SV: An Alternative Modest PARM Proposal

2009-11-03 Thread Thomas Berg
-Ursprungligt meddelande- Från: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] För Chris Craddock Skickat: den 3 november 2009 07:39 Till: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Ämne: Re: An Alternative Modest PARM Proposal You and I have diametrically opposed perspectives of

Re: SV: An Alternative Modest PARM Proposal

2009-11-03 Thread P S
On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 9:28 AM, Thomas Berg thomas.b...@swedbank.se wrote: Tsk, tsk. I think You should leave this matter to more persons with more knowledge. You see, this is a complicated matter, which You will maybe grasp when You have got some experience. And just how does this poorly

SV: SV: An Alternative Modest PARM Proposal

2009-11-03 Thread Thomas Berg
-Ursprungligt meddelande- Från: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] För P S Skickat: den 3 november 2009 15:56 Till: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Ämne: Re: SV: An Alternative Modest PARM Proposal On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 9:28 AM, Thomas Berg thomas.b

Re: Outlook Reply behaviour (Example: RE: SV: SV: An Alternative Modest PARM Proposal)

2009-11-03 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In d173ec266418d84395b4b89759d861d403cf9...@usmdlmdowx025.dow.com, on 11/02/2009 at 05:21 PM, van der Grijn, Bart (B) bvandergr...@dow.com said: As far as I'm concerned everyone has the right to use whatever reply prefix they want There is an Internet convention to use re: in replies,

Re: SV: An Alternative Modest PARM Proposal

2009-11-03 Thread Chris Craddock
On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 9:08 AM, Thomas Berg thomas.b...@swedbank.se wrote: On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 9:28 AM, Thomas Berg thomas.b...@swedbank.se wrote: Tsk, tsk. I think You should leave this matter to more persons with more knowledge. You see, this is a complicated matter, which

SV: An Alternative Modest PARM Proposal

2009-11-02 Thread Thomas Berg
If the current JCL PARM format change from HW + 0-100 bytes to HW + 100 bytes + FW for the new long parm + 0-??? bytes long parm, are there any backward compatibility problems ? Regards, Thomas Berg __ Thomas Berg Specialist IT-U SWEDBANK

Re: SV: An Alternative Modest PARM Proposal

2009-11-02 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Mon, 2 Nov 2009 13:40:44 +0100, Thomas Berg wrote: If the current JCL PARM format change from HW + 0-100 bytes to HW + 100 bytes + FW for the new long parm + 0-??? bytes long parm, are there any backward compatibility problems ? There would be a lateral compatibility problem, in that the parm

SV: SV: An Alternative Modest PARM Proposal

2009-11-02 Thread Thomas Berg
- Från: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] För Paul Gilmartin Skickat: den 2 november 2009 17:50 Till: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Ämne: Re: SV: An Alternative Modest PARM Proposal On Mon, 2 Nov 2009 13:40:44 +0100, Thomas Berg wrote: If the current JCL PARM format

Re: SV: SV: An Alternative Modest PARM Proposal

2009-11-02 Thread Howard Brazee
On 2 Nov 2009 09:19:45 -0800, thomas.b...@swedbank.se (Thomas Berg) wrote: As the problem is (old?) programs that cannot cope with longer parms than 100 bytes, among them IBM module apparently, that's the problem that needs to be solved. So we cannot avoid a somewhat ugly change of the JCL

Re: SV: An Alternative Modest PARM Proposal

2009-11-02 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Thomas Berg Sent: Monday, November 02, 2009 11:15 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: SV: SV: An Alternative Modest PARM Proposal But obviously not a *backward* compatibility

Re: SV: SV: An Alternative Modest PARM Proposal

2009-11-02 Thread Tom Marchant
On Mon, 2 Nov 2009 18:14:38 +0100, Thomas Berg wrote: But obviously not a *backward* compatibility problem ? And the main problem here, as I have understood the discussion, is the limit of 100 bytes through JCL PARM. And that is sort of another format as I see it. As the problem is (old?)

SV: SV: SV: An Alternative Modest PARM Proposal

2009-11-02 Thread Thomas Berg
-Ursprungligt meddelande- Från: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] För Tom Marchant Skickat: den 2 november 2009 18:42 Till: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Ämne: Re: SV: SV: An Alternative Modest PARM Proposal On Mon, 2 Nov 2009 18:14:38 +0100, Thomas Berg wrote

SV: SV: An Alternative Modest PARM Proposal

2009-11-02 Thread Thomas Berg
-Ursprungligt meddelande- Från: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] För McKown, John Skickat: den 2 november 2009 18:38 Till: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Ämne: Re: SV: An Alternative Modest PARM Proposal -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe

Re: SV: An Alternative Modest PARM Proposal

2009-11-02 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Mon, 2 Nov 2009 11:38:25 -0600, McKown, John wrote: How about just agreeing that the HW pointed to my R1 can range in value from 0 to +32,767. In fact, at least one IBM program (I just tested it) works quite well with a PARM string length of 65,635 in the HW. And, in the new JCL PARMX

SV: An Alternative Modest PARM Proposal

2009-11-02 Thread Thomas Berg
-Ursprungligt meddelande- Från: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] För Paul Gilmartin Skickat: den 2 november 2009 19:23 Till: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Ämne: Re: An Alternative Modest PARM Proposal On Mon, 2 Nov 2009 18:57:49 +0100, Thomas Berg wrote:

Re: SV: An Alternative Modest PARM Proposal

2009-11-02 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Mon, 2 Nov 2009 19:45:43 +0100, Thomas Berg wrote: Well, the caos is not primarily feared based on API format. I was thinking of Job JCLs that production planners, those who restart and corrects jobs, application programmers/designers etc; all those who deals with parms that have application

Re: SV: An Alternative Modest PARM Proposal

2009-11-02 Thread McKown, John
-Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Monday, November 02, 2009 1:56 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: SV: An Alternative Modest PARM Proposal snip I might even advocate a new JCL command

SV: SV: An Alternative Modest PARM Proposal

2009-11-02 Thread Thomas Berg
-Ursprungligt meddelande- Från: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] För Paul Gilmartin Skickat: den 2 november 2009 20:56 Till: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Ämne: Re: SV: An Alternative Modest PARM Proposal On Mon, 2 Nov 2009 19:45:43 +0100, Thomas Berg wrote

Re: SV: An Alternative Modest PARM Proposal

2009-11-02 Thread Tom Marchant
On Mon, 2 Nov 2009 14:02:26 -0600, McKown, John wrote: -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin I might even advocate a new JCL command, //L EXECU PGM=..., where EXECU invokes the program in the unauthorized

Re: SV: SV: An Alternative Modest PARM Proposal

2009-11-02 Thread Tom Marchant
On Mon, 2 Nov 2009 21:16:42 +0100, Thomas Berg wrote: *BUT*, we still we have the problem of backward incompatibility regardless of the input format... Not if the PARM is stored in memory the same way it is today: A fullword parameter address with the high order bit set to 1. That word points

Re: SV: SV: An Alternative Modest PARM Proposal

2009-11-02 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
At 18:14 +0100 on 11/02/2009, Thomas Berg wrote about SV: SV: An Alternative Modest PARM Proposal: As the problem is (old?) programs that cannot cope with longer parms than 100 bytes, among them IBM module apparently, that's the problem that needs to be solved. Not exactly on the IBM

Outlook Reply behaviour (Example: RE: SV: SV: An Alternative Modest PARM Proposal)

2009-11-02 Thread van der Grijn, Bart (B)
My apologies if this has been discussed in the past, but as someone that groups his IBM-Main inbox by Subject I want to point out the following: http://www.trilithium.com/johan/2005/06/re-outlook/ As far as I'm concerned everyone has the right to use whatever reply prefix they want and I don't