Re: Macros -- was: EDit mask for floating minus (negative)

2014-07-24 Thread David Stokes
Where is the programmer manager during all this? Did he not bother to do even a basic code review? It looks like he did not control his people so things went down fast. Yes, sort of my point, partly. -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: IBM Mainframe Assembler List

Re: ASSEMBLER-LIST Digest - 22 Jul 2014 to 23 Jul 2014 (#2014-14)

2014-07-24 Thread John Walker
Personal point of view, but most management doesn't have vision, except for their own personal political agendas. THAT they see very clearly. On Wed, 7/23/14, ASSEMBLER-LIST automatic digest system lists...@listserv.uga.edu wrote: Subject:

Re: Subtasking program

2014-07-24 Thread Tony Thigpen
May be faster to have the main build a queue of records and let the subtasks feed themselves. There are interesting serialization concerns with multiple eaters. The feeder can post all waiting tasks when food is available. I know this is a very old thread... I have been re-reading it

Re: Subtasking program

2014-07-24 Thread Farley, Peter x23353
Tony, I am also not aware of any specific examples out in the wild. However, you may have some luck examining the area that the CS kids call design patterns. These patterns mostly seem to be applied to object-oriented programming, but the principles are the same for z/OS subtasking, just

Re: Subtasking program

2014-07-24 Thread Alan Atkinson
It's called a producer consumer pattern. It's directly applicable here - the producer creates the work and the consumer(s) process it. Consumers can either be in separate address spaces or attached subtasks. It doesn't matter for purposes of what they are doing. You - as it says below - link

Re: Subtasking program

2014-07-24 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On 2014-07-24, at 06:50, Tony Thigpen wrote: May be faster to have the main build a queue of records and let the subtasks feed themselves. There are interesting serialization concerns with multiple eaters. The feeder can post all waiting tasks when food is available. I've done something

Re: The rationale for using macros i

2014-07-24 Thread Robert Ngan
I use the following technique for YES/NO type variables: FOO UPCB=YES uUPCB SETC (UPPER 'UPCB') AIF ('uUPCB' EQ 'NO').OK AIF ('uUPCB' EQ 'YES').OK MNOTE 8,'Invalid UPCB= value, specify either YES or NO' MEXIT .OK ANOP , All subsequent

Re: The rationale for using macros i

2014-07-24 Thread John Gilmore
Robert Ngan's scheme makes [only] yes|no case-insensitive. I was using yes|no a a VERY simple example of recognizing CIDTs of one of the elements of a set. For his announced purposes his scheme is, of course, unobjectionable. I personally would still strongly prefer the use of a macro to meet

Re: The rationale for using macros i

2014-07-24 Thread Fred . van . der . Windt
And in principle I much prefer the communication between invoker and macro te be as explicit as possible. I see no value at all in allowing the programmer to omit one or two letters (or any amount) from the value of a keyword. The time saved by not having to press those few keys cannot