Re: SET PROG=xx question - sanity check

2017-07-05 Thread Tom Marchant
On Wed, 5 Jul 2017 14:36:22 +, william janulin wrote: >Tom, >  How would it know which occurrence to delete when two of them are out there? Right. That's why you issued the DELETE first. And it's another difficulty with the suggestion that Elardus made.

Re: SET PROG=xx question - sanity check

2017-07-05 Thread Tom Marchant
100%... Why? That way you have an active LNKLST set that includes the same data set twice. -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Output description of TSO TEST list PSW command

2017-06-22 Thread Tom Marchant
On Thu, 22 Jun 2017 12:53:31 -0400, David Cole wrote: >All that is true; nevertheless, it was the glaring deficiencies of TEST >TEST that exasperated me into declaring, "I can do better!" > >And I have. Indeed you have. Thank

Re: VSAM file as GDS

2017-06-22 Thread Tom Marchant
ntaining the GDG. As such, it is incompatible with SMS, and it cannot be used with SMS-managed data sets. LIKE and its cousins are the recommended way to do it with SMS. -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff

Re: common storage usage question

2017-06-20 Thread Tom Marchant
e, remember that you can only change CSA+SQA in increments of 1MB. If you reduce CSA+SQA by 1MB, how much room does that leave you for CSA/SQA growth? What if you reduce it by 2MB? Is that even possible? -- Tom Marchant -- Fo

Re: PDSE dataset rename issue

2017-06-20 Thread Tom Marchant
e has done everything that he needs to do to get it to work, but it didn't. Apparently more precision is needed. -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: PDSE dataset rename issue

2017-06-19 Thread Tom Marchant
urrently active LNKLST set, and create a new one containing a new SYS1.SIEKLNKE? He doesn't say. -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: RFE? xlc compile option for C integers to be "Intel compat" or Little-Endian

2017-06-19 Thread Tom Marchant
the Status Register. When the bit is set, the operation acts upon two decimal digits in each byte. This was an improvement over the use of Decimal Adjust that was used on the 8080, 8085, z80, and 6800 processors to enable decimal arithmeti

Re: APF authorization and AC(00)

2017-06-09 Thread Tom Marchant
loaded into key zero strorage that is not fetch protected. As a result, a problem program running in key 8 will S0C4 if it tries to modify it. REFRPROT extends this to programs that are not loaded from an APF authorized library. -- Tom Marchant -

Re: Rexx SORT (was: ... Job Scheduler ... )

2017-06-09 Thread Tom Marchant
On Thu, 8 Jun 2017 07:52:32 -0500, Edward Gould wrote: >TSO is dead TSO is dead, Long live TSO! -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu w

Re: EXTERNAL: Re: DR Failover

2017-06-02 Thread Tom Marchant
son things went the the way they did was that DR planning was their highest priority, second only to everything else. -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to li

Re: HSM Backup to Disk

2017-05-30 Thread Tom Marchant
t;do something". I agree. I wouldn't want to trust that my data was safe in the fog. -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: you can request improvements to IBM Knowledge Center using the RFE process now

2017-05-30 Thread Tom Marchant
Please stop. We know that the internet isn't 100% reliable. The IBM servers are not nearly as reliable as the internet, and your repeated harping on the unreliability of the internet is a diversionary tactic. -- Tom Marchant ---

Re: Setting of LNKAUTH available to a program?

2017-05-25 Thread Tom Marchant
On Thu, 25 May 2017 08:19:33 -0700, Charles Mills wrote: >I did a >BookManager search on LNKAUTH (on the last BookManager volumes, V1R13) and >it did not find this. I was surprised at that, so I did that search on the MVS V1R13 bookshelf and I found it. -- Tom

Re: you can request improvements to IBM Knowledge Center using the RFE process now

2017-05-24 Thread Tom Marchant
ttp://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/Shelves/all13be9 -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: SLIP with ACTION=NOSUP

2017-05-24 Thread Tom Marchant
ame. How about changing ADYSETxx to not suppress SYSMDUMP? -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: SDB (system determined Blksize)

2017-05-22 Thread Tom Marchant
l tracks represented by those sectors. There are still manuals for the RVA: https://m.ibm.com/https/publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/handheld/Connected/Shelves/CP6BKS03 -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / s

Re: Mischaracterized HOLDDATA

2017-05-18 Thread Tom Marchant
On Thu, 18 May 2017 20:26:03 +, Pommier, Rex wrote: >I would prefer it be an action hold rather than a doc hold in this case. It isn't either/or. Sometimes it is appropriate to have both a DOC and an ACTION hold. -- Tom

Re: Mischaracterized HOLDDATA

2017-05-18 Thread Tom Marchant
old. That could be an appropriate thing to do. -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: ATTACH with RSAPF=YES

2017-05-18 Thread Tom Marchant
It is very difficult to demonstrate that you have not created an integrity exposure. -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: ATTACH with RSAPF=YES

2017-05-18 Thread Tom Marchant
ddress space is still authorized. The system can't tell when control passes between program X and program Y. This simplified version of what happens is basic APF authorization stuff. I would expect that anyone who wants to do what you propose would have a thorough understanding of this. -- T

Re: Long execution & high CPU usage due to decimal overflow (PGM 00A) and large system trace tables

2017-05-17 Thread Tom Marchant
ing the use of DFP would not solve the problem that you experienced. -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Long execution & high CPU usage due to decimal overflow (PGM 00A) and large system trace tables

2017-05-17 Thread Tom Marchant
ating-point operations. -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Re. Whacking a Job, or Getting rid of an Address Space

2017-05-16 Thread Tom Marchant
doctor, but a boy scout who may have learned some rudimentary first aid. And sometimes that thing that he thought was a scalpel is really a chain saw. -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive ac

Re: How to find Cobol (and C) Working Storage variables in an SVCDUMP

2017-05-12 Thread Tom Marchant
ry? You are going to store 16 registers (64 bytes) at offset 12 in a 72-byte save area? What is in the word that you will clobber? -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lis

Re: How to find Cobol (and C) Working Storage variables in an SVCDUMP

2017-05-11 Thread Tom Marchant
was on entry to the >procedure. > >(I mention this because with COBOL V5/6, GPR12 actually is often reused inside >COBOL programs.) I think you both mean CEECAA, the Common Anchor Area. -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAI

Re: Interesting article in IBM System Magazine

2017-05-11 Thread Tom Marchant
1)%20Live%20Send&utm_content=Article%20Title%201&spMailingID=10976090&spUserID=MTMzMzgyMTE0MjcxS0&spJobID=1160693124&spReportId=MTE2MDY5MzEyNAS2> > Usually, a URL such as this can be truncated, deleting the "?" and everything that follows. http://ibmsystem

Re: AW: Re: job output into dataset

2017-05-10 Thread Tom Marchant
ated before your step starts. Look up JESLOG=SPIN. -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: job output into dataset

2017-05-09 Thread Tom Marchant
ay of JCL to be processed so that the last job would be processed immediately. I just submitted such a job and the contents of JESJCLIN ends with the last statement before the null JCL statement. -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM

Re: AW: Re: job output into dataset

2017-05-09 Thread Tom Marchant
On Tue, 9 May 2017 10:03:04 -0500, Paul Gilmartin wrote: >On Tue, 9 May 2017 09:54:22 -0500, Tom Marchant wrote: > >>There is a good reason it looks like a comment. >>It allows JCL to be coded that contains Job Entry Control Language statements >>for both JES2 and JES3,

Re: AW: Re: job output into dataset

2017-05-09 Thread Tom Marchant
a good reason it looks like a comment. It allows JCL to be coded that contains Job Entry Control Language statements for both JES2 and JES3, so that it can be run in either environment. -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscr

Re: AW: Re: job output into dataset

2017-05-09 Thread Tom Marchant
On Tue, 9 May 2017 16:01:33 +0300, venkat kulkarni wrote: >and also after spin, all these messages should be no longer exist in this >imsproc. SPIN does not delete messages. It makes them available for print or cancel. -- Tom Ma

Re: Adventures in JCL: PROCs, symbols and instream data

2017-05-08 Thread Tom Marchant
On Fri, 5 May 2017 09:04:31 +1000, Andrew Rowley wrote: >On 4/05/2017 10:11 PM, Tom Marchant wrote: >> >> Did they say why it isn't supposed to work? >> Is there an undocumented restriction? >I am sure it *is* supposed to work, but it's easier to close a problem

Re: Adventures in JCL: PROCs, symbols and instream data

2017-05-04 Thread Tom Marchant
On Thu, 4 May 2017 10:40:46 +1000, Andrew Rowley wrote: >On 27/04/2017 10:54 PM, Tom Marchant wrote: >> Glad you got it to work, but it should have worked the way you had it. >> I hope you will open a Service Request to get it fixed. >I had forgotten how frustrating it is to ope

Re: SFTP From Linux to z/OS

2017-05-02 Thread Tom Marchant
ormal and abnormal termination disposition. Thus, you can omit the DISP parameter for a data set that is created and deleted during a step. -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, s

Re: Storage Creep

2017-05-02 Thread Tom Marchant
ck to caller. APF authorized Cobol and LE. -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: VARY command in a batch job

2017-04-28 Thread Tom Marchant
converted. If you want the command to be issued at a time relative to other steps in the job, you'll need a program to submit the command. If you submit your test with TYPRUN=HOLD, does the command get executed? -- Tom Marchant

Re: Adventures in JCL: PROCs, symbols and instream data

2017-04-27 Thread Tom Marchant
On Thu, 27 Apr 2017 16:36:12 +1000, Andrew Rowley wrote: >On 27/04/2017 12:46 AM, Tom Marchant wrote: >> or SET MESSAGE=&MESSAGE and change the references to &SYM to &MESSAGE. > >SET MESSAGE=&MESSAGE seems to be the fix... > >This works for all combinations

Re: Adventures in JCL: PROCs, symbols and instream data

2017-04-26 Thread Tom Marchant
>outside of the proc. It shouldn't be necessary to do that. -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Adventures in JCL: PROCs, symbols and instream data

2017-04-26 Thread Tom Marchant
you have OA47958 applied? >//TEST PROC MESSAGE='''Hello World''' >//SYMBOLS EXPORT SYMLIST=(SYM) >// SET SYM=&MESSAGE What happens if you use EXPORT SYMLIST=* or SET MESSAGE=&MESSAGE and change the references to &SYM to &MESSAGE. If

Re: program-name is unresolved/uncallable

2017-04-26 Thread Tom Marchant
On Tue, 25 Apr 2017 20:35:20 +0100, David W Noon wrote: >On Tue, 25 Apr 2017 14:12:20 -0500, Tom Marchant >(000a2a8c2020-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu) wrote about "Re: >program-name is unresolved/uncallable" (in ><7268174283864055.wa.m42tomibmmainyahoo@listserv.

Re: program-name is unresolved/uncallable

2017-04-25 Thread Tom Marchant
#x27;d go even further and say that such a message should not be written to the console. It is not something that an operator should be expected to deal with. -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive acces

Re: LINKLIST and Steplib

2017-04-21 Thread Tom Marchant
e copies of the load modules is called the job pack area. Any program loaded by a particular task is also represented within that task's load list. -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access in

Re: unCATALOG after a RENAME

2017-04-21 Thread Tom Marchant
g that it is not managed and non-SMS rules apply. >What if I specify VOL=SER because the catalog is momentarily unavailable >but I'm desperate to save the data? As above, depends on the STORCLAS ACS routine. Why would the catalog be "momentarily una

Re: Where has the JES2-L list gone to?

2017-04-18 Thread Tom Marchant
CHIVES contains messages from 1986-2004. -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: unCATALOG after a RENAME (rename a non-VSAM file.)

2017-04-18 Thread Tom Marchant
an act-of-discovery will probably get me something that >"mostly works", > one is not assured it would be guaranteed to work into the future, etc... You could build an ALTER ... NEWNAME control card and attach IDCAMS. Or yo

Re: z/OS with ASCII and Non-ASCII input

2017-04-13 Thread Tom Marchant
rcuit design and implementation and it seems to me to be a fairly straightforward thing to implement purely in hardware. -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Paging subsystems in the era of bigass memory

2017-04-12 Thread Tom Marchant
On Wed, 12 Apr 2017 12:44:32 -0400, Tony Harminc wrote: >On 12 April 2017 at 10:16, Tom Marchant < >000a2a8c2020-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: >[DB2] > >> It still makes no sense to me. It certainly can't read the record into the >> same page, becau

Re: Paging subsystems in the era of bigass memory

2017-04-12 Thread Tom Marchant
On Wed, 12 Apr 2017 13:08:32 +, Vernooij, Kees wrote: > >> -Original Message- >> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On >> Behalf Of Tom Marchant >> Sent: 12 April, 2017 15:03 >> To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU >>

Re: Paging subsystems in the era of bigass memory

2017-04-12 Thread Tom Marchant
d in the buffer, but instead reads it into a different page? That makes no sense to me. -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Paging subsystems in the era of bigass memory

2017-04-12 Thread Tom Marchant
cycles is such a reclaim worth? -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: unCATALOG after a RENAME

2017-04-12 Thread Tom Marchant
t either with SVC 99 or the Catalog Search Interface. CSI can also give you the volume list. -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: CPU Timerons/Seconds vs Wall-clock Time

2017-04-10 Thread Tom Marchant
le, if you have an application that attaches 4 additional tasks and each of the 5 tasks uses 5 seconds of CPU during the 10 seconds elapsed time, it would use a total of 25 seconds of CPU time. -- Tom Marchant -- For IB

Re: 360 announce day

2017-04-10 Thread Tom Marchant
04.ibm.com/servers/resourcelink/lib03060.nsf/pages/lsprindex?OpenDocument -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Ordering IBM service without software excel

2017-04-07 Thread Tom Marchant
On Fri, 7 Apr 2017 10:55:17 -0500, Avram Friedman wrote: >(From about PUT1106 to date) What release are you running? I ask because z/OS 1.13 was GA in September, 2011 and you seem to be looking for maintenance that goes back farther than that. -- Tom March

Re: 360 announce day

2017-04-07 Thread Tom Marchant
On Fri, 7 Apr 2017 09:15:49 -0700, Anne & Lynn Wheeler wrote: >360 announce day >http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/mainframe/mainframe_PR360.html "IBM Board Chairman Thomas J. Watson Jr. called the event the most important product announcement in the company'

Re: Unexplained delays in WLM managed jobclasses

2017-04-06 Thread Tom Marchant
On Thu, 6 Apr 2017 12:08:25 +, Vernooij, Kees wrote: >So the number of running job is fully determined by WLM and I am trying to >find out why WLM does not start more initiators. Not quite. It can also be limited by JOBCLASS XEQCount and XEQMEMBER -- Tom Ma

Re: Copy / Save screen text function in all TN3270 emulators?

2017-04-05 Thread Tom Marchant
On Wed, 5 Apr 2017 11:42:51 -0400, Charles Mills wrote: >Tom Brennan Vista can do the copy but I do not know of save to file. There is "Save to disk" and "Save to disk ask" on the file menu. "ask" seems to default to a .txt file. I&#x

Re: QSAM/VSAM buffers above the 4G bar?

2017-03-31 Thread Tom Marchant
th that the bar has a "thickness" of 2 GiB seems to stem from presentations that were made to describe the early restriction to VSM that prevented the allocation of storage from 2 GiB to 4 Gib. It is no longer useful to think of it th

Re: 64 bit execution above the bar

2017-03-29 Thread Tom Marchant
On Wed, 29 Mar 2017 14:08:50 -0500, Tom Marchant wrote: >On Wed, 29 Mar 2017 13:58:34 -0400, Steve Smith wrote: > >>It was, but Binyamin has a good point. I didn't consider that FLIH would >>be invoked in real mode, so the hypothetical data-space code could >>t

Re: 64 bit execution above the bar

2017-03-29 Thread Tom Marchant
n't have an SVC New PSW at location 1C0. Nor does it have any of the other 5 New PSWs. -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: 64 bit execution above the bar

2017-03-29 Thread Tom Marchant
milarly, all references to the real page identified by the prefix register and the following page are transformed to absolute pages 0 and 1. -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: 64 bit execution above the bar

2017-03-29 Thread Tom Marchant
lly exploiting the architecture. -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: AW: How does ABO report its outcome? (was: Migrating Cobol)

2017-03-29 Thread Tom Marchant
ou to analyze abends in your code. The information is available for you to analyze the dump yourself. This is the same as without ABO. -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send emai

Re: SMP/E Tutorial

2017-03-29 Thread Tom Marchant
rent commands. These are documented in the Commands manual. There is a short tutorial (about 90 pages) in the ABCs of z/OS System Programming Volume 2. http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg246982.html -- Tom Marchant -- For I

Re: 64 bit execution above the bar

2017-03-28 Thread Tom Marchant
ricted by (some) software? I could be wrong, but I don't think that the hardware cares about data spaces. A data space is an address space that contains no operating system information, including Nucleus, LPA, CSA, and SQA. -- Tom Marchant -

Re: 64 bit execution above the bar

2017-03-28 Thread Tom Marchant
dress. In order to support execution above the bar, these have to be changed. My view is that these are being addressed gradually, and I suspect that eventually, z/OS will allow full support for RMODE 64 programs. -- Tom Marchant

Re: GREAT presentation on the history of the mainframe

2017-03-23 Thread Tom Marchant
have a DOS? -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Can SMPPTS datasets be consolidated?

2017-03-17 Thread Tom Marchant
On Fri, 17 Mar 2017 13:37:04 -0400, Kurt Quackenbush wrote: >On 3/17/2017 12:46 PM, Tom Marchant wrote: >> >> I don't think you can open a PDS concatenation for output. >> I may be wrong, and I didn't look it up. > >That certainly was true back in 2000 when

Re: ComputerWorld Says: Cobol plays major role in U.S. government breaches

2017-03-17 Thread Tom Marchant
On Fri, 17 Mar 2017 09:41:20 +, Mark Regan wrote: >ComputerWorld is reporting "Cobol plays major role in U.S. government >breaches" > >http://www.computerworld.com/article/3181809/government-it/cobol-plays-major-role-in-us-government-breaches.html It is BS. https://oversight.house.gov/wp-con

Re: Can SMPPTS datasets be consolidated?

2017-03-17 Thread Tom Marchant
On Fri, 17 Mar 2017 16:32:56 +, Jesse 1 Robinson wrote: >Could SMPPTS be defined as an actual concatenation of libraries? I don't think you can open a PDS concatenation for output. I may be wrong, and I didn't look it up. --

Re: "embedded" ISPF panels/message/etc

2017-03-14 Thread Tom Marchant
re asking about, but you can also embed ReXX in your ISPF panels. -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: IBM Enterprise COBOL for z/OS, V6.1 supports the continuous delivery model for new features

2017-03-13 Thread Tom Marchant
On Mon, 13 Mar 2017 15:29:30 -0400, Tony Harminc wrote: >On 13 March 2017 at 15:10, Tom Marchant ><000a2a8c2020-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: >> >> There isn't much that these stubs can do to figure out what PC to >> issue without using any registers

Re: IBM Enterprise COBOL for z/OS, V6.1 supports the continuous delivery model for new features

2017-03-13 Thread Tom Marchant
ice stub that is being called." In any case, R14 is the return address. That is standard linkage, not XPLINK. -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: IBM Enterprise COBOL for z/OS, V6.1 supports the continuous delivery model for new features

2017-03-13 Thread Tom Marchant
ed by those services. If those services expect the address of a save area in R13, then it must be provided by its callers. That doesn't preclude them from having an alternate entry point that uses some other linkage convention, but it would surprise me if they did. -- Tom Marchant >-

Re: IBM Enterprise COBOL for z/OS, V6.1 supports the continuous delivery model for new features

2017-03-13 Thread Tom Marchant
7;t understand why they don't use F4SA/F5SA, as documented in the Assembler Services Guide. I hope that they reconsider. -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: IBM Enterprise COBOL for z/OS, V6.1 supports the continuous delivery model for new features

2017-03-13 Thread Tom Marchant
On Mon, 13 Mar 2017 10:00:41 -0500, John McKown wrote: >On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 9:37 AM, Tom Marchant < >000a2a8c2020-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > >> Every time an XPLINK program issues a GET or PUT, it has to make that >> transition. >> > >

Re: IBM Enterprise COBOL for z/OS, V6.1 supports the continuous delivery model for new features

2017-03-13 Thread Tom Marchant
her. Every time an XPLINK program issues a GET or PUT, it has to make that transition. -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO

Re: DSN=&&TEMP,DISP=(,DELETE) vs DSN=HLQ.MLQ.LLQ,DISP=(,DELETE)

2017-03-10 Thread Tom Marchant
open output write a bunch of records close open input read the records close free -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: 3270 emulator display/translation oddity with windows 10

2017-03-10 Thread Tom Marchant
nfigure it the way I like it. Then I tried Tom Brennan's Vista 3270, and I found it so much better (for me) that I paid for the license. So, while it is cheaper, that is certainly not the reason I use it. -- Tom Marchant

Re: DSN=&&TEMP,DISP=(,DELETE) vs DSN=HLQ.MLQ.LLQ,DISP=(,DELETE)

2017-03-10 Thread Tom Marchant
d by DISP=(OLD,DELETE) in a later step? >I wanted to direct them to VIO, but have >been unsuccessful IMO VIO doesn't provide nearly as much benefit as it once did. -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / sign

Re: JES2 Spool Volume size

2017-03-10 Thread Tom Marchant
tracks." That's considerably less than 1 TB. Perhaps that figure is old and a higher limit is documented elsewhere. -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists.

Re: curious: why S/360 & decendants are "big endian".

2017-03-08 Thread Tom Marchant
in/CLASSES/EEC272/S2005/Papers/IBM360-Amdahl_april64.pdf One of the reasons for using decimal arithmetic for commercial programs is that binary cannot precisely represent 1/10, just as decimal cannot accurately represent 1/3. If you divide 1

Re: curious: why S/360 & decendants are "big endian".

2017-03-08 Thread Tom Marchant
ate carry. CLC goes left to right because it can stop as soon as it finds a mismatch and recognize which is greater. If all you wanted to check for was that the two are equal, you could go either way, but that's not as useful. --

Re: curious: why S/360 & decendants are "big endian".

2017-03-08 Thread Tom Marchant
On Wed, 8 Mar 2017 09:31:53 -0800, Charles Mills wrote: >an 8-bit processor could do 32-bit arithmetic by nibbling off one byte of it >at a time. ITYM "had to" rather than "could". -- Tom Marchant ---

Re: Which C library functions imply dub?

2017-03-08 Thread Tom Marchant
On Wed, 8 Mar 2017 13:15:39 +, David Griffiths1 wrote: >By definition Metal C calls don't >require access to the unix kernel. Really? I thought that "by definition" Metal C doesn't require LE. -- Tom Marchant

Re: AW: Re: IBM KC - How to search *within* a book? And where are the PDFs

2017-03-02 Thread Tom Marchant
it, but I don't see the like button. -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: OMVS Automount Processing

2017-03-02 Thread Tom Marchant
rom the z/OS Unix System Services Command Reference, filesystem The name of the file system to mount. This argument is case-sensitive. For the HFS file system, this argument must be specified in uppercase. -- Tom Marchant --

Re: OMVS Automount Processing

2017-03-02 Thread Tom Marchant
On Thu, 2 Mar 2017 07:07:59 -0600, Tom Marchant wrote: >On Wed, 1 Mar 2017 20:21:27 -0500, John P. Baker wrote: > >>In other words, do "uc_name" and "asis_name" refer to the directory >>qualifier immediately subordinate to the directory specified in >>

Re: OMVS Automount Processing

2017-03-02 Thread Tom Marchant
ectory >qualifier immediately subordinate to the directory specified in >"/etc/auto.master" which is being referenced by the userid? No, is needed so that the DSNAME of the filesystem will be upper case. If you want the mount point to be /ho

Re: SMS Routines help

2017-02-28 Thread Tom Marchant
the STORCLAS ACS routine to set STORCLAS to null, and the data sets would be non-managed. See the Implementing System-Managed Storage manual. -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send em

Re: JCL History (was: ... PARMDD ... )

2017-02-28 Thread Tom Marchant
at agrees with the description of Cataloged procedures in the 1967 manual. -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Question about PARMDD

2017-02-28 Thread Tom Marchant
C28-6539-4_OS_JCL_Mar67.pdf -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Unix System Services Automount - why?

2017-02-24 Thread Tom Marchant
antages of doing it that way. 1. I didn't have to worry about making sure that the correct filesystem was mounted at /service. In fact, I didn't even have to think about it. 2. Different people could run APPLY jobs to their zone witho

Re: Fujitsu Mainframe Vs IBM mainframe

2017-02-24 Thread Tom Marchant
ite differently. Fujitsu America is now headquartered at the old Amdahl headquarters at 1250 E. Arques in Sunnyvale, CA. And I found this interesting article from 1981: http://www.nytimes.com/1981/06/30/business/compuetrs-here-comes-fujitsu.html -- Tom March

Re: Cobol - S80A abend

2017-02-24 Thread Tom Marchant
d if you are z/OS 2.2, you can use REGIONX. -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: S/390 G6 SE Driver Disk

2017-02-22 Thread Tom Marchant
On Wed, 22 Feb 2017 00:41:08 +, Jim Stefanik wrote: >Perhaps against the advice of others, I'm considering getting an S/390 G6 >without the SE's. You might want to search the archives for Connor's experience with a Z890 that he boug

Re: z/OS 2.3 preview announcement

2017-02-22 Thread Tom Marchant
On Wed, 22 Feb 2017 05:43:25 -0600, Elardus Engelbrecht wrote: >It [8 char TSO id] was discussed earlier this month in thread 'Eight-character >TSO Userid Support'. Yes. IIRC, someone said it ain't gonna happ

z/OS 2.3 preview announcement

2017-02-21 Thread Tom Marchant
long. -- Tom Marchant -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: BPAM, PDSE, and HFS (was: Maximum size of a PDSE library)?

2017-02-21 Thread Tom Marchant
On Mon, 20 Feb 2017 09:18:40 -0600, Paul Gilmartin wrote: >On Mon, 20 Feb 2017 09:09:05 -0600, Tom Marchant wrote: >> >>If you create a member (insert a directory entry), the last entry will >>probably >>be pushed off the end of the directory entry block. That entry w

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