What's the intent of the "LOAD AND ZERO RIGHTMOST BYTE" instruction?

Is it Friday yet? The z13 (I think) added this puppy: = LOAD AND ZERO RIGHTMOST BYTE The second operand, with the rightmost byte set to zero, is placed at the first-operand location. For LZRF, the first and second operands are 32 bits, and for LZRG, the first and secon

Re: z/OS 2.4 documentation observation.

Hi All, I just received this handy URL for finding all the z/OS V2.4 PDFs zipped up, and with an index! I've downloaded the file, unzipped it, and done some searches. For what I was looking for, I found what I needed nicely. https://t.co/eKOUGUydO8 -Marna WALLE z/OS Install and Upgrade, IBM P

Re: z/OS 2.4 Announcement Letter

All, For many of the newly announced z/OS V2.4 functions, you might want to get an "education module" from here: https://github.com/IBM/IBM-Z-zOS/tree/master/zOS-Education/zOS-V2.4-Education There are 60+ small PDFs that give good overall description, value, and implementation information speci

Fwd: It's Official: Open-Plan Offices Are Now the Dumbest Management Fad of All Time | Inc.com

For those of you that have to work in that kind of environment or may soon someday. https://www.inc.com/geoffrey-james/its-official-open-plan-offices-are-now-dumbest-management-fad-of-all-time.html or *https://tinyurl.com/y36otmps * Regards, Mark Regan, K8MTR CTO1

Re: z/OS 2.4 Announcement Letter

> >• Basic Regular expressions (BRE) > >• Extended Regular expressions (ERE) > > There seems to be no keyword differentiating these. Does that leave > any ambiguity. Paul, The Extended Regular expressions differs in the meta characters and also support the hex character input. > Using the word

Re: What's the intent of the "LOAD AND ZERO RIGHTMOST BYTE" instruction?

I cannot answer your question, it is probably depending on how the hardware works on different machines. Another question: what is the purpose of this instruction? Is it executed that often that it is worthwhile to make an instruction to replace 2 instructions (Load+AND, MOVE+AND) or is there a

FW: Shopz product orders will NOT be available between August 16, 2019 and August 22, 2019 inclusively

What is wrong with this picture? Their Flagship is available 99.99% of the time. Why can’t the support systems match the availability? BTW, what if someone needs to obtain a PTF in that interval? What do they do then? Refrain: The new tools are neither as reliable, available, or serviceable

Re: It's Official: Open-Plan Offices Are Now the Dumbest Management Fad of All Time | Inc.com

One of our former Mayors used open plan offices for his private buisnesses and tried to get some of the city agencies to convert to them as well. We had a great big floor (with 360 degree views) covered with desks everywhere and I really liked it. I got to know some of what was going on with thin

Re: Shopz product orders will NOT be available between August 16, 2019 and August 22, 2019 inclusively

" We apologize for the inconvenience. " Nowadays this seems very often sufficient to justify not doing what you should do. Kees. > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On > Behalf Of Allan Staller > Sent: 24 July, 2019 14:38 > To: IB

z/OS Upgrade Information

Hello All, You might be wondering, I'm seeing all the z/OS V2.4 books, but where is the z/OS Migration book? As we've announced many moons ago, the Migration book has been removed, and been replaced with the z/OS Upgrade Workflow, found here: https://github.com/IBM/IBM-Z-zOS/tree/master/zOS-Wor

Re: Shopz product orders will NOT be available between August 16, 2019 and August 22, 2019 inclusively

Agreed! IBM would not take down WWW.IBM.COM for 4 days. Why should we have to put up with this attitude? -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Vernooij, Kees (ITOP NM) - KLM Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2019 7:46 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Sh

Re: Shopz product orders will NOT be available between August 16, 2019 and August 22, 2019 inclusively

" In the event of an emergency during this time, please contact your IBM Sales Representative for assistance. Thank you." Perfect - the IBM Sales Rep will know how to get you a PTF in a timely manner that allows you to resolve a Sev 1 issue - right! And I've got some ocean front property for s

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: z/OS 2.4 Announcement Letter

Very neat! – Vignesh Mainframe Infrastructure -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Marna WALLE Sent: 24 July 2019 13:29 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: z/OS 2.4 Announcement Letter All, For many of the newly announced z/OS V2.4 functi

Re: Shopz product orders will NOT be available between August 16, 2019 and August 22, 2019 inclusively

Great minds think alike! -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Lionel B Dyck Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2019 7:54 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Shopz product orders will NOT be available between August 16, 2019 and August 22, 2019 inclusively

Re: Shopz product orders will NOT be available between August 16, 2019 and August 22, 2019 inclusively

If you have a problem in the weekend, your friendly sales representative is of course more than willing to answer your phone calls on Monday after he/she has had his/her first coffee. Kees. > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On

Re: Shopz product orders will NOT be available between August 16, 2019 and August 22, 2019 inclusively

The title of the email is 'Product orders will NOT be available'. Then in the body it states 'Service orders will not be impacted.' PTFS fall under the category of service and not product orders. The easiest way to get any and all PTFS is to use the SMP/E Internet service retrieval process.

Re: Shopz product orders will NOT be available between August 16, 2019 and August 22, 2019 inclusively

Michael - thank you for the clarification. Lionel B. Dyck < Website: http://www.lbdsoftware.com "Worry more about your character than your reputation. Character is what you are, reputation merely what others think you are." - John Wooden -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussi

Using Google Chrome to open IBM z/OS 2.4 Library Index ???

When using Google Chrome with a bookmark to the .pdx for the z/OS library, the pdx opens as a text file. It opens in Adobe Reader just fine using Edge when bookmarked. Any suggestions on how to 'fix' Chrome? tia Lionel B. Dyck < Website: http://www.

Re: Using Google Chrome to open IBM z/OS 2.4 Library Index ???

Windows File Associations? Try w/IE or other to see if it is unique to Chrome -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Lionel B Dyck Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2019 9:24 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Using Google Chrome to open IBM z/OS 2.4 Library I

Re: Using Google Chrome to open IBM z/OS 2.4 Library Index ???

Works fine in IE and in Edge - just Chrome. Already have the file association in Windows set. Lionel B. Dyck < Website: http://www.lbdsoftware.com "Worry more about your character than your reputation.  Character is what you are, reputation merely what others think you are." - John Wooden

Re: z/OS V2R4 product documentation is published!

Thanks Susan, I have a question: the URL references to the PDFs look like they *might* be specific to the update/revision. For example: https://www-01.ibm.com/servers/resourcelink/svc00100.nsf/pages/zOSV2R4sc276806/$file/foto100_v2r4.pdf Is there a stable URL to the "latest" V2R4 pub edition for

Sharing PDSEs in shared DASD Environment

Thisis a simplified description of our environment (for thesake of this discussion)  Weare running  z/OS V2.3 and using CA’ MIM  Wehave two LPARs – LPAR1 Development and LPAR2 Production – there two LPARs areshared DASD but separate JES2 Spools and not SYSPlex. We have"PDSESHARING(NORMAL)" in

Re: Sharing PDSEs in shared DASD Environment

PDSESHARING=EXTENDED and start SMSPDSE1 SMSPDSE (address space) is for "system tasks" SMSPDSE1 is for "user tasks" Check the fine manuals. This is an SMS issue, not a MIM issue. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of S B Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2019 10:23 A

Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: z/OS 2.4 Announcement Letter

So this would be equivalent to the Migration Guide? On Wed, Jul 24, 2019 at 12:54 PM Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh wrote: > > Very neat! > > – Vignesh > Mainframe Infrastructure > > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of > Marna WALLE > Sent: 24 July 2019 13:2

Re: Sharing PDSEs in shared DASD Environment

Starting SMSPDSE1 and enabling PDSESHARING=EXTENDED won't fix Ops problem. Their systems are not in a SYSPLEX, hence PDS/e's can't be shared. Mark Jacobs Sent from ProtonMail, Swiss-based encrypted email. GPG Public Key - https://api.protonmail.ch/pks/lookup?op=get&search=markjac...@protonmai

Re: Using Google Chrome to open IBM z/OS 2.4 Library Index ???

https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95315?co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop&hl=en On Wed, Jul 24, 2019 at 2:32 PM Lionel B Dyck wrote: > > Works fine in IE and in Edge - just Chrome. > > Already have the file association in Windows set. > > > Lionel B. Dyck < > Website: http://www.lbdsoftware.com

Re: Using Google Chrome to open IBM z/OS 2.4 Library Index ???

Thanks - did that - but since they claim they get so many issues that one should not expect a response. Thus posting here to see if anyone has any solution. Lionel B. Dyck < Website: http://www.lbdsoftware.com "Worry more about your character than your reputation. Character is what you are,

Re: Sharing PDSEs in shared DASD Environment

The very short answer is you shouldn't share PDSEs outside of a sysplex. Under certain circumstances, you can get away with it, but you're just asking for problems. However, I'd note that since you're sharing DASD, and master and user catalogs, you don't really have separate development and produc

Re: Sharing PDSEs in shared DASD Environment [EXTERNAL]

You can have a base sysplex and you don't need to share JES spool. I'm going to guess you have different master catalogs for each lpar and you can still keep different master catalogs. Now with a base sysplex you could have a shared SMS and HSM environment if you want, but you don't have to do

Re: z/OS V2R4 product documentation is published!

Hi Kirk, Yes, the URLs are all unique to the release for many reasons that currently trump the convenience of having release-agnostic "latest" URLs. Things always change, so I can't say that it will be like that forever, but it's how the library is structured for now. In case it helps, this

Re: z/OS V2R4 product documentation is published!

Hi Gil and Kees, Interesting - can you point me to an example? Some PDFs that I just tested all have form numbers that I can copy and paste... -Sue Shumway On 7/24/2019 2:05 AM, Vernooij, Kees - KLM , ITOP NM wrote: I agree, a small detail, but a large irritator, seen often. Kees -Ori

Re: Using Google Chrome to open IBM z/OS 2.4 Library Index ???

Thanks for the notice about this weird behavior, Lionel. I'll alert the Collection builder and see if he has any ideas. -Sue Shumway On 7/24/2019 11:47 AM, Lionel B Dyck wrote: Thanks - did that - but since they claim they get so many issues that one should not expect a response. Thus posti

Re: Sharing PDSEs in shared DASD Environment

CA MII doc also says that PDSESHARING(extended) is unsupported across Sysplexes. " CA MII is fully compatible with PDSE resource sharing. CA MII does not modify, enhance, or restrict PDS/E processing in any way. PDSE sharing is limited to a single sysplex in a pure global GRS environment, and

Re: z/OS V2R4 product documentation is published!

Would be nice if the collections could have the control file created so they can be loaded into the SHELF ORGANIZER program, like the z/OS V2R2 books. Matthew On Wed, 24 Jul 2019 14:09:33 -0400, Susan Shumway wrote: >Hi Gil and Kees, > >Interesting - can you point me to an example? Some PDFs t

Re: z/OS 2.4 Announcement Letter

On Wed, 24 Jul 2019 08:30:46 -0400, Sri h Kolusu wrote: >> >• Basic Regular expressions (BRE) >> >• Extended Regular expressions (ERE) >> > There seems to be no keyword differentiating these. Does that leave >> any ambiguity. > >Paul, > >The Extended Regular expressions differs in the meta charac

Re: Sharing PDSEs in shared DASD Environment

The only "moderately safe" way to share PDSE outside a sysplex is read-only, from all LPARs after PDSE creation/population. You can sometimes get away with it if you only update from 1 and only 1 LPAR. But, the latency of the update being noticed by the others can cause issues. Update from 2 or m

Re: z/OS V2R4 product documentation is published!

On Wed, 24 Jul 2019 13:29:05 -0500, Matthew Stitt wrote: >Would be nice if the collections could have the control file created so they >can be loaded into the SHELF ORGANIZER program, like the z/OS V2R2 books. > I believe the index.html file meets the need nicely. Unless you're adamant about usi

Re: Sharing PDSEs in shared DASD Environment

Leaving PDSESHARING(NORMAL) and using DISP=OLD (all the time) MIGHT work. Make sure you have PDSE_BUFFER_BEYOND_CLOSE(NO) in your IDGSMSxx members too. Mark Jacobs Sent from ProtonMail, Swiss-based encrypted email. GPG Public Key - https://api.protonmail.ch/pks/lookup?op=get&search=markjac...

Re: Sharing PDSEs in shared DASD Environment

True. At last the OP has MIM. And GRS to help. My LPARs are all single monoplexes, 4 of them. Not even GRS. PDSE sharing is pretty much only the SYSRES datasets that need to be. Tears ago, I got bit trying to share a vendor distributed PDSE parmlib. Decided then and there that I could live with

Re: Sharing PDSEs in shared DASD Environment

[Default] On 24 Jul 2019 08:24:17 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main 01439e1549b6-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu (S B) wrote: >Thisis a simplified description of our environment (for thesake of this >discussion)  > > >Weare running  z/OS V2.3 and using CA’ MIM  > >Wehave two LPARs – LPAR1 Develop

Re: What's the intent of the "LOAD AND ZERO RIGHTMOST BYTE" instruction?

On Wed, 24 Jul 2019 at 08:35, Vernooij, Kees (ITOP NM) - KLM < kees.verno...@klm.com> wrote: > I cannot answer your question, it is probably depending on how the > hardware works on different machines. > > Another question: what is the purpose of this instruction? I think that's what the OP was

Re: Sharing PDSEs in shared DASD Environment

You cannot share PDSE's across systems not in a Sysplex. Period. If you want to share PDSE's, you have to have the systems in the same sysplex. You do not need a JESPlex, but I believe you will need a GRSPlex to accommodate the enqueues. If you share them, and particularly write to one, you wi

Re: Sharing PDSEs in shared DASD Environment

Thanks for all whoresponded and thank you for your suggestions  – few more points for clarification  Each LPAR has its ownmaster catalog but user catalog are shared (we use different Res Packs during thesystem maintenance). We also use SMS and RACF (also shared)  to separate development vs. p

Re: z/OS V2R4 product documentation is published!

There's a more serious problem: something on your server is broken when downloading PDFs from some clients. You are given an HTTP 400 Bad Request response. Browsers seem to work, but url links in PDFs from two PDF viewers that I tried are completely broken. This makes it impossible to have, sa

Re: Shopz product orders will NOT be available between August 16, 2019 and August 22, 2019 inclusively

On Wed, 24 Jul 2019 at 09:27, Michael Brennan wrote: > The title of the email is 'Product orders will NOT be available'. Then > in the body it states 'Service orders will not be impacted.' PTFS fall > under the category of service and not product orders. The easiest way to > get any and all

Re: z/OS V2R4 product documentation is published!

On Wed, 24 Jul 2019 14:38:14 -0500, Kirk Wolf wrote: >There's a more serious problem: something on your server is broken when >downloading PDFs from some clients. You are given an HTTP 400 Bad Request >response. > >Browsers seem to work, but url links in PDFs from two PDF viewers that I >tried

Re: z/OS V2R4 product documentation is published!

On Wed, 24 Jul 2019 at 14:57, Paul Gilmartin < 000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > >On Wed, 24 Jul 2019 14:09:33 -0400, Susan Shumway wrote: > >> > >>Interesting - can you point me to an example? Some PDFs that I just > >>tested all have form numbers that I can copy and paste.

Re: z/OS V2R4 product documentation is published!

Associations? Doesn't the IBM server send file types? Doesn't Chrome support file types, which have been in HTTP since Old Man Noach cornered the market in Gopher Wood. It s OK o use associations if the server doesn't send file types; it's not OK to ignore the file types that the server send. Ex

Re: Sharing PDSEs in shared DASD Environment

The danger in sharing a PDSE "read-only" is when it get's updated "somehow" by "someone" by "mistake" > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On > Behalf Of S B > Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2019 12:26 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: Sharing PDSEs in sha

Re: JCL disp on abend

It's also common in some shops for an application to trap something like RC 12 and issue a user abend just so that conditional disposition gets executed. . . J.O.Skip Robinson Southern California Edison Company Electric Dragon Team Paddler SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager 323-715-0595 Mobile 626-5

Re: z/OS V2R4 product documentation is published!

I've also tried of course the host www.ibm.com, which just sends back a redirect to www-1.ibm.com (a site management technique not popular for 10 years). Same thing eventually. Even if I could find the magic header to add, it wouldn't be possible to include that in a PDF link. But hey, what

Re: z/OS V2R4 product documentation is published!

On Wed, 24 Jul 2019 20:18:55 +, Seymour J Metz wrote: >Associations? Doesn't the IBM server send file types? Doesn't Chrome support >file types, which have been in HTTP >since Old Man Noach cornered the market in Gopher Wood. (Isn't that metaphor getting kinda stale?) It's OK o use associat

Re: Sharing PDSEs in shared DASD Environment

When we were first pitched COBOL V5 at SHARE, my immediate reaction was: What about shops that share load libraries outside a single sysplex? We were not one of those shops for historical reasons, but I had previous involvement with shops that used one large shared library for use by multiple LP

Re: DASD nostalgia

On Mon, 22 Jul 2019 21:56:22 -0400, William Donzelli wrote: >> I'm thinking that just because one article says the story is urban legend, >> there are more references that talk to the FirstRand I actually being >> installed on a US Navy ship. > Please leave the attribution when you quote text.

Re: DASD nostalgia

> How did they compensate for GR frame dragging? They asked a young lady named Bright, who was a person of some gravity. http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3/humor/GR.pdf -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion Li

Re: z/OS V2R4 product documentation is published!

"Race to the bottom" -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of Paul Gilmartin <000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2019 5:19 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.U

Re: Friday!

You had switches? We had to hard-wire the cores... On Mon, Jul 22, 2019 at 11:01 AM Carmen Vitullo wrote: > same here, but on a Univac processor we had in school, all done by > switches. > > > Carmen Vitullo > > - Original Message - > > From: "Gary Weinhold" > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.E

Re: Sharing PDSEs in shared DASD Environment

[Default] On 24 Jul 2019 12:23:41 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main d...@bkassociates.net (Doug) wrote: >You cannot share PDSE's across systems not in a Sysplex. Period. If you >want to share PDSE's, you have to have the systems in the same sysplex. >You do not need a JESPlex, but I believe you w

Re: What's the intent of the "LOAD AND ZERO RIGHTMOST BYTE" instruction?

Obviously it's for little-Endian 24-bit addressing mode! On Wed, Jul 24, 2019 at 3:18 PM Tony Harminc wrote: > On Wed, 24 Jul 2019 at 08:35, Vernooij, Kees (ITOP NM) - KLM < > kees.verno...@klm.com> wrote: > > > I cannot answer your question, it is probably depending on how the > > hardware work

Re: EQA10OSM

This thread has begotten and promulgated some misnomers, 'TLIB' being prominent. That word is *not* shorthand for 'TARGET LIB'. Unfortunately TARGET has no nickname. DLIB is short for 'DISTRIBUTION LIBRARY', but 'TLIB' is not short for TARGET. To quote from the doc: "SMPTLIB data sets (TLIBs) a

Re: EQA10OSM

I don’t know what debug tool is on the 2.3 ADCD But it had become apparent that it doesn’t work > On Jul 24, 2019, at 7:06 PM, Jesse 1 Robinson wrote: > > This thread has begotten and promulgated some misnomers, 'TLIB' being > prominent. That word is *not* shorthand for 'TARGET LIB'. Unfo

Re: What's the intent of the "LOAD AND ZERO RIGHTMOST BYTE" instruction?

Argh. A "LOAD LOGICAL 24 BITS" would actually still be useful. Of course, we need the other 24 bits :-). LAN (and LAA) are weird instructions. The and part (AND or OR) (does this read like "Alice in Wonderland" yet?) is performed on the *second* operand -- the field in storage. They have some f

Linux address space on z/OS 2.4

Hi Just curious about 2.4 ? Running Linux as an address space in zOS will have an advantage over the linux on zVM ? This is just a question out of curiosity. Jake -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructio

PATH NOT VALIDATED

Hello, I installed the USI VTA to our customer. The tape drives are attached by a single shared channel path. I know BARR ESCON channel's EMIF dose not support, so those tape drives can only be onlined in one LPAR at one point. I tried path online with one LPAR (MIF ID:3 partition), but the

Re: z/OS V2R4 product documentation is published!

Hi Sue, I was talking in general, I am sure if I saw it in IBM publications. Kees. > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On > Behalf Of Susan Shumway > Sent: 24 July, 2019 20:10 > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: z/OS V2R