Mainframe, MVS and zOS Discussion

Thanks Robert.

Is ENQ/DEQ is a programming technique? Or this is something we can define at system level for some VSAM?

We also just send an email to make others aware about such changes.

Hi,

We get an abend with VSAM file. Upon checking we found that this file was in use by another job. Is there a way that both the jobs can use the same file?

Thanks Robert. I was working at a company where they had a common routine whcih was used to do something very similar which I required. But I have used that module for date conversion, like Gregorian to Julian, vice versa on many other formats. It allowed to change the time also. But I think it was ...

Thanks. I had to do it manually. But is there no in-built function in COBOL at all?

enrico-sorichetti wrote: ↑Thu Aug 02, 2018 12:12 amadd/subtract the appropriate time zone correction factor

In that how do I take care about the day light saving?

Hii All,

I wanted to convert my current time stamp to india time zone stamp. Like PDT to IST.

Can any one help me. My current timestamp is PDT (US ) in my system. Now I have to populate indian time.

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Hi, In ouy team we copy the existing DCLGEN from prod to create new DCLGEN. As per a new requirement I have to add a new column in the existing table. I noticed that a level number 49 is used to declare the VARCHR and it's mandatory for declaring the Varchar columns.   I have searched a lot but I co...

I used it like first: //STEP010   EXEC  PGM=ICETOOL //TOOLMSG  DD  SYSOUT=*                                 //DFSMSG   DD  SYSOUT=*                                 //INPUT    DD  *                                       02/03/2016 123456791 02/03/2016 347898292 02/03/2016 666536724 02/02/2016 1234896...

Thanks William. SECTIONS and COUNT has worked.

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Hi,
I have been working out to get an output like this but not getting it worked. Where the input file looks like this: How can I get it working? Please advise.

If you're not sure whether or not a particular program / function is generic or not, check the IBM manuals.  REXEC, for example, is in the Communications Server bookshelf where its use and functioning is described.  WHOHAS is not in an IBM manual; it is generally implemented as a REXX program and h...

But the salaries in other platforms are very good compared to mainframes today's world, so sometime you start believing them.

I used WHOHAS command in my shop and I thought it was universal but I was told it was not. We could never see the code for it but it always worked. I thought about REXEC similar so asked about it. Sorry if it was not appropriate to ask like this.

This is a good example of how someone can not selct you in an interview...

Hi,

My name is Nitin and I am an Electronics graduate. Now I am working in to Mainframes. I think this is one of the best OS I have worked with. But there are many negatives about this paltform in the market but I still like to work with it.

Robert Sample wrote:REXEC is used to connect to a remote server (usually Unix or Windows) and issue a command (which could be a script, of course).  The specifics of when to use it and the details needed will vary by site as well as by application. 

Thanks Robert. I thought it was project specific tool.

I agree that tools will differ. I'd be more interested in the mainframe to java migration tools When we search about it on google many tools come up and mostly from the vendors and not from the users so that we can understand what tool might create what problem, at least to understand at initial lev...