How to check no. of records in file and set RC?

kanisha_prabha · New User Joined: 10 Mar 2006 Posts: 26

Hi, I have files that should be zipped if no. of records in file is greater than 10,000. This needs to be done with the help of a JCL (no COBOL programs allowed). Is there any way to determine (using REXX or JCL utilities) whether the file has no. of records greater than 10,000? And based on that can I code in the next step the zip utility?

murmohk1 · Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2007 9:42 am

Kanisha,

Download sorttrck.pdf from the follwing link and use the topic Set RC=12 or RC=4 if file is empty, has more than n records, etc.

www.ibm.com/servers/storage/support/software/sort/mvs/tricks/

parikshit123 · Active User Joined: 01 Jul 2005 Posts: 269 Location: India

Hi Murali,

The link is not working. Is it possible to attach the PDF itself?

murmohk1 · Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2007 10:06 am

Parikshit,
Copy the link into the browser and remove [/b] at the end of the link. Sorry about the same.

kanisha_prabha · New User Joined: 10 Mar 2006 Posts: 26

Murali,
Thanks a lot for the document. It works!

- Kanisha

dick scherrer · Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2007 1:52 pm

Hello,

Why not just zip the file regardless of size?

If you send it zipped some of the time and uncompressed some of the time, the process on the target requires a run-time decision every time.

Consistency is much better.

Frank Yaeger · Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2007 9:00 pm

Murali,

Whenever you post the link to the Tricks page, please use this URL:

www.ibm.com/servers/storage/support/software/sort/mvs/tricks/

The URL you get by copy and paste from the page can change from time to time depending on how IBM changes its servers, so it may work for a while and then not work later. The URL above will always work.

I've corrected the URL in your post.

Thanks.