What is VSGENER

Gu · New User Joined: 16 Mar 2006 Posts: 3

I would like to know what this program do...

pgm=VSGENER

it is present in my JCL but i have no idea what this program do ....it is alone in a step.

superk · Posted: Thu Mar 16, 2006 12:52 am

Sounds like a home-grown program.

agreppi · Posted: Thu Apr 27, 2006 12:52 am

This utility matches two input files, generating as outpot a dataset containing those registers in one input dataset that are not in the other. In JCL it is implemented like DFSORT, you write in the sysin on what fields the matching is done.

This is the only thing I know about vsgener. I came accross this forum looking for a handbook on this utility. I googled vsgener and it resulted this page only.

I would appreciate it if anyone in this forum knows of a handbook on this utility. Thanks in advance.

Gu · New User Joined: 16 Mar 2006 Posts: 3

How do you get this information?
Did you see this program before?
Because i need to setup it in my environment and i don't know how...

agreppi · Posted: Thu Apr 27, 2006 5:47 pm

This program is used in the company where I work. I know only what I have seen in JCLs. You write in them something like this:

//SYSIN DD *
PESQOUT 84,4,1/5,4,9/9,10,13
SELECT 1,125,11

Numbers in PESQOUT meaning that you compare the DSNs using fields starting in positin 84, 4 bytes, then position 5, 4 bytes and finally position 9, 10 bytes. I don't know what the third number means, neither do I know what does the select statement indicates.

I know nothing about setting programs in the operating system, so I can't help you on this.

Gu · New User Joined: 16 Mar 2006 Posts: 3

Can I ask where do you work?
Because I know only one place that use this program and it's in Argentina...
I know what the third number means: the first position of the file out.
The Select statement means the layout of the file out.

Gustavo Henrique