Re: Redisc overing WW II's femal e 'com pute rs'þ

2011-02-10 Thread Steve Comstock
of Nimitz and Touring were just priceless. -- 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: Redisc overing WW II's femal e 'com pute rs'þ

2011-02-10 Thread Steve Comstock
://www.aitp.org/ Hey, I see there's a Denver chapter. I'll give it a try. Thanks for the link! -- 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: HFS file questions

2011-02-09 Thread Steve Comstock
you'll have a solid base. This stuff is fun, and even necessary today. If you think it's too expensive, check out our ROI estimator (see the last line in my signature). -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-393-8716 http://www.trainersfriend.com * To get a good Return

Re: REVEDIT feature of TSO REVIEW command - ISPF-like EDIT in TSO READY mode

2011-02-09 Thread Steve Comstock
/a750descrpt.htm Thanks Ms. Terri E. Shaffer terri.e.shaf...@jpmchase.com Engineer J.P.Morgan Chase Co. GTI DCT ECS Core Services zSoftware Group / Emerging Technologies Office: # 614-213-3467 Cell: # 412-519-2592 -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-393-8716

Re: REXX + DB2 question

2011-02-09 Thread Steve Comstock
, 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 Investment, first

Re: Ends an ISPF session.

2011-02-02 Thread Steve Comstock
users on our z/OS system; if there are, it just exits, but if there are no other users it puts the z/OS system to sleep (we run under z/VM) so as not to use any more resources. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-393-8716 http://www.trainersfriend.com * To get

IBM United States Announcement Letters - bad links

2011-02-01 Thread Steve Comstock
valid links to share? -- 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: Ñ(X'69') character and SYSLOG display

2011-02-01 Thread Steve Comstock
misconfiguration? Perhaps switching to English? ;-D Or Afrikaans? Tell us if you get any solution. I would really like to see it. Groete / Greetings Elardus Engelbrecht -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-393-8716 http://www.trainersfriend.com * To get

Re: CEETBCK and LE conforming assembler

2011-01-28 Thread Steve Comstock
or log records? Some more detail of what you're trying to accomplish would certainly help. -- 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: CEETBCK and LE conforming assembler

2011-01-28 Thread Steve Comstock
contain some kind of a processing indicator; or, 2) create two separate programs and call the correct one from the calling program. -- 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: Long-running jobs, PDS, and DISP=SHR

2011-01-24 Thread Steve Comstock
of knowledge generally comes from experience. Us old-timers need to educate the youngsters! Hear hear! :-) [although I tend to prefer long timers or experienced workers to old-timers :-) ] -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-393-8716 http

Re: If Else JCL question

2011-01-19 Thread Steve Comstock
IF (STEP1.RC EQ 0) then STEP2 ELSE ABEND or GOTO EOJ or somehow end this thing ENDIF IF (STEP2.RC etc, etc) VSE has labels so I can use a GOTO, but I see nothing like that in z/OS JCL. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-393-8716 http://www.trainersfriend.com

Re: List spam

2011-01-18 Thread Steve Comstock
that was just unblocked. So then the process repeats. I wonder how many valid emails are not getting through because of false-positive results in some spam sensing algorithm. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-393-8716 http://www.trainersfriend.com * To get a good

Re: COBOL options to move the working storage below the 24 bit line?

2011-01-18 Thread Steve Comstock
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Re: COBOL options to move the working storage below the 24 bit line?

2011-01-18 Thread Steve Comstock
, 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 Return on your Investment, first

Re: List spam

2011-01-14 Thread Steve Comstock
trashed it. Yeah, not only did I get spammed, they spelled my company name wrong throughout the email: Transiners Friend very primitive. -- 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: speculation: z/OS enhancments

2011-01-13 Thread Steve Comstock
in the design process - -- 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: Looking for mainframe e-mail software

2011-01-10 Thread Steve Comstock
, Thomas Conley, President/CEO Pinnacle Consulting Group, Inc. 59 Applewood Drive Rochester, NY 14612-3501 P: (585)720-0012 F: (585)723-3713 http://home.roadrunner.com/~pinncons/ -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-393-8716 http://www.trainersfriend.com * To get a good

Re: REXX, the new Cobol ?

2011-01-06 Thread Steve Comstock
directly, including regcomp() and regexec(). I'll be doing some more in depth exploring and experimenting over the next couple of weeks and see what becomes of it. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-393-8716 http://www.trainersfriend.com * To get a good Return

Re: CEEROPT

2011-01-01 Thread Steve Comstock
Utilities: http://home.flash.net/~mzelden/mvsutil.html Systems Programming expert at http://expertanswercenter.techtarget.com/ -- 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: CEEROPT

2011-01-01 Thread Steve Comstock
at SHARE in 2009 when z/OS 1.10 was about to go GA. Regards, Mark -- 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: PARM=

2011-01-01 Thread Steve Comstock
. Whatever happened with this? -- 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: CEEROPT

2010-12-31 Thread Steve Comstock
be in the program search order. Hmmm. I've never tried this for batch. So, I went out and tried it. I could not get a CEEROPT module in the steplib concatenation to matter. So the docs should be considered misleading on this point. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc

Re: CEEROPT

2010-12-31 Thread Steve Comstock
to be searced to see if such an entry were present; this could be a long search. Ah, maybe a JCL parm that tells LE to look for this or not (default being 'not', so existing jobstreams don't need to change). -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-393-8716 http

Re: CEEROPT

2010-12-31 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: Sp of load

2010-12-23 Thread Steve Comstock
! Both you guys! These are hard economic times, especially for mainframers. Let's have a little civilty, a little kindness. Peace on Earth. -- 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: curiousity question: in-house doc

2010-12-22 Thread Steve Comstock
Road South Dore Sheffield S17 3LA UK Reg : 3767263 -- 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: XMIT manager problem

2010-12-17 Thread Steve Comstock
On 12/16/2010 9:35 PM, Steve Comstock wrote: On 12/16/2010 8:21 PM, Bill Godfrey wrote: Has the directory size of your PDS ever been increased using some non- standard directory-expanding program? If so, and that program did not write an EOF at the end of the directory, or allowed its new EOF

Re: XMIT manager problem

2010-12-17 Thread Steve Comstock
than XMITMGR: Dialog box labeled Error pops up with a single button labled OK. Sigh. How Windows! It's NOT OK. Uninstalled. On Thu, 16 Dec 2010 06:36:36 -0700, Steve Comstock wrote: When I package support files for course labs, I have for many years used XMIT, then download as binary to my

XMIT manager problem

2010-12-16 Thread Steve Comstock
. I repeated the process, just to make sure everything was correct, but got the same error sequence. The XMIT file is good (a RECEIVE unpacks the file just fine). I also tried opening some other files in using Xmit manager and they opened fine. Any suggestions? -- Kind regards, -Steve

Re: XMIT manager problem

2010-12-16 Thread Steve Comstock
On 12/16/2010 7:31 AM, Field, Alan C. wrote: Was the original file a PDS or a PDSE? Gotcha'. But it's a PDS. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Steve Comstock Sent: Thursday, December 16, 2010 07:37 To: IBM-MAIN

Re: XMIT manager problem

2010-12-16 Thread Steve Comstock
. The XMIT file is good (a RECEIVE unpacks the file just fine). I also tried opening some other files in using Xmit manager and they opened fine. Any suggestions? -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-393-8716 http://www.trainersfriend.com * To get a good Return

Re: XMIT manager problem

2010-12-16 Thread Steve Comstock
of one of the packaged members. But for this one file I can't get it to work. I am _not_ dependent on Windows for deployment. -- 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: XMIT manager problem

2010-12-16 Thread Steve Comstock
file of the new PDS. It might work. Well, that's worth a try. I have at it tomorrow. Thanks for the suggestion. Bill On Thu, 16 Dec 2010 06:36:36 -0700, Steve Comstock wrote: When I package support files for course labs, I have for many years used XMIT, then download as binary to my

Re: Batch program to update CVTUSER

2010-12-15 Thread Steve Comstock
. RETURN (14,12),RC=0 .RETURN TO CALLER LTORG PATCH DC 2D'0' .16 BYTE PATCH AREA END -- 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: Philosophy: curiousity question

2010-12-04 Thread Steve Comstock
to take a collection of separate related articles and assemble them into a hard copy manual, such as might be required by Operations to restart the computer center after a complete power down when no servers are available. Joel C Ewing -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend

Re: Mainframer has question about an ls -E command

2010-12-03 Thread Steve Comstock
Systems Programmer Mainframe Technical Support Services University of California Davis Medical Center 2315 Stockton Blvd ASB 1300 Sacramento, Ca 95817 916-734-0536 -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-393-8716 http://www.trainersfriend.com * To get a good Return

Re: 64 bit mode disabled

2010-12-02 Thread Steve Comstock
of this need. Tom Ross has already spoken up that this is on their list. Clark Morris John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721-1817 USA -- 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: LE message script file

2010-12-02 Thread Steve Comstock
of our LE Toolkit; for more information, start at http://www.trainersfriend.com/TTFStore/index.html and follow the links about toolkits. /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

Re: LE message script file

2010-12-02 Thread Steve Comstock
part is lack of leadership on trying new things. -- 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: LE message script file

2010-12-02 Thread Steve Comstock
if it works? Oh well, ten years late but I think we can get some good use out of LE. Frank -- 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: LE message script file

2010-12-02 Thread Steve Comstock
is strange about it? The difference in VSE vs. z/OS; I thought the compiler was essentially the same, and it's strange to me that the VSE doc says you can't use OMITTED, but it's part of the z/OS version of the language. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-393-8716 http

Re: I would love to know what went wrong at NAB

2010-12-01 Thread Steve Comstock
, and z186 machines. One lab includes using PKA, PKU, and TP instructions. And, tying back to another thread, a different lab includes writing code to run in AMODE64. See this link for details: http://www.trainersfriend.com/Assembler_%20courses/C500descrpt.htm -- Kind regards, -Steve

Re: I would love to know what went wrong at NAB

2010-11-30 Thread Steve Comstock
to know what went wrong at NAB I would love to know how a corrupt system file in a parrallel sysplex can affect a payroll system http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2010/11/29/nab_mainframe_cockup/ -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-393-8716 http

Re: 64 bit mode disabled

2010-11-30 Thread Steve Comstock
On 11/30/2010 7:40 PM, michealbutz wrote: Hi, From what I understand running in 64 bit mode (SAM64) you have to run disabled does the SAM64 instruction do that It's not what we know that hurts us - it's what we know that ain't so. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's

Re: Migration from EC 3 to EC 4.2

2010-11-29 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 address environments

2010-11-24 Thread Steve Comstock
. Data shift will not let you shift non-blank data off the line; it also has a little awareness of language specific comments etc. Column shift does what you ask, allowing non-blank data to be lost. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-393-8716 http

Re: ISPF 3.4: Migrate to Level 2?

2010-11-23 Thread Steve Comstock
SCOMSTO.TR.UTF16 SCOMSTO.TR.WORKER SCOMSTO.TR.ZASCIIX SCOMSTO.TR.ZINPUTX SCOMSTO.TRAIN.EBV.XML and when you press Enter the command would be processed using SCOMSTO.TR.TROSR as the dsn to be migrated. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's

Re: zOS messages.. totally true... almost totally useless

2010-11-20 Thread Steve Comstock
NOT clear to the developers that it's useless, then there's no hope. My favorites are the Windows messages that say Click OK to Continue. Well, it's NOT OK! Somethings wrong and there's no information! -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-393-8716 http

Re: USS : External link to a MVS dataset.

2010-11-16 Thread Steve Comstock
run an executable that has an exteranl link to it. Other than that, the list is of functions and commands that can work with external links seems to be pretty short. What kinds of failures are you encountering? -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-393-8716 http

Re: Terminate LE enclave and proceed [includes ad]

2010-11-12 Thread Steve Comstock
. And if it did, I : : would lose storage. : : : What is the proper approach, if any? : : :This is very strange. The proper approach is for the : :LE main to remove the enclave. Can you give us more : :information? : -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-393-8716 http

Re: Assembler comments

2010-11-12 Thread Steve Comstock
ANOP Yes, It's friday, and yesterday it was 11/11/11:11:11 :-) Arent' you a year ahead of yourself 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 an investment! + Training

Re: Terminate LE enclave and proceed

2010-11-11 Thread Steve Comstock
. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's

Re: Why are TSO IDs limited to 7 characters

2010-11-08 Thread Steve Comstock
constructed as consecutive numbers: #123456. And automatically substitute with the when needed (jobnames etc.). I am not a number! I am a free man! Just as you say, number seven. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-393-8716 http://www.trainersfriend.com * To get

Re: Why are TSO IDs limited to 7 characters

2010-11-05 Thread Steve Comstock
of terminal, but it took ISPF to provide the front end for full screen 3270 type interface we're used to today. -- 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: Why are TSO IDs limited to 7 characters

2010-11-05 Thread Steve Comstock
class. And I actually found it valuable in designing course lab setups for our RD4z class, which didn't count on having ISPF available. -- 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: Terminate LE enclave and proceed

2010-11-01 Thread Steve Comstock
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 Return on your Investment

Re: USS umask in batch?

2010-11-01 Thread Steve Comstock
, though. And might irritate the user who *wants* to control the umask; all I need is to understand how to control it, then I can tell them You're on yer own... -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-393-8716 http://www.trainersfriend.com * To get a good Return on your

Re: ATTACH

2010-11-01 Thread Steve Comstock
, is no reason to talk down to him. If I had answers, I would have responded. -- 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: ATTACH

2010-11-01 Thread Steve Comstock
On 11/1/2010 6:31 PM, Sam Siegel wrote: On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 5:24 PM, Paul Gilmartinpaulgboul...@aim.com wrote: On Mon, 1 Nov 2010 16:56:12 -0600, Steve Comstock wrote: snip And no one has until now taken Mr. Gilmore to task for disingenuously (in my perception) pouncing upon Sam

Re: Mainframe hacking?

2010-10-15 Thread Steve Comstock
. :-) Lindy Go for it, 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! + Training your people is an excellent investment

Re: Mainframe hacking?

2010-10-15 Thread Steve Comstock
? Serious question. Who, consulting companies, IBM consultants or partners? Lindy Most management will ignore it until it's too late and then declare it's time to move off the mainframe. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-393-8716 http

Re: Mainframe hacking?

2010-10-15 Thread Steve Comstock
On 10/15/2010 9:28 AM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: On Fri, 15 Oct 2010 07:24:08 -0600, Steve Comstock wrote: On 10/15/2010 7:20 AM, Lindy Mayfield wrote: I say heavily customized but that's only a few of my customers. Just about every mainframe shop I've seen, especially those that have been around

Re: New Z10 install [was Re: ... cheap dasd]

2010-10-14 Thread Steve Comstock
we could load some kind of starter system from the HMC and use that to install the serverpac (or is it custompac?) from shopzseries. Greg Smith Hey! New mainframe sites. Terrific! -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-393-8716 http://www.trainersfriend.com

Re: FW: The meaning of SCIDS.

2010-10-14 Thread Steve Comstock
retro- + -onym First Known Use: 1980 -- 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: Matching records

2010-10-11 Thread Steve Comstock
://www.trainersfriend.com/COBOL_Courses/D540descrpt.htm How to access matching records in DB2 tables is discussed in DB2 Application Programming, 5 days: http://www.trainersfriend.com/DB2_and_VSAM_courses/G560descrpt.htm -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-393-8716 http

Re: Sample coding

2010-10-10 Thread Steve Comstock
://www.trainersfriend.com/TTFStore/index.html and select Available Toolkits then DB2 Toolkits / Personal Edition. -- 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: SAS 9.2 ABEND S0C4 in z/OS 1/4?

2010-10-08 Thread Steve Comstock
I think he meant the institutional history of his client, not of SAS. -- 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: LE message CEE3611I

2010-10-07 Thread Steve Comstock
tried: RPTOPTS ENVAR('_ICONV_TECHNIQUE=0LMREC,_ICONV_MODE=C') That is, take out the first equals sign. -- 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: TCPIP translate tables

2010-10-06 Thread Steve Comstock
the instructions for setting up your own translate tables for use with this software. -- 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: Big Iron — The Mainframe Story

2010-10-06 Thread Steve Comstock
On 10/6/2010 2:40 PM, zMan wrote: [snip] I was already irritated by the 5 seconds of black screen before the content began anyway... Ah. Instant gratification isn't fast enough! -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-393-8716 http://www.trainersfriend.com

Re: Really dumb CLIST question

2010-10-05 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

Re: Someone has training manuals or notes that can help me

2010-10-04 Thread Steve Comstock
. So, when it's functioning you need to get the ABCs of Systems Programming series. It oughta' get you going. So, what country are you in? -- 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: Really dumb CLIST question

2010-10-04 Thread Steve Comstock
-- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-393

Re: SORT question

2010-09-28 Thread Steve Comstock
own code is that all of the programmers can read and maintain CoBOL or EasyTrieve.But most only know the simplest basics in the SORT utility. We can fix that ;-) http://www.trainersfriend.com/JCL_courses/B625descrpt.htm ... and we're just down the road. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock

Outsourcing story

2010-09-27 Thread Steve Comstock
://www.linkedin.com/e/-8m25pg-gelj3gbx-3l/vaq/24865403/55779/23538941/view_disc/ [mind the wrap] == -- 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: IT or infrastructure metrics

2010-09-27 Thread Steve Comstock
intranet! http://www.trainersfriend.com/General_content/Internal_marketing.htm -- 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

Revised Course: Cross Program Communication in z/OS

2010-09-23 Thread Steve Comstock
approaches still being taken. In this course we show simple, consistently workable techniques to implement all the features discussed above. See details at: http://www.trainersfriend.com/Language_Environment_courses/m520descr.htm -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303

Re: DFSORT DATE conversion

2010-09-22 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 -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-393-8716 http

Re: DFSORT DATE conversion

2010-09-22 Thread Steve Comstock
On 9/22/2010 12:20 PM, Frank Yaeger wrote: Steve Comstock at IBM Mainframe Discussion ListIBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu wrote on 09/22/2010 11:04:29 AM: Frank, I was going to suggest that, but the DFSORT doc seems to imply that's not allowed: z/OS 1.12 DFSORT Application Programming Guide (PDF version

Re: SORT Numeric Field

2010-09-21 Thread Steve Comstock
10 follows 1 and 100 follows 10 whereas I need to get 2 to follow 1 and 10 to follow 9. I'm reading the manuals but a quick pointer would be much appreciated (BTW, this is all in REXX as well.) TIA Sebastian -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-393-8716 http

Re: SORT Numeric Field

2010-09-21 Thread Steve Comstock
for years but never really used it to my shame as I know it can do many things. Now maybe I'll get around to sorting that out. Once again, thanks. Sebastian. And, there's always: http://www.trainersfriend.com/JCL_courses/B625descrpt.htm -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend

Re: Cobol calling C function

2010-09-16 Thread Steve Comstock
/m520descr.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

Re: COBOL XML Generate - Only generate tags if data exists

2010-09-16 Thread Steve Comstock
the compiler tell if you want to include those or not? Nothing built in, I'm afraid. -- 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: LE dump - CEE3DMP of 64 bit registers

2010-09-15 Thread Steve Comstock
all 64-bits of the GPRs -- 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: LE dump - CEE3DMP of 64 bit registers

2010-09-15 Thread Steve Comstock
that. No matter, I wrote my own HLASM code. CEE3DMP will create an LE dump and continue running -- John McKown Systems Engineer IV 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

z/OS V1.12 differences and z196 (the new mainframe) impacts

2010-09-13 Thread Steve Comstock
has a new parameter, RECOVER, which can complete any previously interrupted VSAM processing (such as RECLAIM CA processing) -- 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 V1.12 differences and z196 (the new mainframe) impacts

2010-09-13 Thread Steve Comstock
On 9/13/2010 7:23 AM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: On Mon, 13 Sep 2010 06:35:45 -0600, Steve Comstock wrote: * GETMAIN now returns address of gotten area in R1 with the leftmost word being all binary zeros, so address can be treated as a 64-bit address Unconditionally? That would break

Re: z/OS V1.12 differences and z196 (the new mainframe) impacts

2010-09-13 Thread Steve Comstock
On 9/13/2010 8:22 AM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: On Mon, 13 Sep 2010 07:33:13 -0600, Steve Comstock wrote: R1 does not matter. From the Assembler Services Guide: Unless otherwise defined by the individual interface, the calling program should expect, upon return, that * The low halves (Bits 32-63

Re: Possible DFSORT problem?

2010-09-08 Thread Steve Comstock
Systems Engineer IV IT Administrative Services Group HealthMarkets(r) John, It occurs to me to ask: what version of COBOL are you using? There have been a lot of problems if you run 4.2 without all the requisite maintenance levels on z/OS and LE. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock

Re: JES2 vs. JES3

2010-09-08 Thread Steve Comstock
all ancient history, 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! + Training your people is an excellent investment

Re: The new POO (Props / ProP ) is available

2010-09-07 Thread Steve Comstock
: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Steve Comstock http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg2b9de5f05a9d57819852571c500428f9a Requires registration (again) on IBM Resource Link, but registration rejects my registration attempt even though it says it accepted it. What

Re: The new POO (Props / ProP ) is available

2010-09-07 Thread Steve Comstock
On 9/7/2010 6:47 AM, Chase, John wrote: -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Steve Comstock On 9/7/2010 6:32 AM, zMan wrote: Nope, not working. Same experience as John. I even did the forgot my password and set a new one: no joy. zMan, Lindy, John C

The new POO (Props / ProP ) is available

2010-09-03 Thread Steve Comstock
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg2b9de5f05a9d57819852571c500428f9a -- 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: Enterprise Cobol

2010-08-27 Thread Steve Comstock
Guy Gardoit wrote: We are running Enterprise Cobol 3.4.1. z/OS 1.12 which we will be ordering soon can include EC 4.2. How can one find out the IBM support expiration date for EC 3.4.1? Thank you. http://www-01.ibm.com/software/support/lifecycle/index_e.html -- Kind regards, -Steve

Re: JCL need? - create UNIX subdirectories

2010-08-26 Thread Steve Comstock
Engineer IV IT Administrative Services Group HealthMarkets(r) 9151 Boulevard 26 * N. Richland Hills * TX 76010 (817) 255-3225 phone * (817)-691-6183 cell john.mck...@healthmarkets.com * www.HealthMarkets.com -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-393-8716 http

Re: 3270 Emulator Software

2010-08-25 Thread Steve Comstock
, but unless your emulator supports wide screens it's painful to navigate. You mean SPLITV. -- 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: simple JCL question

2010-08-24 Thread Steve Comstock
statement I recall that earlier assertion and then say, I lied; the PGM parm on the execute statement is _both_ keyword and positional. -- 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: z196 sysplex question

2010-08-21 Thread Steve Comstock
other operating systems. Hmmm. So, can z/OS support 80 x 32 = 2560 active CPs per sysplex? As to whether customers are actually trying an 80-way z/OS, I can say only that our testing has tried it.. Peter Relson z/OS Core Technology Design -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's

Re: z196 sysplex question

2010-08-21 Thread Steve Comstock
R.S. wrote: W dniu 2010-08-21 15:30, Steve Comstock pisze: Peter Relson wrote: Regardless of how many CPs an LPAR may allow there may be an operating system restriction to a smaller number. It happens that at this point in time z/OS (1.11) is a bit ahead of the LPAR limit so that it can

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