CSC Signs Strategic IT Services Agreement With Chrysler LLC

Computer Sciences Corporation today announced that it has signed a multi-year information technology (IT) services agreement with Chrysler LLC.
Under the contract, CSC will provide mainframe, server and storage services for all of Chrysler’s worldwide locations. CSC will also provide applications support, maintenance and development services for a portion of Chrysler’s application portfolio. Financial terms were [...]

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CICS Shr Option (3,3)

We had an instance like the below..
A VSAM file which has got opened by a CICS program in a LPAR region needs to be copied to another LPAR region. We had given shroption (2,3) which doesnt allow us to proceed. As share option 2 allows only one processor at a time to open a data [...]

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Programming for Mainframes Makes a Comeback

 Mainframe programming is decidedly un-sexy in the IT industry. But as the baby boomers skilled in maintaining mainframes retire, there is heightened demand for IT graduates to replace them, says The Chicago Tribune
Mainframes have been around for decades, but have decreased in popularity in favor of distributed computing solutions in which tasks are doled out [...]

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BNZ ready to retire 500 servers

Virtualisation is the name of the game for the Bank of New Zealand, which expects to phase
out around 500 servers after purchasing two high-end Z series computers from IBM.
These, along with HP blades, should see the other servers phased out over three years, as they become due for replacement, says CIO Paul Tait.
The bank has [...]

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Assign separate name for temporary dataset

There are some mainframe jobs needs to be submitted in bulk mode. There is a requirement to put the jobname in the generated temp dataset name. They all use the exact same skeleton JCL, including the same DSN=&&SB250DD1 DD statement.  This would be more helpful to avoid the ENQ conflicts
//GENER   EXEC PGM=IEBUPDTE,PARM=NEW
//SYSPRINT DD  DUMMY
//SYSUT2 [...]

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A typical DB2 Query

Sample Records
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Row 1: 73237155+73240240+73243230+73249335
Row 2: 73237155+73240240+73246345
Row 3: 73237155+73240240+73246345+73249335
………………………………………………………….
Need to sum every 2 digits prior ‘+’ sign plus last 2 digits:
For row 1:  55 + 40 + 30 + 35
For row 2:  55 + 40 + 45
For row 3:  55 + 40 + 45 + 35    
Solution 1: CREATE FUNCTION elements ( string varchar(100) )
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