Re: IXC102D and REPLY DOWN

2008-04-27 Thread Barbara Nitz
>I'm looking to get clarification on whether or not the z/OS console >IXC102A message requesting that the operator confirms that a member of a >sysplex bas been reset always appears when a member is removed from the >sysplex. No. In order for it NOT to appear, 1. You must have a parallel syspl

Re: IBM-MAIN Digest - 26 Apr 2008 to 27 Apr 2008 (#2008-118)

2008-04-27 Thread gah
Someone wrote: If I recall correctly, FORTRAN/PLI needed explicit exponentiation, i.e., DOUBLE A,B . A = B+1.23 would use a short 1.23 rather than determining that the other operands were double thus 1.23 should be treated as a double as well. One had to do A =

Re: CPACF performance info?

2008-04-27 Thread Greg Boyd
If you don't have a crypto coprocessor (CEX2 or PCIXCC) installed, then you won't have master keys and you can't store keys in the CKDS or PKDS. ICSF will still start, and a few APIs are available, but on the CPACF based machines (z890/z990 and later) most of the APIs require the secure coproce

Re: How is SRBPTCB instantiated?

2008-04-27 Thread Peter
On Apr 27, 2008, at 5:10 PM, Craddock, Chris wrote: As an OBTW, I really don't like this particular behavior. It was a cheesy way to indicate to the scheduler that the SRB had gone belly up. It is a royal pain in the butt dealing with asynchronous abends arising from this particular piece of

Re: How is SRBPTCB instantiated?

2008-04-27 Thread Craddock, Chris
> How is SRB to TCB percolation instantiated? RTM1 looks for and dispatches any FRRs that are active. When all of those have percolated, it locates the designated "victim" TCB (hidden under a rock at SCHEDULE time) and schedules an ABTERM to that task. That victim task's current recovery routine

Re: How is SRBPTCB instantiated?

2008-04-27 Thread Peter
On Apr 27, 2008, at 2:48 PM, Binyamin Dissen wrote: :>Obviously, if an abnormal situation later occurs, the TCB pointed to :>by SRBTCB would be the one to ABTERM. My issue was not how to set it, but how to detect it from the code running in SRB mode. It appears that LCCAPGTA may contain the

Re: How is SRBPTCB instantiated?

2008-04-27 Thread Binyamin Dissen
On Sun, 27 Apr 2008 13:33:57 -0700 Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: :>On Apr 27, 2008, at 12:20 PM, Binyamin Dissen wrote: :>> My query was more as to how something getting control in the :>> context of SRB :>> mode can determine if there is an associated TCB. :>SRBTCB is the associated TCB; t

Re: How is SRBPTCB instantiated?

2008-04-27 Thread Peter
On Apr 27, 2008, at 12:20 PM, Binyamin Dissen wrote: My query was more as to how something getting control in the context of SRB mode can determine if there is an associated TCB. SRBTCB is the associated TCB; the issuer of SCHEDULE must initialize it. The SRB may elect to establish an FRR,

Re: IXC102D and REPLY DOWN

2008-04-27 Thread Skip Robinson
I put this question to IBM recently and learned a difference between parallel sysplex (with CF) and basic sysplex (without). With CF supporting XCF, other systems are notified when one member is truly down. Without a CF, other systems *believe* a member is down but need operator confirmation. That

Re: How is SRBPTCB instantiated?

2008-04-27 Thread Binyamin Dissen
On Sun, 27 Apr 2008 12:05:46 -0700 Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: :>On Apr 27, 2008, at 11:26 AM, Binyamin Dissen wrote: :>> How is SRB to TCB percolation instantiated? :>> Is an automatic FRR added which does the percolation if nothing :>> recovers? :>> Stored somewhere in memory? :>Its y

Re: How is SRBPTCB instantiated?

2008-04-27 Thread Peter
On Apr 27, 2008, at 11:26 AM, Binyamin Dissen wrote: How is SRB to TCB percolation instantiated? Is an automatic FRR added which does the percolation if nothing recovers? Stored somewhere in memory? Its your obligation to initialize it. In the case of STARTIO, you do it this way: STARTI

Re: Fixed-Point and Scientific Notation

2008-04-27 Thread Binyamin Dissen
On Sun, 27 Apr 2008 14:37:10 -0400 "John P. Baker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: :>In many cases, the user may simply specify 1.75E+6, the context will :>determine both the format and the length, and everything will be fine. :>However, there are other computational situations where the use of a :>pa

Re: Authorized Rexx Assembler Function

2008-04-27 Thread Lindy Mayfield
I can't think of any, but Alex can, thanks. IKJCT441. I forgot, it has such a memorable name. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lindy Mayfield Sent: 27. huhtikuuta 2008 21:52 To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Authorized Rexx

Re: Authorized Rexx Assembler Function

2008-04-27 Thread Lindy Mayfield
Not to overbeat this dead horse, but I thought I'd add another one to the list here of ways to call authorized commands from TSO or Rexx. By adding an authorized module name (in authorized library) to the IKJTSOxx AUTHCMD list and calling it from TSO or Rexx. CALL *(authmodule). It only kinda so

Re: Fixed-Point and Scientific Notation

2008-04-27 Thread John P. Baker
In many cases, the user may simply specify 1.75E+6, the context will determine both the format and the length, and everything will be fine. However, there are other computational situations where the use of a particular format and/or length is important, and the choice of an incorrect format and/o

Re: Floating Point Definitions

2008-04-27 Thread Binyamin Dissen
On Sun, 27 Apr 2008 11:28:00 -0700 Howard Rifkind <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: :>I want to use some of the floating point registers for :>general register purposes. I was told I could do this :>but I don't understand how to define them in the :>assembler language program. Only for some purposes.

Floating Point Definitions

2008-04-27 Thread Howard Rifkind
Speaking of Floating Point, I want to use some of the floating point registers for general register purposes. I was told I could do this but I don't understand how to define them in the assembler language program. For instance, I would define a general register with an equate such as: R10 EQ

How is SRBPTCB instantiated?

2008-04-27 Thread Binyamin Dissen
How is SRB to TCB percolation instantiated? Is an automatic FRR added which does the percolation if nothing recovers? Stored somewhere in memory? -- Binyamin Dissen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.dissensoftware.com Director, Dissen Software, Bar & Grill - Israel Should you use the mailblocks

Re: zIIPs & zAAP exploitation

2008-04-27 Thread Binyamin Dissen
On Sun, 27 Apr 2008 12:58:30 -0500 Eric Bielefeld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: :>I may be wrong, but I believe the number of older hardware you quote below is :>much higher than 1%. I suspect that shops with hardware that old don't send :>people to Share very often. There is the missing "Don't

Re: Fixed-Point and Scientific Notation

2008-04-27 Thread Binyamin Dissen
On Sun, 27 Apr 2008 13:35:35 -0400 "John P. Baker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: :>Actually, I am working on a lexical analyzer and parser for a future :>product. :>The issue is that we have three formats (binary, decimal, and hexadecimal) :>and three lengths (4, 8, and 16). :>Clearly, we must have

Re: zIIPs & zAAP exploitation

2008-04-27 Thread Eric Bielefeld
I may be wrong, but I believe the number of older hardware you quote below is much higher than 1%. I suspect that shops with hardware that old don't send people to Share very often. Eric Bielefeld On Sun, 27 Apr 2008 10:46:42 -0400, Cheryl Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Ed, > >Thanks f

Re: Fixed-Point and Scientific Notation

2008-04-27 Thread John P. Baker
Actually, I am working on a lexical analyzer and parser for a future product. The issue is that we have three formats (binary, decimal, and hexadecimal) and three lengths (4, 8, and 16). Clearly, we must have a letter to indicate the start of the exponent. However, a numeric literal may not have

Re: Fixed-Point and Scientific Notation

2008-04-27 Thread Binyamin Dissen
On Sun, 27 Apr 2008 12:11:49 -0400 "John P. Baker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: :> 1. How are we to distinguish between a binary floating-point literal, a :>decimal floating-point literal, and a hexadecimal floating-point literal? What is a binary floating point literal? Or a hexadecimal floating

Re: Fixed-Point and Scientific Notation

2008-04-27 Thread John P. Baker
Don, I appreciate the information. However, the clarifications I really need are: 1. How are we to distinguish between a binary floating-point literal, a decimal floating-point literal, and a hexadecimal floating-point literal? 2. How are we to distinguish between a four-byte floating-poin

Re: OS/390 2.10 TCPIP problem

2008-04-27 Thread Lizette Koehler
Try posting to the TCPIP newsgroup For IBMTCP-L subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO IBMTCP-L Lizette [>] Snip [>] First please forgive me to ask question regarding so outdated OS. I have a problem that we found the resolve

Re: zIIPs & zAAP exploitation

2008-04-27 Thread Cheryl Walker
Ed, Thanks for including this. These were the numbers from the August 2007 SHARE. Below I've included the results from Feb 2008, and you can see that it really hasn't changed much. I'm in the middle of writing now, so I've not been watching IBM-Main. If you ever need anything, just send me a po

Re: Fixed-Point and Scientific Notation

2008-04-27 Thread Anne & Lynn Wheeler
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to bit.listserv.ibm-main as well. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Don Higgins) writes: > DFP Decimal IEEE 754r FP > Significant digits 7 16 34 > Maximum exponent96

IXC102D and REPLY DOWN

2008-04-27 Thread Mike Myers
Hi: I'm looking to get clarification on whether or not the z/OS console IXC102A message requesting that the operator confirms that a member of a sysplex bas been reset always appears when a member is removed from the sysplex. The message I am referring to is: IXC102A XCF IS WAITING FOR SYSTE

Re: Fixed-Point and Scientific Notation

2008-04-27 Thread Don Higgins
John, all >Has IBM established a standard in any of the various high-level languages >for the representation of the various floating-point formats and >precisions? >I am specifically looking at both fixed-point and scientific notation. > John P. Baker Here are some references and summary info

OS/390 2.10 TCPIP problem

2008-04-27 Thread Victor Zhang
Hi, First please forgive me to ask question regarding so outdated OS. I have a problem that we found the resolver in OS/390 2.10 resolve hostname to two IP address, one of them is never defined. FQN=: "SDMF1" host_alias: "" host_addr: "171.17.0.3" host_addr: "3.211.230.193" Our hostname is SDMF1,