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file transfer PC to z/OS Host large EBCDIC

I'm doing a file transfer from PC to Host 7M record size 24576 EBCDIC format. Failed after a few seconds. What type I should use and how to extend the time? Please help?

Answer Question   |  Jul 30 2008  3:26 AM GMT
z/OS, File transfers, EBCDIC
asked by Ripebest

  5 pts.

How to restrict QMF to execute predefined queries only?

Hi, is there a way to restrict the usage of QMF/390 to predefined queries/procedures only? Some users should not be able to edit or create SQL statements on their own. Thank you very much. Regards Michael

View Answer   |  Jul 25 2008  8:01 AM GMT
Mainframe, DB2, z/OS
asked by Meichhar

  5 pts.

Mainframe COBOL - The OVERFLOW Condition.

We would like to able to identify procedural code which, at runtime , has the potential to result in overflow ie the resultant field is not large enough the derived value. Hopefully manually inspecting the code can be avoided (given that we have in excess of 30,000 programs!). Is there a...

View Answer   |  Jul 1 2008  8:49 AM GMT
Programming Languages, COBOL, z/OS
asked by Edinburgh

  70 pts.

ADABAS v8; CICS TS31; z/OS 1.9

Transaction N199 under ADABAS v8; CICSTS31 and z/OS 1.7 it runs successfully. Move it to z/OS 1.9 and it hangs. We do have ALLOWUSERKEYCSA set to YES. Has anyone experienced this and if so what did you do to resolve it? Thank you, CJ

View Answer   |  Jun 12 2008  4:37 PM GMT
z/OS, CICS, ADABAS
asked by CJ in CA

  20 pts.

FTP from z/OS PDS to server (how to add on .txt extension)

I'm relatively new to FTP. Have written a JCL which will copy all members of a local PDS to a remote server. This process is somewhat successful, however all the same named filenames on the remote server reflect only the PDS member name (without any extension). Have used the LCD command to map to...

Answer Question   |  May 11 2008  10:04 PM GMT
z/OS, FTP, PDS
asked by Herb

  5 pts.

COBOL TGT At Run Time

Is it possible to get access to the Cobol Task Global Table at run time in batch and cics (Enterprise Cobol for zOS)? I understand that using register 13 you can get access to the DSA, and using the DSA you can get access to the TGT, but I don't know how to get access to register 13 from Cobol. ...

Answer Question   |  Apr 23 2008  3:23 AM GMT
COBOL, z/OS
asked by Calphool

  5 pts.

DB2 image copy that is no longer in SYSCOPY on zOS operating system

We have a tablespace that needs to be restored from an image copy which we have the problem is the image copy is not recorded in SYSCOPY. We also tried doing a UNLOAD FROMCOPY thinking if we got the data out of the image copy we would be able to load it back into the table. That also failed with...

View Answer   |  Mar 11 2008  5:27 PM GMT
DB2, z/OS, SYSCOPY
asked by EPPERSON

  5 pts.

Common SMP/E base - Two different environments - User exits

Hello, Just wondering how the following situation can be addressed while remaining faithful to SMP/E: we have two different environments that we're both migrating to z/OS 1.9. In so doing, we want to have a single SMP/E environment for z/OS, as the differences between the two reside elsewhere....

Answer Question   |  Mar 10 2008  3:02 PM GMT
z/OS, SMP/E
asked by PhilForget

  5 pts.

left outer join in trigger DB2 Z/OS

I'm having problems writing a trigger that contains a left outer join. Here is the trigger: CREATE TRIGGER H000.H0TRCAD2 AFTER DELETE ON H000.H0COO_TRANS_CALLC REFERENCING OLD AS OLD_ROW FOR EACH ROW MODE DB2SQL BEGIN ATOMIC SELECT OLD_ROW.CLNT_ID , OLD_ROW.ACCT_NBR , OLD_ROW.PST_DT ,...

View Answer   |  Feb 7 2008  3:34 PM GMT
DB2, z/OS, Triggers
asked by X00005

  5 pts.

Getting RACF Active Classes List

Hello, I am developing an assembler code (z/OS) getting the RACF Active Classes List. It should use CDT (CNST) and RCVTVCPR (RCVT), I suppose, but I haven't understood how this RACF algorithm works. Can anybody help, please? Thanks

Answer Question   |  Jan 23 2008  4:54 PM GMT
z/OS, RACF, CDT
asked by Eligin

  10 pts.

Reporting for RACF (Resource Access Control Facility) question

A question that was emailed to us: We are running RACF on a Z/OS mainframe and I am trying to get a report from RACF detailing users that have group access. I have a list from DSMON that tells me who has the special attribute on group connect but wanted a listing of each group special these...

Answer Question   |  Jan 10 2008  5:04 PM GMT
z/OS, RACF, Resource Access Control Facility
asked by ITKE

  10270 pts.

The News Show

Just wondering what you all thought of this -- kind of teeny tiny TechTV? http://www.thenewsshow.tv/

View Answer   |  Aug 16 2005  7:07 PM GMT
z/OS
asked by MargaretRouse

  210 pts.

Setup Remote printer in zOS

We have zOS v1R4 in a z900 mainframe server. I am a newly joined MVS system programmer here in this Datacenter. My requirement is as follows: 1) Currently we use TCP/IP to connect to LPARs in the mainframe 2) There is a remote laser printer in the client place(which is already networked) 3) We...

View Answer   |  Jun 17 2005  3:46 PM GMT
Hardware, Logical partitions, Mainframe
asked by MVSAdmin

  0 pts.

BMP scheduling of IMS and DB2 database access.

Application developers have nearly completed a conversion from IMS to DB2. They have used BMP to leave their test subsystems available to online tranactions. One day BMP users of BMP failed with U3042. This only occured for BMP users testing with IMS & DB2 databases. I am investigating the...

View Answer   |  May 26 2005  1:02 PM GMT
DB2, z/OS, UDB for mainframe
asked by elJaymid

  0 pts.

Reducing DISK I/O z/OS 1.4

I have a C loadmodule that is called 1000's of times a day. The first action it takes is to open a PDS with 41 members and read them. This PDS's members are only "text", no load modules. I would like to know in what way I could cache them in memory and totally bypass DASD disk I/O. Thank you,...

View Answer   |  Mar 23 2005  3:44 PM GMT
z/OS, z/OS configuration, z/OS optimization
asked by Abbacabba

  0 pts.

IBM DB2 load restart

I am faced with a situation where my SYSREC file for a LOAD could potentially have duplicates. If there are dupes then I have a step that follows that analyses the SYSDISC file,so my DISCARDS is set to 0. If for whatever reason the utility blows up (ran out of space, whatever) and I choose to...

View Answer   |  Feb 17 2005  11:45 AM GMT
DB2, z/OS, UDB for mainframe
asked by sumithar

  0 pts.

Scalar functions in GROUP BY

Is there a reason why I cannot use a SCALAR function in a Group BY clause? I have a table with a column that is of type timestamp. I want to get a count of all dates for which there are multiple rows. So I devise a query of the sort SELECT COUNT(*), DAYS(TMSTP_COL) FROM MYTAB A GROUP BY...

View Answer   |  Dec 30 2004  2:15 PM GMT
DB2, z/OS, UDB for mainframe
asked by sumithar

  0 pts.

Oracle In Linux

How can I able to get and work with Oracle in Linux platform. I am using RedHat Linux 9.0.

View Answer   |  Oct 9 2004  1:41 AM GMT
Tech support, Administration, Hardware
asked by samachar

  0 pts.

DB2 Automated Utilities - Vendor selection

We use the IBM utilities suite and our own in-house utilities automation for DB2 v7. Our automated utilities is now draining us with heavy maintenance and since V7, there are still a few holes that could cause us some serious damage if not fixed in the near future. However, with V8, we would...

View Answer   |  Jun 3 2004  11:08 AM GMT
IT architecture, DB2, MVS
asked by galvtx

  0 pts.

Encryption in the Database

Has anyone encrypted data in their Oracle/DB2/SQLServer databases? Can you share you experiences?

View Answer   |  May 12 2004  2:18 PM GMT
Oracle, z/OS, SQL Server
asked by dw49999

  0 pts.

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