Mainframe, MVS and zOS Discussion

Thanks Robert. Why do you say not to go to SYSRES, is it restricted to be accessed?

Hi, For a requirement I need to get the members of a PDS on my PC. $INDSFILE is not that helpful. I thought of using FTP but I might need to do this multiple times, so I am thinking if this can be done using REXX. I am not sure how can we do it with REXX, if someone can suggest something on this it ...

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Just curious to know if there is/are a module within SYSRES dataset's which can help me to determine the zOS version? I am just curious to know this for the Knowledge. If possible, please guide me.

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Is there a way to tell that for what kind of queries a join is recommended and when a sub query is recommended? Is there some stated rule or a way to determine this?

Please let me know your thoughts.

Thank you so much William for the explanation. It is much clear now.

It is actually a tricky one. We have taken our changes back to teh test resion and are investigating on all the posibilities but looks it will take time to get resolution.

Does anyone of you have more suggestions to tell what else can we do rectify this error?

Hi, I was running some COBOL progrms using GNU COBOL to see how it all goes. The results are pretty good so far however I have run into one glitch which is confusing me. It is in a data definition. Please consider this example: 01 AA 10 BB 15 CC1 15 CC2 12 DD 15 EE1 15 EE2 10 FF The GNU COBOL compil...

My team is trying to trigger an IMS transaction from a Java screen. However, we're getting the following error :
I'm not sure where should we start analysing this error? Can some one please guide on this?

I read most of the documentation in favour of BPXWDYN so got interested if there had been some comparisons between them and someone has a reference to that.

Thanks Anuj!

Hi, Which one of these two BPXWDYN and PUTENV is good? I read about PUTENV like this: The call using PUTENV is static. You MUST compile the program with NODYNAM compiler option. If you don't then you will have abends like S0C1. The PUTENV by itself is only a stub to the routine in SCEERUN, not a com...

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In a recent inerview I've been asked that a cusror can be declared in data division and procedure division but if it is declared in procedure division what care should be taken?

I was not sure about any such thing, can you please help.

Thanks guys.

Thank you Anuj.

Thanks Adyanath - but your pdf directs to an Oracle document?

Thank you Robert.

Sorry for coming back late...

Thanks Robert. This is great explanation, appreciate your help...

What is meant by BDAM datasets? What is the difference between BDAM and VSAM datasets. Any idea please.

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I got confuse about generation and version -- what is the difference between Generation and Version of GDG. When does generation number increments? And when does version number increment - are they both necessary?

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Can anybody tell me how to know the creation date of a PS data-set?

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I'm not sure what is a trigger in DB2 and where it is used?