You didn't say anything about reformatting data. IEBGENER or SORT can copy fields from one column and place in another column and fill in constant values as needed. Set up 2 steps, one for each member.
http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/zos/v1r12/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.ibm.zos.r12.idau100%2Fu1127.htm ONE1 GENERATE MAXFLDS=255 ONE2 RECORD FIELD=(length,input,conversion,output) ONE3 RECORD FIELD=(80,1,,1) Copies 80 bytes as is) ONE4 RECORD FIELD=(10,1,,1),FIELD=(10,31,,21), FIELD=(30,'----+----3----+----4----+---5'',,31), FIELD=(30,'----+----6----+----7----+----8',,51) Copies two 10 bytes field plus fill On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 11:20 AM, Hansen, Dave L - Eagan, MN <dave.l.han...@usps.gov> wrote: > Dear Group, > > Thank you for the discussion on this. I started trying to look into > writing a REXX exec to select my KEY input and build the dataset members > needed to continue. I used to do this using the ISPF panels by hand. > > I thought the panel was using IBM code. But I was told it was not and we > did something so it was this way. Thank you for pointing out that using > IEBCOPY with REXX also pulled in some other vendor software. > > I can read the same file in and massage my key for each need. I usually > build two members that have the same information in two different formats > that are static and I can go back and reference. > > So, after consideration. I will go back to REXX EXECIO. I need to > massage the data anyway. It will run two steps, reading the same file twice, > but creating different outputs. > > I learned more about the MVS utilities :) Was wondering if IEBGENER > allowed creating two members from the same input data, in one step. IEBGENER > appears to not loop back to the top to re-evaluate (edit) the same input > data. Amazing how copy and sort can lead down so many paths. Need more > "GOBACK" commands :) > > > Thanks again for sharing your knowledge and thoughts with me, Dave > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On > Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin > Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2014 10:48 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: Now IEBGENER, Was Help with IEBCOPY? > > On Thu, 20 Mar 2014 08:31:27 -0400, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: >> >>>The plain old IEBGENER would be best batch option for a non-source >>>type dataset, >> >>Why is it bettwer than, e.g., IDCAMS REPRO? >> > Choose your evil. It's all relative. > > IEBGENER: > o Allows the programmer to omit (some) attributes from SYSUT2, in which > case they are (optionally) replicated from SYSUT1 o Requires that supplied > attributes of SYSUT2 be compatible with SYSUT1. > > REPRO: > o Requires that the programmer supply (more) attributes of the output file o > Allows the attributes of the output file to differ (more) from the inout file. > > On Thu, 20 Mar 2014 08:41:21 -0500, Tom Marchant wrote: >> >>Your output file is a PDS MEMBER. A PDS member is a sequential data set. You >>don't need GENERATE. >> > The OP's initial objective appeared to involve some editing, in which case he > needs a control file. > > > On 2014-03-20, at 07:49, Blaicher, Christopher Y. wrote: >> >>//SYSUT2 DD DISP=SHR,DSN=output-pds(member-name) >> >>You can use SHR or OLD for DISP >> > Beware. If you use SHR for PDS SYSUT2 and your two jobs run concurrently, > Bad Things might happen. PDSE and/or newer releases of z/OS may be more > robust. > > -- gil > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to > lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- Mike A Schwab, Springfield IL USA Where do Forest Rangers go to get away from it all? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
