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.
100%...
Why?
That way you have an active LNKLST set that includes the same data set twice.
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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
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.
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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
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Apparently more precision is needed.
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urrently active LNKLST set, and
create a new one containing a new SYS1.SIEKLNKE? He doesn't
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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
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
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>TSO is dead
TSO is dead, Long live TSO!
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I agree. I wouldn't want to trust that my data was safe in the fog.
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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
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>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.
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How about changing ADYSETxx to not suppress SYSMDUMP?
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l tracks represented by those sectors.
There are still manuals for the RVA:
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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
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old. That could be an
appropriate thing to do.
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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.
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ing the use of DFP would not
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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.
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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?
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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.
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Usually, a URL such as this can be truncated, deleting the "?" and everything
that follows.
http://ibmsystem
ated before your step starts.
Look up JESLOG=SPIN.
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processed immediately. I just submitted such a job and the
contents of JESJCLIN ends with the last statement before the
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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,
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.
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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.
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>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
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
ormal and abnormal termination
disposition. Thus, you can omit the DISP parameter for a data set
that is created and deleted during a step.
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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?
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>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
>outside of the proc.
It shouldn't be necessary to do that.
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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
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.
#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
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area. Any program loaded by a particular task is also
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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
CHIVES contains messages from 1986-2004.
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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
rcuit design and implementation and it seems to
me to be a fairly straightforward thing to implement purely in hardware.
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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
On Wed, 12 Apr 2017 13:08:32 +, Vernooij, Kees wrote:
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d in the buffer, but instead reads it into a
different page? That makes no sense to me.
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Interface. CSI can also give you the volume list.
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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.
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>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'
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
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>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
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
On Wed, 29 Mar 2017 14:08:50 -0500, Tom Marchant wrote:
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>
>>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
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PSW at location 1C0. Nor does it have any of the other 5 New PSWs.
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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
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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
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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.
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On Fri, 17 Mar 2017 13:37:04 -0400, Kurt Quackenbush wrote:
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>> 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
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
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.
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>>
>> There isn't much that these stubs can do to figure out what PC to
>> issue without using any registers
ice stub that is being
called."
In any case, R14 is the return address. That is standard linkage,
not XPLINK.
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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
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>On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 9:37 AM, Tom Marchant <
>000a2a8c2020-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote:
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>> Every time an XPLINK program issues a GET or PUT, it has to make that
>> transition.
>>
>
>
her.
Every time an XPLINK program issues a GET or PUT, it has to make that
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open output
write a bunch of records
close
open input
read the records
close
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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.
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>I wanted to direct them to VIO, but have
>been unsuccessful
IMO VIO doesn't provide nearly as much benefit as it once did.
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That's considerably less than 1 TB.
Perhaps that figure is old and a higher limit is documented elsewhere.
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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
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.
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>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".
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>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.
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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.
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>>In other words, do "uc_name" and "asis_name" refer to the directory
>>qualifier immediately subordinate to the directory specified in
>>
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
the STORCLAS ACS routine to set STORCLAS to null,
and the data sets would be non-managed.
See the Implementing System-Managed Storage manual.
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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
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
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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
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
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On Mon, 20 Feb 2017 09:18:40 -0600, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
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>>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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