Why can't his jobs generate dsns like HLQ.FICHE.TAPE.D091720.T1123 ? Can use system symbols to generate the date and time in the JCL output DD.
Brian On Fri, 18 Sep 2020 at 15:36, Brian Westerman <brian_wester...@syzygyinc.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I was asked a question today that I honestly don't know how to answer. > The programmer has a (very large) series of jobs that generate fiche tapes > that get created and have a expiration date but never are cataloged > (because they all have exactly the same DSN). So over time, they ended up > with about 30,000 tapes from the over 9,000 jobs that CA-1 keeps around > until expiration date. Obviously, these are not the easiest datasets to > use later because they need to look up the tape volser every time. > > The problem is that they want to know if there is a way to automatically > catalog datasets at creation time, to which I told them we could, but only > 1 of them because you can't catalog two datasets with the same name. But > they want to have "the system" which I'm guessing is me :), dynamically > rename these datasets at creation time to add a date and time, such as > change HLQ.FICHE.TAPE to which I would dynamically make it > HLQ.FICHE.TAPE.D091720.T1123, meaning today's date and the current time (if > it was 11:23am). > > I can't think of a way to do that in an acs routine, or any other simple > way, and I'm hoping that someone has an idea that might apply here. I > think I can alter almost anything about the dataset, except the name. Is > there something I am missing? > > Brian > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
