Re: (OT?) Supreme Court rules human genes may not be patented

2013-06-13 Thread Mike Schwab
They overturned the Patent on the BRCA gene, so other companies can test for it. Other companies haven't been able to work with this gene to create their own test. They kept the Patent on that particular test that included a particular strand of created DNA. On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 3:47 PM,

Re: Auditing vendor source code

2013-06-19 Thread Mike Schwab
On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 8:22 AM, John McKown john.archie.mck...@gmail.com wrote: Perhaps there is a place for a trusted third party who can audit the source and issue some sort of assurance that the vendor could then attach. Of course, this suffers from a number of problems. Such as cost. The

Re: Auditing vendor source code

2013-06-19 Thread Mike Schwab
This was true in DOS 6.X. The object modules would be loaded into memory, and the first thing the program would do was decompress the rest of the module into another memory area and run from there. This was when software to compress DOS disks was becoming popular. But it would run on any PC.

Re: Run TSO batch as different user?

2013-06-19 Thread Mike Schwab
Most job scheduler programs can assign other user IDs and authenticate them. On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 5:08 PM, Charles Mills charl...@mcn.org wrote: Thanks. Solved the problem. I'm good. Believe it or not I've never in 44 years of MVS used JOB USER= before that I recall. deleted

Re: EBCDIC and the P-Bit

2013-06-20 Thread Mike Schwab
On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 10:28 AM, Roland Kinsman rjkins...@hotmail.com wrote: deleted http://www.bobbemer.com/P-BIT.HTM This is fascinating. Someone should put this on Wikipedia. Posted link on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EBCDIC#External_links -- Mike A Schwab, Springfield IL USA Where do

Re: What programmer's fear (not IBM specific)

2013-07-05 Thread Mike Schwab
z/OS 2.10? In 2023? I haven't even seen the announcement for z/OS 2.02. On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 2:06 AM, David Crayford dcrayf...@gmail.com wrote: On 5/07/2013 2:56 PM, Martin Packer wrote: If that's true in Another World I wonder what it'd take to make it true in THIS one. For a start

Re: Method to measure usage of a physical tape

2013-07-09 Thread Mike Schwab
On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 8:12 AM, Elardus Engelbrecht elardus.engelbre...@sita.co.za wrote: Victor Zhang wrote: I am using physical tape drive with high capacity which connect via FICON director with CPU,there is no virtual tape storage used, data is directly backed to physical tape drive,my

Re: regex that never matches?

2013-07-09 Thread Mike Schwab
On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 9:56 AM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com wrote: On Tue, 9 Jul 2013 11:34:55 +0200, Boris Lenz wrote: does /(?!)/ work for you? Thanks! I never woulda thoughta that. Seems to work for sed and grep; nearly an exhaustive sample. Now I need to try to understand it:

Re: DB2 image backup and DFSMSdss dataset backup

2013-07-10 Thread Mike Schwab
We put DB2 databases in their own storage group, and don't take DSS backups. Same with IMS. Application needs to be shut down and use DB2 / IMS / Database backup methods. The ADRDSSU backup with the transaction going would probably not be in a consistent state, I.E. some parts include a specific

Re: Old usercatalogs with IMBED and REPLICATE

2013-07-16 Thread Mike Schwab
Another option would be to move various Aliases (HLQs) to new usercatalogs. Perhaps splitting them into more, smaller user catalogs. On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 2:26 PM, John McKown john.archie.mck...@gmail.com wrote: OK, OK, all ya'all have worn me out! grin/ I scan to see how many catalog I'm

Re: Old usercatalogs with IMBED and REPLICATE

2013-07-16 Thread Mike Schwab
-Manager 626-302-7535 Office 323-715-0595 Mobile jo.skip.robin...@sce.com From: Mike Schwab mike.a.sch...@gmail.com To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU, Date: 07/16/2013 02:48 PM Subject:Re: Old usercatalogs with IMBED and REPLICATE Sent by:IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM

Re: Old usercatalogs with EMBED and REPLICATE

2013-07-17 Thread Mike Schwab
On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 3:50 PM, Robert A. Rosenberg hal9...@panix.com wrote: At 12:42 -0500 on 07/17/2013, Joel C. Ewing wrote about Re: Old usercatalogs with EMBED and REPLICATE: Not sure about rules in multi-system environment, but with one system I believe it was possible to DIAGNOSE a

Re: Relative generation - how to recognize new datasets under TSO

2013-07-18 Thread Mike Schwab
I think the TSO FREE would change the relative GDG number. Define a GDG. Write a small Clist. Allocates new HLQ.GDG(+1), writes a record into the dsn, FREEs it, Allocates old HLQ.GDG(+1) input to read and display the text. Probably the Allocate (+1) will error and has to Allocate (00) to read

Re: COBOL was: COBOL Parser

2013-07-18 Thread Mike Schwab
Alphabetic would almost certainly be very inefficient. A minimal optimization would be a binary search of a table or states, or order the states in most to least order for the (1. number of transactions, 2. number of policies, 3. number of agents, 4, population).Setting a subscript once and

Re: Question about ML2 expired datasets

2013-07-18 Thread Mike Schwab
When you get rid of bad tapes, you have to recover or delete any datasets left on the tape. On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 2:45 PM, Lizette Koehler stars...@mindspring.com wrote: Allan, My issue the files are all SMS managed and I am z/OS v1.12. We have a lot of old tape media and I suspect some

Re: NFS automount help requested

2013-07-19 Thread Mike Schwab
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/zos/v1r11/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.zos.r11.idan400/cpn1co71.htm Instead of automounting the file, I think you need to login to mount the NFS, then logout to unmount it before accessing it from another userid or system. On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 2:10 PM, Alan

Re: BLKSIZE=3120

2013-07-22 Thread Mike Schwab
3120 * 15 = 46800 / 55996 = 83.58% of maximum. On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 12:41 PM, Charles Mills charl...@mcn.org wrote: Hmm. I *may* need to take back what I said. It looks like for XMIT I specify 27920 but it forces 3120. Would need to do more research and no time at the moment. I *know* I

Re: Query for Destination z article -- computer museums

2013-07-24 Thread Mike Schwab
https://www.google.com/search?q=computer+museums includes a bunch. http://dir.yahoo.com/computers_and_internet/history/museums/ Has 13, maybe add some of the other links? http://www.corestore.org/ is a personal collection that was in Scotland then NYC and now New Zealand. On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at

Re: SMP/E vs. NON SMPE Installs (Was BLKSIZE=3120)

2013-07-24 Thread Mike Schwab
On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 10:09 AM, Lizette Koehler stars...@mindspring.com wrote: I might slightly disagree with removing the SAF and APF requirements. From a sysprog perspective, I can allow my applications groups access to LIST functions but NOT REC/APP/ACC. This is beneficial. I do not

Re: Mainframe vs Server - The Debate Continues

2013-07-29 Thread Mike Schwab
Umm, isn't that the Internet? Mainframes, Servers, and PCs able to access almost anything. On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 1:42 PM, Duffy Nightingale, SSPI du...@soundsoftware.us wrote: I predict that one day everyone on Earth will be connected to one giant IBM Mainframe and all share in the payment!

Re: Mainframe vs Server - The Debate Continues

2013-07-29 Thread Mike Schwab
On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 11:04 AM, Lizette Koehler stars...@mindspring.com wrote: This was posted on the VM newsgroup and l thought I would pass it along http://searchdatacenter.techtarget.com/opinion/Evolving-IT-needs-and-capabil

Re: Looking for a CA-1 feature.

2013-07-31 Thread Mike Schwab
EXPDT=90nnn (to 90365) Keeps nnn days after deletion. Normal used might be 90005, where it is not deleted until 5 days after deleting. But alter the EXPDT to keep the last one for up to 365 after deleting. Re-catalog before the expire date to recover. On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 8:26 AM, Vernooij,

Re: Looking for a CA-1 feature.

2013-07-31 Thread Mike Schwab
What our VTS does is scratch enough of VTAPEs to keep 5% space ready to be written to in a particular file system. So it might be a week or two or a few months before a particular tape is removed from VTAPE. If the EXPDT=90nnn doesn't work like I thought, then set a fixed EXPDT for selected

Re: Large BLKSIZE

2013-08-21 Thread Mike Schwab
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/zos/v1r12/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.ibm.zos.r12.idad400%2Fblksz.htm Use BLKSIZE=0. It will use the optimum (largest) blocksize that is valid. 32K, 64K, or 256K. On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 10:53 AM, Skip Robinson jo.skip.robin...@sce.com wrote: We're having

Re: DASD, Tape and other peripherals attached to a Mainframe

2013-08-22 Thread Mike Schwab
IBM mainframes use ECKD formatted tracks. Since the manufacture of actual 3390s ended, DASD storage has been emulated on FBA (PC / Unix disk), usually in a RAID 5 configuration. Occasionally, you might run across a 3380 volume as these are also supported. Yes, Virtual tapes are stored on disk,

Re: SCRT question

2013-08-25 Thread Mike Schwab
On emulated DASD, I/O is almost always an entire track at a time. On Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 3:25 PM, John Gilmore jwgli...@gmail.com wrote: Gerhard, Your arguments would be/are persuasive for a real, spinning DASD. On an emulated one they are not. What, for example, does 'track oriented'

Re: EMC DLM Data Domain and z/OS

2013-08-29 Thread Mike Schwab
See below. On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 8:15 AM, Lizette Koehler stars...@mindspring.com wrote: We are beginning to investigate the possibility of having a DLm and Data Domain tapeless solution in our shop. We are just looking If anyone in a medium to large shop is using this, and you would like

Re: timezone_name?

2013-09-06 Thread Mike Schwab
On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 8:47 AM, Charles Mills charl...@mcn.org wrote: I'm currently sticking the first three characters of TZ or a string such as EST5EDT in timezone_name, and I know that's wrong. What *should* I be doing instead? Charles You should use the portion in front of the offset

Re: timezone_name?

2013-09-08 Thread Mike Schwab
On Sun, Sep 8, 2013 at 5:52 AM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) shmuel+ibm-m...@patriot.net wrote: In 011401ceaa8d$7b6acab0$72406010$@mcn.org, on 09/05/2013 at 04:13 PM, Charles Mills charl...@mcn.org said: EST5EDT Due to parsing ambiguity, that doesn't tell you when to switch. -- Shmuel

Re: timezone_name?

2013-09-08 Thread Mike Schwab
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tz_database does tell you when to switch. And when to add or subtract leap seconds. On Sun, Sep 8, 2013 at 5:52 AM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) shmuel+ibm-m...@patriot.net wrote: In 011401ceaa8d$7b6acab0$72406010$@mcn.org, on 09/05/2013 at 04:13 PM, Charles Mills

Re: timezone_name?

2013-09-08 Thread Mike Schwab
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tz_database Does tell you the offset, when to switch. And when to add or subtract leap seconds. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to

Re: Comp-3 data defintion

2013-09-09 Thread Mike Schwab
On Sun, Sep 8, 2013 at 5:31 PM, Clark Morris cfmpub...@ns.sympatico.ca wrote: On 6 Sep 2013 08:22:58 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: Hello We have a job in which the input file that is comming has one on the field (Location Number) is defined as X(4). This file is comming from a

Re: Teletypewriter Model 33

2013-09-09 Thread Mike Schwab
MTS/370 and APL/360 have been ressurected to run on Hercules. On Mon, Sep 9, 2013 at 10:28 AM, Tom Marchant m42tom-ibmm...@yahoo.com wrote: On Mon, 9 Sep 2013 11:13:35 -0400, Anne Lynn Wheeler wrote: i got online 2741 at home And in another post he mentioned MTS (Michigan Terminal System),

Re: PDS/E, Shared Dasd, and COBOL V5

2013-09-14 Thread Mike Schwab
z/OS 1.6 put the ISAM modules in a separate library. This library was not included in z/OS 1.7. http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/ratdevz/v7r1m1/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.ent.cbl.zos.doc/topics/igym1ch7.htm On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 5:18 PM, Charles Mills charl...@mcn.org wrote: Replaced

Re: Makes you go hmmmm, EVA MSU of 21 Cyls

2013-09-16 Thread Mike Schwab
The DS8### series allocates devices in multiples of 1113 Cylinders. Beyond 65520 cylinders, all EAV volumes are multiple of 1113 cylinders. The EAV portion is allocated in 21 cylinder amounts, with 53 groups of 21 cylinders per 1113 cylinders. On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 6:57 AM, John Chase

Re: z/OS FBA Services (Was: PDS/E, Shared Dasd, and COBOL V5)

2013-09-16 Thread Mike Schwab
On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 12:37 PM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.comwrote: On Mon, 16 Sep 2013 19:10:08 +0200, Jan Vanbrabant wrote: Hi listers, The base IOS apar OA41040 has been closed. It contains now: ... *V1R13 SA22-7608 MVS Programming Authorized Assembler Services *Guide

Re: Makes you go hmmmm, EVA MSU of 21 Cyls

2013-09-17 Thread Mike Schwab
Ignore the bytes. In the EAV region, you get 53 groups of 21 cylinders for every 1113 cylinders. On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 11:29 AM, Grantham, Charles cgrant...@syncsort.comwrote: Thanks for the response. I'm still a little confused by the 21 thing. By my calculations 21*47,619,047 yields

Re: Looking for COBOL V5R1 Softcopy Librarian docs

2013-09-17 Thread Mike Schwab
Since Cobol 5.1 and z/OS 2.1 haven't been released yet, I would wait until the GA date and see if the bookshelves are updated. On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 10:30 AM, Tony Harminc t...@harminc.net wrote: On 17 September 2013 07:13, Kevin Minerley k60ek...@us.ibm.com wrote: deleted Before with

Re: Does z/OS 2.1 support COBOL 4.2?

2013-09-18 Thread Mike Schwab
Effective ?Jan 1?, 2014, Cobol 3 and 4 prices will be raised to match Cobol 5. On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 10:24 AM, Rouse, Willie wro...@co.pg.md.us wrote: Hello All, I would like to know where to find what IBM products z/OS 2.1 supports. Respectfully, Willie C. Rouse -- Mike A Schwab,

Re: NSA foils much internet encryption

2013-09-18 Thread Mike Schwab
“NIST would not deliberately weaken a cryptographic standard.” (But the NSA wouldn't let a cryptographic standard out the door unless they could decode it. - Mike Schwab). http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=nsa-nist-encryption-scandal Computer scientists for years suspected

Re: Allocation test

2013-09-20 Thread Mike Schwab
One suggestion I would like to make. When a dataset is deleted, a very tiny EOF record is written to each track. Just enough so the actual dasd unit erases all records on that track. If we were still using real 3390s, I would suggest a track full of EOF records. And not an intensive rewrite of

Re: HMIGRATE in parallel

2013-09-24 Thread Mike Schwab
Configure your backup job to write to a non-GDG PS disk backup. Once the backups are done, copy them to a GDG on tape. The next day, overwrite the PS disk backup. Our job using ADRDSSU: //CPYADRDS PROC HLQ=VLT,VOL1=DUMMY,GENI='(00)',TYPEI=W, //

Re: PDS/E, Shared Dasd, and COBOL V5

2013-09-24 Thread Mike Schwab
For that, 1. Create HLQ.COBLIB.PDSE, 2. Copy everything from HLQ.COBLIB (PDS), 3. Compiles should link edit into both libraries. 4. Test with the new library. 5. Verify HLQ.COBLIB and HLQ.COBLIB.PDSE have the same members and contents (date time stamp). 5. Shutdown everything. 6. Rename HLQ.COBLIB

Re: Pissing contest(s)

2013-09-24 Thread Mike Schwab
In Outback restaurants in the U.S. They have a sign Used Beer Department. On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 5:15 AM, Elardus Engelbrecht elardus.engelbre...@sita.co.za wrote: Vernooij, CP wrote: When this thread popped up, I first was happy, so I could easily skip this subject and concentrate on

Re: NSA foils much internet encryption

2013-09-24 Thread Mike Schwab
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2013/09/nsa-backdoor/all/ On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 3:37 PM, John Gilmore jwgli...@gmail.com wrote: The the implications of the post by J.P. are entirely correct; but the post itself is---I don't mean this pejoratively---a little naif. The NSA cannot be expected

Re: Using DFDSS to move multi volume SMS managed datasets.

2013-09-25 Thread Mike Schwab
. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Mike Schwab Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2013 14:14 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Using DFDSS to move multi volume SMS managed datasets. After the Disable, New, you can also

Re: Using DFDSS to move multi volume SMS managed datasets.

2013-09-25 Thread Mike Schwab
[mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Mike Schwab Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2013 14:14 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Using DFDSS to move multi volume SMS managed datasets. After the Disable, New, you can also backup, migrate, and recall the dataset. On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 7

Re: Deleting multiple data sets

2014-02-20 Thread Mike Schwab
HDEL in front of each dataset name, instead of D. Type HDEL on the first one, = on the rest. On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 8:05 PM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com wrote: Often, after finishing a series of tests, I have several dozen data sets to delete. Actually, I'm careless; often I don't

Re: Deleting multiple data sets

2014-02-21 Thread Mike Schwab
HDEL doesn't have the option of confirming each dataset. And I don't like to turn off the confirmation. On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 2:21 AM, Hunkeler, Peter peter.hunke...@credit-suisse.com wrote: HDEL in front of each dataset name, instead of D. Type HDEL on the first one, = on the rest. DSLIST

Re: Prepare System for Discontinuance

2014-02-26 Thread Mike Schwab
50. Didn't help in Independence Day. 60. Basis of the plot line for Mercury Rising. On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 8:04 AM, Elardus Engelbrecht elardus.engelbre...@sita.co.za wrote: Robert A. Rosenberg wrote: According to the Evil Overlord Rules Web Site

Re: Disabled wait

2014-02-28 Thread Mike Schwab
It is part of the IPCS product. (z/OS 1.12 is what google found for me). http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/zos/v1r12/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.ibm.zos.r12.ieav200%2Fipcs.htm On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 9:52 AM, Mark Pace pacemainl...@gmail.com wrote: Oh fun! - VERBEXIT MTRACE - ABENDs IEE30008I

Re: critical (to me): 3494-B10 error messages

2014-03-03 Thread Mike Schwab
Issue command D M=DEV(0609) for z/OS 1.13+ Could be a problem with the fiber or adapter on either end. Check for a LOGREC at the time the problem started. On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 8:59 AM, John McKown john.archie.mck...@gmail.com wrote: Our 3494-B10 is messed up. It is shared between two LPARs in

Re: z/OS WIKI access from a mianframe (TSO)

2014-03-03 Thread Mike Schwab
Lynx runs under Unix System Services (z/Unix). On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 11:27 AM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) shmuel+ibm-m...@patriot.net wrote: In 531475fd.8070...@isis-papyrus.com, on 03/03/2014 at 01:30 PM, Miklos Szigetvari miklos.szigetv...@isis-papyrus.com said: Is it possible to access

Re: Disabled wait

2014-03-04 Thread Mike Schwab
UA69565 http://www.ibm.com/Search/?q=UA69565co=uslo=anysn=lang=encc=USen=utfhpp= ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/eserver/zseries/holddata/quarter.txt ++HOLD(HDZ1D10) FMID(HDZ1D10) REASON(AA42179) ERROR DATE(13365 ) COMMENT(SMRTDATA(FIX(UA69565) SYMP(PRF) CHGDT(131231))) UA71730

Re: HCD Question regarding the deletion of LPARs

2014-03-10 Thread Mike Schwab
For an error free removal, do it in two steps. [deleted] Configure the channel path offline to the partition(s) that are being deleted from the CHPID candidate list. [deleted] 1. Configure the IO gen with the LPARs to be deleted with all the CHPIDs offline, and activate. 2. Configure the IO

Re: AUTO: Umberto Silvestri is prepared for DELETION (FREEZE)

2014-03-10 Thread Mike Schwab
I would think it is more retirement or transfer requiring a new email address. On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 10:33 AM, Grinsell, Don dgrins...@mt.gov wrote: Bummer. I think I'd much rather just get a pink slip in my inbox. -- Donald Grinsell State of Montana 406-444-2983 dgrins...@mt.gov

Re: Another reason to hate the time change

2014-03-11 Thread Mike Schwab
Set bicycle computer to desired clock. Adjust the tire size calibration number to yield the correct distance in the other measuring system. On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 7:48 AM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com wrote: don't support 24-hour. My bicycle computer is peculiar: it offers either

Re: Now IEBGENER, Was Help with IEBCOPY?

2014-03-20 Thread Mike Schwab
You didn't say anything about reformatting data. IEBGENER or SORT can copy fields from one column and place in another column and fill in constant values as needed. Set up 2 steps, one for each member.

Re: JFCB LBI Blocksize

2014-03-25 Thread Mike Schwab
http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/zos/v1r12/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.ibm.zos.r12.idad400%2Fblksz.htm Do not use the BLKSIZE field in the DCB. The system uses it. Use the BLKSIZE field in the DCBE. For more information about DCBE field descriptions see z/OS DFSMS Macro Instructions for Data Sets.

Re: Ever see automatic 30-day trials for mainframe software?

2014-03-26 Thread Mike Schwab
Haven't seen anything. Possibilities would be a date in the program and if past that date the program stops. Site would need to keep updating the download to reflect a later date. Or detect the create date of the library the program is installed in, or save the install date into a member,

Re: DS6800 disk - was support is ending for Windows XP - Microsoft Windows

2014-03-26 Thread Mike Schwab
I configure 4 IBM ESS F20 from a Win NT SP6 isolated PC. On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 3:03 PM, R.S. r.skoru...@bremultibank.com.pl wrote: W dniu 2014-03-26 19:04, Pommier, Rex pisze: quote any site that has the SMC connected to an external network might want to reevaluate that /quote Therein

Re: C Compiler Library Search

2014-03-28 Thread Mike Schwab
http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/zos/v1r12/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.ibm.zos.r12.cbcux01%2Fcbcug19023.htm On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 12:19 PM, Chuck Arney ch...@arneycomputer.com wrote: I'm making a first attempt at C code on z/OS and I'm having trouble making the compiler work the way I

Re: OT? New slimy computers?

2014-03-28 Thread Mike Schwab
It was predicted in Star Trek Voyager. On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 1:42 PM, zMan zedgarhoo...@gmail.com wrote: Will give new meaning to my computer has a virus and my computer died! On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 12:34 PM, John McKown john.archie.mck...@gmail.comwrote:

Re: DSF INIT STGR

2014-03-28 Thread Mike Schwab
On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 4:04 PM, Mark Pace pacemainl...@gmail.com wrote: No vendor products at all. I have some DASD volumes that I want to use as a Storage group and I wasn't the one that initialized them. They already have some data one them so I couldn't re-initialize. 1. Add to volume to

Re: Ever see automatic 30-day trials for mainframe software?

2014-03-28 Thread Mike Schwab
On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 6:44 AM, Bill Soper sop...@au1.ibm.com wrote: Makes me curious of the lists opinion on if z/OS LPARs are usually able to contact an internet site, or are commonly isolated? There are some systems that are totally disconnected. Maybe 1-10%?

Re: Redirecting stdout to a data set?

2014-04-03 Thread Mike Schwab
Hmmm. Must have been the Xerox printer limit then. On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 7:33 PM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com wrote: On Thu, 3 Apr 2014 19:03:29 -0500, Mike Schwab wrote: Older versions of ISPF edit required VB 251 or less. JES2 maximum printable characters on a line is 240. Nope

Re: OT: How would you like _this_ as your z/OS has hard waited message?

2014-04-10 Thread Mike Schwab
You would need to do something like a Tiny URL link to the big link. On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 3:27 PM, Ken Porowski ken.porow...@cit.com wrote: How large would the QR code have to be to replace a stand alone dump? CIT | Ken Porowski | VP Mainframe Engineering | Information Technology | +1

Re: Rather nice article on COBOL on Vulture Central

2014-04-10 Thread Mike Schwab
http://www.hercules-390.eu/hercfaq.html#3.01 VM/370 on a Compaq iPAQ 5450 handheld PDA. An iPhone should be able to add S/360 Cobol. On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 7:26 AM, Elardus Engelbrecht elardus.engelbre...@sita.co.za wrote: John McKown wrote:

Re: Emulator Screen Size with Attachmate Extra X-treme 9.3

2014-04-11 Thread Mike Schwab
What modes are available at the site you are trying to connect to? On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 10:32 AM, George, William@FTB bill.geo...@ftb.ca.gov wrote: Is anyone aware of a means to configure Attachmate's Extra X-treme (v9.3) emulator to display a screen size other than the base models

Re: Another Golden Anniversary - Dartmouth BASIC

2014-04-11 Thread Mike Schwab
Newbie. TRS-80 Model 1 16KB with cassette tape at high school. Later, the first computer I bought was a used TRS-80 Model 4 with 3 5.25 in floppies. On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 5:36 PM, Frank Swarbrick frank.swarbr...@yahoo.com wrote: TRS-80 Model III for me.

Re: How often does SMS update its free space information?

2014-04-11 Thread Mike Schwab
When I have added volumes to a storage group, the old totals remain until a dataset is allocated on a volume, then that volume's stats were updated to the storage group. Recently, I think IBM put in logic to update the storage group's totals when a volume is varied online or offline. During the

Re: Emulator Screen Size with Attachmate Extra X-treme 9.3

2014-04-11 Thread Mike Schwab
Again, it depends on the LOGMODE table at the site. On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 2:52 PM, Kreiter, Chuck ckrei...@visa.com wrote: My last two companies have used Extra and I've never found a way to use anything beyond the provided dimensions. I used PCOMM and Vista previously and had a 60x162

Re: NSA foils much internet encryption

2014-04-11 Thread Mike Schwab
NSA used the Heartbeat bug for at least the last two years. http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/04/heartbleed-bug-internet-security-ssl On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 5:41 PM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com wrote: On Thu, 5 Dec 2013 15:19:55 -0600, Mike Schwab mike.a.sch...@gmail.com wrote

Re: Emulator Screen Size with Attachmate Extra X-treme 9.3

2014-04-14 Thread Mike Schwab
The system programmer at your site defines the logmode and its parameters. On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 10:14 AM, George, William@FTB bill.geo...@ftb.ca.gov wrote: Thanks Linda. But, where would I define the screen parameters, for example; 60 x 132? Bill

Re: Accessing DASD areas that have no DSCB (UNCLASSIFIED)

2014-04-15 Thread Mike Schwab
If you deleted a dataset and the DASD is thin provisioned, it will recycle the tracks when the VTOC is updated, and the records are gone. If you deleted a dataset and RACF has Secure erase, the tracks are erased before the VTOC is updated. If you deleted a dataset and another dataset has allocated

Re: Predictive Failure Analysis (PFA) can help ?

2014-04-16 Thread Mike Schwab
If you use ADRDSSU to backup OMVS files, the files are quiesced during the backup. On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 2:42 AM, Miklos Szigetvari miklos.szigetv...@isis-papyrus.com wrote: Hi Maybe the PFA can help us, but I don't know how : We have a long running USS process, so called stress

Re: IBM Development Clueless about COBOL DEV activities

2014-04-23 Thread Mike Schwab
We are still running OS/VS Cobol with Report Writer. On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 9:57 AM, Joel C. Ewing jcew...@acm.org wrote: True, but there are so many other reasons why code that old should have already been migrated and re-compiled on a newer COBOL compiler sometime in the last three decades.

Re: Enterprise COBOL v5.1 and RDz v9.x

2014-04-25 Thread Mike Schwab
On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 9:59 AM, Farley, Peter x23353 peter.far...@broadridge.com wrote: I see the descriptions of the XPLINK and XPLINK-64 conventions in that manual, but nothing about those conventions would prevent calls to programs with other linkage conventions or address modes, IMHO

Re: New install library size

2014-04-28 Thread Mike Schwab
1. Defrag should not release space when secondary space is 0. 2. I vote for 20% free space when secondary space is 0. 3. I vote for 20% of primary as secondary space. On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 2:58 PM, John Eells ee...@us.ibm.com wrote: One or two people at the past SHARE voiced this very same

Re: Using C or C++ for System exits

2014-04-29 Thread Mike Schwab
Unix, and especially the freely available Unix utilities, were written in C. So Linus started coding a kernel to run the free Unix utilities. On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 6:21 PM, Shane Ginnane ibm-m...@tpg.com.au wrote: On Tue, 29 Apr 2014 17:05:20 -0600, Mark Post wrote: Linux was initially

Re: VATLST ISSUE

2014-05-05 Thread Mike Schwab
anybody create any dataset, it will go into OPER01 volume. Now I changed the syntax of VATLAST and first comma in column 7. Will it work,if I do IPL or any more changes required . On Mon, May 5, 2014 at 2:03 PM, Mike Schwab mike.a.sch...@gmail.com wrote: The volume field is 6 characters long

Re: VATLST ISSUE

2014-05-05 Thread Mike Schwab
DELETED RES* ,0,0,3390 DELETED Column 1-6: RES*-- OK Column 7: , OK Column 8: 0 OK Column 9: , OK Column 10: 0 OK Column 11:, OK Column 12-20: '3390' OK OPER0* ,0,0,3390 DELETED Column 1-6: OPER0* OK COLUMN 7: blank: invalid. COLUMN 8: blank: invalid COLUMN 9: , OK COLUMN 10: 0 OK COLUMN

Re: z10 IPL from Utility Tape

2014-05-08 Thread Mike Schwab
http://www.vm.ibm.com/eval/ is the page to download the evaluation z/VM ?5.3?). Or ordering 5.2, 5.3, 6.1. Get the file downloaded and burned on a DVD-R by the local staff and inserted into the DVD drive. http://www.cbttape.org/~jjaeger/zzsa.html Is the stand alone ZZSA files. CD-R. On Thu,

Re: FW: z10 IPL from Utility Tape

2014-05-08 Thread Mike Schwab
of. . . J.O.Skip Robinson Southern California Edison Company Electric Dragon Team Paddler SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager 626-302-7535 Office 323-715-0595 Mobile jo.skip.robin...@sce.com From: Mike Schwab mike.a.sch...@gmail.com To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU, Date: 05/08/2014 12

Re: Mad Men and the IBM 360

2014-05-12 Thread Mike Schwab
First picture is this Model 50 picture. http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/mainframe/mainframe_2423PH2050.html On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 9:57 AM, Dave Jones d...@vsoft-software.com wrote: A posting to the VM list from Billy Bingham: I haven't watched Mad Men before, but while channel

FDISK C: all Emory computers?

2014-05-17 Thread Mike Schwab
http://it.emory.edu/windows7-incident/ -- Mike A Schwab, Springfield IL USA Where do Forest Rangers go to get away from it all? -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to

Re: copy data issue

2014-05-21 Thread Mike Schwab
They are in use. Shut down the application using them. On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 3:15 AM, Mainframe Mainframe mainframe1...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I am trying for volume level copy of datasets but getting below error for some of the dataset. //COPY10 EXEC PGM=ADRDSSU //SYSPRINT

Re: MISSING CHANNEL AND DEVICE END

2014-05-21 Thread Mike Schwab
Set MASDEF to 100. Or change your I/O gen so only 1 system uses JES2 Checkpoint Volumes with MASDEF=. On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 5:46 AM, Mehrshad Manshadi m_mansh...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi, I encountered the following message on the production system as follows : IEF196I IOS071I

Re: Special characters for Passwords

2014-05-24 Thread Mike Schwab
Since I use my password on a mainframe, I limited myself to the IBM 370 National Characters. Using the same characters on Netware, when I used the @ and # characters, my logins would fail about 50% of the time. No such problems with the $. On Fri, May 23, 2014 at 9:19 PM, Clark Morris

Re: Special characters for Passwords

2014-05-24 Thread Mike Schwab
Posted at http://www.ahajokes.com/com065.html with one character changed. On Sat, May 24, 2014 at 3:08 PM, Anne Lynn Wheeler l...@garlic.com wrote: deleted then there is this password rule Corporate Directive parady dated 1April1984 ... I had received it Friday afternoon from a mainframe

Re: Restoration of IAM datasets

2014-05-26 Thread Mike Schwab
VSAM, IMS, DB2 all require their own backup program. I would expect IAM to have their own backup program too. On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 6:20 PM, Jon Perryman jperr...@pacbell.net wrote: Martin is implying you should contact Innovation and ask them if logical backup/restore is appropriate for

Re: Friday Puzzler

2014-05-26 Thread Mike Schwab
Step2: DISP=(OLD,PASS) to pass to next step. DISP=OLD means DISP=(OLD,PASS) because of the previous DISP=(NEW,PASS) implies delete when done. On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 8:29 PM, Ravi Gaur gaur.ravi2...@gmail.com wrote: There's been no. of posting on it ..so i best tried to go through most of

Re: non-IBM: SONY new tape storage - 185 Terabytes on a tape.

2014-05-31 Thread Mike Schwab
There is Error Correcting Code to help recover each block. Up from Parity to detect errors on 7 and 9 bit tapes. Recommendation is to duplicate each tape. On Sat, May 31, 2014 at 6:37 PM, Rob Schramm rob.schr...@gmail.com wrote: Is there such a thing as RAID S tape storage? Thus helping to

Re: SMPPTS and funny (IMHO) problem

2014-06-04 Thread Mike Schwab
PDSE V2 toleration PTFs for z/OS 1.12 and 1.13: http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg1OA40844 On Wed, Jun 4, 2014 at 1:05 PM, Tony Harminc t...@harminc.net wrote: On 4 June 2014 11:04, Geoff Rousell geoff_rous...@uk.ibm.com wrote: DFSMS V2.1 is increases the PDSE member size to

Fwd: Orphaned VVR

2014-06-07 Thread Mike Schwab
.F37A.MCAT) /* // On Wed, 2/5/14, Mike Schwab mike.a.sch...@gmail.com wrote: Subject: Re: Orphaned VVR To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Received: Wednesday, February 5, 2014, 8:27 AM We ran it under a different userid. Got a return code 38

Re: RENT, REFR and key=0 storage - A correction

2014-06-16 Thread Mike Schwab
Some co-workers had an application that kept doing this. Two people would browse the same record, and while talking on the phone each would enter their own updates. The second update screwed up the key to the various lines of text for the screen. I suggested, and it worked, that the last update

Re: RENT, REFR and key=0 storage - A correction

2014-06-17 Thread Mike Schwab
, or delete the lines of text as needed. No lock while displayed on screen. On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 6:34 PM, Paul Gilmartin 000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu wrote: On 2014-06-16 17:28, Mike Schwab wrote: Some co-workers had an application that kept doing this. Two people would browse

Re: How to? Designing a graph of information

2014-06-20 Thread Mike Schwab
On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 8:44 AM, John McKown john.archie.mck...@gmail.com wrote: deleted Another thing which is a biggie is the 4 hour rolling average MSU. Why? Because if we are running below our cap, then we are saving up MSUs. What this does is mean that we can use some of these saved MSUs

Re: IEB319I INVALID SYSPRINT/SYSIN BLOCKSIZE

2014-06-23 Thread Mike Schwab
Try //ddname DD *,RECFM=VB,LRECL=259,BLKSIZE=0 On Mon, Jun 23, 2014 at 1:14 PM, Farley, Peter x23353 peter.far...@broadridge.com wrote: I can confirm Gil's experiment as far as ISPF SUBMIT will allow me. Even if the submit is done from a RECFM=VB,LRECL=259 PDS, IEBGENER gets the WRONG LEN

Re: Address space puzzle

2014-06-25 Thread Mike Schwab
Boy, this is complicated. Too bad the 64 bit address could be redefined to have a 16 bit ASID and 48 bit virtual address in a 64 bit address field. It would limit z/OS to 64K ASIDs of 256TiB address spaces. Would require hardware changes in a new model due in about 4 years. On Wed, Jun 25,

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