Another approach that could be used if you are not bothered by reading the whole file is to use ftp and
get mvs.dataset.name nul (Windows) or get mvs.dataset.name /dev/null (Linux/*nix) Windows, for its own peculiar reasons, will also accept nul.xxx where xxx is some qualifier of your own choosing, Bill On Tue, 23 Dec 2008 08:03:51 -0600, John McKown <[email protected]> wrote: >On Tue, 23 Dec 2008 07:57:39 -0600, Paul Gilmartin <[email protected]> wrote: > >>On Tue, 23 Dec 2008 03:07:44 -0600, Parin Gangar wrote: >>> >>>I need to calculate the size of a dataset in Megabytes / Gigabytes. I cannot >>>download the file and check the same as I know the file size would be over 50 >>>GB and I don't want to fill up my hard disk. >>> >>1) Mount the data set with NFS. >> Use the "wc" command on the client system to count bytes. >> >>2) Or, on an FTP client that supports pipes as targets, do: >> >> get 'MY.DATA.SET' "| wc" >> >>-- gil >> > >OUCH! That's using the old sledge hammer to pound in a finishing nail! <grin>. > >If the OP is willing to read the dataset, as the above requires, then I'd >use DFSORT to copy it to DD DUMMY. DFSORT will give you the number of bytes >read in the file. > >-- >John > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
