System Programming for IBM MVS 3.8 - M12

[@rlippens4454]

I can rarely think of a time when I was able to get any JCL with assembly or PL/1 programmed with such success as on this video. Congratulations, this was really well done. Your sharing of knowledge, and patience, is appreciated greatly.

[@moshixmainframechannel]

Thanks. I was surprised myself. It’s usually not that smooth

[@michaelyapkf]

Thanks for making the screen bigger this time. Not easy to tackle this assembler program. But you pave the way with some pointers here and there. Keep up the good work.

[@moshixmainframechannel]

+Rocky Yap thank you!

[@absoz]

Hi Moshix, did you ever finish the Every update to this ? And/or have it available for download somewhere ? Has been decades since I’ve touched any assembler but would love to play with something like this … I’ll probably write an interface to the control member to make coding it simpler - which even if you didn’t, I could make it write out cards to perform xyz every say 20 minutes thus create the 72 separate cards Cheers from Australia

[@moshixmainframechannel]

Sure. Great idea. Pls do it

[@absoz]

@@moshixmainframechannel hi, do you have that jcl with the source code saved somewhere that can be shared ? Saves me trying to find the bits and pieces if you do (only some of it went over my head - not tried to do it yet. But I’ll give it a good try when I do)

[@absoz]

@@moshixmainframechannelI finally got a chance to get the ZTimer routine installed and it’s working well As mentioned, I’d like to put together a brexx routine that will allow us to edit a deck of cards that allows “every” situations - it can then write out the appropriate entries that the ztimer routine will then pick up Ive updated to tk5, I know brexx is installed as I can do “tso rx zt” (zt being the name of the Rexx routine I plan on using to control everything) … which at the moment simply reads as /* REXX */ say ‘ZTimer hello’ exit And that runs fine when called from the tso command line But… when I use it as an option say in the M (tsoappls) panel by coding in the )PROC section something like ZT,’CMD(%ZT)’ it does call it but says “COMMAND SAY NOT FOUND” - definitely calling the routine because if I rename the Rexx routine it then doesn’t find it Is there something special we need to do with calling a brexx routine within an ispf panel in Hercules - I’m stumped at finding an answer here Ps if there’s a better way to chat, please let me know Cheers Andrew Sydney, NSW, Australia

[@michaelyapkf]

There is no need to download to linux to extract the tgz file. Just install winrar will do that job.

[@moshixmainframechannel]

thanks a lot. I am not so premium with Windows....

[@puddingpimp]

You'll like MSYS2 then. It provides a POSIX layer for Windows with sh, gcc, tar, etc.

[@Centar1964]

It's "kome' sort, not "com" sort....as in hair comb, due to the fashion in which it sorts...and COBOL is WAY easier than the stuff you do here on mainframes...I'm sure you could pick it up in an hr or two if you had the interest...which I think you should do for many reasons...It's a beautiful language...one could write a story with it in source code that could compile into a executable which when run would give the conclusion to the story or similar...a pet project of mine some time in the future.

[@moshixmainframechannel]

Thx