ICETOOL TUTORIAL PDF

This paper is a mini-user guide for DFSORT’s versatile ICETOOL data objective is to show you how to use DFSORT’s ICETOOL to accomplish complex tasks. DFSORT is a powerful IBM utility used to copy, sort or merge datasets. SORTIN and SORTINnn DD statements are used to specify input datasets. SORTOUT and . Following Figure shows the Normal Layout of a ICETOOL job: // DFSMSG DD SYSOUT=* –> This is where the DFSORT messages.

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A File can be split into n files based on a specified condition. This will copy records from 1 to 99 and then the last record. For example, a file containing names of employees can be split into 26 files, each containing icetoool names starting with A, B, C and so on.

Following can be used to remove duplicates from a file and save it to another file. BLANK replaces all the leading zeros.

JCL Utility Programs

Is for formatting purpose. Ashwani Sharma 24 November at A few of them are listed below with their functionality:. Numeric fields with usage COMP: In the ON clause we can specify the format in which data will be displayed. Matthew McKenzie 8 August at The string within is also printed before the value is printed. ON indicates the fields to be displayed on the report. Note that only the column we mentioned in ON is printed in the report.

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Frequently used sort tricks using these utilities are explained in the next chapter. Input and output datasets can be defined using user defined DD names. This giving us a sample records for testing.

Above shows the unique values in the column 5,8,ZD. It gives best utilization of system resources and efficient operation in bit and bit address spaces.

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Only the header and trailer kept in place and rest of the data is sorted. That is the values that appear only once. Utility programs are pre-written programs, widely used in mainframes by system programmers and application developers to achieve day-to-day requirements, organising and maintaining data.

We can turn off that display using NOCC. It is usually used to create empty dataset or delete an existing dataset. All unique records will be copied to another datasets. We could any of the existing masks. TLEFT to print the title left justified. Create, delete, rename, catalog, uncatalog datasets other than PDS. We can specify NOCC to override default of printing carriage control characters. These utility programs need to be used with appropriate DD statements in a JCL in order to achieve the specified functionality.

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The ones that occur only 1 time are not printed. ON indicates the column for which unique must be found. Prints the values that occur more than times.

Using the ICETOOL utility

Numeric fields with usage COMP Used to copy selected parts of a JCL. This prints the values that occur icetooll than once. List indicates the output dataset. Also note that both the titles are printed. Used to return control to user and terminate.

Prints the number of records with value greater than Raj kumar Bhakthavachalam tutrial September at Note that 1st column is occupied by the printing carriage control character. Thanx a lot Wolfgang. See the Use of Edit patterns. Note the format is decided as follows: Also note that in the above figure the title is being printed every page.

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