Sorry Chris misread a reply wasn't trying to be nasty...I am in the same boat as Charles
Sent from my iPad Scott Ford Senior Systems Engineer www.identityforge.com On Feb 21, 2012, at 2:40 PM, Chris Mason <chrisma...@belgacom.net> wrote: > Charles > >> What the heck is the "signature CSECT" ... I found no other references in >> the docs to "signature CSECT." > > I am treating this simply as an exercise in finding one's way around the - in > this case - z/OS manuals. > > I haven't the first clue what a "signature CSECT" is but finding it is > nevertheless a challenge the pursuit of which may be of benefit to others. > > Start, as always, at http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/z/os/zos/bkserv/ > > I am going to assume V1R13, so I select "V1.13" under "Publication titles, > filenames, and order numbers by z/OS release". > > http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/z/os/zos/bkserv/zshelves13.html#zbop > > In the "Search text" field under "z/OS V1R13.0 Base Elements Optional > Features - 448 books", I enter the name of the "mystery entity", in this > case "Signature CSECT". > > The first hit within the first manual listed looks as if it begins to provide > the answer. > > - > > This might not always work very precisely if the individual search words > create too many hits. One way to persuade the search process actually to work > with the phrase and not just the individual words is to change the characters > "FUZZY" to "EXACTW" and press enter in order to search again. In the case of > "signature CSECT", I didn't notice a major difference. > > http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/Shelves/EZ2ZO213?searchRequest=signature+CSECT&SEARCH=Search+text&Type=FUZZY&SearchTopic=TOPIC&searchText=TEXT&searchIndex=INDEX&rank=RANK > > to > > http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/Shelves/EZ2ZO213?searchRequest=signature+CSECT&SEARCH=Search+text&Type=EXACTW&SearchTopic=TOPIC&searchText=TEXT&searchIndex=INDEX&rank=RANK > > How did I know how to do this? Nous! Pay attention to the URLs generated when > using the "Search term" from within a manual as modified by the "Type of > search". > > Chris Mason > > On Mon, 20 Feb 2012 15:01:09 -0800, Charles Mills <charl...@mcn.org> wrote: > >> I am reading the FM and I am lost in a sea of environment variables and >> POSIX and gosh knows what. >> >> If I would like the strftime() format character %z to return -0500 or +0000 >> or whatever, what do I have to do? >> >> I know the system "knows" what time zone it is in, because for a given >> timeb, localtime() and gmtime() return the proper times. >> >> But the %z flag in strftime() returns no characters. >> >> The trouble starts in localtime() because it sets tm_isdst to -1. But even >> if I set tm_isdst to 0 "manually" strftime %z still returns nothing. >> >> As a side note, the PG says "The time zone external variables, tzname, >> timezone, and daylight, declarations remain feature test protected in >> time.h. Definition of these external variables are only known to the C/C++ >> run-time library if the z/OS UNIX System Services C/C++ signature CSECT is >> link edited with your C/C++ application." >> >> What the heck is the "signature CSECT" and how the heck do you link it with >> your application? I found no other references in the docs to "signature >> CSECT." >> >> Thanks, >> Charles > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
