Re: ISPF Edit Macro Regular Expression

2021-05-29 Thread Charles Mills
That's why we get the big bucks. Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Seymour J Metz Sent: Saturday, May 29, 2021 6:03 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: ISPF Edit Macro Regular Expression > I hate EBCDIC

Re: ISPF Edit Macro Regular Expression

2021-05-29 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Sun, 30 May 2021 01:03:04 +, Seymour J Metz wrote: >> I hate EBCDIC issue, it's a multiple code page set issue!. Pop quiz: when >> using REXX on a PC, is � 'AA'X or 'AC'X? And, yes, you can cheat and use \ > That's not cheating; it's USASCII. Porrtable. >... so you don't have to care

Re: ISPF Edit Macro Regular Expression

2021-05-29 Thread Seymour J Metz
tThe bottom half of the screen looks like a hex dump of the inbound data stream (Query Reply) for a Read Partition - Query. The code page is transmitted in binary, not as an EBCDIC character string. '0417'X is 1047 decimal. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3

Re: ISPF Edit Macro Regular Expression

2021-05-29 Thread Seymour J Metz
> I hate EBCDIC issue, it's a multiple code page set issue!. Pop quiz: when > using REXX on a PC, is ¬ 'AA'X or 'AC'X? And, yes, you can cheat and use \ > so you don't have to care which code page and which interpreter, but why > should you have to? And what if you want to download exist REXX

Re: ISPF Edit Macro Regular Expression

2021-05-29 Thread Tom Brennan
Nice! I like the SYMSET character map too. For me, hex is no problem - I still have a couple of Casio CM-100 calculators from the 1980's, which are far above any others I used in ease of use. http://edspi31415.blogspot.com/2017/02/retro-review-casio-cm-100-computer-math.html On 5/29/2021

Re: IBM Zcloud - is it just outsourcing ?

2021-05-29 Thread Colin Paice
I remember about 20+ years ago there was "dial a vm" from IBM for customers. By the time you had phoned up, given your credit card details it had created a second level system for you to play with. "We did it first on z" Colin On Sat, 29 May 2021 at 12:45, Scott Chapman wrote: > I think one

Re: ISPF Edit Macro Regular Expression

2021-05-29 Thread Greg Price
On 5/28/2021 10:10 PM, Tom Brennan wrote: I see my current code page 1047 showing up as 0417 hex - highlighted at the bottom of this image: http://www.mildredbrennan.com/mvs/termtest.png Right... Well done to spot it there! SYMSET0 should break that out (still in hex sorry to say) on the

Re: IBM Zcloud - is it just outsourcing ?

2021-05-29 Thread Scott Chapman
I think one important distinction of cloud vs. outsourcing is the ephemeral nature of the resources in cloud computing. I.E. the ability to start from zero, provision compute and storage resources of some type (either manually or automatically in response to changing conditions) and then