Mainframe, MVS and zOS Discussion

William Collins wrote:Well, the suggestion by your someone was indeed nonsense :-)

My view on this is as yours, I agree!

HI, Is anyone out there using IBM's PDUU utility to upload diagnostic data to IBM? This is a link to IBM's page on this: http://www-05.ibm.com/de/support/ecurep/send_zos-tool.html The z/OS Problem Documentation Upload Utility (IBM PDUU) uses an internal compression feature and offers (optional) file...

Thanks. SSRANGE can be used to chekc the array bounds, that's what I know but to use in this situation is a different matter and was surprised with this suggestion.

Thanks William. I have declared the FD section as, FD CUST-RECORD-IN DATA RECORD IS CUST-REC-IN RECORDING MODE IS V RECORD IS VARYING IN SIZE FROM 1 TO 2021 CHARACTERS DEPENDING ON CUST-RECORD-RDW. Each time I read the record, length of the record, is captured in CUST-RECORD-RDW. Someone suggested t...

Hi, I have file which is varuiable-blocked (VB) file. It's LRECL is 3000. In this, first record is of length is 100 bytes, 2nd, 5th record length is 300 bytes etc. How to identify the length of the each Record in that VB file using COBOL? Is it possible to read the file using COBOL and get the recor...

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How to change some text "text1" to "text2" in File-AID? Can we use File-Aid for this?

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Thanks, this helped.

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Is there any way to how many times a CICS program was executed with a unit or in general?

Thanks Robert - I'm working on it and will get back to you with updates. Thanks for explaining, manuals making better sense now.

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Congratulations!

This board is doing great and deserves this.

These are quite helpful collection Anuj, Thanks.

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I've never worked with strings, I've looked at IBM reference but it looks like a reference material not like a tutorial to understand it. Can u please tell me the syntax for STRING AND UNSTRING and how can we use it?

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Thanks Robert, I was reading a book and got this question. I've very limited access to Internet these days, which made me to ask here.

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Can we access a Partitioned data set in Rexx? I'm not sure about the Syntax - Please help.