If you are up to writing a small piece of software, you can find the number of
cylinders on a given volume in the DCE (Device Class Extension control block),
which can be found by doing using the UCBSCAN macro along with a little extra
logic.
Bill Fairchild
Programmer
Rocket Software
408
that the routine is never entered
again before you start the removal process.
Bill Fairchild
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From: IBM
When in doubt, try Google. I just did, and quickly discovered that surfing for
salted is much more productive than surfing for unsalted. Start with this
one:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_(cryptography)
Bill Fairchild
Programmer
Rocket Software
408 Chamberlain Park Lane * Franklin, TN
at storage
dumps, and escorted me everywhere I needed to go within the building. One of
these two places even had a revolving red light that began flashing whenever I
entered the computer room.
Bill Fairchild
Programmer
Rocket Software
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t
There must be 50 ways to leave your session.
- groan -
Well, it is Friday.
Bill Fairchild
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Read it again. He did say both shortcut and shorthand
Bill Fairchild
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From: IBM Mainframe
to use mathematically accurate
and precise terminology when describing the bridges they design and build, or
we would have a lot more cars falling off of collapsing bridges.
Bill Fairchild
Programmer
Rocket Software
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This post should be saved and not read until Friday for the proper mind-set.
I think the correct term should be 24/7/52.1775, as there are 52.1775 weeks in
an average [1] year rather than 365, 366, or even 265.
Bill Fairchild
Programmer
Rocket Software
408 Chamberlain Park Lane * Franklin, TN
. But at the instant you look
at one of the two ASCBIOSx counters, the contents will be correct (FSVO
correct). Two successive samples might be more revealing.
Bill Fairchild
Programmer
Rocket Software
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Calgary, not Winnipeg. SAE is Stand-Alone Environment (not editor). NewEra is
right.
Bill Fairchild
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Investigate the NONBASE keyword. It might be authorized.
Bill Fairchild
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From: IBM Mainframe
Also check if this data set is on a device that is shared with other systems
and not all systems that are sharing it have it defined as a shared device. If
this is true, then there is no bug in ISPF, and you probably have more data
sets with corrupted VTOC metadata.
Bill Fairchild
Programmer
. Some code is perhaps not properly serializing
on the VTOC accesses. Either way, you should get IBM involved in resolving
this issue, assuming that IBM wrote the program that you used for your previous
display.
Bill Fairchild
Programmer
Rocket Software
408 Chamberlain Park Lane . Franklin, TN
Please describe more precisely what you did when you said you typed I beside
the dsn.
I tried to type the number 1 and the letter I beside a dsn on an ISPF 3.4
screen and I did not get any display like yours.
Bill Fairchild
Programmer
Rocket Software
408 Chamberlain Park Lane . Franklin, TN
Better yet, recreate the steps you took but do not hit enter. When you have
finished typing I beside the dsn, then copy the screen image before you hit
enter. Insert your screen image into your next post.
Bill Fairchild
Programmer
Rocket Software
408 Chamberlain Park Lane . Franklin, TN 37069
Being able to reproduce the incorrect display long after any DSCBs were being
updated indicates that this is not due to a timing problem when reading the
DSCBs. I suggest you get IBM involved, either through an ETR or an APAR.
Bill Fairchild
Programmer
Rocket Software
408 Chamberlain Park Lane
-SB1
PER 1 successful branch trap.
PER-SBT
PER 1 successful branch into (SBT) trap.
PER-SAS
PER storage alteration by STORA (SAS) trap.
PER-ZAD
PER zero address detection trap.
Next I would suggest you Google and/or search IBM books for PER-ZAD.
Bill Fairchild
Programmer
Rocket Software
408
, then the invalidity
changes from possibly temporary to seriously permanent.
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is then able to zero out the same 4K that
produced a S0C4, updates its register with the next address to move to, which
finally becomes the first byte of the next higher 4K virtual page, then another
S0C4 occurs, etc. etc. until the whole GETMAINed area contains X'00'.
Bill Fairchild
Programmer
Rocket
You are right. I meant to say there is another very common way for a massive
number of program interrupt code 11 interrupts (invalid page) to be
generated... They are potential S0C4 ABENDs which are resolved felicitously.
Bill Fairchild
Programmer
Rocket Software
408 Chamberlain Park Lane
I'm don't know what you started before GDPS existed, but GDPS was alive and
well in May, 1999 when I began testing software that intercepted GDPS' I/O
requests for a former employer. That was 13 years ago.
Bill Fairchild
Software Developer
Rocket Software
275 Grove Street, Suite 3-410 * Newton
with performance info
and networking aids going back 40-45 years. BMC bought out BGS about 15 years
ago, and BGS was an industry leader in system performance analysis. Start
working on getting your management to send you to attend national CMGs in early
December each year.
Bill Fairchild
Software
I believe Shmuel meant 05F0 instead of 07F0.
Disassembled, it would read
BALR R15,0
SVC 12 [also known as the SYNCH macro]
These two will result in a system wait state ABEND on any OS/360 variant (PCP,
MFT, MVT) after all SQA is gobbled up and then the infinite loop wants
detections; e.g. who has keys to the data center room, to
any of the offices containing terminals, logon passw!
ord protection, etc. Maybe the auditors have already checked out all these
other areas, are just trying to be comprehensive, and do not understand that
one size does not fit all.
Bill
When pronounced distinctly (forcing oneself to speak more slowly than normally)
and correctly, the two words are not homophonic.
Bill Fairchild
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J R
Sent: Monday, March 26, 2012 3:10 PM
You have the core-wrecked pronunciation.
Bill Fairchild
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of
McKown, John
Sent: Monday, March 26, 2012 3:50 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Subject: Re: A z/OS Redbook Corrected - just about!
I
to tape.
The worst case scenario is that the file is only allocated and has never been
loaded with data. In this case, the actual data transfer rate should be 0
MB/secs., but it would still take 200 seconds to copy the file to tape.
Bill Fairchild
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? Of course, there is always at least an R0 on every track,
so they are not completely empty. If all they have written on them is R0, am I
still transferring data at the rate of 100MB/sec? If each track were half
full, would my effective data transfer rate be only 50 MB/sec?
Bill Fairchild
non-executable position in your program into the virtual storage area that you
obtained.
There are other sentences in this and other sections. Read them all.
Bill Fairchild
Rocket Software
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf
user time was used up
by the system before all the work was finished for whatever kind of allocatio!
n was requested by the DD statement(s).
Just guessing.
Bill Fairchild
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Paul Gilmartin
subjects starting with
Program FLIH backdoor . I call it obscurity since getting beyond the first !
track deters most programs, but is not difficult if you know the obscure
fact that it is quite easy to do if you want to.
Bill Fairchild
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the customer is willing to
read a manual but doesn't know how to find which one to read first. Sometimes
the customer doesn't write English very well. Sometimes the service borders on
arrogant, but usually the server is trying to be helpful. Etc.
Bill Fairchild
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. The official words from
IBMers are a very good model for the rest of us.
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STAM ARx,ARx,FULLWORD
L Ry,FULLWORD
will also copy the contents of Access Register x into General Purpose Register
y.
I use GRx to mean the 64-bit Register x (aka Grande) and Rx to mean the
32-bit Register x (aka pequeño).
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Sobre-pequeño? Izquierdo medio? Alto medio? Gordo-pequeño? No sé.
I have never had to use only the high half of a grande, only the low half or
the entire grande. So I haven't yet named the high half.
Bill Fairchild
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I PTF-ed this thread's subject to make it more germane.
Why does any vendor today build a LRU-managed cache for its large DBMS? Or are
there lots of operating systems extant on which such large DBMSes can run that
do not have LRU-based virtual storage management algorithms?
Bill Fairchild
DREF will work.
Bill Fairchild
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of
Micheal Butz
Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2012 2:52 AM
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Subject: Re: Difference between DREF storage and Page fixed storage
Please
/OS developers and their management.
Bill Fairchild
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of
Marna WALLE
Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2012 10:02 AM
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Subject: Wanna know (practically) everything in z/OS V1R13
the
buffer is made pageable again before your program gets control back from the
GET macro.
Bill Fairchild
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Micheal Butz
Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2012 10:44 AM
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. And developers
and documenters still create screen displays and tech doc with the now
31-years-obsolete nomenclature. I complain now and then to deaf ears. But
that's ok, since I still call z/OS by the name MVS. At least I don't still
call it OS/VS2 Release 2. Lol
Bill Fairchild
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.rocketsoftware.com,
on 02/16/2012
at 02:14 PM, Bill Fairchild bfairch...@rocketsoftware.com said:
They haven't been device addresses since 1983 with the advent of
MVS/XA, in spite of the fact that people who had been calling them
device addresses since 1964, for the most part, still call them
If you have TMON/MVS, you can run an I/O trace against several devices on the
system that you suspect has I/O elongation and the exact amount of I/O
elongation will be measured and reported on in that trace.
Bill Fairchild
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As well as the giant whale in Gordon Lightfoot's musical ode of 1972.
Bill Fairchild
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Ed Gould
Sent: Thursday, February 09, 2012 11:59 PM
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Subject: OT The Big Blues
useful
information. I would much rather look at original doc than at working code
that exploits one particular function and reveals nothing about other
functions. If this doc is restricted, then how could SHOWMVS be made public?
Bill Fairchild
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Operator commands are in the Master Trace Table for a while.
Bill Fairchild
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of
Mike Lewis
Sent: Thursday, February 09, 2012 10:57 AM
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Subject: STC CSCB / CIB question
When did the manufacturing of real CKD devices end?
Bill Fairchild
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Anne Lynn Wheeler
Sent: Tuesday, February 07, 2012 6:20 PM
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Subject: Re: Why can't the track
their customers
create keyed files. As long as customers continue creating and using keyed
files, IBM must continue supporting them in the z/OS access methods.
Bill Fairchild
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R.S.
Sent
still be some
ISAM files that are being used somehow. And long, long ago the operating
system used a dataset named PASSWORD that was unblocked with keys. The ancient
system catalog structure with 8-byte keys has been replaced by VSAM structures.
Bill Fairchild
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I think the biggest clue of all was in his earlier email when he said he had
looked up the definition of the word fold in his English-Dutch dictionary.
Bill Fairchild
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of
Elardus Engelbrecht
Kraal may not be used anymore, but our western USA English word corral
certainly is. If it's not a derivative, it is certainly a cognate.
Bill Fairchild
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Elardus Engelbrecht
Sent: Friday
paths there are.
Bill Fairchild
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Ron Hawkins
Sent: Friday, January 27, 2012 9:17 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Subject: Re: Going from mod-3 to mod9
Bill,
You said If the shared control unit
Dennis,
We also need to see the I/O rate for your various volumes in your spreadsheet
sample.
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bottlenecks can theoretically still occur.
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Jim Mulder
Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2012 10:54 PM
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Subject: MVS SP5.2.0 Dynamic I/O marketing video
You may find
Is it the ID that renamed it last?
Is it the ID that restored it from a backup copy?
Etc.
Bill Fairchild
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Lizette Koehler
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for the
mainframe system and not any one of the possibly several thousand people who
are sub-using the system that the user is renting/leasing from IBM, who
would apparently be the owner of the whole system and thus possibly the
owner of all data sets created by sub-users.
Bill Fairchild
I remember seeing a TV ad for CA mainframe software around eight or nine years
ago.
Bill Fairchild
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R.S.
Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2012 1:32 PM
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This reminds me of ISO 9000 about 20 years ago.
Bill Fairchild
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of
Jonathan Goossen
Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2012 1:29 PM
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Subject: Re: ITIL Mainframe Terminology
Also International Phonetic Alphabet. Recommended if you regularly read John
Gilmore's posts. :-)
Bill Fairchild
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Jim Thomas
Sent: Friday, December 30, 2011 9:23 PM
To: IBM-MAIN
and would work in
these environments.
Bill Fairchild
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Binyamin Dissen
Sent: Saturday, December 31, 2011 1:59 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Subject: Re: Question on adding an SVC routine dynamically
If your code that you want traced in the System Trace table runs authorized,
you can also use the TRACE instruction. I did that once to shoot a weird
timing problem.
Bill Fairchild
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of
Dave
You're right. I'm wrong. PR causes a trace entry to be formed if it follows
a PC but not if it follows a BAKR.
Bill Fairchild
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of
Tom Marchant
Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2012 10:51 AM
Imagine having THIS thread stopped.
Bill Fairchild
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of
Joel C. Ewing
Sent: Wednesday, December 21, 2011 7:51 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Subject: Re: Imagine having to deal
not the only ones...
Bill Fairchild
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of
zMan
Sent: Wednesday, December 21, 2011 12:12 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Subject: Re: Imagine having to deal with THIS in production
On Wed, Dec 21, 2011 at 9:23
.
Here is the origin of choosing 4713 B.C.:
http://curious.astro.cornell.edu/question.php?number=88
Bill Fairchild
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of
Chase, John
Sent: Monday, December 19, 2011 1:47 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
,
*/* or with an abnormal user completion code in
*/* bits 20 through 31.
From the Authorized Assembler Services book:
Bits 2 through 31 are set to the specified completion code.
Bill Fairchild
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From: IBM Mainframe
ECBs do not have RBs in them. An ECB contains the 3-byte address of an RB in
the low-order 3 bytes.
Bill Fairchild
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of
Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2011 1:24 PM
If you mean was there ever a Format 7 DSCB, then the answer is yes. It is not
included in this DSECT for some reason. If you GOOGLE-advanced search for
DSCB and Format 7 you can find some information on it.
Bill Fairchild
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List
.MODGEN(IECSDSL1) for the Format 1 through Format 9 DSCB DSECTs.
Bill Fairchild
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sequence once it finds the real EOF in the middle of the file somewhere and
then moves past it to read the next block, which is really the first block
written in chronological order.
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Sounds about normal, but what does that have to do with when the procs were
last used?
Bill Fairchild
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Ed Gould
Sent: Thursday, December 01, 2011 6:44 PM
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Subject: Re
I admit to not understanding Ted's insistence on procs' being obsolete if they
haven't been changed in two years. That may be what Ted meant, but I don't
think he meant that, nor do I believe it is a true statement. Why would any
piece of data in a data center suddenly become obsolete the
different
logic placed in different system components to effect an audit trail, which
would explain why there is no simple solution for logging any use of a PDS
member.
Bill Fairchild
Rocket Software, Inc.
[1] I believe this is the first time I have ever verbed a noun all on my own
authority
through
which they pass.
Bill Fairchild
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of
Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
Sent: Tuesday, November 22, 2011 10:10 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Subject: Re: Terminology
[1] It's an accent in some
Look up diacritic in Wikipedia and be prepared to drink from the fire hydrant
of knowledge on scores of different marks used in hundreds of human writing
systems.
Bill Fairchild
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of
Linda
any given
phrase can be acronymed, then, in fairness, any given acronym could be
unacronymed if it becomes too controversial.
Bill Fairchild
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of
John Gilmore
Sent: Friday, November 18, 2011 9:00
How about one billion people who all profess the same religious belief system?
Bill Fairchild
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of
Steve Comstock
Sent: Friday, November 18, 2011 11:26 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Subject: Re
Don't forget Frisbeetarianism.
Bill Fairchild
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of
Mike Schwab
Sent: Friday, November 18, 2011 4:13 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Subject: Re: USS
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
Both, with a touch of Schadenfreude.
Bill Fairchild
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of
Tony Harminc
Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2011 6:18 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Subject: Re: Washington DC Position Available
Wow. So many acronyms. I am tempted to ask what USS means, but I won't.
Bill Fairchild
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of
Jim Marshall
Sent: Wednesday, November 16, 2011 1:45 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Subject: Washington
My Social Security card, which I obtained ca. 1959, states the following: For
Social Security purposes. Not for identification.
Perhaps that warning was referring to the card itself rather than to the
nine-digit number on it.
Bill Fairchild
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From: IBM Mainframe
, then this module should return an error condition. Perhaps IBM
reasoned that if a user really, really, seriously wants to do something this
strange, they should let him.
Bill Fairchild
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of
Rick Fochtman
+ years ago.
Bill Fairchild
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of
Steve Horein
Sent: Saturday, November 12, 2011 12:22 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Subject: Re: Data Areas?
Thanks for the tip! I did pass along the IPCS command
to correspond with
the parameter list request is not currently available to customers.
The results of a STOW macro's having executed can be seen in the mapping macro
IHAPDS, which maps the directory entry for a PDS or a PDSE.
Bill Fairchild
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From: IBM Mainframe
Alaska equals two times the size of Texas plus one Wyoming.
Bill Fairchild
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of
Staller, Allan
Sent: Tuesday, November 08, 2011 2:55 PM
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Subject: Re: OT measures was Re
to remember to code all the EQU statemetns, inter
alia.
Bill Fairchild
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of
Bill Hecox
Sent: Monday, November 07, 2011 6:26 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Subject: Re: How to enable Storage Protection
A kilogram of citric acid solution, freshly squeezed from oranges and
undergoing said acceleration, could be a Juice Newton.
A republican candidate for president, undergoing said acceleration, could be
about 100 Gingrich Newtons.
A kilogram of gold bling from the neck of the late composer of
SIXTEEN
avoirdupois ounces. Google for how many grains are in each type of ounce and
you can compute how many grains are in each type of pound. Thus one
avoirdupois pound is heavier than one troy pound. Fortunately, the definition
of grain is the same for both weight systems.
Bill Fairchild
, since some
books contain poetry, which is usually written in some metrical style. G
Bill Fairchild
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of
Gerhard Postpischil
Sent: Friday, November 04, 2011 2:18 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
I was not aware of z/XDC's capabilities. That's good to know. Thanks, Dave.
Bill Fairchild
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of
David Cole
Sent: Sunday, October 30, 2011 8:04 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Subject: Re: Testing g
, there will be lots of hits, but the correct
macro will also be found, and it will have a lot more lines of text in it than
any of the others displayed.
Or look in SYS1.MODGEN(IECSDSL1).
Bill Fairchild
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to debug code that must run disabled for I/O interrupts,
holding locks, in SRB mode, FRRs, etc.
Bill Fairchild
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of
Micheal Butz
Sent: Thursday, October 27, 2011 8:19 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Correct-o-mundo.
Bill Fairchild
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of
John Gilmore
Sent: Friday, October 28, 2011 1:15 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Subject: SWAG
Scientific Wild-Assed Guess
improperly. One way to
remember the environments in which extra care must be taken is the acronym EUT,
meaning Enabled, Unlocked, Task mode. EUT is used as a parameter on the SETFRR
macro, which also mentions some other things that might not be allowed in these
rarified environments.
Bill
Why can't we all just eschew obfuscation?
Bill Fairchild
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of
Ted MacNEIL
Sent: Monday, October 24, 2011 5:47 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Subject: Re: SRBEPA
You may prefer 'dispatch
resources, and in
general wasting a lot of time. A typical inclusion list is auto-sig-ed below.
Bill Fairchild
Plutonium, anthrax, U235, Waco, Ruby Ridge, anarch, à bas l'état, ... etc.
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of
Ed
Auto-purging of jobs: are we talking about something a computer does or
something a business does to its employees?
Bill Fairchild
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of
Ed Gould
Sent: Tuesday, September 13, 2011 10:51 AM
crashed the
system again...etc...etc...
Bill Fairchild
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of
Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
Sent: Tuesday, September 13, 2011 11:05 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu
Subject: Re: Auto-purge of Jobs
Essentially the only thing to do there is to drink.
Or work towards a Ph.D. from an online university, such as the U. of Phoenix.
Bill Fairchild
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of
Ed Gould
Sent: Thursday, September 08
Ask CA.
I believe that DMS was one of the first products acquired by Sterling Software,
which was acquired by CA ca. 1999.
Bill Fairchild
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Ken Porowski
Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2011 3
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