Re: PDS/E, Shared Dasd, and COBOL V5

2013-10-09 Thread Steve Comstock
27; can invoke the loaded module. How to do this is covered in our three day course "Developing Applications for z/OS UNIX". See http://www.trainersfriend.com/UNIX_and_Web_courses/u520descr.htm for details on the course. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Traine

Re: Determining number of Parameters passed to a COBOL program

2013-10-02 Thread Steve Comstock
On 10/2/2013 10:47 AM, Roberts, John J wrote: This is of course for a COBOL BATCH MAIN program. Whar do you mean by 'This'? Are you refering to your original question or to the answer below? -Steve -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.E

Re: Determining number of Parameters passed to a COBOL program

2013-10-02 Thread Steve Comstock
3 day course "Cross Program Communication in z/OS" we include some discussion on how to pass and receive a varying number of parameters / arguments in Assembler, COBOL, PL/I, and C. See: http://www.trainersfriend.com/Language_Environment_courses/m520descr.htm -- Kind regards, -Steve Coms

Re: COBOL 5.1 Share presentations

2013-09-23 Thread Steve Comstock
On 9/23/2013 3:12 PM, Bob Rutledge wrote: Lose the 3D, http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21634215 Bob Thanks, Bob. That did it. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-355-2752 http://www.trainersfriend.com * We are going out of business effe

Re: COBOL 5.1 Share presentations

2013-09-23 Thread Steve Comstock
On 9/23/2013 2:23 PM, Tom Ross wrote: Tom, Could you share the SHARE presentations you have given on COBOL V5? I just sent them over, they should be live soon at: http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=3Dswg21634215 'Soon' meaning that more than a week later these presentations are st

Re: UNICODE to EBCDIC

2013-09-23 Thread Steve Comstock
On 9/23/2013 12:02 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: On Mon, 23 Sep 2013 10:44:04 -0600, Steve Comstock wrote: On 9/23/2013 10:22 AM, John McKown wrote: If you mean a program, then the UNIX "iconv" command can do that. There is also the "iconv" set of C language subroutines if yo

Re: UNICODE to EBCDIC

2013-09-23 Thread Steve Comstock
ons. DFSORT can do it, with some difficulty, on a "field" basis by using the TRAN=ALTSEQ phrase in an INREC or OUTREC FIELDS= command. Too bad there isn't an easy way that I can see to just use UNICODE System Services. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc

Re: Very large tables/ records in COBOL was Re: Unused variables

2013-09-23 Thread Steve Comstock
supports table sizes up to 999,999,999 bytes. But folks are unlikely to change existing code to work with this unless a program is having some other maintenance done too. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-355-2752 http://www.trainersfriend.com * We are going o

Re: UNICODE to EBCDIC

2013-09-23 Thread Steve Comstock
e and Reference, SA22-7649-14 -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-355-2752 http://www.trainersfriend.com * We are going out of business effective 30 December, 2013 * To purchase a set of our training materials at terrific prices, check out our Going Out Of Bus

Re: Unused variables

2013-09-23 Thread Steve Comstock
On 9/23/2013 7:08 AM, Binyamin Dissen wrote: Adjacent 01 levels have been used to allocate storage larger than the maximum allowed by COBOL. Yes, and that's a strategy that is not guaranteed to work under Enterprise COBOL if you use OPT(FULL). The compiler might well remove those items; and in

Re: Unused variables

2013-09-20 Thread Steve Comstock
remove unreferenced items. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-355-2752 http://www.trainersfriend.com * To get a good Return on your Investment, first make an investment! + Training your people is an excellent investment * Try our tool for calculating your Retu

Re: Looking for COBOL V5R1 Softcopy Librarian docs

2013-09-16 Thread Steve Comstock
more weeks. Charles Well, not quite what you're after, but I stumbled on this yesterday: http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/z/os/zos/bkserv/v2r1pdf/ The COBOL docs can be found here (and other places, I'm sure): http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg27036733 -Steve Comsto

Re: z/OS 2.1 and tools like COBOL 5.1, Fault Analyzer, Debug Tool, etc

2013-09-14 Thread Steve Comstock
Future! << Program objects can also be stored as z/OS UNIX files; I presume you wouldn't need PDSEs for those files then, eh? Will that work? -Steve Comstock -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access i

Re: The Trainer's Friend Going Out Of Business Sale

2013-09-11 Thread Steve Comstock
Oooops. Sorry. Not meant for the list. -Steve On 9/11/2013 2:06 PM, Steve Comstock wrote: On 9/11/2013 1:11 PM, Linda Mooney wrote: Hi Steve, I wish you only the best - and lots of it. Sorry to hear that the business is closing. 38 years is a long run. Hope we will still see you on

Re: The Trainer's Friend Going Out Of Business Sale

2013-09-11 Thread Steve Comstock
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2013-09-09 Thread Steve Comstock
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Re: Dynamic Allocation in COBOL

2013-09-06 Thread Steve Comstock
ur 3 day course "Advanced Topics in COBOL" http://www.trainersfriend.com/COBOL_Courses/D725descrpt.htm -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-355-2752 http://www.trainersfriend.com * To get a good Return on your Investment, first make an investment!

Re: Searching for a SUBMIT and WRITER tool

2013-09-05 Thread Steve Comstock
ssage: INFO IBM-MAIN That is so user friendly. But not likely to happen. -Steve Comstock -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: C issue - 'struct stat'

2013-08-02 Thread Steve Comstock
ays, details at http://www.trainersfriend.com/UNIX_and_Web_courses/u520descr.htm ), we devote almost 20% of the student material to make and makefiles. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-355-2752 http://www.trainersfriend.com * To get a good Return on your Investment,

Re: Teaching COBOL INITIALIZE? [was:RE: COBOL ? - emulating recursive PERFORM statement]

2013-07-30 Thread Steve Comstock
s to do this (group moves, as you suggest), but there are times it is a nice tool to have, especially in initializing tables that have value clauses in their declare. -Steve -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Steve Comsto

Re: COBOL ? - emulating recursive PERFORM statement

2013-07-30 Thread Steve Comstock
On 7/30/2013 1:02 PM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: In <51f7e21e.8070...@trainersfriend.com>, on 07/30/2013 at 09:56 AM, Steve Comstock said: Yes, that's a very critical issue to face. Most (not all) COBOL shops I've seen are reluctant to use many of the new facilities

Re: COBOL ? - emulating recursive PERFORM statement

2013-07-30 Thread Steve Comstock
OBOL Update", a 2 day course that covers all the major (and many of the minor) language changes from COBOL I through COBOL 4. http://www.trainersfriend.com/COBOL_Courses/d704descr.htm -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-355-2752 http://www.trainersfri

Re: Looking for help with an obscure C integer problem

2013-07-28 Thread Steve Comstock
Excellent work Bernd! -Steve Comstock On 7/27/2013 10:07 AM, Bernd Oppolzer wrote: I was able to reproduce the problem with a little test program: #include #include static void longtest (long long lwert) { int test; test = lwert & 0xLL; if (test

Re: z/OS 2.1 Program Product number

2013-07-25 Thread Steve Comstock
Feb. 5, 2013; the zBC12 launch did indeed occur Tuesday. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-355-2752 http://www.trainersfriend.com * To get a good Return on your Investment, first make an investment! + Training your people is an excellent investment * Tr

Re: Establishing and using Unix file system and USS under z/OS

2013-07-25 Thread Steve Comstock
the editor will, by default, uppercase all your data when you press Enter. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-355-2752 http://www.trainersfriend.com * To get a good Return on your Investment, first make an investment! + Training your people is an excellent invest

Re: Is there a "reverse bits" hardware instruction?

2013-07-24 Thread Steve Comstock
On 7/24/2013 11:59 AM, Charles Mills wrote: He's reading the op? Charles Composed on a mobile: please excuse my brevity "Lynd, Eugene C." wrote: Of course there is. XI (EXCLUSIVE OR IMMEDIATE) and XC (EXCLUSIVE OR CHARACTER). Where's Steve Comstock when you need him?

Re: COBOL was: COBOL Parser

2013-07-18 Thread Steve Comstock
On 7/18/2013 6:46 AM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: On Thu, 18 Jul 2013 08:13:02 -0400, John Gilmore wrote: COBOL optimization has always been problematic for two reasons. The less important of them is that, until now at least, some syntactically interesting features of the language have been impleme

Re: Question on how to debug S0C7 (data exception) abend

2013-07-04 Thread Steve Comstock
ut for 'rapture of the dump'.) Still, for 1) above, one mustn't be afraid of diving into a dump if it's called for. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-355-2752 http://www.trainersfriend.com * To get a good Return on your Investment, fir

Re: Question on how to debug S0C7 (data exception) abend

2013-07-04 Thread Steve Comstock
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Re: Question on how to debug S0C7 (data exception) abend

2013-07-03 Thread Steve Comstock
n, coding, testing, debugging and maintenance. Such a class might even be designed to almost force the students into making errors along the way - fixing problems in the context of a training environment instead of production. At least a little bit like 'real life'. But, of course, I

Re: Question on how to debug S0C7 (data exception) abend

2013-07-03 Thread Steve Comstock
the time of the abend? etc. Kind regards, -Steve Comstock -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Theology question: Parameter formats

2013-06-30 Thread Steve Comstock
limited to function calls, it is true everywhere. HTH kind regards Bernd Am 30.06.2013 20:11, schrieb Steve Comstock: My whole point was to address the assertion from an earlier point in this thread that C invariably passes arguments by reference. As usual, the simple answer is 'it

Re: Theology question: Parameter formats

2013-06-30 Thread Steve Comstock
arguments by reference. As usual, the simple answer is 'it depends' and, as Shmuel points out, the devil is in the details. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-355-2752 http://www.trainersfriend.com * Special promotion: 15% off on all DB2 training

Re: Great quote on http://slashdot.org (changes frequently)

2013-06-30 Thread Steve Comstock
opment at times. Why is that 'unfortunate'? I would call it practical. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-355-2752 http://www.trainersfriend.com * To get a good Return on your Investment, first make an investment! + Training your people is an excell

Re: Language environment question

2013-06-29 Thread Steve Comstock
ng LE Services in z/OS" - 3 days http://www.trainersfriend.com/Language_Environment_courses/m512descr.htm -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-355-2752 http://www.trainersfriend.com * To get a good Return on your Investment, first make an investme

Re: Theology question: Parameter formats

2013-06-29 Thread Steve Comstock
-list bit unless you include #pragma linkage(subroutine_name,OS) "Cross Program Communication in z/OS" - 3 days http://www.trainersfriend.com/Language_Environment_courses/m520descr.htm -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-355-2752 http://www.

Re: OMVS OEDIT invocation help?

2013-06-20 Thread Steve Comstock
On 6/20/2013 1:14 PM, Mark Pace wrote: I'm z/OS 1.13. I went to =6 and OMVS touch mark.test exit then on =6, oedit mark.pace and it opened the file. EDIT /u/home/MARPACE/./mark.test Really? You oedit 'mark.pace' and it opened 'mark.test'? Hmmm. Perha

Re: Why does IBM keep saying things like this:

2013-06-10 Thread Steve Comstock
well, and some do not Perhaps this is a commentary on his own writing. :-) [snip] -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to

Re: Check out CERN Data Centre passes 100 petabytes | CERN

2013-06-08 Thread Steve Comstock
On 6/8/2013 12:52 PM, Ed Finnell wrote: _CERN Data Centre passes 100 petabytes | CERN_ (http://home.web.cern.ch/about/updates/2013/02/cern-data-centre-passes-100-petabytes) Give them a pretty big honkin data collection. Wonder how that compares to the data stored at NSA. -Steve Comstock

Re: HTTP Server

2013-06-06 Thread Steve Comstock
http://www.trainersfriend.com/UNIX_and_Web_courses/uc01descr.htm _Writing z/OS CGIs in COBOL (2 days)_ http://www.trainersfriend.com/UNIX_and_Web_courses/uc04descr.htm _Writing z/OS CGIs in Assembler (2 days)_ http://www.trainersfriend.com/UNIX_and_Web_courses/uc06descr.htm I'm just sa

Re: I/O Optimization

2013-06-05 Thread Steve Comstock
dard VBS - Variable Block Spanned 'Standard' here means no embedded short blocks. -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. On 5/06/2013 1:24 PM, Bernd Oppolzer wrote: Yes, I guess, that the freads on ZFS will be faster, but: - the customer wants the files to be classical z/O

Re: B37 för FTINCL in ISPF for userid.ISPnnnnn.SPFTEMPn.WORK datasets

2013-05-20 Thread Steve Comstock
the constraints! That's what they're there for. Now, perhaps the various _default_ constraints should be larger, but that's what the various configuration settings and files are for, as is SMS. Windows doesn't let you choose

Re: Rather interesting article on "hacking the mainframe" using ftp

2013-05-18 Thread Steve Comstock
st some level of trust. So: an inside job when you come down to it. And insiders, especially 'trusted' insiders can always hack any system they're trusted on, with enough time and cleverness. It's the hacker from outside that is the concern. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock

Re: Return codes

2013-05-08 Thread Steve Comstock
.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 08, 2013 1:45 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Return codes Hi , Can some one let me know why the return code generated is a mutilple of 4? e.g 4,8,12,16 Thanks, Ron T -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-355-2752 http://www.tra

Re: "as" OpenMVS assembler always gives ASMA935U

2013-05-02 Thread Steve Comstock
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Re: "as" OpenMVS assembler always gives ASMA935U

2013-05-02 Thread Steve Comstock
On 5/2/2013 7:26 AM, Etienne Thijsse wrote: On Thu, 2 May 2013 07:17:00 -0600, Steve Comstock wrote: Those three are all available. And I changed _AS_MACLIB to just IMS.SDFSMAC, there was no change. I think "as" is complaining about something else... if it would just say wh

Re: "as" OpenMVS assembler always gives ASMA935U

2013-05-02 Thread Steve Comstock
on of CEE.SCEEMAC, SYS1.MACLIB, SYS1.AMODGEN; perhaps one of these is not available; you can change the list by exporting a new list in _AS_MACLIB -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-355-2752 http://www.trainersfriend.com * To get a good Return on your I

Re: Mixing C and assembler - under OpenMVS

2013-05-01 Thread Steve Comstock
On 5/1/2013 1:08 PM, retired mainframer wrote: :>: -Original Message- :>: From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On :>: Behalf Of Steve Comstock :>: Sent: Wednesday, May 01, 2013 9:43 AM :>: To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU :>: Subject

Re: Check whether job still running

2013-05-01 Thread Steve Comstock
job into an initiator when it would cause a "JOB WAITING FOR DATA SETS" message. ... -- Joel C. Ewing,Bentonville, AR jcew...@acm.org -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-355-2752 http://www.trainersfriend.com * To get a good Return o

Re: Mixing C and assembler - under OpenMVS

2013-05-01 Thread Steve Comstock
, Dave. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-355-2752 http://www.trainersfriend.com * To get a good Return on your Investment, first make an investment! + Training your people is an excellent investment * Try our tool for calculating your Return On Investment

Re: Mixing C and assembler - under OpenMVS

2013-05-01 Thread Steve Comstock
e z/OS UNIX Command Reference doc points out that 'cc' command "is fully supported for compatibility with older UNIX systems. However, it is recommended that the c89 command be used instead" 3. The default binder option is, essentially, NORENT, so the other sugges

Re: TNLs (Was: PDS searches)

2013-04-30 Thread Steve Comstock
On 4/30/2013 1:17 PM, Ed Jaffe wrote: On 4/30/2013 6:00 AM, Steve Comstock wrote: ... spend some time perusing the docs each time a new release comes out. It seems that most people are too busy these days to read the Release Information books. Some folks still only use commands they learned

Re: PDS searches

2013-04-30 Thread Steve Comstock
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Re: PDS searches

2013-04-29 Thread Steve Comstock
the next set will appear. This also works on ISPF 3.4, but that would require the pdses to have some common naming convention. Not true. See my post. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-355-2752 http://www.trainersfriend.com * To get a good

Re: PDS searches

2013-04-29 Thread Steve Comstock
ll get your four data sets. Now you can issue 'srchfor' or 'member' or a wide selection of other commands and the commands will be worked against all datasets in the list. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-355-2752 http://www.trainersfriend.co

Re: IBM Enterprise COBOL V5 announced

2013-04-26 Thread Steve Comstock
Who's practical? -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-355-2752 http://www.trainersfriend.com * To get a good Return on your Investment, first make an investment! + Training your people is an excellent investment * Try our tool for calculating your Return On

Re: Packed decimal and sign nibble

2013-04-25 Thread Steve Comstock
_ From: Tom Marchant To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2013 8:01 AM Subject: Re: Packed decimal and sign nibble On Wed, 24 Apr 2013 10:38:06 -0600, Steve Comstock wrote: So-called "unsigned packed-decimal" data is mis-leading at best because it cannot be used i

Re: IBM Enterprise COBOL V5 announced

2013-04-25 Thread Steve Comstock
right there. I've seen it myself many times. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-355-2752 http://www.trainersfriend.com * To get a good Return on your Investment, first make an investment! + Training your people is an excellent investment * Try our tool

Re: IBM Enterprise COBOL V5 announced

2013-04-25 Thread Steve Comstock
suggest. John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA Probably because the programmers haven't been trained in the latest features and capabilities. :-) -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-355-2752 http://www.trainersfriend.com * To get a good Retu

Re: FW: Packed decimal and sign nibble

2013-04-25 Thread Steve Comstock
MF records use that output. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-355-2752 http://www.trainersfriend.com * To get a good Return on your Investment, first make an investment! + Training your people is an excellent investment * Try our tool for calculating

Re: Packed decimal and sign nibble

2013-04-25 Thread Steve Comstock
On 4/25/2013 8:01 AM, Tom Marchant wrote: On Wed, 24 Apr 2013 10:38:06 -0600, Steve Comstock wrote: So-called "unsigned packed-decimal" data is mis-leading at best because it cannot be used in any packed decimal arithmetic or compare operations Unsigned-Packed-Decimal was int

Re: Packed decimal and sign nibble

2013-04-24 Thread Steve Comstock
depend on your definitions, as you reference above.) John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- Kind r

Re: Packed decimal and sign nibble

2013-04-24 Thread Steve Comstock
e. Clearly the OP was not including what I think I will start calling 'pseudo-packed-decimal' in his question. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-355-2752 http://www.trainersfriend.com * To get a good Return on your Investment, first make an invest

Re: Packed decimal and sign nibble

2013-04-24 Thread Steve Comstock
st a string of hex digits each of which are between x'0' and x'9'. Not related at all to the OP, at any rate. Joel C Ewing On 04/24/2013 10:34 AM, Steve Comstock wrote: On 4/24/2013 9:19 AM, John Gilmore wrote: My understanding of the difference between unsigned and

Re: Packed decimal and sign nibble

2013-04-24 Thread Steve Comstock
Fixing some typos in my own response: On 4/24/2013 9:34 AM, Steve Comstock wrote: On 4/24/2013 9:19 AM, John Gilmore wrote: My understanding of the difference between unsigned and signed packed decimal values is that the rightmost sign nibble in a signed packed value is occupied by a digit in

Re: Packed decimal and sign nibble

2013-04-24 Thread Steve Comstock
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Re: Packed decimal and sign nibble

2013-04-24 Thread Steve Comstock
between packed and character numeric strings. John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Packed decimal and sign nibble

2013-04-24 Thread Steve Comstock
kind of metadata isn't in the stream now, so I'd rather not add it. Any and all ideas gratefully accepted... ...phsiii [Note: this is an experiment with Thunderbird, not explicitly setting the Reply-to, so you may need to reset.] -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer'

Re: "The digital arms trade", article in the Economist, 2013 March 30

2013-04-02 Thread Steve Comstock
loits is growing. There is no discussion of z/OS exploits, but I do not find this reassuring. Our turn will certainly come. John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA Do you have a link for an online version? -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-355-2752 http://www.

Re: COBOL listserv?

2013-03-25 Thread Steve Comstock
years now. (something like comp.lang.cobol). -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-355-2752 http://www.trainersfriend.com * To get a good Return on your Investment, first make an investment! + Training your people is an excellent investment * Try our tool for c

Re: Convert 64 bit to decimal in Assembler

2013-03-20 Thread Steve Comstock
On 3/20/2013 7:55 AM, Gerhard Postpischil wrote: On 3/20/2013 8:48 AM, Steve Comstock wrote: edpat dcx'4020202020202020202020202020202020' All three tries at an edit mask so far have been flawed. FSVO 'flawed' If the OP really wants UNPK with leading zeroes,

Re: Convert 64 bit to decimal in Assembler

2013-03-20 Thread Steve Comstock
On 3/20/2013 6:52 AM, Tom Marchant wrote: On Wed, 20 Mar 2013 06:22:29 -0600, Steve Comstock wrote: CVDG R1,LONG The field LONG must, of course, be 16 bytes on a quadword boundary. Certainly it must be 16 bytes, but the POO does not specify a quadword boundary. It also does not

Re: Convert 64 bit to decimal in Assembler

2013-03-20 Thread Steve Comstock
On 3/20/2013 6:22 AM, Steve Comstock wrote: On 3/20/2013 3:03 AM, Donald Likens wrote: Has anyone come up with a better way to convert a 64 bit binary number to decimal then the way I did it? Here is what I did: LGR1,WKCELLD CVDG R1,LONG * UNPK 0(11,R7),LONG(6

Re: Convert 64 bit to decimal in Assembler

2013-03-20 Thread Steve Comstock
dcx'4020202020202020202020202020202020' You haven't told us how long the target field pointed at by R7 is, but it's at least 21 bytes judging by your OI instruction. So I've just used the first 17 bytes. The field LONG must, of course, be 16 bytes on a quadword bo

Re: Q re attaching COBOL program

2013-03-18 Thread Steve Comstock
2. show us the code where your Assembler routine is looking at the return value 3. show us your procedure division header 4. show us where your COBOL program sets the return code we may need more to see the problem, but this is a start (and, no, LE is not making local copies of your parameter). -- Kind

Re: Q re attaching COBOL program

2013-03-18 Thread Steve Comstock
ction, the using statement, and the point in the code where you think RC is getting set. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-355-2752 http://www.trainersfriend.com * To get a good Return on your Investment, first make an investment! + Training your pe

Re: Parameter list changes between calling and called program

2013-03-15 Thread Steve Comstock
s and the AMODE and RMODE settings What kind of Abends are you getting? -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-355-2752 http://www.trainersfriend.com * To get a good Return on your Investment, first make an investment! + Training your people is an excellent i

Re: USS "date" command, subtract one day

2013-03-14 Thread Steve Comstock
variety of options this does account for leap years and such. It's not a shell command, but you could write a very short program that returns the output from the CEEDATE call and then just invoke the program from a shell script. -- Kind regards, -Steve Coms

Re: Enqueue during VSAM REPRO - Who is the culprit

2013-03-11 Thread Steve Comstock
cited earlier says that VSAM ENQs on QNAME VSAM; allocation ENOs on SYSDSN. Does VSAM additionally ENQ on SYSDSN? Which does REPRO use? -- gil -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists

Re: iewl syslin

2013-03-11 Thread Steve Comstock
ctions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-355-2752 http://www.trainersfriend.com * To get a good Return on your Investment, first make an investment!

Re: iewl syslin

2013-03-10 Thread Steve Comstock
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Re: iewl syslin

2013-03-09 Thread Steve Comstock
ace in IEWL sub-program is NOT a CSECT OR SYMBOL WAS NOT FOUND. Is there a way to extract/replace sub-program old for newer without sub-program being a csect? -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send em

Re: iewl syslin

2013-03-09 Thread Steve Comstock
ams; in this case no CSECT is created for the nested programs, so, no you can't replace using the binder (nee Linkage Editor). Do you have the source? Are you really talking about nested programs? That's the only way I know of for a subprogram to be "not defined as an csect".

Re: LE dump (CEE3DMP) performance

2013-03-05 Thread Steve Comstock
Q, RPTOPTS, RPTSTG, STACK, STORAGE, THREADHEAP, THREADSTACK, TRAP, XPLINK, HEAPPOOLS as well as MSGFILE Hoe this helps. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-355-2752 http://www.trainersfriend.com * To get a good Return on your Investment, first mak

Re: Where current HLASM doc?

2013-03-04 Thread Steve Comstock
27;t change the Assembler interfaces. John Ehrman once pointed out to me that even some of the new extended mnemonics are found in the PoO, not the HLASM docs (which is where I expected to find them). -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-355-2752 http://www.train

Re: SAVE macro

2013-02-27 Thread Steve Comstock
12. , ,T ,id name id name: Character string of up to 70 characters or as an *. so the sample exit code is using the &SYS... info in the 'id' string; but there seems to be a punctuation issue in their coding. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-3

Re: Where are the zOS elements and features?

2013-02-27 Thread Steve Comstock
allows you to search an entire shell. Anybody knows what is going on? Best regards, jan I always start here: http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/z/os/zos/bkserv/ and it still works. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-355-2752 http://www.trainersfriend.com

Re: Secure Service Delivery

2013-02-22 Thread Steve Comstock
. It is low by the standards of other professions. Medical doctors, for example, devote as much as 25% of their time to this sort of thing. John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA Ah. I was not clear on what you included in the category. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's F

Re: Secure Service Delivery

2013-02-22 Thread Steve Comstock
in a year. Maybe a little high. I agree there should be some percentage, even 5% (~2.5 weeks) would be pretty good. But not 0%. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-355-2752 http://www.trainersfriend.com * To get a good Return on your Investment, first mak

Re: Secure Service Delivery

2013-02-22 Thread Steve Comstock
money they don't want to spend. Sigh. I will check out the Dovetailed Tech mod recommended by John M. in the other post. Thanks, John, for the info. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-355-2752 http://www.trainersfriend.com * To get a good Retur

Re: Secure Service Delivery

2013-02-22 Thread Steve Comstock
Why? there's no problem writing to a z/OS UNIX file from COBOL. They need to add support for z/OS files before SFTP can be a suitable replacement for FPTS. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-355-2752 http://www.trainersfriend.com * To get a good Return on

Re: USPTO does another goodie.

2013-02-20 Thread Steve Comstock
that_ idea. ;-) -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-355-2752 http://www.trainersfriend.com * To get a good Return on your Investment, first make an investment! + Training your people is an excellent investment * Try our tool for calculating your Return On Inv

Re: Article for the boss: COBOL will outlive us all

2013-02-16 Thread Steve Comstock
L, and more). But we don't see much interest or enlightenment. Very frustrating. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-355-2752 http://www.trainersfriend.com * To get a good Return on your Investment, first make an investment! + Training your people is an e

Re: 2.1 UNIX Enhancements

2013-02-13 Thread Steve Comstock
S UNIX files" using IEBGENER and/or ISPF edit. (IEBGENER is better; it doesn't impose an archaic LRECL/RECFM constraint.) What's the "z/OS Jobs REST Interface", anyway? Sounds like a feature relevant more to batch than to UNIX. -- gil -- Kind regard

Re: JSON format in ISPF Services Guide?

2013-02-07 Thread Steve Comstock
Barbara, Go to http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/z/os/zos/bkserv/ and in the search box in the upper right hand corner do a search on ispf client gateway one of those docs probably has what you're looking for. -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-355

Re: Rejoice! z/OS 2.1 addresses some long term JCL complaints from here:

2013-02-05 Thread Steve Comstock
On 2/5/2013 12:44 PM, Anne & Lynn Wheeler wrote: st...@trainersfriend.com (Steve Comstock) writes: Actually, my understanding was that it went the other way: lots of HASP code was lifted into ASP. There was probably some borrowing in the other direction, too, I would imagine. (For the rela

Re: Rejoice! z/OS 2.1 addresses some long term JCL complaints from here:

2013-02-05 Thread Steve Comstock
complaints from here: Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2013 08:39:10 -0500 Lots of JES2 and JES3 work being done, a lot of it pointing to convergence of the two products. Interesting stuff. Cheers,, -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-355-2752

Re: My Last Days as a Sysprog

2013-02-01 Thread Steve Comstock
here I grew up and I still love the city. Living in the hinterlands would drive me nuts. (OK, it is Friday.) -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-355-2752 http://www.trainersfriend.com * To get a good Return on your Investment, first make an investment! + T

Re: FW: mainframe "selling" points

2013-01-31 Thread Steve Comstock
ss instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-355-2752 http://www.trainersfriend.com * To get a good Return on your Investment, first make an investment! + Training your people is an

Re: mainframe "selling" points

2013-01-29 Thread Steve Comstock
On 1/29/2013 10:40 AM, Don Williams wrote: Hi Steve, Thanks for great reply. More below... Don -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Steve Comstock Sent: Monday, January 28, 2013 11:36 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU

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