Mainframe, MVS and zOS Discussion

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In my company Use of Icetool is not allowed in mainframe programming? I mean it's not like everyone is denying it though it's kind of discouraged. Could anyone please tell me why is the use of Icetool discouraged in mainframe programming?

Hi, There is lot of documentation about moving to cloud from mainframes. There is a question I have to ask about it. Documents from some vendor says that they could help eliminate tapes completely by migrating existing tapes to cloud. Any idea how would they handle tape datasets with block size grea...

They won't tell me this. But I wanted to check if as an application developer we have a way to know this.

Hi,

is there a way to find that how many maximum people can log in to say our test environment?

We are on enterprise cobol 4.2 and in the manual for it i dont see XML GENERATION with VALIDATION...what should i guess now?

If possible can you please share your solution?

Hi, We've planned to go with XML Schema and make use of VALIDATING clause in XML PARSE as below: XML PARSE xmldoc VALIDATING WITH mySchema-id PROCESSING PROCEDURE p1 END-XML But one of the client said that we could use VALIDATING WITH clause with XML GENERATE too. But I donot find any references of ...

Actually, I'm thiking if we can use some schema against the data?

Hello, For one of the application we're planning to migrate from SUPRA to DB2. Is there some comprehensive list of tasks which we should consider for such migration? I looked at IBM website and not sure if IBM DB2 lists some case studies of this nature. Can you please guide me, if there is some case...

Thanks for the reply enrico. XML format errors ( E.G unbalanced tags ) or application logic error ( EG. missing <tag>data</tag> ) They have both kinds of errors. why not reach an agreement with the provider of the data and FORCE them to provide good data ??? in the IT data chain ( or in any product ...

Hi, I'm at a new comapny and they are using COBOL and XML parser but there are errors in that, looks like. Pretty often they have some errors because of missing fields and tags. Then they download the mainframe files, run it through to a third party tool (XMLSpy), identifies the error and according ...

Hi, I'm new here but was following this Forum. I observe that with this idea Viewing Idea - Change 'Theme over the weekends' to 'Daily Theme'. the weekend theme is no longer available. Do you think having a different theme over weekends can still be a choice? I actually liked that idea. ---------- V...