Tag Archives: SORT

Using C Runtime Functions in COBOL: sleep()-ing and qsort()-ing

Hard to believe, but once I had an Operator complain to me about a looping batch job. When I looked into it, I found that the programmer had coded a loop around a COBOL ‘ACCEPT TIME’ comparing the seconds value with the previous seconds value waiting for it to increase. A classic busy wait. In… Read More »

VSAM Record Level Sharing & Copying Records

Since IDCAMS REPRO does not support VSAM datasets in RLS mode (and neither does SORT, nor FileAID) you can’t use it to backup or restore a CLUSTER while it is open somewhere else. This is something that ShareOption/5 used to allow but this product is defunct. I’d like to be able to copy/merge one KSDS… Read More »