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

2009-12-03 Thread Sam Siegel
uestion of the moment is "is there no 'safe' string copy library > routine such as strcpy_s? I don't see it in the doc." > > Charles > > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On > Behalf > Of S

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

2009-12-03 Thread Sam Siegel
On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 10:56 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: > On Thu, 3 Dec 2009 11:07:38 -0600, McKown, John wrote: > > >OPINION TIME! > > > >The "safe" versions are not safer than using some of the others which > include the length of the destination buffer. Such as strncpy, strncmp, and > so on. The

Re: EDS mainframe goes , crashes RBS cheque system

2009-12-17 Thread Sam Siegel
Connect:Direct (previously known as NDM) can only be loosely related to check processing as it just transmits files back and forth. An IBM Check shop uses CPCS (check processing control system) Vector sort (by Sterling), etc. These are low level programs still shipped in source (at least partiall

Re: EDS mainframe goes , crashes RBS cheque system

2009-12-18 Thread Sam Siegel
Sorry about that ... CPCS is indeed (and always has been) an IBM product. VECTOR:sort is by Sterling. On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 7:40 AM, Ted MacNEIL wrote: > >An IBM Check shop uses CPCS (check processing control system) Vector sort > (by Sterling) > > Since when is it by Sterling? > When I worked

Re: C++ , and z/OS

2009-12-18 Thread Sam Siegel
The "IBM z/OS Standard C++ Library Reference." documents the STL and other "industry" standard C++ functions. It does not document (to my examination) any IBM specific facilities. Sam On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 8:37 PM, Tony Harminc wrote: > 2009/12/18 Charles Mills : > > Does anyone know of one

Re: Movin' on Up!

2009-12-22 Thread Sam Siegel
Congrats ... the picture looks nice. Hope you enjoy them. On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 8:21 PM, Edward Jaffe wrote: > We're moving our offices this week. Not the kind of upgrade I'm used to > doing. But, still fun... > > http://www.phoenixsoftware.com/newlocation.htm > > -- > Edward E Jaffe > Phoenix

Re: Union Pacific Railroad ditches its mainframe for SOA

2009-12-23 Thread Sam Siegel
Don't forget SOA enabled keyboards and monitors. :) On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 9:23 AM, R.S. wrote: > Shane Ginnane pisze: > >> On Wed, Dec 23rd, 2009 Radoslaw wrote: >> >> SOA is a platform neutral protocol. >>> SOA is *not* a protocol. It is a marketing plonk. Nothing behind the >>> >> gibbe

Re: argv for z/OS C++ batch

2009-12-26 Thread Sam Siegel
Hi Charles, I'm assuming that if you are going to call via link or attach that you will have an assembler main program that does not have a valid LE environment established. That is to say a traditional assembler program. If this is the case, you should refer to the CEEPIPI documentation (locat

Re: argv for z/OS C++ batch

2009-12-26 Thread Sam Siegel
Charles, The other option you have is to look at METAL C or system C. Or a third party compiler. Regards, Sam On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 9:14 PM, Charles Mills wrote: > Trying to figure out this subject. > > > > The C/C++ Language Reference on p. 207 says "Under z/OS batch . argv[0] > Returns th

Re: argv for z/OS C++ batch

2009-12-26 Thread Sam Siegel
standard z/OS > multiple-parameter-pointers-pointed-to-by-R1 linkage. > > Charles > > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On > Behalf > Of Sam Siegel > Sent: Saturday, December 26, 2009 4:55 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.

Re: argv for z/OS C++ batch

2009-12-26 Thread Sam Siegel
For caps on/caps off, I was referring to ISPF edit. On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 12:18 AM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: > On Sat, 26 Dec 2009 21:45:46 +0000, Sam Siegel wrote: > > > >The comment "argv[1 to n]" is trying to say that the characters in parms 1 > >... N are not mo

Re: argv for z/OS C++ batch

2009-12-27 Thread Sam Siegel
processing that JCL. Neither the TSO or JCL rules apply to program to program calls. Regards, Sam On Sun, Dec 27, 2009 at 5:38 AM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: > On Sun, 27 Dec 2009 04:57:25 +0000, Sam Siegel wrote: > > >For caps on/caps off, I was referring to ISPF edit. > > > That

Re: Korean bank Moves back to Mainframes (...no, not back)

2010-01-07 Thread Sam Siegel
There are other business related inaccuracies in the article as well. The article indicates that they process hundreds of millions of Credit Card transactions a day. Having previously worked at a large credit card processor in the US, it can be said with certainty that the S. Korean credit card v

Re: Korean bank Moves back to Mainframes (...no, not back)

2010-01-07 Thread Sam Siegel
& cell-phone > (it's called hand-phone in S Korea). > > > > > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On > Behalf Of Sam Siegel > Sent: Thursday, January 07, 2010 4:15 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu > Subject: Re:

Re: Korean bank Moves back to Mainframes (...no, not back)

2010-01-07 Thread Sam Siegel
On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 6:36 PM, Ted MacNEIL wrote: > >That's the point of (EMV) "chip" cards. >They are inherently more secure. > > Why are they more secure? > INTERAC Canada has been telling us that they are. > So far, on their web-site, the proof presented has been: "They are more > secure". >

Re: Korean bank Moves back to Mainframes (...no, not back)

2010-01-07 Thread Sam Siegel
On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 6:08 AM, Timothy Sipples wrote: > I should say right up front that I am not an expert on Korean banking. > Also, I have no idea whether the following remarks apply to BC Card > specifically. > > One commenter in this thread suggested that the number of transactions > looks

Re: Writing ISPF VDEFINE user exits in C

2010-01-11 Thread Sam Siegel
On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 9:32 AM, Tom Quarendon wrote: > >If that's the cast you need CEEPIPI. Call it once to initialize the > >persistent LE environment and then to call your routine with the > >environment token. You will have to stash away the environment token > >somewhere, name/token services

Re: Korean bank Moves back to Mainframes (...no, not back)

2010-01-11 Thread Sam Siegel
On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 9:16 PM, Ron Hawkins wrote: > I disagree. The basic operation of a credit card at the get go was for the > customer to be authenticated by comparing the signature on the voucher with > the one on the card. If they don't match the vendor refuses the > transaction. > This is

Re: Korean bank Moves back to Mainframes (...no, not back)

2010-01-11 Thread Sam Siegel
On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 10:59 PM, Anne & Lynn Wheeler wrote: > t...@harminc.net (Tony Harminc) writes: > > I'm not sure why this offends you so much. How would it help anything > > if the cashier checked your signature? Such checking is highly > > unreliable, and contributes much less to authentic

cpu / machine identification

2011-12-26 Thread Sam Siegel
Hello List - I'm attempting to create a licensing mechanism for a bit of software. I would like to be able to use a unique and non-modifiable identifier as part of the mechanism. The CSRSI callable service and STSI instruction provide a variety of hardware related identifiers. CSRSI returns fiel

Re: cpu / machine identification

2011-12-26 Thread Sam Siegel
> On Mon, Dec 26, 2011 at 4:11 PM, zMan wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 26, 2011 at 2:22 PM, Sam Siegel wrote: > >> Hello List - I'm attempting to create a licensing mechanism for a bit > >> of software. I would like to be able to use a unique and > >> non-modifiable

Re: cpu / machine identification

2011-12-27 Thread Sam Siegel
All - Thanks for the huge response both on-list and off-list. I've gotten both business and technical details. Exactly the type of information that I was looking for. THANKS AGAIN! I'm especially happy to see that the signal-to-noise ratio is extremely high! I'm post some follow up question af

Re: Manual that describes LE control blocks?

2011-12-27 Thread Sam Siegel
Look at Language Environment Vendor Interfaces: SA22-7568 On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 3:29 PM, Binyamin Dissen wrote: > Don't see anything obvious in the LE bookshelf. > > -- > Binyamin Dissen > http://www.dissensoftware.com > > Director, Dissen Software, Bar & Grill - Israel > > > Should you use t

Re: A design question

2012-01-03 Thread Sam Siegel
Scott - The answer is yes. Please see: https://computing.llnl.gov/tutorials/pthreads/ for some examples that include thread coordination. Sam On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 10:17 AM, Scott Ford wrote: > All, > > I am looking to rewrite a COBOL app(stc) in C. The current code calls a > lot of assembl

Re: A design question

2012-01-03 Thread Sam Siegel
Scott - Another option is to have an assembler driver that attaches the various tasks. Each sub task can be an assembler program that uses CEEPIPI to setup LE and call the C program. Then you have a 'classic' subtask structure instead of a pthread structure. Sam On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 4:29 PM,

Re: 21st Century Migrates Mainframe with Clerity

2012-01-05 Thread Sam Siegel
On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 3:48 PM, Graham Harris wrote: > > Intel Core i7 at 177,730 MIPs/sec > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instructions_per_second > > > > or almost 180BIPs/sec ... which makes i7 equivalent of more than three > > z196?? > > > Interesting to read the cited reference against the c

Re: COBOL Compiler option

2012-01-09 Thread Sam Siegel
On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 7:51 PM, Graham Hobbs wrote: > Hello, > When I look at the output listing of a compiled pgm, I used to be able to > see field displacements of copybooks and working storage. What is the > option that does this .. nothing in the options list stands out. > Thanks, > Graham Ho

Re: Copy programs in file system to MVS Dataset

2012-01-10 Thread Sam Siegel
On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 6:23 AM, Mark Jacobs wrote: > I'm trying to copy program objects that reside in a path (the WAS 7.0 IPCS > formatting modules) into a PDSE dataset. Everything I've tried (ocopy, ish > copy, ftp) doesn't seem to result in a valid program object, i.e. the > directory listing

question about report writer usage

2012-01-22 Thread Sam Siegel
Hi - The following questions was approved by Darren for distribution on the list. I'm trying to determine if any of the following production are in active use at your shop. Easytrieve DYL260, DYL280 (CA vision:results) QUICKJOB CA-EARL pacsys(spectrum,zwriter, etc.) Other commercial report writer

Re: question about report writer usage

2012-01-23 Thread Sam Siegel
Hi Mark - I'm asking Darren for permission to provide a more detailed explanation of the question behind the question. Thanks, Sam On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 6:54 AM, Mark Zelden wrote: > On Sun, 22 Jan 2012 10:48:58 -0800, Sam Siegel wrote: > >>Hi - The following questions was a

Re: Forbes: Kids See A Future In Mainframes

2012-01-30 Thread Sam Siegel
I used to work at VISA ... the 145,000 txn/sec is misleading. The authorization system (tpf based) runs sustained peak rate of about 7,000 txn/sec as of about 3 years ago. The clearing system (zos) run about 24,000 txn/second as of about 3 years ago. The 145,000 sounds like the sum of all the ba

Re: Forbes: Kids See A Future In Mainframes

2012-01-30 Thread Sam Siegel
, Jan 30, 2012 at 2:56 PM, Mike Schwab wrote: > On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 3:53 PM, Sam Siegel wrote: >> I used to work at VISA ... the 145,000 txn/sec is misleading.  The >> authorization system (tpf based) runs sustained peak rate of about >> 7,000 txn/sec as of about 3 yea

Re: CPP (C++) file on z/OS

2012-01-31 Thread Sam Siegel
.C (cpp) and .c (c) are recognized source file type designations in the unix world. XLC has a ton of stuff in common with GNU's compiler suite. IBM donated a ton of time, effort and IP to the GNU compiler suite a ways back. On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 7:24 AM, Charles Mills wrote: > Yes on C++ and

Re: CPP (C++) file on z/OS

2012-01-31 Thread Sam Siegel
As far as I know that is in the Linux court. On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 1:07 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: > On Tue, 31 Jan 2012 08:10:26 -0800, Sam Siegel wrote: > >>.C (cpp) and .c (c) are recognized source file type designations in >>the unix world.   XLC has a ton of stuff in

Re: CPP (C++) file on z/OS

2012-01-31 Thread Sam Siegel
Sorry about that. I misspoke, I do not know if anyone or any organization is porting the gcc suite of tools to z/OS. On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 3:18 PM, Tomasz Rola wrote: > On Tue, 31 Jan 2012, Sam Siegel wrote: > >> As far as I know that is in the Linux court. >> > > I

Re: CPP (C++) file on z/OS

2012-01-31 Thread Sam Siegel
On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 4:44 PM, Tomasz Rola wrote: > On Tue, 31 Jan 2012, Sam Siegel wrote: > >> Sorry about that.  I misspoke, I do not know if anyone or any >> organization is porting the gcc suite of tools to z/OS. > > No need to be sorry about anything, I am ok :-)

Re: Intrdr

2012-01-31 Thread Sam Siegel
On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 5:47 PM, Lizette Koehler wrote: >> All, >> >> I have a STC that submits a job via the Intrdr, unfortunately it's single > thread. I need >> know when the submitted job completed. If I have the job and can I step > through >> control blocks to find this jobs status? >> >> Th

Re: Intrdr

2012-01-31 Thread Sam Siegel
Scott - Does the submitted job run authorized? If it does, you can use a combination of name token service and pause element service to coordinate tcb in different address spaces. You would need to code an estae or have a resmgr active to handle error situations and ensure that the STC is not lef

Re: CPP (C++) file on z/OS

2012-01-31 Thread Sam Siegel
On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 7:35 PM, Tomasz Rola wrote: > On Tue, 31 Jan 2012, Sam Siegel wrote: > >> My thinking is that because of the lack of availability of low cost >> zSeries HW and z/OS very few independant developers will directly any >> application/utility develop

Re: Intrdr

2012-01-31 Thread Sam Siegel
er > www.identityforge.com > > > > On Jan 31, 2012, at 10:32 PM, Sam Siegel wrote: > >> Scott - Does the submitted job run authorized?  If it does, you can >> use a combination of name token service and pause element service to >> coordinate tcb in different address

Re: S0C4 in CEE3DMP

2012-01-31 Thread Sam Siegel
On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 8:17 PM, Don Poitras wrote: > Tea leaves are good for making tea. :) I would compile SignalHandler.C with > the LIST option to see the psuedo assembly output and see from the dump > where the abend occured and try to figure out what went wrong. The message > you've given wo

Re: Intrdr

2012-01-31 Thread Sam Siegel
ontrol somewhat by using a /*ROUTE XEQ. However, there is the chance that this is overridden by an exit or automation. > > Charles > > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf > Of Sam Siegel > Sent: Tuesday, Jan

Re: S0C4 in CEE3DMP

2012-02-01 Thread Sam Siegel
that you are having over this and hoping that this will get you past it. Sam > > Charles > > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf > Of Sam Siegel > Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2012 8:34 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@b

Re: XL CPP z/OS first use problem

2012-02-01 Thread Sam Siegel
use C128N for a non xplink program. On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 11:29 AM, Sevetson, Phil wrote: > Hello, all, first time post from new member.  Please bear with me if I lack > polish! > > I'm trying to prove the function of our CPP processor on our mainframe > (Frankly, it's mostly for the exercise)

Re: Returning to the fold

2012-02-02 Thread Sam Siegel
Congrats. On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 5:50 AM, John Compton wrote: > Hi all... just coming back to the list after nearly 19 months out of work. > Finally got a new job! > > -- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instru

Re: gcc on z/OS (was: CPP (C++) file on z/OS)

2012-02-06 Thread Sam Siegel
On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 9:57 AM, Steve Comstock wrote: > On 2/6/2012 10:40 AM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: >> >> On Mon, 6 Feb 2012 12:31:31 -0500, Tony Harminc wrote: >> >>> On 4 February 2012 12:03, Paul Gilmartin wrote: > > That idea founders on the economics of support. ...  I suspe

Re: COBOL threading

2012-02-27 Thread Sam Siegel
Scott - Are these going to be PTHTREAD managed threads? Sam On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 8:00 AM, Scott Ford wrote: > All, > > I have a quick question...I am in the process of a redesign of a STC > running in COBOL. > The new design will be in C, threaded , calling COBOL routines and > assembler rou

Re: COBOL threading

2012-02-27 Thread Sam Siegel
OK ... I need to scratch my head. On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 8:53 AM, Scott Ford wrote: > Sam, > > Yep > > Sent from my iPad > Scott Ford > Senior Systems Engineer > www.identityforge.com > > > > On Feb 27, 2012, at 11:28 AM, Sam Siegel wrote: > > > S

Re: COBOL threading

2012-02-27 Thread Sam Siegel
.identityforge.com > > > > On Feb 27, 2012, at 11:58 AM, Sam Siegel wrote: > > > OK ... I need to scratch my head. > > > > On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 8:53 AM, Scott Ford > wrote: > > > >> Sam, > >> > >> Yep > >> > >>

Re: COBOL threading

2012-02-27 Thread Sam Siegel
Perfect! On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 11:09 AM, Scott Ford wrote: > Sam, it's not pressing ..I will send you a email offline > > Sent from my iPad > Scott Ford > Senior Systems Engineer > www.identityforge.com > > > > On Feb 27, 2012, at 2:04 PM, Sam Siegel wrot

Re: COBOL threading

2012-02-27 Thread Sam Siegel
good On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 1:36 PM, Scott Ford wrote: > Sam, > > I found what I was looking for thx > > Sent from my iPad > Scott Ford > Senior Systems Engineer > www.identityforge.com > > > > On Feb 27, 2012, at 2:04 PM, Sam Siegel wrote: > > >

Re: How convert "historic" STCK to local time?

2012-02-29 Thread Sam Siegel
On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 8:00 AM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: > On Wed, 29 Feb 2012 05:53:14 -0600, Jan MOEYERSONS wrote: > > >On Tue, 28 Feb 2012 19:45:11 +, Rob Scott wrote: > > > >>Obviously this assumes you know the UTC offset at the time of the LPAR > >> > >And that is exactly where it hurts...

Re: How convert "historic" STCK to local time?

2012-02-29 Thread Sam Siegel
On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 2:38 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: > On Wed, 29 Feb 2012 15:43:02 -0500, John Gilmore wrote: > > >Paul Gilmartin writes: > > > > > >STCKE is notionally closer to TAI than to UTC in that TAI and STCKE > >are continuous timescales and UTC is discontinous. TAI and STCKE both > >e

Re: Floating point assembler code

2011-04-04 Thread Sam Siegel
On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 8:09 AM, O'Brien, David W. (NIH/CIT) [C] wrote: > A colleague asked that the following query be posted: > > Are there any tutorials/samples for writing floating point assembler code. We > need to work with the z/VM Performance data and it is stored in short > floating poin

Re: Mainframe Fresher

2011-04-04 Thread Sam Siegel
> But typing COBOL code in ISPF is literally slower for me than typing Java > code in Netbeans. Due in part to Netbean's intelligent auto-completion. When > I start typing a variable name, about 80%+ of the time, Netbeans has a "in > line" suggestion which I can select with a simple press of t

Re: Mainframe Fresher

2011-04-04 Thread Sam Siegel
> John, > > Based on the above, and what you have shared with us about > the general IT and corporate atmosphere and your health > issues, it must be damned difficult to keep your spirits > up. I don't know, perhaps you don't. > > But I am curious as to why the mainframe doesn't just go > away: t

Re: Mainframe Fresher

2011-04-04 Thread Sam Siegel
or write the application. > > > I dont know about everyone else, no one handed the work I do to me on a silver > platter, I came up through the ranks.. > > Scott J Ford > > > > > > > From: Sam Siegel > To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.

Re: Mainframe Fresher

2011-04-04 Thread Sam Siegel
On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 1:24 PM, Scott Ford wrote: > But Corporate America is going to get a rude awaking wh > Amen, Sam. > > But Corporate America is going to get a rude awaking when us 'dinosaurs' call > it > quits.these 30+ yr olds dont want to know about z/OS and IBM ... I completely

Re: Mainframe Fresher

2011-04-04 Thread Sam Siegel
> >  On the other hand, for problems which occur intermittently in > production environments and are not reproducible in the development > environment, how do the debugging facilities available on Windows, > Java and Unix in general compare to those facilities on z/OS? > > Jim Mulder   z/OS Syste

Re: Mainframe Fresher

2011-04-04 Thread Sam Siegel
> We helped kill a z/OS to Windows conversion meeting with some simple > questions. > > Q. "This batch process takes 4 hours to run on z/OS. How long would you > estimate your converted process would take?" > A. "About the same amount of time." > Q. "Suppose the process terminates abnormally for

Re: Cool Things You Can Do in z/OS

2011-04-06 Thread Sam Siegel
On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 11:50 AM, Rick Fochtman wrote: > > ... Maybe people want distributed-style application RAS;. > > Excuse me, but "distributed-styl

Re: Cool Things You Can Do in z/OS

2011-04-06 Thread Sam Siegel
> The criteria are quite different. A public phone system that connects > 0.0001 percent of calls to the wrong place and drops a similar number > in mid call is perfectly acceptable. A phone system (even a single > local switch serving 10,000 lines) that is down for one minute a week > is complete

Re: Cool Things You Can Do in z/OS

2011-04-06 Thread Sam Siegel
> there was an incident a few years back where the 1-800 mapping for major > percentage of the POS (point-of-sale) card-swipe terminals in the US was > down for 12 minutes during a mid-day period ... this was treated as a > serious corporate incident between major transaction processor and major >

Re: Cobol and SMS question

2011-04-08 Thread Sam Siegel
On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 2:49 PM, Ward, Mike S wrote: > Hello all, we are z/os 1.11. I had a programmer complain the his job > didn't jcl out on him and he expected it to. > > > His program opens CCTXNSO and GLTXNSO as output > > OPEN OUTPUT CC-TRANS. > OPEN OUTPUT GL-TRANS. > > Since he did not hav

Re: The plural of 'virus'

2011-04-12 Thread Sam Siegel
On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 5:54 PM, Roberto Halais wrote: > What? > > Did you get the license plates? > John has been edumacating us for quite some time now. > > On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 7:53 PM, john gilmore wrote: > >> We have been around this way before.  The latin word 'virus' is an

Re: OT but an interesting read for MVS system Programmers

2011-04-19 Thread Sam Siegel
On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 8:37 PM, Ed Gould wrote: > http://www.networkworld.com/supp/2011//041811-windows-7-crashes.html > > This article is a "How to" for taking dumps and other debugging activity on > a > windows machine. > I do not know if I want to laugh or cry. > I'm not fan of MS ... but ju

Re: Deleting post

2011-04-22 Thread Sam Siegel
On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 11:47 AM, Schwarz, Barry A < barry.a.schw...@boeing.com> wrote: > Does that imply that no inaction can ever be immoral? > > In my book no. It seems John believes otherwise. > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] O

Re: Deleting post

2011-04-23 Thread Sam Siegel
ne can make the argument an fortiori ineffectual attempt to rob someone (mild example here) is still immoral even if it was ineffectual. > > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On > Behalf > Of Sam Siegel > Sent: Frid

Re: Deleting post

2011-04-23 Thread Sam Siegel
ad written Darren > privately. I was not even aware of the post until this brouhaha erupted, > and > then out of curiosity I went back and read it. Others are probably in the > same boat. > > Charles > > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailt

Re: Deleting post

2011-04-25 Thread Sam Siegel
now that I am paying attention, I was able to see a reason to participate > and > spin it out even further: > > Does the question of the morality of removing posts extend to removing the > responses to a removed post in which the removed post is quoted in full? > > Chris Mason > &g

very good read on global capitalism

2011-05-08 Thread Sam Siegel
Words might would never expect to hear from these guys. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/james-p-hoffa/global-capitalism-is-dest_b_858517.html -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...

Re: very good read on global capitalism

2011-05-09 Thread Sam Siegel
, Pommier, Rex R. wrote: > And this has what to do with IBM-main? > > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On > Behalf Of Sam Siegel > Sent: Sunday, May 08, 2011 7:04 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu > Subject: very good r

Re: Trademarks (was: "Under z/OS Unix")

2011-05-12 Thread Sam Siegel
I predict Iefbr14 will survive. No one other than IBM has sale staff good enough to require you to buy a program that does nothing. :-) On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 12:04 PM, Pearce, Colin E wrote: > And Ims, Ispf, Ismf and Ipl all could suffer the same fate, then there's > Idcams, Iebcopy, Iebgene

Re: Trademarks (was: "Under z/OS Unix")

2011-05-12 Thread Sam Siegel
LOL ;) On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 12:45 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: > On Thu, 12 May 2011 12:12:01 -0700, Sam Siegel wrote: > > >I predict Iefbr14 will survive. No one other than IBM has sale staff good > >enough to require you to buy a program that does nothing. :-) > >

Re: What does "issue" mean? (Was: SDSF issue)

2011-05-17 Thread Sam Siegel
On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 3:05 PM, Steve Comstock wrote: > On 5/17/2011 3:32 PM, Tony Harminc wrote: > >> On 17 May 2011 16:32, Donnelly, John P wrote: >> >>> But you did not allow for 'issue' and 'problem' in the pluperfect >>> progressive grammatical tense. >>> >> >> I had been thinking that som

Re: World Map of z/Shops

2011-05-28 Thread Sam Siegel
Hi Ian, Thanks for creating this ... It looks like a GREAT resource and is aesthetically well done. Cheers, Sam On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 8:08 AM, Ian wrote: > Hi List, > > I have created a map on CICSWorld.com ( http://cicsworld.com/map/node ) on > which I would like to map all institutions tha

Re: Metal C and System Programming C (SPC)

2011-05-31 Thread Sam Siegel
On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 12:47 PM, Steve Comstock wrote: > Are these two products essentially the same? I'm > thinking Metal C is the XL C version and SPC is > from an earlier C compiler (maybe even pre-z/OS), > but I can't find any confirmation. Anyone know > the answer to this bit of trivia? > >

Re: JCL: IF and ABEND

2011-06-02 Thread Sam Siegel
On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 5:30 PM, Gainsford, Allen wrote: > Normally (by default), if a jobstep abends, subsequent steps are flushed. > There ought to be a better way! Have I missed something obvious? Can > anyone offer a suggestion? > > can this be managed by breaking the jcl into multiple job

Re: System Programming C (SPC) in MQS Exits

2011-06-04 Thread Sam Siegel
> the two mallocs are in different load modules. > The SPC malloc is in the load module that we build, > that is, the MQS exit. The SPC malloc is statically linked > to the MQS exit. The SPC philosophy is: link everything statically > to the requesting load module, so that there is no LE runtime

Re: OT: Personal update

2011-06-04 Thread Sam Siegel
On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 7:07 AM, John McKown wrote: > I have been in the hospital since monday the 23rd. I had a gangrenous > gallbladder removed. This is my second day out of ICU. I hope to leave > monday or tuesday. Ahh I am weak but doing much better. > > Hope you have a speedy, full and quick r

Re: Obtaining System Information from a COBOL program

2011-06-22 Thread Sam Siegel
On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 12:55 PM, Steve Comstock wrote: > On 6/22/2011 11:36 AM, Daniel Rose wrote: > >> I had a COBOL programmer ask me how they could get the LPAR name, SYSNAME, >> or SMFSID from a COBOL program. I could not find a LE Function that would >> do that. So, a co-worker located a s

Re: Ads and absurdities

2011-07-07 Thread Sam Siegel
Thank you for putting this into perspective! 2011/7/7 R.S. > Ladies, gentlemen, > > This is list related to IBM mainframes, z/OS and various pieces of HW and > SW working in this realm. > I just mentioned IBM. Advertisement? > I used "z/OS" - this is PRODUCT NAME. COMMERCIAL ONE! (Very expensive

Re: End of of Ads thread

2011-07-07 Thread Sam Siegel
I agree with Dave Gibney! On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 10:22 AM, Gibney, Dave wrote: > Shai, one and only one individual complained about you. Please ignore this > individual whose contributions to this forum, IMO, are of marginal use > anyway. > > Dave Gibney > Information Technology Services > Wash

Re: Making Z/OS easier - Effectively replacing JCL with Unix like commands

2011-07-18 Thread Sam Siegel
On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 2:10 PM, Wayne Driscoll wrote: > In my 20 plus year career I have seen a lot more people with mainframe > backgrounds expressing a willingness to learn and integrate usage of > non-mainframe technology than I have seen people from an "open-systems" > background show a willi

Re: Making Z/OS easier - Effectively replacing JCL with Unix like commands

2011-07-19 Thread Sam Siegel
On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 7:10 PM, John McKown wrote: > On Mon, 2011-07-18 at 14:45 -0700, Sam Siegel wrote: >> On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 2:10 PM, Wayne Driscoll wrote: >> > In my 20 plus year career I have seen a lot more people with mainframe >> > backgrounds expressing

Re: C compiler issue

2011-07-25 Thread Sam Siegel
On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 5:47 AM, Barkow, Eileen wrote: > I think that you need to set the MARGINS compiler option, or just specify MAR > in the compiler parms. > Check the c programmers guide about compiling with Sockets. Another option for CICS 3.1 and higher is to use the C/C++ compile's built

Re: disclosing "business" information on the internet

2011-07-28 Thread Sam Siegel
On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 3:14 PM, Bill Johnson wrote: > In our shop, we can't even use our work email address to subscribe to the > listserv, emails from it are blocked. > In today's ever more security aware environment even the perception of exposure can draw unwarranted attention to yourself an

Re: FW: CEE0813S Insufficient Storage

2011-08-23 Thread Sam Siegel
LE will provide storage based on the Amode of the calling program. See the Language environment documentation on how to use the CEEOPTS DD to generate a storage usage report. This will give detailed information on above and below the line storage usage by COBOL and other HLLs. On Tue, Aug 23, 201

Re: Goodbye from this email address

2011-08-31 Thread Sam Siegel
Sorry to hear the bad news. I hope you bounce back quickly and/or have enough in the bank to ride of into the sunset. On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 12:19 PM, Mike Liberatore wrote: > Good luck; Hope things workout. > Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry > > -Original Message- > From: Scott

Re: LE issue: RPTOPTS and RPTSTG - no output

2011-09-06 Thread Sam Siegel
You might need a coma at the end of the first line. On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 1:17 PM, Binyamin Dissen wrote: > I am attempting to run an LE program and get the specified output. I put it in > CEEOPTS and nothing comes out. > > TRAP(OFF,NOSPIE),RPTSTG,RPTOPTS,MSGFILE(CEEMSG) > STACK(512K,128K) > > I

DCB exlst 16

2011-09-13 Thread Sam Siegel
Hello readers. I've got an old problem state assembler program that does certain sub totaling whenever the DCB EXLST 16 is driven. When exit 16 is driven, the current dataset name is obtained from the JFCB and a totaling subprogram is called. DCB EXLST 13 and 16 are used. Exit 16 is documented

Re: DCB exlst 16

2011-09-13 Thread Sam Siegel
;DFSMS Using Data Sets" > > On Tue, 13 Sep 2011 06:02:47 -0700 Sam Siegel wrote: > > :>Hello readers. > :> > :>I've got an old problem state assembler program that does certain sub > :>totaling whenever the DCB EXLST 16 is driven.  When exit 16 is

Re: Looking for clues on a bug in assembler

2011-10-14 Thread Sam Siegel
Can you post sample code? On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 6:43 PM, Charles Mills wrote: > I have spent the past two days on a bug in my assembler code that is driving > me crazy. > > I have an assembler routine that is called from C++ code and in turn calls > COBOL test code. It works most of the time so

Re: Looking for clues on a bug in assembler

2011-10-15 Thread Sam Siegel
> INDCBE   DCBE  RMODE31=BUFF,       ASSUMPTION IS INPUT NEVER A TERM    + >               EODAD=INDEOF,                                           + >               SYNAD=DCBSYNEX > OUTDCBE  DCBE  RMODE31=BUFF,       Always a Disk file, never a TERM    + >               SYNAD=DCBSYN

Re: SRBEPA

2011-10-17 Thread Sam Siegel
On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 9:27 AM, Chris Craddock wrote: > On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 4:53 PM, Micheal Butz > wrote: > >> The normal sequence then is common when scheduling to a different address >> space > > > > just think about it for a minute. There is no magic. Put yourself in the > SRB's place. I

Re: SRBEPA

2011-10-17 Thread Sam Siegel
thanks On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 9:55 AM, McKown, John wrote: >> -Original Message- >> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List >> [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Sam Siegel >> Sent: Monday, October 17, 2011 11:32 AM >> To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu >&g

Re: SRBEPA

2011-10-17 Thread Sam Siegel
On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 10:03 AM, Chris Craddock wrote: > On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 11:31 AM, Sam Siegel wrote: > >> On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 9:27 AM, Chris Craddock >> wrote: >> > On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 4:53 PM, Micheal Butz > >wrote: >> On the other han

ADRNAPF was IEBCOP Y losing APF authori sation in mi ddle of JOB - etc‏

2010-04-20 Thread Sam Siegel
With all of the discussion about APF and loading programs from various types of libraries, I'm hoping someone can provide some clarification for me regarding the ADRNAPF of the load macro. The doc indicates that a module can be loaded from a non-apf library when ADRNAPF is used from an authorized

Re: ADRNAPF was IEBCOP Y losing APF authori sation i n mi ddle of JOB - etc‏

2010-04-21 Thread Sam Siegel
On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 12:46 AM, Tony Harminc wrote: > On 20 April 2010 19:09, Sam Siegel wrote: > > > With all of the discussion about APF and loading programs from various > types > > of libraries, I'm hoping someone can provide some clarification for > > me r

Re: ADRNAPF was IEBCOP Y losing APF authori sation i n mi ddle of JOB - etc?

2010-04-21 Thread Sam Siegel
On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 9:54 AM, Binyamin Dissen wrote: > On Wed, 21 Apr 2010 08:24:19 +0100 Sam Siegel wrote: > > :>On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 12:46 AM, Tony Harminc wrote: > > :>> On 20 April 2010 19:09, Sam Siegel wrote: > > :>> > With all of the discuss

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