IBM also announced:
1. No additional charge support extensions/lifecycles for CICS TS V3 and
CICS TS V4;
2. Price reductions ("technology dividends") for all IBM AWLC software
products when moving to the new zEC12 model.
Note also that the announcement letter deals with IMS V9 and V10, not IMS
V1
> I'm hoping someone can help me with an issue we are experiencing
>following an upgrade from z/OS 1.11 to 1.13. We are running an
>REXX EXEC in batch which does not run TSO and fails on a s047 abend
>during an ADDRESS LINKMVS IEHPROGM. I have noticed other
>people have had similar issues, b
On Wed, 5 Sep 2012 00:25:32 -0500, Kenneth J. Kripke wrote:
>DATA AT PSW 0001CE48 - 58101000 0A6B5023
>
>Data shows a MODESET SVC which does require authorization.
>
>Check the AUTHPGM specifications in IKJTSOxx in SYS1.PARMLIB
>
>Probably need an entry there for IEHPROGM.
>
Is LINKMVS (see Sub
DATA AT PSW 0001CE48 - 58101000 0A6B5023
Data shows a MODESET SVC which does require authorization.
Check the AUTHPGM specifications in IKJTSOxx in SYS1.PARMLIB
Probably need an entry there for IEHPROGM.
K. Kripke
kkri...@mindspring.com
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McDonald's either sued or was preparing to sue Clan McDonald over the
use of the name "McDonald".
McDonald's prevailed in court over the use of "McCoffee" (IIRC) by a
firm or restaurant. The decision, as reported in the media, forbade
p
>Mike Schwab wrote:
>
>>I am thinking they are missing the old run time libraries.
>
>It is a good possibility. BTGTT, of course, my programmers are not really
>happy with that possibility. :-)
All COBOL library routines are included in LE, so that is NOT a possibility.
What I do see in client sho
On Tue, 4 Sep 2012 20:05:16 -0700, Lizette Koehler wrote:
>Are you running this in Batch or under TSO?
>
I believe the OP said, "in batch which does not run TSO." I believe
this must mean IRXJCL (or less likely the Rexx API), but none of
the IKJ* menagerie.
>Next, S047 unauthorized call. Perha
>I notice that the language most used on the z, COBOL has NO
>improvements related to the EC12. There are improvements for PL/1 and
>C/C++. This speaks louder than anything else as to whether IBM thinks
>COBOL is on its deathbed.
What it really says is that IBM is very busy re-working COBOL to a
Willie:
I had a similar issue with YAHOO *AND* Google. The best I could
figure out that there are spam filters in both.
Ed
On Sep 4, 2012, at 7:27 AM, willie bunter wrote:
I have checked. Nothing (firewalls) have been changed. I have the
same problem from work and home. I have received
Also, an easy way to display the IKJTSOxx member is to enter the command
PARMLIB in ISPF option 6 (or TSO PARMLIB on any command line). If you have
access, then slowly scroll through the output and look for AUTHPGM and/or
AUTHCMD to see if IEHPROGM is in there. This display will also tell you the
Are you running this in Batch or under TSO?
Next, S047 unauthorized call. Perhaps your IKJTSOxx members are not the
same between R11 and R13?
It is possible that you need the AUTHPGM or AUTHCMD with an IEHPROGM entry.
Not sure.
Next, go to SYSLOG at the time of the failure and see if you have
Hello
I'm hoping someone can help me with an issue we are experiencing following an
upgrade from z/OS 1.11 to 1.13. We are running an REXX EXEC in batch which
does not run TSO and fails on a s047 abend during an ADDRESS LINKMVS IEHPROGM.
I have noticed other people have had similar issue
I had thought to have answered that question. The C construct
char text character[] = 'Lincoln''s Doctor''s Dog' ;
does jobs of that sort.
--jg
On 9/4/12, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
> On Tue, 4 Sep 2012 15:01:37 -0400, Thomas David Rivers wrote:
>>
>> cxx: t.c line 3:Error #144: a value of type
In
,
on 09/04/2012
at 12:10 PM, Kirk Wolf said:
>But other metal-level language implementations are not care free -
>consider length-prefixed strings - the programmer must still check
>lengths before moving data.
Not if STRINGRANGE is enabled.
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On Sep 4, 2012 4:42 PM, "Matthew Stitt" wrote:
> Just received this red alert message:
>
>
> http://www14.software.ibm.com/support/customercare/sas/f/redAlerts/20120904.html
>
> There is a potential exposure for undetected loss of data or dat
On Tue, 4 Sep 2012 14:32:12 -0500, Kirk Wolf wrote:
>
>(BTW - strncpy() also zeros bytes after the terminator, if necessary)
>
>For more information, see: http://www.courtesan.com/todd/papers/strlcpy.html
>under "Common Misconceptions"
>
There's no discernible date of publication of that paper save
On Tue, 4 Sep 2012 15:01:37 -0400, Thomas David Rivers wrote:
>
> cxx: t.c line 3:Error #144: a value of type "const char [7]" cannot
>be used to initialize an entity of type "char [6]"
> char s6[ 6 ] = "wombat";
>
Is there any convenient way to perform this initialization? (I don't
consid
You absolutely should not have to do that. If you do then it is a reportable
and serious bug. strcpy() is utterly documented as setting the terminating
null.
> memset(Jobn,'0',sizeof(Jobn));
Assume you mean memset(Jobn,'\0',sizeof(Jobn));
Charles
-Original Message-
From: IBM Mainframe D
On Wednesday, September 5, 2012 2:53:45 AM UTC+10, Joe D'Alessandro wrote:
> We have done this to two 3-system parallel sysplexes. One system was removed
> from each 3-system sysplex and the removed systems were each defined as a
> monoplex and rejoined to their former partners in a GRSPLEX. So
I assume you meant '\0' and not '0'.
Unless Jobn has been assigned a string previously, strcmp should fail.
(Actually it would invoke undefined behavior.)
strcpy does not care about the previous contents of the destination.
(strcat does but that is a different function.) If the length of x p
Just received this red alert message:
http://www14.software.ibm.com/support/customercare/sas/f/redAlerts/20120904.html
There is a potential exposure for undetected loss of data or data set
corruption for DFSMS VSAM/RLS users on release z/OS 1.13.
It is possible for an inserted or updated
Hi Patrick,
I have a couple of questions about IMS, if you can give some perspective,
either publicly or privately.
What's the long term strategy at your company for IMS? Do you use both DB
and DC? How many people there understand IMS and how old are they?
Thanks.
--
Rich
On Tue, Sep 4, 2012
To whom may be interested:
Today, Marian Rejewski - a man who broke Enigma code received Knowlton
Award.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marian_Rejewski
--
Radoslaw Skorupka
Lodz, Poland
(yes, it is off topic)
--
Treść tej wiadomości może zawierać informacje prawnie chronione Banku
przeznac
On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 12:03 PM, Scott Ford wrote:
> I have had to move a string type field like a parameter to a field like
> this,
>
> Jobn char[40];
>
> memset(Jobn,'0',sizeof(Jobn));
> strcpy(Jobn,x);
>
Please post additional code and the precise contents of x. Please put
the cont
On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 2:03 PM, Scott Ford wrote:
> I have had to move a string type field like a parameter to a field like
> this,
>
> Jobn char[40];
>
> memset(Jobn,'0',sizeof(Jobn));
> strcpy(Jobn,x);
>
> Otherwise strcmp fails, where x is the parameter string
>
>
>
"fails" how?
the
I have had to move a string type field like a parameter to a field like this,
Jobn char[40];
memset(Jobn,'0',sizeof(Jobn));
strcpy(Jobn,x);
Otherwise strcmp fails, where x is the parameter string
Scott ford
www.identityforge.com
On Sep 4, 2012, at 1:05 PM, retired mainframer wrote:
Charles Mills wrote:
Just because you *can* create a malformed string with no delimiter does not
mean that my statement about proper C behavior is untrue.
It is a true statement that "the z architecture stores integers in big-endian
form." Nonetheless, I *can* create a little-endian
integer
Paul Gilmartin wrote:
On Tue, 4 Sep 2012 06:22:43 -0700, Charles Mills wrote:
char[] delimits strings with '\0' in every implementation in the world, I
think.
It depends. With gcc:
char a6[ 6 ] = { 'w', 'o', 'm', 'b', 'a', 't' };
char s6[ 6 ] = "wombat";
both compile with no
Esmie moo,
You can use DFSORT JOINKEYS to compare datasets. Check this topic
http://newsgroups.derkeiler.com/Archive/Comp/bit.listserv.ibm-main/2012-05/msg00995.html
Thanks
Sri Hari Kolusu
DFSORT Development
IBM Corporation
Email: skol...@us.ibm.com
Phone: 408-463-2403 Tie Line 543-2403
IBM Ma
Our CICS v3.2 bill went up something like 10% in 2011. We're on v4.2 now, as
the v3.2 costs were raised give or take a few quid to match those of v4.2.
We're just upgrading to IMS v12 from v10, so there's another 10% on that bill
Now both are rising around another 10% in Jan. Ouch.
IBM would ar
No argument - base C "strings" (null terminated char[]) are a PITA from C
programmers POV, since you must ever vigilant. Good programming practices
and standards are key. Besides the obvious use of strncpy(), strncat(),
etc, BSD (considered by most as the most secure *nix OS) encourages
strlcpy
The construct
char x[3] = "ABC";
will legally initialize an array of char without adding the '\0'. The only
restriction is that this is not a string.
:>: -Original Message-
:>: From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On
:>: Behalf Of John Gilmore
:>: Sen
We have done this to two 3-system parallel sysplexes. One system was removed
from each 3-system sysplex and the removed systems were each defined as a
monoplex and rejoined to their former partners in a GRSPLEX. So we now have
two GRSPLEXes: each with a 2-system parallel sysplex GRS'd with a
paulgboul...@aim.com (Paul Gilmartin) writes:
> And here, I find myself in rare agreement with John G.'s view
> (if I understand correctly). A char[] containing no \0 is a perfectly
> valid array of char. It is not a string, by C's convention, and there
> is no requirement that a char[] represent
Yes
CMPCOLM 152:159 COMPARE 152 THRU 159 ONLY
CMPCOLM 01:1425 will compare from 1-1425 and find difference
anywhere between but just display ones from 1-72
You can also use 3.13 for SUPERCE Utility and select batch execution as a way
to learn how it works, or ISPF m
If you've run for some time with these systems sysplexed, you--and your
user community--may be surprised at the functionality you will lose. I'm
sure that you have good business reasons for dismantling the sysplex, but
there may be less disruptive alternatives. For example, some time ago we
bol
If you construct an array by initializing it element by element you
get an array, one that is not nul-delimited or 'of conceptually
unlimited length', whatever that may mean.
If you construct a string by initializing a character array with a
string, you get a nul-delimited string implemented under
Okay, I re-phrase what I said as "every C implementation in the world delimits
char[]-type "strings" (as opposed to STL std::string) with a '\0'."
Charles
-Original Message-
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf
Of Paul Gilmartin
Sent: Tuesday,
On Tue, 4 Sep 2012 07:57:17 -0700, Charles Mills wrote:
>Just because you *can* create a malformed string with no delimiter does not
>mean that my statement about proper C behavior is untrue.
>
And here, I find myself in rare agreement with John G.'s view
(if I understand correctly). A char[] co
It can be done, you need to define and connect CTCs between all the non-sysplex
system(s) and the sysplex systems (see GRSCNFxx
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/zos/v1r12/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.ibm.zos.r12.ieae200%2Fgrscnf.htm).
If you don't fully interconnect the non-sysplex system(s)
OOPS, sorry. Meant to send that internally to others in my group.
--
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Systems Engineer IV
IT
Administrative Services Group
HealthMarkets(r)
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Confidentiality
Doesn't mean much to us, really. But the post below says that the government of
Quebec installed Oracle on zLinux on a z9 (like ours) and licensing savings in
one year paid the cost of the z9. Of course, since we are going to MS-only,
this is meaningless to us. And Oracle is an extreme example d
>>> On 9/4/2012 at 10:07 AM, Bruno Sugliani wrote:
> Interesting
> Could you provide real numbers ?
> For example to start with : the price for Linux server license on an IFL
> and the one on a x86 server ?
https://www.suse.com/products/systemz/how-to-buy/
https://www.suse.com/products/serve
And "stores integers in big-endian form" is not unconditionally true. There are
the LOAD REVERSED and STORE REVERSED instructions which load and store,
respectively, the bytes in the register specified into the memory location
specified in reverse sequence. I.e. bytes 0..3 or 0..7 load or store
>>> On 9/3/2012 at 05:05 PM, Richard Hintz wrote:
> Do you have something or can point me to something that shows comparative
> metrics for these, especially:
> --power/cooling
> --floor space
> --people
> --networking hardware (I really don't understand this, since I would have
> thought the n
Gregory,
Thanks for the explanation. You have CMPCOLM 01:080. Does it mean that you
want the compare done from column 1 to 80?
From: HUTCHISON Gregory
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Sent: Tuesday, September 4, 2012 10:18:00
Just because you *can* create a malformed string with no delimiter does not
mean that my statement about proper C behavior is untrue.
It is a true statement that "the z architecture stores integers in big-endian
form." Nonetheless, I *can* create a little-endian integer on z. That does not
make
C does not, at bottom, have strings. It views them as arrays of
single characters.
When it was realized that this is at best a dubious notion,
nul-delimited strings were grafted on to the structure of C, and the
scar tissue shows.
It is, however, possible to declare a string without specifying i
Steve,
No waste of time. I always try to show that sometimes the answer is out on
the internet if you do some searching. The SDSF REXX/JAVA presentation was
provided since I went to share and was in attendance in that session.
Unfortunately the IBM manuals (and Redbooks) do not keep up with the
I think the type of List and what is used in the PARM has a lot to do with it.
LIST TYPE - DELTA LISTS THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE SOURCE DATA SETS
PARM=(LONGL,LINECMP,'','') SHOW DIFFERANCES INSIDE ALL LINES
PARM=(CHNGL,LINECMP,'','') SHOW DIFFERANCES 10 LINES BEFORE & AFTER
PARM
I once worked where our normal sub-second response time had worsened to the
point that one day I voiced my desire to see some sub-hour response time again.
While waiting for a trivial TSO transaction to end, I computed the approximate
value of a nano-century to be about three seconds. I was ha
Rather than SUPERC I might use ICETOOLs for UNIQUE and SAME Keys.
ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/storage/dfsort/mvs/sorttool.pdf
Lizette
> -Original Message-
> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On
Behalf
> Of esmie moo
> Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 20
It is possible, according to:
http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/iea2g490/3.2.2
Note: Global resource serialization ring complexes can contain XCFLOCAL,
MONOPLEX, or systems that are part of a multisystem sysplex. However, only one
multisystem sysplex can exist in any glo
On Sun, 2 Sep 2012 15:46:35 -0600, Mark Post wrote:
>Then you haven't looked deeply enough. Software licensing for middleware
>significantly favors running on Linux on System z. Many other costs such has
>power, cooling, floor space, people, inventory tracking, networking hardware,
>disaster
AFAIK, this will not work. Proceed at your own risk. The issue is GRS
communication between the XCFLOCAL (or MONOPLEX) and SYSPLEX.
If you have MIA/MIM from CA, this (again AFAIK) will allow what you have
described.
Any real world experiences on bringing up a system that was previously part o
Around here, a 9% increase in CICS cost is just another nail in z/OS's coffin.
They raise the price and shove new functionality, which *we* will never use, up
our . Oh well, with any luck, I'll be gone before then.
--
John McKown
Systems Engineer IV
IT
Administrative Services Group
HealthMark
Are there any reliable, public sources for the number of active IMS
installations? I wonder what their transition plan is to something else
(besides the traditional "my successor will handle it.")
--
Rich
On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 5:58 AM, Roger Bowler wrote:
> Lost in among the excitement of the z
On Tue, 4 Sep 2012 06:22:43 -0700, Charles Mills wrote:
>
>char[] delimits strings with '\0' in every implementation in the world, I
>think.
>
It depends. With gcc:
char a6[ 6 ] = { 'w', 'o', 'm', 'b', 'a', 't' };
char s6[ 6 ] = "wombat";
both compile with no error message, whereas:
I had some "getting going" issues -- many of them simply because I was new to C
as well as to z/OS C (but not new to z/OS itself).
I have since found it extremely accessible, and found the productivity gain
over assembler to be addicting.
Charles
-Original Message-
From: IBM Mainframe
Not sure what you mean.
char[] delimits strings with '\0' in every implementation in the world, I
think.
std::string allows any character and keeps track of length internally.
string::c_str() returns a '\0' terminated char[] everywhere.
I would be interested to see a char[] or std::string progra
Good Morning Gentle Readers,
I am trying to compare to dsns. My problem is trying to locate the NON-PAIRED
INSERTS. Is there a quick way of finding the non-matches?
Thanks.
--
For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive acce
Lost in among the excitement of the zEC12 announcement were a couple of other
announcements:
IBM announced that the price of IMS V9 and V10 will rise by between 7% and 11%
from Jan 1, 2013:
http://www-01.ibm.com/common/ssi/rep_ca/4/877/ENUSZA12-1054/ZA12-1054.OI.BODY.pdf
Similarly, the price of
I have checked. Nothing (firewalls) have been changed. I have the same
problem from work and home. I have received answer to my post on this question
(HAS ANYBODY NOTICED.) This problem has been sporadic and has popping up
of late . I haven't heard back from Darren the administrator fo
Steve Austin wrote:
>Lizette and Elardus, thanks for your replies and I'm sorry for wasting your
>time.
You're welcome. You did not wasted our time. In fact, due to you question,
Lizette kindly provided a very useful Share link for a presentation which I
find absolutely useful!
>Clearly, fro
Lizette and Elardus, thanks for your replies and I'm sorry for wasting
your time. Clearly, from the doc and the results I'm getting, what I'm
trying to do will not work. I can't say why I thought it was working 6
months ago; perhaps in a parallel universe it did.
The intention was to allocate the
On Mon, 3 Sep 2012 17:11:24 -0400, Scott Ford wrote:
>I am somewhat a beginner in C and java, written a Assembler and COBOL.
>I am also talk about C in batch or as a STC. I had to do sine digging to
>understand C threading and being able to Attach and assembler subtasks. One I
>found it good. >
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