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Introduction to the New Mainframe: z/OS Basics
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Introduction to the New Mainframe: z/OS Basics

by Bill Ogden, Mike Ebbers, Wayne O'Brien, Rama Ayyar, Myriam Duhamel, Per Fremstad, Luis Martinez Fuentes, Miriam Gelinski, Michael Grossmann, Olegario Hernandez, Roberto Yuiti Hiratzuka, John Kettner, Georg Müller, Rod Neufeld, Paul Newton, Bill Seubert, Henrik Thorsen, Andy R. Wilkinson
July 2006
Beginner
706 pages
20h 45m
English
IBM Redbooks
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Glossary
Numerics
3270 pass-through mode. A mode that lets a program running from the z/OS shell send and receive a 3270 data stream or issue TSO/E commands.
A
abend. See abnormal end.
abnormal end (abend). The end of a task, a job, or a subsystem because an error condition occurred that cannot be resolved by recovery facilities while the task is performed. See also abnormal termination.
abnormal termination. (1) The end of processing prior to scheduled termination. (2) A system failure or operator action that causes a job to end unsuccessfully. Synonymous with abend and abnormal end.
ACB. See access control block.
accept. In SMP/E, to install SYSMODs in the distribution libraries. This is done by using the ACCEPT ...
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