Mainframe, MVS and zOS Discussion

Thanks enrico. I also just wanted to know, what are the possible ways of doing it.

Thanks zum13, this helps a lot.

Thanks zum13.

Thanks again zum13, that thread is helpful. How can we know that the read character is numeral or alphabet, once the length is known?

zum13Hello.

It would depend on your record length and whether the records were fixed length or variable.

A DASD volume is laid out in tracks and cylinders. For example, a 3390 model 3 has 3339 cylinders with each cylinder consisting of 15 tracks. Each track, for a 3390, is 56664 bytes long. The ...

Hi,

Is it possible to use IF NOT statement for 88 variable in COBOL?

Example
01 COUNTRY PIC X(03) VALUE SPCAES
88 CTRY_IND VALUE "IND"
88 CTRY_PAK VALUE "PAK"
88 CTRY_CHN VALUE "CHN"


Is below statement possible?

IF NOT CTRY_CHN
MOVE A TO B
ELSE
MOVE B TO C
END-IF

It may be a very basic question. But I would like to know the answer of the following question:

I want to create a PS file which will contain 100000 lines of records. What is the minimum primary and secondary quantity I should use for that...?

Hi,

I have variable like below

01 ws-a pic x(30) value 'abcd234567@#₹....'

I want to get the length of the numeric values, alphabets
 

Does that mean that every company has to migrate to COBOL 6.2?

Hi,

We had an abend in production and it required to analyze a file to be restored. We had to request to the storage team to restore it for you. Why could not we do the restore it ourselves? I mean why such rights give only to them and why could not we as programmers get it? Your reply is highly ...

There are many systems involved in between before the PDF is created. Is there a way I can figure out whic language would show 'à' for '@'?

Thanks Robert. Is there any way to figure out what code page is used at what time? And in what code page "@" can get converted to "à"?

Hi,

In one of the invoice which is printed as PDF, generated on mainframes, we are getting strange symbols in it. Like below:

It should be: retrodesk @ companyname.fr and it is coming as retrodesk à companyname.fr

Also at other position in invoice, it should be Power case #, and it is coming as ...

Thanks Chandan.

Thanks for the command details Chandan.

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I have not noticed it until I read it here. And indeed it's a bee there.

Hi,

I have got the reference manual. It might be useful to someone like me:

attachment deleted, CA copyright rules are less friendly than IBM' s

THIS DOCUMENTATION MAY NOT BE COPIED, TRANSFERRED, REPRODUCED, DISCLOSED, OR DUPLICATED,
IN WHOLE OR IN PART, WITHOUT THE PRIOR WRITTEN CONSENT OF CA ...

Hi,

What is Data Spaces mapping for VSAM files? We have heard about this from an expert at my shop who refused to give any further pointers on it. Any direction will be great on this! Thanks for your help.

enrico-sorichetti wrote:

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COMMAND INPUT ===> FILTER C <Your_class>                      SCROLL ===> CSR

and after

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COMMAND INPUT ===> FILTER OFF                                 SCROLL ===> CSR

but ... only if Your SDSF setup allows it

Thanks enrico. In test we can use these commands.