I guess my question is how is to be processed?

Do you need the filename the record came from

Do you just need go through all the files looking for something specific?

Are these files GDGs or does the name vary or is there a common mask


Depending on the answers, you could look at using a utility (like DFSORT) to 
grab what you need

You could create a do loop in REXX to read your datasets by Mask - then pass to 
your process

Many options could be available depending on what the intent of this process 
is, and what kind of data is being passed

Lizzette


-----Original Message-----
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf Of 
Joseph Reichman
Sent: Thursday, October 1, 2020 1:00 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: SVC 99 unallocating a concatenated dataset

Not familiar with BPXDYN

In light of this I think I’m going to re-phrase 

My question I have to process ( read ) 4,471

Files with a 100 file concatenation limit 

What would be the best method ?

Thanks 



> On Oct 1, 2020, at 3:55 PM, Paul Gilmartin 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 1 Oct 2020 19:46:33 +0100, Lennie Dymoke-Bradshaw wrote:
> 
>> Long ago (actually 1989 I think) I wrote a CONCAT TSO command which can be 
>> used to add or remove data sets from a concatenated list. It can also 
>> perform a FREE. This loops round each entry in the concatenated set and 
>> frees each data set.
>> 
>> It still works a treat.
>> 
>> I still have the code should anyone want it.
>> 
> Nowadays, might this as well be done with BPXWDYN which has CONCAT 
> support, and without the dependency on TSO?
> 
> CBTTAPE candidate?
> 
> -- gil
> 
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