Re: Searching for IBM Query By Example (QBE) IUP for VM/370 from mid-1970s

2018-07-17 Thread Timothy Sipples
Mark Waterbury wrote: >I am searching to see if anyone can find a copy of the IBM >Query-By-Example product that ran under VM/370 circa the >mid-1970s IBM Program Number 5796-PKT, Query-By-Example for VM/370 CMS, was/is(*) a priced software product. According to this IBM price list from 1984:

Translate a ACS routine in batch

2018-07-17 Thread Gadi Ben-Avi
Hi, Is it possible to translate a ACS routine in Batch? Is it possible to activate a SMS configuration in Batch? I am running z/OS v2.2. Thanks Gadi ? ?? ? ?? ??? ??? ?? ? ??? ?? ??. ?? , ?? ??? ?, ??? ? ??

Re: (OT) Good bye everyone

2018-07-17 Thread suresh chacko
Dear Ed, Best wishes and prayers, Regards, Suresh On Mon, Jul 16, 2018 at 11:23 PM, Edward Gould wrote: > Approximately 2 months I had a life altering incident. > I can no longer function as a sysprog. I resigned my no pay job at the > place I used to donate my time. > I find I can no longer d

Re: (OT) Good bye everyone

2018-07-17 Thread Steve Horein
Thank you sir for sharing your experience and wisdom. Take time to enjoy the sunlight and mother nature around you. I would like to pass along some good advise I learned from an admirable man: enjoy life now Take care of yourself, Steve On Mon, Jul 16, 2018 at 2:23 PM Edward Gould wrote: > Appro

Re: Searching for IBM Query By Example (QBE) IUP for VM/370 from mid-1970s

2018-07-17 Thread Lizette Koehler
Have you tried using Google for it? See if there is anything already Archived? Have you tried posting to the DB2-L group and see if they know anything? To join, if you have not done so, go to idug.org Lizette > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of >

BPX PTRACE PT_CONTINUE always getting EINTR?

2018-07-17 Thread Thomas David Rivers
Does anyone happen to know why the BPX PTRACE PT_CONTINUE request would get a return code of -1 with an errno of EINTR? I seem to be bumping into that for some strange reason; the IBM doc gives a warning that the program should not have a SIGCHLD handler or strange EINTR results would happen, but

Re: REXX as JCL replacement

2018-07-17 Thread Frank Swarbrick
Ah, OK. We didn't have a tape/disk manager. From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of Tony Thigpen Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2018 8:10 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: REXX as JCL replacement All the main disk and tape managers have GDGs. Ton

Re: Linklist and APF

2018-07-17 Thread Seymour J Metz
> Would that have required two storage keys for each job, one for >writable and one for REFR? Yes. > Or, REFR modules could be loaded in key 0, but that might >compromise privacy (with no threat to integrity). I don't recall OS/360 setting the fetch protect bit in private storage. IAC, once you

Re: S0C6 in CSRC4RG1

2018-07-17 Thread Charles Mills
The lines beginning with * aren't C either . You want void *realp ... Also, your second and third lines combine pretty well into one. Cpool *p = (Cpool *)((long)realp & -16)); No one ever said system programming in C was pretty. Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussio

Re: S0C6 in CSRC4RG1

2018-07-17 Thread Steve Smith
Ugh indeed. Me C is getting rusty. void* realp = malloc(1408 + 15); long ip = (long)realp & -16; Cpool* p = (CPool*)ip; sas On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 2:44 PM, Steve Smith wrote: > In assembler, STORAGE provides a BNDRY= keyword, which would be fine, but > this is a Metal C program. malloc prov

Re: S0C6 in CSRC4RG1

2018-07-17 Thread Steve Smith
In assembler, STORAGE provides a BNDRY= keyword, which would be fine, but this is a Metal C program. malloc provides no such thing. Don's suggestion is doable, but it's fugly C code, and amounts to doing vascular surgery wearing oven mitts: *void realp = malloc(1408 + 15); long ip = (long)realp

Re: Am I missing something in SMF 119 SSH subtypes 94 and 95?

2018-07-17 Thread Charles Mills
Not sure about subtype 4, but yes, sure, lots of information is available in lots of subtypes. My question is what is the value of subtypes 94 and 95? There is no way to correlate them with any other subtype, and by themselves they don't seem terribly useful. Charles -Original Message

Re: S0C6 in CSRC4RG1

2018-07-17 Thread Charles Mills
Yeah. Means you need to keep two pointers around: one with the GETMAIN address for use with FREEMAIN and one that is guaranteed quad-aligned -- but that's a small price to pay. Charles -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of D

Re: Am I missing something in SMF 119 SSH subtypes 94 and 95?

2018-07-17 Thread patrickfalcone7
Think some of this is in subtype 4 Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE smartphone Original message From: Charles Mills Date: 07/17/2018 1:09 PM (GMT-05:00) To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Am I missing something in SMF 119 SSH subtypes 94 and 95? I am lookin

Re: S0C6 in CSRC4RG1

2018-07-17 Thread Don Poitras
Add 15 bytes to whatever length you are asking for and copy the pointer. 'And' the last nibble to 0. Voila! quad-aligned pointer. :) In article you wrote: > Thanks Peter, > fwiw, the buffer pool stuff is combined (not packed) into a structure > obtained with __malloc31(). I'll have to researc

Re: S0C6 in CSRC4RG1

2018-07-17 Thread Steve Smith
Thanks Peter, fwiw, the buffer pool stuff is combined (not packed) into a structure obtained with __malloc31(). I'll have to research whether Metal C provides a way to get Quad-word alignment. sas On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 12:18 PM, Peter Relson wrote: > > But who's at fault here... I'm just

Searching for IBM Query By Example (QBE) IUP for VM/370 from mid-1970s

2018-07-17 Thread Mark Waterbury
Hello, all: I am searching to see if anyone can find a copy of the IBM Query-By-Example product that ran under VM/370 circa the mid-1970s ... it was released as an IUP, and was supported directly by IBM personnel working at the IBM Research Labs at Yorktown Heights, NY around 1974 or 1975, IIRC.

Am I missing something in SMF 119 SSH subtypes 94 and 95?

2018-07-17 Thread Charles Mills
I am looking at SMF 119 subtypes 94 and 95 and they appear to me to be darned near useless. Someone please tell me that I am missing something. Sure, there are all the characteristics of the SSH security. But there is no IP address, no (useful) userid, and no session correlator of any kind. So you

GENERT

2018-07-17 Thread Steve Beaver
Cross Listed I did a GENERT, that was OK. However I need to the COUNTY code. How do I undo the GENCERT so I can redo the GENCERT -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to list

Re: S0C6 in CSRC4RG1

2018-07-17 Thread Peter Relson
But who's at fault here... I'm just trying to use the service, and the book says nothing about Q-word aligning anything. AND, it's been working fine for almost 3 years... have I just been lucky that my cell pool getmains were Q-aligned until today? I'd say that it's our fault for not documentin

Re: Linklist and APF

2018-07-17 Thread Seymour J Metz
An unauthorized program can do EXCP with an appendage., as long as it's specified in PARMLIB. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of Charles Mills Sent: Monday, July 16, 2018 12:35 PM

Re: Linklist and APF

2018-07-17 Thread Seymour J Metz
Mostly true, but there is a mechanism for authorized code to run unauthorized subtasks. If you know enough to do it safely then you already know who does it and how. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion

Re: (OT) Good bye everyone

2018-07-17 Thread Seymour J Metz
Ouch! I hope that you manage to get around and find another outlet despite the difficulties. Best of luck.p -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of Edward Gould Sent: Monday, July 16, 2

Re: Linklist and APF

2018-07-17 Thread Seymour J Metz
If the exits are in a non-APF library then the concatenation will not be authorized. If the exits are in an authorized library and have not been audited, it's not my dog. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discu

Re: Migration from DB2 V10 to V11

2018-07-17 Thread Doug
Look at your V11 maintenance that is applied, I vaguely recall a PTF that made V10 unsupported, it is out of support now. Just a thought . Regards, Doug . On Jul 17, 2018, at 08:51, Mark Jacobs - Listserv wrote: Early code mismatch? Chopperla Vrao wrote on 7/17/18 7:33 AM: Hello Can someon

Re: (OT) Good bye everyone

2018-07-17 Thread Joel C. Ewing
On 07/16/2018 02:23 PM, Edward Gould wrote: > Approximately 2 months I had a life altering incident. > I can no longer function as a sysprog. I resigned my no pay job at the place > I used to donate my time. > I find I can no longer do the job. > I hope much success to all of you and hope that yo

Re: Any VTAM service to query an LU?

2018-07-17 Thread Charles Mills
Thanks. > Have you considered writing an SPO (Secondary Program Operator) and issuing > the D NET command you want? I have certainly considered issuing a D NET command and parsing the results. Not an incredibly difficult task I know. I have not quite convinced myself that that is a worthwhile ap

Re: (OT) Good bye everyone

2018-07-17 Thread George Rodriguez
Ed, You will be missed! Good bye and good luck to you! *George Rodriguez* *Specialist II - IT Solutions* *IT Enterprise Applications* *PX - 47652* *(561) 357-7652 (office)* *(954) 415-7586 (mobile)* *School District of Palm Beach County* *3348 Forest Hill Blvd.* *Room B-251* *West Palm Beach, FL.

Re: Migration from DB2 V10 to V11

2018-07-17 Thread Mark Jacobs - Listserv
Early code mismatch? Chopperla Vrao wrote on 7/17/18 7:33 AM: Hello Can someone help me on DB2 V10 to V11 migration related error. So far I have been able to apply fallback PTF's/maintenance and migrate the catalog to V11 CM(DSNTIJTC), till this point things were looking good. When I'm testin

Re: (OT) Good bye everyone

2018-07-17 Thread Mike Shorkend
All the best Ed, you will be missed Mike On 17 July 2018 at 15:08, Tom Marchant < 000a2a8c2020-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > On Mon, 16 Jul 2018 14:23:36 -0500, Edward Gould wrote: > > >Approximately 2 months I had a life altering incident. > >I can no longer function as a syspro

Re: (OT) Good bye everyone

2018-07-17 Thread Tom Marchant
On Mon, 16 Jul 2018 14:23:36 -0500, Edward Gould wrote: >Approximately 2 months I had a life altering incident. >I can no longer function as a sysprog. I resigned my no pay job at the place I >used to donate my time. >I find I can no longer do the job. >I hope much success to all of you and hope

Migration from DB2 V10 to V11

2018-07-17 Thread Chopperla Vrao
Hello Can someone help me on DB2 V10 to V11 migration related error. So far I have been able to apply fallback PTF's/maintenance and migrate the catalog to V11 CM(DSNTIJTC), till this point things were looking good. When I'm testing fallback to V10, started getting an error which complains about

Re: (OT) Good bye everyone

2018-07-17 Thread Steve Thompson
I'm sorry to hear this. And I hate to see you go. I do hope you will find something constructive to do (something you enjoy). I have benefited from this group and appreciate the knowledge and experience here. I have also learned that as different ones leave, there is a hole that is left behi

Re: Symbol syntax (was: Using system sysmbols in a procedure)

2018-07-17 Thread Peter Relson
The syntactic difference and the citation of I&T Ref. lead me to suspect that the substringer is part of the system symbol resolver, at execution time, not of the Reader/Converter. But the interpreter must make the decision, based on the second character following the symbol name. Basically, "y

Re: (OT) Good bye everyone

2018-07-17 Thread Aled Hughes
All the very best Ed, you will be missed on IBM-MAIN. Aled L Hughes -Original Message- Subject: Re: (OT) Good bye everyone -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to list

Re: (OT) Good bye everyone

2018-07-17 Thread Elardus Engelbrecht
Edward Gould wrote: >Approximately 2 months I had a life altering incident. Out of respect, I rather not ask what that incident was. >I can no longer function as a sysprog. I resigned my no pay job at the place I >used to donate my time. No pay job? Ouch, I hope that employer can help you o

Re: (OT) Good bye everyone

2018-07-17 Thread Linda
Hi Ed, I have often benefitted from your insight and voice of experience - as have many others. Thank you. I wish you the very best. Linda Sent from my iPhone > On Jul 16, 2018, at 12:23 PM, Edward Gould wrote: > > Approximately 2 months I had a life altering incident. > I can no longe