Mainframe, MVS and zOS Discussion

Hi Robert, I added this piece of code SHOWCB but I am sorry I do not know how to read the dumps? Could you please tell me which section in dump I need to be looking into? Having said that GENERAL PURPOSE REGISTER VALUES 0-3 00001000 008B8000 008CD780 00000064 4-7 00000690 80E58008 1DFC3308 1DFC32E0 ...

Hi Robert, Thanks for your comments I am trying to write to a KSDS file I added BADOPEN in code and added DDNAME in ACB is it necessary to mention OPTCD=(key,upd) as I am just writing to the dataset ? But Anyway I added and my code looks like this TEST CSECT BASR 12,0 USING *,12 SAVE (14,12) ST 13,S...

Hi all, I wrote a sample program to write a record to VSAM file using value from a constant , The program executed and ended ok but I don't see the new record written to file. I know there is something not ok in the program, Could anyone please point me what could I be missing? TEST CSECT BASR 12,0 ...

Thank you Enrico I will check that

Hi Robert,

Those Manuals helped as I was trying to learn about ACB,RPL,EXLST MACRO for VSAM processing.Thank you

Hi,

Anyone having a copy of Manual GC26-4015 & GC26-4016 it would be great if anyone could share it with me.

It is a IBM manual I am unable to find a copy of it, No luck in google as well.

Thanks Robert .. I have ordered 2 books to ponder deep into HLASM.. Waiting to be delivered

Hi Robert, I have not tried to copy using HLASM yet but just with IDCAMS so far this is the code //STEP010 EXEC PGM=IDCAMS //******************************************************************** //****** REPRO PS TO VSAM FILE ******* //*****************************************************************...

Hi I am trying to copy data from PS to VSAM and I get this error below IDC3351I ** VSAM I/O RETURN CODE IS 76 - RPLFDBWD = X'4908004C' IDC31467I MAXIMUM ERROR LIMIT REACHED. IDC0005I NUMBER OF RECORDS PROCESSED WAS 0 IDC3003I FUNCTION TERMINATED. CONDITION CODE IS 12 I am not quiet sure, how to deci...

Hi Robert,

I fixed the issue by adding keyword ENCODING(EBCDIC) in my bindjob and It fixed the problem and I am able to see the data as expected

Thanks a bunch

Thank you Robert I will check on that.

The problem is when I querying through spufi I get 000010A00 000020B01 When I write application program I get 000002 005275000 4333333433FFFFFFFFF 0000010100005275000 000004 â 004125000 4333333433FFFFFFFFF 0000020201004125000 But I wanted to display as I am able to see in SPUFI output

Hi when I try to display values of a character field from a table I get wierd values column 2 - 10. I don't understand why? Could someone explain how to fix this ? I am unable to see the table definition. 000001 SQLCODE 000000000 44EDDCDCC4FFFFFFFFF 0028336450000000000 -------------------------- 000...

As I said, you're doing some really weird things.

Hi Robert,

Yes, I was trying to identify and try out different combinations so really make more mistakes now and learn

Thanks for your explanation it cleared my doubt.

Hi all, I am just trying to do some R & D on MVC and Binary Definitions: Loc Object Code Addr1 Addr2 Stmt Source Statement 000001C3 169 E DS 0CL16 000001C3 FF 170 DC B'11111111' 000001C4 171 F DS 0CL16 000001C4 AB 172 DC B'10101011' 000001C5 173 G DS 0CL6 000001C5 FF 174 DC B'11111111' 000001C6 ...

Hi Robert,

Yes, I am trying to learn with assemble listing with it really helps to do with that with instructions format. I am so loving this now

Yes I meant cheat sheat... As you said I got it...

360 Instructions

Thanks again

Hi all, I am reading about SI Instructions that Operands like MVC and CLC and tried to make program fail by passing values of length larger than 256 and smaller than 0. I understand there are OPERANDS MVCL and CLCL or CLCLE which supports for larger data , Does these operands work only on certain mo...

Sure Robert I will try that Thank you

Hi Robert,

Thats why I was trying to figure out writing to SYSOUT so operators don't need to call me
I heard about SNAP I am yet to try that.

Hi Robert, Yeah, Thanks I am hoping to move on step by step like practising below - MOVE - STRING FUNCTIONS - LOOPS - CONDITION AND BRANCHING - FILE OPERATIONS - ARITHMETIC FUNCTION - REPORTING - ADDRESS DB2 CICS ( Again not sure of the feasibility) - SYSTEM FUNCTION like ( TSO , ISPF , REXX - Not s...