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

Re: Interfacing with the MainFrame

2012-03-07 Thread Sam Siegel
On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 12:47 PM, Ed Mackmahon 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 shot the s

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 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 was done in the >

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 A

Re: IEFBR14

2012-03-12 Thread Sam Siegel
On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 8:40 AM, Mark Zelden wrote: > On Mon, 12 Mar 2012 08:21:13 -0700, Sam Siegel 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.  Th

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 wrote: > 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 EXLST AM=

watch this to the end it is amazing

2012-03-22 Thread Sam Siegel
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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 Sender: IBM Mainframe Discussion List Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2012 07:12:15 To: Reply-To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List Subject: Re: Pre-Friday fun: Halon dumps and POK Resets Insurance data center in

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 Sender: IBM Mainframe Discussion List Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2012 12:16:09 To: Reply-To: IBM Ma

Re: z/OS ftp and Unicode

2012-03-26 Thread Sam Siegel
On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 7:27 AM, Lloyd Fuller wrote: > 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 > believe (without checkin

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: 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 Sender: IBM Mainframe Discussion List Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 07:28:58 To: Reply-To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List Subject: Re: M

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 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). > > Hook the S

Re: LE C calling HLASM

2012-04-06 Thread Sam Siegel
On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 8:45 AM, Phil Smith 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 were omitted.

Re: LE C calling HLASM

2012-04-06 Thread Sam Siegel
On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 9:02 AM, Steve Comstock wrote: > On 4/6/2012 9:53 AM, Sam Siegel wrote: > >> On Fri, Apr 6, 2012 at 8:45 AM, Phil Smith wrote: >> >> Darn it, no matter what I've tried, I CANNOT get PL/I to handle a plist >>> [what I'd call

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 directo

Re: Unix path name

2012-04-08 Thread Sam Siegel
On Sun, Apr 8, 2012 at 8:55 AM, 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) for the unix subsystem >> on zos. Specifical

Re: Unix path name

2012-04-08 Thread Sam Siegel
On Sun, Apr 8, 2012 at 10:43 AM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: > 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 abo

Re: Unix path name

2012-04-08 Thread Sam Siegel
On Sun, Apr 8, 2012 at 12:39 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: > 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 us

Re: Unix path name

2012-04-08 Thread Sam Siegel
On Sun, Apr 8, 2012 at 1:15 PM, Paul Gilmartin 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 >

Re: ASCII (was: Unix path name)

2012-04-08 Thread Sam Siegel
On Sun, Apr 8, 2012 at 1:58 PM, Paul Gilmartin 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

Re: GO TO "cobol"

2012-04-15 Thread Sam Siegel
On Sun, Apr 15, 2012 at 8:49 PM, Jake anderson wrote: > 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 documentation explaining > a

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 wrote: > Hi, > > > > Was wondering If someone coul

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" said: > > >I haven't used a COBOL GOTO since 1972. > > Does that make

Re: ### of GDG Entries

2012-05-10 Thread Sam Siegel
On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 1:12 PM, Donnelly, John wrote: > 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 GDG dataset with

Re: reusing a TCB?

2010-11-19 Thread Sam Siegel
On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 7:03 PM, Ken Moore wrote: > I must be reading the wrong books or something. I'm trying to find a way > to > ATTACH a TCB and then reuse that TCB several times (to run the same > program) and then detach it when I'm done with it. I need to keep it > around > because I'm d

Re: IEFBR14

2010-11-20 Thread Sam Siegel
On Sat, Nov 20, 2010 at 5:28 PM, Ed Gould wrote: > Gerhard: > Long long ago I was doing some SMF number crunching and at our installation > IEFBR14 was the highest number of executions (for the month I was working > on). I sent an memo to the IS VP indicating that IEFBR14 was doing more work > th

Re: Performance questions

2010-11-21 Thread Sam Siegel
Blaicher > Senior Software Developer > Austin Development Lab > > phone: 512.340.6154 > mobile: 512.627.3803 > fax: 512.340.6647 > > 10431 Morado Circle > Austin, TX 78759 > > > > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ib

Re: IBM messages

2010-11-23 Thread Sam Siegel
This is complicated by documentation that refers the reader to the > explanation of a different message, or even to a different manual, for > explanations of return codes and reason codes. IBM has tools like > DAIRFAIL and bpxmtext; why can't they consistently use them to produce > more helpful

Re: I would love to know what went wrong at NAB

2010-11-30 Thread Sam Siegel
On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 5:01 PM, Wayne Bickerdike wrote: > Some information from a close source... > > It was a plain old S0C7 during their batch process. > > All Aussie banks use Cemtex ABA format which has been around for years > as a transfer format between organisations. You would think that

Re: 64 bit mode disabled

2010-11-30 Thread Sam Siegel
On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 6:40 PM, michealbutz wrote: > Hi, > > From what I understand running in 64 bit mode (SAM64) you have to run > disabled does the > SAM64 instruction do that > >From my understanding, a problem state program can run in AMODE 64. I don't think it is a requirement to run d

Attach RC=20

2010-12-04 Thread Sam Siegel
Hi List, I'm getting a return code of 20 in RC when issuing an attach macro. RC=20 does not seem to be documented. Can anyone provide an explanation or assistance? Details listed here APF authorized library AC=1 RENT Batch job Modeset Mode=SUP Key=4 Storage obtained working storage SP=230, key

Re: Attach RC=20

2010-12-05 Thread Sam Siegel
On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 5:37 PM, Bill Godfrey wrote: > On Sat, 4 Dec 2010 17:23:03 -0800, Sam Siegel wrote: > > >I'm getting a return code of 20 in RC when issuing an attach macro. RC=20 > >does not seem to be documented. Can anyone provide an explanation or > >ass

Re: Attach RC=20

2010-12-05 Thread Sam Siegel
On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 3:02 AM, Binyamin Dissen wrote: > On Sat, 4 Dec 2010 17:23:03 -0800 Sam Siegel wrote: > > :>Hi List, > :> > :>I'm getting a return code of 20 in RC when issuing an attach macro. > RC=20 > :>does not seem to be documented.

Re: Attach RC=20

2010-12-05 Thread Sam Siegel
On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 6:27 AM, Peter Relson wrote: > >wsAttach dsxl(l'csAttch) > > As Bill Godfrey correctly indicated, the value of L'csAttch is not the > length of the parameter area. It happens to be "4". > Therefore the MVC only moved 4 bytes and the defined storage area for > wsAttach w

Re: Attach RC=20

2010-12-05 Thread Sam Siegel
On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 6:55 PM, Robert A. Rosenberg wrote: > At 15:03 -0800 on 12/05/2010, Edward Jaffe wrote about Re: Attach RC=20: > > > On 12/5/2010 6:27 AM, Peter Relson wrote: >> >>> Rather than use L'csAttch, a typical approach is to add an equate such as >>> csAttch_Len EQU *-csAttch >>>

Re: FITS requirement

2010-12-07 Thread Sam Siegel
On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 12:11 PM, Frank Swarbrick < frank.swarbr...@efirstbank.com> wrote: > What does the "FITS" in FITS Requirement stand for? > -- > > Is the requirement possibly related to FIPS? http://www.itl.nist.gov/fipspubs/ > Frank Swarbrick > Applications Architect - Mainframe Applicati

Re: Batch program to update CVTUSER

2010-12-15 Thread Sam Siegel
On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 11:22 AM, Lorne Dudley wrote: > > - > TITLE 'CVTUSER TEST' > CVT DSECT=YES,LIST=YES .CVT DSECT > YCSECT , > * > * REGISTER EQUATES > * > R0 EQU 0 .

Re: Batch program to update CVTUSER

2010-12-15 Thread Sam Siegel
On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 11:38 AM, Richard L Peurifoy < r-peuri...@neo.tamu.edu> wrote: > On 12/15/2010 1:22 PM, Lorne Dudley wrote: > >> I'm having problems getting the following batch program to run >> correctly. It's running from an authorized library and abends with 0C4, >> reason code 4. >> >

Re: Batch program to update CVTUSER

2010-12-15 Thread Sam Siegel
On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 12:40 PM, Tom Marchant wrote: > On Wed, 15 Dec 2010 11:33:18 -0800, Sam Siegel wrote: > > >R2 is set incorrectly. It needs to be loaded as follows: > > using PSA,R0 include macro: IHAPSA > > LR2,FLCCVT r2 = address o

Re: Batch program to update CVTUSER

2010-12-15 Thread Sam Siegel
On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 12:58 PM, Sam Siegel wrote: > > > On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 12:40 PM, Tom Marchant > wrote: > >> On Wed, 15 Dec 2010 11:33:18 -0800, Sam Siegel wrote: >> >> >R2 is set incorrectly. It needs to be loaded as follows: >> >

Re: Sp of load

2010-12-22 Thread Sam Siegel
On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 5:21 PM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) < shmuel+ibm-m...@patriot.net > wrote: > In , on 12/22/2010 >at 06:40 PM, Micheal Butz said: > > >Would anyone know what subpool load loads into > > Yes. What are the load module attribute and are you running from an > authorized libra

Re: Paging Jay Maynard

2010-12-23 Thread Sam Siegel
Can we please drop religious discussions. There are other religions that also have winter holidays which occur on a coincidental basis with Christmas. So there are many reasons for the Season. On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 1:12 PM, Mark Hammond wrote: > That's debatable. I've heard it was probably i

Re: OT .. Geological time scales

2011-01-07 Thread Sam Siegel
How does the geologist impress his blond girlfriend? He tells her that a certain lake is a million and 1 years old. She says how do you know that so precisely? He says "last year when I went there, the tour guide said it was a million years old". On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 4:14 PM, Ivan Warren

Re: Date representations: Y2k revisited

2011-01-09 Thread Sam Siegel
Mr Schwarz wants me to write my posts in a species of subliterate English he > judges appropriate. A very smart man said: "Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler." John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721-1817 USA > > -

Re: Date representations: Y2k revisited

2011-01-09 Thread Sam Siegel
On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 8:12 PM, john gilmore wrote: > Robert A Rosenberg writes: > > > It is not as simple as that since you have to allow for calenders getting > out of sync. When the Julian calender was replaced by the regorian one, > there were (depending on where you were since the > switch

Re: Date representations: Y2k revisited

2011-01-10 Thread Sam Siegel
On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 9:11 AM, Bill Fairchild wrote: > Many of us have posted complaints about mainframe technical questions that > could have been easily answered with only a modicum of self-directed > research, commonly known as RTFM, on the part of the OP. This same helpful > hint applies e

search for usage

2011-01-10 Thread Sam Siegel
Hello list, Does anyone have any analysis (which can be shared) related to SuperC's Search-For CPU usage? Thanks, Sam -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the

Re: search for usage

2011-01-10 Thread Sam Siegel
On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 1:04 PM, Chris Craddock wrote: > > > > Does anyone have any analysis (which can be shared) related to SuperC's > > Search-For CPU usage? > > > > LOL ... Never heard of software referred to that way ... I was just looking for a side project for practicing sharpening some zI

Re: passing instream sysin to next step

2011-01-12 Thread Sam Siegel
On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 3:01 PM, Cris Hernandez #9 wrote: > ok, let's back up to the beginning. why would anyone want to put their > data into a SYSIN DD * ? > doesn't sound like anything that would happen in a production environment, > or QA testing, so that leaves unit testing in development, a

Re: passing instream sysin to next step

2011-01-12 Thread Sam Siegel
On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 6:23 PM, Ted MacNEIL wrote: > >happens frequently in production on restarts with a dd override. > > I am not criticising, but I don't understand your reply. > No criticism taken. I'm just talking about a dd override in the jcl to change control cards or other 80 data. C

Re: passing instream sysin to next step

2011-01-13 Thread Sam Siegel
On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 10:50 AM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: > On Thu, 13 Jan 2011 10:24:43 -0800, Cris Hernandez #9 wrote: > > >another reason why raw instream data is a bad idea... if more than one > person edits the JCL, one has spf profile with 'num on' and another has 'num > off', you can seriousl

Re: Long-running jobs, PDS, and DISP=SHR

2011-01-24 Thread Sam Siegel
On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 4:27 PM, Charles Mills wrote: > Ah. Thanks (again). Doesn't IEBCOPY use the binder under the covers for > load > modules, or am I thinking of a different problem? > Definitely for PDSE. Not 100% sure about PDS > > Charles > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainfra

Re: CEETBCK and LE conforming assembler

2011-01-28 Thread Sam Siegel
On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 11:10 AM, Wissink, Brad [ITSYS] wrote: > The order would be that the originating Cobol program would call another > Cobol program. The called Cobol program wants to know who called it because > it can be called from many different programs. The called Cobol program > wou

Re: CEETBCK and LE conforming assembler

2011-01-28 Thread Sam Siegel
d Wissink > Information Technology Services > Iowa State University > 515-294-3088 > > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On > Behalf Of Sam Siegel > Sent: Friday, January 28, 2011 1:32 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu

Re: CEETBCK and LE conforming assembler

2011-01-28 Thread Sam Siegel
On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 1:28 PM, Wissink, Brad [ITSYS] wrote: > We are using this information for logging and audit purposes. We are > creating an interface program that may be called by hundreds of other > programs. We were looking for a simple way to log which program called the > interface pr

Re: z/OS Virus Checker & zLinux Virus Checker

2011-01-31 Thread Sam Siegel
Perhaps there is also an issue of availability. Windows, linux, bsd, etc. are cheap or free, so the barrier to entry to obtaining supervisor state (root) is very low. Everyone is the administrator on their own system. Whereas, the barriers to entry for getting a zOS system where you have the abi

Re: STCK vs TIMUSED

2011-02-03 Thread Sam Siegel
On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 10:11 AM, Micheal Butz wrote: > I am doing this in Rexx exec processing a SVC dump after calling > BLSUXTOD. To convert the double word to a 26 character string I use the > last 6 digits I understand I can bypass this conversion and just do the > subtraction as you said on t

Re: STCK vs TIMUSED

2011-02-03 Thread Sam Siegel
frame Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On >> Behalf Of Micheal Butz >> Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2011 12:39 PM >> To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu >> Subject: Re: STCK vs TIMUSED >> >> If the code that I marking either Wall or CPU takes longer than 1 &

Re: SEARCH CLASS(USER)

2011-02-14 Thread Sam Siegel
Scott, You might need to clear bytes 1 and 2 of of parm 1. http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/zos/v1r9/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.zos.r9.ikjb700/newtsf.htm http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/zos/v1r9/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.zos.r9.ikjb700/newtsf.htm Cheers, Sam On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 a

Re: handling of errors

2011-02-16 Thread Sam Siegel
> I'm not suggesting (god forbid!) that status codes not be checked. I am > suggesting that status codes not be used at all; rather exceptions should be > generated that cause everything to come to a halt, with some useful messages > and a useful dump. That way the users of routines need not be

Re: BPXWDYN

2011-02-28 Thread Sam Siegel
> > > I am trying to to the following in A LE Cobol 4.1 program, a STC . I have > specified a Select for the file > > SELECT FILEOUT > ASSIGN TO FILEOUT > ORGANIZATION IS SEQUENTIAL > FILE STATUS IS FILEOUT-STATUS. > > I build t

Re: BPXWDYN

2011-02-28 Thread Sam Siegel
e my > old age memory > > Scott J Ford > > > > > > > From: Sam Siegel > To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu > Sent: Mon, February 28, 2011 5:19:44 PM > Subject: Re: BPXWDYN > > > > > > > > > > I am trying to to the following

Re: creating mainframe bookmanager from pdf documents???

2011-03-18 Thread Sam Siegel
On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 9:27 AM, Stan Weyman wrote: >Bookmanager's ability to search across shelves was the main feature I > used when in Bookmanager otherwise I spent more time in the PDF version. It > would be nice if Abobe would search across a group of PDF files as well as > Bookmanager

Re: creating mainframe bookmanager from pdf documents???

2011-03-19 Thread Sam Siegel
nal Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf > Of Sam Siegel > Sent: Friday, March 18, 2011 12:56 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu > Subject: Re: creating mainframe bookmanager from pdf documents??? > > On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 9:27

Re: LOOKING FOR DOC ON NOTE/POINT LOGIC

2010-01-19 Thread Sam Siegel
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 2:28 PM, esmie moo wrote: > Good Morning Gentle Readers, > > I am trying to trouble shoot a problem which invokes NOTE/POINT LOGIC. I > GOOGLED it but I didn't find what I was looking for. Would anyone know who > the vendor is or if there is a site that I could look at?

Re: IBM countersues Neon over zPrime accelerator

2010-02-05 Thread Sam Siegel
On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 3:07 PM, McKown, John wrote: > > -Original Message- > > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > > [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Bruno Sugliani > > Sent: Friday, February 05, 2010 8:58 AM > > To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu > > Subject: Re: IBM countersues Neon ov

Re: Fastest branch instruction

2010-02-16 Thread Sam Siegel
On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 6:09 PM, McKown, John wrote: > I know "it's the one not taken!". But of the B, J, or BR, can they be > ordered? I am 99.9% certain that having the branch address in a register is > the fastest. But is it significant enough that I should dedicate a register > for it? I'm as

Re: Fastest branch instruction

2010-02-16 Thread Sam Siegel
On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 7:48 PM, McKown, John wrote: > > -Original Message- > > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > > [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Sam Siegel > > Sent: Tuesday, February 16, 2010 1:44 PM > > To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu &

Re: Best practice for 24-bit storage in assembler called from C/C++

2010-02-21 Thread Sam Siegel
On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 2:00 AM, Charles Mills wrote: > I'm writing a fairly large MVS batch application in C++. At several points > it is necessary to call "library" type routines that I am writing in > assembler. Several of the routines (unfortunately) need to use QSAM macros > and so need belo

Re: Best practice for 24-bit storage in assembler called from C/C++

2010-02-21 Thread Sam Siegel
On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 5:07 AM, Charles Mills wrote: > Thanks. Sounds a little risky to assume I am the first/only program in the > region -- the jobstep program -- but it's an idea. > It is at the TCB level. It is not required to be the jobstep program or TCB. I can understand the reluctance

Re: Best practice for 24-bit storage in assembler called from C/C++

2010-02-22 Thread Sam Siegel
7;m pretty sure that the retrieval code associated with name token service is going to be faster than getmain/freemain or storage obtain/release functions. Cheers, Sam > > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On > Behalf

Re: Best practice for 24-bit storage in assembler called from C/C++

2010-02-23 Thread Sam Siegel
On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 12:07 PM, Don Poitras wrote: > In article <4b8389b7.9030...@gmail.com> you wrote: > > Charles Mills wrote: > > > > > > The fundamental problem I guess is that any solution that keeps a > pointer > > > around "somewhere in the code" is fundamentally not reentrant, unless I

Re: Re-entrancy problem

2010-03-19 Thread Sam Siegel
On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 10:40 AM, Joe Reichman wrote: > Hi, > > > > The following code works (ECB is posted by TCP/IP) except when I catalouge > the program RENT=(REUS) > > > > Would anybody have any ideas > > > > *-* > > *

Re: Need to find alternative to shared storage because of ALLOWUSERKEYCSA parm

2010-03-24 Thread Sam Siegel
On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 2:22 PM, Diane Goodwin wrote: > Hello, Please bear with me. I'm normally a CICS System programmer. > > We all know the default setting for ALLOWUSERKEYCSA was changed > to "NO" from yes. This causes a problem for our CICS regions (address > spaces). > > We have a storage

Re: Need to find alternative to shared storage because of ALLOWUSERKEYCSA parm

2010-03-24 Thread Sam Siegel
will load it to a register in order to access the shared information (we > have a copy member with all the fields). > > I wasn't clear on how I could do this with the dataspace. I have to be > able to just pass the address to the application programs. We have way > to m

Re: Need to find alternative to shared storage because of ALLOWUSERKEYCSA parm

2010-03-24 Thread Sam Siegel
o AR mode. Probably more changes than you want to make in all of the application code that uses the data. > > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On > Behalf Of Sam Siegel > Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2010 11:27 AM > To: IBM-MAI

Re: Mainframe emulator part of a conspira cy • The Register

2010-03-26 Thread Sam Siegel
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 3:15 PM, John P. Baker wrote: > Could you enlighten us on the cost of the Dallas RDP offering? > I've heard Dallas RDP is about 300 to 500 USD per month. Includes all IBM software (CICS, DB2, IMS, etc.) current z/OS under z/VM. Maybe 15 to 30 hours of clock time. (Not s

Re: An amusing REXX program - JES2DISK == copies JES output to disk using REXX's SDSF API

2010-03-26 Thread Sam Siegel
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 8:46 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: > On Fri, 26 Mar 2010 14:51:12 -0500, Elliot, David wrote: > > > >By the way, surely UNIX must be approaching legacy status by now. Or is > that expression reserved for the despised IBM mainframe? > > > UNIX ages more gracefully than OS. > > P

Re: An amusing REXX program - JES2DISK == copies JES output to disk using REXX's SDSF API

2010-03-26 Thread Sam Siegel
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 9:05 PM, McKown, John wrote: > > -Original Message- > > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > > [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Sam Siegel > > Sent: Friday, March 26, 2010 4:01 PM > > To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu > >

Re: An amusing REXX program - JES2DISK == copies JES output to disk using REXX's SDSF API

2010-03-26 Thread Sam Siegel
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 10:00 PM, Kirk Wolf wrote: > Sam, > > I like z/OS as much as the next guy, but I have to disagree with most > of your comparisons. > > On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 4:20 PM, Sam Siegel wrote: > > > > Then there are things like checkpoint restart.

Re: An amusing REXX program - JES2DISK == copies JES output to disk using REXX's SDSF API

2010-03-28 Thread Sam Siegel
On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 3:49 PM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) < shmuel+ibm-m...@patriot.net > wrote: > I agree with much of what you write, but must challenge on item. > > In <4e2421a41003261420t52bf2254pf53955d4b0ed0...@mail.gmail.com>, on > 03/26/2010 >at 09:20 PM,

Re: Recommendations on download monitor

2010-03-30 Thread Sam Siegel
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 6:24 PM, Steve Comstock wrote: > Had a strange thing happen today. Basically Qwest, our > broadband supplier, shut off access to the internet > because we've supposedly exceeded our monthly download > limit of 200GB. > > Their phone menu system is awful so I ended up in an

Re: Recommendations on download monitor

2010-03-30 Thread Sam Siegel
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 7:12 PM, Steve Comstock wrote: > Sam Siegel wrote: > >> On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 6:24 PM, Steve Comstock > >wrote: >> >> Had a strange thing happen today. Basically Qwest, our >>> broadband supplier, shut off access to the internet &g

Re: z/OS V1R11 Library unzip problem

2010-03-30 Thread Sam Siegel
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 8:40 PM, Rabbe, Luke < luke.ra...@countryfinancial.com> wrote: > I ordered z/OS 1.11 electronically. I downloaded the following 3 times > using HTTPS. > > IBM Online Library: z/OS V1R11 and Software Products DVD Collection, > September 2009 > Download to your workstation i

Re: Principle of Least Astonishment (Was: IDCAMS delete with mask)

2009-09-28 Thread Sam Siegel
Darn ... I was laying 2:1 odds. On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 8:18 PM, Scott Rowe wrote: > I don't think he's quite that old. > > >>> Bill Fairchild 9/28/2009 3:13 PM >>> > Did Lionel Dyck predate William of Ockham (1288-1327)? > > Bill Fairchild > > Software Developer > Rocket Software > 275 Grove S

Re: Planned IBMLink Outage October 2nd-3rd

2009-09-28 Thread Sam Siegel
Thank you for speaking everyone's words. On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 2:21 AM, Clark Morris wrote: > On 28 Sep 2009 13:47:39 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: > > >28 September 2009 > > > >This is to inform you that IBMLink will have a planned outage starting > >on Friday, October 2nd at 8:00

Re: More bad news.

2009-09-29 Thread Sam Siegel
What about a decline that is reaching its asymptotical limit? On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 9:55 PM, P S wrote: > Oy. Google "growing decline": 24K hits; "increasing decline": 33K > hits. I guess this illustrates the increasing decline in folks' > ability to write. > >

Re: [MVS-OE] Java problem

2009-10-05 Thread Sam Siegel
Looks like it might be ascii. On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 6:21 AM, Scott Ford wrote: > What does the Java source look like ? > > Scott J Ford > > John, > > What does the Java source look like ? > > Scott J Ford > > > > > > > From: "Chase, John" > To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua

Re: COBOL is an obvious cash cow to be milked to death was Re: Does Ent. COBOL 4.1 generate 64-bit binary arithmetic instructions?

2009-10-12 Thread Sam Siegel
IBM needs to keep optimizing the c/c++ compiler to support *nix/windows server consolidation onto zLinux. On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 7:47 PM, Clark Morris wrote: > On 12 Oct 2009 10:37:56 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main Kirk Talman > wrote: > > >Why can't Cobol use the C code generator? > > IBM coul

Re: COBOL is an obvious cash cow to be milked to death was Re: Does Ent. COBOL 4.1 generate 64-bit binary arithmetic instructions?

2009-10-12 Thread Sam Siegel
me Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On > > Behalf Of Sam Siegel > > Sent: Monday, October 12, 2009 3:00 PM > > To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu > > Subject: Re: COBOL is an obvious cash cow to be milked to death was > Re: > > Does Ent. COBOL 4.1 generate 64-bit b

Re: COBOL is an obvious cash cow to be milked to death was Re: Does Ent. COBOL 4.1 generate 64-bit binary arithmetic instructions?

2009-10-12 Thread Sam Siegel
t 12, 2009 at 8:19 PM, Sam Siegel wrote: > I think they are tightly related. Looking at the compiler suite from the > outside it would seem that parsing, options, run-time-libraries, STL > support, Inter-procedures analysis, etc. would be very common across > platforms because much of t

Re: Does a DD-Statement "waste memory" after dealloc?

2009-10-13 Thread Sam Siegel
It can be done from C by building your own text units and issuing the svc99() function call. I'm pretty sure that the svc99() function allows access to pretty much all svc99() features. -sam On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 3:38 PM, Eric Spencer wrote: > You can force DYNALLOC to allocate the DSN to a

Re: Back to Work

2009-10-18 Thread Sam Siegel
Congrats and best of luck! I was on the bench a year before moving to the UK. On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 6:07 PM, Rich Smrcina wrote: > Eric Bielefeld wrote: > >> I finally am going back to work on Monday. I'll be working at the new IBM >> call center in Dubuque, Iowa. I'm not sure if later tod

Re: Which exit to take ?

2009-11-04 Thread Sam Siegel
What about setting up RACF to log who opened what for output? On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 8:49 AM, Miklos Szigetvari < miklos.szigetv...@isis-papyrus.com> wrote: > Hi > > Would like to record in DB2 database if someone opens, for output, a > group of precious datasets.(Product delivery etc.) > Which

Re: Debugging METAL C

2009-11-05 Thread Sam Siegel
xdc On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 6:56 PM, Edward Jaffe wrote: > What do you use to debug your METAL C programs? > > -- > Edward E Jaffe > Phoenix Software International, Inc > 5200 W Century Blvd, Suite 800 > Los Angeles, CA 90045 > 310-338-0400 x318 > edja...@phoenixsoftware.com > http://www.phoenixso

Re: Debugging METAL C

2009-11-05 Thread Sam Siegel
z/XDC. I still like to see exactly what is going on. On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 9:29 PM, Edward Jaffe wrote: > Sam Siegel wrote: > >> xdc >> >> > > c/XDC or z/XDC? > > > -- > Edward E Jaffe > Phoenix Software International, Inc > 5200 W Century Blvd,

Re: Z10 BC DNS Name

2009-11-10 Thread Sam Siegel
Hi, We use, MVS1.xxx.net MVS5.xxx.net MVS7.xxx.net. Where xxx is company name. Keep the DNS name closely related or identical to the system name. It will make your life easier. These defined to the internal network (that is 10.x.x.x ip address) only. They are not accessible from the outside w

Re: Beating a dead horse but

2009-11-20 Thread Sam Siegel
This is exactly what I've recently done and it works perfect on 1.09 On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 6:29 PM, Donald Russell wrote: > On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 10:34, Tim Hare > wrote: > > > In a 2008 thread on people using IEFBR14 to do deletes there as this: > > > > "Indeed, how should Allocation know w

Re: Is there a good mailing list or forum for mainframe C/C++ specifically?

2009-12-03 Thread Sam Siegel
What is your c/c++ question. On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 2:53 PM, Charles Mills wrote: > I found http://ibmmainframeforum.com/ but the last C question was in June > and it hasn’t been answered yet. :-( > > > > I found http://www.ibmmainframes.com/ but they group C questions into > “Other > mainframe

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