Re: SNA - IMS

2013-03-29 Thread Rich Tabor
The following is extracted (with apologies) from chapter 4 ETO Support V3R1 User's Guide for installing APPC/MVS components of this product: //STEP1 EXEC PGM=ATBSDFMU //SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=* //SYSSDLIB DD DISP=SHR,DSN=@@APPCTP //SYSSDOUT DD SYSOUT=* //SYSINDD DATA,DLM=’QT’ TPDELETE

Re: Linking to MVS standard linkage function from Rexx

2013-03-29 Thread Lloyd Fuller
Charles, Before you get to far, unless things have changed, Metal C does not handle C++. C only. I have not looked specifically at z/OS 1.13, but I do know that in 1.12 and earlier, C only. Lloyd - Original Message From: Charles Mills charl...@mcn.org To:

Re: 32760? (was: PARMDD?)

2013-03-29 Thread Peter Relson
I did not find Kevin Kelley's post entirely persuasive. This restriction long antedates 2 Kibyte pages, and the equation 8 x 4096 = 32768 is thus historically irrelevant. Kevin was not trying to persuade. He was merely stating facts. The number of pages is not the relevant part of the

Re: BLDL+FIND or just FIND+DCB for reading a single member of a PDS

2013-03-29 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 51505550.8080...@dignus.com, on 03/25/2013 at 09:46 AM, Thomas David Rivers riv...@dignus.com said: The DFSMS documentation states that using BLDL + FIND (and using the ttr,C form for FIND) results in a performance improvement... over simply pointing FIND at the DCB. But - is that still

Re: 32760? (was: PARMDD?)

2013-03-29 Thread Vernooij, CP - SPLXM
They ARE not. Code has to be written to use PARMDD and will therefore not crash production applications unexpectedly. Modifications to current PARM could crash current code, running well for decades based on ancient specs/assumptions. Kees. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe

Re: 32760? (was: PARMDD?)

2013-03-29 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Mar 29, 2013, at 07:46, Vernooij, CP - SPLXM wrote: They ARE not. The reference is elliptical. Code has to be written to use PARMDD and will therefore not crash production applications unexpectedly. Only the JCL need change. If by code you mean load modules, code needn't change.

Re: Linking to MVS standard linkage function from Rexx

2013-03-29 Thread Ed Jaffe
On 3/29/2013 5:19 AM, Lloyd Fuller wrote: ... unless things have changed, Metal C does not handle C++. C only. I have not looked specifically at z/OS 1.13, but I do know that in 1.12 and earlier, C only. True in z/OS 1.13 as well. -- Edward E Jaffe Phoenix Software International, Inc 831

Re: 32760? (was: PARMDD?)

2013-03-29 Thread John Gilmore
This thread has exhausted itself. We are rehashing trivia. I do not need to be reminded of the capacity of a halfword, signed or unsigned; and Kevin can defend his views himself if he wants to bother to do so. For what it may be worth, I judge that the new facility is a happy compromise of very

Re: 32760? (was: PARMDD?)

2013-03-29 Thread Ed Jaffe
On 3/29/2013 6:46 AM, Vernooij, CP - SPLXM wrote: Code has to be written to use PARMDD and will therefore not crash production applications unexpectedly. When I worked for a large bank, none of our production batch applications were APF authorized. However, changes to production JCL went

Re: PARMDD?

2013-03-29 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Tue, 26 Mar 2013 23:09:16 -0500, Ed Gould wrote: Paul: I think you are reading too much into John's presentation. After thinking about it I would guess that the exec statement and parm will remain essentially the same and if you want to pass a longer parm then you would code the exec

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2013-03-29 Thread Andy Robertson
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2013-03-29 Thread Andy Robertson
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Re: test

2013-03-29 Thread Taylor, Scott
You failed that one. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Andy Robertson Sent: Friday, March 29, 2013 9:38 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: test resr

Re: 32760? (was: PARMDD?)

2013-03-29 Thread zMan
Uh oh, new GMail Reply format will irritate the bottom-posters -- now it's non-trivial to not top-post. Let the flamewars resume. On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 10:56 AM, zMan zedgarhoo...@gmail.com wrote: And this is new how? :-) On Fri, Mar 29, 2013 at 10:16 AM, John Gilmore jwgli...@gmail.com

Re: PDS processing in REXX

2013-03-29 Thread Graham Hobbs
Kenneth, lady and gentlemen,. I do thankyou for your responses. There was much there that I have put to use, SYSDSN, apostrophes, DELETE, use of EXECIO *, Got most of the coding done, now to wait for mainframe access (hopefully IBM VIC), getting a good lesson in 'proper'.REXX. Lizette, here in