Mainframe, MVS and zOS Discussion

I think it's a trick question and interviewer wanted to enquire if you know that the question itself is not that correctly worded. Perhaps he wanted to know that you interrupt in between and say reference modification might do it.

How do you know!?

A computer program will always do what you tell it to do, but rarely what you want it to do.

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Hello,

Since the last time I logged in here the Forum has been changed dramatically in look and feel. It looks great now.Are you trying to add more features too? 'Thanks' and 'Quiz' are good one. Add some more quizzes.

Good Luck and thanks for your efforts.

I agree to your points, as I said I was just rying to understand the concept.

THanks for your replies.

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Thanks Robert.

Thanks Dick, understood it.

I'm trying to understand the concept actually. At times it's advisable to have the dynamic call and other its advisable to have static, that made to ask this question. Possibly the question did not make any practical sense but it does help me...

I realized that mention about terminologies that way was not correct but I meant that technologies used on mainframes and Windows technologies. Though JAVA etc. work on Mainframes as well but frameworks like .Net are not available on Mainframes. One thing of not going for this shift, possibly, can b...

dick scherrer wrote:One way to run both on the same computer is to run a VM host with multiple "guests".

I did not get you dick?

Thanks Robert and PB.

I just thought it might be wise to go that way though I don't have a full proof study with me but asked a question from a novice point of view. But why do you get evil?

hi,

For a company to have a mainframes - what are the advantages of mainframe? Why are they still using mainframes? Why don't they switch over to latest technologies like j2ee, .net?

Hi,

Can we change the Static call to dynamic call and ice versa while executing the program? Your help is appreciated.

Thanks for the direction Robert. Mainframe's information is too wide...

Thanks Robert. At my mainframe using File-Aid,F, FA, 8 - I could locate the option to see the length of copybook.

Thanks for the directions Robert. I've downloaded the book and reading it now.

Thanks.