What is the role of the parameter OUT in fileaid utility

sribks2005 · New User Joined: 04 Apr 2005 Posts: 20 Location: Mysore

hi all,

i have a jcl which has FILEAID utility in one of its step.

In SYSIN i have coded like shown below;
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$$DD01 USER OUT=0,MV=(1,200,1),WRITE=DD01O
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what does OUT=0 means here? i mean to say, what is the role of the parameter OUT in fileaid utility.

thanks

brain_s390 · New User Joined: 06 May 2005 Posts: 58 Location: Mumbai

The OUT parameter controls the number of records that are written or printed before processing stops. OUT can be used to limit the output, or to extend the amount of printed output past the default of 250 records.

$DD01 USER OUT=0,MV=(1,200,1),WRITE=DD01O

Here Use OUT=0 will process the entire file.