Re: Current work unit

2017-01-14 Thread Jim Mulder
> If PSATOLD is zero > > Would the current workunit > > Be PSAAOLD->ASXBFSRB first SRB of the home address space ? No. Once an SRB gets dispatched, the SRB control block is no longer relevant. LCCACWEB (which is classified as not a programming interface) contains the address of the cur

Re: Current work unit

2017-01-14 Thread Joseph Reichman
That is a Pointer to a SRB ? > On Jan 15, 2017, at 12:22 AM, Binyamin Dissen > wrote: > > No. It would be an SRB. > > On Sat, 14 Jan 2017 21:31:32 -0500 Joseph Reichman > wrote: > > :>If PSATOLD is zero > > :> Would the current workunit > > :>Be PSAAOLD->ASXBFSRB first SRB of the home a

Re: Current work unit

2017-01-14 Thread Binyamin Dissen
No. It would be an SRB. On Sat, 14 Jan 2017 21:31:32 -0500 Joseph Reichman wrote: :>If PSATOLD is zero :> Would the current workunit :>Be PSAAOLD->ASXBFSRB first SRB of the home address space ? -- Binyamin Dissen http://www.dissensoftware.com Director, Dissen Software, Bar & Grill - Israel

Re: Paper tape (was Re: Hidden Figures)

2017-01-14 Thread Phil Smith
My dad spent a lot of time in Czechoslovakia. His best friend there was an engineer, and used to do programming using a paper-tape machine-but they didn't have paper tape, so they'd use old movie film from Soviet movie industry. Always wondered what kinds of images were on those frames! --

Current work unit

2017-01-14 Thread Joseph Reichman
Hi If PSATOLD is zero Would the current workunit Be PSAAOLD->ASXBFSRB first SRB of the home address space ? -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the me

Re: New free / open source z/OS tools from Dovetailed Technologies

2017-01-14 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Sat, 14 Jan 2017 01:52:25 +, Frank Swarbrick wrote: > >Seems to me the only think that Make would be of use for in our environment >would be figuring out which COBOL programs to recompile when a copybook is >changed. > Not necessarily in COBOL, but, heck, for that alone it's precious. No

Re: Paper tape (was Re: Hidden Figures)

2017-01-14 Thread Barry Merrill
The submarine navy went a step further with the five hole TTY tape in a system called HARE - High (speed?) Radio (emission?) for both speed and security in 1964. Connected to the Collins URC transmitter, each hole in a character caused a transmission on a different HF frequency, and so there were

Re: Paper tape (was Re: Hidden Figures)

2017-01-14 Thread Mark Regan
I used paper tape when I was in the Navy from 1969 to 1979 and then into the 1980's when I was in the Reserves. I was a CTO or Cryptologic/Communications Technician Operator and we used paper tape with the Teletype machines to send and receive messages within our communication centers. On Sat, J

Re: Hidden Figures

2017-01-14 Thread Linda
Awesome! I saw the movie yesterday. It was very good. Thanks to all who helped and provided the historical accuracy. I was in elementary school in Florida during that time. We were given the day off school to watch the launch on TV. Of course we also had to write a short report about it. I

Re: Paper tape (was Re: Hidden Figures)

2017-01-14 Thread Bernd Oppolzer
This German Wikipedia article about Lochstreifen (paper tape) has some nice pictures: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lochstreifen#Lochstreifenstanzer and this is a PDF about the display peripherals of our Telefunken machine: ftp://computermuseum.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/telefunken/tr440/doku/S