Mainframe, MVS and zOS Discussion

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Thanks for your input Robert.

Will have a look at those links. Thanks again for your help.

Thanks Anuj.

But we have a lot of variables to initialize, is there a way to do that?

Thanks Anuj. We are writing COBOL programs ourselves.

Thanks everyone for helping out.

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How do you answer this question in your interviews: "Why do you want to join this Job"? Or any other way of asking it.

I think I have been very good in technical questions but questions bof this nature really harmed me.

Anyone would like to guide, please.

Thanks for the reply.

I am not in to hiring team nor I can take that decision though I understand what you mean.

I have searched on google to and there are mention about utilities, I thought if there could have been some easier way to do this. Thanks for your response.

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Could someone guide that how does SPLICE work in SORT?

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We have some programs which we had been using for years to fix some of the production abends. These programs are in easytrive. It's been announced that easytrieve will be decommissioned soon. Could someone please guide a quick way to convert these easytrieve programs to COBOL Programs.

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Can anyone of you please share their Mainframe interview experience with Deloitte India?

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Can we use Python to automate mainframe screen validation? Please share your experience in this area.

So it is mainframe, I mean definitions are intermixed mostly if not completely... ..

yes, they that's how corporate life is!!

Hi, I have a VSAM with following key structure with key length of 110: 01 VSAM-KEY-REC. 05 VSAM-KEY-DATA PIC X(109). 05 VSAM-KEY-FLAG PIC X(01). For my requirement, I need to read only those records which has VSAM-KEY-FLAG set to 'N'. This is in my program: MOVE LOW-VALUES TO VSAM-KEY-DATA. MOVE 'N'...

May be you make a poll around the quotes and we can vote on which should be kept and deleted?

But "mainframe server" seems to be a usual term with many of the employees I have met...

10380 Broadly, a mainframe is a system designed for continuous use by hundreds (or thousands) of people simultaneously. This is available in a client/server architecture too for windows, so are they be equivalent to a mainframes or can be called mainframes...if vendor decided to call the set-up as ...

Hi, I really mean the question. And on my part it is very funny actually. I am a programmer in Mainframe have already learnt maifnrame concepts, learned COBOL, JCL, DB2 and CICS too but I have never really understood what exactly is a mainframe. And the boaest about it, Mainframes can't be hacked! T...

Found you on google.

Thanks Pandora Box.

What is the use of - I read that it can be used to submit job from a JCL step but is the only use or internal reader actually have read capabilities to read something internally?

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Can any one explain the use of this statement in the JCL: sysout(*,intrdr)? Appreciate any pointer in this regard.