Re: PDS/E Cobol

2016-09-18 Thread Wayne Bickerdike
Won't FTP GET work? Just direct into the PDSE. On Sat, Sep 17, 2016 at 7:27 AM, Paul Gilmartin < 000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > On Fri, 16 Sep 2016 08:18:14 -0500, Tom Marchant > wrote: > > >On Fri, 16 Sep 2016 02:39:15 +, Jesse 1 Robinson wrote: > > > >>I don't thi

Re: How do you say "z/OS"?

2016-09-18 Thread Wayne Bickerdike
Spent some time in Phoenix teaching some REXX to colleagues. I'm an English guy who moved to OZ in 1986 and had 5 years in California. After about an hour one of the guys put his hand up and said, "excuse me, what's ZED?" On Sun, Sep 18, 2016 at 3:52 AM, Jesse 1 Robinson wrote: > Don't know jic

Re: Down with idiotic disclaimer footers and dumb surveys!

2016-09-18 Thread Jesse 1 Robinson
Things may have changed since I was an undergrad, but around that time there some court ruling in California to the effect that merely posting 'No Trespassing' signs had no legal weight unless 'trespassers' were periodically locked out. So one day a year the entire campus was closed to outside t

Re: k4t4949b (September 2016 refresh of the z/OS 2.2 manuals)

2016-09-18 Thread Jack J. Woehr
R.S. wrote: For people who want documentation: use *any* software which is able to unpack the archive. Linux and OpenBSD both have 7z as installable ports which will unpack the archives. I just tried it and it worked. -- Jack J. Woehr # Science is more than a body of knowledge. It's a wa

Re: Down with idiotic disclaimer footers and dumb surveys!

2016-09-18 Thread R.S.
The value of such disclaimer is much less than "private area" sign on the ground. The last really oblige trespasser. However IMHO none of us is able to get rid of the disclaimer. Of course, the choice is not to use corporate e-mail, but ...nowadays many organizations prohibit access to external

Re: k4t4949b (September 2016 refresh of the z/OS 2.2 manuals)

2016-09-18 Thread R.S.
Well, very big problem... For people who want documentation: use *any* software which is able to unpack the archive. There are several tools, including shareware, like WinRar or 7zip. For the rest: read the thread. Sorry, I couldn't resist. Most of us is here to solve problems. (no offence i

Re: SVC 99 Quick Question

2016-09-18 Thread Charles Mills
Not generally. Perhaps affects what happens if there is a conflict.  CharlesSent from a mobile; please excuse the brevity Original message From: Joe Reichman Date: 9/18/16 9:31 AM (GMT-08:00) To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: SVC 99 Quick Question Hi I am

Re: k4t4949b (September 2016 refresh of the z/OS 2.2 manuals)

2016-09-18 Thread Charles Mills
Yes that is just the Zip "sub-methods." CharlesSent from a mobile; please excuse the brevity Original message From: Paul Gilmartin <000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> Date: 9/18/16 9:30 AM (GMT-08:00) To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: k4t4949b (S

Re: SVC 99 Quick Question

2016-09-18 Thread Joe Reichman
Thanks so much :) -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of J R Sent: Sunday, September 18, 2016 12:38 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: SVC 99 Quick Question No! Sent from my iPhone > On Sep 18, 2016, at 12:31, Jo

Re: SVC 99 Quick Question

2016-09-18 Thread J R
No! Sent from my iPhone > On Sep 18, 2016, at 12:31, Joe Reichman wrote: > > Hi > > > > I am allocating a new ds using SVC 99 does the order the Text Units matter ? > or as long as I have them all there > > > > Thanks > > > > > > > ---

SVC 99 Quick Question

2016-09-18 Thread Joe Reichman
Hi I am allocating a new ds using SVC 99 does the order the Text Units matter ? or as long as I have them all there Thanks -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@li

Re: k4t4949b (September 2016 refresh of the z/OS 2.2 manuals)

2016-09-18 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Sun, 18 Sep 2016 06:03:37 -0700, Charles Mills wrote: >I have a copy of 7-Zip 9.20 and it clearly states -- and my experience >confirms -- that it supports both compressing to and decompressing from the >"zip" format. From the 7-Zip documentation: > >ZIP >7-Zip creates ZIP compatible archive

Re: k4t4949b (September 2016 refresh of the z/OS 2.2 manuals)

2016-09-18 Thread Barry Merrill
We use 7-zip to generate our MXG distribution file for ASCII platforms, a zipped source director, and found that by naming the output file extension of .zip instead of .7z, we've never had a reported problem. Barry Merrilly yours, Herbert W. Barry Merrill, PhD President-Programmer Merrill

Re: k4t4949b (September 2016 refresh of the z/OS 2.2 manuals)

2016-09-18 Thread Charles Mills
I have a copy of 7-Zip 9.20 and it clearly states -- and my experience confirms -- that it supports both compressing to and decompressing from the "zip" format. From the 7-Zip documentation: ZIP 7-Zip creates ZIP compatible archives. 7-Zip supports the following ZIP compression methods: 0 - St