FWIW, there ARE a few of us still out here in application programming land who
are still supporting and updating assembler application code. Sometimes it is
a conversion to COBOL, to be sure, but many parts are stubbornly stuck where
they are in assembler and need to be updated as such for
RRDS is like BDAM – when you use fixed-size blocks, you can only “delete” a
record by somehow marking it deleted (first byte = X’FF’ was the old standard
for a deleted record) and re-writing in place (though RRDS may permit an actual
record delete, I don’t remember for sure). AFAIR, once added
I agree with other posters that your suggested solution is not a good idea.
If you have the HLASM Toolkit product licensed on your system you can use the
ASMIDF debugger to remotely debug batch jobs from a VTAM session, but using
ASMIDF requires that pre-established VTAM APPL’s and LU’s are
od idea that is usually reserved for
>> moving using non standard code into production as other problems will pop up
>>
>> All I want is to debug a program that was preloaded under a different TCB
>> after I get the kinks out I’ll have LOADTOGLOBAL=YES
>>
>
At a guess, people from other parts of the world than the USA. They still
actively teach and use “old languages” in some places out there, so there is a
larger quantity of talent (though I could not say at what experience level).
TAANSTAAFL. You get what you pay for.
Peter
From: IBM
Mike, it seems to me that BUILDING an SMPE package (no matter how simple) and
INSTALLING an SMPE package that someone else built are two different skill
levels. I think Tom was asking to practice the latter, the INSTALL skills, not
the BUILD skills.
Peter
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List
Apologies Joseph, you are correct. I just re-checked the ASMIDF manuals and
they do not directly say that it supports debugging authorized code. The Fine
Manuals actually don’t say one way or another whether authorized debugging is
supported, but since it is not specifically documented as
Mr. Google turns up this as the first result:
https://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/9854/Washington-Systems-Center-Technical-Bulletin-Services-Required-for-an-Event-Driven-Program/
And on that page there is a small box with this text:
This manual has been scanned as part of our collection and
Yeah, that was a fun stroll down various memory lanes. I actually keypunched
for a living at one very early point in my checkered career – had to know how
to operate 026’s, 029’s, and 129’s, and how to program the drum card for faster
data entry. Mod 10/11 check punches were SO much fun
Question: Does the “Tapetools” product provide an alternative IEBCOPY
implementation that defaults to using the “real” IEBCOPY when it can’t handle
the input commands? Maybe the issue then is in the alternative implementation
code?
But I agree, please show the error messages from the original
+1
I have always admired the product but I have really a hard time using the
manual effectively. It leaves MUCH to be desired.
Peter
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Schmitt, Michael
Sent: Monday, September 18, 2023 10:52 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: Generate
Isn’t that pretty much what BPXMTEXT does? Is it VM/CMS that allows you to
enter a “command” of just a question mark “?” after an error condition to get a
more complete explanation of an error? Could the shell program support such a
“command” to automatically invoke BPXMTEXT for the most
I believe that statement in the JCL Reference is in error and needs to be
deleted or at the very least completely rewritten. My quite substantial
experience using this technique over the last 10-15 years is that using JCL
symbols as part of the definition of other JCL symbols works flawlessly
Unfortunately none of those callable services provides access to the POSIX
environment variables table. The only references I can find to access to those
values are in the getenv() / putenv() C function descriptions.
To Dave C.,
I guess you could put in a call to IBM C/C++ support to ask them
I found something one can use from assembler to access environment variables in
the LE Vendor Interfaces manual:
https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/3.1.0?topic=clearenv-ceebenv
Seems right on target with Dave’s original request.
Peter
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of
Farley
functions
On Tue, 3 Oct 2023 16:35:25 +, Farley, Peter wrote:
>I found something one can use from assembler to access environment variables
>in the LE Vendor Interfaces manual:
>
>https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/3.1.0?topic=clearenv-ceebenv
>
>Seems right on
> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of
> Paul Gilmartin
> Sent: Friday, September 29, 2023 4:26 PM
> To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
> Subject: Re: PL/X
>
> On Fri, 29 Sep 2023 16:01:52 -0400, David Spiegel wrote:
>
> >Hi Peter,
> >There is another solution ... make PL/ available
, October 4, 2023 2:27 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: Assembler access to USS functions
On Wed, 4 Oct 2023 16:06:38 +, Farley, Peter wrote:
>Perform setenv(). Adds, changes, or deletes an environment variable in the
>environment list.
>
>OK, it says “set” env n
000, Farley, Peter
> wrote:
>
> >Why does any programmer need to care where the environment
> variables are stored?
>
>Normally, I would agree but XDC is a very special case with very
>broad requirements. As a full z/OS system debugger, Dave Cole has
>many requirement
for installs?]
On Sat, 7 Oct 2023 09:41:56 -0700, Ed Jaffe wrote:
>On 9/20/2023 8:23 AM, Farley, Peter wrote:
>> ... JCL symbols as part of the definition of other JCL symbols works
>> flawlessly every time.
>
Is this true alike for substitution both
Tom,
For the “relative” idea, maybe fill in the “Start In” value in the *.lnk file
with the “current” (pwd) directory name? Not sure if that would make any
difference, but it may be worth a try.
Peter
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Tom
Brennan
Sent: Wednesday, October 18,
System-wide named tokens will survive between batch steps, but may require
authorized code to create and delete them.
Retrieving them in batch steps subsequent to the “set” or “create” step
requires no authorization.
Peter
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Perryman
Sent:
I concur, they have updated the contents of the 1Gb+ zip file to include the
missing TOC file(s) without changing the external file name, but all the files
inside are now dated 2023-10-09 instead of 2023-09-29, including the new TOC
files.
I DL’d that same file on Friday 10/2 and it did NOT
It is still “a thing” because IDCAMS PRINT was programmed to print the
character side of the record ”DUMP” option using the most restrictive printed
character set available at that time on actual printer devices (likely based on
the 1403N1 48-character print chain most used for the fastest
I’ve had Office 365 for years now, I find it useful to keep paying the yearly
fee because they upgrade the individual components without me needing to
concern myself with which version is current today and I can share it with my
family for no extra charge.
In prior times when I consulted for a
1401N1 printer (the big beast) raised its hood automatically when it ran out of
paper, no way to turn off that behavior. NEVER put your coffee cup on top of
that printer!!
Peter
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Bob
Bridges
Sent: Wednesday, November 8, 2023 10:52 AM
To:
Apologies, 1403N1, not 1401
From: Farley, Peter
Sent: Wednesday, November 8, 2023 10:59 AM
To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List
Subject: RE: Kinda fun
1401N1 printer (the big beast) raised its hood automatically when it ran out of
paper, no way to turn off that behavior. NEVER put your coffee
The "pdftotext" command line tool from the XPDFReader team does a pretty
credible job of extracting good, readable (and more importantly, utility
program readable) text from IBM PDF's. I use it very successfully to extract
data from the z/Architecture PoOP for a side project of mine.
Did you set "Binary" mode for the transfer? When I transfer a java "class"
file (also a binary entity like a jar file), it transfers just fine in Binary
mode:
ftp> bin
200 Representation type is Image
ftp> get '/u/tsouser/Example.class' exam-class.bin
200 Port request OK.
125 Sending data set
System Rexx runs Rexx programs in an isolated, **APF authorized** environment,
so the only way to run a Rexx program under the AXR task is to use an operator
MODIFY command to the AXR service to tell it to run your Rexx in that address
space.
This reference explains what System Rexx really is:
Whichever festival of light or year-end tradition you celebrate at this dark
(at least for those of us in the Northern Hemisphere) time of year, have a
joyous and safe holiday time. Hug your loved ones and give thanks for their
love.
Peter
This message and any attachments are intended only
Shmuel,
Why did you slander Worperfect like that? What did it ever do to you?
Peter
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of
Seymour J Metz
Sent: Thursday, December 22, 2022 8:39 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: Markup languages
My preference,
Bob,
Wordperfect is still alive and well, I have the 2021 Standard version installed
on all my home machines. My wife won't use anything else because of that most
excellent "reveal codes" feature.
https://www.wordperfect.com/en/
IMHO TOC in Wordperfect is a piece of cake, and it makes
Sounds like that is the case. I received multiple IBM-MAIN posts on 1/7 and
1/8 but none on 1/9, and these from you and others today (along with Lionel's
ChatGPT poem today - twice).
Peter
-Original Message-
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of
David Cole
Sent: Tuesday,
for our mainframes. Then I really do have to retire.
Peter
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of
Jeremy Nicoll
Sent: Tuesday, January 10, 2023 4:07 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: Is anyone there?
On Tue, 10 Jan 2023, at 16:39, Farley, Peter
Not sure if DFSORT has an equivalent option, but Syncsort has a parameter
DYNALOC that can change the maximum number of SORTWKnn DD's it will allocate.
Our local Syncsort default is 64, but for really big sorts (when we get the
Syncsort equivalent "too big to sort" message, which says "SORT
Apologies for the typo, the Syncsort option is DYNALLOC, not DYNALOC.
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of
Farley, Peter
Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2023 12:12 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: DFSORT maximum input records
Not sure if DFSORT
Apologies for an HTML reply to a plain-text message, but it was necessary. I
converted your spool display lines to a fixed-pitch font to try to maintain
alignment of the characters and the hex representation.
Note that your input value seems to have an actual period (X’4B’ character) and
an
At this Google support url there are eight different reasons that could apply
to the error "550 5.7.1".
https://support.google.com/a/answer/3726730?hl=en
HTH
Peter
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Charles Mills
Sent: Sunday, December 11, 2022 4:22
I just tried it from the ISMF "Dataset List" menu item (#1 on the main ISMF
panel) and entered just "catlist" on a line next to one of my TSO user files,
and it generated an IDCAMS list in a browseable temporary file name. Doesn't
seem to be very hard to do.
It does NOT work from the normal
Question: When you say "SMB (no longer supported at all on z/OS)", are you
referring to VSAM SMB = "VSAM System Managed Buffering"? As in the JCL
parameters AMP='ACCBIAS=DO,etc.'?
Or were you referring to the old Samba (I think that's what it was called) file
sharing protocol?
Peter
On Fri, 2 Dec 2022 at 17:13, Farley, Peter <
031df298a9da-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote:
> Question: When you say "SMB (no longer supported at all on z/OS)", are you
> referring to VSAM SMB = "VSAM System Managed Buffering"? As in the JCL
> parameters
But does your FTP server on z/OS allow you to use GET from a tape device? Tape
allocations are sometimes not permitted from an active server address space so
as not to hold up production work using the same server.
Just a possible roadblock, not a given, depends on your setup.
Peter
RE: Mainframe disk space -- Not technically backward, rather financially
punishing. Mainframe disk storage costs high-multiple orders of magnitude more
than server-grade multi-terabyte SSD's. Yes, better reliability (RAS in
general) should cost more, but that much more?
Just another case of
Doesn't XMIT/RECEIVE handle VBS in both directions? I thought it did.
Peter
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Pommier, Rex
Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2022 10:24 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: Transmitting SMF records
What I remember
It's been quite a long while since I had a finger in any PL1 code, but I now
have a small PL1 side project I need some help with.
I have a question about how to handle not only the "standard" EXEC PARM of up
to 100 bytes, but also how to handle the newer EXEC PARMDD option which allows
up to
That URL did not work for me - I found it here:
https://www.ibm.com/common/ssi/cgi-bin/ssialias?appname=skmwww=897%2FENUS283-016=AN=CA=ibmsearch_a=ENUS283-016
HTH
Peter
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of
Seymour J Metz
Sent: Friday, November 18, 2022
It had better allow a no-SSL mode or it will be useless in shops with VPN
networks for outside access and no SSL inside the VPN.
SSL from outside is necessary, inside is crazy paranoid. Who's going to create
and manage thousands of "certificates"?
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From: IBM
BM Mainframe Discussion List Im Auftrag von
Farley, Peter
Gesendet: Freitag, 4. November 2022 20:12
An: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Betreff: Re: SPF/SE is available for free
I agree with Jay that it still may be possible to recover the source IF the
files still exist.
I know it probably is poss
I don't know how ISV's monitor the IBM ISV center activity, but IBM's Zxplore
student education website (url below) which is also hosted at the ISV center
posts a warning about "maintenance" outages starting the Wednesday or Thursday
before the "maintenance" weekends.
The message on that
Thanks to all for the PL/I advice, and yes, I do know they changed the name
from 1 to I a long time ago, but I didn't much like that rename starting from
when they did it. What was wrong with using a plain Arabic numeral?
Then again I use the Roman numeral III for my full name since I am the
Since I started using the IBM Zxplore site to increase my knowledge and
practical experience in October 2021, the RDP site on which it is hosted has
been pretty regularly down for maintenance just about every other Sunday from
14:30 to 20:30 UTC. There have been times the maintenance window
Cross posted to IBM-MAIN.
I asked this question earlier today over on DB2-L (the one run by IDB2UG), but
it later occurred to me that someone here might also know the answer to my
question.
Peter
_
From: Farley, Peter
Sent: Monday, November 28, 2022
on sites with a mix of DB2
and Oracle databases.
If you want to know more, call me offline.
Kind regards
Bernd
Am 28.11.2022 um 23:37 schrieb Farley, Peter:
> Cross posted to IBM-MAIN.
>
> I asked this question earlier today over on DB2-L (the one run by IDB2UG),
> but it later
I worked for IBM briefly in the late 1960's (4 month cooperative education
stint while attending engineering college) and what I noticed was that the
shorter the haircut, the whiter the shirt, and the bluer the suit, the higher
up in the organization that individual was.
I was told that TJ
Reminds me of staying up all night in the computer lab at college playing 3d
TicTacToe (4x4x4) against an IBM 1620 computer until I finally beat it by
playing its own moves back at it. Wasted a whole box of console paper (not to
mention failing to do my Calculus and other homework that night)
Ditto for Windows users on the keyboard remapping -
"Enter" should be "Newline",
"Right CTRL" should be "Enter",
"Left CTRL" should be "Reset",
"PAUSE/BREAK" should be "Clear",
"Esc" should be "ATTN",
"Alt-Insert" should be "PA1",
"Alt-Home" should be "PA2",
and a few others peculiar to
Not necessarily true in a software development environment where all members of
the team need to share all their data everywhere. "Zero trust" is anathema in
a development environment.
If you don't trust me then fire me. It's cleaner that way.
Shakespeare was *almost* right. First get rid
Isn't CONTROL only valid in a CLIST script, not Rexx? Or are you suggesting he
wrap a call to his Rexx inside a CLIST with that CONTROL setting and report the
security error from the CLIST?
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of
Seymour J Metz
Sent:
I don't know about Cameron, but I would be interested in a way to ask RACF (or
TSS if possible) from Rexx whether I have read access to a DSN.
Is that possible for a non-authorized "ordinary" user, or is that road the kind
that is normally blocked to prevent "insider snooping"?
If you posted
I agree with Jay that it still may be possible to recover the source IF the
files still exist.
I know it probably is possible to set up PW protected or encrypted files to
"self-destruct" or somehow lock permanently (I assume any agency or company who
are serious about secrecy all have access
Filezilla accepts two formats for the initial "directory" you wish to view, one
in the normal Unix format for Unix System Services files (e.g., /u/tsouser or
/usr/etc) and normal MVS DSN format (with a period at the end like
TSOUSER.MYDATA.) to denote an HLQ to view in the MVS data space.
I beg to differ. I use the default Windows ftp client to transfer files to
and from my employer's z/OS systems all the time, and never had any issue.
CAVEAT: All transfers are happening from a company laptop operating INSIDE my
employer's VPN network, never from outside that network, so
Using PLITEST SC26-4310
Messages and Codes SC26-4309
Problem Determination LY27-9528
Installation and Customization under MVS SC26-4311
Installation and Customization under CMS SC26-4312
-Original Message-
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of
Farley, Peter
Sent
The major z/OS programming languages (COBOL, PL/I, HLASM) allow one to write a
subroutine and separately compile and link it and then call that subroutine
dynamically at runtime without a whole lot of fuss. I think even VS FORTRAN
programming supports this capability.
>From the reading I have
I am working with some PL/I code originally developed under the PL/I Optimizing
Compiler V2 and I need to refer to the manuals for that specific version to
answer some questions. Does anyone have access to V2 manuals? I have searched
all over bitsavers and AFAICT they have only V1 manuals.
Thanks Mike, I do already have those downloads (or similar from an earlier
era). What I don’t have is an address of an archive of .boo's to DL from.
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of
Mike Schwab
Sent: Sunday, March 19, 2023 9:18 PM
To:
language dynamic CALL's?
Function pointers and fetch()
https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zvse/6.2?topic=c-edcxbf11
On Sun, 19 Mar 2023, 15:02 Farley, Peter, <
031df298a9da-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote:
> The major z/OS programming languages (COBOL, PL/I, HLASM) allow one to
DLL is not simple to me, maybe because I haven't ever had to do it. There are
no such hoops to jump through in other HLL's (even HLASM LINK or LOAD/BASR is
simple by comparison).
No, a system() call does not solve the need.
Peter
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of
Farley, Peter
Sent: Monday, 20 March 2023 3:47 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.E
Use the IBM-supplied IEABRCX copy member (Found in SYS1.MACLIB; IEABRCX DEFINE,
then IEABRCX ENABLE) to convert base-reg branches to relative branches.
I also recommend using SYSSTATE ARCHLVL=2 or even 3 if your hardware is current
enough. YMMV.
Be careful using BAKR/PR - you must use them in
Thank you for that link Peter.
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of
Peter Stockdill
Sent: Monday, March 20, 2023 2:28 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: PL/I Opt. Compiler V2 manuals?
I found the four books in:
Port 443 is the default zOSMF port on z/OS, isn't it?
I did see in the z/OS Help page off the Doc site that there is an STC on the
mainframe side (FSSRMAIN).
Peter
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Tom
Brennan
Sent: Wednesday, March 8, 2023 5:20 PM
DITTO can certainly do it, but like all the other ways suggested you will
require various special SAF permissions to actually perform the function. Not
like the old days when anyone could display anything. <*Sigh*>
Peter
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On
With respect to the COBOL migration issue, we bit that bullet several years
ago, starting with V5.2. Now we compile only with V6.2 except under special
circumstances. We used the "two library" migration plan.
As for "release and options compiled with", the CBT utility COBANALZ (CBT321)
does
Great routine ITschak. I made two small improvements to the name and token
displays to better handle binary characters (less than '40'x) in each part.
HTH
Peter
Updated code for display subroutine:
/* routine to report on name token pairs */
Donttp:
Peter
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of
David Crayford
Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2023 1:53 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: zOSMF and zOWE for non-mainframers
On 28/2/23 13:47, David Crayford wrote:
>
> On 25/2/23 01:23, Farley, Peter wr
One thing I will add from actual testing I have done with ZOAU facilities --
they are HORRIBLY slow. Yes, you can run them from off-platform - that was
their intended raison d'etre - and the fact that you even CAN do that if you
really, really need it is a Good Thing (tm).
But I found that
Thanks very much for pointing out the difference between TRAP2/4 and the
compare-and-trap (and likewise the load-and-trap) instructions. Not having
previously researched them in PoOP, like Steve I AssUMed from the word "trap"
in their name that they were related to and used the same DUCT trap
y, March 2, 2023 1:45 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: ZOAU [was: RE: Mainframe REXX (Re: Badmouthing Rexx and ooRexx -
again (Re: zOSMF and zOWE for non-mainframers]
On 3/2/2023 8:22 AM, Farley, Peter wrote:
> One thing I will add from actual testing I have done with ZO
Ditto. I still get the occasional ISPF-L message, though I haven't posted
there in a while myself. I just saw Steve's test post to the list this morning.
Peter
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of
Jeremy Nicoll
Sent: Friday, March 3, 2023 8:57 AM
To:
I don't know about LMCOPY, but my experience with TRANSMIT is similar. Running
a batch IKJEFT01 with a SYSPRINT DD in the JCL allocated to SYSOUT=* and
executing multiple TRANSMIT commands in SYSTSIN you still get SYS3,
SYS4, etc., outputs in the batch job, one for each TRANSMIT
I do not believe that when LMCOPY calls IEBCOPY under the covers that it wants
or intends to use ISPLOG for print output - I believe it is allocating new
"print" files unconditionally like TRANSMIT does and passing the new DD names
to IEBCOPY to use for the IEBCOPY SYSPRINT output.
I could be
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of
Farley, Peter
Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2023 9:08 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: VS Pascal documentation on ibm.com?
Thanks Mark, I actually found those too after I posted my earlier request.
Peter
-Origin
Lionel, respectfully I must disagree. I have been using the IBM Zxplore
website on my own time for over a year now for enhanced learning of some of the
"new" technologies available on our mainframe systems, and I have been
consistently surprised to observe the actual difficulties that genuine
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On 28/2/23 15:26, Farley, Peter wrote:
> David, I will have to complain that your python benchmark is not a fair
> comparison. Your python script uses a module named pyzfile to access z/OS
> files (which I see from PYPI is author
<*Sigh*> Yes, I do understand the "business justification/resource allocation"
argument/excuse. I deal with similar issues all the time in my employer's
business. I hate it, but it is real.
IMHO the IBM z/OS development team should never have *needed* a "formal
request/requirement" to
, February 28, 2023 7:07 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: z/OS 3.1 Announcement US Letter
On 2/28/2023 3:42 PM, Farley, Peter wrote:
> What I would like to know is when z/OS development will finally manage to
> find the round tuits to actually implement a supported API to ac
What I would like to know is when z/OS development will finally manage to find
the round tuits to actually implement a supported API to actually be able to
USE the TRAP (and compare-and-trap) instructions introduced to the architecture
so long ago I have forgotten which zArch generation they in
I have access to a development z/OS system with the full VS Pascal product
installed (not just the runtime library), and would like to experiment with it
just for fun, but I cannot find any VS Pascal documentation anywhere on
ibm.com. Even starting at ibm.com/docs fails with a timeout, though
Follow-up: I was directed by one of the esteemed members of this list to an IBM
discussion list in the "IBM Z and LinuxONE Community" for C/C++ issues, where I
posed this same question. I received a reasonably prompt response from a
person in the IBM compiler development team, which I will
A private email pointed me to this location instead of ibm.com/docs:
https://www.ibm.com/resources/publications
And the VS Pascal docs I was looking for can be found there.
Peter
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Hank Oerlemans
Sent: Tuesday,
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> Mark Jacobs
>
> --- Original Message ---
> On Tuesday, February 21st, 2023 at 8:03 PM, Farley, Peter
> 031df298a9da-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu wrote:
>
> > I have access to a development z/OS system with the full VS Pascal product
>
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of
Farley, Peter
Sent: Friday, February 24, 2023 12:23
I have been using the IBM Zxplore website on my own time for over a year
now for enhanced learning of some of the "new" technologies available on our
mainframe systems, and I ha
My comment on this is that no company who is serious about security allows any
old PC (Windows or Linux) to connect into their mainframe system. You issue
company laptops tightly controlled by the internal IT team and provide normal
TN3270 software on those laptops for mainframe access over
, April 17, 2023 6:06 PM
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Subject: Re: Images rather than etext
ObHolmesGinsbookDevice "International icons, equally unintelligible in every
language"
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Farley, Peter <000
The problem for many of us (well, at least for me and my significant other) is
that their little "icons" are often anything but intuitive unless you are
already steeped in that culture.
One of the required management tools in use here (third party, mostly not
in-house developed) requires you
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Subject: Re: Images rather than etext
On Mon, 17 Apr 2023 22:35:07 +0000, Farley, Peter wrote:
>Thanks for that Asimov reference. That's one of his books I have not read
>(and there are many, I sadly admit; so many books, so little time . . .) but I
>will look for tha
I would think HSM has this information stashed somewhere, but is there a
command or API one can use to display that information?
Peter
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Are you asking for something other than an HLIST DATASET(dsname) MCDS command?
Mark Jacobs
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On Thursday, April 20th, 2023 at 6:58 PM, Farley, Peter
<031df298a9da-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote:
> I would think HSM has this information stashed
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