• CICS EIBDATE: How to Know When Task is Started

    Contains the date the task is started; this field is updated by the ASKTIME command. The date is in packed decimal form (0CYYDDD+) where C shows the century with values 0 for the 1900s and 1 for the 2000s. For example, the date 31 December 1999 has the EIBDATE value of 0099365 and the date…

  • NVL and COALESCE Functions Basic Differences in DB2

    The NVL function returns the first argument that is not null. ==>NVL(expression1, expression2) The arguments are evaluated in the order in which they are specified, and the result of the function is the first argument that is not null. The result can be null only if all the arguments can be null, and the result…

  • CICS PIPELINE Complete Information

    PIPELINE in CICS the purpose is you need during developing Web -services. How PIPELINE Works A CICS pipeline is shared by many different Web services, and is used to configure shared qualities of service. It is usually the CICS system programmer who is responsible for configuring PIPELINE resources. This is done using a pipeline configuration file. WSBind files are installed…

  • How to pass a Channel to Local or Remote System in CICS

    START CHANNEL >-START–TRANSID(name)–CHANNEL(name)————————–> –+——————–+–+——————-+—————><+-TERMID(name)——-+ ‘-SYSID(systemname)-‘‘-USERID(data-value)-‘ Description: START CHANNEL starts a task on a local or remote system, passing it a channel. Typically, the starting task uses the channel to pass data to the started task (although in some circumstances the channel can be empty). The starting task can also specify a terminal to be used by…

  • CONCAT Operator ‘||’ Vs. CONCAT Function – Are They Identical?

    CONCAT Operator ||: The operands of concatenation must be compatible strings. A binary string cannot be concatenated with a character string, including character strings that are defined as FOR BIT DATA . A distinct type that is based on a string type can be concatenated only if an appropriate user-defined function is created. Both CONCAT…

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    How the BMP program will use in IMS DB projects explained.

  • How to Use IMS DB Monitor in Batch JCL

    This content discusses methods to monitor Buffer usage and database calls in IMS programs. It highlights the use of the IMS monitor and DFSSTAT DD card in batch JCL to gather performance data with minimal overhead. Additionally, it mentions the DB monitor’s role in troubleshooting specific issues during batch job execution.

  • IMS DB/DC Not Suitable for Batch programs, why

    The interesting point is DB/DC does contain both transaction manager and database manager. So this region supports to CICS to access IMS database. Except BATCH it supports for all kinds of transactions. Batch Jobs Note: Pure BATCH runs under MVS address space. So BATCH jobs cannot access IMS database, unless they used as BMP (Batch).…