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suppose you have a db2 server with tcipip# 192.168.1.100 and a db2instance listening to port 50000. There is a database called mydbase running under control of that instance. You need te access that database by means of ODBC. It is just 3 simple lines, just do not forget to execute them in the...

I use this syntaxselect empno , sex , salary , case when sex = 'F' then salary * -1 else salary end as sort_col from employee order by sort_col Nonsence example, but when you replace "sex = male/female" by some kind of "debit/credit" code it...

Try this syntax select * from table ( select empno as xx , salary as monthly_insult , bonus as robbed_by_banker from employee ) a where a.monthly_insult + a.robbed_by_banker > 10000

JDBC/ODBC connectors are not designed for that. You use it to connect to a specific database and that database is the scope. You could try to use the "SYSPROC.ADMIN_CMD" for the LIST DB DIRECTORY.

Could you supply more info about the 2 configurations? When you make a backup from the source computer, make sure that it is an uncompressed offline backup! Do not rely on the control centre too much but try to make your own backup/(redericted) restore scripts. Believe me, it works, but the...

Why don't you google for "COALESCE"? select COALESCE(B.USR_R_NM,'USER DELETED' from ...

Sounds over-complex to me. Are there many non-cobol routines? If not: Just compile to "*.int" modules on your windows development machines, on the aix compile the "*.int" into "*.gnt" and just execute the "*.gnt"s. All your sources and copybook can remain on the windows environment. I do not...

pre-compile, compile. linkedit & bind. Life as usual for a mainframe programmer. But when you want that to work in the outside world.. The ingredients are there: O.S.: linux DBMS: DB2 express C compiler: open-cobol All for free and yes: DB2 still carries the cobol-pre-compiler. The link/edit...

Hmmm... The topic-starter mentiones .IDX files, so the organization is indexed. This leaves record-length and record layout. Just trail&error until you can retrieve a whole record and then analyse the hexadecial structure: PIC X fields should be readable in normal format PIX 9 packed-deciaml...

Whenever you must access MF files from another language than MFCobol, you can call the MF I/O routines separately. This module is called extfh (http://docs.hp.com/en/64/fh/fhexfh.htm)

Reference Graeme's cookbook when a question like this comes up get you a purple star. I agree, its a great book (has been for years now).

Remember: "backup is for dummy's, restore is for pro's" So, what is your recovery stratigy? Do you have a dedicated database server? How fast can you re-build that server and restore the database? How well did you secure your backup-images and transaction log files? Did you test? How long did...

even worse: you find that in an IBM magazine.... Maybe they should try a "hello world" first, see if that is not too difficult for them.

The same syntax as used in "create table": INOUT1 char (3) INOUT2 char (3) NOT NULL So every paramteter which is nullable should be called with the indicator variable. No difference with tables.

Sane coding standards: next sentence and end-if are mutual exclusive in 1 line, even better in 1 section even better in 1 program. In the past I had to maintain old '74 programs. In the section were you made you changes it was good habit to convert all IF statements and add END-IF's and take...