Re: VM Workshop - Session Grid Now Available

2011-06-23 Thread Dale R. Smith
plans to attend? > >Kent "Mongo" 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
be genned. Let 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
), or email it to you directly. http://listserv.uark.edu/scripts/wa.exe? A2=ind0211&L=ibmvm&T=0&X=47F5C67EFA62073DC2&P=6 829 -- Dale R. Smith

Re: Query Proc

2011-03-04 Thread Dale R. Smith
vailable. STSIUSE SAMPEXEC on MAINT's 193/493 disk can be used to display the information from STSI. Just copy it to STSIUSE 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: z/VM 6.2 release date?

2011-02-15 Thread Dale R. Smith
m >>with >>sharp sticks. See if he'll squeal. ;-) > >How about a ... banana? He has probably seen the Monty Python skit, (Self-Defense against Fruits) , so he will be ready for that! :-)> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piWCBOsJr-w -- Dale R. Smith

Re: CHARLOTTe Updates to WW2CORE REXX

2011-02-13 Thread Dale R. Smith
f you don't have a C compiler either, perhaps one of "Daves" :-)> would volunteer to change it, compile it, and regen it. -- Dale R. Smith

Re: CMDCOB PIPE looking for CBL

2011-01-10 Thread Dale R. Smith
t; statement is "*CBL" and is used to control the listing generated by the COBOL compiler. "*CBL" must start in column 7 o r later and can also be coded as "*CONTROL". If that is what you are looking for, then you 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
EQU 5 DCCL32'1BYTES READ ...' EOFMSG3 EQU 6 DCCL32'1RECORDS WRITTEN ......' EOFMSG4 EQU 7 DCCL32'1BYTES WRITTEN ' EOFMSG5 EQU 8 DCCL32'0BASE64 ENCODING COMPLETE ' * DS0F LTORG * * DEFINE DCBS PRINT NOGEN ENCODIN DCB DDNAME=ENCODIN,DSORG=PS,MACRF=(GL),EODAD=ENEOF ENCODOUT DCB DDNAME=ENCODOUT,DSORG=PS,MACRF=(PM),RECFM=FB,LRECL =76 SYSOUT DCB DDNAME=SYSOUT,DSORG=PS,MACRF=(PM),RECFM=FB,LRECL= 80 * JFCB DSCL176 AREA TO PLACE JFCB EXLSTDCA(0) ENCODIN DCB EXIT LIST * ** SYSTEM DSECTS * JFCBDS DSECT IEFJFCBN 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
Say 'SYSIPL='sysvold'('sysdvno')' Exit 0 -- 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
ther applications and are completely controlled by the REXX 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
ke Diag D4 and do your own authorization checks as well. Your gun, your foot! :-)> -- Dale R. Smith

Re: Duplicate VOLID's

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

Re: z/OS 1.4 on a z/10

2010-08-13 Thread Dale R. Smith
and being officially supported are not one and the same. ;-) -- Edward E Jaffe Phoenix Software International, Inc 831 Parkview Drive North El Segundo, CA 90245 310-338-0400 x318 edja...@phoenixsoftware.com http://www.phoenixsoftware.com/ -- Dale R. Smith

Re: RSCS Messages

2010-08-12 Thread Dale R. Smith
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
ruciating detail 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
Number, Record */ '| NLOCATE 8 /*/', /* Skip Comments */ -- Dale R. Smith

Re: Sample REXX using XEDIT

2010-07-07 Thread Dale R. Smith
CALL 'IMSSUB2'. SQLINIT COBOL2009-04-30 11:36:52 4 CALL 'DSNHADDR' USING SQL-CODEPTR OF SQL-PLIST12 SQLCA. SQLINIT COBOL2009-04-30 11:36:52 5 DISPLAY 'After DB2 Call 1 ' SQL-INIT-FLAG SQLINIT COBOL2009-04-30 11:36:52 6 CALL 'DSNHADDR' USING SQL-CODEPTR OF SQL-PLIST13 SQLCA. SQLINIT COBOL2009-04-30 11:36:52 7 DISPLAY 'After DB2 Call 2 ' SQL-INIT-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: SAVEFD

2010-05-06 Thread Dale R. Smith
wants to manage any more segments below the line when almost everything else is above the line? (Another requirement for DB? :-)> ) -- Dale R. Smith On Thu, 6 May 2010 09:54:38 -0400, Gentry, Stephen wrote: >With the speed of z9's and z10's and the speed of DASD subsystems

Re: DCSS type SN?

2010-04-12 Thread Dale R. Smith
share data with multiple users. The DCSS is updated by a service VM and read by general users. An internal "locking" mechanism causes readers to wait when the DCSS is being updated, (DCSS is updated about every 15 seconds). -- Dale R. Smith "I never make stupid mistakes.

Re: Checking if a CMS disk has changed

2010-03-09 Thread Dale R. Smith
=ind9902&L=IBMVM&P= R4298&I=- 3&X=28F5D223A5016EB90D&Y=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.

Re: ISPF/PDF CMS MACLIB - Maintenance

2009-08-17 Thread Dale R. Smith
o the trick 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 bu

Re: REXX Date Function Help...Please

2009-05-16 Thread Dale R. Smith
*/ J2I: Arg juldate . If juldate = '' Then juldate = Date('J') Say juldate '='

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
d the "IBM Journal 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 wrote: >I'm trying to locate some of the early NJE

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! :-)> -

CANCELLED - MVMRUG January 23, 2009 Meeting

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

Re: CMSBATCH exits (BATEXIT1, BATEXIT2)

2008-10-06 Thread Dale R. Smith
Job Card Identifier USERID DSCL8 CMS Userid ACCNT1 DSCL8 First Part of Accounting Info ACCNT2 DSCL8 Second Part of Accounting Info JOBNAME DSCL8 CMS Jo

Re: downloading CMS files

2008-07-18 Thread Dale R. Smith
u press the enter key so you can see the FTP messages.) Dale R. Smith "Always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than its operating manual." - Terry Pratchett

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

2008-07-10 Thread Dale R. Smith
27; drprod = (rc = 0) ... If drtest Then /* Skip Archives */ Else /* Run Archives */ ... Dale R. Smith "Experience is not always the kindest of teachers, but it is surely the best." - Spanish proverb

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 res

Re: Disaster Recovery Scenarios

2008-03-11 Thread Dale R. Smith
. This is useful for weekend testing also! -- 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

Re: VMFTP Question/Problem

2008-03-07 Thread Dale R. Smith
this fix 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

Re: VM Software Licensing

2008-02-19 Thread Dale R. Smith
this stupi d 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 F

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

Re: Faking out SERVICE EXEC

2008-02-08 Thread Dale R. Smith
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 Thornto

Re: How comments treated by DIRMAINT

2008-02-08 Thread Dale R. Smith
e a disk. -- 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 hundred

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 t

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

2008-01-21 Thread Dale R. Smith
acks available). My guess is that DITTO may be looking for Format-1 and Format-3 DSCBs, (they describe space used by allocated datasets), and not finding any 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

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

2008-01-18 Thread Dale R. Smith
I would take 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."

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

2008-01-18 Thread Dale R. Smith
What does 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

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 giv

Re: SALIPL wait code

2007-12-30 Thread Dale R. Smith
alone dump and contact your system support personnel. Attempt a FORCE start. If that fails, attempt a COLD start. If the failure continues, contact your IBM Support Center personnel for assistance. Good luck! -- Dale R. Smith On Mon, 31 Dec 2007 01:13:08 -0500, Neale Ferguson <[EMA

Re: Checking how invoked

2007-12-27 Thread Dale R. Smith
alledby = '' Then ... Called from Command Line Else ... Called from Other Exec An advantage to using GLOBALV is that you don't have to change your parameter/option parsing logic and if you need to know which Exec called SUBEXEC, then the calling Exec name is in "

Re: Checking how invoked

2007-12-26 Thread Dale R. Smith
ing an Exec from FILELIST will indicate 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
INPUT DISK 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 understan

Re: Trying to build CMSBAM segment

2007-11-20 Thread Dale R. Smith
line, I used this special "low" 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 "The

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

2007-10-25 Thread Dale R. Smith
g to determine whether or no t you 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 <[EMAI

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

Re: D/R Code

2007-10-03 Thread Dale R. Smith
hout the ESM getting in the way, (but still logging access problems). This was approved by management, of course. -- Dale R. Smith "Gosh that takes me back... or is it forward? That's the trouble with time travel, you never can tell." - Doctor Who On Wed, 3 Oct 2007 09:29:51

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! :-)> ) &

Re: sample STSI CMS assmembler program

2007-09-06 Thread Dale R. Smith
uates * *-----* REGEQU , CMS Register Equate Macro SPACE 1 END GETSTSI That's All Folks... -- Dale R. Smith "Answers are easy. It's ask

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." -

Re: Example FOR command

2007-08-22 Thread Dale R. Smith
erloo! :-)> -- 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
there was no new maintenance 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 sing

Re: applying VM RSU maint - CPLEVEL

2007-08-18 Thread Dale R. Smith
very good chance that on RSU tape 0701, GCS will still be at service level "0401", since i t probably will not have any 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 maintenen

Re: VMARC copyright

2007-08-06 Thread Dale R. Smith
ARC myself 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 re