I would assume the goal to be 'use PC disks as mainframe DASD'.
On Sat, Jul 4, 2020 at 3:46 AM kekronbekron
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> Would love to know more about what your FICON buddy is working on Grant.
> If you wanna share (prefer off-list?), please email :)
Hi All,
Is it possible to configure PCOMM (V6, if it matters) to use a font of choice?
Specifically, I'm interested in "Lucida Console" font, which displays better,
clearer at any size.
Thanks
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Thank you Giliad, good to know that there's at least one other person who cares
about fonts in 3270!
>From what I remember, PCOMM 13.x added support for font scaling, so that
>should help things look better, I'd assume.
However, as for font choice itself, I think it's still the same bunch.
Now t
The easiest hardware upgrade by far is turning on more CPs or bumping
the aggregate CP capacity on existing hardware. Raising the MSU
capacity on existing hardware never decreases software cost and usually
increases software costs, sometimes very significantly. Note that Jesse
refers to a CPU up
I mange a data center where we provide both 'out-sourcing' and DR
facilities. Several years ago, we tried to put some sort of co-op
together for developers or hobbyist, but nobody seemed interested.
I have extra processors on hand and I also have other processors that
are used only at specific
I was using the term 'CPU upgrade' loosely as going from one 'model' to another
with or without a change in technology. It's true that IBM offers (sometimes
deep) software discounts for technology upgrades. IBM, however, is only one
player. Not long after tiered pricing was foisted on us, ISVs j
Hello Group
Apology for being ignorant.
Is there a formula or any constraints for initialising a specific dasd Mod ?
How do arrive to a specific vtoc and index value while initialising a dasd ?
Please help me to understand
Peter
IBM guidelines are to support a volume filled with minimum sized
datasets (1 track / 21 cylinders EAV).
https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSLTBW_2.2.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r2.ickug00/ick40743.htm
On Sat, Jul 4, 2020 at 5:12 PM Peter wrote:
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> Hello Group
>
> Apology for being ignorant.
>
It depends
If the volume would have one dataset on it, like my SPOOL Volumes, then they
are very small
If like in my TSO Pool there are lots of tiny (15 track or less) then I make
them huge.
So it all depends on
What the intent of the volume is (1 dataset vs Many Datasets)
What size the volum
Dear lister,
I am learning assembler on my own, i have something strange that i can't
explain , please help me to understand
Here is a section of my code :
608 DBLWORD DS DDBLE WORD
609 PATTERN6 DC X'402020202120'
610 *
611 REPORTO7 DS 0CL274
612 OW0007DB DS XL2
613 OW
It is not 4 bytes, it is just that the following field is full word aligned. If
the following field were FL4 rather than F, you will see the alignment change.
I think there is an option to turn off alignment, but don't remember ever using
it.
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I tried the option NOALIGN when assembling , and it is OK now.
So it means that i should examine my assembling listing to check if variables
are not separated by some bytes for the alignement ?
When i put all the variable to Character type i don't have any aligment ...
In my case i see the prob
Right. It is two bytes. It occupies two bytes, 804 and 805. The assembler has
then inserted two bytes of unused slack to that the following field -- defined
as a fullword -- is fullword (multiple of four) aligned.
Charles
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So in REPORT07, you have: 0CL274. This will not reserve any storage,
because the multiplier is zero. (7FE).
In the next variable, you have XL2. This is hex, length 2. Notice the
location counter is at exactly the same place at REPORT07. (7FE).
In the next variable you have XL2 again. This is hex,
The question on my mind is "What did you want to achieve?"
If you wanted an aligned fullword for OW0007AC then you need to decide
whether to align REPORT07 2 bytes after a fullword boundary (precede it
with CNOP 2,4 from memory) or whether you want slack bytes in the record.
Back in the olde daze
OW0007OB is only 2 bytes followed by 2 unused bytes.
The reason is that OQ0007AC is defines as a full word and thus has to be
full word aligned at address 000804. If you had defined OW0007AC as just
XL4 it would've started at 000802. Similarly, if you had defined it as D,
then it would have to b
Hi Nguyen,
In practice I don't think the NOALIGN option is used very frequently, probably
because some instructions have alignment dependencies and will generate an
error or warning when the instruction operand is not aligned as expected. There
are undoubtedly exceptional cases where NOALIGN m
On Sat, 4 Jul 2020 22:34:47 +0100, Rupert Reynolds wrote:
>The question on my mind is "What did you want to achieve?"
>
>If you wanted an aligned fullword for OW0007AC then you need to decide
>whether to align REPORT07 2 bytes after a fullword boundary (precede it
>with CNOP 2,4 from memory) or wh
I am not sure what you are trying to achieve in the big picture but assembler
is not something you can spend a short time on and expect to have something
that works.
Rexx -- you could study it for 5 minutes and be able to write SAY "Hello World"
and you would have a working first program. Not s
> (Do CCWs still require doubleword alignment? PSWs? STCK? CDS?)
Yes.
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> Back in the olde daze, (not sure whether it is still true), loading a
> register from an address not aligned would cause an abend, or poor
> performance.
The change came with the byte oriented operand feature of the 360/85, and only
applied to unprivileged instructions. If your code depended on
Incorrect.
STCK does not show such a restriction.
On Sat, 4 Jul 2020 23:39:44 + Seymour J Metz wrote:
:>> (Do CCWs still require doubleword alignment? PSWs? STCK? CDS?)
:>
:>Yes.
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Should
> Before anyone gets upset,
If anybody gets upset it will be because of "just because you feel z/OS ought
to be free (as in beer"; few if any posters here have suggested such a belief.
What I have seen is posters asking for affordable hobbyist license fees.
I'm not the one suggesting the co-op,
> STCK does not show such a restriction.
You're correct. Neither does STCKE. Thanks.
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> Funny though, because isn't this exactly what Time Sharing Option was,
> when it was first introduced?
TSO was a way to run unprivileged applications interactively, with internal
users, external users or a mixture. Authorized commands, TESTAUTH, etc. came
much later. CP=67 is a better model f
> Pennies. The Toolkit is highly worth it.
I was only confirming Steve's understanding that it was sepatrly priced, not
arguing against licensing it. In fact, I consider it almost mandatory that
developers use control flow macros, and the Toolkit set is the obvious one to
standardize on.
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To clarify, I believe that such a co-op would need to identify the potential
issues and hash them out up front in order for the idea to be viable. In some
cases there could be a consensus, in others an arbitrary choice might be
necessary. What is important is avoiding unpleasant surprises as muc
If SSI doesn't support 2.4, I would suggest rewriting the code to use SAPI;
after that moving to new releases should be much easier.
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" Did I mention that I hate google? I wish that there were a real search
engine, one where I would be a customer rather than a product and in which I
only got hits that matched my search criteria."
I use https://duckduckgo.com/ whenever possible, and google when I have to.
-Original Messa
DDG is an amalgamater; it retains the spurious hits from, e.g., google. It's
good for what it does, but it's not a "do what I asked for" search engine.
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Search engines are definitely not my strong suit, but if you meant 'aggregator'
or metasearch engine, I don't think that is correct. Dogpile.com for example is
definitely a metasearch engine, creating the result set of hits from google+
bing+whatever else, but I don't believe DDG operates that w
On 4 Jul 2020 18:58:36 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main
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sme...@gmu.edu (Seymour J Metz) wrote:
DDG is an amalgamater; it retains the spurious hits from,
e.g., google. It's good for what it does, but it's not a
"do what I asked for" search engine.
I use DDG, and I don't think it
Do yoi have a URL for the current PCOM for OS/2?
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Grant Taylor [023065957af1-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu]
Sent: Wedn
Well, DDG claims to be an anonymous amalgamater (their IP address shows up in
the search engines, not yours.)
Neither the google search page nor the advanced search page has a verbatim
option. One of the reasons I hate google is their propensity to hide useful
features when the don't take them
Hello
Thank you so much
How do we determine the location of vtoc and index ? Is it possible to
place all the mod 27 in same location of cylinder and tracks ?
On Sat, 4 Jul, 2020, 9:44 PM Lizette Koehler,
wrote:
> It depends
>
> If the volume would have one dataset on it, like my SPOOL Volumes
The input to ICKDSF when you format the volume.
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To: IBM-
On 7/4/20 7:20 PM, Seymour J Metz wrote:
To clarify, I believe that such a co-op would need to identify the
potential issues and hash them out up front in order for the idea to
be viable. In some cases there could be a consensus, in others an
arbitrary choice might be necessary. What is importa
On 7/4/20 6:27 PM, Seymour J Metz wrote:
If anybody gets upset it will be because of "just because you feel
z/OS ought to be free (as in beer"; few if any posters here have
suggested such a belief. What I have seen is posters asking for
affordable hobbyist license fees.
Agreed.
I'm not the o
On 7/4/20 9:09 PM, Seymour J Metz wrote:
Do yoi have a URL for the current PCOM for OS/2?
No I do not.
I have an old copy that I use with my P/390-E.
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On 7/4/20 8:56 PM, Arthur wrote:
I use DDG, and I don't think it's an amalgamater. But if you're just
looking for "search for the words I asked for", you can click "verbatim"
on Google. And if, like me, you run without cookies and without logging
in, the results should be impartial.
Where is
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