Mainframe, MVS and zOS Discussion

One of our Job was executing for long in production. It was told that the program executing in the job is gone is loop. Later the support identified that the a COBOL table in program was overflowed and that is why the job went in loop. Should not the job be abended if the table was overflowed? And w...

Thanks. It seems like that gmail itself does not allow you to make the back-up of it. Nor does it allow bulk-forward of emails.

Anyways, thanks for the link.

It's a mainframe centric group but thought to ask. Does someone know how to take backup of a gmail account or bulk-forward the messages to other ID?

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Thank you.

But that removes the sapce for second field also, I want to remove teh sapce for third filed only.

Thanks for the answer. Yes, it will always be same number of fields.

Hi, From an input file I want to remove the trailing spaces after the value of the filed and before the commausing SORT. For example, please consider the data like this: 11,A B C D ,abc , 12,xxyy zz ,xyz some place , 13,xxyz ,xyz other avenue , The output file should like this: 11,A B C D ,abc, 12,x...

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10836 the attachment was deleted, no reason to waste space on the forum server , How much space would it take anyways? There are many heavy sites we have on the internet now. May be I am wrong but want to know. Because in my office the ftp from many sites is blocked, from IBM also. But if the docum...

It is an old topic of mine and the requirement was partially dropped that time. But we made use of Optim tool. And couple of online references helped me. Two of them which I saved are here for reference: http://www.ibmbigdatahub.com/blog/implement-data-masking-protect-sensitive-data-part-1 http://ww...

Hi, I have been reading around the recent enhancements and Capabilities around DevOps and Analytics for IBM line of products which happened in last one year. In general if you think there are some links, I should be referring to please direct me there. If a traditional mainframe shop is not using z1...

That's correct. As William has said, as PDS already exists and that's what zOS is looking at. When you specify DISP=MOD or DISP=NEW for a partitioned data set (PDS) or partitioned data set extended (PDSE), and you also specify a member name in the DSNAME parameter, the member name must not already ...

By data making I meant (back than and today too) getting the production data to test region and converting the merchant account number to an equivalent number.

A systems programmer was at lunch with some Data Processing auditors. The waitress asks the system programmer what he wants for lunch and he says "Pork chops". She says "What about the vegetables?". The system programmer says "Oh they can order for themselves".

Read through this article from Jim Showalter on Differences between HFS and zFS and you might better understand the difference between the two:

Great news it is. Coincidentally we discussed about it lately. I think these highlights from the IBM will be interesting to some of us: " Highlights Exceptional scale in a single frame footprint Next generation “network-in-a-box” technology Shared Memory Communications – Direct Access Method Mo...

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Will this affect any customer using their product?

This sounds intresting.