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You might want to contact the vendor of whatever product it belongs to.
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I find no such requirement listed in that manual, or even a reference
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On Wed, 5 Dec 2018 15:42:31 -0600, John McKown wrote:
>https://medium.com/a-computer-of-ones-own/jean-sammet-designer-of-cobol-77c6d794365c
>
>No mention of Grace Hopper. Heresy?
I see the wikipedia article on her mentions cobol, and the article on cobol
article mentions her.
I also found an ob
quot;here are the books in which I found hits", ordered by the number of hits
>in each book, presumably accomplished by sorting the search results.
Yes. I want that too.
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IMO, you should consider using automount to manage /u so that each
user has their own ZFS that is mounted as needed.
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>Friday, 14 December 2018, will be my last day at IBM.
Thank you for all you do, John.
Best wishes in the next phase of your life, whatever it may bring.
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On Thu, 13 Dec 2018 08:29:04 -0500, Carmen Vitullo wrote:
>well that makes sense to me now, I'm still running 2.2
>thanks
Just to be clear, is the OP running z/OS 2.3?
If so, perhaps an RFE is in order to bring ISMF in agreement with DFSMS.
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>I’m looking to detect differences across the LPARs in terms of shared storage
>and want to pull together an aggregate view.
I wonder if an API into the active IODF would help.
I don't know if such is available.
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ion to report on
every one of these, and customers would notice that their IBM processors
didn't have memory errors. My understanding was that the IBM hardware
at the time didn't report every single-bit error, but would only report them
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o If necessary, copy results to where your C program can find them.
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The save area that is passed to a non-XPLINK program is allocated from the
stack.
Unless there is a way to alter this behavior, 64-bit C cannot call an AMODE(31)
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Perhaps the reason fetch will not allow you to load an AMODE(31) program is to
prevent you from calling it, since an AMODE(31) program will fail as soon as it
used the low 31 bits of the save area address to save its caller'
n."
Perhaps if IBM wants these publications to be available only to people who pay
for them, they could get IEEE to offer subscriptions to individuals. I would
pay a reasonable price for a subscription to this publication.
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>Wonder if the local library or edu has a subscription?
Yes, I wonder. Haven't checked yet.
I wonder if SHARE could get a subscription...
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you're going to actually use all that resolution, you might want a 50 inch or
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On Fri, 4 Jan 2019 12:31:11 -0500, Phil Smith III wrote:
>A colleague asked me, "WTF really *is* Zowe?"
As a long-time fan of Frank Zappa, my first thought is "Wowie Zowie".
From the first album by The Mothers of Inven
ven likely, the same as the number
of bytes that were available on the track when the input member was written.
It is my understanding that IEBCOPY does not do all of this, but instead calls
the Binder to perform the copy.
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available below the line. It is certainly possible that the available region
size below the line is smaller on your old system than is available on your new
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I agree, they should have done it 35 years ago.
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On Thu, 10 Jan 2019 00:00:34 -0500, Tony Thigpen wrote:
> In z/VSE, if in key-0, I can access any other key storage. I
>don't know if this is true for z/OS.
It is the way the hardware works. The same is true regardless of the operating
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On Thu, 10 Jan 2019 13:48:14 +, Barkow, Eileen wrote:
>Navigate to page A8 for interesting article about Grace Hopper, developer of
>COBOL
>
>http://paper.amny.com/html5/reader/production/default.aspx?&pubid=4af0aa34-706c-410d-a9ff-f93a3c23b1c7
What an awful web site!
be
loaded below the line. Your job is using only 4K above the line.
I would suggest you open a PMR with IBM.
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>On Sat, Jan 12, 2019 at 2:52 PM Wayne Bickerdike wrote:
>
>> REGION=0M and same abend with REGION=512M.
>>
>> Took an SVC dump, here&#x
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>On Sat, 12 Jan 2019 14:59:05 +1100, Wayne Bickerdike wrote:
>
>>Step end stats:
>>
>>IEF032I STEP/STEP020 /STOP 2019011.2148
>>
>>CPU: 0 HR 00 MIN 00.05 SECSRB: 0 HR 00 MIN 00.
;answer be ascertained). CVTGDA (offset x'230' in the CVT) has the address
>of the GDA. GDACSA is the 4 bytes at offset x'6C'
One way to do it is using IPCS.
0 Defaults
Select Source ==> ACTIVE
PF3
2 Analysis
6i (n
r releases of CICS.
I am a little surprised though if all three of the places that he has run this
have only 8M of below the line private.
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>GDACSA = C2d(Storage(D2x(CVTGDA + 108),4)) /* start of CSA addr*/
>GDACSAH = D2x(GDACSA) /* display in hex */
>CSAEND = (GDACSASZ*1024) + GDACSA - 1 /* end of CSA */
>CSAEND = D2x(CSAEND) /* displ
says, be able just to do an fopen() followed by meminfo()
>and get the member info or a return code that says "sorry Charlie, not a PDS
>member."
Maybe so, but someone has to open the PDS to get that information.
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he 370 model 168 also had 4 MB in that time
frame. I'm pretty sure that either of those processors would outperform a
360/75 by a considerable margin. According to Wikipedia, the model 75 first
shipped in 1965
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opulated with 256 bit dynamic RAM chips.
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>that only the parts that truly need to be below 16M are, or if not that
>then the more brute force approach of splitting the loadmod into multiple
>loadmods based at least in part on RMODE. (I'm assuming that most of this
>utility is AMODE 31.)
The current load module is linke
ta set or something, could it?
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MTS, the Michigan Terminal System
UTS, Amdahl's implementation of Unix for 370 & 390
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On Fri, 25 Jan 2019 15:44:57 +0800, Timothy Sipples wrote:
>IBM doesn't distribute Linux yet. If IBM's pending acquisition of Red Hat
>completes, that'll change.
This prompts me to wonder what happens to Fedora when IBM buys Red H
hings. Install Top Secret
(or any other product) in an isolated environment, then clone the target and
distribution zone within that environment.
IIRC, CA-MSM is now called Opera. I disagree with Lizette, though. I do not
recommend that you use it.
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Is there another ISPCFIGU that is ahead of linklist in the search order?
STEPLIB?
Does ISPLLIB count as a task lib, which would be ahead of STEPLIB?
If you issue M ISPCFIGU from ISRDDN, where is it found?
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form of toleration PTF. Another is a PTF to a third party
product so that it will work with a new release of the operating system
or of some other product, for example, a compiler. Yet another is so
that the product will be able to run in the presence of new hardware
of time.
>And reverse replication again after returning to the normal site.
That part should be easier.
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PARM2=value
Try this:
//procname PROC PARM1=value,PARM2=value
// EXPORT SYMLIST=*
// SET PARM1=&PARM1
// SET PARM2=&PARM2
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>>// SET PARM2=&PARM2
>
>Doesn't this run afoul of a rule elsewhere in the Ref. that symbols
>are not to be defined in terms of other symbols.
What rule is that? Where is it docum
>// SET $PARM2=PARM2
>...
>//MYPARMDD DD *,SYMBOLS=JCLONLY
> $PARM1,$PARM2,...
I did something like that too, but then I found out (at the suggestion of IBM)
that I could use the same symbol name, like this:
// SET
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>[Dual-posted to ISPF-L and IBM-MAIN]
>
>On my employer's z/OS 2.2 system and as far back as they have employed me
>(OS/390 R10 IIRC), pressing "Attention" (Esc on my PCOMM keyboard map
ess.
Do you mean that you are going to associate all your target and distribution
zones with a single Global zone?
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>line.
Have you browsed the load module(s) to see if there is a copyright notice or
any other text that might indicate where it came from?
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>switch which is the primary JES, but is that really such a risk.
AFAIK, JES3 can only be the primary JES.
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the list. If IBM would provide the document title in the metadata for the PDFs,
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On Thu, 7 Mar 2019 17:01:36 +1100, Matthew Donald wrote:
>If the operand is in a CF
>storage structure which is part of a GDPS Plex then access may take
>hundreds of thousands of clocks.
What instruction can reference an operand in a CF structure?
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On Thu, 7 Mar 2019 18:12:56 +, David Spiegel wrote:
>How about GROUPEXTEND (GEXT)?
Nope.
"If GROUP or GROUPEXTEND is also specified, REDO does not reapply SYSMODs
included by the GROUP or GROUPEXTEND operand. It processes only SYSMODs
specified on the SELECT operand."
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ulbs used in cars use bayonet bases. e.g. brake light and turn
signals.
At least they used to. Not sure if they still do.
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>Since the Tuna is directed to PDS, I suspect the JES2 developers haven't
>yet heard of PDSE.
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>PTFS with APPLY FORFMID(fmid) GROUPEXTEND.
>In a message dated 3/7/2019 12:08:56
arable in 64 bit mode
ROFL! That's the most ridiculous thing I have heard in a long time.
What do you think the point of that is?
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do that.
Really?
You want to examine a location in virtual storage.
If that storage is not allocated in your address space, you use STORAGE OBTAIN
to allocate storage at that address, so that you can examine it.
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stem need to read in the logical
>memory from paging files and retry the instruction.
Yes, PIC 11 is a page translation exception.
But a S0C4 with PIC 11 means that the storage has not been GETMAIN'ed.
There is nothing to page in.
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&g
lone a new Target and distribution zone before
applying maintenance.
When a Target zone is no longer needed i.e. there is no system running that
level of the code and there is no need to go back, the old zones can be deleted.
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On Wed, 3 Apr 2019 07:49:31 -0500, Lennie Dymoke-Bradshaw wrote:
>Can anyone point me to documentation showing the internal differences between
>basic format and extended format datasets?
Did you look in DFSMS: Using Data Sets?
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Yeah. You want to double the available storage, yet halve the storage available
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That's absurd.
I'm done with you.
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If you have automation that you can control, you could issue a WTO and have
your automation trap the message and cancel the job.
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Is there a library in the JOBLIB concatenation that has BLKSIZE=32760?
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When a new data set is created without specifying BLKSIZE, and written to
by the binder, the data set ends up with BLKSIZE=32760. I just ran a test
on z/OS 2.3, and there was no DATACLAS involved.
I don't know whether it was set by DFSMA o
Microsoft thought it would be a good idea to be
able to embed arbitrary code in a document, it meant that someone could do
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>
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thout taking the
>machine down.
Sure, detecting a potential failure situation and responding to that should
be relatively trivial.
>I'm also assuming that the CPU was not actually faulted and would still
>pass sanity checks as lon
On Tue, 14 May 2019 09:35:42 -0600, Grant Taylor wrote:
>On 5/14/19 7:08 AM, Tom Marchant wrote:
>> Mildly?
>
>Yes, "mildly" is the word that I wanted to use. I explained why I chose it.
>
>> You can leave out the parenthetical "significantly". z mac
g this
conveying of source, or (2) access to copy the
Corresponding Source from a network server at no charge.
GPL v1 and GPL v2 have similar clauses.
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to switch. The device(s) had to be varied offline,
then the connection was switched by turning dials, then varied online to
the other processor.
To further complicate things, on some early processors, the channels
were located in a separate box from the CPU.
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>where did the 9340 subsystem fit in the timeline between 3990 and 2105? or the
>RAMAC2?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_IBM_magnetic_disk_drives#IBM_9340_and_9345
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>I am not sure if there is an easy way to list all FMIDs in the SMP/e
>environment.
LIST FUNCTIONS .
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On Fri, 24 May 2019 09:38:22 -0400, Kurt Quackenbush wrote:
> If you did receive such ASSIGN statements,
>and if you still have it, I'd like to see the RECEIVE command output for
>both jobs please.
If he doesn't have the jobs, will the data from the SMPLOG for that period help
t question you because you are the expert?
I call BS.
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>On Mon, 27 May 2019 16:05:33 +, Bill Johnson wrote:
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>>Mainf
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