Re: Tax chooses dead language - Australia

ms of other people's schemes always go wrong. They reify one man's provincial notions into universal truths. John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721-1817 USA _ Don’t just search. Find. Check out the new MSN Search! http://search.

Re: COBOL floating-point revisited

ound their performance not just unsatisfactory but radically so and (b) identified these conversions as the villains of the piece. I am reminded of a book called "Topology made easy", which accomplished its objective by leaving the hard parts out.

Re: military time?

nox (midnight) The 24-hour clock, among its many other merits, lends itself to misuse less readily than does the 12-hour one. John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721-1817 USA _ Is your PC infected? Get a FREE online computer virus scan

COBOL floating-point revisited

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Re: OT who is/was Joshka Fischer? was Re: Disk vs Tape scenario

Fischer was the [Green] Foreign Minister in the preceding Social Democratic-Green coalition German goverment. Googling his name would have yielded this information and much else about him in any of English, French, or German. John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721-1817 USA

Re: Military Time?

argument for the use of a date-subroutine library that can be made. John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721-1817 USA From: Bill Westland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Military Time? Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 18:21:31 -0800 However not

Re: Military Time?

They are certainly subliterate, and they may perhaps even be epochal. John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721-1817 USA From: ibm-main <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Military Time? Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 18:56:12 -0500 At 2006

Re: Military Time?

This topic has been discussed ad nauseam. Consult the archives! John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721-1817 USA _ On the road to retirement? Check out MSN Life Events for advice on how to get there! http://lifeevents.msn.com

Re: Receiving e-mail with virus

s tag, which is always 'from: ibm-main'. John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721-1817 USA From: "John S. Giltner, Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Receiving e-mail with virus Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 20:27:22 -05

Re: PDF? (yet another apology)

In a second deplorable senior moment, I confounded Shane Ginnane with Chris Craddock. They do nolt always agree, and I apologize to both of them. John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721-1817 USA _ Don’t just search. Find. Check out the

ibm-main@bama.ua.edu

What appeared as 'π' inm my last post was in fact the Unicode value of the Greek letter named pi in English. I use Unicode on my workstation, and I occasionally include a character that should not appear in a post in one of them. John Gilmore Ashland, MA 0172

Re: PDF? (was: When was the leap second inserted?)

ons programmers. John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721-1817 USA From: Shane G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: PDF? (was: When was the leap second inserted?) Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2006 15:42:08 -0600 Interesting story caught my eye

Re: When was the leap second inserted?

e notional STCKE value being converted is a current or very recent TOD-clock one. John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721-1817 USA _ Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today - it's FREE! http://messenger.msn.c

hashing-algorithm encryption (was: Re: ABN Tape - Found )

and a simplistic one like SHA-256 may not be the right one because hashing schemes may be, in some measure certainly are already, open to non-enumerative attack. John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721-1817 USA _ On the road to retirement

consistency, foolish and otherwise

n from a Greek poet--- He put the words 'Live! For I come' into the mouth of Death on the occasion of a celebration of hixs 90th birthday---replied that (a) his emendation was an improvement and (b) that in any case all is fair in love, war, and quotation. John

ARCH and alsi (was: Hercules 3.03 announcement)

that is compiled at ARCH(n) runs on machines in the ARCH(m) group if and only if m >= n. John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721-1817 USA _ On the road to retirement? Check out MSN Life Events for advice on how to get there! ht

Re: first MD5 and now SHA-1

whole class of hash-function schemes is open to the same sort of attack.. My post assumed more knowledge of the current state of things in this area than it should have. John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721-1817 USA _ Express you

first MD5 and now SHA-1

Shiaoyun Wang has done it again! After breaking MD5 last year, she has now broken SHA-1. The NSA's own pridefully recommended encryption system now affords not even minimal security. Look to the situations in which you are using it, directly or at one remove. John Gilmore Ashland, MA

leap-second computations with STCKE values

f the the first LST.tab.stc9 element in this ordered or partially ordered table, which is precluded here. John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721-1817 USA _ Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today - it's FREE! http:/

Re: Converting TOD to Local Time

the complications of daylight time, summer time or whatever if you use it. John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721-1817 USA _ On the road to retirement? Check out MSN Life Events for advice on how to get there! http://lifeevents.msn.com

Re: trigonometric functions

extbook or handbook, which would not have been far to seek. John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721-1817 USA _ Don’t just search. Find. Check out the new MSN Search! http://search.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200636ave

Re: EXEC PARM "bug" or "feature"?

missing PARM='/' is required instead. The z/OS Language Environment Programming Reference, SA22-7562, dscusses these matters at length. John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721-1817 USA _ Express yourself instantly with MSN Mess

Re: Introducing delay in a assembler.

There is a typo---perhaps a reflection of too much C---here. | STIMER REAL,BINTVL==5*100 should be | STIMER REAL,BINTVL=5*100 In my pedantic fashion I prefer |&five_secs seta 5*100 --BINTVL unit is 1/100 sec | STIMER REAL,BINTVL=&five_secs John

rwe: displaying hexadecimal content of a field in COBOL

is stowed in the corresponding position in the output string ptrhexcs. Pointers that have the special values null and sysnull need not be and are not treated as special cases. They yield the respective values [x]'ff00' and [x]'0000'. version 3,

Re: Performance tools and Java

ut that of course was long, long ago. John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721-1817 USA _ FREE pop-up blocking with the new MSN Toolbar – get it now! http://toolbar.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200415ave

Re: strange issue with LER/CICS/PLI

You write 'PL/I 2.3 . . . '. Is this a typo for PL/I 3.2? Or are you really way back there, which is a very bad place to be for using the LE. Current PL/I is Enterprise 3.4. John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721-1817 USA _

Re: ASM: ISDEC do the loop...

No, and not for a very long time. It is contextually declared by its appearance in a SETB statement. John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721-1817 USA From: Martin Kline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: ASM: ISDEC do the loop..

Re: COBOL Program exhausting below the line storage

as in omitting to recompile the whole shebang as AMODE(31). John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721-1817 USA John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721-1817 USA _ Don’t just search. Find. Check out the new MSN Search! http://search.msn.c

Re: allowing Joe User into TSO

, bureaucratic interest in devoting more and more resources to treating these problems simplistically; and these 'specialists' are hard to oppose without being attacked as naif or in league with the villains. John Gilmore Ashland, MA 0172

Re: TN3270 Emulator

on is it 'accessable' or 'accessible' has an unambiguous answer, but it is unfortunately inaccessible to Latin and/or Italian dropouts. John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721-1817 USA _ Express yourself instantly with MSN

Re: Interleave

ading has an undeserved reputation as difficult. Graeme's notion of a sexual difference in quotidian multitasking prowess is bravely set out; I have never, however, encountered any evidence that women are better [or worse] at writing muiltitasking programs. John Gilmore Ashland, MA 0172

Re: MVCIN instruction

Patrick O'Keefe writes: There was at least one model of 1403 (with a print bar rather than a chain). There were p;rint chains and print trains; but 'bars', I think not. John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721-1817 USA __

Re: linkage convention

s has mentioned out, we all have our own LIFO-storage managers; and many of us are highly satisfied with their performance. (They can also be used to manage pools, but that is another subject.) John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721-1817 USA _

Re: Read French? What do you make of http://www.hosthelponline.com/ ?

cal discussions are more problematic: Most francophone SYSPROGS read and write English well enough to participate in IBM-MAIN technical exchanges. John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721-1817 USA From: Bruno Sugliani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List To: IBM-MAIN@BAM

Re: assembly - binding - load-module alias

sing Data Sets, SC26-7410-03, from which this text is taken. John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721 USA _ Don’t just search. Find. Check out the new MSN Search! http://search.msn.click-u

Re: Systems Programmer Position

Here 'that economist' is the British weekly, "The Economist", which has made serious, non-jocular use of its 'Big Mac' index for comparing the cost of living in different locations around the world. John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721 USA From: "Edward E.

Re: Systems Programmer Position

The pay works out to be only about $75k per year. Worse, using the Economist's cost-of-a-Big-Mac-and-Fries index, the cost of living in Anchorage is 2.1 times that of living in NYC; and 75/2.1 is only $35.7k per year. John Gilmore Ashland, MA 0172

Re: assembler instruction question

name inclusive of its identifying ampersand is 64 characters and the maximal length of the value of a character set symbol is not 256 but 1024 characters in current releases of the HLASM. You should consider migrating to versio

MVCIN instruction

hem, although not of course for LL and the standard Europoean languages, MVCIN is very useful for formatting display or print text. John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721 USA _ Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Downl

Re: assembler question

ube Goldberg schemes should be avoided here. A left-to-right lexical breakout is called for. John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721 USA _ Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today - it's FREE! http://messenger.m

Re: LRAL and GOFF

of the following mnote | mnote 1,'The current effective value of the GOFF option is &SYSOPT_XOBJECT..' beinserrtedinto the assembly. John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721 USA _ Is your PC infected? Get a FREE o

[no subject]

amed, does it all for n > 0. Moreover, all of this is serendipitous. The FLOGR instruction was implemented for very different purposes. John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721 USA John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721 U.S.A. _ Don’t just

Re: another z9 question (retrofitted instructions)

lbeit much more slowly, on platforms that do not make FLOGR available. This is my usual approach to such problems, and it seems to me to be preferable to the crackpot realist scheme of avoiding new instructions until 'everyone' has them available. John Gilmore A

Re: Setting Completion Code in Batch?

I am a little hesitant to repeat someone else's contribution; but Volker Bandke's suggestion, which I strongly endorsed in an earlier post, was that a [JCL] set statement be used. John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721 U.S.A. __

Re: setting return codes in batch

ing return-code values; C has exit(); etc., etc. John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721 USA _ Don’t just search. Find. Check out the new MSN Search! http://search.msn.click-url.com/go/onm002006

Re: CONVTOD-->ETODVAL Year Input Still Limited to 2042?

1897, . . . , 1903 and 2197, . . . , 2203 are instances of seven successive non-leap years. John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721 USA _ Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today - it's FREE! http://messenger.msn.

Re: CONVTOD-->ETODVAL Year Input Still Limited to 2042?

e free to write date-handling routines without knowing enough about what they are doing, and the results are always deplorable or worse. John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721 USA _ Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Downlo

Re: CONVTOD-->ETODVAL Year Input Still Limited to 2042?

365(y - 1) + (y - 1)//4 - (y - 1)//100 + (y - 1)//400 in which '//' denotes remainder-discarding binary-integer division. John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721 USA _ Don’t just search. Find. Check out the new MSN Search! htt

Re: Documentation for the New Instructions for the z9 Processor

support for them. John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721 USA From: John P Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Documentation for the New Instructions for the z9 Processor Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2005 12:06:34 -0400 I have a copy o

Re: Documentation for the New Instructions for the z9 Processor

Look in Appendix B of SG24-6669-00, wqhich oyou can download at the IBM Publ,ications website. John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721 USA From: John P Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Documentation for the New Instructions f

Re: DASD skew

han instances of 'glabrous' or 'tergiversate'. ) John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721 USA _ Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today - it's FREE! http://

Re: When was an alias [been] defined ?

mutatis mutandis to linkage-editor processing. The HLASM also has a [misnamed] ALIAS statement, the function of which is to replace traditional short by, typically, long external names; but you appear to have the Binder control statement in mind. John Gilmore

Re: Fw: COBOL callable services?

Iff you have the z/OS Enterprise PL/I Compiler available to you, an options(COBOL) PL/I subroutine that contains a single suitably framed DELAY statement will meet your needs. John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721 USA From: Bill Klein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: IBM Mainframe Discussio

Re: Enterprise PL/I SYSDEFSD & SYSXMLSD characteristics?

with this and similar questions by addressinbg them to the PL/I list. John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721 USA _ Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today - it's FREE! http://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm002

Re: Cell pool traversal and IGVxxx macros

4-bit versions of these macros have been surprisingly trouble-free for me. John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721 USA _ Don’t just search. Find. Check out the new MSN Search! http://search.msn.

Re: How tell name of originating load library?

. IBM has a long history of disliking point solutions that are useful only in very special circumstances. Its resistance to supporting the use of symbolics in JCL is not, for example, truculence. It is a reflectkon of the fact that no really robust way to provide this support can be devis

multivolume PDSEs (was: Spanned PDSs/PDSEs)

The term 'spanned' has for long had an important, legitimate use in this context. Those of you have been using it in this new unwonted sense, to mean multi-volume, should stop. Dubious terminology fouls up the archives for our posterity. John Gilmore Ashland, MA

Re: serialization of PDS Member update/deletion through IBM Utilities

es, among them all of the notorious ones, were remedied long ago. John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721 USA _ On the road to retirement? Check out MSN Life Events for advice on how to get there! http://lifeevents.msn.com/category.aspx

Re: serialization of PDS Member update/deletion through IBM Utilities

Shane has said all that needs to be said, viz., Use DISP=OLD, or migrate it to a PDSE. It may be indeed that he has said more than enough. I would delete the first term in his disjunction. John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721 USA

Re: 31-bit to 64-bit

eference programming errors. John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721 USA _ FREE pop-up blocking with the new MSN Toolbar – get it now! http://toolbar.msn.click-url.com/go/onm0

Re: SMP/E Upgrade to 3.3 Gone Bad.

PDS more space but more directory blocks too. John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721 USA _ Is your PC infected? Get a FREE online computer virus scan from McAfee® Security. http://clinic.mcafee.com/clinic/ibuy/campaign.asp?cid=3963

Re: supported interface to set/retrieve TCBUSER field NON-authori zed?

perhaps multitasking or multithreaded context DXD and CXD are very much more efficient. John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721 USA _ On the road to retirement? Check out MSN Life Events for advice on how to get there! http

Re: supported interface to set/retrieve TCBUSER field NON-authori zed?

this purpose DXD and CXD are radically better because simpler and faster. John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721 USA _ Is your PC infected? Get a FREE online computer virus scan from McAfee® Security. http://clinic.mcafee.com/clinic

Re: TLAs - was summit else entirely

e' American usage often turns out to be an old, obsolete British one. Brits, for example, often deplore the American idiom 'I guess' when it doesn't mean 'I conjecture'; but they once had it too: Chauc

Re: VSMLIST OWNCOMM DETAIL

' ASIDs are now recoverable, but subsystems that use one instead of two startup ASs are not themselves nearly so robust as they should be. John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721 USA _ FREE pop-up blocking with the new MSN Toolbar

redundant parentheses

spenders/braces. Inelegant they may be, indeed certainly are; but there should be no sanctions against those who use|wear them. John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721 USA _ Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today - i

Re: Assembler: alignment of machine instructions

ssary, and o those in which fullword. doubleword, or quadword alignment in required, in which |CNOP , which is much more powerful and flexible, should be used instead.In my own coding I do not anymore encounter frequent---I had almost written any---requirements for halfword align

Re: what IF?

ich I have refrained from attempting to verify, are correct o JCL following the first would not be executed and the JCL following its associated THEN would be executed if present; and o JCL following the second would be executed and the JCL following its associated THEN would be ignored

Re: Another - Another one bites the dust

rover, and this is particularly melanchoily, there is much anecdotal and some systematic evidence thast many applications that are 'successfully' moved to other platforms take their disabilities with them. John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721 USA _

Re: IBM VSAM statistics are often bogus

in full n-character lines, n <= 131, which it would take you rather longer to automate. John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721 USA _ Don’t just search. Find. Check out the new MSN Search! http://search.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200636

Re: IBM VSAM Statistics are often Bogus

silly. He who uses a report format as a programming interface may think himself clever, but he has no basis for complaint when t changes. John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721 USA _ Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Downlo

Re: Loadlibraryname for a loaded module

ld be used, redundantly but perhaps conveniently, to resolve the problem that I think we are discussing. John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721 USA _ Is your PC infected? Get a FREE online computer virus scan from McAfee® Security.

Re: Loadlibraryname for a loaded module

from which a currently resident module was loaded retrospectively. John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721 USA _ FREE pop-up blocking with the new MSN Toolbar – get it now! http://toolbar.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200415ave/dire

Re: IBM VSAM Statistics are often Bogus

se low reported figures "reflect actual activity . . . just not . . . ALL the activity" in the casino is disingenuous, as is Mr. Ewing's defense of the use of invalid, because biased in the technical sense, VSAM statistics. John G

Re: IBM VSAM Statistics are often Bogus

t like the caption of this thread. The word 'bogus' is not a general-purpose pejorative. It means counterfeited or faked. We are not dealing with anything of that sort here, and the use of this word here is thus wholly inappropriate, even perhaps slanderous. John Gilmore A

Re: IDENTIFY limitations and their circumvention (was ISKE/IVSK)

n life, interdicted too much; and its circumvention is entirely appropriate.) John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721 USA _ Don’t just search. Find. Check out the new MSN Search! http://search.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200636ave/dir

Re: oxymora, proper and improper

of some concept' is of course problematic when it is viewed diachronically; but it is important to remember that 'deafening silence' was once, perhaps in Cicero's time, a fresh and novel expression. (Or again, he may have borrowed it from

oxymora, proper and improper

OT with this thread, and I will therefore refrain from providing more such examples, but I suspect (a) that there are PMLA papers that list proper ones in extenso and (b) that you can invent as many improper ones as you may need yourself. John Gilmore Ash

pages marked as blank in IBM manuals

has less weight, and it of course marks its users as uninformed. John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721 USA _ Don’t just search. Find. Check out the new MSN Search! http://search.

Re: ISKE/IVSK

slate into technical English and post for all a French-language statement of his problem if he wishes to provide one. John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721 USA _ On the road to retirement? Check out MSN Life Events for advice on how to get t

Re: ISKE/IVSK

Edward E. Jaffe wrote: john gilmore wrote: A directed LOAD can, for example, be supplemented by a [degenerate] IDENTIFY to obtain the CDE that you may perhaps need and won't get from this LOAD alone; IDENTIFY cannot be used to convert an "unnamed" area of virtual storage

Re: ISKE/IVSK

trying to achieve and why you need to do it. Your post doesn't inspire great confidence that you belong where you are apparently hellbent to go. John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721 USA _ Don’t just search. Find. Check out the new MS

Re: Washington Post: 40 Million Credit Card numbers Hacked

urity groups. Moles, to the extent that they pose real problems in business (as opposed to the NSA) cannot be dealt with using passwords. Moles know them, just as an NSA mole, if there were one, would have a security clearance. John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721

Re: IEBTASKN . . .

k before one speaks has somehow been lost and needs to be recovered here. John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721 USA _ Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today - it's FREE!

Re: Uniqueness of the result of an STCK or STCKE operation

tion, SCKPF. How to set these values to ensure the uniquess of STCKE values is then straightforward. Quoting now the Principles of Operation: Programming Note: The values in the TOD programmable registers of a configuration should be the same and should be unique within a multiple-configur

Re: Calling authorised modules from non-authorised environments

Ed Jaffe and I have our occasional disagreements, but I am enormously grateful to him for assuming a significant part of the nay-saying responsibilities here. Query by intercepted ABEND is a dubious tactic used singly and a preposterous one used iteratively. John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721

book manager, demise of

oribund, if not yet unfortunately quite dead, provincial Notable who should be hastened into an honorable grave. Requiescat in pace! John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721 USA _ Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download toda

Re: Calling authorised modules from non-authorised environments

the assembler list, where its subject belongs and others who have the necessary competences can contribute. John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721 U.S.A. _ Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today - it's FREE!

Re: Batch utility to strip blanks on F to V copy?

most of us anyway, programmers; and problems of this sort are in the category of programming exercises for novices, CS 101 homework. John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721 U.S.A. _ Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger

Re: JCL COND= processing

John McKown and Gary Green are of course quite correct in their 'conjectures'. You can cirecumvent this and similar problems by using nested [JCL] IF statements. John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721 U.S.A. _ Expres

Re: RECFM=VBS in COBOL (was COBOL short variable length files???? )

ng several, more than two or three, successive physical blocks be minimized. Ergo, the number of logical records that are much greater in size than the BLKSIZE= value - 4 should not be excessive. On the other hand, the point of VBS is just to permit BLKSIZE < LRECL! John Gilmore Ashland, M

Re: IEW2606S Doing C Programming

are still radically immature, labor-intensive, and unreliable. John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721 U.S.A. _ Is your PC infected? Get a FREE online computer virus scan from McAfee® Security. http://clinic.mcafee.com/clinic/ibuy

DUMMY and BLKSIZE=0

exhausted by their never successful attempts to follow an ordered exposition of any length have little merit. This forum is not, or at least should not be, a talk show. John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721 U.S.A. _ Express y

Re: DUMMY and BLKSIZE

matter of my being beaten up, I think you should try. John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721 U.S.A. _ Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today - it's FREE! http://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/dire

Re: DUMMY and BLKSIZE

n, and when his law secretary suggested that it was not perhaps very well known his now legendary response was, 'May God twist my tripes if I will string things out for the delectation of fools'. This response was the right one. Dumbing down as a strategy doesn't work. It produces o

Re: DUMMY and BLKSIZE

The construction // DD DUMMY is being misused here for a purpose for which it was never intended. Use instead // DD DSN=NULLFILE,DCB= . . . John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721 U.S.A. _ Don’t just search. Find. Check out the new

Re: PARM=

. John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721 U.S.A. _ Don’t just search. Find. Check out the new MSN Search! http://search.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200636ave/direct/01/ -- For IBM

Re: PARM=

PARM value */ with the side condition that the value of PB.cpvl may not exceed 100. Since the halfword prefix can be examined before, exceptionally, a copy of a particular PARM value is made, there is never any need to allocate more storage than that PARM value occupies for such a copy. Jo

Re: PARM=

arre, even unseriosche. Any such change should be made to a value that is larger than life, one that will not have to be revised upward again before all of the documentation changes it makes necessary have been made. John Gilmore Ashland, MA 0

George Dantzig (1914-2005)

Dantzig, the inventor of the Simplex Method and, with Philip Wolfe, the Decomposition Principle for large linear-programming problems, which together made linear programming computationally viable, died in Stanford on May 13th. John Gilmore Ashland, MA 01721 U.S.A

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