They would like an approach that didn't include editing the thousands of JCL sets.
On Fri, 18 Sep 2020 17:34:17 +0800, Brian Fraser <brianmfra...@gmail.com> wrote: >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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
