Mainframe, MVS and zOS Discussion

Thanks for the guidance. This is helpful.

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Can any one plz explain .
how to display "Indian army" vertically using cobol. if Indian army declared as a variable in pgm.

Thanks Robert. Do you know if there are some bots being used already using mainframe as back-end? Reading the article now.

Hi, Thanks for the replies. We can use any language of choice. The Bot should be able to solve some business issue. Our domain is supply chain management. There are no specific business challenge given to us. It'll be given on the day of the challenge. We can make use of machine learning, Python and...

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We have an internal competition where are different teams are involved to create the AI (Artificial Intelligence) BOTs. Is it possible to create such an interface and idea on mainframes? If someone have an idea, please share.

What is the difference between Connect:Direct and FTP? In our company they are bringing the Connect:Direct and we are supposed to use it going forward. Is it like Connect:Direct more secure than FTP and provides more functionality than FTP? But if we are just to transfer some file from mainframes to...

Thank you Robert. It's a big process that's what I understand and there is a "series of batch jobs" which are called as "critical path" for a given business. I thought it was universal across different companies.

I ask this question as one of the other team in our project is supposed to get this done though they don't understand it themselves. While searching on the internet I get to see this link https://www1.jobdiva.com/candidates/myjobs/openjob_outside.jsp?a=v0n3bhllkroium3hpvdcx7wbc8vk58zhb3xphf6uov0d7lt...

Thanks. I think that's the reason that I have not seen many of such programs but manuals have a lot of details about them.

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How do we approach to Critical Path Optimization in mainframes? Can someone please guide me with his experience on this?

William Collins wrote:And the answer is Yes, as long as you use static CALLs.

There is, however, no reason in a modern program to use multiple entrypoints.

In past why we needed multiple entry points?

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Is there any way I can protect a data set from over-writing? Actually, I want to secure a sequential file that I have created, in a way that no one else can delete or overwrite it. Is it possible to do ? Please help.

Thanks for the link Robert.

Thanks. Playing with it on OORexx.

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We can use EXEC CICS RETURN and GOBACK both in the CICS program but we don't use GOBACK, what is the reason behind it?
I was not even sure if we can use GOBACK or not, forget about the answer to above question ... can some one please say why is it so?

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How to play this game?

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Can COBOL have multiple entry points in a program?

Thanks all.

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Thanks. Experience has its own ways to find answers.

Thank you so much for your help Robert.