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Thanks a lot Kolusu for your suggestions...it sounds like we cannot create the PDS member with symbolic variable declaration/definition in the same job and use it. So the only way is to create PDS mem ...

Hi Kolusu,
Thanks for the response and Sorry, if the question/reply was bit cryptic...

The reason I prefer single job is that I need to build a generic job to be used to work with different kinds ...

Thanks Nic Clouston for your thoughts...Can you please share a sample JCL of how to achieve this in a single job instead of creating 2 jobs...Thanks...

Hallo,
Good Morning, I have a requirement to fetch a value from the first record in the input file and use that value as a symbolic variable to generate the dataset names in the subsequent steps.

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Hi Kolusu,
Thanks for the reply, No I don't want to use LINK since I need to start a new transaction (NEWT) from the CICS program(PROGRAMA). The new transaction/program (CICS tran & program) (NEW ...

Hi Friends,
I have a program PROGRAMA which starts a new transaction by issuing 'EXEC CICS START ('NEWT)' command and the program (NEWPROG) associated with the transaction 'NEWT' has to issue a mess ...

Thanks everyone for your input.

Well, I used ADRDSSU's DUMP command to store the VSAM file and used the RESTORE command to restore the VSAM dataset back. It is working perfectly...

Thanks,
lal

Thanks for the reply.
Our currently master file is VSAM-KSDS which is about 25K length due to the addition of other customer information the length of proposed file is going past 32K limit.

That' ...

We are planning to create a VSAM KSDS file of length greater than 32K. Is there any way to take the backup of this this VSAM file into Sequential file on DASD or tape.

I tried 3.2 option but erro ...

Thanks Superk,
But when I type the SQLPLUS in ISPF command option it says the command is not found.

Thanks,
Lal

Hi Superk,
I remember in past of watching the way to connect to oracle database from mainframe command option, but I don't remember the command anymore. So I posted the question so that someone could ...

Hi,
Can someone please list down the steps to connect to oracle database from ISPF command option (Where we enter TSO commands).

Thanks in advance,

Thanks,
Lal

Thanks Brian Wood for the reply. I didn't notice your reply until today.

Thank you very much,

lal

Hi Superk,
Having an one-one-one relationship between the remote files and host target datasets would be an ideal one.

Well, I thought there would be someother way instead of doing an unique GET ...

Hi Kolusu,
I have similar issue like tiggy, and I have to get multiple files but the timestamp part of filename in the remote system has numericals and is greater than 8 characters for example my fil ...