Re: Anyone a Unicode Services expert? -- roundtrip conversion

2012-06-12 Thread Steve Comstock
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test

2012-06-09 Thread Steve Comstock
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Major update: HTML 5 on z/OS

2012-05-31 Thread Steve Comstock
with z/OS. If ever there was a proof-of-concept course, this is it. Further details are available at: http://www.trainersfriend.com/UNIX_and_Web_courses/u518descr.htm which includes links to further details. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-355-2752 http

Allocation mystery

2012-05-31 Thread Steve Comstock
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Re: Allocation mystery

2012-05-31 Thread Steve Comstock
If it ain't cataloged, it doesn't exist. I feel free to whack any such I find in the application storage pools. They have always (so far) been the result of an error. Sounds good. On Thu, 31 May 2012 15:25:04 -0600, Steve Comstock wrote: I run a job that creates a new data set using this DD

Re: Allocation mystery

2012-05-31 Thread Steve Comstock
On 5/31/2012 4:13 PM, Thomas Conley wrote: On 5/31/2012 5:26 PM, Steve Comstock wrote: I'm finding an unexpected allocation situation that maybe someone can explain. I run a job that creates a new data set using this DD statement: //NEWMAST DD DISP=(NEW,CATLG),DSN=SYSUID..WORK.NEW.ZINPUTA

Re: SMP/E and UNIX (JAVA?) (solved)

2012-05-30 Thread Steve Comstock
who prefers Assembler, that's a big attitude change; at the very least there should be only a single set of Java modules used by all the classes in an application (or better, in a single system). -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-355-2752 http

Re: Comparing datasets

2012-05-29 Thread Steve Comstock
days(!). For more details, see: http://www.trainersfriend.com/JCL_courses/B625descrpt.htm -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-355-2752 http://www.trainersfriend.com * To get a good Return on your Investment, first make an investment! + Training your people

Re: How to leave ISPF

2012-05-25 Thread Steve Comstock
2;press enter; PF3 done after this, =x will skip the message(s) about log or list processing. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-355-2752 http://www.trainersfriend.com * To get a good Return on your Investment, first make an investment! + Training your people

Re: Brain drain: Where Cobol systems go from here

2012-05-23 Thread Steve Comstock
questions, explore. Train. Thanks. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-355-2752 http://www.trainersfriend.com * To get a good Return on your Investment, first make an investment! + Training your people is an excellent investment * Try our tool for calculating

Re: Comparison of compiler generated code AD 1980(ish) v 2010(ish)

2012-05-16 Thread Steve Comstock
. Then again, I always thought that the fastest instructions are those ones that are never executed... Those instructions don't need to be optimized... :-) Groete / Greetings Elardus Engelbrecht -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-355-2752 http://www.trainersfriend.com

Re: Comparison of compiler generated code AD 1980(ish) v 2010(ish)

2012-05-16 Thread Steve Comstock
On 5/16/2012 7:11 AM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: On Wed, 16 May 2012 06:41:27 -0600, Steve Comstock wrote: He has no choice on this: all the new compilers _must_ use LE. Even Metal C? -- gil Well, I knew someone would raise that exception. No, Metal C does not use LE. Not sure if SP C (Systems

Re: Retiring after 43+ years with IBM

2012-05-15 Thread Steve Comstock
! Frank Yaeger - DFSORT Development Team (IBM) - yae...@us.ibm.com Specialties: JOINKEYS, FINDREP, WHEN=GROUP, ICETOOL, Symbols, Migration = DFSORT/MVS is on the Web at http://www.ibm.com/storage/dfsort Best wishes, and thanks for all your help and support. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock

Re: Comments on DFSMS verbose messages?

2012-05-08 Thread Steve Comstock
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Re: IT versus the in-flight magazine

2012-05-08 Thread Steve Comstock
On 5/8/2012 11:55 AM, Kirk Talman wrote: http colon //www.infoworld.com/t/it-strategy/it-versus-the-in-flight-magazine-192066 Oooh! I like it! Thanks, Kirk. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-355-2752 http://www.trainersfriend.com * To get a good Return

Re: Comments on DFSMS verbose messages?

2012-05-07 Thread Steve Comstock
. Addressing mode is set in the PSW and it tells the processor how to behave. It does make sense, if you consider it as the required / recommended / suggested initial AMODE, recognizing that programs may change AMODE as they run. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-355-2752

Re: Comments on DFSMS verbose messages?

2012-05-07 Thread Steve Comstock
On 5/7/2012 8:25 AM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: On Mon, 7 May 2012 08:09:45 -0600, Steve Comstock wrote: AMODE ANY means the program will be given control in the AMODE of its invoker and supports running in AMODE24 or AMODE31, whichever it's caller is currently running in. Of course

Re: Comments on DFSMS verbose messages?

2012-05-07 Thread Steve Comstock
On 5/7/2012 9:29 AM, Tom Marchant wrote: On Mon, 7 May 2012 08:09:45 -0600, Steve Comstock wrote: On 5/7/2012 7:54 AM, Tom Marchant wrote: On Sun, 6 May 2012 23:23:14 -0400, Robert A. Rosenberg wrote: The problem is that before 64 AMODE you had 3 AMODE Choices - 24-Only, 31-Only, or BOTH 24

Course announcement: DB2 and XML

2012-05-01 Thread Steve Comstock
topical outline is here: http://www.trainersfriend.com/DB2_and_VSAM_courses/G532O.htm If you are in need of training on XML, schemas, XPath, file reference variables for XML, and much more, as it applies to and works in DB2, this is the course for you! -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock

Re: Confused on DFSORT SORTWK

2012-04-27 Thread Steve Comstock
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Re: Test

2012-04-27 Thread Steve Comstock
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Re: Confused on DFSORT SORTWK

2012-04-27 Thread Steve Comstock
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Re: GO TO cobol

2012-04-27 Thread Steve Comstock
not have a GOTO but does have a DO FOREVER So somehow you've combined the two in one exec! Very strange behavior. Do you have a local TSO command called 'goto'? When REXX sees a command it does not know, it passes it to the underlying host as a host command. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock

Re: GO TO cobol

2012-04-19 Thread Steve Comstock
up doing some work for both of them and speaking at their conferences. Even did some work in London for ASI. Good days. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-355-2752 http://www.trainersfriend.com * To get a good Return on your Investment, first make an investment

Re: Anybody use the cob2 command on a UNIX shell to compile COBOL?

2012-04-17 Thread Steve Comstock
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Re: Anybody use the cob2 command on a UNIX shell to compile COBOL?

2012-04-17 Thread Steve Comstock
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Re: Anybody use the cob2 command on a UNIX shell to compile COBOL?

2012-04-16 Thread Steve Comstock
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Re: GO TO cobol

2012-04-15 Thread Steve Comstock
to here. Don't take anything for granted. Recieved wisdom is often based on misunderstandings of old folklore. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-355-2752 http://www.trainersfriend.com * To get a good Return on your Investment, first make an investment

Re: PL/I with variable PLISTs (was: LE C calling HLASM)

2012-04-11 Thread Steve Comstock
On 4/11/2012 6:38 AM, Phil Smith wrote: Thanks for all the responses; off to hospital for spinal surgery, more anon. Ouch! Best wishes. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-355-2752 http://www.trainersfriend.com * To get a good Return on your Investment, first

Re: openssl make - z/OS UNIX question - Help

2012-04-11 Thread Steve Comstock
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Re: PL/I with variable PLISTs

2012-04-11 Thread Steve Comstock
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Re: PL/I with variable PLISTs

2012-04-11 Thread Steve Comstock
of four languages (COBOL, Assembler, PL/I, and C) or even just within the same language, discussion on EXTERNAL data items, alternate entry points, and more. In only three days! Check out http://www.trainersfriend.com/Language_Environment_courses/m520descr.htm -- Kind regards, -Steve

Re: LE C calling HLASM

2012-04-10 Thread Steve Comstock
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Re: LE C calling HLASM

2012-04-10 Thread Steve Comstock
On 4/10/2012 7:00 AM, Phil Smith wrote: Steve Comstock wrote: Ah, so that's what you want it for. But if the output buffer length is zero, doesn't that tell you to use the input buffer? And if an argument is omitted, it will appear as zero, right? I mean, why else would you pass a buffer

Re: PL/I with variable PLISTs (was: LE C calling HLASM)

2012-04-10 Thread Steve Comstock
On 4/10/2012 9:57 AM, Phil Smith wrote: Steve Comstock wrote: I'm confused here, because the title of the thread is 'C calling HLASM' and here we are talking about PL/I. Yeah, true...topic drift. Renamed. So what's really going on here that is the mystery? My guess is: you have a C

Re: PL/I with variable PLISTs (was: LE C calling HLASM)

2012-04-10 Thread Steve Comstock
a WAG. Good luck! Frank - Original Message - From: Phil Smithp...@voltage.com To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Cc: Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2012 9:57 AM Subject: Re: PL/I with variable PLISTs (was: LE C calling HLASM) Steve Comstock wrote: I'm confused here, because the title of the thread

Re: PL/I with variable PLISTs (was: LE C calling HLASM)

2012-04-10 Thread Steve Comstock
To: ibm-main@bama.ua.edu Subject: RE: Re: LE C calling HLASM Steve Comstock wrote: Ah, so that's what you want it for. But if the output buffer length is zero, doesn't that tell you to use the input buffer? And if an argument is omitted, it will appear as zero, right? I mean, why else would you

Re: PL/I with variable PLISTs (was: LE C calling HLASM)

2012-04-10 Thread Steve Comstock
On 4/10/2012 12:44 PM, Phil Smith wrote: Steve Comstock wrote: re whether we'll expect customers to be running Enterprise PL/I: And the answer is? Oops...meant to answer this. Um...I guess whatever's current was my assumption. Are the older compilers supported? Some

Re: PL/I with variable PLISTs (was: LE C calling HLASM)

2012-04-10 Thread Steve Comstock
On 4/10/2012 1:27 PM, Phil Smith wrote: Steve Comstock wrote: But I would like to see the code you use to test the high bit, please. Nothing proprietary, just informative OK, something like this: L R2,0(,R8) TM0(R8),X'80' BOLASTPARM ? Pretty basic

Re: PL/I with variable PLISTs (was: LE C calling HLASM)

2012-04-10 Thread Steve Comstock
On 4/10/2012 1:54 PM, Phil Smith wrote: Steve Comstock wrote: Yes. But that's Assembler. I thought the called routine was C, and you were testing the parms passed in the C routine. Is that not true? Are there more layers here? Yes, there are lots of layers, it's a mixture of assembler and C

Strange SDSF behavior

2012-04-10 Thread Steve Comstock
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Re: PL/I with variable PLISTs (was: LE C calling HLASM)

2012-04-10 Thread Steve Comstock
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Re: PL/I with variable PLISTs (was: LE C calling HLASM)

2012-04-10 Thread Steve Comstock
On 4/10/2012 3:11 PM, Phil Smith wrote: Steve Comstock wrote: Slipperier and slipperier. OK, let's try a different approach: You tell me exactly what you want to see from the PL/I routine calling your API and I'll see if I can cause PL/I to construct that. In other words, your routine

Re: OT: Keyboards for the archaic uber-geek

2012-04-09 Thread Steve Comstock
a useful Unicode keyboard. But no one sees the potential and I don't have the ambition to see it through. But I think it is a potentially huge market. Here's their home: http://www.artlebedev.com/everything/optimus/ Anyone up for an adventure? -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's

Re: Unix path name

2012-04-08 Thread Steve Comstock
portability, but I think you are asking for trouble Check out the UNIX System Services User's Guide (chapters 16 and 17) -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-355-2752 http://www.trainersfriend.com * To get a good Return on your Investment, first make an investment

Re: Enterprise COBOL and XML attributes

2012-04-07 Thread Steve Comstock
Frank, That is really cool! How did you come up with that? I'm going to add that technique to my course Enterprise COBOL: Unicode and XML Support. Thanks. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-355-2752 http://www.trainersfriend.com * To get a good Return on your

Re: DB2 DDL

2012-04-07 Thread Steve Comstock
to send our DB2 author over to Malayasia to teach some classes. :-) -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-355-2752 http://www.trainersfriend.com * To get a good Return on your Investment, first make an investment! + Training your people is an excellent investment

Re: LE C calling HLASM

2012-04-06 Thread Steve Comstock
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Re: Accessing USS on Mainframe thru Telnet

2012-04-06 Thread Steve Comstock
, Steve Thompson And if you click on the 'Education' tab ... -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-355-2752 http://www.trainersfriend.com * To get a good Return on your Investment, first make an investment! + Training your people is an excellent investment * Try

Re: LE C calling HLASM

2012-04-06 Thread Steve Comstock
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Re: Accessing USS on Mainframe thru Telnet

2012-04-05 Thread Steve Comstock
daemon or the configured inetd is running on the system 3. Could not fine INET in /etc/inet.conf Please let me know how to define above TELNET configurations and access USS thru TELNET. Regards, Chokalingam -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-355-2752

Re: Accessing USS on Mainframe thru Telnet

2012-04-05 Thread Steve Comstock
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Re: VSAM help wanted for random reads

2012-04-03 Thread Steve Comstock
If, on the other hand, your type '4' records are accessed as the primary key and your type '5' are accessed as part of an alternate index, you might need a different collection of DD parameters. (Long shot guess: add BUFNDI on the DD statement for your AIX). -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock

Re: Malicious Software Protection

2012-04-01 Thread Steve Comstock
. If dynamic SQL is allowed, Is there a way to force it to a sandbox? -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-355-2752 http://www.trainersfriend.com * To get a good Return on your Investment, first make an investment! + Training your people is an excellent

Re: LE enclave calls another LE enclave

2012-03-31 Thread Steve Comstock
versions of the interfaces, which produce accounting data, for example). Kind regards Bernd Am 30.03.2012 20:22, schrieb Steve Comstock: On 3/30/2012 12:13 PM, Tony Harminc wrote: On 30 March 2012 13:55, Steve Comstockst...@trainersfriend.com wrote: [...] I would definitely look at CEEPIPI

Re: LE C calling HLASM

2012-03-30 Thread Steve Comstock
On 3/28/2012 11:54 AM, Phil Smith wrote: Steve Comstock wrote: On 3/23/2012 2:57 PM, Phil Smith wrote: Now for the next question: this allows us to implement variable parameterlists in C, by declaring the functions thus: int SOMEFUNCTION(char *someparm, ...); Is there an equivalent way to do

Re: LE enclave calls another LE enclave

2012-03-30 Thread Steve Comstock
can invoke DLLs from your Assembler program using dllload, dllqueryfn, dllqueryvar, or use the LE service CEEPCALL. Not sure if exploring these would help, but thought I'd throw them out there in case you weren't aware of them. Kind regards Bernd -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock

Re: LE enclave calls another LE enclave

2012-03-30 Thread Steve Comstock
On 3/30/2012 9:15 AM, Bernd Oppolzer wrote: Am 30.03.2012 14:45, schrieb Steve Comstock: My notes seem to indicate that using LINK from Assembler to a PL/I main creates a nested enclave, which I guess is what you are seeing. I don't see anyway to call a PL/I main without the main creating

Re: LE enclave calls another LE enclave

2012-03-30 Thread Steve Comstock
(usually Assembler themselves) with no problem (well, there are a few sticky situations), with no need to change R12 contents. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-355-2752 http://www.trainersfriend.com * To get a good Return on your Investment, first make an investment

Re: LE C calling HLASM

2012-03-30 Thread Steve Comstock
On 3/30/2012 2:01 PM, Phil Smith wrote: Steve Comstock made some helpful suggestions; my big problem was having a comma before the LIST keyword. Making progress but not there yet. So now I have: Declare MYFUNC External('MYFUNC') Entry( Char(*) byaddr, Char(*) byaddr

Re: LE enclave calls another LE enclave

2012-03-30 Thread Steve Comstock
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Re: LE enclave calls another LE enclave

2012-03-29 Thread Steve Comstock
is for? -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-355-2752 http://www.trainersfriend.com * To get a good Return on your Investment, first make

Re: Malicious Software Protection

2012-03-27 Thread Steve Comstock
concerned about company security, even though he had no idea what he was talking about. Thank you all for your input! -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-355-2752 http://www.trainersfriend.com * To get a good Return on your Investment, first make an investment

Re: z/OS ftp and Unicode

2012-03-26 Thread Steve Comstock
on z/OS. Thanks Gadi -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-355-2752 http://www.trainersfriend.com * To get a good Return on your Investment, first make an investment! + Training your people is an excellent investment * Try our tool for calculating your

Re: z/OS ftp and Unicode

2012-03-26 Thread Steve Comstock
Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Steve Comstock Sent: Monday, March 26, 2012 3:18 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: z/OS ftp and Unicode On 3/26/2012 7:12 AM, McKown, John wrote: I don't know if this will help, but I did the following (but I don't have anything actually

Re: z/OS ftp and Unicode

2012-03-26 Thread Steve Comstock
. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Steve Comstock Sent: Monday, March 26, 2012 4:04 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: z/OS ftp and Unicode On 3/26/2012 7:50 AM, גדי בן אבי wrote: Hi again, I transferred a VB file

Re: z/OS ftp and Unicode

2012-03-26 Thread Steve Comstock
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Re: z/OS ftp and Unicode

2012-03-26 Thread Steve Comstock
anyone show me how to transfer a file from z/OS to windows using the windows ftp client so that the resulting file on windows is Unicode. The source file on z/OS will be EBCDIC. We are using z/OS v1.11. Unicode services are enabled on z/OS. Thanks Gadi -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock

Re: z/OS ftp and Unicode

2012-03-26 Thread Steve Comstock
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Re: z/OS ftp and Unicode

2012-03-26 Thread Steve Comstock
On 3/26/2012 9:57 AM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: On Mon, 26 Mar 2012 08:09:48 -0600, Steve Comstock wrote: Get it working, put it in a script (REXX, CLIST, shell script); then one line to invoke the script. Simple. The quote site ... earlier in the thread suggests that the OP wanted to be able

Re: LE C calling HLASM

2012-03-23 Thread Steve Comstock
/TSO_Clist_REXX_Dialog_Mgr/a780descrpt.htm ) -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-355-2752 http://www.trainersfriend.com * To get a good Return on your Investment, first make an investment! + Training your people is an excellent investment * Try our tool for calculating your Return

Re: LE C calling HLASM

2012-03-23 Thread Steve Comstock
of the course. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-355-2752 http://www.trainersfriend.com * To get a good Return on your Investment, first make an investment! + Training your people is an excellent investment * Try our tool for calculating your Return On Investment

Re: COBOL x ACB EXLST WITH JRNAD

2012-03-22 Thread Steve Comstock
in storage you don't have access to. And, of course, it would be totally unsupported if anything went wrong went wrong went wrong :-) -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-355-2752 http://www.trainersfriend.com * To get a good Return on your Investment, first make

Re: rexx cpu intensive

2012-03-21 Thread Steve Comstock
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OT: Printing emails

2012-03-20 Thread Steve Comstock
. Of course, he has his agenda. But an interesting insight, eh? -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-355-2752 http://www.trainersfriend.com * To get a good Return on your Investment, first make an investment! + Training your people

Re: Totally offtopic, sorry, almost choked laughing.

2012-03-19 Thread Steve Comstock
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Re: A stupid idea? Using twitter like service for z/SO, et al., event notification.

2012-03-09 Thread Steve Comstock
comes across as the mainframe is 'old', 'stodgy', 'not modern' and so on. Ah well. Guess they aren't really serious about the long term viability. [OK, so it's Friday.] -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-355-2752 http://www.trainersfriend.com * To get a good Return

Re: The Trainer's Friend goes Kindle - and you don't need to own a Kindle!

2012-03-06 Thread Steve Comstock
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Re: The Trainer's Friend goes Kindle - and you don't need to own a Kindle!

2012-03-06 Thread Steve Comstock
will have labs or not. Not sure what content to put up first; happy to take suggestions. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Steve Comstock Sent: Monday, March 05, 2012 12:05 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject

Re: IBM Announcement Letters

2012-03-06 Thread Steve Comstock
On 3/6/2012 5:41 AM, Mark Jacobs wrote: Is anyone else getting '0' announcement letters this morning? Not here; I got a few, looked at a couple, no problem. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-355-2752 http://www.trainersfriend.com * To get a good Return

Re: Allocating- and deallocating storage on the CEEEDBBEHP

2012-03-06 Thread Steve Comstock
below the line using CEECRHP with an options value of 73, 74, or 76 then use CEEGTST from that heap for your DCB/DCBE blocks. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-355-2752 http://www.trainersfriend.com * To get a good Return on your Investment, first make

Re: The Trainer's Friend goes Kindle - and you don't need to own a Kindle!

2012-03-06 Thread Steve Comstock
List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Steve Comstock Sent: 06 March 2012 13:47 To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: The Trainer's Friend goes Kindle - and you don't need to own a Kindle! On 3/5/2012 7:11 PM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: In4f54f245.9000...@trainersfriend.com, on 03/05

The Trainer's Friend goes Kindle - and you don't need to own a Kindle!

2012-03-05 Thread Steve Comstock
of this experiment. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-355-2752 http://www.trainersfriend.com * To get a good Return on your Investment, first make an investment! + Training your people is an excellent investment * Try our tool for calculating your Return On Investment

Re: The Trainer's Friend goes Kindle - and you don't need to own a Kindle!

2012-03-05 Thread Steve Comstock
download all the sample HTML, COBOL source, and php source to experiment on your own. Check it out at http://www.amazon.com/dp/B007FY0EWI Let us know what you think of this experiment. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-355-2752 http://www.trainersfriend.com

Re: The Trainer's Friend goes Kindle - and you don't need to own a Kindle!

2012-03-05 Thread Steve Comstock
to take suggestions. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Steve Comstock Sent: Monday, March 05, 2012 12:05 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: The Trainer's Friend goes Kindle - and you don't need to own a Kindle! Well, we're

Re: Discussion list for IBM System z Ensembles

2012-03-01 Thread Steve Comstock
to post to it. Feel free to share this note on other lists or forums where there may be people who would be interested. Martha McConaghy System Architect/Technical Lead Marist College An excellent idea, Martha. Thanks. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-355

Re: Unwanted New Threads (Was: SMP/E Order Server Pair)

2012-02-29 Thread Steve Comstock
of a paragraph become unreadable when quoted. I don't think so. As I mentioned earlier, I insert lots of hard breaks. The key is to keep lines short and roughly the same width. I think the result is easier to read and easier to reply to. But, of course, YMMV. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock

Re: TINC?

2012-02-28 Thread Steve Comstock
undertakings; Bah! Viva PCP! You're promoting angel dust? :-) -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-355-2752 http://www.trainersfriend.com * To get a good Return on your Investment, first make an investment! + Training your people is an excellent investment * Try our

Re: Duplicating SYSOUT output to another DD/DSN in realtime ? (JCL)

2012-02-27 Thread Steve Comstock
you are after. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-355-2752 http://www.trainersfriend.com * To get a good Return on your Investment, first make an investment! + Training your people is an excellent investment * Try our tool for calculating your Return

Re: SV: Duplicating SYSOUT output to another DD/DSN in realtime ? (JCL)

2012-02-27 Thread Steve Comstock
On 2/27/2012 7:01 AM, Thomas Berg wrote: -Ursprungligt meddelande- Från: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] För Steve Comstock Skickat: den 27 februari 2012 14:58 Till: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Ämne: Re: Duplicating SYSOUT output to another DD/DSN in realtime ? (JCL

Re: Unwanted New Threads (Was: SMP/E Order Server Pair)

2012-02-27 Thread Steve Comstock
...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock

Re: Thought: new DISP status function

2012-02-23 Thread Steve Comstock
=SUPHOSE - for the elderly [ probably should have resisted the urge. Don't press Send. Don't press Send. Don't ... -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-355-2752 http://www.trainersfriend.com * To get a good Return on your Investment, first make an investment

Re: Avoiding DFSORT dynamic allocatoin, was: Abend S0C4 in an internal sort

2012-02-22 Thread Steve Comstock
-- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-355-2752 http://www.trainersfriend.com * To get a good Return on your Investment, first make

Re: Do what to get C strftime %z to work?

2012-02-21 Thread Steve Comstock
. It is easy, because it is made easy, for one C function to call another C function. It s not so easy to induce Java to call C successfully. To do this one needs to know more, and that more is just what is addressed in ILC discussions. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend

Re: Batch process VS Started task

2012-02-19 Thread Steve Comstock
, for any of these, though. Need to do some benchmarking. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-355-2752 http://www.trainersfriend.com * To get a good Return on your Investment, first make an investment! + Training your people is an excellent investment * Try our tool

Re: Archaic allocation in JCL (Was: Physical record size query)

2012-02-17 Thread Steve Comstock
is more abstract. But, hey, I live in the ivory tower. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-355-2752 http://www.trainersfriend.com * To get a good Return on your Investment, first make an investment! + Training your people is an excellent investment * Try our

Re: Authorized functions

2012-02-16 Thread Steve Comstock
=MYASMPGM which does some stuff and then does XCTL to the TMP? Would that work? -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-355-2752 http://www.trainersfriend.com * To get a good Return on your Investment, first make an investment! + Training your people is an excellent

Re: Career Watch: The most in-demand skills of 2012 - Good news the training budgets seem to be increasing

2012-02-15 Thread Steve Comstock
/General_content/Purchaselist.htm Drop me a line off list if you're interested in exploring this new promotion. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-355-2752 http://www.trainersfriend.com * To get a good Return on your Investment, first make an investment

Re: gcc on z/OS (was: CPP (C++) file on z/OS)

2012-02-06 Thread Steve Comstock
can't. -- gil I don't know about that: I would wager most z/OS end users have no need for such a call, nor most z/OS appication programmers. Now, for systems programmers, you're probably right. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-355-2752 http

Re: Dates of previous releases of the operating system

2012-02-02 Thread Steve Comstock
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