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IN THIS ISSUE | Today's Highlights 1. FEATURES AND TOP STORIES - Tip: C strings in a COBOL, PL/I, S/390 assembler world - Advice: Need help opening a file using C in OS/390? - Tip: Real bit twiddlers don't code in C! - News: CA slaps lawsuit on rival Quest - Best Web Links: Programming 2. IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENTS AND LINKS - Developer forum: Can you help with CICS abend dumps? - Poll: How long have you been an unemployed mainframer? - Have a 390 tip? Share it with your peers and win - The Missing Link: Oops! True IT blooper #44: Not my fault! __________________________________________________________________ ******************** SPONSORED BY ACUCORP ************************ Rediscover Your COBOL Assets Acucorp's extend(tm)5 family of solutions allow you to modernize and enhance your existing COBOL applications. . .all at a lower cost and risk than other alternatives. Portable to over 600 platforms, including Linux running on the S/390, extend5 features Internet and Thin Client deployment capabilities. To evaluate our software solutions, call (800) 510-4414. http://search390.com/r/0,,4357,00.htm?acucorp __________________________________________________________________ C STRINGS IN A COBOL, PL/I, S/390 ASSEMBLER WORLD | by Jim Keohane How can your C strings handle COBOL LOW-VALUES in a record/field? Why must you count up to a NULL byte in order to determine a string's length when you're used to separate length fields from COBOL, PL/I and assembler legacy data? Why does C think "Hello" is lower than "Hello " when COBOL and PL/I think both literals are equal? Different strokes, folks. Here's some help for those legacy cases. >> CLICK for full tip: http://search390.techtarget.com/tip/0,289483,sid10_gci837480,00.html Love this tip? You should email to let us know. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= NEED HELP OPENING A FILE USING C IN OS/390? | by Jim Keohane Dear Ask the Experts, I want to open a file using C in OS/390. My C code is using fopen ("a.c","rb"). This code works in DOS/Windows/Linux for a file in the current directory. However, in OS/390, I am not able to open the file. I understand that the mainframe has a different file structure. I am using JCL to compile and run my C code. How do I open a file in the current directory? >> CLICK for Jim's expert response: http://search390.techtarget.com/ateQuestionNResponse/0,289625,sid10_cid447756_tax285123,00.html =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= REAL BIT TWIDDLERS DON'T CODE IN C! | by Jim Keohane Jim Keohane was taken aback by some complaints that there were just C code examples, not assembler examples, in his tip "Bits Twiddled While-U-Wait!" To assuage some of his fellow assemblerholics, here are portions of the original C code examples along with the S/370 assembler equivalents. There's even a playback of the various bit values in mid twiddle. >> CLICK for full tip: http://search390.techtarget.com/tip/1,289483,sid10_gci810882,00.html >> CLICK for his "Bits twiddled while-u-wait!" tip: http://search390.techtarget.com/tip/1,289483,sid10_gci805759,00.html =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= CA SLAPS LAWSUIT ON RIVAL QUEST | News: vnunet Computer Associates is suing rival software firm Quest over the alleged theft of trade secrets. CA claims that former employees of Platinum Technology, a company acquired by CA in 1999, stole the source code and used it to build products when they later came to work at Quest. >> CLICK for full story: http://www.vnunet.com/News/1133404 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= BEST WEB LINKS | Programming Created with coders in mind, we've included the major programming languages used on the mainframe in this Best Web Links section. Explore by languages, including "COBOL," "C/C++" and "Assembler," or visit "General Developer Resources" for some universally useful references and developer portals. >> CLICK for Best Web Links: http://search390.techtarget.com/bestWebLinks/0,289521,sid10_tax1453,00.html ___________________________________________________________________ IMPORTANT FEATURES AND LINKS: =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= SEARCH390 DISCUSSION FORUMS | Can you help with CICS abend dump? Search390 member "Samaga" posted the following in the Developer forum and needs your help: "How can we read a CICS abend dump in formatted mode? What are the default datasets that CICS writes to during an abend? Can we directly read that dataset as soon as the abend has occured? This dump reading is restricted to abends from DB2 and CICS. What might be the key for these datasets?" Can you help answer these questions? If so, click to post a response: http://search390.discussions.techtarget.com/WebX?[EMAIL PROTECTED]^[email protected]/563!viewtype=convdate&skip=&expand= =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= TAKE OUR POLL | Search390 If you're an unemployed mainframe professional, how long have you been out of work? >> CLICK to post your response: http://search390.techtarget.com/poll =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= SEARCH390 TIPS CONTEST | Win a Rio One digital audio player Got a 390 tip of your own? You can become famous immediately by sending that tip in. We'll post it on our Web site, where all your friends and contemporaries can see it. And, as a bonus, we'll enter you in our tips contest to win a Rio One digital audio player. >> CLICK for more info: http://search390.techtarget.com/tipsPrize/0,289492,sid10_prz836695_cts836694,00.html >> CLICK for our tips hall of fame to see previous winners: http://search390.techtarget.com/tipsHallOfFame/0,289489,sid10_prz836695_cts836694,00.html =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= THE MISSING LINK | Oops! True IT blooper #44: Not my fault! Why is the office cubicle of IT administrator Kenny Rivera now known as Kenny's Grill? To find out, return with Rivera to a night when he burned the midnight oil and a few other things, too. Let's just say, his new dish, chicken-fried motherboard, won't appear on any menus anytime soon. 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