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Hello Bauer

I'm no longer working so I can't confirm whether the detach partition command pertains DB2 on zOS. I recall DBAs talking about partition ranging and detaching partitions, but I'm not ce ...

Hello Michael

I think what you want to accomplish can be done by defining the table using range partitioning. For example, each partition could house rows for a particular sales_date week. At the e ...

If you're using COBOL version 6, there's an extension to the INITIALIZE verb that will also initialize FILLER fields.

Here's how the COBOL Language Reference describes it:

FILLER phrase

When ...

I've worked with Xpediter and Debug. I don't believe there is a Debug command that is equivalent to the Xpediter 'SKIP' command.

However, the same functionality can be achieved by using the Debug ...

Hello Michael

The answer is slack bytes. The compiler is inserting slack bytes between some fields in order that the binary fields align on the proper boundary.

For example, field SYFTE is 3 ...

Hello Kolusu

Your SORT job worked like a charm. Thanks for the quick response.

Also, thanks for the information about ICETOOL ddnames.

We had a need to convert the values in a field from CSL (character with a leading sign) format to zoned decimal. I checked the SORT manual but I didn't see an example there on how to do this. I coded ...

For shops that use IBM File Manager instead of Fileaid, you can use File Manager to generate a list of members in a PDS with a count of the number of records in each member.

//STEP01 EXEC PGM=FMNMA ...

Hello Vijay

I've seen situations like the one you described where an IF NUMERIC test returns different results from one version of COBOL to another. In most cases, the different results can be tra ...

I apologize for responding late to this post. I hope that someone may find my information helpful.

Three factors come into play in any computer process:
1. The environment
2. The program
3. T ...

Neoframer:

I suggest you download IBM Redbook "VSAM Demystified."

http://publib-b.boulder.ibm.com/Redbooks.nsf/Redbooks?SearchView&Query=vsam+demystified&SearchMax=4999

I believe yo ...

IBM supplies a sample COBOL program to demonstrate how to use Language Environment services CEEGTST and CEEFRST. The sample program uses these services to build a linked list.

This sample program ...

At a former place of employment, they had a standard that all displays from a COBOL program be written to ddname SYSOUD. The SYSOUT ddname was reserved for messages coming from the SORT program.

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Mly:

Log on to TSO and go to option 7.3 (dialog test, variable). Scroll down the list until you come to a variable called ZSYSNODE. The value of ZSYSNODE is the 'node' of your system.

Also, i ...

Phantom:

If you are using the Endevor reports, report '08' should get you a list of all elements signed-out in the specified environment, system, and subsystem for type 'PARM'. This is how the scr ...