Hi,
I am trying to copy some members from one PDS to another.e.g. Suppose I have 500 members in one PDS.I am trying to move first 100 to 2nd PDS ,next 100 to 3rd PDS and so on.And the members that are copied to another PDS should get deleted from the source PDS.Is it possible to do so using JCL? I am looking at IEBGENER but there I found we can directly copy members by specifying names.
Regards, Manasi.
You could do this in several job steps. As an outline:
Setting up ICETOOL to select and format the MEMBERS list into REPRO/DELETE commands is, by far, the most difficult step. In fact you might need to chain a couple of ICETOOL steps to get all straight. This could take a very long time to figure out unless you have a lot of experience using ICETOOL. Here is a link to the IBM DFSORT Programming Guide (ICETOOL is just a BATCH front end to DFSORT) to give you some idea of what you are up against.
I suggest an alternative approach. Try writing a REXX procedure to replace the ICETOOL step. Trapping the LISTDS output and formatting it into the appropriate IDCAMS REPRO/DELETE commands would be a much simpler process.
REXX is available on pretty much every IBM mainframe so access should not be a problem.
Please provide a bit more detail on your dataset naming conventions if you need more help with this. Particularly, the output PDS names. I don't need or want exact names, just how they are constructed. For example do they looks something like this:
where the first 100 members are copied into FILE001, the next 100 to FILE002 etcetera. This can make a difference in how generalized you can make the file copy utility. Also, do you keep copying in blocks of 100 until the input PDS is exausted or is there some stopping limit?