Re: Anyone Using z10 Large Pages in anger

2010-08-18 Thread Henry Willard
Shane wrote: On Tue, 2010-08-17 at 13:27 -0500, Elpida Tzortzatos. wrote: The goal of every platform is to move to transparent use of large pages but that is a very high goal to achieve especially when the large page size is 1MB (256 contiguous 4k Frames). Implementation of large pages

Re: I'm amazed

2010-07-27 Thread Henry Willard
Shane Ginnane wrote: I suspect IBM wants to keep the penguin colonies appropriately corralled. Hard to tout you can support hundreds/thousands of Linuses in a (native) LPAR environment. Does Power have a z/VM analogue ?. Not the same functionality as z/VM. There is PowerVM which is the Power7

Re: Significant Bits

2010-05-25 Thread Henry Willard
Paul Gilmartin wrote: On Tue, 25 May 2010 16:38:32 -0400, David Andrews wrote: On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 16:10 -0400, Tom Marchant wrote: The 68000 and its successors are big endian. They switched to PowerPC in 1994 and to i86 in 2006. Didn't PPC go both ways? (I vaguely remember a talk by

Re: What am I missing on XPLINK(OSCALL(N)) ?

2010-05-21 Thread Henry Willard
Charles Mills wrote: If your assembler code expects the standard register conventions ... My understanding of XPL(OSCALL(N)) is that is says call the assembler routines the old way. Am I missing something? Charles I believe the problem is that XPL(OSCALL(N)) says no stack, just a

Re: Putting system integrity at risk to save software charges

2010-04-12 Thread Henry Willard
George Henke wrote: Shadow from Data Direct does this painlessly. I am totally independent of this vendor, so I can be objective. But a former client of mine implemented their product several years ago and extended the life of their 2 GPP configure enormously with very little cost. The

Re: z9 / z10 instruction speed(s)

2010-03-06 Thread Henry Willard
R.S. wrote: Edward Jaffe pisze: [...] People with PC-only experience are always astonished when I tell them about modern mainframe provisioning capabilities. They always assume when your hard drive fills up you need a new one or when your CPU is too slow you need a new one. What we do

Re: Does SAC 0 make PASN = HASN = SASN

2009-12-14 Thread Henry Willard
Joe Reichman wrote: It is A Stacking PC I was under impression that when PR executes at the end of the PC rtn the OS puts the environment back to the way it was before the PC rtn Was invoked The POST ASID is only a few instruction later don't know why the SYSUDUMP says PRIMARY NOT EQUAL

Re: How to get a dump from a failing SRB

2009-12-10 Thread Henry Willard
ec wrote: I have an SRB scheduled thru IEAMSCHD. If it abends, I get the abend code in the comp, code and rsn fields. However I do not get any dump. Is there any method to get a dump for the failing SRB ? DUMPX from the FRR (my preference). SLIP Regards, Henry

Re: Clues on using C++ prelink * lked for first time

2009-12-07 Thread Henry Willard
Charles Mills wrote: I've got my first mainframe C++ application. It runs under Windows. (Obviously, that's not the same as running under z/OS, but the point is it's a complete program. My concern at this point is getting it to link, not run.) It compiles cleanly under z/OS C++. I have long

Re: EZASMI no data on READ

2009-11-17 Thread Henry Willard
Joe Reichman wrote: Hi I am running a cocurrent server with multiple connections/ports When I connect on my first socket/port I am able to later on read data as my logic has the read waiting for TCP/IP To post the ECB whenever the client Sends data and the read completes The second

Re: Final Conlusions on Concurrenrt Server

2009-11-03 Thread Henry Willard
Shmuel Metz , Seymour J. wrote: In 01ca5b6c$532d3e30$f987ba...@net, on 11/01/2009 at 10:26 PM, Joe Reichman joereich...@optonline.net said: Here are my Final Conclusions These can only be one Active Conversation between a Client and Server on a port (if its between two different

Re: EZASMI Concurrent Server cann't handle mutiple open connections in the same port

2009-10-28 Thread Henry Willard
Joe Reichman wrote: Hi, All regarding my earlier inquiry can anyone correct me if I am wrong I don't think you can have multiple open connections ( in the process of read and writes ) on the same port/same ip ?? Typically all connections on the server or listening side are to the

Re: IBM C header files

2009-10-19 Thread Henry Willard
Pierre Fichaud wrote: Folks, I've been hired to implement SSL socket calls in an existing z/OS product. The IBM SSL API is in C. I'm changing the TCB structure to have 2 listeners, one TCP/IP and the other SSL. They listen on different ports. I've added a TCB layer and so

Re: CEEPIPI incorrect recovery processing?

2009-09-15 Thread Henry Willard
Gord Tomlin wrote: To be completely accurate, we are developing a new component for an existing product. The existing product is written entirely in Assembler and is not compatible with LE. I would love to not use CEEPIPI, but that's a non-starter. The new component needs to use a couple of

Re: Assembler TCP/IP

2009-01-19 Thread Henry Willard
Joe Reichman wrote: Does Anybody have any pointers re: concurrent TCP/IP Assembler programs specfically A)in the Subtak (attached program) do you have to issue a INITAPI B) It it necessary to use EZASM STORAGE=GLOBAL or STORAGE=TASK when writting a concurrent (meaning using

Re: vsnprintf(); off by 1!?

2009-01-13 Thread Henry Willard
Paul Gilmartin wrote: On Mon, 12 Jan 2009 22:31:50 -0800, Henry Willard wrote: memcpy( ap, xp, sizeof( va_list ) ); is not legal C. Either use the c99 va_copy (va_copy(ap,xp)) created for this purpose or define _VARARG_EXT before including stdarg.h. Up until c99 there was no defined way

Re: vsnprintf(); off by 1!?

2009-01-12 Thread Henry Willard
Paul Gilmartin wrote: Are questions about C better asked here or on MVS-OE? Surely not on ASSEMBLER_LIST -- it's far too busy this week with a nostalgia thread. The C test program: /* -*/ #include stdarg.h #include stdio.h #include

Re: zIIP API for ISV's

2008-02-28 Thread Henry Willard
Brian Westerman wrote: I'm a member, but I wasn't aware of the availability. I still can't find it on the D-Works web site. Can you point me to it? You need a CDA first. Being a D-Works member doesn't count. Brian Henry

Re: Migration from Mainframe to othre platforms - the othe bell?

2008-02-01 Thread Henry Willard
Rich Smrcina wrote: At one time AIX ran on the mainframe, first as AIX/370, then briefly as AIX/ESA. Now it is strictly a System p operating system. Other than having AIX in the name and being ports based on some version of Unix, AIX/ESA and AIX/370 didn't have much in common with the AIX

Re: Two things missing from DFSORT in a perfect world?

2008-01-28 Thread Henry Willard
Frank Yaeger wrote: Roberto Halais wrote on 01/28/2008 11:54:59 AM: also a conversion for IP addresses as they are stored in SMF in hex format to something like xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx. You can already convert 4-byte hex values for IP addresses to displayable values with DFSORT. For example if

Re: How does ATTACH pass address of ECB to child?

2008-01-21 Thread Henry Willard
Craddock, Chris wrote: As in horshoes? Yes. The ECB is one of the most widely used tools in the system. As a serialization primitive it is just awful, but there's no getting away from it now. The ECB might not be perfect, but compared to what you have to put up with on Unix where there are

Re: Basic Cross Memory questions

2007-12-17 Thread Henry Willard
Logan, David wrote: Even with my AXSET, I still get a S052/319 ABEND at the ETCRE macro. I have no idea why. My code looks right based on what I think I know. What am I doing wrong? MODESET MODE=SUP,KEY=ZERO GETAXDS0H LA6,1 AXSET AX=(6) MVC

Re: Zapping HFS files

2007-10-19 Thread Henry Willard
McKown, John wrote: -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tony Harminc Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2007 12:00 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Zapping HFS files snipped I asked over on the Linux-390 forum

Re: Non-Standard Mainframe Language?

2007-05-28 Thread Henry Willard
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Re: DB2 V9 z/OS GA (Was: What to do with extra storage on new z9)

2007-03-15 Thread Henry Willard
Craddock, Chris wrote: There are 3 different code platforms for DB2 - I'm missing some details, so someone please fill in the blanks... - Non-mainframe platforms (Unix-type), which came from another data base product purchased by IBM a long time ago (Sequent?), and has some

Re: fd_set, select() and z/OS XL C 1.7

2006-11-30 Thread Henry Willard
Michael Knigge wrote: On Wed, 29 Nov 2006 09:31:12 -0800, Henry Willard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How about reading the manual? How about reading my posting? Or am I blind? #define _OE_SOCKETS #define _OPEN_MSGQ_EXT Both are defined using the following Compiler-Options

Re: fd_set, select() and z/OS XL C 1.7

2006-11-29 Thread Henry Willard
Michael Knigge wrote: All, I need the datatype fd_set and the select() function on z/OS but it seems I'm loosing the fight with the compiler :-( my source looks quite simple: #include sys/types.h #include sys/time.h #include sys/msg.h int main(int argc, char *argv[]) { fd_set

Re: assembler question (strong typing)

2006-11-18 Thread Henry Willard
Paul Gilmartin wrote: In a recent note, john gilmore said: Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2006 15:10:14 + I, for one, loathe strong typing. In my own code I do data-type punning routinely, and I should not wish to see the HLASM converted into as C-lilke language that made this

Re: How is the mainframe like the opera?

2006-10-09 Thread Henry Willard
Craddock, Chris wrote: I wonder how difficult it would be for IBM to implement a totally millicoded zSeries instruction set using a Power chip? It depends. If you just wanted it to run, then it would be easy. Heck you can do it on a PC and get 80-odd MIPS so how hard can it be? OTOH if

Re: REAL memory column in SDSF

2006-09-28 Thread Henry Willard
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have the presenter review ancient history in the S/360 line -- the 360 line generally supported differing page sizes (2K and 4K) and the 360/67 supported 2K, 4K and even 1M page sizes. (I don't recall whether any SCP shipped that dealt with 1M page sizes,