Mainframe, MVS and zOS Discussion

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lchui wrote: ↑Tue Nov 24, 2020 10:22 am Check out the COBOL Migration Portal. It is an invaluable resource to help clients on their decision and journey to migrate their COBOL applications:

https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgece ... ortal.html

This is an excellent source, Thanks for sharing it.

Is not COBOL 4.2 already out of support? No, it is not. End of Service is currently planned for end of April, 2022. You can find some COBOL compiler End of Service Dates here https://community.ibm.com/community/user/ibmz-and-linuxone/blogs/dan-zhang1/2020/04/02/cobol-42-51-amp-52-abo-12-end-of-serv...

Hi, We are changing our COBOL compiler to COBOL 6.2. We were on COBOL 4.2. The path we are following is that we compile one program by one program. Now many times when a program we pick up from baseline to for new development, it's touch to know whether the program was installed with COBOl 6.2 or 4...

Thank you so much Anuj!

Hi,

I'm in a new company, here they make use of IM Debug Tool. Does anyone have document of IBM debug tool? Please share or guide.

Hi,

We had been loading data for testing using unload from production however a DBA told has in a webinar to use IMAGE COPY for this. Is not unload similar to IMAGE COPY?

Is not COBOL 4.2 already out of support?

Hi, I have joined a new company and we get in to production support every trailing week. And with so many incidents I've seen they have been using very different transfer methods like, FTP, MFTP, Fusion and C :E.. They fail with different errors, what is the use of having so many ways to transfer fi...

Hi.

Is not it line COND at first step of Job will always be false? And the step will always get executed, right?

I ask this because I saw a job which has got COND=(4,LT) at first step since 1995. This is rather misleading. Is my understanding correct?

Thanks. But then what is use of saving CPU seconds? How do you showcase them to your managers?

Hi, How can we measure the CPU utilization by a Job? I have Job which executes a program. Now this program was using linear search while now has been change to use Binary Search. There is change in CPU time which I picked up from SYSOUT of the Job. Can this time be used as to show the CPU utilizatio...

Use like below to override file which r under single DD name:

Eg : need to override 2nd file

Thanks all for your suggestion. I did look at documentation but did not find something to give me a direction. Honestly, I could not spend much time on it though I shall try again. Thanks for suggestion so far. Yes, Robert I saw those options but once I gave "C" in front of the variables a...

To make my life easy I made two simple files to compare: MISXY2.FILEAID.COMPARE.TEST. Another file MISXY2.FILEAID.COMPARE.TEST1. As of now both the files are just copy of each other: VIEW MISXY2.FILEAID.COMPARE.TEST Columns 00001 00072 Command ===> Scroll ===> CSR ****** ****************************...

Can someone please help me to work with file aid compare to work against multiple record types? If yes, can someone please provide with couple of examples. I had been struggling to get it setup.

Robert Sample wrote: ↑Wed Jul 18, 2018 7:09 amSearching a library can be a security violation depending upon how the site's security is set up

By "searching" and finding where the member is, what can we do? I mean If they don't give the authority to view/edit it's ok but browsing should not be banned.

Hi Robert,

I tried it locating using ISPF and 3.4 option. but it showed me like in the screen shot:
With SYS*.PARMLIB also I got the same error.

It compiled well even when the DB2 was down.