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In my table having 3000 Records. How can I delete the 500th row? (we don't know what is data inside the table)

3 10262

Please send me the real time scenarios in Mainframe Project... i.e., it may be in banking or insurance sector or any other no problem..... please send your mails to krishnaprasadbvs@gmail.com

CSC,

11750

I want to know what exactly the STOPPER field does with example. Please help.

1 4465

What is the drawback of using HANDLE CONDITION?

IBM,

1 6029

My JCL has 4 steps that execute PROC’s P1, P2, P3 and P4 as shown below //P1 EXEC PROC=P1 //P2 EXEC PROC=P2 //P3 EXEC PROC=P3 //P4 EXEC PROC=P4 There are four steps S1, S2, S3 and S4 in each PROC’s (i.e. P1, P2, P3 and P4) I want to execute only step S2 of PROC P2 and no other steps or PROC’s. How do you achieve this?

IMS,

4 9866

can any one help in hawkeye and turnover or any change management system plzzzzz or send the documents to my mail id :gvsp.as4@gmail.com

2409

what is importance of 'MAPFLD' IN OPNQRYF FILE ?

2 11086

how to purge 50 initiators continuously?? console commands??

IBM, ups,

4 14173

I have 255 procedures in a job, each procedure contain 2 steps.can we execute this job?

2 6591

this is rpg3 code W0RTN IFEQ @CN,002 what is the means @CN,002

1 5279

ihave ten flatfile in that iwant to concatinate all the files except file 5,6 into output file by uing jcl? how to do this? give me detail yntax for tis?

IBM,

4 9049

how we change the vsam file name in cics rigion? anybody elobrate this?

IBM,

3 11478

what is need of START 0?. In steed of '0' can we use any other numerics?. if we use what will happen?.

CSC, TCS,

4 11584

sample code for read a 2nd record from last in flatfile how can do?

iNautix,

4 14238

A cobol program to read a file , match it with other if. If match occurs then write it to an output file. If no match then no need to write it.Error log created by program to track any error.

1 7416

Un-Answered Questions { MainFrame }

What is the difference between crtdupobj and copyf?

1201

How to execute a query in qmf at a particular time?

945

What parameter of the job statement is used to limit the cpu time consumed by the job?

1279

How to run cobol program using jcl?

1231

What do you understand by the term job time – out and how can you overcome that?

1032

Name a few IBM utility programs, and explain its function.

4976

If my rpg program has a date field, what extra care I have to take while compiling that rpg program? If the file is keyed and I have declared the file as well as key list properly in my program. Still am getting an error message like "chain/reade operation is not allowed" what may be the case?

1114

What is a trigger in the db2 database?

1080

What are some of the cics commands associated with interval control?

1041

What is a record lock error?

1763

how can we apply for HSBC exam(Mainframe) in India??? i went to their site and was told to submit my CV ,. etc..( totally confusing...)

2400

Define db2.

1116

What are the access modes of START statement?

1273

what is unit testing ? on which basis you will write test case ?

2015

which utility is used to run a cobol-db2 program?

1401

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