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[timfoster]

I have the following scenario that I am trying to design a solution for

we have a number of gdg's on both disk and tape. We want to use the creation date of them in dynamically created jcl that will process the gdg's. It was decided that we want to use rexx to dynamically create the jcl or update the procs and use the creation date as a cycle date.

I currently have created an idcams step that will execute the following command

listcat entries(dataset name) history

and puts the output into a dataset.

The date returned from this is in the format YYYY.DDD. We need it in the format of ccyymmdd.

I was planning to read this dataset in a rexx program and convert the date and then use it to update the procs that will be run to process the gdg's. I also see that I could execute the listcat int he rexx program and trap the output thereby removing the need to run the idcams step.

does anyone know of a function in rexx that will convert the date or would it be better to call a cobol subroutine if one was already written.

also I was wondering if anyone could provide an opinon as to whether this is the best way to go about doing this sort of thing to create jcls without writing a seperate one for each of the 200 gdgs that need to be processed. I am not new to the mainframe but am new to the idea of dynamic jcl generation and the uses to which rexx can be put.

thanks in advance

[kolusu]

timfoster,

This topic will give you an idea for your problem.

http://www.mvsforums.com/helpboards/viewtopic.php?t=2104

Hope this helps...

Cheers

kolusu
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[superk]

Date Conversions in REXX:

Julian to Gregorian: