Mainframe, MVS and zOS Discussion

Hi, What is the difference between DevOps and mainframe moderization? I will tell you my dilemma: If a company wants to modernise their mainframe then they usually try to convert programs to JAVA equivalent or wants to change to some other infrastructure, may be Cloud. But with so many DevOps tools ...

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Chandan Yadav wrote: ↑Wed Oct 31, 2018 1:46 pmIf you are doing a table unload , why can't you exclude the records during unload itself by tweaking the DB2 query to select only last 2 days data?

This suggestion looks good, will try it.

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I need to omit records using sort card after a full unload of db2 table. Date field is character x(10). What would be the omit condition for that? Condition is omit 2 days old data from current date, how can I do that in SORT?

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Are you calling DPL as API? Is there a reason to call it like that?

Hi, We have a CICS region, CICSABCD. For some time there had been job abends as this region has got connectivity issues. Support team had been looking for to correct it. Though this problem makes me think that can we at run time see, if there is another CICS region available for connectivity and con...

Hi, One of our COBOL program has got some files. Not all the files are will opened or written to on every run of the program. It depends on the values supplied by a member by parmlib. There is a strange thing we have noticed that if the files are being created on DASD the empty files does created ev...

I am having trouble imagining what you would want to do with the SCRT data. It is NOT something you could use in cost-reduction exercises, for example. Some sites restrict access to the SMF data; some sites do not. If your site restricts access, you would have to contact your site support group to ...

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Can SCRT be used by our own? I mean if I am not a system programmer and I want to use it for my own analysis, can I use it if I have the SMF file from the support team?

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Can you please tell me how is MIPS based pricing on IBM Z Series mainframes computed? Is there some IBM document which explains step by step? I could not really figure out a document while searching for it at all.

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Thanks Robert. Is this pointer is like the pointers we use C?

Christmas Celebration starts in 00 months 05 days 15 hours 16 mins 19 sec - what celebrations we are going to have?

I used like following :
as my date starts from column 10 in my input file. But I want to if there is a format which can directly understand DD.MM.YYYY, date with dots?

Thanks Anuj. One of my senior colleague have access to this panel and showed me what you have suggested. In this panel there are many fields which are editable, if I edit them they will have system wide effect? But if I mistakenly change some field, how can I bring it back to the original? And what ...

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Is there a way to find which CICS version we are using our own? Or we just need to ask it to support always.

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Hi, There is a flat file of LRECL 500 and 1500 records. From column 10 date and time field start and they are in the format of DD.MM.YYYY and HH:MM:SS respectively.I want to copy this data in the output with all the fileds as is but date and time changed to the format YYYYMMDD and HHMMSS. How can I ...

PLAN and program names both are required. If the program name is not given in SYSTIN where else can it be given?