rexx calls to utilities using dd list

2023-03-25 Thread Bruce Hewson
for the records:- /*===*/ /* Rexx - Invoke IEBUPDTE with alternate ddnames.*/ /*===*/ Iebupdte_Utility: Procedure

Re: using a v2.5 load on v2.3

2023-03-25 Thread Seymour J Metz
Well, if you us the downlevel macro libraries then you should be fine. If you do something specific to 2.4 or 2.5 then you might have issues. Are the 2.3 and 2.5 systems on the same hardware? From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of Bill

Re: Is z/OS Name/Token pair retrieval supported from REXX?

2023-03-25 Thread Seymour J Metz
Anything whose parameters you can construct in REXX can be called with ADDRESS LINKPGM, and the STORAGE BIF helps, but for some things you need a supporting function in another language. Writing a REXX-aware routine is fairly straightforward.

Re: NOTE POINT and DCBFDAD

2023-03-25 Thread Joseph Reichman
After adding BLOCKTOKENSIZE=SMALL to the DCBE The return from the note worked Thank you > On Mar 25, 2023, at 3:04 PM, Binyamin Dissen > wrote: > > Before using a nuke to kill an ant, I would suggest verifying that the NOTE > is > being issued when you expect it to be issued and that

Re: A question or two on zOS issues

2023-03-25 Thread Joel C. Ewing
From Figure 7-1, page 7-21 of SA23-7832-13, z/Architecture Principles of Operations, May, 2022: STORE CLOCK               STCK   S  C     ⁸ ⁹  A STORE CLOCK EXTENDED    STCKE   S  C     ⁸ ⁹  A Lack of a "P" in the  " ⁸ ⁹  A"  column of the table indicates instructions are not "privileged". 

Re: NOTE POINT and DCBFDAD

2023-03-25 Thread Binyamin Dissen
Before using a nuke to kill an ant, I would suggest verifying that the NOTE is being issued when you expect it to be issued and that the position is what you expect. That you issued CHECK. Also, what device is the file on? On Fri, 24 Mar 2023 11:39:09 -0400 Joseph Reichman wrote: :>For all

Re: A question or two on zOS issues

2023-03-25 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Fri, 24 Mar 2023 23:35:56 -0500, Joel C. Ewing wrote: >...  The STCK and STCKE instructions only provide >read-only access to the TOD clock and are not privileged or restricted >by hardware, but they are not taught in programming texts either. > Citation needed. -- gil

Re: Is z/OS Name/Token pair retrieval supported from REXX?

2023-03-25 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Sat, 25 Mar 2023 08:27:37 -0700, Ed Jaffe wrote: >On 3/23/2023 12:52 PM, Steve Austin wrote: >> After lurking for on here for years, it's nice to have contributed something >> some found useful. > >Quite useful. Thanks! > Yes. That uses address LINKPGM in a fashion similar to the SAMPLIB

Re: Is z/OS Name/Token pair retrieval supported from REXX?

2023-03-25 Thread Ed Jaffe
On 3/23/2023 12:52 PM, Steve Austin wrote: After lurking for on here for years, it's nice to have contributed something some found useful. Quite useful. Thanks! -- Phoenix Software International Edward E. Jaffe 831 Parkview Drive North El Segundo, CA 90245 https://www.phoenixsoftware.com/

Re: using a v2.5 load on v2.3

2023-03-25 Thread Mark Jacobs
I assumed same hardware, different OS level. The answer is, as with most things, is it depends. Are you using any specific 2.5 operating system features/functions. Any LE services, was it link edited with LE, and so on. The best way to be sure is to run the program on a 2.3 system and see what

Re: A question or two on zOS issues

2023-03-25 Thread Mike Schwab
http://www1.cuny.edu/events/fyei/spring_1998/humor.html On Sat, Mar 25, 2023 at 8:16 AM Peter Relson wrote: > > z/OS does not support setting the clock past the end of the first epoch. Some > forthcoming z/OS release will. > Until then it would probably not be a good idea to try to fake out the

Re: using a v2.5 load on v2.3

2023-03-25 Thread Mike Schwab
Archlevel might be too high for target machine. On Sat, Mar 25, 2023 at 4:31 AM Bill Giannelli wrote: > > I assembled and link/edited a module on a z/OS 2.5 system. > Now I want to use or execute that module on a z/OS 2.3 system. > Might that cause any issues? > thanks > Bill > >

Re: A question or two on zOS issues

2023-03-25 Thread Peter Relson
z/OS does not support setting the clock past the end of the first epoch. Some forthcoming z/OS release will. Until then it would probably not be a good idea to try to fake out the system. Things will break. z/OS does support expiration dates (such as mortgage end, etc) beyond the first epoch.

Re: z/OS v2.05 and v2.5

2023-03-25 Thread Bill Giannelli
On our systems, I am seeing, "under z/OS V2.03", on the initial TSO screen. thanks Bill On Sat, 25 Mar 2023 12:32:39 +, Peter Relson wrote: >Could someone point out where they have seen "z/OS v2.05"? > >These are the things that I know to be the same: >z/OS 2.5 >z/OS v2r5 >z/OS 02.05.00 >

Re: how to find the assembly or link edit date of a load module

2023-03-25 Thread Peter Relson
If you browse a load module (not a program object) in hex, an early record (record 3 in some simple cases) has information such as Ø..5695PMB01 ^ 810DDCFF4002020035 05256957420102538F130F Where "23082F" is the julian yyddd date in packed decimal format, and "0103305F" is the time

Re: z/OS v2.05 and v2.5

2023-03-25 Thread Peter Relson
Could someone point out where they have seen "z/OS v2.05"? These are the things that I know to be the same: z/OS 2.5 z/OS v2r5 z/OS 02.05.00 z/OS v2.5 would be the same but I don't think is an intended use. Peter Relson z/OS Core Technology Design

using a v2.5 load on v2.3

2023-03-25 Thread Bill Giannelli
I assembled and link/edited a module on a z/OS 2.5 system. Now I want to use or execute that module on a z/OS 2.3 system. Might that cause any issues? thanks Bill -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions,