Mainframe, MVS and zOS Discussion

Anuj, Thanks for the great welcome! No, I'm not aware of anything out there that can help learn PL/1 either, but it's been a good few years since I last really used it in anger anyway, so I'm certainly not current as to offerings? PL/1 was DEFINITELY ahead of it's time, incorporating pointer feature...

Hi guys! I'm very happy to join this forum and exchange all of our ideas, big or small, silly or serious. Been in mainframe IT for 40+ years, from PL/1 programmer through Assembler, COBOL, CICS, Software AG products, and onto diverse but extremely interesting innovative areas such as Flex-ES and Pla...

Looks like the SMPE FIXCAT usage should identify all required missing fixes?
For COBOL v5, following APAR's describe the fixes:
OA40593, OA41268, OA42047, PM87183, PM88047, PM88048, PI33378, and PM88903.

Many thanks for that, Robert!
I'll certainly check that APAR and take action.
I had checked Google for another module and got nothing!

Guys, I’ve installed COBOL v5.2 into our zOS v1.13 system, ahead of installing zOS v2.1 later this year. The product has been installed into its own SMP/E zones. Everything appears OK apart from the IVP job IGYWIVP1, as supplied in hlq.HADB520.F3(IGYWIVP1) relfile. This fails in the Linkedit step wi...