Re: Binder REP Cards (Was: What's the linkage editor really wants?)

2006-04-24 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 04/24/2006 at 01:29 AM, Chris Mason [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Check this out. It appears to be CMS HELP for the LOAD command. It includes a description of the REP card but also a VER card. Thanks. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO position;

Re: Binder REP Cards (Was: What's the linkage editor really wants?)

2006-04-24 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 04/24/2006 at 01:46 AM, Chris Mason [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: The conjecture may be mine. The operating system was *not* DOS (VSE) or VM. I'm pretty sure it was the usual smaller OS of the time, VS1 was it mot? OS/VS1 was the follow-on to OS/360 MFT II. While smaller

Re: Binder REP Cards (Was: What's the linkage editor really wants?)

2006-04-24 Thread Chris Langford
However CMS LOAD rejects a SYM card as invalid. Assembler generates it, LOAD hiccups. Chris Mason wrote: Shmuel, Check this out. It appears to be CMS HELP for the LOAD command. It includes a description of the REP card but also a VER card. -- Chris Langford, Cestrian Software:

Re: Binder REP Cards (Was: What's the linkage editor really wants?)

2006-04-23 Thread Chris Mason
Sent: Sunday, 23 April, 2006 3:19 PM Subject: Re: Binder REP Cards (Was: What's the linkage editor really wants?) In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 04/18/2006 at 10:33 PM, Ed Gould [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: There seems to be conjecture that it was an early OS (MVT/MVT) that accommodated them

Re: Binder REP Cards (Was: What's the linkage editor really wants?)

2006-04-19 Thread Eric Bielefeld
Milwaukee, Wisconsin - Original Message - From: Chris Mason [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tuesday, April 18, 2006 9:31 pm Subject: Re: Binder REP Cards (Was: What's the linkage editor really wants?) To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Eric, Similar but not identical. A REP card belongs to the days when

Re: What's the linkage editor really wants?

2006-04-19 Thread Paul Gilmartin
In a recent note, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) said: Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 11:30:32 -0300 What your quotation flags: you made it looks as though I rather than Paul was reporting the experiment. It looks like you reflowed some Thanks. (But I wasn't going to be possessive about it.)

Re: Binder REP Cards (Was: What's the linkage editor really wants?)

2006-04-19 Thread Patrick O'Keefe
On Tue, 18 Apr 2006 22:33:50 -0500, Ed Gould [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... Sometime in the past there was an option to use rep cards as input to the linkage editor (now called Binder). The reports on here seem to indicate that these rep cards are no longer valid . The rep cards as you spoke are

Re: What's the linkage editor really wants?

2006-04-18 Thread Tom Russell
Date:Sun, 16 Apr 2006 13:24:34 -0300 From:Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: What's the linkage editor really wants? In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 04/13/2006 at 06:08 PM, Chris Mason [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Doesn't one of the utilities use the linkage editor, under

Re: What's the linkage editor really wants?

2006-04-18 Thread Ray Mullins
, Ray -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ed Gould Sent: Monday April 17 2006 19:57 To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: What's the linkage editor really wants? On Apr 17, 2006, at 8:24 PM, Chris Mason wrote: Robert

Binder REP Cards (Was: What's the linkage editor really wants?)

2006-04-18 Thread Edward Jaffe
Ray Mullins wrote: The only place I've found documentation on REP is in the z/VSE manuals - that's how MiSHaP translates object code zaps, by adding REP cards to the end of the object deck. Sorry. I missed the start of this thread. Are you saying the z/OS PM Binder accepts REP cards like

Re: What's the linkage editor really wants?

2006-04-18 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 04/17/2006 at 03:53 PM, john gilmore [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Paul Gilmartin writes: In a recent note, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) said: Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2006 13:21:19 -0300 is true is that SYSLIB should not contain a concatenation of object and

Re: Binder REP Cards (Was: What's the linkage editor really wants?)

2006-04-18 Thread Ray Mullins
List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Edward Jaffe Sent: Tuesday April 18 2006 08:10 To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Binder REP Cards (Was: What's the linkage editor really wants?) Ray Mullins wrote: The only place I've found documentation on REP is in the z/VSE manuals

Re: Binder REP Cards (Was: What's the linkage editor really wants?)

2006-04-18 Thread Edward Jaffe
Ray Mullins wrote: Maybe. :-) Maybe what? Maybe the binder accepts REP cards? Or maybe the binder accepts REP cards for GOFF objects? -- Edward E Jaffe Phoenix Software International, Inc 5200 W Century Blvd, Suite 800 Los Angeles, CA 90045 310-338-0400 x318 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: What's the linkage editor really wants?

2006-04-18 Thread John R. Ehrman
. -- Date:Mon, 17 Apr 2006 21:57:19 -0500 From:Ed Gould [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: What's the linkage editor really wants? Which brings up a side issue... is the REP card documented anywhere? I would think it would be in the BINDER

Re: Binder REP Cards (Was: What's the linkage editor really wants?)

2006-04-18 Thread Ray Mullins
Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Edward Jaffe Sent: Tuesday April 18 2006 09:36 To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Binder REP Cards (Was: What's the linkage editor really wants?) Ray Mullins wrote: Maybe. :-) Maybe what? Maybe the binder

Re: Binder REP Cards (Was: What's the linkage editor really wants?)

2006-04-18 Thread Chris Mason
: Edward Jaffe [EMAIL PROTECTED] Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Sent: Tuesday, 18 April, 2006 5:10 PM Subject: Binder REP Cards (Was: What's the linkage editor really wants?) Ray Mullins wrote: The only place I've found documentation on REP is in the z/VSE manuals

Re: Binder REP Cards (Was: What's the linkage editor really wants?)

2006-04-18 Thread Ed Gould
On Apr 18, 2006, at 2:26 PM, Chris Mason wrote: Edward, This topic started because Johnny Luo asked about the contents of an object module. My reply included a reference to the REP card and thus another strand of the original thread spun off. (This covers Ray's question.) In the thread I

Re: Binder REP Cards (Was: What's the linkage editor really wants?)

2006-04-18 Thread Tony Harminc
Ed Gould wrote: I too remember rep cards but honestly don't remember where that they were documented. That is why I asked the question. I *vaguely* remember them from 25+ years ago. I was just hoping that someone would know if they are still supported and if so where they were

Re: What's the linkage editor really wants?

2006-04-18 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
At 03:24 +0200 on 04/18/2006, Chris Mason wrote about Re: What's the linkage editor really wants?: Robert, Quite right - total rubbish - I meant to say REP, of course, as can be seen from the context - and the fact that I specifically said that RLD corresponds to what can be found

Re: What's the linkage editor really wants?

2006-04-18 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In !!AAAYAGCK2jc9lJFEn5U5PfIb9CTigAAAEErskH8dsbhKjkvp/[EMAIL PROTECTED], on 04/18/2006 at 07:53 AM, Ray Mullins [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: The only place I've found documentation on REP is in the z/VSE manuals - that's how MiSHaP translates object code zaps, by adding REP

Re: What's the linkage editor really wants?

2006-04-18 Thread Ray Mullins
Well, I just took some time to test REP using the documented format from z/VSE. And, alas, in z/OS, it doesn't work - neither with the binder nor the linkage editor (HEWLKED). Too bad, actually...I could see some usefulness, although there are lots of other ways around this, and I don't know if

Re: What's the linkage editor really wants?

2006-04-18 Thread Edward Jaffe
Ray Mullins wrote: Well, I just took some time to test REP using the documented format from z/VSE. And, alas, in z/OS, it doesn't work - neither with the binder nor the linkage editor (HEWLKED). Too bad, actually...I could see some usefulness, although there are lots of other ways around this,

Re: What's the linkage editor really wants?

2006-04-18 Thread Chris Mason
- From: Ray Mullins [EMAIL PROTECTED] Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Sent: Wednesday, 19 April, 2006 12:51 AM Subject: Re: What's the linkage editor really wants? ... Too bad, actually...I could see some usefulness, although there are lots of other ways around this, and I

Re: What's the linkage editor really wants?

2006-04-18 Thread Ray Mullins
16:45 To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: What's the linkage editor really wants? Ray, It's a *card* thing - along with felt-tipped pens, elastic bands and 029 card punches[1] - and you'd be needing a 2540 or 2501 to read your object decks (modules) in and a 2540 to get them punched

Re: Binder REP Cards (Was: What's the linkage editor really wants?)

2006-04-18 Thread Eric N. Bielefeld
-main To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2006 11:35 AM Subject: Re: Binder REP Cards (Was: What's the linkage editor really wants?) Ray Mullins wrote: Maybe. :-) Maybe what? Maybe the binder accepts REP cards? Or maybe the binder accepts REP cards for GOFF objects? -- Edward

Re: Binder REP Cards (Was: What's the linkage editor really wants?)

2006-04-18 Thread Chris Mason
that there is also a VER card. Chris Mason - Original Message - From: Eric N. Bielefeld [EMAIL PROTECTED] Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Sent: Wednesday, 19 April, 2006 3:33 AM Subject: Re: Binder REP Cards (Was: What's the linkage editor really wants?) I've

Re: What's the linkage editor really wants?

2006-04-18 Thread Ed Finnell
In a message dated 4/18/2006 6:50:13 P.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: still think I can program an 029. Two drums or three? -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send

Re: What's the linkage editor really wants?

2006-04-18 Thread Ray Mullins
calls heavily accented with throaty guttural sounds. --ilvi -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ed Finnell Sent: Tuesday 18 April 2006 19:43 To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: What's the linkage editor really wants

Re: Binder REP Cards (Was: What's the linkage editor really wants?)

2006-04-18 Thread Ray Mullins
Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chris Mason Sent: Tuesday 18 April 2006 19:31 To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Binder REP Cards (Was: What's the linkage editor really wants?) Eric, Similar but not identical. A REP card belongs to the days when you

Re: What's the linkage editor really wants?

2006-04-18 Thread Ed Finnell
In a message dated 4/18/2006 10:16:58 P.M. Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Remember star wheels? And cards saws...used them up thru the 3900 printer for paper jams... -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe /

Re: Binder REP Cards (Was: What's the linkage editor really wants?)

2006-04-18 Thread Ed Gould
On Apr 18, 2006, at 8:33 PM, Eric N. Bielefeld wrote: I've seen a bunch of posts on this. Are these the REP cards as are used in AMASPZAP, or is this something different. For example: VER 0012 AF21 REP 0012 2345 Eric Bielefeld PH Mining Equipment Eric, Sometime in the past there was

Re: What's the linkage editor really wants?

2006-04-18 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
At 15:51 -0700 on 04/18/2006, Ray Mullins wrote about Re: What's the linkage editor really wants?: Well, I just took some time to test REP using the documented format from z/VSE. And, alas, in z/OS, it doesn't work - neither with the binder nor the linkage editor (HEWLKED). Too bad, actually

Re: What's the linkage editor really wants?

2006-04-18 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
At 16:49 -0700 on 04/18/2006, Ray Mullins wrote about Re: What's the linkage editor really wants?: I'm old enough to know what an 029 is. And an 026. I have memories of punching card decks. I was in college from 1964-1968 and our computer lab had 1620 a CPU and 026 Card Punches. In my

Re: What's the linkage editor really wants?

2006-04-17 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 04/13/2006 at 06:46 AM, Charles Mills [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Load modules contain pretty much the same information as object modules, optimized for quick loading into memory rather than optimized for the 1968 link editor g. The format of the object module was

Re: What's the linkage editor really wants?

2006-04-17 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 04/14/2006 at 12:09 AM, Johnny Luo [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Can I get some suggestion about wich manual I should resort to for the usage of 'binder' ? Search for program management. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO position; see

Re: What's the linkage editor really wants?

2006-04-17 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 04/13/2006 at 04:46 PM, Johnny Luo [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Because I remember some books(for example,Murach's os/390 and z/os JCL) say that LKED.SYSLIB should contain 'object module' ,not 'load module'. I don't remember a time when that was true, certainly not today.

Re: What's the linkage editor really wants?

2006-04-17 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 04/13/2006 at 06:08 PM, Chris Mason [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Doesn't one of the utilities use the linkage editor, under the covers, in order to copy load modules because it's just so good at it? No, but IEBCOPY uses the BINDER to convert between load module and program

Re: What's the linkage editor really wants?

2006-04-17 Thread Paul Gilmartin
In a recent note, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) said: Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2006 13:21:19 -0300 is true is that SYSLIB should not contain a concatenation of object and load libraries. By experiment, this appears to be a restriction of the Linkage Editor, but not of the Binder. z/OS 1.5.

Re: What's the linkage editor really wants?

2006-04-17 Thread john gilmore
Paul Gilmartin writes: In a recent note, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) said: Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2006 13:21:19 -0300 is true is that SYSLIB should not contain a concatenation of object and load libraries. By experiment, this appears to be a restriction of the Linkage Editor,

Re: What's the linkage editor really wants?

2006-04-17 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 04/17/2006 at 08:41 AM, Paul Gilmartin [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: By experiment, this appears to be a restriction of the Linkage Editor, but not of the Binder. z/OS 1.5. Thanks. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO position; see

Re: What's the linkage editor really wants?

2006-04-17 Thread Paul Gilmartin
In a recent note, john gilmore said: Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2006 15:53:45 + By experiment, this appears to be a restriction of the Linkage Editor, but not of the Binder. z/OS 1.5. The operative distinction and restriction are not between object modules and load modules (or

Re: What's the linkage editor really wants?

2006-04-17 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
At 16:55 +0200 on 04/13/2006, Chris Mason wrote about Re: What's the linkage editor really wants?: One card type you won't find mentioned in the Assembler listing is RLD. RLDs can appear in the Assembly listing (after the source listing and only if you ask for it in your parms). If I

Re: What's the linkage editor really wants?

2006-04-17 Thread Chris Mason
, politicians have to put up with it all the time. g Chris Mason - Original Message - From: Robert A. Rosenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Sent: Tuesday, 18 April, 2006 2:38 AM Subject: Re: What's the linkage editor really wants? At 16:55 +0200

Re: What's the linkage editor really wants?

2006-04-17 Thread Ed Gould
On Apr 17, 2006, at 8:24 PM, Chris Mason wrote: Robert, Quite right - total rubbish - I meant to say REP, of course, as can be seen from the context - and the fact that I specifically said that RLD corresponds to what can be found in the Assembler listing in the previous paragraph - this

What's the linkage editor really wants?

2006-04-13 Thread Johnny Luo
Hi, I know this question looks a little silly.but recently I found myself a little bewildered on this issue.And because it's about the basics,so I raise it here. I'm using Enterprise Cobol for Z/os and to make things simple,I'll concentrate on batch Cobol program(no cics,no db2.).

Re: What's the linkage editor really wants?

2006-04-13 Thread Chris Mason
the linkage editor really wants? Hi, I know this question looks a little silly.but recently I found myself a little bewildered on this issue.And because it's about the basics,so I raise it here. I'm using Enterprise Cobol for Z/os and to make things simple,I'll concentrate on batch Cobol

Re: What's the linkage editor really wants?

2006-04-13 Thread Paul Gilmartin
In a recent note, Chris Mason said: Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2006 13:42:34 +0200 Note: I believe you can pass a load module through the linkage editor as many times as you like and I was going to say you'll do it no harm but I seem to remember you might lose the entry point address so it

Re: What's the linkage editor really wants?

2006-04-13 Thread Johnny Luo
Chris, Thanks a lot.I remember you've helped me so many times in this list and thanks again. You said: ' I believe you can pass a load module through the linkage editor as many times as you like and I was going to say you'll do it no harm but I seem to remember you might lose the entry point

Re: What's the linkage editor really wants?

2006-04-13 Thread Charles Mills
Of Johnny Luo Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2006 6:30 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: What's the linkage editor really wants? Chris, Thanks a lot.I remember you've helped me so many times in this list and thanks again. You said: ' I believe you can pass a load module through the linkage

Re: What's the linkage editor really wants?

2006-04-13 Thread Chris Mason
. - Original Message - From: Johnny Luo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Sent: Thursday, 13 April, 2006 3:30 PM Subject: Re: What's the linkage editor really wants? Chris, Thanks a lot.I remember you've helped me so many times in this list and thanks

Re: What's the linkage editor really wants?

2006-04-13 Thread john gilmore
The notion that the Binder is a new, arcane and/or dubious piece of technology is a curious one. It can pretend to be the Linkage Editor, producing/outputting load modules; or, again, it can instead produce 'new fangled' program objects. Moreover, no effort to avoid putting load modules

Re: What's the linkage editor really wants?

2006-04-13 Thread Chris Mason
because it's just so good at it? Chris Mason - Original Message - From: john gilmore [EMAIL PROTECTED] Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Sent: Thursday, 13 April, 2006 5:26 PM Subject: Re: What's the linkage editor really wants? The notion that the Binder is a new

Re: What's the linkage editor really wants?

2006-04-13 Thread Johnny Luo
ThanksI've learned so much from this topic.Frankly speaking, I can not understand all of these at this time.But I'll save them and in the future hope I can grasp more. As for the 'binder' and 'linkage editor',it's a shock to me.I thought they're the same thing. Can I get some suggestion

Re: What's the linkage editor really wants?

2006-04-13 Thread Imbriale, Donald (Exchange)
:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Johnny Luo Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2006 12:10 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: What's the linkage editor really wants? ThanksI've learned so much from this topic.Frankly speaking, I can not understand all of these at this time.But I'll save them

Re: What's the linkage editor really wants?

2006-04-13 Thread Craddock, Chris
As for the 'binder' and 'linkage editor',it's a shock to me.I thought they're the same thing. Can I get some suggestion about wich manual I should resort to for the usage of 'binder' ? I know IEWL ,or HEWL, is the alias of a same program and I use them everyday to generate cobol load

Re: What's the linkage editor really wants?

2006-04-13 Thread Steve Comstock
Johnny Luo wrote: ThanksI've learned so much from this topic.Frankly speaking, I can not understand all of these at this time.But I'll save them and in the future hope I can grasp more. As for the 'binder' and 'linkage editor',it's a shock to me.I thought they're the same thing. Can I

Re: What's the linkage editor really wants?

2006-04-13 Thread Paul Gilmartin
In a recent note, john gilmore said: Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2006 15:26:11 + The notion that the Binder is a new, arcane and/or dubious piece of technology is a curious one. It can pretend to be the Linkage Editor, With at least one exception. With Linkage Editor, I was accustomed

Re: What's the linkage editor really wants?

2006-04-13 Thread Eric Bielefeld
Programmer PH Mining Equipment 414-671-7849 Milwaukee, Wisconsin - Original Message - From: Steve Comstock [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thursday, April 13, 2006 1:01 pm Subject: Re: What's the linkage editor really wants? To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU ad I'm just putting the finishing touches on a new

Re: What's the linkage editor really wants?

2006-04-13 Thread Steve Comstock
Eric Bielefeld wrote: Steve, Didn't you say in the last week or so that you haven't taught a class for ages, and you were giving up? At least that's the impression I got (But then my memory is getting worse than the old core storage). So you are still teaching and developing courses? Eric