How do I create a Data Set or a Data Set member?

How do I create a Data Set or a Data Set member?

This document contains various operation for creation of Data Set or Data Set member

• Create a new member in a Data Set
• Create a Partitioned Data Set
• Create an Extended Partitioned Data Set
• Create a Physical Sequential Large (PS-L) Data Set
• Create a Sequential Data Set
• Create a VSAM Data set

How do I create a new member in a Data Set?

If you leave new member file without modifying it, it won't be saved. This why you can't just use PGM=IEFBR14 with DSN=USER.LIBRARY(MEMBER),DISP=SHR. It will not be saved because it wasn't modified in any way. You need to use IEBGENER. You want to create data set without writing any data into it so you can use empty in-stream DD statement '//SYSUT1 DD *'. In such case end-of-file mark is written to member but it is enough to create it.

//JCLLIB05 JOB NOTIFY=&SYSUID,MSGLEVEL=(1,1)       
//COPYMEM  EXEC PGM=IEBGENER                       
//SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=*                             
//SYSIN    DD DUMMY                                
//SYSUT1   DD *                                    
//SYSUT2   DD DSN=[Data set name]([Member name]),DISP=SHR

How to create a Partitioned Data Set?

Create PDS with following parameters:

• Record length: 80
• Record format: Fixed Blocked
• Optimal Block Size
• Space: 2 cylinder for both primary and secondary allocation
• Directory blocks: 10

//JCLLIB03 JOB NOTIFY=&SYSUID,MSGLEVEL=(1,1)                   
//STEP1    EXEC PGM=IEFBR14                                    
//ALLOC    DD DSN=[Data set name],DISP=(NEW,CATLG),            
//         RECFM=FB,LRECL=80,BLKSIZE=27920,SPACE=(CYL,(2,2,10))

How to create an Extented Partitioned Data Set?

Create PDS/E with following parameters:

• Record length: 80
• Record format: Fixed Blocked
• Optimal Block Size
• Space: 1 cylinder for both primary and secondary allocation

//JCLLIB04 JOB NOTIFY=&SYSUID,MSGLEVEL=(1,1)                         
//STEP1    EXEC PGM=IEFBR14                                          
//ALLOC    DD DSN=[Data set name],DISP=(NEW,CATLG),DSNTYPE=LIBRARY,  
//         RECFM=FB,LRECL=80,BLKSIZE=27920,SPACE=(CYL,(1,1,5)) 

How to create a Physical Sequential Large (PS-L) Data Set?

PS-L or Physical Sequential Large Data Set. Standard PS also called Basic PS data set can have maximum 65 535 tracks per volume and can use 59 volumes. In total maximum size of Basic PS is: 59 * 65535 * 55996 = 201.64 GB

PS-L can have 16 777 215 tracks per volume: 59 * 16777215 * 55996 = 51.41 TB

Of course those are approximate calculations, in reality it depends on many data set characteristics for example record format or block size.

Both PS and PS-L can have the same amount of extends. If you need more than 16 extends per volume you must allocate PS-E - Physical Sequential Extended Data Set.

//JCLLIB11 JOB NOTIFY=&SYSUID,MSGLEVEL=(1,1)                
//STEP1    EXEC PGM=IEFBR14                                 
//ALLOC    DD DSN=STV.ALLOC.TASK11,DISP=(NEW,CATLG),        
//         SPACE=(TRK,1),RECFM=FB,BLKSIZE=27920,LRECL=80,   
//         DSNTYPE=LARGE                                    

How to create a Sequential Data Set in batch.md

• Create a Sequential Data Set with Fixed record format
• Create a Sequential Data Set with Variable (V) record format
• Create a Sequential Data Set with Fixed Blocked (FB) record format
• Create a Sequential Data Set with Variable Blocked (VB) record format
• Create a Sequential Data Set with MB space allocation

Create a Sequential Data Set with Fixed record format

Create a Sequential Data Set with following parameters:

• Record length: 80 bytes
• Record format: Fixed Blocked
• Block size: 27920
• Space: 1 cylinder for primary extend and no secondary allocation

//JCLLIB02 JOB NOTIFY=&SYSUID,MSGLEVEL=(1,1)                  
//STEP1    EXEC PGM=IEFBR14                                   
//ALLOC    DD DSN=[Data set name],DISP=(NEW,CATLG),        
//         RECFM=FB,LRECL=80,BLKSIZE=27920,SPACE=(CYL,(1))

Create a Sequential Data Set with Variable (V) record format

Create a Sequential Data Set with following parameters:

• Record length available to use: 400 bytes
• Record format: Variable
• Space: 1 track for both primary and secondary allocation

//JCLLIB08 JOB NOTIFY=&SYSUID,MSGLEVEL=(1,1)                
//STEP1    EXEC PGM=IEFBR14                                 
//ALLOC    DD DSN=[Data set name],DISP=(NEW,CATLG),         
//         SPACE=(TRK,(1,1)),RECFM=V,BLKSIZE=256,LRECL=512  

Create a Sequential Data Set with Fixed Blocked (FB) record format

Create a Sequential Data Set with following parameters:

• Record length: 80 bytes
• Record format: Fixed Blocked
• Block size: 27920
• Space: 1 cylinder for primary extend and no secondary allocation

//JCLLIB02 JOB NOTIFY=&SYSUID,MSGLEVEL=(1,1)                  
//STEP1    EXEC PGM=IEFBR14                                   
//ALLOC    DD DSN=[Data set name],DISP=(NEW,CATLG),        
//         RECFM=FB,LRECL=80,BLKSIZE=27920,SPACE=(CYL,(1))

Create a Sequential Data Set with Variable Blocked (VB) record format

Create a Sequential Data Set with following parameters:

• Record length available to use: 400 bytes
• Record format: Variable Blocked where one block should contain 10 records.
• Space: 1 track for both primary and secondary allocation

//JCLLIB09 JOB NOTIFY=&SYSUID,MSGLEVEL=(1,1)                  
//STEP1    EXEC PGM=IEFBR14                                   
//ALLOC    DD DSN=[Data set name],DISP=(NEW,CATLG),           
//         SPACE=(TRK,(1,1)),RECFM=VB,BLKSIZE=5124,LRECL=512   

Create a Sequential Data Set with MB space allocation

Create a Sequential Data Set with following parameters:

• Record length: 80 bytes
• Record format: Fixed Blocked.
• Space: 2MB of primary allocation and 1MB of secondary allocation

//JCLLIB10 JOB NOTIFY=&SYSUID,MSGLEVEL=(1,1)          
//STEP1    EXEC PGM=IEFBR14                           
//ALLOC    DD DSN=STV.ALLOC.TASK10,DISP=(NEW,CATLG),  
//         RECFM=FB,LRECL=80,BLKSIZE=27920,           
//         AVGREC=M,SPACE=(1,(2,1))                   

Create a VSAM Data set

Creating a KSDS VSAM Data set

Specify #ds_name and #volume; change parameters if needed

//DEFVSAM  EXEC PGM=IDCAMS                                             
//SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=*                                                 
//SYSIN    DD *                                                        
 DEF CLUSTER(NAME(#ds_name)             -                      
     VOL(#volume) TRK(1,1) SHR(1 3))    -                          
   DATA(NAME(#ds_name.DATA)             -                         
     CISZ(4096) KEYS(10 0) RECORDSIZE(80 80)) -                        
   INDEX(NAME(#ds_name.INDEX)           -                         
     CISZ(2048))                                                       
/*

Creating a ESDS VSAM Data set

Specify #ds_name and #volume; change parameters if needed

//DEFVSAM  EXEC PGM=IDCAMS                                             
//SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=*                                                 
//SYSIN    DD *   
 DEF CLUSTER(NAME(#ds_name)             -                       
    VOLUMES(#volume) CYLINDERS(1 1)     -                   
    NONINDEXED)                         -                            
  DATA(NAME(#ds_name.DATA)              -                           
    CISZ(4096) RECORDSIZE(354 354))                                
/*

Creating a RRDS VSAM Data set

Specify #ds_name and #volume; change parameters if needed

//DEFVSAM  EXEC PGM=IDCAMS                                             
//SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=*                                                 
//SYSIN    DD *   
 DEF CLUSTER(NAME(#ds_name)             -                          
    VOLUMES(#volume)  CYLINDERS(1 1)    -                   
    RECORDSIZE(354 354)                 -                        
    NUMBERED)                                                      
/*

Related topics

• Delete a Data set
• Fill a VSAM Data set with records