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Is it possible to Split the PDS members into separate PDS based on the numbers given.

Thanks.

What 'numbers'?

If you need to copy/move members to different PDS's then you code it, possibly by hand. There is nothing, that I know of, that can process the first x members, the next y members etc. You could write a rexx program to do this but it would take longer to do so than to actually accomplish the task by hand.

limit for example by 2 members shoud be in each child pds..manually we can do if its less number of members.suppose if we have more than 30000 members in a pds what to do..nicc

Hi,

If your site allows using PDS2PDS software then it should be easy, but good to try with IEBCOPY though.

but IEBCOPY will merge the all contents of the members into single ps.

IMHO IEBCOPY can be used to perform several functions on a PDS. It can Copy, Merge, Compress, Backup and Restore PDS datasets. When we use IEBCOPY, we must supply the COPY control statement to indicate the Input and Output datasets.

we can use IEBCOPY also..



suppose if i need to give more than 200 members means do i need to give all the member names.please tell me is there any other way to specify the members in terms of numbers.. like first 200 members than from 201 to 300 like wise.

thanks for your response.

jvinoth wrote:limit for example by 2 members shoud be in each child pds..manually we can do if its less number of members.suppose if we have more than 30000 members in a pds what to do..nicc

And where will you be getting the new PDS names from?

i have doubt in that only how to give the pds names and the member list.can we give multilple ddin names.

You are asking a question without giving any real facts of exactly what you want to achieve. There is no way a pattern can be determined in what you have presented. The only answer you can get is no, logic of any kind has to be programmed, even if using a utility like sort you still have to come up with the logic to use in the control cards.