Re: GTTERM assistance (really 3270 VTAM application?)

2022-11-21 Thread Brian Chapman
the bind information returned. Here is the updated source: **-** ** PROGRAM : PORTDSPI ** ** AUTHOR : BRIAN CHAPMAN ** ** WRITTEN

Re: GTTERM assistance

2022-11-10 Thread Brian Chapman
ONITR = NO * *IST171I ACTIVE SESSIONS = 00, SESSION REQUESTS = 00 * *IST314I END * Thank you, Brian Chapman On Thu, Nov 10, 2022 at 7:34 AM Seymour J Metz wrote: > Normal processing is for the user to enter a logon s

Re: GTTERM assistance (really 3270 VTAM application?)

2022-11-10 Thread Brian Chapman
of code before the DROP instruction. I could have used the VTAMREG equate in the MVCL section, but I wanted to be sure that it utilized an even-odd pair. In this case it would have, but I like the flexibility of changing my equate assignments if necessary. Thank you, Brian Chapman On Thu, Nov 1

Re: GTTERM assistance

2022-11-09 Thread Brian Chapman
I should also add another comment. I was hoping I could just leave the bind area empty and let the SLU (the user's emulator is the SLU in this scenario, right?) populate the bind image with whatever it sends. Thank you, Brian Chapman On Wed, Nov 9, 2022 at 2:59 PM Brian Chapman

Re: GTTERM assistance

2022-11-09 Thread Brian Chapman
ain, any assistance would be greatly appreciated. **-** ** PROGRAM : PORTDSPI ** ** AUTHOR : BRIAN CHAPMAN ** ** WRITTEN ON : 23 AUGUST 2017

Re: GTTERM assistance

2022-11-02 Thread Brian Chapman
ar instruction (MVCL for example), then updating the equate for SESSREG is much easier than performing CHANGE ALL commands and inadvertently changing a field name, literal, or some other string. Thank you, Brian Chapman On Tue, Nov 1, 2022 at 7:28 PM Michael Stein wrote: > > Any a

Re: GTTERM assistance

2022-11-02 Thread Brian Chapman
R,WAIT,HOLD flags TPUT (1),(0),R Reset the Attention IDentifier TPG QUERY,L'QUERY,NOEDIT,WAIT Issue Query ... ... RESETAID DCX'27F5C3' Escape, Erase/Write, WCC for resetting AID and MDTs QUERYDC X'F3000501F

Re: GTTERM assistance

2022-11-01 Thread Brian Chapman
ith "Previously defined symbol' when I re-use the GTTLIST label. Thank you, Brian Chapman On Tue, Nov 1, 2022 at 3:42 PM Seymour J Metz wrote: > All I see is that your save area code is bad, but that shouldn't affect > the returned values from GTTERM. What's in S

GTTERM assistance

2022-11-01 Thread Brian Chapman
0002CBFE 000BFE ** Address Offset from _0002C000Origin STORAGE 0001 0002CC00 000C00 ** Thank you, Brian Chapman --

Re: Unix System Services migration

2022-09-29 Thread Brian Chapman
Carmen/ Shmuel, Thank you. I will review these reference manuals. Thank you, Brian Chapman On Thu, Sep 29, 2022 at 9:19 AM Carmen Vitullo wrote: > that's a better reference - I have a PDF saved on my work PC somewhere, > but this looks about the same > > Carmen > &g

Unix System Services migration

2022-09-29 Thread Brian Chapman
how do you copy directories/folders without outages? For directories/files that can easily be built with jobs, do you re-run these jobs on each system, or copy these elements? Thank you, Brian Chapman -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / si

Re: REXX - Interpret or Value - Which is better?

2021-09-17 Thread Brian Chapman
* * END * * INTERPRET "PARMS = PARMS||"OBJ.DRAW_ROW_NUM.DRAW_FLD_CNT||, * *"'.'J'='''PARM_VAL''';'"

Re: Can I use a REXX PLIST when calling a COBOL program?

2021-03-22 Thread Brian Chapman
Cameron, If you add the data areas to the PROCEDURE DIVISION USING statement, then COBOL will set the linkage accordingly. Thank you, Brian Chapman On Mon, Mar 22, 2021 at 9:13 AM Cameron Conacher wrote: > Hello everyone, > I have been busy playing with an old support pac from IB

Re: This Call-Assembler-inside-COBOL technique works, but is it risky to use?

2021-03-17 Thread Brian Chapman
ogram yet another separately compiled subroutine is always an option > too. It just feels like overkill for a four-instruction subroutine (not > counting CSECT, END, AMODE, and RMODE). > > Replacing "clever" with a "builtin function" like XLC has would be my > pref

Re: HLASM question about SQLITE3

2021-03-17 Thread Brian Chapman
** ASMA224E No control section defined, external reference with GOFF option ignored - ###0021 Does the error say 021 or 0022? If it's 0022 then it looks like you're missing a CSECT. Thank you, Brian Chapman On Wed, Mar 17, 2021 at 3:49 PM Dave Jones wrote: > Hi

Re: This Call-Assembler-inside-COBOL technique works, but is it risky to use?

2021-03-17 Thread Brian Chapman
It would be nice if COBOL had constant constructs. Knowing my shop's COBOL developers, I could easily see one of them placing a table above this, programmatically ignoring the COBOL OCCURS statement, and overrunning the table and into your VALUE statements. Thank you, Brian Chapman O

Re: Contents of TOD Programmable Field under z/OS?

2021-03-17 Thread Brian Chapman
I may need wrong, but I seem to remember reading that the 12 bit lower order value had some relation to the processor ID. This ensured the STCK value would be unique across the sysplex. On Wed, Mar 17, 2021, 1:55 PM Farley, Peter x23353 < 031df298a9da-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > B

Re: This Call-Assembler-inside-COBOL technique works, but is it risky to use?

2021-03-17 Thread Brian Chapman
Peter, This is interesting, but how is this better than just link-editing the assembler program into the COBOL program? Thank you, Brian Chapman On Wed, Mar 17, 2021 at 11:50 AM Farley, Peter x23353 < 031df298a9da-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > I discovered that one

Re: Any z/OS sandbox available for a university student I know?

2021-03-16 Thread Brian Chapman
ary aspect) like web or video game development with stunning visuals. The majority of the development and interactions are handled as backend transactions, but young kids are clambering to work on it. It's all about culture and perspective. Thank you, Brian Chapman On Tue, Mar 16, 2021

Re: Any z/OS sandbox available for a university student I know?

2021-03-16 Thread Brian Chapman
M needs to change their perspective and culture to encourage young individuals to the mainframe. Thank you, Brian Chapman On Tue, Mar 16, 2021 at 12:55 PM Support, DUNNIT SYSTEMS LTD. < supp...@dunnitsys.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > I was approached by a university student

Re: z/OS Website Template

2021-03-15 Thread Brian Chapman
Jasi, Do you run CICS? If so, have you explored CICS web support using URIMAP and DOCTEMPLATE? https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSGMCP_5.5.0/applications/designing/dfhp3_doc_template.html Thank you, Brian Chapman On Wed, Mar 10, 2021 at 10:21 AM Jasi Grewal wrote: > Hi, I

Querying WLM address space CPU delays

2021-03-15 Thread Brian Chapman
s an input parameter for ASID, but running this service for every active ASID on the system (roughly 150 on our sandbox system) every quarter second (our WLM interval) is not cheap. Is there a better solution for collecting this data or am I missing something

Re: Acquire Storage

2021-03-03 Thread Brian Chapman
As a CICS SysProg, this makes me cringe. I would highly recommend rewriting your program to conform to CICS standards, and use CICS to acquire the storage for you. Take a look at the CICS prolog and epilog macros with the DFHEISTG macro. These macros make this super simple and I would wager that it

Re: Learning the basics of SMP/E

2021-02-02 Thread Brian Chapman
Sam, Thanks. Like you, I had to bumble my way through learning SMP/e. I had a few fellow sys progs to lean on, but most of my knowledge was self taught with lots of trial and error. I will definitely give this a read. Something that I have not seen documented is how to create my own SMP/e install

Re: SDSF NO DATA IN DATA SETS while on the same system

2020-11-03 Thread Brian Chapman
* * BOTTOM OF DATA Thank you, Brian Chapman On Tue, Nov 3, 2020 at 1:05 PM Paul Gilmartin < 000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > On Tue, 3 Nov 2020 17:54:22 +, Seymour J Metz wrote: > > >S

Re: SDSF NO DATA IN DATA SETS while on the same system

2020-11-03 Thread Brian Chapman
Carmen, There's definitely data on the DD, but for some reason I just can't see it when on the same system. The data will be old (sometimes more than a day) Thank you, Brian Chapman On Tue, Nov 3, 2020 at 10:23 AM Carmen Vitullo wrote: > On Tue, 3 Nov 2020 08:56:24 -0500,

SDSF NO DATA IN DATA SETS while on the same system

2020-11-03 Thread Brian Chapman
I assume this has something to do with viewing the SDSF buffers and some setting that is ignoring the most recent buffer. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you, Brian Chapman -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / arc

Re: Determining program name/number of paramaters from called COBOL program

2020-09-22 Thread Brian Chapman
Correction: you can chain through the resister save area and use the *caller's entry point* (not CEECAA)to chain to the caller's PPA and retrieve the program name. Thank you, Brian Chapman On Tue, Sep 22, 2020 at 7:39 PM Brian Chapman wrote: > If the called program is asse

Re: Determining program name/number of paramaters from called COBOL program

2020-09-22 Thread Brian Chapman
If the called program is assembler and the caller is COBOL (linked with LE), then you can chain through the resister save area and use the CEECAA to chain to the caller's PPA and retrieve the program name. This method really only works for called assembler programs; don't bother with COBOL. The nu

Re: BPXP018I message when STC cancelled

2020-09-21 Thread Brian Chapman
Pierre, I'd love to hear if you find a resolution. I have a process with similar behavior and I receive the same message for each sub-task when it terminates within the ESTAE. Thank you, Brian Chapman On Sun, Sep 20, 2020 at 9:49 AM Charles Mills wrote: > I have always seen that

Re: zSHOP order too large to download

2020-06-04 Thread Brian Chapman
We have a similar problem when applying a new version of CICS. We must have the AGGRGROW option specified on the USS file system mount for the directory. Thank you, Brian Chapman On Thu, Jun 4, 2020 at 12:11 PM Carmen Vitullo wrote: > another thing I'd do is allocate your SMPWORK

Re: deduce program language

2019-10-02 Thread Brian Chapman
n the intended program. Does LE have stricter requirements with CEESTART in C programs? Thank you, Brian Chapman On Tue, Oct 1, 2019 at 1:23 PM Don Poitras wrote: > In article t1cmgbfaka497yhff...@mail.gmail.com> you wrote: > > I created a trace facility to intercept external in

deduce program language

2019-10-01 Thread Brian Chapman
ogram because it will produce unpredictable behavior. Must I write a C program? Thank you, Brian Chapman -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message:

Re: Rexx calls versus branching

2019-09-30 Thread Brian Chapman
calling the subroutine, replace the RETURN statement with EXIT(0). Thank you, Brian Chapman On Mon, Sep 30, 2019 at 9:38 AM Bill Giannelli wrote: > I am still learning Rexx. Can someone give a simple example of 1) calling > a routine and returning. 2) branching to a routine without ret

Re: Submitting batch if you don't have TSO

2019-09-05 Thread Brian Chapman
have update access to system datasets. It will definitely have read access to system datasets (although it may be limited to CICS specific HLQs). I would only allow the region to submit jobs under a different user. Thank you, Brian Chapman On Thu, Sep 5, 2019 at 1:59 PM Seymour J Metz

Re: Attitude of companies toward mainframers working from home?

2019-08-22 Thread Brian Chapman
Other than changing (or kicking) the hardware, what can be done on-site that can't be done off-site? Most sysprog responsibilities are software. On Thu, Aug 22, 2019, 1:08 PM Chuck Kreiter wrote: > Do you have to also go into the office for "off-hours" support? During an > outage, I would expec

Re: Mainframes testing

2019-08-15 Thread Brian Chapman
it is disingenuous and unrealistic to say that a mainframe is antiquated or obsolete because of these issues. These are just security 101 topics that are valid for every platform. Thank you, Brian Chapman On Thu, Aug 15, 2019 at 12:26 AM Timothy Sipples wrote: > Let's quote the author dire

Re: Instruction speeds

2019-08-13 Thread Brian Chapman
art. I think I am only 1 of a handful of assembler programmers at my shop with hundreds of mainframe programmers! I think you both answered my question. Thanks! Thank you, Brian Chapman On Tue, Aug 13, 2019 at 11:39 AM Steve Smith wrote: > Write good code and forget about instruction timi

Re: [SUSPECTED SPAM] Re: Instruction speeds

2019-08-13 Thread Brian Chapman
Mike, I believe the difference is related to the fact that branch instructions require a base register and jump does not. Thank you, Brian Chapman On Tue, Aug 13, 2019 at 10:40 AM Mike Shaw wrote: > On 8/12/2019 9:33 PM, Christopher Y. Blaicher wrote: > > ..> > > JUM

Re: Instruction speeds

2019-08-13 Thread Brian Chapman
Thanks Giliad. This is what I was searching for. I understand that the timings in this document are very old and probably wildly inaccurate for today's Z systems, but would it be on a relative scale? Would a LR be twice the speed of a L? Thank you, Brian Chapman On Tue, Aug 13, 2019 at

Re: Instruction speeds

2019-08-13 Thread Brian Chapman
is actively cached at execution of a certain instruction? What would cause the hardware to move my literal pool out of cache? Thank you, Brian Chapman On Tue, Aug 13, 2019 at 10:17 AM Charles Mills wrote: > I second everything Chris Blaicher says. You just cannot say how long

Instruction speeds

2019-08-12 Thread Brian Chapman
Hi everyone, I did some searching, but I didn't find anything that really discussed this on the topic that I'm interested. Is there anything published that compares the cycle times of the most used instructions? For example; moving an address between areas of storage. I would assume that executin

Re: Memo apix product for email

2019-07-05 Thread Brian Chapman
Peter, Are you referring to eMemo by Techserv (was Nexus)? On Fri, Jul 5, 2019, 12:00 PM Peter wrote: > Hi > > Cross posted > > Does anyone uses this product to send email ? > > I am just looking for manual. > > Peter > > -- >

Re: QSAM question

2019-05-06 Thread Brian Chapman
DCBD * ** * Thank you, Brian Chapman On Mon, May 6, 2019 at 2:15 PM scott Ford wrote: > All: > > I have a QSAM question. If I have a Cobol program writing to a QSAM file > and it runs out of space on the fil

Re: COBOL 6.2 and ARCH(12)

2019-05-06 Thread Brian Chapman
allowed on our production systems. Thank you, Brian Chapman On Mon, May 6, 2019 at 10:34 AM Charles Mills wrote: > > How does z/OS handle a situation where two COBOL programs that are > compiled > > at different ARCH levels and part of the same LE enclave? Since the > vendor

Re: COBOL 6.2 and ARCH(12)

2019-05-06 Thread Brian Chapman
#x27;m not sure what ARCH level the vendor compiles their COBOL code (if they have any). Thank you, Brian Chapman On Mon, May 6, 2019 at 9:01 AM John Abell < john.ab...@intnlsoftwareproducts.com> wrote: > Your should have something similar to the following in the COBOL listing > whe

Re: COBOL 6.2 and ARCH(12) [EXTERNAL]

2019-05-03 Thread Brian Chapman
on to IBM would be in order. > > Thanks.. > > Paul Feller > AGT Mainframe Technical Support > > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On > Behalf Of Brian Chapman > Sent: Friday, May 03, 2019 2:58 PM >

COBOL 6.2 and ARCH(12)

2019-05-03 Thread Brian Chapman
take advantage of the new facility. Is the vendor correct? Thank you, Brian Chapman -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Authorized and unauthorized in same address space

2019-03-28 Thread Brian Chapman
*Doesn't CICS turn off authorization before executing transactions? * I believe that is true. I believe it disables authorization before the PLT (first opportunity for user code). Thank you, Brian Chapman On Thu, Mar 28, 2019 at 12:18 PM Seymour J Metz wrote: > AFAIK, no IBM code

Re: Authorized and unauthorized in same address space

2019-03-28 Thread Brian Chapman
data without any validation, but this same exposure is present in space switching PC routines hosted by an authorized address space. Thank you, Brian Chapman On Thu, Mar 28, 2019 at 10:45 AM Binyamin Dissen wrote: > Two separate things: > > 1. Prepare user supplied authorized ser

Authorized and unauthorized in same address space

2019-03-28 Thread Brian Chapman
zed code is COBOL. Before this program is invoked, it initializes LE and replaces the default CEEZLOD and CEEZDEL with my own version that loads from the tasklib. Thank you, Brian Chapman -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / sign

Re: CPU time and zIIP

2019-02-26 Thread Brian Chapman
CPU-Time field. Like Carmen noted, when I add the GCP-Time, zIIP-Time, zAAP-Time, and zICP-Time it does not calculate out to be the same as the CPU-Time or ECPU-Time amount. Thank you, Brian Chapman On Tue, Feb 26, 2019 at 9:21 AM Peter Relson wrote: > If the comment is correct that the S

CPU time and zIIP

2019-02-25 Thread Brian Chapman
, and zIIP-time match (as close as humanly possible to switch 3270 emulators and press enter). I was under the assumption that ECPU also included time spent on zIIPs, but that must not be true. Is zIIP time included in CPU and ECPU? I'm thinking it is not. Thank you, Bri

Re: IARV64 - why ABEND rather than return with reason code?

2019-01-25 Thread Brian Chapman
I found this to be the most irritating aspect of working with 64 bit areas. On Fri, Jan 25, 2019, 5:23 PM Charles Mills I have an application that uses IARV64 REQUEST=GETCOMMON,COND=YES. I have > tested with an unreasonable request size and gotten a return with a reason > code as expected. > > I

Re: Concurrent Server Task Dispatch issue multitasking issue

2019-01-05 Thread Brian Chapman
1. Are you checking the COMM ECB after every wait? Even after a subtask post the main task's ECB or any other ECB in your list? I've had problems with subtasks posting the main task and not checking the COMM ECB after servicing the subtask request and missing console commands. 2. Double check whic

Re: System level coding examples

2018-11-16 Thread Brian Chapman
Thanks Don. I didn't realize that the listserv even existed. I thought the Google newsgroup was the primary forum. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with th