Re: SAS is gone - long live ... ICETOOL?

2010-06-30 Thread M Hunter
We looked at WPS before, but that is no longer an option due to cost. Cobol I shall avoid :-) Apart from DFSORT, the only 'tool' we have is File Manager and I can't see that doing what we want. Looks like there are several places to get information and guidance on RACF reports using ICETOOL

Re: SAS is gone - long live ... ICETOOL?

2010-06-25 Thread M Hunter
On Fri, 25 Jun 2010 09:35:55 -0500, McKown, John wrote: > >I've just started looking at something called R. It is free. It is described >as: > > >R is a language and environment for statistical computing and graphics. >R is similar to the award-winning S system, which was developed at >Bell Lab

SAS is gone - long live ... ICETOOL?

2010-06-25 Thread M Hunter
I know I'm not the only one to suffer this, but "management" have decided that SAS is too expensive and as it is only used by the technical group (OK, I'm the only one who writes it, though others use the reports) it has got to go. Frankly, I'm surprised I managed to hold on to it for so long.

Re: Library Server and extended shelf support - resolution

2009-08-24 Thread M Hunter
For anyone else who might be looking to try this, I have now resolved my problems. I seem to have got round many issues by setting directory mode attributes, but there are two ways where the behaviour after PTF UK47562 has changed to be significant for our installation. - The default for LOGD

Library Server and extended shelf support

2009-08-21 Thread M Hunter
We've been using Library Server with the traditional BookServer interface happily for years, but I recently decided to enable extended shelf support, primarily due to the fact that CICS and DB2 books are no longer being delivered in BookManager format (PDF only). Our existing setup only support

PComm receive text file (without EOF marker)

2008-01-15 Thread M Hunter
We're currently moving from Rumba as our terminal emulator to IBM's Personal Communications (PComm) 5.9 and have encountered a problem with file transfer - specifically receiving a text file from an MVS/TSO host into a Windows PC file. The problem is the EOF (end-of file) character (hex 1A) tha