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- Thu Apr 13, 2017 9:13 pm
- Forum: File-AID and IBM File Manager.
- Topic: File-aid error while editing VSAM file.
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2178
- Tue Mar 07, 2017 12:32 am
- Forum: JCL - Job Control Language.
- Topic: How to populate a new DATASET in JCL?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 936
Re: How to populate a new DATASET in JCL?
You need to create it in a step running some program (e.g., *Sort) that writes to it.
- Sat Jan 14, 2017 11:45 pm
- Forum: Suggestions & Feedback : About the website.
- Topic: Why do I need to login each time / why I need to login to view posts
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2911
Re: Why do I need to login each time / why I need to login to view posts
13478 Firefox 50.1.0 on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. I have to login each time. I don't see a pop-up with the Remember Me, just an ordinary page, and Remember Me is just a cruel trick. (it should have a "mouse-over" text which says, "gotcha' again, gotcha' last time, you can't even remember tha...
- Sun Dec 25, 2016 12:45 am
- Forum: Site Announcements and Rules.
- Topic: Merry Christmas!
- Replies: 8
- Views: 4848
Re: Merry Christmas!
And Happy Hanukkah
- Sun Dec 18, 2016 8:49 pm
- Forum: Thought of the Day, General Talk & Jokes.
- Topic: why oh why ?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 526
Re: why oh why ?
It is out of courtesy to Anuj that we don't demand our usual billing rates
- Sun Nov 27, 2016 2:30 am
- Forum: Other Mainframe Topics, Off-Topics, FAQs.
- Topic: Quote of the Moment
- Replies: 0
- Views: 356
Quote of the Moment
When I surfed to the board, the current quote was from the late Ken Olsen: "There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home".
And he was right: the vast majority of people don't want computers, they want digital toasters that will supply them with cat videos.
And he was right: the vast majority of people don't want computers, they want digital toasters that will supply them with cat videos.
- Sun Nov 13, 2016 8:00 pm
- Forum: IBM COBOL, GnuCOBOL (OpenCOBOL), OOCobol.
- Topic: READ and don't proces the record in COBOL.
- Replies: 3
- Views: 935
Re: READ and don't proces the record in COBOL.
Of course. The pseudo-code is:
Code: Select all
read record
do while (¬end of file)
if (valid-record)
then process
read record
end
- Tue Oct 25, 2016 6:49 am
- Forum: Other Mainframe Topics, Off-Topics, FAQs.
- Topic: Anyone knows here Fujistu mainframes?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 758
Re: Anyone knows here Fujistu mainframes?
It is perhaps also worth mentioning that Fujitsu (and Hitachi) mainframes are all 31-bit instruction machines, about 20 years behind System z architecture, and that Fujitsu has stated that it has no plans to upgrade to a 64-bit instruction set and operating system.
- Mon Oct 03, 2016 7:44 pm
- Forum: IBM DFSort, ICETOOL, ICEMAN, ICEGENER.
- Topic: Convert COBOL input to different format.
- Replies: 3
- Views: 622
Re: Convert COBOL input to different format.
Why don't you just write the program to read a VB data set? We're not talking rocket science here.
- Mon Oct 03, 2016 7:42 pm
- Forum: Other Mainframe Topics, Off-Topics, FAQs.
- Topic: How to become a Mainframe Application Architect?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 685
Re: How to become a Mainframe Application Architect?
With the people actually collecting the garbage styling themselves "post-consumer resource analysts"
- Tue Sep 20, 2016 11:30 pm
- Forum: IBM DFSort, ICETOOL, ICEMAN, ICEGENER.
- Topic: Read the manual. What do you think it there for?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 630
Re: Read the manual. What do you think it there for?
10871 Hi, Sorry for the title but I could not post in the topic I posted http://www.zmainframes.com/viewtopic.php?f=28&t=2425. I searched the manuals but RC=4 can be set with NULLOUT but not 2. As we are trying to replace a program which sets up RC=2, so I have askedthe question. Assuming that ...
- Fri Sep 09, 2016 7:40 pm
- Forum: IBM COBOL, GnuCOBOL (OpenCOBOL), OOCobol.
- Topic: Retrieve last 100 records from a dataset in COBOL.
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1719
Re: Retrieve last 100 records from a dataset in COBOL.
For a file, yes. For a data set, not so much (although it's still a non-trivial effort).
- Tue Sep 06, 2016 8:39 pm
- Forum: IBM COBOL, GnuCOBOL (OpenCOBOL), OOCobol.
- Topic: Which variable type to choose among COMP, COMP-1, COMP-2 and COMP-3?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2671
Re: Which variable type to choose among COMP, COMP-1, COMP-2 and COMP-3?
A COMP (COMP-4 and BINARY are synonyms) variable is binary (or hexadecimal, if you like), but further constrained by the decimal picture; a field with usage and picture S9(7) occupies a word (4 bytes), but will only accept numbers between (decimal) -9,999,999 and +9,999,999. The sign is the high-ord...
- Fri Sep 02, 2016 8:29 pm
- Forum: Other Mainframe Topics, Off-Topics, FAQs.
- Topic: Worst prediction you've heard about mainframe.
- Replies: 6
- Views: 511
Re: Worst prediction you've heard about mainframe.
I suspect that people with as much experience as Mr. Sample and myself have for decades heard predictions that the newest whiz-bang technology would obsolete us mainframe dinosaurs in just a few years, you betcha! I would remind those inclined to make or listen to such predictions that dinosaurs rul...
- Thu Sep 01, 2016 7:03 pm
- Forum: Other Mainframe Topics, Off-Topics, FAQs.
- Topic: Mainframe operation v/s MVS
- Replies: 4
- Views: 359
Re: Mainframe operation v/s MVS
Your post is incoherent; MVS runs on mainframes/
- Wed Aug 24, 2016 9:59 pm
- Forum: Introduce Yourself and Share Your IT Experience.
- Topic: Anuj asks "introduce yourself" so here I am!
- Replies: 5
- Views: 639
Re: Anuj asks "introduce yourself" so here I am!
There's a small but significant base of PL/I out there (from which I have made part of my living for the last 20 years :D), but I don't think there are any new installations. The z/OS world seems to have decided that COBOL now has enough features that it can be used for any new development (and I do...
- Wed Aug 17, 2016 3:00 pm
- Forum: Interview Questions.
- Topic: difference between wall clock time and elapsed time.
- Replies: 3
- Views: 687
Re: difference between wall clock time and elapsed time.
"Wall clock time" is just another way of saying "elapsed time" (you measure elapsed time with the clock on the wall, yes?)
- Wed Aug 17, 2016 2:57 pm
- Forum: Interview Questions.
- Topic: Execute a specific step in a JCL.
- Replies: 14
- Views: 2857
Re: Execute a specific step in a JCL.
First of all, realize that this a trick question; you'd seldom if ever want to do this in real life. Possible ways of doing this would be: Deleting all lines after STEP13, and either using the TSO SUBMIT command or writing the modified JCL to the internal reader, depending on the environment. Enclos...
- Sun Aug 14, 2016 5:23 am
- Forum: Interview Questions.
- Topic: extend the expiration date of a dataset.
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1677
Re: extend the expiration date of a dataset.
You can do this using the ALTER command of IDCAMS. Whether you do it online or batch, and whether there is standard JCL, is of course dependent on your installation's standards. Note that this may, in real life, be a futile, even dangerous, effort. Usually data sets on DASD do not have an explicit e...
- Fri Jul 29, 2016 12:46 am
- Forum: Introduce Yourself and Share Your IT Experience.
- Topic: Vidya here.
- Replies: 5
- Views: 493
Re: Vidya here.
Well, no. But then I style myself a "software developer". What does that mean actually? I am an Electronics and Communication Engineer by education. It means that I have no degree, but have spent nearly forty years developing software -- designing, writing, and it for a variety of platfor...