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Installing VB6 and VS on the same Windows 7 Machine

December 14, 2014September 21, 2015 VB6, Visual Basic, Visual Studio, Windows 7

How to install Visual Basic 6 and Visual Studio on the same Windows 7 computer.

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Outlook-friendly sender name in SMTP headers

May 30, 2014April 6, 2018 Email, JCL, Outlook, smtp

When receiving SMTP emails from the mainframe with a “from” address claimed to be on the Outlook Server, Outlook may

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Retaining HTML formatting in Dynamic Outlook Emails

January 31, 2014April 6, 2018 Email, HTML, Microsoft, Outlook, VB6, Windows

One of the challenges when dynamically modifying emails created from Outlook templates, is retaining the original html formatting of the

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preview of DSNMODIF mainframe assembler code
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Simple WHOHAS routine

January 23, 2014November 15, 2021 ALC, assembler, Files, MVS

When another user has locked the file that you want to use, a simple way to identify that user is

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Unicode in Batch Email Messages

January 21, 2014January 30, 2019 Email;batch;Unicode

Unicode Symbols can be used in Email subject lines, messages, and in some cases, other fields. This article discusses ways

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MVS JCL Abend Checks

January 11, 2014February 1, 2019 batch, JCL, Mainframe, MVS

In the case of JCL steps, where checks are made for Abends on predecessor steps, consider the following example. If

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preview of DSNMODIF mainframe assembler code
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SVC 99 Example Program

December 24, 2013January 30, 2019 ALC, assembler, IBM, Mainframe, MVS

This program will receive username, program name, and job name through register 1 linkage. A SVC 99 dynamic file allocation

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