We create thousands of datasets with a date stamp as a qualifier. See example:
//BJKBR14 JOB 1,'BRYAN K.',CLASS=Z,MSGCLASS=X,MSGLEVEL=(1,1) //INCL INCLUDE MEMBER=MCDATE //STEP005 EXEC PGM=IEFBR14 //DD1 DD DSN=SHRT.DUMMY.D&MCDATE,UNIT=VIO,SPACE=(TRK,(1,1)) The expanded JCL after execution looks like this: 1 //BJKBR14 JOB 1,'BRYAN K.',CLASS=Z,MSGCLASS=X,MSGLEVEL=(1,1) JOB54091 2 //INCL INCLUDE MEMBER=MCDATE XX* SET A VARIABLE FOR THE CURRENT DATA 3 XXDTSTAMP SET MCDATE=2011194 4 //STEP005 EXEC PGM=IEFBR14 5 //DD1 DD DSN=SHRT.DUMMY.D&MCDATE,UNIT=VIO,SPACE=(TRK,(1,1)) IEFC653I SUBSTITUTION JCL - DSN=SHRT.DUMMY.D2011194,UNIT=VIO,SPACE=(TRK,(1,1)) The trick is to run a process at 23:59:59 everyday to update the MCDATE member in a proclib that is in your JES2 proclib concatenation. We've done this for years and it works well. I guess the only downside is if the automation task somehow fails to update the MCDATE member at midnight. Bryan Klimek Mayo Clinic ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
