Mainframe, MVS and zOS Discussion

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Thanks forthe welcome...

Hi - Myself Sushant. I stay back in India. I have been working in mainframes. I know somw C and C++. I have knowledge of COBOl, JCL and DB2.

Because in the old days you had to code it all by hand and then punch it onto punch cards so using a refer-back saved effort. With ISPF and online submission you have a good editor that you can use to copy lines and edit as required with next to no effort so such short-cuts are no longer required e...

nicc wrote: However, now-a-days, we have the ISPF so using a refer-back is, more or less, simply laziness on the part of the coder.

Thanks for the example. How does ISPF changes that? Sorry but I did not get it. Can you please explain again?

Becasue I felt that I was not able to answer of they behave just the same, do they? How would I answer it better as I found interviewer was not satisfied with the answer.

Hi, This was the question which goes like this, what is the difference between the refer-back & overriding parameters? Are not they serving the same purpose? How are they coded in a JCL? I have answered it like... when we use refer-back, we actually refer back to an earlier DD statement in the j...

Thank you so much for the answers ! Excellent help.

I wanted to print all the members of a PDS to a file. For this, I am using IEBPTPCH. The process works fine and members are printed but the problem is that the members does not follow any or you can say that theya are not in alphabetical order. This is what I have used:  PUNCH TYPORG=PO I am not sur...

Hello, Can we call CICS program from a batch program? I have search about it and I got some mentions about BATCHCICS third party product but we don't have that available. We have a claim system in which the end user enters in the claim data, TRAN1. And CICS program gets executed once user press the ...

Hi, I was going through this link on "IBM Master the Mainframe Contest 2014" . I searched for the same contest for 2015 but did not get the details yet. Is this contest only for university graduates? Can't a working professional participate in them? Do we have such details available somewh...

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I came to know about the website from a friend and registered here.

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I live in India too.

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Thanks Robert, I was thinking as if the spanned records are like fixed-block or variable-block concept or they come in to the picture only whrn CI split happens.

Is there any relation in spanned records and control interval split?

Thanks Pandora and Dick.

Does someone have any historical data about it that what made the "version" to appear in GDG defintion? Just curious.

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The meaning of V in GDG, G00001V00, is version; I understand but I've not seen any use of it then why do they have it?

It might sound bizzare but it confuses a lot, at times.