On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 3:45 PM, Monty Spivak <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, > > I am is seeking a JCL "Mass Editor" (basically, multiple file search and > replace in an LPAR). We have 3,000 JCL scripts and are seeking to make > changes to upgrade SAS versions. Would you know of an appropriate tools to > use (I know that someone could write scripts to examine the JCL scripts, but > it would be a lot nicer if one would just be able to use a "search and > conditionally replace" against all of the JCL in an LPAR). > > > > Here is what I already considered and discarded for various reasons: > > 1. ISPF editor, and others, have a search and replace, but it is for only > for 1 script at a time. > > 2. Unload it to a huge sequential file, use ISPF to edit it, and then load > it back into a the PDS. Failing that, JCL is simply stored as clear text in > a PDS (partitioned dataset). Anything that will read a PDS would work, or > use the unload process to get one sequential file first. Our customer would > not like this approach. > > 3. I am sure that there are not one or two procs somewhere where the change > could be made. Most shops have procs that control the calls to SAS and other > such products. The idea is to bury all the installation specific stuff in > one proc, then have the user jobs call the proc. That way when you change > something, you only change it in the one proc, not every user job. It > appears that the JCL was not originally structured this way... > > I would appreciate if someone would point me in the right direction... > > Thanks, Monty > > Monty Spivak > SAS Institute Canada > [email protected]mailto:[email protected] > > Filemanager from IBM will allow find/change in every member of a PDS if that is what you are after. Jim McAlpine ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
