Mainframe, MVS and zOS Discussion

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Any suggestions on How to initialize output record in eazytrive? could someone plesae guide?

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Can someone please guide on How to declare group variable in easytrive?

Or if anyone know how to do reference modification in ezt, please help.

Thank you both.

Thanks for all the answers.

Hi I was seaching on google and got a post whcih goes like this: Do not specify TIME=1440 on your job - even if your site doesn't automatically flush your job (many do). TIME=1440 is not a proper choice for programmers to make. If you are trying to prevent a time-out abend, see your systems support ...

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How can I move my topics from on forum to another Forum ?

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You have a data set the contents of which is a list of data set names and you want to produce a report that consists of each of those data set names and there respective record counts? yes this is correct, this is what I want to do. You can write a program that will read the data set and generate a...

Ok, I shall call file as data-set.

All the files are Fixed-block and lrecl is 80. They are listed inside other dataset, which is also FB and LRECL=80. Duplicates are not there.

Anuj means "Younger Brother", is not it right?

Is there any way by which I can get a kind of report having the file name and the count of records in that? Like this    File Name          Record Count file.name.one          12056 file.name.two          6342 file.name.three        53153 file.name.four         79495 file.anme.five          9395 Any...

Thanks nicc and Anuj.

Thanks for the welcome Anuj. Names should always be meaningful.....

Hello All,

My name is Disha. "Disha" means "direction" in English. I am a mainframe programmer with experience in COBOL, JCL and VSAM. I have two plus years of experience in this field.

I look forward to learn more from this Board.

Thanks.

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Is there any way which helps to find the catalog information for the foregin keys in DB2? Or which system table should I look at to get this information Please help me on this.

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Can we move a value of 9(2)v99 COMP to 9(2).99? I think I know the answer an the answer is yes,we can move but why it is allowed? As one is implied decimal point while other is actual decimal, so why there is no complain from cobol?

Thanks Quasar - this was a nice explanation and helped me.

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That's Great and nice to know...

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What is 'Siblings' means in IMS. What is the difference between 'twins' and siblings in IMS DB. I read about it, however, it's confusing.

This is an interesting read.