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rajat_gupta
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Hi Folks,
Has anyone got any idea about how to get LRECL and BLKSZ information of all the generations present for a given GDG base in REXX.
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cpuhawg
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Are the GDGs on disk or tape?
There are methods of getting this information from a disk GDG using REXX, but a tape's LRECL and BLKSIZE are stored only on the tape and in the tape management system. |
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expat
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| And why would they vary from generation to generation ? |
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rajat_gupta
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| The LRECL of different generations of a GDG can be different. |
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expat
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Yes, I know that they can be different, but I asked why they would vary.
In general practice, 99.9% of the time, the physical attributes of GDG's do not vary from generation to generation.
If you could explain why you need this information then maybe we can come up with a few helpful hints to resolve your problem. |
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rajat_gupta
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Hi expat
Ya I agree that most of the times it would not vary.
Actually whenever I am using SORTIN in my JCL with GDG base name as input, then it merges all the generations present for that GDG base and allocates it to the SORTOUT dataset.but sometimes my job is getting ABENDED beacause if any of the generation is having a different LRECL then it would not be possible to merge all those generations. to resolve that manually we need to check each generation's LRECL's one by one which is time consuming, thats why I tried to create a program in REXX to get all information in one shot. |
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expat
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| Take a look at the LISTDSI function. This should return the values you want from each generation. It certainly works for DASD datasets, not sure about tape though. |
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rajat_gupta
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| Thanks expat |
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