Mainframe, MVS and zOS Discussion

I have no problem in sharing what has worked for me.

Thanks for the responses. I did not do anything but now it's working for me though I do not know what has solved it for me.

Hi all,

This has worked for me.

Ask your technical support team. They will know the procedure they want you to use to do this (even if it means you telephone someone and get them to do it). Attempting to run random bits of JCL picked up from the Internet is unlikely to be the suggested course of action. Yes this is what I did. Bu...

William Collins wrote:At the point at which the XDC was successful, what is the message in the top right of your screen?

I don't recall it correctly but it was like "Print is Successful"..

Pandora-Box wrote:what do you mean by hanged?
Are you executing any foreground programs that is in loop?

Also if you just wanted to reconnect

Try

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TSO <USERID> RECONNECT

No, no program was executing but at left bottom of the screen a clock kept on showing up and showing up.

nicc wrote:A table in COBOL is the equivalent of an array in other languages - however, use 'table' and not 'array' when speaking about COBOL.

Yes, that's what I was confused as in language C we learned about arrays only. But this is a good point. I shall remember it, it will make more professional.

nicc wrote:Hanged! Executing! Gosh - IT is becoming deadly this year!

I might not be correct in using the terms but then what do you call it? Please guide me.

They are very different. They use the same name because one comes from nomenclature in the development of the COBOL language in 1959 and one comes from the nomenclature of the development of the idea of the relational database model in the years up to 1970. It is unfortunate, but there it is. Just ...

Hi, For a unit test result, I needed to copy sysout to one of my PDS. To do this, I used XDC and in the next panel the dataset name in which I want the sysout to be copied. The XDC was successful. Now after that the job went into a print queue with some position like 3783. Now when I issue the XDC, ...

Hi,

Can we cancel a TSO Session using JCL? I got my ID hanged today and the support desk said ask to cancel the TSO session in the team. Some can have a JCL to cancel the sessions. But as most of us are new here, no one knows of such a JCL. Does any one of you have such JCL available? Please share.

Hi,

I am very new to the mainframes and find this confusing. Is there any difference between the table in Cobol and db2? If they are different is there a significance of using the same name for both? Thanks for you help.