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  • 6 Soft Skills to Put on Resume: Boost Job Search

    Soft skills play vital role. These skills help you how to showca Read More ⇢

    6 Soft Skills to Put on Resume: Boost Job Search
  • JCL-GDG Absolute Version and Generation Number

    There is an interesting fact should know by all mainframe guys. GxxxxVyy, where xxxx is an unsigned 4-digit decimal generation number (0001 through 9999) and yy is an unsigned 2-digit decimal version number (00 through 99). For example: D.H.C.G0001V00 is generation data set 1, version 0, in generation data group D.H.C.… Read More ⇢

  • 2 Top Ways of Browsing CICS Error Logs

    In two ways we see the CICS error logs – Batch and Online CEMT and CSMT. You can run a batch job of DFHJUP to read and process CICS log data in MVS system logger log streams and in MVS SMF data sets. Below batch job runs on each LPAR to route error messages to… Read More ⇢

    2 Top Ways of Browsing CICS Error Logs
  • CICS-CEMT Commands (3 of 3)

    CEMT cics list of commands Read More ⇢

    CICS-CEMT Commands (3 of 3)
  • How to Migrate DB2 BLOB to Oracle

    What is BLOB/LOB/DBCLOB? A large object is a data type used by DB2 to manage unstructured data. DB2 provides three built-in data types for storing large objects Creating BLOB Table space: Ref:Craig mullins article. Example: CREATE LOB TABLESPACE TDORGCHT   IN DSN8D10A   LOG NO   USING STOGROUP DB2NNN         PRIQTY   144000… Read More ⇢

    How to Migrate DB2 BLOB to Oracle
  • CICS- CECI Commands (2 of 3)

    Tracing an abend in CICS: When a CICS program terminates abnormally, an abnormal termination message like this is sent to the terminal: DFH006I TRANSACTION DFXX PROGRAM DFXXP00A  ABEND ASRA AT H400 This message indicates that the program DFXXP00A started by transaction DFXX at terminal H400 ended with an abend code of ASRA. Almost always, it’s the abend code… Read More ⇢

    CICS- CECI Commands (2 of 3)
  • CICS – CEBR Commands Part (1 of 3)

    Here are CICS utility transactions – CEBR, CEMT, and CECI. These are commonly used transactions. In three parts, I will cover all these commands. We can do multiple functions with CEBR. It allows you to browse Temporary Queue. General Syntax: CEBR {que name} QUEUE { queue-name} Changes the display to… Read More ⇢

    CICS – CEBR Commands Part (1 of 3)
  • How to Call Stored Procedure in COBOL

    This link provides complete info on DB2 stored procedures. Here’s syntax to call stored procedure in COBOL. Triggers  These are dynamic. Driven by events or by the clock, they start a stored procedure. Triggers are tied to specific tables and actions; they are invoked automatically whenever the table is the target of an… Read More ⇢

    How to Call Stored Procedure in COBOL
  • Logical Partition (LPAR) in Mainframe – Real Purpose

    Logical partitions (LPARs) are, in practice, equivalent to separate mainframes. Each LPAR runs its own operating system. This can be any mainframe operating system; there is no need to run z/OS®, for example, in each LPAR. The installation planners may elect to share I/O devices across several LPARs, but this is a local… Read More ⇢

    Logical Partition (LPAR) in Mainframe – Real Purpose