Using IDCAMS I want to check whether an existing file is empty or not.
If empty then I dont want my job to process subsequent steps and complete without any abends.
Else I want my job to process the next step.
Can anyone please help me with this?
Using IDCAMs how to check whether file empty or not
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The best way I can think of is to use the PRINT command for a specified number of records (COUNT). If you use PRINT IFILE/IDS ... COUNT(1) then there will have to be at least one record in the dataset for your IDCAMS step to end without an error.
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