Re: Assembler programs was Re: Delete all members of a PDS that is allocated

2010-06-29 Thread Joel C. Ewing
On 06/29/2010 10:08 AM, George Orwell wrote: >> Our application programmers are not that familiar with z-architecture, >> much less Assembly Language; but those of us in mainframe Technical >> Support certainly are. > > Judging from the questions asked on this list, the above statement is > certai

Re: Assembler programs was Re: Delete all members of a PDS that is allocated

2010-06-29 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Mon, 28 Jun 2010 22:51:59 -0500, Joel C. Ewing wrote: >> >> Why does such a language need to be provided by IBM? >> Can a third-party vendor provide it? >> >> - Dave Rivers - > >It would be unreasonable for IBM to require a third-party product to >customize z/OS, or to expect IBM to help dia

Re: Assembler programs was Re: Delete all members of a PDS that is allocated

2010-06-28 Thread Steve Comstock
Joel C. Ewing wrote: On 06/28/2010 08:32 AM, Thomas David Rivers wrote: Clark Morris wrote: On 27 Jun 2010 07:30:35 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: Until IBM provides a language or variant such as a systems flavor of C/C++ that has access to all of the facilities (including the pecu

Re: Assembler programs was Re: Delete all members of a PDS that is allocated

2010-06-28 Thread Joel C. Ewing
On 06/28/2010 08:32 AM, Thomas David Rivers wrote: > Clark Morris wrote: >> On 27 Jun 2010 07:30:35 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: >> >> Until IBM provides a language or variant such as a systems flavor of >> C/C++ that has access to all of the facilities (including the peculiar >> link

Re: Assembler programs was Re: Delete all members of a PDS that is allocated

2010-06-28 Thread Binyamin Dissen
Feel free to do an advert. Your stuff is good. On Mon, 28 Jun 2010 09:32:17 -0400 Thomas David Rivers wrote: :>Clark Morris wrote: :>> On 27 Jun 2010 07:30:35 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: :>> :>> Until IBM provides a language or variant such as a systems flavor of :>> C/C++ that h

Re: Assembler programs was Re: Delete all members of a PDS that is allocated

2010-06-28 Thread Thomas David Rivers
Clark Morris wrote: On 27 Jun 2010 07:30:35 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: Until IBM provides a language or variant such as a systems flavor of C/C++ that has access to all of the facilities (including the peculiar linking conventions for some JES exits, any management that does not

Re: Assembler programs was Re: Delete all members of a PDS that is allocated

2010-06-28 Thread Anne & Lynn Wheeler
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to bit.listserv.ibm-main,alt.folklore.computers as well. joa...@swbell.net (John McKown) writes: > I think that there is a difference between having a "normal" (ain't no > such beastie) application programmer and an "old

Re: Assembler programs was Re: Delete all members of a PDS that is allocated

2010-06-27 Thread John McKown
On Sun, 2010-06-27 at 21:02 -0300, Clark Morris wrote: > On 27 Jun 2010 15:20:32 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: > > >- > >Until IBM provides a language or variant such as a systems flavor of > >C/C++ that has access t

Re: Assembler programs was Re: Delete all members of a PDS that is allocated

2010-06-27 Thread Clark Morris
On 27 Jun 2010 15:20:32 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: >- >Until IBM provides a language or variant such as a systems flavor of >C/C++ that has access to all of the facilities (including the peculiar >linking convent

Re: Assembler programs was Re: Delete all members of a PDS that is allocated

2010-06-27 Thread Rick Fochtman
- Until IBM provides a language or variant such as a systems flavor of C/C++ that has access to all of the facilities (including the peculiar linking conventions for some JES exits, any management that does not keep access to a

Assembler programs was Re: Delete all members of a PDS that is allocated

2010-06-27 Thread Clark Morris
On 27 Jun 2010 07:30:35 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: >On 06/26/2010 09:16 PM, Ted MacNEIL wrote: >>> But here we are talking about a case of manipulating directory entries >>> and internal content of an Operating-system-specific construct, a PDS. > >> >> I can do that with REXX and