IBM Mainframe Forum

PLAIN AND SIMPLE REQUIREMENT

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c/SIMPLE/STUPID/

but You did not tell what You are going to do now that You know that it will not stop.

Please ignore, I will go via easytrieve ...

c/MAKING/SIMPLE/COMPLEX

it is really, really sad to see a company IT managed by incompetent morons

somebody at the higher floors should be concerned about You wasting time on a STUPID requirement

Oh, someone got offended ...
though I humbly take that 'incompetent moron' as of now... but I must say your second statement is baseless since my company is
at GROUND FLOOR only

the only entitie that got offended here is good IT practices

Information Technology is made of a lowly technicalities and of good practices
You ( as most of the people asking here ) seem concerned only about the technicalities rather than about the good practices
( and wasting time on an unreasonable requirement is not a good practice )

use Your neurons please and ...explain to everybody hanging around here
what is the added valued of You spending time writing an easytrieve application as compared to spending a few millionths of a few cpu resources searching a few more members

and the whole jcl stream could have been already promoted to production by now

Appreciate your concern about good IT practices,
but let me re-re-phrase my need, the thing is I needed the 'string' given in SYSIN which is not found in any of the members of PDS containing 1000's members,
that's why I required a code that stops after the first match for each string, and as I already mentioned I simply cannot use this in Production env.

also I needed this code to search for my own purpose not to promote anywhere...