At 14:58 -0500 on 06/11/2012, Roberts, John J wrote about Re: Weird
thought on misuse of a GDG.:
Also, what is the significance of the V00 part of the qualifier? I
was always led to believe that it was a vestige of something that
was never implemented.
It allows you to create a replacement
At 00:58 -0500 on 05/11/2012, Mike Schwab wrote about Re: ### of GDG Entries:
We have Mobius that creates report files with the date and time as
part of the file name. Huge numbers of 1 track datasets.
Why not make them members of a PDS? The member name would be XDDDHHMM
where X is the year
At 20:12 + on 05/10/2012, Donnelly, John wrote about ### of GDG Entries:
We have a business application that creates literally 100s of GDGs a
day; please don't ask.
Is there any way to create or pretend to create a GDG base greater than 255...
Why not concatenate all of them daily and
At 08:43 -0700 on 05/05/2012, Charles Mills wrote about Multiple
waiting tasks, one control block?:
I have a situation in which it would be a wonderful thing if I could have
multiple tasks waiting for a single event, without having a separate wait
control block of some sort for each task.
At 09:27 -0700 on 05/06/2012, Charles Mills wrote about Re: Multiple
waiting tasks, one control block?:
Robert, thanks.
I am kicking the ENQ idea around. ENQ is certainly promising. There are some
interlock issues with re-establishing the exclusive ENQ after relinquishing
it, and what do the
At 17:56 -0400 on 05/05/2012, Peter Relson wrote about Re: Comments
on DFSMS verbose messages?:
Please avoid an absurdity such as AMODE(ANY), where
ANY no longer means any, but instead any except 64.
Tongue in cheek: sorry for not being prescient enough in (approximately)
1977 to think
At 22:03 -0500 on 05/03/2012, W. Kevin Kelley wrote about Re:
Comments on DFSMS verbose messages?:
The concern was about the clutter that the additional message lines
would cause. Also, the same explanation lines are repeated in each
instance of the error message, so there would be a lot of
At 16:30 -0500 on 05/01/2012, Mark Zelden wrote about Re: Java PTF
Packaging Error Deletes the Java SDK With RC=0:
It's just extra work and space for managing a PTF that replaces the
entire product / unix file system contents with each apply. I don't
need SMP/E to keep track of that for me.
At 17:35 -0400 on 04/30/2012, John Eells wrote about Re: ServerPac
RACF* jobs (rant):
So we created two jobs, with an overall z/OS section for each job, and
then subsections for other things you could order along with z/OS to be
included if you ordered them. The result *was* (at the time)
At 07:16 -0700 on 04/05/2012, Mike Kovach wrote about A deep question
about VSAM SHR(4) - can you help?:
I have a VSAM KSDS CLUSTER which is written to by ONLY ONE PROGRAM
in ONLY ONE CICS REGION. Currently, this file is defined in
CICS with STRNO(1). The file is defined with SHR(4,3)
At 18:16 -0500 on 04/05/2012, Walt Farrell wrote about Re: A deep
question about VSAM SHR(4) - can you help?:
This option requires that the user's program use ENQ/DEQ to maintain
data integrity while sharing the data set, including the OPEN and
CLOSE processing. User programs that ignore the
At 16:33 -0700 on 04/03/2012, Frank Swarbrick wrote about Re: VSAM
help wanted for random reads:
The idea of putting the record type at the end rather than the
beginning is an interesting idea.Ý Unless there's some way of doing
that without having to change any programs I don't think we'd
At 06:24 -0700 on 03/22/2012, John Dawes wrote about UNABLE TO DELETE
DUPLICTE DSN:
G'Day I am trying to delete a duplicate dsn via TSO. Since the
cataloged version which resides on volume MPR003 is in use, I
thought that I could rename the duplicate dsn which resides on
MPR027. However
At 14:41 -0500 on 03/13/2012, John Gilmore wrote about Leap seconds
and the Server Timer Protocol:
This is the title of a new this month IBM Techdocs White Paper,
WP101091, by Gregory Hutchison, a PDF of which can be downloaded from
the IBM Techdocs website.
What is the URL of the site?
At 21:10 -0500 on 03/05/2012, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote about
Re: Return code = X'14' from ATTACH JSTCB=YES:
In 00cc01ccfa4e$3293ec90$97bbc5b0$@net, on 03/04/2012
at 04:31 PM, Micheal Butz michealb...@optonline.net said:
Does this mean that only the initiator can issue a ATTACH
At 13:24 +0530 on 02/29/2012, Jake anderson wrote about Re: Fwd: User
datasets wrongly catalogued under Master Cata:
Robert,
I am unable to find any Information on MIGRATECAT on google search..
Is there someone who can point me to some Fine manuals relating to
MIGRATCAT?
Jake
OOPS - As
At 09:11 +0530 on 02/29/2012, Jake anderson wrote about User datasets
wrongly catalogued under Master Catalogue:
Hi,
Recently We have installed a new system Z/OS 1.13. During migration the
Users datasets were restored and unfortunately all the user datasets are
catalogued under Master
At 15:55 -0500 on 02/23/2012, Tony Harminc wrote about Re: JES2
OFFLOAD - requesting help, ideas, etc.:
The latter is what would result from using my catalogued tape dataset
suggestion, if it works at all. There would be multiple, unrelated
offload datasets that just happen to be on the same
At 16:11 -0600 on 02/13/2012, Joel C. Ewing wrote about Re: Archaic
allocation in JCL (Was: Physical record size qu:
The gotcha used to be that if you grossly over-requested space,
got space dispersed over umpteen volumes, only used a little of the
space, that RLSE would then only release the
At 14:07 -0500 on 02/17/2012, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote about
Re: Archaic allocation in JCL (Was: Physical record size qu:
In
CAPD5F5rThXaYbF32YgQMXK0bWTtXELh3X+XMOaUnKwPv=tt...@mail.gmail.com,
on 02/17/2012
at 12:50 PM, John Gilmore johnwgilmore0...@gmail.com said:
is not really
At 13:12 -0500 on 02/16/2012, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote about
Re: 5 Byte Device Addresses?:
In
77142d37c0c3c34da0d7b1da7d7ca346c...@nwt-s-mbx1.rocketsoftware.com,
on 02/16/2012
at 02:14 PM, Bill Fairchild bfairch...@rocketsoftware.com said:
But that's ok, since I still call z/OS
At 22:25 -0500 on 02/13/2012, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote about
Re: Abend S0C4 in an internal sort:
Does the sort expect a non-standard plist? Should the 4rh word be
A(=F'-1')+X'8000'?
That +X'8000' is not needed (and can cause problems) since F'-1'
has set the high bit already -
At 21:34 -0500 on 01/31/2012, Scott Ford wrote about Re: Intrdr:
Liz,
There is a STC running , similar in characteristics as CICS, runs
all the time.
Submits a job via Intrdr, job creates a Qsam file, STC must wait for
job to complete,
Because STC needs the data and it is single thread...
At 20:47 -0500 on 01/31/2012, Lizette Koehler wrote about Re: Intrdr:
Or you could add a last step to the job that sends a TSO SEND command to
notify you.
Or put NOTIFY= on the JOB CARD. Note: The Last Step method requires a
COND=EVEN on its EXEC statement to insure that it runs even if a
At 07:39 -0600 on 01/27/2012, Staller, Allan wrote about Re:
different tape media for ML2 copies in HSM:
Look up the TAPECOPY command in the dfSMS/hsm Storage Admin Guide..
http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/DGT2S680/2.40
?SHELF=DGT2BK90DT=20090610113354
HTH,
snip
At 15:49 -0500 on 11/21/2011, Blaicher, Christopher Y. wrote about
Re: Set Clock Command:
It depends on your applications and how they are written. If they
use the TIME macro, or the various language equivalents, you may
have a problem at switch times. See the ZONE parameter of the TIME
At 13:19 -0600 on 01/09/2012, Mark Zelden wrote about Re: IDC3309I **
RECORD X'2BC5E7D7F2' NOT WRITTEN. LENGTH IN:
On Mon, 9 Jan 2012 15:44:57 +, af dc acbi...@gmail.com wrote:
Hello,
during a repro from BCDS to seq file I got the following errors:
IDC3309I ** RECORD X'2BC5E7D7F2' NOT
At 11:53 -0600 on 01/09/2012, Paul Gilmartin wrote about Re: Error apply ZAP:
On Mon, 9 Jan 2012 11:54:45 -0500, Veilleux, Jon L wrote:
I think that you answered your own question.
aside from not recovering the
victim(s) of a ++DELETE command?
I could never understand why that is the case.
At 17:10 -0600 on 01/09/2012, Mark Zelden wrote about Re: IDC3309I **
RECORD X'2BC5E7D7F2' NOT WRITTEN. LENGTH IN:
On Mon, 9 Jan 2012 16:32:49 -0500, Robert A. Rosenberg
hal9...@panix.com wrote:
Just because MAXLRECL = AVGLRECL does not mean ALL the records are
6544 long. In fact since
At 18:26 -0600 on 01/09/2012, Paul Gilmartin wrote about Re: Error apply ZAP:
RESTORE itself is BAD (Broken As Designed) since it removes SYSMODs
that are not the SYSMOD being designated as being RESTORED. Instead
of using ONLY the elements that are in the SYSMOD being RESTOREd (by
using the
At 15:40 -0600 on 01/09/2012, Jonathan Goossen wrote about Re:
IDC3309I ** RECORD X'2BC5E7D7F2' NOT WRITTEN. LENGTH IN:
Shouldn't the block size be 26176. The current block size is 4*LRECL
instead of 4*(LRECL+4) as VB requires.
That is not important. So long as the block size is LRECL+4 or
6, 2012, at 11:54 PM, Robert A. Rosenberg wrote:
At 14:29 -0600 on 01/06/2012, Staller, Allan wrote about Re: Error apply ZAP:
First the IDR (forget what the acronym stands for) is an optional list
of zaps applied to this module (load module?). Due to the structure of
the directory, IIRC, you
At 14:29 -0600 on 01/06/2012, Staller, Allan wrote about Re: Error apply ZAP:
First the IDR (forget what the acronym stands for) is an optional list
of zaps applied to this module (load module?). Due to the structure of
the directory, IIRC, you are limited to 19 IDR entries
per module (load
At 20:42 -0600 on 12/29/2011, Brian Westerman wrote about Re: cpu /
machine identification:
We have DR support in our software, but I was under the impression
that most of the DR sites were running the OS under VM and they
simulated the serial anyway.
I suppose their are sites that do not
At 20:10 -0600 on 12/28/2011, Brian Westerman wrote about Re: cpu /
machine identification:
That's a good point, our code does put out the message at startup
about the site it's licensed to. But if someone was going to run it
purposely and not pay, zapping the one instance of the name is not
At 10:21 -0800 on 12/26/2011, Edward Jaffe wrote about Re:
Eight-character TSO Userid Support::
Application environments are responsible for supporting whatever the
current architected userid length is. It has been asserted that TSO
is the only z/OS application environment in 2011 (soon 2012)
At 12:15 -0600 on 12/26/2011, Paul Gilmartin wrote about Re:
Eight-character TSO Userid Support:
Likewise, in days of yore, but no longer, one DSN was not allowed
to be a prefix of another, such as:
GUBBINS.WOMBATversus
GUBBINS.WOMBAT.FUBAR
This was due to CVOL Support.
At 19:20 -0600 on 12/24/2011, Paul Gilmartin wrote about Re:
Eight-character TSO Userid Support:
Hmmm. How many upper-case alphanumeric characters would be needed
to provide unique identifiers for all the files an enterprise would ever need?
By that metric, 44(8) is more than sufficient.
A
At 02:56 -0500 on 12/21/2011, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote about
Re: Imagine dealing with THIS in production:
In p06240803cb16cda5395b@[192.168.1.11], on 12/20/2011
at 06:47 PM, Robert A. Rosenberg hal9...@panix.com said:
(unless Gilbert goofed and counted the non-existent February 29
At 21:46 -0500 on 12/20/2011, John Gilmore wrote about Re: Imagine
having to deal with THIS in production:
Robert A. Rosenberg writes:
begin snippet
. . . There is also the issue that in some calenders the date of New
Year's Day (ie: When the new year starts) is not a fixed number of
days
At 20:38 -0600 on 12/16/2011, Chris Mason wrote about Re: Imagine
dealing with THIS in production:
Mike
Just think about all the people born on Feb 29th.
They would have their 15th birthdate when they are 60 years old.
Paradoxically a 29th February birthday can have happy consequences
At 23:02 -0600 on 12/19/2011, Joel C. Ewing wrote about Re: Imagine
having to deal with THIS in production:
There are of course other strong arguments against universal usage
of JD for dates any time in our lifetime. As long as we remain an
Earth-centric and not a space-centric culture, that
At 22:44 -0600 on 12/18/2011, David Mierowsky wrote about Re: Imagine
dealing with THIS in production:
At least they didn't have to deal with this! Thankfully this was
sorted out long before computers were around!
The Changes of 1752
In accordance with a 1750 act of Parliament, England and
At 01:24 -0500 on 12/18/2011, Jim Mulder wrote about Re: WAIT ECB
WITH 00 First Byte:
Quoting from the MVS/XA SP2.1.0 version of IEAVEPST (5 years
before it became OCO in MVS/ESA SP3.1.0, so some of you
probably have this on microfiche that you have squirreled away
somewhere):
* WHEN THE
At 06:50 -0800 on 12/08/2011, Charles Mills wrote about Re: SV: JCL
sheesh! for today:
The inconvenient fact is that is the effective way to prevent deadlocks.
Is not another technically plausible approach for this theoretical new JCL
and initiator thing to always make the requests in
At 08:34 -0600 on 12/08/2011, Paul Gilmartin wrote about Re: SV: JCL
sheesh! for today:
allocation dependencies without the all or nothing approach that the
initiator takes.
The inconvenient fact is that is the effective way to prevent deadlocks.
One technically plausible mitigation would
At 10:19 -0600 on 12/08/2011, McKown, John wrote about Re: JCL
sheesh! for today:
Ack!!! I meant SYSUID not RACUID. RACUID is used in RACF
profiles. SYSUID is used in JCL.
Define that SYSUIDL means SYSUID lower-cased (since there is no
such thing as SYSUIDL currently it becomes a new
At 20:44 -0600 on 12/08/2011, Paul Gilmartin wrote about Re: JCL
sheesh! for today:
It should be expanded by Allocation, at interpretation time, so the effect
of //X DD PATH='~bozo' would be consistent with BPXWDYN(
path('~bozo/' ...)
and in turn consistent with BPXBATCH,PARM='sh ... ~bozo
At 17:43 -0800 on 12/05/2011, Ed Gould wrote about Re: What SMF
record types and formats does ACF2 write?:
Scott,
Well IBM does this in their freely available SMF records layout
manual. The very idea that a record layout should not be public
information is in my mind close minded.
Ed
At 17:06 -0500 on 11/22/2011, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote about
Re: Terminology:
Correct transmission of anything but ASCII require three header
fields, e.g.,
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
The Charset can also be
At 11:31 -0600 on 11/29/2011, Phil Sidler wrote about Alternative to
REPRO for VSAM RLS KSDS Merge:
Since IDCAMS REPRO does not support VSAM datasets in RLS mode (and
neither does SORT), is there another utility that could be coaxed to
perform the same function? I'd like to be able to
At 08:33 -0500 on 11/08/2011, Bonno, Tuco wrote about Re: units (was:
Out damn'd GMT ...):
my query ( . do any of the ) was purely rhetorical; I
do know what they (aces of spades) were used for in vietnam; but
the link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%26M%27s#1970s_and_1980s
At 15:00 -0500 on 11/04/2011, McKown, John wrote about Re: units
(was: Out damn'd GMT ...):
My stomach strength is measured in fig newtons!
Jokingly dating myself. I remember a short time period when Fig
Newtons were a contraband item (all you could legally buy was a
knock-off from the
At 03:12 + on 11/04/2011, Ted MacNEIL wrote about Re: Out damn'd GMT ...:
US: 2 cups - 8 by 2 = 16 oz
IMPERIAL: 2.5 cups = 20 oz
1 IMP gallon = 10 lb (water)
1 US gallon = 8 lb
1 IMP gallon = 160 oz
1 US = 128 oz
In both systems: 1 oz weighs 1 oz (water)
1 millilitres of water = 1
At 17:52 -0400 on 10/29/2011, John Gilmore wrote about Re:
Maintenance at two in the afternoon? On a Friday?:
There is a piece of police lore which has it that 0300 local time,
when almost everyone is asleep, is the best time to arrest someone in
his home.
I remember a movie set in France
At 14:52 -0700 on 10/25/2011, Steve Thompson wrote about Re: GDG:
Do you actually mean version or generation? I ask this because now
and then someone actually means version (rarely). And what you asked
could be either.
Version will be A.B.C.G0001V00 then A.B.C.G0001V01.
Generation will be
At 05:54 -0700 on 10/25/2011, Charles Mills wrote about Re: Looking
for clues on a bug in assembler:
My conclusion was the following sequence -- and there may be other details
that are significant, but this is my best guess as to the significant
details:
1. OPEN DCB, no error
2. GET DCB --
At 21:12 -0500 on 10/24/2011, Chris Mason wrote about Re: Looking for
clues on a bug in assembler:
This reminded me of a program - in Fortran IIRC - where, in order to
clarify a problem for the newly established IBM system for reporting
problems (around 1968, SE to CE - or FE in some
At 19:18 -0500 on 10/19/2011, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote about
Re: z/OS Control block question:
field TIOEJFCB contains a three byte address
No. It contains an SVA. While I believe that SWAREQ is the easiest way
to get to the JFCB, the documentation says not to use it but to use
RDJFCB.
At 13:01 -0500 on 10/13/2011, McKown, John wrote about Re: C++
program and possible authority issues.:
I agree, even though I'm the nitwit who mentioned CANCEL. The OP
said the user wants kill as the way to shutdown the application
due to some existing automation (they must be very UNIX
At 13:20 -0500 on 10/12/2011, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote about
Re: User Abend Code 4095?!:
Do you mean the macro itself rather than the ABEND SVC? The latter's
not possible. The ABEND code is stored in a words with 8 bits of
flags, 12 bits of system code and 12 bits of user code. There's
At 09:28 -0500 on 10/10/2011, Paul Gilmartin wrote about Re: Chaos
feared after Unix time-zone database is nuked:
In states such as Colorado which have a constitutional limit on the length
of the legislative session, it's fairly common for the Speaker to order the
Sergeant at Arms to stop the
At 15:15 -0500 on 10/10/2011, McKown, John wrote about Re: F8/F9 DSCB Mapping:
Format 7:
http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/dgt2r171/6.7
couldn't find 8 or 9 in that book
A format 8 is EXACTLY the same layout as a Format 1.
The only difference is that the Format
At 12:21 -0500 on 09/19/2011, Chuck Arney wrote about Re: : RESMGR
Add Return Code 44:
Thanks for the suggestions guys. Rob hit the nail on the head. The
plist work area was initially primed with the MF=L prototype but
another service call wiped it out before the RESMGR request was
issued.
At 09:36 -0500 on 09/06/2011, McKown, John wrote about Re: SMF timestamps:
I should have said that I know how to convert the SMFSTAMP8 to
RCF3339 format. The problem is determining the timezone offset for a
specific date time rendered in LOCAL time. Now, for my own shop,
there is only one
At 15:37 + on 08/22/2011, john gilmore wrote about degaussed tapes:
Anne,
May I infer from your second post that you are degaussing tapes only
as a security measure, to destroy the data written on them?
This topic has a large literature. Some degaussing processes both
1) destroy the
At 12:11 -0400 on 08/22/2011, Ken Porowski wrote about Re: degaussed tapes:
I thought the 3590, 3592 had a chip in them that would be destroyed by
degaussing, not sure if even the manufacturer can reinit although data
recovery specialists may be able to use them if the tape is intact.
It is
At 11:12 -0500 on 08/18/2011, Paul Gilmartin wrote about Re: ABEND - 637-04:
Except for load libraries, which have small control, rld, etc.,
records between the text records and truncated text blocks.
... or any application sophisticated enough to exploit track
balances.
If you use QSAM
At 16:00 -0500 on 08/12/2011, Hansen, Dave L - Eagan, MN wrote about
TSO/E NSLOOKUP and DIG deprecation:
Has anyone had an issue with managing DNS entries and finding a DNS
name that should not have the name it does? I keep looking for a
wildcard query that can report on more than one DNS
At 19:23 -0400 on 08/11/2011, Gerhard Postpischil wrote about Re:
file allocation dcb order:
Most of the dinosaurs, who had to run OS/360 despite IBM's help.
g Completing a DSCB is no more difficult than setting up a JFCB.
True. You expand the mapping macro, map it over an area of the
At 13:09 -0500 on 08/10/2011, Mark Zelden wrote about Re: batch job
as non-swappable:
So most likely this has to be done by a tool or MVS monitor like Omegamon,
TMON, MXI, etc. Another option if the program name is unique or you
just need a temporary change is to update the PPT (SCHEDxx
At 15:53 -0400 on 08/08/2011, Bob Rutledge wrote about Re: Allocation
Conflict with Job:
Even though this step says DISP=SHR, the previous DISP=MOD/DISP=NEW will make
the allocation for Step 4 appear to be exclusive.
This is due to a Broken as Designed [BAD] design flaw in ENQ/DEQ.
There is
At 18:54 -0400 on 08/07/2011, Micheal Butz wrote about Re: Suffix of
64 bit instructions:
Think the B2 opcodes are all two bytes
Sent from my iPhone
On Aug 7, 2011, at 1:01 PM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
shmuel+ibm-m...@patriot.net wrote:
In
At 20:00 -0400 on 08/07/2011, Robert A. Rosenberg wrote about Re:
Suffix of 64 bit instructions:
x-flowedAt 18:54 -0400 on 08/07/2011, Micheal Butz wrote about Re: Suffix of
64 bit instructions:
Think the B2 opcodes are all two bytes
Sent from my iPhone
On Aug 7, 2011, at 1:01 PM, Shmuel
At 16:20 -0400 on 08/06/2011, Bob Rutledge wrote about Re: Suffix of
long-displacement instructions:
Farley, Peter x23353 wrote:
Bob,
Thank you for your supporting voice and verification. I didn't see
your reply until I had already replied to Tom.
You're welcome.
If the OP's question
At 09:17 -0700 on 08/04/2011, Edward Jaffe wrote about Re: assembler help!:
Many have asserted that assembler language skills are inadequate to
properly maintain 21st-Century z/OS systems.
Would it be better if IBM provided sample exits in METAL C?
That depends on what the person's job
At 11:03 -0400 on 08/04/2011, van der Grijn, Bart (B) wrote about Re:
assembler help!:
I believe Anne mentioned something about PARMJOBC containing the address
to a field with x0..08, rather than the actual value.
Looking at the TWS supplied code on our system, that seems to match. It
has:
L
At 21:52 -0500 on 08/04/2011, Bill Godfrey wrote about Re: assembler help!:
On Thu, 4 Aug 2011 21:50:24 -0400, Robert A. Rosenberg
hal9...@panix.com wrote:
At 11:03 -0400 on 08/04/2011, van der Grijn, Bart (B) wrote about Re:
assembler help!:
I believe Anne mentioned something about
At 14:08 +0100 on 08/01/2011, Anstey, Gerry wrote about Orphan GDG problem:
The problem is that I cannot delete the file using HDELETE, or
IDCAMS with NVS, or standard IEFBR14 with an uncatlg
NOTE: I see the problem has been solved but for the future here is an
alternate method that would
At 15:15 -0700 on 08/01/2011, Skip Robinson wrote about Re: Orphan GDG problem:
This is fascinating info. I've always wondered what the Vnn was for.
As I noted, it is a way to allow you to replace a generation up to
(in theory) 99 times while preserving the Generation Number (Absolute
and
At 12:34 -0500 on 07/30/2011, Ed Gould wrote about Re: Eight Position
TSO Logonid:
Paul:
If that were the only issue then maybe. TSO also has built in code
that insists that say if you use the output command (not the only
command) that insists that the job name you are working on is your
At 15:37 +0100 on 07/28/2011, Chambers, James wrote about Re: 2nd
question about SORT: only taking the last n records:
Hi,
Could you not just sort it in reverse and take the first n records?
Thanks
James
--
James Chambers
+353 7041676
I was wondering if anyone would suggest this simple
At 02:33 -0400 on 07/24/2011, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote about
Re: running Assembler I/O macro code as AMODE 31, RMODE ANY:
The description above was part of a hoax
Wiki refers to it as a hoax, but I don't see it as any more of a hoax
than the famous sign offering access to the egress.
At 16:37 -0400 on 07/22/2011, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote about
Re: running Assembler I/O macro code as AMODE 31, RMODE ANY:
http://www.dhmo.org/facts.html
But DHMO is a real compound, and the dangers cited are real.
Just (as I posted in a message that crossed with this one) described
At 11:06 -0700 on 07/22/2011, Skip Robinson wrote about Re: JES2 Commands:
OP's motivation is to find the remaining individual items on the volume
so that they can be purged. In my experience, it's nigh impossible to
completely drain a spool volume without an IPL. There are fragments of
At 09:01 -0500 on 07/22/2011, Eric Bielefeld wrote about Re: running
Assembler I/O macro code as AMODE 31, RMODE ANY:
OK - I'll bite. What is thiotimoline? I saw it earlier and just
ignored it, but now I'm curious.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thiotimoline. Basically Science
Fiction
At 08:28 -0400 on 07/22/2011, David Andrews wrote about Re: running
Assembler I/O macro code as AMODE 31, RMODE ANY:
Tells you something about a group of people when one guy mentions
thiotimoline and nobody bats an eyelash.
Isaac would be proud to have invented something that everyone (aside
At 13:28 -0500 on 07/08/2011, Rick Fochtman wrote about Re: Startio:
Grey area here. I would say that depends a great deal on the
experience and skill levels of the programmer. Not to mention the
final intended purpose. I've used QSAM to access individual members
of a PDS, in name sequence,
At 13:31 -0500 on 07/06/2011, Blaicher, Chris wrote about Re: Startio:
With EXCP and EXCP/VR you can do more complicated I/O, like a CCW
per record and do buffering in the channel program rather than
moving data to a buffer. The problem there is all the page-fixing
that the system has to do
At 11:11 -0500 on 07/09/2011, Tom Marchant wrote about Re: Annoyance
with the IEZJSAB macro:
On Fri, 8 Jul 2011 17:39:55 -0400, Robert A. Rosenberg
hal9...@panix.com wrote:
The fact that the contents of R14-R1 not remaining unchanged across a
macro invocation is not the issue. The issue
At 13:23 -0500 on 07/08/2011, Rick Fochtman wrote about Re: Annoyance
with the IEZJSAB macro:
--snip---
Next in importance is lowering the Astonishment Factor.
programmers are accustomed to USINGs being preserved by
macro
At 6:34 PM -0400 on 7/7/11, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote about Re:
Annoyance with the IEZJSAB macro:
You're the one asking IBM to provide training wheels. An experience
assembler program should know to reinstate addressability R14, R15 and
R1 following any code that alters the subject
At 12:47 -0500 on 07/07/2011, Alan Altmark wrote about Re: Trapping
the LPAR Deactivate signal on z/OS?:
When registered for the deactivation signal, there is a delay
between the time the deactivation is requested and when it occurs.
In an LPAR on a z10, the delay is 5 minutes. If the OS
At 11:02 -0500 on 07/05/2011, Paul Gilmartin wrote about Re: Lines,
Bars and ... mini-bars???:
Not very special. The 2 GiB thickness of the bar is a product of
the fertile imagination of z/OS. Other OSes routinely permit use
of storage within that range, and routinely support execution above
At 09:36 -0500 on 06/23/2011, Giliad Wilf wrote about Re: Clobbered SMPSCDS:
If GROUP or GROUPEXTEND is also specified, REDO will not reapply SYSMODs
included by the GROUP or GROUPEXTEND operand. It will only process SYSMODs
specifically listed on the SELECT operand
The fix for this is to
At 10:01 +0300 on 06/12/2011, Binyamin Dissen wrote about Re: DCBs
and DCBEs - Could IBM have done it any worse?:
:I have a vague memory of cases where an operation returns a success
:RC but also a subcode that indicates that the classification of
:success was due to some requests not being
At 22:44 +0300 on 06/11/2011, Binyamin Dissen wrote about Re: DCBs
and DCBEs - Could IBM have done it any worse?:
The only thing that I can think of is that IBM was trying to be user
friendly and was concerned that programmers may not have read the
instructions that DCBE's need to be in
At 11:06 -0400 on 06/09/2011, Tony Harminc wrote about Re: DCBs and
DCBEs - Could IBM have done it any worse?:
On 8 June 2011 23:56, Robert A. Rosenberg hal9...@panix.com wrote:
At 17:09 -0400 on 06/08/2011, Tony Harminc wrote about Re: DCBs and DCBEs -
Could IBM have done it any worse
At 17:09 -0400 on 06/08/2011, Tony Harminc wrote about Re: DCBs and
DCBEs - Could IBM have done it any worse?:
So OPEN not only zeroed out the DCBE pointer, but it also turned off
the flags that show that such a pointer exists? I suppose that's
considerate...
Considerate Nothing - Since it
At 02:53 -0400 on 06/02/2011, Jim Mulder wrote about Re: What is the
current feeling for MVC loop vs. MVCL?:
Obviously you can have fast clear for objects with lengths that
256-multiple using n*XC - however I have often wished for a
ZERO=YES option on the CPOOL BUILD so that you are
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