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Behalf Of Mark Zelden
Sent: Tuesday, August 22, 2006 4:39 PM
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Subject: Re: really stupid question - z/OS 1.6 and CSTOR 2Gb
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So if running with more than 2G central was a
Metz (Seymour J.)
Sent: Friday, August 18, 2006 3:12 PM
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Subject: Re: List Server Problem?
In [EMAIL PROTECTED],
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at 09:23 AM, Thompson, Steve (SCI TW)
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Is there something I should know about or check on? I'm starting to
wonder about
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Subject: Re: Back Doors
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For a number of new services we have done just that. Look at the
services for adding
San Jose CA, DFP personnel. Mr Yates brought you the $15K manual that
documented all the documented I/O interfaces that have since been
obscured.
My comment was a rather pointed barb at IBM for allowing this to
continue.
Regards,
Steve Thompson
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So all the VM Assist instructions are gone? Wow!
Later,
Steve Thompson
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Subject: Re: The Fate of VM - was: Re: Baby
How did this tape get created? Was it created on a VSE system? If so not
all of the label information is filled out and so *YOU* have to supply
the actual physical record size (BLKSIZE) along with the other DCB info.
UNLESS you are using LBI. In that case, the LEGACY BLKSIZE will be 0
but the new
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Sent: Friday, August 18, 2006 8:04 AM
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Subject: Re: Use of FORCE
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Do you have anything constructive to offer? He did the FORCE at the
time, now he'd
Consider using the FORCE command as a last resort when the CANCEL
command still fails to perform its function after you have issued it
several times.
WARNING: Never use the FORCE command without understanding that:
- After issuing FORCE, you might have to re-IPL.
ARM The system is to terminate
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Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2006 10:06 AM
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Subject: Re: Use of FORCE
On Thu, 17 Aug 2006 01:28:34 -0400, Jim Mulder [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
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In the
If it is still supported, check out the DECLARATIVES. If it isn't
supported, some COBOL migration manual should explain how to migrate
those. And I think that is the kind of thing you are looking to handle
in COMEing FROM PL/1 (as opposed to a GO TO -- but that is a compiler
writer's joke).
Does anyone know if Alyson Comer is at SHARE? And if she is, can anyone
tell me how to get in touch. We seem to have a problem where we need to
contact her AASAP.
Regards,
Steve Thompson
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It depends. If the APF libraries are in the LLA, then yes, the refresh
is needed. If the APF libraries are NOT in LLA, or otherwise handled by
the system (VLF), and you do not have a third party product (e.g. CA's
PMO), then you should be done.
Oh, one more thing. You need to LNKEDT with AC(1) IF
Yes, but he got 1000[2].
Kinda reminds me of something my mathematic professor brother-in-law
might say: 3 kinds of people in this world, them that can count and them
that can't.
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In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 08/14/2006
at 02:57 PM,
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
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Subject: Re: the personal data theft pandemic continues
Are those two wars the 7th century invasion of Europe from
I use CTC's ISPF environment emulation. If you find a replacement I
would be interested because they dropped REXX support for scripting
purposes.
I would have suggested PC/AT WYLBUR, but I don't know if it is available
any more.
Later,
Steve Thompson
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Klairol for Klingons -- For Today is a Good Day to Dye.
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Nice. Just what the doctor ordered for a friend of mine who collects
such things.
Regards,
Steve Thompson
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Sent: Friday, August 11, 2006 9:59 AM
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Subject: Re: SHARE bound air traveler's TSA change liquids prohibited in
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Personally, I would like to see dampening
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
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Sent: Friday, August 11, 2006 12:10 PM
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Subject: Re: Damping Fields
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Actually, commercial airliners use the same VHF nav/comm band as general
aviation for
Actually, it's in the FAA regs. I don't know about the FCC regs (I
stopped reading them when the CB abortion took place).
Later,
Steve Thompson
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That's known as frequency separation. :-)
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If I remember correctly, FREQ SEP is
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It is all very well to say you don't like
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But I guess in the near future I need more: is it running, which
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Sent: Tuesday, August 08, 2006 8:21 AM
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Of course, I am not a developer, so I may well be
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Subject: Re: Vendor JCL (was: WHY IS JCL ALLERGIC ... )
On Tue, 8 Aug 2006 10:03:24 -0400, Thompson, Steve (SCI TW
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Concerning the antiquity of single case, what
What is it you need to do once it ends? Do *you* just need to know that
it has run? Do you need to do something once it runs? Do you need to
know how it completed?
With a bit more information you might get an answer that hits what you
need just by making use of built in functionality.
Later,
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Be careful what you wish for. That BMC thingie you're
Generally, JOB Scheduler packages have the dataset catalog/create
detection.
Automated Operations products handle the Operating of the system
(varying this or that on/off line, starting/stopping tasks, monitoring
tasks to restart them, etc.).
The only way I can think of that an Automated
WELL KIND OF. PUNCHED CARDS SEEMED TO ALWAYS BE DONE IN UPPER CASE. THEN
CAME THE ONLINE GRAPHICS DEVICES. so while we were typing away in lower
case, TSO WAS FOLDING TO UPPER CASE. and if you were working with an
online system and didn't know this, you wouldn't fold and your screens
would look
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Actually, many people were never convinced that
throwing the
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Sent: Friday, August 04, 2006 2:41 PM
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SNIP
There are some issues with lower case - data set names cannot
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Sorry - CATALOGUED data sets do not support lower case. Yes, you
I was doing some work on an issue here and thought I read that as of
z/OS 1.7 you must clear R0 prior to a WTO and use CONNECT instead.
Did anyone else see that little comment somewhere or something like it?
I've searched every 1.7 PDF I have on my hard drive for z/OS 1.7 macros
and I can't
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Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2006 12:39 PM
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Left hand/right hand?
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I wish it were that simple. It was a comment about 1.7 and
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seems to me that if there was such a new requirement, a lot of old code
would be
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Yes, I came across it last week. In
z/OS MVS Programming: Assembler Services
I thought I might point out something in this Packed Decimal discussion.
IBM mainframes are not the only computer systems to use PD! Wang VS
systems (ASCII based) also used PD. Burroughs, if memory serves me
correctly, also used PD. I must assume that UNISYS uses PD.
And again, if memory serves
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And, of course, that doesn't help non-LE implementations.
How about AIF (D'S99RBXLN).DONE_ALREADY inside the IBM supplied macro?
You apply this to the macro via USERMOD...
Regards,
Steve Thompson
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Sent: Monday, July 31, 2006 9:09 AM
To:
I read this coming back and realized it might appear that I was talking
down to you. Sorry, that was not my intent. Just to be a bit instructive
to others that review this later.
However, I have had to do this kind of thing in macros that we have had
to capture to ensure correct code expansions
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Sent: Monday, July 31, 2006 2:12 PM
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Subject: Re: Java Packed Decimal
SNIP
Fortunately, there's not too much packed/zoned decimal data on
mainframes any more
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Sent: Monday, July 31, 2006 10:53 AM
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Subject: Re: sequence numbers (or whatever)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 07/30/2006
at 01:12 PM, john gilmore
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Sent: Monday, July 31, 2006 4:03 PM
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Subject: Sequence numbers (AGAIN!)
SNIP
OK, to recap again, the sequence numbers are used for:
1. IEBUDTE, which is used by
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
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Sent: Friday, July 28, 2006 2:19 PM
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Subject: Re: IBM Redbook: Introduction to the New Mainframe: z/OS
Basics
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In my opinion, the solution to this
CDS does serialization, then an interlocked update and then
serialization.
LM does not do either.
Later,
Steve Thompson
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Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2006 10:12 AM
To:
Binyamin:
Are you trying to ensure that all CPUs will see the new values once
you are done? Because that is what I assumed you were really after when
I attempted to answered the question.
In order to do that, you must do an update that forces the other CPUs to
flush or store the affected cache
Sorry the IBM West Coast Beta Test /Architectural Validation Lab
[Amdahl] is no longer open for business.
Regards,
Steve Thompson
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Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2006 2:30 PM
To:
If you sanitize a dump you might find that you have killed information
that the support persons might need.
Suppose that you are running some product that has an encryption
function and it fails. If you sanitize that dump, removing all the clear
text, it may become impossible for the support
Comments embedded.
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Behalf Of Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
Sent: Monday, July 24, 2006 2:08 PM
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Subject: Re: Questions on TCB Chain / TIOT
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What I am trying to do is get back to the
Could someone help me verify the rules for the TCBJSTCB pointer?
What I am trying to do is get back to the main task TCB for the address
space to use its TIOT.
Now I know that the first 3 TCBs in the address space (RCT, Dump, and
STC) all point to themselves when looking at their
Reply to all posters:
1) The question as to where I got the idea that a subsequent TCB could
be pointing to itself and not the actual Job Step TCB:
MVS Data Areas, Volume 5 (SSAG - XTLST) GA22-7585-08
In the TCB information specifically for offset:
124 (7C) ADDRESS 4 TCBJSTCB (0) - ADDRESS OF
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