Mainframe, MVS and zOS Discussion

Thanks Robert and Anuj... those statistics make me believe that it would be a big task to convert all that code but even though the jobs in to mainframes does not come with good pay check. While the statement like this can be trure: Colleges market themselves to attract students. And students like n...

But notepad has a limitation of 1024 total line length. Is there some way out? Yes -- do NOT use Notepad! I think you need to take a step back, go to the beginning and explain to us PRECISELY what you have on the mainframe and what you want on the PC. Your post title says you want to use Excel -- s...

No point in converting from VB to FB as files on PCs are "V" anyway. Why are you now mentioning Notepad? Your file is, supposedly, a CSV file for Excel. And you did not answer Robert's question about packed decimal fields. the FTP needs zoned decimal fields because it does conversion from...

When we FTP it to windows as text, the file alignment is getting affected. Pure text file transfers will NOT affect alignment of data -- unless there are non-display characters in the data set. Does your file have any packed decimal or binary fields? If so, you will need to convert them to zoned de...

When we FTP it to windows as text, the file alignment is getting affected. Due to this we can't import text to excel. Our hearts are broken because of Your misfortune We sincerely hope that things will get better in the future. You just whined that something did not work the way You wanted ... spea...

Hi, Can Java run on the Mainframe instead of Cobol? My question can be misleading as I've some knowledge about JAVA on mainframes. But very curious to know if Java will ever replace COBOL on the mainframe? Most of my generation, of mid 20s, has either never used COBOL or taken like one class in coll...

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I have a mainframe VB Dataset with record length 32750. When we FTP it to windows as text, the file alignment is getting affected. Due to this we can't import text to excel. Can you please help to resolve it.