Re: CeBIT and mainframes

On 19 March 2016 at 10:29, Mick Graley wrote: > Nah, not letting him off that easily! > The word "coded" is the same in both languages, and BCD ¬= BSD. > Like us Brits tend to say "kicks" and the Americans tend to say "see, > eye, see, ess" but it's still actually CICS :-)

Re: Why sort (was Microprocessor Optimization Primer)

On 3 April 2016 at 02:50, Andrew Rowley wrote: > One question that puzzles me (maybe it's my lack of an application > programming background): Why is sort used so much on z/OS? As others have pointed out, sort on z/OS (whether IBM's or other vendors') can be used

Re: New to RACF

On 21 April 2016 at 12:01, Tracy Adams wrote: > seteuid 0 > Error codes: 0 -1 A4 B7F1C00 > EMVSSAF2ERR: SAF/RACF error > > Dubious nothing has changed in the RACF world and this use to work. The only > thing I can find is that the userid needs acc(read) to bpx.superuser

Re: got to have it! device (pen shaped) with 32 GiB flash, flashlight, stylus, & ball point pen.

On 22 April 2016 at 10:02, Nims,Alva John (Al) wrote: > Second, the USB drive built into a pen is not so new, PNY had created one and > I think it had only about 2gb or smaller. You took the cap off to get to it. > I had one, but many, many years ago. I have a

Re: An explanation for branch performance?

On 29 April 2016 at 11:50, Charles Mills wrote: > What about substituting a branch relative for the branch on base register? > Trivial code change to make. I was about to suggest that too. All the IBM published material I've seen on this suggests that -- all else being equal

Re: An explanation for branch performance?

On 29 April 2016 at 12:06, David Crayford <dcrayf...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 29/04/2016 11:55 PM, Tony Harminc wrote: >> >> On 29 April 2016 at 11:50, Charles Mills <charl...@mcn.org> wrote: >>> >>> What about substituting a branch relative for the bra

Re: An explanation for branch performance?

On 29 April 2016 at 12:59, Jim Mulder wrote: > The relevant comparison is not conditional branch vs. > unconditional branch. It is branch not taken vs. branch taken. > Sequential execution is always best. Branch prediction tries to > mitigate some of the effects of

Re: Following IBM-MAIN on iOS (or Android, for that matter)

On 29 April 2016 at 02:23, Martin Packer wrote: > Other than using an email client on iOS has anyone found a good way of > participating in LISTSERV groups on iOS? > > To keep this interesting for about half of y'all, same question for Android. I don't use Apple

Re: New to RACF

On Apr 21, 2016 9:33 PM, "Anthony Thompson" wrote: > > The error reason is actually 0B7F1C00, it's the C/C++ library functions being called from within copytree command (like printf, fprint, etc) that drop leading zeroes. I've seen it many times in error messages from

Re: What was a 3314? (was: Whither VIO)

On 19 May 2016 at 16:56, Martin Packer wrote: > The whole disk is NOT in your virtual storage; The track window IS (IIRC). Well I wasn't thinking *your* (the caller's) virtual storage; obviously it can't all be there. I was thinking there would be a VSM mapping of the

Re: What was a 3314? (was: Whither VIO)

On 19 May 2016 at 01:44, Martin Packer wrote: > It's sort of come back to me: > > A small track size limits the virtual storage window (probably usually > below the line in 1989 when I looked at this). Or it might've been > cylinder. But I think it was track. > > I'm

Re: Whither VIO?

On 11 May 2016 at 12:05, Jesse 1 Robinson wrote: > One question I have. In a previous life, we defined VIO (I believe) to device > 3314 even though we had none left on the floor. The device type was still > valid in IOGEN at that time, and I was told that device

Re: Whither VIO?

On 11 May 2016 at 10:07, Martin Packer wrote: > The nasty answer to "what happened to VIO?" is "nothing". :-) :-( > > Seriously, it remains as before but implemented in central storage rather > than expanded. VIO long predates the existence of expanded storage. It was

Re: EXTERNAL: Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: smp/e sha-2 support?

On 16 May 2016 at 15:47, Jerry Whitteridge wrote: > I'd reply to the Auditor "Please define Admin access as there is no one > privilege that grants all access" But there are several -- perhaps many -- privileges that grant access to grant all access. For

Re: How well does z/OS handle large, but sparse, memory objects?

On 16 May 2016 at 11:29, Paul Gilmartin <000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > In circumvention, AIX introduced a nonstandard signal, SIGDANGER, > thrown when backing storage was (FSVO) nearly exhausted. OT, but are signals "thrown"? I know that in C++ and Java, exceptions are

Re: How to copy one pack IPL'able z/OS to DVD.

On 13 May 2016 at 19:19, R.S. wrote: > It's absurd. Completely ridiculous. > Pendrive from IBM is not likely to have a virus. True. But it's related to the argument that airline pilots should not be security screened at airports. Of course it's not about screening

Re: was I in a coma when this was discussed: z/OS FBA Services

On 20 April 2016 at 12:16, John McKown wrote: > Apparently for the DS8700 and above with an option called zDDB. > > http://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/api/content/SSLTBW_2.2.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r2.ieaa800/fbaasm.htm?locale=en FBA on z/OS? Well I don't know if

Re: S0C4-11 abend caused by BASSM to address with all X'00' bytes

On 22 July 2016 at 11:14, Peter Hunkeler wrote: > I got a CEEDUMP and an analysis from StartTool DA. Both tell me the failing > PSW is 478D0400 A31A7BB8 > Looking at the SVC dump at the PRB/XSB which is now producing the SVC dump > (WLIC is 00020033), I see: > XSB+00E0 PSW16

Re: S0C4-11 abend caused by BASSM to address with all X'00' bytes

On 22 July 2016 at 14:32, Ed Jaffe wrote: >> Just curious that the PER bit is on. Was someone running a SLIP of a >> PERish sort? > > These days the PER bit is *always* on, in any serious development/test > environment, because of the ever-present ZAD SLIP in effect.

Re: C/C++ maximum number of arguments on a function prototype

On 12 August 2016 at 13:20, Charles Mills wrote: > Holy moly! 303 parameters? Can someone actually keep track of what they are > coding? Is this a best programming practice? One hopes that such a thing is program-generated, and not coded by some hard working programmer.

Re: Interface to query length of storage allocated with CEEGTST LE service

On 20 July 2016 at 16:14, Peter Hunkeler wrote: > When using LE service CEEGTST to allocate a piece of heap storage, the length > is provided by the caller of the service and the address of the storage is > returned by the service. To free that storage CEEFRST is called. Only the

Re: AW: Re: IBM Knowledge Centre

On 7 July 2016 at 11:01, Sue Shumway wrote: > Just out of curiosity, if ePubs of z/OS books provided all the same > functionalities as PDFs (same technical content, same methods for > obtaining/saving, etc.), plus had added benefits such as visual scaling and >

Re: IPCS error help

[Yes, I realize I'm replying to an old posting] On 11 February 2015 at 09:28, Nick Jones wrote: > We saw this internally recently-- > I believe this specific 878-10 is due to the installation of a ++APAR for > OA43495 which I think is for new hardware toleration. Either

Re: IBM Knowledge Centre

On 3 July 2016 at 18:35, Charles Mills wrote: > I can understand the move away from BookManager (as much as some of us loved > it). It was a proprietary > technology and I am sure expensive to maintain. I bet if IBM open-sourced Book Manager, or at least the ,BOO data formats,

Re: Help identifying source of SMF 80 record

On 5 July 2016 at 11:43, Charles Mills wrote: > I am looking at an SMF 80 record from a customer that I am having trouble > making sense of. The customer is definitely a RACF user, not a TSS user. The > customer I believe is on z/OS V2R1. > > It is a valid SMF 80 record. The

Re: Multithreaded output to stderr and stdout

On 29 June 2016 at 14:00, John McKown wrote: > I may be blowing smoke here, if so I'm sure someone will point it out :-}. I think you're on the right (write...?) track. [...] > A DD pointing to a sequential data set is _not_ designed to be > written to by two

Re: Query regarding MVCSK/MVCDK

On 7 February 2017 at 12:03, Binyamin Dissen wrote: > POPs is not clear as to whether R1=0 will allow access to all keys. It does > seem logical, but is it true? > Although it perhaps doesn't say so explicitly in the descriptions for MVCSK/MVCDK, I think it is

Re: BSAM vs QSAM

On 6 February 2017 at 09:22, R.S. wrote: > W dniu 2017-02-06 o 14:59, Ron Burr pisze: > >> As far as I know, reading a physical sequential (or partitioned dataset >> member) in reverse order can only be done using BSAM (via the BSP macro). >> Not that many

Re: Clarification on Recognizing My SubSystem Interface (ssi) Function Rou tines

On 30 January 2017 at 09:39, esst...@juno.com <esst...@juno.com> wrote: > Tony Harminc wrote > >>That's up to you. You look at the command text and decide if you are >>interested. If you want to process only commands prefixed by the >>command character you specified,

Re: Clarification on Recognizing My SubSystem Interface (ssi) Function Rou tines

On 27 January 2017 at 19:21, esst...@juno.com wrote: > My understanding is for broadcast requests, the SSI checks every > subsystem to determine if each subsystem is interested in the requested > function. > . > If the SSI finds a subsystem that is interested in the requested

Re: Blockchain

On 26 January 2017 at 12:43, Cannaerts, Jan wrote: > z/Series machines are not geared towards floating point operations the way > commodity GPUs, FPGAs, or purposely built BitCoin miners are. So you surely > would spend more money on electricity powering the machine than

Re: VSMLIST

On 21 February 2017 at 19:01, Joe Reichman wrote: > I am Looking for Storage that was GetMain'ed and Page'ed out It's just not a sensible thing to be looking for, unless perhaps for some kind of performance measurement. And that's not the sort of thing you can just write

Re: Maximum size of a PDSE library?

On 21 February 2017 at 19:51, Anthony Thompson wrote: > There was a Redbook entitled 'Partitioned Data Set Extended Usage Guide', > document number SG24-6106-01, dated May 2005 (so it very much pre-dated PDSE > V2). > > That Redbook stated that that PDSE directories

Re: Unterse for 64 bit LINUX?

On 17 February 2017 at 14:55, Gary Jacek wrote: > > Is there software available for 64 bit LINUX that is compatible with a file > that is tersed using AMATERSE > on zOS 2.1 ? 64 bit Linux on what platform? Intel? z? ARM? > The vendor who wants to unterse the file has

Re: VSMLIST

On 22 February 2017 at 11:16, Joseph Reichman wrote: > I know if you specify GSPV or SHPSV on the attach tasks can Share ? A subpool > If this is not specified on the attach would a subtask get a S0C4 for > referencing storage > Obtained by the originating task Use of

Re: S/390 G6 SE Driver Disk

On 22 February 2017 at 10:28, Jim Stefanik wrote: > I guess I'll have to wait and see what their support says; although the one I > talked to yesterday seemed to suggest that I can't get a support contract > until the machine works, which makes zero sense...unsure if this

Re: IBM LinuxONE Rockhopper

On 12 February 2017 at 19:50, Timothy Sipples wrote: > IBM's CFO also reported 8 new customers in the quarter, 29 in 2016, and 80 > since > introduction of the IBM z13. > Is that "net new" or just plain "new"? Tony H.

Re: Job Loyalty

On 11 February 2017 at 07:35, Salah Balboul wrote: > This is "Capitalism", making money is king. Every large corporation tries > to sell this "Job Loyalty" to workers, however, rest assured this is a one > sided affair. They want you to be loyal. >From way back on January 13,

Re: JZOS calling a 64 bit class

On 18 August 2016 at 10:37, Kirk Wolf wrote: > FWIW, there aren't such things as "64-bit classes".The class files > (byte code) is not architecture specific. I wondered what Janet meant by that, but figured I'd missed one of the many changes going on in the Java world

Re: Assembly Error IEAMSCHD I can't see it may be you can and can Help thanks

On 26 February 2017 at 00:21, Joe Reichman wrote: > I just cut and past the "RTMRADDR" from the documentation site and it > assembled don't understand The keyword is RMTRADDR= . If you had posted the complete error messages from your assembly, this might have been

Re: Loading Java dump into IPCS

On 22 August 2016 at 16:53, Janet Graff < 004dc9e91b6d-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > Can someone point me to a manual on how to read a JVM dump? I have little experience in this, and none current. But IBM has had some tools and doc on JVM dumps going back 10+ years, and maybe it's

Re: IBMLINK SR Application Unusble

On 25 August 2016 at 08:22, Doug Henry <012e22efeed4-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > Print this page > E-mail this page > Digg > Facebook > Twitter > Delicious > Linked In > Stumbleupon > Google+ A good ad blocker makes short work of those "social

Re: LE CEEDUMP "doing too many favors"

On 31 August 2016 at 10:22, Charles Mills wrote: > Here's an example. How does it know the high halves of the registers are > irrelevant just because I am AMODE 31? Maybe I was in AMODE 64 a second ago. > Maybe I am supposed to be in AMODE 64 and need clues as to why I am not. >

Re: rexx CEXE eye catcher format ?

On 8 September 2016 at 00:55, Itschak Mugzach wrote: > I am interested in ibm's Rexx compiler eye-catcher. Can you point me to the > document that the information you mentioned described there? As I said, it's in the TSO/E Customization book. The edition I have here is

Re: TSO User ID Rules (Was: z/OS and code pages)

On 14 September 2016 at 02:05, Timothy Sipples wrote: > (a) If you want your RACF ID to be usable within MVS subsystems, the first > character cannot be a numeric digit (0 through 9). What, in this context, is an MVS subsystem? And what does "to be usable within MVS

Re: z/OS and code pages

On 14 September 2016 at 14:53, Paul Gilmartin <000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: >>But Katakana shares the same hex values as lower case English letters. I have >>always had upper case User IDs and passwords. Perhaps it is a RACF >>restriction? >> > What technical concern (I

Re: Bypassing s322

On 14 September 2016 at 16:34, Bill Woodger wrote: > When IBM decided to use "character" comparisons where possible for numerics, > they had to ban the negative zero. > Although in a decimal compare a zero is zero, no matter how signed, in a > character compare it is

Re: A Programing language called Scala?

On 8 September 2016 at 16:07, Kirk Wolf wrote: > Tony, > > Everyone can have their own opinion. Mine is that the statement means > that Java byte code is eligible; otherwise it is inconsistent and already > violated by many, many cases and organizations including IBM

Re: z/OS and code pages

On 13 September 2016 at 19:09, zMan wrote: > This is probably a dumb question, but that's never stopped me before: :-) > If my name were "*Étienne*", would I be able to have that as a TSO userid? No. > Or would I have to suffer through just "*Etienne*", sans accent

Re: Converson of hex value to character

On 12 September 2016 at 11:52, Bernd Oppolzer wrote: > You need two additional bytes after ONEBYTE and TWOBYTE, > so that UNPK can do its nibble switching thing there. If you have many bytes to convert (say, more than 7), the TROT (TRanslate One to Two) instruction

Re: rexx CEXE eye catcher format ?

On 11 September 2016 at 21:18, Scott Ford wrote: > I have limited experience with compiled, while the interpreted I have written > since before > dinosaurs roamed the earth There were dinosaurs roaming in 1983...? Tony H.

Re: TSO User ID Rules (Was: z/OS and code pages)

On 15 September 2016 at 02:41, Timothy Sipples <sipp...@sg.ibm.com> wrote: > Tony Harminc wrote: >>What, in this context, is an MVS subsystem? ...And where is this >>text from -- evidently not the RACF Security Administrator's Guide? > > You are allowed to take a look a

Re: What is the STCB?

On 12 September 2016 at 10:16, Charles Mills wrote: > What is the STCB? For example, > > 312 (138) ADDRESS 4 TCBSTCB ADDRESS OF STCB General purpose above-the-line extension of the TCB, conforming to more modern standards (eyecatcher, 31-bit clean pointers, etc.) It's been

Re: How do you say "z/OS"?

On 25 September 2016 at 16:40, Bill Woodger wrote: > The *letter* is pronounced "zed". The sound of the letter is zzz. Zoo, Zorro, > zero. "How do you spell ZEE?" "ZED EEE EEE". "How do you spell ZED?" "ZEE EEE DEE". Tony H.

Re: Question About ATTACHX and ECB

On 4 October 2016 at 16:15, Steve Thompson wrote: > Yes. So that would mean that I got, xx40. I'm not sure what the above means, but I agree with Charles that you are way overcomplicating this. CALLDISP and SVC 50?. Could you not tell us the actual content of your ECB, as

Re: Bypassing s322

On 15 September 2016 at 16:24, Bill Woodger wrote: > February this year, in the Archives, "COBOL Code Gened for MOVE COMP-3 S9(9) > to S9(8)" Got it, thanks. Tony H. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff

Re: Bypassing s322

On 14 September 2016 at 18:05, Bill Woodger wrote: > Yes, the compiler generates additional code to ensure that a -ve zero cannot > be the result of anything in COBOL. This would surely have potentially as much overhead as using CP rather than CLC in the first place. Do

Re: How do you say "z/OS"?

On 16 September 2016 at 16:22, Porowski, Kenneth wrote: > DOS was always 'doss' > > OS/360 was 'oh ess 360' > SVS was 'ess vee ess' > MVT was 'em vee tee' > MVS was 'em vee ess' Except perhaps in "PARTURIENT MONTES, NASCETVR RIDICVLVS MVS", where it would sound like

Re: z/OS TCP/IP question: name resolution order/override

On 21 September 2016 at 18:40, Phil Smith wrote: > I had some vague idea that on z/OS, the Resolver can use some or all of: > > 1. DNS > > 2. Its own configuration data sets, via GLOBALIPNODES statements > > 3. /etc/hosts > > I just spent some time looking at IBM

Re: k4t4949b (September 2016 refresh of the z/OS 2.2 manuals)

On 20 September 2016 at 12:18, Alan Young wrote: > This is correct. 7zip is not the problem. The problem is the end user's > unzip application. The zip specification has been extended over time to > support additional compression methods. See >

Re: k4t4949b (September 2016 refresh of the z/OS 2.2 manuals)

On 19 September 2016 at 14:31, Kevin Minerley wrote: > Unfortunately, this is working as designed. If indeed it's the sk4t-4949-xx > deliverable, it is large. As a matter of fact, were > it to be be put on a dual-layer DVD it wouldn't fit (at least in this pass). The file

Re: Dump in 64 bit mode "Storage around GPR2 is invalid."

On 25 August 2016 at 12:11, Janet Graff <004dc9e91b6d-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > I have XGR'd GPR2 and GPR3 before the abend and GPR5 definitely does not > contain a bunch Beees. I'm not sure quite what you mean by this. Your own code (that you know has run not long before the

Re: Dump in 64 bit mode "Storage around GPR2 is invalid."

On 25 August 2016 at 12:47, Charles Mills wrote: > I am generally very happy with the CEEDUMP and find it quite satisfactory. My experience with CEEDUMP is that it's all just fine until it isn't. It seems not to cope at all well with anything other than a simple failure within

Re: How to obtain diagnostics for EDC5241S Load request for fetch load module unsuccessful?

On 26 August 2016 at 12:27, Kirk Wolf wrote: > EDC5241S Load request for fetch load module unsuccessful. > errno2 = C407003B > >> bpxmtext C407003B > JrEdcFtchFcfailed01: The program called fetch() to load a module. The load > failed. but... On 26 August 2016 at 15:39, Jerry

Re: Dump in 64 bit mode "Storage around GPR2 is invalid."

On 25 August 2016 at 17:52, Janet Graff <004dc9e91b6d-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > I don't know if I'm XPLINK or standard linkage. The fact that your dump says DOWNSTACK DSA almost certainly implies XPLINK. In the LE Debugging guide where I went to verify this, there is this

Re: z/OS bookshelves in weird order in KC

On 3 October 2016 at 15:16, Peter Hunkeler wrote: > I would prefer if a) the shelves are named exactly as the products are, and > b) if the list is kept in strict alphabetic order by product name. Being the old mainframe hack that I am, in Softcopy Reader I am used to sorting the

Re: Question About ATTACHX and ECB

On 3 October 2016 at 19:52, John McKown wrote: > On Mon, Oct 3, 2016 at 6:35 PM, Steve Thompson wrote: > >> It is 0. I know this because I do a compare for anything other than zero >> going to S0C3 ( EX 0,*). >> > > I used to do that. I really

Re: Question About ATTACHX and ECB

On 30 September 2016 at 19:05, Steve Thompson wrote: > I'm doing some work and needed to do an ATTACHX with an ECB. > > So for test purposes I'm attaching IDCAMS. It runs and gives CC=0. OK > Ok, in the main task, I've done the ATTACHX with the ECB and then went and > did a

Re: intermittent errors using FTP program Interface EZAFTPKS

On 9 October 2016 at 11:17, Joseph Reichman wrote: > As aside do you know where the doc is for IND$FILE > > Seems like it's a TSO command processor > Maybe I can invoke via IKJTSOEV There is no single official document for IND$FILE. Over the almost three decades that it

Re: Implementing ICSF - FOTS1949 PRNG is not seeded

On 21 October 2016 at 08:11, R.S. wrote: > 1. Chinese algorithm > Is is some new algorithm or just device with backdoor for Chinesese Three > Letter Agency? > What's so REGIONAL in the algorithm or crypto device? Why there are no > REGIONAL disks, CPUs, RAM DIMMs,

Re: Watson

On 7 November 2016 at 21:32, zMan wrote: > Yes, but you must start your conversation with either "Siri..." or "OK, > Google..." > (ok, or "Alexa..." or "Whatever TF Microsoft's Windows 10 thing is > called...Cortana, yeah, that's it...") Wouldn't that be "Hey, Thomas" ?

Re: DAIR error 0470 allocating internal reader

On 8 November 2016 at 22:04, Jim Mulder wrote: > The OA50565 fix changed the TSO/E environment service to turn on PSCBJCL > when running in an APF authorized jobstep (i.e. when JCSBAUTH is on). > IDCAMS is linked in SYS1.LINKLIB with AC(1), so an EXEC PGM=IDCAMS jobstep > is

Re: z/VSE Connector Client

On 7 November 2016 at 01:32, Timothy Sipples wrote: > Paul Allen, Bill Gates, and Monte Davidoff famously created their first > BASIC compiler in 1975 for the MITS Altair machine without having an > Altair. They had to write an Altair emulator first then code on top of > that.

Re: JES2 Mods

On 7 November 2016 at 12:50, Larry Martin wrote: > Our system has a lot of JES2 local modifications and among them is an old > package named J/TIP (from Univ. of Illinois Chicago). When applying our last > maintenance the SYSAFF= function on the JOBPARM card stopped

Re: Implementing ICSF - FOTS1949 PRNG is not seeded

On 19 October 2016 at 12:10, Paul Gilmartin <000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > Ouch! But there's a widespread belief that availability of encryption is a > security threat. > > I used to read that France much restricted use of encryption. Nowadays > that would seem to

Re: Language Environment LIBVEC layout?

On 20 October 2016 at 08:47, Tony Thigpen wrote: > If you are a vendor, you should have access to the LE vendor manual. Some of > the pointer locations can be deduced from it. If you are not a vendor, you > don't have access to the manual. The LE Vendor Interfaces manual,

Re: diagnose 8 / interesting dilemma

On 18 October 2016 at 13:15, Paul Gilmartin <000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > I find: > z/OS 2.2.0 > z/OS MVS > z/OS MVS Programming: Assembler Services Guide > Understanding 31-bit addressing > Understanding the use of central storage > Central

Re: Is LLILF effectively "Grande"?

On 21 October 2016 at 10:48, Charles Mills wrote: > Got it! Thanks all. I will add a comment where I use it. Also a good place (well, everywhere is a good place) to be using HLASM's TYPECHECK(REGISTER) option, which is anyway the default. Not that it replaces a comment, but the

Re: CSVDYNEX in IPCS?

On 21 October 2016 at 09:02, Peter Relson wrote: > >Is there IPCS support, e.g. VERBX or toolkit or the like for chasing > >and displaying the kind of information that can be obtained on a live > >system using either CSVDYNEX REQUEST=LIST or the console D PROG,EXIT > >command?

Re: When does compare-and-swap-and-store facility 2 come along?

On 21 October 2016 at 13:41, Charles Mills wrote: > PSA and the IHAPSA macro alphabetized in MVS Data Areas under P. IHAPSAE > alphabetized under I. No wonder I'm confused. > A long standing problem with a number of control blocks. Perhaps an index...? Yeah, I know - just

CSVDYNEX in IPCS?

Is there IPCS support, e.g. VERBX or toolkit or the like for chasing and displaying the kind of information that can be obtained on a live system using either CSVDYNEX REQUEST=LIST or the console D PROG,EXIT command? I'm thinking I've seen it in there somewhere, but right now I'm not finding

Re: Does >4K PGFIX make sure the frames are contiguous? (was: diagnose 8 / interesting dilemma)

On 18 October 2016 at 18:27, Peter Hunkeler wrote: > Below discussion triggered a question I could not answer by RTFM. I had never > thought about this before in this detail, > but now that I do, I wonder if the following is correct. > > Program allocates >4k of virtual storage. The

Re: REXX determine library that is executed from

On 22 November 2016 at 13:52, John McKown wrote: > Just to be my normal weird self, none of this will work in a REXX exec is > run by reading it / creating it dynamically in memory and passing the > in-memory EXEC to IRXEXEC. Well, for some value of "none of this

Re: A true discussion in today's world (at least here)

On 23 November 2016 at 12:33, Jesse 1 Robinson wrote: > When I get flak about the churn of staying current with maintenance, I climb > my soapbox. Look, I say, I've calculated that on balance it's cheaper to > drive your car as long as it runs rather than take in for

Re: Which STEPLIB concatenation is not authorized?

On 18 November 2016 at 06:26, Charles Mills wrote: > As a software vendor, on new installs we often get customers saying "your > product puts out a message saying it is not authorized but we're sure we > authorized the library" and it is often a painful process taking them >

Re: LRECL=255 vs LRECL=259

On 15 November 2016 at 13:59, Ed Jaffe wrote: > Of course, my personal observations and experiences provide nothing more > than anecdotal evidence. Like a man with two watches being unsure of the > time, I am now unsure if LRECL=259 is widespread practice or if I was

Re: How set CVTLSO?

On 31 October 2016 at 09:04, Giliad Wilf <00d50942efa9-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > Atomic clock ticks at an absolutely constant rate of some 9192631770 > oscillations > per second (Cesium-133 atom oscillating between two energy ground levels), > while Earth sidereal day gets

Re: Rexx and hex data strings

On 27 October 2016 at 12:56, Itschak Mugzach wrote: > What I am trying to reference a comment block in a rexx program. The > SOURCELLNIE() function does work, including if program is compiled. Still > have a problem with some odd number of '/*' or '*/' that may be included in

Re: How set CVTLSO?

On 2 November 2016 at 17:03, George Kozakos wrote: >>Not any computer systems I work with. They use either 1900 or 1970 >>as their epoch. What uses 1972? > > The "epoch" on z/OS systems is 1900. The TOD epoch is 1900. The UNIX epoch -- z/OS UNIX or any other -- is 1970.

More Knowledge Centre frustration

(Or Knowledge Center, I suppose) Can it really be the case that the zArch Principles of Operation is not there? Certainly there are links to various apparently arbitrary levels of the PDF, but the content itself doesn't seem to be in there. Here's a case where I'd like to take advantage of one

Re: How set CVTLSO?

On 1 November 2016 at 13:44, Giliad Wilf <00d50942efa9-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > On Tue, 1 Nov 2016 13:03:27 -0400, Tony Harminc <t...@harminc.net> wrote: >>I'm a little confused about what kind of units "1.4 milliseconds a day >>per c

Re: ABO Automatic Binary Optimizer

On 13 October 2016 at 06:41, Timothy Sipples wrote: > OK, about testing. For perspective, for over two decades (!) Java has > compiled/compiles bytecode *every time* a Java class is first instantiated. That seems a little, uh, optimistic. The Java Programming Language book,

Re: ABO Automatic Binary Optimizer

On 13 October 2016 at 14:47, Bill Woodger wrote: > > No, it doesn't turn the machine-code (ESA/370) into anything intermediate. Are you quite sure? > Yes, it knows something of the internals, and yes it knows things it can and > can't do with that knowledge. > > "There

Re: intermittent errors using FTP program Interface EZAFTPKS

On 9 October 2016 at 20:03, Charles Mills wrote: > I would guess you could invoke SUBMIT from an assembler program but the > obvious and simple way to submit a job from within a running program is to > write the JCL to a QSAM dataset allocated SYSOUT=(,INTRDR). That is what >

Re: Changing the primary AUTHID using RACROUTE

On 12 October 2016 at 18:25, Janet Graff <004dc9e91b6d-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > I changed the TERMID to point to a D'0' but I'm getting the same error message > > ICH408I JOB(JIGRACF ) STEP(RUN ) 944 > LOGON/JOB INITIATION - USER AT TERMINAL NOT RACF-DEFINED >

Re: System REXX and UNIX

On 12 October 2016 at 13:56, Kirk Wolf wrote: > You are correct: you don't need an LE environment to use the BPX kernel > service calls. Indeed. I do it from non-LE assembler all the time. > REXX doesn't have/use an LE environment AFAIK. I don't know > much about the

Re: ABO Automatic Binary Optimizer

On 14 October 2016 at 02:30, Timothy Sipples wrote: > No, not optimistic. Mere fact. Sun Microsystems made Java 1.0 generally > available for download on January 23, 1996, for the Windows 95, Windows NT, > and Solaris operating systems (three different operating systems

Re: diagnose 8 / interesting dilemma

On 17 October 2016 at 13:47, Jim Mulder wrote: > There is IARV64 GETSTOR with TYPE=FIXED and PAGEFRAMESIZE=1M. It's perhaps not 100% clear how it uses the 64-bit registers, but z/VM does seem to support AMODE 64 for the caller of Diagnose 8, so I think this could work. I

Re: How to Identify modules as C/C++ or Cobol, or ASM from dump (SYSMDUMP)

On 29 November 2016 at 05:00, Peter Hunkeler wrote: > My problem is to find which of the 500+ are C/C++ modules. So far I could not > find a way to determine this from the dump. LE remembers which runtime > environments (Cobol, C/C++) are active because some such code has been

Re: JES2 Changes in z/OS V2.2 - Presentation from 2015

On 6 December 2016 at 10:40, Lizette Koehler wrote: >JES2 Growth: Grow from 400K to 1M Active jobs It seems such a short time ago that job numbers had three digits... You could purge everything with $PJ1-999 . Tony H.

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