Re: Early IPL problems

hard-coded the number of block per track in the PASSWORD data set, and at some point (OS/360 15/16, or 18?), IBM decided to change the device related constants and the PASSWORD data set wound up with one block less per track. Gerhard Postpischil Bradford, VT

Re: Early IPL problems

to password requests for system data sets having all hex-zero passwords. If that was duress, it was self-inflicted G Gerhard Postpischil Bradford, VT -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send

Re: CSVEDIT using COBOL

statement. Am i write? No. Traditionally SYSOUT was a single character in the range A-Z and 0-9. Several decades ago IBM added * top copy the MSGCLASS as the SYSOUT class. However, for INTRDR the class is ignored. Try to use google to have your basic questions answered. Gerhard Postpischil

Re: iggcsirx to retreive data set size?

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Re: EXTRACT,QEDIT macro

. Also note that a STOP command posts the ECB with an X'50', whereas all others post with X'40'. Gerhard Postpischil Bradford, VT -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists

Re: GO TO cobol

are not noticeable. Whether or not code is aesthetically pleasing is very much a matter of nurture. With effective comments, the structure of code isn't all that critical, and discussions of GOTO versus GOTO-less programming are about as useful as religious arguments. Gerhard Postpischil Bradford, VT

Re: GO TO cobol

results in assembly errors. Gerhard Postpischil Bradford, VT -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: LE C calling HLASM

does not indicate that the immediate caller was the TMP. IBM, for whatever reason, disallowed multiple TMP invocation in MVS (or perhaps SVS?), so these days one can just rely on the result from EXTRACT. Gerhard Postpischil Bradford, VT

Re: Malicious Software Protection

any SVC that needs R13 to point to a save area, rather there are cases where R13 is destroyed. Gerhard Postpischil Bradford, VT -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists

Re: PCOM Question (IBM Personal Communcations aka 3270)

. The best we can hope for is for posters to reveal their known previously Undisclosed, Secret Support (USS) payments. g Gerhard Postpischil Bradford, VT -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send

Re: WTOR problem

around them, inspect which fields they set, and artificially fill in the missing pieces. Alternatively, use two MF=L forms, one in a CSECT and one in your DSECT, and copy the CSECT instance to the DSECT one. In general, that will allow the MF=E form to build a complete parm list. Gerhard

Re: IEFBR14

(with modern SORT the exception, perhaps due to market pressure, and the outstanding quality of the support team). Gerhard Postpischil Bradford, VT -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists

Re: IEFBR14

exactly what condition would choke and spit it back? I guess that DSS, and presumably HSM, use a Read Track or Read Track Multiple, and the only condition that might cause a problem would be an uninitialized track, lacking basic home address information. Gerhard Postpischil Bradford, VT

Re: IEFBR14

- in the dark ages, under release 21 of OS/360(MVT), IEFBR14 steps on our system abended with S322. I had to write a special exception into IEFUTL to allow allocation to complete. Gerhard Postpischil Bradford, VT -- For IBM-MAIN

Re: IEFBR14

(to remind operators of unhandled tape mounts, etc., and to grant extensions to special jobs), adding a quick test for IEFBR14, and granting a minimal extension, was trivial. AFAIK, IBM addressed the problem by using a non-zero TIME to dispatch an IEFBR14 step. Gerhard Postpischil Bradford, VT

Re: Program FLIH backdoor - This is a criminal breach of security!

. III, No.3, December 1961), where Lemma I (all horses are the same color) is credited to Professor Lee M. Sonneborn, then at U. of Kansas. Gerhard Postpischil Bradford, VT -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: TINC?

an alternate nucleus that was smaller, or that the staff weren't trained properly (note earlier post on redefining partitions). We ran MFT at ADR for a couple of years, and I remember redefining partitions, but never had to IPL to do so. Gerhard Postpischil Bradford, VT

Re: Customer Service, the good and the bad...

and used the laptop until it gave up the ghost, I replaced all my HP printers with Kyocera, with cheaper and better features, and sleep soundly that they lost more on toner sales than the rebates would have cost them. Gerhard Postpischil Bradford, VT

Re: Authorized functions

On 2/19/2012 5:38 PM, zMan wrote: Point taken. But vastly dissimilar environments are pretty likely to have greater learning curves than moderately similar ones, nu? Not necessarily. Sometimes it's the similarities that trip you up. Gerhard Postpischil Bradford, VT

Re: Batch process VS Started task

enough staff familiar with internals to write and maintain the code. Basically you need whatever the batch process is doing, and add provision for backup and serialization. Of course it's always possible to overcomplicate things to the point where nobody can maintain it.g Gerhard

Re: Entry point on attach

with the fake name. Gerhard Postpischil Bradford, VT -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: SV: Archaic allocation in JCL (Was: Physical record size query)

, but IBM could not justify that, either. Gerhard Postpischil Bradford, VT -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: EXTRACT FIELDS=COMM for subtasks

subtasks and routes the CIB text as necessary. Gerhard Postpischil Bradford, VT -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: TOD clock format

On 1/31/2012 3:48 PM, Ken Porowski wrote: Watson should be answering all the questions by then . And Toronto will be a U.S. city? G Gerhard Postpischil Bradford, VT -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: AutoCoder

. And similar to ForTran, each load module included almost the whole subroutine library, thus wasting (then) valuable memory. Gerhard Postpischil Bradford, VT -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions

Re: Error apply ZAP

. That way I can see in a dump how it's been updated, rather than having to run a report. Module replacements take more effort and disk space, so ZAPs are closer to being green g Gerhard Postpischil Bradford, VT -- For IBM-MAIN

Re: Semiprivileged instructions, part 1

worked while being tested. Because the failure modes differed (e.g., bad data rather than an interrupt), SLIP was of limited utility. Had there been a benign form of TRAP (ignored by other tasks) it would have been a lot easier to track this (turned out to be an uninitialized variable). Gerhard

Re: Imagine having to deal with THIS in production

On 12/21/2011 2:18 PM, Chase, John wrote: Already been tried: IBM-MAIN-OT in Yahoo Groups. Can you say lead balloon? I guess you missed the Mythbusters episode where they obtained lead foil, inflated it, and launched it g And a better name for the group would be DRIFT-WOULD? G Gerhard

Re: Imagine dealing with THIS in production

it. The interval timer is set to pop at midnight, and that updates CVTDATE appropriately. I do recall an admonition that near midnight to use SVC 11 for the date, rather than CVTDATE, to get a synchronized value, as there was some latency in the date update. Gerhard Postpischil Bradford, VT

Re: Is there an SPF setting to turn CAPS ON like keyboard key?

On 12/16/2011 1:06 PM, Phil Smith wrote: OK, trivia time: What IBM device had *13* PF keys? Not what you wanted, but on my 3277 I wrote a game that treated Test-Request as PFK 0. Gerhard Postpischil Bradford, VT -- For IBM

Re: How to read past EOF

entry, and nobody else is using the volume, just zap the DSCB1 start extent up one track, do a normal copy (IEBGENER, or whatever), then zap it back. Gerhard Postpischil Bradford, VT -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff

Re: JCL sheesh! for today

parameter has any restrictions (that I can remember of). That hasn't been true for ages. A PARM in parentheses may be continued over multiple records, and may start in columns 4-16. Only the 100 character restriction still applies. Gerhard Postpischil Bradford, VT

Re: Licence to kill -9

. It takes lots of time, and copious errors, to learn which messages to ignore on first reading job output, as many are either irrelevant or non-productive. Gerhard Postpischil Bradford, VT -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff

Re: Simple record extraction from a sequential file

load in a batch window has plenty of excuses the higher-ups will understand (more work to process - we need a faster machine), whereas a radical change the manager can't explain may result in unemployment at the slightest hint of a problem. Gerhard Postpischil Bradford, VT

Re: Terminology

for it, that I remember, was inverted circumflex. How about that for a meaningless mouthful? :-) There is a name for an inverted circumflex, but it's not a not sign, but rather a caron, or hacek (with one on top of the c). My grandfather had one in his name. Gerhard Postpischil Bradford, VT

Re: Data encrypt

to disambiguate them). Gerhard Postpischil Bradford, VT -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu

Re: STOW macro Location

comment on using members as sequential data sets, that's fine as far as it goes. But sometimes you need an alias, or more frequently user data for a member. Gerhard Postpischil Bradford, VT -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff

Re: STOW macro Location

set and change things, with absolutely no feedback on the current status. Gerhard Postpischil Bradford, VT -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET

Re: STOW macro Location

that it was a typical IBM process - technical staff raises an issue, and a bean counter shoots it down for lack of a business case. After all, everyone backs up their files, right? Gerhard Postpischil Bradford, VT -- For IBM-MAIN

Re: STOW macro Location

if the user overrides to DSORG=PS, in either JCL or SVC 99 arguments but forbid it for DSORG=PO. (It's probably a bad idea to permit this override for PDSE.) Agreed. Gerhard Postpischil Bradford, VT -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe

Re: The IBM Displays Memory Lane

a stripped 2250, complete with a cursive character set, and minor flickering. I wrote code to run it with EXCP, and was impressed by being able to use a mixed Read/Write CCW chain that preserved user input while updating the screen outside the input area, and no keyboard lockup. Gerhard

Re: 3270 archaeology (Was: TSO SCREENSIZE)

we made him fix the switches. The other major problem was an installation where the C.E. didn't hook up the EPO cable, and after he left, the 4341 CPU wouldn't power up. Gerhard Postpischil Bradford, VT -- For IBM-MAIN

Re: 3270 archaeology (Was: TSO SCREENSIZE)

was able to handle it). Memorex plugged their controllers for slower response, thus giving us support for 3330-1 and 3350 capacity, but without the speed improvements. I fondly recall referring to it as the PIG multiplexer g Gerhard Postpischil Bradford, VT

Re: Data Areas?

). A result is a lack of needful information in manuals, as you noted. Some of us look through dumps, and trace execution flow, to figure out what is happening, but that's a gray area, as IBM's standard contracts prohibit reverse engineering. Gerhard Postpischil Bradford, VT

Re: SMFPRMxx ACTIVE/NOACTIVE parameter and SMF exit IEFACTRT

years (note that SMF exits have an IEFU prefix), and I used it for accounting prior to the availability of SMF data. IBM normally tends to be pretty conservative about keeping things working, so my expectation would be for IEFACTRT to be invoked even without SMF active. Gerhard Postpischil

Re: TSO SCREENSIZE

the model 1 as useless. At the time we were running 12*80 2260s. (And while google may be my friend, in this case it turned up nothing useful) Gerhard Postpischil Bradford, VT -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: OT measures was Re: Out damn'd GMT ...

to guess, it's because the UK is a lot more humid and the lumber wouldn't shrink as much? g Makes me wonder whether dimensional lumber in Seattle is bigger than in Texas. Gerhard Postpischil Bradford, VT -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe

Re: OT measures was Re: Out damn'd GMT ...

had a different date format. Gerhard Postpischil Bradford, VT -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http

Re: STP and Time Change

, that might be preferable to a one hour shut down. Gerhard Postpischil Bradford, VT -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search

Re: Problems calling IDCAMS:

the first time, it's nice to have in the long run. Gerhard Postpischil Bradford, VT -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search

Re: DSCB DSECTs?

would have TTR=01, and TT alone gives you an incorrect 0 when you need 1. Gerhard Postpischil Bradford, VT -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu

Re: Our community strengths

drivers. Gerhard Postpischil Bradford, VT -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu

Re: Lines per page - IDCAMS output

rather than assembler that's fine. However, IDCAMS may be invoked from assembler using the SYSIN/SYSPRINT exits, making the process more efficient. Gerhard Postpischil Bradford, VT -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive

Re: Lines per page - IDCAMS output

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Re: CRLF in unix, translated :-)

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Re: BLDL error Cause

number of buffers, it's quite easy to overlay the relevant BSAM control blocks and CCWs with larger sizes. QSAM might be a bit harder. These days it's easier to use EXCP, since much of the detailed error handling can be avoided. Gerhard Postpischil Bradford, VT

Re: z/OS Control block question

SWAREQ (unauthorized for retrieval) to get the virtual JFCB address. Gerhard Postpischil Bradford, VT -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET

Re: z/OS Control block question

either treat the JFCB address as an SVA (preferred), or test whether it's an address. While SVAs are odd, IBM has made no commitment to that effect, so using SWAREQ is the preferred approach. Gerhard Postpischil Bradford, VT

Re: Rename of DDname ?

. Is it a matter of editing the TIOT, or ? This is feasible only when the called programs support changing the name (e.g., many IBM utilities offer an optional DDNAME list on invocation). Changing the TIOT (alone) wouldn't help, as there are other control blocks with the name. Gerhard Postpischil

Re: Object modules

appeared to work correctly, but the linker forced one of the names to a double-word boundary which it hadn't been before. I no longer recall the details, and haven't seen the problem since, and I long ago lost the output. Gerhard Postpischil Bradford, VT

Re: A Set and B set of z/OS system

. The message is self-explanatory. If not, read the assembler manuals. Gerhard Postpischil Bradford, VT -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM

Re: z/OS Systems Programmer Jobs in Dubuque Iowa

a dozen MVC and CLC instructions where one of the operands was a character self-defining term (e.g., MVC FLAG,C'X'). And those were only the obvious errors. Gerhard Postpischil Bradford, VT -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff

Re: A Set and B set of z/OS system

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Re: SMF timestamps

, there is no business case for a complete SMF rewrite. Gerhard Postpischil Bradford, VT -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives

Re: Book: What On Earth is a Mainframe?

designed system than the alternatives. In this same time I've gone through several PCs and versions of DOS and Windows, at much greater expense. If the model T had four wheel drive, it might be preferable to my current car in winter and mud season g Gerhard Postpischil Bradford, VT

Re: SYNCH[X] vs LINK[X]

On 8/23/2011 1:05 PM, Micheal Butz wrote: If I have a peice of code that was MVCL somewere it can'nt be the object of synch/synch OK, I'll bite - why not? Gerhard Postpischil Bradford, VT -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff

Re: SYNCH[X] vs LINK[X]

On 8/23/2011 3:10 PM, Micheal Butz wrote: On Aug 23, 2011, at 2:47 PM, Gerhard Postpischil gerh...@valley.net wrote: On 8/23/2011 1:05 PM, Micheal Butz wrote: If I have a peice of code that was MVCL somewere it can'nt be the object of synch/synch OK, I'll bite - why not? In a earlier post

Re: Security is fun in the PC world....

, pre-RACF; I don't know what they ran once they got their own computer center in DC). Gerhard Postpischil Bradford, VT -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu

Re: Security is fun in the PC world....

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Re: SV: PDS(E) invalid membernames give suprising behaviour in ISPF Data Set List Utility (BROWSE)

' in JFCBELNM as an indication that the data set is a generation data set (GDS) of a generation data group (GDG). That sounds like a reportable error. JFCBELNM is not supposed to be relevant unless JFCBIND1 has either the JFCPDS (member name) or JFCGDG (generation number) set on. Gerhard Postpischil

Re: iasxwr00

with all PN train characters, an 8*8 matrix, italics, and a few other enhancements in the seventies. On top of that it appeared to have been written by a 7094 programmer, using full-word instructions for character manipulation; definitely not one of IBM's finer efforts. Gerhard Postpischil

Re: UNIX (USS)

to be the use of an IBM provided option in a supported (pre-logon) exit? Gerhard Postpischil Bradford, VT -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message

Re: UNIX (USS)

(line mode terminal) or a formatted screen for logon (didn't use USS), and displayed options that were verified against the user's privileges (our security was based on account numbers), so it was fairly easy to restrict goodies to trained users. Gerhard Postpischil Bradford, VT

Re: ABEND - 637-04

on a data set block size. If you are asserting that the Binder reverts to a logical 4K size, then the PDSE would at best match, or come out slightly worse than a PDS with a 4K block size, due to design. Gerhard Postpischil Bradford, VT

Re: Last card reader?

keypunched as an LH; the error was discovered fourteen years later when IBM changed a control block around so the referenced field wound up on an odd boundary. Gerhard Postpischil Bradford, VT -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff

Re: Last card reader?

provide details, the attendant would punch stuff into a card, shuffle it into a deck of a couple of hundred other cards, and run them through a card sorter. After a few times, exactly one card fell into the lucky slot, containing the customer's fortune. Gerhard Postpischil Bradford, VT

Re: file allocation dcb order

. How many of our list participants are sufficiently skillful to construct a partial DSCB correctly? Most of the dinosaurs, who had to run OS/360 despite IBM's help. g Completing a DSCB is no more difficult than setting up a JFCB. Gerhard Postpischil Bradford, VT

Re: batch job as non-swappable

On 8/10/2011 1:50 PM, Tim Brown wrote: What is required to make a particular batch job run as non-swappable It has to run authorized, and issue a SYSEVENT, either TRANSWAP or DONTSWAP. Gerhard Postpischil Bradford, VT

Re: CAMLST LOCATE and SCRATCH

, nor the OPEN and CLOSE statement; and if you have those, you could be missing the DD card. Gerhard Postpischil Bradford, VT -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu

Re: SETLOCK in IEFU85

the CVTUSER slot (pointing to a table, for expansion), but that makes your code installation dependent, as everyone else finds this tempting also. Gerhard Postpischil Bradford, VT -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive

Re: Enforcing job name conventions - which exit?

for this exit, but do absolutely nothing to a job submitted (TSO or otherwise) via DD SYSOUT=(x,INTRDR). Gerhard Postpischil Bradford, VT -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists

Re: Opcode X'A0' (was:Suffix of 64 bit instructions)

undocumented ones (returning an 0Cx other than 0C1, or executing); of course that didn't tell me what they were. Also IBM CEs had a rack of machine service manuals and logic charts; these were readily accessible, and sometimes quite revealing. Gerhard Postpischil Bradford, VT

Re: Suffix of 64 bit instructions

, and another that causes all tape drives to rewind, unload, and power off. Similar ones I tried on the 360/50 gave me a machine check unless I/O was quiesced beforehand. And I seem to recall that A0 was the opcode for loading emulator instructions on the 360/165. Gerhard Postpischil Bradford, VT

Re: Source code to Milten, Orvyl, Wylbur is here.

be replaceable, but is fairly embedded. And finally, the code for asynchronous terminal support isn't included, as they moved that functionality into a custom front-end. Gerhard Postpischil Bradford, VT -- For IBM-MAIN

Re: CORRUPT PDS - I/O ERROR

to the misapprehension, you are trying to argue your way out of it. That not only wastes everyone's time, but has already made you appear incredibly foolish. Gerhard Postpischil Bradford, VT -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive

Re: programmable SYSOUT

configurable tabs, provides the fastest means of data entry. And with a properly modified Wylbur, you can get full-screen support on an asynchronous CRT, and have full-screen editing, too. While I've installed and maintained ROSCOE, I've never used it, so can't comment. Gerhard Postpischil Bradford, VT

Re: S/A Dump issue

2006 date seems pretty old. Gerhard Postpischil Bradford, VT -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http

Re: CORRUPT PDS - I/O ERROR

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Re: running Assembler I/O macro code as AMODE 31, RMODE ANY

that Mr. Pepper, before his marriage, habitually practiced celibacy.[8] The Smathers campaign denied his having made the speech, as did the reporters who covered his campaign, but the hoax followed Smathers to his death.[9] Gerhard Postpischil Bradford, VT

Re: CORRUPT PDS - I/O ERROR

) or BSAM, provided the CCWs had the SLI bit on, and you had code to zero the buffer prior to the read, and your deblock code went past the block end. Gerhard Postpischil Bradford, VT -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff

Re: CORRUPT PDS - I/O ERROR

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Re: running Assembler I/O macro code as AMODE 31, RMODE ANY

On 7/31/2011 9:37 AM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: My opponent has publicly matriculated and his father was a thespian. Not the way I heard it: he was seen to masticate in public, and his sister was a thespian. There was also a third one I can't recall. Gerhard Postpischil Bradford

Re: CORRUPT PDS - I/O ERROR

statement above makes it evident that you are using DCB attributes on DASD as applying to the format of the data, whereas the other participants in this merry-go-round are referring to the DCB parameters in the format 1 DSCB (DS1RECFM, DS1LRECL, DS1BLKL). Gerhard Postpischil Bradford, VT

Re: disclosing business information on the internet

, and then restrict the new information from the web. As is, the horse is out of the barn. g Gerhard Postpischil Bradford, VT -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu

Re: dynamic STEPLIB

to be flagged authorized, which saves yet more time developing system utilities. While there was an integrity exposure when it was first written, with modern security it's safe enough to put on a production system, not that I'd recommend that. Gerhard Postpischil Bradford, VT

Re: Re-entrant module stores into itself with no 0C4

was an issue, as the design of the paging system could have provided a subpool for protected pages in the user space. If a module needed to be in shared storage, the installation could put it there, thus avoiding IBM involvement. Gerhard Postpischil Bradford, VT

Re: Re-entrant module stores into itself with no 0C4

. The refreshable attribute is negated if any input modules are not refreshable. Refreshable modules are also reenterable and serially reusable. A module may be refreshable, but need not be re-entrant. This has been discussed before. Gerhard Postpischil Bradford, VT

Re: Making Z/OS easier - Effectively replacing JCL with Unix like commands

extensive macro and subroutine libraries to use with assembler, and find it as fast and easy to use those than to live with (the confining limitations of) higher level languages. De gustibus. Gerhard Postpischil Bradford, VT

Re: JCL Question

the tailgate as a doors? Since we're already off-topic - yes. Some years ago the locks on my station wagon froze (we have fairly cold winters), and I had to get into the car through the back. Gerhard Postpischil Bradford, VT

Re: JCL Question

/conversion date in a system exit (e.g., IEFUJV, or one of the JES exits). Depending on how you get the JCL into the system, it might be easier to do as part of the submission process? Gerhard Postpischil Bradford, VT

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