Re: VM maclib reference

[Julian Wall]

If you liked the standard CMS and CP tracing facilities, you would love the facilities that VICOM has, ofcourse its not available outside of IBM. Julian Wall [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Stephens wrote: Yep - time was, you could assemble and test under CMS, where you had decent tracing facilities, then do a final assemble and link on MVS when you were ready. Not any more ... :-( . I once debugged a severe looping problem that was happening on our MVS only because I was able to compile and execute the COBOL programs under CMS - the failing app used VSAM, and it was paralyzing the production system. In those days, MVS and CMS VSAM were compatible - and through VM's superior tracing facilities, I was able to determine where the loop was, and the name of the failing program, and from that, isolating the problem and fixing it was but a step - I remember the MVS guy remarking that "he didn't know what he would do without me" - but there you are. You used to be able to do a lot of stuff under CMS intended for other platforms (DOS, MVS) that you can't do anymore because those environments have moved on ... I used to SET DOS ON G and retrieve the standard and user label procs from the VSE SYSRES pack (which was accessed as G) using PSERV, and merge them with VTOC listings provided by CMS LISTDS to manage VSE standard labels, to discover where I had datasets with no labels and vice versa. Oops - starting to reminisce on how things were - sorry - you can't go back in time, only ahead ... Regards, Bill Stephens Sr. Technology Analyst, High Availability SunGard Availability Services 10th floor 401 North Broad Street Philadelphia, PA 19108 Phone: (215) 351-1099 Fax: (215) 451-2045 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___________________________________________ Keeping People and Information Connected (TM) http://www.availability.sungard.com Shimon Lebowitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED] m> To Sent by: VM/ESA VMESA-L@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU and z/VM cc Discussions <[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject .UARK.EDU> Re: VM maclib reference 01/12/2006 11:39 AM Please respond to VM/ESA and z/VM Discussions <[EMAIL PROTECTED] .UARK.EDU> Those are macros provided for OS compatability and may no longer be equivalent to their MVS counterparts (e.g., WTO). For the last 25 years I have kept around an old OS/360 macro manual for just those macros! Shimon