John, Write a small rexx program that will read the number of records from the catalog and then generate the appropriate IDCAMS control cards ;-) No empty files, exact number of control cards, faster IO.
Itschak On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 8:54 PM, John McKown <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, 12 Mar 2009 20:18:42 +0200, Itschak Mugzach <[email protected]> > wrote: > > >Idcams skip & Count... > > > > I don't think that would word in this case. > > 1) the OP wants CEIL(n/100000) output files, where "n" is the number of > input records, which is not known beforehand. He stated that empty output > files were unacceptable. > > 2) If you did know the exact number of output files, you'd need that many > control cards in your IDCAMS input stream. Each REPRO would "stand alone". > By that, I mean each SKIP would reread all the previous read input records. > This could be I/O intensive and redundant. > > === > > Actually, since COBOL now supports dynamic allocation of output files, it > could likely be used to perform this function more efficiently than REXX. > Not many COBOL programmer use this functionality, but it is now "standard". > > -- > 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 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
