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[Fizz]

I would love some pearls of wisdom from the people on here and perhaps some pointers on where to start.

I know a little Rexx and I have figured out that this could probably be done with SDF/Rexx but I need a helping hand.

We have a requirement to take output from a specific output class on the output spool and create a file on a server for each one. So for example a line in the JCL

//sysout dd sysout=(a,xyz12345)

it appears on the output with xyz12345 in the wtr field and we want to take all the output from class A with a wtr field set and in this case FTP it to a file that is jobname_stepname_CCYYMMDD_xyz12345.txt on a server

once the output is FTP'd we then want to delete the output.

If someone could at least point me to one of the myriad of topics on the REXX/SDSF subjects that may help it would be a start.

[semigeezer]

There is a section in the SDSF books (I think) in using SDSF with Rexx. The interface is quite good and allows you to get output from SDSF commands into stem variables. You then process the stem variables to find the jobs of interest to you and then do whatever you need to with the jobs. The interface can also retrieve job output if the caller has the authority to do so. I used this to create a limited web interface to SDSF once a long time ago.

Note that this is not the same as calling SDSF in batch. That was basically just a way capture SDSF screens in batch and had, in my opinion, limited usefulness.

http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/ieduasst/stgv1r0/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.iea.zos/zos/1.9/Simplification/zOSV1R9_Simplification_SDSFREXX/player.html
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[Fizz]

thanks very much.

I can figure out now how to get to the output I need to get off SDSF I just need to figure out how to print the output to a file (similar to as you would do with PRT ODSN etc?

any hints for that

[Fizz]

right.. I have it working but not in a batch job.. one bit gives RC when run in batch -

do jnum = 1 to jname.0
If wtrid.jnum <> "" then do
say right(jnum,2) jname.jnum jobid.jnum wtrid.jnum
jopts = "(PREFIX J)"
Address SDSF "ISFACT O TOKEN('"token.jnum"') PARM(NP ?) " jopts

if RC