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meekhasingh
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 23, 2008 7:17 am    Post subject: Checking for empty files Reply with quote
How do we check for empty files using sort card?

Thanks in advance
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JACK
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 23, 2008 4:07 pm    Post subject: DFSORT - ICETOOL - EMPTY FILE CHECK. Reply with quote
Using ICETOOL, we can do this.

Code:

//STEP1 EXEC PGM=ICETOOL
//TOOLMSG DD SYSOUT=*
//DFSMSG DD SYSOUT=*
//IN DD DSN=...
//TOOLIN DD *
COUNT FROM(IN) EMPTY
/*


This step return RC=12, if file IN is empty.
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Frank Yaeger
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 23, 2008 8:23 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
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/software/sort/mvs/tricks/
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