DFSORT: FILTER by STCK format

Good morning IBM-MAIN, Can DFSORT filter [not just DISPLAY] a QSAM input by a fixed field in the STCK format? Say, the file records have 8-byte STCK time in columns 11-18, how should I code the control statements to only INCLUDE records which are older than current-time less 30 minutes? As

Re: Best practice for 24-bit storage in assembler called from C/C++

Charles, Have you looked at the ALL31(OFF) LE option? I don't know how it works for C/C++ but for Cobol this option instructs LE to allocate the COBOL EXTERNAL data in storage below the line. Which means if a main program defines an EXTERNAL variable it will be below the line AND accessible by

Re: Batch connection to CSKL (was: Trigger CICS transaction from Batch Job)

Thanks, Jantje. I vaguely remember coding a simple child server circa 1997 and having an issue with the need to start it on a terminal to enable password maintenance via EXEC CICS SIGNON. But I've never touched the batch part. Will take a look. Thanks again, -Victor-

Batch connection to CSKL (was: Trigger CICS transaction from Batch Job)

Jantje, I am intrigued. Can you elaborate a bit on this idea? [Doc pointers, code samples, etc.] TIA, -Victor- == Date:Mon, 10 Aug 2009 05:40:50 -0500 From:Jan MOEYERSONS jan.moeyers...@adelior.be Subject: Re: Trigger CICS transaction from Batch

Re: Mainframe Assembler Coding Contest

Tom, I liked your solution. Truly ingenious! It might get just a bit shorter by using ICM instead of the IC+SLL: ICM R5,B'1000',INBYTE -Victor- Date:Thu, 13 Dec 2007 17:13:09 -0800 From:Tom Simons [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: SUBSYS and VSAM

Jim, Thanks for the response. I guess BLSR is not a good comparison since it has its own way of intercepting the I/O [not by replacing ACBINRTN], so the question remains. Hopefully, I'll test this out in a week or so. Meanwhile, I am confirming that DYNALLOC during SSI Open does indeed hang on

SSI experience

First of all, I'd like to thank everybody who helped me with the subsystem documentation and debugging, especially, Sam Knutson, Tom Schmidt and Binyamin Dissen - your input was much appreciated. Let me also share some of the experience [for the archive]: a) Contrary to the doc Using the SSI, do

SSI questions

I am probably missing something obvious - When setting up a subsystem, how do I tell the system to call a custom function to Allocate, Open, Get, Close or Deallocate a dataset? Doesn't the association come from a table built using the IEFSSVTI macro? But the list of codes SSI Function Codes Your

How to marry subsystem and dynamic allocation

Good afternoon, IBM-MAIN We'd like to be able to prevent certain confidential fields in production files from being revealed to unauthorized users while still allowing access to the rest of the record. From the users prospective these files are read-only and are accessed through TSO, batch or

ISREDIT macro and ampersands

When a source line happens to contain an ampersand it can still be read by ISREDIT (THELINE) = LINE ROW However, an attempt to rewrite it back [even unchanged!] ISREDIT LINE ROW = THELINE fails, and so does an attempt to examine its contents with the SUBSTR function.