Mainframe, MVS and zOS Discussion

I would recommend the use of IrfanView, which allows images to be resized.

Well, no. But then I style myself a "software developer".

There seems to be an implicit assumption by Barbie-chan that one generation is created per fixed time period, so that (relative?) generations 31 to 60 always correspond to last (not necessarily calendar) month's data. i think that I would go with nicc 's suggestion and write a programette to generat...

There is a fourth theoretical possibility: write code to handle packed decimal fields on the PC. It could be done in Java or C++; however, it requires a level of understanding that no one in your organization may have.

I do not believe that LISTDSI returns that information.

Pradeep Singh wrote:Hi,

Do you sell these recipes professionally?

No; many of them are not my original creations (I tweak them for my and my roommate's tastes and needs, but I don't consider that sufficient change to make them original).

The EXECIO command will not work with VSAM. However, there are third party extensions that will, or you can write a programette to do the I/OO and place the result into a Rexx variable.

One example of opening an empty KSDS can be when a program wants to read a file which is created or maintained by other system. That time you don't know if the VSAM is empty. But it should happen only when the program executes first time, but we still check for the VSAM status code all our life, ri...

Italian-Style Bangers and Mash 12 sausage links, about 4-5 oz. each (I used a combination of sweet Italian and country sausages) 1½ lbs. crimini and portobello mushrooms 2 green bell peppers 1 red bell pepper 1 yellow bell pepper 1½ Tbsp. onion powder 1½ tsp. garlic powder 1½ tsp. dried basil 1½ ts...

Herbed Cicken 8 boneless, skinless chicken breast halves ½ cup mayonnaise 2 Tbsp. dried basil 2 Tbsp. oregano 1 Tbsp. garlic powder 2 tsp. salt 2 tsp. freshly ground black pepper Preheat the oven to 350°F. Spray a large baking pan with cooking spray. Mix all other ingredients to form a paste, and s...

NutanPsk wrote:We are using DFSort. I think I am not mistaken when I say this. (How do I verify? )

Look at the messages in SYSOUT. Messages beginning with "ICE" indicate DFSORT, messages beginning with "WER" indicate Syncsort.

There is the Hercules emulator. Be aware, though, that you will have to be your own sysprog.

Absolutely; packages have a one-to-one relationship to source modules. A plan is a group of packages; it will correspond to one or more load modules.

By defining a column as unique, you are asserting that it will be used in a unique index. Note that the converse is not true; a unique index can be created without defining any of the columns in it as unique. Remember that a primary key will be used to constrain rows in another table, and that ther...

The Rexx external function MVSVAR will return this information in variable SYSOPSYS.

Note that if you are embedding SQL in a C or PL/I program where NUL-terminated strings do exist, DB2 will accept them but convert them to standard VARCHAR (prefixed with a halfword length) for storage, and will convert the VARCHAR data to NUL-terminated strings, if necessary, when they are SELECTed ...

The last is not the flag of England, but of Great Britain (the union of England and Scotland that existed 1707-1801).

Problem is: "cups" and "sticks" do not convert to ounces or grams. I wonder if Google is my friend? Google probably is, but the Online Conversion website is even friendlier :) Edit And are those American cups? I don't think that there's officially such a thing as an "Imperi...

Parmesan Chicken 8 boneless, skinless chicken breast halves ½ cup (1 stick) unsalted butter ⅔ cup dry unseasoned bread crumbs ½ cup grated Parmesan cheese 1½ tsp. freshly ground black pepper ½ tsp. garlic powder Pre-heat the oven to 350°F. Mix together the bread crumbs, Parmesan cheese, pepper, and...

Well, first off, "JCLs" will not "summarize files in the evening to create a batch file", although it may be the case that utilities executed through JCL will create a master data set using various work data sets as input. As I am not a *nix programmer, I don't know offhand what ...