Mainframe, MVS and zOS Discussion

i remember it from the 90ties ...

it was the companion product of info/sys

the info/sys database provided by ibm was the only way for the customer to research problem reports, apars, ptfs

... making effort to keep the current work-force motivated enough...

they stopped that at least 20 years ago

irrespective of the point whether they were supplied at compiler or binder does not matter where and how the options/parms are specified/provided DO matter the compiler does not know about the binder and the binder does not know about the compiler the compiler does not care about the binder options...

there is no relation whatsoever between the compiler and binder RENT parm for cobol it will make a difference in the machine code being generated, for assembler RENT Specifies that the assembler checks for possible coding violations of program reenterability. Non-reenterable code is identified by an...

Why the file I create in test is visible in production?

see my previous reply and READ the manual I pointed You to

does that mean that it is a single mainframe?

no... only that the dasd are shared

read and meditate on
http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/s ... .html?Open

Why I need to log-off from development to login to production? It was never required in my previous company. different company , different setup, different standards why ask on a forum, ask Your colleagues having a tso session open on <prod> and <devel> at the same time might lead to unwanted conse...

Tables are different but when the data is copied for testing, it happens.

cleanup both tables and ... do not copy
manage the tables separately

To this one of our senior guy said, the record was not corrupt, instead the file missed its 'end-of-marker' and so failed. ..... We did not hear about this as the job executed successfully after removing the record. THE RECORD WAS CORRUPTED a missing - as Your idiot senior says - End of File marker...

but now is
and it works,
but You have to refresh to page to see it

the document attached in this topic downloads as a PDF file
mac OS and CHROME

investigate the use of the XREF specifications

NO. the common meaning of retrofit is make some changes to something old so that it can provide some of the facilities of a newer version of the same thing usually happens because of a poor deployment plan seen it happen for applications depending on legal/law requirements a new application being de...

to find out what the message about PKZIP means.

a wild guess ... that the format is PKZIP compatible

what happened when You googled with "DBCTL" ?

the link You posted is for AS/400 cobol
while COBOL is mostly platform independent, the part concerning pointer is not

for zOS see an example here
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.w ... wg21392963

http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redbooks/pdfs/sg247227.pdf
but You could have found it Yourself googling with "cics containers"

the exact syntax depends on how You are building the record, and the alignment. here are two alternatives the last field is left aligned a_sequence_of_fields_padded_with_blanks.....................morechars........... lrecl=80 lhead=60 part1="a_sequence_of_fields_padded_with_blanks" part2=...

the background color of the CODE tags is really unreadable
could You go back to green text with a black background ?