Re: Merry Christmas

2023-12-27 Thread John Abell
Thank you and the same to you and all of the members John T. Abell Tel:800-295-7608Option 4 President International: 1-416-593-5578 Option 4 E-mail: john.ab...@intnlsoftwareproducts.com Fax:800-295-7609 International: 1-416-593-5579 International Software

Re: Subject: Re: Kinda fun

2023-11-10 Thread John Abell
When I was at IBM, circa 1964, we had a keypunch department because ran other businesses' work. The keypunch ladies were infinitely faster, did the verification step and always added the sequence numbers so any oddities were generally on you. John T. Abell Tel:800-295-7608

Re: Please stay on-topic

2023-10-09 Thread John Abell
Thanks Darren. John T. Abell Tel:800-295-7608Option 4 President  International: 1-416-593-5578 Option 4 E-mail: john.ab...@intnlsoftwareproducts.com Fax:800-295-7609 International: 1-416-593-5579 International Software Products www.ispinfo.com This

Re: Bill Johnson

2023-09-18 Thread John Abell
Mon Dieu as we would say in my country's other official language. John T. Abell Tel:800-295-7608Option 4 President  International: 1-416-593-5578 Option 4 E-mail: john.ab...@intnlsoftwareproducts.com Fax:800-295-7609 International: 1-416-593-5579

Re: IBM-MAIN Posting Guidelines

2023-09-18 Thread John Abell
Thanks Doug. It has been annoying to say the least. John T. Abell Tel:800-295-7608Option 4 President International: 1-416-593-5578 Option 4 E-mail: john.ab...@intnlsoftwareproducts.com Fax:800-295-7609 International: 1-416-593-5579 International Software

Re: SQL Replication

2023-08-11 Thread John Abell
Would you explain what the source and target databases are please? John T. Abell Tel:800-295-7608Option 4 President International: 1-416-593-5578 Option 4 E-mail: john.ab...@intnlsoftwareproducts.com Fax:800-295-7609 International: 1-416-593-5579

Re: Will z/OS be obsolete in 5 years?

2023-07-20 Thread John Abell
Like the prediction in 1970 or so that COBOL would be obsolete. John T. Abell Tel:800-295-7608Option 4 President International: 1-416-593-5578 Option 4 E-mail: john.ab...@intnlsoftwareproducts.com Fax:800-295-7609 International: 1-416-593-5579 International

Re: PKCS #7

2023-04-18 Thread John Abell
Hi, I am always happy to help you 2 and your group for this great cause. Cheers, John T. Abell Tel:800-295-7608Option 4 President International: 1-416-593-5578 Option 4 E-mail: john.ab...@intnlsoftwareproducts.com Fax:800-295-7609 International:

Re: Not aging well (know-it-alls)

2023-04-10 Thread John Abell
Sent: Monday, April 10, 2023 2:51 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Not aging well (know-it-alls) Why, John? It had the highest S:N ratio of the entire thread! On Mon, Apr 10, 2023 at 2:16 PM John Abell < john.ab...@intnlsoftwareproducts.com> wrote: > Please ignore my previou

Re: Not aging well (know-it-alls)

2023-04-10 Thread John Abell
send and receive emails on the basis that we are not liable for any such corruption, interception, tampering, amendment or viruses or any consequence thereof. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of John Abell Sent

Re: Not aging well (know-it-alls)

2023-04-10 Thread John Abell
Jeff managed to get the original files unscrambled into 1 file so I think we are good for now. He had to use 7zip to do it. John T. Abell Tel:800-295-7608Option 4 President International: 1-416-593-5578 Option 4 E-mail: john.ab...@intnlsoftwareproducts.com Fax:

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: How long for an experienced z/OS sysprog to come up to speed on a new environment?

2023-02-21 Thread John Abell
You too thanks. John T. Abell Tel:800-295-7608Option 4 President International: 1-416-593-5578 Option 4 E-mail: john.ab...@intnlsoftwareproducts.com Fax:800-295-7609 International: 1-416-593-5579 International Software Products www.ispinfo.com

Re: WTO and IEF170I message

2022-10-18 Thread John Abell
And she was deemed to possibly your next President. YIKES John T. Abell Tel:800-295-7608Option 4 President International: 1-416-593-5578 Option 4 E-mail: john.ab...@intnlsoftwareproducts.com Fax:800-295-7609 International: 1-416-593-5579 International

Re: S23E abend

2022-08-22 Thread John Abell
And were the last 2 records as follows: . --- . BROWSEDV.DARSTMF.V20030.Z221.BATCH.XMITLine 088572 Col 001 080 . Command ===> Scroll ===> CSR

Re: ] Re: "A Rexx" (or "A REXX")

2022-06-09 Thread John Abell
, tampering, amendment or viruses or any consequence thereof. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of John Abell Sent: Thursday, June 09, 2022 12:08 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: ] Re: "A Rexx" (

Re: ] Re: "A Rexx" (or "A REXX")

2022-06-09 Thread John Abell
It was to your ISP e-mail. John T. Abell Tel:800-295-7608Option 4 President  International: 1-416-593-5578 Option 4 E-mail: john.ab...@intnlsoftwareproducts.com Fax:800-295-7609 International: 1-416-593-5579 International Software Products www.ispinfo.com

Re: my new z114

2022-05-30 Thread John Abell
I am not totally sure BUT I believe that it was the revamp of the 1401 FARGO programming language. IBM taught us FARGO and AUTOCODER as 1401 operators in the early 1960s so we could fix programs sent in for compiles when we were on the evening and midnight shifts. John T. Abell Tel:

Re: z/PDT

2022-03-24 Thread John Abell
Zpdt personal edition which I think you I and vendors have And the learners edition I’ll call the passport advantage number and or ibmserv Thank you > On Mar 24, 2022, at 9:05 AM, John Abell > wrote: > > OK. But if we can get it for zPDT, I would think that you should be abl

Re: z/PDT

2022-03-24 Thread John Abell
[mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Joseph Reichman Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2022 9:01 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: z/PDT John Think we have different licenses I typically download the images from the passport advantage site > On Mar 24, 2022, at 8:47 AM, John Ab

Re: z/PDT

2022-03-24 Thread John Abell
The 2.5 ADCD is on the Dallas site. We downloaded it almost 2 weeks ago and have it up and running in its base form with no issues. https://dtsc.dfw.ibm.com/ocgi/pagebuilder?/web/httpd1/pagebuilder/download.dat You will have to login with you appropriate ID and Password. John T. Abell Tel:

Re: z/PDT

2022-03-23 Thread John Abell
We have the base configuration z/OS 2.5 ADCD that was released a couple of weeks back installed and running as a guest under z/VM 7.1 on the latest zPDT maintenance release without issues so far. John T. Abell Tel:800-295-7608Option 4 President International: 1-416-593-5578

Sad News

2022-02-01 Thread John Abell
It is with sadness that I have to report that a long time contributor this list, Chris Hoelsher of Humana and Kyndryl, passed away last night of a heart attack. Our condolences and deepest sympathies go out to Chris' wife and family. John T. Abell Tel:800-295-7608

Re: Identifying PDS/E or PDS in IEBCOPY Unload

2021-07-29 Thread John Abell
Why not have them use TSO XMIT files like we do? John T. Abell Tel:800-295-7608Option 4 President International: 1-416-593-5578 Option 4 E-mail: john.ab...@intnlsoftwareproducts.com Fax:800-295-7609 International: 1-416-593-5579 International Software

Re: Windows FTPS client

2021-07-29 Thread John Abell
Have a look at Filezilla. John T. Abell Tel:800-295-7608Option 4 President  International: 1-416-593-5578 Option 4 E-mail: john.ab...@intnlsoftwareproducts.com Fax:800-295-7609 International: 1-416-593-5579 International Software Products www.ispinfo.com

Re: Serverpac installs January 2022 and beyond - Requests

2021-07-26 Thread John Abell
I have been running with zfs for years now with no issues. John T. Abell Tel:800-295-7608Option 4 President International: 1-416-593-5578 Option 4 E-mail: john.ab...@intnlsoftwareproducts.com Fax:800-295-7609 International: 1-416-593-5579 International

Re: New z/Architecture Instructions and Mnemonics

2021-03-28 Thread John Abell
depends on various scenarios Kind Regards Jim Thomas -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of John Abell Sent: Sunday, March 28, 2021 10:05 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: New z/Architecture Instructions and Mnemonics Agreed but none of the shift

Re: New z/Architecture Instructions and Mnemonics

2021-03-28 Thread John Abell
, No.. those are subtract instructions ... I was hunting for the shift instructions ... thank you though... Kind Regards Jim Thomas -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of John Abell Sent: Saturday, March 27, 2021 16:52 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU

Re: New z/Architecture Instructions and Mnemonics

2021-03-27 Thread John Abell
Maybe, Page 7-22 shows SLHHHR and SLHHLR so maybe? John T. Abell Tel:800-295-7608Option 4 President International: 1-416-593-5578 Option 4 E-mail: john.ab...@intnlsoftwareproducts.com Fax:800-295-7609 International: 1-416-593-5579 International Software

Re: ISPF for mainframe Linux

2021-01-26 Thread John Abell
I still have and use the SPF/PC GUI Version 4.0 Build 965 circa 2002 running on Windows 10. It is too bad it wasn't still available and slightly modernized. John T. Abell Tel:800-295-7608Option 4 President  International: 1-416-593-5578 Option 4 E-mail:

Re: Goodbye.

2020-08-03 Thread John Abell
Enjoy a happy and long retirement. Sincerely, John T. Abell Tel:800-295-7608Option 4 President  International: 1-416-593-5578 Option 4 E-mail: john.ab...@intnlsoftwareproducts.com Fax:800-295-7609 International: 1-416-593-5579 International Software Products

Re: OT: Mandatory Work From Home at my company

2020-03-19 Thread John Abell
Then there is the bean counter point of view - Look how much office space we don't need anymore! John T. Abell Tel:800-295-7608Option 4 President International: 1-416-593-5578 Option 4 E-mail: john.ab...@intnlsoftwareproducts.com Fax:800-295-7609

Re: Model9 is now backed by Intel Capital

2020-02-13 Thread John Abell
Interesting but we have been doing this for CA IDMS database data for a few years now. Data is synchronized as near to real-time as is possible. i.e. transaction end or commit. John T. Abell Tel:800-295-7608Option 4 President International: 1-416-593-5578 Option 4

Re: Phoenix Software International Announces IBM® JES3 Licensing Agreement

2019-10-04 Thread John Abell
Good luck Ed. I am sure that there are a lot of JES3 people pleased with this. Sincerely, John T. Abell Tel:800-295-7608Option 4 President International: 1-416-593-5578 Option 4 E-mail: john.ab...@intnlsoftwareproducts.com Fax:800-295-7609 International:

Re: [External] FTP MGET

2019-07-12 Thread John Abell
Thanks. Very nice. Say Hello to everyone for me please. John T. Abell Tel:800-295-7608Option 4 President International: 1-416-593-5578 Option 4 E-mail: john.ab...@intnlsoftwareproducts.com Fax:800-295-7609 International: 1-416-593-5579 International

Re: Determine level of fragmentation in VTOCIX?

2019-07-11 Thread John Abell
Thanks. I will be back to you in the morning. John T. Abell Tel:800-295-7608Option 4 President  International: 1-416-593-5578 Option 4 E-mail: john.ab...@intnlsoftwareproducts.com Fax:800-295-7609 International: 1-416-593-5579 International Software

Re: COBOL 6.2 and ARCH(12)

2019-05-06 Thread John Abell
I fully agree with this opinion. John T. Abell Tel:800-295-7608Option 4 President International: 1-416-593-5578 Option 4 E-mail: john.ab...@intnlsoftwareproducts.com Fax:800-295-7609 International: 1-416-593-5579 International Software Products

Re: COBOL 6.2 and ARCH(12)

2019-05-06 Thread John Abell
should be somewhere in the Job listing from the Cobol Compile. HTH, -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of John Abell Sent: Saturday, May 4, 2019 9:44 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: COBOL 6.2 and ARCH(12) I am a bit behind on this issue so maybe

Re: COBOL 6.2 and ARCH(12)

2019-05-04 Thread John Abell
I am a bit behind on this issue so maybe you have tried some of the below. I am puzzled by this unless the ARCH parm is not taken by the compiler for some reason. Do you have the same problem using the DEFAULT ARCH value? Generate the assembler listing and then see if the S0C1 or S0C4 actually

Re: Thanks For All the Fish

2018-12-12 Thread John Abell
Well John, even though I have only known you for a few years and mainly at the TDMs, it has been a pleasure. All the very best to you and enjoy your hobbies. Sincerely, John T. Abell Tel:800-295-7608Option 4 President International: 1-416-593-5578 Option 4 E-mail:

Re: Display utilisation of logrec

2018-11-28 Thread John Abell
Seems like not our kind of event. It is close by, between Brock and Sheridan. John T. Abell Tel:800-295-7608Option 4 President International: 1-416-593-5578 Option 4 E-mail: john.ab...@intnlsoftwareproducts.com Fax:800-295-7609 International: 1-416-593-5579

Re: CLIP?

2018-05-19 Thread John Abell
Also used as the term when setting the IPL records on a new system pack as I recall. I did this a couple years back for a specific test. Took a bit to get the details of doing it since I hadn't done it since 1970 or so. John T. Abell Tel:800-295-7608Option 4 President

Re: change data capture for VSAM

2018-03-28 Thread John Abell
Please contact me offline on this. John T. Abell Tel:800-295-7608Option 4 President International: 1-416-593-5578 Option 4 E-mail: john.ab...@intnlsoftwareproducts.com Fax:800-295-7609 International: 1-416-593-5579 International Software Products www.ispinfo.com

Re: VSAM Performance - CPU reduction

2018-01-16 Thread John Abell
You should see a substantial reduction in I/O with SMB as is my experience. I use a special DATACLAS in SMS for SMB as is required. John T. Abell Tel:800-295-7608Option 4 President International: 1-416-593-5578 Option 4 E-mail: john.ab...@intnlsoftwareproducts.com Fax:

Re: curious: why S/360 & decendants are "big endian".

2017-03-13 Thread John Abell
017 10:52 AM > > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > > Subject: Re: curious: why S/360 & decendants are "big endian". > > > > John, > > > > My career is similar , unit record equip then 360/40 DOS/VS/POWER, the > > 360/40 had MFCM and I learned Asse

Re: curious: why S/360 & decendants are "big endian".

2017-03-12 Thread John Abell
: curious: why S/360 & decendants are "big endian". John, My career is similar , unit record equip then 360/40 DOS/VS/POWER, the 360/40 had MFCM and I learned Assembler on a 360/20, of course I wasn't in your wonderful country, I always liked Canada. Scott On Fri, Mar 10, 2017 at 7:23

Re: curious: why S/360 & decendants are "big endian".

2017-03-10 Thread John Abell
I started at IBM in Toronto in August 1964. 1401's, a 1440, a 1460, a 7044, an 1130 and all the unit record equipment you could want except 403s and 407s, We also had Tape-to-Tape data flow over a phone line in the evenings between Montreal and Toronto and Vancouver and Toronto using 200BPI

Re: Open Source vs. propiietary operating systems breaking things. was Re: ZPDT usb issue after lunux update.

2017-01-18 Thread John Abell
operating systems breaking things. was Re: ZPDT usb issue after lunux update. [Default] On 18 Jan 2017 12:26:59 -0800, in bit.listserv.ibm-main john.ab...@intnlsoftwareproducts.com (John Abell) wrote: >Well that is the ever present risk of Open Source. Whatever this kernel change is, it screwed up

Re: ZPDT usb issue after lunux update.

2017-01-18 Thread John Abell
is on different disks so nothing was lost. My concern is the ability of the vendor to fix the problem. It is unblievable that it takes more than a month so far. ITschak בתאריך 18 בינו 2017 17:21,‏ "John Abell" < john.ab...@intnlsoftwareproducts.com> כתב: If you cannot back out th

Re: ZPDT usb issue after lunux update.

2017-01-18 Thread John Abell
If you cannot back out the recent updates that caused you to end up with this problem, re-install the version RHEL that last worked. This assumes that you have used the practice of making sure that none of you zPDT stuff is in distribution directories. We have a much more complex zPDT

Re: EXTERNAL: REGION=0

2017-01-04 Thread John Abell
I would be interested in any additional insight on this as the following is from the V2R2 JCL Reference Page 446. The asterisks are just to enclose the info. The BOLD characters would be relative to the IEFUSI and IEALIMIT or, possibly, some similar 3rd party product that does the same.

Re: Another ShopzSeries issue

2016-10-24 Thread John Abell
such corruption, interception, tampering, amendment or viruses or any consequence thereof. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of John Abell Sent: Monday, October 24, 2016 10:45 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Another

Re: Another ShopzSeries issue

2016-10-24 Thread John Abell
I created a new order earlier this morning and it says that it is read for download in the e-mail BUT the web page says In Final Packaging. John T. Abell Tel:800-295-7608Option 4 President  International: 1-416-593-5578 Option 4 E-mail: john.ab...@intnlsoftwareproducts.com Fax:

Re: Can Someone Check Redbooks?

2016-09-29 Thread John Abell
Works now finally. How magical!! John T. Abell Tel:800-295-7608Option 4 President International: 1-416-593-5578 Option 4 E-mail: john.ab...@intnlsoftwareproducts.com Fax:800-295-7609 International: 1-416-593-5579 International Software Products www.ispinfo.com

Re: Can Someone Check Redbooks?

2016-09-29 Thread John Abell
9* >> *Florida's Only A-Rated Urban District For Eight Consecutive Years* >> >> On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 9:51 AM, John Abell < >> john.ab...@intnlsoftwareproducts.com> wrote: >> >> Still doesn't work for me so maybe some DNS Servers are down in the >> ne

Re: Can Someone Check Redbooks?

2016-09-29 Thread John Abell
Still doesn't work for me so maybe some DNS Servers are down in the nether land somewhere. John T. Abell Tel:800-295-7608Option 4 President International: 1-416-593-5578 Option 4 E-mail: john.ab...@intnlsoftwareproducts.com Fax:800-295-7609 International:

Re: [EXTERNAL] Can Someone Check Redbooks?

2016-09-29 Thread John Abell
It fails horribly for me as well. John T. Abell Tel:800-295-7608Option 4 President International: 1-416-593-5578 Option 4 E-mail: john.ab...@intnlsoftwareproducts.com Fax:800-295-7609 International: 1-416-593-5579 International Software Products www.ispinfo.com

Re: IBM Knowledge Center broken on IE

2016-06-03 Thread John Abell
What doesn't work? It looks the same to me with IE 11 and Firefox 46. Did you try clearing tye cache in IE 11? John T. Abell Tel:800-295-7608Option 4 President International: 1-416-593-5578 Option 4 E-mail: john.ab...@intnlsoftwareproducts.com Fax:800-295-7609

Re: mixed AMODE with HLL | 64-bit to 31-bit

2016-04-27 Thread John Abell
What you need to do in C: 1. Put a #pragma linkage(assembler_routine_name,OS_NOSTACK) 2. Make sure you allocate the data areas you want to pass to your 31-bit routine using __malloc31. 3. Call a 64-bit Assembler routine, shown above as assembler_routine_name, with the parm

Re: Real Storage Allocation

2016-02-15 Thread John Abell
As long as your z/OS isn't running under, z/VM like may smaller ISVs, where LFAREA is not yet supported. John T. Abell Tel:800-295-7608Option 4 President International: 1-416-593-5578 Option 4 E-mail: john.ab...@intnlsoftwareproducts.com Fax:800-295-7609

Re: COBOL V5 and IMS Concerns

2015-10-14 Thread John Abell
And http://www-01.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SS6SG3_5.2.0/com.ibm.cobol52.e nt.doc/PGandLR/ui/up0048.html John T. Abell Tel:800-295-7608Option 4 President  International: 1-416-593-5578 Option 4 E-mail: john.ab...@intnlsoftwareproducts.com Fax:800-295-7609

Re: COBOL V5 and IMS Concerns

2015-10-14 Thread John Abell
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSQ2R2_9.0.0/com.ibm.ent.cbl.z os.doc/migrate/igymopt.html John T. Abell Tel:800-295-7608Option 4 President  International: 1-416-593-5578 Option 4 E-mail: john.ab...@intnlsoftwareproducts.com Fax:800-295-7609

Re: AMASPZAP to C main marked as $private

2015-09-09 Thread John Abell
Here is what I use for a AMODE 64 program: NAME load_module csect_to_be_zapped C_CODE64 Where load_module is the module on the EXEC statement, csect_to_be_zapped is the module being linked into the load_madule and that has a #pragma csect(CODE,"csect_name") coded in it. The following also

Re: AMASPZAP to C main marked as $private

2015-09-09 Thread John Abell
I agree as I out that in my earlier message. If your code runs on platforms other than z, make sure the #pragma is only for the z environment. John T. Abell Tel:800-295-7608Option 4 President International: 1-416-593-5578 Option 4 E-mail: john.ab...@intnlsoftwareproducts.com

Re: FTP - how get RDW and ASCII

2015-09-01 Thread John Abell
We use locsite rdw when FTPing from the mainframe. John T. Abell Tel:800-295-7608Option 4 President  International: 1-416-593-5578 Option 4 E-mail: john.ab...@intnlsoftwareproducts.com Fax:800-295-7609 International: 1-416-593-5579 International Software

Re: ISPF Workstation Setup ( Was: IND$FILE Resource Log Monitoring)

2015-06-12 Thread John Abell
Interesting toy although much much slower than an already in-place FTP of members. It seems to me there were other products similar to this in the past that may or may not have been free. John T. Abell Tel:800-295-7608Option 4 President International: 1-416-593-5578 Option 4

Re: ISPF Workstation Setup ( Was: IND$FILE Resource Log Monitoring)

2015-06-12 Thread John Abell
Odd. I installed it without issue on Windows 7 64-bit Pro. John T. Abell Tel:800-295-7608Option 4 President International: 1-416-593-5578 Option 4 E-mail: john.ab...@intnlsoftwareproducts.com Fax:800-295-7609 International: 1-416-593-5579 International Software

Re: ISPF Workstation Setup ( Was: IND$FILE Resource Log Monitoring)

2015-06-12 Thread John Abell
? an already in-place FTP of members Does it have a psychic IPADDR function for 'obfuscated' servers? /Steve From: John Abell john.ab...@intnlsoftwareproducts.com To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Date: 2015-06-12 15:09 Subject:Re: ISPF Workstation Setup ( Was: IND$FILE Resource Log

Re: OMVS not starting on my DR LPAR

2015-05-01 Thread John Abell
ARRRGHHH. Sorry. John T. Abell Tel:800-295-7608Option 4 President  International: 1-416-593-5578 Option 4 E-mail: john.ab...@intnlsoftwareproducts.com Fax:800-295-7609 International: 1-416-593-5579 International Software Products www.ispinfo.com This email may

Re: Windsor, Ontario, Canada mainframers

2015-04-16 Thread John Abell
oriented, few, if any, have any idea of mainframe capabilities. Concept is consolidate but being on my own, am looking for local, flesh bearing mainframe bigots to work with me. Graham On 2015-04-15 9:36 PM, John Abell wrote: Ok. I am in Toronto if that helps. I also have a sister-in-law

Re: Windsor, Ontario, Canada mainframers

2015-04-15 Thread John Abell
I am at the Spring z Systems TDM in Poughkeepsie NY with IBM and 3 Compuwarians. I will run this by some IBMers here and see where we get. John T. Abell Tel:800-295-7608Option 4 President International: 1-416-593-5578 Option 4 E-mail: john.ab...@intnlsoftwareproducts.com Fax:

Re: Windsor, Ontario, Canada mainframers

2015-04-15 Thread John Abell
with IBM. Am trying to find my old mainframe mates in Windsor to help the cause. Not looking good:'( Graham On 2015-04-15 2:01 PM, John Abell wrote: I am at the Spring z Systems TDM in Poughkeepsie NY with IBM and 3 Compuwarians. I will run this by some IBMers here and see where we get. John T

Re: RECFM=VBS,LRECL=32767?

2014-12-16 Thread John Abell
Laxman John T. Abell President International Software Products Tel: 800-295-7608 Ext: 224 International: 1-416-593-5578 Ext: 224 Fax: 800-295-7609 International: 1-416-593-5579 E-mail: john.ab...@intnlsoftwareproducts.com Web: www.ispinfo.com This email may

Re: 64bit

2014-10-17 Thread John Abell
I have just converted a large C program from 31-bit to 64-bit because MQ Series Version 8 now supports LP64. There are 28 modules and no Metal C code as this app runs on many different platforms. All called assembler subroutines, z/OS-only, are now AMODE 64 and a number do switches internally to

Re: COBOL LINK without Assembler?

2014-09-22 Thread John Abell
Thanks for the OLP output. A fix should be on its way tp me soon. Yours truly, John T. Abell President International Software Products Tel: 800-295-7608 Ext: 224 International: 1-416-593-5578 Ext: 224 Fax: 800-295-7609 International: 1-416-593-5579 E-mail:

Re: SORT JCL

2014-09-15 Thread John Abell ISP
Based on stats I have had, command chaining or similar seems to be what they do. Did that years ago in a bunch of programs for tape spooling and subsequent processing. -Original Message- From: Tom Brennan Sent: Sunday, September 14, 2014 5:25 PM Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main To:

Re: [Bulk] Re: [IBM-MAIN] General question on moving DFHSM work from mix TAPE/DASD to More DASD

2014-08-26 Thread John Abell
I suspected that you were with your brother. This must be quite disheartening to say the least. The man from CRA is back from holidays and asked yesterday how the MICS component was coming along. John T. Abell President International Software Products Tel: 800-295-7608 Ext: 224

Re: Buying desktop software from IBM

2014-05-13 Thread John Abell
How odd that they didn't include the real one - Canadian English EH!! John T. Abell President International Software Products Tel: 800-295-7608 Ext: 224 International: 1-416-593-5578 Ext: 224 Fax: 800-295-7609 International: 1-416-593-5579 E-mail:

Re: Rexx Concurrency (was: Sorting CSV data ...)

2014-04-28 Thread John Abell
Ok. Thanks. John T. Abell President International Software Products Tel: 800-295-7608 Ext: 224 International: 1-416-593-5578 Ext: 224 Fax: 800-295-7609 International: 1-416-593-5579 E-mail: john.ab...@intnlsoftwareproducts.com Web: www.ispinfo.com This email may

Re: FDRCOPY Support for zFS Quiesce

2014-04-16 Thread John Abell
Agreed. John T. Abell President International Software Products Tel: 800-295-7608 Ext: 224 International: 1-416-593-5578 Ext: 224 Fax: 800-295-7609 International: 1-416-593-5579 E-mail: john.ab...@intnlsoftwareproducts.com Web: www.ispinfo.com This email may

Re: Compiler error in z/OS C compiler

2014-04-01 Thread John Abell
Well we do not want to have to check to see if things are changed every time we leave the building. We have more than enough to do as it is. John T. Abell President International Software Products Tel: 800-295-7608 Ext: 224 International: 1-416-593-5578 Ext: 224 Fax:

Recall: Compiler error in z/OS C compiler

2014-04-01 Thread John Abell
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FW: Compiler error in z/OS C compiler

2014-04-01 Thread John Abell
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Re: Enterprise Cobol 5.1

2014-03-17 Thread John Abell
Hi Sharon, We are an ISV and I am in the early stages of playing with this. From what I can tell, the PDSE is a requirement. Maybe someone else will comment. I have compiled a couple of DB2 V10 programs that use CAF and that were previous compiled on 4.2 using the DB2 V10 Preprocessor as well

Re: Check out BBC News - Lenovo shares rise on reports of IBM deal

2014-01-24 Thread John Abell
According to something that I just read, the deal actually happened yesterday. John T. Abell President International Software Products Tel: 800-295-7608 Ext: 224 International: 1-416-593-5578 Ext: 224 Fax: 800-295-7609 International: 1-416-593-5579 E-mail: