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.
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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
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
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
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
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
.ibm.com
Twitter / Facebook IDs: MartinPacker
Blog:
https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/blogs/MartinPacker
From: "Robert A. Rosenberg"
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Date: 21/11/2015 16:29
Subject:Re: Were you at SHARE in Seattle? Watch your credit card
s
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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)
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
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
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),
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 12 minutes. Very interes
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
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
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
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
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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.
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
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
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
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 .
--
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
: 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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