I've been having issues getting the C sockets API to work properly in C++. Specifically, although I am including sys/socket.h, I still get compile time errors telling me that AF_INET is not defined. Am I missing something obvious, or could this be related to the fact that I'm doing this coding on z/OS and my problems are much more compli...
My colleagues are attempting to connect BizTalk 2006 R2 via DB2/MVS adapter to a database hosted on z/OS mainframe. When testing the connecting settings, they are getting the following error Could not connect to data source 'New Data Source': The network connection was terminated because the host failed to send any data. SQLSTATE: 08S01...
I have some questions about customers about NF mode for DB2. Google had very little information about it. I've been able to infer the following but I don't completely trust it... NF and CM (compatibility mode) are settings on DB2 v8 on mainframe. DB2 v8 on z/OS in CM is designed to allow DB2 v8 to be used as a drop in replacement for...
Can I develop a windows application using .NET framework and IBM.Data.DB2 provider to access a DB2 database running on OS/390? Thanks in advance. ...
I'm getting the error below when calling a simple SP from the Rational Application Developer Data Perspective when connecting to a DB2 DB instance running on z/OS. Also when calling from SQuirreL. Straight SQL queries run no problem. The query also works fine when called from my JAVA code. 'Error: [ibm][db2][jcc][10243][10940] Stri...
'I've interned at a company that does a lot of mainframe work. Most of my mainframe experience has been using Java and Unix System Services. I've had some experience with the ISPF interface and C but none with assembler. I’m graduating shortly and will be taking an independent study my last semester. I’d like to stick with the mainframe ...
I've come into an interesting problem (as is often the case in interacting with legacy systems). I'm working on an application (which currently runs on a x86 Linux or Windows system) that can receive requests from a variety of systems, one of them being an MVS system. I am attempting to determine which codepage/charset I should be us...
I’m trying to use the WTO instruction from with in Metal C to print out "Hello World" to my job log. This is based on the example in section 1.2.3.5 of the z/OS V1R10.0 Metal C Programming Guide and Reference It appears when I use WTO I am having either issues with my buffer containing 0 or ASCII to EBCDIC conversion. I’ve pasted the rel...
I’m trying to initialize the Metal C environment with the following code, but get the following errors on the memset line. ERROR CCN3275 IMIJWS0.METAL.SAMPLIB(MEM):6 Unexpected text ')' encountered. ERROR CCN3045 IMIJWS0.METAL.SAMPLIB(MEM):6 Undeclared identifier ___MEMSET. ERROR CCN3277 IMIJWS0.METAL.SAMPLIB(MEM):6 Syntax ...
My colleagues and I have several hundred SQL stored procedures sitting on a hosted DB2/z database (version 8.1). We have no administrator rights and our access to the database is via QMF screens. Downloads are done through the 3270 terminal session with the TSO FT command. Is there a simple/efficient way to extract the definitions/text ...
I'm trying to automate downloading of some text files from a z/os PDS, using Python and ftplib. Since the host files are EBCDIC, I can't simply use FTP.retrbinary(). FTP.retrlines(), when used with open(file,w).writelines as its callback, doesn't, of course, provide EOLs. So, for starters, I've come up with this piece of code which "...
Can someone tell me the best way to run a piece of JCL on IBM zOS from a Java web app on a different server (Windows). I also need get a response code back from the job. The 2 options at the moment are: 1) Using JES - But its hard to get the response back 2) Make a call through a DB2 procedure. Is there another (better) way ...
We have a webservice running on Websphere 6.1 using the IBM JAX-RPC based webservices. Client is sending requests without HTTP header of transfer-encoding:chunked (They specify content-length). The response from websphere always has transfer-encoding:chunked in the HTTP header. I assume this will result in the response being sent in mult...
Does anyone know of a C++ unit-testing framework (e.g. CppUnit, Google Test, etc.) that can be used to write tests on z/OS? I do most of my development on Windows using the Dignus C++ compiler, which you can use as a cross-compiler and generate object code to run on z/OS. I tried writing a sample test using Google Test, but the compile...
Using V1.8 z/OS XL C compiler, with warnings jacked-up using INFO(ALL), I get the following warning on line 4 of the code below: WARNING CCN3196 Initialization between types "const int** const" and "int**" is not allowed. 1 int foo = 0; 2 int *ptr = &foo; 3 const int * const fixed_readonly_ptr = ptr; 4 const int...
Hi all. 1) We have a need for Makefiles to build C++ on both z/OS USS and a Linux platform. Is it advisable to use gnu make on z/OS USS in order to keep our makefiles common ? 2) If the Makefiles are common, then some steps in the Makefiles, would still be conditional to the platform. Can we do that by steps that are similar to condit...
What are the advantages and disadvantages of using either REXX or CLISTs in TSO for z/OS? My understanding is that CLISTs are just an older command language but we seem to receive a lot of new software using them, even though REXX is now standard with the operating system. Is there some reason why CLISTs are preferred, especially given...
I have a few JasperReports made and running very fine on a Windows machine. The problem started when the reports were set to run on a mainframe with zOS operating system. The problem is: when Jasper creates the report it seems to read the tables metadata from the database and based on it expect the data to come. Example: if i have a col...
I need to write a REXX Exec or Clist to identify WHO has enqueued a Dataset and display a user friendly message on an ISPF dialog application. Due to system configuration issues, the %WHOHAS command is not available. However I also know that ISPF itself (Option 3.4) has proprietary hooks into the zos mainframe to display the enqueued r...
I tagged this question "impossible" because after a lot of googling, i have not find any trace\reference to a possible answer. I'm asking if there is some way\dirtytrick (possibly cheap) to access Microsoft Sql Server from z/OS mainframe (COBOL programs) and have the result in 3270 terminal emulation; i know that 3270 is a pretty old sys...