Aurangabad is a city in the western state of Maharashtra and has been a major tourist attraction due to the presence of Ajanta Caves which showcase Buddhist stories and were discovered by British hunters while on a tiger hunting expedition to the site. The group of 29 caves was constructed by Buddhist monks and the […]

Aurangabad is a city in the western state of Maharashtra and has been a major tourist attraction due to the presence of Ajanta Caves which showcase Buddhist stories and were discovered by British hunters while on a tiger hunting expedition to the site. The group of 29 caves was constructed by Buddhist monks and the

Aurangabad is a city in the western state of Maharashtra and has been a major tourist attraction due to the presence of Ajanta Caves which showcase Buddhist stories and were discovered by British hunters while on a tiger hunting expedition to the site. The group of 29 caves was constructed by Buddhist monks and the

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One of interview question on Jcl, I faced was what is the maximum length of data that can be passed  as Parm from JCL to COBOL. As I have read somewhere that its 100 bytes of data that is maximum that can be passed from JCL to COBOL program, but then the interviewer confused me

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 to make one block of I/O But

Comment/ Un comment  multiple lines in JCL The following CLIST code can be used to comment/uncomment JCL code with ease. The instructions to use this are provided in the comments. /********************************************************************** /* TITLE      : JCOM /*——————————————————————- /* FUNCTION   : TO BLOCK COMMENT OR UNCOMMENT THE JCL /*——————————————————————- /* AUTHOR     : mainframewizard.com /*——————————————————————- /* DESCRIPTION: THIS

Hello and welcome to mainframewizard.com Mainframewizard.com is a site for both beginner and Pro, who are looking for ABC(All the Brilliant Content) of mainframes You would have heard lot of people saying that mainframe is obsolete and is an outdated technology. What I believe is if we couple mainframes with windows technology (scripting languages) we

Comment/Un comment Multiple lines in COBOL code This tool can come handy if you have to do a lot of commenting and un commenting in a COBOL module. Doing it manually is not my way so here’s another freebie for all you guys hungry for mainframe tools. To use this clist you need to copy

Personal Job Scheduler This is my personal favorite. You would have heard of a personal Job scheduler provided on mainframes.  I think not all mainframe installations have these personal Job schedulers( PJS). Similar was the case with me, when I wanted to schedule a job to run on a particular time, but ALAS!! I did