Cobol shortcut using sort

Posted on December 21, 2009 - Filed Under Mainframe | 2 Comments

One of the more common tasks for a Cobol program is to take some action on matching records from two flat files. This is fairly straightforward, but it’s still a pain, because you have to be meticulous about testing a situation like what happens when one file hits EOF before the other one.

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The search for answers in a new shop

Posted on December 6, 2009 - Filed Under Mainframe | Leave a Comment

It never ceases to amaze me–you start a new job (or contract, in my case), and things go fine until you need some specialized piece of knowledge. Like in my case, this week, how to do a new copy for CICS? Not only does IBM change the process every now and then, but sometimes shops [...]

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