Re: OOBOL and English was Re: Still COBOL After All These Years?

2020-07-19 Thread Joe Monk
"Is that why you took the U out of COLOUR and LABOUR and the I from ALUMINIUM? Or is it the Elizabethan English that America adopted? Perpetuating Manglish?" Do you bite your thumb at me sir? The British Scientist (Davy) who discovered ALUMINUM named it that. It is we Americans who are using the

Re: Using AN EAX value of PC Routineto index into the Authority Table

2020-07-19 Thread esst...@juno.com
-- Original Message -- From: Joe Monk To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Using AN EAX value of PC Routineto index into the Authority Table Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2020 20:27:39 -0500 This is explained on page 113: "The example also shows the difference between cross memory data

Re: OOBOL and English was Re: Still COBOL After All These Years?

2020-07-19 Thread esst...@juno.com
Sorry for the garbled message -.If the AS2 has the capability of switching to supervisor state; why can't it (AS2) create its own Cross Memory environment allowing Address Space (AS1) the ability to issue a PC to AS2 and the PC Service Routine use AR Mode to transfer data from the Target Address

Re: Using AN EAX value of PC Routineto index into the Authority Table

2020-07-19 Thread Joe Monk
"Sorry for the garbled message -.If the AS2 has the capability of switching to supervisor state; why can't it (AS2) create its own Cross Memory environment allowing Address Space (AS1) the ability to issue a PC to AS2 and the PC Service Routine use AR Mode to transfer data from the Target Address S

Re: Using AN EAX value of PC Routineto index into the Authority Table

2020-07-19 Thread Seymour J Metz
Part of designing a server address space is creating a mechanism for clients to identify it. The easy way is to be a subsystem. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on beh

Solution to FTP firewall issues?

2020-07-19 Thread Seymour J Metz
I once asked why nobody had developed an FTP protocol built on SCTP, which would eleiminate the need to create a secondary channel that the firewall might not accomodate. It apears that somebody has: https://sourceforge.net/projects/scftp/ If this gains traction, it might be worthwhile to do a

Re: Multi-channel OSA-ICC routing and TCP port behavior

2020-07-19 Thread Christian Svensson
Thanks for the input folks. Brian: I have it working just fine, the setup was easy as you said - the reason I started this thread was because I couldn't understand why the limitations on the TCP port number and the philosophy behind the routing. It seems pretty weird to me that IBM implemented IC

Re: Using AN EAX value of PC Routineto index into the Authority Table

2020-07-19 Thread esst...@juno.com
Seymour and Joe . Thanks for participating in this dialogue. I'm still unclear on this procedure. . . Seymour I agree that AS2 should be a subsystem, I cant see every Address Space that needs to access data be defined as a subsystem. . Joe 'Im not sure I understand you comment - Are You saying that

Re: COBOL and English was Re: Still COBOL After All These Years?

2020-07-19 Thread Joel C. Ewing
I tend to side with Tony on this one.   One can find many things on the Internet that are either imprecise or just plain wrong.   The meaning of "computer", like many words, has evolved over time.  At some point post WWII, certainly by the 1960s for the general public, an Abacus, a slide ruler, a d

Re: Multi-channel OSA-ICC routing and TCP port behavior

2020-07-19 Thread Tony Thigpen
Christian, I was dismayed too when I first discovered this limitation. The OSA-C was originally intended to eliminate the local 3174 requirement. It was not really designed to replace the 3172-003, which is what many are using it for today. And, you also need to look back at the OSA-C's roots

Re: COBOL and English was Re: Still COBOL After All These Years?

2020-07-19 Thread Seymour J Metz
Then there was the term "analog computer". -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Joel C. Ewing [jce.ebe...@cox.net] Sent: Sunday, July 19, 2020 9:07 AM To: IBM

Re: Using AN EAX value of PC Routineto index into the Authority Table

2020-07-19 Thread Seymour J Metz
I didn't claim that "every Address Space that needs to access data be defined as a subsystem." What I did say is that the easy way for a *server* to provide access is to be a subsystem. The address spaces accessing data from that server would not normally be subsystems. Don't confuse the address

Re: Multi-channel OSA-ICC routing and TCP port behavior

2020-07-19 Thread Christian Svensson
Thanks Tony, it makes calmer knowing I'm not the only one being confused about this :-) On Sun, Jul 19, 2020 at 3:18 PM Tony Thigpen wrote: > Christian, > I was dismayed too when I first discovered this limitation. The OSA-C > was originally intended to eliminate the local 3174 requirement. It w

Re: COBOL and English was Re: Still COBOL After All These Years?

2020-07-19 Thread Charles Mills
Have to say I agree. Had not thought of that. I was thinking more in terms of in-memory variable primitives, not in terms of containers (as C++ calls them). A list.move() function might even change the memory location of the object moved -- that might be implementation dependent. Charles -Or

Re: Using AN EAX value of PC Routineto index into the Authority Table

2020-07-19 Thread esst...@juno.com
Seymour I am agreeing with you -- Original Message -- From: Seymour J Metz To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Using AN EAX value of PC Routineto index into the Authority Table Date: Sun, 19 Jul 2020 13:47:32 + I didn't claim that "every Address Space that needs to acc

Re: Application necessities was Re: Still COBOL After All These Years?

2020-07-19 Thread Bob Bridges
Is that _The Mythical Man-Month_? Excellent book. A few decades ago my boss bought a bunch of copies and passed them around; I read it with much interest and have valued its lessons since then. ...Come to think of it, I should get myself a copy and reread it. --- Bob Bridges, robhbrid...@gmai

"Aluminium" (was yet another one of the COBOL discussions)

2020-07-19 Thread Bob Bridges
Coïncidentally I'm reading Bill Bryson's _A Brief History of Everything_, where I'm informed that I was mistaken about the "aluminum/aluminium" story. I'd always heard that it was named "aluminium", but an early news article about in the USA misspelled it "aluminum" and the misnomer stuck. Bry

Re: OOBOL and English was Re: Still COBOL After All These Years?

2020-07-19 Thread Bob Bridges
Aha! Yet a third story; in this one Davy started out with "aluminum" and the Europeans ~added~ the 'i'. --- Bob Bridges, robhbrid...@gmail.com, cell 336 382-7313 /* Ignorance is the mother of adventure. -Hagar the Horrible */ -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [m

Re: OOBOL and English was Re: Still COBOL After All These Years?

2020-07-19 Thread Bob Bridges
Because I know you were all breathlessly awaiting the verdict on the great "aluminum"/"aluminium" controversy, I went to find more information. At https://books.google.com/books?id=YjMwYAAJ&pg=PA201 you can find a page in _Elements of Chemical Philosophy_ by Humphrey Davy (who first isolate

Re: OOBOL and English was Re: Still COBOL After All These Years?

2020-07-19 Thread Tony Thigpen
Personally, I prefer a more authoritative source than Google, but it is almost the same story: https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/aluminum-vs-aluminium Tony Thigpen Bob Bridges wrote on 7/19/20 6:09 PM: Because I know you were all breathlessly awaiting the verdict on the great "al

Re: Using AN EAX value of PC Routineto index into the Authority Table

2020-07-19 Thread Peter Relson
Thanks to Charles M for getting this into a form without the HTML. First of all -- I am assuming PCRTN resides in the Private Area of the Accessing Address Space (AS1) and PCRTN is defined as a Non- Space Switching, Stacking PC , with a System LX. Is My understanding correct ? No it is not. A

Re: Java memory limit

2020-07-19 Thread Timothy Sipples
Please note the 31-bit Java variant offers something less than 2 GB of memory per Java Virtual Machine to programs. The 64-bit release is required if you want more. - - - - - - - - - - Timothy Sipples I.T. Architect Executive Digital Asset & Other Industry Solutions IBM Z & LinuxONE - - - - - -

Re: Multi-channel OSA-ICC routing and TCP port behavior

2020-07-19 Thread Timothy Sipples
Mike Schwab wrote: >Port 23 is standard telnet. Port 3270 is non-standard TN3270E. IANA has actually reserved port 3270 for "Verismart": https://www.iana.org/assignments/service-names-port-numbers/service-names-port-numbers.txt I have no idea what Verismart is, or was. It's probably moribund, l

Re: OOBOL and English was Re: Still COBOL After All These Years?

2020-07-19 Thread Wayne Bickerdike
Current international agreement for all new elements is to end them with -ium. Odd how the USA hangs on to impractical learnings. Even the UK moved to SI units while I was at school in the 1960s. Took me a while to get used to a gallon that isn't a gallon and a pint that isn't a pint (16 oz vs 20

Re: OOBOL and English was Re: Still COBOL After All These Years?

2020-07-19 Thread Bob Bridges
Always interesting, if you like words (and I do). Thanks. "Google", you say? Google isn't the source of my information, only the warehouse (so to speak). The first source I quoted was Mr Davy himself. But maybe you meant Wikipedia; a lot of people express varying amounts of derision when th

Re: Multi-channel OSA-ICC routing and TCP port behavior

2020-07-19 Thread Timothy Sipples
Brian Westerman wrote: >So you are using TCP to get to them inside the ICC, but they >are technically local 3270 terminals. I think you can make >some of them printers if you want, but that seems like a waste. I recently worked with an organization that configured an OSA-ICC TN3270E printer sess