Mainframe, MVS and zOS Discussion

Thanks. Sometimes your seniors are just intelligent.

Thanks. That is correct way. Though in my previous company they would automatically cancel such test jobs, how have they achieved it? I asked this to someone from that company but I could not get an answer.

Hi, One of the Production Job was on hold because one of the file that Job required was used in a test Job. In my previous company they used to cancel out the Job after some wait for such situations but here it did not happen and it took them very long to understand this. Can this be something which...

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Is there any way to accommodate fields in already full cics screen? Page up and page down logic shouldn't be used. Plz suggest

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I came to know that they are using ZIP390 only and not PKZIP. The site support group had not had answer to the question about the message and asked to contact the vendor. I could not get the contact yet.

Anuj Dhawan wrote: ↑Fri Nov 09, 2018 4:53 pmIt is used to access IMS files for CICS Transactions and it is an address space. The DBCTL region is like the IMS Transaction Manager without the support for terminals or message queues.

Thanks Anuj. Reading through the link.

enrico-sorichetti wrote: ↑Fri Nov 09, 2018 3:23 pmwhat happened when You googled with "DBCTL" ?

I could not understand much after reading too... . So I thought to ask.

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Can someone please explain in simple terms, what is the function of DBCTL? I did not answer this question.

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Thank you so much Enrico. I am going through them. Great help.

Thanks Robert...

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Thanks. So what is the best way to avoid such abends in production?

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A job was abended in production. The reason was that COBOL internal table was overlowed. We are not using SSRANGE in production. It is told it is standard. In my last compnay also we were not using SSRANGE in production. Why it is not allowed, what is wrong with this option?

Most of the time, a connection is made to a particular CICS region because it has the resources (programs, files, transactions) defined for the application. Connecting to a different CICS region would make absolutely no sense if these resources are not available to the different region. If the reso...

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I get the below message in the SYSPRINT of my job: this confuses me whether it is ZIP390 or PKZIP?

Hi, Recently we had an issue in production. In that, a file was not sent across to a business location because a Job did not run. Later it was told that "no class 4 initiators were open and so job could not run". Can someone please advise why such a thing would happen? Will not a WLM polic...

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is it possible to bring back tape gdg which is uncatalogged? If yes, how can we do that?