Today I’ve got a simple but neat little tip to share. Have you ever had a need to know which z/OS system your CICS program is running in? I found myself in that situation today, needing a way to programmatically set the hostname in the URL in a CICS web application. The CICS web application [...]
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March 29, 2009
CALL or LINK?
It’s an old question … In my CICS program, should I invoke a subprogram using a standard COBOL CALL, or should I use the EXEC CICS LINK API?
The traditional answer was, “LINK is easier to debug, CALL is more efficient.” However, there have been some changes in the CICS environment in recent years that blur [...]
February 6, 2009
New Section in COBOL Compile Listings
Enterprise COBOL for z/OS 4.1 offers several new features, including enhanced DB2 support (mostly for DB2 V9) and the ability to take advantage of the z/OS XML System Services parser. But what caught my eye was something that every shop can take advantage of. There is a new section in COBOL compiler listings that shows [...]
