Mainframe, MVS and zOS Discussion

Thanks Anuj and nicc.

nicc wrote:Look at the report produced by syncsort. The very first thing it does is tell you its version.

What are you calling a report? You mean the messages in SYSOUT ?

Can you please share some example of working program, it will help me greatly.

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Hi, I have not work with IMS ever. Had looked at some programs but as such never worked much with it. I was just thinking that can DB2 interface with IMS DB? And can it work with IMS DC also? Curious to know, if DB2 can operate with IMS database. If anyone of you here worked on any project have inte...

Hello, How can we check the version of Sync Sort installed on our mainframe? Is there any command to know that? On the Forum, I saw some syncsort commands and tried to use them but they did not work. I suspect this could be because of the older version of Syncsort Software which is installed on the ...

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But that idea can be applied to a DASD file too, right?

Hi,

I'm Ram. I'm just starting with Mainframes and I seek to learn more about COBOL, JCL, DB2 and VSAM. Hope to learn more here.

Hi,

Please help me to know if we can edit a tape file? I've been asked this question in an interview. I'm not sure if I understood the question itslef. I've asked the interviewer but he repeated the same.

This is a nice feature, liked it.