JCL - Copy input to output

jpsiddharth · New User Joined: 21 Feb 2005 Posts: 7

Hi All,
I have faced a challenging problem recently. I am having 8 input files as - A, B, C and so on and 8 output files as - A1, B1, C1 and so on. I want to copy the input files to output files in a manner - A will go to A1, B will go to B1 and so on. I want to do this thru a single JCL step. I know it can be done by IDCAMS but I don't want to use that. My mainframe version does not support ICETOOL. Please let me know how can I solve the problem? It will be great help if you can provide me a sample JCL step.

N.B - The inputs and outputs are simple fixed blocked flat-files not VSAM or any other type.

Thanks,

Siddharth :roll: :P

amitava · Active User Joined: 30 Oct 2005 Posts: 186 Location: India

Hi All,
I am also having almost same kind of requirement. Please help us friends.

Regards,

Amitava

murmohk1 · Posted: Fri Jun 15, 2007 2:03 pm

Siddharth,

amitava · Active User Joined: 30 Oct 2005 Posts: 186 Location: India

Hi Murali,
May be Siddharth does not want to use IDCAMS as it is mainly used for VSAM processing and so. In general, its true that IDCAMS has been designed for VSAM processing not for flat-files processing. May be that's the reason Siddharth is not ready to use IDCAMS. What do you say Siddharth?

expat · Posted: Fri Jun 15, 2007 5:35 pm

ramfrom84 · New User Joined: 23 Aug 2006 Posts: 93 Location: chennai

Hi,
This can be done using Sync Tool , Below is the sample JCL.

//R010 EXEC PGM=SYNCTOOL,
//TOOLMSG DD SYSOUT=*
//DFSMSG DD SYSOUT=*
//IA DD File Name,
//IB DD File Name,
....
//IA1 DD DSN=File Name
//IB1 DD DSN=File Name

//TOOLIN DD *
COPY FROM(IA) TO(IA1)
COPY FROM(IB) TO(IB1)
.
.
.
/*

amitava · Active User Joined: 30 Oct 2005 Posts: 186 Location: India

Hey Ram,

Thanks a lot man!!! It worked and another point is that I found it is taking less time than the job having IDCAMS in it to copy the input datasets to output.