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Deepakgoyal2005

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PostPosted: Tue Oct 21, 2008 11:46 am    Post subject: Know GDG limit using JCL
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I want to extract all GDG files with an available starting NODE e.g. 'DEAR.TXXXXXX.*' and display the corresponding GDG LIMIT in front of the name.
As :
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DEAR.TXXXXXX.YYYY          36
DEAR.TXXXXXX.ZZZZ          40


Please provide a JCl for this...
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expat

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PostPosted: Tue Oct 21, 2008 11:55 am    Post subject:
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Please provide a JCl for this...

Please provide 700 euro for tried and tested code.
This is a help forum, not a "do it for me" forum - unless you want to pay for the work others do on your behalf.

Look at SYS1.SAMPLIB(IGGCSIRX) and let us know when you need some help.
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Anuj D.

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PostPosted: Tue Oct 21, 2008 12:20 pm    Post subject:
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Hi,

I'm in agreement with Expat, may be just fast fingers. In TSO can be an option, you can use this to get GDG limit..
Code:
 LISTC ENT('gdg base') ALL   
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vinay249

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PostPosted: Fri Oct 24, 2008 7:00 pm    Post subject: GDG
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Could you pls tell me how to execute this to get the GDG limit from the library SYS1.SAMPLIB(IGGCSIRX)
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Robert Sample

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PostPosted: Fri Oct 24, 2008 7:22 pm    Post subject:
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I want to extract all GDG files with an available starting NODE e.g. 'DEAR.TXXXXXX.*' and display the corresponding GDG LIMIT in front of the name.
Exactly how do you find the GDG LIMIT based on the cataloged files? What if a GDG has a LIMIT of 20 but only has 11 generations cataloged? Are you planning on reporting 11 as the LIMIT? What is the business requirement? You'd probably be better off generating an IDCAMS LISTCAT and parsing the output to find the GDG LIMIT if you really want the LIMIT and not merely the number of cataloged generations.

We've got a number of applications that create generations until a summary processing job runs, at which time all generations are taken in as a group, after which the generations are all deleted. So these applications never have the number of LIMIT generations cataloged, so by your logic they'd never show the correct LIMIT value.
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Skolusu

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PostPosted: Fri Oct 24, 2008 11:35 pm    Post subject:
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Deepakgoyal2005,

See the "Report on GDG base limits" Smart DFSORT Trick at:

www.ibm.com/systems/support/storage/software/sort/mvs/tricks/
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nirenchan

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PostPosted: Wed Oct 29, 2008 12:12 pm    Post subject: Reply to: Know GDG limit using JCL
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You can use REXX and extract the GDG name and limit and write the same to a output dataset.

You can Invoke LISTCAT from within REXX, get the details and pull the limit as well as GDG name into some variable and write the same to output Dataset...in the format that you want.

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Nirenchan
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