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Copying MVS Datasets to Unix files
Read more: Copying MVS Datasets to Unix filesRecently I had to get some people started with a few utilities. I thought to share this here. They will be in the next few posts for searchability reasons. There are more ways to Rome, as we say here, so please feel free share you variants in a comment. (I unfortunately need manually curate comments…
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Running a MVS or TSO Rexx program from the z/OS Unix environment
Read more: Running a MVS or TSO Rexx program from the z/OS Unix environmentYou probably know that you can use Rexx programs in z/OS Unix. What you may not know is that you can also run a TSO or MVS Rexx program from the z/OS Unix environment. There is a unix command called tso for this. It works as simple as this: tso –t “exec ‘YOUR.MVS.REXXPDS(TESTREXX)’ EXEC” will…
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z/OS Container Extensions Live demo
Read more: z/OS Container Extensions Live demoOn 2 December, in a session organized by the Dutch GSE, the IBM User Group, specialists from the IBM Garage in Montpellier performed a presentation and live demonstration of running Linux containers in a z/OS Container Extension (zCX). After the session, there was a short discussion about use cases for z/OS Container Extensions, introduced by…
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Getting started with Ansible – Bill Pereira
Read more: Getting started with Ansible – Bill PereiraBil Pereira’s channel is a great and very informative Youtube channel. He is adopting new tech for the mainframe and tries it all out, while explaining his experiments on his Youtube channel.
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Microservices for beginners – video
Read more: Microservices for beginners – videoCool video from IBM Developers conf. https://developer.ibm.com/videos/microservices-for-beginners/
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Execute an operator command via JCL
Read more: Execute an operator command via JCLIn my previous post I shared a way to execute operator command from a batch job using Rexx and SDSF. That is of course a bit cumbersome if you just want to fire off a fixed operator command. Therefore here the simplest way to execute an operator command: https://github.com/execpgm/execpgm-assets/blob/master/Tools/OperatorCommandJCL.txt //…jobcard //EXECCMD EXEC PGM=IEFBR14 // COMMAND…
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Executing operator command froms batch – using Rexx and SDSF
Read more: Executing operator command froms batch – using Rexx and SDSFOne of the many way to execute an operator command from a batch rexx program. With this solution here, with Rexx and SDSF, you can embed the commands in more complex business logic, and use Rexx variables to dynamically establish values for the commands to be issued. By the way I have started a repository…
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COBOL 60 by one of the early adopters, Wim Ebbinkhuijsen
Read more: COBOL 60 by one of the early adopters, Wim EbbinkhuijsenThis year COBOL was delivered 60 years ago as one of the first general purpose, cross-platform programming languages. On 8 January 1960 the ‘COBOL Executive Committee’ formally approved the design of the programming language “COBOL 60”. One of the very early adopters of the programming language in the Netherlands, and long time member of the…
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A very short summary of replication solutions (for Db2)
Read more: A very short summary of replication solutions (for Db2)Some time ago I did a short summary presentation on my experience with replication solutions for Db2 on z/OS. The pictures and text are quite generic, so I thought it might be worthwhile sharing the main topics here. The picture below summarizes the options visually: Queue replication Synchronizes tables. The synchronization process on the capture…
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$ZOOM – Mother of all EDIT macro’s
Read more: $ZOOM – Mother of all EDIT macro’sThe most useful ISPF EDIT macro ever. I think it was written by Paul van Goethem from Belgium, somewhere before 1993. It has quickly spread through many sites. Point your cursor at at dataset name in a file your are editing en executing the macro will launch an EDIT session of that file. I always…
