Mainframe, MVS and zOS Discussion

Hello, Can anybody please tell me the maximum limit for a GDG generation? From the manuals, it is 255. However, when I create a new GDG with NOEMPTY, NOSCRATCH option it created more than 258 generations without deleting the previous generations. And all the generations are catalogued. So what is co...

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Thanks PB. I realized I've not put a correct example here and what I was looking for was like this:

Input: Output: Sorry for the wrong details before.

And how to do that?

Hi,

Can someone please guide me that how can I allocate my REXX to SYSPROC. And make it available to me and others every time I login.

Thanks,

Thanks Pandora - unfortunately I,m facing some problem with my system so can't check it. I'll get back to you soon.

Hi,

Using REXX I need to make all the first letter CAPS, of a word in a sentence to be caps. For example, if input is:
Output: I thought of using PARSE UPPER but it will convert the whole string to uppercase. Can someone please provide a pointer.

Thanks Robert - really appreciate your reply.

Experience certainly does help but as the situation goes around with less number of openings in Mainframe area this kind of thinking , as in my question, comes to us new comers.

Hi,

I've working with mainframes for quite some time now and am not sure if I should be afraid of cloud computing as there is buzz about this in market!

Do you think that cloud computing impact a mainframe-developer work and the old way of doing coding in COBOL, JCL etc. will go away?

Wish you too a very Happy New Year!

Hi William,

I should have said "read" instead of "got". However, I can get the links if you want me to but some of them are from other forums so mentionijng them here is not correct, I think.

Thanks Robert and Anuj.

Appreciate your help.

Thanks Robert, Dick and Anuj - this is one of the best explanations I've ever got for this question. Great!

Regards,

Hi all,

What is the difference between COPY and INCLUDE and ++INCLUDE. I was under the impressions that ++INCLUDE was obsolete.

Thanks,

Hello,

Could some one please tell me what is XREF in file-aid? And when we use it? I see the reference about it on the File-Aid screen and F1 does not seem to help much.

Thanks

Yes, it'd be nice to have - I liked it.

India.

Anjali Chopra wrote:A Great effort you put in! Appreciate your hard work,

Yes, good going.

Yeah it "O" (alphabet) and so called as "S O C"!

And for examples on batch File-Aid you can also see this thread, which is an excellent collection of File-Aid commands: http://ibm-mainframes.com/viewtopic.php?f=50&t=57