Mainframe, MVS and zOS Discussion

The standard way is to talk to the site support group. There is usually (but not always for all sites) a site-supported user library into which REXX members can be placed and become available site-wide. However, the ability to add to this user library is almost always restricted to only the site su...

hmmm ok. Thanks Robert.

Thanks nicc.

I thought a programmer could it his/her own!.

it' more a question related to company standards and making new hires familiar with them every company has different habits, different standards, different practices Hi Enrico, I was thinking that that is the next possible question. If the libraries were standard, to an extent JCLs could have been ...

There are standard SYSTEM libraries -- SYS1.LINKLIB, SYS1.PROCLIB, SYS1.PARMLIB and SYSx.IPLPARM as examples (SYSx may be SYS0 through SYS9). However, even system libraries are not necessarily standard across companies -- the COBOL compiler data sets I have seen include SYS1.IGY?????, SYS1.VmRnMp.I...

Thanks vasanthz.

Hi Enrico and Robert,

Thank you. don't they have standard libraries for sample across companies? Will this not be confusing for all of us who try to learn and change companies in between?

Thanks Anuj. We also used the FTP path.

Hi, If your file is of LRECL 80, you can use the below SORT as sample: //STEP01 EXEC PGM=SORT //SYSOUT DD SYSOUT=* //SORTIN DD DSN=... input file (FB/80) //SORTOUT DD DSN=... output file (FB/80) //SYSIN DD * INREC OVERLAY=(81:SEQNUM,8,ZD) SORT FIELDS=(81,8,ZD,D) OUTREC BUILD=(1,80) /* //*

Thanks all.

So it is never meant to keep the time in the system? Is it not a basic thing to have? Just asking.

Hi, I have written a REXX code which is working fine for me. It is a macro. The problem is I wanted it to be available to me every time I login to my TSO and go to ISPF. I have added it to SYSPORC but it remains there until I'm logged in. Once I log-off and log in next day it is not there a way to m...

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Can anyone please tell me how to find the creation time of a GDG Generation. I could only identify creation date...

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Does the concept of passive and active transfers in FTP applies to mainframes? Could you please guide when do we go for passive transfer and when do we go for active transfer? Link to any manual describing this with an example would be great too.

Hi, We have a system in which mainframes sends the file to SAP. SAP does not get in directly instead there is an FTP server given to us in production for Tibco where we send the file. This system has not been touched for many many years. Now for a requirement we need to test of sending a file in tes...

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I have been told that when a software in installed on your mainframe, they will also give some sample JCLS to use it. And these JCLs will be installed in some sample library. Where are sample JCLs are installed? Can someone please tell me.

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One of our Job fails every now and then for the reason that database is locked. The Job is scheduled to run when CICS is active. Can we somehow check the status of the database and based on that execute the step of the Job? This way, step might retry to execute after some delay.

Thanks Enrico.

Yes it's a big word and I had to leave the paper in between too. Just in case, if you'd like to suggest some of the readings on mainframe white papers it will be helpful.

Hi,. It might be an easy question but sometime it bugs us badly and really want to know the ways to kill my TSO session. It usually happens that one of us with in our team will lost network connection and when we try to reconnect to TSO session it ends up in "user already in use". And the ...

It looks like I was not polite enough in my initial post, sorry if you felt so, I didnot mean that. I just wanted to see what are such websites which you think are worth exploring. I know some of them but thought here I might ask for more inputs from siimilar mindsets.

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I have been looking for some websites or online Forums where we can publish white papers written on mainframes. Can you please share such wesbites if you know any of them? I know some such as, CMG, like that what are more such places which can be of a good start?