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PDS

The PDS option specifies that the primary input is retrieved from a partitioned data set.

This option has the following format:

PDS[([member1]...[membern])]|NOPDS

Default: NOPDS

member1

Defines the name of the starting member CA JCLCheck processes.

membern

Defines the name of the ending member CA JCLCheck processes.

• Do not specify the PDS option in your default options.
• Members are processed one by one, in alphabetical member name order. Each one is treated as a separate job.
• The member name operands are optional. One or both may be used to restrict processing to a subset of the library. If none is specified, CA JCLCheck uses the entire partitioned data set as input. If you omit membern, it defaults to 99999999 (implying the last member of the library).
• If a member does not begin with a JOB statement, CA JCLCheck uses the default JOB statement in the JOBCARD CSECT, but uses the actual name of the member being processed as the JOB name in report headings.
• The input library may be a JCL job stream library or a procedure library.
• CA JCLCheck considers members of the partitioned data set unrelated unless you also specify the PDSRELATE option.
• If you specify EXCLUDE with PDS, CA JCLCheck processes all members within the range of member1 to member2 except those listed on the EXCLUDE statement. CA JCLCheck ignores any range you specify on the PDS option if you specify INCLUDE.

Example: Process members starting with letter J

PDS(J J9999999) causes CA JCLCheck to process all members from the input partitioned data set with names that begin with J.