Mainframe, MVS and zOS Discussion

ok, Will remember that for future.

Is there any way to create HTML tags in mainframe COBOL and use those formatted tags in an email attachment using mainframe JCL? I have been searching about it all over but could not get something to work on.

Thanks enrico


I have got a direct link for local page datasets in mainframes:
 https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgece ... pagdss.htm

And this:
 https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgece ... sizloc.htm

Thanks Anuj. Yes, those can be the reasons.. I did not think about such factors.

Hi,
 What are "local page datasets" in mainframe? Can you please suggest when do we need them?

When you connect to a mainframe, you actually connect to an LPAR (logical partition).  One mainframe (physical box) may host many LPARs.  Different LPARs on one mainframe communicate via cross-memory services, or FTP, or RJE, or coupling facility, or ....  Different LPARs on different mainframes co...

Can you please tell me about other different ways of  exchaing data or communicating between two or more mainframes?  You need to narrow your question -- "communicating" can be a pretty broad topic and exchanging data needs more explanation as well -- between mainframes? between mainframe...

Hi,

We are using FTP to transfer file from other mainframe from ours. Can you please tell me about other different ways of  exchaing data or communicating between two or more mainframes? 

Hi Forum, My name is Aseem. I work for an Indian IT Firm. I work in mainframes and mostly work with COBOL, JCL and DB2. I have a question, we usually have salaried jobs in india, but I heard that in IT there are contract jobs abroad. So if I plan to shift to abroad, for a mainframe job do I also nee...

Excellent discussion and insight. Thanks guys. Special Thanks to William.

Thanks William.

Thanks ANuj and enrico-sorichetti. enrico, google can give lots of those links but can not compare the experience of professionals like you. Sometimes you search the web and don't really get or a get a odd meaning of things, in such times it's better to understand things from experienced people from...

Hi,

Could someone please advise that where exactly is SAS is used? I came to knowabout this while in a class.

William Collins wrote:Another area you'll be shocked about is the parameter-passing between CALL ... USING ... and PROCEDURE DIVISION USING ...

Thanks William, can you please elaborate on it more?

oh...o got it. But then if it is so why SSRANGE is not made a default option for compiling?

Hi,

In an COBOL Internal Table, I've declared table of length 15 but I have given a reference to 18th element in my program and there was no error. How is that possible?

Thanks Robert, this is helpful.

Thanks Robert and Anuj.

Hi,

What are work-files in SORT and are they mandatory for every SORT Job? What is importance of work files in the SORT utility?

Hi,

What is ICETOOL and ICEMAN? Are they only part of DFSORT?

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