How do we check for empty files using sort card?
Thanks in advance
Meekha
Checking for empty files
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DFSORT - ICETOOL - EMPTY FILE CHECK.
Using ICETOOL, we can do this.
This step return RC=12, if file IN is empty.
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//STEP1 EXEC PGM=ICETOOL
//TOOLMSG DD SYSOUT=*
//DFSMSG DD SYSOUT=*
//IN DD DSN=...
//TOOLIN DD *
COUNT FROM(IN) EMPTY
/*
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Meekha,
See the "Set RC=12 or RC=4 if file is empty, has more than n records,
etc" Smart DFSORT Trick at:
www.ibm.com/systems/support/storage/sof ... vs/tricks/
See the "Set RC=12 or RC=4 if file is empty, has more than n records,
etc" Smart DFSORT Trick at:
www.ibm.com/systems/support/storage/sof ... vs/tricks/
Frank Yaeger - DFSORT Development Team (IBM) - yaeger@us.ibm.com
Specialties: JOINKEYS, FINDREP, WHEN=GROUP, ICETOOL, Symbols, Migration
=> DFSORT/MVS is on the Web at http://www.ibm.com/storage/dfsort
Specialties: JOINKEYS, FINDREP, WHEN=GROUP, ICETOOL, Symbols, Migration
=> DFSORT/MVS is on the Web at http://www.ibm.com/storage/dfsort
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