Re: Thank you, IBM-MAIN!

2024-01-26 Thread Steve Horein
Enjoy your retirement! On Fri, Jan 26, 2024 at 12:22 PM Tom Sims wrote: > My apologies to anyone who feels this post inappropriate, but in view of > my imminent retirement, I want thank the entire IBM-MAIN community for > the 3+ decades of knowledge and support that have helped make my >

Re: Has there always been STIMER TASK?

2024-01-26 Thread Tom Marchant
Bitsavers has IBM System/360 Operating System Control program Services, dated April, 1968. STIMER is in page 108. TASK and REAL are both there, as are exit and wait. Does that count as "always"? http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/ibm/360/os/R01-08/C28-6541-1_Control_Program_Services_Apr66.pdf --

Has there always been STIMER TASK?

2024-01-26 Thread Schmitt, Michael
In IMS Transaction Manager you can define a PROCLIM for each transaction, with a count and/or CPU-time-per-transaction, aka the "processing limit count time". The manual says: This is the amount of time (for non-Fast-Path transactions, in seconds; for Fast Path transactions, in hundredths of

Re: OT-ish: Very old IBM hardware & manuals available

2024-01-26 Thread Seymour J Metz
If the 650 stuff includes either the negative index register instructions (they plus table lookup equal were an RPQ), please scan them for bitsavers. The same goes for any 704 or 709 manuals you have. Even better if there's somebody willing to scan and OCR the lot. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz

Thank you, IBM-MAIN!

2024-01-26 Thread Tom Sims
My apologies to anyone who feels this post inappropriate, but in view of my imminent retirement, I want thank the entire IBM-MAIN community for the 3+ decades of knowledge and support that have helped make my employment and professional development a reality. Most especially, even at the risk

Re: OT-ish: Very old IBM hardware & manuals available

2024-01-26 Thread Dave McGuire
On 1/23/24 10:57, Robert Prins wrote: My father worked for IBM in the Netherlands for more than 30 years, starting as a CE in the late 1950'ies. Last year he was diagnosed with Alzheimer, and over the past few months my siblings and me have been emptying his apartment and storage room, and we've

Re: Any Recovery for RMODE64

2024-01-26 Thread Jon Perryman
On Fri, 26 Jan 2024 08:30:54 -0500, Joseph Reichman wrote: >For Estae says amode 24 or 31 ESTAEX supports SYSSTATE AMODE=64 >Regardless if I established a recovery in 31 but storage and then branched to >64 bit storage >Under the same RB > >I assume the recovery routine would cover me

Re: RACF Automation (Cross Posted)

2024-01-26 Thread Mike Cairns
The last major RACF project I architected was for something I presume would probably fit your clients bill here. Some of the necessary elements we incorporated were: Delegated (though not via RACF means) Ownership of all RACF general resource and dataset profiles - thereby making sure that

Re: OT-ish: Very old IBM hardware & manuals available

2024-01-26 Thread Seymour J Metz
Was the a drum-based CPC before the 305? -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 עַם יִשְׂרָאֵל חַי נֵ֣צַח יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל לֹ֥א יְשַׁקֵּ֖ר From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of Leonard D Woren Sent: Friday, January 26, 2024 1:56

Re: RACF Automation (Cross Posted)

2024-01-26 Thread Allan Staller
Classification: Confidential Try Vanguard software. http://www.go2vanguard.com/ -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Bob Bridges Sent: Thursday, January 25, 2024 4:52 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: RACF Automation (Cross Posted) [CAUTION:

Re: Any Recovery for RMODE64

2024-01-26 Thread Joseph Reichman
Searched the archives and saw an article from Peter Relson dated 12/2020 I just did search on the authorized services vol 4 ( set-wto) for rmode Got a hit on the storage and wait macros “including 64” For Estae says amode 24 or 31 For SETFRR includes amode 64 Regardless if I established a

Re: Any Recovery for RMODE64

2024-01-26 Thread Binyamin Dissen
On Thu, 25 Jan 2024 18:38:10 -0500 Joseph Reichman wrote: :>Just wondering is there any recovery for a program running RMODE 64 don't :>see that with ESTAE or SETFRR CVTBSM0F :>As more and more services run above the bar :>More so SDWAEC1 and SDWAEC2 are only 8 bytes SDWARC4 -- Binyamin