Tag: Mainframe Programming

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Build records without a program

I am following various mainframe forums and I find this interesting utility IEBDG-Test Data generator. I did not know about this utility for long. Sometimes we had to build millions of records to volume test an application. I always hate to write a program as it takes time to construct and test it (still might have some errors). I looked for an Utility that could build records without any input and IEBDG helped me out.

To illustrate, below is an example code that builds 100 different records without any input

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TSO delete via Cyber fusion

You all might have used FTP(file transfer protocol) to send/ receive files,setting of flags in other server and even deleting the files from other server .Cyber fusion is also one of the secured ,multi protocol,next generation transfer management technique to send information from one server to another sever with encrypted and compressed data .It uses lot of encryption algorithm like Blowfish 56 bit or Blowfish Long 448 bit encryption.

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ZEKE U7SVC Concepts

There are lot of scheduling tools like CA-7 , CA-11, Control M and ZEKE where the jobs are scheduled to run at particular time in Mainframe. ZEKE scheduling tool doesn’t have development version and it is used to schedule the job in production environment.If you code the command STEPNAME EXEC U7SVC in the JCL and want to test the JCL in development environment ,it will trigger the job in production environment provided that the the job which you are testing in develpoment already have a copy in production.