On Wed, Sep 7, 2016 at 11:57 AM, Paul Gilmartin <
[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, 7 Sep 2016 09:38:43 -0700, Charles Mills wrote:
>
> >> It ties in the design contest with the Algol-60 implied comment.
> >
> >Or the assembler I used once (Four-Phase, if anyone remembers them) which
> took any undefined symbol and just made it into a EXTRN, thereby kicking
> the can down the road to the linker.
> >
> Oh, heck! C still does that. Sort of, but you might be able to tell it
> to issue a warning.
>
> >>CZA0082S Error detected while processing maximum message length
> ('40000') of 'MAXMSGLEN'
> >>CZA0084I Near column 31 of record 5 of Parameter File
> CORRELOG.CZAGENT.CNTL(CZAPARMS)
> >>CZA0105I V
> >>CZA0106I SERVER 10.2.1.118 MAXMSGLEN(40000)
> >>CZA0023S Value must be numeric and between 512 and 32767
> >>
> And if the Parameter File is a UNIX file, does it say
> "...PATH=.SPECIFIED..."?
> HLASM used to do that, circa 2002, but it got better. (IIRC, z/OS UNIX is
> not your favorite milieu.)
>
I found that came from an RDJFCB macro. But I found that, using BPXWDYN,
as I do in the following example, I can get good information.
rc=bpxwdyn("INFO ",
"DD(REPORT) ",
"INRTDSN(rcnvdsn) ",
"INRTPATH(rcvtpath) ",
"MSG(message.)")
If rcnvdsn='...PATH=.SPECIFIED...' Then
rcnvdsn = rcvtpath
>
> I'm often tempted to write a Macro (I did, once, in a galaxy far, far
> away) that
> scans SYSTERM and launches an editor scrolled to the relevant line with the
> token highlighted.
>
> Alas:
> o Too many editors with no consistent argument format.
> o Too many SYSTERMs with no consistent message format.
>
> I'd be surprised if neither CBTtape nor Mark Zelden has one.
>
> -- gil
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