Mainframe, MVS and zOS Discussion

Hi,

Please guide me if I can refer to some links for reading about mainframe internals. To understand what happens in mainframe internally, for example, when we create a dataset, execute a program or submit a Job. I have been searching for it a lot but did not find a suitable link.

Example 14. Sort with IFTHEN

and for REMOVECC and other parameters this should help.

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I found a post of your on Google.

Thanks Bruce. I'm reading the System Definition Document and I should be back soon.

Right but I'm not a decision maker so ... but I agree with however until we find one, I'm sole warrior! Very true. One of our practices is to keep a standard "template" region, along with the required jobs to create datasets, etc. Then we just "clone" it by running the jobs (chan...

Thanks again but that's a document of 460 pages. I'm not sure how many times I'm going to stuck!

Thanks a bunch Robert! Really appreciate your reply.

As I go through the document I might have some more questions, though in general - if we set up a new CICS environment is there some flow of 'events' wchih we follow usually?

Thanks again.

Thanks Robert. - VTAM APPLID must be generated (and must be unique to the site) I looked at the IBM instruction for this: http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/cicsts/v4r1/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.ibm.cics.ts.installation.doc%2Ftopics%2Fdfha1c0054.html :- this shop have some existing CICS regions though f...

I understand what are you saying Robert. The person responsible for this had to leave abruptly and we are trying to do it now. I've downloaded the pdf you've mentioned you suggested and goin gthrough it. I know, asking it again might sound stupid - but when someone star setting up new environment wh...

Hi, How to set-up a CICS environment? I can understand that this question is over broad and it might sound foolish for me to ask here but I've a work in hand which is not fully under my job responsibilities. The shop already have some CICS LPARs and sub-systems however, they are migrating one part o...