How can I abend the job if I get duplicate records in a DSet

puneetvirmani143 · New User Joined: 24 Jul 2007 Posts: 55 Location: noida

Hi,
Using ICETOOL I have sorted the duplicate records in a dataset.
Is there some logic to abend a job if I get duplicates in a dataset and should process further if dataset is empty ?

Thanks
Puneet

dbzTHEdinosauer · Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2008 2:33 pm

ABEND, I wannna ABEND. This is a very resource intensive methodology to attract attention.

What you want is a return code produced that your JCL statements can interrogate (cond or IF) and provide proper step execution sequence.

Anuj Dhawan · Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2008 2:58 pm

Hi,

When do You call some record as 'dulicate'?

Frank Yaeger · Posted: Tue Feb 05, 2008 9:55 pm

Puneet,

To get a different return code for an empty or non-empty data set, you can use the technique described in the "Set RC=12 or RC=4 if file is empty, has more than n records, etc" Smart DFSORT Trick at:

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