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[nishantrk]

I have read through the earlier post regarding this ,from my understanding we can have a DDNAME which is associated with TDQ and the queue data is wrriten to that dataset.My requirement is like we have around 15 reports generated through onlines and each report to be written to a different dataset .Also we have 19 different databases in the same CICS region(associated with differnt transaction) each having 15 reports .so that means around 285 different dataset to be written so for each a diffrent DDNAME is to be given in the jcl?

This seems to be very cubersome method ...Could anyone please suggest some other method to generate these reports

[Dibakar]

How many JCLs are you planning to write and how many of them will run simultaneously? I think you may be able to reuse the DDNAMEs. Maybe someone can suggest better if they get a glimpse of the JCL you are planning to create.

[jtollefson]

How are the online reports controlled now?

Could you use EXCI to link up to the onlines from batch to have the reports generated?

This would allow you to schedule the reports through your batch scheduling and in turn have more control over the dataset that is being used for your db extract reports.

Also, you could use the batch AFCS utility to execute transactions in the online to have more control over the usage of the dataset.

If you have onlines that write reports through normal processing... you could use a GDG with SET OPENS & CLOSES within the online modules. When a GDG is set to closed and then opened a new generation of the GDG is allocated each time... you could use that for whatever.

Without knowing the process execution of how your reports are being generated its kinda hard to tell what the best way for you to do this would be.

Course... just now I looked at the original posting date and you've probably figured it out by now...

It would be interesting to find out how the poster solved this problem.