To find whether a file already exists or not

sriramsamy · New User Joined: 28 Jun 2005 Posts: 4 Location: India

Hi
My jcl has one program step that uses an input file. This input file will be sent by another job through FTP step.

In the absence of this input file my jcl should not return jcl error but it should bypass the program step and should end normally. Also this job should create a new file if it was not already there.

Please let me know how to do this

Thanks in Advance

Regards,
Sriram

MGIndaco · Posted: Fri Sep 16, 2005 5:56 pm

I suggest you to search befor posting.
The solution is using IDCAMS:

sriramsamy · New User Joined: 28 Jun 2005 Posts: 4 Location: India

Thanks a lot!

Your solution is of great help to me!

Best Regards,
Sriram

ikumar · New User Joined: 02 Aug 2005 Posts: 81

Hi Sriram,

Also you can check the file existence as given below,

//EXIST EXEC IDCAMS
PRINT INDATASET('dataset-name') CHARACTER COUNT(1)

If the dataset does not exist, you get RC=0012.
you can check for RC using IF THEN ELSE logic in the JCL...