AW: NOTSP The Latin of Software Code Is Thriving - The New York Times

2022-07-07 Thread Mike Beer
HI, Other candidates could include PL/I - which is/was very common in Europe - and REXX and maybe APL. Applications that were created many years ago work with virtually no modifications. Best regards Mike -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: IBM Mainframe Discussion List Im Auftrag von Timothy

Re: NOTSP The Latin of Software Code Is Thriving - The New York Times

2022-07-07 Thread Timothy Sipples
It's *so* weird! Imagine writing this: "Sarah, age 23, rejected her college advisor's career advice and started work at Boeing in Seattle last year. Her friends who mainly pursued careers in banking and law outright laugh at her for designing airplanes, the antiquated vehicles invented well

Re: BSF? [was: RE: Java (Re: Some questions on SYSCALL)]

2022-07-07 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Fri, 8 Jul 2022 02:38:38 +0100, CM Poncelet wrote: >Without meaning to bump into what might be off topic, SYSCALL is >actually a CLIST instruction - not a REXX one (unless it's a case of >"nous avons changé tout ça") >  When Charles started this thread on June 28, he made it clear that he

Re: Java (Re: Some questions on SYSCALL

2022-07-07 Thread David Crayford
On 7/07/2022 7:53 pm, Rony G. Flatscher wrote: When I select a language for a job, one of the things that I look at is the ecosystem. I prefer ooRexx to Perl, but I find myself using Perl for some tasks because CPAN is an awesome resource. Python may not be the best language for the task at

Re: BSF? [was: RE: Java (Re: Some questions on SYSCALL)]

2022-07-07 Thread CM Poncelet
Without meaning to bump into what might be off topic, SYSCALL is actually a CLIST instruction - not a REXX one (unless it's a case of "nous avons changé tout ça")   E.g. HELP_SELECT: + SELECT ()    WHEN (UP) DO SET HPAN = - 1 *SYSCALL*

Re: GIMAPI and ZONEINDEX

2022-07-07 Thread Kurt J. Quackenbush
> We was able to query on anything in global zone ( this is a global zone only > dataset). The strange issue is that if we specify GLOBAL as subentry we get > SREL, OPTION and some other items including first entry of the zoneindex. > Why does GIMAPI returns all this data if subentry is global?

Re: BSF? [was: RE: Java (Re: Some questions on SYSCALL)]

2022-07-07 Thread Seymour J Metz
I don't like any RE syntax that derives from Eunix, but it's too powerful to ignore, especially the flavors that have named captures. Unless I'm compelkled toi use something with POSIX syntax, I stick to more powerful versions. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3

Re: BSF? [was: RE: Java (Re: Some questions on SYSCALL)]

2022-07-07 Thread Paul Gilmartin
(This thread should move to comp.lang.advocacy.) On Thu, 7 Jul 2022 16:40:08 +, Farley, Peter x23353 wrote: >OK, I'll bite: What is BSF please? I do know of PCRE (though I really do not >like the Perl RE syntax, I prefer Posix/gawk RE syntax) but BSF is a new >acronym to me. > I try to

Re: BSF? [was: RE: Java (Re: Some questions on SYSCALL)]

2022-07-07 Thread Seymour J Metz
bsf4oorexx is a bridge between oorexx and java; it lets an oorexx programmer use java classes and methods. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Farley,

BSF? [was: RE: Java (Re: Some questions on SYSCALL)]

2022-07-07 Thread Farley, Peter x23353
OK, I'll bite: What is BSF please? I do know of PCRE (though I really do not like the Perl RE syntax, I prefer Posix/gawk RE syntax) but BSF is a new acronym to me. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Seymour J Metz Sent: Thursday, July 7, 2022 8:55 AM

Re: How do I issue a command with a blank in it?

2022-07-07 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Thu, 7 Jul 2022 08:17:11 -0700, Charles Mills wrote: > >Yes, the blank is apparently a factor (as you note). But I think it has to be >more than just a simple naïve scan (TRT or otherwise; TRT is just a software >loop written in micro- or millicode) for a blank. > I'll assume (and OCO won't

Re: Java (Re: Some questions on SYSCALL

2022-07-07 Thread David Crayford
On 7/07/2022 7:53 pm, Rony G. Flatscher wrote: On 06.07.2022 11:03, Seymour J Metz wrote: When I select a language for a job, one of the things that I look at is the ecosystem. I prefer ooRexx to Perl, but I find myself using Perl for some tasks because CPAN is an awesome resource. Python may

Re: How do I issue a command with a blank in it?

2022-07-07 Thread Charles Mills
I hear you. If it were an app written by some guy down the hall I would totally agree with you. But blanks in START command parameters have to be pretty commonly used, and the syntax has not changed in decades, so I think it must be something more subtle than that, or in addition to that. Yes,

Re: How do I issue a command with a blank in it?

2022-07-07 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Thu, 7 Jul 2022 06:58:47 -0700, Charles Mills wrote: > >Maybe too many commas? >... Too many blanks. The OP reports that the error does not occur if he changes one blank to an underscore. I deem this the malign progeny of TRT. The designer knew (correctly) that every command ends with a

Re: How do I issue a command with a blank in it?

2022-07-07 Thread Charles Mills
Parentheses are inappropriate; never appropriate for blanks -- you need quotes. Maybe too many commas? S membername[.identifier] [,[devicetype|[/]devnum][,volumeserial]] [,parameters] [,JOBNAME=jobname] [,JOBACCT=acct_info] [,SUB=subsystemname] [,REUSASID=YES]

Re: NOTSP The Latin of Software Code Is Thriving - The New York Times

2022-07-07 Thread Charles Mills
Drives me nuts! If someone wanted a career in automotive technology, no one would run cutesy articles talking about hundred-year-old technology. UNIX is fifty-plus years old for gosh sakes -- about five years younger than the System 360. Would it be cute if some 24-year-old wanted to work with

Re: sys1.parmlib compare

2022-07-07 Thread Willy Jensen
"Members with ISPF statistics are marked with 'no-stat'" should of course have said "Members without ISPF statistics are marked with 'no-stat'" doc will be fixed asap Re FAMS, the dialog uses whatever PDS86 provides as timestamp. The SETDatadif command compares all members in both libraries

Re: Java (Re: Some questions on SYSCALL

2022-07-07 Thread Rony G. Flatscher
On 07.07.2022 14:54, Seymour J Metz wrote: Which of these has Java equivalents? use charnames qw(:short); use File::Spec; use Getopt::Long 2.3203 qw(:config auto_help auto_version); use IO::File; use Net::DNS; use MIME::Parser; use MIME::QuotedPrint; use MIME::Tools; use

Re: Java (Re: Some questions on SYSCALL

2022-07-07 Thread Seymour J Metz
Which of these has Java equivalents? use charnames qw(:short); use File::Spec; use Getopt::Long 2.3203 qw(:config auto_help auto_version); use IO::File; use Net::DNS; use MIME::Parser; use MIME::QuotedPrint; use MIME::Tools; use Regexp::Common qw /net URI/; use

Re: sys1.parmlib compare

2022-07-07 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Wed, 6 Jul 2022 15:11:11 -0500, Willy Jensen wrote: >I have an ISPF based dialog to compare 2 libraries, and copy between them. See >MLCMP at http://harders-jensen.com > Elaborate indeed! >Start by taking a look at the doc - click on the 'text' text in the righthand >column. Note that the

Java (Re: Some questions on SYSCALL

2022-07-07 Thread Rony G. Flatscher
On 06.07.2022 11:03, Seymour J Metz wrote: When I select a language for a job, one of the things that I look at is the ecosystem. I prefer ooRexx to Perl, but I find myself using Perl for some tasks because CPAN is an awesome resource. Python may not be the best language for the task at hand,

IBM product numbers - where to find?

2022-07-07 Thread ITschak Mugzach
I am looking for a cross reference between fmid, product number and product name. I found partial data for z/os components, but looking for the entire list. Is there such a list? ITschak ITschak Mugzach *|** IronSphere Platform* *|* *Information Security Continuous Monitoring for z/OS, x/Linux &

IBM zSystems APAC webinar: z/OS Academy - z/OS and the z16

2022-07-07 Thread Yi Chen Zhang
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