In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 04/13/2007
at 03:11 PM, Clem Clarke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>Some 20 years ago, it became clear that C strings were not as safe,
>nor as fast, as strings in PL/I, Assembler or Pascal.
The same applies to C arrays in general. The confusion between arrays
and pointe
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 04/12/2007
at 06:07 PM, Charles Mills <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>Does anyone know if EOV breaks a CCW chain?
Yes, but I suspect that the answer is different for more modern tape
drives.
>Does I/O error recovery have to re-issue the EXCP for the
>last three blocks,
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 04/11/2007
at 04:39 PM, Robert Fake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>I have a need to generate a listing of all production datasets. The
>way the production datasets are identified is via the 4th byte of the
>high level qualifier. If the 4th byte is a P, it is production.
In
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
on 04/06/2007
at 03:38 PM, Timothy Sipples <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>Duty? I'm just a guy with ibm.com in my e-mail address. Nothing in
>my job description requires me to hang out here.
The duty in question is the one that you assigned to yourself: "Myth
buster repo
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 04/11/2007
at 06:42 AM, Steve Comstock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>I'm not sure I follow you there, Shmuel. If an installation writes
>their own applications (not so much today as in the past, due to
>pre-packaged off-the-shelf apps), that's user-supplied code. Or
do y
Phil Payne wrote:
Forget PSI. Forget Fundamental. And forget PWD.
It's about zSeries End of Life, and how to control the collapse.
That's the most chilling work-related statement I've
seen in almost 40 years working in mainframes.
Are you really saying end of life for z/OS and z/VSE?
Because
Steve
I agree with Phil's assessment and have for the last six months. It's not
about making "z" last forever; it's about getting all you can out of a
platform before the end of its life (meaning that the end is already
conceded).
I was not one of the OS/2 bigots during its time, but I wonder ho
Phi Payne wrote:
Forget PSI. Forget Fundamental. And forget PWD
It's about zSeries End of Life, and how to control the collapse.
The best hope is that IBM executives will fail in their misguided
efforts. They will lose the suit and will be forced to continue to
support the mainframe After a
In a message dated 4/15/2007 8:54:31 A.M. Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
They will lose the suit and will be forced to continue to
support the mainframe After all, they have been trying for
years (off and on) to get rid of VSE and VM.
>>
Guess my dark side kinda wa
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In a recent note, Bruce Hewson said:
> Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2007 00:13:21 -0500
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> Already mentoined are the tape copy utilities, whose source can be found on
> File 229 at www.cbttape.org
>
> The programs are also found in the load library at File 35.
>
Thanks; I hadn't spotted File 35.
My recollection is that Tinker Toys worked!
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In a message dated 4/15/2007 3:55:57 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
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>My recollection is that Tinker Toys worked!
Small constructions based on Tinkertoy pieces worked quite well. There is a
very large "computer" built entirely out of wooden Tinkertoy parts on
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