I don’t know if I would find the space 
I work for the IRS have to get ready filing season 2021 
Looking for data in filing season 2020

Huge amounts of DASD



> On Oct 1, 2020, at 5:16 PM, Lizette Koehler <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Just a thought,
> 
> Why not put all datasets in a sequential file.  Which is then used as input 
> to your process
> 
> Then your process could do
> 
> Read input list of files
> Do Loop until Input all read
>   Open file
>    Search file
>   If match - do Something
>   Close file
> End loop
> 
> Keep going through as many datasets that are in your input file.  Or is this 
> something you are doing already?
> 
> 
> Why waste JCL space?
> 
> Lizette
> 
> PS I know nothing about what you are doing, so this is just a suggestion.  
> All thoughts are my own
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf Of 
> Joseph Reichman
> Sent: Thursday, October 1, 2020 1:59 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: SVC 99 unallocating a concatenated dataset
> 
> You may be right 
> 
> Was doing it in assembler 
> 
> Because that’s the language used 
> 
> But whatever works 
> 
> Thanks 
> 
> PS my code was proceeded by a call IGGCSI00 to get the dataset names 
> 
>>> On Oct 1, 2020, at 4:54 PM, Paul Gilmartin 
>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>> On Thu, 1 Oct 2020 16:46:25 -0400, Joseph Reichman wrote:
>>> 
>>> 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
>>> 
>> Does a concatenation gain you anything compared to the simple:
>> 
>> DO FOR 4471
>>   ALLOCATE
>>       OPEN
>>           look for data
>>       CLOSE
>>   FREE
>> END
>> 
>> -- gil
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