Mainframe, MVS and zOS Discussion

What do you mean by 'format'? What do you mean by 'file' (mainframes generally store data in data sets)? What values?

As described in the COBOL Language Reference manual.

By browsing you can still cut and paste data which can thn be transported elsewhere by someone wanting to steal information.

Your post does not make sense. 'Suncsort'? 'SyncGNER'? ICEGENER is part of the DFSort suite not SyncSort. Whereas there may be aliases set up for one to refer to other this does not always happen. Note that IEBGENER is not part of the DFSort suite. And why would you expect SyncSort to be called inst...

Basic really: your data is A, B, C, D in cc 1 but you are specifying 0001 in cc 1-4. There is no record with 0001 in cols 1 to 4 so no records are selected.

Ask your schedulers. There is probably something there already.

Also, do you want a list of jobs that are currently on the error handler or fo you want a list of all jobs ever - or, at least, from a certain date or within a certain time period?

Why not consult with them directly? They should be only too eager to help you reduce resources needed and the sooner you consult with them the sooner everyone concerned can benefit from any savings.

A valid JCL is going to have more than one record. For example, it will contain at least a jobcard (probably spanning more than one record) and an exec statement (possibly spanning more than one record) and, possibly, a variety of DD statements (each probably spanning several records).

As you posted in the sort section of the forum then sort help is inferred so your topic title is meaningless especially to people trying to find a solution. I presume you mean 'DATA SET' and not 'file', the latter being, prinicipally a PC/Unix term and a file is not the same as a 'data set'. You wen...

New question, new topic. Locked.

You want to avoid redundant, i.e. no longer wanted, items. But in this case redundancy means' reserve' - if the prime fails then the backup/reserve takes over.

Could someone please guide me what needs to be done No because you have not specified what you have done or what the error(s) happened. We can only guess but I am sure that you are not the first in your organisation to transfer a data set from the mainframe to a PC file. Find someone who has done i...

What space? You do not have a space problem. You have not, obviously, read the entry for S106 in the System Codes manual.

CURSLOC?

Why not look up the system code in the manual? The message has nothing to do with space but storage.

Then you (the company) needs to change its way of working. At the moment you are a catastrophe waiting to happen. If you have clients then they would be wise to move elsewhere.

SMS = System Managed Storage as you would have found out if you did some research instead of jist asking people to do your research for you.

Have you actually referred to the manual? SORTED is not an option of COPY or SORT but of JOINKEYS.

How would you get a zero-length record? What would you do with it if it was possible?

So what area should a senior mainframe programmer look for opportunities?

This is not your thread so do not ask questions that are not related to resolving the issue. And your question has been answered before.