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I'm having some issues with the data which is being read by a COBOL program on an IBM MVS mainframe. Is it possible to display the data (text and numeric, that has been read from an input file) in hex format? Is it simply a matter of moving the data to a 'USAGE NATIONAL' field and displaying...

My wife just got an HP Mini 2140 "netbook" (with Intel Atom 1.6 gHz CPU, 1 GB RAM, 128MB HD, etc.) and I went through the software installation (Windows 7 Starter version, HP drivers, Corel Office). I got her connected to the Internet via an Ethernet connection. I've since encountered several...

A friend contacted me with a problem she's having: every time she boots up her system, the system date is set to a year of 2003, with the month and day changed as well (though I can't tell you what they are, since she didn't tell me). She sets the date to the current date, and all is fine...

IBM Mainframe COBOL: I've got a 300-character work area where I insert an alphanumeric string and then determine the beginning and ending non-space characters of the string so I can determine the number of characters in the string. I've got the 300-character work area indexed to speed the...

Platform: IBM MVS mainframe running DB2 v9 Given: a table contains a column which is defined as VARCHAR(20), and which is nullable Question: Which is more efficient (or simply better for whatever reason): 1) to use the NULL indicator to indicate the absence of a value in that particular...

I've got a COBOL program that has been running fine for about 9 months. I made a slight SQL change to it, necessitated by changing our DB2 v. 9 from compatibility mode to enable-new-function mode. Now I'm getting an XML-CODE value of 417 on the 'XML GENERATE' function, and I can't find any...

I'm working on a friend's old laptop, which is an IBM ThinkPad 390E. The system hadn't been powered up for several months, but with the AC adapter attached, it booted up just fine. I went into the BIOS setup, and saw that the startup video setting was set at 'CRT', which was OK since I had an...

I built a PC for some friends a couple of years ago. It worked fine for several weeks, then suddenly refused to shut down when you wanted it to, instead rebooting the system. They've lived with it like that since then. I'm reinstalling Windows (XP Home) on the system, so I thought that I...

I'm working with a DB2 database which is designed to hold 18 months'-worth of data, in 18 separate partitions. Does anyone have an algorithm that I can use to calculate the current month's partition on the database? I can do it for numbers of partitions that are multiples of 12, but having 18...

On a mainframe z/OS, DB2 v8 environment, I'm using the COALESCE function to retrieve a value from any of four to six different database locations (table/column). "The COALESCE function returns the first argument that is not null... The arguments are evaluated in the order in which they are...

I've got a system built using a Biostar M7VIZ motherboard, which uses a VIA KM400 chipset. That motherboard,, however, has died. I'm finding it very difficult to find another M7VIZ board to replace it with. I tried using an MSI K7N2G motherboard, but it wouldn't even boot into Windows (which...

I work in an IBM mainframe environment (z/OS, COBOL 2 and 3, DB2, etc.). I need to write a COBOL program to do an aging report of batches of data that are being processed. There are 4 steps that have to be completed, and these steps can span multiple days, though most data will complete all 4...

I'm building a new system for a coworker, using: Athlon 64 3000+ MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum motherboard w/ nVidia nForce4 chipset and on-board SATA RAID 1 GB PC3200 DDR RAM 2 120-GB Seagate SATA drives in RAID 1 (mirrored) configuration ATI X300 PCIE video card other bits and pieces...

I'm trying to troubleshoot a friend's problem. He just signed up for a combo package of DSL + MSN. He's using the "built-in" email facility, not Outlook/Outlook Express. His problem is that he can't send an email containing an attachment. Well, he sends it, but the intended recipient never...

This is a new system, with 2 Seagate 160 GB SATA drives. The motherboard is an MSI K7N2 Delta2 with nVidia nForce2 chipset, including RAID controller. I had installed Windows 2000, using the RAID driver diskette that came with the motherboard. I partitioned the resulting RAID array, but the...

I'm trying to troubleshoot a PC that I built for a friend. I need to remove a number of device drivers via Device Manager, but I can only do a few, and then then Device Manager stops responding. I find multiple instances (6+) of MMC.EXE running in the tasklist, which I terminate, but the...

This is occurring on a friend's machine that I am setting up for him, which consists of an MSI K7N2G motherboard with an AMD 2500+ Barton core CPU, 512 MB of DDR333 memory, a CD-R/RW, a DVD-ROM, a generic SATA RAID controller, and 2 Seagate Barracuda IV 160-GB drives. His original hard drive...

I can't find a forum that is dedicated to IBM MVS JCL, so I'll post this question here, and perhaps someone can point me to the correct forum. I need to process all generations of a GDG in order of creation date/time. There is currently a maximum of 5 gens, but the number of gens can vary, so...

Is there any way that I can get the creation date for a sequential dataset that I'm reading within a COBOL program? This is on an OS/390 system, with a COBOL II program. Thanks in advance for your help! Rich (in Minn.)

A neighbor lady has a problem with her PC in that when she tries to boot the system (Gateway K7-700 w/ 700-MHz Athlon) the Gateway logo comes on the screen and that's all that happens. There is no memory check, no chance to get into the BIOS, no floppy read, nothing! I thought I'd try...