Using PACK ON while editing and saving members in a dataset helps us utilize the space more efficiently. But Packed format is not supported while processing these members, say for example compiling a cobol program in packed format may fail. To save a member in Packed format you can give command line command To unpack […]
Free mainframe emulators The following is a list of free mainframe emulators available in the market. Keep visiting the page for latest and updated information. Freefloat Access One (Free mainframe emulator) This Free mainframe emulator is provided by Freefloat.com. The latest version provides powerful standard scripting language Lua Script. This will work on windows XP/2000/Vista,
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C1, C2 and C3 are condition-names. Consider the following compound conditions:          A. C1 OR  C2 OR C3         B. C1 AND C2 AND C3         C. C1 OR (C2 AND C3)         D. C1 AND (C2 OR C3)     if C1 is known to evaluate to ‘False’ which of the above four conditions can be evaluated without additional
INITILIAZING A FILLER IN GROUP VARIABLE When we initialize a group level variable, the FILLERS which are under this group variable remains unaffected. As a result, the FILLERS retain their previous content even after the INITIALIZE statement. . Here if GROUP-VAR is initialized, the FILLER will not get initialized . ; ; ; ; In
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JCL FOR SPLITTING DATA USING OUTFIL The following JCL can be used for splitting files using SORT OUTFIL. //SORTJCL Â JOB (XXXXXXXX,,,,,XXXX),’ Â Â Â Â Â Â Â ‘, Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â // Â Â Â Â Â Â REGION=0M,NOTIFY=&SYSUID Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â
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CICS command to know program name allocated to CICS transaction Can some one tell me the command to know the program name mapped to a  I want to know the name of dataset that is mapped to the CICS trx “; ; ; ;
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JCL to Unload all members of PDS in a PS Flat file. There may be instances when  you wish to unload all the members in a PDS to a flat file so that you may print them (later read them) or transport the data from mainframe to your pc and work with this data. IBM
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Basic SDSF Commands This mainframe tutorial is aimed at shelling out very basic information about SDSF commands. A beginner will find it useful to quickly learn about SDSF. SDSF stands for System Display and Search Facility. It is a system to monitor and control mainframe Jobs. The following video tutorial will help you understand the
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Why do we code BLKSIZE=0 in JCL At our mainframe shop, there are many jcl’s which use BLKSIZE=0 for the datasets which are cataloged by the JCL. From what I learnt during my training the BLKSIZE has to be a multiple of  and would mean the number of logical records to be clubbed in a physical record
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