>The addition of EXIT PARAGRAPH
>and EXIT SECTION have eliminated most of the reasons for use of GO TO
>in COBOL. I would be interested in any corrections to my
>understanding by those responsible for the COBOL compiler. =20
I partially agree, Clark, but what really made it easy to get rid of
Things like numeric conversion and scooting text around are difficult in
assembler, so I would tend to put that off until later [1]. Then one
day I coded a macro and underlying subroutine so I could do something
like this:
#PRINTF SYSPRINT,'DFS0929I BLDL ON DDNAME %s FAILED with RC=%d FOR
There are many of them. I'm guessing these are hex floating point.
Could someone confirm this or correct me ?
Thanks, Pierre.
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> it's (presumably) accurate, and fairly precise.
It leaves you gueesing whether it's complaining about a DBD or PSB library. The
IDC3009I message is more precise, albeit not user friendly, and the
documentation does tell you how to respond. But still, this is the 21st
century; why do we
I was here and that sort of message was not acceptable then. They could at
least have written somethng like
DFS0929I BLDL ON DDNAME foo FAILED with RC=bar FOR MEMBER --DDMPPSZ
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Paul Gilmartin
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Subject: [External] Re: "Everyone wants to retire mainframes"
On Wed, 10 Jun 2020 17:02:40 +, Frank Swarbrick wrote:
>Here's a
I take this example as merely an example. IBM & the software industry are
notoriously bad at getting these right.
At one end, you have "Oops, something went wrong." -- Windows 10 (and
yeah, the day I started using Windows 10).
At the other, IDC3009I. Sheesh.
Counter to those, the IMS message
I can't really remember, but I think it was when R15 was not zero maybe
S99ERROR/S99INFO were displayed in hex. Seems like that was pretty
common at the time (1990's?) because I remember multiple times having to
go to the programming manual to find the SVC99 codes. There were a few
(1708?)
On Wed, 10 Jun 2020 17:02:40 +, Frank Swarbrick wrote:
>Here's a quote from a message I posted to this list in 2009:
>
>"I have a very basic one to complain about:
>
>DFS0929I BLDL FAILED FOR MEMBER --DDMPPSZ
>
>This really means that the specified PSB DDMPPSZ is not in the specified IMS
On Wed, 10 Jun 2020 15:18:40 -0300 Clark Morris wrote:
:>[Default] On 10 Jun 2020 07:43:41 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main
:>ku...@us.ibm.com (Kurt Quackenbush) wrote:
:>
:>>> snip
:>>Kurt Quackenbush -- IBM, SMP/E Development
:>>Chuck Norris never uses CHECK when he applies PTFs.
:>
:>Don't
[Default] On 10 Jun 2020 07:43:41 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main
ku...@us.ibm.com (Kurt Quackenbush) wrote:
>> snip
>Kurt Quackenbush -- IBM, SMP/E Development
>Chuck Norris never uses CHECK when he applies PTFs.
Don't Hire Chuck Norris for any systems work.
Clark Morris
>
"Après moi le déluge."
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The problem with that message is not that it mentions BLDL, but that it fails
to mention other relevant data. At a minimum, what was the ddname and what was
the return code. Ideally I'd like secondary messages listing the libraries in
the concatenation.
A user ABEND without a message is hard
I worked for a company whose management only knew initial cost. So they would
always buy the less expensive product. Eventually they’d wind up spending more
after additional costs to implement the less expensive software or hardware.
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Are you talking about messages from dynamic allocation, or about messages from
the caller. The DAIRFAIL routine is avilable for formatting error codes from
DAIR and DYNALLOC, and DYNALLOC has an option to generate a message; if an
application doesn't use those facilities, but instead displays a
Yep! And I remember dynamic allocation errors where the user basically
just gets the SVC99 return/reason code, and the only way to figure out
what happened is to look it up in the programming manual - not even a
message manual.
So here's an example for you: If the BLDL gets a non-zero
Here's a quote from a message I posted to this list in 2009:
"I have a very basic one to complain about:
DFS0929I BLDL FAILED FOR MEMBER --DDMPPSZ
This really means that the specified PSB DDMPPSZ is not in the specified IMS
library. Why can't it just say that? As an application programmer do
Essentially, a zero sum gave is one in which there is a fixed amount of money,
so any gain must be at the other players' expense and there are no "win-win"
strategies. Open software development is not like that. The big players are
large corporations that support it becaause doing so increases
> The real problem is nothing to do with technology, and all to do with cost.
The actual cost, the creative accounting cost or the cost promised by the
salesman? How often is there an honest evaluation of the costs for various
options, including downstream costs and benefits?
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I thought about that. But for some reason I kind of like it in its present
form; it has a certain slapdash irreverence. We'll see whether I still feel
that way in a few months.
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Thanks Kurt for the clarification
Carmen Vitullo
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Subject: Re: restart GIMSMP in unpack step
On 6/10/2020 9:32 AM, Carmen Vitullo wrote:
> IIRC you can restart
Not sure what you mean. I ~think~ I agree (unless I misunderstood you) -
but software development still costs time and effort, and no matter who the
developer is he has to eat. If he chooses to give away some of his work,
that's fine and I accept gratefully; but it means he's earning enough
That's great news, Michael!!
I managed to finally(!) get that step3.2 to run successfully at the end of
yesterday.
I'm seeing pretty much the same sort of info as you are seeing.
Have spent today de-provisioning the existing container and going through
the provisioning process once more
Will see
On Wed, 10 Jun 2020 08:25:30 -0500, Bill Giannelli wrote:
>I am running a CBPDO download from IBM. If I get past the download of all the
>files, but fail during the "unpack step" due to a small smpwkdir; can I
>restart pointing to a different smpwkdir resuming in the "unpack step"? Or do
>I
Is no-one aware of Master the Mainframe competition for students?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_the_Mainframe_Contest
And the Academic Initiative, under which the classes mentioned by Wayne are run
(Wayne and I worked on these together back in the day):
I wish.
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Or, you could just know that journalism is made up of journalists.
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On Wednesday, June 10, 2020, 10:22 AM, Joel C. Ewing wrote:
Would be more clearly stated with either "journalism" -> "journalists" ,
or alternatively with "one" -> "a journalist" -- unless the
On 6/10/2020 9:32 AM, Carmen Vitullo wrote:
IIRC you can restart the process, SMP/E is smart enough to check what's been
unpaxed and continue from the failing unpax.
Yes you can restart the RECEIVE. SMP/E is smart enough to check what's
already been downloaded, not what's already been
:)
this reminds me of another Fortune 500 aerospace company i worked for, the new
engineering director didn't want to spend the funds to upgrade the CADCAM
3090-400 to a 3090-600 .
he decided to move the application to a pool of RS/6000's for the application
and data, a new ATM network
My Fortune 500 employer got off their mainframes by using SaaS vendors for most
of the big BICARSA applications that ran on their mainframes. What back end
those SaaS vendors use is anybody's guess. They also decided in the case of
some applications that they would move to Intel hardware
I've done that
In my case I went from a real zfs filesystem to a tfs and point to it in the
receive job
//SMPWKDIR DD PATHDISP=KEEP,
// PATH='/SYST/local/smpe/workdir/'
which is
File system name:
TMPSMPWK
Mount point:
/SYST/local/smpe/workdir
Status . . . . . . . . : Available
AFAIK IBM sometimes give some software to universities for free.
It can be operating system, access to remote system or just IBM course
(also include access to mainframe in Poughkeepsie).
To complement: several years ago they sold BC class machine to some
polish university at very good price.
Can I point to a completely different directory? Or on the hand, how do I add
volumes to a mounted HFS file system?
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I've been successful increasing SMPWKDIR after a failure and starting from the
'top', I've seen SMP pick up from where it left off successfully with no
issues.
Carmen Vitullo
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I don't know if SMPWKDIR can be changed at this point in the process. I do know
that the application is mart enough to restart at the point of failure, as
opposed to "at the top".
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IIRC you can restart the process, SMP/E is smart enough to check what's been
unpaxed and continue from the failing unpax.
Carmen Vitullo
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From: "Bill Giannelli"
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2020 8:25:30 AM
Subject: restart GIMSMP in
I am running a CBPDO download from IBM. If I get past the download of all the
files, but fail during the "unpack step" due to a small smpwkdir; can I restart
pointing to a different smpwkdir resuming in the "unpack step"? Or do I have to
start from the beginning again?
thanks
Bill
Would be more clearly stated with either "journalism" -> "journalists" ,
or alternatively with "one" -> "a journalist" -- unless the whole
intent is to use poetic license to cause initial puzzlement followed by
"oh, that's what was meant".
JC Ewing
On 6/9/20 11:55 PM, Bob Bridges wrote:
>
I’d be honored.
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On Wednesday, June 10, 2020, 3:22 AM, Bob Bridges wrote:
LOL - you may just have made my tagline file, Bill. We'll see whether I still
like it well enough tomorrow. Like this:
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IBM are supporting university training in Mainframe in a hands-off manner.
A friend of mine has just run a COBOL course at a North Queensland
university. The mainframe used for classes was the Marist system.
The customers were a large Australian Bank and a territory government
employer. It seems
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