=3.4 or the most important mainframe command
Once you are on a mainframe, the most important command is: =3.4. This command is issued on the command line of the so-called ISPF screens. See: If you are in…
Once you are on a mainframe, the most important command is: =3.4. This command is issued on the command line of the so-called ISPF screens. See: If you are in…
When I entered the world of the mainframe, I realised that this is a world on it own; it has their own rules and newbies are not easily accepted here.…
With SAS, I see SAS DI Studio being more and more employed to write data loading jobs. It is understandable to see this development. Within a data warehouse environment we…
I now work with a mainframe. I realised once more that numeric variables have different formats on a mainframe. As we do not always have a clear description, we should…
About hundred years ago, I worked on a mainframe. I those days, the mainframe was basically the mainstream computer that many people used. In those days, financial institutions started automating…
This weekend had bad weather. Rain pouring from the sky and a drop of snow. Such weather is good to undertake something that is absolutely useless like writing a Perl…
Sorry to say, but I love Microsoft Visio. Plse do not spread the word. But from time to time, I had to create a document that served two distinct groups:…
For some reason, I always overlooked the possibility to include pictures in a database. I decided to overcome this flaw and started experimenting with it. The first step was to…
I installed teradata recently. The installation was really straight forward. And as a bonus, you get tons of client tools. It is possible to use several clients to start your…
Yesterday, I started installing Oracle. I decided to download the newest version: version 11g R. I used windows xp as a platform with DHCP switched off. It really looked simple:…