Mainframe, MVS and zOS Discussion

Thanks Robert.

IDCAMS VERIFY is what we used indeed.

This is confusing. So if this has happened once we can not really solve until it happens again and we start verifying it then at that time? Is that a correct assumption?

This is very interesting. Does that mean we can work with that compiler too of GnuCOBOL? I mean like modifying it?

They are really good and thought provoking. Thanks for sharing.

Also, in case the file was not closed correctly by a given Job then can there be a way to close it properly? This came as part of the discussion.

Hello, One of the Jobs in production got abended with VSAM open error. The File Status code was 93. When I looked for it further, I found that, that's it's because the resource was unavailable. My question is: Can we find out now that if there was any other job which was using this VSAM? If yes, how...