Mainframe, MVS and zOS Discussion

It's table(resource) unavailability. Maybe the table is on COPY PEND after LOAD or any other operation.

I came to know that this cancel was done manually.

What is SEQNUM, though this is working as expected.

Okay Anuj.

Is this cancel done manually? Or there is an automation behind it?

Could anyone guide on this?

Thank you Anuj. So these projects are the ones which are development based?

HI,

Can someone tell me what's a mainframe modernization project? Is it like development only or support? Does it involve a lot of work??

Hi all,

What does abend U3607 means? Do I need to restart the job?

Attach is the screen shot of same.

Hi,

how do I append "even" & "odd" indicator to even and odd records of a ps file using sort jcl.

Hi, Good Day! In the recent days, we have come across instances where developers ID holding prod VSAM files and prod jobs had failed. This is happening while the VSAM files are opened in Fileaid mostly even it was opened in browse mode. We are asked to close all the tools and logoff from TSO before ...

Thanks ..I missed to read it carefully.

10528 Why would it lead to a termination? You mean job termination, right? Why would this happen just changing the expiry date of the dataset? "Termination" in this context is referring to employee termination for cause. Company managers do NOT like people attempting to avoid their establ...

Thanks both. 10479 Note that this may, in real life, be a futile, even dangerous, effort. Usually data sets on DASD do not have an explicit expiration date, and an attempt to give such a data set one will likely be overridden by SMS, if it is active. Moreover, what appear to be attempts to circumven...

Hi, One of the question which I have never experienced in real life wasasked in this interview. Question goes like this, is it possible to extend the expiration date of a dataset? If we can do so, what is the command for it or do we need to write some JCL for it? I have searched about it on google b...