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deepa12 · Posted: Mon Aug 27, 2018 4:06 am Post subject: COBOL ISPLINK sample pgms

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From mvsforums.com when i try to access the IBM manuals for e.g.

https://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/FINDBOOK?filter=ispf

am getting a FORBIDDEN error

i remember some ISPF manual used to have sample code for a telephone or employee application using ISPF, COBOL ; ISPF,PLI etc

I do not remember the name of the manual. A sample PDS containing the application was also available on mainframe

We need sample application & code reference manual for ipsf,cobol to do our project which involves getting input on ISPF panel & updating VSAM files
Can you please suggest

Pls advise
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Nic Clouston · Posted: Mon Aug 27, 2018 6:21 am Post subject:

I do not think it exists any more. I have a hardcopy of Dialog Manageent Services Exaamples (SC34-2085-2) which has what you were referring to but I cannot find a copy on the interweb. I did try several searches on Google but the best seems to be

kolusu · Posted: Mon Aug 27, 2018 10:41 am Post subject:

deepa12,

Please search before posting. Check these links

http://www.mvsforums.com/helpboards/viewtopic.php?p=16694

http://www.mvsforums.com/helpboards/viewtopic.php?p=4621&sid=#4621

The calls to ISPLINK are now documented in "z/OS ISPF Services Guide(SC19-3626-30)" which can be downloaded here

https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSLTBW_2.3.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r3.isp/isp.htm
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deepa12 · Posted: Sun Sep 02, 2018 9:14 am Post subject:

Thanks & sorry for the delayed response.
I was specifically looking for that old manual since that had a sample of VSAM/DB2 table maintenance

I would like to know a way of deleting a record from a VSAM cluster via REXX other than using COBOL program

1. I checked INSYNC, it actually requires to copy the VSAM dataset into a temporary dataset & then updates the cluster after deleting the record

2. am able to use eazytrieve to delete the record

Please suggest
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Nic Clouston · Posted: Sun Sep 02, 2018 4:02 pm Post subject:

Rexx does not have the ability to use VSAM data sets. There are assembler routines that can be called from Rexx to do that though - look for RXVSAM on Sourceforge.
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kolusu · Posted: Tue Sep 04, 2018 11:20 am Post subject: