Re: How read Cyl 0 from within a program?

2024-02-15 Thread Lindy Mayfield
I have assembly source code for 3card loader. Would that help? Kind regards, Lindy -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Charles Mills Sent: Tuesday, February 13, 2024 8:20 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: How read Cyl 0 from within a program?

Re: Control block values that exempt 522 Timeouts

2019-09-26 Thread Lindy Mayfield
mar 17 set 2019 alle ore 15:09 Lindy Mayfield < lindy.mayfi...@sas.com> ha scritto: > Hi, > > I understand that address spaces can be made exempt from 522 timeouts > if there is a particular value in one of three control blocks. If I > have it correct they are: > > 1

Re: Control block values that exempt 522 Timeouts

2019-09-26 Thread Lindy Mayfield
- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Lindy Mayfield Sent: Thursday, September 26, 2019 9:54 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Control block values that exempt 522 Timeouts It could have been hardware related based on clock speed on early

Re: Control block values that exempt 522 Timeouts

2019-09-26 Thread Lindy Mayfield
@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Control block values that exempt 522 Timeouts EXTERNAL Well, if that represents 24 hours then 2555 is 1 second. On Tue, Sep 17, 2019 at 8:09 AM Lindy Mayfield wrote: > > Hi, > > I understand that address spaces can be made exempt from 522 timeouts if > there

Control block values that exempt 522 Timeouts

2019-09-17 Thread Lindy Mayfield
Hi, I understand that address spaces can be made exempt from 522 timeouts if there is a particular value in one of three control blocks. If I have it correct they are: 1) The JSTL is 86400 seconds (Comes from TIME=1440 on Job card?) 2) The ASCBTOFF bit in the ASCBRCTF is set

Re: Sources of message: IKJ56700A ENTER JOBNAME CHARACTER(S) -

2017-06-28 Thread Lindy Mayfield
I do. I (me I mean) totally do. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Charles Mills Sent: keskiviikko 28. kesäkuuta 2017 23.42 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Sources of message: IKJ56700A ENTER JOBNAME

Re: Sources of message: IKJ56700A ENTER JOBNAME CHARACTER(S) -

2017-06-28 Thread Lindy Mayfield
Spot on Peter. But we have to admit, one of the challenges that makes working with z/OS that makes it fun is to figure out how things are setup. It's basically legal hacking, and I quite don't like it. I mean, when I pretend I am Sherlock Holmes, I like it, but I don't get that privilege

Re: Sources of message: IKJ56700A ENTER JOBNAME CHARACTER(S) -

2017-06-28 Thread Lindy Mayfield
Thank you, Elardus. I accidentally copied a job card from a working member that was missing the word JOB after the job name. That was the problem. And you cleared up my other questions as well. Thanks again! Kind regards, Lindy -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List

Re: Sources of message: IKJ56700A ENTER JOBNAME CHARACTER(S) -

2017-06-28 Thread Lindy Mayfield
t resolves the issue. Thanks, Suresh Chacko On Wed, Jun 28, 2017 at 10:28 AM, Lindy Mayfield <lindy.mayfi...@sas.com> wrote: > Hello. > > Can someone tell me what triggers this message/prompt? > > IKJ56700A ENTER JOBNAME CHARACTER(S) - > > One source I know of is when

Sources of message: IKJ56700A ENTER JOBNAME CHARACTER(S) -

2017-06-28 Thread Lindy Mayfield
Hello. Can someone tell me what triggers this message/prompt? IKJ56700A ENTER JOBNAME CHARACTER(S) - One source I know of is when I try to submit something that isn't JCL. But it also happens in weird ways (on different machines) for 'normal' JCL. For example, I have a job card that looks

Re: REXX procedure needed

2017-04-12 Thread Lindy Mayfield
Hi Jürgen, I thought I had something similar, but it may have been SHOWMVS instead. However, if it helps, here some basic starting code that will loop through the AS's. You just have to find the other CB's. Br, Lindy /* Rexx */

Re: CPU Timerons/Seconds vs Wall-clock Time

2017-04-10 Thread Lindy Mayfield
O Looping Code Larger than normal Data Load And so on. Maybe other can provide better insight. Lizette > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] > On Behalf Of Lindy Mayfield > Sent: Sunday, April 09, 2017 9:42 AM >

Re: CPU Timerons/Seconds vs Wall-clock Time

2017-04-09 Thread Lindy Mayfield
Subject: Re: CPU Timerons/Seconds vs Wall-clock Time [Default] On 9 Apr 2017 09:41:33 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main lindy.mayfi...@sas.com (Lindy Mayfield) wrote: >I only have CPU time from SMF 30 but I don't have elapsed time which is very >important. I'd like to somewhat infer that

Re: CPU Timerons/Seconds vs Wall-clock Time

2017-04-09 Thread Lindy Mayfield
19.03 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: CPU Timerons/Seconds vs Wall-clock Time On Sun, 9 Apr 2017 15:48:12 +, Lindy Mayfield wrote: >This may or may not be the dumbest question I've asked this week, but I've >been working with Linux a lot lately so that's my excuse. > (It's on

Re: CPU Timerons/Seconds vs Wall-clock Time

2017-04-09 Thread Lindy Mayfield
run 2 hours wall clock time and only take 10 mins of CPU time. Lizette > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] > On Behalf Of Lindy Mayfield > Sent: Sunday, April 09, 2017 8:48 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU

CPU Timerons/Seconds vs Wall-clock Time

2017-04-09 Thread Lindy Mayfield
This may or may not be the dumbest question I've asked this week, but I've been working with Linux a lot lately so that's my excuse. For example, if an MVS job ran and consumed 10 CPU seconds (SMF 30 I think), can I assume that it at least took 10 seconds of elapsed time to run? Regards, Lindy

Domino vs. Apache Web Server and Encoding Issue from CGI Program

2017-01-30 Thread Lindy Mayfield
rst on this, at the app or at the server configuration, which is why I ask. Also, I don’t know how big a change Domino is to Apache is, if it was meant to be a plug-and-play replacement or not. Many thanks for any help or advice. Kind regards, Lindy Mayfi

Re: SVC display

2016-11-11 Thread Lindy Mayfield
Hi Jake, Almost all systems have the level 2 diagnostic utility ISRFIND. So you can run that (TSO ISRFIND from ISPF), put in the load module name, if it's a type 4 ESR the name will be IGX00nnn where nnn is the SVC number. So if it is SVC 201 then you'll put IGX00201 in the Member name

Re: Running USS with locale other than 1047

2016-10-12 Thread Lindy Mayfield
"Eeek" pretty much sums it all. Even between latin1, latin9 and utf-8 is a huge eek. They got their own problems, too. ISPF-L, no, MVS-OE list, yes. But since it's often a system wide setting that IBM may or may not recommend, that’s why I chose IBM-Main first to ask. It affect the entire

Running USS with locale other than 1047

2016-10-12 Thread Lindy Mayfield
? Apologies if my questions aren't clear, as this topic isn't very clear to me at the moment. Hopefully someone with experience with this will help me understand it better. Kind regards, Lindy Mayfield -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe

JCL and Ansible

2016-09-09 Thread Lindy Mayfield
Kinda sort of look like the same thing, or what JCL would be if there wasn't the "six verb limit." :) Br, Lindy -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with

Re: BPX.SMF misuse?

2016-05-31 Thread Lindy Mayfield
If you try to call BPX1SMF with an SMF record number of 128 or less you'll get a return code 121, EINVAL. So only user SMF records are allowed. Br, Lindy -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Andrew Rowley Sent: tiistaina

Re: Scheduled STCs running as instream procs?

2016-05-03 Thread Lindy Mayfield
That was the message I got. And I forget exactly but $DPROCLIB gave me I think something like MSTJCL00, MSTJCL01, then some dataset names. Cancelling a started task caused it to start right up again. So my problem was that normally I can work backwards on MVS to find the source code of the

Re: Scheduled STCs running as instream procs?

2016-04-27 Thread Lindy Mayfield
Hello, Yeah, after a very long day, then a long flight with time to think about it, then I thought to ask, and all I had in my head was sketchy. I asked for the exact text about the instream from the JES2 sysout in SDSF by email so I can post it here later if it is helpful. The STC is

Scheduled STCs running as instream procs?

2016-04-27 Thread Lindy Mayfield
No machines are as customizable as mainframes, especially ones that have been running for decades. Sometimes things are hard to figure out, especially if the machine goes from the owner to outsourced or whatever, and all that, then people are "let go" and new people have to take over and try

Re: How to find where a module has been dynamically loaded from?

2016-04-05 Thread Lindy Mayfield
Or you can also use ISRFIND. Put in the Member Name and LOADMOD Y. It will find anything, including SVC's. Br, Lindy -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of David Griffiths1 Sent: tiistaina 5. huhtikuuta 2016 16.31 To:

Re: [SURVEY] What ISPF terminal model do you use

2016-03-19 Thread Lindy Mayfield
I totally agree. I've used it since, probably over 15 years now. I just paid for it because our company didn't force us to use theirs. :-) I couldn't be happier with it. I totally recommend it over any I've ever used. /Lindy -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List

Re: SYSPROC Concatenation?

2016-03-19 Thread Lindy Mayfield
IBM does this exact same thing in an OOTB ServerPac install. It allocates libraries in the logon proc then calls a clist to reallocate them. For no apparently good reason. I've done that when I wanted more control, for example, who gets what libraries, maybe certain users get dev libraries

Re: Grace didn't coin the term "bug"?

2016-03-15 Thread Lindy Mayfield
Yeah, I didn't know, thought it was her (she's still an hero of the computer revolution, bugs and all), but when looking I saw wiki is starting an etymological dictionary. Says what you say. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_bug#Etymology -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe

Grace didn't coin the term "bug"?

2016-03-15 Thread Lindy Mayfield
Was watching NCIS Los Angeles and the geek was showing off to the female geek by saying Grace Hopper didn't coin the term bug, but Thomas Edison did. (Which he probably stole from someone else, probably Tesla, but that just me being facetious.)

Re: Cannot allocate Steplib?

2016-03-15 Thread Lindy Mayfield
Yeah, I apologize for this dumb question. We used to have a STEPLIB add command that we could use from TSO, way back then, and a CLIST or Rexx to reallocate any ISPF, especially SYSPROC libraries for testing. I'd been doing too much Linux lately and had a senior moment. I didn't put my

Re: Cannot allocate Steplib?

2016-03-14 Thread Lindy Mayfield
I love Linux, but my real love is mainframe. I had a senior moment, and I haven't been on mainframe as much as I like to be. It was SYSPROC that was commonly reallocated by CLIST and Rexx scripts in order to do testing in the right order test/dev/prod or whatever. Not STEPLIB. I think there

Cannot allocate Steplib?

2016-03-12 Thread Lindy Mayfield
I just started getting this error, though I cannot remember the last time I tried to (re)allocate steplib. IKJ56236I FILE STEPLIB INVALID, FILENAME RESTRICTED Something's funny because I'm sure I converted a clist to rexx 20+ years ago to loop through a listcat, pick out the steplibs, and put

Re: IBM Destination z - What the Heck Is JCL and Why Does It Look So Funny?

2016-02-05 Thread Lindy Mayfield
You may find this of interest. Fred Brooks talks about JCL. I couldn't find the original online, but I probably could if I tried harder. http://lilliana.eu/downloads/jcltalk.txt Cheers, Lindy -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On

Re: IBM Destination z - What the Heck Is JCL and Why Does It Look So Funny?

2016-02-05 Thread Lindy Mayfield
I found it here, at about 1:50. http://www.computerhistory.org/revolution/mainframe-computers/7/162/2270 -Lindy -Original Message- From: Lindy Mayfield Sent: perjantaina 5. helmikuuta 2016 20.44 To: 'IBM Mainframe Discussion List' <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> Subject: RE: IBM Desti

Re: Anyone seen Mr. Gilmore?

2016-02-04 Thread Lindy Mayfield
That explains why I didn't get a reply to the email I sent to her asking if Mr. Gilmore was ok. :-( -Lindy -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Aled Hughes Sent: torstaina 4. helmikuuta 2016 11.42 To:

Re: Obtaining current ASID in REXX

2016-02-04 Thread Lindy Mayfield
Here is a little Rexx utility that I wrote to display a bunch of good stuff from the ASCB, including ASID in both hex and decimal. Mostly it was used to explore 522 timeout issues, but it shows some cool stuff, plus shows you one way to make your way through the control blocks.

Re: Anyone seen Mr. Gilmore?

2016-02-03 Thread Lindy Mayfield
, Feb 3, 2016 at 12:10 PM, Lindy Mayfield <lindy.mayfi...@sas.com> wrote: > I often corresponded with him by email now and then, but it stopped and I've > seen no posts by him here or on the assembler list in a while. Has anyone > seen him around? > >

Re: Anyone seen Mr. Gilmore?

2016-02-03 Thread Lindy Mayfield
All his emails ended something like John Gilmore Ashton, MA (then a zip code) I sent a postcard from Rouen once there and I don't think he got it. But nothing in the obit mentions Ashton. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf

Re: Anyone seen Mr. Gilmore?

2016-02-03 Thread Lindy Mayfield
That's right. He always mentioned his wife by name, not "my wife". And that name in the obit wasn't familiar. It was Kate or something like that IIRC. I don't like seeing people from mainframe groups that I follow disappear. It reminds me of my mainframe career mortality. -Original

Anyone seen Mr. Gilmore?

2016-02-03 Thread Lindy Mayfield
I often corresponded with him by email now and then, but it stopped and I've seen no posts by him here or on the assembler list in a while. Has anyone seen him around? Kind regards, Lindy -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff /

How to get TSOCMD to recognize my TSO PROFILE MSGID

2015-12-29 Thread Lindy Mayfield
Hi, I also asked this on the MVS-OE list. I'm using the TSO OMVS interface and running a Java program that looks for IDC messages, especially for the DELETE command using TSOCMD cause DEL is authorized. Before I go into OMVS my TSO PROFILE MSGID is on. When I get to OMVS I can type PROFILE

Re: How to get TSOCMD to recognize my TSO PROFILE MSGID

2015-12-29 Thread Lindy Mayfield
Hi, A proper rt'ing of the fm shows a TSOPROFILE environment variable that needed to be used. :) Sorry for the premature posts. Happy New Year to all! Lindy From: Lindy Mayfield Sent: Tuesday, December 29, 2015 7:32 PM To: 'IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU' <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> Subjec

Re: How to get TSOCMD to recognize my TSO PROFILE MSGID

2015-12-29 Thread Lindy Mayfield
It's an environment variable: export TSOPROFILE='msgid' Actually, I wanted it turned on because the software was looking for IGC* message id's to know if a delete was successful or not. Lindy -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On

Controlling, managing, monitoring data- and hiperspaces

2015-12-08 Thread Lindy Mayfield
I'm in the process of learning about and how z/OS controls data and hiperspaces, for example are there any parmlib or tuning options available at a system level? What about on a more granular level? Any way to limit or control, for example, on a user basis? Will the IEFUSI exit control down

z/OS and hiperspaces

2015-11-24 Thread Lindy Mayfield
Hi, I want to learn about hiperspaces, especially what sorts of z/OS tuning options there are to control them, what might be the impact on the system if users create too many or too many large ones, stuff like that. Where would I read and learn about things like that? And is there a way

Re: z/OS and hiperspaces

2015-11-24 Thread Lindy Mayfield
Does it work like this? If it is a simple batch program then memory allocation totals (including hiperspaces) can be controlled by IEFUSI. I mean, if for some reason hyperspace usage becomes a problem on the system. But what if that address space is dubbed as an OMVS address space? Do the

Re: z/OS and hiperspaces

2015-11-24 Thread Lindy Mayfield
I was under the impression that hiperspace is a bit better choice over dataspace for larger work files. But actually I'm trying to understand how both types of them work, and how users could potentially impact a system if they can allocate large amounts of hiperspace or dataspace memory.

Re: What is a request block prefix?

2015-10-14 Thread Lindy Mayfield
Ok, thanks for the information. This is a bit over my head then. I thought RB was a generic thing, but I think it is a part of the OS that I don't understand well. Yet. But to be clear, a SDB abend means there was no module in memory (defined) found called either IGX00219 or IGC0021I, and

What is a request block prefix?

2015-10-13 Thread Lindy Mayfield
In the system completion codes documentation it says that for an abend FDB that register 2 points to the request block prefix. What is a 'request block prefix' in this context? Verbatim it reads: "When nn is not equal to 13, 14, 17, or 37, the system records in register 2 the address of the

Re: What are STC, JOB and TSU?

2014-11-20 Thread Lindy Mayfield
Thank you every one very much for your valuable input. From all I've read, the answer really wasn't very straightforward. But the two experts SDSF and MXG call it Task Type, but not sure about IOF, I got bored looking for it. And in some of my own Rexx code I just found there were five

What are STC, JOB and TSU?

2014-11-19 Thread Lindy Mayfield
Hi group, I'm having a bit of a problem identifying what classification those names are. I know what started tasks and TSO users and batch jobs are, but if I were to say: On MVS there are three blank (or three types of blank) which can be derived from the JES job ID. J or JOB means batch, S

Calculation involving SMF CPU Time

2014-10-15 Thread Lindy Mayfield
I needed to pull off some user SMF records, and so I used a small program that I had written about 6 or so years ago. In it, I have a line of code like this: SMFCPU = SMFCPU / 38400 I honestly cannot remember why I did that, to divide by 38400, but I must have had a good reason. It doesn't

Re: Calculation involving SMF CPU Time

2014-10-15 Thread Lindy Mayfield
9:55 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Calculation involving SMF CPU Time Lindy Mayfield wrote: I needed to pull off some user SMF records, and so I used a small program that I had written about 6 or so years ago. In it, I have a line of code like this: SMFCPU = SMFCPU / 38400 I

Re: Interested in BASH becoming part of z/OS UNIX? Vote for requirement 60048

2014-10-06 Thread Lindy Mayfield
Some years ago, back when it was Tools Toys there was bash and I installed it and used it. I really liked it (compared to sh) but it was just too buggy so I removed it. If it is still around, and it's updated, then perhaps I'll give it a go again. Lindy -Original Message- From: IBM

Re: Demonstrating Moore's law

2014-06-11 Thread Lindy Mayfield
: Demonstrating Moore's law Lindy Mayfield wrote: It is quite clear that IBM mainframes follow Moore's law, and I wanted to see if I could verify that somehow. Elardus Engelbrecht wrote: Based on what are you making above claim

Demonstrating Moore's law

2014-06-09 Thread Lindy Mayfield
It is quite clear that IBM mainframes follow Moore's law, and I wanted to see if I could verify that somehow. Looking at disk space costs by megabyte is just mind blowing. Not sure I can use that. Would I graph the costs? My question is, what criteria could I use if I wanted to make a simple

Re: Serialization without Enque

2013-11-19 Thread Lindy Mayfield
I have often thought about that but I don't quite understand why it is needed. Would you give an example of a problem that is fixed by this method? Thanks! Lindy From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Anne Lynn

Re: Serialization without Enque

2013-11-19 Thread Lindy Mayfield
I've been having fun with this. Build an entire CPU, assembler, vm, operating system, etc from nothing but a Nand gate. I've gotten as far as building all the basic gates plus an ALU, all in a simplified HDL. CPU, RAM all that to follow. http://nand2tetris.org/ Lindy

TSO Delete in IKJTSOxx

2013-09-12 Thread Lindy Mayfield
I am curious why sometimes I see DEL/DELETE as an authorized command in IKJTSOxx and sometimes not. I don't see it in my CPAC install, but I've seen it pop up in other systems. The reason I ask is because sometimes I want to use /bin/tso to do a DELETE, but it fails. Of course the solution

Ted talk: George Dyson at the birth of the computer

2013-07-15 Thread Lindy Mayfield
I found this very fun to listen to, and thought to share it. I particularly liked the work notes from the people building and programming the computers in the 50's. Kind regards, Lindy http://www.ted.com/talks/george_dyson_at_the_birth_of_the_computer.html

Re: Parsing

2012-11-26 Thread Lindy Mayfield
i thought I just read a self-appointed list cop say that he would rather we stop talking about cool stuff just so he doesn't have to ... errr, umm. hit delete? no, not that. Skip it? No, he would have to read it first. Some people like Fortunato know what is best for me. I don't know. It

Re: OMVS su -

2012-11-26 Thread Lindy Mayfield
I know what you mean, Don. For MVS-OE subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO MVS-OE Try that list. They really do know all about this stuff. I recall from the last few years, over 10, this same topic gone over the

Re: Etymology 101; was Parsing

2012-11-26 Thread Lindy Mayfield
Tweedledee and Tweedledum _Agreed_ to have a fight. Someday soon some language will be the Lingua Chinoise and COBOL will start looking really funny. I just had the extreme pleasure of helping a colleague from Beijing doing some installation in z/OS, and she had never seen or touched a

Re: Parsing

2012-11-22 Thread Lindy Mayfield
don't yell at him. it was all on me. if I may translate from German to English to be more precise: Deer in German is Animal, Deer in English is a particular sort of animal. Dog in German is one of those big things, I forget. Dog in English is that stupid 4 legged thing. Hound in German is a

Re: Parsing

2012-11-21 Thread Lindy Mayfield
(male female) Rehbock = buck (male) Regards Roger W Suhr -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Lindy Mayfield Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2012 10:20 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Parsing I like the ones

Re: New way to do UCB lookups

2012-11-21 Thread Lindy Mayfield
I know that one: Älä vasta ja anna sen kuolla omin. (For those who took Spanish instead of Finnish in high school: Don't answer and it will die on its own.) -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of ibmmain Sent: Wednesday,

Re: New way to do UCB lookups

2012-11-20 Thread Lindy Mayfield
.emea.sas.com, on 11/19/2012 at 09:09 PM, Lindy Mayfield lindy.mayfi...@sas.com said: Paper tape is even cheaper, but I'm just being a smart a$$. :-) No, just misinformed. Paper tape is far more expensive per bit, and the cost per foot isn't relevant. But seriously, I think that must be wrong if so

Re: Parsing

2012-11-20 Thread Lindy Mayfield
I like the ones that go from specific to general and the other way round. Hund is dog, but a specific type of animal in English. Tier is animal, but specifically deer in English. And another thing which is curious, given how close English and German are from the time they began to break apart,

Re: New way to do UCB lookups

2012-11-20 Thread Lindy Mayfield
Dammit, Janet. I did something I didn't think I needed to do. I went through one Rexx exec over 3000 lines long, which isn't really so big when you count that I added hundreds of lines of comments. (That was a joke.) There wasn't anything there that couldn't be as easily as Rexx be defined by

Re: New way to do UCB lookups

2012-11-19 Thread Lindy Mayfield
People still use tapes? Oh. That's curious. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Sam Golob Sent: Monday, November 19, 2012 7:27 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: New way to do UCB lookups Now for a new one.

Re: New way to do UCB lookups

2012-11-19 Thread Lindy Mayfield
That Latin phrase Google didn't find for me. How do you say, If all you got is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. The Romans must have had something similar. :-) Lindy -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of John

Re: New way to do UCB lookups

2012-11-19 Thread Lindy Mayfield
of TennesseeSM and The MEGA Life and Health Insurance Company.SM -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Lindy Mayfield Sent: Monday, November 19, 2012 1:57 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: New way to do UCB

Re: New way to do UCB lookups

2012-11-19 Thread Lindy Mayfield
What is so bad about that? When all you have is a hammer, AND you are a carpenter, etc... You chastised us, then told us in Latin it was ok. :-) (Well, not me you didn't. If I needed to know it, I'd learn it. Here I am just curious.) Anyway, if I am a seaman, why would I care how many

Re: Strange thought - ADRDSSU output to a UNIX pipe.

2012-11-19 Thread Lindy Mayfield
You are cool, John. Finland is a small country, but a few of the customers that I know well enough in other places in Europe use them only for legacy purposes. Which was why I had to ask a few other questions when my Finnish customers said they didn't have any. At all. Nada. :-) But

Re: New way to do UCB lookups

2012-11-19 Thread Lindy Mayfield
/2012 at 02:44 PM, Lindy Mayfield lindy.mayfi...@sas.com said: People still use tapes? It's an inexpensive way to create media for backup. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists

Re: New way to do UCB lookups

2012-11-19 Thread Lindy Mayfield
Mr. Gilmore, yes, thanks for taking the time to respond to my musings. You give me the impression (albeit possibly falsely in my mind) that you are correct, when you are simply being exact. I was a DBA in D.C. government for the Y2K, and we, and I knew all the DB2 rules. But I also knew what

Re: New way to do UCB lookups

2012-11-19 Thread Lindy Mayfield
My Pooh can kick your Propertius' butt: When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it. -Original Message-

Re: Parsing (was: New way to do UCB lookups)

2012-11-19 Thread Lindy Mayfield
this isn't a complete illustrative example of what you refer to, but even still in some languages this is still today a certain extent true. some finnish words have all sorts of grammar built into them, yet are still considered one word: ikä = age ikävä = miss (you), too bad ikävystyä = to

Re: Parsing

2012-11-19 Thread Lindy Mayfield
Those are very interesting examples. Though, when I brought this up I wasn't talking about parsing, but people who commented that some human languages really don't need spaces. (I think that is what was said.) So I mentioned that in fact reading long words that contain elements of grammar

Re: New way to do UCB lookups

2012-11-17 Thread Lindy Mayfield
May I infer, then, that you are talking about serious issues where the program better get it right the first time, especially when updating these control blocks (1) that are being discussed at the moment. And simple interfaces to storage, such as Rexx need have different requirements, thus

Re: New way to do UCB lookups

2012-11-16 Thread Lindy Mayfield
I don't quite understand this thread, but I find it interesting in that I'd like to understand it. Are you saying, that you can put some sort of lock on a control block, so that when you update it, you know that nobody else has updated it? I am not sure if this is apples and giraffes, but I

Re: Correction to Carmine's Book Cost

2012-10-30 Thread Lindy Mayfield
I'm quite surprised you asked that. There is a lot of information that isn't stored in IBM manuals, at least in a form that is easy to find. Otherwise, Carmine's book could have been a list of links to the IBM docs. Or a CD ROM that with code from CBT. CBT doesn't contain code snippets

Re: The future of MFNetDisk

2012-10-29 Thread Lindy Mayfield
I certainly hope you have plans to develop something else, something new! I cannot wait to see what you come up with if you do decide. Kind regards Lindy -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of shai hess Sent: Monday,

Re: Correction to Carmine's Book Cost

2012-10-29 Thread Lindy Mayfield
Book Cost On 10/29/2012 10:26 AM, Steve Comstock wrote: On 10/29/2012 8:23 AM, scott wrote: On 10/25/2012 07:35 PM, Lindy Mayfield wrote: I fell asleep reading mine, and at the same time spilt red wine on it. But still I wouldn't give/sell it. I only paid about $50 for it from a used book

Re: Correction to Carmine's Book Cost

2012-10-29 Thread Lindy Mayfield
This person didn't say it was his property. He said that he wouldn't give his knowledge away for free. In other words, he would rather take it to the coffin than participate in any sort of joint effort to collect information from (my words) the old timers. I would have zero problem with

Re: Correction to Carmine's Book Cost

2012-10-25 Thread Lindy Mayfield
I fell asleep reading mine, and at the same time spilt red wine on it. But still I wouldn't give/sell it. I only paid about $50 for it from a used book place, I forget where. It was about 6 years ago. It would be totally cool if he updated it with PC routines, for example. Lindy

Re: ISPF Panel and LPAR name

2012-08-20 Thread Lindy Mayfield
Doug Nadel has an edit macro called BATCHPDF which will create the DD names for running ISPF in batch. I like it and use it, at least to get me started. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of CM Poncelet Sent: Monday,

Re: [z390] Anyone want Source code listing of last VSE program product Supervisor?

2012-08-06 Thread Lindy Mayfield
Books I've bought from the UK say this in the front. Seems a bit strict, but is this the same thing? This book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, re-sold, hired out or otherwise circulated without the publisher's prior consent in any

Re: Friday: What you've been waiting for! Build an 80 column punched card reader!

2012-07-30 Thread Lindy Mayfield
For me, punched card isn't quite as easy to pronounce as punch card, but I have some difficulties saying iced tea. Perhaps ice' tea would be more a more accurate representation. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of