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shabir46 · Joined: 24 Jan 2008 Posts: 14 Location: Kerala

Hi ,

I have a PDS which having a around 110 members. All of the PDS member names are starting with fdhf..... I have copied all this PDS memebrs to my personal PDS. Now i need to change the name of all the members. Is there some way to do that through JCL using some simple commands ?

Shabir Kaithayil

expat · Posted: Fri Sep 05, 2008 5:59 pm Post subject:

Unfortunately not,

but you can use IDCAMS cards to do it all in one batch job

Take a look at the ALTER command

superk · Joined: 26 Apr 2004 Posts: 3304 Location: Charlotte,NC USA

If you had used the IEBCOPY utility to copy the members, you could have specificed new member names during the copy process.

You can use the IDCAMS ALTER utility.

You can use the TSO/E RENAME command.

shabir46 · Joined: 24 Jan 2008 Posts: 14 Location: Kerala

Hi ,

Thanks for the quick response....

I did tried Rename option and is working fine, but that is allowing me to alter only for one member at a time.

But i was trying to find out a way to rename all the members in a single go....

Shabir

Anuj D. · Joined: 22 Apr 2006 Posts: 2229 Location: Phoenix, AZ

Hi,
shabir46 wrote: But i was trying to find out a way to rename all the members in a single go.... In such a process how would you decide which member should be changed to what name ? Probably no other option then to change them one by one..

expat · Posted: Fri Sep 05, 2008 7:08 pm Post subject:

You can list the PDS members into a dataset, and by using ISPF commands can generate the IDCAMS or TSO rename statements and execute them that way.