Robert A. Rosenberg wrote:
There was also the secondary use of the high bit to signal AM24 vs
AM31 in addresses used for branching to/from subroutines. This
required replacing BALR with BASR and BR with BSM to do the AM Mode
Switch.
And, the low-order bit of the address now indicates
Timothy Sipples wrote:
Introducing the System z10 Business Class:
http://www.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/25584.wss
Targeted toward x86 users. Not one mention of z/OS. Disgusting. :-(
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Los Angeles, CA
Hi Bill,
1 VS Cobol Program is actually OS/VS Cobol (amblist shows 5740CB103 as
compiler version). Program compilation details are like:
AMODE(24),RMODE(24), NOT-RENT, RES
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On Mon, 2008-10-20 at 23:17 -0700, Edward Jaffe wrote:
Targeted toward x86 users. Not one mention of z/OS. Disgusting. :-(
Not only, but also ...
Try getting the datasheet from that link.
Who teaches these people about how to construct (meaningful) web pages.
Bah
There's more information on the new System z10 BC now available here (click
on the top graphic):
http://www.ibm.com/systems/z
and here:
http://www.ibm.com/systems/z/hardware/z10bc
Here are some of my thoughts
The price reductions jump out. Specialty engines (IFLs, zAAPs, and zIIPs),
with
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article
that has been posted to bit.listserv.ibm-main as well.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert A. Rosenberg) writes:
There was also the secondary use of the high bit to signal AM24 vs
AM31 in addresses used for branching to/from subroutines. This
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Todd Burch
What utility program (or proc) is available that will allow me to
enter
operator commands via a batch job?
We use IEFBR14.
-jc-
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I could send you the code for an old utility program that issues an operator
command (no idea who wrote it, but it works like a charm.)
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Todd
Burch
Sent: Monday,
Jousma, David wrote:
How about this for a Program Directory:
IBM Fault Analyzer for z/OS V9R1 Program Directory (GI10-8802-00)
Abstract:
This document contains the prerequisties and the installation
information for IBM Fault Analyzer.
Price:
USD 41.35
The price shown above does not include
On Tue, 21 Oct 2008 08:00:53 -0400, Martinez, Frank J [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
I could send you the code for an old utility program that issues an operator
command (no idea who wrote it, but it works like a charm.)
I am sure there is something on the CBT tape.
Search http://cbttape.org for
It depends if you want the commands synchronized
with a particular step, or not.
If you don't require step synchronization, you can
simply include the commands in the JCL, either
directly or as operands of the COMMAND statement.
However, if you do require step synchronization, you
will
On Tue, 21 Oct 2008 08:58:36 -0400, J R [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It depends if you want the commands synchronized
with a particular step, or not.
If you don't require step synchronization, you can
simply include the commands in the JCL, either
directly or as operands of the COMMAND
Thanks to everyone.
I implemented Raymond's suggestion for // COMMAND 'blah' last night, and it
works great. The unsynchronized behavior is fine for the immediate need at
hand. I needed to refresh WLM.
John, do you have an example of an IEFBR14 job that would do this?
I've used PGM=COMMAND
John, what processes the /*$VS piece of that?
Todd
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of John McKown
Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2008 8:08 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: EXEC PGM=??? to issue operator commands from
I'm looking at the announcement. But, being a bit ignorant, there are some
features which I don't know what they are. Any help?
Enhanced Application Preservation?
Enhanced Firmware Simulation? (is that better/faster millicode?)
Partial memory restart?
Pseudo random number generator (PRNG)? I
snip
InfiniBand Host Bus: I am somewhat aware of what this is. What software
supports it? z/VM Linux only? Or z/OS and z/VSE as well? What about in
the future? From later in the list, is this only for Coupling Facility
links?
/snip
z/OS yes (more recent releases only. 1.8???). Not sure about
On Tue, 21 Oct 2008 08:10:55 -0500, Todd Burch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
John, what processes the /*$VS piece of that?
Todd
$VS is a JES2 command which basically tells JES2 to issue an MVS command.
Although it is issued by the JES2 address space, the command is processed as
if it were issued by
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Todd Burch
Thanks to everyone.
I implemented Raymond's suggestion for // COMMAND 'blah' last night,
and it
works great. The unsynchronized behavior is fine for the immediate
need at
hand. I needed to refresh
John McKown wrote:
[...]
InfiniBand Host Bus: I am somewhat aware of what this is. What software
supports it? z/VM Linux only? Or z/OS and z/VSE as well? What about in the
future? From later in the list, is this only for Coupling Facility links?
I'd suggest Redbook about InfiniBand in z10.
John, Infiniband is used a lot in z10 BC (same in EC). There are four
types of fanout cards from CPC drawer. Only one is non-Infiniband, it
is ICB-4. You have two types of IB-oprical for coupling links and one
IB-copper which connects CPC drawer to I/O drawers. Obviously
connection from CPC to I/O
On Tue, 21 Oct 2008 15:37:50 +0200, R.S. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
John McKown wrote:
[...]
InfiniBand Host Bus: I am somewhat aware of what this is. What software
supports it? z/VM Linux only? Or z/OS and z/VSE as well? What about in the
future? From later in the list, is this only for
I've used REXX with good results as well as the various JCL solutions
posted by others.
The JCL solutions are quick and easy and work well. I use REXX when I
need logic, variables, and/or time delays.
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What about The Source Recovery Company? I've heard their presentations
at Share (and Guide, I think, back in the day). Not sure they're still around
but there is a Web site:
http://www.source-recovery.com/
Gene Lynd
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We use a program from the CBT tape for this very thing.
Todd's original need has been satisfied for the moment, as he didn't
need to synchronize commands within a job stream. Even so, I prefer to
use the program, as differing security parameters at our installation
mean the IEFBR14 method
On Oct 20, 2008, at 11:15, Steve Comstock wrote:
Did you know the quoted price for these little gems
(that came from the original S/360 green card) are
now priced at $173.82?!!
I know they're downloadable for free, but I wanted
to hand them out to a class in the little booklet
form, not on 8.5
File19, a program called COMMAND.
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Jan MOEYERSONS
Sent: 21. lokakuuta 2008 15:42
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: EXEC PGM=??? to issue operator commands from the JCL
stream?
On Tue, 21 Oct
On 10/21/2008 at 9:37 AM, in message [EMAIL PROTECTED],
R.S. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
-snip-
In few words Infiniband is used for copupling links only, so only z/OS
(and CFCC) can exploit it. So, no VM, VSE, TPF, no Linux.
For Linux, that will be changing in the not too distant future.
Hello everybody.
Today we don't announce z10 BC only, also new functions and features
for z10 EC become available. There is one new redbook and two updated
redbooks available.
IBM System z10 Business Class Technical Overview
http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redpieces/abstracts/sg247632.html?Open
IBM
We've seen this before. It means that MQ thinks there is something it needs
to keep track of from that date. It could be a dead or orphaned message. Try
re-cycling (stop/start) the queue manager to free up the datasets, and then
manually delete the datasets (if MQ hasn't).
If the re-cycle
I've heard rumors to the effect that the current (high) prices
were set erroneously, and that a correction is being considered.
John ehrman
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John R. Ehrman (408-463-3543 T/543-) wrote:
I've heard rumors to the effect that the current (high) prices
were set erroneously, and that a correction is being considered.
John ehrman
That would be good news. Thanks for checking it
out and staying on top of it, John.
Kind regards,
-Steve
Isn't that what the Department of Defense said about the $435 hammers?
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 10:08:06 -0700
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: z/Architecture Reference Summary
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
I've heard rumors to the effect that the current (high) prices
were set erroneously,
On my JES2 system, nothing special is needed. To issue commands that do
not have to coordinate with job steps, you can just stick them at the top
of any job.
For example, when running a testcase that requires me to use a special
writer proc and destination for a certain printer, I can just
How about CPU Measurement Facility?
The announcement pointed us to ResourceLink for more details,
but all that came up was an abstract from the Research Journal:
http://researchweb.watson.ibm.com/journal/abstracts/rd/531/jackson.html
Mark Vitale
Senior Software Engineer
PERFMAN
www.perfman.com
Mark,
high level answer - CPU measurement facility can be switched on from
HMC when directed by IBM. It will collect extra performance data, very
low level stuff, don't ask about details, I don't know.
It was available before in other form which required an outage (I
don't know if POR or partition
It turns out I DO know about this...
I've known it's been in the works for about a year and have had some very
basic sample data since the Spring.
I'm hoping to get round to blogging about it in a few days. (An urgent
customer situation and also HackDay 6 on Friday prevent me from spending
On Mon, 20 Oct 2008 22:00:00 -0500, Paul Gilmartin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
...
I thought 31-bit was for compatibility with existing exploitation
of the sign bit; ...
Nope, it was the use of a X'80' in the high-order byte of a fullword to
terminate a variable-length parameter list (of
Right, but I think it's fairly clear that they
were both talking about the same thing.
Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 14:16:43 -0500
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Addressing Scheme with 64 vs 63 bits
To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
On Mon, 20 Oct 2008 22:00:00 -0500, Paul Gilmartin
[EMAIL
I gave a new programmer my list of CoBOL reference URLS, such as
http://www.s390.ibm.com/bookmgr-cgi/bookmgr.cmd/BOOKS/IGYLR205/CCONTENTS
, but these no longer work. I did some searches from the page that
came up. Where can I find the CoBOL language guide and user manual?
On Tue, 21 Oct 2008 14:15:56 -0600, Howard Brazee
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I gave a new programmer my list of CoBOL reference URLS, such as
http://www.s390.ibm.com/bookmgr-
cgi/bookmgr.cmd/BOOKS/IGYLR205/CCONTENTS
, but these no longer work. I did some searches from the page that
came up.
Howard,
Try here, as good a place as any to start.
http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/z/os/zos/bkserv/zswpdf/
Rob Jackson
Senior z/OS Systems Programmer
Work phone: (615) 231-4998
Fax (615) 886-9519
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On Tue, 21 Oct 2008 15:38:56 -0400, J R wrote:
Right, but I think it's fairly clear that they
were both talking about the same thing.
... and I chose the term simply because I can never
remember which systems number bits left-to-right, and
which right to left, or start with 0, or start with
I use the LibraryCenter for my version of z/OS available from
http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/z/os/zos/bkserv/. If you click on your
version of z/OS you get a two-pane browser window with a Java applet running
in the left pane that acts as an index or table of contents. The most
current COBOL,
I don't know about anyone else, but I always start at the z/OS Internet
Library here:
http://www.ibm.com/systems/z/os/zos/bkserv/
Then go to the z/OS software products Book link here:
http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/z/os/zos/bkserv/zapplsbooks.html
Then for COBOL you have to remember it is named
Gil -- same here...but I don't get hung up on semantics..I translate
flag/sign when speaking in assembler-ese...
Regards,
Scott Ford
Senior Systems Engineer
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Peter,
I typically go there also, I usually bookmark it in IE7...
Scott Ford
Senior Systems Engineer
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On 21 Oct 2008 13:20:37 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ramiro
Camposagrado) wrote:
This is the COBOL Home Page:
http://www-01.ibm.com/software/awdtools/cobol/
I had found that link, I'll have to do some more searching to find the
language reference manual.
On 21 Oct 2008 13:26:28 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(Schneiderwent, Craig) wrote:
I use the LibraryCenter for my version of z/OS available from
http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/z/os/zos/bkserv/. If you click on your
version of z/OS you get a two-pane browser window with a Java applet running
in the
Paul Gilmartin wrote:
... and I chose the term simply because I can never
remember which systems number bits left-to-right, and
which right to left, or start with 0, or start with 1.
And I think the IBM 704 didn't even number the sign
bit -- it was simply S, and didn't (sometimes)
participate in
Yeah Gerhard and Gil,
Starting writing Assembler on a 360/20,, man 704 days...
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I just ran out of space on my ROOT while installing JAVA 31. I'd like a
ball-park number of your size I have 60K tracks and it's
on my SYSRES. I could re-locate to another volume but I thought maybe I
could do some clean-up also. Any thoughts?
John Norgauer
University of California Davis
I place all of my system OMVS data sets on a separate 3390-9 volume. I have
increased the space on the SYS1.OMVS.ROOT to about 6 trks. Since I am
not using a top ROOT dataset which just have links in it (the better way to
go), I wanted to make sure I had sufficient space.
I have an HFS
Howard,
I don't know what release you want, but I tend to keep bunches of them.
Most recent - Enterprise COBOL V4R1
http://publibfp.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr/Shelves/igy3sh40
Last Version 3 URL
http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/Shelves/IGY3SH33
These are
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