Mainframe, MVS and zOS Discussion

Hi,

Is "-" allowed in DSN name? I never used it and thought it was the rule not to use it but I have located a file with name like this:
How come dash is allowed?

The aattached pdf has also been helpful:

I have asked it in my shop but ot much to help me. But I have got some reference and working with them: IDENTIFICATION DIVISION. PROGRAM-ID.    CALPRML. ENVIRONMENT DIVISION. CONFIGURATION SECTION. INPUT-OUTPUT SECTION. FILE-CONTROL.     SELECT REPOUT            ASSIGN TO UT-S-SYSPRINT. DATA DIVISIO...

Thanks all. I haveheard that we can call the stored procedure using a COBOL program and can test. But I was not able to locate an example program to do so. If anyone has such an example to share that will really help.

Hi,

I have made some changes in one of the table a DB2 stored procedure access to. How do I test now to see if the DB2 native stored procedure had picked up the changes? Can it not be done with out an add-on tool?

Thanks!

Now because the abend has happened so the GSAM is in unpredictable state. But then such unpredictable state does not come that's why we write check-point restart logic. If it's not being taken care then what's the benefit of the check-point restart in the program?

Hi, I have an alpha-numeric field with length 6. The values this field can take are: "     " (All Spaces) "xy   " (3 Spaces) "xyz  " (2 Spaces) If there is a space in the field, I need to remove such records from input. I am using this sort card. 20 is the starting posi...

enrico-sorichetti wrote:GSAM files will be in an unpredictable state until ALL the IMS recovery actions have been done.

You mean this is the rason that i see those extra records?

I did but I did not find topics talking in details on these technologies, so I have asked here.

But then how about those 88 records?? What will happen to them?

Hi Iam running an IMS DB program with check-point restart logic in it. The Job abended after 588th record. Check-point is issued after 100 records. Output file is a GSAM file. I was expecting that my output file to have only 500 records but I don't know why it shows 588 records! Why this happnes? Wh...

Hello,

My name is Shriram and I have worked with mainframes on and off. Can you please give a piece of advise for a career growth like what is good to learn along with mainframes in the time of cloud computing, blockchain, big data?

I think a solution architect is much bette off, these dyas.

Pune in India.

Hi, For a new project there is good amount of change on scheduling side. In this we are putting 75 jobs (and possibly more in future) Jobs in CA-7 in production. Before we put these change in production, we want to test them and we want to test these Jobs in CA-7 only for JCL errors and dependencies...

Thanks enrico.

Thanks Robert. I also get intrigued by the fact that COBOL being one of the early languages then it should have influenced other languages. So, how come there are no direct equivalents of these variables in any other language apart from what you've mentioned and they all are on mainframes. I think t...

Hi,

What is the difference between zoned and packed decimal in terms of COBOL usage. I don't seetheir usage in langiages like C, C++ etc. so are they just limited to Cobol?

Thanks Robert.