Re: Highly used programs: any better replacements out there?

2005-07-16 Thread Paul Gilmartin
In a recent note, Gerhard Postpischil said: Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2005 01:27:46 -0400 I consulted at a government agency where I found code that's very clear and easy to understand: TM flag,1 BZ label NI flag,255-1 label . Well, the

Re: Assembler: alignment of machine instructions

2005-07-16 Thread Volker Bandke
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Gerhard Postpischil said the following on 07/16/2005 07:32 AM: | IBM does this one the other side, too. I'm used to putting comments and | change dates on code, but there are several macros that explicitly check | for parameters and fail; e.g.

redundant parentheses

2005-07-16 Thread john gilmore
Paul Gilmartin writes: And, in this list, I was recently admonished for writing a superflous pair of parentheses in a JCL IF statement. I'm still trying to decide whether to follow up with a humble and grateful apology, or a defiant defense. and since I was the putative admonisher, I will

Re: redundant parentheses

2005-07-16 Thread Paul Gilmartin
In a recent note, john gilmore said: Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2005 14:59:23 + My first comment was more anthropological than technical. Somewhat akin to the election of abbandonate over lasciate, which is at least projectively anthropological. My feeling about the use of these

Re: redundant parentheses

2005-07-16 Thread Steve Comstock
Paul Gilmartin wrote: In a recent note, john gilmore said: Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2005 14:59:23 + My first comment was more anthropological than technical. Somewhat akin to the election of abbandonate over lasciate, which is at least projectively anthropological. My feeling

IBM Fellows

2005-07-16 Thread Paul Hanrahan
Several new IBM Fellows were recently named. Anyone been following their activities ? Paul Hanrahan -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET

Re: IBM Fellows

2005-07-16 Thread Steve Comstock
Paul Hanrahan wrote: Several new IBM Fellows were recently named. Anyone been following their activities ? Paul Hanrahan Where's the list? -Steve Comstock -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions,

Is there a z/OS gcc port version?

2005-07-16 Thread Bo Xie
Hi, I know the following info: 1. David Pitts has a OS/390 GCC port version[1]. But the last modification is 2002/12/11, the gcc version is only 3.2 and the OS version is only OS.390 2.9. Who has experience about David Pitts' OS/390 GCC version? 2. There are official gcc port versions

Re: Different day, different WLM

2005-07-16 Thread Hal Merritt
Have your scheduler run the job under a different ID. Then tell WLM. Use this as a shop policy to control which jobs get higher juice. Security folks may freak out, but don't ask them; just tell them :-) Changing your business priorities on the fly is a bad precedent, IMHO. Gets people in the

Re: Different day, different WLM

2005-07-16 Thread Rolf Ernst
Yes and no. Most jobs have (or should have) a HOTBATCH service class. Shuffling it in there sounds like the right thing to do. Issuing that SVC 34 in a little program of ten lines or less (or even with the JES mod that allows you to issue operator commands) can be done in about a gazillion

Re: Long running job

2005-07-16 Thread Hal Merritt
Or so intended to mean as large a value as practical for the situation. Some may have constraints where the maximum may cause problems. And, even when not constrained, the maximum may not be appropriate. Perhaps the ideal case would be to start with the max, then decrease in 20% steps until the

Re: Highly used programs: any better replacements out there?

2005-07-16 Thread Paul Gilmartin
In a recent note, Rolf Ernst said: Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2005 12:43:41 -0500 That's because TSO spawns a subtask for every command. There is probably little you can do about it besides VLF. Gee, hasn't IBM heard that attached tasks can run concurrently? Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)

VSMLIST OWNCOMM DETAIL

2005-07-16 Thread Schiradin,Roland HG-Dir itb-db/dc
Is OG orphaned storage (Memory leak) or still owned by someone? Our list of OG storage contains a lot of entries and I believe they are still owned by someone. How did you handle them? Did you ask the ISV or IBM about them? I've seen a large for RRS and IBM raise FIN APAR OW57028. I now have

IOSCDR service

2005-07-16 Thread Schiradin,Roland HG-Dir itb-db/dc
Anybody using this? I always get a clean S2C6 RSN 200 while running in SYSSTATE ARCHLVL=2 environment. Of course it works in SYSSTATE ARCHLVL=1 and generate * LINKX MACRO SUBSTITUTED FOR LINK MACRO BECAUSE ASCENV=AR/ANYX02-LINK , AMODE64=YES, OR ARCHLVL1 SPECIFIED ON PREVIOUSLY ISSUX

Re: Assembler: alignment of machine instructions

2005-07-16 Thread Gerhard Postpischil
Volker Bandke wrote: | for parameters and fail; e.g. GTSIZE , GP05197 | gets you a parameter error message, whereas SPACE , and 'normal' macros | don't. That's why I have always started my comments with a comma Note that the above has a comma, but in the case of GTSIZE

Re: OSA-ICC and JBB7727

2005-07-16 Thread Scott Fagen
Ken.Porowski wrote: I saw a reference on the list that JBB7727 (Console Restructure/enhancements) was required to run an OSA-ICC. Can anyone confirm or deny this? Deny...JBB7727 has nothing to do with supporting the OSA-ICC. Suggest you read OSA-Express Integrated Console Controller

Re: Keeping my started task's WTO output off the console?

2005-07-16 Thread Todd Burch
I'm happy to provide an explanation for the reason for my question. I work for Allen System Group, in the mainframe group that used to be Landmark. Several of the products we produce use WTOs for trace messages. In a development environment, with multiple products running in diagnostic mode all

Re: Keeping my started task's WTO output off the console?

2005-07-16 Thread Ed Gould
On Jul 16, 2005, at 8:46 PM, Todd Burch wrote: I'm happy to provide an explanation for the reason for my question. I work for Allen System Group, in the mainframe group that used to be Landmark. Several of the products we produce use WTOs for trace messages. In a development environment,