Print Option from Mainframe to Microsoft Note

2012-08-01 Thread Jake anderson
Dear All, I am curious to know if we can configure the default printer option in mainframe to print Mainframe Datasets to a Microsoft Note. This Objective is just to save the Output as PDF for future References. Has Anyone have implemented the same in your Shops ? Could someone please direct me ?

Re: ISMF QUESTION

2012-08-01 Thread esmie moo
Thanks to all who have responded.  Another unhelpful product dished out by IBM. From: Hervey Martinez To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2012 12:05:24 PM Subject: Re: ISMF QUESTION To get a somewhat close guesstimate, you can drop the least s

Re: Print Option from Mainframe to Microsoft Note

2012-08-01 Thread Roger Bolan
With Infoprint Server Printway you can define a "printer" which transforms your files into PDF and then either prints or emails them. The IBM Print transform afpxpdf can transform AFP or line data to PDF. For more information see these links: http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/She

Re: Rexx Exec Help Desperately Sought!

2012-08-01 Thread Roger Bolan
The XMITIP doc says that it will handle dsnames the same as TSO, that is, partially qualified names get your prefix added, and fully qualified dsnames must be inside single quotes. I think you are just running into the way TSO parses the quotes. You may need to make sure the quotes get passed in

Re: Can't get output to print with Infoprint

2012-08-01 Thread Roger Bolan
Rick, If you are using Printway Extended Mode, try using Infoprint Central to handle the job. If your printer definition is matching on DEST, CLASS, and FORMS, and you have changed those, you might need to change the DEST, CLASS, and FORMS on the held job to match the printer definition again. It'

Re: Print Option from Mainframe to Microsoft Note

2012-08-01 Thread David Andrews
On Wed, 2012-08-01 at 06:35 -0400, Jake anderson wrote: > just to save the Output as PDF Also see Leland Lucius' TXT2PDF program. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.

Re: Rexx Exec Help Desperately Sought!

2012-08-01 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Aug 1, 2012, at 06:42, Roger Bolan wrote: > The XMITIP doc says that it will handle dsnames the same as TSO, that is, > partially qualified names get your prefix added, and fully qualified > dsnames must be inside single quotes. > > I think you are just running into the way TSO parses the quot

Re: Why ain't there no XILL?

2012-08-01 Thread Thomas David Rivers
Binyamin Dissen wrote: NILL? check. OILL? check. XILL? not present -- Binyamin Dissen http://www.dissensoftware.com Director, Dissen Software, Bar & Grill - Israel Maybe they were running out of acreage? But XOR is very doable with a few NOTs, ANDs and ORs... So, maybe it just wasn't w

Re: Rexx Exec Help Desperately Sought!

2012-08-01 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In <5271902217232606.wa.elardus.engelbrechtsita.co...@listserv.ua.edu>, on 07/31/2012 at 10:55 AM, Elardus Engelbrecht said: >Using your posted example, try this (using only one parameter): >EX 'SYS2.LOCAL.CLIST(XMITIP)' 'TM#T.M.XMITIP.PARMCARD.userid' Assuming that he replaces "userid" with

Re: Rexx Exec Help Desperately Sought!

2012-08-01 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In , on 07/31/2012 at 11:32 AM, George Rodriguez said: >I'm trying to execute XMITIP Is it in your SYSPROC or SYSEXEC? >"EX 'SYS2.LOCAL.CLIST(XMITIP)' how and what do I say here... I'm very >bad with syntax and when to use a single or double quote... The REXX rules that you need to know are

Re: Friday: What you've been waiting for! Build an 80 column punched card reader!

2012-08-01 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In <77142d37c0c3c34da0d7b1da7d7ca343415c6...@nwt-s-mbx2.rocketsoftware.com>, on 07/30/2012 at 08:32 PM, Bill Fairchild said: >but I have heard "data is" my whole life when listening to >conversational English (not Latin), find "data are" to sound strange, While I cringe when I hear "item of d

Re: Authorized Rexx Assembler Function

2012-08-01 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In <50176649.9050...@gmail.com>, on 07/31/2012 at 12:59 PM, David Crayford said: >On 31/07/2012 12:09 PM, Steve Comstock wrote: >> I never saw an answer from you regarding my question for some examples >> of how other non-primitive OS's provide a "simple way a program can >> protect its stora

Re: Friday: What you've been waiting for! Build an 80 column punched card reader!

2012-08-01 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In <5016b9ec.9020...@acm.org>, on 07/30/2012 at 11:44 AM, "Joel C. Ewing" said: >My recollection is that in the era of punched cards the more common >usage by programmers/operators was just "card", "cards", or "card >deck" and others more often than not called them "IBM cards" Also Hollerith

Re: Rexx Exec Help Desperately Sought!

2012-08-01 Thread George Rodriguez
One question... This exec is being executed in a batch job. Does that change anything? * * *George Rodriguez* *Specialist II - IT Solutions* *Application Support / Quality Assurance* *PX - 47652* *(561) 357-7652 (office)* *(561) 707-3496 (mobile)* *School District of Palm Beach County* *3348 Forest

Re: Rexx Exec Help Desperately Sought!

2012-08-01 Thread George Rodriguez
Hi Gil, What if the exec is being run from a batch program, what do I need to change? Rexx Exec ID2EMAIL calls via an EX the XMITIP Rexx Exec. //STEP0030 EXEC PGM=IKJEFT1B,DYNAMNBR=50 //SYSEXEC DD DISP=SHR,DSN=SYS2.LOCAL.CLIST // DD DISP=SHR,DSN=SYS2.LOCAL.REXX //STEPLIB DD DISP=SHR,DSN

MF TCO Infrastructure Estimate - Medium Size Shop

2012-08-01 Thread George Henke
I know this is a lot to ask, but does anyone have a rough idea of the TCO HW/SW/FTE, infrastructure and operations only, for a medium size shop with: - 8 LPARs across 2 CECs, - z/VM (2 instances), - zLINUX, z/OS (4 instances), - CICS (200 instances), - MQ, but no DB2. - the stan

Re: Rexx Exec Help Desperately Sought!

2012-08-01 Thread Lizette Koehler
George, The User's Guide for XMITIP is fairly comprehensive on how to run this in batch. The JCL and samples are good. Lizette > >Hi Gil, > >What if the exec is being run from a batch program, what do I need to >change? Rexx Exec ID2EMAIL calls via an EX the XMITIP Rexx Exec. > >//STEP0030 EXE

Re: Rexx Exec Help Desperately Sought!

2012-08-01 Thread Jerry Whitteridge
George Try to run your exec to build the file first and then execute the XMITIP in the batch job as separate execs: (Somewhat like the following - not actually tested). //STEP0030 EXEC PGM=IKJEFT1B,DYNAMNBR=50 //SYSEXEC DD DISP=SHR,DSN=SYS2.LOCAL.CLIST // DD DISP=SHR,DSN=SYS2.LOCAL.RE

Re: Print Option from Mainframe to Microsoft Note

2012-08-01 Thread Ed Finnell
Went thru various incantations. XMITIP with PDF conversion, BETA93 report viewer, finally went to ePrint at _www.leadtools.com_ (http://www.leadtools.com) and saved a bunch. In a message dated 8/1/2012 8:21:35 A.M. Central Daylight Time, d...@lists.duda.com writes: Also see Leland Luciu

Re: Rexx Exec Help Desperately Sought!

2012-08-01 Thread George Rodriguez
What user guide? I don't have one... Can you email me a copy? * * *George Rodriguez* *Specialist II - IT Solutions* *Application Support / Quality Assurance* *PX - 47652* *(561) 357-7652 (office)* *(561) 707-3496 (mobile)* *School District of Palm Beach County* *3348 Forest Hill Blvd.* *Room B-251

Re: Rexx Exec Help Desperately Sought!

2012-08-01 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Aug 1, 2012, at 12:07, Lizette Koehler wrote: > > The User's Guide for XMITIP is fairly comprehensive on how to run this in > batch. The JCL and samples are good. > >> What if the exec is being run from a batch program, what do I need to >> change? Rexx Exec ID2EMAIL calls via an EX the XMIT

Re: Rexx Exec Help Desperately Sought!

2012-08-01 Thread Greg Shirey
You can download it here: http://www.lbdsoftware.com/docs.html HTH, Greg Shirey Ben E. Keith Company -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of George Rodriguez Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2012 1:36 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA

Listserv Archives via Web

2012-08-01 Thread Mark Zelden
Is something wrong with the archives from the web? I have been having issues accessing them (which is how I monitor the list) for days. It works sometimes, painfully slow, but I haven't been able to get on at all today. Or is the listserv itself at ua having problems. Looking via google (since

Re: Listserv Archives via Web

2012-08-01 Thread Stone, Sandy
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Re: Listserv Archives via Web

2012-08-01 Thread Ed Finnell
Or T-town. The listserv seems to be up, maybe they're fighting dDOS on the DNS. Maybe Darren will enlighten us? In a message dated 8/1/2012 2:34:53 P.M. Central Daylight Time, sandy.st...@medmutual.com writes: get there from Cleveland... -

Re: Rexx Exec Help Desperately Sought!

2012-08-01 Thread Lizette Koehler
If you do an internet search on XMITIP you should see the User's Guide there. Lizette -Original Message- >From: George Rodriguez >Sent: Aug 1, 2012 11:36 AM >To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU >Subject: Re: Rexx Exec Help Desperately Sought! > >What user guide? I don't have one... > >Can you

Re: ISMF QUESTION

2012-08-01 Thread retired mainframer
:>: -Original Message- :>: From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On :>: Behalf Of esmie moo :>: Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2012 8:54 AM :>: To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU :>: Subject: ISMF QUESTION :>: :>: Good Morning Gentle Readers, :>: :>: I am trying to calcul

Re: MF TCO Infrastructure Estimate - Medium Size Shop

2012-08-01 Thread Lizette Koehler
George, Wouldn't TCO depend on the type of equipement as well as intangibles like people time, PDUs, cables, switches, facility and so forth? My understanding of TCO is: TCO tries to quantify the financial impact of deploying an information technology product over its life cycle. These techn

Re: Why ain't there no XILL?

2012-08-01 Thread Paul Gilmartin
Synthesizing XOR On Aug 1, 2012, at 10:32, Thomas David Rivers wrote: > >> NILL? check. OILL? check. XILL? not present > > Maybe they were running out of acreage? But XOR > is very doable with a few NOTs, ANDs and ORs... > So, maybe it just wasn't worth the effort?? > > See http://en.wikipedia

Re: Print Option from Mainframe to Microsoft Note

2012-08-01 Thread Jake anderson
Dear Ed/All, Though I have implemented Infoprint Server Printway but I have not used XMITIP tool. XMITIP at http://www.lbdsoftware.com/xmitip.html says at the 4th point as "convert files to PDF (Adobe Portable Document Format) readable using Acrobat" and was little confused about this statement.

Re: Print Option from Mainframe to Microsoft Note

2012-08-01 Thread Ed Finnell
That's affirmative. It calls the TXT2PDF pgm and attaches it to the email. There's a sample that converts it to a greenbar report and even let's you pick a watermark. T E S T R U N was popular. In a message dated 8/1/2012 8:54:14 P.M. Central Daylight Time, justmainfra...@gmail.com writes

InfoPrint Server Printway - Query

2012-08-01 Thread Jake anderson
Hi, I was checking for afpxpdf within /usr/lpp/Printsrv/bin but I could not find anything related to AFPXPDF. The folder Looks like below : IBMaopippdxp aopmigns aopsapdaopstart cancel pidu aopchkinv aoplogdaopmigpw aopsdbdaopstopfilter remotexf aopcstart

Re: InfoPrint Server Printway - Query

2012-08-01 Thread Ed Finnell
IIRC the Transforms are a separate set of FMIDs. One way is free the other way is $$$. Maybe the Boulder folks will chime in soon. In a message dated 8/1/2012 11:57:34 P.M. Central Daylight Time, justmainfra...@gmail.com writes: I am I missing something ? -

Re: Print Option from Mainframe to Microsoft Note

2012-08-01 Thread Arthur Fichtl
hi, Jake, what about that: http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/zos/v1r13/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.ibm.zos.r13.aokfa00%2Fpdfxmp.htm Transform an AFP MVS™ data set, specifying a form definition To transform the MVS data set USERX.AFP(MYFILE) into an output PDF file called myfile.pdf, usin

Re: Print Option from Mainframe to Microsoft Note

2012-08-01 Thread Jake anderson
Unfortunately AFP related FMID is not installed due to which my progress is stalled. On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 11:57 AM, Arthur Fichtl wrote: > hi, Jake, > what about that: > > http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/**infocenter/zos/v1r13/index.** > jsp?topic=%2Fcom.ibm.zos.r13.**aokfa00%2Fpdfxmp.htm