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Is COBOL killing CICS ?

Posted in CICS, IBM Mainframe business news, tagged , , , on April 29, 2008 | 1 Comment »

How’s that for a starter ? I must immediately admit, it’s not my quote, it comes from Corneel’s Blog at the CICS Community Forums page. I recently came across this blog of Corneel Booysen, also the driving force behind the CICS Wiki, I discussed earlier. He writes a great article on how COBOL is a [...]

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Mainframe-based Software Provider HostBridge Technology Achieves Record Revenue in 2007

Posted in CICS, IBM Mainframe business news, tagged , , , on April 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

We are thrilled with the results from 2007,” says Russ Teubner, CEO. “Not only in terms of numbers, but our portfolio of top-tier customers continued to grow. The trust they put in us to handle their CICS integration projects is affirming and gratifying. We take that very seriously.”
 
In 2007, HostBridge Technology became an IBM(R) Advanced [...]

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TO increase DSA Value in CICS

Posted in CICS, CICS Commands, CICS Q&A, tagged , , , on April 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

CEMT INQ DSAS
You can modify the numbers in green, in 256K increments.  (just add 1 or subtract 256K and the system will add/subtract 256K).
If you look at 364:
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CICS Shr Option (3,3)

Posted in CICS, CICS Commands, CICS Q&A, JES Commands, MVS, Mainframe Code, Mainframe Q&A, VSAM, dataset, tagged , , , , on April 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

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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CICS – NEWCOPY

Posted in CICS, tagged , , , , on April 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

If programmers delete or move a program from one library in CICS, it will cause CICS to lose its pointer. The newcopy will find the program in the new library and reestablish the pointer to load for CICS.

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CICS MAP

Posted in CICS, tagged , , , , on April 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

How to make the CICS program to dynamically determine, by row/column positioning, where a popup window (map) will appear on the screen?
Option 1: The easiest way is to put a -1 in the length field of the output map. It will position the cursor “inside” the first (I believe) field that has a length of [...]

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