On 8/18/2011 12:20 PM, Bob Rutledge wrote:
We also found that SPKA is not very pipeline friendly since the desired
target key cannot be predicted by the hardware; the key is bits in a register
after address generation. The key is also not known in advance for MVCSK
source operand fetch, but at
On 8/17/2011 1:47 PM, Binyamin Dissen wrote:
(2) has more storage references, while (1) has more opcodes.
Some time ago we rewrote some code that did SPKA/MVC/SPKA to use MVCSK for
integrity reasons. That code was accessing caller's parameters. We reasoned it
was safer to use the caller's key
On 8/16/2011 12:35 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
Will a z/OS guest under VM still accept jobs from a CP-attached virtual
reader?
Absolutely!
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On 8/16/2011 5:03 AM, Schneck.Glenn wrote:
Not sure what happened. Kristin Harper and the zNextgen were involved
in the sing along but not sure what the deal was this time. From the
CICS Project I can say it was a lame 'Farewell SCIDS'.
Was there a sing-along in Anaheim?
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On 8/15/2011 9:00 AM, Greg Shirey wrote:
The "farewell" reception (aka SCIDS for the old timers) was really poorly
attended - that's something of a mystery to me.
I didn't go to that reception because there simply wasn't time to get to dinner
and back before it ended.
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On 8/12/2011 8:51 AM, Schneck.Glenn wrote:
Attendence was up from Boston and close to Anaheim. It seems up from past
years and the sessions were very good and well attended.
Attendance in the 11AM Monday MVS Core Technologies Project Opening was 16.5%
higher than in Anaheim. (We had 162 in
On 8/9/2011 3:20 AM, Edward Jaffe wrote:
The batch always initiator holds a data set ENQ through the last step that
needs it.
LOL! Of course, I meant to write, "The batch initiator always holds a data set
ENQ through the last step that needs it."
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On 8/8/2011 7:17 AM, Nigel Wolfendale wrote:
I have a job with four steps:
Step 1 IEFBR14 - allocate a specific dataset = (MOD,DELETE) - to make sure it
is not there
Step 2 allocate it (NW,CATALOG,DELETE) - this step does not open the dataset
Step 3 Use Connect Direct to write to this dataset fr
Wow! SHARE sold out its room allocation at the Dolphin. Overflow at the Swan
also sold out. Some people are staying at an off-site hotel. Yikes! Glad I
booked when I did...
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On 8/4/2011 3:14 PM, john gilmore wrote:
It is clear from this and other examples we have seen here that 1) the
assembly-language sklls of most installation sysprogs under 50 are rudimentary
2) IBM's maintenance of the HLASM interfaces to system services has low
priority and is deteriorating,
On 8/4/2011 11:27 AM, McKown, John wrote:
NO Why? Because we're too cheap to license the C compiler. We do have HLASM. Now, if
they want to make the C/C++ come for free, I'd jump for joy. We had a license at one
time. But a manager who was struggling to save his job decided that eliminating
On 8/4/2011 6:02 AM, Crabtree, Anne D wrote:
In our IEFACTRT (accounting exit), an assembler program, it has the following
commands:
L R2,PARMJOBC
ICM R1,7,0(R2)
If PARMJOBC contains a binary integer length of 4 with 00 00 00 08, what ends
up in all bits of R1? I am trying to add addit
On 8/1/2011 3:53 PM, Ed Gould wrote:
If I want one book at a time. It works. But there has to be a faster way.
How about using the Softcopy Librarian?
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On 7/26/2011 7:57 AM, Mary Anne Matyaz wrote:
It seems like it's just for Europe, Middle East and Africa.
Last week I got the letter from IBM for the United States.
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On 7/25/2011 11:15 AM, Art Celestini wrote:
Are the subtask ESTAE(X)s presented with the S222, or is it presented only to
the job step level task. I seem to remember that it is not possible to retry
from an x22 abend, but a colleague seems to differ with me on that.
Any thoughts on what might b
On 7/22/2011 9:20 AM, Starr, Alan wrote:
I believe the following would be a good beginning:
ACCEPT PTFS FUNCTIONS APARS GROUPEXTEND BYPASS(ID) CHECK
.
APARS? BYPASS(ID)? Are these standard parameters used in customer environments?
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On 7/21/2011 7:19 AM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote:
In<4e24b31c.5080...@phoenixsoftware.com>, on 07/18/2011
at 03:26 PM, Edward Jaffe said:
Absolutely! There is a multi-stage pipeline that allows the processor
to get ahead of the current instruction's execution to fetch
On 7/20/2011 7:46 AM, Jim Thomas wrote:
Forgive me for asking, but is there a real reason that
people want IBM to do their dump analysis for them ??.
We send dumps to IBM so they can resolve bugs in their software that negatively
impact our operations. Personally, I would help analyze their bu
On 7/20/2011 7:18 AM, Paul Schuster wrote:
The manual 'z/OS V1R12.0 MVS Assembler Services Guide' has this statement: "The
case where an SDWA is not provided
is rare."
Is there a way to force this kind of condition in order to actually test an
ESTAE that is tripped with this condition?
Our r
On 7/20/2011 7:15 AM, Norbert Friemel wrote:
GA22-7501-14z/OS Hot Topics issue 24:
"ONTOP: In Europe, you can allow IBM Support to analyze your dumps remotely through
On-line Technical Operation (ONTOP), a TCP/IP-based application."
Great info. Thanks!
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Does 'ONTOP' have some historical significance? If not, what is your speculation
as to its meaning? Is it a 'joke' name for a HLQ? Like, "I'll get right on top
of that!"
IBM Update 7/19/11 4:54 PM
Untersed data now available on MCEVS1-System :
/ecurep/pmr/2/5/25438,227,000/2011-07-20/25438.227
On 7/19/2011 5:59 PM, Starr, Alan wrote:
I wonder how the initiator manages to invoke PGM=apfpgm (APF-authorized) and
then PGM=nonapf (not APF-authorized) for a subsequent step or job. Does it, for
example, turn on JSCBAUTH in the ATTACHed program's (job step) JSCB? Does
anybody know the seque
On 7/19/2011 1:37 PM, Gary DiPillo wrote:
We don't need to discuss RENT and REFR, but I certainly need to read up on
them again. I'm sure that what I remember and what is true have long ago
drifted apart.
REFR modules are not allowed to update themselves.
It's widely believed that RENT modul
On 7/18/2011 12:55 PM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote:
Are you saying that the processor starts fetching instructions for the branch
prior to executing it?
Absolutely! There is a multi-stage pipeline that allows the processor to get
ahead of the current instruction's execution to fetch and dec
On 7/17/2011 11:11 AM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote:
Why would a branch with AMODE switching require more pipeline flushing
than a branch without?
If the target AMODE guessed by the hardware is wrong, then it will have to start
over again fetching and interpreting the instructions in the cor
On 7/16/2011 8:28 PM, Greg Dorner wrote:
I've experienced some strange install/maintenance scenarios with z/OSMF, but
have managed so far to get it all put back together again. I went from z/OS
1.10 to 1.12 with z/OSMF, which was a bit tricky with all the config file
changes, but I haven't ha
No surprises this time. The following ++HOLD instructions were followed and all
is well...
We have _only one_ WAS application (z/OSMF) and we had to manually run two
scripts. That makes me wonder:
1) If we had twenty WAS applications, would we need to manually run twenty-one
scripts?
2) Ar
On 7/14/2011 12:55 PM, Tom Marchant wrote:
On Thu, 14 Jul 2011 08:40:37 -0600, Steve Comstock wrote:
yes, there is some penalty
for AMODE switching.
What penalty is that, Steve? Do BASSM and BSM run significantly
slower than BASR/BALR and BR?
There is no way the processor can know in advanc
On 7/9/2011 10:46 AM, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
The issue remains consistency. Nearly all system macros leave the USINGs
in effect unchanged regardless that they change and leave changed the
content of associated registers. The macro in question here is anomalous
in modifying the USINGs.
Agreed.
On 7/8/2011 11:00 AM, Sérgio Lima Costa wrote:
We don't mentioned before, that what want, is execute a REXX from MASTER
Operator Console for ZOS.
ITYW SystemREXX.
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On 7/6/2011 5:22 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
Does ANY mean "any" in the conventional English sense, or does
it actually mean "any but 64"? Sigh.
Of course! ANY continues to mean what it has meant since it was first invented
in MVS/XA--namely either 24 or 31. It is an upward compatible specifica
On 7/6/2011 10:53 AM, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
I understand that for some
few releases now CSV has been able to load CSECTs above the bar,
Even in z/OS 1.12 you cannot load CSECTs above the bar. RMODE(64) is treated as
RMODE(ANY) for module loading and execution. You cannot specify RMODE(64) as a
On 7/6/2011 9:42 AM, Binyamin Dissen wrote:
On Wed, 6 Jul 2011 09:33:20 -0700 Edward Jaffe
wrote:
:>Other possible 'restrictions' immediately come to mind as well. For example,
:>there are hundreds of callable z/OS services. I imagine the process of
:>inspecting, up
On 7/5/2011 1:57 PM, Steve Comstock wrote:
WOW! That's a big deal.
Is this documented somewhere public? Or is this NDA?
Do you what the "certain restrictions" are? Can you tell us? Can
you tell us how it's done?
The Feb 15, 2011 announcement preview is the only public information I'm aware
On 7/5/2011 2:53 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
On Tue, 5 Jul 2011 13:17:26 -0700, Edward Jaffe wrote:
The operating system control blocks now handle 64-bit PSWs such that an
interrupt while executing above the bar is supported. No abend occurs.
They put a 64-bit address in a 64-bit PSW? This
On 7/5/2011 10:28 AM, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
z/OS will be designed to support some programs running in 64-bit storage,
provided that they meet certain restrictions. This is intended to provide
virtual
"certain restrictions". Does this restrict ATB execution to contexts
such that the PSW needn
On 7/4/2011 3:33 PM, Edward Jaffe wrote:
BTW, the macro is IAZJSAB (IAZ not IEZ).
Oops. How embarrassing. I have to correct my correction... :-[
The macro under discussion is IAZXJSAB. (IAZJSAB is the mapping macro for the
JSAB control block.)
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On 7/3/2011 1:29 PM, Binyamin Dissen wrote:
It would seem to me that any macro the does a USING/DROP should bracket itself
with PUSH and POP USING. I should not have to do that in open code.
Agreed. All of our internal macros do just that.
BTW, the macro is IAZJSAB (IAZ not IEZ).
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On 7/4/2011 1:04 AM, Binyamin Dissen wrote:
On Sun, 3 Jul 2011 18:12:16 -0500 John McKown wrote:
:>Perhaps Peter Relson of IBM can resolve the question of whether the SVRB
:>for a LINK is freed before the LINK'ed to program's PRB is placed on the
:>RB chain. I'm now certain my test is wrong and
On 7/1/2011 1:45 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
What do LINK and ATTACH respectively pass the child program
as a save area pointer?
o The caller's R13?
o Other (specify)?
The answer for LINK is fully documented.
http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/iea2a9b0/69.1.4
(Hint: R1
On 6/28/2011 3:32 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
Since it is my habit (as I suspect of many users) to press
PA2 when the screen is garbled, might that be a good key
to the programmer to issue the (QUERY)?
That is exactly what Greg Price suggested earlier in this thread. REVIEW
re-sizes the screen w
On 6/27/2011 7:04 AM, O'Brien, David W. (NIH/CIT) [C] wrote:
After an IPL this weekend one of our systems has no data in syslog. We user IOF
and if we look at SYSLOG it shows a MSGFILE and a LOG file but no data file.
Did you try to start the log via the WRITELOG START command?
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On 6/22/2011 1:21 PM, Mark Zelden wrote:
What version are you using? I am using 62 x 142 on z/OS 1.11 at
RSU1103 and it still doesn't work. I get a menu fine, but if I type any
commands like "DA" my terminal is so hosed up I can't even get an
END excepted. The "LOG" command produces some real
On 6/22/2011 9:28 AM, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
On Wed, 22 Jun 2011 07:27:48 -0700, Edward Jaffe wrote:
On 6/20/2011 4:05 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
ISPF wouldn't tolerate it; I know;
disconnecting from an ISPF session and reconnecting with
a different geometry results in an en
On 6/20/2011 4:05 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
o Does any terminal emulator provide dynamic geometry change
during a session?
Probably most of them. I know PCOMM supports this. Rebind is a standard part of
the protocol.
ISPF wouldn't tolerate it; I know;
disconnecting from an ISPF se
I just reduced the screen geometry of my 3270 displays from 90x142 down to
68x142 due to ever-increasing eye strain. When I started in this business, I
worked with a 24x80 display. At this rate, I'll probably retire with the same
screen geometry I started with... :-D
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On 6/16/2011 1:47 PM, Patrick Loftus wrote:
I HIGHLY recommend setting romount_recovery=on as per the following link:
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/zos/v1r10/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.zos.r10.e0za100/dfsmroa.htm
Agreed. Of course, this should be the default. :-(
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On 6/13/2011 5:44 AM, Peter Relson wrote:
We would not want to break some potentially critical application that had
a "correct" program such as
OPEN
If R15 not-equal 0 then abend
When the application had, in effect, wanted the long-standing (somewhat
strange) behavior of ignoring the DCBE becau
On 6/12/2011 3:00 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
That just shows it's inconsistent. Sometimes RC<>0; sometimes Sx13.
I suspect (with no evidence whatever) the utility checks for a DDNAME
allocation (but why bother?) If it's absent, exit with return code;
if it's present, attempt the OPEN which may A
On 6/12/2011 9:24 AM, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
allocate dd(sysin) shr reuse dsn('sys1.maclib(nonesuch)')
READY
call *(iebgener)
DATA SET UTILITY - GENERATE PAGE 0001
IEC141I 013-18,IGG0191B,user,$STCTSO1,SYSIN,4140,MVS3RS,SYS1.MACLIB(NONESUCH)
IKJ56641
On 6/11/2011 7:33 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
Does OPEN generally set RC? I thought it either succeeds or causes
an ABEND (which could be trapped). Are programmers accustomed to
testing RC after OPEN.
Yes. OPEN sets a return code in R15. RC=0 means everything AOK. RC=4 means open
succeeded but
On 6/11/2011 12:44 PM, Binyamin Dissen wrote:
The only thing that I can think of is that IBM was trying to be "user
friendly" and was concerned that programmers may not have read the
instructions that DCBE's need to be in writable storage and as DCBE's may be
ignored decided that the best approac
On 6/9/2011 11:24 PM, Binyamin Dissen wrote:
How might one access this document?
Partnerworld members with the appropriate AECI in place can download it from a
secure IBM web site.
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On 6/8/2011 1:14 PM, David Cole wrote:
What's got me going today is this. For very good reasons, I have created my
DCB and DCBE (as well as a host of other data areas and control blocks) in
key-9 storage. But my code (z/XDC), when running non-authorized, runs with
execution key-8. So when I ope
On 6/9/2011 1:54 PM, T. Mungal wrote:
For CUtype=2107 you now have an alpha serial number. Just wanted to konw
how extensively that alpha serial number is used versus the numeric serial
number. Any operational issues with the introduction of that alpha serial
number? Thanks.
It is really alp
On 6/2/2011 7:33 PM, Clement Clarke wrote:
I sincerely hope that there are more than the 400 odd sites/companies listed!
The list is almost twice as long as it was when I first saw it.
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On 6/2/2011 2:25 PM, Robert A. Rosenberg wrote:
BTW: Is my impression that if I use STORAGE to allocate a MULTIPLE-PAGE area,
then the virtual page will be pre-zeroed? If so, how is this done?
Not pre-zeroed per se, but the pages are in first-reference state.
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On 6/1/2011 7:11 PM, Ted MacNEIL wrote:
Fine!
But, it's a wiki!
Bad title was my point.
Wiki is not a good thing to base anything on.
And, I have so many non-disclosures I've signed, that I cannot contribute.
Plus, I have a Canadian Federal Government Security Clearance that I will not
compro
On 6/1/2011 6:50 PM, Ted MacNEIL wrote:
No they don't!
They missed all the Canadian banks, two federal ministries (Canadian), an
Ontario ministry, the Canadian Stock Clearing Corporation, and two Canadian
out-sourcers (including IGS, Canada)!
That's without even thinking hard.
Need I continue?
http://mainframes.wikidot.com/
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On 5/22/2011 7:55 PM, Edward Jaffe wrote:
A few months ago, we brought up z/OSMF under z/OS 1.12. Applying service this
weekend made it totally unusable. It turns out our configuration files have
been wiped out!
OK. Thankfully, our configuration files were not lost. Rather, some ominous
On 5/24/2011 9:52 AM, Anuja Deedwaniya wrote:
I would like to work with you to understand what could have happened, as
typically service upgrade in WASOEM or z/OSMF should not wipe out your
configuration files or require you to reconfigure.
I re-read the three ACTION HOLDs in our SMP/E run and
On 5/23/2011 5:29 AM, Mary Anne Matyaz wrote:
Ed,
Do you have the specific ptf that had that hold? I ask because I just ran an
applycheck for everything for wasoem and z/osmf, and only got one hold, on
UK66412. It could be that I'm at a higher level than you, but I just want to
verify.
You're p
A few months ago, we brought up z/OSMF under z/OS 1.12. Applying service this
weekend made it totally unusable. It turns out our configuration files have been
wiped out!
I should blame myself for not paying enough attention to the HOLDs indicating
that our WAS OEM configuration must be manuall
On 5/20/2011 3:57 PM, Gibney, Dave wrote:
Nice, and I have a total machine room power-outage and chiller
improvement starting tonight at 00:00 Pacific :)
You couldn't have timed it better. It's almost as if you deliberately planned it
that way...
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Mainframiacs,
User experience sessions at SHARE are among the most valuable and well-attended
sessions at the conference. They have been at the very core and foundation of
SHARE since 1955 and continue to differentiate SHARE from other System z
conferences. Participating in one of these sessio
http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redbooks/pdfs/sg246985.pdf
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[Reposted for those who either prefer or hate the USS acronym. You choose :-) ]
On 5/6/2011 6:28 AM, John McKown wrote:
I would like the concensus of opinion on something for SDSF. There is an
function to "print" sysout to a dataset. This is ususally done with the XD
line command or the PRT ODSN
On 5/6/2011 6:28 AM, John McKown wrote:
I would like the concensus of opinion on something for SDSF. There is an
function to "print" sysout to a dataset. This is ususally done with the XD
line command or the PRT ODSN primary command. Well, being the weirdo that I
am, I would often like the data t
Mainframiacs,
User experience sessions at SHARE are among the most valuable and well-attended
sessions at the conference. They have been at the very core and foundation of
SHARE since 1955 and continue to differentiate SHARE from other System z
conferences. We learn from each other. Participat
On 5/2/2011 8:44 AM, Ed Gould wrote:
I suggest a SHARE requirement to get IBM to decide once and for all of a
definition for USS.
I would like to know which use is the most offensive to the largest number of
people. That's the one I will start using most.
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On 4/28/2011 11:11 AM, Tony Harminc wrote:
On the other hand, no matter how many exit points IBM or anyone else
puts in, and where, there is always some unanticipated need for
another one. The system needs to provide for those as well. JES2,
among other [sub]systems, does a pretty good job of tha
On 4/26/2011 4:12 PM, Rick Fochtman wrote:
---
The traditional limitation to 2^16-1 = 65535 tracks is one more instance of
control-block overflow, here that of in an unsigned halfword field.
PDS support is 'functionally stabilized', i.
On 4/22/2011 3:56 PM, john gilmore wrote:
What has interested me more about this thread has been its preoccupation with
SVCs, which are at best obsolescent. There is nothing anyone can do with an
SVC that I cannot do, much less obtrusively, with a PC-based scheme.
SVCs offer a nice screening
On 4/4/2011 2:21 PM, Scott Ford wrote:
I totally agree. This situation has been shaping up for a long
Steve:
I totally agree. This situation has been shaping up for a long time. Apparently,
the work 'plan' is a 4 letter word
Scott J Ford
Scott,
Something strange is going on, either wit
On 4/1/2011 12:19 PM, Joel Ewing wrote:
Effective as of the end of yesterday (3/31), at 65+ I am now officially
retired from Data-Tronics Technical Services after serving there almost 33
years. I will probably continue to monitor ibm-main occasionally, but I
expect any future contributions fro
On 3/28/2011 9:01 PM, W. Kevin Kelley wrote:
1) How many of you have used to it in an emergency as the "console of last
resort"?
2) How many of you have used it to recover OSA attached consoles?
3) How many of you have no locally-attached consoles and use the System
Console to IPL and get you t
On 3/28/2011 9:17 AM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote:
In, on 03/28/2011
at 04:42 PM, Binyamin Dissen said:
The security issue is allowing application programmers to write SRB
code (which implies the ability to update APF datasets).
I was under the impression that the applications being di
On 3/28/2011 1:33 PM, Edward Jaffe wrote:
Did we miss a memo somewhere? ...
It's working now. I'm pretty sure we're paying our bills. ;-)
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Did we miss a memo somewhere? ...
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On 3/24/2011 1:19 PM, Clark Morris wrote:
On 19 Mar 2011 06:55:11 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote:
So (once again) the tech support bods (vendor and customer) are dancing
around on egg-shells trying to accommodate policy decisions made by
sales/marketing/legal droids.
I consider the
On 3/20/2011 12:12 PM, Binyamin Dissen wrote:
On Sun, 20 Mar 2011 13:51:37 -0400 Peter Relson wrote:
:>>Much much simpler to use ARMODE to reference HOME.
:>Not true for DIEs. ALET=2 (normally the home space) is not avialable to
:>DIE routines.
No DU-AL?
Then SSAR to home and ALET 1 (hardwa
On 3/17/2011 10:34 AM, Tom Marchant wrote:
On Thu, 17 Mar 2011 11:42:00 -0500, Chuck Arney wrote:
To prevent consoles from displaying the messages you would define
the consoles as not receiving the desired route code(s).
Indeed, the Init and Tuning reference says,
Note: Do not assign routing
On 3/17/2011 10:31 AM, Rob Scott wrote:
Beneficial skills include using IBM structured macros ...
Oorah!
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On 2/20/2011 3:45 PM, michealbutz wrote:
The only case I case I can think of were HASN |= PASN |= SASN is Were a SRB
issues a space
switching PC
The most common occurrence is when a program issues a PC-ss to a routine that
issues another PC-ss. It happens all the time.
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On 2/16/2011 1:45 PM, Stone, Sandy wrote:
Simply clicking "IBM Service Request" takes us back to the search
window, not the results list window.
Sorry. I misread the question.
I use Alt+Left in Firefox. This is similar in function to a) taking your hands
off the keyboard, b) reaching out to t
On 2/16/2011 8:54 AM, Veilleux, Jon L wrote:
Has anyone been able to go directly back to an IBM SR search results list once
you have selected an entry to view? I am finding that I have to go back to the
main Service Link panel and start my search all over again once I select one
entry to view.
On 2/15/2011 10:22 AM, Ward, Mike S wrote:
John, I'm not trying to be funny, but have you tried obrowse or oedit.
Those work only in a very limited subset of interactive z/OS UNIX environments.
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El Segundo, CA 90245
On 2/15/2011 10:24 AM, Rob Schramm wrote:
Is anyone using BIND DNS to provide DNS resolution?
We moved ours to Linux for z because of IBM's SOD articulated in today's
announcement.
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Edward E Jaffe
Phoenix Software International, Inc
831 Parkview Drive North
El Segundo, CA 90245
310-338-040
On 2/15/2011 7:07 AM, Steve Comstock wrote:
Today the IBM announcements newsletter included the
preview for z/OS 1.13.
Previewed z/OS 1.13 features will be presented in detail at SHARE in Anaheim at
the end of this month. If you or your "bean counters" were on the "fence," this
announcement a
On 2/14/2011 5:07 AM, Chase, John wrote:
I won't presume to speak for Peter, but will say that you need not leave this list unless
you're "fed up" with all the irrelevant BS that has attached to your questions
in this thread. The MVS-OE forum, as its name implies, is more centered around the U
On 2/10/2011 12:42 PM, Walt Farrell wrote:
Or, at least, something in the email client that John is using to reply to
messages.
Possibly something "home grown". It doesn't identify itself with a "User-Agent:"
tag in the mail headers.
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Edward E Jaffe
Phoenix Software International, Inc
831
On 2/10/2011 12:13 PM, Elardus Engelbrecht wrote:
Hi to all IBM-MAIN friends and enemies ... :-)
What is it that changed the IBM-MAIN subject headers? :-( :-(
See these threads which started with 're discovering' and 're disc overing',
etc.
John Gilmore.
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Edward E Jaffe
Phoenix Software I
On 2/7/2011 5:53 AM, Schwarz, Barry A wrote:
For reasons lost in antiquity, we use the / instead of the $ as the JES command
character. We are now installing z/OS 1.11 on a brand new system. I have
changed the CONCHAR and RDRCHAR operands on the CONDEF statement in the JES2
parms and in the
On 2/4/2011 8:13 AM, Chris Craddock wrote:
All true and good sensible stuff too. For a quick and dirty (and fairly
light weight) way to coerce the system into updating it there's always this
old trick...
WAIT ECB=PHONY
(do stuff)
DS 0F
PHONY DC X'4000
On 2/4/2011 1:52 PM, Robert A. Rosenberg wrote:
I may be thinking of a private "better" WAIT Macro
You must be.
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Phoenix Software International, Inc
831 Parkview Drive North
El Segundo, CA 90245
310-338-0400 x318
edja...@phoenixsoftware.com
http://www.phoenixsoftware.com/
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Anyone ever notice the sloppy column alignment in the "legend" following a D
M=CPU command. Is there a technical reason they couldn't line things up? They
didn't notice it was wrong during testing? I know this is a "nit". But stuff
like this bugs me. OK. Thanks for listening to my pedantic "rant
On 2/3/2011 12:34 PM, Kirk Wolf wrote:
On a related matter: I seem to remember that there is a way to use TIMEUSED
so that it has *significantly* less overhead, which would be important for a
"profiler" use case. I'm not sure, but I recall that it has something to
do with BRANCH= and ECT=.
If
On 2/3/2011 8:41 AM, Micheal Butz wrote:
I do a substr to get the last 6 digits of the date/time. The microseconds
portion. And substract. Value = after - before
To subtract TOD values, use unsigned binary doubleword arithmetic. If you want
resolution to microseconds, shift both doubleword va
On 2/2/2011 2:35 PM, Micheal Butz wrote:
Using STCK as Wall time and TIMEUSED as CPU time without any Parms (TIMEUSED)
defaults to TOD
Format I am finding TIMEUSED > STCK. I have before and after pair for each
TIMEUSED cannot be greater than current TOD returned by STCK. Think about it.
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