Re: EXTERNAL: Compiling CICS COBOL 6 Programs with No EXEC CICS Commands

2021-02-26 Thread Savor, Thomas
If you use DYNAM, then all programs and sub-programs must reside in a LOAD Library that's concatenated to CICS under DFHRPL. Thanks, Tom -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of esst...@juno.com Sent: Thursday, February 25, 2021 4:20 PM To:

Re: Using BSAM with large block interface

2021-02-26 Thread Mike Schwab
VB without LBI this would not apply. F, FB, or VB with LBI this would apply. On Fri, Feb 26, 2021 at 4:01 PM Joseph Reichman wrote: > > Thank you I’m using VB > > > > > On Feb 26, 2021, at 4:36 PM, Mike Schwab wrote: > > > >

Re: Assembler - Authorized program debug

2021-02-26 Thread Tom Brennan
On 2/26/2021 2:36 PM, Tony Harminc wrote: sort of the vi of TSO ... You take that back!! :) Sorry... I just used vi a minute ago and although I finally remembered shift-g to move to the bottom, I had to goggle how to move back to the top. gg Of course! It's so obvious.

Re: Assembler - Authorized program debug

2021-02-26 Thread Seymour J Metz
March 1971 is almost 50 years ago. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Tony Harminc [t...@harminc.net] Sent: Friday, February 26, 2021 6:49 PM To:

Re: Assembler - Authorized program debug

2021-02-26 Thread Tony Harminc
On Fri, 26 Feb 2021 at 18:37, Seymour J Metz wrote: > > > 40 years ago > ? I said "(well, TEST, but the syntax is identical)". And yes, I realize that each has an only overlapping set of subcommands and functions. > TEST is older older and TESTAUTH is more recent. Indeed. But not all *that*

Re: Assembler - Authorized program debug

2021-02-26 Thread Seymour J Metz
> 40 years ago ? TEST is older older and TESTAUTH is more recent. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Tony Harminc [t...@harminc.net] Sent: Friday,

Re: Assembler - Authorized program debug

2021-02-26 Thread Tony Harminc
On Fri, 26 Feb 2021 at 02:46, Tom Brennan wrote: > > Is the TSO TESTAUTH command still around? I have to admit I can't > remember ever trying it. It's still there, and works much the way it did 40 years ago. I find I use it way more often than I would've expected. In 2021! Part of it is that I

Re: Using BSAM with large block interface

2021-02-26 Thread Joseph Reichman
Thank you I’m using VB > On Feb 26, 2021, at 4:36 PM, Mike Schwab wrote: > > https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSLTBW_2.3.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r3.idad400/len99.htm#len99 > > Undefined-length records when using LBI or for fixed-length blocked: > The method described in the following

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Re: Using BSAM with large block interface

2021-02-26 Thread Mike Schwab
https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSLTBW_2.3.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r3.idad400/len99.htm#len99 Undefined-length records when using LBI or for fixed-length blocked: The method described in the following paragraphs can be used to calculate the block length. You can use this method with BSAM,

Using BSAM with large block interface

2021-02-26 Thread Joseph Reichman
Hi If I code a DCBE and specify a large block interface Larger than that allowed on the DCB Would anyone know after the I/o is complete His many bytes are actually read Thanks -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff /

Re: Colours on screen (mainframe history question)

2021-02-26 Thread Radoslaw Skorupka
Gentlemen, Thank you all for the answers. Some background of the question: Sometimes I have to do with IT folks hostile to mainframe. Isn't it usual? Maybe, but it's boring and sometimes annoying. Especially when you have to explain mainframe "black screen" is colorful and it was colorful

Re: Assembler - Authorized program debug

2021-02-26 Thread Colin Paice
One of the best troubleshooters I know was a big photograph of a dog. This dog had an 80% success rate! The photo belonged to the expert, and you could only ask the expert once you had asked the dog. Of course everyone would roll their eyes, tut and explain their problem to the dog. In doing so

Re: Assembler - Authorized program debug

2021-02-26 Thread Ramsey Hallman
Sorry for the "fat fingers", Seymour. On Fri, Feb 26, 2021 at 12:02 PM Ramsey Hallman wrote: > I agree with Syrmour's method. When I am stumped, I'll start an email to > my boss (the best assembler coder I know) asking what I've done wrong. > While putting as much information into the email as

Re: Assembler - Authorized program debug

2021-02-26 Thread Ramsey Hallman
I agree with Syrmour's method. When I am stumped, I'll start an email to my boss (the best assembler coder I know) asking what I've done wrong. While putting as much information into the email as possible, so he doesn't think I'm taking the easy way out, 99 times out of 100 I'll find my issue.

Re: Colours on screen (mainframe history question)

2021-02-26 Thread Martin Packer
Green snow storms. :-) Cheers, Martin Martin Packer WW z/OS Performance, Capacity and Architecture, IBM Technology Sales +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter / Facebook IDs: MartinPacker Blog: https://mainframeperformancetopics.com Mainframe, Performance, Topics Podcast

Re: Assembler - Authorized program debug

2021-02-26 Thread Seymour J Metz
With regard to Tom's second method, often *I* spot the error when I'm asking for help and explaining the code. Somehow it seems to sometimes cure a mental blind spot. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe

Re: Assembler - Authorized program debug

2021-02-26 Thread Seymour J Metz
I doubt that TESTAUTH will ever go away, but I suggest that you look at the HLA Toolkit or a 3rd party product, since TESTAUTH is pretty barebones. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List

Re: Assembler - Authorized program debug

2021-02-26 Thread Charles Mills
I really second Tom's latter method. Try walking through the code with someone else -- explain to them how it works instruction by instruction. I have good luck with that method using my wife as a sounding board -- even though she doesn't know L from ST. I think many respondents are answering

Re: Colours on screen (mainframe history question)

2021-02-26 Thread Jim Elliott
I was working in the IBM Toronto Lab prior to the 3279 announcement and was a tester for the product (developed at IBM Hursley). Somewhere I have a photo of myself sitting at my 3279 when I got an award. I still have a copy of a pre-announce version of a paper on developing colour applications

CUCI V1R5 now available at http://www.cbttape.org/ftp/updates/CBT967.zip

2021-02-26 Thread Pinnacle
FYI, I'm pleased to announce the latest V1R5 release of the CBT Usermod Collection for ISPF (CUCI), available at http://www.cbttape.org/ftp/updates/CBT967.zip.  V1R5 now satisfies 33 RFE's, after adding the following: RFE 148758 - ISPF Edit highlighting for Kotlin RFE 148595 - ISPF Edit

Re: Assembler - Authorized program debug

2021-02-26 Thread Ravi Gaur
Hi David, Yes believe that would help and uploading that on CBT will definitely be useful to many others like me. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the

Re: Assembler - Authorized program debug

2021-02-26 Thread David Spiegel
Hi Ravi, Barbara, If you want to trace the execution of the program (instead of just one snapshot (as Barbara is suggesting)), you might want to consider setting up a SLIP Trap with TRACE, capturing your data with GTF and using IPCS (via ISPF or Batch) to print the Trace. I am currently

Re: Assembler - Authorized program debug

2021-02-26 Thread Colin Paice
First check your steplib - and all the libraries in steplib are APF authorised! Secondly check binder setting AC Colin On Fri, 26 Feb 2021 at 05:57, Ravi Gaur wrote: > **Positing in Assembler group as well** - However given the activity > thought to put it in IBM-Main as well. > > Writing and