipped funct

Re: FTP Failure

2007-12-28 Thread CICS Guy
Thanks, that's what I kinda thought..I just could not squeeze that info out of the FM. -Original Message-From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of McKown, JohnSent: Friday, December 28, 2007 12:52 PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Re: FTP Failure Th

FTP Failure

2007-12-28 Thread CICS Guy
Can anybody hazard a guess of what I'm lacking? I tracked down (as best I could) the reason codes but could not really seem to relate them to anything in the UNIX System Services Messages and Codes. Menu List Mode Functions Utilities Help ¢¢¢

Re: KSDS CA split, no CI split

2007-12-05 Thread CICS Guy
12/5/2007 5:30 AMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Re: KSDS CA split, no CI split CICS Guy,I think it does, REPRO is batch and it uses sequential access (i.e. SIS),and this is exactly the same access that is used during the initial loadof a VSAM cluster, and it is at SIS time that VSAM applies the free s

Re: KSDS CA split, no CI split

2007-12-03 Thread CICS Guy
I don't think so, from what I recall, free space is only reserved during an initial load (maybe mass inserts too?) From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of Michael PoilSent: Mon 12/3/2007 12:05 PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Re: KSDS CA split, no CI split RS,Just remembered a VSAM "gott

Re: ADMINISTRIVIA: Announcement!

2007-10-30 Thread CICS Guy
Good, the first laugh of the day. From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of R.S.Sent: Tue 10/30/2007 5:00 PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Re: ADMINISTRIVIA: Announcement! Who the h*ll started this off-topic thread about someone's retirement !It's unrelated to mainframes !!! ___

Re: COBOL move statement issue

2007-10-15 Thread CICS Guy
Pack will exception on protection and addressing, not data.. If not numeric, abend... -Original Message-From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Peter Ten EyckSent: Monday, October 15, 2007 2:34 PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: COBOL move statement is

Re: ADABAS vs. IMS vs. DB2 Who is faster?

2007-10-11 Thread CICS Guy
Jeez.. -Original Message-From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Anton BritzSent: Thursday, October 11, 2007 12:50 PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Re: ADABAS vs. IMS vs. DB2 Who is faster? Herbie, Just think about what you type in the "Subject line" o

Re: ADABAS vs IMS vs DB2 Who is faster?

2007-10-09 Thread CICS Guy
Thank goodness our moral compass is still around... -Original Message-From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Anton BritzSent: Tuesday, October 09, 2007 12:37 PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Re: ADABAS vs IMS vs DB2 Who is faster? Hi, Summarized : a

Re: Writing 23FDs

2007-09-27 Thread CICS Guy
Kind of like an 029's "undo"... -Original Message-From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Matthew StittSent: Wednesday, September 26, 2007 4:10 PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Re: Writing 23FDs snip The biggest pain was that ICCF editor had no "undo" comman

Re: Free ECSA Area

2007-09-07 Thread CICS Guy
I saw that he had asked his question several times on another forum and was totally ignoredSo I pointed him here to the prior thread and he decided to join and ask for himself Might be interesting if he comes back and lets us know if he managed to do the deedgrin. -Origin

Re: Free ECSA Area

2007-09-07 Thread CICS Guy
I get the impression that he doesn't want the safest way And maybe the IPLs are too few and far between. Is there a command to do it or does it have to be done programmatically? -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chase,

Re: DASD wont go offline.

2007-09-04 Thread CICS Guy
Had a CE, bending into the back of a 3340 drive butt-bump the emergency power off for the roomhe didn't notice the coincidence.It took about 10 minutes before smoke started coming out of the main breaker panel - the button was still pushed so the solenoid was still active - and we finall

Re: Virtual Storage implementation

2007-08-30 Thread CICS Guy
Thank goodness we finally have a moral compass... -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Anton Britz Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2007 12:59 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Virtual Storage implementation Hi Ron, Just fo

Re: Virtual Storage implementation

2007-08-30 Thread CICS Guy
Thank goodness we finally have a moral compass... -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Anton Britz Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2007 4:11 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Virtual Storage implementation Hi Ankit, Sure.

Re: Cobol ACCEPT-DATE

2007-08-23 Thread CICS Guy
Just as an aside, IIRC from my VSE days, the current cpu date at the time the job starts (or overridden by a // DATE card) was the date that was maintained for the duration of the job. If you started after midnight, how (which direction) was the date "a day out"? -Original Message- F

Re: Cobol ACCEPT-DATE

2007-08-22 Thread CICS Guy
If it is important, replacing the ACCEPT FROM DATE with the intrinsic FUNCTION CURRENT-DATE will give you all the information you need. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Perryman, Brian Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2007 10:12 A

Re: SMS Question - Urgent

2007-08-17 Thread CICS Guy
Doesn't a too small index ci size get auto-magically over-ridden by a larger size now? -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ambat Ravi Nair Sent: Friday, August 17, 2007 9:50 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: SMS Question

Re: Outsourcing loosing steam?

2007-08-15 Thread CICS Guy
Never the less, the LAX problem was reported as customs not being able to verify anybody because the computer was down...International flights only. _ Tease your brain--play Clink! Win cool prizes! http://club.live.com/cli

Re: Outsourcing loosing steam?

2007-08-14 Thread CICS Guy
It wasn't LAX, it was US Customs Service... -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of esmie moo Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2007 1:53 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Outsourcing loosing steam? Just to add my 2 cents. Who i

Re: Are things that slow?

2007-08-10 Thread CICS Guy
My thought exactly, 4:50PM was the last message I got until 9:50 this morning. 'Nuf said. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO

Are things that slow?

2007-08-10 Thread CICS Guy
Seems like there's not much going on for a Friday. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.ed

Re: VSAM REUSE with alternate index

2007-08-07 Thread CICS Guy
While you can define the AIX as reusable, you can't define the base cluster as reusable if it has an AIX From the define cluster: "When you create a reusable cluster, you cannot build an alternate index to support it." -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[

Re: Split a large file into two parts

2007-08-06 Thread CICS Guy
Sort has several features, by count, by key and a sort of "every other". -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dave Guthrie Sent: Monday, August 06, 2007 9:48 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Split a large file into two par

Re: Poll - Distance between Data Center and DR

2007-08-02 Thread CICS Guy
Sorry, just a little Oklahoma humor - except I got it bollixed.. Should have said NW/SE since tornadoes generally travel north east.. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lizette Koehler Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2007 11:

Re: Poll - Distance between Data Center and DR

2007-08-02 Thread CICS Guy
As long as each is 10 miles NE/SW from each other... -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of O'Brien, David W. (NIH/CIT) [C] Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2007 11:02 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Poll - Distance between D

IBM saves $250 million consolidating Linux servers on to mainframes

2007-08-01 Thread CICS Guy
Am I late? IBM saves $250 million consolidating Linux servers on to mainframes http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/17998 _ Local listings, incredible imagery, and driving directions - all in one place! http://maps.live.com/?w

Re: Mainframe Empty datasets

2007-05-18 Thread CICS Guy
I read it more that the dataset may have been allocated but never actually opened for output -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Barkow, Eileen Sent: Friday, May 18, 2007 12:06 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Mainfr

Re: DFSORT Numeric Field Testing Problem

2007-05-10 Thread CICS Guy
FWIW, I don't see FS or NUM in my Syncsort manual... *~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~**~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~* SYSIN : SORT FIELDS=(1,20,FS,A) INCLUDE COND=(1,20,FS,EQ,NUM) * SUM FIELDS=NONE WER268A INCLUDE STATEMENT : SYNTAX ERROR *~*~*~*~*~*

Re: jcl.

2007-05-08 Thread CICS Guy
I know the answer to the second questiontake out the write ring... -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rajeev Vasudevan Sent: Tuesday, May 08, 2007 12:37 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: jcl. Hello, I need one help

Re: Latest Principles of Operation

2007-04-25 Thread CICS Guy
Just 'cause it's 37 years out of date is no reason to pick on it... -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ed Finnell Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2007 4:24 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Latest Principles of Operation

Re: Latest Principles of Operation

2007-04-25 Thread CICS Guy
Gee, the POO I use (paper) tops out at around 175 pages... -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of (IBM Mainframe Discussion List) Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2007 4:07 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Latest Principles of

Re: Transferring ADABAS backup file from VSE to MVS using FTP

2006-12-28 Thread CICS Guy
Just guessing, but if the blocksize was small enough, could the FTP transfer the blocks intact, as if undefined? -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of ??? ?? ??? Sent: Thursday, December 28, 2006 7:11 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU S