Mainframe, MVS and zOS Discussion

I found the rules about what kind of variable can be moved to what kind of variable but could not find how a alphanumeric gets in the numeric declaration, without any error...

Hi i would like to convert non packed numeric data to packed numeric data in cobol. I've observed that this can help me: 05 field-a pic 9(9). 05 field-b pic s9(9) comp-3 move field-a to field-b. But I'm wondering wat happens when we do this move that it is converted to packad decimal. Where I can le...

Thanks Robert. So anything which gets "START" command 'in it' is a started task?

Hi,

What is a zOS started task? I'm confused in this because I read that CICS etc are also sub-sysyem and are 'started-task'. Then what zOS itself be called?

I'm from South India.

Hi,.

I found a topic of your on Google some time back.