Need to check for existance of a MEMBER (given) in a PDS

ovreddy · Posted: Mon Dec 20, 2004 12:50 pm

Hi All,

I have one requirement in JCL. I need to check for existance of a MEMBER (given) in a PDS. This i have to do in JCL using utilities or without. Please any one can help me by sending the JCL.

Thanks,
Reddy.

ovreddy · Posted: Mon Dec 20, 2004 4:39 pm

Hi All,

I found an indirect way and solved my problem. that is in 2 steps...

1. Write all members list to a sequential file.
2. Search for given member name ( String) in that file.

But I never agree up on this. There must be a straight forward way to do this. I leave it to moderator and other Experts.

Bye,
Reddy.

mmwife · Super Moderator Joined: 30 May 2003 Posts: 1592

Hi Reddy,

This might be too late for your purposes, but you could probably use sort copy (1 rec). I'm pretty sure SORT accepts PDS members as I/P (you can use a temp D/S as O/P.)

If the step returns a non-zero RC the member doesn't exist.

mmwife · Super Moderator Joined: 30 May 2003 Posts: 1592

A DUMMY O/P is a better choice here.

sundaresanjs · New User Joined: 29 May 2006 Posts: 18 Location: USA

hi friend,

you can do it with using IEBGENER utility,

for example let us take a pds EXAMPLE.PDS
and in that we want to search for member AAA.

for this we can use this program

philipraju · New User Joined: 16 Apr 2006 Posts: 29

First Problem:
Go to 3.14 Option,list all the pds with myid.myapplication.*
and then issue " Member memname",
we will gets the PDS name.

If any corrections.....pls

sundaresanjs · New User Joined: 29 May 2006 Posts: 18 Location: USA

hi friend,

in my code if you run it and get maxcc = 0 then the member is present orelse the member is not present.

thanks

Regards,