Mainframe, MVS and zOS Discussion

Thanks Robert....

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Is it possible to see all the PPT entries by giving CEMT I PROG(*)? Does it make logical sense or I'm completely wrong?

Is zOS Management Facility available to only system programmer?

 AMBLIST should be in SYS1.LINKLIB as it is an IBM utility.  File Aid and Syncsort, however, are from independent software vendors and hence could reside anywhere on the system.  Short of asking your site support group, or running a program, there really is no way to know if they are installed. Tha...

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Apart from asking the colleague and avoiding the idealistic situation of getting training, is there any good way to identify the existence of utilities like FILEAID, SyncSORT, AMBLIST on the mainframes; without really submitting a JCL or executing a REXX EXEC to see if they exist?

And to not get an abend, you have coded the FILE STATUS clause - and simply not checked it. Which is the worst thing you can do. Because then any IO problems are ignored, because by using FILE STATUS you are telling the run-time that you want to check things, and then you don't bother. Both of you ...

Hi, I have a simple program which simply opens a sequential output file, write in to and closes the file.  I faced a problem that the program compiled well and executed to. It allocates the file the output file do not have any records . After a long a careful observation I came to know that the DD n...

Thanks enrico-sorichetti.

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Whenever I download a XMIT file from CBT Tape I can't "see and read" it until I upload it to mainframes. Is it possible to see the contents of the XMIT file on PC ? Thanks.

Thanks. I have one of my known who has shown his ambition to work on mainframes. But he is blind. I am not aware of anyone in this and working with mainframes or computers.

I shall search to see what can be the additional requirements for such a programmer.

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The question is sensitive to me and I ask it here. Does blind work on mainframes? Or are there some arrangements which can be made them to learn mainframes? Please share your piece of thought.

After all that, remember that setting anything to an initial value is a waste of time if it is immediately going to be set to something else without reference to its current content. But if something else is not "big enough" to fill the all bytes of the variable, will that still hold true...

Hi Anuj,

Yes, it is U0102 abend of IMS. Can you please help?

But the very ame logic works in other programs...and we are taking checkpoints. If there is no abend you can see the data for the last checkpoint in the GSAM but in case of abend, the data is still there until we restart the job. This is confusing and we are not able to solve it...could there be any...

No,I'll try to be fast.

Looks like this site was blocked in our office that's one of the reasons I could not log in here for long.

Thanks for your explnation but why would it be slow, because it is "designed" this way?

I was recently working with GSAM files and every time when there is an abend I restart the Job, the data in GSAM vanishes while it should be there?

Per the shop standard they would like uto MOVE SPACES and ZEROS at the 01 level in working storage and keep this "initialized" version aside and use it whenever we need to IINITIALIZE the same 01 level again in the program isntead of using INITIALIZE again and again.

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Why INITIAILIZE is not that preffered in COBOL. At my shop they usually don't prefer as per good coding practice. What are your thoughts, please share.

Thanks for the welcome Anuj. (I was keeping busy and could not log in here for a while...)

Regards,

Thankyou Anuj.