Mainframe, MVS and zOS Discussion

RYO Roll Your Own once upon a time when cigarettes in packs where not available it was a form of courtesy when somebody asked for some tobacco to hand him the tobacco pouch and say Roll Your Own it was a way of showing trust in the other person - that he would not make the cigarette too fat ;) now i...

1) the SORT program used in the organisation which will hire You
2) RYO program

normally when there are multiple choices ,
the interviewer will certainly prefer... the other one

You started by asking about sample JCLs for installed software I have been told that when a software in installed on your mainframe, they will also give some sample JCLS to use it. then You changed Your mind Thank you. don't they have standard libraries for sample across companies? it' more a questi...

the JCL control statements are JCL ... ( the statements starting with a // ) the sort control statements are - the name tells - sort control statements they are part of job stream but are NOT jcl JES and the jcl processor - in general - will just pass them along without even looking at the content a...

What good does that information do you?

that' s the requirement - is the obvious answer

For SORT option the interviewer said me that there is no key in the dataset. Then how do we sort it? add a sequence number ( with enough digits ) sort on the sequence number in DESCENDING order drop the sequence number ON the output and search the forum, there are a few topics with almost ready to ...

https://www.ibm.com/us-en/marketplace/h ... e-transfer
should answer

ONLY YOUR SUPPORT KNOWS HOW SAS WAS INSTALLED AND HOW TO INVOKE IT
if they do not wish to collaborate nothing we can do

for a dasd dataset the vtoc will tell
for a tape dataset the TMS will tell

Can we not display them without really moving to some other type variable and still make it human readable?

did You care to try to understand the answer You were given ?

a forum is not a training center, speak to the powers of your organisation asking to be provided with proper training

One of our Job is taking too long to execute,

define too long ...
as compared to

to cook a steak
to have lunch
to take a shower
...
...
...
any other measurable activity

Topic locked, leading nowhere

the length of record that You are trying to write does not agree with the record length of the vsam cluster
speck To your support to find out the characteristics of the VSAM cluster and WHY there is a mismatch between the COPYBOOK and the same

But also look for a roll of toilet paper

for what stupid reason do You want to clobber the cics settings

again beware
the misuse of privileges is usually cause for lawful termination

that' what we practice when we try -here and on other forums - to help people who have done nothing to deserve it ( too many of them sadly )

open the IDCAMS manual and look Yourself
https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgece ... 00/toc.htm

why ask on a forum, wouldn' t it be simpler/faster to ask TIBCO