Mainframe, MVS and zOS Discussion

I should have said that in architecture they looked same. I was thinking who can purchase z13s? Thanks for the links, I shall read tham again.

Hi,

z13 and z13s are different? Are they not just same and one is plural of other? Why such confusing names?

I'm not sure what you mean by that, but No. It means that if a COND or IF refers to a STEP which is bypassed by the RESTART, then the part of the condition relating to that bypassed step is considered to be true. You don't have to worry about COND or IF, but you must not expect them to know that in...

William Collins wrote:It would be plain stupid to use it for business purposes (JOBs will sometimes be re-run, and then you'd get a completely unexpected date, any formal testing would be nuts).

To get the date, for information only, IDCAMS is a viable choice.

Thanks IDCAMS has worked for me.

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William Collins wrote:As long as it is for information only, not for any business use, yes?

That's correct. But if it's a no, will the answer change for the approach?

That means with COND I can not bypass the IF statement? So to do a restart in such a sitatuon the only way out is to edit the job to remove the IFs before submitting? This is TEST region so I can do it and that's what I did but will we need to this in production also? If that, that's a horrible thin...

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This link is not working now?

I would like to obtain the date the file was created from the catalog so I could include it in the data being written to output.

Hi, I needed to restart an abended Job. The looks like this //STEP1... // IF (STEP1.RC = 0) THEN //STEP2 ... //STEP3 ... //STEP4.. // ENDIF I want to skip STEP1 and STEP2 on the restart and execute only step3 and step4. I tried using, RESTART=STEP3 at end of Job-card. But what I observe is that sinc...

Hello,

Is there a way to find out the creation date of a file used in a COBOL program? My team member said that, there isn't a way to do it directly from COBOL.

Any ideas please?

Thanks.

Yup, congo!!

Hi Robert,

I tried to work with MVS DATA AREAS but it all seems to far away from my reach. Can you suggest a starter on this please.

Hi,

What is the difference between SB37, SD37 and SE37? Are not they all space abends?

Thanks for excellent explanation William.

I always wanted to learn how to see what code is generated under the cover but was not sure how to do that - do you think there can be some manual or a link around for such a thing, if yes, that will be of great help.

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In a Job, I've I have a lot of DD names. I want to be able to read all the files in this Job without knowing what the dd-names are already. Is there anyway I can see using assembler what dd-names are included in the JCL. I know that all the dd-names start with HPDC so can easily distinguish them fro...

Thanks Robert. I looked at this: http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/ratdevz/v7r5/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.ibm.ent.cbl.zos.doc%2Ftopics%2FPGandLR%2Fref%2Frlddesbb.htm And got a question if slack-bytes were the "requirement" S/360 and propagated to current hardware? I'm sorry if my question sou...

Thank you Robert. I realized that I did mix two different questions, though, your answer is very helpful and made me understand this well.

Regards,

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