• How to Understand American Culture: Tutorial

    American culture top tutorial for software engineers. Useful for engineers who will visit the USA and living there.

  • How to Write Logic for Screen Navigation in CICS

    In CICS program, screen logic is popular. That means when user enters data the next step is how to process it. Here are guidelines of how to write screen logic. CICS is OLTP. Like web application, it takes input from the screen and gives back output. Apart from this, you can navigate to other screen from…

  • 5 Must-read Key Points on VSAM Files

    The best five VSAM points you always need to know before you are working on mainframe project where VSAM is the file system.

  • 5 Super Ideas to Manage Your Boss

    Boss management really an art. The ideas provided here surely useful to manage your boss.

  • CICS: Abend Options ‘ABCODE’,’CANCEL’,NODUMP’

    You can give three abend options in the CICS command. The general syntax is: EXEC CICS ABEND ABCODE(name) CANCEL NODUMP END-EXEC ABCODE: When abend comes the abend code will be displayed as given in the place “name”. If we do not give EXEC CICS DUMP TRANSACTION END-EXEC, we do not get DUMP for ABEND. CANCEL: Cancel will cancel all…

  • Personal Insurance domain knowledge really useful for techies(part-1)

    Personal insurance domain knowledge useful for software developers to develop awesome products.

  • Full vs Fast-path vs HALDB vs DEDB

    The clear difference of Full function, Fast path and HALDB databases that are very frequently used in IMS DB database environment. Each architecture has its own merits and de-merits. Read more.

  • Zo/s Storage Management?

    In the mainframe context storage management means to make available required storage to run day to day applications. Today’s environment, accessing application faster rate with no extra cost is mantra following by all business houses. To run all these we need effective storage manager. And, optimization also required. There is a tool called IBM Tivoli…

  • What is Big data the awesome stuff you need

    So, from the survey of world biggest magazine Computer world, the one of  hottest skill in 2013 is Big Data. What is Big data? The definition of big data analytics is also getting pulled in somewhat conflicting directions. One can start with an understanding of data warehousing and add capabilities that the classic data warehouse doesn’t…

  • Start Your New Job Right Away!

    A new job is stressful. You’re unsure of what’s expected of you or how to prove yourself. Here are three things you can do to increase your chances of success: New job: the Ideal Tips Source: HBR

  • Why ESDS Files Extensively Used in CICS

    ESDS is one type of VSAM file. It does not support in COBOL. Since the records can be accessed using RBA only. Each record has its own RBA we can not predict it so it does not support in COBOL. There are 3 reasons why ESDS supports more in CICS. In CICS, we normally use VSAM files like KSDS, RRDS, and…

  • How to Check VSAM file is Closed or Not

    You can check VSAM file is closed or not using this command.