Re: How about a little Christmas fudge? | Computerworld Shark tank

2018-12-26 Thread Joel C. Ewing
Well, ...  the IBM 1401 was built in a substantial frame; and in the context cited it appears to have the only (hence surely the "main") computer present.  Other members of the same general family like IBM 1410 were certainly regarded as a mainframe.  I'm pretty sure any computer large enough to

Re: Programs in the PPT on z/OS 2.2

2018-12-26 Thread Tom Conley
On 12/26/2018 3:39 PM, Peter Ten Eyck wrote: How does a program get added to the PPT? For example in SYS1.PARMLIB(SCHED**) has numerous programs are added to the PPT at say IPL time, but the console command D PPT display many more? Is there a default table of PPT programs? Other than looking

Re: Assigning a Data Class to HSM BACKUP files

2018-12-26 Thread Brian Fraser
I use different DATACLAS for HSM tapes from other tapes to assign a smaller virtual volume size. HSM Mig & Backup tapes use a DATACLAS that gives tapes a maximum size of 1,000 MB, other tapes get 6,000 MB On Thu, 27 Dec 2018 at 03:07, Dan D wrote: > > I agree, the SMS routines could easily be

Re: Programs in the PPT on z/OS 2.2

2018-12-26 Thread Roger Lowe
On Wed, 26 Dec 2018 14:39:32 -0600, Peter Ten Eyck wrote: >How does a program get added to the PPT? > >For example in SYS1.PARMLIB(SCHED**) has numerous programs are added to the >PPT at say IPL time, but the console command D PPT display many more? Is there >a default table of PPT programs?

Re: Bring back the IBM Journal of R!

2018-12-26 Thread Rob Schramm
My understanding is that you can request copies by contacting author directly or thru IBM Sales reps.. although I have had no luck requesting them thru Sales Reps. I always wanted the issues related to system Z CPUs etc.. always found them interesting. Rob Schramm On Thu, Dec 20, 2018 at 10:34

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2018-12-26 Thread Seymour J Metz
What is he smoking? Since when was the 1401 a mainframe? -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of Mark Regan Sent: Wednesday, December 26, 2018 8:28 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU

Programs in the PPT on z/OS 2.2

2018-12-26 Thread Peter Ten Eyck
How does a program get added to the PPT? For example in SYS1.PARMLIB(SCHED**) has numerous programs are added to the PPT at say IPL time, but the console command D PPT display many more? Is there a default table of PPT programs? Other than looking at a SCHED** member, how would I determine

Re: Adding 90 seconds to 8 byte TOD FIELD

2018-12-26 Thread Dan D
SETA 24*60*60 SETA 60*60 SETA 1*60 ONEDAY DC FDS12'' ONEHOUR DC FDS12'' ONEMINUTE DC FDS12'' or just simply: NINTYSECS DC FDS12'90E6' ... Thanks Ed. I've just never seen that before. Very useful. Dan

Re: Enforcing CLASS in instream proc

2018-12-26 Thread Dan D
Yes, ThruPut Manager (owned by Compuware Corp.) is available. In JAL you can identify the PROCs being executed and where they came from. You can also identify the input class and then direct the job to execute on whatever LPAR you choose. That's one of the very many things that can be done

Re: TOD clock values, leap seconds and BLSUXTOD conversion service

2018-12-26 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Wed, 26 Dec 2018 09:00:47 -0500, Peter Relson wrote: > >>I believe a programmer might reasonably expect that STCKCONV usefully return >>whatever TIME would have returned at the instant of the STCK. > >A programmer would expect next to nothing due to the name of a service >since it is not

Re: Adding 90 seconds to 8 byte TOD FIELD

2018-12-26 Thread Ed Jaffe
On 12/26/2018 9:47 AM, Dan D wrote: I don't recall which IBM manual I found these values in but they certainly make this type of calculation easier. *TOD Values CNOP 0,8 ONEDAY DCX'000141DD7600' ONEHOUR DCX'0D693A40' ONEMINUTE DC X'00393870'

Re: Assigning a Data Class to HSM BACKUP files

2018-12-26 Thread Dan D
I agree, the SMS routines could easily be used, but why? Other than the volume count I don't know what you would want to change. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to

Re: Adding 90 seconds to 8 byte TOD FIELD

2018-12-26 Thread Joseph Reichman
Hi Just ran the code under TESTAUTH I made a breakpoint at the BASR and did a L 1R?? L (8) XC it pointed to 00895440 which 90 * f424 WHAT Dan Dalby posted to be a second After the BASR I got a IKJ56640I SYSTEM ABEND CODE D23 REASON CODE FF050064 looking into it Thanks

Re: 64-bit C code fetching IGGCSI00

2018-12-26 Thread Dan D
Why not just a general LINK31 routine to be called for any program … ACONTROL OPTABLE(ZS3) SPLEVEL SET=6Specify OS/390 R2 MACRO Format SYSSTATE ARCHLVL=2Program Requires Z/Architecture

Re: Adding 90 seconds to 8 byte TOD FIELD

2018-12-26 Thread Dan D
I don't recall which IBM manual I found these values in but they certainly make this type of calculation easier. *TOD Values CNOP 0,8 ONEDAY DCX'000141DD7600' ONEHOUR DCX'0D693A40' ONEMINUTE DC X'00393870' ONESECOND DC

Re: Adding 90 seconds to 8 byte TOD FIELD

2018-12-26 Thread Joseph Reichman
=A(*+10) refers to the address of the 8 byte field loading that address (address of adcon ltorg) is what I think I should be doing R1 -> A(of timer field) Here is the doc 2-14 will be preserved. - On entry R1 should contain the address of a standard parameter list. The parameter list

Re: Adding 90 seconds to 8 byte TOD FIELD

2018-12-26 Thread retired mainframer
Look at the assembled contents of your address literal. The * does not refer to the location of the LA instruction but the address of the literal itself. Are you sure that your DC did not skip some bytes to force doubleword alignment? If it did, your B instruction points to the wrong place.

Re: IRXANCHR REXX environment value recommendation

2018-12-26 Thread Richards, Robert B.
Steve, Your setting is the highest from the responses that I have received. I am probably split the difference and set it to 2000. Bob -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Steve Horein Sent: Friday, December 21, 2018

Re: TOD clock values, leap seconds and BLSUXTOD conversion service

2018-12-26 Thread Peter Relson
>What date and time in 1900, and what time scale? GMT? UTC? UT1? Ephemeris tme? >Terrestrial dynamic time? ...? Surely you know that the principles of operation documents that a clock value of 0 is January 1, 1900 12:00 AM UTC (although I believe UTC did not exist as a term when this was

Re: Adding 90 seconds to 8 byte TOD FIELD

2018-12-26 Thread Joseph Reichman
Thanks I changed that however doesn't seem like I am getting out of the wait as I put a WTO after the code and IT didn't execute Thanks WAIT ANOP L R15,CVTPTR USING CVT,R15 GET CVT ADDRESS L R15,CVTECVT DROP R15 USING ECVT,R15

How about a little Christmas fudge? | Computerworld Shark tank

2018-12-26 Thread Mark Regan
https://www.computerworld.com/article/3330396/application-development/situation-normal-all-fudged-up.html -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message:

Re: Adding 90 seconds to 8 byte TOD FIELD

2018-12-26 Thread Peter Relson
>LR15,16 GET CVT ADDRESS >LR15,X'8C'(R15) GET ECVT ADDRESS >LR15,X'384'(R15) GET ECVTXTSW ADDRESS >LAR1,=A(*+10) PARAMTER LIST Macros such as IHAPSA, CVT, and IHAECVT are provided for a