True for some value of basically, but not true always. Keyed searches cannot
be executed in ECKD mode, so a PDS directory, VTOC, or keyed BDAM or BSAM file
that has lots of keyed searches done against it should be allocated on a
cylinder boundary for a small improvement in elapsed time of the
To Rob Scott's (as usual) wise response, I will add this: Is your ESTAE(X)
routine even getting control? Put a WTO at the very beginning of your recovery
routine to tell you that your routine got control. And beware that WTO may
alter some registers that your recovery routine may need, such
and its in that prog
that I get a S0C4 Its all under the same TCB/RB so I should have coverage
I'll read up on parallel TMP in a bit
thanks
-Original Message-
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf
Of DASDBILL2
Sent: Wednesday, August
It is my cold and fuzzy recollection that 6144 was in vogue for a few years
when that value was deemed to be VERY good on a 3340 DASD and not too shabby
[1] for most other flavors.
Bill Fairchild
[1] Or, more precisely, okay or swell.
- Original Message -
From: Elardus
How much is slightly more? Ten to the minus 2 power of one percent? Ten to
the minus 5 power of one percent? Perhaps you could display the raw numbers
before and after.
Bill Fairchild
- Original Message -
From: Binyamin Dissen bdis...@dissensoftware.com
To:
Notional means theoretical, speculative, imaginary, conceptual.
A few years ago 56664 bytes for the maximum usable block size of a single
stored data block of a 3390 geometry SLED was notional because there were
really several thousand more bytes on each real track for hardware and software
It is possible to have two or more address spaces with the same jobname.
Does your code handle that possibility?
Bill Fairchild
- Original Message -
From: CP Vernooij (SPLXM) - KLM kees.verno...@klm.com
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Sent: Wednesday, August 6, 2014 6:30:47 AM
I forgot to add running in the same system (image, LPAR, instance of z/OS).
- Original Message -
From: Fairchild, Bill dasdbi...@comcast.net
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Sent: Wednesday, August 6, 2014 8:21:46 AM
Subject: Re: How to check if a job is running in a SYSPLEX
It is
SHARE is all about networking, which is what old boys' clubs do. I went to my
first SHARE in 1967 and was welcomed as a newbie. That was how I became a
brand new member of the old boys' club. I don't ever remember any older
attendees' having an exclusivist attitude towards new attendees. I
The lack of an A does not automatically mean that anything is bad.
Bill Fairchild
- Original Message -
From: Linda linda.lst...@comcast.net
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2014 5:15:46 PM
Subject: Re: regd: to make DASD volumes Active
If you browse or edit
It has been my experience that many of the questions he asked in his OP are
answered on the SHARE website.
Bill Fairchild
- Original Message -
From: Clark Morris cfmpub...@ns.sympatico.ca
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2014 2:41:16 PM
Subject: Re: Beginners
-
From: Ed Gould edgould1...@comcast.net
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2014 4:56:37 PM
Subject: Re: IBM to sell Apples
On Jul 16, 2014, at 12:14 PM, DASDBILL2 wrote:
Been reading Cringley's book lately on the Rise and Fall of IBM.
When I saw the subject line
Been reading Cringley's book lately on the Rise and Fall of IBM.
When I saw the subject line before opening this post, my first mental image was
that of all of IBM's top executives selling edible apples on the sidewalk to
passersby for 5 cents apiece.
Bill Fairchild
- Original Message
There are quite a few secret instructions, meaning what they do and how they
do it is not published in any generally available document. But if you have a
real need to know, and can make a strong business case for how beneficial it
will be to IBM to sell you the doc for that one instruction,
The op code has two halves which are not contiguous. The first half is the E3.
The second half is the 17 in the right-most byte. It's called Load Logical
Thirty-One Bits. It's not secret.
Bill Fairchld
- Original Message -
From: Alan Field alan_c_fi...@bluecrossmn.com
To:
I once wrote a program with many subroutines that all used the same DCB to
print out debugging messages. I wrapped each PUT inside an exclusive ENQ and a
DEQ for some arbitrary resource name so that the characters being printed on
each line would not be shuffled with the previous or overlaid
, DASDBILL2 dasdbi...@comcast.net wrote:
The loss of time is never free.
I couldn't agree more. If it costs $100,000 a year to employ a mainframe
developer (salary, benefits, premises, etc.), then for every 100 developers a
company employs it costs a staggering 10 million dollars a year
Biltong is interesting, monkey gland is way too bland. I prefer Peri-peri on
mine, thanks. Maximum strength, of course.
Bill Fairchild
- Original Message -
From: David Crayford dcrayf...@gmail.com
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Sent: Tuesday, July 8, 2014 8:48:56 AM
Subject: OT:
The loss of time is never free.
Bill Fairchild, Senior Software Engineer
ASG Software Solutions
Naples, FL
- Original Message -
From: Shane Ginnane ibm-m...@tpg.com.au
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Sent: Friday, July 4, 2014 10:37:34 AM
Subject: Feebie software
On Fri, 4 Jul
Let's start correcting our subject typos now.
Bill Fairchild
- Original Message -
From: David Crayford dcrayf...@gmail.com
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Sent: Friday, July 4, 2014 10:42:02 AM
Subject: Re: Feebie software
On 4/07/2014 11:37 PM, Shane Ginnane wrote:
On Fri, 4
If his code is running in key 0, then he can also set the appropriate bit in
the DEB and thus avoid the S306 ABEND. Or at least get past the S306 ABEND and
advance through system code until the next type of ABEND is uncovered.
Bill Fairchild
- Original Message -
From: John McKown
-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Sent: Monday, July 7, 2014 10:56:47 AM
Subject: Re: Feebie software
On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 9:35 AM, DASDBILL2 dasdbi...@comcast.net wrote:
The loss of time is never free.
Here, it depends. If you mean loss of CPU time, very true. If you
mean loss of programmer, et al
time-zone UTC offsets are not in general integers. The Australian Cocos
Islands Time Zone is UTC+6.30.
Most places are an integral number of hours + or - from Greenwhich. There are
a few that are a half hour off from an integral number of hours difference.
And at last one whole country,
There's nothing like high-tech as perceived by the masses. I remember when
high-tech card sorters were used at carnival sideshows by fortune tellers and
weight guessers.
Bill Fairchild
Senior Software Engineer
ASG Software Solutions
Naples, FL
- Original Message -
From: Merrill,
And test your S-A IPL and your Disaster Recovery plan every so often.
Bill Fairchild, Senior Software Engineer
ASG Software Solutions
1333 Third Avenue South
Naples, FL 34102-6400
USA
- Original Message -
From: Clark Morris cfmpub...@ns.sympatico.ca
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Please first tell us how much time you spent using the HELP command in IPCS.
Then re-read the posts last week about doing your homework and the best way to
ask for help.
Bill Fairchild
- Original Message -
From: MichealButz michealb...@comcast.net
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Perhaps today would be a good day to die. I say we SHIP IT! [Klingon
developer]
- Original Message -
From: Scott Ford 0006f84450fa-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2014 9:57:00 AM
Subject: Re: Humor: Translating what
Holy horrors, Batman! You omitted Barry Merrill's very hefty white lab coat,
covered outside and in with buttons.
Bill Fairchild
Nolensville, TN
- Original Message -
From: Gabe Goldberg g...@gabegold.com
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Sent: Thursday, June 5, 2014 8:13:51 AM
And your current desktop PC's operating system and all its application software
are extremely reliable and robust with 20 percent of all code developed to keep
the other 80 percent running forever, it can handle thousands of transactions
per second, and not have to be unexpectedly rebooted for
I know it has been decades since IBM manufactured its last real CKD
controller, but what was the exact date when the last new one was shipped?
Just curious.
Bill Fairchild
- Original Message -
From: Anne Lynn Wheeler l...@garlic.com
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Sent: Monday, June
Sent: Monday, June 2, 2014 9:55:46 AM
Subject: Re: real vs. emulated CKD
dasdbi...@comcast.net (DASDBILL2) writes:
I know it has been decades since IBM manufactured its last real CKD
controller, but what was the exact date when the last new one was
shipped?
re:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn
Message-
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf
Of DASDBILL2
Sent: Monday, June 02, 2014 12:25 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: real vs. emulated CKD
I will rephrase my question. When did any vendor last ship a 3390 DASD to
anyone
I'll add my two cents to this email from Walt Farrell and the one earlier this
week from Peter Relson.
Another possible approach to resolving this and many similarly elementary
debugging situations you have had in the past, rather than query the aged
IBM-MAIN experts daily, is to discover
They are in use. Shut down the application using them.
Or else add the data sets with copy errors to your list of data sets to be
excluded from the volume level copy.
Bill Fairchild
- Original Message -
From: Mike Schwab mike.a.sch...@gmail.com
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Sent:
The spelling errors are rapidly increasing in the headlines at the bottom of
the screen on TV news programs. The obvious errors made by TV news anchors
when trying to read what to say from a monitor a few feet away are also rapidly
increasing. The obviousness with which TV interviewers and
At least we still have decent technical publications from some vendors. Here's
an example of what we might expect in 10 more years of dumbing down:
The displacement for LA is, like, treated as, ya know, a 12-bit
unsigned like binary integer. The, ya know, displacement for LAY is
like
nf.ibmm...@web.de
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2014 6:24:58 PM
Subject: Re: Extended Addressibility (was: ZFS - Allocation Failure)
On Thu, 17 Apr 2014 17:38:12 +, DASDBILL2 wrote:
Extended Addressability refers to an attribute of a data set that allows the
data
Once the I/O is complete and the buffer has been marked as no longer page-fixed
while the I/O is active, that I/O buffer will not experience significant paging
if it is being accessed frequently. That's how I/O buffers have always behaved
since virtual memory operating systems with paging
:07:29 PM
Subject: Re: SORT ando MEMLIMIT best practice
On Fri, 18 Apr 2014 17:54:01 +, DASDBILL2 dasdbi...@comcast.net wrote:
... Giving a gazillion bytes above the bar to process X does not necessarily
mean that process X will ruin system performance. The gazillion bytes could
also
Extended Addressability refers to an attribute of a data set that allows the
data set to contain more then 4GB of data.
Extended Format refers to each DASD block's having some extra bytes, called a
suffix, added to the end of each data block, and this can happen with data sets
that contain
See the ESTAE, ESTAEX, and SETRP macros in the System Services books for more
info, but here is the operative part:
If you specify RECORD=YES, the system records the entire
SDWA (including the fixed length base, the variable length recording area, and
the recordable extensions) in
Possibly the ADRDSSU or some other authorized program is OPENing a DCB,
modifying its DEB, then when finished with that DCB it CLOSEs the DCB without
having previously restored the DEB's contents that it altered, so that CLOSE
cannot find the same DEB with the same contents that it uses for all
How the NSA shot itself in the foot by denying prior knowledge of Heartbleed
vulnerability
http://www.zdnet.com/institutional-failure-led-to-nsa-missing-the-heartbleed-flaw-728366
If the NSA, CIA, IRS, DEA, BATFE, FBI, DOD, DOJ, BLM, US Presidents, CEOs of
major corporations, etc.,
Message -
From: Elardus Engelbrecht elardus.engelbre...@sita.co.za
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Sent: Monday, April 14, 2014 9:01:40 AM
Subject: Re: NSA and Heartbleed
Bill Fairchild (DASDBILL2) wrote:
If the NSA, CIA, IRS, DEA, BATFE, FBI, DOD, DOJ, BLM, US Presidents, CEOs of
major
Of course they didn't use the Heartbleed bug for at least the last two years.
How do I know? Because the NSA said they weren't even aware of it, so how
could they possibly have used it?
“NSA was not aware of the recently identified vulnerability in OpenSSL, the
so-called Heartbleed
What is supposed to be at the 4 bytes beginning at the virtual storage address
that is X'C12' bytes greater than the contents of R12? The other half of the
CLC instruction seems normal, but the L instruction just before it looks
suspicious. Your code is loading the full word at address
When the MVS RAS group originally tracked me down and called me up ... I
thought they were going to ask me for help on correcting all the
problems ... but the first thing they wanted to know was who my
management chain was ... I then realized I was going to be in trouble
... they didn't
I was toying with the idea of giving him a Shmuel-type answer:
either this: Yes.
or this: SVC 99
- Original Message -
From: Mike La Martina mike.lamart...@mcleansoft.com
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Sent: Monday, March 24, 2014 11:59:04 AM
Subject: Re: Dynamic Allocation
Message
From: DASDBILL2
Sent: Monday, March 17, 2014 15:09
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Reply To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List
Subject: Re: Difference between MVS and z / OS systems
Close. OS/VS2 was released having been already pre-morphed into SVS and MVS.
SVS was first called OS/VS2
How did IBM's lawyers define give, client, data, and government?
Bill Fairchild
- Original Message -
From: Ed Gould edgould1...@comcast.net
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Sent: Sunday, March 16, 2014 11:21:20 AM
Subject: IBM says it has not given client data to the U.S. government
Close. OS/VS2 was released having been already pre-morphed into SVS and MVS.
SVS was first called OS/VS2 Release 1, was first available in 1974, and that's
when I worked with it. MVS was first called OS/VS2 Release 2, was first
available slightly later (1975, I think), but I didn't begin
, March 17, 2014 3:34:37 PM
Subject: Re: Difference between MVS and z / OS systems
VM was around in 1967. Iirc.
-
-teD
-
Original Message
From: DASDBILL2
Sent: Monday, March 17, 2014 15:09
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Reply To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List
Subject: Re: Difference
My desktop took less than one second to jump from page to page of the
five-page article, even with all the irrelevant garbage around the edges.
Everyone's mileage varies.
Bill Fairchild
- Original Message -
From: John Chase jch...@ussco.com
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Sent:
I hope that Darren has not been prepared for DELETION (FROZEN).
Bill Fairchild
- Original Message -
From: Ed Gould edgould1...@comcast.net
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Sent: Tuesday, March 11, 2014 12:49:42 PM
Subject: Re: all this crap from Umberto Silvestri
Where is Darren in
Many non-military people are also familiar with the 24-hour clock, such as my
wife, who was in nursing for 40 years. American medical people are all fluent
in 24-hour TODs.
Bill Fairchild
- Original Message -
From: John Gilmore jwgli...@gmail.com
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Sent:
While you are RTFMing, you might also try RTFH (where H stands for help info
when inside IPCS).
Bill Fairchild
- Original Message -
From: Mark Pace pacemainl...@gmail.com
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Sent: Friday, February 28, 2014 7:33:40 AM
Subject: Re: Disabled wait
Took a
Excellent forensics. And thanks for the detailed explanation.
Bill Fairchild
- Original Message -
From: John Chase jch...@ussco.com
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Sent: Monday, February 24, 2014 9:02:54 AM
Subject: Re: S0C2 in DB2 application program (was Stored Procedure) IFF run
Your guess is correct. Copybook is the way most Assembler programmers for
DOS/360 or VSE systems pronounce DSECT.
Bill Fairchild
- Original Message -
From: Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) shmuel+ibm-m...@patriot.net
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Sent: Monday, February 24, 2014 7:53:29 AM
Just for future reference, since the name of this list-server is IBM Mainframe
Discussion List, what particular IBM systems, other than System/360 and its
descendants, are also called mainframe systems?
Bill Fairchild
Nolensville, TN
- Original Message -
From: Shmuel Metz (Seymour
Since virtual storage is now so much less expensive and so much more available
than storage [1] was 50 years ago, why not be really extravagant and use one
whole byte per store? If the byte contains 0, then the store number is not
valid, or something like that, and if the byte contains
From: John McKown john.archie.mck...@gmail.com
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2014 7:20:20 AM
Subject: Re: assembler
They have done some, such as with Find LeftMost One and
Population Count (could somebody explain to me what this might really be
used for?).
: Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2014 8:41:25 AM
Subject: Re: assembler
On Wed, 19 Feb 2014 12:51:33 +, DASDBILL2 wrote:
Since virtual storage is now so much less expensive and so much more available
than storage [1] was 50
@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2014 9:51:08 AM
Subject: Re: assembler
dasdbi...@comcast.net (DASDBILL2) writes:
Since virtual storage is now so much less expensive and so much more
available than storage [1] was 50 years ago, why not be
really extravagant and use one whole byte per
Yes.
And also it depends.
Bill Fairchild
Nolensville, TN
- Original Message -
From: Gerhard Postpischil gerha...@charter.net
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Sent: Monday, February 17, 2014 9:50:48 AM
Subject: Re: IS the DCB represented by TCBJLB valid for FIND
On 2/17/2014 8:23
In a theoretical computer science class, one could debate the validity of
requesting 0 bytes of storage or of successfully acquiring 0 bytes of
storage. In the real world, such an event should be an error, but this quirk
is not going to be changed by IBM because of incompatibility issues. So
If you are allocating such a data set with disposition=new, the request will
fail if there is not at least one available (Format 0) DSCB in the VTOC which
z/OS can change into a Format 1 DSCB in which to save all the information about
your new data set that occupies no real space. At least the
.
From: DASDBILL2 dasdbi...@comcast.net
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Date: 02/13/2014 07:11 AM
Subject: Re: Storage Obtain .
Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
If you are allocating such a data set with disposition=new, the request
My LTR after the STORAGE OBTAIN does not catch a failure.
Your LTR after the STORAGE OBTAIN is not in the code you posted.
Bill Fairchild
- Original Message -
From: Jim Thomas j...@thethomasresidence.us
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2014 5:50:53 PM
FDR used to be only one product, now it is a family of products. The name of
the company, however, is Innovation Data Processing in Little Falls, New
Jersey.
Bill Fairchild
- Original Message -
From: Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) shmuel+ibm-m...@patriot.net
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
DMS and another large DASD management product suite called SAMS were marketed
by Sterling for many years before CA acquired Sterling in ca. 1999.
Bill Fairchild
- Original Message -
From: Ed Finnell efinnel...@aol.com
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Sent: Monday, February 10, 2014
If it was called FastDASD, then it was either Software Corp. of America's or
CA's (which bought SCA in late 1985).
Bill Fairchild
- Original Message -
From: Ed Finnell efinnel...@aol.com
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Sent: Monday, February 10, 2014 12:27:44 PM
Subject: Re: Implicit
A sequential file can contain load modules (IEBCOPY dump to tape, e.g.).
OP did not specify that the load modules were directly usable as load modules.
Bill Fairchild
- Original Message -
From: Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Sent: Wednesday,
I have written oodles of code that scan TIOTs, which almost always ran in key
eight, and I never got a S0C4 in that code, so I cannot believe that the TIOT
is allocated in key one storage. I would believe key zero.
Bill Fairchild
- Original Message -
From: Greg Price
6, 2014 at 8:33 AM, DASDBILL2 dasdbi...@comcast.net wrote:
I have written oodles of code that scan TIOTs, which almost always ran in
key eight, and I never got a S0C4 in that code, so I cannot believe that
the TIOT is allocated in key one storage. I would believe key zero.
Bill
The theoretical worst case for a TSO pack is that every track on the volume
could be a single-track data set, except for the following: volume label
track, VTOC, VTOC index, and VVDS. And each such single-track data set would
need at least one DSCB (Format 1) record in the VTOC, and you can
There is also much ado about the TIOT in the IBM-MAIN archives (q.v.); namely,
the maximum size, below or above the line, how to tell when you come to its
end, etc.
Bill Fairchild
- Original Message -
From: Barry Merrill ba...@mxg.com
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Sent: Wednesday,
How can it? Unless it's the highest priority.
Using the operating system source code [1], figure out which is the highest
priority code in the whole system. Then insert a very small amount of code in
it [2].
And, shades of Heisenberg, what about itself?
Only a very small amount of code
The first version of the 64-bit architecture PoPs that I saw 13 years ago had
just about 1K pages in it and described just about 1K instructions. I thought
that was an interesting unintended consequence.
Bill Fairchild
- Original Message -
From: Phil Smith p...@voltage.com
To:
IBM's core business is making profits for their stockholders. All else is
details of implementation.
Bill Fairchild
- Original Message -
From: Tony Harminc t...@harminc.net
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2014 4:26:28 PM
Subject: Re: IBM sells x86 server
@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Sent: Friday, January 24, 2014 12:38:18 PM
Subject: Re: IBM sells x86 server business to Lenovo (was Levono)
dasdbi...@comcast.net (DASDBILL2) writes:
IBM's core business is making profits for their stockholders. All else is
details of implementation.
IBM's core business
Seymour's statement is correct, but slightly misleading.
The problem is not that the DCB and OPEN parameter list are in your CSECT. The
problem is that your DCB and OPEN parameter list are in virtual storage above
the 24-bit address line, and this is because your CSECT is in storage above the
One other consideration is that a data space is limited to a size of 2GB, but
virtual storage above the bar can be MUCH, MUCH larger.
Bill Fairchild
Nolensville, TN
- Original Message -
From: John Blythe Reid johnblyther...@gmail.com
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Sent: Monday,
More on flexibility:
Storage above the bar can be set to specific storage keys when being acquired,
and can use page table entries that map 1MB per entry rather than 4KB per
entry.
Bill Fairchild
Nolensville, TN
- Original Message -
From: Kenneth Wilkerson
Speaking of job interviews, here's one possible reason why old guys do not do
well in interviews:
Interviewer: What would you say is your worst shortcoming?
Old guy: My honesty.
Interviewer: I don't think that honesty is necessarily a shortcoming.
Old guy: I really don't give a
My bad. I paraphrased something that I had seen a few weeks ago [1] but I had
not yet read zMan's posting of the same joke before I posted it.
Bill Fairchild
[1] And what I saw a few weeks ago might even have been a zMan post.
- Original Message -
From: DASDBILL2 dasdbi
The world-class cynic H. L. Mencken once wrote The cynics are right nine
times out of ten. .
Bill Fairchild
- Original Message -
From: zMan zedgarhoo...@gmail.com
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2014 12:41:05 PM
Subject: Re: IBM to invest 1.2B into Cloud
Sometimes having too many onuses might make one ornery.
Bill Fairchild
- Original Message -
From: John Gilmore jwgli...@gmail.com
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Sent: Monday, January 6, 2014 10:17:03 AM
Subject: Re: Is the oner of IBM-Main still with us?
Here the onus probandi
In 1974, when that video was taped, a desk would fit on a computer. :-)
Bill Fairchild
- Original Message -
From: Charles Mills charl...@mcn.org
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Sent: Sunday, December 29, 2013 8:26:12 AM
Subject: Re: ▶ One day, a computer will fit on a desk (1974) -
From: John Gilmore jwgli...@gmail.com
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Sent: Tuesday, December 24, 2013 5:05:06 PM
Subject: Re: Turing's belated pardon
that the Turing pardon establishes that a sufficiently valuable individual
should be
above the law which applies to everyone else, is a silly
I suspect that using the STEPLIB or JOBLIB mutually exclusively within one step
was influenced heavily by the cost of core way back when the TCB and the
initiator were being designed, maximum machine memory sizes were MUCH smaller
than today, CPU cycle time was much longer, etc. Many other
I seem to remember working with some S/360 Model 55 MPs at an FAA Air Route
Traffic Control Center in 1978. They must have had smaller maximum real
memories and run slower than model 65MPs, but had the same RPQ extra
instructions to enable multi-processing.
Bill Fairchild
- Original
The SMF EXCP counting code counts all EXCPs but not necessarily all I/O
requests. If your wayward job is using the STARTIO access method or the
Media Manager to do its output I/O to tape, then its bazillions of I/O requests
will never be accounted for in SMF data, but they will show up in RMF
One way to know for sure what access method is being used is to get a GTF trace
of at least one I/O request from your wayward job that you think should be
counted. Turn on the IOSB option in GTF. You don't need to trace both SSCH
and I/O interrupts; SSCH is probably enough. Find one trace
is on the
structure of the SMF record presented to the exit in this particular step.
.
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JO.Skip Robinson
Southern California Edison Company
Electric Dragon Team Paddler
SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager
626-302-7535 Office
323-715-0595 Mobile
jo.skip.robin...@sce.com
From: DASDBILL2 dasdbi
Is this real or is it a Friday post a day early? Someone whose surname is
Fatzinger posting on the topic of a Fat finger?
Just a humorous coincidence. g
Bill Fairchild
Franklin, TN
- Original Message -
From: Peter Fatzinger f...@us.ibm.com
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Sent:
That should be New Era and not NEWARE.
Bill Fairchild
- Original Message -
From: Itschak Mugzach imugz...@gmail.com
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2013 6:00:15 AM
Subject: Re: Invalid Parmlib member Scan
There is a tool that verifies your parmlib. have
December 2013 18:04, DASDBILL2 dasdbi...@comcast.net wrote:
My phrase billions of CCWs was assuming you already knew how to read a full
track with only one CCW. A fully
populated EAV can have 16 to the 7th power cylinders and each cylinder can
have 15 tracks. One Read Track CCW
After learning of the existence of XDAP in one of Dr. Rannie's SHARE
presentations, I tried it out when I got home from SHARE. I found that XDAP
is much, much easier to use than all the various pieces which must be
interconnected correctly in order to use EXCP. XDAP is a macro which expands
Old SHARE proceedings are online.
Bill Fairchld
- Original Message -
From: Scott Ford scott_j_f...@yahoo.com
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Sent: Tuesday, December 10, 2013 10:41:30 AM
Subject: Re: hexadecimal?
Bill,
I haven't been fortunate enough to go to Share..I wish
I believe an application can create a short FB block in the middle of an output
data set with the TRUNC macro.
Bill Fairchild
- Original Message -
From: Steve Comstock st...@trainersfriend.com
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Sent: Sunday, December 8, 2013 10:00:49 AM
Subject: Re:
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