Author: steve-myers
Posted: Thu Mar 30, 2017 3:50 pm (GMT 5.5)
NO!
JCL has no ability to analyze or alter data. Period. Full stop. End of story. The sole purpose of JCL is to specify the environment in which batch programs programs run.
Now, are there any programs to perform a "fuzzy" find as you describe? One problem is there are many definitions of a "fuzzy" find. The example in the extended query, for example, can easily be written into a program, but it is so limited I rather doubt anyone wrote such a program.
JCL like this will perform the task you propose.
This JCL runs a program: IKJEFT01, the TSO terminal monitor program, to run a TSO command (another program) to find (another program) all occurrences of the aaa string in the data set.
Posted: Thu Mar 30, 2017 3:50 pm (GMT 5.5)
NO!
JCL has no ability to analyze or alter data. Period. Full stop. End of story. The sole purpose of JCL is to specify the environment in which batch programs programs run.
Now, are there any programs to perform a "fuzzy" find as you describe? One problem is there are many definitions of a "fuzzy" find. The example in the extended query, for example, can easily be written into a program, but it is so limited I rather doubt anyone wrote such a program.
JCL like this will perform the task you propose.
| Code: |
| //A EXEC PGM=IKJEFT01 //SYSTSPRT DD SYSOUT=* //SYSTSIN DD * e 'your data set' data nonum v f * 999999 /aaa/ ALL end |
This JCL runs a program: IKJEFT01, the TSO terminal monitor program, to run a TSO command (another program) to find (another program) all occurrences of the aaa string in the data set.