Re: editor (again) (was: C issue - 'struct stat')

2013-08-05 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 51ff03c9.8010...@gmail.com, on 08/05/2013 at 09:45 AM, David Crayford dcrayf...@gmail.com said: I'm not sure but whoever it was knows what they are doing. It's a very good implementation. It even handles the newline fiasco. The EBCDIC character that corresponds to an ASCII LF is

Re: COBOL ? - emulating recursive PERFORM statement

2013-08-05 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In cae1xxdhuxauskeet8gxeqafkouhpqyy2jc4ttghxd0qk9b+...@mail.gmail.com, on 08/04/2013 at 03:17 PM, John Gilmore jwgli...@gmail.com said: In fact, in my experience anyway, context almost always clarifies what is meant. The ambiguity is formal, not substantive. There is enough substantive

Re: COBOL ? - emulating recursive PERFORM statement

2013-08-05 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 8136429985448566.wa.paulgboulderaim@listserv.ua.edu, on 08/04/2013 at 03:34 PM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com said: ... any number of users? Or any number of virtual machines? In VM a CP user and a virtual machine are equivalent. Besides, adding the users of an OS in a virtual

Re: editor (again) (was: C issue - 'struct stat')

2013-08-05 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 6327543196613690.wa.paulgboulderaim@listserv.ua.edu, on 08/05/2013 at 11:16 AM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com said: All of which is comparable to, and irrelevant as, quibbling about whether, in EBCDIC, x'F1' is a real representation of the CCW to skip to top-of-form. Good

Re: C issue - 'struct stat'

2013-08-08 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 2883356613158771.wa.paulgboulderaim@listserv.ua.edu, on 08/07/2013 at 08:34 AM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com said: Alas, IBM developers abandoned this paradigm. One writes to the operator's console not using QSAM, but WTO; one writes to the TSO terminal not using QSAM to

Re: C issue - 'struct stat'

2013-08-08 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 00d501ce937a$2c525710$84f70530$@mcn.org, on 08/07/2013 at 10:26 AM, Charles Mills charl...@mcn.org said: You know, IMHO IBM blew it when the 31-bit thing came along and they came up with a bunch of design patches to QSAM like the DBCE. I disagree; I consider the DCB approach superior to

Re: OT? IBM licenses POWER architecture to other vendors.

2013-08-08 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 12eafe94-906a-4d41-99a7-574060371...@austin.utexas.edu, on 08/07/2013 at 09:22 PM, Pew, Curtis G curtis@austin.utexas.edu said: I don't have strong feelings about any particular architecture, but I do think we all have a compelling interest that the number of common, commercially

Re: OT? IBM licenses POWER architecture to other vendors.

2013-08-08 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 4781768291563977.wa.paulgboulderaim@listserv.ua.edu, on 08/07/2013 at 04:39 PM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com said: And I had been misled by chatter I had heard, possibly about the ECLipz endeavor, the rebuttal of which I failed to notice, to misbelieve the z has Power at its

Re: REXX exec, To compile or not to compile

2013-08-08 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 6599134786195468.wa.zatlas1yahoo@listserv.ua.edu, on 08/07/2013 at 10:24 PM, Ze'ev Atlas zatl...@yahoo.com said: I wanted to ask, where is EXECIO in the picture and how is it compares with using stream EXECIO is a REXX-aware TSO command; it has higher overhead than equivalent stream

Re: C issue - 'struct stat'

2013-08-08 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 5499902479450252.wa.paulgboulderaim@listserv.ua.edu, on 08/08/2013 at 11:07 AM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com said: On Wed, 7 Aug 2013 16:43:41 -0400, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: Alas, IBM developers abandoned this paradigm. One writes to the operator's console not using

Re: ENC: How GET a Return Code from a Caller.

2013-08-08 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In f28830408fdcde42acac8c31480ced5988de7c4...@srvexchsp01.cetip.com.br, on 08/08/2013 at 01:24 PM, Sérgio Lima Costa sergio.co...@cetip.com.br said: Sorry about this STUPID question. It would help if you put the question up front and identified the code of duas. For a REXX function or

Re: How GET a Return Code from a Caller.

2013-08-08 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 013401ce947c$eba46c40$c2ed44c0$@mindspring.com, on 08/08/2013 at 02:19 PM, Lizette Koehler stars...@mindspring.com said: Sergio - you posted to both IBMMAIN and z/VM newsgroups. Are you doing this under z/VM? Or z/OS? Each environment will behave differently There shouldn't be any

Re: Linkage Editing VSE Phase in z/OS

2013-08-11 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In CAKvHmLtCsh_B8uJmzXVomWVVhOi06p=pwc-o0gvbppc2an2...@mail.gmail.com, on 08/09/2013 at 04:13 PM, Roberto Halais roberto.hal...@gmail.com said: We are doing a VSE to z/OS conversion and had to do the following since we have no source. Ouch! We put the phase in a z/os pds member (lrecl 80)

Re: MVS ROUTE command is a bad influence on DB2 ERLY code

2013-08-14 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In of5b623f4f.38249aee-on85257bc6.007f6049-85257bc6.00800...@us.ibm.com, on 08/13/2013 at 07:17 PM, Peter Relson rel...@us.ibm.com said: It's surprising to me that simply routing the command causes a different linklst to be used (guessing the old one). It should be surprising. It is not

Re: Coping Unix files

2013-08-14 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 7806785360373454.wa.paulgboulderaim@listserv.ua.edu, on 08/13/2013 at 03:47 PM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com said: I believe SYSPROC, SYSOUT, SYSPRINT, and SYSIN are superfluous. They are in this case. SYSPROC and SYSEXEC are only needed if you invoke command procedures (CLIST,

Re: C issue - 'struct stat'

2013-08-15 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 6448819105643178.wa.zatlas1yahoo@listserv.ua.edu, on 08/14/2013 at 09:30 PM, Ze'ev Atlas zatl...@yahoo.com said: limited by their sysprogs I would have assumed that the systems programmers would be more interested in PCRE than the applications developers. HFS Do you do anything that

Re: C issue - 'struct stat'

2013-08-15 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 1324425089-1376535875-cardhu_decombobulator_blackberry.rim.net-1454793260-@b4.c1.bise6.blackberry, on 08/15/2013 at 03:04 AM, Ted MacNEIL eamacn...@yahoo.ca said: NOT set arbitrary rules! Nothing the OP were suggests that the rules were arbitrary, ore even that the systems programmers were

Re: C issue - 'struct stat'

2013-08-15 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 520c4685.2070...@gmail.com, on 08/15/2013 at 11:09 AM, David Crayford dcrayf...@gmail.com said: Well said! I've been lucky in that I've never worked at a customer site which had such stupid rules. In fact it's always been the other way round where the application folks had the power.

Re: MVS ROUTE command is a bad influence on DB2 ERLY code

2013-08-15 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In ofe0653aee.3d63bcdb-on85257bc8.0047b8fd-85257bc8.00480...@us.ibm.com, on 08/15/2013 at 09:05 AM, Peter Relson rel...@us.ibm.com said: whether by MGCR(E) or via SDSF Doesn't SDSF issue an MGCR[E] to process /cmd? -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT Atid/2

Re: Nested Clists

2013-08-15 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 4987517241938904.wa.rdigestanigmail@listserv.ua.edu, on 08/15/2013 at 02:58 PM, Raul Digestani rdigest...@gmail.com said: It is possible call a Clist in the form %Clistname from other (main) Clist? Well, examples in z/OS TSO/E CLISTs, SA22-7781-05 do so, e.g., 5.4.3 SYSPROC: IF

Re: Nested Clists

2013-08-16 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 6ad462b1-fe57-4cd0-99c3-e51ecf16c...@aim.com, on 08/16/2013 at 07:24 AM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com said: Which has nothing to do with nesting, CLIST, or TSO; it's simply Rexx syntax rules, Not even that; it's a misunderstanding of REXX syntax rules. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.)

Re: Nested Clists

2013-08-16 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 701042851-1376627055-cardhu_decombobulator_blackberry.rim.net-766543157-@b4.c1.bise6.blackberry, on 08/16/2013 at 04:24 AM, Ted MacNEIL eamacn...@yahoo.ca said: Just with REXX it must be: %EXEC (or, %CLIST). Classic misunderstanding of REXX. The expression must *evaluate* to %foo; the

Re: Nested Clists

2013-08-16 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 6758925306607968.wa.paulgboulderaim@listserv.ua.edu, on 08/16/2013 at 10:40 AM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com said: Which I attribute, in turn, to excessive[1] exposure to Assembler's inconsistent syntax. It's always a mistake to expect rules for one language to apply to

Re: RACF Database protection

2013-08-18 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 791e2a3e-e500-46bd-98a9-02f34c650...@gmail.com, on 08/18/2013 at 08:48 AM, Louis Losee llo...@gmail.com said: It is typically a difficult task to get a list of user ids without read access to the RACF database. It's easy to approximate. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT

Re: RACF Database protection

2013-08-18 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 520f48c1.1010...@bremultibank.com.pl, on 08/17/2013 at 11:56 AM, R.S. r.skoru...@bremultibank.com.pl said: Everyone with computer and the db Presumably the point is that you *don't* have access to his RACF DB. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT Atid/2

Re: Deleting Alias

2013-08-21 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In of3e905769.0a5fdaa3-on88257bce.0050dfe9-88257bce.00537...@sce.com, on 08/21/2013 at 08:11 AM, Skip Robinson jo.skip.robin...@sce.com said: Catalog aliases (as opposed to PDS member aliases) have two different uses. 3. MLA -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO

Re: JES2 EXIT 40 ASMA90 Parm Question

2013-08-21 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In cc42e2f56d60f24fb8a6bcc639d1d96306b4b...@samtcasxmb13.usa.dce.usps.gov, on 08/21/2013 at 03:39 PM, Hansen, Dave L - Eagan, MN dave.l.han...@usps.gov said: Last time I was assembling a CSECT I needed the PARM RENT. It might be needed in the link step, but in the assembly step it just turns

Re: JES2 EXIT 40 ASMA90 Parm Question

2013-08-22 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In a35b6d08166be34f8e94fe908c14d3c8038...@mihqpwexmb01.aaa-acg.net, on 08/21/2013 at 08:03 PM, Toole, Michael mto...@aaamichigan.com said: Reentrant code considerations are contingent on the calling environment.An exit routine called from the JES2 main task must be reentrant in the JES2

Re: Deleting Alias

2013-08-22 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In cae1xxdhzntyss_1w68jktuwrcqzy8uvvdaqeymfa6wzojpz...@mail.gmail.com, on 08/21/2013 at 10:21 PM, John Gilmore jwgli...@gmail.com said: In one shop, call it S to protect the guilty, the applications programmers were very reluctant, perhaps for sentimental reasons, to give up using it long

Re: Listing hidden ALIASes in a PDS/E?

2013-08-23 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 1249405589954549.wa.paulgboulderaim@listserv.ua.edu, on 08/22/2013 at 05:27 PM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com said: A consequence is that DDLIST member search of a mixed catenation will bypass a UNIX directory and report instead a member in a PDS(E) later in the catenation,

Re: DASD, Tape and other peripherals attached to a Mainframe

2013-08-23 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In CA+Myz1Xi2WKp7H+pwHve4ZpyvtLAHoED8zzrUu=vcz6nvvt...@mail.gmail.com, on 08/23/2013 at 07:30 AM, Quasar Chunawala quasar.chunawa...@gmail.com said: I work as an application programmer with a leading bank on CICS/Cobol for the past 4 years. Whilst I know, that data on the mainframe is stored

Re: SCRT question

2013-08-24 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 521898ce.8020...@bremultibank.com.pl, on 08/24/2013 at 01:28 PM, R.S. r.skoru...@bremultibank.com.pl said: My point is first member does not start on track boundary. Read his message. As a proof I presented some data of PDS having 1 dir block and two members. Specifying 1 directory block

Re: CEEPIPI assistance requested

2013-08-26 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In cafmxnw+q+q2gj+mrht+ze-rfgtpcwygmep_zkx_e70igein...@mail.gmail.com, on 08/24/2013 at 04:52 PM, Sam Siegel s...@pscsi.net said: Hello - I'm experiencing an 46D-18 abend Where? Providing module.csect+offset would eliminate a lot of guessing. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and

Re: SCRT question

2013-08-27 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 4473679277803350.wa.paulgboulderaim@listserv.ua.edu, on 08/25/2013 at 01:39 PM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com said: Small wonder old-timers resent the advent of PDSE. Some do. Some believe that IBM didn't go far enough. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT

Re: Rexx Execio to PDS

2013-08-27 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In cad60d68b445b3b511af79a64d84a...@shedlock.org, on 08/26/2013 at 02:21 PM, George Shedlock geo...@shedlock.org said:   EXECIO * DISKW Pdsout (STEM outstem. FINIS   The * is not equivalent to outstem.0 and the description of FINIS suggest that you may want it in a separate EXECIO invocation.

Re: Rexx Execio to PDS

2013-08-27 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 4868602893006577.wa.paulgboulderaim@listserv.ua.edu, on 08/26/2013 at 04:47 PM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com said: It should probably be stressed that EXECIO, unlike most Rexx utilities does not [substitute] the values of any simple symbols in the tail as described in 2.4.3,

Re: CEEPIPI assistance requested

2013-08-27 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In CAFMxNWKJXbzsB5OrtaZgREk-bK=kgb_i-kh0tjzuzukbtgg...@mail.gmail.com, on 08/26/2013 at 10:03 PM, Sam Siegel s...@pscsi.net said: Below is the module and offset. Did you search for IEAVTESP+0B3A? Create a PMR? Where is 04D3DA8A? Did you check the save area chain? -- Shmuel (Seymour J.)

Re: Rexx Execio to PDS

2013-08-27 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 8482246969138410.wa.karlheinz.doppelfeldfi...@listserv.ua.edu, on 08/27/2013 at 01:51 AM, Karl-Heinz Doppelfeld karl-heinz.doppelf...@f-i.de said: your code is right except your inititialyze for 'outstem.=0'. This initialyze the complete stem 'outstem.' with '0' That's only an issue due

Re: REXX and CLISTs to generate code to delete empty GDG bases

2013-08-27 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In bay170-w14141a07d63910d508a6a4b0...@phx.gbl, on 08/27/2013 at 08:14 AM, Rob JACKSON rwjackso...@msn.com said: I have received a request for expertise coding REXX and CLISTs to generate code to delete empty GDG bases. What's the issue, and why consider clist at this late date? --

Re: Rexx Execio to PDS

2013-08-27 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 8027846442974110.wa.paulgboulderaim@listserv.ua.edu, on 08/27/2013 at 07:36 AM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com said: Can you explain? Never mind; the text that I was looking at only applies if the line count is 0. Sorry for the mistake. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg

Re: SCRT question

2013-08-27 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 2436150148124474.wa.paulgboulderaim@listserv.ua.edu, on 08/27/2013 at 07:43 AM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com said: Would you be thinking of multi-volume? I was thinking of an equivalent to QPAM in TSS, but using an ACB interface and an RCI for PDS. And PDSE might have been a

Re: Rexx Execio to PDS

2013-08-27 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 9390988258167395.wa.paulgboulderaim@listserv.ua.edu, on 08/27/2013 at 08:33 AM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com said: I'm most familiar with address SYSCALL. Address is a keyword statement, not a REXX utility. That's one. No. That's one. But, right back at you: how many

Re: SMS Notices from Jes2

2013-08-27 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In f9bda1112828604888c2c399471141b204628b8...@pgexchis03.co.pg.md.us, on 08/27/2013 at 10:16 AM, Rouse, Willie wro...@co.pg.md.us said: I would like to send messages to application owners when critical jobs fail/abend. I don't know if there is a way to send an SMS messages from Jes2. Why not

Re: HLASM LE subroutine - LE condition handling / signaling

2013-08-27 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In caajsdjg5av6yb9rjqg1kachxzapvcwcz9gzt65srhkyegyf...@mail.gmail.com, on 08/27/2013 at 12:51 PM, John McKown john.archie.mck...@gmail.com said: So I thought it might be a good idea to use the CEESGL function to throw an exception instead of just returning a return code which could be ignored.

Re: HLASM LE subroutine - LE condition handling / signaling

2013-08-28 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In lcrr19p9rbgguhn83c09ae4cjv3i0km...@4ax.com, on 08/28/2013 at 03:33 PM, Binyamin Dissen bdis...@dissensoftware.com said: The best principle is the principle of least astonishment - it is best to not dictate from on high. That requires a knowledge of the local culture. For COBOL an exception

Re: Task to subtask communications

2013-08-28 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In cae1xxdeh6qkeg5pcjj3bi4crh4r86oywyhgagbwj4vcoudv...@mail.gmail.com, on 08/28/2013 at 11:03 AM, John Gilmore jwgli...@gmail.com said: As Chris Blaicher and Sam Siegel have suggested, PAUSE/RELEASE is logically complete. Anything that can be accomplished with WAIT/POST can be accomplished,

Re: UNIT=SEP still alive (?)

2013-08-29 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 3ebf9c9d119fd847b3a096c515a018f6949e4...@surfsdvmp35.cnasurety.net, on 08/29/2013 at 08:48 PM, Pommier, Rex R. rex.pomm...@cnasurety.com said: OK, what does (did) SEP= do? Separated allocations on different devices; think of it as the opposite of AFF. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz,

Re: UNIT=SEP still alive (?)

2013-09-01 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In CAE1XxDH4S9kUDN4T=psp43g0n_qpq7vkzo3syjct4z6qvkw...@mail.gmail.com, on 08/30/2013 at 08:43 AM, John Gilmore jwgli...@gmail.com said: SEP= dates back to the early days of OS/360, and it was then unproblematic. Device addresses comprised of just three hexadecimal digits were part numbers,

Re: UNIT=SEP still alive (?)

2013-09-03 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 6708946340357622.wa.paulgboulderaim@listserv.ua.edu, on 09/02/2013 at 05:13 PM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com said: And what's the TU corresponding to PASS? DALNDISP (0005) and DALCDISP (0006)with value X'02' is close. PASS is intended for multi-step jobs, and TSO sessions are

Re: Currently dispatched TCB in SRB mode

2013-09-03 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 2d80761c-6295-4519-b8fe-4acc25691...@optonline.net, on 09/03/2013 at 03:28 PM, Micheal Butz michealb...@optonline.net said: Is there a way of knowing the currently Dispatched TCB for the target Address Space in SRB mode I don't even know what that means. There might be none, one or many

Re: Syncsort v1.4 doesn't support Tape sorting - Need help !

2013-09-04 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In CCC717517FE24B23A126DDC3AE363D20@ericnbPC, on 09/03/2013 at 05:01 PM, Eric Bielefeld eric-ibmm...@wi.rr.com said: The 2 1410's actually shared a 1310 (I think) disk drive. 1301 or 1302. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT Atid/2http://patriot.net/~shmuel We

Re: UNIT=SEP still alive (?)

2013-09-04 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In caarmm9tsfrlc3zzj2fspy8kmu90crt8j714oxgvijlz7q4y...@mail.gmail.com, on 09/03/2013 at 10:43 PM, Tony Harminc t...@harminc.net said: But Dynalloc did not exist until MVS, Not as a supported facility for user code, but it was there for use by DAIR in TSO. As I recall, the interface was

Re: SYSIN in PROC -- technique

2013-09-04 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 1001144189627242.wa.paulgboulderaim@listserv.ua.edu, on 09/03/2013 at 07:30 PM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com said: It's logically impossible for JES3 setup to exploit or even accommodate the newer features of JCL, even dating back to IF...THEN...ELSE...ENDIF. Nonsense. --

Re: Who is Lagging Whom? (Was: SYSIN in PROC -- technique)

2013-09-04 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 89229058.74b4.44a3.800c.8809e9102...@aol.com, on 09/04/2013 at 02:58 AM, efinnell15 efinnel...@aol.com said: I though that went away when they move CI back to MVS? MVS just split the interpretation code of the R/I into separate Converter and Interpreter functions. Spelling errors in

Re: RACF Database protection

2013-09-08 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 0539133098161601.wa.elardus.engelbrechtsita.co...@listserv.ua.edu, on 09/05/2013 at 03:31 AM, Elardus Engelbrecht elardus.engelbre...@sita.co.za said: You can wish, but big blue wants backward compatibility, How is that an obstacle? If they do it, I'm sure that there will be a switch to

Re: Sortlessness?

2013-09-08 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 5227bf91.7010...@aim.com, on 09/04/2013 at 05:17 PM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com said: On 1 September 2013 00:51, Paul Gilmartin wrote: LE gave me WAD with a rationale so outrageous that I gave up in disgust, making no effort to escalate. An outrageous rationale is precisely

Re: UNIT=SEP still alive (?)

2013-09-08 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In p06240805ce4d9305cf4f@[192.168.1.11], on 09/04/2013 at 09:55 PM, Robert A. Rosenberg hal9...@panix.com said: Except for one MAJOR difference - PASS will leave the tape mounted (although it might rewind it) while KEEP will unload the tape Not if you specify RETAIN. Unfortunately, there's

Re: Searching for a SUBMIT and WRITER tool

2013-09-08 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 2091430682-1378385115-cardhu_decombobulator_blackberry.rim.net-518132742-@b4.c1.bise6.blackberry, on 09/05/2013 at 12:45 PM, Ted MacNEIL eamacn...@yahoo.ca said: Who are you to determine the needs of the user (whom you are [supposedly] supporting). There's only one user at your shop? Or

Re: OT: Obscurity Is Not Security... Or Is It?

2013-09-08 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 522b1cbc.1070...@bremultibank.com.pl, on 09/07/2013 at 02:31 PM, R.S. r.skoru...@bremultibank.com.pl said: Sometimes you know (or at least you feel) that your system is not bullteproof. In such case you could do the following: a) make your system bullteproof. WRONG. Usually you would

Re: Searching for a SUBMIT and WRITER tool

2013-09-08 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 3044928827063159.wa.paulgboulderaim@listserv.ua.edu, on 09/05/2013 at 08:30 AM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com said: Wouldn't it be nice to be able not to ABEND, but to checkpoint the job when it reaches the limlt and allow the user to insert more coins and continue? Submit a

Re: timezone_name?

2013-09-08 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 011401ceaa8d$7b6acab0$72406010$@mcn.org, on 09/05/2013 at 04:13 PM, Charles Mills charl...@mcn.org said: EST5EDT Due to parsing ambiguity, that doesn't tell you when to switch. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO position; see

Re: z/OS 2.1 and tools like COBOL 5.1, Fault Analyzer, Debug Tool, etc.

2013-09-08 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 0810432924290538.wa.dbohnaegonusa@listserv.ua.edu, on 09/06/2013 at 08:16 AM, Bohn, Dale db...@aegonusa.com said: The non-loaded class are only supported in the PM3(?) load modules which the binder will only put into a PDSE. Don't confuse load modules with program objects. The BINDER

Re: z/OS 2.1 and tools like COBOL 5.1, Fault Analyzer, Debug Tool, etc.

2013-09-08 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 4ee2851a2279b94cb70cd69b17410609ae51c...@s1flokydce2kx01.dm0001.info53.com, on 09/06/2013 at 12:01 PM, Jousma, David david.jou...@53.com said: A program object is a new style GOOF executable that is the output from the binder when binding an object module from Enterprise COBOL V5.1. No.

Re: z/OS 2.1 and tools like COBOL 5.1, Fault Analyzer, Debug Tool, etc

2013-09-08 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In vnetibm.20130907162208.9...@bldgate.vnet.ibm.com, on 09/07/2013 at 09:22 AM, Tom Ross tmr...@stlvm20.vnet.ibm.com said: No, the COBOL Migration Guide is correct, all COBOL programs produce GOFF output with COBOL V5, so after Binding you will have a program object and it must reside in a

Re: Destination z: Strolling Down Memory (Core) Lane

2013-09-08 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 1378659509.50854.yahoomail...@web181006.mail.ne1.yahoo.com, on 09/08/2013 at 09:58 AM, Jon Perryman jperr...@pacbell.net said: WOW. How did it use drum as main memmory? Same way as any other drum computer. Did it have like 1K of real memory A drum *is* real memory. In this case, 2K 10

Re: timezone_name?

2013-09-08 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In cajtoo5-bqbx01z2xwzf_z0eoc5nzua+5pxat6rep1oazzwc...@mail.gmail.com, on 09/08/2013 at 08:02 AM, Mike Schwab mike.a.sch...@gmail.com said: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tz_database does tell you when to switch. The Devil is in the details. The string EST5EDT doesn't have enough information to

Re: z/OS 2.1 and tools like COBOL 5.1, Fault Analyzer, Debug Tool, etc

2013-09-09 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 4ee2851a2279b94cb70cd69b17410609ae9bb...@s1flokydce2kx01.dm0001.info53.com, on 09/09/2013 at 11:53 AM, Jousma, David david.jou...@53.com said: I'm pretty sure that most of them will be converted with a simple DFDSS job If there is no PDS sharing across sysplex boundaries. -- Shmuel

Re: Teletypewriter Model 33

2013-09-09 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In CA+Myz1WrTaxPoJk_8ODT4DofHG5L6=zr96bos01nd1atgqh...@mail.gmail.com, on 09/09/2013 at 10:29 AM, Quasar Chunawala quasar.chunawa...@gmail.com said: Today, the mainframe staff in any enterprise work on PC running special software(the terminal emulator) to connect to the *mainframe server* over

Re: Teletypewriter Model 33

2013-09-09 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 5834228785212676.wa.paulgboulderaim@listserv.ua.edu, on 09/09/2013 at 09:50 AM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com said: Ah! Thermal paper? But that provided me the epiphany that computers could deal with mixed-case text. IBM supported mixed-case text well before the TI noisy 700.

Re: The Trainer's Friend Going Out Of Business Sale

2013-09-09 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 522dbcd6.9040...@trainersfriend.com, on 09/09/2013 at 06:19 AM, Steve Comstock st...@trainersfriend.com said: After 38 years of creating and delivering training courses for IBM mainframe (OS/360 through z/OS) application programmers, The Trainer's Friend, Inc. is going out of business.

Re: Currently dispatched TCB in SRB mode

2013-09-09 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In ce8d5260-340d-4e2b-ace0-46984418d...@optonline.net, on 09/09/2013 at 05:20 PM, Micheal Butz michealb...@optonline.net said: So in other words STNSM. AREA,X'FC' before That affects the PSW of the CPU your code is running on; it doesn't disable or lock any other CPU. And STNSM AREA,X'03'.

Re: Teletypewriter Model 33

2013-09-09 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 6316392288346624.wa.paulgboulderaim@listserv.ua.edu, on 09/09/2013 at 11:14 AM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com said: Then what went wrong? You used the wrong tool. Try ALLOCATE DD(SYSIN) DSN(*) Why would I do that for an interactive command? Try EDIT foo.text. And what does

Re: Teletypewriter Model 33

2013-09-09 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 522e15d6.2000...@valley.net, on 09/09/2013 at 02:39 PM, Gerhard Postpischil gerh...@valley.net said: IBM introduced the 1050 (similar to the 1052 operators console) The 1050 was a family of terminals attached through a 1051; the low end S/360 console was the 1052-7, which did not require a

Re: How much can sysprogs steal was Re: OT: Obscurity Is Not Security... Or Is It?

2013-09-10 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 522f0d76.2020...@bremultibank.com.pl, on 09/10/2013 at 02:15 PM, R.S. r.skoru...@bremultibank.com.pl said: Of course it is as old as SPECIAL and AUDITOR, Every generation believes that it invented sex. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT Atid/2

Re: How much can sysprogs steal was Re: OT: Obscurity Is Not Security... Or Is It?

2013-09-10 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 17868922.1560312.1378814955966.JavaMail.root@vznit170182, on 09/10/2013 at 07:09 AM, Russell Witt res09...@verizon.net said: Of course, it would still have been possible for the assembler programmer to move an exit into production that granted him special authority; I've been in jobs where

Re: Currently dispatched TCB in SRB mode

2013-09-10 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In offbf2a795.663da601-on85257be2.003f3447-85257be2.003fa...@us.ibm.com, on 09/10/2013 at 07:34 AM, Peter Relson rel...@us.ibm.com said: True. But it does not need to. Disablement of your CPU is the serialization that is required. For accessing the PSA of a different CPU? This presumes that

Re: PDS/E, Shared Dasd, and COBOL V5

2013-09-11 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 0de6a9840123e547b061ac5b6765c026bd0...@exmb-05.ad.wsu.edu, on 09/10/2013 at 02:44 AM, Gibney, Dave gib...@wsu.edu said: Yes, PDS/E shared outside of Sysplex is a problem if the sharing is not close to strictly read only. Specifically, address spaces with the PDS/E open in LPAR A will not

Re: NTP server with System z for PCI-DSS compliance

2013-09-11 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In offafe5c57.5a2683f5-on48257be3.002c050c-48257be3.00333...@sg.ibm.com, on 09/11/2013 at 05:17 PM, Timothy Sipples sipp...@sg.ibm.com said: By the way, I'm rather tired of the implicit and explicit criticisms that Server Time Protocol (STP) has a separate charge. The criticism is *not* that

Re: SSI update

2013-09-11 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In capikfhevlqhxirnrfqqf63rofqa+_ra1d2mmzvcygg+mwnt...@mail.gmail.com, on 09/11/2013 at 01:02 PM, mf db dbajava...@gmail.com said: I am trying to understand if Dynamic SSI update can overlay the storage. If you provide your own subsystem, it can overlay storage; it doesn't matter whether you

Re: Teletypewriter Model 33

2013-09-11 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 1628372020520296.wa.paulgboulderaim@listserv.ua.edu, on 09/09/2013 at 09:32 PM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com said: RHETORIC Why does DSN(*) exist at all? /RHETORIC To accomodate batch applications under TSO. What you suggest is more like batch than interactive. EDIT is like

Re: Teletypewriter Model 33

2013-09-11 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 6865411767021646.wa.paulgboulderaim@listserv.ua.edu, on 09/10/2013 at 01:00 AM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com said: But how much IBM software in 1978 actually exploited it? Batch or interactive? IBM interactive software exploited lower case long before the date you asked about.

Re: Teletypewriter Model 33

2013-09-11 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In e63998df.daf9.4ae4.a9da.768ad375a...@aol.com, on 09/10/2013 at 02:29 AM, efinnell15 efinnel...@aol.com said: There was a 'Universal Train'. I don't remember the number. Probably UN on the 1403 and U11 on the 3211. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT Atid/2

Re: Teletypewriter Model 33

2013-09-11 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 029201ceae5d$2b0a7420$811f5c60$@mxg.com, on 09/10/2013 at 02:37 PM, Barry Merrill ba...@mxg.com said: I vaguely recall benchmarking the print time of several Print Trains in the early 70s, and my memory of specifics was weak, but I know I identified three or four specific IDs that were 2 to

Re: Currently dispatched TCB in SRB mode

2013-09-11 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 0fl0391cl08fpq7fjacml790i0ukfv2...@4ax.com, on 09/11/2013 at 02:40 PM, Binyamin Dissen bdis...@dissensoftware.com said: With disablement, you can guarantee that your processor will not be interrupted between fetching the address and accessing it You can not, however, be guarntied that

Re: IEE313I when varying a console online

2013-09-12 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In c11ded818b17214792b97fba28712bed171b2d0...@jer-email1.jer.ad.malam.com, on 09/11/2013 at 06:35 PM, ÔÒÚ ß ÓßÚ gad...@malam.com said: When I try to vary the device (V xxx,console) What is the status when you do a D U? Have you defined it as a console on that system? -- Shmuel

Re: Teletypewriter Model 33

2013-09-12 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 0711121653687111.wa.paulgboulderaim@listserv.ua.edu, on 09/11/2013 at 11:00 AM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com said: Sometimes it appears that you deliberately over-prune quoted material so you can refute something the previous poster never said. I have no doubt that it appears

Re: IEE313I when varying a console online

2013-09-12 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In c11ded818b17214792b97fba28712bed171b2d0...@jer-email1.jer.ad.malam.com, on 09/11/2013 at 08:49 PM, gad...@malam.com said: Is is defined in the consolexx member. Did you IPL since chsnging the CONSOLxx member? Are you sure that you are using that member? -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz,

Re: 1403 Printer components manual GA24-3073-3

2013-09-12 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 2105594249840396.wa.paulgboulderaim@listserv.ua.edu, on 09/11/2013 at 02:57 PM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com said: WAD? For shame! Damaging the ribbon is nothing. I've been told that on the original 1403, forcing a print check by firing the hammers at the maximum rate could

Re: Currently dispatched TCB in SRB mode

2013-09-12 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In off734f566.cc66f421-on85257be4.00037347-85257be4.0003f...@us.ibm.com, on 09/11/2013 at 08:43 PM, Jim Mulder d10j...@us.ibm.com said: Then a Bind Break is done Thanks. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT Atid/2http://patriot.net/~shmuel We don't care. We don't

Re: PDS/E, Shared Dasd, and COBOL V5

2013-09-12 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 20130912071242.3bfa3fc8d897d3c140761...@gmx.net, on 09/12/2013 at 07:12 AM, nitz-...@gmx.net nitz-...@gmx.net said: Have that application call an authorized command or program (iebcopy will suffice) on at least two processors/tcbs at the same time. How? Won't the TMP set you

Re: Currently dispatched TCB in SRB mode

2013-09-12 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 5mr239lukvqm4q0ijvvv6f2o1tp2cul...@4ax.com, on 09/12/2013 at 10:39 AM, Binyamin Dissen bdis...@dissensoftware.com said: As Jim pointed out, obviously the other processor cannot free these areas until all processors acknowledge the attempt. It wasn't obvious until he told us about the

Re: NTP server with System z for PCI-DSS compliance

2013-09-12 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In of811b14da.8838eb3f-on48257be4.0035cc4f-48257be4.00386...@sg.ibm.com, on 09/12/2013 at 06:14 PM, Timothy Sipples sipp...@sg.ibm.com said: OK, so that's where you'd like to draw the no additional charge/separately chargeable line. I can see several possibilities. In order of preference:

Re: PDS/E, Shared Dasd, and COBOL V5

2013-09-12 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 5231e3f7.9090...@phoenixsoftware.com, on 09/12/2013 at 08:55 AM, Ed Jaffe edja...@phoenixsoftware.com said: There are a surprising number of PDS usage scenarios that work differently (or not at all) with PDSE. Sure. But wouldn't it have been prudent for shops to start slowly migrating

Re: Currently dispatched TCB in SRB mode

2013-09-12 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In dff339povt538g7a6bi2gc5p150rf91...@4ax.com, on 09/12/2013 at 04:14 PM, Binyamin Dissen bdis...@dissensoftware.com said: As the data is available to other processors, it was obvious to me that changes could not be made unilaterally. What was not obvious was how just disabling interrupts was

Re: NTP server with System z for PCI-DSS compliance

2013-09-12 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 5231cab7.8000...@acm.org, on 09/12/2013 at 09:07 AM, Joel C. Ewing jcew...@acm.org said: Forward-only nudging wouldn't be very useful unless the TOD clock was also deliberately designed to always run a hair slow Then maybe steering by slowing down every N ticks, but I'd be very nervous

Re: Currently dispatched TCB in SRB mode

2013-09-12 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 5231f289.9080...@phoenixsoftware.com, on 09/12/2013 at 09:57 AM, Ed Jaffe edja...@phoenixsoftware.com said: And that serialization is often *NOT* documented! You have to learn it via (in-person or electronic) discussions with helpful folks like Jim Mulder Who was very helpful. --

Re: Teletypewriter Model 33

2013-09-12 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 08df7293-a3ba-47ce-80a6-25eb8a987...@aim.com, on 09/12/2013 at 08:14 AM, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com said: That meets my understanding of suggest. The problem is that I suggested something totally unrelated to what you attributed to me. I suggest that you try EDIT in order to see

Re: NTP server with System z for PCI-DSS compliance

2013-09-12 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In of919a62a3.59be1d57-on88257be4.00500ef8-88257be4.00510...@sce.com, on 09/12/2013 at 07:44 AM, Skip Robinson jo.skip.robin...@sce.com said: While the most obvious value of STP may be synchronization of multiple z CECs in a glass house, it is invaluable for synchronizing all z CECs with the

Re: PDS/E, Shared Dasd, and COBOL V5

2013-09-13 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In ngf43910qavrl8b2ci7vs2m3uto3isj...@4ax.com, on 09/12/2013 at 07:29 PM, Clark Morris cfmpub...@ns.sympatico.ca said: the person who decided that local SNA 327X devices could only be accessed though VTAM They used to be accessed by TCAM as well. If your complaint is that the CONSOLE address

Re: Local consoles could not be SNA devices at IPL time was Re: PDS/E, Shared Dasd, and COBOL V5

2013-09-13 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 9sc6395775c3rd4dp7icvtu31c4kp0l...@4ax.com, on 09/13/2013 at 12:51 PM, Clark Morris cfmpub...@ns.sympatico.ca said: My complaint, poorly stated is that locally attached 327x devices had to be NON-SNA in order to be used as consoles. Given that there was only a single address for a local

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