Mainframe, MVS and zOS Discussion

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How to randomly access the vsam file using partial key? I don't have much hands on with VSAM, can someone please help?

I have also noticed that the Job card of the Job is:
without an accounting information. I would like to experiment with this but can this really be a problem as this is production job and updates a lot of databases.

Hi, One of our Job is taking too long to execute, upon investigation there is no error found in the JCL and later the Job completed successfully too but it took too long to execute. There was one message which was populated in JESMSGLG: JOB12345 INGUJI3E xxxx1234 BAD ACCOUNT CODE JOB TYPE (1ST FIELD...

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How Can we read the records in a KSDS in reverse order in COBOL? Could you please advise.

Note there is no connection between program and plan; specifying a plan name does not indicate what program should use it. Yes, there is no connection. I also said to the interviewer that they need to be given there as it's a rule but he kept on insisting on it. And I felt my answer was not correct.

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In an interview I got a question that when there is a plan is given why there is need of the program name in the SYSTSIN, when we run the COBOl DB2 program?

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In DB2 can we fetch the data without the host variables?

Thanks Robert.

Could you please help me to layout a logic for it in COBOL?

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Do we have some intrinsic function of COBOL to identify a specific day of the month? For example to check if the given date is second Monday of the month?

I did not answer this question. I thought there was a function but I cold not find one later online.

Happy new year all.

I actually wrote a source code processing program to do exactly that. Can you please share the code, if it can be shared here? Here's the essential code (for fixed-length COBOL source files), based on the recently posted GET/PUT Assembler shell format (posted under the Convert "VB to FB file b...

ApexNC wrote:I actually wrote a source code processing program to do exactly that.

Can you please share the code, if it can be shared here?

So basically they are of no use now a days?

Thanks. So is there something more like 1 hour-, 2 hour-rolling average too? Are there some specific set of rules which IBM publish for this?

If I need to a assessment exercise for a client who is using 4-hour MSU rolling average what are the thing I should consider? Please hep with your guidance.

Recompiling and rebind has helped in solving the problem. Thanks everyone who has helped.

For a continuous string of length 50, I have used the following logic, this seem to work:

I read that Cobol kept the first 6 positions for a line sequence number. Column 7 was a continuation / comment / debug / form-feed. Area "A", or Columns 8-11, indicated certain special language artifacts like 01 levels, section or paragraph names. Columns 73 - 80 were for OS sequence numbe...

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What is the meaning of "4-hour MSU rolling average"? How and where we use it? How it relates to mainframes?

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For a SELECT statement I am getting SQLCODE -144. The explanation about it says 'INVALID SECTION NUMBER number '. What does that mean? How do I solve it? Please help.

Thanks.