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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...
Mainframe JCL Abend Examples
Abend An AbEnd (abnormal end) is an exception condition which results in the abnormal termination of...
SORT JCL with STOPAFT and SKIPREC
SORT JCL with STOPAFT and SKIPREC If you wish to skip certain number of records and stop sorting after...
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...
Copying files from Tapes to DASD
Copying files from Tapes to DASD The following article presents two methods of retrieving  A file can...
S0C7 Abend
S0C7 Abend What is S0C7 Abend? S0C7 is a Data exception abend. When S0C7 Abend occurs? S0C7 abend is...
Transfer file from and to mainframe using FTP
Transfer file from and to mainframe using FTP You can use FTP dos command to transfer files from and...
Basic TSO Commands
Commonly used TSO commands: This mainframe tutorial is about TSO commands. 1. Create a new dataset modeled...
SORT JCL to put SPACES end of record using INREC or OUTREC
SORT JCL to put SPACES end of record using INREC or OUTREC The following sort card will take data from...