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venkata · Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2003 8:20 am Post subject: Append the records using JCL

Hi friends,

I have 2 PDSs and each one has a member that contains 20000 lines. I tried to append the records using cut and paste. But I was getting some ABEND code and I couldn't the paste the lines.

Can anybody provide the solution to accomplish my task?

Thanks in Advance,
Venkata

Dibakar · Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2003 8:50 am Post subject:

venkata,

You can open one dataset1 in edit mode and use "COPY 'DATASET2'" edit command with an (A)fter or (B)efore line command as you do with cut and paste.

Diba.

semigeezer · Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2003 9:18 am Post subject:

The error was probably an out of storage error. I suppose there are many ways to do this, but an easy JCL solition is just a bunch of ICEGENER steps.
1) Copy the contents to a temp sequential file because you can't append to a PDS member
2) append the new data (DISP=MOD)
3) copy back to the original PDS.
Depending on your data source, 1 & 2 can be combined by concatenation on SYSUT1.

venkata · Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2003 11:06 pm Post subject:

Dibakar

I tried with ur suggestion, But again same ABEND CODE I got.

Semigeezer,

Can you elaborate ur explanation, b'caz I am poor at JCL?

Thanks,
Venkata

Dibakar · Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2003 2:26 am Post subject:

Venkata, Try this ...

CaptBill · Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2003 11:39 am Post subject:

Venkata,

What is the exact abend you are getting? Knowing that would go a long way in resolving your problem.

Please tell us what it is.