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S0C4 Abend
S0C4 Abend What is a S0C4 Abend? S0C4 Abend is a protection exception when a virtual address cannot be...
Basic SDSF Commands
Basic SDSF Commands This mainframe tutorial is aimed at shelling out very basic information about SDSF...
S0C7 Abend
S0C7 Abend What is S0C7 Abend? S0C7 is a Data exception abend. When S0C7 Abend occurs? S0C7 abend is...
SORT JCL to SUM up values
SORT JCL to SUM up values If you wish to sum up the values at a particular position sorted at some value...
Sort JCL to Remove duplicates
REMOVING DUPLICATES FROM INPUT FILE AND WRITE DUPLICATES TO A FILE     //SREMDUPL JOB (XXXXXXXX,,,,,XXXX),’...
Copying files from Tapes to DASD
Copying files from Tapes to DASD The following article presents two methods of retrieving  A file can...
JCL to submit particular steps of another JCL using IEBEDIT
IEBEDIT Example- JCL to submit particular steps of another JCL You may get a scenario where you wish...
Mainframe JCL Abend Examples
Abend An AbEnd (abnormal end) is an exception condition which results in the abnormal termination of...
COBOL INSPECT TALLYING FOR LEADING SPACES
INSPECT TALLYING FOR LEADING SPACES The following COBOL program depicts the use of  INSPECT TALLYING...
Basic TSO Commands
Commonly used TSO commands: This mainframe tutorial is about TSO commands. 1. Create a new dataset modeled...