Mainframe, MVS and zOS Discussion

Thanks for all your replies.

I think I saw a reply there on this thread using some SDSF trick but it is not there now?

Hi, FILEAID option 3(Utilities) > option 6(search and update). Key-in the DSN and the text to be replaced. When prompted for confirmation about to perform update or not - select 'yes' and the new changes will be reflected in the code. You can (if I'm not mistaken) generate a batch Job also for this...

Thanks Pandora-Box. I usually keep my terminal busy but you never know when you are pulled in some call and that time it mkaes trouble. 30 minutes default is pretty good, as per the manual but it's 5 minutes at my terminal.

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That will read up to four lines of SYSIN data in one shot :-) That's a differnt behavior. I was thinking that to run the above program on maifnrames one would need a JCL. 5, 2 and 9 as inputs from SYSIN, which will be treated as FB/80 dataset so an input like 5 2 9 are three seperate inputs of type...

We have this program running for OpenCOBOL: IDENTIFICATION DIVISION. PROGRAM-ID. SOMEPGM. DATA DIVISION. WORKING-STORAGE SECTION. 01 WS-INPUT1 PIC Z(8). 01 WS-INPUT2 PIC 9(9). PROCEDURE DIVISION. PARA. ACCEPT WS-INPUT1. DISPLAY WS-INPUT1. ACCEPT WS-INPUT2. DISPLAY WS-INPUT2. INITIALIZE WS-INPUT1. IN...

Got this example from the internet which has been used successfully. Will start from this: //FTP EXEC PGM=AMAPDUPL //SYSUDUMP DD SYSOUT=* //SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=* //SYSUT1 DD DISP=SHR,DSN=dump input //SYSIN DD * USERID=anonymous PASSWORD=my email address TARGET_SYS=testcase.boulder.ibm.com TARGET_DSN=...

Hi,

In my office, my TSO session gets logged out if it is not used for 5 minutes, can we extend the automatic logoff time by any chance? Or is it advisable?

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William Collins wrote:Well, the suggestion by your someone was indeed nonsense :-)

My view on this is as yours, I agree!

HI, Is anyone out there using IBM's PDUU utility to upload diagnostic data to IBM? This is a link to IBM's page on this: http://www-05.ibm.com/de/support/ecurep/send_zos-tool.html The z/OS Problem Documentation Upload Utility (IBM PDUU) uses an internal compression feature and offers (optional) file...

Thanks. SSRANGE can be used to chekc the array bounds, that's what I know but to use in this situation is a different matter and was surprised with this suggestion.

Thanks William. I have declared the FD section as, FD CUST-RECORD-IN DATA RECORD IS CUST-REC-IN RECORDING MODE IS V RECORD IS VARYING IN SIZE FROM 1 TO 2021 CHARACTERS DEPENDING ON CUST-RECORD-RDW. Each time I read the record, length of the record, is captured in CUST-RECORD-RDW. Someone suggested t...

Hi, I have file which is varuiable-blocked (VB) file. It's LRECL is 3000. In this, first record is of length is 100 bytes, 2nd, 5th record length is 300 bytes etc. How to identify the length of the each Record in that VB file using COBOL? Is it possible to read the file using COBOL and get the recor...

Hi,

How to change some text "text1" to "text2" in File-AID? Can we use File-Aid for this?

Thanks

Thanks, this helped.

Hi,

Is there any way to how many times a CICS program was executed with a unit or in general?

Thanks Robert - I'm working on it and will get back to you with updates. Thanks for explaining, manuals making better sense now.

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