Mainframe, MVS and zOS Discussion

both posting and answering questions asking for advice about choosing which job offer to take
is the most dumb thing that anybody with a bit of brain could do

what makes You ( TS ) sure that people answering have the proper background knowlege needed to give the right advice

will please a ...

I think you cannot do this. You can only search for the string you supply in the search argument.

the ibm manual disagree 8-)

something like
****** ***************************** Top of Data ******************************
000003 //ISR EXEC PGM=ISRSUPC,
000004 // PARM=(SRCHCMP,'LNFMTO ...

the free mvs family operating systems are pretty old,
but they will let You practice assembler basics and a bit more

take a look at http://wotho.ethz.ch/tk4-/

after download and unpack You will be up and running in just a few minutes
it does not have ISPF but the full screen editors are quite good ...

the use of explicit SORTWK allocation in jcl depends on the standards in use
for <normal>/<everyday> sorts Your support has certainly configured dfsort with the proper dymamic allocation parameters

for these things ALWAYS refer to Your storage support group , they know how the system was set-up

small/big is irrelevant, what counts is the numbers of circuits on it
s/360 still had centrall memory of ferrite,
( 8KB would be the size of a shoe box )
and when one of the little rings stopped working the CE/FE would use
a tool like a knitting needle to thread the three/four wires used to ...

Thanks but I've usually used 'BIND' in connection with COBOL-DB2 programs only.
I am not that stupid :twisted:
if You had cared to stay updated on the latest IBM terminology You would have known that
the good old linkage editor has been renamed/promoted to binder.
( look Yourself for the ...

I was not talking about dynamic calls!

So if a sub-program is changed, are we to compile all the main programs calling it? Whether or not the change in sub-program affects the main program?

it would be wiser to reach an agreement on the terminology ...

if a dependency ( sub-program ) is changed the main-programs depending on it must ...

the duplicate topics in the IT NEWS section of the forum are becoming pretty annoying

so one my friend suggested me to use REXX

be honest please ...
what You really need is not help, but a working script

ask Your friend to help You