Mainframe, MVS and zOS Discussion

Hi,

Could any one answer this question

How do you use checkpoint in cobol program?

Thanks Robert. Never thought a DNS look-up could be required in mainframes too.

Thanks zum13. This is working, will do more test.

I asked one of my known, he said run any command of CICS in batch, capture the return code, if it fails, region is down, like you said.

Is it common to run CICS commands in batch? Even if not, how can we run a CICS command in batch?

Usually 2 to 3 weeks they take. You should write an email to the hiring HR, they should help you.

Thanks zum13, this helps a lot. Understood.

How does this lookup for IPv4 and IPv6 applies to mainframes? Do they?

Thanks zum13.

But this is very expensive specially when you earn in rupees. Not sure if we can ever create an environment for personal learning.

I think you can not SSH to mainframes.

Hi,

What is a "DNS lookup"?

I am going through some of the topics I discussed here in past and got a question on this one: viewtopic.php?p=19219#p19219

What does "DNS lookup" mean?

Thanks Robert. I was looking for this information and got to this topic, again. I have bit odd question, how can we really try to become more knowledgeable with RACF. I am a programmer and would like to learn and practice about RACF but my company won't allow that. As I work from offshore and they d...

Thanks Robert. I tried downloaded GnuCOBOL, installing it and I can not make it work. Instructions are not very clear. Could you or someone guide on how to install GnuCOBOL on laptop?

Is there no way using which we can check if the CICS region is down or up, in batch?

Good day

I have one query
How to check if a job needs to run when the cics region is up or down if is having IMS data base?

Thank you for your detailed explnation, really helpful.

Is it possible to test such cases on personal computer as these days I am on bench and don't have mainframe access.

Hi,

Please guide on this interview question, What is the content of RESULT after execution of the following COBOL instruction. The start value of RESULT is 0.

Thanks. But is it RACF or SMF?

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Robert Sample wrote: ↑Sat Jun 02, 2018 7:39 amIf you need to hide the IP address, then FTP is not the mechanism to use. SFTP will not provide human-readable logs but it requires additional system set up (on both ends) to be usable.

Thanks Robert.

Thank you so much, Robert.

If by "ps file" you mean a sequential MVS data set: To find out who edited a data set in the past, you'll need to pull in the SMF records (type 15 for output in particular) to find the user id. If you want to track this for future edits, work with your site support group to have RACF reco...