Mainframe, MVS and zOS Discussion

At least IBM should make Mainframe programming accessible to more people and not pay-wall it. If someone wants to learn Amazon Web services, all they have to do is signup for a free-tier and play with all services they got. No hassle. Even SAS offers a university edition for people to break into. On...

Sorry to nitpick, "RACF records when a data set is written in the type 15 records, " I was under the impression that SMF started task monitors this activity and captures this information in type 15 records, rather than RACF. I think RACF records activity only in Type 80 records. Please fee...

broke all the bulbs on top, on each page.! Nice

Happy Diwali folks.!

Few months ago, when we closed the door on the Mainframe box, the power cable of one CPU fan would get dislodged and turn off. When one fan stopped, the other immediately picked up speed and was able to cope up with the unexpected failure. End users never noticed a thing. Mainframe kept running unti...

"Working with a company like BMC or CA may be somewhat career-limiting."

Robert, Why do you say that?
Is it because it is hard to switch to a different company away from them?

tastes vary and girls may vary.. but its annoying that they all ask the same set of questions
"How did you get into my house" or "Why are you covered in baby oil" or "Is it in?"

or //TESTING EXEC MXGSAS,MXGHLQ='Axxxxx.MXG.V12R440', //... <- complete the EXEC statement as there is a , //SASCODE DD * DATA RAJU; YEAR = YEAR(TODAY()); MONTH = MONTH(TODAY()); DAY = TODAY() ; PROC PRINT DATA=RAJU; The below link has a picture of a super cute girl and link to download SAS. Both of...

You said you have a job on your system something like this //TYPE30 EXEC MXGSAS,MXGHLQ='Axxxxx.MXG.V12R440', Try this program, //TESTING EXEC MXGSAS,MXGHLQ='Axxxxx.MXG.V12R440', //... <- complete the EXEC statement as there is a , //SASCODE DD * PROC PRINT DATA = SASHELP.CLASS; RUN; /* That should g...

Yes Tibco can get a file from Mainframe if you have the file adapter running.
https://docs.tibco.com/pub/adapter-for- ... es_zos.pdf

Or Tibco could perform a FTP get of a file that resides on the Mainframe

Learning how to use the manuals(usually user guide) for a product/programming language is very important. I think most new programmers including myself always stay away from reading manuals during the start of the career. Yes it is daunting to go through 200 page PDF to find a solution to a problem,...

It depends on the licensing agreement. SCRT would show you how much each product used for a particular month. But if the product(e.g. CICS/DB2) is purchased in full one time (I think VUE licensing) then there is no monthly charges for the product. You would not get an benefits reducing the usage of ...

Most companies upgrade machines because they are running out of capacity processing their current workload, or because their previous machine is going out of service We got z13 for both of these reasons and have no cloud running on them. However all other workloads are performing better. Like 30% r...

I can understand him, Being a Cobol novice myself, Personally I find Cobol too difficult to write, understand and debug. Have not written one in past 10 years.

Hi, In the previous version of the site there was a section called "recent topics" which showed some 25 posts I think. Are there any plans to bring it back in the new layout? I used to use only the "recent topics" section, to go through whats happening. But now its gone :( Regard...

Hello, would this site be reachable via ibm-mainframes.com link again? For some reason the zmainframes.com had always been blocked at my organization, but the same site was reachable via ibm-mainframes.com Now that the domain no longer points to this website I am unable to access it. So curious to k...

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Can we save the list shown in the ISPF 3.4? 1. After you bring up the list of datasets, on the command line issue the command SAVE followed by any word, example SAVE DOGE 2. You will get a message on the right top "Data set list saved" Hit PF1 key, ISPF would tell you where the list of da...

I am thinking about my dream, where there were more than 30 lions running around in streets chasing people.
My father was avoiding the lions like a boss on top of a bus, I am hiding in a house and the lions break the door and find a way inside the house.

+ CICS systems programmer