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6E0 could be getting treated as an exponent number while 6F0 would not be.

COMP-5 is the same as COMP, except when the value exceeds the picture size. The compiler option TRUNC(BIN) will cause COMP to work the same as COMP-5.

The ^M is X'0D' (or 13 in decimal which is a carriage return -- CR -- in the ASCII collating sequence) and was achieved by sending your data set to the Unix machine with SBSENDEOL=CRLF option of FTP o ...

I thought MVS/QuickRef is default in IBM Mainframe.Actually, no it is not. it is a vendor product and as such must be purchased from the vendor and installed at the site. Relatively few sites I have ...

If you're looking at a text file (or data set), you should be aware that the mainframe uses EBCDIC, which is a different collating sequence than ASCII and hence you CANNOT compare a checksum from a ma ...

You don't need access to a mainframe to find this information. From https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/zosbasics/com.ibm.zos.zconcepts/zconcepts_159.htm there is (emphasis added by me):V (Va ...

Generally, yes although what you want to do can get tricky. Probably the easiest way is to create a table to convert field names into starting position, length, and data type (unless zoned decimal is ...

Software metrics are notoriously difficult to implement (correctly or incorrectly). As you've discovered, even something as "simple" as lines of code (LOC) isn't really that simple. If you ...

If you download the Smart DFSORT Tricks paper from https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/smart-dfsort-tricks you can find code to provide the weekday for a date; you can also find out how to subtract days ...

So when I browse the path, I'm seeing a view of the base cluster that has been resorted on the fly to reflect the AIX?No, not at all. For each AIX, the record consists of some overhead bytes followed ...

does the dataset that represents the PATH now contain all the data that's in the base cluster but in the order of the AIX? This is the first misconception -- the PATH is a CATALOG entry and does not r ...

My requirement is to send the file in excell format. Is it possible.That depends upon what you mean by "excell" (sic) format -- a comma-delimited sequential file can be converted in Excel qu ...