I take it IDCAMS have not been modified for the last 20 years... It would be nice if it could do what the tail command does in unix/uss/OMVS... Just a thought, maybe read thru the file or use some or other record counter, and only leave you with the last few records on display.
Just my wish-list for the day... Herbie -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Zelden Sent: 28 Januarie 2008 02:16 nm To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Keep only the tail of the dataset On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 09:10:01 +0100, Miklos Szigetvari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > > Searching for a method to keep/access only the tail of a dataset. > An application writes internal traces , several million lines. I would >like to keep only the last part of the trace. >Any simple method to achive this ? >(Currently I can think to pipe under USS , and write a small program to >wrap around ) > >-- If you know how many records, you can use IDCAMS REPRO with SKIP(nnn). If you don't know how many records, you would have to determine that first and could generate the JCL with REXX for example. There are many ways to find the number of records but the quickest may be to use the ICETOOL or SYNCTOOL "COUNT" function. Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead Zurich North America / Farmers Insurance Group - ZFUS G-ITO mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] z/OS Systems Programming expert at http://expertanswercenter.techtarget.com/ Mark's MVS Utilities: http://home.flash.net/~mzelden/mvsutil.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html Elavon Financial Services Limited Registered in Ireland: Number 418442 Registered Office: Block E, 1st Floor, Cherrywood Business Park, Loughlinstown, Co. Dublin, Ireland Directors: Robert Abele (USA), John Collins, Terrance Dolan (USA), Pamela Joseph (USA), Declan Lynch, John McNally, Malcolm Towlson Elavon Financial Services Limited, trading as Elavon, is regulated by the Financial Regulator ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
