I think there might be one issue you also need to deal with. This is old
knowledge and I do not know if the limit still exists, but at one time DFDSS
could only handle so many control cards at one time. The generic allowed
you to handle 100's of files but specific data set backups had a limitation.
I am thinking I remember that it could only handle 254 input files, but I
could be wrong.
Does anyone know if there is still a limitation on the number of input
control cards for file names?
For example,
INC(DS(A.B, A.C, ... A.ZZZ.ZZZZ)
Lizette
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I must say, it's a great idea. We have lots of job runing hours to backup
data sets both in production and test environment and they all use generic
filter.
The possible performance gain is well worth doing and I will work on it
right now.
The rexx requires some work cause I don't want to change the way other
people use DSS. So my rexx must be able to process any data set list syntax
DSS recognizes.
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