I have a dataset with record length 40 in production, due
to some requirements it was changed to 80. Then how can we
know the jobs which are effected by this change and how can
we resolve it.

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I have a dataset with record length 40 in production, due to some requirements it was changed to 8..

Answer / shrik

Search the information of all the jobs that use this
particular changed program.
Then u need to override/change the DCB parameter LRECL to 80
from 40 which wuld resolve the issue.

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I have a dataset with record length 40 in production, due to some requirements it was changed to 8..

Answer / rajaraman

if the dataset use any copybook,search in program
library.then u will get affected programs.then search in
the jcl library.

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I have a dataset with record length 40 in production, due to some requirements it was changed to 8..

Answer / vasanth

If you are using CA7 for scheduling , shift=f6 and give the
DSN name , it should show all the jobs using this data set

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