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Hi,

Do we have the facility to use conditional statements in ICETOOL?

(say) IF 'RC of my icetool operation is zero' then
perform a set of icetool operations
else
terminate (do not process the rest of icetool operations)
endif

My concern is, i have to check whether a dataset is empty (used: count operator) and if it is not empty, proceed with the next set of icetool operations, else, terminate the program.

If the purpose of the COUNT is to determine that the file is empty, why don't you put it in a seperate step and the use the RC to conditionally execute the other commands in the original step without the COUNT?

@BillyBoyo

Thanks for your response. The screenshot which is provided here has only one count operation But in our code, we have 4 to 5 datasets which are to be validated against the empty check.

My requirement is, can we employ a conditional statement when satisified should perform a couple of Icetool operations.

How do you want the thing to operate? All files must have data? Put four or five steps. Some files can be empty? Explain the criteria please.

@BillyBoyo

I get 5 datasets. Yes, 1 or more datasets can be empty. I have to validate each and every dataset before performing a set of icetool operations.

Even i thought about employing five different steps. But, i just want to know, if there is any way to reduce the processing by handling it in the icetool code itself.

Thanks

Eswarbabu,

You need to use the MODE operator to Stop or continue processing operators after a return code of 8 , 12 or 16. Count operator returns a returns code 12 for an empty file. So the subsequent operators will not executed.

try this example. This will bypass the last copy operation as the file is empty



Now add a record to input file and re-run the same job and you will notice that the last copy operator gets executed.