nted an old tape for testing purposes,
this was good enough. But I would like to find out why we can't
catalog the old tape.
>Howard Brazee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I needed access to a scratched tape
>for testing. I found it in TMS
>and the tape guy unscratched it and gave
The optimization feature I hate is the not compiling with SSRANGE.
The local standard that has this off for production jobs was created
back when people were saying how superior PL/I was because it didn't
give us that option.
These days, Java wins over C++ partly because it does housekeeping.
I needed access to a scratched tape for testing. I found it in TMS
and the tape guy unscratched it and gave it a new expiration date.
I went to TSO and tried to catalog it or to even see it, but failed.
Volume not available.
The tape guy is baffled.
So I ran an IEFBR14 to catalog it:
10.33.3
On 30 Jan 2006 08:23:55 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>I can make them a local administrator, and they can log in. Bluezone
>installs something, and all works well. I then remove their local
>administrator rights, and it doesn't work again.
I don't have administrator rights and I used Bluezon
On 19 Jan 2006 21:34:53 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bo Xie)
wrote:
>
>As of z/OS V1R7, the z/OS C/C++ compiler has been rebranded to z/OS XL
>C/C++. What does "XL" of "XL C/C++" mean?
Well, Superbowl XL is coming up in another week. (I wonder how long
they are going to live in the Roman Empire?)
On 25 Jan 2006 16:43:34 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Frank Yaeger)
wrote:
>A better option than trying to sort each tape separately is to split the
>file using OUTFIL. The following control statements would accomplish this:
>
> OPTION COPY
> OUTFIL FNAMES=(TAPE1,TAPE2),SPLIT
>
>TAPE1 and TAPE2 are
On 21 Jan 2006 07:40:16 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Clark Morris)
wrote:
>I am reading ibm-main as a newsgroup and would like an easier method
>in Agent 3.1 to reply to the listserv than clicking forward and typing
>in the address. It worked easier in 2.x.
One of the best things about Agent is i
There used to be a nice article at
http://www.objectz.com/cobolreport/archives/TCR_jcl.htm
which talked about the AVGREC parameter and IF-THEN-ELSE-ENDIF
Condition Code processing. I printed a copy of it, but it appears to
be gone.
Googling, I found
http://www.dsios.dsio.dla.mil/library/techf
On Mon, 16 Jan 2006 18:54:15 -0500, "pdc" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> IOEZ00248E VSAM linear dataset Dataset successfully created
>Severity: svc_c_sev_error Explanation: The dataset was successfully created.
Lots of our programs call a CoBOL program designed to handle VSAM
files. Trouble is,
On 12 Jan 2006 09:49:16 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Here's something else to consider: The OO whiz kids are building
>tomorrow's "crappy" legacy systems right now! There's more and more
>grumbling about how difficult it is to make changes to homegrown Unix
>application systems. Java and .NE
On 11 Jan 2006 10:30:01 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve Comstock)
wrote:
>Story in the Rocky Mountain News this morning where
>the new (2 weeks in the job) Colorado Dept. of
>Revenue CIO is quoted "No one's using mainframes
>anymore."
I work for the State of Colorado (at University of Colorado),
On 10 Jan 2006 07:43:21 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Phil Payne) wrote:
>I wish we'd junked MIPS when workload dependency first reared its ugly head.
>The 4341-1
>should NEVER have had a MIPS number associated with it.
My nephew asked me about the speed of a game machine he was looking at
- I had
On 6 Jan 2006 11:55:56 -0800, in bit.listserv.ibm-main
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>A few months ago I had to do something similar. Basically, I used a
>batch LISTC to put what I needed out to a dataset, then I wrote a REXX
>to parse out the info I needed, wrapped some IDCAMS instructions around
>it
I forgot Doc Dwarf said:
Ow... Rexx is not a part of my skill-set but I'd be game to try... sure,
why not, give it a whack and ask them to kindly accept my apologies in
advance.
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I'm passing on this question (with permission from Doc Dwarf) that I
expect a Rexx expert will come up with the best solution
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in comp.lang.cobol:
[OT] IBM Mainframe DSLIST to Dataset w/ Wildcards?
All righty... here's how we're spending some slow time here. Datasets
get
On 29 Dec 2005 21:32:32 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (SArnett) wrote:
>The computer corollary to Murphy's law states that if architects built
>buildings the way that programmers write programs, the first woodpecker
>to come along would destroy civilization...
That's an old, amusing corollary.
But
On 28 Dec 2005 11:51:34 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>The strength of any encryption system is often measured in the amount of
>time it would take to crack the key and decrypt the data. For example,
>current estimates as to the length of time is would take to crack a 256 bit
>AES key are in
On 28 Dec 2005 09:30:35 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andy
Robertson) wrote:
>>So, did anyone get anything good???
>
>
>A new nephew!!!
Great!
Over the years I got a nephew and a granddaughter (age 3) on Dec 26
(age 13), a grandson on December 21 (age 6), and a granddaughter who
will be 5 tomorrow.
On 28 Dec 2005 09:24:47 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Andrews) wrote:
>Candidates for U.S. President must have been citizens at birth. Postal
>workers must be U.S. citizens, or have permanent resident status.
Or more precisely:
No person except a natural born citizen, or a citizen of the Unit
On 15 Dec 2005 06:43:00 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dean
Montevago) wrote:
>> I'm looking at the JCL manual and I'm not clear as to what's written
>> on this topic. If I have the following:
>>
>> //STEP1 EXEC PROC1
>> //*
>> //STEP2 EXEC PROC2
>>
>> Proc 2 contains multiple steps with COND='s on
On 30 Nov 2005 22:54:40 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hunkeler
Peter , KRDO 4) wrote:
>Be careful. //* may be ambiguous in a JES3 environment.
>Most of the JES3 control statements start with //*xyz.
>
>JCL comment statements should start with //*b (b=blank)
>to avoid such ambiguity (this applies to J
On 30 Nov 2005 12:45:45 -0800, "oopscoder" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>What is the purpose of a //*userdata line in jcl?
Comments.
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>I am able to create a new xref from a copybook member, but I cannot
>view my data in the vertical format using the created xref member. I
>see that other members in my fileaid map file are in what looks to be a
>compiled forma
On 28 Nov 2005 08:37:06 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (McKown, John)
wrote:
>I wish that we were in the position to use some training, but z/OS is
>moribund here. Everybody is totally convinced of the following "facts":
>(1) z/OS is incapable of running current internet type applications; (2)
>z/OS is
On 22 Nov 2005 08:47:05 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Shmuel
Metz , Seymour J.) wrote:
>No obfuscation. The speakers of early Yiddish used Hebrew[1] words
>that they were familiar with, just as you use French, Italian and
>Spanish words that you are familiar with.
According to that article, there was
On 21 Nov 2005 12:33:11 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Shmuel Metz ,
Seymour J.) wrote:
>Yiddish is written using Hebrew[1] letters; anything that you see
>using the Roman alphabet is simply a transliteration and is
>intrinsically nonstandard. I believe that the word is a composit of a
>German shlie m
With a VPN, we used our old 3270 emulator - but our new one is secure
and doesn't need the VPN, now we use BlueZone at work and at home.
We can still use our VPN to log into our work computers from home, or
we can use BlueZone from our home computers.
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On 11 Nov 2005 08:02:12 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rob
Wunderlich) wrote:
>I think the strongest shops are those that embrace both platforms. There
>are strengths in both, and applications for both. The decision to host an
>application on a particular platform is an "it depends" business decision
>
On 8 Nov 2005 14:47:32 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ray Mullins) wrote:
>Try PARM='/DATAHERE'. This has to do with COBOL runtime options. But I can
>never remember if user parm data follows or proceeds the slash.
I'm unfamiliar with use of the slash, I've never worked in a site that
used it. What
On 8 Nov 2005 14:16:33 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>of light in a vacuum. Everything with an index of refraction greater than
>a vacuum's slows light. A piece of glass does that. IBM figured out how
>to control and modify the effect, not just achieve it.
I'd like to find a way to use C
On 7 Nov 2005 12:26:32 -0800, in bit.listserv.ibm-main
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ed Gould) wrote:
>http://www.eet.com/news/latest/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=173403017
>
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On 4 Nov 2005 08:33:23 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Howard Rifkind)
wrote:
>Sorry I forgot how to change the profile in ISPF ... the part where I can
>change PF key meanings like retrieve etc.
Type in the word keys from the command line.
This screen pages, and doesn't cover the whole of ISPF,
On 2 Nov 2005 08:26:35 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Staller,
Allan) wrote:
>
>IIRC on a traditional *NIX system, /etc/passwd contains the password in clear
>text.
>The act of giving the auditor a copy (hardcopy or other) would be an audit
>violation.
I could see someone asking for this - and if g
On 28 Oct 2005 09:14:03 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Martin
Kline) wrote:
>But the previous discussion had some users suggesting that memory limits
>for all users should be set higher than the maximum requirement for any
>user. I believe this leave the organization vulnerable to problems.
>Instead, a
On 26 Oct 2005 18:43:29 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Shmuel
Metz , Seymour J.) wrote:
>>You must either have very good eyesight or a very large monitor.
>>Anything over 43 lines, and I'm squinting at the screen.
>
>I can't speak for Ed's eyes, but I never had trouble reading two side
>by side 62x80
On 24 Oct 2005 13:11:50 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Frank Yaeger)
wrote:
>DFSORT/ICETOOL can do many different types of matching. Exactly how you'd
>do it depends on exactly what you want to do. It could be as simple as
>using SELECT with ALLDUPS, or involve SPLICE as shown in the following
>"Sma
On 25 Oct 2005 07:14:35 -0700, "/*Dave" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>A "Mainframe" is an architectural design and a generic term for the
>"Large" systems that use the operating systems such as VM, and the MVS
>derivatives(MVS, OS/390, z/OS).
Certainly the Unisys folk disagree with this definition.
On 25 Oct 2005 05:11:49 -0700, "RolandRB" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>I'll give more information as there seems to be some confusion on this
>issue. I worked with mainframe computers for many years. "Mainframe"
>really means the "main frame" (as opposed to other frames that contain
>disks and othe
Is there a quick way to find matching records in files without writing
a program?
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On 24 Oct 2005 08:05:02 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (McKown, John)
wrote:
>IIRC, Windows has some "accessability" features which "magnify" the
>screen area around the mouse cursor. Or maybe it was an add-on. I cannot
>find it on the WinXP that I'm running here at work.
That's not what I'm looking fo
On 21 Oct 2005 15:58:18 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dave Salt) wrote:
>You must either have very good eyesight or a very large monitor. Anything
>over 43 lines, and I'm squinting at the screen. I wouldn't dream of setting
>my monitor to 62 rows, never mind anything larger than that. Unless,
>perh
On 19 Oct 2005 11:02:55 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lester, Bob) wrote:
>Hi All,
>
> First, thanks to all for the many responses to my post.
>
> Here's an (informal) "favorite TN3270 Emulator" tally:
>
>1) Vista - 11 Votes
>2) BlueZone - 5 Votes
>3) Mocha - 2 Votes
>
On 18 Oct 2005 11:52:26 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ed Gould) wrote:
>Mark:
>
>I disagree. The problem is (the way I see it) is that assembler people
>are hard to come by and if a program burps there may not be anyone
>around to fix the program.
>
>The shop I am familiar with had a no assembler po
On 18 Oct 2005 08:42:08 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bruce Black)
wrote:
>>You can't ZOOM or SHOWPROC from browse mode.
>>
>Are those local EDIT macros? I don't have anything called ZOOM on my
>system. SHOWPROC on my system is a ISPF comamnd which displays files
>allocated to SYSPROC, works anywh
On 18 Oct 2005 07:44:30 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark Zelden)
wrote:
>
>>"Find" works in browse. Labels work in browse. Submit works in browse.
>>What in the %(*&%@()*&^( world do I need freakin "view" for anyway
>>
>
>Only one reason for me. Edit macros. Some of mine destroy/change
>data
On 18 Oct 2005 07:07:19 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Craddock,
Chris) wrote:
>"View" became the default a very long time ago. You have to put that
>dopey slash next to the "Browse" option to get browse instead. I have a
>few reasons for disliking View. Among them; it does exactly what this
>thread ac
On 17 Oct 2005 15:35:01 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ted MacNEIL)
wrote:
>The IT training department found out I had done this, and they were begging
>for a copy.
I have some manuals that people have run through the copier at various
jobs. It would have been nice to have them on an electronic me
On 17 Oct 2005 15:35:01 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ted MacNEIL)
wrote:
>They were moving to ISPF (SPF at the time) from FSE and home-groan.
Good pun. 8^)
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On 18 Oct 2005 05:35:28 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chase, John)
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>Indeed. Absent evidence to the contrary, none of which has been offered,
>there is an implied presumption that the users resorting to "tricks" to edit
>"large" files have a legitimate business need to -edit- those "large" file
On 17 Oct 2005 21:29:48 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Craddock,
Chris) wrote:
>I would also do whatever it took to configure ISPF and user profiles to
>use BROWSE instead of VIEW. I don't understand why they foisted that
>half baked sack of dog stuffing on us in the first place. But I guess my
>feelin
On 17 Oct 2005 14:31:01 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Farley,
Peter x23353) wrote:
>So, for really big files where in-memory is not reasonable or cost-effective
>to support, why not a windowed edit function? Anyone editing really huge
>files would have to accept the speed penalty, but they could edi
On 17 Oct 2005 13:59:54 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ted MacNEIL)
wrote:
>
>I would disable EDIT, except for the people who can justify it.
Interesting environment with people who need ISPF to browse but not to
edit. What are their jobs?
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On Mon, 17 Oct 2005 21:03:40 -0500, Tom Longfellow
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I just got through configuring Bluezone Web to Host. I saw an option for
>whether to create those Windows Desktop icons. The default is to create
>them, but it looks like it could be turned off.
Is that a client si
On 17 Oct 2005 12:58:55 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lou, Jim) wrote:
>What about emulators that are browser based?
BlueZone is accessed by my browser, using Java for safe browsers, or
active-x from the other browser. After accessing it, the browser can
be closed.This makes sure everybody has
On 17 Oct 2005 10:41:51 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chase, John)
wrote:
>We went with Bluezone, from Seagull Software:
>
>http://www.seagullsoftware.com/products/bluezone_terminal.html
That's what I'm using as well. It doesn't work with MacIntoshes
though.
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On 17 Oct 2005 10:11:29 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bob Shannon)
wrote:
>> We have a ISPF program to allow programmers to access VSAM
>> files
>
>> They can either BROWSE or EDIT. They always choose EDIT.
>
>Unfortunately VIEW behaves just like Edit. I set ISPF to use
>BROWSE instead, but I'm sur
On 17 Oct 2005 07:34:58 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(D-Arbigny Pierre-Andre) wrote:
>I customized the ISPF Configuration Table and put a value in
>MAXIMUM_STORAGE_ALLOWED_FOR_EDIT in order to prevent user getting too much
>real storage.
>
>Some sly users find a bypass :
>
>They edit a little member a
On Fri, 30 Sep 2005 08:47:01 -0500, "Fletcher, Kevin"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>I remember these from highschool, now I do feel old. LOL.
If you had those in high school, you're not old.
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On 30 Sep 2005 07:32:56 -0700, "sekisho" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Despite massive user objection, we've just de-installed JCLCHECK and
>are now back in the 1980's dark days of TYPRUN=SCAN. Apparantly we
>don't need JCL checking software. Are we now the only z/os site in the
>world that doesn't
On 27 Sep 2005 08:49:40 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (McKown, John)
wrote:
>Given that a person cannot be 100% sure who will communicate with them,
>who needs to be given the "I'm out of the office", what would you do? I
>don't know a way using Outlook to say "everybody from abc.com". But I'm
>not ver
On Tue, 27 Sep 2005 07:26:42 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>But I'm not sure it works. Did people who read the e-mail instead of
>the newsgroup get the following post from me yesterday?
The above message was posted via my e-mailer. As soon as I posted it
I got an "out of office" reply from s
I just bought a new newsreader, Forte Agent, because I could set it up
so that a newsgoup would automatically cc a user - which in this case,
I set up to be bit.listserv.ibm-main.
But I'm not sure it works. Did people who read the e-mail instead of
the newsgroup get the following post from me yes
Just a couple of years ago, our shop went to TSO because it realized
that it could drop its CICS license by dropping SYSD.
I still like to call ISPF, PDF. It works from the command line to
get it.
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On 22 Sep 2005 05:44:52 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris
Hoelscher) wrote:
>> I always thought it came first; then somebody said: ?So, what
>> do we make it stand for??.
>
>when the TV show "The Man From U.N.C.L.E." first came out (1964?) - UNCLE
>did not stand for anything (it may have been inte
On Tue, 20 Sep 2005 09:50:37 -0400, Bruce Black
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>Every time I saw what SPOOL stood for, I laughed at the people who
>>pretended that it was better to have an acronym than have it mean
>>"spool". I wondered if it was for copyright purposes, and whether
>>that would hol
On Mon, 19 Sep 2005 09:07:10 -0300, "Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>Does anyone remember where the term spooler comes from? SPOOL =
>>simultaneous peripheral operations on line. The OS/360 Reader-Writer
>> was the first multiprogramming capability that was released.
>
>SPO
On Mon, 19 Sep 2005 15:38:23 EDT, Bill Fairchild <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>There are societal factors that could account for this difference in work
>ethics or attitudes other than just having to work with expensive computing
>resources. In the 1960s and 1970s most young adult professionals sti
On 19 Sep 2005 10:49:03 -0700, "WM" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I think you're on the right track, John. I've got a kind of
>half-developed theory that staff that grew up in the mainframe era,
>where computing resources were extremely expensive and data centers
>were, actually, awesome, take their
On Sat, 17 Sep 2005 10:02:27 EDT, Bill Fairchild <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
>Older people also have more wisdom in general than younger people. In order
>to learn, one must be teachable (aka humble) and pay attention to one's
>teacher. Younger people are often not yet teachable because they a
On Thu, 15 Sep 2005 17:14:32 -0600, Paul Gilmartin
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Lately, I tried a job with:
>
>// EXEC
>//DD1 DDDISP=(MOD,CATLG),...
>//DD2 DDDISP=SHR,...
>
>The job failed with JCL error because DD2 does not exist.
>DD1 was never create
On 14 Sep 2005 09:49:38 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (nick) wrote:
>Disney was outsourced to IBM .. Chase/BankOne has a big presence east
of
>Tampa; Suntrust has a big data center in Orlando
I thought they were a Univac shop. Have they moved away from that, or
is their outsourcing independen
On 26-Aug-2005, Bill Klein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> BELIEVE ME !!!
>comp.lang.cobol
> is NOT moderated
> (and neither is comp.lang.pl1 or comp.lang.fortran)
Then explain to me why I remember one time when there was an on-topic discussion
there!
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On 26-Aug-2005, Ed Gould <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am *GUESSING* here... but some groups are moderated and you may have
> to find the owner of the list to approve any posts.
I didn't need to do that to post to comp.lang.cobol. I'd check his provider.
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On 26-Aug-2005, Steve Comstock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Then I also went to 204.153.244.171 as
> someone suggested to sign up for comp.lang.cobol;
> Well, I can read the postings, but I cannot
> reply nor initiate posts. There is obviously
> some kind of configuration error here, but
> I don't
Of course, you could copy a record to the KSDS file, and write a program that
deletes it. How long would that take?
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On 19-Aug-2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Roland Schiradin) wrote:
> No more to say
Maybe not. But we have to guess about what this post means.
Share whether report?Share weather report?
It's not obvious to me.
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> You know the keystroke for EOB (Alt + 5)
That's one I don't believe I've ever done.
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On 8-Aug-2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (McKown, John) wrote:
> Our mainframe is on GMT. But users cannot understand GMT, so we use the
> CLOCKnn member of PARMLIB and the UNIX/LE TZ so that the displayed time
> is "local". The last time I tried to have GMT displayed (with a 24 hour
> clock) I almost lo
On 8-Aug-2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Norman Hollander) wrote:
> Maybe we could get the government to move us to Daylight Savings
Which government? Despite the US Federal government making this law, different
counties choose to use Daylight Savings Time or not. What happens if one
county chooses
On 6-Aug-2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Shmuel Metz , Seymour J.) wrote:
> No; a full screen editor that doesn't have a change command or a macro
> facility is dumbed down. A full screen editor like emacs, ISPF EDIT or
> XEDIT is not. The criterion for dumbed down is that it makes it
> difficult or im
On 5-Aug-2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ted MacNEIL) wrote:
> I have no idea!
> If I knew the answers, I wouldn't be asking the question.
>
> I have found nobody willing to answer it.
What makes you think it is a matter of being willing?
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On 4-Aug-2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Arthur T.) wrote:
> My definition is similar, but not matching. I figure
> it's an interface that makes common tasks *very* easy to
> do, but makes uncommon tasks either impossible or very
> difficult to do (even if you know how).
>
> Most (but not a
On 4-Aug-2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (McKown, John) wrote:
> > My impression is that a "dumbed down interface" is the one
> > the other guy uses.
>
> My concept of a "dumbed down interface" is really "an interface which
> can be used by ignorant, untrained, underpaid, unskilled employees". One
> syst
On 4-Aug-2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Shmuel Metz , Seymour J.) wrote:
> >The times have changed and there is a significant need to dumb down
> > (yeah, I said it) the interface.
>
> I disagree. The time has come to make the interface easier, but not
> dumber.
I'm not sure what a dumbed down inter
On 3-Aug-2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (James Matterwise) wrote:
> EZTPA00
I don't have IMS, but have EasyTrieve (& IDMS) that use EXTPA00.
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On 3-Aug-2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (R.S.) wrote:
> I'm too young to use these devices, however I was told what is the
> difference between drum and disk: Drum is ...geometrical drum, active
> surface is on the side, not top/bottom. Disk is thin slice of drum, the
> active surface is on top and bott
On 2-Aug-2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Binyamin Dissen) wrote:
> :>INCLUDE COND=(21,7,CH,EQ,C'2004-07',OR,
> :>21,7,CH,EQ,C'2004-08',OR,
> :>21,7,CH,EQ,C'2004-09',OR,
> :>21,7,CH,EQ,C'2004-10',OR,
> :>21,7,CH,EQ,C'2004-11',OR,
> :>21,7,CH,EQ,C'2004-12',OR,
> :>21,7,CH,EQ,C'2005-01',OR,
> :>21,7,CH,EQ,
Another IBM mainframe editor I've used is SYSD.
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Why would I get a 4039 Error with a data exception?
USER COMPLETION CODE=4039 REASON CODE=
TIME=10.20.19 SEQ=00394 CPU= ASID=0077
PSW AT TIME OF ERROR 078D1000 880550D6 ILC 2 INTC 0D
ACTIVE LOAD MODULE AD
On 28-Jul-2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Frank Yaeger) wrote:
> For closure: Howard sent me his input data offline. With this more
> extensive set of input data, I was able to see more clearly what he was
> trying to do. He had non-duplicate records in his input file, which I
> hadn't realized from
I tried the code you supplied me, but it eliminated more than just the
duplicates. I have experimented for a while without success.Since the real
data has social security numbers in it, I privately e-mailed you with the
results of a limited test, hoping you would see what I did wrong. I'm no
On 26-Jul-2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Eric Chevalier) wrote:
> If I'm running American Airlines, it does me no good to have the finest IT
> infrastructure that money can buy, IF I HAVE NO MONEY LEFT OVER FOR
> FUEL!!! Bright, shiny new z9 systems don't generate revenue; butts in
> seats do. On the ot
On 26-Jul-2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Frank Yaeger) wrote:
> In that case, the following DFSORT/ICETOOL job would do
> what you want:
>
> //S2EXEC PGM=ICETOOL
> //TOOLMSG DD SYSOUT=*
> //DFSMSG DD SYSOUT=*
> //IN DD DSN=... input file
> //T1 DD DSN=&&T1,UNIT=SYSDA,SPACE=(CYL,(5,5)),DISP=(,PASS)
On 26-Jul-2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Frank Yaeger) wrote:
> SELECT FROM(IN) TO(OUT) ON(1,10,CH) ON(22,1,CH) LASTDUP -
> USING(CTL1)
Now I have to persuade people that it's time to allow some ICETOOL instead of
DFSORT in. In the past I've been told "everybody knows DFSORT and we don't want
to tra
On 26-Jul-2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Frank Yaeger) wrote:
> Are you looking for "L" specifically, or "L" because it collates after '*'
> or what?
I suspect the latter.
At any rate, I'll try your multi-pass solution. I was thinking that would be
what was needed, but was hoping not. (I'll have to
On 26-Jul-2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mike Bell) wrote:
> The quickest wayI know of is to split the file into 2 files one
> contain the 'L' and another that don't.
> sort both removing duplicates ( are there multiple ''L' records?)
There can be.
> then merge the files removing duplicates and put th
On 26-Jul-2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Coatney, Bill) wrote:
> Why not just change the sort statement from SORT
> FIELDS=(1,10,CH,A,21,2,CH,A)
I need to eliminate duplicates - with column 21 not being part of the duplicate
check, but with column 21 sorted anyway - so that the last duplicate is
On 25-Jul-2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Frank Yaeger) wrote:
> I guess I don't understand what you're trying to do. For the records you
> showed,
> you were treating records with 'N' in 22 as duplicates even though they had
> different
> characters in 21 ('*' and 'L'). If you are looking at 21-22, th
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