Japan (was Re: 3490E volume limits)

2011-06-21 Thread Steve Comstock
here: http://www.trainersfriend.com/japan -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-393-8716 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 new tool

An upbeat story

2011-06-14 Thread Steve Comstock
somebody is hiring for z/OS applications developers. I consider that to be a little good news anyway. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-393-8716 http://www.trainersfriend.com * To get a good Return on your Investment, first make an investment! + Training your

Re: UTC offset for dates in the past?

2011-06-14 Thread Steve Comstock
these services from C programs (as well as Assembler, COBOL, and PL/I programs). If you want to have some kind of a command line interface, you'd have to write that yourself, wrapping some prompt / read code around calls to these services. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc

Re: An upbeat story

2011-06-14 Thread Steve Comstock
tests? You never hear much about them these days. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-393-8716 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 new tool

Re: An upbeat story

2011-06-14 Thread Steve Comstock
On 6/14/2011 2:04 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: On Tue, 14 Jun 2011 13:17:57 -0600, Steve Comstock wrote: On 6/14/2011 1:06 PM, Frank Swarbrick wrote: Do non-IT people make better COBOL programmers? Why might that be? Well, the rationale is, I think, that students in university IT programs

Re: Running an ISPF applicction from one pds

2011-06-11 Thread Steve Comstock
inside one PDS. Any problems with this? Seems to work perfectly for me, though I've never seen anyone do that before. Just curious if there is any reason not to do this. thanks! /Lindy I do it all the time; need a separate library for load modules, of course. -- Kind regards, -Steve

Re: Great free materials to learn or improve your Z skills

2011-06-03 Thread Steve Comstock
are at. It does get harder in the face of no requests to teach, however. I have written over a dozen courses that have never been taught, and it is, as you note, hard to get the impetus to keep them current. But I do. That's the job. And that's why we make the big bucks. :-) -- Kind regards, -Steve

Re: Great free materials to learn or improve your Z skills

2011-06-03 Thread Steve Comstock
On 6/3/2011 8:35 AM, R.S. wrote: W dniu 2011-06-03 14:02, Steve Comstock pisze: [...] It does get harder in the face of no requests to teach, however. I have written over a dozen courses that have never been taught, and it is, as you note, hard to get the impetus to keep them current. But I do

Re: JCL: IF and ABEND

2011-06-03 Thread Steve Comstock
, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-393-8716 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 new tool for calculating your Return On Investment for training dollars

Re: Great free materials to learn or improve your Z skills

2011-06-02 Thread Steve Comstock
is for an OS/390 release). So it's missing features from ISPF versions 4.5, 4.8, 5.0, 5.2, 5.5, 5.6, 5.7, 5.8, 5.9, 6.0, and 6.1. But, it is free, and great for all you OS/390 users out there. (Of course I have a bias; but I'm just sayin' ...) :-) -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock

Re: PF9 Swap question

2011-06-01 Thread Steve Comstock
at logon instead of having to enter them each time I logon? I didn't think there was, but Steve Comstock posted a message stating otherwise. No, you misunderstood or I misspoke. MYSTART is a REXX dialog you need to run after getting into ISPF, not at TSO logon. It does encapsulate a series

Re: PF9 Swap question

2011-05-31 Thread Steve Comstock
to it. It is just faster to hit my PF9 SWAP NEXT command. Same with SWAP LIST. My opinion only, of course. HTH, Pat L. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-393-8716 http://www.trainersfriend.com * To get a good Return on your Investment, first make

Metal C and System Programming C (SPC)

2011-05-31 Thread Steve Comstock
Are these two products essentially the same? I'm thinking Metal C is the XL C version and SPC is from an earlier C compiler (maybe even pre-z/OS), but I can't find any confirmation. Anyone know the answer to this bit of trivia? Thanks. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend

Re: Metal C and System Programming C (SPC)

2011-05-31 Thread Steve Comstock
inline assembler statements, so it sounds as though there are quite different paths, presumably with some common code. Tony H. OK, thanks. One further clarification then: is SPC available as part of the current XL C/C++ compiler, or is it a stand alone product? -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock

Re: What is the current feeling for MVC loop vs. MVCL?

2011-05-31 Thread Steve Comstock
http://www.trainersfriend.com/Assembler_%20courses/C500descrpt.htm /ad -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-393-8716 http://www.trainersfriend.com * To get a good Return on your Investment, first make an investment! + Training your people is an excellent

Re: World Map of z/Shops

2011-05-28 Thread Steve Comstock
know about (at least company name, city, maybe a link to their home website; I'll let you do the heavy lifting from there). -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-393-8716 http://www.trainersfriend.com * To get a good Return on your Investment, first make

Re: World Map of z/Shops

2011-05-28 Thread Steve Comstock
; that way we can tell if things have changed since we last looked. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-393-8716 http://www.trainersfriend.com * To get a good Return on your Investment, first make an investment! + Training your people is an excellent investment

Re: PF9 Swap question

2011-05-26 Thread Steve Comstock
monitors? The green ones were rather small. Forever amber; they can have my 3290 when they pry it out of my cold dead fingers. You still got one of those? Envy! -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-393-8716 http://www.trainersfriend.com * To get a good Return on your

Re: z/OS SYSLOG to UNIX syslog daemon?

2011-05-26 Thread Steve Comstock
, The MSS was the 3850, one component of which was the 3851. I'm not aware of anything with the number 3950. Right. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-393-8716 http://www.trainersfriend.com * To get a good Return on your Investment, first make an investment

Re: z/OS SYSLOG to UNIX syslog daemon?

2011-05-26 Thread Steve Comstock
cover, and the reader wound the tape around the R/W mechanism. ISTR it was the 3950, The MSS was the 3850, one component of which was the 3851. I'm not aware of anything with the number 3950. Right. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-393-8716 http

Re: Facebook for professional usage (was Re: Recent maintenance for z/XDC)

2011-05-24 Thread Steve Comstock
done much with it (and not too many people have stumbled onto it.) And, I'm open to all suggestions/criticisms... if someone has a good idea they - I'd love to hear it! - Dave Rivers - -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-393-8716 http://www.trainersfriend.com

Re: Facebook for professional usage (was Re: Recent maintenance for z/XDC)

2011-05-23 Thread Steve Comstock
REPLY TO: dbc...@colesoft.com ColeSoft Marketing WEB PAGE: http://www.colesoft.com 736 Fox Hollow Road VOICE: 540-456-8536 Afton, VA 22920 FAX: 540-456-6658 -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-393-8716 http://www.trainersfriend.com * To get a good Return on your

Re: z/OS SYSLOG to UNIX syslog daemon?

2011-05-23 Thread Steve Comstock
/ signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-393-8716 http://www.trainersfriend.com * To get a good

Re: PF9 Swap question

2011-05-23 Thread Steve Comstock
it accidentally quite often, but even after all these years I haven't figured out the pattern. thank you very much Lindy -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-393-8716 http://www.trainersfriend.com * To get a good Return on your Investment, first make an investment

Re: PF9 Swap question

2011-05-23 Thread Steve Comstock
as 'SWAP 5') -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-393-8716 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 new tool for calculating your Return On Investment

Re: PF9 Swap question

2011-05-23 Thread Steve Comstock
. From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of John P Kalinich [jkali...@csc.com] Sent: 23 May 2011 20:11 To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: PF9 Swap question Lindy, Have you tried the SWAPBAR command? Regards, John K -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock

Re: What does issue mean? (Was: SDSF issue)

2011-05-17 Thread Steve Comstock
comment, Tony! -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-393-8716 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 new tool for calculating your Return On Investment

Re: Running z/OS On Your Laptop

2011-05-16 Thread Steve Comstock
. Shane - maybe you're interested. The link is: http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/workshops/GR0422?Open -- Eric Bielefeld Systems Programmer -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-393-8716 http://www.trainersfriend.com * To get a good Return on your Investment, first

Re: Running z/OS On Your Laptop

2011-05-16 Thread Steve Comstock
. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-393-8716 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 new tool for calculating your Return On Investment

Re: Running z/OS On Your Laptop

2011-05-16 Thread Steve Comstock
. :-) Thanks. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Steve Comstock Sent: Monday, May 16, 2011 15:25 To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Running z/OS On Your Laptop On 5/16/2011 2:04 PM, Wayne Bickerdike wrote: They are charging $2200

Re: DFSORT E35 problem

2011-05-14 Thread Steve Comstock
V1R10? It will help me make a case for upgrading. Curious about your email address domain name, I plugged in 'reinken.us' into my web browser and was sent to a GoDaddy page that asks Want to buy this domain name? What's up with that? -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc

Re: USS webserver downloading .xls (html) file corrupt/bad format

2011-05-14 Thread Steve Comstock
Style Sheets (the supplied default is '8bit' instead of ebcdic) HTH. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-393-8716 http://www.trainersfriend.com * To get a good Return on your Investment, first make an investment! + Training your people is an excellent

Re: Article on training.

2011-05-10 Thread Steve Comstock
actually fighting to keep his staff smart—read, your competition—read, screw the popped economy) is the same as saying you prefer to employ people who don’t know what they’re doing. /quote Yup. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-393-8716 http://www.trainersfriend.com

Re: Editing Unicode Files in z/OS?

2011-05-03 Thread Steve Comstock
regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-393-8716 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 new tool for calculating your Return On Investment for training dollars

Re: An unnecessary controversy (Was: Ported tools for z/OS on ADCD)

2011-05-02 Thread Steve Comstock
??? -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-393-8716 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 new tool for calculating your Return On Investment

Re: USS vs USS

2011-05-02 Thread Steve Comstock
most. Well, my heart is pure: I only use z/OS UNIX as the short form for z/OS UNIX System Services. :-) -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-393-8716 http://www.trainersfriend.com * To get a good Return on your Investment, first make an investment! + Training

Re: Mixing Auth and Non-Auth Modules

2011-05-02 Thread Steve Comstock
, but I'm reasonably aware of how SVC routines work. _Real_ informal. No slides nor handouts. Just a white board and a discussion with questions and answers. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-393-8716 http://www.trainersfriend.com * To get a good Return on your

Re: Deleting post

2011-04-20 Thread Steve Comstock
On 4/20/2011 12:32 PM, August Carideo wrote: Yes that's what he meant, he wants to reply to the list but doesn't want every one who googles anything close to what he posted have it pop up, same happened to me from a CICS list post, all of a sudden I am being emailed here from people who want to

Re: Some basic sorts explained

2011-04-11 Thread Steve Comstock
, shell sort, insert sort, select sort by the algo-rythmics (Hungarian folk dancers!) John McKown Systems Engineer IV IT Administrative Services Group HealthMarkets(r) What a stitch! Delightful! Thanks for that. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-393-8716 http

Re: Cool Things You Can Do in z/OS

2011-04-11 Thread Steve Comstock
. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-393-8716 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 new tool for calculating your Return On Investment

Re: Cool Things You Can Do in z/OS

2011-04-08 Thread Steve Comstock
a rant for another day. Tell me about it! :-( -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-393-8716 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 new tool

Re: Cool Things You Can Do in z/OS

2011-04-08 Thread Steve Comstock
will simply continue to work the old way; they are more comfortable using a single screen and jumping around within that screen. But the majority, when they learn about multiple, named screens in combination with swapbar, prefer to take advantage of these features. -- Kind regards, -Steve

Re: Cobol and SMS question

2011-04-08 Thread Steve Comstock
(ON); simplest to probably add PARM='/RPTOPTS(ON)' to see what the listing says. Alternatively, run with PARM='/CBLDQA(OFF)' to see if you get different results. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-393-8716 http://www.trainersfriend.com * To get a good Return on your

Re: Cool Things You Can Do in z/OS

2011-04-08 Thread Steve Comstock
at least try it out. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-393-8716 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 new tool for calculating your Return

Re: Cool Things You Can Do in z/OS

2011-04-06 Thread Steve Comstock
of others. Most not well known. Maybe I'll add some of these to my list. Thanks. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-393-8716 http://www.trainersfriend.com * To get a good Return on your Investment, first make an investment! + Training your people is an excellent

Cool Things You Can Do in z/OS

2011-04-05 Thread Steve Comstock
, http://www.trainersfriend.com and follow the link in the right hand column labeled Cool Things You Can Do in z/OS. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-393-8716 http://www.trainersfriend.com * To get a good Return on your Investment, first make an investment

Re: Cool Things You Can Do in z/OS

2011-04-05 Thread Steve Comstock
, That is cool. But we don't teach it [yet]. I'll see about adding that feature into our CICS courses, and if we do I'll add that to the cool list. Thanks. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-393-8716 http://www.trainersfriend.com * To get a good Return on your Investment

Re: mainframe fresher

2011-04-04 Thread Steve Comstock
will shut all the way. Then we all lose. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-393-8716 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 new tool

Re: Floating point assembler code

2011-04-04 Thread Steve Comstock
there are experienced people here, too. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-393-8716 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 new tool

Re: Mainframe Fresher

2011-04-04 Thread Steve Comstock
On 4/4/2011 9:52 AM, john gilmore wrote: Steve Comstock writes: begin snippet He looks like a bright young man, the kind we want to sustain our favorite platform - but he can't find a job. And we on this list know he is not alone. This is the kind of reality we face if we don't, collectively

Re: Mainframe Fresher

2011-04-04 Thread Steve Comstock
: Re: Mainframe Fresher Steve Comstock writes: begin snippet He looks like a bright young man, the kind we want to sustain our favorite platform - but he can't find a job. And we on this list know he is not alone. This is the kind of reality we face if we don't, collectively and individually

Re: Mainframe Fresher

2011-04-04 Thread Steve Comstock
it go away? -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Steve Comstock Sent: Monday, April 04, 2011 1:11 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Mainframe Fresher On 4/4/2011 9:52 AM, john gilmore wrote: Steve Comstock writes

Re: Mainframe Fresher

2011-04-04 Thread Steve Comstock
JAVA programmers a lot easier than COBOL. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-393-8716 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 new tool

Re: EDC5111I Permission denied

2011-03-26 Thread Steve Comstock
is the java program running under under? Is it running under your uid? Is it running under your gid? -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-393-8716 http://www.trainersfriend.com * To get a good Return on your Investment, first make an investment! + Training your people

Re: SR might be palatable if (part 4, Multilingual)

2011-03-25 Thread Steve Comstock
activity platform that will revolutionize the way you spend your time: GOING OUTSIDE. If you get a chance to catch it, it's well worth the read. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-393-8716 http://www.trainersfriend.com * To get a good Return on your Investment, first

Re: Downloading PoOps?

2011-03-24 Thread Steve Comstock
://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg2b9de5f05a9d57819852571c500428f9a Try here: http://www.vm.ibm.com/devpages/jelliott/cmosproc.html then scroll down to the G11 entries -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-393-8716 http://www.trainersfriend.com * To get

Re: Downloading PoOps?

2011-03-24 Thread Steve Comstock
/os/zos/bkserv/r12pdf/#zarchpops The front door to the z/OS Internet Library is here: http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/z/os/zos/bkserv/ -jc- -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-393-8716 http://www.trainersfriend.com * To get a good Return on your Investment

Re: Downloading PoOps?

2011-03-24 Thread Steve Comstock
On 3/24/2011 1:35 PM, Bill Fairchild wrote: -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Steve Comstock Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2011 1:43 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Downloading PoOps? Shmuel is asking for a -9. He

Re: Tcp/ip list name

2011-03-23 Thread Steve Comstock
Sacramento, Ca 95817 916-734-0536 SYSTEMS PROGRAMMING.. Guilty, until proven innocent !! JN 2004 Hardware eventually breaks - Software eventually works anon -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-393-8716 http://www.trainersfriend.com

Re: LE runtime options for non LE dumps question

2011-03-22 Thread Steve Comstock
Be sure to include a SYSUDUMP DD statement or you have to add DYNDUMP option also. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-393-8716 http://www.trainersfriend.com * To get a good Return on your Investment, first make an investment! + Training your people

COBOL calling C functions, run program under ispf and z/OS UNIX

2011-03-21 Thread Steve Comstock
, and our z/OS UNIX courses. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-393-8716 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 new tool for calculating your

Re: COBOL calling C functions, run program under ispf and z/OS UNIX

2011-03-21 Thread Steve Comstock
, using fd0 for stdin and fd1 for stdout, but it doesn't work under ISPF I have examples of these scattered about many courses. -- John McKown -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-393-8716 http://www.trainersfriend.com * To get a good Return on your

Re: Dynamic calls from COBOL

2011-03-19 Thread Steve Comstock
. == -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-393-8716 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 new tool for calculating your Return On Investment for training

Re: Dynamic calls from COBOL

2011-03-19 Thread Steve Comstock
:ENTRY TYPE AMODE C_OFFSET CLASS NAMESTATUS XYZJANET MAIN_EP 31 0098 C_CODE XYZOOGA ADDED31 0110 C_CODE Ideas? Steve (Comstock), I'm not ignoring you - I suspect you're right, but want to see this through to the bitter end before giving up

Re: Dynamic calls from COBOL

2011-03-18 Thread Steve Comstock
://www.trainersfriend.com/UNIX_and_Web_courses/u520descr.htm /ad -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-393-8716 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 new

Re: Why is WTO so much easier to use than better methods?

2011-03-17 Thread Steve Comstock
for solutions that don't require any special authorization, since this is intended for applications developers. Just a little project. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-393-8716 http://www.trainersfriend.com * To get a good Return on your Investment, first make

Re: Why is WTO so much easier to use than better methods?

2011-03-17 Thread Steve Comstock
(Replying partially to my own question...) On 3/17/2011 9:43 AM, Steve Comstock wrote: On 3/17/2011 9:07 AM, john gilmore wrote: Newbies will do what they can manage to understand; and perhaps they can be induced to understand that even WTO supports routing codes and the like that can make

Re: Why is WTO so much easier to use than better methods?

2011-03-17 Thread Steve Comstock
Final reply to my reply to my own question :-) On 3/17/2011 10:02 AM, Steve Comstock wrote: (Replying partially to my own question...) On 3/17/2011 9:43 AM, Steve Comstock wrote: On 3/17/2011 9:07 AM, john gilmore wrote: Newbies will do what they can manage to understand; and perhaps

Re: Why is WTO so much easier to use than better methods?

2011-03-17 Thread Steve Comstock
are virus free. You should ensure you have adequate measures in place for your own virus checking. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Steve Comstock Sent: Thursday, March 17, 2011 11:03 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Why

Re: Why is WTO so much easier to use than better methods? (Was RE: Trouble Reading a Spanned File with an Assembler Program - Working Program)

2011-03-16 Thread Steve Comstock
that not only does save area chaining but provides a DCB for messages, and another macro that issues messages to said DCB. If not, write them yourself. And, of course, LE-enabled Assembler has SYSPRINT available with several macros available and no need to OPEN or CLOSE. -- Kind regards, -Steve

Re: rejected messages from verizon account

2011-03-09 Thread Steve Comstock
in HTML or some other non-plain-text format. HTH. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-393-8716 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 new

Re: Free z/OS web server

2011-03-09 Thread Steve Comstock
* Callable services (BPX1...) * Make and makefiles details at: http://www.trainersfriend.com/UNIX_and_Web_courses/u520descr.htm There is also a series of courses for writing CGIs to run under z/OS UNIX. /ad -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-393-8716 http

Re: QSAM concatenation where the first DD is DUMMY?

2011-03-08 Thread Steve Comstock
, Mar 7, 2011 at 10:42 PM, Farley, Peter x23353 peter.far...@broadridge.com wrote: Thanks Steve. Even old dogs have old tricks to (re)learn, it seems. Peter -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Steve Comstock Sent: Monday, March

Re: Bookmgr error:Cannot open output file: bookmgr.dbg

2011-03-08 Thread Steve Comstock
got : Cannot open output file: bookmgr.dbg Another reason to download the books onto your PC. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-393-8716 http://www.trainersfriend.com * To get a good Return on your Investment, first make an investment! + Training your

Re: Opening a Spanned File for Input Using Assembler

2011-03-08 Thread Steve Comstock
),RLSE), // DCB=(LRECL=28,BLKSIZE=0,RECFM=FB) //SYSOUT DD SYSOUT=* //SYSDBOUT DD SYSOUT=* //SYSUDUMP DD SYSOUT=* // -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-393-8716 http://www.trainersfriend.com * To get a good Return on your Investment, first make

Re: Opening a Spanned File for Input Using Assembler

2011-03-08 Thread Steve Comstock
,RECFM=VBS //OUTDDDD DSN=TEST.FONT.BACKUP.FIXED, // DISP=(,CATLG,CATLG), // SPACE=(TRK,(1950,100),RLSE), // DCB=(LRECL=28,BLKSIZE=0,RECFM=FB) //SYSOUT DD SYSOUT=* //SYSDBOUT DD SYSOUT=* //SYSUDUMP DD SYSOUT=* // -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock

Re: Trouble Reading a Spanned File with an Assembler Program

2011-03-08 Thread Steve Comstock
), // DCB=(LRECL=136,BLKSIZE=0,RECFM=FB) //SYSOUT DD SYSOUT=* //SYSDBOUT DD SYSOUT=* //SYSUDUMP DD SYSOUT=* // -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-393-8716 http://www.trainersfriend.com * To get a good Return on your Investment, first make an investment

Re: Opening a Spanned File for Input Using Assembler

2011-03-08 Thread Steve Comstock
On 3/8/2011 3:13 PM, Gainsford, Allen wrote: Steve Comstock wrote: WTO ' BEFORE OPEN',ROUTCDE=(2),DESC=(7) OPEN (INFILE,INPUT,OUTFILE,OUTPUT) You need the open options to be in parentheses: OPEN (INFILE,(INPUT),OUTFILE,(OUTPUT)) No, you don't

Re: QSAM concatenation where the first DD is DUMMY?

2011-03-07 Thread Steve Comstock
=FILE3 // DD DSN=FILE4 // DD DUMMY -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-393-8716 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 new tool

Re: HTTP codepage

2011-03-04 Thread Steve Comstock
or no DetectUTF8 directive at all. Kinda' grasping at straws here. The next step might be to aquire one of the HTTP debugging tools (there are free ones out there). -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-393-8716 http://www.trainersfriend.com * To get a good Return

Re: HTTP codepage

2011-03-04 Thread Steve Comstock
On 3/4/2011 7:08 AM, Shane Ginnane wrote: Steve, what codepage you using on the 'net ?. I can't see your responses. Shane ... Huh? How did you know I replied if you can't see it? -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-393-8716 http://www.trainersfriend.com

Re: HTTP codepage

2011-03-04 Thread Steve Comstock
. Shane ... On Sat, Mar 5th, 2011 at 1:45 AM, Steve Comstock wrote: I'm totally baffled. I have not sent any email to the list where I say Here's a link to a page in another codepage, at least not in any recent timeframe. Back in 2006 and 2008 I mentioned I have some pages on our website in various

Re: z/OS UNICODE migration consideration

2011-02-24 Thread Steve Comstock
is the native Unicode encoding in MO:DCA (AFP). Howard Turetzky Advanced Technical Support howard.turet...@infoprint.com Cool! I was pretty sure we'd hear from you, Howard. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-393-8716 http://www.trainersfriend.com * To get a good Return

Re: z/OS UNICODE migration consideration

2011-02-23 Thread Steve Comstock
-able. We would be happy to participate in such a process, in terms of research, testing, development, and training. I imagine there are others on this list who would also be interested. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-393-8716 http://www.trainersfriend.com

Re: Change the Summertime ZOS under Z/VM

2011-02-18 Thread Steve Comstock
region, you can do this with a MODIFY command: F cicsreg,CEMT PER,RESET In both cases you can abbreviate down to: CEMT P R . :-) -jc- Cool! I didn't know the console recognized smileys! [Wow, it's Friday already!] -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303

Re: Question about COBOL Program

2011-02-17 Thread Steve Comstock
you are referencing a QSAM file, so the compiler builds a DCB not an ACB. You know, you can simplify your ASSIGN statements: SELECT ARQSEQASSIGN TO AS-ARQSEQ SELECT ARQSEQASSIGN TO ARQSEQ Thanks very much Sergio Lima Costa Sao Paulo - Brazil -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock

Re: SEARCH FOR QUESTION - ISPF 3.4

2011-02-16 Thread Steve Comstock
have 3.4 data set list, the FIND command will locate the name you're after. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-393-8716 http://www.trainersfriend.com * To get a good Return on your Investment, first make an investment! + Training your people is an excellent

Re: SEARCH FOR QUESTION - ISPF 3.4

2011-02-16 Thread Steve Comstock
Guide Volume II is a little careless on describing this process. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Steve Comstock Sent: February 16, 2011 8:42 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: SEARCH FOR QUESTION - ISPF 3.4 On 2/16

z/OS 1.13 preview

2011-02-15 Thread Steve Comstock
a while. I'll report on the ones that seem significant to the application development community in my annual post after the docs are available and I've had a chance to through them more carefully. But the above seemed significant and easy to grasp right away. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock

Re: handling of errors

2011-02-15 Thread Steve Comstock
directly, which is pretty amazing. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-393-8716 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 new tool for calculating

Where are the Pl/I V4R1 docs?

2011-02-14 Thread Steve Comstock
Anybody seen these? PL/I V4R1 was available 4Q2010 and the folks at the IBM Dallas center just installed it on our virtual z/OS so I thought I'd do some research, but I can't find the docs on any of the usual places. Anyone have any pointers to these publications? -- Kind regards, -Steve

Re: Where are the Pl/I V4R1 docs?

2011-02-14 Thread Steve Comstock
On 2/14/2011 8:49 AM, Mike Schwab wrote: On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 9:14 AM, Steve Comstock st...@trainersfriend.com wrote: Anybody seen these? PL/I V4R1 was available 4Q2010 and the folks at the IBM Dallas center just installed it on our virtual z/OS so I thought I'd do some research, but I

Re: Where are the Pl/I V4R1 docs?

2011-02-14 Thread Steve Comstock
On 2/14/2011 8:49 AM, Mike Schwab wrote: On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 9:14 AM, Steve Comstock st...@trainersfriend.com wrote: Anybody seen these? PL/I V4R1 was available 4Q2010 and the folks at the IBM Dallas center just installed it on our virtual z/OS so I thought I'd do some research, but I

Re: Where are the Pl/I V4R1 docs?

2011-02-14 Thread Steve Comstock
On 2/14/2011 9:07 AM, McKown, John wrote: -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Steve Comstock Sent: Monday, February 14, 2011 9:14 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Where are the Pl/I V4R1 docs? Anybody seen these? PL/I

Re: A better abbreviation (Was: HFS file questions)

2011-02-14 Thread Steve Comstock
On 2/14/2011 7:01 PM, Ron Hawkins wrote: Well, I think the whole subject zUX. ROTFL! Right. Let's keep some perspective here! -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-393-8716 http://www.trainersfriend.com * To get a good Return on your Investment, first make

Re: Unicomp

2011-02-12 Thread Steve Comstock
that might be of interest I found the first book to be pretty good: clear and comprehensive. It might go a long way towards your battle in getting a handle on this mystery! HTH. Good luck. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-393-8716 http://www.trainersfriend.com

Re: HFS file questions

2011-02-12 Thread Steve Comstock
file questions Linda, are you aware of the MVS-OE list? It is dedicated to z/OS UNIX. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-393-8716 http://www.trainersfriend.com * To get a good Return on your Investment, first make an investment! + Training your people

Re: ISPPROF DISP=?

2011-02-11 Thread Steve Comstock
. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-393-8716 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 new tool for calculating your Return On Investment

Re: REXX + DB2 question

2011-02-10 Thread Steve Comstock
if this will work; also, you might have to put the send command in a REXX exec or CLIST to make it work. Bit of a stretch. Let me know how that works, if at all. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-393-8716 http://www.trainersfriend.com * To get a good Return on your

Re: Unicomp

2011-02-10 Thread Steve Comstock
called Unicomp for training? We have purchased some RACF classes from them and they keep postponing and cancelling the classes. It's been almost 2 years now where they postpone and finally cancel the classes and then we reset them up. Any feedback is welcome. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock

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