Have to read 4,471 files ( VB files ) looking For data obviously there is a concatenation limit which is why my question were centered dynamic allocation and deallocation
Thanks > On Oct 1, 2020, at 4:36 PM, Lizette Koehler <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
