In order to call CICS from Java, we've traditionally used RDz to generate a J2C bean via an Ant script. But I don't have RDz anymore (it doesn't support Groovy and always running older versions of Eclipse), so my only alternative was to use...
Generating Lots Values From A DB2 Sequence Object
I was working on a Groovy script that inserts lots of data into a database, but I needed to generate a new key from a sequence object and keep track of the old one. So I need to invoke NEXTVAL for each key, but considering how many thousands of records...
Accessing Numeric Value Somewhere in a DB2 Column
We recently had some inconsistent data in our database that required a pretty special query. The column contained what should have been a three byte marketing territory number, but depending on what application/user entered the data, the value could...
