On Mar 27, 2014, at 6:44 PM, Charles Mills charl...@mcn.org wrote:
I have no idea how a particular C compiler would behave but I think the
problem is that any time you do anything resembling
void *foo;
int bar = (int)foo;
then what you get is what you get. We all know that a 32-bit
Dear list,
What is the recommended way to install z/os from scratch to a new data center,
includes new hardware z machine, DASD, tape system.
King regards,
Mohamed juma
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W dniu 2014-03-28 07:28, Mohamed Juma pisze:
Dear list,
What is the recommended way to install z/os from scratch to a new data center,
includes new hardware z machine, DASD, tape system.
Hire specialist ;-)
Some details:
1. Configure DASD box (define 3390 volumes)
2. Connect the DASD to CPC
You can take a look at a couple IBM examples for inspiration such as:
- Enterprise COBOL Developer Trial
- CICS Transaction Server for z/OS Developer Trial
Another possibility available for certain types of products is to provide
Internet access (preferably via an encrypted connection) to an
There is a long and tortuous story behind it all Tom - one
that only Lewis Carroll or Terry Pratchett could have thought up.
A product of bean-counters and sales-droids trying to make up for
the fact they'd strangled the goose that had lain all those golden
eggs for decades.
No, not really, or at
On Fri, 28 Mar 2014 16:13:06 +0800, Timothy Sipples wrote:
The primary and probably only
reason sub-capacity general purpose engines exist is to provide increased
licensing granularity for full capacity licensed software.
Nice try. I was referring to the contortions involved in the introduction
C2R - Clist to Rexx Converter
I have used the above to convert many a clist. It is not perfect, but it gets
you VERY close. Not sure where I got it though. I believe the original author
is Chuck Tribolet of IBM.
Bob
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I examined the problem further, using the following code:
#include stdio.h
#include stdlib.h
#include string.h
/**/
/* */
/* PLI/1 NULL () = SYSNULL () */
/* */
Makes me curious of the lists opinion on if z/OS LPARs are usually able to
contact an internet site, or are commonly isolated?
I seem to have formed the impression that it's quite common to have a path
out/in (typically via firewalling...) is that impression accurate?
It would seem to me that
Bill Soper wrote:
It would seem to me that having a product work during initialization, then
contacting a license server using, say, the CPUID just as vendor keys often
do, to see if this is a licensed install would potentially be an option too?
What will you do if your bread-and-butter
You're missing the ampersand before JOBCARD - JOBCARD.
On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 9:19 PM, Micheal Butz michealb...@optonline.netwrote:
Hi
I cann't seem to get equal looking for a character string in the input file
I know that the job card is somewhere in the middle of the file
So here is
This has been an interesting discussion. I understand why vendors lock
software to specific machines and dates. Especially in the non-corporate
world. But I had another evil thought. I wonder how many z/OS system exist
which are not connected to the Internet. Not accessible to the Internet,
but
On the occasions that IBM service has been in to work on our DS6800, they have
never used the SMC. They always use the serial connection to the Kona cards
directly. And if you are using replication of your DS6800 for DR purposes, you
need the SMC more often than you might think.
On Wed, 26
Actually more slower engines applies here as well.
Cheers, Martin
Martin Packer,
zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator,
Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM
+44-7802-245-584
email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com
Twitter / Facebook IDs: MartinPacker
Blog:
And sorry for the typo, that if statement should have read:
if (ppli == (uintptr_t) 0xff00u)
Not unitptr_t.
Peter
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To:
Peter,
thank you.
I read all this carefully, and the link that Charles Mills provided, too,
but I still think that things are different here. The situations described
on that site don't fit exactly to my situation.
The unsigned int in my case is large enough to take the address value
(32 bits
Bernd Oppolzer wrote:
Thank you all for your valuable suggestions.
The compiler is z/OS XL/C V1.13 and V1.11 -
well, in fact, I didn't test it with the 1.11. version.
I observed the problem on the site with the 1.13 version.
This is part of the PL/1 interface for my XML parser.
I had to do a
On 03/28/2014 07:39 AM, John McKown wrote:
This has been an interesting discussion. I understand why vendors lock
software to specific machines and dates. Especially in the non-corporate
world. But I had another evil thought. I wonder how many z/OS system exist
which are not connected to the
On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 9:06 AM, Joel C. Ewing jcew...@acm.org wrote:
snip
I seem to recall a case where the vendor wanted to change contract terms
at renewal in a way that was unacceptable to our corporate management
and it took several months of negotiations past the formal expiration of
Farley, Peter x23353 wrote:
And sorry for the typo, that if statement should have read:
if (ppli == (uintptr_t) 0xff00u)
Not unitptr_t.
Peter
I'm not sure uintptr_t is going to make much difference...
it's just a typedef to (unsigned long). It _should_ be completely
equivalent to
It was only the rest for season 1 .
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Technology Solution Services
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Before I get some remarks on this:
I just realized that NULL returning 0xFF00 was designed when we
still had 24 bit addressing, so there must have been other reasons
for this design decision.
Am 28.03.2014 14:39, schrieb Bernd Oppolzer:
The unsigned int in my case is large enough to take
I'm making a first attempt at C code on z/OS and I'm having trouble making
the compiler work the way I understand it should from the manual. This is
such a basic function and it fails so miserably I'm sure this is some sort
of setup misunderstanding.
The problem is that the compiler is not
It sure seems like Chicago-Soft has achieved a license mechanism for
QuickRef with near-minimal inconvenience:
On their website you specify a CPU and request a key(1).
They send an email with a binary attachment.
You transfer that attachment to a z/OS dataset on DASD.
It's
On Fri, 28 Mar 2014 08:41:44 -0700, Skip Robinson wrote:
z/VM as a matter of SOP provides a DVD OS image that can be IPLed
directly from an HMC. z/OS does not. You have to obtain a volume-dump copy
of a runnable system, then perform 'stand-alone' restores onto DASD
volumes that you can access.
Paul Gilmartin wrote:
On Fri, 28 Mar 2014 08:41:44 -0700, Skip Robinson wrote:
z/VM as a matter of SOP provides a DVD OS image that can be IPLed
directly from an HMC. z/OS does not. You have to obtain a volume-dump copy
of a runnable system, then perform 'stand-alone' restores onto DASD
Bernd,
Have you looked at the code generated for:
static void *pli_null_to_sysnull (void *ptr)
//static void *pli_null_to_sysnull (unsigned int ptr)
{
// unsigned int ppli = (unsigned int) ptr;
#ifdef COMPERR
printf (Ausgabe in pli_null_to_sysnull
wg. Comp-Fehler: %x\n, ppli);
Is there a way to find out if a DASD volume has been initialized with the
STORAGEGROUP attribute?
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http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/03/140327100335.htm
quote
A future computer might be a lot slimier than the solid silicon devices we
have today. Researchers have revealed details of logic units built using
living slime molds, which might act as the building blocks for computing
devices
On 28 March 2014 02:28, Mohamed Juma mmj...@yahoo.com wrote:
What is the recommended way to install z/os from scratch to a new data
center, includes new hardware z machine, DASD, tape system.
If you are in this unusual position, IBM will surely be already
knocking at your door to help you do
Charles,
Thanks for your feedback.
I was thinking in some other table, containing messages prefix, not products.
Something like ICH (RACF), HASP (JES2), SBL (BETA88) and so on.
Every time I try to open a new thread i got an error, and I still don't know
why,
but responding works fine. I'll try
Chicago-Soft (with which I am not affiliated) publishes a reference to all (for
some values of all LOL) IBM and vendor messages.
http://quickref.com/newQuickRef/helpdocs/help?thisDoc=isvmessages7.8
If you think about it, the all requirement is an impossible standard. If such
a table existed,
On 28 March 2014 09:47, Bernd Oppolzer bernd.oppol...@t-online.de wrote:
I just realized that NULL returning 0xFF00 was designed when we
still had 24 bit addressing, so there must have been other reasons
for this design decision.
I remember heated discussions on this matter at my
Mark,
If the storagegroup attribute is present you will not be able to allocate a
non-sms dataset to that volume.
Thank You,
Dave O'Brien
NIH Contractor
From: Mark Pace [pacemainl...@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, March 28, 2014 1:44 PM
To:
ITURIEL DO NASCIMENTO NETO wrote:
I was thinking in some other table, containing messages prefix, not products.
Something like ICH (RACF), HASP (JES2), SBL (BETA88) and so on.
Look in Relating component ID to component name, module prefix, and product
in book
MVS Diagnosis: Reference.
This
Never done it. I would expect a standalone restore of a small (as low as 1
mod27, but probably 3 to 6 m3) number of volumes from the DVD(s), followed by
an IPL from the resulting SYSRES. Logon would be as IBMUSER. Serverpac from
there.
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From: IBM Mainframe
Hi all,
Does any of you know if there is a message prefix table, regarding all IBM and
ISV products ?
I've tried to Google it but didn't find out specifically what is wanted.
TIA
Atenciosamente / Regards / Saludos
Ituriel do Nascimento Neto
BANCO BRADESCO S.A.
4250 / DPCD Engenharia de
On 2014-03-28 11:25, John Eells wrote:
As someone else posted, the COD is available on DVD; it has been available
that way for some years now.
In fact:
On 2014-03-28 01:17, R.S. wrote:
...
Some details:
1. Configure DASD box (define 3390 volumes)
2. Connect the DASD to CPC
3.
z/VM as a matter of SOP provides a DVD OS image that can be IPLed
directly from an HMC. z/OS does not. You have to obtain a volume-dump copy
of a runnable system, then perform 'stand-alone' restores onto DASD
volumes that you can access. However, even that process is difficult until
you can
Bernd,
I do not know what control you have over user code that invokes yours,
but PL/I has for long supported the use of sysnull rather than null,
i.e., '0'B4 instead of 'FF00'B4 as the null,
points-nowhere, EOL, pointer value.
Moreover, a PL/I preprocessor procedure that 1) replaces
The VTOC format 4 DSCB. Documented in SYS1.MODGEN(IECSDSL1). Field
DS4SMSFG, mask DS4SMS.
ref:
http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/dgt2s370/1.1.1.5
On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 12:44 PM, Mark Pace pacemainl...@gmail.com wrote:
Is there a way to find out if a DASD volume has
Will give new meaning to my computer has a virus and my computer died!
On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 12:34 PM, John McKown
john.archie.mck...@gmail.comwrote:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/03/140327100335.htm
quote
A future computer might be a lot slimier than the solid silicon devices
Paul Gilmartin wrote:
snip
The last two steps mystify me: ...small z/OS system, ... on DVD's. Can one
IPL z/OS from a DVD?
It is theoretically possible, to IPL z/OS from DVD in some sense (I
think) though we (a) don't support it (b) haven't tried it and (c)
practical limitations and
Also, column 22 (Physical Status) should either display Convert or Initial.
(unless it is Unknown - I don't know what that means)
Regards,
Greg Shirey
Ben E. Keith Company
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Of Lucas
Hi ,
I am not sure what level of information you need, but this was a session at
SHARE that was aimed to explain procedures and steps in project which has a
target to implement mainframe platform from ground up.(new CEC,new DASD,new
Tape ). The target attendees were new system programmers and
Hi ,
I am not sure what level of information you need, but this was a session at
SHARE that was aimed to explain procedures and steps in project which has a
target to implement mainframe platform from ground up.(new CEC,new DASD,new
Tape ). The target attendees were new system programmers and
Hello List,
Now that we have applied LE PTF UI13041 to produce the following messages at
runtime:
IGZ0268W An invocation was made of OS/VS COBOL program
program-name.
Has anyone implemented a Userexit to capture and inventory any programs that
produces the IGZ0268W messages, It a SYSPRINT
On 28 March 2014 14:00, Elardus Engelbrecht
elardus.engelbre...@sita.co.za wrote:
Look in Relating component ID to component name, module prefix, and product
in book
MVS Diagnosis: Reference.
This one should help you in a way for IBM software. I believe someone said on
IBM-MAIN that IBM
W dniu 2014-03-28 18:59, Paul Gilmartin pisze:
On 2014-03-28 11:25, John Eells wrote:
As someone else posted, the COD is available on DVD; it has been available that
way for some years now.
In fact:
On 2014-03-28 01:17, R.S. wrote:
...
Some details:
1. Configure DASD box (define 3390
Most people here have been at this a while (or a long time, or forever).
So we've all seen technologies come and go -- probably with mixed
feelings. Some vanished too soon, good riddance to others.
What computing/career artifacts do people have? I have a couple hex
calculators. One is the TI
Doesn't this tell you if the volume has been assigned to a storage group?
It is possible to initialize a volume and not assign it to a group.
:: -Original Message-
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:: Behalf Of Lucas Rosalen
:: Sent: Friday, March
Do you have any tools other than ISMF? Something like QUICKREF?
Some vendor products can help with these types of questions.
So what is the issue? Are files not allocating on a volume in a pool?
Lizette
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On Mar 28, 2014, at 1:42 PM, zMan wrote:
Will give new meaning to my computer has a virus and my computer
died!
On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 12:34 PM, John McKown
john.archie.mck...@gmail.comwrote:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/03/140327100335.htm
quote
A future computer might be a
No vendor products at all. I have some DASD volumes that I want to use as
a Storage group and I wasn't the one that initialized them. They already
have some data one them so I couldn't re-initialize.
On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 4:34 PM, Lizette Koehler stars...@mindspring.comwrote:
Do you have
Mark,
Is they aren't SMS volumes, then they will fail the VARY SMS attempts.
Kevin
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Subject: DSF INIT STGR
This is kind of interesting. I am a developer now but I remember back in the
good old days of system programming work. It seems like as far as installing a
new IBM product, we could not get any help what so ever. If you had a
production problem, they were great. I bet, hopefully, that has
If the datasets on them, have STORCLAS/MGMTCLAS attributes, the volumes are
init'd STORAGEGROUP capable.
And should already be part of a group, as that would be the likely way the data
got there.
Look at the DFDSS CONVERT process if you wish to add a currently non-SMS volume
to an SMS
In
2136686151530026.wa.chris.cantrellpalmettogba@listserv.ua.edu,
on 03/26/2014
at 04:19 PM, Chris Cantrell chris.cantr...@palmettogba.com said:
My question is how do I get to the SIOTX for my DD while running the
program which has the DD allocated?
You get the SIOT chain from the SCT of
In
of6528a2b6.d0960855-on88257ca9.0016d1c9-88257ca9.0018c...@sce.com,
on 03/27/2014
at 09:30 PM, Skip Robinson jo.skip.robin...@sce.com said:
The question is not whether it's possible to do anything in CLIST.
The question is why bother?
Alas, there are still some things that you can do in
In 5332827c.9030...@bremultibank.com.pl, on 03/26/2014
at 08:32 AM, R.S. r.skoru...@bremultibank.com.pl said:
Now you are rude type.
PKB.
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ISO position; see http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html
We don't care. We don't have to
The term scratch is somewhat confusing as you do need a few things up front.
1. Do you have a DR plan ( can you leverage some initial steps there ..like
offsite RES volume and use of a busing system)
2. Grab a Laptop, Caffeine and a USB drive.( type up your action plan )
3. Provided
My first choice was Rexx however I needed a steplib or in TSO terms a TSOLIB
that seems to be a problem whitin Rexx only after you leave the Rexx exec does
it take effect at least that's what the IBM doc states
Sent from my iPhone
On Mar 28, 2014, at 5:39 PM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
My first choice was Rexx however there seems to be a problem with TSOLIB the
example in the IBM doc says you push meaning the TSOLIB command takes effect
after you leave the exec
Sent from my iPhone
On Mar 28, 2014, at 12:30 AM, Skip Robinson jo.skip.robin...@sce.com wrote:
I wish OP would
You can store/execute a REXX exec in your Clist library if you code /*
REXX */ as the first line.
You can also issue a TSOEXEC LISTA ST from option 6 to see which
datasets are allocated to your SYSPROC (for Clist) and to your SYSEXEC
(for REXX).
Micheal Butz wrote:
My first choice was
On 3/28/2014 5:39 PM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote:
In
of6528a2b6.d0960855-on88257ca9.0016d1c9-88257ca9.0018c...@sce.com,
on 03/27/2014
at 09:30 PM, Skip Robinson jo.skip.robin...@sce.com said:
The question is not whether it's possible to do anything in CLIST.
The question is why
In 5335cd1e.9000...@gabegold.com, on 03/28/2014
at 03:27 PM, Gabe Goldberg g...@gabegold.com said:
* Most liked/disliked
I liked the IBM 7070, which had 99 index registers. I had lust in my
heart for the CDC 3600, a beautiful machine for its day. I hated the
UNIVAC 1005, which had a truly
On Fri, 28 Mar 2014 18:36:02 -0400, Bob Woodside wrote:
Alas, there are still some things that you can do in CLIST but not
REXX. Fortunately, you don't need them very often.
Hmm Such as?
Modal use of linemode editor, available alike in CLIST and CMS EXEC,
but not in EXEC2 or Rexx. If
http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/zos/v1r12/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.ibm.zos.r12.cbcux01%2Fcbcug19023.htm
On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 12:19 PM, Chuck Arney ch...@arneycomputer.com wrote:
I'm making a first attempt at C code on z/OS and I'm having trouble making
the compiler work the way I
It was predicted in Star Trek Voyager.
On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 1:42 PM, zMan zedgarhoo...@gmail.com wrote:
Will give new meaning to my computer has a virus and my computer died!
On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 12:34 PM, John McKown
john.archie.mck...@gmail.comwrote:
You don't need the TSOEXEC for LISTA.
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You can store/execute a REXX exec in your Clist library if you
On Fri, 28 Mar 2014 12:19:33 -0500, Chuck Arney wrote:
...
JCL snippet:
...
What am I missing?
You shouldn't use JCL with C. You're just torturing yourself.
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Yeah, like using spell checkThere's gobs of samples, do they work?
In a message dated 3/28/2014 6:21:18 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
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You're just torturing yourself.
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Chuck:
Heres how I do it:
//ADCDMETA JOB SYSTEMS,MSGLEVEL=(1,1),MSGCLASS=X,CLASS=A,PRTY=8,
// NOTIFY=SYSUID,REGION=0M
// EXEC EDCCL,
// INFILE='SFORD.C.SOURCE(SUBPCHK)',
// OUTFILE='SFORD.TEST.LINKLIB(SUBPCHK),DISP=SHR',
// CPARM='LIS,SO,EXP,DEF(MVS)',
//
On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 4:04 PM, Mark Pace pacemainl...@gmail.com wrote:
No vendor products at all. I have some DASD volumes that I want to use as
a Storage group and I wasn't the one that initialized them. They already
have some data one them so I couldn't re-initialize.
1. Add to volume to
On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 6:44 AM, Bill Soper sop...@au1.ibm.com wrote:
Makes me curious of the lists opinion on if z/OS LPARs are usually able to
contact an internet site, or are commonly isolated?
There are some systems that are totally disconnected. Maybe 1-10%?
Chuck,
Best to leave SEARCH alone unless you've customized the installation. It
will default to SEARCH(//'CEE.SCEEH.+') which will pick up all the
header file data sets.
I see that you are trying to include C++ iostream headers. If you want
to compile C++ then you should take a look at the
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