count the number of records from different 5 files

janmejay · New User Joined: 22 Jun 2007 Posts: 85 Location: bangalore

I need to write a program in Easytrieve where i have 5 input files I and want to count the number of records of each file with RECORD-COUNT keyword.

Later i want to create an output file like below-

Name of file Number of records
XXXXXX 1001
YYYYYY 2001
ZZZZZZ 3001

Please let me know how to achieve this. I was able to display it for 1 file only.
Please help me out.

expat · Posted: Tue Mar 26, 2019 12:36 pm

One program does one file, so adapt the JCL to process each one individually.

Of course, knowing your notations of what XXXXXX, YYYYYY and ZZZZZZ mean may affect any suggested solution.

janmejay · New User Joined: 22 Jun 2007 Posts: 85 Location: bangalore

Thanks for replying expat.

the XXXX and YYYY are file names of 5 files. Like one is for "Store Inventory" and one "Coupan file". so similarly i have 15 files.

My program is able to count for 1 file. I gave all these 15 files in DD name in JCL step.

Now I am trying to get the record count in each file and then want an output file like name of files and respective counts.

Can i do it with Easytrieve? Please suggest else i will adopt JCL.

expat · Posted: Wed Mar 27, 2019 12:31 pm

I don't know if you can do it with Easytrieve, but like most other languages there will probably be some functionality which allows you to get the DSname from the DDname , and also the ability to read a dataset sequentially and count the records.

So IMHO it is possible, but not being an Easytrieve programmer will not state that it is.

If you are looking for code without showing us what you have accomplished yourself and explaining the problems that you have had, I think that you will have a long wait for that code.

Marso · Posted: Wed Mar 27, 2019 7:58 pm