Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Translating a DEVTYPE from LISTC into something usable?

2016-09-22 Thread Bill Godfrey
] On >Behalf Of John Eells >Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2016 1:48 PM >To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU >Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: Translating a DEVTYPE from LISTC into something usable? > >Some other trivia about DEVTYPE in catalog entries... > >The first two bytes are "f

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Translating a DEVTYPE from LISTC into something usable?

2016-09-22 Thread Edward Finnell
Back in the olden days we were kinda pushed into new technology trying to get any angle we could for VSCR with software and hardware. One of the items was speed matching buffers in 3380 control unit. Everything went fine in testing. Then someone added a pack to JES3 spool. Blam! When I got

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Translating a DEVTYPE from LISTC into something usable?

2016-09-22 Thread Tom Marchant
On Thu, 22 Sep 2016 13:51:54 -0500, Dyck, Lionel B. (TRA) wrote: >John - thank you > >I gathered the 3010 for dasd and it appears that tape is a bit more >challenging (32, 33, 34, and 78) for the 1st 2 chars and the last 4 depend on >the tape device. > >Is there a reference for these numbers -

Re: Translating a DEVTYPE from LISTC into something usable?

2016-09-22 Thread Barry Merrill
: Translating a DEVTYPE from LISTC into something usable? Some other trivia about DEVTYPE in catalog entries... The first two bytes are "feature" bits. For modern disk, it will always be x'3010'. These bits represent obsolete and now-standard functions that were once features, namely burst mode

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Translating a DEVTYPE from LISTC into something usable?

2016-09-22 Thread Dyck, Lionel B. (TRA)
) (005OP6.3.10) VA OI Service Delivery & Engineering -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of John Eells Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2016 1:48 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: Translating a DEVTYPE from L

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Translating a DEVTYPE from LISTC into something usable?

2016-09-22 Thread Dyck, Lionel B. (TRA)
List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of John Eells Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2016 1:48 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: Translating a DEVTYPE from LISTC into something usable? Some other trivia about DEVTYPE in catalog entries... The first two bytes are "feat

Re: Translating a DEVTYPE from LISTC into something usable?

2016-09-22 Thread John Eells
Some other trivia about DEVTYPE in catalog entries... The first two bytes are "feature" bits. For modern disk, it will always be x'3010'. These bits represent obsolete and now-standard functions that were once features, namely burst mode (obsolete), data chaining (now standard), and

Re: Translating a DEVTYPE from LISTC into something usable?

2016-09-22 Thread Dyck, Lionel B. (TRA)
IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Feller, Paul Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2016 1:32 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: Translating a DEVTYPE from LISTC into something usable? How about this.. /* "convert" DEVTYPE cod

Re: Translating a DEVTYPE from LISTC into something usable?

2016-09-22 Thread Feller, Paul
Lionel B. (TRA) Sent: Thursday, September 22, 2016 12:50 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Translating a DEVTYPE from LISTC into something usable? Thank you - I can use this as the start for my rexx code to do it Have a great rest

Re: Translating a DEVTYPE from LISTC into something usable?

2016-09-22 Thread Dyck, Lionel B. (TRA)
IN@listserv.ua.edu Subject: Re: Translating a DEVTYPE from LISTC into something usable? I haven't looked, but maybe the UCB mapping macro. > Dyck, Lionel B. (TRA) <mailto:lionel.d...@va.gov> September 22, 2016 > at 1:08 PM Does anyone have any suggestions (or code) that will >

Re: Translating a DEVTYPE from LISTC into something usable?

2016-09-22 Thread Mazer Ken G
du Subject: Re: Translating a DEVTYPE from LISTC into something usable? I haven't looked, but maybe the UCB mapping macro. > Dyck, Lionel B. (TRA) <mailto:lionel.d...@va.gov> September 22, 2016 > at 1:08 PM Does anyone have any suggestions (or code) that will > convert the

Re: Translating a DEVTYPE from LISTC into something usable?

2016-09-22 Thread Mark Jacobs - Listserv
I haven't looked, but maybe the UCB mapping macro. Dyck, Lionel B. (TRA) September 22, 2016 at 1:08 PM Does anyone have any suggestions (or code) that will convert the DEVTYPE returned from a LISTC into something meaningful to a human? For example a LISTC for a