Re: Daylight Saving Time w/ VSE

2010-03-15 Thread Gary Eheman
On Sun, 14 Mar 2010 18:51:01 -0500, Ed Zell ewz...@illinoismutual.com w rote: snip This time we had a strange error where the FLEX console could not find the VM IPL terminal. I think it is because we also changed the UNIX time to adjust to the constant drift that we see with the system time

Re: Automated DDR funny - has anyone got any ideas

2010-03-15 Thread Brian Nielsen
On Sat, 13 Mar 2010 08:52:35 -0500, Alan Altmark alan_altm...@us.ibm.com wrote: The standard defines alphabetic as A-Z (actually, A, B, C, D, etc. to avoid confusion) and numeric as 0-9. So, our existing labeling programs that allow blanks in the middle of labels (very annoying) and characters

Check for User...

2010-03-15 Thread Frank M. Ramaekers
What's the best way to check: 1) UserID is valid (a user on this system) 2) UserID is logged on (or not) Frank M. Ramaekers Jr. Systems Programmer MCP, MCP+I, MCSE RHCE American Income Life Insurance Co. Phone: (254)761-6649 1200 Wooded Acres

Re: Check for User...

2010-03-15 Thread zMan
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 3:20 PM, Frank M. Ramaekers framaek...@ailife.comwrote: What’s the best way to check: 1) UserID is valid (a user on this system) 2) UserID is logged on (or not) 1) LINK user (with no other operands) 2) QUERY USER user

Re: Check for User...

2010-03-15 Thread Kris Buelens
To check if a user is valid: parse value diagrc(8,'LINK' userid) with rc . /* Do not code a minidisk address */ ValidUser=(rc=22) Parse value diagrc(8,'Q USER' userid) with rc . LoggedOn=(rc=0) 2010/3/15 Frank M. Ramaekers framaek...@ailife.com What’s the best way to check: 1)

Re: Check for User...

2010-03-15 Thread Mike Walter
You'll probably get a bunch of answers. The following two files make it easy from the command line, from an EXEC (even as a rexx function call), and from a Pipes stage. Mike Walter Hewitt Associates The opinions expressed herein are mine alone, not my employer's. /* Prolog; See Epilog for

Re: Check for User...

2010-03-15 Thread Feller, Paul
Everyone will have their own way of doing what you asked. Here is some code I used to check in a routine that starts up a guest. It works for what I needed to do. /**/ /* Issue QUERY command to see if the USERID is already on

Re: Check for User...

2010-03-15 Thread Kris Buelens
This way you are dependant on SET EMSG ON. Futhermore: if IBM would ever move the handling of the Q USERID command to another module than HCPCQV the message ID would change. For CP commands the message number always corresponds to the returncode 2010/3/15 Feller, Paul pfel...@aegonusa.com

Re: Check for User...

2010-03-15 Thread Quay, Jonathan (IHG)
Is a NOLOG or other special user valid? From: The IBM z/VM Operating System on behalf of Frank M. Ramaekers Sent: Mon 3/15/2010 3:20 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Check for User... What's the best way to check: 1) UserID is

Re: GCS Session managers

2010-03-15 Thread Tom Duerbusch
Thanks all for the suggestions. I've used most of the sessions managers in the past. Perhaps I can use the TN3270E alternative. On my PC, I've had sufficient problems that I wouldn't do the same thing to Operations, but thinking about how they use itit just might work. The problems I have

Re: Check for User...

2010-03-15 Thread Mike Walter
The DIRECTID EXEC (and its REXX pipeline stage counterpart) sent earlier do not rely on the message 'TEXT' setting and handle NOLOG userids just like any other ID (they are either in the directory or not). Example, from a CMS session: directid dirmaint Ready(1); T=0.01/0.01 17:03:57

Re: Check for User...

2010-03-15 Thread Schuh, Richard
Yes, a NOLOG id is valid. What other type of special ids do you have? Regards, Richard Schuh -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of Quay, Jonathan (IHG) Sent: Monday, March 15, 2010 2:57 PM To: