Re: PDS compression needs a new name - defoam? unfoam? degas? I hope someone has a better idea!

2022-12-23 Thread Lennie Bradshaw
Agree. Lennie -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Ed Jaffe Sent: 24 December 2022 07:21 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: PDS compression needs a new name - defoam? unfoam? degas? I hope someone has a better idea! On 12/21/2022 3:16 AM, David Col

Re: PDS compression needs a new name - defoam? unfoam? degas? I hope someone has a better idea!

2022-12-23 Thread Ed Jaffe
On 12/21/2022 3:16 AM, David Cole wrote: The notion of "PDS compression" has a long and time honored history... But then along came... well, actual compression! As we all know, PDS compression has nothing to do with data compression. All it does is rearrange the physical location of members s

Re: RLSE - A question about releasing unused tracks in a DASD dataset

2022-12-23 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Fri, 23 Dec 2022 17:40:25 +, rpinion865 wrote: >Yes > Some sites choose to alias ISV products to the names of the comparable IBM products. Is that a Good Idea or a Bad Idea? >Sent from Proton Mail mobile > Proton Mail mobile appears not to grok line breaks. Bad for code examples. >-

Re: RLSE - A question about releasing unused tracks in a DASD dataset

2022-12-23 Thread rpinion865
Yes Sent from Proton Mail mobile Original Message On Dec 23, 2022, 12:21 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: > On Fri, 23 Dec 2022 11:08:31 -0600, Michael Babcock wrote: >Not everyone > licensed for DFSMSdss. > Do alternatives (FDR?) provide comparable, perhaps > compatible functions?

Re: RLSE - A question about releasing unused tracks in a DASD dataset

2022-12-23 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Fri, 23 Dec 2022 11:08:31 -0600, Michael Babcock wrote: >Not everyone licensed for DFSMSdss. > Do alternatives (FDR?) provide comparable, perhaps compatible functions? >> At 12/21/2022 07:43 AM, Ituriel do Neto wrote: >> >Hi, >> >ADRDSSU has a RELEASE primary command that can do it. >> > >> >

Re: RLSE - A question about releasing unused tracks in a DASD dataset

2022-12-23 Thread Michael Babcock
Not everyone licensed for DFSMSdss. On Fri, Dec 23, 2022 at 10:55 AM David Cole wrote: > Hi Ituriel, > > That's exactly what I was looking for! > > Thank you, > Dave Cole > > > > > At 12/21/2022 07:43 AM, Ituriel do Neto wrote: > >Hi, > >ADRDSSU has a RELEASE primary command that can do it. > >

Re: RLSE - A question about releasing unused tracks in a DASD dataset

2022-12-23 Thread David Cole
Hi Ituriel, That's exactly what I was looking for! Thank you, Dave Cole At 12/21/2022 07:43 AM, Ituriel do Neto wrote: Hi, ADRDSSU has a RELEASE primary command that can do it. //S1 EXEC PGM=ADRDSSU //* PARM='TYPRUN=NORUN' //SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=* //SYSIN D

Re: Markup languages

2022-12-23 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Fri, 23 Dec 2022 16:01:04 +, Seymour J Metz wrote: >Steep learning curve? DocBook looks pretty simple. > That would imply a steep learning curve, wouldn't it? -- gil -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access i

Re: Markup languages

2022-12-23 Thread Bob Bridges
Yeah, that's what he said: "Steep". So you learn fast and easily. --- Bob Bridges, robhbrid...@gmail.com, cell 336 382-7313 /* November: John Kerry easily sweeps to a 53-state landslide victory in the exit polls and has pretty much picked out his new Cabinet when word begins to leak out that th

Re: Markup languages

2022-12-23 Thread Kirk Wolf
On Fri, Dec 23, 2022, at 10:01 AM, Seymour J Metz wrote: > Steep learning curve? DocBook looks pretty simple. > Of course I didn't mean you :-) Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies, LLC http://coztoolkit.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscr

RTF (Was: Markup languages)

2022-12-23 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Thu, 22 Dec 2022 20:33:57 -0500, Bob Bridges wrote: >I thought about RTF. It is a markup language, after all, ... > Sort of. Ironically, I have seen RTF encoded to be transmitted through a text channel. RTF? Perhaps WTF? (This is almost as much fun as an editor thread.) -- gil -

Re: Markup languages

2022-12-23 Thread Seymour J Metz
Steep learning curve? DocBook looks pretty simple. From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of Kirk Wolf Sent: Friday, December 23, 2022 10:46 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Markup languages Years ago we looked for a tool set for our

Re: Markup languages

2022-12-23 Thread Dave Jones
I have Waterloo Script here on z/VM and it includes the assembler source. DJ -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Markup languages

2022-12-23 Thread Kirk Wolf
Years ago we looked for a tool set for our documentation with the requirements: - produce decent PDFs and HTML documentation from same source - text source (preferably XML) - open source and portable - NOT Word or anything like it We ended up using the docbook framework from Apache (DBF), which i

Re: Markup languages - RTF and bloooooooooooooooooooatware...

2022-12-23 Thread Robert Prins
On Fri, 23 Dec 2022 at 01:35, Bob Bridges wrote: > I thought about RTF. It is a markup language, after all, and I was > recently able to write a REXX program that converts plain text to RTF with > formatting including lots of fonts and a two-column layout (the > error-message part of a friend's

Re: Markup languages

2022-12-23 Thread Seymour J Metz
The markup languages based on Script are my favorites for producing documents, except for special cases where I prefer LaTex. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behal

Re: Markup languages

2022-12-23 Thread Seymour J Metz
emacs THE vi ... You may have my copy of TSPF when they pry it out of my cold, dead fingers. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Jeremy Nicoll [jn.ls.mfrm..

Re: Markup languages

2022-12-23 Thread Seymour J Metz
? Actually, it's m$ word that I criticize. Not that WP didn't have serious issues, but IMHO it is clearly the better of the two products. But I had access to BookMaster when I was using WP. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From:

Re: Markup languages

2022-12-23 Thread Seymour J Metz
It includes Quattro; I thought that was dead. Nice to know. Thanks. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Farley, Peter [031df298a9da-dmarc-requ...@listser