How to refer the GDG member created in previous step

sanghai_swaps · New User Joined: 07 Sep 2006 Posts: 2

In a job, a GDG generation is created as follows.
//STEP01 EXEC PGM=SORT
?.
//SORTOUT DD DSN=TEST.OUTFILE(+1),DISP=(NEW,CATLG,DELETE)
How will it be referred as input in the next step of the same job?

I'm told the answer is TEST.OUTFILE(+1)
is it correct and why?

priyesh.agrawal · Posted: Thu Sep 07, 2006 7:07 pm

ofer71 · Posted: Thu Sep 07, 2006 7:57 pm

JES interprets GDG relative numbers only once: at the start of processing (actually, the INTERNAL READER tries to do that), hence you will use the same GDG reference across the whole job.