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Unless you two are prepared to formulate your
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I really wasn't paying any attention to this
To this point, however, what I have heard is a lot of orthogonal discussion
that does nothing at all to address the specific question of processor speed.
I don't think it's orthogonal.
IMO, MIPS is just one component in a complex environment.
If I could pull out and plug in the processor in a
x86 processor performance has increased at roughly twice the rate as mainframe
processor performance.
Yes, but.
We run mainframes at 100%.
We run wintels at under 20%.
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I for one would be interested in just why one would buy a mainframe
if not for the processing power, and scalability, not to mention IO.
I am involved with a data center planning activity, and the Intel
servers and RS6000's consume far more cooling and power than the
little old z/BC we have.
In
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on 07/16/2007
at 02:32 PM, Ron Wells [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Has anyone used an iebgener(JCL) to transfer and convert ASCII to
EBCDIC an mvs file...
OPTCD=Q will do a translation, but you may or may not find the
translate table to be appropriate. You'll have more
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 07/19/2007
at 02:45 PM, Gary Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Now, our problem is sometimes the call from the Roscoe RPF to the
Control-M IOARKSL does not get returned.
Did you take a console dump of the relevant address spaces and submit
it to both vendors? If not, I
Ed Gould wrote:
In COBOL? Someone else showed an example of the offsets and it wasn't
simple either. I am not suggesting its impossible just a little more
than simple it isn't. IIRC it was not possible in EASYTREV at least
the version I had. SAS I know it can be done because that is what the
I seem to recall that EASYTREV/PLUS come with a set of sample SMF programs at
one stage.
PANAUDIT -- from the same people that brought you PANVALET.
The programmes seemed to disappear when CA acquired EZTREIV and PANSOFT (not
exactly sure if I got the second company name correct).
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Too busy
Dean Kent wrote:
I'm not sure I follow your reasoning. Part of mainframe processing
power lies in its ability to do effectively use SMP (up to 54-ways now
... more later). It's part of the equation. Good benchmarks are based on
computing throughput ... not individual chip speed.
If you
Actually, I was rounding a bit. My original post on the subject indicated
that the span for x86 comparisons was Nov 2000 thru June 2006 (as I was
trying to use roughly the same period as in the post I was responding to
at
the time), and the increase was from 5.8 to 63.6, so the numbers should
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snip
Frankly, I think it is a very commonly
If you add ExHPDM (Expert High Performance Data Mover) to the mix for
either FDR or DFDSS you can perform your backups and restores and
experience a reduction in elapse times ranging from 50% to 75%.
ExHPDM V6.2 can now be seamlessly implemented and does not require
having to change your
A dual core CPUs actually cause themselves a bottleneck if they only have ONE
bus to communicate to/with the outside world. This becomes another design
issue that while producing apparent processor speed has to balance out against
the ability of the bus (or buses) to handle data flow (which
For example, the highest performing single-core Opteron (HP Proliant
System)
gets a 14.0 in SPECint peak, and 12.7 base. The best single-core Xeon
result (a Bull system), is 17.4 peak and 16.8 base. The best dual-core
Opteron submission is 14.9 peak and 13.5 base. The best dual-core score for
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A dual core CPUs actually cause
Oh, and before I forget it, PR/SM was IBM's answer to MDF, not vice versa. I
think IBM was actually the second paying customer for MDF.
I worked at an alpha site of MDF. It was about three years before PR/SM.
The problem(s) back then were simple.
MDF did not talk to RMF, until RMF could handle
On Fri, 2007-07-20 at 16:48 -0400, Jim Mulder wrote:
I still wanted to move to a default of NO quickly, as the
slow progress in eliminating user key CSA convinced me that
the sledgehammer approach was required. Hopefully, having
to explain to security auditors why use of product X requires
*EXCELLENT* attitude. Should be more of it - let's hope you have more wins
Jim.
I agree.
But, there's nothing to stop us, as customers, from changing the defaults.
YES, I know we may have problems.
But, we will also have opportunities.
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On Jul 20, 2007, at 5:28 PM, Ken Brick wrote:
I seem to recall that EASYTREV/PLUS come with a set of sample SMF
programs at one stage.
Ken,
I had access to EASYTREV ala 1979 and yes I did a lot of reporting
with SMF data. However I could not (successfully) access all the new
types of
Based upon my own experience attempting to negotiate with vendors over
whether it is good or bad that they use Key 8 CSA in their code, and if
it was bad, whether they would actually fix their code, this sledgehammer
is ABSOLUTELY REQUIRED.
Thank you, Jim. Once again, you've made another huge
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x86 processor performance has increased at roughly
No, we didn't... The operators were asked to the time before last, but it
was forgotten. However, I passed the request onto the manager of the group
to make sure we get a dump the next time.
We asked CA about the call not returning and they said it was not their
problem since the call to an
Tim,
As others have stated, the easiest way to change the expiration date of an
active tape is simply use the ISPF interface or the old TIQ online
interface; or even the Vantage/GMI GUI interface (Graphical User Interface).
Or, if you want to do it with a batch job you could use TMSUPDTE to
McKown, John wrote:
I guess, in that case, you'd need to detect that and start reading
backwards to find the first segment. Not a fun thing to consider. Or
just not bother to support VBS with a message like: VBS is for SMF
only. Get a life!
1) I had a life, but I squandered it working in the
Re: Supposed factor improvements over time in the integer performance of
processors, there are some faulty numbers in this discussion, or at least
misleading. It has to do with cores versus chips.
Dean, with all due respect, no matter how much you try to fuzz it, they're
not directly comparable.
Robert A. Rosenberg wrote:
As others have told you, the relative GDG number is relative to the
start of the job and all the datasets finally get cataloged (and the GDG
base gets rolled) at step termination. What I would suggest is at
startup do a locate on GDG(0) to find the last GDG number.
Hi List
I play around with the RMF Spreadsheet Reporter. I have created a report
successfully.
My problem:
SMF input dataset contains one day ( 07/17/2007)
If I create a overview, the first interval is 07/17/2007-21.15.00
//
//*
MIPs Million Instructions per Second
MSU Million Service Units
How ISVs (Independent Software Vendors) or NON-IBM third party Mainframe
Software Vendors charge for their software.
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My question is what are the MIPs and MSUs
Crispin,
I found all I needed and more at:
http://www-03.ibm.com/servers/eserver/zseries/zos/nfs/pubs.html
We're just setting it up here to.
Alan
Subject: z/OS NFS Client to Linux NFS
I have been asked to set up z/OS NFS client to access Linux files on
Redhat.
I have searched the archives
SMF is the proper place to look. SDSF keeps only jobs that haven't purged
yet. In case you insist on SDSF, look at the SDSF manuals for SDSF batch
mode and write a small rexx to extract our data from the screenshots.
Itschak
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On Wed, 18 Jul 2007 20:24:43 +0100, Crispin Hugo [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
I have been asked to set up z/OS NFS client to access Linux files on Redhat.
I have searched the archives and found little information. Documentation on
z/OS client is very sparse.
Any pointers/problems/gotchas etc I
Check this link out, I think it has what you are looking for. Both the
703 and 506 are shown.
http://www.tech-news.com/publib/pl2094.html
Thanks...Guy M. Gates Jr.
TTI Z/OS Systems Programmer II
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Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2007 2:25 PM
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Subject: z/OS NFS Client to Linux NFS
I have been asked to set up z/OS NFS client to access Linux
files
Hello Kenneth,
Yes, I will advise what changes I make to correct the exec I published.
Secondly, although the CONSOLE command works for queries to both device
address and volume serial, it does require the user to have security access to
that interface.
The exec requires no security
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I have a task that allocates a few GDG files during its running instance.
I allocated one instance of a GDG and got the G0207V00 extension.
4 seconds later, I allocated another instance (different DDNAME) and got
the very same G0207V00.
It would appear that the first 207 instance was
On Wed, 18 Jul 2007 15:54:16 -0500 Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
:I have a task that allocates a few GDG files during its running instance.
:I allocated one instance of a GDG and got the G0207V00 extension.
:4 seconds later, I allocated another instance (different DDNAME) and got
:the very
Crispin
About 15 years ago I used to teach TCP/IP for MVS (now the z/OS
Communications Server IP component) - but I've forgotten a lot. One topic I
hadn't realised I'd forgotten was NFS so, when I saw your post, I thought
I'll see my presentation notes about this and I'll be able to provide
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Thank so much John for the information. Its just what I needed.
Crispin Hugo
Systems Programmer, Macro 4
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From: Chase, John [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: Re: PSI MIPS (was: Links to decent 'why the mainframe thrives'
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Yep And each one of those servers requires
On Tue, 17 Jul 2007 01:45:11 -0400, John Hamlet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Does anyone have a simple IPCS TCB tree display (with indentation) REXX
exec that I might be able to obtain and enhance to display USS signal
precedence information? Does anyone know where one is?
I have some REXX stuff
On Wed, 18 Jul 2007 11:44:57 -0500, Tom Marchant wrote:
On Wed, 18 Jul 2007 10:45:21 -0500, Dave Kopischke wrote:
I follow the list through the web browser. Occasionally, I notice the last
word
of a line is duplicated on the next line. At first I thought it was just
people
with similar typing
On Wed, 18 Jul 2007 09:54:54 -0400, George Bly [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Hi guys,
update, the exec does work at z/OS 1.6 on our systems.
Just tried on z/OS 1.7 and getting an error.
I will debug and get back to you all with changes if required.
Thanks
Bruce Hewson
And if no changes are
Dean Kent wrote:
I am comparing the pace of improvement in x86 with the mainframe. The IT
Jungle article says that installed mainframe MIPS has increased 4 fold over
7 years. I showed that in the same time period, x86 performance has
increased over 8 fold. We still aren't getting an apples
Crispin Hugo
Systems Programmer, Macro 4
http://www.macro4.com/
John,
Just to let you know that with your examples you posted I was able to get
z/VM and z/OS NFS clients to work. Once again, many thanks
Crispin Hugo
Thanks for the info Bob.
Unfortunately, this is a report currently being produced via code from a
CLIST. I'm not sure I want to add much code to it, however, as the
CLISTs are in the process of being converted to REX EXECs.
In any case, your info seems to be something that would be available to
a
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Well of course, Dean, Timothy makes perfect sense.
Statistician's First Commandment: Know your data and know it well
Have you empirically and independently proven beyond any doubt that the
range of timestamps in the input dataset meets or exceeds all of the
desired reporting interval? Does the date range in the data make more
sense if you
On Fri, 20 Jul 2007 12:58:43 +0300, Binyamin Dissen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
. . .
My understanding of GDG is that all relative numbers are consistent within a
job, i.e., all references to +1 in a job will be to the same dsname - no
matter how many times it is allocated.
What if S99GDGNT is
On Thu, 19 Jul 2007 17:19:08 -0500, Kenneth E Tomiak
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
An alternative was mentioned, SYSLOG. Your shop ought to have control over
this as well. Some kind of archiving or collection process. It becomes simpler
to read these text lines of data if your needs are solely start
On Thu, 2007-07-19 at 22:50 -0500, Ed Gould wrote:
Write the president of IBM and let him know. If the letter makes it
to him (doubtful) he might make a difference.
We wrote such a letter to John Akers 20 years ago, and it resulted in
*immediate* action. (Of course that was in a different
Write the president of IBM and let him know. If the letter makes it
to him (doubtful) he might make a difference. Complaining on here
will get you nowhere. You should also complain to major media and
embarrass IBM into doing something. Bring it up at SHARE thats
another way of embarrassing
On Thu, 2007-07-19 at 20:34 -0500, Ed Gould wrote:
We had a excellent COBOL programmer look at the layout [SMF rty 30]
and after a few questions he said he didn't even want to try it. He
wasn't even sure it could be done.
Sure it can!
You need to define the record headers and the associated
Len,
A few questions if I may,
1. Any changes to your SMS or HSM environments? such as changes to Mgmt classes
or HSM parameters?
Cols 20 and 21 on the ISMF Management class list will give you last
modified date/time.
Did you stop running Expirebv?
Any change to the BCDS VSAM
This is a little ahead of time, but what about the SDSF/REXX interface that
is suppose to be available around z/OS V1.9?
Would that start to allow us to do these kinds of requests without alot of
headaches?
I am not sure what fields will be available for this interface but perhaps
things like
On Thu, 19 Jul 2007 18:08:50 -0500, Ed Gould [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
As others have said type 5 is semi OK Type 35 records are OK but are
somewhat complex. They have offsets that are almost impossible to
use, probably only SAS and assembler (maybe PL1). But if you only
need start stop date and
On Thu, 19 Jul 2007 23:04:50 -0500, Brian Peterson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I think it will help us all significantly when IBM makes ALLOWUSERKEYCSA(NO)
the default, if only to encourage our vendors to redouble their efforts to
fix this bad bad programming practice. I sure hope this default
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I have a task that allocates a few GDG files during its running
What is the host port for the 3270 interface?
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On Jul 20, 2007, at 8:11 AM, David Andrews wrote:
On Thu, 2007-07-19 at 22:50 -0500, Ed Gould wrote:
Write the president of IBM and let him know. If the letter makes it
to him (doubtful) he might make a difference.
We wrote such a letter to John Akers 20 years ago, and it resulted in
RMF is not my main topic. Therefore I use the RMF Spreadsheet Reporter to
investigate our LPAR performance.
But a sorted SMF dataset is mandatory for reports and overviews. I assumed
the Spreadsheet Reporter handles this automatically.
Albert
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Sitz der Gesellschaft:
Charles Hardee wrote on 2007-07-20 08:22:06:
Thanks for the info Bob.
Unfortunately, this is a report currently being produced via code from a
CLIST. I'm not sure I want to add much code to it, however, as the
CLISTs are in the process of being converted to REX EXECs.
In any case, your info
Excellent example, David. I would make one change:
You need some pointers to address those records and sections. (There
are some hokey redefines so that you can do pointer arithmetic.)
01 SMF30-ID-ADDRVALCOMP-5 PIC S9(8). ***===---
01 SMF30-ID-ADDRPTR
In a message dated 7/20/2007 8:03:30 A.M. Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
that puts them there, SYSLOG won't cut it. Even if he does it's not a good
method .. for a lot of reasons.
Yeah, MXG/SAS on healthy PC keep you well tuned and make pretty reports the
PHB's can
On Wed, 18 Jul 2007 18:20:10 -0500, Bill Godfrey wrote:
On Wed, 18 Jul 2007 11:44:57 -0500, Tom Marchant wrote:
On Wed, 18 Jul 2007 10:45:21 -0500, Dave Kopischke wrote:
I follow the list through the web browser. Occasionally, I notice the last
word of a line is duplicated on the next line.
There's a thread active in TSO-REXX in which the OP wished
to extract the last record from a data set. Of course, this
spawns a school of increasingly byzantine suggestions:
Read into a stem and use the STEM.0th element
Edit Macro
Sort into reverse order and take the first.
Hi Bob,
What about simply another internal variable, similar to say, TITLE.
One could then code
For Page: EVAL PAGENUM CLIST|REXX(STO(variable_name))
For Line: EVAL LINENUM CLIST|REXX(STO(variable_name))
I mean, if one could dream and hope, I would think this might be the
easiest
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Sent: Friday, July 20, 2007 5:55 AM
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Thank so much John for the information. Its just what I needed.
In a message dated 7/20/2007 9:08:27 A.M. Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
update is that it will be fixed by 4:30 p.m. eastern time.
If you need to exorcise sadomasochistic tendencies, the Open is being
broadcast on TNT.
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On Wed, 18 Jul 2007 11:54:46 -0400, in
bit.listserv.ibm-main
(Message-ID:[EMAIL PROTECTED]) pdc
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
just a quick question. (double posted to TSOREXX)
Is there a difference, performance or otherwise, between
the following two
commands?
On the more general REXX
On Jul 20, 2007, at 8:21 AM, Mark Zelden wrote:
On Thu, 19 Jul 2007 18:08:50 -0500, Ed Gould
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
As for as being impossible to use, it's a SMOP and there are plenty
of examples on the CBT (including DAF).
In COBOL? Someone else showed an example of the offsets and it
On Fri, 2007-07-20 at 08:37 -0500, Ed Gould wrote:
Then I would suggest that at the annual stock holders meeting create
a vote and put it before the board.
Hee! There was a time when I was almost that desperate to get a JES2
APAR accepted. After I unsuccessfully lobbied level-2 for a fix, I
Ed,
In COBOL? Someone else showed an example of the offsets and it
wasn't simple either. I am not suggesting its impossible just a
little more than simple it isn't. IIRC it was not possible in
EASYTREV at least the version I had. SAS I know it can be done
It is dirt simple in Easytriev
Charles Hardee wrote on 2007-07-20 10:16:57:
What about simply another internal variable, similar to say, TITLE.
One could then code
For Page: EVAL PAGENUM CLIST|REXX(STO(variable_name))
For Line: EVAL LINENUM CLIST|REXX(STO(variable_name))
I mean, if one could dream and hope, I would
Paul Gilmartin wrote on 07/20/2007 07:13:38 AM:
There's a thread active in TSO-REXX in which the OP wished
to extract the last record from a data set. Of course, this
spawns a school of increasingly byzantine suggestions:
Read into a stem and use the STEM.0th element
Edit Macro
On Fri, 2007-07-20 at 06:31 -0700, Ray Mullins wrote:
In something as compute-intensive as SMF triplets, every little bit
helps.
The nasty part is testing bit fields in COBOL. The LE bit test routines
are expensive to run. (I haven't looked recently at COBOL to see if
there are native ways to
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Subject: Last Record
There's a thread active in TSO-REXX in which the OP wished
to extract the
Gil,
You can do this in many different ways with the sort. Assuming an
80-byte record the following control cards is one way you can accomplish
this:
INREC FIELDS=(1,80,SEQNUM,4,BI)
SORT FIELDS=(81,4,BI,D)
.
OUTFIL OUTREC=(1,80),ENDREC=1
John Reda
Syncsort, Inc.
Hi,
Just to prove that we do not all think a like :
The orginal question was asked by somebody working for a consultance.
A consultance that charges customers exorbantly high fees and then they give
the work to H1B holders that earn $10 per hour.
So maybe we should ask more questions ex.
a.
On Jul 18, 2007, at 8:21 AM, Timothy Sipples wrote:
--SNIP-
If you do see an IBM software product that isn't yet available on the
mainframe -- one of the shrinking number -- and you'd strongly
consider
buying it for the mainframe, go ahead and ask your IBM
On Fri, 20 Jul 2007 09:27:32 -0500, Ed Gould [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have little doubt you
can do it in rexx but how many people would be able to debug it (if
need be).
At least as many as could for any program written in any other language
considering rexx syntax is fairly simple (one
G'day,
Please let me know if there is a way to extract all the jobs (with start
and end times) from spool. The requirement is to provide a daily report
on jobs that ran, with their start time, end time and return code.
Is there a way I can use SDSF pgm to extract contents of all the jobs
(or
Many moons ago I had access to the FDR products for backup and recovery but
now I only have DFDSS. As I remember, one of the big differentiators at the
time was that with FDR you could do a dataset restore (including VSAM
datasets) from a full volume physical dump but that wasn't possible with
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Sent: Friday, July 20, 2007 10:11 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: DFDSS versus FDR
Many moons ago I had access to the FDR products for backup
and recovery but
now
On Fri, 20 Jul 2007 07:48:03 -0700, Frank Yaeger wrote:
Of course, if you already happen to have the same value in all of the
records, this can be simplified even more. For example, if every record
had a blank in position 5, you could use this DFSORT/ICETOOL job:
//S2 EXEC PGM=ICETOOL
//TOOLMSG
The other person was quite accurate in that the (+1) level of a GDG
applies to the entire job, not to a particular step. So if you need to
allocate multiples, use (+1), then (+2), etc. . .
If the task is a single program that's trying to produce two of the same
GDG's where second is optional(not
IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU wrote on 07/20/2007
12:04:50 AM:
I think it will help us all significantly when IBM makes
ALLOWUSERKEYCSA(NO)
the default, if only to encourage our vendors to redouble their efforts
to
fix this bad bad programming practice. I sure hope
Cross posted to IBMVM, IBMMAIN, and LINUX listservs.
I apologize for the late notice. Don't kill the messenger.
Abstract:
The newest release of z/VM was generally available on June 29, 2007 and
has significant improvements to performace and capacity. This Live
Virtual Class (LVC) session will
Hi,
Can anybody just help Dieter , at the LA times quickly ?
Note: There must be module some where but I do not have time to get tu it
this morning.
Thanks.
Anton
Storr, Dieter wrote:
Hi Anton (not SAG-L),
Do you know how to get info from the CVT? or examples on the Web?
The
The LPAR name, HW Name and other goodies can be found in the ECVT (point to by
CVTECVT , mapping macro in IHAECVT in MODGEN).
The HW model can be found in node descriptor pointed to by CVTHID.
CVTL1 is some sort of bi-lingual label - not for use in ASM.
CVTRELNO can be used if you establish
Good News: Xephon is alive and well and my subscription problems have been
resolved.
EdP
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I apologize for the late notice. Don't kill the messenger.
| and I apologize for the duplicate - fixed the date
Abstract:
The newest release of z/VM was generally available on June 29, 2007 and
has significant improvements to performace and
Paul Gilmartin wrote on 07/20/2007 08:39:33 AM:
SELECT FROM(IN) TO(OUT) ON(5,1,CH) LAST USING(CTL1)
/*
I'm guessing that the ON clause tells it to look in position 5,
but what tells it that a blank is what it's supposed to look for?
DFSORT isn't looking for a blank - it's just looking for the
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The nasty part is testing bit fields in COBOL. The LE bit test routines
are expensive to run. (I haven't looked recently at COBOL to see if
there are native ways to do this that don't involve standing on one's
head.)
CALL 'CEESITST'
This may well be documented somewhere, but I haven't has yet seen it. I
just downloaded JBOSS 4.2.1 and am looking at it. Well, it's cheaper
than WAS! It keeps its configuration files in XML format. Now, usually
XML is plain text as opposed to binary. So when I created the z/OS
JBOSS, I translated
In a message dated 7/20/2007 9:25:42 A.M. Central Daylight Time,
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Jack Kelly wrote:
a
b
I'm not totally sure about this, but I think that Ed's reply of b may be
off topic. :-)
I also suspect this is a good thread for Friday grins and not much else.
Bill
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