Mainframe, MVS and zOS Discussion

zoom13As a rule, it's not a good idea to allow a job step which has failed to go unnoticed and allow subsequent steps to run, particulary in a production job. Running the subsequent steps could potentially cause a more serious problem which is why condition code checks are essential. CC 4 is ...

Thanks for the input zum13. Let me work on this. 

That's true but I wonder what business requirement really makes to read file from last record?

SORT in reverse, prior to reading, that might do it.

Welcome MyOggradio!

So, what should be used as a 'rule', "IKJEFT01" or 'IKJEFT1B '?

And is 'IKJEFT1B' also 'TSO in batch'?

I think this software has been discontinued. 

Hi,Is it possible to fetch records and also run another query on the same table? If so, can I still retrieve the records without losing any data?

Thanks enrico.

So, this will remain +1, throughout the job, right?

Hope the year starts on good note for everyone, Happy New Year!

Hi,

Can we pass parms for ISRSUPC using COBOL. Can someone please guide me on this.

It has started bugging me now. There is nearly no commute. You can't go anywhere freely within city. Going from one city to another is like going on a war. I've not met my family for nearly 3 months now.

We had been upgrading from COBOL 4.2 to COBOL 6.2. There was a program that ran fine under COBOL v4.2 and gets S0C7 under COBOL v6.2. it needed to initialize a field to prevent the abend. COBOL v6.2 is not forgiving of uninitialized fields. Any experience with this, please?

And is there some ...

I'll try to explain more. We've CICS Test regions. These test regions can execute some of the transaction using Tibco and APIs and we don't have any control on that. These 'interfaces' don't have the visibility of mainframe transaction they just wait for the "result set". If they don't get the ...

Hi,

Is there a way to limit the time a CICS transaction can execute in CICS? If yes, could you please guide how to do that?

Actually they were moving the servers physically as the office premises were changed but we had 50+ abends because of that even though we knew it! IT did not do anything apart from resubmitting the failed job after the server was up - after 20 hrs on a working day! In my past companies they will ...

enrico-sorichetti wrote: Sun Oct 06, 2019 6:01 pmhow do they behave NOW for an unplanned servers downtime ???

They just let it abend.

only somebody technically challenged would run jobs which rely on the servers availability

Actually they just let the job abended and then restarted when the server was available.

Want to know how do you handle a FTP server maintenance at your shop?

I'm at a new shop and they have announced a maintenance window during which there will be some Jobs running on mainframe. These are Fusion Jobs and send data to these servers and will fail as the server is not avaliable. How do ...