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reach2abhinavtyagi

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PostPosted: Tue Nov 05, 2019 7:33 pm
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Hi,
I have a requirement to read 10 input Mainframe files in a PROC and do the following - Capture input DSN names into the Output files. These input files can be VSAM, GDG or Flat file. Input Dataset names names are not fixed, they may be over ridden through Job.

I have a solution using ICETOOL with JPn parameter in PARM but it works only for 2 files (as PARM has max length of 100 and it could accomodate only 2 files). So have to repeat the step 5 times to process 10 files and later merge the output from each step. However, I want to do this within SINGLE Step if possible.

Also, I tried using IDCAMS + LISTCAT to extract names from fixed positions in SYSPRINT. But LISTCAT does not allow me to pass DDNAME asinput, it asks for Exact Mainframe DSN names to be HARDCODED, which is not suitable for my requirement.

Please suggest. Thanks

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Abhinav
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PostPosted: Tue Nov 05, 2019 8:47 pm
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Shouldn't the JOINKEYs solution help here?
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PostPosted: Tue Nov 05, 2019 9:14 pm
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reach2abhinavtyagi wrote:
Hi,
I have a requirement to read 10 input Mainframe files in a PROC and do the following - Capture input DSN names into the Output files. These input files can be VSAM, GDG or Flat file. Input Dataset names names are not fixed, they may be over ridden through Job.

I have a solution using ICETOOL with JPn parameter in PARM but it works only for 2 files (as PARM has max length of 100 and it could accomodate only 2 files). So have to repeat the step 5 times to process 10 files and later merge the output from each step. However, I want to do this within SINGLE Step if possible.

Also, I tried using IDCAMS + LISTCAT to extract names from fixed positions in SYSPRINT. But LISTCAT does not allow me to pass DDNAME asinput, it asks for Exact Mainframe DSN names to be HARDCODED, which is not suitable for my requirement.

Please suggest. Thanks

Regards
Abhinav

Don't use ICETOOL, use regular SORT instead.

This would make you happy.
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sergeyken

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Code:
//*=====================================================================
//SORTDSNS PROC DS=NULLFILE                                             
//*                                                                     
//*=====================================================================
//* PROCESS DATASET NAMES                                               
//*=====================================================================
//CONTENT  EXEC PGM=SORT,                                           
//             PARM='JP0"&DS"'                                         
//*                                                                     
//SYSOUT   DD  SYSOUT=*                                                 
//*                                                                     
//SORTIN   DD  DISP=SHR,DSN=&DS                                         
//*                                                                     
//DATAOUT  DD  DISP=(MOD,PASS),                                         
//             UNIT=SYSDA,SPACE=(TRK,(50,50),RLSE),                     
//             DSN=&&DATAOUT                                           
//*                                                                     
//SYSIN    DD  *                                                       
 SORT FIELDS=COPY                                                       
 OUTFIL FTOV,FNAMES=DATAOUT,                                           
        HEADER1=(C'*** START OF DATA FROM DSN=',JP0),                   
       TRAILER1=(C'*** END OF DATA FROM DSN=',JP0)                     
 END                                                                   
//*                                                                     
//         PEND                                                         
//*                                                                     
//*=====================================================================
//DSN#1    EXEC SORTDSNS,DS=&SYSUID..DSN#1   
//DSN#2    EXEC SORTDSNS,DS=&SYSUID..DSN#2   
//DSN#3    EXEC SORTDSNS,DS=&SYSUID..DSN#3   
//DSN#4    EXEC SORTDSNS,DS=&SYSUID..DSN#4   
//DSN#5    EXEC SORTDSNS,DS=&SYSUID..DSN#5   
//DSN#6    EXEC SORTDSNS,DS=&SYSUID..DSN#6   
//DSN#7    EXEC SORTDSNS,DS=&SYSUID..DSN#7   
//DSN#8    EXEC SORTDSNS,DS=&SYSUID..DSN#8   
//DSN#9    EXEC SORTDSNS,DS=&SYSUID..DSN#9   
//DSN#10   EXEC SORTDSNS,DS=&SYSUID..DSN#10   
//*                                                                     
//*=====================================================================
//PRINT    EXEC PGM=IEBGENER                                           
//SYSPRINT DD  DUMMY                                                   
//SYSIN    DD  DUMMY                                                   
//SYSUT1   DD  DISP=(OLD,DELETE),DSN=&&DATAOUT                         
//SYSUT2   DD  SYSOUT=*                                                 
//*=====================================================================

Code:
*** START OF DATA FROM DSN=SUPERUSR.DSN#1
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*** END OF DATA FROM DSN=SUPERUSR.DSN#1
*** START OF DATA FROM DSN=SUPERUSR.DSN#2
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*** END OF DATA FROM DSN=SUPERUSR.DSN#2
*** START OF DATA FROM DSN=SUPERUSR.DSN#3
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*** END OF DATA FROM DSN=SUPERUSR.DSN#3
*** START OF DATA FROM DSN=SUPERUSR.DSN#4
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*** END OF DATA FROM DSN=SUPERUSR.DSN#4
*** START OF DATA FROM DSN=SUPERUSR.DSN#5
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*** END OF DATA FROM DSN=SUPERUSR.DSN#5
*** START OF DATA FROM DSN=SUPERUSR.DSN#6
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*** END OF DATA FROM DSN=SUPERUSR.DSN#6
*** START OF DATA FROM DSN=SUPERUSR.DSN#7
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*** END OF DATA FROM DSN=SUPERUSR.DSN#7
*** START OF DATA FROM DSN=SUPERUSR.DSN#8
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*** END OF DATA FROM DSN=SUPERUSR.DSN#8
*** START OF DATA FROM DSN=SUPERUSR.DSN#9
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*** END OF DATA FROM DSN=SUPERUSR.DSN#9
*** START OF DATA FROM DSN=SUPERUSR.DSN#10
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*** END OF DATA FROM DSN=SUPERUSR.DSN#10
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 07, 2019 8:05 pm
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Thanks..

The above solution has already been tried and working. But this one has mutiple steps to process 10 files.

Is it possible to reduce the number of steps to Max 3.
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reach2abhinavtyagi wrote:
Thanks..

The above solution has already been tried and working. But this one has mutiple steps to process 10 files.

Is it possible to reduce the number of steps to Max 3.


Write REXX script to read DSN list from whatever source, and call PGM=SORT from REXX as many times as needed, within the same job step.
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Is it possible to reduce the number of steps to Max 3.

Why would JOINKEY's won't here?
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reach2abhinavtyagi wrote:
Thanks..

The above solution has already been tried and working. But this one has mutiple steps to process 10 files.

Is it possible to reduce the number of steps to Max 3.

Check with your zOS team if your JES version does support the JCL option EXPORT/SYMBOLS?

If yes, then you can pass JCL/PROC parameters straightforward into your input stream data (e.g. SORT control statements) - as many as needed.

This would be the simplest solution.

You can just try your test to check this
Code:
//TESTJOB JOB …
// EXPORT SYMLIST=(*)
//DUMMY EXEC PGM=IEFBR14

If no JCL error occurred, then pass your parameters into input stream

Code:
//. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
//MYPROC PROC DS1=NULLFILE,
//            DS2=NULLFILE,
//            . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
//            DS25=NULLFILE
//SORT PGM=SORT
//. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
//DSN1 DD DISP=SHR,DSN=&DS1
//. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
//DSN25 DD DISP=SHR,DSN=&DS25
//. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
//SYSIN DD *,SYMBOLS=(EXECSYS)
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
     HEADER1=(C'Data taken from DSN=&DS1'),
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
    BUILD=(…,C'&DS25',...),
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
etc.


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System Symbol Support is depending on Job Class. So check if there is one that has this enabled. If that's the case (although I tend to use parm EXECSYS as well) proceed with:
Code:
SYMBOLS=JCLONLY

if there is nothing you would like to use from current settings outside of the Job.
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