Re: Software drag racing

2021-06-24 Thread David Crayford
ley wrote: On 25/06/2021 2:34 pm, David Crayford wrote: If you've got the XLC 2.4.1 it will will be installed in the /usr/lpp/cbc/xlclang/exe directory. It's 64-bit only. We use this compiler exclusively now. It's really cool and has neat features such as type checking printf() forma

Re: Software drag racing

2021-06-24 Thread David Crayford
On 25/06/2021 12:44 pm, Ed Jaffe wrote: On 6/24/2021 9:34 PM, David Crayford wrote: If you've got the XLC 2.4.1 it will will be installed in the /usr/lpp/cbc/xlclang/exe directory. It's 64-bit only. We use this compiler exclusively now. It's really cool and has neat feature

Re: Software drag racing

2021-06-24 Thread David Crayford
, Andrew Rowley wrote: On 25/06/2021 1:45 pm, David Crayford wrote: Interesting! Try compiling using xlclang++ instead of xlc and see how you go. xlclang++ has a far superior standard library. I'm not sure whether it is installed on my system. I tried it and it fails, I think it is lookin

Re: Software drag racing

2021-06-24 Thread David Crayford
Interesting! Try compiling using xlclang++ instead of xlc and see how you go. xlclang++ has a far superior standard library. Nothing matches the speed of C :) mckoss-c830;14259;5.0;1;algorithm=wheel,faithful=yes,bits=1 On 25/06/2021 10:22 am, Andrew Rowley wrote: Dave Plummer has a series of S

Re: Coding for the future

2021-06-24 Thread David Crayford
t". Maybe there are gaps in my REXX knowledge. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of David Crayford [dcrayf...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2021

Re: Coding for the future

2021-06-24 Thread David Crayford
On 24/06/2021 9:44 pm, Jeremy Nicoll wrote: On Thu, 24 Jun 2021, at 01:57, David Crayford wrote: For example, to create and ISPF in Lua you instantiate and ISPF object and then communicate with it by calling methods https://lua4z.github.io/Lua4z/modules/ispf.html. That shows eg that you can

Re: Coding for the future

2021-06-24 Thread David Crayford
hat REXX supports. Would a port of OoRexx readily support ADDRESS SYSCALL, ADDRESS SDSF, ADDRESS ISREDIT, , perhaps using replaceable packages,unmodified? From: David Crayford [dcrayf...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, June 22, 2021 2:45 AM Never going to

Re: Coding for the future

2021-06-24 Thread David Crayford
___ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of David Crayford [dcrayf...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2021 5:00 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Coding for the future On 24/06/2021 9:23 am, Seymour J Metz wrote: You invoke ISPF. Y

Re: Coding for the future

2021-06-24 Thread David Crayford
x v5 has introduced array types which is long overdue. Stem variables are hash tables so performance is not great when iterating. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on

Re: Coding for the future

2021-06-23 Thread David Crayford
ason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of David Crayford [dcrayf...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 2021 3:19 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Coding for the future On 23/06/2021 10:38 am, Seymour J Metz wrote

Re: Coding for the future

2021-06-23 Thread David Crayford
ones in Perl and REXX, so why should I be surprised by large applications in, e.g., Python, Ruby? -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of David Crayford [d

Re: Coding for the future

2021-06-22 Thread David Crayford
ing app Instagram is written in Python? It's staggering to imagine that what we would consider a scripting language is serving over 1 billion monthly users. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion

Re: Coding for the future

2021-06-22 Thread David Crayford
On 22/06/2021 8:55 pm, Seymour J Metz wrote: What distinguishes REXX is not syntactic sugar but the plumbing that enables close coupling of scripts with applications. Lua is missing that. Maybe. But I can't think of an environment that REXX runs in that Lua can't. I could port Python to run i

Re: Coding for the future

2021-06-22 Thread David Crayford
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Re: Coding for the future

2021-06-21 Thread David Crayford
List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of David Crayford [dcrayf...@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, June 20, 2021 9:40 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Coding for the future On 21/06/2021 2:08 am, Paul Gilmartin wrote: Do you want to report every error, or leave after the first one? I wish

Re: EXTERNAL: Coding for the future

2021-06-21 Thread David Crayford
On 19/06/2021 12:23 am, Tom Brennan wrote: Side track to logic blocks: I like matching up indentations on the do/end instead of if/end.  And the same in C-style languages such as:   if (something == 10)    {     run some stuff;     run more stuff;    } This is referred to as Allman brace styl

Re: Coding for the future

2021-06-20 Thread David Crayford
On 21/06/2021 2:08 am, Paul Gilmartin wrote: Do you want to report every error, or leave after the first one? I wish Rexx supported multi-line strings. I wish Rexx would let me: do List = "ssn ssx stm wcn wcx wln wlx wld" while List<>"" parse var List L List /* etc. */

Re: ... FLOWASM and ASMA435I

2021-06-10 Thread David Crayford
On 10/06/2021 9:28 pm, Ed Jaffe wrote: Dravo found time to update the HLASM SPMs to support the compare-and-branch instructions. He's a great guy! We tested them for him and they worked great. IBM incorporated those enhancements and all is well... Kudos! On 6/10/2021 1:34 AM,

Re: ... FLOWASM and ASMA435I

2021-06-10 Thread David Crayford
On 9/06/2021 10:19 pm, Rob Scott wrote: Response from HLASM Development (Thanks Jonathan Scott) : Is HLASM supported out of Hursley now? I presented at the Perth Z Community Meetup a couple of weeks ago and**John (Dravo) Dravnieks was there. Dravo supported HLASM for many years out of the Per

Re: ... FLOWASM ...

2021-06-09 Thread David Crayford
On 9/06/2021 11:36 am, Paul Gilmartin wrote: On Wed, 9 Jun 2021 10:02:01 +0800, David Crayford wrote: ... Is 2009 good enough for you?: https://www.phoenixsoftware.com/ftp/demo/?C=M;O=D Perfect. I have to say, that's a superbly documented piece of code. Did you see a User

Re: Slickedit now supports FLOWASM syntax highlighting for HLASM

2021-06-08 Thread David Crayford
On 9/06/2021 3:10 am, Paul Gilmartin wrote: On Tue, 8 Jun 2021 22:16:54 +0800, David Crayford wrote: Is FLOWASM open source or do you have a mates shared version? Is 2009 good enough for you?: https://www.phoenixsoftware.com/ftp/demo/?C=M;O=D Perfect. I have to say, that's a sup

Re: Slickedit now supports FLOWASM syntax highlighting for HLASM

2021-06-08 Thread David Crayford
On 8/06/2021 3:43 pm, Rob Scott wrote: (a) imposes a severe restriction on the long-lines facility by requiring that column 72 be blank. The programmer could accommodate that by coding such as 0C' ', but that's worse than old-fashioned continuation. I re-read the commentary in the exit this m

Re: U 4087 abend

2021-06-07 Thread David Crayford
On 8/06/2021 9:05 am, Clark Morris wrote: What I object to is LE obscuring the original abend code with an abend code that doesn't have a 1 to 1 relation to the original abend. A U4xxx-S0C7 message would be adequate. LE condition handling is to number 1 reason why assembler programmres hate L

Re: git clone w/o mainframe internet access

2021-06-04 Thread David Crayford
On 5/06/2021 1:06 am, Paul Gilmartin wrote: On Fri, 4 Jun 2021 13:21:06 +0800, David Crayford wrote: You can do this but you're going to have to jump through some hoops. First you need to upload the repo from a zip file or whatever. Then you will have to tag all the files ISO8859-1 usin

Re: Slickedit now supports FLOWASM syntax highlighting for HLASM

2021-06-04 Thread David Crayford
We’re going to start using FLOWASM with Metal/C for inline assembly. It’s a PITA to code continuation characters when using __asm() blocks. > On 4 Jun 2021, at 11:46 pm, Rob Scott wrote: > >  >> >>> Similar question. Is it transparent, perhaps triggering FTP from a HLASM >>> exit? > > FLO

Re: git clone w/o mainframe internet access

2021-06-04 Thread David Crayford
IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of David Crayford Sent: Friday, June 4, 2021 12:21 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: git clone w/o mainframe internet access You can do this but you're going to have to jump through some hoops. First you need to upload the repo from a zip file or

Re: Slickedit now supports FLOWASM syntax highlighting for HLASM

2021-06-04 Thread David Crayford
On 4/06/2021 10:54 pm, Rob Scott wrote: Has anyone tried Slick + git + NFS + FLOWASM? Almost. "SlickEdit (using FTP as transport) + zFS + git on z/OS + FLOWASM" Some teams use Git and/or ssh/sftp for transport. SlickEdit has a great FTP client which supports both the MVS and z/OS file syste

Re: git clone w/o mainframe internet access

2021-06-03 Thread David Crayford
.  You can then have a nice GUI with wiki pages and branch history graphs just like GitHub or Bitbucket. On 4/06/2021 11:32 am, David Crayford wrote: You can do this but you're going to have to jump through some hoops. First you need to upload the repo from a zip file or whatever. Then

Slickedit now supports FLOWASM syntax highlighting for HLASM

2021-06-03 Thread David Crayford
FYI, we recently worked with SlickEdit to implement FLOWASM support for HLASM and it works very well. We also wrote some tooling to kick of builds over ssh from the SE GUI. There is very little chance of ISPF every supporting custom language syntax highlighting so if you desire colors and use

Re: git clone w/o mainframe internet access

2021-06-03 Thread David Crayford
You can do this but you're going to have to jump through some hoops. First you need to upload the repo from a zip file or whatever. Then you will have to tag all the files ISO8859-1 using the "chtag -R -tc ISO8859-1 ." command and hope there are no binary files. Then you need to convert the re

Re: Meta languages [was: RE: Assembler Language Programming for IBM System z Servers]

2021-06-02 Thread David Crayford
On 31/05/2021 9:02 pm, Linda Chui wrote: On Fri, 30 Apr 2021 07:17:29 +0800, David Crayford wrote: On 30/04/2021 4:30 am, Charles Mills wrote: Hmmm. I shared David's impression but http://publibfp.dhe.ibm.com/epubs/pdf/i1357010.pdf lists LE as a "Target System Mandatory O

Re: Users of a hfs file

2021-05-20 Thread David Crayford
zlsof https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/2.2.0?topic=scd-zlsof-displays-information-about-open-files-sockets-pipes > On 20 May 2021, at 6:37 pm, Joe Owens wrote: > > Is it possible to determine, without trying to unmount a file, which > processes are using resources below that point in the hier

Re: How can I tell the zFS files being used by my application

2021-05-19 Thread David Crayford
On 19/05/2021 3:46 pm, Andrew Rowley wrote: On 19/05/2021 12:27 pm, David Crayford wrote: Then why not write your product in C++? It would be a lot easier to process SMF records using structs then having to write get methods in Java. Contrary to what some people believe C++ is a very modern

Re: How can I tell the zFS files being used by my application

2021-05-18 Thread David Crayford
On 19/05/2021 8:14 am, Andrew Rowley wrote: That's unfortunate. It's the same where I work. We run a enterprise class z15 and the zIIP normalized times in the SMF30s match GCP times. What you really want is an image where you can compare code running on a zIIP to a sub-capacity GCP as that's

Re: How can I tell the zFS files being used by my application

2021-05-18 Thread David Crayford
On 18/05/2021 6:35 pm, Andrew Rowley wrote: On 18/05/2021 5:21 pm, David Crayford wrote: Do they have a zIIP on the RDP system? Yes, although the regular CPs are the same speed. Having the zIIP means I can get figures for zIIP, CP and zIIP on CP. That's unfortunate. It's the sa

Re: How can I tell the zFS files being used by my application

2021-05-18 Thread David Crayford
Sorry about the typos. OpenJDK Flight Record was GA from Java 9 onwards. So fingers crossed we will see that when the Java 11 is finally available on z/OS. On 18/05/2021 5:12 pm, David Crayford wrote: Unfortunately, othing has changed :( z/OS only partially supports the JVMTI implementation

Re: How can I tell the zFS files being used by my application

2021-05-18 Thread David Crayford
On 18/05/2021 1:52 am, Kirk Wolf wrote: - good low-overhead (sampling) profiling tools for the z/OS JVM don't exist (maybe this has changed?).   IMO this was a huge barrier for Java on z/OS. Unfortunately, othing has changed :( z/OS only partially supports the JVMTI implementation. Hopefull

Re: How can I tell the zFS files being used by my application

2021-05-18 Thread David Crayford
On 18/05/2021 1:32 pm, Andrew Rowley wrote: On 16/05/2021 12:59 pm, David Crayford wrote: And there is a good chance that you could introduce unacceptable software charges. I've worked on performance reporting tools for over two decades and in my experience customers measure everythin

Re: How can I tell the zFS files being used by my application

2021-05-17 Thread David Crayford
On 18/05/2021 2:05 am, Kirk Wolf wrote: Sorry, I meant to add that agree with David.   If you have big Java apps that use significant CPU, you really need to run them on zIIP or the costs will be intolerable. In the particular case of the large Australian customer, I wonder why they didn't se

Re: GitBucket on z/OS ?

2021-05-17 Thread David Crayford
On 17/05/2021 11:43 am, Timothy Sipples wrote: This message is because you're not running in a servlet container. If you download Apache Tomcat and drop the war into the WebApps directory it will work. Better still, download Jetty. You will have to use version 9.4 as new versions require versions

Re: How can I tell the zFS files being used by my application

2021-05-15 Thread David Crayford
On 16/05/2021 9:31 am, Andrew Rowley wrote: On 15/05/2021 3:33 pm, David Crayford wrote: Java is not viable on z/OS without zIIP engines. I don't believe that is true. zIIP engines give you 3 things: Answered below. 1) Savings in software cost. Imperative. One of our custome

Re: GitBucket on z/OS ?

2021-05-14 Thread David Crayford
On 15/05/2021 1:45 pm, David Crayford wrote: On 14/05/2021 11:58 pm, Lionel B. Dyck wrote: INFO:oejw.StandardDescriptorProcessor:main: NO JSP Support for /, did not find org.eclipse.jetty.jsp.JettyJspServlet This message is because you're not running in a servlet container. If you dow

Re: GitBucket on z/OS ?

2021-05-14 Thread David Crayford
On 14/05/2021 11:58 pm, Lionel B. Dyck wrote: INFO:oejw.StandardDescriptorProcessor:main: NO JSP Support for /, did not find org.eclipse.jetty.jsp.JettyJspServlet This message is because you're not running in a servlet container. If you download Apache Tomcat and drop the war into the WebApps

Re: How can I tell the zFS files being used by my application

2021-05-14 Thread David Crayford
On 15/05/2021 1:03 am, Matt Hogstrom wrote: It takes z/OSMF about an hour to fully initialize on my ZD&T … same behavior (lots of SIOs and CPU) IBM says its fixing this but its been quite a while. Its Java related. And how much does ZD&T cost? We had customer complain that our Apache Tomc

Re: How can I tell the zFS files being used by my application

2021-05-14 Thread David Crayford
This is usually due to Websphere scanning the dropins folder for updates. z/OS doesn't have edge triggered kernel hooks like inotify on Linux so has to use brute force. It's not just I/O it consumes a lot of CPU. You can disable it in server.xml locationMonitoringEnabled="false" updateTrigger

Re: GitBucket on z/OS ?

2021-05-14 Thread David Crayford
Works for me. You shouldn't need to download libraries as it's packaged into a fat Jar. On 14/05/2021 9:57 pm, Lionel B. Dyck wrote: Has anyone any experience in getting GitBucket to run on z/OS USS? I've downloaded the war file and it will start but then couldn't find: [main] WARN

Re: z/OS Conda install questions

2021-05-12 Thread David Crayford
Bruce, Your environment is not dissimilar to our setup at Rocket. We create a read only file system for ported tools which is shared across LPARs and Sysplexes. We don't update ported tools that frequently but when we do there is the usual backout plan you would expect from a mainframe shop. W

Re: z/OS Conda install questions

2021-05-07 Thread David Crayford
Behalf Of David Crayford Sent: Friday, May 7, 2021 6:18 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: z/OS Conda install questions On 7/05/2021 6:51 pm, Lionel B. Dyck wrote: That was my question and I was hoping for a broader audience than just the Rocket forums. I understand but IMO th

Re: Open Mainframe Project Slack room

2021-05-07 Thread David Crayford
#linuxone - Discussion on Linux on Z #zos-beginners - z/OS discussion #zosmf-adoption - z/OSMF discussion On 8/05/2021 5:11 am, David Crayford wrote: This Slack workspace is not just for Zowe there are many different channels. They are a lot of young guys learning the ropes that would benefit

Re: Open Mainframe Project Slack room

2021-05-07 Thread David Crayford
chives/CA4HYKG4D> - Discussion on Linux on Z #zos-beginners <https://openmainframeproject.slack.com/archives/CGREF2HJR> - z/OS discussion #zosmf-adoption <https://openmainframeproject.slack.com/archives/CGLJM7W4W> - z/OSMF discussion On 8/05/2021 4:55 am, David Crayford wrote: FYI,

Open Mainframe Project Slack room

2021-05-07 Thread David Crayford
FYI, there's a Slack room dedicated to the Open Mainframe Project which covers topics such as Zowe and the new generation of tooling such as the VS Plugins for COBOL, PL/I and HLASM. It's quite busy and while it is mainly used by millennial's there are a few faces from IBMMAIN participating. Eve

Re: z/OS Conda install questions

2021-05-07 Thread David Crayford
On 8/05/2021 3:15 am, Tony Harminc wrote: We've tried to encourage our young guys to join this forum and participate in questions about ported tools and Zowe. Unfortunately they become frustrated with the topic drift and nostalgia threads and unsubscribe. Maybe as your young guys mature they wil

Re: z/OS Conda install questions

2021-05-07 Thread David Crayford
forum. Lionel B Dyck < Sent from my iPad Pro 10.5 Website: www.lbdsoftware.com "Worry more about your character than your reputation. Character is what you are, reputation merely what others think you are." - John Wooden On May 7, 2021, at 5:30 AM, David Crayford wrote: On

Re: z/OS Conda install questions

2021-05-07 Thread David Crayford
s what you are, reputation merely what others think you are.” - - - John Wooden -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of David Crayford Sent: Thursday, May 6, 2021 7:55 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: z/OS Conda install questions On 6/05/2021 9:17 pm

Re: z/OS Conda install questions

2021-05-06 Thread David Crayford
On 7/05/2021 9:17 am, Andrew Rowley wrote: On 7/05/2021 10:55 am, David Crayford wrote: I would argue that it is the wrong forum. Rocket z/OS Ported Tools come with two types of support. Free with forum support and paid where you open a Ticket in SalesForce and are guaranteed service levels

Re: z/OS Conda install questions

2021-05-06 Thread David Crayford
On 6/05/2021 9:17 pm, Lionel B. Dyck wrote: This isn't the wrong forum - I'm seeking advice from the mainframe community and there may be some who aren't using the rocket forums :) I would argue that it is the wrong forum. Rocket z/OS Ported Tools come with two types of support. Free with for

Re: 3270 emulator for Mac

2021-05-04 Thread David Crayford
Rocket Terminal Emulator Web runs in a browser and is a really good 3270 emulator. You can run it on a server for the masses or on your laptop as it's a Node.js application. Rocket have a new development team supporting RTEW who are soliciting feature requests so feedback is welcome. As a web b

Re: z/OS Conda install questions

2021-05-04 Thread David Crayford
94975-142d-4f2d-9b52-0e37e225db41 -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of David Crayford [dcrayf...@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, May 2, 2021 10:59 PM To: IBM

Re: z/OS Conda install questions

2021-05-02 Thread David Crayford
You're posting in the wrong forum again Lionel ;) We use Conda internally at Rocket, however, the z team install all the ported tools into a read only file system which is shared between LPARs/Sysplexes. Your sysprogs can use Conda to create an environment to download the tools and then move t

Re: How to specify logical SYSLIB when linking with xclang++ under uss

2021-04-29 Thread David Crayford
I would use a configuration file. Copy /usr/lpp/cbclib/xlclang/etc/xlclang.cfg into one of your directories and either set the XL_CONFIG environment variable or include it with the -F compiler option. Add your data set to the syslib_x concatenation.  VIEW   /RZ204Y/usr/lpp/cbclib/xlclang/e

Re: Meta languages [was: RE: Assembler Language Programming for IBM System z Servers]

2021-04-29 Thread David Crayford
LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Meta languages [was: RE: Assembler Language Programming for IBM System z Servers] On Thu, 8 Apr 2021 18:27:06 +0800, David Crayford wrote: On 6/04/2021 9:53 pm, Charles Mills wrote: You don't use templates I certainly do use templates. Not sure how you get

Re: Limiting REXX syscall to SLEEP only

2021-04-28 Thread David Crayford
getpwent requires SAF access or super user. > On 28 Apr 2021, at 9:24 pm, Itschak Mugzach > <0305158ad67d-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > > getpwent But what about ? > > בתאריך יום ד׳, 28 באפר׳ 2021 ב-16:22 מאת Paul Gilmartin < > 000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu>: >

Re: IBM snew DOC Web SIte

2021-04-15 Thread David Crayford
Compared to IBMs new doc site Adobe is a work of art! > On 15 Apr 2021, at 10:57 am, kekronbekron > <02dee3fcae33-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > >  >> >>> Adobe is phenomenally bloated for just reading PDFs. >> >> "just"? Does it do nothing else? > > > Sorry, I could have phras

Re: : z/OS Java 11 coming anytime soon?

2021-04-12 Thread David Crayford
> On 13 Apr 2021, at 5:09 am, zMan wrote: > >  >> >> We want nice things too! > > And also Java, apparently. Haha, that’s very droll :) > >> On Mon, Apr 12, 2021 at 7:37 AM David Crayford wrote: >> >>> On 11/04/2021 3:18 am, Phil Sm

Re: : z/OS Java 11 coming anytime soon?

2021-04-12 Thread David Crayford
On 11/04/2021 3:18 am, Phil Smith III wrote: Allan Staller wrote: I don't follow JAVA closely enough to wonder about what happened to JAVA9/JAVA10 on z/OS. Java 9 and Java 10 were short-lived and are unsupported everywhere, so don't worry about them. For that matter, 12 through 15 are ba

Re: Meta languages [was: RE: Assembler Language Programming for IBM System z Servers]

2021-04-08 Thread David Crayford
Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of David Crayford Sent: Tuesday, April 6, 2021 5:15 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Meta languages [was: RE: Assembler Language Programming for IBM System z Servers] On 6/04/2021 1:23 am

z/OS Java 11 coming anytime soon?

2021-04-08 Thread David Crayford
Does anybody have idea when we can expect Java 11 to be GA on z/OS. IBM have made a statement of direction and I heard from IBMers from Hursley that it was supposed to GA in 2020. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive a

Re: Meta languages [was: RE: Assembler Language Programming for IBM System z Servers]

2021-04-06 Thread David Crayford
On 6/04/2021 1:23 am, Charles Mills wrote: But IMHO none easy to learn or use. I am generally not a fan of meta languages at all. I think writing programs is hard enough, without having to write two effective programs: one that runs at compile time and one that runs at run time. In my C++, wh

Re: z/OS ssh git issue - the solution

2021-03-09 Thread David Crayford
On 9/03/2021 6:45 am, Andrew Rowley wrote: On 9/03/2021 12:42 am, Lionel B Dyck wrote: It appears that on one of my z/OS 2.4 systems I don't have this ssh issue but on another I do.  The difference is that one has a /etc/ssh/zos_ssh_config file and the one that fails does not.  Updating the /e

Re: z/OS ssh git issue

2021-03-01 Thread David Crayford
< Website: www.lbdsoftware.com "Worry more about your character than your reputation. Character is what you are, reputation merely what others think you are." - John Wooden -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of David Crayford Sent: Monday, Ma

Re: z/OS ssh git issue

2021-03-01 Thread David Crayford
er than your reputation. Character is what you are, reputation merely what others think you are." - John Wooden -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of David Crayford Sent: Sunday, February 28, 2021 6:25 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: z/OS

Re: Assembler - Authorized program debug

2021-02-28 Thread David Crayford
hout a bit it self-training. On 2/27/2021 11:45 PM, David Crayford wrote: On 27/02/2021 8:22 am, Tom Brennan wrote: You take that back!! :) Sorry... I just used vi a minute ago and although I finally remembered shift-g to move to the bottom, I had to goggle how to move back to the top.  gg 

Re: z/OS ssh git issue

2021-02-28 Thread David Crayford
Make sure you also have the following set: export _TAG_REDIR_ERR=txt export _TAG_REDIR_IN=txt export _TAG_REDIR_OUT=txt On 28/02/2021 10:45 pm, Lionel B Dyck wrote: I have in the environment on this system and on the working systems. _BPXK_AUTOCVT=ON _CEE_RUNOPTS=FILETAG(AUTOCVT,AUTOTAG) POSI

Re: Assembler - Authorized program debug

2021-02-27 Thread David Crayford
On 27/02/2021 8:22 am, Tom Brennan wrote: You take that back!! :) Sorry... I just used vi a minute ago and although I finally remembered shift-g to move to the bottom, I had to goggle how to move back to the top.  gg  Of course! It's so obvious. :1 will also jump to the top. 'g' isn't a co

Re: z/OS ssh git issue

2021-02-27 Thread David Crayford
Is your profile on that LPAR setup correctly to handle enhanced ASCII? On 28/02/2021 4:23 am, Lionel B Dyck wrote: I’m having an issue on a test lpar with git for z/OS – both version 2.14 and the latest 2.26 ports. I’ve looked at this as have several others without success. When I at

Re: TCP/IP relationship to OMVS

2021-02-04 Thread David Crayford
On 5/02/2021 1:32 am, Charles Mills wrote: TCP/IP certainly makes use of lots of UNIX services. Yes, and it goes both ways. I'm working a project right now with one of the original IBM OMVS developers and he told me that the BPX callable services wrap Comms Server APIs and then the LE C/C++ r

Re: X3270 or c3270 on mac

2021-02-02 Thread David Crayford
their SEO. Google "3270 emulator for Mac" and they don't rank on the first page. René Jansen On 2 Feb 2021, at 11:51, David Crayford wrote: One of the reasons I chose a PC instead of a Mac when I had the choice for a new work machine was the lack of a decent 3270 emulat

Re: X3270 or c3270 on mac

2021-02-02 Thread David Crayford
One of the reasons I chose a PC instead of a Mac when I had the choice for a new work machine was the lack of a decent 3270 emulator. By decent I mean something that supports a custom 160*60 screen size. This is not a shameless plug for one of our products but if I were a Mac user I would chec

Re: ISPF for mainframe Linux

2021-01-31 Thread David Crayford
SERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of David Crayford [dcrayf...@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, January 31, 2021 2:25 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: ISPF for mainframe Linux On 31/01/2021 10:49 am, Seymour J Metz wrote: Did it ever occur to you that when you write things that people know to be false, they

Re: ISPF for mainframe Linux

2021-01-30 Thread David Crayford
On 31/01/2021 10:49 am, Seymour J Metz wrote: Did it ever occur to you that when you write things that people know to be false, they're less likely to believe what you write about other matters? Shrug! I could care less what you think. You're understanding of mainframe technology seems to be

Re: ISPF for mainframe Linux

2021-01-30 Thread David Crayford
Jeremy Nicoll [jn.ls.mfrm...@letterboxes.org] Sent: Friday, January 29, 2021 2:06 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: ISPF for mainframe Linux On Fri, 29 Jan 2021, at 03:27, David Crayford wrote: No offense taken. You may find it far fetched but it's true. I'm cognizant to th

Re: ISPF for mainframe Linux

2021-01-29 Thread David Crayford
On 30/01/2021 6:42 am, Wayne Bickerdike wrote: Necessity is the mother of invention. Glad someone invented ISPF edit macros. Others have a different vi(ew!) It's going to take a lot more than a few ISPF edit macros to implement what's available in the new generation of mainframe IDEs Wayne! A

Re: Rexx stem variable question

2021-01-29 Thread David Crayford
On 29/01/2021 6:12 pm, Paul Gilmartin wrote: On Fri, 29 Jan 2021 06:12:21 +, Seymour J Metz wrote: If you could get IBM to port OOREXX to TSO ... Why suggest a TSO dependency, rather than "... get IBM to port OOREXX to z/OS ..." Think of IRXJCL and OMVS. OOREXX is never going to happen

Re: REXX Compiler

2021-01-28 Thread David Crayford
On 29/01/2021 2:21 am, Lionel Dyck wrote: Good point that I missed in the doc - catch 22 isn't it. Too bad IBM doesn't include the REXX compiler (and TSO Pipes) with z/OS by default 😊 I found a problem with the compiled REXX runtime memory allocation. It uses GETMAIN and not cell pools and i

Re: ISPF for mainframe Linux

2021-01-28 Thread David Crayford
On 29/01/2021 4:40 am, Bob Bridges wrote: I didn't bother to reply to Mr Crayford's post; he seems to be saying that he encounters no editing task nowadays that he can't do just as well manually as if he wrote an editing program. I can't take that seriously. (No offense intended; I may have misu

Re: ISPF for mainframe Linux

2021-01-28 Thread David Crayford
> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of > David Crayford > Sent: Thursday, January 28, 2021 2:58 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: ISPF for mainframe Linux > > I think your the one missing the point. I can't remember the last ti

Re: ISPF for mainframe Linux

2021-01-27 Thread David Crayford
ctance to invest time to learn new things"; it doesn't. Maybe they know something you don't know. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of David C

Re: ISPF for mainframe Linux

2021-01-27 Thread David Crayford
then do 'DELETE' NEW 'CURSOR =' OLD "(NEW) = LINENUM .ZCSR" end "(LAST) = LINENUM .ZLAST" end In Vim I can record macros. In ISPF I don't need them. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3

Re: ISPF for mainframe Linux

2021-01-27 Thread David Crayford
On 28/01/2021 8:25 am, Seymour J Metz wrote: Yes, and you can write macros for it. Still, when you have ISPF available there's little call to use TSO EDIT. Isn't writing code macros a bit dated? In Vim I can record macros. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3

Re: ISPF for mainframe Linux

2021-01-27 Thread David Crayford
On 28/01/2021 12:20 am, Tom Brennan wrote: The last time I had any major Linux editing to do (writing a relatively large system in C, multiple modules, etc.) I used the editor that comes with Microsoft Visual Studio on Win 10, with Samba setup to automatically save the files from Windows over t

Re: ISPF for mainframe Linux

2021-01-27 Thread David Crayford
On 28/01/2021 12:19 am, Paul Gilmartin wrote: Doesn't everybody know that 'G' takes you to the bottom of the file and 'gg' to the top;) I didn't. I had been using '1G' for decades since I learned it. Thanks for the hint. Has Rocket ported Vim to z/OS? Yes, and emacs. The terminfo  database

Re: ISPF for mainframe Linux

2021-01-27 Thread David Crayford
On 27/01/2021 10:43 pm, Steve Thompson wrote: Then why do so many people complain about vi outside of mainframers? Why are there other editors and even mods for vi if it is so wonderful? Why does a modern GUI editor have key bindings for Vim? https://github.com/VSCodeVim/Vim? Because using

Re: ISPF for mainframe Linux

2021-01-26 Thread David Crayford
On 27/01/2021 2:05 pm, Seymour J Metz wrote: I bit the bullet and finally learned Vim Why not emacs? 1. Vim is the default editor on Linux systems so I would have to install emacs. It's also the default editor for tools like Git. 2. I prefer Vim! ---

Re: ISPF for mainframe Linux

2021-01-26 Thread David Crayford
neovim/neovim On 27/01/2021 1:57 pm, Tom Brennan wrote: On 1/26/2021 7:42 PM, David Crayford wrote: I know the old adage that old dogs can't learn new tricks but why not just learn native Linux tools? Because somebody decided that "end save" would be ":wq" which of co

Re: ISPF for mainframe Linux

2021-01-26 Thread David Crayford
There's an open source ncurses Linux ISPF clone which was ok when I looked at it https://github.com/daniel64/lspf. I know the old adage that old dogs can't learn new tricks but why not just learn native Linux tools? I bit the bullet and finally learned Vim a few years ago and now that I've mas

Re: SAS/C++ help

2021-01-21 Thread David Crayford
A and prefix.RW.LIBTOOLS.A for the rogue wave libs... look at page 58/61 Joe On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 4:04 AM David Crayford wrote: I'm working on a project that uses SAS/C++ and I'm having problems getting the sasCC370 compiler in z/OS UNIX configured to include the Rogue Wave STL library. In the

Re: SAS/C++ help

2021-01-21 Thread David Crayford
There are SAS/C devs on this mailing list so I may get lucky! On 21/01/2021 6:07 pm, Gadi Ben-Avi wrote: How about asking SAS. Start at support.sas.com or send a message to supp...@sas.com Gadi -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of David Crayford Sent

Re: SAS/C++ help

2021-01-21 Thread David Crayford
Discussion List On Behalf Of David Crayford Sent: Thursday, January 21, 2021 12:04 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: SAS/C++ help I'm working on a project that uses SAS/C++ and I'm having problems getting the sasCC370 compiler in z/OS UNIX configured to include the Rogue Wave STL

SAS/C++ help

2021-01-21 Thread David Crayford
I'm working on a project that uses SAS/C++ and I'm having problems getting the sasCC370 compiler in z/OS UNIX configured to include the Rogue Wave STL library. In the sascc.cfg file  I specified CXXLIBPREFIX=VENDOR.C750.RW but then it failed because the LIBCXX data set was not found. I tried to

Re: Why LE taking Transaction Dump rather than CEEDUMP?

2021-01-13 Thread David Crayford
ge to say exactly what its problem was (its problem that caused it to abandon CEEDUMP). Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of David Crayford Sent: Wednesday, January 13, 2021 7:23 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Su

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