Re: RENT binder option - note of thanks!

:+1: -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN

Re: Need help understanding use of CEEPIPI from non-LE assembler main programs

ed by ADD_ENTRY calls for all the routines to be called via CEEPIPI. Then we do CALL_SUB for any routine using the index returned by ADD_ENTRY. -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation) Tel: (905) 470-7113, Fax: (905) 470

Re: Linux Copying z/OS Volumes Using Raw-Track Access Mode?

y (requiring an additional volume) in order to get at a copy of the individual data set. -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation) Tel: (905) 470-7113, Fax: (905) 470-6507

Re: Terminology - Datasets

being discussed at any time. In the field, we find that despite IBM's attempts to sweep "USS" as an acronym for "UNIX System Services" under the rug, it refuses to go away and remains in common use. -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Maz

Re: Terminology - Datasets

On 2017-04-27 18:07, Paul Gilmartin wrote: On Thu, 27 Apr 2017 17:30:30 -0400, Gord Tomlin wrote: Any time Gil succeeds in getting a z/OS MVS facility to work with z/OS UNIX files, we'll have to update our doc! ;) Be specific. What qualifies as a "z/OS MVS facility"?

Re: S0D5 accessing dataspace

alleged performance guru at the site used their monitoring product (can't remember whether it was Omegamon or TMON) to swap out a started task that needed to be non-swappable. -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation) Tel: (905) 470-7113

Re: Looks like lots of folks in marketing said thanks but no thanks

oration environments. Check out ChatOps as a concept, and products like Slack, Mattermost or HipChat. Even with more basic products like Skype or WhatsApp, it is absolutely possible to achieve collaborative work without physically being in the same building. -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Softw

Re: Looks like lots of folks in marketing said thanks but no thanks

e's no "one size fits all" solution. Some people are wired to be able to effectively collaborate remotely, while others just aren't. But the trend toward remote work is inexorable, except apparently at IBM. -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division

Re: "New" Java-less Operating System Messages blips like crazy

nd. It's unfortunate that so many organizations mandate the use of MS browsers. -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation) Tel: (905) 470-7113, Fax: (905) 470-6507

Re: CSSMTP Startup Failure

port/docview.wss?uid=isg1OA48941 You might want to see whether the associated PTF is applied. -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation) Tel: (905) 470-7113, Fax: (905) 470-6507 -

Re: Store Clock Fast really can give duplicates

On 2017-06-21 11:58, Tony Harminc wrote: Muphry's law? ^ Murphy's Law in action. -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation) Tel: (905) 470-7113, Fax: (905

Re: Store Clock Fast really can give duplicates

On 2017-06-21 15:50, Tony Harminc wrote: Muphry's law? ^ Murphy's Law in action. Not this time, at least not yet. Muphry's is rather more specific than Murphy's. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muphry's_law [typing very carefully] Interesting...thanks! -- Re

Re: IBM customer anchor

On 2017-06-22 13:04, Paul Gilmartin wrote: Had CA squatted on their claim before IBM established a registry? IIRC Peter Relson established the registry when he first established the table. -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation) Tel

Re: AWK ? - Re: Top 8 Reasons for using Python instead of REXX for z/OS

On 2021-12-22 01:36 AM, Farley, Peter x23353 wrote: Not that I much like the z/OS shell implementation, but I could learn to use it effectively if I had reliable access. Would you be allowed to use Rocket's port of bash? -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a divisi

Re: ... Re: Top 8 Reasons for using Python instead of REXX for z/OS

sting Assembler code. JCL could coexist with its successor. Quoting a slightly larger part of Bob's statement, it's clear that he was talking about obstacles to making improvements in JCL, not about some replacement. Apples and oranges. -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software I

Re: Fwd: Where do we go from here? 2022 Predictions By Open Mainframe Project

On 2022-01-13 13:56 PM, Mark Regan wrote: https://www.openmainframeproject.org/blog/2022/01/12/2022-predictions Regards, Mark Regan Best to watch this one rather than read it. The transcription isn't great. -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Com

Re: LISTSERV Noise?

earing in the list, which would be much more annoying. Now, if only there was a reliable way to detect and prevent topic drift... -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation) Tel: (905) 470-7113, Fax: (905) 470-6507 Support: https://actio

Re: Holy Moly ...

On 2022-02-16 22:21 PM, Lance D. Jackson wrote: I thought you guys were asked to take this offline? +1. Enough is enough. -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation) Tel: (905) 470-7113, Fax: (905) 470-6507 Support: https

Re: Meet Zorow, An Open Mainframe Project For z/OS Systems - Open Mainframe Project

On 2022-03-01 22:49 PM, Matt Hogstrom wrote: Zafod Can't leave out Zardoz. -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation) Tel: (905) 470-7113, Fax: (905) 470-6507 Support: https://actionsoftware.com/su

Re: Trouble getting new mainframe staff?

On 2022-03-21 14:17 PM, Bill Johnson wrote: Cut from word doc and paste to the list. I’ve often seen the list jam stuff together. I’ve pasted the same thing elsewhere and it works perfectly. I saw words concatenated, and I use Thunderbird. -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software

Re: Modifying a USS Root File System that is Read-Only

,CATALOG , 8002A4A0A1A2A3A4000300E20056E800 Is this z/OS system running under z/VM? If so, is volume MT24R1 attached read-only to the z/OS guest? -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation) Tel: (905) 470-7113

Re: Specialized list versus wide audience

On 2022-03-30 17:58 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: Should there be a list for rants, insults, pedantry, advocacy, and politics Yes, please! The signal to noise ratio on IBM-MAIN is horrible. -- -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation) Tel

Re: System Proclibs, Member management

cally for situations like this. -- -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation) Tel: (905) 470-7113, Fax: (905) 470-6507 Support: https://actionsoftware.com/support/ -- For IBM

Re: System Proclibs, Member management

just executions, or just proc invocations. It would be up to the OP to decide whether they wanted to see references other than proc invocations. If they choose to track all references, they can easily filter the report to see only those that are proc invocations. -- -- Regards, Gord Tomlin

Re: SYSLOG port usage

yslogd has no parameters for specifying the use of TCP or a non-standard port. FWIW, a lot of sites are sending their syslog traffic to SIEM products; all such products that I've seen can accept TCP traffic. -- -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division

Re: Checksum of "legacy" load module?

each utility to ensure you can meet the requirements. Here's a trivial example: > sha256 "//'SYS1.LPALIB(IEFBR14)'" SHA256 (//'SYS1.LPALIB(IEFBR14)') = ec62f77b12bf26b56ce14148ff5efd43da5732951b9392afd85a3cdc4abfc5f7 -- -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action

Re: Checksum of "legacy" load module?

already indicated that he can't use it. -- -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation) Tel: (905) 470-7113, Fax: (905) 470-6507 Support: https://actionsoftware.com/su

Re: "A Rexx" (or "A REXX")

IST", and when they replaced CLIST [programs] with Rexx [programs] it was probably logical to them to replace the word they used to describe them at the same time. A related pet peeve: "a software". Nobody but nobody says "a hardware". -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action

Re: "A Rexx" (or "A REXX")

DB2 to Db2. -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation) Tel: (905) 470-7113, Fax: (905) 470-6507 Support: https://actionsoftware.com/support/ -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe /

Re: Some questions on SYSCALL

On 2022-06-29 08:48 AM, Bill Schoen wrote: Probably my last post before retirement tomorrow. Enjoy your retirement, Bill! -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation) Tel: (905) 470-7113, Fax: (905) 470-6507 Support: https

Re: Tool for abend testing

cause program checks for those abend codes that represent program checks. Depending on your recovery scenario, an actual S0C3 program check could be handled differently than an ABEND with system code 0C3. One simple example is a SLIP trap with ERRTYP=PROG. -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Sof

Re: Markup languages

uce a professional looking PDF document, though. -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation) Tel: (905) 470-7113, Fax: (905) 470-6507 Support: https://actionsoftware.com/su

Re: Question

e and have no need for Office 365. -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation) Tel: (905) 470-7113, Fax: (905) 470-6507 Support: https://actionsoftware.com/support/ -- For IBM

Re: SDWAEC1

BFTCB You would be starting *to do what* starting from PSATOLD instead of ASXBFTCB. I think you should rewrite your post completely so it makes some sense, and provide enough context for people to know what you are asking for. -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a divisi

Re: IBM bkserv website donw or gone?

ing: http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr/Shelves -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation) Tel: (905) 470-7113, Fax: (905) 470-6507 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff

Re: Good, free flowchart software

use the Draw component of LibreOffice (libreoffice.org) or OpenOffice (openoffice.apache.org) to create flow charts. There are also several flow chart projects on sourceforge.net. -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation) Tel: (905) 470

Re: AW: Re: You thought IEFBR14 was bad? Try GNU's /bin/true code

On 2016-02-11 15:46, Paul Gilmartin wrote: Does anyone else (Google doesn't) remember the ELHO acronym? > Isn't that the lead-in for extended SMTP protocol exchange? Almost... "EHLO". -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer

Re: System Trace Table Size -- REDUX

s a generous size and information I needed was several seconds before the event causing the dump. Providing ample storage for system trace is a great way to help your vendors solve any problems you encounter, and in today's environment of cheap and plentiful storage the cost is minimal.

Re: AWS down again.

On 2020-11-25 14:55 PM, Bill Johnson wrote: No worries though, you just can’t see your entertainment. Prolonged AWS outage has taken down a big chunk of the internet | | | | || | | | | | Prolonged AWS outage has taken down a big chunk of the internet | | |

Re: Is ISGENQ a bit pricey?

ce with a SYSTEMS scope to be different from a resource represented by the same qname and rname but with a scope of STEP or SYSTEM." https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSLTBW_2.4.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r4.ieaa600/iea3a6_Defining_the_scope_of_a_resource.htm  -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action So

Re: C macro for maximum path length?

onlinepubs/009696699/functions/pathconf.html>, and/sysconf/() <https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009696699/functions/sysconf.html> functions to determine the actual value of a limit at runtime." (https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009696699/basedefs/limits.h.html) -- Regard

Re: LCCAWTIM on multiple CP System

On 2021-01-25 12:24 PM, Eric Erickson wrote: What am I missing here? Reading what you have written, it appears that you are working on the basis that 1 second = 1000 microseconds. However, 1 second = 1000 milliseconds. -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of

Re: Datasets with - in HLQ

x27;XXX-LQAV', but the ERB300I message shows a HLQ beginning with 'XX-L'. Is it possible that the problem is a typo? -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation) Tel: (905) 470-7113, Fax: (905) 470-650

Re: wc3270 or NOTEPAD++ help

https://filezilla-project.org/ Windows itself contains a line-mode FTP client. If you want GUI, FileZilla is good and free. 7-Zip is a good free alternative to WinZip. https://www.7-zip.org/ -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation) Tel: (90

Re: z/OS 2.2 - how to order ?

EOM = end of marketing = withdrawn from marketing = you can't order it. -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation) Tel: (905) 470-7113, Fax: (905) 470-6507 Support: http

Re: z/OS 2.2 - how to order ?

download/order date". EOM = end of marketing = withdrawn from marketing = you can't order it. -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation) Tel: (905) 470-7113, Fax: (905) 470-6507 Support: http

Re: Looking for IMS Sysprog

On 2018-06-30 21:39, Beverly Caldwell wrote: Unfortunately people with names like yours... Admins, can we take care of this please? -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation) Tel: (905) 470-7113, Fax: (905) 470-6507 Support: https

Re: (OT) Good bye everyone

am finding life without a technical challenge not interesting and since I can no longer function in that capacity I will have to find some other outlet. Best wishes to you all. Ed Sorry to hear about your incident. Best of luck in finding something new and exciting. -- Regards, Gord

Re: Data Space Owner

https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSLTBW_2.3.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r3.ieaa500/ieaa500159.htm -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation) Tel: (905) 470-7113, Fax: (905) 470-6507 Support: https://actionsoftware.com/su

Re: z13s not in Canada wasRe: [External] Re: Amazon Prime meltdown leads to IBM LinuxONE

On 2018-07-30 12:59, Elardus Engelbrecht wrote: Sorry, but please educate me (and others too), what is a "CanCon"? Canadian Content. -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation) Tel: (905) 470-7113, Fax: (905) 470-6507 Supp

Re: [EXTERNAL] Zowe install woes

% clear, any z/OS system running Zowe will be running a minimum of two Liberty instances, the system-provided one for z/OSMF and the Zowe-provided one? -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation) Tel: (905) 470-7113, Fax: (905) 470-6507

Re: Zowe for systems programmer ?

ll include an X-IBM-Session-Ref response header that can be added as a request header to subsequent requests to specify affinity to the TSO address space holding this ENQ. In other words, "plays well with the other children, iff requested to do so." -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action

Re: Zowe for systems programmer ?

those ENQs in ISPF. An ENQ convention can only truly be relied upon if all users of the system follow that convention. SPFEDIT falls short in that. -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation) Tel: (905) 470-7113, Fax: (905) 470-6507 Su

Re: Zowe for systems programmer ?

t universal, it does not carry the same level of reliability. It's like a gentlemen's agreement in a world where not all are gentlemen. -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation) Tel: (905) 470-7113, Fax: (905) 470-6507 Support: h

Task level ACEE vs. task-level JSAB

the system working as designed if a TCB level ACEE is set up but a TCB level JSAB is not? Whose responsibility is it to build a TCB level JSAB? -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation) Tel: (905) 470-7113, Fax: (905) 470-6507 Support: ht

Re: Task level ACEE vs. task-level JSAB

exist. -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation) Tel: (905) 470-7113, Fax: (905) 470-6507 Support: https://actionsoftware.com/support/ -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / sign

Re: Reasons for address space with no JSAB/other sources of job name

there won't necessarily be a corresponding JSAB. -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation) Tel: (905) 470-7113, Fax: (905) 470-6507 Support: https://actionsoftware.c

CA PDSMAN and dynamic additions to APF list

addition to the APF list, is it done immediately or on an interval basis? Thanks! -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation) Tel: (905) 470-7113, Fax: (905) 470-6507 Support: https://actionsoftware.com/support

Re: CA PDSMAN and dynamic additions to APF list

n the APF list with volume *SMS* and we have been assured that it was added to APF dynamically before the above abend. In the dump, DEBFLGS1/DEBAPFIN is on. -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation) Tel: (905) 470-7113, Fax: (905) 470

Re: CA PDSMAN and dynamic additions to APF list

ues with some vendor software, or at least it use to. It's a specific problem we are looking at, in which a BLDL is failing with ABEND306-4 despite the data set being in the APF list. To be clear, the data set is being accessed via a private DD statement, not via the lnklst. -- Regards, Go

Re: CA PDSMAN and dynamic additions to APF list

On 2018-10-17 12:23, Tom Conley wrote: Your client should open an incident with PDSMAN support. Absolutely! I've already suggested that. -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation) Tel: (905) 470-7113, Fax: (905) 470-6507 Support:

Re: CA PDSMAN and dynamic additions to APF list

, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation) Tel: (905) 470-7113, Fax: (905) 470-6507 Support: https://actionsoftware.com/support/ -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access

Re: CA PDSMAN and dynamic additions to APF list

have the JCL for the job, but it's reasonable to think that a symbolic was used to specify all or part of a data set name in a situation where a data set is concatenated with itself. Certainly an APF list change should affect all relevant data sets. -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Actio

Re: CA PDSMAN and dynamic additions to APF list

SMAN has this command: F PDSMAN,NEWRULES to reload the rules in the PDSMAN initialization member, PDSMINIT. But I have no idea whether that has any relationship to what PDSMAN may know about the APF list, and have not been able to find anything that says it does or doesn't. -- Regards, G

Re: CA PDSMAN and dynamic additions to APF list

We don't have PDSMAN ourselves, but received a dump for the ABEND306-4 from a customer who does have PDSMAN. -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation) Tel: (905) 470-7113, Fax: (905) 470-6507 Support: https://a

Re: CA PDSMAN and dynamic additions to APF list

On 2018-10-18 09:30, Ira Nelson wrote: Is the library defined to the PDSMAN Dynamic BlDL facility? I don't know, but can ask (not my system); however, it seems likely that it is since the BLDL is never passed on to IBM's BLDL SVC routine. -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Actio

Re: CA PDSMAN and dynamic additions to APF list

ode being executed. After FOCUS receives the BLDL results, it (not IBM code) issues the ABEND306-4. FWIW, IBM BLDL does not document providing any particular value in R1 on return with return code 4. -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporat

Re: ASMA034E

On 2018-11-15 16:43, Tom Marchant wrote: I believe that you can have a relative branch to a symbol in another CSECT that is resolved at binder time. Yes, if you include GOFF in your HLASM parameters. You will find that when you specify GOFF, you will also need LIST(133) . -- Regards, Gord

Re: Unix link-edit missing modules

the same order. Did you specify/default DSECT=NO on CVT? -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation) Tel: (905) 470-7113, Fax: (905) 470-6507 Support: https://actionsoftware.c

Re: Researching Destination z article on non-US mainframes

would find the experiences very similar to those of US users, other than those related to dealing with IBM. -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation) Tel: (905) 470-7113, Fax: (905) 470

Re: Any SMF statistics available for LOAD of a program?

for any assistance you can provide. Peter Shameless plug: eventACTION's Reference Tracker component will collect that information for you. -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation) Tel: (905) 470-7113, Fax: (905) 470

Re: Can AMODE 31 C/C++ get a signal on a S0C1/4 in AMODE 64 assembler?

regards Bernd I think an approach like this would only be reasonable of the volume of calls to the 64-bit code are very infrequent. If the 64-bit routine(s) is/are called a lot, the overhead would be prohibitive. -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda

Re: SoftwareXcel Discontinued

ndor of handling defects, and transfers part of the financial impact of bugs from the vendor to the customers. It could be viewed as reducing the vendor's incentive to develop relatively bug-free software. -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Compute

Re: SoftwareXcel Discontinued

t play any part in our decisions about how many bugs to include in the software.:-) Glad you picked up on the tongue in cheek! In real life, willfully being buggy would soon be followed by unwillingly being out of business. -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a divisio

503 Service Unavailable - www-03.ibm.com/systems/z/os/zos/library/bkserv/

I am unable to get at the handy dandy page that leads to manuals in their various formats. Anyone else? -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation) Tel: (905) 470-7113, Fax: (905) 470-6507

Re: Db2! was: NODE.js for z/OS

On 2017-10-31 10:28, W Mainframe wrote: What really matter the difference between Db2 and DB2? I see the same result in my SQL SELET... Come on! Did you notice the ® associated with Db2®? That's a sure sign that IBM and its lawyers care. -- -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Sof

Re: IBMLINK SIS Failing? Spurious Error 500's

On 2017-12-12 14:27, Tom Conley wrote: and to use IFE as the browser I'm not familiar with a browser called "IFE". Is that a reference to Internet [expletive deleted] Exploder? -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation)

Re: RSM Freemained Frames - When do they apply?

ter Hunkeler I wouldn't think IBM would be in a hurry to reveal RSM's algorithm for determining whether/when a freemained frame will be discarded. I know you are just asking out of curiosity, but any reliance on a freemained frame staying available would be like Russian roulett

Re: "make" question

kely possible to create a (very ugly) Makefile that can react to which make tool is being used. All the make tools share an annoying reliance on tab characters. -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation) Tel: (905) 470-7113, Fax: (905

Re: "make" question

On 2017-12-14 13:56, Jack J. Woehr wrote: On 12/14/2017 7:25 AM, Gord Tomlin wrote: All the make tools share an annoying reliance on tab characters. This is somehow more pernicious than punch-card-column dependencies in traditional IBM tools? :) Neither is great, but at least you can see

Re: Stop

On 2018-01-05 12:01, Shumate, Scott wrote: Stop IEE311I STOP PARAMETER MISSING -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation) Tel: (905) 470-7113, Fax: (905) 470-6507 Support: https://actionsoftware.com/support

Re: curious: Popularity & use of C on z/OS.

quot;What's this?" a comment on the quality of the code he was asked to change, or an observation on the "weird" (to him) sources of information, or something else? -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation) Tel: (905) 470-

Re: IBM Education Assistance for z/OS - Useful??

y look useful. The page referenced by your link shows only 2.2 items. I don't see any benefit to removing items for all but the latest release. -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation) Tel: (905)

Re: AW: How large are your system trace & master trace on z13?

herhood side note, always remember to increase system trace size if you turn on branch tracing to help debug a problem. If you need the other trace entries for context, the volume of branch tracing will reduce the amount of other trace data available in a trace table of a given size. -- Re

Re: LRECL=255 vs LRECL=259

I've never seen LRECL=259 in my life...well, until now! -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation) Tel: (905) 470-7113, Fax: (905) 470-6507 -- For IBM-MAIN subs

IBM doc page - down or dead?

The page I use to reach IBM manuals has been unavailable all day. I get IBM's usual 404 page instead. http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/z/os/zos/bkserv/ Is anyone able to reach this page? Can anyone at IBM comment on whether this page is intentionally missing? -- Regards, Gord Tomlin A

Re: IBM doc page - down or dead?

a very long time. Until yesterday, that is. -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation) Tel: (905) 470-7113, Fax: (905) 470-6507 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff

Re: LOOKAT gone? - Doc Buddy? Seriously?

Krug. IBM's Byzantine web sites and web apps suggest that they haven't been looking. -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation) Tel: (905) 470-7113, Fax: (905) 470-6507 --

Re: Unterse for 64 bit LINUX?

I've seen situations where a firewall will not allow zip or tar files through, but will let tersed files through. Having said that, I'm pretty sure the reason is that the firewall was unaware of terse format, and would have blocked it if it was able to recognize terse. -- Regard

Re: Mainframe "culture" question - how display a tab character?

e user, then you might want to show the parameters in dump format (both character and hexadecimal) and not attempt to convert the tab character to some other representation. -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation)

Re: Dataspace versus common area above the bar

ation provided by the data space. -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation) Tel: (905) 470-7113, Fax: (905) 470-6507 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive a

Re: Dataspace versus common area above the bar

a areas in 64-bit storage do require quadword consistency, while the same algorithm using 31-bit storage would only require doubleword consistency. Having said that, the OP did not mention any need to update his tables. -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazd

Re: z/OSMF (was: Entry Level System Programmer Job Description)

rce consumption of z/OSMF as of z/OS 2.1, has anyone here implemented z/OSMF and seen a positive effect on interest levels in systems programming jobs from younger individuals? Or, has anyone here implemented z/OSMF and carried on using it themselves because they prefer it to the existing tools?

Re: Query for Destination z article -- identifying/overcoming mainframe challenges

transfer. -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation) Tel: (905) 470-7113, Fax: (905) 470-6507 -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to

Re: Metal C vs. HLASM - for C callable subroutine?

in this case will likely be mostly comprised of inline Assembler with the cryptic syntax used to map C constructs to Assembler constructs. Your code will probably be more understandable if you write a LE-compliant Assembler subroutine to do those functions. -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software

Re: Metal C vs. HLASM - for C callable subroutine?

runtime. Admittedly these occasions are not that common; in my experience it's not very often that a situation presents itself where C with inline Assembler is preferable to pure Assembler. -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation

Re: Dump Defaults (Was: SLIP IF Trap?)

most important systems issue the following command in COMMNDxx: CD SET,SDUMP=(RGN,CSA,LPA),ADD,MAXSPACE=5000M ... probably inherited from something someone did before the last millennium. Does anyone have any other (21st-century) recommendations for improving this? -- -- Regards, Gord Tomlin

Re: Relationship of C signals to z/OS terminology?

reasonable amount of time. In such a scenario, you can cause your cleanup code to run in several ways including, but not limited to, an ETXR for the worker TCB. -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation) Tel: (905) 470-7113, Fax: (905) 470-6507

Re: Top posting

s already been written. The longer the thread gets, the more painful this becomes. I do not use the web interface, so I am not aware of the problems its users are encountering, but bottom posting is enough of an annoyance for me in my email client. I am happy to comply with this request. --

Re: Auditors Don't Know Squat!

On 2012-08-17 18:39, Chip Grantham wrote: I looked at the V1.13 glossary and found program temporary fix (PTF) That's what it's been for as long as I can remember... -- Regards, Gord Tomlin Action Software International (a division of Mazda Computer Corporation) Tel: (905) 470

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