Re: WTO confusion

2013-12-20 Thread Hunkeler, Peter
WTO is a lazy way to write something without all those OPEN/WRITE/PUT/CLOSE macros. ;-) WTO / WTOR is the means to communicate with the operator, either human or automated. The system provides that communication path. It does not need an setup on the program / JCL side. It should not be

Re: WTO confusion

2013-12-20 Thread Elardus Engelbrecht
Hunkeler, Peter wrote: WTO is a lazy way to write something without all those OPEN/WRITE/PUT/CLOSE macros. ;-) Did you see my smiley? ;-) Really, when I write a brand new program, I sometimes use WTO for debugging purposes during development, say for example, to see whether a branch or

Re: WTO confusion

2013-12-20 Thread Tim Deller
File 127 at cbttape.org contains a handy macro named SYSPUT. Just code the macro in your working storage; then when you want to write a line; load the address of the line in R1 and BAL R14 to the macro tag. The specified dcb (automagically defined within the macro) is opened at first use. The

Re: WTO confusion

2013-12-20 Thread zMan
Thanks all...I will consider doing it right. At the very least, I'll stop looking for another way! On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 7:12 AM, Tim Deller ists...@bonton.com wrote: File 127 at cbttape.org contains a handy macro named SYSPUT. Just code the macro in your working storage; then when you want

WTO confusion

2013-12-19 Thread zMan
I’m missing something here (as usual). Assembler program, running in Batch, wants to write a message to the job log. I’m doing WTO with ROUTCDE=11, which puts the message in the JESMSGLG. Is that my only real option? Seems like it should be easy to write to SYSPRINT, but I can’t find a way to do

Re: WTO confusion

2013-12-19 Thread Anthony Thompson
Subject: WTO confusion I'm missing something here (as usual). Assembler program, running in Batch, wants to write a message to the job log. I'm doing WTO with ROUTCDE=11, which puts the message in the JESMSGLG. Is that my only real option? Seems like it should be easy to write to SYSPRINT, but I

Re: WTO confusion

2013-12-19 Thread Scott Ford
zMan, did you look at the WTL macro ? Scott ford www.identityforge.com from my IPAD 'Infinite wisdom through infinite means' On Dec 19, 2013, at 6:41 PM, zMan zedgarhoo...@gmail.com wrote: I’m missing something here (as usual). Assembler program, running in Batch, wants to write a message

Re: WTO confusion

2013-12-19 Thread Jon Perryman
WTL won't help either. It's just a more specific form of WTO. Jon Perryman. From: Scott Ford scott_j_f...@yahoo.com To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2013 4:16 PM Subject: Re: WTO confusion zMan, did you look at the WTL macro

Re: WTO confusion

2013-12-19 Thread Scott Ford
. Jon Perryman. From: Scott Ford scott_j_f...@yahoo.com To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2013 4:16 PM Subject: Re: WTO confusion zMan, did you look at the WTL macro ? Scott ford www.identityforge.com from my IPAD

Re: WTO confusion

2013-12-19 Thread John McKown
On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 5:41 PM, zMan zedgarhoo...@gmail.com wrote: I’m missing something here (as usual). Assembler program, running in Batch, wants to write a message to the job log. I’m doing WTO with ROUTCDE=11, which puts the message in the JESMSGLG. Is that my only real option? Seems

Re: WTO confusion

2013-12-19 Thread Charles Mills
: Thursday, December 19, 2013 6:42 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: WTO confusion I'm missing something here (as usual). Assembler program, running in Batch, wants to write a message to the job log. I'm doing WTO with ROUTCDE=11, which puts the message in the JESMSGLG. Is that my only real

Re: WTO confusion

2013-12-19 Thread John McKown
On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 8:17 PM, Charles Mills charl...@mcn.org wrote: It's a crazy shortcoming of z/OS and why the console is littered with OPENING MASTER INPUT FILE messages: way easier to write a message to the console than to SYSPRINT. Too bad HLASM did not include some of the ASSIST

Re: WTO confusion

2013-12-19 Thread Ed Gould
@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: WTO confusion I'm missing something here (as usual). Assembler program, running in Batch, wants to write a message to the job log. I'm doing WTO with ROUTCDE=11, which puts the message in the JESMSGLG. Is that my only real option? Seems like it should be easy to write

Re: WTO confusion

2013-12-19 Thread Elardus Engelbrecht
zMan wrote: Assembler program, running in Batch, wants to write a message to the job log. I'm doing WTO with ROUTCDE=11, which puts the message in the JESMSGLG. Is that my only real option? Seems like it should be easy to write to SYSPRINT, but I can't find a way to do that! Neither me, but