Have you considered writing a program which dynamically allocates the output files?
On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 7:34 AM, TonyIcloud-OPERA <[email protected]> wrote: > I have a dataset that contains records with a field, by which I need to > create a separate dataset that would contain all occurrences of that field. > For example the file, FB100, looks like > > value1 other data..... > value1 other data..... > value1 other data..... > value2 other data..... > value2 other data..... > value2 other data..... > value3 other data..... > value3 other data..... > value3 other data..... > value4 other data..... > value4 other data..... > value4 other data..... > > My final product must be a series of datasets: > > hlq.value1.records > hlq.value2.records > hlq.value3.records > hlq.value4.records > > There may be hundreds/thousands of possible values, hence > hundreds/thousands of datasets. I have accomplished this in 3 phases, > first pass reads the data, uses ICETOOL OCCUR to list the values, second > phase reads the OUTPUT and formats DD statements and OUTFIL OUTREC > statements, the third phase reads the original data to create the numerous > output files. I used a newly created PDSE as the output file whereupon the > third phase created several thousand members. > > It works, after a fashion, but I'd like a more simple solution. > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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
