Re: IBM-MAIN Digest - 24 Mar 2012 to 25 Mar 2012 (#2012-85)

2012-03-25 Thread Roadrunner-dsm
On Mar 26, 2012, at 12:00 AM, IBM-MAIN automatic digest system wrote: > There are 6 messages totaling 209 lines in this issue. > > Topics of the day: > > 1. Grace Hopper Stories!! (was RE: Pre-Friday fun: Halon dumps and POK > Resets) (2) > 2. LE C calling HLASM > 3. COBOL x ACB EXLST W

Re: Friday fun: Halon dumps and POK Resets

2012-03-25 Thread Mark Douglas (CITEC)
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Re: COBOL x ACB EXLST WITH JRNAD

2012-03-25 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In <985915eee6984740ae93f8495c624c6c21e0792...@jscpcwexmaa1.bsg.ad.adp.com>, on 03/23/2012 at 06:20 PM, "Farley, Peter x23353" said: >Not to my knowledge. AFAIK the COBOL FCB has been OCO for a long >time. The PL/1 Optimizing Compiler Execution Logic manual had good >documentation on the equ

Re: Friday fun: Halon dumps and POK Resets

2012-03-25 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In <4AB855B58BD547BDA6044951C9707F49@ericnbPC>, on 03/24/2012 at 07:50 AM, Eric Bielefeld said: >With all the stories people are telling about Halon being dumped >when it shouldn't be, I haven't heard any stories where the halon >dumping actually saved the datacenter. If it saves the people

Re: LE C calling HLASM

2012-03-25 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In , on 03/23/2012 at 04:55 PM, John Gilmore said: >o to invoke the HLASM from PL/I using PL/I descriptors, I did that with F and "optimizing", but don't know where to find mapping macros for file descriptors and control blocks in Enterprise PL/I. Do the LE macros for conditions work with PL

Re: Grace Hopper Stories!! (was RE: Pre-Friday fun: Halon dumps and POK Resets)

2012-03-25 Thread George Rodriguez
The one impactful moment I had with Grace Hopper was when I attended a conference that she was presenting in and she was talking about how far technology had gone but in her mind when she spoke about a nano second she wanted to know what that represented. She ordered her engineers to come up with s

Re: Grace Hopper Stories!! (was RE: Pre-Friday fun: Halon dumps and POK Resets)

2012-03-25 Thread Martin Eison
My memories of Grace Hopper go back a bit farther than what is generally being discussed. As my father was an engineer with IBM back in the 50's I have some recollections of a young Grace Hopper being around the house quite often. I do recall her and my father and a few other colleagues having some