Mainframe, MVS and zOS Discussion

Thanks Robert. So if HIGH VALUES are part of data, can they always be considered as the "last record" of the dataset?

Thanks. Just one question about HIGH VLAUES, can a dataset never have "HIGH VALUES" as a value?

Thank you Robert.

need to recheck..

Thank Robert. I was searching more answers for it and I got this answer also:

While send map use: CURSOR (N)

Which is listed in the link you shared too: CURSOR(44). But how do we get the position number?

COPY does not really sort but SORT does sort operation. But for simple copy operation SORT and COPY are same. SORTED means the files are already sorted.

This is what I understood.

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I just wanted to copy the records as is while removing the duplicates on key so I asked about the use of SORT. I should have asked about COPY FIELDS but COPY FIELDS will have just same effect as SORT as far I know??

Hi,

Is the use of SORTED in SORT FIELDS allowed, like this:
I see that this is usually used in JOINKEYS and could not find out an example using it with out JOINKEYS.

Hi, How can we write a program in COBOL to compare two files and write matching records to a file and unmatched to another. Basically, I have two files files. File-1 and file-2. They have got a huge number of records. I would like to compare these two files and write the matching records in output f...

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Hi, I've a file on mainframes which has got around 100K records. I'm sending this file as an attachment to the cliient however, the client says that the received file (on windows) has only 31812 records and after that there is some mesage. ="0 EZA5342I SMTP note from spool file job ID JOB12564 ...

Hello,

Have someon eused MQTs in DB2 here? Have someone used it to get the total count of rows based on some criteria -- does it help from CPU saing point of view?

Found you on google.

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