Re: Detecting when a READ/GET crosses a concatenation boundary

2010-07-20 Thread Gilbert Saint-Flour
s, to detect this type of situation in my programs, I used the fact that DCBTIOT is updated. If it no longer happens, it would be a surprise ! -- Gilbert Saint-Flour GSF Software http://gsf-soft.com -- For IBM-MAIN subs

Re: instream data

2010-07-20 Thread Gilbert Saint-Flour
#x27;re described here: http://gsf-soft.com/Products/CCSS.shtml -- Gilbert Saint-Flour GSF Software http://gsf-soft.com PS: Sorry it took me so long to reply to this message. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archi

Re: Detecting when a READ/GET crosses a concatenation boundary

2010-07-19 Thread Gilbert Saint-Flour
oncatenated DD. Here's an example: OPEN DCBxx MVC SAVETIOT,DCBTIOT . . . GET DCBxx CLC SAVETIOT,DCBTIOT BE SAME_DD MVC SAVETIOT,DCBTIOT . . . SAME_DD EQU * . . . SAVETIOT DS H -- Gilbert Saint-Flour GSF Software

Re: Finding a member

2010-05-18 Thread Gilbert Saint-Flour
, it does it, and chances are that it will RECALL many non-PDS data sets. For example, you can specify SCANPDS JOHNDOE.** MEMBERS(QA05*) RECALL and it will RECALL all JOHNDOE.** data sets that are migrated, and look for QA05* members. Again, this will RECALL non-PDS data sets, which is not g

UNIT=VIO is INCORRECT DEVICE NAME

2010-02-26 Thread Gilbert Saint-Flour
VIO ALLOCATED TO DDNAME TEMP DATACLAS () I find all of this bizarre - can anyone explain why it happens ? Thank you. -- Gilbert Saint-Flour GSF Software http://gsf-soft.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff

Re: Assembler variable with @

2010-02-16 Thread Gilbert Saint-Flour
I'm not sure when that became available, but in HLASM R4 you can use underscore characters in macro and field names, as shown in the example below. -- Gilbert Saint-Flour GSF Software http://gsf-soft.com //GILBERTY JOB (ACCT#),CLASS=A,MSGCLASS=X,NOTIFY=&SYSUID //HLASM EXEC P

Re: CDE entry

2010-02-16 Thread Gilbert Saint-Flour
deal with the CDE, in particular SHOWJPAQ, BUILDCDE and FASTPATH. You can download them from here: http://gsf-soft.com/Freeware/ -- Gilbert Saint-Flour GSF Software http://gsf-soft.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff

Re: strange failure for a single TSO user using the old "DL" edit macro

2010-01-30 Thread Gilbert Saint-Flour
> BTW, the "DL" edit macro was written by Gilbert Saint-Flour. > Is he still around? Yes, I'm still around :) DL was renamed to DSLIST in 1995 and maintained until 1998. DSLIST is still distributed here: http://gsf-soft.com/Freeware/ If you want to use DSLIST, I sug

PSF z/OS from VSE

2009-12-24 Thread Gilbert Saint-Flour
ents, something that was used in at least half-a-dozen recent projects. Prism-CS is described here: http://gsf-soft.com/Prism-CS/ -- Gilbert Saint-Flour GSF Software http://gsf-soft.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff /

Re: How to determine module name of a SVC06 LINK call.

2009-10-15 Thread Gilbert Saint-Flour
m. It was a front-end utility which trapped SVC 6, 7, 8, 9 and displayed module name, DDNAME and TTRN (IIRC). It definitely was a quick-and-dirty tool. BTW, the LINK macro issues SVC 6 or SVC 122 with R15=7. -- Gilbert Saint-Flour GSF Software http://

Re: ISPF DDLIST COMPRESS DISP=SHR ENQ

2009-10-12 Thread Gilbert Saint-Flour
> IEBCOPY has to be APF, and compress doesn't need that. Compress doesn't need IEBCOPY to be authorised ? Are you sure ? -- Gilbert Saint-Flour GSF Software http://gsf-soft.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscr

Re: ISPF DDLIST COMPRESS DISP=SHR ENQ

2009-10-12 Thread Gilbert Saint-Flour
en somewhere ? My experience since the 1970s lets me believe it's not true, but I may be wrong. -- Gilbert Saint-Flour GSF Software http://gsf-soft.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructi

ISPF DDLIST COMPRESS DISP=SHR ENQ

2009-10-12 Thread Gilbert Saint-Flour
ink-edit or IMS ENQs? If it's an LLA library, does it tell LLA to refresh it ? Shouldn't DDLIST warn us from problems that could happen because of DISP=SHR? Thank you for your help. -- Gilbert Saint-Flour GSF Soft

Re: How to concatenate in TSO/ISPF

2009-10-11 Thread Gilbert Saint-Flour
he SELECT service to start the specified application. CONCAT and NEWAPPL are available here: http://gsf-soft.com/Freeware/ -- Gilbert Saint-Flour GSF Software http://gsf

Re: TSO HELP TEXT FOR LIST OF COMMANDS

2009-10-08 Thread Gilbert Saint-Flour
s, but when ISPF 2.3 came out with the BRIF and EDIF services, I quickly started to use them. ISPF services allow me to "split the screen" and stack services, which is something I do every 10 seconds (or so). -- G

Re: TSO HELP TEXT FOR LIST OF COMMANDS

2009-10-08 Thread Gilbert Saint-Flour
ull-Screen HELP) to the freeware file I distribute. FSHELP uses STEMEDIT to BROWSE or VIEW the output of the HELP command. It's all here: http://gsf-soft.com/Freeware/ -- Gilbert Saint-Flour GSF Software http://gsf-soft.com -

TSO HELP TEXT FOR LIST OF COMMANDS

2009-10-07 Thread Gilbert Saint-Flour
to me. I checked VLF, but didn't find SYS1.HELP in it. What am I missing ? What can I do to change the LIST OF COMMANDS that the HELP command displays by default? Thank you for your help. -- Gilbert Saint-Flour GSF Software http://gs

Re: JES3 SDSF

2009-09-24 Thread Gilbert Saint-Flour
Eduardo Henrique Rocha wrote: > Has anyone been able to use SDSF with JES3 ? Are you running z/OS R10 ? -- Gilbert Saint-Flour GSF Software http://gsf-soft.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive acc

Re: Long parms ... again (was: Reading DD card information)

2009-09-23 Thread Gilbert Saint-Flour
available here: http://gsf-soft.com/Freeware/ -- Gilbert Saint-Flour GSF Software http://gsf-soft.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message:

Re: Reading DD card information

2009-09-21 Thread Gilbert Saint-Flour
The user does not expect the SYSIN card to contain anything other that &VAR, so the reader/converter/interpreter should NOT replace it with OK, perhaps this isn't something that happens often !:) -- Gilbert Saint-Flour GSF Software http://gsf-soft.com --

Re: Reading DD card information

2009-09-19 Thread Gilbert Saint-Flour
BOLS section of SHOWMVS and SHOWzOS. The code was contributed to R618 in 1996 by DL. -- Gilbert Saint-Flour GSF Software http://gsf-soft.com > What I would like to see is something similar to the "environment" in > the PC world. One would SET various variables to requir

Re: Reading DD card information

2009-09-18 Thread Gilbert Saint-Flour
en PARM is not an option (used by IMS/DB or something else). I came up with and/or used several solutions to this problem over the years. The CCSS sub-system is one of them: http://gsf-soft.com/Products/CCSS.shtml but there are several other (fairly different) solutions. -- Gilbert Sai

Re: CLIST/REXX Library Formats

2009-09-11 Thread Gilbert Saint-Flour
in the future. Most of my products use the GETSEQ/GETDIR/GETMBR run-time routines which allow the concatenation of sequential and partitioned data sets with different DCB attributes. If I do it, IBM could do it also. -- Gilbert S

Re: "file integrity verified" - do I care?

2009-09-04 Thread Gilbert Saint-Flour
perfectly. Type 3 also works perfectly, but it requires that you modify the JCL. If you have an INCLUDE MEMBER=JOBLIB in your jobs, adding an EXEC stmt is probably not a problem. What's the best solution? Well, it depends. If you're interested, let me know . -- Gilbert Sai

Re: LLA update

2009-08-31 Thread Gilbert Saint-Flour
below. LINKLLA, which must be APF-authorised, is available here: http://gsf-soft.com/Freeware/ The first two examples below show how it can refresh LLA in batch. -- Gilbert Saint-Flour GSF Software http://gsf-soft.com/ LINKLLA Examples: 1: refresh a whole library (SYSLMOD DD does not spe

Initiator HSM HRECALL/HDELETE

2009-08-21 Thread Gilbert Saint-Flour
early 1990s and I wish a number of JCL-related HSM issues were solved at the time. Why did it take 25 years to skip HRESTORE when PGM=IEFBR14 and DISP=(MOD,DELETE) ? How many millions of HSM ML2 tapes had to be mounted for nothing ? -- Gilbert Saint-Flour GSF Software http://gsf-sof

Re: How to end SubTask ???

2009-07-27 Thread Gilbert Saint-Flour
address is passed in R1 by the CRASH section. CRASH85 only issues an ABEND SVC. FASTPATH is available here: http://gsf-soft.com/Freeware/ Again, IKJURPS only works in the TSO environment, not in batch, so I'm not sure it'll help you much. Sorry. ;) -- Gilbert Saint-Flour GSF Soft

Re: Of link lists and application programs

2009-07-27 Thread Gilbert Saint-Flour
/gsf-soft.com/Freeware/ The LINKREFR example below shows a link-edit step which, also, refreshes LLA for the module specified on SYSLMOD. IIRC, I wrote the LINKLLA program in the late 1980s and used it until 1996. Frankly, I wish the BINDER had a REFRESH_LLA option when IBM started to distri

Re: IEFBR14 (was: EXEC Above the Bar)

2009-06-09 Thread Gilbert Saint-Flour
SET -- Gilbert Saint-Flour GSF Software http://gsf-soft.com/ -- 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 h

Re: IEFBR14 (was: EXEC Above the Bar)

2009-06-08 Thread Gilbert Saint-Flour
ete data sets created in the rest of the job. IIRC, it has been used by programmers, and in production jobs. CLEANUP provides several functions, and can also invoke the RECALL utility to speed-up the HSM RECALL function. CLEANUP is described here: http://gsf-soft.com/Freeware/CLEANUP.shtml

Re: IEFBR14 (was: EXEC Above the Bar)

2009-06-08 Thread Gilbert Saint-Flour
f a home-grown version of IEFBR14 is present in STEPLIB or JOBLIB, perhaps by checking for a length longer than 8 bytes. There could be an option in ALLOCxx to tell the system to check for the IBM version of IEFBR14, or a longer customer-written version.

Re: SHOWzOS SHORT_PUTLINE

2009-06-05 Thread Gilbert Saint-Flour
In 1996, in ShowMVS R615, the default mode at TSO READY was changed to SHORT_PUTLINE. Why? I don't remember. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the messag

Re: SHOWzOS SHORT_PUTLINE

2009-06-05 Thread Gilbert Saint-Flour
If I'm not mistaken, SHORT_PUTLINE is the default mode when SHOWzOS runs in TSO/E without ISPF. In this mode, SHOWMVS clears the screen and only produces the first two displays (System Level and IPL). -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe

Re: CLIST equivalent to REXX STRIP

2009-06-05 Thread Gilbert Saint-Flour
nd this is the pure-REXX equivalent : XXX = ' AA-BB ' XXX = STRIP(&XXX) REXXTRY is described here: http://gsf-soft.com/Freeware/REXXTRY.shtml -- Gilbert Saint-Flour GSF Software http://gsf-soft.com/ -- Fo

CLIST equivalent to REXX STRIP

2009-06-04 Thread Gilbert Saint-Flour
valent solutions I found so far are more complex, in particular because of the hyphen that's part of the AA-BB string. Can anyone think of something simple and easy ? Thank you. -- Gilbert Saint-Flour GSF Software http://gsf-soft.com/

Re: VSE & RPG question

2009-05-30 Thread Gilbert Saint-Flour
ls Iin case you're interested). http://gsf-soft.com/Documents/RPG-ZOS.shtml -- Gilbert Saint-Flour GSF Software http://gsf-soft.com/ -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...

Re: BLOCK CONTAINS

2009-05-18 Thread Gilbert Saint-Flour
a utility to update load-modules and force BLKSIZE=0. I probably only used it only once. -- Gilbert Saint-Flour GSF Software http://gsf-soft.com/ -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send ema

Re: BLOCK CONTAINS

2009-05-18 Thread Gilbert Saint-Flour
code BLOCK CONTAINS 0 ! -- Gilbert Saint-Flour GSF Software http://gsf-soft.com/ -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search t

Re: vse to z/os migration

2009-05-18 Thread Gilbert Saint-Flour
to say the least. A good solution would be to convert STOP RUN to CALL 'ABEND' or something like that. This is one of the types of situation I saw in a few projects and call "bizarre". -- Gilbert Saint-Flour GSF Software http://gsf-soft.com/ --

Re: vse to z/os migration

2009-05-18 Thread Gilbert Saint-Flour
d I mean really, bizarre . . . Since 1982, I converted over 100,000 COBOL modules from VSE to MVS, or for COBOL1 to COBOL2 or COBOL3 - I have a few ideas on this type of subject. -- Gilbert Saint-Flour GSF Software http://gsf-soft.com/ ---

Re: Share Website Hacked

2009-05-18 Thread Gilbert Saint-Flour
On Monday 18 May 2009 13:48, Mark Jacobs wrote: > On the main page is a picture of a penguin with some rude words attached. Most of the things I see on http://www.share.org/ have a .aspx suffix, which, if I'm not mistaken, tells us they use a Microsoft Web server. Perhaps they should use somet

Re: vse to z/os migration

2009-05-18 Thread Gilbert Saint-Flour
old is much biggger and better than GG66-3113 - look here : http://gsf-soft.com/Documents/SG24-2043.shtml -- Gilbert Saint-Flour GSF Software http://gsf-soft.com/ -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions

Re: BLOCK CONTAINS

2009-05-15 Thread Gilbert Saint-Flour
erated since 1991. As for the conversion of ESDS files to non-VSAM in COBOL programs, changing AS-filename to S-ddname is not always the only thing you need to do. Trust me ! -- Gilbert Saint-Flour GSF Software http://gsf-soft.com/ -

BLKSIZE=80 in ASM and COBOL2; BLKSIZE=3200 in COBOL3

2009-05-05 Thread Gilbert Saint-Flour
largest BLKSIZE it finds to allocate a buffer pool. So, does the largest BLKSIZE need to be specified in the JCL for concatenated data sets today? Well, generally it doesn't. Unless, as I said, in steps which execute a program which behaves poorly. -- Gilbert Saint-Flour GSF

Re: Utility to search multiple files on multiple volumes

2009-05-05 Thread Gilbert Saint-Flour
On Tuesday 05 May 2009 13:46, גדי בן אבי wrote: > How do I ask: Find all the members in all the PDS's on disks whose name > begins with TSO and contain the string GABI (That is what my user wants > to know). SCANPDS ** VOL(TSO*) FIND(GABI) WORD BOUNDS(1,80) Is this what you're looking for

Re: Utility to search multiple files on multiple volumes

2009-05-05 Thread Gilbert Saint-Flour
locate strings and/or words, SCANPDS can scan all the PDSes and PDSEs, catalogued or not, and find them. SCANPDS is not free, but it's inexpensive. -- Gilbert Saint-Flour GSF Software http://gsf-soft.com/ -- F

Re: TSO XMIT blocksize

2009-05-05 Thread Gilbert Saint-Flour
understand why IBM hasn't fixed this type of situation, particularly because 3120 is an "optimal" BLKSIZE on 3330 drives. Since the late 1980s (DFP 2.3 in XA 2.2, IIRC), OPEN calculates a half-track BLKSIZE when DS1BLKL=0 in the F1-DSCB.

Re: FTP using symbolic names

2009-04-09 Thread Gilbert Saint-Flour
FTP commands and write them >to a dataset that is then used by FTP. Anyone have such a program? Actually, no, you do not _need_ a predecessor step. It's a problem I solved several times in recent years. http://gsf-soft.com/Prism-CS/JCLTrans.shtml -- Gilbert Saint-Flour GSF Software htt

Re: Invoking Sort Dynamically - VSE/MVS

2009-04-03 Thread Gilbert Saint-Flour
lly converts programs in all languages, particularly assembler programs. http://gsf-soft.com/Prism-CS/LCP.shtml -- Gilbert Saint-Flour GSF Software http://gsf-soft.com/ -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access

MVS JCL-related sub-system

2009-03-13 Thread Gilbert Saint-Flour
e out what it was? Thank you ! -- Gilbert Saint-Flour GSF Software http://gsf-soft.com/ -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO

Re: How to use CSI Catalog Search Interface

2009-03-06 Thread Gilbert Saint-Flour
google.com/search?&q=iggcsi00+xdelete -- Gilbert Saint-Flour GSF Software http://gsf-soft.com/ -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MA

BR problem with OBTAIN in z/OS R10

2009-02-19 Thread Gilbert Saint-Flour
ORG DS1FMTID+140 CCHHR + ? I don't have access to z/OS R10, so I can't figure out what OBTAIN puts in the two additional bytes - does anybody know ? -- Gilbert Saint-Flour GSF Software http://gsf-soft.com/ --

Re: rexx to get storgrp

2009-02-14 Thread Gilbert Saint-Flour
looking for. I use RXSMS in the SHOWDASD REXX which is described here : http://gsf-soft.com/Freeware/SHOWDASD.shtml I have an extended version of RXSMS called RXSMS2 which retrieves additional information. I don't distribute it for free, but if you're interested, let me know. --

Re: Assembler Question - AMODE=24

2009-02-10 Thread Gilbert Saint-Flour
On Tuesday 10 February 2009 15:50, Gilbert Saint-Flour wrote: > And, almost always, I code BAL/BALR and rarely BAS/BASR. > I started coding assembler on a 360/20 in 1972, so call that an old habit. The 360/20 was a 16-bit machine which had BAS/BASR, which I used a lot at the time. The

Re: Assembler Question - AMODE=24

2009-02-10 Thread Gilbert Saint-Flour
blem about 24-bit address constants in various control-blocks (DCB, RB, SWA, ...) which many of my programs and sub-routines have to deal with. And, almost always, I code BAL/BALR and rarely BAS/BASR. I started coding assembler on a 360/20 in 1972, so call that an old habit. -- Gilbert

Re: Move VSAM files from VSE to z/OS

2008-12-18 Thread Gilbert Saint-Flour
e Faver1 in MVS to restore VSAM files. If you have Macro4's DATABACK utility in VSE and MVS, you can use them also. If you have DrD in VSE, DRDMVS can be used to restore DrD back-up tapes. Another possibility is XFERD3V/XFERD3M, which are described here: http://gsf-soft.com/Prism-CS/Data

Re: Anyone using TSO/E Exit IKJEFLN2 from FILE 183 of CBT-Tape?

2008-12-09 Thread Gilbert Saint-Flour
nload/08444-ikjefln2.xmit.zip Installation info: http://gsf-soft.com/Documents/RECEIVE-XMIT.shtml If you like what the IKJEFLN2 product does for you, your company can buy a license which is very inexpensive.  Just let me know. -- Gilbert Saint-Flour GSF Software http://gsf-soft.com/ On Tuesd

Re: VSE DL/I migration to z/OS IMS

2008-12-08 Thread Gilbert Saint-Flour
zOS conversion which had, by far, the largest amount of DL/I I ever saw (590 DBDs and over 1000 DL/I utility steps). Data transfer time was not a big issue (the company was not a bank), so they preferred to use standard DL/I UNLOAD/RELOAD utilities to transfer the data bases on 3590 tapes. --

Re: Top z/OS Shareware Tools

2008-12-05 Thread Gilbert Saint-Flour
d an extent or directory blocks to a PDS. I only use it as a TSO command, not as an ISPF application. -- Gilbert Saint-Flour GSF Software http://gsf-soft.com/ -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions,

Re: REXX routines fail in Z/OS 1.9 work in Z/OS 1.7 -

2008-12-04 Thread Gilbert Saint-Flour
ally102.txt I originally wrote TALLY in 1997 to manage a limited amount of 3390 disk space in a P/390. -- Gilbert Saint-Flour GSF Software http://gsf-soft.com/ -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instruc

Re: Cancel tso id - IKJEFLN2

2008-11-19 Thread Gilbert Saint-Flour
the screen size of your terminal, and was able to change its behaviour accordingly. I suspect that it would be quite complicated, so I'm not too optimistic that IBM will do it. BTW, the screen-size I use most of the time is 54x132. Sometimes, I switch to 40x132, so I'm quite familiar

Re: Cancel tso id - IKJEFLN2

2008-11-18 Thread Gilbert Saint-Flour
VTAM command, which is what the IKJEFLN2 exit does. -- Gilbert Saint-Flour GSF Software http://gsf-soft.com/ -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message:

Re: Cancel tso id - IKJEFLN2

2008-11-18 Thread Gilbert Saint-Flour
end of the year; it's available here: http://gsf-soft.com/Download/08444-ikjefln2.xmit.zip Installation info: http://gsf-soft.com/Documents/RECEIVE-XMIT.shtml If you like what the IKJEFLN2 exit does for you, your company can buy a license which is inexpensive. Just let me know. -- Gilber

Prevent IEW2456E error with cmd in SYSLIN

2008-02-25 Thread Gilbert Saint-Flour
although I vaguely remember that I found one in the past. Thank you for your help. -- Gilbert Saint-Flour GSF Software http://gsf-soft.com/ //LKED EXEC PGM=IEWL,PARM=(LIST,MAP,RENT) //SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=* //SYSLIB DD DSN=IBMUSER.LOAD222,DISP=SHR //SYSLMOD DD DSN=IBMUSER.LOAD,DISP=SHR /

Missing IBMers on whois.ibm.com

2007-02-28 Thread Gilbert Saint-Flour
aren't listed. Does anyone on this list has any idea why some IBMers can't be found on the http://whois.ibm.com site ? -- Gilbert Saint-Flour GSF Software http://gsf-soft.com/ -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff

Re: still hunting z/OS opportunities PA-MD

2007-02-28 Thread Gilbert Saint-Flour
s another z/OS site in Reading. I helped them convert from VSE to MVS/ESA in 1992. -- Gilbert Saint-Flour GSF Software http://gsf-soft.com/ -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAI

Re: IBM S/360 series operating systems history

2007-02-18 Thread Gilbert Saint-Flour
lly corrections, ommisions and > clarifications of the early history of S/360 series. (...) I suggest reading "IBM's 360 and Early 370 Systems", an 800-page book published in 1991 by Pugh, Johnson and Palmer, particularly chapter 6 "Software Support". -- Gilbert Sai

Re: Sorting multiple VSAM and PS files

2007-01-31 Thread Gilbert Saint-Flour
SIGN clause of an ESDS in COBOL is a simple and easy way to make it non-VSAM, you may be in for quite a surprise later on. Having said that, we have converted thousands of VSAM files to non-VSAM in recent years, and acquired much experience in the process. -- Gilbert Saint-Flour GSF Sof

Re: Dorting multiple VSAM and PS files

2007-01-31 Thread Gilbert Saint-Flour
ORTIN concatenation . Here's an example of what I would like: //STEP100 EXEC PGM=SORT //SORTIN01 DD DSN=VSAM.DATA.SET,DISP=OLD //SORTIN02 DD DSN=NON-VSAM.DATA.SET,DISP=OLD //SORTOUT DD DSN= SORT FIELDS=(1,8,CH,A) /* -- Gilbert Saint-Flour GSF Software http://gsf-soft.com/ On

Re: Dorting multiple VSAM and PS files

2007-01-31 Thread Gilbert Saint-Flour
solution) 3. a request to the DFSORT developers to add support for multiple VSAM input files - that never worked :-( -- Gilbert Saint-Flour GSF Software http://gsf-soft.com/ -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive

Re: SORT - Logical EOF on SORTIN

2007-01-29 Thread Gilbert Saint-Flour
you to John Reda and Frank Yaeger for their very useful answers. -- Gilbert Saint-Flour GSF Software http://gsf-soft.com/ -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

SORT - Logical EOF on SORTIN

2007-01-29 Thread Gilbert Saint-Flour
stay clear of. Any idea anyone? Same question with SYNCSORT. -- Gilbert Saint-Flour GSF Software http://gsf-soft.com/Freeware/ http://gsf-soft.com/Documents/ -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions,

Re: What is "command reject" trying to tell me?

2007-01-22 Thread Gilbert Saint-Flour
bug. Perhaps I am missing something? -- Gilbert Saint-Flour GSF Software 4425 Monserrate St Coral Gables, Florida 33146 USA 1-305-665-9084 http://gsf-soft.com/ > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Of Gilbert Saint-Flour &g

Re: What is "command reject" trying to tell me?

2007-01-22 Thread Gilbert Saint-Flour
tml -- Gilbert Saint-Flour GSF Software http://gsf-soft.com/ -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at h

Re: Writing subprograms that may be called from batch or CICS modules

2007-01-19 Thread Gilbert Saint-Flour
verted applications are being tested. For DFHCOMMAREA, there's a simple way to ensure that the MOVE instruction only transfers data that's available, and prevent the abend : MOVE DFHCOMMAREA(1:EIBCALEN) TO ws- -- Gilbert Saint-F

Re: Code to scan all UCBs and List them Online or Not

2007-01-11 Thread Gilbert Saint-Flour
me yet. The SHOWDASD exec in file 183 scans all the UCBs It is past of the SHOWDASD dialog which displays on-line DASD volumes in ISPF. The latest version is here: http://gsf-soft.com/Freeware/ -- Gilbert Saint-Flour GSF Software http://

Re: IEBGENER and unlabled tape

2007-01-08 Thread Gilbert Saint-Flour
ted in the MOUNT message. Additionally, if LABEL is NL, LTM or BLP, then DSN is NOT required, as the system will provide a temporary data set name (a previous poster incorrectly suggested that DSN had to be specified). -- Gilbert Saint-Flour GSF Softw

Re: IEBGENER and unlabelled tape

2007-01-08 Thread Gilbert Saint-Flour
On Monday 08 January 2007 07:32, Jim McAlpine wrote: > > //             LABEL=(2,NL), > That should read "LABEL=(1,NL)". Not necessarily - the tape may have been created in VSE with a leading tape mark. When in doubt, code LABEL=(,LTM) -- Gilbert Saint-Flour GSF S

Re: Using FTP on z/OS to get csv file from unix box running ipswitch ws_ftp.

2006-12-29 Thread Gilbert Saint-Flour
. Happy new year to all !! -- Gilbert Saint-Flour GSF Software http://gsf-soft.com/ On Thursday 28 December 2006 14:49, BillD wrote: > We're converting from VSE to z/OS. I'm trying to upload a CSV file > that has worked on VSE but has problems with trunc/wrap, CRLF o

Re: IBM and "official names" (was: S80A loading CEEMENU3

2006-12-20 Thread Gilbert Saint-Flour
ge Environment used to be called Common Execution Library (CEL), then Common Execution Environment (CEE), then LE/370. Most people on this list are familiar with the CEE acronym, but probably not with CEL. The CEL acronym can be found in TCBCELAP, the Common Exec

Re: SMP/E in TSO (was: Why AUTHPGM?)

2006-11-06 Thread Gilbert Saint-Flour
TC issues IDC999I and S0C3. I am not aware of SMP (or IEBCOPY) doing anything that would prevent TC from doing its job. -- Gilbert Saint-Flour GSF Software http://gsf-soft.com/ -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive

Re: Batch RPG - Dynamic CALL

2006-11-06 Thread Gilbert Saint-Flour
hat in MVS, RPG sub-programs only have access to DATE and UPSI when they are part of the main program's load module. -- Gilbert Saint-Flour GSF Software http://gsf-soft.com/ -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archiv

Re: SMP/E in TSO (was: Why AUTHPGM?)

2006-11-04 Thread Gilbert Saint-Flour
mory, shouldn't they? > But this would require significant reorganization of the EXEC. The system closes DCBs at end-of-task. I'm not sure what SYSCALL would buy you. How do you invoke GIMSMP from an exec ? Via CALL ? LINKPGM? -- Gilbert Saint-

Re: FW: The PSI Letter V4

2006-11-03 Thread Gilbert Saint-Flour
d solution based on Hercules, it may be difficult for IBM to refuse to sell z/OS licenses to that company's customers. -- Gilbert Saint-Flour GSF Software http://gsf-soft.com/ -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / arc

Re: Meeting in Parsippany

2006-10-27 Thread Gilbert Saint-Flour
m Golob may remember attending. In case you're wondering, SPONJ (acronym for Systems Programmers Of New Jersey) was the local chapter of NASPA. -- Gilbert Saint-Flour GSF Software http://gsf-soft.com/ -- For IBM-MAIN sub

Re: LOCATE macro still 24-bit?

2006-10-25 Thread Gilbert Saint-Flour
issued LOCATE in RMODE=31 under MVS/XA 2.2 with DFP 2.3 back in 1988. -- Gilbert Saint-Flour GSF Software http://gsf-soft.com/ -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTE

Re: Is the teaching of non-reentrant HLASM coding practices ever defensible?

2006-10-23 Thread Gilbert Saint-Flour
" in any key. But, that's a different story > altogether. You're right, I prefer SP 252 also for historical reasons, but I don't really care about the sub-pool number, as long as the memory into which the load-modules are loaded can't be messed with. --

Re: Is the teaching of non-reentrant HLASM coding practices ever defensible?

2006-10-23 Thread Gilbert Saint-Flour
read-only in order to prevent accidental overlays. If these REFR programs were loaded into SP=252, I wouldn't have to issue PGSER PROTECT or use a special link-edit procedure. -- Gilbert Saint-Flour GSF Software 4425 Monserrate St Coral Gables, Florida 33146 USA 1-305-665-9084 http:

Re: Allocating "STEPLIB" in TSO

2006-10-12 Thread Gilbert Saint-Flour
n the SVC 06 or SVC 08 instructions issued by SOMEPROG. -- Gilbert Saint-Flour GSF Software http://gsf-soft.com/ -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message

Re: Allocating "STEPLIB" in TSO

2006-10-12 Thread Gilbert Saint-Flour
uted. You may find something like this: L 1,16(,0) CVTPTR L 1,8(,1) CVTLINK BAL *+12 DC C'SOMEPROG' SVC 8 BTW, have you tested with a real STEPLIB? If TSOLIB doesn't work, I wouldn't expect STEPLIB (either static or dynamic) to work either. -- Gilb

Re: IDENTIFY questions

2006-10-04 Thread Gilbert Saint-Flour
of in one of my sub-routines which had to be modified. This was a very small change, I wish all the problems I have were as easy to fix. --  Gilbert Saint-Flour  GSF Software  http://gsf-soft.com/ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ---

Re: IDENTIFY questions

2006-10-03 Thread Gilbert Saint-Flour
ember in file 183 of the CBT tape at http://www.gsf-soft.com/Freeware/ --  Gilbert Saint-Flour  GSF Software  http://gsf-soft.com/ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send e

Re: What should an IN|OUT parm be called?

2006-09-26 Thread Gilbert Saint-Flour
e, eXtend, Work So, how does ACCESS MODE(IN|OUT) look? --  Gilbert Saint-Flour  GSF Software  http://gsf-soft.com/ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [

Re: Speaking of SDSF

2006-09-25 Thread Gilbert Saint-Flour
run them in different LPARs? --  Gilbert Saint-Flour  GSF Software  http://gsf-soft.com/ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the messa

Re: ISPF TLD access

2006-09-14 Thread Gilbert Saint-Flour
On Thursday 14 September 2006 15:43, Schiradin,Roland wrote: > What is the best way to access the TLD while invoking > via TSO CALL 'xxx(yyy)' The FASTPATH program in file 183 manages to locate the TLD no matter how it was invoked. Look at the code. --  Gilbert Saint-Flo

Re: Loadmodule DSN

2006-08-22 Thread Gilbert Saint-Flour
om/Freeware/SYSDEBUG.report1.shtml look for JOB PACK AREA FOR ABENDING STEP --  Gilbert Saint-Flour  GSF Software  http://gsf-soft.com/ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send emai

Re: EXCP with a DEB

2006-08-21 Thread Gilbert Saint-Flour
my question on how to do the EXCP I/O (read) without doing OPEN > and CLOSE. That question has been answered. > Perhaps IBM has a undocumented system service to retrieve the # of > directory blocks allocated to a data set? I doubt it. --  Gilbert Saint-Flour  GSF Software  http://gsf-s

Re: Back Doors

2006-08-21 Thread Gilbert Saint-Flour
re" as you say, IBM would have fixed it in minutes. --  Gilbert Saint-Flour  GSF Software  http://gsf-soft.com/ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EM

Re: Greatest Software?

2006-08-19 Thread Gilbert Saint-Flour
arlier than this. Perhaps because a DBMS based on the "inverted list" model isn't all that important? The relational model, as pioneered by IBM, Berkeley and Oracle in the 1970s certainly had a much bigger impact than all the other DBMS models combined. --  Gilbert Saint-Flour  GS

Re: EXCP with a DEB

2006-08-19 Thread Gilbert Saint-Flour
let non-trusted users update APF-authorised libraries and run code in KEY=ZERO, then it's not a system integrity issue, but a security administrator issue. --  Gilbert Saint-Flour  GSF Software  http://gsf-soft.com/ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

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