ICEMAN job to find number of records in a tape file

roopannamdhari · New User Joined: 14 Sep 2006 Posts: 71 Location: Bangalore

Can you please post the ICEMAN job to find number of records in a tape file?

Thanks

dick scherrer · Posted: Fri Dec 14, 2007 9:56 pm

Hello,

If you do this with ICEMAN, or SORT, or any other utility that reads/counts the records, you will have to read all of the records.

If you talk with your storage management people, the info you want should be available in the tape management system and the data need not be processed to find the count.

Skolusu · Posted: Fri Dec 14, 2007 10:06 pm

roopannamdhari,

The following DFSORT JCL will give you the no of records in your tape dataset

roopannamdhari · New User Joined: 14 Sep 2006 Posts: 71 Location: Bangalore

thanks a lot Skolusu...

roopannamdhari · New User Joined: 14 Sep 2006 Posts: 71 Location: Bangalore

Hi Kolusu,

can you please explain for what this REMOVECC & NODETAIL stands for ?

dick scherrer · Posted: Sat Dec 15, 2007 10:41 am

Hello,

REMOVECC removes ANSI control characters from the report.

NODETAIL prevents detail records from being written to OUTFIL.

If your tape file might have a few hundred million records, i'd still suggest getting the info you want without reading all of the records. . . .

roopannamdhari · New User Joined: 14 Sep 2006 Posts: 71 Location: Bangalore

Thank you ..

Frank Yaeger · Posted: Sun Dec 16, 2007 12:28 am