On 28 January 2014 12:57, JT wrote:
> From my manager.
> Is it possible to run CICS (executing COBOL application code) on an IFL?
Short answer: no. The only OSs that IBM supports IPLing on an IFL are
Linux and zVM. But even under either of these, IBM will not license
you a version of CICS that wi
On 29 January 2014 11:35, Ted MacNEIL wrote:
> I truly believe that one ID per person with the ability to sign on once per
> LPAR (and share the same ISPPROF) is simpler to implement.
No doubt. But "simpler to implement" may not be at the top of everyone's list.
> I don't believe that the "typi
On 29 January 2014 17:19, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
>>think there was also a problem with the TIOC sending command output to the
>>wrong terminal. I.e. enter the LISTALC command on terminal#1 and the
>>results might go to terminal#2 instead. But I'm real vague on that last one.
>>
> I can do that righ
On 3 February 2014 14:24, SUBSCRIBE IBM-MAIN Harold Gray
wrote:
[...]
>L R3,JESCTEXTLOAD PAGEABLE EXTENTION
> DROP R3
> USING JESPEXT,R3 EST ADDRESSABILITY WITH EXT
> L R4,JESGB400GET MSG WRITER ADDRESS
> *
> This code has been wo
On 4 February 2014 19:12, Ed Jaffe wrote:
> On 2/4/2014 3:51 PM, SUBSCRIBE IBM-MAIN Harold Gray wrote:
>>
>> I'm coming to that conclusion also. I can't seem to get the 2.1 data
>> areas vol 4 (JESCT) to download the whole book so I'll have to wait and try
>> it again later.
>
>
> Both pointers a
On 7 February 2014 13:19, SUBSCRIBE IBM-MAIN Harold Gray
wrote:
> Basically we are wanting to detect the NOT CAT 2's and flag the job for
> repair. I am also looking at using MPF exits or the general IEAVMXIT.
> Trying to allow for multiple exits and how to specify them.
But surely those are
On 12 February 2014 14:21, Jim Mulder wrote:
> When a length of 0 is requested on GETMAIN or STORAGE OBTAIN,
> VSM treats this as a successful request, and returns an address of 0.
> In my opinion, this was a poor design choice, made long before my time,
> and I have seen it lead to diagnosis conf
On 12 February 2014 18:22, Gerhard Postpischil wrote:
> On 2/12/2014 6:06 PM, Tony Harminc wrote:
>>
>> I object far more to returning an address of 0 than to accepting a
>> length of 0 on the request. To be sure, you are allowed to store no
>> more than 0 bytes in y
On 12 February 2014 20:07, Charles Mills wrote:
>> Sure - it could assign one. It wouldn't have to be unique; just
> access-exception correct.
>
> And then the OP would have cleared that "dummy" storage area passed back
> from OBTAIN and wondered how _that_ happened.
If you clear only your reques
On 17 February 2014 09:37, John McKown wrote:
> LT R0,CURRENT #LOAD CURRENT AND SET CC
> SPM R1 #SAVE CC FROM LT
> A R0,SUM #ADD SUM TO IT
> IPM R1 #RESTORE CC FROM LT
> STOC R0,SUM,NZ #STORE SUM ONLY IF CC OF LT WAS NZ
>
> Basically this loads CURRENT into R0, setting the CC based on its value.
On 18 February 2014 11:47, Miklos Szigetvari
wrote:
> We have here serious problems with the v2.1 C/C++ compiler, the generated
> machine code largely differs from 1.13, and with some serious errors (till
> now)
Do these problems go with the compiler itself, or with the TARGET and
OPTIMIZE level
On 17 February 2014 19:34, Bernd Oppolzer wrote:
> I could imagine some use cases for a new instruction, that supresses
> the execution of the next instruction, depending on certain values of the
> condition code. For example SKIP NEXT INSTRUCTION IF NOT ZERO,
> or IF ZERO.
[...]
> I'm sure, that
On 19 February 2014 11:12, DASDBILL2 wrote:
> So what was the correct term for non-virtual storage way back then for non-67
> models of the S/360? Storage? Real storage? V=R storage? The terms I
> heard most frequently included the word "core."
In my circles the term "core" survived for qui
On 18 February 2014 18:39, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
wrote:
> on 02/18/2014 at 01:47 PM, Tony Harminc said:
>
>>Indeed this is the way conditional execution and branching works (and
>>has always worked) in channel programs.
>
> No.
"No" what?
> Every generat
On 20 February 2014 21:40, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
wrote:
> on 02/19/2014 at 02:43 PM, Tony Harminc said:
>>I didn't suggest, let alone say, anything counter to this.
>
> Then who wrote "Indeed this is the way conditional execution and
> branching works (and h
On 21 February 2014 11:37, Chase, John wrote:
> Browsing the dumped storage around the program's load address (x'7000') I
> see:
>
> Event 1 CSECT DBR915B0 GPR 15 (Address 7000)
> 700080ECD00C*..}.*
> ^^^
On 21 February 2014 15:28, Chase, John wrote:
> It appears from our tentative diagnosis that the "MVCK instruction" was not
> in executable code, but rather was just data
> in the PARM passed to the program at invocation. Thus the questions about
> where the system places PARM data
> before tra
On 24 February 2014 10:44, Anne & Lynn Wheeler wrote:
> two people from the Los Gatos VLSI lab originally did mainframe pascal
> for VLSI chip tools ... this goes on eventually to become the vs/pascal
> product. Amoung other things it was used to implement the original
> mainframe TCP/IP support.
On 2 March 2014 18:30, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
wrote:
> [1] Does IBM have a z/OS code page for ISO 8859-15 yet?
IBM has produced only two code pages for Latin-9; one ASCIIish (923)
and one EBCDIC (924).
Tony H.
--
For IBM-MAIN
On 3 March 2014 20:54, Farley, Peter x23353 wrote:
> GIYF. I refer you to these Wikipedia references, the first of which makes it
> quite clear that iso-8859-1 is definitely NOT
> Windows, though it does call it "ASCII-based"; and the second of which is a
> nice reference for IBM-1047, from wh
On 6 March 2014 09:04, Charles Mills wrote:
> (2) you run the risk of rejecting something in the client that is
actually valid on the server --
> for example if the server is enhanced in some way down the road before
you can enhance the client.
And surely the most ubiquitous (and egregious) of th
On 9 March 2014 09:01, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
wrote:
> Much earlier, someone decided that the power unit for the 650 was of a
> convenient height for drying socks. A Selenium rectifier blew out.
Not a pleasant smell (the rectifier; no comment on the socks), as
anyone who's been near a cooked on
On 10 March 2014 10:57, Anne & Lynn Wheeler wrote:
> I would tend to use the distinction that for the psect, a private copy
> was loaded and adjusted for the specific virtual address space location
> ... separately from (r/o) memory mapping the executable image with no
> requirement for pre-loadin
On 11 March 2014 13:17, Bonno, Tuco wrote:
> anybody know how to set up Microsoft Outlook to purge/quarantine/shitcan all
> this stuff we're getting from him ?
Maybe someone (or all of us) should call the local IBM office and
complain about this. IBM is notoriously bad with these OOO
notificati
On 11 March 2014 08:48, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
> My microwave oven and my clock radio don't support 24-hour.
Microwave ovens are an odd case, because some support 24-hour time,
but most don't. But more interestingly many of them support a curious
mixed-base notation. So I can set my coffee to heat
On 12 March 2014 11:54, MichealButz wrote:
[blank lines removed for readability]
> I am setting a breakpoint at offset +0 in my program and getting a S0C1 at
> location +E
>
> The following is my scenario
>
> TESTAUTH 'ISP.SISPLPA(ISPF)' CP
> LOAD 'MYLOAD.LIBRARY(MYMOD)'
> Q MYMO.MYMOD.+0
> AT +0
On 13 March 2014 11:08, Donald Russell wrote:
>> I've been using WTO ROUTCDE=11 to display various message in the job log
>> of assembler language batch applications that's great/easy for fixed
>> text messages.
>>
>> VM/CMS has the APPLMSG macro which makes it ridiculously simple to build
>>
On 13 March 2014 14:01, John McKown wrote:
> Wish I had thought of using the Metal C version of sprintf(). I actually
> ended up figuring out how to write a number of z/OS UNIX commands using LE
> enabled assembler so that I could use things such as sprintf() or
> snprintf().
Well Metal C hasn't
On 13 March 2014 14:53, Donald Russell wrote:
> Holly Smokes! Metal C looks perfect THANKS! :-) I just need sprintf
> features
Please keep us posted with your results. I haven't actually tried it,
but I've thought about it a few times - enough to look at the calling
and environment conve
On 13 March 2014 15:39, Micheal Butz wrote:
> I have authorized TSO command actually a program that issues a modeset to get
> into supervisor state
>
> When I run this program under TESTAUTH to debug it
> And it is in AUTHCMD/AUTHPGM
> In IKJTSOXX I get a s0c1at the begining of the program
>
> Ho
On 14 March 2014 01:51, Donald Russell wrote:
> I've been looking for doc on how to do this It seems I need to call
> __cinit to set up a C environment, then I can call sprintf and finally
> __cterm to terminate the C environment
I'm not sure, but the way I read it sprintf() doesn't need
On 14 March 2014 13:49, John McKown wrote:
> 1) Has anybody ever had a VOLSER which was not exactly 6 non-blank
> characters for a regularly used volume? Especially any trailing blanks?
Decades ago the university I worked at had a standard of N and
F for Native and Foreign tapes, respecti
On 17 March 2014 13:51, John Eells wrote:
> MVS was the prior name of what has become z/OS. What was started out as MVS
> in 1974 was renamed to:
[...]
Although the name MVS was around in 1974, IBM chose, for the usual
marketing reasons of the day, to sell it as OS/VS2 Release 2,
presumably to
On 18 March 2014 12:00, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
> How did the 67 deal with legacy code's use of the sign bit to terminate
> parameter lists?
I doubt that much legacy code ran on such a machine in 32-bit mode.
There would surely be other reasons to run such code only in 24-bit
mode - not least the
On 20 March 2014 10:48, Jim McAlpine wrote:
> Thanks Tom, that was the cause of the problem. I logged off TSO and back on
> again and was able to delete the offending dataset.
>
> Sorry for sending everyone off on a wild goose chase.
Well you didn't exactly have ideal information to work with. I
On 21 March 2014 11:18, Jake anderson wrote:
> For an NJE to work we must have to two different nodes. Is there a way for
> NJE to work within a single Node(Monoplex) just to communicate to another
> product(As a socket-Running in same Node) ?
For many years (decades, actually) there have been ot
On 24 March 2014 08:11, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
> On Sun, 23 Mar 2014 20:12:49 -0400, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote:
>>
>>I''m not asking a question; I'm pointing out a false analogy. "TCP/IP,
>>in contrast, is blessedly tolerant." makes no sense.
>>...
>>I'm asking in what sense TCP/IP is more tol
On 24 March 2014 12:03, Bill Godfrey wrote:
> The current thread about reflexivity reminds me of an old program we tested
> in the mid-70's, before NJE, that was called the Iowa Workstation. It was a
> modification from the University of Iowa of the HRTPB360 program that came
> with JES2, that
On 25 March 2014 16:16, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
>
> Wouldn't it be nice if all the header files were trilingual?
> Assembler/PLS/Metal C? It'll take a while.
Ugh, please. :-( There's nothing wrong with Metal C that a complete
redesign wouldn't fix.
But in any case, what would you do to allow PL/X
On 25 March 2014 16:56, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
>>But in any case, what would you do to allow PL/X and C to pick out
>>their own code? The assembler vs PL/X or C comment format makes it
>>easy, but both PL/X and C have /* comments */ .
>>
> #if ?
But how will both PL/X and assembler not see it?
To
On 25 March 2014 18:11, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
>>> #if ?
>>
>>But how will both PL/X and assembler not see it?
>>
> That's their problem. Perhaps AGO for assembler. And hasn't
> PL/X something similar?
Well you can't reasonably ask for trilingual macros and then shrug
your shoulders when asked f
Speaking of Metal C, I'm seeing a strange thing just recently. My C input
is a VB 255 PDSE member, and the output is an FB 80 PDSE member. Whenever
an input line exceeds 80 characters, the output assembler "source" has a
bogus line with unprintable characters where the wrapped part of the
original
On 25 March 2014 19:03, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
>
> >Well you can't reasonably ask for trilingual macros and then shrug
> >your shoulders when asked for how it might work.
> >
> Actually, I can. That's an implementation technique. Suppose a
> Requirement for trilingual macros were to be submitted
On 25 March 2014 21:50, Micheal Butz wrote:
> "Alloc fi(myddnam) da('"my.pds.name(member)"') shr"
>
> I get an error routine not found
You are calling a REXX function named my.pds.name(member) which
presumably is not what you intended. Why do you have those inner
double quotes?
Tony H.
On 26 March 2014 12:20, Charles Mills wrote:
> Right. Good input. Thanks. I have shipped software with a hard-coded
> expiration date. What I am looking for is a "floating" expiration date that
> would be 30 days after installation, whether installed today or a year from
> today.
It depends to a
On 28 March 2014 02:28, Mohamed Juma wrote:
> What is the recommended way to install z/os from scratch to a new data
> center, includes new hardware z machine, DASD, tape system.
If you are in this unusual position, IBM will surely be already
knocking at your door to help you do all this. For a
On 28 March 2014 09:47, Bernd Oppolzer wrote:
> I just realized that "NULL returning 0xFF00" was designed when we
> still had 24 bit addressing, so there must have been other reasons
> for this design decision.
I remember heated discussions on this matter at my university computer
centre in t
On 28 March 2014 14:00, Elardus Engelbrecht
wrote:
> Look in "Relating component ID to component name, module prefix, and product"
> in book
> "MVS Diagnosis: Reference".
> This one should help you in a way for IBM software. I believe someone said on
> IBM-MAIN that IBM reserves the first lette
I thought I'd try it, but on my Windows 7 the installer just quietly
exits. Of course I can provide more details if I know what's
important, but have some of you installed it and had it Just Work? Any
pointers?
I downloaded it from
http://www-01.ibm.com/software/htp/cics/ibmexplforzos and tried
"S
On 2 April 2014 23:28, Rob Schramm wrote:
>
> Right-click - run as administrator
Dang - I should've thought of that. Thanks! Though it would be a bit
nicer if it said something, rather then just going away silently.
OK - so now that I have it installed, I can't see what it's useful
for. It has a
On 5 April 2014 21:14, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
wrote:
> What data center food/drink customs have others encountered?
In my early days as junior sysprog we did a lot of late night testing.
In those days long predating the popularization of "good" coffee beans
and methods, the night shift operator
On 10 April 2014 08:22, John McKown wrote:
> Messages posted to mailing lists (including listserv,
> mailman, majordomo, etc) by Yahoo subscribers are blocked when the list
> forwards them to other Yahoo (and other participating ISPs) subscribers.
Presumably this to some extent explains why Gmail
On 10 April 2014 14:26, Alan Haff wrote:
> Following up on this problem.
>
> The close fails because the DEB address in the DCB is pointing to a DEB
> that's not in the TCB's DEB chain.
>
> I don't know why/how the DEB chain in the TCB is losing this particular
> DEB. I'm certainly not manipulatin
On 17 April 2014 08:18, Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
wrote:
> I bet APL's solution to this would be like 2 weird symbols.
>
> I was just introduced to it by my senior colleague today, and it's ... dense.
Like Perl, it's been called a write-only language.
Tony H.
---
On 17 April 2014 14:58, Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
wrote:
> I'm looping some 5000 times in REXX and doing functions (NetView ping, SNMP
> walk, etc) sequentially. They don't necessarily need to be sequential. I'm
> just going through a list of printers and I want to test them.
>
> So.. Is it pos
On 22 April 2014 15:45, Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh
wrote:
> I personally take offense to the "drone" bashing. Because I'm a "drone" now,
> apparently.
I read this not as drone bashing, but as management bashing. The word
"drone" with its implication of idleness and other even less
appropriate fu
On 22 April 2014 19:01, Mark Yuhas wrote:
> Bear with me. I have an old program that copies a SVC Dump to regular data
> set with a non-system DSN. It has been working for many years. I need to
> make a few changes for the current configuration of z/OS 1.13. IPCS accepts
> the system dump d
On 25 April 2014 14:41, Chase, John wrote:
> And if IBM has disclosed anything to ISVs, the NDAs undoubtedly prohibit
> disclosing even that fact publicly.
I've seen lots of NDA technical material over the years, but in my
experience IBM has *never* disclosed any branding info to ISVs before
ann
On 1 May 2014 07:48, Jim McAlpine wrote:
> We have the need to encrypt messages sent from z/OS on a particular port to
> an application running under Webshere on Windows. The outgoing messages are
> HTTP protocol and they would need to be converted to the HTTPS that
> Websphere understands. Is tha
On 2 May 2014 03:40, Peter Hunkeler wrote:
>>Yes - this is probably the classic use case for AT-TLS.
>
> Wouldn't this only encrypt the path from ip to ip. ip would decrypt and send
> plain text to WebSphere?
>
> I understand "application transparent" to say that the traffic is enctrypted
> "on
On 6 May 2014 16:02, Darth Keller wrote:
> So maybe this is nit-picking but
>
> "It is VSAM datasets, not files"
>
> How does one distinguish between a dataset & a file?
By name? Well, a file name looks like /usr/foo/bar or foo/bar or just
bar . A dataset name looks like USER.FOO.BAR or USER.FOO.
On 10 May 2014 15:58, Ed Jaffe wrote:
> FWIW, I don't think the source code for Program Products like ADRDSSU was
> available even in the pre-OCO days.
Some IBM Program Products had source code available from the earliest
days. For example, the PL/I Optimizing compiler had source code that
was si
On 8 May 2014 22:09, Mitch wrote:
> And for the likes of the larger ISVs, I would guess all of their product
> source
>code is in escrow and kept up to date. Maybe not so much for the "mom and
>pop" software
>companies, but the big ones, yes.
I think it's exactly the "mom and pop" ISVs that ar
On 13 May 2014 12:08, Farley, Peter x23353 wrote:
> Perhaps because (at that link which Kirk posted) there is this note:
>
> "Messages that would normally go to the JESYSMSG data set are captured, but
> messages that go to JESMSGLG are not captured."
>
> Allocation messages go to JESMSGLG, and so
On 8 May 2014 19:34, Farley, Peter x23353 wrote:
> ST doesn't accept a 3-modifier expression, that is an artifact of the XL
> C/C++ "assembler" listing format.
This is really really annoying, and has been for years. The compiler
is now quite capable of producing correct assembler output when the
On 13 May 2014 17:58, Jon Perryman wrote:
> As Tony said, they are all WTO messages. JES decides where it wants to put
> the message (or not do anything with it).
Well I'm not so sure they're all WTOs. I think there's a PUT (likely
RPL-type) interface to the JESYSMSG dataset that allocation writ
On 22 May 2014 19:23, Ed Jaffe wrote:
> On 5/22/2014 4:17 PM, Charles Mills wrote:
>>
>> Is there a DSECT macro that maps VSAM ACB MACR1, MACR2, MACR3 and MACR4?
>> Roughly analogous to DCBD? Or is SHOWCB, etc., the only supported interface?
>
> IFGACB? Or do you need something else?
IFGACB and D
On 23 May 2014 10:47, Ed Jaffe wrote:
> On 5/23/2014 5:04 AM, Peter Relson wrote:
>> Of course I agree that it is much easier when the TCB key matches the
>> execution key. This can be done for subtasks which is why ATTACH supports
>> attaching a task but not making it dispatchable initially (DIS
On 23 May 2014 17:56, Gerhard Postpischil wrote:
> On 5/23/2014 5:55 PM, Micheal Butz wrote:
>>
>> I checked my out buffer that's not my code the proof being my display
>> displays correctly
That's hardly proof.
>> It's after I hit that the problems occurs
Is your buffer perhaps longer than yo
On 24 May 2014 20:39, Charles Mills wrote:
> A former employer required a device of slightly better design. It was a
> response to a challenge generated by the server (I think; it may have used a
> counter in the device, incremented at each login attempt). How is a clock
> any better? Or, th
On 26 May 2014 01:47, Binyamin Dissen wrote:
> On Sun, 25 May 2014 18:43:48 -0400 MichealButz
> wrote:
>
> :>I have an APF authorized module running of out of the LNKLIST I try to load
> :>a module from an non apf dsn concatenation and get CSV019I abend
>
> :>I am in problem state key 8 when I d
On 4 June 2014 11:04, Geoff Rousell wrote:
> "DFSMS V2.1 is increases the PDSE member size to approximately 2,146,435,071
> records.
> This is an increase from the previous limit of 15,728,639 records.
Unfamiliar magic numbers. But wouldn't you know it, while not fully
explained, they aren't qui
On 22 June 2014 03:49, Linda Mooney wrote:
> I am looking for an EBCDIC viewer for Windows, to view flat datasets that
> were created on the mainframe.
I usually use the HxD editor for this. http://mh-nexus.de/en/hxd
It's a general purpose hex editor with lots of bells & whistles, but
it's easy
On 23 June 2014 05:25, Peter Hunkeler wrote:
> Working on some asm code I stumbled on an call to SVC 61. SVC 61 seems to be
> service IKJEGS6A. Neither
> googling nor searching MVS and TSO manuals helped to find what IKJEGS6A does.
> Can anyone help me with a
> pointer to some doc?
There is a n
On 25 June 2014 17:02, Mike Schwab wrote:
> Boy, this is complicated. Too bad the 64 bit address could be
> redefined to have a 16 bit ASID and 48 bit virtual address in a 64 bit
> address field. It would limit z/OS to 64K ASIDs of 256TiB address
> spaces. Would require hardware changes in a ne
On 27 June 2014 10:38, Micheal Butz wrote:
> Thanks let me get to the point
> The program that creates the PC rtn
> Is the AUTHCMD/PGM so I cann't use IKJEFTSR
> However I am thinking the PC rtn might be able to
I'm not clear on your environment. Are you starting off as an APF
authorized TSO comm
On 5 July 2014 11:55, Paul Gilmartin
<000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote:
> A less 'easy' alternative would be to introduce types, and associated
> instructions: GBLA32, GBLA64, SETA32, SETA64, EQU32, EQU64, ...
If someone for some reason decided to do it this way, I'd expect GB
On 7 July 2014 09:33, John McKown wrote:
> I really wish that I knew exactly what Michael hopes to accomplish.
I think we -- that is those of us still following to this point -- all do.
> As best as I recall, it was that he had an APF authorized TSO command,
> which was properly authorized. And
On 9 July 2014 06:37, Bob Shannon wrote:
> Read the manual.
>
> Bob Shannon
> Rocket Software
Or use the HELP subcommand. Address formats, which include register
notation, are discussed under the ASSIGN command.
Tony H.
> -Original Message-
> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:
On 10 July 2014 21:38, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
wrote:
> on 07/09/2014 at 03:27 AM, Barry Merrill said:
>
>>While I clearly didn't recollect the correct command names, I do
>>remember specifically that when one of the commands that used TPUT
>>was encountered in the list of commands in my benchma
On 18 July 2014 10:03, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
wrote:
> Is there a URL to download the PDF without a userid and password? What
> about a URL to list the available documents?
I didn't need a userid or password to download. And that was with a
new private window in Firefox, so it's not that I had
On 7 August 2014 21:59, zMan wrote:
> ASCII vs. EBCDIC?
Almost certainly. Base64 is a way of representing arbitrary byte
values using a set of characters that is less likely than many to be
mangled in transmission. Think of it as a more efficient way of
representing byte values than specifying he
On 15 August 2014 12:49, John Gilmore wrote:
> The only way to avoid cataract surgery is to die before you need it,
> which, as evasive maneuvers go, is overkill.
>
> The two procedures ought to be independent, but they are not.
Why ought they to be independent? (assuming the two procedures to be
On 19 August 2014 05:45, Binyamin Dissen wrote:
> :>But what would be the best way to determine whether the caller had entered
> :>in Supervisor State so I could return to the caller in his original mode
> :>(and also avoid the overhead of MODESET)? Some sort of "store PSW"
> :>instruction so I co
On 19 August 2014 11:43, Pommier, Rex wrote:
> Yep, spent much time there yesterday and all I could find were individual
> manuals. I was hoping to be able to download the entire library like I used
> to be able to do but it appears as though that functionality has gone the way
> of the dodo b
On 21 August 2014 16:48, Greg Shirey wrote:
> As for the other 90% of businesses running mainframes today, Vecchio thinks
> the Cobol brain drain will be the
> catalyst for more extensive migrations off the platform, through rewrites,
> moves to packaged applications or
> recompiling and re-host
On 27 August 2014 09:52, John McKown wrote:
>> Define 'legacy'. That is a dirty word for me. I don't really like it 'they'
>> say mainframe is 'legacy'. :-[
>
> What is a good word for "like we did it on OS/360". I.e. something
> which is designed to run in z/OS batch using sequential data sets
>
On 27 August 2014 08:01, John McKown wrote:
> I really wonder if this would be of any use in a z/OS environment.
>
> //INPUT DD URL='file:///etc/resolv.conf'
> or
> //INPUT DD URL='http://some.web.site/download/filedata.txt'
> or
> //INPUT DD URL='ftp://user:password@host/download/filedata.txt'
A
On 27 August 2014 10:30, SUBSCRIBE IBM-MAIN Harold Gray
wrote:
> I have a working SUBSYS interface. My code processes a few of the interfaces
> (OPEN, ALLOC,... etc.) and previously resided below the line. I am trying to
> move the code above the line. Everything works fine except one item. I
On 27 August 2014 16:48, Micheal Butz wrote:
> I have question I understand that an authorized command run under a different
> tmp
Well, a different task structure.
> Is that always meaning the same program while in problem state runs Under one
> tmp and when I switch to
> Supervisor under ano
On 2 September 2014 10:32, Paul Gilmartin
<000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote:
> I use DSLIST, but I assume that invokes IDCAMS. (TSO DELETE also? I haven't
> tried that.)
TSO DELETE has been an IDCAMS command since MVS 2.0; maybe even in
SVS, a system I never used.
Tony H.
On 4 September 2014 21:00, Anne & Lynn Wheeler wrote:
> I've periodically wondered if ibm mainframe pricing is somewhat along
> the lines of airline seat sales ... if you already flying the plane
> ... then getting any money at all for otherwise empty seats is better
> than nothing. when i did chi
Under what circumstances can the JS TCB DEB pointer (TCBDEB) be zero?
I have at least one open DCB, and previously I've seen a DEB on that
chain for each open DCB or ACB.
Put another way, how can I reliably find an open DCB/ACB for a given
DDNAME? I've previously (while the program is running) gon
On 10 September 2014 10:30, Paul Gilmartin
<000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote:
> One can speak German in English: "I have been writing Rexx since ten years."
Or French, and probably Spanish: "I am writing Rexx since ten years."
And another French giveaway: "It's not because
On 10 September 2014 19:17, Charles Mills wrote:
> Am I correct in assuming that "cannot be dubbed ..." == lacking an OMVS
> segment?
Close, but not exactly. There are several more subtle reasons that may
cause a dub to fail. What I've done (in assembler code, but it could
be in C and probably o
On 10 September 2014 20:54, Charles Mills wrote:
[...]
>Hopefully LE does not try the dub and fail before my "user" C code gets going,
>leaving me with no chance to
> diagnose the problem in a user-friendly manner.
That alternative explanation would then be that LE is catching a
return code fro
On 11 September 2014 13:37, Charles Mills wrote:
> The doc for the ABEND code is pretty poor. For U4093/90 V1R13 at least says
>
> X'90' (144) Condition management for MVS could not be initialized.
>
> Mmm. That's helpful. How about "Required OMVS segment not found."
But that's not what it says.
On 12 September 2014 10:38, Anne & Lynn Wheeler wrote:
> however, ibm CKD dasd had a peculiar power failure mode ... that might
> occur in the middle of a write operation ... there would be sufficient
> power to complete a write in progress ... but not sufficient power to
> continue transmitting t
On 17 September 2014 11:24, Paul Gilmartin
<000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote:
> address MVS 'EXECIO 0 DISKR SYSUT1 (open'
>
> Somewhere in the world this should leave a DCB. Can I find it
> (chasing pointers or otherwise) so I can inspect it with STORAGE()?
> (This might
On 7 October 2014 12:30, Mike Schwab wrote:
> If Bash was added to the POSIX standard, they would have to support it.
Well presumably they'd write their own compatible program, or buy one.
GNU's Not UNIX, but z/OS is.
Tony H.
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