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- Thu Feb 01, 2024 7:47 pm
- Forum: Ask for Job Guidance and referrals here.
- Topic: How is scope of mainframe in market ?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 663
Re: How is scope of mainframe in market ?
Why not learn to use Java on the mainframe? Java has been supported on z/OS since something like 1998. The mainframe also supports most of the current "hot" development tools including Perl, Python, and Ruby on Rails.
- Thu Feb 01, 2024 7:42 pm
- Forum: Scheduling Software for MVS, OS/390 and zOS
- Topic: Run a JCL using CA-7, just once.
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1068
Re: Run a JCL using CA-7, just once.
Use the TSO SUBMIT command.
CA-7 is a job scheduler (which implies that the jobs will be executed more than one time).
CA-7 is a job scheduler (which implies that the jobs will be executed more than one time).
- Thu Feb 01, 2024 7:40 pm
- Forum: Interview Questions.
- Topic: Mainframe interview questions I faced.
- Replies: 1
- Views: 603
Re: Mainframe interview questions I faced.
1. This question comes up fairly frequently. Mainframes do not have any way to read sequential data sets backwards, so without a significant amount of effort it cannot be done. (Sequential data sets can be on magnetic tape, for example, which only can be read in one direction.) 2. The problem descri...
- Thu Feb 01, 2024 7:32 pm
- Forum: Other Mainframe Topics, Off-Topics, FAQs.
- Topic: easytrieve to cobol conversion
- Replies: 1
- Views: 609
- Fri Jan 26, 2024 4:16 am
- Forum: TSO, ISPF & REXX (Do you still do CLIST?!).
- Topic: Difference between 9.99 and 9v99?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 719
Re: Difference between 9.99 and 9v99?
One place it can make a difference is in handling numeric data. A PICTURE with a decimal point is an edited-numeric variable, and edited-numeric values are NOT numeric. An IF NUMERIC test will fail. Reducing memory has NEVER, as far as I know, been a consideration for the V in a PICTURE.
- Thu Jan 18, 2024 9:50 am
- Forum: Ask for Job Guidance and referrals here.
- Topic: ways to practice COBOL, JCL, VSAM, DB2 & CICS in any emulator for free?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2261
Re: ways to practice COBOL, JCL, VSAM, DB2 & CICS in any emulator for free?
GnuCOBOL is a free COBOL compiler for the PC. I have used it in the past and it gets close to Enterprise COBOL so it's a good way to learn COBOL.
- Wed Jan 10, 2024 3:54 am
- Forum: Interview Questions.
- Topic: Why can't we use sequential files in CICS?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3010
Re: Why can't we use sequential files in CICS?
There are multiple types of TDQs: extrapartition point to sequential files (data sets); intrapartition are only defined and used in the CICS region (there are other types, too). So a TDQ may (or may not) be pointing to a sequential file.
- Mon Dec 25, 2023 5:34 pm
- Forum: Other Mainframe Topics, Off-Topics, FAQs.
- Topic: 🎄✨ Celebrate the Season with Our Festive Forum Makeover! ✨🎄
- Replies: 12
- Views: 5320
Re: 🎄✨ Celebrate the Season with Our Festive Forum Makeover! ✨🎄
Merry Christmas all!
- Wed Dec 20, 2023 9:52 am
- Forum: CICS, Middleware and MQ Series.
- Topic: Question on Temporary storage Queues In CICS.
- Replies: 3
- Views: 4093
Re: Question on Temporary storage Queues In CICS.
The root cause is that there is a limit on the amount of storage that tsqueues can use and you have reached that limit. You have different options: - change the program to use less ts queue storage - live with the current situation - work with your site support group to increase tsmainlimit (which m...
- Wed Nov 22, 2023 7:32 pm
- Forum: Testing Tools, Mainframe Application Testing, Abends Solution & QA.
- Topic: edit in tracing in CICS
- Replies: 6
- Views: 5808
Re: edit in tracing in CICS
It is not clear what you are asking. It sounds like you want to edit trace output in CICS.
- Wed Nov 22, 2023 7:31 pm
- Forum: Other Mainframe Topics, Off-Topics, FAQs.
- Topic: S906 abend in mainframe
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2801
Re: S906 abend in mainframe
Google is your friend. Googling "s906 abend" returns about 8,570 results and the very first one says
PH05726: S906-08 ABEND ( PROGRAM LOADED MORE THAN 64K TIMES ) IN A LONG RUNNING TASK THAT ISSUES PIF COMMANDS
- Wed Oct 11, 2023 9:38 pm
- Forum: Other Mainframe Topics, Off-Topics, FAQs.
- Topic: check low values for any field in easytrieve
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1485
Re: check low values for any field in easytrieve
The lack of answers is usually a sign that nobody on the forum can help you - possibly due to lack of knowledge of the subject. And nagging with repeated posts will NOT get you any better (or faster) answers. However, I Googled "low-values easytrieve" and found this site: https://www.ibm.c...
- Mon Oct 09, 2023 6:58 pm
- Forum: IBM COBOL, GnuCOBOL (OpenCOBOL), OOCobol.
- Topic: JCL Compiler COBOL 6+
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1959
Re: JCL Compiler COBOL 6+
Are you using IGYWC for your COBOL compiles? If not, you are using a custom set up and MUST contact your site support group for assistance. There are many, many, many ways to set up COBOL compiles and each site typically does it a little differently. If you are using IGYWC, then you need to find the...
- Sat Sep 23, 2023 9:14 am
- Forum: Other Mainframe Topics, Off-Topics, FAQs.
- Topic: How to change my password zmainframes.com ??
- Replies: 0
- Views: 2111
Re: How to change my password zmainframes.com ??
This is in the FAQ.
- Sat Sep 09, 2023 7:41 pm
- Forum: Interview Questions.
- Topic: Why can't we use sequential files in CICS?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3010
Re: Why can't we use sequential files in CICS?
Transient data queues are used to access sequential data, and they're not really that rare. However, otherwise using a sequential data set in CICS is something I haven't heard of in 46+ years of working with mainframes and CICS.
- Wed Aug 30, 2023 12:57 am
- Forum: IBM DB2 and IMS DB/DC
- Topic: how to resolve -904 SQL code?
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2800
Re: how to resolve -904 SQL code?
From the manual: -904 UNSUCCESSFUL EXECUTION CAUSED BY AN UNAVAILABLE RESOURCE. REASON reason-code, TYPE OF RESOURCE resource-type, AND RESOURCE NAME resource-name So to resolve this, look up the reason-code to figure out what the precise issue is, and use the resource-type and resource-name to zoom...
- Wed Aug 30, 2023 12:53 am
- Forum: Interview Questions.
- Topic: Why can't we use sequential files in CICS?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3010
Re: Why can't we use sequential files in CICS?
Part of the answer is that sequential data sets aren't very compatible with CICS. Also, consider locking - writing to a sequential data set requires locking at least at the record level and more likely at the data set level to prevent corruption of data. Since you can have thousands of CICS users in...
- Tue Aug 29, 2023 8:17 pm
- Forum: Other Mainframe Topics, Off-Topics, FAQs.
- Topic: "permission denied please try again" while doing SSH.
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2254
Re: "permission denied please try again" while doing SSH.
If you have permissions to do this, go into a Unix OMVS shell and enter the command1. How do we check if the daemon is running?
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ps -ef | grep "sshd"
- Thu Aug 17, 2023 1:48 am
- Forum: Interview Questions.
- Topic: Nodynam' is compiler option in COBOL.
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1637
Re: Nodynam' is compiler option in COBOL.
This is a complicated area, but you are not correct. From the Programming Guide for version 6.4 (with emphasis added by me): DYNAM Use DYNAM to cause nonnested, separately compiled programs invoked through the CALL literal statement to be loaded for CALL, and deleted for CANCEL, dynamically at run t...
- Thu Aug 17, 2023 1:30 am
- Forum: Thought of the Day, General Talk & Jokes.
- Topic: Mainframe as a career.
- Replies: 30
- Views: 26665
Re: Mainframe as a career.
In a previous company, one of the CICS support programmers became the CIO eventually. So it does happen.