Re: OFF TOPIC - DELETING ALL FILES SOFTWARE FROM A LAPTOP

2024-11-04 Thread Steve Thompson
Give any thought to running it under a V/M system (e.g. Virtual Box)? If you run this on a Linux system (as an example) with newer hardware, it may actually run faster there than it does on the current box. This is assuming that you want/need any of the software. I have found various software p

Re: OFF TOPIC - DELETING ALL FILES SOFTWARE FROM A LAPTOP

2024-11-04 Thread Schmitt, Michael
There have been a lot of good suggestions posted. If it were me, I'd first check if it has the Dell Data Wipe option in the BIOS: 1. Get into the BIOS. Press F2 at the Dell logo on boot? 2. Look for a data wipe option at Security, or Advanced > Maintenance 3. If it exists, you can use it.

Re: Bounded string move?

2024-11-04 Thread Seymour J Metz
Free-form input to a program that I am writing. Each parameter statement has either one or two labels, separated by blanks. I'm only concerned with EBCDDIC. --  Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 עַם יִשְׂרָאֵל חַי נֵ֣צַח יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל לֹ֥א יְשַׁקֵּ֖ר _

Re: 32 bit

2024-11-04 Thread Seymour J Metz
1. No, it was an RPQ. 2. No, it was TSS/360. It turned out that there were practical issues with 32-bit code, e.g., BXH and BXLE used signed arithmetic. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 עַם יִשְׂרָאֵל חַי נֵ֣צַח יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל לֹ֥א יְשַׁקֵּ֖ר

Re: Bounded string move?

2024-11-04 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Mon, 21 Oct 2024 23:28:13 +, Seymour J Metz wrote: >If I know the lengths of an input string and the length of a buffer, I can >specify a pad character and copy it with MVCL. If I know that it is delimited >by, e.g., a blank, I can use MVST but I run the risk of a buffer overrun. Is >t

Re: Extended linkage index - documentation? PC routine definition problem

2024-11-04 Thread Abe Kornelis
Hi Richard, with SSWITCH=NO, and the routine being invoked from various address spaces, the routine should be loaded into common storage. Is it? Probably not - the S0C4 in AddrSpace B attests to that. I note you have STATE=SUPERVISOR. This means you are authorizing all address spaces in your syst

Re: Capacity planning tool

2024-11-04 Thread Jay Maynard
I'm working with this tool right now. Looks neat. Now I just need to understand how to get meaningful results out of it. On Mon, Nov 4, 2024 at 4:16 PM Mike Schwab < 05962a42dc49-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > > https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/getting-started-ibm-z-processor-capaci

Extended linkage index - documentation? PC routine definition problem

2024-11-04 Thread Richard Zierdt
PC routine definition problem. The ETCON macro has a parameter ELXLIST defined as an "area that contains extended linkage index (LX) values" but "extended linkage index" is not defined. It is not found in the Extended Addressability Guide or in Authorized Assembler Services Guide (or the unau

Re: Capacity planning tool

2024-11-04 Thread Steve Beaver
Have you defined your CEC to it? Sent from my iPhone No one said I could type with one thumb > On Nov 4, 2024, at 19:03, Jay Maynard > <05997213d6c2-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > > I'm working with this tool right now. Looks neat. Now I just need to > understand how to get mea

Re: Capacity planning tool

2024-11-04 Thread Jay Maynard
Yes, and have fed it a month of SMF data (with RMF records included). On Mon, Nov 4, 2024 at 7:49 PM Steve Beaver < 050e0c375a14-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > Have you defined your CEC to it? > > > Sent from my iPhone > > No one said I could type with one thumb > > > On Nov 4, 2024,

Re: Bounded string move?

2024-11-04 Thread Seymour J Metz
The whole point of my question was compact code with no overrun risk. But it might be appropriate to have an error message for truncation. For a command processor I would use PARSE. --  Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 עַם יִשְׂרָאֵל חַי נֵ֣צַח יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל לֹ֥א יְשַׁקֵּ֖ר

Re: Capacity planning tool

2024-11-04 Thread Steve Beaver
Thanks Mike Sent from my iPhone No one said I could type with one thumb > On Nov 4, 2024, at 16:15, Mike Schwab > <05962a42dc49-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > > https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/getting-started-ibm-z-processor-capacity-reference > zPCR 9.6.7 > >> On Mon, Nov

Capacity planning tool

2024-11-04 Thread Steve Beaver
Some years ago IBM published a little tool to model your CEC to Help determine what size processor to buy. Does anyone have a link to that tool to download it? TIA Steve -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / arch

Re: Capacity planning tool

2024-11-04 Thread Mike Schwab
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/getting-started-ibm-z-processor-capacity-reference zPCR 9.6.7 On Mon, Nov 4, 2024 at 3:57 PM Steve Beaver <050e0c375a14-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > > Some years ago IBM published a little tool to model your CEC to > > Help determine what size proce

Re: Flashcopy consistent clone

2024-11-04 Thread Radoslaw Skorupka
W dniu 04.11.2024 o 17:21, Glenn Wilcock pisze: Hi, I've asked the DSS Product Owner to provide an explanation. Stay tuned... Great! :-) -- Radoslaw Skorupka Lodz, Poland -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: Extended linkage index - documentation? PC routine definition problem

2024-11-04 Thread Adam Johanson
1. It seems like you want the code to run as address space A being the primary address space, but you've specified SSWITCH=NO, meaning that address space B would still be primary upon invoking the PC instruction. It seems like you want SSWITCH=YES, if I correctly understand your intentions. 2.

Re: Bounded string move?

2024-11-04 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Mon, 4 Nov 2024 17:54:20 +, Seymour J Metz wrote: >Free-form input to a program that I am writing. Each parameter statement has >either one or two labels, separated by blanks. I'm only concerned with EBCDDIC. > ... How long should an input buffer be? Suppose you're parsing left-to-right

Re: OFF TOPIC - DELETING ALL FILES SOFTWARE FROM A LAPTOP

2024-11-04 Thread Mike Schwab
USB had device specific drivers to add to Win 98, Win98SE had standard USB drivers, and Bootable USB devices were standard for XP. On Mon, Nov 4, 2024 at 2:10 PM Schmitt, Michael wrote: > > A laptop old enough that it is running Windows Vista may not want to boot > from USB. > > -Original Me

Re: OFF TOPIC - DELETING ALL FILES SOFTWARE FROM A LAPTOP

2024-11-04 Thread Mike Schwab
Or install VenToys to a USB, load bootable ISO you want, boot and choose. On Mon, Nov 4, 2024 at 10:09 AM Schmitt, Michael wrote: > > There have been a lot of good suggestions posted. > > > If it were me, I'd first check if it has the Dell Data Wipe option in the > BIOS: > > 1. Get into the BIO

Re: 32 bit

2024-11-04 Thread Tony Harminc
On Mon, 4 Nov 2024 at 09:30, Seymour J Metz wrote: > 1. No, it was an RPQ. > > 2. No, it was TSS/360. > > It turned out that there were practical issues with 32-bit code, e.g., BXH > and BXLE used signed arithmetic. > That problem has returned with 64-bit mode in zArch. Not that it's a "real" is

Re: OFF TOPIC - DELETING ALL FILES SOFTWARE FROM A LAPTOP

2024-11-04 Thread Schmitt, Michael
A laptop old enough that it is running Windows Vista may not want to boot from USB. -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Mike Schwab Sent: Monday, November 4, 2024 2:01 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: OFF TOPIC - DELETING ALL FILES SOFTWARE FR

Re: Extended linkage index - documentation? PC routine definition problem

2024-11-04 Thread Binyamin Dissen
On Mon, 4 Nov 2024 21:26:20 + Richard Zierdt wrote: :>PC routine definition problem. :>The ETCON macro has a parameter ELXLIST defined as an "area that contains extended linkage index (LX) values" but "extended linkage index" is not defined. :>It is not found in the Extended Addressabili

Re: OFF TOPIC - DELETING ALL FILES SOFTWARE FROM A LAPTOP

2024-11-04 Thread willie bunter
Michael,    Model : Dell Studio 1737, with WINDOWS VISTA  The Laptop boots and is usable.  It is just slow and I cannot load any updates to the softwares that are installed.  I use this laptop for documents and browsing Internet. I want to destroy all the files before I put the 5 lb sledge hamm

Re: Flashcopy consistent clone

2024-11-04 Thread Glenn Wilcock
Hi, I've asked the DSS Product Owner to provide an explanation. Stay tuned... -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN