Please forgive the newbie question. I'm a coder, not a sysprog.
I have an existing OMVS filesystem:
ZFS45 ACTIVE RDWR 10/06/2019 L=57
NAME=USERID.ZFS 16.15.27Q=0
PATH=/u/userid
Actually, probably easier, how about an entirely new filesystem /u/xyz ?
Charles
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Subject: Add space to
I don't know. I am totally lost with this stuff.
> Do you have a Sysprog or Storage Admin to help?
If I did I would be bothering him or her instead of you all . I do have
another developer who may know more than I do. Getting him involved.
It is a flaw of the IBM Dallas Center theory. (Not IBM's
It's not defined in IFAEXITP?
Charles
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z/OS 2.3 introduced th
Thanks all.
What I am trying to do is to install a vendor product. (The vendor is one you
all know and love who is not famous for customer hand-holding.) But I did find
in one of the myriad supplied PDFs a cookbook for accomplishing this. It seems
to be under control.
Charles
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Thanks all.
What I am trying to do is to install a vendor product. (The vendor is one you
all know and love who
ject: Re: SMF exit IEFU086 work area size
Hi Charles,
Yes, it is!
SMXP_WORKAREA_LENGTH_V1 EQU 1024
This IEFU086 exit is great! Have you used it?
David
On 2019-10-08 10:27 PM, Charles Mills wrote:
> It's not defined in IFAEXITP?
>
> Charles
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Should have written > 255, of course.
Charles
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No
: SMF exit IEFU086 work area size
On 2019-10-09 9:55 AM, Charles Mills wrote:
> No, I retired from the SMF exit business on March 31.
Of course, you have a wealth of expertise in this area from your
Correlog days. I might ping you off list if I have any questions if
that's alright? ;)
>
Thanks. Looks good. I'm all organized now and hopefully do not have to
re-organize.
Charles
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I had the same question on the CNZ_WTOMDBEXIT work area.
There they say you cannot store information from one invocation to another, but
not to leave anything sensitive behind. IIRC.
I assumed (yes, I know) that it was effectively "private" to the invoked exit
instance (either serialized or a u
@Peter, it is not so documented, but is it safe to assume that one has
exclusive use of a given work area for the duration of the exit routine's
execution? In other words, that the work area might be reused later, but is
not shared among several tasks or processors? The documentation does not say
t
Isn't it in the DSCB? Possibly easier than counting.
Charles
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Subject: Best programming interface to get PDS
I am trying to define an LDS of 5992 or so cylinders and I am getting
IDC3009I ** VSAM CATALOG RETURN CODE IS 140 - REASON CODE IS
IDC3009I IGG0CLEV-110
Which I interpret as saying a non-extended format cluster may not be more
than 4GB.
Is that what VS
Well phooey; did not want to cross that bridge.
Thanks for the incredibly quick response.
Charles
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#1, MVS manages that sort of thing with its wisdom, right? If it thought
someone else should run, it would pre-empt you and give control to that
other task.
#2, any SVC (or PC?) type system service call will cause MVS to re-evaluate
who should be dispatched *I think*.
Charles
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Charles Mills
wrote:> Well phooey; did not want to cross that bridge.>>
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Others have given you good replies. I've been thinking about your question
and thought I would summarize and re-phrase what has been said. You are not
very specific in what your situation is, so let me offer three possible
problem scenarios, each with its own solution.
I. "I am doing something tha
s, but imagine (maybe on a
specialized system?) there's nothing much else going on. Is there
something in the dispatcher that is on a timer that ends up saying this
task has gotten enough CPU and it's time to move to the next TCB?
On 10/19/2019 7:45 AM, Charles Mills wrote:
> Others
Check out "CPU Timer" in the Principles of Operation.
Charles
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I just looked up "External Interruption" in the Principles. There are at least
9 possible causes.
IIRC on the System 360 there was an eight-pin Molex connector available and a
customer-provided box of some sort could trigger an external interrupt by
pulling the appropriate pin to ground. See pa
Au contraire. It is often useful. I see it used in cataloged procs all the
time. And I would be confident that Itschak knows what it does.
It is always easy to criticize anyone's question: "that's stupid! What would
you want to do that for?" but there is often a good reason were you to
understa
Sorry I know this is an incredibly naïve question.
I got my VSAM LDS defined and successfully mounted as a zFS path.
Imagine my surprise when the mount went away at IPL.
Where do I put a MOUNT statement such that the LDS will get mounted again at
each IPL? I searched KC, Init and Tuning, and S
errors after IPL too (file not found etc.).
On Fri, Oct 25, 2019 at 6:18 AM Bill Johnson <
0047540adefe-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote:
> BPXPRM00 in parmlib usually.
>
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> On Thursday, October 24, 2019, 3:16 PM, Charle
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Okay, great, I see it. I searched SYS1.PARMLIB(*) but not the whole
con
OCOPY - Copy an MVS data set member or z/OS UNIX file to another member or
file
OGET - Copy z/OS UNIX files into an MVS data set
OGETX - Copy z/OS UNIX files from a directory to an MVS PDS or PDSE
OPUT - Copy an MVS data set member into a z/OS UNIX file
OPUTX - Copy members from an MVS PDS or PDSE
It seems to be part of "Transformation Extender." Do you have that product?
I see a SQL function GENERATE_UUID() but it looks like Db2 for z/OS does not
implement.
Does anyone know of a C or UNIX library function to do this?
Charles
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And if you are a masochist, IEBGENER with //SYSUTn DD PATH=.
Charles
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Are you up for building a C++ program that you could call from COBOL?
https://github.com/graeme-hill/crossguid/blob/master/src/guid.cpp
(Around line 160 there is a bunch of code that is ASCII-specific and not
commented as such. Easy to convert, but sloppy IMHO.)
Charles
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a. for a customer of mine;
don't know if I will recall the details. If you want, you can write me
offline mail to discuss this (including the communication with COBOL),
Kind regards
Bernd
Am 31.10.2019 um 22:16 schrieb Charles Mills:
> Are you up for building a C++ program that you could
There is a PL/I function to do this.
https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSY2V3_5.1.0/com.ibm.ent.pl1.zos.doc/lr/lsh_uuid.html
I am not familiar with how to call a PL/I BIF from COBOL (or call a PL/I
program that in turn calls a BIF) but perhaps others on this forum are.
Charles
I am seeing FTP timeouts (I know what is causing the timeout -- that's not
the question here) with the message
EZA2589E Connection to server interrupted or timed out. User cannot be
authenticated with the GSSAPI credentials
I don't see that "operation" documented here (apologies if this folds):
h
Yes, a service available also to C/C++ programs would be very nice.
Charles
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Please forgive the basic question: I'm a product developer, not a sysprog.
Two part question:
1. What command, panel or report would show the level of paging in a z/OS
system? Ideally I would like something that would show the instantaneous
level and some sort of "period" level (yesterday, last w
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On Saturday, November 2, 2019 9:16 AM, Charles Mills wrote:
> Please forgive the basic question: I'm a
"Large memory" is not the situation I am dealing with. It is a modern system
but it is at a service bureau and there is a substantial charge associated with
real memory. My management does not want to just throw money at the system; he
wants some way of seeing whether real memory constraint is a
It would be nice if there were a way to get the condition codes into the WTO
program, something like (don't try this at home):
//WTO1 EXEC PGM=WTO,COND=EVEN,
// PARM='Job FOOBAR terminating. Highest CC was &MAXCC'
I seem to recall a discussion here about retrieving the last and maximum job
CC'
I have ten years of commercial product experience with SMF exit development.
:-) I am super familiar with SMF 30 subtypes 4 and 5 (and all the others). I
have a yellow card.
I was referring to a program running as a jobstep retrieving condition codes
for its own job. Is there an MVS service or
JCL
error.
Charles
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On 2019-11-05 8:52 AM, Charles Mills
I got the impression -- hopefully not talking out of school here -- that MVS
development dropped everything to do the feature, so there was a distinct cost
to IBM, and I think part of the model was that it was to be a chargeable
feature.
Customers were saying "we really, really, really need yo
Possibly because AT LEAST since z/OS 1.10 (and I think long before that) IBM
has been saying
Note: IBM recommends you use the WTO macro with the MCSFLAG=HRDCPY parameter
instead of WTL, because WTO supplies more data than WTL.
Charles
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If the load module it is in is marked as RENT or REUS in the load library then
(1) assemble the code with option RENT and watch for assembly diagnostics and
(2) visually examine the code listing for stores into the code CSECT. Either
one is a problem.
What exactly was the symptom? What is the o
> The interesting scenario is the case of the "know something" caller
> calling a "know nothing" target which in turn calls a "know something"
> target.
I've been thinking about that one for a couple of days. My scenario is this:
a recently-compiled C or COBOL program calling a homegrown assembl
expectations (Was "WTO")
On Mon, Nov 11, 2019 at 7:52 AM Charles Mills wrote:
> > The interesting scenario is the case of the "know something" caller
> > calling a "know nothing" target which in turn calls a "know something"
> > target.
>
In a SYSUDUMP I can see the names of loaded modules, but not (unless I am
missing something) any names added by IDENTIFY. Is there a service that will
return to me the names of all entry points added with IDENTIFY?
CSVQUERY will tell me about one particular entry point name but what if I
wanted to
?
You should see a CDE for the alias. You can use CSVINFO to retrieve a list.
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Subject: Is there an MVS service that will list IDENTIFYed entry points?
In a SYSUDUMP I can see the names of loaded modules, but not (unless I am
missing something) any names added by IDENTIFY. Is
By "I see the loaded names but not any IDENTIFY names" I meant that in the
particular dump I was looking at every CDE was for a loaded module, which
left me wondering whether IDENTIFY would be represented or not. (NOT
alleging some defect in which IDENTIFY names were omitted.)
By "entry name is no
Similar topics have been kicked around here several times. You are basically
correct -- SMF will not do the job you want it to do.
SMF 30 reports the "high CPU usage" program of the jobstep. That might be a
different program than the jobstep program. It's an additional clue, but it is
not the s
https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSLTBW_2.1.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r1.ieaa700/iea3a7_CSVAPF_Query_the_list_of_APF-authorized_libraries.htm
Charles
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And for those exits that must be RMODE 24 all you really need is a little stub
in BTL storage that upgrades its AMODE and branches to the real exit logic. The
advantage is that you do not need a "real" AMODE 24 load module; you get just
GETMAIN the BTL storage and move a few bytes of code into i
Both OPEN (directly) and EODAD (through DCBE) support 4-byte, above-the-line
addresses.
Is your last paragraph a question? If so "why do I get a S0C4?" is one of
the eternal questions, and generally requires more than one sentence of
symptoms to solve.
Charles
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And for those exits that must be RMODE 24 all you really need is a little stub
in BTL storage that upgrades its AMODE
A program running APF-authorized (jobstep program or not) can pretty much do
anything it wants. Those few things it cannot do -- it can give itself
permission to do. THAT is the essence of the problem.
So the program must be (a) designed correctly and (b) checked very carefully
before it is put
An authorized program would not need to switch TO a SPECIAL userid, it could
simply give itself SPECIAL in its ACEE.
Charles
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strictly my own.
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An authorized program would not need to switch TO a SPECIAL userid, it could
simply give itself
I am not sure if a Crypto Services System SSL question belongs on IBM-MAIN
or on RACF-L, so I am taking the shotgun approach and posting both places.
I am trying to use the new-in-V2R5 certificate callback diagnostic function
in System SSL
https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/2.5.0?topic=reference-gsk-
Well, got that one solved. They don't bother to mention it when they talk about
the callback, but there is also a "switch"
gsk_attribute_set_enum(env_handle, GSK_CERT_DIAG_INFO,
GSK_CERT_DIAG_INFO_SUCCESS_OR_FAILURE)
that tells System SSL whether to call you on successes, failures or both. The
How about this one?
Customer on phone: Your product blew up.
Me: Oh, very sorry, what was the error message?
Customer: I don't know. We already deleted the SYSOUT. Something about an error
occurred.
Charles
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At the risk of being contrarian relative to the culture of this group, how is
that inherently worse than some programmers have never seen anything but
Assembler -- 360/370/390/Z assembler at that?
Charles
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> The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings. The
> inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of misery. Under capitalism
> man exploits his fellow man. Under socialism it's the other way around.
> CharlesSent from a mobile; please excuse the brevity.
O
Customer: "You gotta help us with this problem. It's happening all the time.
It's killing us."
Me: "Turn on these diagnostic options, run it again, and send us the output."
Customer: "Well, gee, it's really hard to duplicate ..."
Charles
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When doing support I once asked the guy on the other end of the phone some
gentle question about his possibly having read the manual. His reply
"Oh, I don't have any of the manuals. Fred has all of the manuals. He's in
charge of the documentation. I'm just in charge of installing the product."
Nobody seems willing to help :-(
Do you have MXG or anything like that?
Can we do a level-set? If I say "IFCID 148's are found in a triplet of an SMF
102 record. You turn them on with the Db2 START TRACE command" do you go "yeah,
of course, I already knew that"; or "what the heck are you talkin
And it is called Z. O'Ess, after all.
Charles
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Thi
I am trying to connect to public.dhe.ibm.com using z/OS FTP. No matter what I
do, the session fails with
FC1108 authServer: secure_socket_init failed with rc = 410 (SSL message format
is incorrect)
If I run a trace I can see what is happening. The client sends "AUTH TLS" which
is accepted
Just to confirm, by that you mean "SSH FTP" only, and that "FTP over TLS" is
not supported.
(The confusingly similar acronyms SFTP and FTPS are unfortunate.)
Charles
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On 2/27/2023 7:16 AM, Charles Mills wrote:
> I am trying to connect to public.dhe.ibm.com using z/OS FTP. No matter what I
> do, the session fails with
>
> FC1108 authServer: secure_socket_init failed with rc = 410 (SSL me
DU
Subject: Re: Can you connect to the PTF download site with z/OS FTP?
On 2/27/2023 9:32 AM, Charles Mills wrote:
>
> Starting I think with V2R5 you need AT-TLS for the FTP server, and for TLS
> 1.3 (only) on the client.
Don't know about TLS 1.3 (we don't use that yet), but i
One potential business justification for IBM would be "to sell the hardware
that contains this spiffy feature."
Isn't that essentially the business justification for *all* new z/OS features?
Charles
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Would be better, or a better alternative, to accept two integers with at least
the first being 64-bits: the significant digits in one and the number of
decimal places in the other; or alternatively the digits to the left in one and
to the right in the other.
One of my very, very first programmi
Is this message documented anywhere? Where? (The Goo Gal does not seem to know.)
FC0294 ftpAuth: security values: mech=TLS, tlsmech=ATTLS, tlsreuse=N, sFTP=R,
sCC=C, sDC=P
Some of the values (tslmech=) are pretty obvious. I am particularly interested
in the meanings of the various codes that
Replying to two questions from this thread. This may read like an ad but at
this point I have zero financial interest in either of these solutions.
With regard to IND$FILE auditing, I wrote a product that did exactly that:
intercepted IND$FILE requests and wrote all the details to SMF. At CorreL
In the early 70's I had a client -- large insurance company -- that was running
DOS on a 360/50. At some point they lost a 2314 volume. When they restored from
backup the restored volume was unusable. Investigation revealed that for some
reason lost in the fog of time the sysprog who had set up
Gee, this is more of a nostalgia thread than most ...
My very first programming job, the tape librarian quit. (Remember tape
libraries and librarians and manual tape management?). Our boss was too cheap
to hire a replacement with any overlap in employment dates. So the new woman
started with no
I am not a sysprog, but there is a system where I play sysprog. It is a very
specialized z/OS LPAR and has no third-party scheduling software (and I don't
think I really want to get into supporting a CBT freebie).
I do some very rudimentary scheduling -- running a couple of jobs once a day
each
Is a DLL *not* simple?
(Serious question. I have never done it but isn't it just a couple of compile
and link options?)
Does the system() call solve your need?
Charles
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Ed, thanks, yes, // SCHEDULE HOLDUNTL='+01:00' should do the trick. I sat
through the session in Poughkeepsie on those scheduling features that IBM was
adding to z/OS, but they did not really sink in, because I had no day-to-day
need.
There is no need for the follow-on job to be identical. Heck
The question is more "justify" than "afford." Not sure changing one string in
one job submission qualifies.
I can have two different members, or I can tolerate a one-hour delay in a
single job. Either approach is totally satisfactory to me. I will probably go
with the "two members" approach; I
Thank you all.
// SCHEDULE HOLDUNTL='+01:00' works like a champ! Thanks all.
I have a slightly different member (other tweaks in addition to the HOLDUNTL)
that I use for the re-run, which works out well.
Charles
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I understand that SMP/E electronic delivery now requires FTP secured via AT-TLS.
Does anyone have an exact example of the required AT-TLS parms -- or a pointer
to where IBM documents the exact requirements?
Not a statement that AT-TLS is required. I get that. Not general AT-TLS
configuration do
Really? IBM requires this but it's not documented anywhere?
It's not like AT-TLS is trivial and every sysprog ought to know how to
configure it without a manual.
And no one on this list is doing this? You're all using HTTPS?
Charles
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> Genuinely curious, why aren't you using HTTPS?
To be honest, I am not actually downloading PTFs. I am trying to figure how how
to demo some concepts for a class.
> here's the general doc about configuring the FTP client to use AT-TLS
I'm on top of that. I have successfully configured AT-TL
>At the top left of the text entry box there's a button with a graphic label,
>““”. Is that what you need?
Once you know it's there it's pretty darned obvious, isn't it?
CM
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>They need to use iconography to accommodate non-anglophones. And I just
>noticed it
For that extensive population that knows the words Reply, Advanced, Plain,
Preferences, Search, Save Draft and Send Message ... but not Quote.
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I am not a user of typesetting languages so I have no real personal feelings,
but I know others here have expressed a fondness for LaTeX, so this
announcement caught my eye.
"Typst is a typesetting system designed to be as powerful as LaTeX and easier
to use. It comes with built-in markup for c
As a I guy who has been involved in SMF-based "auditing of stuff" off and on
for the past ten years, I can tell you that "what programs are actually getting
loaded?" comes up again and again, and I don't know of a solution. (Yes, what
you describe should work, but be very wary of performance imp
What about vendor packages that are off maintenance, the vendor has gone out of
business, were licensed for a OTC and have been forgotten about, etc.? Any CBT
or similar packages?
I know I have used STCK and STCKF in my "vendor" code. I think it's all still
maintained, but not sure that every l
Ha! I always said if I ever taught programming -- I never have -- I was going
to do that -- swap code between students.
The other thing I was going to do in the same vein was give a programming
assignment -- perhaps with a fairly tight deadline -- and halfway through say
"oh, wait, the specs ha
A friend shared this with me and I thought it was just extraordinary. It is not
"mainframe" but his comments on what happens when the marketeers run a tech
company will resonate with many of us. It’s a fairly long read. It’s a
transcript of a long interview done for a TV show – only a few minute
I'm not a "Micrsoft-basher" and I am not a huge fan of Steve's, but it should
be pointed out that the "went flying instead of meeting with IBM" is a version
of the story popularized by Bill Gates.
Dorothy was the one who typically handled vendor negotiations. Gary went on a
business trip to del
I just had a similar problem: "how do you determine your entry R0 from C?" I
asked here and got no answer. I had to front end the C with a tiny assembler
program (57 lines including extensive comments; 11 executable instructions).
Why did the C need its entry R0? Because it is called from Rexx,
I remember IBM charging and then refunding for PartnerWorld.
I passed on PLX: did not see committing to an unsupported language that might
be withdrawn at any time (as it was).
IBM should open source PL/X 390. Hardly would give away their secret sauce at
this point! PL/X 390 -- not current PL/X
C++ can produce object code that can be linked into a traditional load module
in a PDS. I do it all the time.
Charles
On Thu, 6 Apr 2023 09:18:28 +0200, Bernd Oppolzer
wrote:
>Thanks.
>
>This (to me) seems related to the fact that PL/I still can produce
>"classic" load modules,
>while COBOL a
I can't see your code of course but my WAG is a programmer logic error.
(Sorry!) I am going to guess your logic is such that you try to free the same
area twice or, less likely, corrupt your pointer.
You say you check to see if it is null before freeing. Do you set it to NULL
after freeing?
Ch
Humor me here. I assume this is basic system programming, but I don't claim to
be a sysprog.
We have a Dallas system. Something in our usage patterns or something has
changed recently to where we end up with spool filled up with BPXAS jobs and we
eventually run out of JQEs which is not a Good T
Thanks much.
Okay, I confirmed that MSGCLASS=Z will make output magically disappear.
Here is the proc as it exists today:
//*
//IEFPROC EXEC PGM=IEFIIC,DPRTY=12,PARM=',,&GETWORK,BPXPRJRW'
//
that is
concatenated ahead of SYS1.PROCLIB. Or is there something else I should be
grokking about IEFJOBS?
Charles
On Mon, 10 Apr 2023 17:59:52 -0500, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
>On Mon, 10 Apr 2023 17:11:11 -0500, Charles Mills wrote:
>>
>>Okay, I confirmed that MSGCLASS=Z will make outpu
Incredibly busy this AM but wanted to at least say that I used @sas's "real
deal" *exactly* as presented below and it seems to be working perfectly. May
comment on some later posts if I get a moment.
If any Dallas customers are reading this a year or two from now, note that
@sas's "USER.PROCLIB
Thank you all.
@Seymour, it's working now and if it ain't broke ...
@Matthew, ditto. Thanks, but ditto.
@Wendell, the only person with authority to issue $T would have been me, and I
did not. I think usage patterns changed. We have a new developer. I don't
think he is doing anything "wrong" b
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