Automate sort JCL in production environment

Deja vu · New User Joined: 15 Oct 2009 Posts: 23 Location: Pune

Hello!

I Need to schedule a sort job in production but my sort card has a value that changes everyday… i.e.

SORT FIELDS=COPY,
INCLUDE COND=((1,8,PD,EQ,21001129)

Tomorrow my sort card may be

SORT FIELDS=COPY,
INCLUDE COND=((1,8,PD,EQ,21001209)

I have list of data that needs to besupplied to sort card, but not sure How to automate it without manually changing the sort cards.

Thanks!

expat · Posted: Tue Nov 02, 2010 3:07 pm

Investigate the use of schedular date variables.
Go talk to the people responsible for your scheduling software.

Ronald Burr · Posted: Tue Nov 02, 2010 9:30 pm

In what form will the "list of data" exist?
If the list can be provided in a dataset, then the solution is to use that dataset as SORTIN to a SORT step that will transform the list into sort statements (SORTOUT) that will subsequently be used as SYSIN to another SORT step.
Examples of doing such abound.