Mainframe, MVS and zOS Discussion

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Hi guys,

How to check MQ is available through batch job? Please let me know.

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Can and how does IMS access DB2? I've mostly work with only DB2. And I have heard but never got a chance to work with IMS as such but heard that IMS can access DB2 to get the data from DB2 tables but how is it done. Can anyone please help?

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Can anyone please give me idea about DB2 restart logic? If anyone knows please explain in detail.

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Can an INNER JOIN query retain back duplicate rows? I was expecting that it will return only the common rows in the DB2 tables but I am getting it. Can anyone tell why would it happen?

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Hi, I have a structure in a COBOL copybook like this: 05 TB-ABCD-ENTRY. 10 TB-ABCD-COMPANY-CODE PIC X(02) VALUE SPACES. 10 TB-ABCD-ONLINE-FRT-CONS-SW PIC X(01) VALUE ' '. 88 TB-ABCD-ONLINE-FRT-CONS VALUE 'Y'. 10 FILLER PIC X(197). From the FILLER we are picking up 4 character for a new value like th...

Yes, I also this feature but it is working now for me.

This works nice. But can not we bring the previous look back?

This "RECFM=VB,LRECL=8188,BLKSIZE=27998" worked, Thanks. VSAM data sets are not required to have record lengths of 8184 EVEN IF THE DEFINITION HAS RECORDSIZE(8184 8184) SPECIFIED What does it mean? I mean it can be less, but if omit the DCB parameters altogether, it should have worked but ...

Hi, I'm using the simple IDCAMS REPRO JCL as shown below: //* //STEP001 EXEC PGM=IDCAMS //SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=* //INP DD DSN=HLQ.V.ITST.ORLMTF,DISP=SHR //* //OUT DD DSN=HLQ1.ORLMTF.COPY, // DISP=(NEW,CATLG,DELETE),UNIT=SYSDA, // SPACE=(CYL,(3,4),RLSE) //SYSIN DD * REPRO INFILE(INP) OUTFILE(OUT) /* bu...

Hi, Do the Financial Tech startups require mainframe at the backend? Banks use mainframe at the back-end for payment and transaction processing. Do today's Financial Technology with huge transactions startups also require such robust platform? In case they require it, what are they using in place of...

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Hello, We're converting some of the EZT programs to COBOL using IBM Migration Utility. While doing so, I go tthe following error from the converted program: IDENTIFICATION DIVISION. PROGRAM-ID. @ABCSPGM. IGYDS0027-S Non-COBOL character(s) were found starting with "@" in column 20. AUTHOR. ...

Hello, I'm trying to allocate a TEMP file in REXX. Can you please suggest, would it be possible to have a TSO command to do same thing as we do this in JCL below //TEMP1 DD DSN=&&TEMP1,DISP=(,PASS), // SPACE=(CYL,(10,5)),UNIT=SYSDA I tried with: ALLOC F(TEMP1) SPACE(10,5) CYL da(??????) SHR ...

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