Re: Q: Transient SVC ? (2301 drum & SVCLIB)

2023-06-04 Thread Seymour J Metz
: Transient SVC ? (2301 drum & SVCLIB) > I heard a legend of a system, probably not mainframe, on which a > programmer made the disk error handling routines transient. It worked > fine until it didn't. We had a 360/91 with a 2301 drum on selector channel 1. This had SVCLIB on it...

Re: Q: Transient SVC ? (2301 drum & SVCLIB)

2023-06-02 Thread Michael Stein
> I heard a legend of a system, probably not mainframe, on which a > programmer made the disk error handling routines transient. It worked > fine until it didn't. We had a 360/91 with a 2301 drum on selector channel 1. This had SVCLIB on it... At some point we got another 2301 and moved a small

Re: Q: Transient SVC ?

2023-06-02 Thread Michael Stein
On Thu, Jun 01, 2023 at 12:33:39PM +, Seymour J Metz wrote: > > Transient SVC routines are supposed to be refreshable. That's important > both for OS/360 SVC transient areas and ... Yes, the transient area logic could overlay one module with another for a higher priority task if needed (and

Re: Q: Transient SVC ?

2023-06-01 Thread Seymour J Metz
@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Q: Transient SVC ? On Thu, 1 Jun 2023 16:41:43 +, Seymour J Metz wrote: >Transient area loading used WAIT. > That works best if WAIT is not a transient SVC. I heard a legend of a system, probably not mainframe, on which a programmer made the disk error ha

Re: Q: Transient SVC ?

2023-06-01 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Thu, 1 Jun 2023 16:41:43 +, Seymour J Metz wrote: >Transient area loading used WAIT. > That works best if WAIT is not a transient SVC. I heard a legend of a system, probably not mainframe, on which a programmer made the disk error handling routines transient. It worked fine until it didn'

Re: Q: Transient SVC ?

2023-06-01 Thread Seymour J Metz
, 2023 12:39 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Q: Transient SVC ? On Wed, 31 May 2023 21:28:34 -0700, Michael Stein wrote: > >... So any SVC number ending in 0 resulted in a >last character of x'c0' or '{'. > >from: MVT source pds AAPVT member IEAT

Re: Q: Transient SVC ?

2023-06-01 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Wed, 31 May 2023 21:28:34 -0700, Michael Stein wrote: > >... So any SVC number ending in 0 resulted in a >last character of x'c0' or '{'. > >from: MVT source pds AAPVT member IEATRANS > >TRANSVC LHRWORK3,SVCID(RRB) . GET SVCID > CVD RWORK3,SVCNAME . CONVERT SVC NUMBER TO DECI

Re: Q: Transient SVC ?

2023-06-01 Thread Seymour J Metz
] on behalf of David Spiegel [0468385049d1-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu] Sent: Thursday, June 1, 2023 9:36 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Q: Transient SVC ? Hi Shmuel AMV"SH, In OS/VS1 it was IEHIOSUP. Regards, David On 2023-06-01 08:33, Seymour J Metz wrote: > It'

Re: Q: Transient SVC ?

2023-06-01 Thread David Spiegel
: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Michael Stein [m...@zlvfc.com] Sent: Thursday, June 1, 2023 12:28 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Q: Transient SVC ? Back before SYS1.LPALIB, Nucleus-resident SVC routines were named IGCxxx and were linked into IEAN

Re: Q: Transient SVC ?

2023-06-01 Thread Seymour J Metz
ay, June 1, 2023 12:28 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Q: Transient SVC ? > Back before SYS1.LPALIB, Nucleus-resident SVC routines were named IGCxxx > and were linked into IEANUC00; transient SVC routines were named IGC00xxx > with a C zone on the last digit, resided is SYS1.SV

Re: Q: Transient SVC ?

2023-05-31 Thread Michael Stein
> Back before SYS1.LPALIB, Nucleus-resident SVC routines were named IGCxxx > and were linked into IEANUC00; transient SVC routines were named IGC00xxx > with a C zone on the last digit, resided is SYS1.SVCLIB and ran out of > 1 KiB SVC transient areas. > The EBCDIC code pages I've used had C) as "

Re: Q: Transient SVC ?

2023-05-31 Thread Steve Thompson
uel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Steve Thompson [ste...@wkyr.net] Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2023 9:32 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Q: Transient SVC ? Sorry, but I have to ask this: Wha

Re: Q: Transient SVC ?

2023-05-31 Thread Seymour J Metz
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Steve Thompson [ste...@wkyr.net] Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2023 9:32 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Q: Transient SVC ? Sorry, but I have to ask this: What do you mean by a transient SVC? In days gone by, I remem

Q: Transient SVC ?

2023-05-31 Thread Steve Thompson
Sorry, but I have to ask this: What do you mean by a transient SVC? In days gone by, I remember that SVCs had to have specific names, so the last char of the SVC could be a "non" printable name (hazy memories of this from having to fix/patch an SVC). I know that DOS, DOS/V* had transients tha