Mainframe, MVS and zOS Discussion

16440 Actually, we got ADCA abend in one of the program in prod while the same program worked in test. It was found that test make use of "OPTIMIZE" compiler option while in prod it was "No optimize" and because of that PSB was not scheduled and it failed. If this is indeed the ...

Suchita David wrote: THanks. SWAP LIST did it for me.

That's an "alternative" fact!

The real command is "SWAPBAR"...

15906 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? Real programmers know what is happening. What would a debugger tell you if you traced "add a to b giving c" , or whatever the overlong syntax of COBOL req...

zprogrammer wrote:2.Check on the REPLACE ISPF macro

There is no ISPF REPLACE macro.

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Add FASTALLOC builtin for allocation in AREA

Please delete this utterly commercial Kentucky Fukced Chicken crap!

I don't think anyone knows Fujistu mainframes. Wouldn't look for a career with them.

I access the clipboards using their name, by selecting them with an on-the-fly customized panel that sets the response (.resp) to END. Install the exec, go into edit, CUT anything, give the command "EDITCLIP". This should bring up the CLIPBOARD:DEFAULT. Now enter ISRDDN (or TSO DDLIST) and...

Nice one, but why set up 10 clipboards? Anyway... Maybe you also want to add the below code to your system. It allows "unattended" editing of ISPF clipboards, both from within Edit (as a macro) as well as from the commandline, provided you've set up an entry in the SITECMDS (or whatever yo...

Current state @ 2016-08-01T19:08: Statements executed to produce one table in the output dataset, current implementation NAT_SCAN 1,010,744 Old implementation: NAT_SCAN 3,443,933,405 Old implementation actually produces a FIXEDPOINTOVERFLOW in the PL/I library, but that can be prevented by adding a ...

Angel wrote:For one of the requirements, I'd need to find the total Lines of Code in a PDS.

And which utterly imbecile PHB has come up with this utterly useless requirement?

Why use an imbecile US-only unsortable ambiguous format? The only format you should ever consider is ISO8601!

If you know ***exactly*** what you need to change, you can write an edit macro to make the required changes, and edit the dataset in batch, where there are possibly fewer restrictions on region size...

Dialog test variables, ZOS390RL

And you don't even have to change your source if you do a
before invoking the code...

Flags? Another example of style over substance.

narinderc wrote:I asked in my office and I came to know that we can allocate EXEC libraries to TSO or ISPF sessions our own. How do we do that?

why didn't you ask the next flipping obvious question, in your office: "And how can I do this?"

If you allow an individual to write his or her own edit macro's in REXX, there is f*ck-all you can do from stopping them running Mark Zelden's IPLINFO.

1. find an unused character in your data, like x'00'

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   change ' ' x'00' all

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   c p'=' '-' 40 50 all

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   c '-----------' '' 40 all

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   c x'00' ' ' all

And hope that your data doesn't contain any other sequence of 11 minus signs...

And the relevance of this to JCL is?????

We are professionals, if graphics would be useful we would not be using 24x80 terminals.

Get rid of the crap!