Others have already responded to let you know pretty well how velocity works,
but I thought it might be important to clarify that velocity has nothing to do
with memory use. If a space is set up with a velocity of 5 that does getmains
for 50GB of storage, and another one with a velocity of 95
Hello ITschak,
I recommend you take a look at FILE268 at cbttape.org
File # 268 REXX function package to access VSAM files
It should be enough to guide you.
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On Mon, Mar 21, 2022 at 06:18:38PM -0400, zMan wrote:
> Yeah, I sort of thought of that, but Word doesn't do that. I thought it
> more likely that they were there but kerned down to nothing, but pasted the
> text into a flat-file editor and they aren't there. Very odd. If he'd used
> something
Seymor,
Actually I never saw any example based on my code. I just figured out this
after a Cobol abend and I needed to checj the dump. I noticed some known data
areas. So.. Trust me, it works! :)
Dan
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On Monday, March 21, 2022, 8:00 PM, Seymour J Metz wrote:
On Mon, 2022-03-21 at 13:33 +, Seymour J Metz wrote:
> I just read the wiki artlice [[Parsing expression grammar]] and don't see
> either the sophistication or the ease of use compared to regexen. I've come
> to rely on named captures and backtracking, both
> of which seem to be missing.
On 2022-03-22 11:42, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
On Tue, 22 Mar 2022 11:06:05 +1100, Robin Vowels wrote:
Notepad has a problem with large files.
It loads only the first part of a large file.
How large? No one should ever need more than 640K.
Rubbish.
On 2022-03-22 10:53, Bob Bridges wrote:
I
On Tue, 22 Mar 2022 11:06:05 +1100, Robin Vowels wrote:
>Notepad has a problem with large files.
>It loads only the first part of a large file.
>
How large? No one should ever need more than 640K.
>On 2022-03-22 10:53, Bob Bridges wrote:
>> I
>> ... But whenever I start up a new PC, one of
Notepad has a problem with large files.
It loads only the first part of a large file.
On 2022-03-22 10:53, Bob Bridges wrote:
I agree. I get the impression that most Windows users ignore it
entirely, and I know I have coworkers who use MS Word for pretty much
all their note-taking. I use
I agree. I get the impression that most Windows users ignore it entirely, and
I know I have coworkers who use MS Word for pretty much all their note-taking.
I use Notepad for basic notes, and WordPad if I need fonts, italics and bullet
points. I doubt my victims notice the difference, since
You need to look at FETCH and RELEASE PL/I statements.
Procedures not already in main storage are loaded from the disk.
►► FETCH ▼
,
entry-constant
SET ( ptr-ref ) TITLE ( char-expr )
►
► ; ►◄
Dynamic loading of an external procedure
entry-constant
Specifies the name by which the procedure to
On 22/03/2022 3:38 am, Peter wrote:
So, Here does it mean 40 velocity gets more importance than 80 velocity ?
Or if I change all the system address space to have SYSSTC and will it
impact the performance of ISV vendors application with 40 velocity ?
Velocity isn't a measure of importance, and
On Mon, 21 Mar 2022 18:21:02 -0400, zMan wrote:
>Oh, if he pasted into an *emulator* maybe. Seems...unlikely, though?
>OfficeVision in 2022???
>
FSVO "emulator". Once I encountered a PostScript file in which
text strings contained no blanks. Rather, every word was coded
like "x y moveto (word)
What's the syntax for indicating that it comes from R0 rather than R1+offset?
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compile time logic. The macro languages for both PL/I and HLASM are
sophisticated enough to do fancy tailoring.
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I think this is the problem.
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On Monday, March 21, 2022, 4:21 PM, Paul Gilmartin
<000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote:
On Mon, 21 Mar 2022 19:47:30 +, Seymour J Metz wrote:
>Sometimes I have been able to get good results by cut from
Notepad is underrated.
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On Monday, March 21, 2022, 3:47 PM, Seymour J Metz wrote:
Sometimes I have been able to get good results by cut from word, paste to
notepad, cut from notepad, past to e-mail.
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Oh, if he pasted into an *emulator* maybe. Seems...unlikely, though?
OfficeVision in 2022???
On Mon, Mar 21, 2022 at 4:21 PM Paul Gilmartin <
000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote:
> The incorrect abuttals were sporadic, perhaps consistent with screen
> width, as if the display
Yeah, I sort of thought of that, but Word doesn't do that. I thought it
more likely that they were there but kerned down to nothing, but pasted the
text into a flat-file editor and they aren't there. Very odd. If he'd used
something other than Word I might have thought it was EOL getting eaten,
I have a function that can be statically or dynamically linked. Currently
the function definition in an include file is [something like]:
Declare SOMEFN External('SOMEFN') Entry(
Char(*) byaddr,
)
returns( byvalue Fixed Bin(31) )
options (
Sorry... My previous email I have made a mistake..
Linkage Section.
01 args. 05 arg1 pointer. 05 arg1l pic s(9) comp.
01 evalblock. 05 eval1 pic x(4). 05 eval2 pic x(4). 05 eval3
pic s(9) comp. 05 eval4 pic x(4). 05 evals pic x(80).
Procedure Division p1 p2
I have some Rexx functions written in Cobol. Basically we receive the register
R0 as a first parameter in Linkage Section. So... Works like a function written
in HLASM. It's fun and very interesting.
RegardsDan
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On Monday, March 21, 2022, 11:44 AM, Seymour J
On Mon, 21 Mar 2022 19:47:30 +, Seymour J Metz wrote:
>Sometimes I have been able to get good results by cut from word, paste to
>notepad, cut from notepad, past to e-mail.
>
The incorrect abuttals were sporadic, perhaps consistent with screen
width, as if the display driver started each
On Mon, 21 Mar 2022 20:30:11 +0100, Radoslaw Skorupka wrote:
>W dniu 19.03.2022 o 16:37, Paul Gilmartin pisze:
>> On Sat, 19 Mar 2022 09:35:02 -0500, Lionel B. Dyck wrote:
>>
>>> Instead of put e:MONRTERM.txt try
>>>
>>> lcd e:
>>> put MONRTERM.txt
>>>
I may have guessed (incorrectly?)
Classification: Confidential
The practical statement is that velocity is a result, not an operand.
The determined velocity is fed into the policy adjustment cycle.
The policy adjustment cycle will select 1 "donor" and 1 "receiver' each cycle
(every 10 seconds last I heard.
This determination
Sometimes I have been able to get good results by cut from word, paste to
notepad, cut from notepad, past to e-mail.
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I'm guessing, then, that the Word document uses a proportional font and the
cut-and-paste function in Word is doing some weird calculation about the width
of the proportional spaces and dropping them if the output is plain text.
Doesn't sound very likely, except I'm grasping at straws for an
W dniu 19.03.2022 o 16:37, Paul Gilmartin pisze:
On Sat, 19 Mar 2022 09:35:02 -0500, Lionel B. Dyck wrote:
Instead of put e:MONRTERM.txt try
lcd e:
put MONRTERM.txt
Additionally, I'll suggest (partially diagnostic):
CD PAULD01.WORK.SRCLIB.OLD
PWD
LPWD
DIR
PUT
On Mon, 21 Mar 2022 at 13:53, Paul Gilmartin
<000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 21 Mar 2022 13:31:44 -0400, Tony Harminc wrote:
> >...
> >A good many years ago I wrote a REXX interface to HLASM, which is a
> >fairly constrained environment. So you can invoke a
TAKE THIS OFF LIST!!!
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Joe gets up at6
On Mon, 21 Mar 2022 18:17:49 +, Bill Johnson wrote:
>Cut from word doc and paste to the list. I’ve often seen the list jam stuff
>together. I’ve pasted the same thing elsewhere and it works perfectly.
>
I wonder whether there are ways to cleanse this, such as:
o Export from Word or
Have you submitted the interface to CBTTAPE.ORG?
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On 2022-03-21 14:17 PM, Bill Johnson wrote:
Cut from word doc and paste to the list. I’ve often seen the list jam stuff
together. I’ve pasted the same thing elsewhere and it works perfectly.
I saw words concatenated, and I use Thunderbird.
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To:
Never mind, I just went back and looked at it again and it did squish words
together. You said "Bill" but you included "Bob" and "Esmie"'s posts with
yours so I "oopsed".
Rex
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Sent: Monday, March 21, 2022 1:15 PM
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I'm viewing it in Gmail. Interesting. Will look when I get digest tonight
(if I remember).
On Mon, Mar 21, 2022 at 2:18 PM Bill Johnson <
0047540adefe-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote:
> Cut from word doc and paste to the list. I’ve often seen the list jam
> stuff together. I’ve pasted
Tony and others,
A sample or direct link to manual page is required. assembler is not a
problem here, and many of the code I write dynamically define Rex variables
and store results there.
Please send a link to a starting point.
ITschak
בתאריך יום ב׳, 21 במרץ 2022 ב-19:53 מאת Paul Gilmartin <
Cut from word doc and paste to the list. I’ve often seen the list jam stuff
together. I’ve pasted the same thing elsewhere and it works perfectly.
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On Monday, March 21, 2022, 2:02 PM, zMan wrote:
Hey Bill--not commenting on the actual content at all one way or
Hey, zMan,
What e-mail client are you using? Bill's post rendered correctly for me,
running on our corporate outlook/exchange system.
Rex
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Then lets all agree to stop using Alphabet (Google), Meta (Facebook) and
Amazon. Then Apple, Samsung...you get the drift.
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esmie moo
Sent: Monday, March 21, 2022 1:47 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
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Hey Bill--not commenting on the actual content at all one way or 't'other,
just curious: how did you enter your longish post above? Something ran a
bunch of the words together, and I'm 100% sure you didn't enter it that
way. I've seen this in a couple of other places and either couldn't ask or
the
On Mon, 21 Mar 2022 13:31:44 -0400, Tony Harminc wrote:
>...
>A good many years ago I wrote a REXX interface to HLASM, which is a
>fairly constrained environment. So you can invoke a REXX program
>during assembly/macro processing, interact with REXX variables in your
>macro, and so on. This is
I disagree about corporate greed. Yes, I support profit margins but the
margin of profit making by these corporates is obnoxious. Recently, the
company I used to work for gave their higher management bonuses in the 5 figure
amounts plus stock options (which were not disclosed) after the jobs
I’m quite happy and proud of my posts thanks. At least I don’t post 50 times a
day, every day.
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On Monday, March 21, 2022, 1:31 PM, Eric D Rossman wrote:
Take responsibility for your own posts, Bill. No one makes you respond.
The same thing I tell my kids: I
On Mon, 21 Mar 2022 at 10:54, Itschak Mugzach
<0305158ad67d-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote:
>
> Thanks all, I will try to simplify and better describe my needs. I have an
> application that stores data. I want to create an interface to this
> application using an address call. for
Take responsibility for your own posts, Bill. No one makes you respond.
The same thing I tell my kids: I don't care who started it. Anyone has the
ability to end it.
Eric Rossman, CISSP
ICSF Cryptographic Security Development
z/OS Enabling Technologies
edros...@us.ibm.com
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You need to quote those parentheses unless you want function calls:
address myapp 'get key(44)'
address myapp put "key(44) data('some data')"
address myapp loc "Data('some data')"
BTW, have you looked into function packages? Depending on what you want to do,
that may be a good
It's a different interface. He could also provide procedures in a function
package, which is yet more different.
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Tell that to the person who started it and lay off always blaming me.
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On Monday, March 21, 2022, 1:14 PM, Eric D Rossman wrote:
Enough Bill. Why are we allowing politics on the list?
Don't we have any moderators?
Eric Rossman, CISSP
ICSF Cryptographic
Enough Bill. Why are we allowing politics on the list?
Don't we have any moderators?
Eric Rossman, CISSP
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coffee. The water is clean and goodbecause some tree-hugging liberal fought for
minimum water-quality standards.With his first swallow of coffee, he takes his
daily medication. Hismedications are safe to take
Please take these political discussions and opinions off list.
This is not the appropriate forum.
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Part-time gigs are the exception, Stan, but they're not unknown. I'm currently
working part-time for three different clients. Or maybe only two, if you want
to be pedantic and point out that one of them hasn't paid me for a while.
Most of it happened sort of by accident, so I can't point you
I've a favorite tagline that says "the problem with communism is communism.
The problem with capitalism is capitalists". I know, Bill, you weren't
advocating communism; the point here is that that your complaint isn't about
capitalism per se -- or shouldn't be -- but about how some people
Hello,
I must confess that I am new to WLMs. I have inherited an environment where
the last update done in WLM was in the year 2001 and after that it was
never changed.
I have observed that the system address space is assigned with VELOCITY_80
and few ISV vendors applications are assigned with
Based on your track record and reputation with emulation, I would surmise that
a lot of shops would at least speak with you if their plans included cloud. If
not, their stupidy.
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Sent: Monday, March 21,
I get offers of part time work all the time. A coworker of mine was part time.
As a social Democrat who believes a well regulated capitalism is the best
system, I’ve witnessed the terrible outcomes of pure greed capitalism. The
human costs, the absolute greed, the eventual closing of those
I'm semi-retired and would LOVE to find a part time gig... but that is
where the problem lies - no one wants a part timer.
On Mon, Mar 21, 2022 at 8:36 AM Bob Bridges wrote:
> If what they want is inexpensive, and they figure hiring younger less
> qualified workers is the way to get less
Jay, I was a regular employee for, let's see, just about 20 years I guess.
Every time I left a job (mostly got fired) I worried that no one would hire me.
Then I got into contracting -- have done that for the past 25 years -- and I
think I finally have got it through my head: I dunno whether
On Mon, 21 Mar 2022 17:32:30 +0200, ITschak Mugzach wrote:
>This is how I do it today. I want to experience the development of the host
>command processor.
>
Ah! OJT! That's admirable. BTW, note that we've both been casual below
with respect to the Use vs. Mention or Variable vs. Literal
I got out of the mainframe business in the mid-90s, between the boss from
hell and a sense that I'd slain all the dragons - and that Unix was the
future of computing, anyway. Would I do differently, considering what's
gone on since then? I might well.
Despite my work with Hercules, I don't think
Speaking as a capitalist, I don't suppose it's anyone's obligation to "help the
situation". If that guy values his time, and his retirement, at $200/hr, well,
that's his privilege.
Not I. If the day comes that I get tired of working, I don't suppose it'll
take that much to change my mind.
If what they want is inexpensive, and they figure hiring younger less qualified
workers is the way to get less expensive, then that's not age discrimination,
it's ... what would you call it? Salary discrimination, I suppose. Nothing
immoral there, though it may prove more expensive in the
This is how I do it today. I want to experience the development of the host
command processor.
בתאריך יום ב׳, 21 במרץ 2022 ב-17:19 מאת Paul Gilmartin <
000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu>:
> On Mon, 21 Mar 2022 16:53:33 +0200, Itschak Mugzach wrote:
>
> >Thanks all, I will try to
On Mon, 21 Mar 2022 16:53:33 +0200, Itschak Mugzach wrote:
>Thanks all, I will try to simplify and better describe my needs. I have an
>application that stores data. I want to create an interface to this
>application using an address call. for example (just an example, my
>interest is on the
Thanks all, I will try to simplify and better describe my needs. I have an
application that stores data. I want to create an interface to this
application using an address call. for example (just an example, my
interest is on the myapp code):
address myapp get key(44)
address myapp put key(44)
A recent thread on REXX raises the question of what compilers support
interfaces that require passing an address in R0 in addition to the PLIST
address in R1. A secondary issue is how to handle multiple callbacks from a
non-LE program without the overhead of establishing the LE environment each
On Mon, 21 Mar 2022 09:55:52 -0400, Bob Bridges wrote:
>Itschak, I've read some of the replies to this post and I don't yet understand
>the question. What do you mean by "host load"? And/or what are "address xxx"
>services? The latter sounds to me like the STORAGE function, but I'm sure
There is a difference between "shortage of mainframe programmers" and "shortage
of mainframe programmers willing to work for substandard wages and conditions".
One can exist without the other.
As to corporations, ther is no such that in the real world as a Platonic
corporation. Corporations
Hi,
First of all thank you for the answers.
Let me to add some additional measures:
On Z14 with ZCOMP:
JOBNAME
Step counters
CPU minutes
SRB Minutes
PSDRB101
142
26.56
0.58
PSDRB102
142
26.34
0.58
PSDRB103
142
25.7
0.56
PSDRB104
142
25.6
0.56
PSDRB105
142
25.63
0.58
PSDRB106
142
25.4
There is a REXX keyword statement called address. The first operand in that
statement is the name of a REXX evironment. that will process the value of any
bare expression, e.g.,
address isredit
'del .f .l'
processes the value of 'del .f .l in the ISPF EDIT environment.
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But some are not helping the situation. For example, I remember reading
Itschak, I've read some of the replies to this post and I don't yet understand
the question. What do you mean by "host load"? And/or what are "address xxx"
services? The latter sounds to me like the STORAGE function, but I'm sure
you're not asking about that.
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Oh, piffle. Mainframe installations are hiring Indian mainframers, to some
extent, sure; but that simply proves that there are still mainframers to be
hired, in India if nowhere else. It's no part of the shortage-of-mainframers
problem.
As for "corporate greed", corporations want to reduce
Not just alive ... it's mutating. I have a coworker who is named ComeTron!
mkk
On Mon, 21 Mar 2022 11:52:10 +, PINION, RICHARD W.
wrote:
>So Tron is alive!
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I just read the wiki artlice [[Parsing expression grammar]] and don't see
either the sophistication or the ease of use compared to regexen. I've come to
rely on named captures and backtracking, both of which seem to be missing.
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On Mon, 2022-03-21 at 12:42 +, Seymour J Metz wrote:
> Sorry, I should have been less terse. I meant that PCRE provides a more
> sophisticated RE engine.
PCRE is slightly more sophisticated but it's puny when compared to PEG engines.
Not only are PEG libraries more sophisticated they are
Sorry, I should have been less terse. I meant that PCRE provides a more
sophisticated RE engine.
Off topic, but why does the documented URI pattern not recognize fragments
prefixed by "#"?
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On Mon, 2022-03-21 at 12:01 +, Seymour J Metz wrote:
> PCRE?
No. It uses the C++ RTL ECMAScript Grammar which is 99% compatible with PCRE.
AFAIK, the only thing it doesn't support is recursive subgroup matching which I
could care less about. I lost interest in
REXX long ago and regular
What the OP needs is a PL/I routine that creates some control blocks and calls
REXX, and a second routine that is called by REXX and has access to the control
blocks created by the first. I don't kno whther the OP requires that the two
routines be running in the same LE context.
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PCRE?
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So Tron is alive!
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[External Email. Exercise caution when clicking links or
You are missing a level; the address statement takes an environment name and a
command string, but the intended usage is that the environment provides more
than one command and that the first token of the command string is the command
name. So you would have address myrexxapi myrexxcmd cmdparm.
What are your specific questions after reading Chapter 14? Have you looked at
sample code on, e.g., the CBT tape?
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The OP is asking about the routine that processes the commands in a
user-written environment,and Chapter 14 is appropriate for that. He is not
asking how to write command routines for the existing TSO environment.
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Have you looked at the amount of compression that you are getting when
comparing the z14 to the z15?
In our shop SMF data went from about 6:1 compression (z14) to 10:1. This is a
massive improvement.
I do not have the CPU stats, and I also really could not care. Dumps run at
night when we have
High level assembler is the required language.
WhT I am trying to have is a program that will be called myrexxapi and will
be called as address myrexxapi cmdparm. Cmdparm is a parm to that program.
בתאריך יום ב׳, 21 במרץ 2022 ב-1:13 מאת Dave Jones :
> From my notes:
> Re: Calling PL/I from Rexx
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