Mainframe, MVS and zOS Discussion

You might also want to post this on the IBM-MAIN list, which has a much larger audience!

And your post is absolutely not too long, it would be nice if every post was this long and detailed!

With STROBE, we'd request it to be applied on a production code which has been identified as a CPU hogger, it was for very small time, in prod and was expensive, as it was at run time...as Robert has said. Yes, it is expensive, but given the potential savings using Strobe can give, it's worth using...

I'm still using the the old PL/I Optimizing compiler, which allows compilation with the "COUNT,FLOW" options. In the end this produces a report of the number of times every statement is executed, which is also somewhat useful if you want to optimize code. Strobe uses, as far as I remember,...

We have a Table, this is actually a VSAM file but contains IP addresses at region level and called as table in our system. Oh yes, like this , translation provided by Google: "My father and I lived together and we owned a television and a radio, he was a widower and I was single, and now a han...

RTFM?

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Pretty horrible, just as the new GMail interface. Why is there a need to constantly fiddle with websites? If it ain't broke don't fix it!!!

Educated wild guess: -905?

For what it's worth, my copy of Doug's "sdsf_highlighting.txt" does not contain any copyright information, and having just verified the last on-line source of 17 March 2010, that also lacks any copyright statement. The only note about copyrights on the site read Although this is not an off...

Use and drown in messages. Better use

Sandy wrote: ↑Mon Mar 19, 2018 11:22 am And I don't have the backup of those REXXs in my new company

That should teach you to always make backups of stuff you want to take around. Even, as a last resort, on paper...

Akshypal wrote: ↑Mon Feb 26, 2018 2:47 pmWe had to request to change the size in TIOT table and Support team has done it. We had some space available there. Thanks all for your ehlp.

You've applied a Band-Aid, you didn't solve the problem, which will return shortly.

I generally ask my trainees to create new mistakes while you learn so you remember how to fix them in real time. In one of my college classes, the professor had us code programs to generate as many errors as possible in as few lines as possible. It was an interesting exercise! Then this four-line P...

Kishor Sonawane wrote: ↑Thu Feb 01, 2018 10:26 amBut if you don't have control on the data of input file, can then be S0C7 prevented?

Robert Sample wrote: ↑Tue Apr 04, 2017 5:24 pmWith defensive coding techniques, it is possible for a programmer to totally prevent S0C7 ABENDS.

Biggest mistake? Not reading replies!

I'm pretty sure the "@" sign is EBCDIC code-page invariant, so it should have been stored as "@" in DB2! And it's 0x40 in both ASCII and UTF-8, so there are also no conversion problems!

Check the Rumba codepage for the ENEA region?

How about RTFM? If your site has a licence for Intertest, it has access to the manuals...

"C" on line to copy, "AK"/"BK" on all lines to copy to, and just "A"/"B" on the last of them.

Another thread that doesn't serve any purpose.

offset = addr(mystruct.f6) - addr(mystruct.f1);

Anuj Dhawan wrote:... but the benefit is to have a better end-user experience - like, Emoji Support ...

That's really something your average z/OS / ISPF user is waiting for, style over substance...

Use SuperC with different column CMPCOLMN/O options for the old and new files.