Re: Around ASSBASST and ASSBPHTM time fields

2019-11-14 Thread Michael Stein
> From: "M.V Ram" > > Hello, I have a question regarding the ASSBASST and ASSBPHTM fields > of ASSB control block. > > To explain it better, I am quoting this example. > > Say, an address space 'A' schedules a "preemptable SRB S1" on > itself. Another address space 'B' schedules a "preemptable

Re: Set change bit after DFdss restore

2019-11-01 Thread Michael Stein
This might be old news and fixed (or documented?) but I remember that ADRDSSU dump of a full volume turned off the DSCB change bits *IN THE DUMP*. So you have a slightly bad/failing disk. You dump it to tape. IBM replaces the HDA. You restore the tape image to the new disk. Then you toss the

Re: LOADing a module into common storage

2019-08-07 Thread Michael Stein
On Wed, Aug 07, 2019 at 06:55:53PM -0400, Tony Harminc wrote: > Roughly forever we've loaded modules into 24- or 31-bit CSA by first > LOADing the module normally into private storage, obtaining the actual > length from the LOAD, DELETEing the module, getting the necessary CSA > storage, and

Re: LOAD/LINK exit

2019-06-13 Thread Michael Stein
On Thu, Jun 13, 2019 at 02:10:32PM -0400, Steve Thompson wrote: > I seem to recall that there is a way to look at a LOAD/FETCH via an exit. csvfetch https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSLTBW_2.3.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r3.ieaa800/csvfetch01.htm The CSVFETCH exit provides information about

Re: Any way to set the PKM in "open code".

2019-06-11 Thread Michael Stein
On Fri, Jun 07, 2019 at 08:57:38AM -0500, John McKown wrote: > I am not finding this. I want to change the PKM for my running, APF > authorized, program to include key 0. Why? So that I can switch in and out > of key 0 using an SPKA instruction rather than MODESET. But mainly so that > I can use

Re: Concurrent Server Task Dispatch issue multitasking issue

2019-01-15 Thread Michael Stein
On Tue, Jan 15, 2019 at 01:29:46PM -0500, Jim Mulder wrote: > WAIT processing was rewritten for MVS/XA, and the check for > the communications ECB is in the mainline code, not in the FRR. Great! > There is no level of IEAVEWAT older than MVS/XA in our code > repository, which suggests that

Re: Concurrent Server Task Dispatch issue multitasking issue

2019-01-14 Thread Michael Stein
> There is another problem COMECBPT is key 0 storage and MY_ECB is key > 8 WAIT requires the user to be in the key of the ECB would I have the > that problem using SELECB Except for the communications ECB! There is a special check in wait for the communications ECB to allow problem key callers

Re: Pds Copy for Load Lib Members

2019-01-07 Thread Michael Stein
> I'm trying to write a copy program for Source code or Load Data from > one Pds to Another. > > The Source Code part seems to be working...no issues. > > The Load library code however, I cant seem to figure out how PDS2TTRT > is populated. Are you writing a general PDS copy program or a program

Re: IND$FILE -- where did the name come from?

2018-12-01 Thread Michael Stein
On 2018-11-29 18:39, Seymour J Metz wrote: > OCO was a gradual infestation. DF/DS, DF/EF (15 % discount on plasma), > MVS/SE, MVS/SP and, as I recall, DFP, preceded it, and the was still > microfiche for, e.g., TSO/E, long after OCO had started. OCO was a lot more gradual than the speed IBM

Re: Why are sophisticated system-level coding examples not available?

2018-11-17 Thread Michael Stein
> However, and this is important, anything and everything you do that uses > authorized services entails exposure of system integrity. It behooves > any organization to ensure that its personnel writing such code are > well-trained and thoroughly knowledgeable about how the system works, > is

Re: S23E

2018-11-02 Thread Michael Stein
> Joseph Reichman > I know system 23E is for invalid TCB it seems to me that TCB is valid > could any confirm that the following is the correct sequence of step to > terminate a TASK. A TCB is destroyed when the task terminates unless it was attached with EXTR or ECB in which case it is

Re: S106 abends after copying into LINKLIST

2018-10-08 Thread Michael Stein
> Last friday morning we copied new CICS LINKLIST/LPA modules into the > existing LINKLI in use (a rather new scenario in use here - we used to > use alternative datasets), in be done sunday morning. > > anyway, around 6pm friday evening, an I/O error occured in linklist > and other jobs s the

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