VS COBOL and ADABAS/Natural Mainframe Recent Prospects
Dear Rick:I've been out of the field (driving a truck) since March of 2005. I'm thinking that due to retirements and natural attrition, combined with the fact (please confirm) that companies are not retiring their mainframe systems like everyone thought, what are job prospects for a 48 year old...
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| Mar 2 2008 7:40 PM GMT
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HankTheTank
390, COBOL, ADABAS
Mainframe Performance Testing
I am doing a research and would like to get answers to the following questions, I appreciate and value your experience and time:1) What are the different types of mainframe applications?2) What are the general performance issues that are expected?3) What tools are used in performance testing...
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| May 25 2007 3:27 AM GMT
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iluvlearning
Mainframe, 390, DB2
AMD Sempron
Hi all,I have one desktop running on AMD sempron 2200. In my home network.It?s clock speed is 1.5 GHz as per manufacture?s specification. but in system properties It showing only 800 MHz. OS is using XP SP2. But it working very smoothly.Anybody have any idea about why it likes this?
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| Dec 6 2006 4:25 AM GMT
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squibc4
Hardware, Linux, Mainframe
hi all
last day i installed one new xp theam on my xp system. recently i noticed that "RUN" option deleted from my start menu.can anybody help me in this problem ?thanks in advance
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| Nov 21 2006 2:29 AM GMT
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squibc4
Exchange, Hardware, Servers
Mainframe quality assurance testing tools
I need to find a quick and cheap mainframe testing tool for an insurance application. The client will not spend the dollars till the concept is proven. I have looked for open source for the mainframe and found nothing. The client is running a batch system processing input are batch claims. Any help...
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| Oct 12 2006 9:02 AM GMT
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frankd
Project management, Training, IBM
Uploading a file from a USB up to Mainframe & re-generating a PDS
I created a flat file from a PDS using IEBCOPY, downloaded that flat file to hardrive and subsequently copied to a flash drive.Now, I'm trying to upload this file & re-create the PDS that it originally came from but am getting errors: "wrong length record"Have tried uploading to various record...
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| Aug 30 2006 11:02 AM GMT
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Hervey
Mainframe, 390, DB2
passing variables………………
hello, i am calling 3 variables A,B,C by issuinng CALL A,B,C.in the called programme i have by mistake coded procedure division using C,A,B. how will the actual and formal variables get attached,i mean what values would be passed to the main programme. thanx a lot
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| Jul 18 2006 10:41 AM GMT
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programming44
Mainframe, 390, DB2
problem while accessing a Temporary dataset
hello, i have about 25 steps in my jcl, in the 4th step i have created a temporary data set and passed it to subsequent steps(5th,6th,9th and so on). while accesing it in the 7th step an ABEND occurs and the job terminates abnormally. now i want my jcl to RESTART...
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| Jul 10 2006 7:18 AM GMT
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programming44
Mainframe, 390, DB2
z/VM Linux
We currently run IBM Websphere on z/890 1400MIPs mainframe under z/os 1.7. How do I calculate how much capacity I require if I migrate to WCS z/VM LINUX?
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| Jun 21 2006 11:47 AM GMT
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tsawp123456
Mainframe, 390, DB2
svchost.exe
When I was working with win 2000 advanced server, suddenly it became slower and I started checking the running processes using task manager and I found 4 svchost.exe are running and one of them with PID:916 was using 38000K memory. After sometime the server became normal and everything is OK now....
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| May 26 2006 6:35 AM GMT
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BinooDas1234
Business/IT alignment, Project management, AS/400
Number of records in the Flat file
I have a huge Flat file in the Mainframe. What is the quickest way (utility, TSO command or TSO function) to find the exact number of records in the file? Thank you for your help!
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| Apr 21 2006 10:26 AM GMT
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yuriymusheyev
Application development, DB2 universal database, Career development
QSAM Buffer
We are writing to a QSAM output file which we will require in case of an abend. The problem we are faced with is - what happens if the job abends prior to all the records in the QSAM buffer being physically written to the QSAM output file. Are there any JCL statements that can force the QSAM buffer...
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| Mar 29 2006 12:51 AM GMT
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handerso
Mainframe, 390, DB2
Mainframe to SAP
Hi, I'm a cobol programmer working on Mainframes with a work exp. of 2 yrs. I've worked in technologies like JCL, COBOL, VSAM, DB2, IMS DB/DC, IDMS, FOCUS etc. I have an opportunity to get into SAP technical(ABAP/4) as a programmer in my organisation. Looking at the future prospects of the...
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| Mar 19 2006 6:40 AM GMT
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ABAPer92
AS/400, Application development, Backup & recovery
Batch FTP Question - Server to Mainframe
I recently tested a batch FTP which gets a file from a Unix server and downloads to a flat file on an IBM mainframe. When I run this on our test box, it creates a fixed block flat file of 128 bytes.When I run the exact same batch FTP on our production box, exact same server, it creates a variable...
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| Feb 24 2006 8:24 PM GMT
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DavidM92
Mainframe, 390, DB2
execution of multiple querries with SPUFI and QMF tools
hello, how can i execute multiple queeries with the help of tools- SPUFI and QMF respectively. thank you
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| Feb 15 2006 8:51 AM GMT
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programming44
Mainframe, 390, DB2
IMS conversational transactions
I am looking into IBM's IMS SOAP Gateway to expose our IMS transactions as Web Services. 98% of our IMS transactions are conversational. I am looking for possible ways of exposing them as SOAP/Web services without acquiring WebSphere or IMS Connect for Java on the Mainframe
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| Feb 8 2006 2:32 PM GMT
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HariThan
Mainframe, 390, DB2
Sending email attachment from mainframe - MIME format
Hi,I need to email 2 flat files from mainframe as CSV files. (the data in the flat files already contains the delimiter ','). The problem is, i get the 2 files attachements as CSV, but nothing in them! I feel I've got the MIME formatting wrong. I use IEBGENER, and the flat files are FB...
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| Feb 6 2006 3:15 PM GMT
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dannymit
Mainframe, 390, DB2
Is there an IBM Tool to Rebind Plans/Collections
I am an applicaiton developer, (analyst) resonsible for ensuring four test regions (and sometimes the produciton region) performs as effieciently as possible. We have approximately 1000 programs that have not accurate statistics (run stats are not updated, another question). Our DBA's tell us it...
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| Jan 19 2006 5:36 PM GMT
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MEAnderson
Database, Oracle, Mainframe
To retrieve data from a remote system
Hi,I have to retrieve data from a remote system (May be of any operating system) and shall put into AS/400. This process should be automated and there can't be any manual intervention.We can not use FTP commands here.Is there any other way this can be achieved.Can?t go for MQ Series either as the...
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| Jan 10 2006 11:11 AM GMT
| asked by
Helbert
AS/400, Application development, Backup & recovery
VS COBOL-II (FILES)
HI, Suppose i have a sequential file containing 1 lakh records. i want that after retreiving every 5000 records a message to be displayed that file is being processed. thank you.
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| Jan 6 2006 8:40 AM GMT
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programming44
Mainframe, 390, DB2
