We're going through the COBOL 6 compile exercise, on a Z13. The only
hiccups have been source control and the odd JCL error.
One job fell over in a link edit because a module wasn't found. It's been
nearly 15 years since I worked with this system but somehow I remembered
this module. Turns out
The 3540 was the reader/punch that was to replace the card reader/punch
system. Which it did at both my college (while I was there) and at my
first job (where it replaced the 96 column card system) just before I
got there.
The 3740 and 3742 were the replacement for the card punch machine.
It was in the era when IBM was talking about cardleds systems.
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I have z14 on the brain. I meant z12s.
On 5/13/20 9:10 PM, Clark Morris wrote:
[Default] On 13 May 2020 16:56:58 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main
ste...@copper.net (Steve Thompson) wrote:
Suppose that they took a group of programmers and got the production online
programs to all compile with
[Default] On 13 May 2020 16:56:58 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main
ste...@copper.net (Steve Thompson) wrote:
>Suppose that they took a group of programmers and got the production online
>programs to all compile with COBOL 6.2 and OPT(1). Would they see a
>significant reduction in MSUs? Assuming
The 3540 was the diskette part of the 3740 data entry workstation
(developed by GSD to replace keypunch and able to connect to all the FS
systems that were never released, so connected to S/3 and S/360 as well as
able to operate standalone). The 3740 was quite a beast, with options for
printers.
Well, I have shelves of IBM logic manuals; my PL/I, Resident Library and
Transient Library manuals have been waiting for years to be scanned. I could
ask David to forward those to you, and ship a shelf at a time of the ones that
I still have, shipping a new shelf every time I get the scans of
High priority topics would be things like oddball hardware, docs
dealing with RPQ features, maintenance docs, PCM and 3rd party
software and hardware.
Medium priority is marketing fluff, announcements, and not so technical stuff.
Low priority topics would by OS and language information, except
I've got, e.g., OS/360, SVS, MVS, hardware, manuals with 3 shelves of other
vendors, all uncataloged. If I'm going to have to catalog them then I'd like to
start with the ones likely to have the highest priority. Any guidance as to
what is most likely to be of interest?,
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As always, show your code and what the system reported as the abend details.
On Wed, 13 May 2020 19:02:34 -0400 Joseph Reichman
wrote:
:>Hi
:>
:>
:>
:>I am trying to get info on virtual storage towards that end I got a s0c4
:>pic 10 accessing a field in the RAX control block I got the
Yes, a gigantic backlog, and the current situation has everything at a
standstill. Al literally can not get to his scanner, as the museum is
locked up.
There are a few other archivists that provide acceptable high quality
scans to bitsavers specs - maybe I will see if one of them can deal
with
The title is misleading; no computers were harmed in the shooting of this
movie. It's the application that was busted.
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http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of
Suppose that they took a group of programmers and got the production online
programs to all compile with COBOL 6.2 and OPT(1). Would they see a significant
reduction in MSUs? Assuming they are running on z14s minimally?
And from that, would they actually be able to do more transactions per
Doesn't bitsavers have a huge backlog? I'm still waiting for manuals I gave
several years ago to show up on their site. In particular I'm still waiting for
the scans of the PL/I logic manuals so that I can annotate
http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3/source/STOWBLDL.ASM with register equates.
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Conspicuously missing from the coverage is any evidence of delays or outages
attributable to COBOL code running on mainframes. So far the stories I've seen
turn out to relate to web servers or manual processing, not to the back end.
Yeah, there could be issues with, e.g., CICS transactions
Never trust a computer application that you yourself didn't write. And even
then don't trust it.
Only slightly kidding.
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of Bob
Bridges
Sent: Wednesday, May 13, 2020 5:28 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject:
Thanks all my progs are AMODE 31 RMODE ANY don't know what happened here
thanks again
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Seymour J Metz
Sent: Wednesday, May 13, 2020 7:17 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: s0c4 accessing RAX control Block
Are
Check that ASCBRSMA is not zero. There used to be a window when
ASCBRSME is set (has an address) but ASCBRSMA is still zero and using
ASCBRSME causes S0C4 until ASCBRSMA is set (after some initialization is
completed). Ran into this many years ago, maybe you have some variant of
this rather
This fascinating article isn't really on the topic of mainframes, but we've
been talking about similar things recently and I thought some would be
interested:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-05-08/oil-crash-busted-a-broker-s-computers-and-inflicted-huge-losses
The main player is a
Are you in the correct addressing mode?
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http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3
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Joseph Reichman [reichman...@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, May 13, 2020 7:02 PM
Hi
I am trying to get info on virtual storage towards that end I got a s0c4
pic 10 accessing a field in the RAX control block I got the address from the
ASCB->ASCBRSME the doc says its in SQA not fetch protected
I later did VSMSQA,AREA(RAXID,800),LINKAGE=SYSTEM and got a RC 4
The
I just checked bitsavers and found some information about 3540
1. Capacity - it depends. There were several types and subtypes, and
sub-subtypes of diskettes. Approximately 256kB to 1,2 MB, however 3540
used only those low capacity. (details available on request)
2. Feeding media -
Well, how about posting a list of the document numbers and name. Then
people can tell you which ones have been scanned and can be discarded.
Then people who want a particular manual enough to scan it will
volunteer for THAT manual. That would leave you with the unscanned
manuals of lower
ah 4341, Boeing Philly used one to perform a proof of concept for an electronic
mock up system for V-22 design, it was a standalone system, 2 tape drives, no
network adapters that I recall.
@ Sears before that the 4331 ? first self diagnosing processor, a red error
code on the systems master
On Wed, 13 May 2020 11:35:00 -0400, Tony Thigpen wrote:
>The 4331 had an internal diskette drive (accessed from the top of the
>cpu) that emulated a 3540. It was the same drive as used for IML. We
>also had one attached to our System-3/15D.
>
>Tony Thigpen
I remember it well, the conversion
manual feed.
Tony Thigpen
Seymour J Metz wrote on 5/13/20 12:17 PM:
How do you emulate an input hopper? The 3540 wasn't a simple 8" floppy drive;
it had a feeder so you could read a string of diskettes with no manual intervention
between them.
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Bitsavers are the ones to do the scans, but currently all of the
scanning equipment is locked up in the closed museum (and driving Al
nuts). I can see if any of the other archivists could tackle the job.
But yes, you have goodies that would fill in some holes.
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Will
On Wed, May 13, 2020 at
How do you emulate an input hopper? The 3540 wasn't a simple 8" floppy drive;
it had a feeder so you could read a string of diskettes with no manual
intervention between them.
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http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3
From: IBM Mainframe
If you're willing to pay the shipping, scan and OCR within a few months, I've
got hundreds of manuals, mostly IBM, that I'd be willing to give up in exchange
for sending me and bitsavers the PDF files.
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Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3
Hey, that's my video. Go watch it!
And remember, folks, I am always looking for this old stuff for the
collection - mostly anything pre-Z (I set up that limit so I do not
overcollect).
Anything from a box of IBM indicator lights (thanks, recent donor!) to
a 3090. I would make that happen.
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Russell:
Yep , exactly, AI's that develop themselves , think Person of Interest ,
had a list of all the social security numbers of people that needed help
and at Midnight did a complete refresh of that list.
A very interesting concept.
Scott
On Mon, May 11, 2020 at 10:06 PM Seymour J Metz
The 4331 had an internal diskette drive (accessed from the top of the
cpu) that emulated a 3540. It was the same drive as used for IML. We
also had one attached to our System-3/15D.
Tony Thigpen
R.S. wrote on 5/13/20 10:55 AM:
Excuse me, what is IBM 3540?
This is mainframe forum so I checked
The 3540 was a BUS & TAG attached device. I am not saying that its still in use
by anyone. However, a while ago, during my travels I did find customers were
using strange BUS and TAG devices with channel convertors etc.
Bus and tag is all there was when the 3540 was current. You generated it as a
unit record device.
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Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3
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R.S.
Excuse me, what is IBM 3540?
This is mainframe forum so I checked all historical DASD, including drum
device and 2305 (which is not a drum) and found no such device. I also
reviewed disks for small systems (S3 System 32, System 34... AS/400) and
still no such device. Finally I found ~500MB
/global/zosmf Contains customer configuration and output. Read/write
/usr/lpp/zosmf/ IBM software. Read/only for cross system sharing and to
prevent updates by misconfiguration.
Any other setup is incorrect.
On Wed, May 13, 2020 at 10:25 AM Carmen Vitullo wrote:
> the /global/ directory is
I misspoke, there is a configuration directory in both locations.
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Dave Jousma
AVP | Manager, Systems Engineering
Fifth Third Bank | 1830 East Paris Ave, SE | MD RSCB2H | Grand Rapids, MI
With the exception of configuration and data, all the others are in
/usr/lpp/zosmf on my V2.4 systems.
TEC1:$ cd /usr/lpp/zosmf
TEC1:$ ls -al
total 384
Bin configuration data defaults helps IBM InstallableApps kc lib liberty
logs samples workflow zosmf_license.READMR
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On
Behalf Of Jousma, David
Sent: Wednesday, May 13, 2020 9:20 AM
To:
the /global/ directory is for KC data files, books and zosmf customer data
there is no lib directory there , not suppose to be
these are the directories off /global/zosmf
configuration
data
logs
if you still have an untouched SMP/E ir ServerPac root you can copy from there,
copy the
Steve,
You (or someone else) have evidentially done some unnatural acts. There
should only be two directories in your /global/zosmf directory, configuration,
and data
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Dave Jousma
AVP |
I found that file in my /global/zosmf/lib and there are 47 files there
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Behalf Of Jousma, David
Sent: Wednesday, May 13, 2020 8:46 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: zOSMF - The PORT will
so you still have your ServerPac or custompac root?
if not mounted, mount it and check /usr/lpp/zosmf/lib
on my maint root @ RSU2001 I have 44 files
Carmen Vitullo
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From: "Steve Beaver"
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Sent: Wednesday, May 13, 2020 9:00:23 AM
The filesystem is readonly
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Behalf Of Jousma, David
Sent: Wednesday, May 13, 2020 8:58 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: zOSMF - The PORT will not OPEN
Well, there's the answer then.
wow - ok that's something I'd never suspect
Carmen Vitullo
- Original Message -
From: "Steve Beaver"
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Sent: Wednesday, May 13, 2020 8:52:15 AM
Subject: Re: zOSMF - The PORT will not OPEN
How amount NONE
-Original Message-
From: IBM
Well, there's the answer then. You seemed to have accidentally damaged your
SMPE managed filesystem. You are likely to be chasing these kinds of problems
on an ongoing basis. If you have other systems that are copies and you *know*
matches your SMPE environment, you could rebuild that
I've had a similar issue, did you by chance shutdown the server and immediately
start it, possibly before it was completely shutdown?
I reported this problem to IBM then to find it was a corrupted file, due to a
bad shutdown or a cancel ,I cannot get to my old emails currently sorry.
also
How amount NONE
-Original Message-
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Behalf Of Jousma, David
Sent: Wednesday, May 13, 2020 8:46 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: zOSMF - The PORT will not OPEN
Steve,
How many files do you see at
Steve,
How many files do you see at /usr/lpp/zosmf/lib? On my system there are 47,
including the file you are missing libIzuCommandJni.so
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Dave Jousma
AVP | Manager, Systems Engineering
Has anyone seen this error before out of zOSMF. The PORT will not OPEN
ÝERROR ¨ CWWKE0701E: bundle
com.ibm.zoszmf.command.management:1.0.0.qualifier
(166)Ýcom.ibm.zoszmf.command.management.UserProductExtensionCommandHandler(4
27) ¨ : The activate method has thrown an exception
luckily I have this applied :)
Carmen Vitullo
- Original Message -
From: "Lizette Koehler"
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Sent: Wednesday, May 13, 2020 8:15:49 AM
Subject: OA58438: ESQA SPIKE FAST RPB GROWTH SVCDUMP PROCESSING SP245 K0
A friend pointed this out from Feb 2020 -
Thank you Lizette
Carmen Vitullo
- Original Message -
From: "Lizette Koehler"
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Sent: Wednesday, May 13, 2020 8:15:49 AM
Subject: OA58438: ESQA SPIKE FAST RPB GROWTH SVCDUMP PROCESSING SP245 K0
A friend pointed this out from Feb 2020 - apparently
Thanks Lizette. This applies to V2.4 as well for anyone wondering.
_
Dave Jousma
AVP | Manager, Systems Engineering
Fifth Third Bank | 1830 East Paris Ave, SE | MD RSCB2H | Grand Rapids,
A friend pointed this out from Feb 2020 - apparently unexpected IPL can
occur before putting this on.
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/apar/OA58438
At z/OS 2.3, RSM processing during SVCDUMP capture changed that
causes an excessive amount of RPB Pools to be obtained in
Subpool 245
Mike,
Thanks for the great article, I literally just read all of it. Amazing
story, he was a savant of sorts. I am not one to judge, right and wrong per
se have shades of gray.
Scott
On Wed, May 13, 2020 at 6:38 AM Seymour J Metz wrote:
> I think that he should have gotten jail time, but I
Thanks everyone for all the help.
.
On 5/13/20, 12:19 AM, "IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of Russell Witt"
wrote:
> EXTERNAL: Do not open attachments or click on links unless you recognize and
> trust the sender.
>
>Not exactly. The SECWTO does control if the WTOR asking for
I honestly can't imagine anyone wanting to reuse it-and the fact that nobody
ever has might be seen as supporting that position.
??? make a bet.
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of
Phil Smith III
Sent: Tuesday, May 12, 2020 6:30 PM
To:
I think that he should have gotten jail time, but I also think that his
confession should have been thrown out and the FBI agents disciplined for
failing to present the warrant at the time of his arrest, for failing to read
him his Miranda rights and for interrogating him without a lawyer
https://www.wired.com/story/confessions-marcus-hutchins-hacker-who-saved-the-internet/?mbid=social_facebook_brand=wired_medium=social_social-type=owned_source=facebook
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Where do Forest Rangers go to get away from it all?
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