Re: Change in GETMAIN behavior

2015-11-30 Thread Pate, Gene
t: 25 November 2015 01:19 >To: ASSEMBLER-LIST@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU<mailto:ASSEMBLER-LIST@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU> >Subject: Re: Change in GETMAIN behavior > >I asked that SDSF be changed so the scroll field dynamically move to the right >side of the screen based on the current screen width,

Re: Change in GETMAIN behavior

2015-11-25 Thread Peter Relson
Regarding requirements: As with any requirement, it needs to be evaluated both for technical validity (the ones mentioned in this thread seem valid) and also for their likelihood of bubbling to the top of a prioritized list given limited resources. Surely this is the case for every company. A r

Re: Change in GETMAIN behavior

2015-11-24 Thread Pieter Wiid
19 To: ASSEMBLER-LIST@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU Subject: Re: Change in GETMAIN behavior I asked that SDSF be changed so the scroll field dynamically move to the right side of the screen based on the current screen width, which would have given more room for stacked commands but that was also shot down. I have a 142 c

Re: Change in GETMAIN behavior

2015-11-24 Thread Robert Ngan
Just another of life's minor annoyances! Robert Ngan CSC Financial Services Group IBM Mainframe Assembler List wrote on 2015/11/24 21:31:16: > From: David de Jongh > To: ASSEMBLER-LIST@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU > Date: 2015/11/24 21:32 > Subject: Re: Change in GETMAIN behavior > Se

Re: Change in GETMAIN behavior

2015-11-24 Thread David de Jongh
Jongh -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Assembler List [mailto:ASSEMBLER-LIST@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On Behalf Of Robert Ngan Sent: Tuesday, November 24, 2015 6:19 PM To: ASSEMBLER-LIST@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU Subject: Re: Change in GETMAIN behavior I asked that SDSF be changed so the scroll

Re: Change in GETMAIN behavior

2015-11-24 Thread Robert Ngan
Ngan CSC Financial Services Group IBM Mainframe Assembler List wrote on 2015/11/24 07:02:07: > From: Elardus Engelbrecht > To: ASSEMBLER-LIST@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU > Date: 2015/11/24 07:24 > Subject: Re: Change in GETMAIN behavior > Sent by: IBM Mainframe Assembler List > > Tom Marc

Re: Change in GETMAIN behavior

2015-11-24 Thread Elardus Engelbrecht
Tom Marchant wrote: >Paul Gilmartin wrote: >>As a more applications-oriented programmer than systems-oriented, I find this >>strengthens my wish for an IGVINITGETMAIN-like facility with ASID scope ... >Did you submit a requirement? For a 'one person, unfunded, spare time project'? Paul, you ma

Re: Change in GETMAIN behavior

2015-11-24 Thread Tom Marchant
On Mon, 23 Nov 2015 07:48:20 -0700, Paul Gilmartin wrote: >As a more applications-oriented programmer than systems-oriented, I >find this strengthens my wish for an IGVINITGETMAIN-like facility >with ASID scope ... Did you submit a requirement? -- Tom Marchant

Re: Change in GETMAIN behavior

2015-11-23 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On 2015-11-23, at 03:40, Elardus Engelbrecht wrote: > Jim Mulder wrote: > >> IGVINITGETMAIN is the TRAP name. It was designed and implemented as a one >> person, unfunded, spare time project, by me, to meet some my needs for >> testing purposes. > > Wow! That is a worthwhile achievement! You

Re: Change in GETMAIN behavior

2015-11-23 Thread Elardus Engelbrecht
Jim Mulder wrote: > As the designer and implementer of the z/OS 1.10 change, I, a novice Assembler programmer, will never argue with you. ;-) > IGVINITGETMAIN is the TRAP name. It was designed and implemented as a one > person, unfunded, spare time project, by me, to meet some my needs for

Re: Change in GETMAIN behavior

2015-11-20 Thread Jim Mulder
> > APAR OA27291 describes the change in GETMAIN that was introduced in > > z/OS 2.1. It results in better performance of GETMAIN. A side > effect is that is > > that there is somewhat more chance that a request will be satisfied from a > > location that had been previously obtained and then f

Re: Change in GETMAIN behavior

2015-11-19 Thread Elardus Engelbrecht
Blaicher, Christopher Y. wrote: >Wow, that didn't format correctly the first time. Both your mails were formatted properly (Wow!) on the ASSEMBLER-L website. >Here are all the documented and undocumented 'Dirty' parameters I know of. >These go in the DIAGxx member of SYS1.PARMLIB. >These ar

Re: Change in GETMAIN behavior

2015-11-19 Thread Blaicher, Christopher Y.
er 19, 2015 1:15 PM To: MVS List Server 2 Subject: Re: Change in GETMAIN behavior On 2015-11-19, at 11:03, Elardus Engelbrecht wrote: Why does the option for "dirty" GETMAIN (I forget the correct name) remain undocumented, despite its value for testing? -- gil

Re: Change in GETMAIN behavior

2015-11-19 Thread Blaicher, Christopher Y.
: 512-627-3803     E: cblaic...@syncsort.com -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Assembler List [mailto:ASSEMBLER-LIST@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Thursday, November 19, 2015 1:15 PM To: MVS List Server 2 Subject: Re: Change in GETMAIN behavior On 2015-11-19, at

Re: Change in GETMAIN behavior

2015-11-19 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On 2015-11-19, at 11:03, Elardus Engelbrecht wrote: > Tony Harminc wrote: > >> One slighly related point: It has been the case from day 1 of MVS (OS/VS2 >> R2) that even though GETMAIN can give out non-zeroed storage, that storage >> will never contain data left over from another address space,

Re: Change in GETMAIN behavior

2015-11-19 Thread Elardus Engelbrecht
Tony Harminc wrote: >One slighly related point: It has been the case from day 1 of MVS (OS/VS2 R2) >that even though GETMAIN can give out non-zeroed storage, that storage will >never contain data left over from another address space, or from a fetch >protected subpool in the current or common s

Re: Change in GETMAIN behavior

2015-11-19 Thread Tony Harminc
On 19 November 2015 at 10:14, Gary Weinhold wrote: > But you have a valid concern about vendors' assembler code. We should be > asked whether we know about this. When these changes were first brought up by IBM quite a few years ago now, every even marginally competent ISV reviewed its use of GET

Re: Change in GETMAIN behavior

2015-11-19 Thread Tom Marchant
On Thu, 19 Nov 2015 14:52:33 +, Leonard.John.J wrote: >We are trying to understand the ramifications of this change to >the GETMAIN and I was wondering if anyone else has dealt with this. >I have this document that says > >“References to GETMAIN also apply to STORAGE OBTAIN. > >The descripti

Re: Change in GETMAIN behavior

2015-11-19 Thread Lizette Koehler
So, if you were not aware, there is a CICS list that might help with your question on CICS Getmains. To join, if you have not done so, use this URL CICShttp://www.listserv.uga.edu/archives/cics-l.html Lizette > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Assembler List [mailto:ASSEMBL

Re: Change in GETMAIN behavior

2015-11-19 Thread John McKown
On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 8:52 AM, Leonard.John.J < johnleon...@westfieldgrp.com> wrote: > Virtual Storage Manager in z/OS 1.10 HBB7750 which results in different > behavior when storage is Getmained > We are trying to understand the ramifications of this change to the > GETMAIN and I was wondering

Re: Change in GETMAIN behavior

2015-11-19 Thread Steve Smith
Walt, I think there was a change to GETMAIN behavior, but it's rather subtle (low-end vs. high-end page-filling), and this part was merely to reassure everyone that from a program's point-of-view, nothing was really any different. The key words are "remain unchanged". The behavior (which is the s

Re: Change in GETMAIN behavior

2015-11-19 Thread Gary Weinhold
I would think it's up to CICS to initialize CICS acquired memory on your behalf. And if your applications (vendor or otherwise) run under LE, then LE controls whether it will initialize the storage based on options you set. But you have a valid concern about vendors' assembler code. We sho

Re: Change in GETMAIN behavior

2015-11-19 Thread Walt Farrell
On Thu, 19 Nov 2015 14:52:33 +, Leonard.John.J wrote: >Virtual Storage Manager in z/OS 1.10 HBB7750 which results in different >behavior when storage is Getmained >We are trying to understand the ramifications of this change to the GETMAIN >and I was wondering if anyone else has dealt with