Re: ### of GDG Entries

2012-05-10 Thread Sam Siegel
On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 1:12 PM, Donnelly, John john.p.donne...@ti.comwrote: 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... Short answer: No. Max GDG limit is 255. A

Re: Execute certain steps based on input parm

2012-04-24 Thread Sam Siegel
On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 1:43 PM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) shmuel+ibm-m...@patriot.net wrote: In 93891f43642f3c419a7d75acc2b1db6f3c5b4df...@exchangemb2.dhs.state.ia.us, on 04/20/2012 at 11:26 AM, Roberts, John J jrobe...@dhs.state.ia.us said: I haven't used a COBOL GOTO since 1972. Does

Re: Explination of S0C4 reason code 4 and related data areas

2012-04-20 Thread Sam Siegel
The storage keys exceptions are determined during the process of executing the specific instruction. The value of PSW key at any time prior to the specific instruction being executed is not relevant. On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 2:19 PM, Micheal Butz michealb...@optonline.netwrote: Hi, Was

Re: GO TO cobol

2012-04-15 Thread Sam Siegel
On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 8:49 PM, Jake anderson justmainfra...@gmail.comwrote: Hi All, Apology for asking a basic question and Being Ignorant. We know that GO TO statments are a big NO in many production sites and one of the reason being it monopolizes the entire CPU. Are there any

Unix path name

2012-04-08 Thread Sam Siegel
I'm trying to find the manual (by full name or number) that provides precise definitions about pathnames (hfs and zfs) for the unix subsystem on zos. Specifically, I'm interested in knowing the maximum length: 1) Entire path from '/' on down 2) Maximum number of characters in a file in a

Re: Unix path name

2012-04-08 Thread Sam Siegel
On Sun, Apr 8, 2012 at 8:55 AM, Steve Comstock st...@trainersfriend.comwrote: On 4/8/2012 9:46 AM, Sam Siegel wrote: I'm trying to find the manual (by full name or number) that provides precise definitions about pathnames (hfs and zfs) for the unix subsystem on zos. Specifically, I'm

Re: Unix path name

2012-04-08 Thread Sam Siegel
On Sun, Apr 8, 2012 at 10:43 AM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.comwrote: On Sun, 8 Apr 2012 09:55:46 -0600, Steve Comstock wrote: On 4/8/2012 9:46 AM, Sam Siegel wrote: I'm trying to find the manual (by full name or number) that provides precise definitions about pathnames (hfs and zfs

Re: Unix path name

2012-04-08 Thread Sam Siegel
On Sun, Apr 8, 2012 at 12:39 PM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.comwrote: On Sun, 8 Apr 2012 11:15:55 -0700, Sam Siegel wrote: Paul - Thanks for the tips. The code does not create any path segments. You're welcome. My goal here is to be able to point the user to the reference manuals

Re: Unix path name

2012-04-08 Thread Sam Siegel
On Sun, Apr 8, 2012 at 1:15 PM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com wrote: On Sun, 8 Apr 2012 12:55:54 -0700, Sam Siegel wrote: Actually it is C. The intermediate buffer is used to allow the UNICODE service to translate to ASCII. UNICODE services need to know how much data is being

Re: ASCII (was: Unix path name)

2012-04-08 Thread Sam Siegel
On Sun, Apr 8, 2012 at 1:58 PM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com wrote: On Sun, 8 Apr 2012 13:39:11 -0700, Sam Siegel wrote: The IBM XL C/C++ team did a GREAT jobs with ASCII compatibility. :-) Overall, yes, but, last time I checked, no Curses; no X11. Sockets? I don't know. Good

Re: LE C calling HLASM

2012-04-06 Thread Sam Siegel
On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 8:45 AM, Phil Smith p...@voltage.com wrote: Darn it, no matter what I've tried, I CANNOT get PL/I to handle a plist [what I'd call] normally-marking the high bit on the last specified parameter. If I use OPTIONAL, I get all the parameters, with zeroes for the ones that

Re: LE C calling HLASM

2012-04-06 Thread Sam Siegel
On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 9:02 AM, Steve Comstock st...@trainersfriend.comwrote: On 4/6/2012 9:53 AM, Sam Siegel wrote: On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 8:45 AM, Phil Smithp...@voltage.com wrote: Darn it, no matter what I've tried, I CANNOT get PL/I to handle a plist [what I'd call] normally-marking

Re: Detect SVC to Place Caller in Key 0

2012-03-29 Thread Sam Siegel
LOL On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 12:38 PM, Binyamin Dissen bdis...@dissensoftware.com wrote: On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 15:21:41 GMT MD Johnson johnson...@juno.com wrote: :Does anyone know what I could look for to detect when an SVC contains code to place the caller into and authorized state (key 0).

Re: Malicious Software Protection

2012-03-28 Thread Sam Siegel
Walt - good luck in retirement. Love the final signature line. Sam Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry -Original Message- From: Walt Farrell wfarr...@us.ibm.com Sender: IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 07:28:58 To:

Re: Malicious Software Protection

2012-03-27 Thread Sam Siegel
On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 8:15 AM, Gross, Randall [GCG-PFS] randy.gr...@primerica.com wrote: Ask your auditor to recommend one for the mainframe ;-) Maybe a recommendation for at least competing products so you are not trapped by a single vendor choice. ;-) -Original Message-

Re: z/OS ftp and Unicode

2012-03-26 Thread Sam Siegel
On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 7:27 AM, Lloyd Fuller leful...@sbcglobal.netwrote: UNICODE does, but not necessarily subsets of the full UNICODE. UTF-8 is a subset and UTF-16 is a subset. I am not sure about UTF-32. So It does not surprise me that UTF-8 does not have the Hebrew alphabet. I

Re: Pre-Friday fun: Halon dumps and POK Resets

2012-03-23 Thread Sam Siegel
Lol Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry -Original Message- From: Steve Dover steve.do...@ccbcc.com Sender: IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2012 07:12:15 To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Reply-To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu

Re: LE C calling HLASM

2012-03-23 Thread Sam Siegel
Look at #pragma linkage. Use linkage OS. You will get a list of addresses w/HO bit set on the last address Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry -Original Message- From: Phil Smith p...@voltage.com Sender: IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Date: Fri, 23 Mar

Re: COBOL x ACB EXLST WITH JRNAD

2012-03-22 Thread Sam Siegel
On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 3:10 PM, Jose ADAUTO Ribeiro jada...@uol.com.brwrote: Hi, Is there a way, in Cobol, to specify JRNAD module exit to access a VSAM file ? In Assembler we can specify: ACB01ACB AM=VSAM,DDNAME=VSAM01,MACRF=(KEY,SEQ,DIR,OUT), EXLST=EXLST01 EXLST01

watch this to the end it is amazing

2012-03-22 Thread Sam Siegel
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Re: IEFBR14

2012-03-12 Thread Sam Siegel
Scott - I think the EOF marker is handled by SMS. If a file is allocated to a non-sms volume with IEFBR14 it might be that no EOF marker was created. This can result in a wrong length read when trying to read from the dataset instead of going straight to EODAD. Sam On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 8:15

Re: IEFBR14

2012-03-12 Thread Sam Siegel
On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 8:40 AM, Mark Zelden m...@mzelden.com wrote: On Mon, 12 Mar 2012 08:21:13 -0700, Sam Siegel s...@pscsi.net wrote: Scott - I think the EOF marker is handled by SMS.  If a file is allocated to a non-sms volume with IEFBR14 it might be that no EOF marker was created

Re: JCL example to relink a CSECT into an existing load module

2012-03-09 Thread Sam Siegel
On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 6:46 AM, Farley, Peter x23353 peter.far...@broadridge.com wrote: Tim, In one of your replies over on the CICS-L list you gave this reasoning for the design decision to use static inclusion of this common module: Just some background on why the static call to BA4C1426

Re: Interfacing with the MainFrame

2012-03-07 Thread Sam Siegel
On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 12:47 PM, Ed Mackmahon dropip...@gmail.com wrote: Hi How would you prefer a product running on a server outside the mainframe will interface with the mainframe? Some Ideas i had: 1. Using a macro emulator that simulate a user which logon as a regular user, snap

Re: LAE instruction

2012-03-06 Thread Sam Siegel
On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 4:07 PM, Bill Fairchild bfairch...@rocketsoftware.com wrote: Sobre-pequeño? Izquierdo medio? Alto medio? Gordo-pequeño? No sé. I have never had to use only the high half of a grande, only the low half or the entire grande. So I haven't yet named the high half. I

Re: How convert historic STCK to local time?

2012-02-29 Thread Sam Siegel
On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 8:00 AM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.comwrote: On Wed, 29 Feb 2012 05:53:14 -0600, Jan MOEYERSONS wrote: On Tue, 28 Feb 2012 19:45:11 +, Rob Scott wrote: Obviously this assumes you know the UTC offset at the time of the LPAR And that is exactly where it

Re: How convert historic STCK to local time?

2012-02-29 Thread Sam Siegel
On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 2:38 PM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.comwrote: On Wed, 29 Feb 2012 15:43:02 -0500, John Gilmore wrote: Paul Gilmartin writes: begin extract STCKE is notionally closer to TAI than to UTC in that TAI and STCKE are continuous timescales and UTC is discontinous.

Re: COBOL threading

2012-02-27 Thread Sam Siegel
Scott - Are these going to be PTHTREAD managed threads? Sam On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 8:00 AM, Scott Ford scott_j_f...@yahoo.com wrote: All, I have a quick question...I am in the process of a redesign of a STC running in COBOL. The new design will be in C, threaded , calling COBOL routines

Re: COBOL threading

2012-02-27 Thread Sam Siegel
OK ... I need to scratch my head. On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 8:53 AM, Scott Ford scott_j_f...@yahoo.com wrote: Sam, Yep Sent from my iPad Scott Ford Senior Systems Engineer www.identityforge.com On Feb 27, 2012, at 11:28 AM, Sam Siegel s...@pscsi.net wrote: Scott - Are these going

Re: COBOL threading

2012-02-27 Thread Sam Siegel
On Feb 27, 2012, at 11:58 AM, Sam Siegel s...@pscsi.net wrote: OK ... I need to scratch my head. On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 8:53 AM, Scott Ford scott_j_f...@yahoo.com wrote: Sam, Yep Sent from my iPad Scott Ford Senior Systems Engineer www.identityforge.com On Feb

Re: COBOL threading

2012-02-27 Thread Sam Siegel
Perfect! On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 11:09 AM, Scott Ford scott_j_f...@yahoo.com wrote: Sam, it's not pressing ..I will send you a email offline Sent from my iPad Scott Ford Senior Systems Engineer www.identityforge.com On Feb 27, 2012, at 2:04 PM, Sam Siegel s...@pscsi.net wrote: Scott

Re: COBOL threading

2012-02-27 Thread Sam Siegel
good On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 1:36 PM, Scott Ford scott_j_f...@yahoo.com wrote: Sam, I found what I was looking for thx Sent from my iPad Scott Ford Senior Systems Engineer www.identityforge.com On Feb 27, 2012, at 2:04 PM, Sam Siegel s...@pscsi.net wrote: Scott - I won't be able

Re: gcc on z/OS (was: CPP (C++) file on z/OS)

2012-02-06 Thread Sam Siegel
On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 9:57 AM, Steve Comstock st...@trainersfriend.com wrote: On 2/6/2012 10:40 AM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: On Mon, 6 Feb 2012 12:31:31 -0500, Tony Harminc wrote: On 4 February 2012 12:03, Paul Gilmartin wrote: That idea founders on the economics of support. ...  I suspect

Re: Returning to the fold

2012-02-02 Thread Sam Siegel
Congrats. On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 5:50 AM, John Compton john.comp...@teamwpc.co.uk wrote: Hi all... just coming back to the list after nearly 19 months out of work. Finally got a new job! -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff /

Re: S0C4 in CEE3DMP

2012-02-01 Thread Sam Siegel
this and hoping that this will get you past it. Sam Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Sam Siegel Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2012 8:34 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: S0C4 in CEE3DMP On Tue, Jan 31

Re: XL CPP z/OS first use problem

2012-02-01 Thread Sam Siegel
use C128N for a non xplink program. On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 11:29 AM, Sevetson, Phil psevet...@fisa.nyc.gov wrote: Hello, all, first time post from new member.  Please bear with me if I lack polish! I'm trying to prove the function of our CPP processor on our mainframe (Frankly, it's mostly

Re: CPP (C++) file on z/OS

2012-01-31 Thread Sam Siegel
.C (cpp) and .c (c) are recognized source file type designations in the unix world. XLC has a ton of stuff in common with GNU's compiler suite. IBM donated a ton of time, effort and IP to the GNU compiler suite a ways back. On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 7:24 AM, Charles Mills charl...@mcn.org wrote:

Re: CPP (C++) file on z/OS

2012-01-31 Thread Sam Siegel
As far as I know that is in the Linux court. On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 1:07 PM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com wrote: On Tue, 31 Jan 2012 08:10:26 -0800, Sam Siegel wrote: .C (cpp) and .c (c) are recognized source file type designations in the unix world.   XLC has a ton of stuff in common

Re: CPP (C++) file on z/OS

2012-01-31 Thread Sam Siegel
Sorry about that. I misspoke, I do not know if anyone or any organization is porting the gcc suite of tools to z/OS. On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 3:18 PM, Tomasz Rola rto...@ceti.com.pl wrote: On Tue, 31 Jan 2012, Sam Siegel wrote: As far as I know that is in the Linux court. I wonder what do

Re: CPP (C++) file on z/OS

2012-01-31 Thread Sam Siegel
On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 4:44 PM, Tomasz Rola rto...@ceti.com.pl wrote: On Tue, 31 Jan 2012, Sam Siegel wrote: Sorry about that.  I misspoke, I do not know if anyone or any organization is porting the gcc suite of tools to z/OS. No need to be sorry about anything, I am ok :-). I just did

Re: Intrdr

2012-01-31 Thread Sam Siegel
On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 5:47 PM, Lizette Koehler stars...@mindspring.com wrote: All, I have a STC that submits a job via the Intrdr, unfortunately it's single thread. I need know when the submitted job completed. If I have the job and can I step through control blocks to find this jobs

Re: Intrdr

2012-01-31 Thread Sam Siegel
Scott - Does the submitted job run authorized? If it does, you can use a combination of name token service and pause element service to coordinate tcb in different address spaces. You would need to code an estae or have a resmgr active to handle error situations and ensure that the STC is not

Re: CPP (C++) file on z/OS

2012-01-31 Thread Sam Siegel
On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 7:35 PM, Tomasz Rola rto...@ceti.com.pl wrote: On Tue, 31 Jan 2012, Sam Siegel wrote: My thinking is that because of the lack of availability of low cost zSeries HW and z/OS very few independant developers will directly any application/utility development towards z/OS

Re: Intrdr

2012-01-31 Thread Sam Siegel
www.identityforge.com On Jan 31, 2012, at 10:32 PM, Sam Siegel s...@pscsi.net wrote: Scott - Does the submitted job run authorized?  If it does, you can use a combination of name token service and pause element service to coordinate tcb in different address spaces. You would need to code an estae or have

Re: S0C4 in CEE3DMP

2012-01-31 Thread Sam Siegel
On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 8:17 PM, Don Poitras poit...@pobox.com wrote: Tea leaves are good for making tea. :) I would compile SignalHandler.C with the LIST option to see the psuedo assembly output and see from the dump where the abend occured and try to figure out what went wrong. The message

Re: Intrdr

2012-01-31 Thread Sam Siegel
be control somewhat by using a /*ROUTE XEQ. However, there is the chance that this is overridden by an exit or automation. Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Sam Siegel Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2012 7:33 PM To: IBM

Re: Forbes: Kids See A Future In Mainframes

2012-01-30 Thread Sam Siegel
I used to work at VISA ... the 145,000 txn/sec is misleading. The authorization system (tpf based) runs sustained peak rate of about 7,000 txn/sec as of about 3 years ago. The clearing system (zos) run about 24,000 txn/second as of about 3 years ago. The 145,000 sounds like the sum of all the

Re: Forbes: Kids See A Future In Mainframes

2012-01-30 Thread Sam Siegel
, Jan 30, 2012 at 2:56 PM, Mike Schwab mike.a.sch...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 3:53 PM, Sam Siegel s...@pscsi.net wrote: I used to work at VISA ... the 145,000 txn/sec is misleading.  The authorization system (tpf based) runs sustained peak rate of about 7,000 txn/sec as of about 3

Re: question about report writer usage

2012-01-23 Thread Sam Siegel
Hi Mark - I'm asking Darren for permission to provide a more detailed explanation of the question behind the question. Thanks, Sam On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 6:54 AM, Mark Zelden m...@mzelden.com wrote: On Sun, 22 Jan 2012 10:48:58 -0800, Sam Siegel s...@pscsi.net wrote: Hi - The following

question about report writer usage

2012-01-22 Thread Sam Siegel
Hi - The following questions was approved by Darren for distribution on the list. I'm trying to determine if any of the following production are in active use at your shop. Easytrieve DYL260, DYL280 (CA vision:results) QUICKJOB CA-EARL pacsys(spectrum,zwriter, etc.) Other commercial report

Re: Copy programs in file system to MVS Dataset

2012-01-10 Thread Sam Siegel
On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 6:23 AM, Mark Jacobs mark.jac...@custserv.comwrote: I'm trying to copy program objects that reside in a path (the WAS 7.0 IPCS formatting modules) into a PDSE dataset. Everything I've tried (ocopy, ish copy, ftp) doesn't seem to result in a valid program object, i.e.

Re: COBOL Compiler option

2012-01-09 Thread Sam Siegel
On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 7:51 PM, Graham Hobbs gho...@cdpwise.net wrote: Hello, When I look at the output listing of a compiled pgm, I used to be able to see field displacements of copybooks and working storage. What is the option that does this .. nothing in the options list stands out.

Re: 21st Century Migrates Mainframe with Clerity

2012-01-05 Thread Sam Siegel
On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 3:48 PM, Graham Harris harris...@gmail.com wrote: Intel Core i7 at 177,730 MIPs/sec http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instructions_per_second or almost 180BIPs/sec ... which makes i7 equivalent of more than three z196?? Interesting to read the cited reference

Re: A design question

2012-01-03 Thread Sam Siegel
Scott - The answer is yes. Please see: https://computing.llnl.gov/tutorials/pthreads/ for some examples that include thread coordination. Sam On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 10:17 AM, Scott Ford scott_j_f...@yahoo.com wrote: All, I am looking to rewrite a COBOL app(stc) in C. The current code

Re: A design question

2012-01-03 Thread Sam Siegel
Scott - Another option is to have an assembler driver that attaches the various tasks. Each sub task can be an assembler program that uses CEEPIPI to setup LE and call the C program. Then you have a 'classic' subtask structure instead of a pthread structure. Sam On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 4:29 PM,

Re: cpu / machine identification

2011-12-27 Thread Sam Siegel
All - Thanks for the huge response both on-list and off-list. I've gotten both business and technical details. Exactly the type of information that I was looking for. THANKS AGAIN! I'm especially happy to see that the signal-to-noise ratio is extremely high! I'm post some follow up question

Re: Manual that describes LE control blocks?

2011-12-27 Thread Sam Siegel
Look at Language Environment Vendor Interfaces: SA22-7568 On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 3:29 PM, Binyamin Dissen bdis...@dissensoftware.com wrote: Don't see anything obvious in the LE bookshelf. -- Binyamin Dissen bdis...@dissensoftware.com http://www.dissensoftware.com Director, Dissen

cpu / machine identification

2011-12-26 Thread Sam Siegel
Hello List - I'm attempting to create a licensing mechanism for a bit of software. I would like to be able to use a unique and non-modifiable identifier as part of the mechanism. The CSRSI callable service and STSI instruction provide a variety of hardware related identifiers. CSRSI returns

Re: cpu / machine identification

2011-12-26 Thread Sam Siegel
. On Mon, Dec 26, 2011 at 4:11 PM, zMan zedgarhoo...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Dec 26, 2011 at 2:22 PM, Sam Siegel s...@pscsi.net wrote: Hello List - I'm attempting to create a licensing mechanism for a bit of software. I would like to be able to use a unique and non-modifiable identifier

Re: SRBEPA

2011-10-17 Thread Sam Siegel
On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 9:27 AM, Chris Craddock crashlu...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 4:53 PM, Micheal Butz michealb...@optonline.netwrote: The normal sequence then is common when scheduling to a different address space just think about it for a minute. There is no magic.

Re: SRBEPA

2011-10-17 Thread Sam Siegel
thanks On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 9:55 AM, McKown, John john.mck...@healthmarkets.com wrote: -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Sam Siegel Sent: Monday, October 17, 2011 11:32 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: SRBEPA

Re: SRBEPA

2011-10-17 Thread Sam Siegel
On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 10:03 AM, Chris Craddock crashlu...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 11:31 AM, Sam Siegel s...@pscsi.net wrote: On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 9:27 AM, Chris Craddock crashlu...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 4:53 PM, Micheal Butz michealb...@optonline.net

Re: Looking for clues on a bug in assembler

2011-10-15 Thread Sam Siegel
(DUMMYADR) *   WILL BE    0F'0',X'91',AL3(DCBABE24) Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Sam Siegel Sent: Friday, October 14, 2011 8:28 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Looking for clues on a bug in assembler

Re: Looking for clues on a bug in assembler

2011-10-14 Thread Sam Siegel
Can you post sample code? On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 6:43 PM, Charles Mills charl...@mcn.org wrote: I have spent the past two days on a bug in my assembler code that is driving me crazy. I have an assembler routine that is called from C++ code and in turn calls COBOL test code. It works most of

DCB exlst 16

2011-09-13 Thread Sam Siegel
Hello readers. I've got an old problem state assembler program that does certain sub totaling whenever the DCB EXLST 16 is driven. When exit 16 is driven, the current dataset name is obtained from the JFCB and a totaling subprogram is called. DCB EXLST 13 and 16 are used. Exit 16 is documented

Re: DCB exlst 16

2011-09-13 Thread Sam Siegel
Data Sets On Tue, 13 Sep 2011 06:02:47 -0700 Sam Siegel s...@pscsi.net wrote: :Hello readers. : :I've got an old problem state assembler program that does certain sub :totaling whenever the DCB EXLST 16 is driven.  When exit 16 is driven, :the current dataset name is obtained from the JFCB

Re: LE issue: RPTOPTS and RPTSTG - no output

2011-09-06 Thread Sam Siegel
You might need a coma at the end of the first line. On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 1:17 PM, Binyamin Dissen bdis...@dissensoftware.com wrote: I am attempting to run an LE program and get the specified output. I put it in CEEOPTS and nothing comes out. TRAP(OFF,NOSPIE),RPTSTG,RPTOPTS,MSGFILE(CEEMSG)

Re: Goodbye from this email address

2011-08-31 Thread Sam Siegel
Sorry to hear the bad news. I hope you bounce back quickly and/or have enough in the bank to ride of into the sunset. On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 12:19 PM, Mike Liberatore vze2q...@verizon.net wrote: Good luck; Hope things workout. Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry -Original

Re: FW: CEE0813S Insufficient Storage

2011-08-23 Thread Sam Siegel
LE will provide storage based on the Amode of the calling program. See the Language environment documentation on how to use the CEEOPTS DD to generate a storage usage report. This will give detailed information on above and below the line storage usage by COBOL and other HLLs. On Tue, Aug 23,

Re: disclosing business information on the internet

2011-07-28 Thread Sam Siegel
On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 3:14 PM, Bill Johnson mellonb...@yahoo.com wrote: In our shop, we can't even use our work email address to subscribe to the listserv, emails from it are blocked. In today's ever more security aware environment even the perception of exposure can draw unwarranted

Re: C compiler issue

2011-07-25 Thread Sam Siegel
On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 5:47 AM, Barkow, Eileen ebar...@doitt.nyc.gov wrote: I think that you need to set the MARGINS compiler option, or just specify MAR in the compiler parms. Check the c programmers guide about compiling with Sockets. Another option for CICS 3.1 and higher is to use the

Re: Making Z/OS easier - Effectively replacing JCL with Unix like commands

2011-07-19 Thread Sam Siegel
On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 7:10 PM, John McKown joa...@swbell.net wrote: On Mon, 2011-07-18 at 14:45 -0700, Sam Siegel wrote: On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 2:10 PM, Wayne Driscoll wdri...@us.ibm.com wrote: In my 20 plus year career I have seen a lot more people with mainframe backgrounds expressing

Re: Making Z/OS easier - Effectively replacing JCL with Unix like commands

2011-07-18 Thread Sam Siegel
On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 2:10 PM, Wayne Driscoll wdri...@us.ibm.com wrote: In my 20 plus year career I have seen a lot more people with mainframe backgrounds expressing a willingness to learn and integrate usage of non-mainframe technology than I have seen people from an open-systems background

Re: Ads and absurdities

2011-07-07 Thread Sam Siegel
Thank you for putting this into perspective! 2011/7/7 R.S. r.skoru...@bremultibank.com.pl Ladies, gentlemen, This is list related to IBM mainframes, z/OS and various pieces of HW and SW working in this realm. I just mentioned IBM. Advertisement? I used z/OS - this is PRODUCT NAME.

Re: End of of Ads thread

2011-07-07 Thread Sam Siegel
I agree with Dave Gibney! On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 10:22 AM, Gibney, Dave gib...@wsu.edu wrote: Shai, one and only one individual complained about you. Please ignore this individual whose contributions to this forum, IMO, are of marginal use anyway. Dave Gibney Information Technology

Re: Obtaining System Information from a COBOL program

2011-06-22 Thread Sam Siegel
On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 12:55 PM, Steve Comstock st...@trainersfriend.comwrote: On 6/22/2011 11:36 AM, Daniel Rose wrote: I had a COBOL programmer ask me how they could get the LPAR name, SYSNAME, or SMFSID from a COBOL program. I could not find a LE Function that would do that. So, a

Re: System Programming C (SPC) in MQS Exits

2011-06-04 Thread Sam Siegel
snip the two mallocs are in different load modules. The SPC malloc is in the load module that we build, that is, the MQS exit. The SPC malloc is statically linked to the MQS exit. The SPC philosophy is: link everything statically to the requesting load module, so that there is no LE runtime

Re: OT: Personal update

2011-06-04 Thread Sam Siegel
On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 7:07 AM, John McKown john.archie.mck...@gmail.comwrote: I have been in the hospital since monday the 23rd. I had a gangrenous gallbladder removed. This is my second day out of ICU. I hope to leave monday or tuesday. Ahh I am weak but doing much better. Hope you have a

Re: JCL: IF and ABEND

2011-06-02 Thread Sam Siegel
snip On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 5:30 PM, Gainsford, Allen allen.gainsf...@hp.comwrote: Normally (by default), if a jobstep abends, subsequent steps are flushed. There ought to be a better way! Have I missed something obvious? Can anyone offer a suggestion? unsnip can this be managed by

Re: Metal C and System Programming C (SPC)

2011-05-31 Thread Sam Siegel
On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 12:47 PM, Steve Comstock st...@trainersfriend.comwrote: Are these two products essentially the same? I'm thinking Metal C is the XL C version and SPC is from an earlier C compiler (maybe even pre-z/OS), but I can't find any confirmation. Anyone know the answer to this

Re: What does issue mean? (Was: SDSF issue)

2011-05-17 Thread Sam Siegel
On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 3:05 PM, Steve Comstock st...@trainersfriend.comwrote: On 5/17/2011 3:32 PM, Tony Harminc wrote: On 17 May 2011 16:32, Donnelly, John Pjohn.p.donne...@nsc.com wrote: But you did not allow for 'issue' and 'problem' in the pluperfect progressive grammatical tense.

Re: Trademarks (was: Under z/OS Unix)

2011-05-12 Thread Sam Siegel
I predict Iefbr14 will survive. No one other than IBM has sale staff good enough to require you to buy a program that does nothing. :-) On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 12:04 PM, Pearce, Colin E colin.pea...@baml.comwrote: And Ims, Ispf, Ismf and Ipl all could suffer the same fate, then there's

Re: Trademarks (was: Under z/OS Unix)

2011-05-12 Thread Sam Siegel
LOL ;) On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 12:45 PM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.comwrote: On Thu, 12 May 2011 12:12:01 -0700, Sam Siegel wrote: I predict Iefbr14 will survive. No one other than IBM has sale staff good enough to require you to buy a program that does nothing. :-) I didn't think

Re: very good read on global capitalism

2011-05-09 Thread Sam Siegel
, Pommier, Rex R. rex.pomm...@cnasurety.comwrote: And this has what to do with IBM-main? -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Sam Siegel Sent: Sunday, May 08, 2011 7:04 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: very good read

very good read on global capitalism

2011-05-08 Thread Sam Siegel
Words might would never expect to hear from these guys. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/james-p-hoffa/global-capitalism-is-dest_b_858517.html -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to

Re: Deleting post

2011-04-25 Thread Sam Siegel
posts extend to removing the responses to a removed post in which the removed post is quoted in full? Chris Mason On Sat, 23 Apr 2011 15:56:05 -0700, Sam Siegel s...@pscsi.net wrote: Agree ... some of the responses to the OP's post were funny in a way. On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 2:41 PM

Re: Deleting post

2011-04-23 Thread Sam Siegel
an fortiori ineffectual attempt to rob someone (mild example here) is still immoral even if it was ineffectual. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Sam Siegel Sent: Friday, April 22, 2011 12:12 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu

Re: Deleting post

2011-04-23 Thread Sam Siegel
Darren privately. I was not even aware of the post until this brouhaha erupted, and then out of curiosity I went back and read it. Others are probably in the same boat. Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Sam

Re: Deleting post

2011-04-22 Thread Sam Siegel
On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 11:47 AM, Schwarz, Barry A barry.a.schw...@boeing.com wrote: Does that imply that no inaction can ever be immoral? In my book no. It seems John believes otherwise. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On

Re: OT but an interesting read for MVS system Programmers

2011-04-19 Thread Sam Siegel
On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 8:37 PM, Ed Gould ps2...@yahoo.com wrote: http://www.networkworld.com/supp/2011//041811-windows-7-crashes.html This article is a How to for taking dumps and other debugging activity on a windows machine. I do not know if I want to laugh or cry. I'm not fan of MS

Re: The plural of 'virus'

2011-04-12 Thread Sam Siegel
On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 5:54 PM, Roberto Halais roberto.hal...@gmail.com wrote: What? Did you get the license plates? John has been edumacating us for quite some time now. On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 7:53 PM, john gilmore john_w_gilm...@msn.comwrote: We have been around this way

Re: Cobol and SMS question

2011-04-08 Thread Sam Siegel
On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 2:49 PM, Ward, Mike S mw...@ssfcu.org wrote: Hello all, we are z/os 1.11. I had a programmer complain the his job didn't jcl out on him and he expected it to. His program opens CCTXNSO and GLTXNSO as output OPEN OUTPUT CC-TRANS. OPEN OUTPUT GL-TRANS. Since he did

Re: Cool Things You Can Do in z/OS

2011-04-06 Thread Sam Siegel
On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 11:50 AM, Rick Fochtman rfocht...@ync.net wrote: ---snip- ... Maybe people want distributed-style application RAS;. ---unsnip- Excuse

Re: Cool Things You Can Do in z/OS

2011-04-06 Thread Sam Siegel
snip The criteria are quite different. A public phone system that connects 0.0001 percent of calls to the wrong place and drops a similar number in mid call is perfectly acceptable. A phone system (even a single local switch serving 10,000 lines) that is down for one minute a week is

Re: Cool Things You Can Do in z/OS

2011-04-06 Thread Sam Siegel
snip there was an incident a few years back where the 1-800 mapping for major percentage of the POS (point-of-sale) card-swipe terminals in the US was down for 12 minutes during a mid-day period ... this was treated as a serious corporate incident between major transaction processor and major

Re: Floating point assembler code

2011-04-04 Thread Sam Siegel
On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 8:09 AM, O'Brien, David W. (NIH/CIT) [C] obrie...@mail.nih.gov wrote: A colleague asked that the following query be posted: Are there any tutorials/samples for writing floating point assembler code. We need to work with the z/VM Performance data and it is stored in

Re: Mainframe Fresher

2011-04-04 Thread Sam Siegel
snip But typing COBOL code in ISPF is literally slower for me than typing Java code in Netbeans. Due in part to Netbean's intelligent auto-completion. When I start typing a variable name, about 80%+ of the time, Netbeans has a in line suggestion which I can select with a simple press of

Re: Mainframe Fresher

2011-04-04 Thread Sam Siegel
snip John, Based on the above, and what you have shared with us about the general IT and corporate atmosphere and your health issues, it must be damned difficult to keep your spirits up. I don't know, perhaps you don't. But I am curious as to why the mainframe doesn't just go away: there

Re: Mainframe Fresher

2011-04-04 Thread Sam Siegel
the application. I dont know about everyone else, no one handed the work I do to me on a silver platter, I came up through the ranks.. Scott J Ford From: Sam Siegel s...@pscsi.net To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Sent: Mon, April 4, 2011 3:56:12 PM Subject: Re

Re: Mainframe Fresher

2011-04-04 Thread Sam Siegel
On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 1:24 PM, Scott Ford scott_j_f...@yahoo.com wrote: But Corporate America is going to get a rude awaking wh Amen, Sam. But Corporate America is going to get a rude awaking when us 'dinosaurs' call it quits.these 30+ yr olds dont want to know about z/OS and IBM

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