LOCALSYSAREA question: How to know if it exists

2019-03-07 Thread Dave Cole
ss of the grande low usable user private. There may be a flag that we can test or it may be available with a certain release of z/OS – meaning that we can safely test the CVT flags for a particular release of z/OS. Thanks, Dave Cole ColeSoft Marketing 414 Third Street, NE Charlottesville

Re: Use of "trap" facility in z/OS?

2019-06-22 Thread Dave Cole
FWIW: Around a year ago, z/XDC became a product that uses TRAP2. It gives the user the option of using TRAP2 or X'00' opcodes for breakpoints. It yields some performance improvement, but not as much as I had hoped. Dave Cole ColeSoft Marketing 414 Third Street, NE Charlottesville

Mapping macro for RCWs?

2019-06-23 Thread Dave Cole
It there a formal IBM mapping macro for RECFM=V type "Record Control Words"? Dave Cole ColeSoft Marketing 414 Third Street, NE Charlottesville, VA 22902 EADDRESS:<mailto:dbc...@colesoft.com>dbc...@colesoft.com Home page: www.colesoft.com LinkedIn:www.

Re: Mapping macro for RCWs?

2019-06-28 Thread Dave Cole
7;ve ever seen for BDW/RDW fields is in the "DFSMS Using Data Sets" manual, chapter 20, "Variable-Length Record Formats", pp 306-311. :> :>If there is a mapping macro I've never seen it. :> :>Peter :> :>-Original Message- :>From: IBM Mainframe

Question about a Program Object's MIGRATABLE attribute

2019-08-19 Thread Dave Cole
ences between A MIGRATABLE Program Object and a non-MIGRATABLE Program Object? What would exist in a non-MIGRATABLE Program Object that would prevent it from being MIGRATABLE? Thanks in advance, Dave Cole ColeSoft Marketing 414 Third Street, NE Charlottesville, VA 22902 EADDRESS:

Re: Question about a Program Object's MIGRATABLE attribute

2019-08-19 Thread Dave Cole
PM, Pew, Curtis G wrote: On Aug 19, 2019, at 12:51 PM, Dave Cole wrote: 1) When a Program Object is MIGRATABLE, what can it be migrated from? What can it be migrated to? My understanding is that a MIGRATABLE Program Object can be copied to a PDS load library where it becomes a load module

Re: Question about a Program Object's MIGRATABLE attribute

2019-08-21 Thread Dave Cole
Thank you Barry! That is exactly what I was looking for. :-) Dave Cole At 8/20/2019 03:50 PM, Barry Lichtenstein wrote: In reply to David and others, a couple of points that might be of interest: * I confirm that the MIGRATABLE attribute is just as people have suggested, to indicate

Re: Xpediter: Same Debugger from Competing Vendors???

2019-09-24 Thread Dave Cole
"ADS" (pronounced "A-D-S") was the acronym for "Application Development Systems, Inc". I remember that company, but it no longer exists, and the name was so generic that Google searches come up with a lot of hits, none of which are on point. Dave Cole

Re: LOOKAT gone?

2016-12-02 Thread Dave Cole
H. They've moved it. (The link I've been using is in a bookmark and has been working for years.) Anyway, thanks for the clue. :-) Dave At 12/2/2016 05:59 AM, Elardus Engelbrecht wrote: Richards, Robert B. wrote: >http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/z/os/zos/library/bkserv/lookat/lookatm.ht

Re: TSO test confusion ?

2014-02-02 Thread Dave Cole
WAD? Great product whose only drawback is when you go somewhere that doesn't have it. Oh so frustrating. That sounds like a sales opportunity to me... Wanna tell me more? dbc...@colesoft.com At 2/2/2014 09:08 AM, Jon Perryman wrote: Great product whose only drawback is when you go somew

Re: AW: RAS Guidelines

2014-05-02 Thread Dave Cole
or at least a discussion of) developing RAS-compliant code? TIA Dave Cole ColeSoft Marketing 414 Third Street, NE Charlottesville, VA 22902 EADDRESS: dbc...@colesoft.com Home page: www.colesoft.com Facebook:www.facebook.com/c

Re: AW: AW: RAS Guidelines

2014-05-04 Thread Dave Cole
nframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] Im Auftrag von Dave Cole Gesendet: Freitag, 2. Mai 2014 17:14 An: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Betreff: Re: AW: RAS Guidelines Yeah, thanks Chris. I'll download it for bedtime reading. Still, I'm wondering if there is anything else. Thank

Re: Debugging IEAVMXIT

2013-10-13 Thread Dave Cole
Wow! Thank John (and Peter) for the mentions! [:-))] Dave At 10/10/2013 12:23 PM, John Gilmore wrote: Peter Farley wrote: | [Use] z/XDC from Colesoft. This is the best possible advice. Some of my clients have it, and they tolerate my using it on site for such tasks even when the prob

Re: [slightly] off topic: SPFPRO on Win 8.1

2013-10-30 Thread Dave Cole
ment" for SPF/PRO, I was hugely disappointed. I don't remember all the details, but it was utterly incompatible with SPF/PC in its user interface, and IIRC, it no longer supported REXX as its macro language. Dave Cole ColeSoft Marketing 414 Third Street, NE Charlottesville, VA 22902 EA

Re: [slightly] off topic: SPFPRO on Win 8.1

2013-10-30 Thread Dave Cole
ext editor, I have not extensively investigated alternatives. Dave Cole ColeSoft Marketing 414 Third Street, NE Charlottesville, VA 22902 EADDRESS: dbc...@colesoft.com -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access in

Re: Undocumented VSAM Return/reason code

2013-05-04 Thread Dave Cole
/infocenter/zos/v1r11/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.zos.r11.cs3cod0/f1a1d29004.htm So obviously, I was looking in the wrong manual. Thanks! Dave Cole REPLY TO: <mailto:dbc...@colesoft.com>dbc...@colesoft.com ColeSoft Marketing WEB PAGE: <http://www.colesoft.com/>

Re: XDC-CDF cannot access profile

2013-08-27 Thread Dave Cole
also want to add //XDCTLIB pointing to the TLIB into which your z/XDC installer placed the default profiles (from DBCOLE.XDCZ1D.XDCTLIB). IHTH, Dave Cole ColeSoft Marketing 414 Third Street, NE Charlottesville, VA 22902 EADDRESS: dbc...@colesoft.com Home page: www.colesoft.com Fac

Re: "The digital arms trade", article in the Economist, 2013 March 30

2013-04-02 Thread Dave Cole
onomist.com/news/business/21574478-market-software-helps-hackers-penetrate-computer-systems-digital-arms-trade Dave Cole REPLY TO: <mailto:dbc...@colesoft.com>dbc...@colesoft.com ColeSoft Marketing WEB PAGE: <http://www.colesoft.com/>colesoft.com 736 Fox Hollow Road

Re: "The digital arms trade", article in the Economist, 2013 March 30

2013-04-02 Thread Dave Cole
t have to be inside the Systems staff. He need only be inside the business-systems-knowledgeable community or even the system's trusted user community. Dave Cole REPLY TO: <mailto:dbc...@colesoft.com>dbc...@colesoft.com ColeSoft Marketing WEB PAGE: <http://www.

Re: Simple assembler question

2016-06-23 Thread Dave Cole
Newbies! ;-) At 6/23/2016 10:47 PM, Phil Smith III wrote: Chuck wrote: >I would consider something like this: >LR R15,R3 Copy low 32-bits to R15 >SRLGR0,R3,32Copy upper 32-bits to R0 >You may want to add an SR or XR for register 0 and 15 p

Re: How large an RSA does ATTACHX provide to the subtask?

2016-07-17 Thread Dave Cole
Yeah, me too. But in my case, it's just a guess. Can you cite a reference? Thanks, Dave At 7/17/2016 02:58 PM, Binyamin Dissen wrote: I believe at the Z level it became 144. On Sun, 17 Jul 2016 14:31:12 -0400 David Cole wrote: :>I've looked in the doc ("MVS Assembler Services Reference