I think there's a misunderstanding about "selecting" the member. If I read
Radek correctly, the program is to pick out a name that does ~not~ refer to an
already existing member, and use that for the output. That's not hard; the
member name will be "" where is a constant, is
today's date an
Or something like this
/* REXX*/
/*%COPYRIGHT (c) copyright LHKAB */
/* */
/*
REXXNAME : MACONALL
System : ISPF
Look at Marc Zelden's EDMACALL
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Ämne: Re: ISPF macro/script
You have these options:
1 - Select the member manually, and invoke your REXX
You have these options:
1 - Select the member manually, and invoke your REXX edit macro.
2 - Write another module the invokes the edit service in the library and
member, and runs the edit macro.
3 - Write one dual mode module. I do not recommend this.
Edit commands are only valid in REXX EXECs th
To be honest ISPF & REXX is not my strong point.
I need the following:
From PDS(E) member list I type my CMD1, hit ENTER - to start the REXX
script.
The script Select new member (name generated from date+consecutive
character), then issue some edit commands, like COPY TEMPLATE to copy
some tex
Well, now that we've devolved to swapping histories:
I first used a keypunch when I was four, in 1965. My dad rented one and had
it installed in the house because he was working on a concordance program.
His first project was Beowulf, and he needed the text to be input, which my
mother volunteere
I'm sure I've posted this before, but since you bring it up...
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Jack was a COBOL programmer in the late 1990s who (after years of being treated
as a technological dinosaur by all the UNIX programmers, Client/Server
programmers, website developers etc) was finally getting some respect: He'd
I haven't written in COBOL since some time in the 1980s. That's not counting a
short ciphering routine I wrote coming up on Y2K, and a lot of ~reading~ COBOL
programs for a client in 2012. But I keep hearing that COBOL is keeping up
with the times, and I'm sort of curious. What's been added?
I can hold my silence no longer.
FORTRAN in HS, Intro in college was FORTRAN, then 2 semesters of
ALC (S/360 DOS) and 1 of RPG|RPGII.
Taught myself COBOL well enough that in 2 weeks I could work on
it and do macro level CICS (CICS 1.1.1 -- LONG before CICS/TS for
you folk in CICS dev/support
It's been a long time since I keypunched. Never had to for work.
I was going to write S370, but as I seemingly often do, I held the shift and
did S#&)
Digressing from my statement that COBOL was not hard to learn. And as has been
also stated, modern Cobol is capable of many things that used to
On Mon, 6 Feb 2023 21:11:34 +, Gibney, Dave wrote:
>370 assembler . Sticky shift finger
>
Keypunch?
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> COBOL was almost trivial to learn, af
COBOL was almost trivial to learn, after a semester of #&) Assemble out of
Struble. But, I guess by then it was at least my 4th or 5th language.
I came up from application programming, then supporting a few (CA) products to
sysprog about the time of ESA
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I started out in assembler, but I worked with operators who later became
programmers and systems programmers.
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For the state of Oregon DMV, I wrote a set of pure CICS Cobol programs that
implemented a TCPIP client and server for interaction with the states law
enforcement windows based message switching system. It provided photos and text
data to Cop cars and other devices …
Cobol was chosen because C
They had a bad COBOL instructor! We were writing our first program in the
first 2 weeks of my first COBOL course. We didn't understand all the details
of the FILE DIVISION et al at that point, but we were at least learning the
language and applying it.
Rex
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Oregon State was using a pseudo language system to teach ... not a mainstream
language.
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Rob, we didn’t have DADFLT coded for our group in ISFPRMxx member. It
still worked under 2.4 so that hole must have been closed with 2.5.
Oddly enough, our test LPAR for the SYSPROG group was the only group DADFLT
wasn’t coded on. It was coded on all other groups and all other LPARs.
Thanks!
I hesitate at this first line, Paul. I can't tell its context (because you
deleted the post you're responding to, ahem!), but I'm remembering how I got
into programming when I first encountered it:
Professor, on the VERY FIRST DAY of class: So if you're writing a program to
compare two numbers
Spend a year reading customers dumps on paper upside down ...
Most were S0C7 ... what do you do when the debuggers are broken?
Yes, you have to understand the machine instructions, but not every one of them
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It is very difficult to debug an abend in a Cobol program unless you can at
least read the generated assembler. Of course, these days, there are programs
that will do it for you.
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On Sun, 5 Feb 2023 18:27:57 -0500, Tony Thigpen wrote:
>Ok, so exactly why is that a problem?
>
>
Absolutely!
I fall into the last category now :( - went to tech school for data processing,
RPG and RPG II some COBOL in the 70's
went for my fist job with Chilton Research for a programmers position, I ended
up being one of those folks you don't want to get a call from.
I left there and was ab
Please check the DADFLT() keyword on the SDSF GROUP statement. This dictates
the default address space types returned when the user omits any parameters on
the DA command.
If the SDSF group omits the DADFLT keyword, it defaults to NONE. I believe
there are historical reasons for this behaviour
Good points. A lot of us started off in operations first then went on to
application development. Eventually, some of us moved over to systems
programming. Then.later the silos were created for operating systems
maintenance, networking, and database.
Today circling back, all those roles were me
Absolutely! They should be taught how to program and debug first, then the
constructs of individual languages.
Many of us have programed on all sorts of machines from the IBM mainframe, to
the IBM PC, 8080s, z80s, Univac 1050-II, Xeon, Arm, etc. and different
languages from all the of differen
I'd guess there is no one that receives these emails who has an interest in
every topic discussed, whether those topics are in technical threads or more
the more 'off-topic' threads.
If a thread does not interest me, I simply ignore it. I find that works for me,
whether the thread is technical
Bingo. There are more people here who never help versus those that do. Also,
there are far more mainframe people who aren’t even subscribed to IBM-MAIN than
are subscribed. I have rarely needed assistance but when I did, I RTFM, or went
directly to IBM or IBMers. Sent direct emails to Mr. Thomen
Rob. We applied all available SDSF maintenance to our 2.5 system.
We’ve found that DA ALL works. Has something changed with respect to the
DA command/panel not defaulting to ALL?
On Fri, Feb 3, 2023 at 2:55 AM Rob Scott wrote:
> Ross,
>
> First of all, I am glad you have opened a support ca
Can everyone please take a deep breath and remember that we are all here to
help others on their mainframe journey.
Lionel B. Dyck <><
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Github: https://github.com/lbdyck
Worry more about your character than your reputation. Character is what you
are, reputati
It's a bit more complicated. While there ma be people who never help and people
who always help, there are also people whose response depends on how busy they
are at the time and who is requesting assistance.
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Your analysis is incorrect. I’m highly technical. But, my expertise is varied.
I’m a jack of all trades. Programming, DASD management, DBA, MQ, z/OS, lots of
third party software, Security, etc. Why do I need to add my cents when there
are plenty of know it alls with no actual work to do other t
"IT was just the means to an end"
Ah, that explains why I can't remember you ever helping someone here
with a technical issue. Pretty-much anyone I've ever worked with who
got into this business *only* because they saw money, was generally
less-technical and often ended up in management. The
Me too. People who post non-stop, every day, all day, obviously have no life
outside of IBM-MAIN. Whereas, I rarely post because I’m doing a ton of
traveling. But, that’s been true throughout my IT career. Whether it was my
travels to NY to be on the MILLIONAIRE show, my $10,000 reward for helpi
Just taking a guess here: Most ISPF services run at the same task level as
the invoking user program. I believe that EDIT (and View) run at a
different task level, and therefore may not have access to the same
parameter pointers.
OREXXMan
Q: What do you call the residence of the ungulate with t
I do feel sorry for those of you who evidently have no social life
whatsoever outside of IBM-MAIN.
But most of us would be very gratified if you'd STFU about off-topics.
You're polluting the forum and wasting our time.
sas
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ah crap - i should have verified sorry steve
On 2/6/2023 10:46 AM, Horne, Jim wrote:
No, program IFASMFDL is needed for logstream processing.
Jim Horne
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No, program IFASMFDL is needed for logstream processing.
Jim Horne
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yes, SMF logstr
yes, SMF logstreams
Carmen
On 2/6/2023 10:33 AM, Steve Beaver wrote:
Good Morning folks,
My question is an IFASMPDP process Logger files?
Regards,
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ISPQRY fails if it is not in LPA, linklist or tasklib,
So you don't require that it work also in System REXX?
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Good Morning folks,
My question is an IFASMPDP process Logger files?
Regards,
Steve Beaver
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On Mon, 6 Feb 2023 15:29:01 +, Seymour J Metz wrote:
>It follows TSO command conventions, so in that sense it is a TSO command, but
>it is in an ISPF library.
>
So 'ADDRESS TSO "ISPQRY"' fails if ISPF libraries are not allocated?
Did you mean trimodal?
By "bimodal" I meant ISPF vs. non-IS
On 2/5/2023 9:14 AM, Joe Monk wrote:
I always find it fascinating when someone tries to explain to the IBM z/OS
designers how z/OS works...
Not sure I follow what you're trying to say with this snarky-sounding
comment, particularly since Michael Stein's explanation was correct...
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It follows TSO command conventions, so in that sense it is a TSO command, but
it is in an ISPF library.
Did you mean trimodal?
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> ASVTENTY is the address of the entry for ASID 0 (which, of course, is never
> used).
Apologies. That's wrong. ASVTENTY is, as others have posted, the entry for ASID
1.
ASVTFRST locates an entry that is available for use for a new address space.
Peter Relson
z/OS Core Technology Design
At least they listened to the esteemed professor with respect to teaching it
... and it looks like he didn't say anything about coding in it :)
MKK
On Sun, 5 Feb 2023 19:42:12 -0500, Steve Smith wrote:
>Well, Dijkstra [in]famously said “The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its
>teaching should,
lol bully? The opposite.
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On Monday, February 6, 2023, 9:53 AM, Carmen Vitullo
wrote:
checking my trash folder, the best place to find your responses, my
question to "
I didn’t start the off topic discussion but I’m not going to let bullsh*t go
unchallenged
Or use sysvar('sysispf') - either ACTIVE or NOT ACTIVE.
Lionel B. Dyck <><
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Github: https://github.com/lbdyck
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are, reputation merely what others think you are.” - - - John Wooden
On Mon, 6 Feb 2023 04:48:09 +, Seymour J Metz wrote:
>I would probably use ISPQRY, but your usage is shorter.
>
But does that require TSO? I wanted to be TSO-independent:
z/OS 2.5 ISPF Services Guide
IBM SC19-3626-50
Under TSO/E REXX that uses ADDRESS TSO you can use:
"ISPQRY"
checking my trash folder, the best place to find your responses, my
question to "
I didn’t start the off topic discussion but I’m not going to let bullsh*t go
unchallenged."
*is WHY? *
why do you feel you HAVE TO?
bully?
who cares
go back to your political forum where you can bully people there
I didn’t start the off topic discussion but I’m not going to let bullsh*t go
unchallenged.
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On Monday, February 6, 2023, 9:35 AM, Lionel B. Dyck wrote:
It is time to remember that this is a technical forum.
Lionel B. Dyck <><
Website: https://www.lbdsoftware.
The US is 50th in infant mortality. Hardly great health care.
The mortality rate in the United States was 5.44 in 2020. This rate was 50th
among the 195 countries and territories measured, and significantly higher than
in dozens of other developed countries such as Sweden (2.15), Japan (1.82),
It is time to remember that this is a technical forum.
Lionel B. Dyck <><
Website: https://www.lbdsoftware.com
Github: https://github.com/lbdyck
“Worry more about your character than your reputation. Character is what you
are, reputation merely what others think you are.” - - - John Wooden
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The World Health Organization rates the US health care system 37th in the
world. France is rated number 1. The US health care system isn’t even close to
being better than most. And those social democratic countries get better health
care for half the costs. I’m also all for higher taxes on corpo
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Social democratic countries have *MUCH* higher tax rates. Somebody has to pay
for all of those services.
Social democratic countries have generally poorer medical care
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On Sun, Feb 5, 2023 at 10:15 PM Jake Anderson
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> We use DFRMM. Is there any specific reporting batch that I can rely on ?
>
> On Mo
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