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Date:         Fri, 2 Oct 1992 09:42:00 LCL
From:         "(LONGLEGS)" <LONGLEGS.SYSTEMS@MHS.UNC.EDU>
Subject:      Mixed Case Processing
Comments: To: "(-)" <CICS-L@akronvm.bitnet>

To: @CICS-L

Here is a pair of programs that set the UCTRAN bit in a pre-V3 MRO
environment.  You will need to modify them to suit your region names.
Also, we have another pair of programs that flip the bit back ( MVI
TCTEUCTB,X'01').  We use 4 programs for historical purposes, it could be
done with one pair and a parm in the commarea.

****TERMLOWR***** (run this in your AOR, we use tran $LWR to invoke)

DFHEISTG DSECT
SYSID    DS    CL4
ZTERM    DS    CL4
ZSYS     DS    CL4
TERMLOWR CSECT
         REGEQ
*** ADDRESS TCTTE FROM TCAFCAAA, AND PLUG UCTRAN BIT
         L     R5,8(,R12)                     LOAD TCAFCAAA
         MVI   X'6B'(R5),X'00'                ZAP TCTTE TO U/L CASE
         IF# EIBTRNID,*EQ/LC,=C'$LWR'
*** IF EXECUTED FROM COMMAND LINE, SEND MESSAGE TO TERMINAL
             EXEC CICS SEND FROM(OKMSG) LENGTH(L'OKMSG) ERASE
         ELSE#
*** IF LINKED TO FROM ANOTHER PROGRAM, DON'T SEND MSG, AND
*** PERFORM MRO TRICKS (START A TRANS BACK IN THE TOR)
             EXEC CICS ASSIGN SYSID(SYSID)
             IF# SYSID(3),*EQ/LC,=C'ATR'      IS IT A TEST SYSTEM?
                 MVC   ZSYS,=C'TORT'          LOAD REGION NAME
             ELSE#
                 IF# SYSID(3),*EQ/LC,=C'APR'  IS IS A PRODUCTION SYS?
                     MVC   ZSYS,=C'TORP'      LOAD REGION NAME
                 ELSE#
                     GOTO# RETURN             NOT STANDARD MRO
                 ENDIF#
             ENDIF#
             MVC ZTERM,EIBTRMID
*** START TRANS IN APPROPRIATE TOR
             EXEC CICS START TRANSID('$LW2') FROM(ZTERM) SYSID(ZSYS)
         ENDIF#
RETURN   EXEC CICS RETURN
OKMSG    DC    C'CICS TRANSLATION CHANGED TO UPPER/LOWER CASE'
         END

****TERMLMRO***** (run this in your TOR, we use tran $LW2 to invoke)

         GBLB  &DFHEIMX
&DFHEIMX SETB  1
TCTTEAR  EQU   R5
         DFHTCTZE CICSYST=YES
         DFHTCA CICSYST=YES
         COPY DFHCSADS
DFHEISTG DSECT
RTERM    DS    CL4
RLEN     DS    H
TERMLMRO CSECT
         REGEQ
*** RETRIEVE DATA FOR TERMINAL
         MVC   RLEN,=X'0004'
         EXEC CICS RETRIEVE INTO(RTERM) LENGTH(RLEN)
*** GET POINTER TO TCTTE
         MVC   TCATPTA,RTERM                  SET UP FOR LOCATE
         DFHTC CTYPE=LOCATE,DOMAIN=LOCAL,TERM=ID,INVID=RETURN
         L     R5,TCATPTA                     PUT ADDR OF TCT INTO R5
         MVI   TCTEUCTB,X'00'                 ZAP TCTTE TO U/L CASE
RETURN   EXEC CICS RETURN
         END

This has run like a champ for 2 1/2 years now (since we went to MRO).  We
used to have just the first program, but under MRO we obviously had to make
some adjustments.

As usual, there is no warranty with these, and we don't accept
responsibility for any problems you may have.

-Joel Dunn
 UNC-Chapel Hill Administrative Data Processing
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Date:         Mon, 28 Sep 1992 16:04:14 EDT
From:         Susan Walker <SUSAN@COMP1.CC.WM.EDU>
Subject:      Re: 'HELP' software
Comments: To: CICS-L@uga.cc.uga.edu

> Is there any software product that can be used as a field level
> and screen level help screen?  It would be nice if it worked as a 'window'
 type
> help screen and be cursor sensitive.
>

We have BMS/GT and ASSIST which are GT Software, Inc. products.  The
BMS/GT portion of the product allows you to create maps, along with
some field validation and other capabilities.  The ASSIST portion
allows you to create Help windows, on-line Help manuals, etc. and
allows for User-written subroutines to be executed in conjunction
with the data entered on your screens, fieldnames, etc.  We have
written a User exit that uses the name of the field defined on the
map, along with the data entered in that field to do field-level
validation and Help.  This information is displayed in a scrollable
Help window.  We have written several nice User-exits along this
line, in fact.

Would glad to provide additional info, if you wish....

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Date:         Mon, 28 Sep 1992 14:38:09 EDT
From:         Steve Rimar <D1SAR@AKRONVM.BITNET>
Subject:      'HELP' software

Is there any software product that can be used as a field level
and screen level help screen?  It would be nice if it worked as a 'window' type
help screen and be cursor sensitive.

* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
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*  INFORMATION SERVICES              BITNET:   D1SAR@AKRONVM            *
*  THE UNIVERSITY OF AKRON                                              *
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Date:         Wed, 30 Sep 1992 16:22:00 CDT
From:         VAUGHAN@VUCTRVAX.BITNET
Subject:      IUI

   Thank you to everyone who responded to my question regarding
signing off users. We have decided to run the IUI in both our
test and production regions, but I have a question about updating
userids. I have each region pointing to it's own control file,
but if I try to update the one in test with the menu option
'maintain user profiles', I get the message
THE FUNCTION YOU REQUESTED CAN ONLY BE EXECUTED IN THE DEVELOPMENT
SYSTEM.
Is there a way around this? Is it possible to update this file?
If anyone is doing anything similar, I would be interested in hearing
how you are handling your userids. I realize we can still use DFHSNT
for users who do not need to access the IUI.
Thanks in advance,
Maryanne Vaughan
VAUGHAN@VUCTRVAX
VAUGHAN@CTRVAX.VANDERBILT.EDU
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Date:         Wed, 30 Sep 1992 17:01:23 EDT
From:         Larry Holder <##09@UTMARTN.BITNET>
Subject:      SYSIN Task Initiation

> I've been installing SQL/DS in a CICS 2.1-VSE/ESA environment, and ran into
> something that I've never heard of (but haven't yet been able to get working).
>
> The SQL installation manual says that if you code a TCT entry for CRLP support
> (card-reader/line-printer), then you can put an SQL transaction into the
> CICS startup job stream (after EXEC DFHSIP) and it will be invoked after CICS
> initialization.  But I can't find any other references to this technique in
> the CICS manuals themselves.  Does anybody know where to find an exhaustive
> treatment of this?
>
> Jeff Huestis
> Washington University Libraries

We've had SQL/DS installed for a few months, and I have come up with
an alternative that works well (I agree that the manual was a
bit confusing, and this alternative isn't mentioned in it):

     - Have a program, invoked by the start-up PLT, that
       contains the commands:
           EXEC CICS START TRANSID('CIRB') TERMID('CNSL')
           EXEC CICS RETURN

     - Have another program, invoked by the shut-down PLT, that
       contains the commands:
           EXEC CICS START TRANSID('CIRT') TERMID('CNSL')
           EXEC CICS RETURN

This has worked well for us, and the messages displayed by the CIRB
and CIRT transactions will be displayed on the console.
You probably already have your VSE console 'CNSL' defined to CICS.
Also, we let all the CIRB and CIRT parameters default.
If you have any questions or follow-up on this, just e-mail direct.

Larry Holder,  Sr. Programmer/Analyst            Bitnet: ##09@UTMARTN
The University of Tennessee at Martin            Phone:  901-587-7890
Martin, TN  38238                                Fax:    901-587-7841

Software: VM/ESA 1.0, VSE/ESA 1.1, CICS/VSE 2.1, COBOL-II, DL/I, SQL/DS
Hardware: IBM 9221-150 with 9336 FBA dasd
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Date:         Thu, 1 Oct 1992 08:43:00 LCL
From:         "(LONGLEGS)" <LONGLEGS.SYSTEMS@MHS.UNC.EDU>
Subject:      Re: SYSIN Task Initiation
Comments: To: "(-)" <CICS-L@vm1.cc.uakron.edu>

We take a different approach to running non-terminal transactions at
startup.  We are on CICS 2.1.2 now, but this has been used since our 1.6
days.  We have two datasets concatenated to a sequential terminal (defined
in the TCT).  This sequential terminal is coded to be out of service.  As a
part of our startup, we write transaction commands into the second of the
two datasets concatenated to the SAMIN DD card (the first dataset contains
commands always executed), and  when our startup program finishes adding
commands to the file, it issues a CEMT command to set the line inservice.
We use this to set up automatic monitoring for new programs added to our
production regions (using OSI (excuse me, CA) - Intertest), but it should
work equally as well for anything.  Ask if you want details.

-Joel Dunn
 UNC-Chapel Hill Administrative Data Processing
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Date:         Fri, 2 Oct 1992 10:51:02 EDT
From:         scott_ankrum@VNET.IBM.COM
Subject: (U) DFHDUP (CICS Dump Program) Modifications
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From: T. Scott Ankrum -- IBM, General Sector Division
                         (301)-571-2721  t/l 250-2721
                                                              .
Ref:   "(Troy Allen Cross)" <TAC@YSUB.YSU.EDU>

I cannot offer a program, but some advice. As more and more of CICS gets
delivered as OCO (Object Code Only) it might not be wise to depend on
source code modifications.

I addressed the same problem a few years ago with a much safer approach.
I directed the DFHDUP output to a file and had a PL/I program that read
the formatted output. It used the tranid, dump code, date and time from
the header of each page to direct all records until the next header to
one DD name or another. It could also skip dumps.

My point is that writing a program to read the formatted print lines
was easy. The only drawback is that if the header format changes, you
have to change the program, but the changes will be obvious and simple.

                                                              .
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PLEASE DO NOT SEND MONEY !
It is with regret that I perform this task. Dr. Gelson V. Gomes. a
professor of the University of Parana, Brazil, has exceeded this
privileges and announced a eletronic course:

> ____________________________________________________________
>        Mastering INTERNET Tools, Seizing METANET Power -
>                      The InterMeta Course
> ____________________________________________________________

I must apologize for this flagrant breach of network etiquette. Please
be aware that Dr. Gelson had no right to do so, since this is against
the rules of our ANSP network, and also against the Bitnet rules.
PLEASE DO NOT SEND MONEY!
I will not discuss what his motivations were. But his account has been
revoked, and there will be no such course through my network.

Please write by normal mail, to:
-> Gelson V. Gomes
-> 358, R. Alvaro Andrade - ap.1201
-> Curitiba PR BRAZIL 80610-240
to get more information on his objectives. He may want to give the
course by normal mail.  :-)

With regards,
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Date:         Sat, 3 Oct 1992 10:10:22 PDT
From:         Marie Glynn <GLYNN@WSUVM1.BITNET>
Subject:      Keep the Kalendar as is!

I find the Kalendar entertaining and edifying as is.  I often find that
the reminders of later birthdates spark reflections about the relationships
between centuries.  I GREATLY appreciate the time and effort necessary to
compile the list.  I enjoy the Kalendar more than any feature of any list
to which I subscribe.

For those who find the later birthdates cumbersome:  surely it is possible
to scroll through the document for what is of interest and use to you.

Thanks, Kevin, for the Kalendar.  Keep it coming.

Marie Glynn
Washington State University
glynn@wsuvm1
glynn@wsuvm1.csc.wsu.edu
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Date:         Fri, 2 Oct 1992 10:06:42 -0400
From:         Brian.J.Burchett.1@ND.EDU
Subject:      Hobbes

Does anyone know where I could get a good enlargement of the engraving
originally used as the title page for Hobbes' Leviathan?
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Date:         Tue, 29 Sep 1992 09:57:09 EDT
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              29 Sep 1992 08:29:47 -0400
From:         BCJ@PSUVM.BITNET
Subject:      Re: MLA, Toronto 1993

Thanks -- but I've already got the information.  If you'd like to volunteer
(on principle), please just send any call for papers or other such news
you might encounter.

All best wishes,
Kevin Berland for C18-L
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Date:         Fri, 2 Oct 1992 15:30:15 -0500
From:         "(Alan T. McKenzie)" <vyc@MACE.CC.PURDUE.EDU>

     I have the impression that it has been a long time
since someone has used C18-L to report on an unusually good and
useful new book.  I do so now because I have taken previous such
reports as a satisfying indication that my colleagues were finding the time
to read new books, as well as as a nudge to do so myself.
     I would like to recommend Julie Stone Peters,
_Congreve, the Drama, and the Printed Word_ (Stanford, 1990,
ISBN 0-8047-1751-6).  I admit that I am no Congreve
specialist, and no bibliographer, and that I haven't
consulted any of the reviews, but I found it an enormously
stimulating and instructive work.  I am teaching Congreve
and bibliography in our graduate methods course (the same
one Kevin Cope inquired about here a year or so ago) and find it,
and Congreve, perfect for my purposes.  It follows nicely
from Gaskell, Eisenstein, and Kiernan, and opened my eyes to
Congreve's library, relations with Tonson, and the role of the
book in his life, poems, and, especially, plays.  I like
to think I would have noticed the significances of reading in _The
Way of the World_ anyway, and I do remember Kroll's fine
_ELH_ article on that subject.  Nonetheless, I read the
play, and will read much else, with new eyes, given Peters'
work.
     I will also mention, but only just, Richard D. Brown's _Knowledge
Is Power:  The Diffusion of Information in Early America_ (Oxford,
1989), which was highly, and rightly, recommended on another
discussion list--SHARP, I think it must have been.  This one
draws sound and suggestive inferences about intellectual
life in the Colonies from texts I ought to have known.  If
you want to know how the minds of clergy-men, lawyers, and
business-men  (not -persons, I'm afraid, but -men) used to
work, in the days when they could be said to have done that,
this is the book to read.

Alan McKenzie
English, Purdue
vyc@mace.cc.purdue.edu
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Date:         Sat, 26 Sep 1992 21:11:33 EDT
From:         Irwin Primer <primer@ANDROMEDA.RUTGERS.EDU>
Subject:      Re: cynicism

Very good on the female cynics in fiction and drama, Arthur!  I didn't
intend to steer in that direction, knowing that the annals of literature are
full of such characters.  But now that we're in, why not?  Many of us are
familiar with Robert Elliott's discussion of the great misanthropes in the
satiric tradition.  Are Alceste and Gulliver (at the end of the 4th voyage)
cynics in the older sense, as well as misanthropes?  Before we are tempted
to say yes, we should recall that the ancient sect of Cynics performed or
carried out sexual acts (alone or with partners) in public and in broad
daylight.  We don't see that inclination in Alceste or Gulliver.  Does such
shameless and public sexuality appear anywhere in 18th-century fiction?  I
can't think of any examples.  But maybe it's unfair to make one of Cynics'
beliefs and practices a shibboleth for identifying all others.
     I'm glad that P. Lewis pointed out that the earliest or founding Cynics
had a very high standard of virtue.  But I wonder about his application of
cynicism or cynical to "the necessary assumptions of successful politicians
[etc.]."  Ms. Kennelly, I think, was expressing cynicism <about> politicians.
Politicians may be inwardly cynical, but they certainly have to hide or dis-
guise that feeling.  I think that "political realism" or expediency would
better characterize their public stances.  I concur with Lewis's remarks on
the problem of the semantic transformations of the cynic/ism cluster, and
wish that some younger and more energetic scholar than I will seize the
opportunity and produce a publishable paper on this subject.

I. Primer
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Date:         Sat, 26 Sep 1992 21:34:11 -0500
From:         FA40@UNTVAX.BITNET
Subject:      Re: cynicism

Ok, you smoked me out. I guess I might be thought to be expressing
ideas that are loosely called, *today*, cynical. But not just
about politicians. No one is exempt. Including me.
Ms Kennelly
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Date:         Tue, 29 Sep 1992 22:27:18 EDT
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              29 Sep 1992 17:53:44 EDT
From:         BCJ@PSUVM.BITNET
Subject:      RE: cynicism

The English title of Wieland's curious text is *Socrates Out of His Senses, Or,
Dialogues of Diogenes of Sinope...*

Kevin
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Date:         Tue, 29 Sep 1992 16:48:31 LCL
From:         maurice <MJFORRES@SUVM.BITNET>
Subject:      Re: Stack Access at U.S. Library of Congress Restricted

The letter about stack access in the Library of Congress reminded me
of a funny story.  It has nothing to do with the 18th century, but,
hey, you can't have everything.

On Mon, 28 Sep 1992 23:03:26 EDT <BCJ@PSUVM> said:
>The following letter, which may be of interest to C18-L readers, appeared
>in the Fall issue of the MLA Newsletter:
>
>To the Editor:
>
>     I eliminated the option of stack access at the Library of Congress to
>scholars and others on 30 March 1992.  {...}
>The Library of
>Congress's stacks have always been closed to the public, but exceptions have
>been made in the general book stacks for scholars and others who verified a
>need to browse in designated areas.  Unfortunately, we have discovered evi-
>dence that many of our invaluable books have been mutilated or stolen from
>the collections.
     {...}
>                                            -- James H. Billington
>                                               Librarian of Congress

At some point when I was in high school in the mid-70s, I went to the
Library of Congress.  My father had a meeting in Washington and I went
along to see the sites.  All I knew about the Library of Congress was
that it was supposed to have copies of every book ever written or some
such nonsense.  There was a book I wanted to read that my local library
didn't have, so I went to the Library, looked in the card catalog for
the classification number, and walked around until I found an entry to
the stacks.  I got the book, read it, and then returned it to the
stacks.  Not until I was working in a library 8 or 9 years later did I
learn that the stacks were closed.  Now there is no way I looked like I
belonged in the stacks:  I was 15 or 16, dressed accordingly, and had
hair halfway down my back.  So it's no surprise to me to hear that
people have been stealing books from the Library of Congress.

maurice

                                                 Maurice Forrester
                                                 mjforres@suvm.syr.edu
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Date:         Mon, 28 Sep 1992 23:03:26 EDT
From:         BCJ@PSUVM.BITNET
Subject:      Stack Access at U.S. Library of Congress Restricted

The following letter, which may be of interest to C18-L readers, appeared
in the Fall issue of the MLA Newsletter:

To the Editor:

     I eliminated the option of stack access at the Library of Congress to
scholars and others on 30 March 1992.  Because this policy may be of concern
to your members and to other scholars, I am writing to the president of each
organization in the American Council of Learned Societies.  The Library of
Congress's stacks have always been closed to the public, but exceptions have
been made in the general book stacks for scholars and others who verified a
need to browse in designated areas.  Unfortunately, we have discovered evi-
dence that many of our invaluable books have been mutilated or stolen from
the collections.
     Restricting stack access is part of a range of security measures I have
introduced.  Theft-detection gates are at all library exits.  Library
materials may not be removed from the reading rooms where they are served.
Readers must show picture identification before using the collections.  All
these measures apply to library staff as well as to researchers and the
general public.  We believe that these tightened regulations will have some
compensating benefits for scholars by decreasing the number of "not on shelf"
responses to books ordered from the stacks.  Scholars should be able to
receive books more quickly because the stacks will be maintained in better
order.
                                            -- James H. Billington
                                               Librarian of Congress
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