Sorry, I am still on z/OS 1.6...
-----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Zelden Sent: 29 Januarie 2008 02:48 nm To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Keep only the tail of the dataset On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 17:04:26 -0600, Luis Miguel Martinez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Have you tried with the USS command: > > tail -n "//'my.dataset.to.read'" > > where n would be the number of lines > > Please let me know if you could do it. > That should work. But why -n without a value? It would be tail -n nnn "//'my.dataset.to.read'" where nnn is the number of lines wouldn't it? With BPXBATCH and z/OS 1.8 (or 1.5-1.7 with the proper maintenance) STDOUT can point to a MVS data set. 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
