Sortout check for empty report

vaishalisingh · New User Joined: 07 Feb 2008 Posts: 4 Location: delhi

Hi,

In my first step i am sorting a particular report.

In my second step i have to check if the output of the sort step(previous) produced no records then Print "empty report" in that sortout file.

please advise !

Prajesh_v_p · Active User Joined: 24 May 2006 Posts: 133 Location: India

Can you check this logic?

Step 1) Use IDCAMS to check empty report condition
PRINT INFILE(DDIN) COUNT(1) CHAR

If RC GT 0
Step 2) Copy "empty report" to sortout file
if RC EQ 0
Step 3) Sort the report

Thanks,
Prajesh

Frank Yaeger · Posted: Wed May 07, 2008 9:21 pm

YOu can do this all with DFSORT/ICETOOL. You don't need IDCAMS.

See 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/

If that doesn't help, then show your first step.

gabriel.ryoga · New User Joined: 07 Jun 2007 Posts: 31 Location: Spain

I think that this are the steps you need, just put in the STEP 2 a SORT to copy the text you need.