Mainframe, MVS and zOS Discussion

Hi LakhabhaiJai,

Could you please share the skill-sets for which the jobs are open? This would help to apply for them.

Thank you!

Thanks Robert.

I had been reading about spanned records but one thing I could not understand that what practical situation makes you to have spanned-records? I mean, why do you need a span-record, can such situation not be handled by regular records, like FB?

Thanks Robert.

Could you please direct me to somewhere where I can read about user exits, specially a user exit which you mentioned above.

Hi, I have joined a new company, there I see a situation where in a job abended with dataset contention. Later it was told that some user opened that file in browse mode and it casued job to abend. This is new to me, as in my previous company if that would happen, the user was cancelled automaticall...

Thanks. I was talking to one of my colleague and he said that FD entry for VB files will have RECORD IS VARYING FROM $ to $$$$. Where $ and $$$$ represents the minimum and maximum length of records expected. He also said that VB files will have 4 bytes of RDW. Record Descriptor Word. First two bytes...

Hi.

What is the difference between of accessing vb and fb file in cobol program?

Thanks. Batch ISPF works.

Thanks both of you.

enrico-sorichetti wrote: if the file name is in clear use the ISPF SRCHFOR utility

Can we also write a REXX to call ISPF SRCHFOR to run it in batch.

Hi,

Please some one help me with this. How to see which job is using the incoming file in JCL library?

Hi, I'm trying to figure out what line of code is cause a SOC4. In my job output, I see the address from the sdsf outout. This shop does not have anything like IBM debugger/dumpmaster so I'm not sure what to do with the address and offset. When I do a find on this in the output there is no displayab...

William Collins wrote:Search this forum. You will find longer discussion on the subject.

Thanks looked at other topic too and got more to learn.

Thanks Robert.

If your program uses SEARCH ALL, your program will require indexes and not subscripts for that statement.

I read on other online reference a similar statement and the question I've is - if we're not using SEARCH ALL -- index and subscript are just same, theortically?

Hello,

When we use index and when we use subscipt in a COBOL program?

Great - that was real quick!

I hit the enter early and was registered with wrong surname, Thanks again. All is well now.

Hi,

I need my user name to display as "Sushil Vaidya" - istead of "Sushil Vidya" - can someone please help.