Mainframe, MVS and zOS Discussion

This is an interesting statistics that tells a lot about mainframes but still in todays' world google is comparable: COBOL supports 90% of Fortune 500 business systems every day 70% of all critical business logic and data is written in COBOL COBOL connects 500 million mobile phone users every day CO...

This is an interesting question. Then if a company like google can survive without mainframes, what are the chances of mainframes being used in future?

We have our compiler being changed to COBOL 6.2. I am part of a Team who is compiling the programs and reporting those errors. Now we have got the instruction that – SQLSTATE needs to change to SQLCODE only if it is being used to evaluate the response. If it is used to record the SQLSTATE then it do...

Hi, Is there been a change the way SQLSTATE and SQLCODE are treated in cobol 6.2? I had been searching for it but could not really loacte something worthwhile on IBM site. https://www.google.com/search?q=SQLSTATE+needs+to+change+to+SQLCODE+and+cobol+6.2&rlz=1C1GCEA_enIN766SG766&oq=SQLSTATE+n...

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Can you please explian me what is a PCB mask? I have read through the manuals but I do not get it. Can there be a simple explnation about it?

Is not it just same as PCB?

Great thanks Anuj.

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I also come from India, a beautiful country!

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I have a VARCHAR column in a DB2 table. I'm trying to know the minimum and maximum size this varchar filed can store. I tried using the MIN and MAX function but they can only be used for the numeric data type. Is there any function with which I can find the length for varchar, please help.