Re: VM Workshop - Session Grid Now Available

2011-06-23 Thread Dale R. Smith
Taylor Endicott, NY Hi Kent! You still around! (Ha Ha) This young geezer is planning on attending, (in fact I just registered a little while ago), so I hope to see you there. Are you bringing your own lamp shade? :-) -- Dale R. Smith

Re: RPIVAL Routine used with CA-Top Secret

2011-03-23 Thread Dale R. Smith
me know if you need any help! -- Dale R. Smith

Re: RPIVAL Routine used with CA-Top Secret

2011-03-22 Thread Dale R. Smith
problems getting the code, let me know and I can repost it, (or at least a slightly newer version that I have that uses Relative and Immediate Instructions :-) ), or email it to you directly. http://listserv.uark.edu/scripts/wa.exe? A2=ind0211L=ibmvmT=0X=47F5C67EFA62073DC2P=6 829 -- Dale R

Re: Query Proc

2011-03-04 Thread Dale R. Smith
EXEC on your A-Disk, (or wherever), and run it. I see this as part of the output when I run it: Total CPU Count: 7 Conf. CPU Count: 2 SBCPU Count: 0 Resv. CPU Count: 5 -- Dale R. Smith

Re: CHARLOTTe Updates to WW2CORE REXX

2011-02-13 Thread Dale R. Smith
it, compile it, and regen it. -- Dale R. Smith

Re: CMDCOB PIPE looking for CBL

2011-01-10 Thread Dale R. Smith
would need to replace both the '| NLOCATE 8 /*/', '| LOCATE ANYCASE 8-* / CALL /', with '| ZONE 8-* CASEI ALL /*CBL /!/*CONTROL /' -- Dale R. Smith

Re: 64encode exec?

2010-12-27 Thread Dale R. Smith
JFCB SYMBOLICS DCBD DSORG=(DA,PS),DEVD=(DA) DCB SYMBOLICS END -- Dale R. Smith

Re: How to determine SYSRES

2010-11-10 Thread Dale R. Smith
-- Dale R. Smith

Re: Automated Logon (autofill userid and password) using TN3270 of TCP/IP for VM or Logical Device

2010-09-20 Thread Dale R. Smith
EXEC using RXLDEV. -- Dale R. Smith

Re: Automated Logon (autofill userid and password) using TN3270 of TCP/IP for VM or Logical Device

2010-09-19 Thread Dale R. Smith
! :-) -- Dale R. Smith

Re: Duplicate VOLID's

2010-08-26 Thread Dale R. Smith
better then z/VM! :-) -- Dale R. Smith

Re: RSCS Messages

2010-08-12 Thread Dale R. Smith
quit sending the messages? I tried the SETMSG ALL OFF command and found out that I was not subscribed for any messages :-( Regards, Richard Schuh Have you tried: SMSG RSCS SET linkid NOMSG ? I think logging off/on the user getting the messages will stop them also. -- Dale R. Smith

Re: Standard label Defs.

2010-08-06 Thread Dale R. Smith
in DFSMS: Using Magnetic Tapes, (SC26-7412-02 for z/OS 1.11). Not sure where/if it's documented in a VM/CMS manual. CMS only has limited support for and use of SL tapes, (things like DDR for example), and mainly only works with OS simulation. -- Dale R. Smith

Re: Sample REXX using XEDIT

2010-07-07 Thread Dale R. Smith
-FLAG Notice the DISPLAY statements. The Exec makes a lot of assumptions, so any changes are left as an exercise to the reader! :-) -- Dale R. Smith

Re: Sample REXX using XEDIT

2010-07-07 Thread Dale R. Smith
/*/',/* Skip Comments */ -- Dale R. Smith

Re: Checking if a CMS disk has changed

2010-03-09 Thread Dale R. Smith
=ind9902L=IBMVMP= R4298I=- 3X=28F5D223A5016EB90DY=dale-smith%40columbus.rr.com or: http://tinyurl.com/yh4kfhp -- Dale R. Smith In all large corporations, there is a pervasive fear that someone, somewhere is having fun with a computer on company time. Networks help alleviate

Re: ISPF/PDF CMS MACLIB - Maintenance

2009-08-17 Thread Dale R. Smith
and wouldn't require a lot of work for a soon to be dead app, (we all know how dead things like to stick around, like mainframes, VM, COBOL, etc. :-) ). -- Dale R. Smith Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance

Re: REXX Date Function Help...Please

2009-05-16 Thread Dale R. Smith
. If juldate = '' Then juldate = Date('J') Say juldate '=' Date('S',juldate,'J','-') Exit 0 -- Dale R. Smith Qui

MVMRUG Spring Meeting Reminder

2009-04-20 Thread Dale R. Smith
Dean, IBM E. Free-For-All During this regularly scheduled session, let the assembled VM gurus answer your VM or CMS questions. -- Dale R. Smith MVMRUG

MVMRUG Meeting April 24th

2009-04-14 Thread Dale R. Smith
and Scott Courtney of Sine Nomine Associates lined up to speak at this meeting. Please email your resevations directly to me at: dale-sm...@columbus.rr.com Thanks! -- Dale R. Smith MVMRUG

Re: VM 5.4 first/second level installation

2009-03-30 Thread Dale R. Smith
FileZilla has a free, open source, FTP server for Windows as well as a free, open source, FTP client. http://filezilla-project.org/ I have never used the server so I can't vouch for it. -- Dale R. Smith Qui non intelligit aut discat aut taceat

Re: OT: Anyone have a copy of the IBM Systems Journal, vol 17, number 3?

2009-03-23 Thread Dale R. Smith
of Research and Development can be found at: http://researchweb.watson.ibm.com/journal/ -- Dale R. Smith Qui non intelligit aut discat aut taceat On Mon, 23 Mar 2009 21:52:29 -0400, David Boyes dbo...@sinenomine.net wrote: I'm trying to locate some of the early NJE networking articles

Re: Another day, another job (or, The Song of the Gypsy Programmers)

2009-01-26 Thread Dale R. Smith
Jeff, good luck luck on your partial retirement. A short while ago, I was partially retired for 8 months! :-) P.S. I still have my VM - Virtually All the Time t-shirt and sweat shirt, but unfortunately, they seem to have shrunk over the years! :-) -- Dale R. Smith Contractor How

CANCELLED - MVMRUG January 23, 2009 Meeting

2009-01-22 Thread Dale R. Smith
in the same timeframe, (usually in the same week), and not any meetings on the same day of the week. -- Dale R. Smith MVMRUG

Re: downloading CMS files

2008-07-18 Thread Dale R. Smith
see the FTP messages.) Dale R. Smith Always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than its operating manual. - Terry Pratchett On Fri, 18 Jul 2008 09:43:40 -0400, McMahon

Re: Query what the name of the SYTEM CONFIG file used was?

2008-07-10 Thread Dale R. Smith
/* Run Archives */ ... Dale R. Smith Experience is not always the kindest of teachers, but it is surely the best. - Spanish proverb On Thu, 10 Jul 2008 09:32:34 -0500, Marcy Cortes

Re: MONWRITE files (PROFS)

2008-03-14 Thread Dale R. Smith
Don't you just love that real informative error message? ;-) -- Dale R. Smith Give a man a computer program and you give him a headache, but teach him to program computers and you give him the power to create headaches for others for the rest of his life

Re: Disaster Recovery Scenarios

2008-03-11 Thread Dale R. Smith
! -- Dale R. Smith Even when the experts all agree, they may well be mistaken. - Bertrand Russell On Tue, 11 Mar 2008 13:21:10 -0400, Bill Munson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would have to agree with Adam, it is a Disaster Recovery TEST, performance

Re: VMFTP Question/Problem

2008-03-07 Thread Dale R. Smith
and several more included. Fran's page is at: http://zvm.sru.edu/~download -- Dale R. Smith In spite of the cost of living, it's still popular. - Laurence J. Peter On Fri, 7 Mar 2008 13:33:03 -0800, Schuh, Richard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote : We have a fairly straight-forward VMFTP macro that copies

Re: VM Software Licensing

2008-02-19 Thread Dale R. Smith
restriction. It should be as simple as adding the FORTRAN support from z/OS to z/VM. Don't tell me it can't be done, because I know somebody that did exactly that and it worked! -- Dale R. Smith (As you can tell, it's a pet peeve of mine! :-) ) On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 10:37:56 -0500, Michael Donovan

Re: How comments treated by DIRMAINT

2008-02-12 Thread Dale R. Smith
Not to mention all of my PIPE's in Execs that read the source directory and the first thing they do is CHOP 72 to get rid of any sequence numbers in 73-80! -- Dale R. Smith If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, would

Re: Faking out SERVICE EXEC

2008-02-08 Thread Dale R. Smith
to build it again. -- Dale R. Smith Life is like an onion: You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep. - Carl Sandburg On Fri, 8 Feb 2008 14:57:27 -0600, Adam Thornton [EMAIL

Re: How comments treated by DIRMAINT

2008-02-08 Thread Dale R. Smith
. -- Dale R. Smith It's just a simple matter of programming. - Any boss who has never written a program On Fri, 8 Feb 2008 11:12:34 -0500, Horlick, Michael [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Kris, We are only concerned with our VSE guests which have hundreds of minidisks. Normally we just do a DIRM GET

Re: Abend PGT003

2008-02-02 Thread Dale R. Smith
? Created/saved/purged any DCSSes or NSSes? Questions, questions! :-) -- Dale R. Smith It's just a simple matter of programming. - Any boss who has never written a program On Sat, 2 Feb 2008 15:04:23 +0100, Alain Benveniste [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes I have the dump. I even try to find

Re: S213 Abend Backing Up 530RES Using z/OS FDR

2008-01-21 Thread Dale R. Smith
on a VM volume, it is a assuming that the entire volume is free. z/OS will not allocate a dataset on a properly formatted VM volume, regardless of what DITTO shows. -- Dale R. Smith Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity

Re: S213 Abend Backing Up 530RES Using z/OS FDR

2008-01-18 Thread Dale R. Smith
a DDR TYPE of cylinder 0, track 0 show? -- Dale R. Smith There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states

Re: S213 Abend Backing Up 530RES Using z/OS FDR

2008-01-18 Thread Dale R. Smith
a look myself. Kris, if you want to email me the the output of DDR TYPE, I'm willing to take a look at it and try to decipher it! :-) -- Dale R. Smith Duct tape is like the Force, it has a dark side, it has a light side, and it holds the universe together. - Carl Zwanig On Fri, 18 Jan 2008 17:17

Re: CMS MOD to compress EXECs

2008-01-10 Thread Dale R. Smith
I've seen a lot of obfuscated REXX Execs, and that was with the source code and they weren't pre-parsed! :-) Names withheld to protect the guilty! -- Dale R. Smith Give a man a computer program and you give him a headache, but teach him to program computers and you give him the power

Re: Checking how invoked

2007-12-26 Thread Dale R. Smith
that XEDIT is active, since FILELIST creates an XEDIT environment to display the files. -- Dale R. Smith Nobody believes the official spokesman ... but everybody trusts an unidentified source. - Ron Nessen

Re: FTP

2007-12-06 Thread Dale R. Smith
CMS2MVS FTPCMDS A FILEDEF OUTPUT DISK CMS2MVS OUTPUT A FTP server Of course, you will want to clear the FILEDEFs after the FTP completes. (You would probably do all of this from an Exec, of course!) -- Dale R. Smith Profanity is the one language that all programmers understand. - Anonymous

Re: Trying to build CMSBAM segment

2007-11-20 Thread Dale R. Smith
CMS to allow me to save segments that were right below where the high version of CMS started. Without a low CMS, I would not have been able to save segments in the megabyte immediately below CMS. -- Dale R. Smith There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what

Re: How can I find if a user is defined in the directory (without looking!)?

2007-10-25 Thread Dale R. Smith
can send files/consoles to that userid. -- Dale R. Smith The most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up there's no law against whacking them around a little. - Joe Martin

Re: IBM's Next Generation Mainframe Processor

2007-10-16 Thread Dale R. Smith
Aren't the commercials geared towards the PHBs of the world? Therefore they have to be dumb! :-) -- Dale R. Smith The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits. - Albert Einstein On Tue, 16 Oct 2007 09:29:14 -0400, David Boyes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not so

Re: D/R Code

2007-10-04 Thread Dale R. Smith
I always wanted a CP version of GLOBALV. The SET part would be privilege d of course, but the GET part would not be. That way you could set variables in CP that could be retrieved by any virtual machine, like I'm running a DR test, don't do that! -- Dale R. Smith Answers are easy. It's

Re: sample STSI CMS assmembler program

2007-09-06 Thread Dale R. Smith
SPACE 1 END GETSTSI That's All Folks... -- Dale R. Smith Answers are easy. It's asking the right questions which is hard. - Doctor Who On Thu, 6 Sep 2007 07:18:30 -0700, Derek Ackerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone have an example of obtaining basic systrm info

Re: sample STSI CMS assmembler program

2007-09-06 Thread Dale R. Smith
Sure, I can take APARs! Then I'll take several months to come out with a PTF that's broken, then several more months to fix it, which will break i t for other people who were relying on the original broken PTF! :-) -- Dale R. Smith (Not related to Chuckie or Alan! :-) ) I haven't failed

Re: Changing in and out of ( SYSTEM mode

2007-08-30 Thread Dale R. Smith
... Your Instructions that need Key 0 * If your code needs to modify R2, R2 must be saved and restored before * executing the following instruction. SPKA 0(R2) Restore Storage Protect Key -- Dale R. Smith Logic merely enables one to be wrong with authority. - Doctor Who

Re: Example FOR command

2007-08-22 Thread Dale R. Smith
! :-) -- Dale R. Smith (Feeling cynical today!) On Wed, 22 Aug 2007 01:12:01 -0500, Marcy Cortes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I wanted to capture the results of a CP FOR command in a rexx exec (preferably a pipe), is there some sample rexx somewhere for that? Marcy Cortes

Re: applying VM RSU maint - CPLEVEL

2007-08-19 Thread Dale R. Smith
for that component on the RSU tape. Of course, I could be losing what little mind I have left! :-) -- Dale R. Smith On Sun, 19 Aug 2007 12:59:58 +0200, Kris Buelens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, am I wrong thinking that I often saw a single PTF for GCS on the RSU , a PTF that brings

Re: applying VM RSU maint - CPLEVEL

2007-08-18 Thread Dale R. Smith
maintenance applied. IIRC, the VMFPSU command will tell you what service level each of the components on the RSU tape i s at and if you need to apply maintenence for that component. Hope this information is helpful to you. -- Dale R. Smith On Fri, 17 Aug 2007 15:09:51 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

Re: VMARC copyright

2007-08-06 Thread Dale R. Smith
to make S2 the default packing algorithm instead of LZW. S2 produces a smaller VMARC file than LZW, (at the cost of using more CPU time). -- Dale R. Smith On Mon, 6 Aug 2007 15:51:43 -0400, David Boyes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know who's currently responsible for VMARC, and what