On Fri, 26 Dec 2014 05:55:57 -0600, Shane Ginnane wrote:
I sometimes wonder when was the last time anyone installed to a real piece
of hardware - no {pico,micro,macro)-code.
Slushware is ubiquitous.
The corollary of course is how do vendors like vmware and IBM convince
customers for continue
On Thu, 25 Dec 2014 22:29:07 +, Blaicher, Christopher Y. wrote:
BSAM gets the length of the block to write from the DCB BLKSIZE at the time of
the WRITE. As long as the DCB BLKSIZE is equal to or less than the max
BLKSIZE all is OK. BSAM will build the CCHHRKDD from the various values it
Paul Gilmartin wrote:
It began nearly a half century ago with microcode implementation of S360
models, and only slightly later, W. M. Waite's Mobile Programming System.
Nowadays:
microcode-millicode-PR/SM-VM-JVM-byte code
How many layers have I neglected? Hercules is a confluent branch
This
000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu (Paul Gilmartin) writes:
It began nearly a half century ago with microcode implementation of S360
models, and only slightly later, W. M. Waite's Mobile Programming System.
Nowadays:
microcode-millicode-PR/SM-VM-JVM-byte code
How many layers
You probably mean //STARTING EXEC ... not //STARTING JOB, do you?
I am on vacation right now and cannot test. I know that two lines are
inserted, one of them is a JOB card, the other an EXEC statement.
Nothing gets inserted. Try to think about it from another point of view: You
want to
At 10:49 -0600 on 12/27/2014, Paul Gilmartin wrote about Re: BDW
length vs. Physical Length:
It's a pity that QSAM doesn't routinely exploit track balances.
I agree. It is a waste of track space when the access method refuses
to write short blocks just to keep all but the last block as
Seriously, no one cited security as a why for this restriction.
Part of a proper system setup anc change management is to limit who can use the
START command, possibly what he/she can START and for sure who can apply
changes to JCL the JCL (procedure) libraries in discussion. If this JCL could
000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu (Paul Gilmartin) writes:
How many layers have I neglected? Hercules is a confluent branch.
re:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#161 Slushware
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014m.html#163 Slushware
for other hercules drift ... risc processors
On Sat, 27 Dec 2014 09:17:20 -0800, Phil Smith p...@voltage.com wrote:
This is fun. I'm not sure modern machines are both microcoded AND millicoded-I
thought millicode was just another form of microcode. Am I wrong?
Sure. Millicode sits between your program and the machine's native instruction
