Mainframe, MVS and zOS Discussion

Hi, I am writing a COBOL DB2 program. There is a DB2 table which has 7 million rows. I need to get only the 2020 data for the employees having the grade from 1 TO 50. Could you please advise, if I can get total count of each grade through a DB2 query. I need to run the query using a COBOL program. P...

prino wrote:Dialog test variables, ZOS390RL

Thanks but I am not sure where do I look for it. But I have also used .

This also tells what I was looking.

enrico-sorichetti wrote:and knowing it, will it make Your work better ?

That is a good question but I shall be looking at correct manuals in future, if I knew that.

The Rexx external function MVSVAR will return this information in variable SYSOPSYS. Thanks, I have studied about it and found this: Using the MVSVAR Function The MVSVAR function retrieves information about MVS™, TSO/E, and the current session, such as the symbolic name of the MVS system, or the se...

Thanks for the reply Robert. I have some view about them. Written them below- 1. Talk to your site support group -- they installed it, they know it. Site support group is not very supportive and they don't tell answer to such questions. :( 2. If you can issue console commands (not many application p...

Hi,

You've written that this can be used for ooREXX but I think we can modify to work it for mainframes too?

We have been told that our shop is upgraded zOS 2.1. As a programmer I feel dumb that what is in it for me. At minimum I would like to know where the version informationis stored. What is the way to find out the version we are using of operating system?

Thanks!