Whether you are using Cobol or PL/1 the calls that you make from a batch program to an IMS database will be almost the same. This reference page lists all of the parameters you need to pass to the call along with the values that can be used for many of those parameters and what [...]

I spent over twenty years programming mainframe computers using either Cobol or Pl/1 (depending on where I was working at the time). As a result, when I set up my computer help site,, a large section of the site was dedicated to answering mainframe questions.
With the outsourcing of most of the mainframe programming jobs to [...]