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We found a workaround for this, but I want to follow up so I understand.

I misspoke about what the condition was. There was not an abend as I stated.

One long running job was writing to the +1 ...

Scenario:

Multiple jobs are running. Each job creates a +1 version of the same GDG. Will there be contention issues if one job is writing to its version of the GDG while another job starts and t ...

Kolusu,
I saw you posted back in 2007 that you cannot dynamically allocate a tape dataset. I am wondering if the capability is available for allocating a virtual tape dataset?

I have tried B ...

Thank you Kolusu.

I am wondering if DB2 has the following capability.

I have a table that has approximately 170 million rows. I have a scenario where I want to delete the rows from this table where column_1 has a v ...

We were able to do this with an UNLOAD. Needed to use DIRECT NO as one of the parameters, otherwise we got an error because it is a catalog table and the unload didn't like that we were unloading it.

I am trying to write out a sequential file with one record which will contain a date. The sequential file would contain a 10 byte field in CCYY-MM-DD format.

The query would be something like this ...

Thanks for the answers Kolusu.

I am helping someone resolve a problem with this issue. I will let them chase down whether they are allowed to generate dynamic JCL and submit it. I think this ma ...

Yes, they are trying to use REXX. These are rather large files, so in order to save disk space they decided to write to VTS.

They are using a batch REXX step because they don't know the name of ...

Is it possible to copy a file from DASD to a virtual tape without having to specify the volume?

We don't know the format of the file on disk being read, but we would use the LISTDSI command to get ...

Thanks Kolusu. I will take a look at this link.

I haven't worked with MQ for quite awhile, but I seem to remember that I could do something like this. I am wondering if this is a good design.

There are two different CICS screens. One of the sc ...

Thanks, Kolusu. I will give it a try!

Only 17 years later, a similar question. here is the scenario:

A customer transmits a file to our mainframe and it gets stored in a sequential dataset (not a PDS). Our transmit process purposely ...

First, let me apologize for not getting back to you sooner. I was pulled from this task to do something else and just got back to it today. When I looked at the map, I realized that I had posted the ...