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Of Paul Gilmartin
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Subject: Re: Why EZA1685W Invalid local file identifier ?
On Fri, 7 Aug 2020 14:34:03 -0700, Charles Mills wrote:
>Solved. Is this documented FTP behavior? Looks like
ion 1. but it is really a curiosity question.
I am now checking for either the string or a leading '/' and that seems to
be working.
Charles
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> LA R15,8 SET RC 16
I would call that a misleading comment. :-)
FWIW, I would code
RACF_Use_DES_then_Mask EQU 8
...
LHI R15,RACF_Use_DES_then_Mask
Charles
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https://www.sinenomine.net/contact/contact-us ?
Charles
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Subject: ClefOS signing key
Hi,
I cannot
Not exactly the question you asked, but IMHO if one were writing a "system"
(OS, DBMS, application family) today one would be foolish to restrict one's
customers to 95 or so printable characters. You would be (1) writing off all of
Asia and (2) condemning much of Europe and northern Africa to ei
e any value--I'm not a big
fan of stringz :-)
To be frank, I doubt it will have more than 1 user, but I won't be happy
until I can write and print my CV on it, so I might as well make some
sensible decisions now :-)
Thank you.
Rupert
On Thu., Aug. 20, 2020, 15:17 Charles Mills, wrote:
In case anyone is interested I am doing a one-hour Webinar on the
"internals" of the certificate and SSL/TLS protocols. It's free, and I have
absolutely nothing to sell you - this is not a pitch for some
certificate-management package or anything like that.
It is *NOT* "how to install a certificat
You know, I would think it would be possible -- nearly trivial -- to write a
generic Rexx script that would issue any arbitrary console command, collect the
results, and do "something" with those results -- where "something" was any of
the things Rexx can do, such as writing it to a file. Would
Yeah, I meant "response to the MODIFY" in the loose sense to include any
resulting STC output, not in the formal sense of "MVS command response."
With regard to not using the CART, it's like A. A. Milne said in
Disobedience: if people are going to do that "well, what can anyone do?"
I'm not sure t
That 10 at the end of GETMSG is a wait time (ten seconds). GETMSG gets all
or none (in my experience) of a multi-line message, so if that is what you
are getting then the initial delay is all you need.
I started out with 1 and then went to 5 in my application, and both worked
great when the system
Or it may already be installed, or they may be willing to supply it to you.
Charles
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Sent: Monday, August 31, 2020 12:12 AM
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Subject: Re: setting
A self-signed certificate *is* a root certificate -- the two terms are
essentially synonymous (although they are used with different implications). If
the SMTP server is presenting a self-signed certificate then it effectively is
its own CA certificate, and you will have to install it in RACF.
d a particular CA be trusted? That is up to the trustor to decide.
There is never any higher authority. (See above.)
> What is the trail of authentication? ... Is it
> merely that the CA vouches that your public key belongs to the
> entity that once called itself "Charles Mills" an
! Let me nitpick myself before someone else does it for me: When I wrote
"the CA vouches that the *subject name* in the certificate belongs to Charles
Mills" -- that should be "the subject names" (plural) belong to Charles Mills.
Charles
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Fr
Forgive me for droning on about this. I just did that certificate class for
NewEra and this stuff is on my brain.
> the CA vouches that your public key belongs to the
> entity that once called itself "Charles Mills"
As I said, not exactly. One of the reasons certificates can be
And that's better than the obvious MVC of 'JESSE' because?
Because with MVCIN 'JESSE' does not appear in the literal pool and make it
masquerade as the control block?
I find it hard to accept that this method's obscurity would be outweighed by
its usefulness. Looks to me like a convoluted solut
*Client* certificate? I think you mean Server Certificate.
Charles
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Subject: Re: setting up CSSMTP
A.EDU] On Behalf
Of Brian Westerman
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It's from the server box, but they have it marked "client side to use our cert".
Brian
On Wed, 2 Sep 2020 08:22:19 -07
Yes, absolutely
- To listen on two ports you need two FTP server started tasks
- Yes, you can have multiple FTP servers on a single TCP stack.
Just clone your current FTP config and proc and change the PORT specification.
Try that, and then try configuring for TLS (which is more of a chore than
Servers
Thank you all for your help.
So I can have and ftp server named FTPD and another one named FTPS (for
example)?
On Fri, Sep 4, 2020 at 12:23 PM Charles Mills wrote:
> Yes, absolutely
>
> - To listen on two ports you need two FTP server started tasks
> - Yes, you can have multiple
I'm a tiny bit of an expert in ransomware and not much of an expert in
mainframe backup strategies, but here goes ...
Just kind of a conceptual thought ...
It seems to me the big advantage of tape (in this scenario) is the time lag. It
is not perfectly up-to-the-minute, and therefore is "good"
Did you see the SHARE demo of this that Chad did as a Security keynote a couple
of years ago?
(There was a suit sitting behind me the whole time mumbling "oh Jesus. Oh
Jesus. Oh Jesus.")
He demoed the whole process. They were separate pieces. He said "I am not crazy
enough to actually integrat
"Bill Gates and the FBI say it is the worst virus ever. Forward this to
everyone in your address book."
Charles
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Sent: Friday, September 4, 2020 4:33 PM
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> It should be a moral decision to *never* pay any ransom, no matter what the
> cost to the business. Of course that will never fly in reality.
All the InfoSec consultants talk a great game with "never pay" but the dirty
little secret is that many or most do. In many cases it is not just the
o
Poor product management on the part of the ransomware malefactors. At $50K they
might have had a deal.
Charles
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Sent: Monday, September 7, 2020 5:25 PM
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I have considerable experience in hacking FTP into doing unnatural acts but not
enough of a UNIX person to be totally up-to-speed on using environment
variables.
What is it that you are trying to get FTP to do that PARM= + SYSFTPD DD * +
INPUT DD * will not accomplish?
Charles
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And I mean that second paragraph as a serious question : tell me and I will try
to help; not as sarcasm. CharlesSent from a mobile; please excuse the brevity.
Original message From: Charles Mills Date:
9/10/20 3:27 PM (GMT-08:00) To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re
Okay, so the answer to my question "what are you trying to do that
PARM/SYSFTPD/INPUT does not solve?" is "force FTP to use TLS 1.2, because that
is the only variant that seems to work no matter what their RACF/ACF2/TSS
configuration is." Is that right?
> without installing certificates used by
OK.
I am going to *guess* that if it all works unless the client supports only TLS
1.1 then it is the server that is refusing anything less than 1.2. I guess you
have no control over that.
By the way TLSRFCLEVEL CCCNONOTIFY is a slight security exposure that some may
balk at.
No, there is no
I really apologize for the incredible newbie question. I am a developer; I
only pretend to be a sysadmin.
I don't even know where to look for this answer. Is it a RACF question or
???
I have defined a new user in RACF. Let's call him or her NEWUSER. I have
defined a generic profile 'NEWUSER.**' (
Bingo. Thank you @John. That is exactly the level of detail this amateur needed.
Now I have some UNIX file permissions problem but let me hack on that for a
while.
Thanks again.
Charles
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Well geez, now you tell me, after I have it all working. :-)
I followed @John McKown's instructions: DEF ALIAS(NAME('NEWUSER') RELATE('name
of existing user high level catalog'))
1. How would I decide whether to give the user his or her own catalog? I would
guess I do *not* need one. There will
Yeah, I am slowly learning that. :-/
Charles
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Of David Spiegel
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Subject: Re: EXTERNAL EMAIL: How get a user to use his
I have always seen that message when one of my dubbed applications ends
abnormally. I have never figured out exactly what the variables are. I never
worried about it, because (a.) it's an "I" message so "nothing to worry about"
and (b.) you're already in an ABEND situation: I focus on solving th
The general rule is "don't open attachments that you were not expecting." If
in doubt, telephone -- do not e-mail -- the sender and ask if he or she
actually sent it.
Charles
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On
Behalf Of Tony Brown
The from address on an e-mail is exactly like the return address on an
envelope. It may in fact bear no relation to the actual origin of the e-mail.
Charles
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Sent: Sunday
No good deed goes unpunished.
Charles
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Subject: Re: BOF on COBOL and the systems programmer at SHARE
I think the official, supported answer would be that the calling program should
pass that information.
With regard to number of parms -- COBOL should have a special register for
that! -- I suspect you could write an assembler program that you called from
the called COBOL program, worked its way
Well, somebody is sure doing a great job of writing English that does not sound
intelligent. I currently have one in my inbox with a subject line of
"Wait check defrayment in the number of $3288.78 read at once"
Charles
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The commercial e-mail malware filters watch for e-mail where the "from" address
and the headers do not match.
They did not used to. The *SPAM* filters watched for the mis-match, but not the
malware filters. The notorious RSA hack began with a spear-phishing e-mail with
an attachment of an Exce
Most in smf 30. Not sure about proc name. I've used a decent cbt reporting. No
lpar per se but smfid is almost the same thing.Charles
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Most in smf 30. Not sure about proc name. I've used a decent cbt reporting. No
lpar per se but smfid is almost the same thing.Charles
Ori
SAPI is not an SDSF API, right? Technically it is a JESx API, no?
I guess "SDSF in batch" would provide an approximation of an assembler API.
Charles
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Great resource, but I don't actually see the "Julian" day number. Is it there
somewhere? (My wife says I am blind.)
Charles
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Of Steve Smith
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To: IBM-MA
My WAG is that FIX=LONG is totally unnecessary. I would omit FIX=LONG to avoid
any possibility of a problem. That would moot your FIX=LONG question.
Charles
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Sent: Friday, J
AGE OBTAIN question.
On Fri, Jun 7, 2019 at 10:45 AM Charles Mills wrote:
> My WAG is that FIX=LONG is totally unnecessary. I would omit FIX=LONG to
> avoid any possibility of a problem. That would moot your FIX=LONG question.
>
Why is FIX=LONG unnecessary? I will be passing the real add
d I don't have
the PoOp open in front of me, so perhaps I am off base.)
Charles
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Sent: Friday, June 7, 2019 9:58 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: dumb STORAGE
Subject: Re: dumb STORAGE OBTAIN question.
On Fri, Jun 7, 2019 at 12:15 PM Charles Mills wrote:
> I am by no means an expert on this stuff. Whenever I have to touch my code
> I have the MVS and PoOp manuals open, close at hand, and in some cases,
> printed out and highlighted.
>
> Key0 is much much more dangerous than supervisor state (IMHO)
Interesting. I never thought of that, but I agree. Which is the more likely
error?
- You accidentally code some privileged instruction that you did not intend?
- You code the wrong register number in an instruction, or destroy or for
code".
On Mon, 10 Jun 2019 13:57:12 -0700 Charles Mills wrote:
:>> Key0 is much much more dangerous than supervisor state (IMHO)
:>Interesting. I never thought of that, but I agree. Which is the more
likely
:>error?
:>- You accidentally code some privileged instructio
I have never found much barrier to entry with the IBM Business Partner process.
The HUGE obstacle is customer inertia and conservatism. Customers may complain
about software costs, but they are the big barriers to entry for small
competitors. At my former employer we had customers say specifical
What happens if an SMF exit modifies the SMF record? Do the next exit in the
chain, SYS1.MANx and/or the stream see the modified record, or is the exit
only modifying a "private copy" of the SMF record?
It would seem to me to be an important point, and the documentation is
pretty much silent (or I
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Of Elardus Engelbrecht
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Subject: Re: What happens if an SMF exit modifies the SMF record?
Charles Mills wrote:
>What happens if an SMF exit modifies the SMF recor
The intent of the question was NOT "I have this neat idea that I could
'improve' SMF records in the exit ..." Not at all. Here is the problem.
Associates have an issue with a corrupted SMF record whose source was an
IEFU8x exit. We see three possibilities:
- They stepped on it themselves somehow.
@Jim, does CSVLLIX1 satisfy the OP's request? I read that "CSVLLIX1 is
called each time a program fetch occurs for LLA managed members."
Does not the OP want to be aware of *every* LOAD and FETCH, even those that
do not involve LLA-managed members? He specifically says the LLA exits
appear not to
I think I can say with some confidence that nothing in SMF will tell you every
LOAD and FETCH, or every module loaded or fetched.
SMF 14 will give you every BSAM, QSAM and BPAM CLOSE INPUT, which will give you
every load library -- and a whole lot more, unfortunately.
SMF 30 now gives you the "
Yes! I remembered this exit being added to z/OS. I looked and looked and
looked at Installation Exits and when I could not find it, figured I must
have read more into CSVLLIXn than really existed.
z/OS desperately needs some sort of "master index." IBM has the AI to be
able to put up a site that c
/LINK exit)
I thought that the program to copy a dataset was IDCAMS. IEHMOVE? IEBCOPY?
The COPY command from COPY, FORMAT, LIST and MERGE (sic)?
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3
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Cha
Were there once 4 million mainframes?
Charles
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Of Bill Johnson
Sent: Monday, June 17, 2019 2:08 PM
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Subject: Re: mainframe hacking "success stories"?
IBM z was
Because you don't come to SHARE? Specifically, Chad Rikansrud's security
keynote in March of 2017.
Charles
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Sent: Monday, June 17, 2019 1:53 PM
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> I'm not sure that any of the hardware architecture has been implemented
> specifically for Linux.
I certainly do not know one way or the other whether any hardware features were
implemented specifically for Linux, but I do not find it impossible, given that
there is a whole series of models m
I would guess that the Salesforce cloud database simply replaces the existing
IBM proprietary database. The bodies answering the phone do not change.
Charles
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Of Tom Marchant
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IBM has been moving away from re-inventing and maintaining wheels that were
perhaps already better-invented and maintained elsewhere.
Source code hosted on IBM.com -> github
Proprietary operating systems -> Linux
Book manager -> PDF
IBMlink -> Web
Charles
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From: IBM
, June 24, 2019 1:41 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: IBM SR going away?
On Mon, 24 Jun 2019 13:05:52 -0700, Charles Mills wrote:
>IBM has been moving away from re-inventing and maintaining wheels that were
>perhaps already better-invented and maintained elsewhere.
>
>
Way OT but yes! As a little scientist I loved those machines. Loved
seeing the bones in my feet when I wiggled my toes. My informal
understanding at the time was that they went away precisely BECAUSE of the
hazard. If you think about it, the x-ray is aimed right at the user's
genitals.
My daug
@Peter, welcome back.
I get the difference between installation exits and other exits. A SYNAD
exit is certainly an exit, but it is not in the same class with an IEFU83
exit.
But I fail to get the distinction relative to CSVFETCH. Installation X wants
to monitor every QSAM close, so they write so
They were: "Shoe-fitting fluoroscopes, also sold under the names X-ray Shoe
Fitter, Pedoscope and Foot-o-scope, were X-ray fluoroscope machines"
-- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoe-fitting_fluoroscope
Charles
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Is this worthy of an RFC or am I missing something?
https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSLTBW_2.3.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r3
.ieaa400/iea3a4_STORAGE_OBTAIN.htm says
,SP=subpool number
Specifies the subpool number for the storage. (See z/OS MVS Programming:
Authorized Assembler Services Guide
Jun 2019 09:36:26 -0700, Charles Mills wrote:
>Is this worthy of an RFC or am I missing something?
>
>https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSLTBW_2.3.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r3
>.ieaa400/iea3a4_STORAGE_OBTAIN.htm says
>
>,SP=subpool number
>Specifies the subpool number for t
I have an APF-authorized batch program that I want to have WTO a message
that will hang out at the bottom of the console screen until it is
explicitly deleted. Can I do that?
The doc for DESC=(3) seems to kind of say that ("If the task can determine
when the operator has performed the action,
I "get" the basic "roll" of the console screen.
But haven't I seen WTO messages that "hang" at the bottom of the screen like a
WTOR that has not been replied to? Am I confused?
Charles
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O
Okay, anyone have any clues as to how to align the stars?
My "console" experience is with SDSF LOG, not a real console, so my perception
of where messages hang is a little skewed I guess.
Charles
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Subject: (External):Re: WTO for message that will require explicit deletion
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Sent: Thursday, June 27, 2019 8:10 AM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: WTO for message that will require explicit deletion?
On Wed, 26 Jun 2019 16:07:29 -0700, Char
Of course! You use the best available tool for the job.
Now yes, "best" involves many factors including whether there is more than one
person in the shop who can maintain the code.
But this just sounds like resistance to change. I have always that many in this
industry ironically tended to be L
, June 28, 2019 2:32 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: WTO for message that will require explicit deletion?
On Fri, 28 Jun 2019 13:49:45 -0700, Charles Mills wrote:
>Thanks everyone for your input. Sorry for the delays in responding -- I was
>OOO for a day plus.
>
>I am goi
Okay, I am "dropping up one level" from my question about persistent WTO
messages. The REAL question is "what would be the best way to tell a
customer that their license is fairly close to expiration?"
Please, may I ask that we not digress into whether license enforcement is a
good idea. That's a
@Peter, thanks.
Frankly, the documentation of the more esoteric aspects of WTO seems
haphazard to this observer. I think WTO's clarity of documentation suffers
from the various things that have been layered on over the years such as
MCS. As I wrote in the OP, the idea that DESC=3 requires an expli
You're right, of course. Not to start a religious war, but even on a big-endian
machine, it seems to me to make sense to number the bits from LSB to MSB. Bit n
then represents 2^n -- in an 8-, 16-, 32-, 64- or 128-bit integer. What could
be more logical?
Not going to happen of course.
Charles
THANK YOU ALL for taking the time to provide your input. The management
decision is to keep it simple and put out a vanilla WTO that will be distinct
and easy to automate.
Let me do one e-mail in response to your many, many helpful details:
> IMHO the best way is a WTO that is easy to catch in
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@Peter, thanks.
Frankly, the documentation of the more esoteric aspects of WTO
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On Mon, 1 Jul 2019 at 15:06, Charles Mills wrote:
>
> You're right, of course. Not to start a
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Subject: Re: Endianness and bit numbering Was RE: STORAGE OBTAIN doc
inconsistency?
On Tue, 2 Jul 2019 at 17:33,
I *think* just plain CDATA means a UNIX file named CDATA in the current
directory. Did you mean a DD named CDATA? Try DD:CDATA.. I think it uses the
rules for C file names, which are obscurely documented here:
https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSLTBW_2.3.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r3.cb
cpx01/posixo
> a left-wing journal in the UK
Really? They are firmly liberal in the European sense of the word, what in the
US would be called libertarian. Free markets, light regulation, globalism,
invisible hand, all that stuff. Hardly left-wing. They also have more readers
in the US than in the UK. And t
Prelinker lets you use the link editor which will write into a PDS. (Non
PDSE)CharlesSent from a mobile; please excuse the brevity.
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DLL last few questions b
I have certainly used MGET with a z/OS server, with no issues.
Do you have more specifics?
Charles
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Sent: Friday, July 12, 2019 5:16 AM
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Subject: FTP MG
Yes. The documentation is your friend.
Charles
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Sent: Friday, July 12, 2019 7:38 AM
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Is there any kind of trace can be
COND= was invented by a Sadist.
Charles
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Sent: Friday, July 12, 2019 6:08 PM
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Subject: Re: JCL COND Parameter
I always guessed COND= was invented
Some C programmers are fond of if (7 == foo) rather than the more conventional
if (foo == 7) because if one gets in the habit of doing so and then
accidentally codes if (7 = foo) one gets a compile error rather than unexpected
behavior.
For those not familiar with C, foo == 7 is a relational ex
So wrong on so many counts.
Charles
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Tom Marchant
Sent: Monday, July 15, 2019 1:44 PM
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Subject: Re: Where put the notional constant in a condition (Was RE: JCL COND
Parameter)
On Mon, 15 Jul 2019 13:30:51 -0700, Charles Mills wrote:
>Some C programmers are fond of if (7 == foo) rather than the m
PSW 078D1400 8002
GPR C-F 1F7D9188 1F7E1688 8002EC7C 8000
A wild guess would be that you took a BALR 14,15 from address 2EC7C to an
unresolved EXTRN.
Charles
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Sent: Thursday, July 18, 2019 9:32 AM
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As I told Binyamin I got a clean link
> On Jul 18, 2019, at 12:26 PM, Charles Mills wrote:
>
> PSW
2**X where X is negative is legal. 2**-X = 1/(2**X). 2**-17 = 0.076
A language might -- I am not an expert -- refuse N**2.0 where N was negative
because fractional powers of a negative number are illegal, and 2.0, as a
floating point number, could be seen as fractional.
Charles
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I would think you might want to post the two DCBs?
Charles
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Sent: Thursday, July 18, 2019 1:55 PM
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Subject: CMS OS SIMULATION BSAM OPEN and
Aliases?
Charles
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Sent: Friday, July 19, 2019 7:02 AM
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Thank you for your response!
That works very easily!
something
https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSLTBW_2.3.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r3.halu001/ftpstret.htm
Charles
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@David did you perhaps answer your own question?CharlesSent from a mobile;
please excuse the brevity.
Original message From: David Crayford
Date: 7/23/19 5:35 AM (GMT-08:00) To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re:
z/OS 2.4 Announcement Letter Why are IBM migrating from SMB
Take some (any) big C or COBOL program and run it through the relevant
compiler with the pseudo-assembler output option turned on, OPT and ARCH(9
or 10). Then do an ISPF FIND for the op code. No guarantees of course.
Charles
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