(John Gilmore wrote)
A little presumptuously perhaps, I shall reply for 'someone' He or
she would appear to be a soul mate.
The remark about floating-point that Mr Hermannsfeldt attributes to
Knuth are relevant to HFP and, perhaps, BFP. Their timing moots any
relevance to Cowlishaw's
Well, Batch LSR Subsystem(BLSR) started out as a sample of how to write a
subsystem, IIRC. I think it was in a WSC orange book.
But I don't know how to locate it now. Anyone?
Thanks, Martin
Martin Packer,
zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator,
Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM
Having fairly recently developed such a subsystem I can confirm that the
General Purpose Subsystem Access Method (I believe that's what the acronym
stands for, our systems in Dallas are down today so I can't check directly)
is a decent introduction, although it glosses over a lot of issues which
For those interested in seeing what a COBOL program with support for decimal
floating point (DFP) and packed decimal (PD) can do, you can try out zcobol
compiler which is free open source component included with z390 portable
mainframe assembler. The z390 and zcobol free open source tools can
In 5001ef16.8000...@t-online.de, on 07/15/2012
at 12:13 AM, Bernd Oppolzer bernd.oppol...@t-online.de said:
I don't think that there is any cultural or philosophical
difference between mainframe or distributed/workstation
developers, given the same number of years of experience and
skill
In
CAE1XxDE7yYDyoQaTGFNhxp1tSiVHnK+i8GTQptXD6=8bgfh...@mail.gmail.com,
on 07/14/2012
at 08:08 AM, John Gilmore jwgli...@gmail.com said:
Integer arithmetic should never be done with anything but binary
integers.
Your reasoning is correct for two's complement machines, e.g., z, but
is incorrect
On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 12:18 AM, Ed Gould edgould1...@comcast.net wrote:
http://www.informationweek.**com/news/security/attacks/**
240003692?cid=nl_IW_daily_**2012-07-13_htmlelq=**
John P. Baker wrote:
A positive value is identified by a sign encoded as --
X'A'
X'C' (Preferred)
X'E'
X'F'
A negative value is identified by a sign encoded as --
X'B'
X'D' (Preferred)
The preferred encoding are always generated by packed decimal instructions,
The
I had a similar story. On a 370/138 at an auto insurance company, the rating
program (vendor supplied) would immediately eat the machine.
In those days, there was an actual CPU meter on the console. Whenever this job
would run the meter pegged for the duration.
Basic logic was input pre-process
Mr Hermannsfeldt writes:
begin extract
Now, it is true that DFP helps with some of those problems, but when
programming in a high-level language one generally doesn't know what
kind of floating point will be used. Some, like HFP, give a truncated
quotient on divide (except on the 360/91), others
Hey zMan,
Very true..but still I think Yahoo has a responsibility to their customers
Scott ford
www.identityforge.com
On Jul 15, 2012, at 10:43 AM, zMan zedgarhoo...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 12:18 AM, Ed Gould edgould1...@comcast.net wrote:
On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 12:12 PM, Scott Ford scott_j_f...@yahoo.com wrote:
Hey zMan,
Very true..but still I think Yahoo has a responsibility to their customers
Absolutely. Though this gets into a related issue: what do free services
owe their customers? I'm not satisfied with the current
scott_j_f...@yahoo.com (Scott Ford) writes:
Very true..but still I think Yahoo has a responsibility to their customers
We were tangentially involved in the cal. data breach notification act
(the original notification act) having been brought in to help
wordsmith the cal. electornic signature
ZMan,
Very true.
Scott ford
www.identityforge.com
On Jul 15, 2012, at 12:53 PM, zMan zedgarhoo...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 12:12 PM, Scott Ford scott_j_f...@yahoo.com wrote:
Hey zMan,
Very true..but still I think Yahoo has a responsibility to their customers
I agree whether its YAHOO or whoever stole the passwords it was bad
form.
I am trying to remember if at one time (its not that way now) RACF
didn't do the same (passwords in display form).
My memory only goes back just so far and it doesn't reveal anything.
Does anyone remember when RACF was
Thanks for all of the humorous and semi-humorous replies. Given that I don't
believe that we are going to be able to supply the current proper host for the
DS6800 console, I guess what I was asking was if a work around for this problem
would be possible. Otherwise, as I see it, I have two
On 15 July 2012 20:28, Karl Severson karl_j_sever...@raytheon.com wrote:
Thanks for all of the humorous and semi-humorous replies. Given that I
don't believe that we are going to be able to supply the current proper
host for the DS6800 console, I guess what I was asking was if a work around
At 14:49 -0400 on 07/15/2012, John P. Baker wrote about Re: COBOL
packed decimal:
In the IBM z/Architecture Principles of Operation, publication number
SA22-7832-08, on page 8-2 it states that X'F' is an alternate encoding for a
positive sign. However, in the programming note to figure 8-1 on
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