On Wed, 12 Dec 2018 at 05:42, venkat kulkarni
wrote:
> Hello Group,
>
> We identified the issue and resolve it and the solution is, if we use SCP
> to transfer file from AIX to Mainframe, data gets corrupt during
> transmission.
> But when we use SFTP to transfer file from AIX to Mainframe, thi
On Wed, 12 Dec 2018 at 08:41, John Eells wrote:
Friday, 14 December 2018, will be my last day at IBM.
Congrats and all the best in retirement, John.
For the curious, I started on a Wednesday, 1 June 1977, so it will be 41
> years, 6 months
> since I started as a CE in the local Poughkeepsie br
On Wed, 12 Dec 2018 at 13:41, Matt Hogstrom wrote:
> Is there a callable API that returns the list of online volumes to LPARs
> in a Sysplex? I assume one could route a command and write scripts. I’m
> looking for an API that can be incorporated into a program where all the
> searching and cata
On Mon, 31 Dec 2018 at 11:40, Jesse 1 Robinson
wrote:
When VTAM/SNA went to Multi Systems Networking Facility (MSNF) in the
> 1980s, shops suddenly needed to take the whole world into account when
> exposing heretofore 'private' node names. Most shops had a SYSA, which
> would not do when everyon
On Sun, 23 Dec 2018 at 09:47, Joel C. Ewing wrote:
> And he has some unusual hobbies not mentioned in the NYT article: How
> many people do you know that have a pipe organ designed for and built in
> their home? https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/organ.html
I seem vaguely to remember t
On Sun, 6 Jan 2019 at 15:29, Seymour J Metz wrote:
> Second, MODIFY is not the only type of CIB, If the COMM ECB is posted then
> you need to process and delete the CIB, regardless of
> type, and regardless of whether you recognize the text of a MODIFY. The types
> I would expect to see are STA
On Tue, 8 Jan 2019 at 15:58, esst...@juno.com wrote:
> Rob Scott wrote Same situation but SASN=NEW, then the MVCP will attempt to
> copy data from address X in
> the *server* address space to some address Y in the server ASID. So besides
> influencing the Address Space Number (ASN), it is my
>
On Tue, 8 Jan 2019 at 16:47, Seymour J Metz wrote:
> > was “open source” if you call fiche open source.
>
> There were optional source material tapes.
For the base it was not uncommon. But while PTF source was, in theory,
RPQable, in the real world no one had complete source matching the MVS
the
On Thu, 10 Jan 2019 at 02:29, Peter Hunkeler wrote:
> I asked that some time last year, when I understood that Enterprise Cobol V5
> and later uses this to store debug information with the load module instead
> of in side files.
> ISTR that Peter Relson responded that this is not intended to b
On Thu, 17 Jan 2019 at 14:48, Mike Schwab wrote:
> https://www.ibm.com/us-en/marketplace/ts1160/specifications
>
There is a more detailed booklet pointed to by the above at
https://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/cgi-bin/ssialias?htmlfid=a0b99e6d-52a9-4572-8061-f54e7392b318USEN
It has the same specs p
On Tue, 22 Jan 2019 at 07:44, John Gateley wrote:
> The link information in the 24-bit addressing mode consists of the
> instruction-length code (ILC), the condition code (CC), the program-mask
> bits, and the rightmost 24 bits of the updated instruction address.
>
> I have never given much tho
On Sun, 27 Jan 2019 at 23:47, Jim Mulder wrote:
> It is unfortunate that IBM does not make PL/X (which
> has object-oriented capabilities) available
> to ISVs. I have often wondered why the large ISVs did
> not have their executives constantly hammering IBM
> executives over this issue. Of cour
On Mon, 28 Jan 2019 at 13:35, Jim Mulder wrote:
>
> IPCS ACTIVE will work with other address spaces and system key fetch
> protected storage if the user of IPCS has been granted access to the
> facility classes.
How does it behave if the target address space is swapped out? (Could
this be the p
On Tue, 29 Jan 2019 at 11:07, Bob Bridges wrote:
>
> I'm the Top-Secret admin for a client whose system programmer retired a
> couple years ago. The client tapped another employee to take his place, and
> she's learning the job with frantic haste but insists with some justification
> that she'
On Fri, 1 Feb 2019 at 09:29, R.S. wrote:
>
> IMHO the topic is HMC for zPDT. Unfortunately zPDT does not have HMC in
> any form, real or emulated.
> It's not mainframe, it's only emulation.
No, zPDT *is* a mainframe. It implements a permitted subset of the
architecture documented in the Principle
On Wed, 30 Jan 2019 at 01:53, Ed Jaffe wrote:
> Is it no longer possible to use "old school" shared DASD RESERVE/RELEASE
> to protect data? I know it won't work for sharing PDSE, but for
> old-school PDS and sequential, it should still work.
Reserve/Release works only if someone issues those CCW
On Wed, 30 Jan 2019 at 01:10, Brian Westerman
wrote:
>
> Do you have any figures for how much "more" friendly the CPU usage is?
Funny thing... More than 40 years ago VM/370 was able to detect the
standard TIO/BC loop when issued in a virtual machine, and instead of
allowing it to eat CPU time, di
On Thu, 14 Feb 2019 at 16:20, Charles Mills wrote:
>
> Well, now that I have STC LONGPARM working, how long can the START command be?
>
> The commands reference describes two formats. It says most commands can use
> format one, and it may be up to 126 characters. And it says three specific
> comma
On Tue, 19 Feb 2019 at 16:24, Paul Gilmartin
<000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 19 Feb 2019 14:47:03 -0500, Steve Smith wrote:
>
> >Bit 32 is pervasively used as a flag, most typically the end of a list. As
> >far as the hardware goes, it is ignored for addressing.
On Mon, 25 Feb 2019 at 10:35, Ed Jaffe wrote:
>
> Did you actually try to search for something? The results were as expected?
>
Failing with "SearchRequest. Incorrect XML format of dBlue response." here
in Toronto at noon EST on Monday 25 Feb.
I submitted "Feedback" using the button on the righ
I'm sure this is the kind of thing Sort should be able to do easily, but I
really don't know where to start.
I have System Trace data as formatted by IPCS with the GMT timestamp
option. Trace lines are well documented, but have a few quirks. These are
132 byte records, with a timestamp toward the
On Thu, 28 Feb 2019 at 06:27, Larre Shiller
<0102cb4997b0-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote:
> A JES3-to-JES2 conversion effort is a high risk change that requires
> essentially the same level of effort as a conversion from one platform to
> another--but it has the disadvantage of a 100%
rom: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of
> Tom Marchant
> Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2019 5:35 PM
> To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
> Subject: Re: z/OS V2R5 Will be the Last Release to Include JES3
>
> On Thu, 28 Feb 2019 18:06:35 -0500, Tony Harminc wrote:
>
> >I
On Sat, 2 Mar 2019 at 01:14, Paul Gilmartin
<000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote:
> Most of the links in:
> asmr1023.pdfSC26-4940-08HLASM Language Reference
> Bibliography
>
> ... don't work for me, or they try to downoad from IBM's server
> when the docs shou
On Thu, 7 Mar 2019 at 14:32, Seymour J Metz wrote:
> Never in PoOps, nor should it have been. There were timing manuals and there
> was timing information in some to the functional
> specifications manuals for specific models.
The timing for S/360 and early S/370 models was indeed in the
Functi
On Wed, 6 Mar 2019 at 21:08, Joseph Reichman wrote:
> From what I remember there used to be a list of instruction clock speeds in
> the principle of operation I wonder if that's still available
The important issue is what you would do with such information were it
available. Are you trying to ma
On Thu, 7 Mar 2019 at 11:33, Phil Smith III wrote:
>
> Anyone remember the old EXEC 2 source (Chris Stephenson), which included
> comments like "Do this while R3 settles"? Those days are very long gone!
Long gone, but at the same time shows an awareness that the processors
of the day were alread
On Wed, 1 May 2019 at 21:25, Phil Smith III wrote:
> Those of you who were conscious should know who Peter Frampton is (if you
> were and you don't, report to room 100 immediately for
> remedial instruction).
>
> TIL that he's suffering from IBM: inclusion body myositis, a degenerative
> disease
On Tue, 7 May 2019 at 09:04, Jorge Garcia wrote:
> We want to obtain LU name and RACF ID associated from SMF records or
> anyother source. We don't have available SMF record type 33. This LU name
> is available in TELNET profile
>
> LUGROUP LUMAJ
> T900D001..T900D030
>
> We don't know if t
On Thu, 16 May 2019 at 12:50, Alan Altmark wrote:
> Disk, tape, and unit record devices of the same era had discrete
> controllers. Unit record CU (2821) was interesting in that it talked to
> devices that did different things: 1403/1404 printer and 2540 card
> reader-punch. Clever of them.
>
On Fri, 15 May 2020 at 12:38, Seymour J Metz wrote:
>
> I thought that you could turn off TSO recognition of semicolon with
PROFILE or TERMINAL but, no, you can't. I'm not sure what happens if CLIST
or REXX code passes a semicolon. OTOH, TSO will accept a semicolon in a
quoted string.
Semicolon i
On Mon, 18 May 2020 at 16:04, Steve Beaver wrote:
> Did anyone attend the Technical Disclosure meeting in NY?
>
No - absolutely no one! IBM, like everyone else, has been doing pretty much
everything online lately.
Tony H.
--
F
On Mon, 18 May 2020 at 22:54, Seymour J Metz wrote:
> Does anybody have an announcement or other document that I can cite for
> "The source code is covered by a non-disclosure agreement or a license that
> allows, for example, study and modification, but not redistribution." in
> the wikipedia ar
On Mon, 11 May 2020 at 14:17, Alexander Huemer
wrote:
> Now, the friendly person who created oec says that the 3290 is a so
> called DFT (Distributed Function Terminal), in contrast to a CUT
> (Control Unit Terminal). Most 3270 terminals seem to be of the (simpler)
> CUT variant. oec only works
I stumbled across a book on bitsavers
http://bitsavers.org/pdf/ibm/370/EPSILON/Principles_Of_Operation_The_EPSILON_System_Oct1980.pdf
dated 1976 that describes a follow-on system to S/360. It's an
intriguing hybrid of S/360, Multics, and maybe IBM i (aka FS,
System/38, AS/400, etc.) with some nifty
On Tue, 2 Jun 2020 at 10:20, R.S. wrote:
> As far as I know, a character set on punched cards was somehow limited,
> so it is not EBCDIC or similar set of 256 characters.
No, not at all. In fact in a way the opposite is true - a punched card
column can contain way more than 256 values. There are
On Thu, 18 Jun 2020 at 13:10, esst...@juno.com wrote:
[...]
> To be clear I'm interested in understanding SSI Function Call 08 and
> not a Resource Manager.
> .
> If this function call is defined by a subsystem, the only variables presented
> to the function routine are: and SSENASID (ASID of End
On Fri, 26 Jun 2020 at 12:57, Henri Kuiper wrote:
>
> Wow. What a lot of pushback.
>
> This is (IMHO) precisely what’s wrong with the (generic average) mainframe
> community. New is bad. Different is bad.
No one has said anything remotely like that.
> Dudes (m/f) : it’s not the 80s anymore.
>
On Fri, 3 Jul 2020 at 11:45, Grant Taylor
<023065957af1-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote:
> I find it very difficult to believe that some business couldn't rent out
> tiny z/VM guests as VPSs for < $100 a month. Limited resources (storage
> / CPU / DASD) would be perfectly fine for hobbyi
On Sun, 5 Jul 2020 at 07:13, John S. Giltner, Jr. wrote:
> Unfortunately SSI is going out of business and is dropping all support Dec.
> 31, 2020 and is not guaranteeing that SuperWylbur will work with 2.4 or
> beyond.
What is (and will be) the licensing status of SuperWylbur? Is there
potenti
On Wed, 8 Jul 2020 at 14:38, Farley, Peter x23353
wrote:
>
> Do you know of a specific program or macro in the package that exhibits this
> failure? Or have a link to any public discussion of the issue that describes
> the mis-translations?
>
> I DL'd the tgz file directly from Stanford and bro
The doc for GQSCAN says that "ISGQUERY is the recommended replacement for
the GQSCAN service". But it says nothing about GQSCAN being deprecated -
let alone eventually removed. We've used GQSCAN "forever" (actually since
July 2000), and I need to make some updates to the code that uses it. But
the
On Mon, 27 Jul 2020 at 18:03, ITschak Mugzach wrote:
> It happens because racf is a single task. This is why other users can't
> login until the wtor is replied.
>
I very much doubt this. It may be that this part of *CICS* is a single task
for all its users, but RACF itself pretty much runs as a
Simple question - I think I should know the answer, but I don't.
How can an application program using a VSAM dataset discover the
SHAREOPTIONS that were specified when the cluster was DEFINEd/ALTERed?
Can this be done easily before OPEN? After OPEN?
There are two flag bits in ACBINFL2, but that
On Thu, 30 Jul 2020 at 12:59, Charles Mills wrote:
>
> (I can't clean up the signal registration myself with BPX1MSD() -- that
> fails because the running main task does not own the signal registration,
> the terminated subtask does.)
>
> Any thoughts or suggestions?
>
Could you use a task level
On Wed, 2 Sep 2020 at 17:35, Seymour J Metz wrote:
>
> Knowingly means knowingly; regardless of the user's sophistication or lack
> thereof; no reasonable person would expect the user to avoid unknown
> keywords. OTOH, a polite heads up would be reasonable.
>
> However, it might be nice to have
On Thu, 17 Sep 2020 at 10:21, Pierre Fichaud wrote:
> For the current TCB, I want to extract the thread id.
> I'm using BPX1GTH.
>
I don't know about BPX1GTH, but it's trivially easy to go from a TCB
address to a thread ID yourself.
If you want the current TCB, its address is in PSATOLD. Or may
On Mon, 21 Sep 2020 at 16:23, Pierre Fichaud wrote:
> Tonu=y,
> Yup,I got that from a friend of mine.
> How about the process id ?
> It seems that ASSBOASB points to an OCO area.
> The OMVS address space block contains the thread id.
> But I can't find a ma
On Tue, 21 May 2019 at 12:11, Tony Thigpen wrote:
>
> One of the questions I am trying to answer is "who is starting RACF
> during IPL". It's not in COMMNDxx.
>
Just in passing (and I realize this isn't what you're asking, but is maybe
a terminology/concepts issue), the RACF subsystem is not RAC
On Wed, 29 May 2019 at 13:46, Jesse 1 Robinson
wrote:
> Thank you, that was my point about non-CTC links. When I started here in
> the 90s, BSC links were still in use. First for NJE to VM/XA because our
> implementation did not include VTAM, and for some JES2 connections because
> of a perceptio
On Thu, 13 Jun 2019 at 11:48, John McKown
wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 13, 2019 at 10:44 AM Bill Ogden wrote:
>
> > My old memory is failing in too many areas. Long ago, I seem to recall,
> > there was an easy way to read a VTOC with simple JCL using a "magic"
> > DSNAME - obviously not 040404... f
On Thu, 20 Jun 2019 at 10:58, Farley, Peter x23353
wrote:
>
> Some time back I started a thread on this forum about writing authorized code
> or a PC routine to update the DUCT
> architectural control block to populate the TRAP fields to make active use of
> the variety of TRAP instructions now
On Wed, 26 Jun 2019 at 10:04, Charles Mills wrote:
> I get the difference between installation exits and other exits. A SYNAD
> exit is certainly an exit, but it is not in the same class with an IEFU83
> exit.
>
> But I fail to get the distinction relative to CSVFETCH. Installation X wants
> to m
On Wed, 26 Jun 2019 at 13:21, Charles Mills wrote:
>
> Yep. A typo in my typo complaint.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muphry's_law
Tony H.
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On Mon, 1 Jul 2019 at 15:06, Charles Mills wrote:
>
> You're right, of course. Not to start a religious war, but even on a
> big-endian machine, it seems to me to make sense to number
> the bits from LSB to MSB. Bit n then represents 2^n -- in an 8-, 16-, 32-,
> 64- or 128-bit integer. What coul
he times
when I want or need to think about bit numbering are mostly not.
Tony H.
> -Original Message-
> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On
> Behalf Of Tony Harminc
> Sent: Tuesday, July 2, 2019 10:38 AM
> To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
> Su
On Thu, 4 Jul 2019 at 15:29, Joseph Reichman wrote:
> Last question I got a clean compile, prelink, link from a C program I tried
> to compile in samplib, however I looking at the prelink output It gave me
> unresolved extern for C runtime library sprint etc
Why are you using the prelinker? Jus
On Tue, 9 Jul 2019 at 03:18, Robin Atwood wrote:
> We have a customer trying to allocate a data set on some kind of virtual
> tape device and the dynamic allocation is failing with 0218/: "user
> does not have volume mounting authorization". Using
> the same user id he is able to allocate the
On Wed, 24 Jul 2019 at 08:35, Vernooij, Kees (ITOP NM) - KLM <
kees.verno...@klm.com> wrote:
> I cannot answer your question, it is probably depending on how the
> hardware works on different machines.
>
> Another question: what is the purpose of this instruction?
I think that's what the OP was
On Wed, 24 Jul 2019 at 09:27, Michael Brennan
wrote:
> The title of the email is 'Product orders will NOT be available'. Then
> in the body it states 'Service orders will not be impacted.' PTFS fall
> under the category of service and not product orders. The easiest way to
> get any and all
On Wed, 24 Jul 2019 at 14:57, Paul Gilmartin <
000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote:
> >On Wed, 24 Jul 2019 14:09:33 -0400, Susan Shumway wrote:
> >>
> >>Interesting - can you point me to an example? Some PDFs that I just
> >>tested all have form numbers that I can copy and paste.
On Fri, 26 Jul 2019 at 08:52, Mike Schwab wrote:
> Well, the hardware does move a 256 byte area aligned on a 256 bytes
> boundary very efficiently. And would allow you to load the register
> with an address without storing the last byte. So a storage pool with
> allocation of multiples of 256 b
On Fri, 26 Jul 2019 at 11:34, Glenn Wilcock wrote:
> The DFSMS team recently created a LinkedIn Group for z/OS DFSMS:
> https://www.linkedin.com/groups/12238880/ Join the group to stay current
> on the latest enhancements, tips, news, etc. For example, while z/OS
> release RFAs describe all of
On Wed, 7 Aug 2019 at 12:44, Greg Price wrote:
> On 2019-08-07 10:59 PM, Joseph Reichman wrote:
> > Thanks would IEWBIND work with load modules
>
> Yes, IEWBIND - the "full" Binder API - can process PDS load modules as
> well as program objects from a PDSE and from the UNIX file system.
>
It c
Roughly forever we've loaded modules into 24- or 31-bit CSA by first
LOADing the module normally into private storage, obtaining the actual
length from the LOAD, DELETEing the module, getting the necessary CSA
storage, and finally using LOAD with ADDR=. This works fine, but seems
unduly complicated
On Thu, 8 Aug 2019 at 07:35, Peter Relson wrote:
> Roughly forever, the way to do this has not been to do two LOADs. It had
> been to do a BLDL, extract the length information (and the RMODE
> information and the Page boundary information) from the directory entry,
> do a suitable storage obtain,
On Sun, 11 Aug 2019 at 12:29, Christopher Y. Blaicher <
cblaic...@syncsort.com> wrote:
> I have been using dynamic allocation to allocate JES Spool files. I want
> to use the XTIOT for these files, but have not been successful. I have
> turned on the S99TIOEX bit, but to no avail. Yes, the progr
On Tue, 13 Aug 2019 at 11:39, Steve Smith wrote:
> There's a big difference between B- (base-index-displacement) branches and
> J- (or BR-) (relative address) instructions. Surely by now, this should go
> without saying. Regardless of whether they're "faster" or not, they are
> much better, an
If you are interested in how these things work under the covers (regardless
of whether it is possible or useful to minutely optimize your code these
days), you might check out any of the several presentations done at SHARE
and other places by Bob Rogers, now retired from IBM, under titles like
"How
On Wed, 14 Aug 2019 at 18:56, Charles Mills wrote:
> This is really interesting. For those put off by the "C++" note that the
> issue has nothing whatsoever to do with C++. It is a pure branch prediction
> issue. Picture a program that computes an array of pseudo-random 8-bit
> integers from 0 to
I'm a bit puzzled. This service takes a pointer to an STOKEN, and returns
an ASCB address. Or a return code indicating that the STOKEN is invalid or
obsolete. So if I am passed an STOKEN pointer by my caller, this seems like
the right service to tell me if this is pointing to a valid and current
ST
On Thu, 15 Aug 2019 at 23:33, Jim Mulder wrote:
>> Is there a design reason the service takes a pointer rather than the STOKEN
>> itself?
> The LOCASCB service originated in MVS/ESA SP3.1.0, around 1987. An
> STOKEN is 64 bits, and we did not have 64-bit registers until 13 years later.
Ah, ma
On Mon, 19 Aug 2019 at 14:41, Mark Jacobs
<0224d287a4b1-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote:
> That attribute was also set on a load module I just created too, so what
> Curtis said makes sense to me. The load module/program object can
> exist in ether format depending on where it's stored.
On Thu, 22 Aug 2019 at 11:06, Charles Mills wrote:
> You might ask what part of *private* key they are having trouble
> understanding.
See "Why Johnny Can't Encrypt" (1999)
https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/389f/55c5c376db4ce1c88161dca98c329614faa8.pdf
and "Why Johnny Still Can't Encrypt" (2016)
On Thu, 22 Aug 2019 at 08:27, John McKown wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 22, 2019 at 7:18 AM Raphael Jacquot wrote:
> > did the competition (amdahl & others) had a "license" to produce mainframes
> > ?
>
> Good question. I was told that the 3rd party CPU hardware parties quit when
> XA came out do to som
On Thu, 22 Aug 2019 at 22:47, Kirk Wolf wrote:
> BUT: if this vendor is giving you its server's private key, then the server
> is *not* secure. This is because when you connect to that server you don't
> know if you are really talking to the vendor or someone else, since anyone
> with the privat
On Wed, 28 Aug 2019 at 09:59, Charles Mills wrote:
> In answer to your question, I guess the answer is no. There is a DAT
> "facility" (some of us remember when there was a DAT box!) but no, there is
> no named "PC facility" any more than there is a "BAL facility." It's just
> part of the proc
On Fri, 6 Sep 2019 at 12:50, Charles Mills wrote:
>
> > If an elligible SRB process is established will that automatically run on
> > zIIP or do we have to do something else?
>
> Others have beaten this general topic pretty well to death but let me address
> just that one question. The answer is
On Mon, 9 Sep 2019 at 21:15, Bob Bridges wrote:
>
> Ok, but the only way to submit a job via SYSOUT=(A,INTRDR) is to have TSO in
> the first place, right? What I'm asking is how users might submit batch who
> ~don't~ have TSO.
TSO isn't magic. Any running z/OS process (loosely speaking - not
n
On Wed, 18 Sep 2019 at 13:40, Thomas David Rivers wrote:
> My particular question is the
>
>LINES - SAME AS ABOVE
>
> in a memory dump. Does that mean the the single line (of 32-bytes) just
> before this line is copied as many times to fill in the space between
> an
On Mon, 23 Sep 2019 at 16:04, Phil Smith III wrote:
>
> Charles Mills wrote:
>
> >Interesting article even if you could care less about the IBM i (AS/400 for
> >anyone who has been living under a rock for the past 20 years).
>
> "couldn't care less" :)
For many years I've appreciated the handy
On Fri, 4 Oct 2019 at 01:24, Ed Jaffe wrote:
> Thanks to everyone for all the support. As many of you know, we have
> been working with JES3 for decades, so it's a perfect fit for us.
Wow!
I'm not a JES3 guy, but the two obvious questions that come to mind are:
Is JESXCF used by JES3, and if s
On Fri, 4 Oct 2019 at 07:55, Jerry Callen wrote:
>
> See: https://github.com/CBTTape/290
> It contains an implementation of subsystem datasets.
As does CBT 364.
The two of them (290 has very useful doc) along with the current JES2
source will give you enough information to write your own simple
On Thu, 17 Oct 2019 at 08:54, Thomas David Rivers wrote:
> Does anyone happen to know the best way for a running task
> to give up running and let another task run?
> Sorta like "I'm done for the moment if something else would like to run".
This sounds so wrong right from the start. Or rather,
On Sun, 20 Oct 2019 at 02:32, David Crayford wrote:
> The only code I've seen that implements yield are synchronization
> routines. Consider a spin-lock which is spinning on a CS instruction.
Why would any application program on z/OS implement and use a spin
lock? Why do the authors of such thin
On Fri, 25 Oct 2019 at 11:33, Jim Ruddy wrote:
> See if IHAPRD has the the information you are looking for.
The mapping info is annoyingly spread around among variously prefixed
macros, in turn spread between MACLIB and MODGEN. You might start with
BLSRPRD, which invokes IHAPRD and then BLSRDRPX
On Fri, 1 Nov 2019 at 16:15, Allan Kielstra wrote:
>
> We're actually working on generating UUID directly from COBOL. I would
> expect to see it in V6.2 and V6.3 in a continuous
> delivery PTF fairly soon. We'll post more information when it does become
> available.
Wouldn't want to bump into
On Mon, 4 Nov 2019 at 07:32, ITschak Mugzach wrote:
On Mon, 4 Nov 2019 at 07:30, Steve Austin wrote:
> It was a while back, but I'm pretty sureI have used _BPX_SHAREAS and the
> spawn syscall from REXX, to run Java in the same address space.
Thats fine. However, java itself runs under unix..
On Sun, 3 Nov 2019 at 20:31, Timothy Sipples wrote:
> Matt Hogstrom wrote:
> >https://github.com/walmartlabs/zUID
> >Courtesy of Walmart
>
> Tony Harminc wrote:
> >Wouldn't want to bump into that pending patent from Walmart...
>
> Walmart licensed the
On Mon, 4 Nov 2019 at 14:07, ITschak Mugzach wrote:
> The Java program does not run as a main program, but need a shell
> environment such as the one supplied by BPXBATCH. So actually the java
> program already runs under a unix thread. this is not the case with Lionel
> performance issue, as his
On Tue, 5 Nov 2019 at 09:12, R.S. wrote:
> We know the following types/flavours of mainframe processors: regular
> CP, zIIP, IFL, SAP, ICF, older zAAP ...and CBP
> This CBP is visible on Support Element panels. Help says it is "CBPs -
> Displays the active/unassigned container based processors in
On Fri, 8 Nov 2019 at 16:09, Rupert Reynolds wrote:
>
> Perhaps I misunderstood, but it seems more likely that WTO has changed
> registers and affected the processing of the exit. Obvious candidates are
> condition code and regs 0,1,15 (I can't remember whether R0 is used).
IIRC WTO has also bee
On Sat, 9 Nov 2019 at 15:07, Seymour J Metz wrote:
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> I would assume that any system macro destroys R15-R1 unless the documentation
> says otherwise. In the case of WTO, the documentation decribes the use of all
> three registers. For that matter, the documentation mentions the use of
> AR14-A
On Wed, 13 Nov 2019 at 09:56, Jeffrey Holst
<02366bf64af9-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote:
>
> Does AUTHPGM require that the specified program have a non-zero AC or that it
> be in an APF authorized library?
Both.
> I ask because it appears that a very clever user may have written a pro
On Mon, 18 Nov 2019 at 10:55, scott Ford wrote:
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> So guys, stupid question what about a STC that provisions for RACF, etc.
> But the design is as a normal generalized user, but with a id
> with SPECIAL that is invoked only during the time of passing the command to
> RACF ? Does it have to be APF
On Tue, 24 Jan 2023 at 09:08, Seymour J Metz wrote:
> I'm editing the UCB article in wikipedia, and the material on multiple
> exposures has been deleted as unsourced. What are good sources to cite for
> multiple exposures on 2305 fixed head disk, multiple virtual drives on 3850
> mass storage sy
On Sat, 4 Feb 2023 at 18:00, esst...@juno.com wrote:
> I am on a z/os 2.2 system, trying to rseurrect some old code.
> .
> can some one confirm the instructions for Searching the
> Address Space Vector Table (ASVT) on z/OS 2.2
> .
> This program loads R10 with CVTASVT
> L R10,CVTASVT
On Wed, 8 Feb 2023 at 10:07, Steve Thompson wrote:
>
> Not everyone runs Windows or a Mac.
>
> I installed Teams on my Linux desktop and did a reboot (since
> this is M/S software). Upon starting Teams, it promptly crashed
> KDE, requiring a reboot. Which resulted in me doing an immediate
> uninst
On Wed, 8 Feb 2023 at 12:11, Tom Longfellow
<03e29b607131-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote:
>
> The death warrant on our DB2 for z/OS has been issued.
>
> The people with decades of data stored in the tables are asking the obvious
> questions.How do we see into our ancient history as w
On Wed, 8 Feb 2023 at 13:34, Steve Thompson wrote:
>
> Kind of a rant, but more making a point.
>
> Teams via browser means you have to have an M/S account because
> your data is in someone else's data center (isn't that a Cloud?
> ;-) ). Or to put this another way, someone has to have an account
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