Mainframe, MVS and zOS Discussion

Has anyone here faced something similar or have a suggestion? how do you store job parameters centrally so ops can change them without code edits? Thanks in advance for your help and insights.

I have a situation in which what conventions help new hires grok old COBOL quickly? Thanks in advance for your help and insights.

As part of my current work, I happened to run into a scenario where Bringing IMS DBD/PSB into Git: symbolic builds, generated artifacts handling—what works? Thanks in advance for any pointers.

I have been working on Moving z/OS‑scheduled jobs to Control‑M on Linux/MFES. Pitfalls around calendars, restart logic, and JCL equivalence? Thanks in advance for any pointers.

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I am looking for a proven way to convert EBCDIC text to UTF‑8 for analytics. Which utilities/tables do you trust? Any odd character pitfalls? Thanks in advance for any pointers.

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Thanks but that does not seem to answer the question I've asked and the question is "is it possible to declare the same cursor multiple times"?

No problem, Anuj...

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I'm Abhishek. I'm working with Mainframes for 4 years now and my work now mostly involves leading teams - though I want to learn a lot more. I've experience with COBOL, JCL, DB2 and VSAM. Hope to learn more and help here.

Nice to meet everyone here.

I belong to Pune India.

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In a COBOL program, I have to fecth data from more than one table.The tables, we need to refer, are cahnged dynamically based upon a column value m say COL1. We have different tables defined for each COL1. Using some mechanism, we'd calculate the value for COL1 in theprogram and based on that ...