Mainframe, MVS and zOS Discussion

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How can we print a dataset to the printer? If someone can guide me to a JCL for it, please direct me or give me a JCL to do so.

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For one of the testing, I ran the following command: to debug my program. In background something happened and my session was stuck and I am told that the only way to get my session back is to recycle the region. Can somebody advise, how to resolve it really without CICS recycle?

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Are Web Services and SOA same?

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ok. thanks Robert.

Thanks fr the suggestion.

Your question, as posted, is so fuzzy as to not be answerable.  We have a VSAM file with merchant number details. Well, VSAM data sets (they are NEVER "files" -- files is a term on the mainframe used for Unix System Services which runs as part of z/OS) can be sequential (ESDS), indexed (K...

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We usually Xped the CICS programs to debug it. It is said to us that, using Xpeditor takes too high CICS CPU time that causes high mainframe utilization and cost. 

Is there any other way to debug the CICS program or are there some good ways for better Xpeditor use in terms of cost reduction?

Hi, We have a VSAM file with merchant number details. On a CICS map, the user will enter a merchant number. The condition I want to check is that if the merchant number is exists in the VSAM only then the next map should be displayed on screen. What is proper way to check merchant number in the VSAM...

Thanks William. I shall not be able to try your example right away as I don't have a mainframe to test it but I understand the logic somewhat moving 10, 17 and zero to lengeth of the field is not clear to me. What is that doing?

You can have a variable-length field (the amount of storage allocated is fixed) using OCCURS DEPENDING ON. It is still not a "string", because a string would be terminated, instead of this the variable-length field has a length. Sorry hit the submit button too fast. William sorry I did no...

I think a System Programmer sholud be well paid in U.S. but I dobut if a Mainframe System Programmer will be at par with other System Programmers in terms of salary...

Same with me, found the site on google.

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Thank you so much for the explnation, they were very helping. I could not return to forums but I used something like this:

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Hi, In Cobol, how can we find the length of the a string? Say: 01 A PIC X(10) And I've used only 7 bytes so the length be 7 but Cobol will tell only 10. How can we calculate that? Also, I feel that in cobol it should not be called string lenght but then this is what i heard other saying it, is it co...

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