HOW TO CHECK FOR THE EMPTY DATASET

Ravi gaur · New User Joined: 12 Jul 2005 Posts: 44

CAN ANY BODY HELP ME ASAP ..

IS THERE ANY WAY OF CHECKING EMPTY DATASET BEFORE TRANSMITTING IT.....

KMK · New User Joined: 29 Jul 2005 Posts: 18

You can use SELCOPY to find the empty file

ideas · Active User Joined: 25 May 2005 Posts: 54 Location: India

use VERIFY cmd.

Ravi gaur · New User Joined: 12 Jul 2005 Posts: 44

KMK :-- SELCOPY IS A THIRD PARTY VENDOR AND IT NEED TO BE INSTALL FOR THIS.. SO THIS IDEA FAIL.

IDEAS :-- YOUR IDEA IS GOOD WITH THE VSAM NOT WITH THE NON-VSAM DATASETS....

CORRECT ME IF I AM WRONG

die7nadal · Active User Joined: 23 Mar 2005 Posts: 141

Please search before posting a query, as u can get answers quickly http://ibmmainframes.com/viewtopic.php?t=590&highlight=print+count

kumar_ngl · Posted: Fri Aug 05, 2005 1:20 pm Post subject:

hay help me buddy,

where to implement that verify command to know whether the VSAM file is emply r not

kumar.p.v

die7nadal · Active User Joined: 23 Mar 2005 Posts: 141

I wud be interested to see a VERIFY cmd find if the VSAM is empty or not, bcos I have never seen that.

die7nadal · Active User Joined: 23 Mar 2005 Posts: 141

The following can be used for both VSAM and nonVSAM DS, I have copied this from the link shown above.

superk

This is another option:

http://www.ibm.com/servers/storage/support/software/sort/mvs/tricks/srtmst03.html#t10

ajayvamsi · Posted: Fri Aug 12, 2005 1:30 am Post subject:

please can anyone tell me where I need to place the verify command in teh JCL

superk

See the document:

"DFSMS/MVS V1R5 Access Method Services for VSAM Catalogs"

http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/dgt1v403/3.27?DT=19990113080956