overriding sort I/P and O/P files

prasadrachuri · New User Joined: 19 Aug 2003 Posts: 20 Location: kolkata

Hi,
I have a proc in which SORT is being used,now i have to override the sort infile and outfile from outside my main proc.

i have traied it by giving outside the proc but it's giving error....

how can i do it??...

Thanks in advance

mcmillan · Site Admin Joined: 18 May 2003 Posts: 1210 Location: India

But you must add SYSIN in the calling program for SORT pgm. You can override SORTIN & SORTOUT in the calling job using the step name.

prasadrachuri · New User Joined: 19 Aug 2003 Posts: 20 Location: kolkata

sorry i forgot to mention... i'm doing external sort in the jcl ..i'm not doing sort in my program..i hope u got it now...

for ex ..the code will be like this..

//xxxxx proc
//yyyyy pgm=ddddd
//........
//.......
//sort1 exec proc=SORT
//sortin dd dsn=xx.yy.zz,disp=shr
//sortout dd dsn=xx.yy.ww,disp=(new,catlg)....
//zzzzz pgm=ggggg
//...........
//.......
// pend
//abcd proc=xxxxx

now i want to override my sortin and sortout files out side my xxxxx proc
how it can be done???

mcmillan · Site Admin Joined: 18 May 2003 Posts: 1210 Location: India

prasadrachuri · New User Joined: 19 Aug 2003 Posts: 20 Location: kolkata

//ABCD PROC=XXXXX
//SORT1.SORTIN DD DSN= <i/p dataset>
//SORT1.SORTOUT DD DSN= <o/p dataset>
//SORT1.SYSIN DD *
SORT FIELDS= <control cards>

sir,
i have traied the above code earlier also... it's giving jcl error

i have noticed error as "overriden step not found in procedure"

Sharan · New User Joined: 22 Dec 2003 Posts: 6 Location: Banaglore

Hi Prasadrachuri,

If U have coded the proc as an instream procedure here is a way of overriding the Infile and outfile.