Like Facebook page for HLASM Assembler List

2014-10-02 Thread Don Higgins
There was a request for Like button for the ASSEMBLER-LIST so now there is one here: https://www.facebook.com/pages/IBM-HLASM-Assembler-list/1509036956003008?ref=bookmarks If you are in the 50% of US adults on Facebook and like HLASM assembler, check out the mainframe assembler program that h

Re: Convert TOD to calendar date/time

2014-10-01 Thread Don Higgins
of z390 assembler/emulator package * * The z390 package is distributed under GNU general public license * * Author - Don Higgins * * Date - 09/30/05

Re: HLASM doubleword set-symbol arithmetic

2014-07-07 Thread Don Higgins
All I don't think IBM will be rewriting the HLASM macro assembler using 64 bit arithmetic. I know I will not be rewriting z390 macro assembler because its written entirely in J2SE Java which uses 32 bit default arithmetic in source statements. Don Higgins d...@higgin

Re: Byte-code COBOL [was:RE: Resistance to Java.]

2014-01-25 Thread Don Higgins
All For an example of open source byte COBOL check out the zcobol Portable Mainframe COBOL compiler and runtime which comes with the z390 Portable Mainframe Assembler and Emulator which currently runs on Windows, Linux, and Apple OSX host systems with J2SE 6.0+ runtime installed. An assembler

Re: ASSIST Assembler

2013-11-19 Thread Don Higgins
ere is a z390 user group here with over 500 members: http://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/z390/info Don Higgins d...@higgins.net www.don-higgins.net -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send e

Re: Interested in up to date open source software or low cost utilities?

2013-10-27 Thread Don Higgins
perfect but they did offer continued development improvements and support. Don Higgins d...@higgins.net -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO

Re: 1403 Printer components manual GA24-3073-3

2013-09-13 Thread Don Higgins
"Printed" a birthday cake with candles and the name of a girl. My first graphics program mixed in with all those thermo calculations. Don Higgins d...@higgins.net www.don-higgins.net -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff

Re: Future of COBOL based on RDz policies was Re: RDz or RDzEnterprise developers

2013-07-06 Thread Don Higgins
retired from the zcobol and z390 development effort as of last year. Don Higgins d...@higgins.net www.don-higgins.net -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the

Re: Future of COBOL based on RDz policies was Re: RDz or RDzEnterprise developers

2013-07-05 Thread Don Higgins
different floating point data types. Here is link to article with example floating point compute statement using all 9 floating point types: http://www.z390.org/zcobol/demo/callcomp/zCOBOL_COMPUTE.pdf Don Higgins d...@higgins.net www.don-higgins.net

Re: Re :z/OS subroutine in assembler, used in both batch & CICS , making re-entrant

2013-06-29 Thread Don Higgins
o the following: 1. Display summary MVS statistics such as total jobs, tasks, CPU, memory, etc. 2. Display status of selected task including JOB, STEP, and stats 3. Display system enque waits pending This was all done by read only code looking at available MVS control blocks including CVT etc.

Re: Parsing cobol code for copybooks

2013-03-24 Thread Don Higgins
. The zcobol error log file (.ERR) may provide the list of missing field names you are looking for. Don Higgins d...@higgins.net -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists

Re: Decimal arithmetic

2012-07-15 Thread Don Higgins
paper with example described here: http://www.z390.org/zcobol/demo/callcomp/zCOBOL_COMPUTE.pdf The example is available in machine readable form including COBOL source and all generated files and listings: http://www.z390.org/zcobol/demo/callcomp/CALLCOMP.ZIP Don Higgins d...@higgins.net