Mainframe, MVS and zOS Discussion

I have a situation in which Minimal-but-sufficient audit info for changed records—what do you capture? Thanks in advance for sharing your thoughts.

We want to avoid PROC duplication. SYMBOLICS help but get unwieldy.
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//CARDSVC JOB (ACCT),'DAILY',CLASS=A,MSGCLASS=X,NOTIFY=&SYSUID
//STEP1 EXEC PGM=CARDCHK
//SYSIN DD *
* business rules here
/*
//INFILE DD DSN=CARDS.BACKUP.STAGING,DISP=SHR
//OUTFILE DD DSN=FIN.WORK.REJECT,DISP=(NEW,CATLG,DELETE ...

Yes, right Robert. Thanks!

I confused storage with SPACE.

Thanks Robert. Just after my previous reply I got to see a link which said about that it's about REGION. I was using REGION=4K in my job card, changed it to 1M and it worked for me.

Thank you so much everybody!

Hi Enrico,

I did search for it and increased the space for the job. But it did not work for me.

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I am executing SRCHFOR in batch but I'm continuously getting the following error:

SYSTEM COMPLETION CODE=106 REASON CODE=0000000C

//SEARCH EXEC PGM=ISRSUPC,
// PARM=(SRCHCMP,
// 'ANYC')
//NEWDD DD DSN=PROD....PROCLIB,
// DISP=SHR
//OUTDD DD DSN=....SEARCH.OUT,
// DISP=(,CATLG,DELETE ...

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In COBOL, NODYNAM and STATIC CALLs would mean same? Or are they different?

I wanted to know both hardware and software. I want to make a decision that which company is better to work with? Like the companies for J P Morgan chase which make us of mainframes or the companies like BMC, CA which make the products to be used on mainframes.

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I need help for the answer of one of the questions I have been asked: What differences do you know between DB2 and IMS, when you need to choose between these two? There is a task, where you need to design a system which needs a database and you can choose between both of these.

The company has ...

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What is the difference between a Mainframe production support and a mainframe development project, I mean which is better for a career choice? And gives challenging work for better future.

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I have been working on mainframe for some time. And would like to know what were say top 5-10 mainframe companies during the time when mainframe were at peak in 1980s? Does anyone here some information on them and do those companies exist today too?

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In CICS to call another program we use XCTL and LINK. Is it a normal rule to avoid CALL in COBOL CICS program? Please advise.

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I need to ask a conceptual question for which I don't have all the details with me. The question is like this:

We've a front end, which is written in SAP. They want to get some results from our CICS programs. Two such programs (pgm1 and pgm2) can provide the results from the SAP. Both programs ...

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What is the difference between COBOL and JCL?

That's what I'm doing. I thought getting a list of changes might help me to pick this all up faster.

Thanks.

Thanks for the directions enrico and William. I'll work on these and let you know.

Thanks, you are correct Enrico. I read more about CENTWIN and came to know that CENTWIN is an alias for DFSORT's Y2PAST option (and applicable in SyncSort too) which is used to set the "century window" you want to use with DFSORT's Y2x formats.

I'm thinking if it'll have something to with CPU ...

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What is the use of PARM='CENTWIN='? In one of the jobs we're using PARM='CENTWIN=1970'.

When I search for it, I came to know that it is used to provide a century window between years but could not understand for 1970 what it would be?

The SORT card is SORT FIELDS=COPY and the this sort-step ...

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I used to work at a company using changeman but now have joined another company. These people are using ISPW. ISPW is very different than changeman. How can I get the differences in tehse two to learn things better?