On 20/09/2022 10:56 pm, Michael Stein wrote:
I have been coding in C++ and Java for so long OOP is second nature to me
now. Well, in C++ I prefer the interfaces using templates. Java has morphed
into into a hybrid OO/FP language since the introduction of the Streams API
in Java 8. It's common
On 19/09/2022 7:59 am, Charles Mills wrote:
I've never had occasion to try write OO programs on the mainframe.
to me it seems that the chief value of classes and class methods is a
way of organizing my subroutines and functions and limiting their
scope to particular uses which seems to me would
> On 26 Aug 2022, at 1:31 pm, Hank Oerlemans
> <03c4d8bf55f3-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote:
>
> I'm very fond of the new stuff in SDSF with z/OS 2.5 .
Me too. Rob and his team are adding outstanding features with every new
release. The x-mem browsing into foreign address spaces was
On 19/08/2022 12:10 am, Charles Mills wrote:
There is always a line of tourists -- many of them American -- at the McDonalds
on the Champs-Élysées.
There's also a Starbucks on the Champs-Élysées! Considering the French
pride themselves on their cafe culture that's quite a surprise.
I am
inline bool isauth() {
int rc;
__asm (" TESTAUTH FCTN=1"
: "=NR:r15"(rc)
:
: "r1", "r14", "r15");
return rc == 0;
}
On 16/08/2022 2:17 am, Tony Harminc wrote:
Marginally related to my previous question - I'd like to do a TESTAUTH from
C/C++ code, and refuse to run
You will have to use macro file extension in the C code.
#include “file.macro”
> On 14 Aug 2022, at 8:09 am, Paul Gilmartin
> <042bfe9c879d-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote:
>
> On Sun, 14 Aug 2022 00:49:20 +0300, Binyamin Dissen wrote:
>
>> I am trying to tell the C compiler to use
Rockets Python could do I/O to MVS data sets. Rocket also ported the
Python CFFI package which would make writing a library in pure Python a
snip. I wonder if IBM has ported CFFI? I would open an RFE. IBM have
created MVS file I/O packages for golang and Node.js.
On 31/07/2022 7:02 am,
I think the salary may be $144kAUD. If not, I need to ask for a pay rise :)
On 13/07/2022 1:37 am, Tommy Phillips wrote:
Hi Everybody,
I have a job opportunity (full-time, direct hire and remote) I wanted to share
with you all. My client is an international software company looking for a
That’s awesome. Did maintenance programmers really exist back then?
> On 13 Jul 2022, at 8:13 am, Charles Mills wrote:
>
> Sorry 'bout the link. How about
>
> https://bit.ly/3z2y5XO
>
> Charles
>
>
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On 12/07/2022 12:21 am, Charles Mills wrote:
+1
And when new hardware comes out, taking advantage of the new architecture is a
simple matter of updating ARCH() in your C/C++ compile and re-building. You
probably don't have the appetite to re-work your carefully hand-tuned assembler.
+1 you
On 10/07/2022 6:49 pm, Rony wrote:
Am 09.07.2022 um 03:15 schrieb David Crayford :
On 8/07/2022 7:17 pm, Rony G. Flatscher wrote:
On 07.07.2022 17:45, David Crayford wrote:
On 7/07/2022 7:53 pm, Rony G. Flatscher wrote:
On 06.07.2022 11:03, Seymour J Metz wrote:
... cut ...
There is one
On 8/07/2022 7:43 pm, Rony G. Flatscher wrote:
On 08.07.2022 03:38, David Crayford wrote:
On 7/07/2022 7:53 pm, Rony G. Flatscher wrote:
When I select a language for a job, one of the things that I look
at is the ecosystem. I prefer ooRexx to Perl, but I find myself using
Perl for some tasks
On 8/07/2022 7:17 pm, Rony G. Flatscher wrote:
On 07.07.2022 17:45, David Crayford wrote:
On 7/07/2022 7:53 pm, Rony G. Flatscher wrote:
On 06.07.2022 11:03, Seymour J Metz wrote:
... cut ...
There is one ecosystem that beats Perl, Python and practically any
others: Java. For every problem
Bit of a shock this one. FedEx are closing all of their data centers and
moving to Microsofts Azure Cloud. They are a massive mainframe customer
and close friends of ours for a long time.
We had one of their guys on the floor in our office working with us on
solutions. Times are changing...
On 7/07/2022 7:53 pm, Rony G. Flatscher wrote:
When I select a language for a job, one of the things that I look at
is the ecosystem. I prefer ooRexx to Perl, but I find myself using
Perl for some tasks because CPAN is an awesome resource. Python may
not be the best language for the task at
On 7/07/2022 7:53 pm, Rony G. Flatscher wrote:
On 06.07.2022 11:03, Seymour J Metz wrote:
When I select a language for a job, one of the things that I look at
is the ecosystem. I prefer ooRexx to Perl, but I find myself using
Perl for some tasks because CPAN is an awesome resource. Python may
at, I reckon.
>
> I think a lot of Alan Kay's energy is frustration that everything takes so
> long!
>
> Roops
>
>> On Sun, 3 Jul 2022, 03:47 David Crayford, wrote:
>>
>> He wasn't too complementary about Java either. I never used Smalltalk
>> but I'
He wasn't too complementary about Java either. I never used Smalltalk
but I've seen examples in the GoF Design Patterns book. Guys I've spoken
to that used it extensively talk very fondly about it.
On 3/07/2022 5:37 am, Rupert Reynolds wrote:
I can't remember which of Alan Kay's talks it's
JZOS does. It flips a magic bit.
> On 2 Jul 2022, at 10:52 am, Ed Jaffe wrote:
>
> On 7/1/2022 4:26 PM, David Crayford wrote:
>> The fact that the JNI code is offloaded to a zIIP is extra goodness.
>
> Your JNI code runs on zIIP?
>
> Ours does not seem to do
Thanks Rony. I really enjoyed reading that paper.
Do you know why the tilde character was chosen as the message passing
operator? It's quite unusual.
On 30/06/2022 6:55 pm, Rony G. Flatscher wrote:
On 30.06.2022 00:52, David Crayford wrote:
On 30/06/2022 6:37 am, Farley, Peter x23353 wrote
On 30/06/2022 2:58 pm, David Crayford wrote:
REXX is never the right language unless you have no choice, such as
using an API such as SDSF or an environment such as Netview.
I'm going to take that back, which is unusual for me. I just realized
that I have recently coded lots of REXX that uses
JZOS is the perfect example of the genius of simplicity. I can remember
the JRIO monstrosity with all the silly OO abstractions to do something
as simple as file I/O. JZOS ZFile was a breath of fresh air. The fact
that the JNI code is offloaded to a zIIP is extra goodness.
On 30/06/2022 10:55
some
self-important moderator.
BTW, I do think I might want to learn Python. I bought an O'Reilly textbook. I
have a six-hour flight coming up, and I think that it might be just perfect for
learning Python.
Charles
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elf-important moderator.
BTW, I do think I might want to learn Python. I bought an O'Reilly textbook. I
have a six-hour flight coming up, and I think that it might be just perfect for
learning Python.
Charles
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d I think that it might be just perfect for
learning Python.
Charles
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On 30/06/2022 7:44 am, Bob Bridges wrote:
I've heard the word "awk", but never been exposed to it. I had the impression,
though, that I've heard of it in the context of Unix; am I mistaken?
Remember, the topic of the moment was whether there's any use for REXX
~outside~ TSO. This was on a
On 30/06/2022 5:33 am, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
On Wed, 29 Jun 2022 22:22:39 +0200, Bernd Oppolzer wrote:
This is an old OS/2 REXX program (from the 1990s, IIRC),
used to traverse a directory tree recursively and issue a command in
every subdirectory found:
... with local variables protected by
On 30/06/2022 6:37 am, Farley, Peter x23353 wrote:
Gentle listers,
Can we all agree to let this discussion be resolved by agreeing to the Perl
mongers motto, TMTOWTD
TWTOWTD? Or maybe not. Show me how to create a secure socket in REXX
without using PAGENT.
I think the discussion you have
s. No need for a
started task,
which is idle most of the time.
I miss sometimes a certain cost sensitivity with the discussions here
in IBM-MAIN,
but this should be part of our profession.
Kind regards
Bernd
Am 29.06.2022 um 23:24 schrieb David Crayford:
On 30/06/2022 4:22 am, Bernd Oppo
On 30/06/2022 4:22 am, Bernd Oppolzer wrote:
This is an old OS/2 REXX program (from the 1990s, IIRC),
used to traverse a directory tree recursively and issue a command in
every subdirectory found:
/* rexx */
arg command
call RxFuncAdd "SysLoadFuncs", "REXXUTIL", "SysLoadFuncs"
call
On 29/06/2022 11:07 pm, Rony G. Flatscher wrote:
Hi David,
On 29.06.2022 15:54, David Crayford wrote:
I know ooRexx. I ported it to z/OS 10 years ago but it was buggy and
slow.
Hmm, ten years ago? Over time there has been so much improvements in
these and other areas including a testing
be
missed.
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On 29/06/2022 6:37 pm, Seymour J Metz wrote:
Sme, but manageable. The article
-in-lua.html
On 29/06/2022 9:41 pm, Rony G. Flatscher wrote:
Hi David,
On 29.06.2022 14:06, David Crayford wrote:
On 29/06/2022 6:37 pm, Seymour J Metz wrote:
Sme, but manageable. The article Safe REXX at
<http://www.rexxla.org/Newsletter/9812safe.html> and
<http://www.rexxla.org/Newsletter/9901
On 29/06/2022 9:09 pm, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
On Jun 29, 2022, at 06:48:14, Bill Schoen wrote
...
re: write buffer is a variable name
This was done for a variety of reasons, but primarily, rexx has a limit to
number of parameters that can be passed to an address environment.
I think TSO
On 29/06/2022 9:20 pm, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
On Jun 29, 2022, at 07:02:39, David Crayford wrote:
...
That doesn't eliminate confusion at all. If you have a large loop and you don't
understand your code then your code is crap. Any decent code editor will match
blocks on key-press. ISPF
On 29/06/2022 8:48 pm, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
On Jun 29, 2022, at 06:37:39, Lionel B. Dyck wrote:
Some align the end with the do, others align the end with the code in the do
structure. The key is a consistent style for readability.
The REXXFORM results of my example are:
/* rexx */
x =
Thanks David, I learned something there that I didn't know.
Cheers
On 29/06/2022 8:50 pm, David Spiegel wrote:
Hi David,
The paragraphing style was used historically by PL/I.
Rexx syntactically is a PL/I derivative,
Regards,
David
On 2022-06-29 08:32, David Crayford wrote:
On 29/06/2022 8
r than your reputation. Character is what you
are, reputation merely what others think you are.” - - - John Wooden
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Thanks Lionel. If I want to get the directory entry I suppose I have to also ex
nel B. Dyck <><
Website: https://www.lbdsoftware.com
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On 29/06/2022 5:42 am, Charles Mills wrote:
"write" fd "
On 29/06/2022 5:42 am, Charles Mills wrote:
"write" fd "buf"
Which makes no sense to me at all. fd is passed by value but "buf" by name?
It's horribly inconsistent and unpleasant to use. The buffer HAS to be a
passed by reference (variable) as it could break REXX string length
limits or
r"(>savearea),
[parms]"r"(>parms)
: "r0", "r1", "r13", "r14", "r15"
);
On 29/06/2022 10:14 am, David Crayford wrote:
You need to use inline assembly with SAM31/SAM64 AMODE switching. All
of our stuff is 64-bit so w
You need to use inline assembly with SAM31/SAM64 AMODE switching. All of
our stuff is 64-bit so we do this a lot. Don't forget to allocate the
savearea and parmlist/parms below the bar.
__asm__(
" LLGT 15,%[ep]\n"
" LR 1,%[PARMS]\n"
" LR 13,%[savearea]\n"
" SAM31\n"
" BALR 14,15\n"
REXX isn't so simple after all! You would have been better off
writing your code in Java, or if you have installed the new Open XL
C/C++ compiler/runtime you could use the C++17 filesystem library.
To me, just having to check return codes instead of relying on
exceptions is a good enough
On 27/06/2022 7:09 am, Andrew Rowley wrote:
On 24/06/2022 3:17 pm, David Crayford wrote:
There's a more complete example here
https://github.com/zsystems/java-samples/blob/master/MvsConsoleInteraction.java.
Using Object.wait()/notify() is a bit hairy. A more modern
implementation would use
I already provided a link to the doc in a previous post.
> On 25 Jun 2022, at 8:59 am, Paul Gilmartin
> <042bfe9c879d-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote:
>
> On Sat, 25 Jun 2022 08:10:23 +0800, David Crayford wrote:
>
>>> On 25/06/2022 7:43 am, Bhum Mut
On 25/06/2022 7:43 am, Bhum Muth wrote:
I want to compare the names and content of the files
diff -r dir1 dir2 > diff-results.txt
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https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/2.4.0?topic=descriptions-diff-compare-two-text-files-show-differences
> On 25 Jun 2022, at 6:40 am, Bhum Muth wrote:
>
> Would like to know if any easy way to compare 2 USS files (say compare 2
> versions of /etc).
>
> Thanks,
> BM
>
>
There's a more complete example here
https://github.com/zsystems/java-samples/blob/master/MvsConsoleInteraction.java.
Using Object.wait()/notify() is a bit hairy. A more modern
implementation would use Condition.await()/signal() but it's fine for
this use case.
On 23/06/2022 12:16 pm,
On 22/06/2022 8:17 pm, René Jansen wrote:
Hi David,
Thanks to the pointers about the Rocket Python page being obsolete,
On 22 Jun 2022, at 13:29, David Crayford wrote:
I don't share you pessimism about the young girls and boys. All the young guys
I work with are technically superb
them are grateful when shown how it is done.
Best regards,
René.
On 21 Jun 2022, at 15:35, David Crayford wrote:
I don't want to get into another ping pong debate over REXX. Everyone knows my
opinion by now.
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Serious questions.
Charles
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, only the MODIFY CIB is an issue.
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On 21/06/2022 9:09 pm, Seymour J Metz wrote
that use it.
I don't want to get into another ping pong debate over REXX. Everyone
knows my opinion by now.
On 21/06/2022 6:12 pm, Rony G. Flatscher wrote:
On 20.06.2022 19:26, David Crayford wrote:
On 21/06/2022 1:07 am, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
On Mon, 20 Jun 2022 08:47:49 -0700, Charles
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I could care less about Python. What
h returns Rexx variable data "in bulk" to an assembler routine,
but I do not recall the details. It may pass the actual address, not a copy of the value
-- I don't recall.
Charles
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data "in bulk" to an assembler routine,
but I do not recall the details. It may pass the actual address, not a copy of the value
-- I don't recall.
Charles
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I think I understand what Charles is doing.
context = copies('00'x,200) <-- state for HLASM program
wait_time = 30
do forever
res = console(context, wait_time)
select
when res = 'T' then iterate
when res = 'P' then leave
otherwise ...
end
end
On 21/06/2022 1:58
On 21/06/2022 1:47 am, Tony Harminc wrote:
On Mon, 20 Jun 2022 at 13:34, David Crayford wrote:
I could care less about Python.
Could you care a lot less, or just a little bit less? There is surely
quite a range of caring.
Here's a little chart that may help you express how much you care
about
On 21/06/2022 1:47 am, Charles Mills wrote:
As I said in response to an earlier question, I am the master of this
universe.
Good luck to you and have fun :)
Charles
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s of best. Rexx is a perfectly adequate language for the job.
"Integrating a new developer" would be for the client what "implementing a new language
environment" would be for me.
Charles
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On 21/06/2022 1:07 am, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
On Mon, 20 Jun 2022 08:47:49 -0700, Charles Mills wrote:
...
The assembler routine will take as input a delay time in hundredths of a second
(because of STIMER), do a WAIT ECBLIST, and return one of
'T' -- the time expired
'P' -- the operator
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You could have learned Python in the time it took you to write this email.
On 20/06/2022 1:15 am, Charles
individuals that know buzzwords and little else.
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Thanks
Isn’t buzzword a buzzword? There’s some irony there.
> On 20 Jun 2022, at 9:38 pm, Gerhard Adam wrote:
>
> discussed as to be non-existent. This sounds like more marketing hype
> perpetrated
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Thanks. I’ve seen something similar on the ACM
https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/1476793.1476796
> On 20 Jun 2022, at 8:51 pm, Joe Monk wrote:
>
> https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/1969381
>
> Joe
>
>> On Mon, Jun 20, 2022 at 7:00 AM David Crayford wrote:
>
And yet still nobody seems to have grokked the fundamental differences
between online systems and event-driven architectures. This is obviously
not the forum for discussions on contemporary software architectures. It
always deteriorates into a deluge of boring and undiscerningposts about
how
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On 20/06/2022 2:53 am, Seymour J Metz wrote:
Systems
n the '80s.
As an example, ICCF on VSE uses CICS as the TP Monitor. Tell me that
writing code, storing it in a library, compiling, etc. are not "real-time".
Joe
On Sun, Jun 19, 2022 at 1:03 PM David Crayford
wrote:
On 20/06/2022 12:38 am, Seymour J Metz wrote:
Keep in mind that the mainfra
Python closes files at the end of a with statement scope. It will also
close the file cleanly if an exception is thrown. That's what I call KISS!
with open('file_path', 'w') as file:
file.write('hello world !')
On 20/06/2022 1:47 pm, Peter Sylvester wrote:
Hi,
I remember I did that 25
it
a report -- maybe call it an "alert") that the client wants. And again, a learning curve
that is difficult to justify.
So I think I will write it in Rexx, with perhaps a little bit of Assembler.
Charles
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anks.
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On 20/06/2022 12:38 am, Seymour J Metz wrote:
Keep in mind that the mainframe can only do batch processing, with input from
cards. It doesn't support anything like CICS, IMS or S
ssage-
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On 19/06/2022 1:33 am, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
On Sat, 18 Jun 2022 09:51
marc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote:
>
> Aren’t you the guy who thought Pharmacies weren’t open 24 by 7? Metz is
> right, if you think the mainframe is a batch machine, you’ve got zero
> credibility.
>
>
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> On Sunday, Jun
spacecraft telemetry.
NASA doesn't use IMS.
Joe
On Sun, Jun 19, 2022 at 4:39 PM David Crayford wrote:
On 20/06/2022 5:27 am, Joe Monk wrote:
"What have transactional systems like CICS or IMS got to do with
real-time, straight-through processing? Most mainframe transactions
store dat
On 20/06/2022 5:27 am, Joe Monk wrote:
"What have transactional systems like CICS or IMS got to do with
real-time, straight-through processing? Most mainframe transactions
store data that is later processed by batch, typically overnight."
If you think CICS and IMS are transactional only, youre
, June 19, 2022, 2:03 PM, David Crayford wrote:
On 20/06/2022 12:38 am, Seymour J Metz wrote:
Keep in mind that the mainframe can only do batch processing, with input from
cards. It doesn't support anything like CICS, IMS or Sabre..
What have transactional systems like CICS or IMS got to do
du/~smetz3
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On 19/06/2022 5:23 am, Enzo D'Amato
On 19/06/2022 1:33 am, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
On Sat, 18 Jun 2022 09:51:45 -0700, Charles Mills wrote:
...
I picture writing the started task in Rexx, so I would have to write to a DD
name allocated to the UNIX file (either dynamically or with JCL), not with
"native" C fopen(), fwrite(),
On Friday, June 17, 2022, 9:06 AM, zMan wrote:
On Fri, Jun 17, 2022 at 5:50 AM David Crayford
wrote:
Maybe it's the case that customers don't want to use IBMs cloud. Where I
live in Australia the big four banks are moving significant chunks of
their infrastructure to public cloud and
On 19/06/2022 10:18 am, kekronbekron wrote:
Would using DISP=SHR,DSN=xx,FREE=CLOSE in the 15-min writer STC work?
Or just YOLO it like the object storage people, i.e., 1 file for 15 minutes in
USS.
Or, if you're willing to explore a little, check out NATS.
It's a light-weird 'MQ' of the modern
?
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp-video/mmvo142340677837
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On Friday, June 17, 2022, 1:47 PM, David Crayford wrote:
You may want to change banks
https://www.paymentsjournal.com/go-big-or-go-home-jpm-will-spend-up-to-12b-to-get-to-the-cloud/amp/
On 18 Jun
from now.
I certainly hope so as they're one of our customers! It won't stop them
trying to get off though. I heard that ING has moved off. It's always
depressing when a financial services giant leaves the platform.
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On Friday, June 17, 2022, 1:47 PM, David
You may want to change banks
https://www.paymentsjournal.com/go-big-or-go-home-jpm-will-spend-up-to-12b-to-get-to-the-cloud/amp/
> On 18 Jun 2022, at 01:43, Bill Johnson
> <0047540adefe-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote:
>
> What’s the difference between JPM’s mainframe and Capital
On 17/06/2022 9:05 pm, zMan wrote:
On Fri, Jun 17, 2022 at 5:50 AM David Crayford wrote:
Maybe it's the case that customers don't want to use IBMs cloud. Where I
live in Australia the big four banks are moving significant chunks of
their infrastructure to public cloud and have government
On 17/06/2022 12:31 am, zMan wrote:
https://community.ibm.com/community/user/ibmz-and-linuxone/blogs/skyla-loomis/2022/05/09/modernize-for-hybrid-cloud-with-ibm-and-aws
This is pretty funny if you think about IBM claiming that IBM cloud
produces so much revenue--then they go and offer something
On 3/6/22 04:33, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
On Thu, 2 Jun 2022 15:19:47 -0500, Erik Janssen wrote:
Ah yes, it is actually on the panel; 'Use the pathname substitution character
!' :-)
That what I was looking for, I already thought that there had to be some way, I
just didn't notice it.
I was
is
out of my price range. Plenty of grunt in a cheap setup for doing
analytics and the Linux/Docker work I'm interested in.
On 5/19/2022 6:15 PM, David Crayford wrote:
On 20/5/22 08:23, Andrew Rowley wrote:
Having a zIIP gives you plenty of horsepower for z/OSMF, and having
an IBM z15
On 20/5/22 08:23, Andrew Rowley wrote:
Having a zIIP gives you plenty of horsepower for z/OSMF, and having
an IBM z15 gives you System Recovery Boost which gives you…plenty of
horsepower for z/OSMF at least during the first 60 minutes. (It’s the
z/OSMF startup that can take a long time on a
On 9/5/22 07:39, Andrew Rowley wrote:
On 6/05/2022 11:46 pm, Bill Schoen wrote:
By all means ask for what you need, and who knows...
What would be useful is to be able to mount a (multi-level) dataset
prefix at any mount point in the filesystem. Attributes i.e. text,
record mode etc would
My bad, -m32. I've beta tested the compiler and I can confirm it works.
On 6/5/22 07:08, David Crayford wrote:
The compiler supports a -m31 flag and ships with a 31bit runtime library.
On 6 May 2022, at 5:56 am, Charles Mills wrote:
Got it. Must insert some sort of glue if you call
or am I being old-fashioned?
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>> Charles
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The new clang/LLVM C/C++ compiler has been announced
https://community.ibm.com/community/user/ibmz-and-linuxone/blogs/robert-barrington1/2022/04/05/next-generation-of-ibm-cc-and-fortran-compilers-av.
I suppose it was wishful thinking to expect it to be free as IBM have
commit a lot of resources
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On Monday, April 25th, 2022 at 7:41 AM, David Crayford dcrayf...@gmail.com
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On 23/4/22 14:10, kekronbekron wrote:
Building the s390x containers
You can always fall back on good old cksum which is usually good enough.
cat "//'SYS1.LPALIB(IEFBR14)'" | cksum
On 27/4/22 07:31, Charles Mills wrote:
FSUMF437 ICSF is required but not available.
:-(
Charles
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On 26/4/22 01:03, Matt Hogstrom wrote:
Given this constraint, we try to put CPU-intensive activities (such as code
page conversion) on the faster-executing platforms.
and for that reason zCX is very important for ISVs because it does offload to
Ziips, provides an open technology platform and
On 25/4/22 11:37, kekronbekron wrote:
What about code that does CPU instruction set specific things.
How likely is the success of its compilation on s390x with minimal work.
About 100% likely. Linux is Linux is Linux. IBM have ported all the
compiler tool-chains such a GCC, LLVM/Clang etc. In
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On Friday, April 22nd, 2022 at 9:49 PM, Matt Hogstrom wrote:
On Apr 22, 2022, at 3:42 AM, David Crayford dcrayf...@gmail.com wrote:
If you already deliver container images that support your product that
currently run outside z/OS, or if that’s what you plan to do, it’d be a great
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