I'm quite surprised you asked that. There is a lot of information that isn't stored in IBM manuals, at least in a form that is easy to find. Otherwise, Carmine's book could have been a list of links to the IBM docs. Or a CD ROM that with code from CBT.
CBT doesn't contain code snippets that, for example, say how to convert a Rexx date to a Julian date. Another reason Carmine's book is very popular. Why does x' 0D286880' in the SWTL mean a job is exempt from timeout? That was discussed here, but I never found it documented. So what then will cause disable a timeout? There are three values any one of which can disable 522 timeouts: 1) The ASCBTOFF bit in the ASCBRCTF is set 2) The SWTL contains the magic number x'0D286880' 3) The JSTL is 86400 seconds (Equivalent to TIME=1440 on Job card) If that is documented somewhere, I never found it, either. If someone (say me for example) happened to start a thread on a mainframe group, and it was worthy, it would help me tremendously to type it into a wiki. I started a thread some years back on writing a Rexx function to run authorized code. It wasn't so simple that someone just pasted me a link to the doc and said RTFM. Now I have that information, but anyone else who wanted to do that would have to either figure it out for themselves, or get lucky and find that there was a thread about it on IBM-MAIN, then read through all the posts, some of which were just noise. I spent a lot of time going through Rexx books and came up with a crude picture like this, just for me. What if I put it into a wiki? Then someone looked at it and said, yes, but it could be could be better if... and so on. http://lilliana.eu/downloads/RexxControlBlocks.pdf IMHO, that is what sorts of information that would be helpful. If someone said there needs to be a new "list server," I don't see how that could help at all. A list server simply manages mailing lists, but has little to do with the content (other than a moderator). BR; Lindy -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Bill Fairchild Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2012 2:52 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Correction to Carmine's Book Cost How would this proposed data base, new list server, or whatever it may become, differ from the CBT tape? Bill Fairchild Programmer Rocket Software 408 Chamberlain Park Lane * Franklin, TN 37069-2526 * USA t: +1.617.614.4503 * e: bfairch...@rocketsoftware.com * w: www.rocketsoftware.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
