mainframe Questions
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I have a Rexx script which functions standalone, and I wish to use another Rexx script to call particular functions within it. I am aware I can call both an entire external Rexx file and internal R...
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Does anyone know something about MVS and JCL?
Is it possible to explain to me what MVS is? And what JCL is used for?
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I have a java system communicating that serves as a gateway to different systems (java, mainframe, etc). This java system receives a request using, for example, utf8 and converts it to the encoding...
Gahl asked 19/8, 2023 at 18:30
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How do you use the RecordEditor to Generate Java~JRecord code
from a Cobol Copybook to read/write a Binary EBCDIC Mainframe File.
This a Question and answer to try an prevent some poor/misleading ...
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I'm a very experienced C programmer, but recently I came across some code on a mainframe that has a local variable. This is in a simple C function that declares this variable, and then strcpy / str...
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How to select distinct count over multiple columns?
SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT col1, col2, col3) FROM table;
Is there a working equivalent of this in DB2?
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I'm trying to automate downloading of some text files from a z/os PDS, using Python and ftplib.
Since the host files are EBCDIC, I can't simply use FTP.retrbinary().
FTP.retrlines(), when used w...
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zOS: MODULE INCORPORATES VERSION 3 PROGRAM OBJECT FEATURES AND CANNOT BE SAVED IN LOAD MODULE FORMAT
I'm trying to do the linkage of a hello world in cobol, as in this tutorial, I can compile the program and get the new member in project.group.OBJ successfully, but when I link it with
LINK project...
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I've heard it's possible to connect to a mainframe DB2 database with a client like Oracle SQL developer. I've looked on-line and can't seem to find the connector files needed to do this in SQL deve...
Keller asked 20/4, 2012 at 17:9
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I’ve interned at a company that does a lot of mainframe work. Most of my mainframe experience has been using Java and Unix System Services. I’ve had some experience with the ISPF interface...
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We are planning to replace IBM MQ with Apache Kafka to implement pub-sub use-cases in future. Currently Mainframe(running Z/OS) applications are written using COBOL programming language & pushi...
Wimbush asked 6/8, 2017 at 2:52
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I am trying to understand how the COBOL variables with COMP Usage clause stores values.
I tried one example as below
01 VAR14 PIC S9(5) USAGE COMP.
MOVE 12345 TO VAR14
DISPLAY VAR14
In SPO...
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I have this very simple dummy COBOL program which does a dummy COMPUTE and displays the result.
ID DIVISION.
PROGRAM-ID. DUMMYPGM.
DATA DIVISION.
WORKING-STORAGE SECTION.
01 NUM-A PIC 9(3) VA...
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I ask myself a question about the z/os log:
I just would like to know if all the operations getting started were always called by $HASP373 and IEF403I ?
And for the status Ended called by $HASP39...
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I have a legacy script which I am not able to understand.
The script is to transfer 4 files (2 ebcdic format files and 2 pdf files) in unix to mainframes through ftp.
ebcdic format file 1 is abc...
Reld asked 2/4, 2012 at 5:54
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I am using IBM Mainframe TSO to view files from a dataset. I recently have been told to start FTPing the latest generation dataset everyday to a folder on my desktop. The problem is that the FTP sc...
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I have files in Mainframe. I want these data to be pushed to Hadoop(HDFS)/HIVE.
I can use Sqoop for the Mainframe DB2 database and import it to HIVE, but what about files (like COBOL,VASM etc.)
I...
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I've seen the following paragraph naming structure lots of times:
nnnn-PARAGRAPH-NAME.
Where nnnn stands for a 4 digit number.
Here is a complete example:
0000-MAINLINE.
PERFORM 1000-INITIAL...
Fredra asked 18/5, 2018 at 7:17
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I have the following code to connect to an external DB inside a COBOL program:
MOVE 'I2SFG04' TO WK-USER
MOVE '12345' TO WK-PASS
EXEC SQL
CONNECT TO :WK-EXT-MACHINE
USER :WK-USER
USING :WK-...
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I have huge mainframe file and there are some packed digits in that file. I would like to know how to unpack following digit using java?
packed digit : ?
I read tutorials for unpacking digits and...
Abad asked 3/12, 2013 at 4:17
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What exactly does the link-edit step in my COBOL complier do?
After the code is compiled, there is a link edit step performed. I am not really sure what this step does.
Background Info...
Warthog asked 29/3, 2017 at 15:44
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I have a very long running COBOL program that runs randomly at various times during the day. The Console operator wants to be notified when it starts up and have the program wait so they can go get...
Jimmiejimmy asked 17/3, 2017 at 0:10
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An IBM Mainframe Assembler program which reads a very large file was modified to call to a COBOL "stub" program once for each record. The COBOL call is essential, but the program itself does very l...
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Is it possible to abend your job intentionally through COBOL program.
suppose I have an Input file having Header,Detail and Trailer records. I will write a COBOL pgm which reads this file.If no Det...
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