Mainframe, MVS and zOS Discussion

In one of the programs I've seen that they are using PROCEDURE-POINTER phrase. Have read about it here: https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SS6SGM_3.1.0/com.ibm.aix.cbl.doc/PGandLR/ref/rlddepro.htm but I could not really understand when do we really made a decision to make use of PROCEDUR...

Hi, From the performance team we came to know that most of the programmers at our site spends nearly 80%-85% of their time requesting data from a COBOL mainframe. And they just do it to lager use it into excel for some kind of reporting. As the reports are needed daily, they run the same queries eac...

I have been trying to understand if knowing the code behind the commands like MOVE and knowing Assembler can help me to understand COBOL better. As such it's not need for my career but to learn more.

14472 A comma-delimited file CANNOT, under any circumstances, have a password protecting it -- it is a text file, period. Once the file is on a PC and converted into Excel, you can THEN add a password to the Excel spreadsheet. However, until the data is transmitted and converted into Excel, a passw...

Actually I read the manuals and it does not really show an easy way out for a flow. Predecessor and successor can be located.

Hi,

Can anyone of you please tell me if there is any way using which we can import from a COBOL source library on mainframe to a desktop PC?

That's a way but any debugger we need to purchase, is it possible to see execution in some freely available debugger on a desktop PC?

Hi,

Is there a way to understadn how a COBOL mainframe program executes line by line? So that we know what is happning by what code?

HI,

Is there a way to check if ESP Workstation has option for generating job flows? Please help.

I'm sending attachement using IEBGENER as comma-delimited file. So as per your asnser, I need to ask the front end to add the password in the excel?

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Hi All ,

I need to send a mainframe report as an attachment in the email which I'm able to do but this report is opend as excel sheet which should be password protected excel sheet. Can we set the password of the excel in mainframes itself some way?

Hi, In an article related to the chargeback, it was said that "Print" is one of the main consumer for the internal chargeback at any shop using mainframe. But then thy did not mention much about Print. I have been searching all over but not much help, what exactly they meant by "Print...

William Collins wrote:Just realised this is almost exactly two years later :-)

On our client machines Internet is blocked and we don't get to access site like this, so the delay.

Has some one used DuckDuckGo? It seems to be famous but I don't really like the results it shows.

Perhaps I got this wrong, they are possibly broadcast messages. But they must be using TSO SEND for it?

Hi,

I have been using FTP frequently and it works all well but it gets interrupted when TSO SEND is issued. Is there any way to stop this?

Correct. Leave them if they already exist. Don't code them in new programs. When changing programs and adding a SELECT, do one or the other depending on the strategy for adding the code (sometimes you want the code to "blend in" with the rest of the program, sometimes that is not necessar...

In my company we use BPXWDYN all the time.

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