Re: IBM python documentation? [was: RE: IBM SMF Export with Python]

2022-10-02 Thread David Crayford
On 3/10/22 07:18, Farley, Peter x23353 wrote: Where, for instance, in the documentation that you linked to is there information on whether the python "open()" function for files will or will not support direct access to MVS datasets without transferring them down to the Unix file system? I.E.,

Re: COBOL - z/OS 2.1 vs 2.4

2022-10-02 Thread Ed Jaffe
On 9/30/2022 6:14 AM, Crusty Old Guy wrote: Under z/OS 2.4, some of these loadmods are abending. Others are creating incorrect output. What could account for this behavior? A bug. Open a case with IBM support. -- Phoenix Software International Edward E. Jaffe 831 Parkview Drive North El Se

Re: MVS Update

2022-10-02 Thread Sri h Kolusu
Paul, CBT Tape File 830 contains 926 articles (with their code, as an EBCDIC pds) from Xephon's MVS Update magazines, ranging from July 1987 thru December 1996. https://bit.listserv.ibm-main.narkive.com/q69XU7Zi/please-explore-cbt-tape-file-830-xephon-mvs-articles Here is the link to download F

Re: Is there such a thing as JCL to transfer files using https?

2022-10-02 Thread Grant Taylor
On 10/1/22 9:52 AM, Billy Ashton wrote: Hi everyone! You have been so helpful in the past to help me with getting my file transfers working with sftp, and now, we have a manager who wants to explore using https in batch like we do online in our browsers. He thinks we can secure our ports better

Re: COBOL - z/OS 2.1 vs 2.4

2022-10-02 Thread Timothy Sipples
Paul Gorlinsky wrote: >There are some notes that the language environment is dropping off some >prior versions of COBOL. Do you have a link to the IBM Language Environment documentation to which you are referring? I'm not sure what you're referring to. >IBM is requiring V6 COBOL on the most curr

Re: Enterprise Cobol 6.3.0, XML PARSE and zIIP usage.

2022-10-02 Thread Timothy Sipples
Massimo Biancucci wrote: > After increasing the size of XML up to 150MB then I saw a little of zIIP >usage. Anyway, it would be interesting to know how IBM manages these >thresholds. I don't have any inside information here, but it seems reasonable to infer that ostensibly zIIP eligible workload

Re: IBM python documentation? [was: RE: IBM SMF Export with Python]

2022-10-02 Thread David Crayford
The only z/OS specific library is a utility package for tagging files which is documented here https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/python-zos/3.9?topic=package-documentation-zos-util. Doc for disutils and building packages is here https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/python-zos/3.9?topic=information-using-dist

Re: IBM python documentation? [was: RE: IBM SMF Export with Python]

2022-10-02 Thread David Crayford
On 3/10/22 07:18, Farley, Peter x23353 wrote: As the OP of the other thread on python documentation, let me answer that what I expected from IBM for python documentation was the same sort of Language Reference and Programmers Guide manuals as they provide for all of the other major programming

Re: IBM python documentation? [was: RE: IBM SMF Export with Python]

2022-10-02 Thread Farley, Peter x23353
As the OP of the other thread on python documentation, let me answer that what I expected from IBM for python documentation was the same sort of Language Reference and Programmers Guide manuals as they provide for all of the other major programming languages that they support. My understanding

Re: IEAMSCHD defaulting PLISTVER

2022-10-02 Thread Ed Jaffe
On 10/2/2022 12:53 AM, Binyamin Dissen wrote: :>In my experience, HLASM's features tend to be best leveraged when code :>follows data definitions. Such as? Do you subscribe to ASSEMBLER-LIST? The assembler's look-ahead limitations are often discussed there. This discussion belongs there as w

Re: MVS Update

2022-10-02 Thread Binyamin Dissen
It was a small booklet put out monthly(?) with interesting source code. It may be on the CBT tape. On Sun, 2 Oct 2022 14:03:58 + Seymour J Metz wrote: :>I'm not sure what you mean by MVS Update. If you mean the IPOUPDTE/CPPUPDTE program, several files, e.g., 039, 244, 352, at cbttape.org c

Re: MVS Update

2022-10-02 Thread allan winston
Paul, While you may have already been down this path The CBT website has articles for 1988 to 2005: https://www.cbttape.org/xephon/index.php?path=xephonm/ indexed here: https://www.cbttape.org/xephon/xephonm/%24%24index.txt Since you are looking for a 1987 article, CBT files 814,

Re: IBM python documentation?

2022-10-02 Thread Paul Gorlinsky
My motto has always been "Be reasonable! Do it my way." -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: IBM python documentation?

2022-10-02 Thread Matt Hogstrom
I’ve always said everyone wants there to be one standard: the problem is they all want it to be theirs Matt Hogstrom +1 (919) 656-0564 > On Oct 1, 2022, at 22:20, Phil Smith III wrote: > > But it feels kinda like https://xkcd.com/927/ .

Re: SYSPLEX / SYSNAME / SMFID stability

2022-10-02 Thread Paul Gorlinsky
I do ... I spend most of my day mentoring new sysprogs for Kyndryl ... -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: MVS Update

2022-10-02 Thread esst...@juno.com
Sorry for the confusion I mean the Publication MVS UPDATE from October 1987 . -- Original Message -- From: Seymour J Metz To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: MVS Update Date: Sun, 2 Oct 2022 14:03:58 + I'm not sure what you mean by MVS Update. If you mean the IPOUPDTE/

Re: SYSPLEX / SYSNAME / SMFID stability

2022-10-02 Thread Seymour J Metz
I'm glad to hear that; pay it forward. I miss him. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Paul Gorlinsky [p...@atsmigrations.com] Sent: Friday, September 30, 2

Re: MVS Update

2022-10-02 Thread Seymour J Metz
I'm not sure what you mean by MVS Update. If you mean the IPOUPDTE/CPPUPDTE program, several files, e.g., 039, 244, 352, at cbttape.org contain modified versions. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion Li

Re: IBM python documentation?

2022-10-02 Thread Seymour J Metz
BTW, has usage shifted from ISO-8859-1 (Latin 1) to ISO-8859-15 (Latin-9) to accomodate the Euro €? -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of David Crayford [dcra

Re: Is there such a thing as JCL to transfer files using https?

2022-10-02 Thread Seymour J Metz
You can run, e.g., curl, wget, in batch. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Billy Ashton [bill00ash...@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, October 1, 2022 11:52 AM T

Re: IBM python documentation?

2022-10-02 Thread Seymour J Metz
A search for UTF-EBCDIC on the IETF web page got no hits, so regardless of its status at the Unicode Consortium, it doesn't seem to have gotten traction other than instructions on IBM Z. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM

MVS Update

2022-10-02 Thread esst...@juno.com
. Hello Does anyone know the exact url for an old version of MVS Update I have been unsuccessful in locating MVS Update, October 1987 . Paul -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists

Re: IEAMSCHD defaulting PLISTVER

2022-10-02 Thread Seymour J Metz
There may be multiple conflicting invocations with MF=E. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Binyamin Dissen [bdis...@dissensoftware.com] Sent: Saturday, Oct

Re: IBM python documentation?

2022-10-02 Thread Seymour J Metz
To add to the importance of proper UTF-8, the IETF has mandated UTF-8 as the direction going forward, and several protocols have been upgraded for UTF-8 support. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion Lis

Re: IEAMSCHD defaulting PLISTVER

2022-10-02 Thread Peter Relson
There are no macros that default PLISTVER based on previous usage (MF=E or otherwise). List form for PLISTVER on MF=L defaults to "the original", for compatibility reasons. Maybe some older macros, pre-PLISTVER, attempt to guess the right size of list form to create. Peter Relson z/OS Core Tec

Re: IEAMSCHD defaulting PLISTVER

2022-10-02 Thread Binyamin Dissen
On Sat, 1 Oct 2022 17:17:56 -0700 Ed Jaffe wrote: :>On 10/1/2022 4:40 PM, Binyamin Dissen wrote: :>> I thought that (some?) macroes of this form remember what was used on the MF=E :>> and use it for the MF=L. Perhaps my memory is bad. :>If any of this class of macros have such a behavior, it's