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SEARCH390| Expert Questions of the Week Tip
May 23, 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
- What's good reading for an OS/390 newbie?
- How to start a new CICS transaction with correct startcode?
- Do I have to use COBOL 3 when compiling CICS programs?
2. IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENTS AND LINKS
- Featured Topic: FTP from A to Z
- Poll: What's your position on the H-1B work visa?
- Discussion: Need help with COBOL stored procedure?
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WHAT'S GOOD READING FOR AN OS/390 NEWBIE? | by Mark Zelden
Dear Ask the Expert,
I am new to OS/390. Can you recommend some books to make me more
familiar with OS/390?
>> CLICK for Mark's answer:
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HOW TO START NEW TRANSACTION WITH CORRECT STARTCODE? | by Jose Flores
Dear Ask the Expert,
The problem we are having is in the bridge exit, when a transaction
is ending via a return immediate or a start. The brxa-nexttranid
contains the tranid of the next transaction and the
brxa-nexttranid-source indicates that the transaction is to be
"started." We send a message via MQ back to the client to start the
next transaction. The client then sends a message back to start the
next transaction. When the bridge exit is invoked with the new
transaction, the brxa-startcode contains the value "TD" instead of
"SD." How can we start the new transaction with the correct
startcode?
>> CLICK for Jose's answer:
http://search390.techtarget.com/ateQuestionNResponse/0,289625,sid10_cid468792_tax288468,00.html
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DO I HAVE TO USE COBOL3 WHEN COMPILING CICS PROGRAMS? | by Tom Ross
Dear Ask the Expert,
We are trying to migrate from COBOL II 4.0 to COBOL for OS/390 & VM
2.2. Our exercise does not involve recompiling all programs, only
some. When compiling CICS programs, do I have to use COBOL3 as a parm
for the translator step?
>> CLICK for Tom's answer:
http://search390.techtarget.com/ateQuestionNResponse/0,289625,sid10_cid468790_tax285603,00.html
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SEARCH390 FEATURED TOPIC | FTP from A to Z
FTP (File Transfer Protocol) was the most searched for term on
Search390 last week, so we're highlighting FTP this week. Look at
this week's Featured Topic and you'll find everything from a general
FTP overview, to FTP and multi-platforms connectivity.
>> CLICK for full Featured Topic:
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TAKE OUR POLL | Search390
What's your position on the H-1B work visa?
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SEARCH390 DISCUSSION FORUMS | Developer
Search390 member "PeteMeers" posted the following in the Developer
discussion forum and received a thread of responses: "I have a DB2
table which triggers a stored procedure in COBOL. The stored
procedure passes the row received from the trigger to an MQ. The
problem is this: The COBOL program does not retain the connection to
the MQ for each invocation. I have to reconnect to the MQ each time
the stored procedure is triggered. It works but is very slow (30ms)."
To read advice from your Search390 peers, or post your own response,
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