copy a pds member to 1000 other new members

vamskrish · New User Joined: 31 Jan 2007 Posts: 27 Location: virginia

hi,
i have a pds member which i need to copy it to 4000 new members and replace a field in the first line of each member with the member name. i have no clue about what approach i need to take. please let me know the best solutions either using jcl or cobol.

thanks
vamshi

superk · Posted: Thu Oct 09, 2008 11:01 pm

First of all, how are you going to generate the unique member names?

vamskrish · New User Joined: 31 Jan 2007 Posts: 27 Location: virginia

superk · Posted: Fri Oct 10, 2008 12:13 am

Does this PDS meet the restrictions imposed by IEBUPDTE?

vamskrish · New User Joined: 31 Jan 2007 Posts: 27 Location: virginia

thanks for your replies.
not sure about it. but lets say, if we just have to copy the member to 1000 others. how do we do it. forget about changing the data in each member.
can you please give me a jcl to do that.

gcicchet · Posted: Fri Oct 10, 2008 7:04 am

Hi,

and what name will be given to the new members ?

Gerry

MBabu · Posted: Fri Oct 10, 2008 8:28 am

The easiest way to do this is an ISPF edit macro that just loops 4000 times with CHANGE and REPLACE commands. do it in Rexx, not COBOL and it is 5 lines of code. Thats how I've always seen people do this.