Mainframe, MVS and zOS Discussion

How to dynamically change the extended attributes of the CICS MAPS in the COBOL Program? I have turned on the Extended attributes on the CICS MAP, I have the variables with suffixes like A,H,C,U etc. Lets say the Variable name is MSG. So we have MSGA, MSGH, MSGC, MSGU etc. Now lets say first time th...

looks like it's not more available :-(

I am interested in knowing how to backup a VSAM file and how to restore it back without worrying about the existence of the VSAM cluster etc. i.e. if it exists it should overwrite it and if it do not exist, it should create it like we do it on windows for a any normal files. Let's say the name of th...

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AFAIK, you cannot control directly the lock in DB2 but indirectly you can try doing that but not completely as for that matter DB2 have IRLM which manages it and if you still want to try to manipulate it, you can try it but cannot guarantee it and for that you need to know every resource using the D...

No, If you do the MON LI <variable> in IBM Debugger, you can see the entire value in the monitor but when you do the KEEP <variable> in Xpeditor, you see only the 30 characters of the value of the variable in MONITOR as i even mentioned in my previous posts. Also, for me i am more concerned with a v...

In IBM Debugger, basically we use - MONITOR LIST <Internal-Cobol-Table-Name> to display everything and data of every occurrences. To achieve same thing in XPEDITOR what command shall we be using?

I am looking for Expeditor Command which will help me to view the value of a variable on the screen. NOTE - I want to view the entire value without scrolling left and right anywhere like we get in "IBM Debugger Tool for z/OS 10.1" In Xpeditor what i observe is as below (We can see 30 chara...