Re: Subpool 0 Usage

2024-07-11 Thread Mike Shaw
Janko, I think that is total BS. Subpool 0 (key 8) is the bread and butter of GETMAIN requests for non-APF authorized code. I have used that subpool for GETMAINs for over 35 years in my code. Mike Shaw MVS/QuickRef Support Group Chicago-Soft, Ltd. On Thu, Jul 11, 2024 at 4:04 PM Janko Kalinic

Re: BXLE usage assistance

2024-06-04 Thread Mike Shaw
Mark, You are coding a length (the 2) in the 2nd operand of your LH instruction...that 2 is being used by the machine as register 2. LH always loads two bytes. Mike Shaw MVS/QuickRef Support Chisoft On Tue, Jun 4, 2024, 1:38 PM Mark Young wrote: > Thanks for all the replies. See the c

Re: BXLE usage assistance

2024-05-29 Thread Mike Shaw
0H 003144 50FA 000CC 4085 STR15,12(R10) SET RETURN CODE 003148 98EC A0088 4086 LMR14,R12,8(R10) RESTORE REGISTERS 00314C 07FE4087 BRR14 RETURN Mike Shaw MVS/QuickRef Support Group Chicago-Soft, Ltd

Re: Instructions by Machine

2024-05-12 Thread Mike Shaw
This _gold_ for ISVs writing code that must execute on many different z models. Thank you Dan! Mike Shaw MVS/QuickRef Support Group Chicago-Soft, Ltd. On Sat, May 11, 2024 at 4:07 PM Dan Greiner wrote: > Back when I was a full-time IBMer, I had a spreadsheet with all > z/Archit

Re: Complex immediate fields

2024-03-29 Thread Mike Shaw
Wow. Truly impressive. Mike Shaw MVS/QuickRef Support Group Chicago-Soft, Ltd. On Fri, Mar 29, 2024, 7:48 PM Ngan, Robert (DXC Luxoft) wrote: > When I first saw "Complex immediate fields", I thought of this code one of > our emulation macros used to generate: > >

Re: ISPFHTML and z/OS 3.1

2023-12-19 Thread Mike Shaw
pointing to the X'AB' at x'186' offset into the TLD. I don't see a way around this one. Mike Shaw MVS/QuickRef Support Group Chicago-Soft, Ltd. On Tue, Dec 19, 2023 at 1:34 PM Rene BRANDT < 14a2846c6667-dmarc-requ...@listserv.uga.edu> wrote: > Y

Re: ISPFHTML and z/OS 3.1

2023-12-19 Thread Mike Shaw
don't have. Looks like the TLD may have changed under z/OS V3R1? Mike Shaw MVS/QuickRef Support Group Chicago-Soft, Ltd. On Tue, Dec 19, 2023 at 11:44 AM Yves Colliard wrote: > Bonjour René, > > oui je pense que vous avez raison - you could be right... is it documented? > > 00035

Re: ISPFHTML and z/OS 3.1

2023-12-18 Thread Mike Shaw
Yves, Any regs and PSW you can share? The module was last compiled in the year 2000 and is written in PL/X; no source AFAIK. Mike Shaw MVS/QuickRef Support Group Chicago-Soft, Ltd. On Mon, Dec 18, 2023 at 11:12 AM Yves Colliard wrote: > Hello! > > since years I'm using ISPF

Re: Is True Skip-Sequential Processing Possible with RECFM=FB,DSORG=PS?

2023-11-11 Thread Mike Shaw
. Mike Shaw MVS/QuickRef Support Group Chicago-Soft, Ltd On Sat, Nov 11, 2023, 8:58 AM David S. wrote: > To help resolve a question posted to a LinkedIn group I manage: > www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:groupPost:910927-7128598004344786944 > ... I'd like to find out if there's

Re: Tutorials for z and HLASM?

2023-10-06 Thread Mike Shaw
(for RLLG) 'course, the student needs to have access to z/OS :-) Mike Shaw MVS/QuickRef Support Group Chicago-Soft, Ltd. On Thu, Oct 5, 2023 at 9:34 PM Seymour J Metz wrote: > Are there any good online tutorials for unprivileged z/Architecture and > HLASM for programmers with no prio

Re: IARV64 REQUEST=DISCARDDATA Question

2023-09-27 Thread Mike Shaw
Thank you Peter. Mike Shaw MVS/QuickRef Support Group Chicago-Soft, Ltd. On Wed, Sep 27, 2023 at 12:34 PM Peter Relson wrote: > Mike Shaw wrote > > The doc does not say what that memory object's pages contain just after > IARV64 REQUEST=GETSTOR is issued. > > > T

Re: IARV64 REQUEST=DISCARDDATA Question

2023-09-27 Thread Mike Shaw
Thanks Binyamin and Ed. Clear explanations. Mike Shaw MVS/QuickRef Support Group Chicago-Soft, Ltd. On Wed, Sep 27, 2023 at 3:23 AM Binyamin Dissen wrote: > As this function can never return partial pages, it will always be zero > upon > first use. > > On Tue, 26 Sep 2023 17:2

IARV64 REQUEST=DISCARDDATA Question

2023-09-26 Thread Mike Shaw
what that memory object's pages contain just after IARV64 REQUEST=GETSTOR is issued. Does anyone on the list know? Mike Shaw MVS/QuickRef Support Group Chicago-Soft, Ltd.

Re: ChatGPT "knows" HLASM

2023-06-01 Thread Mike Shaw
e next statement, MVC SYSPRINT,MESSAGE, copies the message Hello, world! to the memory location SYSPRINT. The next statement, PUT SYSPRINT,(1), prints the contents of SYSPRINT to the console. The last statement, END MAIN, marks the end of the main program. Mike Shaw MVS/QuickRef Support Group Chicago-Soft, Ltd.

Re: Assembler theology question

2023-06-01 Thread Mike Shaw
The second method is better; it's shorter (no USINGs). Simpler is better. Mike Shaw MVS/QuickRef Support Group Chicago-Soft, Ltd. On Thu, Jun 1, 2023 at 12:24 PM Phil Smith III wrote: > We've all seen (and written!) code like this: > USING PSA,R9 >

Re: Blocking Low core access from Assembler programs

2023-03-27 Thread Mike Shaw
Syama, This may help. It is a ZAD SLIP trap. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/2.3.0?topic=traps-slip-zero-address-detection-zad Mike Shaw MVS/QuickRef Support Chicago-Soft, Ltd. On Mon, Mar 27, 2023, 6:47 PM syama prasad < 13f87d4b715f-dmarc-requ...@listserv.uga.edu> wrote: > Hi

Re: ASMA500 message question

2022-11-18 Thread Mike Shaw
__ > From: IBM Mainframe Assembler List [ASSEMBLER-LIST@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] on > behalf of Mike Shaw [quick...@gmail.com] > Sent: Thursday, November 17, 2022 4:03 PM > To: ASSEMBLER-LIST@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU > Subject: Re: ASMA500 message question > > CATTR use requires GOFF objec

Re: Subject: ASMA500 message question

2022-11-18 Thread Mike Shaw
On Fri, Nov 18, 2022 at 7:50 AM Peter Relson wrote: > > Why would you not want to use GOFF? I can think of only one module in all > of z/OS that cannot use GOFF. I'll let guesses occur before providing the > answer in a day or two. > > Fear of the unknown! I will try it. Mike S.

Re: ASMA500 message question

2022-11-17 Thread Mike Shaw
That's it Mike, thank you. Mike Shaw MVS/QuickRef Support Group Chicago-Soft, Ltd. On Thu, Nov 17, 2022 at 4:33 PM Mike Hochee wrote: > We ran into this several years ago and ended up adjusting SECTALGN across > the board, which we were considering anyway. > > Pasted bel

Re: ASMA500 message question

2022-11-17 Thread Mike Shaw
CATTR use requires GOFF object format, which I don't want to use. Mike On Thu, Nov 17, 2022 at 3:31 PM Seymour J Metz wrote: > You need a CATTR with the proper alignment. > > > From: IBM Mainframe Assembler List on > behalf

ASMA500 message question

2022-11-17 Thread Mike Shaw
ing and loading. * * Severity: 4 * Does anyone know what the 'section' mentioned in the message is? Is it a reference to the current control section (CSECT)? I don't get it...all I want to do is get quadword boundary alignment for the Q

Re: Removal of transactional execution facility

2022-04-06 Thread Mike Shaw
Maybe Dan Greiner can comment on why IBM went to the trouble to introduce this powerful facility and then pull it? ISVs who implemented code using the transactional execution facility might feel kinda "had" now... Mike Shaw MVS/QuickRef Support Group Chicago-Soft, Ltd. On Wed, Apr 6,

Re: Branch-and-Link nomenclature question

2022-02-10 Thread Mike Shaw
Program linkage instructions? Mike Shaw MVS/QuickRef Support Group Chicago-Soft, Ltd. On Thu, Feb 10, 2022 at 11:04 AM David Cole wrote: > In Assembler there are many machine instructions that are suitable > for calling subroutines: >- They go somewhere, >- But the

Re: Making Encoded Bits Human Readable

2022-01-31 Thread Mike Shaw
Elegant...and now we're down to 24 bytes of machine code! Dan, is RISBGZ one of the instructions added to speed up Java garbage collection? Mike Shaw MVS/QuickRef Support Group Chicago-Soft, Ltd. On Mon, Jan 31, 2022 at 4:08 PM Dan Greiner wrote: > The following code snippet does t

Re: John Ehrman Assembler Text

2020-08-13 Thread Mike Shaw
Assembler Language Programming for IBM System z Servers Version 2.00; it's a 4 meg PDF. Mike Shaw MVS/QuickRef Support Group Chicago-Soft, Ltd. On Thu, Aug 13, 2020 at 8:43 AM FancyDancer wrote: > What are the titles of the manuals? > > Dan >

Re: Convert *signed* EBCDIC to packed decimal

2020-06-03 Thread Mike Shaw
"... or am I going to have to scan for the sign characters myself, remove them, pack the result, and flip the sign if it was negative? You do have to detect and handle leading plus/minus signs in EBCDIC strings yourself. PACK won't do it. Mike Shaw MVS/QuickRef Support Group Chicago

Re: z/OS HLASM: EQU for statement labels

2020-06-01 Thread Mike Shaw
I agree with Gerhard; I was taught and use labelDS0H for labels instead of EQU. Mike Shaw MVS/QuickRef Support Group Chicago-Soft, Ltd. On Mon, Jun 1, 2020 at 4:46 PM Gerhard adam wrote: > > > > > Even though it may not happen often the EQU can point to an od

Re: Sample code to practice assembler

2020-05-14 Thread Mike Shaw
The resources at this link will provide a good start: http://csc.columbusstate.edu/woolbright/WOOLBRIG.htm Mike Shaw MVS/QuickRef Support Group Chicago-Soft, Ltd. On Thu, May 14, 2020 at 1:40 AM johnnydeep san wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm new bee and learning assembler by own. i&

Re: BASR to AMODE 64

2019-11-22 Thread Mike Shaw
Or maybe a question instead of a musing? Mike Shaw MVS/QuickRef Support Group Chicago-Soft, Ltd. On Fri, Nov 22, 2019, 1:00 AM Keven wrote: > > > > > The paucity of detail makes answering your inquiry a matter of > inductive supposition. Maybe you should post addi

Re: Poll

2019-09-16 Thread Mike Shaw
POPs Mike Shaw MVS/QuickRef Support Group Chicago-Soft, Ltd. On Mon, Sep 16, 2019 at 3:50 PM Phil Smith III wrote: > Principles of Operation-how do you refer to it? (NOT including case-let's > not make this any more complicated than it is already!) > > 1) PofOp >

Re: old code failing

2019-07-24 Thread Mike Shaw
The DEVTYPE macro is a much safer and simpler way to check for the presence of a DD. The old TIOT scan method may work and it may not work. Mike Shaw MVS/QuickRef Support Group Chicago-Soft, Ltd. On Wed, Jul 24, 2019 at 11:24 AM Richard Kuebbing wrote: > A subroutine written long ago appe

Re: Probably dumb assembler question

2019-07-11 Thread Mike Shaw
issue thousands of consecutive OPEN/GET/PUT/CLOSE requests without any FREEPOOLs, then you run out of virtual private storage. I hit this same issue myself a few years ago with a recursive QSAM I/O routine. Mike Shaw MVS/QuickRef Support Group Chicago-Soft, Ltd.

Re: Running ISPF's 3.5 utility from a clist

2018-09-14 Thread Mike Shaw
The DSECT for the stats is in ISP.AISPMACS(ISPDSTAT) on my z/OS V2R2 system. They are stored in the SSI field of each directory block, AFAIK. Mike Shaw MVS/QuickRef Support Group Chicago-Soft, Ltd. On Fri, Sep 14, 2018 at 11:57 AM Steve Smith wrote: > I am pretty sure there is a DSECT ma

Re: IEATDUMP MF=L Can someone explain this?

2018-08-24 Thread Mike Shaw
We have the list form coded like this: IEATDUMP PLISTVER=MAX,MF=(L,IEATDUMPL) and the execute form coded like this: IEATDUMP DSN=DUMPDSNL,HDR=DUMPTITL, PLISTVER=MAX, MF=(E,IEATDUMPL) Mike Shaw MVS/QuickRef Support Group Chicago-Soft, Ltd. >

Re: Last modified timestamp of a module

2018-02-19 Thread Mike Shaw
​LISTIDR control statement of AMBLIST utility will do it. Mike Shaw MVS/QuickRef Support Group Chicago-Soft, Ltd. On Mon, Feb 19, 2018 at 11:18 AM, Jake Anderson wrote: > Hi > > We do not have a tool to see the modified stamp time stamp of a load > module. > > Is there a way to know ? > > Jake >

Re: Adcon (was: Address of a Literal)

2017-12-10 Thread Mike Shaw
IBM Mainframe Assembler List [mailto:ASSEMBLER-LIST@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] > On Behalf Of Mike Shaw > Sent: Sunday, December 10, 2017 10:34 AM > To: ASSEMBLER-LIST@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU > Subject: Re: Adcon (was: Address of a Literal) > > Adcons cannot refer to relocatable expressions. >

Re: Adcon (was: Address of a Literal)

2017-12-10 Thread Mike Shaw
Adcons cannot refer to relocatable expressions. On Dec 10, 2017 12:37 PM, "Paul Gilmartin" < 0014e0e4a59b-dmarc-requ...@listserv.uga.edu> wrote: On 2017-12-09, at 15:20:59, John Ehrman wrote: > A literal is implicitly a symbolic address and a constant-generation request; nesting those fun

Re: Detection of Compile-Time Self-Modifying Code

2017-10-10 Thread Mike Shaw
As scarce as z/Arch assembler jobs are nowadays, why shoot yourself in the foot doing that? I don't get it either... Mike Shaw MVS/QuickRef Support Group Chicago-Soft, Ltd. On Tue, Oct 10, 2017 at 9:15 AM, Steve Smith wrote: > I have to agree with "retired" on this one. I

Re: z14 PoO Available - SIGP description

2017-09-23 Thread Mike Shaw
Two-up PDF files are not really needed any more, are they? We are not really trying to save paper any more...the Pops has always been two-up, but other than tradition, why render it two-up any more? Mike Shaw MVS/QuickRef Support Group Chicago-Soft, Ltd. On Sep 23, 2017 6:27 PM, "Dan Gr

Re: Save areas (not XPLINK).

2017-06-12 Thread Mike Shaw
Me too. Makes me think of an old girlfriend... Mike Shaw MVS/QuickRef Support Group Chicago-Soft, Ltd. On Mon, Jun 12, 2017 at 10:07 AM, John McKown wrote: > On Mon, Jun 12, 2017 at 8:59 AM, Ed Jaffe > wrote: > > > On 6/12/2017 6:40 AM, Steve Smith wrote: > > > >>

Re: Finding Dave Bond

2016-12-08 Thread Mike Shaw
OK, now I understand. Dave Bond wrote the old Tachyon Assembler Workbench, a similar emulator for batch problem state z/OS programs... Mike Shaw MVS/QuickRef Support Group Chicago-Soft, Ltd. On Thu, Dec 8, 2016 at 2:41 PM, wrote: > > -Original Message- > > From: IBM Mainfra

Re: Finding Dave Bond

2016-12-08 Thread Mike Shaw
Yet another emulator...IBM will not bless this, will they? Mike Shaw MVS/QuickRef Support Group Chicago-Soft, Ltd. On Thu, Dec 8, 2016 at 1:50 PM, Rob van der Heij wrote: > On 8 December 2016 at 19:35, Ed Jaffe wrote: > > > He lives in Switzerland and works for L^z Labs -- the

Re: Not Understanding 0C4-03B

2016-08-28 Thread Mike Shaw
Paul, The second LG...why are you loading eight bytes from a location that is decimal 50 bytes into the storage area you just obtained? Your comment says "position past starting address", but that's not what that instruction does. Mike Shaw MVS/QuickRef Support Group Chicago-Sof

Re: CSRSIIDF Question

2016-07-02 Thread Mike Shaw
Thank you Peter. Mike Shaw MVS/QuickRef Support Group Chicago-Soft, Ltd. On Sat, Jul 2, 2016 at 9:01 AM, Peter Relson wrote: > >Then is there a reliable method for a non APF authorized program that > does > >not execute continuously to determine whether a capacity on demand &

Re: CSRSIIDF Question

2016-07-01 Thread Mike Shaw
Thank you Peter. Then is there a reliable method for a non APF authorized program that does not execute continuously to determine whether a capacity on demand upgrade was performed since the last time that same program executed? Mike Shaw MVS/QuickRef Support Group Chicago-Soft, Ltd. On Jul 1

Re: CSRSIIDF Question

2016-06-30 Thread Mike Shaw
it's not. Mike Shaw MVS/QuickRef Support Group Chicago-Soft, Ltd. On Thu, Jun 30, 2016 at 1:26 PM, retired mainframer < retired-mainfra...@q.com> wrote: > Since a COD upgrade is "one event" that alters the field, it seems > reasonable to conclude that there are other ev

CSRSIIDF Question

2016-06-30 Thread Mike Shaw
o signal that a capacity on demand upgrade has occurred. ​ Question: is it incorrect to rely on the presence of a timestamp in the SI00LASTUPDATETIMESTAMP field ​as an indication​ that a capacity on demand upgrade has been done? ​Mike Shaw MVS/QuickRef Support Group Chicago-Soft, Ltd.

Re: My assembler text v2.00

2016-04-13 Thread Mike Shaw
John, I trust you will not leave this list when you leave IBM. You have always been the final arbiter of all things related to HLASM, and I know that all here on this list will agree that you should continue to be so. Mike Shaw MVS/QuickRef Support Group Chicago-Soft, Ltd. On Apr 13, 2016 7:42

Re: ASSEMBLER-LIST Digest - 6 Jan 2016 to 8 Jan 2016 (#2016-7)

2016-01-12 Thread Mike Shaw
I used BTAM to read/write from/to channel attached local 3270s many years ago. BTAM interface requests were easy to code and easy to debug. Mike Shaw MVS/QuickRef Support Group Chicago-Soft, Ltd. On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 2:24 AM, Ed Jaffe wrote: > On 1/11/2016 4:18 PM, John Walker wr

Re: ASSEMBLER-LIST Digest - 10 Oct 2015 to 15 Oct 2015 (#2015-114)

2015-10-16 Thread Mike Shaw
John, Contact me off-list; I may have something. Mike Shaw MVS/QuickRef Support Group Chicago-Soft, Ltd. mike @ mike dot shaw dot name On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 9:21 AM, John Walker < 00c645a0d640-dmarc-requ...@listserv.uga.edu> wrote: > After the turn of the year, I will be lo

Re: Option to Prevent Data Loss Due to Truncation of Nominal Value

2015-05-02 Thread Mike Shaw
A good idea, but the HLASM should not warn on zero lengths coded in MVCs that are EX targets: MOVIT MVC 0(0,R1),=CL16'' >> Executed << Mike Shaw MVS/QuickRef Support Group Chicago-Soft, Ltd.

Re: LZRG??? Does this mean that 56-bit addressing is "a thing"?

2015-03-12 Thread Mike Shaw
". > ​... > "​To make the code compiled by the C/C++ compiler and/or WebSphere / Java code run faster" is the answer to ANY "Why?" question about new instructions, IMHO... ​ Mike Shaw MVS/QuickRef Support Group Chicago-Soft, Ltd.

Re: John Ehrman Assembler Book

2015-02-08 Thread Mike Shaw
It looks very good. Comprehensive and well organized; a formidable work. I wish I'd had it 35 years ago. Mike Shaw MVS/QuickRef Support Group Chicago-Soft, Ltd. On Sun, Feb 8, 2015 at 3:44 PM, Richard A. Lawrence < r.a.lawrence...@ralawrence.us> wrote: > The long await

Re: ASSEMBLER-LIST Digest - 24 Mar 2014 to 25 Mar 2014 (#2014-55)

2014-03-26 Thread Mike Shaw
e C runtime library and the C runtime library must be available." Mike Shaw MVS/QuickRef Support Group Chicago-Soft, Ltd.

Re: Availability of SHA-1 and SHA-256 functions in KIMD/KLMD instructions?

2014-02-04 Thread Mike Shaw
MD is not there. We do this in our code: USING PSA,0 TMFLCFACL2,FLCFCRYA BOHASH_HARDWARE_IN_USE If the bit is off, we do SHA-1 in our own code. If the bit is on, we issue KLMD. -- Mike Shaw MVS/QuickRef Support Group Chicago-Soft, Ltd.

Re: Carmine Cannatello's book

2014-01-15 Thread Mike Shaw
I started as an Assembler application programmer 37 years ago. No COBOL at all, ever. Mike Shaw MVS/QuickRef Support Chicago-Soft, Ltd On Jan 15, 2014 6:04 PM, "Tony Thigpen" wrote: > Are you saying that all assembler programmers (including those on the > Assembler-List) are

Re: Carmine Cannatello's book

2014-01-02 Thread Mike Shaw
Glad you did not say the hundredth person... Mike Shaw MVS/QuickRef Support Group Chicago-Soft, Ltd. On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 3:34 PM, John Gilmore wrote: > I going through my technical books I found that I have an extra, > excellent-condition copy of > > Advanced assembler lang

Re: 3 job openings for mainframe Assembler/C programmers, dump readers

2013-07-26 Thread Mike Shaw
n and during system stress or meltdown situations, goes a LONG way toward understanding what led up to and caused a problem, both for standalone, SVC and SYSUDUMP type dumps...trace table understanding is a very important dump reading skill. -- Mike Shaw MVS/QuickRef Support Group Chicago-Soft, Ltd.

Re: Baseless problem

2013-04-11 Thread Mike Shaw
ent after the initial instruction in the CSECT, which was a branch around the eyecatcher and its length byte. Mike Shaw MVS/QuickRef Support Group Chicago-Soft, Ltd.

Re: Baseless problem

2013-04-11 Thread Mike Shaw
th is used by the dump formatter to print the eyecatchers when formatting the save area chain. -- Mike Shaw MVS/QuickRef Support Group Chicago-Soft, Ltd.

Re: the fine manuals

2012-12-07 Thread Mike Shaw
t;the way of the future", we can all suffer together... Mike Shaw MVS/QuickRef Support Group Chicago-Soft, Ltd.

Re: Use of "sequence numbering" in current HLASM source?

2012-11-07 Thread Mike Shaw
backed out if need be. This lets more than one developer work on the same source module at the same time. It ain't CVS, but it works -- Mike Shaw MVS/QuickRef Support Group Chicago-Soft, Ltd.

Re: Curosity Question

2012-11-01 Thread Mike Shaw
6. > > <...snip...> > Never hesitate to ask notional gurus such questions. A request for a > further explanation is always in order. > > --jg > Thank you John. Lucid and cogent. -- Mike Shaw MVS/QuickRef Support Group Chicago-Soft, Ltd.

Re: Model 2827 New Instructions

2012-09-18 Thread Mike Shaw
On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 1:23 PM, McKown, John wrote: > Damn, it's 100 years until that Share presentation? Or, by chance, did you > mean 2013? -- > 1000 years John... ;-) Mike Shaw MVS/QuickRef Support Group Chicago-Soft, Ltd.

Re: ASSEMBLER-LIST Digest - 30 May 2012 to 31 May 2012 (#2012-97)

2012-06-01 Thread Mike Shaw
On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 10:16 AM, John Walker wrote: > <...snip...>attitudes which prefer an order of obfuscating complexity > which makes things more difficult than they could have otherwise been. > Amen Brother! Mike Shaw MVS/QuickRef Support Group Chicago-Soft, Ltd.

Re: Messages - Was MVC with 2nd operand length

2012-05-22 Thread Mike Shaw
abomination. My biggest pet peeve is the explanation that certain unnumbered messages are 'self explanatory'. What a crock... IBM was very smart to assign messages alphanumeric prefixes and to collect them in reference manuals for users to read and understand. Mike Shaw MVS/QuickRef Support Group Chicago-Soft, Ltd.

Re: Where to find out about "PER zero-address detection"?

2012-04-25 Thread Mike Shaw
ture/track ZAD events on a z/OS system. > One could always try a SLIP SET,... command with ACTION=IGNORE to see if the syntax one has a hunch about is correct. Mike Shaw MVS/QuickRef Support Group Chicago-Soft, Ltd.

Re: Assembler programmers wanted

2012-03-19 Thread Mike Shaw
On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 12:10 PM, Robert Shimizu wrote: > ... And, truth be told, he wants them to be as young as possible. > > Sincerely, > Bob > > -- > Robert W. Shimizu > Partner > ColeSoft Marketing, Inc > Age discrimination Bob, pure and simple... ;-) --

Re: Program FLIH

2012-02-24 Thread Mike Shaw
in the linklist which we at least do set > AFP via IEASYSxx. > >Why a secret authority changing hook?-- > Dave, Maybe management @ the ISV says "it works, just use it, we can't spend the money rewriting all our apps that use that hook" Mike Shaw MVS/QuickRef Support Group Chicago-Soft, Ltd.

Re: Program FLIH

2012-02-24 Thread Mike Shaw
ad carefully... -- Mike Shaw MVS/QuickRef Support Group Chicago-Soft, Ltd.

Re: Program FLIH

2012-02-23 Thread Mike Shaw
On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 5:08 PM, Tony Harminc wrote: > ... > > Now what does it *do*...? > > Tony H. > I smell a conspiracy...NSA hooks so "Big Brother" can watch us?...;-) -- Mike Shaw MVS/QuickRef Support Group Chicago-Soft, Ltd.

Re: 128-bit arithmetic

2012-01-09 Thread Mike Shaw
gt; low-order > part. You use it only on the high-order part--AFTER doing a logical > subtract > 'without borrow' on the low-order part. > Ed is again correct. This technique can be used to write routines that perform fixed-point arithmetic with arbitrarily long numbers, since you can

Re: UNICODE fractions

2012-01-09 Thread Mike Shaw
On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 9:46 AM, Steve Comstock wrote: > > BTW, thanks for the excellent listings of code pages > on your web site.-- > I echo Steve's comment. The code page listings David created have been very helpful to me on many occasions also. Mike Shaw MVS/QuickRef Supp

Re: Mixed Case in Assembler [Was: ASSEMBLER-LIST Digest - 20 Dec 2011 to 21 Dec 2011 (#2011-208)]

2011-12-30 Thread Mike Shaw
ould have to prompt you for the string to search for, and that's somewhat sloppy also... -- Mike Shaw MVS/QuickRef Support Group Chicago-Soft, Ltd.

Re: STIDP Question

2011-12-13 Thread Mike Shaw
guest. You z/VM guys will have to sort that out. -- Mike Shaw MVS/QuickRef Support Group Chicago-Soft, Ltd.

Re: ASM Program to copy a file

2011-12-08 Thread Mike Shaw
g."--... Good one Steve. It may not be IBM's intent, but the fact is things have ended up that way... Mike Shaw MVS/QuickRef Support Group Chicago-Soft, Ltd.

Re: STIDP Question

2011-12-06 Thread Mike Shaw
Tony: I agree that it is implausible. One customer is in Singapore, the other is in Iowa. If they are using the same service bureau, they haven't told us about it. Mike Shaw MVS/QuickRef Support Group Chicago-Soft, Ltd. On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 11:06 PM, Tony Harminc wrote: > On 5 Decem

STIDP Question

2011-12-05 Thread Mike Shaw
del, or just the type? I thought I understood this until I found this apparent duplicate CPU serial number case. -- Mike Shaw MVS/QuickRef Support Group Chicago-Soft, Ltd.

Re: newer opcodes

2011-10-13 Thread Mike Shaw
wer? > > Marty: We started doing this exact thing in MVS/QuickRef's Assembler-oriented data base content. It does save time when you don't have to go hunt down the STFLE bits. Mike Shaw MVS/QuickRef Support Group Chicago-Soft, Ltd.

Re: Is the PoOP too big? (was Assembler manuals)

2011-08-30 Thread Mike Shaw
; > Tony H. > Tony: The .BOO file format is not documented anywhere outside of IBM. -- Mike Shaw MVS/QuickRef Support Group Chicago-Soft, Ltd.

Re: Format-1 and Format-8 DSCBs

2011-08-25 Thread Mike Shaw
I've used them with EXCP, for certain types of data sets. -- Mike Shaw MVS/QuickRef Support Group Chicago-Soft, Ltd. On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 2:25 PM, John P Kalinich wrote: > Are these Format-1/8 DSCB fields used by any access method? > | 90(X'5A')| Binary

Re: HLASM manuals

2011-08-19 Thread Mike Shaw
On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 12:20 PM, David Cole wrote: > Better examples > I agree with Dave on this. The examples in the reference are not very good. It's almost like the person who wrote the manual was not really an ALC programmer, but was a doc person... ;-) > -- > Mike

Re: How to code TAM instruction

2011-06-06 Thread Mike Shaw
2011/6/6 Martin Trübner > > > And if he can not read POP or the short-ref, he probably should not code > these kind of programs. > > Amen to that, brother! Mike Shaw MVS/QuickRef Support Group Chicago-Soft, Ltd.

Re: ASM vs HLL (Was: CPU: ASSM vs ENTERPRISE COBOL - SOLVED!)

2011-04-07 Thread Mike Shaw
On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 3:20 PM, Edward Jaffe wrote: > > > Is it just me?? > > -- > Edward E Jaffe > Phoenix Software International, Inc > 831 Parkview Drive North > El Segundo, CA 90245 > 310-338-0400 x318 > edja...@phoenixsoftware.com > http://www.phoenixso

Re: QSAM file size

2011-04-02 Thread Mike Shaw
file. Multi-volume QSAM data sets require handling each volume separately also... -- Mike Shaw MVS/QuickRef Support Group Chicago-Soft, Ltd. On Sat, Apr 2, 2011 at 9:24 AM, Monika Amiss wrote: > Hello group, > > I'm wondering if there is a way to get the size of a tem

Re: Button Worn by Distinguished Gentleman at SHARE

2011-03-07 Thread Mike Shaw
of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. The right to compile is not explicitly mentioned...;-) -- Mike Shaw MVS/QuickRef Support Group Chicago-Soft, Ltd.

Re: SYSADATA file quirk

2011-02-21 Thread Mike Shaw
Thank you Adam, I stand corrected. A warning message would have been nice though... -- Mike Shaw MVS/QuickRef Support Group Chicago-Soft, Ltd. On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 2:43 PM, Johanson, Adam wrote: > Mike Shaw wrote: > > If he's not happy 'cause the LRECL is too shor

SYSADATA file quirk

2011-02-21 Thread Mike Shaw
file, particularly a PDS or PDSE, and use those attributes, rather than CHANGING the DCB attributes without a warning? If he's not happy 'cause the LRECL is too short, give me an error message, don't just change things without telling me! ...or am I asking too much here? -- Mi

Re: Baseless vs Based

2010-12-21 Thread Mike Shaw
ogram object would slow down compiler development... -- Mike Shaw MVS/QuickRef Support Group Chicago-Soft, Ltd.

Re: prize for a good replacement for "baseless"

2010-12-18 Thread Mike Shaw
t' describes it; 'base register independent' if you want a full formal definition. -- Mike Shaw MVS/QuickRef Support Group Chicago-Soft, Ltd.

Re: Sample code to read a PDS member using BPAM

2010-10-13 Thread Mike Shaw
frame/dp/0471561886/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1287012355&sr=8-1 Mike Shaw MVS/QuickRef Support Group Chicago-Soft, Ltd.

Re: Instruction Set Architecture (Subject: corrected)

2010-09-09 Thread Mike Shaw
On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 9:05 AM, Ward, Mike S wrote: > Why make coding in assembler so difficult. People already complain that > it shouldn't be used because it's outdated and incomprehensible. > > Only those who can't or won't comprehend it say that...;-) -

Re: The new POO (Props / ProP ) is available

2010-09-03 Thread Mike Shaw
rands, fast-BCR-serialization, high-word, interlocked-access, load/store-on-condition, and population-count facilities are installed in the z/Architecture architectural mode." Mike Shaw MVS/QuickRef Support Group Chicago-Soft, Ltd.

Re: The new POO (Props / ProP ) is available

2010-09-03 Thread Mike Shaw
On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 6:47 PM, Steve Comstock wrote: > > http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg2b9de5f05a9d57819852571c500428f9a > > -- > > Kind regards, > > -Steve Comstock > The Trainer's Friend, Inc.-- > It's early!!! Thanks Steve... Mike

Re: Efficient Memory List

2010-08-24 Thread Mike Shaw
ecution time, CPU time) it provides over your current exit. -- Mike Shaw MVS/QuickRef Support Group Chicago-Soft, Ltd.

Re: Mainframe Assembler Coding Contest - new problem #22

2010-08-02 Thread Mike Shaw
On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 7:08 AM, Tony Thigpen wrote: > It could be very useful for SELECT/SELECTEX processing in TCP/IP. > > Tony Thigpen > > Maybe for speeding up a crypto hashing function? -- Mike Shaw MVS/QuickRef Support Group Chicago-Soft, Ltd.

Re: zEnterprise - new PoPS?

2010-07-22 Thread Mike Shaw
Gentlemen, that's too late, IMHO. We should be able to see it NOW...where is the harm in releasing the POPs a few months BEFORE GA of the box it applies to? -- Mike Shaw MVS/QuickRef Support Group Chicago-Soft, Ltd. 2010/7/22 Martin Trübner > John, > > it says "will be a