On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 09:10:01 +0100, Miklos Szigetvari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi > > Searching for a method to keep/access only the tail of a dataset. > An application writes internal traces , several million lines. I would >like to keep only the last part of the trace. >Any simple method to achive this ? >(Currently I can think to pipe under USS , and write a small program to >wrap around ) > >-- If you know how many records, you can use IDCAMS REPRO with SKIP(nnn). If you don't know how many records, you would have to determine that first and could generate the JCL with REXX for example. There are many ways to find the number of records but the quickest may be to use the ICETOOL or SYNCTOOL "COUNT" function. Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead Zurich North America / Farmers Insurance Group - ZFUS G-ITO mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] z/OS Systems Programming expert at http://expertanswercenter.techtarget.com/ Mark's MVS Utilities: http://home.flash.net/~mzelden/mvsutil.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
