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Make mainframe operations efficient with these strategies

By Brien Posey 16 May 2023

Mainframes affect organizational bottom lines. An expert outlines some key strategies to maintain reliability while keeping mainframe operation costs in check. Read More

Mark Zelden

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Mark Zelden is a z/OS systems programmer and consultant with more than 25 years of experience.Read More

What to do when a mainframe IPL stalls out without error messages

By Mark Zelden 08 Nov 2013

When initial program load stalls out on a mainframe logical partition, the culprit is often consoles. Connectivity is one of many potential causes. Read More

Override a SYSIN DD DSN in the proc from the JCL?

By Mark Zelden 10 Nov 2008

Override the SYSIN DD Domain Name Source (DNS) in proc using the Job Control Language (JCL) this code syntax. Read More

COBOL, VS-COBOL-II and MFCOBOL: What's the difference?

By Jim Schesvold 10 Nov 2008

The original COBOL compiler grew into greater addressability with VS- COBOL-II MFCOBOL and increased functionality in MFCOBOL. Read More

CW@50: From ICL to ITIL

By Cliff Saran 06 Apr 2016

Standardisation helps industries to grow. Here in the UK, a number of highly influential standards emerged that have become building blocks for the modern computer industry Read More

CICS trace: Getting started, formatting and externalizing

By Robert Crawford 29 Jan 2007

CICS expert Robert Crawford describes the handy CICS trace tool and gives code for externalizing its output. Read More

Application security: Protecting application availability, data confidentiality and integrity

By John Overbaugh 31 Mar 2011

Network security and application security are both important in keeping your applications safe from hackers. In this tip, security engineer John Overbaugh focuses on application security, which is needed to protect... Read More

Troubleshooting PGMIDERR/AEI0 ABEND in CICS Transaction Gateway

By Robert Crawford 14 Apr 2010

This tip delves into resolving PGMIDERR/AEI0 ABEND errors within the CICS Transaction Gateway. The solution to these errors isn't always an intuitive one, and may require several additional and lengthy steps along... Read More