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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...
S0C7 Abend
S0C7 Abend What is S0C7 Abend? S0C7 is a Data exception abend. When S0C7 Abend occurs? S0C7 abend is...
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...
Copying files from Tapes to DASD
Copying files from Tapes to DASD The following article presents two methods of retrieving  A file can...
S222 Abend
S222 Abend What is a S222 Abend? S222 is a system Abend (operator cancelled). When S222 Abend occurs? This...
Basic TSO Commands
Commonly used TSO commands: This mainframe tutorial is about TSO commands. 1. Create a new dataset modeled...
SUPERCE in Batch To Compare Datasets
USING SUPERCE TO COMPARE TWO DATASETS (IN BATCH) The following JCL can be used to compare two datasets...
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...