Mainframe, MVS and zOS Discussion

Talk to your CA-7 support group.  They have job execution information available easily in CA-7.  Other possible sources are the system log (which may have restricted access), and the SMF data (which almost all sites restrict access to).  There is little that an application programmer can do, depend...

Hi, How can we know the execution frequency of the job? We use CA-7 but we don't have access to it. I looked in the SAR also to knwo the if the job executes weekly or daily but many a times there are job which would not follow any pattern. For such jobs is there really a way to identify the job freq...

nicc wrote:CICS is just another program. The designers decided that, for this situation, -1 should be passed.

I had said something similar like it's the rule, this is how it is done. But the question was why it is done? Which I could not answer to the interviewer's satisfaction.

Robert Sample wrote:The length field is binary.  What is -1 as a binary value?

Two's complement of 1?

As length would be S9(4) COMP - then it would have all 1s?

Sorry nicc but I did not get you? Can you please explain again?

Hi,

I was asked that, we know that -1 is moved to the length field in when we use dynamic symbolic cursor positioning in CICS but the question is why do we do so? Why not move some other negative or a positive number ?

I just don't know the answer for it, can someone experienced please help.

Thanks Robert. I'll explore this more now.

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Is there any possibility access USS via Telnet and by not going to TSO?

Thanks

Thanks for the manual links.

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What is the difference between cache and virtual memory? Don't they just serve a very similar purpose? Can anyone of you please share your views on it?

Thanks Anuj!

I re-read my posts and understand that how less I was making sense in getting the answer. Thanks for your all help, it really heped me to understand about SEARCH and SEARCH ALL.

Yes, I have askedthe same??

I wrote a post but i am not able to see it now...

If want the table to be in specific order then the INDEX needs be defined..right?

I made use of line commands LC and UC frequently after your suggestion and this has helped in doing what I was after. Thank you.

Hi, Can anyone let me know how to use the mix of both the lower and upper case letters in the cobol program? If we use CAPS ON it will type only CAPS and even if we keep the "caps lock" on and CAPS ON is not set in profile, all comes back to lower case. So is there any way to get around it?

I came to know that for SEARCH to work in COBOL defining INDEX is mendatory but I could not test it, as I don't have the mainframe access yet.

Thanks Robert and Anuj...

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What happens if we donot set the index before search, will this work?

What is the difference between Structured Cobol Programming and Object Oriented COBOL programming?