Dear Friends & Readers – Message From Vivin

Dear Friends & readers,
We have reached significant milestone in our knowledge sharing world. With your significant participation & active involvement we have reached this place. To enhance the features of our blog, we have moved to a new interface which is quite stable and very interactive. Just a screen & interface changes, but business would [...]

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Mainframe = Kicking Technology??

In an New York Times article of March 28th, the words of Steward Alsop, who predicted that the last mainframe would be unplugged in 1996 were put in context.
 
The mainframe was use as one example how “old” technology proved to be a strong survivor together with Radio, railways and the most modern one, print media. [...]

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Why parallel access can not be done(Database were offline while access Online)

Perpetual rounds of mergers and acquisitions, organizational change and compliance have all taken their toll, leaving firms susceptible to fraud, inefficiencies, and mistakes. The greater the change, the greater the risk exposure, according to research commissioned by ACL Services.
Just under half the 54 UK, US, and German IT and telecoms companies surveyed said they had [...]

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IBM mainframe adds Gigabit Ethernet, InfiniBand links

Ten weeks after unveiling the System z10 mainframe, IBM on Tuesday announced that new Gigabit Ethernet hardware for LAN connectivity and new InfiniBand coupling links will be available May 30.
Mainframe LAN connectivity is being provided with the OSA-Express3, which includes a new microprocessor and PCI adapter “designed for high-speed communication in the enterprise backbone or [...]

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staff with Cobol skills attracted the best rates of pay

UK IT market is in danger of losing a huge portion of its workforce to overseas rivals as companies fail to evoke staff loyalty.
Almost two-thirds (66 per cent) of IT staff are looking for employment opportunities outside the UK, according to a survey of 4,967 UK professionals by recruitment firm Computer People.
In the UK, staff [...]

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Micro Focus Upgrades SOA Express to Support Direct Mainframe CICS Deployment

Micro Focus(R) (LSE.MCRO.L), the leading provider of enterprise application management and modernization solutions, today announced the availability of SOA Express 8.0. The new version adds support for direct deployment into IBM’s Customer Information Control System (CICS),
enabling users to accelerate the deployment of Web services by reusing their existing CICS TS mainframe infrastructure in a simplified [...]

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SAS program to read tape datatset name to build the JCL

//STEP01 EXEC SAS
//INTRDR DD SYSOUT=3D(A,INTRDR)
//SYSIN  DD *
…SAS code to create Tape DSN’s as macro variables, e.g. &TAPENAM1,
&TAPENAM2, etc.
=20
DATA _NULL_;
FILE INTRDR LRECL=3D80 BLKSIZE=3D80 RECFM=3DF NOPRINT NOTITLES;
=20
PUT “//JOB1 JOB (JAMES,123),DIMPLE PROD JOB01′,CLASS=3DA, “;
PUT ‘//             MSGCLASS=3DQ,                          ’;
PUT “//STEP01 EXEC SAS,WORK=3D’750,100′ [...]

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