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  • COBOL – Global, Initial, External,Common

    The External, Common, Initial and Global are the frequently confusing clauses for COBOL developers. The powerful examples given here are an excellent source to understand and implement by all developers. Read more.

  • Plain English at Work: Why It Matters More Than Ever

    In today’s fast-moving workplaces, the ability to communicate clearly is not just a bonus—it’s essential. Whether you’re writing emails, project reports, user manuals, or even technical documents, using Plain English ensures your message is understood quickly and accurately by everyone, regardless of their background. But what exactly is Plain English, and how can you apply…

  • DB2: Bind vs Pre-compilation errors

    Bind time errors and pre-compilation errors in DB2 programs

  • How to Write Sort Logic in COBOL – Here’s Best Example

    Are you ever taken Quiz on Cobol? It is completely free-for your HELP just check out here. The following syntax of sort has some hidden meanings. Just I would like to share those: COBOL Sort Key Points Here, all the files opened and closed automatically. No need to open/write explicitly. All these files can be…

  • The Complete List of COBOL Special Registers

    I am giving here some of the important Cobol special registers. These are very much useful in the program to get additional information. ADDRESS OF JNIENVPTR LENGTH OF RETURN-CODE SHIFT-IN SHIFT-OUT SORT-CONTROL SORT-CORE-SIZE SORT-FILE-SIZE SORT-MESSAGE SORT-MODE-SIZE SORT-RETURN

  • JCL- Inrec, Overlay and Outrec-DFSORT

    DFSORT in JCL is the best reporting tool. To generate complex reports from the input dataset especially in mainframe, you need to know how to use certain key parameters. Read more.

  • COBOL: How to Write INPUT and OUTPUT Procedures

    COBOL Return and Release to sort the input data

  • What Makes You Difference

    Both completed Degree at the same time, after fifteen years who is successful person. You can consider both money and Career wise. What is the difference.

  • Here’re Top CICS and COBOL Compiler Options

    OS/VS COBOL programs will not run starting from CICS TS V2.2. The new version of CICS TS V3 needs enterprise Cobol. Read Object oriented Cobol. If we want to change OS/VS COBOL program, we need to use old CICS TS translator. The compiler options for enterprise COBOL are: CICS DATA(24) DBCS LIB NO DYNAM RENT TRUNC(OPT)/TRUNC(BIN) Related Posts

  • COBOL: Copy Vs Include Real Difference

    I found a nice thing that the difference between COPY and INCLUDE. Both are the same. See the description how and when- COPY- cobol reserved word. So if we want to embed cobol code, written in another pds, we can embed it by “COPY name-1” INCLUDE- It is not at all related to COBOL. It is purely SQL statement. It includes…

  • COBOL: Quiz Part 1 and Part 2

    COBOL Quiz to practice and useful for all mainframe developers.

  • IMS DB: CHKP(basic, symbolic), XRST calls

    Here is a way to implement checkpoint logic in IMS DB. The DLI calls CHKP and XRST are needed to implement it Checkpoint DLI calls in IMS DB CHKP (basic) CHKP (basic) call’s purpose is to recover the data. It collects the checkpoint-id and writes it to the checkpoint file. When the checkpoint arrives, it commits…