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[arvibala]

Hi,

One of my programs creates Dynamic PARMS to delete some members based on some condition. so my PARM looks like this.

DELETE HLQ.MLQ(MEM1)
DELETE HLQ.MLQ(MEM2)
IF MAXCC EQ 8 THEN SET MAXCC = 0

Then I use this PARM in an IDCAMS utility to delete MEM1 and MEM2.

But in some cases this PARM .. needs to be EMPTY. I tested it with Empty PARM, it works fine. But Can you suggest some good programing practice so that the PARM has some thing to bypass even if there are no members to delete?

Thanks,
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Arvind
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[bauer]

arvibala,

i'm not sure, if my understanding is correct.

You execute a program to create the input cards for idcams and in the next step you execute the idcams utility? Is this correct?

If so, why do you execute the idcams step, if nothing is to do? Don't execute the idcams step in your jcl in this situation.

regards
bauer

[CraigG]

Just set the return code in the step that creates the parms so the idcams step will be skipped.

[Nic Clouston]

You could even have your program call IDCAMS directly if it has cretaed records
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[arvibala]

I will go with CraigG .. thats the best thing to do.

bauer,
The members to be deleted is created Dynamic. So to skip IDCAMS step, I will set the return code of my program.
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Arvind
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