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[Bindaasamit]

I have a peculiar problem here.

Overview:
Every day business representatives submit some messages for processing, which are internally directed to come my userid.
From this we understand that the no of messages that I have for my processing are not fixed. (somedays we have 5 somedays 9)

So everyday i do a TSO RECEIVE to receive all the files. The format of the filename is
USERID.RREGEDIT.D091101
USERID.RREGEDIT.D091102
......
USERID.RREGEDIT.D091109
(Notice the last Low level qualifier changes for every message).


Goal :
I want to merge all the files into 1 file which I can then use for my further processing.


Please advise.

[dbzTHEdinosauer]

since you do a tso receive (manual operation),
you know the names of the files,
so just concatenate them for your processing, thus requiring no extra processing.

at worst, you would need to create an INCLUDE file, which then can be used in your standard jcl.
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[kolusu]

Bindaasamit,

Use the following DFSORT jcl which will merge all your input datasets into a single dataset as well as delete them if the job ran successfully.

verify the output from step0100 and if everything looks good then , change the following statement

[Bindaasamit]

Thanks a lot for your quick help on the info.

My Query is :
We create only the jcl in the sysout(we can also direct it to a dataset).
Can we execute this "created" jcl in one of the steps of the main jcl and then in the next step execute the main process.

Can I put a condition code on the main process so that it executes only when the created jcl executes successfully.

Thanks in advance.
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[Bill Dennis]

The created JCL cannot execute in the same job that creates it. You would need to submit the dataset with the created JCL as a new job thru the INTRDR.

You could append the main job JCL (with COND CODE checking) to the same dataset so it follows the combine step.

[Bindaasamit]

If I cannot execute the created jcl in the same jcl as the one creating it then
I will need 3 jcls..

1. Jcl which creates the sort jcl
2. Jcl to execute the sort jcl
3. Jcl to execute the main jcl

Can I merge the 2nd & 3rd jcls such that
the 1st step of my 3rd jcl does not start if
the sort jcl executed in Jcl-2 does not execute successfully!

Thanks again 4 your patience!

[Bindaasamit]

let me be clear here.
Jcl 3 to execute the " MAIN PROCESS" is what I meant

[papadi]

You should be able to do what you want with 2 processes.

One to generate the remainder (step 2 and step 3) of the jcl including a COND test to bypass the 3rd step if there is a problem with step 2.
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All the best,

di

[kolusu]

Bindaasamit,

*sigh* you don't need 2 steps in the first place , I showed you an example to merge the datasets into a single file as your initial post only mentions that. You can change that to your main process which will have all the datasets concatenated to the ddname the program reads.

Show me the JCL which you use to run the main process and I will show you how to do it.
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