Re: Interesting slashdot thread about why companies don't upgrade

2013-05-11 Thread Scott Ford
Phil and Mike, Yep..but which of the PC vendors , for example, write for older machines? Most of the products require a bigger footprint, either in memory or HDD space. Z/os a different story as far as I am concerned Scott ford www.identityforge.com from my IPAD 'Infinite wisdom through

SYSPLEX INITIALIZATION TIME

2013-05-11 Thread Ed Jaffe
I just noticed this insert added to msgIXC334I by OA41210: SYSPLEX INITIALIZATION TIME: 12/29/2011 20:59:16.385348 So this sysplex is about 1 1/2 years old. Are there production sysplexes that are decades old? -- Edward E Jaffe Phoenix Software International, Inc 831 Parkview Drive North El

Re: C question -- not sure where to ask it

2013-05-11 Thread retired mainframer
What is the character between the two single quote marks in the first call to memset? My email shows no character (the quotes are adjacent) and C does not support an empty character constant. Perchance did you have a hex 00 there? If so, the code would be more readable using '\0' as the

Re: Following up on Rexx and Metal C

2013-05-11 Thread Anthony Rudd
You mentioned in passing the problem with debugging Metal C by adding printf's. Unfortunately, Metal C does not offer I/O functions. I solved this problem by writing an extension library with basic I/O support. Tony -- For

Examing Setting Return Codes in a CLIST/MACRO

2013-05-11 Thread esst...@juno.com
Hi, Not proffecient in CLISTS and RExx. Can I get some assistance with examining testing a return code in a CLIST Macro. In A CLIST i execute the following statements to edit a member of a PDS and use the ALTER MACRO to change all occurances of XXX. SET IOFUNC = STR(EDIT)

Re: C question -- not sure where to ask it

2013-05-11 Thread Bill Godfrey
On Sat, 11 May 2013 12:25:13 -0700, retired mainframer wrote: What is the character between the two single quote marks in the first call to memset? My email shows no character (the quotes are adjacent) and C does not support an empty character constant. Perchance did you have a hex 00 there?

Re: Examing Setting Return Codes in a CLIST/MACRO

2013-05-11 Thread Dave Salt
The edit session ends with CANCEL, which means no changes were saved, which means ISPF sets the return code of the macro to 4. If you want to end with a different return code, you can hard code it like this: EXIT CODE(0) Or set it using this as an example: ISREDIT CHANGE 'XXX' 'V0' ALL

Re: SYSPLEX INITIALIZATION TIME

2013-05-11 Thread Graham Harris
6 1/2 years here On 11 May 2013 15:04, Ed Jaffe edja...@phoenixsoftware.com wrote: I just noticed this insert added to msgIXC334I by OA41210: SYSPLEX INITIALIZATION TIME: 12/29/2011 20:59:16.385348 So this sysplex is about 1 1/2 years old. Are there production sysplexes that are decades

Re: Examing Setting Return Codes in a CLIST/MACRO

2013-05-11 Thread retired mainframer
Your edit macro ALTER performs two different functions: it changes all occurrences of one string to another and submits a job. Either of these could fail. Which would you like the return code to reflect? You could initialize a local variable to 0 near the top of your macro. After issuing the

Re: SYSPLEX INITIALIZATION TIME

2013-05-11 Thread Andrew Metcalfe
I'll see your 6.5 years and raise you! SYSPLEX INITIALIZATION TIME: 02/24/2004 23:46:17.566318 Andrew -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Graham Harris Sent: 11 May 2013 22:52 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re:

SYSLOG

2013-05-11 Thread Graham Hobbs
Hello, NQ: Trying to keep my SD;O list short. I find 15 of the following thereon: SYSLOG STC2 +MASTER+ 144 C STD LOCAL 70 SYSLOG STC00018 +MASTER+ 128 C STD LOCAL 3,536 SYSLOG STC00052 +MASTER+ 128 C

Re: SYSLOG

2013-05-11 Thread Lizette Koehler
Graham, Syslog is a log and history of what has been going on in your system. Jobs that have run, messages written to syslog, etc... Some shops archive it to dasd as a GDG to keep it around in-case they need to go back and research an issue. So the choices are 1) Leave it on spool 2) Write

Re: Examing Setting Return Codes in a CLIST/MACRO

2013-05-11 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Sat, 11 May 2013 17:09:19 -0400, Dave Salt wrote: The edit session ends with CANCEL, which means no changes were saved, which means ISPF sets the return code of the macro to 4. If you want to end with a different return code, you can hard code it like this: EXIT CODE(0) Or set it using this

Re: Examing Setting Return Codes in a CLIST/MACRO

2013-05-11 Thread Dave Salt
Does your suggestion leave the file unchanged, end the edit session with RC=0, and not leave the user in a terminal edit session? The edit session would end with whatever return code was set by CHANGE. For example, if the change was successful (RC=0, which means one or more strings were