Re: IEBCOPY - "MOVE"

2013-09-23 Thread John Gilmore
In fact Shmuel is, as so often, quite wrong. IEHMOVE did require a DD statement for the target, move-to dataset; and I did not, of course, say that it did not. It did not, however, move the source dataset directly to this target. Instead it allocated storage for a very different .

Re: IEBCOPY - "MOVE"

2013-09-23 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In , on 09/23/2013 at 06:09 AM, John Gilmore said: >Instead it allocated storage for a very different >.,, target dataset dynamically. I believe that most posters in this thread interpreted "allocation" as referring to the Allocation component of the operating sys

Re: IEBCOPY - "MOVE"

2013-09-23 Thread Elardus Engelbrecht
John Gilmore wrote: >IEHMOVE did require a DD statement for the target, move-to dataset; and I did >not, of course, say that it did not. >It did not, however, move the source dataset directly to this target. Instead >it allocated storage for a very different >.,, tar

Pissing contest(s)

2013-09-23 Thread Shane Ginnane
Enuff already guys. There's no shortage of egos on this list, but let's keep it so we can all take something out of it. Shane ... -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listser

Re: Pissing contest(s)

2013-09-23 Thread Richard Pinion
Do the movie titles "Grumpy old men" and "Grumpier old men" come to mind? --- ibm-m...@tpg.com.au wrote: From: Shane Ginnane To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Pissing contest(s) Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2013 05:37:46 -0500 Enuff already guys. There's no shortage of ego

Re: IEBCOPY - "MOVE"

2013-09-23 Thread Gerhard Postpischil
On 9/23/2013 6:33 AM, Elardus Engelbrecht wrote: Interesting. I think I also observed failed moves, but can't remember the fine details. What RC and messages did it gave in such cases? The only error, but not RC, I remember vividly is the case where a PDS didn't have enough directory blocks t

Re: Unused variables

2013-09-23 Thread Binyamin Dissen
Adjacent 01 levels have been used to allocate storage larger than the maximum allowed by COBOL. On Sat, 21 Sep 2013 20:18:53 -0300 Clark Morris wrote: :>On 20 Sep 2013 08:12:42 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main John Gilmore :>wrote: :> :>>The idea of eliminating unreferenced variables in COBOL rec

Re: ICSF Without Crypto Card?

2013-09-23 Thread Todd Arnold
Just for fun, here is a little history of crypto for the mainframe systems. 1977 – IBM 3845 DES encryption unit (channel attached) 1979 – IBM 3848 DES encryption unit (channel attached) - Faster, adds Triple-DES 1989 - IBM 4753 channel-attached crypto unit - uses 4755 crypto adapter internally,

Re: ICSF Without Crypto Card?

2013-09-23 Thread Todd Arnold
> Hi Todd, > Are you saying that the Redbook SG24-7848-00 System z Crypto andTKE Update is > just plain wrong ? Actually, I cannot figure out what that text from the RedBook is trying to say :-) All protected-mode keys are stored as CCA secure key tokens, wrapped by the master key of the Crypt

Re: Unused variables

2013-09-23 Thread Steve Comstock
On 9/23/2013 7:08 AM, Binyamin Dissen wrote: Adjacent 01 levels have been used to allocate storage larger than the maximum allowed by COBOL. Yes, and that's a strategy that is not guaranteed to work under Enterprise COBOL if you use OPT(FULL). The compiler might well remove those items; and in

Re: IEBCOPY - "MOVE"

2013-09-23 Thread Elardus Engelbrecht
Gerhard Postpischil wrote: >The only error, but not RC, I remember vividly is the case where a PDS didn't >have enough directory blocks to add another member, did the add to the >directory anyway, causing the last name to be dropped from the directory. This >was particularly annoying when doing

Re: IEBCOPY - "MOVE"

2013-09-23 Thread John Gilmore
Gerhard is right in the sense that the asterisks-and-dots DSNAME could sometimes be shorter. There were, however, circumstances in which multiple-asterisk prefixes, infixes, and suffixes did occur. I suspect that his homegrown utility scratched instances of such datasets rapidly enough to make th

Does your company have different SLO / SLA's for Scheduled / Unscheduled downtime?

2013-09-23 Thread Astemborski, David
Today, our mainframe team has both Scheduled & Unscheduled downtime in a single downtime SLA. Does your company have separate SLO / SLA's for Scheduled / Unscheduled downtime? The information contained in this electronic communication and any document attached hereto or transmitted herewith i

Re: Unused variables

2013-09-23 Thread John Gilmore
Binyamin Dissen makes a very important point with Adjacent 01 levels have been used to allocate storage larger than the maximum allowed by COBOL. I have recently been accused of being a pedant. Let me therefore act the part. These adjacent 01 levels are typically used to enlarge a COBOL table

DSNAME Syntax (was: IEBCOPY - "MOVE")

2013-09-23 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Mon, 23 Sep 2013 09:08:25 -0400, Gerhard Postpischil wrote: >... >And I think Mr. Gilmore had too many asterisks. The pattern I recall was >to prepend "*." until a unique name resulted (IIRC, giving things like >*.*.*.jobname.other). I had a home-grown utility, run daily, that >scratched tempora

Rexx question

2013-09-23 Thread Rob Schramm
All, I was doing some rexx work in batch on z/OS... attempting to use "EXECIO * DISKR INPUTDD (Finis Stem in." "FREE F(INPUTDD)" Where the INPUTDD was //INPUTDD DD DSN=SOME.PDS(MEMBER) and the results were very strange (multiple lines concatenated, seemed to be picking up a prior member in t

Re: ICSF Without Crypto Card?

2013-09-23 Thread Todd Arnold
>> Hi Todd, >> Are you saying that the Redbook SG24-7848-00 System z Crypto andTKE Update >> is just plain wrong ? > Actually, I cannot figure out what that text from the RedBook is trying to > say :-) OK, I looked at the RedBook and I see what it's talking about now. It's sort of a "halfway"

Re: Rexx question

2013-09-23 Thread Lizette Koehler
In case you were not aware, there is a newsgroup for TSO-REXX If you have not done so, you can join here. Just go to the bottom of the Webpage http://www2.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?TSO-REXX what are the attributers? Lrecl, blksize, etc... Did you check the original PDS to see if that member

Re: Pissing contest(s)

2013-09-23 Thread Scott Ford
I love it ...2 points Richard ... Scott J Ford Software Engineer http://www.identityforge.com/   From: Richard Pinion To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Sent: Monday, September 23, 2013 8:47 AM Subject: Re: Pissing contest(s) Do the movie titles "Grumpy old men

Re: Unused variables

2013-09-23 Thread Farley, Peter x23353
IMHO that is not pedantic, just clarifying. In similar circumstances I have advocated (and implemented) using the LE storage obtain and release mechanisms and a LINKAGE section table definition with "OCCURS 1" to utilize as much storage as needed for the business purpose (millions of rows in on

Re: Pissing contest(s)

2013-09-23 Thread John Mattson
So does anyone wonder where the phrase came from anyhow? Were there such contests in the distant past? Was it an ancient Greek olympic event? What? Certainly seems like good material for Monty Python. John Mattson, Epson America desk: 562-290-4163 cell:310-210-9152 From: Scott Ford To

Re: DSNAME Syntax (was: IEBCOPY - "MOVE")

2013-09-23 Thread John Gilmore
Historically, the use of a DSN{AME]= value like *.*.GUBBINS was not possible for an ordinary application programmer, whose JCL would have been rejected as in error if it had contained such a DSN= value. Such practices were once common for member names too. IBM for long distributed CICS materia

Re: Rexx question

2013-09-23 Thread Itschak Mugzach
What in.0 in.1 etc. Holds? בתאריך 23 בספט 2013 17:38, מאת "Lizette Koehler" : > In case you were not aware, there is a newsgroup for TSO-REXX > > If you have not done so, you can join here. Just go to the bottom of the > Webpage > > http://www2.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?TSO-REXX > > > what are th

Re: Pissing contest(s)

2013-09-23 Thread Scott Ford
Sounds English to me ..lol Scott J Ford Software Engineer http://www.identityforge.com/   From: John Mattson To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Sent: Monday, September 23, 2013 11:06 AM Subject: Re: Pissing contest(s) So does anyone wonder where the phrase

Re: Rexx question

2013-09-23 Thread Klan, Rob (RET-DAY)
Suspect you have issue with PDS...although maybe directory is lla frozen, "prior data"? Below code works seq or pds(mem) /* REXX */ "ALLOC SHR FILE(INPUT) DATASET('UKLANRX.JCL.CNTL(SYSGEN)')" "EXECIO * DISKR INPUT (STEM INPUT. FINIS)" "FREE FILE(INPUT)" CNTR = 1 DO WHILE CNTR <= INPUT.0 SAY IN

Re: Pissing contest(s)

2013-09-23 Thread Martin Packer
I think you meant "UK". :-) And as "pissed" and "pissed off" are movable UKUS feasts :-) here goes... Think urinals. :-) You asked for it. :-) So here's some toilet humour. :-) Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM

Re: Pissing contest(s)

2013-09-23 Thread Richards, Robert B.
Agreed! In a pub in England, to get pissed means to get drunk. Right, Rob? :-) In that case, it would be a drinking contest. Much better imagery! -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Scott Ford Sent: Monday, September

Re: Pissing contest(s)

2013-09-23 Thread Taylor, Scott
Only on this listserv can this particular topic become a thread... sigh. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Richards, Robert B. Sent: Monday, September 23, 2013 10:24 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Pissing c

Re: UNICODE to EBCDIC

2013-09-23 Thread Scott Barry
On Mon, 23 Sep 2013 10:54:44 -0500, Donald Likens wrote: >WebSphere Application Server supplies some of its information in its SMF >records in Unicode format. Is there a facility available to convert Unicode to >EBCDIC? Suggest structured Internet search argument --> convert unicode to ebcd

Re: Pissing contest(s)

2013-09-23 Thread John Mattson
With all the heavy seriousness these days, a little levity is in order. Thanks, folks, its been fun. Now let's keep our senses (of humor) and let this matter pass. So to speak John Mattson, Epson America desk: 562-290-4163 cell:310-210-9152 From: "Taylor, Scott" To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSER

UNICODE to EBCDIC

2013-09-23 Thread Donald Likens
WebSphere Application Server supplies some of its information in its SMF records in Unicode format. Is there a facility available to convert Unicode to EBCDIC? -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, s

Re: UNICODE to EBCDIC

2013-09-23 Thread Steve Comstock
On 9/23/2013 9:54 AM, Donald Likens wrote: WebSphere Application Server supplies some of its information in its SMF records in Unicode format. Is there a facility available to convert Unicode to EBCDIC? Which EBCDIC code page would you like? Check out Unicode Services User's Guide and Refer

Re: Does your company have different SLO / SLA's for Scheduled / Unscheduled downtime?

2013-09-23 Thread Skip Robinson
Although some may disapprove of our practice, it has been in place for decades. Our SLAs apply to unscheduled outages. As long as an outage is scheduled, approved, advertized to affected clients, and completed on time, we are not dinged for it. Of course we try to minimize scheduled outages, bu

Re: UNICODE to EBCDIC

2013-09-23 Thread Barry Merrill
The SAS Language (and of course, MXG Software that processes every SMF record on the face of the earth, and written in the SAS Language) has NO problem inputting Unicode data and storing either as ASCII or EBCDIC characters. And it's not ONLY WEBSPHERE SMF that has UNICODE. Barry Herbert W.

Health Check(s) remediation

2013-09-23 Thread Rob JACKSON
Dear Listserv members, I have been asked to take on the task of remediating the health checks for sysplex. I have been given a list of some of the health checks that come up as exceptions on designated LPARs. Any suggestions? IXGLOGR_STRUCTUREFULL RRS_ARCHIVECFSTRUCTURE GDPS_CHECK_DASDMI

Re: DSNAME Syntax (was: IEBCOPY - "MOVE")

2013-09-23 Thread Gerhard Postpischil
On 9/23/2013 11:07 AM, John Gilmore wrote: Historically, the use of a DSN{AME]= value like *.*.GUBBINS was not possible for an ordinary application programmer, whose JCL would have been rejected as in error if it had contained such a DSN= value. Sorry to disagree, but application programmers

Re: Very large tables/ records in COBOL was Re: Unused variables

2013-09-23 Thread Steve Comstock
On 9/23/2013 10:55 AM, Clark Morris wrote: On 23 Sep 2013 06:09:02 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: Adjacent 01 levels have been used to allocate storage larger than the maximum allowed by COBOL. With the more recent versions of COBOL is the practice still necessary or can the table

Re: UNICODE to EBCDIC

2013-09-23 Thread Clark Morris
On 23 Sep 2013 09:23:00 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: >If you mean a program, then the UNIX "iconv" command can do that. There is >also the "iconv" set of C language subroutines if you want to write your >own. >http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/edclb1c0/3.440

Re: UNICODE to EBCDIC

2013-09-23 Thread John McKown
On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 11:44 AM, Steve Comstock wrote: > On 9/23/2013 10:22 AM, John McKown wrote: > >> If you mean a program, then the UNIX "iconv" command can do that. There is >> also the "iconv" set of C language subroutines if you want to write your >> own. >> http://publibz.boulder.ibm.**co

Re: Rexx question

2013-09-23 Thread Scott Ford
Rob:   why do you want to free it ...its not clear why you need to ...   If it was allocated dynamically or a file for temporary usage, 'yes' free it , but allocated via a '//    DD ' ...odd Scott J Ford Software Engineer http://www.identityforge.com/   From:

Re: Does your company have different SLO / SLA's for Scheduled / Unscheduled downtime?

2013-09-23 Thread Mark Zelden
On Mon, 23 Sep 2013 08:03:40 -0700, Skip Robinson wrote: >Although some may disapprove of our practice, it has been in place for >decades. Our SLAs apply to unscheduled outages. As long as an outage is >scheduled, approved, advertized to affected clients, and completed on >time, we are not dinge

Very large tables/ records in COBOL was Re: Unused variables

2013-09-23 Thread Clark Morris
On 23 Sep 2013 06:09:02 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: >Adjacent 01 levels have been used to allocate storage larger than the maximum >allowed by COBOL. With the more recent versions of COBOL is the practice still necessary or can the tables be large enough? Given the existence of BL

Re: DSNAME Syntax (was: IEBCOPY - "MOVE")

2013-09-23 Thread Gerhard Postpischil
On 9/23/2013 10:27 AM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: Nowadays, might a viable practice be to scratch anything that's neither catalogued nor allocated? I didn't want to write a monograph, but keep the response brief. The scratch program in question considers the (installation's) classification of the

Re: UNICODE to EBCDIC

2013-09-23 Thread Steve Comstock
On 9/23/2013 10:22 AM, John McKown wrote: If you mean a program, then the UNIX "iconv" command can do that. There is also the "iconv" set of C language subroutines if you want to write your own. http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/edclb1c0/3.440 http://publibz.boulder.ibm.c

Re: DSNAME Syntax (was: IEBCOPY - "MOVE")

2013-09-23 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Mon, 23 Sep 2013 13:08:01 -0400, Gerhard Postpischil wrote: > >Sorry to disagree, but application programmers had wide leeway in >creating "funny" names. For DOS compatibility, a DSN was allowed to be >quoted, and could contain a number of special characters that would fail >in JCL unquoted. Wit

Re: UNICODE to EBCDIC

2013-09-23 Thread Steve Comstock
On 9/23/2013 12:02 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: On Mon, 23 Sep 2013 10:44:04 -0600, Steve Comstock wrote: On 9/23/2013 10:22 AM, John McKown wrote: If you mean a program, then the UNIX "iconv" command can do that. There is also the "iconv" set of C language subroutines if you want to write your o

Re: DSNAME Syntax (was: IEBCOPY - "MOVE")

2013-09-23 Thread John Gilmore
I was not using the word 'ordinary' in a pejorative or even deprecatory way. I intended only to exclude very savvy people writing application code in assembly language and their like. I was at least half-aware of the DOS-compatibility quote-framed DSNAME value loophole, but if I remember correct

Re: UNICODE to EBCDIC

2013-09-23 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Mon, 23 Sep 2013 10:44:04 -0600, Steve Comstock wrote: >On 9/23/2013 10:22 AM, John McKown wrote: >> If you mean a program, then the UNIX "iconv" command can do that. There is >> also the "iconv" set of C language subroutines if you want to write your >> own. >> http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/c

Help with OpenSSH SFTP Batch

2013-09-23 Thread Mowry, Norma E CIV DISA ESB (US)
We just configured and started two OpenSSH servers on different hosts. I have been able to logon to both SHH servers using PuTTY, we can initiate sftp from the PuTTY session and it works okay to transfer files. We are now trying to get SFTP to work from a batch job but it fails with RC=255 HOS

Re: Help with OpenSSH SFTP Batch

2013-09-23 Thread Mark Jacobs
You'll have to harvest the host public key from both servers and store them in one of the files identified below. Depending on whether the servers have RSA or DSA host public keys you might have to play with the ssh-keyscan command to get the right type key. ssh-keyscan -t rsa (or dsa) server

Re: Rexx question

2013-09-23 Thread Rob Schramm
Attributes were recfm=FB, lrecl=120 PDS. There were no I/O errors. I was able to copy the member via 3.3 to the sequential file without issue. Also, viewed it numerous times. I will have to allocate my own copy and re-check it. As for the FREE... no harm no foul. If I had done an ALLOCATE ...

Re: Help with OpenSSH SFTP Batch

2013-09-23 Thread Grinsell, Don
What I recall doing to facilitate this on my system was to use putty to connect to my first host and then use ssh to manually connect to the second host. This establishes the keys in the known_hosts file for the appropriate user. After that the batch sftp should work just fine. If I remember

Re: Help with OpenSSH SFTP Batch

2013-09-23 Thread Kirk Wolf
FYI - Slides and a recording of our June 12, 2012 webinar: "IBM Ported Tools for z/OS OpenSSH: Key Authentication" is available on our web site: http://dovetail.com/webinars.html (this is part 1 of a two part series; part 2 is "Using Key Rings" ) Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://doveta

Re: Pissing contest(s)

2013-09-23 Thread Scott Ford
Yep agreed, lived in Europe so I get it ...but still fun ...life is t short not to have fun ... Scott J Ford Software Engineer http://www.identityforge.com/   From: "Richards, Robert B." To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Sent: Monday, September 23, 2013 11:24

Re: UNICODE to EBCDIC

2013-09-23 Thread Jon Perryman
For official character conversion in assembler, see the IBM manual "z/OS Unicode Services User's Guide and Reference"  which documents use of their unicode services. Jon Perryman.   > > From: Steve Comstock > > >Actually, COBOL has the builtin function DISPLAY-OF

Re: UNICODE to EBCDIC

2013-09-23 Thread John McKown
If you mean a program, then the UNIX "iconv" command can do that. There is also the "iconv" set of C language subroutines if you want to write your own. http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/edclb1c0/3.440 http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/cbcpg1c0/8.6.

Re: PDS/E, Shared Dasd, and COBOL V5

2013-09-23 Thread Tom Ross
>If you set up new PDS/E program libraries for only V5 program code, then >any time maintenance on a COBOL program is done the maintainer must be >aware whether this is the first time this program has compiled with V5 >and if so, be sure any related production JCL gets changed to reference >the new

COBOL 5.1 Share presentations

2013-09-23 Thread Tom Ross
>>>Tom, >>> >>>Could you share the SHARE presentations you have given on COBOL V5? >> >> I just sent them over, they should be live soon at: >> http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=3Dswg21634215 > >'Soon' meaning that more than a week later these presentations are still no= >t there. Our

Re: PDS/E, Shared Dasd, and COBOL V5

2013-09-23 Thread Lizette Koehler
Tom, Here is my 2cents worth Yes it is do-able. However, here are the challenges 1) How many applications have unique LOADLIBs? 2) What STCs are those libraries tied to - DB2 Stored Procedures, MQ STC, DB2 STC, CICS STC, IMS STC. 3) How many loadlibs need to be replicated from PDS to PDS/E? 4)

Re: Help with OpenSSH SFTP Batch

2013-09-23 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Mon, 23 Sep 2013 14:48:32 -0500, Kirk Wolf wrote: >FYI - Slides and a recording of our June 12, 2012 webinar: "IBM Ported >Tools for z/OS OpenSSH: Key Authentication" is available on our web site: > >http://dovetail.com/webinars.html > >(this is part 1 of a two part series; part 2 is "Using K

Re: PDS/E, Shared Dasd, and COBOL V5

2013-09-23 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Mon, 23 Sep 2013 12:17:20 -0700, Tom Ross wrote: > ... >Step 6 when all code has been moved, the only programs in PDS should be > unused, and the PDS datasets could be deleted > > If this plan was used, the COBOL V5 PDSE requirement would not be disruptive. >My question, is it do-able? > I beli

Re: Help with OpenSSH SFTP Batch

2013-09-23 Thread Kirk Wolf
Gil, Agreed; this is really stupid - but it has always worked that way. Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 3:37 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: > On Mon, 23 Sep 2013 14:48:32 -0500, Kirk Wolf wrote: > > >FYI - Slides and a recording of our June 12, 2012 we

Re: COBOL 5.1 Share presentations

2013-09-23 Thread Steve Comstock
On 9/23/2013 2:23 PM, Tom Ross wrote: Tom, Could you share the SHARE presentations you have given on COBOL V5? I just sent them over, they should be live soon at: http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=3Dswg21634215 'Soon' meaning that more than a week later these presentations are st

Re: COBOL 5.1 Share presentations

2013-09-23 Thread Bob Rutledge
Lose the 3D, http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21634215 Bob Steve Comstock wrote: On 9/23/2013 2:23 PM, Tom Ross wrote: Tom, Could you share the SHARE presentations you have given on COBOL V5? I just sent them over, they should be live soon at: http://www-01.ibm.com/support/

Re: Pissing contest(s)

2013-09-23 Thread Anthony Babonas
.and this is why NSA stopped monitoring us. Tony's iPhone (with toy keyboard) is responsible for this Email. Please do not snicker. On Sep 23, 2013, at 10:39 AM, John Mattson wrote: > With all the heavy seriousness these days, a little levity is in order. > Thanks, folks, its been fun

Re: COBOL 5.1 Share presentations

2013-09-23 Thread Steve Comstock
On 9/23/2013 3:12 PM, Bob Rutledge wrote: Lose the 3D, http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21634215 Bob Thanks, Bob. That did it. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-355-2752 http://www.trainersfriend.com * We are going out of business effective 3

Re: UNICODE to EBCDIC

2013-09-23 Thread Charles Mills
z/OS Unicode Services is an AWESOME facility but there is a little bit of a learning curve (or "coding curve" if there is such a thing). It will certainly handle whatever you need, assuming assembler is viable option for you. "Unicode" is not a character set (or "format") -- it's a whole family

Re: Pissing contest(s)

2013-09-23 Thread David Crayford
In Australia piss is also a slang word for alcohol. "We're having a barbie Sunday arvo. Just bring your own piss". On 23/09/2013, at 11:24 PM, "Richards, Robert B." wrote: > Agreed! > > In a pub in England, to get pissed means to get drunk. Right, Rob? :-) > > In that case, it would be a

Re: UNICODE to EBCDIC

2013-09-23 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Mon, 23 Sep 2013 16:56:46 -0700, Charles Mills wrote: > >"Unicode" is not a character set (or "format") -- it's a whole family of >character sets. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode. If it's UTF-8 then you >can do a 98% job if you just treat it as ASCII. If it's UTF-16 or UCS-2 you >can do

Re: UNICODE to EBCDIC

2013-09-23 Thread Charles Mills
Yer right. It's a single character set (all the characters in the world! -- well, not quite: Jurchen, Nü Shu, Tangut, and Linear A are "working their way through the approval process;" Klingon is ineligible because of "lack of real world use") and a variety of ways of encoding them. Okay? It's

Re: UNICODE to EBCDIC

2013-09-23 Thread Tony Harminc
On 23 September 2013 20:18, Paul Gilmartin wrote: > On Mon, 23 Sep 2013 16:56:46 -0700, Charles Mills wrote: >>There is actually a "Unicode EBCDIC" (UTF-EBCDIC) but it's pretty obscure. >> > Not as obscure as it deserves to be. Never miss a chance on this one, do you Gil... As you know, I think

Re: Pissing contest(s)

2013-09-23 Thread John Gilmore
The first time I encountered something like this phrase, circa 1950, it took the form of Don't get into a pissing match with a skunk! I suspect that the phrase and its variants have multiple etymologies, with much semantic cross contamination among them. John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA --

Re: UNICODE to EBCDIC

2013-09-23 Thread John Gilmore
Paul Gilmartin's opinions about EBCDIC are not always or necessarily wrong in detail, but they are wholly predictable. John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send

Re: UNICODE to EBCDIC

2013-09-23 Thread John Gilmore
On 9/23/13, John Gilmore wrote: > Paul Gilmartin's opinions about EBCDIC are not always or necessarily > wrong in detail, but they are wholly predictable. > > John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA > -- John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA --

Re: UNICODE to EBCDIC

2013-09-23 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Mon, 23 Sep 2013 21:23:04 -0400, Tony Harminc wrote: > >> Not as obscure as it deserves to be. > >Never miss a chance on this one, do you Gil... As you know, I think >UTF-EBCDIC was a great idea, and can't understand how it failed to >catch on. Maybe there's just not much call for invoking legac

Re: UNICODE to EBCDIC

2013-09-23 Thread David Crayford
On 24/09/2013 10:43 AM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: It doesn't say (but perhaps TR # 16 does) which EBCDIC code page (or for that matter, which flavor of ASCII -- ISO8859-??) is used. This could be chaotic. And the dreadful LF<->NEL pitfall lurks. ASCII suffers similar problems; else why would we have

Re: UNICODE to EBCDIC

2013-09-23 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Tue, 24 Sep 2013 11:18:30 +0800, David Crayford wrote: > >The C++ committee wanted to deprecate trigraphs in the last standard >http://tinyurl.com/n3nas3u. EBCDIC was the only tangible reason >for keeping them alive. I've lost count of the amount of times I've had >a C/C++ analysis tool choke b

Re: Pissing contest(s)

2013-09-23 Thread Scott Ford
David, I like that...he someone says take a piss, it's more like leave one Scott ford www.identityforge.com from my IPAD 'Infinite wisdom through infinite means' > On Sep 23, 2013, at 8:01 PM, David Crayford wrote: > > In Australia piss is also a slang word for alcohol. "We're having a barbi

Re: Pissing contest(s)

2013-09-23 Thread Tony Harminc
On 23 September 2013 21:56, John Gilmore wrote: > I suspect that the phrase and its variants have multiple etymologies, > with much semantic cross contamination among them. Indeed. I had imagined that any actual such contest would be engaged in only by small boys, and that the phrase is used to p

Re: DSNAME Syntax

2013-09-23 Thread Gerhard Postpischil
On 9/23/2013 3:15 PM, John Gilmore wrote: I was not using the word 'ordinary' in a pejorative or even deprecatory way. I intended only to exclude very savvy people writing application code in assembly language and their like. The problem is that "ordinary" is extremely subjective, depending no

Re: Pissing contest(s)

2013-09-23 Thread Ted MacNEIL
That's it, exactly. - Ted MacNEIL eamacn...@yahoo.ca Twitter: @TedMacNEIL -Original Message- From: Tony Harminc Sender: IBM Mainframe Discussion List Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2013 00:33:40 To: Reply-To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List Subject: Re: Pissing contest(s)

Re: Health Check(s) remediation

2013-09-23 Thread nitz-...@gmx.net
> I have been asked to take on the task of remediating the health checks for > sysplex. I have been given a list of some of the health checks that come up > as exceptions on designated LPARs. Any suggestions? > IXGLOGR_STRUCTUREFULL RRS_ARCHIVECFSTRUCTURE GDPS_CHECK_DASDMIH > XCF_CF_MEMORY_

Re: Pissing contest(s)

2013-09-23 Thread Ed Jaffe
On 9/23/2013 3:37 AM, Shane Ginnane wrote: Enuff already guys. There's no shortage of egos on this list, but let's keep it so we can all take something out of it. Trust me, if Shane can control himself, you can too! :) -- Edward E Jaffe Phoenix Software International, Inc 831 Parkview Drive

Re: Pissing contest(s)

2013-09-23 Thread Vernooij, CP - SPLXM
When this thread popped up, I first was happy, so I could easily skip this subject and concentrate on useful threads, but this one is becoming so funny, I don't want to miss it either... Kees. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Beha