Mainframe, MVS and zOS Discussion

every time i logged into ispf, i get IQII012 EDIT RECOVERY PENDING *my_DSN*

how do i get rid of this warning? thx

thanks guys for the response.

someone suggested i have the sysprogs check parmlib IDICNFxx.

Note* sorry if wrong section but i can't seem to find the section for Fault Analyzer Why would some users able to generate FA entry in 1 lpar but not another one? for example, userA logged into lpar X generated an abend but not able to see the fault analyzer portion in the jes2 log. however, when us...

@robert, when i rename the .txt file to .csv, and ftp it to my windows desktop. upon opening in excel directly, all the data is on column 1 instead of 3 separate columns. can i change this to 3 separate columns programmatically via some jcl utilities? Leave it as a .txt file. When you open the .txt...

sorry for the newbie question but how do i add/insert a string at the beginning of a dataset.

for example input:

abcdef
afdafa
fadfas

output would be:

this is a line
this is another line
abcdef
afdafa
fadfas

i understand i can use a sort but not sure. any examples would be helpful

thank you anuj & robert for your response.

@robert, when i rename the .txt file to .csv, and ftp it to my windows desktop. upon opening in excel directly, all the data is on column 1 instead of 3 separate columns. can i change this to 3 separate columns programmatically via some jcl utilities?

hi - I have a batch job that produce an output file as HLQ1.DATA.TXT. it looks something like this: 1234567890;00;1234 2345678901;00;1234 3456789012;00;2345 4567890123;00;2345 5678901234;00;3456 And I want to send this file as excel to a customer. The current process is: 1. use reflection FTP to des...

can anyone help me with some online resources on performing linking an ALC program to a Relational Database Program?

sometimes i just want to copy a single dataset w/o going to a panel or batch job. just want to do on the command line. i think tso copy also works

i'm trying to use smcopy to copy datasets. here's my syntax smc fds(mydataset.data1) tds(mydataset.data2) i'm getting the following error: smcopy record format of data set not consistent with operation being performed i see the new mydataset.data2 was created but it's empty. what could be wrong. is ...