Mainframe, MVS and zOS Discussion

Nodynam means you are calling you program non-dynamically.

This is a great news.

But the way we maintain most of our work, will AI be of any use in mainframes?

Hi, I am looking for ideas that how do you keep the Production in 'auto-sync' with your 'lower level' test-environments? Mainly a QA environment in mainframes. I have started working with a new team in current company. They have recently create a new QA environment on mainframes. This works great, t...

Yeah but my friend is in Data-science and works on Python project and makes Rs. 18,00,000 with just 5 years of experience. That kind of a salary is impossible for anyone in mainframes.

Can mainframe application be re-hosted and work? There are a lot of documentation about re-hosting on AWS https://aws.amazon.com/mainframe/#:~:text=Benefits%20of%20Mainframe%20Migration%20on%20AWS&text=On%20AWS%2C%20customers%20can%20move,remove%20outdated%20interfaces%20and%20protocols.&tex...

zMainframes: Do you use an avatar name here or you use your real name as avatar name? If you are using an avatar name, is there a story behind choosing that name which you might like to share with us? I use my real name. At a previous employer, a co-worker searched for help on a mainframe question ...

Mainframe as a career has lost the charm. Many of us who had been working in this filed and don't get competitive salaries, while on the other side another person from a different technology with same experience are being offered much better salaries. This is the case with India. In fact in one of t...

I live in incredible India!

And why were they coded with UNIT, at first place? JCL was available with the System 360, announced in April 1964. The UNIT parameter was used to specify the precise device (or group of devices) for an allocation of a data set. SMS was announced in early 1988 -- 24 years later -- so there was a LOT...

Hi,

What is the difference between "Refactor and Rehosting" - are they not just part of same coin?

Happy Independence Day!

Depending on how your site is set up, using UNIT=DASD may be ignored -- or it may cause the allocation to use the wrong storage pool, causing various problems. SMS is System Managed Storage. The ACS routine can allocate a dataset to a volume based upon different levels of the dataset name, or the r...

You can send the file as "notepad" only or ".csv" file which looks like "notepad". We send them a lot and I have not see that the file is opened in excel by "double-click". We need to 'open it with excel".

As part of one of the issue in our production environment, the description goes like this: "This is an issue with a screen program being converted to an API with high throughput. In this case, PGM1 is linked to from PGM2 to create the email. Because two PGM2 can simultaneously run writing to th...

Never knew that, that should be declared as international holiday for companies using mainframes!

Hi,

I am curious to know if COBOL can implement pointers and linked list just as we do it in C programming? I'm working with is openCobol.

Thank you for any direction