Re: COBOL 6.2 and ARCH(12)

2019-05-03 Thread Steve Thompson
Possibly. LE library routines may be smart enough to do that. But the compiler can’t do that in the case you compiled on a z14 to run on any lower level supported architecture. Sent from my iPhone — small keyboarf, fat fungrs, stupd spell manglr. Expct mistaks > On May 3, 2019, at 3:57 PM,

Re: COBOL 6.2 and ARCH(12) [EXTERNAL]

2019-05-03 Thread Brian Chapman
This article from IBM agrees with your thoughts and everything else I've read. I can't find anything that confirms the vendor's statement. https://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/cgi-bin/ssialias?subtype=ca=an=897=ENUS217-323 On Fri, May 3, 2019, 5:20 PM Feller, Paul wrote: > It is my understanding

Re: COBOL 6.2 and ARCH(12)

2019-05-03 Thread Mark Zelden
On Fri, 3 May 2019 15:57:34 -0400, Brian Chapman wrote: >We have a vendor debugging product that is constantly causing 0C1 and 0C4 >abends since we have upgraded to COBOL 6.2. It also caused these abends >when we were at COBOL 4,2, but the abend rate has grown considerably after >the upgrade. >

Re: COBOL 6.2 and ARCH(12)

2019-05-03 Thread Mike Schwab
Is the abend in the user compiled instructions? Then check the compiler processor settings. Is the abend in the vendor compiled libraries or included subroutines? Then check the vendor's subroutine / runtime libraries. On Fri, May 3, 2019 at 6:52 PM Charles Mills wrote: > > I think I

Re: ASG Workload Scheduler?

2019-05-03 Thread Tim Hare
"the big diversion"? -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Creating tar file for use on Linux

2019-05-03 Thread Grant Taylor
On 5/3/19 2:13 PM, Don Poitras wrote: Well, no one told me till today. :) Better late than never? Seriously, what's wrong with scp? 10 hack 20 kludge 30 goto 10 My understanding is that scp uses a terminal connection between scp on one end talking to scp as a remote command on the other

Re: COBOL 6.2 and ARCH(12)

2019-05-03 Thread Charles Mills
I think I disagree. You compile the program for ARCH(8). IBM guarantees that it will run on a z10 (do I have that right?). They do NOT guarantee that the program plus LE will behave on a z114 exactly as though it were running on a z10. No matter what ARCH the program were compiled for, I would

Re: COBOL 6.2 and ARCH(12) [EXTERNAL]

2019-05-03 Thread Feller, Paul
It is my understanding that if you set the ARCH level to something lower than the machine type you are running on it should not use any of the new machine instructions. If what the vendor says is truly what is happening then I would think a question to IBM would be in order. Thanks.. Paul

Re: COBOL 6.2 and ARCH(12)

2019-05-03 Thread TSpina
SmartTest giving you problems? Missing me? Most of the technical guys are gone. I think the only guy left is Ken someone or other. If it's Frank A. You're f'd. If you got a name let me know. Tom Spina On May 3, 2019, at 3:57 PM, Brian Chapman wrote: We have a vendor debugging product

Re: ASG Workload Scheduler?

2019-05-03 Thread Edward Finnell
We were early users of Smart Scheduler. It was a nice product and George Elliot was a whiz. He enhanced my knowledge several times on Ibm-main. Died of a massive coronary at age 38. We kept it thru the turmoil until the big diversion.  In a message dated 5/3/2019 3:33:51 PM Central Standard

Re: Crazy concatenation mystery

2019-05-03 Thread Greg Price
On 2019-05-03 12:15 PM, David Spiegel wrote: Steve said: "... but the received wisdom is that all load libraries should have blksize=32K-8. ..." For optimal space usage, however, the BLKSIZE should be 27998 (i.e. half-track blocking). You might think that, but for load modules, you have to

Re: Crazy concatenation mystery

2019-05-03 Thread David Spiegel
Hi Greg, If someone uses BLKSIZE=32760, isn't it true that only one physical block fits on a (emulated) 3390 track, thereby definitely wasting (2*27998)-32760=23236 bytes per track (regardless of any Program Binder considerations)? Thanks and regards, David On 2019-05-03 03:41, Greg Price

Re: Crazy concatenation mystery

2019-05-03 Thread Allan Staller
No. See my previous reply to an earlier email in this thread. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of David Spiegel Sent: Friday, May 3, 2019 5:08 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Crazy concatenation mystery Hi Greg, If someone uses

Re: Crazy concatenation mystery

2019-05-03 Thread Seymour J Metz
I'm not sure that was ever true for the LE, although it took IEBCOPY a while to catch up. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of David Spiegel Sent: Friday, May 3, 2019 6:08 AM To:

Re: Crazy concatenation mystery

2019-05-03 Thread Allan Staller
You said: "... but the received wisdom is that all load libraries should have blksize=32K-8. ..." For optimal space usage, however, the BLKSIZE should be 27998 (i.e. half-track blocking). On Behalf Of David Spiegel Sent: Thursday, May 2, 2019 9:16 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject:

Re: Crazy concatenation mystery

2019-05-03 Thread Tom Marchant
On Fri, 3 May 2019 10:08:02 +, David Spiegel wrote: >Hi Greg, >If someone uses BLKSIZE=32760, isn't it true that only one physical >block fits on a (emulated) 3390 track, thereby definitely wasting >(2*27998)-32760=23236 bytes per track (regardless of any Program Binder >considerations)?

Re: Crazy concatenation mystery

2019-05-03 Thread Seymour J Metz
Neither BINDER nor the Linkage Editor write object modules, although they read them. Both fill the track for load modules, and block size is meaningless for bprogram objects. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM

Re: Peter Frampton and IBM

2019-05-03 Thread Phil Smith III
Tony Harminc wrote: >As it happens I heard a CBC Radio interview with Frampton a couple of days >ago. I wasn't a great fan back in the day, but the interview was interesting.

Re: Creating tar file for use on Linux

2019-05-03 Thread Don Poitras
In article <68c2e717-9481-48c0-b6a2-855c33c44...@sinenomine.net> you wrote: > What incantation of tar or pax do I need to use to create a tar ball under > Unix System Services such that it can be transferred to a Linux system and > untarred there? Just the straight -cf doesn???t seem to do the

Re: Query for article on testing mainframe systems, applications, networks [SEC=UNOFFICIAL]

2019-05-03 Thread g...@gabegold.com
Thanks -- that's GREAT, much appreciated. (The silence was giving me a headache!) May I quote you, with attribution? Editor likes quotes and they can't be anonymous. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access

Creating tar file for use on Linux

2019-05-03 Thread Neale Ferguson
What incantation of tar or pax do I need to use to create a tar ball under Unix System Services such that it can be transferred to a Linux system and untarred there? Just the straight -cf doesn’t seem to do the trick nor using the -U -X option. Neale

Appending timestamp to the file

2019-05-03 Thread Ron Thomas
Hi . We are appending the timestamp to a CSV file and when we do the same we see the microsecond part is different for all the rows . Is there a way to make it same for all of the rows ? Here below is the control card we used OUTREC PARSE=(%01=(ENDBEFR=C'|',FIXLEN=4),

Re: Appending timestamp to the file

2019-05-03 Thread Sri h Kolusu
>>> Hi . We are appending the timestamp to a CSV file and when we do the same we see the microsecond part is different for all the rows . > Is there a way to make it same for all of the rows ? You created your own time stamp using a incrementing sequence number of 6 bytes using the following

Re: Creating tar file for use on Linux

2019-05-03 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Fri, 3 May 2019 15:00:04 -0400, Don Poitras wrote: > >z/OS scp is BAD. There's no way to tell it to do binary without doing >something like Paul's piping conniptions. > With conniptioned ssh, you can archive, transfer, and extract in a single ugly command, either push or pull. On the first

Re: Creating tar file for use on Linux

2019-05-03 Thread Grant Taylor
On 5/3/19 1:00 PM, Don Poitras wrote: z/OS scp is BAD. There's no way to tell it to do binary without doing something like Paul's piping conniptions. Many will tell you that scp itself is not-good and that you should use sftp instead. Perhaps z/OS's scp is worse than scp by itself. --

COBOL 6.2 and ARCH(12)

2019-05-03 Thread Brian Chapman
We have a vendor debugging product that is constantly causing 0C1 and 0C4 abends since we have upgraded to COBOL 6.2. It also caused these abends when we were at COBOL 4,2, but the abend rate has grown considerably after the upgrade. The vendor has produced countless patches, but so far they have

Re: Concatenation and UNIT=(,n)

2019-05-03 Thread Tim Hare
Figuring that this is 'working as designed', I have started a SHARE requirement, where discussion could take place. My suggested improvment is that for multi-unit, multi-volume datasets (and I realize this probably mostly applies to tape) a consolidated list of volumes for the concatenated

Re: Creating tar file for use on Linux

2019-05-03 Thread Don Poitras
In article you wrote: > On 5/3/19 1:00 PM, Don Poitras wrote: > > z/OS scp is BAD. There's no way to tell it to do binary without doing > > something like Paul's piping conniptions. > Many will tell you that scp itself is not-good and that you should use > sftp instead. > Perhaps z/OS's scp is

Re: Crazy concatenation mystery

2019-05-03 Thread Mike Schwab
Not for OBJECT modules. The Binder calls a routine to determine the remaining space on the track, round down to the next multplie of 1k, and writes no more than that amount on that track. On Fri, May 3, 2019 at 5:08 AM David Spiegel wrote: > > Hi Greg, > If someone uses BLKSIZE=32760, isn't it

Re: Peter Frampton and IBM

2019-05-03 Thread Mike Wawiorko
I wonder how he's feeling? Ringing in his ears? Mike Wawiorko   -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Peter Frampton and IBM

2019-05-03 Thread Vernooij, Kees (ITOP NM) - KLM
If he asks us again "I want you, to show me the way", we will. Kees > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On > Behalf Of Mike Wawiorko > Sent: 03 May, 2019 14:04 > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: Peter Frampton and IBM >

Re: Crazy concatenation mystery

2019-05-03 Thread Seymour J Metz
In OS/360, IEBCOPY couldn't reblock load modules. In OS/VS, it could, with the appropriate control statement. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of Greg Price Sent: Friday, May 3,

Re: Crazy concatenation mystery

2019-05-03 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Fri, 3 May 2019 14:03:49 +, Seymour J Metz wrote: >In OS/360, IEBCOPY couldn't reblock load modules. In OS/VS, it could, with the >appropriate control statement. > When IEBCOPY reblocks a module, does it leave any audit trail? That might be of interest in case of the OP's problem. --

Re: Creating tar file for use on Linux

2019-05-03 Thread Neale Ferguson
When I scp or sftp the tar ball to the Linux system it complains that it doesn't recognize the file as an archive: $ tar -tf inc.tar tar: This does not look like a tar archive tar: Skipping to next header tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors I had created it with tar -cf

Re: Creating tar file for use on Linux

2019-05-03 Thread Don Poitras
In article <0294809266169973.wa.nealesinenomine@listserv.ua.edu> you wrote: > I use scp which I assumed defaulted to binary. So I did it with sftp and > explicitly used binary and all was good. The scp/sftp utility we wrote for > CMS defaults to binary so I had made an incorrect assumption.

Re: Appending timestamp to the file

2019-05-03 Thread Ron Thomas
Ok thanks Kolusu. That worked .. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Creating tar file for use on Linux

2019-05-03 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Fri, 3 May 2019 13:12:21 -0400, Don Poitras wrote: > >You don't say what error you're receiving. If it's a permission problem, >use the -o option to disable tar from passing the owner across. ... > >If I don't do that, the sender's UID is set and I can't delete the >files and I have to get

Re: Creating tar file for use on Linux

2019-05-03 Thread Mark Jacobs
Simple question. Did you ftp in binary mode? Mark Jacobs Sent from ProtonMail, Swiss-based encrypted email. GPG Public Key - https://api.protonmail.ch/pks/lookup?op=get=markjac...@protonmail.com ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Friday, May 3, 2019 2:26 PM, Neale Ferguson wrote: > When I

Re: Creating tar file for use on Linux

2019-05-03 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Fri, 3 May 2019 13:26:15 -0500, Neale Ferguson wrote: >When I scp or sftp the tar ball to the Linux system it complains that it >doesn't recognize the file as an archive: > >$ tar -tf inc.tar >tar: This does not look like a tar archive >tar: Skipping to next header >tar: Exiting with failure

Re: Creating tar file for use on Linux

2019-05-03 Thread Neale Ferguson
I use scp which I assumed defaulted to binary. So I did it with sftp and explicitly used binary and all was good. The scp/sftp utility we wrote for CMS defaults to binary so I had made an incorrect assumption. Thanks all for the help. Neale

Re: Appending timestamp to the file

2019-05-03 Thread retired mainframer
I'm confused How does a BUILD statement with 12 comma constants produce output which contains only 3 commas? > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On > Behalf Of Ron Thomas > Sent: Friday, May 03, 2019 9:53 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Appending

Re: Creating tar file for use on Linux

2019-05-03 Thread Matt Hogstrom
IBM’s OpenSSL implémentation “attempted” to fix transfers via scp by treating all files like they were character and does a code conversion from 1047 to 8859 or some such nonsense. Scp will not work without some calestentics that are just plain frustrating but Z makes sure it will be

ASG Workload Scheduler?

2019-05-03 Thread Tim Hare
I'm curious about how many here run ASG's Workload Scheduler, which was Beta-42, and before that was created by Pecan. The shop I'm working for still runs it and is still happy with it for years though they've asked me at times to do some specialized reporting about tasks and schedules (which

Re: Creating tar file for use on Linux

2019-05-03 Thread Don Poitras
Yes, the z/OS scp is BAD. Grant seemed to think that scp on other platforms was also not-good. That's what I was asking about. In article <71e3e36b-a792-4307-b6b8-67f2ced4a...@hogstrom.org> you wrote: > IBM???s OpenSSL impl??mentation ???attempted??? to fix transfers via scp by > treating all