Re: ISPF for mainframe Linux

2021-01-27 Thread David Crayford
I think your the one missing the point. I can't remember the last time I had to write a macro as I can do the things I need just using commands. On 28/01/2021 2:24 pm, Seymour J Metz wrote: You're missing the point. A good macro facility makes it easy to extend the editor and add feature

Re: ISPF for mainframe Linux

2021-01-27 Thread Seymour J Metz
You're missing the point. A good macro facility makes it easy to extend the editor and add feature that the designers never thought of. The edit macro that I posted was intended to be an example of that. Were I familiar with emacs I would have written an emacs macro in LISP, but the point would

Re: ISPF for mainframe Linux

2021-01-27 Thread David Crayford
A REXX edit macro, that's great! In Vim I can position my cursor over a function or keyword and press 'gd' to goto the defintion. It also has plugins for code completion etc. All of this in a TUI. Intellij IDEA is so advanced that it lints code while you type and flags problems. Use a keyboard

Re: ISPF for mainframe Linux

2021-01-27 Thread Chris Hoelscher
> Then why do so many people complain about vi outside of mainframers? Inside of mainframers, vi would be difficult to access Chris Hoelscher Lead Sys DBA IBM Global Technical Services on assignmemt to Humana Inc. T 502.476.2538 or 502.407.7266 The information transmitted is intended

Re: ISPF for mainframe Linux

2021-01-27 Thread David Spiegel
Y E S ! (Could not use ISPF on floor system) Also, sometimes (and this also happened to me) the ISPF Datasets are "not there" yet when the first wave of users LOGs ON after the first IPL. On 2021-01-27 20:21, Seymour J Metz wrote: If I have a working TSO logon proc then I can allocate the

Re: ISPF for mainframe Linux

2021-01-27 Thread Seymour J Metz
> Isn't writing code macros a bit dated? No. Aren't editors that don't allow writing macros a bit dated? Trivial example: /* REXX from TSPF - not tested in ISPF */ address ISREDIT "MACRO" "CURSOR = 1 1" "(NEW) = LINENUM .ZCSR" "(LAST) = LINENUM .ZLAST" "(NLINE) = LINE" NEW do while NEW

Re: ISPF for mainframe Linux

2021-01-27 Thread Seymour J Metz
If I have a working TSO logon proc then I can allocate the libraries that ISPF needs. It's only if someone clobbers those that I would need to resort to TSO EDIT. Have you been at DRs where you couldn't use ISPF from the floor system? -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3

Re: ISPF for mainframe Linux

2021-01-27 Thread David Crayford
On 28/01/2021 8:25 am, Seymour J Metz wrote: Yes, and you can write macros for it. Still, when you have ISPF available there's little call to use TSO EDIT. Isn't writing code macros a bit dated? In Vim I can record macros. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3

Re: ISPF for mainframe Linux

2021-01-27 Thread Seymour J Metz
What about Samba over TCP/IP? -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of David Crayford [dcrayf...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 27, 2021 8:15 PM To:

Re: ISPF for mainframe Linux

2021-01-27 Thread David Crayford
On 28/01/2021 12:20 am, Tom Brennan wrote: The last time I had any major Linux editing to do (writing a relatively large system in C, multiple modules, etc.) I used the editor that comes with Microsoft Visual Studio on Win 10, with Samba setup to automatically save the files from Windows over

Re: ISPF for mainframe Linux

2021-01-27 Thread David Spiegel
Hi R'Shmuel AMV"SH, I meant that your LOGON PROC has a JCL Error and you're stuck using a bare-bones TSO LOGON PROC with no ISPF ALLOCATions (JCL or Dynamically ALLOCATEd). I've done DRs where this has actually occurred. Consider yourself fortunate. Regards, David On 2021-01-27 19:43,

Re: ISPF for mainframe Linux

2021-01-27 Thread David Crayford
On 28/01/2021 12:19 am, Paul Gilmartin wrote: Doesn't everybody know that 'G' takes you to the bottom of the file and 'gg' to the top;) I didn't. I had been using '1G' for decades since I learned it. Thanks for the hint. Has Rocket ported Vim to z/OS? Yes, and emacs. The terminfo 

Re: ISPF for mainframe Linux

2021-01-27 Thread David Crayford
On 27/01/2021 10:43 pm, Steve Thompson wrote: Then why do so many people complain about vi outside of mainframers? Why are there other editors and even mods for vi if it is so wonderful? Why does a modern GUI editor have key bindings for Vim? https://github.com/VSCodeVim/Vim? Because

Re: zero-length PC section, the binder, and resulting AMODE/RMODE

2021-01-27 Thread Thomas David Rivers
Binyamin Dissen wrote: How would a zero length CSECT be placed in a load module? It doesn't take up any space - so it would just be given the next offset, a following CSECT would be placed at the same offset I assume. The question really is, do any of the other attributes associated

Re: ISPF for mainframe Linux

2021-01-27 Thread Seymour J Metz
I have to deal with long lines, so I want cursor right to scroll. I can use HOME to get to the topp, and can scroll up from the command line to get to the bottom, so I'd prefer that cursor up and down from the entry fields wrap. Is treating keystrokes different depending on the cursor location

Re: ISPF for mainframe Linux

2021-01-27 Thread Seymour J Metz
If my LOGON proc has a JCL error then I can't use TSO EDIT. Every DR site I've been at has allowed use of its floor system to adjust things and sometimes to do the restores. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe

Re: TSO Logon Proc IEFPROC

2021-01-27 Thread Seymour J Metz
If they expect to keep the dynamically added procs, they'd better update the JES parms, or update their automatic commands. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf

Re: ISPF for mainframe Linux

2021-01-27 Thread Lennie Dymoke-Bradshaw
Yes, I found I have Version 4.10 of this program. It took me quite a while to find the floppy disk it was on, about another 15 minutes to find my USB attached floppy disk reader, then about 30 minutes to get it to work under vDOS under Windows 10 64-bit. But it still works. Lennie

Re: ISPF for mainframe Linux

2021-01-27 Thread David Spiegel
Sure ... unless ... your LOGON PROC got a JCL Error and you need to fix it, or, possibly a DR. On 2021-01-27 19:25, Seymour J Metz wrote: Yes, and you can write macros for it. Still, when you have ISPF available there's little call to use TSO EDIT. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz

Re: ISPF for mainframe Linux

2021-01-27 Thread Seymour J Metz
I generally want scroll up and down, but a line at a time, not a page. I also want scroll right. However, for cursor left I want wrap; in TSPF I often use cursor left and END to get to the end of the previous line. There's no "One size fits all." -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz

Re: ISPF for mainframe Linux

2021-01-27 Thread Seymour J Metz
Yes, and you can write macros for it. Still, when you have ISPF available there's little call to use TSO EDIT. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Tony

Re: Recruiters are looking for mainframers

2021-01-27 Thread Seymour J Metz
Well, there was a VMS option for OS/360; basically MVT with all jobs sharing a single region with different keys. Fragmentation must have been horrendous, and by 1968 it was ancient history. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3

Re: Recruiters are looking for mainframers

2021-01-27 Thread Seymour J Metz
Can you trademark something that someone else has been using for decades? Input/Output Supervisor. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Tony Harminc

Re: ISPF for mainframe Linux

2021-01-27 Thread Seymour J Metz
No Linux. No REXX. No sale. How much does Uni-SPF Extended cost and what is missing from it? -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Mike Schwab

Re: ISPF for mainframe Linux

2021-01-27 Thread Seymour J Metz
That's a funny way to spell pico. GNU nano isn't remotely ISPF-like. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Tom Conley [pinnc...@rochester.rr.com] Sent:

Re: ISPF for mainframe Linux

2021-01-27 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Wed, 27 Jan 2021 13:03:50 -0800, Tom Brennan wrote: >On 1/27/2021 12:58 PM, Tony Harminc wrote: >> Nooo...! I use the cursor-down key all the time if I'm near the bottom >> of the screen and want to be near the top. I would be seriously PO'd >> if some ISPF-like program changed that to do any

Re: Recruiters are looking for mainframers

2021-01-27 Thread Bob Bridges
I gotta admit "C" looks pretty bad. But I've never been a C programmer, so I've never run up against that problem personally. My own current favorite is "Top Secret", which is a great security product but just try to find jobs involving it via web searches. All I see are gigs requiring a

Re: ISPF for mainframe Linux

2021-01-27 Thread Tom Conley
NANO. Easily the most ISPF-like of the Unix editors. That is all. Regards, Tom Conley -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: ISPF for mainframe Linux

2021-01-27 Thread Tom Brennan
On 1/27/2021 1:00 PM, Tony Harminc wrote: TSO "EDIT" is always available on z/OS... Doesn't even require a 3270! Side story: Before I knew what an IBM mainframe was, I worked with computer mapping on a PDP-something and there was a lady in the office who was a user of the (remote) company

Re: ISPF for mainframe Linux

2021-01-27 Thread Mike Schwab
http://www.spflite.com/ is still around. Can it upload to z/Linux? On Tue, Jan 26, 2021 at 9:22 AM PINION, RICHARD W. wrote: > > Does anybody remember an ISPF product that ran under mainframe Linux from > the early 2000's? And, does anybody remember Command Technology Corporation's > SPF/PC?

Re: Recruiters are looking for mainframers

2021-01-27 Thread Tony Harminc
On Wed, 27 Jan 2021 at 09:23, Radoslaw Skorupka wrote: > Not to mention i-stuff from Apple and confusion. What is OS name for > System i? It was" i5/OS", now it is "IBM i". In short just "i". "i > operating system". And "iOS" is Apple OS. There were no confusion with > OS/400. And "IOS" is a

Re: ISPF for mainframe Linux

2021-01-27 Thread Tom Brennan
On 1/27/2021 12:58 PM, Tony Harminc wrote: Nooo...! I use the cursor-down key all the time if I'm near the bottom of the screen and want to be near the top. I would be seriously PO'd if some ISPF-like program changed that to do any kinf of scroll down, whether line or screen at a time. Ha ha!

Re: Recruiters are looking for mainframers

2021-01-27 Thread Tony Harminc
On Wed, 27 Jan 2021 at 00:55, Seymour J Metz wrote: > > > I'll get pinged by 6 or 7 recruiters for what's clearly the same job, all > > the same week. > > How many were from the same recruiting firm? > > > And spelling it wrong. > > As in "z/OS (MVC)"? Or "z/OS (VMS)"! Tony H.

Re: ISPF for mainframe Linux

2021-01-27 Thread Tony Harminc
On Wed, 27 Jan 2021 at 11:21, Tom Brennan wrote: > That's probably true, but around 2005 when I didn't have enough z/OS > work to do, I moved about half my time over to the dark side of AIX, > Linux, and at least a couple of other Unixes that I can't remember - > working with a bunch of folks

Re: ISPF for mainframe Linux

2021-01-27 Thread Tony Harminc
On Tue, 26 Jan 2021 at 14:03, Paul Gilmartin <000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > > On Tue, 26 Jan 2021 10:41:42 -0800, Tom Brennan wrote: > > >I haven't used SPF/PC in many years, but I do remember it doing things > >that weren't possible via 3270, and those were sometimes a

Re: TSO Logon Proc IEFPROC

2021-01-27 Thread Lizette Koehler
You can have JES2 Proc that has Proclibs in it. And there can be Dynamically added JES2 Proclibs You need to make sure to check for all types of proclibs $DPROCLIB should show you what is dynamic Lizette -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Seymour J

Re: ISPF for mainframe Linux

2021-01-27 Thread Tom Brennan
On 1/27/2021 9:02 AM, Seymour J Metz wrote: I did ask why (in the world) they used it, and they said because it's always available by default - no install needed. That is certainly a good reason for learning "The Editor From Hell". But isn't emacs almost as common? It may be, but they never

Re: RMM/OAM/SMS

2021-01-27 Thread Ken Bloom
Thanks Jerry Kenneth A. Bloom CEO Avenir Technologies Inc /d/b/a Visara International 203-984-2235 bl...@visara.com www.visara.com -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Edgington, Jerry Sent: Wednesday, January 27, 2021

Re: RMM/OAM/SMS

2021-01-27 Thread Ken Bloom
normal JCL for running a tape job. The issue is probably in the OAM/SMS configuration Kenneth A. Bloom CEO Avenir Technologies Inc /d/b/a Visara International 203-984-2235 bl...@visara.com www.visara.com -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List

Re: Recruiters are looking for mainframers

2021-01-27 Thread Charles Mills
How about the language Go? The project takes great care to explain again and again that the name of the language is Go, not Golang -- but their Web site is golang.org -- otherwise you could never find it with a search. Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List

Re: RMM/OAM/SMS

2021-01-27 Thread Michael Watkins
A 'manual' tape library? Is this command being issued on the GUI for an EMC DLm? -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Edgington, Jerry Sent: Wednesday, January 27, 2021 12:07 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: RMM/OAM/SMS CAUTION: This email

Re: RMM/OAM/SMS

2021-01-27 Thread Edgington, Jerry
Best guess would be the SMS ACS routines. That would be first place I would look. Jerry -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Ken Bloom Sent: Wednesday, January 27, 2021 1:03 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: RMM/OAM/SMS This message was sent

RMM/OAM/SMS

2021-01-27 Thread Ken Bloom
Need some advice here . When trying to mount a scratch tape on a manual library, the LOAD DISPLAY command comes down the channel as a M (Storage Group name) rather than MSCRTCH. Any ideas as to what is configured incorrectly in OAM or SMS? Kenneth A. Bloom CEO Avenir Technologies Inc /d/b/a

Re: TSO Logon Proc IEFPROC

2021-01-27 Thread Seymour J Metz
What ISPF panel? What field? I'm confident is that what you were looking at was a procstep name, not a proc name. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of

Re: TSO Logon Proc IEFPROC

2021-01-27 Thread Seymour J Metz
Are you talking about the proc name, a step name or a ddname? The step name IEFPROC has significance. I've never seen a TSO proc or DD named IEFPROC. Have you looked at your JES parameter? That's where the logon proclib is most likely defined, although it could be in the master JCL. -- Shmuel

Re: TSO Logon Proc IEFPROC

2021-01-27 Thread Elaine Beal
for future reference the ISPF panel showed IEFPROC but the logon panel showed another name in other words the logon proc member name was different than the proc name the 'failing' proc has the same name as the member name --

Re: Recruiters are looking for mainframers

2021-01-27 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Wed, 27 Jan 2021 08:50:05 -0600, Dana Mitchell wrote: > > >I believe the current official name is IBMi running on IBM Power Systems. It >does make googling for technical information difficult at times > What could be worse than "C"? (but is there a "word" qualifier?) -- gil

Re: ISPF for mainframe Linux

2021-01-27 Thread Seymour J Metz
The first thing I look at in an editor is the macro language. ISPF has it all over vi in that regard. While I don't like all those parentheses, emacs is clearly better than vi in that regard. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3

Re: TSO Logon Proc IEFPROC

2021-01-27 Thread Charles Mills
Hitting Send on the list e-mail is the key to finding the solution. Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Elaine Beal Sent: Wednesday, January 27, 2021 9:15 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: TSO Logon

Re: ISPF for mainframe Linux

2021-01-27 Thread Steve Thompson
And then there are the marketing types that are clueless as to what protecting the brand does to manual titles which also fouls up google and other search Engines. Sent from my iPhone — small keyboarf, fat fungrs, stupd spell manglr. Expct mistaks > On Jan 27, 2021, at 10:20 AM, Phil Smith

Re: TSO Logon Proc IEFPROC

2021-01-27 Thread Elaine Beal
nm :) I found another path -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: ISPF for mainframe Linux

2021-01-27 Thread Seymour J Metz
I've also seen wonky questionnaires, e.g., asking both about experience with 3168 and with 370/168, even though the 3168 is the processor for the 370/168. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List

TSO Logon Proc IEFPROC

2021-01-27 Thread Elaine Beal
I give up :) I have two logon procs, on LPAR1, logon proc A works as desired the thing is, I can't find it I've looked in all of the JES2 PROCLIBs is there anything special about logon proc IEFPROC? I see the DD name in a lot of procs in the proclib but no proc named IEFPROC this is the one

Re: ISPF for mainframe Linux

2021-01-27 Thread Seymour J Metz
> I did ask why (in the world) they used it, and they said because > it's always available by default - no install needed. That is certainly a good reason for learning "The Editor From Hell". But isn't emacs almost as common? -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3

Re: ISPF for mainframe Linux

2021-01-27 Thread Styles, Andy (ITS zPlatform Services)
Classification: Public Rocket has indeed ported vim to z/OS; I use it all the time. It took a while to getting used to, being unfamiliar with that kind of editor, but once I got the terminal file sorted, and the keyboard mappings worked out, it's good. The challenge is the extent of what it

Re: ISPF for mainframe Linux

2021-01-27 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Wed, 27 Jan 2021 08:20:50 -0800, Tom Brennan wrote: >... I don't >remember a single complaint about vi from them. I did ask why (in the >world) they used it, and they said because it's always available by >default - no install needed. > I have been cautioned by old-timers that I should

Re: ISPF for mainframe Linux

2021-01-27 Thread Tom Brennan
On 1/27/2021 6:43 AM, Steve Thompson wrote: Then why do so many people complain about vi outside of mainframers? Why are there other editors and even mods for vi if it is so wonderful? That's probably true, but around 2005 when I didn't have enough z/OS work to do, I moved about half my time

Re: ISPF for mainframe Linux

2021-01-27 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Wed, 27 Jan 2021 15:44:46 +0800, David Crayford wrote: >Doesn't everybody know that 'G' takes you to the bottom of the file and >'gg' to the top ;) > I didn't. I had been using '1G' for decades since I learned it. Thanks for the hint. Has Rocket ported Vim to z/OS? On Wed, 27 Jan 2021

Re: ISPF for mainframe Linux

2021-01-27 Thread Phil Smith III
Dana Mitchell wrote: >I believe the current official name is IBMi running on IBM Power Systems. It does make googling for technical information difficult at times Right, with a space after "IBM". Stupid name (and of course un-googleable: "When I was at IBM, I used to." comes up instead), but

Re: ISPF for mainframe Linux

2021-01-27 Thread zMan
As the saying goes, vi has two modes: one where it corrupts your data, and one where it beeps at you. On Wed, Jan 27, 2021 at 9:44 AM Steve Thompson wrote: > Then why do so many people complain about vi outside of mainframers? > > Why are there other editors and even mods for vi if it is so

Re: Recruiters are looking for mainframers

2021-01-27 Thread Dana Mitchell
On Wed, 27 Jan 2021 15:23:18 +0100, Radoslaw Skorupka wrote: >Not to mention i-stuff from Apple and confusion. What is OS name for >System i? It was" i5/OS", now it is "IBM i". In short just "i". "i >operating system". I believe the current official name is IBMi running on IBM Power Systems.

Re: ISPF for mainframe Linux

2021-01-27 Thread Steve Thompson
Then why do so many people complain about vi outside of mainframers? Why are there other editors and even mods for vi if it is so wonderful? Sent from my iPhone — small keyboarf, fat fungrs, stupd spell manglr. Expct mistaks > On Jan 27, 2021, at 12:57 AM, Tom Brennan wrote: > > On

Re: Recruiters are looking for mainframers

2021-01-27 Thread Radoslaw Skorupka
W dniu 27.01.2021 o 14:58, Dana Mitchell pisze: On Tue, 26 Jan 2021 18:35:24 -0500, Phil Smith III wrote: And a lot are very poorly qualified. I got one yesterday for a "mainframe job" that was on an "AS/400". OK, it did mention "I-Series" later on, so only two generations (and 15 years) net

Re: Recruiters are looking for mainframers

2021-01-27 Thread Dana Mitchell
On Tue, 26 Jan 2021 18:35:24 -0500, Phil Smith III wrote: > >And a lot are very poorly qualified. I got one yesterday for a "mainframe job" >that was on an "AS/400". OK, it did mention "I-Series" later on, so only two >generations (and 15 years) net dead. And spelling it wrong. > >I don't

Re: zero-length PC section, the binder, and resulting AMODE/RMODE

2021-01-27 Thread Binyamin Dissen
On Tue, 26 Jan 2021 17:35:12 -0500 Thomas David Rivers wrote: :>Sometimes, it seems pretty easily, the output of HLASM :>will include a zero-length PC (Private CSECT) section with :>a valid of X'00' for the FLAG field, as evidenced from both :>the HLASM listing and the ESD data in the ESD card