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ISPF Tricks

Posted in ISPF, MF TIPS, tagged , , , , , , on May 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

In my extensive experience working in the mainframe space, I’ve come up with some ISPF tricks over the years that I would like to share. Whether they’re useful to you is, obviously, up to you to decide.
Before going forward, a quick note about using ISPF CMD(xxx) is in order. I’ve found that using CMD(xxx) as [...]

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Assign separate name for temporary dataset

Posted in ISPF, JCL, MF TIPS, MVS, dataset, tagged , , , , , on April 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

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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Syslog

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

WRITELOG command in MVS to force the syslog to spool and start another one.
To have the hardcopy message set recorded on the system log, enter:      V SYSLOG,HARDCPY

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Multiple Volume dataset

Posted in MF TIPS, tagged , , on March 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

 Each piece is not a separate dataset as far as the catalog is concerned.
Ideally you are SMS managed so the politically correct answer is what you call
reorg the entire file. I understand that to be just copy to a new name and then
you can delete the current and rename the new to current.
Now if you [...]

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How to set large timeout to avoid FTP Time out Issue?

Posted in MF TIPS, tagged , on March 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

  // EXEC PGM=FTP,REGION=2048K,
//     PARM=’ftp.site.name.or.ip.address -v (EXIT TIMEOUT 1200′

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Significance of TRUNC (STD) / TRUNC (BIN) in COBOL VSE

Posted in MF TIPS, tagged , , on March 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Have you ever wonder why your variable of SMALLLINT is getting truncated from 32767 to 2767?If your variable has the value 32767, cobol program would treat this as 2767 if TRUNC(STD) (the default) is used.  Only by using TRUNC(BIN) will Cobol/VSE guarantee that A-SMALLINT is treated as 32767 and not 2767.  

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How to send Japanese (Kanji) mail from the Mainframe?

Posted in MF TIPS, tagged , on March 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

A developer/analyst explains about his requirement: “When we need to send the e-mail in HTML format, that is easy: you put all the necessary tags, and then for Kanji characters we use HTML-recognized encoding (for example, to get? Character we send “照”, and when you open the HTML it shows up as?). We have a [...]

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