Re: Fastest way to read OLDEST GDG entry

2015-11-17 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
At 12:23 -0600 on 11/17/2015, Paul Gilmartin wrote about Re: Fastest way to read OLDEST GDG entry: What makes "V00" ever Vnn, where N<>0? If you have a DSN called DSN.G0055V00 and create a file called DSN.G0055V01 it will replace the V00 version in the list. ---

Re: Fastest way to read OLDEST GDG entry

2015-11-17 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
At 07:06 -0700 on 11/17/2015, Lizette Koehler wrote about Re: Fastest way to read OLDEST GDG entry: I have heard the GDG limit in z/OS V2.2 will be higher, so it may not be much of an issue for limit values. Lizette At the current time the limit is 255. Unless you are creating the GDGs f

Re: Fastest way to read OLDEST GDG entry

2015-11-17 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
At 22:05 -0600 on 11/17/2015, Joel C. Ewing wrote about Re: Fastest way to read OLDEST GDG entry: After several decades of using MVS I finally ran into a case where I thought GDS/GDG versioning might be useful and used it to create a corrected version of a GDS generation using V01 to make it o

Re: Fastest way to read OLDEST GDG entry

2015-11-18 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
At 08:32 -0600 on 11/18/2015, Tom Marchant wrote about Re: Fastest way to read OLDEST GDG entry: I haven't done it, so I can't verify what the doc says, but Using Data Sets has this to say under the topic Absolute Generation and Version Numbers: You can catalog a new version of a specific ge

Re: SMPE apply excluding certain FMID's?

2015-11-19 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
At 14:35 + on 11/19/2015, Jousma, David wrote about Re: SMPE apply excluding certain FMID's?: Do you really want/need to segregate applying maintenance for the Omegamon suite, or during a maintenance cycle do you simply want to more easily identify the relevant HOLDs just for >Omegamon? I

Re: Were you at SHARE in Seattle? Watch your credit card statements!

2015-11-21 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
At 09:04 -0700 on 11/21/2015, Paul Gilmartin wrote about Re: Were you at SHARE in Seattle? Watch your credit card st: On 11/21/2015 08:49 AM, Bob Shannon wrote: Maybe someone should raise a requirement that the SHARE Hotels credit card system should be secure. Seriously Ed? Do you really thi

Re: Were you at SHARE in Seattle? Watch your credit card statements!

2015-11-22 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
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Re: Were you at SHARE in Seattle? Watch your credit card statements!

2015-11-22 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
At 08:42 -0600 on 11/22/2015, Joel C. Ewing wrote about Re: Were you at SHARE in Seattle? Watch your credit card st: The biggest incentive was on merchants to get chip-card-capable readers in place to avoid higher fraud liability, and at least most of the merchants I frequent have complied, Wi

Re: Yeat another hotel cyber attack

2015-11-25 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
At 11:37 -0500 on 11/25/2015, Steve Thompson wrote about Re: Yeat another hotel cyber attack: And because of how easily they are counterfeited by a mainframe, many places will not accept Travelers Cheques these days. I remember a Hawaii 5-0 (original version) that turned on passing real but

Re: Any clever way to defeat the C compiler's options precedence?

2015-11-26 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
At 19:11 -0700 on 11/25/2015, Jack J. Woehr wrote about Re: Any clever way to defeat the C compiler's options prece: > 1. Will make in fact solve this specific problem? Can one readily specify "global" compiler options for most modules and override them for specific modules? Not exactly. #p

Re: Any clever way to defeat the C compiler's options precedence?

2015-12-01 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
At 20:03 -0600 on 12/01/2015, Wayne Driscoll wrote about Re: Any clever way to defeat the C compiler's options prece: I'll preface this by saying that I haven't coded C/C++ in almost a decade, and via JCL even longer, but if the SYSOPTF can be a concatenation (I don't know, and don't have sourc

Re: TCPIP Configuration Help

2015-12-06 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
At 10:47 -0600 on 12/06/2015, Sonny Gupta wrote about Re: TCPIP Configuration Help: Jake, I am unable to find the TCP-L list. Below link gives invalid data. Not sure if the list is still active: http://www2.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?IBMTCP-L I have received messages from the list 2 days ag

Re: TCPIP Configuration Help

2015-12-06 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
At 11:52 -0600 on 12/06/2015, Sonny Gupta wrote about Re: TCPIP Configuration Help: Thanks for Robert...Just posted to IBMTCP-L list. Sonny You're welcome. I see that someone-else sent you the actual email text that needs to be sent to register thus bypassing the need for you to use the he

Re: Inquire intrdr default job class

2015-12-08 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
At 10:29 -0700 on 12/08/2015, Paul Gilmartin wrote about Re: Inquire intrdr default job class: ISPF EDIT has some effective techniques for serializing updates to PDS members, precluding two programmers' editing the same member simultaneously. Does the ISPF EDIT support take into account that

Re: Inquire intrdr default job class

2015-12-08 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
At 15:21 -0600 on 12/08/2015, John McKown wrote about Re: Inquire intrdr default job class: On Tue, Dec 8, 2015 at 3:05 PM, Paul Gilmartin < 000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: On Tue, 8 Dec 2015 14:30:25 -0500, Robert A. Rosenberg wrote: >At 10:29 -0700 on 1

Re: Inquire intrdr default job class

2015-12-09 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
At 19:37 -0500 on 12/08/2015, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote about Re: Inquire intrdr default job class: In , on 12/08/2015 at 03:21 PM, John McKown said: I do not really agree that not including the volser in the SYSDSN enqueue is a "flaw". If it were done, then their could need to be m

Re: Inquire intrdr default job class

2015-12-09 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
At 12:49 -0500 on 12/09/2015, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote about Re: Inquire intrdr default job class: >Look at the bizarre way CCHHR is dissected to allow more than 54 GB on a DASD volume. Not much more bizzare than on the 2321. The CCHHR for the 2321 was MCCHHR (where M selected the B

Re: Mime digests [was: IBM-MAIN Digest [snip]]

2015-12-09 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
At 12:52 -0500 on 12/09/2015, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote about Re: Mime digests [was: IBM-MAIN Digest [snip]]: In <7962980455281460.wa.paulgboulderaim@listserv.ua.edu>, on 12/08/2015 at 06:53 PM, Paul Gilmartin <000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> said: >... but try fol

Re: Inquire intrdr default job class

2015-12-09 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
At 12:46 -0600 on 12/09/2015, John McKown wrote about Re: Inquire intrdr default job class: On Wed, Dec 9, 2015 at 12:29 PM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) < shmuel+ibm-m...@patriot.net> wrote: In , on 12/09/2015 at 11:48 AM, John McKown said: > OK, I've managed to confuse myself. You wan

Re: A List management question

2015-12-09 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
At 00:02 + on 12/10/2015, J O Skip Robinson wrote about A List management question: I may need to change my email address for IBM Main purposes. I know how to turn mail on and off. How do I change the address? SKIP - If you check the mail headers you will find these two headers: List-Un

Re: Inquire intrdr default job class

2015-12-10 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
At 23:28 -0500 on 12/09/2015, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote about Re: Inquire intrdr default job class: In , on 12/09/2015 at 02:22 PM, "Robert A. Rosenberg" said: You are focusing too much on the question of if the DSN is a PDS//PDSE or some other format. QNAME SPFEDIT is

Re: COBOL Code Gened for MOVE COMP-3 S9(9) to S9(8)

2015-12-13 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
At 17:39 -0400 on 12/13/2015, Clark Morris wrote about Re: COBOL Code Gened for MOVE COMP-3 S9(9) to S9(8): 01A598 D204 5E58 17B3 ZAP 3672(5,5),1971(1) 01A59E 940F 5E58 NI3672(5),X'0F' would be adequate. Clark Morris > That should be ZAP 3672(5,5),1971(1,5) o

Re: Critique my Binder RCF?

2015-12-16 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
At 09:36 -0500 on 12/16/2015, Peter Relson wrote about Re: Critique my Binder RCF?: I suspect that the the effect of having "(P)" on things other than the first is -- the overall module is given the "P" option (so that it will be page-aligned when loaded -- this is a bit in the directory entry)

Re: [Bulk] Re: Coupling Facility Structure Re-sizing

2015-12-22 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
At 23:59 +0100 on 12/22/2015, R.S. wrote about Re: [Bulk] Re: Coupling Facility Structure Re-sizing: I have no problems with viewing mu letter (it's much harder to type it), but I can imagine others still may have ones. HARD TO TYPE? On a Mac it is Option-m. On a Windows machine, there is a

Re: [Bulk] Re: Coupling Facility Structure Re-sizing

2015-12-22 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
At 03:58 -0600 on 12/22/2015, Elardus Engelbrecht wrote about Re: [Bulk] Re: Coupling Facility Structure Re-sizing: Vernooij, CP (ITOPT1) - KLM wrote: Yes, u as a replacement of the greek letter mu, used to indicate the micro prefix, where the greek letter cannot be used. Many thanks. Much

Re: PTF error clarification

2015-12-23 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
At 08:50 -0500 on 12/23/2015, Kurt Quackenbush wrote about Re: PTF error clarification: Is a return code of 4 more appropriate for PTFs not applied because of error hold? This is an interesting idea, which I'm curious to hear opinions on. If doing a mass APPLY (not using the SELECT operand),

Re: Is there a source for detailed, instruction-level performance info?

2015-12-24 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
At 15:53 -0600 on 12/24/2015, Joel C. Ewing wrote about Re: Is there a source for detailed, instruction-level perfo: As Tom has noted, the most dramatic performance enhancements typically come from a change in strategy or algorithm used. In my experience you get better results by looking for w

Re: Sort for not there?

2016-01-07 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
At 12:04 -0700 on 01/06/2016, Paul Gilmartin wrote about Sort for not there?: Well, the Pigeonhole Principle guarantees that if the data don't exceed 65,535 lines a suitable value must exist. But how to find it? I might take this to IBM-MAIN; someone is apt to jump in with a DFSORT/ICETOOL sol

Re: Sort for not there?

2016-01-07 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
At 09:16 -0600 on 01/07/2016, Tom Marchant wrote about Re: Sort for not there?: >We randomly tried every possibility we could think of and none of them worked. Eventually, we created a checklist and systematically used an editor FIND function to locate a working combination. A real PITA and ma

Re: Sort for not there?

2016-01-07 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
At 09:43 -0800 on 01/07/2016, Ed Jaffe wrote about Re: Sort for not there?: On 1/7/2016 7:16 AM, Tom Marchant wrote: I like Robert Rosenberg's solution: sort the file on the first two columns and look for a suitable gap in the sorted data.Probably a lot quicker than your checklist. Indeed.

Re: RFE to enhance GDGORDER in JCL

2016-01-12 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
I can not see the RFE text to comment but from the description I see nothing about the order of reading the records in the generation but only the order of the generations in the concatenation. IOW: //GDG DD DISP=SHR,DSN=GDGBASE,GDGORDER=FIFO when there are 5 generations yields: //GDG DD D

Re: RFE to enhance GDGORDER in JCL

2016-01-13 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
At 00:38 -0600 on 01/13/2016, Elardus Engelbrecht wrote about Re: RFE to enhance GDGORDER in JCL: >IOW: //GDG DD DISP=SHR,DSN=GDGBASE,GDGORDER=FIFO when there are 5 generations yields: Could work, but it is not always known that there are indeed 5 generations. Lizette wants the oldest and t

Re: Conversion from Unisys Cobol file definitions to zOS

2016-01-14 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
At 09:26 -0600 on 01/13/2016, Paul Gilmartin wrote about Re: Conversion from Unisys Cobol file definitions to zOS: Does OPTCD=Q work on all device types? I had got the impression it applied only to tapes. My impression may be wrong but I seem to remember that OPTCD=Q was used ONLY on 7-trac

Re: Tape formats (was: Conversion ...)

2016-01-15 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
At 10:22 -0600 on 01/15/2016, Paul Gilmartin wrote about Tape formats (was: Conversion ...): >In a message dated 1/15/2016 12:20:59 A.M. Central Standard Time,... writes: Weren't those mostly used in automobiles? I remember when a colleague first saw a 3480 cartridge he asked, "Is that an

Re: Conversion from Unisys Cobol file definitions to zOS

2016-01-15 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
At 01:02 -0500 on 01/15/2016, Ed Finnell wrote about Re: Conversion from Unisys Cobol file definitions to zOS: It's been years but I got involved in Notis(library) imports that were Ascii 8trks. The first cut was OTPCD=Q, but it was a 'strict ASCII' that didn't convert diacriticals. Think th

Re: Conversion from Unisys Cobol file definitions to zOS

2016-01-15 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
At 00:20 -0600 on 01/15/2016, Paul Gilmartin wrote about Re: Conversion from Unisys Cobol file definitions to zOS: On Fri, 15 Jan 2016 00:28:41 -0500, Robert A. Rosenberg wrote: > ... did not support 8-Track tapes. ... Weren't those mostly used in automobiles? I remember when a c

Re: Compile error

2016-01-22 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
JES3 does device allocation before the job is allowed to run. For tape drives it grabs the needed number of drives so you do not run into "Waiting for a Drive" issues. It did the same back in the mountable DASD days. I think it also tracks Tape Volumes so you do not run into "I need Volume X" b

Re: Compile error

2016-01-22 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
At 08:50 -0800 on 01/22/2016, Skip Robinson wrote about Re: Compile error: There never was a plain old 'JES'. I thought the spooling subsystem in OS/VS1 was called JES. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access ins

Re: Compile error

2016-01-22 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
And then there was Star Wars (AKA: A New Hope [which was added when the film was rereleased as part of the release of The Empire Strikes Back]) which opened with a crawl saying Episode 4". That was just because they were emulating the old serials where each segment was a numbered Chapter with i

Re: the Queen of Coding - Adm. Grace Hoper

2016-01-24 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
At 21:01 -0600 on 01/24/2016, Joel C. Ewing wrote about Re: the Queen of Coding - Adm. Grace Hoper: I can't remember the exact way she worded it, but the other memorable bit of wisdom was that she had successfully managed to accomplish so much, despite government and military proclivity for red

Re: the Queen of Coding - Adm. Grace Hoper

2016-01-24 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
At 17:53 -0700 on 01/24/2016, Lizette Koehler wrote about the Queen of Coding - Adm. Grace Hoper: Yes ­ ESPN website ­ Video is for Women in Computing in 1940¹s and specifically the Queen of Coding ­ Adm. Grace Hoper. http://espn.go.com/video/clip?id=12205119 16 1Ž2 minutes. Very interes

Re: COBOL v5

2016-01-25 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
At 15:55 -0700 on 01/23/2016, Lizette Koehler wrote about Re: COBOL v5: And, yes, what they said. IBM requires PDS/E due to Program Objects being created by Cobol V5. This is a Cop-Out answer/reason in my opinion. The real question is "What is Cobol V5 creating that needs the Program Object

Re: COBOL v5

2016-01-25 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
At 10:00 -0700 on 01/25/2016, Frank Swarbrick wrote about Re: COBOL v5: The one reason I know of what a PDSE is required is because TEST/DEBUG information is now stored in a DWARF NOLOAD segment, and those are only supported by PDSE (or UNIX directory). So have a compile time switch to put th

Re: Deleting a dataset that GRS has enqueued.

2016-01-27 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
At 10:32 -0600 on 01/27/2016, Tom Marchant wrote about Re: Deleting a dataset that GRS has enqueued.: On Wed, 27 Jan 2016 09:37:29 -0600, Ed Gould wrote: Try disabling the VVDS on the volume amaspzap the dataset to change the name. delete the dataset with iehprogm enable the vvds on the volum

Re: Deleting a dataset that GRS has enqueued.

2016-01-30 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
At 14:53 -0600 on 01/30/2016, Paul Gilmartin wrote about Re: Deleting a dataset that GRS has enqueued.: Even within a single system, to delete a data from one volume when a like named data set on a diferent volume is in use ENQ SHR on the same system. This is a irresolvable design flaw (ie: T

Re: Deleting a dataset that GRS has enqueued.

2016-01-30 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
--- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Robert A. Rosenberg Sent: Saturday, January 30, 2016 05:54 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: [Bulk] Re: Deleting a dataset that GRS has enqueued. At 14:53 -0600 on 01/30/2016, Paul Gilmartin wrote ab

Re: Count smf type 30-5 records

2016-02-04 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
At 13:16 -0700 on 02/04/2016, Sri h Kolusu wrote about Re: Count smf type 30-5 records: If you want DFSORT to extract the values from Raw SMF data then what fields correspond to Userid, Jobname(SMF30JBN ??) and Date from the SMF-30 Record mapping? Remember the raw smf have variable length segme

Re: memory leak doing gsk_environment_open()

2016-02-04 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
If the extra heap size is minor and one-time (being reused when needed) I would say to just let it stay allocated. Using the setting to free it after use might be a bad idea since the next time you need it you will go through another allocate cycle again followed by another release one. Is the

Re: Count smf type 30-5 records

2016-02-04 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Robert A. Rosenberg Sent: Thursday, February 04, 2016 2:52 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Count smf type 30-5 records At 13:16 -0700 on 02/04/2016, Sri h Kolusu wrote about Re: Count smf type 30-5 records

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

2016-02-10 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
At 20:43 -0800 on 02/10/2016, Steve Beaver wrote about Re: AW: Re: You thought IEFBR14 was bad? Try GNU's /bin/tru: I would absolutely love to see someone code the TEXT-UNITS for a DYNALLOC without using coded example and see how many days it would take them The simplest code for a Br14 is

Re: Subject Unicode

2014-01-09 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
At 17:45 -0800 on 01/09/2014, Charles Mills wrote about Re: Subject Unicode: You could use 8 bits for most characters, with cleverness that expanded that out to two or three bytes for more obscure characters. Pretty efficient, and you could make the first part of the character set the same as

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

2014-01-10 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
At 16:17 -0800 on 01/10/2014, Charles Mills wrote about Re: Mainframe "culture" question - how display a tab charac: Just to reiterate before this thread drifts away: Classic MVS, not z/UNIX, and this is not a delimiter in a parameter file, this is for a display (note the subject line). How do

Re: z/OS 1.13 PTF apply Issue

2014-01-12 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
At 16:19 -0800 on 01/12/2014, retired mainframer wrote about Re: z/OS 1.13 PTF apply Issue: LINKLST datasets that occupy secondary extents at IPL time do not suffer from this problem. It only arises if the dataset grows into a NEW extent after the IPL. The problem arises then because the LINK

Re: Automatic Job Ended Email (detail information)

2014-01-19 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
At 00:45 +0800 on 01/19/2014, Timothy Sipples wrote about Re: Automatic Job Ended Email (detail information): If you're planning to insert a Web link in the e-mail -- "Click Here for More Information" or similar -- then you can "cheat" a bit. The URL itself could contain the extra statistics as

Re: Impact of XCF offline

2014-01-19 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
Depending on what you regard as "impact", I think the answer is MAYBE. The surviving will hang waiting for the other system to come back up. If this takes 10 minutes, the surviving system will be hung (waiting) for these 10 minutes. Doing the V Offline, tells the system to not wait for the othe

Re: Dumb SMPE question

2014-02-06 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
At 22:42 + on 02/06/2014, Pommier, Rex wrote about Re: Dumb SMPE question: Mark, Let me ask a general question about IBM packaging. Does IBM ever send a fixing PTF with a PRE(PE-PTF) instead of a SUP(PE-PTF)? If the fixing PTF has a PRE of the PTF you deleted, would you not be causing

Re: WER027A control field beyond record

2014-02-13 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
At 19:45 -0500 on 02/13/2014, Micheal Butz wrote about Re: WER027A control field beyond record: SORT FIELDS=(150,4,4,4,A,158,17,A),FORMAT=BI MODS.E35=(SORTEX,2,STEPLIB) END There are a number of records less than 158 Thanks Sent from my iPhone I assume that your records are V not F

Re: WER027A control field beyond record

2014-02-14 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
At 13:28 + on 02/14/2014, Chase, John wrote about Re: WER027A control field beyond record: > -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Micheal Butz Seems like one of my sort fields maybe beyond a short record Anything I can do about this DFSORT has

Re: WER027A control field beyond record

2014-02-14 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
y we have manuals). Ed On Feb 14, 2014, at 3:56 PM, Robert A. Rosenberg wrote: At 13:28 + on 02/14/2014, Chase, John wrote about Re: WER027A control field beyond record: > -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Micheal Butz Seems like o

Re: Packed decimal (again!)

2014-02-18 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
At 14:29 -0500 on 02/18/2014, Gerhard Postpischil wrote about Re: Packed decimal (again!): You're wrong about math use with credit card numbers. The leading three/four digit identify the bank, and the last digit is a checksum calculated from the remaining 8/9 digits. The first digits also can

Re: assembler

2014-02-18 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
At 17:42 -0500 on 02/18/2014, Gerhard Postpischil wrote about Re: assembler: You seem to be deliberately confounding the issue. There is no efficient way of testing the validity of a bit number using only bytes. Let me simplify this for you - when the OP has 62 stores, then the allocation obvi

Re: assembler

2014-02-19 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
At 08:41 -0600 on 02/19/2014, Paul Gilmartin wrote about Re: assembler: On Wed, 19 Feb 2014 12:51:33 +, DASDBILL2 wrote: Since virtual storage is now so much less expensive and so much more available than storage [1] was 50 years ago, why not be really extravagant and use one whole byte p

Re: Prepare System for Discontinuance

2014-02-25 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
At 16:11 +1100 on 02/26/2014, Wayne Bickerdike wrote about Re: Prepare System for Discontinuance: >Sounds like the Big Red self-destruct button. Every thriller needs one. Davros had one on his chair. Usually there is a countdown associated with this and the hero escapes just in time Accord

Re: [OT ] Mainframe memories

2014-03-08 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
My memory was about an incident that occurred at an installation that I worked at. Their DASD were 2314s (which were 9 drive units - 8 live and one spare). The address of the drives were controlled by a round plug that could be removed and placed in the address hole of another drive. There were

Re: [OT ] Mainframe memories

2014-03-08 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
At 19:54 -0500 on 03/08/2014, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote about Re: [OT ] Mainframe memories: In , on 03/07/2014 at 08:50 PM, "Blaicher, Christopher Y." said: When working for a third party disk vendor I was in a computer room and there was an IBM CE working on a 360/45. No such anim

Re: [OT ] Mainframe memories

2014-03-08 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
At 15:13 -0600 on 03/08/2014, Barry Merrill wrote about Re: [OT ] Mainframe memories: In 1972, the Corporation's Annual P&L job read multiple tape reels from each of the 26 regional offices, so 26 tape drives were allocated to the job, which took over 40 hours across a dedicated weekend, and

Re: all this crap from Umberto Silvestri

2014-03-11 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
At 17:28 + on 03/11/2014, Grinsell, Don wrote about Re: all this crap from Umberto Silvestri: Build your filter to only check for "Subject contains". That should do it. The filter should be a subject contains AND From IS "umberto.silves...@it.ibm.com" so that comments about the message

Re: APAR OA30338 for PDSE Users

2014-03-20 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
At 13:58 -0700 on 03/20/2014, Charles Mills wrote about Re: APAR OA30338 for PDSE Users: Actually, it's TOO precise. Too much detail, not enough useful information. There is a joke that is too long to post here but the punchline is "his answer was perfectly accurate and absolutely useless, so

Re: NJE Clarifications

2014-03-21 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
At 12:19 -0400 on 03/21/2014, Tony Harminc wrote about Re: NJE Clarifications: For many years (decades, actually) there have been other products (IBM and non-IBM) that talk the NJE protocols. Most notably, IBM's RSCS on VM uses an overlapping subset of the same protocol, and is interoperable.

Re: Tesing A SubSystem Initialization Routine

2014-04-12 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
At 19:18 + on 04/12/2014, esst...@juno.com wrote about Tesing A SubSystem Initialization Routine: Im Trying to set up and test a SubSystem Initialization Routine. While I am testing I would like to be able to rerun the routine for this subsystem ID without IPLING, in the event it abends.

Re: Testing (was 'Tesing') A SubSystem Initialization Routine

2014-04-13 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
At 12:02 -0400 on 04/13/2014, you wrote about Re: Testing (was 'Tesing') A SubSystem Initialization Routi:%0D I'm not quite sure what Robert Rosenberg means by a 'static location', but a sequence of directed loads to tghe same reused storage obtained once dynamically would meet your needs. Joh

Re: Dumps when starting Started Tasks

2014-04-15 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
At 11:54 +0200 on 04/15/2014, Ferran Perxas wrote about Re: Dumps when starting Started Tasks: Yes this is a "one-off" at least we hope it. In this shop they have some sort of policy in capturing dumps vs DASD space that I do not like to comment. Far beyond cranky feels more appropriate. If t

Re: Forget: Sorting CSV data that begins with an IP address

2014-04-17 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
At 22:46 + on 04/17/2014, Sankaranarayanan, Vignesh wrote about Re: Forget: Sorting CSV data that begins with an IP address: Hmm. Interesting ... If I adopted this approach, then I would have to write to separate files and then use DFSORT to get it all back together, sorted. - Vignesh Ma

Re: Forget: Sorting CSV data that begins with an IP address

2014-04-17 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
At 17:05 -0400 on 04/17/2014, Ed Finnell wrote about Re: Forget: Sorting CSV data that begins with an IP address: The other fork in the road(Slawson cutoff) That brings back memories of the Johnny Carson "Art Fern/Tea Time Movie" Routine . --

Re: Autorization Code Question

2014-04-27 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
At 22:46 -0400 on 04/27/2014, MichealButz wrote about Autorization Code Question: I have a module in APF authorized Library that is linkedit AC=1 when I load this module shouldn't the high order byte of R1 be X'01' I do not think the APF Flag can be there. R1 is the where the module is loa

Re: CA JMR and shared JES V2R1 migration

2014-04-29 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
At 09:44 -0500 on 04/29/2014, Scott Barry wrote about Re: CA JMR and shared JES V2R1 migration: It's a JES log text-format change -- the offset to the SYSTEM information is different and the CA JMR software architecture requires that you tell it the exact position with a parameter SYSIODF, no

Re: Vendor Source Code

2014-05-10 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
At 07:18 +0100 on 05/10/2014, CM Poncelet wrote about Re: Vendor Source Code: No, the ISV's updated code had assumed that a transaction's combination of parms had to be either 'this' or 'that' etc. but had overlooked that it could also be 'other' - which when true caused the ISV's code to loop b

Re: IFASMFR

2014-05-14 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
As noted the mapping support is in a macro that is owned by the component not by the operating system. OTOH: There is no reason why IFASMFR can not have support for these records by internally calling the needed DSNQWS* macro. By having a dummy macro under the Operating System FMID (and supply

Re: Passing lower case data on MODIFY

2014-05-26 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
At 11:47 -0700 on 05/26/2014, Charles Mills wrote about Passing lower case data on MODIFY: I don't see anything in the MODIFY or EXTRACT documentation (other than information specific to System Rexx). (I'm sure someone will be happy to point it out if I missed something .) I'd like to confirm w

Re: Dataset in Two master catalog

2014-06-11 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
At 21:43 +0200 on 06/11/2014, R.S. wrote about Re: Dataset in Two master catalog: Well, I'm used to use shared user catalog for IODF and IPLPARM (and small part of PARMLIB). And the catalog's (BCS actually) HLQ is *not* SYS1. There are no restrictions on sharing USER Catalogs. What was being

Re: RENT, REFR and key=0 storage - A correction

2014-06-16 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
At 18:47 -0400 on 06/16/2014, John Gilmore wrote about Re: RENT, REFR and key=0 storage - A correction: There is botched arithmetic in my shoes-inventory example. Luckily, it does not affect the validity of my argument. I should have written . . . B updates the record to reflect a ccount of

Re: RENT, REFR and key=0 storage - A correction

2014-06-16 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
At 17:29 -0400 on 06/16/2014, John Gilmore wrote about Re: RENT, REFR and key=0 storage - A correction: Consider an inventory record, for concreteness one that contains a count of the number of pairs of size 13EEE black oxfords in some wholesaler's stock, and two programs, A and B. B queries t

Re: RENT, REFR and key=0 storage - A correction

2014-06-16 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
starting value). At 21:19 -0500 on 06/16/2014, Paul Gilmartin wrote about Re: RENT, REFR and key=0 storage - A correction: On Mon, 16 Jun 2014 20:36:43 -0400, Robert A. Rosenberg wrote: in the retry logic where you would make a new expected and replacement value before reissuing the CS, you

Re: RENT, REFR and key=0 storage - A correction

2014-06-17 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
At 07:07 -0500 on 06/17/2014, Mike Schwab wrote about Re: RENT, REFR and key=0 storage - A correction: This was a VSAM file with multiple record layouts. One record for most screen information. One record per line of comment text, about 8 per screen. It would read the records and display the

Re: Mainframe on NCIS

2014-06-22 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
At 14:29 + on 06/22/2014, DASDBILL2 wrote about Re: Mainframe on NCIS: There's nothing like high-tech as perceived by the masses. I remember when high-tech card sorters were used at carnival sideshows by fortune tellers and weight guessers. Card Sorters were also used for criminal record

Re: SMPE problem

2014-06-22 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
At 13:47 +0200 on 06/22/2014, R.S. wrote about Re: SMPE problem: W dniu 2014-06-22 09:29, Linda Mooney pisze: > Hi Radoslaw, >From your description, I understand that TGT1 and TGT2 are at the same fix level and that is a different fix level than TGT3. Several questions - Is the product

Re: Catalog considerations for a new(ish) systems programmer (UNCLASSIFIED)

2014-06-24 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
At 17:32 -0500 on 06/23/2014, Ed Gould wrote about Re: Catalog considerations for a new(ish) systems programme: Tom: I would change it slightly to "How Many TSO users are signed on at one time" An additional change (I think) - For the proposal of counting "How Many?", consider a batch job a

Re: SMP/E APPLY CHECK failing

2014-07-10 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
At 15:14 -0500 on 07/10/2014, Tom Marchant wrote about Re: SMP/E APPLY CHECK failing: Most likely you have DISP=OLD on SCEELKED. It should be SHR. True. OTOH, this is also fall-out from the allocation ENQs being broken for years. The RNAME being used is DSN NOT DSN+VOLSER like ISPF does. Th

Re: "Secret" Machine Instruction?

2014-07-16 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
At 21:03 -0400 on 07/16/2014, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote about Re: "Secret" Machine Instruction?: In , on 07/16/2014 at 05:38 PM, "Chase, John" said: WTH is 'E3D0' ?? It doesn't exist. The correct question is "WTF is E317?", and *that* is in the table. In my opinion the table is

Re: ALTERING DEVTYPE IN THE CATALOG ENTRY

2014-07-25 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
At 10:23 -0500 on 07/25/2014, Willie Bunter wrote about Re: ALTERING DEVTYPE IN THE CATALOG ENTRY: Ouch !! That is bad news that the entry cannot be modified.  Thanks for the info. I will ask the user to code the UNIT & VOLSER parms. Thanks to everybody. ---

Re: LE APAR PM99349

2014-08-03 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
At 09:30 -0400 on 08/03/2014, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote about Re: LE APAR PM99349: In <2830304844335286.wa.ibmmaintpg.com...@listserv.ua.edu>, on 08/03/2014 at 06:52 AM, Shane Ginnane said: Security through obfuscation has never worked. Might appear to for a while, As long as it wo

Re: Convert to base64 help

2014-08-08 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
At 23:30 -0400 on 08/07/2014, Tony Harminc wrote about Re: Convert to base64 help: It's just the same with base64, but the algorithm is a wee bit more complex. So the problem almost certainly lies with your input; not the implementation. If you want interoperability with ASCII-based conversion

Re: Convert to base64 help

2014-08-08 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
At 09:17 -0500 on 08/08/2014, Paul Gilmartin wrote about Re: Convert to base64 help: On Fri, 8 Aug 2014 04:29:20 -0400, Robert A. Rosenberg wrote: To do this you need to so the following: 1) Use a TRT of the EBCDIC input string to verify that all the characters have valid ASCII codes. The

Re: Extents more than One for load modules library

2014-08-10 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
At 07:13 -0700 on 08/10/2014, Lizette Koehler wrote about Re: Extents more than One for load modules library: However, IBM suggests that PDSs in the LNKLST be allocated with only primary extents You have to look at the allocation that was done even if you DID NOT declare any secondary space

Re: Extents more than One for load modules library

2014-08-11 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
At 06:26 + on 08/11/2014, Vernooij, CP (SPLXM) - KLM wrote about Re: Extents more than One for load modules library: This problem is not limited to linklist libraries, but applies to all open libraries. E.g. if your IMS or CICS loadlib has extents and takes one more, also this is not refle

Re: INITILAIZE COST

2014-08-12 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
At 20:01 -0700 on 08/11/2014, Duffy Nightingale, SS wrote about Re: INITILAIZE COST: Heavy emphasis on that last sentence. Just had a customer who didn't keep track of the number of entries in his COBOL table while adding new ones. Ended up adding entries way beyond the end of his table lea

Re: INITILAIZE COST

2014-08-12 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
At 21:08 -0600 on 08/11/2014, Steve Comstock wrote about Re: INITILAIZE COST: Well, of course, we don't really know what the OP wanted. In terms of performance, you want to code a VALUE clause on each elementary item. This results in the whole table being initialized (assuming COBOL 4.2 (I think

Re: How do we add private volumes in SMS Tape Library to RMM as status MASTER

2014-08-12 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
At 00:57 +0900 on 08/13/2014, Minoru Massaki wrote about How do we add private volumes in SMS Tape Library to RMM as: Now a customer is using a Tape management System they developed and is going to convert to RMM. There are many private/scratch tape volumes in SMS tape library. These volumes ar

Re: HSM Recall process

2014-10-18 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
At 19:51 + on 10/17/2014, Chase, John wrote about Re: HSM Recall process: An exception to the order of processing is when doing recalls from tape, where DFSMShsm reduces the number of mounts by doing several recalls from a given tape while the tape is continuously mounted. If a recall task

Re: HSM Recall process

2014-10-18 Thread Robert A. Rosenberg
: Tell HSM "I am going to send a number of requests but do not do them until I tell you to process the full batch"). On Sat, Oct 18, 2014 at 8:34 AM, Robert A. Rosenberg wrote: At 19:51 + on 10/17/2014, Chase, John wrote about Re: HSM Recall process: An exception to th

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