The term 'bijective' is a fairly old one, the earliest reference I
found in a Mathematical Reviews index was for 1939.. Anyone who has
had a college course in mathematical logic or, yes, set theory is
likely to know or have forgotten its meaning.
It does, however, have a bad reputation because
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Let me also offer you the perhaps gratuitous advice to test at least
your early code in a sandbox LPAR. It is easy to get PC code very
wrong in a way that can compromise an LPAR for use by anyone else,
requiring an IPL for recovery.
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no mention of the very good P/M facilities that Perl makes available.
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Is
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just a typo for LRECL=125 in your post, or is it LECL in your code too?
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LECL=125
just a typo for LRECL=125 in your post, or is it LECL in your code too?
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, a DSECT can be misused. You are
of course correct that if pointed in the weeds it will yield
gibberish and, with luck, a quick ABEND.
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computer-room
tape drives being used to slit a one-inch tape into two half-inch
ones.
One enterprising operator friend of mine--He later became a sysprog
who mostly lurks but sometimes posts here--even did a small business
in selling slitters adapted to this purpose.
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hands.
For syslog/.operlog the operative question should instead be:
Who, if anyone, needs to be prevented from accessing this information?
The answer will then usually be no minimally qualified user.
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and I can vouch that it's sometimes easy to slip up.
Cheers,
Ray
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interval for testing---a resolution of any and every SORT and/or
ICETOOL problem will be forthcoming here.
Ave atque vale!
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operational rather than philosophical; and it would appear that Lim
Ming Liang has found it usable and useful.
Let's of course try to answer Lim's further questions as they arise,
but too much preliminary qualification is paralyzing.
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became very familiar with IEBEDIT, which was used to edit
the stage 2 job stream to produce a recovery one.
It remains a useful utility, and those who don't use it should study
the few manual pages that describe it.
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Masochism? A latent death wish?
I think not. These examples are variants of the If it ain't broke,
don't fix it refrain that we often hear here.
Heavy, inappropriate use of obsolete or at best obsolescent technology
is one of the identifying characteristics of mainframe shops.
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Unhelpfully, I cannot remember its title or who gave it.
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Some experimentation for plausible ranges of FACTOR values strongly
suggests that this computation should be done with an appropriate mean
in each specific context. My suggestion of a table was thus a more
valuable one than I realized when I made it.
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against the levels you are using in relevant production (excluding any
components you are not using).
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It is thus premature and perhaps worse to label this query a joke or
scam of some sort. If it is one, that will emerge; but let's defer
judgment for now.
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the writing of [non-duplicative] sonnets by others.
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thus sure that it
can be done in C too.
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. They belong to another,
prescientific tradition.
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The backup is essential if IBM's help is to be solicited. I would ask
for that help before doing anything more. I have never seen or heard
of such an error, and it may be hard to reproduce.
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Program is followed by one, (UCFP).
This pother has nevertheless gone on long enough, indeed too long, as
Schmuel apparently also agrees.
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(UCFP)
should of course be
(UUCP)
instead. My apologies.
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likely to be taught.
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of the label gubbins active
at the time of the first call,he DSA stack weill be purged
appropriately, etc., etc..
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in use somewhere.
Bad code and good code reflect the qualities of mind, training, and
experience of the programmers who write them; there are no shortcuts
available for producing the good kind.
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If we're going to talk about these issues it will be useful to avoid
carelessness.
There may well be or have been an Edgar Dijkstra, but if so he has
been silent about GOTOs.
The Dijkstra of interest here was Edsger W. Dijkstra (1930-2002).
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).traversal_lend
to his single statement.
I even object, but not much, to
|.trvend anop ,
I supply the missing-operand comma for anop, mexit, etc., only when I
want to place a comment after it.
These, however, are details that are important only as they contribute
to coherence.
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and passim.]
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of.
Cognates abound. In Farsi, for example, rare meat is described as 'na
pochte', not cooked; and the American 'half-baked', used to describe
some ideas and etymologies, may reflect semantic contamination from
this source.
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complexity bore and
discourage people who don't use it regularly.
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action will thus be given to your routine.
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Association have not been problematic.
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protection against
over-the-pole incursions of the USSR's atomic-bomb carrying Badger
bombers, but only well after those bombers had been retired from
service.
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I like zMan's idea for a two-sided--nanosecond and millimeter--ruler;
his notion that the availability of the second, millimeter side would
make justifying its cost easy is a really inspired piece of nonsense.
I wish I'd thought of it.
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I've been struck over the years by the relevance and helpfulness of
your posts. You don't pontificate, and you don't say more than you
know.
Let me borrow and adapt from George Orwell's tribute to Gandhi:
Compared to most contributors here, what a clean smell you will be
leaving behind!
John
in these situations;
and I will not.
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that a PL/I
routine expects when it is invoked from another PL/I routine,
i.e., to avoid any use of options(asm) anywhere.
Descriptors are your friends; they provide generality and power; and
they are what generated PL/I code expects to work with.
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There is a long tradition among sysprogs of what is done and not done,
and what is done is done within the framework of SMP. There are some
few exceptions, but most ISVs use SMP too.
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if you wish to
discuss that subsystem; and stai zitt' until you have mastered it.
(Controversy will not thus be eliminated or perhaps even much reduced;
equally informed views can, do differ sharply; quaint irrelevance will
be reduced).
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) by steering, which accomplishes the insertion|removal incrementally
over a period of about 7 hours, or
2) by spinning on a lock for a full second, which does it in one gulp,
helpful.
Be aware that the next leap-second insertion will be at 11:59:59 UTF
on 30 June 2012.
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Quite right! It is WP102091. I am suitably repentent.
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citations. Or again, you can search them out yourself on line.
Neither should, however, be necessary. (You know very well that only
0 and 1 can appear in a zero-origin modulo(2) sequence.)
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Martian positions on this and other such
issues.
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they are known procedurally to be innocuous.).
To repeat myself now, Peter is nonetheless correct in the abstract.
There is a long intellectual tradition which has it that the
production of just one black swan is an unanswerable refutation of the
proposition that all swans are white.
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, growing population of white swan pairs
resident throughout the year in our glacial ponds/reservoirs here in
Massachusetts west of Boston. They are very tolerant of people, and I
should not want to see that change.)
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, but they
are useful to people who lack the experience to make subtle
distinctions.
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one should be given very serious
consideration (as an earlier poster pointed out in somewhat different
terms).Dynamic loading is often used gratuitously; but in this
situation, where many other routines invoke the same apparently
volatile subroutine, it could very well be useful.
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one when the document in question contains
multiple, not entirely consistent discussions of the same topic.
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with the same REPLACE statement for
each of your around 11,000 applications will solve your problem, If
not, not. (The ill-advised COPY operations may perhaps, depending
upon when they were done, preclude this operation.)
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includes some COBOL examples.
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, are either askers or answerers of
questions, with only very occasional role reversals; and this portion
of what we do here is better modelled using Bill's terminology than
Greg's.
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C/C++ and Enterprise PL/I share the same
optimizer and code generator; and it is thus unsurprising that their
ARCH levels are the same.
Crowded lines sometimes result from defaulting to the option
LIST(121)? The option LIST(133) should [almost] always be coded
explicitly.
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.)
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I should guess that the question whether there will ever be a METAL
PL/I is more IBM-political than technical.
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It is not a secret that XL C/C++ and Enterprise PL/I share
I don't know whether Tony is the notional culprit or I am, but I can
very easily be induced to shut up/avoid your topics, and I shall now
do so.
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I was glad to see Allen Gainsford's mention of the Copy Access, CPYA,
instruction. It is too little known and used, as this thread makes
clear.
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--- in that.
There is an old notion that, shorn of any sexist connotations it may
once have had, remains important. It is not enough that Caesar's wife
be virtuous; she must also be seen to be virtuous.
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is fatally flawed.
Grappling with the idiocies of time management is best left to
coloro che sanno.
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Shmuel/Seymour wrote:
begin extract
NFW. There was only a single partition on PCP. Based on the model I'd
guess that you were running DOS/360.
/end extract
and it is correct, albeit in a Pickwickian sense, that OS/PCP had
only a single partition; but it did support both transient and
resident
of the admittedly much subtler offense of
providing a template for others, who are bent on mischief, to use.
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(always one of two) is provided; etc., etc.[The
detailed design of this table should make provision for negative
leap-second corrections, but that is a trivial matter.]
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Barry Merrill is of course politically entitled to his view. Equally,
he is entitled to the view that the earth is flat. The warrant for
both is much the same.
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; cgs [centimeter-gram-second] units and fsf
[furlong-stone-fortnight] units are, I suppose, more and less
perspicuous; but as long as they are unambiguously interconvertible
the choice between them poses only issues of taste not substance.
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the patience of
some, and this is my last post in this thread.
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Still, their UNIX-oriented initiatives are a clear danger to
legitimate, MVS-based undertakings; and some of the hybrid schemes
they have urged are flagrantly subversive of good order.
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arranged in a
row in the National Portrait Gallery in London--of cabal is
Charles [King Charles II]
Arlington
Buckingham
Ashley
Lauderdale
I promise not to do it again anytime soon
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call face validity will all but certainly lead someone who notes
that it is wrong to waste much time eliminating its incorrect value as
the source of some other problem.
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they are easy to miss.
Finally, this is of course a judgment call.
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not so easy
to induce Java to call C successfully. To do this one needs to know
more, and that more is just what is addressed in ILC discussions.
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Otherwise wouldn't every C program have to consist simply of one humongous
main()?
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There may well be a facility for suppressing unwanted DFSORT messages,
particularly informational ones. If there is, FY will provide you and
the rest of us with information about it here (unless perchance he is
in Timbuktu today).
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books. (Indeed, and to the point, the three Arsenal footballers I
have known well were not intellectually challenged.)
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a game that need not be played with the z/OS LE.
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