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dp33770

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PostPosted: Thu Nov 27, 2008 2:55 pm
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I have hundreds of datasets as below

AAA.AAA.XX.XYZ
AAA.BBB.XY.XYZ
AAA.CCC.XX.XYZ
AAA.DDD.SS.XYZ
AAA.EEE.MM.XYZ

I need to run a job which will FTP all the datastet
whose the 3rd qualifier is XX or XY.

I know how to FTP the datasets.
my concern is how shall I put a check on 3rd qualifier to know whether its XX or XY.
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 27, 2008 3:00 pm
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what is the source of your dataset names?
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 27, 2008 3:00 pm
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is this once in a while or a continuous task ?
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 27, 2008 3:02 pm
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Dick,
These are all flat file.
What is meant by source of dataset name.
all the qualifier names are same expect one 3rd qualifier which variers.

Enrico,
This is a On Request Job ...might be quaterly once...
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 27, 2008 5:22 pm
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I have hundreds of datasets as below


Is the first qualifier AAA the same in all the datasets?



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I know how to FTP the datasets.


Are you using a JCL for that?
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Arun Raj

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PostPosted: Thu Nov 27, 2008 5:34 pm
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What is meant by source of dataset name.

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I have hundreds of datasets as below

AAA.AAA.XX.XYZ
AAA.BBB.XY.XYZ
AAA.CCC.XX.XYZ
AAA.DDD.SS.XYZ
AAA.EEE.MM.XYZ

That means, where does this list of "hundreds of datasets" reside? Do you have this in another dataset?
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 27, 2008 6:11 pm
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Aaru,
All the datsets Starts with AAA. All qualifiers are same except the middile two characters.

yes I m using JCL for this.

Arun,
All files are flat files and not in any PDS.
they gets created by another upstream job.
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 27, 2008 7:27 pm
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dp33770,
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All files are flat files and not in any PDS.
they gets created by another upstream job.

The question raised was, do you have the dataset-names stored somewhere?
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Aaru

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PostPosted: Thu Nov 27, 2008 7:52 pm
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dp,

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That means, where does this list of "hundreds of datasets" reside? Do you have this in another dataset?


Please answer to the above ques so that we can suggest.

Anyways i do not think u can use JCL for this requirement, u can go for REXX.

Read the file incase u have all the dataset names listed in a file. Use POS and SUBSTR to get the third qualifier and check if it is equal to XX or YY. If yes then BUILD a FTP jcl with the datasets and submit it.

Even if it is not stored in a dataset, use LMDINIT to get all the datasets with ** in the third qualifier and then the above mentioned approach.
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superk

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PostPosted: Thu Nov 27, 2008 10:09 pm
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If you use LISTCAT for at least the HLQ, does it give you a list of all of the datasets? Can you just then read that list and select only those entries that match on the 3rd qualifier.
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PostPosted: Fri Nov 28, 2008 10:43 am
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Hi Superk,

Was that question for me?

I normally use LMDINIT for getting the list of datasets.

Code:
ADDRESS ISPEXEC "LMDINIT LISTID(TEMPLIST) LEVEL("HLQ1")"
DO FOREVER
ADDRESS ISPEXEC
"LMDLIST LISTID(&TEMPLIST) OPTION(LIST) DATASET(DSVAR) STATS(YES)"


HLQ1 - dataset name

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PostPosted: Fri Nov 28, 2008 3:56 pm
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All the files are generated in another upstream job as below and I know it will have the following format

AAA.BBB.XX.ZZZ
AAA.BBB.YY.ZZZ
AAA.BBB.ZZ.ZZZ
AAA.BBB.CC.ZZZ
AAA.BBB.DD.ZZZ

So when I will run my job it has to FTP datasets based on the 3rd qualifer of DSN.
Ex : If the 3rd qualifier is DD it has to FTp to differnt folder ....

If we can do it in JCL then pls let me know the process.
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