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pauly_william
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Joined: 15 Oct 2007
Posts: 27
Location: Canada
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Oy to all,
I'm looking at a job another guy that no longer works here use to manage...this was part of an install job for a program product. I'm still rather green to JCL and just learning about IDCAMS... my question is regarding the "$DUMMY" statement in this job. What is this lonesome $ sign infront of "DUMMY" telling IDCAMS? I've been unable to find a reference anywhere and for some reason it just doesn't look right to me.
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//STEP02 EXEC PGM=IDCAMS
//SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=A
//IN DD *
$DUMMY
//SYSIN DD *
DEFINE CLUSTER(NAME(HLQ.BLAH.BLAH) VOLUME(??????) +
SHAREOPTIONS(2) +
RECORDSIZE(56 254) CYL(2 2) INDEXED KEYS(52 0) )
REPRO INFILE(IN) OUTDATASET(HLQ.BLAH.BLAH)
LISTCAT ENTRY(HLQ.BLAH.BLAH) ALL |
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dick scherrer
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Joined: 23 Nov 2006
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Location: Inside the Matrix
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Hello,
It doean't mean anything. . .
It is just a dummy record that is being loaded into the file so it will not be empty.
The code that uses that file probably knows that $DUMMY is a dummy record. . . |
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