regarding stuff I had not
thought about recently.
Mike Myers
On 11/4/20 10:52 PM, Seymour J Metz wrote:
I'm editing the wiki article on EXCP, and I'd like to correct what it says
about appendages. I couldn't find any documentation on the environment in which
appendages run, alth
annel programs" as in ISAM and BDAM
and in "seldom ending channel programs" more recently in ASM, where a
channel program already running and performing paging I/O could add new
page I/O to the running channel program as more page in or page out
requests occurred.
Mike Myers
On 11/4/
On 11/4/20 10:52 PM, Seymour J Metz wrote:
I'm editing the wiki article on EXCP, and I'd like to correct what it says
about appendages. I couldn't find any documentation on the environment in which
appendages run, although I'm fairly certain that it's PASN, SRB and all the
usual suspects. Wiki
g a sandbox LPAR. If you ever get to STARTIO that suggestion
should rise to a requirement.
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Technical Architect
Syncsort, Inc.
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EXCP and EXCPVR.
https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSLTBW_2.1.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r1.idas300/eyocp.htm
Mike Myers
On 2/8/20 12:48 PM, Erik Janssen wrote:
Hello List,
Out of curiosity I want to learn a bit more about startio. Don't worry, I won't go and
attempt to mess up som
through the switches changing code and single stepping while watching a
tape drive to see if it was reacting as desired. It was an obvious
exercise in doing things directly in machine language, which was pretty
impressive to a new assembler programmer like myself at the time.
Mike Myers
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Venkat:
SMF 118 records are TCP/IP records. Subtype 70 records are cut for each
completed FTP server transaction.
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On 05/28/2017 05:17 AM, venkat kulkarni wrote:
Hello All,
We are in the process of converting FTP jobs to SFTP and many of the jobs
are
the file was a USS or MVS file.
As I recall, I did have to turn on SMF record creation in TCP/IP, which
were not being generated by default.
Mike Myers
Vice President
z/OS consultant
Mentor Services Corporation
On 05/16/2017 05:47 PM, Sasso, Leonard wrote:
A customer transmits, via SFTP, a
Check Mark Zelden's web site for EDMACALL. I believe it does what you want.
Mike Myers
Mentor Services Corporation
On 04/19/2017 03:35 PM, R.S. wrote:
I have an edit macro for issuing another macro against all member is a
given library.
It works OK, but in "attended" mode - ever
Hey Connor:
My name is Mike Myers and I am a long-time (51 years) mainframe systems
programmer. I am presently involved in a Dept. of Labor project with NC
A&T State University, IBM, SHARE and several others to bring
under-served communities (women, minorities, veterans, etc.) into
mainf
onunciation/
the one above as a poem: http://ncf.idallen.com/english.html
Mike Myers
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(919) 341-5210 - office
On 03/13/2017 05:28 PM, Jesse 1 Robinson wrote:
"English is a _stupid_ language." Every language is stupid in its own way, some
m
Warren:
My God, you've been around even longer than me. I only joined IBM on
Nov. 9, 1964 and started programming school the day before OS/360 went
GA. How many other old f***s (friends) have we out here on this forum?
Mike Myers
Mentor Services Corporation
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On 03/09/20
those manuals. I don't recall what came from the
results of our study (probably some ineffective lawsuits), as I soon got
reassigned to something more interesting, like the design of Data In
Virtual.
Mike Myers
Mentor Services Corporation
On 02/23/2017 09:43 AM, Mike Cairns wrote:One of th
se are
Dana
On Mon, 20 Feb 2017 10:10:25 -0500, Mike Myers wrote:
Radislaw:
Thanks for the idea. Actually, I am keeping the old HMC. What I am
trying to work out is if I can simply install an ethernet card in the
HMC to resolve the problem. I am about 2 hours remote from the HMC so I
have not
failure is on the private (HMC-SE) LAN side, especially
since I can't access the SE. I am hoping that a simple replacement of
the ethernet card (assuming there is one) will solve the problem.
Mike
On 02/20/2017 08:53 AM, R.S. wrote:
W dniu 2017-02-19 o 02:55, Mike Myers pisze:
Hello all:
I
Parwez:
Thanks for the detailed info. ]I haven't personally seen the HMC for
some time as I provide remote support. I know it is a mini-tower, so I
guess it is the 8485, which should hopefully have an expansion slot or
more for a replacement or additional ethernet adapter card. I am going
to
Parwez:
Thanks for the reply. The HMC is a 2827-HA1.
Mike
On 02/19/2017 03:06 AM, Parwez Hamid wrote:
It depends on your HMC PC model. Some older HMCs had Ethernet cards and the
'newer' ones have Ethernet ports built-in the motherboard of the HMC PC.
The minimum info the SR would need is the
card? if you need any specific model information for the HMC, let me
know and I will send what I have.
Mike Myers
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I did using Control
Interval access in a VSAM data set. I believe that the idea was later
used as a basis for PDS/E and HFS, although by the time both of these
came along, I had left IBM and gone into consulting
Mike Myers
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On 02/10/2017 08:53 PM, Edward Finnell wrot
only with
teletypes). So while it may have been in use elsewhere with IBM gear, I
had no experience with it on any IBM equipment I ever came into contact
with. Punched cards, yes, that's a whole different story and that went
on for a long time thereafter.
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as you are
hearing here.
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Mentor Services Corporation
On 01/13/2017 03:35 PM, David W Noon wrote:
On Fri, 13 Jan 2017 14:21:58 -0600, Tom Marchant
(000a2a8c2020-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu) wrote about "Paper tape
(was Re: Hidden Figures)" (in
<374247611601733
a may likely be
present from its last use. That is unless subsequent versions were
modified to clear any newly GETMAINed storage.
Mike Myers
Mentor Services Corporation
Technical Team Lead for VSM and RSM development for the first release of MVS
On 01/07/2017 04:19 PM, Binyamin Dissen wrote:
On Sat
Alan:
I would be interested if this can be done remotely. If so, please fill
in the details. I am in Goldsboro, NC an hour east of Raleigh. I am a
long-time z/OS sysprog.
Mike Myers
On 12/12/2016 04:51 PM, Alan Haff wrote:
I work for a multinational ISV and we have an opening for a z/OS
OK, thanks for that info.
Mike
On 11/30/2016 05:25 PM, Edward Finnell wrote:
Attachments are permitted for .txt.
In a message dated 11/30/2016 12:30:40 P.M. Central Standard Time,
m...@mentor-services.com writes:
I don't believe that we can attach files on this listserv, so here it is
'of the concatenation order for file: 'filename
end
otherwise say 'Invalid option: 'option' only TOP, BOTTOM or ',
'REPLACE allowed.'
end
/*
End of processing, set up to execute REXX p
t when I have to get a bigger PC to update my Windoze system to the
next version :-).
Mike Myers
Senior z/OS systems programmer and consultant
Mentor Services Corporation
on the saOn 09/06/2016 02:35 PM, R.S. wrote:
W dniu 2016-09-06 o 13:39, Elardus Engelbrecht pisze:
John Eells wrote:
What&#
r all these years. My Poughkepsie group had to do a lot of
scrambling to recode ASM to meet our performance requirements in order
to get an acceptable page fault path length when we were doing the
system build
Mike Myers
z/OS systems programmer and consultant
Mentor Services Corporation
On 09/05
that the compiler would not generate (like PTLB).
Mike Myers
z.OS systems programmer and consultant
Mentor Services Corporation
On 09/03/2016 09:03 PM, J R wrote:
That may not reliably indicate "size" in lines of PL/S code. As I recall, the
vast majority of modules were migrated
t the deviation for performance reasons.
Maybe if you compared PL.S lines to C/C++ lines, you might get closer
to grapefruit to oranges :-).
Mike Myers
z/OS systems programmer and consultant
Mentor Services Corporation
On 09/03/2016 05:21 PM, Mick Graley wrote:
I think we're comparing app
Take a look at Appendix A in the HMC Operations Guide (C28-6881). It has
a table which lays out HMC tasks by the default HMC user IDs.
Mike Myers
Mentor Services Corporation
On 06/12/2016 12:40 PM, Mark Zelden wrote:
On Sun, 12 Jun 2016 00:52:07 +, Jesse 1 Robinson
wrote:
This has
using QUIESCE is that you can back out and reactivate
the system with PSW restart if SFM is not active or you can beat it to
the punch and will not lose the member.
Mike Myers
Senior z/OS Systems Programmer and Instructor
Mentor Services Corporation
Goldsboro, NC
(919) 341-5210
On 06/06/2016 07:44
The 360-mod 40 in the Field Engineering Education Center in Poughkeepsie
had 64K in 1968. We were using it to train PSRs for OS/360.
Mike Myers
Mentor Services Corporation
On 02/24/2016 10:34 PM, Lizette Koehler wrote:
I was trolling for information on what the 360 indicated in the System/360
programming standards.
Mike Myers
Mentor Services Corporation
On 02/11/2016 12:44 AM, Robert A. Rosenberg wrote:
At 20:43 -0800 on 02/10/2016, Steve Beaver wrote about Re: AW: Re: You
thought IEFBR14 was bad? Try GNU's /bin/tru:
I would absolutely love to see someone code the TEXT-UNITS
;ll help you get
further.
Mike Myers
Senior z/OS systems programmer and consultant
Mentor Services Corporation
02/04/2016 07:54 AM, Elardus Engelbrecht wrote:
Binyamin Dissen wrote:
PSAAOLD->ASCB (ASCBASID)
That chasing of the pointers should work.
Vignesh wrote:
:>If I'm running a
orage address, but an offset that exceeded the size of the
actual obtained area.
Mike Myers
Mentor Services Corporation
On 12/02/2015 10:07 AM, Peter Hunkeler wrote:
Allocating 100 MB area, I found that the first page in the newly allocated area
always seems to be backed by real storage upon r
still operating east of I-95
in NC and that would be at BB&T in Wilson, NC. If there are others, I
would be interested in knowing where these might be. I know there are
several west of I-95.
Mike Myers
Mentor Services Corporation
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On 02/03/2015 08:03 AM, Anil Kumar wrote:
Hi All,
Good Day. Being part of the command center we provide monitoring services to
various re
s needed on the
HMC. I made the change in Firefox on both Linux and Windows.
Mike Myers
Mentor Services Corporation
On 01/27/2015 02:32 PM, Carole Slagh wrote:
We are having a problem where Firefox 35.0.1 will not allow a web connection to
our HMC SSL V3.0 with error:
Firefox cannot guarant
In Windows Vista, I see only Java 7 Update 45.
Mike
On 01/21/2015 12:03 PM, Mike Schwab wrote:
In Windows, click on Start, Control Panel, Add programs or Programs
and Features, what Java versions are installed?
On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 9:17 AM, Mike Myers wrote:
Elardus:
Thanks for the
2015 08:58 AM, Elardus Engelbrecht wrote:
Mike Myers wrote:
... but it seems that my workstation systems have probably changed java
versions/levels in recent months, as now I am not able to get the Integrated
3270 console pop-up on either Ubuntu Linux (12.04) or Windows (Vista pro or 7).
You
can I change the protocol at the HMC itself, and, if so, how?
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NC A&T University
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Jim:
Thanks for the update. Yes, I was referring to the old quickcell
functions that I wrote for the first release of MVS. And on thinking it
over, there would have been no mapping macro for the cell, as the
unpredictable size would (chosen by the pool creator) would not motivate
one. There w
Hey Jim:
Thanks for letting me know that my memory still works. I hadn't found
the mapping macro for the quickcell element yet and was going on
memories dating back to what I coded in 1973. Thank you very much for
the corroboration.
An old system programmer...
Mike
On 11/18/2014 10:17 PM,
cell
in the pool, as I remember. So, yes, it's fair to say that once you free
a pool element it's contents won't be expected to have any relationship
to what it contained when you owned it.
Mike Myers
On 11/18/2014 08:32 PM, Charles Mills wrote:
I am trying to shoot a bug. I *k
Greg:
I'm not a member of SHARE, but I would sure like to see that
presentation (or at least the list of "exposures"). Can I get it somewhere?
Mike Myers
On 08/07/2014 05:31 PM, Greg Boyd wrote:
Make sure you properly secure the HMC. Paul Robichaux (from NewEra Softw
tions applied. In addition, you had to jump through some hoops
annually to renew your license by proving that you were developing a
product that would run on the same zSeries system. Did you also find
anything along these lines needed for the annual renewal of this offering?
Mike Myers
Mentor Ser
aset which put carriage
control character in the first byte for each 80 byte line.. You can still use
the original file transfer method as long as you specified binary transfer.
Jon Perryman.
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From: Mike Myers
So far, things are working using Ed Finnell'
fferent" mean
"non-z/OS"? I assumed otherwise.
Does "disconnected" mean FTP is unavailable? There must be some
connection. But not TCP/IP?
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Subject: Xmitting file between disconnected s
ractive*
*Data* *Transmission* *Facility* *file.* *The* *first* *record* *is:
*If the CBT tape can transfer files in this manner, it must be
manageable, but I must have missed something. What am I missing?
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Subject: Re: Application development paradigms [was: RE: Learning Rexx]
Peter:
Your mention of CMS on MVS brings back memories. Karl Finkemeyer and
velop it if IBM gave it up).
Mike Myers
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On 01/01/2014 02:23 PM, Farley, Peter x23353 wrote:
PMFJI here, but IMHO the pipeline paradigm, though obviously powerful and
useful, is not the major advantage of VM and CMS over z/OS and TSO for
developers, Rexx or othe
riginally intended for your GO step, but remember to remove the GO.
parts of these DD names.
This should do it for you. There are other ways you could handle this,
but I thought this was the easient fo explain and hope it will beef up
your understanding of JCL. Good luck.
Mike Myers
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On 05/08/2013 01:45 PM, Ron Thomas wrote:
Hi ,
Can some one let me know why the return code generated is a mutilple of 4? e.g
4,8,12,16
Tha
s still in the code being
shipped today.
Mike Myers
Mentor Services Corporation
On 03/04/2013 01:38 PM, Gerhard Postpischil wrote:
On 3/4/2013 11:46 AM, Tony Harminc wrote:
Perhaps they were early RISC programmers...
Possibly, but IEFSD095 also uses BXH (for the non-obvious function of
shifti
r
its own Ethernet connections.
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On 11/19/2012 05:28 AM, Quasar Chunawala wrote:
*Hi Shmuel and everybody on the list -*
*
*
I would like to address any matter at
http://www.mainframes360.com/2012/11/tso-and-ispf.html which requires *
correction*. *If any of the
M, as I quit to become a
consultant, due to my dissatisfaction with the project as a whole. That
was in 1984.
Mike
On 11/18/2012 09:37 PM,
In <50a8f4de.6020...@mentor-services.com>, on 11/18/2012
at 09:46 AM, Mike Myers said:
To begin, MFT is pretty ancient (although I was a
r address-space remains *swapped-in* atleast
for the "*think-time*" period. The *think-time* is an externally-controlled
parameter. Once the "think-time" elapses, the address-space is *logically
swapped-out*? Does this apply today as well?
- Quasar.
On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 12:41
PM, Quasar Chunawala wrote:
Hi Mike -
Thank you very much for your reply. I have just another questions. I have
put them inline, in the body of your e-mail in *red *color.
On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 9:52 PM, Mike Myers wrote:
Hi Quasar:
Back in the very beginning (OS/360 MVT in 1971), TSO was introduce
would
retain use of its existing pages in main storage. This saved the I/O and
CPU time needed to perform the actual swap in.
In today's version (z/OS) this action still occurs, although we are
inclined to use the component name WLM (WorkLoad Manager) when
describing the functions I
list entry
EXEC is the call to your REXX exec with any parameters
LINK is the offset in one list entry to a pointer to the next list entry
Mike Myers
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On 09/17/2012 01:22 PM, Dave Day wrote:
Looking at an SVC dump of my application. Dump was produced by my FRR
when the
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