Re: So Long, and Thanks For All The Fish

2016-01-02 Thread Elardus Engelbrecht
On Thu, 31 Dec 2015 08:47:04 -0600, Shane Ginnane wrote: Huh? You're going away? Retirement? At a new job? Going away on a luxury mega yacht? Oh dear, Mate, I (and of course many others) will miss your good posts and your sense of humour here on IBM-MAIN! Good luck in

Re: COBOL Code Gened for MOVE COMP-3 S9(9) to S9(8)

2016-01-02 Thread Rupert Reynolds
> "That should be ZAP 3672(5,5),1971(1,5) or you will only get the first byte of the source field." I may be rusty, but surely the ZAP overlapping byte-for-byte with both operands 3672(5,5) will simply work as if processed from right to left, changing nothing apart from perhaps the sign, as

Re: History question - In what year did IBM first release its DF/DSS backup & restore product?

2016-01-02 Thread Joel C. Ewing
On 01/02/2016 04:04 PM, Stephen Mednick wrote: > Looking to find the answer to the question "in which year did IBM release > its DF/DSS backup & restore product. > > Cheers, > Stephen Mednick > Computer Supervisory Services > Sydney, Australia > > > Asia/Pacific representatives for: > Innovation

Re: History question - In what year did IBM first release its DF/DSS backup & restore product?

2016-01-02 Thread Joel C. Ewing
On 01/02/2016 05:46 PM, Joel C. Ewing wrote: > On 01/02/2016 04:04 PM, Stephen Mednick wrote: >> Looking to find the answer to the question "in which year did IBM release >> its DF/DSS backup & restore product. >> >> Cheers, >> Stephen Mednick >> Computer Supervisory Services >> Sydney, Australia

Re: History question - In what year did IBM first release its DF/DSS backup & restore product?

2016-01-02 Thread Anne & Lynn Wheeler
ibmm...@computersupervisoryservices.com (Stephen Mednick) writes: > Looking to find the answer to the question "in which year did IBM release > its DF/DSS backup & restore product. some trivia from the web

Re: History question - In what year did IBM first release its DF/DSS backup & restore product?

2016-01-02 Thread Tom Marchant
On Sat, 2 Jan 2016 18:30:23 -0600, Joel C. Ewing wrote: > An on-line copy of "Aug 83 Product Summary Software" shows Release 1.0 >(5740-AM6) of DF/DSS was available at that time for OS/VS1 (with later >releases available for OS/VS2). The description says it was developed >as part of >the

Anyone got any ancient DASD manuals?

2016-01-02 Thread Mike Ross
I have a friend trying to restore a 9370 system and he needs to re-init the diag track on the disk. This requires entering some special commands on the keyboard behind the front panel on the drive controller itself... and he needs IBM 9335-A01 SERVICE GUIDE (probably SY33-0113, but not sure) to