Mainframe, MVS and zOS Discussion

Thanks nicc. Right you are correct.

Thanks Robert.

First, it would be a very rare site that allows a programmer to manually edit a production data set -- auditors really do not like such things happening. Second, if the data set is in a test CICS region, probably CECI could be used. I've used CECI to read a VSAM KSDS record, change it, and rewrite ...

prino wrote: ↑"C" on line to copy, "AK"/"BK" on all lines to copy to, and just "A"/"B" on the last of them.

Hi prino - Thanks, this is wht I was looking for. Great tip.

Thanks. Actually I have joined a company where we have access to some of the load modules. It is like a "client company" setup in India. So the vendors keep on sending the emails to remove some modules from some PDS which they don't have access but we have. These details are not given to u...

nicc wrote: ↑Sun Oct 29, 2017 3:42 amNo. Or, at least, there wasn't. Try looking up 'K(eeP)'. I am not sure if that is what it does as it is 3 years since I last used a modern version of ISPF and I am not going to look up the manual as you can do that yourself.

No keep did not work for me. Thanks though.

Hi,

How to know if I have the EDIT access to a PDS? Is there a way to know it?

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Hi.

In ISPF when I edit a dataset and I need to copy a line from one place to another I do "C" copy and paste it using "a" at a location I want to. But if I have to copy it multiple time, I need to copy it multiple times, is there way to overcome this in ISPF? Please advise.

When the program gets invoked (via a terminal transaction for example), CICS loads the program from the DFHRPL concatenation. It loads the FIRST copy found, so if the program is in three different libraries in the concatenation only the first data set in the concatenation that contains the load mod...

Yes but I need to edit it manually then how do I do it?

Yes, but if it's IMS DC and not IMS DB, how would you tell?

Hi,

I am new to CICS. I learned that files are defined to CICS region and they are already defined when the system was built. So if I need to change the values in file or edit the existing file how do we do that?

Thanks Robert.

So in CICS will all the files be defined as EXTERNAL as they are used by so many programs?

As looking at CICS program we can look for EXEC CICS and can say that it is an online program. How to identify the program is IMS DC in similar way?

Read about EXTERNAL clause. Is not it for variables and not files?

Dear All,

I have one question. I want to use one input file in sub-program, this file is used in main program as well. How can I do that? Please help.

Hi all,

Are there some rules in COBOL when it comes to processing sequence? I mean do we have IBM rule's document which explains about the processing sequence of logical operators in COBOL? Could someone please help.

Thanks

Hi, I've joined a new company. In this company they don't have any version control tool for mainframes. They make use of InterTest for CICS-COBOL program testing. Whenever one programmer is change program-x no other programmer can test program-x using InterTest. Is this not possible in InterTest tha...

Thanks for your help Robert.