Re: Calling all "crypto" gurus

ICSF will work on the z800 without crypto hardware. From the document mentioned below: "ICSF is a software component of z/OS providing cryptographic support either in its own software routines or through access to the cryptographic hardware available on the platform." We used ICSF's software

Re: An upbeat story

That Commercial Subroutine Package must have been IDEAL - we were told the name came from "*LA* *E*ast *D*ouble *I*nteger" (with caps backwards). I really liked that machine, but was not so thrilled with the 1132 printer hammering away right behind my chair. On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 10:11 PM, Dale

where is ESA/390 Data Compression manual SA22-7208

We're looking into using the CMPSC "Compression Call" instruction, and the z/Arch POP says ".. assumes knowledge of the introductory information and information about dictionary formats in *Enterprise Systems Architecture/390 Data Compression, SA22-7208-01*." I find lots of references to SA22-7208

Re: Hex to Decimal Conversion in COBOL

If the input is 5 characters of hex-digit binary values: 05 fldin pic x value '0b01020304'. and the output should be a binary fullword (x'000b1234'=725,556): 05 fldout pic 9(8) comp value 725556. then a single move (pack) instruction, with appropriate work areas, will do the conversion

Re: Mainframe Assembler Coding Contest

Here's 8 instructions to translate 8 bits to 8 chars of 1's or 0's: LAR3,8 ICR5,INBYTE SLL R5,24 LOOP SLL R4,3 SLDL R4,1 BCT R3,LOOP STR4,OUTCHAR UNPK OUTCHAR(9),OUTCHAR(5) OUTCHAR DSCL8 DSX I

Cobol calling EZASOKET gets RC 2912

What does CC 2912 mean? My Cobol test program returns CC 2912 when I add these EZASOKET calls: SOCKET CONNECT WRITE READ CLOSE FWIW, the EZASOKET calls are working - tcpdump at the other end of the connection shows the outbound & inbound blocks. ---