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To get the DD info from a cobol program

Posted in cobol, cobol Source code, tagged , , , on May 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

You can call IDCAMS which does the LISTCAT info from COBOL. Check this link which has an example of Cobol calling IDCAMS.
 
IDENTIFICATION DIVISION.
       PROGRAM-ID.  DDNAME.
       AUTHOR.CCC.
      *****************************************************************
      **                                        [...]

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Hot new tech job is…COBOL programmer

Posted in IBM Mainframe business news, Mainframe news, cobol, tagged , , on April 17, 2008 | 1 Comment »

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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