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I was toying with the idea of writing my own plugins... since there doesn't appear to be anything available.

'Suggest you clarify exactly what you are looking for. . .'

Editing, file management, submitting jcl to batch on the Eclipse platform.

That's what development activities are.

Thanks for the t ...

Thank you for the reply papadi - Hard to believe indeed - I was asking for an alternative to the IBM offering.

I'm assuming that they are offering a product for sale, I would like an Open Source a ...

I just learned about the eclipse platform and how IBM has quite a product line (Rational Developer) that transfers z/OS development activities to it.

Are there any open source alternatives ?

I ...

Not sure if I will get a second reply - the first reply was a question, who the client was.

Sigh.

Thank you very much ! May I ask what search argument you used, and what search engine ? I googled for MCMS and got dozens of unrelated hits, then searched on CMMS and of course got more.

Not sure if this is the appropriate section - but am looking for anyone still running a Fixed Asset system called MCMS... authored by Control Software Inc in Pennsylvania back in the 90's.

Does any ...

Thanks 'dinosaur' -

I was a CICS admin for years, but returned to applications since there is a scarcity of m/f jobs. On another board a 'exec cics write journalname' was suggested... so I do have ...

Thank you for your suggestion.

We just replaced DB/2 with Oracle. I think the direction here would be to use a VSAM file. I'm thinking ESDS since it will be written to sequentially.

I need to write an application that will be linked to by other applications that update files for the purpose of tracking who did what and when. I'll pass along basic info in a comarea, such as date/t ...

Thank you both for your suggestions.

Is there a way short of writing a macro to display INCLUDEs and PROCs while editing or browing JCL ?

One has to 'hop around' to see what a certain PROC or INCLUDE does... would be nice to pull it i ...

Another good solution... thanks for it.

Perhaps this may work with another sort product - I don't think we are using dfsort.

Thank you for the idea.

I've got a request to not send a file via ftp in a jobstream if it is empty, but to skip the send.

I have an assembler program that reads the catalog for VSAM files and works, but it doesn't work ...