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IBM Cobol
Support for OS/VS COBOL, VS COBOL II, COBOL for OS/390 & VM and Enterprise COBOL for z/OS

CLIST & REXX
IBM's Command List programming language & Restructured Extended Executor

PL/I
IBM's cross-platform compiler PL/I for MVS, VM & VSE, OS/390 and Enterprise PL/I for z/OS

Assembler
High Level Assembler(HLASM) for MVS & VM & VSE

CA-Easytrieve
Unicenter CA-Easytrieve Plus Report Generator: CA's information retrieval and data management tool

Natural
Software AG's platform-independent programming language with full support for open-source and Internet applications

C, C++
Help for C/C++ for MVS, OS/390 C/C++, z/OS C/C++ and C/C++ Productivity Tools for OS/390

Mainframe Java
Support for Java SE, EE & ME, JVM, JNI, JDBC, EJB, JFC, JPDA, JAAS,JCE, JAXP, XML and Java API.

JCL
JES, JES2, JCL utilities, IDCAMS, Compile & Run JCLs, PROCs etc...

CICS
Support for CICS/ESA, CICS/TS & Transaction Gateway, CICS Configuration Manager and CICS Performance Analyzer

TSO & ISPF
TSO Programming, ISPF, SDF, SDSF and PDF, FTP, TCP/IP Concepts, SNA & SNA/IP etc...

WebSphere MQ
Support for MQSeries and Websphere Message Oriented Middleware communication systems for z/OS

DB2
IBM's flagship relational database management system

VSAM/SMS
Help for IBM's record-oriented filesystem VSAM, ESDS, KSDS, RRDS, LDS and Storage management Subsystems

IMS DB/DC
IBM's hierarchical database management system with a Database Manager (IMS DB) and a Transaction Manager(IMS DC)

IDMS/ADSO
Programming support for IDMS(Integrated Database Management System), IDD, IDMS-DC & ADS/Online

Adabas
Software AG's high-performance Real-time data base management system for mainframe

DFSORT/ICETOOL/ICEGENER
IBM's flagship sort product DFSORT for sorting, merging, copying, data manipulation and reporting. Includes ICETOOL and ICEGENER

Language Environment
Support for C, C++, COBOL, PL/I, Fortran and assembler applications' runtime Environment LE.

IBM Debug Tool
Support for IBM Debug Tool, Utilities and Advanced Functions

All other IBM Tools
Ask queries about other IBM Tools like Tivoli, COBTEST, Fault Analyzer, z/OS File Manager, Workload Simulator, APA, SCLM, Merge & Migration Tools etc...

Syncsort/Synctool
Support for NetApp SyncSort for z/OS, Visual SyncSort, SYNCINIT, SYNCLIST and SYNCTOOL

File-AID
Compuware's data management products: File-AID for IMS, File-AID/MVS, File-AID for DB2 and DBA-XPERT for DB2

Abend-AID
Queries about Compuware’s Debugging Tools: Abend-AID for COBOL, PL/I, Assembler, CICS, DB2, IMS and IDMS

Xpediter
Compuware's QA & Impact Analysis Tools: Xpediter/CICS , Xpediter/TSO, Xpediter/DB2, Xpediter/Xchange, Xpediter/IMS

ChangeMan ZMF
Serena's Software Change Management utility:Changeman ZMF: Application change, upgrade control and LifeCycle Management

CA-7
Unicenter CA-7 Job Management: CA's workload automation tool for managing, visualizing, automating, optimizing applications

CA-11
CA's Workload Automation Restart & Tracking tool to eliminate restart errors and speed up recovery times

Panvalet
AllFusion CA-Panvalet for z/OS and OS/390: Centralized library management, Program management and security system

All Other Tools
All other tools like QACenter, Strobe, Endevor, Telon, APAS, Scheduler, Auditor, DATA-XPERT, CoolGen, Intertest, AdvantageGen, COBTEST etc.

Application Testing
Discuss about QA in Mainframe, Back-End Test, Offline code testing and Testing Tools

ABENDS & SQL Codes
Get solution for your ABEND Codes & System Error Messages, SQL Codes, File Status etc...

Operating Systems
IBM OS/370, MVS, OS/390, Linux, TPF, VM/CMS, VM/ESA, VSE/ESA, z/VM, z/VSE, z/OS, z/OS.e etc...

Mainframe Security
All about SAF, RACF, encryption, Firewall, Risk assessment and integrity concepts

System programming
Ask about System customization & performance, Workload management, I/O device configuration etc.

All other Mainframe Topics
Post anything related to mainframes (IBM & UNISYS) if not fit in any of the above categories

Simulators & Emulators
Discuss about all tools related to Mainframes but usable in a PC/Computer like Mainframe Simulators, Emulators, Abend Assist etc...

PC Optimization & Downloads
Tips & Tricks for PC Optimization and tweaks, Freeware and shareware downloads related to mainframes

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