Re: Standard IBM Enterprise COBOL Service to convert ASCII to EBCDIC

2015-04-12 Thread Ed Gould
Ze'ev: Because in most cases programmers are less than lets say bright. If you bring up ASCII you will only confuse them. I suspect they will try and use it in some sort of horrendous fashion, like convert to ASCII and then back. To give you an idea how stupid programmers can be a S0C7

Re: IBM, Fujifilm cram 220TB of data onto tape-based storage that fits in your hand

2015-04-12 Thread Timothy Sipples
The Wheelers wrote: SONY 185tbyte last year not announced for mainframe. You are correct. Sony did not announce that. It would be equally correct and at least as relevant to point out that Sony also did not announce: * a tape drive; * completed tape media; * attachment to any type of system of

Re: Standard IBM Enterprise COBOL Service to convert ASCII to EBCDIC

2015-04-12 Thread Ze'ev Atlas
Because in most cases programmers are less than lets say bright. Oh, I see... I guess that this is why my rate when I program in lowly Access VBA is higher then anything COBOL programmers could get. I am not even trying to compare that to my rate when I write Perl, T-SQL, PL/SQL, etc. They

Re: murach's os/390 and z/os jcl pdf

2015-04-12 Thread Anthony Thompson
Exactly. The OP is looking for a free ride. I will also point out that the book is somewhat dated, and there have been improvements to JCL since (access to system symbols, promotion of such to SYSIN, PARMDD, etc.). Ant. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List

Re: AMATERSE and PDSE ?

2015-04-12 Thread Martin Packer
In my case the only interrelatedness was that my thought - a record exit on UNPACK - also related to AMATERSE. So Peter was right to suggest it was the subject of a different RFE. Cheers, Martin From: Peter Relson rel...@us.ibm.com To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Date: 11/04/2015 23:34

Re: IBM z/OS Service Survey

2015-04-12 Thread Alvaro Guirao Lopez
I completed the survey without problems with Google Chrome. On Sun, Apr 12, 2015, 04:14 Iris Rivera iriv...@us.ibm.com wrote: Hi Shane, Thank you for bringing this to our attention. I will do some research to see if and how we can disable this message. I appreciate your feedback.

Re: Standard IBM Enterprise COBOL Service to convert ASCII to EBCDIC

2015-04-12 Thread Ze'ev Atlas
to summarize the conversation: I don't know what is scarer letting ASCII loose in the environment or letting programmers know about it. Not to alarm you further, but I believe it's already endemic. Not in any company I have ever worked. Why is getting an ASCII piece of information so scary?

Re: Standard IBM Enterprise COBOL Service to convert ASCII to EBCDIC

2015-04-12 Thread Ze'ev Atlas
Thank you all to those who've pointed me to NATIONAL-OF and DISPLAY-OF intrinsic functions. For some reason I missed them when looking at the list of intrinsic functions. While calling the C runtime library is an interesting exercise, using native COBOL functionality when in COBOL is superior.

Re: IBM z/OS Service Survey

2015-04-12 Thread Shane Ginnane
Thank you for bringing this to our attention. I will do some research to see if and how we can disable this message. Cheers Iris, I doubt your survey partners will give a tuppenny damn about people (such as I) who disable js. I'm happy to remain on the fringes, and ignored by the mainstream.

Re: Silly SMS ACS routine question

2015-04-12 Thread Lizette Koehler
I think I understand. You run the DEFINE LOGSTREAM process but need to add a STORCLAS parm to it. Is that correct? If so, you need to add WRITE statements to your ACS code so you can see what things look like before and after the section in the code you think should be getting control. It would

Silly SMS ACS routine question

2015-04-12 Thread Binyamin Dissen
I am using a storage class routine, but it does not receive control for DEFINE LOGSTREAM unless I explicitly specify a class - it seems to first go to a storage volume. What am I missing? -- Binyamin Dissen bdis...@dissensoftware.com http://www.dissensoftware.com Director, Dissen Software, Bar

Re: Silly SMS ACS routine question

2015-04-12 Thread Rob Schramm
Sort of correct. ACS routines will assign STORCLAS based upon the STORCLAS routine. If the logger is allowed to override the STORCLAS and you have one specified for the logstream, then the override is allowed. Rob Schramm On Apr 12, 2015 10:54 AM, Lizette Koehler stars...@mindspring.com wrote: