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Hi all, I am doing a tablespace unload and abending with a ABEND=S04E U0000 REASON=00E40079 error. Tablespace is a 32K sized object. The blocksize is set at 32768 and this works for all other...
I just need to know the command (s) to display the specific model and OS version on an AS400?? For example, model: iSeries 520  OS version: V5R3 the command to display this information....
Hi One of our users is getting an error message when trying to start a PC5250 emulator. The error is: PCSERR100 - Error Allocating xxxx bytes of memory from the Windows global memory he...
Hi,      I am using IBM Enterprise COBOL for z/OS  3.4.1. For one of the program, I am getting compilation error as mention below. The size of the "WORKING-STORAGE SECTION" exceeded the li...
Hi all, Is it possible to have simple IF THEN ELSE logic when creating a DB2 z/OS triggers? If true it is possible, where can I find an example? If it is not possible, could there possi...
Hey there, I'm about to start work on a project that will export data from an IBM DB2 dataset and use that data to populate a MSSQL DB. We have created a small  COBOL program to extract ...
I get a "JCL STATEMENT MAXIMUM LENGTH EXCEEDED" error on an IF statement in a JCL program.  The length of the statement is 632 words or 126 lines.  Does anyone know what the limit is?
Does anyone know how I might be able to reset a mainframe password from WIndows?  Basically I would like to write some sort of PHP, HTML, VB application that would allow a user to reset their ...
I need to run a tcp/ip socekt listener program on a server and call it from an IBM online COBOL program. Does anyone have knowledge on how to do both sides of this call?
I have 2 JCL jobs that are submitted one after the other, jobs A and B. I need job B to wait at least 3 hours after accomplishment of job A before executing code. I want to add a new step in j...
Hi, I am trying to ftp a txt file which has amounts to mainframe. The field on mainframe is s9(9)v9(2) comp-3. It occupies 6 bytes on mainframes. How do I convert the amount into this format i...
I am trying to create a single job with multiple send steps, where the file names are passed via symbolics. How do I do this?
Hello Gurus, We have a certain jobs running in Mainframe and Unix. How do i calculate the cost asociated with these jobs? In Mainframe for a certain we reduced by tuning SQL queries from...
Hi @all, I've written a z/OS application that's able to reset the RACF password for a given user ID. This works fine. The only problem occurs when the user has been revoked because he's been ...
Hi guys,  i get compile error when I use the code 1, and SOC4 error when I use the code 2. This is in language PLI (mainframe) 1) Compile Error: UNUSABLE HOST VARIABLE HOST_VAR I am decla...
I want to learn as quickly as possible as much as I can about z/OS and products in this operating system's environment (ISPF, TSO, etc.) Can anyone recommend a book(s) and/or training tools? I...
My team is wondering whether we can access HLLAPI over the web?
I am seeing the retention period of a dataset as 0. Is that because this is a VSAM dataset. If it is a VSAM dataset how will I find its retention perdiod.
I'm trying to get the same output as "ls '*'" from z/OS FTPD. I think this can be done by reading the master catalog. Until now I found no way to open it from C. I found out that the ma...
I'm trying to figure out which character set IBM mainframes more commonly use.  I figure it's either one of the following: ASCII or EBCDIC or ANSI Any help would be great!!
Hello Gurus, Can someone let me know how to download to an excel using net.data in IBM Mainframe. We are using net.data 6.0 Regards. Hari.
how to read data directly from mainfram DB2 using ODBC?
Hello Gurus, Could you please let me know if there is any tool available to find out obsolete mainframe jobs. There are many such jobs lying around and we need to quickly find it. If yes...
Hi all, I am working to laod a test database using production unload data but the SYSPUNCH members are from the Test database tables with various  WHEN(00001:00002) = X'????' conditions in th...
In z/OS MVS, I've successfully written JCL to create my first Generational Dataset Group (GDG) base. I've run the JCL and now have a gdg base including a model dataset with a DSCB. How do I cr...