how to concatenate datasets

Answer Posted / chowdary

concatenation is possible up to 16 pds or 255 ps
rules: there should be logical record length must be same
and type recfm is also same
//jobcard
//joblib
//dd dsn=tst.punna.cobol,
dsn=tst.punna.cobol1,
like that we need to give up to our requirement

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