To help resolve a question posted to a LinkedIn group I manage:
www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:groupPost:910927-7128598004344786944
... I'd like to find out if there's any way to achieve *true*
Skip-Sequential processing with a Fixed Block Sequential File with a fairly
short record length (i.e
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> 1. STC - APF - confusion (2)
> 2. re-Initialize different types of VSAM files
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Saw this in the LinkedIn "Performance & Optimization News..." group:
http://linkd.in/2i03y7v - "Spark Analytics on the Mainframe
Interesting article by Stephen D. Bartlett at the Clipper Group about
running Spark on the mainframe: IBM z Systems Get a Big Charge Out of Spark
Analytics."
Roger Lowe
[Also posted to the Linked-In "Mainframe Assembler Professionals" group at
http://linkd.in/1VjEST7 ]
I wrote a program to create a report of DASD usage by scanning the UCB
Table, then reading all the DSCBs from all the DASD Volumes for usage data
and summing by DSN. The output is essentially the sa
Paul Gilmartin wrote:
> Does OPTCD=Q work on all device types?
> I had got the impression it applied only to tapes.
Yes, tape is implicit. OPTCD=Q only works with tape.
ASCII conversion topic in "z/OS DFSMS: Using Magnetic Tapes":
http://publibfp.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr/BOOKS/dgt2m320/3.7
"... conversion utility or compiler directive to make the translation from
the Unisys implementation of Cobol FD's to Enterprise Cobol?"
If the data is *all* in character format, then conversion from ASCII to
EBCDIC is easy using OPTCD=Q on the DCB. Unfortunately, that's seldom the
case, which mak
On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 8:10 AM, David S. wrote:
> Found this one *outside* Resource Link:
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> GC28-6936:
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> http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg23d0fa54bd6d29c5885257dc400795260
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It comes up as GC28-6938, but found it using:
http://www.ibm.com/supp
> I'm looking for the following publications:
> IBM z13 Installation Manual, GC28-6936
> IBM z13 Service Guide, GC28-693
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Found this one *outside* Resource Link:
GC28-6936:
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=isg23d0fa54bd6d29c5885257dc400795260
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I wish this question had been stated with greater precision and accuracy,
since the precision and accuracy of the answer directly depend on it. Too
much guesswork.
(1) What *exactly* were the COBOL field definitions and the MOVE
statement?? The title just says "MOVE COMP-3 S9(9) to S9(8)". Does th
[I realize this thread is kind of old, but I have yet to find a better
COBOL solution anywhere else so I thought I'd post it. This was originally
posted to the
"Mainframe (COBOL, etc) Experts" LinkedIn Group, which I manage for group
owner Vikas Kumar, see http://linkd.in/1S4BarK ]
Here's a COBOL
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