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Posted: **Mon Nov 16, 2009 10:16 am**

Hi,

I have a DFSORT job which calculates the record count in a given PS file and writes the result to an output file.
Is there anyway i can display the record count on the ISPF window directly, rather than writing it to an output dataset ?

Thanks,
Dinesh S

Posted: **Mon Nov 16, 2009 11:58 pm**

samurai007,

The following DFSORT JCL will give you the desired results. It takes care of both fb and vb recfm and sends you a message to the terminal. Code your user-id you want to notify in the user-id section in step0100

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//STEP0100 EXEC PGM=SORT
//SYSOUT DD SYSOUT=*
//SORTIN DD DSN=Your input file,DISP=SHR
//SORTOUT DD DSN=&&C1,DISP=(,PASS),SPACE=(TRK,(1,0),RLSE)
//SYSIN DD *
SORT FIELDS=COPY
OUTFIL REMOVECC,NODETAIL,VTOF,BUILD=(80X),
TRAILER1=(' SE ''',
'THE TOTAL NUMBER OF RECORDS IN FILE ARE : ',
COUNT,'''',' U(USER-ID)')
//*
//STEP0200 EXEC PGM=IKJEFT01
//SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=*
//SYSTSPRT DD SYSOUT=*
//SYSTSIN DD DSN=&&C1,DISP=SHR
//*

Posted: **Tue Nov 17, 2009 7:29 pm**

Hey skolusu..

It was perfect.. just wat i wanted.. thanks...

If you don mind, could you please explain TRAILER1 statement alone completely; word-by-word ??
Am quite lost there.

Thanks,
Sam.

Posted: **Wed Nov 18, 2009 4:29 am**

The trailer1 staement is a creating the message that is needed to send the notification to your terminal.

Trailer1 is creating the following text

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SE 'THE TOTAL NUMBER OF RECORDS IN FILE ARE :

and add the COUNT which shows the count of data records as 8 digits with leading zeros suppressed. And finally

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' U(USERID)

Thus resulting in a single line like this

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SE 'THE TOTAL NUMBER OF RECORDS IN FILE ARE : 341' U(userid)

If you're not familiar with DFSORT and DFSORT's ICETOOL, I'd suggest reading through "z/OS DFSORT: Getting Started". It's an excellent tutorial, with lots of examples, that will show you how to use DFSORT, DFSORT's ICETOOL and DFSORT Symbols. You can access it online, along with all of the other DFSORT books, from:

http://www.ibm.com/servers/storage/supp ... tmpub.html

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