Mainframe, MVS and zOS Discussion

Just a question, I am not from English speaking countries so not sure if this is wrong to ask but why do not we say Happy Christmas and always Merry Christmas? Is there a reason behind it?

Merry Christmas and Happy New year everyone!

Mainframes can never be outdated. But In India the payment in this technology is very less. They think new technologies makes more business. I am not sure what skill set can we learn for better salaries while working on mainframes.

Now a days, due to pandemic, the use of computer has increased like anything. I have been working like 12+ hours easily.

Thank you Robert.

I have not talked to vendor. This is not a common thing which we do over hear. We start looking at our own application first. This job has not abended again. Do you think vendor will be willing to help just for the one such situation?

Thank you Robert. This is really keeping me busy, I am not yet able to figure this out that why this command was first used.

Thanks. But I could not find 'OPEN 12' as a command in CICS. Is that really a command? We had our CICS updated to 5.2 years back, there might be a patch installed but there is no measure update since then.

Hi, We have the following batch command in CICS. The first statement started failing. Though it had been like that since 2006. Please advise what's wrong? VIEW PROD.CNTLLIB(ABC123OP) - Command ===> ****** ***************************** Top of Data 000001 OPEN 12 000002 OPEN ABCHST 000003 OPEN ABCHXR ...

Hi, I've got an abend in a production Job. This had this message: WER255A VSAM LOGICAL ERROR 0C ON INPUT When I searched for that, i got a conclusion that: The most common cause for this problem is when the VSAM dataset might have been created with the REUSE option, and the SyncSort run-time paramet...

For learning.

I alos use google.

7-8 hours...

Gosh!

Hi,

It's a nice collection. Thanks for putting it all together.

On google while searching for Linux.

Hi.

Happy New year to all!

Hi, I need to find CPU Speed of zLinux. I've used the below commands: cat /proc/cpuinfo and /usr/bin/cpufreq-info but they did not give the expected results. For example, /usr/bin/cpufreq-info prints the analyzing CPU 0: no or unknown cpufreq driver is active on this CPU analyzing CPU 1: no or unkno...