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3420? Wasn't that well and truly obsolete?
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Why? It fits in 12 bits, so LA will work.
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You can cheat. Put the data inside a comment and access the source lines.
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nth line in the program if available at the time of execution;
otherwise, returns the null string. If specified, n must be a positive whole
number and must not exceed the number that a call to SOURCELINE with no
arguments returns."
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A quick DDG search got me "There currently are no publicly-advertised Mailman
mailing lists on www.clefos.org. " I know that one of the participants
subscribes to IBM-MAIN; with luck he'll see your query and respond.
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No. Commands on the PARM are treated like commands in SYSTSON; IKJEFT01 does an
ATTACH.
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Yes, SYSTSIN.
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There is no 2741 in the picture. The typewriter is part of the 1415.
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If they were supported then he wouldn't need the RFE.
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Su
Subject to APF.
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IMHO, IEFSDPPT is an anachronism and you should use SCHEDxx unless there are
compelling reasons not to.
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If you already have SAS, the small cost of MXG is minuscule.
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Is there an RFE for a TSO facility to prompt the user and display the AID of
the user's response? That would be useful in diagnosing misconfigured TN3270
clients and 3270 simulators.
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Is it politically correct to use a VTAM packet trace?
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The problem is not in TSO or ISPF. The problem is your keyboard mapping if your
logging on directly to TSO. If you're logging on via, e.g., TPX, check what
keys it's intercepting.
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e the old Adams quarterly reports of
computer characteristics. Does anybody know of an online archive, or at least a
few online issues?
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Your question is unclear. By capture, do you mean log to a dataset or suppress?
In neither case would IEFBR14 have any relevance. Exactly what are you trying
to do and exactly what did you attempt?
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If you have a normal privilege level then you'll need to read the messages from
the log or from the started task. Under SDSF you can display the started task,
capture the messages with XDC and edit the output to remove extraneous messages.
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That code has to run under SDSF, which is a TSO command. I don't know whether
SDSF will run under a TSO subset environment.
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Why would you expect REXX to be started with SDSF in the table? SDSF is a TSO
command and establishes an ISF environment; if it can run under IRXJCL and
System REXX then it can run REXX scripts there..
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The OP does not need the response to the modify, but rather the output from the
task when it processes the text in the CIB. That might be difficult if the task
doesn't use the CART.
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From
Where is that documented?
https://www-01.ibm.com/servers/resourcelink/svc00100.nsf/pages/zOSV2R4sc279028/$file/isfa600_v2r4.pdf
only lists invoking SDSF from ISPF and directly from TSO.
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I guess that it's time for an RCF; invoking SDSF in
https://www-01.ibm.com/servers/resourcelink/svc00100.nsf/pages/zOSV2R4sc279028/$file/isfa600_v2r4.pdf
only mentions the first two.
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Well, here there's nothing to escalate; I've generally gotten good responses
from RCFs.
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Shouldn't you have a delay in there to giv the started task time to process he
CIB?
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What about System REXX?
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> Any product can dynamically add itself
In the case under discussion, the script has not invoked SDSF. At a minimum,
the SDSF documentation should mention that SDSF can be implicitly activated;
ideally it should mention the relevant contexts.
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1. I'd like to see Invoking SDSF refer to Chapter 5
2. I'd like to see Invoking SDSF mention the automatic invocation
of SDSF in, e.g., IRXJCL.
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I particularly hate the URL garbling that I'm currently stuck with. Take
outlook - please!
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Thanks; I missed that. Yes, pointing to Chapter 5 should be enough.
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I replied too soon; I agree that the manual should mention in what contexts the
external function ISFCALLS is available.
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support it.
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Does
uesen DSN.
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A DSN *is* a standard bounce.
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, and that he may not examine all of his inboxes with the same
frequency.
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rrors-to doesn't change anything; you still need an external mail
application to read the response once SMTP is gone.
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According to the IETF, every bounce is a DSN but not every DSN is a bounce.
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addresses; and, yes, such
configurations exist, whether they should or not.
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My source is the IETF, and every issue is a semantic issue. I did searches for
bounce and DSN on a bunch of RFCs, and they all agreed. In particular, thr RFC
that you cited, 3464, lists DSN types that are not bounces.
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The most prolific tweeter I know of is not someone I would care to associate
with. The neighborhood has gone downhill.
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Typically the new features reqiured by a level set were added over several
generations, and each generation added more than one feature.
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WTF? DAS requires MVS/SP.
That said, MVS/SP ran just fine on a 4341.
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Well, XA+ machines only support
Sure, IBM could
ensure absolute compatibiity for old releaes, but TANSTAAFL. Only IBM knows
what the extra cost would be, but I guaranty that there would be an extra cost.
I'm sure that this has been discussed at Share.
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Don't confuse the granularity of the SSK instruction with the granularity of
page table entries. MVS never sets CR0 bits 8-9 to 01.
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Yes, local mods could always exploit facilities that the shipped operating
system did not. But the only IBM operating system that used DAS, with the
possible exception of TPF, was MVS/SP. I don't know about MTS.
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Why? I unashamedly use MVCIN when it's appropriate, but that hardly seems to be
the case in your example.
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Not quite. OS/VS1 and OS./VS2 R1 are single address space; OS/VS2 and later are
multiple address spaces. MVS/SP V1.2 and later also exploit DAS.
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Strange! The XA PoOps shows MVCIN as only available in S/370 mode. The ESA
PoOps shows it as Move-inverse facility, regardless of mode, and ESA/390 PoOps
shows it as standard.
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I believe that IBM guaranties that '0'X will never be a valid opcode.
MVCIN is older than the 4341; it was an RPQ on the S/360 and S/370, quite
common in Israel.
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Look at p. D-4 in the -0 edition. I don't know which, if either, to believe.
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PL/I has no reserved words, so IBM can extend the language without breaking
existing code. However, it is bad form to knowingly use a keyword as a
procedure, label or variable name.
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Subject: Re: A little magic from Doug Nadel
On Wed, 2 Sep 2020 15:02:51 +, Seymour J Metz wrote:
>PL/I has no reserved words, so IBM can extend the language without breaking
>existing code. However, it is bad form to knowingly use a keyword as a
>procedure, label or
ldn't call such an option pedantic, and there might be lots of
other legal constructs that you would want a message for.
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Paul
It's potentially confusing, and I would certainly flag it at a code review.
Even if PUT were not a keyword it would be a poor choice of name. Better form
would be a name that suggests not only that you did a PUT but to which file.
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It was probably some model of the 470V and MVS/SP 1.3.
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I'm getting "We can’t connect to the server at www-01.ibm.com." and "We can’t
connect to the server at www-02.ibm.com."; are all of the www.ibm.com web
servers down? Or is IBM blocking verizon?
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htt
he general rule is to avoid "magic
numbers". Thus, things like PI, E, MAX_INTEREST_RATE should have names.
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Paul Gilmartin <
That text uses an example of a :magic number", and the advice is sound. Any
value that you or another programmer might have to change in the future belongs
in a declaration. Note that it's not your father's PL/I; there are named
constants.
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oThat depends on whether the author was addressing compiler requirements or
code maintainability. From the latter perspective, IMHO, "must" is appropriate
and should apply even if PI only occurs once.
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var_a = var_b);
My eyes! Make the bad man go away, Mommy!
A man who would do that deserves to spend eternity debugging code written in
uncommnted octal absolute.
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, and man made disasters, and plan
accordingly.
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It's working now. I don't know whether the problem was IBM or verizon.
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While c and h are unlikely to change, the precision that you need in your
program could change, and it is much easier to edit a single value in the
constant declaration than to edit each line of code that refers to some
approximation.
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If you don't care about maintainable code than should is to strong. If you care
about maintainable code then should is too weak.
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Robin V
If you mirror a backup to a remote site, unload the tape and ship it to a
vault, it would take a clever cracker to ovevewrite it ;-)
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Brennan
When you're dealing with small integers that stand for themselves, theres
neither benfit nor harm for making them named constants. It's "magic numbers"
that you need to avoid, e.g., approximations, exchange rates.
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Don't most compilers these days do constant folding?
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Su
Eschew obfuscation. Either just use 0 and one, or write false=0;true=1.
Similarly, for PL/I either just use '0'b and '1'b or write
false='0'b;true='1'b;.
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The issue in contention is the wording of the text, not its location. I never
claimed that it was in the right manual.
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A simple true=1;false=0 should suffice for clarity.
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Why? I don't even see why it would work, and it certainly does add clarity.
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The default type for 3 and 4 is FIXED BINARY. PL/I does not have an integer
type, but the DIVIDE() BIF can be used to do an integer divide, and assigning a
quotient to a FIXED BIN(foo,0) variable may do what you want, depending on
precision issues.
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Yes, you can count on the truth values of 0 and 1 in REXX never changing.
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PL/I doesn't have integers. The ratiio 4/3 is FIXED BIN, with some number of
bits after the binary point.
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Paul Gilmartin <000433f078
All REXX implementations use 0 and 1 for false and true. But I agree that loss
of Internet access is crippling. May this be the last time.
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You didn't read The World According to ARPA? As for the WWW, I'd rather we had
stuck to Gopher.
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Sent: Sunday, Septemb
numbers.
Approximations to constants lie Pi and e should have suitable names in case
someone needs more precision. more precision.
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Sent
First, that code is highly obfuscated. Why would you ever want to write "IF foo
& TRUE" instead of "IF foo"?
Second, "ELSE IF ¬TRUE THEN foo" is dead code.
Third, there are no booleans in REXX; the only data type is character string.
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No: see
https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSY2V3_5.3.0/lr/resarithoprt.html#resarithoprt__fig16,
Tables 3 and 4. For 4/3, the scale factor is 1, not 0.
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4/3 yields 1.3, 04/3 yields 1332, ...
However, DIVIDE(4,3,16,15) yields 1.3...2 to 15 digits
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Sent: Sunday, September 6, 2020 7:58
No, FIXED BIN(15,0) is not an integer, and the precision rules can be very
annoying to those with a Fortran mindset.
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Whoops, I misread the chart.
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But if it quacks like a hippopotamus than it is not a duck. FIXED BIN(fo0,0)
and FIXED DEC(foo,0) do not quack like an integer.
Would you call 3.0E0 an integer?
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Yeah, I misread the table.
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It isn't boolean; everything in REXX is a character string.
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Poncelet
Sent: Monday, September 7, 2020 1:30 AM
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The value 00110001 in REXX is an 8 character string. The value '00110001'b in
PL/I is an 8 bit string. The REXX equivalent would be X2C(B2X(00110001)).
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PL/I has never had integers. The arithmetic rules for scaled fixed point are
different from those for integers. In integer arithmetic, (4/3)*6 is 6 That's
not the result you get in PL/I.
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No,it is not and that LE manual does not claim that it is. What that table
describes is how to declare parameters of various types. It's analogous to they
way you used to deal with character data in FORTRAN IV; you have to fudge using
the available types.
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Did you read what I wrote? The code you wrote has nothing to do with the
expression I gave. How about
DECLARE (I, J) FIXED DECIMAL (15);
I = 4; J = 3;
PUT ((I/J*J));
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http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3
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A good tech writer is a joy forever; one who will polish prose describing the
delivered product in such a way that it still describes the delivered product.
The other type is more common, and is reminicent of root canal.
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Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3
What release of what compiler. I remember when IBM changed the default for
FIXED BIN from (31,0) to (15,0) in order to eliminate some annoying anomalies
that didn't occur in
FORTRAN. Of course, back in those days there were fewer compiler options to
muddy the waters.
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Shmuel (Seym
Hindsight? I never understood the purpose of the web, given that gopher and
SGML were already here. All we were missing was a protocol called Mehitabel ;-)
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Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3
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Gone,
alas.
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Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3
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Bridges
Sent: Monday, September 7, 2020 8:20 PM
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Subject: Re: REXX true/false (was Constant Identi
/usr/local/bin/rexxtry on LINUX
say datatype(0||1)
NUM
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Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3
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Poncelet
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ed by the same disaster.
Most shops know the drill, but fewer follow it.
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Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
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Timothy Sipples
Sent: Tuesday, September 8, 2020 12:57 AM
To: IBM
ssifies the type of a value, at least in SAA REXX; in Object Rexx it's
different. In your code replace TRUE with the appropriate constants in
datatype(true) and the results won't change, because datatype test the vvalue,
not how it was calculated.
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Shmuel (Seym
tions, e.g, UTF-8
versus EBCDIC, as long as the external results are the same.
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Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
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Paul Gilmartin <000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.e
types because one is a valid input to sqrt and the other is not?
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Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3
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Poncelet
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