Newsgroups: bit.listserv.appc-l
Date:         Fri, 22 Jan 1993 16:24:06 EST
From:         Abdel <TECHMAN@PACEVM.BITNET>
Subject:      Re: APPCDEMO assemble under ESA/370 ??

On Thu, 21 Jan 1993 16:15:34 PST Dwight M. McCann said:
>   I can't address the implications of VMFSETUP on your system, so I can't
>speak to that.  I can make the following observations off the top of my head:
>
>BAS and BASR are XA instructions, which implies that they are also VM/ESA
>instructions.  The problem you are having with them is not a function of
>operating system, but rather of ASSEMBLER.  You are invoking the assembler
>with VMFASM, which I believe invokes the XF (freebie) assembler.  You need
>to invoke ASM-H, probably by using VMFHASM.  But this is just a guess, of
>course.
  VMFHASM works fine. Besides adding Vtam maclibs ( VTAMAC, VTAMBLD ),
  I added GCS maclib (CSIGPI, CSIOM )

>The undefined symbol FLS has a comment in the code that it maps GCS
>lowcore.  That should suggest that it is a GCS macro, and that FLSVMID
>is an element of that mapping.  You need to discover the name and
>location of your GCS maclibs and ensure they are available to the
>assembler.
>The prolog commentary explicitly states that IUCVINI and IUCVCOM are
>GCS macros, so solving the FLS problem should solve this group also.
>
   Globaling GCS maclib solved this problem..

>Finally, SHOWCB is a VTAM macro, so you need to ensure that you have
>the VTAM maclib containing it available to the assember.  You haven't
>yet indicated what level of VM and VTAM you are running.
>
  I am still having problems with SHOWCB ... looked in all vtam disks
  and maclibs and could not find it ...

>It may be a touch harsh of me to say so, but it appears to me that you
>haven't bothered to read the 165 lines of prolog commentary, nor the
>couple of hundred lines of comments that I included.

 Your Prolog specifies that the program was developped under VM/XA SP 2.1
 and VTAM 3.3. I do not know much about VM/XA nor do I know anything about
 VTAM. All I was interested in is APPC, and APPCDEMO happen to be something
 I can try.

>You avoided
>answering my question about whether you had reason to believe that there
>was a specific problem with APPCDEMO.

That I would not know for sure .. I have not run it yet ... The problems
I had were not knowing what to global what kind of assembler to use.

>Rather than indicate which MACLIBs
>you were referencing, you ask where (on your own system) the MACLIBs you
>need are (of their names, which is equivalent) ... who knows?  Many
>MACLIBs are release dependent.  See what MACLIBs exist on your system and
>look in them for the MACROs and COPY code you need.  You haven't told
>us what version of VM and VTAM you are running.

 VM/ESA 1.0 and VTAM 3.3

>
>On a softer note, I am aware that you originally asked a very simple
>question, "Has anyone successfully run APPCDEMO on ESA?"  And maybe I
>should have kept silent since I don't have ESA and have no idea if anyone
>else has ever even looked at APPCDEMO!  No one has ever told me that they
>successfully created it, added the APPLIDs to VTAM, etc., and ran it!

I do not know anyone either that is why I asked. I do not want to put
a lot of work into it just to find out later that I can't  run it.

>It serves no useful purpose other than as an exercise, so I don't why
>they would.  But I do think that if it is important enough for you to
>spend time on it, than you should make a bit more effort to research it.
>
Asking a question is part of research.....

>I will leave further comments and questions to the interested student.
>

I appreciate your help ... your comments... and I thank you .


Abdel
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