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Reading a GDG in FIFO order ?

 
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PostPosted: Wed Apr 21, 2004 9:29 am    Post subject: Reading a GDG in FIFO order ? Reply with quote
Hi

I have a strange requirement here. I have a cobol program that needs to read in all the members of a GDG.

Initially i went about by giving the GDG base as the ddname in the proc, it concatenates the GDG members but then the default order is LIFO. But given the processing logic of my cobol program i want this concatenation to happen in FIFO order.

Now i read an earlier post about reading GDG's in reverse order. They suggested 2 approaches. Approach 1 was to run a ReXX code, which is fine but then i wont be allowed to run ReXX codes on my mainframe installation (dont ask why ?). Approach 2 was to use sort and assign sequence no's and then sort in the descending order and finally removing the sequence no's. Now even this has a glitch. Let me just give an overview of how the data in the GDG member looks like. It basically consists of a header followed by detail records and then the trailer record. Now if i go by the sort approach, i get the data in FIFO order but it comes in a trailer record followed by detail records and then the header record which is not acceptable. Hope iam clear here ?

Now all i wanna know is if there is any other approach (plz try and confine to cobol and jcl) to do this ?

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PostPosted: Wed Apr 21, 2004 10:37 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Naren,

The simplest way is to generate the cobol pgm ddname with the concatenated list of gdg versions.

The following DFSORT Jcl will give you the desired results.

A brief explanation of the job. The first step gets all the gdg version names using LISTCAT command

STEP0200 takes in the listcat input and creates 2 files. File T1 will have the first gdg version attached to the pgm dd name.
ie.
Code:

//PGMDDNAM DD DISP=SHR,DSN=USERID.GDGBASE.G1630V00


File t2 will have all the later versions of the GDG as part of concatenation.

Code:

//         DD DISP=SHR,DSN=USERID.GDGBASE.G1631V00
//         DD DISP=SHR,DSN=USERID.GDGBASE.G1632V00
//         DD DISP=SHR,DSN=USERID.GDGBASE.G1633V00
//         DD DISP=SHR,DSN=USERID.GDGBASE.G1634V00
//         DD DISP=SHR,DSN=USERID.GDGBASE.G1635V00
//         DD DISP=SHR,DSN=USERID.GDGBASE.G1636V00
//         DD DISP=SHR,DSN=USERID.GDGBASE.G1637V00
//         DD DISP=SHR,DSN=USERID.GDGBASE.G1638V00
//         DD DISP=SHR,DSN=USERID.GDGBASE.G1639V00
//         DD DISP=SHR,DSN=USERID.GDGBASE.G1640V00
//         DD DISP=SHR,DSN=USERID.GDGBASE.G1641V00
//         DD DISP=SHR,DSN=USERID.GDGBASE.G1642V00
//         DD DISP=SHR,DSN=USERID.GDGBASE.G1643V00
//         DD DISP=SHR,DSN=USERID.GDGBASE.G1644V00


Now the step0300 will submit the actual cobol pgm job via intrdr.

Code:

//STEP0100 EXEC PGM=IKJEFT01                                 
//SYSTSPRT DD DSN=&L,                                       
//            DISP=(,PASS),                                 
//            SPACE=(CYL,(25,25),RLSE),                     
//            DCB=(LRECL=80,RECFM=FB,BLKSIZE=0)             
//SYSTSIN  DD *                                             
  LISTCAT ENT('USERID.GDGBASE') NAME           
//*                                                         
//STEP0200 EXEC PGM=SORT                                     
//SYSOUT   DD SYSOUT=*                                       
//SORTIN   DD DSN=&L,DISP=(OLD,PASS)                         
//T1       DD DSN=&T1,DISP=(,PASS),SPACE=(CYL,(1,1),RLSE)   
//T2       DD DSN=&T2,DISP=(,PASS),SPACE=(CYL,(1,1),RLSE)   
//SYSIN    DD *                                             
  SORT FIELDS=COPY                                           
  INCLUDE COND=(4,7,CH,EQ,C'NONVSAM')                       
  OUTFIL FNAMES=T1,ENDREC=1,                                 
  OUTREC=(C'//PGMDDNAM DD DISP=SHR,DSN=',17,44,80:X)         
  OUTFIL FNAMES=T2,STARTREC=2,                               
  OUTREC=(C'//         DD DISP=SHR,DSN=',17,44,80:X)         
//*                                                         
//STEP0300 EXEC  PGM=SORT                       
//SYSOUT   DD SYSOUT=*                           
//SORTOUT  DD SYSOUT=*                           
//SORTIN   DD DATA,DLM=$$                       
//TIDXXXXA JOB 'PGM',                           
//             CLASS=A,                         
//             MSGCLASS=Y,                       
//             MSGLEVEL=(1,1),                   
//             NOTIFY=TID                       
//*                                             
//STEP0100 EXEC  PGM=COBPGM                     
//SYSOUT   DD SYSOUT=*                           
//SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=*                           
....add you other input/output file if any
//OUTPUT   DD DSN=XYZ.WVU.PQRS.ABCD,             
//            DISP=(NEW,CATLG,DELETE),           
//            UNIT=SYSDA,                       
//            SPACE=(CYL,(X,Y),RLSE)             
$$                                               
//         DD DSN=&T1,DISP=(OLD,PASS)           
//         DD DSN=&T2,DISP=(OLD,PASS)           
//SYSIN    DD *                                 
  SORT FIELDS=COPY                               
//*                                             


Hope this helps...

Cheers

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PostPosted: Thu Apr 22, 2004 5:24 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Hi Kolusu / Ravi

To sum it up in 1 word, the solution was AWESOME...... Very Happy
It was exactly what i was looking for.

Thanks a lot for your assistance.

With regards
Naren
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