Your Views – DYNALLOC

I have a mainframe assembler application which is invoking Unix system
services to get the names of all of the files in an NFS-mounted folder. The
application dynamically allocates and logically concatenates these files into
one giant dataset, then uses QSAM macros to read it.
The DYNALLOC calls work this way: first, I dynamically allocate the first file in
the [...]

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Your views – IDCAMS – AMS

I have a user who is trying to define a vsam file using IDCAMS as follows:
DEFINE CLUSTER –                
   ( NAME(BLAH.BLAH.BLAH) –    
        LINEAR     –            
        REUSE –             [...]

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Hot new tech job is…COBOL programmer

In 1995, there were more than 80 billion (billion, not million) SLOC (single line of code) developed in Cobol worldwide and in production. 80 billion! People thinking that you can get rid of these in the midterm are just….wrong
A recent report claimed that 65 percent of core systems at surveyed companies in the [...]

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IBM’s Q1 Driven by Mainframes, Unix, Services, and the Weak Dollar

That good ole annuity-style revenue stream, which accounts for a little more than half of IBM’s sales in any given quarter, was gurgling and burbling along in the first quarter of 2008, helping to float the company’s product sales and delivering pretty hefty overall revenue and profit increases considering the shaky nature of the economy [...]

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Query for you to answer!!!!!!!

I have just had a new request to automatically include a procedure which will do recovery of the system before a job is rerun when it abends. We do not use datastore and TWS auto-recovery is switched off.
Can someone advise how I could possibily modify the JCL when the job abends so that the additional [...]

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