Re: 24-bit private region on z16 processor

2024-09-12 Thread Jim Mulder
ASLR was introduced in APAR OA57914 on z/OS 2.4. It affects all storage addresses in the region. A random number of pages of storage are left unused in order to change the addresses of used storage. Jim Mulder -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Mark

Re: 24-bit private region on z16 processor

2024-09-09 Thread Jim Mulder
The documentation about what it does is here: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/3.1.0?topic=overview-address-space-layout-randomization Jim Mulder -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Mark Jacobs Sent: Monday, September 9, 2024 9:57 PM To: IBM-MAIN

Re: 24-bit private region on z16 processor

2024-09-09 Thread Jim Mulder
I would expect that if Address Space Layout Randomization is active. Is ASLR(YES) specified in DIAGxx? The D DIAG command, or VERBX IGVDGNIP under IPCS, will tell you. Jim Mulder -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Mark Jacobs Sent: Monday

Re: Subpool FREEMAIN

2024-08-30 Thread Jim Mulder
FREEMAIN A=(1),LV=(0) 12,*** IHB001 MODE OPERAND REQ'D-NOT SPECIFIED So it would seem that you actually most have done something like FREEMAIN RU,A=(1),LV=(0) Jim Mulder -Original Message- From: Jim Mulder Sent: Friday, August 30, 2024 8:21 PM To: IBM Main

Re: Subpool FREEMAIN

2024-08-30 Thread Jim Mulder
You did not specify a positional parameter. It looks like the macro assumed RU (SVC x'78') in that case, but you set R0 and R1 in the format for R (SVC x'A'). FREEMAIN R,A=(1),LV=(0) should work better. But I would recommend FREEMAIN RU,SP=1 Jim Mulder -

Re: Breaking Event Address, BEAR

2024-07-31 Thread Jim Mulder
ng at SDWABEA. Jim Mulder -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Binyamin Dissen Sent: Wednesday, July 31, 2024 7:43 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Breaking Event Address, BEAR Sounds like security by obfuscation. The exposure would be that s

Re: Breaking Event Address, BEAR

2024-07-29 Thread Jim Mulder
had suggested making it controllable by a CR bit (i.e., semi-privileged), but it looks like we didn't pursue that. Sorry about that. I supposed I should have paid more attention to that part of the discussion, but it probably was not the hottest issue that I was involved with at the time.

Re: Does MVCDK move 'per byte' like MVC?

2024-07-26 Thread Jim Mulder
s. I know engineers to ask if I really needed to know. Jim Mulder -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Inquiry about Installing Hercules on LinuxONE

2024-06-11 Thread Jim Mulder
Yes, I meant for Jason's use case. I was involved in getting z/OS running in the ZVDT/Wazi environment, so I am aware of those things. Jim Mulder z/OS Diagnosis, Design, Development, Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie NY Jim Mulder wrote: >IBM does not provide any license for any rele

Re: Inquiry about Installing Hercules on LinuxONE

2024-06-11 Thread Jim Mulder
IBM does not provide any license for any release of z/OS that permits you to run it on a LinuxONE machine, or under any non-IBM emulator on any machine. Jim Mulder -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Jason Cai Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2024 1:59 PM To

Re: Epoch Index

2024-06-11 Thread Jim Mulder
z/OS 3.1 does not support testing with dates beyond 09/17/2042. Jim Mulder -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Paul Schuster Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2024 1:12 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Epoch Index So, as of z/os 3.1, there does not

Re: VIO in 2024

2024-06-05 Thread Jim Mulder
g I/O. Paging I/O uses a 4K block size, which is inefficient for FICON, unless you are using zHPF. z/OS has not enhanced its paging I/O to use zHPF. With non-paging I/O, you can use a larger block size, and many of the access methods use zHPF. Jim Mulder -Original Message- From

Re: finding callers key in svc

2024-05-02 Thread Jim Mulder
Use the ATTACHX macro with KEY=NINE to attach a key 9 subtask. That's what CICS does. Jim Mulder z/OS Diagnosis, Design, Development, Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie NY >Is there a way to force the program to go to subpool 244 for example, that is >not fetch protected? >I'

Re: S0c4 creation

2024-04-24 Thread Jim Mulder
rtant distinction to software. The invalid 00 opcode provides sufficient capability to cause an operation exception, with diagnostic information of an arbitrary length following the 00 opcode. Jim Mulder -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Tom Marchant

Re: ASVT & ASID discrepancy mystery

2024-03-14 Thread Jim Mulder
I don't think that there is much with the dump that you could do yourself. The control structures that keep track of nonreusable ASIDs are OCO. Can you open a Case to IBM and send in the dump so I can look at it? Jim Mulder -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion

Re: ASVT & ASID discrepancy mystery

2024-03-14 Thread Jim Mulder
The more important thing would be to have taken a standalone dump before reIPLing. You might have had an ASVT overlay. If you search your logrec, do you see any records containing IEAVESAR or IEAVELCR? Jim Mulder -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of

Re: ASVT & ASID discrepancy mystery

2024-03-14 Thread Jim Mulder
program was the culprit but we'd like to understand why >so many ASVT entries had ASVTAVAI set (meaning they're available) but the ASVT >said so few were available. Jim Mulder z/OS Diagnosis, Design, Devel

Re: ASVT & ASID discrepancy mystery

2024-03-14 Thread Jim Mulder
: AVZC ASID: 013B Jobname: C2PACMON END TIME: 03/14/2024 12:42:18.543247 STATUS: SUCCESSFUL Jim

Re: IRB interrupt code

2024-03-08 Thread Jim Mulder
For an SVC interrupt, RBINTCOD indicates the SVC number. For a program check interrupt, RBINTCOD indicates the program interrupt code. For other types of interrupts, RBINTCOD is not updated. Jim Mulder -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Joseph Reichman

Re: IRB interrupt code

2024-03-08 Thread Jim Mulder
SVC 8 (LOAD). Jim Mulder -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Joseph Reichman Sent: Friday, March 8, 2024 11:09 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: IRB interrupt code I thought all list of all the interrupt codes were in the z/os pops I looked

Re: How to reduce the overhead of WLM?

2024-03-04 Thread Jim Mulder
, and haven't thought much about it since. You might want it even higher for faster machines than we had back then. I suggested some years ago that SRM should self-tune the timer pop interval to be less frequent at low utilization, but I haven't gotten any traction on that so far..

Re: Nanosecond resolution timestamps for HLL's?

2024-02-28 Thread Jim Mulder
, it can also delay other CPUs from subsequently accessing the cache line that contains the STCK operand. Jim Mulder -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2024 9:02 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: N

Re: Nanosecond resolution timestamps for HLL's?

2024-02-27 Thread Jim Mulder
Yes, I did carefully avoid making any representation about multiple partitions. On z16, I believe that it is possible to get the same value from STCK in different partitions. If you need unique values within a z/OS sysplex, STCKE provides that. Jim Mulder -Original Message- From

Re: Nanosecond resolution timestamps for HLL's?

2024-02-27 Thread Jim Mulder
nd of STCK on z16 is bits 0-62 (i.e., 63 bits). Jim Mulder -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Jon Perryman Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2024 5:46 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Nanosecond resolution timestamps for HLL's? On Sat, 24

Re: Nanosecond resolution timestamps for HLL's?

2024-02-24 Thread Jim Mulder
me deltas as long as a delta of 0 is acceptable. z/OS routinely uses STCKF for this purpose. You won't observe time flowing backward from two STCKFs on the same logical processor or the same z/OS work unit. Jim Mulder -Original Message- From: Alan Altmark Sent: Saturday, Feb

Re: Nanosecond resolution timestamps for HLL's?

2024-02-19 Thread Jim Mulder
) simultaneously does not exhibit any delay. However, if you try to infer the execution order of the instructions on the various processors by comparing the entire stored timestamps, you will be misleading yourself. Jim Mulder -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List

Re: Antiquarian Curiosity: Pre-MVS/XA Mount Command for DASD Volumes

2024-02-01 Thread Jim Mulder
https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/3.1.0?topic=reference-mount-command Jim Mulder -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Michael Watkins Sent: Thursday, February 1, 2024 11:43 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Antiquarian Curiosity: Pre-MVS/XA Mount

Re: Data space dump with SDUMPX

2024-02-01 Thread Jim Mulder
What is displayed by this IPCS command for your dump? CBF RTCT Jim Mulder -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Schühle, Simon Sent: Thursday, February 1, 2024 8:17 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Data space dump with SDUMPX So, just some

Re: Regarding RBINTCOD

2024-01-30 Thread Jim Mulder
E=03.19.26. So maybe that will get into the next release after z/OS 3.1. Jim Mulder -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Jon Perryman Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2024 3:06 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Regarding RBINTCOD On T

Re: IPCS - CBFORMAT

2024-01-24 Thread Jim Mulder
You can make each model an entry point in the module, with an ALIAS for each one when you bind the module. Jim Mulder -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Bill Yeager Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2024 10:47 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re

Re: IPCS - CBFORMAT

2024-01-23 Thread Jim Mulder
CTIVE ? Does the structure name show up in the output of LISTMAP, or is the address in an a range that shows as being mapped in the output of LISTMAP? Jim Mulder -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Jon Perryman Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2024 9:47 PM To

Re: Question on SSRV entries in system trace table

2024-01-10 Thread Jim Mulder
We don't want to waste the time and space. The caller information is in the preceding PC trace entry. Jim Mulder -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Mike Shaw Sent: Wednesday, January 10, 2024 5:39 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Questi

Re: Suspend/Resume for Paging

2023-11-15 Thread Jim Mulder
No, that was removed in in 2006 by APAR OA14248 (HyperPAV support). Jim Mulder -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Mark Jacobs Sent: Wednesday, November 15, 2023 8:28 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Suspend/Resume for Paging Does z/OS still

Re: Heads up: z/os 3.1 WAIT 006 under z/VM + DS6800 question

2023-10-24 Thread Jim Mulder
not relevant to the problem. Jim Mulder -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Keith Gooding Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2023 1:37 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Heads up: z/os 3.1 WAIT 006 under z/VM + DS6800 question It was z/VM 7.2 (still

Re: What is in SVCDUMP RTCT

2023-10-16 Thread Jim Mulder
some VSM attributes for allocated storage in private area non-LSQA subpools. Jim Mulder -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Jon Perryman Sent: Monday, October 16, 2023 5:29 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: What is in SVCDUMP RTCT I can&#

Re: What is in SVCDUMP RTCT

2023-10-16 Thread Jim Mulder
Under IPCS, to see the effective SDUMP parms for the dump (which is a composition of what was requested on the SDUMP(X) macro plus application of CD commands (as displayed by D D,O )), use STATUS WORKSHEET. The formatted SDUMP parm list is near the bottom of the display. Jim Mulder

Re: Given an SVC DUMP is SRB mo0de, how can one find the DUCT?

2023-09-26 Thread Jim Mulder
An SRB is initially dispatched with the home address space's Basic Access List, which is in ELSQA. If you subsequently ALESERV ADD something, then a new access list is obtained from a pool in ESQA. Jim Mulder -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Beha

Re: Equivalent of TSOLIB for batch

2023-07-19 Thread Jim Mulder
the unsupported and dangerous things that he did in his "products". Jim Mulder z/OS Diagnosis, Design, Development, Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie NY -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Tom Marchant Sent: Wednesday, July 19, 2023 10:33 AM To

Re: What happened to GC26-1672 Batch Local Shared Resource(LSR) Documentation?

2023-07-06 Thread Jim Mulder
sure that I submitted a request about 15 years ago to update the next edition of the Batch LSR manual to say that SETSSI can be used to active Batch LSR. But it would appear that there hasn't been a subsequent edition of that book. (So my request may still be pending somewhere). Jim Mulder Bat

Re: [EXT] Re: Counting EXIT invocations

2023-06-29 Thread Jim Mulder
. While this was designed and documented for use with ZAD, it can be useful for counting any type of PER SLIP trap (ZAD,IF,SA,SBT,SK). Jim Mulder z/OS Diagnosis, Design, Development, Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie NY -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf

Re: Why does ISPF BROWSE abend with S878 searching a large sequential file?

2023-05-23 Thread Jim Mulder
nded format data set @L7A*/ | TWCB_NonWrap_Mode THEN /* Or NOWRAP was specified @L7A*/ DCBMRPT2 = False; /* Indicate no NOTE/POINT @L7A*/ Jim Mulder -Original Message- From: IBM Mainf

Re: IPCS formatting of I/O control blocks

2023-04-29 Thread Jim Mulder
0D6EA4 DECB: ECB 7F00 FLAGS 000D3000DCB 1D551F04 AREA C9C5C1E5 STATUS E7C3C6C5 Jim Mulder -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Seymour J Metz Sent

Re: IPCS formatting of I/O control blocks

2023-04-27 Thread Jim Mulder
Yes, Wayne Rhoten enhanced that a while back. I don't remember which release of z/OS, but I have gotten accustomed to seeing it in the output from the SUMMARY FORMAT subcommand. Jim Mulder -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Seymour J Metz

Re: Cant SPKA to PSW Key 4

2023-02-26 Thread Jim Mulder
I have never used IDF. When I want to trace through authorized code, I run z/OS under z/VM and use the TRACE command. Jim Mulder -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Joseph Reichman Sent: Sunday, February 26, 2023 5:36 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU

Re: Cant SPKA to PSW Key 4

2023-02-26 Thread Jim Mulder
They do not support whatever is in TCBPKF. I have seen code in TSO which has hardcoded x'80'. Jim Mulder -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Ed Jaffe Sent: Saturday, February 25, 2023 9:50 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Cant S

Re: Beware IBM PTF UJ09197 (APAR OA63062)

2023-01-15 Thread Jim Mulder
We hit that as well last week on our test systems. UJ09197 has been marked PE, and APAR OA64137 has been opened. Jim Mulder -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Ed Jaffe Sent: Sunday, January 15, 2023 12:22 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject

Re: architecturally reusable address space

2023-01-15 Thread Jim Mulder
-services-avoid-loss-asids-from-reuse Jim Mulder -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of esst...@juno.com Sent: Sunday, January 15, 2023 8:47 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: architecturally reusable address space Hello, . In an old post "LX an

Re: Question and CZAM and IPL

2023-01-08 Thread Jim Mulder
The IPL PSW provided by software is always 8 bytes. There is no provision for providing a 16 byte PSW. Jim Mulder -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Joe Monk Sent: Sunday, January 8, 2023 4:27 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Question and

Re: dump command not fitting in console

2022-12-13 Thread Jim Mulder
Put the parms in an IEADMCxx parmlib member, and then issue DUMP PARMLIB=xx Jim Mulder -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Bill Giannelli Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2022 9:10 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: dump command not fitting in console

Re: Storage protection keys

2022-11-23 Thread Jim Mulder
f key changes via the RSM CHANGKEY macro. VSM is not involved or consulted about keys when virtual storage gets backed in real storage. Jim Mulder z/OS Diagnosis, Design, Development, Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie NY -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf O

Re: Storage protection keys

2022-11-22 Thread Jim Mulder
" was still being used. Jim Mulder z/OS Diagnosis, Design, Development, Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie NY -Original Message----- From: Jim Mulder Sent: Tuesday, November 22, 2022 10:01 PM To: ibm-main@listserv.ua.edu Subject: Re: Storage protection keys My wife agrees with y

Re: Storage protection keys

2022-11-22 Thread Jim Mulder
, and some more complex instructions being implemented in millicode. If you want to think of the millicoded instructions as a form of emulation, I don't object. However, it is done on z hardware, not Power hardware. Jim Mulder z/OS Diagnosis, Design, Development, Test IBM Corp. Poughkeep

Re: Storage protection keys

2022-11-22 Thread Jim Mulder
processor design. Jim Mulder z/OS Diagnosis, Design, Development, Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie NY -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Paul Gorlinsky Sent: Tuesday, November 22, 2022 4:35 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Storage protection keys

Re: Storage protection keys

2022-11-22 Thread Jim Mulder
LPAR support for Z is distinct from the LPAR support for Power/I. Jim Mulder z/OS Diagnosis, Design, Development, Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie NY -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Paul Gorlinsky Sent: Tuesday, November 22, 2022 12:37 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.U

Re: MVS/370 System Initialization Library?

2022-11-10 Thread Jim Mulder
SP4.1.0 - NMLDEF macro and IEANYxxx modules SP4.2.2 - NUCLSTxx Jim Mulder -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Seymour J Metz Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2022 7:30 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: MVS/370 System Initialization Library? Does

Re: CAS Restart during system startup

2022-10-24 Thread Jim Mulder
I nagged Mark Thomen into using a reusable ASID for CATALOG in 2006, release z/OS1.9. Jim Mulder z/OS Diagnosis, Design, Development, Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie NY -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Barbara Nitz Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2022 12:15

Re: D IPLINFO / IEE254I

2022-10-24 Thread Jim Mulder
IPCS STATUS SYSTEMwill also display that information. Jim Mulder z/OS Diagnosis, Design, Development, Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie NY -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Paul Schuster Sent: Monday, October 24, 2022 3:05 PM To: IBM-MAIN

Re: IPCS VERBX 64bit storage

2022-09-21 Thread Jim Mulder
https://listserv.ua.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind2111&L=IBM-MAIN&P=R28794&X=O14039FAB4B2233B763&Y=d10jhm1%40us.ibm.com Jim Mulder z/OS Diagnosis, Design, Development, Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie NY -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Da

Re: Question ABout SSI

2022-08-28 Thread Jim Mulder
The documentation is wrong. For function code 10, SSIBSSNM contains the name of the target subsystem, just like for any other broadcast call. Jim Mulder z/OS Diagnosis, Design, Development, Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie NY From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on

Re: System Dump DS's

2022-08-22 Thread Jim Mulder
You can also take a standalone dump and then use the COPYCAPD subcommand of IPCS to extract a captured SVC Dump from the standalone dump and write it to a data set. Jim Mulder King of z/OS Dumping From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of Barbara Nitz

Re: MODE trace entry

2022-07-28 Thread Jim Mulder
Yes, if you turn it on via TRACE ST,MODE=ON Jim Mulder z/OS Diagnosis, Design, Development, Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie NY -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Paul Schuster Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2022 3:15 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject

Re: SYS1.LOGREC vs VERBX LOGDATA

2022-07-28 Thread Jim Mulder
No. Jim Mulder z/OS Diagnosis, Design, Development, Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie NY -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Paul Schuster Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2022 3:11 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: SYS1.LOGREC vs VERBX LOGDATA Hello: I

Re: TIMEUSED macro

2022-07-02 Thread Jim Mulder
Since you are not executing in supervisor state and key 0, you need to specify LINKAGE=SYSTEM on the TIMEUSED macro. Jim Mulder z/OS Diagnosis, Design, Development, Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie NY -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Paul Schuster Sent

Re: Question about z/os and VM ADJUNCT

2022-05-20 Thread Jim Mulder
I would not expect the SLIP WAIT to change primary and secondary. You can verify that by displaying CR 3 and 4 for the CPU of interest and comparing it to the CR 3-4 in the IEE844W message. Jim Mulder -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Paul

Re: IBM BLSR subsystem

2022-05-18 Thread Jim Mulder
BLSR was initially developed by Washinton System Center as an assembler language sample program to go along with a book they were writing about using the Subsystem Interface. At the time, IBM was desperately looking for "ESA Exclusives" in order to sell 3090 machines vs the PCM manufacturers,

Re: ESTAE and IEBCOPY

2022-03-08 Thread Jim Mulder
E does not get control. Jim Mulder z/OS Diagnosis, Design, Development, Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie NY -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Steff Gladstone Sent: Tuesday, March 8, 2022 10:03 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: ESTAE and IEBCOPY In

Re: RTM2WA

2022-03-08 Thread Jim Mulder
IHARTM2A is not provided in MACLIB or MODGEN. It is PL/X only - there is no DSECT. Jim Mulder z/OS Diagnosis, Design, Development, Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie NY -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Steff Gladstone Sent: Tuesday, March 8, 2022 7:38

Re: ESPIE IC > 15?

2022-03-07 Thread Jim Mulder
For ABEND S0Cx, D0D6, and S0E0, the abend reason code is the program check interrupt code. (since SP2.1.4, around 1985). Jim Mulder z/OS Diagnosis, Design, Development, Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie NY -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Seymour J Metz

Re: ESPIE IC > 15?

2022-03-06 Thread Jim Mulder
g Interface. What you would really want is for the original interrupt code to be provided in one of the IHAEPIE fields that is currently reserved. Unfortunately, OW57082 did not do that. Jim Mulder z/OS Diagnosis, Design, Development, Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie NY -Original Message-

Re: ESPIE IC > 15?

2022-03-06 Thread Jim Mulder
7;3A', and x'3B', an exception that does not get resolved by the Real Storage Manager will get presented to SPIE/ESPIE exits as interrupt code 4. Jim Mulder z/OS Diagnosis, Design, Development, Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie NY -Original Message- From: IBM Mainfram

Re: 2.5 Heads Up

2022-02-22 Thread Jim Mulder
t into the field. Jim Mulder z/OS Diagnosis, Design, Development, Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie NY "IBM Mainframe Discussion List" wrote on 02/22/2022 10:26:40 AM: > From: "Charles Mills" > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Date: 02/22/2022 02:28 PM > Subject:

Re: 2.5 Heads Up

2022-02-21 Thread Jim Mulder
In prior releases, it was x'000130E1' when in zArchitecture mode. Jim Mulder z/OS Diagnosis, Design, Development, Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie NY "IBM Mainframe Discussion List" wrote on 02/21/2022 05:02:54 PM: > From: "Paul Gilmartin" <000433f07816

Re: IPCS - Dump timing

2022-02-08 Thread Jim Mulder
VERBX IEAVTSFS Jim Mulder z/OS Diagnosis, Design, Development, Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie NY "IBM Mainframe Discussion List" wrote on 02/07/2022 11:05:32 PM: > From: "Jake Anderson" > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Date: 02/08/2022 11:17 AM > Subje

Re: Display user for started tasks started under Master subsystem

2021-11-30 Thread Jim Mulder
Starting in z/OS 2.5, any program can do what IPCS ACTIVE does by using the SYS1.MACLIB(BLSACTV) macro to access storage of other address spaces, if the userid under which the program is running has been granted access to the BLSACTV.SYSTEM Facility Class. Jim Mulder z/OS Diagnosis, Design

Re: Display user for started tasks started under Master subsystem

2021-11-30 Thread Jim Mulder
The D,A command (module IEECB800) similarly uses IAZXJSAB to obtain the userid. Jim Mulder z/OS Diagnosis, Design, Development, Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie NY "IBM Mainframe Discussion List" wrote on 11/30/2021 04:16:41 AM: > From: "Rob Scott" > To: IBM-MAIN@

Re: IPCS CTRACE Buffer Locate Exit

2021-11-24 Thread Jim Mulder
line mode) if you put IPCS into TEST mode, which is done via the SETDEF TESTsubcommand. Jim Mulder z/OS Diagnosis, Design, Development, Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie NY "IBM Mainframe Discussion List" wrote on 11/24/2021 10:39:10 AM: > From: "Tom Harper" > To:

Re: PSA 0

2021-11-24 Thread Jim Mulder
end up trying to use them as addresses and get into even more weird results or storage overlays (since those are often valid GETMAINed addresses). So in z/OS 2.5, we changed those back to being reserved fields that are initialized to zeroes. Jim Mulder z/OS Diagnosis, Design, Development, Test

Re: AutoIPL Failure, just curious

2021-11-04 Thread Jim Mulder
DgnbAIMvsUCBAddr. So a storage overlay of DgnbAIMvsUCBAddr or of UCBCHAN would result in a wrong device number being used for AutoIPL. Jim Mulder z/OS Diagnosis, Design, Development, Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie NY "IBM Mainframe Discussion List" wrote on 11/04/2021 08:42:46 PM: > From:

Re: z/OS 2.4 IPL WSC 040

2021-10-19 Thread Jim Mulder
IEAVNP26 is SMS. For any more than that, I would need a standalone dump. Jim Mulder z/OS Diagnosis, Design, Development, Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie NY "IBM Mainframe Discussion List" wrote on 10/19/2021 06:30:03 PM: > From: "PINION, RICHARD W." > To: IBM-MAIN@

Re: Vector examples?

2021-10-19 Thread Jim Mulder
IB(IHAFACL) Facl_VectorExtensionFacility EQU X'40' Bit 129. z13 Even if this bit * is on, do not use the VEF unless* bit CVTVEF is on. Jim Mulder z/OS Diagnosis, Design, Development, Test IBM Co

Re: SIGP Orders

2021-10-13 Thread Jim Mulder
It is assigned. It is used by z/OS. It is intentionally not described in Principles of Operation. So that is all we will publicly say about it. Jim Mulder z/OS Diagnosis, Design, Development, Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie NY "IBM Mainframe Discussion List" wrote on 10/13/2021 0

Re: RENT binder option

2021-09-03 Thread Jim Mulder
nd no time to argue about such things. And I thought, "No way! They are wrong. I will always make time to be passionate about that." But it didn't take long for them to be proved correct. Jim Mulder z/OS Diagnosis, Design, Developmen

Re: RENT binder option

2021-09-03 Thread Jim Mulder
space constraints in the PDS directory entry, and getting exploitation by rebinding a lot of things with a new attribute would be expensive, and there were already quite a few things that are bound with the REFR attribute, which provided zero-cost exploitation. Jim Mulder z/OS Diagnosis, Design, Develo

Re: RENT binder option

2021-09-03 Thread Jim Mulder
1. No. I would expect any such incidences to be treated as a defect and fixed. 2. No 3. It was REFR and is still REFR. It was just a simple code bug, passing a field in the static area to BPX1OPT for a return parameter that gets modified by BPX1OPT. Jim Mulder z/OS Diagnosis

Re: RENT binder option

2021-09-02 Thread Jim Mulder
y REFRPROT. Jim Mulder z/OS Diagnosis, Design, Development, Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie NY "IBM Mainframe Discussion List" wrote on 09/02/2021 08:54:25 AM: > From: "Seymour J Metz" > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Date: 09/02/2021 03:46 PM > Subject: Re: RE

Re: RENT binder option

2021-09-01 Thread Jim Mulder
from the processor's trace structure. Jim Mulder z/OS Diagnosis, Design, Development, Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie NY "IBM Mainframe Discussion List" wrote on 09/01/2021 01:58:03 PM: > From: "Paul Gilmartin" <000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> &

Re: RENT binder option

2021-09-01 Thread Jim Mulder
? SPOCK: Astonishment. Jim Mulder z/OS Diagnosis, Design, Development, Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie NY "IBM Mainframe Discussion List" wrote on 09/01/2021 09:39:18 AM: > From: "Paul Gilmartin" <000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTS

Re: RENT binder option

2021-09-01 Thread Jim Mulder
rounding and alignment are not done. Jim Mulder z/OS Diagnosis, Design, Development, Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie NY "IBM Mainframe Discussion List" wrote on 09/01/2021 11:04:15 AM: > From: "Paul Gilmartin" <000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> > To: IBM

Re: RENT binder option

2021-08-31 Thread Jim Mulder
EPTOKEN.. 01A6 00010065 Jim Mulder z/OS Diagnosis, Design, Development, Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie NY "IBM Mainframe Discussion List" wrote on 08/31/2021 11:23:11 PM: > From: "CM Poncelet" > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Date: 09/01/2021 01:30

Re: RENT binder option

2021-08-31 Thread Jim Mulder
No. It is a popular name. Jim Mulder z/OS Diagnosis, Design, Development, Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie NY "IBM Mainframe Discussion List" wrote on 08/31/2021 12:58:55 PM: > From: "Bill Hitefield" > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Date: 08/31/2021 02:05

Re: RENT binder option

2021-08-31 Thread Jim Mulder
=zUmMeS2c4Uw Jim Mulder z/OS Diagnosis, Design, Development, Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie NY "IBM Mainframe Discussion List" wrote on 08/30/2021 11:29:35 PM: > From: "CM Poncelet" > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Date: 08/31/2021 12:26 PM > Subject: Re: RENT binder

Re: RENT binder option

2021-08-31 Thread Jim Mulder
MVS/APPC TP Profile and Side Info data sets, while waiting in line for several hours to get into the "Back To The Future" ride at Universal Studios in Orlando. Unfortunately, the funding to implement that design never happened. Jim Mulder z/OS Diagnosis, Design, Development, Test

Re: RENT binder option

2021-08-30 Thread Jim Mulder
Yes, I know the lines from that show from having played in the orchestra for it here: https://countyplayers.org/icpdb/shows/0502.html Jim Mulder z/OS Diagnosis, Design, Development, Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie NY "IBM Mainframe Discussion List" wrote on 08/30/2021 05:12:37 P

Re: RENT binder option

2021-08-30 Thread Jim Mulder
But I have come across places that were missed when other subpools were added. Jim Mulder z/OS Diagnosis, Design, Development, Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie NY "IBM Mainframe Discussion List" wrote on 08/30/2021 05:28:50 PM: > From: "Charles Mills" > To: IBM-MAIN@LIS

Re: RENT binder option

2021-08-30 Thread Jim Mulder
least a purpose of marking them RENT. Jim Mulder z/OS Diagnosis, Design, Development, Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie NY "IBM Mainframe Discussion List" wrote on 08/30/2021 07:23:00 PM: > From: "Andrew Rowley" > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Date: 08/30/2021

Re: RENT binder option

2021-08-30 Thread Jim Mulder
New York responds, courteously. On a test system, you may specify the undocumented CsvSP252RoundUpTRAPS name in DIAGxx. For a module being loaded into subpool 252, that will round the length up to a 4K multiple. Jim Mulder z/OS Diagnosis, Design, Development, Test IBM Corp

Re: RENT binder option

2021-08-30 Thread Jim Mulder
The behavior of loading RENT modules from authorized libraries into subpool 252 (key 0) is to prevent them from being modified by unauthorized programs. That is intended to contribute to security. Jim Mulder z/OS Diagnosis, Design, Development, Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie NY &quo

Re: RENT binder option

2021-08-25 Thread Jim Mulder
those ranges as conceptually REFR for stealing purposes, regardless of the load module attributes. Jim Mulder z/OS Diagnosis, Design, Development, Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie NY "IBM Mainframe Discussion List" wrote on 08/25/2021 09:10:04 PM: > From: "CM Poncele

Re: LOAD with ADDR

2021-08-25 Thread Jim Mulder
the MVCL? What was the target address and length for the MVCL? What was the Translation Exception Id? From a dump, what was the length and address from the system trace entry for the GETMAIN which obtained the module storage? Jim Mulder z/OS Diagnosis, Design, Development, Test IBM Corp

Re: dump command not working

2021-08-23 Thread Jim Mulder
support. Logrec and syslog are also required. CANCEL DUMPSRV sometimes is able to allow subsequent dumps to be taken. Jim Mulder z/OS Diagnosis, Design, Development, Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie NY "IBM Mainframe Discussion List" wrote on 08/23/2021 03:37:33 PM: > From: &q

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