Re: WAIT >1 (Friday type question, a day late)

At 14:41 -0700 on 06/18/2016, Charles Mills wrote about WAIT >1 (Friday type question, a day late): I just had occasion to RTFM on WAIT. I'm sure WAIT with an event count greater than one seemed like a terrific idea at the time, but has anyone ever used it? What's an application for "wait for

Re: Where is format of Job ID documented?

At 15:43 -0700 on 06/16/2016, Charles Mills wrote about Re: Where is format of Job ID documented?: Thanks. Anyone ever see an 'O'? Or a Mount? Charles I think Mount is a Started Task and thus is S. OTOH: It might run under Master Scheduler not JES.

Re: AW: Re: You thought IEFBR14 was bad? Try GNU's /bin/true code

At 20:43 -0800 on 02/10/2016, Steve Beaver wrote about Re: AW: Re: You thought IEFBR14 was bad? Try GNU's /bin/tru: I would absolutely love to see someone code the TEXT-UNITS for a DYNALLOC without using coded example and see how many days it would take them The simplest code for a Br14 is

Re: Count smf type 30-5 records

At 13:16 -0700 on 02/04/2016, Sri h Kolusu wrote about Re: Count smf type 30-5 records: If you want DFSORT to extract the values from Raw SMF data then what fields correspond to Userid, Jobname(SMF30JBN ??) and Date from the SMF-30 Record mapping? Remember the raw smf have variable length

Re: memory leak doing gsk_environment_open()

If the extra heap size is minor and one-time (being reused when needed) I would say to just let it stay allocated. Using the setting to free it after use might be a bad idea since the next time you need it you will go through another allocate cycle again followed by another release one. Is the

Re: Count smf type 30-5 records

Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Robert A. Rosenberg Sent: Thursday, February 04, 2016 2:52 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Count smf type 30-5 records At 13:16 -0700 on 02/04/2016, Sri h Kolusu wrote about Re: Count smf type 30-5 records

Re: Deleting a dataset that GRS has enqueued.

At 14:53 -0600 on 01/30/2016, Paul Gilmartin wrote about Re: Deleting a dataset that GRS has enqueued.: Even within a single system, to delete a data from one volume when a like named data set on a diferent volume is in use ENQ SHR on the same system. This is a irresolvable design flaw (ie:

Re: Deleting a dataset that GRS has enqueued.

rame Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Robert A. Rosenberg Sent: Saturday, January 30, 2016 05:54 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: [Bulk] Re: Deleting a dataset that GRS has enqueued. At 14:53 -0600 on 01/30/2016, Paul Gilmartin wrote about Re: Deleting a

Re: Deleting a dataset that GRS has enqueued.

At 10:32 -0600 on 01/27/2016, Tom Marchant wrote about Re: Deleting a dataset that GRS has enqueued.: On Wed, 27 Jan 2016 09:37:29 -0600, Ed Gould wrote: Try disabling the VVDS on the volume amaspzap the dataset to change the name. delete the dataset with iehprogm enable the vvds on the

Re: COBOL v5

At 15:55 -0700 on 01/23/2016, Lizette Koehler wrote about Re: COBOL v5: And, yes, what they said. IBM requires PDS/E due to Program Objects being created by Cobol V5. This is a Cop-Out answer/reason in my opinion. The real question is "What is Cobol V5 creating that needs the Program Object

Re: COBOL v5

At 10:00 -0700 on 01/25/2016, Frank Swarbrick wrote about Re: COBOL v5: The one reason I know of what a PDSE is required is because TEST/DEBUG information is now stored in a DWARF NOLOAD segment, and those are only supported by PDSE (or UNIX directory). So have a compile time switch to put

Re: the Queen of Coding - Adm. Grace Hoper

At 21:01 -0600 on 01/24/2016, Joel C. Ewing wrote about Re: the Queen of Coding - Adm. Grace Hoper: I can't remember the exact way she worded it, but the other memorable bit of wisdom was that she had successfully managed to accomplish so much, despite government and military proclivity for

Re: the Queen of Coding - Adm. Grace Hoper

At 17:53 -0700 on 01/24/2016, Lizette Koehler wrote about the Queen of Coding - Adm. Grace Hoper: Yes ­ ESPN website ­ Video is for Women in Computing in 1940¹s and specifically the Queen of Coding ­ Adm. Grace Hoper. http://espn.go.com/video/clip?id=12205119 16 1Ž2 minutes. Very

Re: Compile error

JES3 does device allocation before the job is allowed to run. For tape drives it grabs the needed number of drives so you do not run into "Waiting for a Drive" issues. It did the same back in the mountable DASD days. I think it also tracks Tape Volumes so you do not run into "I need Volume X"

Re: Compile error

At 08:50 -0800 on 01/22/2016, Skip Robinson wrote about Re: Compile error: There never was a plain old 'JES'. I thought the spooling subsystem in OS/VS1 was called JES. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: Compile error

And then there was Star Wars (AKA: A New Hope [which was added when the film was rereleased as part of the release of The Empire Strikes Back]) which opened with a crawl saying Episode 4". That was just because they were emulating the old serials where each segment was a numbered Chapter with

Re: Tape formats (was: Conversion ...)

At 10:22 -0600 on 01/15/2016, Paul Gilmartin wrote about Tape formats (was: Conversion ...): >In a message dated 1/15/2016 12:20:59 A.M. Central Standard Time,... writes: Weren't those mostly used in automobiles? I remember when a colleague first saw a 3480 cartridge he asked, "Is that

Re: Conversion from Unisys Cobol file definitions to zOS

At 01:02 -0500 on 01/15/2016, Ed Finnell wrote about Re: Conversion from Unisys Cobol file definitions to zOS: It's been years but I got involved in Notis(library) imports that were Ascii 8trks. The first cut was OTPCD=Q, but it was a 'strict ASCII' that didn't convert diacriticals. Think

Re: Conversion from Unisys Cobol file definitions to zOS

At 00:20 -0600 on 01/15/2016, Paul Gilmartin wrote about Re: Conversion from Unisys Cobol file definitions to zOS: On Fri, 15 Jan 2016 00:28:41 -0500, Robert A. Rosenberg wrote: > ... did not support 8-Track tapes. ... Weren't those mostly used in automobiles? I remember when a collea

Re: Conversion from Unisys Cobol file definitions to zOS

At 09:26 -0600 on 01/13/2016, Paul Gilmartin wrote about Re: Conversion from Unisys Cobol file definitions to zOS: Does OPTCD=Q work on all device types? I had got the impression it applied only to tapes. My impression may be wrong but I seem to remember that OPTCD=Q was used ONLY on

Re: RFE to enhance GDGORDER in JCL

At 00:38 -0600 on 01/13/2016, Elardus Engelbrecht wrote about Re: RFE to enhance GDGORDER in JCL: >IOW: //GDG DD DISP=SHR,DSN=GDGBASE,GDGORDER=FIFO when there are 5 generations yields: Could work, but it is not always known that there are indeed 5 generations. Lizette wants the oldest and

Re: RFE to enhance GDGORDER in JCL

I can not see the RFE text to comment but from the description I see nothing about the order of reading the records in the generation but only the order of the generations in the concatenation. IOW: //GDG DD DISP=SHR,DSN=GDGBASE,GDGORDER=FIFO when there are 5 generations yields: //GDG DD

Re: Sort for not there?

At 12:04 -0700 on 01/06/2016, Paul Gilmartin wrote about Sort for not there?: Well, the Pigeonhole Principle guarantees that if the data don't exceed 65,535 lines a suitable value must exist. But how to find it? I might take this to IBM-MAIN; someone is apt to jump in with a DFSORT/ICETOOL

Re: Sort for not there?

At 09:16 -0600 on 01/07/2016, Tom Marchant wrote about Re: Sort for not there?: >We randomly tried every possibility we could think of and none of them worked. Eventually, we created a checklist and systematically used an editor FIND function to locate a working combination. A real PITA and

Re: Sort for not there?

At 09:43 -0800 on 01/07/2016, Ed Jaffe wrote about Re: Sort for not there?: On 1/7/2016 7:16 AM, Tom Marchant wrote: I like Robert Rosenberg's solution: sort the file on the first two columns and look for a suitable gap in the sorted data.Probably a lot quicker than your checklist.

Re: Is there a source for detailed, instruction-level performance info?

At 15:53 -0600 on 12/24/2015, Joel C. Ewing wrote about Re: Is there a source for detailed, instruction-level perfo: As Tom has noted, the most dramatic performance enhancements typically come from a change in strategy or algorithm used. In my experience you get better results by looking for

Re: PTF error clarification

At 08:50 -0500 on 12/23/2015, Kurt Quackenbush wrote about Re: PTF error clarification: Is a return code of 4 more appropriate for PTFs not applied because of error hold? This is an interesting idea, which I'm curious to hear opinions on. If doing a mass APPLY (not using the SELECT

Re: [Bulk] Re: Coupling Facility Structure Re-sizing

At 23:59 +0100 on 12/22/2015, R.S. wrote about Re: [Bulk] Re: Coupling Facility Structure Re-sizing: I have no problems with viewing mu letter (it's much harder to type it), but I can imagine others still may have ones. HARD TO TYPE? On a Mac it is Option-m. On a Windows machine, there is a

Re: [Bulk] Re: Coupling Facility Structure Re-sizing

At 03:58 -0600 on 12/22/2015, Elardus Engelbrecht wrote about Re: [Bulk] Re: Coupling Facility Structure Re-sizing: Vernooij, CP (ITOPT1) - KLM wrote: Yes, u as a replacement of the greek letter mu, used to indicate the micro prefix, where the greek letter cannot be used. Many thanks. Much

Re: Critique my Binder RCF?

At 09:36 -0500 on 12/16/2015, Peter Relson wrote about Re: Critique my Binder RCF?: I suspect that the the effect of having "(P)" on things other than the first is -- the overall module is given the "P" option (so that it will be page-aligned when loaded -- this is a bit in the directory

Re: COBOL Code Gened for MOVE COMP-3 S9(9) to S9(8)

At 17:39 -0400 on 12/13/2015, Clark Morris wrote about Re: COBOL Code Gened for MOVE COMP-3 S9(9) to S9(8): 01A598 D204 5E58 17B3 ZAP 3672(5,5),1971(1) 01A59E 940F 5E58 NI3672(5),X'0F' would be adequate. Clark Morris > That should be ZAP 3672(5,5),1971(1,5)

Re: Inquire intrdr default job class

At 23:28 -0500 on 12/09/2015, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote about Re: Inquire intrdr default job class: In <p06240402d28e2c3bf3c6@[192.168.1.241]>, on 12/09/2015 at 02:22 PM, "Robert A. Rosenberg" <hal9...@panix.com> said: You are focusing too much on the question

Re: Inquire intrdr default job class

At 12:46 -0600 on 12/09/2015, John McKown wrote about Re: Inquire intrdr default job class: On Wed, Dec 9, 2015 at 12:29 PM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) < shmuel+ibm-m...@patriot.net> wrote: In

Re: A List management question

At 00:02 + on 12/10/2015, J O Skip Robinson wrote about A List management question: I may need to change my email address for IBM Main purposes. I know how to turn mail on and off. How do I change the address? SKIP - If you check the mail headers you will find these two headers:

Re: Inquire intrdr default job class

At 19:37 -0500 on 12/08/2015, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote about Re: Inquire intrdr default job class: In , on 12/08/2015 at 03:21 PM, John McKown said: I do not really agree that not

Re: Inquire intrdr default job class

At 12:49 -0500 on 12/09/2015, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote about Re: Inquire intrdr default job class: >Look at the bizarre way CCHHR is dissected to allow more than 54 GB on a DASD volume. Not much more bizzare than on the 2321. The CCHHR for the 2321 was MCCHHR (where M selected the

Re: Mime digests [was: IBM-MAIN Digest [snip]]

At 12:52 -0500 on 12/09/2015, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote about Re: Mime digests [was: IBM-MAIN Digest [snip]]: In <7962980455281460.wa.paulgboulderaim@listserv.ua.edu>, on 12/08/2015 at 06:53 PM, Paul Gilmartin <000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> said: >... but try

Re: Inquire intrdr default job class

At 10:29 -0700 on 12/08/2015, Paul Gilmartin wrote about Re: Inquire intrdr default job class: ISPF EDIT has some effective techniques for serializing updates to PDS members, precluding two programmers' editing the same member simultaneously. Does the ISPF EDIT support take into account that

Re: Inquire intrdr default job class

At 15:21 -0600 on 12/08/2015, John McKown wrote about Re: Inquire intrdr default job class: On Tue, Dec 8, 2015 at 3:05 PM, Paul Gilmartin < 000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: On Tue, 8 Dec 2015 14:30:25 -0500, Robert A. Rosenberg wrote: >At 10:29 -0700 on 1

Re: TCPIP Configuration Help

At 10:47 -0600 on 12/06/2015, Sonny Gupta wrote about Re: TCPIP Configuration Help: Jake, I am unable to find the TCP-L list. Below link gives invalid data. Not sure if the list is still active: http://www2.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?IBMTCP-L I have received messages from the list 2 days

Re: Any clever way to defeat the C compiler's options precedence?

At 20:03 -0600 on 12/01/2015, Wayne Driscoll wrote about Re: Any clever way to defeat the C compiler's options prece: I'll preface this by saying that I haven't coded C/C++ in almost a decade, and via JCL even longer, but if the SYSOPTF can be a concatenation (I don't know, and don't have

Re: Any clever way to defeat the C compiler's options precedence?

At 19:11 -0700 on 11/25/2015, Jack J. Woehr wrote about Re: Any clever way to defeat the C compiler's options prece: > 1. Will make in fact solve this specific problem? Can one readily specify "global" compiler options for most modules and override them for specific modules? Not exactly.

Re: Yeat another hotel cyber attack

At 11:37 -0500 on 11/25/2015, Steve Thompson wrote about Re: Yeat another hotel cyber attack: And because of how easily they are counterfeited by a mainframe, many places will not accept Travelers Cheques these days. I remember a Hawaii 5-0 (original version) that turned on passing real but

Re: Were you at SHARE in Seattle? Watch your credit card statements!

.ibm.com Twitter / Facebook IDs: MartinPacker Blog: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/blogs/MartinPacker From: "Robert A. Rosenberg" <hal9...@panix.com> To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Date: 21/11/2015 16:29 Subject:Re: Were you at SHARE in Seattle

Re: Were you at SHARE in Seattle? Watch your credit card statements!

At 08:42 -0600 on 11/22/2015, Joel C. Ewing wrote about Re: Were you at SHARE in Seattle? Watch your credit card st: The biggest incentive was on merchants to get chip-card-capable readers in place to avoid higher fraud liability, and at least most of the merchants I frequent have complied,

Re: Were you at SHARE in Seattle? Watch your credit card statements!

At 09:04 -0700 on 11/21/2015, Paul Gilmartin wrote about Re: Were you at SHARE in Seattle? Watch your credit card st: On 11/21/2015 08:49 AM, Bob Shannon wrote: Maybe someone should raise a requirement that the SHARE Hotels credit card system should be secure. Seriously Ed? Do you really

Re: SMPE apply excluding certain FMID's?

At 14:35 + on 11/19/2015, Jousma, David wrote about Re: SMPE apply excluding certain FMID's?: Do you really want/need to segregate applying maintenance for the Omegamon suite, or during a maintenance cycle do you simply want to more easily identify the relevant HOLDs just for >Omegamon?

Re: Fastest way to read OLDEST GDG entry

At 08:32 -0600 on 11/18/2015, Tom Marchant wrote about Re: Fastest way to read OLDEST GDG entry: I haven't done it, so I can't verify what the doc says, but Using Data Sets has this to say under the topic Absolute Generation and Version Numbers: You can catalog a new version of a specific

Re: Fastest way to read OLDEST GDG entry

At 12:23 -0600 on 11/17/2015, Paul Gilmartin wrote about Re: Fastest way to read OLDEST GDG entry: What makes "V00" ever Vnn, where N<>0? If you have a DSN called DSN.G0055V00 and create a file called DSN.G0055V01 it will replace the V00 version in the list.

Re: Fastest way to read OLDEST GDG entry

At 07:06 -0700 on 11/17/2015, Lizette Koehler wrote about Re: Fastest way to read OLDEST GDG entry: I have heard the GDG limit in z/OS V2.2 will be higher, so it may not be much of an issue for limit values. Lizette At the current time the limit is 255. Unless you are creating the GDGs

Re: Fastest way to read OLDEST GDG entry

At 22:05 -0600 on 11/17/2015, Joel C. Ewing wrote about Re: Fastest way to read OLDEST GDG entry: After several decades of using MVS I finally ran into a case where I thought GDS/GDG versioning might be useful and used it to create a corrected version of a GDS generation using V01 to make it

Re: How to change SMS

At 13:34 -0400 on 10/30/2015, Bill Ashton wrote about How to change SMS: She is the only user of this Dataclass, and this is only temporary (until end of January). So I would need to know how to add the vols now, and then back them out again in 3 months Adding additional volumes so the file

Re: Releasing Orphan Storage without IPL

At 12:28 -0400 on 10/30/2015, Tony Harminc wrote about Re: Releasing Orphan Storage without IPL: On 30 October 2015 at 07:02, Elardus Engelbrecht wrote: As I have said in March 2013 - "We have a trophy just for such disasters. The new owner keeps it until

Re: RE-IPL for the Daylight to Standard time conversion?

At 23:33 + on 10/26/2015, Chris Hoelscher wrote about Re: RE-IPL for the Daylight to Standard time conversion?: We also shutdown for 1 hour - even oif there were no system issues (and I believe there are not) - our friends in development cannot tell us if there are any apps they rely

Re: Redirect or hide IEBCOPY output when using the TSO RECEIVE Command

At 03:57 -0500 on 10/26/2015, Norbert Friemel wrote about Re: Redirect or hide IEBCOPY output when using the TSO RECE: On Mon, 26 Oct 2015 00:34:13 -0400, Robert A. Rosenberg wrote: At 09:51 -0500 on 10/25/2015, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote about Re: Redirect or hide IEBCOPY output when

Re: Redirect or hide IEBCOPY output when using the TSO RECEIVE Command

At 09:51 -0500 on 10/25/2015, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote about Re: Redirect or hide IEBCOPY output when using the TSO RECE: In <p06240405d2508dc524bc@[192.168.1.242]>, on 10/23/2015 at 09:25 PM, "Robert A. Rosenberg" <hal9...@panix.com> said: WAD is often a miss

Re: Redirect or hide IEBCOPY output when using the TSO RECEIVE Command

At 16:16 -0600 on 10/23/2015, Paul Gilmartin wrote about Re: Redirect or hide IEBCOPY output when using the TSO RECE: On 2015-10-23 16:12, Jerry Whitteridge wrote: You can change the SYSTSPRT DD to anything you need (including to a dataset) Nope. But not to a UNIX file. Nasty ABEND.

Re: 8-byte V-cons

At 18:04 -0700 on 08/21/2015, John Ehrman wrote about 8-byte V-cons: Someone asked recently (Do 64-bit V-CONs exist?) and someone else replied I don't think so, but 64-bit AD-cons with EXTRN do. try a VD-type adcon. (See the HLASM Language Reference.) Regards... John

Re: JES2 SPOOL question

At 14:54 -0500 on 07/21/2015, David Magee wrote about Re: JES2 SPOOL question: Long running STCs that have allocated SPOOL on the mod-9 will be your problem. The $MSPL will not move active stuff. IMO, this is a design flaw in MSPL. Most of the allocated spool space is NOT being updated even

Re: Corrupt PDSE

At 22:43 +0530 on 07/15/2015, Jake Anderson wrote about Re: Corrupt PDSE: Hi The dataset has a member which has all configuration Parms for a running STC This was updated when STC was up and running So This could be a reason for a possible corruption ? Why not move that member to a PDS

Re: HMIGRATE vs. ENQ

At 14:04 -0600 on 07/10/2015, Paul Gilmartin wrote about Re: HMIGRATE vs. ENQ: On 2015-07-10 12:48, Robert A. Rosenberg wrote: Perhaps I missed it, but why not use DISP=(PASS) if you want to keep the DataSet enqueued until the Job end? The system may be smart enough to spot that the file

Re: TSO-only proc (was Re: Product Remove from z/OS)

At 18:08 -0400 on 07/09/2015, Ed Finnell wrote about Re: TSO-only proc (was Re: Product Remove from z/OS): TSSO. It doesn't need anything else. Yes that was the Subsystem TSO I was thinking of. As for needed support, my question was about how you connect to it since VTAM may not be

Re: HMIGRATE vs. ENQ

At 11:34 -0500 on 07/10/2015, Jon Butler wrote about Re: HMIGRATE vs. ENQ: Perhaps I missed it, but why not use DISP=(PASS) if you want to keep the DataSet enqueued until the Job end? The system may be smart enough to spot that the file is not received by a later step (ie: Ignore the

Re: TSO-only proc (was Re: Product Remove from z/OS)

AS an alternative to the Stand-Alone TSO Proc, have a vague memory from the CBT Tape of a Stand-Along Subsystem that would provide you with TSO like support for cases like this. I do not remember what other support needs to be running to access the Subsystem. At 11:37 -0400 on 07/07/2015,

Re: IDCAMS LISTCAT LEVEL and z/OS 2.1

At 11:31 -0700 on 07/06/2015, Lizette Koehler wrote about Re: IDCAMS LISTCAT LEVEL and z/OS 2.1: If so, have you tried A.B.C(0) in a listing function? This may return a false negative/result. Since the intent is to check for the existence of a GDG Base, if the base exists but is empty (ie:

Re: Leap Second today!

At 16:24 -0500 on 07/03/2015, Paul Gilmartin wrote about Re: Leap Second today!: Actually, you could have known that for 4 months, ever since the IERS announced the leap second. (Less the time it takes for a PTF to be created, distributed, and installed.) Since the leap second can only

Re: Leap Second today!

At 18:07 -0500 on 07/03/2015, Paul Gilmartin wrote about Re: Leap Second today!: On 2011-12-29 24:00:00, Independent Samoa advanced its clocks by 24 hours, to 2011-12031 00:00:00. There was no December 30. This was announced well in advance, and published in advance in the IANA database. It

Re: How does one definitively recognize a temp dataset by name?

At 14:25 -0700 on 07/02/2015, Charles Mills wrote about Re: How does one definitively recognize a temp dataset by n: Thanks. I did not have a convenient way to do yyddd but I did at least change it to SYS%.T%%.RA000.** Yes, it will get a false positive on

Re: Leap Second today!

At 11:40 + on 07/01/2015, Vernooij, CP (ITOPT1) - KLM wrote about Re: Leap Second today!: One of the particular appearances of the problem was, that the software could not cope with the 60th second presented by time servers in the last minute of the day. These program are IMO BAD

Re: TSO XMIT NOTIFY -- Part II

At 12:33 -0500 on 06/18/2015, Tom Marchant wrote about Re: TSO XMIT NOTIFY -- Part II: In JES2 z/OS V1R7, exit 13 has been deleted because the existing notify message and associated exit receive control too early in SYSOUT data set receive processing. When a SYSOUT data set is received over

Re: OT STCK question

At 06:59 -0500 on 06/18/2015, Tom Marchant wrote about Re: OT STCK question: On Wed, 17 Jun 2015 20:03:01 -0400, Robert A. Rosenberg wrote: The problem is that there is no gender neutral/un-specified singular. We have it, but we don't like to refer to people as it. In many languages every

Re: OT STCK question

At 22:23 + on 06/17/2015, J O Skip Robinson wrote about Re: OT STCK question: The he/she/they conundrum in English is just another flavor of the same problem. Once we commit to the sex of a pronoun, it's hard to use it for the opposite gender, even to the point where we give into number

Re: RPG for the 360/20

At 10:13 -0500 on 06/16/2015, Tony's Outlook via Mozilla wrote about Re: RPG for the 360/20: Oh it definitely existed, this being my first programming language, and sorely missed. As an intellectual exercise I once wrote a program to convert/interpret incoming card data that was mistakenly

Re: STCK question

At 10:49 -0500 on 06/15/2015, Paul Gilmartin wrote about Re: STCK question: I'll grant that I hijacked the topic by introducing the legal consequences of calendar dates. But well under a year is irrelevant. Adding a mere 60 seconds to 2008-12-31 23:59:00 should give a date in 2008, not in

Re: Address location

At 04:51 -0500 on 06/14/2015, Elardus Engelbrecht wrote about Re: Address location: michelbutz wrote: CSMLOC only takes one of those as the first parameters I would have to know whether it is SQA LSQA PVT. Or CSA before Binyamin Dissen [he really does know his stuff!] gave you a good

Re: STCK question

At 17:26 -0700 on 06/11/2015, Lizette Koehler wrote about Re: STCK question: And from another sample I found searching on EDIT MASK ASSEMBLER INSTRUCTION To simplify maintenance of the program, I like to document the print masks by showing a character representation of the hex fields used in

Re: STCK question

At 10:03 -0500 on 06/12/2015, Mike Schwab wrote about Re: STCK question: I can calculate the date difference by hand (in C based off of the character representation of the date) of course. Unless someone knows of a nifty method to get the elapsed number of days from the data that I have?

Re: OT STCK question

At 11:19 -0500 on 06/11/2015, Paul Gilmartin wrote about Re: OT STCK question: On Thu, 11 Jun 2015 10:47:39 -0500, Mike Schwab wrote: I use they all the time as the genderless pronoun. A supervisor suggested he, I changed it to (s)he. Of course, like all pronouns, it should assimilate its

Re: STCK question

At 05:37 -0500 on 06/12/2015, Elardus Engelbrecht wrote about Re: STCK question: Robert A. Rosenberg wrote: Another method is to use an * Comment to show the mapping. * B Z Z 9 . 9 9 - MASK5 DCX'402021204B202060'BZZ9.99- I hate comments - they're

Re: STCK question

At 08:47 -0500 on 06/12/2015, Elardus Engelbrecht wrote about Re: STCK question: Another very kind person told me of this very clever method of commenting, ie. you make unreadable things sort of readable: Use these equates in Assembler: b equ x'40' z equ x'20' n equ x'21' d equ c'.'

Re: STCK question

At 09:39 -0500 on 06/12/2015, Janet Graff wrote about Re: STCK question: I can calculate the date difference by hand (in C based off of the character representation of the date) of course. Unless someone knows of a nifty method to get the elapsed number of days from the data that I have? I

Re: STCK question

At 01:14 -0400 on 06/11/2015, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote about Re: STCK question: And assuming that Janet is a he. Or that you accept the gender neutral pronoun he, which has been around for centuries. I've seen s/he used to cover both genders.

Re: DFSORT - How to select last 8 bytes in variable length records

At 22:28 +0900 on 06/07/2015, Minoru Massaki wrote about DFSORT - How to select last 8 bytes in variable length reco: Hello There is a input file of variable length records. I want to insert the last 8 bytes of a record to front of the record as following sample. Input file:

Re: DFSORT - How to select last 8 bytes in variable length records

At 09:46 -0500 on 06/07/2015, Paul Gilmartin wrote about Re: DFSORT - How to select last 8 bytes in variable length : On Sun, 7 Jun 2015 22:28:01 +0900, Minoru Massaki wrote: Hello There is a input file of variable length records. I want to insert the last 8 bytes of a record to front of

Re: Possible to LINK to other program of same name as one in storage?

Peter - Will my IDENTIFY trick (to assign an alias) allow the DELETE to select the copy that the IDENTIFY points to? At 18:36 -0400 on 05/09/2015, Peter Relson wrote about Re: Possible to LINK to other program of same name as one i: Non-reentrancy can be the answer. Gil asked a great

Re: Possible to LINK to other program of same name as one in storage?

At 11:47 -0700 on 05/08/2015, Charles Mills wrote about Possible to LINK to other program of same name as one in st: Am I correct in my impression that it is basically impossible to LINK to a copy of a program from a specific library if a program of that name is already in storage? The

Re: IEFBR14 question

At 15:59 +0200 on 05/05/2015, R.S. wrote about Re: IEFBR14 question: W dniu 2015-05-05 o 15:33, John Eells pisze: [...] The recurring confusion about what IEFBR14 itself actually does (clear GPR15 and return) and what people seem to think it does from the odd post here and their (not yours)

Re: IEFBR14 question

A bit of history - Originally (back in the OS/360 days) IEFBR14 was ONLY a BR 14. One of the first APARs (at least an early one) was to add the SR 15,15 to set the return code to 0. At 10:29 -0700 on 05/04/2015, Lizette Koehler wrote about Re: IEFBR14 question: x-charset UTF-8Well - I will

Re: ENQ for the life of the job

At 06:50 -0500 on 04/21/2015, John McKown wrote about Re: ENQ for the life of the job: ÐThe initiator (in general terms) is what reads the Ðparsed JCL and creates the SWA control blocks which represent the job. This code then knows the DSNs in the job and issues a single ENQ for _all_ of them

Re: ENQ for the life of the job

At 10:49 -0500 on 04/21/2015, Paul Gilmartin wrote about Re: ENQ for the life of the job: On Tue, 21 Apr 2015 11:20:24 -0400, Robert A. Rosenberg wrote: ... a IMO major design flaw in the ENQ process the Initiator can be forced to hold an ENQ for subsequent steps where it is no longer

Re: dynamic allocation for tape using TSO in batch

At 12:40 -0500 on 04/01/2015, Larre Shiller wrote about dynamic allocation for tape using TSO in batch: We have a production batch job that executes DB2 and a COBOL program using TSO in batch (IKJEFT1A). The COBOL program dynamically allocates DASD data sets as input using PUTENV and

Re: migrating compiler versions

At 00:21 +0200 on 04/02/2015, Bernd Oppolzer wrote about Re: migrating compiler versions: Hello Frank, cited from earlier post: Whereas in previous versions of ECOBOL a minimum and maximum record length did not have to be specified when defining a variable file, v5.1 will return a file

Re: APF-authorized calling non-authorized

At 11:37 -0700 on 03/15/2015, Charles Mills wrote about Re: APF-authorized calling non-authorized: Okay. I hear you. Here is the business problem. I need to develop program X. It must run APF-authorized to do one of the things it needs to do. I have written APF-authorized programs before and

Re: Need assembler trick to quickly get second and third DS qualifiers

At 16:09 -0400 on 03/13/2015, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote about Re: Need assembler trick to quickly get second and third DS: I imagine that TRT was invented back in the day because so many routines needed to parse on delimiters. It's kind of clunky if you're only searching for one

Re: JCL QUESTION : CODING DESTINATION PARM

At 06:12 -0800 on 03/03/2015, esmie moo wrote about JCL QUESTION : CODING DESTINATION PARM: Good Morning Gentle Readers, I am having a problem trying to send the output from one LPAR to another LPAR's remote printer. Here is my JCL : /*  

Re: Strange LE / link list behaviour

At 09:07 -0800 on 02/27/2015, Sri h Kolusu wrote about Re: Strange LE / link list behaviour: Ken, My guess would be that your Linklist might have LE modules from an older release where as your JOBLIB/STEPLIB libraries might have the latest LE modules. Something similar to this scenario.

Re: O/T What ‘The Imitation Game’ didn’t tell y ou about Turing’s greatest triumph - The Washington Post

At 10:14 -0600 on 02/23/2015, Joel Ewing wrote about Re: O/T What ŒThe Imitation Game¹ didn¹t tell you abo: In the original Email that I received from Ed the Email source text (as opposed to the way my Email client renders it) shows the presence of a hex-encoded blank (= 2 0) followed by a CR

Re: O/T What ŒThe Imitation Game¹ didn¹t tell you about Turing¹s greatest triumph - The Washington Post

At 11:59 -0600 on 02/23/2015, Paul Gilmartin wrote about Re: O/T What ŒThe Imitation Game¹ didn¹t tell you abo: On Mon, 23 Feb 2015 10:14:44 -0600, Joel Ewing wrote: In the original Email that I received from Ed the Email source text (as opposed to the way my Email client renders it) shows

Re: O/T What ŒThe Imitation Game¹ didn¹t tell you about Turing¹s greatest triumph - The Washington Post

At 08:56 -0600 on 02/22/2015, Paul Gilmartin wrote about Re: O/T What ŒThe Imitation Game¹ didn¹t tell you abo: On Sat, 21 Feb 2015 23:34:42 -0600, Ed Gould wrote: http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/what-imitation-

Re: FB to VB PDS

At 23:14 -0600 on 02/13/2015, Ed Gould wrote about Re: FB to VB PDS: 40+ years ago I ran into something like this. Someone thought they  could save tape by using VBS so they thought all they had to do was essentially change the JCL. I am assuming that VB was changed to VBS in the JCL. Other

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