Mainframe, MVS and zOS Discussion

Yes i also searched for it but did not find the answer, that is why i have posted it here. Thank you for the link, let me work with it.

Hi- is there a way to do it? Please advise.

Hi,

How to check low values for any field in easytrieve. I tried “low-values” and X’00 but not working.

We actually contacted Control-M Team and they said that they have instruction for ADRDSSU steps if they are returning RC=04, to be reported to application teams as abend

Thanks Robert.

I think we need to talk to our Control-M team also to understand why the RC=04 was taken as something to be reported.

This is what gave Return Code 04, which was considered by operations as abend: CODE: SELECT ALL ADR013I (001)-CLTSK(01), 2019.279 00:26:58 TASK COMPLETED WITH RETURN CODE 0004 I look for the above message but I am not sure what I'm supposed to do with that message: https://www.ibm.com/support/knowl...

And you may have run across the z/OS 2.3 issue -- how long has your site been on 2.3, and how long have you been having problems with ADRDSSU? I do not know about the zOS 2.3 run time, is there a way I can know that my own? Rather asking the admin support team? We started seeing the problem with AD...

The answer to your question depends upon which release of z/OS you're running. There is a known difference between the z/OS 2.2 and 2.3 versions of ADRDSSU; I ran across the difference when downloading the CBT tape data. The version 2.3 ADRDSSU would not unterse whereas the version 2.2 ADRDSSU unte...

ADRDSSU control card is: DUMP DATASET(INCLUDE(V.ABCD.RMLADT.** - V.ABCD.RMLAXR.** - V.ABCD.RMLBIN.** - V.ABCD.RMLBXR.** - V.ABCD.RMLRTV.** )) - OUTDDNAME( ABC007RM ) - CANCELERROR - COMPRESS - OPT(3) - TOL(ENQF) - WAIT(0,0) All the inputs are VSAM. Output is on Tape.

Well, I don't know as you have provided some JCL but no ADRDSSU control cards, no version informatio and no details of the abend - messages with their message numbers from both ADRDSSU and the job. All these things are required to determine where the error is occurring. This is what gave Return Cod...

Hi, We have a Job which has not been changed since 90s and was coded with COND like below. This has started coming as abend since some time. It was never flagged as abend before. Is it something that changed with ADRDSSU? We use Control-M as scheduler. //S010 EXEC PGM=ADRDSSU,COND=(04,LT) //SYSPRINT...

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Thanks all for the discussion. I learned that INITIALIZE should be used wisely, right?

Thanks. I got the correct feedback from my lead then. Thanks.

Thanks, got it.

I have confused myself. I though only numeric values can be shown for the Return Codes and did not realized that FLUSH can be a valid value. Thanks all for your answers it has helped me.

Hi, I have this code written: 05 WS-AVG-COST PIC S9(13)V99 COMP-3. INITIALIZE WS-AVG-COST. MOVE INB-AVG-COST TO WS-AVG-COST COMPUTE WS-AVG-COST ROUNDED = INB-AVG-COST * 1 MOVE WS-AVG-COST TO SYU12-INPUT-FIELD MOVE INB-AVG-COST TO SYU12-INPUT-FIELD MOVE INI-AVG-COST TO WS-AVG-COST COMPUTE WS-AVG-COST...

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What is the meaning of "flush" as return code in JCL? I mean it explains itself like this step is flushed and is not executed. Is that a correct understanding?

Another question is, why would a step show "flush" as return code?

I have downloaded the file but it was not opening?

Robert Sample wrote: ↑Sat Sep 15, 2018 10:43 amYes -- COBOL uses CALL "LITERAL" for static calls and CALL VARIABLE-NAME for dynamic calls. So the program name will be in the literal pool COBOL puts together

Thanks.

What is literal pool? Are there some more pools in a COBOL program?