Buckton, T. (Theo) wrote:

>I have thousands of VSAM RR data sets that are grouped according to their 
>sizes, which comes to about 9 groups or data classes. It is not too much work 
>to create the 9 data classes, but to code these thousands of data sets 
>according to NODE3 in the ACS routines seems a bit too hectic. Is there 
>perhaps a smarter way to do this?

What is NODE3?  Do you want to rewrite DATACLASS ACS? If so, AFAIK, DATACLASS 
are only driven for new datasets.

I agree that it is a PITA.

Write a REXX program to pair off your FILTLIST ???  INCLUDE(<VSAM 
datasets>,<more VSAM dsn>) with the relevant IF or WHEN statements. Then a 
little copy+paste changes and translate/validate/testing are then all that 
remains.

You could perhaps dump or copy them and then re-drive those ACS Dataclass 
routines.

Of course, it depends on your naming standards and how you spread them accross 
your dataclasses.

>Note: We are rolling out z/OS 2.2 which I am studying for any enhancements 
>related to this query.

If you got any enhancements, please tell us! ;-)

Groete / Greetings
Elardus Engelbrecht

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