executing particular steps

gayathrivenkatachalam · New User Joined: 16 Apr 2005 Posts: 5 Location: india

hi,

i have a jcl query

The requirement is as follows,

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1. I can have up to 5 nos. of input datasets

(I know the actual name of all the five input datasets but not sure about how many files are actually existing)
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now i have written a cobol program which will create one output dataset for each input dataset.

My run jcl is having 5 steps with the same program being executed in each step. the only difference is that the DSN of the input and the output datasets is going to change in each step.

Here are the Issues,

1.is there a way of looping the program instead of having 5 steps to run the same program and dynamically changing the file names?

2.also suppose i have only 3 input datasets which are actually present and i need to execute only the corresponding steps which use the particular datasets as input. How to handle this situation?

Rupesh.Kothari · Member of the Month Joined: 27 Apr 2005 Posts: 463

HI,

superk · Posted: Thu Dec 22, 2005 4:13 pm