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Define a GDG PDS Data Set (Optional)

Member CAJRGDGS, found in the CAJRJCL library, is used to initialize a Generation Data Group (GDG) data set on disk that becomes a repository for CSV files created by CA Earl. The creation of a GDG data set is not required but recommended. As many different GDG CSV data sets as required may be created. For example, you can create a daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly or yearly CSV GDG data set. Each CSV GDG data set can be managed by a separate index data set, or all CSV GDG data sets can be managed by a single index data set.

//CAJRGDGS JOB (ACCTINFO),'PGMR',MSGCLASS=X,CLASS=A
//BLDGDGS  EXEC PGM=IDCAMS
//SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=*
//CSVPDS   DD DSN=CAI.JARS.CSVPDS.GDG,
//         DISP=(,KEEP),SPACE=(CYL,5),
//         DCB=(RECFM=VB,LRECL=512,BLKSIZE=5124)
//SYSIN    DD *
  DEFINE GDG(NAME(CAI.JARS.CSVPDS.GDG) LIMIT(255) SCRATCH)
//*
//