Posts Tagged as ‘cobol’

May 13, 2009

Finding the z/OS Sysname in CICS

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 [...]

March 8, 2009

SHARE 112 Review

There were plenty of great sessions at SHARE in Austin last week. I focused primarily on CICS sessions, and from Steve Ware’s and Kathy Tyrrell’s Project Opening and Product Update through the Q-Box session featuring all of IBM’s CICS representatives, there was a lot of information to absorb. As speculated, there was quite a bit [...]

February 9, 2009

CICS Access to RACF, Part 2

I admit that I’m a little overdue to post this follow-up to my post about accessing RACF info from a COBOL program in CICS. But when I posted it, I had no idea that was going to be the single most viewed entry on my blog site. So I’ve finally had enough people asking about [...]