JES exit 6 > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On > Behalf Of Brian Westerman > Sent: Friday, September 18, 2020 9:05 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: rename a dataset in acs routine? > > They would like an approach that didn't include editing the thousands of JCL > sets. > > On Fri, 18 Sep 2020 17:34:17 +0800, Brian Fraser > <[email protected]> wrote: > > >Why can't his jobs generate dsns like HLQ.FICHE.TAPE.D091720.T1123 ? > >Can use system symbols to generate the date and time in the JCL output > DD. > > > >Brian > > > > > >On Fri, 18 Sep 2020 at 15:36, Brian Westerman > <[email protected]> > >wrote: > > > >> Hi, > >> > >> I was asked a question today that I honestly don't know how to answer. > >> The programmer has a (very large) series of jobs that generate fiche tapes > >> that get created and have a expiration date but never are cataloged > >> (because they all have exactly the same DSN). So over time, they ended > up > >> with about 30,000 tapes from the over 9,000 jobs that CA-1 keeps around > >> until expiration date. Obviously, these are not the easiest datasets to > >> use later because they need to look up the tape volser every time. > >> > >> The problem is that they want to know if there is a way to automatically > >> catalog datasets at creation time, to which I told them we could, but only > >> 1 of them because you can't catalog two datasets with the same name. > But > >> they want to have "the system" which I'm guessing is me :), dynamically > >> rename these datasets at creation time to add a date and time, such as > >> change HLQ.FICHE.TAPE to which I would dynamically make it > >> HLQ.FICHE.TAPE.D091720.T1123, meaning today's date and the current > time (if > >> it was 11:23am). > >> > >> I can't think of a way to do that in an acs routine, or any other simple > >> way, and I'm hoping that someone has an idea that might apply here. I > >> think I can alter almost anything about the dataset, except the name. Is > >> there something I am missing? > >> > >> Brian > >> > >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > >> send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > >> > > > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > >send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
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