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[javedsk12]

hi frnds,

I am having an JCL to create the generation using IEFBR14 i want to exeucte this JCL 10 times how to do that ??? can we execute any such jcl continuously by once giving the command ??


Regards,

Javed Shaikh
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[Nic Clouston]

I presume each invocation has a different dataset being affected by the IEFBR14 so you could not actually submit it 10 times - you submit 10 variations once each.

So you can either sub/change/sub/etc until all 10 are done

or

You can have 10 IEFBR14 steps in one JCL each with its own dataset and sub that once

or

you can supply all 10 datasets to 1 execution of IEFBR14

I know which I would do.
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[javedsk12]

hi Nic,

Thanks for your reply.
As i mentioned i am creating GDG genertaion and limit is 10 for that one.
so there wont be any problem in that in terms of dataset duplication errror or else.
Again as i am creating generation i have specified like wise:
index-name(+1)
so no need to change dataset name or anything else,instead of submitting 10 different times i want to submit the JCL only once and it should go for 10 times
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[javedsk12]

so i heard that we are having some command for that one please elaborate if u know anything
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[Nic Clouston]

no there is not - you can ub a one-step job 10 time or you can just supply all 10 gdg ddnames to one execution or you can have 10 steps in one job. If doing in one job and/or step that the first gdg is +1, the second is +2 etc and take care if you are restarting at any time.

There is no loop concept in JCL. It goes from first to last sequentially - maybe missing steps depending on condition codes
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[Nic Clouston]

couple of errors in the last post - 7th word s/b SUB ans THAT on 2nd line s/b THEN.

As a further comment - if someone has said that there is a command then it will probably be something home-grown. It would be very easy to set up an ISPF EDIT macro that took a numeric parameter and submitted the job being edited that number of times.
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[CraigG]

Create you IEFBR14 step as an instream proc and execute it 10 times.

[javedsk12]

hi craig,,

can you give a piece of code for that one ?? i didn't get how to exexute the proc 10 times.Till creation of proc it is fine.But how to execute that proc 10 times ??

javed
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[Nic Clouston]

You know what a proc is?
You know how to execute it?
You know what an instream proc is?
You execute it the same way.

//instrm PROC
//step exec pgm=...
//ddname dd ...
:
// pend
//s010 exec instrm
//s020 exec instrm
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//s100 exec instrm
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[Nic Clouston]

Also - I just looked at the JCL reference manual through the 'Quick Manuals' link, did a search on instream and the first hit showed an exmple. The manuals are there to be used, not to be pretty (ugly)
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[CraigG]

[Nic Clouston]