Mainframe, MVS and zOS Discussion

Thanks Robert.

Thanks all.

Thanks Enrico.There in that topic it is written that Does the browse screen show the dataset name being browsed? If so, swap screen, allocate a new dataset and copy the one being browsed. It shows the dataset name browsed but when I go to another session to copy the dataset in ISPF 3.4, the dataset ...

Robert Sample wrote: ↑Tue Oct 31, 2017 11:45 pmRaOne, your answer assumes that the person knows which data set(s) is(are) migrated. Since this was NOT stated in the original post, you can't really assume it -- perhaps all that shows up is the message without any indication as to which data set the message refers to.

Yes you are correct Robert.

You can write HRECALL in front of the dataset in ISPF 3.4. This will recall the dataset. This should remove the warning message.

Hi, As one of the test case I need to capture the JSCAN output of the Job to a data set. But I can not do that as the moment I do JSCAN it looks like browse option of viewing file. It does not allow to copy this. It shows a temporary name of the JSCAN dataset but that is available in 3.4 so can't co...

There is a mistake, I wanted to say NOT. I could NOT find an equivalent of ORDER BY.

The other night I was invited out for a night with the “girls.” I told my husband that I would be home by midnight, “I promise!” Well, the hours passed and the margaritas went down way too easily. Around 3 a.m., a bit loaded, I headed for home. Just as I got in the door, the cuckoo clock in the hall...

IMS stores the data in segments. The smallest unit which you can get from the IMS database is a segment. Segments have fields, defined for your system. If you want to perform some operation on the field, the only option you are left with is to play with fields ... in other words, and as far this th...

No not like that. There is one more column before the colmn which has 'tags' like #RAM etc which has got line number. And I just want to remove the tags not the entire line of code. they are part of the audit trail of changes made to the program. Many of them no longer make any sense and some progra...

CICS has two options for file open -- at CICS start up or at first reference.  Once opened, the file will remain open until CICS shuts down, or the file is explicitly closed by a program, or a user closes it via the CEMT command.  You will not see any file opens or closes while debugging. Thanks fo...

Thanks for the welcome. I just wanted to be anonymous.

If I have a good reason to know who has the access to data and who has created it, if You have a good reason to know "who can do what with a protected resource" the best source of info is the security support group, they are involved in user/resource management and they usually know thing...

CICS handles all file opens and closes.  So your CICS COBOL program, for example, will not have a SELECT nor an FD nor OPEN or CLOSE verbs for any files. That I understand that CICS program will not have SELECT, FD, OPEN and CLOSE. What I was asking is when I was debugging there will be CALL to ope...

Sorry for the confusion. By tag-lines I meant the markers different users has added to identify their codes. For example: #PRJ01  PROCEDURE DIVISION. 0#RAM **   Please keep the first part of your program simple 0#RAM **   perform beginning, perform main loop til no more records, 0#RAM **   perform t...

That is a inhouse macro :oops:  :oops: I kept calling that way  :oops:  :oops:   /*REXX*/ "ISREDIT MACRO" "ISREDIT NUM ON STD COB" "ISREDIT UNNUM" "ISREDIT NUM ON COB" "ISREDIT RENUM" EXIT Try this What is COB in your macro? I looked at the link you...

There is a facility of z/OS called System Management Facilities (SMF) which records everything that happens on the system -- but it can be customized to site requirements.  In general, SMF will record when a data set is created and which batch job / TSO user / started task / etc. created the data s...

Thanks nicc.

I shall prefer using my own sort routine as getting values from IMS and loading to DB2 would be very expensive than the work required. Thanks for your valuable inputs.

Hi, While testing a CICS program I seem to make a conclusion and seek help to see if it's correct.If a file has been defined in file control table of CICS then, it looks like, it does not need to be opened explicity. Is this assupmtion correct?  Actually, I have noticed that the CICS program does no...

Then if I have to something which needs to sort the result on a given value how will I do it in IMS commands?