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SEARCH390| Expert Questions of the Week Tip
March 18, 2002
Answers to your technical questions and expert advice for the 390
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IN THIS ISSUE | Table of Contents
1. Expert Questions of the Week
- Is CALL pp ready for prime time?
- Need help implementing a security mechanism in CICS?
- How to automate a batch job to read e-mail attachments?
2. IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENTS AND LINKS
- SearchStorage Discussion Day: Mainframe storage
- Take Our Poll: Do you use Web-enabling CICS applications?
- Discussion: How to link-edit OS/VS and VS II programs using LE?
- Refer a friend: Win an Olympus Camedia digital camera
- Search390 Tips Contest: Win a Garmin eMap GPS
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IS CALL PP READY FOR PRIME TIME? | by Tom Ross
Dear Ask the Expert,
We started implementing SET procedure-pointer CALL procedure-pointer
for subroutines called more than once because:
1) It's 50% faster for COBOL calling COBOL and
2) It's more than 50% faster for COBOL calling assembler.
We're currently using COBOL OS/390 v2r1. We started switching to
v2r2, but now we're waiting for the install of Enterprise COBOL v3r1.
We're on OS/390 v2r10, but upgrading to z/OS v1r2 in May.
Here's the issue: My systems folks, after talking to some IBM folks,
are saying that CALL procedure-pointer is not yet fully supported in
our environment. So they're telling us to wait for COBOL v3r1 before
using it. I've tested the heck out of CALL procedure-pointer in our
batch environment. So what's you're take on this? Is CALL pp not
ready for prime-time with COBOL for OS/390 or did my folks get some
overly cautious advice? This is important because we have the
opportunity to switch over 2000 dynamic calls to SET pp/CALL pp. That
opportunity will be lost if I wait for the Enterprise COBOL install.
>> CLICK for Tom's response:
http://search390.techtarget.com/ateQuestionNResponse/0,289625,sid10_cid455507_tax285603,00.html
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NEED HELP IMPLEMENTING A SECURITY MECHANISM IN CICS? | by Ken Davies
Dear Ask the Expert,
I want to implement the following security mechanism: I will have two
user groups. I have a transaction through which you can browse and
update data. I want to restrict the update option to certain user
groups only. I would define two transaction codes for the same
transaction TRN1 for browse and TRN2 for update. Both will point to
same application program. In the application program, if a user
selects the update option, the program should check if the current
user has access to TRN2 and then only allow for update. Is it
possible to implement such a mechanism and if so how?
>> CLICK for Ken's answer:
http://search390.techtarget.com/ateQuestionNResponse/0,289625,sid10_cid456240_tax289214,00.html
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HOW TO AUTOMATE BATCH JOBS TO READ E-MAIL ATTACHMENTS? | by Jim
Keohane
Dear Ask the Expert,
We have customers who e-mail spreadsheet data to one of our clerks.
The data is then keyed into an online system running on our OS/390
mainframe. We'd like to automate this process by having the customer
e-mail a comma-separated-text file (or similar) to an e-mail address
set up on our mainframe SMTP server.
We'd like the ability to recognize that an e-mail with attachment has
been received and have a batch job read the attachment and save the
data in a file for further processing.
>> CLICK for part one of Jim's response:
http://search390.techtarget.com/ateQuestionNResponse/0,289625,sid10_cid455575_tax285123,00.html
>> CLICK for part two of Jim's response:
http://search390.techtarget.com/ateQuestionNResponse/0,289625,sid10_cid455576_tax285123,00.html
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DISCUSSION DAY EVENT | Mainframe storage
Who: Tricia Jiang and Michael Pousson, IBM Tivoli Storage
When: Tomorrow, Tuesday, March 19, 2002
Where: Storage management tips & tricks forum
While distributed storage environments are more commonplace today
than mainframe storage environments, many businesses still depend on
the mainframe to manage their storage resources. Because of the
complexity of mainframes certain challenges abound. Join us for a
discussion day tomorrow, Tuesday, March 19 with Tivoli storage
attaches Tricia Jiang and Michael Pousson for a discussion on working
out the challenges of mainframe storage.
Begin the discussion now:
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TAKE OUR POLL | Search390
Are you currently using Web-enabling CICS applications such as Web
Support and CICS TS?
>> CLICK to post your response: http://search390.techtarget.com/poll
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SEARCH390 DISCUSSION FORUMS | Developer
Search390 member "jdtrietsch" posted the following in the Developer
forum and needs your help: "Is it possible to link-edit OS/VS and VS
II programs using LE? If yes, will our programs be supported by IBM?
Also, where can I find more information (sample JCL, etc.) about
link-editing with LE."
Think you know the answer? If so, please share your thoughts and
suggestions. To post a response, click here:
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