Even more ironic to need to APAR the original TWO bytes of code:
00 07FE ... BR 14
-Chip-
On 8/8/11 13:40 Jeff Gribbin said:
... or a very garbled version of the story that the original IEFBR14
didn't clear R15 and so, 'completed' with a non-zero return-code ...
It's said that two
The suggestion of a June date will work better for me as well.
I just returned from EAA Airventure, the largest aviation event in the
world. It's always the last week of July in Oshkosh, WI. As the only
fixed date on my calendar, and with 50:1 odds, you can imagine my
disappointment when I
On 8/2/11 13:31 Kent E. Taylor said:
Oh, please, please, please, not the first weekend in June. I have
another commitment for that weekend
And thus it begins... ;-)
For all the years I organized the Rexx Symposium, we would start out
with a location, set a date that the greatest number
There's a certain modern art simplicity in that image of mod 30's
Marcy, but I'm holding out for the graphic texture and naked power
evinced by the 360/195 maintenance console. You can never have too
many switches and dials. (Hoo! Hoo! Hoo!...)
-Chip-
On 7/6/11 19:08 Marcy Cortes said:
Nice
Hi Ken,
Just out of curiosity, which Rexx language processor are you running?
-Chip-
Past-President, RexxLA
On 6/29/11 22:21 n8ptt said:
(BTW: RE: your comment about REXX, most of our scripts on our linux boxes
is either Perl or REXX).
Sadly, it's become common practice to trash competitors in reviews on
most online sites. So much so that there are companies that will (for
a fee) look for them and delete them for you. (For all I know, the
trashing is being done for a fee as well.) Quite the opportunistic
little
Not to get all Eats, Shoots Leaves here, but one must parse Jeff's
sentence thusly:
z/VM now only _supports_ 3203 printers
That is, z/VM does nothing more than support 3203 printers. What I
suspect he meant to write (and Mike assumed he meant) was:
z/VM now supports _only_ 3203 printers
That sounds a tad odd to me. There's nothing (after installation) in
DMS/CMS that requires R/W access to any of the CMS system disks.
DMS/CMS is/was a great little lightweight 3270 panel application
builder/manager that was 'way easier to use than ISPF, especially with
Rexx. I think it
Yes, but be careful. Try:
EXECIO 1 DISKRU ...
-Chip-
On 6/1/11 14:49 Sergio Lima said:
Hello List,
We want write a REXX EXEC , that do a Update in place.
Another words, I need, read the record 1 from the file, and then rewrite
the same record.
Is possible?
Thanks,
Sergio
There are a few of us alter kocker VMers still knocking around the
area ...
-Chip-
c...@aresti.com
On 4/14/11 16:15 Michael Forte said:
Brad,
Looks interesting. Thank you.
I see a few names on the member list that I recognize.
Maybe I'll see you there.
Micheal Forte
*Michael J. Forte
It appears to me that the zBX is z only in the fact that it will
connect to a z10 or z196 running z/OS and is therefore part of the
zEnterprise. I'm sure it's an improvement in blade server
management but it's not like they announced an IFW...
-Chip-
On 4/12/11 12:34 Davis, Larry (National
I don't see how any sort of meaningful number could be assigned to an
entity to reflect COR service. Everyone will have their own. An RSU
OTOH, floats everybody's boat to the same level, at least for a
while. About the only thing you (IBM) could do is to add a flag that
some service had
Not to take anything away from the solutions already offered, but
wouldn't a Rexx exec (or pipe) that reads the SYSTEM CONFIG file be a
single-source-data solution? I'd rather depend on the accuracy of an
IBM-supplied file than to worry about making sure my (or someone
else's) file keeps up
and
calculators. RxSockets to the rescue!
-Chip-
On 3/3/11 19:30 Michael Coffin said:
The problem is that the executor would need to have access to MAINT CF1.
-Mike
-Original Message-
From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU] On
Behalf Of Chip Davis
Sent: Thursday
that created the Gregorian calendar originally.
-Original Message-
From: Chip Davis
So the best option is to simply forget about the Date('C') option in
the first place and use Date('B') instead. If you have existing code
that you need to convert, you can establish the Date('C') epoch
recent year ending in '00' unless going back or ahead more than a
century or 2.
But I suppose there is a difference or it would have been moot.
*Chip Davis c...@aresti.com*
Be careful with Date('C'). It doesn't really give you the number of
days in the current
Be careful with Date('C'). It doesn't really give you the number of
days in the current century (as it was originally documented). It
returns the number of days since the beginning of the most recent year
ending in '00', e.g. '2000'.
If you are doing any sort of arithmetic with dates, your
At the risk of ignoring his assertion about the length of this thread,
Richard has provided the perfect opening for me to mention Open Object
Rexx. :-)
That's the Open Source evolution of IBM Object REXX, supported by a
team of developers lead by Rick McGuire (an original developer of IBM
Yes you have Harry, and we are very grateful for the hardware
resources. Now if we had someone(s) with the necessary CMS and C/C++
skills (and time) to take a look at the software side of the portage,
we might make some progress.
-Chip-
On 12/17/10 17:21 A. Harry Williams said:
On Fri, 17
Sergio,
It's not clear to me why you are issuing the LISTFILE in the first
place. Is that a necessary function of your (now named) VX EXEC, or
is it left over from your initial attempt to determine which disk your
EXEC was running from?
If stacking the output of the LISTFILE is a
How embarrassing!
I did a couple of quick tests in RexxTry, then proceeded to
cut-n-paste the wrong one.
Mea culpa.
That line should read:
Parse Source . 'EXEC' . +5 fm +1 .
or more succinctly (if less clear):
Parse Source 'EXEC' +5 fm +1
Sorry for the confusion.
-Chip-
On 10/15/10
...and don't forget that the attribute byte (created by the '1Dnn'x)
takes up a space on the screen, so the Say statement in this example
will have two blanks in front of the word error. You won't be able
to change the highlighting between two adjacent characters in a string.
I haven't seen
Respectfully request that in the future you open a New Message rather
then replying to an existing posting when you want to change the subject.
Changing the 'Subject:' line has no effect on threaded email clients,
which will happily bury your posting (and all replies thereto) in the
bowels of
Frank, you're missing a crucial '.' in the Parse on line 4. You are
setting the simple variable 'bbb' to '999', not setting the default
for the stem variable bbb.
-Chip-
On 9/27/10 12:37 Frank M. Ramaekers said:
Hmmmmust be more to it than that:
3 *-* flag=1 (added
And I guess Scott has the honor of the last IBMVM problem solved by
Alan as a developer... :-/
I hope Alan enjoys the deeper, more direct experience he's going to
have with us. If it weren't for all the traveling...
-Chip-
On 9/16/10 00:30 Scott Rohling said:
Ok - #1 helps a little (but
On 9/3/10 21:55 Mike Walter said:
From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_computer_technology_code_names
Just the IBM code names (many of which I've never even heard):
Cadet ? IBM 1620
The 1620 didn't have an arithmetic unit per se, relying instead on
indexed memory references to the
Careful there, Les. Remember that your VM console is still a 3215... ;-)
-Chip-
On 8/18/10 18:47 Les Koehler said:
Not to mention the fact that at the very heart of shell scripting and
Unix commands is the idea that the user is sitting at a 33 baud teletype!
Les
zMan wrote:
Jack Woehr
But it does send the message that her image is important, although my
reaction is more the bubble-headed bleach-blonde, come on at five...
-Chip-
On 7/8/10 17:17 Dave Jones said:
No, it's to stop male readers dead in their tracks and actually read the
article, Marcy:-). It worked on
for zLinux. Note that we need root access to the partition so we can
install the RPM for testing.
Would anyone with the necessary resources be interested in helping out? If so,
please contact David Ashley wdash...@users.sourceforge.net.
Thanks,
-Chip Davis-
On 6/2/10 20:20 McKown, John said:
-Original Message-
Chip Davis
Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2010 3:14 PM
Would anyone with the necessary resources be interested in
helping out?
Wish I could help. However, it is quite possible to run z/Linux on Hercules/390
on an Intel system (Linux
That's because Value is a Rexx Built-in Function. A Rexx function doesn't
know (or care) if it was invoked as a function or Call'ed as a subroutine, as
long as it Return's a value of some sort. Thus,
Say Left('Rexx Rox',4)
is exactly equivalent to
Call Left 'Rexx Rox',4
Say Result
A lot of my students have the same problem so I explain it this way:
The x2y functions all take character strings. If that character string is a
valid value in the base indicated by the 'x' in the function name, it will be
converted into a string representation of that value (if possible) in
On 4/20/10 13:13 Daniel Tate said:
This is the output from SCSIDISC DEBUG.
INFO::Choosen FCP Sub-Channel Device(s)=ALL DEVICES
... from all the available chooses ... :-)
INFO::For 5000 Choosen WWPN(s)=ALL WWPNs
At least it's consistent... :-/
-Chip-
Today the Association for Computing Machinery (of which I have been a member
since 1970) made the following award:
VMware Workstation 1.0, the Software System Award, for bringing virtualization
technology to modern computing environments, spurring a shift to virtual-machine
architectures, and
I think the poster had this dialog in mind:
Doc: You know that if you do this it might hurt, don't you?
Patient: uh, no. Thanks, I'll try not to do that.
On 2/9/10 20:10 zMan said:
Hmm, gotta point out that
The abends can be avoided by changing the workload.
sounds a lot like, Doc, it
On 2/2/10 22:52 Alan Altmark said:
On Tuesday, 02/02/2010 at 03:18 EST, Schuh, Richard rsc...@visa.com
wrote:
And to make matters worse, the only local FTP server I can use is the
one on VM. That makes uploading hundreds or thousands of files a real pain. If
only the distribution had an option
As someone whose first VM install was BSEPP, if that is the _simpler_ process,
it makes me think IBM should hire some Microsofties to design a new system
install mechanism. (Their OS may not _work_ when you get done, but the install
is a relative breeze.)
Seriously, the easy way takes three
Okay, I concede. Even though he's a relative newcomer to VM, Phil's is longer
then mine...
On 1/29/10 16:18 Phil Smith III said:
Chuckie wrote:
At the End of Days, we will be Judged, not by our actions or who we are,
but by the sophistication of our respective PROFILEs. I am ready. Are
Perhaps. But this thread evolved into a best practices discussion. That is a
wide gamut which conceivably extends down to Rexx coding suggestions.
For example, my PROFILE XEDIT checked the first line of the file and if it found
a lower-case character, it 'SET CASE MIXED RESPECT', otherwise it
On 1/16/10 02:17 John McKown said:
On Fri, 2010-01-15 at 20:13 -0600, Rich Smrcina wrote:
On 01/15/2010 08:01 PM, Dave Jones wrote:
Interesting article in The Economist about the return of the
mainframe.
The return of the mainframe Back in fashion
As others have pointed out, DIRECTXA could not find the RPWLIST DATA file, which
should have been on MAINT's 2CC (C) disk.
One of the non-intuitive aspects of the RPWLIST DATA file is that it is required
to be present, even if you do not wish to restrict the passwords in that manner.
Perhaps
I'm sorry to rise to the bait, but the nearly universal misunderstanding of the
MAKEBUF command is one of my sore spots.
PEDANT
There is absolutely nothing about MAKEBUF that provides any sort of separation
of the records in the program stack. Successive reads from the stack will
completely
I guess that was so early that he hadn't implemented the exponential
operator yet... ;-)
Many happy returns of the double-cube day, Mike!
-Chip-
Quoting Jim Bohnsack jab...@cornell.edu:
I have an old exec written by Mike Cowlisha in the early days of REX
(before it was REXX) that I use as
Surely someone has already done this for the Korn shell. Is there such an
analysis for bash?
Or do I need to do it myself?
-Chip-
On 8/19/09 18:34 Patrick Spinler said:
Chip Davis wrote:
Surely someone has already done this for the Korn shell. Is there such
an analysis for bash?
Or do I need to do it myself?
I don't know, but it could be fun to do.
If you want, choose a not too complex task, and write up a REXX exec
having influenced a large part of it
himself. :-)
-Chip-
On 7/14/09 04:35 Alan Altmark said:
On Tuesday, 07/14/2009 at 12:12 EDT, Chip Davis c...@aresti.com wrote:
Jeff, yours may be the earliest reference to saved segments so far. Is
the
named segment you mention the same concept
On Mon, 13 Jul 2009 17:21:29 -0400, Alan Altmark alan_altm...@us.ibm.com
wrote:
Installation of z/VM 6.1 will be just like installation of prior releases.
On 7/13/09 22:39 C. Lawrence Perkins said:
Rats; and I was hoping I could swear off swearing :-)
... or as Lloyd Bridges (McCroskey)
Jeff, yours may be the earliest reference to saved segments so far. Is the
named segment you mention the same concept? That would push implementation of
the idea back into the CP/67 days.
-Chip-
On 7/13/09 20:15 Jeff Savit said:
I was porting
the CP/67 port of LISP/MTS to VM/370, and
Though I'm not sure if it was
On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-Five
I suspect that
Hardly a man is now alive
Who remembers that famous day and year
... when shared segments were implemented in VM.
It seems to me that it predated the VM/370 SEPP/BSEPP days when I started, but
there's
/370, but I'm having trouble tracking it down.
-Chip-
On 7/12/09 09:09 Ivan Warren said:
Chip Davis wrote:
... when shared segments were implemented in VM.
It seems to me that it predated the VM/370 SEPP/BSEPP days when I
started, but there's been many a synapse lost since then.
VM/370 R6
I heard he was hiking the Appalachian Trail ...
-Chip-
On 7/10/09 18:53 Alan Altmark said:
As an aside, I thought he-who-will-not-be-named was on, um, extended
leave for unspecified personal reasons.
2,500 tries over 2 hours is not an attempt to break in, that's a
denial-of-service attack.
Apparently there was a pretty big DOS attack on a number of Federal and other
websites starting on July 4. They hit a ton of sites, and if you stayed up, you
did better than the Treasury Department,
/09 22:08 Mark Post said:
On 7/8/2009 at 2:55 PM, Chip Davis c...@aresti.com wrote:
2,500 tries over 2 hours is not an attempt to break in, that's a
denial-of-service attack.
One attempt every 3 seconds (roughly)? I doubt it. Sounds like a script
kiddie to me.
Mark Post
On 6/8/09 17:05 Michael Harding said:
The early Hollywood depictions tended to feature card sorters or
collators, only occasionally tape drives. Had to have some sort of
visible action. I remember one though (Goliath, I think) about a
computer that was taking over the world, which had a room
Yes, that was the intention of the ANSI Standard Committee's Y2K work. It is
not possible to convert from any of the ambiguous date formats. What should
Date('U', 'Tuesday', 'W') return?
Since the Julian format was defined to have only a two-digit year (yynnn) there
is no way to define an
On 4/3/09 17:29 Alan Altmark said:
It was a tupo.
Wow, that's impressive!
tupo by itself is a 'meta-typo' but coupled with its reference to two releases
of z/VM, that makes it a 'meta-typo pun'.
Definitely Friday-level work, there! :-))
-Chip-
No prob, Phil. I suspect a lot of us old BAL-heads enjoyed it.
-Chip-
On 3/17/09 12:35 Phil Smith said:
My apologies for that earlier post...misdirected.
Deeper philosophical question:
If a man says something and there is no wife to hear him, is he still wrong?
-C-
On 2/3/09 18:17 Alan Altmark said:
On Tuesday, 02/03/2009 at 10:53 EST, David Boyes dbo...@sinenomine.net
wrote:
Question:
Am I wrong?
Ask your wife. Only wives are
siglines, and never annoy Chuckie (I'm sure that one's in there; if not it
should be added too. :-)
Thanks for your cooperations, and we now return you to your regularly scheduled
discussion.
-Chip Davis-
honesty it wasn't that sophisticated and many shops wrote their own.
I left VM at Y2K (kicking and screaming) so I'm not terribly current, but can
anyone recall an example of a VM virus besides XMAS EXEC?
-Chip Davis-
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
versions of those routines. Efforts to port the ooRexx code to VM
and/or TSO has stalled for lack of resources and expertise, not interest or
enthusiasm.
Perhaps you would care to help?
-Chip Davis-
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 11/20/08 13:30 Gentry, Stephen said:
It depends. 8-)
In WORDPOS I would
that WordPos('OCT','Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec') would return a
4 or a 0?
-Chip Davis-
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 11/19/08 00:33 Mark Wheeler said:
The IBM z/VM Operating System IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU wrote on 11/18/2008
03:33:48 PM:
I am trying to run the following code:
code
/* */
date1='12 OCT 2008
ISTR a Austrian RexxLA member developed some tools for doing that sort of thing,
but I don't know if it was TO copybook, or FROM copybook. Drop Thomas Schneider
a note at [EMAIL PROTECTED] and see if he can't help you. He specializes in
conversion tools like that.
-Chip-
On 11/13/08 13:53
On 11/9/08 17:02 Nick Laflamme said:
I know it's no longer Friday, but is there any chance that there will be
a performance of 50 Ways to ABEND your System, music by Paul Simon,
probably at the Friday closing session?
Just store a Fox-Fox in box, Knox...
-Chip-
On 11/8/08 13:30 A. Harry Williams said:
(The Jobusches subsequently got a 50-KB roll of stickers, to keep SHARE well
supplied.)
As in 50 KiloBears ? ;-)
-Chip-
Correct me if I'm wrong Phil, but wasn't the VM bear the creation of the SHARE
VM Project when they were looking for a symbol to represent the most
user-friendly operating system? I know it goes 'way back.
-Chip-
On 11/7/08 12:45 Phil Smith III said:
And some less-sophisticated listservers (one written in Python comes to mind)
/strongly/ encourage the list admin to _not_ munge the headers, causing replies
to go the original poster, not the list. Go figure.
For a true LISTSERVE discussion group, the problem is either a poster who didn't
I can't teach my UNIX classes without caffeine and a vi cheat-sheet.
Fortunately, both are available here:
http://www.thinkgeek.com/homeoffice/mugs/7bbe/
-Chip-
On 8/15/08 16:31 Higgins, Neil S said:
Linux-Unix cheat sheets - The ultimate collection
coding question and
where he declared that topic closed was so much on the mark, that I
saved it and was going to append a reply but, he said the topic was
closed. I think that what he said was right on the mark.
Chip Davis wrote:
With that, and there being no objection, I declare this thread
Thank you, Richard. That is exactly what I was trying to illustrate.
I'm a big fan of Rexx stems and PARSE, and regularly exploit their power. But
there comes a time when one must eschew elegance (and perhaps some efficiency)
on behalf of the poor schmuck who will need to read, understand,
Jul 2008 20:26:50 +, Chip Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In fairness, your problem is not caused by unfamiliarity with formal
logic, but mere lack of clarity.
Brings back memories of the obfuscated C contest. Some of those entries
were brilliant.
If I might suggest an alternative so far
I'm afraid we're gonna have to cite you for a flagrant violation of DeMorgan's
Law, Howard. ;-)
In fairness, your problem is not caused by unfamiliarity with formal logic, but
mere lack of clarity. If I might suggest an alternative so far overlooked:
If \(Left(answer,1) = 'Y' | answer =
I hate to nitpick (okay, I enjoy it actually) but that is in no way a rexx
proc. That's written in EXEC2, the language Rexx was designed to replace.
-Chip-
On 3/6/08 09:15 Vladimir A Skomorokhov said:
for example 2 rexx proc:
1. dfors exec
TRACE ALL
EXEC DFOR 133
EXEC DFOR 134
EXEC DFOR
March 20, 1979. And that double-secret list is hidden in The Rexx Language:
a Practical Approach to Programming by M.F. Cowlishaw, as well as every other
Rexx manual/text on the planet. :-)
-Chip-
On 3/5/08 13:59 Gentry, Stephen said:
When was the 'T' option added!? 8-)
Over sight on my
of which I don't teach) including the
outstanding Installing, Configuring, and Servicing z/VM for Linux Guests.
This course is so popular the instructor's never home. But if you want my
recommendation for a good SysProg jumpstart course, check it out.
-Chip Davis-
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Minor typo.
If year 1970 insert hundred before users, else insert thousand.
In context, it's obvious that the author assumes that the only users our
glass house mainframes supported were on 3270's. (Side bets that Mr. Wallis
is old enough to have ever _seen_ a 3270, anyone?)
-Chip-
On
On the right, of course.:-)
That way, both the prefix area and the next line are both a single keystroke
away. From anywhere on a line, a CR takes you to the beginning of the next
line, a TAB takes you to the prefix area.
And then there's the human-factors aspect of wasting valuable
On 2/20/08 15:57 Rob van der Heij said:
On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 4:44 PM, Chip Davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
That way, both the prefix area and the next line are both a single keystroke
away. From anywhere on a line, a CR takes you to the beginning of the next
line, a TAB takes you
Lionel, I did a fair amount of pure-XEDIT panel design back in the Y2K days,
both by hand (it's not hard) and writing Rexx apps to dynamically generate and
use them. Let's try to carve out some time next week to talk about it.
-Chip-
On 1/31/08 17:44 Lionel B. Dyck said:
I don't have ISPF/VM
Oh man, I *HATE* it when that happens... :-)
Dennis, I commend your courage and candor. We've all been there, and sometimes
managed to slink away unnoticed with an only slightly flattened forehead.
Just think of all the valuable insight we all gained about VM VTOC records from
your
Isn't Alan Altman what you get when you mashup Alan Altmark and Alan
Ackerman...? ;-)
Interesting (tho' apparently irrelevant) wiki entry - was the ship named after
an ancestor?
-Chip-
On 1/10/08 16:06 Rob van der Heij said:
On Jan 10, 2008 4:49 PM, Stephen Frazier [EMAIL PROTECTED]
what happened to it?
-Chip Davis-
Aresti Systems, LLC
On 1/3/08 21:18 Alan Altmark said:
On Thursday, 01/03/2008 at 03:56 EST, Raymond Noal [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Will z/OS, TSO ISPF panels and dialogs work under the z/VM, CMS ISPF
program
product? Is there any degree of compatibility between
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