Re: Help request: COBOL Compile, Link and Go
"Did the S360 have a paper tape reader? I had never heard of one, but then I was an applications programmer/analyst - never a systems programmer, and I never knew much about mainframe hardware" Yep.
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Joe Monk
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Re: Help request: COBOL Compile, Link and Go
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Tim
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Re: [Marketing Mail] Re: [H390-MVS] Newbie question about REVIEW/RPF etc
Well, Jeff, I haven't tested it lately, but I'll tell you how it's /supposed/ to work... Valid values are: * any 2-digit decimal number * PG for a full page * HF for half a page * CS for cursor So, if
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Greg Price
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Re: [Marketing Mail] Re: [H390-MVS] Newbie question about REVIEW/RPF etc
Greg, Thanks so much for your response!!? I love using RFE (even though you said it does the wrong thing above - it still works wonderfully on any extended display settings I throw at it from any of
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Jeffrey Melton
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Re: Help request: COBOL Compile, Link and Go
Ah yes - that sounds familiar - thanks Tim! I was thinking it might be 2 if there is such a convention - memories are hazy... I think all of those low numbers initially had a conventional assignment.
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Greg Price
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Re: [Marketing Mail] Re: [Marketing Mail] Re: [Marketing Mail] Re: [H390-MVS] Newbie question about REVIEW/RPF etc
Jeff, I apologize ¨C previously I said that things work as expected on PCOMM ¨C my bad ¨C I was using RFE (review) NOT RPF ¨C I was just not paying attention ¨C when I responded to you earlier
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Jeff Bassett
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Re: [Marketing Mail] Re: [H390-MVS] Newbie question about REVIEW/RPF etc
So there's a few issues there.? One is what an application can request, another is how real 3270 hardware would respond to those requests, and yet another is how emulators on workstations represent
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Greg Price
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Re: [Marketing Mail] Re: [Marketing Mail] Re: [H390-MVS] Newbie question about REVIEW/RPF etc
Hi Fish, As I said in another reply to this thread, I already have Vista. I'm looking for larger screen options than 24x80.? Tom Brennan himself advised me that his V2 with font and extended screen
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Jeffrey Melton
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Re: [Marketing Mail] Re: [H390-MVS] Newbie question about REVIEW/RPF etc
Hello! Writing as a VM supporter and normal watcher in this list, if you're going to use supported emulators go for that one. Me? I use those evals of PCOMM because that's what I started with.. -----
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Gregg Levine
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Re: [Marketing Mail] Re: [H390-MVS] Newbie question about REVIEW/RPF etc
I don't know how RPF decides what size of screen image to send to a user, but in ISPF (which I last used in early 2000) one had to tell it (in some settings at option 0, if I remember right) what kind
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Jeremy Nicoll
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Re: [Marketing Mail] Re: [H390-MVS] Newbie question about REVIEW/RPF etc
Hi Vince, Yes, I know the difference between a TERMINAL emulator (wx3270) and the MAINFRAME emulator (Hercules).? I've not touched any of the MVS system parameters in TK4- at all; I'm simply
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Jeffrey Melton
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Re: [Marketing Mail] Re: [H390-MVS] Newbie question about REVIEW/RPF etc
The wx3270, x3270, vista etc are all terminal programs that emulate the original IBM dumb terminals (VDU and keyboard). Hercules is the 'emulator' which emulates the IBM mainframe hardware that you
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Vince Coen
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Re: Attn does not interrupt
This is deeper than I thought. There are started tasks called VTAM and SNASOL but I haven't found out yet whether they are IBM-supplied or not. So perhaps I shouldn't be surprised at different
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Rupert Reynolds
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Re: [Marketing Mail] Re: [Marketing Mail] Re: [H390-MVS] Newbie question about REVIEW/RPF etc
Joe Monk wrote: Yep. HIGHLY recommended. But might also try using the STABLE version of wc3270 instead of (unstable?) alpha version of wx3270 that he's been using. <shrug> Just a thought. :) (But
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Fish Fish
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Re: [Marketing Mail] Re: [Marketing Mail] Re: [H390-MVS] Newbie question about REVIEW/RPF etc
Go get tombrennan's vista tn 3270. https://www.tombrennansoftware.com Joe [email protected]> wrote:
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Joe Monk
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Re: [Marketing Mail] Re: [Marketing Mail] Re: [H390-MVS] Newbie question about REVIEW/RPF etc
So I'm downloading the 90 day trial of PCOMM... As I'm just a hobbyist with Hercules and the old mainframe OS's and haven't actually worked on a real mainframe in decades, I'm therefore loathe to pay
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Jeffrey Melton
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Re: [Marketing Mail] Re: [Marketing Mail] Re: [H390-MVS] Newbie question about REVIEW/RPF etc
Jeff, I am running version RPF 46.6 ¨C that came on TK4- I just downloaded the new version ¨C however, I have not yet installed it ¡.. Again, try a different emulator ¨C I tried every possible
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Jeff Bassett
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Re: [Marketing Mail] Re: [H390-MVS] Newbie question about REVIEW/RPF etc
Hi Jeff, I know now that the problem is likely because of the version of the RPF originally in v8 of TK4- is very old, and probably not the emulator... I'm going to install latest version of RPF on my
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Jeffrey Melton
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Re: Help request: COBOL Compile, Link and Go
Hello Jay, Am 20.11.2020 um 18:50 schrieb Jay Moseley <JayMoseley@...>: Thanks a lot! Your site is very helpful, I very much appreciate your work! :wq! PoC
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Patrik Schindler
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Re: Newbie question about REVIEW/RPF etc
Just follow the instructions. It will install fine. Joe [email protected]> wrote:
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Joe Monk
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