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Yep, 'Bama counts, I've gottin mine by way of Miss'ssippi, South
Caroliny and Geogrgah (not bad for an ex yankee from Ohia!!!

Mark Allen
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Wilkes Telephone & Electric
A Dycom Company
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:Mark, that southern charm cums frum Birmingham, Alabama!!
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:Southern charm, where'd you get that Anne, GA, MS, SC, NC???
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::Anne,
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:Date: Fri, 05 Apr 2002 11:00:40 -0700
:From: "David Morris" <David.Morris@plumcreek.com>
:To: <midrange-l@midrange.com>
:Subject: RE: qzshsystem api
:Reply-To: midrange-l@midrange.com
:
:Joe,
:
:I have indeed tried appending a x'00' as well as
:specifying options(*string). I really wish the
:message would tell me what it is trying to run.
:My best guess is that the command needs to be
:passed as ASCII. I hate to write a wrapper
:for the translation API only to find out it
:is something else.
:
:Thanks,
:
:David Morris
:
:>>> joepluta@PlutaBrothers.com 04/05/02 10:37 AM >>>
:> From: Joel Fritz
:>
:> Does anyone have any experience with QzshSystem()?  I was playing
:around
:> with it yesterday and it worked but it didn't.  Using the prototype
:> below, I passed in a command string, the call executed
:> successfully--well, it returned 7--and nothing happend.  I tried
:> sending a directory listing
:to a
:> file and calling a program that created a small text file.
:>
:> Dqzhsystem        pr            10i 0 extproc('QzshSystem')
:> D cmdstring                       *   value  options(*string)
:
:I haven't tried it, but I know Unix commands like nulls at the
:end.  Did you make sure to append a null (x'00') at the end of
:your command string?
:
:Joe
:
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:Date: Fri, 05 Apr 2002 12:11:19 -0600
:To: midrange-l@midrange.com
:From: Vernon Hamberg <vhamberg@attbi.com>
:Subject: Re: MIDRANGE-L digest, Vol 1 #1679 - 10 msgs
:Reply-To: midrange-l@midrange.com
:
:Is it appropriate to send InfoCenter issues through this channel?
:
:BTW, thanks for your efforts.
:
:At 11:49 AM 4/5/02 -0600, you wrote:
:>Dare, I'll do my very best! .... perhaps we can get to the root cause
:>and solve that!
:>
:>*********************
:>Message: 6
:>From: "Dare @ Work" <oludare@ix.netcom.com>
:>To: <midrange-l@midrange.com>
:>Subject: Re: Customer problems
:>Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2002 11:53:26 -0500
:>Reply-To: midrange-l@midrange.com
:>
:>Great Anne,
:>
:>I hope you will be able to handle the barrage of messages you will be
:>receiving.  There are a lot of dissatisfied IBM customers here on the
:>list and out there.
:>
:>
:>************
:>Have a great day! and .... Enthusiasm is like a ripple in the
:water...
:>It spreads!
:>
:>
:>Anne C. Lucas, Project Exec, iSeries Nation and iSeries Marketing -
:>www.ibm.com/eserver/nation1 205/823-4831  T/L 537-9968,  eFax:
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:Message: 4
:Date: Fri, 05 Apr 2002 12:16:14 -0600
:To: midrange-l@midrange.com
:From: Vernon Hamberg <vhamberg@attbi.com>
:Subject: RE: Need to scan files
:Reply-To: midrange-l@midrange.com
:
:FYI, we show QShell interpreter as opt 30 of 5722SS1,
:*COMPATIBLE. CUM level is 2036, so it's not actually at latest level.
:
:At 12:56 PM 4/5/02 -0500, you wrote:
:>Well Vernon, I guess you're just "special" ;-)
:>
:>I have tried this on both our Production and Test boxes.
:They're both a
:>V5R1 but at different CUM levels (Test box is the most
:current - latest
:>CUM).
:>
:>Think I'll wait till the Systems Programmer comes back
:>on Monday so I can get the CUM levels for both machines
:>and then will give IBM tech support a call.
:>
:>This is really strange. BTW my grep syntax is identical
:>to yours - as would be expected.
:>
:>Terry
:>
:>
:> > -----Original Message-----
:> > From: Vernon Hamberg [mailto:vhamberg@attbi.com]
:> > Sent: Friday, April 05, 2002 12:03 PM
:> > To: midrange-l@midrange.com
:> > Subject: RE: Need to scan files
:> >
:> >
:> > By listing multiple members. I tried wildcards, but no good. Then
:> > ran grep with -h flag to get help text. Got syntax.
:> >
:> > I'm at v5r1. Have no idea why Terry's attempts are not working.
:> >
:> > Here's a listing of what I did, using F6:
:> >
:> >   $
:> >
:> >   pwd
:> >
:> >   /Vern
:> >
:> >   $
:> >
:> >   cd
:> > /qsys.lib/vern.lib/splf.file
:> >   $
:> >
:> >   ls
:> >
:> >   CMPEXDFN.MBR    PEXDFN.MBR
:> >
:> >   $
:> >
:> >   tail
:> > pexdfn.mbr
:> >       *ALL
:> >
:> >   Selected MI Complex
:> > Instructions:
:> >       *NONE
:> >
:> >   Selected
:> > Events:
:> >       Category  : TRCTYPE              -  Command Trace
:> > Types
:> >            SLTEVT                      -
:> >
:> >       Category  : BASEVT               -  Base
:> > Events
:> >            PMCO                 PMCO   -  Performance
:> > Measurement Counter
:> > Overflow
:> >       Category  : DSKSVREVT            -  Dasd Server
:> > Events
:> >           USER                 SRV    -  Service
:> >
:> > $
:> >
:> > tail
:> > *.mbr
:> >
:> > tail: 001-0023 Error found opening file *.mbr. No such path or
:> > directory. $
:> >
:> > grep
:> > -h
:> >
:> > grep: 001-3010 usage: grep [-E|-F] [-c|-l|-q] [-ihnsvwxy] [-e
:> > pattern_list] [-f pattern_file] [pattern] [file ...]
:> > $
:> >
:> > grep "PMCP"
:> > *.mbr
:> >
:> > grep: 001-0023 Error found opening file *.mbr. No such path or
:> > directory. $
:> >
:> > ls
:> >
:> > CMPEXDFN.MBR    PEXDFN.MBR
:> >
:> > $
:> >
:> > grep "PMCP" cmpexdfn.mbr
:> > pexdfn.mbr
:> >
:> > $
:> >
:> > grep "PMCO" cmpexdfn.mbr
:> > pexdfn.mbr
:> >
:> > cmpexdfn.mbr:I
:> > -        =C0   8BASEVT        =F7   !                       !
:> > PMCO        I
:> >   =C0  \ D -                       =C0    BA
:> > VT        0   !                       !    PMC
:    0000007
:> > 0000007
:> > pexdfn.mbr:         PMCO                 PMCO   -
:> > Performance Measurement
:> > Counter Overflow
:> > pexdfn.mbr:         PMCO                 PMCO   -
:> > Performance Measurement
:> > Counter Overflow
:> > pexdfn.mbr:         PMCO                 PMCO   -
:> > Performance Measurement
:> > Counter Overflow
:> > $
:> >
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:Message: 5
:Date: Fri, 05 Apr 2002 12:18:47 -0600
:To: midrange-l@midrange.com
:From: Vernon Hamberg <vhamberg@attbi.com>
:Subject: RE: Need to scan files
:Reply-To: midrange-l@midrange.com
:
:To repeat, I've got it going on both source and data. Strrrrange.
:
:At 07:45 AM 4/5/02 -0500, you wrote:
:>This is a multipart message in MIME format.
:>--
:>[ Picked text/plain from multipart/alternative ]
:>Interesting.  I tried it here and got the same results as
:you.  Nix on
:>the data pf's, but ok on the source pf's.
:>
:>I know very little about Unix.  So this command will not
:search through
:>a directory?  Thus no ability to search through all the members is a
:>set of files.  Therefore it is probably not worth the fight
:to get IBM
:>to have this working on data pf's.
:>
:>Rob Berendt
:>--
:>"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
:>safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." Benjamin Franklin
:>
:>
:>
:>
:>Winchester Terry <terry.winchester@raymondcorp.com>
:>Sent by: midrange-l-admin@midrange.com
:>04/05/2002 06:49 AM
:>Please respond to midrange-l
:>
:>
:>         To:     "'midrange-l@midrange.com'" <midrange-l@midrange.com>
:>         cc:
:>         Fax to:
:>         Subject:        RE: Need to scan files
:>
:>
:> > -----Original Message-----
:> > From: Vernon Hamberg [mailto:vhamberg@attbi.com]
:> > Sent: Thursday, April 04, 2002 6:40 PM
:> > To: midrange-l@midrange.com
:> > Subject: RE: Need to scan files
:> >
:> >
:> > Don't have QSHELL installed on this system. Have you tried
:extending
:> > the path to the member?
:>
:>It appears to work on *source* physical files, but not with regular
:>physical files.
:>
:> > A file is treated like a directory, the member is the
:> > real data part.
:>
:>The file=directory theory is interesting:
:>
:>cd DSIPICKS.FILE
:>$
:>ls
:>DSIPICKS.MBR
:>$
:>tail DSIPICKS.MBR
:>
:>tail: 001-0023 Error found opening file DSIPICKS.MBR. Operation not
:>supported.
:>
:>Also got the same error for the grep command.
:>
:>On the bright side, maybe it will work in V5R2 ;-)
:>
:>Terry
:>
:>
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:Message: 6
:From: "Rodriguez, Jose Amable" <jarodriguez@grupom.com.do>
:To: midrange-l@midrange.com
:Subject: CAE - Windows XP
:Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2002 14:16:29 -0400
:Reply-To: midrange-l@midrange.com
:
:Hello,
:
:             Wondering if anyone has overcome the issue of the
:need to have Administrative rights in Windows XP to be able to
:use Client Access Express V5R1 ????
:
:
:Thanks in advance....
:
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:Message: 7
:Date: Fri, 05 Apr 2002 12:30:36 -0600
:To: midrange-l@midrange.com
:From: Vernon Hamberg <vhamberg@attbi.com>
:Subject: RE: qzshsystem api
:Reply-To: midrange-l@midrange.com
:
: From the text on the API, it seems it is running qsh with the
:command you give it. qsh works with EBCDIC, so that should not
:be the problem. But we've all been shoulded on, right?
:
:It does mention that the return value is from waitpid(). It's
:actually the second parameter on that API. There are a number
:of macros (C-type) in member WAIT of file SYS in QSYSINC. How
:are you at converting C macros to RPG?  Heh!  Let me know if
:you need help there. They're binary ANDs of the value with some masks.
:
:You might try the C mailing list.
:
:At 11:00 AM 4/5/02 -0700, you wrote:
:>Joe,
:>
:>I have indeed tried appending a x'00' as well as
:>specifying options(*string). I really wish the
:>message would tell me what it is trying to run.
:>My best guess is that the command needs to be
:>passed as ASCII. I hate to write a wrapper
:>for the translation API only to find out it
:>is something else.
:>
:>Thanks,
:>
:>David Morris
:>
:> >>> joepluta@PlutaBrothers.com 04/05/02 10:37 AM >>>
:> > From: Joel Fritz
:> >
:> > Does anyone have any experience with QzshSystem()?  I was playing
:>around
:> > with it yesterday and it worked but it didn't.  Using the
:prototype
:> > below, I passed in a command string, the call executed
:> > successfully--well, it returned 7--and nothing happend.  I tried
:> > sending a directory listing
:>to a
:> > file and calling a program that created a small text file.
:> >
:> > Dqzhsystem        pr            10i 0 extproc('QzshSystem')
:> > D cmdstring                       *   value  options(*string)
:>
:>I haven't tried it, but I know Unix commands like nulls at the end.
:>Did you make sure to append a null (x'00') at the end of your command
:>string?
:>
:>Joe
:>
:>
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:Message: 8
:Date: Fri, 05 Apr 2002 13:38:52 -0500
:Subject: Re: RE: RE: ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
:To: midrange-l@midrange.com
:From: "Mike Naughton" <mnaughton@juddwire.com>
:Reply-To: midrange-l@midrange.com
:
:Actually, my comment  was meant tongue-in-cheek -- the
:situation that Joe was describing just seemed so . . . .
:Dilbertish? . . . . that I had to laugh (spent last night at a
:school building presentation, so right now I'm looking for
:laughs any place I can find them :-)
:
:Of course, Joe has explained that things weren't quite as
:surreal as I thought they were . . . .
:
:midrange-l@midrange.com writes:
:> I'm not sure
:>whether you're being tongue-in-cheek or not, but you're right.
:
:
:Mike Naughton
:Senior Programmer/Analyst
:Judd Wire, Inc.
:124 Turnpike Road
:Turners Falls, MA  01376
:413-863-4357 x444
:mnaughton@juddwire.com
:
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:Message: 9
:Date: Fri, 05 Apr 2002 11:51:47 -0700
:From: "David Morris" <David.Morris@plumcreek.com>
:To: <midrange-l@midrange.com>
:Subject: RE: qzshsystem api
:Reply-To: midrange-l@midrange.com
:
:Vern,
:
:I did try translating the string to ASCII,
:no go. I will look at WAIT to see if it
:brings out any clues.
:
:Thanks,
:
:David Morris
:
:
:>>> vhamberg@attbi.com 04/05/02 11:43 AM >>>
: From the text on the API, it seems it is running qsh with the
:command you give it. qsh works with EBCDIC, so that should not
:be the problem. But we've all been shoulded on, right?
:
:It does mention that the return value is from waitpid(). It's
:actually the second parameter on that API. There are a number
:of macros (C-type) in member WAIT of file SYS in QSYSINC. How
:are you at converting C macros to RPG?  Heh!  Let me know if
:you need help there. They're binary ANDs of the value with some masks.
:
:You might try the C mailing list.
:
:At 11:00 AM 4/5/02 -0700, you wrote:
:>Joe,
:>
:>I have indeed tried appending a x'00' as well as
:>specifying options(*string). I really wish the
:>message would tell me what it is trying to run.
:>My best guess is that the command needs to be
:>passed as ASCII. I hate to write a wrapper
:>for the translation API only to find out it
:>is something else.
:>
:>Thanks,
:>
:>David Morris
:
:
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:Message: 10
:From: "Adam Lang" <aalang@rutgersinsurance.com>
:To: <midrange-l@midrange.com>
:Subject: Fw:      Re: Huge x86 servers vs. Alpha, SPARC, Power{3/4}
:Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2002 13:47:43 -0500
:Reply-To: midrange-l@midrange.com
:
:Ack!
:
:This was a message on a Linux server group I am on.
:
:The guy was asking for ideas on where to go for a Linux
:server.  It would be running a database ... they were speced
:out with Dell for about $100K.  He actually wanted RISC as
:opposed to x86.
:
:I told him go for the AS/400 running Linux.
:
:IBM didn't return his calls.
:
:Adam Lang
:Systems Engineer
:Rutgers Casualty Insurance Company http://www.rutgersinsurance.com
:----- Original Message -----
:From: "JW" <jw@centraltexasit.com>
:To: <SERVER-LINUX@LISTS.NETSPACE.ORG>
:Sent: Friday, April 05, 2002 1:43 PM
:Subject: Re: Huge x86 servers vs. Alpha, SPARC, Power{3/4}
:
:
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:>
:> AL >Buy an AS/400 and run Linux on it.
:> AL >
:> AL >You'll have RISC architecture.
:> AL >
:> AL >You'll have the BEST hardware for DB/file performance.
:> AL >
:> AL >It's in your price range.
:> AL >
:> AL >You'll be cool.
:>
:> Shoulda, Coulda Woulda....
:> but IBM failed to return 2 phone calls.
:> Compaq (Alpha) was quite snobby over the phone, and didn't
:have exatly
:what we wanted
:> (we would have had to go higher or lower).
:>
:> Sun OTHO treaded us very nicely (as did Dell, of course) and it looks
:like
:we're going to get a Sun Fire v880 with 4 CPUs.
:>
:> I was actually rooting for IBM first, Alpha second, SUn 3rd, but ho
:> well,
:that's life.
:>
:> It's all but purchased. Don't think we'll put Linux on it, at least
:> not
:right now.
:>
:> Too bad. I hear administering Solaris isn't fun. Bettern tha
:nAdministering WINNT though :-)
:>
:>
:>
:>
:> - --
:>
:> - ----------------------------------------------------
:> Jonathan Wilson
:> System Administrator
:> Clickpatrol.com
:> Cedar Creek Software     http://www.cedarcreeksoftware.com
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:
:
:
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:
:Message: 11
:Date: Fri, 05 Apr 2002 20:57:51 +0200
:From: Philipp Rusch <Philipp.Rusch@rusch-edv.de>
:Organization: EDV Beratung Rusch / EDP Consulting Rusch /
:Rosbach, Germany
:To: midrange-l@midrange.com
:Subject: Re: Why my system WAS so sluggish!
:Reply-To: midrange-l@midrange.com
:
:I had problems at different customers when the battery pack of
:the RAID controller's cache-RAM was at its end of life. There
:was an SRC in the problem log, but no text giving any hint
:that it could be the cache controller or the battery on it. At
:the first occasion of this (like you noticed a super slow
:motion system and obvious hw-errors and no "abusing" pgms), I
:called IBM and they sent a real guru to us: he saw the log and
:said. "Ok. I know this, I'm going back to the car to get a
:battery pack for the controller." This was a model 170 with a
:2740 RAID-controller running V4R3 (last year) and I don't know
:if the second level text of that SST message has been
:improved. The same problem happend to another customer short
:time after, but that time I already knew ...  ;-)  (model 720
:with a 2748 controller).
:
:Regards from germany, Philipp Rusch
:
:Rick Rayburn schrieb:
:
:> Thanks to everyone who contributed their thoughts and information to
:> this thread. The 400 community is a great "nation" of people and, as
:> we all
:know,
:> the 400 is a damn good box to make a living with...now if we
:can only
:> convince IBM!
:>
:> The reason for my sluggishness turned out to be a bad
:battery attached
:> to one of the I/O cards. There was a message logged in QHST
:informing
:> of a damaged I/O card but alas, it was only 2 lines and no
:more! So if
:> you scrolled past it as I initially did...Too bad that message is not
:repeated
:> as happens when an ASP threshhold percentage is being
:challenged. Boy,
:did
:> it slow us down and it appears as if there was absolutely ZERO
:> reflection
:of
:> this within the software tools IBM has provided us. Still, I wouldn't
:trade
:> in my career on the 400 for any other box and with all of
:the talented
:> people in our user group, nothing can escape us for too long!
:>
:> Thanks again,
:>
:> Rick Rayburn
:>
:
:
:
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