Re: Subject: Re: Currency format suggestions, please?

2023-04-01 Thread Rupert Reynolds
Fair point. When I was at school we used "billion" as long scale 10^12, but by the time I worked for Nasty Wetmonster Bank it was short scale. I tend to just say "thousand million" :-) Roops On Sun, 2 Apr 2023, 00:34 Gary Weinhold, wrote: > This is been very interesting, but no one has

Re: finding DU-AL in a dump

2023-04-01 Thread Joseph Reichman
Actually it’s a task The dataspace is owned by another address Space I’m thing of writting a customized TESTAUTH subcommand to display it im begging to realize I’ll have to pass the stoken to do it Thanks > On Apr 1, 2023, at 8:43 AM, Peter Relson wrote: > > In one of the appends there

Re: RTM/SDWA question

2023-04-01 Thread Joseph Reichman
Thanks That’s what I thought In order for my recovery to do a retry My register have to be in tact R3 is the base for all my csects 4 bytes off that is my eyecatcher as I branch round that comparing R3 + 4 for the eyecatcher is how I determine that I start SDWAGR then I try SDWASR Then

Subject: Re: Currency format suggestions, please?

2023-04-01 Thread Gary Weinhold
This is been very interesting, but no one has mentioned billions and trillions. When I was a young, I learned that the UK million was the same as US, but billion was a million millions (not just a thousand million) and a trillion was a million billions and so on. i guess It makes a difference

Re: ASM call by value

2023-04-01 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Sat, 1 Apr 2023 13:34:02 +, Peter Relson wrote: >... One is to make a copy and pass the argument by reference to the copy. > Another is to pass the actual value (somewhere, somehow). > ??? "somehow". The mechanism of passing an "actual value" distinct from a copy is left as an

Re: ASM call by value

2023-04-01 Thread Peter Relson
I was taught long ago that "call by value" meant simply that whatever the target routine did to a parameter was not reflected back to the caller's argument. There are multiple possible implementations. One is to make a copy and pass the argument by reference to the copy. Another is to pass the

Re: finding DU-AL in a dump

2023-04-01 Thread Peter Relson
In one of the appends there was talk about an SRB. So which is it? SRB or task? Whether valid or not, from one work unit (SRB or task) you cannot use another work unit's DU-AL ALET. Only PASN-AL ALETs and common area data space (CADS) ALETs can be used from multiple work units. If looking

Re: RTM/SDWA question

2023-04-01 Thread Peter Relson
Are the registers at SDWASR00 the same as the registers pointed to by SDWARBAD when SDWARBAD is around I have noticed most of the time they are Your words of "most of the time" indicate that you have observed that they are not always. Your observation is correct. Sometimes yes, sometimes no.

Re: CASE constructs

2023-04-01 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Sat, 1 Apr 2023 11:30:24 +0100, Rupert Reynolds wrote: >... >while in COBOL people were using ALTER with GOTO (oof!). > ??? But didn't they need a CASE/SELECT to choose which ALTER? -- gil -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe /

Re: CASE constructs

2023-04-01 Thread Rupert Reynolds
I seem to remember that most of the perceived weaknesses in COBOL were addressed a long time ago. But some old tales just won't die. Back when JSP meant Jackson Structured, I remember being told that PL/I supported selection directly with 'SELECT', while in COBOL people were using ALTER with GOTO