Re: Why are sophisticated system-level coding examples not available?

2018-11-17 Thread Michael Stein
> However, and this is important, anything and everything you do that uses > authorized services entails exposure of system integrity. It behooves > any organization to ensure that its personnel writing such code are > well-trained and thoroughly knowledgeable about how the system works, > is

Re: Why are sophisticated system-level coding examples not available? [was: RE: Recommended method for accessing secondary access spaces]

2018-11-14 Thread Clem Clarke
I have copied the source code for Jol up to the www.Oscar-Jol.com website. IBM examined and approved the code many years ago. Jol effectively replaces the JCL interpretor and quite a lot of the initiator when using Dynamic Allocation instead of JCL.  It is part compiler with PL/I style

Re: Why are sophisticated system-level coding examples not available? [was: RE: Recommended method for accessing secondary access spaces]

2018-11-14 Thread Joseph Reichman
I was thinking about my last post First off let me say a little bit about background I have had some experience with vendors but it’s very light Doing this type of programming was my passions unfortunately for me I got into it after 2000 when IT destabilized I am fortunate to have a landed a

Re: Why are sophisticated system-level coding examples not available? [was: RE: Recommended method for accessing secondary access spaces]

2018-11-13 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Wed, 14 Nov 2018 04:25:18 +, Chris Hoelscher wrote: > >In Java you have other issues, every programming lanuaages has pluses and >minuses.. > >Indeed they do - without them, adding and subtracting would become quite >difficult > What about COBOL ADD ... GIVING ... ... and LISP?

Re: Why are sophisticated system-level coding examples not available? [was: RE: Recommended method for accessing secondary access spaces]

2018-11-13 Thread Chris Hoelscher
In Java you have other issues, every programming languages has pluses and minuses.. Indeed they do - without them, adding and subtracting would become quite difficult The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain

Re: Why are sophisticated system-level coding examples not available? [was: RE: Recommended method for accessing secondary access spaces]

2018-11-13 Thread scott Ford
itable > to offer certification courses in Windows. > > :> > > :>Peter > > :> > > :>-Original Message- > > :>From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] > On Behalf Of Steve Smith > > :>Sent: Monday, Novemb

Re: Why are sophisticated system-level coding examples not available? [was: RE: Recommended method for accessing secondary access spaces]

2018-11-13 Thread Joseph Reichman
t; > :>Peter > :> > :>-Original Message- > :>From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On > Behalf Of Steve Smith > :>Sent: Monday, November 12, 2018 3:33 PM > :>To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > :>Subject: Re: Why are

Re: Why are sophisticated system-level coding examples not available? [was: RE: Recommended method for accessing secondary access spaces]

2018-11-13 Thread Farley, Peter x23353
[mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Seymour J Metz Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2018 5:04 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Why are sophisticated system-level coding examples not available? [was: RE: Recommended method for accessing secondary access spaces] While I won't

Re: Why are sophisticated system-level coding examples not available? [was: RE: Recommended method for accessing secondary access spaces]

2018-11-13 Thread Seymour J Metz
, November 12, 2018 5:11 PM To: IBM-MAIN@listserv.ua.edu Subject: Re: Why are sophisticated system-level coding examples not available? [was: RE: Recommended method for accessing secondary access spaces] And that was my whole point -- Where are the examples for programmers to see how to do

Why are sophisticated system-level coding examples not available?

2018-11-13 Thread Mike Kerford-Byrnes
Whilst they may be a trifle dated, the Xephon MVS Update publications - available on CBTTAPE - did hold a lot of coding examples covering many aspects of the MVS system. In the past, I have used them to helpful effect. The major issue I encountered was the absence of an index covering all the

Re: Why are sophisticated system-level coding examples not available? [was: RE: Recommended method for accessing secondary access spaces]

2018-11-13 Thread Brian Westerman
While I really wish IBM really would have some better examples than what is in SAMPLIB and SHASSRCE, you really can learn most of what you will need from manuals and the rest of it is (unfortunately for me) trial and error. When you are developing Systems programming code, if you son'e have an

Re: Why are sophisticated system-level coding examples not available? [was: RE: Recommended method for accessing secondary access spaces]

2018-11-12 Thread Farley, Peter x23353
ailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Tony Thigpen Sent: Monday, November 12, 2018 8:28 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Why are sophisticated system-level coding examples not available? [was: RE: Recommended method for accessing secondary access spaces] Speaking as a vendor. There

Re: Why are sophisticated system-level coding examples not available? [was: RE: Recommended method for accessing secondary access spaces]

2018-11-12 Thread Tony Thigpen
Speaking as a vendor. There are several interfaces that I had to invest a *lot* of time to get working right. And using those interfaces is what makes my products efficient and market worthy. If I were to publish some of my interface code, some new guy would have 75% of a product that can

Re: Why are sophisticated system-level coding examples not available? [was: RE: Recommended method for accessing secondary access spaces]

2018-11-12 Thread Doug
ERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Why are sophisticated system-level coding examples not available? [was: RE: Recommended method for accessing secondary access spaces] Then the not-yet-available examples ought to include all the error recovery infrastructure needed to assure the least system impact possible. Like

Re: Why are sophisticated system-level coding examples not available? [was: RE: Recommended method for accessing secondary access spaces]

2018-11-12 Thread Charles Mills
- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Farley, Peter x23353 Sent: Monday, November 12, 2018 3:26 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Why are sophisticated system-level coding examples not available? [was: RE: Recommended method for accessing

Re: Why are sophisticated system-level coding examples not available? [was: RE: Recommended method for accessing secondary access spaces]

2018-11-12 Thread Charles Mills
+1 Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Farley, Peter x23353 Sent: Monday, November 12, 2018 3:26 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Why are sophisticated system-level coding examples not available

Re: Why are sophisticated system-level coding examples not available? [was: RE: Recommended method for accessing secondary access spaces]

2018-11-12 Thread Lou Losee
Just my $.02... Back when I was learning to program I was told the best way to learn to program well was to read well-written code. Lou -- Artificial Intelligence is no match for Natural Stupidity - Unknown On Mon, Nov 12, 2018 at 4:21 PM Paul Gilmartin <

Re: Why are sophisticated system-level coding examples not available? [was: RE: Recommended method for accessing secondary access spaces]

2018-11-12 Thread Farley, Peter x23353
day, November 12, 2018 5:54 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Why are sophisticated system-level coding examples not available? [was: RE: Recommended method for accessing secondary access spaces] There are a large number of parts to make sure that things are done the right way, and that a f

Re: Why are sophisticated system-level coding examples not available? [was: RE: Recommended method for accessing secondary access spaces]

2018-11-12 Thread Binyamin Dissen
ailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Steve Smith :>Sent: Monday, November 12, 2018 3:33 PM :>To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU :>Subject: Re: Why are sophisticated system-level coding examples not available? [was: RE: Recommended method for accessing secondary access spaces] :> :>There

Re: Why are sophisticated system-level coding examples not available? [was: RE: Recommended method for accessing secondary access spaces]

2018-11-12 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Mon, 12 Nov 2018 22:11:15 +, Farley, Peter x23353 wrote: > >Of course, all that isaancient history now. No university or education center >offers anything like that anymore. Much more profitable to offer >certification courses in Windows. > Marist? But still, a limited choice. -- gil

Re: Why are sophisticated system-level coding examples not available? [was: RE: Recommended method for accessing secondary access spaces]

2018-11-12 Thread Farley, Peter x23353
gt; (peter.far...@broadridge.com) wrote about "Why are sophisticated > system-level coding examples not available? [was: RE: Recommended > method for accessing secondary access spaces]" (in > ): > > > Not jumping on Ed Jaffe or Peter Relson or any of the other > > t

Re: Why are sophisticated system-level coding examples not available? [was: RE: Recommended method for accessing secondary access spaces]

2018-11-12 Thread Edward Finnell
I was in several of the OCO sessions at SHARE. They were heated but in summary there were two major points. Intellectual property(the clones were trying to reverse engineer MVS), change control-Hursley was saying the large majority of their problems were coming from modified IBM code. Our post

Re: Why are sophisticated system-level coding examples not available? [was: RE: Recommended method for accessing secondary access spaces]

2018-11-12 Thread Steve Smith
, 2018 at 1:56 PM David W Noon < 013a910fd252-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > On Mon, 12 Nov 2018 18:13:30 +, Farley, Peter X23353 > (peter.far...@broadridge.com) wrote about "Why are sophisticated > system-level coding examples not available? [was: RE

Re: Why are sophisticated system-level coding examples not available? [was: RE: Recommended method for accessing secondary access spaces]

2018-11-12 Thread Farley, Peter x23353
n't be trying to use these techniques. Peter -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Monday, November 12, 2018 3:19 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Why are sophisticated system-level coding ex

Re: Why are sophisticated system-level coding examples not available? [was: RE: Recommended method for accessing secondary access spaces]

2018-11-12 Thread Ed Jaffe
On 11/12/2018 10:56 AM, David W Noon wrote: I think most of the low-level techniques were derived from code seen on the IBM-supplied microfiche (remember that?) that arrived with MVS installation media. It would benefit the mainframe industry if microfiche (or a more modern medium) were

Re: Why are sophisticated system-level coding examples not available? [was: RE: Recommended method for accessing secondary access spaces]

2018-11-12 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Mon, 12 Nov 2018 10:52:02 -0800, Charles Mills wrote: >+1 >I would say that sometimes right after a feature comes out there is a >presentation at SHARE, e.g., "How to use the new PC-ss facility." That is not >optimal if your first need to use PC-ss comes five or ten years after it first >is

Re: Why are sophisticated system-level coding examples not available? [was: RE: Recommended method for accessing secondary access spaces]

2018-11-12 Thread David W Noon
On Mon, 12 Nov 2018 18:13:30 +, Farley, Peter X23353 (peter.far...@broadridge.com) wrote about "Why are sophisticated system-level coding examples not available? [was: RE: Recommended method for accessing secondary access spaces]" (in ): > Not jumping on Ed Jaffe or Peter

Re: Why are sophisticated system-level coding examples not available? [was: RE: Recommended method for accessing secondary access spaces]

2018-11-12 Thread Charles Mills
2, 2018 10:14 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Why are sophisticated system-level coding examples not available? [was: RE: Recommended method for accessing secondary access spaces] Not jumping on Ed Jaffe or Peter Relson or any of the other thoughtful and helpful responders in this e

Why are sophisticated system-level coding examples not available? [was: RE: Recommended method for accessing secondary access spaces]

2018-11-12 Thread Farley, Peter x23353
Not jumping on Ed Jaffe or Peter Relson or any of the other thoughtful and helpful responders in this email chain, but it still rankles me that there are no good examples anywhere (not at IBM and not at CBT) for programmers to review that show exactly how to set up and use "SRB to the other