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I want to set position for a particular text in a certain position in several of my cics maps.Please provide me with a solution. Ex: If "F1-Help" has to be set to pos(4,27) always in all the maps within a PDS.

2369

How do u find the programs calling the given module, without having doing 3.13 on loadlib/source library?

2 7355

How to resolve -805 error in DB2?

Cap Gemini,

1 36355

How to resolve -803 sql code in DB2?

Cap Gemini,

3 44589

How to resolve -818 sql code in DB2?

Cap Gemini,

2 24593

How to resolve -502 sql code in DB2?

Cap Gemini,

2 25455

How to resolve -917 sql code in DB2?

Cap Gemini,

3 17211

How to resolve -407 sql code in DB2?

Cap Gemini,

9 31971

How to resolve -504 sql code in DB2?

Cap Gemini,

2 19062

This question regarding Checkpoint. Suppose my program has checkpoint for every 100 records. If my program abends at 120 records, what will happen. I know first 100 records are committed and rest of 20 records where they gone and where they are stored.

IBM, John Deere,

1 10056

how can we pass parameters from JCL to cobol subprogram...my requirement is i should not get data from mainprogram but i need it from JCL directly

IBM, TCS,

5 24481

How to get the last but one duplicate record of the file using Sort?

Fidelity,

2 11167

How to find the number of duplicates in a file using Sort?

Fidelity,

4 27296

can anybody help me to solve this problem. the program that i m checking display error message saying "Record format for file AJDSPFFD does not match model file and decimal error. how to solve this problem. The AJDSPFFD is snapshot the AJTLOG that is the audit trail list.

2848

what is the COND=EVEN ? Can anyone give me an example to explain the usage.

2 8415

Un-Answered Questions { MainFrame }

what is message subfile?

1813

how you get the relative record in a subfile in which cursor is located?

1165

For rewrite, why is it mandatory that file needs to be opened?

1154

What does db2 stand for?

1096

What is the main function of key-sequenced data set?

1086

What is the local-storage section?

1197

how to display the negative numbers?

2388

What is batch dl/i mode?

3412

Can you explain cics transaction gateway?

1127

What is the difference between read work file 1 and read work file once? Why we are using work file once?

1026

What is jcl in mainframe, and how many types of jcl statements are there for a job?

1255

what is JCL?

1227

What is a hyperdescriptor? How does it work?

1198

What is syscat in db2?

1077

What are the various data types available in db2?

1152

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