Sound like the best way Thanks
> On Oct 1, 2020, at 5:23 PM, Seymour J Metz <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'd loop over the datasets, doing allocate, process, free for each before > going to the next. > > > -- > Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz > http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 > > > ________________________________________ > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> on behalf of > Joseph Reichman <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, October 1, 2020 5:19 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: SVC 99 unallocating a concatenated dataset > > 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 >>> >>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> 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 > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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
